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How the count unfolded", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Covid-vulnerable mum-of-five Gemma York writes to Boris Johnson asking for clearer guidance.", "Westminster will be watching carefully as the results of the US presidential election come in.", "There were nearly 12,300 deaths in latest week - 1,100 linked to Covid.", "All 13,000 birds at the Cheshire farm, which produces hatching eggs, are to be culled.", "Leopoldo Luque, Maradona's personal physician, said Argentina legend Maradona had \"coped well with the surgery\".", "A last-minute U-turn allowing pubs to sell takeaway beer is welcomed - but may not be enough to survive, publicans fear.", "A handful of people are behind most of the politics shared on Facebook - none of them politicians.", "A UK minister appears to contradict the PM over whether full furlough will be available to Scotland after 2 December.", "Georgina Fallows is asking government to protect from harassment people who can't wear face coverings.", "Donald Trump and Joe Biden make final push as turnout is expected to be the highest in more than a century.", "The poorest paid are particularly worried - but are also the least likely to speak up, research finds.", "If you want to know why England is going into lockdown, this hospital offers a glimpse.", "Lockdown has increased demand for pets, which has lead to sellers advertising on the platform.", "No 10 does not deny reports the PM made the comment in a meeting with Tory MPs.", "Many users report the iPhone version of the contact-tracing app gets \"stuck\" on launch.", "Sir Keir Starmer acts after his predecessor says the scale of the problem within the party has been \"overstated\".", "The airline wants to show that testing could remove the need for arrivals to quarantine.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms that 11 local authorities will move to the strictest level four from 6pm on Friday.", "The airline reports an annual loss for the first time in its 25-year history as demand collapses.", "Boris Johnson, six Tory MPs and two aides have been told to self-isolate after a breakfast meeting in No 10.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board is accused by two former umpires of \"institutionalised racism\".", "The Powerlist 2021 honours those who use their platform to 'change lives'.", "Fans have used the app to identify hits by Sia, Ed Sheeran and Tones and I - but who came out on top?", "The Welsh Government says it could put the 6 May vote back if the Covid pandemic is still serious.", "It follows concerns NI was almost 200,000 doses short and could not complete the programme.", "As NI's R number rises to 1.0, the chief scientific adviser warns of additional interventions.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says tougher restrictions in the west of Scotland are \"likely\" but \"not inevitable\".", "No 10 has not denied reports that Boris Johnson described devolution as a \"disaster\" in a meeting with Tory MPs.", "The report says 7,314 hate crimes were recorded in the US in 2019, the highest number since 2008.", "Seasonal workers are now able to work during quarantine to ensure demand for Christmas is met.", "From January, NI car dealers will have a bigger VAT bill for vehicles bought in GB and sold on here.", "Boris Johnson is trying to get a grip on his government after a crazy few days.", "Forces in England and Wales were advised on Friday to temporarily suspend issuing the fines.", "US President-elect Joe Biden criticises President Donald Trump's denial of his election loss.", "Rangers are tracking the giraffe in north-east Kenya, after poachers killed his family members.", "A US jewellery designer struck \"lucrative\" deals with the Department of Health at the start of the pandemic.", "The long-awaited proposals come more than three years after the Grenfell Tower disaster.", "The footballer and campaigner says the escapism of reading \"could have really helped me\" as a child.", "A former employee from Celotex tells the inquiry he got the insulation approved in an unethical way.", "Cardiff scientists say using mouthwash may become part of a daily routine to prevent coronavirus.", "A postcode was needed before a phone line and broadband could be installed.", "The Dow hits a new record on hopes of a second coronavirus vaccine breakthrough from US drugs firm Moderna.", "Public radio station RFI says a \"technical problem\" meant the obituaries were published prematurely.", "The Scottish government makes no changes to its Covid alert levels. Here is a reminder of which level your council is in.", "Nearly 100,000 people have been tested for the virus over 10 days in Liverpool.", "England's Covid alert levels are being reviewed ahead of plans to bring them back, one minister says.", "The charity says the views of birth control pioneer Marie Stopes are in \"stark contrast\" to its values.", "Workers in Indian factories supplying Tesco, Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer and Ralph Lauren say they are being exploited.", "The former leader was suspended after saying the scale of anti-Semitism had been \"dramatically overstated\".", "From Boxing Day mainland Scotland will be in the country's toughest tier of restrictions for at least three weeks", "\"What's drawing closer is a bomb,\" the Honduran president says, as Hurricane Iota strengthens.", "Council bosses call on the prime minister to help as cases in Hull rise to 770 per 100,000 people.", "The PM confirms he is bringing the ban forward as he sets out his \"green industrial revolution\".", "The family of 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles says football needs to \"address the scandal\" of dementia in the game.", "The 11 areas moving to level four will see restaurants, cafes, pubs and non-essential shops closed.", "The filing by the home rental web site offers a closer look at the loss-making firm's finances.", "Stephen Ellison jumped into the river after the unnamed 24-year-old slipped on rocks and fell.", "\"County lines\" gangs are coming up with new ways to deal drugs due to coronavirus restrictions.", "What happens to the SNP's demand for a referendum when, as widely expected, they win May's election?", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The family of Owen and Bredge Ward, from County Tyrone, say they are in \"complete shock\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The ex-leader was suspended by the party over his reaction to a report by the human rights watchdog.", "Boris Johnson confirms he will not agree to Nicola Sturgeon's request for a second independence referendum.", "A group representing sex workers is calling for state support during the coronavirus pandemic.", "It is the most divorces since 2014 and includes double the number of same-sex splits as in 2018.", "The category four storm makes landfall in Nicaragua, two weeks after another devastating hurricane.", "The impact of the three-tier Covid system in England was varied, says a senior health official.", "The 29-year-old singer is taking \"extended time off\", the girl group's publicist says.", "Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint racked up a million followers in just over four hours.", "A government minister promises that the \"full force of the law\" will be applied to the traffickers.", "The singer confirms reports the rights to six of her albums have been sold to an investment firm.", "The four astronauts who left Earth on Monday have arrived at the 410-km orbiting outpost.", "It is part of a long-awaited plan to hit net zero emissions that will be released later on Tuesday.", "The app lets adults limit what children can search for and prevent strangers from seeing activity.", "Commander Mike Hopkins said his team had an amazing ride on the privately owned spacecraft.", "Hospitals are facing extra problems discharging elderly patients during the pandemic's second wave.", "The rapper, who won BBC Music's Sound of 2019, was due to release his anticipated debut album tomorrow.", "The 1970s disco classic has become the country's unofficial anthem ahead of the match with England.", "The upcoming departure of Boris Johnson's chief adviser is being welcomed by Conservative backbenchers.", "Councils in the west of Scotland are told it is possible they may be placed under the highest level of restrictions.", "Gordon Howat was the sole Scotland supporter in Belgrade's Rajko Mitic stadium for the Euro 2020 play-off.", "The return of the men's team to a major tournament after more than 20 years has been hailed by fans.", "The death of the killer of 13 women will bring \"some closure\", says the son of his first victim.", "Ex-minister Tracey Crouch calls for greater virtual participation to be allowed in Parliament.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ex-boxer Nicola Adams is out of Strictly Come Dancing after partner Katya Jones catches Covid-19.", "But those returning from Qatar, UAE, Laos and the Turks and Caicos Islands will not need to self-isolate.", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found in a shipping container on 23 October last year.", "Among the new high-risk regions is Campania where officials say the situation is out of control.", "A former undercover police officer admits the Met set out to infiltrate left-wing political groups.", "Host Mel Giedroyc says despite this year's challenges due to coronavirus, \"we are strong\".", "US Commerce Department halts ban on Chinese owned company.", "NI first minister says the way Stormont extended restrictions was an \"example of how not to take decisions\".", "Keiron Hassan and Kamal Legall are convicted of shooting and attacking Taylor Patterson with a machete.", "From lockdown car journeys to infamous insults, Dominic Cummings has had some colourful moments.", "A review by university bosses calls for offers to be made on the basis of actual grades, from 2023.", "Evidence presented to government confirmed rising infections as schools reopened.", "Lucy Letby is charged with killing eight infants at a hospital neo-natal unit between 2015 and 2016.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "Chelsea boss Frank Lampard and socialite Tamara Ecclestone were among those whose homes were raided.", "Scotland's 23-year absence from major men's tournaments is finally over after a famous shootout win in Serbia.", "Nurses are in demand as vacancies climb to pre-pandemic levels, but with big regional variations.", "London's mayor publishes an Action Plan looking at how black Londoners are affected by police powers.", "Jessica Williams and her two sons were trapped when their family home collapsed in an explosion.", "The jump in cases comes a day after the UK became the first European country to pass 50,000 deaths.", "It will give the handwritten note to investigators looking at how the 1995 interview was obtained.", "While it's tempting to see Dominic Cummings' exit as a sudden eruption, it has been a longer-term burn.", "Williamson seeks to end unfairness in university admissions by switching to offers based on real results.", "The departure of the Vote Leave duo represents a big change at the highest level of government.", "Officers have arrested the injured suspect because he is no longer in a life-threatening condition.", "She is the first female artist to score a number one album in five separate decades.", "Music was \"blaring\" and there were dozens of people inside the hall, South Wales Police said.", "Anton Du Beke will replace Motsi Mabuse, who is currently self isolating.", "Scotland have \"given a little something to the country\" after a \"horrible year\" said an tearful Ryan Christie after the national team reached their first finals in 23 years.", "\"Looks like we have a busy year coming up,\" tweets cast member Matthew Perry.", "The coffee chain, which employs 6,000, people, is seeking financial breathing space from its landlords.", "The company says it has deviated slightly from the style of its previous festive ads due to Covid-19.", "Sweden, Ireland and France warn that travel over the holiday period could be limited due to Covid-19.", "Helga Wauters is found guilty of manslaughter over the death of British 28-year-old Xynthia Hawke.", "Slovakia beat Northern Ireland 2-1 after extra time in the play-off final at Windsor Park to book their place in next year's European Championship finals.", "Emails reveal how officials described pressure to approve protective suits for the NHS.", "The departure of a key Dominic Cummings ally from No 10 changes the power dynamic inside government.", "It estimates around 50,000 new cases a day - far exceeding the \"record\" 33,470 reported across the UK on Thursday.", "West Yorkshire Police apologises for the \"tone and terminology\" used by officers in the 1970s.", "Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah tests positive for coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt.", "The government announces a review following the findings of Public Health England's report.", "Boris Johnson wants to \"move on\" after turmoil over his closest adviser's role, aides say.", "Corrie Mckeague disappeared in September 2016 and his body has never been found.", "The Police Federation says officers are worried about facing offenders who might spit or cough at them.", "ONS data also says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.", "The supermarket apologises as people are forced to queue online to place their Christmas orders.", "The speech, on the response to coronavirus, largely skirts the result of the US presidential vote.", "The cities in England that faced the biggest wartime losses still have the highest levels of poverty.", "Denmark's mink-related coronavirus scare has caused alarm, but scientists urge caution.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Cases of a mutated strain of Covid-19 have been detected that may undermine future vaccines.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Notes Earl Spencer says he made suggest Martin Bashir made false and defamatory claims about senior royals.", "From Beijing to Berlin - the BBC looks at the impact of the ideological shift in the White House.", "Soman was reprimanded for sharing an image of him running naked down a beach in the city of Goa.", "And UK citizens returning from the country must isolate with all other household members for 14 days.", "An eight-year-old boy raises more than £1,000 for the Poppy Appeal by selling handmade poppies.", "The prime minister says he looks forward to \"working closely\" with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.", "The president repeats his allegations on voter fraud, and insists he has won the election.", "Yama Siawash, who was a prominent presenter on Tolo TV, is one of three killed in the Kabul attack.", "Kanye West took his first stab at the presidency this year. Will we be seeing him in Washington?", "The PM and EU Commission president agree to \"work hard\" to reach a deal when talks resume on Monday.", "The 50MW facility near Manchester hopes to store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes.", "Sixty thousand cases in 24 hours bring the total number to 1.7 million since the pandemic began.", "People are being urged to play their part from home, with Covid restrictions affecting annual events.", "Tips on lockdown life in cold weather, from keeping your windows open to watching films in the bath.", "Lack of nurses combined with staff absence may risk NHS patient safety, says Royal College of Nursing.", "Here's a look at what we know about the wife of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.", "Although the number of new cases continues to rise, the growth rate is slowing, latest data show.", "The monarch attended a private ceremony in Westminster Abbey to mark 100 years since the burial.", "Bovine bellowing will return on the doorsteps of residents in Belper, Derbyshire, for four weeks.", "As the days pass and still no winner of presidential race, many are finding creative ways to help the count.", "Greater Manchester hospitals are treating \"more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave\".", "The AA urges councils in England to deal with potholes and junctions while fewer cars are in use.", "The pop star looks back at her career, and the 'overwhelming' experience of Glastonbury, as she releases her 15th album.", "Up to 12,000 people got tested on day one of a city-wide trial, Liverpool's public health boss says.", "Cases of a mutated strain of Covid-19 have been detected that may undermine future vaccines.", "Some 500,000 Sunny customers were mis-sold payday loans by Sunny before it collapsed.", "The PM insists the \"upward curve\" in deaths is \"unmistakeable\" after government charts had to be revised.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "The satellite is meant to trial new technology expected to be many times faster than 5G.", "The clothing chain and its sister company, Ponden Home, have been placed into administration.", "The army reaches a village where houses were buried by mudslides triggered by Storm Eta's rains.", "Paul Dunleavy, named after a judge's ruling, prepared acts of terrorism and joined a neo Nazi group.", "Joe Biden is projected to have won the race for the White House, though Donald Trump has not conceded. How the count unfolded", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Lord Sacks was a prolific writer and regularly contributed to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.", "A coroner identified seven failings as contributing to Averil Hart's death.", "Extending Covid restrictions would help ensure families are together at Christmas, says Nichola Mallon.", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has topped the 270 electoral votes needed to defeat Donald Trump.", "The actor says he was \"asked to resign\" his role in the series and had \"agreed to that request\".", "A Belfast paediatrician says a government strategy is \"essential” for tackling NI child poverty.", "Police say they found people were not distancing and music was being played from large speakers.", "The record rise in infections include Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, officials said Friday.", "The prolific actor was best known for starring with Dame Judi Dench in BBC sitcom As Time Goes By.", "The singer is unwell and also won't be appearing at Sunday evening's MTV Europe Music Awards.", "Satisfaction with the BBC among its most loyal audiences is showing \"signs of waning\", Ofcom says.", "The chancellor will detail the UK's economic problems but don't hold your breath for solutions.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening.", "The president-elect has previously said Brexit must not endanger the Good Friday Agreement.", "Non-essential shops will reopen this weekend but bars and restaurants will stay closed into January.", "Matthew Mowbray is found guilty of eight counts of sexual activity with a child at Eton College.", "Harry Dunn's mother says the ruling is \"just a blip along the way\" in their fight for justice.", "Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor is to stand down at the end of the season.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out what the government will spend next year. Here are the headlines.", "Thousands of identities were stolen before unusual banking activity alerted a civil servant to the fraud.", "Nasa has stacked the first pieces of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.", "The UK's five-day relaxation of rules will throw \"fuel on the Covid fire\", scientists warn.", "TV presenter Iolo Williams is concerned non-native bugs will be released into north Wales.", "The Argentine icon famous for his 'Hand of God' goal was a footballing great with a myriad of problems.", "The tech billionaire overtakes Bill Gates after Tesla shares soar on S&P acceptance", "\"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,\" Meghan writes in an article.", "The car had messages, including one criticising \"globalisation politics\", written on its sides.", "The new network, which uses other people's broadband, is not launching in the UK.", "An advert inflated the extent using a black cab could protect users from Covid, a watchdog says.", "Health officials have urged people to avoid travelling amid a surge of Covid-19 cases and deaths.", "A judge refuses to hear the case but the star can try to overturn the ruling at the Court of Appeal.", "The chancellor says the \"economic emergency\" has \"just begun\", but promises more help for the jobless.", "Moscow says a US Navy destroyer entered its territorial waters on Tuesday.", "Craig Brown's One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time is awarded the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize.", "Mark Drakeford says restrictions brought in after Christmas should be agreed by the four nations.", "Argentina legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, dies at the age of 60.", "The death of 19-year-old Cameron Wellington shows coronavirus can affect anyone, his parents say.", "The treatment of people who came to the UK from the Caribbean added to historic injustices, a report says.", "Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanks those who worked towards her release, which Iran says was a prisoner exchange.", "The 9.2 million viewers give Channel 4 its highest overnight ratings for at least 18 years.", "Harry Styles also receives his first-ever nomination, but R&B star The Weeknd is overlooked.", "Public sector auditors also found teachers in NI take more sick days than other parts of the UK.", "The bones found in Antrim were from a Scelidosaurus and a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus, researchers find.", "The 19-year-old, filmed by a police helicopter, went through red lights and the wrong way on a motorway.", "Covid disruption worsens for England's secondary schools as 22% of pupils sent home.", "Joseph Ray, 33, was convicted after a seven-year investigation to determine how his baby daughter died.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Intensive care nurse Valerie Bednar has inspired the design of a custom-fitted mask for NHS workers.", "Rishi Sunak's spending review comes amid a difficult economic backdrop caused by the pandemic.", "The chancellor says the government is providing £280bn this year to get the country through the coronavirus crisis.", "Pay will be frozen for at least 1.3 million public sector staff, but low-paid and NHS workers will get raises.", "The US president officially pardons \"Corn\" in the annual White House tradition.", "The chancellor faces bigger, tougher decisions from the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.", "The Dow Jones index closes above 30,000 for the first time amid string of positive news.", "Footballer Marcus Rashford asks the chancellor whether higher Universal Credit will be \"taken away\" in April.", "People can form a \"Christmas bubble\" and mix in homes and outdoors between 23 and 27 December.", "From the 'Hand of God' to managing Messi - Diego Maradona's colourful life in pictures.", "Wales' first minister is looking at similar coronavirus rules as the top English and Scottish tiers.", "A 28-year-old woman is arrested after allegedly stabbing and trying to choke two other women.", "John Hays, who founded the UK's largest independent travel agent, died on 13 November.", "Two crewmen have not been seen since their vessel sank off the Sussex coast on Saturday.", "Ministers outline plans for \"some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".", "After Dan Colegate nearly died, he and his partner Esther left their careers for the open road.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "President Jair Bolsonaro is seeing his approval ratings rise in the north-east of Brazil.", "The Viking Grace with 429 people on board hit rocks off the Finnish Åland Islands on Saturday.", "Boris Johnson will unveil the latest Covid plans, including lifting a ban on outdoor grassroots sport.", "The Welsh Government still hopes to reach a UK-wide agreement, a minister says.", "Only nine positive cases of coronavirus were found, with 968 testing negative, said Merthyr council.", "It is 46 years since 21 people were killed and 220 injured by a suspected IRA attack in Birmingham.", "Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are knocked out of the ATP Finals as Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem set up a title decider.", "People on low incomes told to isolate by the app miss out on support under current rules.", "The figures come a day after some businesses reopened ahead of a two-week circuit breaker.", "But lenders say they did not agree to the deal and question how many homeowners will benefit.", "The two countries will continue trading under the same terms as the current EU agreement.", "More independent businesses are emerging as chains struggle, business leaders say.", "A woman who attended a Bristol rave says she sustained \"life-changing' injuries\" from a police dog.", "The 32-year-old woman was an \"innocent bystander\", the Metropolitan Police believes.", "The attack near Cable Beach is the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian waters this year.", "Firms including Kellogg's and Britvic say the plan to tackle childhood obesity is \"disproportionate\".", "He joins Microsoft founder Bill Gates in urging the UK to think global in its post-Covid recovery plans", "Four teenagers are arrested after six people were injured in the centre of Cardiff.", "Lucia Kingman says not knowing if she has to sit GCSE exams next year is \"very daunting\".", "Opposition parties call for a total ban on discharging patients without two negative tests.", "Millions face stay-at-home orders as the US faces a surge in coronavirus infections.", "The building went up in flames after demonstrators - who oppose the new budget - staged an attack.", "Paul Robson is accused of murdering Caroline Kayll and the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy.", "Regeneron says its antibody treatment is effective when used early after a Covid-19 diagnosis.", "Restrictions on social gatherings may be eased so families can get together for the festive period.", "The chancellor says he will uphold pre-Covid funding pledges on police, nurses and schools.", "More areas will be in higher tiers, and the tiers will have tougher rules - but the 10pm pub curfew will ease.", "A new film shares the stories of photographers who captured the iconic imagery of the Troubles.", "Emergency services were called to a house in North Lanarkshire after it was badly damaged on Sunday morning.", "A man is found clinging to a buoy after the vessel put out an emergency call off the Sussex coast.", "It vanished from its post outside a beauty parlour in Nottingham over the weekend.", "Deepspot is a diving pool that goes 45.5m (150ft) down and provides a space for divers to train.", "Senior Tory MP David Davis says PM Boris Johnson has taken \"decisive action\" over his top aide.", "Some of the BBC's presenters tell us how they'll be entertaining themselves at home during lockdown.", "High winds uprooted trees and blew roofs off buildings as the powerful storm battered Vietnam.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Among the new high-risk regions is Campania where officials say the situation is out of control.", "This weekend marks the first since Wales' firebreak lockdown was lifted.", "Bakery chain chief says \"the battle with Covid hasn't gone away and is intensifying further\".", "Welsh Secretary Simon Hart says Tata wants \"to make steel in Wales\".", "Host Mel Giedroyc says despite this year's challenges due to coronavirus, \"we are strong\".", "From lockdown car journeys to infamous insults, Dominic Cummings has had some colourful moments.", "Derby County part company with manager Phillip Cocu with the club bottom of the Championship.", "Evidence presented to government confirmed rising infections as schools reopened.", "Lucy Letby is charged with killing eight infants at a hospital neo-natal unit between 2015 and 2016.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "Funding will support thousands of jobs, as part of a green recovery from Covid, the government says.", "New laws should make social media companies take down false posts about vaccines, Labour says.", "Removing the last landmine on the Falkland Islands is a \"momentous change\", says islander Barry Elsby.", "It will give the handwritten note to investigators looking at how the 1995 interview was obtained.", "While it's tempting to see Dominic Cummings' exit as a sudden eruption, it has been a longer-term burn.", "Williamson seeks to end unfairness in university admissions by switching to offers based on real results.", "A US report claims that Israeli agents shot dead the man and his daughter in the street in August.", "She is the first female artist to score a number one album in five separate decades.", "The two sides say big gaps remain between them as the \"moment of truth\" is nearing for an agreement.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "Preacher John Harper refused a seat in a lifeboat and gave his lifejacket to another passenger who survived.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wish Prince Charles a happy birthday on their social media accounts.", "The early morning wake-up calls in Gosport prompted complaints from residents.", "At least 10 die as oxygen used to treat the patients helps spread the fire in Piatra Neamt.", "People in England must not become complacent due to a potential vaccine, a government scientist says.", "West Yorkshire Police apologises for the \"tone and terminology\" used by officers in the 1970s.", "Hooker Jamie George's hat-trick helps England to a comfortable six-try victory against Georgia in their first match at Twickenham since March.", "Cousins Mehdi and Melek kept their relationship secret – then war brought it to a sudden end.", "Boris Johnson wants to \"move on\" after turmoil over his closest adviser's role, aides say.", "The prince tells the German parliament he believes the countries will \"always be friends and allies\".", "Leicester's Golden Mile is usually buzzing for the festival but things are very different this year.", "ONS data also says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.", "Austrians are urged not to meet people from outside their households as hospitals feel the pressure.", "The speech, on the response to coronavirus, largely skirts the result of the US presidential vote.", "Argentina beat New Zealand for the first time in their history with a shock 25-15 win in the Rugby Championship.", "Forecasters say Iota will be a major hurricane when it hits coastal areas of Nicaragua and Honduras.", "Teaching unions say despite a push for more devices, many students still don't have access at home.", "Domestic violence is at a 15-year high in Northern Ireland as families have spent more time at home.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Football Association chairman Greg Clarke apologises for his language in a reference to black players when talking to MPs about diversity.", "The fast-food giant said it could also offer plant-based chicken substitutes and breakfast sandwiches", "Unsurprisingly the list is dominated by pandemic-related terms including furlough and key worker.", "The actor and black rights activist opens up on racist abuse experienced by his preacher father.", "The organiser is fined £10,000 and 29 other people have to pay £200 after the Manchester protest.", "Horror fan Nathan Maynard-Ellis and his partner David Leesley killed and dismembered Julia Rawson.", "The party has tabled its own proposals to the executive, as ministers try to reach a compromise.", "Corona Newton says it was easier to have a sense of humour about her name before the pandemic struck.", "Boris Johnson's congratulatory message included the word Trump faintly in background.", "Anxiety was most commonly diagnosed in a study of US patients for 90 days after their diagnosis.", "The UK health secretary tells MPs on 10 November that the NHS will be ready by December to roll out vaccines, if approved.", "The discount supermarket chain is expanding its trial as it faces growing competition from rivals.", "A fashion brand founder may have to remove a tennis court and garage, following a council decision.", "Two sets of recommendations have differed on whether there should be any exams at A-level.", "A football pitch in a village was turned into an \"execution ground\", reports say.", "The self-styled \"free speech\" application topped US download charts in the wake of the election.", "The health secretary also announces that, from Tuesday, NHS staff will be tested twice a week.", "Staff at the Royal Derby Hospital created the room as a place to escape from the intense pressures.", "It comes as the health department announces a further 11 deaths and 514 more positive cases in Northern Ireland.", "The US president-elect is calling world leaders, even as Donald Trump refuses to concede he lost the poll.", "Lucy Letby was previously held in 2018 and 2019 on suspicion of murdering eight babies.", "Peers vote overwhelmingly to remove a section that would allow ministers to break international law.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Some councils have been placed into a tougher tier. Find out which ones.", "The FTSE 100 surges nearly 5% after Pfizer shares vaccine progress.", "Mark Baker, who founded the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, ignored ITV's proposal at first.", "The Mary Wollstonecraft memorial draws criticism due to its inclusion of a naked female figure.", "The animator and writer was responsible for one of US TV's most-loved cartoons.", "Greg Clarke resigns as FA chairman following the language he used when talking to MPs about diversity.", "Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose was alerted by the app overseen by his wife, Lady Dido Harding.", "The UK prime minister assures the president-elect Brexit will not affect Northern Irish peace treaty.", "The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is criticised by the child sex abuse inquiry.", "Premier Foods says it has attracted a million new customers as people turn to comfort foods in the crisis.", "Every 15 minutes, an inpatient with learning disabilities is restrained, new data shows.", "The fossil from a large-toothed species helps shed more light on how humans evolved, researchers say.", "Unionists are nervous about sustaining opposition to another referendum should SNP win May's election.", "The executive is to meet again on Tuesday to decide what to do with rules around pubs and restaurants.", "Brian Murdoch fed Kidderminster Harriers fans for nearly 60 years with the \"match day treats\".", "UK scientists show how astronauts on the Moon or Mars could one day mine for metals using bacteria.", "Boris Johnson says a new Covid-19 vaccine is good news but warns the country not to \"slacken our resolve\".", "Creator Akse says he was inspired to do it by the England star's work to tackle child poverty.", "The group of around 50 MPs says a repeat of current restrictions would \"devastate\" the economy and \"cost lives\".", "The pandemic has seen children slipping back in learning and social skills, Ofsted inspectors warn.", "At least 49,000 NHS patients in Wales were waiting for more than a year by September, figures show.", "Rapid results tests for students are planned to let students get home safely in early December.", "The Russian Navy defends the shooting in the Kamchatka region that outraged many social media users.", "Joe Biden is projected to have won the race for the White House, though Donald Trump has not conceded. How the count unfolded", "A 26-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of rape following a call from a member of the public.", "The neighbouring buildings worth millions of pounds have totally collapsed, a London fire chief says.", "Family, friends and police colleagues pay moving tributes to Sgt Matt Ratana at his funeral.", "President Trump wrote that his vote advantage in key states had \"magically\" disappeared.", "Millions reportedly received automated calls telling them not to go out on election day.", "Tim is one of the few Biden voters where he lives. When his sign went missing, he got some unexpected help.", "The High Street stalwart saw clothing and home sales fall due to the impact of lockdown.", "MPs question the prime minister ahead of vote on new coronavirus lockdown restrictions for England", "Police say those who planned the Halloween event near Bristol were \"reckless\".", "New guidance for care homes in England suggests introducing screens, pods and window visits.", "The finalist from 2014 died last week from oesophageal cancer, his agent says.", "Suspicions about the Manchester bomber should have been passed to the control room, inquiry hears.", "The evening got off to an anxious start for staffers but settled a little after the Florida result.", "Researchers develop a method to measure chronic stress without taking blood.", "England's chief medical officer defends lockdowns as a further 397 coronavirus deaths are recorded.", "More than 7,200 people in England were told to stop self-isolating on the wrong date.", "Find out how to stay in touch with live election results on TV, radio, online, and on social media.", "On the last day before shops close in England, we asked people in Milton Keynes what they bought.", "The NUS warns students are preparing for a mass exodus before England's lockdown starts on Thursday.", "A complaint is made that married PC Timothy Brehmer's manslaughter sentence was \"unduly lenient\".", "More than 50 residents complained about plans to open the fast food restaurant in Rutland.", "Mr Icke's account was permanently suspended for breaking Twitter's rules on Covid misinformation.", "The advice for people at higher risk from Covid-19 is to stay at home as much as possible for a month.", "Biden supporter Lesley and Trump supporters Eliana and Mike share how they're feeling about the night.", "Carál Ní Chuilín lays out long-awaited plans to change the laws in NI on the sale of alcohol.", "Independent shops have been better at surviving Covid-19 than chain stores, data indicates.", "Social media influencer Emily Canham is the first to be reprimanded over a video posted to TikTok.", "It means an attack is highly likely but there is no specific intelligence of an imminent incident.", "John Lewis and Currys PC World among those opening later as demand surges ahead of lockdown.", "Stephen Fry remembers actor and comedian John Sessions as \"warm, vulnerable, lovable and loving\".", "The president falsely declares he's won - but the reality is that millions of votes have to be counted.", "Republicans in our group chat were jubilant overnight - but the mood changed as more results came in.", "Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told supporters in Delaware to \"keep the faith\".", "If the world's biggest iceberg grounds at South Georgia island, it could devastate local wildlife.", "Boris Johnson sees off a rebellion by 34 Tory MPs over restrictions which came into force at midnight.", "Here’s what happens when you put 13 Trump and 12 Biden voters in a group text on election night.", "New government guidance also says teachers who are \"clinically vulnerable\" should not come in to school.", "The new coronavirus restrictions are due to come into effect on Thursday.", "It comes as the head of NHS England says nearly 11,000 patients with Covid are now in hospital.", "The navy, environmentalists and locals pushed most of the beached pilot whales back into the sea.", "Researchers looked at data on nine million adults under the age of 65 between February and August.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Westminster will be watching carefully as the results of the US presidential election come in.", "The US is on course for its highest voter turnout in more than a century.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The woman called foreign affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta's traditional tattoo \"ugly and uncivilised\".", "Leopoldo Luque, Maradona's personal physician, said Argentina legend Maradona had \"coped well with the surgery\".", "A last-minute U-turn allowing pubs to sell takeaway beer is welcomed - but may not be enough to survive, publicans fear.", "The cuts - totalling more than 2,200 - come as both businesses continue their restructuring.", "A handful of people are behind most of the politics shared on Facebook - none of them politicians.", "Agencies are criticised after Lucy McHugh was murdered by Stephen Nicholson at her Southampton home.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening.", "Satisfaction with the BBC among its most loyal audiences is showing \"signs of waning\", Ofcom says.", "Abdalraouf Abdallah, convicted of terror offences, has refused to discuss his relationship with Salman Abedi.", "Wales' first minister warns people to act responsibly after government agrees relaxed Christmas rules.", "The brother of one of the women calls for tougher laws to protect victims.", "Depp, who played Gellert Grindelwald, left the franchise this month after losing a libel case.", "One family whose house was ruined by floods in February say they are anxious whenever it rains.", "Eight more people die after testing positive for Covid-19 in NI and 442 new cases are recorded.", "Air force pilots, other officers and civilians are jailed for trying to oust President Erdogan.", "The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is broadcast to millions every Christmas Eve.", "People in the city helped to raise £750,000 for the six-year-old to undergo cancer treatment abroad.", "Developers plan to demolish Portcullis House in Glasgow to make way for a 30-storey tower block.", "This doctor made a video simulating what a dying Covid patient sees - to urge people to wear masks.", "The UK's five-day relaxation of rules will throw \"fuel on the Covid fire\", scientists warn.", "TV presenter Iolo Williams is concerned non-native bugs will be released into north Wales.", "The Argentine icon famous for his 'Hand of God' goal was a footballing great with a myriad of problems.", "Jessica Jing Ren, 36, died after the double decker bus crashed into a railway bridge in Swansea.", "PM says England faces a hard winter as bans on household mixing indoors are set to replace lockdown.", "Emily Jones, seven, was stabbed by a stranger as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton.", "\"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,\" Meghan writes in an article.", "Scotland's first minister says a referendum should be held \"in the earlier part\" of the next Scottish Parliament.", "Three days of mourning begin in Argentina as tributes pour in for Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, who died on Wednesday.", "Experts says victims of female genital mutilation in the UK are not reporting cases because of delays and lockdown closures.", "The comedian's Live at the Apollo set will not be re-broadcast, after two viewers complained.", "More than 55 million people will remain banned from meeting other households indoors from 2 December.", "Leaders of Britain's biggest unions vow to resist chancellor's freeze on workers who \"risked everything\".", "Paul Farrell, 55, of Camden, north London, is accused of 79 offences including rape and attempted rape.", "A judge refuses to hear the case but the star can try to overturn the ruling at the Court of Appeal.", "More than 50 executives call for evidence justifying industry's Covid restrictions to be published.", "The family of missing crew member Robert Morley thank the captain for his rescue efforts.", "The chancellor says the \"economic emergency\" has \"just begun\", but promises more help for the jobless.", "The Scottish government will allow people to meet up at Christmas, but is also advising them not to do so.", "People travelling to the UK from the two countries will need to quarantine from Saturday.", "People must take responsibility to keep to Wales' coronavirus lockdown rules, a police chief warns.", "The virus is one of three \"once in a lifetime\" recent economic shocks says the Resolution Foundation.", "Argentina legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, dies at the age of 60.", "Germany and Italy want slopes closed until January, but the EU is yet to reach an agreement.", "Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanks those who worked towards her release, which Iran says was a prisoner exchange.", "The man seeking alternatives to a ditched relief road says commuters need alternatives to cars.", "Almost all of England will go into tiers two and three when the lockdown ends on 2 December.", "British-Australian lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert endured two years of \"incredible hardship\".", "Sir Brian Leveson will oversee the company's efforts to monitor its suppliers more closely.", "The EU's Michel Barnier arrived in London on Friday evening, as the two sides try to agree a deal.", "Health workers have been \"persistently dishonest\" over a baby's death in 2001, a report finds.", "The 19-year-old, filmed by a police helicopter, went through red lights and the wrong way on a motorway.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "But in Scotland infection rates appear to be rising, according to Office for National Statistics data.", "A PC has been sacked for gross misconduct for switching the price of doughnuts to seven pence.", "A \"workplace parking levy\" and cheap tickets to encourage public transport use are also suggested.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Most areas are expected to be put in the two toughest tiers of restrictions when the lockdown ends.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak said an extra £1bn in social care funding would be available to councils.", "The IFS says the Spending Review means council tax could rise an average £70 per household.", "The 23-year-old American has modelled for Vogue, Fenty Beauty and Kanye West’s Yeezy brand.", "Footballer Marcus Rashford asks the chancellor whether higher Universal Credit will be \"taken away\" in April.", "One bar owner says 'it simply isn't viable' to operate under restrictions as English tiers are revealed.", "There are calls for urgent action following a 60,000 tonne landslip earlier this year.", "Former Treasury official Dan Rosenfield's appointment comes after a period of upheaval in Downing Street.", "Video of the three officers beating the music producer at his studio has caused an outcry in France.", "From the 'Hand of God' to managing Messi - Diego Maradona's colourful life in pictures.", "It's not against the rules but it's not a sensible thing to do, warns the UK's chief medical officer.", "Police are looking into the \"incredibly distressing incident\" outside a school in Telford.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a \"loving wife, devoted mother and cherished daughter,\" her family say.", "Yahya Werfalli, whose bank details were used to buy bomb-making chemicals, gets a community order.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says the audit \"helps us establish an honest picture of our history\".", "The money for frontline UK and US staff is a thank-you for working through the pandemic.", "Government guidance says the bubbles should contain a maximum of eight people over the age of 11.", "It comes as ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn is reinstated as a party member, 19 days after his suspension.", "London cabbies are said to be earning \"starvation wages\", at around a quarter of normal levels.", "Perpetual Uke says she struggled to believe they were her children when she awoke 16 days later.", "He is self-isolating after coming into contact with a Tory MP who tested positive for coronavirus.", "State officials say a \"six day pause\" on all community activity is crucial to curbing the virus' spread.", "Trump supporters are making allegations of dead people voting. Is there any evidence?", "Guests tried to flee when officers raided the furniture factory in Blackburn.", "The numbers \"always or often\" lonely in the pandemic reached a new high point as winter approaches.", "Food delivery drivers claim they were denied access to toilets at restaurants during lockdown.", "Boris Johnson answered MPs weekly questions by video link for the first time.", "The higher fixed penalty notice of £200 took effect last Thursday, replacing the minimum £60 fine.", "More than 76,000 premises in NI are set to benefit from access to full-fibre broadband.", "The service is under extra pressure with almost 1,500 vacancies yet to be filled, says the auditor.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "Details and reaction to the briefing by NHS Wales Chief Executive Dr Andrew Goodall.", "Property prices in the South West of England have risen fastest in the UK, official statistics show.", "Common rules for people to follow across the UK are being considered for the festive period.", "The spending watchdog found £10.5bn was spent on pandemic-related contracts awarded without competitive tender.", "Aiden Stott had been trying to raise cash to adapt his home when the star left a surprise donation.", "Peers vote to change the bill dealing with internal markets after claims it would \"shackle\" devolved governments.", "It will take two weeks to see if the firebreak lockdown has slowed new cases enough, an official says.", "The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights says two employees have been detained since Sunday.", "Coverage of Health Minister Robin Swann's latest coronavirus briefing.", "Rangers are tracking the giraffe in north-east Kenya, after poachers killed his family members.", "A US jewellery designer struck \"lucrative\" deals with the Department of Health at the start of the pandemic.", "Those who earn less than $1m this year will see their commission charge halved in 2021.", "Rules could be relaxed for a few days, with people urged to travel by car and not hold big gatherings.", "The UK's inflation rate, which tracks the prices of goods and services, increases to 0.7% in October.", "\"I hope he didn't think we left him there and forgot about him,\" says the widow of one resident.", "Rising temperatures are destabilising lake and river ice, boosting the risk of people drowning.", "The Professional Footballers' Association is setting up a new taskforce to further examine the issue of brain injury diseases in football.", "Vincent Reffet was part of the Jetman Dubai team, and performed airborne stunts around the world.", "Ministers are in talks over rules to be in place over the festive period across the UK.", "Two NHS bosses - Baroness Harding and medical director Stephen Powis - are told to stay at home.", "New data on the potential vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech released on 18 November shows it's 95% effective and safe.", "Chris Krebs reportedly angered Donald Trump by running a website debunking election misinformation.", "The PM confirms he is bringing the ban forward as he sets out his \"green industrial revolution\".", "Eamonn Harrison denies the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a container in Essex.", "Lord Feldman went to meetings between ministers and a biotech firm his PR company went on to advise.", "A total seven people are now being held for allegedly running a child-trafficking syndicate.", "The digital currency is close to an all-time record although experts warn about its volatility.", "The family of Owen and Bredge Ward, from County Tyrone, say they are in \"complete shock\".", "The ex-leader was suspended by the party over his reaction to a report by the human rights watchdog.", "The jab works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities, further data suggests.", "At least 30 people die as the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year hits central America.", "There is disagreement between Wales and Westminster over who should hold the purse strings.", "The 29-year-old singer is taking \"extended time off\", the girl group's publicist says.", "Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint racked up a million followers in just over four hours.", "The jet has been grounded since March 2019, after two crashes that together killed 346 people.", "A consultant says Merthyr Tydfil should not come out of lockdown \"for weeks, even months\".", "A government minister promises that the \"full force of the law\" will be applied to the traffickers.", "The British Medical Association fears a surge in infections will cripple the NHS if unlocking goes wrong.", "Labour accuses the PM of ignoring the usual checks on suppliers - and wasting £21m on a \"middle man\".", "Content moderators say the tech giant is \"risking lives\" for profit in the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson says \"the safety of the British people must come first\" as he outlines a new package.", "A director and project manager of a now-defunct firm admit health and safety charges.", "The government has unveiled a 10-point plan to reach net zero emissions, but will it deliver?", "Up to 12,000 people got tested on day one of a city-wide trial, Liverpool's public health boss says.", "The PM and EU Commission president agree to \"work hard\" to reach a deal when talks resume on Monday.", "The police watchdog said the shooting happened after reports two men were \"arguing in the street\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "People are being urged to play their part from home, with Covid restrictions affecting annual events.", "The suggestion comes as seven further coronavirus-related deaths are reported in the previous 24-hour period.", "The government has a lot of work to do to in improving its relations with the incoming US administration.", "Rules for travel from Denmark were tightened after a coronavirus strain spread from mink to humans.", "Here's a look at what we know about the wife of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.", "The monarch attended a private ceremony in Westminster Abbey to mark 100 years since the burial.", "Joe Biden has vowed to bring unity to the US. Here's how his supporters think he will do it.", "Tory MPs join some 2,000 doctors in voicing concern, as Labour threatens to push for another vote.", "Lord Sacks was a prolific writer and regularly contributed to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.", "Notes Earl Spencer says he made suggest Martin Bashir made false and defamatory claims about senior royals.", "The England striker wants free lunches during holidays, but ministers say their measures are better.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Supporters of US President-Elect Joe Biden give their message to people who voted for Donald Trump.", "From Beijing to Berlin - the BBC looks at the impact of the ideological shift in the White House.", "Alex Trebek, the beloved host of US quiz show Jeopardy!, had been living with cancer for some time.", "The satellite is meant to trial new technology expected to be many times faster than 5G.", "Sir Mo Farah, Shane Richie, Victoria Derbyshire and Vernon Kay are heading to the new Welsh camp.", "Joe Biden is projected to have won the race for the White House, though Donald Trump has not conceded. How the count unfolded", "Cheers, honking and dancing erupt in major cities, as the nation comes to terms with the result.", "The government is to spend about £400m to support poor children and their families in England, in a climbdown.", "World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his projected victory over Donald Trump.", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has topped the 270 electoral votes needed to defeat Donald Trump.", "The islands have seen a sharp increase in the number of migrants from West Africa in recent months.", "The world's largest jeweller has no plans for permanent store closures despite the impact of Covid-19.", "And UK citizens returning from the country must isolate with all other household members for 14 days.", "The prime minister says he looks forward to \"working closely\" with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.", "Rupert Bear turns 100 on Sunday - can the character continue to capture the imagination of children?", "A 17-year-old boy dies after sustaining chest injuries during an altercation in Milton Keynes.", "After nearly 50 years in public office, Joe Biden has captured the White House. This is how he did it.", "Let this election bury the mistaken notion that the last one was a historical accident, says Nick Bryant.", "She was joined by family members and the PM, as Whitehall was closed to the public for the first time.", "Police say they found people were not distancing and music was being played from large speakers.", "Prince Fumihito is declared first in line to the throne during a ceremony in the capital Tokyo.", "The singer is unwell and also won't be appearing at Sunday evening's MTV Europe Music Awards.", "Greater Manchester hospitals are treating \"more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave\".", "Scammers are listing other people's driveways in an attempt to make money from the parking app and website, Just Park.", "The sinkhole was caused by water running onto the road from a nearby farm, the council says.", "Blenheim Palace says it hopes the \"extraordinary figures\" are \"a fitting tribute to all the fallen\".", "Wales' health minister says case rates remain high but are \"levelling off\" on the last day of lockdown.", "Here's why you are seeing different tallies at the top of the live coverage from various news sites", "Cases of a mutated strain of Covid-19 have been detected that may undermine future vaccines.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Her character famously urged Marty McFly to \"save the clock tower\" in the 1985 film.", "Tough restrictions on household visits and hospitality are starting to have an effect\", the first minister says.", "Nadarajah Nithiyakumar attacked his son and daughter while their mother was in the shower.", "The firm's Uber Eats business has more than doubled as the pandemic increases appetite for takeaway.", "Apple threw the game off its App Store in August, but Nvidia's service offers it a way back to iOS.", "Government used out-of-date model predicting 4,000 deaths a day in TV briefing.", "The government is urged to do more to help arts freelancers as venues shut again during lockdown.", "The teenager was allegedly attacked in Colliers Wood in south-west London on Tuesday morning.", "A large police presence remains near Trafalgar Square where the \"Million Mask March\" was dispersed.", "A court heard Dominic Chappell spent the money that was owed on two yachts and a luxury holiday.", "Here's why you are seeing different tallies at the top of the live coverage from various news sites", "New guidance for care homes in England suggests introducing screens, pods and window visits.", "Boris Johnson says four weeks of the new measures will be enough to make \"a real impact\".", "More than eight in 10 secondary schools have had at least one case since September, figures show.", "Labour and Plaid Cymru say chancellor's pledge to extend scheme until March should have come sooner.", "Boris Johnson stresses the \"stay at home\" message on 5 November - the first day of England's second lockdown.", "The Premier League is likely to scrap controversial pay-per-view matches after the upcoming international window.", "A family says being unable to see their relative amid the pandemic pushed them to \"breaking point\".", "It is the highest one-day rise in a country that has recorded more cases and deaths than any other.", "People who seriously flout the new rules in England will face fines, the justice secretary says.", "The former What Not To Wear presenter says she felt \"a lot of shame\" about her drinking.", "About 420 Argos stores are to close, as will the supermarket's meat, fish and deli counters.", "The health secretary says those seeking assisted deaths abroad will not be breaking new Covid rules.", "The war veteran wants the country to \"join together\" during the second lockdown.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "People in the city helped to raise £750,000 for the six-year-old to undergo cancer treatment abroad.", "Paul Farrell, 55, of Camden, London, admits 58 sex offences against children.", "A PC has been sacked for gross misconduct for switching the price of doughnuts to seven pence.", "Taiwan's opposition legislators exchanged blows in a heated row over the easing of US pork imports.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "People can only drink when eating, under new restrictions, the prime minister's spokesman confirms.", "There are fears Covid cases in schools may force children and teachers to self-isolate at Christmas.", "Click and collect will operate 'on an appointment-only basis with maximum mitigations in place'.", "People travelling to the UK from the two countries will need to quarantine from Saturday.", "The Arcadia retail group, led by Sir Philip Green, is hoping to secure funding amid a second lockdown.", "Bowling alleys and indoor entertainment venues will also have to close under new restrictions.", "Christopher Robinson is sentenced to a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Adrian Ismay in 2016.", "More than 1,300 people were incorrectly told they had coronavirus by NHS Test and Trace.", "\"Karim\" wanted to help the NHS but the pandemic put his asylum claim on hold.", "How Sir Philip went from petrol station to retail empire, and ruffled some feathers along the way.", "Thousands of people in Wales are at \"risk of going blind\" because of delays, a charity warns.", "Bruno Tonioli has to stay put in the US amid Covid concerns over a flight to the UK.", "Bristol Zoological Society said the move to another site was needed to safeguard its future.", "Although Black Friday spending in the UK is set to soar in 2020, some brands won't be taking part.", "Some residents say the decision will affect livelihoods, with one describing it as heartbreaking.", "The hasty mass burial of animals infected with coronavirus was declared illegal.", "Teenager Jack Welsby scores a last-gasp try as St Helens retain their Super League crown in a dramatic Grand Final climax against Wigan.", "Nigel Owens speaks of his pride - and sadness - as he is set to become the first referee to officiate 100 rugby union Test matches.", "Public health leaders question whether it is possible to expand mass testing schemes in England.", "Emily Jones, seven, was stabbed by a stranger as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton.", "One bar owner says 'it simply isn't viable' to operate under restrictions as English tiers are revealed.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by First Minister Mark Drakeford.", "Almost all of England will go into tiers two and three when the lockdown ends on 2 December.", "Scotland's first minister says a referendum should be held \"in the earlier part\" of the next Scottish Parliament.", "Video of the three officers beating the music producer at his studio has caused an outcry in France.", "Scientific advisers to the government estimate the coronavirus epidemic is no longer growing.", "The R number for coronavirus has fallen to between 0.9 and 1 for the first time since mid-August.", "Maria Mester was paid to spend the week in the city as part of her work as an escort, a court hears.", "The PM hits back at criticism from Tory MPs that post-lockdown restrictions are not properly targeted.", "Carla Sacchi was allowed home days after her husband played his accordion below her hospital window.", "Eight more people die after testing positive for Covid-19 in NI and 442 new cases are recorded.", "It has been suggested that all schools could close on 18 December and reopen on 11 January.", "The funeral parlour says it is \"devastated\" by the pictures, as Maradona's lawyer vows legal action.", "The president demands proposals to rebuild trust between France's citizens and police.", "It's not against the rules but it's not a sensible thing to do, warns the UK's chief medical officer.", "The EU's Michel Barnier arrived in London on Friday evening, as the two sides try to agree a deal.", "More than 165,000 people in England will be offered the tests from next year.", "Christopher Wilson asked if she wanted to \"get with a man in uniform\" as she was reporting a crime.", "The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is broadcast to millions every Christmas Eve.", "The money for frontline UK and US staff is a thank-you for working through the pandemic.", "Scientists spell out measures to minimise coronavirus infection risk when rules are relaxed at Christmas.", "The Tunisian referee from England's infamous defeat by Argentina at the 1986 World Cup says he is \"proud and honoured\" to have helped Diego Maradona score the 'goal of the century'.", "Police think the body of Robert Duff, who vanished in 2013, may be in the water on Hampstead Heath.", "Worries about overseas students, Covid and pensions are damaging university finances, says report.", "Boris Johnson's congratulatory message included the word Trump faintly in background.", "The 14-carat Spirit of the Rose diamond is named after the ballet made famous by Vaslav Nijinsky.", "British Cycling sacks a senior coach for gross misconduct and a \"long-term pattern of inappropriate relationships\" with riders.", "Historical museum specimens have helped to solve a long standing scientific monkey puzzle.", "The Foreign Office \"unlawfully decided\" Anne Sacoolas was immune from prosecution, a court hears.", "Khairi Saadallah pleads guilty to killing the men during a two-minute stabbing spree in Reading.", "Jeffrey Toobin, who is also senior legal analyst for CNN, confirmed in a tweet he had been sacked.", "Greg Clarke resigns as FA chairman following the language he used when talking to MPs about diversity.", "The UK government does not expect to reach a deal with the EU in this week's talks.", "One volume from the private school's library is estimated to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.", "The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is criticised by the child sex abuse inquiry.", "Senior royals and politicians gathered on the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.", "Green groups welcome the UK's plan to outlaw the import of food and other goods from protected areas.", "The firm has recalled cans of its non-alcoholic stout just two weeks after they were launched.", "The full trial results have not yet been published, but scientists welcomed the positive news.", "Details and reaction to today's briefing on the pandemic by Education Minister Kirsty Williams.", "A coroner raised concerns after inquests for five women who died in Cambridgeshire.", "US hospital admissions hit record levels as New York City warns it is on the cusp of a second wave.", "American firm Bechtel is reported to be leading a consortium-bid to restart the project at Wylfa.", "Pupils' grades will be based on teacher assessments and coursework - but Higher exams will still take place.", "Teaching unions say despite a push for more devices, many students still don't have access at home.", "From a young mother to a professional card player: seven people lost to Covid-19 on one day.", "Staff cannot be expected to \"come up with, prepare, assess, standardise and moderate\", a union says.", "Claudia Webbe, Labour MP for Leicester East, is due to stand trial in March.", "Spain's Jon Rahm holes an incredible skimming shot across the pond on the 16th hole at Augusta as he practises before the Masters which begins on Thursday.", "Common rules for people to follow across the UK are being considered for the festive period.", "A minister urges businesses in Wales to prepare for 31 December and the risk of no EU trade deal.", "Linda Johnson, who is partially sighted, is in fear of leaving her house after receiving abuse for accidentally breaching social distancing guidelines.", "Creator Akse says he was inspired to do it by the England star's work to tackle child poverty.", "Rapid results tests for students are planned to let students get home safely in early December.", "University students will be allowed to travel home if they return two negative tests for Covid-19.", "Around 200 queen hornets were found in a nest extracted in Washington in October, scientists say.", "England's children's commissioner says some young people are living in \"disgusting\" conditions.", "All new expenditure at the authority is halted amid \"severe ongoing financial challenges\".", "The parcel delivery firm says it will loosen guidelines for more than 500,000 workers globally.", "The home secretary denies bullying staff but the results of a probe into her conduct remain secret.", "Conservative Jake Berry made the comparison as he warned \"northern culture\" is being hit by Covid.", "President-elect Joe Biden leads in the traditionally Republican state by about 14,000 votes.", "A man in his 50s, who worked for the Belfast Trust, was one of those who died in the past two weeks.", "The Mary Wollstonecraft memorial draws criticism due to its inclusion of a naked female figure.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The chancellor commissioned the report in July as part of efforts to cover Covid-19 costs.", "It is the first European nation to pass the landmark, with 595 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours.", "The UK prime minister assures the president-elect Brexit will not affect Northern Irish peace treaty.", "Officers tackle a man who then tried to set to fire to the road outside the building.", "Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clashed over the government's use of private contractors for public relations.", "The UK is the fifth country to pass 50,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.", "As students' Christmas return plans are revealed, one tells of her desperation to be at home.", "The group of around 50 MPs says a repeat of current restrictions would \"devastate\" the economy and \"cost lives\".", "Nóra Quoirin and her family were staying at a jungle resort in Malaysia when she went missing.", "Former Vote Leave official and close ally of the PM, Lee Cain, exits as reports surface of internal tensions.", "The firm says the project will create 6,000 new jobs in the Midlands and the North of England", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Disruption is expected to last all day due to the \"low speed\" freight train derailment in Sheffield.", "The presenter is to exit his Saturday morning programme before the end of this year.", "The health secretary also announces that, from Tuesday, NHS staff will be tested twice a week.", "National 5 exams in Scotland have already been cancelled for 2021 but Highers are currently scheduled to go ahead.", "The way towns in England were selected for a cash boost was \"not impartial\", a spending watchdog says.", "Riot police use water and tear gas to repel protesters in the capital, Lima.", "Brian Murdoch fed Kidderminster Harriers fans for nearly 60 years with the \"match day treats\".", "A device exploded as European and US diplomats marked Remembrance Day in Jeddah.", "Lucy Letby was arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at a Chester hospital.", "Shops forced to close during England's second lockdown say they are being unfairly targeted.", "Senior Tory MP David Davis says PM Boris Johnson has taken \"decisive action\" over his top aide.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Former England, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Ray Clemence dies aged 72.", "There may be a peace deal, but both sides are counting the cost of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.", "A team of four leaves Florida on a SpaceX rocket and capsule, bound for the orbiting laboratory.", "The pastor at The Angel Church in Islington says the baptism was serving \"the greater good\".", "The device has been withdrawn from the market for commercial reasons but its makers stand by its safety.", "We've looked at four false Covid vaccine claims that won’t go away.", "A formula for housing targets in England led to upset from MPs - now changes are expected.", "The family of Oscar Jealous, who has Batten disease, are \"overwhelmed\" by people's generosity.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Multiple eyewitnesses say they saw soldiers shoot and kill unarmed anti-police brutality protesters.", "The Arcadia retail group, led by Sir Philip Green, is hoping to secure funding amid a second lockdown.", "The economic impact will be on a \"different scale\" to that seen in the 1980s, says Baroness Wilcox.", "Evidence presented to government confirmed rising infections as schools reopened.", "Funding will support thousands of jobs, as part of a green recovery from Covid, the government says.", "New laws should make social media companies take down false posts about vaccines, Labour says.", "Removing the last landmine on the Falkland Islands is a \"momentous change\", says islander Barry Elsby.", "Gordon Brown says a referendum on Scottish independence should not be held while the country deals with a pandemic.", "Advice on face coverings for secondary school pupils is being reconsidered, says education minister.", "Preacher John Harper refused a seat in a lifeboat and gave his lifejacket to another passenger who survived.", "Successful trials suggest they could provide electricity on a mass scale.", "Issues are not caused by the drug but by people believing it will make them sick, a study suggests.", "At least 10 die as oxygen used to treat the patients helps spread the fire in Piatra Neamt.", "Lewis Hamilton clinches a seventh world title, becoming the most successful racing driver ever with a masterful victory in the Turkish Grand Prix.", "People in England must not become complacent due to a potential vaccine, a government scientist says.", "Thousands of pro-Trump protesters marched in Washington DC to support President Trump.", "Peru sees mounting unrest after Congress removes President Martín Vizcarra from office.", "Successful trials suggest they could provide electricity on a mass scale.", "The UK's environment secretary says \"agreement exists\" with the EU, but time is \"very, very short\".", "Chatterjee, famed for his work with Oscar-winning Indian director Satyajit Ray, died of Covid complications.", "The star, whose 45-year career included hit singles and TV chat shows, died \"peacefully\" in his sleep.", "The prince tells the German parliament he believes the countries will \"always be friends and allies\".", "The tech entrepreneur says he has minor cold symptoms but test results have been \"wildly different\".", "The prime minister says he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace but is not showing any symptoms.", "The ITV series launched from a Welsh castle on Sunday, with 10 new celebrities setting up camp.", "ONS data also says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.", "Austrians are urged not to meet people from outside their households as hospitals feel the pressure.", "Leicester's Golden Mile is usually buzzing for the festival but things are very different this year.", "Prof Ugur Sahin also raises hopes the vaccine, developed with Pfizer. could halve Covid transmission.", "Two crewmen have not been seen since their vessel sank off the Sussex coast on Saturday.", "Contacts of people with the virus will not need to quarantine if they test negative, the government says.", "Ministers outline plans for \"some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Supreme Court has ruled that Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK in order to fight her citizenship case.", "The multi-million pound package will include a high street voucher plan and funds for drink-only pubs.", "The Strictly presenter said she was \"gobsmacked\" to be asked to host the Saturday morning show.", "A coroner has concluded five people died accidently while using defective gas cookers.", "Boris Johnson will unveil the latest Covid plans, including lifting a ban on outdoor grassroots sport.", "England's hospitality sector warns post-lockdown restrictions risk putting firms out of business.", "Health minister says changes to Covid-19 rules could bring Wales in line with other parts of the UK.", "An American boy made to appear in an IS propaganda video in Syria is back in the US and doing well.", "A 14-year-old transgender boy is taking legal action against NHS England over treatment delays.", "A laser technology firm in Glasgow receives the first backing from the bank which aims to encourage sustainable innovation.", "Kingspan fire-tested its cladding in 2005, but changed the formulation the next year, an ex-employee says.", "A huge rise in home education is revealed amid parents' fears of Covid-19 in England's schools.", "It's almost a year since Darryn Frost helped to stop a man who was on the rampage, stabbing people.", "The robotic Chang'e-5 mission aims to return the first lunar rocks to Earth in more than 40 years.", "Train companies in Britain will continue to offer tickets to those fleeing domestic abuse until March.", "A woman who attended a Bristol rave says she sustained \"life-changing' injuries\" from a police dog.", "The 32-year-old woman was an \"innocent bystander\", the Metropolitan Police believes.", "The German leader voices concern after top economic powers promise a fair distribution of vaccines.", "Firms including Kellogg's and Britvic say the plan to tackle childhood obesity is \"disproportionate\".", "Deepspot is a diving pool that goes 45.5m (150ft) down and provides a space for divers to train.", "Patrick Quinn, who had the incurable neurological disorder ALS, helped raise millions for charity.", "Shoppers lined Belfast's streets days before Northern Ireland's non-essential shops shut for two weeks.", "For Christmas break, students will leave university within 24 hours of two negative Covid tests.", "The bike vanished from its position outside a beauty parlour in Nottingham over the weekend.", "A school in France is named after David Edwards for his work promoting peace and understanding.", "A ban on outdoor grassroots sport is set to be lifted in England when the national lockdown ends.", "England will return to a regional approach from 2 December but the tiers will be \"tougher\", the PM says.", "This year saw 'hundreds of significant new words' rather than just one, Oxford Dictionaries say.", "Christmas will be the season to be \"jolly careful\", Boris Johnson tells a Downing Street briefing.", "The Swale district of Kent now has the second highest coronavirus infection rate in England.", "Paul Robson is accused of murdering Caroline Kayll and the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy.", "The chancellor says he will uphold pre-Covid funding pledges on police, nurses and schools.", "More areas will be in higher tiers, and the tiers will have tougher rules - but the 10pm pub curfew will ease.", "Charli D'Amelio hit the record just days after becoming involved in a row over a video.", "Its new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend \"the most engaging\" posts to a user.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there could be a \"careful\" easing at Christmas - but does not expect a relaxation at new year.", "The airline is selling thousands of items, including memorabilia from its retired 747 aircraft.", "It vanished from its post outside a beauty parlour in Nottingham over the weekend.", "Up to 4,000 fans will be allowed at outdoor events in the lowest-risk areas when the four-week national lockdown in England ends.", "Nick Brown says the ex-Labour leader's response to an anti-Semitism report caused \"pain\".", "Israeli media report that Benjamin Netanyahu made an unprecedented visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A former high-rise police station is flattened in a controlled blast to make way for a supermarket.", "Gareth Bale's first goal since re-signing for Tottenham helps his side beat Brighton to go second in the Premier League.", "Oleksandr Usyk earns a unanimous points win over Derek Chisora at Wembley Arena to underline his credentials at heavyweight.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The vessel overturned in severe gale-force winds during Storm Aiden, triggering a rescue.", "Transport for London has secured a six-month deal to keep services running until March 2021.", "The Premier League and other elite sport can continue behind closed doors during a new four-week national lockdown in England.", "A number of European countries are enforcing new measures as cases continue to rise.", "Tennis and golf officials are among those urging the government to make their sports exempt from new lockdown rules for England.", "Some of the crowd became violent as they were told to leave, Avon and Somerset Police said.", "The Duke of Cambridge is believed to have caught it at a similar time as his father, Prince Charles.", "Mayors of hard-hit regions are among those calling for schools to shut to reduce transmission faster.", "The trial of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack is suspended after the main suspect catches the virus.", "Rescuers workers have pulled people from the rubble in Izmir after Friday's powerful earthquake.", "They say the government needs to explain its decision to stop services during the second lockdown.", "A look at how Donald Trump's direct approach has changed US relations around the world.", "Joe Biden is in Michigan while Donald Trump arrives in Pennsylvania, both key to the White House race.", "Police confirm at least two people have died and say they have arrested a man in his mid-20s.", "Nicola Sturgeon says only \"essential\" cross border trips should be made, as the PM announces a month-long England lockdown.", "Police detain a suspect who resembles witness descriptions of the gunman.", "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be barnstorming the battleground state on Sunday and Monday.", "Manchester City win their third Women's FA Cup in four seasons as Georgia Stanway and Janine Beckie's late extra time goals beat Everton at Wembley.", "Locally-transmitted cases have dropped to zero and one state is hopeful for a \"normal Christmas\".", "North-west England politicians are angry at differences between local and national furlough rates.", "England win the Six Nations title after France beat Ireland on a thrilling final day of the delayed tournament.", "World Cup-winning England forward and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton is diagnosed with dementia.", "Boris Johnson is likely to take the national action that he swore he would do everything to avoid.", "Look back at the life of the first and (possibly) greatest James Bond and all-round movie hero.", "Boris Johnson's original judgement now seems like it was a political accident just waiting to happen.", "Europe is grappling with a second wave as cases and deaths continue to rise.", "Warnings for rain in Northern Ireland, much of Scotland, Wales and parts of England are in force.", "The first minister says they were not sufficient to deal with the \"onslaught\" of the virus.", "The scheme, which pays up to 80% of wages, has been extended until December as England goes into a national lockdown.", "A survivor is pulled from the rubble in the port city of Izmir as the quake's death toll rises to 64.", "Families foot the bill as the NHS \"refuses\" to prescribe medical cannabis for children with epilepsy.", "Two men were in the industrial-sized dryer when the third's ankles became trapped as he crawled in.", "Substitute Diogo Jota scores for the third straight game as Liverpool come from behind to beat West Ham and go top of the Premier League table.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Albania emerges as the leading candidate to host England's Nations League game against Iceland on 18 November while Germany could also be an option, BBC Sport has learned.", "About 160 million Americans voted - here's a sampling of some that swayed the election.", "Rules for travel from Denmark were tightened after a coronavirus strain spread from mink to humans.", "The discount supermarket chain is expanding its trial as it faces growing competition from rivals.", "The self-styled \"free speech\" application topped US download charts in the wake of the election.", "The government is to spend about £400m to support poor children and their families in England, in a climbdown.", "After nearly 50 years in public office, Joe Biden has captured the White House. This is how he did it.", "Let this election bury the mistaken notion that the last one was a historical accident, says Nick Bryant.", "The vaccines are being developed by the pharmaceutical company Janssen and US biotech firm Novavax.", "Christian Verrall caused his victim life-changing injuries in the attack, Cardiff Crown Court heard.", "Here's a look at what we know about the wife of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.", "A fashion brand founder may have to remove a tennis court and garage, following a council decision.", "A football pitch in a village was turned into an \"execution ground\", reports say.", "Supporters of US President-Elect Joe Biden give their message to people who voted for Donald Trump.", "A Hinckley railway bridge tops the chart, which also features bridges in Staffordshire and Norfolk.", "A new testing regime could also reduce the 14-day self-isolation period, the transport secretary says.", "The vaccine offers more than 90% of people protection from getting Covid, preliminary trials show.", "Negotiators are meeting again after Boris Johnson insists a post-Brexit deal is \"there to be done\".", "Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose was alerted by the app overseen by his wife, Lady Dido Harding.", "The executive is to meet again on Tuesday to decide what to do with rules around pubs and restaurants.", "Boris Johnson says a new Covid-19 vaccine is good news but warns the country not to \"slacken our resolve\".", "Shares in Europe and Asia rise as uncertainty about the outcome of US presidential election is lifted.", "Wales' health minister says case rates remain high but are \"levelling off\" on the last day of lockdown.", "Horror fan Nathan Maynard-Ellis and his partner David Leesley killed and dismembered Julia Rawson.", "The pandemic is making it hard to get medication and breathing equipment, a BBC survey suggests.", "Alex Trebek, the beloved host of US quiz show Jeopardy!, had been living with cancer for some time.", "The top-selling item is the only painting the singer has ever made available for public sale.", "The islands have seen a sharp increase in the number of migrants from West Africa in recent months.", "The government is committed to building nuclear power stations to decarbonise the UK's electricity.", "More than 1.25 million coronavirus-related deaths have been reported, Johns Hopkins university says.", "Prince Fumihito is declared first in line to the throne during a ceremony in the capital Tokyo.", "Many could be hiding credit cards, loans and savings accounts from loved ones, a government body says.", "Joe Biden is projected to have won the race for the White House, though Donald Trump has not conceded. How the count unfolded", "The \"sci-fi\" travel concept involves travelling in pods inside vacuum tubes at very high speeds.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Details and reaction to First Minister Mark Drakeford's briefing as Wales comes out of lockdown.", "Emily Harrington reached the top of Yosemite's famed granite rock face in just over 21 hours.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The police watchdog said the shooting happened after reports two men were \"arguing in the street\".", "John Doak's blind son, 15-year-old Jack Mitchell, died from shaking injuries he received as a baby.", "Corona Newton says it was easier to have a sense of humour about her name before the pandemic struck.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The government has a lot of work to do to in improving its relations with the incoming US administration.", "Joe Biden has vowed to bring unity to the US. Here's how his supporters think he will do it.", "The coronavirus mutation found in farmed mink in Denmark has arisen in the past, genetic data shows.", "Staff at the Royal Derby Hospital created the room as a place to escape from the intense pressures.", "Sir Mo Farah, Shane Richie, Victoria Derbyshire and Vernon Kay are heading to the new Welsh camp.", "The FTSE 100 surges nearly 5% after Pfizer shares vaccine progress.", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has topped the 270 electoral votes needed to defeat Donald Trump.", "The first minister does not expect any areas to move to a lower level when restrictions are reviewed on Tuesday.", "She was joined by family members and the PM, as Whitehall was closed to the public for the first time.", "Some who served with Deacon Cutterham in Afghanistan dispute his account of a Taliban attack.", "The Russian Navy defends the shooting in the Kamchatka region that outraged many social media users.", "Perpetual Uke says she struggled to believe they were her children when she awoke 16 days later.", "Nicola Sturgeon warns that easing of restrictions over Christmas could cause a spike of cases in January.", "The lawsuit argued the iPhone-maker slowed down device performance to make users buy newer models.", "Families of approximately 100,000 children will receive payments for food when they are off school.", "A report accuses the MoD of failing to make the \"hard choices\" needed to plug a gap of up to £13bn.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "The government announces a rescue package of £300m of emergency funding for sports impacted by the absence of spectators because of coronavirus.", "Early signs suggest it may help patients with severe breathing difficulties who are on ventilators.", "These and other rewards can be claimed by those who give £25 or more to a crowd funding appeal.", "Inspectors visited 25 maternity units before the pandemic to review services.", "Restrictions on social gatherings may be eased so families can get together for the festive period.", "The hospitality industry voices frustrations, as more high street chains face closure.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "A 65-year-old man arrested over the blasts is reported to be Michael Patrick Reilly.", "Contracts meant getting the best home insurance deals was not as \"simples\" as its adverts suggest.", "It is the first time a top US official visiting Israel makes such a trip, seen as controversial.", "Proposals to ease restrictions over Christmas will be set out next week, a No 10 spokesman said.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says a member of his team has tested positive for the virus.", "Aiden Stott had been trying to raise cash to adapt his home when the star left a surprise donation.", "The Stirling High School students used satellite imagery and computer software to search for the birds.", "The great whales are returning to the island that hosted the industry that nearly destroyed them.", "The ex-leader's solicitors say the correct procedures were not followed, the BBC has been told.", "Peers vote to change the bill dealing with internal markets after claims it would \"shackle\" devolved governments.", "False stories about the wife of ex-England star Wayne Rooney were leaked to the press, a court hears.", "Rules could be relaxed for a few days, with people urged to travel by car and not hold big gatherings.", "Dr Cathy Gardner believes the government acted unlawfully and failed to protect care home residents.", "Online shopping during the pandemic means revenues from parcels surpasses letters for the first time.", "Rising temperatures are destabilising lake and river ice, boosting the risk of people drowning.", "President Macron gives Muslim leaders 15 days to agree a \"charter of republican values\".", "Policy experts will offer \"constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions\", says No 10.", "The home secretary denies bullying staff but the results of a probe into her conduct remain secret.", "People returning from these countries to England, Wales and Northern Ireland will not have to quarantine.", "The cinema chain has appointed restructuring experts to negotiate unlocking more cash from lenders.", "The executive has been meeting to consider calls for new Covid interventions by the end of November.", "The University of Manchester has suspended security guards who stopped Zac Adan, 19, on campus.", "Gladys Lewis and sons Dean and Darren died within days of each other after contracting the virus.", "Eamonn Harrison denies the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a lorry trailer.", "The UK's counter-terrorism head says a deal is \"incredibly important\" for the country's security.", "The government is set to confirm a rescue package of emergency funding for sports in England impacted by the absence of spectators.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The royals are pictured looking at a homemade card from their great-grandchildren.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "BBC News uncovers evidence that women have not been told about serious abnormalities and conditions.", "The jab works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities, further data suggests.", "At least 30 people die as the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year hits central America.", "The former top civil servant says the PM needs to decide on bullying claims against the home secretary.", "Beijing rebukes the Five Eyes Western alliance for accusing it of trying to silence critics in Hong Kong.", "The station says its young listeners may be offended by some of the Christmas classic's lyrics.", "The two fashion chains fall into administration, putting almost 500 shops at risk.", "The phase two trial results raise hopes the jab can protect age groups most at risk from Covid-19.", "It is hoped up to one million people could get the jab by the end of January if the vaccines win safety approval.", "Content moderators say the tech giant is \"risking lives\" for profit in the pandemic.", "Huge demand for the new PlayStation, coupled with its size, means pre-orders may not arrive on time.", "Boris Johnson says \"the safety of the British people must come first\" as he outlines a new package.", "The former US president's record-selling memoir contains some candid portraits of world leaders.", "The deal will bring together two of the world's most high-profile digital media firms.", "Public Health England says it's confident it can reduce the number of transmissions to zero by 2030.", "Famous for its More Than brand, RSA could be the year's biggest takeover of a UK-listed company.", "The National Audit Office says traders are unlikely to be ready for changes due from next January.", "The PM and EU Commission president agree to \"work hard\" to reach a deal when talks resume on Monday.", "Some 500,000 Sunny customers were mis-sold payday loans by Sunny before it collapsed.", "The 50MW facility near Manchester hopes to store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes.", "People are being urged to play their part from home, with Covid restrictions affecting annual events.", "Newly self-employed people get no help from the government, despite the latest wage support package.", "Cases of a mutated strain of Covid-19 have been detected that may undermine future vaccines.", "Nadarajah Nithiyakumar attacked his son and daughter while their mother was in the shower.", "Ofsted chief reveals higher baby deaths in lockdown and calls for action as next one begins.", "The firm's Uber Eats business has more than doubled as the pandemic increases appetite for takeaway.", "Further intelligence failings emerge prompting the Austrian city's anti-terror head to step aside.", "Government used out-of-date model predicting 4,000 deaths a day in TV briefing.", "The PM insists the \"upward curve\" in deaths is \"unmistakeable\" after government charts had to be revised.", "A global analysis suggests that on average the world's tallest teenagers live in the Netherlands.", "A coroner identified seven failings as contributing to Averil Hart's death.", "A large police presence remains near Trafalgar Square where the \"Million Mask March\" was dispersed.", "A court heard Dominic Chappell spent the money that was owed on two yachts and a luxury holiday.", "An ad for the app, which can display test results, has been referred to the advertising regulator.", "Boris Johnson says four weeks of the new measures will be enough to make \"a real impact\".", "The clothing chain and its sister company, Ponden Home, have been placed into administration.", "The army reaches a village where houses were buried by mudslides triggered by Storm Eta's rains.", "The parents of the brothers responsible for the attack are among several people police want to speak to.", "The Premier League is likely to scrap controversial pay-per-view matches after the upcoming international window.", "David Lewis, 81, lost his wife on Thursday, followed by one son on Friday and the other on Monday.", "The actress says she \"did not connect limb difference\" with her Grand High Witch character.", "Paul Dunleavy, named after a judge's ruling, prepared acts of terrorism and joined a neo Nazi group.", "The actor says he was \"asked to resign\" his role in the series and had \"agreed to that request\".", "New coronavirus infections in England have stabilised at around 50,000 a day, new figures suggest.", "The former What Not To Wear presenter says she felt \"a lot of shame\" about her drinking.", "The president falsely declares he's won - but the reality is that millions of votes have to be counted.", "The prolific actor was best known for starring with Dame Judi Dench in BBC sitcom As Time Goes By.", "The pop star accused social media influencers of violating health regulations during the pandemic.", "Students in Manchester tore down the \"prison-like\" barriers, which were put up without warning.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening.", "Passengers arriving in the UK from 04:00 GMT on Friday will need to self-isolate for 14 days.", "The multi-million pound package will include a high street voucher plan and funds for drink-only pubs.", "Kuno lost a paw after being hit by bullets in Afghanistan and is now being honoured for his bravery.", "There have been 190 deaths involving the virus in Wales, latest weekly figures from ONS show", "Ministers say some residents may have to contribute to the cost of removing flammable materials.", "The robotic Chang'e-5 mission aims to return the first lunar rocks to Earth in more than 40 years.", "Non-essential shops will reopen this weekend but bars and restaurants will stay closed into January.", "Christophe Dominici was best known for helping France knock New Zealand out of the 1999 Rugby World Cup.", "Eight Met officers are investigated over claims of excessive use of force against a black woman in custody.", "After nearly 50 years in public office, Joe Biden has captured the White House. This is how he did it.", "Nearly 14,000 deaths occurred in the week ending 13 November - with 3,000 linked to Covid.", "Harry Dunn's mother says the ruling is \"just a blip along the way\" in their fight for justice.", "Three households will be allowed to meet indoors over a five-day period between 23-27 December.", "The airline is selling thousands of items, including memorabilia from its retired 747 aircraft.", "Thousands of identities were stolen before unusual banking activity alerted a civil servant to the fraud.", "Covid-19 case numbers are dropping in most parts of England, but the South East's cases are rising.", "England's hospitality sector warns post-lockdown restrictions risk putting firms out of business.", "Kingspan fire-tested its cladding in 2005, but changed the formulation the next year, an ex-employee says.", "The Appeal Court finds the education secretary acted unlawfully in scrapping children's rights.", "Nine in 10 products are the same price or cheaper before the sale, finds consumer group.", "The tech billionaire overtakes Bill Gates after Tesla shares soar on S&P acceptance", "Supporters of US President-Elect Joe Biden give their message to people who voted for Donald Trump.", "Defeated in the election, Trump will soon become a private citizen again. A legal storm awaits him.", "Members of Labour's ruling body loyal to ex-leader protest over his exclusion from parliamentary party.", "The new network, which uses other people's broadband, is not launching in the UK.", "King Felipe will stop public activities for 10 days after coming into contact with an infected person.", "Pets at Home reports soaring sales as people increasingly turned to animals for solace amid the pandemic.", "A coroner has concluded five people died accidently while using defective gas cookers.", "Shoppers lined Belfast's streets days before Northern Ireland's non-essential shops shut for two weeks.", "There are claims Holyhead port will not be ready for the end of the Brexit transition period.", "Harry Styles also receives his first-ever nomination, but R&B star The Weeknd is overlooked.", "Sharn Hughes had gone to see the lights at Gwrych Castle - the location of TV show I'm a Celebrity.", "Cambridge University Library launches an appeal to find the scientist's missing notes and sketches.", "A report by Ulster University says jobs in the creative industry are most threatened by the pandemic.", "Public sector auditors also found teachers in NI take more sick days than other parts of the UK.", "The banner, a Chinese gift of gratitude, reads \"righteous and courageous, saving people from water\".", "The bones found in Antrim were from a Scelidosaurus and a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus, researchers find.", "Its new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend \"the most engaging\" posts to a user.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there could be a \"careful\" easing at Christmas - but does not expect a relaxation at new year.", "A BBC documentary highlights weaknesses in the expert analysis of the likely impact of coronavirus.", "Up to 4,000 fans will be allowed at outdoor events in the lowest-risk areas when the four-week national lockdown in England ends.", "Covid disruption worsens for England's secondary schools as 22% of pupils sent home.", "Politicians are explaining how families will be allowed to get together over the festive period.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Doctor Who, Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown's Boys are among the shows in the festive schedule.", "Rishi Sunak's spending review comes amid a difficult economic backdrop caused by the pandemic.", "The US president officially pardons \"Corn\" in the annual White House tradition.", "Church leaders and charities are among those opposing a cut in the UK's overseas aid budget.", "The Dow Jones index closes above 30,000 for the first time amid string of positive news.", "For Christmas break, students will leave university within 24 hours of two negative Covid tests.", "People can form a \"Christmas bubble\" and mix in homes and outdoors between 23 and 27 December.", "People have tendency to soldier on, potentially making colleagues sick, health secretary says.", "England will return to a regional approach from 2 December but the tiers will be \"tougher\", the PM says.", "Nick Brown says the ex-Labour leader's response to an anti-Semitism report caused \"pain\".", "Sinead Quinn opened Quinn Blakey Hairdressers in Oakenshaw in breach of government restrictions.", "BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk are among broadband providers that saw record demand on Tuesday.", "The 14-carat Spirit of the Rose diamond is named after the ballet made famous by Vaslav Nijinsky.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "The freight train came off tracks at Sheffield station and a crane will be needed to remove it.", "Australians are being encouraged to add Aboriginal place names when sending their mail.", "The UK has reported a record 33,470 cases in the past day - 10,520 more than Wednesday's total.", "Initial study shows tests done by care home staff are as accurate as those done in hospitals.", "Jeffrey Toobin, who is also senior legal analyst for CNN, confirmed in a tweet he had been sacked.", "Hard-hitting report from former shadow cabinet members says Labour has become too middle-class.", "Nóra Quoirin, 15, was found dead nine days after she went missing from a jungle resort in Malaysia.", "Labour's leader will have to deal with new union leaders and an internal shake-up, writes Iain Watson.", "US hospital admissions hit record levels as New York City warns it is on the cusp of a second wave.", "The rapper, who won BBC Music's Sound of 2019, was due to release his anticipated debut album tomorrow.", "Ex-minister Tracey Crouch calls for greater virtual participation to be allowed in Parliament.", "Surgeons warn patients are left in pain, as experts predict the situation will worsen during winter.", "President Trump is yet to concede the election, along with many others in the Republican party.", "Common rules for people to follow across the UK are being considered for the festive period.", "The jump in cases comes a day after the UK became the first European country to pass 50,000 deaths.", "A four-day celebration scheduled for June 2022 will mark the Queen's 70 years on the throne.", "A new hospital will be inadequately staffed if it opens next week as planned, a senior doctor says.", "It's not surprising that Boris Johnson wants to try to bring order to Downing Street after a turbulent few weeks.", "The £1.7bn project will see a two-mile tunnel built near the ancient monument in Wiltshire.", "This Downing Street argument feels different, like a final act is playing out after months of building tension.", "Emails reveal how officials described pressure to approve protective suits for the NHS.", "The departure of a key Dominic Cummings ally from No 10 changes the power dynamic inside government.", "Scientists have sequenced the \"code of life\" of species from almost every branch of the bird family tree.", "But those returning from Qatar, UAE, Laos and the Turks and Caicos Islands will not need to self-isolate.", "The boss of PlayStation speaks to Newsbeat about launching the PS5.", "A former undercover police officer admits the Met set out to infiltrate left-wing political groups.", "Around 200 queen hornets were found in a nest extracted in Washington in October, scientists say.", "Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin warns that failing to reach an agreement would be \"very damaging\".", "All new expenditure at the authority is halted amid \"severe ongoing financial challenges\".", "Northern Ireland and Scotland can both seal a place at next year's European Championship in Thursday's qualifying play-off finals.", "Conservative Jake Berry made the comparison as he warned \"northern culture\" is being hit by Covid.", "Lucy Letby is charged with killing eight infants at a hospital neo-natal unit in 2015 and 2016.", "It is the first European nation to pass the landmark, with 595 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours.", "Officers tackle a man who then tried to set to fire to the road outside the building.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning.", "Some chains are capitalising on rules that allow them to sell non-essential goods alongside food.", "Former Vote Leave official and close ally of the PM, Lee Cain, exits as reports surface of internal tensions.", "Ex-boxer Nicola Adams is out of Strictly Come Dancing after partner Katya Jones catches Covid-19.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Scotland's 23-year absence from major men's tournaments is finally over after a famous shootout win in Serbia.", "The largest analysis so far indicates black and Asian people are at higher risk.", "Helga Wauters is found guilty of manslaughter over the death of British 28-year-old Xynthia Hawke.", "The fire damage saw the ward closed for two weeks and caused almost £50,000 of damage.", "NHS bosses say they are worried seriously ill patients are staying away as visits drop by half.", "Some people in north Wales could get Covid-19 vaccines in December, a health board executive says.", "Artist John Charles says he is \"buzzing\" after reaching a \"boss\" agreement with the fashion label.", "Lucy Letby was arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at a Chester hospital.", "University of Manchester students protest over \"high rents\" and coronavirus support.", "Gareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael Lewis, 58, were hit by a Swansea to Paddington train in July 2019.", "The BBC tracked the first 100 killings of 2019 and has now identified those held legally responsible.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Former England, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Ray Clemence dies aged 72.", "A team of four leaves Florida on a SpaceX rocket and capsule, bound for the orbiting laboratory.", "The Dow hits a new record on hopes of a second coronavirus vaccine breakthrough from US drugs firm Moderna.", "No 10 does not deny reports the PM made the comment in a meeting with Tory MPs.", "The pastor at The Angel Church in Islington says the baptism was serving \"the greater good\".", "Boris Johnson's comments come ahead of another week of negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says tougher restrictions in the west of Scotland are \"likely\" but \"not inevitable\".", "The health minister says 250 Covid-19 deaths so far this month are \"very sobering\".", "Public radio station RFI says a \"technical problem\" meant the obituaries were published prematurely.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A formula for housing targets in England led to upset from MPs - now changes are expected.", "The BBC can reveal a spike in the number of parents taking their children out of school.", "It comes a week after preliminary results showed another vaccine offered 90% protection.", "Many users report the iPhone version of the contact-tracing app gets \"stuck\" on launch.", "Michelle O'Neill says people need hope, as officials warn more restrictions could come mid-December.", "Train services are suspended, roads are shut and schools closed by the tyre fire in Bradford.", "Nearly 100,000 people have been tested for the virus over 10 days in Liverpool.", "Offices and workplace friendships are key to breaking down misconceptions, a study suggests.", "Dr Catalin Denciu tried to save Covid-19 patients from a fire in a hospital intensive care unit.", "Up to 350,000 customers and staff could have had their information stolen in a ransomware attack.", "Ministers are in talks over rules to be in place over the festive period across the UK.", "Twenty-two people died and hundreds more were injured as they left the Ariana Grande concert in 2017.", "Supermarkets should not be able to sell non-essential goods in lockdown, says boss of Clintons cards.", "\"What's drawing closer is a bomb,\" the Honduran president says, as Hurricane Iota strengthens.", "People are no longer allowed to drink alcohol on trains or at stations as part of measures to stem Covid.", "The impact of the three-tier Covid system in England was varied, says a senior health official.", "Council bosses call on the prime minister to help as cases in Hull rise to 770 per 100,000 people.", "The University of Manchester says it has suspended security guards who stopped Zac Adan on campus.", "Boris Johnson, six Tory MPs and two aides have been told to self-isolate after a breakfast meeting in No 10.", "Issues are not caused by the drug but by people believing it will make them sick, a study suggests.", "Lewis Hamilton clinches a seventh world title, becoming the most successful racing driver ever with a masterful victory in the Turkish Grand Prix.", "Early data suggests the vaccine is nearly 95% effective, after a trial of 30,000 people in the US.", "Democrats have criticised the social network for not doing enough to remove hate speech.", "Hollywood 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\"peacefully\" in his sleep.", "The prime minister says he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace but is not showing any symptoms.", "The ITV series launched from a Welsh castle on Sunday, with 10 new celebrities setting up camp.", "A former employee from Celotex tells the inquiry he got the insulation approved in an unethical way.", "Prof Ugur Sahin also raises hopes the vaccine, developed with Pfizer. could halve Covid transmission.", "The government says it's working closely with the social care sector to roll out testing across the country.", "Wales' health minister calls the flyer \"really worrying\", saying 1.3 million people have died.", "Families of approximately 100,000 children will receive payments for food when they are off school.", "The NSPCC says a fall in removals of graphic content during the pandemic put children at more risk.", "Sir Alex Allan says the home secretary's behaviour included \"shouting and swearing\" at officials.", "A judge rules that Rooney's social posts were directly accusing Rebekah Vardy of leaking stories.", "A security researcher claims he accessed Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password.", "Early signs suggest it may help patients with severe breathing difficulties who are on ventilators.", "Morris wrote more than 40 books including a notable trilogy about Britain's empire, Pax Britannica.", "Ofgem is considering the rise to help energy firms which have been hit by a jump in unpaid bills.", "As NI's R number rises to 1.0, the chief scientific adviser warns of additional interventions.", "The president's son, who is 42, is quarantining after being diagnosed this week, his spokesman says.", "South Australia went into lockdown because a man with Covid-19 misled health officials, police say.", "Congestion at Felixstowe Port in Suffolk is proving a major headache for importers before Christmas.", "The prominent Brexiteer rose swiftly to the cabinet after being elected as an MP in 2010, and was appointed as home secretary in July last year.", "GHB has been used in a series of murders but is currently in the same category as anabolic steroids.", "Nicole Elkabbas received £45,000 in donations after claiming to have ovarian cancer, a court hears.", "The more antibodies people have, the lower their chances of re-infection, a study suggests.", "Matt Hancock said the NHS was preparing to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine if one is approved for use.", "Fergal Keane looks at their legacy and speaks to a Holocaust survivor, a prosecutor and the son of a defendant.", "Dr Cathy Gardner believes the government acted unlawfully and failed to protect care home residents.", "Several newspapers have reported he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.", "The home secretary denies bullying staff but the results of a probe into her conduct remain secret.", "Steve Dymond died days after taking a lie-detector test on the Jeremy Kyle Show.", "Two NHS bosses - Baroness Harding and medical director Stephen Powis - are told to stay at home.", "The University of Manchester has suspended security guards who stopped Zac Adan, 19, on campus.", "Greatest risk of passing the virus on is in the first few days of having symptoms, analysis suggests.", "The deputy first minister says she has \"done everything\" she needed to do in line with the investigation.", "Delivery of the Covid jab could start from December, Health Secretary Matt Hancock says.", "Gladys Lewis and sons Dean and Darren died within days of each other after contracting the virus.", "People in Scotland are having to navigate a multitude of rules and regulations as the pandemic continues.", "The decision means he will remain in prison beyond January when a sentence for dug offences ends.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford gives a live televised briefing.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel gives an \"unreserved\" apology if she upset people after report into her conduct.", "The royals are pictured looking at a 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positive.\n\nBarron Trump, 14, was also diagnosed last month, but made a swift recovery.\n\nA firebrand speaker, Don Jr played a major role in his father's presidential campaign.\n\nThere has also been speculation that Don Jr is interested in running for the White House, conjecture he hasn't tried to tamp down.\n\nDon Jr's partner, Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, tested positive for the disease in July, and also recovered. He apparently did not contract the infection at the time.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Andrew Giuliani, a special assistant to President Trump, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMr Giuliani, the son of the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tweeted that he was experiencing mild symptoms after receiving his positive test on Friday morning.\n\nCBS News, the BBC's US partner, confirmed that at least four other White House aides have tested positive for Covid-19 in a new outbreak there.\n\nEarlier this month, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was among several aides who tested positive for the infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How effective is getting a Covid test before you travel for Thanksgiving?\n\nThe president himself spent three nights in hospital at the beginning of October after being hit by Covid-19. First Lady Melania Trump also had a bout of the infection.\n\nLast month, Don Jr was criticised for downplaying the US coronavirus death toll.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News, he argued that the media was focusing on the caseload, while ignoring the mortality rate.\n\nHe said: \"I was like, 'Well, why aren't they talking about deaths?' Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we've gotten control of this, and we understand how it works.\"\n\nThe virus has infected 11.8 million Americans and killed more than 253,000.\n\nOn Friday alone, 192,000 people in the US tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Covid Tracking Project.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"We will be ready to start vaccination next month\"\n\nThe NHS is setting up coronavirus vaccination centres across the UK in preparation for any jab being approved, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nPeople will be vaccinated at sites around the country, as well as in hospitals and by GPs in the community.\n\nThe government has also officially asked the medical regulator to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nMr Hancock said if the regulator approved it, vaccination could start next month.\n\nBut the bulk of the vaccination rollout would be in the new year, he added.\n\nIt comes as another 20,252 confirmed Covid cases were announced by the government on Friday, as well as a further 511 deaths.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"The NHS is in the process of establishing vaccination centres across the country that can manage the logistical challenge of needing to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at -70C.\n\n\"In addition it is establishing vaccination hubs in hospitals for NHS staff.\n\n\"These two routes are likely to comprise the bulk of the campaign this side of the new year. Then there will be a community rollout involving GPs and pharmacists.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nVaccination centres could be set up in places like sports halls, and earlier this week it was confirmed that a sports arena in Derby had been earmarked to be used.\n\nOn the question of when people could get vaccinated, Mr Hancock said: \"I know everyone wants to know about the timing and the speed of the rollout. That will depend on the speed at which the vaccines can be manufactured.\n\n\"We know that the manufacturing process for all vaccines is difficult and uncertain so I've asked the NHS to be ready to deploy at the speed at which the vaccine can be produced.\n\n\"If, and it still is an if, if the regulator approves a vaccine, we will be ready to start the vaccination next month with the bulk of the rollout in the new year. We're heading in the right direction but there is still a long way to go.\"\n\nMr Hancock also confirmed the government had formally asked the independent medical regulator - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nHe said the UK government had been given the \"confidence\" to begin the process, after the vaccine-makers applied for approval in the US.\n\nThree vaccines - Pfizer/BioNTech, Sputnik and Moderna - have already reported good early results from the final stages of testing, called phase-three trials.\n\nThe first breakthrough came from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which published data first and showed it protected 94% of adults over 65.\n\nAnother vaccine, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, has shown positive results at an earlier stage, phase two.\n\nThe UK government has ordered more doses of the Oxford vaccine than any other (100 million doses) - but has also ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and five million of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe NHS Confederation, which represents NHS bosses, said the vaccine offered \"a glimmer of hope but it won't save the NHS this Christmas\".\n\n\"When the national restrictions are lifted in two weeks' time, life cannot go back to normal and they will have to be replaced with measures that protect the NHS from becoming overwhelmed,\" it said.\n\nAsked about Christmas and whether Covid restrictions could be relaxed, Mr Hancock said the government was still working to decide what should happen after England's lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\n\"It's still too early to tell, although we can see from the data out in the last couple of days, and also from the ONS survey out today, that this is clearly flattening,\" he said. \"We're clearly near the peak of this second increase and the second wave.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis also said it appeared the number of hospital patients with coronavirus had been \"levelling off\" in the last few days.\n\nBut he added: \"That is just a few days' data and it's important not to read too much into it yet.\"\n\nIt comes as the government's group of scientific advisers said the R rate - the number of people on average that one infected person passes the virus onto - had dropped to between 1 and 1.1 for the UK as a whole.\n\nMr Hancock also urged people aged 50 and over to get a flu jab.\n\nThirty million people are being offered a flu jab in England's largest flu-immunisation scheme to date. People aged 50 to 64 will be eligible for the vaccine from 1 December.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel gives an \"unreserved\" apology if she upset people during her work at the Home Office.\n\nIt follows a report on bullying claims. She says she is working to reform the department.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surprised local residents took pictures of the stricken vessel\n\nMore than 400 people have spent the night on board a passenger ferry after it ran aground off the Finnish Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea.\n\nThe Viking Grace became stranded close to the port of Mariehamn on Saturday.\n\nThe Coastguard said the ship was towed to the port on Sunday morning, and the passengers would be evacuated shortly.\n\nIt earlier said the vessel was not leaking and no lives were in danger. The cause of the incident is being investigated.\n\nThe ship, owned by the Viking Line, had been heading to the Swedish capital, Stockholm, from Turku in Finland.\n\nNo injuries have been reported among the 331 passengers and 98 crew, and the Viking Line described the situation on board as \"calm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Merivartiosto - LSMV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResidents near the scene expressed surprise. \"It is very windy here on Åland and they tried to reverse into the quay,\" said one resident, named only as Tina, 55.\n\n\"We saw that they were having problems. They stopped and then something happened and they drifted towards land. You can basically touch the boat if you go down to the water.\n\nPassenger Anna Palsson, quoted by Swedish newspaper Expressen, said they had just gone down to the car deck when the ferry ran aground.\n\n\"People are calm and the staff are handing out food and facemasks,\" she said.\n\nViking Line spokeswoman Johanna Boijer-Svahnström told Yle News that Finnish passengers will be taken from Mariehamn to the mainland on the Viking Grace, while Swedish passengers will board the Viking Amorella for travel to Stockholm.\n\nIt is the second time in two months that a Viking Line ferry has run aground off the Åland Islands. On 30 September, 300 passengers had to be evacuated from the Viking Amorella which hit rocks off Järsö. It has since been towed to Turku for repairs.", "The chancellor has vowed to \"always balance the books\", despite increased spending in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members, Rishi Sunak said the Conservatives had a \"sacred duty\" to \"leave the public finances strong\".\n\nHe vowed the use the \"overwhelming might of the British state\" to help people find new work.\n\nBut he said debt and spending needed controlling \"over the medium term\".\n\nIn an online speech during the Conservatives' annual party conference, he said: \"I won't stop trying to find ways to support people and businesses.\"\n\nHowever, he added the party could not argue there was \"no limit on what we can spend\", nor that \"we can simply borrow our way out of any hole\".\n\nMr Sunak cited the furlough scheme and its successor, the jobs support scheme, as examples of government action to support employment during the crisis.\n\nHe said though that, although the government would \"keep striving to be creative\" on employment support, he would also have to be \"pragmatic\".\n\nHe told members that \"no chancellor\" would be able to save every job or business, adding changes to the economy due to Covid-19 \"can't be ignored\".\n\nOfficial figures published in September show government borrowed £35.9bn in the previous month, its highest amount for August since records began in 1993.\n\nBorrowing between April and August totalled £173.7bn, as ministers spent billions on coronavirus-related schemes to support the economy.\n\nGovernment borrowing is at stratospheric levels because of the pandemic.\n\nIt is not clear precisely what the chancellor means, promising to get it under control in the \"medium term\".\n\nNor was there even a whisper of how that could be done.\n\nTreasury sources suggested it's unlikely to happen by the time of the next election, likely to be in 2024.\n\nBut while the chancellor's first few months in the job have been characterised by enormous crisis-level spending, that is a characteristic that he is keen to shrug off.\n\nIn an interview after his speech, the chancellor said government debt - which passed £2 trillion for the first time in history in August - was vulnerable to increases in borrowing costs.\n\n\"Now that we have so much debt, it doesn't take a lot for suddenly 'yikes' - we have to come up with X billion pounds a year to pay for higher interest,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak - who has been touted as a potential future Tory leader - also said he did not want to become PM, and described his \"close personal friendship\" with Boris Johnson.\n\nAsked if he eventually wants to replace Mr Johnson, he replied: \"No. Definitely not seeing what the prime minister has to deal with, this is a job hard enough for me to do.\"\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said: \"The chancellor knows that just days after his Winter Economic Plan, with unemployment set to go above 5%, and social restrictions intensifying, not loosening, there is now further backroom pressure to increase the generosity of his worker subsidy schemes.\n\n\"This is a continuation of the pattern we have seen in the past few weeks since the cancellation of the Budget. There'll be more support for the economy, but with the really tough decisions - for example, on tax, - put off.\n\nMinisters have pledged additional support to help people find new work.\n\nIn response to his speech, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said Mr Sunak had \"nothing to say\" to millions of people whose jobs were at risk.\n\nShe told reporters more \"targeted support\" was required for sectors of the economy that have been hardest hit by restrictions during the pandemic.\n\n\"Sadly there was nothing from the chancellor today to suggest that he grasped the magnitude of the jobs crisis we're facing,\" she added.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of business lobby group the CBI, said the best way to balance the books was by \"protecting our economy's ability to recover\".\n\nAdding that the costs of the pandemic had fallen \"deeply and unevenly,\" she said it was vital to protect at-risk sectors such as aviation, manufacturing, and hospitality.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the virtual Conservative Party conference: \"This Conservative government will always balance the books.\"\n\nIf it does, that would be an unusual achievement.\n\nBalancing the books usually means that a government has repaid more than it has borrowed in a year - ie it's in surplus.\n\nThe government can still have debt overall, but the debt hasn't risen during the year.\n\nThe last time that a government balanced the books was under the Labour government in 2000-01, and for the two years before that.\n\nThe most recent Conservative government to achieve that was under Margaret Thatcher in 1988-89 and 1989-90.\n\nAnother measure that recent governments have liked to talk about is whether the economy is growing faster than the debt. If it is, the government can say that debt is falling as a proportion of GDP (which is the value of everything produced by the economy in a year).\n\nThat happened in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.\n• None Coaching and advice for jobseekers in £238m scheme\n• None What jobs are available post-lockdown?", "Edwin Poots 'replied all' to an email from a member of the public criticising the executive's decision on restrictions\n\nDUP minister Edwin Poots has said he is opposed to new Covid-19 restrictions agreed by the executive, in an email sent to more than 80 people.\n\nHe answered a member of the public who emailed MLAs about the restrictions.\n\nThe original email criticised the government for the \"devastating effect\" the tougher restrictions will have.\n\nIn a reply to all, Mr Poots said: \"I entirely agree, unfortunately the majority of the Executive see things differently.\"\n\n\"The failure of the health department will inevitably lead to the failure of the economy.\"\n\nTwo weeks of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions will take force across NI from next Friday.\n\nMr Poots, who is a former Stormont health minister, declined a request to comment further on the contents of his email, which he said was \"self explanatory\".\n\nWhen asked asked by BBC News NI if he had intended to \"include all\" of the Stormont MLAs in his reply, he declined to comment.\n\nThe email from the member of the public had also stated that current pressure on the NHS was \"nothing new\" and that the NHS was \"overwhelmed every year at this time\".\n\nIt continued: \"This shows the utter incompetence of NHS and health department planning expecting the rest of the country to pay for their failings.\"\n\nUlster Unionist health spokesman Alan Chambers MLA said Mr Poots's comments showed \"how detached from reality he is\".\n\n\"A few days ago he was pointing the finger of blame at the nationalist community for Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"Now he's blaming the health service, and in the process, insulting everyone within it who is working so hard at this particular time to save lives.\n\n\"Edwin Poots needs to get real and stop playing pathetic political games in the middle of a global health pandemic, which has already delayed crucial life-saving decisions.\n\n\"His words and actions are grossly irresponsible.\"\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie also responded saying: \"His reply went into my spam folder.\"\n\n\"Spam - irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet - typically to a large number of users,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots' party colleague, the South Antrim MLA Pam Cameron, who is DUP deputy chair of the health committee, described Mr Poots' reasoning as \"a little simplistic\".\n\n\"Cruel reality is that everyone is responsible for the spread of virus. If we all follow the most basic guidelines, the economy could carry on.\n\n\"It's brutal that business pays the price for our actions,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Doug Beattie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 understood Mr Poots voiced opposition to the restrictions during Thursday's executive meeting.\n\nStormont sources said the minister, who has previously spoken out against imposing tighter lockdown measures, said it was illogical to close non-essential retail as it could severely damage the high street.\n\nIt is believed Mr Poots did not ask for the measures to be put to a vote by the executive and said he would accept whatever measures were agreed by the executive.", "Care home resident John Duffy is a much loved father and grandad\n\nWhen John Duffy's family came to visit him, looking through a window into his care home on Monday, he burst into tears.\n\nIt was his 71st birthday. When his daughter asked him why he was crying, he replied: \"Because I haven't seen you in so long.\"\n\nCoronavirus restrictions on care homes meant his family had not been able to visit him over the previous six weeks.\n\nBut because it was his birthday, an exception was made - and the Duffys were allowed a brief \"window visit\".\n\nLike many families, the Duffys' only face-to-face contact is through a care home window\n\nDonna Duffy appreciated the home's gesture for her father, who has dementia, and also understands care homes must obey rules to protect vulnerable residents from Covid-19.\n\nBut eight months into the pandemic, the Belfast woman said she believes current visiting arrangements are damaging the mental and emotional well-being of residents and their families.\n\nA protest was staged on the rules around visiting loved ones at care homes at Stormont on Saturday\n\nMs Duffy and other campaigners staged a protest at Stormont on Saturday to highlight the isolation and \"loneliness\" felt by residents and their loved ones.\n\n\"Every human needs emotional warmth,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I need to be able to hold my daddy's hand again and tell him that he's ok.\"\n\nJohn Duffy has spent several weeks without family visitors\n\nCare homes have been badly affected by Covid-19 and stringent visiting guidelines were introduced to protect residents from infection.\n\nOut of a total of 483 care homes in Northern Ireland, nearly 30% (143) are currently dealing with confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks.\n\nReducing footfall in care homes is viewed by home managers as \"one of the most effective measures\" in minimising infection, according to the Department of Health's most recent guidance.\n\nBut the same document acknowledges restricted visiting has \"contributed to an emotional trauma\" caused by separating residents from family members.\n\nJohn Duffy with his wife and daughters\n\nMs Duffy believes residents need face-to-face visits from family. She said the risk could be \"managed\" through regular testing and use of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"No-one wants to put anyone at risk, we're not asking for whole families to be allowed in,\" she said.\n\nInstead, she is calling for one person from each family to be awarded the \"same status as key workers\", and be given access to PPE and testing, so residents can maintain physical contact with loved ones.\n\nOther relatives who took in Saturday's protest included Martina Ferguson.\n\nBefore the pandemic began, she visited her 87-year-old mother every evening, \"tucking her into bed\" at her County Armagh care home.\n\nHer mother, Ursula Derry, has advanced dementia. The pensioner can no longer speak or walk, but she can still \"smile and giggle and laugh,\" according to her daughter.\n\n\"She recognises me - even when I'm wearing a mask.\"\n\nMartina Ferguson with her mum, Ursula Derry, in the month before lockdown\n\nTheir daily visits stopped abruptly at the start of lockdown in March and the lack of face-to-face contact over the past eight months has been difficult for both mother and daughter.\n\n\"I feel like I'm grieving the loss of someone who is still alive,\" Ms Ferguson said.\n\nLike many families across the UK, their visits are now little more than a wave through a care home window.\n\n\"I go round to my mummy's bedroom window, I wave and try to talk to her through the glass.\n\n\"My mummy is lonely,\" she added, fighting back tears. \"She must feel abandoned.\"\n\nUrsula Derry, pictured through the window of her care home bedroom earlier this month\n\nUrsula Derry is not used to being separated from family for long periods.\n\nBorn as a twin in the early 1930s, she raised six children and is now a great-grandmother.\n\nBut the pensioner has \"become withdrawn\" in recent months, according to her daughter, who fears she is suffering emotionally from the separation from her loved ones.\n\nMs Ferguson is calling on homes to \"strike a balance\" on family visits to protect residents' mental and emotional well-being.\n\nUrsula Derry and her daughter, Martina Ferguson, at a wedding\n\nShe also believes risks could be managed with strict infection control measures, pointing to her experience when her mother was taken into hospital for 13 days in July.\n\nWearing PPE, Ms Ferguson was able to be at her mother's bedside on the ward, hold her hand and comfort her for the first time in months.\n\nWhen Mrs Derry was discharged from hospital, she was readmitted to her care home and has had no physical contact with her daughter since the summer.\n\nFearing the pandemic will continue well into next year, Ms Ferguson said homes must find ways to accommodate visits to prevent months of further separation.\n\nMs Duffy's father is also a big part of her family's life and is much missed by his grandchildren.\n\n\"My six-year-old niece is asking if Santa Claus will bring grandad home for Christmas,\" she said.\n\n\"She says Santa can take any of her toys off her list, as long as he brings her grandad.\"\n\nJohn Duffy with his granddaughter, celebrating his 70th birthday in November 2019\n\nBut there are no easy answers to the unprecedented challenges faced by health staff, trying to keep the most vulnerable people in our society healthy, happy and safe from infection.\n\nCare home residents account for more than 40% of all Northern Ireland's Covid-related deaths.\n\nJohn Duffy's family was at the protest on Saturday\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said the department's minister, Robin Swann, \"fully recognises how difficult and upsetting it is for people in care homes not to see their loved ones\".\n\nAcknowledging homes face \"challenges\" in safeguarding residents from Covid-19, the statement added \"every effort should continue to be made to ensure residents maintain important social connections\".\n\nThe department issued guidance in September on a risk-assessed approach to visiting which included \"safely managed face-to-face visits as well as virtually-supported connections\".\n\nThat guidance also encouraged homes to develop a \"care partner arrangement\" with individuals who have a pre-existing relationship with residents.\n\nThe protest took place at the steps of Stormont\n\nThis could be a family member or friend who carried out a caring or support role for a resident before visits were restricted.\n\nThe document said that care partners may quickly pick up on a resident's discomfort, illness or upset because they know the person so well. It also recognises the absence of that support can cause distress.\n\nMs Ferguson and Ms Duffy support the idea of care partners but complain that some homes are not implementing the guidance.\n\nMartina Ferguson taking her mum to a tea party a few years ago\n\nMs Duffy called for the guidance to be replaced by legislation, suggesting that until it has legal force, care homes can \"pick and choose\" their own visiting rules.\n\nShe also said homes need more support from the department to introduce the changes.\n\nIts latest guidance, the department states the care partner concept \"will be applied differently for individual residents\" and each care home will be responsible for agreeing how it is applied.\n\nHowever, the department said it is in talks about providing \"assurances\" on how visiting guidance and the care partner concept are implemented.", "Caroline Kayll was attacked at an address in Linton, Northumberland, on Sunday evening\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a schoolteacher.\n\nCaroline Kayll, 47, died in hospital after she was attacked at an address in the village of Linton, Northumberland, on Sunday evening. A 15-year-old boy was also assaulted.\n\nPolice said Paul Robson, 49, was arrested near Glasgow on Friday following a search.\n\nOfficers had previously named Mr Robson, from Wallsend, North Tyneside, as a suspect in the investigation.\n\nMs Kayll worked at Atkinson House school in Seghill, Northumberland, which caters for children with social, emotional and mental health issues.\n\nThe teenager injured in the attack has since been discharged from hospital.\n\nA 58-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has since been released under investigation.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Burton had \"something quite extraordinary\", said his widow Sally\n\nThe story of stage and screen icon Richard Burton is being told through a new exhibition in Cardiff.\n\nBecoming Richard Burton follows the journey of Richard Jenkins from his humble beginnings in Port Talbot to a life of international stardom.\n\nThe free exhibition at the National Museum of Wales features Burton's diaries, papers and personal objects on public display for the first time.\n\nThe items were loaned by the Richard Burton Archives at Swansea University.\n\nThe exhibition on Burton's life reveals the man behind the headlines - as a husband, father, reader, writer and passionate Welshman.\n\nIt also displays the costumes worn by Burton on stage in the Shakespearean performances that launched his career and later as a Hollywood star in Cleopatra, the film that sparked his tempestuous romance with co-star Elizabeth Taylor.\n\nThe actor's widow Sally Burton donated many of the objects to Swansea University in 2005, creating the Richard Burton Archive.\n\nShe said there was \"something quite extraordinary\" about her husband from an early age.\n\n\"I think everyone who met him felt it. People were drawn to him. It was a magical quality which he also knew he had but he didn't quite know what it was,\" she said.\n\n\"One thing he did know was that he had to pursue it, knocking down barriers as he went.\n\n\"Sometimes he would say 'what is it about me?'.\n\n\"I believe this exhibition, and here I must thank everyone involved, will enable us to explore some of those intriguing answers.\"\n\nThe exhibition includes costumes worn by Burton in his Shakespearean performances\n\nTo coincide with the physical exhibition, there will also be a digital exhibition on the museum's website from mid-December.\n\nProduced by Focus Group, a design and creative agency based in Cardiff and Edinburgh, the digital exhibition will be updated with key stories and items on a regular basis.", "Inmates have been working at the local morgue\n\nThe US had just over nine million Covid-19 cases when November began - now, just weeks later, the country is topping 11 million. And one west Texas county has emerged as the latest American epicentre.\n\nRight on the border with Mexico, El Paso in Texas is known for its desert landscape, military complexes and plentiful sunshine. Now, it's making a name as one of the worst hit regions in the nation.\n\nCovid-19 patients account for more than half of all hospital admissions in the county of El Paso, and the case count continues to trend upwards.\n\nHere are five symptoms of the unfolding crisis.\n\nWith cases going up by more than a thousand every day in El Paso, some 76,000 people have now been infected. That's about the same number of confirmed cases as in the whole of Greece or Libya.\n\nData shows 1,120 El Paso residents are currently in hospital with the virus, and this number is expected to rise. That means that of all the Covid patients in hospital across the state of Texas, one in six is in El Paso, according to the latest figures. A total of 782 people are known to have died.\n\nBoth hospitals and staff are struggling to cope. An El Paso University Medical Center spokesman said the hospital recognised the \"physical and emotional\" toll the pandemic was taking on healthcare workers.\n\nAs officials race to keep up with the rapidly increasing number of sick people, El Paso city's convention centre was recently converted into a makeshift hospital to provide extra beds. Some facilities are so overrun that patients are being airlifted to other cities in the state.\n\nOn Monday, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said the county had opened 500 extra hospital beds so far, but at the rate the virus was spreading, those beds would be full by next week.\n\nAs hospitals grapple with too many patients, El Paso's morgue has been unable to keep up with the county's rising death toll. As a result, officials are turning to refrigerated trailers. Ten of these mobile morgues have been requested in recent weeks.\n\nThe mobile facilities are set up outside the county's medical examiner's office, which has been handling more than 150 bodies in the last week.\n\nEarlier this month, the US defence department deployed medical teams to assist local health workers.\n\nEven the county's funeral homes are feeling the strain. One manager, Jorge Ortiz, told KERA News he has had to convert the home's chapel into a makeshift cooler. Mr Ortiz said the peak back in the summer is \"nothing compared to what we're living right now\".\n\nThe city continues to face a shortage of staff, and officials have faced criticism for turning to local prisons for help.\n\nInmates have been pictured handling the bodies of Covid victims at the medical examiner's office, helping load them into the mobile morgues.\n\nA sheriff's office spokesman said the inmates - who are minor offenders in minimum security prisons - are being compensated $2 (£1.5) an hour. The work is voluntary and they are being provided with protective gear, but the move has still shocked many.\n\n\"If there's no personnel, no one to help out, and there's volunteers, even if they are inmates, then that's what we're left with,\" he said, according to KFOX14 News.\n\nThe judge added that officials were waiting for Texas National Guardsmen to help with the efforts - but the military hasn't confirmed that they could handle the demand.\n\nIn the last six months, one El Paso woman has lost six of her family members to the virus as the outbreak worsens.\n\nBonnie Soria Najera told Good Morning America that her uncle was the last to pass away on Sunday. She has also had to bury her parents, two aunts and a cousin.\n\n\"They were all being very careful,\" she said. \"They did things that they had to do: grocery stores, went to doctor's appointments.\"\n\nMs Najera's mother first tested positive in May. Within three days, her mother was on a ventilator, she said. Her father soon fell ill with the virus too, but ended up at a different hospital.\n\nA week after her mother was admitted, she passed away. An hour later, Ms Najera learned her father was on a ventilator. He would pass away three weeks later.\n\nMs Najera too, came down with Covid-19, but eventually recovered. As she began feeling better, she learned her cousin and her aunt had both died after contracting the virus. And last week, another aunt also passed away in hospital from Covid-19.\n\nNow, Ms Najera is calling for Texans to practise social distancing properly, like her family tried to.\n\n\"You don't want to be in our shoes,\" she said.\n\nDespite the worries of many El Pasoans, there's no lockdown in sight for the west Texas county.\n\nOn Friday, a state appeals court overturned a stay-at-home order after local restaurant owners and the state attorney general sued Judge Samaniego for shutting down the city.\n\nA panel of judges ruled 2-1 that the order to close nonessential businesses until December went against the Texas governor's 7 October reopening guidance. Some businesses resumed operations almost immediately, local media reported.\n\nAttorney General Ken Paxton called Judge Samaniego a \"tyrant\" over the mandate. The county judge responded that it was \"unfortunate\" that the attorney general sought \"to gloat instead of coming to El Paso to walk along side me by the mobile morgues\".\n\nJudge Samaniego added he was disappointed by the decision, but noted that El Pasoans must still adhere to certain restrictions on masks, businesses and gatherings.", "The woman's body was found in a caravan in Tenby\n\nA man has been arrested following the death of a woman in a caravan.\n\nOfficers from Dyfed Powys Police were called to the scene in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, shortly after 18:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe force said a man had been arrested and patrols in the area had been increased.\n\nBut it has not yet confirmed what the man had been arrested on suspicion of, and said inquiries into the woman's death were ongoing.\n\n\"Police would like to reassure the community that they are not searching for anyone else in connection with this matter at this time,\" a police spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners want a public inquiry to establish \"truth, justice and accountability\" around the 1974 bombings\n\nA convoy of more than 100 cars and bikes marked the 46th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.\n\nFriends and relatives of the 21 killed and 220 injured in the 1974 atrocity began in Aston and were ending at West Midlands Police's headquarters.\n\nCampaigners are calling for a public inquiry to establish \"truth, justice and accountability\".\n\nA 65-year-old man arrested over the bombings on Wednesday in Belfast was released on Friday after questioning.\n\nThe man, reported to be 65-year-old Michael Patrick Reilly, was held under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and has strongly denied any involvement in the bombings.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed in two blasts on 21 November 1974\n\nSix men - Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker - were wrongly jailed for life in 1975 for the attack.\n\nLast month, Home Secretary Priti Patel gave campaigners fresh hope by considering the case for a public inquiry, saying she \"recognised the desire to see those responsible brought to justice\".\n\n\"If we don't have hope, there's no point in us campaigning. We might as well give up,\" said Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died in the bombings.\n\n\"But we will never give up, we will never go away until justice is seen to be done.\"\n\nThe convoy was ending at West Midlands Police headquarters in the city centre\n\nInquests last year found an IRA warning call was \"inadequate\" for the purposes of ensuring that lives were not lost in the explosions.\n\nThe call, made to the Birmingham Post and Mail at 20:11, gave the bomb locations as the Rotunda building and the nearby Tax Office in New Street but made no mention of pubs, costing the police vital minutes.\n\nThe first bomb detonated in the Mulberry Bush seven minutes later, and the second exploded in the nearby Tavern in the Town shortly after.\n\nA third bomb was planted near Barclays Bank on Hagley Road but failed to properly detonate.\n\nTen of the people who died had been at the Mulberry Bush pub in the city\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Boatwright said Google refused to remove fake reviews which are damaging his business\n\nA car sales business owner says he is taking legal action against Google over a series of fake and damaging reviews.\n\nRichard Boatwright felt \"helpless\" after the company refused to remove comments about his garage in Braintree, Essex.\n\nHe said: \"We've provided them with firm information that shows these reviews are completely fabricated but they're not interested.\"\n\nGoogle said the vast majority of user contributions were genuine and it constantly monitored content.\n\nA number of one-star reviews about the garage appeared on Google's map service, such as: \"Absolutely the poorest service I've ever been unfortunate enough to experience.\"\n\n\"They're anonymous, behind fake names, so you don't really know what to do. You feel helpless,\" he said.\n\nComments from anonymous users appeared among the garage's mostly five-star reviews\n\nThe tech giant said: \"The vast majority of reviews are helpful, relevant and authentic. We monitor closely for content that violates our policies 24/7.\"\n\nAdam French from consumer rights organisation Which? said: \"Our research has found fake reviews are prevalent across different platforms and the kind of influence they have on our shopping decisions is huge.\n\n\"I think there's more that companies like Google could do to shut down these fake reviews. They can be quite passive, relying on people to report them.\"\n\nGoogle said the vast majority of user contributions were genuine\n\nHe advised customers to read full reviews rather than star ratings alone and to avoid relying on just one site.\n\n\"Look for things like repetition, odd turns of phrase, and check across different sites to see if reviews are saying similar things to get more of an idea if they're trustworthy.\"\n\nMr Boatwright said of his legal action: \"We're not taking it lying down. We're trying to fight back but, for a small company to take on the mighty Google, it's not going to be easy\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Steve Dymond was found dead at his home days after he took a lie-detector test on the Jeremy Kyle Show\n\nTV presenter Jeremy Kyle \"may have caused or contributed\" to the death of a man who was found dead after filming an episode of his ITV show, a coroner has said.\n\nThe body of Steve Dymond, 63, was discovered at his home on 9 May last year, days after he took a lie-detector test on the programme.\n\nThe show was axed shortly afterwards.\n\nHampshire coroner Jason Pegg has made Jeremy Kyle an \"interested person\" for the inquest.\n\nDuring a pre-inquest review in Winchester, he said the presenter \"may have caused or contributed\" to Mr Dymond's death.\n\n\"It might seem ludicrous not to have Mr Kyle to give evidence to give his take on the situation,\" Mr Pegg said.\n\nLawyers for Mr Kyle and ITV argued that Mr Dymond's \"upsetting experience\" on the show was \"established fact\" and the scope of the inquest should not be a \"detailed top to bottom inquiry into the Jeremy Kyle Show, its selection, treatment and aftercare of participants\".\n\n\"It would not be required to call for evidence from ITV employees involved in his appearance to get to that starting point,\" Neil Sheldon QC said.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was axed following Mr Dymond's death\n\nMr Dymond died of a morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy, which is when the left chamber of the heart is not pumping properly, at his home in Portsmouth.\n\nSeven days earlier he took a lie detector test on the programme to show whether he had cheated on his ex-fiancee Jane Callaghan, who is from Gosport.\n\nCounsel for Mr Dymond's family, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, told the hearing Mr Dymond became \"distressed\" after he failed the lie detector test.\n\nShe said Mr Dymond had gone on the show to \"prove his fidelity\", and had said: \"I pushed and pushed but it all went wrong.\"\n\nAfter the result was announced during filming, the audience \"booed and jeered\" at him and he was \"called a failure by the presenter\", Ms Gallagher said.\n\nShe said Mr Kyle was \"in his face\" and even when he was \"at the point of collapsing, he was still being heckled\".\n\nMs Gallagher said his state of mind was known by the crew on the show, with a message sent on a WhatsApp group stating: \"Just so you know, he's still crying, he has just said he wishes he was dead. Just giving you the heads up.\"\n\nThe hearing was told Mr Dymond was originally turned down to appear on the show but was accepted as a guest after gaining a letter from his doctor.\n\nHe had been receiving mental health care from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the inquest heard.\n\nCoroner Mr Pegg said the inquest would \"not be an inquiry into the show generally\" and would not be held in front of a jury.\n\n\"What was in his [Mr Dymond's] mind, it seems to me, what happened on the show and how he was treated was relevant to how he came by his death,\" he said.\n\nMs Gallagher said it was \"still unclear\" as to whether all the recorded footage of the programme had been released by ITV.\n\nShe said the family was concerned about something happening on the studio stage that attracted the attention of the audience but was not seen in the footage.\n\nThe coroner gave ITV six weeks to confirm that all recorded material had been handed over.\n\nThe full inquest, which is expected to last about a week, is not expected to be held before May next year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in flats with and without cladding have been left unable to move without the safety checks\n\nSafety checks that left thousands of people unable to sell their flats after the Grenfell disaster are being eased.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said homes without cladding would no longer need an EWS1 external wall safety certificate - which involves a survey.\n\nThousands of people have been refused mortgages on flats because owners have been unable to get the surveys done.\n\nBut mortgage lenders said they \"did not consent\" to the announcement of the changes.\n\nThey also questioned how many homeowners would benefit.\n\nThe checks were introduced after 72 people died at Grenfell Tower when a fire spread along outside walls.\n\nTo begin with, only those who owned flats in tall buildings with dangerous flammable cladding were affected. But in January the government extended its advice to smaller properties and mortgage lenders began demanding fire surveys from a much wider range group of sellers.\n\nWith fewer than 300 qualified surveyors for hundreds of thousands of properties, many owners have been unable to access them, leaving them stuck, unable to sell or remortgage.\n\nEarlier, Mr Jenrick announced he had \"secured agreement\" that the survey would not be needed for homes without cladding.\n\n\"Through no fault of their own, some flat owners have been unable to sell or remortgage their homes, and this cannot be allowed to continue,\" he said.\n\nThe housing secretary said the decision to ease checks for blocks without cladding would help almost 450,000 homeowners who \"may have felt stuck in limbo\".\n\nThe building safety minister Lord Greenhalgh tweeted that the chairman of the lenders association UK Finance, and the chief executive of the Building Societies Association, had confirmed \"EWS1 forms are not and have never been required\" for buildings without cladding.\n\nDespite that some people without cladding, have previously been asked to obtain an EWS form and both bodies said in a statement they \"did not consent\" to being included in the announcement.\n\nA finance industry source with knowledge of the negotiations told the BBC the proposal did not mean properties with issues other than cladding would automatically be exempt from a fire survey.\n\nThe source said buildings with wooden balconies, and other safety issues, should have been included among those which still required the external fire safety checks.\n\nIt would still depend on the decision of a \"suitably qualified, independent and properly insured surveyor\", the source said. They did not recognise the figure of 450,000 homeowners stuck in limbo.\n\nOnly a \"small subset\" of buildings would benefit from the announcement, the UK Cladding Action Group said. Estimates by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government suggested that more than 800,000 homes would still require the EWS1.\n\nSome blocks which appeared to be built from solid brick were in fact \"clad with unknown materials behind the brick\", UK Finance and the Building Societies Association warned.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors said it had agreed the announcement that buildings without cladding did not need the EWS1 assessments, but it added that it would still need to review the government advice before deciding what guidance to issue to surveyors.\n\nSean Tompkins, RICS chief executive, said there had been an \"acute market shortage of fire engineers\" to carry out the checks.\n\n\"We are aware of the severe impact this has had on some homeowners and we agree that buildings without cladding should not be subject to the process,\" he said.\n\nMr Jenrick also said the government was paying to train 2,000 more assessors within six months to speed up checks on blocks which did have cladding.\n\nBut some cladding experts questioned whether the £700,000 in government funding would be enough.\n\n\"Do they think they can just give these people a two-day training course for £350?\" said Adrian Buckmaster, director of Tetraclad. \"You can't train experience in the built environment.\"", "The UK and Canada have agreed a deal to continue trading under the same terms as the current EU agreement after the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe government said it paved the way for negotiations to begin next year on a new comprehensive deal with Canada.\n\nThe PM and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau made the \"agreement in principle\" in a video call, the Department for International Trade said.\n\nThe agreement does not give any new benefits to businesses.\n\nBut it rolls over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reached by the EU and Canada after seven years of negotiations.\n\nBoris Johnson said the extension was \"a fantastic agreement for Britain\", adding: \"Our negotiators have been working flat out to secure trade deals for the UK and from as early next year we have agreed to start work on a new, bespoke trade deal with Canada that will go even further in meeting the needs of our economy.\"\n\nWelcoming the continuity deal, Mr Trudeau suggested a new comprehensive trade agreement with the UK would take several years to negotiate.\n\nSpeaking during the video call, which also included International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and her counterpart Mary Ng, Mr Trudeau said: \"Now we get to continue to work on a bespoke agreement, a comprehensive agreement over the coming years that will really maximise our trade opportunities and boost things for everyone.\"\n\n\"It is now vital that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss show the same urgency in securing the other 14 outstanding continuity agreements with countries like Mexico, Ghana and Singapore, where a total of £60bn of UK trade is still at risk and time is beginning to run out,\" she added.\n\nBefore it is formally signed, the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement will be subject to final legal checks.\n\nThe UK has now left the EU, but its trading relationship remains the same until the end of the year. That's because it's in an 11-month transition - designed to give both sides some time to negotiate a new trade deal.\n\nNo new trade deals can start until the transition period ends on 31 December.", "A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera\n\nFrench Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining heroes decorated by Charles de Gaulle for their role in fighting the Nazi occupation.\n\nHis death on Friday leaves only one survivor among the 1,038 men and women who received the title \"Compagnons de la Libération\" after World War Two.\n\nThe son of a wealthy merchant in south-western France, Cordier first became involved in politics in the 1930s as a teenage member of the royalist far-right.\n\nIn June 1940, after German forces crushed the French army and the government of Marshall Philippe Pétain sued for peace, Cordier's activism took a different turn.\n\n\"As my mother collapsed into my stepfather's arms, I raced upstairs and flung myself on my bed, and I sobbed. But then (…) I suddenly drew myself up, and I said to myself, 'But no, this is ridiculous,\" Cordier recalled in a 2018 interview with the BBC. \"[Pétain] is just a stupid old fool! We have to do something.\"\n\nDaniel Cordier left to join the Free French in 1940 and returned in 1942\n\nThree days later he and a few friends boarded a ship bound for French Algeria, which was seen as shelter for patriots who refused to surrender. But the vessel was diverted to Britain, where Cordier joined de Gaulle's Free French.\n\nHe joined the movement's intelligence arm and was parachuted into central France in mid-1942. A high point in his life was his meeting with Jean Moulin, the man tasked by de Gaulle to co-ordinate Resistance groups.\n\nCordier had come to deliver a message. The two men hit it off and he became the commander's right-hand man, based in Lyon.\n\n\"I admired Jean Moulin from the moment I first saw him,\" Cordier told the BBC. \"He had an elegance and a kindness, and also a huge capacity for work. In his view, he was the Resistance. I hope in my own small way I was able to serve him as he wanted.\"\n\nTen months later Moulin was betrayed to the Gestapo and killed under torture. Cordier moved to Paris, where he continued to rally the resistance before escaping to London in 1944.\n\nAfter the war he became a painter and a successful art-dealer, promoting contemporary masters such as Braque and Dubuffet.\n\nHe later credited Jean MouIin for initiating him into modern art. The education, he said, had begun as a kind of code. Moulin, he once said, decided to give him loud lectures on painters so as not to arouse suspicion when out and about in the danger zone that was occupied France.\n\nCordier took part in World War II commemoration ceremonies until his late 90s\n\nFocused on his passion for art, Cordier did not speak publicly about his wartime past for decades. But he broke his silence in the 1970s, when a fellow Resistance hero portrayed Moulin - a hallowed figure in France - as a shambolic self-promoter and a Soviet agent.\n\nOutraged, Cordier decided to clear his former boss's name. Delving into his Resistance past, he sifted through Resistance archives and interviewed survivors.\n\n\"I knew it was not true. But to prove it, I had to go back to the records,\" he told the BBC in 2018. The work culminated in the publication of influential biographies of Moulin in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nControversy among historians continued over the nature of Moulin's links with the Communists - who after all were a key component of the Resistance Jean Moulin worked to unify. But Cordier's historical work helped refute many of the wilder allegations.\n\nHis effort to expose the truth did not end there. In a 2009 autobiography Cordier came out as gay, saying it would have been \"utterly unthinkable\" when he was young.", "Video showed Russian special forces cutting down a door to free the boy\n\nRussian special forces have rescued a seven-year-old boy kidnapped in late September by a suspected paedophile.\n\nFootage shows officers cutting through a reinforced metal door to release the boy and arrest the suspect in the village of Makarikha, east of Moscow.\n\nThe operation was co-ordinated by Interpol, after the agency's officers in the US spotted a dark web user with a possible link to the abduction.\n\nThe child, who has not been named, appears to be physically unharmed.\n\nThe suspect is a 26-year-old resident of Makarikha village.\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\nIn the video released by the Russian interior ministry, the suspect is heard telling the officers that the boy was playing on a computer notebook in the basement of the house.\n\nThe boy's father later told Russia's Tass news agency that the child was examined by medics and he \"was doing well\".\n\n\"He is healthy, and hasn't lost weight,\" the father said.\n\nPsychologists have been brought in to help the boy and the family to overcome the experience.\n\nThe boy was abducted on 28 September in the nearby village of Gorki after he got off a school bus and was walking home.\n\nNearly 3,000 people were involved in a massive search operation.\n\nIn a statement, Interpol said police in several countries had helped locate the suspect, using the agency's International Child Sexual Exploitation database.\n\n\"Today, a young boy is back where he belongs - with his family - thanks to dedicated specialist officers and swift action by authorities around the world,\" the international police agency said.\n\n\"While we're truly delighted that this story has a safe ending, many children are still out there awaiting rescue.\"\n\nThe dark web is a part of the internet that is not visible to search engines and accessible only through specialised tools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Technology explained: What is the dark web?", "Hong Kong has seen a spike in new Covid-19 cases\n\nThe launch of a travel corridor between Hong Kong and Singapore has been postponed for two weeks amid a surge of Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong.\n\nThe deal was due to kick in on Sunday, allowing passengers to fly both ways without the need to self-isolate.\n\nThe decision is a blow to attempts by the two financial hubs to revive their battered travel sectors.\n\nHong Kong reported 43 new infections on Saturday, the highest daily toll in nearly three months.\n\nThe number includes 13 cases with unknown transmission sources, raising fears the local outbreak could get out of control.\n\n\"Today's decision is a responsible decision,\" Hong Kong Commerce Secretary Edward Yau told reporters. \"For any scheme to be successful, it must fulfil the conditions of securing public health and also making sure that both sides [are] comfortable and feel safe about the scheme.\"\n\nThe decision will be revisited in early December, he added.\n\nUnder the travel bubble arrangement, travellers would be required to take a Covid-19 test before departure and upon arrival. There would be no restrictions on the purpose of travel but passengers would have to take designated flights, and a maximum of 200 people would be allowed to travel each way per day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nNeither Hong Kong nor Singapore has seen the large outbreaks of the virus experienced elsewhere. With small populations and heavy dependence on international air travel, they hope the travel corridor will help their key tourism and aviation sectors amid a global downturn.\n\nShukor Yusof, an analyst with aviation consultancy Endau Analytics, said the travel arrangements were fraught with challenges.\n\n\"There is no solution until the vaccine is available to all. The more airlines swim against the Covid tide, and try to beat the odds, the worse it will become. Best to endure, stay put, refine the business model and conserve cash,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nLast month, an air travel corridor was introduced between Australia and New Zealand in which New Zealanders are exempt from self-isolation requirements when arriving in the state of New South Wales and the Northern Territory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 290 airlines, expects traffic this year to be 66% below the level it was in 2019. The IATA estimates that it will be at least 2024 before air traffic reaches pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the World Travel and Tourism Council, the pandemic led to a 72% drop in international tourists in the first half of the year. However, there has been a rebound in domestic tourism in some markets, such as China.", "A woman who faked a cancer diagnosis to claim more than £45,000 in donations has been convicted of fraud.\n\nNicole Elkabbas, 42, set up an online fundraising campaign, claiming she needed money to pay for private treatment for ovarian cancer.\n\nBut police began an investigation after a doctor, who had recently given her the all-clear, raised suspicions.\n\nElkabbas, of Broadstairs, Kent, pleaded not guilty and told Canterbury Crown Court she had believed she had cancer.\n\nJudge Mark Weekes said Elkabbas had been convicted on \"clear and compelling evidence\" and should expect a custodial sentence.\n\nThe fundraising campaign included a picture taken while she had been receiving routine gallbladder treatment, the court heard\n\nBen Irwin, prosecuting, earlier told the court Elkabbas's actions had been \"utterly dishonest\".\n\nIn February 2017, she set up a GoFundMe campaign, which said she had just weeks to raise money for a major surgery in Spain.\n\nShe claimed a costly \"breakthrough drug\" could improve her chances, and included an image of her lying in a hospital bed.\n\nHowever, the court heard the image had actually been taken during routine gallbladder treatment several months earlier.\n\nMr Irwin said the \"obvious lie\" was built around the photo, which had been \"staged to convince people that she was seriously unwell\".\n\nAfter she \"tricked\" people into donating, she \"frittered\" the money on foreign travel, football tickets and online gambling, Mr Irwin said.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 5 February for one count of fraud by false representation and another of possessing criminal property.\n\nGoFundMe said all donations made to Elkabbas through the site were refunded last year after misuse allegations were raised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Queen's University in Belfast will begin an asymptomatic coronavirus testing programme on campus on Monday as part of a national pilot scheme.\n\nThis month the government confirmed it was planning to carry out mass testing of students for Covid-19.\n\nQueen's University said testing would allow students who had remained on campus for the first term to return home for Christmas \"with confidence\".\n\nIt expects to conduct 6,000 weekly tests by the end of December.\n\nIt said the testing, which will continue in the second term, would help ensure its campus remained a safe place.\n\n\"The tests will be conducted using lateral flow devices that have recently been approved for use as a screening device for Covid-19,\" it said.\n\n\"These tests can give rapid results, although participants are required to have two tests no less than three days apart.\"\n\nRapid or \"lateral flow\" tests need high levels of the virus in the body in order to work.\n\nSome health professionals have raised concerns about the accuracy of rapid tests, warning that they may miss as many as half of coronavirus cases.\n\nAbout 90,000 people were tested in the first week of a mass-testing trial in Liverpool using the \"lateral flow\" system.\n\nQueen's University said it was pleased to \"be one of the first places in the UK to pilot asymptomatic testing at scale\".\n\nIt emphasised that the pilot scheme was \"for those who are not displaying symptoms\" of the virus.\n\nThe scheme has been backed by Health Minister Robin Swann who said he welcomed the university's participation.\n\n\"[It] will help us to understand how asymptomatic testing can be implemented and extended more widely in the future to other parts of Northern Ireland,\" said the minister.\n\nThe president and vice-chancellor of the university, Prof Ian Greer, said the university was \"keen to be involved\" in the testing programme after being approached to take part.\n\n\"We hope that the programme will help the health authorities to develop the best approach to mass testing whilst... helping us to drive down instances of the virus in our campus community and keeping it safe for our staff and students,\" he said.", "Boris Johnson has said a trans-Pennine transport link would \"turbo-charge the economy\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to commit £39bn to Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) for high-speed rail links across the Pennines.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is one of 19 regional leaders demanding a \"northern budget\".\n\nMr Johnson said a \"very, very good case\" was being made for connections between Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford and Leeds in his Tory leadership run.\n\nHe had said a trans-Pennine transport link would \"turbo-charge the economy\".\n\nThe NPR project was part of Mr Johnson's wider commitment to deliver a high-speed railway link across the north of England, which would cost about £39bn.\n\nThe leaders from the Transport for the North group are asking him to commit to the funding in full now that he is PM.\n\nThe group, which also includes mayor of the Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis, are also demanding £7bn for road and rail projects.\n\nMayor of the Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram said: \"We're consistent and focused in our plan for what infrastructure the north needs to unlock its full potential, not just for its own benefit, but for the whole UK.\n\n\"A northern budget would be the ultimate demonstration of that commitment.\n\n\"The north is clear that we only support NPR proposals that deliver the whole network, from Liverpool to Hull, along with HS2.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the investment \"is exactly what's needed and what Labour in government will deliver\".\n\nA government spokesman said: \"As the Prime Minister recently set out, this government is committed to boosting the north by levelling up our regions, through Northern Powerhouse Rail, giving local leaders greater powers and investing £3.6bn in towns across England.\n\n\"We're already investing over £13bn in improving transport in the north - more than any government in history - and will set out our plans to build on this in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Antibodies bind to viral proteins, marking them for destruction by other immune cells\n\nCoronavirus antibodies last at least six months and offer protection against a second infection, a study of healthcare workers suggests.\n\nStaff at Oxford University Hospitals were regularly tested both for Covid-19 infections and for antibodies revealing a past infection.\n\nThe more antibodies people had, the lower their chances of re-infection.\n\nA separate study found pre-existing immunity from other coronaviruses also protected against Covid.\n\nInfection consultant Dr Katie Jeffery described the Oxford findings as \"encouraging news\" ahead of forthcoming Covid vaccines.\n\nThey indicated that having the virus once \"provides at least short-term protection\" from getting it again, she said.\n\nThe Oxford study enrolled more than 12,000 healthcare workers of which 11,000 tested negative for Covid-19 antibodies.\n\nAntibodies build up during a viral infection and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells and attacking the rest of the immune system.\n\nOf those without any antibodies at the start of study, 89 developed symptomatic infections that were confirmed with a swab test.\n\nOf those that did have coronavirus-specific antibodies, none developed a symptomatic infection during the study period.\n\nThere were three individuals who developed asymptomatic Covid-19 infections despite having positive antibody tests, compared with 76 in the group without any antibodies.\n\nBut none of the three became unwell.\n\nThe results were \"consistent with Sars-CoV-2 re-exposure that did not lead to repeat symptoms\", the study said.\n\nThe antibodies being studied are those designed to bind to the \"spike\" of the Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19 infections.\n\nThis \"spike\" is what many of the vaccines in development target.\n\nThe staff tested were followed for up to 30 weeks.\n\nEarlier in the week, a study conducted by Public Health England looked at T-cells - another element of our immune systems' response to infection.\n\nIt found in June about a quarter of the key workers studied had high levels of T-cells which recognised the Covid virus in their blood - but only just over half of them appeared to have had Covid-19.\n\nThe paper concluded this immunity was likely to be there \"because of previous infection with coronaviruses other than SARS-CoV-2\", for example the common cold virus.\n\nAnd those people with high levels of the relevant T-cells \"appeared to be protected from Covid-19 in the four months after recruitment\", whether they had previously been infected Covid-19 or not.\n\nBut Dr Rupert Beale at the Francis Crick Institute pointed out that this equated to \"only a very small proportion of adults (less than 10%, maybe much less than 10%)\" who would be protected by pre-existing T cell immunity.\n\nAn earlier paper suggested just looking at antibodies might underestimate how many people were protected from re-infection by T cells - another part of the immune response.", "Police were called to an address in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with assault following the death of a two-year-old boy in Edinburgh.\n\nEmergency services were called to a property in the Muirhouse area of the city at about 09:30 on Saturday morning.\n\nThe boy had serious injuries and died at the scene shortly afterwards.\n\nLucasz Czapla, 40, was also charged with driving over the alcohol limit, dangerous driving and failing to stop a vehicle.\n\nHe appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday where he made no plea and was remanded in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Lynn McFall said: \"I'd like to thank the local people in the Muirhouse community for their help during this inquiry. This was an isolated incident.\"", "Boris Johnson has said he continues to have \"full confidence\" in Priti Patel following a report concluding the home secretary had \"unintentionally\" breached the ministerial code in her behaviour towards civil servants.\n\nThe report's author, Sir Alex Allen, has quit after the PM rejected his findings. Here is the summary of those findings that has been released by the government:\n\nThe Ministerial Code says \"ministers should be professional in their working relationships with the civil service and treat all those with whom they come into contact with consideration and respect.\n\nI believe civil servants - particularly senior civil servants - should be expected to handle robust criticism but should not have to face behaviour that goes beyond that.\n\nThe home secretary says that she puts great store by professional, open relationships. She is action orientated and can be direct.\n\nThe home secretary has also become - justifiably in many instances - frustrated by the Home Office leadership's lack of responsiveness and the lack of support she felt in the Department for International Development (Dfid) three years ago.\n\nThe evidence is that this has manifested itself in forceful expression, including some occasions of shouting and swearing.\n\nThis may not be done intentionally to cause upset, but that has been the effect on some individuals.\n\nThe Ministerial Code says that \"harassing, bullying or other inappropriate or discriminating behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code\".\n\nDefinitions of harassment concern comments or actions relating to personal characteristics and there is no evidence from the Cabinet Office's work of any such behaviour by the Home Secretary.\n\nThe definition of bullying adopted by the Civil Service accepts that legitimate, reasonable and constructive criticism of a worker's performance will not amount to bullying.\n\nIt defines bullying as intimidating or insulting behaviour that makes an individual feel uncomfortable, frightened, less respected or put down.\n\nInstances of the behaviour reported to the Cabinet Office would meet such a definition.\n\nThe Civil Service itself needs to reflect on its role during this period.\n\nThe Home Office was not as flexible as it could have been in responding to the home secretary's requests and direction. She has - legitimately - not always felt supported by the department.\n\nIn addition, no feedback was given to the home secretary of the impact of her behaviour, which meant she was unaware of issues that she could otherwise have addressed.\n\nMy advice is that the home secretary has not consistently met the high standards required by the Ministerial Code of treating her civil servants with consideration and respect.\n\nHer approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by individuals.\n\nTo that extent her behaviour has been in breach of the Ministerial Code, even if unintentionally.\n\nThis conclusion needs to be seen in context. There is no evidence that she was aware of the impact of her behaviour, and no feedback was given to her at the time.\n\nThe high pressure and demands of the role, in the Home Office, coupled with the need for more supportive leadership from top of the department has clearly been a contributory factor.\n\nIn particular, I note the finding of different and more positive behaviour since these issues were raised with her.", "The tech reporter accessed the meeting using login details tweeted by the Dutch defence minister\n\nDaniel Verlaan of RTL Nieuws joined the meeting after the Dutch defence minister accidentally posted some of the login details on Twitter.\n\nThe visibly surprised technology reporter started waving once he realised he'd been let in.\n\n\"You know that you have been jumping into a secret conference?\" EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\n\"Yes, yes. I'm sorry. I'm a journalist from the Netherlands. I'm sorry for interrupting your conference,\" Mr Verlaan replied, to laughter from officials. \"I'll be leaving here.\"\n\n\"You know it's a criminal offence, huh?\" Mr Borrell replied. \"You'd better sign off quickly before the police arrives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michiel van Hulten This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Verlaan managed to access the meeting after Dutch Defence Minister Ank Bijleveld tweeted a photo that contained the login address and part of the PIN code.\n\n\"After a number of attempts, RTL Nieuws succeeded in guessing the PIN code of the secret consultation, because five of the six digits of the pin code were visible in the photo,\" the news outlet said.\n\nWhile many have seen the funny side of the hack, it raises serious questions over the security of confidential EU meetings.\n\nThe meeting was ended due to the breach, while a Foreign Affairs Council spokesman told RTL: \"Such a breach is illegal and will be reported to the authorities.\"\n\nA Dutch defence ministry spokesperson said tweeting the login details had been a \"stupid mistake\".\n\n\"This shows how careful you should be careful when sending a picture of a meeting,\" they added.", "Coleen Rooney \"clearly identified\" Rebekah Vardy when she made allegations about social media stories being leaked to the tabloids, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe row dubbed 'Wagatha Christie' broke out in October 2019 when Rooney said fake stories had been leaked after only being seen by Vardy's Instagram account.\n\nIn July, Vardy filed for defamation, saying she had been falsely accused.\n\nHer lawyer told the High Court he would be seeking costs of £22,913.50.\n\nThe initial argument in this case, which Vardy has won, has been over the wording of Rooney's social media post, which she put up for her 1.2m Twitter followers and 885,000 Instagram followers to see last year.\n\nRooney named the culprit of the leaks as \"Rebekah Vardy's account\" meaning her lawyers could argue it wasn't implying Rebekah herself was guilty - and could have been anyone with access to her Instagram account.\n\nBut Judge Mark Warby ruled against this, saying the post looked like it was putting the blame solely on Vardy.\n\nThere are still further factors to be considered in the legal battle though, and this ruling marks the beginning of Vardy's libel case.\n\nVardy decided to sue for defamation in July, with court documents written by her lawyers saying the incident had affected her mental and physical health.\n\nWhen Rooney's social media posts were released, Vardy was seven months pregnant and her lawyers claim they led to her being taken to hospital three times with anxiety attacks.\n\nThe pair originally became friends through their husbands, former Manchester United and England player Wayne Rooney and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy.\n\nSocial media was set ablaze on 9 October 2019 when Coleen Rooney pressed send on her Instagram and Twitter posts, accusing Rebekah Vardy of leaking details about her life to the tabloids.\n\nIn an effort to work out which of her friends had been sharing stories, she'd published different fake stories on Instagram to different people. The ones that made headlines, were ones being leaked.\n\nRebekah Vardy took to social media to deny any involvement in the leaking.\n\nBut things did take a more sinister turn - Vardy's lawyers said her husband faced abuse on the pitch which meant they couldn't let their young children attend games anymore.\n\nBoth Vardy and Rooney have agreed to a stay in proceedings - until February.\n\nThis means they're going to try and resolve things privately without the need for a full trial, but if they can't it could become a full court case in the new year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "On Saturday night, Californians will be under stay-at-home orders after 22:00\n\nCalifornia has begun a night-time curfew, in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe western state's latest figures are now worse than the previous peak in August, the Los Angeles Times reports.\n\nAcross the US, the daily death toll linked to Covid-19 has passed 2,000 for the first time since May.\n\nThe country has now more than 12 million confirmed infections, with more than 255,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThis is by far the highest death toll in the world.\n\nAbout 187,000 new infections were recorded nationwide in the latest figures - released on Friday for the previous day - which is an all-time high.\n\nSeveral states have imposed new mask mandates and restrictions to try to combat the rise, and in Texas the National Guard is being deployed to the city of El Paso to help with morgue operations there.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also urged Americans to avoid travelling for the Thanksgiving holiday on 26 November to prevent increased transmissions.\n\nThanksgiving typically heralds the busiest week for travel in the US. Last year, an estimated 26 million people passed through the country's airports in the week surrounding the holiday.\n\nOn Friday, it was revealed that President Donald Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, had tested positive for coronavirus. \"Apparently I got the 'rona,\" he said in a video on social media, adding that he was asymptomatic so far and quarantining.\n\nCalifornia reported a total of one million cases last week, making it the second state to do so after Texas.\n\nThe new daily curfew, from 22:00 local time on Saturday (06:00 GMT Sunday) until 05:00, will carry on until 21 December, with a possible extension if needed, according to authorities.\n\nRestaurants will be able to offer takeout and delivery outside these hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How effective is getting a Covid test before you travel for Thanksgiving?\n\nThe stay-at-home order affects 41 out of California's 58 counties, covering more than 94% of the state's population. Some 40m people live in California, the most populous state in the US.\n\nSome counties have also warned that a more severe lockdown could follow. The latest measures are not as strict as restrictions imposed between March and May, when all nonessential business and travel was prohibited.\n\nOther places, including New York City, are also operating a night-time curfew. Bars, restaurants and gyms are allowed to open until 22:00, but schools have been closed.\n\nThe Californian curfew was announced by Governor Gavin Newsom.\n\n\"The virus is spreading at a pace we haven't seen since the start of this pandemic, and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\nHospital admissions are up 61% statewide in the last two weeks, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.\n\n\"The data looks really bad right now,\" said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Friday.\n\nThe CDC has recommended that Americans \"consider\" avoiding Thanksgiving travel and gatherings.\n\n\"It's not a requirement. It's a recommendation,\" said Dr Henry Walke, the CDC's Covid-19 incident manager, on Thursday.\n\nThe following day, President Donald Trump re-tweeted the words of Republican Congressman Jim Jordan: \"Don't lockdown the country. Don't impose curfews. Don't close schools. Let Americans decide for themselves. And celebrate Thanksgiving.\"\n\nThe president and President-elect Joe Biden have both said they are against imposing a national lockdown, and favour letting states come up with their own rules.\n\nCalifornian authorities permit up to three households meeting outdoors\n\nOn Thursday, the White House coronavirus task force had its first public briefing in months. Members, including Vice-President Mike Pence, noted the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe task force said indoor gatherings should be limited over the next couple of weeks.\n\nHowever on Saturday, US media noted that Mr Pence's wife, Karen, had sent out an invitation for a \"Christmas craft\" get-together at their home on 9 December for Congressional Club members.\n\nThe White House has also so far declined to engage with Joe Biden and his incoming administration on policy, as Mr Trump refuses to concede the presidential contest.", "West Yorkshire Police said they were speaking with the driver\n\nA driver crashed into a house and then carried on driving with the front door in the car's windscreen and roof.\n\nThe 18-year-old motorist was taken to hospital with head injuries after the crash in Ashworth Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on Friday night.\n\nPolice said his Audi collided with a vehicle before crashing into the front porch of the house.\n\nPolice said officers were speaking to the driver, who is not thought to be seriously hurt.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A possible alternative to a vaccine, for people without functioning immune systems, is entering its final stage of trials.\n\nThe injection was developed using antibodies - made by the immune system to fight infection - produced by a single Covid patient in the US.\n\nIt is hoped it could provide at least six months' protection for patients who cannot receive vaccines.\n\nA further 4,000 people are involved in the trial globally, which is being organised by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.\n\nParticipants will be given either an injection containing two different Covid-19 antibodies, which have been specially engineered to last longer in the body - or a placebo.\n\nIn recent weeks there have been promising developments in the creation of a Covid-19 vaccine, which works by priming the immune system to fight off the infection.\n\nBut the UK's Vaccine Taskforce chair, Kate Bingham, estimates hundreds of thousands people might not benefit from a vaccine because they do not have a working immune system.\n\nThis might be due to an immune deficiency, or because they are taking immune-suppressing drugs, for diseases such as cancer.\n\n\"It's crucial that we leave no one behind as we move closer to finding both a vaccine and developing more treatments for Covid-19,\" she said.\n\n\"We particularly need to ensure those who cannot be given a vaccine, such as people who are immuno-compromised, have alternatives available that will help protect them.\"\n\nAstraZeneca, which is developing the antibody injection, hopes it will offer 6-12 months' protection.\n\nStudy lead Prof Andrew Ustianowski said, while vaccines work \"by inducing a person's immune system to produce antibodies that inhibit or 'neutralise' the virus\", his team are investigating whether similar protection could be given to the immuno-compromised, by injecting antibodies which have been shown to neutralise the virus directly into the muscle.\n\nThis bypasses the immune system for those people who \"don't respond well to vaccines, or cannot be given them\".\n\nHowever, the therapy is significantly more expensive than vaccination and difficult to produce at scale, so it is unlikely to be used on the wider population.\n\nNine UK trial sites have been identified so far, in Manchester, London, Plymouth, Southampton, West Yorkshire, Enfield, Rochdale and Preston. The first results are expected next spring.\n\nThe trial will assess whether the therapy is effective and whether it is safe.\n\nAdditionally, AstraZeneca has suggested another possible use for the jab - to protect care home residents if a case is identified within the home.\n\nVaccines take a bit of time to build immunity in the body, but this injection should work immediately, so could be given as a preventative measure.\n\nIts preventative efficacy will be tested in a second, parallel trial, on participants in the US and the UK.", "Ian Jones had also suffered malaria, dengue fever and coronavirus while out in India\n\nA British charity worker in India has been blinded and paralysed by a potentially lethal snakebite.\n\nIan Jones, from the Isle of Wight, was bitten by a cobra in a village near Jodhpur, Rajasthan.\n\nHis family said he was \"very frightened\" by his condition although they hoped his blindness and leg paralysis were only temporary.\n\nMr Jones has previously suffered from malaria, dengue fever and coronavirus while in India, his son said.\n\nThe former healthcare worker was running a charity-backed social enterprise aimed at helping craftspeople trade their way out of poverty.\n\nClaire Robertson, from Community Action Isle of Wight which runs the enterprise, said: \"Ian was living temporarily in the social enterprise's warehouse in Jodphur so he could be closer to the people he supports.\n\n\"He was in an area of the warehouse that he'd made his living quarters when his adopted dog, Rocky, started barking, and when he reached out to soothe him the cobra, alerted by his sudden movement, bit him twice.\"\n\nMr Jones's family said he spent nearly two weeks in intensive care but had left the hospital in India due to the high number of Covid patients.\n\nCommunity Action Isle of Wight has raised more than £12,000 on a fundraising website to cover Mr Jones's medical costs and transport home.\n\nHis son Sebastian said his father \"remained resolute in his determination to stay in the country and continue his work to help the people that needed his support\".\n\n\"When we heard he had also suffered what is usually a fatal snakebite on top of all that he had been through, we honestly could not believe it,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of anti-government protesters in Guatemala have vandalised and set fire to parts of the Congress building, before being dispersed by riot police.\n\nThe building in Guatemala City was empty at the time of Saturday's attack, which lasted for about 10 minutes.\n\nThe fire services put the fire out, but several people were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation.\n\nThe protesters are opposed to a budget approved by Congress of the Central American country on Wednesday night.\n\nAn office inside the building went up in flames - but the overall extent of the damage is not known\n\nA number of protesters were detained by police\n\nThe opposition says the budget prioritises big infrastructure projects to be handled by companies with government connections and overlooks the social and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThey are also angered by what they describe as major cuts to education and health spending.\n\nAnother key complaints is that the budget was passed by parliament while the rest of the country was distracted by the after-effects of two damaging storms, Eta and Iota.\n\nThe protesters are now pressing for President Alejandro Giammattei to resign.\n\nThe bulk of Saturday's demonstrations, which some observers said were the biggest yet against the budget, were peaceful.\n\nVice-President Guillermo Castillo earlier expressed his opposition to the budget, and said that both he and Mr Giammattei should step down \"for the good of the country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have nothing... I am in pain\" – Central America is counting the cost of Storm Eta", "Gwynedd's Italian-inspired village of Portmeirion is currently closed\n\nA unified approach between the UK's four nations is needed for any future lockdowns, a Welsh tourism group says.\n\nRowland Rhys Evans of Mid Wales Tourism Cymru said different regulations made it difficult for the industry.\n\nThe Wales Tourism Alliance said although Wales' lockdown ended on 9 November, up to half of Wales' tourist businesses will remain closed until the English lockdown lifts on 2 December.\n\nThe Welsh Government said decisions for Wales would be made within Wales.\n\nThe UK government said its financial support measures were helping tourist businesses.\n\nMr Evans said: \"It definitely needs unification now. If we've got different lockdowns and different rules for Christmas, it's going to be disastrous for everyone.\n\n\"It's a shame the two governments, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, aren't working together so that we can get on the same song sheet.\n\n\"People tend to forget this virus is the same across the UK and the rules should be the same for everyone, because it's difficult when you have a border that isn't a hard border but you've got different regulations on either side of that line.\"\n\nThe Wales Tourism Alliance estimates that 50% of businesses across all sectors in tourism remained closed in Wales after the firebreak and would continue until at least the end of the lockdown in England, with the reliance on tourists from over the border accounting for 80-90% of footfall in some areas of Wales.\n\nDespite the end of Wales' most recent lockdown, the streets of Aberdyfi in Gwynedd are still eerily quiet even for this time of year.\n\nPeter and Elizabeth Holt have run Cafe Medina on the High Street for almost 13 years and have worked in hospitality for over three decades in the area and have never seen it so quiet in November.\n\n\"It's nice for the locals, [they] absolutely love it, but as businesses… we need the people,\" said Mr Holt.\n\n\"We are reliant on the English coming into Wales, but we are a small coffee shop and have a small following of locals, so we are OK.\"\n\nThe same might not be the case for others on the High Street - on a mid-week afternoon about two-thirds of the businesses were shut.\n\nMany of Aberdyfi's businesses were closed on a mid-week afternoon\n\nIt is the same scene in many other seaside towns along the coast - Tywyn, Barmouth and on the Llŷn Peninsula - areas that are reliant on tourists.\n\nNanteos Mansion Hotel, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, has 26 rooms, a restaurant, bar and hosts weddings.\n\nBut one of the hotel's directors Nigel Jones said they had made the decision to only open half the rooms and for only three nights a week until 2 December, when the English lockdown is due to end.\n\n\"We based our decision purely on the lockdown in England. It's a major part of our business coming in,\" he said.\n\n\"The problem is whether people will feel as keen and secure to go out again as they did after the first lockdown.\n\n\"Now they've got Christmas coming up, do they want that threat? It's been hinted at there could be another lockdown in 2021… it's difficult to plan against the unknown.\"\n\nSome of Wales' best-known tourist attractions and resorts, such as the Celtic Manor outside Newport, Zip World and its adventure tourism in Snowdonia, and the Italian-inspired village of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, have closed for the month.\n\nEngland's current lockdown began on 5 November - four days before Wales' firebreak lockdown ended\n\nDavid Brown, chairman of the Barmouth Publicity Association, said it was not just hospitality, accommodation and attractions hit - but the wider community as well.\n\n\"That's the first line, when the tourist don't come, accommodation loses income,\" he said.\n\n\"But that income gets spent in two ways in the community. In Barmouth a guesthouse closes down during winter and that money gets spent at the DIY store for renewing. That's not happening this year because the money hasn't been coming in.\n\n\"So those builders, plasterers and plumbers are going to find this winter is very lean for them.\n\n\"But also one of our tourism agencies found that whatever tourists spend on accommodation they spend in the community. So if you spent £700 on a cottage, you will likely spend the same in local shops, restaurants, even in the local post office.\"\n\nA spokesman from the Welsh Government said First Minister Mark Drakeford had been clear he wanted \"regular and reliable\" meetings with the other governments.\n\nHe added: \"Decisions about the response to the pandemic in Wales are made in Wales.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"We have helped the tourism industry through a financial package of measures - of which many Welsh businesses are benefiting from - and continue to support the tourism sector through these very challenging times.\"\n\nWhether or not the lockdown in England will finish on 2 December will have a knock-on effect on much of Wales' economy, especially those areas reliant on tourists from across Offa's Dyke.\n\nWhat this industry really wants is some assurances so they can get off to a flying start in 2021.", "Saturday's rally followed previous protests since the start of the second lockdown\n\nThirteen people have been arrested after an anti-lockdown protest in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nPolice originally held 15 people but said some had been \"de-arrested and issued with fixed penalty notices\".\n\nHundreds of people have gathered for weekend rallies since the second national lockdown began on 5 November.\n\nAt Saturday's protest, a 36-year-old man, from Kirkby, was held on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker after an officer was pushed in the chest.\n\nThe remaining 12 people were arrested for breaching coronavirus rules and public order.\n\nPolice also implemented a dispersal zone in the city centre on Saturday, with officers having the power to ask people suspected of anti-social behaviour to leave the area and not return for up to 48 hours.\n\nEngland's first city-wide mass testing programme started in Liverpool earlier this month\n\nMore than 140,000 people in Liverpool have taken part in the country's first city-wide mass testing pilot, which started on 6 November.\n\nThe city had one of the highest rates of coronavirus infections and deaths in October, when it became the first area in England to face the highest tier restrictions.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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. Father Christmas has some tips on how to have a safe Christmas\n\nThe four UK governments have announced their plans to enable families to celebrate Christmas together.\n\nSo how is the festive period likely to be different this year?\n\nThe governments of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have agreed a common approach allowing up to three households to form a Christmas bubble and meet up from 23 to 27 December (22 to 28 December in Northern Ireland).\n\nPeople can mix in homes, places of worship and outdoor spaces, and travel restrictions will also be eased.\n\nHowever, a Christmas bubble must be exclusive, so people cannot swap between them. Bubble members also will not be able to visit pubs or restaurants together.\n\nThere will be no limit to the number of people in a household joining a bubble in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Scottish government has said that Christmas bubbles should contain no more than eight people. Children under 12 will not count in the total.\n\nFears that a lack of skilled overseas workers on poultry farms could hit the supply of turkeys have been overcome after travel rules were relaxed so they could travel to the UK.\n\nBut many people are buying smaller turkeys than usual because they are likely to have fewer guests.\n\nAn Aberdeenshire farmer has warned many birds could go to waste, while a farm in Wales cut its turkey numbers by 20% in September.\n\nAny turkey shortage may make some people consider a vegetarian or vegan meal instead.\n\nThis year's work celebrations seem certain to take place on Zoom and other online platforms.\n\nRules on big groups meeting up in pubs or anywhere outdoors are very unlikely to be eased in December, so seeing friends for a pre-Christmas drink or meal will probably not be allowed.\n\nCurrent rules for socialising outside your household/support bubble/extended household are:\n\nAt the moment, it is not known what will happen about traditional Christmas religious services like midnight Mass.\n\nFrom 2 December in England, places of worship will reopen for communal prayer.\n\nUp to 50 people can attend indoor services in Scotland in levels zero to three areas, but only up to 20 in level four places.\n\nPlaces of worship have reopened in Wales, but with social distancing in place and communal singing banned.\n\nThey are also open in Northern Ireland with no limit on numbers if safety measures are in place. Weddings, civil ceremonies and funerals can happen, but only 25 people. can attend\n\nWhile in-person shopping in non-food shops can currently happen in all of the UK except England, online retailers are expecting a big surge in demand this year.\n\nIn September, shoppers were warned by an industry boss to buy as early as possible.\n\nAndy Mulcahy, from the online businesses' industry body, told the BBC: \"At this point, I think we can expect an increase of at least 30% for the peak festive trading season, but if stores have to close this might push to 50%.\"\n\nLast posting dates inside the UK range from 18 to 23 December, while we have already passed some international dates.\n\nTheatres in England can reopen on 2 December, and plans have been made for some Christmas pantomimes.\n\nWhile many venues and production companies have cancelled their shows, others are going ahead thanks to National Lottery backing.\n\nOne is at the London Palladium, where the Lottery will buy seats that cannot be used because of social distancing. It will also donate 20,000 free tickets to Lottery players.\n\nMeanwhile a drive-in show - the Car Park Panto - will tour Great Britain with audience members watching from inside their cars.\n\nTheatres in Scotland are closed in level two, three and four areas, throughout Wales, and to audiences in Northern Ireland, where they can open for rehearsals or a live recording.\n\nThe Christmas relaxation of meeting up rules does not extend to New Year's Eve, so that is likely to be a quiet affair this year, with house parties banned in most places.", "A tougher three-tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in England when the lockdown ends on 2 December, Downing Street has said.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to set out his plan - including details of how families can see different households at Christmas - to MPs on Monday.\n\nMore areas are set to be placed into the higher tiers to keep the virus under control, No 10 said.\n\nAnd some tiers will be strengthened to safeguard lockdown progress.\n\nSome local measures will be the same as those in the previous three-tier system, which was in place in England until the current lockdown began.\n\nBut the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is expected to publish research on Monday saying the previous restrictions were not strong enough.\n\nThe government will identify the tiers that each area will be placed into on Thursday.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants was one of the things it was looking to \"refine\".\n\nIt is understood rules will be relaxed to give people an extra hour to finish their food and drinks after last orders at 10pm.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said this would help businesses - but would be \"meaningless\" unless people were allowed to socialise with friends and family, particularly over the crucial Christmas period.\n\nPre-lockdown, there were three tiers of restrictions - medium, high, and very high:\n\nNewspaper reports suggest rules could be temporarily relaxed UK-wide over Christmas. Several families could be allowed to join in one \"bubble\" and mix between 22 and 28 December, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nMinisters have made clear the festive season will be different to normal - with some restrictions expected to remain in place.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said conversations about Christmas between the different nations of the UK were ongoing.\n\nSources believe a deal is probable later next week - but it is unlikely to be signed off before the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nThe four nations have different Covid rules but ministers are hoping to agree a joint approach for the festive period.\n\nGovernment ministers and advisers have been hinting about new tougher tiers over the past week.\n\nBefore lockdown there was some evidence that tiers two and three were having an impact, but not tier one.\n\nCrucially, both the top two tiers involved banning mixing inside homes, so one option being discussed behind the scenes is introducing a ban across all the tiers until winter is over.\n\nThe exception will, of course, be Christmas.\n\nThat is a move that divides opinion. But the government sees it as a necessity, believing significant numbers of people will ignore any attempt to ban gatherings over the festive period.\n\nIt is also a recognition the public needs a break from the long hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nInfection rates will of course rise, but that will be offset to some extent by a wider boost to wellbeing.\n\nProf Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool, said he hoped it would be possible to relax rules over Christmas if the new tiered system worked but warned \"there will be a price\", including tighter restrictions in the future.\n\nHowever, Prof Semple, who is a member of Sage, told Sky News's Sophy Ridge there was \"a lot to be optimistic about\".\n\nHe said he expected mass vaccination of the general population to happen towards next summer, which would give \"broad immunity\" and allow a \"return back to normal\".\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the new tier system in the days before it comes into force.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are opposed to stricter measures, with 70 signing a letter coordinated by the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG), saying they cannot support a tiered approach unless they see evidence measures \"will save more lives than they cost\".\n\nEarlier this month, 32 Conservatives rebelled by voting against the current lockdown and 17 more, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, abstained.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, the CRG, led by former chief whip Mark Harper and ex-Brexit minister Steve Baker, warned against inflicting \"huge health and economic costs\".\n\nThe letter said: \"We cannot live under such a series of damaging lockdowns and apparently arbitrary restrictions, and expect our constituents to be grateful for being let out to enjoy the festive season, only to have strict restrictions imposed on them afterwards that cause them health problems and destroy their livelihood.\"\n\nAsked whether he would publish a cost-benefit analysis of any future measures, as called for by the CRG, the chancellor told Sky News it was \"very hard to be precise\" on the economic impacts of individual restrictions.\n\nLabour has so far supported the need for restrictions to slow the spread of Covid-19, making a Commons defeat on the plan unlikely.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC her party wanted clarity from the government over how tiers would be decided and the support available for businesses.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded another 19,875 new coronavirus cases and 341 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths was down from 511 on Friday, and 462 on Saturday 14 November.", "A small business owner, angry at the fake and damaging Google reviews posted about his business, has started legal action against the tech giant.\n\nThis rare case highlights the damage fake reviews can do and how difficult it can be to take them down.\n\nGoogle says it monitors posts for violations 24 hours a day and complies with all local laws.\n\nBut it seems star ratings by customers aren’t always what they seem.\n\nThe BBC's Angus Crawford went to meet him.", "Two fishermen are missing off the Sussex coast. One other has been rescued after their boat sank.\n\nA man has been rescued and two others remain missing after a fishing boat sank off the Sussex coast.\n\nA search began in the sea off Seaford, near Newhaven, when the coastguard received an alert from the ship's emergency beacon at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nA man was found clinging to a buoy and was taken to hospital.\n\nTwo crew members from the boat, the Joanna C, remain missing. The search for them was suspended at 23:00 and will resume at first light on Sunday.\n\nThe emergency signal put the 45ft scalloping vessel, registered in Brixham, about three nautical miles off the coast.\n\nTwo helicopters and two lifeboats were deployed and a coastguard rescue team has been sent to check for sightings from the shore.\n\nOther fishing boats in the area have also been helping with the search.\n\nPiers Stanbury, HM Coastguard controller, said: \"Thankfully one of the three people on board at the time of sinking has been pulled out of the water and brought to shore by the Newhaven RNLI lifeboat but the intensive air and sea search for the two missing crew continues.\n\n\"Debris has been located close to location of the EPIRB alert location but no life raft has been found as yet.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If you can tear yourself away from the counting of votes in the United States, (and I appreciate if you are into politics, that's not easy right now), it is well worth noting what's going on in the warm up to a big political fight on this side of the pond, arguments that we are going to be talking about a lot in the coming months.\n\nThere is a huge set of elections, straddling many parts of the UK next May, and the most contentious arguments are likely to be in the elections for the Scottish Parliament.\n\nIn that poll, you guessed it, the central question on the ballot paper is likely to be that of Scottish independence.\n\nWith a solid trend of polls backing independence in recent months, the SNP is hopeful of another convincing result in the May ballot that will give them a mandate for another referendum on whether Scotland should stay in the UK.\n\nTheir problem, even if they win convincingly in May, is that the law says it's up to the UK government to decide whether or not there should be another referendum - a vote some Scots are massively eager to have, but which others want like a hole in the head. You can read more about the laws around a referendum here.\n\nAnd the SNP themselves said, at the time, that the 2014 referendum was a \"once in a generation opportunity\" for those who want Scotland to be independent.\n\nThe UK government's problem is that if the SNP does win convincingly in May on a promise of having another referendum, denying that would just amplify the argument that Westminster doesn't listen to what Scots want, and likely increase support for independence.\n\nThat's why the comments from Scottish Secretary Alister Jack this morning are notable. He said that \"once in a generation\" means there can't be an independence referendum for many, many years.\n\nNot surprisingly, the SNP have leapt on his words, even comparing his comments to President Trump's bizarre, sometimes rambling, statements since the US election - so full of claims without evidence about fraud or irregularities in the voting that some of the American TV networks cut him off while he was still talking.\n\nOne US politician making wild allegations about fraud is obviously not the same as another in the UK hardening their opposition to another kind of poll taking place, which the government has the legal right to permit or not.\n\nYet the UK government does have an acute dilemma, and it knows it.\n\nAnd not everyone in Westminster agrees that the answer to a hypothetical big SNP win in May can be, \"no, not now, and not nearly ever\".\n\nTo put it mildly, there is a range of opinion in government on how to meet the demands for a referendum in practice.\n\nThere are concerns among Tories too about Labour's weakness at Holyrood, which you can read about here.\n\nAt the very least, the UK government intends to be more present, more prominent, in Scotland, to move away from what one government source admits was an attitude of \"devolve and forget\" that has built up over successive UK administrations.\n\nBut making the argument for the Union more obviously, and more visibly is one thing - there is no guarantee that in the coming months Scottish voters will like what they see.", "Morris wrote more than 40 books including a notable trilogy about Britain's empire, Pax Britannica, during the 1960s and 70s.\n\nIn 1972, she transitioned from male to female, undergoing gender reassignment surgery and changing her name to Jan.\n\nHer son Twm announced her death, saying she was on her \"greatest journey\".\n\n\"This morning at 11.40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey. She leaves behind on the shore her life-long partner, Elizabeth,\" he said.\n\nMorris attended a 2013 reception with Prince Philip to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the ascent of Everest\n\nElizabeth was Morris's wife before Morris transitioned - they had five children together and stayed together, later entering a civil partnership. One of their children died in infancy.\n\nMorris told Michael Palin in 2016: \"I've enjoyed my life very much, and I admire it. I think it has been a very good and interesting life and I've made a whole of it, quite deliberately.\n\n\"I've done all of my books to make one big, long autobiography. My life has been one whole self-centred exercise in self-satisfaction!\"\n\nShe is arguably most famous for her widely admired travel writing, and Palin said: \"She's kind of a non-fiction novelist. She creates an image and a feeling of a place that stays in your mind.\"\n\nAuthor Kate Mosse, whose books include Labyrinth, paid tribute to an \"extraordinary woman\". Fellow writer Sathnam Sanghera tweeted: \"What a life, and what a writer.\"\n\nJournalist Katherine O'Donnell added her \"public visibility and account of her transition... let others like me know they were not alone\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katherine O'Donnell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 for Cardiff North Anna McMorrin added that Morris was \"an incredible writer, pioneer and historian\".\n\nMorris's book Venice, about the Italian city, is considered to be a classic by The Guardian.\n\nPalin said it was \"one of the most influential books of my life\".\n\n\"Her description of the city transcended any conventional travel writing I've come across. Morris's heart and soul was in the book. It was like a love affair,\" he said.\n\n\"Her book started my own love affair with the city, which has lasted all my life. And as a writer she taught me the importance of curiosity and observation.\"\n\nThe author also wrote fiction, however, and her book Last Letters from Hav made the Booker Prize shortlist in 1985. It was a novel written in the form of travel literature.\n\nMorris was particularly renowned as a journalist for announcing the ascent of Everest, in an exclusive scoop for The Times in 1953.\n\nShe accompanied Edmund Hillary as far as the base camp on the mountain, to witness the historic attempt on the summit.\n\nThe news was announced on the same day as the Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Later, in 1999, she accepted a CBE from the Queen, but said it was out of politeness.\n\nMorris wrote about her transition in her 1974 book Conundrum, which was hugely successful.\n\nShe wrote in the book about having surgery in a clinic in Casablanca. The Guardian described it as a \"powerful and beautifully written document\".\n\nThe writer told the Financial Times in 2018 she did not think her gender reassignment had changed her her writing, saying: \"Not in the slightest. It changed me far less than I thought it had.\"\n\nShe added that she did not think she would have achieved more as a man.\n\nWhen not abroad, her home was in Gwynedd in Wales, where she held staunchly nationalist views and was honoured by the Eisteddfod for her contribution to Welsh life.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Obituary: Jan Morris, a poet of time, place and self", "As a rule of thumb, the bigger the star the more outlandish the dressing room request.\n\nIt has been reported that Kanye West stipulates Versace towels being on hand at all times, and his missus insists the carpet is ironed. Apparently, Madonna wants a brand new loo seat wherever and whenever she goes, and Van Halen's 53-page \"rider\" is said to list pickled herring, KY Jelly and M&Ms with all the brown ones removed (to check the venue is paying attention to the tiny details). Other alleged diva-ish demands that have found their way into the press are Mariah Carey's desire for an ever-present attendant to whom she can pass her used chewing gum, and Marilyn Manson asking for a bald-headed, toothless hooker.\n\nGiven all that, you'd think a modest requirement of one measly bottle of Coca-Cola wouldn't be too much to ask: a cheap, cold drink to whet the whistle in a sweltering recording studio. Surely that's a basic fridge-filler made available to any rookie performer starting out, let alone one of the biggest singing stars in America.\n\nNot back in the 1920s it wasn't. At least, not if you were black.\n\nThat's how the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) tells it in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, one of his celebrated \"Pittsburgh Cycle\" of plays, which chronicle the 20th-Century African American experience.\n\nWritten in 1982 and first performed two years later to glowing reviews, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom explores talent, ambition, religion, family, race and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.\n\nMa Rainey's Black Bottom had its first onstage reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in 1982, with (from l-r) Leonard Jackson (Slow Drag) Charles S Dutton (Levee) and Joe Seneca (Cutler)\n\nAugust Wilson said in an interview \"I think my plays offer [white Americans] a different way to look at black Americans\"\n\nIt is a black producer, Denzel Washington, who is behind its highly anticipated screen adaptation, soon to be released on Netflix.\n\nThe venerated actor has been entrusted by August Wilson's estate to make films of all 10 plays in the cycle, a long-term project that got off to a very good start with Fences in 2016, in which Viola Davis co-starred and deservedly won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as an undermined matriarch.\n\nDenzel Washington took on the role of Troy Maxson and Viola Davis acted as his wife, Rose in the adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences, about the struggles of a working class African American family in the 1950s\n\nShe could well get the twin-set with a leading actress Oscar for her portrayal of the imperious, glorious Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, known to all as Ma Rainey, the \"Mother of the Blues\".\n\nDavis brings a swaggering, menacing belligerence to a regal character with the soul of an artist, the heart of a lover, and the emotional armour of a tank.\n\nMa Rainey is not standing for any nonsense from either the cantankerous studio owner Mel Sturdyvant (Jonny Coyne), or her weaselly manger, Irvin (Jeremy Ramos), who has booked the legendary singer to record an album of her songs.\n\nMa Rainey was one of the first African American professional Blues singers and famous for her flamboyant style\n\nOscar-winning Viola Davis as Ma Rainey with her band (l-r: Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Michael Potts as Slow Drag and Glynn Turman as Toledo)\n\nShe is not just the smartest person in the room, she is also the most precious commodity, bestowing upon her a status not accorded to most black men and women in 1927 Chicago. Hers is a position of power where she gets to call the shots, but only for as long as she holds all the cards:\n\n\"They don't care nothing about me. All they want is my voice. Well, I done learned that, and they gonna treat me like I want to be treated no matter how much it hurt them…. As soon as they get my voice down on them recording machines, then it's just like if I'd be some whore and they roll all over and put their pants on.\"\n\nThe stifling heat in the studio is getting to everybody.\n\nMa can't sing until she's got her Coca-Cola, her stammering young nephew Sylvester (Dusan Brown) can't get his words out when asked to perform, and her band can't get along with its ebullient trumpeter, Levee (Chadwick Boseman).\n\nThis was Chadwick Boseman's last movie before his death in August, a desperately sad fact made even more poignant by the sheer effervescence of his performance as the ambitious, mouthy, naïve, and gifted horn player, who prefers easy ladies to hard work.\n\nChadwick Boseman is tipped for a posthumous Oscar for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom\n\nThe rest of the band are old-timers who know the score.\n\nThey turn up on time, play what they are asked to play, and happily shoot the breeze in between. Their professional expectations don't go beyond being paid to play.\n\nLevee was not cut from the same cloth.\n\nHe considers himself an artist, a musician from a younger, hipper generation, who knows what the future looks like, and it ain't Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. He wants it all: the flashy shoes, the beautiful women, his own band, and the glare of the spotlight. The problem is he lacks discipline and has a temper as hot as the weather outside.\n\nAs tensions rise along with the room temperature, director George C. Wolfe manages the building atmospheric pressure with a controlled assurance, creating a tinderbox of explosive egos and fracturing relationships.\n\nViola Davis with director George C. Wolfe and Chadwick Boseman enjoying a moment during filming\n\nDavis and Boseman are the stars of the show - their characters wouldn't have it any other way - but the overall feel of the movie is of an ensemble piece, with band members Cutler (Colman Domingo), Toledo (Glynn Turman), and bassist Slow Drag (Michael Potts) adding texture and nuance as the ominous cracks widen.\n\nThe film is largely faithful to the play, with Wilson's words and extraordinary ear for dialogue treated with the respect it deserves. There are moments downstairs in the band-room (Levee trying to open a locked door) and upstairs in the studio (Ma cosying up to her girlfriend), when it feels like you're watching a filmed play rather than a film of a play. But those occasions are few and far between, and the sense of detachment they provoke is swiftly overcome with a knowing look from Ma or a flash of Levee's smile.\n\nMa Rainey with her girlfriend Dussie Mae (Taylour Paige) and nephew Sylvester (Dusan Brown) in the car\n\nIt was a powerful work in 1984 when performed on stage and it remains a powerful work in 2020 on film.\n\nIt stays with you. Or, put another way: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, once seen, never forgotten.", "UK households may have to pay more for gas and electricity bills from April, energy regulator Ofgem says.\n\nIt is considering raising the price cap on household bills by £21 per year to help energy companies which have been hit by a rise in unpaid bills.\n\nThe news was met with dismay from campaigners, who questioned the logic of raising prices when many householders were struggling to pay.\n\nThe current price cap is set at £1,042 per household for gas and electricity.\n\nIt runs to the end of March and consumers will learn in February what it plans to do.\n\nOctopus Energy boss Greg Jackson said the plans let dominant suppliers off the hook.\n\n\"Legacy suppliers charge long-standing customers hundreds of pounds more than new customers,\" said Mr Jackson, whose firm is now the UK's sixth biggest supplier.\n\n\"If they cared about customers, they could handle Covid debt by reducing this disparity, rather than exacerbating it by lobbying for a hike in the price cap.\"\n\n\"Ofgem's single biggest success of the last decade has been the price cap - saving billions for customers and finally forcing dinosaur companies to become more efficient. They should resist all attempts to undermine it.\"\n\nThe price cap was introduced in January 2019 and limits energy unit prices for about 11 million customers on more expensive variable tariffs.\n\nThese are often default tariffs that customers are moved to after a period on a lower fixed rate.\n\n\"Just like every other business, there have been challenges from the pandemic,\" Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of trade body Energy UK, said.\n\n\"It is the independent regulator's job to hear views, look at the evidence, and weigh up how to support energy retailers through their own commercial difficulties in the pandemic, so that they can continue to supply and support all customers.\"\n\nThe £21 rise to £1,063 is based on a household with typical usage and which pays for both electricity and gas by direct debit.\n\nPrice comparison website Uswitch says 12-month deals can be had for as little as £821.40 by comparison.\n\nCat Hobbs, the director of We Own It, which campaigns to nationalise energy supply, said: \"These proposals from Ofgem are absolutely shocking. The idea that at a time when millions of people are struggling to pay their bills, the solution would be to charge people even more is farcical.\"", "Five died and one was injured in the crash\n\nFive prisoners have died when their getaway car hit a tree after a mass jail-break in Lebanon.\n\nA total of 69 prisoners managed to break down their cell doors at the jail near Beirut in the early hours.\n\nFifteen prisoners were caught, state news agency NNA said. One was returned by his mother.\n\nThe security forces have been conducting a search of the area, and local people have been warned to be on the alert.\n\nThe deadly accident happened when six prisoners seized a vehicle upon fleeing the facility in Baabda district.\n\n\"A white Dacia car collided with a tree, and it was found that a number of escaped prisoners were on board after they took it from its driver,\" the news agency reported.\n\nFive died and another was injured in the crash, it said.\n\nLocal residents have been warned to be on alert after the prison break\n\nAuthorities have launched an investigation into the jail-break.\n\nA prosecutor has said she would not rule out some sort of collusion between the prisoners and their guards.", "Former prime ministers David Cameron and Tony Blair have warned Boris Johnson that cutting the UK's overseas aid budget would undermine the UK's G7 presidency next year and cost lives.\n\nThe UK is committed to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid - a global benchmark.\n\nBut the government is considering reducing the target to 0.5%, which would have saved around £4bn this year.\n\nSuch a decision would be a \"moral, strategic and political mistake\", Mr Cameron has warned.\n\nSpending on foreign aid is linked to the UK's national income - its GDP - which has been badly impacted by the pandemic.\n\nThe government has already announced a £2.9bn cut from the budget for the rest of 2020 so as to avoid over-shooting the 0.7% target.\n\nThe 0.7% target, initially proposed by the United Nations in the 1970s, was first adopted in the UK by Mr Blair's Labour government in 2005.\n\nHowever, it was not actually reached until 2013 - under the coalition government, led by Mr Cameron.\n\nThe proportion of GDP spent on aid was 0.24% in 1999, but steadily increased from there.\n\nSpeaking to the Daily Telegraph, Mr Blair said Britain's 0.7% commitment had saved millions of lives in the past 20 years by helping to reduce deaths from deadly diseases such as malaria and HIV in Africa.\n\nMillions have also been educated, living standards raised, and life expectancy \"dramatically\" increased, he added.\n\nThe former Labour leader said: \"This has been a great British soft power achievement. It isn't about charity. It's enlightened self-interest.\n\n\"Neither the challenge of climate or Covid can be met without Africa. Nor can those of extremism and uncontrolled immigration.\"\n\nOverseas aid budgets were protected from cuts under Mr Cameron and Theresa May, but some Conservatives have argued money should be re-directed to domestic priorities.\n\nThe UK's national debt is over £2trillion, and on Friday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said borrowing hit £22.3bn last month, the highest October figure since monthly records began in 1993.\n\nThe overall debt has now reached 100.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) - a level not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nThe UK assumes the presidency of the G7, taking over from the US, on 1 January.\n\nReducing the UK's contributions to foreign aid could also risk alienating President-elect Joe Biden when he enters the White House in January, Mr Cameron and Mr Blair added.\n\nThe G7 (or Group of Seven) is made up of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US.\n\nGeneral Lord David Richards, former head of the British Army, backed the former prime ministers, saying it was in the UK's interests to be \"as generous as possible\", adding: \"It's much cheaper than fighting wars.\"", "The Met said a man was arrested following a call from a member of the public\n\nA 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a teenage girl was attacked in south-west London.\n\nPolice received a report of an allegation of rape after 07:00 GMT near North Place, Colliers Wood.\n\nKadian Nelson, 26, had been urged to hand himself in to police \"for his own safety\" amid reports he was being hunted by groups of people.\n\nThe Met said a man was arrested following a call from a member of the public. He is in police custody.\n\nThe victim and her family have been informed of the arrest, which took place in Robinson Road, Tooting, at about 20:00.\n\nA Section 60 order that was authorised for the entirety of the boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth, granting police additional stop and search powers as a result of fears of serious violence, remains in place.\n\nThe Met reminded people to be \"mindful of sharing information via social media that could identify the alleged victim, or affect any potential future proceedings\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool has one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in England\n\nPeople in Liverpool will be offered regular Covid-19 tests under the first trial of whole city testing in England.\n\nEveryone living or working in the city will be offered tests, whether or not they have symptoms, with follow-up tests every two weeks or so.\n\nSome will get new tests giving results within an hour which, if successful, could be rolled out to \"millions\" by Christmas, the government says.\n\nLiverpool has one of the highest rates of coronavirus deaths in England.\n\nThe latest figures show the city recorded 352 cases per 100,000 in the week up to 30 October. The average area in England had 153.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded 18,950 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 136 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe Liverpool pilot aims to limit the spread of the virus by identifying as many infected people as possible, and taking action to break chains of transmission.\n\nA significant number of people who are infected with coronavirus show no symptoms, but the exact proportion has yet to be determined. One paper has put the figure at 28%.\n\nThe pilot will start this week and will include a mix of existing swab tests and new lateral flow tests, which can provide a result within an hour without the need to use a lab.\n\nNew test sites will be set up across the city, including in care homes, schools, universities and workplaces. People will be able to book online, turn up in person, or wait for an invitation from the local authority.\n\nAround 2,000 military personnel will help plan the logistics and deliver tests.\n\n\"I hesitate to use the word game-changer because it gets overused, but it is a significant step forward in the testing arena,\" said Sir John Bell, of Oxford University, who has been advising the government on tests.\n\nHe said the rapid tests \"genuinely have a turnaround time of about 15 to 20 minutes\".\n\nThe quick tests give about one in 1,000 false positives - meaning someone is told they have got the virus when they do not - but they give \"quite a good indication of people who are infectious\", he said.\n\nSir John told BBC Radio 4's Today that \"there are risks\" that people who get a negative result from the rapid tests will think they are in the clear - and that is an \"inappropriate conclusion\".\n\n\"We believe that we can identify the majority of people who are likely to spread the virus and all the people who are likely to be super-spreaders or substantial spreaders - but we will not be able to identify everybody with the virus.\"\n\nYou can spread coronavirus before you even feel sick. That's why testing everyone - symptoms or not - can be such a powerful tool for getting on top of the virus.\n\nChina has shown it is possible to test entire cities of millions of people. However, there are questions with both the tests used and the strategy as a whole.\n\nRapid or \"lateral flow\" tests need high levels of the virus in the body in order to work. It is not yet clear how good they are at catching people in the early stages of the infection when the virus is still taking hold.\n\nFalse positives - when you don't have the virus, but the test says you do - are also a bigger problem when you test large numbers of people. One analysis suggested a twice-a-week test for six months using a test with a 1% false positive rate would lead to more than 40% of people being wrongly told they had the virus, although it is expected that the rate will be much lower with the tests used in Liverpool.\n\nBut even a perfect test cannot change the course of Covid on its own. There is already an issue with too few people fully isolating even when they have Covid symptoms and have tested positive.\n\nWill people isolate when they have no symptoms at all or will they even come forward for testing if it might mean missing work and pay? The UK's first attempt at city-wide testing will help find the answers.\n\nAnnouncing the pilot, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"These tests will help identify the many thousands of people in the city who don't have symptoms but can still infect others without knowing.\n\n\"Dependent on their success in Liverpool, we will aim to distribute millions of these new rapid tests between now and Christmas and empower local communities to use them to drive down transmission in their areas.\n\n\"It is early days, but this kind of mass testing has the potential to be a powerful new weapon in our fight against Covid-19.\"\n\nThe new rapid tests still involve a swab in the back of the throat and up the nose, but is analysed there and then, \"using an approach similar to a pregnancy kit,\" said Liverpool's director of public health, Matt Ashton.\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was \"really positive for the city\".\n\n\"It hopefully means that when we come out of national lockdown on the 2nd December that Liverpool will be able to come out of tier three [the strictest restrictions] and go into a lower tier, enabling us to have eased measures heading towards Christmas,\" he said.\n\nA rising number of cases in recent weeks across the country prompted the prime minister to announce a national lockdown in England. MPs are set to vote on the plan on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons on Monday there was \"no alternative\" but to introduce the lockdown - which is due to last from Thursday until 2 December - if the government was to stop the NHS from being overwhelmed.\n\nHe also said ministers were planning a \"steady but massive expansion in the deployment of quick, turnaround tests\".\n\nIt comes as figures on Tuesday showed the number of deaths registered in the week of 23 October was 11% higher than the level expected for this time of year.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics data showed 1,126 of the deaths registered in the UK in that week involved Covid-19, up by 48% on the previous week's figures.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, a new five-level system of coronavirus restrictions came into force in Scotland on Monday.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said two households in Wales will be able to form a bubble and meet at home after the 17-day firebreak ends on 9 November.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland have reopened after an extended half-term break, while other restrictions including the closure of pubs, bars and restaurants continue until 13 November.", "The IFS says student numbers have held up better than expected\n\nUniversities and colleges in England face \"significant funding shortfalls and heightened uncertainty\" due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report warns.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says fewer overseas students, potentially higher dropouts and high pension costs are a financial risk for universities.\n\nFurther education colleges still face budget pressures, despite a £400m cash boost, says the report.\n\nThe government says it understands this is a \"challenging time\" for the sector.\n\nThe IFS report on education spending in England, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, warns that universities could be exposed to a range of financial losses, such as falling international student numbers and more students failing to complete their degrees.\n\n\"By far the largest source of financial risk for universities is pension costs,\" it says.\n\n\"New figures suggest the additional cost to universities of meeting existing pension promises may well be as high as £8bn, or double our previous estimate of around £4bn.\"\n\nUniversities could only reduce this by \"taking on more risk, making further reductions in the pensions provided by the scheme, big rises in employees' contributions\" or a combination of these.\n\nBut such measures are likely to be controversial - last academic year, lecturers went on strike over pensions, as well as pay and conditions.\n\nThe IFS also says student numbers in further education colleges and sixth forms are likely to increase this year, partly due to rising numbers of young people and partly due to \"unusually high GCSE results\" and significant reductions in training and employment opportunities.\n\nWhile England's colleges and sixth forms will receive an extra £400m this year, \"exceptional rises in student numbers could still generate a real-terms fall in funding per student\".\n\nThe early years sector could face further financial pressure from Covid lockdowns, says the IFS study\n\nThey will also face challenges around educational catch-up, but may also \"need to expand to accommodate extra students as apprenticeship and employment opportunities dry up\", the IFS says.\n\nThe report also raises concerns about early years provision, saying settings are likely to be \"much more financially exposed, both to the second lockdown and more broadly to a rather slow and incomplete return of demand for childcare\".\n\nWhile early years providers \"were financially well protected\" during the first lockdown by the government's commitment to continue to fund the free entitlement hours, a reassessment of this funding in January 2021 could prove problematic for providers.\n\nReport co-author Ben Waltmann said there had been speculation in the summer that universities would need a financial bailout.\n\n\"In the end, student numbers have held up better than expected, but universities still face financial risks from no-shows or higher-than-usual dropout, as well as reductions in other income streams,\" he said.\n\n\"By far the biggest source of risk now appears to be the large deficit on the main university pension scheme, which has increased from £3.6bn in March 2018 to a monumental £21.5bn in August 2020, according to the latest preliminary estimate.\n\nLecturers went on strike over pensions last academic year\n\n\"With contributions already at more than 30% of earnings, it is hard to see how a deficit on this scale, if confirmed, could be evened out without further cuts in the generosity of the scheme.\"\n\nCo-author Imran Tahir said the government had made transforming further education colleges a big priority, pledging £400m in extra funding at the 2019 Spending Review.\n\nHe said this could be \"the first real-terms increase in spending per student for about a decade\".\n\n\"However, student numbers could have risen dramatically more than expected due to a reduction in training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, on top of population growth.\n\n\"If there is no additional funding forthcoming, planned real-terms increases in spending per student could be mostly - if not entirely - eroded.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said the government had introduced a range of support.\n\n\"We have protected grant funding for further education, worth over £3bn for a full year and increased education and training investment this year for 16-19 year olds by an additional £400m.\n\n\"We also brought forward over £2bn worth of tuition fee payments for universities and announced a major package of £280m to stabilise research funding.\"\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the head teachers' union ASCL, said colleges were often \"treated by the government in terms of funding as a Cinderella service\".\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said the reduction in funding had led to \"courses being cut, support services reduced and extra-curricular activities removed for 16 to 18 year olds across the country\".\n\nThe £400m investment \"was a welcome step\", he said, \"but was only a one year deal following a decade of neglect.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: First minister faces 'dilemma' over lockdown decision\n\nThe furlough scheme will be available if there is a Covid-19 lockdown in Scotland in the future, the prime minister has suggested.\n\nBoris Johnson announced an extension of the job support scheme to 2 December as tough measures were imposed in England.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said decisions on any Scottish lockdown may depend on when this funding would be available.\n\nMr Johnson has now told MPs that the furlough scheme would \"continue to be available wherever it is needed\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be \"very welcome\" - but added she was \"seeking urgent confirmation from the Treasury that it will be exactly as we asked for\".\n\nA new five-level system of coronavirus restrictions came into force in Scotland on Monday.\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"ideally\" want to assess the impact of the latest measures before deciding whether it would be necessary to impose harsher measures.\n\nShe said there were \"some encouraging signs\" that restrictions were having an impact in Scotland, with the rate of increase in cases \"slowing down\".\n\nBoris Johnson was questioned on the issue in the Commons\n\nHowever, she said the position remained \"very fragile\" - and that she faced a \"dilemma\" about imposing stricter measures in the short-term if there was a time limit on the furlough scheme.\n\nShe said: \"I made clear last week that we might yet have to go further and we can't rule out a move to level four for all parts of the country.\n\n\"While that decision would never be easy, there is no doubt that the availability of a more extensive furlough scheme would make it slightly less difficult, because workers would have more of their wages paid.\n\n\"The decision we have to weigh up is should we take the opportunity of more generous financial support to step harder on the brakes now, to drive down infections.\"\n\nShe added: \"It cannot be right that the only time that additional financial support is made available is when the south of England needs to go into a lockdown. That just isn't fair given the situation we are dealing with.\"\n\nThe UK-wide job support scheme - which covers up to 80% of workers wages' and has supported hundreds of thousands of jobs north of the border - was extended to 2 December when Mr Johnson announced the four-week lockdown in England.\n\nHowever, the UK's devolved administrations complained that this \"time limited\" extension only covered the period when England is under enhanced restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a \"firebreak\" lockdown since 23 October, and First Minister Mark Drakeford said requests to boost wage subsidies there had been repeatedly turned down.\n\nCalls for more flexibility over furlough were backed by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said in a speech on Monday morning that \"this has to be cleared up, now\".\n\nHe said: \"It cannot be that furlough is not affordable when Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or parts of Northern England need to go into lockdown - but when all of England goes into lockdown, the taps are turned on.\n\n\"We all hope that by following the guidance and doing the right thing, a second Scottish lockdown will not be necessary.\n\n\"But if it is, the UK government must treat Scotland the same way as England.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRepeatedly questioned about the matter in the Commons, Mr Johnson said that the job support scheme applied across the UK.\n\nHe initially refused to be drawn about whether this could continue to be the case beyond December, should local lockdowns be needed in other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever, he then appeared to confirm that this would be the case when asked by Mr Ross to \"explain why it seems an English job is more important than a Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish one\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"If other parts of the UK decide to go into measures which require the furlough scheme then of course that is available to them - that applies not just now but in the future.\"\n\nPressed on the question by SNP MP Pete Wishart, he added: \"The furlough scheme will continue to be available wherever it is needed.\"", "Police released an image of a man wanted in connection with the attack in south-west London\n\nPolice have urged a rape suspect to hand himself in \"for his own safety\" amid reports he is being hunted by groups of people.\n\nKadian Nelson, 26, is wanted in connection with an attack on a teenage girl in south-west London.\n\nThe Met Police, which earlier released an image of Mr Nelson, appealed for him to come forward.\n\nDet Supt Owain Richards also urged those \"attending various addresses\" in a bid to find him to \"go home\".\n\n\"Do not try to take the law into your own hands or you may end up doing something you regret and potentially face police action yourself,\" he said.\n\nOfficers said the victim was reportedly assaulted shortly after 07:00 GMT near North Place, Colliers Wood.\n\nVideo shared on social media appears to show a girl being approached from behind before being forced into a side street by a man.\n\nIn the clip, a woman can be heard asking the man whether he knows the girl.\n\nHe then walks away, and the girl is heard to cry: \"Thank you, thank you\".\n\nReferring to the footage in a tweet, Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh said the girl had been on her way to school when she was attacked.\n\n\"The extraordinary bravery of a lady who followed and filmed them has almost certainly saved the victim from even further distress,\" she said.\n\nThe video \"has provided the police extremely important evidence for what I sincerely hope will be the swift apprehension and the early arrest of the attacker,\" Ms McDonagh added.\n\nKadian Nelson is believed to be from the Mitcham area\n\nDet Supt Richards said he recognised the attack was \"shocking and distressing and emotions locally are running very high\".\n\nBut he urged the public to \"allow us to do our jobs\".\n\n\"It is imperative that we follow the right processes as we investigate this incident as any interference could potentially affect proceedings further down the line.\" he said.\n\nA Section 60 stop and search order has been authorised for Merton and Wandsworth areas.\n\nPeople have been warned to not share information via social media which could identify the girl or affect any future proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All adult and children's grassroots football is to be suspended in England during the national Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nRestrictions will run from Thursday, 5 November until Wednesday, 2 December.\n\nNo men's teams in leagues below National Leagues North or South will be able to train or play and women's competitions below the second-tier Championship are also suspended.\n\nThe restrictions also apply to all youth and indoor teams, but lower-league sides can play in the FA Cup.\n\n'Non-elite' teams in this weekend's FA Cup first round will play and train under 'elite' conditions for as long as they remain in the competition.\n\nHowever, BBC Sport understands the Women's FA Cup will be paused during lockdown, while the Football Association has yet to make an announcement on their plans for the FA Trophy, FA Vase and FA Youth Cup.\n\n\"Our aim is to ensure that the 2020-21 season is completed at these levels and will liaise with the relevant leagues in the NLS [National League System] and WFP [Women's Football Pyramid] and the County Football Associations to provide support and establish appropriate options to do so if required,\" an FA statement read.\n• None FA Cup ties to go ahead, amateur golf and tennis halted\n\n\"Re-starting football at these levels has taken substantial determination and commitment from stakeholders across the game and we would like to thank everyone for their vital contributions.\n\n\"However, health and wellbeing remain the priority, so it is extremely important that clubs, players, coaches, match officials, league officials, volunteers, parents, carers and facility providers adhere to the UK Government's new national Covid-19 restrictions during this period.\"\n\nThere were calls for youth sport to be exempt when the new restrictions come into effect on Thursday.\n\nBut Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden confirmed it would only be permitted in school.\n\n\"Unfortunately we need to pause grassroots sport outside school to reduce the transmission risk from households mixing,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As soon as we can resume this, we will.\"\n\nElite sport can continue behind closed doors during the lockdown.\n\nFormer Wales midfielder Robbie Savage, who coaches a junior team, criticised the decision to suspend children's sport in a series of tweets.\n\nQuoting Dowden's tweet, he said: \"Have you or any of your senior government officials been to a grassroots game since lockdown? Do you have any idea what it's like for thousands of grassroots volunteers? Do you know the impact of this decision on youngsters' mental and physical wellbeing?\"\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard added: \"I'm a massive advocate for children to play all sorts of sports, but at unprecedented times, we are reliant on the government and scientists. If it can be done if a safe way, I think for physical and mental health, we must strive to do it as much as we can.\n\n\"It's a tough time and I'm a father, so I do worry. I don't know all the data, but as a parent, if you can remain active and encourage your children to be active in this tough time, it's a great thing to do.\n\n\"I would really encourage us to find a way to keep children active, but it has to be in a safe way so we don't see long term issues coming back from it later in these youngsters' lives.\"\n\nYouth Sports Trust chief executive Ali Oliver earlier told BBC Sport that under a quarter of secondary schools do not offer physical education.\n\n\"To lose some grassroots clubs will leave us with a legacy of a generation who are inactive and unable to find a way into sport,\" she said.\n\nFormer Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee chair Damian Collins had written to Dowden asking the government to allow youth sport to continue in England after 5 November.\n\nHe called on the government to extend the definition of elite sport to include academy players at Premier League clubs and those in development centres such as the England Rugby developing player programme and Sport England's talented athlete scholarship scheme.\n\n\"Young people will currently be allowed to continue with sport at school, and we believe that the risks to the spread of the coronavirus from outdoor grassroots youth sport would be minimal,\" he said, in a letter also signed by former sports ministers Tracey Crouch and Helen Grant.\n\n\"There would, however, be clear and lasting benefits for these young people if the government could support this.\"\n\nLeisure centres and gyms will close, as will other indoor and outdoor leisure facilities.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that there would be no exemptions.\n\nBritish Cycling, England Athletics and British Triathlon have joined together to write to Dowden to ask that small group rides and runs, and coaching sessions for young people and those with disabilities, are allowed to continue.\n\nThe three said that while they understood the government's challenges, the new rules would have the worst impact on those who need additional support to enable them to be active.\n\n\"We know that sport must play its part in this national effort, and we fully accept that as governing bodies we must play our part while the rest of the country is being asked to make such enormous sacrifices in their own lives,\" said a statement.\n\n\"However, we also believe that we have a duty to enable people to lead healthy, active lives during this period of extreme mental toil - particularly when, as we have demonstrated over the course of this year, it can be done safely.\"\n\nThe government's refusal to grant exemptions to tennis, golf, gyms and swimming pools is proving among the most contentious elements of the second national lockdown.\n\nBut the decision to suspend youth sport is especially controversial.\n\nThe government insists it is necessary to reduce the risk of transmission through the mixing of households. But for many involved in junior grassroots teams, it is a disproportionate and unnecessary measure that risks doing more harm than good, damaging youngsters' physical and mental health at a time when the amount of PE and organised sport provided in many schools has already decreased as a result of the pandemic.\n\nLast month the Youth Sport Trust found that a fifth of secondary schools and a sixth of primary schools had cut PE since the first lockdown, and half would be delivering less extracurricular sport in the autumn term.\n\nGiven this trend - and the fact it is harder for young people to exercise outside school hours in the winter months - there will be mounting pressure on ministers to reconsider - and if not, to make the return of youth sport next month a priority, even if the lockdown extends beyond that.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "A seven-bedroom house in the terrace sold for £16m last year\n\nTwo four-storey town houses worth millions of pounds have collapsed in west London.\n\nA 25m (82ft) cordon was put in place and about 40 people had to leave nearby properties in Durham Place, Chelsea, while drone teams and police dogs searched the rubble.\n\nEmergency crews were called at 23:35 GMT on Monday after the buildings, which were being redeveloped, fell in.\n\nNo injuries have been reported, London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThe collapsed buildings form part of a terrace that was built in the late 1700s, opposite land owned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea - the home of the Chelsea Pensioners.\n\nA seven-bedroom house in the block sold for £16m last year, according to property website Rightmove.\n\nThe block of seven town houses was originally built in 1790\n\nA man, aged in his 30s, who lives in the area and asked to remain anonymous, witnessed the collapse.\n\nHe said it had been \"extremely loud\" with dust being kicked up \"everywhere\".\n\n\"There were a lot of people coming out of their homes in the surrounding area to see what was going on... It was quite bad, really surreal,\" he said.\n\nAccording to neighbours, renovations were being carried out at the block, including in the basements.\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council had approved an extension to be built on the lower ground floor of the buildings in 2018.\n\nLFB Station Commander Jason Jones said there had been \"a total collapse of the buildings from the roof to ground level\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody is thought to have been inside the building at the time of the collapse.\"\n\nIt is thought no-one was in the buildings when they collapsed\n\nThe Met Police said those living in nearby houses had been evacuated \"as a precaution\".\n\nAmong the people asked to leave was a caretaker, who lives at the end of the road.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, said she \"jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs\" after she heard police saying \"come on, you've got to get out\".\n\n\"We stayed at a family friend's,\" she added.\n\nKapital Basements Ltd, which is carrying out works on a neighbouring property, has confirmed it has never worked or had any interest in the collapsed building.\n\nAn emergency road closure remains in place on Ormonde Gate.\n\nA council spokesperson said neighbouring residents had been allowed back in their homes at 03:00 after safety checks had been carried out.\n\n\"The reason for the collapse is being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nA cordon was set up around the buildings and nearby properties were evacuated\n\nThe buildings, pictured before the collapse, were in the process of being developed\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Voters received automated calls telling them to \"stay safe and stay home\"\n\nThe FBI is investigating mysterious robocalls urging people across the US to stay home on election day.\n\nMillions of voters have reportedly received automated calls telling them to \"stay safe and stay home\".\n\nAmericans are voting in one of the most divisive presidential polls in decades, pitting incumbent Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nThe origins of the calls remain unclear, and some have not specifically mentioned voting.\n\n\"There's a little bit of confusion about this one across the industry,\" Giulia Porter, vice president at RoboKiller, a company that fights robocalls, told the Reuters news agency.\n\nOne of the calls reportedly says: \"Hello. This is just a test call. Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home.\"\n\nThis call that been doing the rounds for almost a year, but became one of the biggest spam calls in the country on Tuesday, Ms Porter said.\n\nOfficials have raised concerns over robocalls in the key battleground state Michigan, including one urging residents in the city of Flint to \"vote tomorrow\" because of long queues.\n\n\"Obviously this is FALSE and an effort to suppress the vote,\" Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel tweeted. \"Don't fall for it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. That was wild - a three-year campaign in three minutes\n\nJanaka Stucky, a Democratic voter in Massachusetts, said he had received a robocall early on election day.\n\n\"My first thought was that actually it was a municipal test call for a Covid lockdown thing,\" he told Reuters.\n\n\"The more I thought about it I was like, oh this actually feels really off and weird and then started to feel like it was some sort of, maybe, voter suppression effort,\" he added.\n\nNew York State officials are also investigating allegations of robocalls spreading disinformation and encouraging people to stay home.\n\n\"Attempts to hinder voters from exercising their right to cast their ballots are disheartening, disturbing, and wrong,\" New York Attorney General Letitia James said.\n\nThe FBI has said it is aware of reports of robocalls but has not commented further.\n\nYour Questions Answered: What questions do you have about the US election?\n\nHow does vote counting work? When will we get the final results? The US election can be confusing, especially this year. The BBC is here to help make sense of it. Please send us your questions about election day and beyond.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "Tim Place is one of the few Joe Biden voters in his Wisconsin neighbourhood. When his Biden-Harris sign was stolen, he got some unexpected help - from a Trump-supporting neighbour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Hynes, managing director of Scotland's Railway, says engineers have worked round the clock in a complex operation.\n\nThe rail line between Aberdeen and Dundee has reopened nearly three months after a train crash which left three people dead.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nNetwork Rail has been laying hundreds of metres of replacement track as part of a \"complex\" repair operation.\n\nThe derailment took place when the 06:38 service struck a landslip 1.4 miles north east of Carmont.\n\nBrett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died, and six other people were injured.\n\nBrett McCullough, Donald Dinnie and Chris Stuchbury died after the train left the tracks\n\nAlex Hynes, managing director of Scotland's Railway, said engineers had worked \"around the clock\" to reopen the line.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has thanked all those involved in the recovery and repair operations.\n\nNetwork Rail admitted in an interim report in September that the impact of climate change on its network \"is an area that is accelerating faster than our assumptions\".\n\nIt said the fatal derailment showed that the industry must improve its response to extreme weather.", "Around 100 pilot whales have beached themselves near the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.\n\nNavy personnel and local volunteers have rushed to rescue them, but pushing the animals back into the ocean has been difficult as many get washed up again.\n\nIt's not clear why whales get stranded but it's not uncommon.\n\nIn September, hundreds of whales died on an Australian beach, in one of the largest strandings on record.", "Will Watts runs the Fossil Shop in Scarborough\n\nThe new lockdown in England means all \"non-essential\" retailers, such as clothing and electronics stores and tourist shops, will have to shut from Thursday.\n\nIt has left many thousands of shops scrambling to adapt. We spoke to some of them about how they're trying to prepare for the disruption.\n\nWhen Will Watts had to mothball his coastal tour business during the first lockdown, he decided to fulfil a long-held dream - opening his own fossil shop in Scarborough in Yorkshire.\n\nAfter nine weeks setting it up and much investment, he opened in late October and saw strong sales over the half-term break.\n\nBut cruelly, within a week the prime minister had called another national lockdown, meaning that from this Thursday Will must shut his new store to the public.\n\n\"It has been the toughest year I've ever had,\" he tells the BBC. \"It does make you question why you do what you do.\"\n\nSome things will be easier than in the first shutdown in March - for example, all non-essential shops can offer deliveries and click-and-collect, while the newly extended furlough scheme will be up and running from day one.\n\nAnd while a full list is yet to be published, it seems a slightly wider range of retailers will be allowed to stay open, with garden centres joining the usual suspects like supermarkets and food shops.\n\nThe government will publish a more detailed list in due course\n\nBut, as Will points out, lockdown two falls in the vital period running up to Christmas and \"gift stuff is a big part of what we do\".\n\n\"We can do deliveries and click-and-collect but we are selling unique things that people want to see and feel before they buy,\" he says.\n\n\"When you go online you are in direct competition with Ebay and Amazon,\" he adds.\n\nNaturally he's worried about the future, as he has just moved into a new building and has his staff to think about. \"I think we can make it but there is a slight nagging doubt that we won't.\"\n\nAccording to the British Retail Consortium, the forced closure of shops in November will cost about £2bn per week in lost sales as we enter the \"all-important\" Christmas period.\n\nThat's at a time when shop sales are already well below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nHelen Sheward, who runs Gently, a chain of four gift and homeware shops in South East London, was hoping to make up some of her losses from the first lockdown this Christmas, but that won't happen now.\n\n\"People don't realise we've bought all of our stock for Christmas already,\" she says.\n\n\"I cried all weekend after I heard the prime minister's announcement.\"\n\nShe also thinks competing online won't be easy, but she plans to go to town on social media and use her shop windows as a marketing tool.\n\n\"In the last lockdown the shutters were down, but this time we are going to open them every morning so people can browse through the windows. We will keep refreshing the displays to showcase the products.\"\n\nHer six staff will go back on furlough, meaning she will be running the business single-handed in a lockdown she fears could last well into December.\n\n\"It's a big ask for me - we have two kids, my husband works. But you put it in perspective and you think, we will survive and there are far more people living with much greater problems than this.\"\n\nOn top of the furlough scheme, which covers 80% of employees' wages, the government is offering shops forced to close cash grants of up to £3,000.\n\nHowever, the Federation of Small Businesses says for many this is not even enough to cover rent, while small business owners as company directors get little by way of income support.\n\nWilliam Skinner, managing director of Savile Row tailor Dege & Skinner, thinks the government shouldn't be closing shops at all, arguing they aren't a major source of infection with proper social distancing in place.\n\nBut he is optimistic about his 155-year-old business's chances: \"We've survived two world wars and we can survive this.\"\n\nOn the downside, he says the business will lose what little passing trade it had left after the first lockdown. In addition, fewer business people will need bespoke suits for business trips due to the travel ban.\n\nBut he says the company learned valuable lessons in the first lockdown - for example, its tailors can now make suits and coats easily from home, although the cutting still takes place at the shop.\n\nThe firm has also moved to an appointments-based system for fittings which he hopes can continue with the right safety precautions in place.\n\nWilliam furloughed 17 of his 21 staff in the last lockdown but expects the figure will be closer to 10 or 11 this time.\n\n\"Now everyone is familiar and aware and going into it with more open eyes,\" he says of the second lockdown.\n\n\"But the question is how long will this last? Will we get a vaccine? Will the virus peter out? I am not sure.\"", "Former Great British Bake Off finalist Luis Troyano, who starred in series five of the show in 2014, has died from oesophageal cancer at the age of 48.\n\n\"Sadly, my lovely client lost his brave fight against oesophageal cancer last week,\" tweeted his agent Anne Kibel.\n\n\"A fantastic man with a love of baking that saw him get to the finals of GBBO, write a wonderful book, Bake It Great, and do so much more,\" she added.\n\nAfter the show, Troyano said Bake Off had \"totally changed my life\".\n\n\"As well as being given the opportunity to write a book, I now also bake for a living, which is simply amazing. As far as baking goes, I can certainly bake a lot faster now than before the GBBO,\" he told Food and Drinks Guide.\n\nFollowing his stint on Bake Off, Troyano made appearances on BBC Good Food and BBC Breakfast shows. He released a book called Bake it Great in 2015.\n\nLuis Troyano (R) and his fellow GBBO finalists Richard Burr and Nancy Birtwhistle, who won the competition\n\nWriting on a Just Giving page she set up to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, his wife Louise wrote: \"Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.\n\n\"This page has been set up for Macmillan Cancer Support but in truth, Luis gave a big thank you to everyone involved in his care.\"\n\nShe then posted Troyano's own words, in which he thanked Macmillan, the NHS and East Cheshire Hospice \"for trying to save my life and their tireless work to try and eliminate cancer. But more importantly a massive thank you to all the amazing professionals who really did try their absolute best for me, showed me absolute compassion and gave me more time than what was seemingly possible. I thank you sincerely.\"\n\nBefore competing on the show, Troyano was a marketing manager, hailing from Poynton, near Stockport. During the contest he memorably created a tribute to his hometown in one of his showstopper bakes.\n\nHe also made a caramel-gilded cake depicting The Cage, a tower in the National Trust's Lyme Park in Cheshire.\n\nIn an interview with Cheshire Life he said: \"I'm a proud Stockport guy. I have no shame in saying where I'm from.\n\n\"I did The Cage mainly because it's my wife's favourite place to visit. I never expected that cake to get the response it did. When it aired, it went crazy with people going, 'Where is this and what is it he's done?'\"\n\nNadiya Hussain, who won the baking contest in 2015, paid tribute, writing \"RIP\" 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTroyano's fellow 2014 contestants Chetna Makan and Martha Collison, also honoured the baker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Chetna Makan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 2014, Troyano opened his first bakery in his hometown, called The Hive Bakery and in 2015, he was announced as the patron of Beechwood Cancer Care Centre.\n\nHe told Manchester Evening News his father died of cancer when he was 16.\n\n\"I have lived in Stockport all my life and wanted to support a charity that was close to home,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels great to be a patron at Beechwood. There was nothing like Beechwood when I lost my dad and it was a tough time.\n\n\"My time on The Great British Bake Off has been life changing and I feel honoured to support Beechwood.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour has urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to come up with a six-month plan to get the country through the economic challenges of coronavirus.\n\nHe announced at the weekend that furlough would last until the English lockdown is due to end, on 2 December.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds called this \"last-minute\" and demanded less \"panicked\" decision-making.\n\nMr Sunak has said he will \"do whatever it takes\" to protect jobs and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nFurlough - a UK-wide scheme paying up to 80% of people's wages, to a maximum value of £2,500 a month - was due to conclude on 31 October.\n\nBut it was extended to coincide with the English lockdown announced at the weekend, which will see pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops close for four weeks from Thursday - if MPs back this in a vote on Wednesday.\n\nMs Dodds is asking an urgent question in the House of Commons later on what longer-term support the government is planning to offer businesses and individuals.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have had very panicked, last-minute decision-making.\"\n\nMs Dodds added that the change had happened \"just five hours before\" the previous furlough cut-off point, and that self-employed people \"apparently\" had been \"completely forgotten about\" until the government announced extra help for them on Monday.\n\nShe also said: \"The chancellor's stubborn refusal to address problems of his own making until the last possible minute is risking lives, costing jobs and causing chaos in the middle of a pandemic.\n\n\"Businesses need certainty if we're to avoid a 1980s-style jobs crisis, not endless chopping and changing by a chancellor who is always playing catch-up.\"\n\nMs Dodds said Mr Sunak should meet politicians from other parties and set out a \"proper, strategic plan for the next six months that gives workers and businesses the certainty they need\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for \"clarity\" on whether furlough will continue in Scotland after 2 December, should lockdown-type measures be imposed there which go beyond that date.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News the UK government would \"do whatever we can to continue to support Scotland\".\n\nAnd the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"If other parts of the UK decide to go into measures that require direct economic support, we will of course make [furlough funding] available to them.\"\n\nAnnouncing the extension of furlough on Saturday, Mr Sunak said: \"I have always said that we will do whatever it takes as the situation evolves.\n\n\"Now, as restrictions get tougher, we are taking steps to provide further financial support to protect jobs and businesses. These changes will provide a vital safety net for people across the UK.\"\n\nLast month, the chancellor cancelled this autumn's Comprehensive Spending Review, which would have set out government departments' budgets for the next few years.\n\nCiting the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, he replaced this with a one-year review, scheduled to take place later this month.", "More than a quarter of the incidents which the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) responded to were Covid-related, according to its latest annual report.\n\nThe review covers the period from September 2019 to August 2020, so the pandemic occupied an even higher proportion of the agency's efforts after the first lockdown began.\n\nIn total there were 723 incidents of all kinds, marking close to a 10% rise on the previous period.\n\nOf those, 194 were Covid-related.\n\nSome of the incidents related to countering nation-state attacks, but most were criminal in nature, the GCHQ division reported.\n\nIt also disclosed that it had thwarted 15,354 campaigns that had used coronavirus themes as a \"lure\" to fool people into clicking on a link or opening an attachment containing malicious software.\n\nSome involved fake shops selling PPE (personal protective equipment), test kits and even vaccines.\n\nProtecting the NHS and health-related research has been a priority, the report said..\n\nIn July, the UK accused Russia of trying to steal vaccine-related information through cyber-espionage.\n\nAnd officials said they had continued to see an \"ongoing threat\" of states targeting the vaccine research-and-delivery programme.\n\nThe NCSC said it had scanned more than one million NHS IP (internet protocol) addresses to look for vulnerabilities, and had shared 51,000 indicators of compromise.\n\nIt has also carried out \"threat hunting\" to look for security risks on connected devices, and worked on the security of the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app.\n\nThe NCSC also warned ransomware attacks had become more common.\n\nRansomware locks people out of their computers and demands victims make a blackmail payment to restore access - and even then it is not always granted.\n\nThe NCSC said it had handled more than three times as many ransomware incidents as in the previous year.\n\nThese included an attack against Redcar and Cleveland Council which, the officials said, had \"caused considerable damage and disruption\".\n\nThe report added the NCSC had observed a growing trend for such attacks to be more targeted and aggressive than previously.\n\nRather than just locking people out of access to their data until a ransom was paid, attackers often warned they would embarrass victims if they refused to comply.\n\n\"We have seen the threat of data being leaked,\" Paul Chichester, director of operations, told the BBC.\n\nThis meant victims were at risk even if they have backed up their data.\n\nHowever, the NCSC said the UK did not appear to be as heavily targeted as some countries, because British victims were less likely to pay the attackers.\n\nThe NCSC has also been working to increase skills and diversity in the cyber-security industry.\n\nIt said almost 12,000 girls had taken part in its 2020 competition. However, an advert for the government's related CyberFirst campaign was widely criticised last month for featuring a ballerina and the slogan \"Fatima's next job could be in cyber\".\n\nNCSC has said it was not involved in the creation of the CyberFirst poster\n\nThe report also highlighted the agency's role in protecting parliament as it became \"virtual\" to prevent hacking of debates or votes.\n\nAnd it revealed that the NCSC had just updated the system for producing cryptographic keys, which encrypt classified government and military systems.\n\nA new electronic system was introduced to replace old-fashioned punch-tape.", "Dashcam footage showed the two drivers racing at speeds of more than 100mph\n\nA man who caused the death of his son after racing with another driver at more than 100mph has been jailed for four-and-a-half-years.\n\nIsrar Muhammed, 41, from Batley, West Yorkshire, hit a tree after crashing off the M62 in East Yorkshire when a tyre blew out.\n\nHis three-year-old son, Say Han Ali, died and his daughter and wife suffered \"life-changing\" injuries.\n\nAdam Molloy, the other driver, was also jailed for four-and-a-half-years.\n\nThe pair were found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a trial last month.\n\nMuhammed was also convicted of two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and causing death while uninsured.\n\nHumberside Police said Molloy, 29, from Normanton, West Yorkshire, failed to stop after the crash and was later traced and arrested.\n\nHe was also found guilty of two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nPassing sentence at Hull Crown Court, Judge David Tremberg said Muhammed was driving \"in an erratic and unsafe manner\" for many miles before the accident, failing to give way at a roundabout and weaving in and out of traffic.\n\n\"Expert assessment of the footage reveals that each of you was travelling in excess of 100mph and there were roughly 10 metres between your cars as you sped along,\" he said.\n\n\"Other drivers formed the impression that you were racing and driving like idiots.\"\n\nSgt Rob Mazingham said officers carried out an \"extensive and exhaustive investigation\" into the crash near Goole on 1 July 2018.\n\n\"The car that Israr Muhammed was driving was not roadworthy, its rear tyre was 16 years old and defective and the resulting blow-out caused the series of events that led to the death of his three-year-old son and the serious, life changing injuries of his wife and second child,\" the officer said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty says the three-tier system of restrictions has “slowed things down\".\n\n\"Economically and socially destructive\" lockdowns are the only practical option until a Covid vaccine and better drugs are available, Chris Whitty has said.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer rejected calls from some scientists to pursue \"herd immunity\" instead.\n\nEngland is due to replace tiered regional restrictions with a four-week nationwide lockdown from Thursday.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 397 coronavirus deaths and 20,018 confirmed cases on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, more details of England's lockdown rules have also been revealed, with the publication of the legislation that will bring them into force.\n\nThe regulations specify fines starting at £100 for rule breakers, potentially rising to a maximum of £6,400 for repeat offences.\n\nSome Tory MPs have attacked the move towards another nationwide lockdown, with one saying the government was \"losing the plot\".\n\nProf Whitty was quizzed by a select committee about the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for \"focused protection\" for the elderly and other groups particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, while others continue to live relatively normally.\n\nProf Whitty said the arguments made by those that have signed the declaration were \"scientifically weak\" and \"dangerously flawed\".\n\n\"It would make an assumption that a very large number of people would inevitably die as a result of that decision,\" he told the Commons Science Committee.\n\n\"To have this as an element of policy is ethically really difficult.\"\n\nHerd immunity had never been achieved in the treatment of Ebola and other new infectious diseases, argued Prof Whitty, and the kind of aggressive shielding of the vulnerable urged by the Barrington scientists would not be practically possible.\n\nBetter treatments and the prospect of a vaccine were the only hope, he told the committee, and he predicted that over the next year there will be \"multiple shots on goal from science\".\n\n\"We have to hold the line until that point,\" he added.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these economically and socially destructive tools are what we have got in the absence of anything else.\"\n\nUnder the lockdown beginning on Thursday, pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops would be closed across England.\n\nThe new rules replace a tiered system of different local restrictions across England, which ministers say they want to return to after the England-wide lockdown is due to end on 2 December.\n\nMeanwhile, at a separate parliamentary debate, a number of Conservative MPs criticised the nationwide lockdown, which faces a Commons vote on Wednesday.\n\nOne of them, Richard Drax, said the lockdowns were \"destructive, divisive, and don't work\".\n\n\"They simply delay the inevitable - the re-emergence of the virus when lockdown ends, as has been shown,\" he said.\n\n\"Have we overreacted? Yes, I think we have. A draconian, onerous and invasive set of rules and regulations now govern our very existence.\"\n\nHis fellow Conservative, Bob Seeley, said lockdowns were a \"dubious tool,\" claiming scientists were becoming \"increasingly sceptical\" of them as an option.\n\nHe suggested the government was \"losing the plot\" in the face of the spread of the virus, and there was a need for \"some semblance of balance\" in its response.\n\nHowever with Labour supporting the new measures, they are highly likely to be approved even if there is a rebellion from Conservative backbenchers.", "More than 7,200 people in England were told to stop self-isolating on the wrong date by the Test and Trace scheme as a result of a software error.\n\nThe Department of Health said most of those affected had subsequently been contacted with the correct information.\n\nPeople had been told to isolate for too long, rather than being told they could mix with others too soon, it added.\n\nThe mistake - which was first reported by Sky News - follows a series of other software-based Covid-19 foul-ups.\n\nLast month, the BBC revealed how an oversight in the use of Microsoft's Excel software led to nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases going unreported in England.\n\nAnd on the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that a risk-score threshold used by the NHS Covid-19 app to trigger self-isolate alerts had been lowered weeks later than intended. In that case, officials are still carrying out checks to identify the \"root cause\".\n\nA total of 7,230 individuals were involved in the latest error.\n\nOfficials believe it resulted from an internal update to the system used by human contact tracers, who identify people believed to have recently been close to those diagnosed with the coronavirus.\n\nThe system is used to calculate how long the original person who tested positive should keep away from others. It also does the isolation calculation for those they had been in close proximity to, who are contacted via follow-up phone calls, emails and/or text messages.\n\nIt is completely separate to the automated contact tracing system used by the app.\n\nThe update was made on 22 October and affected a total of 7,230 people before the problem was rectified on 27 October.\n\n\"We have reassessed the self-isolation periods for a number of people who were contact traced, following close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19,\" a Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said.", "If you want to watch, listen, or follow the drama as it unfolds online, the BBC has you covered on election night.\n\nThe BBC news website has election results as they come in, and a live page with the latest reaction and analysis from correspondents in the US and around the world.\n\nThe BBC's US Election 2020 results programme is hosted by Katty Kay from Washington and Andrew Neil from London.\n\nIn the UK, it is being broadcast on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer from 23:30 GMT until 09:00 GMT on Wednesday. Internationally, the programme is being shown on BBC World News and streamed live on the BBC News website.\n\nJon Sopel and Clive Myrie are with the Trump and Biden campaigns, and BBC reporters including Emily Maitlis and Nick Bryant are broadcasting from crucial battleground states.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nThe overnight coverage also includes a big-screen graphic analysis of results with Christian Fraser and commentary from a panel of political experts.\n\nThe election special programme is hosted by Philippa Thomas and Ros Atkins, joined by Jamie Coomarasamy in Michigan and Nuala McGovern in Nevada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check breaks down the bill for the world's most expensive election\n\nIt will be on air in the UK on BBC Radio 4 until 06:00 GMT on Wednesday, on Radio 5 Live until 05:00 GMT, and outside the UK on the World Service until 09:00 GMT.", "James Allen was responsible for the day-to-day running of Manchester Arena in May 2017\n\nThe operators of Manchester Arena where 22 were killed in a terror attack have denied accusations of \"penny pinching\" and putting people's lives at risk.\n\nAnd on the night SMG put the arena's terrorism risk level at low despite the national threat level being \"severe\", the inquiry into the attack heard.\n\nIt also heard the firm asked for a threat level review after the 2015 Paris attack in case \"the horror... befell one of our venues\".\n\nA lawyer acting on behalf of some of the bereaved families accused SMG of not paying for adequate security.\n\nJames Allen, arena manager, told the inquiry into the blast that he did not believe SMG had been \"penny-pinching\" on security prior to the terror attack.\n\nWhen asked by John Cooper QC if the arena risk level should have been classed as higher given the national threat being severe, Mr Allen replied \"Yes, possibly\".\n\nThe arena manager also conceded there would have been cost implications if the venue's risk level had been elevated.\n\n\"SMG were far more interested in trying to get efficiency than making sure their security operation was fit for purpose,\" Mr Cooper said.\n\n\"You're penny pinchers, you skimp, you don't pay for security properly and you put people's lives at risk\".\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nAdam Payter who is also representing some of the bereaved families, asked Mr Allen about documents written by Miriam Stone, the head of events at SMG.\n\nThe inquiry heard that due to the introduction of the National Living Wage in April 2016, she was asked by Mr Allen to save a proportion of the rising costs and make savings of £250 per event on staffing costs.\n\n\"Rather than considering increasing staff you were considering making budgetary savings?\" Mr Payter said.\n\nThe inquiry was shown an email sent from John Sharkey, the executive vice president of SMG Europe the day after the 2015 Paris Bataclan attack, to the general managers of SMG arenas in the UK.\n\nMr Allen told the inquiry that since the bombing, the arena appointed its own in-house security adviser who is \"one of the best\" and is sharing his expertise with other concert arenas.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Around two-thirds of renewable electricity generated in Wales comes from wind farms like this one on Mynydd y Gwair near Swansea\n\nDevelopers of green energy schemes in Wales face \"significant challenges\" in linking up to electricity power lines, the industry association has warned.\n\nLower emissions targets could be missed as a result, Renewable UK Cymru said.\n\nIt also claimed new zones allocated by ministers for onshore wind farms provided \"virtually no opportunity whatsoever\" for development.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with partners to design the energy networks needed.\n\nIt is currently hosting a Wales Climate Week to debate ways of tackling global warming, during the period when a major UN conference - COP 26 - had been scheduled to take place.\n\nRhys Wyn Jones, director of Renewable UK Cymru, said the Welsh Government needed to go \"beyond simply co-ordinating activity\" between different stakeholders to solve issues with grid capacity.\n\nHe said: \"The Welsh Government wants to heat and power all new homes from clean energy sources by 2025. It also says in its transport strategy that large uptake of electric vehicles will place pressure on the grid - so it's not that we don't know these challenges are coming.\"\n\nHousing minister Julie James recently acknowledged grid capacity problems, telling a Senedd committee: \"You'll know how bad the grid is in mid Wales. It isn't great north and south either.\"\n\nGareth Cemlyn Jones of Ynni Ogwen said the grid was \"under strain\"\n\nIt is understood there are parts of the country - including mid Wales in particular - where power lines are close to full capacity, leaving developers of potential energy schemes facing prohibitive upfront costs to upgrade the local networks before they can start generating.\n\nYnni Ogwen, a community energy company based in Bethesda, Gwynedd, said the grid locally was \"under a lot of strain\".\n\nChairman Gareth Cemlyn Jones said: \"It can result in either projects not taking off or possibly being downgraded so they're not generating to their full potential.\"\n\nThe issue is complicated by the fact that powers over grid infrastructure are shared between governments in Cardiff Bay and Westminster, while energy regulator Ofgem sets the amount firms can invest in upgrading their networks each year.\n\nWestern Power Distribution, which supplies south Wales as well as south-west England and the Midlands, told BBC Wales it had re-engineered its network over the last decade to allow a greater integration of renewables, but recognised \"further investment\" was needed.\n\nRhys Wyn Jones has concerns about land earmarked for wind energy\n\nRenewable UK Cymru said the Welsh Government needed to set out a plan to deal with the issue.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' spokeswoman on climate change, Janet Finch-Saunders, wants targets for increasing grid capacity.\n\n\"I think the Welsh Government should have been more proactive in sorting out the grid capacity issues because why should we be starved of using the relevant renewable technologies because of this? It's not good enough,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru's shadow minister for the environment said Wales should have full control over energy and grid capacity.\n\nHe said: \"The matter is complicated by powers over grid infrastructure being shared by Welsh Government and Westminster. We can be a world leader in green energy but the current arrangement is holding Wales back.\"\n\nRenewable UK Cymru said only around 5% of the land identified by Welsh Government would be \"theoretically developable\"\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have also been raised about the Welsh Government's recently published national development framework for the next 20 years - known as Future Wales.\n\nIt sets out a series of zones where ministers would like to see onshore wind farms to help meet climate change goals.\n\nBut Renewable UK Cymru said only around 5% of the land identified would be \"theoretically developable\" and even this figure was optimistic as it included areas that would not be large enough to support developments of national significance.\n\nThe Senedd's climate change committee is discussing the issue later this week.\n\nThe Welsh Government is \"broadly supportive\" of onshore wind energy - but not in national parks or areas of outstanding natural beauty\n\nThe Welsh Government's energy generation 2019 report said 51% of Wales' energy needs were met from renewables. Two-thirds of renewable electricity generated in Wales comes from wind.\n\nA spokesman said the national development framework was put together with the aim of fostering a \"coherent approach\" to development and it was \"broadly supportive\" of onshore wind energy developments throughout Wales, except in national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty.\n\nHe added it was working with councils, National Grid and district network operators \"to design the energy networks needed for the long term\".", "If you want to watch, listen, or follow the drama as it unfolds online, the BBC has you covered on election night.\n\nThe BBC news website has election results as they come in, and a live page with the latest reaction and analysis from correspondents in the US and around the world.\n\nThe BBC's US Election 2020 results programme is hosted by Katty Kay from Washington and Andrew Neil from London.\n\nIn the UK, it is being broadcast on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer from 23:30 GMT until 09:00 GMT on Wednesday. Internationally, the programme is being shown on BBC World News and streamed live on the BBC News website.\n\nJon Sopel and Clive Myrie are with the Trump and Biden campaigns, and BBC reporters including Emily Maitlis and Nick Bryant are broadcasting from crucial battleground states.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nThe overnight coverage also includes a big-screen graphic analysis of results with Christian Fraser and commentary from a panel of political experts.\n\nThe election special programme is hosted by Philippa Thomas and Ros Atkins, joined by Jamie Coomarasamy in Michigan and Nuala McGovern in Nevada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check breaks down the bill for the world's most expensive election\n\nIt will be on air in the UK on BBC Radio 4 until 06:00 GMT on Wednesday, on Radio 5 Live until 05:00 GMT, and outside the UK on the World Service until 09:00 GMT.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US election: New Orleans musicians are struggling financially in the pandemic\n\nAs I landed in New Orleans ahead of the US election, the thing I noticed first were the masks.\n\nPassengers at Louis Armstrong International Airport wore their politics on their faces.\n\nFace coverings were emblazoned with slogans like 'MAGA 2020' - not a souvenir from an all-inclusive to Magaluf but Donald Trump's campaign message to \"make America great again\".\n\nOthers had 'I Can't Breathe' written on them - a symbolic phrase used in the global black lives matter protests since the summer.\n\nThis state of Louisiana is almost certain to remain Republican red, supporting Donald Trump's pitch for another four years in the White House.\n\n\"He's for us and our country,\" a black mother tells me at a gas station stop in Kentwood, worried the America she loves will be taken away if Joe Biden wins.\n\n\"I hope he gets it again,\" a driver calls out of his window before driving off.\n\nCurator Miss Fay shows me an umbrella prop Britney Spears used to perform Everytime on tour\n\nI find it hard to find anyone here who wants Joe Biden as their leader.\n\nKentwood, which has a population of about 2000 people, is where Britney Spears grew up.\n\nJust up the road from the gas pump there's a museum dedicated to her career.\n\nIts curator - a Republican voter called Miss Fay - says Kentwood is \"the type of town where we pray for each other\".\n\nShe confirms the area's support for Donald Trump, saying America is stronger with him in charge.\n\n\"I think he's been good for the nation,\" she says, standing in front of a reconstruction of Britney's old bedroom - complete with a teddy bear wearing an N-Sync jersey.\n\n\"I know a lot of people say he's a little rough and tumble but that doesn't bother me, he gets things done.\"\n\nLouisiana might be where Britney, Frank Ocean, Normani, Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled all began their careers, but the coronavirus pandemic has muted other musicians trying to make it big, especially in New Orleans - the state's biggest city and one that boasts it's \"the birthplace of jazz\".\n\nFor 27-year-old vocalist Christien Bold, the past eight months have been financially tough, with gigs cancelled as bars in the city closed their doors.\n\nHe says there have been times when he's not had money in his pockets and knows of other musicians who rely on tips to to pay their bills and have been \"left out to dry\".\n\n\"There are a lot of poor folks here,\" he says, standing on the empty Frenchmen Street, which he describes as \"the music Mecca of the city\".\n\nChristien is voting for the Democrat candidate Joe Biden, claiming \"we're screwed either way\" but \"Biden is a beacon of light\" who can help those struggling with employment.\n\nIt's something Pamela, a respiratory therapist from Texas who moved to New Orleans 18 months ago, agrees with.\n\n\"Turn it blue,\" she yells at me in a bar, where she's sheltering from Hurricane Zeta's 110mph winds.\n\n\"I'm embarrassed by Trump,\" she says. \"All the people I meet from other countries, I apologise. I don't want people to think all Americans are buffoons.\"\n\nPamela announces, while ordering a vodka soda to buckle in for the hurricane, that Great British Bake Off host Paul Hollywood is her \"fantasy boyfriend because of his most gorgeous blue eyes\".\n\nShe really is blue through and through.\n\nDerek, celebrating his birthday three seats away, completely disagrees (about the politics, not Paul's allure) believing Donald Trump's message \"appeals to working people and that's what we have in America\".\n\nThe power goes off and on in the bar as Zeta's strength rips through, but the flooding won't be that bad here, I'm told by Pamela. It's elsewhere in the state that'll get it worse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change is a major election issue for residents of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana\n\nEmerson Boutte has been preparing for the worst for most of her life, as Louisiana bears the brunt of the United States hurricane season every year.\n\nBut this year it's different because for the first time, 18-year-old Emerson has a vote on who gets to lead her country in the fight against climate change.\n\nShe doesn't know who to choose.\n\n\"If one of the candidates would directly address the climate change, coastal erosion and land loss happening in Louisiana, I think that would definitely sway my vote for them,\" she says, nervous about how many days - or weeks - she's going to be without power because of how strong Zeta was.\n\nThis state hasn't been a focus in this election campaign - it rarely is.\n\nBoth Biden and Trump's teams know it's almost certain to vote Republican like it has in every presidential vote since 2000, which means it's not featured on the rolling news channels as the two candidates don't organise huge rallies here.\n\nIt's for that reason many people in Louisiana feel they're not being heard when it comes to their daily battles for survival because politicians don't try as hard to get their vote as they do in other states.\n\n\"I want our elected officials to come out here. Come put a human face on this fight that we're battling,\" Shamara Lavigne tells me outside her home in an area nicknamed Cancer Alley.\n\n“We are only fighting for fresh air,\" she says, her two dogs running around nearby - there's also an alligator nearby called Geoffrey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This area of Louisiana has the highest cancer risk of anywhere in America.\n\nThe air tastes notably different in St James Parish and it feels \"ironic\" to Shamara that people in this predominantly black community only started wearing masks because of the coronavirus pandemic, and not because of the toxic emissions.\n\nEverybody who lives around here knows someone who either has cancer or has died from it.\n\nThey're fighting to stop more industry coming to the area, fearing it could increase the risk of cancer - something the companies dispute.\n\nThe tweets Donald Trump posts or the adverts Joe Biden pays for have no impact here.\n\nFor Shamara's mum Sharon, she has just one request to the two wannabe presidents: \"I want them to save our lives.\"\n\n\"If they can help us with that, they've got my vote\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Wales manager Ryan Giggs has denied an allegation of assault made against him.\n\nThe Wales manager has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend, several newspapers have reported.\n\nHis representatives said he denies all allegations of assault made against him and is co-operating with the police.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said a man, 46, had been arrested on suspicion of section 47 assault and section 39 common assault and bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) has said Giggs will not be involved in Wales' three scheduled November games, with assistant coach Robert Page instead taking charge.\n\nThe FAW also cancelled a press conference planned for Tuesday where Giggs was due to announce his squad for upcoming international games.\n\nThe squad will now be announced on Thursday.\n\nThe FAW said it was \"aware of an alleged incident involving the men's national team manager Ryan Giggs\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"The Football Association of Wales and Ryan Giggs have mutually agreed that he will not be involved in the upcoming international camp.\n\n\"Our agreed immediate priority is preparing the team for the upcoming international matches.\n\n\"Robert Page, with Ryan's support, will take charge for the next three matches against the USA, Republic of Ireland and Finland supported by Albert Stuivenberg.\"\n\nA statement released on behalf of Giggs said: \"He is co-operating with the police and will continue to assist them with their ongoing investigation.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was called to reports of a disturbance at an address in Worsley, Salford, just after 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nIt said a woman in her 30s \"sustained minor injuries but did not require any treatment\".", "A bill that will lead to changes in NI's alcohol licensing laws \"strikes the right balance\", Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has said.\n\nUnder the plans, pubs and nightclubs will be able to serve alcohol for an extra hour, until 02:00, almost every weekend.\n\nThe legislation also proposes removing restrictions around Easter drinking.\n\nIt will have to pass several legislative hurdles before becoming law.\n\nThe other main change is the extension in \"drinking-up time\" from half an hour to an hour, meaning venues can operate until 03:00 at weekends.\n\nCurrently restrictions on selling alcohol are in place from the Thursday before Easter until Easter Sunday.\n\nAlcohol can only be served between 17:00 and 23:00 on Good Friday and bars have to stop serving at midnight on Thursday and Easter Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Communities carried out a consultation last year, and said \"changing social habits and the growing importance of the tourism industry\" had prompted the calls for changes to Easter licensing laws.\n\nSetting out her department's plans in the assembly on Tuesday, Mrs Ní Chuilín urged the Stormont assembly to vote for the bill.\n\n\"I know many people would like the licensing regime to be more flexible where licensees would have more freedom to open and close when they like,\" she said.\n\n\"But on the other hand, there are many people concerned about harm caused to our society by misuse of alcohol, who wish to see greater restrictions on the advertising and sale of drink.\n\n\"I believe this bill strikes the right balance between offering a level of support to the hospitality sector, which we all agree is very much needed, whilst protecting our communities by ensuring the sale of alcohol is controlled.\"\n\nMuch of the hospitality sector is struggling to maintain jobs due to the latest restrictions that forced many firms to shut\n\nThe law will also be tightened in some areas - supermarkets will face restrictions on where they can place in-store advertising for alcohol.\n\nThe current voluntary code of practice for drinks promotions will be replaced with legal requirements.\n\nThe proposals have been a very long time in the making, with Stormont first proposing changes eight years ago.\n\nA previous bill to change NI's licensing laws began its legislative passage in 2016, but the assembly collapsed in January 2017 amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin, who share power together at Stormont.\n\nThe new bill is expected to become law in time for Easter 2022.\n\nNI's hospitality sector has been closed since 16 October, due to restrictions agreed by the executive to tackle the spread of Covid-19.\n\nSome in the industry have proposed a compliance certificate should be drawn up, to allow those firms adhering properly to the rules to reopen.", "Many self-employed claim they have been excluded from other support schemes\n\nThe self-employed will be able to claim state aid of up to 80% of profits during the month-long lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.\n\nThe rise is up from the current 40%, and will mean £4.5bn of government support for the self-employed between November and January, he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has faced a backlash from within his own party over the new lockdown.\n\nThat criticism included not doing enough to help the self-employed.\n\nIt was also announced that businesses will continue to be able to apply to banks for government-backed support loans until 31 January, compared with a previous 30 November deadline for some of the programmes.\n\nEngland will enter a second lockdown on Thursday, which will close restaurants, pubs and non-essential shops until at least 2 December, although unlike the first lockdown in late March and April, schools will stay open for all pupils.\n\nUnder the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS), eligible workers can currently claim support covering 40% of their average earnings from last year to cover a period of three months, capped at £3,750.\n\nThe new enhanced scheme will open for applications from the end of November, and cover 80% of trading profits for that month. Including the new higher November grant, it means the November-January payment will be at 55% of profits, up to a maximum of £5,160.\n\nHowever, as eligibility criteria will be the same as for previous grants, critics said it still meant as many as 2.9 million freelancers, contractors and newly self employed people would remain excluded.\n\nThe Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) said the new measures will give \"vital support\" to some, but accused the government of still \"wilfully ignoring a third of self-employed\".\n\nDerek Cribb, the group's chief executive, said it was important to note the enhanced 80% rate only covered November, mirroring the extended furlough scheme. \"It is vital that if the furlough scheme is extended, SEISS should be adjusted accordingly,\" he said.\n\n\"It is deeply troubling that the government has still not fixed the devastating gaps in SEISS, despite urgent recommendations from the Treasury Select Committee. After so many calls to resolve the problems, it now looks as if the government is wilfully ignoring a third of the self-employed.\n\n\"The first lockdown drastically undermined self-employed incomes, and the gaps in government support led to the biggest drop in self-employed numbers on record.\n\n\"Unless government wakes up to the problem and supports all the self-employed, the second lockdown will accelerate the decline and hollow out swathes of this vital sector.\"\n\nSmall businesses have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to go even further than Mondays announcement\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) also warned that too many self-employed people remain excluded. FSB chairman Mike Cherry said: \"This is a five-million strong community that drives our economy forward, but the government has insisted that large swathes of it do not warrant any help where income is concerned.\n\n\"We have sadly already seen 250,000 self-employed people stop working and become economically inactive, a figure which is set to continue rising.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the business support landscape still remains too much of a mixed picture - a fact made all the more concerning given that this fresh lockdown in England is taking effect during the critical festive season.\"\n\nMonday's announcement increases help for many people - but, then again, many people still say it is not nearly enough.\n\nThe National Audit Office said last week up to 2.9 million people have been excluded from both the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme since March - some newly self-employed, others set up as limited companies and still others denied furlough.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said it was \"clear that many people have lost earnings and have not been able to access support\". Some have had little or no income for months, ineligible even for benefits. Yet they've paid their taxes and say they deserve the same level of support as everyone else.\n\nAccording to the ExcludedUK Facebook group, of 2,400 members in a recent poll, 79% described themselves as having trouble sleeping, 81% as being anxious or stressed, 58% had low self-esteem, 48% were depressed; and 14% had had suicidal thoughts - over three times the norm in the wider population.\n\nThe cross-party Treasury Committee said in June these exclusions \"cannot be right\" and Sir Keir Starmer told the CBI conference today the chancellor must close the gaps in support. But so far those gaps remain wide open.\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?\n• None What happens when furlough ends?", "Recep Gultekin (right) and Mikail Özen (left) were invited to Turkey's Vienna embassy in thanks for their help\n\nThree men have been hailed for helping a police officer and an elderly woman during Monday's attack in Vienna.\n\nRecep Gultekin was shot in the leg while aiding the woman with his friend, Mikail Özen.\n\nThey also carried an injured police officer to safety after a Palestinian man, Osama Joda, gave him first aid.\n\nFive people, including an attacker, were killed and another 22 wounded as firing broke out opposite a synagogue in the Austrian capital.\n\nThe man accused of carrying out the attack was a 20-year-old \"Islamist terrorist\" who was released early from jail in December, and shot dead by police during the incident.\n\nMr Joda, 23, was working at a nearby McDonalds, and told local newspaper Kurier that he was carrying goods into the restaurant when the attacker began shooting at passers-by.\n\nWhen two police officers came to help, the attacker opened fire on them and one was struck by a bullet.\n\n\"I pulled him behind the concrete bench and tried to stop the bleeding,\" said Mr Joda. \"There was blood everywhere.\"\n\nThe perpetrator fled after more police arrived at the scene, and Mr Joda then helped to drag the officer to a nearby ambulance. He was assisted in this by Mr Özen and Mr Gultekin, who are both of Turkish descent.\n\nEarlier Mr Gultekin, 21, had carried the injured woman to a restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This was one of the scariest moments in my life'\n\nMr Özen, a mixed martial artist and personal trainer, told Kurier that they then noticed the policeman bleeding on the floor after gunfire erupted.\n\n\"We knew immediately what to do, there was no choice but to help,\" said the 25-year-old. \"Austria is our home. We would help at any time.\"\n\nPolice have not confirmed details of the incident, but Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told local media that the officer was taken to safety by Austrians with a migrant background.\n\n\"No terrorist attack will succeed in tearing up or dividing our society,\" he added.\n\nTurkey's ambassador to Austria, Ozan Ceyhun, also hosted Mr Özen and Mr Gultekin at the Turkish embassy and praised their conduct.\n\nSecurity has been tight in Vienna as police launched a manhunt for further attackers, and 14 people have been arrested after a series of police raids.\n\nBut authorities believe the gunman killed by police may have acted alone.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the four who died were an elderly woman, an elderly man, a young male passer-by and a waitress.\n\nIt was clearly an attack driven by \"hatred of our way of life, our democracy\", the chancellor said.\n\nDo you have any information you can share? 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Home Secretary Priti Patel said people will see \"more visible policing across the country\"\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level has been upgraded from \"substantial\" to \"severe\".\n\nThe move means security chiefs believe that an attack is highly likely but there is no specific intelligence of an imminent incident.\n\nThe move follows Monday night's shooting in Vienna in which four people died.\n\nLast week, three others died in a knife attack in Nice, France, and a teacher was murdered in Paris last month.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the British people should be \"alert but not alarmed\".\n\n\"This is a precautionary measure following the horrific events of the last week in France and last night in Austria and is not based on a specific threat.\"\n\nShe added that significant steps had already been taken to amend powers and strengthen the tools for dealing with developing terrorist threats.\n\n\"As I've said before, we face a real and serious threat in the UK from terrorism.\n\n\"I would ask the public to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to the police,\" she said.\n\nAssessments of threat levels are taken by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), part of MI5, which makes its recommendations independently from the government.\n\nThe five levels of threat set by the JTAC are:\n\nThe decision to raise the threat level back to \"severe\" has a certain sense of inevitability about it.\n\nWhile the threat level may feel vague to the public, what lies behind it is an assessment of available intelligence on known suspects targeting the UK and a wider analysis of how international events will play into their intentions.\n\nWhenever there is an attack that leads to loss of life, there are plotters who will regard that as a success to emulate.\n\nThey will be encouraged to go further themselves. That is why a string of events elsewhere - such as France and Austria at the moment - carry weight in the UK's planning and preparedness.\n\nIn public, there are likely to be subtle changes to visible policing - particularly around public locations thought to be at risk of attack.\n\nAdditional advice may be given confidentially to some organisations that could be vulnerable.\n\nAnd behind the scenes it will mean that counter-terrorism investigators will be taking a very close look at some of their highest current priorities and asking whether these individuals have been emboldened to turn talk into violence.\n\nHead of UK counter-terrorism policing Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu echoed the home secretary's comments, saying there was no intelligence to link any of the attacks in France or Austria to the UK but said his officers were working with international partners, and providing assistance.\n\nHe urged communities to \"stand together and reject those who seek to sow division and hatred between us\".\n\n\"We need communities and families to bring to our attention anyone they perceive may be vulnerable, a danger or escalating towards terrorism,\" he said.\n\nHe said the public could expect to see additional police officers deployed to certain places and locations over the coming days.\n\nPolice would also work closely with local businesses, faith groups and community groups to provide reassurance and seek their support, he added.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the decision to change the threat level should not cause \"undue alarm\" but showed the importance of people continuing to be vigilant.\n\nSecurity remains high in Vienna after a gunman opened fire on people outside cafes and restaurants\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level was raised to the highest rating, \"critical\", in the days following the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nIt last reached that level again briefly in September that year, after a bomb partially exploded on a Tube train at Parsons Green.\n\nThe threat level remained at the second highest rating, \"severe\", until last November when it was downgraded to \"substantial\", where it has stayed until now.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said given events in Austria and France, it would have been \"remiss\" of the government not to raise the threat level.\n\nHe said the JTAC, which brings together analysts from across transport, health, intelligence and the military, were constantly analysing the ongoing threat to UK citizens anywhere in the world, and will have looked at what has happened in Vienna and at all the postings from al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, encouraging people to carry out attacks.\n\n\"There's a lot of anger at the moment in many parts of Muslim communities over the cartoons [of the Prophet Muhammad] and that's being exploited by extremists who are encouraging people to carry out attacks, hence the raising to severe.\"", "Fixed penalty notices can be issued for most types of breaches\n\nParents of children who broke lockdown rules by throwing eggs and attending a party over the weekend have been fined by police.\n\nSouth Wales Police said fixed penalty notices were issued to parents for the covid breaches and anti-social behaviour in St Mellons, Cardiff.\n\nA number of parents were also fined when their children attended a party in Taibach, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nCalls to the force spiked at 1,500 on Saturday and 30 fines were issued.\n\nThe force said about 50 acceptable behaviour contracts would be issued to students at a Cardiff halls of residence following reports of a party.\n\nMore than 200 of the calls to the force related to concerns about Covid breaches including youths congregating and engaging in antisocial behaviour, house parties, suspected breaches by licensed premises that should be closed, failure of Covid-positive individuals to self-isolate and gatherings at religious settings.\n\nA total of 137 warnings or other police interventions were also handed out, and officers made five anti-social behaviour referrals.\n\nPolice said it also made several joint visits to licensed premises, among them a pub in Neath that was found to be continuing to trade despite the firebreak lockdown.\n\nCh Supt Andy Valentine said: \"I think it is telling that among those fined this weekend were a number of parents who clearly weren't ensuring their children were also following the rules.\n\n\"If we are to help slow the spread of this virus, each and every one of us must take responsibility and ensure that we - and those dependent upon us - are doing the right thing.\"\n\nHe said officers had also responded to calls over Covid breaches \"which while well-intentioned, turned out to not be as reported\".\n\nHe said: \"Responding to those calls takes time... while it is frustrating for those who are complying when they perceive others not to be, it remains extremely important to us as a force that we are dealing with each report on its merit and we continue to respond in a measured and proportionate manner.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTwilight Payment gave Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien a second triumph in the Melbourne Cup but victory was overshadowed by the death of 2019 Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck.\n\nThe 25-1 winner, ridden by Jye McNeil, led from start to finish and held on from Tiger Moth - trained by O'Brien's father Aidan - and Prince Of Arran.\n\nTiger Moth's stablemate Anthony Van Dyck, winner of the Derby at Epsom in 2019, broke down in the home straight.\n\nThe horse broke a leg in the incident.\n\n\"It is with sadness that we confirm that Anthony Van Dyck had to be humanely euthanised after sustaining a fractured fetlock during the running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington,\" said Racing Victoria spokesman Jamie Stier.\n\nThe race, which usually attracts a crowd of about 100,000, was held behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt was a winning debut Melbourne Cup ride for McNeil and a seventh triumph for owner Lloyd Williams in the two-mile handicap that has a first prize of more than £2.3m.\n\nO'Brien, 27, also landed the race at Flemington with Rekindling four years ago.\n\n\"The horse has got incredible heart. Jye gave him a fantastic ride and he has a huge will to win and he just kept on fighting all the way to the line,\" said the trainer.\n\nKerrin McEvoy, the rider of runner-up Tiger Moth, was fined A$50,000 (£27,000) and suspended for 13 meetings for excessive whip use in the closing stages.\n• None 'There's something about him' - trainer on Prince Of Arran\n\nMcNeil had his mount prominent throughout with Tiger Moth also to the fore in the early stages before settling back into third.\n\nWith five furlongs to run, the 23-strong field was well strung out and Twilight Payment had lengths to spare entering the closing stages.\n\nTiger Moth charged home late, but Joseph O'Brien again denied his father, as he did three years ago when Rekindling beat Johannes Vermeer.\n\n\"We both realise how hard it is to win on the world stage in these big, big races, but I am very lucky that I have been able to win a couple of big races,\" said Joseph.\n\n\"Dad has been very lucky, he has won a lot of big races, I'd be delighted for him if he had won, and I'm sure he is for me having won. We do our best on the track and whatever happens out there happens.\"\n\nBritish challenger Prince Of Arran, trained in Newmarket by Charlie Fellowes, flew at the finish to be placed for the third year running after coming second last year and third in 2018.", "A quarter of John Lewis's stores are staying open later\n\nJohn Lewis, Currys PC World and toy chain the Entertainer are among retailers that are extending their opening hours to meet a surge in demand ahead of the lockdown in England.\n\nHair salons are also opening later as all non-essential retailers prepare to shut for a month from Thursday.\n\nIt comes amid reports of queues outside stores such as Primark as people rush to do last-minute shopping.\n\nGary Grant, boss of the Entertainer, said it was \"just like Christmas\".\n\nHis 173 shops are extending their hours until 7pm or 8pm from 5.30pm and expect brisk trading right up until Wednesday night.\n\n\"When the closedown announcement was made on Saturday, the penny finally dropped for people that if you take away four of the eight weeks left before Christmas, it is going to make shopping quite hard,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Also there is concern toy retailers won't be able to meet the massive increase in online orders because of courier constraints.\"\n\nThe Entertainer says it is opening late to meet demand\n\nAmong the retailers changing their opening hours:\n\n\"While we expect footfall to increase between now and Thursday, our extended opening hours will help ease the busy periods in store,\" said Mark Allsop, chief operating officer at Currys PC World.\n\nSince news of the second lockdown broke on Saturday, there have been queues outside shops in Birmingham, Norwich and Nottingham as people rush to make pre-lockdown purchases.\n\nLong queues were seen minutes before closing time at Ikea Tottenham\n\nShopper numbers were up 9% in the week to Saturday, said data company Springboard, although they remain far below pre-pandemic levels.\n\n\"The first national lockdown saw a rise in spending in the days prior,\" said Kyle Monk, director of insights at the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"We now expect many people to be picking up the items they desperately need before these shops are forced to close by government.\"\n\nLong queues were seen minutes before a planned 21:00 GMT closing time at Ikea Tottenham in London on Tuesday. A member of staff told the BBC that the store would probably not close until 23:00.\n\nIt is not just retailers who are busy. Hairdresser chains such as Regis, Saks and KH Hair Salons are opening earlier and closing later as customers bring forward appointments.\n\nRegis, which owns 56 salons, said it had seen a 30% rise in bookings since Saturday.\n\nRestaurants and pubs are also reported to be seeing a surge in last-minute bookings, as hospitality businesses prepare to shut.\n\nBookings platform OpenTable said bookings on Sunday were up 11% from a year earlier, following weeks of subdued demand.", "Primark has said customer demand for pyjamas has grown but sales of men's suits have dropped, reflecting a shift in lifestyle since the coronavirus.\n\nThe chain's owner, Associated British Foods, said sales of nightwear, leisure and children's clothing have increased compared to before the pandemic.\n\nIn contrast, demand for formal menswear was \"weak\" as people worked from home.\n\nIn its full-year results, AB Foods said that so far Covid-19 had cost Primark £2bn in lost sales and £650m in profit.\n\nSince reopening its shops in June following the UK lockdown in March, Primark said trade at its large city centre stores was slower because of fewer commuters travelling to work as well as a drop in tourist numbers.\n\nBut it said footfall at retail parks was ahead of the previous year, while it has maintained customer numbers in shopping centres and regional high street shops.\n\nBetween reopening on 15 June and the end of its financial year on 12 September, AB Foods said UK like-for-like sales at Primark were down 12% from a year earlier.\n\nAddressing new lockdown restrictions to stop a second wave of the coronavirus, AB Foods has already temporarily shut Primark shops in Ireland, France, Belgium, Wales, Slovenia and Catalonia in Spain.\n\nIt said these closures, together with the lockdown in England - which is due to come into force on Thursday for a month - will close 57% of its total selling space, and lead to an estimated £375m in lost sales.\n\nPrimark does not sell products online and has no plans to provide a click and collect service during the coming lockdown. A spokesperson for Primark said: \"Although we will look at alternative business models from time to time, there are no immediate plans to trade online.\"\n\nAcross Associated British Foods as a whole, sales dropped 12% to £13.9bn in the year to 12 September and pre-tax profit fell to £686m from £1.1bn.\n\nSales within its food business grew by 2% to £3.5bn over the year, helped by the shift to many people working from home.\n\n\"Associated British Foods' food business has also been turned on its head during the pandemic, as consumers switched from dining out to eating in,\" said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nIn particular, demand for baking ingredients rose in North America and sales of a Twinings teas grew.\n\nOn the downside, sales for the Ovaltine brand were affected by a drop in impulse purchases in Thailand and Vietnam.\n\nIts Allied Bakeries division was also forced to write down £15m after losing a contract to supply goods to the Co-op supermarket group. It is the second major customer the business has lost after Tesco in 2019.", "John Sessions, Clive Anderson and Stephen Fry together for Whose Line is it Anyway?, which originated as a BBC Radio 4 series\n\nStephen Fry has led the tributes to \"lovable and loving\" actor and comedian John Sessions, who has died aged 67.\n\nSessions was best known as a panellist on 1980s and 90s improvisation TV/radio show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and for Stella Street, Spitting Image and QI.\n\nHis acting credits included TV dramas Porterhouse Blue and Victoria, and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of Henry V.\n\nFry described him as \"warm, vulnerable, lovable and loving as anyone can be\", with \"so, so much talent\".\n\nThe actor, comedian and author wrote on Twitter: \"He could make me laugh until I was sick and dizzy with pleasure and exhaustion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Fry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 comedians also paid tribute. Ronni Ancona described him as \"a genius\", while Helen Lederer remembered him as \"such an original force of clever wit and talent\".\n\nRory Bremner said Sessions was \"just the best, he'd blow everyone away on Whose Line with his speed of thought & breadth of reference\". He added: \"A flash of brilliance just went out.\"\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\nSanjeev Bhaskar said Sessions was \"always warm and fun company and amazing improv ability\", while Meera Syal remembered him being \"always the funniest and kindest man in the room\".\n\nJack Dee described him as \"a delightful, funny, generous and hugely gifted man\" and Sally Phillips said he was \"unpredictable, dangerous, adorable\".\n\nSessions appeared on the first ever episode of QI, and the team behind the panel show said: \"His incredible wit and encyclopaedic knowledge played a huge part in the show's history and everyone at QI is deeply saddened to learn of his passing.\"\n\nBroadcaster Danny Baker remembered him as \"terrific company always and a true talent\", and Michael Spicer described him as \"a character actor with such extraordinary range and so very, very funny\".\n\nHis friend Ian Hislop, Private Eye editor, said Sessions was a \"very modest man\" and would have been flattered by all the attention.\n\n\"I was delighted to see him described as a star. He probably thought he wasn't but he was. And he was quite the funniest man, in real life, that you could ever meet,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Ayrshire-born star died from a heart condition, his agent said.\n\nPhil Cornwell as Mick Jagger and John Sessions as Keith Richards (right) in front of their corner shop in Stella Street\n\nDuring his career, he provided voices on Spitting Image in the 1980s - the only person to both provide impressions and be featured as a puppet on the satirical show.\n\nThe programme was among the trailblazers of alternative comedy, he told BBC Radio Scotland in September. \"You really felt you were at the cutting edge of comedy,\" he said.\n\nHis impressions were also at the heart of Stella Street, a spoof soap opera about megastars like Keith Richards, Joe Pesci and Roger Moore who lived on the same suburban road, which launched in 1997.\n\nSessions recalled meeting Richards and the other members of the Rolling Stones. \"They watched the show,\" he told Radio Scotland. \"Keith said he really enjoys it and he's thinking of getting a little corner shop.\"\n\nSessions played Mr Wellbecker in the BBC's 2010 adaptation of Just William\n\nSessions was born John Marshall in Largs, Scotland, in 1953, and moved to Bedfordshire with his family when he was three.\n\nHe was accepted by Rada at the age of 26 in 1979. Eight years later, his one-man theatre show The Life of Napoleon transferred to the West End. \"He is like nobody else,\" The Times' critic wrote. \"He uses language like a poet; he can jump from the raft at Tilsit to Huck Finn on the Mississippi and make the metaphor work.\"\n\nSoon after, Sessions made his acting breakthrough on screen in Channel 4's Porterhouse Blue, before showing his surreal and cerebral comic energy on Whose Line Is It Anyway?\n\n\"When I left Rada, my plan was to try and do two careers at once - to be a comedian and an actor,\" he told The Guardian in 2014. \"For some years, I managed to juggle the two, but I never felt I joined either club.\"\n\nSessions starred in the BBC's 2010 adaptation of Gormenghast\n\nHe went on to star in a string of his own BBC TV shows, such as a self-titled solo improvisation series in the late 1980s, followed by John Sessions's Tall Tales and John Sessions's Likely Stories.\n\nBut he never quite achieved the stardom of his friends Branagh and Stephen Fry. He said he \"ran out of steam\" when he turned 40. \"As I was getting older, I wasn't getting more confident, I was getting less confident,\" he told The Guardian. \"I lost my way.\"\n\nHis other TV credits included Victoria, The Loch, Just William, Tom Jones, and Gormenghast; and he had film roles in The Good Shepherd, The Merchant of Venice and The Bounty.\n\nHis knack for impersonating politicians was put to use in dramas too - playing former prime minister Edward Heath in the 2011 film The Iron Lady; another ex-premier, Harold Wilson, in 2010's Made in Dagenham; and former chancellor Geoffrey Howe in the 2009 Thatcher biopic Margaret.\n\nHis other roles included Henry Fielding in the 1997 adaptation of the author's 1749 novel Tom Jones\n\nBut he told The Telegraph in 2013: \"I don't think I was very good at managing my career. You need to carve your own path and not just bob along.\"\n\nRecently, he had narrated a 10-part radio adaptation of children's book series The Adventures of Captain Bobo.\n\nIn a statement, his agent Alex Irwin said: \"It is with great sadness we can confirm that on Monday 2nd November, the actor John Sessions died at his home in South London. He will be hugely missed.\"\n\nPeep Show star Robert Webb, actor Chris O'Dowd, author Linda Grant and broadcasters Mariella Frostrup and Samira Ahmed were among the others paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robert Webb This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Princess Diana's brother has called for a BBC inquiry over faked bank statements he says helped secure his sister's historic Panorama interview.\n\nCharles Spencer said \"sheer dishonesty\" was used to secure the 1995 Martin Bashir interview with the princess.\n\nIn a letter to BBC director-general Tim Davie, reported by the Daily Mail, the earl accused the BBC of a \"whitewash\".\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the faked statements, but it says a note from the princess says she did not see them.\n\n\"They had played no part in her decision to take part in the interview,\" the BBC said.\n\nThe corporation said it would investigate \"substantive new information\" but this was \"hampered at the moment\" by the fact that Bashir was \"seriously unwell\" and unable to discuss the claims.\n\nBashir, 57, currently BBC News religion editor, has been unwell with Covid-19 complications, the BBC said last month.\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded almost 25 years ago, on 20 November 1995.\n\nIn the interview the princess famously said that \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time Princess Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe letter comes after the Sunday Times reported that the director-general of the BBC apologised to Earl Spencer last week for the use of the fake bank statements 25 years ago but declined to open a further investigation.\n\nIn Earl Spencer's response, reported by the Daily Mail, he said Bashir had used the forged bank statements to persuade the princess into doing the interview.\n\nThe statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister, the newspaper said.\n\nEarl Spencer wrote: \"If it were not for me seeing these statements, I would not have introduced Bashir to my sister.\n\n\"In turn, he would have remained just one of thousands of journalists hoping that he/she had a tiny chance of getting her to speak to them, with no realistic prospect of doing so.\"\n\nEarl Spencer accused Bashir of \"yellow journalism\" - a term for sensationalist and unethical reporting - and said the BBC had not accepted \"the full gravity of this situation\".\n\nThe earl also said he had a letter allegedly written by Bashir in 1995, in which the journalist referred to false rumours about the Prince of Wales having an affair with her children's nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"The BBC has apologised. We are happy to repeat that apology.\n\n\"And while this was a quarter of a century ago, we absolutely will investigate - robustly and fairly - substantive new information.\"\n\nThe statement said Earl Spencer had been asked to share further information with the BBC.\n\nIt said: \"Unfortunately, we are hampered at the moment by the simple fact that we are unable to discuss any of this with Martin Bashir, as he is seriously unwell. When he is well, we will of course hold an investigation into these new issues.\"\n\nThe BBC added that a \"key piece of information\" in investigations following the interview was a handwritten statement from the princess.\n\nHer note \"said she hadn't seen the mocked-up documents and they had played no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".", "A three-year-old girl has been pulled out alive after being trapped under rubble for 65 hours following a powerful earthquake in Turkey.\n\nThe earthquake on Friday has killed at least 85 people, with more still missing.\n\nDehydrated but without serious injuries, the girl clung to a rescue worker's thumb as she was carried to safety.", "Sadiq Khan is to move London's government from City Hall to a new headquarters in the east of the city.\n\nThe Crystal building in the Royal Docks in Newham will become the home of the mayor and the Greater London Authority (GLA) at the end of next year.\n\nMore than 1,000 employees of the GLA group were informed on Tuesday about the decision, which followed a consultation over the summer.\n\nThe GLA's Conservative leader Susan Hall said the plan was \"flawed\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mayor of London said the move would save more than £60m over the next five years.\n\nCity Hall, which was designed by Sir Norman Foster, has been the official home of the GLA since it was opened by the Queen in 2002 and occupies a prominent position on the south bank of the Thames.\n\nThe GLA has leased the building from a private landlord - the Kuwaiti-owned St Martin's Property Group - at a cost of more than £11m a year.\n\nHowever the terms of the 25-year-old lease allow for a break in the contract at the end of 2021.\n\nFaced by Mr Khan's threat in the summer to move out of City Hall, the landlords offered an undisclosed reduction in the annual rent, but negotiations failed to produce a deal.\n\nThe Crystal was opened in 2012 by electronics giant Siemens which cited it as an exemplar of sustainable design.\n\nIt is located near London's cross-river cable car, which was opened by Boris Johnson when he was mayor.\n\nSiemens sold the building to the GLA in June 2019.\n\nThe Crystal was opened in 2012, having been commissioned by Siemens as an exemplar of sustainable design.\n\nThe Crystal is close to a new station on the Crossrail route - though the Elizabeth Line, as it will be known, is not currently due to open until 2022.\n\nThe glass building has less capacity than City Hall and some GLA staff will instead be relocated to the London Fire Brigade's headquarters in Union Street, Southwark.\n\nMillions of pounds will have to be spent to upgrade security for the mayor and members of the London Assembly.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade will still be asked to look for savings by November\n\nMr Khan would be expected to divide his time between the Crystal and Union Street, although meetings of the London Assembly would take place in the new headquarters.\n\nOver the summer, the Conservative group on the London Assembly claimed Mr Khan had exaggerated the potential savings from the move.\n\nA subsequent review of the options by the GLA found the savings would actually be greater than first thought.\n\nFront-line police services will be protected from any potential cuts, Sadiq Khan said\n\nThe mayor told the London Assembly recently that the move was necessary because of government under-funding.\n\nMoving London's government from its central location to a site in Newham to the east of the capital has been criticised by some as likely to diminish its role and status.\n\nOthers - including Labour-run Newham council - maintain it will spur the regeneration of one of the poorest parts of the capital.\n\nThe mayor says he faces cuts to the GLA, police, fire service and Transport for London (TFL) of more than £400m over the next year and his priority is to protect jobs.\n\nIn response to the confirmation of the move, Conservative leader Ms Hall said she was \"disappointed\" and described it as a \"half-baked plan based on dodgy numbers\".\n\nShe added: \"The mayor was offered a substantial rent reduction by the landlord of the existing building.\n\n\"Instead of accepting it, Khan has chosen a flawed plan to move. We will doubtlessly see costs spiral and fewer savings than he promises.\"\n\nMoving HQ from the heart of the city to east London might seem at first glance a dramatic, if not over-dramatic, response to the financially straitened times faced by the mayor.\n\nYet he argues it needs to be about people, not places. As well as enabling him to protect jobs, it looks ahead to a post-Covid world where fewer organisations and fewer employees will be quite as wedded to their offices and their brass nameplates.\n\nSome will feel it diminishes the status of the mayoralty to up sticks and shuffle downstream to an area of the capital which feels a bit remote - and is, let's face it, a work in progress.\n\nOn the other hand, that is precisely the point.\n\nRegenerating the Royal Docks is a post-Olympic mayoral policy priority once backed by one Boris Johnson. So what impact could anchoring the seat of London government there have?\n\nThere are swathes of public land (a lot of it owned by the GLA) begging for development. The Crystal nestles beneath an under-used cable car, and the ExCel Centre, City Airport, Newham Council's HQ, the University of East London and a new Crossrail station are nearby.\n\nThings are happening. This could help make things happen even faster. Practically as well as symbolically it could prove an exciting and transformative journey.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "At least one person has been killed and several wounded after several shootings in the Austrian capital, Vienna.\n\nA large area of the city centre has been cordoned off as police scour the city for gunmen.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called it a \"repulsive terror attack\" and said one gunman was also killed.", "Four people have died in a gun attack in the centre of the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Monday night.\n\nOne suspect was shot dead by police. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called it a \"repulsive terror attack\".\n\nThe shooting happened just hours before Austria imposed new national restrictions to try to stem rising cases of coronavirus.\n\nMany people were out enjoying bars and restaurants which are now closed until the end of November.\n\nPolice said the incident began near the Seitenstettengasse synagogue, which is the main temple in Vienna though it is not yet clear if that was the target.\n\nRoadblocks were set up around the city centre. Large numbers of police officers were seen near Vienna's world-famous opera house.\n\nInterior Minister Karl Nehammer said: \"This is the hardest day for Austria for several years. We're dealing with a terror attack the severity of which we haven't experienced in Austria for a long time.\"", "Former Wales lock Ian Gough is taking legal action over tens of thousands of pounds he says he is still owed\n\nA businesswoman who sponsored the Scarlets and Cardiff City Football Club is facing bankruptcy after her firm collapsed with debts of more than £12m.\n\nFormer Wales rugby international Ian Gough said he was taking legal action against Clare Louise Thomas over an unpaid court judgement totalling more than £20,000.\n\nHe said her firm Juno Moneta Wealth also owed him £31,000 for unpaid wages.\n\nMs Thomas said she believed she had reached a settlement with Mr Gough.\n\nShe said she refuted any allegations made about her business.\n\nMr Gough, a former Wales lock and Newport Gwent Dragons second row, said he began working for the financial solutions business in June 2017 as a part of its senior leadership team.\n\nIt is also understood the Scarlets are owed £500,000 from a three-year sponsorship deal with Juno Moneta launched in 2018\n\nThe retired player said after asking questions about the business and Ms Thomas, also known as Louise O'Halloran, he \"stopped being paid his wages\".\n\nHe said he also failed to receive money owed to him following a property deal with Ms Thomas.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare 18 months old and has created a lot of stress and strain on my side,\" he said.\n\nMs Thomas said Mr Gough left her company as a result of a \"mutual decision\", adding as a group they were \"unhappy with his performance\".\n\nIt is understood the Scarlets are owed £500,000 from a three-year sponsorship deal with Juno Moneta launched in 2018.\n\nThe wealth management company became the region's main shirt sponsor, with Ms Thomas sitting as a board director before resigning in January this year.\n\nThe businesswoman said she was \"a huge supporter of the world of rugby\", adding her board had been disappointed with the level of service they received from the rugby region.\n\nCardiff City Football Club has confirmed Juno Moneta's sponsorship of a lounge at the stadium finished a year early due to the company's financial circumstances.\n\nMs Thomas confirmed the deal ended earlier than planned but said she believed it was because the company was sponsoring a lounge that could no longer be attended because of Covid-19.\n\nShe added she was unaware of any issues with her company and Cardiff City Football Club.\n\nMr Gough is one of several creditors to companies within the Juno Moneta Group, which entered administration in August this year.\n\nIts largest creditor, Contrad Ltd, had invested £10.3m in the company.\n\nClare Louise Thomas, also known as Louise O'Halloran, said she refuted any allegations made about her business\n\nAccording to a statement by administrators, Contrad turned down a request from Juno Moneta for more money in July after being made aware of issues with the company and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nInstead, Contrad demanded repayment and the company entered administration.\n\nThe administrators' statement said the company directors attributed its insolvency to \"the Covid-19 pandemic reducing face-to-face contacts with clients along with a steep decline in revenue\".\n\nMs Thomas claimed the \"administration of Juno Moneta came as a complete shock\" to her.\n\nThe 48-year-old added she was \"very unwell\" at the time and believed the issue of \"capital adequacy\" with the FCA had been sorted with Contrad.\n\n\"It's sad this route has been taken… although I'm happy almost all staff now have jobs,\" she added.\n\nOne businessperson, who did not want to be named, said they had \"no idea how messy things appeared to be at Juno Moneta\".\n\nThey invested hundreds of thousands of pounds with the company and said the situation was \"very unfortunate and worrying\".\n\n\"I'm getting to the point where I'm going to have to write this off, and I'm fortunate that I can,\" they added.\n\nIn response, Ms Thomas said she and her family had found the situation and rumours about her business \"exceptionally distressing\".\n\nShe said she refuted any allegations made against her and would be dealing with them via the appropriate legal channels.\n\nMs Thomas added she was \"gravely concerned at the level of incorrect information\" surrounding her business.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nEveryone living and working in Liverpool will be offered regular coronavirus testing from the end of this week. The armed forces will help carry out the pilot scheme. Liverpool has one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in England, and doctors at the city's intensive care units have told the BBC they're struggling to cope. Despite widespread optimism, the BBC's James Gallagher says there are questions about mass testing. False positives could be a problem, as could individual behaviour - can authorities do better at persuading people who do test positive to isolate?\n\nAbout a third of in-patients now have Covid-19\n\nThe clock is ticking down towards the start of England's second nationwide lockdown. Retailers preparing to close their doors have told us how they're feeling, and plenty of sectors have been making last-minute arguments for an exemption. Children's grassroots sport, for one, has been told a reprieve won't be granted. Footballer Robbie Savage is among those angry at the decision, and BBC sports editor Dan Roan says pressure to at least make the return of youth sport next month a priority will continue.\n\nUniversities and colleges in England face \"significant funding shortfalls and heightened uncertainty\" due to the pandemic, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The loss of many overseas students - and the high fees they pay - are a factor, as is the threat of potentially higher dropout rates. Those things combined with high pension costs create considerable financial risk for the sector, warns the IFS. In July, ministers said universities could apply for emergency loans.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) dealt with more than 700 incidents during the past year and more than a quarter were linked to coronavirus. Protecting the NHS and health-related research has been a priority, its annual report reveals. Some of the incidents related to countering nation-state attacks, but most were criminal in nature. The NCSC also says it thwarted 15,354 campaigns that had used coronavirus themes as a \"lure\" to scam people.\n\nUsing the hashtag #TeamHalo, scientists around the world hunting for a coronavirus vaccine are documenting their efforts on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram. Their aim is to take the public behind the scenes and answer as many pressing questions as possible - in part to counter the misinformation people may be receiving from elsewhere.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Get a closer look at how scientists develop a Covid-19 vaccine\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, we've answered your questions on some of the finer detail ahead of the start of England's second lockdown, including what the restrictions mean for Remembrance Sunday.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Gabriela Pintilie died after losing six litres of blood giving birth to her second child at Basildon Hospital's maternity unit\n\nAn NHS hospital where a woman bled to death in childbirth has been given an \"urgent\" deadline to keep patients at its maternity unit safe.\n\nA letter seen by the BBC reveals the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found unsafe staffing levels at the unit at Basildon Hospital throughout August.\n\nThe CQC said the trust that runs it had until next Monday to implement appropriate measures.\n\nThe trust said it had a \"robust improvement plan in place\".\n\nThe seven-page document, sent by the CQC on 7 October, puts the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust on notice that it has to \"implement an effective governance system\", among other measures.\n\nConsequences for missing the deadline were not stated, but the CQC said it was using its powers under the Health and Social Care Act to impose conditions on the trust's registration.\n\nThe Act does allow the CQC to temporarily close health services.\n\nThe letter described how inspectors returned on 18 September and found the trust had still not dealt with serious failings it had been warned about in August, following a visit prompted by a whistleblower.\n\nIt highlighted that it did not accept that some of the problems had been addressed, despite assurances from the trust that they had been.\n\nThe letter continued \"we were not assured that you effectively reviewed staffing and escalated appropriately to maintain safe staffing in the maternity unit\".\n\nThe CQC said Basildon Hospital was continuing to fail to deliver safe maternity care despite repeated warnings\n\nA CQC visit in June found failings in six serious cases and rated the maternity unit inadequate.\n\nIts August report said lessons had not been learnt following the death of Gabriela Pintilie in February 2019.\n\nThe Essex coroner said there had been delays, confusion and a lack of leadership after Ms Pintilie, 36, lost six litres of blood while giving birth to her daughter.\n\nMrs Pintilie's husband Ionel Pintilie said he was \"relieved\" the urgent safety deadline has been imposed on the unit.\n\n\"My wife died needlessly at the hospital and the fact that it is still deemed unsafe 18 months after we lost her is a scandal,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stela Ernu said \"they're just not doing their jobs properly\"\n\nStela Ernu, from South Ockendon, was more than 41 weeks pregnant when she was told her baby boy's heart was no longer beating.\n\nShe said had been to Basildon Hospital twice on 12 and 13 March 2019 but \"was not listened to\" when she said there was something wrong and was sent home on both occasions.\n\nWhen she returned a third time, on 14 March, she was given the devastating news.\n\nShe said there \"were not words\" to describe how the family felt, and said there were \"plenty\" of staff members who could have helped.\n\n\"Every time I went in there, there were plenty of rooms empty... it's a silly excuse for them to say they've been too busy. They're just not doing their jobs properly,\" she said.\n\nThe hospital said a full investigation was carried out in light of Mrs Ernu's case and staff met with the family to share the findings.\n\nIt said all of the recommendations from the investigation had been implemented.\n\nThe CQC said in a statement it was now taking \"action to protect the welfare of people using the service\".\n\nClare Panniker, chief executive for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said it had \"taken action following [the CQC's] initial feedback to make our services better\".\n\n\"We have a robust improvement plan in place, and continue to work closely with the CQC and our regulators as we make the necessary changes and are committed to improving the quality of maternity care,\" she said.\n\nStephanie Prior, a solicitor for families who have lost loved ones and babies at the unit, said \"these words needed to be actioned into a foolproof, safe working environment for patients and staff\".\n\nThe CQC letter said the trust had until 16:00 on 9 November to implement the recommended changes.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American voters will face a clear choice for president on election day, between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic hopeful Joe Biden.\n\nHere's a look at what they stand for and how their policies compare on eight key issues.\n\nPresident Trump set up a coronavirus task force at the end of January which he says has now shifted its focus to \"safety and opening up our country\".\n\nThe president is also prioritising the speedy development of coronavirus treatments and vaccines, directing $10bn towards such projects.\n\nMr Biden wants to set up a national contact-tracing programme, establish at least 10 testing centres in every state, and provide free coronavirus testing to all.\n\nHe supports a nationwide mask mandate, which would require face coverings to be worn on federal property.\n\nPresident Trump is a climate change sceptic, and wants to expand non-renewable energy. He aims to increase drilling for oil and gas, and roll back further environmental protections.\n\nHe has committed to withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord - the international agreement on tackling climate change - which the US will formally leave later this year.\n\nMr Biden says he would immediately re-join the Paris climate agreement if elected.\n\nHe wants the US to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and proposes banning new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, as well as a $2tn investment in green energy.\n\nPresident Trump has pledged to create 10 million jobs in 10 months, and create one million new small businesses.\n\nHe wants to deliver an income tax cut, and provide companies with tax credits to incentivise them to keep jobs in the US.\n\nMr Biden wants to raise taxes for high earners to pay for investment in public services, but says the increase will only impact those earning over $400,000 a year.\n\nHe supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 (£11.50) an hour from the current rate of $7.25 (£5.50).\n\nPresident Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed under President Obama, which increased the federal government's regulation of the private health insurance system, including making it illegal to deny coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. He says he wants to improve and replace it, although no details of the plan have been published.\n\nThe president also aims to lower drug prices by allowing imports of cheaper ones from abroad.\n\nMr Biden wants to protect and expand the ACA.\n\nHe wants to lower the eligibility age for Medicare, the policy which provides medical benefits to the elderly, from 65 to 60. He also wants to give all Americans the option to enrol in a public health insurance plan similar to Medicare.\n\nPresident Trump has reiterated his promise to bring down US troop levels overseas, while continuing to invest in the military.\n\nThe president says he will continue to challenge international alliances and maintain trade tariffs on China.\n\nMr Biden has promised to repair relationships with US allies.\n\nHe says he would do away with unilateral tariffs on China, and instead hold them accountable with an international coalition that China \"can't afford to ignore\".\n\nPresident Trump says he doesn't believe racism is a systemic problem within US police forces.\n\nHe has positioned himself as a firm advocate of law enforcement, but has opposed chokeholds and offered grants for improved practices.\n\nMr Biden views racism as a systemic problem, and has set out policies to address racial disparities in the justice system, such as grants to incentivise states in reducing incarceration rates.\n\nHe has rejected calls to defund police, saying additional resources should instead be tied to maintaining proper standards.\n\nPresident Trump has an expansive interpretation of the US constitution's Second Amendment protections giving Americans the right to bear arms.\n\nHe did propose tightening background checks on gun buyers after a string of mass shootings in 2019, but nothing came of the plan and no further legislation has been put forward.\n\nMr Biden has proposed banning assault weapons, universal background checks, limiting the number of guns a person can purchase to one per month, and making it easier to sue negligent gun manufacturers and sellers.\n\nHe would also fund more research into preventing gun violence.\n\nPresident Trump says it's his constitutional right to fill the vacancy on the court during the remainder of his first term in office, and has put forward conservative judge, Amy Coney Barrett.\n\nOne issue that the Supreme Court could soon rule on is the legal right to abortion in the US - something the president and Judge Barrett have opposed in the past.\n\nMr Biden wants the vacancy to be filled after the next president enters office.\n\nHe says if elected he would work to pass legislation to guarantee a woman's right to an abortion if the Supreme Court rules against it.", "Four senior ex-Scotland Yard officers involved in the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation may face criminal charges, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe group worked on the case in the weeks after the 18-year-old's death in south-east London in 1993.\n\nA six-year probe by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the men may have committed the offence of misconduct in public office.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will consider whether to bring charges.\n\nA racist gang murdered Mr Lawrence as he ran to catch a bus with his friend Duwayne Brooks on 22 April 1993 in Eltham.\n\nNo arrests were made for two weeks after his death, despite five suspects being named by anonymous informants.\n\nIt was not until 2012 that two men - Gary Dobson and David Norris, who were among the group accused of attacking Mr Lawrence and Mr Brooks - were convicted of murder.\n\nThe Macpherson Report - published in 1999 - found initial attempts to catch Mr Lawrence's killers were hampered by incompetence and \"institutional racism\" in the Metropolitan Police.\n\nGary Dobson (left) and David Norris were convicted of murder in 2012\n\nA further IOPC inquiry - launched in 2014 - was initially tasked with establishing whether one officer who dealt with the case originally had \"acted corruptly\".\n\nRegional director Sarah Green said the officer was alleged to have been \"improperly influenced or motivated to protect at least one of the suspects during the original murder investigation\".\n\nInvestigators eventually found \"no indication of corruption\" in that case, Ms Green said.\n\nBut evidence unearthed during the inquiry led the IOPC to ask the force to refer the conduct of four officers to the watchdog.\n\nMs Green said there was \"an indication\" the ex-officers, \"may have committed the offence of misconduct in public office in relation to their actions and omissions prior to the arrests of the five key suspects\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) interviewed more than 150 people on behalf of the IOPC, including serving and former police officers, staff involved in the original murder inquiry, relevant witnesses and others, including journalists with in-depth knowledge of the original investigation.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "As we've been reporting, chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance are being questioned by MPs about the figures they gave at Saturday’s briefing when the prime minister announced the new lockdown for England.\n\nThere has been much focus on the chart above, which included one model that gave a scenario of 4,000 people a day dying of coronavirus over winter (roughly four times the figure during the worst days of the first wave).\n\nSir Patrick said he hoped the focus had not been on the longer term models in that chart, but on the six week forecasts in other charts in the presentation.\n\nProf Whitty said “I have never used anything beyond six weeks in anything I have ever said to any minister on this issue”, but Sir Patrick then said that the chart had indeed been shown to the prime minister.\n\nThere has also been criticism that the curves in the chart were all produced at the start of October, just after the rapid rise in cases that followed students returning to university. These were based on models for worst-case planning that assumed no changes in policy or behaviour.\n\nBut, since then, England has introduced a three-tier system of stricter measures and the epidemic has grown more slowly than the curves assumed it would.\n\nIndeed, on the day the chart was used, an average of 215 deaths had been reported each day in the previous week. That was far below the 1,000 a day envisioned by the most pessimistic model.", "Stopping coronavirus from spreading in hospitals is “incredibly difficult”, the chief executive of the NHS in Wales has admitted.\n\nThere were nearly 200 cases of hospital-acquired coronavirus in the last week, Dr Andrew Goodall said.\n\nThe Cwm Taf Bro Morgannwg health board area in south Wales has been particularly badly hit, with at least 69 deaths in its hospitals.\n\nBut Dr Goodall said that even in that region, hospital-acquired cases only accounted for three per cent of the total.\n\n“I want to be clear, this is not as simple as a failure of hand-washing or poor infection control procedures,” he said.\n\n“This virus is highly infectious and it can be passed on in the asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic and symptomatic phases of the infection.\n\n“It is incredibly difficult to prevent its spread in busy healthcare environments, especially with around 90 people with Covid currently admitted each day.”\n\nThere were 192 cases of probable or definite cases of hospital transmission in Wales last week, he said, around 1 in 40 of the total confirmed cases.\n\n“Despite hospital transmissions, over 85% of our available beds do not have coronavirus patients, so care remains safe for the vast majority needing to access hospital,” Dr Goodall added.\n\nHe confirmed there were 1,275 Covid-related patients in hospital, only 9% lower than the April peak.\n\nHe added: “Our normal critical care capacity of 152 beds is full, mainly with people who do not have coronavirus – we currently have 163 people in critical care at the moment.\n\n“We have plans to expand critical care capacity if required.”\n\nSome 16,000 people have now been discharged from hospital after being treated for coronavirus.", "Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was just speaking on the Senate floor. He defended President Trump's right to challenge the election results and not concede.\n\n\"No states have yet certified election results,\" he noted. This is true - states have until 8 December to certify their electors.\n\nMcConnell continued to say all legal ballots should count and the process must be \"transparent\".\n\n\"If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light and if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny,\" the majority leader added.\n\nExperts have long said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in postal voting.\n\n\"We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,\" McConnell said.\n\n\"The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president.\"\n\nOnly three Republican Senators have thus far acknowledged Biden's win. Republican President George W Bush has also congratulated Biden on his win.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Gemma York said there were \"grey areas\" for parents who are vulnerable to Covid-19\n\nA mum of five with stage-four cancer has written to the prime minister asking for guidance on whether to send her children to school during lockdown.\n\nGemma York, 37, from Cornwall, said if her children \"brought Covid home\" it would pose a risk to her life as she is clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nDowning Street has not yet responded to Mrs York or the BBC.\n\nGemma York said she and her husband Edd had already taken the children out of school when there had been confirmed Covid cases\n\nA four-week lockdown will come into force in England on Thursday as Covid-19 continues to spread.\n\nMrs York, from Penryn, said she \"was not anti Boris\" but that there was a lack of \"specific guidance\" for vulnerable parents.\n\n\"Sometimes I have to crawl upstairs to the toilet... A simple cold can give me an infection,\" she explained.\n\n\"My husband wanted to take the children out [of school] because it's a risk to my life and I want to keep them in because of their education - but we just need more guidelines.\n\n\"As an extremely high risk vulnerable person, can I pull my children out of school? ...Will I get fined if I do?\" she asked.\n\nConfirmed cases of coronavirus have more than doubled in Cornwall since the start of September, from 985 to 2,430 on Monday.\n\nMrs York said it had reached a point where the family needed more advice on what to do concerning the children.\n\nMrs York, her husband, sister, parents and the local pub landlord all shaved their heads on Monday in aid of the Macmillan cancer charity\n\nMrs York was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in September and is expected to undergo cycles of chemotherapy for up to three years before \"hopefully going into remission,\" she said.\n\nShe said the schools and her consultant had not been able to give her official advice and she had also asked Boris Johnson to clarify \"grey areas\" on support bubbles for the clinically vulnerable.\n\nThe Yorks, who also have several pets, said income was an additional worry for the imminent lockdown.\n\nMrs York, who works in a care home, went on sick leave after her diagnosis and her husband Edd, a self-employed van driver, has not yet qualified for government help.\n\nBut she vowed: \"We will stay positive.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump and Joe Biden are battling to become the 46th US president.\n\nIn Donald Trump's world, perhaps there was no greater compliment for Boris Johnson than saying he was, well, just like him. And this was how he greeted the prime minister's ascent to power.\n\nWhile both leaders enjoy casting themselves as outsiders, that caricatured comparison is far from a complete picture.\n\nBut as the world waits to find out whether the president will defy the polls and stay in the White House, or Joe Biden will get to move in, it's worth wondering for a moment who the UK government would rather hold the key.\n\nFor one senior politician with experience of dealing with Trump's White House and Boris Johnson, it's a simple equation: \"It's short term, versus long term\".\n\nThey suggest in the immediate future, it's better to have a very pro-UK ally on Pennsylvania Avenue, easing the path to a trade deal, and holding the diplomatic ties between our two countries firm, rather than being tempted to move closer to Paris or Berlin.\n\nBut in the long term, Biden's a better pick, they suggest, because the UK's standing in the world is based on its participation in institutions and alliances - the very structures they say Trump wants to \"wreck\".\n\nAnd has the president's obvious liking for the prime minister really translated into much for the UK anyway?\n\nAnother source who has been involved with handling that fabled special relationship isn't so sure, suggesting the Britain that \"Trump loves is the country of the royal family and Winston Churchill, not modern Britain\".\n\nAnd his liking for the PM and his own ties to the UK \"haven't translated to listening\" to the government's opinion.\n\nPresident Trump has spoken warmly of Boris Johnson as a \"really good man\".\n\nBut the relationship with Biden could have problems.\n\nThe same insider suggests that he thinks that Brexit is \"nuts\" and sees the UK government as a little too like Trump's for his liking.\n\nDuring the campaign, he even went on the record to make plain his opposition to the UK's controversial Internal Market Bill.\n\nJoe Biden's public image might perhaps be less aggressive, more reasonable and predictable.\n\nBut when it comes to a trade deal, a Biden White House would be dealing with the same strong commercial interests in the US - the same farmers, the same car makers, the same healthcare industry that wants to make the most of potential opportunities in the UK and defend their same interests just as strongly.\n\nAnd if there is a change of administration, one senior official told me the work of the trade deal with the US would essentially have to start again.\n\nBiden in charge, however, could bring other opportunities for the UK, particularly on climate change, when the Trump administration seems barely interested in the conversation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. That was wild - a three-year campaign in three minutes\n\nThe UK is hosting the huge COP26 climate conference in 2021 - a willing White House could make all the difference to making that count.\n\nAnd with the UK taking charge of the G7 group through next year comes another opportunity to prove that international cooperation can work.\n\nWhitehall doesn't expect immediately to be Joe Biden's best European friend if he wins - the expectation is that he would go first to Berlin.\n\nBut there are big chances to show that the special relationship, so fretted over on this side of the pond, counts in the near future, if Biden is in charge.\n\nThe personal and political contrasts between the two US rivals are vast, as are their attitudes to the UK, particularly over the issue of Brexit.\n\nBut in practice, the gap from across the Atlantic on many issues may not be so wide after all.\n\nFor all the angst and excitement of an election, for all the profound differences between the candidates this time round, the longer-term strategic interests shared by the UK and the US are bigger than any one, or even two politicians.\n\nThe security and defence cooperation between the two countries is close and longstanding, and many miles under the radar of the wild swings of Trump's Twitter diplomacy.\n\nAnd whisper it, VERY different domestic administrations in the White House have held similar positions sometimes when it comes to foreign affairs.\n\nPresident Trump has used a megaphone to criticise Nato, as well as how much other EU countries stump up towards the alliance.\n\nBut one insider points out that Barack Obama shared that view: \"Trump shouts it. Obama whispered it,\" but essentially they agreed.\n\nHow Joe Biden might say it, if he wins, we'll have to see.\n\nFor all that the \"Britain Trump\" characterisation is a misleading tag, the chemistry between leaders does matter.\n\nA change in the White House would mean a loss of political affinity between the prime minister and the most powerful leader in the West.\n\nBut it could mean a more predictable partner for the UK, at a time of huge change. Westminster will be watching the election results carefully, along with the rest of the world.", "The number of people dying in the UK is more than 10% above normal levels - with almost all of the excess linked to Covid, official figures show.\n\nThere were 12,292 deaths in the week ending 23 October - 1,100 where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate, national statisticians reported.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths that have been registered this year and linked to Covid to over 60,000.\n\nThat is out of nearly 430,000 deaths across society in 2020.\n\nThe figure is higher than the government data which shows nearly 47,000 people have died with Covid.\n\nBut the government figure only counts those who have died within 28 days of a positive test, whereas the national statisticians' records are drawn from death certificates filled in by doctors.\n\nThese national statistics, drawn from Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Northern Ireland and Scotland, show the number of deaths linked to Covid are doubling every fortnight.\n\nThis is in line with the government figures.\n\nBecause of the length of time it takes for infected individuals to fall seriously ill, any impact from the lockdown in England, which starts on Thursday, will not be seen in the death figures until the end of November.", "The risk to UK consumers was \"very low\" according to the Food Standards Agency\n\nThirteen thousand birds are to be culled at farm in Cheshire after avian flu was confirmed there.\n\nThe H5N8 strain of bird flu was detected at a broiler breeders premises in Frodsham, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nIt said it was not related to the H5N2 strain found at a small farm near Deal in Kent earlier.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the risk to public health was \"very low\".\n\nAll 13,000 birds at the farm, which produces hatching eggs, will be culled, said Defra.\n\nFurther testing is under way to determine if it is a highly pathogenic strain and whether it is related to the virus currently circulating in Europe.\n\nThe UK's chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss, said: \"Immediate steps have been taken to limit the risk of the disease spreading.\n\n\"This includes 3km and 10km temporary control zones around the infected site.\n\n\"We are urgently looking for any evidence of disease spread associated with this farm to control and eliminate it.\"\n\nDr Gavin Dabrera from PHE said: \"There have never been any confirmed cases of H5N8 in humans and the risk to public health is considered very low.\"\n\nA Food Standards Agency spokesperson said: \"On the basis of the current scientific evidence, avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Hundreds of birds culled at farm hit by avian flu\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArgentina legend Diego Maradona has undergone successful brain surgery, his doctor has said.\n\nThe 1986 World Cup winner, 60, was admitted to Ipensa clinic in Buenos Aires on Monday, suffering from anaemia and dehydration.\n\nLeopoldo Luque, Maradona's personal physician, said he had \"coped well with the surgery\".\n\nHe will now remain under observation, Dr Luque said, adding that everything was \"under control\".\n\nMaradona was transferred to the Olivos Clinic in La Plata, where was operated on at 20:00 local time (23:00 GMT) by Dr Luque, who is a neurosurgeon. The procedure took about 80 minutes.\n\nHe attended the side's game against Patronato on Friday, his 60th birthday.\n\nSupporters of Gimnasia y Esgrima have been congregating outside the hospital carrying messages of support for the former Argentina forward.\n\nOnce the outcome of the surgery was announced, a group of fans outside began chanting his name, the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nHis former club Napoli, who he helped to two Serie A titles, tweeted a message of support.\n• None Maradona at 60: In search of the real Diego - Guillem Balague column", "Kris Gumbrell,, who runs 22-pub chain Brewhouse & Kitchen, says the shift is 'a tremendous result'\n\nA government U-turn allowing pubs to sell takeaway beer during the latest lockdown has been broadly welcomed by the industry, but some chains say they will still struggle to survive.\n\nKris Gumbrell, chief executive officer of 22-pub chain Brewhouse & Kitchen, said it was \"a tremendous result\".\n\n\"I think it will make a significant difference, not only for my company, but for the entire sector\", he told Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, a lot of pubs served takeaway meals and drinks as another revenue stream, which was \"essential\", he said.\n\n\"What we noticed is that businesses evolve through a crisis, and also the guest evolves through a crisis as well. People miss pubs, they miss the connection, they miss the community part of what a pub actually means, so they want to support their local pub,\" he said.\n\n\"Giving a pub the opportunity to open up a new revenue stream was really critical in helping to pay those bills,\" he said.\n\nMark Newcombe says: \"Our income will be reduced to nothing.\"\n\nHowever, Mark Newcombe, head of a community-run pub called the Craufurd Arms, in Maidenhead, says his pub will still have to close for the duration.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, customers must order their drink via a website, phone or text message. Deliveries are also allowed.\n\nPre-ordered alcohol can be collected by customers as long as they do not enter the premises, the legislation says.\n\nMr Newcombe's pub stayed open when the first lockdown rules were eased because it was able to serve takeaway real ale on the spot.\n\nBut this time it will close for the second one because his pub doesn't have an app, and is \"not in the position to run a [pre-ordered] takeaway service,\" he said.\n\nTo keep its head above water, the pub will furlough staff, apply for local government grants, launch a crowdfunding campaign, and perhaps sell more shares in the venture.\n\nAs for the pub's longer-term future, he said it was \"very difficult to plan\" as he didn't know when it would be able to reopen.\n\n\"At the end of the day our income will be reduced to nothing,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Newcombe was also concerned about the wider implications of shutting the pub on the local community, particularly on the mental health of people adjusting to a second lockdown who may use the pub for social interactions.\n\nThe new restrictions \"take away that social engagement\", he said.\n\nPlans published at the weekend originally suggested that while restaurants could sell takeaway food, takeaway alcohol was to be banned.\n\nThe industry has hailed the turnaround as a small victory but said the rules should allow venues to sell drink in the same way as an off-licence.\n\n\"Takeaway alcohol from pubs if it is pre-ordered and customers don't enter the premises is movement, but still not anywhere near enough,\" said Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\n\"Supermarkets and off-licences can still sell alcohol, so this is grossly unfair on pubs with off-licences. It remains the case that to help pubs and brewers survive, and to stop up to 7.5 million pints from being wasted, the government needs to give pubs the same ability to sell off-licence alcohol as it did in the first lockdown.\"\n\nIn the last lockdown, pubs in England had been allowed to sell takeaway pints and food, and were concerned that closure for a month would mean pouring millions of pints of ale down the drain as open kegs would go off.\n\n\"It is a welcome and helpful clarification that pubs and restaurants will be permitted to continue with off-licence sales of alcohol through delivery, as well as click and collect for pre-ordered sales,\" said Kate Nichols of lobby group UK Hospitality.\n\n\"This was a lifeline to many businesses in the first lockdown and it is good to see common sense prevail this time too - avoiding waste and providing a valuable community service - although we can see no reason why a pub could not operate as a retail outlet for pre-packaged food and drink as many did last time.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise that these are extremely challenging circumstances for pubs and the hospitality industry. Public health and safety remains our number one priority and that is why pubs and other hospitality venues cannot serve alcohol on site to takeaway to prevent people from gathering outside their premises.\n\n\"However, they can sell alcohol as part of delivery services, including through click and collect, over the telephone and by other remote methods of ordering for collection, provided customers do not congregate as groups once they have picked up their order.\"", "You probably haven't heard of Dan Bongino, but if you are on Facebook you might have seen one of his posts. You may have even shared one.\n\nDan Bongino is ex-NYPD and Secret Service and also worked as presidential protection for two presidents - George W Bush and Barack Obama.\n\nNow a prolific right-wing commentator, in the last two months his Facebook posts have attracted more shares than those of Fox News and CNN, combined.\n\nBut he's not the only one to have an outsized influence over America's social media conversation.\n\nAs the election campaign became more intense, a very small group of personalities and social media accounts on both sides of the political divide have resonated with audiences in a way even politicians and media organisations have not.\n\nTheir rapid surge in popularity has seen such people generate more social media interactions than almost every politician and major publisher.\n\nThey have become this election's \"influencers\" - with strong but pithy opinions, picking up what they see as political contradictions and hypocrisy. Some make memes, others just inspire the meme-makers with their ironic observations.\n\n\"My life is all about owning the libs now,\" said Mr Bongino two years ago. He attacks the left and defends President Trump in a direct and aggressive style - not being part of the traditional political establishment seems to be part of his appeal.\n\nDan Bongino hosting his show (left); One of Bongino's most shared Facebook videos (right)\n\nHe is also very critical of mainstream media (although he is himself a commentator on Fox News) and a section of his website is dedicated to \"debunking liberal myths\". Some of his most successful posts have titles like \"Exposing how much of a liar Joe Biden is\" and \"Fact-checking Kamala Harris' fake Lincoln quote at the debate\". He has been criticised and fact-checked himself many times - but that hasn't stopped people sharing his posts.\n\nOne video montage of Ronald Reagan's speeches on law and order had almost as many shares as all New York Times Facebook posts in the previous month.\n\nMr Bongino has recently told The New York Times that he doesn't know what's behind this rapid increase but attributes his success to his team and Facebook's user base - older and more conservative than other social networks.\n\nConservative voices have been particularly strong on Facebook during this campaign.\n\nFranklin Graham, son of late preacher Billy Graham, is one of the most influential evangelicals in America. His Facebook posts are consistently among the most shared, whether he is praising Trump's foreign policy, urging followers to pray for the president's victory or sharing discredited theories about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHollywood actor James Woods returned to Twitter the start of 2020 after a 10-month hiatus. Woods's account has been suspended multiple times for spreading conspiracy theories and violating the platform's rules. His blistering attacks on Democrats are often screenshotted and widely shared by pro-Trump accounts on other social platforms.\n\nOne of James Woods' most successful tweets\n\nOne progressive (the more liberal-leaning end of the Democratic Party) page is winning the meme war.\n\nOccupy Democrats, founded in 2012 by immigrant twin brothers Rafael and Omar Rivero, amasses millions of shares every month with its text heavy, highly partisan pictures. The page had more shares than Donald Trump's official account this month.\n\nWhen Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign in April, Rafael Rivero started a new page, \"Ridin' With Biden\", which quickly surged to a rapid success. The brothers run other popular accounts, including \"Impeach Trump\" and \"Fight Trump\".\n\nTwo of the most shared Occupy Democrats memes on Facebook\n\nRobert Reich, economic adviser and former US Secretary of Labor, has served in the administrations of three Democratic presidents. His tweets and memes attacking Trump and criticising economic inequality are hugely popular with left-leaning Americans on social media. Reich is arguably the biggest left-wing personality on Facebook - in October, his page had more shares than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined.\n\nIt is well known that Facebook and Twitter have been battlegrounds for years, but Instagram hasn't always seemed like a natural place for political activism.\n\nIn 2020 this has changed as the pandemic and the protests following George Floyd's death generated a huge increase in social justice content being widely shared on Instagram.\n\n\"We don't think you should need to have a degree, or to be able to afford to get behind paywalls, in order to understand the world around you, so we try to break it down into simple, digestible round-ups,\" said Lucy Blakiston, one of the co-founders of SYSCA, a hugely popular account she runs from New Zealand.\n\nMs Blakiston and two other young women started the project in 2018, while all three were at university. Two of them now have full-time jobs, and run SYSCA on the side. Their Instagram account has grown from fewer than 100,000 followers at the start of this year to over 2 million, more than most progressive media brands. To put this into context, it took The Guardian almost four years to get its Instagram following to that level.\n\nIt is not news that in a highly polarised landscape, activism can drown out impartial information and many have warned that social media \"echo chambers\" mean people only see and share content which matches their political point of view.\n\n\"I think our US election coverage has made an impact, but among people who already think similarly to how we do,\" said Ms Blakiston.\n\n\"We are from New Zealand, a place where we are lucky enough to have a leader who we can trust to look after us in times of need,\" she added. \"We look at how things are going in America and think that everyone deserves to have a leader that they trust to look after them.\"\n\nSlideshow explainers seem to have resonated really strongly with Instagram's younger and more progressive audiences. Progressive accounts dedicated to this format, like \"So You Want To Talk About...\" now generate a number of interactions comparable to major news outlets.\n\nThis small group of influencers have clearly benefited from the divisive nature of an election campaign - many posts take advantage of schadenfreude (glee at another's misfortune), one-upmanship and function as digital calls to action.\n\nBut there are also hints that things could change - these highly liked posts featuring moments of unity show positive messages can and do break through.\n\nMoments of unity between Biden and Trump supporters.", "Scotland's new five-tier system of restrictions came into force on Monday\n\nThe Scottish government has said it still does not know whether the full furlough scheme will be available to Scotland once lockdown ends in England at the start of next month.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the scheme would \"continue to be available wherever it is needed\".\n\nBut his housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, has since cast doubt on this.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was awaiting further detail from the Treasury about how it will work in practice.\n\nA UK government source has told BBC Scotland that the Treasury was currently \"dotting the i's and crossing the t's\" before a formal announcement is made.\n\nEngland is to go into a nationwide lockdown on Thursday, with the restrictions due to end on 2 December - the same day that the extension to furlough will also expire.\n\nScotland's five-tier system of restrictions only came into force at the start of this week, with the first minister saying she faces a \"dilemma\" over whether to introduce a tougher lockdown while the full furlough scheme remains in place across the UK.\n\nThe first minister told her daily briefing that the key question was whether the Treasury would continue to pay up to 80% of furloughed workers' wages if Scotland was in lockdown after that date.\n\nShe said no decision would be made until next week at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The prime minister appears to have agreed yesterday that access to the furlough scheme at the higher level of 80% of wages will be available to Scotland after 2 December if that is required.\n\n\"I welcome that commitment, although I do so with a necessary degree of caution - we haven't yet seen any detail of what that commitment means when translated into hard practice.\n\n\"And in particular we have not yet had confirmation from the Treasury that continuation of furlough in Scotland beyond 2 December would be at the 80% level.\n\n\"We have always known there would be some form of furlough scheme continuing after December 2, that has never been the point at issue - the point is at what level?\"\n\nRobert Jenrick appeared to backtrack on the prime minister's announcment\n\nResponding to a question from Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross in the Commons on Monday, the prime minister said the furlough scheme would \"of course\" be available to other parts of the UK \"not just now but in the future\" if they needed it.\n\nBut less than 24 hours later, Mr Johnson appeared to be contradicted by Mr Jenrick - who told Sky News that it would be for the Chancellor to decide whether furlough continued beyond 2 December.\n\nMr Jenrick added: \"It was always UK-wide and we want it to continue to be in the future.\n\n\"So if it is necessary for it to be deployed again then that is for the Chancellor to look at.\n\n\"But everybody throughout the UK today can be assured that furlough at 80% will be available until 2 December.\"\n\nSteve Barclay, the chief secretary to the Treasury, also did not repeat the PM's commitment when he answered questions on furlough in the Commons on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nInstead, he said only that the UK government \"will always be there to provide support to all parts of the UK.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross insisted there was \"no doubt\" that furlough would protect Scottish jobs in the event of another lockdown, adding: \"The prime minister's commitment is definitive\".\n\nAnd the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"If other parts of the UK decide to go into measures which require direct economic support, of course we will make that available to them as we have done throughout the pandemic.\"\n\nScottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said it appeared the UK government could not make up its mind.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"They couldn't give us an answer on Saturday night, when Scottish businesses were worried about what it would mean for them.\n\n\"They have dragged it out for three days with so many twists and turns, appeared to give answers and then walked back on them. This is not a game - jobs depend on this.\n\n\"We are needing simple reassurance that Scottish businesses will be treated with the same degree of respect and valued by the Chancellor if and when we are faced with a similar national lockdown.\"\n\nThe UK-wide furlough scheme - which covers up to 80% of workers wages' and has supported hundreds of thousands of jobs north of the border - was extended to 2 December when Mr Johnson announced the four-week lockdown in England.\n\nHowever, the UK's devolved administrations complained that extension only covered the period when England was under enhanced restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a \"firebreak\" lockdown since 23 October, and First Minister Mark Drakeford said requests to boost wage subsidies there had been repeatedly turned down.", "A rape survivor is calling for government to \"educate\" the public about face-covering exemptions, as England moves into a second lockdown.\n\nHaving her mouth covered still prompts traumatic flashbacks for Georgina Fallows, who was attacked some years ago.\n\nAnd now, she feels re-traumatised by being verbally abused in public when she doesn't wear a mask.\n\nShe has written to ministers with seven mental-health and disability charities.\n\nThey are asking the government to promote a \"recognised badge [or] identifier to signify the wearer as exempt\".\n\nBut, the letter states, a badge \"is no substitute for greater public understanding\" of why people might not be able to wear face coverings and that this reason may be invisible.\n\n\"My attacker literally pulled me off the street and raped me,\" Ms Fallows says.\n\n\"Having something in front of my mouth feels like his hand.\"\n\nShe has severe post-traumatic stress disorder and flashbacks, sometimes so extreme she has been sedated by paramedics.\n\nAnd she has waived her right to anonymity in order to campaign for greater awareness.\n\nFace coverings are mandatory in most indoor public spaces in England, including shops and public transport.\n\nBut there are exemptions for people for whom \"putting on, wearing or removing a face covering\" will cause \"severe distress\".\n\nPeople who cannot wear a mask because of a physical or mental illness or disability are also exempt.\n\nThere is a note that can be downloaded from the government website.\n\nBut Ms Fallows is concerned it is not viewed as \"official\".\n\nAnd when she has shown her exemption pass after being challenged, people will often not accept it.\n\nThe 30-year-old solicitor has been \"screamed at\" for not wearing a mask.\n\nAnd one woman accused \"people like me of killing her father\".\n\nThere are also fears the notes could be misused by people who do not have a valid reason not to wear a face covering.\n\nMs Fallows wants government to consider backing the Hidden Disabilities charity's sunflower lanyard, which is already being used for this purpose and is widely recognised.\n\nFor now, though, she avoids shops and transport wherever possible for fear of being verbally abused.\n\n\"People think it's just a bit uncomfortable,\" wearing a mask.\n\nBut for Ms Fallows, it can be a \"medical emergency\", resulting in three- or four-hour flashbacks that end with her being restrained and unconscious.\n\nAnd it is a problem shared by people with a range of other mental-health conditions, disabilities, autism, and Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe letter, sent to Public Health Minister Jo Churchill, Disability Minister Justin Tomlinson and former Disability Minister Penny Mordaunt, was co-signed by charities including Mind, Sense, Alzheimer's Society and Disability Rights UK.\n\nA Disability Rights UK survey of 350 people uncovered reports of people fearing hate crimes and feeling like prisoners in their own homes.\n\nDifficulties wearing face coverings particularly affect people with mental-health conditions, sensory disorders and hidden disabilities such as autism, its research suggests.\n\nThe British Lung Foundation says: \"Wearing a mask does not reduce a person's oxygen supply or cause a build-up of carbon dioxide.\n\n\"You may have read stories that say that it can - but this isn't true.\"\n\nBut wearing a face covering can give people a psychological perception of heightened breathlessness.\n\nAnd Ms Fallows says those who do not wear one \"through choice... do a genuine disservice to those who 'cannot' wear one and are exempt\".\n\n\"They make it easier for those who are sceptical of the exemptions to case aspersions on those who qualify\".\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and advice can be found here.", "Trump International Hotel has been surrounded by fences Image caption: Trump International Hotel has been surrounded by fences\n\nThe nation’s capital is gearing up for the presidential election not by organising rallies or canvassing, but by putting up boards and fences.\n\nI took a walk around Washington DC downtown today, and the city was eerily quiet.\n\nAt the Trump International Hotel, fences have been installed around the hotel entrances. Only a driveway with enhanced security was open to allow guests to come in and out.\n\nThere are few on the streets on this chilly, windy day, but a man on a scooter passes by and shouts: “Trump 2020!”\n\nAlong the Black Lives Matter Plaza, one block away from the White House, it’s hard to tell whether anything is open for business, as storefronts are all covered up with plywood, in case of civil unrest on the election night and after.\n\nThe fences wall that off the White House and nearby Lafayette Square are covered with anti-Trump signs. Through the fences, I saw a crane lifting construction materials, said to be preparing to put up more fences around the White House.\n\nDemonstrators and journalists gather in front of the White House, and tomorrow night they will return in greater number.\n\nThe world will be watching closely - not only for whether Biden or Trump will be residing here in the next four years, but also for whether the US democratic institutions can withstand the challenges it is facing.", "More than a third of workers are concerned about catching coronavirus on the job, according to a study by the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\nThe poorest paid are particularly worried, the research found, but also the least likely to speak up about it.\n\nYounger workers are also less likely to raise a complaint, the Resolution Foundation said.\n\nThe widespread concerns come despite government advice on making workplaces Covid-secure, researchers said.\n\nLindsay Judge, research director at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"More than one-in-three workers are worried about catching coronavirus on the job, despite the extensive steps employers have taken to make workplaces Covid-secure.\n\n\"Given many workers' limited ability to get employers to address Covid concerns, the UK needs a strong enforcement regime to ensure that workplaces are as safe as can be.\n\n\"But instead health and safety resources have been cut, inspections have been slow, and Covid-related enforcement notices are few and far between.\"\n\nThe researchers said they were also concerned about the reduction in funding at the Health and Safety Executive.\n\nThe HSE's funding for each site it has the right to inspect has shrunk from £224 a decade ago to £100 for the current financial year, according to the report.\n\n\"The Foundation says policy makers should overturn the current view that health and safety is a 'brake on business' and take a more proactive approach to enforcement in the face of the pandemic,\" it said.\n\nA government spokesman said £14m of funding was given to the HSE to combat coronavirus earlier this year.\n\nAn HSE spokesperson said: \"We thank the Resolution Foundation for its report, and with our partners across government we will examine its findings. We welcome the acknowledgement of our increased activity and share the commitment to ensure all employees have a voice.\n\n\"Making sure Great Britain's workplaces are Covid-Secure is our priority; this effort will not be affected by recent additional restrictions announced across England, Scotland and Wales. We will work with stakeholders to deliver workplace health and safety during this coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Inspection and putting duty holders on the spot is just one part of a wide ranging regulatory approach. We use a number of different ways to gather intelligence and reach out to businesses with a combination of site visits, phone calls and through collection of supporting visual evidence such as photos and video footage.\"\n\nWhile a new lockdown in England is planned from Thursday, up to half of workers could still be going to work in jobs such as essential retail, education and health, Resolution said.\n\nThe research used an online YouGov survey of 6,061 adults across the UK.", "Covid patient Harry King, who has double pneumonia, with wife Diane\n\nIf you want to know why England is going into lockdown, Liverpool's intensive care units may help give you the answer.\n\nThey are struggling to cope.\n\n\"We are hanging by a thread,\" says Dr Oliver Zuzan, divisional medical director at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.\n\nHe is speaking to me in a six-bed intensive care unit, reserved for non-Covid patients. At least here there's no requirement for the staff to spend their shifts in full PPE, with tight-fitting masks that dig into their faces. Here it's just an apron, gloves and surgical mask.\n\nThe intensive care unit has had to be split into Covid and non-Covid areas. In the side rooms, patients wait for a diagnosis that will determine whether they are cared for in a red zone (Covid) or green zone (non-Covid).\n\n\"People are right to say that these are pressures that occur every winter, but this time it's just a lot worse. This is winter plus, plus, plus,\" says Dr Zuzan.\n\nAs such, it is a glimpse of what hospitals across England could look like if cases of coronavirus continue to rise unchecked - a scenario the new lockdown is designed to prevent. Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, which includes Royal Liverpool and three other hospitals, has 463 Covid in-patients, 73 more than the peak of 390 in early April.\n\nWe're very close to the limits of what Liverpool hospitals can cope with\n\nA key difference between the spring and now is the additional medical demands.\n\nBack then, there was little demand for intensive care from non-Covid patients. Many people with urgent conditions stayed away. Half the trust's beds were empty. Now they are about 95% full.\n\nLike other hospitals, there are plans to expand capacity to look after critically ill patients. But that depends on having enough staff. Sickness levels are about three times normal levels. Having dealt with the first wave, and then spent the summer trying to catch up with surgery that was postponed, the medical teams are looking at months of sustained pressure.\n\nThe critical care units are depending on nurses who usually work in operating theatres. Their skills are similar, but not the same. The units are relying on nurses like Marie Brady, who has come out of retirement to rejoin the ICU team she worked with for 30 years.\n\n\"A lot of the NHS is working on goodwill. And unfortunately, people are starting to get tired and exhausted now. I'm 58 now and I'm looking after patients that are my age or a year or two older or even younger than me. And it does make you very aware of your susceptibility,\" she says.\n\nI have never ever been so ill in all my born days - this is an absolute crippler\n\nI spend most of the morning in the ICU red zone. My first impression is how different this is to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary which I visited the week before. There, the unit was flooded with natural light. It was not that busy, and several patients were able to chat to me.\n\nIn Liverpool, the only ICU patient who appears well enough to talk is Douglas Thom, a former bus driver and crane operator. The 73-year-old is sitting up in bed, his head covered with a domed plastic hood that enables oxygen to flow into his lungs under pressure. It looks like something out of science fiction, but he is stoical.\n\n\"It's a bit claustrophobic but it's doing the job, so that's all that matters to me.\"\n\nDouglas's wife tested positive at the same time as him but recovered.\n\nHe takes a dim view of those who dismiss coronavirus.\n\n\"All these people who go around saying it's a hoax or a bad cold, they need to get their heads straight because I have never ever been so ill in all my born days.\n\n\"This is an absolute crippler.\"\n\nThe trust is not helped by its ageing infrastructure. The Royal was built in the '60s and is crumbling. Its replacement is three years overdue and not scheduled to open for two years. The Royal and Aintree University hospitals have about 40 operating theatres. Half are standing idle since almost all non-urgent surgery has been cancelled.\n\nStaff absence and the need to redeploy nurses from surgery to critical care meant the trust had no alternative.\n\nEven more worryingly, nine urgent cancer operations have been cancelled in the past month.\n\n\"It's devastating for the patient,\" says Dr Tristan Cope, the trust's medical director, \"if they've come into a hospital, expecting to have a potentially life-saving cancer operation and that morning are told it can't go ahead.\"\n\nDr Cope is speaking in one of the moth-balled operating theatres. We are either side of the operating table. He is worried about the coming weeks.\n\n\"We're very close to the limits of what Liverpool hospitals can cope with in terms of the number of patients, particularly - without having to postpone more of those urgent surgical procedures.\"\n\nAbout a third of in-patients now have Covid-19\n\nHe assures me the cancelled cancer operations are being quickly rescheduled, but adds that whether they take place soon depends on beds being available. It is worth stressing, though, that most cancer treatment is unaffected by coronavirus. I was shown around a brand new cancer centre, near the Royal.\n\nAlison Taylor, an acute oncology nurse consultant, says people with potential symptoms should seek help. \"We are open for business. We will investigate and get patients to treatment as quickly as possible. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are continuing as normal.\"\n\nThe public may not be clapping for carers anymore, but every patient I meet speaks with reverence about the medical staff treating them, especially the nurses. Staff here understand why so many are tired of limits placed on their lives and livelihoods.\n\nLiverpool was the first part of England to go into \"tier three\", the highest level of restrictions, on 14 October. Since then, infection rates in the city have declined. But the government's medical advisers have said the measures are not enough to bring the outbreak under control.\n\n\"If you don't listen to us, if you don't adhere to those restrictions, you will harm your friends,\" says Dr Zuzan. \"You will harm your family, your neighbours, and you might even harm yourself.\"\n\nOn a Covid ward at Aintree Hospital, I meet Jay Madden who was working on a novel before he was admitted to hospital. The 44-year-old ended up with blood clots on his lungs. Keen to get home to his wife and two children, his breathing is still laboured. A Covid-19 infection is, he says, like a random hand of cards: it could be nothing or you could end up in hospital.\n\n\"Keep your mask on, keep your distance and keep yourself clean. You do not want to go through this.\"\n\nDiane King has been sleeping in a chair at her husband's bedside. Harry, 75, has late-stage Alzheimer's and Covid-19. One cruel condition compounded by another. He has double pneumonia and may have just a few days to live.\n\n\"He keeps asking, 'Can we go home?' but we can't because of the oxygen. I'd love to take him home and be at home with him when it happens,\" says Diane, who couldn't visit for the first 10 days because she also tested positive.\n\nShe has brought in old photos - memories of almost 50 years of marriage.\n\n\"It's very hard. There aren't any words. I just wish… he could communicate a bit more. But on the other hand, I think maybe he doesn't understand, so hopefully he's not worrying.\"\n\nHarry King, who may have just a few days to live, is tended to by his wife Diane\n\nTheir two grown-up children have been to hospital to say farewell to their dad.\n\nLater that day, when we are back in the hospital foyer, I meet Diane again briefly. She's just popping out for some air. She gives me a big smile. It was humbling to meet them both. A wife dedicated to her husband, determined to care for him and be with him, right to the very end.\n\nThe NHS is a cradle to grave service; for the beginning through to the end of life. Boris Johnson says a lockdown in England is needed to prevent a medical and moral disaster. Liverpool is an example of where having to deal with coronavirus, on top of all the usual health demands, has created huge pressures, especially in intensive care.\n\nFor the moment it appears to be a unique example of where demand is threatening to overwhelm supply.\n\nI'm the BBC's medical editor. Since 2004 I have reported on a huge range of topics from cancer, genetics, malaria, and HIV, to the many significant advances in medical science which have improved people's health. I've also followed pandemic threats such as bird flu as well as Sars and Mers. Now I'm focusing on Covid-19 and its immense global impact.", "Animal charities have warned against \"extremely irresponsible\" breeders selling kittens and puppies on Facebook, as demand increases over lockdown.\n\nFacebook guidelines state animals cannot be sold between private individuals.\n\nBut a BBC investigation has revealed puppies and kittens are being advertised through the platform.\n\nCharities warned the animals may be sick, too young or it could be a scam.\n\n\"We know that there are lots of unscrupulous breeders and sellers out there who exploit social media and classified websites in order to sell puppies and kittens without arousing suspicion,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nPeople should consider adopting from a rescue centre first, or follow its advice on buying dogs and cats - including seeing where the animal was bred, the charity added.\n\nIn closed Facebook groups, some pedigree breeds were advertised for over £1,000.\n\nOne public post advertised \"long-haired doll-face Persian\" kittens as \"ready to go\" and asking interested buyers to get in touch.\n\nSome kittens and puppies were also offered for \"worldwide delivery\".\n\nOne post, selling ragdoll kittens, specified gloves and a mask must be worn on collection, due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\n\"A £150 deposit (non-refundable) will secure the kitten, updated pics until collection day,\" it added.\n\nFacebook said it was investigating examples the BBC had sent, and encouraged users to report any posts they saw.\n\n\"We do not allow the sale of animals on Facebook including in private groups, and when we find this type content we take it down,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThis comes as coronavirus lockdown has led to an increased demand for new pets.\n\nIn April, The Kennel Club, one of the UK's biggest dog welfare organisations said searches for puppies on its website had doubled between February and March as the restrictions were announced.\n\nPrices of kittens and puppies sold online have risen into the thousands.\n\nBut scam reporting service Action Fraud said con artists were advertising online with pictures of pets to buy, and asking for a deposit even though they had none to sell.\n\nVictims had lost more than £280,000 in two months, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, charities including Battersea Dogs Home, Cats Protection and the RSPCA have also warned against people rushing into getting a new pet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are concerns that as life returns to normal and people spend less time at home, pets will be abandoned.\n\n\"The pandemic has created the ideal conditions for unscrupulous pet sellers to thrive, as they appear to have a credible reason for not allowing buyers to view the kitten with their mother first,\" Cats Protection's head of advocacy, Jacqui Cuff, said.\n\n\"Sadly, we fear there are many underage kittens being sold on Facebook by vendors who are impatient to make a quick profit. These kittens can go on to have serious, life-threatening illnesses or be so poorly socialised that they're not suitable as pets.\"\n\nMany new kittens or puppies come from farms, in inhumane conditions, which is why its important to view the animal with its mother.\n\nPuppies or kittens should be seen with their mother before buying (library photo)\n\nOne of the challenges for Facebook was that this activity happened in closed groups and it relied on individual users to report it, the Pet Advertising Advisory Group said.\n\nIt has published a list of minimum standards for websites that sell animals - including automated removal of adverts with blacklisted words, banning vendors who post illegal adverts and including a recent photograph of the animal.\n\nThe group said it had met Facebook to discuss the \"illegal and inappropriate adverts\" but as the platform does not filter posts before they are published, \"it is unlikely that Facebook could or would\" apply the same standards.", "Boris Johnson has come under fire for reportedly telling a virtual meeting of Conservative MPs that devolution had been a \"disaster\" in Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson also reportedly described it as predecessor Tony Blair's \"biggest mistake\".\n\nThe SNP and Labour have both criticised the prime minister.\n\nBut Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said Mr Johnson has \"always supported devolution\".\n\n\"What he does feel strongly, and I would agree, is that devolution in Scotland has facilitated the rise of separatism and nationalism in the form of the SNP, and that that's trying to break apart the United Kingdom,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Anybody, like the prime minister, who loves the UK wants to keep it together thinks that that's a very, very dangerous and disappointing outcome that we need to battle against.\"\n\nMr Johnson was in a Zoom meeting with Tory MPs representing dozens of seats in northern England on Monday when he is said to have made the remarks.\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported the PM had told the MPs \"devolution has been a disaster north of the border\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSNP MP Drew Henry said the prime minister's comments \"underline the contempt that Boris Johnson and the Scottish Tories have for the people of Scotland\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast he said: \"Effectively what they are saying is it's alright for Scotland to have devolution as long as they vote for the Westminster party we want them to.\"\n\nDevolution is the name for the way powers once held by the government in Westminster have been passed to elected groups in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDevolved powers include health, housing, fire services, some areas of transport and education. However, Scotland has always had its own education system and a separate legal system.\n\nThe UK government, based in London, has kept many powers, such as defence, foreign policy and most forms of tax.\n\nPublic votes about devolution were held in 1997 in Scotland and Wales, and in both parts of Ireland in 1998, as part of the Good Friday Agreement. It led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSome parts of England have directly-elected mayors, who also have devolved powers. The mayor of London, for example, is responsible for transport and policing in the capital.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government brought in devolution for Scotland in 1999, including the setting up of a parliament in Edinburgh.\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"The PM has always supported devolution, but Tony Blair failed to foresee the rise of separatists in Scotland.\n\n\"Devolution is great - but not when it's used by separatists and nationalists to break up the UK.\"\n\nThis comes six months before vital elections right across the UK, important particularly in Scotland, just when the SNP has been starting to warm up its campaign, and just when discussions about how the UK government ought to respond are taking place too.\n\nIt is one thing - and, of course, legitimate - for political rivals to criticise each other. But to suggest the way that Scotland has been run for more than a decade is a \"disaster\" is quite another.\n\nAnd the worry among Scottish Tories is the implication that Boris Johnson's understanding of the political situation is far from complete.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross insisted the prime minister \"believes in devolution\", adding: \"I'm saying very clearly devolution is not the problem.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Ross said: \"The problem has been the SNP government's obsession with separating Scotland from rest of the UK.\n\n\"My efforts are focused on holding the SNP government to account, because they have failed.\n\n\"Any other discussion is a distraction from the key aim that we have to do to improve services right across the country.\n\n\"These are all services that the SNP have been in charge of and in control of for thirteen and half years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElections for the Scottish Parliament take place next May. The SNP is currently the largest party with 61 MSPs and the Conservative Party is the second-largest with 31 - eight seats ahead of Labour.\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP says a second referendum on independence - following Scotland's vote against it in 2014 - should happen if her party wins. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nIn response to Mr Johnson's reported remarks to Tory MPs, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Worth bookmarking these PM comments for the next time Tories say they're not a threat to the powers of the Scottish Parliament - or, even more incredibly, that they support devolving more powers.\"\n\nThe SNP is seeking a mandate for another independence referendum in May's election\n\nShe added that the \"only way to protect and strengthen\" the Scottish Parliament was through independence for Scotland.\n\nBut the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Devolution has not been a disaster. The SNP's non-stop obsession with another referendum - above jobs, schools and everything else - has been a disaster.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the \"Neanderthal\" reported remarks made by the PM \"expose the underlying thinking and philosophy in Downing Street\".\n\nHe told BBC News the comments were \"reminiscent of the voices of Thatcherism and Majorism of the 1980s and 1990s, which were steadfastly opposed to devolution\".\n\n\"In my view, what Boris Johnson is doing is defying the popular will of the people of Scotland, and I don't think that's a very good place for any prime minister to be in.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, who served as Scottish secretary during the coalition government, said Boris Johnson \"is not making it easier to resist the demands for another independence referendum\".\n\nHe added that the prime minister was a \"bigger threat to the continuation of the United Kingdom than Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond could ever hope to be\".\n\nIt has been suggested by some taking part in the MPs' Zoom meeting that Mr Johnson was answering a question that had been put to him about devolution in England.", "Users reported the app getting \"stuck\" at the logo screen when launched\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has stopped working for many iPhone owners, who are unable to get it to launch.\n\nUsers report being stuck at a blue loading screen with the contact-tracing app's logo - but nothing else happens.\n\nThe NHS has published a workaround for the problem in its help files, but has not said what caused the problem or when it will be fixed.\n\nApple does not believe the problem is at its end, since it has not seen the issue arise in other countries' apps.\n\nMany different nations use the same underlying technology, which is designed by Apple and Google, to notify users if they were recently near to someone who subsequently tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome users have deleted and reinstalled the app to fix the fault, but that deletes useful information - this includes a log of venues the user has checked into via QR barcode scans.\n\nThe NHS's workaround instead asks users to reset their iPhone's location and privacy settings. It also recommends users have the most up-to-date version of Apple's iOS operating system downloaded and installed.\n\nBut carrying out the reset prevents all apps on the handset from using the device's location until they are granted permission again.\n\nSome users have said they fixed the problem by force-quitting the app - which can be done by flicking the frozen screen up and off the display - and then re-launching it.\n\nThe problem first emerged last week, but complaints became more frequent over the weekend and into Monday.\n\nThe cause, however, remains unclear.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said it was aware of the issue.\n\n\"The app is still scanning, even if the screen appears blue,\" it said.\n\n\"There are simple steps iPhone users can take to resolve this issue, which are set out on the app's website, and work is underway to identify the cause.\n\n\"Users experiencing this issue should make sure their Apple iOS is updated to the latest version of the software.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In comments before his suspension from Labour, Jeremy Corbyn said anti-Semitism complaints numbers were \"exaggerated\"\n\nLabour has suspended Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his reaction to a highly critical report on anti-Semitism.\n\nThe human rights watchdog found Labour responsible for \"unlawful\" harassment and discrimination during Mr Corbyn's four-and-a-half years as leader.\n\nBut he later said the scale of anti-Semitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated\" by opponents.\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn was being suspended \"for a failure to retract\" his words.\n\nMr Corbyn reacted by calling the move \"political\" and promised to \"strongly contest\" it.\n\nThe suspension will remain in place while the party carries out an investigation into his remarks.\n\nSir Keir Starmer, who became Labour leader in April, said the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) report had brought \"a day of shame\" for the party.\n\nIt found Labour responsible for three breaches of the Equality Act:\n\nThe EHRC found evidence of 23 instances of \"inappropriate involvement\" by Mr Corbyn's office.\n\nSir Keir, who served under Mr Corbyn as shadow Brexit secretary, promised to implement the report's recommendations \"as soon as possible in the New Year\".\n\nThis seems not to have been a deliberately designed collision between the current party boss and his predecessor.\n\nBut this was an explosive political parting of ways, provoked in part by Mr Corbyn's trademark determination not to bend.\n\nThis is an attribute admired by many of his devotees, a frustration abhorred by his detractors and a sadness to those in Labour who believe it coloured the party's handling of anti-Semitism.\n\nFor Sir Keir, this episode does, perhaps by accident rather than design, prove beyond doubt his slogan - Labour is under new leadership - to be true.\n\nResponding to the EHRC's findings, Mr Corbyn said he was \"always determined to eliminate all forms of racism\".\n\nHe claimed his team had \"acted to speed up, not hinder the process\" and that the scale of anti-Semitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party\".\n\nThe party said this was \"in light of his comments\" and \"his failure to retract them subsequently\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Corbyn, Labour leader from 2015 until this year, reacted on Twitter, promising to \"strongly contest the political intervention to suspend me\".\n\nHe said those who denied the party had an anti-Semitism problem were \"wrong\" and he would \"continue to support a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of racism\".\n\nIn an interview, Mr Corbyn did not retract his earlier comments and said: \"I'll be appealing to the party and those who made the decision to kindly think again.\"\n\n10:00 GMT The EHRC releases its report saying Labour acted unlawfully over anti-Semitism\n\n10:36 Jeremy Corbyn says there was an anti-Semitism problem in the party, but it was \"dramatically overstated\"\n\n11:07 Sir Keir Starmer says those who think anti-Semitism is \"exaggerated or a factional attack\" are \"part of the problem\"\n\n11:15 Sir Keir is repeatedly asked if he will expel Mr Corbyn for \"exaggerated\" comments - he says the report did not name individuals and repeats his previous statement\n\n12:15 Mr Corbyn records an interview, to be released at 13:00, disagreeing with a number of the report's points and repeating that the number of anti-Semitism cases is \"exaggerated\"\n\nSir Keir defended the decision to suspend Mr Corbyn, saying: \"We cannot say 'zero tolerance' and then turn a blind eye.\"\n\nHe added: \"I was very disappointed in Jeremy Corbyn's statement and appropriate action has been taken, which I fully support.\"\n\nSir Keir said would not \"interfere\" with the party's internal investigation into Mr Corbyn's statement.\n\nLabour has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism since 2016, with a number of MPs quitting the party in protest while Mr Corbyn was leader.\n\nJewish Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge said: \"[The suspension] is the right decision following Corbyn's shameful reaction to the EHRC report.\"\n\nThe party was \"finally saying enough is enough, anti-Semitism can never be tolerated\", she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before he was suspended, Ex-Labour MP Luciana Berger accuses Mr Corbyn of anti-Semitism\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"Jeremy is a thoroughly decent man, but he has an absolute blind spot and a denial when it comes to some of these issues.\"\n\nBut groups on the left of the Labour movement attacked the decision to suspend him.\n\nThe Socialist Campaign Group said it \"firmly\" opposed the move, adding: \"We will work tirelessly for his reinstatement.\"\n\nAnd Momentum, among Mr Corbyn's strongest backers, said: \"It is a massive attack on the left by the new leadership and should be immediately lifted in the interests of party unity.\"\n\nFor the Conservatives, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has written to Sir Keir, saying he \"seemingly found it much harder to find the moral character and backbone to do what was right\" while serving in the shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe EHRC launched its investigation last year after receiving a number of complaints from organisations and individuals, including the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Labour Movement.", "British Airways is to launch a voluntary Covid-19 test for passengers travelling to the UK from three US airports.\n\nThe airline wants to persuade governments that testing travellers will make quarantining unnecessary.\n\nAmerican Airlines is also taking part in the trial, which follows a similar effort by United Airlines.\n\nThe government is looking at how testing can reduce the time travellers to the UK need to self-isolate.\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG has long criticised the 14-day quarantine imposed on arrivals, saying it deters people from flying and damages airlines.\n\nIt is also trying to convince the US government to open its borders to travellers from the UK, who have been barred since March.\n\nThe trial begins on 25 November and will be free to eligible customers on three flights:\n\nCustomers will be tested 72 hours before their trip, as well as during and after travelling.\n\nIf they test positive before travelling, they will have to reschedule or cancel their flight, but will be able to rebook at a later date without a fee.\n\nThe trial will run to mid-December, and British Airways would like to test 500 passengers.\n\nBoss chief executive Sean Doyle, who was parachuted into the role in October, said: \"If we have a testing formula it gives people certainty from which they can plan.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"confident\" the airline would demonstrate that a test three days before flying would make quarantining unnecessary.\n\nHeathrow is already offering rapid coronavirus tests for people travelling to destinations where proof of a negative result is required on arrival.\n\nIt comes as airlines struggle with a massive slump in demand that has cost the industry $84.3bn (£64bn) in lost sales globally this year.\n\nThe UK government has set up a taskforce to look at how tests could reduce the quarantine period for people flying to the UK, but it says travellers would still need to isolate for a number of days.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The government's Global Travel Taskforce is working at pace, with clinicians, devolved administrations and the travel industry to develop measures as quickly as possible to protect air connectivity and consider how testing could be used to reduce the self-isolation period.\"", "The Scottish government has published the protection levels that will apply in each local authority area in Scotland from 20 and 24 November, alongside evidence and analysis informing these decisions.\n\nIf you have Covid-19 symptoms go immediately to NHS Inform online or phone 0800 028 2816 to book a test\n\nThe latest from NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, including social distancing, face covering and stay at home advice.\n\n5. The ready.scot website has been updated with the latest help and advice and the helpline number remains: 0800 111 4000\n\nIt's ok to not feel yourself right now, and the Scottish government has some great tips to help get you through these difficult times.\n• Level 4 lockdown to be imposed in 11 council areas\n• Is your area going into the toughest level?\n• Police to enforce travel ban in level 3 and 4 areas\n• What are the latest lockdown rules?", "EasyJet has reported its first annual loss in the airline's 25-year history as the coronavirus crisis continues to affect the travel industry deeply.\n\nThe airline posted a loss of £1.27bn for the year to 30 September as revenues more than halved.\n\nEasyJet added that it expected to fly at just 20% of normal capacity into next year.\n\nThe pandemic has hit airlines hard, with lockdowns and restrictions cutting the number of people travelling.\n\nHowever, EasyJet welcomed the possibility of a Covid-19 vaccine being rolled out, and said underlying demand was strong for air travel.\n\nChief executive Johan Lundgren told BBC Radio 4's Today programme said that the recent developments on Covid vaccines \"certainly is good news, because we know that is going to be a very critical part of the recovery\".\n\n\"But I don't think it's only about the vaccine, I think it's also about the fact that we need to have testing in place, we need to have also refined development of the quarantine system,\" he added.\n\n\"We know that people want to travel. On the news of the vaccine last Monday, bookings were up close to 50%, so it just gives evidence to the fact that any good news that comes out of here makes people more confident making bookings going forward.\"\n\nEasyJet's revenues plunged due to government travel restrictions in most of its markets, the airline said.\n\nThese included full national lockdowns, which led the airline to ground its entire fleet for 11 weeks.\n\nThere was some recovery in demand in the summer as lockdowns were eased, but widespread quarantine restrictions in September once again eroded demand, it said.\n\nThe news on possible vaccines may be good, but EasyJet is still hunkering down for a long, hard winter, running a fifth of its normal schedule.\n\nThe airline was one of the original standard bearers for low-budget aviation in Europe. Its business model has always been focused on cost control.\n\nEven so, it has had to cut its outgoings aggressively in order to save cash. A tight belt has become even tighter - although deals with unions allowed it to tone down plans for sweeping redundancies.\n\nThe simple fact is that if airlines can't fly, they can't make money, and even a relatively lean operation like EasyJet will burn through cash.\n\nBut there is one positive. The airline believes that passengers still want to fly and demand will be there once travel restrictions have been removed.\n\nThe pandemic has put great pressure on EasyJet's finances, forcing it to take on more debt, go to shareholders for extra cash, and sell dozens of its aircraft.\n\nMr Lundgren said that in the near future EasyJet should not need more than the £3bn it has already raised.\n\n\"No, we think we're in a good position at this moment in time,\" he told the Today programme.\n\n\"But we always also said that we're going to continue to review all the options that are out there to make sure we can cope with the circumstances, and you know, there's still a lot of uncertainty about when the recovery is going to take place.\"\n\nEasyJet has been making use of UK government support, borrowing £600m in April.\n\nThe airline said on Tuesday that after talks with the Bank of England and the Treasury, it would extend its borrowing under the government Corporate Finance Facility scheme, and stagger repayments.\n\nEasyJet's results \"show the stark reality of a global pandemic on a once profitable airline,\" said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.\n\n\"With the vaccine offering light at the end of a very long tunnel EasyJet will have to navigate its way through a lengthy winter saddled with considerable debt.\"\n\nThe airline's management \"has administered some tough medicine\" she said, including cutting its workforce and \"even flying its planes slower to reduce its fuel bill\".\n\n\"However, if EasyJet can keep its head above water it could really fly in the second half of 2021 as pent up consumer demand fuels a return to foreign holidays,\" Ms Palmer added.", "Downing Street says the prime minister and MP Lee Anderson were standing \"side by side\" and observed guidelines and distancing advice during their meeting with on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson, six Tory MPs and two political aides are self-isolating after a breakfast meeting inside Downing Street last Thursday.\n\nOne of the MPs, Lee Anderson, later tested positive for Covid-19, and on Sunday the prime minister was told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn a video from No 10, Mr Johnson urged others to \"follow the rules\" if contacted by the system.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman insisted that Downing Street is \"Covid-secure\".\n\nHe said \"social distancing did happen\" but factors such as the length of the meeting were considered by Test and Trace.\n\nMr Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus seven months ago, spent about 35 minutes with Mr Anderson - who lost his sense of taste the day after the meeting.\n\nThe five other MPs self-isolating following the meeting with \"Red Wall\" Tories include:\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman declined to name the aides but suggested they were not Lee Cain or Dominic Cummings, who left Downing Street last week.\n\nJacob Young, MP for Redcar, is also self-isolating - but said he was not at the meeting - while Basingstoke MP Maria Miller has said she is self-isolating after having been contacted by Test and Trace.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister was right to self-isolate as \"it is important for all of us to say that we have got to comply with the advice and guidance\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe PM's period of isolation began as the government prepares a policy relaunch.\n\nDowning Street said a series of \"critical announcements\" would this week detail Mr Johnson's \"ambitions for the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson will chair \"key Covid meetings\" and work with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to devise the upcoming spending review with an aim to fulfil his promise to \"build back better\".\n\nThe prime minister had been expected to lead a No 10 news conference on Monday but Health Secretary Matt Hancock took his place.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson is hoping to take part in Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons virtually, Downing Street said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Hancock said the prime minister's self-isolation would make no difference to the amount of work he would be able to do \"driving forward the agenda\".\n\nAsked if the PM and Mr Anderson followed social distancing rules during their meeting, he said there were rules \"around Downing Street being a Covid-secure workplace\".\n\nHe added: \"The central point is that it doesn't matter who you are, if you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate that is what you must do.\"\n\nPhotos of Mr Johnson and several Tory MPs show them standing close together. The prime minister had to self-isolate after one of them, Mr Anderson, developed Covid symptoms.\n\nGuidelines for offices require social distancing of 2m (6ft), or 1m plus precautions such as frequent cleaning and one-way systems where that is not possible.\n\nNo 10 is yet to respond to a request from BBC Reality Check for details of the Covid-secure guidelines in Downing Street.\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said \"social distancing did happen\" and that the picture shows Mr Johnson and Mr Anderson \"stood side-by-side, rather than face-to-face\".\n\nHowever, Test and Trace guidance defines a close contact as someone you spent more than 15 minutes with at a distance of under 2m. Mr Johnson's meeting with Mr Anderson lasted about 35 minutes and he would therefore be required to self-isolate if they were not more than 2m apart.\n\nIn his video posted on Twitter, the PM said: \"The good news is that NHS Test and Trace is working ever-more efficiently, but the bad news is that they've pinged me and I've got to self-isolate because someone I was in contact with a few days ago has developed Covid.\n\n\"It doesn't matter that we were all doing social distancing, it doesn't matter that I'm fit as a butcher's dog, feel great.\n\n\"And actually, it doesn't matter that I've had the disease and I'm bursting with antibodies. We've got to interrupt the spread of the disease and one of the ways we can do that now is by self-isolating for 14 days when contacted by Test and Trace.\"\n\nAccording to No 10, the prime minister has had at least one antibody test for coronavirus.\n\nIt remains unclear what effect, if any, previously having the coronavirus has on a person's immunity but experts think reinfection is likely to be rare, BBC health correspondent James Gallagher has reported.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said there have been more than 25 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reinfection globally.\n\nHe added: \"I think most of us think the rate of reinfection is quite a lot higher than that, but not enormous.\"\n\nSelf-isolation means staying at home and not leaving it - even to buy food, medicines or other essentials, or for exercise.\n\nIf you are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or the NHS Covid-19 app, you must self-isolate for 14 days from the day you were last in contact with the person who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAnd if you develop symptoms during the 14 day period, you should get a test as soon as possible.\n\nIf the result is negative, you should continue isolating for the rest of the 14 days.\n\nIf positive, you should self-isolate for at least another 10 days from when your symptoms started.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield, posted a photo of himself with Mr Johnson at No 10 alongside the words: \"Breakfast with the PM.\"\n\nOn Sunday, he posted on his Facebook page to say he was self-isolating with his wife, who is clinically vulnerable, after they both tested positive.\n\nThe PM wrote on Twitter on Sunday night that he had been notified by NHS Test and Trace that he must self-isolate as he had been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus, and he would be working from No 10.\n\nThe new policy plans follow the dramatic departure of the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings last week.\n\nOver the weekend, senior Tory MPs said his exit was a chance to \"reset government\" and a series of announcements are planned for this week, including the government's 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\"\n\nA meeting between the PM and the Northern Research Group of backbench Tory MPs is scheduled to take place via online video conference later on Monday.\n\nAnd talks over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU have resumed in Brussels.\n\nMeanwhile, in other coronavirus developments:\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been accused by two former umpires of \"institutionalised racism\", in the latest allegations to surface in the sport.\n\nJohn Holder, who officiated in Test and one-day international matches, said it looked \"more than suspicious\" he had not received a reply from the ECB when offering to be a mentor.\n\nIsmail Dawood, meanwhile, said he had heard racist language used in front of senior ECB staff, which went unchallenged.\n\nThe pair have asked for an independent investigation from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) \"to challenge organisations like the ECB\".\n\nFormer wicketkeeper Dawood, who played county cricket for Worcestershire, Glamorgan and Yorkshire before becoming an umpire, said he had \"absolutely no trust or confidence in the ECB\" and the organisation is a \"complete mess\".\n\nThe last black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) umpire to be added to the ECB's first-class list was Vanburn Holder 28 years ago. There have been none since his retirement in 2010.\n\nBBC Sport understands a person who used discriminatory language in front of senior managers was suspended, but cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nDawood, who stood on the ECB reserve list and umpired first-class matches, said: \"If that sort of language was used elsewhere, people would lose their jobs.\n\n\"I have absolutely no trust or confidence in the ECB. All the way down to the grassroots it is a complete mess and that is why we need it to be investigated. Do I want to be part of an organisation that is a complete mess? No.\n\n\"In one performance review, I was told: 'Fine judgements must be made about who best fits in.'\n\n\"The complaints we have made shows the institutionalised, structured racism as well as discrimination, cronyism, bullying and dishonesty that has been part of our lives being involved in the ECB.\"\n\nHolder, meanwhile, says he raised the issue but had not received a response to his email.\n\nAsked if he believes there is institutionalised racism at the ECB, he said: \"I have no reason to doubt that there is.\n\n\"Several non-white umpires have made enquiries about going on the first-class umpires panel, or becoming a mentor or liaison officer, and none have progressed.\"\n\nAn ECB spokesperson told BBC Sport: \"We will not tolerate racism.\n\n\"Since 2015 we have made real progress across many areas to become a more inclusive and diverse sport, including implementing our targeted action plan to engage South Asian communities, introducing the Rooney Rule for elite coaching appointments and providing training for staff and reforming the way we recruit.\n\n\"Equality is at the heart of our game-wide strategic plan, Inspiring Generations, which is designed to make cricket a game for everyone.\n\n\"However, we fully recognise we have a long way to go to drive out discrimination from our sport. Alongside the learnings and the action we have already taken in this space through this summer, the ECB holds its November board meeting next week, where our continued work around inclusion and diversity will be discussed and further actions agreed.\"\n\nTheir allegations come following Azeem Rafiq's claim of \"institutional racism\" at his former club Yorkshire, who have opened an inquiry.\n\nAnd, earlier this year, former England batsman Michael Carberry said he does not \"expect anything\" from the ECB in fighting racism, which he says is \"rife\" in the sport.\n\nDawood said: \"There are systematic blockages which have been put in place by the ECB and will be kept in place if they are not thoroughly investigated.\n\n\"We are having minimal representation of BAME cricket players, coaches, umpire/officials, CEOs. The list goes on. This is from the grassroots level upwards. The barriers that Asian or black people have is far greater than non-BAME people.\n\n\"Some of the stories coming out this year have been harrowing. People are not coming out and talking and making things up, so we want the Equality and Human Rights Commission to look into sport as a whole but cricket is our sport.\n\n\"We implore the EHRC to look into the structures of the ECB and put them under investigation. They need to challenge organisations like the ECB to act, we don't want words, we have had lots of words, we want action.\"\n\nIn its statement, the ECB added: \"Earlier this year, we commissioned a full independent employment investigation into allegations made against an individual, and while these were not upheld, the investigation did identify areas where we need to be better and do more to be inclusive and diverse.\n\n\"The ECB has now commissioned a review, with board oversight, to look at how we can reform our approach to managing match officials.\n\n\"This will set out actions as to how we can improve our systems and processes to increase the diversity of umpiring, inspire the next generation of umpires and match referees, have a world-class umpiring programme and ensure a culture of inclusivity and fairness throughout the umpiring system.\"\n• None Is the new Xbox console worth the money?", "Lewis Hamilton's been named the most influential black person in the UK.\n\nDays after winning Formula One's World Championship for a record-equalling seventh time, he's topped the Powerlist 2021.\n\nThe list honours the most powerful people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage in the UK.\n\nThis year, there's been a special focus on two of the biggest themes of 2020 - coronavirus and racial injustice.\n\nThe independent judging panel looked at people who have the \"ability to change lives and alter events, as demonstrated over a protracted period of time and in a positive manner\".\n\nThe award is not just for his awesome driving ability. He's Formula 1's only black driver and has been very vocal in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, especially since the death of George Floyd.\n\nBack in June, he encouraged his fellow F1 drivers to take a knee before races - and has launched The Hamilton Commission, aiming to increase the number of black people in motor racing.\n\nAfter grabbing the top spot on the list, he said: \"I am so proud to be acknowledged, especially within the black community\".\n\n\"I like to think that I'm just a part of a chain of many people trying to push for change.\"\n\nIn the year that Covid-19 has changed our lives - Professor Kevin Fenton has been at the forefront of the fight.\n\nHe is the Regional Director of Public Health England (PHE) and has been recognised for his work helping London to fight against the virus.\n\nHe also helped with the government review in to the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities.\n\nThe review confirmed coronavirus kills people from ethnic minorities at disproportionately high rates.\n\nThis year, Stormzy pledged to donate £10m to UK organisations to fight racial inequality.\n\nThe first donation of £500,000 went to The Black Heart Foundation - funding higher education for people from underprivileged backgrounds.\n\nIn 2018, Stormzy announced a scholarship to fund two black students at Cambridge University\n\nMichaela caused shockwaves with the BBC series I May Destroy - a totally fresh, original and unapologetic look at young black lives - which she wrote, directed and starred in.\n\nIt charts the fallout from a sexual assault which occurs after Arabella - played by Coel - has her drink spiked.\n\nMichaela has previously revealed she was a victim of sexual assault herself\n\nMichaela has previously revealed she was a victim of sexual assault herself.\n\nThe Guardian described it as \"an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement without a false note in it, shot through with humour and with ideas, talent and character to burn at every perfectly plotted turn.\"\n\nThe Editor-In-Chief of British Vogue and an advocate for better representation in the fashion industry.\n\nHe is the only black editor in history to lead any Vogue magazine.\n\nThis year, he focused Vogue's September issue on activism- it featured powerful black-and-white images of activists including Marcus Rashford and Adwoa Aboah.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair is the head of the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nDuring the pandemic, she pushed for better protection for NHS workers, including more testing and more consideration in to the risks that ethnic minority nurses may face.\n\nThe Windrush scandal saw hundreds of Caribbean immigrants wrongly threatened with deportation by the UK Home Office.\n\nIt uncovered systemic racism and ignorance behind the treatment of people who had spent most of lives working in the UK.\n\nOne of the most vocal people behind the fight for justice is Jacqueline McKenzie.\n\nShe's known as the 'Windrush Lawyer' and represents over 200 of the victims.\n\nAt least nine people died before receiving their Windrush compensation, according to Home Office figures\n\nHe presents BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners and is author of Black and British.\n\nHis work mostly explores the complex relationship between the British empire and Africa.\n\nAs a journalist and broadcaster, Afua has always used her platform to write and speak on important issues in the black community.\n\nYou might remember her asking: \"Why should we trust Boris?\" on Question Time last year.\n\nShe's also author of Brit(ish) - a book on race, identity and belonging.\n\nHe is Vice-Chair of KPMG - a massive accounting organisation and has been on the list for three years in a row now.\n\nThe Powerlist 2021 featured loads of other influential black Brits, including:\n\nJust as likely to be appear on the front pages as back pages of newspapers these days.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the Manchester United star campaigned for disadvantaged children to get free school meals over the summer and Christmas holidays.\n\nHis campaign led to the government reversing their decision on providing meals, twice.\n\nRashford has now launched a book club to promote childrens' reading\n\nFun fact - he is also co-owner of Crepes and Cones - Krept and Konan's restaurant.\n\nThe fastest woman in British history and the first British woman to win a major global sprint title.\n\nShe was hoping to win gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Sia, Ed Sheeran and Tones And I all made the top 10\n\nAustralian pop star Tones And I has the most-Shazamed song of all time, with her 2019 breakout hit Dance Monkey.\n\nMore than 200 million people a month use the Shazam app to identify songs they have heard but don't know the names of.\n\nDance Monkey, which was written about the singer's experiences of busking in Byron Bay, has been Shazamed 36.6 million times, the company said.\n\nSecond place went to Lilly Wood & The Prick's 2014 hit Prayer In C.\n\nTones And I, the stage name of singer-songwriter Toni Watson, said the app had been invaluable for her career.\n\n\"I didn't have a following when I released Dance Monkey, but [Shazam] gave me the opportunity to reach more people and elevate my fanbase, which has all led to creating a career for myself,\" she said in a statement.\n\nDance Monkey spent 11 weeks at number one in the UK at the end of last year, and topped the charts in 29 other countries. It also holds the record for the most Shazamed song in a single day.\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 Tones And I This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tones And I\n\nShazam's all-time chart shows that dance music and quirky pop are the most commonly searched-for genres, with Avicii's Wake Me Up and OMI's Cheerleader both ranking highly.\n\nFour of the top 10 are one-hit wonders, including Gotye's 2012 chart-topper Somebody That I Used To Know and Passenger's Let Her Go, from 2013.\n\nOn the other hand, Ed Sheeran appears three times in the top 20, meaning some people heard Thinking Out Loud being played for the millionth time and wondered, \"Who sings that one again?\"\n\nSheeran ties with The Weeknd for the most entries in the overall top 100, with four each, while Sia, Sam Smith, Clean Bandit and Imagine Dragons have three apiece.\n\nThe top 20 looks like this:\n\nThe full top 100 is available on Apple Music.\n\nShazam's technology works by analysing the unique sonic fingerprint of a song - and matches the audio you send via your phone to the music in its database.\n\nWhen it launched in 2002, it was called 2580 - the phone number users dialled to access the service.\n\nAt the time, it had one million songs in its database and took 15 seconds to process a user's request - sending the results back via text message.\n\nToday, it can take as little as two seconds to comb through tens of millions songs, and can cope with remixes, background noise and cover versions.\n\nThe company first turned a profit in 2016 and was sold to Apple for a reported $400m (£302m) a year later.\n\nApple's hope was that the app would drive users to its streaming service, Apple Music. The user data would also give them insight into the music people were listening to, which could be used to influence playlists and the songs promoted on its homepage.\n\nSince then, Apple Music's subscriber base has topped 60 million, putting it in second place to Spotify.\n\nShazam has recently launched a Discovery Top 50 playlist, which shows the songs being searched for around the world. The UK chart is currently led by I Can't Remember Love, a smoky piano ballad that features in the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Pop music is getting faster (and happier)", "A \"super majority\" of Senedd members would be needed to pass the legislation\n\nThe Senedd election could be delayed by up to six months as a \"final resort\" to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWelsh Government ministers will consider introducing legislation in the new year \"if the situation after Christmas suggests we will need to do this\".\n\nBut the first minister said it remained the government's \"clear intention to hold the elections on 6 May next year\".\n\nLabour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have said they would support delaying the election if the Covid-19 situation \"was extremely serious\".\n\nBut the Conservatives and Brexit Party said other countries had gone to the polls during the pandemic.\n\nFollowing discussion with party leaders and Welsh Government ministers, First Minister Mark Drakeford announced officials were working on a draft bill that would give the Senedd's presiding officer, or llywydd, the ability to postpone the election for up to six months.\n\nMr Drakeford said a \"super majority\" of members of the Senedd - 40 out of 60 - would need to vote in favour \"before that power could be exercised\".\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd, he added: \"We are focussed on enabling the election to happen as planned but it would be irresponsible of us not to make plans in case the pandemic is so serious in May of next year where it wouldn't be safe to hold an election.\n\n\"I believe we must pursue every option for enabling people to exercise their democratic right in the face of coronavirus.\"\n\nPaul Davies, the Conservative leader in the Senedd said: \"There's no reason why the elections can't take place on 6 May given that Spain, Poland and South Korea held some elections safely during this pandemic.\"\n\nHe added: \"I accept that we have to put measures in place to make sure these elections are safe and secure.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said elections around the world including the United States had taken place but it was \"reasonable that we in Wales should have the ability to respond to all scenarios that may face us\".\n\nLabour backbencher Alun Davies said: \"My view is that the elections must take place in May. This place has sat for too long. It has outlived its term and mandate.\"\n\nAbolish the Assembly MS Mark Reckless said: \"There should be an election on 6 May. There should not be legislation to delay it. It is wrong and we should not do it.\"\n\nOther options include measures to encourage vulnerable voters and others to consider applying for a postal vote and early applications, greater flexibility around the nomination of candidates, postal and proxy voting, and measures to ensure the safe operation of polling stations and count venues.\n\nThe election will be the first time 16 and 17-year-olds are able to vote in Wales and also the first poll since the Welsh assembly was renamed the Welsh Parliament.", "The Public Health Agency said uptake of the vaccine has been higher than ever before.\n\nThere is \"no shortage\" of ordered flu vaccines for Northern Ireland, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nNI's GP committee had said that Northern Ireland was almost 200,000 doses short of the flu vaccine.\n\nThe chair of NI's GP committee had raised concerns that it would not be possible to complete the vaccination programme for those aged over 65.\n\nBut the Public Health Agency (PHA) now says that this is not the case.\n\nConcerns about a shortage of flu vaccine initially emerged after a meeting of GPs and Public Health Agency representatives last week.\n\nDr Alan Stout, chair of NI's GP committee (NIGPC), then wrote to GPs across Northern Ireland and said he was \"deeply concerned and frustrated\" about a shortfall in flu vaccines.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that after last week's meeting, Dr Stout wrote to the chief medical officer highlighting their concerns over the shortfall of about 200,000 vaccine doses.\n\nIn an email to Dr Michael McBride and seen by BBC News NI Dr Alan Stout said: \"You will see that it is far from satisfactory and puts practices in a very difficult situation and really does put at risk the completion of the flu campaign this year.\n\n\"Is this all consistent with your own understanding?\n\n\"We have a large number of practices with significant numbers of patients still to be vaccinated. We need to get advice to them ASAP about when they can do this and what vaccine they should give. \"\n\nBut on Monday Dr Gerry Waldron from the PHA said there was not a shortage and he hoped the confusion would not deter those coming forward.\n\nLater on Monday Robin Swann also denied there was a shortage and said Northern Ireland had ordered in total 1,050,300 doses for this year.\n\nAs of last Friday, 826,890 doses had been delivered into Northern Ireland, with 601,243 doses delivered to GPs and health trusts.\n\nMr Swann said two further deliveries had arrived in NI on Monday morning, with the total amount of vaccine delivered now standing at 1,019,590 doses.\n\nThirty thousand doses of childhood vaccine still to be delivered are the \"only remaining order outstanding\", he told the assembly.\n\nFrom the outside looking in, things appear a bit of a mess.\n\nHere are two reputable bodies - the Public Health Agency and the NI GP committee - each with their own versions of an important meeting last week.\n\nOn the one hand GPs have said they were left in no doubt of the shortfall; on Sunday the Public Health Agency confirmed in a statement that postponing clinics would \"inconvenience\" GPs. At no point did the PHA challenge or contradict what GPs had told the BBC.\n\nTwenty-four hours on, however, and it is an entirely different story with the PHA adamant that Northern Ireland now has enough vaccine to go around.\n\nThe British Medical Association has reacted saying it is \"delighted\" with the news.\n\nAll of this highlights the importance of clear messaging, especially during a pandemic.\n\nCommunication between health officials and those on the ground needs to be accurate and up to date.\n\nAll of that will go some way in reassuring the public that when it comes to vaccines, those charged with obtaining and delivering them are in complete control of everything that is going on.\n\nThe PHA's Dr Gerry Waldron said for those aged over 65, about 296,000 vaccines are in Northern Ireland and this is \"the full amount that was planned\".\n\n\"It was always anticipated that stock would arrive in planned batches, and with the initial batch of vaccine for under-65s used up extremely quickly, the decision to pause was purely practical, as it was simply not possible to continue to vaccinate until the next planned tranche of vaccine became available,\" Dr Waldron said.\n\nThere are two different flu vaccines available for different age groups\n\nFollowing the clarification from Mr Swann and the PHA, Dr Stout said: \"As of 8am when practices opened this morning they did not know that there was additional flu vaccine available in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We've only found that out during the course of the day and the only communication that I have got on that is through the press and through the media.\n\n\"It is a good thing that we now know that it is here, but this is part of the confusion, this is part of the problem.\"", "There are \"no plans\" to extend the Christmas break for schools in NI, Education Minister Peter Weir has said.\n\nHe dismissed the possibility that schools could close early for the holiday as a \"rumour\".\n\nNI's current R number has now climbed closer to 1.0 and is expected to rise as the hospitality industry opens up over the next couple of weeks.\n\nAs a result, additional interventions are expected before Christmas, the chief scientific adviser said.\n\nProf Ian Young said the R value had risen in recent weeks due to continued widespread community transmission of the virus.\n\nHe added that additional mitigations will be suggested to the hospitality industry including reducing numbers and increasing ventilation.\n\nMeanwhile the Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride appealed to everyone to continue playing their part despite the fact that the \"virus continues to mess with our heads and our lives\".\n\nDr McBride said he's optimistic that Northern Ireland will begin to vaccinate some people by the end of the year.\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Arlene Foster said she did not rule out blocking more Covid-19 restrictions if required.\n\nHowever, the first minister added she wanted to \"find consensus\" with executive colleagues.\n\nLast week, the DUP blocked two separate proposals from the health minister to extend restrictions by triggering a cross-community vote.\n\nThe DUP has been criticised by other Stormont parties for using the measure.\n\nIt can be used on any issue in the executive, of three or more ministers ask for a vote to be taken on that basis, effectively giving parties with enough ministers a veto.\n\nOn Monday, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was a \"matter of profound concern and regret\" that the DUP had used it twice.\n\nMrs Foster said the veto was used on a \"key decision\" because of the impact of restrictions on the economy.\n\n\"I hope we can come to decisions in a collaborative, collegiate way... I want to make sure we go forward together,\" she added.\n\nThe first minister also dismissed reports that an executive meeting scheduled for Tuesday had been cancelled.\n\n\"We normally only meet on a Thursday - nothing should be read into that at all. Government is continuing, we don't need an executive to make that happen,\" she said.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she had considered her position in the executive because of last week's handling of restrictions, and said continued use of the veto was an \"abuse of power\" by the DUP.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said an extended Christmas break could lead to a greater spread of the virus\n\nSome of the current Covid-19 restrictions are due to end on Friday with the reopening of close-contact services and unlicensed hospitality businesses.\n\nRestaurants, pubs and hotels can reopen on 27 November, as the rest of the Covid-19 restrictions introduced on 16 October will expire at midnight on 26 November.\n\nMs O'Neill has said the executive will do all it can to \"protect\" as much of the Christmas period as possible.\n\nIt comes after NI's chief scientific adviser warned further Covid-19 restrictions will likely be recommended before Christmas.\n\nProf Ian Young said mid-December could be the \"big risk period\".\n\nA further nine people with Covid-19 have died in NI, the Department of Health has said.\n\nThe death toll recorded by the department now stands at 878.\n\nThere were also another 549 confirmed cases of the virus recorded in the last 24-hour reporting period.\n\nA total of 47,711 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.\n\nOn Tuesday, 11 more people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland died, according to Department of Health figures.\n\nThe total number of Covid-19 related deaths in the country is now 1,995.\n\nIn addition, a further 366 cases of coronavirus were confirmed, bringing the total number to 68,686.\n\nOn Tuesday, Education Minister Peter Weir said schools would not be closing early for the Christmas holidays for two reasons.\n\n\"We want to ensure the maximum amount of education for our young people and I don't want to see any further disruption to that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also the case that we've seen the biggest problems not within the controlled environment of schools but actually some of the things that have happened outside of schools.\n\n\"If we simply inject an extra week of holiday into the Christmas period, from a public health point of view, it's likely to lead to much higher levels of socialisation and greater spread of the virus.\"\n\nMr Weir was speaking during a visit to a school in Bangor where he announced an additional £5m for schools to pay for mental health help for pupils.\n\nThe minister said the money would allow schools to pick which wellbeing initiatives they want to invest in.\n\nIn other coronavirus developments on Tuesday:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM: More restrictions now may allow easing at Christmas\n\nIntroducing tougher Covid restrictions in the west of Scotland now could help pave the way to easing the rules over Christmas, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister believed it was \"likely\" but \"not inevitable\" that some areas would be moved into level four.\n\nShe said infection rates were still \"stubbornly high\" in some areas.\n\nAnd that could lead to \"less flexibility\" for some limited easing of restrictions over the Christmas period - something she was \"very keen to do\".\n\nShe said the rates of infection also meant that the Scottish government \"do not have as much assurance as we would want\" that hospitals and intensive care facilities would be able to cope over the winter.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that moving to level four restrictions \"for a limited period in some areas\" would address both of those concerns.\n\nShe explained: \"Where we have stubbornly high prevalence, if we want to protect our NHS and if we want to get to a point at Christmas where we might be able to have a bit of easing of restrictions, albeit that will be very careful, then we need to get that prevalence down more right now.\"\n\nQuestioned at her daily briefing, she said: \"I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here - because there is lots of consideration and discussions, not least across the four nations of the UK right now - before we get to a settled point before Christmas.\n\n\"But if you are asking me my priority for Christmas it is to allow families some ability to get together.\n\n\"That should be the priority, and if we do go to level four for any areas tomorrow then part of it, not the whole reason, is to try to get prevalence down to the point where we think we can have some limited easing around that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the council areas in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with the possible exception of Inverclyde, were causing the most concern, along with North and South Lanarkshire.\n\nLevel four may well be coming for the west of Scotland. All the government indicators suggest it should be, but the reluctance until now can perhaps be explained by more than just economic consequences.\n\nThe effects of loneliness and isolation on people's mental health are already at alarming levels, doctors tell me.\n\nClosing cafes where people who live on their own at least have a chance to meet someone will exacerbate that.\n\nIt will likely put even more pressure onto GPs, with community support services unable to operate in the same way.\n\nAnd then for shielders. The governments strategic framework says that level four would see the chief medical officer write an automatic two week fit note for those in the shielding category.\n\nThat could affect staffing in the NHS or in schools and other vital services.\n\nLater, she added: \"I think it is likely that we will see some areas go to level four this week.\n\n\"But is it inevitable? Until we have taken that final decision, no of course it's not.\"\n\nThe next decision about restriction levels will be made on Tuesday, with any changes taking effect from Friday.\n\nIn level four bars and restaurants, non-essential shops, gyms and indoor sports facilities would close - but schools would remain open.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, an expert in public health at the University of Edinburgh, said she thought it was \"highly likely\" that large parts of central Scotland would be placed in level four.\n\nShe said the rolling average of cases per 100,00 people was about 143 in Scotland.\n\n\"For Greater Glasgow and Clyde it is up to 247. That is very high - and Lanarkshire is just below that at 241.\n\n\"So action clearly does need to be taken,\" she said.\n\nThe latest figures show that a further 717 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland, and six more deaths have been recorded.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that an era was \"firmly on the horizon\" where better therapies, vaccines, testing and treatments would be available.\n\n\"The end is not quite with us, but we can see hope on the horizon now that we couldn't see just a few weeks ago,\" she added.", "Douglas Ross (right) said he would be speaking directly to the prime minister about his reported remarks\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader has insisted that Boris Johnson does believe in devolution despite reports that he described it as a \"disaster\".\n\nDouglas Ross said he would be speaking to the prime minister later about his reported remarks to a virtual meeting of Conservative MPs.\n\nBut he claimed it was the SNP's \"obsession\" with independence, rather than devolution, that was the problem.\n\nThe SNP said the PM had shown his \"contempt\" for Scotland.\n\nAnd Scottish Labour said Mr Johnson was currently the biggest threat to the future of the United Kingdom.\n\nThe prime minister was in a Zoom meeting with Tory MPs representing dozens of seats in northern England on Monday when he is said to have made the remarks.\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported that he told the MPs that \"devolution has been a disaster north of the border\", and had been former prime minister Tony Blair's \"biggest mistake\".\n\nIt has been suggested by some taking part in the Zoom meeting that Mr Johnson was answering a question that had been put to him about devolution in England.\n\nNumber 10 has not denied the reports, with a Downing Street source saying: \"The PM has always supported devolution, but Tony Blair failed to foresee the rise of separatists in Scotland.\n\n\"Devolution is great - but not when it's used by separatists and nationalists to break up the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, Mr Ross described the row as a \"distraction\" ahead of next May's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nHe added: \"The prime minister was elected as mayor of London twice, so he believes in devolution.\n\n\"The Conservative manifesto at the election just a year ago focused on devolution and ensuring that we strengthen devolution right across the country.\n\n\"Devolution is not the problem. The problem has been the SNP's obsession over its thirteen and a half years in power with separating Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThis comes six months before vital elections right across the UK, important particularly in Scotland, just when the SNP has been starting to warm up its campaign, and just when discussions about how the UK government ought to respond are taking place too.\n\nIt is one thing - and, of course, legitimate - for political rivals to criticise each other. But to suggest the way that Scotland has been run for more than a decade is a \"disaster\" is quite another.\n\nAnd the worry among Scottish Tories is the implication that Boris Johnson's understanding of the political situation is far from complete.\n\nBut SNP MP Drew Henry said the prime minister's comments \"underline the contempt that Boris Johnson and the Scottish Tories have for the people of Scotland\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast he said: \"Effectively what they are saying is it's alright for Scotland to have devolution as long as they vote for the Westminster party we want them to.\"\n\nFormer Conservative Scottish secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said Mr Johnson's comments were \"typical\" of the \"rather loose language\" the prime minister sometimes uses.\n\n\"What he should have said is devolution has become a disaster because the Scottish national government, the SNP government in Scotland, are using the Scottish Parliament and the power they've got to try and destroy the United Kingdom,\" Sir Malcolm told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said the SNP, which has been in power since 2007, has been \"pretty useless\" on domestic Scottish issues and have become \"obsessed with demands for referendums\".\n\n\"What I'm absolutely certain of is that it was not meant to be an attack on the principle of devolution,\" he said.\n\nDevolution is the name for the way powers once held by the government in Westminster have been passed to elected groups in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDevolved powers include health, housing, fire services, some areas of transport and education. However, Scotland has always had its own education system and a separate legal system.\n\nThe UK government, based in London, has kept many powers, such as defence, foreign policy and most forms of tax.\n\nPublic votes about devolution were held in 1997 in Scotland and Wales, and in both parts of Ireland in 1998, as part of the Good Friday Agreement. It led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSome parts of England have directly-elected mayors, who also have devolved powers. The mayor of London, for example, is responsible for transport and policing in the capital.\n\nElections for the Scottish Parliament take place next May. The SNP is currently the largest party with 61 MSPs and the Conservative Party is the second-largest with 31 - eight seats ahead of Labour.\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP says a second referendum on independence - following Scotland's vote against it in 2014 - should happen if her party wins. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nIn response to Mr Johnson's reported remarks to Tory MPs, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Worth bookmarking these PM comments for the next time Tories say they're not a threat to the powers of the Scottish Parliament - or, even more incredibly, that they support devolving more powers.\"\n\nThe SNP is seeking a mandate for another independence referendum in May's election\n\nShe added that the \"only way to protect and strengthen\" the Scottish Parliament was through independence for Scotland.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the \"Neanderthal\" reported remarks made by the PM \"expose the underlying thinking and philosophy in Downing Street\".\n\nHe told BBC News the comments were \"reminiscent of the voices of Thatcherism and Majorism of the 1980s and 1990s, which were steadfastly opposed to devolution\".\n\n\"In my view, what Boris Johnson is doing is defying the popular will of the people of Scotland, and I don't think that's a very good place for any prime minister to be in.\"", "A gunman in El Paso, Texas killed 22 people last year at a Walmart\n\nHate crimes in the US rose to the highest level in more than a decade last year, according to an FBI report.\n\nHate-motivated murders also rose to a record high in 2019, with 51 deaths - more than double the 2018 total.\n\nLast August, 22 people were killed in a shooting targeting Mexicans at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.\n\nHate crimes have been increasing in the US almost every year since 2014. Campaign groups warn this comes amid rising bigotry and racist rhetoric.\n\n\"The latest rise in hate crime signals a new brutal landscape, where targeted attacks against rotating victim groups not only result in spikes, but increases are also being driven by a more widely dispersed rise in the most violent offenses,\" said Brian Levin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University.\n\nThe FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report says there were 7,314 hate crimes last year, up from 7,120 the year before - and the highest number since 7,783 were recorded in 2008.\n\nA hate crime is defined in the report as offences \"motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity\".\n\nThe data showed a nearly 7% rise in religion-based hate crime, with a 14% increase in crimes targeting Jews or Jewish institutions.\n\nIt also found anti-Latino hate crime rose 8.7% from 485 in 2018 to 527 in 2019 to the highest total since 2010.\n\nThe killing of 22 people at the El Paso Walmart last year is the worst hate crime attack ever recorded by the FBI, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. El Paso shooting: 'My heart hurts on every level'\n\nBlack people were targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in the US. However, the FBI said the number of hate crimes against African Americans dropped slightly to 1,930, from 1,943.\n\nOf all 4,930 victims of reported hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity, 48.5% were \"victims of crimes motivated by offenders' anti-Black or African American bias\", compared with 15.7% as \"victims of anti-White bias\", 14.1% as \"victims of anti-Hispanic or Latino bias\" and 4.4% of \"anti-Asian bias\".\n\nAfter the FBI report's release rights groups called for better reporting of and collection of information on hate crimes.\n\nA press release from the Jewish civil rights group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the data revealed \"a harrowing trend of increasing hate crimes being reported in the United States, even as fewer law enforcement agencies provided data to the FBI\".\n\n\"The total severity of the impact and damage caused by hate crimes cannot be fully measured without complete participation in the FBI's data collection process,\" ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt said.", "Travel rules have been relaxed for people arriving in England to work on poultry farms to ensure there is enough turkey available for Christmas dinners.\n\nFrom 04:00 on Tuesday, seasonal workers from abroad can start work straight away during their 14-day quarantine.\n\nThe transport secretary said the new measures will ensure food producers can \"keep up with the Christmas demand\".\n\nIndustry groups had previously warned of turkey shortages without enough skilled workers to process the meat.\n\nUnder the new rules, seasonal staff must still self-isolate from the rest of the public for the first 14 days.\n\nTo avoid any potential spread of coronavirus, they also have to form \"cohorts\", or live and work with a group of the same workers during their time in England. They will not be allowed to mix with other employees.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Christmas dinner is the highlight of the year for many families and this year it will be particularly significant.\"\n\nHe added that the new measures would support businesses who \"have faced unprecedented challenges from coronavirus\".\n\nThe boss of the British Poultry Council (BPC) had urged the government to exempt seasonal workers from quarantine rules in October.\n\nRichard Griffiths warned that 1,000 workers from the European Union were needed to stop Christmas supply from collapsing.\n\nOn Tuesday, he said he hoped that the new exemption would be \"helpful\" in the run-up to Christmas.\n\n\"Industry is determined to deliver Christmas to households across the nation. If the exemption helps us deliver a fantastic Christmas and helps our smaller seasonal producers out, then it can only be a good thing.\"\n\nAbout 5,500 seasonal workers arrive on farms in England each year to help during the festive period, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nThe type of skills turkey production requires are not available among UK workers, the BPC has previously said.\n\nWorkers need to have been trained specifically in Watok - Welfare of Animals at Time of Killing - and licensed to kill or slaughter animals, which means holding a certificate of competence from the Food Standards Agency.\n\n\"The UK meat industry needs access to reliable skilled workers wherever they come from in order to keep the flow of food from our farms to our plates,\" said Tony Goodger of the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers.\n\nHe added: \"What we need now is a clear steer that the system will be in place much earlier in 2021 should we need it.\"\n\nThis year, all non-UK seasonal poultry workers are required to leave England by 31 December, at which point the exemption will no longer be in force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The changes will make it more expensive for NI dealers to buy cars from Great Britain\n\nBrexit-related changes are set to make it more expensive for NI car dealers to source second-hand vehicles from GB.\n\nCurrently when dealers buy a vehicle in GB and then sell it in Northern Ireland, they only have to pay VAT on the profit.\n\nBut from January they will have to pay VAT on the full price they paid for the car in GB.\n\nThis will drastically reduce the profit margins on those vehicles or see price rises for consumers.\n\nThe VAT bill for a car bought for £8,000 and sold for £10,000 could rise from £333 to £1666.\n\nGB is a significant source of second-hand cars for NI either from auctions or cars coming off a lease.\n\nFrom January many EU rules will apply on trade from GB to NI including what is known as the VAT margin scheme.\n\nThe margin scheme is the arrangement which allows VAT to be paid on the profit rather than the full price.\n\nFrom 1 January NI will be part of the EU scheme rather than the UK one.\n\nOfficial guidance from HMRC states: \"In line with EU rules, margin schemes involving goods, such as the second-hand margin schemes, will not usually apply for sales in Northern Ireland where the stock is purchased in Great Britain.\n\n\"Margin schemes will remain available for sales of goods that are purchased in Northern Ireland or the EU, whether sold to customers in Northern Ireland, Great Britain or the EU.\"\n\nIt is understood the issue is being raised at the Joint Committee - the UK-EU body which is overseeing the NI part of the Brexit deal.\n\nThe EU would have to agree to set aside this provision of the deal if the new arrangement is not to begin in January.", "It was only on Sunday that the prime minister was hoping to use this week as a reset, relaunch, even rebrand, of his government after the crazy B-movie version of House of Cards that's been playing out in the last few days.\n\nBut that night Boris Johnson got caught up in the realities of coronavirus again, being \"pinged\" after a meeting with a group of half a dozen MPs, one of whom later tested positive, confining him to Downing Street for the next fortnight.\n\nBut it's his own gaffe on Monday that will knock his planned return to calm off course.\n\nOn a call with a powerful group of northern Tory MPs, the prime minister was asked about devolution. It has groaned and strained under the stress of the pandemic over the last few months, while relations with the other UK governments, as well as some city-region mayors, have been far from straightforward.\n\nBut it now seems, as the Sun first reported, that Mr Johnson did not just say that things had been a bit tricky. Downing Street is not denying the suggestion that he said it had been a \"disaster north of the border\".\n\nThis comes six months before vital elections right across the UK, important particularly in Scotland. It is just when the SNP has been starting to warm up its campaign, and just when discussions about how the UK government ought to respond are taking place too. You can read more about that here.\n\nIt is one thing - and, of course, legitimate - for political rivals to criticise each other. But to suggest the way that Scotland has been run for more than a decade is a \"disaster\" is quite another.\n\nAnd the worry among Scottish Tories is the implication that Mr Johnson's understanding of the political situation is far from complete.\n\nDouglas Ross was more polite than some of his colleagues about the PM\n\nThe notion of devolution used to be controversial in Scotland, and the Tories used to oppose it. But that's not been the case for a long time.\n\nEven the UK government's own website says officially that \"devolution has made a real difference to the lives of people in Scotland - and recognises the wishes of the people to have more say over matters that affect them\".\n\nWithin a few minutes, no surprise, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon responded to what had been reported - frankly a political gift for her to amplify her claims that Mr Johnson doesn't understand Scotland.\n\nShortly afterwards, the new-ish Scottish Tory leader, Douglas Ross, tried, sort of, to justify what had been said.\n\nHis colleagues are less diplomatic in private. One veteran Scottish Tory told me: \"This is dire - it's totally out of touch and reflects a Westminster-centric view of 1992, not 2020.\"\n\nAnother said: \"The anger tonight is palpable and the worst I've ever seen towards a Tory PM.\"\n\nThere's a sense that the prime minister doesn't have that long to get a grip of the government after a crazy few days.\n\nAn unforced error on a vital issue like this is hardly likely to help.", "Forces in England and Wales can resume issuing £10,000 fines for breaches of Covid rules on gatherings of more than 30 people, police chiefs have said.\n\nOn Friday the NPCC advised forces to temporarily issue a court summons rather than a fixed penalty notice.\n\nThere were concerns about a potential disparity between the amount being paid by some upfront, compared to those who challenged the fixed penalty in court.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said this issue had now been addressed.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Following discussions with government, the issue we flagged last Friday has been fully addressed, and forces are advised that they can resume issuing £10,000 FPNs [fixed penalty notices] where appropriate.\"\n\n\"People found to be in breach of the regulations relating to gatherings of over 30 people will be made fully aware of their options when faced with a £10k FPN, to ensure fairness.\n\n\"The option of summons will remain available to officers, as it always has been, should the unique circumstances of a case mean that this is the most appropriate course of action. However, the vast majority of cases can be dealt with by way of FPN.\"\n\nWhen fines go to court they are means-tested against a person's income - meaning the recipient's ability to pay is taken into account.\n\nIn a statement earlier on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said: \"It is right that we have a strong deterrent. We are working with forces to ensure people are fully aware of their options when faced with a fixed penalty notice.\n\n\"If someone chooses not to pay their fixed penalty notice, the matter may be considered by a court and the individual could be subject to a criminal conviction.\"\n\nThe NPCC said it had previously advised temporarily suspending the use of fixed penalty notices \"because of a potential disparity between those who opt to pay the FPN and those who see their case reach the court where the FPN would be means tested against personal income\".\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson had previously asked ministers for \"urgent clarity\" on the issue, and accused the government of failing to provide the police with \"workable Covid legislation\".\n\nIn a letter to the policing minister Kit Malthouse, Labour's Mr Jamieson said: \"I feel thoroughly embarrassed that I have been personally supporting the government's actions, which, at best, are questionable.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police has already issued 13 of the fines, reserved for the most serious social-distancing breaches.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions vary in each of the UK's four nations.\n\nA new lockdown is in force in England, and Wales has now ended a short \"circuit breaker\" lockdown, but still has some restrictions in place.\n\nElsewhere, Scotland has moved to a five-tier system of coronavirus restrictions, while Northern Ireland has extended its own temporary lockdown.", "After a meeting with business and labour leaders, US President-elect Joe Biden criticises President Donald Trump's denial of his election loss.", "Rangers fear the unique white skin of the giraffe may make the animal vulnerable to poachers\n\nThe world's only known white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device to keep poachers at bay in north-east Kenya, conservationists say.\n\nA conservation group said rangers could monitor the lone male giraffe's movements in real time.\n\nThe giraffe has a rare genetic condition called leucism, which causes the loss of skin pigmentation.\n\nHe is thought to be the last of his kind, after poachers killed two of his family members in March.\n\nRangers fear the giraffe could suffer the same fate as his relatives, a female and her seven-month-old calf with similar white skin.\n\nTheir carcasses were found in a conservation area in Kenya's north-eastern Garissa County, where the male giraffe is currently living alone.\n\nThe Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, which oversees wildlife in the area, said the tracking device was attached to one of the giraffe's horns on 8 November.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, the non-profit group said the tracking device would give hourly updates on the giraffe's whereabouts, enabling rangers to \"keep the unique animal safe from poachers\".\n\nThe male giraffe's family - a female and a calf - were found dead in March this year\n\nThe manager of the group, Mohammed Ahmednoor, thanked conservationists for their help in protecting the giraffe and other wildlife.\n\n\"The giraffe's grazing range has been blessed with good rains in the recent past and the abundant vegetation bodes well for the future of the white male,\" he said.\n\nThe Kenya Wildlife Society, the main conservation body in the east-African country, said it was happy to assist in efforts to protect \"unique wildlife like the only known white giraffe\".\n\nWhite giraffes were first spotted in Kenya in March 2016, about two months after a sighting in neighbouring Tanzania.\n\nA year later, white giraffes made headlines again, after the mother and her calf from the conservancy in Kenya's Garissa County were caught on camera.\n\nNative to more than 15 African countries, giraffes are the world's tallest mammals. They are hunted by poachers for their hides, meat and body parts.\n\nSome 40% of the giraffe population has disappeared in the last 30 years, with poaching and wildlife trafficking contributing to this decline, according to the Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF).\n\nGiraffes have been designated as a vulnerable species on The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List, with an estimated population of 68,293 globally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why we should worry about giraffes", "Jewellery designer Michael Saiger, who brokered PPE contracts for the NHS, at a fashion show in 2009\n\nA Spanish businessman who acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff in the coronavirus pandemic was paid $28m (£21m) in UK taxpayer cash.\n\nThe consultant had been in line for a further $20m of UK public funds, documents filed in a US court reveal.\n\nThe legal papers also reveal the American supplier of the PPE called the deals \"lucrative\".\n\nThe Department of Health said proper checks are done for all contracts.\n\nA legal dispute playing out in the courts in Miami has helped shine a light on the amount of money some companies have made supplying the NHS with equipment to protect staff from Covid infection.\n\nEarlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading rapidly around the world, Florida-based jewellery designer Michael Saiger set up a business to supply PPE to governments.\n\nHe used his experience of working with factories in China to land what are described as \"a number of lucrative contracts\" supplying protective gloves and gowns to the NHS.\n\nMr Saiger signed up a Spanish businessman, Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson, to help with \"procurement, logistics, due diligence, product sourcing and quality control\" of the PPE equipment. In effect, Mr Andersson was expected to find a manufacturer for deals that had already been done.\n\nMr Andersson was paid more than $28m (£21m) for his work on two government contracts to supply the NHS. He was described in court documents as having done \"very well under this arrangement\".\n\nEarlier in the year there was a shortage of protective equipment for NHS medics\n\nIn June, Mr Saiger signed three more agreements to supply the NHS with millions of gloves and surgical gowns.\n\nWhen the UK government paid up, his go-between, Mr Andersson, would have been in line for a further $20m in consulting fees.\n\nBut the court documents allege that once the agreements had been signed, Mr Andersson stopped doing any work for Mr Saiger. It's not clear whether Mr Andersson received any of the money for this second batch of deals.\n\nThis led to PPE deliveries being delayed to NHS frontline workers, Mr Saiger claims, and the company \"scrambling\" to fulfil the contracts by other means.\n\nSo far the UK's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published contracts with Mr Saiger's company, Saiger LLC, totalling more than £200m. These were awarded without being opened to competition.\n\nAlongside the legal dispute in Florida, the deals are set to be challenged in UK courts, by campaign group the Good Law Project. It accuses government ministers of not paying \"sufficient regard\" to tax-payers' money over a contract with the firm.\n\n\"We do not understand why, as late as June, government was still making direct awards of contracts sufficiently lucrative as to enable these sorts of profits to be made,\" Jolyon Maugham, the project's director told the BBC.\n\n\"The real criticism that is to be made here is of the huge profits that government allows to be generated.\"\n\nThis is not the first time concerns have been raised about PPE contracts the DHSC signed during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC revealed that 50 million face masks the government bought could not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns. And last week, it exposed concerns that the government had leaned on safety officials to certify PPE which had been wrongly classified.\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said the department had been \"working tirelessly\" to deliver PPE, with more than 4.9 billion items delivered to frontline health workers so far and nearly 32 billion items ordered \"to provide a continuous supply\".\n\nThey added: \"Proper due diligence is carried out for all government contracts, and we take these checks extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson for comment but he has not so far responded.\n\nSaiger LLC said: \"At the height of the pandemic, and at a time when the NHS was in need of high-quality PPE that met the required safety standards, we delivered for Britain, on time and at value.\n\n\"At no time have we ever used any 'middlemen'. We have few full-time staff so for large projects we bring in short-term contractors for additional expertise and capacity, allowing us to deliver what is needed.\n\n\"We are exceptionally proud to have played our part in providing frontline workers in the UK, including nurses, doctors and hospital staff, with the millions of pieces of PPE they need to stay safe and to save lives.\"\n\nMore from Phil on Twitter @phill_kemp", "Landlords in England are to be held more accountable, the government has said, as part of social housing reforms three years after the Grenfell fire.\n\nThey include a charter setting out what tenants can expect from a landlord, including to be safe in their home and to know how the landlord is performing in areas like repairs and complaints.\n\nThe housing secretary says it will give tenants \"a much stronger voice\".\n\nBut Labour said the reforms \"appear to water down previous proposals\".\n\nHousing charity Shelter warned there was a \"chronic shortage of social housing\" and that \"any new dawn for social renters must come with major investment in new homes too\".\n\nThe proposals are part of a \"fundamental rethink\" on social housing following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on during a refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017, which led to the deaths of 72 people. It is now examining how the tower block blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said the Social Housing White Paper had been drafted with the views of those devastated by Grenfell in mind.\n\nMinisters say they will \"deliver on the commitment we made to the Grenfell community that never again would the voices of residents go unheard\".\n\nThe White Paper - a document setting out proposed new laws before they are formalised in a government bill - pledges that complaints to landlords should be dealt with promptly and fairly, and tenants should expect to be treated with respect alongside the backing of a consumer regulator.\n\nAlongside these promises, residents have also been told they will have a good quality home and neighbourhood to live in.\n\nEd Daffarn, a Grenfell survivor and member of bereaved families and survivors group Grenfell United, said: \"If this White Paper is going to make a difference, the (social housing) regulator and the ombudsman need to understand the devastating impact bad landlords can and do have on people's lives.\n\n\"We have little faith that bad landlords will improve themselves - so the responsibility now lies with the regulator and ombudsman to use their new powers to ensure no residents are ever treated how we were.\n\n\"Ultimately it will be for residents themselves to determine if these changes go far enough to making their lives better and homes safer - and creating a lasting legacy for the 72 innocent lives so needlessly lost at Grenfell.\"\n\nThe Social Housing White Paper was born from the shock and grief of Grenfell. The prime minister at the time, Theresa May, told a hushed House of Commons that she would ensure the voice of those living in social housing could never be ignored again.\n\n\"Long after the TV cameras have gone, and the world has moved on,\" she said, \"let the legacy of this awful tragedy be that we resolve never to forget these people and instead to gear our policies and our thinking towards making their lives better and bringing them into the political process.\"\n\nThere was to be legislation to ensure her promise would be met. Parliament was told it would be a \"wide-ranging top-to-bottom review of the issues facing the sector\" and the \"most substantial report of its kind for a generation\".\n\nBut four housing ministers, three housing secretaries and more than three years later, we have only just seen the government's proposals for the first time.\n\nFew will argue with the measures to give tenants a greater say and to strengthen their rights. But only last September, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick also referred to how the White Paper would \"boost the supply\" of social housing.\n\nThere are, however, no firm commitments to increase the number of council houses in England. In the summer, a senior committee of MPs told the government the country needed a net addition of 90,000 social-rented homes a year.\n\nAlthough the White Paper does refer to increasing the supply of social housing (it could hardly fall any lower), its focus is on general affordability, with particular emphasis on what they call \"affordable home ownership\", a product that is out of reach for those on the lowest incomes.\n\nFor some, this is the great hole in the middle of this White Paper.\n\nThe prime minister says the proposals will ensure \"social housing tenants are treated with the respect they deserve\", but critics argue there is too little for the 93,000 households in England currently stuck in temporary accommodation, or the estimated 3.8 million people in need of social housing.\n\nMr Jenrick has also announced a consultation on making smoke and carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in all rental properties.\n\nHe said the reforms would bring \"transformational change\" that would give social housing residents \"a much stronger voice\".\n\n\"I want to see social housing tenants empowered by a regulatory regime and a culture of transparency, accountability, decency and public service befitting of the best intentions and deep roots of social housing in this country,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for housing and planning, Mike Amesbury, said: \"The government's response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy has been slow at every stage. They were slow to re-house residents, slow to remove deadly cladding, and slow to come forward with social housing reforms.\n\n\"Two years late, this White Paper appears to water down previous proposals. The government must do all it can to ensure a disaster like Grenfell can never happen again. That means tackling stigma, putting tenants' voices centre stage, and ensuring the regulator has real teeth.\n\n\"Today's proposals contain nothing to help the thousands struggling in the private rented sector, make up for a lost decade of social housing, or tackle the housing crisis.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is social housing and why do we have it?\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said it was \"paramount that the voice of all social housing residents is heard\".\n\nAnd Kate Henderson, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said the White Paper was \"an important and welcome milestone in the country's response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy\", adding that \"housing associations have demonstrated willingness to be more accountable and transparent\".\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said the reforms were a \"welcome step in the right direction in the urgent task of protecting social tenants\".\n\nBut she warned: \"With over a million households already on the social housing waiting list, and many more families potentially facing homelessness as the recession bites, any new regulatory system is being set up to fail unless we build many more social homes.\"\n\nThe White Paper only applies to England as social housing in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been devolved.", "Rashford says his books will be for every child \"even if I have to deliver them myself\"\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has followed his free school meals campaign by launching a book club to help children enjoy the escapism of reading.\n\nThe Manchester United and England star has teamed up with Macmillan Children's Books to promote reading and literacy.\n\nBooks were \"never a thing we could budget for as a family\", he said.\n\n\"I only started reading at 17, and it completely changed my outlook and mentality.\" He said reading shouldn't be for \"just those that can afford 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 Marcus Rashford MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 23-year-old continued: \"I wish I was offered the opportunity to really engage with reading more as a child.\n\n\"There were times where the escapism of reading could have really helped me. I want this escapism for all children.\"\n\nMacmillan said the scheme would see a large number of books being given away to children from vulnerable and under-privileged backgrounds.\n\nRashford added: \"We know there are over 380,000 children across the UK today that have never owned a book, children that are in vulnerable environments. That has to change.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the publisher said it would work with Rashford and charities to \"find the most effective mechanisms to reach the children who need them\".\n\nThe project will begin with an illustrated non-fiction book called YOU ARE A CHAMPION: Unlock Your Potential, Find Your Voice And Be The BEST You Can Be, which will be aimed at children aged 11-16, and published in May 2021.\n\nEach chapter will start with a story from Rashford's own life and will cover such topics as the value of education, positive mentality, understanding culture, and female role models.\n\nCarl Anka, a journalist for sports media group The Athletic, and Katie Warriner, a performance psychologist, will help write the book.\n\nRashford will then publish two fiction titles for readers aged seven upwards. Meanwhile, the Marcus Rashford Book Club will give away books from the publisher's existing roster \"with the aim of championing the works of creatives from all backgrounds\".\n\nRashford said: \"My books are, and always will be, for every child, even if I have to deliver them myself. We will reach them.\"\n\n\"Let our children read that they are not alone and enable them to dream. Equip them for obstacles and adversities they might face. Allow them to relate to characters by making sure people of all race, religion and gender are depicted correctly and representative of modern society.\n\n\"No matter where you grow up, talent should be recognised and championed. Under the Marcus Rashford Book Club young writers, illustrators and creatives will be seen and they will be offered a platform to shine.\"\n\nThe striker has received national praise for highlighting the issue of child food poverty, and his campaign resulted in a government U-turn to announce free meals would be provided to disadvantaged children over the Christmas holidays. He was awarded an MBE last month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A former employee from the company which made the combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower in west London has admitted behaving unethically.\n\nJonathan Roper of Celotex told a public inquiry that the work he did to get the insulation approved for use on high rise buildings was \"dishonest\".\n\nHe added that he felt \"incredibly uncomfortable\" with what he was being asked to do at the time.\n\nCelotex says following disciplinary processes, staff have left the company.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on during the refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nIt is now examining how the tower block blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nMr Roper, a former product manager at Celotex, told the inquiry on Monday that the way in which the company presented the results of its fire test was misleading.\n\nHe said that Celotex should have considered not selling its products for use on high-rise buildings.\n\nIn 2013, while being asked to research how Celotex insulation could be approved for use on buildings over 18m, Mr Roper had written to colleagues asking if they should take the view that the materials \"realistically should not be used behind most cladding panels, because in the event of a fire it would burn\".\n\nHe told the inquiry that the responses he received from colleagues made it clear that Celotex was determined to launch the insulation - known as Rs5000 - onto the market regardless of how it could pass fire tests.\n\nMr Roper accepted that the discussion within the company was whether Celotex complied with the building regulations or bent the rules to make more money.\n\nAfter a first test failure in January 2014, a second system passed in May 2014, but Celotex failed to disclose additional non-combustible elements which it added to prevent this system from failing, the inquiry heard.\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry heard Celotex added a 6mm fire-resisting magnesium oxide board to a cladding test rig made up of 12mm fibre cement panels for the second test.\n\nThe inquiry heard 8mm fibre cement panels were added over the magnesium oxide to \"conceal\" its presence, making the whole system almost flush - but for the 2mm difference.\n\nMr Roper agreed with the inquiry's chief lawyer Richard Millett QC that the decision to use \"a thinner layer was to make it less noticeable there was something else behind it\", which would aid to \"see off any prospect of anyone asking questions\" about its make-up.\n\nThe inquiry's chief lawyer Richard Millett QC asked: \"Did that not strike you at the time as dishonest?\"\n\nMr Roper said: \"Yes it did. I went along with a lot of actions at Celotex that, looking back on reflection, were completely unethical and that I probably didn't potentially consider the impact of at the time.\n\n\"I was 22 or 23, first job, I thought this was standard practice, albeit it did sit very uncomfortably with me.\"\n\nMr Roper said his superiors ordered the removal of any mention in marketing literature of the magnesium oxide. He agreed that was \"misleading and intended to mislead\".\n\nMr Millett asked: \"Did you realise at the time that if this was how the test was to be described to the market it would be a fraud on the market?\"\n\nMr Roper said: \"Yes I did.\n\n\"I felt incredibly uncomfortable with it. I felt incredibly uncomfortable with what I was asked to do.\"\n\nMr Roper said there was no-one in the firm he could tell about his concerns.\n\nIn its opening statement for the second phase of the inquiry, Celotex said: \"In the course of investigations carried out by Celotex after the Grenfell Tower fire, certain issues emerged concerning the testing, certification and marketing of Celotex's products... These matters involved unacceptable conduct on the part of a number of employees.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard Celotex saw Grenfell as a \"flagship\" for its product and cynically exploited the \"smoke of confusion\" which surrounded building regulations at the time.\n\nCelotex, part of the French multinational Saint-Gobain group, has maintained it promoted Rs5000's use on buildings taller than 18m only on a \"rainscreen cladding system with the specific components\", used when it passed the fire safety test.\n• None Four possible reasons for the Grenfell Tower fire", "Patients at the University Hospital of Wales will take part in a clinical trial\n\nMouthwash can kill coronavirus within 30 seconds of being exposed to it in a lab, a scientific study indicates.\n\nScientists at Cardiff University found there were \"promising signs\" that over-the-counter mouthwashes may help to destroy the virus.\n\nThe report comes ahead of a clinical trial on Covid-19 on patients at the University Hospital of Wales.\n\nDr Nick Claydon said the study could lead to mouthwash becoming an important part of people's routines.\n\nWhile the research suggests use of mouthwash may help kill the virus in saliva, there is not evidence it could be used as a treatment for coronavirus, as it will not reach the the respiratory tract or the lungs.\n\nDr Claydon, a specialist periodontologist, said: \"If these positive results are reflected in Cardiff University's clinical trial, CPC-based mouthwashes... could become an important addition to people's routine, together with hand washing, physical distancing and wearing masks, both now and in the future.\"\n\nThe university report states that mouthwashes containing at least 0.07% cetypyridinium chloride (CPC) showed \"promising signs\" of being able to eradicate the virus when exposed to the virus in a lab.\n\nWhile the report is yet to be peer reviewed, it supports another recent study which found CPC-based mouthwashes are effective in reducing viral load.\n\nDr Richard Stanton, lead author on the study, said: \"This study adds to the emerging literature that several commonly-available mouthwashes designed to fight gum disease can also inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (and other related coronaviruses) when tested in the laboratory under conditions that are designed to mimic the oral/nasal cavity in a test tube.\n\n\"This study is not yet peer reviewed and published which means it has not yet been scrutinised by other scientists as is the usual process with academic research. It has now been submitted for publication in a journal.\n\n\"People should continue to follow the preventive measures issued by the UK government, including washing hands frequently and maintaining social distance.\"\n\nCardiff University scientists have stressed that people should continue to follow official advice when it comes to trying to prevent the spread of coronavirus\n\nA clinical trial will look at whether it helps to reduce levels of the virus in the saliva of Covid-19 patients at the hospital in Cardiff, with results expected early next year.\n\nProf David Thomas, from the university, said the initial results were encouraging, but the clinical trial would not produce evidence of how to prevent transmission between patients.\n\n\"Whilst these mouthwashes very effectively eradicate the virus in the laboratory, we need to see if they work in patients and this is the point of our ongoing clinical study,\" he said.\n\n\"The ongoing clinical study will, however, show us how long any effects last, following a single administration of the mouthwash in patients with Covid-19.\"We need to understand if the effect of over-the-counter mouthwashes on the Covid-19 virus achieved in the laboratory can be reproduced in patients.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Services can be streamed as Chwilog chapel gets its own postcode\n\nA chapel has been given a postcode - after standing for 151 years.\n\nSiloh chapel in Chwilog near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, did not have a postcode but needed one in order to have a phone line and broadband installed.\n\nServices will now be streamed while coronavirus restrictions are in place.\n\n\"We had started broadcasting services on Zoom from the house and were looking beyond that and seeing it was something we needed to continue,\" said the Reverend Aled Davies.\n\n\"After hearing from BT that there was no postcode for us, we went to the Royal Mail. We had to have a post box installed and take a picture to prove it was there.\n\n\"By the following day, someone had ticked a box and the postcode is there now.\"\n\nThe chapel now has its own letterbox\n\nThe numbers watching the services at Siloh have doubled during the pandemic as people find it easier to join in from home, he added.\n\n\"That's the importance of things like Zoom - that has enabled people to be a community together without being in the same building,\" he said.\n\n\"So as we move on from this I hope we can, not only do things in the building, but also bring an audience from outside, those who can't come to the chapel.\n\n\"I was worried initially that it could all be impersonal, but people love waving and saying hello to each other on screen.\n\n\"Whilst in the chapel people would tend to look straight ahead and keep quiet, so there are some unexpected things that have come out of this somehow.\"\n\nA BT spokesman said that they have \"seen a certain increase in the number of enquiries from churches, chapels and other places of worship looking to get a broadband connection\".", "Global share prices have surged following news of a second breakthrough coronavirus vaccine, following last week's positive results from Pfizer.\n\nInterim data from the US firm Moderna suggests its vaccine is highly effective in preventing people getting ill and works across all age groups.\n\nThe news pushed Moderna shares more than 9% higher and the Dow to a record.\n\nIt also lifted firms hit by the virus, with British Airways owner IAG rising 10% and Cineworld up 13.5%.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high, after jumping about 1.6%. The wider S&P 500 increased almost 1.2% from Friday's record and the Nasdaq gained 0.8%.\n\nEarlier, the UK's FTSE 100 share index closed about 1.6% higher, while the main market in Paris rose 1.7% and in Germany shares gained 0.5%.\n\nLast week, stock markets enjoyed one of their best ever days when a vaccine by Pfizer/BioNTech raised hopes that the business world might return to normal next year. A number of other vaccines are also being developed.\n\nThe gains spurred by Moderna's news on Monday were more muted but still helped the MSCI World Index of global shares to rise further, climbing to a new record high.\n\nFirms that have been hit most badly in the pandemic have seen the biggest rises. In the travel sector, cruise line Carnival jumped more than 10%, while Intercontinental Hotels closed almost 5% higher.\n\nThe prospect of an end to lockdowns also helped oil prices strengthen. Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude prices were up about 3%, and shares in energy companies also gained.\n\nThe price of gold - which is often seen as a safer asset in times of uncertainty - slipped 0.7% before recovering.\n\nTerry Sandven, chief equity strategist at US Bank Wealth Management, said markets are being driven by a \"tug-of-war between optimism over COVID-19 vaccine progress versus fear of economic slowing as COVID-19 cases continue to rise\".\n\nBut he said low interest rates, stimulus and medical progress give him a \"glass half-full\" outlook.\n\n\"We expect equity prices to inch higher into year-end and 2021, with increased volatility being more the norm than exception,\" he said,\n\nUntil vaccines can be rolled out, rising cases of the coronavirus were a risk, said Morgan Stanley strategists in a research note to investors.\n\nBut the investment bank urged shareholders to \"keep the faith... We think this global recovery is sustainable, synchronous and supported by policy\".", "The Queen, who is very much alive, was on the list published by mistake\n\nA French radio station has apologised after publishing the obituaries of several prominent - and alive - people, including the Queen.\n\nOthers on the list that went live prematurely on the website of Radio France Internationale included Clint Eastwood, Pele and Brigitte Bardot.\n\nA \"technical problem\" led to the publication, RFI said.\n\n\"We offer our apologies to the people concerned and to you who follow and trust us,\" the broadcaster added.\n\nBroadcasters and media outlets often prepare obituary material in order to be able to publish it promptly when a death is announced.\n\nThe problem occurred when RFI was moving its website to a different content management system, according to its statement.\n\nIt said \"around a hundred\" draft stories were published in error - not just to its own site but to partner sites including Google and Yahoo.\n\nFrench businessman Bernie Tapie, 77, who was on the list of people who had their death notice published by RFI, has had his obituary published on at least two other occasions by other news outlets.\n\nOthers who made the cut on this occasion included Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, former US President Jimmy Carter and Cuba's Raul Castro.\n\nNone of them are currently dead. RFI has said it is \"mobilising to rectify this major bug\".", "No further changes have been announced to Scotland's five-level Covid alert system after the latest review of the restrictions.\n\nEleven local authorities continue to be in the toughest level four restrictions. Rules are similar to the lockdown in March, although this time schools have remained open. All non-essential shops, as well as pubs and restaurants, gyms, libraries and hairdressers, are closed. The restrictions will be in place until 18:00 on 11 December.\n\nRestrictions at this level see cafes, pubs and restaurants allowed to open until 18:00 to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks to groups of up to six from two households. Alcohol sales are not permitted indoors or outdoors. All leisure and entertainment venues are closed, including cinemas. No non-essential travel is allowed out of a level three area. Indoor exercise, which includes gyms, are restricted to individual and not group exercise.\n\nIn this tier there is no in-home socialising allowed and up to six people from two households can meet outdoors and in hospitality settings. Licensed premises can only serve alcohol indoors with a main meal - and then only until 20:00. Outdoors, you can be served until 22:30. Most leisure and entertainment premises are closed except gyms, cinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades.\n\nSix people from two households can meet indoors if they are resident in Shetland, the Western Isles and Orkney. This does not apply to the other council areas. Level one sees a \"reasonable\" degree of normality. Hospitality has a 22:30 curfew. Events, like weddings, would be restricted to a maximum of 20 people. Indoor contact sports for adults are not permitted. Only those unable to work from home should go to their place of employment. Up to eight people from three households can meet outdoors.\n\nNo local authority has been assigned this level. At level zero, hospitality would operate \"almost normally\" - subject to rules on physical distancing, limits on numbers and other rules, such as table service.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\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.", "Military personnel have been drafted to help at test sites including at Liverpool FC's stadium\n\nA mass Covid-19 testing trial in Liverpool has found 700 people unknowingly had the virus.\n\nPublic Health England director Dr Susan Hopkins said nearly 100,000 people had been tested over the last 10 days.\n\nShe stressed that these positive cases would have not been detected otherwise.\n\nAbout 2,000 soldiers have been deployed in the city for the project, which was intended to run for an initial period of 10 to 14 days.\n\nDevices which give results within an hour have been used to test people in the city since the scheme began on 6 November.\n\nMass testing will be rolled out to 67 more areas in England\n\nLiverpool had among the highest rates of deaths from coronavirus in October, when it became the first area in England to face the tightest restrictions before the second national lockdown.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press briefing, Dr Hopkins said \"we are looking to replicate this across the country\".\n\nShe said: \"We are also running evaluations in schools and universities and are planning to test university students prior to going home at Christmas.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace visited a test centre at Exhibition Centre Liverpool on Monday and said the Army would assist with the programme for \"as long as there is a need\".\n\nSoldiers at Liverpool's Anfield stadium which has been turned into a test centre\n\nMr Wallace said: \"The rollout's been good, the soldiers have been welcomed, the public have come from all over the city.\"\n\nTrooper Dan House, 22, said up to 500 tests a day were being carried out at the site where he was based and people had given soldiers tubs of chocolates as a thank you.\n\nHe said: \"It's nice to know the work we're doing is coming across to the British public and they're happy we're here.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Under the tier system in place before England's lockdown, areas such as Nottingham saw tougher restrictions than others\n\nThe government is seeking \"greater consistency\" as it prepares to reintroduce England's regional Covid tier system next month, the communities secretary has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick said ministers were reviewing the measures in each tier.\n\nHe said he expected a conclusion to be reached \"within the next week or so\".\n\nIt comes after a senior government adviser said the three-tier system used in England before the lockdown may need strengthening.\n\nThe government hopes to introduce tiers again when the national lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland the toughest level of Covid restrictions are to be introduced in 11 council areas - including Glasgow - on Friday.\n\nThe level four rules will see the closure of non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants and gyms.\n\nMr Jenrick told BBC Breakfast that ministers would look at \"whether the measures that we had in the old tiers were effective\".\n\nHe pointed out that restrictions had \"varied quite a bit in different parts of the country\", with some areas under the strictest level - tier three (very high) - introducing their own rules in addition to baseline measures.\n\n\"I think in the new tiers we would like greater consistency, and we will have to look at the evidence to see which of those measures [were] actually the most impactful on the virus, so that we take the most evidence-based approach that we can do,\" he said.\n\n\"We haven't come to a conclusion on that yet, to be perfectly honest, but we will be within the next week or so.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said ministers would also look at \"whether the new national measures themselves have had an impact and how great an impact that has been\".\n\n\"We won't know that with any certainty until the last week of November,\" he said.\n\nHe also said it looked as though \"a very large proportion of the population\" would have access to a vaccine in the first half of 2021, and confirmed that the government did not have plans to make it compulsory.\n\nAsked in the House of Commons whether the government intended to impose tougher restrictions on tier one (medium) areas, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"too early to do the analysis... but of course we remain vigilant\".\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth responded that MPs would \"soon be asked to make a decision on the future of the lockdown, so the earlier we get that information the better\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was \"a little bit unhappy\" about the idea of either modifying tier one or getting rid of it completely, adding that it was important to balance health needs with the economy.\n\nHe said he felt the tier system had been working before the national lockdown.\n\n\"It may have been slower than a full lockdown, but it was working and I think a return to that with some flexibility, I think will be the right way to go,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia and an adviser to the World Health Organization, also said he believed England would need to return to the tier system after the national lockdown ends.\n\n\"What we need to do is make it more responsive and rapid to changes in the epidemic at the local level... then I think we do have a real opportunity to control the epidemic,\" he told the programme.\n\nHowever, he said he hoped there would be some further relaxation over the Christmas period.\n\n\"Maybe only for a few days but I think providing that we have some rules still in place and we avoid too big gatherings - I do hope that we can manage to have a more normal Christmas than we might otherwise have been expecting,\" he said.\n\nIt comes a day after Public Health England's Susan Hopkins - who is a member of the government's scientific advisory group (Sage) - said tier one measures had \"very little effect\" on the spread of the virus.\n\nSpeaking at the government's evening coronavirus briefing on Monday, she said that, prior to the lockdown, the \"tiering of the country\" had had a \"different effect in each area\".\n\n\"Tier three plus\" had led to a reduction in cases in the North West, she said, while tier two \"holds in some areas and not in others\", depending on \"how well individuals are taking that advice in\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"We see very little effect from tier one and when we look at what tiers may be there in the future, we will have to think about strengthening them to get us through the winter months until the vaccine is available for everyone.\"\n\nThe UK reported another 21,363 daily Covid cases on Monday, as well as a further 213 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nBefore England went into its second lockdown this month, nearly a fifth of the population was living in tier three areas.\n\nThey included those in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, the Liverpool City Region, Warrington and Nottinghamshire.\n\nSome areas introduced tougher restrictions than others, going beyond the baseline tier three measures.\n\nFor example, betting shops, saunas, tattoo parlours and nail salons were closed in Nottinghamshire.\n\nLast month, police officers told the Home Affairs Select Committee that the tier system made it harder to enforce coronavirus restrictions because of the nuances that had been \"creeping in\".", "Marie Stopes, pictured around 1955, founded the first birth control clinic in Britain and later focussed on the needs of the developing world\n\nA leading abortion provider has changed its name to break ties with Marie Stopes, the controversial birth control pioneer who believed in the creation of a super race.\n\nMarie Stopes International, which provides contraception and abortions to women and girls in 37 countries, is now known as MSI Reproductive Choices.\n\nThe charity said her views on eugenics were in \"stark contrast\" to its values.\n\nIt added the events of 2020 reaffirmed a name change was the right decision.\n\nMarie Stopes set up Britain's first birth control clinic in 1921 in Holloway, north London, despite medical and religious opposition.\n\nThe Marie Stopes Mothers' Clinic, which gave women advice and contraception, later moved to Whitfield Street, in central London.\n\nIn 1976, doctor Tim Black heard the clinic was in financial difficulty and bought the lease to the building, thereby co-founding the modern organisation and the first of more than 600 Marie Stopes International clinics around the world.\n\nMSI Reproductive Choices said Stopes' legacy has become \"deeply entangled\" with her views on eugenics and wanted to address the \"understandable misapprehensions\" that the charity had a meaningful connection to her.\n\nEugenics is the study of the selective breeding of humans to increase heritable characteristics, which are considered desirable.\n\nStopes was a member of the Eugenics Society and advocated for the sterilisation of people considered unfit for parenthood.\n\nMSI Reproductive Choices said these views \"though not uncommon at that time, are now rightly discredited\".\n\nSimon Cooke, chief executive of MSI Reproductive Choices, said: \"The name of the organisation has been a topic of discussion for many years and the events of 2020 have reaffirmed that changing our name is the right decision.\"\n\nMarie Stopes, born in Edinburgh in 1880, is a controversial historical figure.\n\nShe wrote a best-selling sex-manual for women and was a birth control pioneer.\n\nOn a darker note, she also corresponded with Adolf Hitler and believed in the creation of a super race.\n\nWhen Stopes set up her first birth control clinic in 1921, everyone assumed that she had trained in medicine. Yet it was fossil plants and coal that was her expertise.\n\nIt was her personal experience that motivated her to promote sex education and the use of contraception. After a failed marriage, she wrote Britain's first sex manual, Married Love.\n\nShe opened Britain's first birth control clinic in north London in 1921 and founded the National Birth Control Council, later known as the Family Planning Association.\n\nDespite services in her name offering abortion care after her death in 1958, she had actually been opposed to abortion.\n\nHer legacy is marked by an English Heritage blue plaque on her first London home in Upper Norwood, south-east London, describing her as a promoter of sex education and birth control.", "Workers at the factories, who live mostly in poverty, allowed the BBC to photograph them anonymously\n\nIndian workers in factories supplying the supermarket chains Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury's, and the fashion brand Ralph Lauren, told the BBC they are being subjected to exploitative conditions.\n\nWomen working at a Ralph Lauren supplier said they had been forced to stay overnight to complete orders, sometimes requiring them to sleep on the factory floor.\n\n\"We're made to work continuously, often through the night, sleeping at 3am then waking up by 5am for another full day,\" one woman said in an interview. \"Our bosses don't care. They're only bothered about production,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has withheld the names of those who agreed to be interviewed, as well as the names of the factories, to protect the workers' safety.\n\nWorkers at the supermarket supplier said they had been made to endure conditions which would be unacceptable for staff employed by the same brands in the UK.\n\n\"We don't get toilet breaks, we don't get time to drink water on shift. We barely get time to eat lunch,\" one woman said.\n\nShe said a manager would sometimes stand behind staff in the canteen and blow a whistle to send them back to work.\n\nAnother employee said staff were forced to work overtime and prevented from going home until extra work was finished.\n\n\"They've increased our workload. We're forced to stay late to finish it - or they yell at us and threaten to fire us. We're scared as we don't want to lose our jobs.\"\n\nThe four brands supplied by the factories we investigated all said they were concerned about the allegations put to them by the BBC and would investigate.\n\nThis young woman feeds her family on a salary of £61 per month. She told the BBC it was a struggle.\n\nThe women working at these garment factories all live in poverty in a rural area of South India. The charity Action Aid, which supports more than 1,200 female garment workers across 45 villages in this specific region, told the BBC that forced overtime, verbal abuse and poor working conditions were routine at the factories in question.\n\nAllegations such as these are not confined to the garment industry. Low wages and weak labour laws have long made India an attractive place for foreign brands looking to outsource work. Unions are rare and virtually absent in the private sector, making informal and contract workers especially vulnerable. While inspections are mandatory, rampant corruption and a sluggish system has meant that factories are rarely held to account for breaking the law.\n\nThe garment industry draws more attention because it's driven by exports and counts some of the world's biggest brands as among its clients. India is the world's second-largest manufacturer and exporter of garments after China. India's garment makers directly employ about 12.9 million people in factories and millions more outside, including their own homes, according to a 2019 report that investigated working conditions in the sector.\n\nSeveral women who spoke to the BBC described a climate of fear at the factory supplying Ralph Lauren. They said managers did not give them notice to work additional hours, instead threatening them with the sack if they were unable to stay on.\n\n\"The supervisor always shouts at us,\" one woman said. \"If we make any error in stitching, I'll be taken to the master who is very scary. The master will start swearing and shouting at us. It's a terrifying experience\"\n\nAnother woman, a widow who supports her family financially, said: \"They ask us to work so late I can't even feed my children at night. They shouldn't treat us like slaves, they should give us respect,\" she said.\n\nThis worker at a factory supplying the UK supermarkets told us staff do not get water or toilet breaks\n\nThe claims appear to violate India's Factories Act, which states that no worker should exceed more than 48 hours a week (or 60 hours with overtime), nor should they be made to work for more than nine hours in one day.\n\nThe law also states that women should only work night shifts if they choose to do so.\n\nRalph Lauren's 2020 Global Citizenship and sustainability report says the company is \"committed to conducting our global operations ethically with respect for the dignity of all people who make our products\". The report also includes a pledge to ensure employees \"must not be made to work excessive working hours\" and says there should be no \"verbal harassment, coercion, punishment or abuse\".\n\nThe three brands are all members of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), and have signed up to its base code which includes a pledge to ensure working hours are not excessive, overtime is voluntary and that workers are not subject to verbal abuse.\n\nIn a statement, Ralph Lauren said it was deeply concerned by the allegations put to the company by the BBC and would investigate.\n\n\"We require all of our suppliers to meet strict operating standards to ensure a safe, healthy and ethical workplace, and we conduct regular third-party audits at all factories,\" the company said.\n\nThe factory supplying the fashion brand denied the staff members' allegations and said it was compliant with the law.\n\nThe three supermarket brands all said they were shocked to hear the reports and were working together to ensure the issues were remedied, in particular on excessive working hours.\n\nSainsbury's said it was \"insisting on a number of actions the supplier must take in order for us to continue to work with them\", including \"immediate actions and ongoing commitments the supplier must make while we continue to closely monitor the site\".\n\nTesco said: \"We don't tolerate any abuse of workers' rights and fully investigated these allegations as soon as we were made aware. We were deeply troubled with what we found.\"\n\nWomen are underpaid throughout global supply chains, according to the charity Action Aid\n\nTesco said its plan included \"prohibiting excessive overtime, strengthening grievance procedures\" and ensuring workers were \"fully compensated at the correct rates for hours they've worked\".\n\nMarks & Spencer said it \"undertook an immediate unannounced audit\" in the wake of the claims, the company said it \"identified overtime working practices that are not acceptable\", but disputed worker accounts about access to toilet breaks and water.\n\nThe company also said it had a \"robust\" plan in place and would be \"undertaking regular unannounced audits to ensure its implementation\".\n\nThese kinds of brands do not own or operate factories in India, which creates distance between them and working conditions there, but one owner of a clothing supplier - who did not want to be named - told the BBC that if brands push for cheaper clothes it can leave suppliers with no choice but to cut corners to meet orders.\n\n\"It's the brand who wants to maximize the profit. So, they push you to a level wherein you have to do the exploitation in order to survive,\" he said.\n\nThe owner, who used to supply a major UK brand not mentioned in this story, described some factory audit processes as a \"sham\".\n\n\"The factory is aware when the auditors are coming, so they keep everything in perfect condition before,\" he said. \"The moment the audit is over, everything goes back to normal, which means exploitation and non compliance.\"\n\nHe said that poor checks and balances, combined with a lack of responsibility by the brands, makes it hard to stamp out that exploitation.\n\n\"It is the way of working in the textile industry, it's just not India, it's everywhere.\"\n\nAnd as profits are squeezed, women often find themselves losing out. Payslips seen by the BBC show women working in garment factories can earn as little as £2.50 per day, making items which, in some cases, sell for hundreds of pounds.\n\nThe factory workers who spoke to the BBC live in poverty in rural southern India\n\nMore than 40% of workers surveyed by Action Aid India reported that their average monthly income was in the range of Rs. 2000-5000. (£20-£50).\n\n\"Women are undervalued and underpaid throughout global supply chains,\" said Esther Mariaselvam, the associate director at Action Aid's Chennai office.\n\nAll of the workers who spoke to the BBC described living in impoverished conditions and said they struggled to survive on their salaries.\n\nOne woman working at the Ralph Lauren supplier said she supported her entire family on a wage of around 6,000 rs (£61 per month), after deductions.\n\nStill in her late teens, she became the breadwinner after her father died and now provides for her mother and two sisters.\n\nHer salary is within the local legal minimum wage bracket for her job, but labour rights organisations say women like her should be earning more than three times as much.\n\nThe Asia Floor Wage Alliance organisation which advocates for higher salaries for garment workers in the region, has set a monthly living wage in India of at least 18,727 rs (£190).\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer have previously made commitments to a living wage. Ralph Lauren has not done so explicitly.\n\nBut according to payslips seen by the BBC, neither of the factories we investigated appeared to be paying their workers anything close to the Asia Floor Wage Alliance recommended minimum amount.\n\nWe asked all four brands to comment on the living wage but none of them responded on the specific issue.\n\nCharities have called on major brands to do more to protect those in the supply chain feeding their stores\n\nAnna Bryher, from the advocacy group Labour behind the Label, said it was the responsibility of brands to ensure fair and safe working conditions.\n\n\"If you're a brand and you're making clothing in different countries around the world then you need to look at whether you're paying your workers enough to live with dignity,\" she said.\n\n\"It's your responsibility as the company at the top of the supply chain to know what is happening in your supply chain and to make sure that it's fair.\"\n\nLocal labour laws were not doing enough to address exploitation, the push for change needs to come from the brands themselves,\" argues Vivek Soundararajan, a senior lecturer at Bath University who researches global supply chains.\n\n\"Most checks and balances do not include workers voices, they do not include what workers actually need,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the brand should take the full responsibility … They may not run the factory, but they get all the benefits.\"\n\nIf you are a worker in a garments factory and have a story to share you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jeremy Corbyn was suspended by the Labour Party in October\n\nLast month, a report from the UK's human rights watchdog (EHRC) said the party broke the law by failing to stamp out anti-Jewish racism in the party.\n\nResponding to the report, the former leader said the scale of anti-Semitism had been \"dramatically overstated\" by his opponents, and he was suspended.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said those who think the issue had been \"exaggerated\" should \"be nowhere near the Labour Party\".\n\nHowever, the decision to suspend Mr Corbyn was taken by the party's General Secretary David Evans, not the new leader.\n\nA panel made up of members from the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) is now meeting to decide whether to take further disciplinary action or to lift his suspension.\n\nAhead of the meeting on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn - who has been a member of the party for 54 years - released a statement on Facebook, saying concerns over anti-Semitism within Labour are \"neither exaggerated nor overstated\".\n\nBut the Board of Deputies of British Jews said their community did not accept \"this pathetic non-apology\".\n\nRules brought in under Mr Corbyn mean NEC panels - made up of five members, advised by a barrister - look specifically at anti-Semitism cases on a monthly basis.\n\nThe can decide to either:\n\nThe panel can also refer any cases to the National Constitutional Committee, which is an elected body in the Labour Party that hears and decides on complaints.\n\nThe five members of Labour's ruling national executive who will decide Jeremy Corbyn's political fate have a tricky task.\n\nSome of the former Labour leader's colleagues on the left of the party wanted him to apologise for his remarks, feeling this was the easiest route to having his suspension lifted.\n\nInstead, Mr Corbyn issued a \"clarification\", making it clear he wasn't belittling concerns over anti-Semitism, and that he was referring to the scale of the problem being overstated, not its seriousness.\n\nThe Board of Deputies of British Jews has called this a \"pathetic non-apology\", so if he is reinstated, the party can expect the row over anti-Semitism to reignite.\n\nIf, however, further disciplinary action is taken, a section of the left will regard that as a declaration of civil war - something which those closest to Mr Corbyn hope to avoid.\n\nAfter the damning EHRC report Labour wants to move on from the toxic issue of anti-Semitism - but is already finding that is easier said than done.\n\nMr Corbyn - who led the party for almost five years - said he had already given a statement to Labour to \"clear up any confusion\" about what he had meant when he responded to the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's report.\n\nHe said the report's release \"should have been a moment for the Labour Party to come together in a determination to address the shortcomings of the past and work as one to root out anti-Semitism in our own ranks and wider society\".\n\nMr Corbyn, who is still an MP despite his suspension from the party, said it was \"not his intention\" to say anti-Jewish racism should be tolerated, and he \"regrets the pain this issue has caused the Jewish community\".\n\nHis statement added: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nBut the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned the statement and called for action from Labour.\n\nPresident of the organisation, Marie van der Zyl, added: \"If the party wants to show it is serious about tackling anti-Jewish racism, it will consign this statement, just like the culture which led to the EHRC's damning findings, to the dustbin of history.\n\n\"To do otherwise would be a failure of leadership which would risk the party slipping backwards.\"\n\nAsked about the statement, a Labour Party spokesman said they would not \"give a running commentary on an individual case\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In comments before his suspension from Labour, Jeremy Corbyn said anti-Semitism complaints numbers were \"exaggerated\"\n\nLabour has been plagued by allegations of anti-Jewish racism by some of its supporters since 2016, mostly on social media.\n\nAnti-Semitic abuse is against the law and in May last year the EHRC - which polices human rights and equalities in the UK - launched an investigation into Labour's handling of complaints about the behaviour of some of its supporters.\n\nWhen it published its report in October, the Commission put some of the blame on \"serious failings\" under Mr Corbyn's leadership of the party.\n\nBut Labour said it was his reaction to the report that led to his suspension, rather its findings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kier Starmer: \"An ability to recognise the hurt, draw a line and move on\"\n\nMany Labour MPs stood by the decision to suspend Mr Corbyn, including Margaret Hodge, parliamentary chair of the Jewish Labour Movement.\n\nBut his allies in the Commons, including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, called for the decision to be reversed.\n\nOn his Facebook post, the former leader said: \"I hope this matter is resolved as quickly as possible, so that the party can work together to root out anti-Semitism and unite to oppose and defeat this deeply damaging Conservative government.\"", "From Boxing Day the whole of mainland Scotland will be in the country's toughest tier of restrictions for at least three weeks. So what can you do - and not do - in level four?\n\nIf you want to delve deeper into the Scottish government's level four rules, click here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHurricane Iota has strengthened as it roars towards Central America, less than two weeks after another devastating storm struck the region.\n\nWith winds of up to 160mph (260km/h), it is now a category five storm - the strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale.\n\n\"What's drawing closer is a bomb,\" said the president of neighbouring Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.\n\nIota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.\n\nIn a joint press conference, Mr Hernández and Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei said Central America was the worst affected region in the world by climate change, and highlighted the damage caused by Hurricane Eta earlier in the month.\n\nThousands lost their crops when that storm hit, and parts of Central America remain water logged.\n\nBefore reaching Central America the storm moved past the Colombian island of Providencia in the Caribbean, cutting off electricity.\n\nThe country's President Iván Duque said the island could have been hit badly by the storm and stressed there had been \"very poor\" communication after it struck.\n\nThe NHC has warned that heavy rainfall from Iota could lead to \"life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding across portions of Central America\".\n\nIota already caused flooding in Cartagena, a popular tourist destination on Colombia's Caribbean coast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe effect of the rains could be particularly devastating in areas already drenched by Hurricane Eta two weeks ago.\n\nEta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead.\n\nAt least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.\n\nHonduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua have evacuated residents living in low-lying areas and near rivers in the Atlantic coastal region which Iota is expected to hit.\n\nA resident of Bilwi, a coastal town in Nicaragua, said some locals were refusing to leave their homes for fear of catching coronavirus in shared shelters.\n\n\"Some of us prefer to stay and die in our homes. There has never been a repeat hurricane in such a short time, but what can we do against the force of God and nature,\" Silvania Zamora told AFP news agency.\n\n\"We are worried, nervous. Psychologically we are not doing well, because losing our things and starting over is not easy. Some of us have old little houses and we risk losing everything,\" she added.\n\nIn Honduras, the country's second city and its industrial hub, San Pedro Sula, is bracing for major flooding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"For the doubters out there who don’t believe in it...it’s here.\"\n\nCouncil bosses in Hull are asking the prime minister to take urgent action over an \"astonishing and terrifying\" rise in the number of Covid cases.\n\nCouncil leader Stephen Brady has written a personal letter to Boris Johnson asking him to intervene.\n\nHe said the city had one of the highest infection rates and the virus was \"now ravaging our communities more than anywhere else in our country\".\n\nThe government has been approached for comment.\n\nHull currently has 770 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people, and in his letter Mr Brady said: \"I am writing to express my grave concerns about the consequences of the current Covid-19 health emergency in Hull and the absence of central government support to assist us in overcoming it.\n\n\"As I am sure you are aware, our infection rate is now one of the highest in the country and... the infection rates in our city have increased at a, frankly, astonishing and terrifying rate over the last few weeks.\n\n\"We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the absolute minimum we need to get through this pandemic.\"\n\nMr Brady is calling for a range of measures to be introduced including more freedom to put local restrictions in place, particularly with regard to schools, and additional support and resources for health.\n\nHe also wants discussions on the financial support needed for local businesses and about what will happen when the current restrictions end.\n\n\"We will not stand by and let Hull be forgotten,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I am hopeful that the prime minister will take this letter seriously and will urgently speak to us about what the government will do.\"\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.", "£1.3bn will be invested in electric vehicle charging points as part of the plan\n\nNew cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nBut some hybrids would still be allowed, he confirmed.\n\nIt is part of what Mr Johnson calls a \"green industrial revolution\" to tackle climate change and create jobs in industries such as nuclear energy.\n\nCritics say the £4bn allocated to implement the 10-point plan is far too small for the scale of the challenge.\n\nThe total amount of new money announced in the package is a 25th of the projected £100bn cost of high-speed rail, HS2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will the UK be ready for a 2030 ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars?\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma told BBC Breakfast the £4bn was part of a broader £12bn package of public investment, which \"will help to bring in three times as much in terms of private sector money\".\n\nMr Sharma, who is president of the COP26 international climate summit that the UK will host next year, said the money would also support the creation of 250,000 jobs in parts of the UK \"where we want to see levelling up\".\n\nThe government hopes that many of those jobs will be in northern England and in Wales, and that 60,000 will be in offshore wind.\n\nThe government has also given funding to boost cycling and walking\n\nThe plan includes provision for a large nuclear plant - likely to be at Sizewell in Suffolk - and for advanced small nuclear reactors, which it is hoped, will create an estimated 10,000 jobs at Rolls-Royce and other firms.\n\nThe government is close to giving the green light to a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk\n\nThe plans will also affect some people's homes.\n\nThe government will bring forward, to 2023, the date by which new homes will need to be warmed without using gas heating.\n\nIt will aim to install 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 - these are low-energy electrical devices for warming homes.\n\nAnd it has extended the Green Homes Grant for home insulation for a year after the first tranche was massively over-subscribed.\n\nClean hydrogen will be blended into the natural gas supply to reduce overall emissions from gas, and the government wants a town to volunteer for a trial of 100% hydrogen for heat, industry and cooking.\n\nThe hydrogen - attracting a subsidy of up to £500m - will be produced in places such as the North East of England, partly by energy from offshore wind.\n\nThe prime minister wants his green plan to be powered by wind farms like this one in Redcar, Teesside\n\nThe government wants to breathe new life into de-industrialised areas by teaming hydrogen production with the manufacture of wind turbines, and with four clusters of firms using carbon capture and storage.\n\nThis is when emissions from chimneys are captured and forced into rocks underground. The hope is to transform depressed areas into hi-tech hubs. This will get funding of an extra £200m.\n\nAnother key point of the plan is a £1.3bn investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging points. Grants for EV buyers will stretch to £582m to help people make the transition.\n\nThere is also nearly £500m for battery manufacture in the Midlands and the north-east of England.\n\nMany of the details of the plan will be written into an energy white paper proposing future legislation, which is expected by the end of the month.\n\nIn the race to clean up motoring, the UK is now in second place after Norway, which has a fossil fuel vehicle abolition date of 2025.\n\nUK car makers have warned about the scale of the challenge, but the government believes that forcing technological change can give firms a competitive edge.\n\nBut will the so-called \"green revolution\" achieve its aim of massive job creation?\n\nExperts said the £4bn would go a long way if it were spent on labour-intensive insulation, but not far if ploughed into expensive, mechanised carbon capture.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"My 10-point plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050.\n\n\"Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his plans aimed to create jobs and address climate change at the same time.\n\nThe UK will host the COP26 UN summit - seen as the most important round of talks to tackle climate change since the Paris Agreement in 2015 - in Glasgow this time next year. It had been due to take place in 2020 but was postponed by 12 months because of the pandemic.\n\nThe plans are aimed to put the UK on track to meet its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband criticised the plan, saying that the funding \"in this long-awaited\" announcement does not \"remotely meet the scale of what is needed\" to tackle unemployment and the climate emergency.\n\n\"Only a fraction of the funding announced today is new.\"\n\nMr Miliband, who served as energy and climate change secretary from 2008-10, said Labour wanted the government to bring forward £30bn of capital investment over the next 18 months and invest it in low-carbon sectors to support 400,000 additional jobs.\n\nAnd Green Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed some measures but said the plan \"completely fails to rise to the gravity of this moment\".\n\n\"When you put it in the context of the scale of the climate and nature emergencies that we face, and indeed the scale of the job emergencies that we face, then it's nowhere near ambitious enough, it's not urgent enough, it's not bold enough,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe criticised the £4bn allocation, saying \"the resources aren't there in order to make this a really strategic package\".\n\nMs Lucas also said the government's message is \"inconsistent\" and it must make clear which technologies it wants to invest in.\n\nShe said nuclear power is \"massively costly\", will not be \"on stream\" until the middle of the 2030s, and risks undermining focus on offshore wind.\n\nThe Green Party called for a transformation of the entire economy to reduce emissions, including scrapping the £27bn road-building programme, which will actually increase emissions.\n\nHowever, Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of energy supplier SSE, told the Today programme he was pleased \"to see this level of ambition from the government\".\n\nHe said the plan was \"a really important step in getting the green recovery going\" and would \"help create a lot more jobs\".\n\nMike Hulme, professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge, said critics should not \"nit-pick about precise details\" of the plan as it was \"far more important is to endorse the direction of travel that has been set for the next decade\".\n\nTanya Steele from WWF-UK said the government had \"fired the starting gun on the action we need to see\".\n\nShe added: \"We now need the chancellor to live up to the ambition expressed today through a spending review that tests every line of public spending to ensure it's compatible with meeting our climate goals.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe family of 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles says football needs to \"address the scandal\" of dementia in the game.\n\nAnd they criticised the Professional Footballers' Association, saying there had been a lack of support for players.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United and England midfielder died in October, aged 78. He had dementia and prostate cancer.\n\nStiles is the fifth member of England's World Cup-winning squad to have been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nPrevious research has shown that ex-footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than the general population.\n\nStiles' family said they were proud of \"what he achieved, but more importantly, the man he was\".\n\nBut they added: \"There is a need for urgent action.\n\n\"These older players have largely been forgotten and many are in ill health, like dad.\n\n\"How can it be that these players are left needing help when their own union has tens of millions of pounds available today?\n\n\"How can it be that these players are struggling when the Premier League receives £3bn a year?\n\n\"The modern player will never need the help required by the older lads. How can it be right that some of the heroes of 1966 had to sell their medals to provide for the families?\n\n\"These older players are dying like my dad - many don't have medals to sell.\n\n\"It is right, of course to seek to identify the cause of dementia in older players but in truth the cause is irrelevant to the older players - whatever the cause, they need help now.\n\n\"I hope dad's death is the catalyst for this scandal to be addressed.\"\n\nStiles made 397 appearances for Manchester United between 1960 and 1971, later going on to play for Middlesbrough and Preston North End.\n\nHe won 28 caps for England and is the seventh member of the England team that started the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany to die, after captain Bobby Moore, Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks, Martin Peters and Jack Charlton.\n\nStiles had a minor stroke in 2010, and was then diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.\n\nThe PFA said: \"Our thoughts are with Nobby Stiles' family at this very difficult time.\n\n\"The PFA Charity offers a range of support to former professional footballers and their families/carers. The support we provide is always confidential and as each family's circumstance will vary, we try to ensure that the support provided is suitable to their individual needs.\n\n\"The PFA is listening to member feedback and evaluating ways to improve the services and care provided. We are at the of beginning of a process of consultation with sections of our membership who have lived experience of neurodegenerative conditions.\n\n\"We will be liaising with these members and their families to determine how the services can be of greater help and more accessible for those that need it.\n\n\"The PFA will continue to fund research as part of a working group, comprised of stakeholders from across the game. Currently, we are funding three separate studies looking at neurodegenerative conditions and football.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Football Association said: \"We continue to work closely with the Alzheimer's Society and, alongside other sport governing bodies, we are pleased to be a part of their Sport United Against Dementia campaign to help raise awareness and gain support for their valuable work.\n\n\"Collaboration across football's governing bodies is key in order to better understand this important issue collectively, and we firmly believe that all areas of football should come together for this meaningful cause.\"\n\nResearch from a study by neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart - which was commissioned by the FA and PFA - found that former footballers were between two and five times more likely to die from degenerative brain diseases.\n\nIt has yet to be proven whether heading is a contributing factor.\n\nBut Stiles says he is \"utterly convinced\" heading had caused problems to the members of the 1966 World Cup team who have been diagnosed with dementia, including Sir Bobby Charlton.\n\nStewart's examination of former West Brom striker Jeff Astle concluded he died of a brain condition normally linked to boxers, and that it was caused by heading footballs.\n\nLast month, a coroner ruled that former Welsh international Alan Jarvis died from dementia linked to repeatedly heading the ball.\n\nStiles said that football was \"hiding behind the fact that it's very difficult to get conclusive evidence of a brain injury\" as it cannot be diagnosed until after death.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"It's blatantly obvious that heading the ball has given [the World Cup players] dementia.\n\n\"There's nothing else that they have done, although all I hear from football authorities is that they need more studies. But while they are doing that the players aren't getting the help they need and they need it now.\n\n\"Football hasn't reacted and in the meantime, there's been hundreds, maybe thousands of footballers who have suffered with it, and football has deliberately, in my opinion, not dealt with it because it will cost money and affect the brand.\n\n\"The research should continue, there is plenty of money to do it, to make sure that current players and youngsters coming through don't suffer the same fate as my father. But more importantly, players should be getting care and support now, substantial support and care.\n\n\"I don't think you could ever take heading out of football, but at least the players should be made aware that they make a decision to play the game knowing what the risks are.\"\n\nThe Premier League says it contributes £23m a year to the PFA, which goes to several charitable and development causes, including the recent study.\n\nIt also has its own head injury advisory group, and is awaiting more details on concussion substitutions from IFAB, which are set to be trialled across the game from January 2021 onwards.\n• None Is the new Xbox console worth the money?", "China, where the virus started, is one of the few countries where life is back to a version of normal, post-coronavirus.\n\nNo new domestic symptomatic or asymptomatic cases have been detected in the last 24 hours. But there are growing concerns in the country that Covid-19 may enter China via imported frozen goods.\n\nA number of localised outbreaks earlier in the year in cities like Beijing and Qingdao were linked to handlers of imported frozen products , and China has been increasingly warning that cold-chain goods (those perishable goods transported at low temperatures) pose a serious threat to communities.\n\nOn Monday, China’s customs agency said it had “stepped up efforts” to prevent the virus from entering China by contacting all of the 109 countries that export cold-chain goods to the country. It also said it had suspended receiving goods from some 99 companies in 20 countries that export to China .\n\nHowever, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has questioned claims that the coronavirus was found on beef exports from New Zealand, given the country has also returned to a version of normal.\n\nShe said she had been advised New Zealand exports were stored with products from Argentina that had tested positive, following reports New Zealand goods had tested positive in the Chinese city of Jinan.\n\n“We are confident our products are not exported with Covid on them, given our status as being essentially Covid-19 free,” she told a press conference on Monday.\n\nA spokesperson from the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs added: “New Zealand has not been informed of this officially by the Chinese authorities.\n\n“New Zealand officials are working now to ascertain the origin and veracity of these reports.”", "Lodging website Airbnb has filed papers in the US to become a publicly listed company in what is one of the most-anticipated launches of the year.\n\nSince its founding as home-sharing site in 2008, the San Francisco tech firm has grown into a global juggernaut.\n\nIts rise has challenged traditional hotel rivals and cities coping with an influx of tourists to new areas.\n\nAnd while the pandemic hurt the firm's already loss-making business, Airbnb said its model remains resilient.\n\nThe company reportedly hopes to raise about $3bn (£2.27bn) by selling shares in the listing, which could value the firm at more than $30bn.\n\n\"We believe that the lines between travel and living are blurring, and the global pandemic has accelerated the ability to live anywhere,\" the company said in its Securities and Exchange Commission filing for its initial public offering (IPO). \"Our platform has proven adaptable to serve these new ways of traveling.\"\n\nMore than 4 million hosts list properties on the platform, 86% of which are located outside of the US. Last year, roughly 54 million people reserved stays through the company, which takes a cut of each booking.\n\nBut travel was hit hard by the pandemic, prompting the company to slash staff numbers by 25% and raise $2bn in emergency loans from investors to make it through the crisis.\n\nThe firm said bookings have since recovered somewhat, as people looked to escape locked down cities with long-term rentals. But they remain down about 20% in recent months compared to last year.\n\nIn 2019, the firm booked losses of more than $674m - a figure it has already surpassed in the first nine months of this year.\n\nThe firm, which brought in revenue of $4.8bn last year, also warned potential investors that revenue growth had slowed, a trend likely to continue.\n\nBetween 2018 and 2019, the firm's revenue grew more than 30%. But it fell more than 30% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2020, to $2.5bn from $3.7bn a year earlier.\n\nSeparately, shares of electric car maker Tesla jumped 9% in extended trade on Monday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said that the company would join the S&P 500 index. It will join on 21 December.", "A British diplomat has saved a student who was floating face down in a river near Chongqing in south-west China.\n\n61-year-old Stephen Ellison, who is only a month into his new post as consul general, jumped in after the 24-year-old woman slipped on rocks and fell.", "Vulnerable children are often used by so-called \"county lines\" gangs\n\n\"County lines\" gangs could be using children in care across north Wales to distribute drugs to get around lockdown restrictions, it is claimed.\n\nThe urban gangs use young people to expand their markets for drugs like cocaine and heroin into smaller towns.\n\nBut research for the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner suggests fewer children are being sent from larger cities.\n\nThere are also claims some councils have \"their heads in the sand\".\n\nBut the board representing councils, police and probation said it had not been invited to take part in the study.\n\nThe research by the crime and justice consultancy Crest Advisory comes as England is in the middle of a month-long national lockdown, with travel restricted between Wales and England.\n\nTravel between the countries was also limited during Wales' recent firebreak lockdown and before that local lockdowns.\n\n\"Gangs have had to change their business model,\" said North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones\n\n\"With the roads being quieter, less people on the trains, it's been easier for the police, British Transport Police, ourselves, to detect people who are coming to north Wales to deal drugs.\n\n\"So now what they're doing is trying to recruit children and young people locally and I'm particularly concerned about people in care being recruited to deal county lines.\"\n\nCrest Advisory conducted interviews with officers from North Wales Police and Merseyside Police, as well as other agencies as part of a wider project looking at county lines and looked-after children.\n\nJoe Calouri, head of policy at Crest, told Welsh language news programme Newyddion that gangs were already having to adapt due to more effective police work, but restrictions on movement during the pandemic had \"accelerated\" change.\n\n\"They've reacted by recruiting local children,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"And because of the use of technology and apps and social media, it's very easy for gangs to recruit children without even meeting them by having peers recruit them and controlling them via social network apps.\"\n\nThe issue of children in care homes - and where they come from - can be complicated.\n\nAs well as caring for children and young people from the region, a number of care homes in north Wales provide for out-of-area children, including from larger cities in England.\n\nBut local authorities may not know if children from outside the region are placed in their locality alongside local children.\n\nA number of councils in north Wales said they would not have accurate data as it's the responsibility of the placing authority to inform them.\n\nOne council said it was \"often not informed by placing authorities\".\n\nMr Calouri said local authorities did not engage with the research project.\n\n\"We have a concern that perhaps local authorities have their heads in the sand slightly on this issue and are still viewing it as a problem from outside rather than a problem that they need to deal with locally and poses a risk to local children,\" he added.\n\n\"Having reviewed their local safeguarding board documents, we don't see much evidence of proactive local planning around the risk or an understanding of what the risks are.\n\n\"People in north Wales should be very concerned about the changing threat of county lines.\n\n\"Over time we've seen elsewhere in the country how, as gangs start to recruit more locally, and rely less on trafficking children over borders, over time there's a high level of violence, there's post code-style gangs that form and it often results in high level violence and even murder in some situations.\n\n\"North Wales have the opportunity to be ahead of the curve in preventing this from happening, but to do that they need to recognise the threat of county lines locally and take action, rather than treating it as a problem that's come in from outside from Merseyside.\"\n\nIn a statement, the North Wales Children's Safeguarding Board, which is made up of local authorities, health board, police and probation, said: \"The request to participate with the Crest Research has not formally been presented.\n\n\"We hope that police colleagues at the board will take the opportunity to present the research proposal.\n\n\"We are aware that work is currently taking place between Wales Government safeguarding and advocacy unit and the heads of service across Wales around considering further amendments to the practice guide.\"", "If you can tear yourself away from the counting of votes in the United States, (and I appreciate if you are into politics, that's not easy right now), it is well worth noting what's going on in the warm up to a big political fight on this side of the pond, arguments that we are going to be talking about a lot in the coming months.\n\nThere is a huge set of elections, straddling many parts of the UK next May, and the most contentious arguments are likely to be in the elections for the Scottish Parliament.\n\nIn that poll, you guessed it, the central question on the ballot paper is likely to be that of Scottish independence.\n\nWith a solid trend of polls backing independence in recent months, the SNP is hopeful of another convincing result in the May ballot that will give them a mandate for another referendum on whether Scotland should stay in the UK.\n\nTheir problem, even if they win convincingly in May, is that the law says it's up to the UK government to decide whether or not there should be another referendum - a vote some Scots are massively eager to have, but which others want like a hole in the head. You can read more about the laws around a referendum here.\n\nAnd the SNP themselves said, at the time, that the 2014 referendum was a \"once in a generation opportunity\" for those who want Scotland to be independent.\n\nThe UK government's problem is that if the SNP does win convincingly in May on a promise of having another referendum, denying that would just amplify the argument that Westminster doesn't listen to what Scots want, and likely increase support for independence.\n\nThat's why the comments from Scottish Secretary Alister Jack this morning are notable. He said that \"once in a generation\" means there can't be an independence referendum for many, many years.\n\nNot surprisingly, the SNP have leapt on his words, even comparing his comments to President Trump's bizarre, sometimes rambling, statements since the US election - so full of claims without evidence about fraud or irregularities in the voting that some of the American TV networks cut him off while he was still talking.\n\nOne US politician making wild allegations about fraud is obviously not the same as another in the UK hardening their opposition to another kind of poll taking place, which the government has the legal right to permit or not.\n\nYet the UK government does have an acute dilemma, and it knows it.\n\nAnd not everyone in Westminster agrees that the answer to a hypothetical big SNP win in May can be, \"no, not now, and not nearly ever\".\n\nTo put it mildly, there is a range of opinion in government on how to meet the demands for a referendum in practice.\n\nThere are concerns among Tories too about Labour's weakness at Holyrood, which you can read about here.\n\nAt the very least, the UK government intends to be more present, more prominent, in Scotland, to move away from what one government source admits was an attitude of \"devolve and forget\" that has built up over successive UK administrations.\n\nBut making the argument for the Union more obviously, and more visibly is one thing - there is no guarantee that in the coming months Scottish voters will like what they see.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Owen and Bredge Ward's son said his parents \"were always together\"\n\nTributes have been paid to a couple who died 12 hours apart after contracting Covid-19.\n\nOwen and Bredge Ward, who were both 69, passed away in hospital on Monday.\n\nLast week, their family had hoped Mr and Mrs Ward, from Strabane, County Tyrone, were recovering from Covid-19. Instead, they are now preparing for their funeral on Wednesday.\n\nTheir son, Martin, said he was in \"complete shock\" and urged people to adhere to public health guidance.\n\nMartin, who is one of six children, held his father's hand as he died, while his siblings were with his mother at the funeral home.\n\nHe sais his parents \"doted\" on their nine grandchildren and, sadly, they will never get to meet their 10th grandchild.\n\nMr and Mr Ward enjoyed spending time with their grandchildren before the coronavirus pandemic\n\n\"We can't have a proper wake, hear all the stories that people would be talking about,\" Martin, a nurse at University College Hospital Galway, told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We can't do that because of Covid-19 and all the restrictions, which need to be in place.\"\n\nHe said his mother's condition started to improve last week, but then his father \"went downhill\" and was put into a coma.\n\n\"This is what the disease does - it can be mild or it can devastate lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Within hours, my mum, who was improving, just went downhill. Maybe it was the shock.\n\n\"Fast forward a week and my father was improving and my mother was getting worse.\n\n\"She passed away yesterday, then my father, from a position where he was getting better, just completely collapsed and within a couple of hours of my mother dying, he passed away too.\n\n\"Even though they were sedated and had pain relief and loving care from the staff at Altnagelvin Hospital, both of them just completely collapsed within a couple of hours and that's just how it is.\n\n\"It's the hurt and suffering that this virus can cause.\"\n\nMartin, who lives in Galway, in the Republic of Ireland, with his young family, said Covid-19 guidance should be the same on both sides of the border.\n\nMartin Ward has urged people to follow the public health guidelines following his parents' death\n\n\"It's a cross-border thing,\" he said.\n\n\"We live on an island and we can't separate each jurisdiction because it impacts upon all of us. It impacts on communities on both sides of the border.\n\n\"The only thing I want to say to people north and south of the border is to think about other people.\n\n\"We knew from February or March what could happen and people have to take on board that this can cause a hell of a lot of harm to people's families.\n\n\"The economic aspect is terribly damaging too, so we have to try to limit the spread and adhere to the guidelines, social distancing where you can and when you can't, put on a face mask.\n\n\"Treat everyone the same - with respect and as if they are one of your family - so you can minimise the harm to others.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Labour has readmitted former leader Jeremy Corbyn as a member following his suspension last month.\n\nHe was punished after saying the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been \"overstated\", in response to a damning report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn issued a statement earlier saying he regretted any \"pain\" caused.\n\nBut current leader Sir Keir Starmer maintained Mr Corbyn's initial reaction to the report had been \"wrong\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a decision had not yet been taken on whether to restore the Labour whip to Mr Corbyn, which would allow him to sit once more as one of its MPs.\n\nA panel made up of members of the party's National Executive Committee met on Tuesday to decide whether to take further disciplinary action against him or to lift the suspension.\n\nAfter it decided to readmit Mr Corbyn, Sir Keir tweeted that it had been a \"painful day for the Jewish community and those Labour members who have fought so hard to tackle anti-Semitism\".\n\nHe added: \"Jeremy Corbyn's statement in response to the EHRC report was wrong and completely distracted from a report that identified unlawful conduct in our tackling of racism within the Labour Party. This should shame us all.\"\n\nWhen Labour acted swiftly and decisively to suspend Jeremy Corbyn, it was seen as a signal the party wanted to distance itself from a toxic period in its recent past.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said he hadn't instigated the action but he supported it.\n\nBut whatever decision was reached on Tuesday, criticism would have followed.\n\nMr Corbyn didn't apologise for suggesting the scale of anti-Semitism had been overstated by political opponents, which was the reason for his suspension. He simply clarified what he had meant.\n\nSo reinstating him was bound to attract criticism from those cheered by his suspension.\n\nNot to have reinstated him, however, would most likely have fuelled a factional war between those supportive of the Starmer leadership and those - including some union leaders - who remain close to Mr Corbyn.\n\nSir Keir reiterated his commitment to an independent complaints process in the New Year - an Equality and Human Rights Commission recommendation.\n\nBut putting Labour under fresh leadership hasn't silenced or banished those still supportive of the old leadership.\n\nAnd the line Sir Keir wants to draw under the anti-Semitism rows hasn't been fully drawn.\n\nIn a statement earlier on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn - who is currently an independent MP - said it was \"not his intention\" to say anti-Jewish racism should be tolerated, and that he regretted the \"pain\" caused.\n\nHis statement added: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear whether Mr Corbyn will face further sanctions from the party.\n\nIts general secretary, David Evans, took the decision to suspend him in October, although Sir Keir endorsed it.\n\nThe ECHR's report found Labour had breached the Equalities Act over its handling of complaints of anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn's time in charge.\n\nLabour said Mr Corbyn had been suspended \"for a failure to retract\" his words.\n\nFollowing his readmission, the Islington North MP said: \"I hope this matter is resolved as quickly as possible, so that the party can work together to root out anti-Semitism and unite to oppose and defeat this deeply damaging Conservative government.\"\n\nBut the Jewish Labour Movement called the decision to readmit Mr Corbyn \"extraordinary\", adding: \"After his failure of leadership to tackle anti-Semitism, so clearly set out in the EHRC's report, any reasonable and fair-minded observer would see Jeremy Corbyn's statement today as insincere and wholly inadequate.\"\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: \"What message does this send? Zero tolerance either means zero tolerance or it's meaningless.\"\n\nThe co-chairman of the Conservative Party, MP Amanda Milling, has written to Sir Keir, saying: \"You have claimed that Labour is 'under new leadership', but now is the moment to prove it - Mr Corbyn should be expelled permanently.\"\n\nFormer Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman, who quit the party over anti-Semitism concerns last year, said the decision was a \"backward step\".\n\n\"What Keir Starmer and the chief whip should do now is to refuse to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn, in that way they can show that they are determined… to rid the party of this dreadful stain,\" she told BBC Newsnight.\n\nHowever, Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union and a close ally of Mr Corbyn, called the reinstatement a \"correct, fair and unifying decision\".\n\nHe said Labour had to \"move forward\" in implementing the EHRC's recommendations and \"redouble our efforts to inspire voters\" about Sir Keir's policies, acting as a \"unified and strong\" party.\n\nAnd Jenny Manson, co-chairman of pro-Corbyn group Jewish Voice for Labour, told BBC Newsnight that \"an awful lot of us are very happy he (Mr Corbyn) is back in the party\" and would be \"very sad indeed\" if the whip is taken away from him.", "Boris Johnson has rejected the request from Nicola Sturgeon\n\nThe UK government has formally rejected a call from Scotland's first minister for a second independence referendum.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said a referendum would \"continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade\".\n\nAnd he said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had previously pledged that the 2014 referendum would be a \"once in a generation\" vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that the Tories were attempting to \"deny democracy\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson's formal refusal of her request for a referendum to be held later this year was \"predictable but also unsustainable and self defeating\", and insisted that \"Scotland will have the right to choose\".\n\nThe first minister also said the Scottish government would set out its response and \"next steps\" before the end of the month, and that the devolved Scottish Parliament would again be asked to \"back Scotland's right to choose our own future\".\n\nScottish voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% in the referendum in 2014.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she wants to hold another vote on independence, and made a formal request last month for the UK government to transfer powers - known as a Section 30 order - to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh that would ensure any referendum is legal.\n\nThe request came after Ms Sturgeon's SNP, which forms the Scottish government, won 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland in the UK general election.\n\nIn his written response to Ms Sturgeon, the prime minister said he had \"carefully considered and noted\" her arguments.\n\nBut he said: \"You and your predecessor (Alex Salmond) made a personal promise that the 2014 independence referendum was a \"once in a generation\" vote.\n\n\"The people of Scotland voted decisively on that promise to keep our United Kingdom together, a result which both the Scottish and UK governments committed to respect in the Edinburgh Agreement.\"\n\nA large pro-independence march was held in Glasgow at the weekend\n\nMr Johnson said the UK government would \"continue to uphold the democratic decision of the Scottish people and the promise you made to them\".\n\nAnd he said he did not want to see Scotland's schools, hospitals and employment \"again left behind because of a campaign to separate the UK\".\n\nThe prime minister added: \"For that reason, I cannot agree to any request for a transfer of power that would lead to further independence referendums\".\n\nThe formal rejection comes days after the UK government's Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, said another victory in next year's Scottish Parliament election would still not give the SNP a mandate to hold a referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously warned that a \"flat no\" from Mr Johnson to her request would \"not be the end of the matter\".\n\nBut she has made clear that she will not hold an unofficial referendum similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017, arguing that it would not actually deliver independence as the result would not be recognised by the EU or wider international community.\n\nThe first minister said: \"The Tories are terrified of Scotland having the right to choose our own future. They know that given the choice the overwhelming likelihood is that people will choose the positive option of independence.\n\n\"The Tories - and their allies in the leaderships of Labour and the Lib Dems - lack any positive case for the union, so all they can do is try to block democracy.\n\n\"It shows utter contempt for the votes, views and interests of the people of Scotland and it is a strategy that is doomed to failure.\"\n\nThe prospect of an independence referendum on Nicola Sturgeon's preferred timetable - the second half of 2020 - now looks very remote.\n\nThe first minister is confident that Mr Johnson's refusal will help make the case for independence in the longer term, but for now her options are limited.\n\nIn the first instance, she is planning another vote at Holyrood to underline the backing of MSPs for a new referendum. With the SNP and Greens holding a majority between them, this is sure to pass - but this has happened before, to little avail.\n\nShe has not ruled out going to court, but this would hardly accelerate matters - constitutional lawyers have warned that \"there are no legal short cuts\" around the political battlefield.\n\nSo the next clear opportunity to break the deadlock may be the 2021 Holyrood elections. Ms Sturgeon clearly has one eye on that poll already, talking about the Tories being on a \"road back to political oblivion\".\n\nBetween now and then, another year of constitutional stalemate beckons.", "The English Collective of Prostitutes said new restrictions made it \"more urgent\" that the government provide emergency payments\n\nThe second national lockdown is going to push sex workers \"even deeper into crisis\", according to a campaign group.\n\nThe English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has called for state support for workers in the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said people were having to choose between risking their health by working or seeing their family go hungry.\n\nCari - not her real name - from the ECP said the new restrictions made it \"more urgent that the government provide the emergency payments we are demanding\".\n\nShe said the government needed to address \"sex workers' illegal status that prevents women claiming the entitlements available to other workers\".\n\nAbout 80% of sex workers were single mothers operating in order to take care of their children, she estimated.\n\nFormer sex worker Cari, from the Bristol area, said while a lot of women had stopped working because of safety concerns, some had continued as they did not have access to any financial aid.\n\n\"Those who have to work are being very careful with clients. It is very, very difficult. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't,\" she said.\n\nRachel Mac Dermot, from Bristol's One25 charity, said: \"These women are the most marginalised, the most stereotyped, the most stigmatised. And I hate that.\n\n\"They could be your mum, your sister, your daughter, your best friend.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic, the charity had to close down its women-only safe space but it has been providing food parcels to women who have been self-isolating.\n\n\"It's a bit different at the moment but before the pandemic we had a GP, a sexual health nurse and prescribing nurse visit each week,\" said Ms Mac Dermot.\n\n\"Accessing support like healthcare, that you or I might take for granted, can be practically impossible for some women we meet.\"\n\nCari said she hoped the government would legalise sex work and acknowledge what sex workers did counted as work.\n\n\"Criminalising it makes it so much harder to come forward and access help. Sex workers currently can't even go to their GP's to get help, since it's illegal to do sex work during the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"But there are also no financial aids for sex workers, so how will this work? We have to decriminalise sex work. We have to.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We have no plans to change the law around prostitution and are committed to tackling the harm and exploitation associated with sex work.\n\n\"Universal Credit is providing a vital safety net to those who need support during the pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of couples getting divorced in England and Wales surged by almost a fifth in 2019 to the highest level in five years, figures reveal.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics data shows 107,599 opposite-sex divorces in 2019, an increase of 18.4% from 90,871 in 2018 - the highest since 2014, when 111,169 were granted.\n\nThere were also 822 same-sex divorces, nearly twice the number (428) in 2018.\n\nThe ONS said a casework backlog in 2018 could partly account for the increase.\n\nUnreasonable behaviour was the most common reason for divorce, cited by 49% of wives and 35% of husbands in heterosexual marriage, in 63% of female same-sex divorces and and 70% of male ones.\n\nAt the moment, in order to divorce, either one spouse has to allege adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion by the other.\n\nCurrently, a person can apply for a divorce if both parties agree and they have been separated from their spouse for two years. Someone wishing to obtain a divorce without the consent of their spouse must live apart from them for five years.\n\nThis is expected to change with the introduction of the \"no-fault\" divorce next autumn, after which they will only have to state that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.\n\nThe number of same-sex divorces has increased each year, reflecting the increasing size of the same-sex married population since March 2014 when the law changed to allow them to marry, the ONS says.\n\nOf the 822 same-sex divorces last year, almost three-quarters were between female couples, a similar proportion to in 2018.\n\nMeanwhile the divorce rate among opposite-sex couples last year increased to 8.9 divorces per 1,000 married people, from 7.5 in 2018. The median length time for those marriages to have lasted before divorce was 12.3 years.\n\nThe ONS said last year's increase in divorces was the largest in percentage terms increase since 1972, when the recent introduction of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 made it easier for couples to divorce.\n\nBut there has been an overall downward trend since the most recent peak of 153,065 divorces in 2003, the ONS said, with opposite-sex divorces in 2019 still 30% lower than in that year.\n\nThis was broadly consistent with an overall decline in the number of marriages between 2003 and 2009, it said, adding: \"Changes in attitudes to cohabitation as an alternative to marriage or prior to marriage, particularly at younger ages, are likely to have been a factor affecting the general decrease in divorce rates since 2003.\"\n\nThe latest figures come as family lawyers have predicted a \"post-lockdown divorce boom\" amid warnings the coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on relationships.\n\nAdvice charity Citizens Advice said divorce guidance searches had risen since April after a drop in visits when lockdown started.\n\nIt said views of its divorce webpage on the first September weekend were up 25% compared with the same date in 2019.\n\nTom MacInnes, chief analyst for Citizens Advice, said: \"We know that this pandemic has put an enormous strain on people financially but our data shows that strain is also being felt in people's relationships.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hurricane Iota will bring torrential rain to parts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize and Guatemala\n\nA powerful hurricane has brought torrential rains and strong winds to Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, two weeks after another devastating storm hit.\n\nIota made landfall as a category four storm near the town of Puerto Cabezas, where patients had to be evacuated from a makeshift hospital after its roof was ripped off.\n\nResidents are in shelters, and there are fears of food shortages.\n\nThe storm has weakened and Honduras is expected to be hit later on Tuesday.\n\nBefore making landfall in Nicaragua, Iota had brought high winds and flooding to Colombia's Caribbean coast\n\nThe US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Iota was now a category two storm, but warned it could bring life-threatening storm surges, catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides.\n\nIota struck Nicaragua on Monday evening with sustained winds of nearly 155mph (250km/h), the NHC said. It strengthened at sea to a category five storm but it weakened as it made landfall.\n\nIn Puerto Cabezas, also known as Bilwi, the storm damaged wooden homes, flooded streets and cut off electricity. Residents said the wind ripped away the roofs of houses \"like they were made of cardboard\".\n\n\"I haven't eaten. I don't know where I'm going to sleep here,\" 80-year-old Prinsila Glaso told AFP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of casualties. Nicaraguan officials said around 40,000 people had been evacuated from areas in the storm's path.\n\n\"[Iota] is the strongest hurricane that has touched Nicaraguan soil since records began,\" said Marcio Baca, director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Earth Studies.\n\nThe hurricane is forecast to move inland across the country before hitting southern Honduras. The effect of the rains could be particularly devastating in areas already drenched by Hurricane Eta. Iota made landfall just 15 miles (24km) south of where Eta hit on 3 November.\n\nIn Honduras, officials said at least 50,000 people had been removed from high-risk areas. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, President Juan Orlando Hernández warned: \"What's drawing closer is a bomb.\"\n\nBefore reaching Central America the storm moved past the Colombian island of Providencia in the Caribbean, cutting off electricity and killing at least one person, officials said.\n\nColombian President Iván Duque said 98% of the infrastructure in Providencia, home to around 5,000 people, had been damaged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Massive waves crash down on the shores of San Andrés in the Caribbean\n\nIota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.\n\nThis year's Atlantic hurricane season has broken the record for the number of named storms. For only the second time on record officials have had to start using the letters of the Greek alphabet to start storm names after running out of names on its traditional alphabetical list.\n\nEta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead. At least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.\n\nHave you been affected by hurricane Iota?If it is safe to do so please share your experiences with us. Upload your pictures/video here.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "England's regional Covid tier system may need to be \"strengthened\" to get the country \"through the winter\", a senior government adviser has said.\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins said they needed to look at what \"tiers there may be in the future\" when the lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nA three-tier system was used in England to tackle the spread of coronavirus before the national lockdown began.\n\nMatt Hancock said the government hoped to bring back the regional tiers.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced another 21,363 daily Covid cases, as well as a further 213 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSpeaking at the government's evening coronavirus briefing, Dr Hopkins, who is also a member of the government's scientific advisory group (Sage), said the \"key\" to knowing if the four-week lockdown in England was working was \"if cases fall\" and they expect to know that \"in the next week\".\n\n\"As long as we see cases decline we can make judgments... about opening up,\" she said.\n\nShe added that, prior to the lockdown, the \"tiering of the country\" had had a \"different effect in each area\".\n\n\"Tier three plus\" had led to a reduction in cases in the North West, she said, while tier two \"holds in some areas and not in others\", depending on \"how well individuals are taking that advice in\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"We see very little effect from tier one and when we look at what tiers may be there in the future, we will have to think about strengthening them to get us through the winter months until the vaccine is available for everyone.\"\n\nThe government is adamant that it wants England's lockdown to end on 2 December.\n\nBut what replaces it is still very much a live discussion in the corridors of power.\n\nThere was always a question mark about how much infections would fall during the lockdown.\n\nAnd clearly the impact has been undermined by the spike in cases last week when the daily number jumped by 10,000 to over 33,000 on Thursday.\n\nThat rise has been linked to a last bout of socialising before the lockdown came in.\n\nThe hope is cases will start falling this week.\n\nBut it will take much longer for that to filter through into fewer hospital cases - hence the suggestion that the regional tiers may need to be strengthened when lockdown ends.\n\nOne idea is to create a new tier four, which would see much tighter restrictions on hospitality opening.\n\nBut do not expect an announcement soon. Ministers will want to see exactly what happens to cases over the rest of the month.\n\nAlso speaking at the government's coronavirus briefing, Mr Hancock, the health secretary, said it was too early to know the impact of the second lockdown in England, which began on 5 November.\n\n\"At the moment, most of the tests we're getting back, and most of the positive cases, are from around the time the lockdown came in, so we are yet to see in the data - and it's too early to expect to see in the data - the impact of the second lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"But we absolutely hope to be able to replace the national lockdown with a tiered system similar to what we had before.\"\n\nAt a briefing on Monday, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We are committed to setting out next week what the replacement regime will be and that will be a return to the localised approach and we're actively working on those plans at the moment.\"\n\nBefore England went into its second lockdown, nearly a fifth of the population was living in tier three areas - those under the toughest coronavirus restrictions. They included those in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, the Liverpool City Region, Warrington and Nottinghamshire.\n• None Postcode check: What are the rules where you live?", "Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson is to take an \"extended\" break from the pop group for \"private medical reasons\", their publicist has said.\n\nA statement didn't give any further details about the 29-year-old's condition.\n\nIt comes after Nelson recently missed the final of the girl group's BBC One talent show, and their hosting of the MTV European Music Awards.\n\nLittle Mix's latest album entered the UK chart at number two on Friday.\n\nAll six of the studio albums they have released since forming on The X Factor in 2011 have gone into the top five, and they have had four UK number one singles.\n\nNelson (right) missed the final of BBC One's Little Mix The Search earlier this month\n\nIn a statement, the group's publicist said: \"Jesy is having extended time off from Little Mix for private medical reasons.\n\n\"We will not be issuing any further comment currently and ask media to please respect her privacy at this time.\"\n\nNelson's bandmates Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall were seen without her on the final of Little Mix: The Search on 7 November, and on the MTV EMAs the following night.\n\nLast year, Nelson received widespread praise for discussing her mental health battle on the BBC Three documentary Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out. The documentary, which won a National Television Award, addressed body image and the impact of online bullying.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The actor introduced himself as \"Grint on the Gram\" last week\n\nHarry Potter star Rupert Grint has broken Sir David Attenborough's record for the fastest time to reach a million Instagram followers.\n\nThe actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films, made his first post on 10 November, joking that he was \"only 10 years late\".\n\nHe reached the million mark in four hours and one minute.\n\nThat's 43 minutes quicker than it took Sir David when he joined in September, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nDubbing himself \"Grint on the Gram\", the 32-year-old actor's first post was a photo of himself with his baby daughter.\n\nGrint said he was \"here to introduce you all to Wednesday\", the six-month-old girl his partner Georgia Groome gave birth to in May.\n\nSir David used Instagram to promote his A Life On Our Planet documentary\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKenya's government has ordered an investigation into the theft and sale of babies following a BBC investigation into the black market trade.\n\nThe announcement came after BBC Africa Eye revealed children were stolen to order from a Nairobi public hospital.\n\nA hospital official used legitimate paperwork to take custody of a two-week-old boy before selling him directly to an undercover reporter.\n\nA government minister said the culprits would face the \"full force of the law\".\n\nAddressing a packed press conference in Nairobi, Labour and Social Protection Minister Simon Chelugui said the sellers and buyers were equally culpable.\n\nThe investigation by BBC Africa Eye uncovered a trade in children stolen from vulnerable mothers living on the street, as well as the existence of illegal clinics dotted around Nairobi where babies are sold for as little as £300 ($400).\n\nThe investigation also revealed corruption at Mama Lucy Kibaki, a public hospital in Nairobi. Fred Leparan, a clinical social worker at the hospital, facilitated the sale of an abandoned two-week-old baby boy to undercover reporters, later accepting 300,000 shillings (£2,000) in cash.\n\nBoth Mr Leparan and Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital declined requests to comment on the investigation's findings.\n\nSpeaking at the press conference on Tuesday, the labour minister, Mr Chelugui, also acknowledged that improvements to some of Kenya's child protection services were needed.\n\nThere are no reliable statistics on child trafficking in the East African state, but a non-governmental organisation, Missing Child Kenya, said it had been involved in nearly 600 cases in the past three years.", "Swift (left) has been trying to get her master recording rights back from Braun (right) since he bought them last year\n\nUS singer Taylor Swift has confirmed a report that music mogul Scooter Braun has sold the rights to her first six albums.\n\nUS entertainment magazine Variety first reported on Monday that Braun had sold the recordings - known as masters - to an investment fund.\n\nIt said the deal is thought to be worth more than $300m (£227m).\n\nWriting on Twitter, Swift said it was \"the second time my music had been sold without my knowledge\".\n\nIt is the latest development in the dispute between Swift and Braun - Swift has previously accused Braun of trying to \"dismantle\" her musical legacy.\n\nThere has been no initial response from Braun to the Variety report or Swift's remarks. The BBC has sent an email to Braun for comment.\n\nSwift signed a deal with record label Big Machine in 2004 granting it ownership of the master recordings to her first six albums in exchange for a cash advance to kick-start her career.\n\nIn the music industry, ownership of masters means you control what can be done with the original recording of a song or album, from re-releases and box sets to making it available for use in an advert or on a streaming platform. Owners of popular songs can earn a huge amount of money.\n\nBraun bought Big Machine in June 2019, and with it the rights to most of Swift's work. Since then the pair have been locked in a major battle over control of the music.\n\nSwift, as the writer or co-writer of her music, still owns the publishing rights, which means she has power to veto some of Braun's attempts to exploit her recordings.\n\nSpeaking to Billboard magazine last year, she said she had turned down \"dozens of requests\" for the use of Shake It Off every week since Braun had bought her back catalogue.\n\nIn her latest statement, Swift said she had been \"actively trying to regain ownership of my master recordings\" in 2020 and had tried to enter talks with Braun.\n\nShe said Braun's legal team wanted her to sign a non-disclosure agreement stating \"I would never say another word about Scooter Braun unless it was positive\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nThen just a few weeks ago, Swift wrote, she was contacted by private equity company Shamrock Holdings who said they had bought her music and album art from Braun.\n\nWhile she was \"open to the possibility of a partnership with Shamrock\", she learnt that under the terms Braun \"will continue to profit off my old music\" for years.\n\n\"I simply cannot in good conscience bring myself to be involved in benefiting Scooter Braun's interests,\" she wrote in a letter she sent to the company, which she included in her tweet.\n\nShe also said she has begun re-recording some of her older music and thanked her fans for their support. \"I love you guys and I'm just gonna keep cruising, as they say,\" she wrote.\n\nSwift and Braun have had a poor relationship for years.\n\nWhen his company, Ithaca Holdings, paid $300m to acquire Swift's former record label last year, Swift saw it as an act of aggression that \"stripped me of my life's work\".\n\nShe accused Braun - who also manages Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato - of \"incessant, manipulative bullying\".\n\nBut Braun last year told Variety Magazine that the dispute had \"gotten out of hand\" after he and his family received death threats.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of real problems in the world, and I think that these problems that are being discussed can be discussed behind closed doors and figured out pretty easily, and it's something I've wanted to do for six months,\" he told the magazine.\n\nShamrock Capital, which now owns Swift's first six albums, is a private equity firm originally set up by the Disney family.\n\nIt currently has approximately $2.1bn (£1.58bn) of assets under management, including a string of technology and marketing companies.\n\nIn a statement obtained by Billboard, the company said: \"Taylor Swift is a transcendent artist with a timeless catalogue. We made this investment because we believe in the immense value and opportunity that comes with her work.\n\n\"We fully respect and support her decision and, while we hoped to formally partner, we also knew this was a possible outcome that we considered. We appreciate Taylor's open communication and professionalism with us these last few weeks. We hope to partner with her in new ways moving forward and remain committed to investing with artists in their work.\"", "The Dragon capsule docked at 04:01 GMT as the station flew over the US state of Idaho\n\nThe four astronauts who left Earth on Monday (GMT) have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nTheir SpaceX Dragon capsule made a series of inch-perfect manoeuvres to bring them into an attachment position on the front of the orbiting lab.\n\nCommander Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi will be spending the next six months aloft.\n\nThey join three individuals already aboard - Kate Rubins, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.\n\nRaising the resident complement to seven individuals will triple the amount of microgravity science that can be conducted on the 410km-high outpost, the US space agency Nasa says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SpaceX launch: What is SpaceX and why is it working with Nasa?\n\nThe Dragon docked at 04:01, just as the station was flying over the US state of Idaho.\n\nThe incoming crew had to wait for seal and pressure checks before the hatches between the Dragon and the ISS could be opened. But once this was completed, they were able to enter their new home.\n\nMike Hopkins said his team had had an amazing ride up from Earth.\n\n\"I can't tell you how excited we were when that rocket lifted off the pad, and then the last 27 hours have gone really smooth,\" he radioed down to Earth.\n\n\"We are so excited to be here. We are humbled and we are excited to be a part of this great expedition. And we are looking forward to the next six months and can't wait to get started.\"\n\nIncreasing the crew complement to seven will triple the amount of science conducted onboard\n\nThe capsule commander and his colleagues are the first crew rotation to be brought up to the station on a fully certified, commercial human transportation system, hence their tagline - Crew-1.\n\nThe Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule they used to get off Earth is a service the Californian firm SpaceX now sells to Nasa. And the agency has a contract with the company for a further five crew rotations after this one.\n\nIt's a new way of doing business for Nasa, who always used to own and operate the hardware needed to get astronauts into low-Earth orbit.\n\nNow that the agency can source taxi rides from a private supplier, it is focussing its efforts on developing a rocket and capsule for the more challenging task of taking people back to the Moon, something it hopes to do later this decade.\n\nHopkins' team has a full programme of research ahead of it. An example experiment involves chips with tissue that mimics the structure and function of human organs, to try to understand the role of microgravity on human health and disease.\n\nThe crew will go on at least four spacewalks outside the station.\n\nOne of these activities is expected to result in the installation of the first significant UK industrial contribution to the platform.\n\nThis is the ColKa communications terminal. Made by MDA UK, the radio equipment will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds. ColKa will be fixed to the exterior of the European Space Agency's ISS research module, Columbus.\n\nVictor Glover (third from left) is making his first trip to orbit\n\nThe baby Yoda toy indicates to the crew they are in weightless conditions\n\nThe crew will also see a wide variety of space vehicles come and go during their time aboard.\n\nAmong these vehicles should be the Boeing aerospace corporation's Starliner capsule.\n\nLike the SpaceX Dragon ship, Starliner is being offered to Nasa and its partner agencies on a commercial basis to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS.\n\n\"Low-Earth orbit for over 50 years was the domain of governments. Now, we've seen commercial companies, SpaceX being the first, take astronauts to the space station, with Boeing set to follow, hopefully sometime next year,\" commented former Nasa astronaut Leroy Chiao.\n\n\"It very much follows the aviation era where airliners used to be government run, and now of course they've been commercial for a number of decades,\" the shuttle and Soyuz flier told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander Mike Hopkins said his team had an amazing ride up to the ISS\n\nThe space station orbits the Earth at an altitude of just over 400km", "The government is to invest £4bn in creating 250,000 new green jobs as part of its plan to hit net zero emissions.\n\nIt also aims to equip a generation of workers with new green skills.\n\nThe government will release its long-awaited 10-point plan to make the UK carbon neutral by 2050 later on Tuesday.\n\nIt will emphasise the potential jobs that the so-called green industrial revolution could bring to regions that have suffered industrial decline.\n\nThe BBC can confirm that technology to capture and store carbon created in industrial processes will receive substantial government investment.\n\nThe plan will also include investment in offshore wind as already announced by the prime minister at the Conservative Party conference.\n\nResidential heating is one of the biggest emitters of carbon and there will be government grants towards making homes more energy efficient - which again it hopes will create thousands of new jobs.\n\nIt is thought the final plan will also include investments in hydrogen power and there may be a commitment to new nuclear energy.\n\nIn October, the BBC learned that the government was close to giving the green light to a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk.\n\nIt comes after the collapse of nuclear projects in Anglesey and Cumbria after Japanese firms Hitachi and Toshiba pulled out.\n\nThe figure of £4bn will be considered by many as a small down-payment on a transformation that the Committee on Climate Changes estimates will cost £1 trillion over the next 30 years.\n\nThe full 10-point plan will be published tonight at 22:30 ahead of a press conference and round table with key stakeholders on Wednesday.\n\nThere has also been speculation that a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be brought forward to 2030 - five years earlier than previously planned.\n\nHybrid vehicles, which have petrol or diesel engines but also use electric power, will have a stay of execution until 2035.\n\nPlans for a ban on the sale of traditional petrol and diesel cars were first announced in 2017, as part of a strategy to clean up city air. It was meant to take effect in 2040.\n\nIn February, that target was brought forward to 2035, as the government sought to burnish its environmental credentials ahead of a now-postponed UN climate summit in Glasgow, but it now looks set to be revised again.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders, believes that meeting the government's target will require serious support for the industry.", "TikTok is making it easier for parents to safeguard their children on its video-sharing app.\n\nNew features include the ability to change the youngster's settings remotely to block them from carrying out searches, and to prevent strangers from seeing their posts.\n\nChildren can still override these limitations but not without their parents being told.\n\nThe action comes a fortnight after BBC Panorama raised safety concerns.\n\nThe documentary highlighted how predators have abused the platform's recommendation engine to target some of its youngest users.\n\nIt also flagged a case in which the app's moderators did not ban a user who had been reported for sending sexual messages to an account that appeared to belong to a 14-year old girl, but was actually controlled by the programme.\n\nTikTok has denied it was prompted into action by Panorama and said it was constantly working on new security measures.\n\nThe new features relate to TikTok's Family Pairing facility.\n\nThe function was launched earlier this year, but until now was limited to placing limits on the types of content the child sees, restricting their use of private chats, and limiting how much time they spend in the app.\n\nThis is now being extended to let parents alter their child's account to:\n\n\"Today's announcement is just the latest in the steps TikTok has taken this year to keep younger users safe on the platform, including restricting direct messaging to over-16s and prompting all users under-18 to set their account to private when they join,\" a press release said.\n\nTikTok has retained an option that allows children to \"unpair\" their device from the parent's.\n\nTikTok's audience tends to be younger than that of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter\n\nDoing so sends the adult an alert and gives them 48 hours to restore the link before the child can turn off the restrictions.\n\nChild safety experts support this decision as it allows a balance to be struck between safety and surveillance. The theory is that if teenagers view safety measures as being excessive, it might make them less likely to ask for help if they get into trouble.\n\nOne leading charity, however, said the government still needed to ensure TikTok and other apps were held to account if other safety issues arise.\n\n\"This feature is a step in the right direction, giving parents extra options to safely tailor social media to what is appropriate for their children,\" the NSPCC's Andy Burrows told the BBC.\n\n\"While this is a useful tool for other platforms to follow, it's clear that the only way to make social networks safer across the board is through regulation that holds tech firms accountable for failing to protect children.\"\n\nThe NSPCC and others are concerned that the government's proposed Online Harms Bill may not come into effect until 2023 or 2024.", "Four astronauts travelling in the SpaceX Dragon capsule have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nThe mission is considered a landmark achievement for private space travel.", "The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is putting increased pressure on hospital beds, NHS staff have said.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust has seen a rise in elderly patients unable to leave hospital.\n\nThe Royal Bournemouth Hospital is also managing a backlog of operations and an increasing number of Covid cases.\n\nBBC South health correspondent Alastair Fee was given access to see how it is tackling delayed discharges.", "Octavian, who has worked with artists including Skepta and Mura Masa, won BBC Music's Sound of 2019\n\nRapper Octavian has been dropped by his record label after allegations of physical and emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend.\n\nPosting on Twitter and Instagram, the musician's ex-partner claimed he \"frequently kicked and punched\" her during their three-year relationship.\n\nOctavian, 24, has strongly denied the allegations and said he was dealing with the matter \"legally and properly\".\n\nBlack Butter Records said it was no longer working with the rapper.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We at Black Butter have taken the decision not to continue working with Octavian and we will not be releasing his album.\n\n\"We do not condone domestic abuse of any kind and we have suggested Octavian seeks professional help at this time.\"\n\nHis ex-partner has posted a thread on Twitter, including a video and photos, saying she was subject to physical, verbal and psychological abuse during their relationship. She alleges violence including being kicked in the stomach.\n\nIn a video on Instagram today, Octavian acknowledged she was his ex-girlfriend and said he broke up with her. In a separate, longer video reposted by another account he said he had never been abusive.\n\nOctavian won BBC Music's Sound of 2019 and his long-anticipated debut album, Alpha, was due to be released tomorrow.\n\nPattern Publicity said it had stopped all work with Octavian since the allegations came to light.\n\nRadio 1 and 1Xtra said there were currently no tracks by Octavian on the stations' playlists.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of Scotland fans are in London ahead of their Euro 2020 match with England - but the skirl of the bagpipes has largely been drowned out by a 1970s disco classic.\n\nVideos of the Tartan Army belting out Yes Sir, I Can Boogie on the streets of the English capital have been all over social media.\n\nSo how did the song become the country's unofficial national anthem?\n\nIt started when a video of ecstatic players dancing to the tune went viral after Scotland clinched qualification for the tournament by defeating Serbia on penalties in November.\n\nThe song by Spanish duo Baccara spent a single week at the top of the UK charts in 1977.\n\nBut last year it got a fresh lease of life when it was used by the Keeping the Ball on the Ground podcast as a tribute to defender Andrew Considine.\n\nScotland defender Andrew Considine (centre) dressed in drag to dance to the tune on his stag do five years ago\n\nThe Aberdeen cult hero - who was called up to the Scotland team for the first time last year at the age of 33 - famously starred in a spoof video of the song on his stag do.\n\nThe player was unrecognisable as he dressed in drag to strut his stuff to the tune alongside friends and his father, with the professionally-produced video being played on his wedding day in 2015.\n\nConsidine was an unused substitute for the historic match with Serbia, which saw the Scottish men's team dramatically end more than 20 years of hurt by clinching a place at the European Championships.\n\nBut a video tweeted by the Scotland National Team after the game showed him in the thick of the action as he boogie-woogied with team mates including Kieran Tierney, Scott McTominay, Leigh Griffiths and Callum McGregor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video immediately caught the imagination of the Tartan Army, with jubilant fans starting a campaign to get the song back to Number One in the charts.\n\nNot all the team's heroes had been able to get involved, with midfielders John McGinn and Ryan Christie - who scored Scotland's goal in the match - having to take routine drug tests while the party was kicking off in the dressing room.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scotland National Team This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLuckily for McGinn and Christie, the boogie-woogieing did indeed continue long into the night - with fresh footage of celebrations at what appears to be the team hotel in Belgrade being tweeted the next morning.\n\nThis time the soundtrack of choice was Saturday Night by Whigfield as goalkeeper David Marshall led a conga around the room while teammates chanted his name to the 90s hit.\n\nMarshall had earlier written himself into Scottish football folklore by saving Serbian striker Aleksandar Mitrovic's penalty to clinch victory in the shootout.\n\nSinger Maria Mendiola, who formed Baccara along with Mayte Mateos, later said she was delighted that the song had found a new audience more than 40 years after its release.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"With this pandemic, I have been sitting at home and this has uplifted me in a way you cannot imagine.\n\n\"I will always thank the Scottish team and especially Andy Considine for making me so happy after 43 years.\n\n\"I saw all the articles and everyone was calling me. I was delighted. I thanked the Scotland team and spoke with Andy over Instagram. He had such nice words.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ben Philip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 boogieing began in earnest once more as Euro 2020 got under way, with the 12,000 fans who were allowed to be inside Hampden belting out the song ahead of Scotland's opening match with the Czech Republic.\n\nThe game - Scotland's first in a major tournament for 23 years - ended in a 2-0 defeat.\n\nBut the result didn't appear to have dampened spirits too much ahead of the eagerly awaited clash with the Auld Enemy at Wembley.\n\nVideos of fans singing the song on planes and trains as they made their way south for the match have been racking up hundreds of thousands of view on social media.\n\nAnd regardless of what happens in the game, a certain song will keep the Tartan Army boogie-woogieing all night long.", "Dominic Cummings confirmed his upcoming departure to the BBC\n\nThe departure of Dominic Cummings from Downing Street could give Boris Johnson a \"fresh start\", say Conservative MPs.\n\nA number of Tory backbenchers have welcomed news the prime minister's chief adviser will step down this year.\n\nIt comes after the PM's director of communications, and close ally of Mr Cummings, Lee Cain, resigned.\n\nEx-minister Theresa Villiers said the pair had been \"dismissive\" of Tory MPs, and she hoped their replacements would be \"more collegiate\" with the party.\n\nMr Cummings confirmed to the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, late on Thursday that he would leave No 10 before Christmas.\n\nHe said reports that he had threatened to quit in solidarity with Mr Cain had been \"invented\" - instead pointing to a blog post from January where he wrote he wanted to make himself \"largely redundant\" by the end of 2020.\n\nMr Cummings and Mr Cain were both key members of the Vote Leave campaign for leaving the EU before entering Downing Street with Mr Johnson.\n\nThe confirmation of their exits come during the final stages of trade talks between the UK and the bloc.\n\nBut No 10 said it would not affect negotiations and the government's approach remained \"unchanged\".\n\nThe events of the past 48 hours feel like a political explosion, with Dominic Cummings now confirming his departure from Downing Street by the end of the year.\n\nBut while it's tempting to see this is as a dramatic and sudden eruption, it has been a longer-term burn.\n\nThe prime minister's chief adviser stepped back somewhat from some of the brutal day-to-day politics he had helped create after the election.\n\nHe had been spending more time focusing on trying to rewire Whitehall - trying to increase the importance of science and data in government - hoping to be less involved in the moment-by-moment political rush.\n\nBut given his profile, and his nature, was that ever a realistic plan?\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSince taking the job at Number 10, Mr Cummings has not been a popular figure with everyone within the governing Conservative Party.\n\nHe was known for making disparaging comments about some of Mr Johnson's own MPs, including labelling Brexiteers \"useful idiots\".\n\nMs Villiers, who was environment secretary until February, welcomed the upcoming change of personnel.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"I do feel these changes... are an opportunity for a fresh start, to enable the prime minister to build bridges with some of the backbenches who have become anxious about some of the direction the government has gone over recent months\n\n\"There is no doubt that both Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were pretty dismissive of backbenchers, and on some occasion ministers and secretaries of states as well, and I don't think that was helpful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Conservative chair of the liaison committee of senior MPs, Sir Bernard Jenkin, said Mr Cummings' departure was an \"opportunity to reset how the government operates and to emphasise some values about what we want to project as a Conservative Party in government\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was time to restore \"respect, integrity and trust\" between No 10 and Tory MPs, which he said had been \"lacking in recent months\".\n\nAnd fellow Tory Sir Roger Gale called the chief adviser's exit as \"an opportunity to muck out the stables\" and get a new team in.\n\nHe called for Mr Cummings to go \"immediately\", telling BBC News: \"People who campaign well are not necessarily people who can run the country well.\n\n\"I believe that what the prime minister needs and deserves is a serious heavyweight political adviser behind him, who understands the scene, understands the system, knows where the bodies are buried.\"\n\nRead our full profile on Dominic Cummings here.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast he was \"not particularly surprised\" by the announcement, adding that \"advisers come and go over a period of time\".\n\nAsked if the departure of Mr Cummings and Mr Cain suggested the prime minister was intending to follow a very different path, Mr Shapps said the PM had \"always taken advice from a very wide range of people and doesn't always side with the same people at the end of that decision-making process\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Level 4 'under consideration' in the west\n\nAreas in the west of Scotland have been warned they may be placed under the highest level of Covid restrictions next week.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said contact had been made with councils in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Lanarkshire health board areas.\n\nThey were told it was possible that restrictions may need to be increased from level three to level four.\n\nThe move would see the closure of gyms, hospitality and non-essential shops.\n\nA Scottish retail trade association said it was \"deeply alarmed\" by the prospect of shops having to shut during the festive season.\n\nThe Scottish government confirmed on Friday evening it had made contact with every council in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area - in most cases at chief executive level - to discuss the current situation.\n\nThe chief executives of both North and South Lanarkshire Councils were also called.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Scottish government officials make regular contact with all local authorities to discuss plans for protection measures before these are finalised.\"\n\nMr Swinney said increases in Covid cases had also been seen in other areas, including Stirling, which is also currently in level three, and Aberdeenshire, which is in level two.\n\nHe said the national incident management team would be looking at the data over the weekend.\n\nDiscussions will also take place with councils before ministers meet on Tuesday to take any decisions.\n\nMr Swinney added that there were \"wider issues\" which would also need to be considered, such as the social and economic harm which could be caused by moving an area into level four.\n\nThe highest level of coronavirus restrictions is the closest to a full lockdown, similar to the one introduced in March.\n\nThe guidelines say it will only be used if \"absolutely necessary\", at a time when cases are very high and there is a risk of the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nIn response to the announcement, Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, called for the implementation of blended learning in areas which move into level four, amid concerns about school safety.\n\nThe union said the growing number of pupils and teachers infected with Covid-19 raised issues over the effectiveness of virus mitigations in schools.\n\nThe Scottish Retail Consortium said jobs would be lost if shops cannot trade during the festive season, which many rely on to boost winter sales.\n\nDirector David Lonsdale said: \"It's already been an especially gloomy year for retail - but shop closures prior to Christmas would take us even deeper into the darkness.\"\n\nSeveral councils confirmed they were in talks over the level 4 move.\n\nA spokesperson for North Lanarkshire said: \"The council continues to engage with the Scottish government on the most appropriate level for North Lanarkshire to be in and we are actively encouraging residents to continue to comply with national guidance.\"\n\nSouth Lanarkshire said it was in \"constructive dialogue\" with the Scottish government and East Renfrewshire also said discussions were continuing.\n\nThe EIS union has called for the re-introduction of blended learning in level 4 areas\n\nA Renfrewshire Council spokeswoman said: \"Scottish government have contacted us, and we are in discussion with them. No decision has been taken and Renfrewshire remains in level three at present.\n\n\"The council is committed to doing everything possible to help keep Renfrewshire communities out of further restrictions and local businesses open. We are asking all of Renfrewshire to work together to stop transmission of this virus, keep our communities safe and protect local jobs.\"\n\nAt the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Swinney said: \"I can confirm that officials in the Scottish government have been in contact with a number of local authorities in the west of Scotland about the possibility of the area having to be increased from level three to level four.\n\nHe added that a number of other local authorities around the country had been contacted because they had seen \"quite significant\" increases in rates of the virus.\n\nMr Swinney added that the numbers were \"so stubbornly high\" in some level three areas that it raised a question of whether the restrictions were doing enough to suppress the virus.\n\nMr Swinney added that if any area was moved into level four, this would need to be for \"a reasonable amount of time\" so that the effect of the restrictions could be seen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The only Scotland fan in the stadium for victory over Serbia\n\nGordon Howat was among thousands of Tartan Army foot soldiers who travelled to France for the 1998 World Cup - the last time the men's team took part in a major tournament.\n\nBut 22 years later he was the only Scotland supporter in the Rajko Mitic stadium as victory over Serbia saw the national side book its place in next year's European Championships.\n\nMr Howat, from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, has been a pitch consultant for Red Star Belgrade - who play in the stadium - since 2017.\n\nHe joked: \"Sometimes you have to call in a favour and arrange a visit at the right time.\"\n\nMr Howat was spotted in the main stand with his saltire by BBC Scotland sports news correspondent Chris McLaughlin before the match.\n\nThey met up again on Friday morning to reflect on an unforgettable night.\n\nMr Howat said the victory over Serbia had been \"a great moment\".\n\n\"I'm sure it was big back home in Scotland, despite lockdown,\" he said.\n\nBBC Scotland's Chris McLaughlin was reunited with Gordon Howat the morning after Scotland's epic win\n\nThe father-of-two admitted he was \"shaky with nerves\" during the match, which ended 1-1 after extra time.\n\nHe added: \"It was a massive disappointment in the 89th minute but we were fortunate to turn it around.\n\n\"I think if nothing else, the law of averages was on our side last night and we were due a little bit of luck.\"\n\nMr Howat's memory of the thrilling finale mirrors the clip that rapidly became a social media sensation.\n\nHe said: \"The thing I noticed was that David Marshall was clearly looking at the referee to make sure he had made a fair save, but it was bedlam.\n\n\"The one thing I took was that because the stadium was so quiet you could really hear the player's enjoyment.\"\n\nMr Howat, who got so many messages his phone ran out of battery, said his post-match celebrations were tame by Tartan Army standards.\n\nHe added: \"I had a couple of drinks in the stadium but there's a lockdown here and the bar was closed at the hotel.\"\n\nOn the significance of the result, he said: \"Our generation understand it but it is all about the young ones.\n\n\"I have got girls, Lottie and Susa, they are seven and nine and a nephew, Kiefer, he is 13.\n\n\"I guess it's all about them. They have no idea. It will be fantastic.\"\n\nThe Tartan Army's sole representative in Belgrade also welcomed the fact that two of Scotland's three group games will be at Hampden.\n\nHe added: \"It ticks all the boxes. We just need to hope the fans are there.\"", "Scotland has been celebrating the men's national football team's achievement in qualifying for its first major tournament in more than 20 years.\n\nThe nail-biting penalty shoot out victory over Serbia secured qualification for the delayed Euro 2020 event, which will take place next year.\n\nThe men's team last played in a major tournament back in 1998.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of emotion from fans and players following the historic achievement.\n\nA tweet from Scotland manager Steve Clarke's son John was among those which summed up the national mood.\n\nHe said: \"My dad is my hero. Watching my hero take Scotland to an international competition is the greatest thing I'll ever see.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial media feeds were quickly filled with the moments which will live on in fans' memories.\n\nThey ranged from goalkeeper David Marshall's delayed celebration to Ryan Christie's emotional post-match interview - and the team's joyful dressing room celebration to the song Yes Sir I Can Boogie.\n\nComedian Kevin Bridges was one of those celebrating in the aftermath of the match, saying: \"Mad Scotland! Said it years ago that we'd quality for Euro 2021. Brilliant.\"\n\nOutlander star Sam Heughan shared footage of the team celebrating in their hotel in Belgrade last night with the caption: \"They've already won Euros with this!\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sam Heughan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs the celebrations continued the morning after, veteran broadcaster Archie Macpherson described the emotions felt by many fans when the match went to penalties.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that he kept his eyes shut during the crucial shoot-out.\n\n\"I have a deep aversion to penalty shoot-outs that I think, eventually, only psychiatry will overcome,\" he said.\n\nHe had commentated on the first ever penalty shoot out in European football, between Celtic and Inter Milan in Glasgow 1972 - when the first kick was missed by the home team.\n\nMr Macpherson said: \"As the Scottish players walked up to the penalty spot I was actually seeing the ghost of Dixie Deans stepping forward and I expected to see the ball going over the bar or something like that.\n\n\"It was very, very tense and I enjoyed it like a 10-year-old schoolboy.\"\n\nHowever, Tartan Army member Scott Husband was keen to highlight the country's perfect penalty shoot-out record.\n\nThe men's team has only taken part in two - and has won them both.\n\nHe said: \"I actually was very cool. I thought we were going to win it.\n\n\"We are the world champions at penalties. We have got a 100% record. We have taken 10 and scored 10.\"\n\nKatie Howard will be one of the volunteers at next summer's tournament, when some of the matches will be played in Glasgow.\n\nShe watched the decisive moment in her university student accommodation.\n\n\"The place blew up. It was so good,\" she said.\n\nAnd Scotland women's record goal scorer Julie Fleeting was still on cloud nine when she spoke to Good Morning Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be the only Scot who struggled to get to sleep last night with all the excitement.\n\n\"It was just incredible. It was a tremendous way to do it. Very, very nerve-wracking but it just added to the excitement of it all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPoliticians at Holyrood and Westminster also praised the national team after the dramatic win.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Massive congratulations to Steve Clarke and the team. After 22 years @ScotlandNT men are off to a major tournament. What a lift for the country. Well done!\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Steve Clarke's history-makers. He posted: \"So great to see Scotland going forward to the Euros. Massive well done to the whole team.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross tweeted: \"Outstanding. We're going to the Euros.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Richard Leonard posted: \"Scotland has done it! Congratulations to the Scotland men's team on this historic night. The people of Scotland will be with them all the way as they march on to the Euros.\"\n\nAnd Alison Johnstone, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, tweeted: \"YAAAAAS! Peak Scotland, that win! Congratulations! #Scoser Off to the Euros!\"", "The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74.\n\nThe serial killer was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and north-west England.\n\nHis first victim's son, who was five when his mother was killed in 1975, said Sutcliffe's death would bring \"some kind of closure\".\n\nThe former lorry driver, from Bradford, died in hospital where he is said to have refused treatment for Covid-19. He also had other health problems.\n\nSutcliffe, who was also found guilty of the attempted murder of seven women, was convicted in 1981. He spent three decades at Broadmoor Hospital before being moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before an apology from police, Richard McCann, the son of Peter Sutcliffe's first victim, Wilma McCann, reacts to his death\n\nEx-police officer Bob Bridgestock, who worked on the case, said he \"won't be shedding any tears\" over the killer's death.\n\nThe murders, which spanned five years from 1975 to 1980, began with 28-year-old mother-of-four Wilma McCann, who was hit with a hammer and stabbed 15 times, in October 1975.\n\nSutcliffe was interviewed nine times during the course of a huge investigation but continued to avoid arrest and was able to carry on killing.\n\nTwelve of the 13 women Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering: Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson, Jayne McDonald, Jean Jordan, Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka, Vera Millward, Josephine Whittaker, Barbara Leach, Marguerite Walls, Jacqueline Hill (Wilma McCann pictured below)\n\nMs McCann's son Richard said: \"The attention he's had over the years, the continuous news stories that we've suffered over the years, there is some form of conclusion to that.\n\n\"I am sure a lot of the families, surviving children of the victims may well be glad he has gone and they have a right to feel like that.\"\n\nHe explained that in about 2010 he had decided to let go of his anger and \"forgive\" Sutcliffe.\n\n\"I am sorry to hear he has passed away. It's not something I could have said in the past when I was consumed with anger,\" he said.\n\nWilma McCann was the first woman Sutcliffe murdered, in 1975\n\nSutcliffe was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper because he mutilated his victims' bodies.\n\nHe is said to have believed he was on a \"mission from God\" to kill prostitutes, although not all of his victims were sex workers.\n\nOne of his surviving victims said that 40 years on she is still affected by the attack as she walked home from a pub in Leeds in October 1980.\n\nMo Lea, who was 20 at the time, said she had written Sutcliffe a letter while he was in prison.\n\n\"I was compelled to write to let him know how the fact that he was hanging on to the knowledge that he tried to kill me, was affecting me,\" she said.\n\n\"And I thought at least if I post it I'll know that in some way there'll be a level of understanding. I didn't expect a response and I didn't get one but it felt good to put it in the post box.\"\n\nAn inquiry held after his conviction said a backlog of case paperwork meant officers were unable to connect vital pieces of information.\n\nThe first two victims, Ms McCann and Emily Jackson, were killed in Chapeltown, which was known at the time for containing Leeds' main red light district.\n\nFollowing the second murder, West Yorkshire Police announced they were looking for a \"prostitute killer\", leading to accusations key eyewitness evidence was being ignored as it did not fit detectives' narrative.\n\nThe investigation was also misdirected by one of criminal history's cruellest hoaxes, when John Humble tricked police into believing the serial killer was a man dubbed Wearside Jack because of his gruff Sunderland accent.\n\nPolice had believed he was the killer despite some survivors of attacks by Sutcliffe reporting he had a Yorkshire accent.\n\nHumble, who died in 2019, never fully explained why he taunted detectives with letters and an infamous tape recording, in which he anonymously claimed to be the serial killer.\n\nGeorge Oldfield, centre, with detectives who initially believed the hoax tape was genuine\n\nWest Yorkshire Police detectives, headed by the then assistant chief constable George Oldfield, believed the letters and tape were genuine and diverted crucial resources to the north-east of England.\n\nWhen Humble was eventually prosecuted, Leeds Crown Court heard claims the delays caused by the hoax left Peter Sutcliffe free to murder three more women.\n\nThis 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\nSutcliffe had violently attacked at least three women before he killed Ms McCann.\n\nIn 1969, he hit a woman over the head with a stone in a sock. Sutcliffe admitted the offence, but his victim decided not to press charges.\n\nSix years later, just months before Ms McCann's death, he attacked two other women with a knife and a hammer but both survived.\n\nSutcliffe attended Dewsbury Magistrates Court in February 1981 charged with the murder of 13 women and attempted murder of seven others\n\nMr Oldfield's 200-strong ripper squad eventually carried out more than 130,000 interviews, visited more than 23,000 homes and checked 150,000 cars.\n\nBut Joan Smith, a radio reporter in Manchester who interviewed some of the surviving victims before Sutcliffe was caught, said there were instances of \"the most blatant victim blaming\" from detectives.\n\n\"There were no women involved in this case at all - all the detectives were male, virtually all the reporters were male… I felt that right from the beginning women didn't have a voice,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think any woman who was around in the north of England at that time will ever be able to hear his name without some kind of shudder.\"\n\nSutcliffe died at the University Hospital of North Durham after being transferred there from maximum security HMP Frankland\n\nMr McCann has appealed to West Yorkshire Police to make a formal apology for the language used in the 1970s to describe his mother and other victims.\n\n\"They described some of the women as 'innocent', inferring that some were not innocent - including my mum,\" he said.\n\n\"She was a family woman who, through no fault of her own, was going through adversity and made some bad decisions, some risky decisions.\n\n\"She paid for those decisions with her life.\"\n\nA West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: \"We have received correspondence from Mr McCann and commit to continue to engage with him directly.\"\n\nAngry crowds gathered outside Dewsbury Magistrates' Court when Sutcliffe appeared there following his arrest\n\nA stroke of luck eventually led to Sutcliffe's arrest when his brown Rover car, which had false number plates, was stopped by police in a red light area of Sheffield in January 1981.\n\nMr Bridgestock, who was one of the first on the scene when Josephine Whitaker was murdered in 1979, said senior detectives \"wore blinkers\" while leading the inquiry.\n\n\"It's the victims that served the life sentence and then the victims' families that really serve the true life sentences,\" he said.\n\n\"For them today, they will have some kind of closure.\"\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. MP Tracey Crouch says she is “disappointingly unable to participate” in a Commons debate on breast cancer.\n\nMPs have called for wider virtual participation to be allowed in Parliament, arguing that those with cancer were \"excluded\" from taking part in a debate on the illness.\n\nEx-minister Tracey Crouch, who has cancer, expressed disappointment she could not speak in the debate.\n\nLabour's Chris Bryant said this was due to Jacob Rees-Mogg's reluctance to allow greater use of video links.\n\nBut the Commons leader said it was down to a lack of broadcasting equipment.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has previously argued that virtual working was not an effective way to hold the government to account and was no substitute for the \"cut and thrust\" of live debate.\n\nCurrently, MPs who cannot be in Westminster due to coronavirus are only able to take part in some events.\n\nThey can put questions to ministers by video link, but are not able to contribute to general debates on legislation or events in Westminster Hall - a separate chamber from the House of Commons.\n\nWestminster Hall debates were suspended from 20 March during the first wave of coronavirus. They only resumed from 5 October, around a month after business returned in the main chamber following the summer recess.\n\nThose trying to avoid travel during the pandemic are also able to register for proxy votes.\n\nOn Thursday, a debate on breast cancer services took place in Westminster Hall, and Conservative MP Ms Crouch said because of Mr Rees-Mogg's ruling, those \"with real and current life experience of the disease are disappointingly unable to participate\".\n\nShe added: \"While I respect his commitment to traditional parliamentary procedures, I'm sure if he was on the backbenches and not the fine specimen of health and fitness he clearly is, he would be arguing forcefully for members to be able to contribute more often in proceedings by modern technology.\"\n\nThe MP asked him to \"please stop thinking those of us at home are shirking our duties\" and urged him to allow virtual participation in Westminster Hall.\n\nLeader of the House Mr Rees-Mogg said when events in Westminster Hall restarted, \"the broadcasting facilities were already being fully utilised\".\n\n\"So it wasn't an issue then of whether we wanted to do it or not, it simply wasn't an option,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he also added there needed to be a balance between the needs of MPs with the needs of the House of Commons \"to proceed with its business\".\n\nMr Bryant said it was \"appalling that Tracey Crouch is excluded from a debate on breast cancer because she's recuperating from cancer by Jacob Rees-Mogg rules\".\n\nHis party colleague Barbara Keeley agreed and said she was also \"excluded\" having just been through breast cancer treatment.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour - recorded before Thursday's debate - Ms Crouch said she would not have been able to participate in debates at all before the pandemic as the video technology was not set up.\n\n\"So actually, in a way, and I don't mean this to sound insensitive, this is a good time to have gone through this,\" she added.\n\nHowever, she told the programme that wider use of video technology, beyond the debates where it is currently used, would make for a \"better\" system and called for MPs to be allowed to carry on contributing virtually \"while coronavirus exists\".\n\nMs Crouch added that she would also like to see the proxy voting scheme extended to cover MPs suffering from other health conditions or on bereavement leave.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Nicola Adams and Katya Jones during the launch show of Strictly 2020\n\nFormer boxer Nicola Adams and her Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones have left the BBC contest after Jones tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nA statement said the programme's \"protocols\" meant the pair would now self-isolate and would not be able to take part in the rest of the series.\n\nThey made history as the first same-sex couple to take part in the UK show.\n\nMeanwhile, judge Motsi Mabuse has said she will be self-isolating this weekend after an \"urgent\" trip abroad.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Adams said: \"I'm absolutely devastated my Strictly journey has come to an end so soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Adams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I had so much more to give and so many people to win this for! But I just want to say a huge thank you to Katya for being the best dance partner anyone could ask for.\n\n\"I'm gutted to be out of the competition but in these unprecedented times and as frustrating as it is, the Covid measures in place are to keep everyone safe, and I'm doing what I can to help.\"\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 katyajones 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\nJones is asymptomatic and said she was \"devastated to leave this way\".\n\n\"But I've made a friend for life and loved every moment of this special journey,\" she added.\n\nHost Claudia Winkleman said she was \"so sad\", while It Takes Two presenter Zoe Ball said she was \"gutted for Nicola and Katya\", adding: \"You made history girls.\"\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\nAdams, who won Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016, said she had asked the BBC for a female partner because it was \"definitely time for change\".\n\nThe pair came in the top half of the leader board with their quickstep in week one, and impressed the judges again in week two with their street/commercial routine.\n\nBut they found themselves in the dance-off last week after performing their jive, eventually being saved by the judges at the expense of former NFL player Jason Bell.\n\nA number of crew members are also self-isolating after coming into contact with Jones, according to the PA news agency.\n\nThe show's executive producer Sarah James said: \"We are incredibly sad that these unfortunate circumstances mean that Nicola and Katya are unable to continue on Strictly. They are a brilliant partnership and had already achieved so much during their time on the show.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse will appear on the show via video link this weekend, as she is self-isolating following an \"urgent\" trip to Germany.\n\nThe judge, who lives in Germany, wrote on Twitter: \"I'll be watching from home and by the power of technology, should be in your living rooms. Watch out though, I'll be doing my own hair and make-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 3 by Motsi Mabuse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Takes Two co-host Rylan Clark-Neal is also self-isolating after revealing he has been in recent contact with someone \"outside of work\" who has tested positive.\n\nHe said he had since tested negative, but will miss two weeks of the BBC Two spin-off and his BBC Radio 2 weekend programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Rylan Clark-Neal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdams' departure leaves nine celebrities in the line-up. One, HRVY, tested positive before the launch show but was able to finish isolating in time to take part.\n\nThe series will continue as planned on Saturday, the BBC said. Each partnership is in a bubble and having regular coronavirus tests.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People arriving in the UK from mainland Greece will need to self-isolate for two weeks from 04:00 on Saturday, the transport secretary has said.\n\nThe rules will not apply to the Greek islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos, Grant Shapps said.\n\nTravellers from Qatar, the UAE, Laos and the Turks and Caicos Islands will no longer need to quarantine.\n\nBahrain, Chile, Iceland and Cambodia will also be exempt from isolation rules.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said data had shown \"a consistent increase\" in newly reported cases in Greece over the past fortnight, with a 136% increase in new cases to 16,429 between 5 and 12 November from 6,965 between 22 and 29 October.\n\nIt added the islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zakynthos and Kos had not seen as significant a growth in cases over recent weeks as the rest of Greece and therefore quarantining was not required.\n\nThe UAE, Qatar, Turks & Caicos islands, Laos, Iceland, Cambodia, Chile and Bahrain were also seen as \"posing a lower infection risk\", a statement said.\n\nDenmark was cut from the UK's safe list last week after a mutated strain of Covid-19 was found to have spread to humans from mink.\n\nMr Shapps said the UK's travel ban on non-UK citizens arriving from Denmark would be extended for a further 14 days.\n\nUK citizens can return from the country - but will have to isolate along with all members of their household for 14 days.\n\nCurrent restrictions in England mean that only people with valid reasons are supposed to travel abroad at the moment.\n\nPeople who break the rules face fines starting at £200 and rising to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nIn Wales, travel abroad is only permitted for people with a reasonable excuse.\n\nEngland's Nations League match against Iceland will be played at Wembley on Wednesday after a government exemption was granted for Iceland's football team.\n\nIceland play Denmark in Copenhagen three days before that fixture - and there is currently a ban on entry to the UK for foreign visitors who have travelled directly or indirectly from Denmark.\n\nBut the \"temporary and extremely limited exemption\" was agreed, providing the Icelanders follow the strict medical protocols, introduced in June, that allow elite sporting teams to travel around the continent.\n\nMeanwhile, the transport secretary said earlier this week that the UK is making \"good progress\" in developing a testing regime to reduce the amount of time people need to spend self-isolating.\n\nHe has previously said he is \"very hopeful\" a new testing regime for travellers to the UK could be in place by 1 December.\n\nIt comes as a record 33,470 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK in the past day, official data shows.\n\nIt is the highest daily figure since mass testing began in the UK, and brings the total number of cases to more than 1.29 million.", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nA people smuggler has told a jury a lorry driver phoned him to say: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nGheorge Nica, 43, denies any role in the deaths of the Vietnamese nationals, who were found in Grays, Essex, on 23 October 2019, the Old Bailey has heard.\n\nHe admits some people-smuggling crimes, but said he had been unaware any migrants were in the trailer in Grays.\n\nMr Nica described the moment he knew things had gone \"very, very bad\".\n\nThe migrants, aged 15 to 44, suffocated in a sealed trailer en route from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet, Essex.\n\nMr Nica said he called driver Maurice Robinson at 01:00, having agreed for him to park the lorry at a yard in Orsett at that time.\n\nThe bodies were found when the container was opened in Essex\n\n\"I say 'Well. What's going on? Are you coming or not?',\" Mr Nica told the jury.\n\n\"And he just said 'I don't know, I don't know'.\n\n\"I said 'listen, are you OK there?' And I thought in my mind he might be stopped by police or customs.\"\n\nThe jury heard Mr Robinson had called Mr Nica back 10 minutes later.\n\n\"I said 'Are you still coming?'\n\n\"[He said] 'I don't know. I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nAftab Jafferjee QC, defending, asked: \"What was your reaction to that?\"\n\nMr Nica replied: \"I said 'listen, what do you mean dead bodies?'\n\n\"He said 'yeah, there are too many'. I said 'ring the ambulance, ring the police, do not move at all'.\"\n\nOn what he did next, Nica said: \"I was sitting in the car and it was still very, very bad.\"\n\nThe next day, he travelled to Romania because he was \"scared\" of a \"big, big investigation\". He had been involved in previous smuggling and had made phone calls regarding the fatal shipment.\n\nUnder cross-examination, prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said Mr Nica's version of events was \"ridiculous\".\n\nHe said: \"You said 'everyone trying to escape from this situation is just telling stories'.\n\n\"You have here in one sentence exactly described your own situation.\"\n\nMr Nica, of Basildon, and lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, of County Down, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nMr Harrison, lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, have denied being part of a wider people-smuggling conspiracy, which Mr Nica has admitted he was involved in.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Staff at this hospital in Naples treated waiting patients in their cars because the wards were overwhelmed\n\nItaly has added more regions to its coronavirus high-risk \"red zones\" as cases across the country hit a new daily record.\n\nCampania and Tuscany will join other regions placed under the strictest lockdown measures from Sunday.\n\nAuthorities in Campania, which includes Naples, have warned that the health system there is close to collapse.\n\nFriday's announcement came as Italy confirmed 40,902 new infections - its highest ever daily total.\n\nIt passed the one million mark earlier this week and there have been more than 44,000 deaths.\n\nThe government's coronavirus consultant, Walter Ricciardi, told reporters that the country has \"two to three weeks to decide whether to impose a new national lockdown\".\n\nEarlier this year Italy became the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe but brought its outbreak under control with a tough national lockdown. Restrictions were gradually lifted as cases eased but last week - faced with a second wave of infections, it introduced new measures.\n\nRegions are divided into three zones - red for the highest risk, then orange and yellow. In the red zone at the moment are Lombardy, Bolzano, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north, and Calabria in the south.\n\nIn these areas, which cover about 16.5 million people in a population of 60 million, residents can only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies. All non-essential shops are closed.\n\nBars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks. Hairdressers can remain open.\n\nRestaurant workers in Rome protested against the latest restrictions on Friday\n\nA quarter of the new cases are in Lombardy, which includes Milan. It was the worst-hit area in Italy's first outbreak and it was Europe's first coronavirus hotspot.\n\nCampania, however, has shot straight from the yellow zone to red as a spike in cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.\n\n\"The situation in Campania is out of control,\" Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told La Stampa newspaper on Friday. \"We need urgent restrictions... people are dying.\"\n\nItalian media has broadcast shocking scenes from hospitals in Naples.\n\nStaff at one hospital have brought oxygen tanks and other equipment outside to treat people parked in their cars because the emergency department was swamped with cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\n\"We have almost no more beds available,\" Rodolfo Punzi, an official at Cotugno hospital, told AFP news agency.\n\nAlso this week a video went viral of an elderly suspected Covid patient found dead in the toilet of the Cardarelli hospital emergency department in Naples. His granddaughter called it \"an outrage to human dignity\" and accused staff of neglect.\n\nLockdowns and other measures are in force in several European countries experiencing a second wave of the virus. In other developments:", "HN-329 his boss, Conrad Dixon, and another officer\n\nA former undercover police officer has admitted for the first time that the Metropolitan Police set out half a century ago to infiltrate left-wing political groups, even if they posed no threat to the public.\n\nThe officer - the first to give evidence at a mammoth public inquiry - said his task had been to gather intelligence on anti-establishment campaign groups threatening the political status quo in the late 1960s.\n\nThe officer's evidence is the first insider testimony to be put before the Undercover Policing Inquiry that shows that Scotland Yard's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) targeted groups merely because of their aims, rather than because they threatened violence.\n\nDuring this first day of evidence from a former police officer, Sir John Mitting, the inquiry chairman, threatened to silence a barrister acting for some of those who say they were unjustly spied on.\n\nCodenamed HN329, the elderly retired officer was a founding member of the SDS that's accused of serial abuses over decades, including miscarriages of justice, unjustified political operations and tricking women into sexual relationships.\n\nThe SDS was disbanded in 2008. Six years ago Theresa May, when she was home secretary, ordered an inquiry into its activities.\n\nHN329 told the inquiry he joined the SDS in August 1968. It had been set up following an anti-Vietnam War protest in March that year that led to disorder in London.\n\nThe officer invented a cover name, \"John Graham\", and grew a beard and his hair long.\n\nDonning a jacket with a leopard skin lining and a pair of Hush Puppy shoes, he set out to blend into the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC), a left-wing alliance planning an October protest in London.\n\nOperating under the command of Chief Inspector Conrad Dixon, HN329 said his job had been to gather intelligence on people trying to undermine the status quo and the political establishment.\n\n\"Ultimately, any group that came to notice as a result of causing trouble, for example throwing bricks through shop windows and actions of that sort, would have been reported on if they were anti-establishment in a political sense,\" said the officer in his opening statement.\n\nHe then added: \"It may well be that a particular group is completely harmless but we would be asked to find out what their objectives were. A file would then be opened.\"\n\nDavid Barr QC, the barrister leading questioning for the inquiry, asked what the officer meant by \"anti-establishment\".\n\n\"Well, it was people who were opposed to the current political situation, or the current government,\" he replied.\n\nOne crucial meeting of the VSC was infiltrated by a total of nine officers including HN-329 - but the officer said that during all his time with the SDS he uncovered no crimes and saw no violence.\n\nRecollecting his career with the squad, HN329 said: \"The original group, from Conrad Dixon down, were the finest representatives of Special Branch. They were excellent officers who did exactly the proper job.\"\n\nRajiv Menon QC, representing some of the victims of alleged undercover abuses, asked to put further matters to the officer, saying the inquiry needed to hear more specific information about his activities and the directions he had been given by superiors. Under the inquiry's rules, lawyers for the participants are required to send suggested topics for questions to the lead barrister, so that he can then examine a witness on behalf of all.\n\nSir John Mitting, the chairman, ruled out all the additional topics proposed by Mr Menon, other than one specific set of questions.\n\nWhen the senior barrister sought to further explain his position, the chairman cut across him and said: \"No, you may not. I'm sorry.\n\n\"You may ask your questions, or you will be silenced.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Need highlights: Joe Wicks and Murray v Crouch at paddle tennis\n\nPudsey Bear returned with a host of celebrities on Friday night for the 40th anniversary of the BBC's fundraiser Children in Need.\n\nMore than £37m had been raised by the end of the programme on Friday evening.\n\nThis year's show was shorter and had no audience, due to Covid-19, but there were still plenty of treats in store.\n\nPeter Crouch and Andy Murray went head-to-head in a game of Paddle Tennis, and an all-star cast covered Oasis's Stop Crying Your Heart Out.\n\nOne of four hosts of Friday night's live show, Mel Giedroyc, thanked viewers for supporting the fundraiser.\n\n\"Children In Need has been going for an astonishing 40 years and we have only been able to do so because of you,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite the challenges that we have come up against this year, and will continue to face while this pandemic plays out, we are strong because the hearts of the people who keep these projects alive are strong.\"\n\nKylie Minogue, Cher and KSI all appear on the charity song\n\nIt got its first airing on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2.\n\n\"Children in Need is such a special charity and so loved by everyone, including me,\" said Kylie.\n\n\"It was a privilege to take part in this recording with so many amazing artists.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Various Artists - Topic\n\nEarlier in the day, Joe Wicks completed his 24-hour workout challenge for Children in Need.\n\nHe was joined by stars including Louis Theroux, Melanie C, Sam Smith and Dame Kelly Holmes as he completed a range of activities, from cycling to yoga, boxing to rowing and his signature high intensity workouts.\n\nAppearing on the live show, Wicks - who was presented with a gold Blue Peter badge - described it as \"the longest day and night of my life\".\n\n\"My body aches, my bum, my feet, everything, but I'm so proud of what we have done,\" he said.\n\n\"We have come together, people have been so kind and generous, and raised so much money through that challenge.\"\n\nIt was announced that his workout marathon had raised £2,108,229 for the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Wicks said he felt \"so buzzed\" and \"full of adrenaline\"\n\nA special edition of DIY SOS, which saw a group of volunteers build a new, all-inclusive surf school in Swansea, has also raised £844,000 after being screened on BBC One on Thursday.\n\nHost Nick Knowles wiped away tears when he was informed of the total on the BBC's Morning Live on Friday.\n\n\"It's a big deal,\" said the presenter. \"We understand that times are tough, Covid times are tough and people are worried about their finances and we were up against the football, all those things.\"\n\nHe added the total had been expected to be \"not as massive as normal times\".\n\nIn fact, it was the highest sum ever raised by the show's annual Children in Need episode.\n\nThe main Children In Need show kicked off at 19:00 GMT on BBC One, hosted live in London by Mel Giedroyc, Alex Scott, Chris Ramsey and Stephen Mangan.\n\nAhead of the show Giedroyc told BBC News the format was \"a bit stripped back\" but that as for the vibe, the famous faces and comedy elements, \"nothing has really changed\".\n\nThe telethon, which raises money for disadvantaged children in the UK, raised an \"on the night\" total of £47.9m last year.\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 show also included a special clip from the Doctor Who team, while TV presenter Emma Willis has narrated Life in Lockdown - a film showing youngsters living through difficult circumstances during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe feature follows research commissioned by the charity, which found that 94% of children and young people have had cause to feel worried, sad or anxious in the last six months.\n\n\"The current pandemic has affected all of our lives, but some families have additional and complex needs and challenges outside of Covid-19,\" said Willis.\n\nEmma Willis will narrate the film, Life In Lockdown\n\n\"Being part of this documentary, I was able to see just how vital BBC Children in Need's funds are to families across the UK in times of crisis\n\n\"People are facing incredibly challenging times, but I hope the public tune in and donate if they can to a much-needed cause.\"\n\nChildren in Need was on BBC One on Friday from 19:00 to 22:00 GMT. Catch up on iPlayer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The US Commerce Department has halted a ban on TikTok that was due to come into effect on Thursday night.\n\nThe order would have prevented the app from being downloaded in the US.\n\nThe Commerce Department delayed the ban \"pending further legal developments,\" citing a Philadelphia court ruling from September where three prominent TikTokers had argued the app should be allowed to operate in America.\n\nThe decision will be a relief to the estimated 100 million US TikTok users.\n\nIn September, TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance announced a deal with Walmart and Oracle to shift TikTok's US assets into a new entity called TikTok Global.\n\nDonald Trump tentatively supported the deal. However on Tuesday TikTok said it had had no feedback from the US government in two months.\n\nPresident Trump has said he wants TikTok to be sold to a US company.\n\nBoth he, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have repeatedly said that the data of US users could be passed on to the Chinese government, though no evidence has been presented showing this.\n\nThe app is already banned in India, after a diplomatic spat with China.\n• None TikTok asks defeated Trump if it's still banned\n• None What's going on with TikTok?", "Northern Ireland's first minister said she regrets how the executive has handled the decision over extending Covid-19 restrictions this week.\n\nArlene Foster said it had been a \"torturous example of how not to take decisions\".\n\nOn Thursday, restrictions were extended for one more week with a partial reopening of some sectors next Friday.\n\nClose contact services and unlicensed premises can reopen on 20 November.\n\nThe current restrictions came into effect on 16 October and were to expire at midnight on Friday.\n\nAs the fall-out continued, Finance Minister Conor Murphy of Sinn Féin said that the DUP's decision to block the health minister's proposal for a two-week extension was \"reprehensible\".\n\nThe latest paper, brought by the DUP after several days of disagreement, was signed off late on Thursday afternoon.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Good Morning Ulster, Mrs Foster said \"all I am trying to do\" is find a balanced way forward.\n\n\"We need to look to the future and move on from this very difficult week for everyone in Northern Ireland watching as we struggled to make decisions,\" she said.\n\n\"All the decisions we take in relation to medical advice is advice based on modelling - not predictions.\"\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\nMrs Foster also accused Sinn Féin of \"trying to isolate the DUP\", after the party deployed a cross-community mechanism to block proposals to extend the restrictions for two weeks.\n\nThe first minister said if she had been chairing the executive meetings, she would not have pushed the decisions to a vote but that Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill had been overseeing the discussions.\n\nShe also accused Sinn Féin of performing a \"reverse ferret\" on its position in opposing the deal.\n\n\"Agreements that were reached were broken, however we have now reached a consensus,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, the deputy first minister said she could not \"in good conscience\" support the plan.\n\nMs O'Neill told BBC Newsline that only imposing one more week of restrictions \"potentially means we're coming back to this situation before Christmas\".\n\nMrs Foster said the chief medical officer had indicated even with the extra two weeks there was a \"chance that we could have to come back to a lockdown before Christmas\".\n\nConor Murphy says a majority vote at the executive should carried the proposal for a two-week extension\n\nSinn Féin's Finance Minister Conor Murphy told Good Morning Ulster the DUPs blocking of the health minister's original proposal of a two-week extension was \"reprehensible\".\n\n\"We would not stoop to the level that the DUP has stooped to in order to get our way.\n\n\"We believe in the democratic process, we believe the executive has a right to vote by a majority for things,\" he said\n\n\"If there is an issue that will detrimentally impact on one section of the community, that's what that mechanism is for - it's not to be used willy nilly.\n\n\"Six ministers voted in favour of the health minister's original proposition, that's four out of the five parties. That should have been sufficient in order to carry it.\"\n\nThe chair of NI's British Medical Association (BMA) said Northern Ireland should be placed in a national lockdown, rather than the circuit breaker extended by a week.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Dr Tom Black said seven hospitals were operating over capacity.\n\n\"Our EDs are chock-a-block, our intensive care units are full and trying to expand,\" he added.\n\nHe said that in that context, a complete lockdown would \"have been expected\".\n\n\"We got a decision that is not competent, certainly negligent, and a betrayal of health care workers,\" he said.\n\nClose contact services including hair salons will reopen, by appointment, on 20 November\n\nThere has been a mixed reaction from businesses in Northern Ireland to the agreement reached by the executive on Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nRosemary Wright, who owns Ashburn Image hair and beauty salon in Eglinton, had already started taking bookings for Saturday but is now busy rescheduling appointments.\n\n\"They [the executive] should've made a decision far earlier, they had four weeks to say yes or no but they kept us waiting and now we have to wait another week.\n\n\"I am sitting here thinking now are we even going to open next Friday.\"\n\nThe salon owner has said despite being closed for over four weeks she has not received any financial support from the government.\n\n\"I applied for it, but I still have nothing. Not a penny. No furlough money, not even a grant,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"We still have to pay our bills, I still have to pay staff, my staff are waiting each week to be paid and I have nothing coming in.\n\n\"I would say to the people on the hill have your money cut off and see how you feel. It is not easy.\"\n\nDriving instructor John O'Donnell from Derry said he would not be going back to work yet \"irrespective of what Stormont says\".\n\n\"The chief medical officer is the expert - he says we need another two weeks extension and they are horse-trading over it. You can't horse trade over people's lives,\" he said\n\n\"I sympathise with businesses - mine is suffering as well, but I can always build my business up again. You can't dig up a grave and bring people back from the dead.\n\n\"I am not going to put myself in a position of getting Covid-19 or any of my clients.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Janice Gault of the Hotels Federation said brides wanted to know if their imminent weddings would go ahead\n\nJanice Gault from the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation told BBC One NI's The View programme that 35% of hotel rooms in Northern Ireland had been booked this weekend.\n\nShe said 3,000 phone calls had to be made on Thursday after the executive made a decision to keep hotels closed for two more weeks.\n\nShe added: \"What many people forget is we had brides who are getting married this Saturday on the phone this afternoon asking could they get married.\"\n\nColin Neill of Hospitality Ulster said he hoped the announcement would \"result in thousands of jobs and businesses being saved\".\n\n\"While pubs and restaurants may be closed, the bills continue to mount on a daily basis therefore extra financial support is needed now to protect businesses and jobs and we hope that the NI Executive will be swift in getting this money into bank accounts.\"\n\nThe document agreed by the executive also says that support will be provided for mitigations to reduce risk within the hospitality sector, including improved ventilation and requirements for the recording of customer information for contact tracing purposes.", "Police say Keiron Hassan and Kamal Legall \"had a feud\" with Taylor Patterson\n\nTwo cousins have been convicted of attempting a \"gangland-style hit\" in broad daylight outside a convenience store on a high street.\n\nKeiron Hassan and Kamal Legall have been convicted of attempting to murder Taylor Patterson in Cardiff by shooting him and attacking him with a machete.\n\nSurgeons saved Mr Patterson, 22, in hospital after he was shot and stabbed in the neck, Newport Crown Court heard.\n\nHassan, 32, of Ely, and Legall, 26, of Fairwater will be sentenced later.\n\nThe pair were convicted of attempted murder and possession of a shortened shotgun after the attack on Mr Harris in front of terrified shoppers outside a Lifestyle Express store in the Rumney area of Cardiff, the court heard.\n\nCCTV footage of the attack on Taylor Patterson outside the Lifestyle Express store in Rumney\n\nJurors were told Mr Patterson was heard to say \"not here, not now\" before he was slashed in the neck and shot at point blank range with a sawn-off shot gun on Harris Avenue at about 15:30 BST on Easter Monday.\n\n\"This was a murderous attack, it was professionally planned and executed in a gangland-style hit where the clear intention was to the kill the victim Taylor Patterson,\" prosecutor Christopher Rees QC told the five-week trial.\n\n\"The attackers took advantage of the pandemic in that they wore masks to hide their identity.\"\n\nMr Patterson asked one bystander \"Am I going to die?\" after he heard a bang and felt his legs collapse, jurors heard.\n\nTaylor Patterson was attacked on Easter Monday outside of the Lifestyle Express store\n\n\"The way it occurred in a Cardiff street in broad daylight in front of a number of terrified members of the public, it may well be that such a brazen attack was to send a message to others and to strike fear into a local community,\" added Mr Rees.\n\nThe court heard Hassan shouted at his victim: \"Where's my watch?\"\n\nAfter fleeing the scene the defendants were traced through Cardiff after detectives viewed \"thousands of hours of CCTV\".\n\nThe court heard Hassan and Legall had hidden a loaded shotgun near a children's playground in Cardiff Bay and had \"cloned\" the number plates on a Nissan Pathfinder in order to hide its identity.\n\nThe court heard Mr Patterson was saved by paramedics and surgeons after losing blood from a five inch cut in his neck and a wound on his body.\n\n\"Keiron Hassan and Kamal Legall are cousins, they had a feud with their victim,\" Det Ch Insp Mark O'Shea of South Wales Police said.\n\n\"Criminals who do decide to take firearms to settle any score or grievances they may have with others, it won't be tolerated by the police and it won't be tolerated by the communities we serve either.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "He's spent nearly two decades working with Conservative politicians in the upper reaches of government - but many of us hadn't heard of Dominic Cummings until his infamous lockdown trip to Barnard Castle earlier this year. Now that the prime minister's chief adviser is leaving Downing Street, we look back at some memorable moments in his career.\n\nMr Cummings became a household name after he defended his 260-mile drive from his home in London to his parents' farm in County Durham during the UK's national coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nFollowing pressure from all political sides to explain why he went against the government's \"stay at home\" messaging, Mr Cummings said he made the journey for childcare reasons after his wife developed coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut a subsequent outing, this time from the cottage on his parents' farm to the historic market town of Barnard Castle, was the trip that gave fuel to meme-makers across the country. Mr Cummings said the reason for that trip was to test his eyesight and his readiness to drive back to London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe success of the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum no doubt helped to secure Mr Cummings' job in Downing Street, as it was his role during that which cemented his strong bond with Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Cummings, the campaign's director, was credited with the \"take back control\" slogan that appeared to strike a chord with so many referendum voters, as well as the claim that Britain could save £350m a week by leaving the EU.\n\nBoris Johnson became prime minister after his part in the successful campaign for the UK to leave the European Union\n\nIn addition to his snappy slogans, Mr Cummings has also hurled some infamous insults at politicians - often through the medium of his personal blog. For example, he has said:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings: \"We need PJ Masks on the job\"\n\nMr Cummings' blog also drew headlines when he used it to tout his ideas to shake up the civil service.\n\nIn a blog post in January this year, he said the civil service lacked people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\" and called for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to get in touch with him via a private Gmail address if they wanted to work in government.\n\nThe post stoked tensions, with the civil servants' union saying staff were recruited on merit and \"because of what you can do, not what you believe\".\n\nThe departure of civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill (pictured welcoming Boris Johnson to Downing Street, with Mr Cummings on the right) sped up Mr Cummings' ideas for Whitehall reform, our political editor Laura Kuenssberg said\n\nThe clashes with other civil servants reached new heights after a special adviser was sacked and escorted out of Downing Street by police, following a confrontation with Mr Cummings.\n\nNo reason was given for Sonia Khan's dismissal in August 2019, but it's thought she had been accused by Mr Cummings of leaking details of a no-deal Brexit exercise to the media.\n\nHer then-boss (and then-chancellor) Sajid Javid \"voiced his anger\" with the PM over her treatment, later resigning when Mr Johnson ordered him to fire his team of aides. Labour said Mr Javid's departure showed Mr Cummings had \"won the battle to take absolute control of the Treasury\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nThis is perhaps a lesser-known highlight, but it's a highlight all the same.\n\nAccording to Buzzfeed News, Mr Cummings was greatly frustrated by the prime minister's rejection of his proposal to change Downing Street's office layout.\n\nThe top aide wanted to knock walls through and put desks in circles around both him and Mr Johnson, who would sit in the centre, the Buzzfeed report claims.\n\nThe news site claims the plans were rejected as unworkable - in part as a result of No 10's status as a Grade One listed building.\n\nAs a listed building, No 10 Downing Street has extra legal protection within the planning system (leaf-sweeping is allowed though)\n\nThe penny must drop that you've had an interesting career when you hear an Oscar-nominated actor is preparing to play you in a TV drama.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Mr Cummings in Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War was as - in the words of our arts editor - \"an intense, socially awkward, strategic mastermind with a gentle Durham accent and a penchant for hanging out in stationery cupboards at work\".\n\nFrom left: Richard Goulding as Boris Johnson, Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, and Oliver Maltman as Michael Gove in Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War", "Students could be routinely issued university offers based on actual exam results rather than predicted grades in future, under a proposed shake-up.\n\nA post-qualifications admissions (PQA) system could be introduced across the UK by 2023-24, says Universities UK.\n\nThe plan is one of a series of recommendations from an 18-month review by university leaders across Britain.\n\nIt comes after a chaotic summer exam results process meant many students lost places on their chosen courses.\n\nSome reports over the years have suggested a switch to exam results, arguing it would be fairer to candidates from less-affluent backgrounds.\n\nBut universities previously cited the timescale between when A-level, B-Tec and other exam results are received, and courses starting as a reason not to proceed.\n\nThe review also calls for the scrapping of \"conditional unconditional offers\", under which students are offered guaranteed places regardless of results if they make an institution their firm choice.\n\nIt says the use of regular unconditional offers should be restricted to specific circumstances, including where such decisions have been informed by an interview, audition, submission of work or a skills test.\n\nA new code of practice should be developed to make clear that the use of incentives in offer-making, such as financial inducements, should not add any pressure to candidates, the report adds.\n\nFailure to follow the code would result in sanctions against universities, UUK said.\n\nThe recommendations come after the universities admissions service Ucas proposed that students could apply to university after receiving their A-levels, and then start courses in January.\n\nBut the UUK report raises concerns about the disruption that would cause to school timetables and university competitiveness overseas.\n\nThe review acknowledges that switching to PQA might still be challenging for courses that are highly selective, as it could be difficult to arrange interviews, and there may be an increase in admissions tests.\n\nIt could also mean there were fewer teachers available over the summer to help students make decisions, and less time for applicants to respond to offers.\n\nThe organisation says it will consult universities, schools and government to develop and further test the workability of the new approach.\n\nProfessor Quintin McKellar, vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire and chairman of the Fair Admissions Review, said: \"There isn't a perfect one-size-fits-all solution for the variety of courses and institutions, but the review has decided it would be fairer for students to receive university places based on exam results, not predictions.\"\n\nHe added that any change should be taken forward carefully by universities, with further consultation with students, government, and those working across the education sector.\n\n\"We need to be confident that any new process will allow for effective careers advice and support for applicants,\" he said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), said: \"The current system is based on inaccurately predicted results and leads to those from less-affluent backgrounds losing out.\n\n\"Allowing students to apply after they receive their results will help level the playing field and put a stop to the chaotic clearing scramble.\"\n\nShe added: \"UCU and many sector leaders now agree the time has come for the UK to join the rest of the world and finally to move away from the current unfair system.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: \"Teachers work hard and diligently to provide accurate predicted grades, but it is not an exact science and never can be.\n\n\"Post-qualification admissions would be better and fairer.\"", "The number of school-age children with coronavirus has risen \"significantly\" in the second wave compared with the first, according to the government's scientific advisers.\n\nChildren are now more likely than adults to be the person bringing a Covid infection into a household.\n\nBut families with children are at no higher risk of severe illness.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) said it was \"troubled\" by the number of children testing positive.\n\nThe exact role children play in transmitting coronavirus has long been an open question.\n\nIt's clear young people as a group are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus themselves.\n\nThere is also some evidence younger children are less likely to even contract it in the first place.\n\nBut when it comes to older children, their role in passing on the virus has been much less clear.\n\nA review presented to government and published on 13 November outlines the growing evidence older children can catch and transmit Covid-19 at similar rates to adults.\n\nFrom around the time schools reopened in September, a rising number of children have been testing positive for coronavirus, according to the advisory group.\n\nBut the paper said the extent to which transmission was occurring in schools was \"unproven and difficult to establish\".\n\nTwo major surveillance studies by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Imperial College London show infections among people aged 16-24 were increasing in September.\n\nBy October increases could be seen throughout the 2-24-year-old age bracket.\n\nThere were signs of rising infection in the wider population before schools went back, however.\n\nThe government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has previously said reopening schools was likely to increase transmission of the virus.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty also acknowledged this, but said trade-offs would have to be made to allow schools to remain open while controlling the virus.\n\nThe 13 November advisory paper said there were \"significant educational, developmental and mental health harms from schools being closed\".\n\nSchoolchildren and young adults have experienced a much faster rise in infections than other age groups in the second wave.\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse at the University of Edinburgh said this was \"not surprising given that schools are operating much closer to normality than most other parts of society\".\n\nThe review made clear it was not possible to separate contacts in school from contacts around school including travelling to and from, and socialising afterwards.\n\nHowever, teachers were no more likely to test positive for coronavirus than other workers, according to ONS data.\n\nDr Sarah Lewis, an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol, said this was \"reassuring\" and suggested \"the measures in place to reduce transmission in schools are working\".\n\nPeople living with secondary-school-age children were 8% more likely to catch the virus.\n\nBut research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford found that people living with under-18s had no increased risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid.\n\nThe NEU said it was concerned by the \"finding that children aged 12-16 played a 'significantly higher role' in introducing infection into households in the period after schools reopened their doors to all students\".\n\nThe union suggested this was down to \"the difficulty of social distancing, the absence of face masks inside classrooms, the problems of ventilation, the size of 'bubbles' and the cross mixing on school transport, as well as of secondary pupils mixing outside school\".", "Lucy Letby appeared in person in the dock at Chester Crown Court\n\nA nurse accused of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another 10 has been denied bail.\n\nLucy Letby, 30, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is charged with murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of another five boys and five girls.\n\nMs Letby was remanded into custody after a hearing at Chester Crown Court.\n\nShe attended in person, speaking only to confirm her name, after appearing before Warrington magistrates via video-link on Thursday.\n\nA further hearing is expected to take place at Liverpool Crown Court on 18 November.\n\nPolice said the charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016\n\nA Cheshire Police investigation launched in May 2017 looked into the deaths of 17 babies and 16 non-fatal collapses at the Countess of Chester between March 2015 and July 2016.\n\nMs Letby had previously been arrested in 2018 and 2019.\n\nShe was rearrested on Tuesday and charged on Wednesday.\n\nMs Letby appeared via videolink at Warrington Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nPolice said parents of all the babies involved were being kept fully updated on developments and were supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were all broken into last December\n\nA team of burglars made off with £26m of property from the London homes of three celebrities, a court has heard.\n\nWatches and jewellery belonging to the football boss Frank Lampard, heiress Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken last December.\n\nThey were the \"support cast\" to the alleged burglars, jurors were told.\n\nAt Isleworth Crown Court, the jury was told the conspiracy was \"one of the largest ever in this country\" and that the raids happened over the space of two weeks in the run-up to Christmas. Four other people allegedly carried out the burglaries, but they cannot be named for legal reasons, the court was told.\n\nProsecutor Timothy Cray QC said the four people on trial had a role in what had been a \"sophisticated\" plan.\n\nFirst, the west London home of the Chelsea manager and his wife Christine Lampard was raided on 1 December. A diamond watch, cufflinks and a clock worth an estimated £60,000 were taken, the court heard.\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the Srivaddhanaprabha family was targeted. It was billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's home before his death in a helicopter crash in October 2018.\n\nThis time, 400,000 euros in cash was taken, as well as expensive watches, the court heard.\n\nThe following day, the alleged burglars toasted the success of the raid on the Knightsbridge mansion, the court heard, enjoying a £760 champagne and sashimi lunch at the Zuma restaurant, five minutes' walk from the crime scene.\n\nTamara Ecclestone was the celebrity who suffered the biggest financial hit\n\nThe final burglary, on the palatial home near Kensington Palace that socialite Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland, saw about £25m worth of valuables stolen.\n\nMr Cray said Ms Ecclestone's team of security guards missed the men coming on to the property, adding: \"The house is just so big that the guys didn't realise the burglary was going on until it was well under way.\"\n\nMr Cray added: \"The burglaries netted big money - in round figures £26m worth of property was stolen, mainly in some fabulous jewellery and in cold hard cash.\n\n\"Virtually all that property has never been seen again. It was successfully laundered - concealed and disguised and got rid of.\"\n\nHe added: \"They were international crimes. Parts of the evidence look like a pre-Covid arrivals board at a London airport, with people flying in and out of Italy, Sweden, Japan and then being seen in the more ritzy parts of London - Harrods, Chelsea, a swish restaurant in Knightsbridge, while taking care to have safe bases that were a little bit more off the beaten track, down near Orpington and then over in Fulham.\"\n\nHe told the court that by 18 December all of those involved in the burglaries had left the UK.\n\nMr Cray said Mr Savastru, of Bethnal Green, was the first of the team to be arrested, at Heathrow Airport on 30 January, as he tried to board a flight to Japan.\n\nJurors heard that when the 30-year-old was detained he was wearing a Tag Heuer watch which had belonged to Mr Srivaddhanaprabha and a Louis Vuitton bag that Mr Rutland bought in 2011.\n\nThe prosecution alleges that Mr Stan, Ms Mester, Mr Marcovici and Mr Savastru were all involved at various times in the conspiracy to burgle the three homes.\n\nMr Stan is alleged to have dropped out after the Lampard raid to be replaced with Ms Mester and Mr Marcovici, the latter then being substituted with Ms Mester's son Mr Savastru for the Ecclestone job.\n\nMr Savastru's defence barrister told the court he assumed the items \"had been left for him\" by the alleged burglars.\n\nHis mother, Ms Mester, 47, was the next person to be arrested the following day as she got off flight at Stansted from Milan.\n\nMr Cray said she was wearing £3,000 earrings that belonged to Ms Ecclestone.\n\nMs Mester's defence barrister said she was given the items as a gift having spent a week as a \"call girl\" in December.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScotland's agonising 23-year absence from major men's tournaments is finally over after an historic shootout victory over Serbia.\n\nDavid Marshall saved magnificently from Aleksandar Mitrovic for a 5-4 sudden-death win after Scotland had dominated, led until the 90th minute, then hung on for penalties in Belgrade.\n\nRyan Christie's second-half opener had Steve Clarke's side tantalisingly close to a Euro 2020 place but Luka Jovic netted amid a late Serbian rally to force extra time.\n\nHowever, a tiring Scotland were impeccable from the spot as they ended a barren streak of 10 missed tournaments.\n\nClarke's men are now nine games unbeaten - their best run in 44 years - and will face England, Croatia and the Czech Republic in Group D at next summer's delayed finals.\n• None Scotland qualify - what happens now?\n\nIf there was a Scotland way to finally get back to the big time, then this was it. Not content with putting the nation through the trauma of a shootout in the semi-final against Israel, they repeated the dose.\n\nGut-wrenching does not come close to describing it.\n\nYet while a nation's nerves were fraying back home, Scotland's players exuded a calm authority. They were comfortable in possession for an hour, zipping passes around, and harrying the visitors.\n\nLyndon Dykes was putting in a gruelling shift, winning countless aerial duels and making the ball stick. He was just one of the heroes in blue all over the pitch.\n\nOn an occasion demanding a big performance, every Scotland player delivered.\n\nThere were flashes of first-half threat from Scotland, the best when a Dykes knockdown led to John McGinn breaking free down the left-hand channel. The midfielder's shot needed power and precision but lacked both as Predrag Rajkovic smothered at the second attempt.\n\nSerbia - for all their talent - looked uneasy and had barely a sniff. When they did muster a chance midway through the opening half, it almost yielded the opener, with Sasa Lukic's drive from a Mitrovic lay-off whistling inches wide.\n\nIt was an isolated scare, though, and the interval did nothing to halt Scotland's momentum. They should have led early in the second half when Dykes danced past three defenders and squared for the in-rushing Andy Robertson to blaze over.\n\nA big chance gone. But within moments the disappointment made way for euphoria. Callum McGregor pounced on a stray pass out of Serbia's defence and shuttled the ball to his Celtic team-mate. Christie's nifty footwork opened up the space for a shot and he arrowed in off the base of the post.\n\nScotland were in dreamland. Serbia had been pretty abject so far - surely there was an onslaught to come? The nagging doubt that it could all go horribly wrong kept gnawing away at fans ingrained in glorious failure.\n\nClarke's men could have put the tie to bed - a McGregor strike drifted wide and Christie was agonisingly close with a curling effort.\n\nBut Serbia began to hammer at the door in the frantic closing stages. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Mitrovic and Jovic all thundered headers narrowly past Marshall's right-hand upright.\n\nBy now it was an excruciating watch. And - in true Scotland fashion - the sucker-punch arrived. Serbia slung over a corner and Jovic had lost his marker to send a header down into the turf and up over Marshall into the top corner.\n• None Podcast: All the reaction to an epic game\n• None Can you name the men Clarke has emulated?\n\nClarke's men were crestfallen, but not out for the count. Extra time was arduous with Serbia on top as Nemanja Gudelj's dipping drive brought out a brilliant diving save from Marshall and Aleksandar Katai had pot-shots either side of the interval.\n\nThe Tartan Army's fingernails were nibbled nearer the quick but their heroes were not to be denied. Scotland staggered towards the shootout, clearly exhausted. One final push was required and Leigh Griffiths, McGregor, Scott McTominay, Oli McBurnie and Kenny McLean all delivered from the spot.\n\nThen Marshall flung himself to his left to palm away Mitrovic's effort. Cue bedlam in the Scotland ranks as two decades of frustration poured out. Scotland are back.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nThis can be the start of something special for a Scotland squad who have the mentality to match their talent. The devastating blow of conceding a last-minute equaliser would have broken lesser men.\n\nYet Clarke's players dug in with a sheer bloody-minded refusal to be beaten, then showed nerves of steel - and no little skill - in the shootout.\n\nGoal hero Christie's tearful and poignant post-match interview captured the mood of a nation. He and his team-mates have delivered where so many before them failed.\n• None Scotland's men have reached a major tournament for the first time since the 1998 World Cup and their first European Championship since 1996.\n• None Christie's goal was Scotland's first against Serbia, in their third meeting.\n• None Christie has scored four in his past five games for Scotland, having failed to net in his previous nine.\n• None Scotland are unbeaten in nine consecutive games (W6 D3). They last enjoyed a longer run without defeat in February 1930 (11 games).\n• None Serbia have now failed to qualify for the Euros in each of their four attempts since first competing as an independent country in 2006.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"It's been a very difficult time for everyone. We spoke about trying to make the nation smile, hopefully we've done our bit.\n\n\"Every player turned up and not just the ones that started, I'm also talking about the players from the bench and the whole squad.\"\n\nScotland will have to peel themselves off the ceiling for a double-header to end their Nations League campaign away to Slovakia (14:00 GMT) on Sunday and Israel (19:45) on Wednesday.\n• None Penalty saved! Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(4), Scotland 1(5). Kenny McLean (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(4), Scotland 1(4). Aleksandar Katai (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(3), Scotland 1(4). Oliver McBurnie (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(3), Scotland 1(3). Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(2), Scotland 1(3). Scott McTominay (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(2), Scotland 1(2). Luka Jovic (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(1), Scotland 1(2). Callum McGregor (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(1), Scotland 1(1). Dusan Tadic (Serbia) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1, Scotland 1(1). Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "The number of job adverts posted has risen to levels not seen since before lockdown in March, a study indicates.\n\nThere were 1.36 million active UK job adverts in the first week of November, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).\n\nHowever, it said regional disparities were clear, with north-west England and Wales leading the recovery, while London had seen a fall in vacancies.\n\nThere were more adverts for jobs in nursing than any other sector, it said.\n\nSix of the 12 nations and major regions now have higher numbers of job adverts than in March, while six still have fewer, according to the REC.\n\nJob postings in the North West jumped 36.8% between March and October, while in Wales, the increase was 33.4%.\n\nBy contrast, job postings in London saw an 18.7% fall over the same period, with a 9.3% decline in the West Midlands.\n\n\"One of the most interesting developments we are seeing in terms of employer demand is the 'London lag', which is seeing the capital return to pre-lockdown levels at a much slower rate than other regions of the country,\" said Matthew Mee, director of workforce intelligence at Emsi, which worked on the survey in partnership with the REC.\n\n\"When we couple this with the fact that furlough take-up has been higher in London than elsewhere, and that the highest rise in claimant counts has been in the London commuter belt, it seems that the restrictions since March may well have had a greater proportionate impact on the capital than on other regions of the country.\"\n\nThe report also identified several sectors where demand for workers was rising.\n\nNurses were highly sought after as the coronavirus pandemic continued to spread, with 112,149 active job postings - more than any other sector and an increase of 39% since March.\n\nThere was also an increase in vacancies for food, drink and tobacco process operatives (+53.2%), large goods vehicle drivers (+43.3%) and carpenters and joiners (+37.2%).\n\nHowever, the hospitality and leisure sectors saw big declines, with fewer adverts for bar staff (-48.7%), chefs (-45.6%) and fitness instructors (-36.8%).\n\nFigures released on Tuesday showed the unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%.\n\n\"Unemployment and redundancy numbers earlier this week showed that this is a tough moment for our jobs market,\" said REC boss Neil Carberry.\n\n\"But we also know that there are always jobs being created by those businesses who can, and as this data reveals, there is hope to be found in many places and sectors.\"", "Fresh figures shows black people are six times more likely to be stopped and searched in a car than a white person\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for police traffic stops to be reviewed to look at whether black people are disproportionately affected by some police tactics.\n\nThe year-long pilot scheme forms part of an Action Plan published by City Hall to help improve trust in the Met.\n\nIt comes as Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick admitted the Met \"is not free from racism or discrimination\".\n\nMr Khan said \"more must be done and will be done through this Action Plan\".\n\nCity Hall published the report to look at concerns that black Londoners are disproportionately affected by policing powers.\n\nNew data shows black people are four times more likely to be stopped and searched in public than a white person.\n\nThey are also six times more likely to be stopped in their vehicles, according to City Hall.\n\nThe mayor wants communities to scrutinise such policing tactics to improve trust and confidence in the Met.\n\nHe has set aside £1.7m to improve police training and a drive on recruiting more black officers, with the force is aiming for 40% of new recruits to be from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds from 2022.\n\nNatalie Bennett was stopped by police while driving in Wandsworth\n\nNatalie Bennett was driving in Wandsworth last year when she was stopped by police who believed she might be hiding drugs or stolen goods.\n\nThe Met apologised for its actions, but Ms Bennett said she was left terrified by the experience and still had nightmares.\n\n\"Every time I see a police car, a marked car, or a police officer... I can literally feel my heart going through my whole body,\" she said.\n\nThe nurse told the BBC she believed there was a \"significant difference when you see how the police approach black people to when they approach white people.\n\n\"Why is that? Is this about unconscious biases that are deep-seated inside these officers which need to be addressed?\"\n\nProgress has been made by the Met since the Macpherson Inquiry more than 20 years ago, following the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, Mr Khan said.\n\nThere are now more than 5,000 BAME officers in the force - up from just over 3,000 a decade ago.\n\n\"[But] it's simply not right that Black Londoners have less trust and confidence in our police service,\" Mr Khan said. \"It's something I am determined to resolve.\n\n\"More must be done - and will be done through this Action Plan - properly to recognise and address the impact that some police tactics used disproportionately on black people is having.\n\n\"This starts with involving communities and ensuring they have proper oversight and scrutiny of stop and search, the use of Tasers and the use of force, as well as in the training of new police officers so they can better understand the trauma that the disproportionate use of police powers can have on black Londoners.\"\n\nCity Hall said the Met Police \"welcomed\" the plan and was committed to talking on the points raised.\n\nDame Cressida said the Met had \"zero tolerance of racism\" but she admitted that the force \"is not free of discrimination, racism or bias\".\n\n\"I am committed to redoubling our efforts to deliver a better service for, and with, black Londoners, to doing all we can to help them be safe, and to increase their trust in us,\" she said.\n\nA City Hall source has described the new measures as \"the most significant changes to policing and black communities since The Macpherson Report\".\n\nThey certainly indicate that the mayor and Met have been listening to Londoners' concerns about the disproportionate use of force on black people and an apparent lack of accountability.\n\nAcross the capital, Community Monitoring Groups already scrutinise officers' use of stop and search, but members of the organisation London Citizens, who were consulted on Mr Khan's plan, told me they particularly welcomed the chance to probe the actions of the Territorial Support Group and Violent Crime Taskforce.\n\nWhat's not clear is what powers, if any, community groups will have if they think officers have behaved inappropriately.\n\nIf these measures aren't accompanied by real change, in attitudes and outcomes, they may well be met with a frustrated eye-roll by those who feel they've heard it all before.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica says she thought she was going to die\n\nA mother trapped with her children when an explosion ripped through their house has spoken of the terrifying moment she could hear them screaming.\n\nJessica Williams, and her two boys aged five and two, were inside their home in Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, when it collapsed on 24 June.\n\nBoth children suffered severe burns, and Jessica was placed in a coma for a month.\n\nNow Jessica has thanked neighbours who rescued her children.\n\nAfter hearing her screaming, neighbours rushed into the family's home on Church Street, and pulled the two children from the rubble.\n\nJessica Williams managed to pull herself from under an American-style fridge which fell on her when the house collapsed\n\n\"When you look at the state that the house was in, to think that we all survived, it's just a miracle really. I'm just grateful that we're all here,\" she said.\n\nReuben, five and Elliott, two, both suffered burns to around 28% of their bodies, while their mother had to be placed in an induced coma for a month.\n\nAfter 14 weeks in Morriston Hospital, Jessica - known as Jess - is now back with her family, and is determined to get back to full strength and one day to the family home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Davies described being one of the first at the scene\n\nShe remembers everything about the blast, which South Wales Police has said was most likely caused by ageing LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) equipment and the hot weather.\n\nOn 24 June, she had been enjoying the summer sunshine with her two children.\n\n\"We had a lovely morning, they had great fun. Elliott napped on the way home and then we stopped at the house,\" she said.\n\nThere was nothing to suggest anything was wrong, until she opened the front door of their home, and the smell of gas was \"overwhelming\".\n\n\"I did panic slightly, so I sat them on the sofa and told them not to move,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm so glad I did, I just went to the oven. I can't really remember if it was ignited or not, but I went to turn the dial... and it just blew up straight away.\n\n\"It was so instant, I didn't have time to do anything differently. As soon as I turned it, it just blew up and threw me to the floor.\n\n\"Looking back I probably shouldn't have touched it, but I think when you're in a state of panic, you just do stuff, you don't really think do you? You just do it.\"\n\nThe community have vowed to rebuild the family's home for free after finding out it was uninsured\n\nTrapped under a large American-style fridge which had fallen in the explosion, Jessica could hear her children screaming, but could not move.\n\n\"Hearing the boys scream was so awful, because I couldn't get them,\" she said.\n\n\"A load of men just ran in the house, I was just screaming, I literally thought, 'that's it, I'm going to die right here'.\"\n\nThe group of men, who she would later discover were neighbours, raced into the house, and tried to pull some of the rubble off her, but she was screaming for her children and just wanted them to be safe.\n\n\"There was a tiny little gap which I managed to push myself out of, because I just wanted to get out of there I was so scared,\" she said.\n\nRemarkably, despite most of her body being covered in burns, Jessica managed to pull herself out of the rubble and stagger into her back garden.\n\n\"We had a load of steps up the back and I don't know how, but I managed to walk up them all to someone's house,\" she said.\n\n\"As far as myself and everyone around me was aware, it was just the burns to my skin, because I think I was bleeding and there were bits of skin hanging off me...so I didn't know there was anything internally wrong at the time.\n\n\"I could talk, I was breathing fine, I walked OK, I walked up the back garden with my flip-flops on and there were neighbours that were hosing me down, trying to sort the burns out until the emergency services arrived.\"\n\nJessica said her fiance Michael had been amazing caring for the children with their burns\n\nShe was taken to Morriston Hospital to be treated in the specialised burns unit, while her two sons were airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\nHer condition deteriorated so rapidly in the ambulance that she was placed in an induced coma on arrival, one she would not wake up from for a month.\n\nAs well as the burns from the explosion, she had broken ribs, a punctured lung and her kidneys were failing.\n\nAt that time, her terrified father asked the surgeons what his daughter needed in order to get through her ordeal. \"Luck\" was their reply.\n\nMeanwhile, after recovering well, Reuben and Elliott were discharged from hospital before their mother woke up.\n\n\"It was quite a blessing really that I was in a coma during the time I was in hospital because if I was just lying there I'd be losing my mind thinking how are they,\" she said.\n\nJessica is recovering at home with her family and says she is determined that life will get back to how it was before the blast\n\nWhen she finally woke up, she was totally unaware of the extent of the damage to her home until she was shown photographs.\n\n\"Because I was in the kitchen I could only see the damage to the kitchen, as far as I was aware the rest of the house was OK,\" she said.\n\n\"Little did I know it was absolutely ruined.\n\n\"I was really upset. It's not what I expected to see at all. It was my house, you know? To think my whole house was just rubble, it was awful to see, really awful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A building firm and local people rallied around the family\n\nSince the explosion, the community has rallied around in an attempt to rebuild the house, which was not insured, as well as two neighbouring properties.\n\nOne company, Ian Davies Plant Ltd, cleared the rubble \"totally free of charge\" to help the family.\n\n\"The men that were actually clearing everything said it would normally take about three days to clear up but it actually took him three weeks because he tried to go through everything he could to salvage important stuff for us,\" said Jessica.\n\nShe said the workers had recovered toys and photos of treasured memories from the wreckage, and she could not thank the community enough.\n\n\"I just can't say enough thank yous to people, we've had so many donations. I'm just blown away by all the support really, it's been amazing,\" she said.\n\nThe boys were sat on the sofa when the explosion ripped through the house\n\nMs Williams said the support from her friends and family had been incredible, especially from her fiance Michael, who spent days visiting the boys in hospital while worrying about her.\n\nMore than a dozen neighbours helped pull the family from the house - by a stroke of luck, many of them happened to be retired or retained firefighters.\n\n\"I haven't met them, but I have messaged them just to say thank you because at the end of the day, they didn't know if something else was going to happen in the house, and they've risked their lives really coming in to help me,\" she said.\n\n\"I was literally screaming for help. If nobody had come, I don't know how long we would have been there for. I'm just so, so grateful for them coming to help me.\"\n\nBurns and injuries have left Jessica unable to move her right hand properly\n\nAfter 14 weeks in hospital, Jessica went home to her fiance and her two sons in October, but with their home still in ruins they are living in a relative's house.\n\nWhile she is recovering well, she knows she faces severe challenges.\n\n\"A lot of it is building my strength back now and getting my energy levels back,\" she said.\n\n\"I lost all my muscle tone. So I've had to learn to walk again, move my arms, everything really. I'm just trying to do little bits to get my movement back in my arms and my legs.\"\n\nIn hospital, doctors also performed a tracheostomy, where a small opening is cut in the throat to allow air to enter the lungs.\n\nJessica had to learn how to swallow, eat and talk again. Her hearing was also badly damaged by the explosion, and doctors have said it might not return fully.\n\nFourteen houses were evacuated after the explosion\n\nBefore the explosion, Ms Williams worked as a pre-school leader at Ysgol Golwg y Cwm in Ystradgynlais, where her sons have now returned to school.\n\nBut despite struggling to move her right hand, she is determined to regain her strength and mobility, and get back to work and running around after the children again.\n\n\"It's going to take time to come to terms with everything, and our lives have completely changed,\" she said.\n\n\"That's a big thing to come to terms with, but I just think that we can rebuild our lives now and I'm positive that we can get back to happy times and move on and look to the future.\"\n\nOn top of her physical challenges, she has also had to come to terms with the change in her appearance.\n\n\"It is really difficult. If somebody had told me last year 'you're going to have loads of burn injuries', I'd have been devastated, and seeing them all for the first time at the hospital was really really hard,\" she said.\n\n\"It was so upsetting. But I'm just grateful really for being here.\"\n\n\"The boys are improving, I'm improving and I'm just happy that it's the best outcome we could have had really.\"\n\nJessica hopes to one day move back to the family home\n\nAs for the house on Church Road, she said she was not yet ready to go back and see it, but at some point she does want to move home.\n\n\"I have passed it in the car which was really difficult. I haven't stopped there yet, because I just think that's a little bit too much for me at the minute,\" she added.\n\n\"We're going to try our best to live there because at the end of the day that's our home and that's where we were happy. Until I'm there, I don't know how we're going to feel.\"", "Soldiers have helped with a city-wide trial in Liverpool, as one of several ways the government has ramped up coronavirus testing\n\nA record 33,470 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK government's latest daily figure.\n\nIt is the highest daily number reported in the UK, although testing capacity has increased greatly since the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nIt brings the total number of cases in the UK to more than 1.29 million.\n\nGovernment minister Alok Sharma said rising case numbers were \"a reminder to us about why we are taking action to stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nOn Wednesday the UK became the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 Covid deaths, based on government figures.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 563 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, down from Wednesday's figure of 595.\n\nOther ways to measure deaths, such as the number of people whose death certificates mention Covid-19, have put the overall toll at more than 60,000.\n\nThursday's daily number of cases showed a 45.8% increase on Wednesday's figure of 22,950.\n\nBBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher said the spike in cases could have been driven by changes in people's behaviour in the run-up to England's four-week national lockdown, which began on 5 November but was announced on 31 October.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England (PHE), said: \"The majority of cases reported today were from tests carried out on 9 and 10 November, which includes infections acquired in the days leading up to new measures on 5 November.\n\n\"Limiting contact with others will help to stop the spread of the virus and protect the people we love,\" she said.\n\nDr Doyle added that the highest rate of infections continues to be seen in the younger generations, but is \"worryingly\" rising quickly in those aged over 80, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill.\n\nIn parts of England in the lower tiers of Covid restrictions, pubs remained open until the national lockdown began on 5 November\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis played down the jump in cases, telling a Downing Street press conference it was important to \"not just take one day in isolation\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is clear that infection rates have been going up. What is really important is to get those infection rates down.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said \"daily fluctuations\" can happen in the daily figures \"so it is important to avoid drawing conclusions from one day's figures\".\n\n\"We must instead focus on the wider trend which is increasing, particularly in those at highest risk of disease,\" it said, adding it was \"vital\" the public continued to follow the guidance to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nExperts have previously warned against describing the daily figure as a record because there was no widespread testing programme during the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nReading too much into one day's data is dangerous.\n\nBut there is no getting away from the fact the jump in positive cases is worrying.\n\nWe've not seen this kind of jump before - it is both 10,000 above Wednesday's figure and the current rolling average.\n\nIt's unclear why this is. The government says there was no backlog of tests that were processed, which could have explained it.\n\nThe mass testing in Liverpool is not thought to be feeding into the figure yet.\n\nThe number of tests processed has gone up, but that has happened previously without returning such a high number of positive cases.\n\nAn increase in socialising last week ahead of lockdown could be a factor.\n\nWhatever the cause, the hope is it's a one-off blip. Cases had been pretty stable for a fortnight before this.\n\nAnd there was growing hope next week would see figures falling as the impact of lockdown takes effect.\n\nThe next few days will be crucial.\n\nDespite the UK-wide rise in cases, the average number of new cases every day is no longer rising in Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said recent measures, including the introduction of a new five-tier system of rules for different areas, have slowed the spread of the virus \"very significantly\".\n\nHowever, latest figures show there are more patients in hospitals in Wales with Covid-19 than at any other time - including during the peak of the first wave of the epidemic earlier this year.\n\nMeanwhile, tighter Covid restrictions in Northern Ireland - which have been in place since 16 October - will be extended for one more week, the executive has agreed.\n\nMass testing - where a huge proportion of the population is tested for Covid, whether or not people have symptoms - has been touted as a way to allow people to live a more normal life, and even to help avoid future lockdowns.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a \"massive expansion\" in such testing in the UK.\n\nLiverpool has been the first city to trial this, with all residents and workers in the city being offered a test.\n\nMr Johnson has urged all of the city's 500,000 residents to take part, in an attempt to drive the spread of the disease down.\n\nEarlier this week some 23,000 people had been tested as part of the trial - which saw Anfield football stadium become one of 18 test centres - with 154 people testing positive.\n\nAs the number of daily cases jumped on Thursday, Prof Powis also warned of an increasing number of people needing hospital treatment for Covid-19.\n\nHe told the Downing Street briefing there were now more than 12,700 people in hospital with coronavirus in England - up from 3,827 a month ago.", "Almost 23 million people watched Martin Bashir's Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995\n\nA previously missing note from Princess Diana, thought to indicate she was happy with the way her interview by BBC Panorama was obtained, has been found.\n\nThe BBC said it had recovered the \"original handwritten note\" that the princess wrote following the Panorama interview of November 1995.\n\nThe broadcaster said it would hand over the note to an independent inquiry.\n\nThe probe will look at claims made by Diana's brother about how BBC reporter Martin Bashir secured the interview.\n\nBashir, 57, currently BBC News religion editor, is recovering from heart surgery and complications from Covid-19 and has been unable to comment on Charles Spencer's allegations.\n\nEarl Spencer called for an independent inquiry earlier this month and said he would never have introduced Bashir to his sister if he had not seen the faked bank statements.\n\nThe faked statements wrongly purported to show that the earl's former head of security had been paid by a newspaper group and a mysterious offshore company.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the faked bank statements, but it says the note from the princess says she did not see them and insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nThe BBC's not saying how the letter came back into its possession - but it clearly hopes it will help its case when the independent investigation looks into the allegations made by Earl Spencer.\n\nThe letter is believed to say that Diana was not influenced by the forged bank statements Martin Bashir had made - and was happy with the way the interview was secured.\n\nIf the princess was unaware of or untroubled by the forgeries, or the alleged deceit, it will help the BBC's defence: it says the original investigation was into whether the princess had been misled into giving the interview.\n\nA note from her saying she hadn't would clearly weigh heavily. But the note does not address Earl Spencer's central allegation.\n\nHe alleges that the forged documents were part of a series of lies he was told by Bashir, lies that were meant to win his trust and thus gain access to Diana.\n\nWhat we know of the rediscovered note from Diana doesn't address the serious allegations of journalistic misconduct Earl Spencer has made.\n\nNor does it help resolve the question of how much the BBC knew back in 1996 when it said the forgeries played no part in securing the interview.\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded almost 25 years ago, on 20 November 1995.\n\nThe interview made headlines when the princess said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time Princess Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nEarlier this month the Daily Mail published notes Earl Spencer says he made with Bashir two months before the interview.\n\nOur correspondent Jonny Dymond said the notes appeared to record Bashir \"spinning lie after lie about members of the Royal Family, and its staff, in an attempt, Earl Spencer says, to win his trust and that of his sister\".\n\nThese claims, described by the Mail as \"preposterous lies\", include that Diana's private correspondence was being opened, her car tracked and phones tapped.\n\nIt was also claimed that her bodyguard was plotting against her and close friends were betraying her by leaking stories to the press.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.", "The events of the past 48 hours feel like a political explosion, with Dominic Cummings now departing from Downing Street.\n\nBut while it's tempting to see this is as a dramatic and sudden eruption, it has been a longer-term burn.\n\nThe prime minister's chief adviser stepped back somewhat from some of the brutal day-to-day politics he had helped create after the election.\n\nHe had been spending more time focusing on trying to rewire Whitehall - trying to increase the importance of science and data in government - hoping to be less involved in the moment-by-moment political rush.\n\nBut given his profile, and his nature, was that ever a realistic plan?\n\nSince the summer, there have been conversations about shifting some of the senior roles around to make No 10 run more smoothly - including, perhaps, a total exit for Mr Cummings or a different, more specific role.\n\nBut in the Conservative Party, the adviser - who is not a Tory member, which rubs party people up the wrong way in itself - has been a lightning rod for irritation for years, and he became a focus for public rage too after he ignored lockdown rules and drove to Durham.\n\nAs the government's handling of the pandemic came under increasing attack, MPs became more convinced day-by-day that there needed to be change in No 10 - with Mr Cummings at the top of the list - and they grew more determined in making that case to Boris Johnson.\n\nEven those who reviled the PM's most senior adviser would acknowledge his strategy - forcing conflicts to win and drawing sharp divides between Leavers and Remainers - was effective.\n\nBut as soon as the prime minister had his general election majority, there were concerns that the campaigning style was just too toxic to run a Downing Street operation with different pressures.\n\nCampaigns have to win, governments have to lead and persuade.\n\nWhat's burst into the open this week, with all the bitter briefings, is an acceleration of a change that was already coming.\n\nBut what it won't change is the personality of the one person, the prime minister, who is meant to be in charge.\n\nDominic Cummings' many foes absolve the PM of responsibility if they pin all the mistakes and mess on him.\n\nIt's up to Boris Johnson now to build a new and more stable team, and shape what happens next.", "Waiting for the actual exam results is the fairest way of allocating places, say experts\n\nUniversities in England are to switch to offering degree places on the basis of actual grades rather than predicted ones, the government has announced.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys, Gavin Williamson said the present system held bright but disadvantaged pupils back.\n\nHe said he wanted all students to be able to choose the best university they can go to once they know their grades.\n\nUniversities have just backed such a change following a review.\n\nCurrently, pupils are offered places from universities ahead of their results, so decisions are based on predictions made by their teachers.\n\nOnce A-level, BTEC and other exam results are issued in August, candidates then accept or refuse offers they have received.\n\nA consultation will be carried out but it is expected the change to what is known as a post-qualification admissions system will take place before the next general election.\n\nThe current system relies heavily on predicted grades which puts academically high achieving pupils from poorer areas at a disadvantage.\n\nResearch this year from University College London found 23% of pupils from comprehensives were under-predicted by two or more grades, compared to just 11% of grammar and private school pupils.\n\nBut there are still big questions about how this would work, with universities favouring a system in which students would still apply before exams but receive offers afterwards.\n\nOthers may push for the more radical option of both applications and offers being made after results, pushing the start of term back to January for first year students.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson: \"I want to smash through these ceilings\"\n\nMr Williamson told the BBC: \"I want all students to look at the grades they've got and then see what is the best university that they can get to, what is the best course they can do.\n\n\"I want to smash through these ceilings that are preventing them from meeting their full potential.\"\n\nHe said pupils from less-affluent, non-traditional backgrounds often did not have to the confidence to aim for a highly selective university, and also often lacked advice about how to reach such goals.\n\nThe move comes after years of debate over post-qualification admissions.\n\nNumerous academic studies suggest pupils from working class backgrounds, and some ethnic groups, tend to be predicted lower grades by their teachers.\n\nThe university admissions system was brought into sharp focus in the summer, when exam results were cancelled, leading to thousands of students losing the places they thought they had not qualified for.\n\nUniversities promised to offer as many places as they could if candidates received the grades they needed after results were re-issued.\n\nMr Williamson said the use of predicted grades limited \"the aspirations of students before they know what they can achieve\".\n\n\"We need to radically change a system which breeds low aspiration and unfairness,\" he added.\n\n\"We're going to deliver this before next election, we're going to do an extensive consultation.\n\n\"But there's a real determination what we've seen in this pandemic, we've seen great challenges that society has had to deal with and as we move out of this pandemic we need to build back better.\"\n\nMr Williamson also criticised universities which offer inducements or conditional unconditional offers to some students to lure them on to their courses.\n\n\"What we've seen over the last few years is what I describe as a little bit of sharp practice where universities have been offering unconditional offers, more and more and creating incentives, in terms of offering laptops or cash back to those students, and that means those students aren't choosing the course and the university that is best to meet their future potential.\n\n\"We want to move away from that.\"\n\nThe plan has received a warm welcome from vice-chancellors' organisation, Universities UK, who had resolved to move to post qualification admissions following an 18-months review.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), said: \"The current system is based on inaccurately predicted results and leads to those from less-affluent backgrounds losing out.\n\n\"Allowing students to apply after they receive their results will help level the playing field and put a stop to the chaotic clearing scramble.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: \"Teachers work hard and diligently to provide accurate predicted grades, but it is not an exact science and never can be.\n\nHe agreed: \"Post-qualification admissions would be better and fairer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Advisers are meant to be seen, not heard. There has, however, rarely been a political aide more visible than Dominic Cummings.\n\nHe first became particularly known to some for his role as the chief of the campaign to leave the EU, then again as Boris Johnson's provocative senior adviser.\n\nBut then he found notoriety - and became known to a much wider public who wouldn't always know Westminster figures when, during lockdown, it emerged that the close aide of a prime minister who told people to \"Stay at home, save lives, protect the NHS\" had made a journey of hundreds of miles from London to Barnard Castle.\n\nNow after boiling tensions in No 10, Mr Cummings is on his way out.\n\nHe wrote last year he hoped to make himself \"redundant\" by the end of 2020 and told me late last night that is what he will do.\n\nThere's no question the announcement of his departure by the end of the year was accelerated by turmoil in No 10 in recent days - a swirl of split loyalties and factions.\n\nA No 10 insider told me Mr Cummings \"jumped because otherwise he would be pushed soon\", suggesting that, in the last few days, the prime minister saw that the former Vote Leave team was just \"in it for themselves\".\n\nIndeed, for many Conservatives, Mr Cummings' departure, alongside that of Lee Cain, the former director of communications, brings a chance for a reset.\n\nOne member of the Cabinet even told me Mr Cummings' exit was a \"blessing\".\n\nAnd yet Dominic Cummings was valued hugely by Boris Johnson - one of the relentless architects of the prime minister's path to a hefty majority.\n\nOne adviser told me it was a \"huge error to let him go\" - it would allow the Tories to \"regress to being a party of rich southerners and MPs nodding along\".\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable that the Vote Leave tribe would fight so hard they hurt themselves in the process.\n\nLoved by some, loathed by others, the departure of the Vote Leave duo represents a big change at the highest level of government - Boris Johnson losing two of his aides who became controversial but who were also key to creating the political version of him.", "Matiu Ratana, known as Matt, moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a police officer who was shot dead at Croydon custody centre.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Matiu Ratana, 54, known as Matt, was shot in the chest as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody on 25 September.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, 23, also suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.\n\nThe Met Police said he had since \"stabilised\" and was considered fit to be arrested on Friday.\n\nMr De Zoysa remains in hospital with \"life-changing injuries\" and detectives will consult with doctors and legal advisers before they begin interviewing him.\n\nThe Met Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, said of the arrest: \"It's an important milestone and hopefully it brings some tiny comfort to Matt's partner Su, Matt's wider family and everyone who has been affected.\n\n\"The investigation is moving on into a dreadful, dreadful homicide.\"\n\nLouis De Zoysa has been left with \"life-changing injuries\" following the shooting\n\nAn inquest at South London Coroner's Court in October heard Sgt Ratana died from a gunshot wound to the chest.\n\nNo police firearms were discharged in the shooting.\n\nEarlier this month, a funeral for the long-serving officer was held at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, and live streamed on the internet so his family, friends and colleagues around the world could attend.\n\nSpecialist family liaison officers are supporting Sgt Ratana's family, who have been informed of the arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pop royalty Kylie Minogue says lockdown was a \"weird time\" and a \"rollercoaster\"\n\nPop star Kylie Minogue has become the first female artist to have a number one album in the UK in five separate decades.\n\nHer 15th studio album, Disco, topped the charts with 55,000 sales, meaning it has also scored the best opening week of any new release in 2020 so far.\n\nIt is her eighth number one, meaning she has overtaken Elton John, Cliff Richard and George Michael in the all-time chart leaderboard.\n\n\"I'm lost for words,\" said the star.\n\n\"Thank-you to everyone who has supported this album. I'm so touched that it's made its way to your hearts. I love it.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nOnly five other acts have topped the Official Chart across five consecutive decades: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Paul Weller, Bruce Springsteen and David Gilmour.\n\nThe Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan have also landed chart-toppers across five decades, though not consecutively.\n\nThe pop star has reinvented her image and her sound dozens of times over the last four decades\n\nKylie's chart-topper was made in the middle of the lockdown, with the star forced to buy recording equipment and learn computer software so she could record her vocals at home.\n\nShe told BBC News the project had been a lifeline when quarantine threatened to overwhelm her.\n\n\"It's hard to dig deep and stay positive,\" the 52-year-old said, \"and I had a moment like that, during the first lockdown where I had to confess to someone else that I was struggling.\n\n\"And actually, if I wasn't able to work on the album, I perhaps would have gone the other way.\"\n\nMinogue finished ahead of Little Mix, whose album Confetti debuted at number two in the Official Album Chart.\n\nAriana Grande's Positions, which was top of the pile last week, dropped to third. The album's title track spent a third week at number one in the singles chart.\n\nElsewhere, Dame Shirley Bassey set another chart record with her latest album, I Owe It All To You - which is billed as \"a celebration of 70 years in showbiz\".\n\nThe record debuted at number five, making Dame Shirley the first female artist to claim a Top 40 album in seven consecutive decades.\n\nThe singer scored her first chart entry in 1961 with Fabulous Shirley Bassey. Her latest collection is her first top five record in 42 years, since 1978's 25th Anniversary Album.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police bodycam footage shows the breaking up of the party\n\nMore than 50 partygoers at a Cardiff Metropolitan University student hall of residence have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules.\n\nPolice were alerted to the get-together last Friday night.\n\nMusic was \"blaring\" and there were dozens of people inside, South Wales Police said.\n\nThe revellers' details were taken by officers and 52 fines of \"at least £60\" were issued, police said. Inquiries into a further four people are ongoing.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that our officers were left with little option but to fine those who showed a flagrant disregard for the coronavirus regulations - and more importantly their own health and that of their peers and the wider community by either hosting or attending this party,\" said Supt Jason Rees.\n\nA university spokesperson said breaches of coronavirus regulations were taken \"seriously\".\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University said the breaches were \"disappointing\"\n\n\"It is disappointing that a small number of students have decided to behave in this way when the vast majority have stuck to the rules.\"", "Anton was paired with former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who was eliminated in the first competitive week\n\nAnton Du Beke is to join the judging panel on Strictly Come Dancing this weekend, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nThe announcement comes after Motsi Mabuse said on Thursday she would be self-isolating following a trip to Germany.\n\nShe had originally intended to join the show digitally this weekend, and judge the contestants from home.\n\nHowever, the BBC has now confirmed Du Beke will replace her on the judging panel.\n\nThat means this weekend's judges will be Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and head judge Shirley Ballas.\n\n\"We are pleased to announce that the King of Ballroom Anton Du Beke is stepping into our judging panel this weekend,\" Strictly said in a statement on Twitter. \"Good luck, Anton!\"\n\nIt marks the first time Du Beke will have acted as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, which is one of the BBC's most popular programmes.\n\nDu Beke is the longest-serving professional dancer on the show, having joined for the first series in 2004.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Mabuse tweeted to Anton: \"Congratulations!! All the best. I know you will be amazing. Enjoy the show guys.\"\n\nThe BBC said she will still be involved in the show from home, but will not be judging.\n\nDu Beke's temporary appointment comes after he was eliminated from the competition in the first competitive week of this series.\n\nHe had been partnered with former home secretary Jacqui Smith.\n\nMabuse explained to fans on Thursday why she was unable to be in the studio, saying: \"Hi guys - earlier this week I had to travel to Germany for an urgent reason. I will of course be following UK government guidelines and self-isolating for 14 days.\"\n\nShe added: \"I will be watching from home and by the power of technology, should be in your living rooms.\"\n\nHowever, less than 24 hours after Mabuse's tweet, the BBC instead decided to replace her with Du Beke so there would still be three judges in the studio in person.\n\nMotsi Mabuse joined Strictly Come Dancing as a judge last year\n\nHad Mabuse taken part in the programme, she would not have been the first TV talent show judge to join proceedings from home.\n\nJade Thirlwall recently had to dial in virtually to the first live episode of Little Mix: The Search after being asked to self-isolate.\n\nThis series of Strictly has also seen Bruno Tonioli taking part in the Sunday results show digitally from the US.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a tricky year for Strictly.\n\nOne of the contestants, 21-year-old HRVY, contracted Covid-19 during rehearsals, but was able to return before the series had launched.\n\nEarlier this week, Nicola Adams and Katya Jones had to pull out of this series after Jones tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe show also had to stop allowing a studio audience last week after a second nationwide lockdown was announced by the government.\n\nPrior to that, the show had allowed a small studio audience, mostly made up of friends and family of the contestants, sitting at socially-distanced cabaret tables.\n\nHowever, the issues this year have not stopped the show from becoming one of the most popular series of Strictly yet, with consistently high viewing figures so far.\n\nMotsi Mabuse, who is the sister of professional dancer Oti, joined Strictly as a judge in 2019, replacing Darcey Bussell.\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 Scotland\n\nScotland have \"given a little something to the country\" after a \"horrible year\", said a tearful Ryan Christie after the men's national team reached their first finals in 23 years.\n\nChristie's second-half goal looked like taking Scotland to the Euros, only for Luka Jovic to level in the 90th minute.\n\nBut Scotland went on to win 5-4 on penalties to end a barren streak of 10 missed tournaments.\n\n\"It's for the whole nation,\" Christie told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I hope everyone back home is having a party tonight, because we deserve it. What we've been though. So many years - we know it, you know it, everyone knows it.\n\n\"It's a monkey off the back now and we'll just move on from here.\"\n• None Scotland qualify - what happens now?\n\nGoalkeeper David Marshall saved magnificently from Aleksandar Mitrovic for a 5-4 sudden-death win after Scotland had dominated, led until the 90th minute, then hung on for penalties.\n\nClarke's men are now nine games unbeaten - their best run in 44 years - and will face England, Croatia and the Czech Republic in Group D at next summer's delayed finals.\n\nThe manager said he urged the players to \"keep believing\" after Serbia's late goal threatened to snatch away a place at Euro 2020, as he praised their \"unbelievable character\".\n\n\"We were setting up nicely for a typical Scottish scenario - 1-0 up in the last minute and conceding from a set-play,\" said Clarke.\n\n\"It would have been easy to crumble and take the disappointment and not finish the game properly. But they dug in in extra time and kept believing, and they get their rewards. They kept their nerve.\n\n\"It's been a very difficult time for the people in Scotland. We spoke before the game about trying to make the nation smile on Friday morning. Hopefully they're going to.\n\n\"If we've done our bit to make them feel a little bit better about themselves and about the country, great.\"\n\n'When you've waited 22 years, what's four or five seconds?'\n\nGoalkeeper Marshall revealed the referee told him not to celebrate saving the spot-kick that sent Scotland to the Euros because there would be a video assistant referee check.\n\nBut, after an agonising few seconds, he was finally given the all clear.\n\nHe said: \"I just hoped and prayed that it didn't go to a retake because the lads were already on their way. They didn't know it was being checked probably.\n\n\"When you've waited 22 years what's another four or five seconds?\n\n\"It's almost a numb feeling, it's been so long. It's just a massive emotional feeling. Ryan Christie was in tears and it just shows how much it means to the lads to get there.\n\n\"Had we lost it it would have been gut-wrenching, but if you're going to do it that's the best way to do it. The lads scoring 10 out of 10 penalties under that amount of pressure is just incredible.\"\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "Perry (far left) with the other stars of Friends in 1997\n\nThe eagerly anticipated Friends reunion episode will now start filming next March, according to cast member Matthew Perry.\n\n\"Friends reunion being rescheduled for the beginning of March,\" he tweeted on Thursday.\n\n\"Looks like we have a busy year coming up. And that's the way I like it!\"\n\nThe special one-off show was due to start filming in August but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt will bring together the original cast of Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer.\n\nBy Friday morning, Perry's tweet had received more than 100,000 likes and retweets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by matthew perry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends, which followed the fortunes of six young friends living in New York City, originally aired from 1994 until 2004.\n\nThe final show was watched by 52.5 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.\n\nRumours of a Friends reunion gathered pace after Aniston posted a photo of the cast together last year.\n\nThe actress's debut post on Instagram took five hours and 16 minutes to earn her a million followers.\n\nFilming for the Friends special will take place on the show's original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank, California.\n\nIt will air on the HBO Max streaming service on a date yet to be announced.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Caffè Nero has been forced to launch a restructuring of its business following the second lockdown.\n\nThe coffee chain is launching a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) which will allow it to renegotiate terms with its landlords and other creditors.\n\nCaffè Nero, which employs 6,000 workers, said \"the pandemic has decimated trading\".\n\nIt said it was able to navigate the first shutdown but the subsequent fire break necessitated \"further action\".\n\nThe company trades across 800 shops in the UK and a further 200 sites overseas. A company facing insolvency can use a CVA to continue to trade while paying creditors such as landlords over a fixed period - if those creditors agree.\n\nCaffè Nero said it had converted many of its shops to takeaway-only services during the first lockdown in March.\n\nBut following the second shutdown, it said that, \"with many people continuing to work from home, ongoing limits to social interaction and a sustained reduction to footfall in city centres, it is unclear how long this will impact Caffè Nero\".\n\nIt add that the CVA would allow the company \"to better manage its fixed costs moving forward\".\n\n\"Like so many businesses in the hospitality sector, the pandemic has decimated trading, and although we had made significant progress in navigating the financial challenges of the first lockdown, the second lockdown has made it imperative that we take further action.\" said Gerry Ford, the chain's founder and chief executive.\n\nAccountancy firm KPMG has been appointed to oversee the CVA process, and landlords and creditors have until 30 November to vote on the proposal.\n\nIt is understood Caffè Nero is proposing to move most sites to turnover-based rent, and that any store closures it is forced to make will be minimal.\n\nThe hospitality sector has been one of the worst affected industries by the coronavirus pandemic because of a dearth of office workers and commuters, which are key customers.\n\nIn the summer, Pret a Manger announced it was cutting 3,000 jobs, around a third of its workforce while Costa Coffee said it would axe 1,650 roles.\n\n\"Like many others across the sector, the impact of measures introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating,\" said Will Wright, head of regional restructuring at KPMG.\n\n\"In putting forward this CVA proposal, the directors have worked hard to strike a fair compromise with stakeholders to provide the flexibility the business urgently needs to get it through the pandemic.\"", "John Lewis focuses on acts of kindness for its 2020 Christmas advert - inspired by the public spirit shown during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts boss Pippa Wicks said it wanted an advert that was \"appropriate for how we're all feeling at the moment\".\n\nIt is the latest big brand to unveil its festive campaign - with many focusing on themes involving family.\n\nCoco-Cola and Aldi's adverts show loved ones being reunited, while Morrisons and Argos focus on families at home.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nEmma Macdonald, professor of marketing at Warwick Business School, said brands have had to tread a \"tricky line\" with the themes around their festive campaigns this year.\n\nAdverts showing lots of people outside and mixing with friends would not be \"appropriate messaging\" at a time when people are facing coronavirus restrictions.\n\n\"There's already heightened sensitivity, we're all a bit touchy, because life is a bit tougher,\" she said.\n\n\"As a business, they need to sell things to keep going. But, you know, a lot of people are saying we can't actually be buying things, we're struggling, we don't have as much money as usual. So that is a tricky balance for them.\n\n\"At the moment, it's really important for brands to stand for something meaningful, rather than just selling lots of stuff.\"\n\nJohn Lewis' Christmas advert shows different characters helping other people, with a love heart as a central theme throughout.\n\n\"We wanted to have a message out there about thinking of others and helping families in need and people in need,\" Ms Wicks said.\n\nWhile there's no reference to coronavirus, zoom calls, or social distancing, the retail giant said it had deviated slightly from the style of its previous festive adverts due to the pandemic.\n\nIn another step away from tradition, it commissioned singer Celeste to write and record an original song for the advert. Ten pence from each download of the track will go to charity.\n\nThe advert was released at 7am on Friday on social media and was quickly trending with people sharing a mix of views.\n\nSome said it was not as good as previous Christmas adverts but others said the message of kindness was particularly important this year.\n\nMany of this year's Christmas adverts focus on the theme of families as people wait to see how the Covid restrictions will impact on their festive plans.\n\nAsda's advert shows a dad putting up festive lights, his children opening presents and eating Christmas food, and staff making a home delivery wearing face masks.\n\nThe dad says: \"Christmas is going to be different this year, so let's really make the most of it. The parties might be smaller, but we can still have great food and party.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Coca-Cola advert shows a dad trekking for days across difficult terrain in order deliver his daughter's letter to Santa Claus.\n\nWhen he arrives, he finds a sign on the grotto saying \"Closed for Christmas\" and he gets a lift by the famous Coca-Cola van back to his family.\n\nThe dad eventually opens the letter his daughter wrote and finds that all she asked for was for him to be home for Christmas.\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 Coca-Cola 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\nOn a similar theme, Aldi's Christmas advert shows its mascot Kevin the Carrot getting a helping hand from Santa to get back to his family after getting lost.\n\nMorrisons and Argos' offerings show families enjoying spending time together at home, in scenes many people will be hoping for this year.\n\nXu Zhang, assistant professor of marketing at London Business School, said the focus on families was a reflection of the situation many people have found themselves in during the pandemic.\n\nShe said some people would be far away from loved ones, while others will have spent a lot more time at home with relatives due to the lockdown.\n\nThe adverts this year speak to \"both sides of those segments\", she added.\n\n\"For those people spending a lot more time with their family, maybe you don't appreciate the things you used to appreciate that much. And then those adverts remind you that you should appreciate the family relationship.\n\n\"For the other part, it's different... if they don't get to spend time with their family then it becomes more important when you see these kind of adverts.\"", "Swedish authorities have said people should prepare for travel restrictions\n\nA number of European countries have warned that it is too early to plan for Christmas travel, as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the continent.\n\nIn Sweden, people have been told to prepare for possible travel restrictions during the holiday period.\n\nMeanwhile Irish and French authorities said it was too soon to say if people could make travel arrangements.\n\nWith six weeks until the festive season, lockdowns and other measures are in force in several countries.\n\nPortugal has significantly expanded the number of places subject to a night curfew. From Monday, three-quarters of the country will be under the government's toughest restrictions.\n\nSweden's top state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told citizens to prepare for the possibility of restricted travel between different areas during the Christmas period so that regional healthcare services could avoid becoming overwhelmed.\n\nA provisional decision would likely be made in a week or two, he said, adding that Swedes needed to be prepared that things could still change \"right before Christmas\".\n\nMr Tegnell also said \"the large bulk\" of new Covid-19 cases were currently coming from private parties. He said he hoped a ban on serving alcohol in pubs and bars after 22:00, due to start next weekend, would not lead to a rise in private social gatherings.\n\nOn Thursday, authorities announced 40 new deaths, the country's highest daily toll for five months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\nMeanwhile, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he would not yet advise Irish citizens living abroad to book flights home, adding that it was \"too soon\" to give such advice.\n\nA similar sentiment was shared by French Prime Minister Jean Castex, who said it was \"too early\" to say whether citizens could buy train tickets to travel at Christmas.\n\nHe added that there would be no easing of lockdown restrictions for at least two weeks. \"It would be irresponsible to soften the lockdown now,\" he told a news conference, \"the gains are fragile.\"\n\nUnder the lockdown restrictions, people in France can only leave their homes to go to work if they cannot work from home, to buy essential goods, seek medical help or to exercise for one hour a day. All non-essential shops, restaurants and bars are shut, but schools and creches remain open.\n\nMr Castex added that some shops may be allowed to reopen from 1 December, depending on case numbers. But he said bars and restaurants must remain closed.\n\nFrance is grappling with a sharp rise in cases, with more than 1.9 million confirmed infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Thursday, French health authorities announced a record-high 32,638 hospitalisations - almost 350 higher than a peak reached in April.\n\nBut the daily number of new infections was over 2,500 lower than Wednesday, and France's seven-day moving average was down for a fifth day in a row.\n\nIn Italy, much of the country is in lockdown, but there are calls for stricter measures as the numbers of infections continues to grow. A further 636 deaths were reported on Thursday. Regional Affairs Minister Francesco Boccia said people should celebrate Christmas only with close family members.\n\nIn the UK, discussions took place about the four nations taking a joint approach to Covid rules over Christmas.", "Helga Wauters said she would \"regret this death [her] entire life\"\n\nA Belgian anaesthetist has been jailed for three years after a British woman died following a botched emergency Caesarean.\n\nHelga Wauters, 51, was also banned from practising following a court hearing in France on Thursday.\n\nShe was found guilty of manslaughter over the death of 28-year-old Xynthia Hawke in 2014.\n\nWauters pushed a breathing tube into Ms Hawke's oesophagus instead of her windpipe, investigators said.\n\nShe was under the influence of alcohol during the procedure.\n\nWauters did not appear in court on Thursday. Ms Hawke's partner, meanwhile, travelled to attend the proceedings in the French city of Pau.\n\nMs Hawke was admitted to Orthez hospital near Pau in September 2014. She was given an epidural by Wauters, but problems occurred during the birth which meant an emergency Caesarean was needed.\n\nWauters, a chronic alcoholic, admitted being an alcoholic who started \"every day\" drinking vodka and water. She also said she had a glass of wine before she was called back to the hospital for the Caesarean.\n\nWitnesses reported smelling alcohol on her when she returned. When she was taken into custody, the alcohol content in her blood was 2.38 grams per litre, or the equivalent of around 10 glasses of wine.\n\nThe 51-year-old was less than two weeks into the job when she inserted the breathing tube incorrectly. She also allegedly used an oxygen mask instead of a ventilator.\n\nMs Hawke, who is from Somerset in the UK, woke up during the operation and began vomiting and shouting \"it hurts\", witnesses said. One nurse told the court the scene was like a war zone.\n\nShe suffered a cardiac arrest and died four days after the procedure, but her baby boy survived.\n\nBut Wauters denied being solely responsible for the death and insisted other staff were to blame. She claimed the ventilator was not working at the time - but investigators found this to be untrue.\n\nOn Thursday, the court ordered her to pay almost 1.4 million euros (£1.25m; $1.65m) in damages to Ms Hawke's family.\n\n\"Justice has set an example for this type of doctor who, in my eyes, is not a doctor,\" her partner Yannick Balthazar said.\n\nWauters moved to France after she was fired from her job at a Belgian hospital for being under the influence of alcohol.\n\nThe recruitment company that hired her did not check her credentials or disciplinary record, investigators said.\n\n\"I recognise now that my addiction was incompatible with my job,\" Ms Wauters said during an earlier hearing, according to the AFP news agency. \"I will regret this death my entire life.\"", "Northern Ireland's hopes of reaching Euro 2020 were ended as Slovakia scored deep into extra time to win their play-off final at Windsor Park.\n\nThe home side had equalised in dramatic style when defender Milan Skriniar put the ball into his own net with two minutes of normal time left to cancel out Juraj Kucka's early opener.\n\nSubstitute Kyle Lafferty then nearly won it for Northern Ireland when his long-range effort hit the post in the 90th minute.\n\nBut the game went to extra time and Michal Duris, on from the bench, made the most of a lucky ricochet to score Slovakia's winner in the 110th minute.\n\nThe win takes Slovakia though to their second consecutive Euro finals and prevents Northern Ireland from repeating their feat from four years ago.\n• None Baraclough 'can't ask any more' of NI after Slovakia defeat\n\nNorthern Ireland, backed by a 1,060 crowd that generated a good atmosphere despite being so low in numbers, had been aiming to do just that and reach what would have been a fifth major international tournament appearance.\n\nHowever, while they raised themselves for spells during the game - and perhaps looked more likely to grab a winner during extra time - it was generally a disjointed performance from Ian Baraclough's men.\n\nAfter the joy of Euro 2016 in France, Northern Ireland had given themselves the opportunity to qualify again by beating Bosnia & Herzegovina on penalties in the play-off semi-final in October.\n\nA night that ended in despair would have been so different had Lafferty's excellent shot from distance just seconds before the end of 90 minutes gone in rather than striking the outside of the Slovakian post. The hosts went close again in the closing stages of extra time but Jonny Evans' header was saved.\n\nNorthern Ireland started the game in positive fashion and looked lively for the opening 15 minutes, with the triangle of Stuart Dallas, Paddy McNair and Niall McGinn down the right looking threatening.\n\nHowever, a sloppy mistake by George Saville in the 17th minute led to Slovakia's opening goal as the midfielder misplaced a header back to Evans which allowed Kucka to run through.\n\nHe was unopposed but still needed to show a lot of composure and good technique to side-foot a clever low finish past Bailey Peacock-Farrell and inside the post.\n\nDespite a strong start to the second half, it looked like Northern Ireland's bid for qualification was fading until McNair did well down the right on 87 minutes and produced a low cross that was turned into his own net by Skriniar.\n\nAfter Lafferty was denied by the woodwork, the match was heading towards penalties before a long ball bounced off Evans and into the path of Duris.\n\nThe substitute struck his shot well but Peacock-Farrell, a hero in the play-off semi-final win, allowed the ball to squeeze in at his near post when he looked well positioned to keep it out.\n\nKey players unable to lift NI to another big win\n\nNorthern Ireland's success in recent years has been built on a core of experienced players who have delivered on a regular basis, particularly in crucial matches.\n\nWhile the squad has lost a few stalwarts to retirement, captain Steven Davis, Premier League table-topping Leicester City defender Evans and the versatile Dallas of Leeds are still vitally important to the team's prospects.\n\nEvans was an injury doubt before the squad was named and looked like he may have been labouring as the match went on, although he was hugely unfortunate in the incident that saw the ball bounce off him and into the path of Duris for the winning goal.\n\nDavis has been the heartbeat of the team for a long time but, playing in the deep-lying midfield role he has become accustomed to, was unable to impose himself on the match as Slovakia captain Marek Hamsik and Stanislav Lobotka in particular looked assured in possession.\n\nDallas looked to have taken a heavy blow to his arm in the first half and, while the ever-committed former Crusaders man battled on for the whole match, his attacking threat was limited from full-back.\n\nWhat next for Baraclough and his players?\n\nThere were few surprises in Baraclough's starting team and shape, the only one being Josh Magennis playing on the left of the front three and Conor Washington through the centre, with the latter firing straight at the goalkeeper during Northern Ireland's early second-half rally.\n\nThey looked too happy to sit off the Slovakians during the first half and let them dominate possession and, while they had a renewed energy after the break, they were unable to sustain that until the late equaliser and Lafferty's fine strike.\n\nDespite the euphoria of the shootout win in Bosnia, Northern Ireland have now failed to win during 90 minutes of any of Baraclough's first six games in charge, and have fallen behind in each one of them.\n\nPerhaps viewed as more of a safe replacement for Michael O'Neill than an exciting one, his remit from the Irish FA would very much have been to navigate the play-offs and secure another Euros qualification - and the financial rewards for Northern Ireland football that come with it.\n\nThe boldness he showed with his substitutions in Sarajevo was impressive, but the former Motherwell and Sligo Rovers boss has a major job on his hands in working out where the squad goes from here.\n\nIt is always easy for an 'end of an era' feel to engulf an international side after such a disappointment, and he will no doubt face tough questions, but in the short term has to prepare his squad for Nations League matches away to Austria and at home to Romania.\n\nVictories in either of those will obviously not make up for missing out on the Euros this time, but he needs the momentum of his reign to change - and quickly - before the qualifiers for the World Cup come around.\n• None Attempt saved. Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordan Thompson with a cross.\n• None Stuart Dallas (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "The isolation suits supplied by PestFix were similar to those pictured here\n\nBritain's safety watchdog felt leaned on by the government to make factually incorrect statements about PPE suits bought for NHS staff earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, the BBC has found.\n\nEmails reveal how the Health and Safety Executive said protective suits, bought by the government in April, had not been tested to the correct standard.\n\nBut the emails describe \"political\" pressure to approve them for use.\n\nThe government said all PPE is \"quality assured\" and only sent out if safe.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic, the NHS experienced severe shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE. As the country woke up to the lethal threat of Covid-19, there was a scramble to secure gloves, overalls and masks for NHS staff.\n\nThe shortage was so drastic that some hospital staff were even pictured at the time wearing bin bags.\n\nMedics at a hospital in the Midlands don bin bags in place of PPE, in April 2020\n\nThe government had to find new suppliers quickly to meet demand and to compete with rising global competition. But that rush has prompted questions about its choice of provider.\n\nOne of those providers was small pest control firm Crisp Websites Ltd, trading as PestFix, which secured a contract in April with the Department of Health and Social Care for a £32m batch of isolation suits.\n\nThree months after it was signed, the suits from PestFix had still not been released for use in the NHS, despite the rush to get PPE into hospitals. Instead, they were being stored at an NHS supply chain warehouse, in Daventry, waiting for safety assessments.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had concluded they had not been specified to the correct standard for use in hospitals when they were bought.\n\nSeparately, the contract was being challenged in the courts by campaign group the Good Law Project. It asked why DHSC had agreed to pay 75% upfront when the provider, it claimed, was \"wholly unsuited\" to deliver such a large and important order.\n\nThe contract had been awarded without being opened to competition because of the urgency of the crisis.\n\nNow, emails from the HSE - given to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) - reveal how its officials came under pressure from government over the summer to release the suits to the NHS.\n\nIn June, one email from a firm working alongside the HSE describes \"political pressure\" being applied to get the suits through the quality assurance process.\n\nBy September, the legal wrangling was still going on, the emails show, even though the suits had, by then, been released to the NHS.\n\n\"We are being drawn into the legalities\", one official wrote, saying they'd been asked to provide a statement that PestFix's products had had the right safety documents.\n\n\"I have been contacted by [name redacted] today requesting a statement to the effect that HSE were provided with the required documentation by Pestfix… This is not factually correct,\" the safety regulator wrote.\n\nThe following day, another email reveals: \"…various colleagues in DHSC are contacting those involved in the assessment of the Pestfix products requesting statements to the effect that HSE assessed the products and they were compliant - not factually correct\".\n\nAn email, dated 25 June, said Pestfix was worried news its equipment had not completed necessary testing might leak to the public.\n\n\"We are very concerned about whom we speak to with regard to getting these suits tested as we do not want it to be made public knowledge that PPE from Pestfix has not passed HSE inspection,\" it read.\n\nThe firm added that, with the legal challenge looming, it hoped that new tests could be done quickly. This was so that \"we and the DHSC can confirm that the product… has been certified and accepted\".\n\nThe isolation suits were ultimately tested to the required standard, and on 6 August the regulator allowed them to be used for staff treating Covid-19 in hospitals.\n\nBut it insisted the products were relabelled because the description was incorrect. The decision says: \"The product refers to itself as an isolation gown, but it is clearly a disposable coverall\".\n\nLast month, the government published five more contracts it had signed with PestFix for gowns, gloves, masks and aprons totalling more than £300m.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have been working tirelessly to deliver PPE to protect our health and social care staff throughout the pandemic, with more than 4.7 billion items delivered so far and 32 billion items ordered to provide a continuous supply to the frontline over the coming months.\n\n\"All PPE products are quality assured and only distributed if they are safe to use.\"\n\nIn a statement, PestFix said it had \"delivered these products to DHSC on time and in compliance with the DHSC's specification and applicable regulations.\n\n\"After delivery, there was some delay while the product was re-categorised as a PPE product and further testing was carried out to confirm that the product was PPE compliant.\"\n\nMore from Phil on Twitter @phill_kemp", "Boris Johnson's director of communications - and longest serving aide - Lee Cain (right) has resigned following a power struggle in Downing Street\n\nAfter the hurricane of the last 24 hours, what's left behind the storm?\n\nLet's face it, there are plenty of people in the Tory Party who have been deeply unhappy about the government's performance in the last few months and who hope, if perhaps don't quite believe, that the shenanigans in Downing Street could be the beginning of a new, calm, world order.\n\nAnd the departure of Lee Cain may even hasten the exit of the prime minister's most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nIt's been clear for a while in SW1 that he wanted to do less of the day-to-day political fire fighting, trying to focus more on particular projects.\n\nBut given his closeness to the departing Lee Cain, and it is understood, frustration with what has been going on, it is not impossible that he might end up leaving Boris Johnson's side sooner rather than later.\n\nIt was suggested to me tonight that he was always due to go in the New Year.\n\nOne insider said he had let it be known fairly widely that he was interested in stepping back in the next few months. He did not, however, it's understood, threaten to quit last night.\n\nThere is no official confirmation of that from any of the factions involved in the No 10 implosion.\n\nBut from the outside it seems, with the UK about to leave the departure lounge of the EU in a matter of weeks, that the group that drove through Brexit, and drove the prime minister's victory is losing its muscle.\n\nMr Cummings' departure would be a huge change to the dynamics in Downing Street, if it happens.\n\nHe has had unparalleled power, aside from the prime minister. He's provoked rage, but inspired loyalty too, and he broke the cardinal rule of any government adviser by becoming the story so dramatically in May.\n\nBut while many MPs and ministers would cheer that, hoping for a shift to a more conventional Downing Street, it is far from certain that Mr Johnson would prosper as an individual politician if he lost two of his closest aides in quick succession.\n\nThe prime minister's senior adviser Dominic Cummings was instrumental in the successful pro-Brexit campaign\n\nAnd as ever, the picture is more complicated than it might appear.\n\nThe divides inside government are simply not as straightforward as Vote Leavers on one side, everyone else on the other.\n\nMr Johnson has been prime minister for well over a year, it's nearly 12 months since the election victory, and the referendum was more than four years ago.\n\nCertainly the operation in there sought publicly to emphasise the divide and there has been a natural division between Leavers and Remainers, but in terms of the individuals and personalities working together behind closed doors, the world is less binary than the political universe that Boris Johnson was part of creating.\n\nAnd now, while the Vote Leave tribe made plenty of enemies, and often seemed to enjoy doing so, even deliberately, the prime minister cannot be sure that a new operation will bring him more political success or stability.\n\nHe is still the same person, the same leader, with the same flaws and and the same strengths.\n\nA rejigged team may, or may not make life easier for him. Just as the talks over a trade deal after Brexit grind towards a finale, the dominance of Vote Leave is coming to a close too.\n\nBut just as the negotiations haven't finished, the final act of the Brexit project is yet to end.", "Concerns around vaccines is nothing new. But the speed at which Covid-19 candidates are being developed, have made some people - understandably - question how it's possible to make a safe and effective vaccine so fast.\n\nIt usually takes around a decade to develop a new vaccine, but in less than a year it appears scientists have created at least one for Covid. So how are they doing it?\n\nFirstly, they are well-funded - and time is money. Governments around the world, desperate for a way out of this crisis, have ploughed billions of dollars into developing a vaccine.\n\nThis is unprecedented in such a short space of time. It can take scientists years just to secure funding for their research for other vaccines.\n\nWith so many people potentially receiving a vaccine, safety has to be the absolute number one priority. There is a very robust international human trials process which establishes the safety and effectiveness of any vaccine.\n\nThe World Health Organization - which is collating all the data from trials for more than 200 vaccine candidates - says safety data cannot and will not be compromised.\n\nStudies will also continue even after vaccines are rolled out to keep track of any rare possible side effects. Also, much of what needs to happen to get a successful vaccine out to people all over the world is already under way. For example, hundreds of millions of the most promising vaccine candidates are already being manufactured.\n\nThis usually only happens when a vaccine is approved for wide use. If the vaccines are found not to be effective or safe enough as trial data continues coming in, they won't be used. But if any of them are - the vaccines will be ready to deploy very quickly.\n\n\"What are your thoughts on getting a vaccine to protect against Covid-19?\"\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "The son of Sutcliffe's first victim, Wilma McCann, had appealed for an apology\n\nA police force has apologised for the \"language, tone and terminology\" used in the 1970s to describe some of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims.\n\nSenior West Yorkshire officers said some of the 13 women killed by Peter Sutcliffe, who has died aged 74, were \"innocent\" but implied others were not.\n\nThe son of his first victim Wilma McCann had appealed for an apology.\n\nForce Chief Constable John Robins said the language used at the time was \"as wrong then as it is now\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before an apology from police, Richard McCann, the son of Peter Sutcliffe's first victim, Wilma McCann, reacts to his death\n\nSpeaking earlier, Richard McCann, who was five when his mother was killed, said: \"They described some of the women as 'innocent', inferring that some were not innocent - including my mum.\n\n\"She was a family woman who, through no fault of her own, was going through adversity and made some bad decisions, some risky decisions.\"\n\n\"She paid for those decisions with her life.\"\n\nTwelve of the 13 women Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering: (Top row) Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson, Jayne McDonald and Jean Jordan.(Bottom row) Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka, Vera Millward, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach and Jacqueline Hill\n\nMr Robins said: \"On behalf of West Yorkshire Police, I apologise for the additional distress and anxiety caused to all relatives by the language, tone and terminology used by senior officers at the time in relation to Peter Sutcliffe's victims.\n\n\"Such language and attitudes may have reflected wider societal attitudes of the day, but it was as wrong then as it is now.\"\n\nHe added that the force's approach to investigations was now \"wholly victim-focused\".\n\nAfter the force published its apology, Mr McCann tweeted: \"Now that's worth celebrating. Thank You.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDetectives, journalists and the attorney general who prosecuted Sutcliffe have been criticised for dismissing some women who died as sex workers.\n\nSenior officers' focus on the killer targeting only sex workers was seen as one of the many crucial wrong turns taken during the 1970s investigation.\n\nAt Sutcliffe's trial, prosecutor Sir Michael Havers, then attorney general, said: \"Some were prostitutes but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Sutcliffe case was a humiliation for West Yorkshire police, revealing deep operational and cultural problems within the force and wider policing.\n\nReviews focused on the inquiry's shortcomings in a bungled investigation that never got on top of processing the information it received.\n\nThe consequence was sweeping reform to the way major crime investigations were conducted.\n\nBut the investigation was also compromised by the misogyny and racism of 1970s police culture.\n\nIn 1979, one senior detective told reporters the killer \"has made it clear he hates prostitutes, many people do, but the Ripper is now killing innocent girls.\"\n\nPolice categorised Sutcliffe's victims as \"innocent\" and \"non-innocent\" based on class and lifestyle.\n\nMarcella Claxton, a black woman who survived an attack by Sutcliffe in 1976 was racially abused, wrongly labelled a prostitute and her accurate description of the killer was dismissed.\n\nThe police service is now more diverse but some question whether the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire is right to say attitudes associated with the Ripper investigation are, \"thankfully, consigned to history\".\n\nThe victims' commissioner Vera Baird points to today's low number of rape prosecutions, suggesting the blaming of victims, particularly when they are women, still continues.\n\nThe investigation was led at various times by (l to r) Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield, Chief Constable Ronald Gregory and acting Assistant Chief Constable Jim Hobson\n\nDame Louise Casey, the UK's first Victims' Commissioner said she was \"pleased\" to hear the force had apologised adding: \"God forbid we ever go back to those days\".\n\nRuth Bundey, a civil rights layer who later went on to represent some of the Ripper's victims, said: \"It's been a long time coming. I'm glad it's come at last but of course there were some dreadful things said, even at Sutcliffe's trial.\"\n\nHowever, former West Yorkshire Police officer Elaine Benson, who worked on the Sutcliffe murders, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme she had not witnessed victims being treated differently.\n\n\"I was in the police service for 30 years and things became more politically correct and they were not at that time,\" she said.\n\n\"But I did not see from my position that any investigation was any the less for what a person's occupation was or for what they did.\n\n\"I never saw anything of that at all. They were murder victims and each murder was investigated as thoroughly as they could investigate it.\"\n\nCurrent serving police officers said Sutcliffe was a \"monster\" who should \"rot in hell\" after hearing he had died.\n\nBrian Booth, chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, said: \"'On hearing of the death of Peter Sutcliffe today, I feel good riddance.\n\n\"He is the very reason most people step to the plate and become police officers - to protect our communities from people like him.\"\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, urged people to remember the victims and not Sutcliffe.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The 13 women he murdered and the 7 who survived his brutal attacks are in my thoughts.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's official spokesman said the PM's thoughts were with those who died, their families and friends and with those who survived.\n\nHe said: \"Peter Sutcliffe was a depraved and evil individual whose crimes caused unimaginable suffering and appalled this country, nothing will ever detract from the harm that he caused, but it is right that he died behind bars for his barbaric murders and for his attempted murders.\"\n• None The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Video, 00:01:18The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool forward Mohamed Salah has tested positive for coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt.\n\nThe Egyptian Football Association (EFA) said on Friday that Salah, 28, returned a positive test but is not displaying any symptoms.\n\nIt later added that Salah underwent a second test, which confirmed he has Covid-19.\n\n\"Salah is keeping a high spirit and is not showing any symptoms of the virus,\" said the EFA in a statement.\n\nIt said the other members of the team had tested negative.\n\nEgypt host Togo in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying on Saturday, followed by the reverse fixture in Togo on Tuesday.\n\nSalah will now self-isolate and could miss Liverpool's next two matches.\n\nThe Reds host Leicester in the Premier League on Sunday, 22 November, followed by a Champions League tie against Atalanta at Anfield on Wednesday, 25 November.\n\nSalah has started all eight of Liverpool's Premier League games this season, scoring eight goals.\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "Charities are calling for more testing of staff and residents in care homes\n\nPeople with learning disabilities were up to six times more likely to die from Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, analysis shows.\n\nA report from Public Health England (PHE) found the death rate for those with a learning disability was 30 times higher in the 18-34 age group.\n\nThe charity Mencap said the government had \"failed to protect\" a group already experiencing health inequalities.\n\nSocial Care Minister Helen Whately has announced a review of the findings.\n\nThe study, which looked at deaths between 21 March and 5 June, found that 451 per 100,000 people registered with a learning disability had died with Covid-19 during that period.\n\nDue to gaps in the data, the researchers estimated that it could be as high as 692 per 100,000 - 6.3 times higher than the general population.\n\nThe report suggests the huge disparity could be because people with learning disabilities are more prone to obesity and diabetes, which can increase the risk of dying from Covid-19.\n\nAdam Brown died in April after becoming ill with Covid-19\n\nAdam Brown from Surrey was one of those young people with learning disabilities who died from Covid-19. The 30-year-old, who lived in residential care, fell ill at the beginning of March.\n\nDespite displaying the symptoms of Covid-19, he wasn't tested until he was admitted to hospital. He died on 29 April.\n\nCommenting on the report's findings, his sister Naomi Brown said: \"Hearing and reading reports like this doesn't surprise me, it saddens me but it's not surprising.\n\n\"People like Adam, people who don't have their own voices to speak for themselves are just left, kept in the dark, disregarded.\n\n\"There's only us, the families, to speak and stand up for people like my brother.\"\n\nProf John Newton, PHE's director of health improvement, said \"action must be taken to prevent this happening again\".\n\nHe said: \"It is deeply troubling that one of the most vulnerable groups in our society suffered so much during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"But with cases developing across the country, it is essential to practice rigorous infection control if you are in contact with someone with a learning disability, whether or not they live in a care home.\"\n\nA third of those who died with a learning disability during the first wave were living in residential care, which has led to criticism about infection control and lack of access to testing.\n\nDan Scorer, head of policy at the learning disability charity Mencap, said: \"The government has failed to protect a group who already experienced serious health inequalities.\n\n\"Decades of under-investment in social care has left most people with a learning disability with no support to understand ever-changing guidance on staying safe and accessing testing.\"\n\nThe report highlighted that certain kinds of learning disability, such as Down's Syndrome can make people more vulnerable to respiratory infections. Adults with the condition have recently been added to the government's \"clinically extremely vulnerable\" list.\n\nAlmost half of those with Down Syndrome who died from Covid-19 were living in a care home.\n\nThe Down's Syndrome Association said priority must be given \"to measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in these settings, including regular testing of care staff\".\n\nResponding to the report, Ms Whately said the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, would be asked to review the findings.\n\n\"There is now regular testing of staff and residents in care homes, and testing has also been rolled out to supported living settings in high risk areas,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDominic Cummings has left Downing Street after internal battles over his role as Boris Johnson's chief adviser.\n\nThe BBC understands he will continue to work from home, on issues such as mass coronavirus testing, until the middle of December.\n\nThe prime minister is said to want to \"clear the air and move on\".\n\nMr Cummings has been at the heart of a No 10 power struggle, which has also seen communications director Lee Cain leave.\n\nSeveral Tory MPs have welcomed the pair's departure as a chance for Mr Johnson to make a fresh start.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Cummings' departure from No 10 had been brought forward given the \"upset in the team\" in Downing Street, for which she said it had been a \"difficult week\".\n\nShe said there had been long-running tensions between different factions in No 10 but this \"slow burning fuse exploded fast when it finally happened\".\n\nMr Cummings and Mr Cain are long-time colleagues, having worked together on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nWhen Mr Cain's exit was announced on Wednesday, it prompted rumours that his ally would also step down.\n\nIn response, Mr Cummings told the BBC \"rumours of me threatening to resign are invented\" but said his \"position hasn't changed\" since he wrote in January that he wanted to make himself \"largely redundant\" by the end of 2020.\n\nPending what is expected to be a wide-ranging shake-up in No 10, Lord Lister - a close ally of Mr Johnson's who served as his deputy when he was London mayor - has been named interim chief of staff, a position which had been vacant.\n\nThe power struggle in Downing Street may have been resolved but the feuding continues.\n\nA dramatic day ended with conflicting accounts of the denouement involving Boris Johnson and his departing aides, Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain.\n\nNewsnight has been told that relations between the trio \"went off the cliff\" in the early afternoon. The prime minister's team reportedly learnt at around 2.00pm that Mr Cummings' team had described him as indecisive. They also heard of an alleged briefing against the prime minister's partner, Carrie Symonds, who had apparently been uneasy about a plan to promote Lee Cain to chief of staff.\n\nNewsnight was told that the prime minister expressed his displeasure during a meeting with Mr Cummings and Mr Cain. He reportedly told then he knew what they were up to and they would have to leave.\n\nThis account is strongly disputed by Mr Cain and Mr Cummings' side.\n\nA source said that Mr Cummings and Mr Cain held a very friendly and warm 45 minute meeting with the prime minister. Mr Johnson reportedly told them: \"I want to get the band back before the next election.\"\n\nThe prime minister then agreed to a request from Mr Cain to sign a pair of boxing gloves, used during the general election, emblazoned with the words: \"Get Brexit Done.\"\n\nMr Cummings left the building. But Mr Cain, the outgoing director of communications, remained for a farewell reception in the press office. That was addressed by the prime minister before Mr Cain was \"banged out\" in the style of a traditional newspaper farewell.\n\nThe prime minister reportedly said that relations remain good with the two aides but that relationships can break up, at which point you no longer live together. He was keen to emphasise there was no ill will, according to this account.\n\nMr Johnson worked with Mr Cummings on the 2016 Vote Leave campaign and hired Mr Cummings to be his senior adviser, when he became prime minister.\n\nSix months later the pair's \"Get Brexit Done\" campaign message helped Mr Johnson win a large majority in the general election.\n\nMr Cummings became more of a public figure in the past year and was forced into holding his own news conference at Downing Street in the summer, following controversy over him making a trip to the north of England when non-essential travel was banned at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe had a notoriously difficult relationship with Conservative MPs, several of whom have welcomed his exit and said it was time for things to be done differently in Downing Street.\n\nLee Cain worked with Dominic Cummings on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum\n\n\"Both Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were pretty dismissive of backbenchers and sometimes ministers and secretaries of state, and I don't think that was helpful,\" said former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers.\n\n\"I do think it's important that whoever takes over has a different approach.\"\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin said it was time to restore \"respect, integrity and trust\" between No 10 and Tory MPs while veteran Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale said it was \"an opportunity to muck out the stables\".\n\nLabour said the PM could \"rearrange the deckchairs all he wants... but the responsibility for this government's incompetence still lies firmly at Boris Johnson's door\".\n\n\"The fact there is no plan and no focus in the government's response to Covid is entirely down to him,\" a party source said.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman, James Slack, who will replace Mr Cain in the new year, insisted Mr Johnson is not being distracted from the national crisis by the row.\n\n\"What the prime minister and the government are focused upon is taking every possible step to get this country through the coronavirus pandemic,\" Mr Slack said.", "Corrie Mckeague went missing after a night out in September 2016\n\nAn airman who went missing four years ago is thought to have died after he climbed into an industrial waste bin, an inquest heard.\n\nCorrie Mckeague, 23, who was based at RAF Honington, Suffolk, is believed to have died on 24 September 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.\n\nDespite extensive searches, his body has never been found.\n\nThe inquest was opened at Suffolk Coroner's Court and was adjourned for a pre-inquest review in February.\n\nCh Supt Marina Ericson from Suffolk Police said Mr Mckeague had been on a night out in Bury St Edmunds and was \"very drunk\" when he was asked to leave the Flex nightclub.\n\nShe said Mr Mckeague, from Dunfermline, Fife, was \"happy and friendly throughout the night\" and was last seen alive at 03:25 BST walking into a horseshoe-shaped area behind Greggs and Superdrug, where industrial waste bins were stored.\n\nCh Supt Marina Ericson said Mr Mckeague was believed to have climbed into a bin\n\nA Biffa refuse lorry drove into the area less than an hour after the last sighting of Mr Mckeague. The lorry's load weighed 116kg, 70 to 80kg more than average, she told the hearing in Ipswich.\n\nThe airman's mobile phone mapped the same route as the bin lorry to Barton Mills, she said.\n\nCh Supt Ericson said it was believed Mr Mckeague had climbed into the Greggs waste bin and was inside it when it was emptied into the Biffa lorry.\n\n\"That was where he subsequently died,\" she said.\n\nA landfill site was extensively searched as part of the investigation\n\nThe chief coroner for England and Wales directed the inquest be held into the death, following a request from Mr Mckeague's family.\n\nMr Mckeague's mother, Nicola Urquhart, previously said she hoped the inquest would \"be able to tell me, and us as a family, that there is just nothing else that we could do or be able to do to find Corrie\".\n\nThe Suffolk Police investigation into the disappearance was handed to the cold case team in 2018.\n\nAt the time, the force said the evidence pointed to Mr Mckeague having been \"transported from the 'horseshoe' area in a bin lorry and ultimately taken to the Milton landfill site\".\n\nAs part of the inquiry, which cost more than £2m, police trawled the landfill site in Cambridgeshire.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 800 police officers in the UK have tested positive for Covid since the pandemic began, new figures show.\n\nAcross 24 of the UK's 45 police forces who supplied figures, 849 out of 77,000 officers have had a positive test.\n\nThe police have been tasked with ensuring the public follow the government's coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Police Federation said officers were in \"constant worry\" when confronting offenders who might spit, bite or cough at them.\n\nThe new figures, obtained through freedom of information requests by the Press Association news agency, show there have been positive tests for 228 officers from Police Scotland, 101 from West Midlands Police and 95 from Greater Manchester Police.\n\nMerseyside Police's chief constable Andy Cooke, who tested positive in March, was among 62 people to have contracted the virus at the force.\n\nThere are about 153,000 police officers in total in the UK.\n\nHowever, the figures do not include the Metropolitan Police, the UK's largest force, and the other 20 forces who did not respond to the information request.\n\nAnyone who tests positive for the virus has to self-isolate for at least 10 days.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, said it was \"inevitable\" some officers would catch the virus given the nature of their work.\n\nHe said: \"There is the constant worry of bringing the virus home to their loved ones, which is exacerbated when they deal with offenders who weaponise the virus by spitting, biting and coughing - which is disgusting and unacceptable.\n\n\"People need to realise that behind the uniform, officers are mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.\"\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "The R number for the UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2, the closest it's been to 1 since early September.\n\nIt comes as the Office for National Statistics says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.\n\nData up to 6 November, the day after England's second lockdown began, shows infections falling in the north west but rising in the south and Midlands.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, infection rates were levelling off, the ONS says.\n\nBut in Wales rising infection levels were still continuing.\n\nAnd it's too early to say if they were stabilising a week ago in Scotland.\n\nAlthough growth may be slowing in some parts of the country, the government's scientific advisers say \"significant levels of healthcare demand and mortality will persist until R is reduced to and remains well below 1 for an extended period of time\".\n\nAn estimate of the R number, or reproduction number, of the virus is published every week and based on a number of different sources of data, including the ONS infection survey.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on thousands of swab tests in random households across the UK, thought to be one of the most reliable ways of judging how many people are infected with the virus - not just those with symptoms.\n\nThe data for the week to 6 November shows:\n\nIn England, the number of new cases is stabilising at 50,000 per day, the ONS says.\n\nBut infection rates appeared to be increasing in the south east, south west and East Midlands during that week where they had previously been low.\n\nAmong teenagers and young adults, who have seen the highest levels of the virus, infection rates appear to be levelling off or even falling.\n\nData from the Covid symptom app, based on one million people reporting symptoms, suggests cases are coming down across most areas of the UK - although numbers are still high.\n\nTheir figures are based on 13,000 swab tests carried out by users during the two weeks up to 8 November.\n\nGovernment figures on lab-confirmed cases show a picture of rising cases in many regions of England, but falling in the north west.\n\nOn Friday, there were 27,301 new confirmed cases of the virus in the UK - down from a record-high of 33,470 on Thursday. These represent people with symptoms who've received positive tests.\n\nHealth officials said Thursday's rise could be a result of people being infected while socialising in the days before England's second lockdown started on 5 November.\n\nAccording to the latest data from Public Health England, infection rates are rising quickly in the over-80s, who are most at risk from Covid-19.\n\nPHE said limiting contact with others \"will help to stop the spread of the virus and protect the people we love\".\n\nDifferent levels of restrictions on people's lives are currently in place across the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tesco has apologised to its online customers unable to get on its website as the supermarket seeks to cope with high demand for Christmas bookings.\n\nThe UK's largest retailer has had to install a queuing system online to help it to manage the demand.\n\nSome customers complained to Tesco that they had been waiting hours to get onto the supermarket's website.\n\n\"We're sorry if things take a bit longer than usual,\" Tesco said on its Twitter account.\n\n\"A lot of customers are using our website and app at the moment.\"\n\nTesco said it was \"using a virtual waiting room to help us manage the flow\".\n\nSupermarkets have been overwhelmed with demand as people start to plan for Christmas, and rival Ocado has already sold out of slots after \"huge\" demand.\n\nOne Tesco customer said on Twitter: \"We use delivery saver because we have 3 young children and both parents work full time - I'm currently stuck in your queue while trying to get the children ready for school before I have to work full time to book my usual weekly slot. I've been staring at that screen for an hour!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tesco This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTesco said that by late morning the waiting room had been removed and slots should be available again.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said: \"Demand for online slots over the festive period is high, and we have more slots this Christmas than ever before.\n\n\"We experienced high volumes of traffic to our website and groceries app this morning and temporarily limited the number of customers using it.\n\n\"We've now removed the waiting room and customers will be able to log straight on. We're sorry for any inconvenience this caused and would like to reassure customers that there are still slots available for home delivery and Click+Collect over the Christmas period.\"", "The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Image caption: The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn\n\nThe Carter Center has announced that it will monitor the manual recount of ballots in Georgia, the first time in its history that it will deploy its monitors for a US election.\n\nIt said it wanted to increase confidence in US democracy.\n\n\"As an independent, nonpartisan monitor, The Carter Center will assess the postelection audit and related processes to help bolster transparency and confidence in election results,\" it said in a statement.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is currently ahead in Georgia, but earlier this week its secretary of state announced a full hand recount of the almost five million votes cast because of the narrow margin between the two candidates.\n\nDonald Trump has made numerous allegations of election fraud since the vote without providing any evidence.\n\nThe Carter Center has observed more than 110 elections in Africa, Latin America, and Asia since 1989, but never before in the US.\n\nThe organisation stressed that its involvement would be limited to Georgia's post-election audit, adding that the decision was \"not part of a broader assessment of the election as a whole\".\n\nEarlier this year, the Carter Center announced that it would be turning its attention to the US by launching a campaign \"to strengthen transparency and trust in the election process\" amid increasing polarisation.", "Cities that faced great damage in wartime show a consistent pattern of disadvantage decades later\n\nTowns and cities in England which suffered high casualty rates from World War Two air raids are now likely to be places with high levels of child deprivation, say researchers.\n\nThey examined how well today's youngsters are faring in places that had faced the brunt of wartime bombing, such as Hull, Portsmouth and Coventry.\n\nA consistent pattern of disadvantage was found, 75 years after the war.\n\nThis included high levels of hardship and poor results in education.\n\nHistorian and author Professor Pat Thane said these worst-hit places were \"generally working-class areas - and very many of them have stayed that way\".\n\nThe research, published ahead of Remembrance Sunday, has been carried out by Timo Hannay, whose firm SchoolDash usually carries out data analysis on education.\n\nBut in this case, he mapped current levels of childhood deprivation, well-being and educational achievement against places which had faced high levels of wartime casualties and destruction.\n\n\"The results are striking. Today, almost all of these have child poverty rates well above the national average,\" said Dr Hannay, as commemorations mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war.\n\nLondon was not included - as it is such an outlier in its size and diversity - and these comparisons are for England and not other parts of the UK which also faced wartime bombing.\n\nResearchers looked at what had happened to English towns and cities outside the capital which had been heavily bombed, such as Liverpool, Plymouth, Hull, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bristol, North and South Tyneside, Coventry, Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nThese were compared against measures of disadvantage, including the \"income deprivation affecting children index\" and eligibility for free school meals.\n\nAnd this revealed a consistent pattern with almost all of these areas having above-average levels of poverty.\n\nThe aftermath of a bombing raid on Hull\n\nIn education, primary school tests, GCSE results and university entry levels were below the national average in most of the places that had faced particularly high wartime damage.\n\n\"Self-reported life satisfaction also tends to be low. On top of all this, Covid-19 death rates in many of these areas, specifically, those in the midlands and the north - have been much higher than in the country as a whole,\" said Mr Hannay.\n\n\"None of this is to imply a causal link between 1940s bombing raids and current social challenges,\" he says.\n\nBut he says it does show that many of the areas that suffered the most \"continue to languish in a wide variety of ways\".\n\nThis year marks the 75th anniversary since the end of the Second World War\n\nBut if this is not about any long-term economic scarring, then what does it say about what happened to the communities who paid the highest price in wartime losses?\n\nDaniel Todman, professor of modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, says this shows a pattern of places that were poor before the war continuing to be poor decades afterwards.\n\nA photo montage that mixed wartime damage with how the street looks in modern London\n\nHe says it is also a reminder of how \"geographically concentrated\" the Blitz was and that the damage was not \"shared out\" across the country, with those in poorer, crowded housing often suffering the most.\n\nThe disadvantage in such places now, Prof Todman says is not the legacy of the war, but more a sign that the post-war settlement failed to \"bring places up\" and those \"inequalities continue to exist\".\n\nThere was a strong sense during the war of wanting to create greater fairness, says Prof Todman, but 75 years later, he says it could be seen as \"unfair a society as it was in the 1920s and 1930s\".", "Mink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nMutations in coronavirus have triggered culls of millions of farmed mink in Denmark.\n\nPart of the country has been put under lockdown after Danish authorities found genetic changes they say might undermine the effectiveness of future Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nMore than 200 people have been infected with mink-related coronavirus.\n\nAnd the UK has imposed an immediate ban on all visitors from Denmark amid concerns about the new strain.\n\nDanish scientists are particularly concerned about one mink-related strain of the virus, found in 12 people, which they say is less sensitive to protective antibodies, raising concerns about vaccine development.\n\nThe World Health Organization has said the reports are concerning, but further studies are needed to understand the implications for treatments and vaccines.\n\n\"We need to wait and see what the implications are but I don't think we should come to any conclusions about whether this particular mutation is going to impact vaccine efficacy,\" said chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan.\n\nOfficials arrive at a mink farm to put down the animals\n\nThe coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates over time and there is no evidence that any of the mutations found in Denmark pose an increased danger to people.\n\nDr Marisa Peyre, an epidemiologist from the French research institute Cirad, said the development was \"worrying\", but we don't yet know the full picture.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads between animals it changes, and if it changes too much from the one that is circulating within humans at the moment, that might mean that any vaccine or treatment that will be produced soon might not work as well as it should do,\" she explained.\n\nMink, like their relatives, ferrets, are susceptible to respiratory viruses\n\nThis is a very unusual chain of events: a virus that originally came from a wild animal, probably a bat, jumped into humans, possibly via an unknown animal host, sparking a pandemic.\n\nMink kept in large numbers on mink farms have caught the virus from infected workers. And, in a small number of cases, the virus has \"spilled back\" from mink to humans, picking up genetic changes on the way.\n\nMutations in some mink-related strains involve the spike protein of the virus, which is targeted by some vaccines being developed.\n\n\"If the mutation is on a specific protein that is being currently targeted by the vaccine developers to trigger an immune response in humans then it means that if this new virus strain comes out of the mink back into the humans, even with vaccination, the humans will start spreading it and the vaccine will not protect,\" Dr Peyre told BBC News.\n\nMore than 50 million mink a year are bred for their fur, mainly in China, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland. Outbreaks have been reported on fur farms in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the US, and millions of animals have had to be culled.\n\nMillions of mink are being culled in Denmark\n\nMink, like their close relatives, ferrets, are known to be susceptible to coronavirus, and like humans, they can show a range of symptoms, from no signs of illness at all to severe problems, such as pneumonia.\n\nScientists suspect the virus spreads in mink farms through infectious droplets, on feed or bedding, or in dust containing droppings.\n\nMink have caught the virus from humans, but genetic detective work has shown that in a small number of cases the virus seems to have passed the other way, with the virus spreading from mink back to humans.\n\nMink have become \"reservoirs for the virus\" and surveillance is required in other wild and domestic animals that may be susceptible, said Prof Joanne Santini of University College London.\n\n\"Mink is the extreme but it could be happening out there and we just don't know about it and that's something we need to be checking,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we do know is that the mink are picking up the virus from people; they can be infected and they are spreading it between themselves and it's come back to humans.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists believe another pandemic will happen during our lifetime\n\nScientists in Denmark are carrying out genetic studies on mink-related strains, and the genetic data has been shared with other researchers, to allow further investigation.\n\n\"We need to find out where these mutations are and we need to see what effect that has on transmission of the virus and how infectious it is, because if it is changing and being more infectious or having a broader host range, then that's really quite scary but it might not be, because we don't know,\" said Prof Santini.\n\nSome scientists have called for new restrictions on mink production, saying mink farming \"impedes our response and recovery from the pandemic\".\n\nIn a recent letter to the journal, Science, three scientists, from Denmark, China and Malaysia, wrote: \"It is urgent to monitor, restrict, and - where possible - ban mink production.\"\n\nThe WHO has called on all countries to step up surveillance and tighten biosecurity measures around mink farms.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "There are more than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark\n\nDenmark will cull all its mink - as many as 17 million - after a mutated form of coronavirus that can spread to humans was found on mink farms.\n\nPrime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the mutated virus posed a \"risk to the effectiveness\" of a future Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nDenmark is the world's biggest producer of mink fur and its main export markets are China and Hong Kong.\n\nThe culling began late last month, after many mink cases were detected.\n\nWarning: you may find a picture of dead mink lower down disturbing\n\nCoronavirus cases have also been detected in farmed mink in the Netherlands and Spain since the pandemic began in Europe.\n\nBut cases are spreading fast in Denmark - 207 mink farms in Jutland are affected - and at least five cases of the new virus strain were found. Twelve people had become infected, the authorities said.\n\nPrime Minister Frederiksen described the situation as \"very, very serious\". Danish police and army personnel will help to carry out the mass cull.\n\nMs Frederiksen cited a government report which said the mutated virus had been found to weaken the body's ability to form antibodies, potentially making the current vaccines under development for Covid-19 ineffective.\n\n\"We have a great responsibility towards our own population, but with the mutation that has now been found, we have an even greater responsibility for the rest of the world as well,\" she told a news conference.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic Denmark has reported 52,265 human cases of Covid-19 and 733 deaths, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.\n\nMore than 50 million mink a year are bred for their fur, mainly in China, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland. Outbreaks have been reported in fur farms in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Sweden and the US, and millions of animals have had to be culled.\n\nMink, like their close relatives ferrets, are known to be susceptible to coronavirus, and like humans, they can show a range of symptoms, from no signs of illness at all, to severe problems, such as pneumonia.\n\nMink become infected through catching the virus from humans. But genetic detective work has shown that in a small number of cases, in the Netherlands and now Denmark, the virus seems to have passed the other way, from mink to humans.\n\nThe big public health concern is that any mutation to the coronavirus as it passes between mink and humans might be enough to stop human vaccines working, if and when they become available. Some scientists are now calling for a complete ban on mink production, saying it impedes our response and recovery from the pandemic.\n\nDenmark began culling last month when mink were found to have the virus\n\nTeams in protective kit for the cull - usually mink are gassed with carbon monoxide\n\nMink at more than 1,000 Danish farms are to be culled. The World Health Organization says it is discussing the outbreak with the Danish authorities.\n\nSpain culled 100,000 mink in July after cases were detected at a farm in Aragón province, and tens of thousands of the animals were slaughtered in the Netherlands following outbreaks on farms there.\n\nStudies are under way to find out how and why mink have been able to catch and spread the infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "Princess Diana's brother has made new allegations about how the BBC gained his trust and access to his sister prior to her 1995 Panorama interview.\n\nNotes Charles Spencer says he made at the time of a meeting he held with Martin Bashir suggest the Panorama reporter made a number of false and defamatory claims about senior royals.\n\nThe BBC has promised an inquiry if new evidence is presented.\n\nBashir, 57, is seriously unwell and is unable to respond to the allegations.\n\nThis week, Earl Spencer called for a BBC inquiry over faked bank statements he says helped secure his sister's interview with Panorama.\n\nAlmost 23 million people tuned in to watch the programme.\n\nIn it, the princess famously said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to the Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\nAt the time, Princess Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said the notes Earl Spencer says he made with Bashir two months before the interview, reported by the Daily Mail, are \"astonishing\".\n\nThey appear to record Bashir \"spinning lie after lie about members of the Royal Family, and its staff, in an attempt, Earl Spencer says, to win his trust and that of his sister, Diana\" our correspondent said.\n\nThese claims, described by the Mail as \"preposterous lies\", include that Diana's private correspondence was being opened, her car tracked and phones tapped.\n\nIt was also claimed that her bodyguard was plotting against her and close friends were betraying her by leaking stories to the press.\n\nThis week, Earl Spencer said he never would have introduced Bashir to his sister were it not for him seeing the faked bank statements.\n\nThe faked statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister, the Daily Mail said.\n\nEarl Spencer has yet to supply the BBC with any of the material he has this week given to a newspaper.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the faked statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nThe corporation has promised what it calls a \"robust inquiry\" with \"appropriate independence\".\n\nA source at the BBC said the \"appropriate independence\" referred to \"means an independent investigation\".\n\nThe BBC has said an investigation has been \"hampered at the moment\" by the fact that Bashir was \"seriously unwell\".\n\nBashir, currently BBC News religion editor, has been unwell with Covid-19 complications, the BBC said last month.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.", "The knife-edge vote has been closely watched abroad\n\nAfter days of uncertainty, Joe Biden has won the US presidential election, BBC projections show.\n\nDuring Donald Trump's four years in office, America's relationship with the world changed profoundly.\n\nBBC reporters across the globe, from Beijing to Berlin, explain how news of Mr Biden's victory is being received and what it could mean for key US relationships.\n\nJoe Biden's victory offers another challenge for the Chinese system, writes John Sudworth in Beijing.\n\nYou might think Beijing would be glad to see the back of Donald Trump. As China-basher-in-chief he hit them with a trade war, levied a raft of punitive sanctions and badgered and blamed them for the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut some analysts have suggested that the Chinese leadership may now be feeling secretly disappointed. Not because they have any lasting fondness for Mr Trump, but because another four years of him in the White House held out the tantalising prospect of a bigger prize. Divisive at home, isolationist abroad - Mr Trump seemed to Beijing the very embodiment of the long-anticipated and hoped for decline in US power.\n\nIt was a message rammed home by the country's Communist Party-controlled TV news bulletins. They focused not on the election itself - but on the protests, rancour, and rising US virus infection rates alongside it.\n\nChina might, of course, try to find advantage in Joe Biden's willingness to seek co-operation on big issues like climate change. But he's also promised to work to repair America's alliances, which may prove to be far more effective in constraining China's superpower ambitions than Trump's go-it-alone approach.\n\nAnd a Biden victory offers another challenge for a Chinese system devoid of democratic control. Far from a decline in American values, the transition of power itself is proof that those values endure.\n\nKamala Harris's roots are a source of pride in India but Narendra Modi may get a more frigid reception from Mr Biden than his predecessor, Rajini Vaidyanathan writes from Delhi.\n\nIndia has long been an important partner to the US - and the overall direction of travel is unlikely to change under a Biden presidency.\n\nSouth Asia's most populous nation will remain a key ally in America's Indo-Pacific strategy to curtail the rise of China, and in fighting global terrorism.\n\nThat said, the personal chemistry between Mr Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be trickier to navigate. Mr Trump has held back from criticising Mr Modi's controversial domestic policies - which many say discriminate against the country's Muslims.\n\nMr Biden has been far more outspoken. His campaign website called for the restoration of rights for everyone in Kashmir, and criticised the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) - two laws which sparked mass protests.\n\nIncoming Vice-President Kamala Harris - half Indian herself - has also spoken out against some of the Hindu nationalist government's policies. But her Indian roots will spark mass celebration in much of the country. That the daughter of an Indian woman who was born and raised in the city of Chennai will soon be second-in-command at the White House is a moment of immense national pride.\n\nNorth Korea once described Mr Biden as a \"rabid dog\" - but now Kim Jong-un will be making careful calculations before trying to provoke the new US president, writes Laura Bicker in Seoul.\n\nIt's likely Chairman Kim would have preferred another four years of Donald Trump.\n\nThe leaders' unprecedented meeting and follow-ups made for incredible photo-ops for the history books but very little of substance was signed. Neither side got what they wanted out of these talks: North Korea has continued to build up its nuclear arsenal and the US has continued to enforce strict sanctions.\n\nIn contrast, Joe Biden has demanded North Korea show that it is willing to abandon its nuclear weapons programme before he holds any meetings with Kim Jong-un. Many analysts believe that unless Mr Biden's team initiates talks with Pyongyang very early on, the days of \"fire and fury\" may return.\n\nIt’s likely Chairman Kim would have preferred another four years of Donald Trump.\n\nMr Kim might want to get Washington's attention with a return to long-range missile tests, but he won't want to increase tensions to the point that the already impoverished state would be hit with even more sanctions.\n\nSouth Korea has already warned the North not to go down a provocative path. Seoul may have struggled to deal with Donald Trump at times - but President Moon is keen to put an end to the 70-year war on the Korean peninsula and he praised Mr Trump for having the \"courage\" to meet with Mr Kim. The South will closely watch for any sign that Mr Biden is willing to do the same.\n\nThe US and UK's \"special relationship\" may face a downgrade with Joe Biden at the helm, writes political correspondent Jessica Parker in London.\n\nThey won't be seen as natural allies: Joe Biden, the seasoned Democrat, and Boris Johnson, the bombastic Brexiteer.\n\nIn looking at how their future relationship might work, it's worth considering the past. Specifically that seminal year, 2016, when Donald Trump won the White House and the UK voted to leave the EU. Both Joe Biden and his boss at the time, Barack Obama, made no secret they preferred another outcome on Brexit.\n\nThe UK government's recent manoeuvres in relation to Brexit have not gone down well with key Democrats and the Irish lobby, including the US president-elect. Mr Biden said he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if elected - stating that any future US-UK trade deal would be contingent upon respecting the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nRemember how Donald Trump once called Boris Johnson \"Britain Trump\"? Well, Mr Biden seemingly agreed, once reportedly describing the UK prime minister as Mr Trump's \"physical and emotional clone\". So it's possible Joe Biden may initially be more eager to talk to Brussels, Berlin or Paris than love-bomb London. The \"special relationship\" could, feasibly, face a downgrade.\n\nHowever, the two men may yet find some common ground. The two countries they lead, after all, have long-standing and deep-running diplomatic ties - not least in the areas of security and intelligence.\n\nA more predictable administration may be the \"silver lining\" for Russia of Mr Biden's win, writes Steven Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin has an acute sense of hearing. So when Joe Biden recently named Russia as \"the biggest threat\" to America, they heard that loud and clear in Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin also has a long memory. In 2011 Vice-President Biden reportedly said that if he were Mr Putin, he wouldn't run again for president: it would be bad for the country and for himself. President Putin won't have forgotten that.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Putin are not a match made in geo-political heaven. Moscow fears the Biden presidency will mean more pressure and more sanctions from Washington. With a Democrat in the White House, could it be payback time for Russia's alleged intervention in the 2016 US election?\n\nMoscow fears the Biden presidency will mean more pressure, more sanctions from Washington.\n\nOne Russian newspaper recently claimed that under Mr Trump, US-Russian relations had plunged \"to the seabed\". But it likened Mr Biden to a \"dredger\" who was going to \"dig even deeper\". Little wonder Moscow has that sinking feeling.\n\nBut for the Kremlin there could be a silver lining. Russian commentators predict a Biden administration will, at least, be more predictable than the Trump team. That might make it easier to reach agreement on pressing issues, like New Start - the crucial US-Russian nuclear arms reduction treaty due to expire next February.\n\nMoscow will want to move on from the Trump era and try to build a working relationship with the new White House. There's no guarantee of success.\n\nGermans hope for a return to smooth-sailing with their key ally once Donald Trump has departed, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nGermany will breathe a sigh of relief at this result.\n\nOnly 10% of Germans trust President Trump on foreign policy, according to the Pew Research Centre. He is more unpopular in Germany than in any other country surveyed. Even Russia's Putin and China's Xi Jinping poll better in Germany.\n\nPresident Trump is accused of undermining free trade and dismantling the multinational institutions which Germany relies on economically. His spats with China have rattled German exporters and he has a notoriously poor relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel — it's hard to imagine two leaders more different in ethos and personality. German politicians and voters have been shocked by his abrasive style, his unconventional approach to facts and his frequent attacks on Germany's car industry.\n\nThe transatlantic relationship is critical for European security\n\nDespite this, the US is Germany's biggest trading partner and the transatlantic relationship is critical for European security. So the Trump presidency has been a rocky ride. German ministers have criticised President Trump's calls for vote-counting to stop and his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer called the situation \"explosive\".\n\nThere is an awareness here that major policy differences between Washington and Berlin will not go away under a Biden presidency. But Berlin is looking forward to working with a president who values multilateral co-operation.\n\nA Biden victory could bring Tehran back to the negotiating table, writes BBC Persian Service correspondent Kasra Naji.\n\nIn the weeks before the US election, President Trump said rather optimistically that once re-elected the first telephone call he received would be from Iran's leaders asking to negotiate.\n\nThat phone call to Mr Trump - if he had won - was never going to happen. Negotiating with the Trump administration would have been impossible for Iran; it would be too humiliating.\n\nUnder President Trump, US sanctions and a policy of maximum pressure have left Iran reeling on the edge of economic collapse. Mr Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal. Worse still, he ordered the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, a close friend of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Taking revenge for his killing remains near the top of the agenda for hardliners.\n\nNegotiating with a Trump administration would have been impossible; it would be too humiliating.\n\nThe election of Joe Biden makes entering negotiations with a US administration far easier for Iran. President-Elect Biden does not have the same baggage. He has said he wants to use diplomacy and return to the nuclear deal with Iran.\n\nBut Iran's hardliners will not come to the table easily. As Americans went to the polls on 3 November, the Supreme Leader claimed the election would have \"no effect\" on Tehran's policies. \"Iran followed a sensible and calculated policy which cannot be affected by changes of personalities in Washington,\" he said.\n\nMillions of Iranians thought differently as they quietly watched the US election unfold on their illegal satellite TV screens, convinced their futures depended on the results and hoping a Biden victory would see sanctions eased.\n\nThere are expectations of a reset of much of Donald Trump's Middle East policy, writes Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nPresident Trump supercharged the two poles of the Middle East. He sought to reward and consolidate America's traditional regional allies, while isolating its adversaries in Tehran.\n\nPresident-elect Biden will try to rewire US Middle East policy back to the way he left it as Vice-President under Barack Obama: Easing Mr Trump's \"maximum pressure\" campaign on Iran and aiming to re-join the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the White House two years ago.\n\nThat prospect horrifies Israel and Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE. One Israeli minister said in response to Mr Biden's likely win that the policy would end with \"a violent Israeli-Iranian confrontation, because we will be forced to act\".\n\nThe result also dramatically shifts the US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr Trump's plan was seen to heavily favour Israel and give it the chance to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. That was shelved in favour of historic deals to establish ties between Israel and several Arab states.\n\nThis drive to regional \"normalisation\" is likely to continue under Mr Biden, but he may try to slow controversial US weapons sales to the Gulf and would likely seek more Israeli concessions. Annexation now seems definitively off the table and Mr Biden will also object to further Israeli settlement building.\n\nBut there won't be the \"complete U-turn\" that one Palestinian official demanded this week. The rhetoric will return to the traditional understanding of a \"two-state solution\", but the chances of making much progress in the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process look slim.\n\nHopes are high among activists that the Biden administration will increase pressure on Egypt over human rights, writes Sally Nabil in Cairo.\n\nEgypt's military-backed President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi enjoyed a very good relationship with Donald Trump. It would have been better for him to keep a friend in the White House, but now he will have to start a fresh chapter with Joe Biden.\n\nCritics of President Sisi accused the Trump administration of turning a blind eye to his alleged human rights abuses. Egypt receives $1.3bn in US military aid per year. In 2017, a small tranche of this aid was suspended over human rights concerns but was released the following year.\n\nJoe Biden winning the White House is seen as good news by many human rights groups here. Activists hope the new US administration will put pressure on the Egyptian government to change its heavy-handed policies toward the opposition - with tens of thousands of political prisoners reportedly in prison. The Egyptian authorities have always denied jailing any prisoners of conscience, challenging the credibility of critical human rights reports.\n\n\"US-Egyptian relations have always been strategic, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office,\" says Ahmed Sayyed Ahmed, a political analyst. \"Partnership will continue, but the Democrats' rhetoric about human rights might not be well received by some Egyptians, who see this as meddling in their country's affairs.\"\n\nAfter harsh sanctions, Joe Biden's victory brings relief, writes the BBC's Cuba Correspondent Will Grant.\n\nA Biden presidency is exactly what most Cubans have been hoping for. Indeed, the majority of people on the island would happily see almost anyone in the White House other than Donald Trump. His sanctions have brought real hardship and Cubans are exhausted after four years of unrelenting hostility.\n\nJoe Biden, on the other hand, revives memories of the recent highpoint in Cuban-US relations under President Obama. In fact, the former vice-president is said to have been instrumental in making the two years of detente possible.\n\nThe majority of people on the island would happily see almost anyone in the White House other than Donald Trump\n\nThe communist-run government in Havana will no doubt continue to say all US presidents are essentially cut from the same cloth. But among the people queuing for basic goods and struggling to make ends meet, the overriding feeling will nonetheless be one of great relief.\n\nThe only drawback from Cubans point of view? Mr Biden is now well aware of just how positively President Trump's harsh treatment of Cuba played to voters in the key election battleground of Florida. They fear he may be far less inclined to ease some of Mr Trump's measures than he otherwise might have been.\n\nJustin Trudeau will see an ally in his new neighbour, writes Jessica Murphy in Toronto.\n\nThe Canadian prime minister pledged to deepen ties with the US no matter who won the presidential election - but it's likely relief was felt in Ottawa when it became clear Democrat Joe Biden had clinched victory.\n\nCanada's relationship with the US has been rocky under President Trump, though not without its accomplishments. They include the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, along with Mexico.\n\nBut Justin Trudeau has made clear he felt a political kinship with former President Barack Obama - who endorsed him during the recent Canadian federal election. That feeling of warmth extends to the man who served as Mr Obama's vice-president - Joe Biden.\n\nIn Mr Biden, Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party will find an ally on issues like climate change and multilateralism. But that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for friction with his administration. President Trump authorised the construction of the Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project seen as key to Canada's struggling energy sector - but President-elect Biden opposes the project.\n\nAnd Joe Biden's \"Buy American\" economic plan to revive US industry after the coronavirus pandemic will be a concern given Canada's deep dependence on trade with the US.", "Milind Soman is a keen sportsman as well as an actor and model\n\nIndian actor and model Milind Soman has been charged by police after he shared a naked picture of himself on Instagram.\n\nSoman posted the image on Wednesday, showing him sprinting nude down a Goa beach, with the caption \"Happy Birthday to me!\".\n\nIt attracted over 147,000 likes and thousands of comments.\n\nBut police were called to action following a complaint by political party Goa Suraksha Manch.\n\nThe party said Soman had indulged in public obscenity, and tainted Goa's image.\n\nPolice charged him on Friday with public obscenity and sharing lewd images online.\n\nIn an interview with the Bombay Times, his wife Ankita Konwar, who took the photo, said it \"sends out a very positive message on body positivity and being free and happy with who you are.\n\n\"I think anyone who accepts themselves for who they are has this incredible light and energy around them, and people start liking their presence,\" she added. \"Milind's always been like that. Always himself.\"\n\nSameer Khutwalker, president of Goa Suraksha Manch, told the Indian Express newspaper he was happy Soman had been charged.\n\n\"He has used Goa for cheap publicity and acted foolishly on a public beach,\" said Mr Khutwalker.\n\n\"When these things become public, people will imagine that 'anything is possible in Goa,\" he added. \"When will all this stop?\"\n\nIt is the second time Soman has been booked for charges of obscenity. In 1995, he and model Madhu Sapre were charged for appearing nude in an advertising campaign, wearing only a pair of shoes and a python wrapped around them.\n\nEarlier this year, Soman posted the picture on his social media, with the caption \"What the reaction would have been if it had been released today…\".\n\nThe latest charge also comes days after actor and model Poonam Pandey, and her husband, were arrested for allegedly trespassing on government property and shooting an \"objectionable\" video at a dam in Goa. The pair have since been released on bail.\n• None 'They asked if we were wearing clothes underneath'", "The UK has imposed a ban on non-UK citizens coming from Denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans.\n\nUK citizens can return from Denmark - but will have to isolate along with all members of their household for 14 days.\n\nCabin crew are also no longer exempt from the rules, which Ryanair described as a \"bizarre and baseless\" move.\n\nThe transport secretary announced the changes less than two hours before they took effect on Saturday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Grant Shapps said: \"This decision to act quickly follows on from health authorities in Denmark reporting widespread outbreaks of coronavirus in mink farms. Keeping the UK public safe remains our top priority.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a further 413 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest daily figures from the government. It brings the overall UK death toll, by this measure, to 48,888.\n\nDenmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod called Mr Shapps' travel announcement a \"very drastic step\" and said he had discussed them with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday.\n\nMr Kofod said Danish health authorities were \"working closely\" with international health organisations to share information and \"reaching out\" to ensure any \"relevant knowledge\" is passed to UK officials.\n\nOfficials will contact anyone in the UK who has been in Denmark in the last fortnight to make sure they also self-isolate.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care estimates that between 300 and 500 people have arrived in the UK from Denmark in the last 14 days.\n\nDenmark had been taken off the UK coronavirus travel corridors list on Friday after it first became apparent the mutated form of coronavirus was present in the country. It meant any passengers arriving in the UK from Denmark would need to self-isolate after their arrival.\n\nThe latest rules, which took effect at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, ban foreign visitors who have been in or transited through Denmark and also expand the self-isolation requirements for returning Britons and residents to include all members of their households.\n\nThe changes also mean any cabin crew and pilots in Denmark are no longer exempt from quarantine rules, and must self-isolate along with the rest of their household for 14 days.\n\nCrew who were in Denmark before the deadline in the last seven days are not legally required to self-isolate, but the DfT is strongly recommending they do so.\n\nRyanair said the quarantine for cabin crew was \"bizarre and baseless\", in part because crew members \"never leave the aircraft during their 25-minute turnaround on the ground in Copenhagen airport\".\n\nIn a statement the airline said it had no choice but to cancel all flights to and from Denmark while the rules remain in place, and urged Mr Shapps to reverse the decision.\n\nScottish airline Loganair said that due to government restrictions it has suspended flights between Scotland and Denmark from 9 to 22 November.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the government told lorry drivers and freight handlers returning to the UK from Denmark that they must also self-isolate for two weeks. All direct passenger flights and ships carrying freight (as well as passengers) from Denmark have also been stopped.\n\nDenmark was the UK's 23rd largest export market in 2019, worth £6.8bn for goods and services.\n\nA mutated strain of coronavirus that has spread to humans has triggered culls of millions of mink across Denmark and a lockdown in some parts of the country.\n\nMore than 200 people have been infected with strains related to mink, according to reports.\n\nMink kept in large numbers on farms have caught the virus from infected workers. And, in a small number of cases, the virus has crossed back from mink to humans, picking up genetic changes on the way.\n\nMutations in some of the strains, which have infected a small number of people, are reported to involve the spike protein of the virus, which is targeted by some, but not all, vaccines being developed.\n\nThe coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates over time, but there is no evidence that any of the mutations pose an increased danger to people.\n\nThe World Health Organization has said it is too early to jump to conclusions.\n\nYou can read more from Helen here.\n\nThe Denmark travel ban and new requirements will be reviewed after a week, the DfT said.\n\nA DfT spokeswoman said the government was working closely with international partners to understand the changes in the virus that have been reported in Denmark and conducting a programme of further research in the UK \"to inform our risk assessments\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nMink-related mutations of the Covid have been detected in 200 people in Denmark, most of them are connected to farms in Denmark's North Jutland region.\n\nThe Danish authorities have described the situation as very serious - and have ordered the cull of all mink in the country - thought to number around 17 million.\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over the coronavirus mutation.\n\nLeaving home to go on holiday is currently banned for most people in the UK.\n\nIn England, where a new national lockdown came into force on Thursday, people are still allowed to travel overseas for work or education trips.\n\nWere you planning to travel from Denmark to the UK? Have you just returned to the UK? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Harry drew each of the handmade poppies\n\nAn eight-year-old boy who wanted to make people \"happy in these sad times\", has raised more than £1,000 for the Poppy Appeal.\n\nHarry Fletcher from Hartlepool began making poppies to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day during the first coronavirus lockdown in May.\n\nUnable to take part in the remembrance parade on Sunday, he decided to sell handmade poppies for £1 each for the Royal British Legion.\n\nHis target of £20 has reached £1,137.\n\nHe said: \"I struggled in the first lockdown and when mam told me we couldn't do the remembrance parade with my Cubs I said we should sell the poppies to raise money for the British Legion.\"\n\nHarry drew each and laminated each poppy\n\nHarry said he \"really enjoyed making the poppies\" but when too many orders came in he had to think of how to make them quicker so he came up with the idea of printing them.\n\n\"I said to my mam they will make people happy in these sad times.\n\n\"It makes me feel very happy that the money raised will help a lot of people who used to be in the Army,\" he added.\n\nThe JustGiving page has raised more than £1,000 for the Royal British Legion and cash donations of £302 will given to the Hartlepool Legion.\n\nOrders came from as far as Scunthorpe and Florida\n\nHarry's family safely delivered the poppies to neighbours and the local community before lockdown.\n\nHis father Stephen said: \"It made us feel very proud that he wanted to help other people.\n\n\"Seeing the poppies in windows around the neighbourhood makes us realise that in times of need we do all come together, Harry's donations have come from as far as Florida and California which he found amazing.\n\n\"We were extremely proud and overwhelmed with the support of the community.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is among politicians to have congratulated Joe Biden on his US election win.\n\nHe said he looked forward to \"working closely\" with the new president-elect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised Mr Biden's campaign of \"decency, integrity, compassion and strength\".\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid said Biden's win was \"good news\" for the UK in terms of closer co-operation on climate change, free trade and fighting the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Sky News' Ridge on Sunday that Mr Johnson's closeness to Donald Trump had been \"overstated\" and the Conservative government actually had more in common, in terms of policy, with his Democratic rival.\n\nVote counting continues after Tuesday's election, but the BBC projected on Saturday that Mr Biden has surpassed 270 electoral college votes - the threshold required to win.\n\nDonald Trump's campaign has indicated the incumbent president does not plan to concede.\n\nMr Johnson said in a statement on Twitter on Saturday: \"The US is our important ally and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who has yet to meet Mr Biden, also congratulated the president-elect's running mate, Kamala Harris, on \"her historic achievement\". She will be the country's first female vice-president.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said Mr Trump had \"fought hard\" but that he was looking forward to working with the new administration.\n\n\"The UK-US friendship has always been a force for good in the world,\" he added.\n\nThey won't be seen as natural allies: Joe Biden, the seasoned Democrat, and Boris Johnson, the enthusiastic Brexiteer.\n\nIn looking at how their future relationship might work, it's worth considering the past. Specifically that seminal year, 2016, when Donald Trump won the White House and the UK voted to leave the EU. Both Mr Biden and his boss at the time, Barack Obama, made no secret they preferred another outcome on Brexit.\n\nThe UK government's recent manoeuvres in relation to Brexit have not gone down well with key Democrats and the Irish lobby, including the US president-elect. Mr Biden said he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if elected - stating that any future US-UK trade deal would be contingent upon respecting the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe \"special relationship\" could, feasibly, face a downgrade. However, the two men may yet find some common ground.\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said the result was \"a great victory for social justice, climate action and democracy\".\n\nFirst Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon also shared her congratulations, while SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the win \"gives great hope to progressives here in Scotland and around the world\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford tweeted that he was looking forward to working with Mr Biden \"to build on the strong links between Wales and USA\".\n\nThe UK is currently in trade talks with both the US and the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Biden warned that he would not accept any agreement that imperilled the Good Friday Agreement and peace in Northern Ireland. While vice-president, he signalled his opposition to Brexit.\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry told Sky News that it would \"very difficult but not impossible\" for a government led by staunch Brexiteer Mr Johnson to develop a close relationship with the president-elect.\n\nJoe Biden visited the UK as vice-president in 2013, when David Cameron was prime minister\n\nShe told Ridge on Sunday the UK's primary focus must be on completing an agreement with the EU.\n\n\"The reality is getting an all-singing, all-dancing trade deal is something that takes many years and is quite complex,\" she said.\n\n\"Let's make sure we have a proper deal with the EU...and that we are not undermining the Good Friday Agreement and then we could move to work with the US in other areas where we could increase trade.\"\n\nThe BBC's projection of Mr Biden's victory is based on the unofficial results from states that have already finished counting their votes, and the expected results from states like Wisconsin where the count is continuing.\n\nMr Biden has won more than 73 million votes so far, the most ever for a US presidential candidate. Mr Trump has drawn almost 70 million, the second-highest tally in history.", "Donald Trump has made his first public appearance since election night, speaking to media at the White House.\n\nThe president took no questions from journalists after making a number of serious allegations on voter fraud and \"illegal votes\". He did not provide any evidence to back up the claims.\n\nMr Trump said “if you count the legal votes I easily win. If you count the illegal votes they can try to steal the election from us,\" adding that there had been \"historic election interference from big media, big money, big tech.\" There is no evidence to support either of these claims.\n\nIt is not \"illegal votes\" that are now being counted, as the president says, but legitimate mail-in ballots, which are always counted last, following the standard procedure in these states.", "Authorities remove the debris from the blast in Kabul\n\nA well-known former television presenter has been killed in a blast in Afghanistan that officials have blamed on militants linked to the Taliban.\n\nYama Siawash was an anchor on the private TV channel Tolo News and had recently started work at the country's central bank.\n\nHe and two others were killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded near his home in the capital Kabul.\n\nNo group has officially claimed the attack.\n\nBut the interior ministry has reportedly blamed the Haqqani militant group, which is linked to the Taliban and is classed as a terrorist organisation by the US.\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani has reportedly ordered an investigation into the killings.\n\nSiawash had a bachelor's degree in law and political science. He spent almost a decade working as a journalist in Afghanistan and was one of Tolo TV's most prominent presenters before starting work as a public relations adviser for the Central Bank of Afghanistan.\n\nAnother bank employee, Ahmadullah Anas, died in the attack along with their driver Mohammad Amin. Pictures on social media show the car engulfed in flames after the attack.\n\nViolence in Afghanistan has worsened in recent months including targeted killings of journalists, politicians and rights activists.\n\nLast week the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported that in the last three months there had been a 50% rise in \"enemy-initiated attacks\" compared with the previous three.\n\nAbdullah Abdullah, who heads Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation process, condemned the attack as an \"unforgiveable\" crime.\n\nAnd Ross Wilson, US chargé d'affaires in Kabul, tweeted that he was \"shocked\" by the attack and expressed his sympathies for the families of those killed.\n\n\"This attack is an assault on freedom of the press, one of Afghanistan's core democratic principles,\" he posted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Will we be seeing a President Kanye?\n\nWe don't know - still - who the next US president will be, but we do know who it won't be - Kanye West.\n\nThe 43-year-old rapper has conceded after his self-styled \"Birthday Party\" collected just 60,000 votes out of an estimated total of 160 million.\n\nAnother independent, Libertarian Jo Jorgensen, made a much stronger showing - claiming more than 1.5 million votes.\n\nBut West's political career may not be over yet. He tweeted \"Kanye 2024\" this week, signalling another bid to come.\n\nIn this first presidential attempt, West appeared on the ballot in 12 states, missing the filing deadline in most others. He gathered the most votes - 10,188 - in Tennessee, a state that typically favours Republican candidates.\n\nWhen he announced his candidacy in July, West had said that his platform was modelled off Wakanda, the fictional kingdom from Black Panther.\n\nEnding police brutality was a priority, he told Forbes in an interview, as was cleaning up chemicals \"in our deodorant, in our toothpaste\", and was focused on protecting America with its \"great military\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ye This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Because when we win, it's everybody's birthday party,\" he said.\n\nBut West's candidacy was the subject of much criticism - and concern about his health.\n\nAt a rally in Charleston, South Carolina, meant to officially launch his campaign, the star made several bewildering rants, at one point saying that 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman \"never actually freed the slaves, she just had the slaves go to work for other white people\".\n\nWest later began crying when talking about abortion, saying that his parents almost aborted him, and that he had previously wanted to abort his daughter.\n\nThe rapper disclosed last year that he had bipolar disorder and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, posted on social media amid his run asking for \"compassion and empathy\" for West whose \"words sometimes do not align with his intentions\".\n\nAnd posts on Twitter by West urging followers to write-in his name on ballots for president incited criticism that he was effectively siphoning votes away from legitimate candidates.\n\nMs Jorgensen, on the other hand, staged a more conventional independent campaign, making stops across the country to rally supporters, seeking endorsements and pushing a platform guided by Libertarian principles - small government and individual freedom.\n\nMs Jorgensen is the first female Libertarian nominee\n\nThe 63-year-old psychology lecturer at Clemson University was the first female Libertarian nominee for president and earned the second most votes of any Libertarian nominee in history, according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"The Libertarian Party's baseline votes will continue to grow,\" Ms Jorgensen said in a statement. \"The only way Democrats and Republicans can keep us down is by adopting our libertarian policies.\"\n\nThe Libertarian party formed in the US in the 1970s but its nominee has never won the presidency.\n\nOf the independent candidates, Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins came in second behind Ms Jorgensen, earning more than 339,000 votes nationwide.\n\nBut these three candidates were not the only ones with long-shot bids for 2020 - not even close. They joined more than 1,200 candidates to file a presidential run with the Federal Election Commission this year.", "Mr Johnson believes there is 'a deal to be done'\n\n\"Significant differences\" between the UK and the EU remain, as negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal continue, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said\n\nFollowing a call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday, the PM said progress had been made but there were still issues around the \"level playing field\" and fishing.\n\nBoth parties agreed negotiating teams would resume talks in London on Monday.\n\nThey also agreed to remain \"in close contact\" over the coming days.\n\nA statement from Downing Street on Saturday said:\n\n\"Prime Minister Boris Johnson today spoke with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a stock take on the progress in the negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\n\"The prime minister set out that, while some progress had been made in recent discussions, significant differences remain in a number of areas, including the so-called level playing field and fish.\n\n\"The prime minister and president agreed that their negotiating teams would continue talks in London next week, beginning on Monday, in order to redouble efforts to reach a deal.\n\n\"They agreed to remain in personal contact about the negotiations,\" the statement said.\n\nEchoing Mr Johnson, Ms von der Leyen acknowledged \"some progress had been made, but large differences remain\". \"Our teams will continue working hard next week,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister has said he believes there is \"a deal to be done\" and \"very much hopes\" to come to an agreement, but he has insisted the country was \"very well prepared\" to move on should the two parties not be able to agree a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Audit Office has warned of \"significant disruption\" when the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and entered the transition period - continuing to follow many EU rules - while a trade deal was negotiated.\n\nBut while both sides said a deal needed to be done in October, they have yet to come to an agreement, and talks between the negotiating teams have intensified.\n\nThe transition period is due to come to an end on 31 December, meaning the UK would trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation rules - meaning tariffs are imposed - if a deal is not in place.\n\nCritics say this could cause damage to the UK economy, but the government insists the country will prosper with or without a deal.\n\nEarlier this week, both the UK and EU's chief trade negotiators warned of \"wide\" and \"serious divergences\" between the two sides.\n\nSticking points include fishing rights, competition rules and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nAsked on Friday if the UK could get a deal in the next 10 days, Mr Johnson said: \"I very much hope that we will, but obviously that depends on our friends and partners across the Channel.\n\n\"I think there is a deal to be done, if they want to do it.\n\n\"If not, the country is, of course, very well prepared. As I have said before, we can do very well with on Australian terms [without a deal], if that is what we have to go for.\"\n\nThomas Byrne, Ireland's minister for European affairs, said the talks up to this point between the EU and UK's negotiators, Michel Barnier and David Frost, had been \"difficult\", with \"big issues\" still remaining.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I personally don't expect that there would me major progress today, but at the same time I think it's very good that they are talking - I think that's really positive. But I'm not sure that we would expect a moment at this point.\"\n\nMr Byrne was also asked if there could be a \"new dynamic\" to discussions between the UK and EU if Joe Biden was elected the US president, saying it was \"certainly possible\".\n\nMr Biden, who has Irish roots, said in September that he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if he was elected president.\n\nMr Byrne said: \"He was very clear in his suggestion and statement on the 16th of September that any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent on respect for the Good Friday Agreement and preventing the return of the hard border.\"", "Work is beginning on what is thought to be the world's first major plant to store energy in the form of liquid air.\n\nIt will use surplus electricity from wind farms at night to compress air so hard that it becomes a liquid at -196 Celsius.\n\nThen when there is a peak in demand in a day or a month, the liquid air will be warmed so it expands.\n\nThe resulting rush of air will drive a turbine to make electricity, which can be sold back to the grid.\n\nThe 50MW facility near Manchester will store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes for five hours.\n\nThe system was devised by Peter Dearman, a self-taught backyard inventor from Hertfordshire, and it has been taken to commercial scale with a £10m grant from the UK government.\n\n\"It's very exciting,\" he told BBC News. \"We need many different forms of energy storage - and I'm confident liquid air will be one of them.\"\n\nThe energy plant will use surplus electricity from wind farms at night\n\nMr Dearman said his invention was 60-70% efficient, depending how it is used.\n\nThat is less efficient than batteries, but he said the advantage of liquid air is the low cost of the storage tanks - so it can easily be scaled up.\n\nAlso, unlike batteries, liquid air storage does not create a demand for minerals which may become increasingly scarce as the world moves towards power systems based on variable renewable electricity.\n\n\"Batteries are really great for short-term storage,\" Mr Dearman said. \"But they are too expensive to do long-term energy storage. That's where liquid air comes in.\"\n\nMr Dearman had been developing a car run on similar principles with liquid hydrogen when he saw the potential for applying the technology to electricity storage.\n\nHe is now a passive shareholder in Highview, one of the firms building the 50MW plant.\n\nProf John Loughhead, from the government's business and energy department, has previously praised the technology.", "France is currently one week into a second lockdown that is expected to end on 1 December\n\nFrance has recorded 60,486 coronavirus cases in one day, its highest one-day total since the pandemic began.\n\nThe new figures bring the number of confirmed cases in the country to 1.7 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nA further 828 deaths were confirmed on Friday. Almost 40,000 people have now died from the virus in the country.\n\nFrance is one week into a second lockdown with the aim of curbing the spread of the virus.\n\nUnder the lockdown restrictions, expected to be in place until 1 December, people can only leave their homes to go to work (if they cannot work from home), to buy essential goods, seek medical help or to exercise for one hour a day.\n\nAll non-essential shops, restaurants and bars are shut, but schools and creches remain open.\n\nAccording to AFP news agency, the number of people admitted to hospital over the past 24 hours was 553 - the smallest one-day increase in almost three weeks.\n\nOn Thursday, Health Minister Olivier Véran warned people to stick to the lockdown rules, claiming that intensive care units would be overwhelmed by the middle of November without the restrictions.\n\n\"The more rigorous we are, the shorter the lockdown will be,\" he said in a press conference. \"The situation is very serious - the second wave is here and it is violent.\"\n\nMuch of Italy is now in lockdown, including the densely populated northern Lombardy region, after the death toll for 24 hours hit 445 - a six-month record.\n\nItaly is now split into three zones - red for high risk, then orange and yellow. The red areas are Lombardy, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north and Calabria in the south.\n\nThe whole country has a night curfew.\n\nItalians face various restrictions depending on where they live\n\nIn Italy's red zones, which cover an estimated 16.5 million people out of a population of 60 million, you can now only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies, but all non-essential shops are closed.\n\nBars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks and hairdressers can remain open.\n\nFor the first time in Germany, the 24-hour total for people newly infected has surpassed 20,000 - officially it was 21,506 on Friday.\n\nDenmark has imposed a lockdown in seven North Jutland provinces because of concerns over a coronavirus mutation found in mink that can spread to humans. Denmark has started culling all its mink, farmed for their fur - a population as many as 17 million animals.\n\nPoland is shutting its cinemas, museums and most shopping centres on Saturday, after new daily infections rose to a record of nearly 24,700.", "Up to 10,000 war veterans marched during the remembrance service at the Cenotaph last year\n\nThe Royal British Legion is encouraging people to mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend by observing a two-minute silence on their doorstep.\n\nThe charity said this was a way \"you can still play your part from home\", with coronavirus restrictions affecting annual remembrance events.\n\nIt comes after thousands of households took to their doorsteps to applaud the NHS during lockdown.\n\nAt 11:00 GMT on Sunday, a two-minute silence will be held across the UK.\n\nIt is part of the annual commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflicts, although events this year have had to be scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFor the first time in its history, the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London will not be open to the public.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, the government and the armed forces are still expected to attend the ceremony, which will have strict social distancing measures in force, but the annual march past the Cenotaph will not take place.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he wanted to \"properly\" mark 100 years since the monument was installed but said \"it is with a heavy heart that I must ask people not to attend the ceremony at the Cenotaph this year in order to keep veterans and the public safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We will ensure our plans for the day are a fitting tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and that our veterans are at the at the heart of the service - with the nation able to watch safely from home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAround 10,000 people usually gather at the Cenotaph each year for the service, which will be broadcast on BBC One from 10:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nDowning Street said Remembrance Sunday events in England could go ahead despite the national lockdown, so long as they were outdoors, with social distancing.\n\nGovernment guidance advises that any events should be \"short and focused on wreath laying\" and event organisers should \"discourage the public from attending\".\n\nIn Wales, which is also under a national lockdown, outdoor events are also permitted up to a maximum of 30 people, although parades are not allowed.\n\nTraditional annual remembrance events at local war memorials across Scotland have been cancelled, with outdoor standing events not permitted in areas under Covid levels one, two and three.\n\nHowever, services held in places of worship can proceed - as long as they comply with the restrictions on size.\n\nThe pandemic has affected fundraising efforts by the Royal British Legion\n\nThe Royal British Legion said that although many remembrance services and events couldn't take place this year, it was \"asking the nation to still come together to honour all who have served in our armed forces\" by joining the national two-minute silence from their doorstep at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe charity behind the annual Poppy Appeal, which raises money for veterans, has asked people to donate online because collectors are not allowed out on the streets during the lockdown in England and Wales.\n\nBob Gamble, from the Royal British Legion, said the pandemic had created \"difficulties of loneliness, homelessness, unemployment and stress\" for the Armed Forces veteran community, which needed the support of the Royal British Legion charities \"more this year than any other\".", "Winter lockdowns: Five women share their tips for getting through winter weather\n\nIt's hard to stay positive during lockdown, particularly in the winter months. You might be feeling just as frosty, gloomy and miserable as the UK's weather forecasts. But last year, millions of people across the world experienced coronavirus lockdowns in snowy and sometimes sub-zero conditions - so what can we learn from them?\n\nLockdown began in January 2020 in Wuhan, when the city saw lows of -3.6C and a top temperature of 14C.\n\nYilang Zeng experienced the first city-wide lockdown of the pandemic after travelling to visit her parents in Wuhan for Chinese New Year in January.\n\nYilang Zeng enjoyed spending time with her parents during lockdown in Wuhan but won't miss giving home haircuts: \"Luckily my dad cannot see from the back\"\n\nThe Emirates airline cabin crew member, aged 28, relished the extended \"holiday\" with her parents, because she had been living in Dubai, since 2016.\n\nYilang says the cold and wet Wuhan weather made it tempting to leave the heating on all day - but she suggests putting on a jumper and throwing open a window, to get some fresh air inside.\n\nAnd while the two-month lockdown meant Yilang could really settle into family time, she also made a point of bringing her cabin crew etiquette home with her. \"Always compliment the one who cooks,\" she says, because otherwise, \"it might be the longest holiday together with your family\".\n\nLockdown in Russia began in March 2020. In the city of Murmansk, in the far north-west of the country, temperatures can drop well below -10C at that time of year.\n\n\"Remote learning\" takes on whole new levels of meaning for teacher Anna Turkina and her family, who spent last March's lockdown deep in the Arctic Circle in Murmansk - almost 2,000km (1,200 miles) north of Moscow.\n\nAnna Turkina and her family loved baking - and eating - bread together during lockdown in their home in the Arctic Circle\n\nFor Anna, 36, the stay-at-home order to curb coronavirus infections meant being cooped up in her flat with her husband and two children, then aged four and 11.\n\nShe would wrap the children up warm and persuade them to go out and play on the small balcony to breathe the \"really fresh and very nice air\" - but only for 15 minutes at a time. \"We have really severe winters and it was -15C,\" she adds. The nippy playtimes were part of Anna's strict schedule, which she says must be kept to to avoid \"going mad in such hard times\".\n\nLockdown in Tromsø began in March 2020, when the average temperature was -1.1C, with lows of -8.9C. It rained or snowed almost every day.\n\nIda Solhaug says coping with a winter lockdown is all about mindset.\n\nIda Solhaug says going outside during lockdown is important, and even Norway's sub-zero temperatures are manageable if you have enough clothes\n\nThe mindfulness researcher at the University of Tromsø says my line of questioning - about how to \"get through\" the cold months - is a big part of the problem. She says Brits often see winter as \"something to endure\" rather than \"really embracing winter for what it's worth\".\n\nShe says adopting a \"positive winter mindset\" could help us cope with the stresses of a lockdown at this time of year. For example, instead of moaning about not being able to meet up in big groups, be grateful that we can wrap up warm and go on a winter walk with one person from another household, Ida says.\n\nCycling to work in the snow or meeting friends outside (at -8C) with a flask of coffee were two ways Ida coped with \"the long Covid winter\" - but she says people in the UK can do far less extreme things to enjoy winter during lockdown.\n\nMelbourne entered a three-month lockdown during Australian winter in July 2020, when temperatures reached lows of 3.1Cand highs of 17.4C.\n\nThe luxury of a hot bath helped Rowan Bruce to face the mental pressures of a 112-day lockdown in Melbourne.\n\nBubbles in the bath: Rowan enjoying his top tipple\n\nRowan found that running a bath, pouring a glass of wine and watching a film or TV programme - all at the same time - became one of the highlights of his week. He particularly enjoyed watching travel shows presented by the celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain: \"If I can't travel, I'll travel with him instead.\"\n\n\"It's something I'd never really done before, and now it's my favourite thing to do every Saturday,\" says Rowan, 36, who works at a local brewery. \"It's got to the point where everyone knows that between 3:30pm and 4:30pm every Saturday, I'm probably in the tub.\" He says the ritual provided structure to his day and became the perfect way to spend a cold afternoon in lockdown.\n\nRowan's friend, Gillian Nix, agrees routine is important - such as dragging her young children out for a daily morning walk - but she says trying to think of fun activities to fill the time can lead to burnout.\n\nGillian Nix (right) says she and her husband Chris (left) have felt \"pure fatigue\" when trying to think of fun indoor activities with their children while in lockdown in Melbourne\n\nGillian says she and her husband, Chris, were full of energy and ideas at the beginning of lockdown. They would organise \"country days\" with their children Alice, six, and Otis, three, where they cooked food, dressed up, and watched films from a different country each week. But the couple began to feel exhausted by thinking of new things to do.\n\nIn her lowest moments in lockdown, Gillian, 39, said it was important to be kind to herself. \"Allowing yourself to have a bad hour where you just put on kids' TV or YouTube or whatever, that's fine. This isn't your normal parenting style.\n\n\"Before lockdown we would go on day trips, to the beach, or to art galleries, and go out, [but] you can't judge yourself on now because it's not the normal thing. So take it hour by hour.\"\n\nToronto's average temperature in March 2020, when people were first urged to stay at home due to Covid, was 4.0C, with lows of -7.7C. Snow lay on the ground most days.\n\n\"I think it's important not to pressure yourself with the notion of going outside,\" says Ashwini Selvakumaran.\n\nAshwini Selvakumaran after an online Zumba session at her parents' home in Milton, Ontario\n\nWhen Canada's prime minister urged people to stay inside and the country went into lockdown, the third-year student at the University of Toronto decided to move out of her flat in the city to stay with her parents in the nearby town of Milton. Ashwini's parents repeatedly encouraged her to go for runs in the bracing cold, but she shrank away from the cold air and snow.\n\n\"I love dancing and moving my body to music, and online there were so many videos and free Zumba tutorials and I just did those,\" the 20-year-old says.\n\n\"Not only did it increase my ability to be active inside the house, but it also made me feel happy just being able to relate back to that passion that I love.\"\n\nThis piece was first published on 7 November 2020.", "Widespread nursing shortages across the NHS could lead to staff burnout and risk patient safety this winter, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.\n\nThe nursing union said a combination of staff absence due to the pandemic, and around 40,000 registered nursing vacancies in England was putting too much strain on the remaining workforce.\n\nThe government says more than 13,000 nurses have been recruited this year.\n\nIt has committed to 50,000 more nurses by 2025.\n\nIt also hopes England's four-week lockdown will ease pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe RCN has expressed concern that staff shortages are affecting every area of nursing, from critical care and cancer services to community nursing, which provides care to people in their own homes.\n\nThe union said it was worried the extra responsibility and pressure placed on senior nurses could lead to staff \"burnout\", as hospitals struggle to clear the backlog of cancelled operations from the first wave of coronavirus and cope with rising numbers of new Covid patients, as well as the annual pressures that winter typically brings.\n\nThe boss of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, told a Downing Street press conference on Thursday that flu and other winter conditions usually brought in 3,000 additional patients to hospitals, but there were already more than 10,000 coronavirus patients in England before winter pressures have even arrived.\n\nThe latest government figures show there were more than 12,000 Covid patients in hospital in the UK on 3 November.\n\nSir Simon said some staff had been trained and redeployed to help bolster care for Covid patients in ICU, but the RCN said it may not be enough to cope with a surge in demand and has called on the government to think carefully about which services can be safely maintained, without spreading staff \"too thinly\".\n\nMike Adams, RCN England Director, said: \"The NHS is now at its highest level of preparedness as it faces the prospect of an extremely challenging winter.\n\n\"We already know that frontline nurses - in hospitals, communities and care homes - are under huge strain. Anecdotally we're hearing that in some hospitals they [nurses] are becoming increasingly thinly spread on the ground, as staff become unwell or have to isolate, at the same time as demand on services continues to increase.\n\n\"The government says nurses have been given extra training to provide more critical care staff to treat Covid-19 patients, but there simply aren't enough to go around. There are around 40,000 registered nursing vacancies across the NHS in England alone.\n\n\"It is essential that learning is applied to planning for this winter, including what services can be delivered safely with the workforce available.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jill Biden: Joe will \"keep the promise of America\"\n\nStanding in an empty classroom where she taught English in the 1990s, Jill Biden delivered an address at the Democratic Party's convention after her husband was officially named presidential candidate.\n\nAfter making the case for Joe Biden to be elected, she was joined by her husband who lauded her qualities as a potential first lady.\n\n\"For all of you out there across the country, just think of your favourite educator who gave you the confidence to believe in yourself. That's the kind of first lady... Jill Biden will be,\" he said.\n\nBut what do we know about the woman who will soon be joining her husband in the White House?\n\nJill Jacobs was born in June 1951 in the US state of New Jersey. The oldest of five sisters, she grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove.\n\nPrior to marrying Joe, she was married to former college football player Bill Stevenson.\n\nJoe Biden lost his first wife and his one-year-old daughter in a car accident in 1972. (His sons Beau and Hunter both survived the accident.) Jill says she was introduced to Joe through his brother three years later.\n\nAt the time, he was a senator, while she was still in college.\n\n\"I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts, he came to the door and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought: 'God, this is never going to work, not in a million years.'\n\n\"He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theatre in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off,\" she told Vogue of their first date.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said Joe proposed to her five times before she accepted.\n\n\"I couldn't have them [Joe's children] lose another mother. So I had to be 100% sure,\" she explained.\n\nThe couple married in New York City in 1977. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981.\n\nMrs Biden talked about her family and the struggles they have faced when she endorsed her husband for president at the convention.\n\nHis son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May 2015, at the age of 46.\n\n\"I know that if we entrust this nation to Joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours - bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need, keep the promise of America for all of us,\" she said.\n\nAs well as a bachelor's degree, she has two master's degrees, and a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware in 2007.\n\nPrior to moving to Washington, DC, she taught at a community college, at a public high school and at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents - she gave her address at the Democratic Party's convention this year from her old classroom at Delaware's Brandywine High School, where she taught English from 1991 to 1993.\n\nWhile her husband served as vice-president, Mrs Biden was professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.\n\n\"Teaching is not what I do. It's who I am,\" she tweeted in August.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Biden previously held the title of Second Lady while her husband served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017.\n\nDuring this period, her work included promoting community colleges, advocating for military families and raising awareness about breast cancer prevention.\n\nShe also launched the Joining Forces initiative with First Lady Michelle Obama, which included helping military veterans and their families access education programmes and employment resources.\n\nIn 2012, she published a children's book called Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops based on her granddaughter's experience of being in a military family.\n\nShe has been a prominent supporter of her husband during the 2020 campaign, appearing alongside him and holding events and fundraisers.", "The increase in coronavirus infections appears to be slowing around the UK, latest data from the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nAlthough the number of people with Covid continues to rise, the growth is levelling off.\n\nIn the week to 30 October, ONS says new daily infections in England stabilised at around 50,000.\n\nThat means around one person in every 90 in England has Covid. In Wales and Scotland the figure is slightly lower.\n\nThere, one in 110 people are testing positive for the virus.\n\nIn Northern Ireland it is one in 75 - and it is too soon to say if rates are levelling off there, say experts.\n\nThe ONS data looks at Covid-19 infections in the community, and does not include cases in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings.\n\nWith much of the UK in lockdown, experts hope the number of new infections can reduce in coming weeks.\n\nIn Liverpool, city-wide mass testing for Covid has begun.\n\nEveryone living or working in the region will be offered repeat tests, whether or not they have symptoms, as part of a two-week pilot.\n\nMeanwhile, data from the Covid Symptom Study app - based on a million people logging symptoms and 13,000 recent swab test results - suggests 42,049 people are developing Covid symptoms every day in the UK.\n\nThe R number remains the same as last week, at between 1.1 and 1.3, which means that on average every 10 people infected will infect between 11 and 13 other people and the outbreak is growing.\n\nRuth Studley from the ONS said: \"At a national level we are seeing infections slow across England and Wales but they are still increasing.\n\n\"The level of infection in young adults and older teenagers appears to have levelled off recently. However, they continue to be the most likely to be infected despite increases in all other age groups.\"\n\nProf James Naismith from Oxford University said the findings were \"encouraging\" and suggested that the spread of the virus was slowing.\n\n\"This is evidence that the social restrictions prior to lockdown have had a real impact.\n\n\"Should next week's data show a similar stabilisation or reduction, then we can be confident that the second wave has for now stabilised. The national lockdown will not begin to show up in ONS figures for another two weeks, but we would expect it to bring a rapid decrease in the number of new infections.\n\n\"If we can contain the virus until the new year, mass testing, vaccines and new medicines will transform our outlook.\"\n\nA Birmingham hospital has postponed all its non-emergency procedures because of an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nQueen Elizabeth Hospital is currently treating 389 patients who have tested positive, with 36 in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU). That compares with 60 in-patients a month ago, and just five in ICU.\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 Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time as she laid the wreath\n\nThe Queen has worn a face mask in public for the first time.\n\nOn Wednesday, the monarch, 94, made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of his burial.\n\nIt comes ahead of Remembrance Day commemorations on Sunday. She requested the service after some events were scaled back due to the pandemic.\n\nFace coverings are required by law in England in certain indoor settings, including places of worship.\n\nThe Queen was last seen in public when she visited Porton Down, near Salisbury, to meet scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), in October, alongside her grandson, Prince William. She did not wear a mask on that occasion, and neither did the prince.\n\nA bouquet, similar to the Queen's wedding bouquet, was placed on the Unknown Warrior's grave\n\nThe Queen unveils a plaque to officially open the new Energetics Analysis Centre at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on 15 October 2020\n\nThat decision attracted criticism from the pressure group Republic, but a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said at the time that \"specific advice had been sought... and all necessary precautions taken\".\n\nThe Queen's attendance at the private ceremony in London at Westminster Abbey earlier this week was described as a \"simple but deeply personal act\".\n\n\"The grave of the Unknown Warrior is as relevant and poignant today as it was when Her Majesty's grandfather and father stood in the Abbey at its side 100 years ago,\" said a royal aide.\n\n\"It holds enormous significance for the country and the Royal Family. The Queen was keen that the centenary was marked appropriately.\"\n\nThe bouquet of flowers was placed by the Queen's Equerry on her behalf\n\nThe grave of the Unknown Warrior represents those who died in World War One whose place of death is not known, or whose remains are unidentified.\n\nThe brief service was attended only by the Dean of Westminster, Dr David Hoyle, and the Queen's Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, after royal doctors advised limiting the numbers.\n\nIn keeping with a tradition established by her mother in 1923, the Queen - who was married at the Abbey in November 1947 - left a bouquet based on her own wedding flowers at the grave, close to Westminster Abbey's Great West Door.\n\nThat was followed by a prayer, recited by the Dean, and the lament Flowers of the Forest played by the Queen's piper, Pipe Major Richard Grisdale, who stood in the organ loft.\n\nSpeaking after the service, the Dean said: \"It was wonderful to see Her Majesty in such good spirits and good health.\n\n\"This is a moment where the Abbey does its job as the national place of worship. The story of the Unknown Warrior touches us all.\n\n\"It's very hard for all churches to shut their doors, it goes against everything we are ordained to do, which is to gather people together. Like so many communities, we're divided and that's difficult.\n\n\"It is very special for Her Majesty to do this, given the current restrictions. I know, because people tell me, that these moments when Her Majesty is in the Abbey gives us a sense of renewed purpose and encouragement. It makes us feel very privileged.\"\n\nThe Queen, who spent the first lockdown shielding at Windsor Castle, was advised against attending a service at the Abbey to mark the warrior's centenary on Armistice Day, next Wednesday, when the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will join the congregation.", "Jasper Ward came up with the idea in March for people to moo in unison from their homes and gardens\n\nA town's mass moo to bring positivity and fight boredom during the first lockdown has made a comeback.\n\nFor 83 days from March, hundreds of residents in Belper, Derbyshire gathered on doorsteps and leant out windows at 18:30 for a two-minute moo.\n\nFor the next four weeks, bellow organiser, Jasper Ward said they had vowed to return.\n\nHe said it would \"give people something to look forward to in these long dark nights\".\n\nThe chorus which became known as The Belper Moo ended on June 14, the night before non-essential shops reopened in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Back then it was all very novel, the sun was shining and the togetherness was very intoxicating,\" said Mr Ward.\n\n\"We were all cheering Captain Tom and applauding the NHS, but eight months on everyone's stamina has been really tested and we are all a bit worn out with it, but it's defiance in the face of that overbearing gloom.\"\n\nThe original concept of the moo was to have fun and be silly but Mr Ward said it had brought the town together.\n\n\"It's good fun to be moo-ing again but I really wished we weren't,\" he added.\n\n\"Once the weather really turns there is every chance that some people behind closed doors won't interact with another person that day or step out the house, so if nothing else, it gives them a reason to open a window and let off some steam or connect with a neighbour for a few seconds.\"\n\nA Facebook page has been used to share photos and videos of the moo-ing\n\nBelper, which also boasts a quirky Mr Potato Head statue, even saw people in Australia, Japan and the US joining them with the moo.\n\nMr Ward said: \"You can't see people but last night a man who lives opposite came out. I recognised his moo through the darkness.\"\n\nBack in April, resident Isabel Kennedy said the moo had become \"the highlight of my day.\"\n\n\"It brought our little four house, Quarry Road comoo-nity together in a way that sustained beyond lockdown and is tighter than ever now.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The Zootopia sloth was memed by online wags exasperated by the slow vote count\n\nThings are tense. As election officials work to count the remaining ballots, Americans have been left on the edge of their seats, sitting, watching and waiting for their next president.\n\nBut in the meantime, it's meme time.\n\nSince polls closed on Tuesday, Americans desperate for results have taken to social media, looking for ways to cope with election week anxiety. Ask the internet and you shall receive memes.\n\nIf one thing is clear, this election is starting to feel very, very long.\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 theoatmeal 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\nAnd as the officials count, pollsters predict, and the media projects, it has become very hard to think about absolutely anything else.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Holly Figueroa O'Reilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpecial attention has been turned to Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania where officials have yet to declare the winner, and whose voters could send either Joe Biden or Donald Trump to the White House. Nevada in particular - normally thought of for the gambling and nightlife of Las Vegas - has become a particular target of social media frustration.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut unfortunately for all of us waiting, wanting the results doesn't seem to be getting them here any faster.\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 sainthoax 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\nSome have even offered to drive to Nevada to assist with the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 rosina :p This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 others, maybe sick of the endless predictions, have offered a reimagined electoral map.\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\nAs it stands now, we're still waiting on results from Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.\n\nFor a deeper look at the presidential race, you can check out our minute-to-minute live coverage, or read up on when we might get a winner.", "Hospitals in Greater Manchester are treating \"more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave\", resulting in non-urgent care being suspended.\n\nNon-urgent hospital surgery and appointments will not go ahead as planned as coronavirus admissions have increased by 64 patients in a week.\n\nUrgent and emergency care, such as cancer treatment, will continue.\n\nHospital chiefs said non-urgent work was \"pausing\" to ensure critical care facilities could be expanded.\n\nThose affected by the delay will be contacted by hospitals, a spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership said.\n\nHospital admissions of coronavirus patients in the region have risen to 132 in the week ending 3 November, compared to 68 during the week ending 27 October.\n\nBefore a nationwide lockdown came into force in England on Thursday, Greater Manchester had been in the highest level of the three-tier system of restrictions.\n\nGreater Manchester has been under tighter restrictions since July\n\nA statement from the partnership, which co-ordinates health and social care across Greater Manchester, said: \"Staff have worked tirelessly to try to maintain services and deliver the highest quality of healthcare to local people.\n\n\"Despite these efforts it is now necessary to pause non-urgent work to ensure we are in a position to expand critical care facilities, whilst maintaining cancer and other urgent care, including cardiac services, vascular surgery and transplantation.\"\n\nIt said that The Christie cancer hospital will continue to provide care, while Rochdale will also provide cancer surgery as a Covid-secure site for Greater Manchester.\n\nDiagnostic services, including endoscopy, and the majority of out-patient services will not be affected.\n\nPatients were advised to \"assume your treatment is continuing as planned\" unless told otherwise.\n\nThis hard decision by health authorities in Manchester comes after similar moves by individual hospitals in Birmingham, Nottingham and Edinburgh, amongst others.\n\nNational NHS leaders had wanted to keep services open while a second wave of coronavirus unfolded.\n\nBut the BMA, which represents around 160,000 doctors in the UK, says hospitals have too few beds and staff to keep hip replacements, cataract surgery and other non-emergency operations going.\n\nAcross the UK there are 12,949 Covid patients currently in hospital, up from a low of just 736 in the summer, but still well below the 19,849 we saw in April.\n\nStricter lockdown measures are designed to bring the R number down. But hospitalisations now reflect infections some weeks ago and it's widely expected services will continue to be stretched in some areas for some time to come.\n\nThe partnership spokeswoman added: \"Our hospitals are now treating more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave and as a result of this, a number of non-urgent operations will be temporarily delayed - we are contacting the affected patients.\n\n\"Urgent and emergency care, including cancer treatment and operations will continue as normal and it's important that anyone with concerns continues to come forward for help and treatment.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils in England have a \"unique opportunity\" to fix potholes, road junctions and roadside drainage during lockdown, the AA has said.\n\nIt urged local authorities to ask drivers to move their vehicles to car parks near disused shops, pubs and restaurants while repairs take place.\n\nReduced traffic means work could happen safely and without causing congestion, AA president Edmund King said.\n\nCouncils said £10bn was needed to bring roads \"up to scratch\".\n\nThe government said it had already committed £2.5bn for repairs \"as part of the biggest nationwide programme ever announced\".\n\nThe lockdown in England is scheduled to last until 2 December. Pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops are closed, while people are being told not to travel unless it is necessary.\n\nMr King told the BBC: \"Lower traffic levels during lockdown give highway authorities a unique opportunity to fill potholes, improve junctions and road drainage, safely and without causing congestion.\n\n\"If this can be done before the colder weather kicks in, it will help prevent further road degradation and all road users, whether on two wheels or four, will benefit.\"\n\nMain roads in England are maintained by Highways England, while councils are responsible for the upkeep of local, usually more minor roads.\n\nMr King said: \"In residential areas where parked cars are an obstacle, the local authority should seek permission for drivers to park in car parks of the pubs, restaurants, shops or businesses that have been forced to close.\"\n\nCouncils say the number of roads in \"poor condition\" has increased\n\nAccording to the Asphalt Industry Alliance's survey of councils, the proportion of England's roads in \"poor condition\" increased from 18% in 2017/18 to 21% in 2019/20.\n\nDavid Renard, transport spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, said it would take almost £10bn to bring local roads \"up to scratch\".\n\nHe called on the government to provide the funding needed \"to tackle the growing backlog of repairs\" in its one-year spending review later this month.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We know that people want to see potholes repaired and roads improved, which is why we've committed £2.5bn for repairs as part of the biggest nationwide programme ever announced.\n\n\"The government has set out that construction can continue during the national restrictions, with employers following Covid-secure guidelines, meaning highways authorities are able to take advantage of the quieter roads to maintain and improve the network.\"\n\nDuring the previous lockdown, \"quieter roads enabled more highway maintenance works to take place, leading to over 319 miles of resurfacing\", they added.\n\nIn April, recorded traffic in Great Britain fell to 1950s levels, before steadily rising as restrictions eased.\n\nExperts predict road use will decline again this time around but, with schools and universities staying open, the effect is not expected to be as dramatic as before.", "The pop star has reinvented her image and her sound dozens of times over the last four decades\n\nEver since her first TV appearance on Aussie soap The Sullivans at the age of 10, she's evolved from actress to pop star to fashion icon, children's author, talent show judge and even a successful designer of home furnishings.\n\nHer career is defined by an inquisitive restlessness. Even in music, the area where she's most famous, the star has balanced mega-pop hits like Better The Devil You Know and Can't Get You Out Of My Head with more experimental tracks like the sultry electro potboiler Slow or the glitchy, atmospheric Cherry Bomb.\n\nBut through it all, Kylie's strong suit has been joyous, escapist disco. It's the first music that she fell in love with, as a child in mid-1970s Melbourne, long before she harboured ideas of becoming a pop star in her own right.\n\n\"When I was eight or nine I used to have pretend Abba concerts in my bedroom with my friends,\" she told Smash Hits magazine in 1988. \"We'd put on dresses and pretend to be Abba and we'd prance about the bedroom or the lounge singing into hairbrushes. I was always the blonde one.\"\n\nAfter a dalliance with country music on her last album, Golden, Kylie has rekindled her love affair with the dancefloor for her 15th record - the appositely-titled Disco.\n\nAlthough she started writing it last year, the record was far from finished when lockdown struck in March. Suddenly, the star had to turn her London flat into a DIY studio, surrounding herself with blankets, duvets and even clothes racks so she could record her vocals in isolation.\n\nBut for someone who's in perpetual motion, who once professed \"I'm either moving around, or I'm asleep\", quarantine was heavy going.\n\n\"It's hard to dig deep and stay positive,\" she says, \"and I had a moment like that, during the first lockdown where I had to confess to someone else that I was struggling,\" she says.\n\n\"And actually, if I wasn't able to work on the album, I perhaps would have gone the other way.\"\n\nThe pop star is challenging Little Mix for next week's number one album\n\nOf course, Disco isn't a sombre reflection on the fallout of a global pandemic. Like Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga, who released disco-centric albums earlier this year, Kylie is prescribing her fans 40 minutes of joyous escapism.\n\n\"So much of this year has been about connection, or lack of connection, that to be making something whose purpose is just to reach people really gave me motivation,\" she says.\n\nSpeaking from her London home two days before the record's release, Kylie also talked about the \"overwhelming\" experience of playing Glastonbury, her abandoned career as a flautist, and which Kylie era is her favourite.\n\nDisco is something you've referenced all through your career, going right back to Step Back In Time. What do you feel when you step on a dance floor?\n\nDepends on which dance floor and which night. At the moment it's a kitchen disco so it requires a bit of imagination!\n\nBut I think disco is a place of expression and a place of losing yourself or finding yourself. When you shine a light on a mirror ball, the light is infinite. It colours you and it affects your being in that moment of time. And the night might not last forever, but I think the notion of disco as a place of escape and abandon is something that most of us have got somewhere within us.\n\nYou've written some philosophical lyrics this time around. What inspired the line: \"We're all just trying to find ourselves in the storms that we chase\"?\n\nA lot of that song, Say Something, was a stream of consciousness - but I do believe [that lyric]. Sometimes you wonder, \"Why am I doing this? Why am I putting myself through this?\" Or \"this might not be the safest road to take,\" but I think it's through adversity that we find ourselves.\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 Kylie Minogue 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\nWhat are those situations for you? When have you taken risks where you've worried about the outcome?\n\nOh, all the time! It might sound like a superficial way but things like not getting a proper job when I left school and having the dream of acting. I signed up for the dole but I actually never got a cheque because I got an acting job, and then leaving the number one show [TV soap opera Neighbours] to pursue music, and to try different genres within my pop world. Fashion faux pas - there's certainly been plenty of those.\n\nThey're maybe not risks with a whole lot of depth or gravitas - but they're risks all the same, that change the course of your life.\n\nThe singer played a special set at the BBC Radio Theatre earlier this week for Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Breakfast Show\n\nThe last track on the album, Celebrate You, is all about leaning on friends for support. Was that inspired by lockdown?\n\nThat song was written a handful of days before lockdown so we knew that something was coming. You know, there was a kind of unsettling feeling in the air and we were conscious - the other writers and I - of the emotion creeping in, and wanting to take care of each other.\n\nThe lyrics are addressed to someone called Mary. Is she someone from your life?\n\nThat actually came from \"mumble-singing\" to find a melody. But Mary is all of us. She's anyone who needs a cuddle and some reassurance.\n\nI always picture that song as last call at the pub. All the family are there and maybe Aunty Mary's had one too many. The truths are coming out, there's been some tears, lots of hugs. Everyone's danced, everyone's partied - and this is the wind-down, back to Earth kind of song.\n\nKylie on lockdown: \"We've just got to be strong together and hope for the best hope for better days.\"\n\nIt's nice to hear you talk about the writing process like this because you don't get recognised for it. Maybe that's because those early hits came from the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory - but on this album you have a co-writing credit on every song. Is it important to you to be in the mix?\n\nFor myself, yeah. I don't need to be recognised for it - but I absolutely love the writing process. To me it's like magic: You go into a session with nothing and you come out with a song. And because I don't play instruments, I do melody and lyrics. I need to do that with other people.\n\nDon't you play piano and flute, though? You entered competitions when you were younger...\n\nI did! You know what? I still have my original flute from high school. It was a very handy instrument - you can just put it in your bag - but I didn't carry on with that.\n\nThen I played piano for a number of years and I always learned by ear, so I can only read music very slowly. So as much as I can't play, I have a sense of musicality.\n\nThe star's set included hits like Spinning Around, Shocked, Confide In Me and I Should Be So Lucky\n\nWhen you played Glastonbury last year, it became the festival's most-watched performance of all time. What went through your head as you walked onto the stage?\n\nI suppose the overriding thought was, 'Wow'. I was blown away.\n\nIn the dressing room, there's this swarming team of people - dancers and musicians and friends and family - but the moment that you step onto the stage you're suddenly alone. I mean, you've got your band and dancers but in a sense I am no longer moored at the port. You're going out to sea and you're not quite sure what's going to happen.\n\nBut by the time I was in position on that set and it spun around.... There's a shot that became a gif or a meme and that encapsulates better than I can what was going through my mind - because I just, I shook my head, I smiled. It was wild to see that many people, and to feel that many people.\n\nAfter that performance, you said you didn't want to become a tribute act to yourself and that Glastonbury was an opportunity to \"wipe the slate clean\". What did you mean by that?\n\nI suppose I didn't want to feel like that was it. I felt like there was more music and more new experiences [to come].\n\nAnd in a way I feel that there was a line drawn - but I didn't want the line to be above me. I wanted it to be a line acknowledging that I did it, I made it that far. I wanted to be able to use [Glastonbury] to propel me to go even further. Not to erase any of the past - that show was a celebration triumphs and a celebration of getting through the difficulties, and to have that history, that 30-plus year history with so many people is a glorious thing.\n\nKylie's Glastonbury set came 14 years after she was forced to pull out of a headline slot following a breast cancer diagnosis\n\nI'm thinking about that history and all of those songs and all of the looks you've had over the years. I know fans debate furiously about their favourite Kylie era... but what's yours?\n\nOh. Ooh. You're an awful person to ask me that!\n\nThere's so many and they all represent something different... I'm really, really trying to commit to one - but as soon as my mind thinks of one era, another one will tap me on the shoulder and say, \"Wait, wait. What about this one?\"\n\nI guesssss one of the eras that really seemed to be galactic in its own way was the Fever era [Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Love At First Sight].\n\nIt was just one of those moments where the planets are aligned and everything worked - the songs, the imagery, the moment. So I don't know that I would call it my favourite because I can find something to appreciate in all of them, but I'm going to choose that one, just because it did so well.\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 Kylie Minogue 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. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Long queues built up on Friday after mass testing started in Liverpool\n\nThe number of coronavirus testing sites in Liverpool has doubled after \"really good interest\" in the scheme, its public health director has said.\n\nMatthew Ashton said a total of up to 12,000 people were tested at six centres on Friday as England's first trial of city-wide testing began.\n\nMr Ashton said a further eight sites were brought in on Saturday.\n\nThe city council said it could extend the two-week pilot scheme as more opened.\n\nAll residents and workers in Liverpool - the first area to be placed under England's tier three restrictions - have been offered regular tests, regardless of whether they display symptoms.\n\nOfficials say this is in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHealthcare, education and other key workers, along with students, have been particularly encouraged to take a test.\n\nMr Ashton told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"We are still working on the numbers but we think (there were) about 1,500-2,000 people per testing centre.\n\n\"So really good numbers and lots of interest, so it was very encouraging.\n\n\"For the most part, it ran very smoothly. It was good, it wasn't perfect but we'll improve it\".\n\nCity mayor Joe Anderson said: \"The people of Liverpool did not let us down on the first day and I am delighted that so many people turned out for a test.\n\n\"This is a huge logistical exercise the likes of which has not been tried before, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank people for their patience and understanding as I know many had to queue for a while for a test.\"\n\nResidents are urged to book tests online or by phone, and not to turn up without an appointment.\n\nPeople with symptoms have been told to not attend the mass testing centres but instead arrange a test at one of the mobile testing units in the city.\n\nSome health experts have criticised the trial, with Allyson Pollock, professor of public health at Newcastle University, warning that plans to test asymptomatic people went against advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) to prioritise tests for those displaying symptoms.\n\nThe military has been drafted in to help the NHS\n\nMr Ashton said he thought the nationwide lockdown, which started in England on Thursday, was necessary because tier three rules had not been successful in limiting transmission.\n\nHe said the summer exit from the first national lockdown occurred when Liverpool \"still had levels of the virus in our community\".\n\n\"They weren't high but they were still very present and it was higher than other parts of the country, and I think that's what drove the big increases in the north west […] so we were first to have the second wave,\" he said.\n\nBy cutting social contact, he said, the new lockdown measures would \"absolutely help\" to bring transmission down.\n\n\"The big question is will they cut them enough, will it take the levels of the virus low enough?\"\n\nAs of Friday, 58 deaths were reported in the city during the past week, according to data.\n\nOverall, Liverpool recorded 1,501 coronavirus cases in the seven days to 3 November, compared with 2,074 cases in the previous week.\n\nThis means the rate had dropped from 416 per 100,000 people to 301 per 100,000. Across England overall, the rate was 240 per 100,000.\n\nLiverpool aims to test up to 50,000 people a day\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Teams in protective kit for the cull - usually mink are gassed with carbon monoxide\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over a coronavirus mutation found in mink that can spread to humans.\n\nThe government has warned that the effectiveness of any future vaccine could be affected by the mutation.\n\nBars, restaurants, public transport and all public indoor sports will be closed in seven North Jutland municipalities.\n\nThe restrictions will come into effect from Friday and initially last until 3 December.\n\nIt comes soon after an announcement that Denmark would cull all its mink - as many as 17 million.\n\nThe Scandinavian country is the world's biggest producer of mink fur and its main export markets are China and Hong Kong. Culling began late last month, after many mink cases were detected.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Health Organization said mink appear to be \"good reservoirs\" of coronavirus. It also commended Denmark's \"determination and courage\" for going ahead with the culls, despite the economic impact it would bring.\n\nThere are more than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark\n\nCoronavirus cases have been detected in other farmed mink in the Netherlands and Spain since the pandemic began in Europe.\n\nBut cases are spreading fast in Denmark - 207 mink farms in Jutland are affected - and at least five cases of the new virus strain were found. Authorities said 12 people had been infected with the mutated strain.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said about half of the 783 human cases reported in north Denmark related to a strain of the virus that originated in the mink farms.\n\nUnder the new rules, gatherings of 10 or more people will be banned, and locals have been urged to stay within the affected municipalities and get tested.\n\nAt a press conference, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said: \"Right now the eyes of the world are resting on us. I hope and believe that together we can solve the problems we face.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Frederiksen said the mutated virus had been found to weaken the body's ability to form antibodies, potentially making the current vaccines under development for Covid-19 ineffective.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic Denmark has reported 52,265 human cases of Covid-19 and 733 deaths, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out\n\nSpain culled 100,000 mink in July after cases were detected at a farm in Aragón province, and tens of thousands of the animals were slaughtered in the Netherlands following outbreaks on farms there.\n\nStudies are under way to find out how and why mink have been able to catch and spread the infection.\n\nMink become infected through catching the virus from humans, the BBC's environment correspondent Helen Briggs reports.\n\nBut genetic detective work has shown that in a small number of cases, in the Netherlands and now Denmark, the virus seems to have passed the other way, from mink to humans, our correspondent adds.", "Half a million borrowers mis-sold payday loans by collapsed lender Sunny are likely to receive no more than 1% of their compensation entitlement.\n\nAdministrators KPMG are emailing all those who have a right to a payout, inviting them to make a claim.\n\nBut they are warning that the funds available mean they may not receive a penny, or 1% at most.\n\nHowever, victims of mis-selling will automatically have negative entries on their credit records cleared.\n\nThis will be done automatically by the end of November, with any notes of defaults on their first five Sunny loans cleared, and notices of any subsequent loans deleted entirely.\n\nThat should help those struggling to access credit, as a result of their history with Sunny, having more success in the future.\n\nSunny was one of a series of high-profile payday lenders to have collapsed, mostly in response to a wave of complaints over the mis-selling of short-term, high-cost loans.\n\nMany of these loans were found to have been unaffordable to repay, and should never have been granted.\n\nWonga was the most high-profile collapse in August 2018, followed by other big names in the sector such as WageDay Advance and QuickQuid.\n\nMany of Sunny's payday loans were found to have been unaffordable to repay\n\nSunny, the brand name of Elevate Credit International Limited, fell into administration in June. In October, some of the existing loan book was sold to Perch Capital, and others were written off.\n\nAdministrators then assessed how many of Sunny's 700,000 customers had been mis-sold loans, and concluded that 500,000 had been affected and could make a claim. It is emailing all of them in the coming weeks.\n\nOthers whose cases have already been dealt with by the Financial Ombudsman, but have not received any payout, can also put in a claim for compensation.\n\nAll claims must be submitted by the end of January.\n\n\"Whilst the dividend will depend on the volume of claims and queries received, we estimate that any dividend payable could be less that 1p in the pound and that any payment would likely be made in spring 2021,\" the administrators said.\n\nDebt adviser Sara Williams, who runs the Debt Camel blog, said: \"Since Wonga went under, the figures have been emerging about the massive scale of payday loan mis-selling.\n\n\"These show how ineffective regulation was at preventing so many people being trapped in unaffordable debt for so long.\"", "Boris Johnson has defended how Covid statistics are being used after data shown in a presentation to justify the lockdown in England had to be revised.\n\nA chart presented at Saturday's No 10 briefing suggested a worse-case figure of up to 1,500 deaths a day by December 8, well above April's 1,000 peak.\n\nThis has now been adjusted down to 1,010 a day, after an error was found.\n\nNo 10 has accepted a mistake was made but the PM said data on the spread and impact of the virus was \"irrefutable\".\n\nSpeaking during a visit to the East Midlands, Mr Johnson said the number of people being admitted to hospital was \"climbing fast\", having gone up by 25% in the last week.\n\n\"The data is really irrefutable about what is happening in the country,\" he said.\n\n\"The number of deaths alas is on an upward curve that is just unmistakable, more than any time since May, and the government has to act. That's why we're taking the steps we are.\"\n\nConservative MPs opposed to the second lockdown in England, which came into force on Thursday, have questioned the reliability of the modelling used by the government to bolster its case.\n\nThe UK's statistics regulator says there needs to be more transparency about the data used to make predictions after it emerged figures cited at last weekend's Downing Street briefing were out of date and over-estimated deaths.\n\nAt the briefing, the UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance presented a graph outlining a range of projections for the Covid death toll over the next month, including one from Public Health England and Cambridge University suggesting it could rise as high as 4,000 a day.\n\nHe also cited two other graphs illustrating \"medium-term\" projections from the government's advisory committee SPI-M for hospitalisations and deaths up to 8 December.\n\nHow the graph looked when it was presented by Sir Patrick Vallance at Downing Street briefing\n\nThe amended version published by the government\n\nOn Friday, the Daily Telegraph reported that some of the details in the graphs had since been changed.\n\nThe Government Science Service found an error in the charts, affecting the upper limit for the possible outcomes shown by the shaded areas. For hospitalisations, the incorrect upper limit shown was 9,000 instead of 6,200.\n\nBut the central line was not changed and the government argues that the error \"did not affect the insights\".\n\nThe PM's official spokesman acknowledged an error had been made but insisted there was no error in the \"underlying analysis\", adding that Mr Johnson continued to have confidence in his chief scientific adviser.\n\nThe errors in the Chief Scientific Adviser's slides all gave the impression that the worst case scenario is more serious than current data support.\n\nBut the government's case for action does not rest solely on future projections of a worst case scenario. They argue that the numbers of people going into hospital or dying right now make the case.\n\nCoronavirus hospital admissions are currently doubling roughly every three weeks.\n\nDeaths are doubling every fortnight, with just over 2,000 reported in the last week. That growth is slower than it was in September and October, but it is still growth.\n\nSo in the near future, the expectation, not the worst case, is that the daily number deaths will rise and pressure on hospitals will increase.\n\nBusiness Minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News the government would \"strive to improve our graphs and presentations\" but the threat facing the NHS from the rise in cases was \"very clear\".\n\nThe health service in England has been placed on its highest alert level ahead of what its bosses said was a \"very difficult winter\" ahead.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, the chief executive of the NHS in England Simon Stevens said there were more than 11,000 Covid patients being treated in hospital, up from 2,000 at the start of October.\n\nBut Sir David Spiegelhalter, one of the most respected statisticians in the country, said he had been \"very unimpressed\" by some of the data presented in recent times, particularly Saturday's scenario of possible deaths.\n\n\"It was a frightening graph and presented these headline figures of 4,000 deaths a day which is terrifying,\" he told Politics Live on Tuesday.\n\n\"But there are a number of problems. We did not have the sources of these projections and if you look at the small print, you see they were done at the beginning of October...And at least one of the groups have revised their projections since.\"", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "China has successfully launched what has been described as \"the world's first 6G satellite\" into space to test the technology.\n\nIt went into orbit along with 12 other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province.\n\nThe telecoms industry is still several years away from agreeing on 6G's specifications, so it is not yet certain the tech being trialled will make it into the final standard.\n\nIt involves use of high-frequency terahertz waves to achieve data-transmission speeds many times faster than 5G is likely to be capable of.\n\nThe satellite also carries technology which will be used for crop disaster monitoring and forest fire prevention.", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home have been placed into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk.\n\nThe clothing retailer had 328 sites and 2,571 staff across the UK, while homeware store Ponden had 329 staff.\n\nToday 866 jobs were lost across the two chains adding to the hundreds that went after 64 stores across the two brands were permanently closed.\n\nEWM Group owns both chains but is still trying to strike a rescue deal to save remaining brands, Peacocks and Jaeger.\n\nA spokesperson for EWM Group said: \"Over the past month we explored all possible options to save Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home from going into administration, but unfortunately the ongoing trading conditions caused by the pandemic and lockdowns proved too much.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart we acknowledge there is no alternative but to place the businesses into administration.\"\n\nTony Wright, the joint administrator from business advisory firm FRP, said both Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden were trading well before the coronavirus pandemic and FRP would continue to search for buyers for the businesses so they do not disappear completely.\n\nHe added: \"Regrettably, the impact of Covid-19 on the brands' core customer base and tighter restrictions on trading mean that the current structure of the businesses is unsustainable and has resulted in redundancies.\n\n\"We are working with all affected members of staff to provide the appropriate support.\"", "Guatemala's army has reached a remote village where dozens of houses were buried by mudslides triggered by Storm Eta's torrential rains.\n\nPresident Alejandro Giammattei said around 100 people were feared dead in Quejá in the central region of Alta Verapaz.\n\nBad weather has hampered rescue efforts while roads are still blocked and large areas remain flooded.\n\nEarlier, the authorities had confirmed at least 50 deaths across the country.\n\nEta made landfall in neighbouring Nicaragua on Tuesday as a Category Four hurricane with winds of 140mph (225km/h) and torrential rains. It then weakened into a tropical depression as it moved into neighbouring Honduras and later Guatemala.\n\nPresident Giammattei said rescue efforts were limited by the country having only one helicopter adequate for these operations.\n\n\"We have a lot of people trapped [whom] we have not been able to reach,\" he said. A state of emergency has been declared in many areas.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in many regions of Guatemala\n\nThe president described the situation in Queja as \"critical\". No bodies have yet been recovered from the area.\n\nIn neighbouring Honduras, at least 10 deaths have been confirmed, with hundreds of people reportedly waiting to be rescued from flooded areas.\n\nMen remain on a rooftop in the Honduran city of El Progreso\n\nWendi Munguía Figueroa, 48, who lives in La Lima, a San Pedro Sula suburb, told the Associated Press: \"We can't get off our houses' roofs because the water is up to our necks in the street.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Foreign Affairs Minister Lisandro Rosales said: \"The destruction that Eta leaves us is enormous and public finances are at a critical moment because of Covid-19.\"\n\nHe added: \"We make a call to the international community to accelerate the process of recovery and reconstruction.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have nothing... I am in pain\" – Central America is counting the cost of Storm Eta\n\nOn Friday, the storm was off Belize's coast and heading out to the Caribbean Sea, charting a course to Cuba and Florida this weekend, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).", "Paul Dunleavy was jailed for five years and six months, after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA teenager who was part of a banned neo-Nazi group has been jailed for preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nA judge ruled 17-year-old Paul Dunleavy can be named but described his efforts to commit the act as \"inept\".\n\nDunleavy had admitted nine counts of possessing terror manuals and also had videos of the New Zealand terror attack in 2019, in which 51 people died.\n\nAt Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Paul Farrer QC jailed the defendant for five years and six months.\n\nDunleavy, who had denied preparing an attack, had joined a neo-Nazi group called Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) in July last year, the court was told.\n\nThe group was created by a 13-year-old Estonian and was outlawed in the UK this summer after being linked to terrorism cases around the world.\n\nNotepads made by the teenager and a gun were recovered from his room\n\nJudge Farrer said Dunleavy had offered practical advice on firearms to other FKD members, some of whom have gone on themselves to be convicted of terrorism offences in other countries.\n\nThe judge told the defendant he harboured an intention to commit an act of terrorism, but added it was unlikely the he would have followed through, describing his preparations as \"inept\".\n\nHe added: \"Your autism impacts on your maturity and understanding.\"\n\nProsecutors said FKD's aim was to overthrow the liberal democratic system by bringing about a race war through individuals carrying out acts of mass murder.\n\nAfter joining FKD's online chat group, Dunleavy unwittingly began communicating with an undercover police officer, telling him: \"I'm getting armed and getting in shape.\"\n\nThe court was told Dunleavy had researched how to convert a blank-firing gun and asked an adult friend for advice on where to buy one.\n\nDunleavy had an \"unhealthy interest in other attacks across the world\", police said\n\nFollowing his arrest at his home in September 2019, West Midlands Police said detectives seized his phone, finding over 90 documents on firearms, explosives and military tactics, right wing material and online chat conversations.\n\nThey also found several knives, air rifles, face coverings, camouflage face paint, shotgun cartridges and bullet casings.\n\n\"This boy had an unhealthy interest in other attacks across the world and he knew exactly what online platforms to join to share his extreme views,\" said Det Ch Supt Kenny Bell, head of West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.\n\n\"He believed he had the skills to convert a blank firing weapon into a viable firearm and was willing to help others with his abilities.\"\n\nDunleavy had named Adolf Hitler as one of his heroes, West Midlands Police said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was just speaking on the Senate floor. He defended President Trump's right to challenge the election results and not concede.\n\n\"No states have yet certified election results,\" he noted. This is true - states have until 8 December to certify their electors.\n\nMcConnell continued to say all legal ballots should count and the process must be \"transparent\".\n\n\"If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light and if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny,\" the majority leader added.\n\nExperts have long said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in postal voting.\n\n\"We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,\" McConnell said.\n\n\"The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president.\"\n\nOnly three Republican Senators have thus far acknowledged Biden's win. Republican President George W Bush has also congratulated Biden on his win.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The former chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has died aged 72 about a month after being diagnosed with cancer, a spokesman for his office has confirmed.\n\nHe died in the early hours of Saturday morning, the spokesman said.\n\nLord Sacks was a prolific writer and regularly contributed to radio and TV programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.\n\nHe is survived by his wife of 50 years, Elaine Taylor, their three children and several grandchildren.\n\nA statement from Lord Sacks' office on 15 October announced he had been \"recently diagnosed with cancer\" and was undergoing treatment.\n\nLord Sacks, an Orthodox Jew, was born in London on 8 March 1948.\n\nIn 1991 he became Britain's chief rabbi - the spiritual head of the largest grouping of Orthodox Jewish communities in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Lord Sacks' death, adding: \"His leadership had a profound impact on our whole country and across the world.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also paid tribute, saying: \"He was a towering intellect whose eloquence, insights and kindness reached well beyond the Jewish community.\"\n\nMarie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described Lord Sacks as a \"giant of both the Jewish community and wider society\".\n\n\"His outstanding tenure as chief rabbi led to a revolution in Jewish life and learning which has ensured his legacy will pass not just through his own beloved family, but through generations of our community's young people too,\" she said.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis hailed his predecessor as \"an extraordinary ambassador for Judaism\".\n\nA statement from the chief rabbi's office said on Saturday that Lord Sacks' \"remarkable legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of the countless people he inspired\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, praised Lord Sacks' religious devotion and leadership, as well as his \"deep commitment to interpersonal relationships\".\n\n\"You couldn't help but be swept up in his delight at living, his sense of humour, his kindness, and his desire to know, understand and value others,\" he said.\n\nController of BBC Radio 4 Mohit Bakaya said Lord Sacks was a \"man of great intellect, humanity and warmth\".\n\nHe added: \"He brought all of that to Radio 4 through some of the most erudite Thought for the Days as well as a landmark series on morality.\"\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (left) said Lord Sacks (centre) inspired \"countless people\", while the Prince of Wales (right) previously described him as a \"steadfast friend\"\n\nLord Sacks, who was made a crossbench life peer in 2009, often tried to find compromise between conservative and liberal factions of the British Jewish population.\n\nAt a tribute dinner held in May 2013 for the departing chief rabbi, the Prince of Wales said Lord Sacks was \"a steadfast friend\" and \"a valued adviser\" and praised his \"spiritual awareness and [his] comprehensively informed philosophical and historical perceptiveness\".\n\nLord Sacks was an outspoken critic of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn amid the row over anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nIn an interview with the New Statesman, Lord Sacks said comments Mr Corbyn made about British Zionists were the \"most offensive statement\" by a politician since Enoch Powell's \"Rivers of Blood\" speech, a comparison Labour said was \"absurd\".\n\nLast week, the Labour Party suspended Mr Corbyn over his reaction to a highly critical report on anti-Semitism.", "The coroner said systemic failures had been identified in Averil Hart's care\n\nSystemic failures and neglect caused the death of a teenager who had severe anorexia, a coroner has said.\n\nAveril Hart, 19, from Newton in Suffolk, died from anorexia on 15 December 2012, a week after collapsing at her university flat in Norwich.\n\nThe coroner identified seven areas that he said contributed to her death.\n\nThey included a \"gross failure\" not to give nutritional support at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), which he said amounted to neglect.\n\nA Prevention of Future Deaths report has been written by coroner Sean Horstead after he identified a theme between Miss Hart's case and four other anorexia deaths.\n\nAmanda Bowles, Madeline Wallace, Emma Brown and Maria Jakes died between 2017 and 2018.\n\nMr Horstead said a gap in formally commissioned medical monitoring as seen in Miss Hart's case continued, and \"gives rise to risk of future deaths\".\n\nNic Hart, Miss Hart's father, said: \"It's a huge relief to hear the coroner come to the conclusions we all knew to be the case.\n\n\"My heart bleeds for those families who have lost loved ones after Averil died.\"\n\nMiss Hart had been under the care of Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust but was transferred to the Norfolk Eating Disorder Service when she started a creative writing degree at the University of East Anglia in September 2012.\n\nShe died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, after an emergency transfer from NNUH.\n\nOn the final day of the four-week inquest in Peterborough, Mr Horstead read out a narrative conclusion.\n\n\"The failure to adequately plan for or provide any nutritional support to Averil over the course of her four days at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, in the context of her severely malnourished condition recognised on admission, was a gross failure that had a direct causal connection with, and more than minimally contributed to, the death,\" he said.\n\n\"Averil Hart's death was therefore contributed to by neglect.\"\n\nAveril Hart was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after collapsing at her university flat\n\nThe coroner identified a total of seven areas which he said directly or possibly contributed to her death:\n\nDelays at Addenbrooke's were ruled possibly causative as her condition had deteriorated significantly by the time she arrived.\n\nNNUH medical director Prof Erika Denton said: \"We acknowledge the devastating impact that Averil's death has had on her family and we offer our sincere condolences for their loss.\n\n\"We recognise that the care and treatment we gave to Averil was not of the quality that we or our patients expect, for which we are very sorry and offer an unreserved apology.\n\n\"We have endeavoured to learn and make improvements to our services, including expanding our clinical nutrition team with expert consultants, nurses and dieticians, additional specialist under-nutrition training for staff, and enhanced, 24/7 access to services that can support staff in caring for patients with particular mental health needs.\n\n\"We remain committed to improving services for our most vulnerable patients.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story, you can talk in confidence to eating disorders charity Beat by calling its adult helpline on 0808 801 0677 or youth helpline on 0808 801 0711.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Nichola Mallon has said there needs to be support put in place for businesses if restrictions are extended\n\nRestrictions on the hospitality industry should be extended for two weeks to rescue the Christmas period, the infrastructure minister has said.\n\nNichola Mallon said she had come to the conclusion following evidence to the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nRestrictions aimed at curbing Covid-19 have been in place since 16 October and are due to end on 13 November.\n\n\"My view is that we should be extending the restrictions,\" said Ms Mallon, adding business needed to be supported.\n\n\"For me the focus here is on Christmas, families need to be together at Christmas, they need to be together safely.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster told Thursday's Stormont press conference that restrictions had made a positive impact, with the reproduction number - or R-rate - dropping to 0.7 but that no decision had been made on whether to extend the measures.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a proposal by the Department of Health that indicates a two-week extension of the restrictions on hospitality could mean avoiding further curbs before Christmas.\n\nSpeaking on BBC's The View, Ms Mallon said she \"would have been up for taking a decision [on Thursday]\".\n\n\"Businesses, the hospitality sector, Christmas is their busiest time.\n\n\"We need to make sure they can be open at that time and that customers can be there spending their money safely.\"\n\nMs Mallon said the health service had been \"on the brink of collapse\" with livelihoods \"hit hard\".\n\n\"This is not an easy situation, of course we are ministers from different backgrounds, different political parties - we will have different perspectives,\" she said.\n\n\"The responsibility on us is to come together, to take a decision, and to communicate that decision to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nGlyn Roberts, the chief executive of Retail NI, said the closure of the hospitality sector had been \"a hammer blow to the high streets\".\n\n\"We have seen the economy minister say that the current circuit breaker in Northern Ireland has cost the economy some £400m,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"We are in a fight to save as many jobs and businesses as possible.\"\n\nMr Roberts said the executive should back a \"Christmas campaign\" to encourage shoppers back onto the high streets safely.\n\n\"We should be putting Covid marshals in all of our town centres, putting public hand sanitiser stations in all town centres and getting a proper track-trace and isolate system in place,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday, Mrs Foster said an announcement about whether restrictions would be extended would come \"at the earliest possible opportunity\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was \"not ideal\" that a decision had not been made yet but that it was a \"complex situation\".\n\nSince the measures were brought in by the executive, there has been strong public debate on whether they should go beyond their initial four-week period or end as planned on Friday 13 November.\n\nFour business groups - the Belfast Chamber, Hospitality Ulster, Manufacturing NI and Retail NI - issued a statement during the week urging the executive to develop a \"different strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic\".\n\nThey said they want to find a strategy that \"suppresses the spread of the virus and keeps people in employment\" ahead of Christmas.\n\nArlene Foster said ministers had a \"comprehensive discussion\" about what may be needed after the current restrictions end\n\nHowever, medical leaders have said they are \"extremely concerned\" over healthcare pressures caused by upturn in cases.\n\nIn other coronavirus developments in Northern Ireland:", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has won the race to become US president, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election.\n\nThis was the moment of the BBC News announcement on TV.", "Johnny Depp at the Royal Courts of Justice in July\n\nJohnny Depp has left the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, days after losing a libel case over a newspaper article which called him a wife beater.\n\nIn a letter to fans, Depp said he had been \"asked to resign\" from his role as Gellert Grindelwald and had \"respected that and agreed to that request\".\n\nHe called the libel judgement \"surreal\" and confirmed his plans to appeal.\n\nFilm studio Warner Bros confirmed Depp's departure and said his role would be recast.\n\n\"We thank Johnny for his work on the films to date,\" it said in a statement.\n\nDepp, 57, had sued the publisher of The Sun newspaper over a 2018 article, which claimed he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nEarlier this week, Judge Mr Justice Nicol ruled The Sun had proved the article to be \"substantially true\".\n\nIn his letter, posted on Instagram, Depp said the judgement would not \"change my fight to tell the truth\".\n\nIn light of recent events, I would like to make the following short statement.\n\nFirstly I'd like to thank everybody who has gifted me with their support and loyalty. I have been humbled and moved by your many messages of love and concern, particularly over the last few days.\n\nSecondly, I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by Warner Bros. from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected that and agreed to that request.\n\nFinally I wish to say this, The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal.\n\nMy resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false. My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time.\n\nThank you for reading. Sincerely, Johnny Depp\n\nDepp made a brief appearance as Grindelwald in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and reprised his role in 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\n\nThe films are prequels to the eight Harry Potter films, which were based on the novels by JK Rowling.\n\nAccording to Warner Bros, the third film in the series is currently in production and will be released in summer 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito looks back on the libel case\n\nMonday's judgement followed a trial that was heard over 16 days in July at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.\n\nThe trial contained allegations of violence that spanned the period between 2013 and 2016, when Depp and Heard split up.\n\nIn his ruling, Judge Nicol found that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence had occurred.\n\nMr Depp is suing Ms Heard, 34, in the US in a separate case, over an opinion piece she wrote in the Washington Post.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A paediatrician in west Belfast has said a government strategy is “essential” to tackle child poverty in Northern Ireland.\n\nDr Julie-Ann Maney told BBC NI’s The View: \"Every day in the emergency department in the Children’s Hospital in Belfast we see the effects of poverty.”\n\n“We have seen little 14-month-old infants here who are so hungry when you offer them toast and milk they stuff toast into their nappies,” she said.\n\nDr Maney was interviewed for The View after writing an article on the issue.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Communities said the minister had recently announced the extension of the 2016/19 Poverty Strategy to May 2022.\n\nIt said the extension of the strategy “will allow time for engagement on how to address child poverty in the longer term”.\n\nWatch the full interview on The View here on BBC iPlayer.", "The party was at a residential property in The Works, near Manchester Arndale\n\nA man has been fined £10,000 after about 60 people turned up at a party in a two-bedroom flat in Manchester.\n\nPolice said they found people were not distancing and music was being played from large speakers at the gathering in Withy Grove last Sunday.\n\nThe organiser, aged 38, was fined on Friday for holding an illegal gathering of more than 30 people.\n\nSupt Chris Hill said \"organising this flat party was a clear act of non-compliance\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US reported a third straight daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nMore than 127,000 infections were reported in 24 hours, as well as 1,149 deaths.\n\nThe news comes as officials announced that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nHe is the latest Trump administration official to contract the disease.\n\nThe US is the worst affected nation in the world by Covid-19, with more than 9.7 million confirmed cases and a death toll of more than 230,000.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how Mr Meadows - who has often appeared at public events without a face mask - was infected.\n\nAccording to the New York Times he first tested positive on Wednesday. Trump election campaign adviser Nick Trainer also has the virus, the paper said.\n\nMr Meadows travelled with the president on the final days of campaigning and was at an election night party attended by dozens of Trump supporters at the White House.\n\nThe country's coronavirus outbreak was a key policy battleground in the run-up to the 3 November election, and contributed to a surge in postal and early in-person voting.\n\nMr Meadows seen with President Trump at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina last month\n\nIn late October, Mr Meadows said in an interview with CNN that the US was \"not going to control the pandemic\", saying that Covid-19 could only be defeated by \"mitigation areas\" like vaccines and therapeutics.\n\nPresident Trump and his wife Melania and son Barron all contracted and recovered from Covid-19 - as did national security adviser Robert O'Brien, senior advisor Stephen Miller and White House counsellor Hope Hicks.\n\nA ceremony at the White House on 26 September came into focus after the president contracted the virus.\n\nMore than a dozen reporters, guests and officials at the crowded Rose Garden event - where Mr Trump formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his pick for the Supreme Court - contracted the virus.\n\nFootage captured attendees standing close together without masks. Some shook hands, bumped fists and even hugged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator Mike Lee, who later tested positive for Covid-19, seen hugging other attendees", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Sillito looks back on the career of Geoffrey Palmer\n\nActor Geoffrey Palmer, known for his roles in such sitcoms as Butterflies, As Time Goes By and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, has died aged 93.\n\nHe died peacefully at home, his agent said.\n\nVersatile and prolific, he was known and loved for his hangdog expression, lugubrious delivery and the often testy demeanour he gave to his characters.\n\nAs Time Goes By saw him star with Dame Judi Dench, a partnership they revived in Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.\n\nHe also acted in Mrs Brown, again with Dench, and The Madness of King George.\n\nDame Judi, who starred in nine series of As Time Goes By with Palmer, told BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme: \"Geoffrey was master of comedy, an absolute master.\"\n\nPaying tribute to his \"wonderful deadpan expression\", she added: \"I've admired him all my life. How lucky to have been in something with him for so long.\"\n\nHis co-star in Butterflies from 1978 to 1983, Wendy Craig, told the programme: \"He was just a delight to work with, his timing was perfect.\"\n\nDespite his \"rather serious face\", she said he was \"full of fun\" in person. \"When he laughed and when he smiled his whole face lit up, his eyes twinkled. He was always up for a laugh and not a heavy-going serious person at all,\" she said.\n\nHis early television roles included appearances in The Army Game, The Saint and The Avengers and he went on to appear in Doctor Who and the Kipper and the Corpse episode of Fawlty Towers.\n\nThe Doctor Who programme listed the shows he had appeared in with a tribute 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 Doctor Who This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Doctor Who\n\nBroadcaster and author Gyles Brandreth said: \"RIP Geoffrey Palmer - such a wonderful actor, such a lovely guy. Brilliant at his craft and just the best company: wickedly funny. He did everything he did so well. Thanks for all the happy memories Geoffrey: we'll cherish them as time goes by.\"\n\nComedian Marcus Brigstocke, who starred alongside Palmer in BBC One sitcom The Savages, remembered him as \"the kindest, most brilliant man\", while Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright said he was \"brilliantly funny\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 edgarwright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard added: \"Very sad to hear that Geoffrey Palmer has left us. I was very excited to meet him once and then had the honour to act with him in the film Lost Christmas. His work will stay with us and through that he can live on forever. Good work Sir. Rest in peace.\"\n\nActress Annette Badland said: \"He was such a gifted actor and enormously good company. We worked together several times, laughed a lot and he was kind and generous. I am much saddened. Love to his family. Sleep well Mr Palmer.\"\n\nReece Shearsmith from The League of Gentlemen described him an \"immaculate singular actor\", singling out his performance in Butterflies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nPalmer appeared in four series of the Carla Lane sitcom, in which he played the stuffy husband of Wendy Craig's Ria.\n\nYet it was his partnership with Dench in As Time Goes By for which he will perhaps be best remembered.\n\nPalmer worked with Judi Dench in As Time Goes By\n\nThe BBC sitcom, about two former lovers who meet unexpectedly and later marry, ran from 1992 to 2005.\n\nIn 2018 Dame Judi described her co-star as \"the naughtiest man I ever had the pleasure to work with\" as she gave him a prize at that year's Oldie Awards.\n\nIn Tomorrow Never Dies, released in 1997, Palmer's combative Admiral Roebuck sparred with Dame Judi's M, the head of the secret service.\n\nProducers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli remembered the actor as \"a much beloved star of TV and film and a treasured member of the Bond family\".\n\nPalmer's distinctive voice made him a popular choice for narration, audiobooks and adverts.\n\nHe narrated the Grumpy Old Men series and introduced British viewers to \"Vorsprung durch Technik\" in adverts for Audi cars.\n\nActress Frances Barber remembered an occasion when he had queried a residuals payment he had received for the ubiquitous commercial.\n\n\"I just called my agent and said they've put too many 0's on the cheque,\" she recalled him saying. \"After lunch he said 'Apparently they haven't'. His face didn't change.\"\n\nIn his later years Palmer was seen in Paddington, Parade's End and W.E, in which he was directed by pop star Madonna.\n\nHe was made an OBE in 2004 for services to drama.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPalmer, a keen fly fisherman, campaigned against the HS2 railway line, the proposed route of which ran close to his home in the Chilterns.\n\n\"Stop this vanity project and leave our countryside alone,\" he told then-PM David Cameron in a 2013 video filmed for the Daily Politics show.\n\n\"I am not grumpy,\" he once said of his distinctively jowly features. \"I just look this way.\"\n\nHe is survived by his wife Sally Green, with whom he had a daughter and a son.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nelson has also pulled out of an appearance at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday evening\n\nJesy Nelson has pulled out of Saturday evening's live final of Little Mix: The Search.\n\nThe 29-year-old was due to appear alongside her bandmates in the last episode of the BBC One talent show.\n\nBut a spokesman for the group said in a statement: \"Jesy is unwell and will not be appearing on tonight's final of Little Mix The Search.\n\n\"She will also not be hosting or performing at tomorrow's MTV EMAs [Europe Music Awards].\"\n\nThe statement, which was made on Saturday morning, did not make clear what is wrong with Nelson or how unwell she is.\n\nThe announcement comes the day after Little Mix released their sixth album, Confetti.\n\nThe group were due to host the MTV EMAs on Sunday evening, which will be filmed in various locations around the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIt is thought Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall will still host the ceremony, which will feature performances from Doja Cat, Sam Smith, DaBaby and Alicia Keys.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Little Mix say the pressures associated with an online presence can be harmful to young people's mental health\n\nLast month, filming on Little Mix: The Search was halted after a \"small number of people\" involved in the series tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe band were not among those who tested positive, but Thirlwall self-isolated as a precaution.\n\nShe still took part in the first live show virtually, dialling in via video link to judge and score the bands from home.\n\nAround two million viewers have been tuning in to each episode of Little Mix The Search, which has been airing since late September.\n\nThe task for the group is to assemble six bands from thousands of wannabes, and eventually choose one to support them on tour.\n\nNelson has previously discussed her mental health battle on the BBC Three documentary Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out.\n\nThe documentary, which won a National Television Award, addressed body image and the impact of online bullying.\n\nIn the programme, Nelson revealed that negative comments online had led to an attempt to take her own life.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The findings form part of Ofcom's third annual report on the BBC\n\nSatisfaction with the BBC among its most loyal audiences is showing \"signs of waning\" for the first time, broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has said.\n\nOlder and more affluent people have traditionally used and valued the broadcaster the most.\n\nBut Ofcom said: \"For the first time, satisfaction levels among audiences who typically use the BBC the most... are beginning to show signs of waning.\"\n\nThat was especially true of the over-55s, according to Ofcom.\n\n\"Older audiences in particular are starting to show signs of decreasing satisfaction,\" the watchdog's third annual report into the BBC said. But over-55s are still \"better served than other groups\", it added.\n\nThe report also said the corporation was \"still struggling\" to reach younger audiences.\n\n\"Average time spent with the BBC each week [by young audiences] now stands at just less than an hour a day,\" it found.\n\nYoung people, the report continued, tend to use BBC iPlayer \"when they know what they want to watch, rather than as a destination to browse for new content\".\n\nThe report said the BBC's \"overall reach is still very high, with almost nine in 10 adults consuming its content on a weekly basis\".\n\nYet overall audiences are \"in gradual decline\", it said, and the corporation's reach among adults has fallen by 5%, from 92% to 87%, over the past three years.\n\n\"If audiences do not consider the BBC a core part of their viewing, they may not see value in the licence fee,\" it suggested.\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey 2019 Christmas special was seen by more than 17 million viewers\n\nThe report included the BBC's coverage of Kylie Minogue's 2019 Glastonbury set and the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special among its highlights from the year.\n\nIt covered the period April 2019 to March 2020, before means testing of the TV licence for over-75s began in August.\n\nThe BBC said it welcomed Ofcom's report and its assertion that \"audiences value the BBC particularly for distinctive, high-quality, creative programmes, educational content and trusted and accurate news\".\n\nThe corporation's statement added: \"We're committed to delivering great value and meeting the challenges of a fast-changing media landscape.\"\n\nOfcom has also published its annual study of diversity in the TV and radio industry, which calls on the sector to broaden the geographic and social make-up of its workforce.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"It's going to look horrible.\" The simple truth about the Spending Review according to a senior MP.\n\nThe chancellor will bang the drum for his plans to keep people in jobs, or help find new ones. Rishi Sunak will take out the metaphorical megaphone to explain how he'll allocate billions of taxpayers' cash to spend on infrastructure in the coming months.\n\nBut the headlines of the Spending Review, when governments put their money where their mouths are, won't be in any rhetorical flourishes at the despatch box, nor likely in any surprise announcements kept back as goodies for the public.\n\nWhat may shock, is the cold reality of the cost of the coronavirus, which will be laid bare in the tables and charts published at the same time, presenting to the country in the shape of statistics from the Office for Budget Responsibility how much damage the pandemic has really done to how we make a living.\n\nWithout poring over the spreadsheets, the \"horrible\" will mean a massive gap between what the government takes in tax and what is has been spending, a deficit more than ten times what it was last year.\n\nThere will be an estimate of the number of people who may end up unemployed, perhaps nearing three million before too long.\n\nIt's likely to mean a freeze on pay for much of the public sector; a cut, even if temporary to the amount of cash the UK spends on foreign aid; tight spending limits for government departments on their day-to-day spending and eye-watering levels of debt and borrowing.\n\nOne former Treasury minister, who is not prone to hyperbole (unusually for a politician you might wonder) described it as a \"multigenerational debt which will have implications for the rest of our lives in terms of what the British state can afford\".\n\nWe will on Wednesday, they suggest, \"learn a great deal about the problem\", what months of emergency spending has done to the economy. But before we go on, don't hold your breath to learn much about any solutions.\n\nRishi Sunak will set out the state of the country's finances in a statement to Parliament\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister have decided politically that while budgets will be tight (and let's see the black and white to assess this for real) there can't be a return to the kind of squeeze of the Cameron and Osborne era.\n\nNo one in government would pretend in private there is any way to avoid tax rises at some point. But Mr Sunak is not going to announce any of that on Wednesday - any big ways of raising money to fill the hole won't come until the Budget next year at the earliest, and perhaps not until after that.\n\nBut Wednesday's review will sketch out the very, very serious challenge for the country's finances that is on the way.\n\nMost importantly of course that will be reflected in the number of people who might lose their jobs with all the distress that entails, all the business that could be lost, and the impact on people's pay packets. But it also sets the backdrop for the decisions that our politicians have to make, and will be confronted with for many, many years to come.\n\nIt's notable that while there have been some skirmishes around the edges in the last nine months, there has been very little tension over the government and the Bank of England's central actions to write enormous cheques, and keep the signatures coming as the pandemic has progressed.\n\nAnd it's far from over. But as time goes on the exit from the emergency leaves the government with extremely difficult political decisions.\n\nPubs have been forced to close due to coronavirus restrictions\n\nThere is no appetite to break any of the prime minister's expensive manifesto promises.\n\nNew Tory MPs, particularly in new Tory seats are chomping at the bit for evidence to show to their constituents they made the right decision.\n\nOne former minister said, \"our voters want something tangible they can see at the end of their street,\" and they want it fast.\n\nBut the chancellor also, according to his allies, says \"we have to be the party of looking after people's money - he says, if we lose that, why don't you just vote Labour?\"\n\nThe argument works the other way too, to an extent. If the Tories are racking up levels of public spending that are previously unimaginable, the traditional gap in economic vision doesn't leave Labour with that much space.\n\nHow and when will either of the main parties try to confront what has really gone on as the cost of trying to deal with the pandemic has gone up and up and up?\n\nSome ministers worry even many MPs haven't yet understood the real consequences for how we make a living - the damage the decisions made to protect the country during the emergency of the pandemic have had on the economy.\n\nBut Wednesday will be the first time, eight months in, when we will be confronted with the size of the likely bill. The argument about who and how to pay will dominate for many years to come.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of unemployed people will surge to 2.6 million by the middle of next year, according to the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility. The latest figures show 1.62 million people are unemployed, a number which has risen by more than 300,000 since last year amid the coronavirus pandemic. The last time the UK unemployment figure was as high as 2.6 million was in May to July 2012. The number exceeded 3 million from 1983 to 1987 and for a few months in early 1993. In his Spending Review, the chancellor said government borrowing will rise to its highest outside of wartime to deal with the economic impact. So, why is unemployment rising?\n\nPeople have been urged to consider the risk of spreading coronavirus when rules are relaxed over Christmas. It comes after it was confirmed that up to three households will be allowed to stay together and form a \"Christmas bubble\" from 23 to 27 December, as agreed by all four UK nations. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people to use \"personal judgement\" on whether or not to visit elderly or vulnerable relatives. Meanwhile, there have been calls for a UK-wide approach to coronavirus rules after Christmas. Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said it \"makes sense\" to \"respond to the consequences of greater household mixing\" together in the aftermath of the five-day period. Here's our guide to the Christmas rules and how to keep the virus at bay this festive season.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Cardiff share their views on the relaxation of Covid-19 rules over Christmas\n\nThe number of domestic abuse offences recorded by police in England and Wales has increased during the pandemic. However, the Office for National Statistics said such offences gradually rose in recent years so it cannot be determined if it was related to the pandemic. Police recorded 259,324 domestic abuse offences between March and June - 7% up on the same period in 2019. During and after the first lockdown in April, May and June, roughly one-fifth of offences involved domestic abuse.\n\nIntensive care nurse Valerie Bednar, who struggled to get face masks to fit her, has inspired the design of custom-fit ones for frontline healthcare workers. Her husband Gareth Smith set up MyMaskFit, which is aiming to become the first in the UK to make custom-fit, reusable, filtering face piece masks to a medical grade standard. Based in Swansea, the firm hopes to further develop a prototype designed by researchers at Birmingham University and King's College London - with the aim of making them available to the NHS in Wales in the new year. Read Valerie and Gareth's story.\n\nGareth Smith set up MyMaskFit after wife Valerie, pictured, struggled to find a mask to fit her\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, remind yourself of the rules for visits to pubs and restaurants over the Christmas period.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"We've just got to keep the border open\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has said America does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit.\n\nHe said it had taken a lot of hard work to reach a settlement on the island of Ireland, ending decades of conflict.\n\nThe UK government has threatened to overrule the Brexit withdrawal agreement which committed it to keeping the border open.\n\nMr Biden has previously said Brexit must not endanger the peace process.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, Mr Biden said: \"We do not want a guarded border. We've worked too long to get Ireland worked out.\n\n\"The idea of having a border north and south once again being closed is just not right, we've just got to keep the border open.\"\n\nMr Biden - who has unveiled officials for six important posts as he prepares to take office - said he had spoken to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and the French government.\n\nMr Biden - an Irish American - has previously said that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThose comments came after the government put forward legislation that would give it the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of Brexit made earlier this year.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after 1 January - when the post-Brexit transition period runs out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"It’s a team that reflects the fact that America is back\"\n\nThe president-elect was quick to criticise the legislation when it was first published, warning that the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland \"cannot become a casualty of Brexit\".\n\nEarlier this month, the House of Lords voted to remove a section of the bill that would allow ministers to break international law, but the government has said it would reinstate these clauses when the bill returns to the House of Commons next month.\n\nThe UK and EU are still working to strike a deal to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in January 2021.\n\nThe President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that progress had been made on some issues but there were still \"some metres to the finish line\" to reach agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Democrat with close links to Mr Biden's incoming administration has criticised the UK government's plans to cut its overseas aid budget.\n\nJohn Podesta, a former adviser to Presidents Obama and Clinton, told the BBC the reduction of the spending target was \"extremely unfortunate\".\n\nMr Podesta may not speak directly for Team Biden but his remarks will be seen as a clear warning shot from across the Atlantic, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale has said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance will begin to ease its strict coronavirus restrictions this weekend, allowing non-essential shops to reopen, President Emmanuel Macron has said.\n\nPeople will also be able to share \"moments with the family\" over the Christmas period, Mr Macron announced.\n\nBut he said bars and restaurants would have to remain closed until 20 January.\n\nFrance has reported more than 2.2 million cases and more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn a televised address on Tuesday evening, Mr Macron said the country had passed the peak of the second wave of virus infections.\n\nHe said that the bulk of lockdown restrictions would be eased from 15 December for the festive period, with cinemas reopening and general travel restrictions lifted, as long as new infections were at 5,000 a day or less.\n\nOn Monday, France reported 4,452 daily Covid-19 infections - its lowest tally since 28 September.\n\nThe latest seven-day rolling average for new infections in France is reported to be 21,918. That figure peaked at 54,440 on 7 November.\n\nMr Macron said the recent news of successful vaccine trials offered \"a glimmer of hope\" and that France would aim to begin vaccinations against Covid-19 \"at the end of December or at the beginning of January\", starting with the elderly and most vulnerable.\n\nThe French president said the situation would be reviewed on 20 January, and if infections remained low, bars and restaurants would then be permitted to reopen. Universities would also be able to accept students again.\n\nHowever, if the situation had worsened, he said he would look at options to avoid triggering a third wave.\n\n\"We must do everything to avoid a third wave, do everything to avoid a third lockdown,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe later tweeted to say that all businesses forced to remain closed during the restrictions, such as restaurants, bars and sports halls, would have the choice of receiving up to €10,000 (£8,900) from a \"solidarity fund\" or the payment of 20% of their turnover.\n\nHe said that France's ski resorts may have to remain closed until next year because the current risks associated with the virus made it difficult for such sports to resume.\n\nHowever, he said he would discuss the issue with other European leaders and provide an update in the coming days.\n\nSki resorts were responsible for numerous outbreaks of Covid-19 cases across Europe in the early days of the pandemic.\n\nMr Macron said the lockdown would be replaced by a nationwide curfew between 21:00 and 07:00, except on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.\n\nFrance has been under a second national lockdown since the beginning of November. People have only been permitted to leave home to go to work, buy essential goods, seek medical help or exercise for one hour a day. Anyone going outside must carry a written statement justifying their journey.\n\nWhile all non-essential shops, restaurants and bars have been shut, schools and crèches have remained open. Social gatherings have been banned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeasures to deal with coronavirus outbreaks remain in place across Europe, but a reduction in daily reported cases in some areas - coupled with the reported success of a number of vaccines - has led countries to revisit their restrictions. Some of the latest developments include:", "A former Eton College teacher has been convicted of sexual offences against pupils during \"nocturnal\" visits to their bedrooms.\n\nMatthew Mowbray, 49, went into boys' rooms under the guise of discussing schoolwork, Reading Crown Court heard.\n\nHe was found guilty of eight counts of sexual activity with a child and not guilty of one against a girl.\n\nThe defendant previously admitted six counts of making indecent images of children and one of voyeurism.\n\nOne complainant said Mowbray groped his bottom with a \"forceful squeeze\"\n\nMowbray, of Locks Heath, Southampton, was dismissed from his role at the boys' boarding school, near Windsor, Berkshire, following his arrest.\n\nHis trial heard he would pay regular \"nocturnal visits\" to boys \"for his own sexual gratification\".\n\nOne complainant said Mowbray groped his bottom with a \"forceful squeeze\", while another pupil said he \"felt really uncomfortable and just froze\" when he was sexually touched by the geography teacher.\n\nEton College was founded by King Henry VI in 1440 and has about 1,300 pupils\n\nFollowing his conviction, Marc Thompson, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Mowbray's victims described feeling uncomfortable with his nocturnal visits to their rooms.\n\n\"Whilst not overtly sexual acts, they knew the touching was wrong, but were at a loss to know what to do.\n\n\"Mowbray's intentions became clear with the discovery of the indecent images on his computer, it was through this evidence we were able to prove to the jury that the manner in which he touched the boys was intended to satisfy his own sexual desires.\"\n\nSimon Henderson, head teacher at Eton College, said he was \"outraged\" by the way Mowbray had \"abused his position of trust and betrayed those in his care\".\n\nHe added there was a \"palpable sense of betrayal, coupled with shock and deep regret that we did not identify his offending earlier\".\n\nHe said staff would be \"redoubling our efforts to ensure that Eton remains an ever more open and supportive environment for all of our pupils, so that they can continue to feel confident to come forward with any concerns that they may have\".\n\nHe offered his \"unreserved apologies\" to those affected and paid tribute to their \"extraordinary courage and dignity\".\n\nMowbray did not give evidence in his trial. He will be sentenced at Reading Crown Court at a later date.\n\nHe was granted bail on the condition he does not contact parents or staff from Eton College, must not enter Eton or the surrounding area, and must not have unsupervised contact with children who are under the age of 16.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in a crash outside RAF Croughton last year\n\nHarry Dunn's parents have lost their High Court battle against the Foreign Office over whether their son's alleged killer had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was in a crash with a car near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019.\n\nThe suspect, 43-year-old Anne Sacoolas, later left for the United States citing diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the High Court ruling was \"just a blip along the way\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, whose husband Jonathan worked as a technical assistant at the RAF base, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December, but an extradition request was denied in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's just another hurdle', Harry Dunn's parents say\n\nThe legal challenge by Mrs Charles and Mr Dunn's father Tim Dunn claimed Mrs Sacoolas should not have been granted immunity.\n\nBut Lord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini concluded \"that Mrs Sacoolas enjoyed immunity from UK criminal jurisdiction at the time of Harry's death\".\n\nMrs Charles said: \"The government and Mrs Sacoolas need to understand that this court ruling is just a blip along the way.\n\n\"I promised my boy I would get him justice and that is just what we are going to do. No-one is going to stand in our way.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's obviously disappointing that this court did not find in our favour but we are more focused now than ever on fulfilling our promise.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said Mr Dunn and Mrs Charles would be appealing against the ruling.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"While this judgment makes clear the Foreign Office acted properly and lawfully throughout, I appreciate that won't provide any solace to the family in their search for justice.\n\n\"We stand with them, we're clear that Anne Sacoolas needs to face justice in the UK, and we will support the family with their legal claim in the US.\"\n\nThe High Court judges also rejected a claim by Mr Dunn's parents that the Foreign Office had \"usurped\" Northamptonshire Police's investigation into their son's death.\n\nLord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini found officials had \"sought to assist rather than obstruct Northamptonshire Police in their investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: 'We continue to offer the Dunn family support'\n\nThe family's case centred on a 1995 agreement between the UK and the US, granting immunity to administrative and technical staff at the RAF base, which the US waived in relation to \"acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\nLawyers for Mr Dunn and Mrs Charles argued that the Foreign Office \"took upon itself the authority to resolve the question of immunity and ultimately and unlawfully decided to accept the US embassy's decision that Anne Sacoolas had immunity\".\n\nIn written submissions, the Foreign Office argued its officials had \"objected in strong terms\" to Mrs Sacoolas leaving the UK, and \"repeatedly emphasised\" that the department \"wanted the Sacoolas family to co-operate with the UK authorities\".\n\nLord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini ruled that Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity \"on arrival in the UK\" under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\n\nAs this had not been \"expressly waived\", it meant Mrs Sacoolas \"had immunity at the time of Harry's death\" on 27 August, they said.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"It's bad enough feeling the horrible pain of not having Harry around and missing him, but I can't believe the governments are putting us through this.\n\n\"It all seems so cruel and needless and I am just as angry today as I ever have been but so determined to see it all through until we have justice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nProfessional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor will stand down at the end of the season - two years after first announcing his intention to do so.\n\nThe 75-year-old has held the role since 1981 and a letter announcing his resignation was sent to members on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn 2019, the PFA commenced a \"full and open review\" into its finances.\n\nThis review - first announced in November 2018 - was completed in July.\n\nIt came following intense criticism of the players' union.\n\nAt the time, he said the organisation's entire management committee, including himself, would stand down at the annual general meeting following the report's release.\n\nThe 2020 AGM will take place on Thursday, where members will vote on a new governance structure in which the outgoing management committee would be replaced by a players' board and an operational board, which would oversee the day-to-day running of the union.\n\n\"As I announced at our previous AGM, now that the independent review process has completed, I too will step down, by the end of the current season,\" Taylor wrote.\n\n\"A new chief executive will be elected following the recruitment procedure recommended by the independent review, and we have already made substantial progress in that direction. I will of course be available in the future whenever needed to support the PFA.\"\n\nTaylor is credited with negotiating the PFA's biggest source of income - around £25m per year from the Premier League.\n\nBut the PFA has recently come under more scrutiny around the issue of dementia, which is a growing concern for former players and the subject of fury from some over a perceived lack of action and support by the PFA.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Stiles - the son of former England international Nobby Stiles, who died in October - had called for the resignation of Taylor and his leadership team.\n\nThe PFA announced its Neurodegenerative Disease Working Group (NDWG) last week, which would seek to consult the likes of Dawn Astle - the daughter of Jeff Astle - and former Blackburn Rovers forward Chris Sutton, who has also been critical of the union after his father, a former footballer, was diagnosed with dementia.\n\nSutton has told BBC Sport he has \"no plan to join the taskforce and doesn't want to be associated with the PFA in its current guise\".\n\nThe PFA also said it would continue to fund Dr Willie Stewart's research into the issue after the neuropathologist found last year that former footballers were between two and five times more likely to die from degenerative brain diseases.\n\nAnd on Friday it called for heading in training to be reduced in order to protect current players while a potential link between heading and long-term brain injuries exists.\n\n1981 - Takes charge of the PFA and introduces a non-contributory pension scheme for members.\n\n1986 - Helps establish the Football in the Community initiative at six clubs before it is rolled out across all 92 Football League clubs.\n\n1989 - Agrees to join the Football League as chief executive before reconsidering and staying with the players' union.\n\n1994 - Appointed President of FIFPro (the International Association of Football Players' Unions).\n\n2001 - Secures a £52.2m three-year deal with the Premier League over television revenue after 99% of players back a threat to strike.\n\n2008 - Recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).\n\n2015 - Issues a public apology after comparing the Ched Evans rape case with the Hillsborough tragedy.\n\n2017 - Dawn Astle, the daughter of former West Brom and England striker Jeff, walks out of a meeting with Taylor criticising the PFA for a lack of action on dementia research.\n\n2018 - The PFA says it is \"disappointing\" that a dispute over the eligibility of Ben Purkiss as chairman had become public knowledge.\n\n2018 - An independent review into the PFA is announced.\n\n2019 - Taylor announces he will step down at the conclusion of the review.\n\n2020 - In a letter to PFA members, Taylor says he will step down at the end of the 2020-21 season.\n• Watch 13 FA Cup second-round games on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app this weekend. Find out more here.\n\nRegarded as one of football's finest administrators during the 1980s and 1990s, much of the PFA's influence on the modern game can be traced back to Taylor.\n\nHis biggest success story at the PFA came in 2001 while negotiating a deal with the Premier League over what the PFA's share of television revenue should be.\n\nEngland internationals including David Beckham and Gary Neville were among 99% of the PFA's membership to approve strike action until a figure of £52.2m (over three years) was finally agreed, alongside stipulations relating to future deals.\n\nHe established community programmes and youth training schemes (now apprenticeships) at all 92 professional football clubs.\n\nHe also played a key role in founding the 'Let's Kick Racism Out of Football' initiative in 1993, which later became the organisation Kick It Out.\n\nMore recently, Taylor pushed for football to adopt the 'Rooney Rule' to increase the number of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) coaches in the game.\n\nWhile the annual PFA Awards evening in April has gone from a men-only sportsman's dinner to an inclusive and glitzy bash, it has not been without controversy.\n\nFootball agent Rachel Anderson sued the PFA after being refused admission in 1998 and was awarded damages of £7,500, plus costs.\n\nIn 2013, black American comedian Reginald D Hunter used an offensive racist term during his performance at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, with Taylor saying the performer may have been unaware the language had been an \"emotive\" subject in football.\n\nThere have also been raised eyebrows over perceived lavish expenditure at times, with £1.9m spent on LS Lowry's 'Going to the Match' painting.\n\nIn 2013, national newspapers reported Taylor had run up more than £100,000 in gambling debts, and in 2015 he was forced to issue a public apology after comparing the Ched Evans rape case with the Hillsborough tragedy.\n\nAround 300 high-profile former and current players endorsed an open letter calling for Taylor to step down in November 2018 amid a dispute with PFA chairman Purkiss.\n• None The former US president previews his memoir\n• None The latest film from Steve McQueen is streaming now", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out what the UK government will spend on health, education, transport and other public services next year.\n\nIn a statement in Parliament, he also briefed MPs about the state of the UK economy and the latest forecasts for the UK's public finances, which have been battered by the Covid pandemic.\n\nHere are the main points.", "As much as £1bn in benefit fraud has been prevented from being paid to organised-crime groups in recent months, BBC News has learned.\n\nBut before the scam was spotted, officials unwittingly confirmed thousands of stolen identities.\n\nFraudsters took advantage of looser rules introduced to cope with a surge of universal credit claims during the pandemic.\n\nBBC News has asked the Department for Work and Pensions for a response.\n\nIn May, a junior civil servant working with High Street banks noticed dozens of claims for universal credit had been made asking for money to be paid into the same bank account.\n\nFurther investigation identified more than 100,000 fraudulent claims.\n\nAnd officials admit they had confirmed thousands of people's identities to the gangs that had stolen them - and passed on their National Insurance numbers.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions wants to write to those whose data has been compromised.\n\nBut BBC News has learned it is struggling to identify many of them and is wary of sending out letters to last known addresses in case they end up in the wrong hands, exacerbating the data breach.\n\nClaimants whose identities have been stolen can face real hardship, as it can be months before their accurate benefits are paid.\n\nCurrently, 5.7 million people receive universal credit, almost double the figure for March.\n\nTo cope with the surge, identity checks were processed online, rather than face-to-face, and information such as the cost of rent and whether someone had been self-employed taken on trust.\n\nDWP officials have asked the Treasury for £200m over three years, in this spending round, calculating it would enable it to prevent such mass scams and save taxpayers about £500m each year.\n\nIt is estimated more than a million claims for universal credit have still to be properly checked, with additional rising concerns tens of thousands of people may have claimed the benefit without declaring they had received government grants to help the self-employed.\n\nHowever, the Treasury has turned down the request.", "Engineers lowered the first of 10 booster segments into place on 21 November\n\nNasa has started assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch platform ahead of its maiden flight next year.\n\nThe SLS is the giant rocket that will send US astronauts back to the Moon this decade - with the first crewed landing targeted for 2024.\n\nEngineers in Florida have begun stacking the segments that make up the vehicle's two solid rocket boosters.\n\nThe rocket is scheduled to make its debut in November 2021.\n\nThe SLS consists of a giant, 65m (212ft) - long core stage with four engines that's flanked by the twin solid fuel boosters.\n\nTogether, these produce a massive 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust that can loft astronauts into orbit; the rocket subsequently hurls them towards the Moon.\n\nThe huge SLS core stage was transferred from Louisiana to Mississippi for testing earlier this year\n\nTeams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida lowered the first of 10 booster segments into place on a structure known as the mobile launcher on 21 November. The process is taking place inside the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy.\n\nThe boosters will burn six tonnes of solid, aluminium-based propellant each second when the SLS launches. They provide 75% of the vehicle's thrust at lift-off.\n\nThe mobile launcher they're being stacked on is a 115m (380ft) -tall structure that's used to process and assemble the SLS before moving it to the launch pad.\n\nIt's a huge symbolic step, not only for the SLS - which has been under development for a decade - but also Nasa's plan to send the next man and the first woman to the lunar surface by 2024, known as Artemis.\n\n\"Stacking the first piece of the SLS rocket on the mobile launcher marks a major milestone for the Artemis programme,\" said Andrew Shroble, a manager with Jacobs engineering group which is working on the rocket for Nasa.\n\n\"It shows the mission is truly taking shape and will soon head to the launch pad.\"\n\nThe solid rocket boosters provide 75% of the vehicle's thrust at launch\n\nThe other big segment of the SLS - its orange foam-covered core stage - is currently undergoing a programme of tests called the Green Run at Nasa's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.\n\nThe final two Green Run tests - which consist of loading the huge stage with propellant and, two weeks later, firing its four engines to simulate a launch and ascent - are set to take place in the next few weeks.\n\nOnce it's fully assembled, the SLS rocket will stand taller than the Statue of Liberty and have about 15% more maximum thrust at lift-off than the Saturn V rocket used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ignition: This solid rocket booster will be used for missions to the Moon\n\nThe booster segments being assembled in Florida will launch Nasa's next-generation astronaut vehicle, Orion, on a loop around the Moon in November next year.\n\nOrion will not be carrying any crew on that mission, known as Artemis-1. It will be used to check out the vehicle's performance before humans are allowed onboard for the Artemis-2 mission, currently scheduled for 2023.\n\nThis will be followed in 2024 by Artemis-3, the first crewed landing on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972.", "People have been urged to be cautious of the risk of spreading coronavirus when rules are relaxed over Christmas.\n\nUp to three households will be allowed to stay together and form a \"Christmas bubble\" from 23 to 27 December, as agreed by all four UK nations.\n\nA scientific adviser to the government said the relaxation of rules amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nMeanwhile, it is expected most areas of England will be placed in the middle tier of a toughened three-tier system.\n\nDetails on what will happen when the current lockdown ends on 2 December will be announced on Thursday. The decision will be based on a number of factors including case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and pressure on local NHS services.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says a \"handful\" of areas will be in the lightest regime of limits - tier one - but most of the country is likely to be in either tier two or three.\n\nShe said London is expected to be placed in tier two.\n\nThe measures for Christmas will see travel restrictions across the four nations, and between tiers and levels, lifted to allow people to visit families in other parts of the UK.\n\nAnyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland may travel on the 22 and 28 December, but otherwise travel to and from bubbles should be done between the 23 and 27.\n\nPeople will not be able to get together with others from more than two other households, and once a bubble is formed, it must not be changed or be extended further.\n\nThe guidance says a bubble of three households would be able to stay overnight at each other's home but would not be able to visit hospitality, theatres or retail settings.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told people to use \"personal judgement\" on whether to visit elderly relatives.\n\nIn a video message from Downing Street, the prime minister described the agreement as a \"special, time-limited dispensation\", saying: \"This year means Christmas will be different.\"\n\nMr Johnson said people must consider the risks of who to form a bubble with and whether or not to visit elderly or vulnerable relatives, adding: \"Many of us are longing to spend time with family and friends... And yet we can't afford to throw caution to the wind.\"\n\nHe added: \"'Tis the season to be jolly but 'tis also the season to be jolly careful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video filmed from isolation, the PM said people must make a \"personal judgement\" on the risks of meeting up\n\nThe prime minister has also reassured children that Father Christmas \"will be packing his sleigh and delivering presents this Christmas\".\n\nIn response to a letter from eight-year-old Monti, Mr Johnson said Father Christmas would not be a risk to children's health but that \"leaving hand sanitiser by the cookies is an excellent idea\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes as the government recorded another 18,213 Covid cases in the UK. Figures also showed a further 696 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths is the highest since the start of May and compares to 608 recorded on Wednesday.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym says many of those who have died are likely to have picked up an infection before the current lockdown measures were put in place. He said a rise in the death toll would not be expected to continue into December because the average number of daily cases is now falling and hospital admissions are levelling off.\n\nA mid-week rise can also be down to delays in deaths being reported over the weekend.\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said the ministers agreed they had to ease the rules because people would have flouted restrictions - creating further risk - if they were told Christmas had been \"cancelled\".\n\nMinisters were shown behavioural science evidence that \"too many people simply would not have been prepared to have gone along with such an instruction\", he told BBC Breakfast on Wednesday.\n\nMr Drakeford also said a UK-wide approach to coronavirus rules after Christmas was needed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said guidance for people in Scotland is still being finalised and will be issued on Thursday, but that her government will not be \"encouraging\" people to meet up.\n\n\"The expectation should be that the guidance will probably look to tighten around the edges rather than further expand and that will be true with the travel window of opportunity as well - we want to limit that window, not expand it,\" the first minister said.\n\nPublished guidance for England gives further details of the rules for 23 to 27 December:\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, and a member of the government's Sage committee, told BBC Newsnight allowing families to meet up over Christmas amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nHe said it would \"definitely lead to increase[d] transmission and likely lead to third wave of infections with hospitals being overrun, and more unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nProf Hayward said while you cannot ban Christmas, he called for clearer messaging to families about the \"dangers\" of socialising and inter-generational mixing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nGavin Terry, head of policy at the Alzheimer's Society, said thousands of relatives would be in \"complete despair\" at government guidance which says only care home residents of working age should be allowed to leave their care homes to visit family, due to the increased risk of exposure to the virus.\n\n\"After eight harrowing months filled with devastation and tragic loss of life, the announcement that many care home residents will be facing Christmas alone is just heartbreaking,\" he said, calling for further testing to allow for more visits.\n\nMeanwhile, Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, called on ministers to publish evidence for its Christmas bubble rules, which would \"inflict unnecessary pain and irreversible damage on our sector\".\n\nLocal rules mean many pubs and restaurants - such as those in England's tier three or Scotland's level four - will remain closed during the festive period, irrespective of the Christmas change.\n\nHow will your Christmas plans be affected? haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The show has defended its use of \"non-invasive\" species\n\nPolice have given \"suitable advice\" to the producers of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! following complaints about the use of non-native bugs.\n\nThe TV series is taking place in north Wales instead of the Australian jungle due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nWelsh naturalist and BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams has questioned whether a licence was gained to release bugs into the wild.\n\nThe show has defended the use of animals in its trials.\n\nA range of insects have been used on celebrities such as athlete Sir Mo Farah, TV presenter Vernon Kay and journalist Victoria Derbyshire during this year's trials.\n\nMr Williams initially raised questions over the programme's use of the creatures last week when he tweeted: \"As well as the moral issue of using wild animals for entertainment, surely there are huge ecological issues here also.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Iolo Williams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spokesman for the show said all the insects used were \"non-invasive species\" which are only ever released in a \"contained area and collected immediately after filming\".\n\nHe said: \"The bugs are UK bred and are commercially purchased in the UK for birds and exotic animal feed for pets and zoo keepers in normal circumstances.\"\n\nThe spokesman added the insects were donated to local wildlife sanctuaries, trusts and zoos for feed after filming.\n\nTo release a non-native species into the wild, a licence is needed from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you pronounce I'm A Celeb's Gwrych Castle?\n\nNRW's chief executive Clare Pillman earlier said it had not received any licence applications from ITV \"in relation to releasing non-natives as part of their production of I'm a Celebrity\".\n\nA North Wales Police statement said: \"North Wales Police and Natural Resources Wales have received information regarding the potential release of non-native species into 'non studio' areas, and we have given suitable advice to the production team regarding their set management and biosecurity.\"\n\nEarlier this month ITV defended using animals in the trials after concerns raised by the RSPCA over welfare.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said it would be \"right\" for police to investigate \"if there have been some infringement\" of the rules.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the Welsh Government had \"worked carefully\" with the production company to make sure that all the rules were being observed and they \"would be concerned about non-native species being released\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nOne of the game's most gifted players, the Argentine boasted a rare combination of flair, flamboyance, vision and speed which mesmerised fans.\n\nHe also outraged supporters with his controversial 'Hand of God' goal and plunged into a mire of drug abuse and personal crises off the pitch.\n\nBorn 60 years ago in a Buenos Aires shanty town, Diego Armando Maradona escaped the poverty of his youth to become a football superstar considered by some to be even greater than Brazil's Pele.\n\nThe Argentine, who scored 259 goals in 491 matches, pipped his South American rival in a poll to determine the greatest player of the 20th Century, before Fifa changed the voting rules so both players were honoured.\n\nMaradona showed prodigious ability from a young age, leading Los Cebollitas youth team to a 136-game unbeaten streak and going on to make his international debut aged just 16 years and 120 days.\n\nShort and stocky, at just 5ft 5in, he was not your typical athlete.\n\nBut his silky skills, agility, vision, ball control, dribbling and passing more than compensated for lack of pace and occasional weight problems.\n\nHe may have been a whizz at running rings round hostile defenders but he found it harder to dodge trouble.\n\nHand of God & Goal of the Century\n\nMaradona's 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina tell only part of the story of his rollercoaster international career.\n\nHe led his country to victory at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and a place in the final four years later.\n\nIn the quarter-final of the earlier tournament, there was a foretaste of the controversy that would later engulf his life.\n\nThe match against England already had an extra friction, with the Falklands War between the two countries having taken place only four years beforehand. That on-field edge was to become even more intense.\n\nWith 51 minutes gone and the game goalless, Maradona jumped with opposing goalkeeper Peter Shilton and scored by punching the ball into the net.\n\nHe later said the goal came thanks to \"a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God\".\n\nFour minutes later, he scored what has been described as the 'goal of the century' - collecting the ball in his own half before embarking on a bewitching, mazy run that left several players trailing before he rounded Shilton to score.\n\nThe first goal was dubious; the second was a bloody miracle\n\n\"You have to say that is magnificent. There is no doubt about that goal. That was just pure football genius,\" said BBC commentator Barry Davies.\n\nEngland pulled one back but Argentina went through, with Maradona saying it was \"much more than winning a match, it was about knocking out the English\".\n\nA hero for Napoli - but drugs take hold\n\nMaradona broke the world transfer record twice - leaving Boca Juniors in his home country for Spanish side Barcelona for £3m in 1982 and joining Italian club Napoli two years later for £5m.\n\nThere were more than 80,000 fans in the Stadio San Paolo when he arrived by helicopter. A new hero.\n\nHe played the best club football of his career in Italy, feted by supporters as he inspired the side to their first league titles in 1987 and 1990 and the Uefa Cup in 1989.\n\nA party to celebrate the first triumph lasted five days with hundreds of thousands on the streets, but Maradona was suffocated by the attention and expectation.\n\n\"This is a great city but I can hardly breathe. I want to be free to walk around. I'm a lad like any other,\" he said.\n\nHe became inextricably linked to the Camorra crime syndicate, dragged down by a cocaine addiction and embroiled in a paternity suit.\n\nAfter losing 1-0 to Germany in the final of Italia 90, a positive dope test the following year triggered a 15-month ban.\n\nHe returned and arrested his slide, appearing to get his act together to play in the 1994 World Cup in the USA.\n\nBut he alarmed viewers with a maniacal full-face goal celebration into a camera and was withdrawn midway through the tournament after he was found to have taken the banned substance ephedrine.\n\n1994: Plays in fourth World Cup but is ejected after positive test 1997: Retires from playing after third positive test 1990: World Cup runner-up with Argentina. Second league title at Napoli\n\nAfter his third positive test three years later, he retired from football on his 37th birthday, but continued to be plagued by problems.\n\nMaradona was given a suspended jail sentence of two years and 10 months for an earlier incident where he shot at journalists with an air rifle.\n\nHis cocaine habit and alcoholism led to several health issues. He put on weight, rising to 128kg (20 stone) at one point, and suffered a major heart attack in 2004, which left him in intensive care.\n\nHe had gastric-bypass surgery to help stem his obesity, and sought sanctuary in Cuba while battling to overcome his drug addiction.\n\nDespite all this, Maradona was named manager of the Argentina national team in 2008 and took the side to the World Cup quarter-finals two years later before his reign ended with a 4-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals.\n\nVarious managerial roles followed for a figure who continued to divide opinion, and continued to make headlines.\n\nHe needed reconstructive surgery on his lip after one of his pet shar pei dogs bit him, and publicly recognised his son Diego Armando Junior who was born from an extra-marital affair.\n\nA snapshot of his chaotic lifestyle came when he attended Argentina's match against Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nHe unveiled a banner of himself, danced with a Nigeria fan, prayed to the heavens before the game, wildly celebrated Lionel Messi's opener, fell asleep and gave a double middle finger salute after Argentina's second goal.\n\nSome reports suggested he needed medical treatment afterwards.\n\nDisgraceful, inspired, entertaining, great, over the top. Diego Maradona. A life less ordinary.", "Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has topped Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world's second richest man after a meteoric rise in his personal fortune.\n\nMr Musk's net worth jumped by $7.2bn (£5.4bn) to $128bn after shares in his car firm Tesla surged.\n\nOnly Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is richer, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.\n\nIt comes after news Tesla shares will be added to the S&P 500, one of the main share indexes in the US.\n\nThat triggered a fresh wave of buying of the electric carmaker's shares, sending the company's market value above $500bn and boosting the value of Mr Musk's holding in the business.\n\nTesla is already the most valuable car firm in the world, despite producing a fraction of the vehicles of rivals such as Toyota, VW and General Motors.\n\nOn Tuesday, in a speech in Germany, Mr Musk said it could \"make sense\" for Tesla to expand in Europe by entering the mass-market segment with a small car.\n\n\"In the US, the cars tend to be bigger for personal taste reasons,\" he said. \"In Europe, (they) tend to be smaller.\"\n\nAnd after years of losses, Tesla has seen five consecutive quarters of profit as sales of its cars perform well despite the pandemic.\n\nThe California-based firm will be the biggest new entrant on the S&P 500, with a market value of more than $500bn.\n\nIt means investment funds tracking the index will automatically hold its stock and benefit from gains in its share price - news that has excited investors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blast off: Watch the SpaceX rocket head into space\n\nBill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, was the world's richest person for years before Mr Bezos knocked him off the top spot in 2017.\n\nMr Gates's fortune is worth $127.7bn but would be higher had he not donated large sums to charity over the decades.\n\nJeff Bezos's net worth is estimated at £182bn by Bloomberg. He too has seen his personal fortune rise this year as demand for Amazon's services climbed in the pandemic.\n\nMr Musk, who regularly courts controversy, has had an eventful past few weeks.\n\nLast weekend he tweeted that he \"most likely\" had a moderate case of Covid-19 and has had symptoms of \"a minor cold.\"\n\nIt came the day before four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station in a rocket built by Mr Musk's SpaceX.", "The Duchess of Sussex has revealed she had a miscarriage in July, writing in an article of feeling \"an almost unbearable grief\".\n\n\"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,\" Meghan said in a piece for the New York Times.\n\nShe went on to describe how she watched \"my husband's heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine\".\n\nMeghan wrote that \"loss and pain have plagued every one of us in 2020\".\n\nThe 39-year-old shared her experience to urge people to \"commit to asking others, 'are you OK?'\" over the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.\n\nA source close to the duchess confirmed to the BBC that the duchess is currently in good health and the couple wanted to talk about what happened in July, having come to appreciate how common miscarriage is.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"It's a deeply personal matter we would not comment on.\"\n\nThe duchess and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, moved to California to live away from the media spotlight, after stepping back as senior royals in January.\n\nTheir first child, Archie, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa in 2019 with their son Archie\n\nThe duchess began her article by describing a \"sharp cramp\" she felt while looking after Archie.\n\n\"I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears.\n\n\"Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal.\"\n\nMeghan made it clear from the first event that she spoke at as Harry's bride-to-be that she wanted women's voices and women's experiences to be heard more clearly.\n\nNow she has written of her loss, and her heartbreak. She has set it in the context of a year of breathtaking turbulence. And she has made a plea for tolerance and compassion.\n\nShe weaves in the struggles of so many with Covid-19, the battles over truth and lies in our divided age, the killing of black Americans by the police.\n\nAnd on an experience that so many women have lived through, she has made her grief a way of bringing miscarriage closer to the everyday conversation.\n\nThe duchess continued: \"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.\n\n\"In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage.\n\n\"Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.\n\n\"Some have bravely shared their stories; they have opened the door, knowing that when one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the same.\"\n\nThe duchess also referenced a TV interview in which she was asked by a journalist if she was ok, during her tour of South Africa last year.\n\nShe said she was asked the question during a time in which she was \"trying to keep a brave face in the very public eye\".\n\n\"I answered him honestly, not knowing that what I said would resonate with so many - new moms and older ones, and anyone who had, in their own way, been silently suffering,\" she said.\n\nThe duchess is the second member of the Royal Family to open up about having a miscarriage.\n\nIn 2018 the Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall spoke about suffering two miscarriages before having her second child.\n\nThe duchess's miscarriage happened at a time when she was involved in legal action against the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father. Last month she was granted a postponement of her privacy trial until autumn next year.\n\nAn estimated one in four pregnancies ends in a miscarriage, according to the charity Tommy's.\n\nTommy's midwife Sophie King said talking about baby loss in pregnancy is \"a real taboo in society\" so \"mothers like Meghan sharing their stories is a vital step in breaking down that stigma and shame\".\n\nShe said the duchess's \"honesty and openness\" sends a \"powerful message to anyone who loses a baby: this may feel incredibly lonely, but you are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘I lost eight pregnancies in nine years’\n\nClea Harmer, chief executive of stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands, said it was a \"sad reality\" there was a stigma surrounding pregnancy loss and baby death, which \"leaves many parents feeling isolated\".\n\n\"The isolation we have all felt this year has made it even more difficult for parents whose baby has died during the Covid-19 pandemic and has brought back painful emotions for all those who have lost precious loved ones,\" she said.\n\nDr Christine Ekechi, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said it was \"important\" that any stigma or shame surrounding this issue was removed.\n\n\"Sadly, early miscarriages are very common and they can be a devastating loss for parents and their families,\" she said.\n\nAnd Alice Weeden, from charity the Miscarriage Association, told the BBC: \"When somebody, particularly in the public eye, talks about it openly, it's helpful for other people to know that they are not alone.\"\n\nThere are around 250,000 miscarriages every year in the UK alone, the majority occurring within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is a shockingly common experience, often dealt with privately at home or swiftly in hospitals.\n\nMany parents carry their grief silently and can feel society expects them to \"get back to normal life\" too soon.\n\nBut charities and scientists say much more needs to be done to acknowledge the longer-term effects of pregnancy loss.\n\nResearch suggests that one in six women go on to have symptoms of post-traumatic stress.\n\nFor some, nightmares and flashbacks continue for many months while anxiety and depression are also common afterwards.\n\nPartners report suffering too, with one in 12 facing similar issues.\n\nPregnancy experts in the UK say it is vital that women and partners are offered psychological support, alongside physical help, yet this kind of care is often under-resourced.\n\nOften, it is not known why miscarriages occur - whether in the first or second trimester of pregnancy, and many pregnancy losses cannot be prevented.\n\nUsually, something goes wrong with the development of the foetus in the womb.\n\nWarning signs can include bleeding and/or cramping pain in the lower tummy.\n\nPregnant women are advised to seek medical advice if they have either of these symptoms.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by issues with pregnancy, the following organisations may be able to help.", "Messages were daubed in white on the sides of the car\n\nA car has been driven into the gates of Angela Merkel's Federal Chancellery building in Berlin, German police say.\n\nA 54-year-old man was detained but the background to the incident was unclear.\n\nThe Volkswagen car had messages daubed in white on both sides. One called for an end to \"globalisation politics\" while another referred to \"you damned killers of children and old people\".\n\nThe incident came hours before Mrs Merkel held talks with regional leaders on extending Covid safety measures.\n\nIt is not known if she was in the building at the time. Germany's \"lockdown light\" is expected to be extended until 20 December and the restrictions have prompted protests from Covid deniers and far-right activists.\n\nHowever, there were indications that Wednesday morning's low-speed crash was not related to the protests.\n\nAn interior ministry spokesman later confirmed German reports that the man detained had also driven into the gate in February 2014. On that occasion the car had different white slogans daubed on the side. One called for an end to climate change while another read simply: \"Nicole, I love you.\"\n\nPolice said they were trying to establish whether the driver on Wednesday had a psychological condition or a particular motive. A government spokesperson said at no point was there any risk to the chancellor or anyone else.\n\nThe gate was only slightly damaged in the incident\n\nMrs Merkel is discussing a draft proposal agreed by Germany's 16 state premiers to keep hotels and restaurants shut and limit private gatherings to five people (not including children under 14). A special Christmas exemption from 23 December to 1 January would allow gatherings of up to 10 people.\n\nGerman health officials reported 410 deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday - the highest daily number since the pandemic began. However, Germany has seen proportionally far fewer fatalities than other Western European countries, with a total of 14,771.\n\nGermany has a large protest movement against Covid-19 measures, including many anti-vaccination activists. Protesters rallied in the centre of Berlin last week close to the parliament building, the Reichstag, before the protest was broken up by police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used water cannon after repeatedly telling protesters to disperse\n\nAngela Merkel, 66, has just marked 15 years as chancellor and is planning to step down from the post next year. She does not live in the chancellery but instead leads a modest life in a Berlin flat with her husband, Prof Joachim Sauer.\n\nHer Christian Democrat (CDU) party is doing well in the opinion polls, partly because of her handling of the pandemic. The government agreed on Wednesday to hold parliamentary elections on 26 September 2021 but the race to succeed Mrs Merkel as the CDU's candidate for chancellor is still to run.\n\nThe CDU will hold an online congress in January 2021 when they are expected to select a new party leadership.", "Amazon has apologised after UK customers received an email announcing the launch of a service available in the US only.\n\nAmazon Sidewalk uses customer broadband accounts to create a neighbourhood-wide network for local devices.\n\nIt can be accessed by certain Amazon-branded devices up to 500m (0.3 miles) away if the home wi-fi is out of reach or not working.\n\nBut customers with a US-registered device only should have been contacted.\n\nAnd UK customers who received Amazon's email have told BBC News this was not the case.\n\n\"We recently began emailing customers with Echo devices registered in the US to give them more information about Amazon Sidewalk,\" an Amazon spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This service will only be available in the US when it launches.\n\n\"We apologise for any confusion.\"\n\nIt means Amazon-branded security cameras and smart speakers can still function without a connection.\n\nFor US customers, the update will arrive in the form of a software update and owners of devices which can use it - including the Ring security camera and Amazon Echo - have to opt out of being part of it.\n\nOnly certain Amazon devices will be able to access it - not, for example, individual smartphones.\n\nAmazon says in the email that Sidewalk \"uses a small portion of your internet bandwidth\" for the service.\n\n\"Sidewalk can also extend the coverage for Sidewalk-enabled devices, such as Ring smart lights and pet and object trackers, so they can stay connected and continue to work over longer distances,\" it adds.\n\nSecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont tweeted Amazon appeared to be offering only very limited access to other people's broadband connections.\n\n\"It isn't blindly allowing anybody to browse the internet from your connection,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Alan Woodward, a cyber-security expert from Surrey University, said he thought people should not be added to the network by default.\n\n\"I think you should opt in rather than opt out of these things,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels wrong not knowing what your device is connected to.\"", "The advert was \"misleading\" in claiming passengers could expect to be over two metres from the driver, the ASA found\n\nAn advertisement for London black cabs exaggerated how much the vehicles could reduce the spread of Covid-19, a watchdog has found.\n\nThe radio advert featured a passenger's voice describing how the screen between her and the driver kept her safe.\n\n\"It's like being in my own bubble back here\", the promotion by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA) said.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled the message was \"exaggerated\" and \"misleading\".\n\nThe advert, which appeared on 9 July, continued: \"Sat on the back seat, they're over two metres from me. And with contactless payments, it's even safer. I'm a black cab customer and I'm confident I'm safe.\"\n\nThe ASA said this \"exaggerated the extent to which features of a London black cab would reduce the spread of Covid-19\".\n\nThe LTDA said black cabs were one of the safer ways to travel during the pandemic, \"particularly when compared to some other forms of public transport - with the partition, plenty of space and contactless payment\".\n\nIt added that the ASA's decision was \"another blow for black cab drivers, who are already suffering greatly as a result of the pandemic and fall in demand due to restrictions\".\n\nIn a published ruling, the ASA said it: \"Considered consumers would understand from the ad that a passenger sat on the backseat of a London black cab could expect to be over two metres from the driver.\n\n\"We also considered that, in the context of the existing Covid-19 pandemic, the reference to being 'divided from the driver' and 'in my own bubble' would be understood as an indication that there would be complete separation from passenger and driver.\"\n\nInvestigations found that in two of the three models of London black cabs, drivers and passengers would be exactly two metres or more apart, the ASA said.\n\n\"However, the third model showed that the distance was either two metres or less,\" it added.\n\nThe watchdog said the advert could not be aired again in the same form\n\nThe watchdog acknowledged the intention of the advertiser to highlight particular features that were distinct to London black cabs.\n\nHowever, it ruled the ad must not appear again the same form.\n\nSteve McNamara of the LTDA said he had no intention of misleading consumers and that the advert will not be used again.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the US ,the pandemic is going to keep many families apart this Thanksgiving, but Texas grandparents Missy and Barry Buchanan have come up with an ingenious way to stay connected with their family.\n\nThey sent 6ft tall, actual life-sized, cardboard cut-outs of themselves to their son and daughter, and grandchildren,.\n\n\"I was trying to figure out what can we do that will send a message, that it’s going to be okay,” Missy told US media.\n\nShe said they got out their tripod, took a photo of themselves, and told their children to expect something large in the mail.\n\n\"It just kinda takes the seriousness and sadness out,\" her daughter Mindy Whittington said. \"It's really hard not to laugh when you have 6ft parents behind you!\"\n\nSon Matthew Buchanan said his children had been having fun placing their cardboard grandparents around the house and in the garden.\n\n\"It's not as gratifying as having a grandchild crawl up in your lap and being able to give them a hug,\" Missy said.\n\n\"But we're just thankful that everybody has been well and safe, and we will be together again around the table.\"", "Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal against a High Court ruling which concluded that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nThe Pirates Of The Caribbean actor sued the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN), for libel over a 2018 article labelling him a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe judge who dismissed Mr Depp's claim this month said an appeal did not have a \"reasonable prospect of success\".\n\nBut he gave him until 7 December to apply directly to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMr Justice Nicol's ruling on the application to overturn his judgement came last week - and was made public on Wednesday.\n\nHe also ordered the actor to make an initial payment to NGN of almost £630,000 for its legal fees.\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard both gave evidence during the 16-day case at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in July.\n\nThe allegations spanned the period between 2013 and 2016, when the couple's relationship ended.\n\nMr Depp, 57, denied the claims and his lawyer called the judge's ruling \"perverse\" and announced the actor intended to appeal.\n\nAmber Heard and Johnny Depp split up in 2016\n\nMr Depp sued the Sun after a column by its executive editor Dan Wootton referred to \"overwhelming evidence\" that the actor attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship.\n\nMr Justice Nicol ruled the newspaper had proved what was in the article to be \"substantially true\". He found that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents outlined had occurred.\n\nThe judge highlighted three incidents where he said Mr Depp had put Ms Heard in \"fear for her life\".\n\nIn one of those incidents, in Australia in 2015, Mr Depp was allegedly physically and verbally abusive towards her while drinking heavily and taking drugs. Mr Depp accused Ms Heard of severing his finger, but the judge said he did not accept Ms Heard was responsible.\n\nThe judge rejected a \"recurring theme\" in Mr Depp's evidence \"that Ms Heard had constructed a hoax and that she had done this as an 'insurance policy',\" and that she was a \"gold-digger\".\n\nIn the April 2018 column, the Sun asked how author JK Rowling could be \"genuinely happy\" that Mr Depp had been cast in the latest film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise she had written, amid allegations made by Ms Heard.\n\nAfter losing the case, Mr Depp said he had left the franchise, adding he had been \"asked to resign\" from his role as Gellert Grindelwald and had \"respected that and agreed to that request\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: Government set 'to fund the priorities of British people'\n\nThe number of unemployed people in the UK is expected to surge to 2.6 million by mid-2021, Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nIn his Spending Review, the chancellor said the \"economic emergency\" caused by Covid-19 had \"only just begun\".\n\nThe government expected to borrow £394bn this year - the \"highest\" level \"in our peacetime history\" - he added.\n\nThe latest figures show 1.62 million people are unemployed, a number which has risen by more than 300,000 since last year.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said the government would spend £280bn this year \"to get our country through coronavirus\".\n\nHe also announced that most public sector workers would have their pay frozen, with only the lowest paid, as well as nurses, doctors and other NHS staff, getting a salary rise.\n\nAnd the chancellor said spending on overseas aid, as a proportion of national income, would be 0.5% in 2021-2 - down from the 0.7% currently set in law.\n\nThe document accompanying Mr Sunak's statement makes no mention of extending the temporary £20 uplift in Universal Credit beyond next April, but this is expected to be reviewed in the new year.\n\nThe last time the UK unemployment figure was as high as 2.6 million was in May to July 2012.\n\nThe number exceeded three million from 1983 to 1987 and for a few months in early 1993.\n\nMr Sunak told MPs the economy was predicted to contract by 11.3% this year - \"the largest fall in output for more than 300 years\" - and grow by 5.5% next year and 6.6% in 2022.\n\nHe added: \"Even with growth returning, our economic output is not expected to return to pre-crisis levels until the fourth quarter of 2022. And the economic damage is likely to be lasting.\"\n\nThe government's Covid response, including furlough, has led to huge spending rises, at a time when its income from taxation is down.\n\nMr Sunak said the UK was expected to borrow £394bn this year, which was predicted to fall to £164bn next year and £105bn in 2022-3.\n\nSome other Spending Review announcements were trailed before his statement, including:\n\nThe chancellor had intended - as usual - to set out plans for the next three years, but this was reduced to just one year due to the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic.\n\nFor Labour, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said a longer-term spending review was needed soon \"to build a future for our country as the best place in the world to grow up in and the best place to grow old in\".\n\nShe criticised Mr Sunak for not mentioning Brexit in his speech, with the UK set to leave the EU single market and customs area at the end of the year.\n\nMs Dodds added: \"There's still no trade deal. So does the chancellor truly believe that his government is prepared and that he's done enough to help those businesses that will be heavily affected?\"\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility said that if no deal was reached, and the UK and EU had to trade under World Trade Organization rules - including tariffs - this could \"reduce real GDP\" by 2% in 2021, on top of the damage caused by coronavirus.\n\nThe economic shock of the \"various temporary disruptions to cross-border trade and the knock-on impacts\" would continue for years, it predicted.\n\nBut a Treasury spokesman insisted the government was confident about the future of the UK, whatever the outcome of negotiations with Brussels.\n\nHe said the chancellor was focussed on Covid, which he described as the \"core economic challenge\" and \"the one that matters today to people's jobs\".\n\nDave Prentis, general secretary of the union Unison, called the pay freeze for most public sector workers \"austerity, plain and simple\" and a \"bitter pill\" for those affected.\n\nHe added: \"A decade of spending cuts left public services exposed when Covid came calling. The government is making the same disastrous mistake again.\"", "The USS John S McCain was involved in a deadly collision with a tanker in 2017\n\nRussia says one of its warships caught and chased off a US Navy destroyer after it entered territorial waters in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday.\n\nMoscow accused the USS John S McCain of travelling 2km (1.2 miles) across its maritime border in Peter the Great Gulf and says it threatened to ram the ship.\n\nThe US warship then left the area, according to Russia.\n\nHowever, the US Navy denied any wrongdoing and said its ship had not been \"expelled\".\n\nThe incident took place on Tuesday in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, a body of water bordered by Japan, Russia and the Koreas.\n\nAccording to the Russian defence ministry, its Pacific Fleet destroyer the Admiral Vinogradov used an international communications channel to warn the US ship about \"the possibility of using ramming to get the intruder out of the territorial waters\".\n\n\"The Russian Federation's statement about this mission is false,\" said a spokesman for the US Navy's 7th Fleet, Lt Joe Keiley. \"USS John S McCain was not 'expelled' from any nation's territory.\"\n\nHe said the US \"would \"never bow in intimidation or be coerced into accepting illegitimate maritime claims, such as those made by the Russian Federation\".\n\nSuch incidents at sea are rare, although the Admiral Vinogradov was also involved in a near-collision with a US cruiser in the East China Sea last year.\n\nBoth Russia and the US exchanged blame for that incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crew of the USS Chancellorsville had a close-up view of the Russian warship Admiral Vinogradov in June 2019\n\nThe two countries regularly accuse the other of dangerous military manoeuvres - at sea and in the air.\n\nIn 1988, a Soviet frigate, the Bezzavetny, \"bumped\" a US cruiser, the Yorktown, in the Black Sea, accusing it of intruding in territorial waters.\n\nRelations between Moscow and Washington remain strained, and President Vladimir Putin has still not congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election.\n\nThe two countries have also yet to finalise the last remaining nuclear arms pact between them, which is due to expire in February.\n\nIn 2017, the USS John S McCain was involved in a collision with an oil tanker off Singapore, when 10 sailors were killed.", "A mural of The Beatles, painted on a wall in the Baltic Triangle area of their home city Liverpool\n\nCraig Brown's book One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time has won a leading non-fiction award, the Baillie Gifford Prize, whose judges said it had \"reinvented the art of biography\".\n\nThe book tells the history of the Fab Four through a mixture of diaries, letters, interviews and charts.\n\nThe annual £50,000 prize is given to the UK's best non-fiction work.\n\nMartha Kearney, the chair of the judges, described the book as \"a highly original take on familiar territory\".\n\nIt amounted to \"a joyous, irreverent, insightful celebration of the Beatles\", the broadcaster said.\n\nAuthor and journalist Brown has written 18 books. He told the BBC on Wednesday, the fact that so many other good books about the band already existed actually \"freed me up to whatever kind of book I wanted\".\n\nHe said: \"I could go down much more peculiar paths than if say only one or two books have been written.\n\n\"It let me pursue, in particular, minor figures associated with The Beatles, or minor figures knocked out of the way by The Beatles. Or people who hated The Beatles, or strange fans or hangers-on.\n\n\"So I could go down these peripheral paths, which if I had just been writing an authorised biography or a normal kind of chronological book or something like that, I wouldn't have been able to do.\"\n\nFor 30 years Brown has also penned a parodic diary column in Private Eye. He was therefore able to see the funny side when someone tried (and failed) to adopt his identity to intercept his winnings.\n\n\"The organisers told me this morning they got an email from someone with a sort of Gmail thing with my name asking them to put the money in a PayPal account,\" he laughed.\n\n\"Because I do parodies a lot of the time, they thought it's funny - someone parodying me to steal my money!\"\n\nThe rest of the Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Up to three households can form an exclusive \"bubble\" to meet at home during the Christmas period\n\nA UK-wide approach to coronavirus rules after Christmas is needed, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe UK government and ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have agreed three households can meet from 23 December until 27 December.\n\nMr Drakeford said it \"makes sense\" to \"respond to the consequences of greater household mixing\" together in the aftermath of the five-day period.\n\nThe UK government said it was \"a key example\" of a unified UK-wide response.\n\nMr Drakeford said his own family would make \"some modest use of the freedoms\".\n\nMark Drakford says he was \"cheered\" by the four nations' ability to reach an agreement\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales, he said: \"I am cheered up by the fact that by meeting together four times, we've been able to reach a common position on the five days of Christmas.\n\n\"But I want us to reach a common position on how we approach the aftermath of Christmas as well and I think it makes sense to do that across the United Kingdom as well - have a common approach to responding to the consequences of greater household mixing.\n\n\"I do think that getting around the table together to go through a plan for it should be the next step [in] what I think of as the successful way in which we've been able to plan together for the five days of Christmas itself.\"\n\nUnder the agreement for Christmas, made at a meeting of Cobra on Tuesday afternoon:\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price called for the Welsh Government to \"keep a close eye\" on infection rates and impose further restrictions if necessary.\n\nMr Price also called for quicker test results so \"tracing teams can begin their work of clamping down on cases and possible clusters or outbreaks\".\n\nThe leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, Paul Davies, claimed it was Mr Johnson who had suggested the \"collaborative approach\".\n\nMeanwhile a UK government spokesman added: \"We welcome the desire of the Welsh administration to work even more closely with the UK government, delivering for communities across all four corners of the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abby wants her family to be together at Christmas - but there are too many households\n\nHowever some scientists have warned that the relaxation of Covid restrictions over the festive period could spark another wave of infections and further deaths.\n\nThey said a typical Christmas gathering at home was the type of environment where infections could spread.\n\nPeople have been advised to take precautions when meeting their Christmas bubble, such as washing hands frequently and opening windows to clear potential virus particles.\n\nUp to three households can form an exclusive \"bubble\" to meet indoors during the Christmas period\n\nWhen asked what his plans were for Christmas, Mr Drakeford said: \"I am looking forward to seeing some members of my family who I haven't been able to meet indoors for many, many months now, but we will do it in a very contained, careful way.\n\n\"We certainly won't be mixing with people who are vulnerable or whose age puts them at a particular disadvantage.\n\n\"I am looking forward to being able to make some modest use of the freedoms.\"\n\nWhen asked about introducing tougher restrictions ahead of Christmas, he said his cabinet would meet on Thursday \"to see whether or not the position in Wales means that we have to introduce some further restrictions to create the headroom we need to be able to use those five days over Christmas in a responsible way\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Drakeford said an agreement to relax Covid rules over Christmas was not \"an instruction to meet with other people\".\n\n\"So it's not a choice between relaxation or no relaxation. It's having a form of relaxation where there are rules that people will recognise that will allow people to enjoy Christmas, but we'll do it in a controlled way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.\n\nThe former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.\n\nHe had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.\n\nMaradona was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, scoring the famous 'Hand of God' goal against England in the quarter-finals.\n• None 'To be Maradona was incredibly beautiful, but also hard'\n\nArgentina and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi paid tribute to Maradona, saying he was \"eternal\".\n\n\"A very sad day for all Argentines and football,\" said Messi. \"He leaves us but does not leave, because Diego is eternal.\n\n\"I keep all the beautiful moments lived with him and I send my condolences to all his family and friends.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, the Argentine Football Association expressed \"its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend\", adding: \"You will always be in our hearts.\"\n\nDeclaring three days of national mourning, Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina, said: \"You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of them all.\n\n\"Thank you for having existed, Diego. We're going to miss you all our lives.\"\n\nMaradona played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side. He started his career with Argentinos Juniors, also playing for Sevilla, and Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys in his homeland.\n\nHe scored 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina, representing them in four World Cups.\n\nMaradona led his country to the 1990 final in Italy, where they were beaten by West Germany, before captaining them again in the United States in 1994, but was sent home after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.\n\nDuring the second half of his career, Maradona struggled with cocaine addiction and was banned for 15 months after testing positive for the drug in 1991.\n\nHe retired from professional football in 1997, on his 37th birthday, during his second stint at Argentine giants Boca Juniors.\n\nHaving briefly managed two sides in Argentina during his playing career, Maradona was appointed head coach of the national team in 2008 and left after the 2010 World Cup, where his side were beaten by Germany in the quarter-finals.\n\nHe subsequently managed teams in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico and was in charge of Gimnasia y Esgrima in Argentina's top flight at the time of his death.\n\nBrazil legend Pele led tributes to Maradona, writing on Twitter: \"What sad news. I lost a great friend and the world lost a legend. There is still much to be said, but for now, may God give strength to family members. One day, I hope we can play ball together in the sky.\"\n\nFormer England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, who was part of the England team beaten by Argentina at the 1986 World Cup, said Maradona was \"by some distance, the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time\".\n\nEx-Tottenham and Argentina midfielder Ossie Ardiles said: \"Thank dear Dieguito for your friendship, for your football, sublime, without comparison. Simply, the best football player in the history of football. So many enjoyable moments together. Impossible to say which one was the best. RIP my dear friend.\"\n\nJuventus and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo said: \"Today I bid farewell to a friend and the world bids farewell to an eternal genius. One of the best of all time. An unparalleled magician. He leaves too soon, but leaves a legacy without limits and a void that will never be filled. Rest in peace, ace. You will never be forgotten.\"\n\nBoca Juniors, where Maradona enjoyed two spells and finished his career, gave \"eternal thanks\" to their former player.\n\nParis St-Germain and Brazil forward Neymar posted a photo of him as a youngster with Maradona, calling the Argentine a \"legend of football\".\n\nBarcelona was the first club outside of Argentina that Maradona played for. He scored 22 goals in 36 appearances between 1982 and 1984.\n\nAnother of Maradona's former clubs, Napoli, paid tribute. He played for the club between 1984 and 1991, making 188 appearances.\n\n'It was in football he found his peace' - analysis\n\nHe was an everyman Argentine, who lived out a national fantasy with the way he scored his two goals in that 1986 quarter-final win over England.\n\nScoring those goals, against that opponent, turned Maradona almost into a deity in the eyes of some of his compatriots - with disastrous consequences. Living the aftermath was not easy.\n\nWithout the discipline of football, the second half of his life was a chaotic affair.\n\nBut it was in football that he seemed to find his peace. As a fan he would turn up at the stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors, take off his shirt, swirl it around his head and lead the chanting.\n\nFor many his spontaneity and fallibility were part of the appeal.\n\nHis admirers thrived on the way he would fall down only to get back up again. It humanised a figure whose epic life was as mazy as one of his left-footed dribbles.\n• None 'He just shrugged you off like a rag doll' - what was it like to face Maradona?", "The family of a 19-year-old wrestler who died with Covid-19 are urging younger people to be aware of the dangers of the virus.\n\nCameron Wellington, from Walsall in the West Midlands, died on 19 November, a week after first falling ill.\n\nHis parents, Norman and Jane, said some people wrongly believed it \"couldn't happen to them\".\n\nCameron was taken to Walsall Manor Hospital, before being transferred to a hospital in Leicester where he later died.\n\nMore than £5,900 has been raised online in Cameron's memory.", "The Home Office unlawfully ignored warnings that changes to immigration rules would create \"serious injustices\" for the Windrush generation, a report by the equalities watchdog says.\n\nIt found the \"hostile environment\" policy, designed to deter \"irregular\" migrants from settling, had harmed many people already living in the UK.\n\nThe Windrush generation came from the Caribbean to the UK from 1948 to 1971.\n\nThe Home Office said it was determined to \"right the wrongs suffered\" by them.\n\nLabour said ministers should be \"deeply ashamed\" of the report's findings.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people living in the UK make up the surviving members of the Windrush generation.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971, but thousands were children who had travelled on their parents' passports.\n\nBecause of this, many were unable to prove they had the right to live in the country when hostile environment immigration policies - demanding the showing of documentation - began in 2012, under Theresa May as home secretary.\n\nThis adversely affected their access to housing, banking, work, benefits, healthcare and driving, while many were threatened with deportation.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) report found a \"lack of organisation-wide commitment, including by senior leadership, to the importance of equality and the Home Office's obligations under the equality duty placed on government departments\".\n\nIt added: \"Any action taken to record and respond to negative equality impacts was perfunctory, and therefore insufficient.\"\n\nThe report also said: \"From 2012, this [hostile environment] agenda accelerated the impact of decades of complex policy and practice based on a history of white and black immigrants being treated differently.\"\n\nThe EHRC recommended that, to ensure \"measurable action\", the Home Office should enter an agreement with it by the end of January 2021, involving \"preparing and implementing a plan\" of \"specific actions\" to \"avoid a future breach\".\n\nThis should apply to its immigration work \"in respect of race and colour, and more broadly\", it said.\n\nThe Home Office has agreed to enter an agreement with the EHRC.\n\nThe commission's interim chair, Caroline Waters, said: \"The treatment of the Windrush generation as a result of hostile environment policies was a shameful stain on British history.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that equality legislation, designed to prevent an unfair or disproportionate impact on people from ethnic minorities and other groups, was effectively ignored in the creation and delivery of policies that had such profound implications for so many people's lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explained: What is the 'hostile environment' policy?\n\nIn a statement, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Home Office permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft said they were \"determined to right the wrongs suffered by the Windrush generation and make amends for the institutional failings they faced, spanning successive governments over several decades\".\n\nThey added that the department was already applying a \"a more rigorous approach to policy making\" and would \"increase openness to scrutiny, and create a more inclusive workforce\".\n\nIt was also launching \"comprehensive training\" for all staff \"to ensure they understand and appreciate the history of migration and race in this country\", they said.\n\nBut Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said campaigners had \"repeatedly warned the Home Office that their hostile environment policies would inevitably lead to serious discrimination and to the denial of rights, particularly for people of colour\".\n\nHe added that \"successive home secretaries\" had \"ignored these warnings\" before the situation hit the headlines in 2018.\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"Ministers must work urgently to rectify this, including getting a grip of the Windrush compensation scheme, which has descended into an offensive mess, piling injustice upon injustice.\"\n\nAnd shadow justice secretary David Lammy, who organised the cross-party letter referring the Home Office to the EHRC last year, said: \"Black Britons were detained, deported, denied healthcare, housing and employment by their own government because of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"Since the scandal broke, the Home Office has only paid lip service to its victims. It must now urgently rectify this gross injustice.\"", "Video showed Kylie Moore-Gilbert being driven away in a mini-van\n\nA British-Australian academic serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been freed, with Tehran saying it was a swap for three jailed Iranians.\n\nIn a statement, Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanked those who had worked for her release and said that leaving Iran was \"bittersweet\".\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer at Melbourne University, had been detained in Iran since September 2018.\n\nShe was tried in secret and strongly denied all the charges against her.\n\nAccording to Iranian state media, she was exchanged for an Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens \"who had been detained abroad\". They have not yet been named.\n\nNews of the exchange first came on Wednesday in a statement on the website of the Young Journalist Club, a news website affiliated to state television in Iran.\n\n\"An Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens who were detained abroad on baseless charges were exchanged for a dual national spy named Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who worked for the Zionist regime,\" it said.\n\nVideo of the exchange was published by state broadcaster IRIB news and the Tasnim website.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by باشگاه خبرنگاران جوان | YJC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 footage, which had no commentary, showed Dr Moore-Gilbert wearing a grey hijab and being driven away in a mini-van. Three men are seen being met by officials. One is in a wheelchair.\n\nIn a statement released hours later, Dr Moore-Gilbert thanked Australian officials who had worked \"tirelessly\" to secure her release.\n\n\"Thank you also to all of you who have supported me and campaigned for my freedom, it has meant the world to me to have you behind me throughout what has been a long and traumatic ordeal,\" she said.\n\n\"I have nothing but respect, love and admiration for the great nation of Iran and its warm-hearted, generous and brave people. It is with bittersweet feelings that I depart your country, despite the injustices which I have been subjected to. I came to Iran as a friend and with friendly intentions, and depart Iran with those sentiments not only still intact, but strengthened.\"\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she was \"extremely pleased and relieved\" at the release of Dr Moore-Gilbert which she said \"was achieved through diplomatic engagement with the Iranian government\". She made no reference to any exchange of prisoners.\n\n\"The Australian government has consistently rejected the grounds on which the Iranian government arrested, detained and convicted Dr Moore-Gilbert. We continue to do so,\" she said in a statement.\n\nSenator Payne said Dr Moore-Gilbert would \"soon be reunited with her family\" but did not specify when she would be returning to Australia.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert had been travelling on an Australian passport when she was detained at Tehran airport in 2018 as she tried to leave following a conference.\n\nIn letters smuggled out of Tehran's Evin prison earlier this year, the Cambridge-educated academic said she had \"never been a spy\" and feared for her mental health. She said she had rejected an offer from Iran to become a spy.\n\n\"I am not a spy. I have never been a spy, and I have no interest to work for a spying organisation in any country,\" she wrote.\n\nConcerns for her wellbeing escalated in August when news emerged that she had been transferred to Qarchak, a notorious prison in the desert.\n\nShe was visited shortly afterwards by Australia's ambassador to Iran, Lyndall Sachs, who reported that she was \"well\".\n\nKylie Moore-Gilbert was reported to have been in solitary confinement and on several hunger strikes while in Evin prison in Tehran\n\nIran has detained a number of foreign nationals and Iranian dual citizens in recent years, many of them on spying charges. Human rights groups have accused Tehran of using the cases as leverage to try to gain concessions from other countries.\n\nBritish-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed on spying charges in 2016. She has always maintained her innocence.\n\n\"Nazanin and I are really happy for Kylie and her family,\" he told the BBC. \"They have been through so much, borne with such dignity. And it is an early Christmas present for us all, that one more of us is out and on their way home, one more family can begin to heal.\"\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\nKate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, said news of Dr Moore-Gilbert's release was \"an enormous relief\".\n\n\"There may now be renewed grounds for hoping that UK-Iranian dual-nationals like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will also be released from their unjust jail terms in Iran in the coming days or weeks,\" she said.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori, a retired civil engineer from London, was jailed for 10 years in July 2019 after being convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.", "Matt Lucas (right) joined the show as a co-host this year\n\nTuesday's Great British Bake Off final earned Channel 4 its biggest overnight ratings for at least 18 years.\n\nAn average of 9.2 million viewers saw Peter Sawkins triumph - the highest overnight audience for a Bake Off show since its move from BBC One in 2017.\n\nThe figure was a third up on last year's final, which drew an overnight audience of 6.9 million.\n\nChannel 4 said this year's final was its most-watched programme \"since modern records began in 2002\".\n\nPeter, 20, became the show's youngest winner to date, and the first Scottish winner, when he beat Laura Adlington and Dave Friday.\n\nThe previous highest overnight rating for a Bake Off episode on Channel 4 was the 2017 final, which attracted 7.7 million viewers.\n\nThe last Bake Off final to air on BBC One drew an overnight audience of 14 million in 2016. Overnight ratings count how many people watched live or later the same night.\n\nPeter is the show's youngest ever winner\n\nThis year's series, which had a shorter production period than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic, saw Matt Lucas replace the departing co-host Sandi Toksvig.\n\nIt also saw judge Paul Hollywood step in to defend Laura after she faced criticism on social media for making it to the final at another baker's expense.\n\nTuesday's final ended with a poignant on-screen tribute to 2014 contestant Luis Troyano, who died earlier this year at the age of 48.\n\nThis year's series will be followed by two highlights programmes celebrating the culinary contest's 10 years on British television.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa lead the nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards.\n\nBeyoncé leads the field, with nine nominations overall, including four for Black Parade, a protest anthem released at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer.\n\nSwift, with six nods, could win album of the year for a record-breaking third time with her lockdown album Folklore.\n\nDua Lipa also picked up six nominations for the disco-tinged Future Nostalgia.\n\nThe British star, who was named best new artist by the Grammys two years ago, was also on hand to read out some of the nominees - including best children's album and best historical album - in an online livestream.\n\nRapper Roddy Ricch tied with Swift and Lipa on six nominations, the majority of which recognised his hit single The Box, which spent 11 weeks at number one earlier this year.\n\nHowever, there was disappointment for R&B star The Weeknd, who was completely shut out, despite having the biggest-selling album of 2020 in the US with After Hours.\n\nThe star, who is due to perform at the Super Bowl half-time show in February, had been expected to dominate the main categories, after picking up multiple awards at both the MTV VMAs and American Music Awards this year.\n\nThe Weeknd's Blinding Lights is the longest-running top 10 hit in US chart history\n\nThere was better news for Billie Eilish, who picked up multiple nominations for her single Everything I Wanted, as well as her Bond theme No Time To Die.\n\nThe 18-year-old made history earlier this year by becoming the first female artist to win all four of the Grammys main categories - best new artist, song of the year, record of the year and best album.\n\nThe nominees in those categories for 2021 are:\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 Beyoncé Brasil 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\nHarry Styles received his first Grammy nominations as a solo artist\n\nBritish nominees included Harry Styles - who picked up his first ever Grammy nominations in the pop genre categories. His previous band, One Direction, were consistently overlooked by the awards despite their international success.\n\nColdplay were listed in the best album category for their eighth album Everyday Life, while Mercury Prize-winner Michael Kiwanuka was nominated for best rock album and Laura Marling was listed alongside the late Leonard Cohen in the best folk album category.\n\nBeyoncé's nine nominations increased her historic lead as the Grammys' most-nominated female artist ever. She now has 79 nominations, tying her with Sir Paul McCartney for the second-most nominations of all time.\n\nAhead of her are Thriller producer Quincy Jones, and her husband Jay-Z, who both have 80.\n\nThree of Beyoncé's nominations came for a guest verse on Savage (Remix) - the breakout hit by fellow Texan musician Megan Thee Stallion. Megan, whose real name is Megan Pete, also picked up a coveted slot in the best new artist category.\n\n\"What? Who me? Oh my God!\" said the star as the nominations were revealed.\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 Dua Lipa 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\nKorean band BTS scored their first musical nomination - with the single Dynamite gaining attention in the best group performance category (the band had previously been cited for the obscure 'best album packaging' award).\n\nAnd rapper Pop Smoke picked up a posthumous nomination for his hit single Dior.\n\nMany of the nominees were far from being household names, with retro rock band Black Pumas and British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier listed in the main categories.\n\nCollier's album, Djesse vol 3 also earned the dubious distinction of being the first album of the year nominee not to have earned a place on Billboard's Top 200 chart.\n\nThere was also a notable presence for songs inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement - most notably H.E.R.'s moving ballad I Can't Breathe, which is up for song of the year.\n\nBTS only had one previous Grammy nomination - for best recording package in 2019\n\nThe 84 categories also threw up a few quirks. Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill - which won best album in 1996 - is now nominated in the best musical theatre album category, thanks to a Broadway show based on the star's angst-rock classic.\n\nTaylor Swift picks up a nomination for Beautiful Ghosts - her song from the critically-panned Cats movie; while Billie Eilish's No Time To Die is up for an award, despite the James Bond film it accompanies still not having come out.\n\nAnd Kanye West finds himself in the best contemporary Christian music category, thanks to his devotional rap album Jesus Is King,\n\nThese are the first nominations to be announced since the Recording Academy updated its award categories and rules earlier this year.\n\nAmongst the changes, it dropped the term \"urban\" as a way of describing music of black origin, to ensure the awards were \"inclusive and reflect[ed] the current state of the music industry\".\n\nThe rules on voting were also tightened up following allegations of irregularities by the Academy's former president, Deborah Dugan.\n\nThe latest winners will be announced at the 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony on 31 January, 2021. Comedian Trevor Noah will host the show, the Recording Academy announced.\n\n\"Despite the fact that I am extremely disappointed that the Grammys have refused to have me sing or be nominated for best pop album, I am thrilled to be hosting this auspicious event,\" said The Daily Show presenter, who was previously up for best comedy album at the 2020 ceremony.\n\n\"I think as a one-time Grammy nominee, I am the best person to provide a shoulder to all the amazing artists who do not win on the night because I too know the pain of not winning the award.\n\n\"This is a metaphorical shoulder,\" he added. \"I'm not trying to catch Corona.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sickness absence levels in Northern Ireland councils are the highest in the UK, auditors have found.\n\nFigures show an average of almost 14 days per employee in 2018-19 - a 13% increase in five years.\n\nThe findings come from a joint report by Northern Ireland's two public sector auditors.\n\nTeachers in Northern Ireland also take more sick days than other parts of the UK, according to the report.\n\nAuditor General Kieran Donnelly and Local Government Auditor Pamela McCreedy warned that sickness absence is placing a strain on services.\n\nOverall sickness absence in the Northern Ireland civil service has also increased by 10% in five years, with staff off for an average of almost 13 days annually.\n\nNorthern Ireland's two public sector auditors said the levels are almost double that within the civil service in England.\n\nIt comes after a report last week by the auditor general revealed how Northern Ireland's civil service is struggling to cope because of a crisis in staffing levels with almost 1,500 unfilled vacancies.\n\nAccording to the figures published in the latest, report council workers in 2018/19 took on average 14 days off because of sickness.\n\nThat compares to 11 days for councils in Scotland and eight in England and Wales.\n\nthe auditors point to long term absences in many cases caused by mental health illness as being a key reason for the high levels of sickness. Northern Ireland has the highest rates of mental illness in the UK with one in five adults experiencing a mental health problem at any given time.\n\nThe age profile of those who work in councils and the wider civil service is another contributing factor. Over 40 per cent are over the age of 50 and as a result are more prone to develop health complication.\n\nThis table shows the average number of days lost due to sickness across NI councils\n\nThe highest level of sickness absence among council workers was recorded in Causeway Coast and Glens, with 17 days lost to sickness per employee, while the lowest was in Fermanagh and Omagh council were on average 10 days were lost.\n\n\"High levels of sickness absence within the public sector are not a new phenomenon. However, this report finds few signs of sustained improvement,\" said Mr Donnelly.\n\n\"It is time for public sector organisations to make a concerted effort to reduce the level of sickness absence and to develop a consistent approach to managing attendance.\"\n\nMr Donnelly said a \"strong attendance culture needs to be embedded\" across the public sector and he called for a heavy focus to be placed on long term absence with preventative and early intervention measures put in place.\n\n\"Sickness absence in NI councils consistently ranks as the highest in the UK, with no indication of significant improvement,\" said Mr Donnelly.\n\n\"When significant numbers of staff are unable to work because of sickness, the impact on service delivery including delays, increased workloads, lost productivity and additional financial costs to cover absences is likely to be considerable.\"\n\nThe auditors also report that teachers in 2018/19 took almost 10 days off because of sickness which is an increase of 10% in the past five years.\n\nThe figure is also the highest in the UK with teachers in Scotland taking six days off while four days per employee were lost in England.\n\nhe auditors point to long term absences in many cases caused by mental health illness as being a key reason for the high levels of sickness. Northern Ireland has the highest rates of mental illness in the UK with one in five adults experiencing a mental health problem at any given time.\n\nThe age profile of those who work in councils and the wider civil service is another contributing factor. Over 40 per cent are over the age of 50 and as a result are more prone to develop health complication.", "One of the bones comes from the tibia (lower leg bone) of a two-legged meat-eater similar to Sarcosaurus\n\nThe only dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland have been confirmed to belong to two different species.\n\nThe bones were previously discovered on the east coast of County Antrim.\n\nBut a new scientific study from the universities of Portsmouth and Queen's in Belfast has confirmed the origins of the bones for the first time.\n\nOne is part of the lower leg bone of a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus; the other is from the upper leg bone of a Scelidosaurus, a four-legged herbivore.\n\nThe two fossil bones, confirmed to be from early Jurassic rocks, were discovered in Islandmagee during two separate finds in the late 19th Century and the 1980s.\n\nOriginally it was assumed the fossils were from the same animal, but new analysis published in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association has confirmed they belong to the two different species.\n\nIreland was underwater for most of the period during which dinosaurs roamed the earth, so there is less chance the remains of land animals would be preserved in rocks dating to that period.\n\nUlster Museum has announced plans to put the bones on display when it reopens after the current coronavirus restrictions are lifted.\n\nDr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National Museums NI, said the development was \"a hugely significant discovery\".\n\nExperts suggest Scelidosaurus may have been a coastal animal, perhaps even eating seaweed like modern-day marine iguanas\n\n\"The great rarity of such fossils here is because most of Ireland's rocks are the wrong age for dinosaurs, either too old or too young, making it nearly impossible to confirm dinosaurs existed on these shores,\" he said.\n\n\"The two dinosaur fossils... found were perhaps swept out to sea, alive or dead, sinking to the Jurassic seabed where they were buried and fossilised.\"\n\nRobert Smyth, researcher at the University of Portsmouth and Professor David Martill, used high-resolution 3D digital models of the fossils in their analysis of the bone fragments, produced by Dr Patrick Collins of Queen's University Belfast.\n\n\"Analysing the shape and internal structure of the bones, we realised that they belonged to two very different animals,\" said Mr Smyth, who is originally from Ballymoney.\n\n\"Despite being fragmentary, these fossils provide valuable insight on a very important period in dinosaur evolution, about 200 million years ago.\n\n\"It's at this time that dinosaurs really start to dominate the world's terrestrial ecosystems.\"\n\nProfessor Martill said: \"Scelidosaurus keeps on turning up in marine strata, and I am beginning to think that it may have been a coastal animal, perhaps even eating seaweed like marine iguanas do today.\"\n\nThe study is part of a larger project to document Jurassic rocks in Northern Ireland and draws on many fossils in Ulster Museum's collections.", "Nineteen-year-old Marian Vasilica Dragoi was caught reaching 180 mph on his motorbike in southern England.\n\nA police helicopter filmed the events leading up to Dragoi's arrest, which happened after he rode on the wrong side of a motorway to get fuel from a service station.\n\nAt Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court he pleaded guilty to offences including dangerous driving and is due to be sentenced in January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students from Knowsley on Merseyside say they feel extra stressed in the lead up to exams this year\n\nMore than one in five secondary pupils in England missed school last week, with worsening Covid disruption.\n\nThe latest attendance figures show 22% of secondary pupils were missing, based on who was in school last Thursday - up from 17% the previous week.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union warned of a \"collapse\" in attendance, with almost three quarters of secondary schools sending home pupils.\n\nThe Department for Education says keeping schools open is a \"priority\".\n\n\"The situation has reached a crisis point and the government cannot let coronavirus run riot in schools any longer,\" said Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, with almost 900,000 pupils out of school because of Covid incidents.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the principle of keeping schools open, but said it was time for schools to be allowed to operate rota systems.\n\n\"The reality behind these figures is that many schools are experiencing disruption on a monumental scale and are desperately trying to cling on to the end of term,\" said the heads' leader.\n\n\"The other parents and I have a WhatsApp group and our phones ping and we're all filled with dread over which year group is told to isolate next,\" says Josephine Abbott Millar, a parent from Rugby.\n\nHer two sons have faced school being disrupted - and she says they have missed the social life as well as lessons at school.\n\nNot every family has the technology to allow children to switch to learning online\n\n\"As my eldest has started a new school I think he's really suffered as he's not been allowed to settled in properly,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Every time he starts to feel a bit settled he has to isolate again for two weeks and he's home again. It's the back and forth that is really disruptive.\"\n\nThere have been concerns about how exams will go ahead next summer when so many pupils have been missing lessons.\n\nRussell Hobby, chief executive of Teach First, said being out of school would be most disruptive for the most disadvantaged.\n\n\"Studying from home is difficult for all pupils. But our research has found it's pupils from the poorest backgrounds who are the least likely to have laptops and internet while self-isolating, making it nearly impossible for them,\" he said.\n\n\"These children will not recover from this if we don't acknowledge the barriers they face,\" says Matthew Martin, head of department in a south London secondary school.\n\nHe says some pupils have missed a month already this term and only a limited number will really be able continue learning online at home.\n\nThis is not because of an unwillingness to keep studying, he says, but because families do not have the computer equipment at home to make it possible.\n\nEngland's Department for Education has been committed to keeping schools open, but the weekly figures show rising numbers of pupils missing from the classroom.\n\nOverall attendance is down to 83% of pupils, below 86% in the previous week - and although the way figures were gathered changed in October, they show attendance dipping since half term.\n\nThis fall is particularly concentrated in secondary schools, with 78% in class last Thursday, down from 87% on 5 November.\n\nAcross both primary and secondary schools, the figures show about one in 10 pupils were out of school because of Covid-related concerns.\n\nThe great majority of pupils being sent home are because of potential contacts - rather than pupils having caught coronavirus, with only 0.2% of pupils recorded as confirmed cases.\n\nPrimary schools have so far been less disrupted, with 87% of pupils attending - but the number of schools sending home one more pupils has risen to 29%, compared with 22% the week before.\n\nThere have been worries about how exams will go ahead next summer\n\nAmong secondary schools, 73% were sending home pupils, compared with 64% the week before.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said almost all schools had remained open this term - and there was online learning for those pupils who were self-isolating.\n\n\"It is a national priority to keep education settings open full-time, and that remains equally as important in the weeks up to the end of term as it was when young people returned for the new school year,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nHas your child's education been disrupted? Or are you a teacher whose work has been affected? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Joseph Ray admitted shaking baby Ava at their flat in East Lothian\n\nA father who killed his baby daughter in what was described as \"a momentary loss of control\" has been jailed for seven years.\n\nJoseph Ray admitted violently shaking two-month-old Ava at their flat in Prestonpans, East Lothian, in 2012.\n\nThe 33-year-old was convicted after a seven-year investigation saw police consult medical experts to determine the exact cause of Ava's death.\n\nHe was charged with murder but admitted the lesser charge of culpable homicide.\n\nFollowing the child's death, investigators ruled out the possibility that Ava had died from natural causes and concluded she had suffered a head injury as the result of an assault.\n\nAva's mother Lauren Scott told the BBC: \"I think it's shocking that he only got seven years after all that time.\"\n\nMs Scott's father, Richard Scott, added: \"The family feels disappointed in it because for eight years we've suffered mentally and physically through this lad telling lies.\n\n\"He could have admitted it long before this. He's gone about laughing and enjoying himself while my daughter Lauren was suffering.\n\n\"It's made me, my wife and Lauren ill. I feel like I've done eight years in prison myself.\"\n\nRay's defence lawyer Shelagh McCall QC told the High Court in Glasgow that Ray had been woken by Ava crying.\n\nHe later told social workers of \"feeling overwhelmed and angry\" and he shook Ava twice, Ms McCall said.\n\nAva Ray died after she was taken to Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children\n\nShe continued: \"He still struggles to understand that what he did could have such a catastrophic consequence.\n\n\"He can't ever make amends for the damage done in a momentary loss of control by an exhausted and inexperienced parent.\"\n\nMs McCall added the case had taken time to come to court because of \"contrasting medical views\" - at one point it was thought Ava may have had a problem with blood clotting which could have explained her injuries, she said.\n\nProsecutor Ashley Edwards QC said Ray and Ms Scott - his partner at the time - had arguments mainly over who would do night time feeds.\n\nOn the day of the child's death, Ms Scott had gone to work at 18:30, the court was told.\n\nAbout 22:50, Ray told a neighbour his daughter was \"cold to the touch\" and paramedics found her \"white in colour, limp and unresponsive\".\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children where she died the next morning.\n\nTests revealed her brain had been starved of oxygen and her death was initially treated as \"unascertained\".\n\nAfter \"various experts\" were consulted between 2014 and 2018, it was concluded Ava had died due to a \"head injury\", Ms Edwards said.\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said the case had been \"a terrible tragedy\" involving the death of a \"much loved child.\"\n\nShe told Ray: \"As you know, Ava was entitled to look to you for love, affection and support. You failed in that and your failure had terrible consequences.\n\n\"Ava's life was snuffed out just as it was starting by one of the people she was entitled to rely on.\n\n\"You have to live with that knowledge for the rest of your days.\"\n\nRay had no previous convictions at the time of the death but has since been found guilty of two domestic assaults on Ms Scott.\n\nThe judge said she would have sentenced Ray to eight and a half years had he not pleaded guilty.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Gareth Smith set up MyMaskFit after wife Valerie, pictured, struggled to find a mask to fit her\n\nA nurse who struggled to get face masks to fit her has inspired the design of custom-fitted ones for frontline healthcare workers.\n\nGareth Smith set up MyMaskFit after his wife, intensive care nurse Valerie Bednar, struggled to find a filtering face mask (FFP) to fit her.\n\nBased in Swansea, the firm is working with a number of UK universities.\n\nMs Bednar said the masks are reusable so will reduce stress among staff and be better for the environment.\n\n\"I'm one of the people the standard disposable FFP3 masks doesn't fit my face,\" said Ms Bednar, who worked at Morriston Hospital in Swansea at the start of the pandemic but is currently on maternity leave.\n\n\"It was just the stress of trying to do what you need to do - the reason we go into nursing is to take care of people, and then the added level of 'am I being safe and do I have the protection that I need?'\n\n\"That uncertainty I think was stressful for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Intensive care nurse Valerie Bednar hopes the reusable masks will cut down on PPE being discarded\n\nThe company hopes to further develop a prototype designed by researchers at Birmingham University and King's College London.\n\nSwansea University's School of Engineering will help test and manufacture the face mask, which it is hoped will be available to the NHS in Wales in the new year.\n\nMyMaskFit said it is aiming to become the first to make a fully custom-fitted, reusable, filtering face piece masks made to a medical grade standard in the UK.\n\nA mould for a face seal is created using a scan of someone's face\n\n\"We want to make a reusable mask so that staff can feel confident when they come in for their shift it will be there,\" Ms Bednar explained.\n\n\"You're involved in cleaning it and owning it - all of that gives people the sense of security and protection.\"\n\nTo speed up the design process and to achieve a seal which will fit anyone, the company has launched an app which will scan the face and send the data for a mould to be created and 3D printed.\n\nMyMaskFit technology director Paul Perera said current masks vary widely in terms of design.\n\n\"There is an inevitable variation in the shape of human faces, and BMA surveys have shown that over 20% of hospital doctors have to try one or more masks to find one that fits,\" he said.\n\nMr Perera said the firm was also working on a face mask which is made with \"renewable plastics that are transparent\" to aid communication.\n\nHe added: \"We're also using a copper, embedded into the plastics, which kills the virus. Therefore the masks can be reusable and therefore more sustainable for the environment.\"\n\nThe initial manufacturing process and further testing of the prototypes will take place at Swansea University.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is unveiling the government's spending plans for the coming year.\n\nThe Spending Review will include details on public sector pay, NHS funding and money for the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.\n\nMr Sunak will also set out the extent of the damage done to the UK economy by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the economic forecasts will be \"a sobering read\".\n\nThe government's Covid response has led to huge spending and borrowing rises.\n\nThe chancellor is expected to begin his statement at around 12:30 GMT following Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nSome Spending Review announcements have already been trailed.\n\nThe government is expected to announce a cut in the UK's overseas aid budget to 0.5% of national income, down from the legally binding target of 0.7%.\n\nLockdown restrictions have forced many businesses to temporarily close\n\nThere have also been reports that the chancellor is considering a pay freeze for all public sector workers except frontline NHS staff.\n\nPlans to change the way big spending projects are analysed - which the Treasury says is currently biased in favour of the south east of England - will be published alongside the Spending Review.\n\nThe chancellor may also choose to set aside money to tackle climate change and regional inequalities.\n\nDevolved governments will receive money proportionate to any funding England gets in the Spending Review.\n\nThis is decided using the Barnett formula - devised by Lord Barnett, a Labour politician, in the 1970s.\n\nMr Sunak and Treasury Chief Secretary Stephen Barclay updated the Cabinet on Wednesday morning.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"Cabinet was told the OBR forecasts will show the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on our economy and they will make for a sobering read, showing the extent to which the economy has contracted and the scale of borrowing and debt levels.\n\n\"But - as the IMF (International Monetary Fund), OBR and others have pointed out - the costs would have been much higher had we not acted in the way we have done.\"\n\n\"It's going to look horrible.\"\n\nThe simple truth about the Spending Review according to a senior MP.\n\nThe chancellor will bang the drum for his plans to keep people in jobs, or help find new ones.\n\nRishi Sunak will take out the metaphorical megaphone to explain how he'll allocate billions of taxpayers' cash to spend on infrastructure in the coming months.\n\nBut the headlines of the Spending Review, when governments put their money where their mouths are, won't be in any rhetorical flourishes at the despatch box, nor likely in any surprise announcements kept back as goodies for the public.\n\nThe government had intended to use the Spending Review to set out its plans for the next three years, however this was reduced to just one year due to the economic turmoil caused by Covid.\n\nThe difficult financial backdrop will dominate this year's review with the economy projected to be 10% smaller than it was pre-virus.\n\nTax revenues have fallen as many businesses have been forced to close and government schemes to support furloughed workers have led to soaring levels of spending.\n\nPublic borrowing is expected to rise to £372bn - compared to the £55bn the government had originally expected to borrow.\n\nThe Spending Review will be accompanied by economic forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility - including predictions on how tax will be raised.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the government's \"irresponsible choices\" during the pandemic had \"led to our country experiencing the worst downturn in the G7, and created a jobs crisis\".\n\n\"This prime minister and his government talk a good game but they haven't delivered on their promises - and regional inequality has got worse under their watch,\" she said.\n\n\"They clapped for key workers - but now they're freezing their pay, and looking to scrap planned minimum wage increases for the private sector.\"\n\nUnions called for Mr Sunak to maintain investment in the public sector, the TUC's deputy general secretary Paul Nowak telling BBC Breakfast \"now is not the time to make cuts to public services\".\n\nAnd the SNP is calling for a huge stimulus package to support growth and jobs across the whole of the UK.\n\n\"The spending has to match the challenges we see in the economy,\" said its economic spokeswoman Alison Thewliss. \"At the moment interest rates are at a record low so the government should be borrowing.\"", "On rare occasions, nervous chancellors leave No 11 gripping their documents, to deliver news to the country that resets the dial.\n\nThe pandemic has already cost jobs and hardships, but there can now be no doubt that the economic aftermath will last for many years.\n\nThe predictions of job losses, record levels of borrowing and debt - all huge headlines in themselves.\n\nIn the last few months, with almost no dissent, the government has scrambled to expand the state to help cope with coronavirus.\n\nOther countries have done the same. There is little controversy about the decisions that have been taken so far.\n\nBut what lurks on the country’s balance sheet is the biggest economic baggage for generations.\n\nThere is almost zero political pressure to solve the problem any time soon.\n\nBut eventually the pressure will force a reckoning in the Tory party.\n\nIt’s a Conservative chancellor - whose instinct is to pare back the state - who has presided over a generational emergency expansion.\n\nHow Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson propose to solve that paradox will create the contours of political arguments at least until the next election.", "Fire fighters will be affected by the pay freeze\n\nSome 1.3 million public sector workers will see a pay freeze next year, but low-paid and NHS staff will get raises\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he could not justify across the board rises when many people in the private sector had seen cuts in pay and hours.\n\nHowever, he said 2.1 million public sector workers earning below the median wage of £24,000 were \"guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250\".\n\nMore than a million NHS workers will also get a raise, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the minimum wage - which has been rebranded as the National Living Wage - will increase by 2.2% - or 19p - to £8.91 an hour, with the rate extended to those aged 23 and over.\n\nThe pay freeze, which was trailed in unconfirmed news reports last week, has sparked anger from unions which say it will affect key workers who have played a vital role during the pandemic.\n\nDelivering his Spending Review, the chancellor said the \"majority\" of the UK's public sector workers will see their pay increase in 2021.\n\nBut he added that pay rises for the rest - about 1.3 million out of a total of 5.5 million public sector workers - will be paused \"to protect jobs\".\n\nHowever, that figure only covers 1.3 million people working for the central government. The total rise could be much higher if local government and devolved pay agreements are frozen.\n\nHe highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he \"cannot justify a significant, across-the-board\" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.\n\n\"Instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most,\" he said.\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation union, called the pay freeze a \"kick in the teeth\" for police officers.\n\n\"Rewarding those who have played a vital role in the fight against the virus with a pay freeze is nothing short of a disgrace,\" he said.\n\n\"A handful of officers will get the additional £250 for the lowest paid workers, but only those who are already on an appallingly low starting salary for the dangerous job they do.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said nursing staff would oppose plans to freeze the pay of equally skilled professionals.\n\n\"Those working in social care and the community deserve a pay boost as much as their NHS colleagues.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the chancellor had delivered a \"body blow\" to staff in schools and colleges.\n\n\"Education workers are key workers who have kept the country going during the pandemic but pay cuts are their only reward from this government.\"\n\nTeacher Esme says she is not surprised the government is freezing pay for many workers.\n\n\"Clearly money will need to be clawed back from the damage to the economy, however the concern is how long for?\"\n\nShe says it will have \"quite an impact\" on her as someone fairly new to the profession, after what has been an \"incredibly challenging year in education\".\n\n\"After getting barely any support, the proposal to freeze pay is another confirmation that the government has very little appreciation or respect for the profession, or those working within it.\"\n\nAt the end of last year, the Low Pay Commission - which advises the government on the National Living Wage wage - had said the rate would rise by 6% in April 2021.\n\nBut the commission has revised this down amid fears it would cost struggling businesses too much and damage jobs.\n\nMr Sunak said the plans would mean the average full-time worker on the rate will see their annual income rise by around £345 next year.\n\n\"Compared to 2016 when the policy was first introduced, that's a pay rise of over £4,000,\" he added.\n\nHe added that around two million people would benefit from the widened eligibility for the National Living Wage.\n\nBryan Sanderson, chair of the low pay commission, said: \"Recommending minimum wage rates in the midst of an economic crisis coupled with a pandemic is a formidable task.\n\n\"We have opted for a prudent increase which consolidates the considerable progress of recent years and provides a base from which we can move towards the government's target over the next few years.\"", "US President Trump has officially pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey, in the annual White House tradition.\n\nTwo birds, Corn and Cob, were chosen to face a public vote to get the pardon. Corn won, but both of them will be spared the dinner table and retire to Iowa State University.\n\nBut the idea can be tracked back to Abraham Lincoln - it's believed his son Tad begged him to spare the bird destined for the family table.", "The public sector pay squeeze for more than a million earners outside the NHS will hurt\n\nToday's Spending Review is not a Budget. The numbers have not added up, tens of billions were announced in new spending, but nothing on taxation.\n\nBut it was the first full assessment of the economy from the government's independent forecaster, the Office of Budget Responsibility, since March that took centre stage.\n\nIt confirmed not just that the pandemic would hit the UK economy this year by the biggest amount in three centuries, 11.3%, but that Britain was set to be the hardest hit of all the G7 major industrialised nations.\n\nIt also said that government borrowing in this year was 19% of the size of the economy, a peacetime record at just under £400bn.\n\nAnd yet the paradox is that next year the amount of money it costs to fund that debt will also reach a post-war record: a record low.\n\nSince World War Two, our debts have never been bigger. And yet they've never been cheaper.\n\nHow long this situation will last is the fundamental judgement for this chancellor.\n\nSo Rishi Sunak has made some down payments on budget consolidation, aid and public sector pay, while claiming there is no return to austerity generally.\n\nThe much bigger, tougher decisions that will be needed arise from the assumed persistence of the economic hit, and therefore of levels of government borrowing above £100bn a year for the next few years.\n\nBy 2025 the economy will still be 3% smaller than anticipated in March. The pandemic will have a long economic shadow.\n\nMr Sunak says employment is the number one priority, with overnight confirmation of £400m next year to start a £3bn Restart scheme to channel one million long term unemployed back into work.\n\nThe theory here is to take action on a likely rise in long-term unemployment pre-emptively.\n\nThe chancellor is proud of the fact that the UK's unemployment rate is still comparatively low, even as it is set to rise to 2.6 million.\n\nBut the public sector pay squeeze for more than a million above average earners outside the NHS will hurt.\n\nHuge sums were allocated to fighting the pandemic and protecting the health system.\n\nThis is an economic intervention as much as it is a health one.\n\nThe OBR document shows that if test and trace continues to underperform, or if vaccine distribution is delayed, there will be a direct impact on much worse public finances.\n\nA no-deal Brexit will, say the OBR, be a further hit to the economy of 2%, and the public finances.\n\nThere are many uncertainties, not all of them bad.\n\nThe big decisions on shrinking the deficit or indeed stimulating the economy further, as has been seen in France and Germany, await some of this fog lifting.\n\nThe nation remains in rescue mode, and for now funding it remains cheap.", "US shares hit fresh records on Tuesday with the Dow Jones index closing above 30,000 points for the first time amid hopes of a strong economic recovery and end of political uncertainty.\n\nThe S&P 500 also hit an all-time high as investors bought economically sensitive financial and energy stocks.\n\nTrading was fuelled by positive Covid vaccine news and moves to start the Joe Biden presidential transition.\n\nEurope's main markets also jumped, with London's FTSE 100 closing up 1.5%.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has given the green light for the formal transfer of power to begin following Mr Biden's election victory.\n\nAnd positive news about coronavirus vaccines has boosted hopes that the US and global economies could be on the path to normality next year.\n\nAsian markets followed Wall Street's lead, with Japan's Nikkei up nearly 2% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index 1.4% higher.\n\nIndexes in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore have all edged higher.\n\n\"The possibility of having a vaccine next year increases the odds that we're going to see demand return in the new year,\" said Phil Flynn, senior analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.\n\nRoss Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at US-based Baird, said: \"If 2020 has shown us anything it is that stock markets have a tremendous ability to look past bad news if there is sun on the horizon.\"\n\nAnalysts say market sentiment was also helped by news suggesting Mr Biden wants former Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen as his treasury secretary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"It’s a team that reflects the fact that America is back\"\n\nAmong the big Wall Street share movers were plane-maker Boeing, up 3.3%, and oil company Chevron, 5% ahead. Investment banks Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase closed up 3.8% and 4.6% respectively.\n\nOther big gainers included Disney, American Express and IBM. A rise in Tesla shares took the electric carmaker's market value above $500bn (£374bn).\n\nAt the close, the Dow Jones was up 1.54% at 30,046.2, while the S&P 500 gained 1.62% to 3,635.4. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index rose 1.3%, to 12,036.7.\n\nOil prices also rose, with US crude up 4.25% to $44.89 a barrel and Brent up 4% at $47.89. The gold price, a favoured asset when investors are fearful, fell 1.6% to $1,806 an ounce.\n\nBut the bullish sentiment comes despite US coronavirus cases surging and millions of Americans still unemployed, and some analysts fear shares are due a reality check.\n\nRising Covid-19 cases and delayed economic stimulus measures are red flags, said James McDonald, chief executive of Hercules Investments.\n\nBut it is not just in the US where shares are surging. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.91%, while the MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 1.44%, putting it on track to close at a record high.", "Families on Universal Credit face \"agonising uncertainty\" after Rishi Sunak did not confirm what would happen to their benefits next year, campaigners say.\n\nUniversal Credit claimants were given a £20-a-week boost in response to the coronavirus pandemic in April.\n\nThe temporary rise is due to come to an end in April 2021.\n\nThe chancellor did not say whether the increase would be extended, or cut, in his spending review.\n\nSpeaking after delivering his statement to MPs, he said the increased payment would continue until next spring.\n\nHe added: \"Let's get through winter, see where we are with the virus and what the economy looks and decide then how best to support people.\n\n\"Everyone can rest assured we remain committed to making sure we look after the most vulnerable in our society.\"\n\nFootballer and anti-poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford tweeted: \"Is the Universal Credit uplift going to be taken away in April?\"\n\nPaul Noblet, from youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, said: \"The government's failure to commit to retaining the current uplift in Universal Credit is hugely disappointing and will weigh heavily on the minds of millions of people for whom the £20 a week increase has made a huge difference.\n\n\"There is still time for the government to reflect on this issue between now and the end of March and we urge them to think again.\"\n\nThe chancellor set out his spending priorities for the year ahead earlier, warning that unemployment is set to peak at 2.6 million next year, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.\n\nBut he faced criticism from opposition MPs for not mentioning what would happen to benefit rates in his speech.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Timms, chairman of the work and pensions committee, said: \"Millions of people on Universal Credit are now facing the Christmas period in agonising uncertainty, not knowing whether the government will cut their income by £20 a week next April.\n\n\"Meanwhile, those on older benefits, who have already missed out on the rise because the DWP's systems are too old-fashioned, will receive an increase of just 0.5% next year.\n\n\"The government must think again.\"", "Up to three households will be able to meet up during a five-day Christmas period of 23 to 27 December, leaders of the four UK nations have agreed.\n\nPeople can mix in homes, places of worship and outdoor spaces, and travel restrictions will also be eased.\n\nBut a formed \"Christmas bubble\" must be \"exclusive\" and would not be able to visit pubs or restaurants together.\n\nThe leaders urged people to \"think carefully about what they do\" to keep the risk of increased transmission low.\n\nThey added 2020 \"cannot be a normal Christmas\" but family and friends will be able to see each other in a \"limited and cautious\" way.\n\nHowever, some scientists have warned that the relaxation of Covid restrictions over the festive period could spark another wave of infections and further deaths.\n\nThe measures will see travel restrictions across the four nations, and between tiers and levels, lifted to allow people to visit families in other parts of the UK.\n\nAnyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland may travel on the 22 and 28 December, but otherwise travel to and from bubbles should be done between the 23 and 27.\n\nPeople will not be able to get together with others from more than two other households, and once a bubble is formed, it must not be changed or be extended further.\n\nThe guidance says a bubble of three households would be able to stay overnight at each other's home but would not be able to visit hospitality, theatres or retail settings.\n\nHowever, existing local restrictions will still be in place mean many pubs and restaurants - such as those in England's tier three or Scotland's level four - will remain closed during the festive period.\n\nThe leaders of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reached the agreement at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"Even where it is within the rules, meeting with friends and family over Christmas will be a personal judgement for individuals to take, mindful of the risks to themselves and others, particularly those who are vulnerable.\n\n\"Before deciding to come together over the festive period we urge the consideration of alternative approaches such as the use of technology or meeting outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Cardiff share their views on the relaxation of Covid-19 rules over Christmas\n\nPublished guidance for England gives further details of the rules for 23 to 27 December:\n\nScientists say a typical Christmas gathering at home is the type of environment where infections can spread.\n\nThe guidance also advises people to take precautions when meeting their Christmas bubble such as washing hands frequently and opening windows to clear potential virus particles.\n\nIn a video message from Downing Street, the prime minister described the agreement as a \"special, time-limited dispensation\", saying: \"This year means Christmas will be different.\"\n\nBoris Johnson said people must make a \"personal judgment\" about the risk of who they form a bubble with or if they visit elderly relatives., adding: \"Many of us are longing to spend time with family and friends... And yet we can't afford to throw caution to the wind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"All the governments agreed\" on the five-day plan for Christmas in the UK, says Michael Gove\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said it was \"not an instruction to travel, it's not an instruction to meet with other people. People should still use a sense of responsibility\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon added: \"The virus is not going to be taking Christmas off, so although we want to give a little bit of flexibility for Christmas we are still urging people to be very cautious and to use this flexibility responsibly and only if you think it is necessary.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said she hoped people would have space to plan, adding: \"We of course recognise how important Christmas time is for so many people.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill urged people to \"be responsible\", saying while they wanted to mark Christmas after such a \"desperate\" year the relaxations would increase opportunities for the virus to spread.\n\nShe added it was hoped that an alignment with rules in the Irish Republic could be achieved.\n\nWhat to do about Christmas divides opinion.\n\nIncreased mixing indoors will certainly mean there is greater transmission of the virus.\n\nBut, as chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said on Monday, there is a balance to be struck between the harm the virus can cause and the societal and economic impacts of trying to control it.\n\nBy that he means adhering to the restrictions in the lead-up to Christmas, being responsible with the opportunity the relaxation gives people, and then immediately switching back to compliance.\n\nIf that happens, any impact could be minimised - and, of course, it will be up to individuals to decide just how much they mix within the rules.\n\nThese are very fine judgement calls by ministers.\n\nThey hope Christmas will provide respite and help steel the public for what is clearly going to be a long, hard winter.\n\nThey also feel they have little choice, believing large numbers of people would ignore pleas not to mix - and this way they can provide advice on how to enjoy Christmas as safely as possible.\n\nBut there is also the risk by sanctioning it there will be more mixing than there would have otherwise been.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps earlier said Christmas travellers should plan journeys carefully and prepare for restrictions on passenger numbers to allow for social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has recorded another 608 UK deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test. There have also been a further 11,299 cases of people testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nGyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen from 2 December under a strengthened three-tiered system.\n\nAreas will not find out which tier they are in until Thursday - and the decision will be based on a number of factors including case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and pressure on local NHS services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, and a member of the government's Sage committee, told BBC Newsnight that allowing families to meet up over Christmas amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nHe said it would \"definitely lead to increase[d] transmission and likely lead to third wave of infections with hospitals being overrun, and more unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nProf Hayward said while you cannot ban Christmas, he called for clearer messaging to families about the \"dangers\" of socialising and inter-generational mixing.\n\nAnd Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, suggested the relaxation of restrictions at Christmas will \"almost inevitably\" lead to an increase in transmission.\n\nBut he said: \"Providing that the new tier system is better managed than in October, any increase in cases could be relatively short-lived.\n\n\"After Christmas we will still have to live through a few more months of restrictions at least.\"\n\nJillian Evans, the director of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the easing of restrictions over Christmas would cost lives.\n\n\"We've got winter weather, we know that people are more susceptible to infection over the colder period, and we've got a festive period where people will be socialising,\" she said.\n\n\"Those are facts, and I would rather be honest and tell you that those are the facts, and be truthful about it so people can understand the risks that they're taking.\"\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the UKHospitality lobby group, said there was \"muddled thinking\" over the Christmas rules and they would cause the sector more economic harm.\n\nShe said: \"Hospitality venues should be considered part of the solution for providing people a well-deserved safe and enjoyable Christmas, especially given that allowing multiple households to mix in the confines of private homes presents an exponentially greater risk.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDiego Maradona - displaying the World Cup in 1986, during a training session, and with his ex-wife Claudia and their daughters Dalma and Gianina Colourful doesn't really do him justice. Diego Maradona was a genius on the football pitch and a controversial figure off it. From his homeland of Argentina to success in Italy, World Cup glory and his drugs downfall, here's a look at his life in photos. Starting out: Maradona made his World Cup finals debut for Argentina at the 1982 tournament in Spain, but really made his mark four years later... Calm before the storm: Handshake with England goalkeeper Peter Shilton before the World Cup quarter-final in Mexico in 1986 Ridiculous to the sublime: The 'Hand of God' goal against England, followed by the 'Goal of the Century' World class: Maradona was named player of the tournament after inspiring Argentina to victory in 1986, and helped the side reach the final four years later Cup king: Maradona was an icon at Italian club Napoli where he won the Uefa Cup in 1989, plus two league titles. The number 10 shirt was retired in his honour Heavy duty: Maradona, pictured in 2001, struggled with a drug addition and weight isues Argentina's A-team: Maradona, then manager of the national side, passes on his wisdom to forward Lionel Messi at the 2010 World Cup but they are beaten 4-0 by Germany in the quarter-finals Poster boy: Maradona poses with a banner of himself at the Argentina v Nigeria game at the 2018 World Cup in Russia", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford: Governments could not persuade people \"this wasn’t the year to get together over Christmas\"\n\nTougher restrictions in Wales are being considered for the run up to Christmas, the first minister has confirmed.\n\nMark Drakeford said he is \"looking carefully\" at similar coronavirus rules to those that will be in place in areas in the upper end of the tier systems of England and Scotland.\n\nHowever he said they would \"most likely\" be imposed on a Wales-wide basis, rather than a tier system.\n\nThe Welsh Government cabinet is due to discuss the matter on Thursday.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales Live he believes, unless further action is taken, \"we could end up at Christmas with a virus really heading very fast in the wrong direction\".\n\nHe said: \"We're looking carefully at the tier system that they've got now in Scotland and in England, looking at what further restrictions they have at that point in the tier system where it begins to be effective, seeing if there's anything more we can take from that for Wales.\n\n\"Let me be clear I'm not talking about using a tiered system.\n\n\"I'm looking to see what measures are in place at, say, tier three in Scotland and England.\n\n\"Are there things that they do there that we're not doing here in Wales, that we would do, most likely, on a Wales-wide basis… in the run up to Christmas. We've got four weeks left.\"\n\nEngland's new tier system comes into force when its lockdown ends next week, with Tier 3 being the highest level of restrictions.\n\nUnder Tier 3, people must not meet indoors or in most outdoor places with people they do not live with or who are not in their support bubble, pubs and restaurants are closed except for takeaway and hotels and indoor entertainment venues must close.\n\nScotland has a five-level system that runs from 0 to four. At Level 3 alcohol sales are not allowed and cafes and restaurants can only serve food and non-alcoholic drinks and must close at 18:00.\n\nMr Drakeford said preventing people getting together would have helped moves to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever he admitted that Christmas was \"too important\" to people to ask them to not celebrate.\n\n\"If we could have persuaded people that this wasn't the year to get together over Christmas that would have been better from the virus's perspective, but we were never going to be able to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"In an incredibly difficult year we weren't going to be able to persuade people that they could just act as though Christmas wasn't happening.\"\n\nWales could see tough restrictions like in England and Scotland in the run-up to Christmas\n\nAsked whether Wales was ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine, Mr Drakeford said: \"We have everything in place once a vaccine gets regulatory approval.\"\n\nHe added: \"Even the most promising vaccine is yet to have approval by the regulator. Once it gets it, within a week we are ready to start vaccinating people in Wales.\"\n\nIf Wales were to use the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be stored at -70 degrees, he said the plan is to use equipment from the Welsh Blood Service.\n\n\"We can use the equipment the Wales Blood service already has to store material at that temperature and we can make it available for this vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"The vaccine will have limitations, it will be difficult to transport but we will find ways of doing it. Whatever vaccine comes our way, we will want to use here in Wales.\"", "A police car stood outside the department store where the attack took place\n\nA woman has been arrested in the southern Swiss city of Lugano after allegedly injuring two other women in a suspected terror attack at a store.\n\nShe attempted to choke one and stabbed another in the neck with a knife before being stopped by shoppers, police say.\n\nOne victim is believed to have serious but not life-threatening injuries, while the other was lightly wounded.\n\nThe suspect, 28, was known to federal police from an investigation into \"jihadist terrorism\" back in 2017.\n\nA Swiss national, she lived locally in the Italian-speaking Ticino region.\n\n\"A department store in Lugano was the scene of a suspected terrorist-motivated attack on several people,\" the federal attorney-general's office said.\n\nNorman Gobbi, president of Ticino's government, condemned the attack and said extremism \"cannot find a place in our community\".\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose own country became the scene of a deadly jihadist shooting earlier this month, tweeted his condemnation of the attack.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victims wishing them a full & swift recovery. We stand with Switzerland in these difficult hours,\" he added.\n\nFour people were killed in the attack on Vienna on 2 November, which followed other suspected Islamist attacks in the French cities of Paris and Nice this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds lined the streets to say a final farewell to travel boss John Hays\n\nHundreds of mourners lined the streets of Sunderland to pay their respects to the founder of the UK's largest independent travel firm.\n\nJohn Hays, of Hays Travel, died on 13 November after collapsing at the firm's head office in Sunderland.\n\nOn Tuesday several buildings around the city were lit up in the company's colours of orange and blue.\n\nHundreds paid their respects as the funeral procession made its way past the firm's offices in Keel Square.\n\nMr Hays died on 13 November after collapsing at the firm's head office\n\nIn a statement, his family said: \"We are overwhelmed by the thousands of wonderful tributes, offers of support and messages full of love that we have had.\n\n\"They have truly helped us all through these last few days.\"\n\nThe company, which has been in business for 40 years, famously took on more than 2,000 former Thomas Cook employees when that company went bust in October last year.\n\nLeader of Sunderland City Council, Graeme Miller, said: \"John was always deeply loyal and committed to Sunderland and the North East region and we thank him for that.\n\n\"I know many other people feel the same, and he was loved and admired by many people in the city and beyond.\"\n\nGraeme Miller said Mr Hays was \"deeply loyal and committed to Sunderland\"\n\nThe cortege travelled over the Wearmouth Bridge and then along St Mary's Boulevard in the city centre en route to the crematorium on Chester Road.\n\nPenshaw Monument was lit up in honour of Mr Hays on Tuesday\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Joanna C, registered in Brixham in Devon, sank three miles off the coast at Seaford\n\nA search for two missing fishermen whose boat sank off the Sussex coast has been called off.\n\nA major rescue effort began at Seaford, near Newhaven, on Saturday when the coastguard received an emergency alert at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nOne crew member was found clinging to a buoy and taken to hospital.\n\nDespite an extensive search for two other crew members, the coastguard confirmed it had terminated efforts to find them at 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe emergency signal put the 45ft scalloping vessel, which was registered in Brixham, about three nautical miles off the coast.\n\nThroughout Saturday a number of vessels, including local fishing boats, took part in the search.\n\nEastbourne and Newhaven's RNLI lifeboats, two coastguard rescue helicopters and a fixed wing aircraft, and Birling Gap and Beachy Head Coastguard Rescue Teams were all involved, as were 12 other vessels which responded to appeals for help.\n\nThroughout Saturday a number of vessels took part in the search\n\nChris Thomas, deputy director of HM Coastguard said its National Maritime Operations Centre co-ordinated Saturday's rescue effort \"with many units searching tirelessly since first light\".\n\nHe continued: \"Sadly two other crewmen have not yet been found and all our thoughts are with their families and friends.\n\n\"It is testament to the local maritime community that HM Coastguard was so admirably supported throughout the day by nearby vessels and the local fishing communities, who joined us in force and made strenuous efforts to locate their colleagues during the search.\"\n\nOn Saturday, HM Coastguard controller Piers Stanbury said debris had been located close to where the alert had originated.\n\nHelen Lovell, from the Fishermen's Mission in Brixham, said the community was \"really pulling together\" and \"lighting candles and putting them in their windows\" to show they were thinking of the missing men.\n• None One rescued and two missing as fishing boat sinks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's four nations have backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is due to unveil on Monday a tougher three-tiered system for England - to be introduced at the end of the current lockdown on 2 December.\n\nThe 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants will also be relaxed.\n\nWork to finalise the arrangements for a UK-wide approach to restrictions this Christmas is ongoing.\n\nOne option that was discussed in meetings this weekend was that three households could be allowed to meet up for up to five days, according to the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young.\n\nMr Johnson will detail the strengthened tiered system in a statement to the House of Commons on Monday, and every region of England will be told on Thursday which tier they will be put into after the lockdown ends.\n\nGyms and non-essential retail are expected to be allowed to re-open in all areas under the new plans.\n\nLast orders in pubs and restaurants will remain at 10pm, but customers will have an extra hour to drink up.\n\nThe PM had also been hoping to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh cabinets to agree the plans.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had endorsed a \"shared objective of facilitating some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".\n\nBut they have emphasised that the public will be advised to \"remain cautious\", and that \"wherever possible people should avoid travelling and minimise social contact\".\n\nDiscussions are continuing - including about travel arrangements - but it is hoped agreement on the joint approach can be reached this week. The Scottish government said \"no agreement has been reached\".\n\nIn respect of Northern Ireland, ministers have also \"recognised that people will want to see family and friends across the island of Ireland, and this is the subject of discussions with the Irish government\", the Cabinet Office said.\n\nPre-lockdown, there were three tiers of restrictions - medium, high, and very high:\n\nMore areas are set to be placed into the higher tiers in England after lockdown.\n\nSome local measures will be the same as those in the previous three-tier system - which was in place in England until the current lockdown began - but some tiers will be strengthened, according to Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson met with his Cabinet to sign off on the plans on Sunday.\n\nThere have been calls by a cross-party group of MPs and peers for the PM to guarantee that church services will go ahead this Christmas, as current lockdown restrictions forbid most religious services.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is expected to publish research on Monday saying the previous tiered restrictions in England were not strong enough.\n\nBut 70 Tory MPs have said they will not back the proposals without evidence.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG) said it cannot support a tiered approach unless it sees evidence measures \"will save more lives than they cost\".\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the new tier system in the days before it comes into force.\n\nGovernment ministers and advisers have been hinting about new tougher tiers over the past week.\n\nBefore lockdown there was some evidence that tiers two and three were having an impact, but not tier one.\n\nCrucially, both the top two tiers involved banning mixing inside homes, so one option being discussed behind the scenes is introducing a ban across all the tiers until winter is over.\n\nThe exception will, of course, be Christmas.\n\nThat is a move that divides opinion. But the government sees it as a necessity, believing significant numbers of people will ignore any attempt to ban gatherings over the festive period.\n\nIt is also a recognition the public needs a break from the long hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nInfection rates will of course rise, but that will be offset to some extent by a wider boost to wellbeing.\n\nLabour has so far supported the need for restrictions to slow the spread of Covid-19, making a Commons defeat on the plan unlikely.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC her party wanted clarity from the government over how tiers would be decided and the support available for businesses.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another 18,662 new coronavirus cases and 398 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, bringing the UK total to 55,024.\n\nOf the figures, the government said: \"Due to a processing update, 141 previously published deaths within 28 days in England were excluded from the published data on November 21.\n\n\"This issue has now been corrected for data published on November 22, which includes deaths omitted yesterday in today's total and daily number of newly reported deaths.\"", "The idea of packing up your possessions to live life on the open road has its appeal, but the practicalities put a lot of people off actually doing it. Six years ago, after one of them nearly died and both were diagnosed with depression, Dan Colegate, 38, and Esther Dingley, 37, swapped their careers and a permanent home for motoring through the mountains, valleys and coastlines of Europe.\n\nIn January 2014, Dan and Esther appeared to have a good life.\n\nThey had a nice flat in the picturesque cathedral city of Durham, multiple degrees from universities including Oxford and Cambridge, flourishing careers and were three weeks away from getting married.\n\nBut beneath the surface, both felt hollow inside, like \"zombies sleepwalking through life\", Esther recalls.\n\nDan, a business development manager, was getting counselling for depression while Esther, who ran her own personal training firm, battled with chronic fatigue sparked by her own mental health struggles.\n\nAnd then Dan nearly died.\n\nDan and Esther had always been keen travellers\n\nDoctors had told Esther to say her final goodbye to her partner of 11 years just in case they were unable to halt the \"flesh-eating\" bacteria threatening to devour his insides; the necrotising fasciitis he had was an infection that followed surgery to ease a bowel incontinence-causing defect he had endured since birth.\n\nThey could not have known it on that fretful night, but the moment Dan nearly died proved to be the moment his and Esther's life together really started.\n\n\"It was the kick up the backside we needed,\" says Dan, chatting six years later via video-call from an idyllic vineyard in Gascony, France, where he is house-sitting.\n\nIn the on-screen box beside Dan, Esther, who is broadcasting live from the pair's parked-up campervan, nods. \"People say every cloud has a silver lining but when you're in the cloud it does not look like it,\" she says.\n\nIt's not always easy to see the silver lining when you are in the clouds, Esther says\n\nThe couple are currently several hundred miles apart, Dan opting to stay still for a time while Esther prefers to keep mobile.\n\n\"We've got the best of both worlds, really,\" Esther says. \"We get a home bug and a travel bug. Travelling takes you to some beautiful places but it feels a bit unsettled at times, so then we house-sit somewhere to get a bit of stability.\n\n\"We realised that during the coronavirus we had not been apart from each other for a year so decided to each just do our own thing for a bit. This whole thing has been really good for us individually and our relationship; we are genuinely happy now.\"\n\nDan and Esther say they have found true happiness on the road\n\nThe seeds of that happiness first started to be sown in the weeks after Dan's operation, when he was lying on the sofa eating chunks of discounted Christmas cake they had bought for their wedding. The nuptials had to be cancelled because of his health scare, and they've still not got around to becoming husband and wife.\n\n\"We really loved to travel and we kept saying one day we would do it, but there was always another project, another job to help pay for the future we wanted that we should do first,\" Esther says.\n\n\"We were always just chasing the next objective, always chasing something bigger so we could do something in the future. Then all of a sudden someone turns around and says the person I love and was planning to do it all with could be gone by the morning.\n\n\"It was time for us to think again about our lives.\"\n\nThere was a world out there that they were missing\n\nDan nods, adding simply: \"We were taking our future for granted.\"\n\nWith Dan recovering, they decided to start travelling almost immediately, and within three weeks they were on the road.\n\nThey found a campervan - quickly nicknamed Homer - a tenant for their flat and a buyer for their car.\n\nDan and Esther posed for one final picture in Durham before leaving in 2014\n\nInitially they put most of their possessions in a friend's attic, but have since given most away to friends and charities. \"Everything we own and consider personal possessions fits in the van,\" Dan says.\n\nThey reckoned with their savings and rental income from their Durham home they could head off for a year-long adventure. The two fitness fanatics were keen to hike and cycle in some of Europe's most beautiful spots.\n\nOne year has become six and counting, with the couple living off a combination of savings, rental income and money earned doing odd jobs.\n\nThe two fitness fanatics have biked and hiked their way through Europe\n\n\"When you are sitting on your sofa in Durham trying to decide if you can take the financial risk, with people asking you 'what about your pension?' or 'what about this or that?', you are pretty risk averse,\" Esther says.\n\n\"It was not until on the road and finding out how inexpensive it could be, and interacting with people living on the road for 10 or 20 years, that we started to see we did not have to go back to the careers that we had.\n\n\"We could have done this years earlier.\"\n\nWhen not moving around, they have found work on farms and house-sitting\n\nThey have never really had a plan but instead have just been \"searching for a feeling\", Dan says.\n\nThey've lived in France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Liechtenstein, enjoying summers in the altitudes of the Alps and Pyrenees, and have spent winters in the warmer climes of Spain.\n\nThey have biked and hiked thousands of miles, sometimes apart but most of it together; both recognise they were in a fortunate financial position that's certainly not shared by everyone.\n\nThey spend their summers in the mountains\n\nNo matter how hard they had worked to put themselves in that situation, there was still an element of luck to get there. And they say luck has accompanied them throughout.\n\n\"The overriding experience for me is that something always comes up,\" Dan says.\n\n\"Every time we said 'we needed to do this or that', something happened that made that possible.\"\n\nThey say their only possessions are those that can fit in their campervan\n\nThere was the time they broke down in Italy on a national holiday with the garages closed, and a chance encounter with an expat Mancunian walking her dog led to them being offered a place to stay.\n\nOr when they quickly found farm work or house-sitting jobs when they needed some extra cash or a stable base for a while.\n\nAnd then there was the arrival of Leela.\n\nDan and Esther were staying in San José in Almeria when they made a new friend, a street dog called Leela\n\nIn January 2017, Dan and Esther found themselves in San José, a small fishing village of pristine white houses beside the dazzling blue Alboran Sea in southern Spain, enjoying lunch at a cafe with Esther's parents, who had flown out to see how the pair were getting on.\n\nIt was the cheese and ham toastie that caught Leela's attention.\n\nThe eight-month-old was a stray, a not uncommon sight in Spain.\n\nEsther and Dan met Leela in a cafe in Spain\n\nThis one day found Leela on the cafe's terrace, where Esther and Dan slipped her the remnants of their lunch.\n\nAfter some deliberation, Dan and Esther decided to give Leela a home - but what they didn't know until they took her to the vet to be checked over was that their new friend was pregnant.\n\nThey soon rented a house in the town, where Leela could give birth to her six puppies, and helped the inexperienced mother raise them: Dan and Esther bottle-fed the pups every three hours for several weeks.\n\nTwo of the dogs found new homes in Spain, while the other four and their mother joined Dan and Esther on their travels. This was the inspiration for what became a series of children's books written by the couple, to add to several travel books Dan has authored.\n\nLeela and her pups have joined in with the travelling\n\nOne campervan, two people and five dogs, and there are no plans to end the adventure, no matter how much they miss friends, family and the weekend trips they used to take to the beaches of Northumberland and hills of the Lake District.\n\nThey might currently be in separate countries but they are of one mind when asked what they plan to do next.\n\n\"We haven't got a clue,\" Dan smiles, and Esther nods enthusiastically.\n\nThey have no plans to end their adventure any time soon\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Despite widespread criticism of how he has handled the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is seeing his approval ratings rise in the north-east of Brazil, a region where he used to be hated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surprised local residents took pictures of the stricken vessel\n\nMore than 400 people have spent the night on board a passenger ferry after it ran aground off the Finnish Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea.\n\nThe Viking Grace became stranded close to the port of Mariehamn on Saturday.\n\nThe Coastguard said the ship was towed to the port on Sunday morning, and the passengers would be evacuated shortly.\n\nIt earlier said the vessel was not leaking and no lives were in danger. The cause of the incident is being investigated.\n\nThe ship, owned by the Viking Line, had been heading to the Swedish capital, Stockholm, from Turku in Finland.\n\nNo injuries have been reported among the 331 passengers and 98 crew, and the Viking Line described the situation on board as \"calm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Merivartiosto - LSMV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResidents near the scene expressed surprise. \"It is very windy here on Åland and they tried to reverse into the quay,\" said one resident, named only as Tina, 55.\n\n\"We saw that they were having problems. They stopped and then something happened and they drifted towards land. You can basically touch the boat if you go down to the water.\n\nPassenger Anna Palsson, quoted by Swedish newspaper Expressen, said they had just gone down to the car deck when the ferry ran aground.\n\n\"People are calm and the staff are handing out food and facemasks,\" she said.\n\nViking Line spokeswoman Johanna Boijer-Svahnström told Yle News that Finnish passengers will be taken from Mariehamn to the mainland on the Viking Grace, while Swedish passengers will board the Viking Amorella for travel to Stockholm.\n\nIt is the second time in two months that a Viking Line ferry has run aground off the Åland Islands. On 30 September, 300 passengers had to be evacuated from the Viking Amorella which hit rocks off Järsö. It has since been towed to Turku for repairs.", "Gyms and non-essential shops in all areas are expected to be allowed to reopen when England's lockdown ends.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Boris Johnson will explain the detail of England's return to the \"three-tier system\" when lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nIt is reported pubs in tier three will stay shut except for takeaway. In tier two, only those serving meals can open.\n\nLast orders in all pubs will remain at 22:00 GMT, but customers will have an extra hour to drink up.\n\nThe ban on outdoor grassroots sport is also set to be lifted in all tiers, following calls for this restriction to be eased.\n\nAnd mass testing will be introduced in all tier three areas.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Sport understands that outdoor sporting events in the lowest-risk areas will be allowed to admit up to 4,000 spectators in England from 2 December.\n\nThere will be no crowds allowed at sport in the highest-risk areas.\n\nDetails of which tier every region of England will be put into are expected on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to make a statement to the House of Commons at about 15:30 GMT unveiling the plans for Covid-19 restrictions in England from 2 December. MPs will vote on these proposals later this week.\n\nMore areas are set to be placed in the higher tiers - high risk or very high risk - after lockdown, No 10 has said.\n\nGyms and non-essential shops have been closed in England since 5 November, but are expected to reopen in all areas. Gyms were previously allowed to open in tier three, despite initially being told to shut in some places.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will we be allowed to do at Christmas?\n\nThe prime minister had hoped to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh governments to agree the plans.\n\nIt comes after the Westminster government said the UK's four nations had backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nOne option that was discussed in meetings this weekend was that three households could be allowed to meet up for up to five days, according to the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government hoped to agree a \"cautious, balanced approach\" for Christmas \"that can allow people to see their families, but also makes sure that we can keep the virus under control\".\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell the House of Commons later: \"The selflessness of people in following the rules is making a difference.\"\n\nThe increase in new cases is \"flattening off\" in England following the introduction of the nationwide lockdown measures, he will say.\n\nThe prime minister will say \"we are not out of the woods yet\", with the virus \"both far more infectious and far more deadly than seasonal flu\".\n\n\"But with expansion in testing and vaccines edging closer to deployment, the regional tiered system will help get the virus back under control and keep it there,\" he will say.\n\nReacting to the news of the reported proposals, the Campaign for Pubs - which represents publicans across the UK - said it \"will cause hardship for thousands of families of publicans, pub staff and suppliers, as well as the loss of thousands of pubs.\"\n\nIts chairman Paul Crossman, who is the licensee of three pubs in York, told BBC Radio York a relaxation of the 22:00 closing time was \"very welcome indeed\" but the news on the tiers was \"worrying\".\n\nKate Nicholls, chief of UKHospitality, which represents businesses in the industry, said news of \"significant additional controls\" will \"cripple the UK's hospitality sector and impede economic recovery\".\n\nAnd Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the Today programme that many hospitality businesses \"will not survive\" tougher restrictions.\n\n\"It seems that a toughened tier three could be devastating for the hospitality industry and will hit cities and the city economy very, very hard indeed,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of Conservative MPs in the Covid recovery group (CRG) are threatening to oppose any new restrictions in a Commons vote.\n\nGroup member and Tory MP Steve Baker said while they were \"reassured\" by some of the messages coming out of government, they needed to know more.\n\n\"It is still the case that where there are restrictions we still want to be sure they are going to have an impact on the transmission of Covid and we want to know that whatever is proposed they will save more lives than it will cost,\" he told Today.\n\n\"I think we will have to hear what the prime minister says before we decide how we are voting. There is of course always a danger colleagues will vote against.\"\n\nThe plan for extensive community testing in tier three areas follows a pilot programme in Liverpool, where more than 200,000 people were tested and which the government said contributed to the fall in cases there.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell MPs that rapid testing will \"help get the virus back under control and keep it there\".\n\nDaily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people who have tested positive in England, as a way to reduce the current 14-day quarantine.\n\nDowning Street also said weekly testing would be expanded to all staff working in food manufacturing, prisons and the vaccine programme from next month.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another 18,662 confirmed coronavirus cases and 398 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. The total includes 141 deaths which were omitted from the 21 November figures in error.", "Newspaper reports suggest rules could be temporarily relaxed UK-wide over Christmas\n\nIt is still the Welsh Government's aim to reach a UK-wide agreement on Covid-19 rules for the Christmas period, the health minister has said.\n\nVaughan Gething's comments come after Downing Street said Boris Johnson was expected to make an announcement on Christmas to MPs on Monday.\n\nMr Gething said he was \"not sure\" the prime minister would \"announce their plans for Christmas tomorrow\".\n\nHe said all four UK governments were due to continue talks later this week.\n\nMr Gething did not put a timetable on when an announcement could be made, saying the Welsh Government would \"like to do it as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK Cabinet Office said ministers from the four nations agreed on the importance of allowing families and friends to meet \"in a careful and limited way, while recognising that this will not be a normal festive period and the risks of transmission remain very real\".\n\nA statement also said ministers endorsed \"a shared objective of facilitating some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Wales, Mr Gething said Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford \"had another constructive conversation\" with UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and other first ministers on Saturday.\n\nAsked if an announcement could be made this week, he said: \"We have a cabinet coming up this week. We'll want to consider the conversations and how far they've got over the weekend.\n\n\"We'll also want to consider the advice of our chief medical officer about the potential proposals for Christmas and to understand what that might mean in terms of the future health of the population but also the capacity of our National Health Service to help treat people and to keep them alive.\"\n\nNewspaper reports suggest rules could be temporarily relaxed UK-wide over Christmas, with several families allowed to join one \"bubble\" and mix between 22 and 28 December, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nVaughan Gething said the conversation about Christmas \"isn't complete\"\n\nMr Gething said ministers were \"looking at a timeframe that would allow people to travel\" but would not be drawn on any detail.\n\nHe said he wanted a four nations approach \"as far as possible to make it easier for people to understand what they can do, to help people to do the right thing\".\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said: \"It's good news for everyone that all four governments are currently committed to a four nation approach to Christmas and the festive season.\n\n\"Along with any potential vaccine, it is essential that the four governments work together to get us out of the pandemic united and together.\n\n\"People have family members and loved ones in all corners of the UK so having a joined up approach that allows people to get together no matter where they may live is vital,\" he added.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth has called for the government to think \"compassionately\" about which rules are in place between November and the new year, so people may have \"at least one long bank holiday weekend with family\".\n\n\"It can't be a normal Christmas, but I'd hope that everything possible is done to allow us to spend time safely with loved ones,\" he said.\n\nMr ap Iorwerth also called for a mass testing programme for areas of high transmission - such as the one in Merthyr Tydfil - and a \"comprehensive vaccine plan\" to be published.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Drakeford warned that if Covid cases rise, then people will not have extra Christmas freedoms.\n\nFollowing encouraging news about coronavirus vaccines, with some successful trials reported, Mr Gething said it was \"possible\" the vaccination process could start before Christmas.\n\nBut, he added: \"That still depends on whether the first vaccine, the Pfizer candidate, goes through all its regulatory and safety checks.\n\n\"If it is available before Christmas, we have a plan to be able to start vaccinating people this calendar year.\n\n\"To get population coverage, that depends on other vaccines becoming available, and we're not in control of that either.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to give a timeframe within which we'll have population coverage.\"\n\nWith Welsh Government officials considering mass testing all pupils and students, Mr Gething said he hoped to announce \"over the next week or so\" which sectors would be prioritised for rapid tests.", "Council and military personnel are helping with the testing\n\nMerthyr council said 977 people were tested for coronavirus during Wales's first day of mass-testing.\n\nHowever only nine people tested on Saturday were found to have Covid-19.\n\nUp to 175 armed forces personnel were drafted in to help as people queued at Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centre.\n\nIt comes weeks after the area was given the title of the worst affected place in the UK. Latest figures showed it had 250.3 cases per 100,000 of the population over a seven-day period.\n\nThis places it behind Blaenau Gwent (396.5) and Neath Port Talbot (258.9).\n\nHundreds queued around the leisure centre to get tested\n\nAnyone living or working in the county can now get a test and up to 60,000 people could be tested in total, with those without symptoms also urged to take a test.\n\nMerthyr council has revealed the full list of testing sites and their opening times.\n\nIt has also created a regional helpline for those who test positive or were contacted by tracers and told to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns some could be left hard up if told to self-isolate weeks before Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh Government has set up a payment scheme for those on low wages.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners want a public inquiry to establish \"truth, justice and accountability\" around the 1974 bombings\n\nA convoy of more than 100 cars and bikes marked the 46th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.\n\nFriends and relatives of the 21 killed and 220 injured in the 1974 atrocity began in Aston and were ending at West Midlands Police's headquarters.\n\nCampaigners are calling for a public inquiry to establish \"truth, justice and accountability\".\n\nA 65-year-old man arrested over the bombings on Wednesday in Belfast was released on Friday after questioning.\n\nThe man, reported to be 65-year-old Michael Patrick Reilly, was held under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and has strongly denied any involvement in the bombings.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed in two blasts on 21 November 1974\n\nSix men - Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker - were wrongly jailed for life in 1975 for the attack.\n\nLast month, Home Secretary Priti Patel gave campaigners fresh hope by considering the case for a public inquiry, saying she \"recognised the desire to see those responsible brought to justice\".\n\n\"If we don't have hope, there's no point in us campaigning. We might as well give up,\" said Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died in the bombings.\n\n\"But we will never give up, we will never go away until justice is seen to be done.\"\n\nThe convoy was ending at West Midlands Police headquarters in the city centre\n\nInquests last year found an IRA warning call was \"inadequate\" for the purposes of ensuring that lives were not lost in the explosions.\n\nThe call, made to the Birmingham Post and Mail at 20:11, gave the bomb locations as the Rotunda building and the nearby Tax Office in New Street but made no mention of pubs, costing the police vital minutes.\n\nThe first bomb detonated in the Mulberry Bush seven minutes later, and the second exploded in the nearby Tavern in the Town shortly after.\n\nA third bomb was planted near Barclays Bank on Hagley Road but failed to properly detonate.\n\nTen of the people who died had been at the Mulberry Bush pub in the city\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and mobile app; follow BBC live text commentary online.\n\nRafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were knocked out of the ATP Finals as Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem set up a title decider.\n\nWorld number two Nadal served for the match at 5-4 in the second set but Russia's Medvedev hit back brilliantly to win 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 in London.\n\nHe was the more aggressive player throughout and was composed in the decider as errors came from Nadal.\n\nThe Austrian trusted his big hitting and fought back from a 4-0 deficit in the deciding third-set tie-break to win in almost three hours.\n\nUnlike Thiem, Medvedev, who had never beaten Nadal, is unbeaten throughout the week at the O2 Arena.\n\nNeither man has won the season-ending event before but Thiem will start Sunday's final as the narrow favourite, having won his first Grand Slam at the US Open in September.\n\nWere world number four Medvedev to win, it would be the biggest victory of his career.\n\nFor 20-time Grand Slam champion Nadal, defeat ended his hopes of winning the tournament - one of the few prizes missing from his glittering CV - for the first time.\n\nMedvedev outlasts Nadal on day for the next generation\n\nIt has been the burning question in men's tennis in recent years; when will the next generation replace Nadal, Djokovic and Roger Federer at the top of the game? There have been many false dawns, and this may be another, but Medvedev and Thiem were deserving winners.\n\nMedvedev dictated against Nadal, hitting 42 winners to the Spaniard's 30 in his unconventional style.\n\nThe 24-year-old Russian set the early pace, creating opportunities on Nadal's serve and breezing through his own service games, only for his level to drop in the seventh game, allowing Nadal to make the pivotal break.\n\nMedvedev did not panic and when Nadal's level dropped at the beginning of the second - an unforced error and a double fault gifted a break - he raced into a 4-1 lead in 15 minutes.\n\nMedvedev then saw his lead wiped out as Nadal roared back but with the Spaniard champion serving for the set, Medvedev cut loose and played a near perfect return game to get back on terms.\n\nMedvedev won the second-set tie-break - helped by a crucial framed forehand that lobbed Nadal - and in the decider he was the player applying all of the pressure.\n\nNadal's movement and power of shot slowed and after fighting off three breaks points, he could not deny the Russian a fourth time when he put away a smash at the net.\n\nAt that point the fight seemed to drain from Nadal and, serving to stay in the match, he double-faulted before hitting a forehand into the net on match point.\n• Watch Premier League football live on BBC iPlayer: Fulham v Everton - find out more here\n\nThiem, 27, has stepped up in recent months, winning his maiden Slam and producing some of the best tennis this week in London.\n\nAgainst Djokovic, his belief in his shot-making and ability to play the big shot at the right moment proved pivotal.\n\nHe double-faulted on the opening point of the deciding tie-break and Djokovic raced into the lead before Thiem sliced his way back into contention.\n\nA fifth match point was cancelled out by a Djokovic ace but Thiem's relentless backhand that hugged the baseline was key to his victory.\n\nDjokovic has not been at his best in London and he cut a frustrated figure throughout the decider, letting out a furious yell when he sent an easy return of serve long at 30-30 on the Thiem serve in the third.\n\nHis groundstrokes were simply not as consistently composed as usual and his repeated moves to the net did not work.\n\nUsually, a 4-0 lead in a tie-break for Djokovic would mean game over. Instead, he was out-hit and out-thought by his opponent.\n\n\"What he did from 0-4 in the third-set tie-breaker was just unreal. I don't think I played bad. I made all of my first serves. He just crushed the ball,\" said Djokovic, who had been chasing a record-equalling sixth title.\n\n\"I was in a driver's position at 4-0. I thought I was very close to winning it. He just took it away from me. But he deserved it, because he just went for it and everything worked.\"\n\nDespite the loss, Djokovic finishes the year as world number one, having lost just five matches in 2020, and will now prepare to defend his Australian Open title in January.\n\nNo-one has managed to beat both Nadal and Djokovic at the ATP Finals since 2010.\n\nNow Medvedev and Thiem have done it in the same year, and even beaten them together on the same day.\n\nThe next generation are consistently having more success against them on the ATP Tour.\n\nAlthough that success has not yet translated to the Grand Slams in quite the same way, perhaps next year will be the year.\n\nLike the semi-finals, the final could be very tight.\n\nWhile Thiem is threatening to become the hardest man to beat on tour, Medvedev is brimming with confidence after recording nine November wins in a row.\n• None What's the story behind the world's most famous sneakers?\n• None How about when it all goes wrong on the first day", "If you are told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid app, you do not qualify for a £500 support grant\n\nThe government has been urged to expand eligibility for self-isolation support grants in England.\n\nCurrently, people asked to stay at home by the NHS Covid app do not qualify for the £500 grant given to those on low incomes who are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nParents who have to stay at home to look after children who are self-isolating are also excluded.\n\nCitizens Advice said it meant people faced an \"impossible choice\".\n\nPeople faced having to take a \"big hit\" to their income and might end up struggling with bills in order to help stop the spread of the virus, the charity said.\n\nThe government said it was exploring how to expand the system to cover those advised to isolate by the app.\n\nAnd speaking to the BBC, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government was also looking at ways of reducing the isolation period.\n\nThe support scheme is designed to help people who cannot work from home and lose income because they are self-isolating.\n\nIf you test positive, you are provided with a code, which you can use to apply for the grant.\n\nBut a number of loopholes have emerged - which charities say need to be addressed.\n\nAs well as parents looking after isolating children and those pinged by the app, people who are not on benefits are not automatically eligible. They have to apply for discretionary funding instead.\n\nCharities have said that could mean people who are in the process of applying for benefits such as Universal Credit - but who have not yet completed the process - do not qualify.\n\n\"Ultimately, people are facing an impossible choice often,\" said Citizens Advice spokesperson Katie Martin.\n\n\"They are taking a big hit on their incomes if they can't work from home and they need to self-isolate, but they still have their bills to pay, their food shopping to do, children to care for.\"\n\nMs Martin said the support on offer was welcome, but added: \"It's definitely something that we'd like the government to look again at - to see what else they can do to make sure people can do the right thing.\"\n\nOliver, from Weymouth in Dorset, told the BBC he discovered he was not entitled to any support after receiving a notification from the app to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a young family, there's seven of us who rely on my income,\" he said. \"I want to follow the guidelines but they leave you in the lurch a bit without the financial support. It's been a rough year - that financial burden feels like a massive injustice.\"\n\n\"They leave you in the lurch,\" says Oliver, who was told to self-isolate without financial support\n\nThe charity Working Families has also urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to discuss eligibility, raising concerns that some working parents have had no choice but to miss work to look after children.\n\nMany parents have children who have been forced to isolate because of cases in their school \"bubble\", for example.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"The prime minister is lucky he can self-isolate from the comfort of his home and carry on working, but for many people that's not an option.\n\n\"Many people will be astonished to find that people using the Covid-19 app can't access support to self-isolate - even if they're eligible for the payment.\"\n\nShe said the prime minister should \"use his own period of self-isolation to fix this broken system\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said self-isolation was \"vital to stopping the spread of the virus\" and added that a range of support was available to people on low incomes.\n\nNHS Test and Trace contact tracers will make people aware of the support and tell them how to apply, the department said.\n\n\"We are actively exploring ways to expand the payment scheme to include those who are advised by the app to self-isolate because of close contact with somebody who has tested positive,\" the spokesperson said.", "Ten more people in Northern Ireland have died after contracting Covid-19, taking the Department of Health's total of recorded deaths to 923.\n\nAnother 357 people have tested positive for the virus, taking the overall number of confirmed cases to 49,442.\n\nThe figures come a day after some businesses reopened ahead of a two-week lockdown from 27 November.\n\nThe restrictions have been criticised by some businesses but First Minister Arlene Foster has defended the move.\n\nThe DUP leader denied that her party had performed a U-turn by agreeing to tighter Covid-19 restrictions one week after voting against measures proposed to the Stormont Executive.\n\nShe said the executive \"had to act\" given that the R-number - the average number of people that one infected person will pass the virus to - was close to one.\n\nThe evidence \"had changed\" in what was put to ministers at Thursday's executive meeting,\" she added.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was the \"correct decision\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the latest restrictions were necessary but accepted they were \"equivalent of going back to where we were in March and April\".\n\nHe said the two-week circuit breaker was a \"big ask\" but \"necessary so we can return to as normal a Christmas as possible.\"\n\nAs of Saturday, there were 429 inpatients in hospitals and 41 people in intensive care units - 31 of them are on ventilation.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, it was confirmed on Saturday that four more people had died with Covid-19 and another 344 people had tested positive.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the government statistics agency Nisra said on Friday it had recorded a rise in the weekly number of Covid-19-related deaths for the sixth week in a row.\n\nIt said 96 deaths were registered in the week up to Friday 13 November, with the overall total standing at 1,201.", "People in flats with and without cladding have been left unable to move without the safety checks\n\nSafety checks that left thousands of people unable to sell their flats after the Grenfell disaster are being eased.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said homes without cladding would no longer need an EWS1 external wall safety certificate - which involves a survey.\n\nThousands of people have been refused mortgages on flats because owners have been unable to get the surveys done.\n\nBut mortgage lenders said they \"did not consent\" to the announcement of the changes.\n\nThey also questioned how many homeowners would benefit.\n\nThe checks were introduced after 72 people died at Grenfell Tower when a fire spread along outside walls.\n\nTo begin with, only those who owned flats in tall buildings with dangerous flammable cladding were affected. But in January the government extended its advice to smaller properties and mortgage lenders began demanding fire surveys from a much wider range group of sellers.\n\nWith fewer than 300 qualified surveyors for hundreds of thousands of properties, many owners have been unable to access them, leaving them stuck, unable to sell or remortgage.\n\nEarlier, Mr Jenrick announced he had \"secured agreement\" that the survey would not be needed for homes without cladding.\n\n\"Through no fault of their own, some flat owners have been unable to sell or remortgage their homes, and this cannot be allowed to continue,\" he said.\n\nThe housing secretary said the decision to ease checks for blocks without cladding would help almost 450,000 homeowners who \"may have felt stuck in limbo\".\n\nThe building safety minister Lord Greenhalgh tweeted that the chairman of the lenders association UK Finance, and the chief executive of the Building Societies Association, had confirmed \"EWS1 forms are not and have never been required\" for buildings without cladding.\n\nDespite that some people without cladding, have previously been asked to obtain an EWS form and both bodies said in a statement they \"did not consent\" to being included in the announcement.\n\nA finance industry source with knowledge of the negotiations told the BBC the proposal did not mean properties with issues other than cladding would automatically be exempt from a fire survey.\n\nThe source said buildings with wooden balconies, and other safety issues, should have been included among those which still required the external fire safety checks.\n\nIt would still depend on the decision of a \"suitably qualified, independent and properly insured surveyor\", the source said. They did not recognise the figure of 450,000 homeowners stuck in limbo.\n\nOnly a \"small subset\" of buildings would benefit from the announcement, the UK Cladding Action Group said. Estimates by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government suggested that more than 800,000 homes would still require the EWS1.\n\nSome blocks which appeared to be built from solid brick were in fact \"clad with unknown materials behind the brick\", UK Finance and the Building Societies Association warned.\n\nThe Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors said it had agreed the announcement that buildings without cladding did not need the EWS1 assessments, but it added that it would still need to review the government advice before deciding what guidance to issue to surveyors.\n\nSean Tompkins, RICS chief executive, said there had been an \"acute market shortage of fire engineers\" to carry out the checks.\n\n\"We are aware of the severe impact this has had on some homeowners and we agree that buildings without cladding should not be subject to the process,\" he said.\n\nMr Jenrick also said the government was paying to train 2,000 more assessors within six months to speed up checks on blocks which did have cladding.\n\nBut some cladding experts questioned whether the £700,000 in government funding would be enough.\n\n\"Do they think they can just give these people a two-day training course for £350?\" said Adrian Buckmaster, director of Tetraclad. \"You can't train experience in the built environment.\"", "The UK and Canada have agreed a deal to continue trading under the same terms as the current EU agreement after the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe government said it paved the way for negotiations to begin next year on a new comprehensive deal with Canada.\n\nThe PM and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau made the \"agreement in principle\" in a video call, the Department for International Trade said.\n\nThe agreement does not give any new benefits to businesses.\n\nBut it rolls over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reached by the EU and Canada after seven years of negotiations.\n\nBoris Johnson said the extension was \"a fantastic agreement for Britain\", adding: \"Our negotiators have been working flat out to secure trade deals for the UK and from as early next year we have agreed to start work on a new, bespoke trade deal with Canada that will go even further in meeting the needs of our economy.\"\n\nWelcoming the continuity deal, Mr Trudeau suggested a new comprehensive trade agreement with the UK would take several years to negotiate.\n\nSpeaking during the video call, which also included International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and her counterpart Mary Ng, Mr Trudeau said: \"Now we get to continue to work on a bespoke agreement, a comprehensive agreement over the coming years that will really maximise our trade opportunities and boost things for everyone.\"\n\n\"It is now vital that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss show the same urgency in securing the other 14 outstanding continuity agreements with countries like Mexico, Ghana and Singapore, where a total of £60bn of UK trade is still at risk and time is beginning to run out,\" she added.\n\nBefore it is formally signed, the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement will be subject to final legal checks.\n\nThe UK has now left the EU, but its trading relationship remains the same until the end of the year. That's because it's in an 11-month transition - designed to give both sides some time to negotiate a new trade deal.\n\nNo new trade deals can start until the transition period ends on 31 December.", "Almost one in five shops in Wales are now empty, according to the Welsh Retail Consortium.\n\nThe vacancy rate increased from 15.9% to 18% in the third quarter of this year, the largest jump anywhere in the UK.\n\nHowever, more independent shops are opening up in town centres, business leaders have said.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided £90m at the start of the year to support town centres.\n\nIt added it had made a further £9m available to help towns recover from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe north-east of England, with 18.6%, was the only region in the UK to have a higher vacancy rate than Wales.\n\nGreater London had the lowest figure with 10%.\n\nShopping centres and high streets have the most empty units in Wales - 20.8% and 18.6% respectively.\n\nRetail parks had the lowest, 8.6%, but this figure increased from 6.9% in the second quarter of 2020.\n\nCardiff-based Peacocks became the latest chain to collapse into administration on Thursday and is one of a number to hit trouble in 2020.\n\nIt comes two weeks after its owner, the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group (EWM), put its eponymous shops into the same process.\n\nThis time last year, the group was rescuing Bonmarche from administration, while River Island and Topshop have also closed stores in Wales.\n\nFurniture and fashion chain Laura Ashley also fell into administration in March, resulting in the closure of its factory in Newtown, Powys in June, while Debenhams warned in April it would close four of its Welsh stores in a dispute over business rates.\n\nThe south Wales valleys town of Aberdare could lose three shops on the same street - but the head of its business improvement district is optimistic for the future\n\nSome towns, such as Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, are home to multiple stores from EWM and face losing several shops at the same time if the company is not saved.\n\nDawn Penny, manager of Our Aberdare - the town's business improvement district, said she was optimistic the town could thrive despite the threat of three shops closing.\n\nPeacocks, Bonmarche and New Look - all within a few hundred yards of each other on the town's Cardiff Street - could close.\n\n\"Everyone notices it [when shops close],\" she said. \"Obviously it's a change, but through change you can grab opportunity.\n\n\"It's not just Aberdare and it's not just Wales, and I think there's a change happening because of the pandemic... the feeling among independent business owners is really positive at the moment.\"\n\nMs Penny said some empty shops may be too large and business rates too high to be attractive to smaller businesses, but could be split into smaller units in order to fill them.\n\n\"I definitely think Aberdare has the potential to thrive,\" she added.\n\nThe positive feeling among independent business owners in Aberdare is one replicated in other parts of Wales, Pam Poynton from Bangor's business improvement district said.\n\nMs Poynton said the city, which is home to Wales' longest high street, has seen Topshop, H&M and the Body Shop close recently, but their place has been taken by independent shops.\n\nPeacocks in Bangor had closing down signs in September, but independent businesses are filling the void\n\nShe said: \"We've got a lot more people taking up smaller shops and the big ones are sort of going. It's a bit like a David and Goliath situation.\n\n\"The smaller stores seem to be outdoing the bigger stores at the moment. I think people are supporting the local shops, and I suppose now people are thinking that if they want a shop to stay open they have to support it.\n\n\"I think sometimes people are fearful of change and with Covid we don't know what's going to happen. But things people have forecasted don't seem to be happening at the moment. We've had some closures but we've got some new ones opening.\"\n\nIn Llandudno, Conwy county, business mentor Peter Denton said the town had \"weathered the stormy retail waters\" better than most.\n\nHe said there had been a move towards coffee and tea shops on the high street, but it had \"far fewer empty shops than most towns\".\n\nHe added the town's relatively isolated position on the northern coast of Wales helped it retain certain businesses, which may be an advantage in the future.\n\nSara Jones, head of the Welsh Retail Consortium, said it was important businesses were able to stay on the high street, and a mix of chains and independent shops was crucial.\n\nSara Jones said shopping areas must offer a mix of chains and independent stores\n\n\"We think chain closures will have a big impact, in the sense that the high street relies on being a multi-offer retail site,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a challenge because when we lose one of these it has knock-on consequences. It has a large impact on that community because a lot of those stores will be big employers.\n\n\"Having different types of business is more helpful and more attractive. It shouldn't be about attracting less big stores and bringing in more independents... if we're going to see a repurposed high street, we have to have both.\n\n\"We could still see a high street that's vibrant but it [depends on] how much now the government looks to a recovery plan that puts retail at the forefront.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided funding to improve more than 50 town centres.\n\nIt said: \"We announced a further £90m of support for town centres through our Transforming Towns approach at the start of the year.\n\n\"We have also made up to £9 million available to support town centres recover from the coronavirus pandemic, enabling town-centre adaptations to support current circumstances and also drive footfall in the future.\"", "A large police operation was launched to close down the rave\n\nAn investigation has been launched into injuries caused by a police dog at an illegal rave.\n\nA young woman at the event in Yate near Bristol claims to have sustained \"life-changing injuries\" to her leg.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nAt the time, the force said officers were pelted with missiles when they moved in to disperse the crowd.\n\nIn an interview with the Independent newspaper, 28 year-old Jessica Mae Andrew said the dog attacked as police closed down the event on 31 October.\n\nShe says her injuries included a broken bone and she needed skin and muscle grafts along with reconstructive surgery.\n\nThe event took place on Halloween\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC said: \"We received a referral from Avon and Somerset Police after a member of the public sustained a dog bite injury in Yate.\n\n\"After careful consideration, we decided the matter was suitable for local investigation by the force.\n\n\"The IOPC will be provided with a copy of the force's final report so will retain some oversight of this matter.\"\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: \"The process is ongoing and will include reviewing body-worn camera footage.\n\n\"Our final report will be provided to the IOPC.\"\n\nSome police officers who went to break up the rave suffered minor injuries after having missiles thrown at them.\n\nAvon and Somerset Chief Constable Andy Marsh said those running the event had acted \"criminally and disgracefully\".\n\n\"It is hard to adequately explain how reckless it was to organise an unlicensed music event during the midst of a pandemic that has claimed so many lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police cordon was put in place around Westgate Street in Hackney\n\nA woman is in a life-threatening condition in hospital after being shot in a London street.\n\nThe woman, 32, was found with wounded on Westgate Street, Hackney, at 20:52 GMT on Sunday.\n\nPolice said the victim was \"an innocent bystander\". She was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital. Her next of kin has been informed.\n\nThe Met Police's specialist gang crime unit is investigating. There have been no arrests.\n\nDet Insp Matt Webb, said: \"We have been told that the area was busy at the time of the shooting.\n\n\"I am confident that someone has information that will help our investigation.\n\n\"At this early stage, we believe that the victim was an innocent bystander.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in south London.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at Ramillies Close, Brixton Hill, just before 18:00.\n\nOfficers are trying to trace his next of kin. No arrests have been made, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a man was knifed to death in Kensal Green, north-west London.\n\nA man in his 50s has been arrested in connection with the death and remains in police custody, but no details about the victim have been released.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack happened near Cable Beach in Western Australia\n\nA man has been killed by a shark off a popular beach in Western Australia.\n\nThe attack happened near Cable Beach in the north of the state. The man was pulled from the water but was later pronounced dead.\n\n\"Police can confirm that tragically the man has died,\" Western Australia police said in a statement.\n\nThe beach has been closed and the public is being urged to avoid local waters. It is the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian waters this year.\n\nA search for the shark is under way, but its species is not yet known.\n\nThere have been at least 22 shark maulings in 2020, according to the Taronga Conservation Society Australia, a government agency.\n\nHowever, shark attacks are rare around Cable Beach, near the town of Broome.\n\n\"You get a lot of reef sharks and shovel-nosed rays, things like that, and hammerheads,\" Daryl Roberson, who runs a business on the beach, told Australian broadcaster ABC.\n\n\"To have something like this is unusual and really devastating.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drones used to spot sharks on Australian beaches", "Some of the UK's biggest food companies have attacked a plan that could see all online junk food advertising banned to tackle childhood obesity.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, bosses of firms including Britvic, Kellogg's and Mars said they supported government efforts to tackle obesity.\n\nBut they said the plans were \"disproportionate\" and lacked evidence.\n\nThe government has said it is determined to help children and families make \"healthier choices\".\n\nIt originally planned to ban online adverts and TV commercials for unhealthy foods that appeared before 9pm, but strengthened this in November.\n\nThe prime minister is said to have changed course after being hospitalised with Covid-19, something he links to being overweight.\n\nThe proposal, which is still under consultation, could usher in some of the toughest digital marketing restrictions in the world by the end of 2022.\n\nFirms would not be able to promote foods high in fat, salt or sugar in Facebook ads, paid search results on Google, text promotions and posts on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram.\n\nBut the letter, which has been signed by 800 food and drink manufacturers and 3,000 UK brands, says food companies have not been given enough time to submit detailed objections.\n\n\"The UK government is quite correctly committed to evidence-based policy making. However, the evidence base underpinning these proposals is lacking in both detail and efficacy,\" it says.\n\n\"Additionally, there is still no agreed definition of which foods the government is including in these proposals.\n\n\"They are so broad they even capture family favourites from chocolate to peanut butter to sausage rolls.\"\n\nUnilever, which also signed the letter, said it would stop marketing ice cream to children earlier this year\n\nThe government estimates children aged under 16 were exposed to 15 billion junk food adverts online in 2019, versus 700 million two years earlier.\n\nBut in the letter, firms said advertisers could use sophisticated online tools to aim their advertisements at adult audiences, not children.\n\nIt also voiced concern about plans to police how producers described their products on their own websites and social media channels, saying this would disproportionately impact smaller businesses - which make up 96% of the industry.\n\n\"Is it really the government's intention that a local wedding cake business, for example, would not be able to share product details on its Instagram account in order to grow its sales?\" the letter said.\n\nThe food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, worth more than £28bn to the economy and employing almost 500,000 people.\n\nUnveiling plans for the ban earlier this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I am determined to help parents, children and families in the UK make healthier choices about what they eat.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We have committed to restricting HFSS adverts [for products high in fat, sugar and salt] on television before 9pm, but we also need to go further to address how children can be influenced online by adverts promoting unhealthy foods.\n\n\"We have launched a consultation to gather views from the public and industry stakeholders to understand the impact and challenges of introducing a total ban on the advertising of these products online.\"", "Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has warned Boris Johnson against cutting the UK's overseas aid budget.\n\nThe government wants to reduce the annual spend from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%.\n\nBut Mr Welby said \"helping the world's poorest is one of the great moral and ethical achievements of our country\".\n\nThe archbishop, who will take a three-month sabbatical in May next year, said any recovery from the pandemic required \"a global response\".\n\n\"In his teaching, Jesus Christ tells us we mustn't limit our concept of neighbour simply to those close by to us. We need to heed that message in the tough times, as well as the good.\n\n\"Keeping our aid commitment is a strong signal that the UK is a reliable partner for long-term economic, social, environmental and educational advancement across the globe,\" the archbishop said.\n\nUK aid is distributed with the aim of protecting public health and alleviating global poverty\n\nReports earlier this week that the government was considering cutting £4bn from the overseas aid budget have met strong resistance.\n\nIn recent days, 185 charities, two former prime ministers, opposition parties and senior Tories have all urged the government to think again.\n\nMicrosoft founder Bill Gates is the latest public figure to call on the British government to protect the foreign aid budget at next week's spending review.\n\n\"It's never made less sense to cut foreign aid than right now,\" said the billionaire philanthropist.\n\n\"Covid-19 has reminded us viruses don't respect border laws; they don't check your passport before entering your lungs. The only way the UK - or any country - will be free of this virus is if every country is.\n\n\"This is a moment when what's good for the world - and what's good for the UK - are exactly the same thing.\"\n\nSpending on foreign aid is linked to the UK's national income - its GDP - which has been badly impacted by the pandemic.\n\nThe government has already announced a £2.9bn cut from the budget for the rest of 2020 in order to avoid over-shooting the 0.7% target.\n\nThe 0.7% target, initially proposed by the United Nations in the 1970s, was first adopted in the UK by Tony Blair's Labour government in 2005. However, it was not actually reached until 2013 - under the coalition government, led by David Cameron.\n\nBoth Mr Blair and Mr Cameron have criticised any suggestion of a spending reduction, with Mr Cameron calling it a \"moral, strategic and political mistake\".\n\nBut, with UK's national debt now over £2 trillion, some Conservatives have argued money should be re-directed to domestic priorities.\n\nMr Welby said Britain's \"generosity\" gave the UK \"massive influence for good globally\".\n\nIt comes as Lambeth Palace, the London home of the archbishop, announced Mr Welby would take three months of planned leave next year, studying in either Cambridge or the United States.\n\nHe will use his time off for \"reflection, prayer, and spiritual renewal\", but will remain in regular contact with his staff while away, the palace added.\n\nMr Welby's sabbatical was due to begin following the Lambeth Conference this year, but it was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe is expected to resume his official duties in September 2021.", "Witnesses spoke about seeing a large number of officers and emergency vehicles in the city centre\n\nSix people have been taken to hospital following a large scale \"violent disturbance\" in Cardiff city centre.\n\nPolice and ambulance crews were called to Queen Street at about 21:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nOne person suffered head injuries and is in a serious condition and three others are thought to have been stabbed, South Wales Police said.\n\nFour people, aged 16 and 17, have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder.\n\nOn Sunday, police said three people remained at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, with another at Llandough Hospital, Penarth.\n\nNone of the injuries are believed to life-threatening.\n\nPolice said a Taser was also used to detain one man who was obstructing officers, although he was not believed to have been involved in the disorder.\n\nOfficers were alerted by \"multiple reports\" of a \"large disturbance\" on Queen Street and an investigation is under way.\n\nDet Supt Esyr Jones said: \"I'd urge any parent who suspects their child was involved in any way to come forward.\n\n\"Tackling knife crime is the responsibility of us all and any parents who have suspicions about their children being involved are not protecting them by remaining quiet.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elizabeth Winter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficers have also been given additional powers allowing them to force people to leave Cardiff city centre.\n\nDet Supt Jones said the dispersal order - which is in effect until Tuesday morning - \"will enable officers to stop anyone they suspect is behaving in an anti-social manner, or who is visiting the area to cause any trouble, and direct them to leave.\"\n\n\"Patrols have been stepped up in the area and a dedicated team continues to investigate Saturday's incident,\" he added.\n\nPolice cordons were put up around a number of streets\n\nAn eyewitness said she saw one man being Tasered by police\n\nEyewitness Elizabeth Winter said: \"Some groups of young lads seemed to be getting into altercations with the police. Then there was another man that was Tasered twice.\"\n\nCardiff student Amogh George, 24, said he saw up to 30 police officers around Queen Street and the Capitol Shopping Centre after being alerted by \"a lot of sirens\".\n\n\"People spoke about a brawl but I didn't see what was happening,\" said the journalism student.\n\nCordons remained in place on Queen Street on Sunday morning.\n\nPart of Queen Street remained cordoned off on Sunday morning\n\nDet Supt Jones said: \"This was a violent and completely unacceptable incident which has understandably caused alarm within the local community.\n\n\"A team of 20 detectives are currently investigating the incident, trawling through vast amounts of CCTV and speaking to a number of witnesses, and I want to reassure the public that we will be relentless in identifying and arresting all those involved.\"\n\nA cordon was also put up outside The Central Bar on Windsor Place", "\"For me it's quite confusing as I want to prepare and I haven't been given the information in order to feel confident with the next steps I need to take.\"\n\nFifteen-year-old Lucia Kingman is one of more than 2,500 young people in Wales who are home-schooled.\n\nUnlike GCSE students in schools, who will not be sitting exams next year, Lucia is still waiting to find out.\n\nThe Welsh Government said an advisory group was considering arrangements for private candidates.\n\nLucia, who lives in Vale of Glamorgan, said studying throughout the pandemic was not dissimilar to her usual routine, but it did have an effect, such as when the library had to close.\n\n\"Because a lot of the work I do is teacher assessments, exams are quite alienating to me to a certain degree,\" she said.\n\n\"I need to do some exam practice so I can get familiar with them but the not knowing if I am to sit them or not is very daunting, and adding to an already stressful time.\"\n\nLucia is used to being assessed by her tutors, the unfamiliar territory is exams.\n\nHer father, Simon, said: \"If it's about fairness and clarity then she should be getting teacher assessments like all her peers in Wales.\n\n\"She is comfortable with being assessed, she sat her history GCSE early last year and was given a teacher assessment grade, so why can this not be the case for her GCSEs this year?\"\n\nSchool pupils know what to expect for next year in Wales\n\nLucy Mebarki, a private English and arts tutor, feels tutors have a much better one-to-one relationship with students than in a classroom environment, but thinks exams would be fairer for home-based students.\n\n\"With home-schooled students not being subject to the same classroom-based observations as those in schools I think exams would be the right way for them to get their grades,\" she said.\n\nWhat makes the situation difficult for Lucia is that she is a Welsh student who is being assessed by Oxford Home Schooling, an awarding body based in England.\n\nSimon said: \"She's an anomaly, but I am sure she isn't the only home-schooled young person in this situation. Welsh Government really need to think about all students in Wales, not just those in schools.\"\n\nOxford Home Schooling said it received guidance from exam boards rather than government and its courses will have examination centres in Wales.\n\nIt said if boards decided exams could not be sat, then it would come to a calculated grade.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our priority is to support all learners in developing the skills and knowledge they need to confidently progress to the next stage of their education, training or career.\n\n\"An independent advisory group has been established to develop proposals for next year's assessments. Arrangements for private candidates will be one of the key aspects considered by the group.\"\n\nOfqual, which regulates exams and qualifications in England, said the UK government had \"made it clear that exams will take place in 2021 and this certainty should be particularly welcomed by students who are home educated\".\n\n\"We are providing advice to the Department for Education on contingency options for 2021 for a range of different scenarios, and continuing to have discussions with school and college representatives, including representatives of private candidates,\" it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some pupils are happy with the news but others less so\n\nQualifications Wales said the Welsh education minister's announcement covered the WJEC GCSE, AS and A-level qualifications in Wales, \"not qualifications from any other exam board\".\n\n\"We are conscious that whatever approach to assessment of WJEC GCSEs, AS and A-levels is decided on for summer 2021, it needs to allow fair access to assessment.\n\n\"That's so that all learners, including those who are not studying at a school or college, or other exam centre, can still be assessed and awarded these qualifications, in the same way that other learners will.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Opposition parties are demanding a complete ban on discharging patients to care homes without two negative tests.\n\nThe two test policy was introduced in April, but the health secretary has confirmed such discharges are still allowed.\n\nJeane Freeman said it was \"right and proper\" that clinicians had the final say in exceptional cases.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems have called for the practice to be stopped.\n\nLarge numbers of elderly patients were moved out of hospital in the early weeks of the pandemic amid fears the NHS could soon become overwhelmed.\n\nThe policy of hospital Covid patients having two negative tests prior to discharge to a care home was introduced on 21 April.\n\nThe Scottish government said if they had been in hospital for any other reason, they should have one negative test before discharge.\n\nPeople who are admitted to care homes from the community should also have one negative test - but all new care home residents should complete 14 days of isolation, whatever the result of the test.\n\nA person would be moved without having a test in only \"exceptional\" circumstances, the government said in a statement.\n\n\"This might happen if the person has severe difficulty doing the test - for example if someone with dementia finds it highly distressing, or cannot give consent,\" it added.\n\nIn a response to a parliamentary question from Labour's Monica Lennon, reported in the Sunday Mail, Ms Freeman confirmed patients could still be discharged to care homes without a second negative test if it was in their \"clinical interests\".\n\n\"This clinically led decision is for exceptional circumstances and after a full risk assessment, consulting the resident, family and care home on what is right for the individual and putting appropriate mitigating actions and support in place,\" she said.\n\nPressed on the issue on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Ms Freeman said: \"It is entirely right and proper, I think, that clinicians who are experienced in elderly care and medical care and social work staff experienced in social work support for older people are the ones who will make the final decision.\"\n\nOpposition MSPs are calling for the practice to be stopped immediately.\n\nMonica Lennon, Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, said: \"People known to have Covid-19 should not be placed in care homes and Jeane Freeman must put a stop to this dangerous practice immediately before more lives are lost.\n\n\"Thousands of older and disabled people living in care homes have been forbidden from even talking to their loved one through the window, yet the Scottish government is allowing residents to bring the virus through the back door.\n\n\"Too many lives have already been sacrificed. This must end today.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for a more detailed inquiry into hospital discharges to care homes.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman, Donald Cameron said: \"The SNP have clearly not learned the harsh lessons of the first wave of the pandemic, when we saw Covid-19 ripping through care homes if given even the slightest chance.\n\n\"This isn't about challenging clinical decisions, it's about the reckless message being sent from the health secretary that it could be 'entirely right and proper' to discharge patients without a test.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: \"What is happening is the opposite of what we were told by the government.\n\n\"There is now categoric proof that the double test protection policy is not being followed.\n\n\"The buck has to stop with ministers who have been all over the place on this.\n\n\"Care home residents and their families deserve to be treated better.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University, said that testing on discharge from hospital was a really important component of protecting care homes and something \"we didn't get right\" in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"I know it is down to clinical judgement but ideally all these patients should be tested and they should be tested twice.\"\n\nAsked if there would be cases where that was not appropriate, she said: \"There would really need to be exceptional circumstances for that to be justified.\"", "On Saturday night, Californians will be under stay-at-home orders after 22:00\n\nCalifornia has begun a night-time curfew, in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe western state's latest figures are now worse than the previous peak in August, the Los Angeles Times reports.\n\nAcross the US, the daily death toll linked to Covid-19 has passed 2,000 for the first time since May.\n\nThe country has now more than 12 million confirmed infections, with more than 255,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThis is by far the highest death toll in the world.\n\nAbout 187,000 new infections were recorded nationwide in the latest figures - released on Friday for the previous day - which is an all-time high.\n\nSeveral states have imposed new mask mandates and restrictions to try to combat the rise, and in Texas the National Guard is being deployed to the city of El Paso to help with morgue operations there.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also urged Americans to avoid travelling for the Thanksgiving holiday on 26 November to prevent increased transmissions.\n\nThanksgiving typically heralds the busiest week for travel in the US. Last year, an estimated 26 million people passed through the country's airports in the week surrounding the holiday.\n\nOn Friday, it was revealed that President Donald Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, had tested positive for coronavirus. \"Apparently I got the 'rona,\" he said in a video on social media, adding that he was asymptomatic so far and quarantining.\n\nCalifornia reported a total of one million cases last week, making it the second state to do so after Texas.\n\nThe new daily curfew, from 22:00 local time on Saturday (06:00 GMT Sunday) until 05:00, will carry on until 21 December, with a possible extension if needed, according to authorities.\n\nRestaurants will be able to offer takeout and delivery outside these hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How effective is getting a Covid test before you travel for Thanksgiving?\n\nThe stay-at-home order affects 41 out of California's 58 counties, covering more than 94% of the state's population. Some 40m people live in California, the most populous state in the US.\n\nSome counties have also warned that a more severe lockdown could follow. The latest measures are not as strict as restrictions imposed between March and May, when all nonessential business and travel was prohibited.\n\nOther places, including New York City, are also operating a night-time curfew. Bars, restaurants and gyms are allowed to open until 22:00, but schools have been closed.\n\nThe Californian curfew was announced by Governor Gavin Newsom.\n\n\"The virus is spreading at a pace we haven't seen since the start of this pandemic, and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\nHospital admissions are up 61% statewide in the last two weeks, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.\n\n\"The data looks really bad right now,\" said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Friday.\n\nThe CDC has recommended that Americans \"consider\" avoiding Thanksgiving travel and gatherings.\n\n\"It's not a requirement. It's a recommendation,\" said Dr Henry Walke, the CDC's Covid-19 incident manager, on Thursday.\n\nThe following day, President Donald Trump re-tweeted the words of Republican Congressman Jim Jordan: \"Don't lockdown the country. Don't impose curfews. Don't close schools. Let Americans decide for themselves. And celebrate Thanksgiving.\"\n\nThe president and President-elect Joe Biden have both said they are against imposing a national lockdown, and favour letting states come up with their own rules.\n\nCalifornian authorities permit up to three households meeting outdoors\n\nOn Thursday, the White House coronavirus task force had its first public briefing in months. Members, including Vice-President Mike Pence, noted the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe task force said indoor gatherings should be limited over the next couple of weeks.\n\nHowever on Saturday, US media noted that Mr Pence's wife, Karen, had sent out an invitation for a \"Christmas craft\" get-together at their home on 9 December for Congressional Club members.\n\nThe White House has also so far declined to engage with Joe Biden and his incoming administration on policy, as Mr Trump refuses to concede the presidential contest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of anti-government protesters in Guatemala have vandalised and set fire to parts of the Congress building, before being dispersed by riot police.\n\nThe building in Guatemala City was empty at the time of Saturday's attack, which lasted for about 10 minutes.\n\nThe fire services put the fire out, but several people were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation.\n\nThe protesters are opposed to a budget approved by Congress of the Central American country on Wednesday night.\n\nAn office inside the building went up in flames - but the overall extent of the damage is not known\n\nA number of protesters were detained by police\n\nThe opposition says the budget prioritises big infrastructure projects to be handled by companies with government connections and overlooks the social and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThey are also angered by what they describe as major cuts to education and health spending.\n\nAnother key complaints is that the budget was passed by parliament while the rest of the country was distracted by the after-effects of two damaging storms, Eta and Iota.\n\nThe protesters are now pressing for President Alejandro Giammattei to resign.\n\nThe bulk of Saturday's demonstrations, which some observers said were the biggest yet against the budget, were peaceful.\n\nVice-President Guillermo Castillo earlier expressed his opposition to the budget, and said that both he and Mr Giammattei should step down \"for the good of the country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have nothing... I am in pain\" – Central America is counting the cost of Storm Eta", "Caroline Kayll died in hospital after being attacked at a home in Linton\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a teacher and the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy.\n\nCaroline Kayll, 47, died in hospital after she and the boy were attacked at a home in Linton in Northumberland on 15 November.\n\nThe boy suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, police said.\n\nPaul Robson, 49, of Stanley Street in Wallsend, was arrested in Glasgow on Friday. He is due at Bedlington Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMs Kayll worked at Atkinson House school in Seghill, Northumberland, which caters for children with social, emotional and mental health issues.\n\nDet Insp Graeme Barr said: \"A murder investigation is always tragic for those involved and our thoughts go out to the families at this very difficult time.\n\n\"I'd like to thank those who have come forward with information to assist us with this case, and would appeal for anyone with further information - who has yet to do so - to get in touch.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rebecca Morelle explains how the monoclonal antibodies work\n\nUS officials have granted emergency authorisation for an experimental antibody treatment given to President Trump after his Covid-19 diagnosis.\n\nThe drug, developed by Regeneron, will be allowed for use in people who have tested positive for the virus and are at risk of severe illness.\n\nStudies suggest the therapy is effective when administered early after diagnosis, the company says.\n\nIt comes as Covid-19 cases in the country continue to rise.\n\nEmergency authorisation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows use of a treatment while studies are carried out to determine safety and effectiveness.\n\nA similar drug made by Eli Lilly, another US pharmaceutical firm, was given emergency approval earlier this month.\n\nThe Regeneron treatment is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies - potent, laboratory-made antibodies - which mimic our own immune response. They physically stick to the coronavirus so they cannot get inside the body's cells.\n\nRegeneron said it expected to have enough doses for about 80,000 patients by the end of this month and 300,000 in total by the end of January. The treatment will be provided for free but patients may have to pay for having it administered.\n\nThe FDA said the treatment was not authorised for Covid patients who are in hospital or require oxygen.\n\nThe emergency authorisation comes as the US sees a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases\n\nThe drug was one of a number President Trump received after testing positive for Covid-19 in October. The president later credited the experimental therapy for aiding his recovery - though it remains impossible to know whether it did.\n\nPresident Trump was one of only a handful of people outside clinical trials to be given the drug, under what is known as \"compassionate use\".\n\nMeanwhile, US Housing Secretary Ben Carson said he believed he was \"out of the woods\" after being \"extremely sick\" following his positive Covid diagnosis earlier this month.\n\nOn Facebook, Mr Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, said Mr Trump \"cleared me for the monoclonal antibody therapy that he had previously received, which I am convinced saved my life\". As with Mr Trump, the role the drug played in his recovery is unclear.\n\nThe US has now more than 12 million confirmed Covid-19 infections, with more than 255,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. This is by far the highest death toll in the world.\n\nThe recent rise in cases has prompted many states to impose sweeping new restrictions in attempts to curb the virus, including new mask mandates. In California, a night-time curfew started on Saturday and will be in place until 21 December, with a possible extension if needed, authorities said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged Americans to avoid travelling for the Thanksgiving holiday on 26 November to prevent increased transmissions.\n\nThanksgiving typically heralds the busiest week for travel in the US, and an estimated 26 million people passed through the country's airports in the week surrounding the holiday last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How effective is getting a Covid test before you travel for Thanksgiving?\n\nA number of coronavirus vaccines are being developed around the world, with some positive breakthroughs in recent weeks:\n\nOther trial results are also expected in the coming weeks. Data on the Russian Sputnik V vaccine suggests it is 92% efficient.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Father Christmas has some tips on how to have a safe Christmas\n\nThe four UK governments have announced their plans to enable families to celebrate Christmas together.\n\nSo how is the festive period likely to be different this year?\n\nThe governments of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have agreed a common approach allowing up to three households to form a Christmas bubble and meet up from 23 to 27 December (22 to 28 December in Northern Ireland).\n\nPeople can mix in homes, places of worship and outdoor spaces, and travel restrictions will also be eased.\n\nHowever, a Christmas bubble must be exclusive, so people cannot swap between them. Bubble members also will not be able to visit pubs or restaurants together.\n\nThere will be no limit to the number of people in a household joining a bubble in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Scottish government has said that Christmas bubbles should contain no more than eight people. Children under 12 will not count in the total.\n\nFears that a lack of skilled overseas workers on poultry farms could hit the supply of turkeys have been overcome after travel rules were relaxed so they could travel to the UK.\n\nBut many people are buying smaller turkeys than usual because they are likely to have fewer guests.\n\nAn Aberdeenshire farmer has warned many birds could go to waste, while a farm in Wales cut its turkey numbers by 20% in September.\n\nAny turkey shortage may make some people consider a vegetarian or vegan meal instead.\n\nThis year's work celebrations seem certain to take place on Zoom and other online platforms.\n\nRules on big groups meeting up in pubs or anywhere outdoors are very unlikely to be eased in December, so seeing friends for a pre-Christmas drink or meal will probably not be allowed.\n\nCurrent rules for socialising outside your household/support bubble/extended household are:\n\nAt the moment, it is not known what will happen about traditional Christmas religious services like midnight Mass.\n\nFrom 2 December in England, places of worship will reopen for communal prayer.\n\nUp to 50 people can attend indoor services in Scotland in levels zero to three areas, but only up to 20 in level four places.\n\nPlaces of worship have reopened in Wales, but with social distancing in place and communal singing banned.\n\nThey are also open in Northern Ireland with no limit on numbers if safety measures are in place. Weddings, civil ceremonies and funerals can happen, but only 25 people. can attend\n\nWhile in-person shopping in non-food shops can currently happen in all of the UK except England, online retailers are expecting a big surge in demand this year.\n\nIn September, shoppers were warned by an industry boss to buy as early as possible.\n\nAndy Mulcahy, from the online businesses' industry body, told the BBC: \"At this point, I think we can expect an increase of at least 30% for the peak festive trading season, but if stores have to close this might push to 50%.\"\n\nLast posting dates inside the UK range from 18 to 23 December, while we have already passed some international dates.\n\nTheatres in England can reopen on 2 December, and plans have been made for some Christmas pantomimes.\n\nWhile many venues and production companies have cancelled their shows, others are going ahead thanks to National Lottery backing.\n\nOne is at the London Palladium, where the Lottery will buy seats that cannot be used because of social distancing. It will also donate 20,000 free tickets to Lottery players.\n\nMeanwhile a drive-in show - the Car Park Panto - will tour Great Britain with audience members watching from inside their cars.\n\nTheatres in Scotland are closed in level two, three and four areas, throughout Wales, and to audiences in Northern Ireland, where they can open for rehearsals or a live recording.\n\nThe Christmas relaxation of meeting up rules does not extend to New Year's Eve, so that is likely to be a quiet affair this year, with house parties banned in most places.", "Rishi Sunak has said people \"will not see austerity\" when he makes spending announcements for public services this week, despite the billions spent on the pandemic response.\n\nThe government has indicated it will keep to past promises when allocating funds for policing, nurses and schools.\n\nOn Wednesday the chancellor will detail the Spending Review.\n\nIt will outline how taxpayers' money will be spent on departments such as health and education.\n\nBut while ruling out a return to austerity, Mr Sunak has also warned people will soon see an \"economic shock laid bare\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that record government borrowing to deal with the coronavirus must be \"grappled with\".\n\nThe Spending Review will give a clearer picture of the economic damage wrought by the pandemic so far.\n\nHowever tax rises and spending cuts were unlikely in the short term, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We are still in the position of being able to borrow incredibly cheaply and really wanting to protect the economy,\" he said.\n\nAlthough tax rises might end up being \"quite significant\" they might not come until after the next election, Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"It's not something that is super-urgent as we come out of this crisis,\" he said.\n\nThere is speculation that the chancellor wants to freeze public sector pay\n\nLast week, reports that Mr Sunak would freeze wages for public sector staff were met with fierce criticism from unions and workers, though NHS frontline staff are likely to be excluded from such a move.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the chancellor said: \"You will not see austerity next week, what you will see is an increase in government spending, on day-to-day public services, quite a significant one coming on the increase we had last year.\"\n\nBut, while he said that he \"cannot comment on future pay policy\", Mr Sunak added: \"When we think about public pay settlements, I think it would be entirely reasonable to think of those in the context of the wider economic climate.\"\n\nIt is thought the chancellor is keen to freeze public sector pay since average private sector earnings have fallen this year.\n\nThe IFS's Mr Johnson said that while a pay freeze would save about £2bn a year, the chancellor would need to balance that with the need to keep money in the economy and the recruitment and retention of teachers and nurses.\n\n\"Over this year public sector pay has done much better than private sector pay... but this has come off the back of 10 years when public sector pay has done really quite badly,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, the shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, will give a speech which argues that: \"Freezing the pay of firefighters, hospital porters and teaching assistants will make them worried about making ends meet ahead of Christmas - that means they'll cut back on spending and our economy won't recover as quickly.\"\n\nLabour is calling on the government to bring forward £30bn in capital spending over the next 18 months to create new jobs.\n\nPrior spending commitments made by the government include the hiring of 50,000 more nurses, and 20,000 extra police officers by 2023.\n\nHowever, the BBC's Reality Check team points out that while 30,000 new nurses will be trained locally or recruited from overseas, 20,000 of the 50,000 roles announced will be existing nurses persuaded to stay in the profession.\n\nThe Reality Check team also points out that adding 20,000 police officers will return total staffing levels to the 143,000 police officers employed prior to the 2010 election when the Conservatives came to power.\n\nThe government has also promised to increase spending on schools by £2.2bn in the 2021-2022 financial year, and direct £1.5bn towards building works at Further Education colleges.\n\nThe Treasury announced on Sunday that another £1.25bn would be allocated to the prisons service.\n\nThe government says a total of £4bn will be allocated to build more than 18,000 additional prison places across England and Wales over the next four years. Some 10,000 of these places have been planned since 2015.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This has been a tough year for us all. But we won't let it get in the way of delivering on our promises - the British people deserve outstanding public services, and we remain committed to delivering their priorities as we put our public services at the heart of our economic renewal.\"", "A tougher three-tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in England when the lockdown ends on 2 December, Downing Street has said.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to set out his plan - including details of how families can see different households at Christmas - to MPs on Monday.\n\nMore areas are set to be placed into the higher tiers to keep the virus under control, No 10 said.\n\nAnd some tiers will be strengthened to safeguard lockdown progress.\n\nSome local measures will be the same as those in the previous three-tier system, which was in place in England until the current lockdown began.\n\nBut the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is expected to publish research on Monday saying the previous restrictions were not strong enough.\n\nThe government will identify the tiers that each area will be placed into on Thursday.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants was one of the things it was looking to \"refine\".\n\nIt is understood rules will be relaxed to give people an extra hour to finish their food and drinks after last orders at 10pm.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said this would help businesses - but would be \"meaningless\" unless people were allowed to socialise with friends and family, particularly over the crucial Christmas period.\n\nPre-lockdown, there were three tiers of restrictions - medium, high, and very high:\n\nNewspaper reports suggest rules could be temporarily relaxed UK-wide over Christmas. Several families could be allowed to join in one \"bubble\" and mix between 22 and 28 December, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nMinisters have made clear the festive season will be different to normal - with some restrictions expected to remain in place.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said conversations about Christmas between the different nations of the UK were ongoing.\n\nSources believe a deal is probable later next week - but it is unlikely to be signed off before the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nThe four nations have different Covid rules but ministers are hoping to agree a joint approach for the festive period.\n\nGovernment ministers and advisers have been hinting about new tougher tiers over the past week.\n\nBefore lockdown there was some evidence that tiers two and three were having an impact, but not tier one.\n\nCrucially, both the top two tiers involved banning mixing inside homes, so one option being discussed behind the scenes is introducing a ban across all the tiers until winter is over.\n\nThe exception will, of course, be Christmas.\n\nThat is a move that divides opinion. But the government sees it as a necessity, believing significant numbers of people will ignore any attempt to ban gatherings over the festive period.\n\nIt is also a recognition the public needs a break from the long hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nInfection rates will of course rise, but that will be offset to some extent by a wider boost to wellbeing.\n\nProf Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool, said he hoped it would be possible to relax rules over Christmas if the new tiered system worked but warned \"there will be a price\", including tighter restrictions in the future.\n\nHowever, Prof Semple, who is a member of Sage, told Sky News's Sophy Ridge there was \"a lot to be optimistic about\".\n\nHe said he expected mass vaccination of the general population to happen towards next summer, which would give \"broad immunity\" and allow a \"return back to normal\".\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the new tier system in the days before it comes into force.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are opposed to stricter measures, with 70 signing a letter coordinated by the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG), saying they cannot support a tiered approach unless they see evidence measures \"will save more lives than they cost\".\n\nEarlier this month, 32 Conservatives rebelled by voting against the current lockdown and 17 more, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, abstained.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, the CRG, led by former chief whip Mark Harper and ex-Brexit minister Steve Baker, warned against inflicting \"huge health and economic costs\".\n\nThe letter said: \"We cannot live under such a series of damaging lockdowns and apparently arbitrary restrictions, and expect our constituents to be grateful for being let out to enjoy the festive season, only to have strict restrictions imposed on them afterwards that cause them health problems and destroy their livelihood.\"\n\nAsked whether he would publish a cost-benefit analysis of any future measures, as called for by the CRG, the chancellor told Sky News it was \"very hard to be precise\" on the economic impacts of individual restrictions.\n\nLabour has so far supported the need for restrictions to slow the spread of Covid-19, making a Commons defeat on the plan unlikely.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC her party wanted clarity from the government over how tiers would be decided and the support available for businesses.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded another 19,875 new coronavirus cases and 341 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths was down from 511 on Friday, and 462 on Saturday 14 November.", "A woman confronts a soldier at Whiterock in Belfast during the Troubles\n\n\"I really got my eyes opened - I was really, really scared.\"\n\nWhen the violence of the Troubles erupted in Northern Ireland, it was press photographers like Paul Faith who were there to capture it.\n\nHe and many others were effectively thrust into the role of war photographers - except the bloodshed was not half a world away, but on the streets of their own towns.\n\nThese people witnessed some of the worst atrocities of the conflict.\n\nNow, seven of them have shared their experiences in a film to be broadcast on Monday night.\n\nShooting the Darkness - which features personal testimony, archive footage and still images - reflects on how many went from working on sport or farming news to portraying images of almost unimaginable pain and suffering.\n\nInitially, Paul Faith was an onlooker to the horror of the Troubles, a 30-year period of conflict which saw 3,500 people killed and many more injured.\n\n\"The daily work would be town hall receptions, dinners, unfurling of Orange banners, parades in the town, cheque presentations - and I was just bursting to get out to do news,\" he told the documentary.\n\n\"I would go home at night, turn on the news and there were bombs going off in Belfast, people being killed. It was just mayhem elsewhere. I just needed to get out, I felt as if it was just my calling.\"\n\nSoldiers running from a bomb in the Smithfield area of Belfast\n\nOn one of his first assignments, he recalls shaking \"from one end of the road for three miles to the other end\" as he covered a republican parade protesting against internment, a government policy to imprison people without trial.\n\n\"You could see the vengeance and the hatred. The soldiers were scared, the republicans were vicious to them and it was just a completely different world,\" he said.\n\nHe talks about republicans being very \"media savvy\" at that time.\n\nPhotographer Paul Faith was thrust into a different role when violence erupted in Northern Ireland\n\nAn abiding memory was the 1998 funeral of IRA man Brendan Burns, when he captured the moment Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness stood beside the coffin, alongside masked men.\n\n\"It was bandit country. The Army and police were there in force with riot shields. We weren't sure what was going to happen, but we knew if something did happen it was going to be bad,\" he said.\n\nPaul Faith captured this scene at the funeral of IRA man Brendan Burns\n\n\"As the service was ending, the coffin was going to come out, the Chinooks [helicopters] were landing, six IRA guys appeared in full camouflage gear, fully masked, berets the whole lot.\n\n\"At the coffin, McGuinness was at the front on the right-hand side, no words were spoken.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Provos had played their ace; they got what they wanted in this picture of Martin McGuinness beside the IRA guys, carrying the coffin.\"\n\nMarch 1988 saw escalating violence culminating in some of the most infamous imagery to emerge from the Troubles.\n\nA fortnight of brutal violence began with the shooting dead of three IRA members in Gibraltar by the Army.\n\nLater that month, their funeral at Milltown Cemetery was attacked by loyalist Michael Stone. Three people were killed, dozens were wounded.\n\nMartin Nangle said it is better to treat what he does as a job, and not get too involved\n\nThree days later, as one of Stone's victims was being buried, the mourners were said to be fearful of another attack.\n\nOn the scene was photographer Martin Nangle - who captured some of the most memorable images of that day, images that would be beamed around the world.\n\nHe was there working when two plain-clothed British soldiers drove into the path of the funeral.\n\nCorporals Derek Wood and David Howes were dragged out of a car and beaten. They were later stripped and shot dead by the IRA, their bodies dumped on waste ground.\n\nMartin Nangle took a series of photographs of the scene in Andersonstown more than 30 years ago before the soldiers were killed\n\nMartin was on hand to capture what happened - but feared the footage would be confiscated as cameramen had been threatened and told to stop filming.\n\n\"It became pretty evident that if I wanted to get this story out what was in the camera had to be taken out and new film put into the camera, wound on, reeled up - so that if I was asked for the film I would open the camera and rip it out and it would look like it was being destroyed,\" he said.\n\n\"It worked insofar as the story got out and the images got out.\"\n\nMartin said he always looked out for a picture that would help describe the narrative of the Troubles.\n\n\"When I saw Belfast for the first time, I was quite shocked at the degree of decaying grandeur, so to speak, that was happening all over the city. This proud Victorian city [was] basically rotting around us,\" he said.\n\nBut he knew he had to document the effect violence had on the people and the social fabric of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It's probably better to view the world when you are in a situation like that from behind a camera,\" he said.\n\n\"Your mental process is going through composition, when to make that decision to press the shutter.\n\n\"Staying behind the camera is a safety valve to separate yourself from sinking into the event and becoming part of it, which is what you don't want to do.\n\n\"It's better just to treat it as a job, as an observer and not to get too close.\"\n\n\"Your only saving grace was you had a camera. You had something physically in front of you. In a way, it was probably like watching a TV screen.\"\n\nBut he added: \"You couldn't do this job without being touched.\"\n\nShooting The Darkness, by Broadstone Film, will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday 23 November at 22:45 GMT.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Damage to the back of the house could be seen after the explosion\n\nA woman has been seriously hurt in a suspected gas explosion in North Lanarkshire.\n\nEmergency services were called to a house in Cedars grove, in Bargeddie, near Coatbridge at about 06:25 on Sunday after reports of a blast.\n\nFire crews, police and ambulance were all in attendance.\n\nPolice confirmed a 43-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were taken to University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"The man received treatment and has been discharged.\n\n\"The woman has been transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.\n\n\"Neighbouring properties have been evacuated as a precaution. Officers remain at the scene.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said two fire engines were sent and a fire within the house was extinguished.\n\nFire service personnel left the scene just before 08:00.\n\nTwo fire appliances were at the scene as well as police and an ambulance", "Two fishermen are missing off the Sussex coast. One other has been rescued after their boat sank.\n\nA man has been rescued and two others remain missing after a fishing boat sank off the Sussex coast.\n\nA search began in the sea off Seaford, near Newhaven, when the coastguard received an alert from the ship's emergency beacon at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nA man was found clinging to a buoy and was taken to hospital.\n\nTwo crew members from the boat, the Joanna C, remain missing. The search for them was suspended at 23:00 and will resume at first light on Sunday.\n\nThe emergency signal put the 45ft scalloping vessel, registered in Brixham, about three nautical miles off the coast.\n\nTwo helicopters and two lifeboats were deployed and a coastguard rescue team has been sent to check for sightings from the shore.\n\nOther fishing boats in the area have also been helping with the search.\n\nPiers Stanbury, HM Coastguard controller, said: \"Thankfully one of the three people on board at the time of sinking has been pulled out of the water and brought to shore by the Newhaven RNLI lifeboat but the intensive air and sea search for the two missing crew continues.\n\n\"Debris has been located close to location of the EPIRB alert location but no life raft has been found as yet.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The artwork showed a girl hula-hooping with a tyre next to a bike missing its back wheel\n\nA bicycle which formed part of Banksy's hula-hooping girl artwork has gone missing.\n\nThe graffiti artist's latest piece appeared on a residential street in Nottingham on 13 October.\n\nIt showed a girl hula-hooping with a tyre next to a bike missing its back wheel.\n\nBut the bicycle vanished from its post outside a beauty parlour in Rothesay Avenue over the weekend, which one visitor described as \"such a shame\".\n\nResident Tracy Jayne found the artwork had been targeted when she went to visit it on Sunday morning.\n\n\"The artwork records an important part of Nottingham's history, Raleigh bikes,\" she said.\n\n\"My late husband worked for Raleigh until it closed in 2002. He died at age 48 in 2017.\n\n\"It's such a shame if someone has stolen the bike. It's sheer disrespect and saddens me very much. \"\n\nResident Tracy Jayne found the artwork had been targeted when she went to visit it on Sunday\n\nBanksy's work drew queues of sightseers when it was claimed by the artist's Instagram feed and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.\n\nThe council protected it with a transparent cover, but the artwork has been targeted with spray paint at least twice.\n\nBoth Nottinghamshire Police and Nottingham City Council said the removal of the bike had not been reported to them.\n\nBanksy began spray-painting trains and walls in his home city of Bristol in the 1990s, and before long was leaving his artistic mark all over the world.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Deepspot is a diving pool that goes 45.5m (150ft) down and provides a space for divers to train.\n\nIt includes a ship wreck and separate chambers for divers to explore.\n\nDeepspot's president said he hopes the pool will also be used for training by firefighters and the army, not just scuba divers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe departure of the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings is a chance to \"reset government\", a senior Tory MP has said.\n\nMr Cummings left Downing Street for the last time on Friday following internal battles about his role.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said Boris Johnson had taken \"decisive action\" in removing his aide.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson was not distracted by the row and was \"focused\" on tackling coronavirus.\n\nMr Cummings and director of communications Lee Cain, who resigned on Thursday, will work out their notices at home following tensions within No 10.\n\nMr Davis said Mr Cummings had a \"very confrontational-style\" which had turned people in Downing Street against him.\n\nHe said: \"Lots of my colleagues are hoping for a new relationship - with more openness and interaction with Parliament - and I am told the cabinet is hoping to get more say, as it were, in events.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, said Tory MPs had felt like they were \"losing\" the prime minister, and there had been an \"iron curtain\" around Mr Johnson which stopped MPs seeing him to raise concerns.\n\nHe told the BBC the changes in No 10 were a sign of the PM's \"determination to rebuild relationships\" and was a chance to address the \"significant and growing gap\" between Downing Street and the Conservative Party.\n\nThe departure of Mr Cummings and Mr Cain comes as the government grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, and as trade talks between the UK and the EU on their future relationship reach a \"make or break\" point.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said it was \"scandalous\" that in a week when the UK's coronavirus death toll passed 50,000, redundancies rose to a record high and the country was negotiating \"the most significant trade deal for 50 years\", that the \"people in No 10 round the prime minister are arguing and jockeying for position\".\n\nLabour said the PM could \"rearrange the deckchairs all he wants... but the responsibility for this government's incompetence still lies firmly at Boris Johnson's door\".\n\n\"The fact there is no plan and no focus in the government's response to Covid is entirely down to him,\" a party source said.\n\nMr Cummings had a notoriously difficult relationship with Conservative MPs, some of whom have said it is time for things to be done differently in Downing Street.\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Mr Cummings' influence had led to \"a ramshackle operation in the hands of one man\".\n\nLord Gavin Barwell, who was former Prime Minister Theresa May's chief of staff, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was an opportunity for Mr Johnson to rebuild relations with Conservative MPs and \"set a less confrontational and more unifying tone that is maybe more in tune with his natural instincts\".\n\nAnd former Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, said: \"Both Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were pretty dismissive of backbenchers and sometimes ministers and secretaries of state, and I don't think that was helpful.\"\n\nLee Cain worked with Dominic Cummings on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum\n\nBoth Mr Cummings, 48, and Mr Cain, 39, are veterans of the Vote Leave campaign and worked closely with Mr Johnson to deliver the Brexit vote during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nLord Edward Lister, who was Mr Johnson's chief of staff when he was Mayor of London, will become interim chief of staff pending a wide-ranging shake-up of the prime minister's team.\n\nMr Cain will be replaced by James Slack, who is currently the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nAllies of the two men who've departed Downing Street insist it was entirely amicable, despite the enduring war of words.\n\nThey may have been eyeing an exit before too long in any case, although it's hard to see that this is how anyone wanted it to happen.\n\nBut in the end, whether Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were forced out in anger or reluctantly let go doesn't matter too much.\n\nThe fact is the tussle for control in No 10 had become such a distraction that something needed to give.\n\nAs many have said, their departure is an opportunity for the prime minister to make a fresh start.\n\nSo what now? With Downing Street in something of a state of limbo, decisions in the coming days may prove very revealing about the prime minister and his priorities.\n\nMr Cummings prompted controversy this summer after it emerged he made a 260-mile trip from London to County Durham with his family at the height of the UK's first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe adviser later said the journey was intended to secure childcare, but he was mocked for claiming a subsequent outing to the picturesque town of Barnard Castle was to help test his eyesight.\n\nBronwen Maddox, director of the Institute for Government, said she thought Mr Cummings' departure \"went beyond just this week's events\", pointing to his trip to Barnard Castle which she said had given public trust in the government \"a battering\".\n\n\"I think in a way this has been brewing since then and the kind of restlessness amongst Conservative MPs on the backbenches shows how strained some of the government's key relationships have been,\" she said.\n\nJill Rutter, senior research fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, said Mr Cummings had been \"disproportionately influential\" but it was ultimately up to the prime minister who to appoint as his advisers.\n\n\"You have to assume that what Dominic Cummings was doing was what the prime minister wanted him to do, up until he didn't which is what appears to have happened yesterday,\" she said.\n\nMr Cain is said to have left Downing Street through a discreet exit on Friday evening.\n\nBut Mr Cummings walked through the black front door of No 10 with a cardboard box and was later seen arriving home with a bottle of champagne.\n\nMr Davis said his exit from Downing Street holding a cardboard box was \"entirely deliberate\" as he wanted to leave an \"image\".", "With England in lockdown again, and many others parts of the UK enduring severe restrictions, people are looking to film, books, music, online art, podcasts and more for their cultural kicks.\n\nHere, BBC presenters and journalists share their lockdown picks. It's an eclectic list of suggestions for where to look next if you fancy some inspiration.\n\nVeteran broadcaster Mark Radcliffe presents BBC Radio 2's Folk Show and 6 Music's weekend chat and music show Radcliffe and Maconie .\n\nThe Trial Of The Chicago 7 (Netflix)\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 Netflix 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\nI like a courtroom drama, I must say. For people who don't know the Chicago 7, they were students and hippies and anti-Vietnam protesters who picketed at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention and were arrested for inciting riots.\n\nIf you remember that year, it was a really highly-charged time. Martin Luther King was assassinated in April, and then Bobby Kennedy in June - so this is an extraordinary snapshot of those times. It still has a resonance, particularly in how the one black defendant is treated. In the time of Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests, it reminds you that not everything has changed, by a long way.\n\nThis is set in the time of Thatcherism, and it's a tragic tale of this young lad Shuggie Bain, who is protecting and caring for an alcoholic mother, living in extreme poverty. It's rather Thomas Hardy-esque, in that you know everyone is doomed to disappointment or death, but it feels very real. And like the film, one suspects life hasn't changed very much for a lot of people.\n\nThe novel is nominated for the Booker Prize, although I don't generally take that as a massive recommendation. I have certainly bought Booker-winning novels and thought they were dreadful.\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 Netflix 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\nAnya Taylor-Joy plays Beth Harman, who's in an orphanage at the beginning of the film, and is intrigued by the janitor who plays chess. He gradually agrees to teach her and it turns out she's an absolute prodigy. It's based on a novel by someone called Walter Tevis but it feels like it ought to be true. It's about the connections you make as an orphan - friendships and connections and adoption. And there's a lot of chess.\n\nIn fact, we started playing chess at home, inspired by it, and my wife is miles better than me and she can see several moves ahead. We don't play anymore. It got too annoying.\n\nThe Asian Network presenter has hosted its breakfast show since 2017, having joined the station in 2015 from community radio.\n\nWatching my next door neighbour Clara [Amfo] absolutely bossing it on screen is amazing. I'm a huge fan of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing anyway, but seeing Clara shine like a Queen is great. Rooting for her no doubt. And I usually find anything music or dance related to be therapeutic for me. It's fun, an easy watch and it's a great way to wind down. Grab some munchies and sit on the sofa while having your own party. It's perfect.\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 Amazon Prime Video India 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\nI've also just finished watching season one of Made In Heaven. A couple of colleagues have been meaning to get me into it and now I'm hooked. It's more of a drama series, but it's so good and keeps you on the edge of your seat at the end of every episode. Can't wait to start the second season.\n\nAnd thirdly, I'm watching Sister Sister, a 1990s US sitcom about twins Tia and Tamera who were separated at birth and reunite 14 years later. It's brought back my youth. And you can never get enough. If you grew up watching Tia and Tamera, you already know how good it is. If you fancy a giggle, put them on.\"\n\nDJ Friction has been on the BBC airwaves since 2002, and is now presenting the Asian Network's evening show.\n\nIt's the biggest kind of escapism - forget pandemics, let's talk about 1,000-year journeys to other galaxies.\n\nHe devours YouTube series by scientists and futurists John Michael Godier and Isaac Arthur, who use science fact to examine what might actually be possible beyond Earth.\n\nThey'll swing between stuff that's happening in our solar system to real mad stuff like, what will the universe look like a trillion years from now? And then they'll break it down using real physics and real science.\n\nThe Real Housewives of America (Sky, ITV Be, Amazon Prime Video)\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 4 by Bravo 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\nI don't watch much TV or reality shows,\" says Friction. \"But I fell into this hole of watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta and The Real Housewives of Potomac. It wasn't until the summer that I went, 'Wait a minute, they're the only two reality shows from that franchise that feature black women. Every other show features white women.\n\nI'm subconsciously dealing with Black Lives Matter, race and everything that's happening this year via these reality shows. Believe me, I've fallen so deep into them. Anyone who asks a question about the seasons or the episodes, I have the answer.\n\nFriction has been rediscovering The Beatles by listening to all their albums back-to-back again.\n\n\"I just got back into it and thought, my God, how did these guys write nearly every genre of music that we're still listening to? And you're telling me they released The White Album and Yellow Submarine and Sgt Pepper within the space of 18 months? It's ridiculous.\"\n\nWill Gompertz has been arts editor for BBC News since 2009 and before that was a director at the Tate Gallery.\n\nI'm loving this podcast, presented by the award-winning theatre director Ian Rickson. It has a simple format: one guest with whom Rickson has worked selects three things he or she loves. Chiwetel Ejiofor included a Michael Kiwanuka song, Kae Tempest picked a book by William Blake. Good listening.\n\nSome books are beautiful, others are enlightening. Strata is both. Packed with exquisite illustrations, it presents the work of William Smith, a 17th Century geologist, who was the first person to comprehensively map the earth beneath our feet. It's the best non-fiction book I've read in a long time.\n\nFrench TV doesn't get that much attention for some reason - but they produce some great programmes. Spiral is the best police procedural on telly, while Call My Agent is the perfect lockdown escape: uptight actor's agents dealing with uptight actors in a Paris office where they end up either bickering or sleeping with each other. Or both. Tres bon!\n\nMusician Hannah Peel presents late-night Radio 3 show Night Tracks, which ranges from classical to contemporary music. She was Emmy-nominated last year for her soundtrack for HBO's Games of Thrones: The Last Watch.\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 5 by Curzon 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\nThis is a documentary about the writer John Hull, who went blind just before the birth of his son and started to make a diary of audio cassettes. In the film you hear all the actual recording, and it's just incredible.\n\nYou're immersed in a world of sound, instead of being totally bombarded with visual information. It sounds like it should be a podcast, but it really works as a film - delving into the mind and the body and dreams and memory. I think it's a masterpiece.\n\nI'm Bandcamp all the way, for everything. They do an amazing thing once a month called Bandcamp Friday, where every artist gets 100% of the profit on their merchandise or downloads or CD sales. It's the only place that does that in the music industry.\n\nThe last thing I bought was a compilation by a wonderful little indie label called Salmon Universe, who put out a lot of ambient, electronic music. I like compilations because you're led to artists from all across the world, from Ohio to Japan. It's amazing.\n\nThis is made by the world-renowned sound recordist Chris Watson, who's teamed up with the writer/presenter Luke Clancy to take a journey across the atlas of remote islands, from Ross Island to the Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil.\n\nIt's full of stories and sounds, and it's beautiful. I just like the way you can use podcasts to express something emotional, rather than factual. So you get a sense of ethereal escapism within that.\n\nMark has been the BBC's music reporter since 2015, and presented 6 Music's History of Video Game Music last year.\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 6 by Apple TV 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\nAfter Schitt's Creek ended, I was desperately searching for a TV show that hit the same sweet spot of belly-laughs and heart-warming humour. This is that show.\n\nStarring Jason Sudeikis, it tells the story of an American Football coach who comes to London to oversee a fictional Premiership team, despite knowing nothing about football. Unbeknownst to him, the club's owner (played with delicious relish by Hannah Waddingham) is trying to get the team relegated to spite her adulterous husband. I won't spoil the plot, but the show's relentlessly optimistic tone is just what I needed in lockdown.\n\nPikmin isn't as well-known as Nintendo's bigger franchises, like Mario and Zelda, but it's been made with just as much care and attention to detail. You play as a crew of astronauts, stranded on a hostile planet, who have to enlist a crop of plant-like creatures to help them find the missing parts of their spaceship.\n\nYou command up to 100 of the little Pikmin, each of whom have different abilities (some are fighters, some are swimmers, others are impervious to electricity) to solve a bunch of increasingly tricky puzzles against a time limit. It's simultaneously relaxing and panic-inducing; but I've been focusing on completing the less stressful challenge mode with my 10-year-old, who just likes throwing the Pikmin around and laughing at their cute noises.\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 7 by Dua Lipa 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\nRush-released at the start of the first lockdown, this is still my favourite record of the year. A sweat-glistened hymn to the dancefloor, it never fails to lift my mood.\n\nThe album is getting the live treatment later this month, with a virtual gig that's been dubbed Studio 2054 - with Dua promising (deep breath) \"a kaledioscopic, rocket-fuelled, journey through time, space, mirrorballs, roller discos, bucket hats, belting beats, throbbing basslines and an absolute slam-dunk of the best times in global club culture\". See you there. Hotpants optional.\n\nThe BBC Radio 3 broadcaster presents late-night show Unclassified, which showcases music by composers who might have a classical background but also draw from pop, rock, jazz, and experimental music.\n\nThe Japanese author's novella is evocative but breezy, conversational and unsentimental. She's dealing with the difficulties and complexity of human life but in a really relatable, warm and humorous way.\n\nIt's about the relationship between an adolescent and their mother. It's a coming-of-age tale and about the anxieties of being a teenager, but you get to see it from both sides. You can sense what the mother's feeling as well. She's a fortune teller and their grandma's ill upstairs. It's a family tale about female identity in Japan.\n\nThe annual music festival from Salford-based underground and alternative promoters, Fat Out Fest happened live online this year, and they are now putting sets on YouTube every Friday over the next month.\n\nThey really do take it to the edge. On 20 November they're broadcasting Lone Taxidermist - her shows are wild. It's performance art as well as music. Her new show Marra starts with her singing along to a cattle market. An actual cattle market. Her voice is synced with the auctioneer and Maxine Peake is in the video. It's out there.\n\nRadiophrenia is a Glasgow sound art radio station that's streaming 24/7 until 22 November. I was listening to an Italian sound artist called Tobia Bandini. He'd interviewed all these people asking for their response to the apocalypse and then he'd mix their stories - they're all in Italian - with electronic soundscapes.\n\nIf you want to tune out of the news then this is a really nice place to escape to. There's all sorts in there, and a lot of it is just really pleasing and quite hypnotic.\n\nThe 1Xtra broadcaster started hosting its Drivetime show at the end of September, having joined the station in 2016.\n\nDuring lockdown I have started an obsession with the TV series Billions already watching three seasons! I think throughout the first lockdown, many of us found new interests and hobbies - for me one of those was trying to learn more about stocks. Billions is pretty much the ideal programme for being more of a nerd around finance!\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 8 by Billions on SHOWTIME This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 8 by Billions on SHOWTIME\n\nI also found an amazing podcast called The Philosopher's Zone. With some thinking time during this lockdown, this podcast is perfect for that. It covers so many different past philosophers as well as different debate topics. It's really nice to just put it on play and binge listen.\n\nI've started reading Aspire by Kevin Hall - an incredible read! It's very self-helpy (which is very me) but it's such a great read, it focuses on the power of words and how they make a real impact in our lives. I don't think I've sold that book well, but trust me on this one, haha!\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 9 by ollinnewmedia 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\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Storm Vamco damaged buildings and fishing boats like this one in Quang Binh province\n\nA powerful storm pummelled Vietnam on Sunday, injuring at least five people as winds of 90km/h (56mph) uprooted trees and damaged buildings.\n\nStorm Vamco hit the Philippines earlier this week, with rescuers urgently searching for thousands of people trapped after catastrophic floods.\n\nThousands in Vietnam were told to evacuate on Saturday and airports and beaches closed.\n\nFlooding last month killed at least 100 people in the country.\n\nAuthorities warned of deadly landslides on Sunday triggered by heavy rains after 650,000 people in coastal areas were moved to higher ground.\n\nThe storm weakened from Typhoon strength as it travelled westwards from the Philippines but still caused serious destruction in Vietnam.\n\nIn the Philippines, search and rescue efforts are ongoing for people trapped by floodwaters\n\nIn the Philippines, International Red Cross rescue teams are searching floodwaters with torches in the Cayagan valley in the island of Luzon where towns and villages are submerged.\n\nSome of the thousands of people stranded on rooftops have been rescued.\n\nThe death toll has risen to at least 67 and dozens remain missing after Vamco hit on Wednesday, just one week after Goni, the most powerful typhoon seen in the country in seven years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday Pope Francis delivered a prayer for the Philippines from St Peter's Square in Vatican City.\n\n\"I am close in prayer to the people of the Philippines who suffer from the destruction and above all from the floods caused by a strong typhoon,\" he told gathered worshippers.\n\nIn Vietnam, a series of storms have caused severe flooding in recent weeks and more than 100 people were killed last month following heavy rainfall.\n\nVietnam has already been hit by serious flooding in recent weeks\n\nAbout 400,000 homes there have been destroyed or damaged, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.\n\nThe severe weather washed away roads and bridges and destroyed food supplies and crops, it added.\n\n\"There has been no respite for more than eight million people living in central Vietnam,\" said Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu, Vietnam Red Cross Society President, quoted by AFP news agency.\n\nSevere flooding in the Philippines trapped people on rooftops in northeastern Luzon island\n\n\"Each time they start rebuilding their lives and livelihoods, they are pummelled by yet another storm.\"\n\nThe Philippines is used to tropical storms and typhoons, but this year's preparation and response efforts have been hampered by the spread of coronavirus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff at this hospital in Naples treated waiting patients in their cars because the wards were overwhelmed\n\nItaly has added more regions to its coronavirus high-risk \"red zones\" as cases across the country hit a new daily record.\n\nCampania and Tuscany will join other regions placed under the strictest lockdown measures from Sunday.\n\nAuthorities in Campania, which includes Naples, have warned that the health system there is close to collapse.\n\nFriday's announcement came as Italy confirmed 40,902 new infections - its highest ever daily total.\n\nIt passed the one million mark earlier this week and there have been more than 44,000 deaths.\n\nThe government's coronavirus consultant, Walter Ricciardi, told reporters that the country has \"two to three weeks to decide whether to impose a new national lockdown\".\n\nEarlier this year Italy became the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe but brought its outbreak under control with a tough national lockdown. Restrictions were gradually lifted as cases eased but last week - faced with a second wave of infections, it introduced new measures.\n\nRegions are divided into three zones - red for the highest risk, then orange and yellow. In the red zone at the moment are Lombardy, Bolzano, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north, and Calabria in the south.\n\nIn these areas, which cover about 16.5 million people in a population of 60 million, residents can only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies. All non-essential shops are closed.\n\nBars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks. Hairdressers can remain open.\n\nRestaurant workers in Rome protested against the latest restrictions on Friday\n\nA quarter of the new cases are in Lombardy, which includes Milan. It was the worst-hit area in Italy's first outbreak and it was Europe's first coronavirus hotspot.\n\nCampania, however, has shot straight from the yellow zone to red as a spike in cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.\n\n\"The situation in Campania is out of control,\" Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told La Stampa newspaper on Friday. \"We need urgent restrictions... people are dying.\"\n\nItalian media has broadcast shocking scenes from hospitals in Naples.\n\nStaff at one hospital have brought oxygen tanks and other equipment outside to treat people parked in their cars because the emergency department was swamped with cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\n\"We have almost no more beds available,\" Rodolfo Punzi, an official at Cotugno hospital, told AFP news agency.\n\nAlso this week a video went viral of an elderly suspected Covid patient found dead in the toilet of the Cardarelli hospital emergency department in Naples. His granddaughter called it \"an outrage to human dignity\" and accused staff of neglect.\n\nLockdowns and other measures are in force in several European countries experiencing a second wave of the virus. In other developments:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friday night in Cardiff: \"There's a lot of people out - it's Covid central\"\n\nPub customers are asked to \"enjoy themselves sensibly\" as this weekend marks the first since Wales' firebreak lockdown was lifted.\n\nGroups of up to four are able to book ahead for pubs, cafes and restaurants under Wales' rules.\n\nGreg Mulholland, from the Campaign for Pubs which represents publicans across the UK, said it could help ensure they are allowed to stay open for Christmas.\n\nAn economist said it was a \"crucial\" time for businesses.\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething called on people to \"stay in one place but don't stay out for a long time\".\n\nHe said people needed to look at their own actions in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus and urged them not to \"bend the rules\" by moving tables together in the pub.\n\nPeople enjoying a drink on the first Friday night after the firebreak lockdown\n\nMr Mulholland said it was vital that pubs now remained open over the festive period.\n\nWhile it was welcome news when businesses were allowed to reopen on 9 November, he said the restrictions still in place meant it was still \"very difficult\" for pubs to make a profit.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales that publicans took their responsibilities \"very seriously\" in ensuring people follow the rules, such as sitting further apart.\n\n\"Community pubs show they are part of the solution in helping people in Wales enjoy themselves sensibly,\" he said.\n\nCardiff city centre was busy with shoppers on Saturday\n\nJoe Hixson, manager of the Queen's Hotel in Swansea's maritime quarter, said the business was operating at about 50% of its usual turnover with a maximum of 40 people allowed in his business.\n\nAnd with a limit of four people per group, he is expecting just a quarter of the usual Christmas party trade in December.\n\n\"It's going to be like January - a quiet month,\" he said.\n\nA raft of new measures were imposed in Wales after the lockdown ended on 9 November\n\nCardiff's Le Monde restaurant boss Nataniel Martinez said customers sitting up to four to a table could \"enjoy yourselves and socialise\" for up to two hours, according to revised coronavirus restrictions.\n\n\"That is very important, especially now with the winter months, the dark, the cold,\" he said.\n\n\"Coming out to enjoy a nice meal in a safe, regulated environment, I think that is very important.\"\n\nIn Powys, siblings Kirst and Ben Oliver-Lewis reopened the Herb Garden Cafe in Llandrindod Wells as its new owners the day Wales' firebreak lockdown lifted.\n\nThe pair, who had both worked at the business previously, said Saturday had seen \"good\" breakfast trade but Monday's reopening was the busiest day this week with customers \"glad to get out\".\n\nEdward Jones, an economist at Bangor University, said: \"We have just come out of the second lockdown in Wales and we know the industries that really suffered are tourism, hospitality and retail, so it is just crucial to get money in through the door.\"", "The firm said it was \"saddened\" at the jobs losses as many staff had worked for the firm for years\n\nGreggs is to cut more than 800 jobs because of a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the Newcastle-based chain would not be \"profitable\" if action was not taken.\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"saddened\" that cuts were necessary but \"the battle with Covid was intensifying further\".\n\nIn September, the bakery business said it was in talks with staff to cut hours to try and minimise job losses.\n\nMr Whiteside said: \"Covid trading conditions have forced this action on to our business and we are all very saddened by the need to part company with around 820 friends and colleagues, many of whom have worked with us for many years.\n\n\"At lockdown levels of sales, even after all of the mitigating action that we have taken, Greggs will not be profitable as a business and there can be no room for complacency.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a call to \"resist dealing in speculation\" over the future of steel production at Tata's plant in Wales.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the firm \"want to make steel in Wales, and that's a good place to be starting this debate from\".\n\nIt followed an announcement that Tata is looking to sell part of its European arm.\n\nAbout 4,000 people work at its Port Talbot steel making plant.\n\nTata announced on Friday that Swedish firm SSAB had initiated talks over the acquisition of its Netherlands-based operations.\n\nThe move would separate the UK and Dutch parts of Tata's business, which merged back in 1999, then as British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens.\n\nWales' Economy Minister Ken Skates said the news was \"extremely worrying\" for Tata's 8,000 workers across the UK.\n\nStephen Kinnock, MP for Port Talbot's Aberavon constituency, said it was \"time for a partnership\" between Tata Steel and the government.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales that Tata's decision \"puts the spotlight very firmly on the UK government that has to now step up and provide support to the British steel industry\".\n\nHe added: \"It is about the UK government now stepping up to the plate and saying 'okay, this is a British business, we need it for decarbonisation, for climate change objectives, we need it to build sovereign capacity after Brexit'.\"\n\nTom Hoyles, of the GMB Wales union, said public ownership and UK government support \"should be on the table\" if necessary.\n\n\"Those are two options we think they should look at,\" he said.\n\n\"Port Talbot and steel go together like fish and chips.\n\n\"It's not just the jobs that are there that will be affected but supply lines... the smaller businesses and families who live in the town as well who will be worried.\"\n\nTata wants to make steel in Wales, says the UK government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart\n\nThe UK government has also said it \"will continue to work with Tata Steel and other stakeholders\" as the company shapes its business strategy for the future.\n\nThe Welsh Secretary said the UK government and Tata had agreed to \"work together\" to protect the industry.\n\nMr Hart said it was a positive sign that Tata had made a commitment to a \"sustainable steel manufacturing presence\" in Wales.\n\nAsked whether the UK government would step in and protect jobs at Tata, he said it needed to see what Tata planned for Port Talbot.\n\nHe added: \"We stepped in and saved Celsa Steel in Cardiff at the beginning of lockdown.\n\n\"We have a good track record in Wales of where the arguments add up, of stepping in and helping. We saved 800 jobs in Cardiff.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children in Need highlights: Joe Wicks and Murray v Crouch at paddle tennis\n\nPudsey Bear returned with a host of celebrities on Friday night for the 40th anniversary of the BBC's fundraiser Children in Need.\n\nMore than £37m had been raised by the end of the programme on Friday evening.\n\nThis year's show was shorter and had no audience, due to Covid-19, but there were still plenty of treats in store.\n\nPeter Crouch and Andy Murray went head-to-head in a game of Paddle Tennis, and an all-star cast covered Oasis's Stop Crying Your Heart Out.\n\nOne of four hosts of Friday night's live show, Mel Giedroyc, thanked viewers for supporting the fundraiser.\n\n\"Children In Need has been going for an astonishing 40 years and we have only been able to do so because of you,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite the challenges that we have come up against this year, and will continue to face while this pandemic plays out, we are strong because the hearts of the people who keep these projects alive are strong.\"\n\nKylie Minogue, Cher and KSI all appear on the charity song\n\nIt got its first airing on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2.\n\n\"Children in Need is such a special charity and so loved by everyone, including me,\" said Kylie.\n\n\"It was a privilege to take part in this recording with so many amazing artists.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Various Artists - Topic\n\nEarlier in the day, Joe Wicks completed his 24-hour workout challenge for Children in Need.\n\nHe was joined by stars including Louis Theroux, Melanie C, Sam Smith and Dame Kelly Holmes as he completed a range of activities, from cycling to yoga, boxing to rowing and his signature high intensity workouts.\n\nAppearing on the live show, Wicks - who was presented with a gold Blue Peter badge - described it as \"the longest day and night of my life\".\n\n\"My body aches, my bum, my feet, everything, but I'm so proud of what we have done,\" he said.\n\n\"We have come together, people have been so kind and generous, and raised so much money through that challenge.\"\n\nIt was announced that his workout marathon had raised £2,108,229 for the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Wicks said he felt \"so buzzed\" and \"full of adrenaline\"\n\nA special edition of DIY SOS, which saw a group of volunteers build a new, all-inclusive surf school in Swansea, has also raised £844,000 after being screened on BBC One on Thursday.\n\nHost Nick Knowles wiped away tears when he was informed of the total on the BBC's Morning Live on Friday.\n\n\"It's a big deal,\" said the presenter. \"We understand that times are tough, Covid times are tough and people are worried about their finances and we were up against the football, all those things.\"\n\nHe added the total had been expected to be \"not as massive as normal times\".\n\nIn fact, it was the highest sum ever raised by the show's annual Children in Need episode.\n\nThe main Children In Need show kicked off at 19:00 GMT on BBC One, hosted live in London by Mel Giedroyc, Alex Scott, Chris Ramsey and Stephen Mangan.\n\nAhead of the show Giedroyc told BBC News the format was \"a bit stripped back\" but that as for the vibe, the famous faces and comedy elements, \"nothing has really changed\".\n\nThe telethon, which raises money for disadvantaged children in the UK, raised an \"on the night\" total of £47.9m last year.\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 show also included a special clip from the Doctor Who team, while TV presenter Emma Willis has narrated Life in Lockdown - a film showing youngsters living through difficult circumstances during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe feature follows research commissioned by the charity, which found that 94% of children and young people have had cause to feel worried, sad or anxious in the last six months.\n\n\"The current pandemic has affected all of our lives, but some families have additional and complex needs and challenges outside of Covid-19,\" said Willis.\n\nEmma Willis will narrate the film, Life In Lockdown\n\n\"Being part of this documentary, I was able to see just how vital BBC Children in Need's funds are to families across the UK in times of crisis\n\n\"People are facing incredibly challenging times, but I hope the public tune in and donate if they can to a much-needed cause.\"\n\nChildren in Need was on BBC One on Friday from 19:00 to 22:00 GMT. Catch up on iPlayer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "He's spent nearly two decades working with Conservative politicians in the upper reaches of government - but many of us hadn't heard of Dominic Cummings until his infamous lockdown trip to Barnard Castle earlier this year. Now that the prime minister's chief adviser is leaving Downing Street, we look back at some memorable moments in his career.\n\nMr Cummings became a household name after he defended his 260-mile drive from his home in London to his parents' farm in County Durham during the UK's national coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nFollowing pressure from all political sides to explain why he went against the government's \"stay at home\" messaging, Mr Cummings said he made the journey for childcare reasons after his wife developed coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut a subsequent outing, this time from the cottage on his parents' farm to the historic market town of Barnard Castle, was the trip that gave fuel to meme-makers across the country. Mr Cummings said the reason for that trip was to test his eyesight and his readiness to drive back to London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe success of the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum no doubt helped to secure Mr Cummings' job in Downing Street, as it was his role during that which cemented his strong bond with Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Cummings, the campaign's director, was credited with the \"take back control\" slogan that appeared to strike a chord with so many referendum voters, as well as the claim that Britain could save £350m a week by leaving the EU.\n\nBoris Johnson became prime minister after his part in the successful campaign for the UK to leave the European Union\n\nIn addition to his snappy slogans, Mr Cummings has also hurled some infamous insults at politicians - often through the medium of his personal blog. For example, he has said:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings: \"We need PJ Masks on the job\"\n\nMr Cummings' blog also drew headlines when he used it to tout his ideas to shake up the civil service.\n\nIn a blog post in January this year, he said the civil service lacked people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\" and called for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to get in touch with him via a private Gmail address if they wanted to work in government.\n\nThe post stoked tensions, with the civil servants' union saying staff were recruited on merit and \"because of what you can do, not what you believe\".\n\nThe departure of civil service head Sir Mark Sedwill (pictured welcoming Boris Johnson to Downing Street, with Mr Cummings on the right) sped up Mr Cummings' ideas for Whitehall reform, our political editor Laura Kuenssberg said\n\nThe clashes with other civil servants reached new heights after a special adviser was sacked and escorted out of Downing Street by police, following a confrontation with Mr Cummings.\n\nNo reason was given for Sonia Khan's dismissal in August 2019, but it's thought she had been accused by Mr Cummings of leaking details of a no-deal Brexit exercise to the media.\n\nHer then-boss (and then-chancellor) Sajid Javid \"voiced his anger\" with the PM over her treatment, later resigning when Mr Johnson ordered him to fire his team of aides. Labour said Mr Javid's departure showed Mr Cummings had \"won the battle to take absolute control of the Treasury\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: I had no option but to resign\n\nThis is perhaps a lesser-known highlight, but it's a highlight all the same.\n\nAccording to Buzzfeed News, Mr Cummings was greatly frustrated by the prime minister's rejection of his proposal to change Downing Street's office layout.\n\nThe top aide wanted to knock walls through and put desks in circles around both him and Mr Johnson, who would sit in the centre, the Buzzfeed report claims.\n\nThe news site claims the plans were rejected as unworkable - in part as a result of No 10's status as a Grade One listed building.\n\nAs a listed building, No 10 Downing Street has extra legal protection within the planning system (leaf-sweeping is allowed though)\n\nThe penny must drop that you've had an interesting career when you hear an Oscar-nominated actor is preparing to play you in a TV drama.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Mr Cummings in Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War was as - in the words of our arts editor - \"an intense, socially awkward, strategic mastermind with a gentle Durham accent and a penchant for hanging out in stationery cupboards at work\".\n\nFrom left: Richard Goulding as Boris Johnson, Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, and Oliver Maltman as Michael Gove in Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nDerby County have parted company with manager Phillip Cocu with the club bottom of the Championship.\n\nThe Rams have won just one of their 11 league matches this season, the last of which was a home defeat by Barnsley.\n\nCaptain Wayne Rooney and coaches Shay Given, Liam Rosenior and Justin Walker will oversee first-team training before a permanent successor is appointed.\n\nFormer Barcelona and Netherlands midfielder Cocu, 50, won 21 of his 65 games after taking charge in July 2019.\n\nHis assistants Chris van der Weerden and Twan Scheepers have also left Pride Park by mutual agreement.\n\n\"I'm sorry Phillip and his staff have left the club and want to thank him personally for all his help and encouragement as part of his coaching staff,\" Rooney said.\n\n\"The most important thing now is to stabilise the club and start moving up the table.\n\n\"I've been asked to be part of the coaching staff to help the team's preparations for next Saturday's vital match against Bristol City.\n\n\"The coaches and I will speak with the players on Monday.\"\n\nCocu is self-isolating until Friday having been in close contact with Derby chief executive Stephen Pearce, who tested positive for Covid-19 on 5 November.\n\nHe missed their defeat by Barnsley on 7 November as Van der Weerden took charge.\n\nThe Rams are also close to a takeover after chairman Mel Morris agreed a deal in principle with Abu Dhabi-based consortium Derventio Holdings (UK) Limited.\n\nThe company is led by Sheikh Khaled bin Saquer Zayed Al Nayhan, a cousin of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour, and a new manager will not be appointed until the takeover is completed.\n\nThe deal is understood to be worth £60m, but the EFL is yet to confirm the change of ownership.\n\nCocu succeeded Frank Lampard, who left to join Chelsea, on a four-year deal at Pride Park.\n\nBut despite the arrival of former England captain Rooney as player-coach in January, Cocu was unable to guide the Rams to the Championship play-offs last season as they finished 10th.\n\nTheir only league win so far this season came at Norwich City, courtesy of a late Rooney free-kick. They are without a win in the past seven matches.\n\n\"The club would like to place on record its appreciation for the way Phillip and his staff conducted themselves in what were some extremely challenging situations during his tenure,\" a club statement said.\n\nIt's very sad for Phillip Cocu and for chairman Mel Morris. Morris sold Rams supporters a dream of developing talent from the academy and blooding them in the first team with a balance of experience.\n\nThe pair agreed on a philosophy to make Derby sustainable. To some extent it worked at times, but the consistency in results last season and the start to this one has failed him.\n\nDerby said goodbye to some senior players in the summer who haven't been replaced, including striker Chris Martin, who was pivotal for the style of play.\n\nThe key thing for Cocu is that his tenure at Derby has not been like any other management role.\n\nThis includes off-the-field behaviour by players, which ended in the sacking of Richard Keogh and the sentences handed to Tom Lawrence and Mason Bennett.\n\nThe timeline is dramatic and unfair on him, but at the end of the day the results this season did not happen.\n\nThe players weren't playing for him, the style of play this season threw up so many questions and with new owners coming in, there was no way out of it for him.\n\nDerby County is an attractive proposition for any manager high-profile or not, the fans, the academy and the stadium.\n\nIt is all there apart from the squad and ultimately it is the squad that holds the key to everything.\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "The number of school-age children with coronavirus has risen \"significantly\" in the second wave compared with the first, according to the government's scientific advisers.\n\nChildren are now more likely than adults to be the person bringing a Covid infection into a household.\n\nBut families with children are at no higher risk of severe illness.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) said it was \"troubled\" by the number of children testing positive.\n\nThe exact role children play in transmitting coronavirus has long been an open question.\n\nIt's clear young people as a group are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus themselves.\n\nThere is also some evidence younger children are less likely to even contract it in the first place.\n\nBut when it comes to older children, their role in passing on the virus has been much less clear.\n\nA review presented to government and published on 13 November outlines the growing evidence older children can catch and transmit Covid-19 at similar rates to adults.\n\nFrom around the time schools reopened in September, a rising number of children have been testing positive for coronavirus, according to the advisory group.\n\nBut the paper said the extent to which transmission was occurring in schools was \"unproven and difficult to establish\".\n\nTwo major surveillance studies by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Imperial College London show infections among people aged 16-24 were increasing in September.\n\nBy October increases could be seen throughout the 2-24-year-old age bracket.\n\nThere were signs of rising infection in the wider population before schools went back, however.\n\nThe government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has previously said reopening schools was likely to increase transmission of the virus.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty also acknowledged this, but said trade-offs would have to be made to allow schools to remain open while controlling the virus.\n\nThe 13 November advisory paper said there were \"significant educational, developmental and mental health harms from schools being closed\".\n\nSchoolchildren and young adults have experienced a much faster rise in infections than other age groups in the second wave.\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse at the University of Edinburgh said this was \"not surprising given that schools are operating much closer to normality than most other parts of society\".\n\nThe review made clear it was not possible to separate contacts in school from contacts around school including travelling to and from, and socialising afterwards.\n\nHowever, teachers were no more likely to test positive for coronavirus than other workers, according to ONS data.\n\nDr Sarah Lewis, an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol, said this was \"reassuring\" and suggested \"the measures in place to reduce transmission in schools are working\".\n\nPeople living with secondary-school-age children were 8% more likely to catch the virus.\n\nBut research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford found that people living with under-18s had no increased risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid.\n\nThe NEU said it was concerned by the \"finding that children aged 12-16 played a 'significantly higher role' in introducing infection into households in the period after schools reopened their doors to all students\".\n\nThe union suggested this was down to \"the difficulty of social distancing, the absence of face masks inside classrooms, the problems of ventilation, the size of 'bubbles' and the cross mixing on school transport, as well as of secondary pupils mixing outside school\".", "Lucy Letby appeared in person in the dock at Chester Crown Court\n\nA nurse accused of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another 10 has been denied bail.\n\nLucy Letby, 30, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is charged with murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of another five boys and five girls.\n\nMs Letby was remanded into custody after a hearing at Chester Crown Court.\n\nShe attended in person, speaking only to confirm her name, after appearing before Warrington magistrates via video-link on Thursday.\n\nA further hearing is expected to take place at Liverpool Crown Court on 18 November.\n\nPolice said the charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016\n\nA Cheshire Police investigation launched in May 2017 looked into the deaths of 17 babies and 16 non-fatal collapses at the Countess of Chester between March 2015 and July 2016.\n\nMs Letby had previously been arrested in 2018 and 2019.\n\nShe was rearrested on Tuesday and charged on Wednesday.\n\nMs Letby appeared via videolink at Warrington Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nPolice said parents of all the babies involved were being kept fully updated on developments and were supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "The Lake District is one of England's 10 existing national parks\n\nA further £40m is to be ploughed into green spaces in England as part of a plan to restore species and combat climate change.\n\nThe government says the cash will fund thousands of jobs in conservation.\n\nThe prime minister also promised new national parks and greater protections for England’s iconic landscapes.\n\nEnvironmentalists welcomed the investment but said it was a fraction of what is needed to restore Britain’s depleted wildlife.\n\nBoris Johnson said the scheme was part of his 10-point plan for combating climate change, which Downing Street said would be unveiled this week.\n\nThe plan has been widely leaked and it is thought to include a commitment to:\n\nThe natural environment funding will go to environmental charities creating or restoring important habitats like peatland and wetland; preventing or cleaning up pollution; creating woodland; and helping people connect with nature.\n\nMr Johnson said this will in turn create and retain skilled and unskilled jobs, such as ecologists, project managers, tree planters and teams to carry out nature restoration.\n\nThe projects could give a home to species that flourished in similar initiatives across the country, including the curlew, nightingale, horseshoe bat, pine marten, red squirrel and wild orchids.\n\nMr Johnson said: “Britain’s iconic landscapes are part of the fabric of our national identity - sustaining our communities, driving local economies and inspiring people across the ages.\n\n“That’s why, with the natural world under threat, it’s more important than ever that we act now to enhance our natural environment and protect our precious wildlife and biodiversity.”\n\nThere are currently 10 national parks in England - including the South Downs, Lake District and Peak District - as well as 34 areas of outstanding national beauty (AONB).\n\nThe government says the process for designating new national parks and AONB will start next year.\n\nAnd 10 long-term \"landscape recovery\" projects will be initiated between 2022 and 2024 to restore wilder landscapes.\n\nCraig Bennett, from the Wildlife Trusts, said: \"Of course this is welcome, but it’s a tiny amount compared with what’s needed.\n\n“A previous promise of £40m was over-subscribed seven times over.\n\n“The government has pledged to protect 30% of the countryside by 2030, but at the moment only 5% is protected for wildlife. We need £1bn every year for this enormous task.\"\n\nTony Juniper, head of government agency Natural England, said: \"I warmly welcome this as part of the delivery of the National Nature Recovery Network - and I’m really pleased to have all this coming from the PM.”\n\nThe government has slashed funding for his organisation and earlier this week he told MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee that its current funding is below the level required to carry out statutory duties to a good standard.\n\nMr Juniper said taking action to protect species at risk of extinction, ceasing management duties for National Nature Reserves and engaging only a small number of planning authorities to support landscape and biodiversity activities are some of the areas where Natural England has had to scale back support.", "Emergency laws to \"stamp out dangerous\" anti-vaccine content online should be introduced, Labour has said.\n\nThe party is calling for financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines.\n\nIt follows news of progress on the first effective coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe government said it took the issue \"extremely seriously\" with \"a major commitment\" from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle anti-vaccine content.\n\nMany social media platforms label false content as misleading or disputed - and all remove posts that contravene terms of service.\n\nBut Labour said a commitment by platforms to remove content flagged by the government was not enough.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said such content was \"exploiting people's fears, their mistrust of institutions and governments and spreading poison and harm\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast his party wanted to work with the government on a cross-party basis to build trust and help promote take-up of the vaccine.\n\nHe said people would have legitimate questions about what the vaccine means for them, levels of immunity and whether the vaccine was appropriate for those with chronic health conditions.\n\n\"There's nothing wrong with asking those questions and strong public health messaging from the government, reinforced by us, will allay those fears,\" he said.\n\nBaseless conspiracy theories about a coronavirus vaccine have been spreading on social media for months - and the latest vaccine news rekindled these pre-existing narratives online.\n\nThese includes false claims that the vaccine is a means of inserting microchips into the population, altering our DNA, or are even a weapon of genocide.\n\nWithin hours of news breaking about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, comments and memes suggesting it will deliberately harm us were popping up in local Facebook groups, parent chats and on Instagram.\n\nThis kind of disinformation is worlds away from legitimate concerns that a vaccine is safe and properly tested.\n\nDespite commitments to tackle falsehoods from social media sites and the government, a constant bubbling of conspiracies online looks to have already eroded trust for some in an effective vaccine.\n\nThe anti-vax movement, which pre-dates the pandemic, is not the only thing responsible for the spread of this disinformation online.\n\nPseudoscience figures with large online followings - who have spread other false claims such as linking coronavirus to 5G or suggesting the pandemic is a hoax - have also turned their attention to vaccines.\n\nThere is no truth to the false and harmful claims they make - but that hasn't stopped them spilling into the average social media feed for weeks and impacting those who come across them.\n\nMeanwhile, a member of the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, has criticised ministers' strategy of \"flip-flopping\" between encouraging people to socialise and spend money - and tough lockdown restrictions in England.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said: \"We need to take a long-term view and be sensible and realise that we're going to have to have restrictions in place for some time.\n\n\"Yes, we can lift them when it's safe to do so, which will be primarily when large numbers of people have been vaccinated.\n\n\"But flip-flopping between encouraging people to mix socially, which is what you're doing by encouraging people to go to restaurants and bars, versus then immediately closing them again, isn't a very sensible way to run the epidemic.\"\n\nThe national lockdown in England is currently due to end on 2 December, with a return to the tiered system of local restrictions.\n\nProf Edmunds also criticised that system of lower to higher restrictions, saying it was not \"very well thought through\".\n\nScotland has moved to a five-tier system of coronavirus restrictions. Wales has now ended a \"circuit breaker\" while Northern Ireland has extended its own temporary lockdown.\n\nA further 26,860 UK coronavirus cases were recorded on Saturday and 462 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported.\n\nSuspicion of vaccines has been around almost as long as modern vaccines themselves. But in recent years, the anti-vaccination - or \"anti-vax\"- movement has gained traction online.\n\nSocial media has been blamed for allowing unfounded claims about vaccines to spread more easily.\n\nIn 2019, the UK lost its measles-free status designated by the World Health Organization - and there has been a marked decline in vaccination rates for all 13 diseases covered in jabs for children.\n\nSince the pandemic, anti-vaccination campaigners have moved their focus to the coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the letter to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, Labour said there were dedicated anti-vaccination groups online with hundreds of thousands of followers who were \"churning out disinformation\" on the issue.\n\nLast week, the government announced that social media companies had agreed a package of measures - including that no company should be profiting from Covid vaccine fake news.\n\nBut Labour warned that the measures do not go far enough and has questioned why anti-vax groups are not being closed down.\n\n\"The announced collaboration with social media companies last week was welcome but feels grossly inadequate with a promise by them to remove only the content which is flagged by government and which generates profit,\" Labour said.\n\nLabour called for emergency legislation that would see financial and criminal penalties for a continued failure to act, and said they would vote for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Research shows a number of young people may choose not to have a Covid-19 vaccination\n\nOn Monday, news of a potential vaccine made headlines after preliminary results from Pfizer and BioNTech showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from catching Covid.\n\nThe vaccine is one of 11 vaccines that are currently in the final stages of testing. Pfizer and BioNTech companies now plan to apply for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of November and a limited number of people may be given the vaccine this year.\n\nThe UK has bought enough doses for 20 million people.\n\nBut it will not be released for use in the UK until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the MHRA - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.\n\nThe head of the MHRA said this week it will not lower its safety standards despite the need to get a Covid vaccine quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “Anti-vax is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\nAnd this week, he said he had \"no inhibitions\" about getting one, adding: \"Anti-vax is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\n\"We take this issue extremely seriously and have secured a major commitment from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle it by not profiting from such material, and by responding to flagged content more swiftly.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with social media firms to promote authoritative sources of information so people have access to vaccine facts not fiction.\"", "Yorke Beach, near Stanley, has been closed since the 1982 Falklands conflict\n\nFalkland Islanders have been celebrating the day their beaches and coves have been declared free of landmines - after almost 40 years.\n\nThe British overseas territory was peppered with an estimated 13,000 mines by Argentine forces in the 1982 conflict.\n\nOn hand for the mine-free declaration day was Welsh-born doctor Barry Elsby.\n\nHe is one of the islanders who has never walked on the last beach to be cleared, Yorke Beach near Stanley.\n\nHe moved to the Falklands with his wife for a two-year medical contract in 1990, and never left.\n\nHe is now one of the islands' eight members of the legislative assembly governing the 2,500 population.\n\n\"I have friends who were born here after the 1982 conflict, and have never been able to stroll along this beach,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking forward to reclaiming the beach by blowing up the last mines.\n\n\"This will be another good bit of closure for people who were here when the invasion happened and lived through the horrors of that time.\n\nIt was only supposed to be a two year posting to the Falkland Islands for Dr Elsby\n\n\"All the mine signposts were a constant reminder of what happened but now they are all away, it's another return to normality.\n\n\"It is a very welcome development and I don't think anyone ever thought this would come about.\"\n\nA programme to remove the mines has been under way since 2009 as part of the UK's obligations under the international anti-personnel mine ban convention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Islanders will celebrate by playing cricket on beaches which were previously out of bounds\n\n\"We never thought the islands would be completely mine free, so this is a momentous change,\" added Dr Elsby.\n\n\"More importantly, no-one has been seriously harmed doing this. It speaks volumes for the teams that have been responsible for doing this over so many years.\"\n\nIt also speaks volumes for the islanders, according to the doctor, and gives an insight into why he was happy to swap his former childhood home of Garden City in Flintshire, north Wales, for somewhere like the Falklands.\n\n\"We had clear plans when we came here in 1990 - we had no intention of staying,\" he said.\n\n\"But we were captivated, not just by the beauty, but also by the way of life and friendliness of the community.\"\n\nThe son of a crane driver in the Shotton steelworks, his links with Wales remain strong despite being almost 8,000 miles (12,735km) away.\n\n\"For the last eight years, I have been laying wreaths at Fitzroy where so many Welsh Guards died and were injured, so I think those links will remain forever,\" he said.\n\nIt has been a long process across four decades to rid the islands of mines\n\nThe UK minister with responsibility for the Falklands, Wendy Morton said the final de-mining exercise on Saturday was a \"significant achievement\" for the Falklands and its population.\n\n\"We must pay tribute to the brilliant team of deminers who made a long-term commitment to this programme and put their lives at risk day-to-day, removing and destroying landmines to make the Falklands safe,\" she said.\n\n\"Our commitment to ridding the world of fatal landmines does not end with our territories being mine free.\n\n\"A further £36m of UK funding will allow demining projects across the world to continue, protecting innocent civilian lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Almost 23 million people watched Martin Bashir's Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995\n\nA previously missing note from Princess Diana, thought to indicate she was happy with the way her interview by BBC Panorama was obtained, has been found.\n\nThe BBC said it had recovered the \"original handwritten note\" that the princess wrote following the Panorama interview of November 1995.\n\nThe broadcaster said it would hand over the note to an independent inquiry.\n\nThe probe will look at claims made by Diana's brother about how BBC reporter Martin Bashir secured the interview.\n\nBashir, 57, currently BBC News religion editor, is recovering from heart surgery and complications from Covid-19 and has been unable to comment on Charles Spencer's allegations.\n\nEarl Spencer called for an independent inquiry earlier this month and said he would never have introduced Bashir to his sister if he had not seen the faked bank statements.\n\nThe faked statements wrongly purported to show that the earl's former head of security had been paid by a newspaper group and a mysterious offshore company.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the faked bank statements, but it says the note from the princess says she did not see them and insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nThe BBC's not saying how the letter came back into its possession - but it clearly hopes it will help its case when the independent investigation looks into the allegations made by Earl Spencer.\n\nThe letter is believed to say that Diana was not influenced by the forged bank statements Martin Bashir had made - and was happy with the way the interview was secured.\n\nIf the princess was unaware of or untroubled by the forgeries, or the alleged deceit, it will help the BBC's defence: it says the original investigation was into whether the princess had been misled into giving the interview.\n\nA note from her saying she hadn't would clearly weigh heavily. But the note does not address Earl Spencer's central allegation.\n\nHe alleges that the forged documents were part of a series of lies he was told by Bashir, lies that were meant to win his trust and thus gain access to Diana.\n\nWhat we know of the rediscovered note from Diana doesn't address the serious allegations of journalistic misconduct Earl Spencer has made.\n\nNor does it help resolve the question of how much the BBC knew back in 1996 when it said the forgeries played no part in securing the interview.\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded almost 25 years ago, on 20 November 1995.\n\nThe interview made headlines when the princess said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time Princess Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nEarlier this month the Daily Mail published notes Earl Spencer says he made with Bashir two months before the interview.\n\nOur correspondent Jonny Dymond said the notes appeared to record Bashir \"spinning lie after lie about members of the Royal Family, and its staff, in an attempt, Earl Spencer says, to win his trust and that of his sister\".\n\nThese claims, described by the Mail as \"preposterous lies\", include that Diana's private correspondence was being opened, her car tracked and phones tapped.\n\nIt was also claimed that her bodyguard was plotting against her and close friends were betraying her by leaking stories to the press.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.", "The events of the past 48 hours feel like a political explosion, with Dominic Cummings now departing from Downing Street.\n\nBut while it's tempting to see this is as a dramatic and sudden eruption, it has been a longer-term burn.\n\nThe prime minister's chief adviser stepped back somewhat from some of the brutal day-to-day politics he had helped create after the election.\n\nHe had been spending more time focusing on trying to rewire Whitehall - trying to increase the importance of science and data in government - hoping to be less involved in the moment-by-moment political rush.\n\nBut given his profile, and his nature, was that ever a realistic plan?\n\nSince the summer, there have been conversations about shifting some of the senior roles around to make No 10 run more smoothly - including, perhaps, a total exit for Mr Cummings or a different, more specific role.\n\nBut in the Conservative Party, the adviser - who is not a Tory member, which rubs party people up the wrong way in itself - has been a lightning rod for irritation for years, and he became a focus for public rage too after he ignored lockdown rules and drove to Durham.\n\nAs the government's handling of the pandemic came under increasing attack, MPs became more convinced day-by-day that there needed to be change in No 10 - with Mr Cummings at the top of the list - and they grew more determined in making that case to Boris Johnson.\n\nEven those who reviled the PM's most senior adviser would acknowledge his strategy - forcing conflicts to win and drawing sharp divides between Leavers and Remainers - was effective.\n\nBut as soon as the prime minister had his general election majority, there were concerns that the campaigning style was just too toxic to run a Downing Street operation with different pressures.\n\nCampaigns have to win, governments have to lead and persuade.\n\nWhat's burst into the open this week, with all the bitter briefings, is an acceleration of a change that was already coming.\n\nBut what it won't change is the personality of the one person, the prime minister, who is meant to be in charge.\n\nDominic Cummings' many foes absolve the PM of responsibility if they pin all the mistakes and mess on him.\n\nIt's up to Boris Johnson now to build a new and more stable team, and shape what happens next.", "Waiting for the actual exam results is the fairest way of allocating places, say experts\n\nUniversities in England are to switch to offering degree places on the basis of actual grades rather than predicted ones, the government has announced.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys, Gavin Williamson said the present system held bright but disadvantaged pupils back.\n\nHe said he wanted all students to be able to choose the best university they can go to once they know their grades.\n\nUniversities have just backed such a change following a review.\n\nCurrently, pupils are offered places from universities ahead of their results, so decisions are based on predictions made by their teachers.\n\nOnce A-level, BTEC and other exam results are issued in August, candidates then accept or refuse offers they have received.\n\nA consultation will be carried out but it is expected the change to what is known as a post-qualification admissions system will take place before the next general election.\n\nThe current system relies heavily on predicted grades which puts academically high achieving pupils from poorer areas at a disadvantage.\n\nResearch this year from University College London found 23% of pupils from comprehensives were under-predicted by two or more grades, compared to just 11% of grammar and private school pupils.\n\nBut there are still big questions about how this would work, with universities favouring a system in which students would still apply before exams but receive offers afterwards.\n\nOthers may push for the more radical option of both applications and offers being made after results, pushing the start of term back to January for first year students.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson: \"I want to smash through these ceilings\"\n\nMr Williamson told the BBC: \"I want all students to look at the grades they've got and then see what is the best university that they can get to, what is the best course they can do.\n\n\"I want to smash through these ceilings that are preventing them from meeting their full potential.\"\n\nHe said pupils from less-affluent, non-traditional backgrounds often did not have to the confidence to aim for a highly selective university, and also often lacked advice about how to reach such goals.\n\nThe move comes after years of debate over post-qualification admissions.\n\nNumerous academic studies suggest pupils from working class backgrounds, and some ethnic groups, tend to be predicted lower grades by their teachers.\n\nThe university admissions system was brought into sharp focus in the summer, when exam results were cancelled, leading to thousands of students losing the places they thought they had not qualified for.\n\nUniversities promised to offer as many places as they could if candidates received the grades they needed after results were re-issued.\n\nMr Williamson said the use of predicted grades limited \"the aspirations of students before they know what they can achieve\".\n\n\"We need to radically change a system which breeds low aspiration and unfairness,\" he added.\n\n\"We're going to deliver this before next election, we're going to do an extensive consultation.\n\n\"But there's a real determination what we've seen in this pandemic, we've seen great challenges that society has had to deal with and as we move out of this pandemic we need to build back better.\"\n\nMr Williamson also criticised universities which offer inducements or conditional unconditional offers to some students to lure them on to their courses.\n\n\"What we've seen over the last few years is what I describe as a little bit of sharp practice where universities have been offering unconditional offers, more and more and creating incentives, in terms of offering laptops or cash back to those students, and that means those students aren't choosing the course and the university that is best to meet their future potential.\n\n\"We want to move away from that.\"\n\nThe plan has received a warm welcome from vice-chancellors' organisation, Universities UK, who had resolved to move to post qualification admissions following an 18-months review.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), said: \"The current system is based on inaccurately predicted results and leads to those from less-affluent backgrounds losing out.\n\n\"Allowing students to apply after they receive their results will help level the playing field and put a stop to the chaotic clearing scramble.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: \"Teachers work hard and diligently to provide accurate predicted grades, but it is not an exact science and never can be.\n\nHe agreed: \"Post-qualification admissions would be better and fairer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by al-Qaeda killed hundreds in 1998\n\nIran has denied a report that a leader of militant group al-Qaeda was killed in its capital Tehran in August.\n\nThe New York Times newspaper reported that Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, was shot dead in the street by Israeli agents following a request from the US.\n\nIran said it had no al-Qaeda \"terrorists\" living in its country.\n\nAbdullah is accused of planning the deadly attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.\n\nAbdullah, who is more commonly known by his alias Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down along with his daughter by two assassins on a motorbike on 7 August, the New York Times reports, citing anonymous US intelligence officials.\n\nThe report claimed that Iran had initially sought to cover up Abdullah's death, with Iranian and Lebanese media reports describing the victims of the 7 August shooting as a Lebanese history professor and his daughter.\n\nHowever, Iran's foreign ministry denied the report on Saturday, saying: \"From time to time, Washington and Tel Aviv try to tie Iran to such groups by lying and leaking false information to the media in order to avoid responsibility for the criminal activities of this group and other terrorist groups in the region.\"\n\nIsrael's Channel 12 broadcaster, citing Western intelligence officials, later reported that Abdullah's death was the result of an operation in which \"the interests of Israel and the United States came together\" because he had been \"planning attacks against Israelis and Jews worldwide\".\n\nAbdullah was one of the founding members of the jihadist group which has wreaked devastation across the Middle East and parts of Africa and carried out the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.\n\nHe was accused of being behind the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in 1998.\n\nHe had been in Iran since 2003, initially under house arrest but later living freely, American intelligence officials quoted in the New York Times said.\n\nAny link between Iran and al-Qaeda would be highly unusual - the two sides have fought each other in conflicts, and represent the two main and sometimes opposing groups of Islam - Iran is largely Shia Muslim, while al-Qaeda is a Sunni jihadist group.\n\nAbdullah still appears on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, where a $10 million reward is offered for information leading to his arrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of a US raid on al-Qaeda in Yemen\n• None 'The human cost of a US strike on al-Qaeda' Video, 00:02:14'The human cost of a US strike on al-Qaeda'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pop royalty Kylie Minogue says lockdown was a \"weird time\" and a \"rollercoaster\"\n\nPop star Kylie Minogue has become the first female artist to have a number one album in the UK in five separate decades.\n\nHer 15th studio album, Disco, topped the charts with 55,000 sales, meaning it has also scored the best opening week of any new release in 2020 so far.\n\nIt is her eighth number one, meaning she has overtaken Elton John, Cliff Richard and George Michael in the all-time chart leaderboard.\n\n\"I'm lost for words,\" said the star.\n\n\"Thank-you to everyone who has supported this album. I'm so touched that it's made its way to your hearts. I love it.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nOnly five other acts have topped the Official Chart across five consecutive decades: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Paul Weller, Bruce Springsteen and David Gilmour.\n\nThe Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan have also landed chart-toppers across five decades, though not consecutively.\n\nThe pop star has reinvented her image and her sound dozens of times over the last four decades\n\nKylie's chart-topper was made in the middle of the lockdown, with the star forced to buy recording equipment and learn computer software so she could record her vocals at home.\n\nShe told BBC News the project had been a lifeline when quarantine threatened to overwhelm her.\n\n\"It's hard to dig deep and stay positive,\" the 52-year-old said, \"and I had a moment like that, during the first lockdown where I had to confess to someone else that I was struggling.\n\n\"And actually, if I wasn't able to work on the album, I perhaps would have gone the other way.\"\n\nMinogue finished ahead of Little Mix, whose album Confetti debuted at number two in the Official Album Chart.\n\nAriana Grande's Positions, which was top of the pile last week, dropped to third. The album's title track spent a third week at number one in the singles chart.\n\nElsewhere, Dame Shirley Bassey set another chart record with her latest album, I Owe It All To You - which is billed as \"a celebration of 70 years in showbiz\".\n\nThe record debuted at number five, making Dame Shirley the first female artist to claim a Top 40 album in seven consecutive decades.\n\nThe singer scored her first chart entry in 1961 with Fabulous Shirley Bassey. Her latest collection is her first top five record in 42 years, since 1978's 25th Anniversary Album.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Trade talks between the UK and EU are reaching the \"make or break\" point, the two sides have said, with key differences proving hard to resolve.\n\nEU sources said there had been less progress in recent days on outstanding sticking points than they had hoped for and the \"moment of truth\" was nearing.\n\nUK sources said there were still \"quite big gaps\" between the sides.\n\nBoth sides doubted that a draft deal could now be reached in the coming days, as the EU had originally hoped.\n\nThe two sides are in a race against the clock to settle their future economic partnership in time for it to take effect on 1 January, when the UK will leave the EU's single market and customs union.\n\nUK sources indicated there had been no breakthrough this week between the UK's negotiator David Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier, with the two ending their discussions in a similar position to how they started them.\n\nAn EU source familiar with the process said one of their meetings had been \"short and brutal\".\n\nThe two men are due to meet again in Brussels on Monday ahead of what is shaping up to be a critical week.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the EU would like to reach a draft agreement in the next few days, in time for the leaders of its 27 member countries to discuss it at a virtual conference on Thursday.\n\nBut she said it was possible that this working deadline would be missed, with a deal now perhaps not being concluded until early December.\n\nUnresolved issues include the EU's insistence on a \"level-playing field\" in rules and regulations between British firms and those on the continent, and guarantees to prevent the lowering of standards known as \"non-regression\".\n\nOther areas of disagreement surround fishing quotas and legal mechanisms for enforcing any agreement.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January but is continuing to follow many of the bloc's rules until 31 December, when the 11-month post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nUK ministers had expressed increasing optimism in recent weeks about the state of negotiations with cabinet minister Michael Gove suggesting the \"penny is dropping\" in Brussels over the UK's post-Brexit status as an independent nation.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU from 2017 to 2019, said the deal on the table was \"relatively thin\" but better than no deal.\n\n\"I've always thought a deal was more likely than no deal - but only just,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It still requires compromise on both sides,\" he added. \"It is about the balance of obligations and benefits for both sides and there are some very big decisions still to be made.\"\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed, the UK will trade with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules - leading to tariffs being introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs for businesses and consumers.\n\nBoth sides say they want to avoid this outcome, but the the EU has said it will not do a deal \"at any price\", and Mr Johnson has said the UK will prosper either way.\n\nIf a deal is agreed, it would need to be signed off by MPs in the UK and parliaments across the EU before the end of the transition period to come into force by 1 January.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nAlmost 5,000 more people have died from heart problems in England than would be expected since the start of the pandemic, the British Heart Foundation has warned. Analysis by the charity found excess deaths are 7% above predicted levels. The charity is urging people not to delay checks or treatment during the second wave of the virus, while NHS England says hospitals are redesigning services so that care can go ahead safely.\n\nDespite this week's vaccine breakthrough, the UK is going to be wresting with Covid for some time yet, says our health correspondent Nick Triggle. The UK has become the first European country to pass the grim milestone of 50,000 deaths and we've see a record rise in new cases - both are a clear reminder that there are many more difficult days to come. More lockdowns, more isolating? Nick looks at what's in store.\n\nPeople visiting relatives and friends in care homes will be able to access regular coronavirus testing as part of a trial, says the government. A new pilot in England will see screening rolled out across 20 care homes in Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall, with other regions expected to see regular tests before Christmas. Tests for one family member or friend for each resident could end restrictions on visits, when used with other measures such as face coverings.\n\nEvery year, Leicester's Golden Mile - the city's length of road famous for its South Asian connections - becomes a noisy, joyous mass of colour and light as residents and visitors from around the world celebrate Diwali. \"Normally all the shops have decorations and signs up in their windows,\" Joshna Ramji, 62, said. \"It's full of people buying gifts, food, new clothes or getting their hair done. But this year nobody is doing that. The atmosphere is very different.\" Undeterred, our Radio 1 Newsbeat colleagues have been finding out how people are planning to still have a fun Diwali.\n\nThoughts of digging out the baubles may be a way off for some, but not for Paul Fenning, from Doncaster. Determined to put a smile on people's faces, he's turned his house into a Christmas spectacle and says the decorations are needed more than ever this year. And he's not the only one, as BBC Breakfast found out,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Fenning from Doncaster loves decorating his home for Christmas.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, find out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Mr Harper has been described as \"one of the bravest men\" on the Titanic\n\nA letter written by a Titanic hero who sacrificed his life to save others has sold at auction for £42,000.\n\nBaptist preacher John Harper gave his lifejacket to another passenger and went down with the doomed ocean liner in April 1912.\n\nHis last letter was sold at an online auction of Titanic memorabilia in Wiltshire on Saturday.\n\nAuctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: \"John Harper was probably one of the bravest men on that boat.\"\n\nWritten on Titanic stationery on April 11, 1912 to a fellow clergyman, the letter was posted at Cobh in Ireland, which was known as Queenstown when the Titanic stopped at the port before setting out across the Atlantic.\n\nPastor Harper, 39, was the pastor of Walworth Road Baptist Church, in London. He was a widower and was travelling with his daughter Annie Jessie and his sister Jessie W. Leitch to Chicago to preach at the Moody Church.\n\nJohn Harper's daughter Annie Jessie went on to be the longest living Scottish Titanic survivor.\n\nHe refused a seat in a lifeboat alongside his daughter and sister, instead staying on board to offer words of comfort to passengers.\n\nHe then gave his lifejacket to another passenger who survived, with other survivors reporting he continued to preach the Gospel as the ship sank.\n\nThe letter talks about life on board the ship and thanks his friend and colleague for a recent kindness.\n\nOriginally from Glasgow, Pastor Harper first preached at the Paisley Road Baptist Church which would later be renamed the Harper Memorial Church in 1921.\n\nThe letter begins: \"I am penning you this line just before we get to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while we were north.\"\n\nHis daughter Annie Jessie went to be the longest-living Scottish Titanic survivor and died in 1986.\n\nMr Aldridge, from Henry Aldridge and Sons auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, said: \"His actions epitomised that British generation in times of adversity.\n\n\"The condition of the letter is superb, it has been owned by a private collector for the last 25 years who has decided to pass the baton on to the next generation.\"\n\nMy Dear Brother Young. I am penning you this line just before we get to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while we were north.\n\nI intended sending on Mrs Pratt's train fares just before I left but in the rush, which was exceptional having had 11 or 12 services for the week-end, I was unable to get it done.\n\nI will send it on from Chicago. We had a great season of blessing during the last few days in Walworth.\n\nI don't know how I am to thank dear Aunty Mary and yourself for all your kindness. The Lord will repay you for it all. Trust things are going well at Paisley Road. The warriors are with me here and are doing well so far on the journey.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have wished Prince Charles a very happy birthday on their official social media accounts, as he turns 72.\n\nThe message, posted on Twitter and Instagram, appears alongside a picture of a smiling Charles.\n\nNormally, the heir to the throne's birthday is celebrated with gun salutes in Green Park, the Tower of London and in other parts of the country.\n\nHowever, ceremonial gunfire has been suspended amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe prince's birthday comes near the end of an eventful year.\n\nIn March, he contracted coronavirus and travelled to Scotland to self-isolate for seven days after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nAt the time, the Duchess of Cornwall tested negative for the virus and self-isolated for 14 days.\n\nThe Prince of Wales later said he \"got away with it quite lightly\". Earlier this month, palace sources told the BBC Prince William had also tested positive for Covid-19 at a similar time to his 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 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Duke and Duchess of Cambridge\n\nPrince Charles, who is patron of more than 400 organisations, is the eldest son of the Queen.\n\nHe became heir apparent on the death of his grandfather King George VI, when his mother succeeded to the throne in 1952 - when he was just three years old.\n\nHe took the title, the Prince of Wales, in July 1958 when he was nine.\n\nPrince Charles, eldest son of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, was born at Buckingham Palace on 14 November, 1948\n\nNow 72, Prince Charles is grandfather to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's three children - George, Charlotte and Louis, as well as Archie, the young son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex who live in California.\n\nThe official Twitter account for Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall later thanked people for their birthday wishes alongside an autumnal picture of the prince in his kilt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall", "Police asked residents to report the driver of the red Nissan Navara (stock image) if he annoys residents again\n\nA driver who repeatedly shouted \"wakey wakey\" from his car in the early hours has been given a police warning.\n\nHampshire Police said it received \"many complaints\" about a man and his passengers shouting \"at the top of their voices\" in the Brockhurst and Elson areas of Gosport.\n\nThe red Nissan Navara driver was also seen turning off his lights and shouting \"you can't call the police because you can't see us\".\n\nThe force said: \"How wrong he was.\"\n\nResident Karen O'Brien, who runs Brockhurst Cafe, told the BBC at about 01:40 GMT on Tuesday or Wednesday she heard \"somebody on a megaphone shouting wakey wakey\".\n\n\"They did it twice and went up and down the road,\" she said.\n\n\"It was pretty loud, and it happened a couple of days later and woke my husband up.\n\n\"I spoke to my son and he heard it once, but he couldn't actually see anything out the window. Neither could I.\"\n\nOfficers eventually caught up with the 21-year-old driver, from Fareham, and issued him with a warning.\n\nThe warning means the driver's car can be seized if he gives residents further unwelcome wake-up calls in the next 12 months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The blaze on Saturday evening ripped through the intensive care unit at the hospital\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and several others seriously injured in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in Romania, officials say.\n\nThe blaze broke out in the intensive care unit of the public hospital in the north-eastern city of Piatra Neamt.\n\nOne doctor who tried to rescue patients is said to be in a critical condition after suffering serious burns.\n\nRomania's Health Minister Nelu Tataru told local media the fire was \"most likely triggered by a short circuit\".\n\nMr Tataru said that other Covid patients being treated at the hospital were being transferred to another facility in the city of Iasi.\n\nThe injured doctor, who is said to have suffered severe burning to most of his body, was being transferred to the capital, Bucharest, by a military plane, local media report.\n\n\"There are other medical staff who suffered burns, not only the doctor on duty,\" Mr Tataru said, adding that he was heading to Piatra Neamt following the incident at the hospital on Saturday evening.\n\nEight of the victims were reportedly killed in the room where the fire broke out on the second floor, and two others in a room next to it. All were said have been receiving treatment for coronavirus. Many in the ward were on ventilators.\n\nThe fire was believed to have spread quickly after it was fed oxygen by the supplies used to intubate patients, the health ministry said.\n\nRomania has reported more than 350,000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, and 8,813 deaths.\n\nOn Friday, the country recorded 9,489 new daily Covid cases, 174 deaths and 1,149 patients in intensive care.", "Restaurants and cafes are closed except for takeaway in England until 2 December\n\nThe next two weeks will be \"absolutely crucial\" if England's lockdown is to end as planned on 2 December, a government scientific adviser has said.\n\nProf Susan Michie said the public must resist breaking the rules in order to \"be in a position\" to spend the festive period with loved ones.\n\nNews of a potential vaccine would make \"no difference\" to the current wave but could lead to complacency, she added.\n\nThe prime minister has said the current restrictions will \"expire\" next month.\n\nProf Michie, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was too early to know what should replace the measures when they end, with the coming fortnight being key.\n\nShe said: \"They're going to be a very challenging two weeks, partly because of the weather, partly because, I think, the promise of a vaccine may be making people feel complacent.\"\n\nBut she said data showed adherence to lockdown rules had been \"pretty steady since the summer\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 26,860 Covid cases on Saturday, along with 462 deaths within 28 days of positive test.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants as well as non-essential shops have been forced to close during the four-week lockdown in England.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously insisted the measures will end as scheduled but Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said measures could last beyond 2 December.\n\nProf Michie said people had to \"get their resolve together\" and resist any urge to break the rules, in order to maximise the chance of leaving lockdown.\n\nHowever, she said she was \"quite hopeful\" after tough measures in Wales and Northern Ireland brought transmission rates down.\n\nWales finished its 17-day firebreak lockdown restrictions on Monday. Much of Northern Ireland's economy was placed under tight measures on 16 October.\n\nScotland introduced a four-tier system on 2 November after ending national curbs on the hospitality industry. Areas in the west of Scotland have been warned they may be placed under the highest level of restrictions next week.\n\nIt comes after documents released by Sage on Friday, and dated 4 November, warned that a return to the tiered system of coronavirus restrictions in England after lockdown ends could see infections rise again.\n\nOn Friday, Sage said that the R number - the rate at which the virus spreads - for the UK had fallen to 1-1.2, with experts believing it is already below 1 in some places.\n\nIf the R number is lower than one then the disease will eventually stop spreading\n\nDame Anne Johnson, professor of epidemiology at University College London, said the evidence suggested tier three restrictions had brought the R value down but it was not clear if they would get it under 1.", "The son of Sutcliffe's first victim, Wilma McCann, had appealed for an apology\n\nA police force has apologised for the \"language, tone and terminology\" used in the 1970s to describe some of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims.\n\nSenior West Yorkshire officers said some of the 13 women killed by Peter Sutcliffe, who has died aged 74, were \"innocent\" but implied others were not.\n\nThe son of his first victim Wilma McCann had appealed for an apology.\n\nForce Chief Constable John Robins said the language used at the time was \"as wrong then as it is now\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before an apology from police, Richard McCann, the son of Peter Sutcliffe's first victim, Wilma McCann, reacts to his death\n\nSpeaking earlier, Richard McCann, who was five when his mother was killed, said: \"They described some of the women as 'innocent', inferring that some were not innocent - including my mum.\n\n\"She was a family woman who, through no fault of her own, was going through adversity and made some bad decisions, some risky decisions.\"\n\n\"She paid for those decisions with her life.\"\n\nTwelve of the 13 women Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering: (Top row) Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson, Jayne McDonald and Jean Jordan.(Bottom row) Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka, Vera Millward, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach and Jacqueline Hill\n\nMr Robins said: \"On behalf of West Yorkshire Police, I apologise for the additional distress and anxiety caused to all relatives by the language, tone and terminology used by senior officers at the time in relation to Peter Sutcliffe's victims.\n\n\"Such language and attitudes may have reflected wider societal attitudes of the day, but it was as wrong then as it is now.\"\n\nHe added that the force's approach to investigations was now \"wholly victim-focused\".\n\nAfter the force published its apology, Mr McCann tweeted: \"Now that's worth celebrating. Thank You.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDetectives, journalists and the attorney general who prosecuted Sutcliffe have been criticised for dismissing some women who died as sex workers.\n\nSenior officers' focus on the killer targeting only sex workers was seen as one of the many crucial wrong turns taken during the 1970s investigation.\n\nAt Sutcliffe's trial, prosecutor Sir Michael Havers, then attorney general, said: \"Some were prostitutes but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Sutcliffe case was a humiliation for West Yorkshire police, revealing deep operational and cultural problems within the force and wider policing.\n\nReviews focused on the inquiry's shortcomings in a bungled investigation that never got on top of processing the information it received.\n\nThe consequence was sweeping reform to the way major crime investigations were conducted.\n\nBut the investigation was also compromised by the misogyny and racism of 1970s police culture.\n\nIn 1979, one senior detective told reporters the killer \"has made it clear he hates prostitutes, many people do, but the Ripper is now killing innocent girls.\"\n\nPolice categorised Sutcliffe's victims as \"innocent\" and \"non-innocent\" based on class and lifestyle.\n\nMarcella Claxton, a black woman who survived an attack by Sutcliffe in 1976 was racially abused, wrongly labelled a prostitute and her accurate description of the killer was dismissed.\n\nThe police service is now more diverse but some question whether the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire is right to say attitudes associated with the Ripper investigation are, \"thankfully, consigned to history\".\n\nThe victims' commissioner Vera Baird points to today's low number of rape prosecutions, suggesting the blaming of victims, particularly when they are women, still continues.\n\nThe investigation was led at various times by (l to r) Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield, Chief Constable Ronald Gregory and acting Assistant Chief Constable Jim Hobson\n\nDame Louise Casey, the UK's first Victims' Commissioner said she was \"pleased\" to hear the force had apologised adding: \"God forbid we ever go back to those days\".\n\nRuth Bundey, a civil rights layer who later went on to represent some of the Ripper's victims, said: \"It's been a long time coming. I'm glad it's come at last but of course there were some dreadful things said, even at Sutcliffe's trial.\"\n\nHowever, former West Yorkshire Police officer Elaine Benson, who worked on the Sutcliffe murders, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme she had not witnessed victims being treated differently.\n\n\"I was in the police service for 30 years and things became more politically correct and they were not at that time,\" she said.\n\n\"But I did not see from my position that any investigation was any the less for what a person's occupation was or for what they did.\n\n\"I never saw anything of that at all. They were murder victims and each murder was investigated as thoroughly as they could investigate it.\"\n\nCurrent serving police officers said Sutcliffe was a \"monster\" who should \"rot in hell\" after hearing he had died.\n\nBrian Booth, chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, said: \"'On hearing of the death of Peter Sutcliffe today, I feel good riddance.\n\n\"He is the very reason most people step to the plate and become police officers - to protect our communities from people like him.\"\n\nJohn Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, urged people to remember the victims and not Sutcliffe.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The 13 women he murdered and the 7 who survived his brutal attacks are in my thoughts.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's official spokesman said the PM's thoughts were with those who died, their families and friends and with those who survived.\n\nHe said: \"Peter Sutcliffe was a depraved and evil individual whose crimes caused unimaginable suffering and appalled this country, nothing will ever detract from the harm that he caused, but it is right that he died behind bars for his barbaric murders and for his attempted murders.\"\n• None The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Video, 00:01:18The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nJamie George earned his 50th England cap against Italy in October Hooker Jamie George's hat-trick helped England to a comfortable six-try victory against Georgia in their first match at Twickenham since March. Flanker Jack Willis opened the scoring in a dream start to his debut, before George went over twice in mauls. Elliot Daly added a fourth before half-time after an impressive break in midfield from Jonathan Joseph. George completed his hat-trick with a replica of his first two scores before Dan Robson darted over. England are now top of their Autumn Nations Cup pool and have two more group games against Ireland and Wales before facing a yet-to-be-determined opponent from Pool B to decide final placings.\n• None We left 20 points out there - Jones England had not played at Twickenham since their Six Nations defeat of Wales eight months ago, before coronavirus brought rugby to a standstill. With the stands empty, all the pressure was on the players to give an entertaining performance to make up for the lack of atmosphere in South-West London. So it looked promising when captain Owen Farrell sent a cross-field kick to Jonny May, but the wing knocked it on to miss out on the chance of an early score. The Georgians held off England heroically, rewarded with cheers from their replacements' bench rather than 80,000 at Twickenham, but Willis finally found his way across after 15 minutes. The 23-year-old's first cap had been given plenty of column inches before the match and he completed the perfect debut narrative as he drove his legs, twisted and turned to make his way across the tryline. A lack of fans was not the only change at Twickenham. English rugby edged its way into the 21st century as recent number one Head & Heart played out to celebrate the try, with the usual Sweet Caroline soundtrack absent. England's backline stalled as Georgia continued to put up a good fight, but George eventually crossed at the back of a maul after an England line-out in the corner. Head coach Eddie Jones had spoken all week about England's tactical discipline being more important than fireworks against their tier-two opponents and his side continued to do the basics right. The third try mirrored the second as the maul rolled on and George crossed again. Things took a more exciting turn as Joseph, on the wing for the day but told he had free rein going into the game, broke through in the midfield. He sent the ball right and Daly was at the end of the line to sprint over for his score. That was Joseph's final play of the match as he limped off and was replaced by Joe Marchant. Jack Willis was due to tour South Africa with England in 2018 but withdrew with a knee injury The wind picked up during half-time and rain began to fall, dampening England's momentum. Willis' debut, which he had been waiting for since injury stole his chance before the South Africa tour in 2018, came to an early end when he was replaced by Ben Earl in the 47th minute. With little happening for the hosts on the pitch, Jones continued to work through his bench as props Mako Vunipola and Kyle Sinckler came on for Ellis Genge and Will Stuart. Some life was breathed into the match as Georgia were given their best chance of the match thanks to a kick out on the full from Daly. The Eastern Europeans kicked to the corner but their maul was stopped by Charlie Ewels and England were soon back down the other end. Again, they went to the tried and tested George method and the hooker went over again, capitalising on the power of his fellow forwards in a carbon-copy of his first two scores. England continued to build pressure and Robson picked the ball up from a ruck and sniped through two tackles to cross for England's sixth and final try. Shortly after, Robson opted to kick the ball out rather than play on as the clock went red and The Greatest Showman theme tune rang out as the Twickenham DJ signalled their approval of the home side's performance. Jamie George's three tries may have been a result of all the forwards' work but a hat-trick is an impressive feat for a hooker. 'You can't give it the big one after maul tries' - what they said England hooker Jamie George, speaking to Amazon Prime: \"It was a great team performance. Most pleasing for me was forwards-wise we stepped up to the plate. \"It's something we pride ourselves on. We are back here at Twickenham, missing the crowd massively, but we constantly try to push it with our set-piece so it was great to get over the line. \"You can't give it the big one after maul tries! I was happy keeping it low key.\" Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, England head coach Eddie Jones said: \"Georgia obviously came out and wanted to play a certain way, and we wanted to prove a point that they wouldn't be able to out-scrum us. \"When you play in these conditions it is enormously important and if you get an opportunity to keep the ball, it's a way of scoring tries. \"Ireland will come here with a plan. The last few games we have probably had the edge so they will be motivated to change that.\" England debutant Jack Willis told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It is something I have dreamed of since I was a young lad. To get this opportunity is something I will always be grateful for. \"Eddie has been great since I have been in camp and this is a group that is building. I'm lucky to be a part of it. I loved every second of it and hopefully I can get another chance soon. \"There are some incredible players in the back row and it's a job for me to try and break into that group.\" Georgia stood up to England as best they could, but they did not have the creativity, strategy or gameplan to take England on. The contrast next week is that Ireland will match England up front for longer. There will be parity for longer than Georgia provided so the emphasis will be on the backline to back up the work of the forwards.\n• None Jamie George is the first England men's hooker to score a hat-trick\n• None The last time England won at Twickenham without conceding a point was when they beat Canada 70-0 in 2004\n• None England have won 26 of their last 29 games in England, drawn one and lost two\n• None Jack Willis is the first England forward to score on debut since Billy Vunipola against Argentina in 2013 Replacements: Marchant for Joseph (38), Earl for Willis (46), M Vunipola for Genge (47), Sinckler for Stuart (47), Robson for Youngs (61), Malins for Lawrence (61), Dunn for George (64), Curry for Ewels (64). Replacements: Gogichashvili for Nariashvili (46), Bregvadze for Mamukashvili (46), Kaulashvili for Gigashvili (59), Giorgadze for Gorgadze (59), Javakhia for Kerdikoshvili (64), Lobzhanidze for Aprasidze (65), Jalaghonia for Tkhilaishvili (72), Todua for Svanidze (79).\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "A deal to end six weeks of war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh came into effect this week - but families on both sides are still counting the cost of the fighting.\n\nMehdi Mammadov was an Azerbaijani soldier. Even as his family grieved his death they were about to lose another loved one, in the wake of a secret relationship.\n\nRead more: Why did Armenia and Azerbaijan go to war?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDominic Cummings has left Downing Street after internal battles over his role as Boris Johnson's chief adviser.\n\nThe BBC understands he will continue to work from home, on issues such as mass coronavirus testing, until the middle of December.\n\nThe prime minister is said to want to \"clear the air and move on\".\n\nMr Cummings has been at the heart of a No 10 power struggle, which has also seen communications director Lee Cain leave.\n\nSeveral Tory MPs have welcomed the pair's departure as a chance for Mr Johnson to make a fresh start.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Cummings' departure from No 10 had been brought forward given the \"upset in the team\" in Downing Street, for which she said it had been a \"difficult week\".\n\nShe said there had been long-running tensions between different factions in No 10 but this \"slow burning fuse exploded fast when it finally happened\".\n\nMr Cummings and Mr Cain are long-time colleagues, having worked together on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nWhen Mr Cain's exit was announced on Wednesday, it prompted rumours that his ally would also step down.\n\nIn response, Mr Cummings told the BBC \"rumours of me threatening to resign are invented\" but said his \"position hasn't changed\" since he wrote in January that he wanted to make himself \"largely redundant\" by the end of 2020.\n\nPending what is expected to be a wide-ranging shake-up in No 10, Lord Lister - a close ally of Mr Johnson's who served as his deputy when he was London mayor - has been named interim chief of staff, a position which had been vacant.\n\nThe power struggle in Downing Street may have been resolved but the feuding continues.\n\nA dramatic day ended with conflicting accounts of the denouement involving Boris Johnson and his departing aides, Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain.\n\nNewsnight has been told that relations between the trio \"went off the cliff\" in the early afternoon. The prime minister's team reportedly learnt at around 2.00pm that Mr Cummings' team had described him as indecisive. They also heard of an alleged briefing against the prime minister's partner, Carrie Symonds, who had apparently been uneasy about a plan to promote Lee Cain to chief of staff.\n\nNewsnight was told that the prime minister expressed his displeasure during a meeting with Mr Cummings and Mr Cain. He reportedly told then he knew what they were up to and they would have to leave.\n\nThis account is strongly disputed by Mr Cain and Mr Cummings' side.\n\nA source said that Mr Cummings and Mr Cain held a very friendly and warm 45 minute meeting with the prime minister. Mr Johnson reportedly told them: \"I want to get the band back before the next election.\"\n\nThe prime minister then agreed to a request from Mr Cain to sign a pair of boxing gloves, used during the general election, emblazoned with the words: \"Get Brexit Done.\"\n\nMr Cummings left the building. But Mr Cain, the outgoing director of communications, remained for a farewell reception in the press office. That was addressed by the prime minister before Mr Cain was \"banged out\" in the style of a traditional newspaper farewell.\n\nThe prime minister reportedly said that relations remain good with the two aides but that relationships can break up, at which point you no longer live together. He was keen to emphasise there was no ill will, according to this account.\n\nMr Johnson worked with Mr Cummings on the 2016 Vote Leave campaign and hired Mr Cummings to be his senior adviser, when he became prime minister.\n\nSix months later the pair's \"Get Brexit Done\" campaign message helped Mr Johnson win a large majority in the general election.\n\nMr Cummings became more of a public figure in the past year and was forced into holding his own news conference at Downing Street in the summer, following controversy over him making a trip to the north of England when non-essential travel was banned at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe had a notoriously difficult relationship with Conservative MPs, several of whom have welcomed his exit and said it was time for things to be done differently in Downing Street.\n\nLee Cain worked with Dominic Cummings on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum\n\n\"Both Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were pretty dismissive of backbenchers and sometimes ministers and secretaries of state, and I don't think that was helpful,\" said former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers.\n\n\"I do think it's important that whoever takes over has a different approach.\"\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin said it was time to restore \"respect, integrity and trust\" between No 10 and Tory MPs while veteran Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale said it was \"an opportunity to muck out the stables\".\n\nLabour said the PM could \"rearrange the deckchairs all he wants... but the responsibility for this government's incompetence still lies firmly at Boris Johnson's door\".\n\n\"The fact there is no plan and no focus in the government's response to Covid is entirely down to him,\" a party source said.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman, James Slack, who will replace Mr Cain in the new year, insisted Mr Johnson is not being distracted from the national crisis by the row.\n\n\"What the prime minister and the government are focused upon is taking every possible step to get this country through the coronavirus pandemic,\" Mr Slack said.", "The Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"enduring connections\" between the UK and Germany as negotiators prepare for post-Brexit trade talks to continue.\n\nPrince Charles said though politicians were discussing the \"shape\" of the countries' relationship, their \"fundamental bond\" would remain strong.\n\nHis wife, Camilla, has joined him on their first official overseas visit since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nEarlier, they attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial in Berlin.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are the first members of the Royal Family to attend the ceremony at the Bundestag, the German parliament, in Berlin, marking the country's National Day of Mourning for victims of war.\n\nThe prince told those gathered: \"The United Kingdom has chosen a future outside the European Union, and the relationship between our countries is evolving once again.\n\n\"Its shape is a matter negotiated between our governments and its essence is defined by the enduring connections between our people.\n\n\"It is, therefore, my heartfelt belief that the fundamental bond between us will remain strong: we will always be friends, partners and allies.\n\n\"As our countries begin this new chapter in our long history, let us reaffirm our bond for the years ahead.\"\n\nThe speech comes 75 years after the end of World War Two and as post-Brexit trade talks are reaching their crucial final stages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting Berlin to commemorate Germany’s National Day of Mourning\n\nReferring to the English poet John Donne, who wrote that \"no man is an island\", the heir to the throne said: \"One might equally submit that no country is really an island either, other than in the wholly literal sense.\n\n\"Our histories bind us tightly together and our destinies, although each our own to forge, are interdependent to a considerable degree.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were welcomed to Germany by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender on the steps of the Bellevue Palace in Berlin.\n\nThe four then travelled to the Neue Wache Central Memorial, dedicated to victims of war and tyranny, where a wreath had been laid on behalf of the prince in front of a sculpture titled Mother With Her Dead Son.\n\nThe sculpture was designed by German artist Kathe Kollwitz in memory of her own son who died in World War One.\n\nPrince Charles briefly touched the wreath before joining the president and four other German dignitaries in a silence as a trumpet solo echoed through the building.\n\nThe message on the prince's poppy wreath read: \"In everlasting remembrance of all victims of conflict and tyranny. Charles.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stand in silence along with other dignitaries\n\nCamilla then laid a posy featuring rosemary for remembrance and olive, white daisies and nerines for peace.\n\nThee royal couple flew to Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Saturday evening in the UK's ministerial RAF Voyager jet - the first time it has flown dignitaries since a makeover costing almost £1m.\n\nThe prince, who celebrated his 72nd birthday on Saturday, was presented with a birthday cake during the flight.\n\nThe royal couple flew to Germany in the refurbished ministerial RAF Voyager jet\n\nThe Royal Family have carried out a number of European visits since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nDuring a tour of Germany in May last year, Prince Charles said the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\" post-Brexit.\n\nAnd when his son, the Duke of Cambridge, visited the country in 2016, William said the depth of Britain's friendship with Germany would not change after the UK left the EU.\n\nAhead of his trip, the Prince Charles held a telephone meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.", "Celebrations on Leicester's Golden Mile are said to be the largest outside of India\n\nEvery year, Leicester's Golden Mile - the city's length of road famous for its South Asian connections - becomes a noisy, joyous mass of colour and light as residents and visitors from around the world celebrate Diwali. But this year's lockdown means festivities will look very different.\n\nFor years the city has played host to one of the biggest celebrations of the festival of light outside India, with Hindus, Sikhs and Jains catching up, dressing in their finest clothes, cooking feasts and exchanging gifts.\n\nFor two nights of the year the road attracts 40-50,000 people for the lights switch-on and an evening of music and dancing.\n\nJoshna (left) said she had missed the atmosphere on the Golden Mile\n\nJoshna Ramji, 62, who lives in nearby Oadby, said she loved the \"buzz of the Golden Mile\" during Diwaili but this year felt very strange.\n\n\"Normally all the shops have decorations and signs up in their windows,\" she said. \"[The Golden Mile] is full of people buying gifts, food, new clothes or getting their hair done.\n\n\"But this year nobody is doing that and it is very, very quiet as businesses are closed. The atmosphere is very different.\"\n\nLeicester is the only British city to have been living under coronavirus restrictions continuously since March, meaning even though its usual celebrations have been severely curtailed, the urge to enjoy the festivities has for many people in the city been stronger than ever.\n\nDiwali for Joshna usually includes a big meal with family and friends\n\n\"Diwali is all about light over darkness and good over evil, which is even more important this year,\" said Mrs Ramji.\n\n\"It will bring a lot of pleasure to everybody at a time some people are feeling isolated and alone.\"\n\nInstead of the usual week-long of celebrations with friends and family, Mrs Ramji will just be cooking for herself and her husband at home.\n\n\"Normally we wake up early for prayers, light up candles and then have a lavish, lavish Indian meal at my sister's house and have fireworks,\" she said.\n\n\"This year it will just be us, but I'm going to put candles at the front of the house, inside, the back of the house and in the garden, just to make it feel as special as possible.\n\n\"It is a bit sad but we have to try and keep the Diwali spirit however we can otherwise it would be miserable.\"\n\nOwners of businesses on the Golden Mile who had hoped to rely on Diwali to make up for their losses this year described the road as \"very eerie\".\n\nDharmesh Lakhani, who owns Bobby's restaurant, said: \"The lights are up, the decorations are up but there are only a few people shopping for food and groceries.\n\n\"This festival is like our Christmas. So this is our Christmas gone.\"\n\nMr Lakhani said takings around the festival would be 15% of the usual trade.\n\n\"Businesses all down the road would be gearing up for this period with their new clothing designs and making all the sweets and we would have bookings of families meeting up for dinner,\" he said.\n\n\"Usually our shop is really busy, the road is busy and it's something celebrated by not just Hindus and Sikhs, but the whole city.\"\n\nThe crowds will be absent from Leicester's Diwali celebrations this year\n\nKaran Modha, who owns clothes shop Anokhi Sarees, said people would usually be buying new clothes for their Diwali celebrations or to give as gifts.\n\n\"People who are furloughed or lost their jobs are not going to be thinking about buying new outfits this year,\" he said.\n\n\"If they are doing a Zoom, they will just put some make up on, do their hair and wear something old.\"\n\nThis year will be the first time the shop has not hosted an in-store party for the celebration since the 1970s.\n\n\"It's going to be sad sitting at home instead, not knowing what to do with myself,\" added Mr Modha.\n\n\"The whole street feels weird at the moment. It doesn't feel like Diwali. There's not that jolly, vibrant feel.\n\n\"We are known for our window display at Diwali and we did it anyway because we wanted to still keep that tradition.\n\n\"This year I included a statue of Ganesh to spread some luck and joy, not just for ourselves and the other businesses on the street, but for everybody.\n\n\"We all need some kind of luck this year.\"\n\nAnokhi Sarees hopes their Diwali window display will bring luck and joy to the city\n\nPraful Bhatt, who runs meals on wheels charity Jalaram Sadvrat Leicester, has been delivering Diwali goody bags to elderly people to lift their spirits.\n\n\"This time has been pretty bad for the elderly and the vulnerable,\" he said.\n\n\"We've put together some bags with special Diwali foods - ghughra, chakli, mathia and Indian sweets barfi and halwa.\"\n\nMr Bhatt, who has been delivering food to elderly people since March, said it would be a very different festival.\n\n\"This time it'll be staying home as opposed to going out to celebrate but people are still upbeat about it,\" he said.\n\nPraful Bhatt has been delivering Diwali goody bags across Leicestershire to cheer up the elderly\n\nDespite the lockdown restrictions, the city council said it wanted people to enjoy Diwali from their own homes with a virtual celebration.\n\nCouncillor Piara Singh Clair said a video including messages from community leaders, as well as religious, musical and cultural elements, would be available on the Visit Leicester website from 19:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe said his \"heart went out\" to businesses on the Golden Mile.\n\n\"It was a big day they were looking forward to,\" he said.\n\nMr Singh Clair said he was disappointed so many key celebrations for the city had been disrupted this year but hoped one positive of the virtual Diwali event was that it would be shared with families worldwide.\n\nNima will be holding prayers at home with her husband and two children\n\nIndeed, there have been hopes the quieter tone of this year's celebrations could bring other aspects of Diwali to the fore.\n\nNima Suchak, a volunteer at the Hare Krishna Temple in Granby Street, has been taking part in virtual meditation and prayers every evening this month, which she said had been \"comforting\" during lockdown.\n\n\"In one sense it takes away all the external stuff of Diwali that people do get caught up in - the food, the gifts,\" said the 43-year-old from Knighton.\n\n\"Diwali is the pinnacle of the year for us, of bringing light into our lives, and there are opportunities that have come with lockdown that have meant personal reflection.\n\n\"Covid has impacted us all, so in one sense we might not be celebrating in a big way but we can take this time to look after ourselves and each other.\n\n\"We are going to be thinking about those less fortunate and see Diwali, just like Christmas, as a time that's not just about eating and drinking, but about thinking of others.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The R number for the UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2, the closest it's been to 1 since early September.\n\nIt comes as the Office for National Statistics says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.\n\nData up to 6 November, the day after England's second lockdown began, shows infections falling in the north west but rising in the south and Midlands.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, infection rates were levelling off, the ONS says.\n\nBut in Wales rising infection levels were still continuing.\n\nAnd it's too early to say if they were stabilising a week ago in Scotland.\n\nAlthough growth may be slowing in some parts of the country, the government's scientific advisers say \"significant levels of healthcare demand and mortality will persist until R is reduced to and remains well below 1 for an extended period of time\".\n\nAn estimate of the R number, or reproduction number, of the virus is published every week and based on a number of different sources of data, including the ONS infection survey.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on thousands of swab tests in random households across the UK, thought to be one of the most reliable ways of judging how many people are infected with the virus - not just those with symptoms.\n\nThe data for the week to 6 November shows:\n\nIn England, the number of new cases is stabilising at 50,000 per day, the ONS says.\n\nBut infection rates appeared to be increasing in the south east, south west and East Midlands during that week where they had previously been low.\n\nAmong teenagers and young adults, who have seen the highest levels of the virus, infection rates appear to be levelling off or even falling.\n\nData from the Covid symptom app, based on one million people reporting symptoms, suggests cases are coming down across most areas of the UK - although numbers are still high.\n\nTheir figures are based on 13,000 swab tests carried out by users during the two weeks up to 8 November.\n\nGovernment figures on lab-confirmed cases show a picture of rising cases in many regions of England, but falling in the north west.\n\nOn Friday, there were 27,301 new confirmed cases of the virus in the UK - down from a record-high of 33,470 on Thursday. These represent people with symptoms who've received positive tests.\n\nHealth officials said Thursday's rise could be a result of people being infected while socialising in the days before England's second lockdown started on 5 November.\n\nAccording to the latest data from Public Health England, infection rates are rising quickly in the over-80s, who are most at risk from Covid-19.\n\nPHE said limiting contact with others \"will help to stop the spread of the virus and protect the people we love\".\n\nDifferent levels of restrictions on people's lives are currently in place across the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vienna imposed a partial lockdown at the start of November, including an overnight curfew\n\nAustria is moving from a night curfew and partial shutdown to a second national lockdown that will be in place for at least two and a half weeks.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz has urged Austrians not to meet anyone from outside their household in an attempt to curb a rapid rise in Covid cases.\n\nHe said schools would close and students would learn from home when new measures come into force on Tuesday.\n\nAustria reported a record number of 9,586 new daily infections on Friday.\n\nThat figure was nine times higher than at the peak of the initial wave earlier this year. The country has recorded more than 191,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, and 1,661 Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe new lockdown measures, which will see all non-essential shops and services - including hairdressers - close, will remain in place until 6 December. People have been told to work at home wherever possible.\n\nAustria's Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said it was the last chance to stop the health service from collapsing under the pressure of new infections.\n\nHe said Austrians had already done it once and they could do it again.\n\nAustria had its first nationwide lockdown in March, during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAmid rising numbers, the capital Vienna had already imposed a partial lockdown, including a curfew from 20:00 to 06:00, at the start of November.\n\nCountries across Europe are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, with some - such as Sweden - warning that it is too early to plan for Christmas travel.\n\nIn Italy, more regions have been added to the list of coronavirus high-risk \"red zones\". Campania and Tuscany will join other regions placed under the strictest lockdown measures from Sunday.\n\nAuthorities in Campania, which includes Naples, have warned that the health system there is close to collapse. Italy passed one million confirmed cases earlier this week and there have been more than 44,000 deaths in the country.\n\nRestaurant workers in Rome protested against the latest restrictions on Friday\n\nA quarter of the new cases are in Lombardy, which includes Milan. It was the worst-hit area in Italy's first outbreak and it was Europe's first coronavirus hotspot.\n\nCampania, however, has shot straight from the yellow zone to red as a spike in cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.\n\nRegions are divided into three zones - red for the highest risk, then orange and yellow. In the red zone at the moment are Lombardy, Bolzano, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north, and Calabria in the south.\n\nIn these areas, which cover about 16.5 million people in a population of 60 million, residents can only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies. All non-essential shops are closed.\n\nBars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks. Hairdressers can remain open.\n\nGreece has announced that primary schools, kindergartens and day-care centres must close, as it tackles a death rate that has quadrupled since late October.\n\nSince Friday night, a curfew from 21:00 to 05:00 is in place nationwide.\n\nLockdowns and other measures are in force in several European countries experiencing a second wave of the virus. In other developments:", "The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Image caption: The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn\n\nThe Carter Center has announced that it will monitor the manual recount of ballots in Georgia, the first time in its history that it will deploy its monitors for a US election.\n\nIt said it wanted to increase confidence in US democracy.\n\n\"As an independent, nonpartisan monitor, The Carter Center will assess the postelection audit and related processes to help bolster transparency and confidence in election results,\" it said in a statement.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is currently ahead in Georgia, but earlier this week its secretary of state announced a full hand recount of the almost five million votes cast because of the narrow margin between the two candidates.\n\nDonald Trump has made numerous allegations of election fraud since the vote without providing any evidence.\n\nThe Carter Center has observed more than 110 elections in Africa, Latin America, and Asia since 1989, but never before in the US.\n\nThe organisation stressed that its involvement would be limited to Georgia's post-election audit, adding that the decision was \"not part of a broader assessment of the election as a whole\".\n\nEarlier this year, the Carter Center announced that it would be turning its attention to the US by launching a campaign \"to strengthen transparency and trust in the election process\" amid increasing polarisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nArgentina beat New Zealand for the first time in their history with a 25-15 win in the Rugby Championship.\n\nThe match was Argentina's first Test in 13 months, and their victory ensured the All Blacks suffered a second defeat in a row, after losing to Australia.\n\nThe Pumas led 16-3 at the break and kept New Zealand at bay to secure a famous and shock win in Sydney.\n\n\"This is a big day for Argentina rugby and also for our country and people,\" said Argentina captain Pablo Matera.\n\n\"It very tough there at the moment and it was tough for us to come here and prepare ourselves for this tournament.\n\n\"We just want to show our people that if you work hard with a lot of determination you can get things done.\n\n\"We are really proud of this team and of our country.\"\n\nVictory was Argentina's first in 30 Test matches against the All Blacks.\n\nFly-half Nicolas Sanchez scored all of their points with a try, six penalties and a conversion.\n\nNew Zealand, who lost 24-22 to Australia last week in Brisbane, have been beaten in two consecutive Test matches for the first time since August 2011.\n\n\"They probably brought more intensity,\" said All Blacks captain Sam Cane. \"Their defence was outstanding.\n\n\"We couldn't really get our game going and put them under any pressure with the ball. Too many little errors and ill-discipline issues and they kept the scoreboard ticking over.\n\n\"We weren't good enough, which is extremely disappointing but full credit to them.\"\n\nThis is one of the most sensational results in recent rugby union history, especially when you consider how Argentina had not played a Test match since the Rugby World Cup 13 months ago.\n\nThey were expected to be thrashed by a battle-hardened New Zealand; remember world champions South Africa pulled out of the Rugby Championship citing a lack of match preparation time.\n\nWhile it is a famous day for the Pumas and a huge result for world rugby, the All Blacks inquest will begin. They have now lost two in a row for the first time since 2011 and look a shadow of the all-conquering side they were under Steve Hansen.\n\nIan Foster was a controversial appointment to many. Given he only has a two-year contract, he finds himself under pressure already.\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities have urged communities to evacuate as a hurricane approaches Central America.\n\nForecasters say Iota is expected to strengthen to a \"major hurricane\" by the time it makes landfall in Nicaragua and Honduras.\n\nThe US National Hurricane Center warned of \"potentially catastrophic winds\" and \"a life-threatening storm surge\".\n\nCentral America is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Eta, which killed at least 200 people this month.\n\nThe worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead. At least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in the country.\n\nAccess to some hard-hit areas in Honduras remains difficult after Hurricane Eta\n\nIota - the 13th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season - is expected to hit coastal areas of Honduras and Nicaragua on Monday.\n\n\"Hurricane conditions and a dangerous storm surge are expected,\" the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned.\n\nIota had maximum sustained winds of about 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) as it approached the region on Sunday, but forecasters said it was rapidly strengthening.\n\nThe NHC warned that \"flooding and mudslides in Nicaragua and Honduras could be exacerbated by Hurricane Eta's recent effects there\".\n\nParts of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, El Salvador and Colombia have been warned to prepare for \"life-threatening flash-flooding and river flooding\" while coastal areas of Hispaniola and Jamaica may also see \"life-threatening surf and rip current conditions\".\n\nQuejá village in Guatemala was devastated by mudslides during Eta\n\nThe Honduran authorities ordered the evacuation of people in the area of San Pedro Sula, the country's second city and industrial capital, on Friday.\n\n\"Our red alert [in Honduras] orders mandatory evacuations,\" Julissa Mercado of Honduras' Emergency Response Agency told AFP.\n\nMeanwhile, Guatemala's disaster officials have urged residents in parts of the north to voluntarily evacuate to shelters.\n\n\"Our ground is already saturated, so it's to be expected that we have more farming and infrastructure damage,\" President Alejandro Giammattei said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have nothing... I am in pain\" - Central America is counting the cost of Storm Eta\n\nIota will be the 30th storm this year to wreak havoc across Central America, the Caribbean and south-eastern US - a record for the region's hurricane season.\n\nPresident Giammattei blamed the increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes on climate change and accused industrialised nations of being responsible.\n\n\"Central America is one of the regions where climate change is felt the most,\" he told reporters after meeting his Honduran counterpart, Juan Orlando Hernández, in Guatemala City.\n\nThe region is hit by \"catastrophic floods, extreme droughts and the greatest poverty\" but nonetheless receives \"the least help on behalf of these industrialised nations,\" he was quoted by AFP as saying.", "A report by the education standards body, Ofsted, says many children have slipped back since the first lockdown. A lack of resources, enabling children to learn at home, has been one factor. The government has supplied laptops to schools in England but has struggled to deliver the amount originally promised to many schools this term.\n\nOne of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs is calling on businesses to step into the breach to recycle obsolete laptops and tablets to bridge the gap.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alannah left her abusive relationship in London in 2013\n\n\"Stay at home\" was at the core of public health advice in tackling Covid-19, the world over.\n\nBut home is not a place of safety for all.\n\nDomestic violence and abuse is at a 15-year high in Northern Ireland, with more than 32,000 incidents reported to the PSNI from June 2019 to July 2020.\n\nRestrictions to reduce the spread of Covid-19 have forced people to spend much more time at home and created the \"perfect storm\" for abusers.\n\nBBC NI Spotlight went behind the scenes at Foyle Women's Aid to find out what it's like for some of those offering help to women and families in danger.\n\nAt the time we started filming, the tree-lined avenue to one of their refuges was paved with a blaze of autumnal yellow and red leaves.\n\nThe magnificent scene appeared in sharp contrast to the trauma that makes it necessary for women and children to take sanctuary in the refuge carefully protected by security gates.\n\n\"Nobody wants to be in a refuge and we would rather we weren't here but if somebody comes here, they are very well taken care of,\" says Marie Brown, chief executive of Foyle Women's Aid.\n\nCalls to the organisation increased by 25% during the lockdown in the Spring, reflecting a trend across the UK, and Marie Brown believes that the current further restrictions will bring another surge.\n\n\"I do believe that we'll have a spike even in women contacting us. We're heading into Christmas. Christmas is not a good time for domestic violence.\"\n\nThe National Domestic Abuse Helpline can be contacted online as well as by phone\n\nThe pandemic heralded huge changes in how everyone works in the centre. Roisin Hamill, the manager of the onsite creche, finds one of the new regulations particularly difficult when dealing with families as part of their outreach programme.\n\n\"When you're out delivering packs to families, you know they've been isolated at home for so long and that look on their face seeing somebody for the first time and you can't go and give them a hug - that's really difficult for us.\n\n\"We do explain to children and we explain to mummies that this will be a socially-distanced visit, it isn't our 'normal' and we can't wait to see you back again and we can't wait to give you that big hug.\"\n\nThe centre is more than a refuge.\n\nThose dealing with the aftermath of an abusive relationship can also avail of support courses run by the organisation.\n\nAlannah suffered abuse in a former relationship in London, which she broke free from in 2013. She undertook a group course on the recommendation of a counsellor.\n\n\"There's a stereotype around what it means to be a victim of abuse,\" she tells Spotlight.\n\n\"Growing up, I would always have said: 'Sure I wouldn't stay with somebody, sure if they lifted their hand to you, why would you stay? What kind of woman would stay? It's stupid.' And it was only after my own experience that I realised it's not about why women stay.\n\n\"Quite often they are staying because they believe they can fix that broken person because people who perpetrate abuse, they're very clever, they're very manipulative.\"\n\nAlannah says that it took her time to realise that she needed to break free from the man who was doing harm to her.\n\n\"The first few times that there was physical violence, I was very concerned - obviously - for my own well-being but these people are manipulative, I was more concerned for his well-being. And that's just crazy to think that, but you do. You end up feeling sorry for that person.\n\n\"Only when I genuinely thought that I could die, and I imagined my family, and the impact that would have on them, that for me was the last straw and that was the moment that I realised I had to leave and that I couldn't fix that person.\"\n\nBack in one of Foyle Women's Aid offices, Margaret Patterson, a referral co-ordinator, is rarely off the phone.\n\n\"Some people want to tell you their whole story, some people don't want to tell you their story. And some people need encouragement just to get the basic information. We've had people who phoned who wouldn't even tell us their names. They just want someone to talk to.\"\n\nMargaret takes the initial calls from women and then a support worker is assigned to them.\n\nBut Covid-19 restrictions have also made it more difficult for support workers, like Marie Crossan, to meet service-users and, in particular, to check in with those who may still be living in the same home as their abusers.\n\n\"You know your clients, you know if there's clients still in that relationship and you know that it's going to be particularly difficult to get speaking to them.\n\n\"You have to rely on them getting out for five minutes and giving you a call.\n\n\"Maybe their partner is off work so things are quite intense because the kids are at home. Women are trying to protect the kids and trying to keep things calm at home.\"\n\nAlannah says she, along with many others, is testament to the fact that there is life after an abusive relationship.\n\n\"I genuinely didn't believe that I would ever be in a long-term relationship again.\n\n\"So then actually meeting my partner and becoming involved in a loving, healthy relationship, it was at the beginning and it still is - it amazes me some days just how nice life can be.\n\n\"Someone asked me one time, they asked me what did it feel like to be free? And I thought, 'well I don't know'. At that point I didn't really feel like I was.\n\n\"I was getting there but freedom doesn't happen when you leave the relationship. It's not this miraculous thing that people sometimes expect, 'oh she's left him now she should be happy'.\n\n\"That battle will rage in your head for a long time after you've left. Overcoming those battles is not an easy thing - but you can.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a domestic abuse call is made to the PSNI on average every 17 minutes.\n\nResources like housing, aid and legislation are among a raft of measures that deal with the aftermath of domestic abuse but preventing it, is for Alannah, something that needs to start in the home.\n\n\"I have a boy and a girl. Raising your daughter to be aware of it and to recognise red flags and leave and speak out - and that's one thing but if everybody just teaches their daughters to leave, we're not handling the problem, we need to teach our sons as well.\n\n\"We need to instil in them the values and the importance of respecting women and respecting themselves and opening up if they are struggling.\"\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for issues about domestic abuse, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nYou can see Spotlight on BBC One NI, Tuesday at 22:45 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke has apologised for a reference to black players when talking to MPs about diversity.\n\nClarke said it was inappropriate for him to have used the term \"coloured footballers\".\n\nHe had been talking by video link to members of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.\n\n\"If I said it, I deeply apologise,\" said Clarke, 63, after being prompted to say sorry by MP Kevin Brennan.\n\n\"I am a product of having worked overseas, in the USA for many years, where I was required to use the term 'people of colour' because that was a product of their diversity legislature. Sometimes I trip over my words.\"\n\nBrennan said it was the kind of language that did not encourage inclusion, while fellow committee member Alex Davies-Jones called it \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe equality charity Kick It Out said his remark should be \"consigned to the dustbin of history\" and criticised further comments by Clarke concerning people from South Asia, gay players and female footballers.\n\nAn FA spokesperson said afterwards that Clarke acknowledged his language was inappropriate.\n\n\"Greg Clarke is deeply apologetic for the language he used to reference members of the ethnic minority community during the select committee hearing today,\" said the spokesperson.\n• None BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat on why the term is so offensive\n\nClarke had been talking about racist abuse of players by trolls on social media.\n\n\"People can see if you're black and if they don't like black people because they are filthy racists, they can abuse you anonymously online,\" he said.\n\nHe had earlier spoken of the need to attract people into the sport from a range of communities.\n\n\"If you go to the IT department of the FA, there's a lot more South Asians than there are Afro-Caribbeans. They have different career interests,\" said Clarke.\n\nClarke had actually been called to give evidence to the DCMS committee about the Premier League's potential bailout of English Football League clubs and the structural reforms proposed as part of 'Project Big Picture'.\n\nBut he prompted further criticism when referring to gay players making a \"life choice\" and a coach telling him young female players did not like having the ball hit hard at them.\n\nSanjay Bhandari, executive chair at Kick It Out, said Clarke's comments were outdated.\n\n\"I was particularly concerned by the use of lazy racist stereotypes about South Asians and their supposed career preferences. It reflects similar lazy stereotypes I have heard have been spouted at club academy level,\" he said.\n\n\"Being gay is not a 'life choice' as he claimed too. The casual sexism of saying 'girls' do not like balls hit at them hard, is staggering from anyone, let alone the leader of our national game. It is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nDavid Bernstein, former FA chairman, told BBC Sport: \"I am just surprised that the chair of any organisation who's got a feel of what's going on in the year 2020 could use those types of words, that sort of language. It's just inappropriate.\"\n\nDarren Bent, former England striker: \"Slip of the tongue was it? Awful, just awful.\"\n\nAnton Ferdinand, former West Ham, Sunderland and QPR defender: \"Clearly education is needed at all levels.\"\n\nJulian Knight, DCMS select committee chairman: \"It's right that Greg Clarke apologised before the committee. However, this isn't the first time that the FA has come to grief over these issues. It makes us question their commitment to diversity.\"\n\nAlex Davies-Jones, committee member: \"The language used by Greg Clarke in our meeting this morning was absolutely abhorrent. It speaks volumes about the urgent progress that needs to made in terms of leadership on equalities issues in sport. I can't believe we're still here in 2020.\"\n\nThree years ago - in front of the same parliamentary committee, Greg Clarke was criticised for referring to institutional racism as \"fluff\". He apologised after being chastised by MPs and reminded that language matters.\n\nIt appears the message did not get through.\n\nTwo weeks after the Football Association launched a new diversity code with the aim of finally tackling racial inequality in the game, the governing body's commitment to diversity has once again been called into question.\n\nAmid BAME under-representation at board and management level within the FA, many critics will see Clarke's comments as evidence of the attitudes and language that has prevented the organisation from overseeing the progress hoped for in recent years, and he could now face calls to step down.\n\nDespite having barely been seen since the start of the year, Clarke was already under pressure over his role initiating secret talks over the Project Big Picture plans for a radical overhaul of the English game. Indeed earlier in the committee hearing, he was asked if his authority was \"shot\", something he strongly denied.\n\nBut then came his comments on diversity and use of language that Kick it Out said should \"remain consigned to the dustbin of history\".\n\nAmid an unprecedented financial crisis for the sport and damaging divisions with fans, leagues and government, the FA chairman is now embroiled in another controversy. This is another grim day for his leadership, and for the game, at the worst possible moment.\"", "Fast food giant McDonald's has announced it will introduce a line of plant-based meat alternatives called \"McPlant\" in 2021.\n\nMcDonald's said it would offer plant-based burgers, chicken substitutes and breakfast sandwiches.\n\nBarclays Bank forecasts that consumption of meat alternatives might be worth $140bn (£106bn) by 2029.\n\nMcDonald's has tested out a plant-based burger in Canada with Beyond Meat - a producer of plant-based meat.\n\nHowever, shares of Beyond Meat plummeted after the announcement by McDonald's as it was not clear who would supply the fast-food chain with the meat alternative.\n\nThe move towards meat substitutes has been driven primarily by concerns over meat's effects on health, the environment and animal welfare.\n\n\"We are excited about the opportunity because we believe we have a proven, delicious-tasting product,\" said Ian Borden, who heads McDonald's international operations.\n\nHowever, McDonald's is relatively late to enter the meat-free market.\n\nOther fast-food outlets including Burger King, White Castle and Dunkin' Brands Group have already introduced plant-based burgers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMcDonald's still relies on its flagship products like the \"Big Mac\", \"McNuggets\" and French fries, which account for around 70% of its sales in its key markets.\n\nThe company, which reported market-beating profits for its third quarter on Monday, declined to say which supplier it would use for its McPlant line of products.\n\nBeyond Meat insists it is still involved.\n\n\"Beyond Meat and McDonald's co-created the plant-based patty which will be available as part of their McPlant platform,\" the company said.", "\"Lockdown\" has been declared the word of the year for 2020 by Collins Dictionary, after a sharp rise in its usage during the pandemic.\n\nIt \"encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people\", Collins said.\n\nLexicographers registered more than 250,000 usages of \"lockdown\" during 2020, up from just 4,000 last year.\n\nOther pandemic-linked terms on the 10-strong list include \"furlough\", \"key worker\", \"self-isolate\" and \"social distancing\" as well as \"coronavirus\".\n\nAccording to the dictionary, lockdown is defined as \"the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces\".\n\nIt came into common parlance as governments around the world responded to the spread of Covid-19 in early 2020 by placing strict measure to stop transmission of the virus.\n\nNon-virus related words to make the list reflect the social and political upheavals of 2020.\n\nFollowing the death of the unarmed black man George Floyd in the US the abbreviation \"BLM\", for the Black Lives Matter movement, features having registered a 581% increase in usage, according to Collins.\n\nBlack Lives Matter protests saw BLM added to the word of the year list\n\n\"Megxit\", the term modelled on the word Brexit which was used for the withdrawal of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from royal duties also makes the list.\n\nSocial media also plays its part with \"TikToker\", describing someone who shares content on platform TikTok and \"mukbang\" - a term originating in South Korea which describes a host who broadcasts videos of themselves eating large quantities of food.\n\nHelen Newstead, language content consultant at Collins, said: \"Language is a reflection of the world around us and 2020 has been dominated by the global pandemic.\n\n\"Lockdown has affected the way we work, study, shop, and socialize.\n\n\"With many countries entering a second lockdown, it is not a word of the year to celebrate but it is, perhaps, one that sums up the year for most of the world.\"\n\nClimate strike was chosen as the 2019 word of the year after campaigns by activists such as Greta Thunberg\n\nLast year's Collins word of the year was \"climate strike\", marking a year in which 17-year-old Greta Thunberg led a global environmental movement.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary also choose their own word of the year, opting for \"climate emergency\" in 2019, \"toxic\" in 2018, \"youthquake\" in 2017 and \"post-truth\" in 2016.", "Boyega plays a police officer who wanted to change things from the inside\n\nBritish actor John Boyega has recalled the time his Pentecostal minister father was stopped by police on his way back from church.\n\nThe Star Wars actor, who was a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter protests in London this summer, plays a police officer in Sir Steve McQueen's new film series, Small Axe.\n\nHis real-life character, Leroy Logan, was also an anti-racism reformer.\n\nBoyega stressed that black Britons had experienced the \"darkest scenarios\".\n\n\"I've been stopped and searched,\" the Londoner told the Radio Times. \"And my dad, who was a Pentecostal minister, got stopped on the way back from church. I was little.\n\n\"Everybody knows, especially if you grew up in Peckham, somebody who's gone through the darkest scenarios with the police,\" he added. \"I do. I know a few people.\"\n\nHis Small Axe film, entitled Red, White and Blue, follows Leroy as he attempts to reform the police force from within after seeing his own father assaulted by two officers.\n\nLeroy was appointed an MBE in 2001 for his contribution to policing, and retired in 2013 after 30 years of service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Boyega gives emotional protest speech: \"Black men, it starts with you\"\n\nIn June, stars of the movie world, including JK Rowling and Jordan Peele, praised Boyega for his emotional megaphone speech in the capital - following the death of George Floyd while in US police custody.\n\nDespite their support, he said he still fears his activism could negatively impact his career, but that it was a risk worth taking.\n\n\"You know that moment is going to go global and if I don't get cast because people or casting directors feel like it's too much friction for what they're trying to do. It is what it is,\" said Boyega.\n\nWorking with Sir Steve on the new anthology series - inspired by the stories of black British culture - had been like undergoing \"therapy\", Boyega added.\n\nOne of the most powerful scenes takes place in a police changing room, where Leroy finds racist graffiti on his locker.\n\n\"I don't remember filming that scene,\" said Boyega, of the intense on-set experience. \"I just remember fuming and being angry.\n\n\"I didn't see the locker room or the locker door until those cameras were rolling. So that reaction was all natural to the character and the choices I thought he would make.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve McQueen: \"A lot of people will be asking themselves: why didn't I know this story?\"\n\nThe first Small Axe film, Mangrove - which premieres on BBC One on Sunday - stars Letitia Wright, who appeared in the 2018 superhero film Black Panther.\n\nIt focuses on the trial of the Mangrove Nine; a group of black activists accused of inciting a riot at a protest 50 years ago.\n\nWright told the Radio Times it was important that black British people were having their stories told on screen.\n\n\"So much gets lost within our black British history and it's important that a beautiful light is shone on these stories,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wonderful how everyone's going out of their way to make this happen - the BBC is moving the 10pm News for us.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some protesters travelled from as far as Cumbria\n\nThe organiser of an anti-lockdown demonstration attended by 600 people in Manchester has been fined £10,000.\n\nThe protest in Piccadilly Gardens was condemned by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) as \"irresponsible\" after new Covid rules came into force.\n\nPolice officers suffered minor injuries at Sunday's event, which included protesters who had travelled from Cumbria, said GMP.\n\nThe force said the organiser ignored its pleas to call off the event.\n\nThe 40-year-old man from Trafford was issued with a £10,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThree men, aged 40, 32 and 30, and a 23-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of public order offences have all been fined £200 and 25 protesters have been issued with £200 fines.\n\nGMP's Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, said: \"Ahead of Sunday, officers attempted to engage with the person organising this gathering - warning him of the likely consequences and advising, for his and everyone else's sake, to abandon his plans.\n\n\"However, he decided to ignore this advice and pressed ahead with a reckless and completely irresponsible course of action.\"\n\nMr Hussain said during the protest officers also tried to engage with the organisers and attendees to \"explain the restrictions and encourage compliance\", but this was ignored, too.\n\n\"Whilst responding to this gathering, a number of officers were injured,\" he said.\n\n\"This is unacceptable behaviour towards officers who were simply doing their job and protecting people.\"\n\nHe said work was continuing to identify other people in attendance who blatantly breached government restrictions.\n\nGMP Federation chairman Stu Berry said: \"The scenes witnessed in Manchester this weekend were simply a stupidity contest with approximately 600 participants.\n\n\"Those individuals have increased the risk of this disease for themselves, the wider public and my colleagues despite the scientific advice and legislated lockdown.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Julia Rawson was last seen alive on 12 May 2019\n\nA man obsessed with horror films has been convicted along with his boyfriend of murdering and dismembering a woman in their flat.\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis, 30, took Julia Rawson home after meeting her in a pub in Dudley, West Midlands, in May 2019.\n\nHe and David Leesley, 25, then killed her and hid her body parts in undergrowth, the trial at Coventry Crown Court was told.\n\nMaynard-Ellis was also found guilty of rape charges relating to another woman.\n\nThe four rapes, an attempted rape, and threats to kill were revealed when a woman came forward after his murder arrest.\n\nBoth men had admitted perverting the course of justice and concealing a body, but had denied murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJurors heard Maynard-Ellis had a fascination with decapitation and horror films and had been addicted to fantasies about the \"sexualised killing of women\".\n\nHis victim would have seen swords and spiders mounted on the walls of the Tipton flat, reptiles kept in tanks, and \"gory face masks\" of horror film characters, Karim Khalil QC, prosecuting, told jurors at the start of the trial.\n\nMs Rawson \"could not have known that she was about to enter a flat of horrors\", he said.\n\n\"But she must have realised this very soon after she went in.\"\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis and David Leesley had admitted perverting the course of justice and concealing a body, but had denied murder\n\nTracey Barrett, a neighbour of the two killers, told the BBC their flat \"was the making of horror stories\", with Freddy Krueger figures and Chucky dolls.\n\nPolice said Maynard-Ellis had gone out the night of the murder with the aim of finding a victim.\n\n\"Unfortunately that victim was Julia\", Det Insp Jim Colclough, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\nMaynard-Ellis and Leesley's home had Chucky dolls and other horror movie paraphernalia\n\nMs Rawson, 42, was struck about the head. Her remains, including her severed head, hands and feet, were found on 12 and 29 June last year in two different locations, near a canal and on wasteland.\n\nAfter identifying Maynard Ellis from CCTV video when he was with Ms Rawson at the pub, he was arrested on suspicion of kidnap and officers discovered a bloodstain underneath a new underlay in the living room of the couple's flat.\n\nDet Insp Colclough described the killing as \"a terrible, terrible thing to have taken place\".\n\nMs Rawson, who was reported missing by friends, came from a close-knit family and was a talented musician and a fun-loving character, he said.\n\n\"Of course her family are absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\nJulia Rawson met Nathan Maynard-Ellis in the Bottle and Cork pub in Dudley\n\nIn a statement, Ms Rawson's family said her loss was \"felt as keenly today as when we heard she had first gone missing\".\n\n\"Her death has had a devastating impact on us, the mutilation of her body and the callous way in which her remains were scattered has revolted us,\" they said.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Soole, told the jury: \"It has been a very demanding case because of the subject matter.\"\n\nMaynard-Ellis and Leesley will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The current coronavirus restrictions are due to end at midnight on Thursday\n\nProposals from the health minister to extend coronavirus restrictions in NI for two more weeks have been blocked after an executive vote.\n\nAdvice from Robin Swann's officials recommended keeping the measures in place until 27 November.\n\nThe DUP opposed the move, and triggered a cross-community vote to effectively veto the proposals.\n\nThe current restrictions are due to end at midnight on Thursday.\n\nThe hospitality sector is waiting to find out whether it can resume trading on Friday after a four-week shutdown.\n\nIt comes after the Department of Health announced a further 11 coronavirus-related deaths in Northern Ireland on Tuesday and 514 more positive cases.\n\nMinisters are currently considering alternative proposals from DUP Economy Minister Diane Dodds.\n\nThe talks began shortly after 18:00 GMT and still had not concluded after 23:00, as ministers wrangled over a plan.\n\nMrs Dodds's paper suggests close-contact services such as hair and beauty salons can reopen on Friday, by appointment.\n\nIt also proposes allowing unlicensed premises such as cafes and coffee shops to reopen on Friday, but licensed restaurants would remain closed until 27 November.\n\nIt is also understood that a \"safely open group\" could be established if ministers agree the plans, that would cover hospitality.\n\nBBC News NI understands that Mrs Dodds's paper also stresses the need for increased visibility of police and environmental health officers to manage enforcement.\n\nThe minister has previously said she did not want the restrictions to be extended, as it could further damage the economy.\n\nIt is understood she still holds this view, but recognises that the executive must agree a \"general consensus\".\n\nAnd so the wait for business owners and employees alike goes on, almost a week since health officials first recommended that the restrictions should be extended.\n\nThere was a distinct sense of déjà vu emerging tonight, as attempts for the executive to meet were pushed back repeatedly while the parties tried to work out a plan they could feasibly sign up to.\n\nDUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster was facing much internal pressure not to bow to calls to extend the measures, despite the health advice.\n\nIt's understood the DUP's use of the cross-community veto did not go down well with the Alliance minister Naomi Long, who is excluded from such votes as her party is neither unionist nor nationalist.\n\nNow that the DUP has managed to bring its own proposals to the executive, it may feel that provides its ministers with some political cover to stand over decisions which may end up being made tonight.\n\nHowever, nothing is over the line yet.\n\nSome businesses may feel the decisions are coming too late, with many unable to prepare for opening with two days' notice, even if they get the green light.\n\nOthers will also wonder about the executive's messaging - easing some restrictions at a time when doctors have been calling for \"breathing space\", to keep the rate of infection as low as possible in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nA number of DUP backbench MLAs have previously vocally opposed the coronavirus regulations agreed by the power-sharing executive, which the DUP jointly leads with Sinn Féin.\n\nEarlier, the executive was accused by DUP MLA Paul Frew of \"letting businesses down by the hour\" by delaying a decision on extending coronavirus restrictions.\n\nHair and beauty salons had to shut for four weeks on 16 October\n\nMr Frew, who has openly criticised his party's decision-making on the coronavirus regulations before, told the assembly on Tuesday that the delay in announcing a decision was \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"This is a tremendously harsh time for businesses and yet this executive is causing an act of vandalism to those businesses,\" he said during a debate on the Budget Bill.\n\n\"It is a shameful position to be in.\n\n\"It is an act of vandalism to not be able to tell a business on the Tuesday that they can open up for sure on the Friday, that they can fill up their fridge, bring in their stock and pay their supply line - it's no way to run a business and no way to run an executive.\n\n\"It's an absolute farce we are letting so many people down, who just want to earn a decent living and who provide so much.\"\n\nEarlier, Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard said he believed the DUP had been \"too strident,\" by suggesting the restrictions would not remain in place longer than four weeks.\n\n\"Arlene (Foster) put herself on a hook by saying at an early stage that these restrictions would come to an end before progress was made,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.\n\n\"Good progress is being made, but from our point of view it would be reckless now to throw it all away.\"\n\nHe said there was a case to be made for reopening hair and beauty salons, but that restrictions on hospitality should remain in place for another fortnight, as health officials initially recommended.\n\nHair and beauty salons closed on Friday 16 October - it is thought they could reopen with some mitigations\n\nAlison Canney, owner of the Spaghetti Junction restaurant in Londonderry, said they are undecided whether they would reopen at all if a limit or a ban is placed on alcohol sales.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, the Derry business owner said: \"It is doable but is it the same? I don't think so.\n\n\"People come out to relax and unwind. It's an experience. It's not like alcohol is essential, but people like a glass of wine with an Italian meal.\"\n\nHair and beauty salons have also been closed since 16 October.\n\nBeautician Carolyn McCauley said First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill needed to \"put on their big girl pants and make decisions\".\n\n\"At this stage, it's simply not good enough,\" she said.\n\n\"They've had four weeks to make these decisions and now here we are, at the 11th hour, and there's still no decision.\"\n\nMichael Cafolla, who runs a large cafe in Newtownards, County Down, called on the executive to \"consult with people on the coal face of this industry, look at the evidence and make sure that the evidence backs up the decisions that are made\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said there had been \"no direction, leadership or consistent messaging\" for businesses.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party supports extending all of the restrictions for an extra fortnight, to reduce the possibility of further interventions before Christmas.\n\n\"We need to look beyond short-term decision making and ensure we achieve a safe Christmas by driving down Covid-19 now,\" he said.\n\nAlliance deputy leader Stephen Farry said the executive \"absolutely does need\" to take a decision on Tuesday.\n\n\"It would be wrong if the clock was allowed to run down on this and we saw the restrictions almost disappearing by default,\" he said.", "Corona Newton used to only have to put up with jokes about beer\n\nCorona Newton has endured jokes about her unusual name for as long as she can remember.\n\nBeer-related nicknames have followed the 49-year-old civil servant since before she was legally able to sup her first pint.\n\n\"People used to call me Guinness and Budweiser,\" she said. \"That I could always laugh off. But this is more frustrating, especially when it gets aggressive.\"\n\nCorona lives in Oldham, which currently has the highest number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in England.\n\nResidents of the Greater Manchester town have endured some of the toughest enhanced lockdown measures for weeks.\n\nCorona said no-one takes her seriously when they discover her Christian name, while she cannot book a table or open an account without staff giving her peculiar looks.\n\n\"People have said to me 'as if I'm going to listen to somebody named after a virus',\" she said.\n\nMum-of-five Corona has even been plagued by \"really nasty\" cold callers, with people just saying things like: \"Is that the virus?\"\n\nWhile driving her daughter to the dentist last week, she picked up a highly abusive phone call from a man who swore at her.\n\nShe said: \"He screamed down the phone at me 'what does it feel like to [do] the world over?'\"\n\nHer name also leads to awkward situations, like at a recent parents' evening when a teacher thought her daughter was being rude by saying Corona.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, fewer than three girls were named Corona in 2019 and it has not been recorded in the top 100 girls names at any time from 1904-2019.\n\nSo how did Corona come by her unusual moniker?\n\nThe name comes from the Latin word for crown and also means the aura around stars or the moon. It is quite a common Spanish surname but less so as a forename.\n\nGrowing up in Drogheda, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Corona said she stood out for not sounding Catholic despite being named after the missionary midwife who delivered her.\n\n\"My parents couldn't decide between Sarah and Catherine, so they ended up choosing Corona,\" she said.\n\nBefore news bulletins became dominated by the pandemic, Corona said it was much easier to have a sense of humour about her name.\n\n\"I had my hen do in Blackpool not long before lockdown started in March,\" she said.\n\n\"We played 'guess my name' with strangers and no-one managed it, so they all had to buy me shots.\"\n\nDespite Covid-19 scuppering her wedding plans for now, as well as any dreams of a massive 50th birthday party, Corona said 2020 would certainly be a year to remember.\n\n\"In these tough times, if I've brightened someone's day by having a funny name, so be it,\" she said. \"At least no-one will ever forget me.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The hidden text can be easily seen after the colours of the image are manipulated\n\nThe government has blamed a \"technical error\" for a Boris Johnson tweet congratulating Joe Biden on his US election victory which faintly showed the name \"Trump\" in the background.\n\nSocial media users commented on the discrepancy while the Guido Fawkes website said the message also included the word \"second term\" buried in it.\n\nOfficials said two messages were prepared before the result was known.\n\nThe alternative one had been \"embedded\" in the other by mistake, they said.\n\nMr Johnson posted the message on Twitter on Saturday after broadcasters in the US and elsewhere declared the Democratic former vice-president the winner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister - who has never met Mr Biden - congratulated him on his victory in a phone conversation which the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said lasted about 20 minutes.\n\nMr Johnson said he and the president-elect discussed their \"shared priorities\" and was looking forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the two countries.\n\nThe UK PM is believed to be the first European leader Mr Biden has spoken to since the election.\n\nMr Biden is preparing to assume office in January, although incumbent President Donald Trump is refusing to accept the outcome of the election and is mounting a series of legal challenges in certain states.\n\nThe message the PM sent on Sunday read: \"Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as president of the United States and to Kamala Harris on her historic achievement.\n\n\"The US is our most important ally and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security.\"\n\nBut the message appeared to include traces of a different one referring to Mr Trump, who has been in office since 2017.\n\nGuido Fawkes said the \"remnants\" of this could be seen by adjusting the contrast and brightness levels of the actual message that was posted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking about Joe Biden's victory: \"There's far more that unites us than divides us\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As you'd expect, two statements were prepared in advance for the outcome of this closely contested election.\n\n\"A technical error meant that parts of the alternative message were embedded in the background of the graphic.\"\n\nUK ministers have said they are excited about working with Mr Biden on issues such as climate change and trade.\n\nIn recent days, Mr Biden's team has sought to downplay lingering tensions over Mr Johnson's role in Brexit and past comments he has made about both President Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama.\n\nMr Biden, who has made his opposition to Brexit well known, has insisted maintaining peace in Northern Ireland is paramount in any post-Brexit UK-US trade deal.\n\nThe president-elect is continuing a ring-round of world leaders, having also spoken to Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron.\n\nBefore news of Mr Biden's conversation with Mr Johnson emerged, the Irish PM Michael Martin posted a Twitter message saying he had just finished a \"positive\" conversation with the president-elect.\n\nThe message was quickly deleted, after which the Irish government revealed it had been sent in error and although a call had been arranged the two had yet to speak.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Martin posted another message saying he had had a \"warm and engaging\" call with Mr Biden.", "One in every 17 people who have had Covid-19 could be diagnosed with anxiety, depression or insomnia for the first time, a study of millions of US patient health records suggests.\n\nThat is about double the risk from other illnesses, the researchers say.\n\nUnexpectedly, they also found existing psychiatric patients were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nThis could be linked to their physical health or drugs prescribed to treat disorders, the researchers speculated.\n\nThey should be given appropriate care, the Oxford team said.\n\nBut they stopped short of asking psychiatric patients to shield or think of themselves as extremely vulnerable.\n\nUniversity of Oxford psychiatry professor Paul Harrison, the lead study author, said people who had had Covid-19 \"will be at greater risk of mental health problems\".\n\nEven those not admitted to hospital with Covid had a higher risk.\n\nAnd the results, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, were likely to be \"underestimates of the actual number of cases\", although the experiences of patients in other countries could differ.\n\nThe researchers tracked 62,000 people with Covid for three months after diagnosis and compared them with thousands of people with other conditions, such as flu, kidney stones and broken bones.\n\nThe proportions diagnosed with a psychiatric illness were:\n\nExcluding those who had previously been diagnosed with a disorder and relapsed, they were:\n\nThe most common diagnosis was anxiety, which included:\n\n\"We urgently need research to investigate the causes and identify new treatments,\" Prof Harrison said.\n\nDr Michael Bloomfield, from University College London, said the link was probably due to \"a combination of the psychological stressors associated with this particular pandemic and the physical effects of the illness\".\n\nProf Dame Til Wykes, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, at King's College London said: \"The increase in mental health disorders in people who have developed Covid-19 mirrors the increases reported in the UK general population.\"\n\nIt was \"clearly the tip of an iceberg\", she added, saying many accessible forms of mental health support were needed to provide treatment for the mental health conditions.\n\nBut Jo Daniels, from the University of Bath, said further research was needed before coming to any conclusions.\n\n\"We should be aware that poorer psychological outcomes are common in those who experience physical health problems of any nature,\" she said.\n\n\"Being acutely or chronically unwell is simply a difficult experience.\"", "It has been months since football fans have been able to cheer on their team in person.\n\nAnd as England's lockdown continues, the return of fans to football grounds seems as far away as ever. The government has refused to say when it expects spectators to be allowed back inside sports venues in England.\n\nWe asked readers to get in touch with their stories of the last game they watched. Here's what they said:\n\nHassan Hussein, 40, from, Claypole, Lincolnshire, took his son Ulus, 12, to watch Manchester United beat Manchester City at Old Trafford on 8 March - and his son caught the match ball.\n\n\"As the ball hit the net, we all went crazy then out of nowhere my son was standing next to me with the match ball in his hands. We both wondered how it ended up with us, and you can see on the TV the players had to wait a good few minutes to restart as no-one had an idea where the ball was.\"\n\nNorwich fan Sarah Greaves, from south London, took her 12-year-old daughter Naomi to watch the Canaries beat Leicester 1-0 at Carrow Road on 28 February.\n\n\"Looking back, the atmosphere was just one of family - a big, extended football family. From people who sit near us talking about my dad to the guy from New York who'd changed his flight home to make the game.\n\n\"And now we watch the games but it's not the same; we send them messages but it's not the same; we wear our Norwich kit in south London on matchdays but it's not the same and we see our seats in videos from the club or during matches and we can't wait to be back.\"", "Aldi began the click and trial earlier this year\n\nDiscount supermarket Aldi is to extend its trial click-and-collect shopping service to 200 more UK stores as it faces growing competition from rivals.\n\nIt means about 25% of its 900 shops will offer the service by Christmas, compared with 18 now.\n\nAldi and discount rival Lidl, which have challenged the big supermarket rivals on price, have missed out in the pandemic as more sales go online.\n\nBy contrast traditional grocers such as Tesco have seen their sales accelerate.\n\nAldi first launched its click and collect service to customers at a single store in the Midlands in September, before extending the trial last month.\n\nShoppers can choose from a full range of grocery items online, then collect them in their cars \"contact-free\" at their local stores.\n\nThe German discounter has expanded rapidly over the past decade, largely by outcompeting traditional chains on price.\n\nHowever, it has seen growth slow since March as online grocery shopping has doubled its share of the UK market to around 14%.\n\nAnalysts say mounting competition from traditional retailers with established online shopping services will make it harder for Aldi and Lidl to expand as quickly as they once did.\n\nTesco has benefitted from the shift to online shopping\n\nFor example, in the 12 weeks to May, Tesco and Sainsbury's increased sales at a faster rate than Aldi for the first time in a decade as the pandemic spurred weekly shops and more online ordering.Aldi has been rolling out new online options in response.\n\nIn April, Aldi started selling online food parcels to help self-isolating and vulnerable customers and has also started a rapid delivery service in partnership with Deliveroo.\n\nGiles Hurley, boss of Aldi UK and Ireland, said its click and collect trial had been \"hugely popular\" so far.\n\n\"By extending it to hundreds of new stores, we're making Aldi accessible to thousands of shoppers who might never have visited one of our stores before.\"\n• None Ocado says switch to online shopping is permanent", "South Hams District Council turned down plans to screen the development with trees\n\nA millionaire fashion mogul has lost a bid to save a skate park, tennis court and garage unlawfully constructed on a Devon beauty spot.\n\nSean Thomas, founder of the White Stuff fashion brand, had his plans to plant 1,000 trees to screen the site turned down by South Hams District Council.\n\nThe authority said the construction near Salcombe was \"detrimental\" to the \"highly sensitive\" local environment.\n\nIt said formal enforcement action would begin. Mr Thomas is yet to comment.\n\nMr Thomas has six months to appeal against the decision. He may have to tear down the development, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported.\n\nThe buildings are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Salcolme, Devon\n\nHe built the additions to land adjoining his home in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and alongside the Salcombe to Kingsbridge Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest.\n\nAfter complaints from residents about the \"eyesore\" development, a retrospective planning application was refused in 2019.\n\nIn April, Mr Thomas submitted the plans to plant more than 1,000 native trees.\n\nRefusing the proposals, the council report described the constructions as an \"incongruous development in a highly sensitive area of the open countryside\".\n\nThe district council report said: \"The development has a detrimental impact upon the surrounding landscape... resulting in adverse impacts to the natural beauty, special qualities, distinctive character, landscape and scenic beauty of the South Devon AONB.\"", "Some pupils have faced more disruption than others due to self-isolating\n\nA decision on whether GCSE and A-level exams will go ahead next summer will be announced later.\n\nThere have already been strong indications that GCSE exams will be replaced by grades based on coursework and assessments.\n\nTwo recent sets of recommendations to Education Minister Kirsty Williams said either all or some exams at A-level should also be cancelled.\n\nIt comes amid ongoing disruption to schools as a result of coronavirus.\n\nThere is also concern some pupils have faced more disruption than others.\n\nPlaid Cymru called for a decision to be made quickly to remove anxiety.\n\nCourses have already been modified because of the learning time lost over the summer term.\n\nBut since schools returned full-time in September, many pupils have had to self-isolate for a fortnight or more because of positive cases of Covid-19 in their \"bubble\".\n\nPublic Health Wales figures show 82% of secondary schools have registered at least one case since September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Three years of GCSEs has come down to nothing\"\n\nThis year's exams were cancelled after schools were closed in March, but the system of awarding \"standardised\" grades descended into chaos.\n\nUltimately the grades decided by schools and colleges were awarded.\n\nDecisions on exams have already been announced elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, National 5 exams - the equivalent to GCSEs - have been replaced by coursework and teacher assessments but Highers will go ahead.\n\nExams are still scheduled in England and Northern Ireland but they will be held later in the summer.\n\nIn its advice to Wales' education minister, regulator Qualifications Wales said there should be no GCSE exams this summer, with grades for both GCSE and AS-levels based on coursework and assessments set and marked by the exam board WJEC.\n\nAt A-level, it recommended one timetabled exam per subject, with a second opportunity for pupils to sit if they were self-isolating.\n\nCoursework and set tasks would also be taken into account.\n\nA separate report by an expert panel said all exams should be axed, with grades based on nationally agreed assessments done in schools and colleges.\n\nCerys Harris has had to study at home while self-isolating for a total of four weeks since September\n\nSeventeen-year-old A-level student Cerys Harris from Rhyl has had to self-isolate for four weeks in total since September.\n\nShe lives with three family members who have been furloughed, so it has been \"hard to find space around the house\".\n\nWhile under normal circumstances she would like to sit her exams, she thinks it would be best to cancel them because of the disruption.\n\n\"It's been really worrying. It will be good to know what the decision is,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been told to think about our Ucas [university application] forms. It's hard to make a decision for the rest of your life not knowing if you're even sitting the exam.\"\n\nYear 13 A-level student Jonathon Dawes, who studies at Coleg Cambria in Rhyl, said there was now \"a disparity between so many young people.\"\n\n\"Some of my friends have been in every day, others have had to self-isolate for four weeks, sit at home and do virtual learning, it's put them behind on their classmates.\n\n\"If all the four nations do take different routes, ultimately it will leave young people advantaged and disadvantaged when moving on and applying for jobs,\" he said.\n\nThe NASUWT teaching union agrees exams cannot go ahead as normal for safety, but it is worried about the potential for a \"massive increase\" in teacher workload.\n\nIts national official for Wales Neil Butler said there was a lot of work to be done in a short space of time and it would be \"highly inappropriate\" and \"unfair and unwise\" to place an extra burden on schools.\n\n\"Schools at the moment are having to work in extraordinary conditions, and they're struggling with that,\" he said.\n\n\"[It] must be done by the exam board and Qualifications Wales.\"\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association of School and College Leaders in Wales said exams could not go ahead as in 2019.\n\n\"We feel there is certainly merit in having a distinctive approach for Wales which recognises the expertise of our teachers.\n\n\"What we need is a B grade in a school in Llandudno needs to be the same as a B grade in Swansea - now that is not the job of individual teachers in those schools, that is the job of the regulator,\" she said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said a decision should be made quickly.\n\n\"The longer this is dragged out, the more uncertainty it brings to our learners, most of whom have already had a disrupted educational year, and many of whom are still experiencing the anxiety that comes from living through a global pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, many of which have been destroyed, during the three-year insurgency (file photo)\n\nMore than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report.\n\nThe militants turned a football pitch in a village into an \"execution ground\", where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said.\n\nSeveral people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported.\n\nThe beheadings are the latest in a series of gruesome attacks that the militants have carried out in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017.\n\nUp to 2,000 people have been killed and about 430,000 have been left homeless in the conflict in the mainly-Muslim province.\n\nThe militants are linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, giving it a foothold in southern Africa.\n\nThe group has exploited poverty and unemployment to recruit youth in their fight to establish Islamic rule in the area.\n\nMany locals complain that they have benefited little from the province's ruby and gas industries.\n\nThe BBC's Jose Tembe reports from the capital, Maputo, that the latest attack was probably the worst carried out by the militants.\n\nMany people are shocked, and they are calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, he adds.\n\nThe gunmen chanted \"Allahu Akbar\" (\"God is greatest\", in English), fired shots, and set homes alight when they raided Nanjaba village on Friday night, the state-owned Mozambique News Agency quoted survivors as saying.\n\nTwo people were beheaded in the village and several women abducted, the news agency added.\n\nA separate group of militants carried out another brutal attack on Muatide village, where they beheaded more than 50 people, the news agency reported.\n\nVillagers who tried to flee were caught, and taken to the local football pitch where they were beheaded and chopped to pieces in an atrocity carried out from Friday night to Sunday, privately-run Pinnacle News reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMozambique's government has appealed for international help to curb the insurgency, saying its troops need specialised training.\n\nIn April, more than 50 people were beheaded or shot dead in an attack on a village in Cabo Delgado and earlier this month, nine people were beheaded in the same province.\n\nRights groups say Mozambican security forces have also carried out human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture and killings, during operations to curb the insurgency.\n• None Is Mozambique the latest outpost of Islamic State?", "Twitter alternative Parler has become the most-downloaded app in the United States as conservatives flock to the self-styled \"free speech\" app after the US election.\n\nIt follows a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook in recent days.\n\nProminent investor Dan Bongino said the service was adding \"thousands to users per minute\" on Sunday.\n\nBut the sudden boom also caused technical issues for users.\n\nSome reported problems registering and a slowdown of the app as its servers attempted to deal with the influx.\n\nParler founder John Matze said the app had added two million new users in a day, and increased its daily active users four-fold over the weekend.\n\n\"Don't worry, the app isn't normally this slow,\" he promised new arrivals.\n\nSome of Parler's most popular users are Republicans and media personalities\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth this year.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 2.6 million followers on the platform, while Fox News hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity each have more than two million.\n\nNewsmax, a conservative-leaning news outlet, also crept near the top of the charts at the same time.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among Trump supporters and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nIt is one of a handful of start-up social networks - such as MeWe or Gab - trying to appeal to disgruntled users of the biggest platforms.\n\nParler is ahead of bigger, better-funded apps in Apple's US download charts\n\nMr Trump has been among Twitter's most vocal critics and has seen many of his tweets hidden and labelled as misleading during the election period.\n\nNamed after the French verb \"to speak\", the app has very similar functions to Twitter. Posts can be replied to with comments, \"echoed\" in a way similar to retweeting, and upvoted instead of liked.\n\nParler says it keeps bans to an \"absolute minimum\", and does not fact-check posts.\n\nParler does, however, ban some things, including pornography, threats of violence, and support for terrorism.\n\nFollowing Joe Biden's projected win in the presidential election - and Mr Trump's unsubstantiated claims of fraud - many conservatives encouraged each other to leave Twitter and Facebook for Parler.\n\nOn Facebook, multiple events and groups with thousands of members are encouraging a \"mass exit\" from Facebook to Parler from Friday 13 November.\n\nThe planned exodus has been mocked by left-leaning Twitter users as an escape to a \"safe space\" devoid of challenge or criticism.\n\nThe light-touch approach to content moderation means that misinformation can spread more easily on the platform than on those with stricter rules.\n\nThe first \"mass migration\" of right-wing users from major social networks to Parler happened in June, after a number of accounts that posted misleading content about Covid-19 and George Floyd protests got banned from the bigger social media sites.\n\nThousands of supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have joined in in the last few weeks, after Facebook, Instagram and YouTube took sweeping action against them in early October. Followers believe President Trump is waging a secret war against a \"deep state\" elite of Satan-worshipping paedophiles.\n\nFacebook's ban on organisations that promote violence has also forced groups such as the Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois to rebuild on Parler.\n\nHowever, platforms like Parler have become an echo-chamber for a relatively limited group of like-minded users. That's why many users who have migrated to Parler make repeated attempts to create new accounts to return to major networks - as they know that's where their content can get widespread traction.\n\nWhile the content posted on Parler is usually not as extreme as other self-proclaimed \"free speech\" platforms like Gab and MeWe, it is the home of many posts that would either be flagged as misleading or removed by major platforms - on topics like the election, Covid-19, child trafficking and vaccines.\n\nSenator Cruz, who recently lambasted Twitter boss Jack Dorsey at a congressional committee hearing, said in June that he had joined Parler because social networks use their power \"to silence conservatives and promote their radical left-wing agenda\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Who put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report?\" Twitter's Jack Dorsey is quizzed by Senator Ted Cruz\n\nTweeting on Sunday, Mr Levin encouraged his followers to \"hurry\" and join Parler because \"I may not stay at Facebook or Twitter if they continue censoring me\".\n\nBut technology analyst Benedict Evans questioned how long-standing such a shift would be.\n\n\"How many core Trump voters will now think that Fox is too left-wing and Twitter or Facebook too controlled?\" he said.\n\n\"And even if that's a lot of people, will these stick - or will the scale effect of the mainstream networks pull them back?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: “Our plan is working and I am more sure than ever that we will prevail together”\n\nThe NHS will be ready from December to roll out the new coronavirus vaccine if it gets approved, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs the news about the vaccine was an important step but \"there are no guarantees\".\n\nHe also said \"we don't know\" how many people will need to be vaccinated in order for life to return to normal.\n\nAnd he announced that, from Tuesday, NHS staff will begin being tested twice a week.\n\nIt comes as a further 20,412 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, with another 532 deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.\n\nWhile the number of deaths recorded is higher than previous days, there is often an increase at the beginning of the week due to delays in weekend reporting.\n\nOn Monday, early results from the world's first effective coronavirus vaccine showed it could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid.\n\nThe vaccine has been developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech and is one of 11 vaccines that are currently in the final stages of testing.\n\nThe companies now plan to apply for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of November - and a limited number of people may get the vaccine this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK has already ordered 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate up to 20 million people, as each person will need two doses for it to work effectively.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned people not to \"rely on this news as a solution\" as it is still \"very, very early days\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Mr Hancock said: \"If this or any other vaccine is approved, we will be ready to begin a large-scale vaccination programme.\n\n\"We do not yet know whether or when a vaccine is approved, but I have tasked the NHS with being ready from any date from 1 December.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock said the bulk of the rollout of a vaccine was always expected to be in the first part of 2021.\n\nAsked about how many people would need to be vaccinated, Mr Hancock said: \"The honest truth to that question is we don't know what proportion of the population vaccination needs to reach in order for this to stop the epidemic.\n\n\"The reason we don't know that is you can check in a clinical trial for the impact of the vaccine on protecting the individual... what you cannot check is the impact on the transmission of the disease by those people, because you have to have enough of the population, a significant proportion of the population, to have had the vaccine to understand that.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told the BBC that vaccinations would take place in care homes, centres such as sports halls and also clinics that would open seven days a week.\n\nHe said he was giving GPs an extra £150m to help with the roll-out, and he believed NHS staff \"will rise to this challenge of being ready when the science comes good to inject hope into millions of arms this winter\".\n\n\"There are many hard days ahead, many hurdles to overcome, but our plan is working and I'm more sure than ever that we will prevail together,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock also said new rapid swab tests - which give results in less than an hour - will be made available across 67 local areas, after they were used in a mass testing trial in Liverpool.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that we are still in a 'critical moment' of Covid-19 response\n\nOlder care home residents and care home staff are at the top of a list from government scientific advisers of who should be immunised first, followed by health workers.\n\nMr Hancock said children would not be vaccinated.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called on Mr Hancock to give priority access to relatives of care home residents so they can see their loved ones.\n\nAnd he asked the government to publish a strategy on how the vaccine would be rolled out.\n\nThe Covid vaccine is the fastest ever vaccine to go from the drawing board to being proven highly effective.\n\nIt will not be released for use until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.\n\n\"Our strong and independent regulator the MHRA will not approve a vaccine until it's clinically safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThe British Medical Association, which represents doctors, said GPs have been told to prepare to give patients two vaccine doses - to be delivered between 21 and 28 days apart - during clinics that could run between 08:00 and 20:00 GMT seven days a week.\n\nIt added that, due to the logistics and delivery requirements, including the need to store it at very cold temperatures, it was likely that groups of GP practices would need to work together with one \"designated vaccination site\".\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the government there has purchased around 20 large freezers to store the new vaccine at strategic locations.\n\nCautious optimism is the tone of today.\n\nMatt Hancock insists the NHS will be ready to start deploying a coronavirus vaccine as soon as humanly possible.\n\nIf regulators are able to give the green light in the next few weeks, some people could get their jab before Christmas - a most welcome gift for those at highest risk of severe Covid-19 illness.\n\nBut he doesn't want people to get their hopes up too soon or assume life can now return to \"normal\". It can't.\n\nIt would be a colossal mistake to relax now and let the virus rip, say leading medical advisers.\n\nUntil and unless mass vaccination can happen, society needs to use the other weapons at its disposal to fight the virus and stop the spread.\n\nThat means sticking with the social distancing and face masks, and testing people who may have the virus and asking them to isolate.\n\nThe UK is still in the second wave and the actions taken by all of us now will influence how it plays out.\n\nData from the UK national statistics agencies also showed the number of deaths was more than 11% higher than normally expected.\n\nIt showed 1,597 deaths mentioning Covid on the death certificate in the last week of October - up from 1,126 the week before.\n\nAlthough deaths usually do rise at this time of year, the data shows the second wave of the virus has pushed the death rate above the average seen over the past five years.\n\nThe government is sending 600,000 of the rapid tests out to more than 60 local directors of public health including \"across Yorkshire, the West Midlands, other parts of the North West, and the whole of the North East\".\n\nAnd Nottinghamshire will follow the Liverpool in trialling mass coronavirus testing.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the vaccine?", "In small room in the Royal Derby Hospital, there's a table bearing a laminated sign. \"You are not alone,\" it says.\n\nIt continues: \"Kindness will get you through. Embrace the challenge. Look after each other. You are stronger than you think.\"\n\nThis is the \"wobble room\", set aside not for patients but for front-line staff to get them away - briefly - from the intense pressure and strain experienced in the first wave of Covid-19.\n\n\"We made a wobble room because that's what we needed,\" Kelly-Ann Gurney, an intensive-care nurse, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's a room where staff could just go and sit and cry if they needed to and get it all out and then come back and 'put their face on' and get back into it again.\"\n\nNow the second wave is hitting the hospital, and the need for the room is just as great.\n\nConcerns are growing about the physical and mental health of front-line NHS staff. There has been no lull since the April peak of the virus as normal treatments and operations, postponed during the crisis, have returned to hospitals.\n\nThe second wave is now breaking on them, but this time there has been no widespread clearing of beds and cancellations of non-urgent work to create capacity for Covid patients.\n\nTo add to the pressure, winter with all its additional health challenges is not far off, and some staff are wondering whether they can cope.\n\nCaroline Swan, a senior sister and manager of the intensive care unit at the Royal Derby, says she is ready to face what is ahead but feels very tired.\n\n\"I am also very concerned. My staff are very tired and stressed out. We have a lot of sickness either due to burnout or they are unwell.\n\n\"A lot of staff have to self-isolate at home - and that puts a lot of strain on staffing here.\"\n\nDr Magnus Harrison, medical director of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust, says managing rotas is getting harder due to staff sickness and the need for some to self-isolate if family members are infected.\n\n\"It is worth acknowledging what staff did in the first wave. They behaved tremendously and worked incredibly hard, and we're expecting them to do it again in winter - and Covid numbers could be higher than in the first wave. People are tired out.\"\n\nIntensive care nurse Kelly-Ann Gurney says staff will support each other\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing has said it has \"grave concerns\" about how services will be safely staffed this winter with the NHS in England back at the highest alert level.\n\nIt argues that even with an increase in newly trained nurses and those returning from retirement, there may not be enough staff to cope with the second Covid wave.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, said at a recent Downing Street media conference that about 30,000 NHS staff were either off with coronavirus or having to self-isolate.\n\nHe added that controlling the spread of the virus in local communities was essential if the NHS was to be fully staffed.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said it was committed to ensuring the NHS in England had \"the funding and resources it needs, including front-line staff\".\n\nHe added: \"We are on our way to delivering 50,000 more nurses by the end of this Parliament - with already over 14,000 more in the NHS over the last year.\"\n\nDr Greg Fletcher, an intensive-care consultant, has worked at Royal Derby for 12 years. He points to the unprecedented strain of caring for very sick patients in critical-care beds, some of whom will not survive because there is no cure for the coronavirus.\n\n\"I've seen more people die seemingly needlessly or unexpectedly in the last six months than I have seen in the whole of my career. It's been despite trying everything we could to save life. It does take its toll on an emotional and psychological level.\"\n\nStaff at the hospital are encouraged to think about what they are looking forward to\n\nThe mood at the Royal Derby is stoical. Staff know what to expect after their experience of the first wave. But this time the days are shorter and colder, and there is no opportunity to take a break in the sunshine.\n\nKelly-Ann Gurney says \"a lot of staff are struggling\". But she adds: \"We've done it before and we'll do it again. We just have to support each other through it.\"\n\nGreg Fletcher adds that there will be no let-up and no holidays to look forward to.\n\n\"We go into the next few months with a significant degree of trepidation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination for those at most risk from Covid-19 could begin by the end of the year, according to NI's health minister\n\nNI is likely to receive about 570,000 doses of the new coronavirus vaccine if it passes the next stage of trials and becomes licensed.\n\nThis means that 285,000 people could potentially be vaccinated for Covid-19.\n\nThe Department of Health told BBC News NI that the local supply will be part of a UK order and distributed among the regions using the Barnett Formula.\n\nIt said that the first 20 million doses of the vaccine is scheduled to be in the UK by the end of next March.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department of Health announced a further 11 coronavirus-related deaths in Northern Ireland and 514 more positive cases.\n\nSixteen deaths related to Covid-19 were announced in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday, 14 of which occurred in November, one in October and one that \"remains under investigation\". There were a further 270 confirmed cases of the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Health Minister Robinson Swann said that while the vaccine was \"good news\", it still needed to officially pass phase three of its trials and be authorised by the regulator.\n\nOn Monday, he said vaccination for those most at risk from Covid-19 could begin by the end of the year.\n\nDr Tom Black, chair of the BMA in Northern Ireland, said the most vulnerable should get the vaccine first.\n\n\"We've 146 nursing home outbreaks in Northern Ireland today, so nursing homes have got to be a priority,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"Those over 85, those most vulnerable with underlying conditions and obviously the health care staff, because we've been losing a lot of health care staff to illness and isolation and we'd like to get them it because the intensive care units and the wards are very busy.\"\n\nDr Black said the logistics to get 570,000 doses of the vaccine rolled out would take \"some amount of work\" but could be done \"so many at a time - so the first cohort will be the over-85s\".\n\nThe vaccine - developed by Pfizer and BioNTech - was tested on 43,500 people in six countries and no safety concerns have been raised.\n\nRobin Swann said there was \"intense\" pressure on the health service\n\nThe data shows that two doses, three weeks apart, are needed for the vaccine to work.\n\nMeanwhile, the health minister has said the vast majority of track and trace cases are being successfully detected.\n\nIn the past week, a total of 4,450 cases have been sent to test, trace and protect and 4,023 cases were successfully detected, Robin Swann added.\n\nHe told the assembly there were a further 9,267 contacts from these cases and that 99% of those were contacted.", "Biden is asked what his plan is if the Trump administration does not co-operate with a transition of power for now.\n\n\"It would be nice to have it but it's not critical,\" he says, adding that no legal action is planned by his team at the moment. The Trump administration has not approved the process of handing over the reins of government, meaning the Biden team has not yet been able to move in or begin examining sensitive information.\n\n\"We're going to do exactly what we're doing if he had conceded,\" he continues.\n\nAsked about his message to Trump if he is listening right now, Biden says with a grin: \"Mr President, I look forward to speaking with you.\"\n\nHe says he has not yet had a chance to speak with Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, who he worked with for decades in Washington before joining the White House under Obama.\n\nBiden adds that he has already spoken to six world leaders to let \"them know America's back\".\n\n\"We're going to be back in the game,\" he says, calling the conversations \"very fulsome [and] energetic\".", "Lucy Letby was first arrested in July 2018\n\nA nurse has been rearrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of another nine at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nLucy Letby was previously arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at the neo-natal unit.\n\nCheshire Police is investigating baby deaths and non-fatal collapses at the hospital between March 2015 and September 2016.\n\nPolice said a healthcare worker had been rearrested based on further information gathered by detectives.\n\nThe investigation was \"extremely challenging\" but \"very much active and ongoing\", a force spokesman added.\n\nPolice are investigating 17 deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit\n\nDet Insp Paul Hughes said: \"Parents of all the babies have been kept fully updated on this latest development and they are continuing to be supported throughout the process by specially trained officers.\n\n\"This is an extremely difficult time for all the families and it is important to remember that, at the heart of this, there are a number of bereaved families seeking answers as to what happened to their children.\"\n\nDetectives launched an investigation into baby deaths at the hospital in May 2017, which first focused on the deaths of 15 infants between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nHowever the probe later widened to the deaths of 17 babies and 16 non-fatal collapses between March 2015 and July 2016.\n\nA spokesman for the Countess of Chester Hospital previously said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has suffered a heavy defeat in the House of Lords over its controversial Brexit legislation.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill contains measures that overrule parts of the UK's Brexit agreement with the EU.\n\nPeers voted overwhelmingly to remove a section of the bill that would allow ministers to break international law - by 433 votes to 165.\n\nThe government said it would reinstate the clauses when the bill returns to the House of Commons next month.\n\nIt comes as trade talks continue between EU and UK officials in London as they try to reach an agreement over a future economic partnership.\n\nFormer Conservative Party leader Lord Howard was among 44 Conservative peers who voted against the government on Monday night.\n\nHe led the calls for the prime minister to \"think again\" and remove the contentious parts of the UK Internal Market Bill, warning that the government was using the language of \"law breakers\" everywhere.\n\nPeers also voted to remove another clause, allowing ministers to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement relating to Northern Ireland, by 407 votes to 148. Other clauses in the controversial section of the bill were removed without a vote.\n\nA government spokesman said in a statement: \"We will retable these clauses when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\n\"We've been consistently clear that the clauses represent a legal safety net to protect the integrity of the UK's internal market and the huge gains of the peace process.\n\n\"We expect the House of Lords to recognise that we have an obligation to the people of Northern Ireland to make sure they continue to have unfettered access to the UK under all circumstances.\"\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after 1 January - when the post-Brexit transition period runs out.\n\nIt gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of Brexit made earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say the bill would provide a \"safety net\" in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way. The section - known as the protocol - is designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe thumping rejection of the government's plan is a reminder that there is significant discomfort in Parliament that ministers are prepared to break international law.\n\nA number of Conservative grandees were among those voting to remove controversial clauses in the internal market bill - which has been heavily criticised by the EU.\n\nEven the US President-elect Joe Biden has raised concerns. The bill will now go back to the Commons - where the government has confirmed it will retable the controversial elements removed by peers.\n\nThe government insisted the clauses were a crucial safety net and said it had a duty to ensure that Northern Ireland's businesses and producers continued to have unfettered access to the UK.\n\nMPs are unlikely to discuss the legislation again until December. However, by that point it should be clearer whether a post-Brexit free trade deal can be struck.\n\nUK's five living former prime ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May - have all spoken out against the bill.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the EU argue that - in allowing the government to undo parts of a treaty signed by the EU and UK - it could damage the country's international reputation and standing.\n\nLabour's leader in the House of Lords, Baroness Angela Smith, said the government \"should see sense\" and accept the removal \"of these offending clauses\".\n\nShe added: \"I am sure some in government will initially react with bravado and try to dismiss tonight's historic votes in the Lords. To do so, however, would underestimate the genuine and serious concerns across the UK and beyond about ministers putting themselves above and beyond the rule of law.\"\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told BBC Newsnight it was \"not a surprise\" that the bill was \"essentially being rejected\" by the House of Lords, adding: \"It's as controversial a piece of legislation within the UK as it is outside of the UK.\"\n\nHe said the government's \"tactic\" of legislating to give British ministers \"the powers to do what they want to do anyway\" has undermined trust in the UK's trade negotiations with the EU.\n• None Brexit: What is the Internal Market Bill?", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nThe NHS is ready to start providing the new coronavirus vaccine \"as fast as safely possible\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. He was responding to the news that a new vaccine could prevent 90% of people getting Covid-19. Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast that, if approved, the vaccine developed by Pfizer would be administered in GP surgeries and go-to vaccination centres. He said the the government would provide £150m to assist GPs in rolling out the vaccine and that NHS staff would go into care homes to provide the vaccine to people most vulnerable to Covid-19. Meanwhile, the British Medical Association says plans are being drawn up for clinics to run 12 hours a day, seven days a week to roll out a vaccine as soon as it's available. The prime minister and his senior scientific advisers are urging caution, imploring the public to continue adhering to social distancing and other rules. If and when it is rolled out, prioritising those most in need will be crucial - we look at that issue and others in our Q&A.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of people out of work in the UK continues to rise. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show the unemployment rate in the three months to September was 4.8%, up 0.3%. Redundancies rose by a record 181,000 in the quarter to reach a record high of 314,000. Estimates for July to September also show 247,000 fewer people in employment than a year earlier. Head of statistics at the ONS Jonathan Athow said vacancy numbers continued to recover - although those more positive figures \"predate the reintroduction of restrictions in many parts of the UK\".\n\nEducation watchdog Ofsted says the pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with reading and writing, and some have also regressed significantly with life skills such as using a knife and fork. Inspectors visited 900 schools, colleges, nurseries and social care settings, and found some older children showing signs of greater mental distress. Children with special needs had lost out on speech and language therapy. There were also youngsters who found lockdown a positive experience, but the Department for Education said the report was proof of just how important it was to keep schools open.\n\nPerhaps not a surprise, but \"lockdown\" has been declared the word of the year for 2020 by Collins Dictionary. It \"encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people\", Collins said. Other pandemic-linked terms in the top 10 are \"furlough\", \"key worker\", \"self-isolate\" and \"social distancing\", as well as \"coronavirus\". The abbreviation \"BLM\", for the Black Lives Matter movement, also features.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, in the latest instalment of our diary from the NHS front line, four nurses describe the strain they're under, dealing with the UK's second wave.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The first review of Scotland's new five-level Covid alert system has taken place. Find out which of Scotland's 32 local authorities have been moved. All changes will come into force on Friday 13.\n\nNo council has been put into Level 4 restrictions - the toughest to be set. Rules are similar to the lockdown restrictions that were applied across Scotland at the end of March. In this category schools would remain open but all non-essential shops, as well as pubs and restaurants, gyms, libraries and hairdressers, would be closed.\n\nThree councils that had been in Level 2 have now been moved to Level 3 meaning some four million people are now living in this tier. Restrictions see cafes, pubs and restaurants allowed to open until 18:00 to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks to groups of up to six from two households. Alcohol sales are not permitted indoors or outdoors. All leisure and entertainment venues are closed at this level, including cinemas. No non-essential travel is allowed out of a Level 3 area. Indoor exercise, which includes gyms, are restricted to individual and not group exercise.\n\nIn this tier there is no in-home socialising allowed and up to six people from two households can meet outdoors and in hospitality settings. Licensed premises can only serve alcohol indoors with a main meal - and then only until 20:00. Outdoors, you can be served until 22:30. Most leisure and entertainment premises are closed except gyms, cinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades. Three councils, Angus, Perth & Kinross and Fife have been moved from this tier to the next one up.\n\nSix people from two households can meet indoors if they are resident in Shetland, the Western Isles and Orkney. This does not apply to the other council areas. Level 1 sees a \"reasonable\" degree of normality. Hospitality has a 22:30 curfew. Events, like weddings, would be restricted to a maximum of 20 people. Indoor contact sports for adults are not permitted. Only those unable to work from home should go to their place of employment.\n\nNo local authority has been assigned this level. Scotland's councils have been told by the government that \"it would not be safe to move any area straight to the lowest level\". At Level 0, hospitality would operate \"almost normally\" - subject to rules on physical distancing, limits on numbers and other rules, such as table service.\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\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.", "Stock markets have rocketed on hopes of a potential breakthrough in the search for a vaccine against Covid-19.\n\nDrugs firm Pfizer's own shares climbed 9% after it said that preliminary analysis indicated that its coronavirus vaccine was 90% effective.\n\nMarkets, already buoyed after a clear end to the US election, piled on gains. The FTSE 100 jumped nearly 5%.\n\nBut some of the initial optimism appeared to fade by the end of the trading session.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had jumped 5.6% in opening trade, closed up about 3%. The S&P 500 also retreated from its morning leap, ending just 1.1% higher, short of a new record.\n\nMeanwhile the Nasdaq, where many of the tech firms that have benefited from the lockdowns are listed, fell 1.5%.\n\nThe vaccine hopes revived investor appetite for airlines, hotels, energy firms and others hit hardest by the pandemic, sending shares soaring - in some cases by more than 40%. Firms lifted by the pandemic dived, in contrast, dived.\n\nSuch sizable swings are rare. In the case of the UK, the FTSE 100 added roughly £82bn to the value of its shares in the market's best day since March - and one of the ten largest ever single-day gains for the index.\n\nMarkets are primarily about sentiment - does tomorrow look better than today - and in that regard there has been a radical and probably permanent sea change.\n\nWith more vaccines in development that optimism could grow.\n\nWhat this result demonstrates is that while the virus is not yet beaten it is beatable.\n\nThat ray of light has lit up stock markets around the world.\n\nAs always, some people in the markets are already looking for something else to worry about.\n\nIf we are returning to a semblance of normality in the months ahead, do the US authorities really need a stimulus package as big as the $3tn to $4tn being discussed by the Biden team?\n\nBut for now, the markets, like the rest of us, are enjoying the warm glow of the first significant sentiment boost since the virus started ravaging the world economy.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, called it \"very very unusual\", but said that a vaccine was \"one of the things that markets have been waiting for\".\n\nHowever, he told the BBC there were \"still lots and lots of questions around the vaccine\" and it was still too early to say when economies would bounce back or whether the market surge would be sustained.\n\nIn the UK, shares in travel firms - which have been hit hard by the pandemic - saw the biggest rises, with British Airways owner IAG soaring 25%.\n\nElsewhere in the sector, EasyJet shares rose 34%, while aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce surged almost 45%.\n\nAnother sector of the economy that has been hit hard by coronavirus is hospitality - catering firm Compass Group saw its shares rise more than 21%.\n\nUS-listed Royal Caribbean cruises meanwhile were up 29%, while travel booking firm Expedia jumped 24% and Disney climbed almost 12%.\n\nHowever, shares in those companies that have benefitted in the crisis fell sharply given the hopes of a successful vaccine.\n\nDrugmakers have been racing to be the first to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIf Pfizer's vaccine is authorised, the number of doses will be limited initially. Many questions also remain, including how long the vaccine will provide protection.\n\nStock markets had already been rallying in response Saturday's declaration that Joe Biden had won the race to become the next US president.\n\nThe Pfizer announcement then pushed market optimism \"exceedingly high\", but it \"could fade\" said Neil Wilson.\n\n\"We should not be jumping any guns here, but ultimately a vaccine that works effectively would be good for the economy and favours the cyclical parts of the market that we thought were going to struggle,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear the market is forward looking and pricing in recovery in a number of beaten-down areas next year.\"\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said: \"The Pfizer announcement is not yet a panacea, but adds to investor sentiment which had already been buoyed by the Biden victory, and has sent markets to strongly positive levels.\"\n\nHe noted that airline and related stocks had been rising rapidly, while \"housebuilders, banks and retailers are all in the boat currently being lifted by a rising tide\".\n\n\"It is still early days, and the practicalities point to any meaningful distribution not being available until the first few months of next year,\" he added.\n\n\"Even so, the news is without question a positive development and has certainly captured the imagination of investors.\"", "Ant and Dec will be hosting the 20th series from Gwrych Castle in north Wales\n\nA man who helped save the Welsh castle that will host I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! has said he initially took ITV's proposal for the series for spam.\n\nMark Baker, who founded the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, said he originally ignored the broadcaster's email.\n\nBut ITV got back in touch and the show is moving from Australia to Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Conwy, this year.\n\nIt will host celebrities including Sir Mo Farah and Victoria Derbyshire.\n\nMr Baker told the Radio Times: \"It mentioned a major proposal for a television programme, asking me to call urgently.\n\n\"But in my job I get loads of strange emails from people claiming to be princes of Egypt with millions of pounds.\n\n\"I thought it was one of those, so I just left it.\"\n\nGwrych Castle will host I'm A Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here!\n\nMr Baker said he had never seen I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! so is not sure how the new site will compare to the old one.\n\nHe said: \"I know who Ant and Dec are, of course. I remember them from Byker Grove when I was a kid.\n\n\"That was the last time I saw them in anything. I don't watch much TV.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former knight of Gwrych Graham Jones says the castle is haunted by a \"lady in white\"\n\nITV's reported £300,000 fee has provided a valuable cash boost for the castle.\n\nAged just 13, Mr Baker founded the preservation trust to raise awareness of the castle's history including direct links to the Royal family and housing Jewish refugee children during World War Two.\n\nThe trust bought the derelict building in 2018 for £1 million, according to the Radio Times.\n\nMr Baker hopes to fully restore it and open the castle up to the public.\n\nHe said phase one of the rebuild could cost £10 million and the fee from ITV would pay for just one part of the roof.", "The statue is on display at Newington Green, near the site of the school Mary Wollstonecraft founded\n\nA memorial to the \"mother of feminism\" has provoked an online backlash after being unveiled in north London.\n\nThe sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft, by artist Maggi Hambling, went on display on Newington Green, Islington, on Tuesday.\n\nBorn in London in 1759, Wollstonecraft was an 18th Century author and radical who promoted the rights of women.\n\nThe silvered-bronze sculpture has drawn criticism from some who have queried the inclusion of a naked female figure.\n\nBee Rowlatt, chairwoman of the Mary on the Green campaign for a statue, said: \"Her ideas changed the world. It took courage to fight for human rights and education for all.\n\n\"But following her early death in childbirth, her legacy was buried, in a sustained misogynistic attack. Today we are finally putting this injustice to rights.\n\n\"Mary Wollstonecraft was a rebel and a pioneer, and she deserves a pioneering work of art.\n\n\"This work is an attempt to celebrate her contribution to society with something that goes beyond the Victorian traditions of putting people on pedestals.\"\n\nThe statue is believed to be the world's first memorial sculpture in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft\n\nThe unveiling is the culmination of a decade of campaigning to raise the £143,000 required to create the statue.\n\nThe statue is already on display, and an unveiling ceremony was live-streamed.\n\nIt portrays a silver female figure emerging from a swirling mingle of female forms.\n\nMore than 90% of London's monuments celebrate men, despite the population being 51% women, according to the campaign.\n\nHowever, it has been met with criticism for its symbolic depiction of a female figure, rather than being a lifelike representation of Wollstonecraft.\n\nSome have also queried the decision to make the figure naked.\n\nWriter Caitlin Moran claimed a better representation of a naked \"everywoman\" would be of \"Wollstonecraft dying, at 38, in childbirth, as so many women did back then - ending her revolutionary work.\"\n\n\"That would make me think, and cry,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriter Tracy King tweeted: \"There is no reason to depict Mary naked unless you are trying to be edgy to provoke debate.\n\n\"Statues of named men get to be clothed because the focus is on their work and achievements.\n\n\"Meanwhile, women walking or jogging through parks experience high rates of sexual harassment because our bodies are considered public property.\"\n\nCaroline Criado Perez, who campaigned for Jane Austen to appear on the £10 note, said the statue \"feels disrespectful to Wollstonecraft herself\".\n\nHistorian Simon Schama wrote that he \"always wanted a fine monument to Wollstonecraft - this isn't it\".\n\nWollstonecraft was born into prosperity in 1759, but her father, a drunk, squandered the family money.\n\nLike her mother, she often suffered abuse at his hands.\n\nAs a woman, Wollstonecraft received little formal education but she set out to educate herself and at 25 opened a girls' boarding school on Newington Green, near the site of the statue.\n\nWollstonecraft was 33 when she wrote her most famous work \"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman\" which imagined a social order where women were the equals of men.\n\nShe mixed with the intellectual radicals of the day - debating with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestley.\n\nShe died aged 38 following the birth of her daughter, the author Mary Shelley.\n\nMs Hambling has hit back at those who criticise her art work.\n\nShe said: \"This sculpture encourages a visual conversation with the obstacles Ms Wollstonecraft overcame, the ideals she strived for, and what she made happen.\"\n\nThe Suffolk-based artist said her critics \"are not reading the word, the important word, which is on the plinth, quite clearly 'for' Mary Wollstonecraft, it's not 'of' Mary Wollstonecraft.\n\n\"Clothes define people and restrict people, they restrict people's reaction. She's naked and she's every woman.\n\n\"Most male historic statues are way over life-size. My point was that the female figure doesn't need to dominate to be powerful.\n\n\"It's been compared to a rocket of hope going up to the sky, tracking the fight for female empowerment Wollstonecraft started.\"\n\nThe statue shows a silver female figure emerging from a swirling mingle of female forms\n\nOthers have praised the statue. On Twitter historian Dr Fern Riddle said she \"loved\" the design.\n\n\"It reminds me of Metropolis crossed with the birth of Venus,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't see 'me' in that figure, but I wouldn't see 'me' in a figurine of a fully dressed Mary either. I just like that it's here, and that anyone can interpret it how they want.\"\n\nHistorian Dr Sophie Coulombeau said she hopes those \"with a very strong opinion\" on the statue would also read Wollstonecraft's work.\n\n\"She's a lot weirder and ickier and more surreal than most [people] realise,\" Dr Coulombeau said.\n\n\"I think Hambling gets that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ken Spears, the co-creator of the cartoon series Scooby-Doo, has died at the age of 82.\n\nSpears, who created the animated characters alongside his creative partner Joe Ruby, died of complications from Lewy body dementia.\n\nTheir original show, Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, only ran for two series from 1969-1970, but established a template that spawned 50 years of stories.\n\nSpears' death comes three months after that of his co-creator, Ruby.\n\nHis son Kevin confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Spears died in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nWarner Bros president Sam Register said in a statement: \"Warner Bros Animation is saddened to learn of the passing of Ken Spears and we send our warmest thoughts to his loved ones.\n\n\"He was a true innovator in the industry whose gifts of humour and storytelling continue to delight audiences.\n\n\"You cannot find a screen in the world that has not played a version of Scooby-Doo. We continue to be inspired by his work at Warner Bros. Animation and are honoured to carry on the legacy of his beloved characters.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Variety This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKen Spears was born in Los Angeles on 12 March 1938, and met Ruby when both were sound editors and staff writers at animation studio Hanna Barbera.\n\nWhile there, the pair created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which debuted on CBS in September 1969.\n\nIt followed the adventures of a cowardly but good-natured Great Dane, Scooby, who travelled the US solving spooky mysteries with a group of plucky teenagers - Daphne, Fred, Velma and his slacker sidekick, Shaggy.\n\nSpears and Ruby wrote and story-edited all but four of the first 25 episodes.\n\nThe pair went on to create characters including Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Jabberjaw and were asked to supervise the Saturday morning cartoon line-up at CBS, and later did the same job at ABC.\n\nIn 1977, ABC set up Ruby-Spears Productions, which went on to spawn series such as Mister T and Alvin and the Chipmunks.\n\nAfter Spears' death was announced, the official Scooby Doo Instagram account paid tribute, with an image of the Scooby Doo gang captioned: \"Ken Spears 1938-2020.\"\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 scoobydoo This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Ken will forever be remembered for his wit, his story-telling, his loyalty to family, and his strong work ethic,\" Kevin Spears said in a statement to Variety.\n\n\"Ken has not only made a lasting impression on his family, but he has touched the lives of many as co-creator of Scooby-Doo. Ken has been a role model for us throughout his life and he will continue to live on in our hearts.\"\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 Football\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke has resigned over the \"unacceptable\" language he used when referring to black players.\n\nClarke said he was \"deeply saddened\" for the offence he had caused by using the term \"coloured footballers\".\n\nThe comments came as he was talking about the racist abuse of players by trolls on social media to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee via video link.\n\nClarke said his words were a \"disservice to our game\".\n\nHe prompted further criticism when referring to gay players making a \"life choice\" and a coach telling him young female players did not like having the ball hit hard at them.\n\nHe also said there were \"a lot more South Asians than there are Afro-Caribbeans\" in the FA's IT department because \"they have different career interests\".\n• None Black FA chairman would be 'huge step' in fight for equality, says England's Mings\n• None Newsbeat: why Greg Clarke's language was so offensive (warning - contains offensive language)\n\n\"We can confirm that Greg Clarke has stepped down from his role as our chairman,\" said an FA statement.\n\n\"Peter McCormick will step into the role as interim FA chairman with immediate effect and the FA Board will begin the process of identifying and appointing a new chair in due course.\"\n\nFollowing his resignation, Clarke said: \"My unacceptable words in front of Parliament were a disservice to our game and to those who watch, play, referee and administer it. This has crystallised my resolve to move on.\n\n\"I am deeply saddened that I have offended those diverse communities in football that I and others worked so hard to include.\"\n\nDuring the parliamentary hearing, Clarke apologised after being prompted to say sorry by MP Kevin Brennan.\n\nBrennan said Clarke's language in reference to black players was the kind that did not encourage inclusion, while fellow committee member Alex Davies-Jones called it \"abhorrent\".\n\nClarke had earlier spoken of the need to attract people into the sport from a diverse range of communities.\n\nThe equality charity Kick It Out said his remark about black players should be \"consigned to the dustbin of history\" and criticised his comments concerning people from South Asia, gay players and female footballers.\n\nClarke had been called to give evidence to the DCMS committee about the Premier League's potential bailout of English Football League clubs and the structural reforms proposed as part of Project Big Picture.\n\n\"As a person who loves football and has given decades of service to our game, it is right that I put the interests of football first,\" added Clarke in the statement confirming his departure.\n\n\"2020 has been a challenging year and I have been actively considering standing down for some time to make way for a new chair now our CEO transition is complete and excellent executive leadership under Mark Bullingham is established.\"\n\n'Right to stand down' - reaction\n\nA statement from anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card said Clarke's comments \"only serve to demonstrate the power of language and the damage of stereotyping groups of people\".\n\nSpeaking before the resignation was announced, Sanjay Bhandari, executive chair at Kick It Out, said Clarke's comments to the DCMS were outdated.\n\n\"I was particularly concerned by the use of lazy racist stereotypes about South Asians and their supposed career preferences. It reflects similar lazy stereotypes I have heard have been spouted at club academy level,\" he said.\n\n\"Being gay is not a 'life choice' as he claimed too. The casual sexism of saying girls do not like balls hit at them hard is staggering from anyone, let alone the leader of our national game. It is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"Greg Clarke's comments have caused deep offence and were completely unacceptable. I acknowledge his decades of service to football and his apology, but he was right to stand down as chairman of the FA.\"\n\nDavid Bernstein, former FA chairman, told BBC Sport: \"I am just surprised that the chair of any organisation who's got a feel of what's going on in the year 2020 could use those types of words, that sort of language. It's just inappropriate.\"\n\nDarren Bent, former England striker: \"Slip of the tongue was it? Awful, just awful.\"\n\nAnton Ferdinand, former West Ham, Sunderland and QPR defender: \"Clearly education is needed at all levels.\"\n\nJulian Knight, DCMS select committee chairman: \"It's right that Greg Clarke apologised before the committee. However, this isn't the first time that the FA has come to grief over these issues. It makes us question their commitment to diversity.\"\n\nAlex Davies-Jones, DCMS committee member: \"The language used by Greg Clarke in our meeting this morning was absolutely abhorrent. It speaks volumes about the urgent progress that needs to made in terms of leadership on equalities issues in sport. I can't believe we're still here in 2020.\"\n\nThree years ago - in front of the same parliamentary committee, Greg Clarke was criticised for referring to institutional racism as \"fluff\". He apologised after being chastised by MPs and reminded that language matters.\n\nIt appears the message did not get through.\n\nTwo weeks after the FA launched a new diversity code with the aim of finally tackling racial inequality in the game, such efforts have once again been called into question, despite Clarke always insisting it was one of his priorities.\n\nAmid under-representation of BAME managers and board members, many critics will see Clarke's comments as evidence of the attitudes and language that has prevented the organisation from overseeing the progress hoped for in recent years, and it is no surprise that he has decided to step down.\n\nThere have been other awkward moments. In 2018, LGBT supporters group Pride in Football said it was \"shocked\" after Clarke signed a memorandum of understanding with the FA of Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.\n\nIn July, he had to backtrack after claiming representatives of the Premier League and EFL had blocked plans to increase racial diversity on the FA Board.\n\nDespite having barely been seen since the start of the year, Clarke was already under pressure over his role initiating secret talks over the Project Big Picture plans for a radical overhaul of the English game. Indeed earlier in the committee hearing, he was asked if his authority was \"shot\", something he strongly denied.\n\nBut then came his comments on diversity. Amid an unprecedented financial crisis for the sport and damaging divisions with fans, leagues and government, the FA chairman has now had to go over yet another controversy.\n\nThis is another grim day for the game, at the worst possible moment.\n• None Can the boys track down the boxing promoter?\n• None The biggest tracks that were never topped", "Mr Penrose said his wife, Baroness Dido Harding, had not been told to self isolate\n\nThe husband of NHS Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding has been told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app\n\nTory MP John Penrose said he was alerted by the app, part of the operation overseen by his wife.\n\nThe Weston-super-Mare MP said on Twitter: \"It never rains but it pours... my NHS app has just gone off, telling me to self-isolate, which I'm doing.\"\n\nLady Harding has not been told to self-isolate, Mr Penrose said.\n\nPeople are told to self-isolate after potentially coming into contact with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Penrose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Penrose said on Twitter that he had no symptoms as yet.\n\nAsked if he had spoken to his wife about it, he told the Press Association: \"We are trying to make sure we are doing it by the book, if I can put it that way.\n\n\"Her NHS app has not gone off, so it's someone I have been in contact with rather than her.\"\n\nIn response to a suggestion that it showed the system worked, Mr Penrose said: \"I suppose it does.\"\n\nThe contact-tracing scheme was launched to reduce the spread of coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has congratulated Joe Biden on his US election win.\n\nMr Biden called the PM ahead of the leaders of other major European countries.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nHe is also understood to have assured Mr Biden that Brexit would not undermine the Good Friday Agreement on peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Biden's office said he had \"reaffirmed\" his support for the Good Friday Agreement, which his Democratic predecessor in the White House, President Bill Clinton, played an instrumental role in bringing about.\n\nIt said he had also expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries and \"redouble co-operation\" on issues of mutual concern, including health security and promoting democracy.\n\nThe media declared Mr Biden the election winner on Saturday after he passed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes.\n\nBut counting is ongoing in some states, with incumbent President Donald Trump disputing many of the results.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the prime minister had \"warmly congratulated\" Mr Biden and \"conveyed his congratulations\" to Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\n\"They discussed the close and longstanding relationship between our countries and committed to building on this partnership in the years ahead, in areas such as trade and security - including through Nato,\" the No 10 spokesperson added.\n\n\"The prime minister and president-elect also looked forward to working closely together on their shared priorities, from tackling climate change, to promoting democracy, and building back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nThere is always a clamour to get an early call with a US President-elect.\n\nIt seems Boris Johnson has fared well - with his phone ringing before other European leaders.\n\nDowning Street will hope that's a sign that Joe Biden values the \"special relationship\" and wants to work closely with Mr Johnson.\n\nBut it's important to note President-elect Biden has been talking tonight about the importance of the Good Friday Agreement in the context of Brexit.\n\nIt was raised in the call with the UK prime minister, who insisted the peace treaty would be protected by his plans.\n\nThe controversial Internal Market Bill - which Mr Biden has previously raised questions about - wasn't discussed by name.\n\nBut the UK knows the sands in the White House are shifting. A Brexit enthusiast is being replaced by a sceptic.\n\nThe 25-minute conversation came amid concerns that Mr Biden's previously stated dislike of Brexit - which Mr Trump, by contrast, supported - could strain relations.\n\nIt's understood Mr Johnson and Mr Biden discussed the importance of implementing Brexit in a way that upholds the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMr Johnson assured the President-elect that would be the case.\n\nMr Biden later spoke to Ireland's Taoiseach (PM) Micheál Martin, in what Mr Martin's aides described as a \"warm conversation\".\n\n\"President-elect Biden recalled his strong Irish roots and his visit to Ireland with his family in 2016,\" the Irish government said in a statement.\n\n\"The President-elect reaffirmed his full support for the Good Friday Agreement and they discussed the importance of a Brexit outcome that respects the Good Friday Agreement and ensures no return of a border on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nThe president-elect later spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Macron promised to work with the US to tackle climate change and terrorism, while Mrs Merkel said she wanted a close working relationship with the Biden administration, their spokespeople said.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the UK government blamed a \"technical error\" for a tweet from Mr Johnson congratulating Mr Biden on his US election victory which faintly showed the name \"Trump\" in the background.", "The report said the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols had sometimes failed to demonstrate compassion\n\nThe head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has, at times, shown he cares more about the impact of abuse on the Church's reputation than on the victims, a report says.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse criticised the leadership of Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, and the Vatican.\n\nThe cardinal said the church was \"deeply sorry this happened\".\n\nA lawyer representing survivors said the cardinal \"must go right away\".\n\nCardinal Nichols told the BBC he had offered to resign on Sunday upon turning 75, as is church law when bishops reach this age, but this was rejected by the Vatican.\n\nHe said: \"I offered my resignation to Pope Francis. His answer has come back very clear, very unambiguous. He wants me to stay in post, so I will stay because that's where my orders come from, that's where my mandate comes from.\n\n\"He wants me to stay - I'm going to stay and continue to work wholeheartedly at these matters.\"\n\nThe inquiry found that between 1970 and 2015 the Church received more than 3,000 complaints of child sexual abuse against more than 900 individuals connected to the Church.\n\nThose complaints involved more than 1,750 victims and complainants, though the report said the true scale of abuse was much higher and would likely never be known.\n\nIt was \"far from a solely historical issue\", the inquiry found, adding that more than 100 allegations of abuse had been reported each year since 2016.\n\nThe Catholic Church's \"explicit moral purpose has been betrayed by those who sexually abused children, and by those who turned a blind eye and failed to take action against perpetrators\".\n\nIt said the cardinal, who apologised for the Church's actions when he gave evidence, \"did not always exercise the leadership expected of a senior member of the Church, at times preferring to protect the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and in Rome\".\n\nIt added that Cardinal Nichols had shown \"no acknowledgement of any personal responsibility to lead or influence change\".\n\n\"Nor did he demonstrate compassion towards victims in the recent cases which we examined.\"\n\nThe report said that two previous inquiries into abuse in the Church, by Lord Nolan in 2001 and Lady Cumberlege in 2007, had brought change and improvements, but their recommendations had been implemented too slowly and not in full.\n\nIt highlighted that in 2016, internal correspondence between members of the Diocese of Westminster's safeguarding commission described a victim of sexual abuse as \"manipulative\" and \"needy\".\n\nThe report states: \"Real and lasting changes to attitudes have some way to go if the Roman Catholic Church is to shake off the failures of the past.\"\n\nOne of the \"repeated failures\" highlighted in the IICSA report was the case of Father James Robinson, a serial paedophile, who was moved to another parish within the Archdiocese of Birmingham after complaints were first made in the 1980s.\n\nHe later fled to the US but was extradited back to the UK where he was convicted in 2010 of 21 sexual offences against four boys and jailed for 21 years.\n\nThe report said \"appalling sexual abuse\" was inflicted on pupils at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and its adjoining junior school.\n\nFive people connected to the school have been convicted or cautioned in relation to \"offences involving sexual activity with a large number of children, or offences concerning pornography\", the report said.\n\nOne of them was Father Piers Grant-Ferris who was moved to at least six other parishes after allegations of abuse came to light 1975.\n\nHe was convicted of indecent assault against 15 boys in 2006.\n\nThe inquiry also criticised the Vatican, describing its actions as in \"direct contrast with Pope Francis's public statement on child sexual abuse\".\n\nIn 2019, the Pope called for \"concrete and effective actions that involve everyone in the Church\".\n\nThe Holy See did not provide a statement to the inquiry and the ambassador at the time refused to give evidence.\n\nThe report said: \"In responding in this way, the Holy See's stance was contrary to the spirit of its public statements and it missed the opportunity to demonstrate its engagement and leadership on the issue of child sexual abuse.\"\n\nIt added its response \"manifestly did not demonstrate a commitment to taking action\".\n\nOne abuse survivor said it was bad enough to have been abused but \"to have it dismissed and covered up just takes even more of a toll on you\".\n\nAnother survivor, who gave evidence to the inquiry, said \"thousands of pounds have been spent by the Diocese of Westminster in employing lawyers to keep me at arm's length\" as they continued to make their case.\n\nThey added: \"The church needs a seismic shift in culture, especially at the top. If there is any hope at all of real change it will require a relinquishing of power, and a will to treat survivors as human beings.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, specialist abuse lawyer at Slater & Gordon who represents 32 survivors in IICSA, said: \"This is an absolutely damning report.\n\n\"It highlights the shocking scale of abuse, the disgraceful slowness of the church's response, the abject failures of leadership by Cardinal Nichols, and the Vatican's appalling refusal to cooperate properly with the inquiry.\n\n\"Cardinal Nichols needs to go right away - in any other walk of life he would be gone immediately.\"\n\nResponding to the report, Cardinal Nichols told the BBC: \"The things in this report are in the public sphere, and I'm sure they've been taken into account, but the response I've got is very unambiguous. It is to stay, and stay I will.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I'm not here to defend myself... I am here to say we accept this report, we are grateful to IICSA for bringing the light and giving public space to those who have been abused, we are deeply sorry this happened...\n\n\"Today is more about me saying again, on behalf of everybody in the Catholic Church, how deeply, deeply regretful and sorry I am that anybody suffered, and that so many suffered is a terrible shame with which I must live and from which I must learn.\"\n\nThe report follows the publication of a similar inquiry into abuse in the Church of England, which concluded the church had created a culture where abusers \"could hide\".\n\nIf you have been the victim of sexual abuse, or have been affected by the themes in this article, you can go to the BBC Action Line for support.", "The company behind foods such as gravy brand Bisto, custard-maker Ambrosia and Mr Kipling's cakes says people turned to comfort foods during the pandemic.\n\nPremier Foods credited \"exceptional\" demand throughout lockdown for strong sales and profit figures for the past six months.\n\nIt said it had gained over a million new customers during the period.\n\nPremier said it was benefitting from the latest lockdown in England, which meant more people were eating at home.\n\nProfits for the six months to September were up 50% at £47.7m.\n\nPremier said that consumers had \"turned to brands they recognise and trust\".\n\nIt also said people had been trying to expand their repertoire of meals cooked in their own kitchens, particularly as new restrictions on eating out had been introduced, which had helped sales of its cooking ingredients.\n\nThe food critic and broadcaster, Jay Rayner, said the news was no surprise: \"All of us are having to cook many more meals in lockdown - prior to that 30% of our calories were eaten outside the house.\n\n\"Many of those doing the cooking were kids 20 or so years before so they are turning to these familiar foods.\"\n\nPremier Foods' Cadbury's mini rolls were another stand out performer, as it put it, selling in \"very robust volumes\".\n\nChief executive Alex Whitehouse said: \"The longevity of this increased demand is likely to be linked to the duration of these new measures.\"\n\nThe company said it expected to continue to see its income grow and forecast that its full-year profits would beat analysts' predictions.\n\nPremier Foods update came as market research firm Kantar Worldpanel produced its latest update of supermarket sales.\n\nIt said these grew by 9.4% across the UK in the four weeks to 1 November.\n\nIt said that while sales were higher than the same period a year ago, unlike in March, there had been no noticeable spike in the stockpiling of goods this time round.", "Prone restraint, demonstrated here, can result in serious injury - and was used more than 4,000 times in 2019\n\nEvery 15 minutes, on average, a patient with learning disabilities was restrained in hospital last year, new BBC File on 4 analysis shows.\n\nIn 2019, restraint was used just over 38,000 times in England. In 2017, there were 22,000 reports of restraint.\n\nHarriet Harman, chairwoman of the House of Commons joint select committee on human rights, said this suggested \"inhuman and degrading\" treatment.\n\nThe Department of Health said restraint \"should only be used as a last resort\".\n\nThe data, provided by NHS Digital and analysed by the BBC, also shows the use of prone restraint - or holding people face down - remains high, despite being against government guidelines.\n\nLast year, it was used more than 4,000 times.\n\nSeclusion - where people are locked in a room on their own - also remains high.\n\nIn 2019, there were 3,225 reported cases of seclusion, and 850 of those involved children.\n\nIn the first seven months of this year alone, there were more than 2,000 incidents of seclusion.\n\nRestraint is used to manage someone's behaviour when they are deemed to be a risk to themselves or others.\n\nNHS England says it has \"driven an increase in the reporting of restraint\" and \"lowered the bar\".\n\nBut not all hospitals and treatment units regularly provide complete data.\n\nMs Harman said the treatment \"was basically a human rights abuse\".\n\n\"People are not supposed to be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment - and routine solitary confinement and physical restraint is exactly that,\" she said.\n\n\"We clearly don't even know the half of it, since many providers of these institutions don't give the information that they should about what's going on.\"\n\nDan Scorer, head of policy at learning disability charity Mencap, said prone restraint \"should not be happening in any kind of planned way\" and could result in \"serious injury, and potentially death\".\n\nThe figures come despite pledges to reduce restraint use, which includes seclusion, after a 2018 File on 4 programme first uncovered numbers of reported restraint had risen by 50% between 2016 and 2017.\n\nBethany has \"massively improved\" since moving to a new community placement\n\nThe case of autistic 19-year-old Bethany - who File on 4 revealed had been in seclusion for 21 months - drew a personal apology from Health Secretary Matt Hancock, and prompted the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate the issue of restraint.\n\nThe CQC's findings, released last month, were described as \"deeply concerning\" by Health Minister Helen Whately.\n\nBethany was kept in a room with just a foam mattress and a chair, and fed through a hatch, at St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton.\n\nLast December, she was finally found a place in a specialist unit run by Merseycare NHS Trust.\n\nShe said: \"Since I've been here, the staff have been absolutely amazing. My behaviour's settled down and my anger's settled. And I've not done any self-harming for five or six months.\"\n\nShe now has her own bedroom, plays the piano, goes out for walks and shopping, and is learning circus skills.\n\nAndrea Attree and her autistic daughter Dannielle, who has spent more than two years being secluded and segregated in hospitals\n\nDannielle Attree from Kent, who is also autistic, was in the same hospital as Bethany for 19 months, where she spent time in seclusion after first being admitted following a period of poor mental health.\n\nNow she's in Littlebrook Hospital, run by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, where she has been in segregation for nine months. She is sometimes locked in.\n\nDannielle's mum Andrea Attree told File on 4: \"Dannielle doesn't know how to be able to be anywhere but in seclusion now, because it's been going on for so long.\n\n\"Her mental health has declined to the lowest I've ever seen. Her self-harm has been off the scale.\"\n\nThe government strategy Transforming Care was launched in 2012 following the Winterbourne View scandal. It set a target to reduce the number of inpatients with learning disabilities in England by at least 35% by March 2019.\n\nThis target was then moved to March 2020. It wasn't met, and a new target has now been set to move 50% of patients by March 2024.\n\nIn 2018, there were 2,400 people with learning disabilities and autism in hospital in England. Latest figures show there are still 2,060.\n\nMs Harman said there was a need for a \"sense of urgency\", and that a special unit in the prime minister's office should be established to tackle the issue.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said a new unit would \"duplicate services\".\n\n\"Our priority is always to ensure people with a learning disability and autistic people receive safe and high-quality care, and that they are treated with dignity and respect,\" it added.\n\n\"Government policy is that any kind of restraint should only be used as a last resort, and there is active work to reduce use of restrictive practice in mental health settings.\"\n\nFigures for restraint in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland aren't collated. But there are more than 600 people with learning disabilities and autism in hospital in those three countries.\n\nKent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust said it agreed with Dannielle and Andrea that \"highly specialist services for people with autism nationally are not where we all want them to be\".\n\nIt added: \"Our role has been to make sure that whilst we worked with Dannielle and her mum to find the right care setting for her, Dannielle is supported, cared for and cared about in what we all agree was never set up as a long-term placement.\"\n\nSt Andrew's Hospital said Dannielle had made good progress while she was there, that seclusion was only ever used as a last resort, and that guidelines were followed.\n\nIt added that Bethany had been there \"longer than anyone wanted\", and it had worked with the NHS to transfer her to a community placement as soon as was possible.\n\nTransforming Care? is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 10 November at 20:00 BST and will be available to listen to on BBC Sounds.", "Australian researchers say the discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws more light on human evolution.\n\nThe skull was a male Paranthropus robustus, a \"cousin species\" to Homo erectus - a species thought to be direct ancestors of modern humans.\n\nThe two species lived around the same time, but Paranthropus robustus died out earlier.\n\nThe research team described the find as exciting.\n\n\"Most of the fossil record is just a single tooth here and there so to have something like this is very rare, very lucky,\" Dr Angeline Leece told the BBC.\n\nThe researchers, from Melbourne's La Trobe University, found the skull's fragments in 2018 at the Drimolen archaeological site north of Johannesburg.\n\nIt was uncovered just metres away from a spot where a similarly aged Homo erectus skull of a child was discovered in 2015.\n\nThe fossil was found in the Drimolen quarry near Johannesburg\n\nArchaeologists then spent the past few years piecing together and analysing the fossil. Their findings were published in the Nature, Ecology and Evolution journal on Tuesday.\n\nCo-researcher Jesse Martin told the BBC that handling the fossil pieces was like working with \"wet cardboard\", adding he had used plastic straws to suck the last traces of dirt off them.\n\nIt is thought that three hominins (human-like creatures) species lived in South Africa at the same time in competition with each other.\n\nAs such the skull discovery presented a rare example of \"microevolution\" within human lineage, Mr Martin said.\n\nParanthropus robustus had large teeth and small brains, differing from Homo erectus which had large brains and small teeth. It is believed the former's diet involved eating mainly tough plants, like tubers and bark.\n\nThe skull took over 300 hours to piece together\n\n\"Through time, Paranthropus robustus likely evolved to generate and withstand higher forces produced during biting and chewing food that was hard or mechanically challenging to process with their jaws and teeth,\" said Dr Leece.\n\nThe scientists said it was possible that a wetter environment caused by climate change may have reduced the food available to them.\n\nMeanwhile Homo erectus, with their smaller teeth, was more likely to have eaten both plants and meat.\n\n\"These two vastly different species... represent divergent evolutionary experiments,\" Dr Leece said.\n\n\"While we were the lineage that won out in the end, two million years ago the fossil record suggests that Paranthropus robustus was much more common than Homo erectus on the landscape.\"", "The government has suggested it will reject calls for another referendum but unionists worry how sustainable this is\n\nSupporters of the Union are nervous.\n\nA number of recent polls on Scottish independence suggest there is now a majority in support of leaving the UK. The SNP have started calling independence the \"settled will of the Scottish people\".\n\nThe issue is set to dominate the run-up to the Holyrood election in May. Polls also suggest the SNP are on for a comfortable win - which will make calls for another vote on independence even louder.\n\nIn this situation, the SNP will have gone into the election arguing it should have the power to hold another referendum - and will have won.\n\nSo what is Westminster going to do? The immediate answer is a simple one. It will say no.\n\nLast week the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack told the BBC there shouldn't be another referendum for a generation - adding that could be as long as 40 years.\n\nAlthough some Tories have discussed the prospect of a snap referendum - both publicly and privately - senior figures in government intend on rejecting calls for indyref2 next year, whatever the outcome of the Holyrood vote.\n\nAnd as things stand, they hold a trump card.\n\nAlthough some in the SNP are itching for a Plan B (which we'll revisit in the coming weeks) - Nicola Sturgeon wants an agreed, legal process with Westminster so that if Scotland votes for it, independence is seen as legitimate.\n\nBut the debate doesn't end there. As ever with politics - the full story is more complicated.\n\nIn the corridors of power in London, some believe unionists are losing the argument. They accept polls are likely to get worse for them - with support for independence increasing in the coming months.\n\nThey accept many \"soft unionists\" are unhappy with Brexit and the way the UK government has pursued it.\n\nOpinion polls suggest growing support for independence but an SNP majority in May's election is far from guaranteed\n\nSome acknowledge privately that Nicola Sturgeon's handling of the coronavirus crisis has made her more popular - and impressed Scots who may have not been convinced about independence before.\n\nSir John Major - who has long warned Brexit would make independence more likely - has argued that saying no to another referendum after an SNP victory may well help their case.\n\nHe suggested two referendums; one on independence and one on the terms. His intervention shows some in Conservative circles are thinking about what to do next.\n\nThe fear that saying no is unsustainable is shared by some in government.\n\nThey worry that if the SNP wins comfortably in May, refusing to engage on an independence vote will look anti-democratic - alienating Scots who voted against independence in 2014 but are now on the fence.\n\nSome hope that by stopping the SNP winning a majority - which is a big ask under the electoral system anyway - they can argue the mandate isn't there.\n\nBut that argument will be a lot harder to make if the SNP do dominate in May - and independence supporters already argue even if they don't get over the line and win 50% of seats, Holyrood could still vote in favour of another referendum with the support of the Scottish Greens.\n\nThe government's strategy is focussed on telling Scottish voters more about its role in Scottish life.\n\nIt wants to persuade people of the \"broad shoulders of the union\" - pointing to the huge financial support the Treasury has provided during the Covid crisis and arguing that wouldn't be possible as an independent country (an argument rubbished by the SNP, who believe the Treasury has made decisions based on England rather than the needs of parts of the union).\n\nThe government is keen to stress the practical economic benefits that Scotland derives from the union\n\nSenior figures in government believe that the economic picture in May is likely to be grim. Unemployment could be rising, the health picture may still be uncertain.\n\nThey think people will want certainty and will argue staying in the UK can provide it. Constitutional matters, they argue, will be far from top of people's minds.\n\nEven though people in government acknowledge support for independence is increasing, they believe it's \"soft\".\n\nInternal polling suggests people have other priorities and even among those who believe another referendum should happen there is a view that it's not the immediate priority.\n\nThe last time the Scottish government called for the power to hold another referendum, after the Brexit vote, Theresa May's argument was a nuanced no - \"now is not the time\".\n\nThat answer - or some form of it - is likely to be the same next year if the SNP do win power again.\n\nBut more than last time, there is nervousness about how that answer will go down - and how long it can be sustained.", "Pubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland closed their doors to sit-in customers in mid-October\n\nThe NI Executive has failed to reach a decision on whether to extend or change Covid-19 restrictions regarding the hospitality sector.\n\nMinisters held a series of meetings throughout Monday but were unable to agree what steps to take.\n\nOne option being considered would be to allow cafes to open but licensed premises would remain closed.\n\nIt is understood hairdressers and beauticians would be allowed to open with certain restrictions in place.\n\nTen further coronavirus-related deaths were reported by Stormont's Department of Health on Monday, along with 471 more cases.\n\nOf the 10 deaths, nine occurred within the most recent 24-hour reporting period, while one happened prior to it.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, one further coronavirus-related death was reported on Monday and there have been 270 new confirmed cases.\n\nThe Republic's death toll now stands at 1,948 since the pandemic began and a total of 65,659 cases of the disease have been diagnosed.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland closed their doors to sit-in customers on Friday 16 October under stricter Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHair and beauty salons also had to shut for four weeks.\n\nThe first minister had said the current coronavirus restrictions would end at midnight on Thursday.\n\nIt had been expected that ministers were going to agree a partial reopening of the sector, allowing restaurants to open but unable to serve booze and keeping alcohol-only pubs shut for another fortnight.\n\nOn Sunday, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the sale of alcohol was a factor in reaching a decision because \"defences come down when alcohol is taken\".\n\nMs O'Neill said cafes and coffee shops were a different matter.\n\nIn other coronavirus developments on Monday:\n\nMs O'Neill said the executive was looking at reopening some areas of the hospitality industry\n\nBelfast restaurant owner Michael Deane said he was appalled at the idea not to allow premises to serve alcohol,\n\nHe appealed to the executive to \"stop making us the bogeyman\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that his business had lost close to £2m.\n\n\"I think they should just tell us to close until this is all over, fund the hospitality business and leave it at that,\" he added.\n\nHospitality Ulster chief executive Colin Neill urged the first and deputy first ministers to \"make the right call to save thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses\" by allowing licensed premises to reopen on 13 November.\n\n\"We really need the executive to make sure that the focus is on getting the entire hospitality sector back up and running again this Friday to save a significant amount of jobs and businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We now face a really important part of the year and although we are live to the fact that this will be an extremely challenging trading period, we need to have the doors open.\n\n\"Hundreds of businesses are struggling and now in debt as they try to keep staff in the face of mounting bills and a lack of financial aid from the government, which covers very little in reality.\"\n\nHair and beauty salons also had to shut for four weeks on 17 October\n\nSimon Hamilton, chief executive of Belfast Chamber, urged ministers to reconsider their decision to give businesses \"a fighting chance\" to remain open.\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, he said: \"Suggesting that alcohol will not be allowed to be sold in premises is one which no logic or evidence has been offered for, and would suggest there is a lack of understanding around the viability of businesses like restaurants.\"\n\nHe said he has spoken to many businesses that do not believe it will be viable to open with the new restrictions.\n\nHe added that grant support launched by the executive several weeks ago has not been paid to businesses yet and many that were forced to close will not be able to avail of it.\n\nMeanwhile Justice Minister Naomi Long is self isolating after developing a persistent cough.\n\nThe Alliance leader took to social media to say she had booked a test for Covid-19.\n\nShe said on Twitter: \"Hopefully, with a clear test and 10 days isolation, we'll be able to get it back on track next week. Still, very frustrating but has to be done.\"\n\nMs Long said she was following the official advice she had received.\n\nDepartment of Health guidance says if a person has a negative test, they are not required to self-isolate, as long as everyone they live with who has symptoms has tested negative; they feel well enough; and are not a close contact of a confirmed case.\n\nMs Long is the latest executive minister to self isolate and follows assembly members including Conor Murphy, Pam Cameron, John Stewart and Michelle O'Neill who have all had stay at home in recent weeks.", "Brian Murdoch, pictured with his wife Joan and grandson Ben, was a dedicated football fan, his family said\n\nThe family of a man famed for his football stadium pies have been \"overwhelmed\" by tributes following his death at the age of 81.\n\nBrian Murdoch, whose family business has fed fans at Kidderminster Harriers for nearly 60 years, died on Saturday, the club said.\n\nThe lifelong Harriers fan was known for his \"incomparable character and warmth\", a club spokesman said.\n\nHis pies regularly topped charts as the most expensive pie in British football.\n\nBut some fans defended the cost, saying they were a tasty meal made from fresh ingredients.\n\nClub spokesman Matty Paddock said the Harriers Pies and Aggborough Soup had a \"cult following in football\".\n\nThe family-run business is set to continue selling pies and other food at the ground\n\nSpeaking in 2012, Mr Murdoch said he would \"not compromise\" on quality.\n\n\"Barcelona have Messi, Real Madrid have Ronaldo and Kidderminster have our pies,\" he said.\n\nNeil Male, Harriers chief executive, said: \"I know how much Brian and his family's food business meant to the fans here - for those coming to matches at Aggborough, he was a constant for many, many years and he'll be sadly missed.\"\n\nFans saluted Mr Murdoch on Twitter, with Brighton fan Simon Harris tweeting: \"One of the best things about being a fan of a lower league club is the away days. The local fans and staff at small grounds that have a passion for it that you just don't get at the 'big clubs'.\"\n\nMr Murdoch will be \"sadly missed\" at the stadium, the club said\n\nBBC Sport journalist Ged Scott said Mr Murdoch was a \"lovely bloke\" who always had time to chat.\n\n\"Even sometimes actually during match days at half-time at Aggborough, when it was clearly all hands to the pump behind the scenes in his kiosk,\" he said.\n\nMr Murdoch had been unwell for three years, and leaves his wife Joan, four children and 11 grandchildren.\n\nHis daughter Helen will continue to run the catering business at Aggborough, once the National League North side is allowed to let supporters back into the stadium.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None The man behind football's most expensive pie\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bio-reactor was developed with Italian engineering firm Kayser Italia\n\nUK scientists have shown how astronauts on the Moon or Mars could one day mine for important metals using bacteria.\n\nIn a first-of-its-kind experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), microbes digested rock to release rare-Earth elements (REEs).\n\nREEs are incorporated into electronics and alloys, in particular.\n\nThe researchers tell the journal Nature Communications that bio-mining could help make future space exploration become more sustainable.\n\nAt the moment, everything required to survive on another world has to be carried from Earth - from the air an astronaut would breathe to any materials they might need for repairs.\n\nTransporting all that mass is energy-intensive and expensive, which is why there is now increasing focus on trying to find ways to use resources already in place.\n\n\"Wherever you are in space, whether you're building a settlement on asteroids, the Moon or Mars - you're going to need elements to build your civilisation,\" said Prof Charles Cockell from the UK Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"What our BioRock experiment has shown is that bio-mining is just one way in which we might go about extracting useful elements from rocks to support a long-term human presence beyond the Earth.\"\n\nThe argument for using resources already in place is a compelling one\n\nProf Cockell's team has developed small bio-reactors. These are essentially small boxes containing basalt rock and a community of microbes known to leach metals from minerals.\n\nThe reactors were sent to the ISS and placed in a centrifuge where they were spun at different speeds to simulate gravity on the Earth and on Mars. A third box was allowed to experience the full, free-floating \"zero-G\" environment of the orbiting lab.\n\nThe team wanted to find out if micro-organisms that ordinarily pull REEs out of rock here on the ground will also do the same in space.\n\nThis wasn't obvious. Reduced gravity can stress microbes, making them behave in different ways. And for two species of bacteria in the BioRock experiment, their readiness to remove the metals was much reduced.\n\nBut for an organism called Sphingomonas desiccabilis - it was unaffected, and happily pulled multiple REEs from the basalt, including neodymium, cerium and lanthanum.\n\n\"This is the first time in space that anyone has deliberately removed an economically interesting element from an extraterrestrial analogue material like basalt,\" said Prof Cockell. \"It's really the first mining experiment in space, if you like. We didn't actually create economically useful amounts of rare-Earth elements, but we demonstrated the principle,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAbout 20% of the world's copper and gold is currently extracted with the aid of microbial processes.\n\nThe Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano runs the BioRock experiment on the ISS\n\nThere's been much talk in recent years about mining planets and asteroids for raw materials that could then be brought back to Earth.\n\nProf Cockell can't see the economic case for this just yet; it would still be cheaper to prospect for - and extract - ores here on Earth, he says. But the argument for utilisation of in-situ resources on other worlds is a compelling one, he believes.\n\nUS space agency (Nasa) astronauts will attempt to use buried ice for drinking water when they return to the Moon later this decade. And as soon as next year, the American rover Perseverance will run an experiment that seeks to make oxygen from Mars' carbon dioxide atmosphere - a potential game-changer for any human settlement on the Red Planet.\n\nAlso, just this week, the European Space Agency (Esa) gave a contract to the UK company Metalysis to develop its process for pulling oxygen from Moon dust while at the same time yielding aluminium, iron and other metal powders.\n\n\"The oxygen that we can liberate could be used as a propellant or to sustain life, or a presence on the Moon. And the metal can be used to build different kinds of structures,\" Ian Mellor, managing director at Metalysis, told the BBC.\n\nAs for the Edinburgh work - ways are being sought to improve efficiency.\n\nBioRock on the ISS will soon be followed by BioAsteroid - a repeat of the reactor experiment but with crushed-up asteroid material rather than the blocks of Icelandic volcanic rock used in the first study.\n\nProf Cockell said he also expected scientists at some point to look at how mining bacteria could be engineered to raise their productivity of useful products.\n\nBioRock received funding from Esa and the UK Space Agency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that we are still in a 'critical moment' of Covid-19 response\n\nThe development of a coronavirus vaccine has \"cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said early findings showing a jab could prevent 90% of people getting Covid-19 were positive, but added it was \"very, very early days\".\n\nHe warned people not to \"rely on this news as a solution\" to the pandemic.\n\n\"The biggest mistake we could make now would be to slacken our resolve at a critical moment,\" he said.\n\nIt came as a further 21,350 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Monday, along with 194 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said he was \"hopeful\" the first vaccine could be seen by Christmas and there would be a \"much better horizon\" by spring.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Johnson at a Downing Street news conference, Prof Van-Tam said there was more work to be done before it became available to the public.\n\n\"This is a very important scientific breakthrough. I am certain of that,\" he said.\n\nHe said age would be the \"biggest priority\" when drawing up a list of who would be able to access the new vaccine.\n\nOlder care home residents and care home staff are at the top of a preliminary priority list published by the government, followed by health workers.\n\nProf Van-Tam described the development as similar to \"getting to the end of the playoff final, it's gone to penalties, the first player goes up and scores a goal\".\n\n\"You haven't won the cup yet, but what it does is it tells you that the goalkeeper can be beaten,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister said \"if and when\" the vaccine was approved for use, the UK \"will be ready to use it\".\n\nHe said 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate up to 20 million people - had been ordered, putting the UK near the front of the queue of countries in securing the jab.\n\nMr Johnson said he had talked for a long time about \"the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the brow of the hill\" with a solution.\n\n\"I can tell you that tonight that toot of the bugle is louder, but it's still some way off, we absolutely cannot rely on this news as a solution,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe vaccine - developed by Pfizer and German-based BioNTech - has been hailed as a \"milestone\" by many scientists.\n\nIt has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries with no safety concerns raised.\n\nProf Van-Tam warned it was not yet known whether any vaccine would prevent someone passing on coronavirus to someone else.\n\nDr Charlie Weller, a vaccines specialist at the Wellcome Trust, said the speed of the vaccine's progress was \"phenomenal\" but warned no single jab would be a silver bullet against the virus.\n\nShe added that the technology behind the vaccine, so-called messenger RNA, had not been proved effective in jabs before. It has been suggested it could lead to safer vaccines for many types of viruses in future.\n\nMeanwhile, Surrey Police chief constable Gavin Stephens confirmed discussions with the Army were under way to determine the location of mass Covid-19 vaccination centres.\n\nHe said there was a question over whether vaccinations should happen in the same place as testing and how many sites would be needed to meet capacity.\n\nGPs in England have been told to prepare to give patients two vaccine doses - to be delivered between 21 and 28 days apart - during clinics that could run between 08:00 and 20:00 GMT seven days a week as early as December, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).\n\nThe BMA, which represents doctors, said it expects \"vaccine availability to be limited to begin with, meaning only small numbers of vaccine may be given in December and most vaccinations taking place in early 2021\".\n\nManaging expectations seemed to be a key theme of Monday's televised briefing.\n\nBoth Prime Minister Boris Johnson and England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam were at pains to inject a bit of realism into some of the euphoria over the vaccine news.\n\nThe PM said we must not \"slacken our resolve\", while Prof Van-Tam said it would not make \"any difference\" for the second wave this winter.\n\nTheir message was simple - do not drop your guard against the virus.\n\nIt is easy to understand why. The world has been waiting so long for positive vaccine news.\n\nBut the announcement is just the first hurdle of many.\n\nSafety has still to be proved, the jab's ability to stop transmission rather than just prevent disease is not yet known, how long immunity lasts is uncertain, and whether it works with older people is still to be confirmed.\n\nOther regulatory hurdles will have to be overcome - and that is before we even think about manufacture and distribution.\n\nIt could be that one of the many other vaccines being trialled proves more effective in the long-term. But, as Prof Van-Tam said, Monday's news showed the opponent could be beaten.\n\nMr Johnson said levels of Covid-19 remained significant and were doubling in many areas, with recent data showing one in 90 people in England currently has the virus.\n\n\"There is a long way before we have got this thing beat,\" he said.\n\nHe reiterated the government's intention to end England's current lockdown on 2 December and replace it with tiered regional restrictions.", "Street artist Akse says Marcus Rashford has \"inspired the whole nation\"\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has thanked the artist who painted a mural of him near to where he grew up.\n\nStreet artist Akse has created the artwork on the side of Coffee House Cafe in Copson Street, Withington, Manchester.\n\nHe said the England and Manchester United star's recent successful campaign to extend free school meals inspired the project.\n\nRashford tweeted an image of the finished mural with a \"thank you\".\n\nThe artwork, based on a photograph by Daniel Cheetham, was done in collaboration with Withington Walls, a community street art project.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marcus Rashford MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing Rashford's campaign, the government announced it was to spend more than £400m on a winter grant scheme to support poor children and their families in England.\n\nIt follows the footballer's campaign in June which led to the government changing its policy to allow children to claim free meals during the holidays.\n\nRashford became an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list last month.\n\nManchester-based artist Akse said the mural was close to where the footballer grew up in Old Moat, Withington, before his family moved to Wythenshawe.\n\nRashford's mother provided the quote on the mural, which read: \"Take pride in knowing that your struggle will play the biggest role in your purpose.\"\n\n\"It's incredible,\" said Ed Wellard of Withington Walls. \"Akse is a world class artist but it's exceeded my expectations. It is amazing.\"\n\nAkse said he had a video call with 23-year-old Rashford while working on the painting.\n\n\"It was very kind of him to take time to chat with me,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope the mural will inspire the local community as he has inspired the whole nation with his campaign to fight child food poverty.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative MPs have set up a group to fight any future lockdown in England, arguing it would be \"devastating\" for the economy and \"cost lives\".\n\nThe Covid Recovery Group, which has around 50 MP members, wants the country to \"live with\" coronavirus after nationwide restrictions end next month.\n\nThe \"cure\" prescribed by the government ran \"the risk of being worse than the disease\", MP Mark Harper said.\n\nBut the PM has stressed the NHS faces a \"medical disaster\" without action.\n\nA further 20,412 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, with another 532 deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.\n\nThe four-week lockdown in England - which includes the closure of pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail, while curbing household mixing and unnecessary travel - is scheduled to end on 2 December.\n\nParliament overwhelmingly backed the restrictions earlier this month, but 34 Conservative MPs, concerned about civil liberties and the effect on wider health and the economy, rebelled against the government.\n\nAnother 19, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, abstained.\n\nThe government says it wants a return to regionalised, tiered restrictions when lockdown ends - and ministers have been warned of an even larger rebellion if they try to extend it into Christmas and the New Year.\n\nThe Covid Recovery Group - which includes ex-Chief Whip Mr Harper and the chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady - says the \"devastating cycle\" of prohibitions cannot go on.\n\nIt wants ministers to investigate whether restrictions are costing more lives than they are saving, by stopping cancer and dementia treatments and increasing suicide rates among the under-40s.\n\nThe group is calling for the \"monopoly\" it says scientists have on advising the government to end, and an assurance that no policies will go before Parliament without three \"independent\" experts backing them first.\n\nFigures published on Tuesday showed redundancies rose to a record high of 314,000 in the three months to the end of September, as firms laid off people in anticipation of furlough ending in November.\n\nDespite the government extending the wage-subsidy scheme to March, economists say the jobs picture remains bleak.\n\nMr Harper said the country needed to find a \"sustainable way\" of living with Covid until a vaccine was available for mass use to stop \"immense\" economic damage.\n\n\"Lockdowns cost lives, whether in undiagnosed cancer treatments, deteriorating mental health, and missed A&E appointments - not to mention the impact it has on young people's education, job prospects and our soaring debts,\" he said.\n\n\"The cure we're prescribing runs the risk of being worse than the disease.\"\n\nThe new group, he added, would \"play its part in helping the government to deliver an enduring strategy for living with the virus... command public support, end this devastating cycle of repeated restrictions\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was critical people continued to follow the rules to get the infection rate down, adding that \"our plan is working\".\n\nHe added that the NHS would be ready to begin the roll-out of a new vaccine from next month, if it gets approval.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people not to \"rely\" on this \"as a solution\" to the medical emergency caused by coronavirus.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Llandudno woman still waiting for surgery after 19 months\n\nAt least 49,000 patients in Wales had been waiting for more than a year for NHS treatment in September, according to new figures.\n\nFor six out of the seven health boards, the figures also show at least half of those were awaiting surgery.\n\nIt represents a 10-fold increase for all treatments compared to September 2019.\n\nThe Welsh Government said \"difficult decisions\" were made to cancel surgery due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe figures, obtained by BBC Wales Investigates under the Freedom of Information Act, showed there were more than 18,000 people waiting for any kind of treatment at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.\n\nThat is double the number at the Swansea Bay and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards, which both had 9,000 patients waiting.\n\nSwansea Bay had the most waiting for surgery - 7,801 - with Betsi Cadwaladr just behind on 7,620.\n\nFigures for the Cardiff and Vale health board have not been included as its data is not comparable.\n\nGaye Moran has been left in a lot of pain\n\nFormer B&B owner Gaye Moran, 74, from Llandudno has been waiting for vascular and hip surgery for more than 19 months.\n\nShe said she was placed on the \"priority list\" for both a hip and a vascular operation in March 2019, after problems with a previous hip operation caused her a lot of pain.\n\nShe was ready for surgery just as the pandemic struck.\n\n\"It's despairing me,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't just put it to one side and leave it because it's there all the time, I can't get away from it, and you just think 'oh please give me a date for an operation'.\"\n\nMs Moran said she had great admiration for the job the NHS was doing, but not knowing when her operations may happen, and news that waiting list backlogs may take years to clear, were leaving her anxious.\n\n\"This lockdown doesn't help because you dwell on things,\" she added.\n\n\"As soon as Covid is done, we need to show the same type of impetus with backlogs as we have with the Nightingale hospitals and pandemic response.\"\n\nMs Moran is now one of 7,620 people who have been waiting more than a year in the Betsi Cadwaladr area.\n\nThe health board said elective surgery capacity was currently at about 60%, but pain management services were considered \"essential\" and had been maintained.\n\nIts acting deputy chief executive, Teresa Owen, said she \"fully recognised\" it was a worrying time for those waiting for treatment.\n\n\"In the short term, we are looking at performing more outpatient appointments and theatres activity over the evenings and weekends,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also working to introduce modular buildings away from acute hospital sites, from which diagnostic tests, endoscopies and day case surgery can be performed.\"\n\nVaughan Gething accepted \"poorer outcomes\" would result from the decisions made\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said there were \"no easy choices\" in dealing with both the pandemic and other NHS services.\n\n\"Because the choices we've made, it's undoubtedly the case we'll see poorer outcomes and that does mean more people having avoidable disability, more people potentially losing their lives with non-Covid care,\" he said.\n\n\"But if we did nothing, we know that in the middle of March, we could have been like northern Italy was... the health service was overrun, we wouldn't have been able to expand that critical care capacity.\"\n\nSenedd Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said: \"Regrettably, waiting list targets were being missed before the pandemic started with the Welsh Labour-led government consistently letting down patients.\n\n\"Coronavirus has led to NHS waiting lists growing longer but the pandemic has only put a spotlight on how bad things were before, and all we get from Labour's health minister is excuses.\"\n\nBBC Wales Investigates: The Hidden Cost of Covid is available on the BBC iPlayer", "Covid tests for students in England, so they can go home safely for Christmas, could begin on 30 November, according to a letter from the universities minister to vice chancellors.\n\nA week of mass testing for students is proposed - running between 30 November and 6 December.\n\nThe letter, seen by the BBC, promises a fast turnaround for tests and \"results within an hour\".\n\nThe aim is to stop students spreading the virus as they return home.\n\nThe first week of December, after the lockdown ends, could then become the \"travel window\" for many students to leave university for the Christmas holidays, with face-to-face teaching expected to finish earlier than usual this term.\n\nThis could mean that by about 9 December many students will have left for home.\n\nBut those who test positive will have to take another test and, if found to be infectious, have to stay in isolation.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students, said: \"The government have finally listened to our calls to ensure that students can travel home safely for Christmas.\n\n\"We particularly welcome this mass-testing approach as it equips students with the knowledge to make informed decisions about travel ahead of the winter break,\" she said.\n\nBut the University and College Union, which represents university lecturers, said it was not yet clear whether all universities would take part in the testing programme or how many students would be included.\n\n\"There are huge hurdles to overcome to manage this process,\" said union leader Jo Grady.\n\nAround 1.2 million students are expected to move at Christmas from their university term-time address to a home in another part of the country, where there might be different levels of infection.\n\nThis has raised concerns among the Sage scientific advisers of a \"significant risk\" that this migration could spread the coronavirus.\n\nTo prevent this danger, plans are being made for mass testing using so-called \"lateral flow tests\".\n\nThese nose and throat swabs are self-administered, with no need for tests to be sent to laboratories for results.\n\nPilots for this type of rapid testing have already begun at De Montfort and Durham universities. Other universities have been operating their own testing processes, which could also continue.\n\nThe tests will be able to provide results within an hour\n\nThe letter from Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and its accompanying documents, says: \"The tests we are deploying have a high specificity which means the risk of false positive test results is low.\n\n\"Although the test does not detect all positive cases, it works extremely well in finding cases with higher viral loads - which is those who are most infectious.\n\n\"As the test is easy to administer and does not require a laboratory, testing can take place on a very regular basis,\" the letter to university leaders said.\n\nAccompanying documents show a planning timetable in which sites are prepared for testing from 15 November, ready to operate the following week, with \"pre end-of-term testing\" between 30 November and 6 December.\n\nThe test kits will be given free to universities, which will have to provide a place for the tests to be carried out, in a way that can process thousands of students within a short time frame.\n\nMinisters have already indicated that universities will stop in-person teaching two weeks before the end of term and move online - so when students have been given the all-clear they could be expected to leave their term-time address and go home, in a \"test and release\" process.\n\nThere are also believed to have been discussions about how the departure of students can be made safe - such as co-ordinating staggered times for leaving between universities in the same city.\n\nThere could also be calls to avoid public transport - with suggestions of chartering coaches or using private transport, such as parents collecting students, and creating \"travel corridors\" to control traffic away from universities.\n\nUniversity leaders have previously raised concerns about why this guidance has been left so close to the end of term - and there will be questions about the capacity of universities to be ready in time for the mass testing.\n\nThere have also been questions about whether students will return as usual in January or whether there will be a staggered start and more testing, or whether more courses will switch online with some students initially studying from home.\n\nUniversities UK welcomed the plans for more testing capacity, but warned that universities would \"now need clear assurance of the effectiveness of the tests as well as further details from the government on specific responsibilities under the proposed scheme including the governance, indemnity, resourcing and costs recovery\".", "Bears, like this female brown bear, are fairly common in the Kamchatka peninsula (file photo)\n\nThe Russian Navy has defended the shooting of a mother bear and its cub on a nuclear submarine following outrage among many social media users.\n\nThe navy says there was no other option after the animals climbed onto the vessel moored off the Vilyuchinsk base in the far-eastern Kamchatka region.\n\nIt says a hunting instructor was called in to \"neutralise the wild animals\".\n\nHundreds of social media users accused the navy of unnecessary cruelty after seeing a video of the shooting online.\n\n\"Animals!\" and \"The whole essence of Russia in one video\" were some of the comments.\n\nThe footage was published on 8 November, although it is unclear when the shooting happened.\n\nIn the video, one of the animals is seen falling into the water after apparently being hit by a bullet.\n\nA male voice in the video is heard saying the animals would have gone to local villages had they been driven away.\n\nThe bears, whose species was not disclosed, are believed to have swum across the bay to get onto the submarine for reasons unknown.\n\nThe Kamchatka peninsula is home to about 24,000 bears that can frequently be seen on local beaches.\n\nLast year, more than 50 polar bears descended on a village in Russia's far north.\n\nAll public activities in Ryrkaypiy, Chukotka region, had to be cancelled, and schools were guarded to protect residents from the animals.\n\nConservationists say climate change could be to blame, with weak coastal ice forcing the bears to search for food inland rather than at sea.", "Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was just speaking on the Senate floor. He defended President Trump's right to challenge the election results and not concede.\n\n\"No states have yet certified election results,\" he noted. This is true - states have until 8 December to certify their electors.\n\nMcConnell continued to say all legal ballots should count and the process must be \"transparent\".\n\n\"If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light and if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny,\" the majority leader added.\n\nExperts have long said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in postal voting.\n\n\"We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,\" McConnell said.\n\n\"The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president.\"\n\nOnly three Republican Senators have thus far acknowledged Biden's win. Republican President George W Bush has also congratulated Biden on his win.", "The Met said a man was arrested following a call from a member of the public\n\nA 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a teenage girl was attacked in south-west London.\n\nPolice received a report of an allegation of rape after 07:00 GMT near North Place, Colliers Wood.\n\nKadian Nelson, 26, had been urged to hand himself in to police \"for his own safety\" amid reports he was being hunted by groups of people.\n\nThe Met said a man was arrested following a call from a member of the public. He is in police custody.\n\nThe victim and her family have been informed of the arrest, which took place in Robinson Road, Tooting, at about 20:00.\n\nA Section 60 order that was authorised for the entirety of the boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth, granting police additional stop and search powers as a result of fears of serious violence, remains in place.\n\nThe Met reminded people to be \"mindful of sharing information via social media that could identify the alleged victim, or affect any potential future proceedings\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A seven-bedroom house in the terrace sold for £16m last year\n\nTwo four-storey town houses worth millions of pounds have collapsed in west London.\n\nA 25m (82ft) cordon was put in place and about 40 people had to leave nearby properties in Durham Place, Chelsea, while drone teams and police dogs searched the rubble.\n\nEmergency crews were called at 23:35 GMT on Monday after the buildings, which were being redeveloped, fell in.\n\nNo injuries have been reported, London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThe collapsed buildings form part of a terrace that was built in the late 1700s, opposite land owned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea - the home of the Chelsea Pensioners.\n\nA seven-bedroom house in the block sold for £16m last year, according to property website Rightmove.\n\nThe block of seven town houses was originally built in 1790\n\nA man, aged in his 30s, who lives in the area and asked to remain anonymous, witnessed the collapse.\n\nHe said it had been \"extremely loud\" with dust being kicked up \"everywhere\".\n\n\"There were a lot of people coming out of their homes in the surrounding area to see what was going on... It was quite bad, really surreal,\" he said.\n\nAccording to neighbours, renovations were being carried out at the block, including in the basements.\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council had approved an extension to be built on the lower ground floor of the buildings in 2018.\n\nLFB Station Commander Jason Jones said there had been \"a total collapse of the buildings from the roof to ground level\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody is thought to have been inside the building at the time of the collapse.\"\n\nIt is thought no-one was in the buildings when they collapsed\n\nThe Met Police said those living in nearby houses had been evacuated \"as a precaution\".\n\nAmong the people asked to leave was a caretaker, who lives at the end of the road.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, said she \"jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs\" after she heard police saying \"come on, you've got to get out\".\n\n\"We stayed at a family friend's,\" she added.\n\nKapital Basements Ltd, which is carrying out works on a neighbouring property, has confirmed it has never worked or had any interest in the collapsed building.\n\nAn emergency road closure remains in place on Ormonde Gate.\n\nA council spokesperson said neighbouring residents had been allowed back in their homes at 03:00 after safety checks had been carried out.\n\n\"The reason for the collapse is being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nA cordon was set up around the buildings and nearby properties were evacuated\n\nThe buildings, pictured before the collapse, were in the process of being developed\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sgt Matt Ratana's coffin was surrounded by tributes in the chapel\n\nThe funeral of a Metropolitan Police officer who was fatally shot in the line of duty has been held.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, who was known as Matt, was killed at Croydon Custody Centre on 25 September as he prepared to search a suspect.\n\nMoving tributes were paid to Sgt Ratana by his family, friends and former colleagues at the service in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.\n\nThe memorial for the 54-year-old was held at a chapel and attended in person by a limited number of his family, friends and close colleagues due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt was live-streamed so well-wishers around the world, including Sgt Ratana's relatives in his native New Zealand, could follow the service.\n\nAlong with flowers, there was also a traditional Maori fighting weapon called a mere, which the chief of a tribe would hand down to his son, sent as a sign of respect from New Zealand police, where he worked from 2003 to 2008.\n\nThe coffin was placed in front of a photograph of the officer wearing his East Grinstead rugby shirt, with a fern tree, a symbol of New Zealand national identity, to one side.\n\nAt the other side was a table with a photo tribute from his son Luke, which read: \"Dad, Till we meet again, Aroha nui (much love) Luke,\" along with the officer's police medals.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana spent five years with his partner Su\n\nA tribute from his partner Su Bushby was read at the service by friend Lorraine Dray.\n\nShe said: \"Matt made the most of every minute of his precious 54 years. In any situation or room he walked into, his presence would always be felt. Like a big ball of energy.\n\n\"You were taken far too soon, your gym, rugby and policing family will help your legacy, your kindness and your spirit live on.\n\n\"You have touched so many people's lives, you will be truly missed. My life has been richer and funnier for knowing you and I feel blessed you were in my life.\"\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana (second from right) with colleagues from the Met Police\n\nOne floral tribute was made in the image of an All Blacks shirt, in honour of his New Zealand roots\n\nA tribute was also read out on behalf of relatives in New Zealand - including his brother James, his sister Jessica and his stepmother Dianne - by Met Police colleague Det Con Neil Perkin.\n\nThey said: \"The nature of Matt's death has been a harrowing experience for his family and friends here in New Zealand and around the world.\n\n\"We are comforted by the knowledge that he is with people who love him as much as we do, and that his remains will return home, to his final resting place with his ancestors.\"\n\nSu Bushby (centre) watches as the hearse departs following the funeral service of her partner, police officer Sgt Matt Ratana\n\nThe shooting of Sgt Matt Ratana, on duty, inside the police custody centre he was running that night shocked the UK police family to the core.\n\nAt this intimate funeral there were constant reminders of the importance to policing of teamwork, of people who are leaders but choose not to move up to senior policing roles, of officers who have busy lives outside policing and bring some of that life back into their work.\n\nBy all accounts Sgt Ratana was a beacon of that kind of policing. He had done an abundance of different jobs in the Metropolitan police. He had worked in surveillance. He had carried a firearm He had worked in the Territorial Support Group which deals with some of the most violent situations. He had even been seconded back to New Zealand.\n\nHe was described by one fellow officer as a \"natural thief-taker and communicator.\" His Commissioner said he would sometimes stand at the open door of his police van as it drove along and claim he was \"engaging with the public.\" He had once distracted an angry crowd by launching into a Maori \"Haka.\"\n\nBut policing does not stop. It has to carry on. Dame Cressida Dick closed her speech with this simple quote from one of his colleagues \"We'll take it from here Sarg\"\n\nMembers of the East Grinstead Rugby Club paid tribute to Sgt Matiu Ratana days after he died\n\nHis son Luke, also a police officer, said he had been touched by the tributes paid to his father.\n\nIn a eulogy read on his behalf, he said: \"My dad Matthew was certainly larger than life and a man loved by so many people.\n\n\"It is deeply touching to see the tributes that have been paid to him and the outpouring of love and support from friends, family, work colleagues, the rugby community and the people of the United Kingdom and beyond.\n\n\"It makes me very proud to see the impact that he has had and how he touched the lives of so many.\"\n\nFloral tributes in the chapel included a wreath from Home Secretary Priti Patel and an All Blacks rugby shirt with \"Matt\" in white lettering, along with wreaths from the East Grinstead rugby club and South Coast Gym.\n\nThe funeral was followed by a private cremation service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitter has hidden some of Donald Trump's first tweets the day after a US election which remains undecided.\n\nIn one, the President wrote his vote advantage in key Democrat-run states had \"started to magically disappear\", and in another that 500,000 votes in key states were at risk.\n\nThe messages are now hidden behind warnings that say the claims are disputed and might be misleading.\n\nThe moves also limit users' ability to like and reply to the posts.\n\nTwitter had earlier taken similar action over a post in which Trump said for the first time that his opponents \"are trying to steal the election\".\n\nFacebook has added fact-check boxes to some of the messages on Mr Trump's profile on its platform, clarifying that final results might take longer than normal - but did not restrict engagement.\n\nOne of the tweets said: \"Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key states, in almost all instances Democrat run and controlled.\n\n\"Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE.\"\n\nTwitter has hidden some of Trump's posts and users can only see the contents if they click \"view\"\n\nHe followed that with: \"They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear - ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!\"\n\nTwitter took just over half an hour to react on each occasion.\n\nMr Biden's first tweet of the day said \"we won't rest until everyone's vote is counted\".\n\nTwitter has not acted on any of Mr Biden's tweets.\n\nBut it has hidden a post by the chair of Wisconsin's Democratic Party Ben Wikler who posted that \"Joe Biden just won Wisconsin\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the Trump campaign claimed that \"Silicon Valley continues its campaign to censor and silence the president\".\n\nFacebook has also been automatically adding labels to all recent posts on Trump and Joe Biden's accounts.\n\nThey inform readers that votes are still being counted and that the winner of the US presidential election has not been projected.\n\nFacebook has begun placing notifications at the top of the timelines for all US users, explaining that the election had not yet been decided.\n\n\"Once President Trump began making premature claims of victory, we started running notifications on Facebook and Instagram that votes are still being counted and a winner is not projected,\" 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\nTwitter said it had labelled Mr Trump's tweet about the election being \"stolen\" because it violated the firm's civic integrity policy.\n\nBut the network appears to be allowing some claims of victory, despite warning that it would not.\n\nAn earlier tweet from Mr Trump that he had enjoyed \"a big win!\" has been left untouched, as has a carefully-worded tweet from Mr Biden that said \"we believe we are on track to win this election\".\n\nIt's been a busy 24 hours on social media. There's been numerous unsubstantiated or false claims about election fraud, voter intimidation and conspiracy theories about attempts to steal the election doing the rounds.\n\nAnd we are likely to see more misinformation like this in the days to come.\n\nThe delay in announcing the final result means a lot for time for misleading claims to flourish online.\n\nConspiratorial claims about rigged elections can spread like wildfire, in particular if they are amplified by politicians and online influencers.\n\nPremature claims of victory - like the one President Trump made while votes are being counted - can further fuel misinformation and potentially impact how people perceive the final result.\n\nThis is exactly what some experts have been concerned about: that viral misinformation about voter fraud and \"rigged\" elections might have the potential to undermine people's trust in democratic process for years to come.\n\nThe clampdown comes after months of preparation for a disputed election.\n\nThe social media firms have overhauled their policies to deal with false claims of victory and other misinformation about the vote.\n\nBoth Twitter and Facebook said they had suspended a range of recently created accounts.\n\nTwitter said the accounts it targeted had violated its spam and manipulation policies - particularly those that seek to artificially influence online conversations.\n\nYouTube also shut down live-streamed fake election results which were being broadcast via several accounts on its platform.\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 Election Integrity Partnership said that one of them had come up as a top search result within YouTube when users searched election information in key swing states.\n\nThe research group estimated that more than 26,000 people had viewed the fake results.\n\nYouTube said it that \"after careful review\" it was removing livestreams that broke its rules.\n\nIn a separate incident of apparent election interference, the FBI has said it is investigating a series of robocalls.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, an estimated 10 million automated calls were made over recent days telling people to \"stay safe and stay home\".\n\nThey did not specifically mention voting, and their origin remains unknown.", "Voters received automated calls telling them to \"stay safe and stay home\"\n\nThe FBI is investigating mysterious robocalls urging people across the US to stay home on election day.\n\nMillions of voters have reportedly received automated calls telling them to \"stay safe and stay home\".\n\nAmericans are voting in one of the most divisive presidential polls in decades, pitting incumbent Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nThe origins of the calls remain unclear, and some have not specifically mentioned voting.\n\n\"There's a little bit of confusion about this one across the industry,\" Giulia Porter, vice president at RoboKiller, a company that fights robocalls, told the Reuters news agency.\n\nOne of the calls reportedly says: \"Hello. This is just a test call. Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home.\"\n\nThis call that been doing the rounds for almost a year, but became one of the biggest spam calls in the country on Tuesday, Ms Porter said.\n\nOfficials have raised concerns over robocalls in the key battleground state Michigan, including one urging residents in the city of Flint to \"vote tomorrow\" because of long queues.\n\n\"Obviously this is FALSE and an effort to suppress the vote,\" Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel tweeted. \"Don't fall for it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. That was wild - a three-year campaign in three minutes\n\nJanaka Stucky, a Democratic voter in Massachusetts, said he had received a robocall early on election day.\n\n\"My first thought was that actually it was a municipal test call for a Covid lockdown thing,\" he told Reuters.\n\n\"The more I thought about it I was like, oh this actually feels really off and weird and then started to feel like it was some sort of, maybe, voter suppression effort,\" he added.\n\nNew York State officials are also investigating allegations of robocalls spreading disinformation and encouraging people to stay home.\n\n\"Attempts to hinder voters from exercising their right to cast their ballots are disheartening, disturbing, and wrong,\" New York Attorney General Letitia James said.\n\nThe FBI has said it is aware of reports of robocalls but has not commented further.\n\nYour Questions Answered: What questions do you have about the US election?\n\nHow does vote counting work? When will we get the final results? The US election can be confusing, especially this year. The BBC is here to help make sense of it. Please send us your questions about election day and beyond.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "Tim Place is one of the few Joe Biden voters in his Wisconsin neighbourhood. When his Biden-Harris sign was stolen, he got some unexpected help - from a Trump-supporting neighbour.", "Marks & Spencer sank to the first loss in its 94 years as a publicly-listed company as the coronavirus crisis hit trading.\n\nIn the six months to 26 September, the retailer made a loss of £87.6m, compared with profits of £158.8m in the same period last year.\n\nBut chief executive Steve Rowe said the firm's performance had been \"much more robust than at first seemed possible\".\n\nIn August M&S announced it was set to cut 7,000 jobs over three months.\n\nSales for the six-month period across the group slid by 15.8% to £4.09bn - largely impacted by lower clothing and home sales.\n\nClothing sales in particular were dented by lockdowns and the desire for more casual clothes, the firm said. Between July and September, clothing sales in its city centre stores, for example, were down by 53%.\n\nHowever, M&S does anticipate that demand for more formal clothes and occasion-wear will return, it said in a statement.\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, retail analyst and chief executive at retail marketing agency Savvy, told the BBC: \"Marks and Spencer is committed to the High Street, but that comes at an enormous cost.\n\n\"Its 600 stores were closed [during lockdown], they've picked up on online and online sales are stronger than they've ever been. But that in no way covers the amount of sales loss they've covered this year.\"\n\n\"You've got to change to survive. While Marks was saying it, they weren't necessarily doing it, but it has now changed the way they work even at a simple level.\"\n\nThe group also reported strong growth in its Ocado Retail joint venture, which started delivering M&S food at the start of September.\n\nIt said the partnership has reported a 47.9% jump in sales, while profitability has also improved.\n\nM&S created over 750 new lines including in grocery and homecare to broaden its appeal on the Ocado platform, which previously delivered for Waitrose.\n\nM&S was one of the few big food retailers without its own internet-based delivery service, and the tie-up with Ocado had been described as a key moment in the retailer's shift to online.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said that M&S \"is already reaping the rewards of an excellent partnership with Ocado.\n\n\"Its food business could benefit from the forthcoming national lockdown [in England] as consumers look for high-quality meals as an alternative to going out.\n\n\"This could help it counter the effects of fewer people grabbing a sandwich while nipping out of the office for lunch,\" she said.\n\nM&S also said its grocery business had performed \"strongly\" over the half-year, with like-for-like sales rising by 2.7% on the back of substantial growth from its Simply Food stores.\n\nMs Palmer added: \"M&S has an opportunity to step up and sit at the table with the big players in the retail market once more, but to stake its claim, it can't just bring food to the party, it has to dress better and provide the furniture too.\"\n\nDetractors have often described M&S as the lame duck of UK retail, forever struggling to reinvent itself quickly enough to keep up with changing consumer tastes. Its current management, however, will hope that this set of results will persuade investors that a more apt comparison would be with another bird, the phoenix.\n\nToday's loss is the ashes from which the management hopes a new, slimmed-down and digital-savvy M&S will emerge.\n\nSteve Rowe talks of the pandemic having forced the company to compress three years' of changes into a single year - a hint, perhaps that the crisis may have come by chance at a good time in his plan to revive the company's fortunes.\n\nThere are signs that the big bet on a commercial alliance with Ocado is paying off, but the Achilles heel remains weak sales in clothing and general merchandise. M&S shares were up more than 4% in early trading, suggesting that investors may discern the first flaps of the phoenix's wings.\n\nThe update came as M&S continues to push forward with its transformation strategy. The plans, which saw M&S announce 7,000 job cuts across stores and management in August, will enable the business to emerge from the crisis in a \"stronger, leaner and more focused position\", the firm said in a statement.\n\nThe half-year results included a £92m exceptional cost reflecting these cuts. The group said it would also see further charges of up to £120m due to store closures over the next seven years.\n\nIn a call with journalists, Mr Rowe said: \"My goal remains unchanged - that is to deliver the long-term transformation for M&S, building a brand that is more digital in a world that will never be the same again.\"\n\n\"We know the challenges we're facing will continue,\" he added, citing the upcoming lockdown in England, but said the firm was in a \"much better position\" as the key Christmas trading period approaches.", "Boris Johnson was challenged in Prime Minister’s Questions about the UK’s Internal Market Bill, and how it could complicate relations with the United States - if Joe Biden were to win the Presidential election.\n\nMr Biden has never been a fan of Brexit and his view would be closer to the European - and more specifically the Irish view of what it means.\n\nDonald Trump has also listened to Irish concerns about Brexit. But he has always made it clear that he is comfortable with a more radical split between the UK and the rest of Europe.\n\nBiden has already warned that the Internal Market Bill, which allows the government to ignore specific obligations on Northern Ireland contained in the Brexit withdrawal agreement, could have a negative impact on efforts to agree a free trade deal between the UK and the US.\n\n“We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit,” Mr Biden said in a tweet in September, referring to the 1998 agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.\n\nHe made his comments after details of the Internal Market Bill were first published.\n\n“Any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent,” Mr Biden said, “upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.”\n\nBoris Johnson of course argues that he is not trying to undermine the Good Friday agreement, simply to maintain the integrity of the United Kingdom.\n\nIf there were to be a Biden administration, they might not see things in quite the same way.", "The event took place on Halloween\n\nThe organiser of a rave which attracted 700 people has been fined £10,000 for breaching coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Halloween event on Saturday in Yate, near Bristol, turned violent when police tried to disperse the crowd.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said a man in his 30s was arrested as he tried to take away some of the sound equipment the day after the event.\n\nThe man, who was later identified as the organiser, has been given the maximum fine possible.\n\nPolice who tried to shut down the event were pelted with missiles including bottles, with some officers suffering minor injuries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAvon and Somerset Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the people running the rave had acted \"criminally and disgracefully\".\n\n\"It is hard to adequately explain how reckless it was to organise an unlicensed music event during the midst of a pandemic that has claimed so many lives,\" he said.\n\n\"We are facing a moment in this pandemic when scientists and medics and warning of the grave risks and consequences of not controlling the virus.\n\n\"Yet those involved in this event acted with no thought for anyone other than themselves.\n\n\"It was deliberately organised in secret with complete disregard to the current situation the country is facing at the moment.\"\n\nThere was a heavy police presence in the area as people were dispersed\n\nIn total eight people, aged between 17 and 33, have been arrested in relation to the violence at the rave for offences such as violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nMr Marsh said police were still trying to identify other people who may have been involved.\n\nPolice in riot gear were deployed to shut the rave down\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is facing criticism over its guidance on safe visits to care homes in England.\n\nLabour and a number of charities have described the suggestions, including floor-to-ceiling screens, designated visitor pods and window visits, as impractical.\n\nAlzheimer's Society has said it \"completely misses the point\".\n\nThe updated government advice, which came into effect on Thursday, says care homes - especially those which have not allowed visits since March - \"will be encouraged and supported to provide safe visiting opportunities\".\n\nVisits should be \"tailored to residents and facilities and should prioritise residents and staff's safety\" to limit the spread of coronavirus, the advice says, with measures such as social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nCare minister Helen Whately said the new measures would give people more opportunities to see loved ones \"in a safe way\".\n\nHowever, Julia Jones, co-founder of dementia charity John's Campaign, told the Today programme that visits should be more \"meaningful\" than meeting through a window.\n\n\"When people are in the later stages of dementia, when people love each other, when people are approaching the end of their lives, they need to hold hands,\" she said.\n\nThe chief executive of leading care home group MHA, Sam Monaghan, told the programme the best way to carry out Covid-secure visits in care homes was \"through routine testing of at least one relative for each resident\".\n\nAsked about such a scheme, Mr Buckland stressed the government was \"interested in all ideas that are Covid-compliant\" and that the guidance was not an exhaustive list of options.\n\nAll face-to-face visits were banned during the first national lockdown in the spring.\n\nGuidance in England over recent months has allowed visits on a \"limited basis\" where alternative arrangements were not possible, but visits have been severely curtailed or prohibited entirely in those areas subject to enhanced restrictions, which have applied to large parts of England.\n\nMs Whately said she knew the restrictions on visiting had been \"incredibly painful\" and she had been \"in tears\" with some of the stories she had heard.\n\nShe said the government was \"absolutely trying to enable more visiting\" but, against the \"backdrop of this second wave\", it was \"only right that we make sure visiting care homes is safe\".\n\nShe said a trial would start later this week as part of plans to carry out testing on visitors to care homes.\n\nThe government also said a new national programme for weekly testing of professionals who regularly visit care homes would be \"rolled out in the coming weeks\" following a pilot in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Northamptonshire.\n\nLabour's shadow care minister Liz Kendall said many care homes would not be able to comply with the government's requirements which meant \"in reality thousands of families are likely to be banned from visiting their loved ones\".\n\nShe said instead of suggesting measures such as screens, the government should \"designate a single family member as a key worker - making them a priority for weekly testing and proper PPE\".\n\nKate Lee, chief executive at Alzheimer's Society, said: \"We're devastated by today's new care home visitor guidance - it completely misses the point: this attempt to protect people will kill them.\"\n\nShe said the pandemic had left people with dementia isolated and thousands had died. The guidelines \"completely ignore the vital role of family carers in providing the care for their loved ones with dementia that no one else can\", she added.\n\nShe said the \"prison-style screens\" proposed by the government with people speaking through phones were \"frankly ridiculous when you consider someone with advanced dementia can often be bed-bound and struggling to speak\".\n\nThat view was echoed by Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, who said she was \"acutely aware\" that the methods being sanctioned were \"unlikely to be useable by many older people with dementia, or indeed sensory loss\".\n\nShe added: \"Overall we think this new guidance is too restrictive. In practice we fear it will result in many care homes halting meaningful visiting altogether, because they will be unable to comply with the requirements laid down.\"", "Former Great British Bake Off finalist Luis Troyano, who starred in series five of the show in 2014, has died from oesophageal cancer at the age of 48.\n\n\"Sadly, my lovely client lost his brave fight against oesophageal cancer last week,\" tweeted his agent Anne Kibel.\n\n\"A fantastic man with a love of baking that saw him get to the finals of GBBO, write a wonderful book, Bake It Great, and do so much more,\" she added.\n\nAfter the show, Troyano said Bake Off had \"totally changed my life\".\n\n\"As well as being given the opportunity to write a book, I now also bake for a living, which is simply amazing. As far as baking goes, I can certainly bake a lot faster now than before the GBBO,\" he told Food and Drinks Guide.\n\nFollowing his stint on Bake Off, Troyano made appearances on BBC Good Food and BBC Breakfast shows. He released a book called Bake it Great in 2015.\n\nLuis Troyano (R) and his fellow GBBO finalists Richard Burr and Nancy Birtwhistle, who won the competition\n\nWriting on a Just Giving page she set up to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, his wife Louise wrote: \"Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.\n\n\"This page has been set up for Macmillan Cancer Support but in truth, Luis gave a big thank you to everyone involved in his care.\"\n\nShe then posted Troyano's own words, in which he thanked Macmillan, the NHS and East Cheshire Hospice \"for trying to save my life and their tireless work to try and eliminate cancer. But more importantly a massive thank you to all the amazing professionals who really did try their absolute best for me, showed me absolute compassion and gave me more time than what was seemingly possible. I thank you sincerely.\"\n\nBefore competing on the show, Troyano was a marketing manager, hailing from Poynton, near Stockport. During the contest he memorably created a tribute to his hometown in one of his showstopper bakes.\n\nHe also made a caramel-gilded cake depicting The Cage, a tower in the National Trust's Lyme Park in Cheshire.\n\nIn an interview with Cheshire Life he said: \"I'm a proud Stockport guy. I have no shame in saying where I'm from.\n\n\"I did The Cage mainly because it's my wife's favourite place to visit. I never expected that cake to get the response it did. When it aired, it went crazy with people going, 'Where is this and what is it he's done?'\"\n\nNadiya Hussain, who won the baking contest in 2015, paid tribute, writing \"RIP\" 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 Nadiya Jamir Hussain MBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post 2 by British Bake Off\n\nFormer Bake Off host Sue Perkins said she was \"gutted\" to learn of Troyano's death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sue Perkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTroyano's fellow 2014 contestants Chetna Makan and Martha Collison, also honoured the baker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Manchester City Football Club, the team Troyano supported, expressed their sadness.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Manchester 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\nIn 2014, Troyano opened his first bakery in his hometown, called The Hive Bakery and in 2015, he was announced as the patron of Beechwood Cancer Care Centre.\n\nHe told Manchester Evening News his father died of cancer when he was 16.\n\n\"I have lived in Stockport all my life and wanted to support a charity that was close to home,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels great to be a patron at Beechwood. There was nothing like Beechwood when I lost my dad and it was a tough time.\n\n\"My time on The Great British Bake Off has been life changing and I feel honoured to support Beechwood.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Miriam Stone was giving evidence at the inquiry\n\nRisk assessments carried out by the Manchester Arena operators were \"flawed\" and \"pretty much box ticking\", an inquiry has heard.\n\nMiriam Stone, SMG's head of events, told the inquiry into the attack there was no specific assessment done for the Ariana Grande concert or consideration given to the terrorism risk.\n\nShe said while there were flaws with the written documentation, \"we did assess the risk\".\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the public inquiry, asked Ms Stone, who was one of the duty managers on the night of the attack, if the assessments were done to ensure a \"box was ticked\".\n\nShe replied: \"I think we had got to the point where that is pretty much how it got used.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Stone's boss James Allen told the inquiry SMG put the arena's terrorism risk level at low despite the national threat level being \"severe\".\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nShe also told the inquiry suspicions raised about bomber Salman Abedi should have been passed to the control room.\n\nShe said it would have taken \"a minute or two\" to shut the exit doors leading to where the bomb was detonated.\n\nAbedi hid in the mezzanine area, which was a CCTV blindspot, for nearly an hour before the bombing.\n\nArena security provider Showsec earlier told the inquiry staff did not believe they were expected to check the raised mezzanine level of the City Room, although check sheets listed the \"entire City Room area\".\n\nMs Stone said: \"It had never occurred to me until the evidence that anybody would read it any other way.\n\n\"It's all one room. I would expect all of it to be checked.\"\n\nMr Greaney QC asked Ms Stone if the venue did enough at the time to prevent someone doing harm getting into the City Room.\n\nShe replied: \"Well somebody did, so no.\"\n\nSpeaking about steward Mohammed Agha, who was told about a suspicious looking man with a rucksack but did not pass this on to his supervisor, she said: \"I don't want to cast any aspersions on him but I don't think it would have been difficult to contact someone from that position.\"\n\nWhen asked about steward Kyle Lawler, who was told by Mr Agha about the man but said the radio was too busy to contact control, she said it did not accord with her own experience.\n\nShe said \"the radios are really quite quiet\" at the end of concerts.\n\nThe inquiry heard Ms Stone was concerned about terrorism and helped devise a training exercise in December 2014 which rehearsed for an attack inside the arena's City Room, where the attack took place.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mood in the White House overnight was tense.\n\nThe president's staffers and campaign officials stayed there through much of the night - their boss's job was on the line, and all they could do was wait and drink alcohol. Lots of it.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, women in the West Wing had showed up for work in festive attire: Republican-red sweaters, skirts and stilettos, looking as if they had texted each other to agree the dress code. Throughout the day and into the night, they watched election returns and wondered what would happen.\n\nThen the president pulled ahead of his Democratic rival Joe Biden in Florida. The mood brightened. A table in the office of Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was littered with wine bottles and bags of crisps.\n\nStill the mood was edgy. One staffer cradled a beer bottle in his arm, the label partly peeled off. These occupants of the West Wing - the heart of any White House administration - were nervous, though they tried to project strength and confidence.\n\n\"We're feeling very good,\" one told me. She talked about the returns from Florida that showed the president in the lead. \"We're very optimistic.\"\n\nBehind her, the volume on a TV screen was turned up, blaring updates. A newscaster warned of \"socialist anarchy\", making a dire prediction of what would happen if the Democrats won.\n\nA copy of the the New York Post newspaper lay on a bookshelf, and the room smelled of \"Cosy Cashmere\" - a pink scented candle. In a nearby office, a White House staffer patted his colleague's shoulder, trying to calm his nerves.\n\nElsewhere in the building, the president's re-election party was getting under way. Hundreds had been invited, and some of the guests, draped in red silk, walked under a sky so clear you could see the stars, as they made their way to the event.\n\nThe party was a break with tradition. There is no law that forbids the president from hosting a celebration at the White House on election night. But no other president has organised a gathering like this one.\n\nMr Trump's predecessors, whether Republican or Democrat, tried to maintain some distance between campaigning and governing. To be sure, the line between the two activities sometimes got blurry.\n\nPresidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama both used rooms at the White House as a backdrop for their political campaigns. Still they tried to make a distinction between campaign activities and their work as president. On election night in the Trump White House, that line seemed to have been obliterated.\n\nMany recoiled at his choice of venue for the party.\n\nOne of them, Gordon Adams, a professor emeritus at American University, was a senior White House official for national security budgets in 1996. He spent election night that year with President Bill Clinton in Arkansas. Afterwards Adams flew back to Washington with his colleagues, and a charter bus dropped them off at the White House.\n\n\"It was eerily quiet,\" he says. \"There was nobody there, celebrating.\"\n\nWhen he heard about the election night party Trump had planned for the White House, Adams was not pleased.\n\nThe party in the East Room was just one of the ways the president broke with tradition on election night.\n\nHis campaign officials worked in an office on the White House grounds, a \"war room\" that was established in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the West Wing. Critics of the president say these kinds of political activities should not be conducted within the White House compound.\n\nIn response to the criticism, Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for Trump's campaign, said that the campaign room violated no rules. \"There is no expense whatsoever to American taxpayers,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThere were protests outside the White House overnight\n\nMurtaugh and the president's supporters love the way their man has shaken things up in Washington and broken with tradition. His unconventional approach may be exactly what helps him get re-elected.\n\nAt the party itself, Trump appeared at a podium and gave a speech. Standing before his supporters, he made the false claim that he had won the election.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, we already have won this,\" he said. People in the room cheered.\n\nIn fact, millions of votes have not yet been counted, and many people who heard his remarks on TV were stunned. For them, the speech was a disturbing end to an unprecedented election night, one that was like the president himself - full of shocking surprises.", "Your earwax could be a window into your mental health, researchers have suggested.\n\nA study of 37 participants has shown a build-up of the stress hormone cortisol can be measured from the oily secretions around your ear canal.\n\nThis could open the door to better ways of diagnosing psychiatric conditions including depression, according to lead author Dr Andres Herane-Vives.\n\nHe has also developed a new type of swab which won't damage the eardrum.\n\nCortisol is known as your \"fight or flight\" hormone. When it sends out alarm signals to the brain in response to stress, it can influence almost every system in the body, from the immune system to digestion and sleep.\n\nBut its role in disorders including anxiety and depression is not fully understood.\n\nDr Herane-Vives, a psychiatrist at University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, wants to understand what raised or lowered levels of cortisol might indicate.\n\nThe swabs have a \"brake\" to stop them damaging the eardrum\n\nIt's early days but he hopes this could eventually help him establish an \"objective biological measure\" for psychiatric conditions.\n\nIn theory, people with mental health symptoms could have their levels of cortisol tested, and this could help to inform their diagnosis.\n\nCurrently, mental health diagnosis is largely subjective, so this could provide professionals with an additional tool to help make their assessments more accurate.\n\nAnd a good diagnosis is \"the only way to provide the right treatment\", said Dr Herane-Vives.\n\nIt could potentially be used to inform who might or might not benefit from anti-depressants.\n\nCortisol can be measured in blood, but this only gives a snapshot of an individual's levels of the hormone in that moment.\n\nAnd since blood tests themselves can be stressful, this can potentially give false positives.\n\nDr Herane-Vives wanted to see if a patient's chronic cortisol levels - what they looked like over a longer period of time - could be measured by looking at tissues in the body where it accumulates.\n\nHe previously studied whether cortisol could be measured from hair follicles, but to do that you need 3cm of hair - which not everyone has, or wants to lose.\n\n\"But cortisol levels in earwax appear to be more stable,\" he said.\n\nDr Herane-Vives pointed to analogies with another wax-producing creature: bees. They store sugar in their waxy honeycomb, where it is preserved at room temperature.\n\nSimilarly, hormones and other substances are stored over time in the earwax, which \"yielded more cortisol than hair samples\", the researchers said.\n\nOver the longer term, the method could be developed to measure other things like glucose levels or even antibodies against viruses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty says the three-tier system of restrictions has “slowed things down\".\n\n\"Economically and socially destructive\" lockdowns are the only practical option until a Covid vaccine and better drugs are available, Chris Whitty has said.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer rejected calls from some scientists to pursue \"herd immunity\" instead.\n\nEngland is due to replace tiered regional restrictions with a four-week nationwide lockdown from Thursday.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 397 coronavirus deaths and 20,018 confirmed cases on Tuesday.\n\nMeanwhile, more details of England's lockdown rules have also been revealed, with the publication of the legislation that will bring them into force.\n\nThe regulations specify fines starting at £100 for rule breakers, potentially rising to a maximum of £6,400 for repeat offences.\n\nSome Tory MPs have attacked the move towards another nationwide lockdown, with one saying the government was \"losing the plot\".\n\nProf Whitty was quizzed by a select committee about the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for \"focused protection\" for the elderly and other groups particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, while others continue to live relatively normally.\n\nProf Whitty said the arguments made by those that have signed the declaration were \"scientifically weak\" and \"dangerously flawed\".\n\n\"It would make an assumption that a very large number of people would inevitably die as a result of that decision,\" he told the Commons Science Committee.\n\n\"To have this as an element of policy is ethically really difficult.\"\n\nHerd immunity had never been achieved in the treatment of Ebola and other new infectious diseases, argued Prof Whitty, and the kind of aggressive shielding of the vulnerable urged by the Barrington scientists would not be practically possible.\n\nBetter treatments and the prospect of a vaccine were the only hope, he told the committee, and he predicted that over the next year there will be \"multiple shots on goal from science\".\n\n\"We have to hold the line until that point,\" he added.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these economically and socially destructive tools are what we have got in the absence of anything else.\"\n\nUnder the lockdown beginning on Thursday, pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops would be closed across England.\n\nThe new rules replace a tiered system of different local restrictions across England, which ministers say they want to return to after the England-wide lockdown is due to end on 2 December.\n\nMeanwhile, at a separate parliamentary debate, a number of Conservative MPs criticised the nationwide lockdown, which faces a Commons vote on Wednesday.\n\nOne of them, Richard Drax, said the lockdowns were \"destructive, divisive, and don't work\".\n\n\"They simply delay the inevitable - the re-emergence of the virus when lockdown ends, as has been shown,\" he said.\n\n\"Have we overreacted? Yes, I think we have. A draconian, onerous and invasive set of rules and regulations now govern our very existence.\"\n\nHis fellow Conservative, Bob Seeley, said lockdowns were a \"dubious tool,\" claiming scientists were becoming \"increasingly sceptical\" of them as an option.\n\nHe suggested the government was \"losing the plot\" in the face of the spread of the virus, and there was a need for \"some semblance of balance\" in its response.\n\nHowever with Labour supporting the new measures, they are highly likely to be approved even if there is a rebellion from Conservative backbenchers.", "More than 7,200 people in England were told to stop self-isolating on the wrong date by the Test and Trace scheme as a result of a software error.\n\nThe Department of Health said most of those affected had subsequently been contacted with the correct information.\n\nPeople had been told to isolate for too long, rather than being told they could mix with others too soon, it added.\n\nThe mistake - which was first reported by Sky News - follows a series of other software-based Covid-19 foul-ups.\n\nLast month, the BBC revealed how an oversight in the use of Microsoft's Excel software led to nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases going unreported in England.\n\nAnd on the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that a risk-score threshold used by the NHS Covid-19 app to trigger self-isolate alerts had been lowered weeks later than intended. In that case, officials are still carrying out checks to identify the \"root cause\".\n\nA total of 7,230 individuals were involved in the latest error.\n\nOfficials believe it resulted from an internal update to the system used by human contact tracers, who identify people believed to have recently been close to those diagnosed with the coronavirus.\n\nThe system is used to calculate how long the original person who tested positive should keep away from others. It also does the isolation calculation for those they had been in close proximity to, who are contacted via follow-up phone calls, emails and/or text messages.\n\nIt is completely separate to the automated contact tracing system used by the app.\n\nThe update was made on 22 October and affected a total of 7,230 people before the problem was rectified on 27 October.\n\n\"We have reassessed the self-isolation periods for a number of people who were contact traced, following close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19,\" a Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said.", "If you want to watch, listen, or follow the drama as it unfolds online, the BBC has you covered on election night.\n\nThe BBC news website has election results as they come in, and a live page with the latest reaction and analysis from correspondents in the US and around the world.\n\nThe BBC's US Election 2020 results programme is hosted by Katty Kay from Washington and Andrew Neil from London.\n\nIn the UK, it is being broadcast on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer from 23:30 GMT until 09:00 GMT on Wednesday. Internationally, the programme is being shown on BBC World News and streamed live on the BBC News website.\n\nJon Sopel and Clive Myrie are with the Trump and Biden campaigns, and BBC reporters including Emily Maitlis and Nick Bryant are broadcasting from crucial battleground states.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nThe overnight coverage also includes a big-screen graphic analysis of results with Christian Fraser and commentary from a panel of political experts.\n\nThe election special programme is hosted by Philippa Thomas and Ros Atkins, joined by Jamie Coomarasamy in Michigan and Nuala McGovern in Nevada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check breaks down the bill for the world's most expensive election\n\nIt will be on air in the UK on BBC Radio 4 until 06:00 GMT on Wednesday, on Radio 5 Live until 05:00 GMT, and outside the UK on the World Service until 09:00 GMT.", "Many shops are closing their doors for four weeks, as England enters a second national lockdown. In June, when stores reopened after the spring national lockdown, we spoke to shoppers about the first thing they bought. Now we're back at the same shopping centre - centre.mk in Milton Keynes - to see what people are stocking up on this time.\n\n\"As soon as I knew about lockdown, I went into work on Monday and said 'can I book off Wednesday because I need to go Christmas shopping',\" says Joanne Nixey, 28, from Windsor. She messaged her friend, Chloe Gould, straight away and the pair have been stocking up on Christmas presents and decorations.\n\n\"I love funky Christmas decorations so I got a rubber duck and a fish,\" says Chloe. \"It's random. A cushion, some candles. I'm trying to get it all done.\"\n\n\"It gets us out before lockdown,\" says Joanne, pointing to her Primark bags.\n\nSue Stone also booked some time off of work to get the bulk of her Christmas shopping done. \"Boris knew we had a day off, so luckily he moved the lockdown to Thursday,\" she jokes.\n\n\"It's just the last day before lockdown so it's Christmas shopping,\" says Sue, 52, a company director. She and Lorraine Stonell spent £130 at Hotel Chocolat, as well as bagging perfumes, toiletries and a hoodie.\n\n\"I have bought my coffee pods,\" she adds, pointing to a Nespresso bag. \"They are an essential, but the shop will still shut.\"\n\n\"I got my work bonus so have come shopping,\" says Phil Read, 47, from Bletchley. \"Considering the situation, I'm surprised I got a bonus. I work for the government so a very secure job thankfully.\"\n\nIn his shopping bags are clothes - \"winter clothes, basically\" - including sweaters, pants and some waterproof trousers to play football in.\n\nHe says the thought of lockdown \"feels rubbish\". \"I have actually got a week off work,\" he says. \"They are forcing us to use our holiday so I took this week off and have been doing all I can in these few days, cramming it in.\"\n\n\"Everything's half price,\" says Jenny Holloway, 40, referring to the Christmas pop-up shop, where she and her mother Helen McGill bought reindeer decorations for £10 each.\n\n\"We are just mother and daughter\", adds Helen, \"and we don't get to spend that much time together anyway because of work, and thinking about lockdown we won't be seeing each other. We are just trying to spend time together today before lockdown.\n\n\"It's a happy-sad feeling. Happy that we're out now, but sad for the people in shops. At 5pm the shutters are going to come down and when will they come up again? We were hearing whispers about furlough and I just thought it was really sad.\"\n\nElizabeth Morris, 38, and her mother, also called Elizabeth Morris, managed to do all of their Christmas shopping back in September and they are now \"just getting some little bits\".\n\n\"We have got some matching pyjamas, to wear for a whole month,\" jokes Elizabeth, holding up the bedwear for her and one-year-old son George. \"It's that last opportunity to go to the shops. It's our last hurrah. Last day before we're grounded again.\"\n\nOn the prospect of another lockdown, Elizabeth, 58, says: \"We are positive about it all now. We look forward to reinstating our walks.\" Her daughter adds: \"It's my mum and dad's ruby wedding anniversary in November and we were going to Tenerife but can't now. We are now finding other things to do to celebrate. We'll find something.\"\n\n\"There's a couple of celebrations in our house at the weekend,\" says childminder Rose Iroegbu, 47. \"My son is 18 on Friday.\n\n\"I plan to cook his best delicacy, rice and stew.\" She's bought balloons and some surprise gifts for him (she can't tell us what they are to risk spoiling the surprise) as well as a phone charging cable for herself.\n\n\"I feel a mixture of emotions\" about a second lockdown, she says. \"Worry and anxiety about the future.\"\n\n\"I have done most of my shopping for Christmas,\" says electrician Chris Locke, 41, from Luton.\n\n\"I have bought some stuff this morning and put that in my car. I can't carry everything. I'll be finished today, kids as well.\"\n\nChris has bought some socks and slippers for his mother-in-law, plus some toys for his children, including Mario Kart Live and some Lego. \"I'm fairly organised, like I always get stuff done before December. But more in advance this year.\"\n\n\"They don't send it out online,\" says Sarah Bennett, talking about the six rolls of wrapping paper she's just bought from Card Factory, which had a fast-moving queue outside. \"With two kids you need a lot of Christmas paper.\"\n\n\"We are just getting bits,\" adds Sarah, who runs a cleaning business and has come shopping with her teenage daughter. \"If I like it, I buy it. We got two standing Santas, reduced to £12.99 from the Christmas shop.\n\n\"We just came out for a mother and daughter day and we are going to TGI Fridays after.\"\n\nAll photographs by Richard Cave and reporting by Francesca Gillett.", "Students in cities across England could begin a mass exodus back to their families ahead of new lockdown measures coming into force on Thursday.\n\nHilary Gyebi-Ababio, National Union of Students vice president for higher education, said students were \"really wanting to go home\".\n\n\"There's a sense there could be a mass exodus,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIt comes after Universities Minister Michelle Donelan urged students, in a letter on Monday, not to \"rush home\".\n\nHer message aimed to prevent these young people from travelling across the country to their families and potentially taking coronavirus with them, thus fuelling the pandemic.\n\nThose in tier 3 restriction areas are not allowed by law to visit other households, which would include their family homes, but those in lower tier areas do not face the same restrictions until Thursday when the new lockdown rules come into force.\n\nThe NUS and the lecturers' union, UCU, have repeated a joint demand for all university teaching to move online, as much as possible, saying not to do so would cause a public health emergency\n\nNew government guidance published on Tuesday says some face-to-face teaching should continue.\n\nBut thousands of students have spent several weeks of this term effectively locked down already, self-isolating due to real or suspected Covid-19 cases in their halls of residence.\n\nMs Gyebi-Ababio, 22, said: \"We are really concerned about the the minister's statement, saying don't go home.\n\n\"It's not healthy or considerate to students.\"\n\nShe said students really wanted to do what was safe for others and right for them, and that it was important that they were allowed to have agency and make their own decisions.\n\nShe pointed out that the prime minister had said other members of the public could move to be in new households before the new lockdown measures come into force.\n\nMany students did not have the usual support networks of friends, she said, or the formal support usually provided by universities, huge parts of which are closed.\n\n\"It's been really difficult for students - they do not have one ounce of certainty about what might happen.\"\n\nShe said the NUS was hearing from students who were \"worried and confused right now\", and this was only to be expected as they had not had any clear information.\n\n\"My younger brother is at university now, and I've had so many phone calls from him asking what he should do.\"\n\nIn some universities, students are reporting empty rooms in halls of residence which some students have already vacated.\n\nArchaeology lecturer at University of Leicester, Dr Rachel Crellin, tweeted: \"I've just taught: some students have been told to come home by their parents, some worried about being trapped alone in accommodation, others who don't want to take Covid home to vulnerable family and some who don't want to go home.\n\nMs Gyebi-Ababio said the government had talked weeks ago about a \"mandatory two-week lockdown\" to enable students to return home for Christmas but there were still no details about this.\n\nShe added: \"After this four-week lockdown, students could be locked down for a further two weeks - that's a total of six. This could be really detrimental to their wellbeing and mental health.\"\n\nMany students work while they study, to support themselves, but as in the previous spring lockdown, many had lost their jobs and were facing financial hardship, she said, and the government should have reflected on what happened then.", "Claire Parry was described as a \"loving family member and a doting mother\" by her husband\n\nA police officer who strangled a mother-of-two after she exposed their affair will have his 10-and-a-half year sentence for manslaughter reviewed.\n\nTimothy Brehmer killed nurse Claire Parry, 41, in a pub car park in Dorset on 9 May. The two had been in a secret relationship for more than 10 years.\n\nBrehmer, who admitted manslaughter, was cleared of murder last week at the end of his trial at Salisbury Crown Court.\n\nA complaint was made that his sentence was \"unduly lenient\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokeswoman for the attorney general's office could not disclose who made the request but said a decision on whether to refer the matter to the Court of Appeal would be made within four weeks.\n\nThe unduly lenient sentence scheme allows people to ask law officers to review sentences for certain crimes.\n\nBrehmer was told by the judge he would serve two-thirds of his sentence in jail and the rest on licence.\n\nThe trial heard Mrs Parry, who was married to another Dorset Police officer, met the defendant outside the Horns Inn in West Parley to confront him about another of his extra-marital affairs.\n\nMrs Parry took hold of his phone before sending a text to his wife, saying: \"I am cheating on you.\"\n\nBrehmer was dismissed by the Dorset force in September and placed on the national police barred list\n\nBrehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, said he had strangled Mrs Parry by accident during a \"kerfuffle\" in his car and that his arm \"must have slipped in all the melee\".\n\nMrs Parry's husband, Andrew, said he was \"incredibly disappointed\" with the verdict and branded Brehmer a \"well-practised liar\".\n\nMr Parry previously told the court Brehmer was the \"worst kind of thief\" and described the pain of telling their children that their mother was dead.\n\nDorset Police said Brehmer was sacked at a misconduct meeting held on 16 September. He was also placed on the national police barred list.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "McDonald's said the store will create more than 65 jobs in the community\n\nEngland's only McDonald's-free county is no more, as a branch of the fast food chain has opened.\n\nRutland, in the East Midlands, had escaped the lure of the golden arches but plans to build a diner and drive-thru were approved in January.\n\nThe restaurant, based on the outskirts of Oakham, will move to a drive-thru only service on Thursday as the country goes into a second lockdown.\n\nMcDonald's said the store will create more than 65 jobs in the community.\n\nBefore Rutland County Council approved the plan for the fast food chain, there was some resistance among residents.\n\nAmong the 55 objections made to the authority, one person wrote: \"I'm proud Rutland is the only county not to have a McDonald's.\"\n\nSeveral others expressed concerns about the impact a McDonald's would have on smaller, independent, businesses in Oakham.\n\nOakham is a market town with prestigious schools and traditional buildings\n\nBut landlady of the Crown Tavern, Lindsay Taylor, said once lockdown had lifted, it \"could bring people to Oakham and help shops on the high street\".\n\n\"At the end of the day people are worried about littering and that sort of stuff, but that's not McDonald's fault,\" she said.\n\n\"People think we live in a posh area, as it's Rutland, but there's a split.\"\n\nFranchise owner Glyn Pashley, who operates the new restaurant, said he was \"delighted to be opening in Oakham\" and holding the mantle of \"the first [McDonald's] restaurant in Rutland\".\n\nHe said: \"It was getting very busy when I left, which was nice to see. There were no planning grounds for this not to go ahead and I think, in terms of the employment and visitors it will provide, it will be a win-win situation for the town.\"\n\nPaul Stainton saw up to 30 cars in the drive-thru on the morning McDonald's opened in Rutland\n\nPaul Stainton, who lives in Stretton, Rutland, drove past the new McDonald's earlier said it was \"very busy\".\n\n\"I'd say there were probably 25 to 30 cars in the drive-thru, the restaurant was busy, there were people sat outside in the sunshine - it looks like it's got off to a pretty good start,\" he said.\n\nMr Stainton didn't have any issues with the restaurant being built in his local area and said it looks \"quite swanky\".\n\n\"I think it's a balancing act between the tradition of Rutland and also the fact that people need jobs.\n\n\"To be fair, it makes a scruffy little area of Rutland look quite nice,\" he said.\n\nSome of those opposing the new McDonald's had suggested using the space for something \"more healthy\"\n\nOne of those that is unlikely to join the drive-thru queue is Charlie Pallett, also known as the Rutland Blogger.\n\nShe said the absence of a McDonald's in the county was a \"quirk\" that had now gone.\n\n\"We've got one everywhere else around us within a 10 to 15-minute drive so I don't think we need it,\" she said.\n\nShe supported the idea of using the space for something \"more healthy\".\n\n\"There were quite a lot of people that would have liked to have seen something more active there for children could do - a trampoline park or something like that,\" she said.\n\n\"Obviously, now with Covid I don't know if that would have been able to happen or not.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Pallett said she could not dispute the benefit of the extra jobs in the area.\n\n\"That's fantastic, especially during the circumstances at the moment,\" she 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.", "Twitter has banned the account of British conspiracy theorist David Icke.\n\n\"The account referenced has been permanently suspended for violating Twitter's rules regarding Covid misinformation,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nThe action comes six months after Facebook and YouTube took similar action, saying Mr Icke had posted misleading claims about the pandemic.\n\nThe 68-year-old had about 382,000 followers on Twitter.\n\nHis recent posts had included attacks on Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci and the philanthropist Bill Gates.\n\nIn a blog, Mr Icke said was banned for a tweet he had made about plans to pilot city-wide coronavirus testing in Liverpool.\n\nBut over recent months he has made false claims such as suggesting that 5G mobile phone networks were linked to the spread of the virus, and that a Jewish group had also been involved.\n\nMr Icke has promoted fringe theories since the 1990s, but his recent return to prominence was propelled by the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn April, an interview in which he discussed the pandemic was broadcast on local TV station London Live.\n\nIt led the regulator Ofcom to rule the channel's owner had broken broadcasting rules because the segment had failed to sufficiently challenge his \"unsubstantiated views\".\n\nTwitter's rules do not include a general ban on misinformation.\n\nBut in July, it would not allow any tweets about Covid-19 that were \"claims of fact, demonstrably false or misleading, and likely to cause harm\". It added that accounts that repeatedly broke this rule would be permanently removed.\n\nSome campaigners believe action against Mr Icke was long overdue.\n\n\"Twitter had allowed him to continue spreading... dangerous Covid misinformation for months,\" tweeted the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a UK-based campaign group, in response to the ban.\n\nThe US social network had earlier blocked another prominent British conspiracy theorist, Kate Shemirani.\n\nHer account was taken offline on Thursday, with Twitter providing the same brief explanation for its removal.\n\nCelebrities with large followings have been a key vector of misinformation throughout the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd one of the most prominent has been David Icke.\n\nHe has found himself in hot water with social media platforms over dangerous conspiracy theories promoted on his accounts.\n\nHe's also been a headliner at anti-lockdown rallies at Trafalgar Square in London, where coronavirus conspiracies - including linking 5G to Covid-19 and suggesting the pandemic is a hoax - have been given full-throated airings.\n\nIcke is perhaps the best known member of Britain's conspiracy theory influencer community, all of whom have gained large followings during the pandemic by spreading disinformation.\n\nI recently interviewed her son. He said he was worried about the devastating impact coronavirus conspiracies can have on public health and family relationships.", "Clinically extremely vulnerable people in England are being strongly advised not to go to work outside their homes during lockdown from Thursday.\n\nUnder updated government guidance, they should only go out for exercise and to attend health appointments.\n\nPeople with stage-five chronic kidney disease, those undergoing dialysis and adults with Down's syndrome are now also advised to follow the advice.\n\nThis group is at higher risk from Covid-19 than the general population.\n\nThe government will give local councils in England more than £32m to fund support and access to local services for more than 2.24 million clinically extremely vulnerable people.\n\nThey include people undergoing treatment for serious medical conditions, such as certain cancers, or those with rare diseases.\n\nThis number could rise by 80,000 over the next few weeks, as NHS England sends letters to those affected.\n\nNew national restrictions will apply to everyone in England from 00:01 on Thursday, 5 November, until Wednesday 2 December.\n\nAn online support service has been set up to help people in this group access supermarket deliveries and other local support.\n\nAsthma UK and the British Lung Foundation said the guidance was \"a step forward\" but had given people less than 24 hours to prepare for the changes to their lives.\n\n\"While it's good news that furlough is still an option for some, it is very late in the day for people to be having this discussion with their employers and there is no guarantee that everyone who needs it will be able to access it,\" said Sarah MacFadyen, head of policy.\n\nShe said it was vital that no one was left without essentials and delivery systems were easy to access.\n\nThe over 70s, pregnant women and people who are very obese are not included in this group - they are classified as clinically vulnerable. They may still be more at risk of Covid-19 and are advised to stay at home as much as possible and minimise contact with others.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the polls closed, US voters have shared how they feel about their candidate.\n\nJoe Biden supporter Lesley Batson is disappointed Florida went to Donald Trump, but she is staying optimistic and eager to see the electoral college map later on Wednesday.\n\nDonald Trump supporter Eliana Girard is feeling everything is \"leaning toward\" the president, while Mike Harlow is happy but \"nervous\".", "A bill that will lead to changes in NI's alcohol licensing laws \"strikes the right balance\", Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has said.\n\nUnder the plans, pubs and nightclubs will be able to serve alcohol for an extra hour, until 02:00, almost every weekend.\n\nThe legislation also proposes removing restrictions around Easter drinking.\n\nIt will have to pass several legislative hurdles before becoming law.\n\nThe other main change is the extension in \"drinking-up time\" from half an hour to an hour, meaning venues can operate until 03:00 at weekends.\n\nCurrently restrictions on selling alcohol are in place from the Thursday before Easter until Easter Sunday.\n\nAlcohol can only be served between 17:00 and 23:00 on Good Friday and bars have to stop serving at midnight on Thursday and Easter Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Communities carried out a consultation last year, and said \"changing social habits and the growing importance of the tourism industry\" had prompted the calls for changes to Easter licensing laws.\n\nSetting out her department's plans in the assembly on Tuesday, Mrs Ní Chuilín urged the Stormont assembly to vote for the bill.\n\n\"I know many people would like the licensing regime to be more flexible where licensees would have more freedom to open and close when they like,\" she said.\n\n\"But on the other hand, there are many people concerned about harm caused to our society by misuse of alcohol, who wish to see greater restrictions on the advertising and sale of drink.\n\n\"I believe this bill strikes the right balance between offering a level of support to the hospitality sector, which we all agree is very much needed, whilst protecting our communities by ensuring the sale of alcohol is controlled.\"\n\nMuch of the hospitality sector is struggling to maintain jobs due to the latest restrictions that forced many firms to shut\n\nThe law will also be tightened in some areas - supermarkets will face restrictions on where they can place in-store advertising for alcohol.\n\nThe current voluntary code of practice for drinks promotions will be replaced with legal requirements.\n\nThe proposals have been a very long time in the making, with Stormont first proposing changes eight years ago.\n\nA previous bill to change NI's licensing laws began its legislative passage in 2016, but the assembly collapsed in January 2017 amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin, who share power together at Stormont.\n\nThe new bill is expected to become law in time for Easter 2022.\n\nNI's hospitality sector has been closed since 16 October, due to restrictions agreed by the executive to tackle the spread of Covid-19.\n\nSome in the industry have proposed a compliance certificate should be drawn up, to allow those firms adhering properly to the rules to reopen.", "Independent shops have been \"more agile\" and better at surviving Covid-19 than chain stores, data indicates.\n\nSmall independent firms on the High Street suffered a net decline of 1,833 stores in the first half of 2020, according to research by the Local Data Company (LDC) and accountancy firm PwC.\n\nThat was less than a third of the 6,001 chain stores lost, the LDC said.\n\nHowever, the two sectors together saw the biggest decline seen in the first half of a year since its records began.\n\nLucy Stainton, head of retail and strategic partnerships at the LDC, said it had been \"an immensely challenging few months for the retail and hospitality sector\".\n\nShe said the independent market had fared better as those businesses had been \"more agile, bringing in new product lines and offering food deliveries\".\n\nThey also had a smaller cost base to cover during periods of little or no trade and had been able to take advantage of government support schemes.\n\n\"However, as we continue through the year with various local lockdowns and restrictions, life will not get any easier for operators,\" she added.\n\n\"These figures mark only the first phase in the impact of the pandemic on the retail economy this year, with 20% of the market still temporarily shut and with more months of difficult trading conditions ahead.\"\n\nDuring the period surveyed, there were 20,019 closures of independent shops and 18,186 openings.\n\nThat compares with 11,120 chain-store closures and 5,119 openings.\n\nPut together, that gives 31,139 closures and a net decrease of 7,834 shops.\n\nIn percentage terms, the gap between big and small retailers is even greater, since 64% of the retail and leisure market is comprised of independent businesses, according to the LDC.\n\nThat means independent businesses declined by 0.54%, compared with 2.77% for the chain units.\n\nThe LDC and PwC have been analysing the changes in the top 500 shopping locations for the past decade.\n\nThe LDC said its latest surveys covered the January-to-August period, to compensate for a short time during lockdown when its researchers were unable to work.\n\nHowever, it said that it had surveyed the same number of units as in a normal first-half period and that its figures were comparable to those of previous years.", "The clip's caption promoted a \"today only\" offer for hair-styling products\n\nA social media influencer has become the first person to be reprimanded by the UK's advertising watchdog over a TikTok post.\n\nThe ruling centred on a video published by Emily Canham that promoted products made by the hair-styling brand GHD.\n\nThe regulator said it should have featured an #ad hashtag or similar label.\n\nUntil now, the body has focused on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube, as well as traditional media.\n\n\"This may be our first ruling on a TikTok post but brands, advertisers and influencers should be fully aware that the ad rules apply to them across online and in social media,\" a spokesman for the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told the BBC.\n\n\"Our rules place an emphasis on protecting children and, where an audience/followers of an influencer or celebrity are predominantly young people, particular care has to be taken to ensure they are not misled.\"\n\nMs Canham has nearly 700,000 followers on TikTok's video-sharing platform.\n\nShe has also been profiled by several newspapers and magazines, both because of her marketing skills and her relationship with Busted band member James Bourne.\n\nIt featured a caption saying users could get a discount on GHD's goods if they entered her name as a promo code on its website.\n\nThe 23-year-old Londoner was under contract to the company at the time to post videos about it across a range of social media, including TikTok.\n\nEmily Canham has nearly 700,000 followers on TikTok and more than a million on YouTube\n\nGHD said this specific post had been created without its oversight or approval.\n\nAnd Ms Canham's agent added that the influencer had not been paid or received a commission for promoting the code in this case.\n\nEven so, the ASA said that because the clip featured the same code Ms Canham was being paid to promote at the time elsewhere and was also \"linked to the agreement\" she had signed with the firm, it should have been labelled.\n\nMs Canham has since deleted the video, but has been instructed by the ASA to ensure her future posts feature an advertising identifier \"clearly and prominently displayed\".", "This video can not be played To play 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Home Secretary Priti Patel said people will see \"more visible policing across the country\"\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level has been upgraded from \"substantial\" to \"severe\".\n\nThe move means security chiefs believe that an attack is highly likely but there is no specific intelligence of an imminent incident.\n\nThe move follows Monday night's shooting in Vienna in which four people died.\n\nLast week, three others died in a knife attack in Nice, France, and a teacher was murdered in Paris last month.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the British people should be \"alert but not alarmed\".\n\n\"This is a precautionary measure following the horrific events of the last week in France and last night in Austria and is not based on a specific threat.\"\n\nShe added that significant steps had already been taken to amend powers and strengthen the tools for dealing with developing terrorist threats.\n\n\"As I've said before, we face a real and serious threat in the UK from terrorism.\n\n\"I would ask the public to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to the police,\" she said.\n\nAssessments of threat levels are taken by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), part of MI5, which makes its recommendations independently from the government.\n\nThe five levels of threat set by the JTAC are:\n\nThe decision to raise the threat level back to \"severe\" has a certain sense of inevitability about it.\n\nWhile the threat level may feel vague to the public, what lies behind it is an assessment of available intelligence on known suspects targeting the UK and a wider analysis of how international events will play into their intentions.\n\nWhenever there is an attack that leads to loss of life, there are plotters who will regard that as a success to emulate.\n\nThey will be encouraged to go further themselves. That is why a string of events elsewhere - such as France and Austria at the moment - carry weight in the UK's planning and preparedness.\n\nIn public, there are likely to be subtle changes to visible policing - particularly around public locations thought to be at risk of attack.\n\nAdditional advice may be given confidentially to some organisations that could be vulnerable.\n\nAnd behind the scenes it will mean that counter-terrorism investigators will be taking a very close look at some of their highest current priorities and asking whether these individuals have been emboldened to turn talk into violence.\n\nHead of UK counter-terrorism policing Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu echoed the home secretary's comments, saying there was no intelligence to link any of the attacks in France or Austria to the UK but said his officers were working with international partners, and providing assistance.\n\nHe urged communities to \"stand together and reject those who seek to sow division and hatred between us\".\n\n\"We need communities and families to bring to our attention anyone they perceive may be vulnerable, a danger or escalating towards terrorism,\" he said.\n\nHe said the public could expect to see additional police officers deployed to certain places and locations over the coming days.\n\nPolice would also work closely with local businesses, faith groups and community groups to provide reassurance and seek their support, he added.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the decision to change the threat level should not cause \"undue alarm\" but showed the importance of people continuing to be vigilant.\n\nSecurity remains high in Vienna after a gunman opened fire on people outside cafes and restaurants\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level was raised to the highest rating, \"critical\", in the days following the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nIt last reached that level again briefly in September that year, after a bomb partially exploded on a Tube train at Parsons Green.\n\nThe threat level remained at the second highest rating, \"severe\", until last November when it was downgraded to \"substantial\", where it has stayed until now.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said given events in Austria and France, it would have been \"remiss\" of the government not to raise the threat level.\n\nHe said the JTAC, which brings together analysts from across transport, health, intelligence and the military, were constantly analysing the ongoing threat to UK citizens anywhere in the world, and will have looked at what has happened in Vienna and at all the postings from al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, encouraging people to carry out attacks.\n\n\"There's a lot of anger at the moment in many parts of Muslim communities over the cartoons [of the Prophet Muhammad] and that's being exploited by extremists who are encouraging people to carry out attacks, hence the raising to severe.\"", "A quarter of John Lewis's stores are staying open later\n\nJohn Lewis, Currys PC World and toy chain the Entertainer are among retailers that are extending their opening hours to meet a surge in demand ahead of the lockdown in England.\n\nHair salons are also opening later as all non-essential retailers prepare to shut for a month from Thursday.\n\nIt comes amid reports of queues outside stores such as Primark as people rush to do last-minute shopping.\n\nGary Grant, boss of the Entertainer, said it was \"just like Christmas\".\n\nHis 173 shops are extending their hours until 7pm or 8pm from 5.30pm and expect brisk trading right up until Wednesday night.\n\n\"When the closedown announcement was made on Saturday, the penny finally dropped for people that if you take away four of the eight weeks left before Christmas, it is going to make shopping quite hard,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Also there is concern toy retailers won't be able to meet the massive increase in online orders because of courier constraints.\"\n\nThe Entertainer says it is opening late to meet demand\n\nAmong the retailers changing their opening hours:\n\n\"While we expect footfall to increase between now and Thursday, our extended opening hours will help ease the busy periods in store,\" said Mark Allsop, chief operating officer at Currys PC World.\n\nSince news of the second lockdown broke on Saturday, there have been queues outside shops in Birmingham, Norwich and Nottingham as people rush to make pre-lockdown purchases.\n\nLong queues were seen minutes before closing time at Ikea Tottenham\n\nShopper numbers were up 9% in the week to Saturday, said data company Springboard, although they remain far below pre-pandemic levels.\n\n\"The first national lockdown saw a rise in spending in the days prior,\" said Kyle Monk, director of insights at the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"We now expect many people to be picking up the items they desperately need before these shops are forced to close by government.\"\n\nLong queues were seen minutes before a planned 21:00 GMT closing time at Ikea Tottenham in London on Tuesday. A member of staff told the BBC that the store would probably not close until 23:00.\n\nIt is not just retailers who are busy. Hairdresser chains such as Regis, Saks and KH Hair Salons are opening earlier and closing later as customers bring forward appointments.\n\nRegis, which owns 56 salons, said it had seen a 30% rise in bookings since Saturday.\n\nRestaurants and pubs are also reported to be seeing a surge in last-minute bookings, as hospitality businesses prepare to shut.\n\nBookings platform OpenTable said bookings on Sunday were up 11% from a year earlier, following weeks of subdued demand.", "John Sessions, Clive Anderson and Stephen Fry together for Whose Line is it Anyway?, which originated as a BBC Radio 4 series\n\nStephen Fry has led the tributes to \"lovable and loving\" actor and comedian John Sessions, who has died aged 67.\n\nSessions was best known as a panellist on 1980s and 90s improvisation TV/radio show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and for Stella Street, Spitting Image and QI.\n\nHis acting credits included TV dramas Porterhouse Blue and Victoria, and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of Henry V.\n\nFry described him as \"warm, vulnerable, lovable and loving as anyone can be\", with \"so, so much talent\".\n\nThe actor, comedian and author wrote on Twitter: \"He could make me laugh until I was sick and dizzy with pleasure and exhaustion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Fry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 comedians also paid tribute. Ronni Ancona described him as \"a genius\", while Helen Lederer remembered him as \"such an original force of clever wit and talent\".\n\nRory Bremner said Sessions was \"just the best, he'd blow everyone away on Whose Line with his speed of thought & breadth of reference\". He added: \"A flash of brilliance just went out.\"\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\nSanjeev Bhaskar said Sessions was \"always warm and fun company and amazing improv ability\", while Meera Syal remembered him being \"always the funniest and kindest man in the room\".\n\nJack Dee described him as \"a delightful, funny, generous and hugely gifted man\" and Sally Phillips said he was \"unpredictable, dangerous, adorable\".\n\nSessions appeared on the first ever episode of QI, and the team behind the panel show said: \"His incredible wit and encyclopaedic knowledge played a huge part in the show's history and everyone at QI is deeply saddened to learn of his passing.\"\n\nBroadcaster Danny Baker remembered him as \"terrific company always and a true talent\", and Michael Spicer described him as \"a character actor with such extraordinary range and so very, very funny\".\n\nHis friend Ian Hislop, Private Eye editor, said Sessions was a \"very modest man\" and would have been flattered by all the attention.\n\n\"I was delighted to see him described as a star. He probably thought he wasn't but he was. And he was quite the funniest man, in real life, that you could ever meet,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Ayrshire-born star died from a heart condition, his agent said.\n\nPhil Cornwell as Mick Jagger and John Sessions as Keith Richards (right) in front of their corner shop in Stella Street\n\nDuring his career, he provided voices on Spitting Image in the 1980s - the only person to both provide impressions and be featured as a puppet on the satirical show.\n\nThe programme was among the trailblazers of alternative comedy, he told BBC Radio Scotland in September. \"You really felt you were at the cutting edge of comedy,\" he said.\n\nHis impressions were also at the heart of Stella Street, a spoof soap opera about megastars like Keith Richards, Joe Pesci and Roger Moore who lived on the same suburban road, which launched in 1997.\n\nSessions recalled meeting Richards and the other members of the Rolling Stones. \"They watched the show,\" he told Radio Scotland. \"Keith said he really enjoys it and he's thinking of getting a little corner shop.\"\n\nSessions played Mr Wellbecker in the BBC's 2010 adaptation of Just William\n\nSessions was born John Marshall in Largs, Scotland, in 1953, and moved to Bedfordshire with his family when he was three.\n\nHe was accepted by Rada at the age of 26 in 1979. Eight years later, his one-man theatre show The Life of Napoleon transferred to the West End. \"He is like nobody else,\" The Times' critic wrote. \"He uses language like a poet; he can jump from the raft at Tilsit to Huck Finn on the Mississippi and make the metaphor work.\"\n\nSoon after, Sessions made his acting breakthrough on screen in Channel 4's Porterhouse Blue, before showing his surreal and cerebral comic energy on Whose Line Is It Anyway?\n\n\"When I left Rada, my plan was to try and do two careers at once - to be a comedian and an actor,\" he told The Guardian in 2014. \"For some years, I managed to juggle the two, but I never felt I joined either club.\"\n\nSessions starred in the BBC's 2010 adaptation of Gormenghast\n\nHe went on to star in a string of his own BBC TV shows, such as a self-titled solo improvisation series in the late 1980s, followed by John Sessions's Tall Tales and John Sessions's Likely Stories.\n\nBut he never quite achieved the stardom of his friends Branagh and Stephen Fry. He said he \"ran out of steam\" when he turned 40. \"As I was getting older, I wasn't getting more confident, I was getting less confident,\" he told The Guardian. \"I lost my way.\"\n\nHis other TV credits included Victoria, The Loch, Just William, Tom Jones, and Gormenghast; and he had film roles in The Good Shepherd, The Merchant of Venice and The Bounty.\n\nHis knack for impersonating politicians was put to use in dramas too - playing former prime minister Edward Heath in the 2011 film The Iron Lady; another ex-premier, Harold Wilson, in 2010's Made in Dagenham; and former chancellor Geoffrey Howe in the 2009 Thatcher biopic Margaret.\n\nHis other roles included Henry Fielding in the 1997 adaptation of the author's 1749 novel Tom Jones\n\nBut he told The Telegraph in 2013: \"I don't think I was very good at managing my career. You need to carve your own path and not just bob along.\"\n\nRecently, he had narrated a 10-part radio adaptation of children's book series The Adventures of Captain Bobo.\n\nIn a statement, his agent Alex Irwin said: \"It is with great sadness we can confirm that on Monday 2nd November, the actor John Sessions died at his home in South London. He will be hugely missed.\"\n\nPeep Show star Robert Webb, actor Chris O'Dowd, author Linda Grant and broadcasters Mariella Frostrup and Samira Ahmed were among the others paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robert Webb This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of the election results so far...\n\nIt's two days after the US presidential election, and a winner still eludes us. As the ballots from more than 160 million Americans continue to be counted, however, a picture is starting to come into focus.\n\nNow that Michigan and Wisconsin have been projected for Biden, the national race is boiling down to Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.\n\nIt's 253 electoral college votes to Biden and 214 to Trump, with the White House in their grasp if they reach 270.\n\nHere's what the candidates need to happen in order to win the White House.\n\nTo put it simply, Democrat Joe Biden simply has to maintain the lead he currently holds in Arizona and Nevada (light blue states on the map). If he does that, he hits 270 electoral votes - the bare minimum needed to take the White House.\n\nIn Michigan, Biden pulled ahead of Trump in the early morning hours as mail-in ballots were counted in heavily Democratic Detroit - and by late afternoon he was projected to win the state. In neighbouring Wisconsin, the trend there has been decidedly in his favour too. Republicans are talking about a recount.\n\nBiden has maintained a steady lead in Arizona with more mail-in ballots to be counted. The margin in Nevada is just a few thousand votes, but all election-day votes - which have tilted Republican - have been counted and only mail-in ballots, which have typically favoured Democrats, are left.\n\nFor the moment, Biden seems to have the path of least resistance to the presidency.\n\nLike Biden, to retain the White House Trump has to hold on in the remaining key states where he has a lead. In his case, that's Pennsylvania and Georgia (light red on the map above). Then, the Republican has to peel away at least one of those aforementioned states where Biden is on top.\n\nNevada is very, very close. It wouldn't take much of a shift to move the state into Trump's column. If the late-arriving mail ballots - postmarked on election day but can be delivered after - turn out to be from Trump-leaning independents or Republicans, not Democrats as expected, the picture for the president could brighten considerably.\n\nArizona is another possible flip for the president. Like Nevada, there are only mail-ballots left to be tabulated. The state has a more established tradition of postal voter, however, and Arizona Democrats haven't shown the same kind of advantage in those ballots as they have in Nevada. Biden's lead in Arizona is much larger than his margin in Nevada, but there is also the possibility of bigger shifts.\n\nAs for Wisconsin, it is heading in the wrong direction for the president. While Trump may be holding out hope in this Midwest battleground, the numbers are moving away from him.\n\nTrump's route back to the White House may rely on holding his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, but that doesn't mean he's safe in either of those states. The ballots remaining to be counted in Georgia are from heavily Democratic counties around Atlanta.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, there are more than a million mail-in ballots left to tabulate. Even though Trump has a bigger lead in the Keystone State, the vote-counting trends that moved Biden ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan may play themselves out there, as well.\n\nIf Biden can pick off Pennsylvania, he can afford to lose both Arizona and Nevada. If the Democrat flips Georgia, he can lose one or the other (otherwise, it's an electoral college tie that goes to the House).\n\nIn other words, unlike Trump, Biden has a number of different paths to get to presidential victory. They may be less likely, but they are still very real.\n\nRegardless of the ultimate outcome, what was once a nightmare scenario is taking shape, with Biden claiming he is on a path to victory and Trump lobbing accusations of voter fraud and electoral theft without providing any evidence.\n\nIt's a recipe for acrimony and a protracted court battle, which ends with supporters on the losing side feeling angry and cheated. The Trump campaign has already announced that they will request a recount in Wisconsin.\n\nAlthough the final results aren't known, what is clear on election night is that the US continues to be a sharply divided nation. The American voters did not repudiate Trump in any meaningful way. Nor did they give him the kind of ringing endorsement that the president had hoped for.\n\nInstead, the battle lines are drawn - and the political warfare will continue no matter who prevails in this particular election.", "On election night, we put 13 Trump and 12 Biden voters in a group chat to watch the results come in.\n\nBiden voters went to sleep feeling fearful and resigned.\n\nTrump supporters went to sleep feeling victorious. They flooded the group text with pictures from crowded watch parties and exchanged Instagram handles late into the night.\n\nBut then the US woke up to the news that Biden was leading in several key battleground states and the energy in the group changed.\n\nAnd then a Biden supporter jumped in.\n\nRepublicans' lack of trust in the electoral process - echoing the claims the president had made without providing evidence - led some Democrats to leave the group chat out of frustration.\n\nThe fear that votes had suspiciously appeared for Biden overnight was further fuelled by President Trump's tweet that \"they are finding Biden votes all over the place - in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our country!\"\n\nAn argument broke out in the chat, and we decided to call individual voters instead.\n\nThere were strong views here too - so it's worth checking out our live page for updates on legal challenges and disinformation spreading online. And we also have this fact check about voter fraud.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI am filled with a sense of anticipation waiting for results that may take days. I'm also annoyed that in this day and age it takes so long for votes to be counted. Writing on pieces of paper is truly an antiquated system.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nI think that not having results yet means they are counting the votes. I decided last minute to vote for Biden, a vote that will matter in Michigan, clearly. I'm glad I voted. The margin is so thin, every vote counts. I hope it goes in Biden's direction. Fingers crossed!\n\nWill you accept the results?\n\nI have always accepted the results, and that won't change. I will be disappointed, but life goes on. I will keep being involved and voting.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI felt that the Democrats are trying to do what they told us they were going to do, which is not to concede to Trump under any circumstances.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nAbsolutely. I think there's massive interference going on in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and it's just a matter of whether we will even be able to prove that that was happening or whether people will even care.\n\nWill you accept the result?\n\nDo I think that Biden will win legitimately? No way. But I have to accept whatever happens and that's fine. Even if Biden is president, we are currently in the middle of a culture war. It's not a political war. It's about values and philosophy. So it doesn't matter very much if it's Biden or Trump.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI was nervous but political strategists have literally been telling us for weeks that it could be days before this race is called. The way I see it, this race is more of a marathon.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nI'm worried a number of votes from heavily minority counties could be purged. Between Trump's continuous assaults on the Postal Service, unfounded claims of voter fraud, and the fact that early mail-in ballots are more likely to be returned when mailed by a black person in North Carolina, I'm extremely concerned.\n\nWill you accept the result?\n\nI'll accept the result though I feel there is a wealth of voter suppression tactics being used by the Trump administration. I have to admit, Trump has a lot of supporters in this country despite his lies and spreading of misinformation, which isn't surprising given how he emboldens white supremacists.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI felt really tired and I was surprised. I went into it thinking this was going to be a massive Biden win and it turned out Trump did rather well.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nI have a bit of scepticism about the absentee ballot process, just because I don't have a lot of faith in the Postal Service. I'm trying to refrain from falling into that trap of believing everything without any substantial evidence to back up the idea of shenanigans.\n\nWill you accept the result?\n\nOf course. That's not even a question in my mind. It may be an unhappy result that I do not want to hear or see, but I will totally accept it and get behind it. Presidents come and go, but the nation remains.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI felt worried waking up today despite the fact that Biden is winning. It's so sad and scary to me that so many people want four more years of division and hate and cast a vote for Trump.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nI'm not worried that the votes won't be counted. I think that's just a matter of being patient. If my candidate loses I'll give myself some time to process my feelings and then get back to organising for Democrats as soon as possible.\n\nWill you accept the result?\n\nI will accept the results but am not confident that Trump supporters will accept the result if he loses.\n\nHow did you feel waking up today?\n\nI was honestly fine until I saw what was happening in a few states.\n\nAre you worried the votes won't be counted?\n\nYes. Mail-in ballots weren't necessarily to be trusted.\n\nWill you accept the result?\n\nIf both sides have concluded their investigations, I will. You win some, you lose some, but it doesn't give an excuse for anyone to act out, become violent and show poor character. I think people should take this in a civil manner.\n\nYour Questions Answered: What questions do you have about the US election?\n\nHow does vote counting work? When will we get the final results? The US election can be confusing, especially this year. The BBC is here to help make sense of it. Please send us your questions about election day and beyond.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "Speaking to his supporters in his home state of Delaware, the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he believes he is on track for victory.\n\nThe former vice president thanked his supporters and told them to \"keep the faith\".", "Pointing the way: Viewed from space, A68a has the look of a hand with an outstretched index finger\n\nThe world's biggest iceberg, known as A68a, is bearing down on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia.\n\nThe Antarctic ice giant is a similar size to the South Atlantic island, and there's a strong possibility the berg could now ground and anchor itself offshore of the wildlife haven.\n\nIf that happens, it poses a grave threat to local penguins and seals.\n\nThe animals' normal foraging routes could be blocked, preventing them from feeding their young properly.\n\nAnd it goes without saying that all creatures living on the seafloor would be crushed where A68a touched down - a disturbance that would take a very long time to reverse.\n\n\"Ecosystems can and will bounce back of course, but there's a danger here that if this iceberg gets stuck, it could be there for 10 years,\" said Prof Geraint Tarling from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).\n\n\"And that would make a very big difference, not just to the ecosystem of South Georgia but its economy as well,\" he told BBC News.\n\nSouth Georgia is famous for its abundant wildlife\n\nThe British Overseas Territory is something of a graveyard for Antarctica's greatest icebergs.\n\nThese tabular behemoths get drawn up from the White Continent on strong currents, only for their keels to then catch in the shallows of the continental shelf that surrounds the remote island.\n\nTime and time again, it happens. Huge ice sculptures slowly withering in sight of the land.\n\nA68a - which has the look of a hand with a pointing finger - has been riding this \"iceberg alley\" since breaking free from Antarctica in mid-2017. It's now just a few hundred km to the southwest of the BOT.\n\nRoughly the size of the English county of Somerset (4,200 sq km), the berg weighs hundreds of billions of tonnes. But its relative thinness (a submerged depth of perhaps 200m or less) means it has the potential to drift right up to South Georgia's coast before anchoring.\n\n\"A close-in iceberg has massive implications for where land-based predators might be able to forage,\" explained Prof Tarling.\n\n\"When you're talking about penguins and seals during the period that's really crucial to them - during pup- and chick-rearing - the actual distance they have to travel to find food (fish and krill) really matters. If they have to do a big detour, it means they're not going to get back to their young in time to prevent them starving to death in the interim.\"\n\nWhen the colossus A38 grounded at South Georgia in 2004, countless dead penguin chicks and seal pups were found on local beaches.\n\nWith a draft of about 200m, A68a has the potential to catch on the shallow shelf around the island\n\nThe BAS researcher is in the process of trying to organise the resources to study A68a at South Georgia, should it do its worst and ground in one of the key productive areas for wildlife and the local fishing industry.\n\nThe potential impacts are multi-faceted - and not all negative, he stresses.\n\nFor example, icebergs bring with them enormous quantities of dust that will fertilise the ocean plankton around them, and this benefit will then cascade up the food chain.\n\nAlthough satellite imagery suggests A68a is on a direct path for South Georgia, it might yet escape capture. Anything is possible, says BAS remote-sensing and mapping specialist Dr Peter Fretwell.\n\n\"The currents should take it on what looks like a strange loop around the south end of South Georgia, before then spinning it along the edge of the continental shelf and back off to the northwest. But it's very difficult to say precisely what will happen,\" he told BBC News.\n\nColleague Dr Andrew Fleming said a request was going into the European Space Agency for more satellite imagery, particularly from its pair of Sentinel-1 radar spacecraft.\n\nThese imagers work at wavelengths that allow them to see through cloud, meaning they can track the iceberg no matter what the weather conditions are like.\n\n\"A68a is spectacular,\" Dr Fleming said. \"The idea that it is still in one large piece is actually remarkable, particularly given the huge fractures you see running through it in the radar imagery. I'd fully expected it to have broken apart by now.\n\n\"If it spins around South Georgia and heads on northwards, it should start breaking up. It will very quickly get into warmer waters, and wave action especially will start killing it off.\"\n\nWhen A38 turned up in 2004, it caused immense difficulties for foraging seals and penguins\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "MPs backed a four-week lockdown in England to combat coronavirus on Wednesday, before it kicked in.\n\nBoris Johnson saw off a rebellion by 34 Tory MPs opposed to the move, with the support of Labour.\n\nThe government won the vote by 516 to 39, a majority of 477.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs a second lockdown was needed to \"contain the surge\" in Covid cases - but rebels warned it would wreck businesses and lives.\n\nThe Tory rebels included former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 committee of backbenchers.\n\nIt comes as the government said a further 492 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. This brings the UK total to 47,742.\n\nThe number of deaths reported on Wednesday is the highest daily figure since 19 May, when 500 deaths were reported.\n\nThe lockdown in England includes the closure of pubs, gyms and non-essential shops.\n\nIt will replace the three tiers of regional restrictions across England for four weeks, until 2 December, when ministers hope to return to a regional approach.\n\nDuring a three-hour debate, Conservative rebels - and several Labour MPs from the north-west of England - said England's tiered system, brought in two weeks ago, had not been given a chance.\n\nMr Johnson's predecessor as prime minister, Theresa May, said: \"The evidence is, from Liverpool, that cases are falling.\"\n\nMrs May was among 19 Conservatives to abstain, including six MPs from Scottish seats, who did not want to take part in the vote as it applied to England only.\n\nShe criticised Labour's call for a short, \"circuit breaker\" lockdown as impractical - but accused Mr Johnson of choosing data to fit his coronavirus policies.\n\nThe lockdown decision was \"to some extent based on the prediction of 4,000 deaths a day,\" said the former PM, but that figure had already been proved \"wrong\".\n\n\"For many people it looks as if the figures are chosen to support the policy, rather than the policy being based on the figures.\n\n\"We need these proper analyses. We need to know the details behind these models.\"\n\nConservative MP Philip Davies, who voted against the government, said: \"Nobody voting for this motion tonight is offering to sacrifice their own job in order to pursue this lockdown policy - of course not. They are just expecting millions of others in our country to sacrifice their jobs to pursue this policy.\n\n\"I never thought I would see the day a so-called Conservative minister would stand up and urge Parliament to further sacrifice our most basic of freedoms, collapse the economy and destroy jobs - all to pursue a failed strategy.\"\n\nThe government was never going to lose this vote but, at times, it felt as if ministers were losing the argument.\n\nThe majority of MPs are reluctantly resigned to lockdown, but critics on both sides of the House have dominated the debate.\n\nThe seniority of the sceptics highlighted the disquiet - especially amongst Boris Johnson's backbenchers.\n\nTheresa May expressed concerns, but Sir Iain Duncan Smith went for full-throated opposition - describing a \"circuit breaker\" lockdown as a \"business breaker\".\n\nAnd some Labour MPs broke ranks with their own leader's instruction to back the measures.\n\nMPs will get a subsequent vote on whatever measures will replace lockdown before 2 December.\n\nConservative MP Nusrat Ghani said she would support the government for now, but was putting ministers \"on 28 days' notice\".\n\nMany more apparently loyal MPs have their own red lines - so today's rebellion will represent only the tip of an iceberg of unease.\n\nFour DUP MPs and former Tory independent Julian Lewis also voted against the government, as did two Tory MPs who acted as tellers. No Labour MPs voted against the government, but nine of them abstained.\n\nThe Scottish National Party did not take part in the vote. In Scotland, a new five-tier restrictions system came into force on Monday. Wales is in a \"firebreak\" lockdown until 9 November, and Northern Ireland is also under tighter restrictions.\n\nMr Johnson said a second lockdown was \"not something any of us wanted to do,\" but he added: \"I am not prepared to take the risk with the lives of British people.\"\n\n\"While it pains me to call for such restrictions on lives, liberty and business I have no doubt that these restrictions represent the best and safest path for our country,\" he told MPs.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said that in ordinary times the measures taking effect on Thursday would be \"unimaginable, but these are not ordinary times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'These measures will expire on 2 December'\n\nExplaining his party's decision to back the government, Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Nobody votes for the regulations today with anything other than a heavy heart, on both sides.\"\n\nHe urged the prime minister to use the four-week lockdown to come up with \"something better\" than the three tier system, as it was \"not working\".\n\nEarlier at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir accused Mr Johnson of \"ignoring\" the advice of government scientists who called for a brief \"circuit breaker\" lockdown in September.\n\n\"Does the prime minister understand the human cost of his delay in acting?\" he asked Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM said it was \"always right to pursue a local and a regional approach,\" adding that it was \"showing signs of working\".\n\nMr Johnson insisted the lockdown will expire automatically on 2 December and he hopes \"very much\" to \"get this country going again\" in the run up to Christmas.\n\n\"But that depends on us all doing our bit now to make sure that we get the R [rate] down.\"", "As Americans went to the polls, we put 12 Biden voters and 13 Trump voters in a group chat for a virtual watch party.\n\nThe Democrats (D), Republicans (R) and Independents (I) all agreed that this election campaign has been \"the race that never ends\". But then the results started to come in, and tensions flared.\n\nWithin minutes of the first polls closing, Indiana was called for President Donald Trump.\n\nThe text group started buzzing when Mr Trump took the lead in Florida. But not everyone shared the happiness.\n\nEyes turn to states in the upper Midwest\n\nAs the polls closed in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin - states which Mr Trump took in 2016 - the races were all too close to call.\n\nAndrew, an independent voter from Michigan who was undecided until the last minute and ultimately cast a vote for Biden, said he thought the president would lose in there.\n\nThen a \"red wave\" of projections suggested wins for Republicans across the southern US.\n\nRepublicans in the chat shared photos of their watch parties, including one voter, Eliana, who said she was at a party indoors with 500 people.\n\nThe conversation that followed a few of the networks projecting Florida for Trump sent some weary and frustrated Democrats to bed.\n\nThe two candidates then told supporters that the fight would go on into Wednesday.\n\nJust after midnight on the east coast, Joe Biden took to the stage in his home state of Delaware.\n\nAnd when the president tweeted, most folks were already asleep. But of those who were still awake, Republicans supported him and, once again, Democrats called him a liar.\n\nJim ended the night by saying what everyone else was feeling.\n\nYour Questions Answered: What questions do you have about the US election?\n\nHow does vote counting work? When will we get the final results? The US election can be confusing, especially this year. The BBC is here to help make sense of it. Please send us your questions about election day and beyond.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "The guidance was issued on Wednesday afternoon\n\nPupils and teachers in all of England's secondary schools and colleges will be required to wear face masks in communal areas and corridors from Thursday.\n\nNew government guidance also says that \"clinically extremely vulnerable\" staff members should not come in to school.\n\nHead teachers said schools would need help to pay for supply teachers.\n\nThey also expressed anger that the guidance had \"landed on school leaders' desks less than 24 hours before the start of the national lockdown\".\n\nThe new guidance, issued by the Department for Education on Wednesday afternoon, says \"face coverings should be worn by adults and children aged 11 and above when moving around the premises, outside of classrooms or activity rooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing cannot easily be maintained\", and the same applies to further education colleges.\n\nSchools should work to implement the guidance as soon as possible, the department said, but can have until Monday 9 November if they require additional time.\n\nUntil now, this requirement was only for schools and colleges where the local Covid-19 alert level was \"high\" or \"very high\".\n\nThe DfE also says teachers with serious underlying health issues should keep away from the premises.\n\n\"Those individuals who are clinically extremely vulnerable are advised to work from home and not to go into work,\" the guidance says.\n\n\"Staff should talk to their employers about how they will be supported, including to work from home where possible, during the period of national restrictions.\n\n\"All other staff should continue to attend work, including those living in a household with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said the lockdown was announced four days ago and that it \"beggars belief that schools have had to wait until now to find out how it affects them\".\n\n\"Frankly, it is ridiculous that this new guidance has landed on school leaders' desks less than 24 hours before the start of the national lockdown.\n\n\"There is very little in the guidance that could not have been communicated with schools 72 hours ago.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nMr Whiteman also expressed concern about the impact vulnerable teachers staying at home would have an schools' ability to operate.\n\n\"Given the restrictions around clinically extremely vulnerable staff, the reality is that some schools may now find it increasingly difficult to remain open to all pupils.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed the move, but said: \"It will mean that there are more staff missing from the workplace, on top of those who are self-isolating.\n\n\"It is imperative that the government reimburses schools and colleges with the cost of hiring supply cover for staff absence.\n\n\"We have received reports of schools having to spend £6,000 per week on supply cover, and this situation is going to become worse - schools and colleges cannot sustain these costs.\"\n\nMr Barton said the extension to the rule on face coverings was a \"sensible response to rising Covid levels, and will act as an extra level of protection on top of the other safety measures in schools\".\n\nHe added: \"The government's education recovery planning does need to take into account the impact of these restrictions on health and wellbeing.\"", "Former prime minister Theresa May was one of a number of MPs criticising the use of a chart in Saturday’s lockdown news conference that gave a scenario of 4,000 coronavirus deaths a day over the winter (roughly four times the figure during the worst days of the first wave).\n\n\"It looks as if the figures are chosen to support the policy rather than the policy being based on the figures,\" she told Parliament's debate on the lockdown this afternoon.\n\nThis chart, which gave a scenario of 4,000 deaths a day over winter, was shown during Saturday's briefing Image caption: This chart, which gave a scenario of 4,000 deaths a day over winter, was shown during Saturday's briefing\n\nThe curves in the chart were all produced at the start of October, just after the rapid rise in cases that followed students returning to university. These were based on models for worst-case planning that assumed no changes in policy or behaviour.\n\nBut, since then, England has introduced a three-tier system of stricter measures and the epidemic has grown more slowly than the curves assumed it would.\n\nOn the day the chart was shown, we know of 171 people dying with coronavirus, which is far below the 1,000 a day envisioned by the most pessimistic model.\n\n\"The prediction was wrong before it was even used,\" Mrs May said.", "MPs will vote later on the plan for a four-week lockdown in England.\n\nThe restrictions, which include the closure of pubs, restaurants gyms and non-essential shops, will come into force after midnight if approved.\n\nIt comes as the head of NHS England warned there are 11,000 coronavirus patients in hospital in England - up from 2,000 at the start of October.\n\nSir Simon Stevens also said the NHS would be \"geared up\" to deliver a potential vaccine before Christmas.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told business leaders the lockdown, which is due to end on 2 December, will not be extended beyond that date.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Sir Simon said there had been a \"very substantial\" increase in \"desperately sick patients in hospitals\" in October.\n\nHe said: \"So, put another way, we've got 22 hospitals' worth of coronavirus patients across England.\n\n\"And indeed, even since Saturday, when the prime minister gave his press conference, we filled another two hospitals full of severely ill coronavirus patients.\"\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have criticised the nationwide lockdown.\n\nBut Labour's support for the new measures mean they are highly likely to be approved, even if there is a rebellion from Tory backbenchers.\n\nSir Simon said the actions taken by Parliament would mean the health service should be able to avoid postponing routine operations.\n\nHe also said the NHS would be writing to GP practices this week to get them prepared to deliver a vaccine by Christmas, if one becomes available.\n\nSir Simon said: \"There are over 200 vaccines in development and we believe that we should hopefully get one or more of those available from the first part of next year.\n\n\"In anticipation of that, we're also gearing the NHS up to be ready to make a start on administering Covid vaccines before Christmas, if they become available.\"\n\nSir Simon later told a briefing the NHS's \"central expectation\" was that a vaccine would be possible by the start of next year.\n\nHe said: \"The bulk of this is likely to be the other side of Christmas, but we want to be ready in the event that those optimistic signs you've been hearing about come to pass. \"\n\nAnd he suggested that all patient-facing NHS staff would soon be given routine testing, regardless of symptoms.\n\nMeg and Matt, pictured with their daughter, got married this week after twice moving the date\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson apologised to businesses for the \"nightmare\" Covid situation.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech to the Confederation of British Industry's annual conference, the prime minister said the restrictions went \"against every free market instinct I possess\".\n\n\"And, believe me, we will end these autumn measures on 2 December when they expire,\" he added.\n\nA number of shops have been extending their opening hours ahead of the lockdown\n\nAhead of the expected new restrictions, a number of retailers and other businesses are extending their opening hours to meet a surge in demand.\n\nFrom Thursday, non-essential retailers and other businesses including hairdressers will be required to close until the lockdown is lifted.\n\nCouples have rearranged weddings ahead of the lockdown, which prevents them taking place for all except those who are seriously ill and not expected to recover.\n\nAnd updated guidance has been published for those deemed to be extremely vulnerable, including advice that people should not attend work if they cannot do it from home.\n\nThe extremely vulnerable group has been expanded to also include adults with Down's Syndrome.\n\nThe advice also says that most children originally on the shielded patient list no longer need to be because of the very low risk of them becoming sick from coronavirus, and can therefore attend school.\n\nLabour first called for a short lockdown or \"circuit-breaker\" in England last month and have criticised the government for not acting quickly or decisively enough.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that Labour's support will be enough to deter some Tories who have criticised the measures from rebelling, because they would see it as a \"senseless sacrifice\".\n\n\"A relatively small number, however, will still vote against their own government,\" our correspondent said.\n\nThe BBC has been told that former chief whip Mark Harper, who has openly criticised NHS Test and Trace, is expected to be among them.\n\nA very senior Tory privately described the handling of the pandemic as a farce.\n\nOthers have been pushing for an economic assessment of the lockdown to be published, and several MPs questioned the data informing the government's decisions.\n\nOn Tuesday, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, defended lockdowns, telling MPs they were the only practical option to stem the spread of Covid-19 until a vaccine and better drugs become available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty says the three-tier system of restrictions has “slowed things down\".\n\nAmong the Conservative MPs to criticise the nationwide lockdown during a parliamentary debate on Tuesday was Richard Drax, who said they were \"destructive, divisive, and don't work\".\n\n\"They simply delay the inevitable - the re-emergence of the virus when lockdown ends, as has been shown,\" he said.\n\n\"Have we over-reacted? Yes, I think we have. A draconian, onerous and invasive set of rules and regulations now govern our very existence.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Commons Health Committee chairman Jeremy Hunt said it would be \"quite unforgivable\" if the UK this winter saw similar levels of Covid transmission in hospitals as experienced during the first coronavirus wave.\n\nSpeaking to Today, he called for more routine testing of NHS staff to be carried out.\n\nMore details of England's lockdown have also been revealed this week, with the publication of the legislation that will bring them into force.\n\nThe regulations specify fines starting at £100 for rule breakers, potentially rising to a maximum of £6,400 for repeat offences.\n\nChief constables of five north-west England police constabularies have signed a letter committing to greater levels of enforcement of Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions during the lockdown.\n\nThe new rules replace a tiered system of different local restrictions across England, which ministers say they want to return to after the country-wide lockdown is due to end on 2 December.\n\nThe UK recorded a further 397 coronavirus deaths and 20,018 confirmed cases on Tuesday.", "Only four whales died, all others were saved\n\nMore than 100 whales stranded on a Sri Lankan beach have been guided to the sea in an overnight rescue operation.\n\nThree pilot whales and one dolphin died of their injuries following the mass beaching near the city of Panadura, south of the capital Colombo.\n\nThe rescue was conducted by the navy, with help from environmental protection officers, police and local residents.\n\nIt's thought to be the largest stranding in Sri Lanka. It is not known why whales beach themselves.\n\nLocal villagers defied a coronavirus curfew to join the navy and coast guard and help push the small whales back into deeper water so they could swim out into the ocean.\n\n\"The people around here got together and saved most of them,\" marine biologist Dr Asha De Vos told news agency AFP.\n\n\"But some of the whales were very tired fighting to stay afloat the whole night and didn't have enough strength to go to deep sea. That is why a few died.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as rescuers in Sri Lanka try to save beached pilot whales\n\nWhale beachings are not uncommon. Scientists say the reason is often unknown but they have a range of theories, including whales following fish to shore and becoming disorientated.\n\nHighly social mammals, pilot whales are particularly known for stranding in groups because they travel in large, close-knit communities which rely on constant communication.\n\nIn September, several hundred whales died on the coast of Tasmania in Australia in one of the country's biggest stranding on record and one of the largest in the world.", "People who live with children tend to have healthier lifestyles than those who don't\n\nLiving with children is not linked to a greater risk of severe coronavirus in adults, a study has found.\n\nIt looked at data on nine million adults under 65 between February and August, comparing the risks to those living with and without children.\n\nSharing a house with under-18s did not increase the risk of getting seriously ill or dying from Covid.\n\nA scientists who worked on the study said it showed \"no net harm in kids coming back to the house from school\".\n\nThe researchers, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the University of Oxford, found adults living with very young or primary-school-age children had no increased risk of Covid-19 infection or a related hospital admission.\n\nIn fact, they were about 25% less likely to die of Covid-19 than people living without children, which the researchers think may be linked to healthier living habits previously identified in those who care for children.\n\nPeople living with secondary-school-age children had a very small (8%) increased risk of a Covid-19 infection, but no increased risk of hospitalisation..\n\nThey were 27% less likely to die from the disease, again perhaps because they tend to be healthier than adults of the same age without children.\n\nThe study, which has not yet been published in a journal, looked at what happened between February and August and so straddled the period when schools were fully open as well as the time after 20 March when they were closed to all but a few children.\n\nIt also spanned the summer holidays, though not the reopening of schools in September.\n\nResearchers also took into account other factors such as smoking, socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity and chronic health problems.\n\nLiam Smeeth, professor of clinical epidemiology at LSHTM who worked on the study, said: \"We know that people who live with kids are generally more healthy and have a slightly lower risk of dying of anything.\n\n\"And we see a very similar pattern for bad Covid outcomes such as hospitalisation and death. So there's no net harm in kids coming back to the house from school.\"\n\nHe added: \"Many would agree if we can keep schools open, that's really important for this generation of young people, and this study contributes one part of that equation: that there's no net harmful effect to living with children.\"\n\nDr Ben Goldacre, director of the DataLab at the University of Oxford and who also worked on the study, said the team would continue to analyse data during the second lockdown, under which many areas of society were closed but schools remained open.\n\n\"It's important we get data insights on these policy interventions as soon as we possibly can, because the story of Covid is that we are learning 'live' as it harms people around us,\" he said.\n\nDr David McAllister, a public health lecturer at the University of Glasgow who has carried out similar research, said this showed that \"sharing a household with school-aged children does not place the adults with whom they live at greater risk\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Donald Trump and Joe Biden are battling to become the 46th US president.\n\nIn Donald Trump's world, perhaps there was no greater compliment for Boris Johnson than saying he was, well, just like him. And this was how he greeted the prime minister's ascent to power.\n\nWhile both leaders enjoy casting themselves as outsiders, that caricatured comparison is far from a complete picture.\n\nBut as the world waits to find out whether the president will defy the polls and stay in the White House, or Joe Biden will get to move in, it's worth wondering for a moment who the UK government would rather hold the key.\n\nFor one senior politician with experience of dealing with Trump's White House and Boris Johnson, it's a simple equation: \"It's short term, versus long term\".\n\nThey suggest in the immediate future, it's better to have a very pro-UK ally on Pennsylvania Avenue, easing the path to a trade deal, and holding the diplomatic ties between our two countries firm, rather than being tempted to move closer to Paris or Berlin.\n\nBut in the long term, Biden's a better pick, they suggest, because the UK's standing in the world is based on its participation in institutions and alliances - the very structures they say Trump wants to \"wreck\".\n\nAnd has the president's obvious liking for the prime minister really translated into much for the UK anyway?\n\nAnother source who has been involved with handling that fabled special relationship isn't so sure, suggesting the Britain that \"Trump loves is the country of the royal family and Winston Churchill, not modern Britain\".\n\nAnd his liking for the PM and his own ties to the UK \"haven't translated to listening\" to the government's opinion.\n\nPresident Trump has spoken warmly of Boris Johnson as a \"really good man\".\n\nBut the relationship with Biden could have problems.\n\nThe same insider suggests that he thinks that Brexit is \"nuts\" and sees the UK government as a little too like Trump's for his liking.\n\nDuring the campaign, he even went on the record to make plain his opposition to the UK's controversial Internal Market Bill.\n\nJoe Biden's public image might perhaps be less aggressive, more reasonable and predictable.\n\nBut when it comes to a trade deal, a Biden White House would be dealing with the same strong commercial interests in the US - the same farmers, the same car makers, the same healthcare industry that wants to make the most of potential opportunities in the UK and defend their same interests just as strongly.\n\nAnd if there is a change of administration, one senior official told me the work of the trade deal with the US would essentially have to start again.\n\nBiden in charge, however, could bring other opportunities for the UK, particularly on climate change, when the Trump administration seems barely interested in the conversation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. That was wild - a three-year campaign in three minutes\n\nThe UK is hosting the huge COP26 climate conference in 2021 - a willing White House could make all the difference to making that count.\n\nAnd with the UK taking charge of the G7 group through next year comes another opportunity to prove that international cooperation can work.\n\nWhitehall doesn't expect immediately to be Joe Biden's best European friend if he wins - the expectation is that he would go first to Berlin.\n\nBut there are big chances to show that the special relationship, so fretted over on this side of the pond, counts in the near future, if Biden is in charge.\n\nThe personal and political contrasts between the two US rivals are vast, as are their attitudes to the UK, particularly over the issue of Brexit.\n\nBut in practice, the gap from across the Atlantic on many issues may not be so wide after all.\n\nFor all the angst and excitement of an election, for all the profound differences between the candidates this time round, the longer-term strategic interests shared by the UK and the US are bigger than any one, or even two politicians.\n\nThe security and defence cooperation between the two countries is close and longstanding, and many miles under the radar of the wild swings of Trump's Twitter diplomacy.\n\nAnd whisper it, VERY different domestic administrations in the White House have held similar positions sometimes when it comes to foreign affairs.\n\nPresident Trump has used a megaphone to criticise Nato, as well as how much other EU countries stump up towards the alliance.\n\nBut one insider points out that Barack Obama shared that view: \"Trump shouts it. Obama whispered it,\" but essentially they agreed.\n\nHow Joe Biden might say it, if he wins, we'll have to see.\n\nFor all that the \"Britain Trump\" characterisation is a misleading tag, the chemistry between leaders does matter.\n\nA change in the White House would mean a loss of political affinity between the prime minister and the most powerful leader in the West.\n\nBut it could mean a more predictable partner for the UK, at a time of huge change. Westminster will be watching the election results carefully, along with the rest of the world.", "People gather to watch the results in Times Square, New York\n\nAmericans went to the polls on 3 November to elect the next US president.\n\nRepublican President Donald Trump is up against Democratic challenger Joe Biden.\n\nAbout 100 millions voters had cast their ballots early.\n\nBy the early hours of the morning both Mr Biden and Mr Trump told their supporters they were on course to win. The final result may take some time to emerge.\n\nDonald Trump addresses his supporters in the White House's East Room where he says he is winning and - with millions of legitimate ballots left to count - declares victory.\n\nIn the early hours Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, speaks to supporters in Wilmington, Delaware. He says: \"We knew this was going to go long, but who knew we would go into maybe tomorrow morning, maybe even longer!\"\n\nHere are pictures from the election day and a night of results.\n\nWith a tight race in key states, the candidates need 270 electoral college votes to secure the presidency.\n\nDonald Trump, 74, is seeking to avoid becoming the first incumbent president to lose a re-election fight since George HW Bush in 1992.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Donald Trump visits his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia\n\nJoe Biden visits The Warehouse, a support organisation for teenagers, on election day in Wilmington, Delaware\n\nWith a rise in gun sales in the run-up to election day following a bitter campaign, there were fears of violence and disruption on Tuesday.\n\nBut there have been only a few reported incidents of run-ins at polling stations or in the streets.\n\nVoters cast their ballots at the Cross Insurance Center polling location in Bangor, Maine\n\nIn Chicago, a man told police that a group of people attacked his car with baseball bats near a polling station, the New York Times reports.\n\nAnd in Charlotte, North Carolina, an armed man wearing a Trump hat was arrested after he reportedly intimidated people at a rally.\n\nVoters deliver their sealed mail-in ballots in green envelopes at David Crockett Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona\n\nArtist Dababy shows off his shoes at a polling location in Charlotte, North Carolina\n\nOverall, most Americans went out to vote peacefully - and of course millions stayed home after voting early. The highest turnout in more than a century is expected.\n\nA voter fills out his ballot in Vancouver, Washington\n\nThe FBI is investigating a series of automated calls spreading misinformation.\n\nDana Nessel, the Michigan attorney-general, said she had received reports of robocalls trying to trick people into staying home on election day.\n\nA voter shows off her \"I Voted\" sticker in a polling place at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota\n\nA voter drops off her ballot in Rollinsville, Colorado\n\nA woman wears a Black Voters Matter mask while welcoming voters outside of a polling place at the Hadley Park Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee\n\nA poll worker waves a flag to get the attention of a waiting voter in San Diego, California\n\nThe Fearless Girl statue is given an \"I'm a Future Voter\" sticker outside the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York City\n\nA poll worker works behind protective plexiglass at downtown Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada\n\nElection workers open ballots at the Palm Beach County Elections Office in West Palm Beach, Florida\n\nPeople watch early results on television as they gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington\n\nPeople watch early results come in from Pennsylvania in downtown Brooklyn, New York", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nMPs are expected to approve a second nationwide lockdown in England later. Some Conservatives will vote against the move, but Labour's support ensures it's almost certain to pass. The new restrictions will come into force just after midnight - read what you can and can't do. Political correspondent Iain Watson says backbench unease shouldn't be underestimated, and it could grow into a more significant show of force in a month's time if it appears lockdown will simply be traded for widespread regional restrictions. Here's what we don't know ahead of lockdown 2.0.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty says the three-tier system of restrictions has “slowed things down\".\n\nAdults who live with children are not at greater risk from coronavirus than those who don't, a study has found. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Oxford University looked at data on nine million adults, and found sharing a house with under-18s did not increase the risk of getting seriously ill or dying. In fact, the risk of dying was much lower - perhaps because people with children on average have healthier lifestyles. One of the research team said it showed \"no net harm in kids coming back to the house from school\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nIndependent shops have fared better during the pandemic than chain stores, according to research by the Local Data Company (LDC) and accountancy firm PwC. They said small firms had been \"more agile\" - bringing in new products and introducing deliveries. They also have fewer overheads and have been able to take advantage of government support schemes. Despite that positivity however, taken together the two sectors saw their biggest decline in the first half of a year since the LDC's records began a decade ago.\n\nTwitter said the British conspiracy theorist had violated its rules \"regarding Covid misinformation\". Mr Icke had close to 400,000 followers. Twitter said the final straw was a tweet he posted about city-wide coronavirus testing in Liverpool. But over recent months he has made various false claims, including suggesting 5G mobile phone networks are linked to the spread of the virus, and that a Jewish group had also been involved. Facebook and YouTube took similar action against him six months ago.\n\nAs people in England head into a month of home-dwelling - joining those in Wales and Northern Ireland - BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat has been talking to young readers and listeners about what they learned from the last lockdown - and what they'll do differently this time. Leonie, who's 22, wants to \"be easier on herself\" with less pressure to \"be productive and get things done\". But Amelia, 23, plans to spend less time in her pyjamas.\n\nAmelia, Leonie and Josh have different strategies this time round\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, see how new lockdowns are changing life across Europe.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Nanaia Mahuta is the first female MP in New Zealand to have a traditional Maori tattoo\n\nA New Zealand author's book has been pulled from an online store after she criticised the foreign affairs minister's traditional Maori tattoo.\n\nOlivia Pierson had tweeted that facial tattoos on a female diplomat was \"ugly and uncivilised\".\n\nNanaia Mahuta is the first female MP in New Zealand to have a Maori facial tattoo. She was appointed as minister in a recent cabinet reshuffle.\n\nMs Pierson's tweet sparked anger and calls for her book to be pulled.\n\nIn response, prominent New Zealand online retailer Mighty Ape said it had withdrawn her book and \"would not be making it available again\".\n\nSome New Zealanders with Maori heritage wear tattoos, known as moko, to mark their genealogy and heritage.\n\nMen's moko tend to cover their entire face, while women's moko cover their chin.\n\nMs Pierson had on Monday posted a tweet linking to a story about Ms Mahuta's appointment.\n\n\"Really? The face of NZ's new Foreign Minister? Facial tattoos are not exactly a polished civilised presentation for a foreign diplomat in the 21st century,\" she said.\n\nShe later said facial tattoos \"especially on a female diplomat, is the height of ugly, uncivilised wokedom\".\n\nMany Twitter users criticised her comments as racially and culturally insensitive, pointing out that moko is part of indigenous culture.\n\nMs Pierson told New Zealand news outlet Stuff that she stood by her comments, saying facial tattoos were ugly on \"anybody, white, brown or black\".\n\nPM Jacinda Ardern had earlier described her new cabinet - which also includes the country's first openly gay minister - as \"incredibly diverse\".\n\nReaction to the new cabinet has been largely positive, with many praising the move.\n\nMs Ardern had earlier last month led her Labour Party to a landslide victory in New Zealand's general elections.\n\nFemale facial tattoos, or moko kauae, have been a part of Maori culture for centuries.\n\nThey are carved into the skin using chisels and are seen as particularly sacred, denoting a person's links with their family and cultural identity.\n\n\"Maori regard the face or the head as particularly sacred, so the carvings that go on the face or head are also particularly sacred,\" Mera Lee-Penehira, associate professor at Maori educational institution Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi earlier told the BBC.\n\nBut colonisation and the arrival of Christian missionaries, who found the tattoos distasteful, meant the tradition began dying out in the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was only in the late 20th century that there was a resurgence in interest in moko, among both Maori men and women. Since the 2000s, moko has become increasingly seen and accepted as part of mainstream New Zealand thanks to a new generation of tattoo practitioners, according to the Museum of New Zealand.\n\nProfessor Te Kahautu Maxell of the University of Waikato says those getting moko are people \"deciding to reclaim their heritage and identity\".\n\n\"We have to protect the last bastions that we have as Maori to make us different.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArgentina legend Diego Maradona has undergone successful brain surgery, his doctor has said.\n\nThe 1986 World Cup winner, 60, was admitted to Ipensa clinic in Buenos Aires on Monday, suffering from anaemia and dehydration.\n\nLeopoldo Luque, Maradona's personal physician, said he had \"coped well with the surgery\".\n\nHe will now remain under observation, Dr Luque said, adding that everything was \"under control\".\n\nMaradona was transferred to the Olivos Clinic in La Plata, where was operated on at 20:00 local time (23:00 GMT) by Dr Luque, who is a neurosurgeon. The procedure took about 80 minutes.\n\nHe attended the side's game against Patronato on Friday, his 60th birthday.\n\nSupporters of Gimnasia y Esgrima have been congregating outside the hospital carrying messages of support for the former Argentina forward.\n\nOnce the outcome of the surgery was announced, a group of fans outside began chanting his name, the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nHis former club Napoli, who he helped to two Serie A titles, tweeted a message of support.\n• None Maradona at 60: In search of the real Diego - Guillem Balague column", "Kris Gumbrell,, who runs 22-pub chain Brewhouse & Kitchen, says the shift is 'a tremendous result'\n\nA government U-turn allowing pubs to sell takeaway beer during the latest lockdown has been broadly welcomed by the industry, but some chains say they will still struggle to survive.\n\nKris Gumbrell, chief executive officer of 22-pub chain Brewhouse & Kitchen, said it was \"a tremendous result\".\n\n\"I think it will make a significant difference, not only for my company, but for the entire sector\", he told Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, a lot of pubs served takeaway meals and drinks as another revenue stream, which was \"essential\", he said.\n\n\"What we noticed is that businesses evolve through a crisis, and also the guest evolves through a crisis as well. People miss pubs, they miss the connection, they miss the community part of what a pub actually means, so they want to support their local pub,\" he said.\n\n\"Giving a pub the opportunity to open up a new revenue stream was really critical in helping to pay those bills,\" he said.\n\nMark Newcombe says: \"Our income will be reduced to nothing.\"\n\nHowever, Mark Newcombe, head of a community-run pub called the Craufurd Arms, in Maidenhead, says his pub will still have to close for the duration.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, customers must order their drink via a website, phone or text message. Deliveries are also allowed.\n\nPre-ordered alcohol can be collected by customers as long as they do not enter the premises, the legislation says.\n\nMr Newcombe's pub stayed open when the first lockdown rules were eased because it was able to serve takeaway real ale on the spot.\n\nBut this time it will close for the second one because his pub doesn't have an app, and is \"not in the position to run a [pre-ordered] takeaway service,\" he said.\n\nTo keep its head above water, the pub will furlough staff, apply for local government grants, launch a crowdfunding campaign, and perhaps sell more shares in the venture.\n\nAs for the pub's longer-term future, he said it was \"very difficult to plan\" as he didn't know when it would be able to reopen.\n\n\"At the end of the day our income will be reduced to nothing,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Newcombe was also concerned about the wider implications of shutting the pub on the local community, particularly on the mental health of people adjusting to a second lockdown who may use the pub for social interactions.\n\nThe new restrictions \"take away that social engagement\", he said.\n\nPlans published at the weekend originally suggested that while restaurants could sell takeaway food, takeaway alcohol was to be banned.\n\nThe industry has hailed the turnaround as a small victory but said the rules should allow venues to sell drink in the same way as an off-licence.\n\n\"Takeaway alcohol from pubs if it is pre-ordered and customers don't enter the premises is movement, but still not anywhere near enough,\" said Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\n\"Supermarkets and off-licences can still sell alcohol, so this is grossly unfair on pubs with off-licences. It remains the case that to help pubs and brewers survive, and to stop up to 7.5 million pints from being wasted, the government needs to give pubs the same ability to sell off-licence alcohol as it did in the first lockdown.\"\n\nIn the last lockdown, pubs in England had been allowed to sell takeaway pints and food, and were concerned that closure for a month would mean pouring millions of pints of ale down the drain as open kegs would go off.\n\n\"It is a welcome and helpful clarification that pubs and restaurants will be permitted to continue with off-licence sales of alcohol through delivery, as well as click and collect for pre-ordered sales,\" said Kate Nichols of lobby group UK Hospitality.\n\n\"This was a lifeline to many businesses in the first lockdown and it is good to see common sense prevail this time too - avoiding waste and providing a valuable community service - although we can see no reason why a pub could not operate as a retail outlet for pre-packaged food and drink as many did last time.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise that these are extremely challenging circumstances for pubs and the hospitality industry. Public health and safety remains our number one priority and that is why pubs and other hospitality venues cannot serve alcohol on site to takeaway to prevent people from gathering outside their premises.\n\n\"However, they can sell alcohol as part of delivery services, including through click and collect, over the telephone and by other remote methods of ordering for collection, provided customers do not congregate as groups once they have picked up their order.\"", "John Lewis Partnership and Lloyds Banking Group have announced plans to cut many hundreds of jobs.\n\nJohn Lewis, which also runs Waitrose supermarkets, says it will axe up to 1,500 jobs at its head office as it makes further cost cuts.\n\nIt says the move will help it to save another £50m as it looks to make £300m in annual savings by 2022.\n\nMeanwhile, Lloyds is cutting a further 730 jobs as part of a major restructuring programme.\n\nThe proposed John Lewis Partnership cuts will be made across the two head offices in London Victoria and Bracknell, where John Lewis employs about 5,000 people.\n\nThey will come in two phases, the first of which will begin immediately. The second phase will be completed by April 2021.\n\nJohn Lewis said it would seek to find new roles for staff and, if that is not possible, will offer redundancy support and retraining funds for those with more than two years service.\n\nPartnership chairman Sharon White has set out a five-year recovery plan for the group, which like other retailers has been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn July, the department store division said it would shut eight shops, putting 1,300 jobs at risk, and close four Waitrose stores, with the loss of 124 jobs.\n\nIn September, the group told staff they would not receive a bonus for the first time since 1953 after it dived to a £635m pre-tax loss for the six months to July, following a £470m writedown on its stores.\n\nThe cuts at Lloyds Banking Group will mainly affect staff in its group transformation and retail banking teams, and will result in no further bank closures, it said.\n\nA Lloyds Banking Group spokeswoman said: \"This morning we shared changes to some of our teams.\n\n\"These changes reflect our ongoing plans to continue to meet our customers' changing needs and make parts of our business simpler.\n\n\"The majority of colleagues briefed today will not leave until January at the earliest.\"\n\nThe Unite union said the move was \"shameful\", and that the decision was taken despite recent strong results. It called for the bank to postpone restructuring amid the rising threat of Covid-19.\n\n\"Unite cannot comprehend why Lloyds Banking Group would choose to cut 1,000 staff who have given the bank such commitment and dedication during a global pandemic,\" said Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer.\n\nLloyds posted forecast-beating quarterly profits last month after cashing in on a coronavirus-driven boom in demand for mortgages.\n\nBut in July the bank warned that lockdown was having a greater economic shock than expected.\n\nIn September, Lloyds said it planned to cut 865 jobs, mainly in its insurance, wealth and retail teams.", "You probably haven't heard of Dan Bongino, but if you are on Facebook you might have seen one of his posts. You may have even shared one.\n\nDan Bongino is ex-NYPD and Secret Service and also worked as presidential protection for two presidents - George W Bush and Barack Obama.\n\nNow a prolific right-wing commentator, in the last two months his Facebook posts have attracted more shares than those of Fox News and CNN, combined.\n\nBut he's not the only one to have an outsized influence over America's social media conversation.\n\nAs the election campaign became more intense, a very small group of personalities and social media accounts on both sides of the political divide have resonated with audiences in a way even politicians and media organisations have not.\n\nTheir rapid surge in popularity has seen such people generate more social media interactions than almost every politician and major publisher.\n\nThey have become this election's \"influencers\" - with strong but pithy opinions, picking up what they see as political contradictions and hypocrisy. Some make memes, others just inspire the meme-makers with their ironic observations.\n\n\"My life is all about owning the libs now,\" said Mr Bongino two years ago. He attacks the left and defends President Trump in a direct and aggressive style - not being part of the traditional political establishment seems to be part of his appeal.\n\nDan Bongino hosting his show (left); One of Bongino's most shared Facebook videos (right)\n\nHe is also very critical of mainstream media (although he is himself a commentator on Fox News) and a section of his website is dedicated to \"debunking liberal myths\". Some of his most successful posts have titles like \"Exposing how much of a liar Joe Biden is\" and \"Fact-checking Kamala Harris' fake Lincoln quote at the debate\". He has been criticised and fact-checked himself many times - but that hasn't stopped people sharing his posts.\n\nOne video montage of Ronald Reagan's speeches on law and order had almost as many shares as all New York Times Facebook posts in the previous month.\n\nMr Bongino has recently told The New York Times that he doesn't know what's behind this rapid increase but attributes his success to his team and Facebook's user base - older and more conservative than other social networks.\n\nConservative voices have been particularly strong on Facebook during this campaign.\n\nFranklin Graham, son of late preacher Billy Graham, is one of the most influential evangelicals in America. His Facebook posts are consistently among the most shared, whether he is praising Trump's foreign policy, urging followers to pray for the president's victory or sharing discredited theories about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHollywood actor James Woods returned to Twitter the start of 2020 after a 10-month hiatus. Woods's account has been suspended multiple times for spreading conspiracy theories and violating the platform's rules. His blistering attacks on Democrats are often screenshotted and widely shared by pro-Trump accounts on other social platforms.\n\nOne of James Woods' most successful tweets\n\nOne progressive (the more liberal-leaning end of the Democratic Party) page is winning the meme war.\n\nOccupy Democrats, founded in 2012 by immigrant twin brothers Rafael and Omar Rivero, amasses millions of shares every month with its text heavy, highly partisan pictures. The page had more shares than Donald Trump's official account this month.\n\nWhen Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign in April, Rafael Rivero started a new page, \"Ridin' With Biden\", which quickly surged to a rapid success. The brothers run other popular accounts, including \"Impeach Trump\" and \"Fight Trump\".\n\nTwo of the most shared Occupy Democrats memes on Facebook\n\nRobert Reich, economic adviser and former US Secretary of Labor, has served in the administrations of three Democratic presidents. His tweets and memes attacking Trump and criticising economic inequality are hugely popular with left-leaning Americans on social media. Reich is arguably the biggest left-wing personality on Facebook - in October, his page had more shares than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined.\n\nIt is well known that Facebook and Twitter have been battlegrounds for years, but Instagram hasn't always seemed like a natural place for political activism.\n\nIn 2020 this has changed as the pandemic and the protests following George Floyd's death generated a huge increase in social justice content being widely shared on Instagram.\n\n\"We don't think you should need to have a degree, or to be able to afford to get behind paywalls, in order to understand the world around you, so we try to break it down into simple, digestible round-ups,\" said Lucy Blakiston, one of the co-founders of SYSCA, a hugely popular account she runs from New Zealand.\n\nMs Blakiston and two other young women started the project in 2018, while all three were at university. Two of them now have full-time jobs, and run SYSCA on the side. Their Instagram account has grown from fewer than 100,000 followers at the start of this year to over 2 million, more than most progressive media brands. To put this into context, it took The Guardian almost four years to get its Instagram following to that level.\n\nIt is not news that in a highly polarised landscape, activism can drown out impartial information and many have warned that social media \"echo chambers\" mean people only see and share content which matches their political point of view.\n\n\"I think our US election coverage has made an impact, but among people who already think similarly to how we do,\" said Ms Blakiston.\n\n\"We are from New Zealand, a place where we are lucky enough to have a leader who we can trust to look after us in times of need,\" she added. \"We look at how things are going in America and think that everyone deserves to have a leader that they trust to look after them.\"\n\nSlideshow explainers seem to have resonated really strongly with Instagram's younger and more progressive audiences. Progressive accounts dedicated to this format, like \"So You Want To Talk About...\" now generate a number of interactions comparable to major news outlets.\n\nThis small group of influencers have clearly benefited from the divisive nature of an election campaign - many posts take advantage of schadenfreude (glee at another's misfortune), one-upmanship and function as digital calls to action.\n\nBut there are also hints that things could change - these highly liked posts featuring moments of unity show positive messages can and do break through.\n\nMoments of unity between Biden and Trump supporters.", "Lucy McHugh was found stabbed to death in woodland at Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre\n\nChances were missed to help a teenage girl in the months before she was raped and murdered by a lodger at her home, a report found.\n\nPolice and social services have both been criticised over the case of Lucy McHugh, 13, who was stabbed 27 times by Stephen Nicholson in Southampton.\n\nConcerns Lucy was being abused were not investigated, the report by Southampton Safeguarding Children Partnership said.\n\nNicholson was jailed for life last year for Lucy's murder in July 2018.\n\nDuring his trial at Winchester Crown Court, the jury heard the night before she was murdered Lucy had told Nicholson she was pregnant.\n\nStephen Nicholson began abusing Lucy when he began to stay with her family\n\nThe review said that before that, Lucy's teachers had flagged concerns she had an older boyfriend who could be sexually exploiting her.\n\nBut social workers considered the concerns had \"no foundation\" because they were given \"assurances\" by Lucy's mother.\n\nAs a result, the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (Mash) did not follow up the concerns and no information was connected with details held by police, the school or social services.\n\nBoth children's social care staff and police were aware Nicholson had a criminal history.\n\nLead reviewer Moira Murray said: \"The referrals needed to be treated as one of child protection.\n\n\"If this had happened, a strategy discussion could have been convened concerning the risk this man posed to Lucy and her family.\n\n\"This did not happen and was a missed opportunity.\"\n\nThe prosecution said Lucy McHugh was abused over the course of a year\n\nThe report added Hampshire Constabulary showed a \"lack of professional curiosity\" by not further investigating Nicholson's background when he came to their attention prior to Lucy's death, including when it became known he was tattooing under-age young people.\n\nSouthampton City Council's executive director apologised to Lucy's family for the \"council's shortcomings\", and said it had made a number of changes and was determined to keep improving its procedures.\n\nSupt Kelly Whiting, district commander for Southampton, said the constabulary had taken action to improve referrals to other agencies and it had now set up a scrutiny panel to oversee such procedures.\n\nFollowing publication of the report, an NSPCC spokesperson said it was \"clear\" that a \"young victim was let down by a series of failings in the run-up to a brutal and shocking murder\".\n\nThey added: \"A number of safeguarding opportunities were very sadly missed and it's now vitally important that all recommendations are swiftly acted on and implemented.\n\n\"Cases where a young child is murdered in these horrific circumstances are mercifully rare but we all have a duty to look out for a child's welfare.\"\n\nAlan Whitehead, MP for Southampton Test, called Lucy's murder a \"tragedy for our city\".\n\n\"It's important that the recommendations set out in the report are heeded and lessons are learned for all the organisations involved,\" he said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Thursday morning.\n\nCare homes must provide a Covid-secure environment - such as floor-to-ceiling screens or visiting pods - to allow families to visit loved-ones during England's lockdown, the government says. But Kate Lee, chief executive at Alzheimer's Society, says the proposed \"prison-style screens\" with people speaking through phones are \"frankly ridiculous when you consider someone with advanced dementia can often be bed-bound and struggling to speak\". Meanwhile, schools have also been given updated guidance that says pupils and teachers must now wear masks in all communal areas. Head teachers expressed anger that the directive was given to them less than 24 hours before the second lockdown begins.\n\nThe NHS will not collapse during the coronavirus second wave, but lockdown is needed to stop major disruption to care, health leaders in England say. According to evidence presented by NHS England at a press briefing, hospitals could take a maximum of about 20,000 Covid-19 cases before they fill up. It says this could happen within weeks unless infection levels reduce. \"However well-prepared hospitals, the NHS, GP surgeries are, it is going to be a difficult period,\" NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens says.\n\nJohn Lewis Partnership and Lloyds Banking Group have become the latest companies to announce job cuts. John Lewis, which also runs Waitrose supermarkets, says it will axe up to 1,500 jobs at its head office as it makes further cost cuts. Lloyds is cutting a further 730 jobs as part of a major restructuring programme. Meanwhile, Marks & Spencer sank to the first loss in its 94 years as a publicly-listed company as the coronavirus crisis hit trading.\n\nWith hours to go until England's lockdown, some people have embarked on a busy day of shopping. In June, when stores reopened for the first time after the spring, we spoke to shoppers about the first thing they bought after lockdown. Today we returned to the same shopping centre - centre.mk in Milton Keynes - to see what people are stocking up on this time.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, we take a look at some of the things you are able to do in England's lockdown this time - like meeting a friend outside or having a support \"bubble\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The findings form part of Ofcom's third annual report on the BBC\n\nSatisfaction with the BBC among its most loyal audiences is showing \"signs of waning\" for the first time, broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has said.\n\nOlder and more affluent people have traditionally used and valued the broadcaster the most.\n\nBut Ofcom said: \"For the first time, satisfaction levels among audiences who typically use the BBC the most... are beginning to show signs of waning.\"\n\nThat was especially true of the over-55s, according to Ofcom.\n\n\"Older audiences in particular are starting to show signs of decreasing satisfaction,\" the watchdog's third annual report into the BBC said. But over-55s are still \"better served than other groups\", it added.\n\nThe report also said the corporation was \"still struggling\" to reach younger audiences.\n\n\"Average time spent with the BBC each week [by young audiences] now stands at just less than an hour a day,\" it found.\n\nYoung people, the report continued, tend to use BBC iPlayer \"when they know what they want to watch, rather than as a destination to browse for new content\".\n\nThe report said the BBC's \"overall reach is still very high, with almost nine in 10 adults consuming its content on a weekly basis\".\n\nYet overall audiences are \"in gradual decline\", it said, and the corporation's reach among adults has fallen by 5%, from 92% to 87%, over the past three years.\n\n\"If audiences do not consider the BBC a core part of their viewing, they may not see value in the licence fee,\" it suggested.\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey 2019 Christmas special was seen by more than 17 million viewers\n\nThe report included the BBC's coverage of Kylie Minogue's 2019 Glastonbury set and the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special among its highlights from the year.\n\nIt covered the period April 2019 to March 2020, before means testing of the TV licence for over-75s began in August.\n\nThe BBC said it welcomed Ofcom's report and its assertion that \"audiences value the BBC particularly for distinctive, high-quality, creative programmes, educational content and trusted and accurate news\".\n\nThe corporation's statement added: \"We're committed to delivering great value and meeting the challenges of a fast-changing media landscape.\"\n\nOfcom has also published its annual study of diversity in the TV and radio industry, which calls on the sector to broaden the geographic and social make-up of its workforce.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Abdalraouf Abdallah was convicted of terror offences in 2016\n\nA convicted terrorist organiser, who has refused to tell an inquiry about his contact with the Manchester Arena bomber, is to be released from jail.\n\nAbdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.\n\nThe Manchester Arena Inquiry heard he was in touch with bomber Salman Abedi in the months leading up to the attack.\n\nThe BBC understands he will be released on licence later this week.\n\nA source said his licence conditions would be among the strictest imposed on a released prisoner.\n\nThe Manchester Arena Inquiry, which is investigating all aspects of the attack carried out by Salman Abedi in May 2017 that killed 22 people, has heard that Abdallah is a \"witness with important evidence to give\".\n\nBut, when interviewed in prison this summer by inquiry lawyers, Abdallah refused to answer any questions in case he incriminated himself.\n\nAbdallah, who moved to the UK as a child and grew up in south Manchester, was paralysed from the waist down while fighting in the Libyan revolution of 2011.\n\nIn July 2016 he was jailed for five years and six months, having been convicted following a trial, but time spent on remand and on curfew at home means that his custodial sentence expires this week.\n\nWhen released, he will spend a further four years on licence.\n\nHis trial heard that, from his wheelchair and mainly using a mobile phone, Abdallah arranged for the movement of money and fighters to Syria.\n\nWhen Abdallah was sentenced, the judge said \"there was no evidence of indoctrinating of others\".\n\nHowever, the Arena inquiry has heard that when Abdallah had been arrested in 2014, his phone contained correspondence with Abedi about suicide, martyrdom - including the death of a senior al-Qaeda figure - and \"maidens of paradise\".\n\nThose who knew Abedi considered Abdallah to be a radicalising influence on him.\n\nAbedi visited Abdallah in prison and spoke to him on an illegally held mobile phone during the period in early 2017 when the bomb was being prepared.\n\nThe prison authorities confiscated Abdallah's phone before the attack and - when analysed - it was found to have been used to make calls and attempted calls to Abedi's number.\n\nThat a man jailed for terrorist organising via a phone was able to obtain a mobile in prison, which he used to speak to a known extremist like Abedi, is a focus for the inquiry.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the public inquiry, has said the relationship between Abdallah and Abedi seemed to have been of \"some significance in the period prior to the bombing and we are determined to get to the bottom of it\".\n\nLawyers for bereaved families have said the \"failure to recognise the association between Salman Abedi and Abdalraouf Abdallah was a real missed opportunity\".\n\nLike Abdallah, the Abedi family have refused to answer questions posed by the inquiry, with eldest brother Ismail Abedi also asserting a claimed privilege against self-incrimination.\n\nIt is understood that Abdallah's licence conditions will be similar to those imposed on the hate preacher Anjem Choudary, who was released on licence two years ago.\n\nThe measures are understood to include:\n\nThere has been significant public debate over the past the year following attacks in London - at Fishmongers' Hall and Streatham - by recently released prisoners convicted of terror-related offences.\n\nAn independent review has highlighted a catalogue of failings in how offenders are managed after release, making 45 recommendations for how the system needs to improve.\n\nA Ministry of Justice statement said: \"Terrorists released on licence are supervised by the probation service, with the support of police and the security services, and subject to strict conditions including restrictions on their internet use, movements and contact with others.\n\n\"If they break those conditions they can be brought back to prison.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Cardiff share their views on the relaxation of Covid-19 rules over Christmas\n\nAn agreement to relax Covid rules over Christmas is not \"an instruction to meet with other people\", Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThree households from around the UK will be able to meet from 23 December until at least 27 December.\n\nIt follows an agreement between the UK government and ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Drakeford said he believed people would be unwilling to stick to \"strict rules\" over the Christmas period.\n\nIt comes as Welsh ministers consider whether more restrictions will be needed in the run up to Christmas, as cases rise among the under-25s.\n\nThe first minister called for a \"common approach\" to dealing with the aftermath of Christmas - earlier he warned that relaxing rules would lead to an \"inevitable\" rise in coronavirus.\n\nWelsh Conservatives welcomed the agreement, but Plaid Cymru warned that \"hard-gotten gains\" must not be lost \"for the sake of a few days\".\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales: \"If we ask people just to stick to the strict rules we have now I'm afraid lots of people will not be prepared to do that.\n\n\"So it's not a choice between relaxation or no relaxation.\n\n\"It's having a form of relaxation where there are rules that people will recognise that will allow people to enjoy Christmas, but we'll do it in a controlled way.\"\n\nThe Welsh Labour leader added: \"People will be allowed to do what the law will allow them to do, but this is not an instruction to travel, it's not an instruction to meet with other people.\n\n\"People should still use a sense of responsibility, should still ask themselves whether what they are doing is keeping themselves and other people safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford: \"We will have a modest period of relaxation\"\n\nUnder the agreement, made at a meeting of Cobra on Tuesday afternoon:\n\nThe agreement said that \"existing, more restrictive\" rules on pubs and restaurants, and meeting in other venues will be maintained.\n\nMinisters have been considering tighter restrictions in Wales in the run up to the festive period.\n\n\"The cabinet will meet before the end of this week again,\" the first minister said. \"If we're in a position to make an announcement this week, then that's what we will do.\"\n\nHe added: \"Where does coronavirus spread? It's spread in people's homes, it spreads in hospitals and it spreads in hospitality.\n\n\"We have to think about all three of those settings and do our very best to bear down on the virus, which spreads so fast if it's given an opportunity.\"\n\nVaccines and mass testing are \"not going to come to our rescue in January\", the first minister added.\n\n\"There is still a pull through to the spring before we will see the real benefit of those things, and we are going to have to ask people to go on living with the virus, living with it sensibly, living with it in a way that limits the damage while we are bringing those new possibilities, fully on stream.\"\n\nThree households will be able to \"bubble\" for the Christmas period\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said a \"compassionate but responsible approach\" was \"sensible\", but said the Welsh Government \"has a responsibility to ensure clear communication over the festive period, encouraging people to follow the guidelines\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies welcomed the decision and said it showed \"what can be achieved when governments work together\".\n\nSimon Hart, the UK government's Welsh Secretary, said he was delighted with the agreement, but urged people \"to continue to be careful and responsible over the Christmas period to keep themselves and their families safe\".\n\nThe broad questions about Christmas have been answered, but plenty of questions remain about what happens before and after.\n\nMark Drakeford has said repeatedly that the festive relaxation will lead to more Covid cases and \"payback\" will be needed.\n\nDoes that mean a tightening of the rules in the run up to Christmas? Probably.\n\nCould they be introduced to coincide with the new regime starting in England on 2 December? That would continue the theme of a communal UK approach.\n\nAnd while talk of vaccines and mass testing have given us hope for a better 2021, how quickly can they be rolled out to the general population?\n\nWhatever the calendar says, January could still feel very 2020.", "Six women in Northern Ireland have been murdered since 2015 despite previously reporting their violent partners to the police.\n\nOne woman contacted the police eight times before she was killed, figures obtained by BBC News NI showed.\n\nThe family of one of the women said tougher legislation is needed to protect women.\n\nA new bill to strengthen NI's domestic abuse legislation is currently being considered by the assembly.\n\nPolice said they would welcome more protection in law for victims.\n\nConnie Leonard was murdered at her home in in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, in 2017.\n\nHer brother Fergal said police needed to be given stronger powers to tackle domestic violence.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There are a number of matters I feel that could have been acted on and may have saved Connie's life.\"\n\n\"The last person in the world that I thought something would have happened to is Connie.\"\n\nMs Leonard and her son Conor, who has Down's syndrome, were attacked by 55-year-old Peadar Phair, a former partner of Ms Leonard.\n\nShe had reported Phair three times before she was murdered and she had taken out a non-molestation order against him.\n\nPhair later took his own life.\n\nConnie Leonard was stabbed to death in front of her son\n\nPolice, Mr Leonard said, must \"know what their powers are and that they use these powers effectively\".\n\nThere must be \"proper monitoring and following up\" and officers must know \"what actions they are supposed to take\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which released the figures to the BBC following a freedom of information request, said it would welcome more protection in law for victims of domestic abuse.\n\nDet Ch Insp Lindsay Fisher said: \"In terms of legislation, police are very much bound by and uphold the law.\n\n\"Therefore we are always acting within the law in terms of our response to domestic abuse matters or any other crime.\n\n\"Police would welcome any further legislation that would support victims of domestic abuse and would seek to bring offenders to justice.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Fisher urged anyone suffering from abuse to \"reach out to police or to a family member\".\n\nShe added: \"The PSNI is here to help victims of domestic abuse and we do have enhanced support services in place.\"\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said the process of strengthening NI's laws is under way.\n\nShe said she was considering the introduction of Domestic Violence Protection Orders, which allow police in other parts of the UK to intervene where they believe a person to be at risk, but do not have enough evidence to bring a criminal charge.\n\nShe said: \"I have signed off last night on a consultation process on domestic abuse protection notices and orders. That will happen over the next number of weeks.\"\n\nNaomi Long said the process of strengthening NI's laws is under way\n\nSeparately, a bill to strengthen domestic abuse legislation returns to Stormont in December.\n\nIt will mean domestic abuse offences in Northern Ireland will no longer be limited to physically violent behaviour.\n\nIt will make a form of bullying, known as coercive control, an offence in Northern Ireland for the first time.\n\nConvictions for the most serious domestic abuse offences will carry a penalty of up to 14 years in jail.\n\nSonya McMullan from Woman's Aid Northern Ireland said police need \"more robust powers\" in relation to domestic abuse.\n\nHe said: \"Legislation which is in other parts of the UK is not here in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"That is just not good enough in regard to protection orders and emergency orders that would give the police more powers to remove the perpetrator and to get an order themselves.\n\n\"We need emergency barring orders and powers that takes the onus off the victim and where the police get that order with or without the victim's consent\".\n\nIf you've been affected by this story, you can find more information and support on the BBC Action Line website: http://bbc.co.uk/actionline", "Mads Mikkelsen is to replace Johnny Depp as rogue wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts series, Warner Bros have announced.\n\nDepp left the franchise earlier this month after losing a libel case over a 2018 newspaper article which called him a \"wife beater\".\n\nMikkelsen, a Danish actor, has previously starred in films including Casino Royale and Doctor Strange.\n\nThe third instalment of the series is due to be released in summer 2022.\n\nThe announcement came not long after Depp was denied permission to appeal against the High Court's ruling, which concluded that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nThe actor has also been ordered to make an initial payment to the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers, of almost £630,000 for its legal fees.\n\nDepp made a brief appearance as Grindelwald in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and reprised his role in 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\n\nThe films also star Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law and are prequels to the eight Harry Potter films, which were based on the novels by JK Rowling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the red carpet at the Fantastic Beasts 2 premiere in 2018\n\nMikkelsen, 54, also appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and played Hannibal Lecter in the TV series Hannibal.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhodri and Jess Garland say they are worried that their home will be flooded again if more storms hit\n\nSevere flooding followed by the Covid-19 pandemic left people in parts of the south Wales valleys deeply traumatised, a report from politicians says.\n\nIt calls on health officials to carry out an assessment of the impact and support available in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nFlood warning drills and setting up a \"community flood ambassadors\" network are also recommended.\n\nIn response to the report, Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said support for those affected was being provided.\n\nThe Welsh Government also said 25 flood alleviation schemes had taken place across the Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) area at a cost of £1.9m.\n\nThis is in addition to £1.6m in funding to the area to carry out repair works to drainage, culverts and other measures.\n\nPlaid Cymru is calling for an independent public inquiry.\n\nThe report, written by Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones and member of the Senedd Mick Antoniw, calls for flood emergency drills to be carried out to check areas are protected.\n\nMr Antoniw said February saw the \"worst flooding anyone could remember\".\n\n\"As winter approaches, there is now considerable fear as to what the future holds,\" he explained.\n\n\"We're very concerned that in conjunction with the Covid experience people have had a double whammy of trauma - there really is a need now to assess the mental wellbeing of communities.\"\n\nThe report was based on meetings with agencies who responded to the flooding, as well as ministers and residents.\n\nRhodri and Jess Garland lost treasured possessions when their home flooded\n\nRhodri and Jess Garland say they are now anxious every time it rains around their home, in Egypt Street, Treforest.\n\nWith a three-year-old son and another baby on the way in March, the couple \"just want to know we're safe - how do we know it's not going to happen again, like it did in February?\".\n\nWork to renovate their ruined home has pushed the family into debt as their insurance cover did not include storm or flood damage.\n\n\"We had to replace everything - the kitchen, living room furniture - even the front door,\" Mrs Garland explained.\n\n\"There are some things we're never going to get back - our wedding certificate has mud all over it and our photos have been damaged.\"\n\nThe Garlands' home was left under water\n\nThe Garlands' house insurance did not cover them for flood damage\n\nMr Garland said they felt \"forgotten\" by the Welsh Government, and a £1,000 grant given in the aftermath of the flooding \"hasn't scratched the surface\".\n\n\"It's put a great strain on us and if it wasn't for our local community, the rugby club I play for, our work - if it wasn't for their help in cushioning the blow we would have been in a much worse financial state,\" he added.\n\n\"We do have a lot of anxiety now - how am I supposed to work when I have flood alerts coming up on my phone every time it rains?\"\n\nStreets in RCT were left under water during February's storms\n\nMr Antoniw said children and the elderly had been particularly affected, and he urged the local health board to investigate the extent to which counselling is available.\n\nThe report also recommends the Welsh Government provides a fund to help homeowners who would otherwise struggle to afford to put in their own defences such as flood gates and doors.\n\nA network of flood ambassadors should be set up in all affected communities to play \"a central role in ensuring community-readiness is maintained\" - including access to local stocks of sandbags, it said.\n\nAnd there should be a periodic flood warning drill carried out by Natural Resources Wales and the emergency services. The idea is partly to provide reassurance to residents that all procedures are working as required.\n\nStorms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge in early 2020 led to record rainfall and river flows across Wales and the most widespread flooding seen since 1979.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf alone almost 1,500 homes and businesses were affected, with people forced to leave their homes.\n\nSara Moseley, director of mental health charity Mind Cymru, said the floods had been \"terrifying\" and it was natural for people to feel afraid or anxious.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut she said people had had their homes and livelihoods \"wiped out\" by firstly the floods, and then the coronavirus pandemic, and the impact of the double trauma was extremely worrying.\n\nShe said the report highlighted a close link between living in challenging circumstances and mental health, and equality needed to be \"driven up\".\n\n\"What we're looking for is really strong communities where people understand what's happening, they have hope and we're investing in every aspect of life,\" she said.\n\nDr Kelechi Nnoaham, director of Public Health at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, said support was available for those affected by flooding and coronavirus, and urged people to contact their GP.\n\n\"We are aware of the potential for significant detrimental effect on public health and wellbeing of the flooding which occurred across our communities earlier this year,\" he said.\n\n\"This is potentially compounded by the challenges of Covid, and the losses being experienced in those same communities.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhondda MS Leanne Wood said the failure to support an independent public inquiry into the floods was a \"glaring omission\" from the report.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman added: \"Our recent national Flood and Coastal Risk Management Strategy also outlines we believe property flood resilience (PFR) measures are better employed at community scale, rather than providing schemes direct to homeowners, many of whom may not choose to apply - this also ensures the right properties receive measures.\n\n\"However, we encourage all Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) to consider PFR measures where they are an appropriate option.\"", "Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said 2020 cannot be a normal Christmas\n\nPeople should limit their contact with others before Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed at Christmas, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said.\n\nAcross the UK, three households can mix for five days from 23-27 December.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill said it was important to reduce Covid-19 transmission \"as low as possible\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the next two weeks \"are crucial... so that we can all have the safest and the happiest Christmas possible\".\n\nFrom midnight, Northern Ireland enters a two-week circuit breaker, with the closure of many businesses in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.\n\nThe deputy first minister also said a \"number of things need clarified\" around Christmas arrangements which will be the focus of the executive's meeting on Tuesday.\n\nShe said these included care home arrangements, students coming home and the definition of a household.\n\n\"There is a different in approach across all the jurisdictions in terms of, for example, what a household looks like and it's important that we define that for ourselves,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIn Scotland, a three household bubble should contain no more than eight people over the age of 11.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill gave a briefing at Stomont after the executive meeting on Thursday\n\nThe executive also announced that a Covid-19 Taskforce was being established to oversee the roll-out of the vaccine and testing programmes.\n\nThe deputy first minister said it will be chaired by a new interim head of the Civil Service and will also be responsible for public messaging to improve compliance.\n\nMrs Foster said the rate of transmission was currently believed to be \"just below 1\".\n\nShe said she commended \"all those who are re-doubling their efforts to make our high street as Covid secure as possible for their reopening on 11 December\".\n\n\"I want to pay tribute to our scientists, our academics, medics and health workers who are providing us with the pathways out of this pandemic through mass vaccination and testing programmes,\" she continued.\n\nThe broadcast press conferences from Stormont that follow executive meetings have understandably often been sombre occasions.\n\nThe news of daily deaths and increased hospital admissions bring home the reality of Covid-19.\n\nThe news that many families are suffering shows that eight months on, we are still struggling with this pandemic.\n\nWhilst this is bleak and painful, today's press conference did offer some shades of light for the future.\n\nThe news of a vaccination programme offers hope that could save lives and end talk of lockdown and restrictions.\n\nThere was also news that Northern Ireland's R value is just below one - lower than England and Wales.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers also offered some hope to the hospitality sector who desperately want to get back into business on 11 December.\n\nConversations with the Chief Medical Officer Dr McBride and the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Ian Young about lifting the trading restrictions are ongoing.\n\nMuch depends on how the next fortnight pans out.\n\nToday offered some glimpses of the future and for some at least there is hope on the horizon.\n\nOn Thursday, eight further deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland were reported by the Department of Health, bringing its total to 962.\n\nThe department also recorded 442 new cases of coronavirus.\n\nFive hospitals are currently operating beyond their bed capacity. They are the Causeway, Mater, Royal Victoria, Ulster and South West Acute.\n\nThere are confirmed outbreaks of Covid-19 in 139 care homes.\n\nThe UK government has said anyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland can travel on 22 and 28 December, but \"only meet with their Christmas bubble\" between 23 and 27 December.", "Defendants were paraded when the mass trial opened in August 2017\n\nA court in Turkey has given life sentences to 337 military officers and others, in one of the biggest trials linked to the 2016 coup attempt.\n\nAir force pilots and army commanders were among the nearly 500 defendants accused of trying to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nThey allegedly directed the plot from the Akinci air base near Ankara.\n\nMr Erdogan says US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen masterminded the plot, which led to mass arrests.\n\nMr Gulen has denied any involvement in the attempted coup in July 2016 that killed 251 people and injured more than 2,000. Mr Erdogan was on vacation at the time at a resort.\n\nThousands of civilians rallied in support of Mr Erdogan in a night of turmoil, confronting rogue soldiers and preventing the plotters from seizing power.\n\nThe trial began in August 2017, and the charges included seeking to kill President Erdogan and seize key state institutions. Turkey's biggest court - in Sincan near Ankara - was packed for the verdicts.\n\nSecurity was tight for the high-profile trial at the Sincan prison complex\n\nOfficers who conspired against Mr Erdogan seized aircraft at the Akinci base, taking then chief of staff Gen Hulusi Akar and some other officers hostage.\n\nFormer air force commander Akin Ozturk was jailed for life last year for his role in the plot.\n\nThe indictment states that 25 pilots in F-16s bombed targets in Ankara, including parliament, which was hit three times, as well as key security buildings. The bombing killed 68 people in Ankara and injured more than 200.\n\nTwenty-five of those in the dock were generals and 10 were civilians.\n\nMore than 10 of the military officers - including F-16 fighter pilots - and four civilians got 79 \"aggravated\" life sentences each. The \"aggravated\" sentence requires harsher prison terms than for a normal life sentence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alleged coup plotters outside the court near Ankara in 2017\n\nSix were put on trial in absentia, including Mr Gulen and Adil Oksuz, a theology lecturer accused of being a key co-ordinator in the coup plot.\n\nAmong those receiving \"aggravated\" life terms was businessman Kemal Batmaz, accused of assisting Adil Oksuz.\n\nThe Hizmet movement led by Mr Gulen has been branded a \"terrorist\" organisation by Mr Erdogan. He was once an ally of the president, but since the coup attempt the 79-year-old cleric has remained a fugitive in Pennsylvania and Turkey wants his extradition.\n\nMr Erdogan carried out a sweeping purge of state institutions after the plot, sacking or suspending more than 100,000 public sector employees, including teachers and judges, who were accused of links to Mr Gulen.\n\nThere have been many trials of alleged plotters and courts have issued more than 2,500 life sentences.", "The choir included sixteen trebles as laid down in King Henry VI’s statutes\n\nThe world-famous King's College carol service will be performed in an empty chapel this year.\n\nUsually, the Christmas performance - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols - is watched by a rapt congregation and broadcast to millions.\n\nBut this year the public will be barred from the hallowed cloisters of the gothic Cambridge chapel.\n\nDean Stephen Cherry said he was \"sorry to disappoint\" choral enthusiasts hoping to attend.\n\nBut he urged them to enjoy the regular broadcast of the performance on BBC Radio 4 at 15:00 GMT on 24 December.\n\nThe college said there would be no congregation this year \"as part of the necessary precautions... to ensure that the services are safe\".\n\nInstead, it was \"looking forward to sharing the joy of its annual Christmas services with the world on radio and television\".\n\nA Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was introduced in 1918 to \"bring a more imaginative approach to worship\".\n\nKing's College, Cambridge, is illuminated by candlelight on Christmas Eve\n\nIt was first broadcast in 1928, and always opens with the carol Once In Royal David's City.\n\nThe order of service will be available to download from 18 December.\n\nA Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service on 24 December and will be repeated at 14:00 on Radio 3 on Christmas Day.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A six-year-old boy who had an aggressive form of leukaemia has switched on the Christmas lights in Worcester, the city where people raised thousands of pounds to help save him.\n\nOscar Saxelby-Lee, who lives with his family in Worcester, flew with his parents to Singapore for CAR-T therapy, after more than £700,000 was raised through crowdfunding.\n\nOlivia Saxelby, Oscar's mother, previously said that the therapy was not available to Oscar on the NHS. Any money left over from his treatment will go to the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust.\n\nMrs Saxelby said turning on the lights was a lovely way to end the year.", "Designs for the co-living development have been revealed as part of a digital consultation\n\nPlans for a 30-storey tower block in Glasgow city centre are being unveiled as part of a public consultation.\n\nDevelopers Watkin Jones Group are proposing to demolish Portcullis House on India Street at Charing Cross to make way for the new structure.\n\nThe firm plans to construct a build-to-rent and co-living development comprising 825 units, including shops, a cafe and a co-working space.\n\nIf delivered, the development could be the tallest building in Glasgow.\n\nCo-living is a community-based housing model with shared communal areas, amenities and even meals.\n\nPortcullis House was built in the 1970s and later became home to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nFull details on the proposal go live at 09:00 via the project website.\n\nWith public consultations suspended because of the pandemic, a digital consultation event will be held between 15:00 and 20:00.\n\nAny suggestions for changes during the public consultation will be included in a report accompanying future applications.\n\nWatkin Jones Group has submitted a proposal of application notice (PAN) to Glasgow City Council, informing of their intent to submit a planning application following a consultation period of at least 12 weeks.\n\nIt purchased Portcullis House in August 2020 after the office block was put up for sale in May.\n\nThe firm said that subject to planning, the development will be completed in 2024.\n\nThe proposed tower block would be considerable taller than nearby buildings\n\nIain Smith, Group Planning Director from Watkin Jones, said: \"We're thrilled to be giving the public the chance to view our proposals for Portcullis House and provide feedback.\n\n\"BTR and co-living offer high-quality rented accommodation at competitive prices to a wide-ranging demographic. There is huge demand in Glasgow for this model which offers long-term security of tenure, combined with the flexibility of renting.\"", "A doctor in Missouri has made a video simulating what a patient dying from Covid-19 might see - in a bid to urge people to wear face masks.\n\nDr Kenneth Remy told the BBC that \"wearing a mask is not as uncomfortable as having a piece of plastic put into your airway\".\n\nHe said he felt compelled to create the video after noticing the impact of a patient's death on his team.", "People have been urged to be cautious of the risk of spreading coronavirus when rules are relaxed over Christmas.\n\nUp to three households will be allowed to stay together and form a \"Christmas bubble\" from 23 to 27 December, as agreed by all four UK nations.\n\nA scientific adviser to the government said the relaxation of rules amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nMeanwhile, it is expected most areas of England will be placed in the middle tier of a toughened three-tier system.\n\nDetails on what will happen when the current lockdown ends on 2 December will be announced on Thursday. The decision will be based on a number of factors including case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and pressure on local NHS services.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says a \"handful\" of areas will be in the lightest regime of limits - tier one - but most of the country is likely to be in either tier two or three.\n\nShe said London is expected to be placed in tier two.\n\nThe measures for Christmas will see travel restrictions across the four nations, and between tiers and levels, lifted to allow people to visit families in other parts of the UK.\n\nAnyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland may travel on the 22 and 28 December, but otherwise travel to and from bubbles should be done between the 23 and 27.\n\nPeople will not be able to get together with others from more than two other households, and once a bubble is formed, it must not be changed or be extended further.\n\nThe guidance says a bubble of three households would be able to stay overnight at each other's home but would not be able to visit hospitality, theatres or retail settings.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told people to use \"personal judgement\" on whether to visit elderly relatives.\n\nIn a video message from Downing Street, the prime minister described the agreement as a \"special, time-limited dispensation\", saying: \"This year means Christmas will be different.\"\n\nMr Johnson said people must consider the risks of who to form a bubble with and whether or not to visit elderly or vulnerable relatives, adding: \"Many of us are longing to spend time with family and friends... And yet we can't afford to throw caution to the wind.\"\n\nHe added: \"'Tis the season to be jolly but 'tis also the season to be jolly careful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video filmed from isolation, the PM said people must make a \"personal judgement\" on the risks of meeting up\n\nThe prime minister has also reassured children that Father Christmas \"will be packing his sleigh and delivering presents this Christmas\".\n\nIn response to a letter from eight-year-old Monti, Mr Johnson said Father Christmas would not be a risk to children's health but that \"leaving hand sanitiser by the cookies is an excellent idea\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes as the government recorded another 18,213 Covid cases in the UK. Figures also showed a further 696 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths is the highest since the start of May and compares to 608 recorded on Wednesday.\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym says many of those who have died are likely to have picked up an infection before the current lockdown measures were put in place. He said a rise in the death toll would not be expected to continue into December because the average number of daily cases is now falling and hospital admissions are levelling off.\n\nA mid-week rise can also be down to delays in deaths being reported over the weekend.\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said the ministers agreed they had to ease the rules because people would have flouted restrictions - creating further risk - if they were told Christmas had been \"cancelled\".\n\nMinisters were shown behavioural science evidence that \"too many people simply would not have been prepared to have gone along with such an instruction\", he told BBC Breakfast on Wednesday.\n\nMr Drakeford also said a UK-wide approach to coronavirus rules after Christmas was needed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said guidance for people in Scotland is still being finalised and will be issued on Thursday, but that her government will not be \"encouraging\" people to meet up.\n\n\"The expectation should be that the guidance will probably look to tighten around the edges rather than further expand and that will be true with the travel window of opportunity as well - we want to limit that window, not expand it,\" the first minister said.\n\nPublished guidance for England gives further details of the rules for 23 to 27 December:\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, and a member of the government's Sage committee, told BBC Newsnight allowing families to meet up over Christmas amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nHe said it would \"definitely lead to increase[d] transmission and likely lead to third wave of infections with hospitals being overrun, and more unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nProf Hayward said while you cannot ban Christmas, he called for clearer messaging to families about the \"dangers\" of socialising and inter-generational mixing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nGavin Terry, head of policy at the Alzheimer's Society, said thousands of relatives would be in \"complete despair\" at government guidance which says only care home residents of working age should be allowed to leave their care homes to visit family, due to the increased risk of exposure to the virus.\n\n\"After eight harrowing months filled with devastation and tragic loss of life, the announcement that many care home residents will be facing Christmas alone is just heartbreaking,\" he said, calling for further testing to allow for more visits.\n\nMeanwhile, Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, called on ministers to publish evidence for its Christmas bubble rules, which would \"inflict unnecessary pain and irreversible damage on our sector\".\n\nLocal rules mean many pubs and restaurants - such as those in England's tier three or Scotland's level four - will remain closed during the festive period, irrespective of the Christmas change.\n\nHow will your Christmas plans be affected? haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The show has defended its use of \"non-invasive\" species\n\nPolice have given \"suitable advice\" to the producers of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! following complaints about the use of non-native bugs.\n\nThe TV series is taking place in north Wales instead of the Australian jungle due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nWelsh naturalist and BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams has questioned whether a licence was gained to release bugs into the wild.\n\nThe show has defended the use of animals in its trials.\n\nA range of insects have been used on celebrities such as athlete Sir Mo Farah, TV presenter Vernon Kay and journalist Victoria Derbyshire during this year's trials.\n\nMr Williams initially raised questions over the programme's use of the creatures last week when he tweeted: \"As well as the moral issue of using wild animals for entertainment, surely there are huge ecological issues here also.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nA spokesman for the show said all the insects used were \"non-invasive species\" which are only ever released in a \"contained area and collected immediately after filming\".\n\nHe said: \"The bugs are UK bred and are commercially purchased in the UK for birds and exotic animal feed for pets and zoo keepers in normal circumstances.\"\n\nThe spokesman added the insects were donated to local wildlife sanctuaries, trusts and zoos for feed after filming.\n\nTo release a non-native species into the wild, a licence is needed from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you pronounce I'm A Celeb's Gwrych Castle?\n\nNRW's chief executive Clare Pillman earlier said it had not received any licence applications from ITV \"in relation to releasing non-natives as part of their production of I'm a Celebrity\".\n\nA North Wales Police statement said: \"North Wales Police and Natural Resources Wales have received information regarding the potential release of non-native species into 'non studio' areas, and we have given suitable advice to the production team regarding their set management and biosecurity.\"\n\nEarlier this month ITV defended using animals in the trials after concerns raised by the RSPCA over welfare.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said it would be \"right\" for police to investigate \"if there have been some infringement\" of the rules.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the Welsh Government had \"worked carefully\" with the production company to make sure that all the rules were being observed and they \"would be concerned about non-native species being released\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nOne of the game's most gifted players, the Argentine boasted a rare combination of flair, flamboyance, vision and speed which mesmerised fans.\n\nHe also outraged supporters with his controversial 'Hand of God' goal and plunged into a mire of drug abuse and personal crises off the pitch.\n\nBorn 60 years ago in a Buenos Aires shanty town, Diego Armando Maradona escaped the poverty of his youth to become a football superstar considered by some to be even greater than Brazil's Pele.\n\nThe Argentine, who scored 259 goals in 491 matches, pipped his South American rival in a poll to determine the greatest player of the 20th Century, before Fifa changed the voting rules so both players were honoured.\n\nMaradona showed prodigious ability from a young age, leading Los Cebollitas youth team to a 136-game unbeaten streak and going on to make his international debut aged just 16 years and 120 days.\n\nShort and stocky, at just 5ft 5in, he was not your typical athlete.\n\nBut his silky skills, agility, vision, ball control, dribbling and passing more than compensated for lack of pace and occasional weight problems.\n\nHe may have been a whizz at running rings round hostile defenders but he found it harder to dodge trouble.\n\nHand of God & Goal of the Century\n\nMaradona's 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina tell only part of the story of his rollercoaster international career.\n\nHe led his country to victory at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and a place in the final four years later.\n\nIn the quarter-final of the earlier tournament, there was a foretaste of the controversy that would later engulf his life.\n\nThe match against England already had an extra friction, with the Falklands War between the two countries having taken place only four years beforehand. That on-field edge was to become even more intense.\n\nWith 51 minutes gone and the game goalless, Maradona jumped with opposing goalkeeper Peter Shilton and scored by punching the ball into the net.\n\nHe later said the goal came thanks to \"a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God\".\n\nFour minutes later, he scored what has been described as the 'goal of the century' - collecting the ball in his own half before embarking on a bewitching, mazy run that left several players trailing before he rounded Shilton to score.\n\nThe first goal was dubious; the second was a bloody miracle\n\n\"You have to say that is magnificent. There is no doubt about that goal. That was just pure football genius,\" said BBC commentator Barry Davies.\n\nEngland pulled one back but Argentina went through, with Maradona saying it was \"much more than winning a match, it was about knocking out the English\".\n\nA hero for Napoli - but drugs take hold\n\nMaradona broke the world transfer record twice - leaving Boca Juniors in his home country for Spanish side Barcelona for £3m in 1982 and joining Italian club Napoli two years later for £5m.\n\nThere were more than 80,000 fans in the Stadio San Paolo when he arrived by helicopter. A new hero.\n\nHe played the best club football of his career in Italy, feted by supporters as he inspired the side to their first league titles in 1987 and 1990 and the Uefa Cup in 1989.\n\nA party to celebrate the first triumph lasted five days with hundreds of thousands on the streets, but Maradona was suffocated by the attention and expectation.\n\n\"This is a great city but I can hardly breathe. I want to be free to walk around. I'm a lad like any other,\" he said.\n\nHe became inextricably linked to the Camorra crime syndicate, dragged down by a cocaine addiction and embroiled in a paternity suit.\n\nAfter losing 1-0 to Germany in the final of Italia 90, a positive dope test the following year triggered a 15-month ban.\n\nHe returned and arrested his slide, appearing to get his act together to play in the 1994 World Cup in the USA.\n\nBut he alarmed viewers with a maniacal full-face goal celebration into a camera and was withdrawn midway through the tournament after he was found to have taken the banned substance ephedrine.\n\n1994: Plays in fourth World Cup but is ejected after positive test 1997: Retires from playing after third positive test 1990: World Cup runner-up with Argentina. Second league title at Napoli\n\nAfter his third positive test three years later, he retired from football on his 37th birthday, but continued to be plagued by problems.\n\nMaradona was given a suspended jail sentence of two years and 10 months for an earlier incident where he shot at journalists with an air rifle.\n\nHis cocaine habit and alcoholism led to several health issues. He put on weight, rising to 128kg (20 stone) at one point, and suffered a major heart attack in 2004, which left him in intensive care.\n\nHe had gastric-bypass surgery to help stem his obesity, and sought sanctuary in Cuba while battling to overcome his drug addiction.\n\nDespite all this, Maradona was named manager of the Argentina national team in 2008 and took the side to the World Cup quarter-finals two years later before his reign ended with a 4-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals.\n\nVarious managerial roles followed for a figure who continued to divide opinion, and continued to make headlines.\n\nHe needed reconstructive surgery on his lip after one of his pet shar pei dogs bit him, and publicly recognised his son Diego Armando Junior who was born from an extra-marital affair.\n\nA snapshot of his chaotic lifestyle came when he attended Argentina's match against Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nHe unveiled a banner of himself, danced with a Nigeria fan, prayed to the heavens before the game, wildly celebrated Lionel Messi's opener, fell asleep and gave a double middle finger salute after Argentina's second goal.\n\nSome reports suggested he needed medical treatment afterwards.\n\nDisgraceful, inspired, entertaining, great, over the top. Diego Maradona. A life less ordinary.", "The double-decker bus, bound for Swansea University, crashed into a railway bridge\n\nA bus driver has been charged with death by dangerous driving after a crash which killed a woman last December.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus crashed into a railway bridge on Neath Road in Swansea.\n\nEric Vice, 64, from Dunvant, Swansea, has been charged with death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Vice is due to appear at Swansea Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nMs Ren, a mother of one, was a visiting academic at Swansea University's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China.\n\nEight people were injured in the crash, including Olympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young.\n\nThe crash happened at 09:40 GMT on the morning of 12 December while the bus was travelling from Swansea University's Singleton Campus to its Swansea Bay campus.\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAfter the crash, Ms Ren was airlifted from Swansea to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, but she died on 23 December.\n\nPaying tribute to her at the time, her family said in a statement: \"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"", "PM: This is not continuing the lockdown\n\nLaura Kuenssberg, political editor at BBC News, asks what the point of the national lockdown was if people are now moving to tougher restrictions. Boris Johnson replies it is \"very important\" for everyone to understand that \"this is not continuing the lockdown,\" with shops, hairdressers, gyms and places of worship among the venues reopening. \"This is a very different thing,\" he adds. \"What we have to do is keep eyes on the prize. In a few months we will have a vaccine, I'm absolutely convinced of it now. \"By April things will generally be much, much better.\" He warns of relaxing too much now - taking our \"foot off the throat of the beast\" - when we are in a \"much better place\" than before the national lockdown. There are long months ahead but we are not abandoning the fight, he says. He stresses there is now option of mass testing, especially for tier-three communities \"who feel they have endured so much for so long\". Whitty is asked why more areas were not moved to tier three - and he replies that the government was keen to do enough to keep the R below one - but not to do anything unnecessary.", "Seven-year-old Emily Jones was stabbed as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton\n\nA seven-year-old girl had her throat cut in a random attack at a park on Mother's Day, a jury at Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nEmily Jones was at Queen's Park in Bolton with her parents when she was attacked by Eltiona Skana, 30, on 22 March, the court was told.\n\nMs Skana, 30, has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.\n\nShe appeared at court via video link from high security Rampton Hospital.\n\nMichael Brady QC, prosecuting said Emily was on a scooter and had been brought to the park by her father Mark Jones.\n\nMoments before the attack Emily spotted her mother, Sarah Barnes, who was jogging around the park wearing headphones.\n\nOblivious of the defendant she called out to her mum and scooted towards her some yards ahead of her father.\n\nEmily was grabbed by Ms Skana who \"in one movement\" cut the girl's throat and threw her to the ground, said Mr Brady.\n\nHe added: \"There had been no interaction between Emily and the defendant.\"\n\nIn a statement read to the jury, Emily's father said: \"I do not know why this happened. Emily was simply riding her scooter to her mum. I simply can't explain it.\"\n\nMs Skana, who bought the knife earlier that day, fled but was chased by Tony Canty who was walking in the park with his wife Lynsey and their baby daughter.\n\nMr Canty barged Ms Skana to the ground and detained her until police arrived.\n\nAfter her arrest, Ms Skana, originally from Albania, was assessed, telling the on-call psychiatrist \"I know I'm a paranoid schizophrenic\". She was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nMs Skana was moved to the high-security hospital at Rampton where she told a psychiatrist, Dr Afghan, she had been \"psychotic, hearing and seeing things\".\n\nWhile there she may have had a possible psychotic episode and another time it was reported while watching a children's TV programme she began laughing hysterically when she saw a child who looked similar to Emily, the court heard.\n\nMs Skana said she was \"perfectly normal\" before coming to the UK and claiming asylum in 2014, she told medics.\n\nThe jury was also told she showed \"indifference\" to the killing and spoke with a \"smirk\" but also showed appropriate emotional response when talking about her own family.\n\nSpeaking to a nurse at Rampton, Ms Skana said: \"Like I said, it's been three months, what do you want me to do cry all the time?\"\n\nShe later told the same nurse: \"It was premeditated, I waited in a park and picked my victim, I did what I did, then tried to run away.\"\n\nMr Brady told jurors the main issue was whether Ms Skana's paranoid schizophrenia is the reason behind the killing or her illness is simply \"a convenient excuse behind which to hide\".\n\nThe trial is scheduled for five days.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has revealed she had a miscarriage in July, writing in an article of feeling \"an almost unbearable grief\".\n\n\"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,\" Meghan said in a piece for the New York Times.\n\nShe went on to describe how she watched \"my husband's heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine\".\n\nMeghan wrote that \"loss and pain have plagued every one of us in 2020\".\n\nThe 39-year-old shared her experience to urge people to \"commit to asking others, 'are you OK?'\" over the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.\n\nA source close to the duchess confirmed to the BBC that the duchess is currently in good health and the couple wanted to talk about what happened in July, having come to appreciate how common miscarriage is.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"It's a deeply personal matter we would not comment on.\"\n\nThe duchess and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, moved to California to live away from the media spotlight, after stepping back as senior royals in January.\n\nTheir first child, Archie, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa in 2019 with their son Archie\n\nThe duchess began her article by describing a \"sharp cramp\" she felt while looking after Archie.\n\n\"I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears.\n\n\"Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we'd heal.\"\n\nMeghan made it clear from the first event that she spoke at as Harry's bride-to-be that she wanted women's voices and women's experiences to be heard more clearly.\n\nNow she has written of her loss, and her heartbreak. She has set it in the context of a year of breathtaking turbulence. And she has made a plea for tolerance and compassion.\n\nShe weaves in the struggles of so many with Covid-19, the battles over truth and lies in our divided age, the killing of black Americans by the police.\n\nAnd on an experience that so many women have lived through, she has made her grief a way of bringing miscarriage closer to the everyday conversation.\n\nThe duchess continued: \"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.\n\n\"In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage.\n\n\"Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.\n\n\"Some have bravely shared their stories; they have opened the door, knowing that when one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the same.\"\n\nThe duchess also referenced a TV interview in which she was asked by a journalist if she was ok, during her tour of South Africa last year.\n\nShe said she was asked the question during a time in which she was \"trying to keep a brave face in the very public eye\".\n\n\"I answered him honestly, not knowing that what I said would resonate with so many - new moms and older ones, and anyone who had, in their own way, been silently suffering,\" she said.\n\nThe duchess is the second member of the Royal Family to open up about having a miscarriage.\n\nIn 2018 the Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall spoke about suffering two miscarriages before having her second child.\n\nThe duchess's miscarriage happened at a time when she was involved in legal action against the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father. Last month she was granted a postponement of her privacy trial until autumn next year.\n\nAn estimated one in four pregnancies ends in a miscarriage, according to the charity Tommy's.\n\nTommy's midwife Sophie King said talking about baby loss in pregnancy is \"a real taboo in society\" so \"mothers like Meghan sharing their stories is a vital step in breaking down that stigma and shame\".\n\nShe said the duchess's \"honesty and openness\" sends a \"powerful message to anyone who loses a baby: this may feel incredibly lonely, but you are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘I lost eight pregnancies in nine years’\n\nClea Harmer, chief executive of stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands, said it was a \"sad reality\" there was a stigma surrounding pregnancy loss and baby death, which \"leaves many parents feeling isolated\".\n\n\"The isolation we have all felt this year has made it even more difficult for parents whose baby has died during the Covid-19 pandemic and has brought back painful emotions for all those who have lost precious loved ones,\" she said.\n\nDr Christine Ekechi, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said it was \"important\" that any stigma or shame surrounding this issue was removed.\n\n\"Sadly, early miscarriages are very common and they can be a devastating loss for parents and their families,\" she said.\n\nAnd Alice Weeden, from charity the Miscarriage Association, told the BBC: \"When somebody, particularly in the public eye, talks about it openly, it's helpful for other people to know that they are not alone.\"\n\nThere are around 250,000 miscarriages every year in the UK alone, the majority occurring within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt is a shockingly common experience, often dealt with privately at home or swiftly in hospitals.\n\nMany parents carry their grief silently and can feel society expects them to \"get back to normal life\" too soon.\n\nBut charities and scientists say much more needs to be done to acknowledge the longer-term effects of pregnancy loss.\n\nResearch suggests that one in six women go on to have symptoms of post-traumatic stress.\n\nFor some, nightmares and flashbacks continue for many months while anxiety and depression are also common afterwards.\n\nPartners report suffering too, with one in 12 facing similar issues.\n\nPregnancy experts in the UK say it is vital that women and partners are offered psychological support, alongside physical help, yet this kind of care is often under-resourced.\n\nOften, it is not known why miscarriages occur - whether in the first or second trimester of pregnancy, and many pregnancy losses cannot be prevented.\n\nUsually, something goes wrong with the development of the foetus in the womb.\n\nWarning signs can include bleeding and/or cramping pain in the lower tummy.\n\nPregnant women are advised to seek medical advice if they have either of these symptoms.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by issues with pregnancy, the following organisations may be able to help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon said countries would have to consider what type of society they wanted be after the Covid pandemic.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said a second independence referendum should be held \"in the earlier part\" of the next Scottish Parliament term.\n\nThe SNP leader, who is also Scotland's first minister, said her focus was currently on guiding the country through the pandemic.\n\nBut she insisted that the UK government's current opposition to indyref2 was unsustainable.\n\nShe would not be drawn on what she might do if it consent was refused.\n\nMs Sturgeon was being interviewed by the BBC ahead of the SNP's virtual conference which opens on Saturday and concludes on Monday with her leader's speech.\n\nThe party, which has formed the Scottish government since 2007, believes that winning the next Holyrood election in May would give it a mandate to hold another referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, the UK government has repeatedly said it would not grant the consent that Ms Sturgeon has argued would be needed if any referendum was to be legal.\n\nIt argues that the referendum result in 2014 - when voters rejected independence by 55% to 45% - still stands, and points to quotes at the time from both Ms Sturgeon and her predecessor, Alex Salmond, that it was a \"once in a generation\" event.\n\nAnd Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has said there should not be another referendum for \"25 or 40 years\".\n\nSome within the SNP and wider independence movement have urged Ms Sturgeon to develop a so-called Plan B strategy for securing a referendum if the UK government does not change its stance.\n\nRecent opinion polls now suggest a majority of people in Scotland are in favour of independence\n\nThe include the prominent MP Joanna Cherry, who said on Friday that the Scottish Parliament should legislate to hold an independence referendum - even if the UK government refused agreement.\n\nShe acknowledged that a Holyrood-only referendum would almost certainly face legal challenge because the UK constitution is not devolved.\n\nBut Ms Cherry argued that there was nothing to be lost from testing this in court, if independence supporting parties win a majority of the seats at Holyrood.\n\nShe is also urging Ms Sturgeon to restart independence planning, which has been suspended during the pandemic, if there is to be a referendum anytime soon.\n\nMs Cherry and some of her allies are seeking election to the SNP's ruling body this weekend.\n\nJoanna Cherry is among those in the SNP who want Ms Sturgeon to set out a Plan B for securing a referendum\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's leader at Westminster, said earlier this month that the referendum \"must\" be held next year - which critics argue would be all but impossible to do.\n\nMs Sturgeon appeared to distance herself from that strict timescale, saying only that: \"I think the referendum should, for a whole variety of reasons, be in the earlier part of the next parliament.\"\n\nShe added: \"I intend to say more about this before the election in our manifesto, but we are still in a global pandemic that I feel a bit more hopeful about seeing the end of than I did even just a couple of months ago.\n\n\"There's still a lot of uncertainty ahead. I'm a life-long believer and campaigner and advocate for independence, but right now I'm also the first minister of Scotland.\n\n\"My responsibility is to the health and wellbeing of the country and trying to steer it through a pandemic and I'm very focused on that.\"\n\nHowever, she said countries across the world - including Scotland - would have to decide \"what kind of society we want to be\" as they emerge from the pandemic.\n\nThe added element for Scotland, Ms Sturgeon predicted, would be questioning whether its future should be decided by \"a Westminster government that seems determined to take us in the wrong direction\" or a \"Scottish government, of whatever party in the future, that is accountable to the Scottish people\".\n\nAnd she insisted: \"If people in Scotland vote for a referendum, there will be a referendum.\n\n\"Across the Atlantic, even Trump is having to concede the outcome of a fair and free democratic election\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said another independence referendum is \"the last thing Scotland needs\".\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon says we should have another independence referendum 'sooner rather than later' and won't even rule one out next year,\" he said.\n\n\"The only thing to stop this and keep us focused on beating Covid and supporting our recovery after this virus is a vote for the Scottish Conservatives.\"\n\nHe called for the country to stay focused on beating Covid and supporting the recovery from the pandemic.\n\nWillie Rennie, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, said Scotland needed a government that was focused \"needle sharp\" on recovery from the Covid crisis.\n\nHe commented: \"Scotland has been through huge turmoil over the last nine months. We haven't even embarked on the economic recovery from the pandemic and the first minister wants to spend months or even years dividing the country over Scotland going its own way with independence.\"\n\nIt was confirmed last week that the number of deaths in Scotland which have been linked to Covid-19 had passed the 5,000 mark.\n\nStatistics released earlier in the year found that the country had seen one of the biggest rises in its death rates in Europe at the height of the pandemic - behind only England and Spain.\n\nBut a poll for BBC Scotland which was published last week suggested that people are largely supportive of Ms Sturgeon's handling of the pandemic.\n\nWhen asked what mistakes she had made during her response to the crisis, Ms Sturgeon said some of the early decisions had been based on a \"under-developed knowledge\" of the virus.\n\nThis impacted on the length of time it took it introduce regular testing in care homes - something she said she \"deeply regrets\".\n\nMs Sturgeon admitted that her relationship with predecessor Alex Salmond has broken down\n\nMs Sturgeon has been involved in a bitter war of words with her predecessor, Mr Salmond, over her government's handling of harassment allegations that were made against him.\n\nThe Scottish government paid Mr Salmond's legal fees of £500,000 after it admitted acting unlawfully during its investigation, with a Holyrood inquiry currently investigating the affair.\n\nA separate inquiry is also examining whether Ms Sturgeon may have broken the ministerial code.\n\nWhen asked whether she would resign if she was found to have broken that code, Ms Sturgeon said she would not speculate on the outcome but added that she was \"satisfied in my conduct and the decisions I took\".\n\nHowever, she admitted that her relationship with Mr Salmond had \"broken down\".\n\nShe added: \"These are deeply personal matters. Alex Salmond is somebody who I have been close to for a very long time, so there is a degree of personal pain for all sorts of people in this.\n\n\"But I'm also mindful that in talking about this, this whole thing all started off because women came forward with complaints.\n\n\"At every stage all I've tried to do is make sure that complaints that came forward, whoever they were about, could be properly investigated without fear or favour\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nToday's football superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo \"could not even dream\" of being admired as much as Diego Maradona was, says his former Argentina team-mate Ossie Ardiles.\n\nThree days of national mourning have begun in Argentina after Maradona died on Wednesday at the age of 60.\n\nHis body will lie in state at the Casa Rosada, the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, during that time.\n\n\"To be Diego Maradona was incredibly beautiful,\" Ardiles told the BBC.\n\n\"But on the other hand, it was not easy at all. Right from a really early age, he was subject to the press all the time. He didn't have a normal childhood, he never had normal teenage years.\n\n\"Everybody wanted to be with him, everybody wanted a piece of him, so it was incredibly difficult.\"\n• None How Maradona's tormenting of England made him an Argentine deity\n\nMaradona, who played for clubs including Barcelona and Napoli, was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, scoring the famous 'Hand of God' goal against England in the quarter-finals.\n\nFormer Tottenham midfielder Ardiles, who played alongside Maradona at the 1982 World Cup, said he was \"a god\" in Argentina, in Naples and all around the world.\n\n\"He will be remembered as a genius in football,\" he added. \"You can see the extraordinary amount of interest that he generates.\n\n\"People like [Juventus and Portugal striker] Ronaldo, or people like [Barcelona and Argentina forward] Messi, they couldn't even dream of having this kind of admiration.\n\n\"That was the Maradona phenomenon - all the time.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination was due to take place on Maradona's body later on Wednesday after he died at about midday local time at his home in Tigre, near Buenos Aires.\n\nThe former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.\n\nA minute's silence took place before Wednesday's Champions League matches and the same will happen before all other European fixtures this week.\n\nMessi and Ronaldo were among current players to pay tribute, while Brazilian football great Pele said he hoped one day they would \"play ball together in the sky\".\n\n\"There was a banner in Argentina, one year ago, that I read that said: 'No matter what you have done with your life, Diego, it matters what you do for our lives,'\" former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Guardiola added.\n\n\"It expresses perfectly what this guy gave us. The man of joy and pleasure and his commitment for world football.\"\n\nFormer Tottenham manager and Argentina defender Mauricio Pochettino said: \"Broken with pain. Diego, you were my hero and friend. I was so fortunate to have shared football and life with you.\"\n\nThe Vatican said Pope Francis, an Argentine and a football fan, would be remembering Maradona in his prayers.\n\nIn Argentina, Wednesday's match between Sport Club Internacional and Maradona's former club Boca Juniors was postponed.\n\nFans flocked to La Bombonera, Boca Juniors' stadium in Buenos Aires, where many were in tears - despite, in the case of some, being too young to remember Maradona's playing days.\n\nThey also congregated in the San Andres neighbourhood, where Maradona lived, and to La Plata, where he most recently was manager of local club Gimnasia y Esgrima.\n\nIn the country's capital, \"gracias Diego\" replaced train information on digital metro signs, while fans sang La Mano De Dios (The Hand Of God) in city suburbs.\n\nThousands of miles away, they also gathered outside Napoli's San Paolo stadium, which was lit up in tribute to the man who scored 81 goals in 188 appearances for the Italian club.\n\nFireworks erupted in the sky as those below, clad in Maradona shirts and even Maradona face masks, chanted and wept.\n\nMaradona wasn't just a sportsman for Argentinians, he was an icon, a political player and of course, a loveable rogue. There is deep sadness as people prepare to pay their respects to their superstar footballer.\n\nBut his influence goes beyond Argentina - South Americans are proud of their footballing heritage so this news has resonated across the region.\n\nIn neighbouring Brazil, where their man Pele vied for the title of world's best footballer, Maradona's death was headline news - much of the rivalry between the two countries can be put down to the two players, such is the passion for the beautiful game here.\n\nBut rivalry was put aside with Pele paying tribute to Maradona as a dear friend.\n\n\"One day, I hope, we will have a kick about together in heaven,\" he said.\n\nA statement from Napoli said: \"Everyone is waiting for our words but what words could we possibly use for a pain such as this that we are going through?\n\n\"Now is the moment for tears. Then there will be the moment for words.\n\n\"We are in mourning. We feel like a boxer who has been knocked out. We are in shock. A devastating blow for both city and club.\"\n\nA day of mourning will take place in Naples on Thursday.\n\nThe mayor of the city, Luigi de Magistris, has called for the Stadio San Paolo be renamed in honour of Maradona.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast, Paul Elliott, who played against Maradona while at Pisa, said: \"I have to say it was remarkable. There was a sublime talent that this man had, an aura, a presence, and you know when you feel a sense of energy.\n\n\"Napoli is a very poor part of the south of Italy, but their whole world was built around Maradona and Napoli.\n\n\"If you look at where the club was when he arrived, the impact of one man unequivocally was the key and the catalyst to the success that they had, and the way he just gave everybody hope.\n\n\"That was just by his remarkable, sublime talent.\"", "Campaigner Sarian Kamara says many women are still too scared to come forward\n\nIt is feared victims of female genital mutilation in England are not reporting cases because of delays and lockdown closures, charities have told the BBC.\n\nIt comes as new figures revealed 635 new cases were recorded from July-September - a fall of more than a third compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nThe Home Office and NHS England said clinics remained open - but victims have reported treatment delays.\n\nCampaigners fear the lower figures could lead to future funding cuts.\n\nFGM is illegal in the UK and it is compulsory for family doctors, hospitals and mental health trusts to report any new cases in their patients.\n\nThe practice - intentionally altering or injuring the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons - carries a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.\n\nWomen in England over the age of 18 are directed to specialist FGM clinics to receive care. In 2019, the eight clinics were given funding for two years to provide specialised FGM services in London, Bristol, Leeds and Birmingham.\n\nThe Home Office and NHS England told the BBC that the clinics have remained open during the pandemic and provide virtual consultations to keep services operating.\n\nBut women say the Covid-19 pandemic has made it harder to access services. One, who needs a physical examination, told the BBC: \"There is so much frustration. My name is on the waiting list to go and see the doctors at the clinic. But I can't [go].\"\n\nShe says she is only comfortable visiting a specialist doctor, which is why she is reliant on the clinic seeing her.\n\nAnother woman, who has been supported by anti-FGM charity the Vavengers, was due to have a procedure in March, but it was delayed until October.\n\nShe was twice sent away from hospital because the defibulation operation was not deemed essential.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the number of new women being recorded in the system has fallen to the lowest since records began in 2015 - 630 new cases in April-June and 635 in July-September.\n\nBut experts say the number of women living with FGM is far higher than the official figures suggest.\n\n\"Many are asylum seekers or refugees and are scared they are going to be picked up if they go to hospital,\" says Sarian Kamara, an anti-FGM campaigner. \"We are trying to get them out of hiding.\"\n\nCharities say they are concerned that falls during the pandemic could also affect the future of the eight specialised FGM clinics. They were established on two-year contracts, funded by NHS England and the government. But beyond 2021, they will need to be commissioned by local authorities.\n\nJanet Fyle, midwifery advisor at the Royal College of Midwives, said: \"They are reporting what is reported to them - that doesn't mean we've got less women with FGM. At Imperial, 10% of pregnant woman annually have FGM. That's 600 out of 6,000 women.\"\n\nHowever, Nimco Ali, FGM advisor to the government, said the recent NHS figures are a sign of the government's success.\n\n\"The reality is almost all women have now been asked the question [if they have been victims of FGM], now we have the data, so we should move towards providing provisions for the number of women rather than hyping it up as the same issue we had 10 years ago.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said it had recently awarded funding to \"a number of charities working to support victims of so-called honour-based abuse, such as FGM, in order to address the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic\".", "The BBC has upheld complaints from two viewers about a routine by comedian Jack Whitehall, featuring a joke about being at a pop concert with a dwarf.\n\nThe offending bit, from a show broadcast in 2014, featured in a recent repeat of his Live at the Apollo set, which was shown on BBC Two.\n\nThe BBC's Executive Complaints Unit has said it will not be re-broadcast.\n\nWhitehall, 32, has since said the two are still in touch, having become university friends after the concert.\n\nThe complaints unit said: \"The ECU considered that viewers familiar with Whitehall's self-deprecating style of comedy would have understood the routine as intended primarily to show up his own inadequacies and failings, and to that extent if fell within audience expectations for stand-up comedy in a late evening slot.\n\n\"The ECU accepted, however, that there were occasions when it seemed a stereotypical view of dwarfism itself, rather than Jack Whitehall's own ineptitude, was the source of the humour, which took the routine beyond the expectations of audiences in relation to material of this kind.\"\n\nAside from his stand-up shows, Whitehall has hosted the Brit Awards on several occasions.\n\nHe is perhaps best known for starring as JP in the series Fresh Meat; and as Alfie Wickers in the Bad Education TV and film series; as well appearing alongside his real life dad Michael, in Travels with My Father.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMost of England will be in the two toughest levels of measures when the national lockdown ends next week.\n\nThe new coronavirus tier restrictions will mean 55 million people remain banned from mixing with other households indoors from 2 December.\n\nLarge parts of the Midlands, North East and North West, including Manchester, as well as Kent, are in tier three.\n\nA majority of places are in the second highest level - tier two - including London, and Liverpool city region.\n\nThe Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - where there have been no recorded cases in the past week - will be the only areas of England in the lowest level of curbs - tier one.\n\nThe system will be regularly reviewed, with the first scheduled for 16 December, so an area's tier level may change before Christmas.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street press conference that the tougher rules would \"strike a balance\", adding that \"every area has the means of escape\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock set out the reasoning behind the tier decisions for each area in a written ministerial statement.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"Hope is on the horizon but we still have further to go. So we must all dig deep.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that people \"should see these restrictions not as a boundary to push but as a limit on what the public health advice says we can safely do in any area.\"\n\nAround 23 million people across 21 local authority areas will be in the highest level - tier three - including Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Tees Valley Combined Authority and North East Combined Authority.\n\nLancashire, Leicester, Lincolnshire, Slough, Bristol, Kent and Medway will also be in tier three.\n\nEarlier, a rush for details of the tier allocations saw the government website repeatedly crash.\n\nOn Thursday, another 498 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK, and a further 17,555 positive cases, the latest figures showed.\n\nDifferences between the new tiers include restrictions on where households can meet up:\n\nGyms and close-contact beauty services like hairdressers will be able to open in all tiers. Guidance said people in all tiers who can work from home, should continue to do so.\n\nPubs in tier two can only open to serve \"substantial meals\", while those in tier three can only operate as a takeaway or delivery service.\n\nHospitality bosses said nearly nine in 10 venues believed they \"are not viable to operate\" within tiers two and three.\n\nMake no mistake, this is only a gradual step out of lockdown.\n\nAt the start of November nearly half the country was in tier one, meaning households could mix indoors in people's homes and in pubs and restaurants as long as they kept to the rule of six.\n\nNow that is only possible in Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and Isles of Scilly.\n\nInfection rates are showing early signs of coming down, but the government is erring on the side of caution.\n\nResearch suggests they were too slow to put areas in higher tiers before lockdown.\n\nThey do not want to make that mistake again - and so are starting off high in the hope they can move areas down the tiers.\n\nBut it is not only about which area is in which tier.\n\nThe top two tiers have been beefed up, particularly in regards to hospitality.\n\nOne ray of hope, the government says, is the experience of Liverpool.\n\nBefore lockdown it was in tier three and seeing among the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nToday it has now been put in tier two with infection levels pretty close to the national average.\n\nBBC analysis showed 713,573 people live in the new tier one areas, 32.2 million in tier two, and 23.3 million in tier three.\n\nThis is compared to 23.5 million in tier one pre-lockdown, 24 million in tier two, and 8.7 million in tier three.\n\nThe new tier restrictions will be voted on by MPs next week, with the government already facing opposition from its own backbenchers.\n\nLeading Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady told BBC Radio 4's World at One he would vote against the measures, saying: \"I do think that the policies have been far too authoritarian.\"\n\nAnd former Brexit minister Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG), called for the government to publish analysis - ahead of the vote - of the impact restrictions were likely to have on controlling Covid, as well as the non-Covid health impact and the effect on \"society, people's livelihoods and businesses\".\n\nHe said he was \"open\" to supporting measures \"where it can clearly be demonstrated that the government intervention will save more lives than it costs\".\n\nMeanwhile, there was a mixed reaction from regional leaders following the announcement of tier allocations.\n\nMPs and businesses in Cornwall expressed \"huge relief\" at being one of only three areas in England to be placed in tier one.\n\nMayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said the city region's move from tier three to tier two was the result of \"hard work, dedication and sacrifice\".\n\nHe said: \"We embraced tier three restrictions and worked fast to deliver the testing pilot, bringing in the Army to help us deliver an efficient service.\"\n\nAnd Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the decision to place the capital in the second highest level - tier two - was the result of people's \"monumental sacrifice\" and would be a \"welcome boost\" for businesses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bar chain owner Martin Greenhow: ''This is pure and simple business torture\"\n\nBut there was anger among politicians in Lancashire that the whole county had been placed into the highest tier of restrictions, after council leaders asked for it to be split into different tiers to reflect varying rates.\n\nElsewhere, Leicester MPs and businesses said the city's tier three restrictions were \"extremely difficult to hear\" following 150 days of lockdown.\n\nAnd Greater Manchester's mayor, Andy Burnham, said he hoped the region would be moved down from tier three in a couple of weeks.\n\nDecisions on tiers are based on public health recommendations informed by a series of public health data, including Covid-19 cases among the over-60s, positivity rates, pressure on the NHS and how quickly cases are rising or falling.\n\nAreas placed in tier three will be eligible for rapid or \"lateral flow\" tests - which give results in about 20 minutes without the need for a lab - to help bring down infections and reduce restrictions.\n\nAnd they will be offered support by NHS Test and Trace and the armed forces to deliver a six-week rapid community testing programme.\n\nDevolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, though all four UK nations have agreed a joint plan for Christmas.\n\nEarlier, data from the Office for National Statistics showed coronavirus infection rates in England were continuing to show signs of levelling off.\n\nAre you a business owner? How will your business be affected by the latest rules? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Union leaders have reacted with fury after Chancellor Rishi Sunak imposed a pay freeze on at least 1.3 million public sector workers.\n\nThe GMB union said it had fought a public sector pay cap before \"and we busted it\", while the civil service and rail unions warned of strike action.\n\nFrontline NHS staff and lower paid workers will get pay rises, Mr Sunak said in Wednesday's Spending Review.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said rises for others in the public sector were being \"paused.\"\n\nThis includes civil servants, teachers, police, firefighters, the armed forces, and council staff\n\nRehana Azam, national officer of the GMB union, said the freeze \"will hit key workers who have risked everything during the pandemic\".\n\n\"This attempt to divide and rule will put him on a direct collision course with public service workers, and he should know that we fought the public sector pay cap before and we busted it,\" she said.\n\n\"GMB will not accept more pay cuts for our members at a time when the whole country is relying on them.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said: \"Civil servants and other public sector staff will feel a deep sense of betrayal at today's pay freeze.\n\n\"Despite keeping the country running during the Covid crisis, supplying Universal Credit and helping businesses access the furlough scheme, the chancellor has justified a pay freeze by pointing to lower wages in the private sector.\"\n\nHe said the news \"has intensified long-standing anger at a decade of pay restraint and increased the likelihood of industrial unrest in the public sector.\"\n\nMick Cash, leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), also warned that members will \"have no hesitation in taking strike action\", while Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: \"This is austerity, plain and simple.\"\n\nRishi Sunak said he was targeting resources at those who needed it most\n\nOther union leaders also lined up to condemn the freeze, including Unite, Prospect, and the Fire Brigades Union.\n\nThe Treasury has estimated that the pay announcement will directly affect 1.3 million workers, less than 25% of the total number of 5.5 million in the public sector.\n\nHowever, that figure mainly covers people working for central government. The total rise could be much higher if local government and devolved pay agreements are frozen.\n\nIn his Spending Review, Mr Sunak highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he \"cannot justify a significant, across-the-board\" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.\n\n\"Instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most,\" he said.\n\nHe said 2.1 million public sector workers earning below the median wage of £24,000 were \"guaranteed a pay rise of at least £250\".\n\nMore than a million NHS workers will also get a raise, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Living Wage will increase by 2.2% - or 19p - to £8.91 an hour, with the rate extended to 23 and 24 year olds for the first time.", "Paul Farrell is alleged to have targeted victims between 1985 and 2018\n\nAn ex-porter at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has been accused of nearly 80 sex offences.\n\nPaul Farrell, 55, is alleged to have targeted seven victims between 1985 and 2018, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 79 charges against Mr Farrell, of Camden, north London, include rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of a child under 13.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due before Wood Green Magistrates' Court later, the Met said.\n\nNews of the charges against Mr Farrell emerged when the hospital issued a statement on Wednesday \"regarding media stories about a former member of staff\".\n\nPolice said he was originally arrested on 16 January and made an appearance at Highbury Magistrates' Court after being charged.\n\nAn ongoing investigation is being led by officers from the Met's Central North Command Unit safeguarding team.\n\nIn its statement, the hospital said: \"These are truly awful charges and we know that our hospital community, including our patient families, will have concerns or questions.\n\n\"Due to the ongoing legal proceedings, we cannot go into the details of the case, but we can confirm that the individual who has been charged was dismissed from the trust and we are continuing to work closely with the police.\n\n\"Safeguarding children is fundamental to the care we provide and our policies are in line with national best practice.\n\n\"If patients, their families or colleagues raise concerns about staff there is a clear and swift process to manage these concerns when they are raised. This includes involving the police where needed.\"\n\nCorrection 27 November 2020: An earlier version of this story stated Paul Farrell faced 84 charges. We have since been informed by the Crown Prosecution Service he faces 79 charges. We have changed the story to reflect this updated figure.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal against a High Court ruling which concluded that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nThe Pirates Of The Caribbean actor sued the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN), for libel over a 2018 article labelling him a \"wife beater\".\n\nThe judge who dismissed Mr Depp's claim this month said an appeal did not have a \"reasonable prospect of success\".\n\nBut he gave him until 7 December to apply directly to the Court of Appeal.\n\nMr Justice Nicol's ruling on the application to overturn his judgement came last week - and was made public on Wednesday.\n\nHe also ordered the actor to make an initial payment to NGN of almost £630,000 for its legal fees.\n\nMr Depp and Ms Heard both gave evidence during the 16-day case at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in July.\n\nThe allegations spanned the period between 2013 and 2016, when the couple's relationship ended.\n\nMr Depp, 57, denied the claims and his lawyer called the judge's ruling \"perverse\" and announced the actor intended to appeal.\n\nAmber Heard and Johnny Depp split up in 2016\n\nMr Depp sued the Sun after a column by its executive editor Dan Wootton referred to \"overwhelming evidence\" that the actor attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship.\n\nMr Justice Nicol ruled the newspaper had proved what was in the article to be \"substantially true\". He found that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents outlined had occurred.\n\nThe judge highlighted three incidents where he said Mr Depp had put Ms Heard in \"fear for her life\".\n\nIn one of those incidents, in Australia in 2015, Mr Depp was allegedly physically and verbally abusive towards her while drinking heavily and taking drugs. Mr Depp accused Ms Heard of severing his finger, but the judge said he did not accept Ms Heard was responsible.\n\nThe judge rejected a \"recurring theme\" in Mr Depp's evidence \"that Ms Heard had constructed a hoax and that she had done this as an 'insurance policy',\" and that she was a \"gold-digger\".\n\nIn the April 2018 column, the Sun asked how author JK Rowling could be \"genuinely happy\" that Mr Depp had been cast in the latest film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise she had written, amid allegations made by Ms Heard.\n\nAfter losing the case, Mr Depp said he had left the franchise, adding he had been \"asked to resign\" from his role as Gellert Grindelwald and had \"respected that and agreed to that request\".", "Britain's major pub groups and brewers have pleaded with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to save an industry facing the \"darkest of moments\".\n\nExecutives at Fuller's, Carlsberg UK, Greene King, and Heineken UK are among more than 50 signatories of a letter warning of huge job losses.\n\nThey call on him to publish the evidence justifying the coronavirus restrictions on the industry.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said they would respond in due course.\n\nThe letter says: \"The pub is clearly being singled out for exceptionally harsh and unjustified treatment and unless your government changes course, and soon, huge portions of this most British of institutions will simply not be there come the spring.\n\n\"We believe it is in the interests of openness and transparency that any evidence showing pubs to be the source of outbreaks of the virus, and thereby justifying these extra restrictions, must be published immediately.\"\n\nThe letter comes ahead of a planned announcement on Thursday that could see two-thirds of the country placed into tiers two or three when the current lockdown lifts next month.\n\nPubs in tier two areas will be able to serve drinks only to customers having a substantial meal, and those in tier three will not be able to open.\n\nPubs, and the hospitality industry generally, have been among the hardest-hit sectors during lockdown.\n\nMore than a third of hospitality firms say they have little or no confidence of surviving the next three months, according to data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier this month.\n\nOther signatories to the letter include executives at Adnams, Marston's, Budweiser UK, Punch Pubs, Shepherd Neame and Young's.\n\nThey tell the PM they employ \"hundreds of thousands of people and contribute billions of pounds of economic value to the UK economy - all of this is at risk today\".\n\n\"Your Winter Plan, compounded by the Christmas announcement, have been greeted with utter dismay and incredulity by publicans up and down the country, and made the situation facing us exponentially worse,\" they say.\n\n\"How can it be that people mixing in unregulated private homes is deemed safer than gathering in limited numbers in larger, regulated and ultimately Covid-secure venues like pubs? There is no logic to this decision.\n\n\"It is clear that pubs are being scapegoated despite a lack of available evidence that they are any more responsible for outbreaks than other types of venue. We cannot stand idly by and allow these measures to destroy our businesses.\"\n\nIf restrictions cannot be relaxed, the pubs are demanding, among other things, financial support in line with the first lockdown, immediate changes to business rates, and a cut in the \"punitively high\" beer duty rate.", "Robert Morley is still missing after the Joanna C sank on Saturday\n\nThe family of a fisherman missing after a trawler capsized off the Sussex coast described the captain who tried to save him as an \"absolute hero\".\n\nThree crew members were onboard the Joanna C when it sank three miles out to sea on Saturday.\n\nSkipper Dave Bickerstaff was found clinging to a buoy and rescued, while the body of 26-year-old Adam Harper, from Brixham, Devon, was found by divers in the wreckage on Monday.\n\nMr Morley was born in Newhaven and had moved to Pembrokeshire. His family said they had been told \"the boat had a freak accident, he went over into the water\".\n\nAt a vigil on Wednesday in Newhaven, Rev Martin Miller, from St Michael's Church, said Mr Morley's parents wanted to \"say a big thank you to [Mr Bickerstaff] for his heroic efforts to do what he could to save them\".\n\nBarry Woolford, Mr Morley's stepfather, told BBC South East's Colin Campbell: \"David Bickerstaff is an absolute hero in my eyes, he was trapped underneath the [capsized] boat, he managed to get out.\n\n\"David was floating with Robert for four or five hours. Robert had been in the water an hour longer than David so I think hypothermia must have got him and he slipped away and then David was fortunate enough to be rescued.\n\n\"There is one small blessing out of that tragedy, that one of the crew came home.\"\n\nTributes were paid to Adam Harper and Robert Morley at a vigil in Newhaven\n\nMr Morley's mother, Jackie Woolford, said: \"My Robert wasn't alone when he died. His skipper stayed with him all the time.\n\n\"He held him until he went and then he couldn't hold him anymore because he had to save himself. He is the most bravest person.\"\n\nPaying tribute to her son, Mrs Woolford said: \"Robert from when a little boy has always wanted to be on the sea.\n\nShe said fishing was his passion: \"He went to sea, he fished, he came on land, he got a rod and he went and fished.\"\n\nShe said she wanted him to be remembered \"with this big cheeky grin on his face\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: Government set 'to fund the priorities of British people'\n\nThe number of unemployed people in the UK is expected to surge to 2.6 million by mid-2021, Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nIn his Spending Review, the chancellor said the \"economic emergency\" caused by Covid-19 had \"only just begun\".\n\nThe government expected to borrow £394bn this year - the \"highest\" level \"in our peacetime history\" - he added.\n\nThe latest figures show 1.62 million people are unemployed, a number which has risen by more than 300,000 since last year.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said the government would spend £280bn this year \"to get our country through coronavirus\".\n\nHe also announced that most public sector workers would have their pay frozen, with only the lowest paid, as well as nurses, doctors and other NHS staff, getting a salary rise.\n\nAnd the chancellor said spending on overseas aid, as a proportion of national income, would be 0.5% in 2021-2 - down from the 0.7% currently set in law.\n\nThe document accompanying Mr Sunak's statement makes no mention of extending the temporary £20 uplift in Universal Credit beyond next April, but this is expected to be reviewed in the new year.\n\nThe last time the UK unemployment figure was as high as 2.6 million was in May to July 2012.\n\nThe number exceeded three million from 1983 to 1987 and for a few months in early 1993.\n\nMr Sunak told MPs the economy was predicted to contract by 11.3% this year - \"the largest fall in output for more than 300 years\" - and grow by 5.5% next year and 6.6% in 2022.\n\nHe added: \"Even with growth returning, our economic output is not expected to return to pre-crisis levels until the fourth quarter of 2022. And the economic damage is likely to be lasting.\"\n\nThe government's Covid response, including furlough, has led to huge spending rises, at a time when its income from taxation is down.\n\nMr Sunak said the UK was expected to borrow £394bn this year, which was predicted to fall to £164bn next year and £105bn in 2022-3.\n\nSome other Spending Review announcements were trailed before his statement, including:\n\nThe chancellor had intended - as usual - to set out plans for the next three years, but this was reduced to just one year due to the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic.\n\nFor Labour, shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said a longer-term spending review was needed soon \"to build a future for our country as the best place in the world to grow up in and the best place to grow old in\".\n\nShe criticised Mr Sunak for not mentioning Brexit in his speech, with the UK set to leave the EU single market and customs area at the end of the year.\n\nMs Dodds added: \"There's still no trade deal. So does the chancellor truly believe that his government is prepared and that he's done enough to help those businesses that will be heavily affected?\"\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility said that if no deal was reached, and the UK and EU had to trade under World Trade Organization rules - including tariffs - this could \"reduce real GDP\" by 2% in 2021, on top of the damage caused by coronavirus.\n\nThe economic shock of the \"various temporary disruptions to cross-border trade and the knock-on impacts\" would continue for years, it predicted.\n\nBut a Treasury spokesman insisted the government was confident about the future of the UK, whatever the outcome of negotiations with Brussels.\n\nHe said the chancellor was focussed on Covid, which he described as the \"core economic challenge\" and \"the one that matters today to people's jobs\".\n\nDave Prentis, general secretary of the union Unison, called the pay freeze for most public sector workers \"austerity, plain and simple\" and a \"bitter pill\" for those affected.\n\nHe added: \"A decade of spending cuts left public services exposed when Covid came calling. The government is making the same disastrous mistake again.\"", "Scotland's first minister has said she \"agonised\" over whether to allow people to meet up at Christmas and would rather they chose not to.\n\nA UK-wide deal was agreed on Tuesday to permit people to meet up in \"bubbles\" for five days over the festive period.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon said the \"default advice\" and \"safest position\" was still that people should avoid contact.\n\nShe said she would not be meeting her parents, saying she did not want to put them at risk \"for the sake of one day\".\n\nGroups of up to three households will be allowed to form expanded bubbles from 23 to 27 December, but Ms Sturgeon said this was the \"outer limit\", adding that \"the virus will not have gone away by Christmas\".\n\nThe UK-wide plans were announced on Tuesday to lift travel restrictions across the four nations and allow people to visit close friends and relatives.\n\nHowever, at her coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon urged people to only use the extra flexibility if they really needed to - and suggested the rules were changed because ministers knew people would break them.\n\nShe said: \"We agonise over all these decisions, and are trying to come to the outcome that balances best all these competing factors and desires people have.\n\n\"On this occasion we are trying to reflect the reality that for some people, sticking rigidly to the current rules over Christmas - if that means leaving loved ones on their own - is something people might not be prepared to do.\n\n\"Rather than leave everyone to navigate that themselves and decide their own boundaries, we decided to try and set some outer limits and boundaries to ask people to work within.\n\n\"That decision does not mean we are positively encouraging people to get together - I want to stress that just because we are allowing people to create a bubble doesn't mean you have to do it.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"agonised\" over the decision\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I will continue to ask you to err on the side of caution. If you have been making painful sacrifices for eight months to keep your loved ones safe, then think about whether you want to take a risk with their safety at the eleventh hour in this journey.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was \"desperate\" to see her own mum and dad, but said \"I don't want to put my parents at risk for the sake of one day\".\n\nSome advisors have suggested allowing greater socialising over the festive period will cause a spike of new cases in January, with one government science advisor, Prof Andrew Hayward, telling the BBC that it would be like \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nAnd Scottish government advisor Devi Sridhar told Channel Four News that \"we are going to pay for Christmas holidays with probably a January national lockdown\".\n\nOpposition parties have pressed for the publication of any government risk assessments or modelling of the number of new infections or deaths which may result from increased mixing.\n\nThe Scottish Greens said \"the last thing we need is to be sending out mixed signals\", with MSP Alison Johnstone saying \"parliament and the people of Scotland deserve to know how many extra infections the Scottish government is comfortable with\".\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon and her National Clinical Director Prof Jason Leitch suggested this modelling does not exist.\n\nProf Leitch said there was not \"very specific modelling\" charting the number of potential cases, simply noting that \"if we mix households we will get more infections\".\n\nAnd the first minister said there was no \"some magic model or piece of analysis\" which would answer hard questions for the government.\n\nShe said she would \"really rather\" people not travel and meet up if they can avoid it, saying that \"if there was a big scary model I could put in front of you I wouldn't be deliberately hiding it\".", "People coming to the UK from Estonia and Latvia will need to quarantine from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe two Baltic states have been taken off of the UK government's travel corridor list.\n\nAt the same time, Aruba, Bhutan, East Timor, Mongolia and some Pacific islands have been added, meaning travellers from those places will not need to self-isolate.\n\nHowever, current rules ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.\n\nThe UK government has also changed its rules on Denmark, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nWhile travellers from Denmark to the UK will still need to self-isolate, the government is lifting the \"total travel ban\" on Saturday.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently advises against all but essential travel to Denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 14 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nFrom 15 December, people who need to quarantine will only need to do so for five days - if they pay for a private Covid test and are virus free.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nMaking the announcement on Thursday, Mr Shapps said latest data means Estonia and Latvia must be taken off the list.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in Latvia in recent weeks, according to the Foreign Office. The Latvian government has announced a state of emergency lasting until 6 December.\n\nEstonia's government has also introduced extra restrictions from 24 November.\n\nMr Shapps said Bhutan, East Timor, Mongolia, Aruba and six Pacific islands (Samoa, Kiribati, Micronesia, Tonga, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands) had been added to the list, effective from 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nIn England until 2 December, foreign travel is currently only permitted for work, education or if someone has another valid reason.\n\nPeople can only travel in and out of Wales with a reasonable excuse, such as going to work or school.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, people are advised to only travel for necessary reasons and to \"carefully consider\" their holiday and travel options, in light of the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, people living in higher risk areas should avoid unnecessary travel to other places.", "Gwent Police said it issued six fixed penalty tickets for breach Covid regulations on Friday night\n\nWales' second national lockdown is more challenging to police than the first because people are \"fatigued\" with Covid, a police chief has warned.\n\nBut Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime commissioner said it was important people took \"personal responsibility\".\n\nPeople can leave home for limited reasons, including to provide care, buy food and medication, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nA further 16 deaths of people with coronavirus were reported in Wales on Saturday - the highest total since 28 May - while 1,324 more people tested positive.\n\nAll but essential shops have closed and on Friday supermarkets began covering up non-essential goods, which the Welsh Retail Consortium labelled an \"ill-conceived policy\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said supermarkets should also stop selling items such as clothes as a matter of \"fairness\" to non-essential shops that have closed.\n\nHowever a Senedd petition against the move has become the fourth-ever to be signed by more than 45,000 people, and will be considered for a debate in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nJodi Merry, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, said the ban has come at an awkward time as she was planning to buy new clothes, including winter pyjamas, for her eight-year-old son after she gets paid next week.\n\n\"Everything is essential when it's something you desperately need,\" she said.\n\nPlastic has been seen over goods in supermarkets including clothes, microwaves and cat baskets\n\nTravel into or out of Wales to go on holiday or to visit a second home is illegal under the rules, and people are being told only to travel for \"essential reasons\".\n\nDyfed-Powys Police and Crime commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said: \"The public... I guess there's fatigue that has set in in relation to the rules and regulations.\n\n\"Which is why it's really important we get the message out for people to take personal responsibility.\"\n\nHe said officers would be engaging and educating the public in the first instance and enforcement would only happen at the \"latter stage of that process\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Law Society of England and Wales, which represents solicitors, said it was keen to make people aware of the powers that enforcement officers have during the firebreak.\n\nIt said police had the power to enter homes and other premises if they have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the lockdown restrictions are being contravened or are about to be contravened.\n\nIts president David Greene said: \"These are extraordinary powers and it is important that the public are fully informed about them so that they don't fall foul of them inadvertently.\n\n\"It is vital that laws of this nature are both visible and understandable.\n\n\"We will be concerned to ensure they are being used in a proportionate fashion.\"\n\nResponding to these concerns, Mr Llywelyn said: \"I think it's really important for the police to act in a proportionate way.\n\n\"We mustn't also forget that we're in an emergency situation with this being a global pandemic so these are short-term measures that are here to safeguard the communities across the whole of Wales.\"\n\nChief constables in England and Wales have received an extra £30m to pay for overtime costs\n\nDyfed-Powys Police tweeted it was not patrolling the border with England, but officers were out across the road network and in communities.\n\n\"Truth be told, we're really hoping that we can all work together to do what we've been asked to do,\" it added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heddlu Dyfed-Powys Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGwent Police tweeted its motorcyclists had carried out proactive patrols on Friday night.\n\nIt said it stopped 10 \"vehicles of interest\", issued six fixed penalty tickets for breach Covid regulations and arrested a driver for driving while under the influence of cannabis.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Gwent Police | Operations & Support This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople can be issued a fixed penalty notice \"for most types of breaches\" and fined £60 for the first offence.\n\nThat fine is increased to £120 for a second offence and continues to double for repeated offences, up to a maximum of £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nEnforcing the restrictions puts huge pressure on police resources. Crime has returned to levels last seen before the March lockdown - which means the frontline is stretched once more.\n\nChief constables in England and Wales have received an extra £30m to pay for overtime costs.\n\nBut to limit demands on officers, a policing model they call \"The Four Es\" remains in place.\n\nBefore fines are issued to rule-breakers, police will first take a number of steps:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How many cases and deaths in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out are where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA – data updated weekly. are people who have tested positive for coronavirus. The \"average area\" means the middle ranking council or local government district when ranked by cases per 100,000 people. Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Source: UK public health bodies - updated weekdays.", "The covid crisis is on track to cut average pay packets by £1,200 a year by 2025, according to new analysis.\n\nThe prediction comes from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focused on improving living standards for people on low-to-middle incomes.\n\nIt comes a day after Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned unemployment could surge to 2.6 million by mid-2021.\n\nThe economic downturn will continue to squeeze living standards in Britain warned the foundation.\n\n\"The Covid crisis is causing immense damage to the public finances, and permanent damage to family finances too, with pay packets on track to be £1,200 a year lower than pre-pandemic expectations,\" warned Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation.\n\nIts new research published on Thursday, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, says that \"the combined effects of weaker pay growth and higher unemployment will serve to prolong Britain's living standards squeeze\".\n\nIts analysis shows household incomes have been growing at a slower pace even before the pandemic.\n\nThey are on course to grow just 10% during the 15 years from the start of the 2008 global financial crisis until 2023.\n\nBut household incomes grew by a much higher 40% in the 15 years leading up to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What you need to know about Chancellor Rishi Sunak's speech – in two minutes\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says further pressure will come next April, when about six million households will lose more than £1,000 through reduced Universal Credit payments.\n\nIt also warned the bulk of the government's extra spending to deal with the \"economic emergency\" will need to come from tax rises.\n\n\"While the priority now is to support the economy, the permanent damage to the public finances mean taxes will rise in future,\" added Mr Bell.\n\n\"The pandemic is just the latest of three 'once in a lifetime' economic shocks the UK experienced in a little over a decade, following the financial crisis and Brexit,\" he added.\n\n\"The result is an unprecedented 15-year living standards squeeze.\"\n\nIn Mr Sunak's Spending Review he pledged £280bn this year to help get the country through the pandemic downturn.\n\n\"But which taxes those will be, like which Brexit we can expect, are questions the chancellor left for another day.\"\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the UK economy is predicted to shrink by 11.3% in 2020, which has been described as the \"largest fall in output for more than 300 years\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.\n\nThe former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.\n\nHe had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.\n\nMaradona was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, scoring the famous 'Hand of God' goal against England in the quarter-finals.\n• None 'To be Maradona was incredibly beautiful, but also hard'\n\nArgentina and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi paid tribute to Maradona, saying he was \"eternal\".\n\n\"A very sad day for all Argentines and football,\" said Messi. \"He leaves us but does not leave, because Diego is eternal.\n\n\"I keep all the beautiful moments lived with him and I send my condolences to all his family and friends.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, the Argentine Football Association expressed \"its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend\", adding: \"You will always be in our hearts.\"\n\nDeclaring three days of national mourning, Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina, said: \"You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of them all.\n\n\"Thank you for having existed, Diego. We're going to miss you all our lives.\"\n\nMaradona played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side. He started his career with Argentinos Juniors, also playing for Sevilla, and Boca Juniors and Newell's Old Boys in his homeland.\n\nHe scored 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina, representing them in four World Cups.\n\nMaradona led his country to the 1990 final in Italy, where they were beaten by West Germany, before captaining them again in the United States in 1994, but was sent home after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.\n\nDuring the second half of his career, Maradona struggled with cocaine addiction and was banned for 15 months after testing positive for the drug in 1991.\n\nHe retired from professional football in 1997, on his 37th birthday, during his second stint at Argentine giants Boca Juniors.\n\nHaving briefly managed two sides in Argentina during his playing career, Maradona was appointed head coach of the national team in 2008 and left after the 2010 World Cup, where his side were beaten by Germany in the quarter-finals.\n\nHe subsequently managed teams in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico and was in charge of Gimnasia y Esgrima in Argentina's top flight at the time of his death.\n\nBrazil legend Pele led tributes to Maradona, writing on Twitter: \"What sad news. I lost a great friend and the world lost a legend. There is still much to be said, but for now, may God give strength to family members. One day, I hope we can play ball together in the sky.\"\n\nFormer England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, who was part of the England team beaten by Argentina at the 1986 World Cup, said Maradona was \"by some distance, the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time\".\n\nEx-Tottenham and Argentina midfielder Ossie Ardiles said: \"Thank dear Dieguito for your friendship, for your football, sublime, without comparison. Simply, the best football player in the history of football. So many enjoyable moments together. Impossible to say which one was the best. RIP my dear friend.\"\n\nJuventus and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo said: \"Today I bid farewell to a friend and the world bids farewell to an eternal genius. One of the best of all time. An unparalleled magician. He leaves too soon, but leaves a legacy without limits and a void that will never be filled. Rest in peace, ace. You will never be forgotten.\"\n\nBoca Juniors, where Maradona enjoyed two spells and finished his career, gave \"eternal thanks\" to their former player.\n\nParis St-Germain and Brazil forward Neymar posted a photo of him as a youngster with Maradona, calling the Argentine a \"legend of football\".\n\nBarcelona was the first club outside of Argentina that Maradona played for. He scored 22 goals in 36 appearances between 1982 and 1984.\n\nAnother of Maradona's former clubs, Napoli, paid tribute. He played for the club between 1984 and 1991, making 188 appearances.\n\n'It was in football he found his peace' - analysis\n\nHe was an everyman Argentine, who lived out a national fantasy with the way he scored his two goals in that 1986 quarter-final win over England.\n\nScoring those goals, against that opponent, turned Maradona almost into a deity in the eyes of some of his compatriots - with disastrous consequences. Living the aftermath was not easy.\n\nWithout the discipline of football, the second half of his life was a chaotic affair.\n\nBut it was in football that he seemed to find his peace. As a fan he would turn up at the stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors, take off his shirt, swirl it around his head and lead the chanting.\n\nFor many his spontaneity and fallibility were part of the appeal.\n\nHis admirers thrived on the way he would fall down only to get back up again. It humanised a figure whose epic life was as mazy as one of his left-footed dribbles.\n• None 'He just shrugged you off like a rag doll' - what was it like to face Maradona?", "The Ischgl resort in Austria was linked to outbreaks earlier this year\n\nGermany is seeking an agreement with EU countries to keep ski resorts closed until early January, in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel told parliament that efforts were being made to reach a Europe-wide decision.\n\nItaly and France have expressed support for a co-ordinated approach. But Austria has voiced concern.\n\nSome of the early European coronavirus hotspots were at ski resorts, helping spread infections across the continent.\n\nLast week, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Europe faced a \"tough\" six months , amid mounting cases. Renewed restrictions have led to a reduction in new infections in some countries, but there are fears the pandemic could worsen over the winter.\n\nLike Germany, Italy has also stressed the need for a united approach on the issue of ski resorts, and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has already backed delaying the start of the ski season.\n\n\"If Italy decided to shut down all its ski lifts without any support from France, Austria and the other countries, then Italian tourists would risk going abroad and taking the contagion back home,\" he told La7 TV earlier this week.\n\nMany Italians head for the slopes over the Christmas and New Year break and the period is a vital part of the local economy for ski resorts across Europe.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made clear that the country's ski resorts will stay shut until the New Year. Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday he wanted to see the coronavirus rules for ski resorts \"harmonised at European level as much as possible\".\n\nFrance plans to ease its current national lockdown in three phases through to the end of January. Most restrictions will be eased for a few days over Christmas. Mr Castex said \"this family celebration cannot take place without grandparents being present\".\n\nBut Austria has voiced concern over any EU-wide plan for ski resorts, with Finance Minister Gernot Blümel saying that if the EU forced the resorts to remain closed, \"then they will have to pay for it\". Compensation would run into billions of euros.\n\nAustria's government is already facing legal action over the Ischgl ski village, which was linked to cases in 45 countries after skiers brought the virus home with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\nSwitzerland is not in the European Union and, unlike other Alpine destinations, its ski resorts are already open, so skiers unable to spend their winter breaks in neighbouring countries could head there instead.\n\nSki lifts are running, with a requirement to wear masks, prompting criticism from WHO Covid-19 envoy David Nabarro. \"Once infection rates sink, and they will sink, then we can be as free as we want. But right now? Should ski resorts open? Under what conditions?\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Merkel has also defended the decision to extend Germany's partial lockdown until 20 December, announced on Wednesday.\n\nThe stricter rules will limit private gatherings to five people from two households coming into effect from next week - although children under the age of 14 are exempt.\n\nGerman leaders have also unveiled plans for Christmas, with meetings of up to 10 people allowed from 23 December until 1 January.\n\nAddressing the Bundestag - Germany's lower house - on Thursday, Mrs Merkel said the tight restrictions must remain for now because the goal was still to get down to a maximum weekly rate of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.\n\nBut in 62 areas, including Berlin, the figure was above 200, she said. \"Unfortunately we have to say that we cannot promise any relief for Christmas and the New Year,\" the chancellor said.", "Video showed Kylie Moore-Gilbert being driven away in a mini-van\n\nA British-Australian academic serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been freed, with Tehran saying it was a swap for three jailed Iranians.\n\nIn a statement, Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanked those who had worked for her release and said that leaving Iran was \"bittersweet\".\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert, a lecturer at Melbourne University, had been detained in Iran since September 2018.\n\nShe was tried in secret and strongly denied all the charges against her.\n\nAccording to Iranian state media, she was exchanged for an Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens \"who had been detained abroad\". They have not yet been named.\n\nNews of the exchange first came on Wednesday in a statement on the website of the Young Journalist Club, a news website affiliated to state television in Iran.\n\n\"An Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens who were detained abroad on baseless charges were exchanged for a dual national spy named Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who worked for the Zionist regime,\" it said.\n\nVideo of the exchange was published by state broadcaster IRIB news and the Tasnim website.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by باشگاه خبرنگاران جوان | YJC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 footage, which had no commentary, showed Dr Moore-Gilbert wearing a grey hijab and being driven away in a mini-van. Three men are seen being met by officials. One is in a wheelchair.\n\nIn a statement released hours later, Dr Moore-Gilbert thanked Australian officials who had worked \"tirelessly\" to secure her release.\n\n\"Thank you also to all of you who have supported me and campaigned for my freedom, it has meant the world to me to have you behind me throughout what has been a long and traumatic ordeal,\" she said.\n\n\"I have nothing but respect, love and admiration for the great nation of Iran and its warm-hearted, generous and brave people. It is with bittersweet feelings that I depart your country, despite the injustices which I have been subjected to. I came to Iran as a friend and with friendly intentions, and depart Iran with those sentiments not only still intact, but strengthened.\"\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she was \"extremely pleased and relieved\" at the release of Dr Moore-Gilbert which she said \"was achieved through diplomatic engagement with the Iranian government\". She made no reference to any exchange of prisoners.\n\n\"The Australian government has consistently rejected the grounds on which the Iranian government arrested, detained and convicted Dr Moore-Gilbert. We continue to do so,\" she said in a statement.\n\nSenator Payne said Dr Moore-Gilbert would \"soon be reunited with her family\" but did not specify when she would be returning to Australia.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert had been travelling on an Australian passport when she was detained at Tehran airport in 2018 as she tried to leave following a conference.\n\nIn letters smuggled out of Tehran's Evin prison earlier this year, the Cambridge-educated academic said she had \"never been a spy\" and feared for her mental health. She said she had rejected an offer from Iran to become a spy.\n\n\"I am not a spy. I have never been a spy, and I have no interest to work for a spying organisation in any country,\" she wrote.\n\nConcerns for her wellbeing escalated in August when news emerged that she had been transferred to Qarchak, a notorious prison in the desert.\n\nShe was visited shortly afterwards by Australia's ambassador to Iran, Lyndall Sachs, who reported that she was \"well\".\n\nKylie Moore-Gilbert was reported to have been in solitary confinement and on several hunger strikes while in Evin prison in Tehran\n\nIran has detained a number of foreign nationals and Iranian dual citizens in recent years, many of them on spying charges. Human rights groups have accused Tehran of using the cases as leverage to try to gain concessions from other countries.\n\nBritish-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed on spying charges in 2016. She has always maintained her innocence.\n\n\"Nazanin and I are really happy for Kylie and her family,\" he told the BBC. \"They have been through so much, borne with such dignity. And it is an early Christmas present for us all, that one more of us is out and on their way home, one more family can begin to heal.\"\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\nKate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, said news of Dr Moore-Gilbert's release was \"an enormous relief\".\n\n\"There may now be renewed grounds for hoping that UK-Iranian dual-nationals like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will also be released from their unjust jail terms in Iran in the coming days or weeks,\" she said.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori, a retired civil engineer from London, was jailed for 10 years in July 2019 after being convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.", "M4 congestion at Newport is \"very much a commuter problem\", Lord Burns says\n\nMore investment in public transport is needed in south east Wales to ease congestion on the M4, the man asked to look at possible solutions has said.\n\nLord Burns is leading a commission on the issue after the first minister ditched plans for a £1.6bn M4 relief road around Newport last summer.\n\nHe said on Thursday that for many commuters the car was currently the only option for travelling to work.\n\nA congestion charge could be needed to address the issue, Lord Burns added.\n\nGiving evidence to the assembly's Economy Committee, Lord Burns said his commission had looked at traffic patterns on the M4 and found there was \"a very clear picture\" that the congestion is \"to a significant degree a symptom of a lack of alternative transport options\".\n\nThe congestion was \"very much a commuter problem\", he said, with around two thirds of the morning traffic heading east to west between junctions 24 and 29 consisting of people travelling to Cardiff and Newport.\n\n\"For many people there is no alternative or convenient way of getting to and from work other than by car,\" he said.\n\n\"The costs would be much higher and the journey times much longer if they tried to go by some other means.\"\n\nLord Burns said people need alternatives to cars before they are charged for using roads\n\nLord Burns said his \"overwhelming conclusion\" was that \"the public transport network is heavily under-invested in compared to what is needed\".\n\nHe also said the flow of traffic on the M4 had increased \"quite markedly\" since the tolls were scrapped on the Prince of Wales bridge in December 2018.\n\nAsked about congestion charging, Lord Burns said it was important to provide people with feasible alternatives first.\n\n\"If you provide people with alternatives then I think road pricing is not only possible but it could well be a necessary part of the package.\"\n\nCardiff Council has recently revealed proposals for introducing a congestion charge on drivers travelling into the city.\n\nLord Burns emphasised that his commission was not being asked to assess how potential solutions would compare with the scrapped relief road scheme.\n\nHe also said it would not be looking at a new \"motorway-style solution\".\n\nThe commission hopes to make its recommendations to the Welsh Government before the end of the year.\n\nLord Burns said it will consider a range of factors including carbon emissions, air quality and value for money.", "Tougher rules for England will \"strike a balance\" when the national lockdown ends next week, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAt a Downing Street briefing, the PM acknowledged that the stricter three-tiered system of regional measures to tackle coronavirus would bring \"heartbreak and frustration\".\n\nBut he said \"your tier is not your destiny\" and stressed that \"every area has the means of escape\".\n\nMost of England will be in the toughest two levels of measures from 2 December.\n\nThe system will be reviewed every two weeks, with the first review scheduled for 16 December - so an area's tier level may change before Christmas.\n\nHowever, it means 55 million people will remain banned from mixing with other households indoors after the lockdown ends.\n\nMore than a third of England's population, including large parts of the Midlands, North East and North West, as well as Kent, will be in the highest level - tier three.\n\nAnd the majority of places are in the second highest level - tier two - including London, and Liverpool city region.\n\nThe Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - where there have been no recorded cases in the past week - will be the only areas of England in the lowest level of curbs - tier one.\n\nThe new tier restrictions will be voted on by MPs next week, with a revolt already brewing among the government's own backbenchers.\n\nMeanwhile, hospitality bosses have warned the sector will be \"decimated\" by the new tiers.\n\nOn Thursday, another 498 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK, and a further 17,555 positive cases, the latest figures showed.\n\nThe prime minister warned that easing off risked \"losing control, casting aside our hard-won gains and forcing us back into a new year national lockdown\".\n\nHe said there was \"no doubt the restrictions in all tiers are tough\" but admitted previous tiers \"were never quite enough\".\n\nThe new approach was \"designed to reduce\" the R number - the average number of people an infected person will pass the disease on to - \"below one\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson said mass community testing would be offered to tier three areas \"as quickly as possible\" and hailed Liverpool City region as a \"success story\", where mass testing had brought the area down to tier two.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the PM to clarify \"what was the point\" of the second national lockdown, if more people were facing tougher rules than before it began.\n\nMr Johnson insisted this was \"not continuing the lockdown\".\n\n\"Across all tiers, shops will be open, hairdressers, personal services will be open, gyms will be functioning, places of worship will be open for communal worship as well, so this is a very different thing,\" he said.\n\nThe PM added: \"And I'm convinced that by April things genuinely will be much, much better.\"\n\nSome cold hard truths are emerging about the government's approach to controlling coronavirus.\n\nMuch about today's announcement was familiar.\n\nA promise of hope on the horizon followed by a dose of reality about the spread of the virus and tough measures taken as a result.\n\nBut months on from the arrival of Covid-19, the once solid political consensus over the response to the pandemic has worn thin.\n\nNow new measures are met with Conservative MPs up in arms and cutting criticism from the opposition.\n\nBut wearily, reluctantly, the prime minister has clearly priced all that in and come to the view that tighter restrictions are needed for many more months before things can even begin to get back to something like normal.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty and its chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance have warned against hugging and kissing elderly relatives this Christmas.\n\nSpeaking at the news conference, Prof Whitty said people's behaviour at Christmas would \"matter a great deal\" this year.\n\n\"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss elderly relatives? No, I would not,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not against the law. You can do it within the rules that are there, but it does not make sense because you could be carrying the virus.\"\n\nSir Patrick echoed his remarks, saying \"hugging elderly relatives is not something to go out and do\" over the festive season.\n\nProf Whitty also said tier two would \"hold the line\" but not bring cases down - prompting scepticism from Conservative MP Mark Harper about the PM's claim that \"your tier is not your destiny\".\n\nMr Harper, whose Forest of Dean constituency is in tier two, tweeted: \"Unfortunately, just after the PM said this, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, said tier two would only hold infections level, and tier one would see them go up.\n\n\"That rather suggests if you're in tier two, it is your destiny - at least until the spring.\"\n\nDifferences between the new tiers include restrictions on where households can meet up:\n\nGyms and close-contact beauty services like hairdressers will be able to open in all tiers. People in all tiers who can work from home, should continue to do so.\n\nPubs in tier two can only open to serve \"substantial meals\", while those in tier three can only operate as a takeaway or delivery service.\n\nDecisions on tiers are based on public health recommendations informed by a series of public health data, including Covid-19 cases among the over-60s, positivity rates, pressure on the NHS and how quickly cases are rising or falling.\n\nBBC analysis shows a north-south divide in England when it comes to restrictions:\n\nDevolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, though all four UK nations have agreed a joint plan for Christmas.\n\nEarlier, data from the Office for National Statistics showed coronavirus infection rates in England were continuing to show signs of levelling off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran TV shows release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert in exchange for three Iranians imprisoned abroad (November 2020 report)\n\nA British-Australian academic who has been freed from jail in Iran has thanked supporters for getting her through \"a long and traumatic ordeal\".\n\nKylie Moore-Gilbert has consistently denied accusations of espionage since her arrest in Iran in September 2018.\n\nShe had been serving a 10-year sentence but was released in a swap for three jailed Iranians, Tehran said.\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert's family said they were \"relieved and ecstatic\" that she was free.\n\nThe Melbourne University lecturer had been travelling on an Australian passport in 2018 when she was detained at Tehran airport as she tried to leave following a conference.\n\nConcerns for her wellbeing escalated in August when news emerged that she had been transferred to Qarchak, a notorious prison in the desert.\n\nOn Thursday, Dr Moore-Gilbert said Australian officials had worked \"tirelessly\" to secure her freedom. She thanked them and other supporters who had \"meant the world to me\" while in detention.\n\nKylie Moore-Gilbert was reported to have been on several hunger strikes while in Evin prison in Tehran\n\n\"I have nothing but respect, love and admiration for the great nation of Iran and its warm-hearted, generous and brave people,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"It is with bittersweet feelings that I depart your country, despite the injustices which I have been subjected to. I came to Iran as a friend and with friendly intentions, and depart Iran with those sentiments not only still intact, but strengthened.\"\n\nThe Cambridge-educated scholar - who was tried in secret - had endured \"over 800 days of incredible hardship\", her family added.\n\n\"We cannot convey the overwhelming happiness that each of us feel at this incredible news,\" they said in a statement released by the Australian government.\n\nAccording to Iranian state media, she was exchanged for an Iranian businessman and two Iranian citizens \"who had been detained abroad\". They have not yet been named.\n\nVideo of the apparent exchange was published by state broadcaster IRIB news and the Tasnim website.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by باشگاه خبرنگاران جوان | YJC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 footage, which had no commentary, showed Dr Moore-Gilbert wearing a grey hijab and being driven away in a mini-van. Three men are seen being met by officials. One is in a wheelchair.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declined to comment on whether a swap had taken place, but said no-one had been released in Australia.\n\n\"The injustice of her detention and her conviction, Australia has always rejected, and I'm just so pleased that Kylie's coming home,\" he told local network Nine.\n\nIn letters smuggled out of Tehran's Evin prison earlier this year, Dr Moore-Gilbert said she had \"never been a spy\" and feared for her mental health. She said she had rejected an offer from Iran to become a spy.\n\n\"I am not a spy. I have never been a spy, and I have no interest to work for a spying organisation in any country,\" she wrote.\n\nShe was later visited by Australia's ambassador to Iran, Lyndall Sachs, who reported that she was \"well\".\n\nDr Moore-Gilbert was reported to have spent long periods in solitary confinement and undertaken hunger strikes while in detention.\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the release \"was achieved through diplomatic engagement with the Iranian government\".\n\nShe added Dr Moore-Gilbert would \"soon be reunited with her family\" but did not specify when she would be returning to Australia.\n\nMelbourne University Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell said he was \"delighted\" at the news, adding: \"We have waited a long time for this day.\"\n\nIran has detained a number of foreign nationals and Iranian dual citizens in recent years, many of them on spying charges. Human rights groups have accused Tehran of using the cases as leverage to try to gain concessions from other countries.\n\nBritish-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed on spying charges in 2016. She has always maintained her innocence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\n\"Nazanin and I are really happy for Kylie and her family,\" he told the BBC. \"They have been through so much, borne with such dignity. And it is an early Christmas present for us all, that one more of us is out and on their way home, one more family can begin to heal.\"\n\nKate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, said news of Dr Moore-Gilbert's release was \"an enormous relief\".\n\n\"There may now be renewed grounds for hoping that UK-Iranian dual-nationals like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will also be released from their unjust jail terms in Iran in the coming days or weeks,\" she said.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori, a retired civil engineer from London, was jailed for 10 years in July 2019 after being convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.", "Online fashion retailer Boohoo has appointed a former High Court judge to examine its business practices.\n\nSir Brian Leveson, who is best known for leading the inquiry into press ethics after the phone hacking scandal, will chair an independent review of the company's supply chain and ethics.\n\nIt follows allegations that one of Boohoo's suppliers was paying workers less than the minimum wage.\n\nIt was also alleged the supplier failed to protect workers against Covid-19.\n\nBoohoo admitted there were failings in its supply chain and said it was committed to raising standards and monitoring its suppliers more closely.\n\nIts group chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said the appointment of Sir Brian, along with auditors KPMG, would bring \"independent oversight, additional expertise and further transparency to a programme that will help us on our journey to lead the fashion e-commerce market globally in a transparent manner\".\n\nThe company says Sir Brian will work with a team of legal and compliance specialists.\n\nIn July, the Sunday Times reported that workers in a Leicester factory which supplied Boohoo were working for as little as £3.50 an hour and that few of its workers were wearing face masks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nAt the time Boohoo said that if the the allegations were true, conditions were \"totally unacceptable\" and it promised a thorough investigation.\n\nThe company set up a review into its working practices led by Alison Levitt QC. She concluded that, while the problems in Leicester garment factories were long-standing, Boohoo had not taken enough responsibility for scrutinising its suppliers and had chased profit at the expense of other obligations.\n\nMahmud Kamani and Carol Kane set up Boohoo in 2006\n\nMr Kamani, who is now a billionaire, set up Boohoo in 2006 with designer Carol Kane to sell clothes directly, and cheaply, to shoppers.\n\nDuring lockdown the company saw a surge in sales and it reported a 51% jump in profits for the year to the end of August.\n\nBut after the allegations that workers in the factory that was supplying Boohoo's Nasty Gal brand were being exploited, several of Boohoo's best known clients dropped it, with Next, Asos and Berlin-based Zalando all removing Boohoo clothes from their websites.\n\nSir Brian will report to Boohoo's board and has promised to provide regular, publicly available progress reports.\n\n\"Boohoo has recognised that it must institute and embed change so that everyone involved in the group's supply chain is treated fully in accordance with the law and the principles of ethical trading,\" he said.", "Michel Barnier at St Pancras railway station in London on Friday\n\nThe UK and EU will resume face-to-face Brexit trade talks in London this weekend, as negotiators race to reach a deal before a looming deadline.\n\nIt comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier left a period of self-isolation after a colleague tested positive for Covid last week.\n\nAhead of travelling to the UK, he said the \"same significant divergences persist\" in negotiations.\n\nAfter arriving, he said he would work with \"patience and determination\".\n\nEarlier, Boris Johnson insisted the likelihood of a deal depended on the EU.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the prime minister told reporters that \"there's a deal there to be done if they want to do it\".\n\nBut he added \"substantial and important differences\" remained between the two sides, with just over a month left before a December deadline.\n\nNegotiators are striving to strike a deal to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in January 2021.\n\nTalks have been continuing via video link for the past week or so, after the positive Covid-19 test in a member of Mr Barnier's team.\n\nMr Barnier travelled to London after briefing EU ambassadors and members of the European Parliament on talks.\n\n\"In line with Belgian rules, my team and I are no longer in quarantine. Physical negotiations can continue,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAhead of in-person talks getting back under way, his UK counterpart Lord David Frost pledged to \"do my utmost\" see if a deal is possible.\n\n\"It is late, but a deal is still possible, and I will continue to talk until it's clear that it isn't,\" he tweeted on Friday.\n\nHe added that any deal would have to \"fully respect UK sovereignty,\" including over fishing waters and a regime for subsidising businesses.\n\n\"An agreement on any other basis is not possible,\" he added.\n\nIf the UK is holding off making compromises, in the hope of squeezing more last-minute concessions out of Brussels, it might be successful when it comes to fish.\n\nOn Friday, we heard talk of Michel Barnier being about to propose that between 15% and 18% of the fish quota caught in UK waters by EU fleets would be restored to the UK under a free trade agreement.\n\nThat was later dismissed by a number of European diplomats, as merely one of \"many proposals doing the rounds\".\n\nBut whatever happens on the fish front - and Brussels knows it has some big compromises to make - as much as the EU wants a deal with the UK, it's unlikely to let go of its insistence on two other issues: common competition regulations and a tough means of policing them.\n\nAsked about the chances of an agreement, Mr Johnson said the \"likelihood of a deal is very much determined by our friends and partners in the EU\".\n\nHe added that a trade agreement would \"benefit people on both sides of the Channel,\" but insisted the UK could \"prosper mightily\" without one.\n\n\"Everybody's working very hard - but clearly there are substantial and important differences to be bridged, but we're getting on with it.\"\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but it is continuing to follow the bloc's rules until the end of the year as part of an 11-month transition period.\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed by then, trading between the two will default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nThe EU and UK can keep negotiating if they want to after this, but the two sides would face import taxes on goods traded between them.\n\nThe UK would have no access to the EU's energy market, and no agreement on police and judicial co-operation.\n\nFishing has been a major flashpoint in the talks, along with post-Brexit competition rules and how any deal would be enforced.\n\nThe two sides are also at odds over how closely the UK should have to follow the EU's social, labour, and environmental standards after the transition.\n\nThey are also haggling over how any rules in this area - including on \"state aid\" support for businesses - would be enforced as part of the agreement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth was pronounced dead 10 days before her first birthday\n\nThe death of a premature baby in 2001 led to a \"20-year cover-up\" of mistakes by health workers, an independent inquiry has found.\n\nElizabeth Dixon, from Hampshire, died due to a blocked breathing tube shortly before her first birthday.\n\nThe government, which ordered the inquiry in 2017, said the mistakes in her care were \"shocking and harrowing\".\n\nThe inquiry report by Dr Bill Kirkup said some of those involved had been \"persistently dishonest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graeme and Anne Dixon have spent 20 years campaigning for answers\n\nElizabeth, known as Lizzie, died from asphyxiation after suffering a blockage in her tracheostomy tube while under the care of a private nursing agency at home.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who was appointed by the government to review the case, said her \"profound disability and death could have been avoided\".\n\nHe said: \"There were failures of care by every organisation that looked after her, none of which was admitted at the time, nor properly investigated then or later.\n\n\"Instead, a cover-up began on the day that she died, propped up by denial and deception.\"\n\nFrimley Park Hospital in Surrey, where Lizzie was born, initially failed to diagnose a tumour which probably led to brain damage, the report said.\n\nHer condition may have worsened due to mistakes at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which also arranged inadequate home care, it added.\n\nDr Kirkup said there was \"clear evidence that some individuals have been persistently dishonest... and that this extended to formal statements to police and regulatory bodies.\"\n\nHe said a \"failed\" police investigation and a refusal by some health workers to give evidence to the inquiry should be investigated by professional bodies.\n\nPublishing the report, health minister Nadine Dorries said it described a \"harrowing and shocking series of mistakes associated with the care received by Elizabeth and a response to her death that was completely inadequate and at times inhumane\".\n\nThe baby's parents, Anne and Graeme Dixon, from Church Crookham, said further evidence of wrong-doing was not used by the inquiry.\n\nThey said: \"While we are pleased to see... that some of the blatant lies, deception and cover-ups of mistakes and incompetence have been called out, we are disappointed that certain aspects of Lizzie's care and the cover-up have not been addressed.\"\n\nDr Timothy Ho, medical director at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"We welcome the publication of this report and would like once again to offer our sincere and heartfelt apologies to Elizabeth's family.\n\n\"Our care for neonatal infants, our support for bereaved parents and how we investigate concerns have changed beyond recognition over the past 19 years, but we will carefully consider the report and its recommendations with a commitment to taking any action that is needed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Great Ormond Street Hospital said it was working to \"identify the actions we need to take to learn from this case\".\n\n\"It is clear that Elizabeth and her family have been let down at so many points during her life and following her death and we are very sorry for our role in this,\" the spokesperson added.", "Nineteen-year-old Marian Vasilica Dragoi was caught reaching 180 mph on his motorbike in southern England.\n\nA police helicopter filmed the events leading up to Dragoi's arrest, which happened after he rode on the wrong side of a motorway to get fuel from a service station.\n\nAt Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court he pleaded guilty to offences including dangerous driving and is due to be sentenced in January.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Coronavirus infection rates in England are continuing to show signs of levelling off - but the picture across the UK is mixed, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, infections have been decreasing in recent weeks - but in Scotland, they seem to be rising.\n\nAfter lockdown ends in England, most areas face tougher tier restrictions.\n\nMost will be in tier two - high alert, including London and Liverpool.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the devolved administrations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, though all four UK nations have agreed a joint plan for Christmas.\n\nIn England, decisions on post-lockdown tiers are based on how fast case rates are falling or rising in different areas, as well as numbers affected in the over-60s.\n\nWith the second lockdown having started on 5 November, Prof Kevin McConway, statistics expert from the Open University, says it might seem disappointing that progress to reduce infections hadn't been faster.\n\n\"People continue to give positive test results, on average, for at least 10 days after they were first infected, so some of the people who tested positive in the most recent week would have been infected before the English lockdown began,\" he said.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on thousands of people tested for the virus in households across the UK, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\nOf those tested in the week to 21 November, one person tested positive out of every:\n\nAccording to the ONS estimates, rates in England increased in the East Midlands and North East that week, while continuing to fall in the North West.\n\nIn the east of England, London, the South East and South West, rates now appear to be decreasing too.\n\nThe areas with the highest number of people infected per head of population are Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West and North East.\n\nSecondary-school-age children and young adults are seeing the highest infection rates.\n\nThis information is based on a relatively small number of people testing positive in each age group and region, so there is a wide margin for error.\n\nIn Scotland, an estimated 45,700 people had the virus in the week to 21 November - one person in every 115, up from one in 155 the previous week.\n\nBut the ONS says the results are based on modelling and \"should be interpreted with caution\".\n\nThe ONS figures are one source of data which helps the government's scientific advisers estimate the reproduction (R) number of the virus every week.\n\nAnother source is the Covid symptom study app, which suggests there has been a fall in new UK daily symptomatic cases - from 34,279 to 29,311 - over the two weeks up to 22 November.\n\nThis estimate is based on one million people using the app every week.\n\nData from Public Health England shows rates of coronavirus cases are still rising in 45% of areas (shown as pink, red or dark red in the map), despite the second lockdown.\n\nHowever Dr Yvonne Doyle, PHE medical director, says \"there is now reason for hope\".\n\n\"Case rates have fallen across every age range and in all regions, and positivity in both pillars [NHS and community testing] has also decreased. Over time we can expect that to lead to fewer hospitalisations and deaths.\n\n\"The huge efforts people have made over the past few weeks are starting to pay off,\" Dr Doyle said.\n\nThe government's daily figures for confirmed UK cases of coronavirus are often much lower than the ONS numbers because they only count people with symptoms testing positive.\n\nOn Thursday, the government reported that 17,555 people tested positive and 498 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nOver the past week, that's a 25% reduction in cases. The number of patients admitted to hospital is also falling - but deaths continue to rise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Simon Read was found to have intentionally scanned the wrong barcode\n\nA police officer accused of trying to buy a £9.95 box of doughnuts for seven pence by sticking on a cheaper barcode has been sacked for gross misconduct.\n\nPC Simon Read, from Cambridgeshire Police, was found to have switched the price for the cakes at a Wisbech supermarket on 10 February.\n\nA misconduct hearing found he had breached professional standards of honesty and integrity.\n\nPC Read, who had denied the charges, was dismissed without notice.\n\nPC Read had previously worked at several royal weddings and a visit to Blenheim Palace by Donald Trump\n\nAt the two-day hearing in Peterborough PC Read said he had made an honest mistake at a Tesco Extra self-service till.\n\nWhile in uniform, he said he purchased four items from the store - the tray of 12 doughnuts, the carrots, a sandwich and a drink.\n\nThe hearing was told he scanned the carrots barcode twice and failed to scan the doughnuts barcode, paying around £4 for the items instead of about £14.\n\nHe said: \"I simply scanned where I believed the barcodes were and placed them down (in the bagging area).\"\n\nThe panel ruled his explanation was \"lacking in credibility\".\n\nA manager at Tesco Extra reported his \"suspicious\" actions to the police\n\nSharmistha Michaels, chairwoman of the disciplinary panel, said: \"On the balance of probabilities we are satisfied that PC Read did intentionally scan the wrong barcode.\"\n\nPC Read had previously said: \"I didn't check the screen. I wish I had have done.\"\n\nMs Michaels said CCTV footage showed him looking at it at the time as he selected his method of payment.\n\nShe added that if he intended to pay the correct price he could have checked that he scanned the right barcode and it if was a \"genuine mistake\" he had opportunities to put it right.\n\nHis actions were \"incompatible with his role as a police officer\".\n\nMark Ley-Morgan, a lawyer who set out the misconduct case, said it was \"an officer effectively stealing while in uniform\".\n\nCarolina Bracken, PC Read's lawyer, said he had an \"unblemished career\", had served in the armed forces, before he joined Cambridgeshire police in January and had served with Thames Valley Police from 2008.\n\nMs Bracken said the case weighed heavily on him and he had received prank calls in the night from people offering him doughnuts.\n\nPC Read has the right to appeal the decision.\n\nAfter the ruling the Jane Gyford, deputy Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police, said: \"The public should be able to trust that police officers in their duty will act with honesty and integrity at all times.\n\n\"I hope this outcome offers reassurance to our communities that our officers and staff will be held to account for their actions.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The now-scrapped relief road was proposed as a solution to tackling congestion on the M4 around Newport\n\n£800m should be invested in public transport to help ease traffic jams on the M4, a report has recommended.\n\nA commission was set up after Welsh ministers scrapped plans to build a £1.6bn relief road around Newport.\n\nTo encourage people out of their cars, its report suggested considering a \"workplace parking levy\" and ensuring public transport was \"affordable for all\".\n\nThe panel was told not to consider plans for another motorway.\n\nThe M4 around Newport is the fourth most congested stretch of road in the UK.\n\nThe South East Wales Transport Commission recommended tripling the number of train stations between Cardiff and the River Severn, from three to nine, as well as establishing bus and cycle route networks in Newport.\n\nIf all the recommendations were acted on, it suggested more than 90% of people in Cardiff and Newport would live \"within one mile of a rail station or rapid bus corridor\".\n\nThe report recommended better integration and coordination of rail and bus networks and integrated tickets across all services. Services should run every 15 minutes and stations should be more accessible on foot and for cyclists.\n\nCurrently, common M4 journeys are poorly served by public transport alternatives, it said, with Newport served particularly poorly by rail.\n\nIt said \"flexible office hubs\" should be established in major towns and cities, in order to support remote working.\n\nAlthough most M4 journeys cannot be substituted by walking or cycling because of their distance, the report said active travel had \"a key role\".\n\nThe commission suggested making walking or cycling the \"natural choice\" for the first and last mile of public transport journeys and recommend establishing \"a major cycleway\" linking Cardiff and Newport.\n\nAlthough travel habits have changed due to Covid-19, the report said those changes \"do not fundamentally alter\" the need for more transport options and claimed the pandemic provided \"an opportunity to prepare significant transport improvements while demand is reduced\".\n\nA 20% reduction in flow on the M4 would have a significant positive impact on journey times, it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Everything outside gets dirty and it affects our chests - it's dreadful.\"\n\nThe commission, chaired by Lord Burns, described its recommendations as \"ambitious yet achievable\".\n\nIt said its \"fast track\" recommendations - made in a progress update in December 2019 - were \"consistent\" with their final recommendations.\n\nThis included the introduction of a 50mph average speed control and more lane guidance on the westbound approach to the Brynglas tunnels in Newport.\n\nThe report said the cost of the recommendations would be between £600m and £800m:\n\nAt peak times, between 3,000 and 5,000 vehicles approach the Brynglas tunnels every hour.\n\nAlleviating congestion on the M4 by moving commuters and travellers on to public transport would benefit goods and services traffic which are less able to switch to other modes of transport, according to the report.\n\nEnvironmentalists had long-opposed the plans for the scrapped relief road\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford scrapped plans to build a £1.6bn relief road last year after declaring a climate emergency because of its environmental impact, as well as the effect on the public purse.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said in October the UK government had not ruled out bypassing the Welsh Government to build to road.\n\nThe commission said in principle it was in favour of road charging, but was not recommending this due to the absence of a UK-wide scheme, but said it should be considered again in future.\n\nThe UK government said it continued to believe that a relief road remained the \"most viable solution to the ongoing congestion problems\" around Newport.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The report is welcome and highlights the undoubted necessity for improvements in south Wales' transport infrastructure.\n\n\"The need to make improvements for people using the road and rail network is why the UK government launched its Union Connectivity Review last month.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Most of England is expected to be placed in the two toughest tiers of coronavirus restrictions when the national lockdown ends next Wednesday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the plans in the Commons later.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said she understood only a \"handful\" of areas would have the lowest level of restrictions, tier one.\n\nMost areas, including London, would be in tier two with \"significant numbers\" in tier three - the highest level.\n\nDifferences between the tiers include limits on where households can meet up - for instance, in the new tier one, the rule of six applies indoors and out. In tier two, the rule of six remains outdoors but there is no household mixing indoors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told BBC Breakfast the new tiers represent a \"tangible change compared to the last four weeks\" of lockdown in England.\n\n\"There are significant differences to that - more of our life can resume, more of our economic activity can resume,\" he said.\n\nThe system will be regularly reviewed and an area's tier level may change before Christmas - the first review is scheduled for 16 December.\n\nDecisions on tiers are based on public health recommendations informed by the following factors:\n\nAn area could be moved up a tier if these indicators are not improving, and likewise down to a lower one if they improve.\n\nMr Sunak said a meeting of the Cabinet would consider the new tiers on Thursday morning, before Mr Hancock addresses the Commons.\n\nThe final decisions will be made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the government said. He will lead a Downing Street news conference later.\n\nThe new system will be stricter than the previous one and more local authorities will be in higher tiers.\n\nMr Hancock has urged people to follow the rules so \"together we can get out of these tough measures\".\n\n\"I know for those of you faced with tier three restrictions this will be a particularly difficult time but I want to reassure you that we'll be supporting your areas with mass community testing and extra funding,\" he said.\n\nAreas placed in tier three will be eligible for rapid or \"lateral flow\" tests - which give results in about 20 minutes without the need for a lab - to help bring down infections and reduce restrictions.\n\nAnd they will be offered support by NHS Test and Trace and the armed forces to deliver a six-week rapid community testing programme.\n\nTier allocations will be reviewed for the first time by 16 December, allowing for \"the possibility of areas which continue to make progress in slowing the spread of the disease\" to be moved down a tier before Christmas, the government said.\n\nOn Wednesday, the government recorded another 696 UK deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, the highest daily figure reported since 5 May. Total deaths now stand at 56,533.\n\nA further 18,213 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were also reported.\n\nIt is clear the government is taking a tougher approach to regional tiers post lockdown.\n\nNot only has it beefed up the system - the top two tiers in particular have stricter rules for hospitality - but very few local authority areas will end up in the bottom tier with the most relaxed restrictions.\n\nBy the time England went into lockdown 170 local authority areas - well over half - were still in tier one, meaning mixing indoors was allowed.\n\nVery few will start there this time.\n\nThat's because an analysis by the University of East Anglia found the bottom tier was not effective at suppressing the virus.\n\nBut it did find the top two tiers had an impact.\n\nOne of the problems, it said, was that the government was too slow to move areas up a tier when infection rates started to rise.\n\nThe government will be much more cautious this time, starting from the premise that it is better to have areas in higher tiers and move them down over time rather than the reverse.\n\nBut for the public it means post-lockdown life will still see some very strict restrictions for the immediate future.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said it would be the \"right and sensible decision\" for the capital to be placed in tier two, as he warned that tier three would be a \"hammer blow\" to businesses.\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said he hoped the area - which was the first area of England to enter the highest tier in October - would not return to tier three restrictions.\n\nHe said the city region had made \"remarkable\" progress since being put into tier three, with infection rates in two areas dropping from about 750 per 100,000 people \"to 180 across the city region\".\n\nMayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the city's mass testing programme had enabled it to reduce infections.\n\nHe said the armed forces have been in the city for three weeks carrying out mass testing and bringing the virus \"back under control again\".\n\nMeanwhile, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said it was \"more likely than not\" his area would be put into tier three.\n\nHe said although infection numbers in Greater Manchester were still high, the rates were falling.\n\nElsewhere, Lancashire's council leaders have submitted a proposal to the government to divide the county into two different tiers when the lockdown ends next week - as coronavirus rates are lower in places like Lancaster and Wyre than they are in East Lancashire.\n\nA request has been made for Hyndburn, Rossendale, Burnley, Pendle and Preston to go into tier three restrictions while Fylde, Wyre, Lancaster, Chorley, South Ribble, Ribble Valley and West Lancashire would go into tier two.\n\nThis would mean there would be different restrictions on socialising and the hospitality sector in different parts of Lancashire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains the new three tier system for England\n\nMeanwhile, the Nightingale Hospital in Exeter will receive its first coronavirus patients on Thursday, officials have confirmed.\n\nThe 116-bed hospital built on the site of a former retail unit will treat people with Covid-19, taking patients transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust as it is \"very busy\".\n\nDevolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, though all four UK nations have agreed a joint plan for Christmas.\n\nIn Scotland, there is a new five-tier system of restrictions and all non-essential travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK is not allowed.\n\nThe Scottish government has also said that Christmas bubbles of three households there should contain no more than eight people. Children under 12 are not counted towards the eight.\n\nIn Wales, lockdown restrictions were eased on 9 November and current rules allow two households to form a bubble with up to 15 people able to meet for organised indoor activities.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland will go into a two-week circuit-break lockdown from 00:00 GMT on Friday 27 November.", "Extra funding announced for care services falls \"alarmingly short\" of the amount needed to meet demand, council directors in England have said.\n\nThe Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said the £1bn the chancellor announced for social care was \"fragmented\" and \"short-term\".\n\nIt said Covid-19 had led to a huge surge in demand for care services.\n\nCouncils will get £300m in new money for adult and children's services and be allowed to raise more in tax.\n\nLocal authorities will be able to levy an additional adult social care charge on council tax bills of up to 3%, specifically for the care of older and disabled people.\n\nIn his Spending Review on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak said these measures would mean councils had access to an extra £1bn to fund social care.\n\nHe said this was on top of the additional £1bn social care grant provided by the government this year, which would be maintained into 2021.\n\nADASS has previously warned of \"catastrophic consequences\" without immediate investment in the social care sector.\n\nIt said councils could run out of cash and care providers could go to the wall, with increased costs due to coronavirus pandemic exacerbating an existing crisis.\n\nIn a statement issued on Wednesday, ADASS president James Bullion said the organisation had hoped for a settlement that would have helped it \"stabilise\" care and support services, as well as greater equality with NHS staff.\n\n\"While we are still examining the detail, it seems as if the fragmented short-term funding announced by the chancellor falls alarmingly short,\" he said.\n\nMr Bullion said funding was needed to ensure \"care providers remain in business, staff are are paid a national care wage that properly rewards them for their amazing work, and carers get the vital breaks they need to keep going\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"I think it's a reasonable and proportionate response given the context\"\n\nHouseholds face a rise in council tax after Chancellor Rishi Sunak cut support for local authorities in his Spending Review, experts say.\n\nIn its analysis of Wednesday's review the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) said tax bills may have to increase by £70 per household on average.\n\nThe chancellor has given authorities the ability to raise council tax by 5%, IFS director Paul Johnson said.\n\n\"This was actually a tax-raising Spending Review,\" he said.\n\n\"The chancellor has chosen to reduce support to local authorities and has given them the ability to raise Council Tax by 5% instead.\n\n\"If they do, and they'll mostly probably need to, that will increase annual tax bills by an average of around £70 per household.\"\n\nThe Spending Review set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson said the review will feel like a return to austerity for many people.\n\nThe chancellor has imposed a \"pause\" in pay rises for at least 1.3 million public sector workers, telling the BBC that UK faced \"tough choices\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said it was a \"pretty austere\" Spending Review and means \"a tougher time for some public services than expected\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Thursday, Mr Sunak said: \"I've had to make some tough choices and what I couldn't do is justify an across-the-board rise in public sector pay.\"\n\nPrivate sector wages have fallen as jobs have been lost, hours have been cut and workers have been furloughed, he said. And he warned that unemployment could rise to 2.6 million by the middle of next year.\n\nPublic sector staff on less than £24,000 and some frontline NHS workers will get a wage rise.\n\nBut Mr Johnson questioned why the government was imposing a pay freeze on much of the public service as the financial benefits would be relatively low.\n\n\"There has been no top-up to NHS spending plans after next year,\" he said. \"This may not quite be a return to austerity, but for some public services it may not feel much different.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the chancellor appeared to be picking a fight with public sector workers over not very much money\n\nOn Wednesday, union leaders expressed fury at the pay, warning they would take industrial action to ensure members did not lose out.\n\nMr Johnson said the chancellor had picked a big fight over \"not very much money\" by freezing pay for public sector employees who did not work in the NHS, or who earned less than £24,000 a year.\n\nHe said: \"The decision to freeze public sector pay for some will probably save only between £1 and £2bn next year. The chancellor has perhaps picked a big fight over not very much money.\n\n\"And, as ever, in the public sector the decisions look driven by politics not by economics or the need to spend money either equitably or efficiently.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Resolution Foundation think-tank has warned that the Covid-crisis could dent average pay packets by £1,200.\n\n\"I am determined to protect jobs and this will help me protect jobs,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\nHe would not be drawn when asked about tax rises, only saying that the current level of spending was \"unsustainable\".\n\nSo far, the government has spent £280bn to support the economy through the pandemic, and is expected to spend a further £55bn next year.\n\nBut the UK economy is expected to shrink by 11.3% this year, the sharpest decline in 300 years, according to the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nIt is not expected to return to its pre-crisis size until the end of 2022.\n\nDespite being able to borrow at record-low rates, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Today programme he would aim to rein in debt.\n\n\"Once we get through this and have more certainty over the outlook we should look to restore our public finances to a strong position,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to make sure that when the next difficult thing comes along the government can respond.\"\n\nMr Sunak defended the government's decision to increase defence spending while cutting international aid from 0.7% of GDP to 0.5%, a move that prompted a junior minister to resign.\n\n\"We believe defence and security is important to this country,\" he said, adding that the law allows the aid budget to be cut under economic decline, despite the target being a Tory manifesto promise.\n\n\"We do intend to return to it. It's not a permanent change,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds says there will have to be higher taxes and spending cuts in the future if interest rates rise, making government borrowing more expensive.\n\nBut she said that the current focus must be on keeping people in work.\n\n\"I think government should be concentrated on protecting people's jobs right now, making sure that new jobs are created,\" she told the Today programme.\n\n\"We've got far, far lower ambitions around that than, for example, France and Germany. That's what government should be focused on right now because that economic damage will ultimately affect the size of our tax base as well as, of course, people's living standards.\"\n\nRichard Hughes, the chairman of the OBR, told the Today programme that this was \"a very serious moment\" for the UK and \"the biggest shock we've faced in three centuries and the biggest shock the global economy has faced in peacetime\".\n\nThe impact from the coronavirus is twice the size of the financial crisis in terms of its impact on the economy and the public purse, he said.\n\n\"It's something few people have faced in their lifetimes.\"\n\nOne of the longer-lasting effects on the economy is that people are out of work and aren't building their skills, a loss \"we don't get back when this crisis is over,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation has warned that the bulk of the government's extra spending to deal with the \"economic emergency\" will need to come from tax rises.\n\nThat is \"a matter for the government\", Mr Hughes said.", "American model Halima Aden says she is quitting runway modelling as it compromises her religious beliefs.\n\nThe 23-year-old has appeared on the cover of British Vogue, Vogue Arabia and Allure.\n\nWriting on Instagram, she said the coronavirus pandemic had given her time to stop and think about what her values are as a Muslim woman.\n\n\"Being a 'hijabi' is truly a journey with lots of highs and lows,\" she said.\n\nTalking about accepting modelling jobs that went against her religious views, she said: \"I can only blame myself for caring more about opportunity than what was actually at stake.\"\n\nShe added that problems came from there being a \"lack of Muslim women stylists\" within the industry who could understand why wearing a hijab was so important.\n\nShe's received support online from model sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid and also from Rihanna.\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\nHalima was born in a Kenyan refugee camp to Somali parents before moving to America aged six.\n\nShe was spotted by international modelling agency IMG Models at 18 while appearing in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant as a semi-finalist.\n\nShe was the first woman to wear a hijab in the pageant and soon became known for bringing a modest dress code to the world's most famous fashion week shows.\n\nShe's gone on to star in campaigns for Rihanna's Fenty Beauty and Kanye West's Yeezy brand.\n\nHalima, seen here modelling for Tommy Hilfiger, made her runway debut at 19 at New York Fashion Week\n\nIn her Instagram Stories, she praised Rihanna for letting her wear the hijab she wore to set.\n\nShe says she's compromised her religion many times as part of her job - including missing prayer times set out in the Islamic faith or agreeing to model without a hijab on, using another item of clothing to cover her head.\n\nShe added that she had \"sobbed\" in her hotel room after shooting some campaigns over not speaking up about what she thought was right.\n\n\"The truth is I was very uncomfortable,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"This just ain't me,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn February this year, she told the BBC: \"Modesty is not for one culture, it is not for one group of women. Modesty is the oldest fashion staple.\n\n\"It has been around since the beginning of time. It is going to be around for another 100 years. It's an option, just another option for people to participate in.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here", "Families on Universal Credit face \"agonising uncertainty\" after Rishi Sunak did not confirm what would happen to their benefits next year, campaigners say.\n\nUniversal Credit claimants were given a £20-a-week boost in response to the coronavirus pandemic in April.\n\nThe temporary rise is due to come to an end in April 2021.\n\nThe chancellor did not say whether the increase would be extended, or cut, in his spending review.\n\nSpeaking after delivering his statement to MPs, he said the increased payment would continue until next spring.\n\nHe added: \"Let's get through winter, see where we are with the virus and what the economy looks and decide then how best to support people.\n\n\"Everyone can rest assured we remain committed to making sure we look after the most vulnerable in our society.\"\n\nFootballer and anti-poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford tweeted: \"Is the Universal Credit uplift going to be taken away in April?\"\n\nPaul Noblet, from youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, said: \"The government's failure to commit to retaining the current uplift in Universal Credit is hugely disappointing and will weigh heavily on the minds of millions of people for whom the £20 a week increase has made a huge difference.\n\n\"There is still time for the government to reflect on this issue between now and the end of March and we urge them to think again.\"\n\nThe chancellor set out his spending priorities for the year ahead earlier, warning that unemployment is set to peak at 2.6 million next year, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.\n\nBut he faced criticism from opposition MPs for not mentioning what would happen to benefit rates in his speech.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Timms, chairman of the work and pensions committee, said: \"Millions of people on Universal Credit are now facing the Christmas period in agonising uncertainty, not knowing whether the government will cut their income by £20 a week next April.\n\n\"Meanwhile, those on older benefits, who have already missed out on the rise because the DWP's systems are too old-fashioned, will receive an increase of just 0.5% next year.\n\n\"The government must think again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bar chain owner Martin Greenhow: ''This is pure and simple business torture\"\n\nThe hospitality sector will be \"decimated\" by the new Covid tiers, according to bar chain owner Martin Greenhow, who says it \"isn't viable to operate\" under the conditions.\n\nMr Greenhow, who has bars in cities including Manchester, says the measures are \"a mortal blow\" to the sector.\n\nThe hospitality industry has warned that tens of thousands of businesses will close without extra support.\n\nIt comes as more pub groups have been forced to make additional job cuts.\n\nMitchells & Butlers, owner of the All Bar One and Harvester chains, revealed it had cut 1,300 jobs while Fuller Smith & Turner made 350 redundancies.\n\nThe government has set out what level of restrictions England's regions will face when lockdown ends with cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle put in the highest tiers.\n\nBut chains such as Mr Greenhow's Mojo bars were struggling even before the second lockdown in England, imposed on 5 November.\n\nOn the Friday before lockdown, Mr Greenhow's Manchester bar took £175. On the same Friday night a year before, it took £10,000.\n\nEven tier one means that bars have less than half the usual number of customers, he says.\n\n\"It's simply not a business model that can work,\" he adds. \"Right now, for hospitality, all the tiers are a version of waterboarding. We're allowed out for a brief gasp of fiscal oxygen, then we're slammed back down.\"\n\n\"This is pure and simple business torture.\"\n\nUK Hospitality boss Kate Nicholls said the sector is \"bearing the brunt of the pain of closure\" under the new Covid rules. She added that tens of thousands of businesses will close without additional support.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, pubs in tier 2 regions can only open if they serve substantial meals and households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nUnder tier 3, pubs and restaurants must close their doors but can offer takeaways.\n\nMs Nicholls said that 98% of its members were in areas with tier 2 or tier 3 coronavirus restrictions, and nearly nine in 10 \"say that they are not viable to operate at those level of restrictions\".\n\n\"Without additional support to sustain these businesses through this crisis, we are going to see tens of thousands of businesses closing and over a million job losses,\" she added.\n\nBirmingham City Council leader Ian Ward said hospitality and other businesses needed a \"meaningful package\" of support from the government so the economy can \"continue to function in an effective way\".\n\n\"The crisis faced by hospitality businesses across Birmingham is of particular concern from an economic perspective - a crisis that would have been exacerbated whether our city was placed in tier 2 or 3,\" said Mr Ward.\n\n\"Many businesses in this previously thriving sector are warning they may not survive the coming months if they are dealt the double blow of more restrictions and inadequate financial support.\"\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) described the imposition of the tier three level as \"devastating news\" for those areas.\n\n\"The government must compensate these businesses for the period of time they have been closed, and the loss of business suffered due to restrictions through the festive period,\" said NTIA chief executive Michael Kill.\n\nThe British pub industry sent a letter on Wednesday pleading with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to save the industry, which it said was facing \"the darkest of moments\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February, 60,000 tonnes slipped down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nMore than half a billion pounds could be needed to ensure the safety of 2,000 old coal tips in Wales over the next 10 years, the chancellor has been warned.\n\nIt follows calls for urgent action, following a 60,000 tonne landslide earlier this year in Rhondda.\n\nGeologists said Wales was more prone to these incidents and climate change \"may make that worse\".\n\nUK officials said they were working with the Welsh Government on flood relief, including funding for tips.\n\nThe incident above the village of Tylorstown followed heavy rain caused by Storm Dennis in February, which led to widespread flooding across areas including Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nOne historian said the landslide had evoked \"visceral\" emotions linked to the Aberfan disaster of 1966, which claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.\n\nA letter from Chris Bryant MP and Labour colleagues to Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed unpublished details from a review led by the Welsh Government, with the co-operation of the Coal Authority, councils and Natural Resources Wales.\n\nThe review is compiling a list of all sites in Wales and their risk status.\n\nMud and debris continued to fall on the hillside for days after the initial landslide\n\nIn October, the UK government provided £2.5m to help clean up and secure the Tylorstown site.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the cost of clear-ups and making Wales' coal tips safe was \"significantly more\".\n\nRepair work in Rhondda Cynon Taf is estimated at £82.5m in total.\n\nMr Bryant and fellow Welsh Labour MPs Beth Winter, Chris Elmore and Alex Davies-Jones said it would be \"unfair\" for the \"poorest communities in the UK to bear the full costs of this work\".\n\nThey fear another Tylorstown-like incident if the framework for funding the work is not done soon.\n\nThe letter also calls for the UK government to provide financial assistance to Rhondda Cynon Taf for urgent repair work to bridges, roads and culverts following Storm Dennis.\n\nThe UK government has previously said it is up to the Welsh Government to remediate the coal tips and \"get on\" with flood defence work.\n\nBut in a new statement, officials added: \"Ever since parts of Wales were hit by devastating flooding earlier this year, the UK government has been working with the Welsh Government and local authorities to provide extra support for flood relief and protection to the communities which were so badly affected.\n\n\"Responsibility for flood defences and flood management is devolved but, while all claims need to meet certain criteria, we expect to provide funding from the UK reserve for 2020-21.\"\n\nIt added: \"This would include funds for coal tip repairs which we know are of particular concern to communities.\"\n\nThe Labour Member of the Senedd for Pontypridd, Mick Antoniw, said clearing coal tips \"goes way beyond any responsibilities of the Welsh Government\".\n\n\"The film of the coal sliding down brought back many, many traumatic memories for the population of Wales.\n\n\"And I think the wake-up call for us all is that the risk may be a bit greater than we thought it was, particularly if we're going to have more adverse weather like this.\"\n\nThe Tylorstown landslide has left a scar on the hillside\n\nBen Curtis, a historian of the south Wales coalfields at Wolverhampton University, said incidents like the one at Tylorstown had a powerful impact.\n\n\"I visited the Tylorstown tip in the aftermath.\n\n\"Just struck by the scale of the landslip. It's really quite awe inspiring and not in a good way.\n\n\"These register so prominently with people because on a visceral level people in the valleys see a tip slide, and you think about the Aberfan disaster of course.\"\n\nAshley Patton, from the British Geological Survey, said the conditions in Wales made it more prone to these types of landslips.\n\n\"In south Wales we have the added pressure of a lot of coal waste sitting on top of those slopes which is unconsolidated material and can easily slip. Climate change may only make that worse.\n\n\"With increased storms like the ones we saw at the beginning of this year, landslides, which is what you'd expect with climate change, is going to be a real problem.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the safe management of coal tips \"remains a priority\".\n\n\"While we welcome recent announcements by UK government, along with their recognition that the longer-term costs will be significant, no further funds have been forthcoming, and we continue to press them for the full amount of funding needed, as promised by the prime minister,\" said a spokesman.", "Boris Johnson has appointed an ex-Treasury official as his new chief of staff, Downing Street has announced.\n\nDan Rosenfield's appointment follows a period of upheaval which saw the prime minister's senior aides Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain resign.\n\nMr Rosenfield is former civil servant, who has worked in the past for Labour chancellor Alistair Darling and his Tory successor George Osborne.\n\nHe will begin work at Downing Street on 7 December.\n\nThe current acting chief of staff Lord Udny-Lister will stay in the role until 1 January when Mr Rosenfield will take over.\n\nCleo Watson, one of the PM's deputy chiefs of staff, who was close to Mr Cummings, is also leaving No 10.\n\nHe has also previously worked at Bank of America as a managing director and is chairman of the humanitarian agency World Jewish Relief.\n\nThe chief of staff role had originally been offered to Mr Cain, however some MPs and ministers objected to the appointment.\n\nAnd following a power struggle inside No 10 both Mr Cain and his ally Mr Cummings stepped down from their roles.\n\nThis senior job hasn't gone to a high-profile name from Tory ranks as some expected, but a former civil servant.\n\nWhile he has worked at the heart of government in his role at the Treasury, he is a relative outsider in current political circles.\n\nThose who know Dan Rosenfield describe him as likeable, clever and effective.\n\nOne former Treasury colleague said he was ordered and efficient.\n\n\"If the wheels are coming off he'll want to try to put them back on\", they added.\n\nHaving been in the private sector in recent years, he's not thought to be attached to any particular faction in No 10; perhaps that was part of the thinking behind his appointment.\n\nAfter the recent turbulence that saw the departure of two of Boris Johnson's closest aides, Downing Street will want to avoid any further internal division.\n\nMany have called for a \"reset moment\".\n\nThe prime minister may well hope this pick for chief of staff is part of that.\n\nMr Rosenfield grew up in what he describes as a \"small Jewish community\" in Manchester.\n\nIn an interview last year with the Jewish Telegraph, Mr Rosenfield describes Judaism as being \"pretty central\" to his life and says his local synagogue was his \"second home\".\n\nHe also recalls working in the Treasury during the 2008 financial crisis. \"It became very clear that we were dealing with some quite fundamentally difficult challenges,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at a World Jewish Relief dinner in 2017 he said he was driven by the principle of \"the rejection of tragedy in the name of hope\".\n\nDan Rosenfield (left) was an official at the Treasury when it was run by George Osborne\n\nWelcoming the appointment, ex-Treasury Minister David Gauke described Mr Rosenfield as \"smart, likeable and effective\".\n\nAnd a former Labour adviser Damian McBride said the PM's new recruit had \"a first-class brain and an easy smile\".\n\nHis previous employers Hakluyt are a low-profile consultancy firm with offices in Mayfair, central London, as well as New York, Mumbai, Singapore, and Tokyo.\n\nThe company says it is named after the English writer Richard Hakluyt \"because his role in advancing knowledge of the wider world in the 16th and 17th centuries... reflects the firm's global interests and independence of thought\".\n\nIt is chaired by the Conservative peer Lord Deighton - who was recently given a role co-ordinating the drive to scale up UK manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE).\n• None Dominic Cummings leaves No 10 'to clear the air'", "The music producer, named only as Michel, spoke to reporters outside the National Police General Inspectorate in Paris\n\nFrench authorities have suspended three police officers after they were seen on video beating up a black music producer in central Paris.\n\nThe incident on Saturday has prompted a fresh outcry over the conduct of French security forces.\n\nOn Monday police were accused of using unnecessary force as they dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in Paris.\n\nThe incidents come as the government tries to bring in laws banning the broadcast of police officers' faces.\n\nCritics of the legislation say that without such images, none of the incidents which took place over the past week would have come to light.\n\nOn Thursday, French football star Kylian Mbappe, who is black, joined national teammates and fellow athletes in condemning the latest incident.\n\n\"Unbearable video, unacceptable violence. Say no to racism,\" he wrote on Twitter next to a picture of the bloodied face of the injured producer, who has been named only as Michel.\n\nThe security camera video was published on Thursday by the online news site Loopsider. It shows three officers kicking, punching and using their truncheons on the man after he entered his studio. Loopsider said he had initially been stopped for not wearing a mask.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Loopsider This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMichel said that he was also subjected to racist abuse during the five minute beating.\n\nHe was detained and charged with violence and resisting arrest, but prosecutors threw the charges out and instead opened an investigation against the officers.\n\nAs he arrived at police headquarters on Thursday with his lawyer to file a complaint, Michel told reporters: \"People who should have been protecting me attacked me. I did nothing to deserve this. I just want these three people to be punished according to the law.\"\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was \"profoundly shocked\" by the \"intolerable act\".\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French television that he would press for the officers' dismissal, saying they had \"soiled the uniform of the republic\".\n\nEarlier this week Mr Darmanin ordered police to provide a full report after they violently dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the capital, clashing with migrants and activists.\n\nHe tweeted that some of the scenes were \"shocking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police tipped some migrants out of their flimsy tents\n\nMeanwhile, the French government is pressing ahead with its controversial security bill, which opponents say could undermine the media's ability to scrutinise police behaviour.\n\nArticle 24 of the bill makes it a criminal offence to post images of police or soldiers on social media which are deemed to target them as individuals.\n\nThe government argues that the new bill does not jeopardise the rights of the media and ordinary citizens to report police abuses.\n\nBut in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 \"will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity\".\n\nPeople found guilty could be punished by a year in prison or a fine of up to €45,000 (£40,000).", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDiego Maradona - displaying the World Cup in 1986, during a training session, and with his ex-wife Claudia and their daughters Dalma and Gianina Colourful doesn't really do him justice. Diego Maradona was a genius on the football pitch and a controversial figure off it. From his homeland of Argentina to success in Italy, World Cup glory and his drugs downfall, here's a look at his life in photos. Starting out: Maradona made his World Cup finals debut for Argentina at the 1982 tournament in Spain, but really made his mark four years later... Calm before the storm: Handshake with England goalkeeper Peter Shilton before the World Cup quarter-final in Mexico in 1986 Ridiculous to the sublime: The 'Hand of God' goal against England, followed by the 'Goal of the Century' World class: Maradona was named player of the tournament after inspiring Argentina to victory in 1986, and helped the side reach the final four years later Cup king: Maradona was an icon at Italian club Napoli where he won the Uefa Cup in 1989, plus two league titles. The number 10 shirt was retired in his honour Heavy duty: Maradona, pictured in 2001, struggled with a drug addition and weight isues Argentina's A-team: Maradona, then manager of the national side, passes on his wisdom to forward Lionel Messi at the 2010 World Cup but they are beaten 4-0 by Germany in the quarter-finals Poster boy: Maradona poses with a banner of himself at the Argentina v Nigeria game at the 2018 World Cup in Russia", "Families have been warned against hugging and kissing elderly relatives at Christmas \"if you want them to survive to be hugged again\".\n\nPeople \"just have to have sense\", said the UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nCoronavirus rules announced this week mean three households can form a bubble and mix for five days over Christmas.\n\nFrom 23 to 27 December, three households can mix indoors in homes, at a place of worship or outdoors.\n\nThe rules apply to the whole of the UK, although in Scotland the number of people who can be in the Christmas bubble is limited to eight.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, the rules are relaxed from 22 to 28 December, to allow time to travel between the nations.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference on Thursday, Prof Whitty - who revealed he would be \"on the wards\" over Christmas - said: \"Would I want someone to see their family? Of course, that's what Christmas is about.\n\n\"But would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not.\n\n\"It's not against the law - and that's the whole point. You can do it within the rules that are there, but it does not make sense because you could be carrying the virus and if you've got an elderly relative, that would not be the thing you'd want to do in the period where we are running up to a point where we actually might be able to protect older people.\n\n\"So I think people just have to have sense. The fact that you can do something - this is true across so many other areas of life - doesn't mean you should.\"\n\nMr Whitty urged people not to do \"stupid things\" at Christmas\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, added: \"It's not going to be a normal Christmas but if you want to make those connections with family, it has to be done in a way where you try and make sure that you don't increase the risk.\n\n\"I think hugging elderly relatives is not something to go out and do. It will increase the spread to a vulnerable population.\"\n\nProf Whitty added: \"If you want them to survive to be hugged again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson also responded to the question about hugging elderly relatives, urging people to be \"common sensical\".\n\n\"Until the vaccine comes on stream, we are not out of the woods yet and we have to be very, very vigilant.\"\n\nProf Whitty also said it was \"not a secret\" that Christmas would increase the risk of transmission.\n\n\"Take it really seriously during Christmas. Don't do stupid things. Don't do unnecessary things just because the rules say you can. Think sensibly.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has that said the \"default advice\" and \"safest position\" was still that people should avoid contact.\n\n\"Just because we are allowing people to meet up in a limited way does not of course mean people have to do so, and people should not feel under pressure to do so,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nThe government's official guidance on Christmas bubbles advises people with loved-ones who are vulnerable advises to take personal responsibility to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nThe NHS considers anyone 70 and over as \"clinically vulnerable\" and at moderate risk from coronavirus.\n\nThe government guidance also has specific advice for people considered extremely vulnerable, as well as care home residents.\n\nIt suggests forming a Christmas bubble is \"a personal choice\" for extremely vulnerable people, while those in care homes should only visit families if they are of working age.\n\nUnder the government's rules, the three households must be fixed, so you will not be able to mix with two households on Christmas Day and two different ones on Boxing Day. Households in your Christmas bubble can't bubble with anyone else.\n\nScotland has announced that the bubbles of three households should contain no more than eight people - but children under 12 are exempt.\n\nPeople who are self-isolating should not join a Christmas bubble. If someone tests positive, or develops coronavirus symptoms up to 48 hours after the Christmas bubble last met, everyone will have to self-isolate.", "Charlton School said it had \"taken full responsibility for working with all students involved\"\n\nAn attack by secondary school pupils in Telford is being treated as a hate crime, police have said.\n\nThe West Mercia force said it was aware of a video circulating on social media of a boy being attacked in an \"incredibly distressing incident\".\n\nIt appears to show a pupil from the Sikh community being pushed to the ground by two other boys and then struck a number of times in the head.\n\nCharlton School said it had taken \"swift and appropriate action\".\n\nA statement on the school website said it took place on 13 November outside school grounds and involved a number of its students.\n\n\"We have taken swift, immediate and appropriate action, including sanctions and targeted intervention for the perpetrators,\" it said.\n\n\"A police investigation is ongoing, and we are co-operating fully.\"\n\nThe school said the parents of all concerned have been contacted and it was working closely with the local Sikh community.\n\nWest Mercia Police said: \"We are treating this as a hate crime and with the utmost seriousness.\n\n\"Our inquiries into the motivation around the incident are continuing and we are working with our local communities to provide reassurance.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nA woman who was injured after a bus hit a railway bridge has died.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, was travelling on the bus - which was bound for Swansea University - when it crashed into the bridge on Neath Road on 12 December.\n\nMs Ren, a mother of one, was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a 63-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released under investigation.\n\nMs Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nAn inquest into Ms Ren's death has been opened and adjourned until 17 June 2020.\n\nEight people were injured in the crash, including Olympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who is studying at the university.\n\nAfter the crash, Ms Ren was airlifted from Swansea to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, while two others suffered serious injuries.\n\nSwansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren. Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nThe crash happened at about 09:40 GMT while the bus was travelling from Swansea University's Singleton campus to its Swansea Bay campus.\n\nA First Cymru spokesman said the bus was off its normal route due to a temporary road closure.\n\nNetwork Rail said the height restriction on the bridge is 3.3m (11ft) but the sign was dislodged in the crash.\n\nAlastair Hawkes, 22, who was on the top deck of the bus, said: \"There was a crunch and smashing glass and screaming.\n\n\"Everyone was thinking 'what just happened?' as there was a bridge halfway up the bus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking two days after the crash Mr Young, 53, said he and the woman in front of him hit the windscreen of the bus and he suffered a cut to the top of his head.\n\n\"I hit it and I fell straight down onto the floor,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was \"extremely lucky to be alive\".", "Yahya Werfalli admitted two counts of fraud by false representation Manchester Magistrates' Court last month\n\nA friend of the Manchester Arena bomber whose bank details were used to buy chemicals for the bomb has been handed a 12-month community order.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Yahya Werfalli's bank details were used to buy hydrogen peroxide on Amazon.\n\nThe chemical was acquired by brothers Salman and Hashem Abedi for the bomb that killed 22 people in May 2017.\n\nJudge Patrick Field QC told the court Werfalli \"had no idea what the Abedi brothers were up to\".\n\nHe said the defendant - who had engaged in other frauds in the past - would have been charged with a more serious offence had his own activity with the Abedis involved more than fraud.\n\nWerfalli, a university student from Buckingham, admitted two counts of fraud by false representation last month.\n\nFamilies of some of those killed in the attack were present in court to see Werfalli sentenced.\n\n\"I am not blind to the terrible events that unfolded at the arena,\" said the judge, who explained: \"I must not let the inevitable emotional response to that influence the sentence in this case.\"\n\nHe said Werfalli, who lived in Manchester at the time of the frauds, must complete 80 hours of unpaid work and 20 days of \"rehabilitation requirement\".\n\nProsecutor Harriet Lavin said the case concerned bank frauds in March and April 2017 in which the defendant planned with Salman and Hashem Abedi for them to order products online using his bank details.\n\nIn order to obtain refunds, he then planned to falsely claim to his bank, RBS, that he had not made the purchases.\n\nThe court was told the Abedi brothers put £300 into the defendant's bank account and the pair placed orders on Amazon using an account they had set up using Werfalli's card details.\n\nMs Lavin said: \"Once the order had been delivered, the defendant then contacted his bank and reported the purchase as fraudulent.\n\n\"It was anticipated that the bank would then refund the money with little scrutiny as it would have been a low value amount.\n\n\"Salman and Hashem Abedi would thereby get the products they wanted with no trace back to themselves.\"\n\nYahya Werfalli was a \"dupe\" who had been \"exploited by the terrorists,\" court hears\n\nThe court heard the hydrogen peroxide was \"used by the pair to construct the bomb that killed 22 people and seriously injured many more\".\n\nMs Lavin said: \"There is no evidence to suggest this defendant had any knowledge of the nature of the goods being purchased, or their intended purpose.\"\n\nShe said the goods were delivered to an address unconnected to the defendant and there was nothing on his phone to suggest he was in contact with Salman or Hashem Abedi around the time of the attack.\n\nThe court heard that, after being arrested following the attack, Werfalli described two meetings with the Abedi brothers in which plans for a fraud were discussed.\n\nAnthony Barraclough, defending, said his client was a \"dupe\" who had been \"exploited by the terrorists\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A statue of Sir Thomas Picton was boxed up in preparation for its removal from Cardiff City Hall\n\nWales has 209 streets, buildings, portraits or monuments commemorating people directly involved with the slave trade or who opposed its abolition.\n\nAn audit also found \"commemoration of people of colour\" to be \"negligible\".\n\nThe review was ordered by First Minister Mark Drakeford following protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd in the US.\n\nMr Drakeford said the audit \"helps us establish an honest picture of our history\".\n\nThe audit, led by Gaynor Legall, found commemorations of people connected with the slave trade were often shown without any accompanying interpretation to address matters of contention, so the figures were presented solely as role models rather than representatives of challenging aspects of the past.\n\nThe audit also unearthed commemorations to anti-slavery activists across Wales, such as Henry Richard in Tregaron, Ceredigion, street names for Samuel Romilly and the Pantycelyn halls of residence at Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion.\n\nThe Thomas Picton obelisk is on Picton Terrace in Carmarthen\n\nThe report said: \"It is striking that the only sculpture depicting people of black heritage is not a monument to named individuals, but an anonymous statue group in Cardiff Bay.\"\n\nA statue to celebrate the life and contributions of Wales' first black headteacher Betty Campbell is set to be placed in Cardiff, but not until next year.\n\nThere have been widespread calls for the statues of slave owners and those who supported the slave trade to be removed, but some have opposed the idea.\n\nIn July, a statue of a 19th Century slave owner Sir Thomas Picton in Cardiff City Hall was covered over.\n\nIn Denbigh, people will be consulted on removing a statue honouring Victorian adventurer Henry Morton Stanley who opponents claim had links to slavery.\n\nYsgol Goronwy Owen in Benllech on Anglesey is mentioned in the audit as its namesake poet owned slaves.\n\nA statue of Henry Morton Stanley was installed in Denbigh town centre in 2010\n\n\"While the tragic killing of George Floyd happened almost 4,000 miles away, it sparked global action that shone a light on racial inequality in society today,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"That inequality exists in Welsh society too and we must work towards a Wales which is more equal.\n\n\"This audit provides important evidence which helps us establish an honest picture of our history.\n\n\"This is not about rewriting our past or naming and shaming. It is about learning from the events of the past.\"\n\nHe said the audit was the \"first stage of a much bigger piece of work\" to \"consider how we move forward with this information as we seek to honour and celebrate our diverse communities\".\n\nThe audit was led by Gaynor Legall, who was the first black woman city councillor in Wales\n\nSpeaking to Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales, Ms Legall said: \"We certainly were careful not to make recommendations - different people have different views, some feel more strongly than others.\n\n\"We would like to see some more commemorations of people of colour.\n\n\"We would like to see that this work is carried on, and perhaps incorporated into the new work around the curriculum, so that people in Wales - children, young people in particular - can have a true picture of where its economy grew from.\"", "Amazon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on bonuses for Christmas staff after sales at the online giant soared during the pandemic.\n\nFull-time warehouse workers in the UK and the US will receive £300 or $300, with £150 or $150 for part-time staff.\n\nThe money, $500m in total, will go to staff working between 1-31 December.\n\nThe firm, run by Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, praised staff for \"serving customers' essential needs\" during the pandemic.\n\nIn a blog post, Dave Clark, senior vice president of Amazon Worldwide Operations, wrote: \"I'm grateful to our teams who continue to play a vital role serving their communities.\n\n\"As we head into the peak of the holiday season, we want to share our appreciation through another special recognition bonus, totalling more than $500 million for our front-line employees.\"\n\nThe firm has come under intense scrutiny for working practices in its warehouses during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour activists in the US, for example, recently called on big retailers like Amazon and Walmart to do more to protect workers as surging Covid-19 cases coincide with the holiday shopping rush.\n\nThey are calling for hazard pay, paid sick leave and better communication about outbreaks.\n\nAmazon workers have raised concerns about their health and working conditions in Europe as well as in the US, claiming it is almost impossible to practice social distancing.\n\nEarlier this year, Amazon was forced to shut down several warehouses in France in an ongoing row over conditions.\n\nThe company has previously said that its guidelines are adequate and that it provides employees with face masks.\n\nHowever, the company said in a statement that it \"provides some of the most advanced workplaces of their kind in the world, with industry-leading pay, processes and systems to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all employees\".\n\nAmazon said it had introduced additional cleaning and other safety measures to increase protection, and in the UK had started a pilot scheme offering voluntary Covid testing for employees.\n\nThe retail giant has been one of the retail winners during coronavirus lockdowns as online deliveries skyrocketed when High Street shops closed.\n\nSales will also be boosted during the Black Friday bonanza, although a coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and other activists have urged consumers to boycott the firm.\n\nProtests are being planned in several countries, and in Germany, the trade union Verdi has organised three-day strikes at Amazon warehouses,\n\nSales at the internet giant shot to $96.1bn in the three months to 30 September - up 37% from the same period in 2019. And profits hit a record $6.3bn, nearly three times last year's total.\n\nBut that level of growth has not come without additional costs. Amazon said it had $2.5bn in Covid-related expenses.\n\nIn the UK it has also had to create thousands of jobs, as well as 20,000 seasonal posts, in a bid to keep up with shoppers.", "Christmas \"bubbles\" of three households in Scotland should contain no more than eight people over the age of 11, the Scottish government has said.\n\nThe rule is part of the government's guidance for Christmas which temporarily relaxes some Covid-19 restrictions for five days.\n\nChildren under the age of 12 will not count towards the total number of people in the bubble.\n\nThe easing of Covid rules will apply across the UK from 23 to 27 December.\n\nOpposition parties have accused the Scottish government of sending out \"mixed messages\" by allowing people to meet at Christmas while simultaneously urging them not to do so.\n\nAnd many health experts have warned that the move is likely to lead to a spike in cases of the virus - and potentially deaths - in January\n\nUK government guidance for people in England does not set a limit on the number of people in a bubble, but says this should be kept \"as small as possible\".\n\nNo separate guidance has been published for Wales or Northern Ireland at this stage, although people can travel to or from Northern Ireland on 22 and 28 December. The NI executive is meeting on Thursday to discuss the rules.\n\nA UK-wide deal was agreed on Tuesday to permit people to meet up in \"bubbles\" over the festive period.\n\nTravel restrictions will be lifted across all four nations from 23 to 27 December so people can visit close friends and relatives.\n\nBut Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has that said the \"default advice\" and \"safest position\" was still that people should avoid contact.\n\nSingle households should not travel in or out of level three or level four areas to stay in tourist accommodation\n\nThe Scottish guidance states that the \"safest way to spend Christmas and the festive period is to stay within your own household, in your own home and your own local area\".\n\nIt adds: \"Wherever possible you should keep in touch with friends and family members from other households through technology - or, if you decide to meet in person, you should minimise the numbers and duration, and if possible meet out of doors.\n\n\"Consider a Christmas walk with family, rather than a meal indoors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nAlthough three households will be allowed to meet indoors and stay overnight in the same home, the Scottish government says a two-metre distance should be kept between people from different households.\n\nHowever, children under 12 will be exempt from the physical distancing rules.\n\nOther guidance for different households staying in the same home includes:\n\nDoors and windows should also be opened to let in as much fresh air as possible during and after visits.\n\nChristmas bubbles in Scotland can only gather in a private home, outdoors or at a place of worship.\n\nThey will not be allowed to visit pubs, restaurants or go to shops together and staying in tourist accommodation as a group is banned as well.\n\nSingle households should also not travel in or out of level three or level four areas in Scotland to use tourist accommodation, the guidance says.\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie highlighted warnings from public health experts that the easing of restrictions over Christmas was likely to lead to a third wave of infections, hospitals being overrun, more \"unnecessary\" deaths and potentially a nationwide lockdown in January.\n\nSpeaking in the Holyrood chamber, Mr Harvie also questioned why the Scottish government had apparently not carried out any risk assessments on the potential impact of easing the restrictions.\n\nHe added: \"I recognise that there were difficult judgements to make about relaxing the Covid rules over the holidays, especially after public expectations had been built up.\n\n\"But within a day of announcing the looser rules, the first minister is appealing to the public not to use them. It's a confusing message.\"\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n• None What are the latest rules on Christmas bubbles?", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is being urged not to let Jeremy Corbyn return to the parliamentary party.\n\nIt comes after the party readmitted the ex-leader as a member, following his suspension for suggesting political opponents had dramatically overstated the scale of anti-Semitism.\n\nMr Corbyn issued a statement saying he regretted any \"pain\" caused.\n\nSir Keir is coming under pressure from groups including the Board of Deputies of British Jews to take further action.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a decision had not yet been taken on whether to restore the Labour whip to Mr Corbyn, which would allow him to sit once more as one of its MPs.\n\nA panel of five members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee decided to readmit Mr Corbyn after he had clarified the comments which had led to his suspension, stating that he had not belittled concerns about anti-Semitism.\n\nHis remarks had been made in response to a damning Equalities and Human Rights Commission report.\n\nThe former leader's critics have said his case should not have been heard until the party had set up an entirely independent complaints process - as recommended by the human rights watchdog.\n\nFollowing the decision to readmit Mr Corbyn, Sir Keir tweeted that it had been a \"painful day for the Jewish community and those Labour members who have fought so hard to tackle anti-Semitism\".\n\nHe said Mr Corbyn's remarks were \"wrong and completely distracted from a report that identified unlawful conduct in our tackling of racism within the Labour Party\".\n\nSir Keir said he stood by the commitments he made after the report, adding: \"That must mean establishing an independent complaints process as soon as possible in the new year.\"\n\nHe is coming under pressure privately from some of his own MPs - and publicly from the Board of Deputies of British Jews - to take further action.\n\nFormer Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman, who quit the party over anti-Semitism concerns last year, said the decision was a \"backward step\".\n\n\"What Keir Starmer and the chief whip should do now is to refuse to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn, in that way they can show that they are determined, as they have said they are, to rid the party of this dreadful stain,\" she told BBC Newsnight.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says he has been told that at least one Jewish MP is considering resigning if Mr Corbyn is welcomed back at Westminster.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has been readmitted as a Labour party member, but it is not, according to Keir Starmer's team, automatic that he would also be allowed to sit once more as a Labour MP.\n\nThat is the decision Sir Keir has been trying to make overnight and he is expected to make it this morning.\n\nHe is going to have to make that decision before Prime Minister's Questions at noon because that is an absolute political gift for the prime minister - who himself has had an absolutely shocking political week.\n\nIf Sir Keir refuses to allow Mr Corbyn back on the backbenches that would provoke another pretty grim skirmish with those in Mr Corbyn's tribe on the left of the party.\n\nBut if you allow him to sit again as a Labour MP then you punch the bruise of the Jewish community and infuriate many Labour MPs.\n\nSir Keir was adamant he would not interfere in the process of whether or not Jeremy Corbyn would be allowed back in as a party member.\n\nBut it was suggested to me he has found himself, from a political point of view, trapped by the process.\n\nHe was so eager not to interfere, but has now been landed with this other political grenade.\n\nIn a statement earlier on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn - who is currently an independent MP - said it was \"not his intention\" to say anti-Jewish racism should be tolerated, and that he regretted the \"pain\" caused.\n\nHis statement added: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear whether Mr Corbyn will face further sanctions from the party.\n\nIts general secretary, David Evans, took the decision to suspend him in October, although Sir Keir endorsed it.\n\nThe ECHR's report found Labour had breached the Equalities Act over its handling of complaints of anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn's time in charge.\n\nLabour said Mr Corbyn had been suspended \"for a failure to retract\" his words.\n\nFollowing his readmission, the Islington North MP said: \"I hope this matter is resolved as quickly as possible, so that the party can work together to root out anti-Semitism and unite to oppose and defeat this deeply damaging Conservative government.\"\n\nBut President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Marie Van Der Zyl described the decision as \"an absolute sham\" and said Mr Corbyn's reinstatement had been \"rushed through and judged by a politicised panel stuffed with his own supporters\".\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement called the decision to readmit Mr Corbyn \"extraordinary\", adding: \"After his failure of leadership to tackle anti-Semitism, so clearly set out in the EHRC's report, any reasonable and fair-minded observer would see Jeremy Corbyn's statement today as insincere and wholly inadequate.\"\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: \"What message does this send? Zero tolerance either means zero tolerance or it's meaningless.\"\n\nThe co-chairman of the Conservative Party, MP Amanda Milling, has written to Sir Keir, saying: \"You have claimed that Labour is 'under new leadership', but now is the moment to prove it - Mr Corbyn should be expelled permanently.\"\n\nHowever, Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union and a close ally of Mr Corbyn, called the reinstatement a \"correct, fair and unifying decision\".\n\nHe said Labour had to \"move forward\" in implementing the EHRC's recommendations and \"redouble our efforts to inspire voters\" about Sir Keir's policies, acting as a \"unified and strong\" party.\n\nJames Schneider, former director of strategic communications for the ex-Labour leader, argued that Mr Corbyn hadn't said anything that was \"either factually or morally wrong and was not anti-Semitic and did not breach any party rules\".\n\nJenny Manson, co-chairman of pro-Corbyn group Jewish Voice for Labour, told BBC Newsnight that \"an awful lot of us are very happy he (Mr Corbyn) is back in the party\" and would be \"very sad indeed\" if the whip is taken away from him.\n• None Why was Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour?", "Dozens of black cabs have been stored in a yard in east London after a drop in passengers in the capital\n\nOne in five black cabs has been taken off London's roads since June due to a lack of passengers during the coronavirus pandemic, research reveals.\n\nThe number of vehicles fell from 18,900 on 7 June to 15,000 on 8 November, Transport for London (TfL) data shows.\n\nBlack cab rental firms have had to hire fields and car parks to store vehicles handed back by drivers.\n\nThe Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) says only 20% of drivers still have their vehicles in the capital.\n\nGeneral secretary Steve McNamara said London cabbies were earning \"starvation wages\", at around a quarter of normal levels.\n\nDrivers \"are doing desperate things\" such as selling their taxis for well below market value to \"get through the next few months\", he added.\n\nMany have received \"no income at all\" since March, Mr McNamara said.\n\n\"We're in a position now where London could lose this icon,\" he said. \"We're a very viable business. We're an integral part of this city's DNA.\"\n\nCab driver Andy Biggs says London is as \"dead as it has ever been\"\n\nLondon cabbie Andy Biggs, 63, said demand had \"evaporated\" and he was lucky if he had three customers a day.\n\n\"When we first went back after the initial lockdown, things started to get a little bit better very slowly,\" he said. \"But now it's as dead as it's ever been.\"\n\nLTDA figures show drivers arriving at Heathrow Airport last month waited an average of nine hours before being dispatched to pick up a passenger.\n\nOver 200 unused black cabs parked in a large area of farmland in Epping Forest\n\nHoward Taylor, 60, who has been a cab driver in the capital for more than three decades, said he went to work with \"no expectation at all\" of being hailed for a ride.\n\n\"I've never seen London like it. In 33 years I've never seen it as quiet, as desolate and depressing.\"\n\nNorth London-based rental company GB Taxi Services has seen the occupation rate of its fleet of 100 black cabs drop from 95% before the crisis to just 10%.\n\nIt is one of two firms using an area of farmland in Epping Forest, Essex, to store about 220 unwanted taxis so they can stop paying to insure them.\n\nTaxi rental firm Sherbet London says 2,000 London taxis are currently being kept in fields\n\nAnother rental firm, Sherbet London, has hired a car park to store 400 cabs, representing two-thirds of its fleet.\n\nChief executive Asher Moses said: \"The whole trade has suffered. There must be 2,000 taxis on fields at the moment.\"\n\nTfL said it had provided drivers with \"practical advice on a number of issues\" during the crisis, and added that black cabs \"remain an integral part of the transport network\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The babies were delivered at 26 weeks and weighed just 27oz and 30oz\n\nA Covid-19 patient whose twins were delivered while she was in an induced coma said she struggled to believe they were hers.\n\nPerpetual Uke, a rheumatology consultant at Birmingham City Hospital, began to feel unwell in late March.\n\nShe was later admitted to a critical care unit, placed on a ventilator and put in an induced coma to help her recover.\n\nHer babies were delivered by caesarean section at 26 weeks on 10 April.\n\nSochika Palmer weighed just 770g (27oz) while her brother, Osinachi Pascal, weighed 850g (30oz).\n\nDr Uke remained in her coma for another 16 days.\n\nThe twins Sochika and Osinachi had progressed well, their mother said - here pictured at 10 weeks old\n\n\"It was really terrifying... every passing day I was hoping my wife was not among those who are dead,\" Dr Uke's husband Matthew said.\n\n\"We are a team, the idea she might not be there was really difficult to accept.\"\n\nWhen Dr Uke regained consciousness, it was the result the family had prayed for, but she said she was suffering \"ICU delirium\" and was \"so confused\".\n\nThe mother-of-four said waking up two weeks after the delivery \"was unbelievable\" and although hospital staff said the twins were hers, she \"didn't believe\" it.\n\n\"When they showed me the pictures, they were so tiny, they didn't look like human beings, I couldn't believe they were mine,\" she said.\n\nThe twins were discharged after spending 116 days in hospital and are \"getting better as the days go by,\" Dr Uke said.\n\n\"I had never wanted them to go through this difficult path at the start of their lives. They couldn't see their mum for two weeks, which obviously made me very sad but, importantly, things had progressed well.\"\n\nPerpetual Uke with her four children and husband Matthew\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister appeared on screen, rather than in person at the dispatch box\n\nBoris Johnson has become the first prime minister in history to conduct his weekly question-and-answer session with MPs via video link, as he continues to self-isolate.\n\nHe is working from 10 Downing Street after coming into contact with fellow Conservative MP Lee Anderson, who later tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe PM decided to take questions rather than see deputy Dominic Raab fill in.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer was in the Commons chamber as usual.\n\nUp to 50 MPs are currently allowed in at any one time, with remote contributors using Zoom to ask questions and respond to ministerial statements.\n\nThe PM faced a mixture of virtual questions and ones from MPs present in the chamber during the 40-minute session, including from the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford and Douglas Ross, the Scottish Tory leader.\n\nAs PMQs ended, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he wanted to put a \"big thank you\" on record to the staff in parliament's broadcasting unit for \"making today happen\".\n\nOn his Downing Street video link, the PM called \"hear hear\".\n\nCommons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg was seen to be occupying the PM's normal position during the exchanges\n\nThe format is set to be repeated at next week's Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Johnson could also make a number of Commons statements via video link before his self-isolation ends on 26 November, including one on Thursday on the government's review of foreign and defence policy.\n\nThere was some scepticism - and curiosity - about how a virtual PMQs would work.\n\nRemember this is the first time ever that a prime minister has dialled in remotely to the Commons chamber.\n\nThe Downing Street wifi did at least hold up but it was certainly not the liveliest of exchanges.\n\nHowever the traditional \"bear pit\" atmosphere (that some like and others loathe) has been lacking for a while since they put limits on the number of MPs allowed in the chamber.\n\nThe FDA senior civil servants' union has argued that Mr Johnson's use of a video link to answer questions shows a fully \"hybrid\" Parliament - using video conferencing across all parliamentary business - is possible.\n\nNational officer Jawad Raza told the BBC it was \"unconscionable that an exception be made to suit the prime minister, but not to protect the health and safety of everyone working across the parliamentary estate\".\n\nHe added: \"This doesn't just mean MPs, as hundreds of House staff work on the estate to support the work of parliamentarians and facilitate the UK's democratic processes.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Rees-Mogg gave way to an appeal from Conservative MP Tracey Crouch - who is receiving treatment for cancer - for more video participation for those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nA motion aimed at making this happen will be debated on Wednesday.\n\nSelf-isolation means staying at home and not leaving it - even to buy food, medicines or other essentials, or for exercise.\n\nIf you are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or the NHS Covid-19 app, you must self-isolate for 14 days from the day you were last in contact with the person who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAnd if you develop symptoms during the 14-day period, you should get a test as soon as possible.\n\nIf the result is negative, you should continue isolating for the rest of the 14 days.\n\nIf positive, you should self-isolate for at least another 10 days from when your symptoms started.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg said he was resistant to widening the concession, insisting other MPs must \"behave as other key workers do\".\n\nThe prime minister - who was admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 in April - is working from an office in No 10 that he can reach from his flat in No 11 without coming into contact with Downing Street staff.\n\nA government spokesman said the public was \"best served when Parliament meets physically to the fullest extent possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The [House of Commons] Speaker has worked hard with the House authorities to create a safe Covid-secure workplace for all who need to attend so that, just as teaching and medical professions are working in person to keep the country moving, so are MPs and peers.\"", "South Australians rushed to get tested after new cases were discovered\n\nThe state of South Australia will enter an immediate six-day lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus outbreak discovered days ago.\n\nThe state has detected 36 cases since infections were found in Adelaide on Sunday, the first community cases detected in six months.\n\nAuthorities say the \"circuit breaker\" measures were necessary to stop the virus' spread \"at the beginning\".\n\nAustralia has previously also responded aggressively to small outbreaks.\n\nVarious state governments have at times closed parts of the economy, enforced border restrictions and other measures to stop the virus' spread.\n\nThe lockdown, to begin at midnight on Wednesday, comes just weeks after neighbouring state Victoria beat a second wave, which caused about 800 deaths.\n\nThere would be a further eight days of lesser restrictions following the \"six day pause\", officials said.\n\nAlmost immediately after the lockdown announcement, images on social media showed people queuing at supermarkets to buy toilet paper and other supplies.\n\nAuthorities had urged people to avoid panic-buying, confirming supermarkets and pharmacies would remain open.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gary-Jon Lysaght This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Australia's Premier Stephen Marshall called on residents to \"rise to the challenge again\" in the sudden, second lockdown.\n\n\"We need a circuit breaker to stay ahead of this,\" he said. \"We need breathing space for contact tracing to protect the elderly, to protect the vulnerable, to protect our entire community.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the state reported two new cases out of 9,500 tests. Officials said it was a \"small but critical\" number.\n\nMost Australian states had already moved this week to shut their borders to South Australian residents.\n\nLike Victoria's outbreak, the re-emergence of the virus in South Australia has come from a hotel quarantine site. This has prompted re-examination of quarantine safety measures.\n\nOfficials said a cleaner had become infected and spread it to people in the local community.\n\nAustralia closed its borders to international travellers in March but has allowed citizens and permanent residents to return home if they undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine in a hotel.\n\nAbout one-fifth of the country's cases have been found in returning travellers.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday said South Australia's speedy move \"draws on lessons from earlier outbreak experiences\".\n\nAustralia, which has reported 907 deaths and about 28,000 cases had in recent weeks seen its cases drop to near zero after Victoria's successful suppression of the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coping with Melbourne lockdown: 'I cycled every street in my 5km radius'\n\nHowever that effort had required a stringent four-month lockdown of state capital Melbourne, where residents could not freely leave their homes and faced a curfew.\n\nThe state was able to reduce its case rate to zero from a peak of 700 new cases per day in that period. Its full lockdown began when nearly 100 new cases were being reported per day.", "Roberto Garcia told us: \"I'm definitely alive and I definitely voted for Biden!\"\n\nDonald Trump's supporters have claimed that thousands of votes were cast in the US election using the names of people who had died.\n\n\"I may be 72,\" Maria Arredondo from Michigan told us when we called her. \"But I'm alive and breathing. My mind is working fine and I'm healthy.\"\n\nMaria said she had voted for Joe Biden and was surprised to hear that her name had appeared on a list of supposedly dead voters in the state.\n\nWe spoke to other people in similar situations to that of Maria in Michigan and found similar stories.\n\nThere have been occasions in previous US elections of dead people having apparently voted.\n\nThis could happen through clerical errors or perhaps other family members with similar names voting with their ballots, but Trump supporters have alleged this has happened on a massive scale at this election.\n\nWe set out to find out whether there is evidence for this claim.\n\nThe story starts with a list of around 10,000 names posted on Twitter by a Trump-supporting activist.\n\nIt purports to be of people who have died, but who have also voted in the presidential election in Michigan.\n\nClaims such as this have been repeated many times on different social-media platforms, including by Republican legislators.\n\nThe list of 10,000 contains the name, zip code, and the date a ballot was received. It then lists a full date of birth and a full date of death. Some of the people supposedly died more than 50 years ago.\n\nMichigan has a database that lets you enter someone's name, zip code, month of birth and year of birth and allows you to see if they voted by absentee ballot this year. So you can easily check whether people on the list voted.\n\nThere are also several US websites that include databases of death records.\n\nBut there's a fundamental problem with this list of 10,000.\n\nWith an exercise like this you are going to find false matches - somebody born in January 1940 voted in Michigan in the election, and there was somebody born somewhere else in the US in January 1940 who has the same name and is now dead. This will happen a lot in a country as big as the US (328 million people), and particularly with common names.\n\nTo test the list, we picked 30 names at random. To this we added the oldest person on the list.\n\nOf this list of 31 names, we managed to speak directly to 11 people (or to a family member, neighbour or care home worker) to confirm they were still alive.\n\nFor 17 others, there was no public record of their death, and we found clear evidence that they were alive after the alleged date of death on the list of 10,000. A clear pattern emerged - the wrong records had been joined together to create a false match.\n\nFinally, we found that three people on the list were indeed dead. We examine these cases later.\n\nPeople took to the streets in Detroit, Michigan, claiming the election results were fraudulent\n\nThe first thing we did was to check the official Michigan electoral database to see whether our 31 individuals had sent in ballots - they all had.\n\nWe then looked at the death records and quickly became suspicious on seeing that the vast majority did not die in Michigan, but elsewhere in the US.\n\nSupporters of Donald Trump claimed they had a list of dead people who had voted in the election\n\nWe wondered whether we could find people of the same name currently living in Michigan.\n\nChecking Michigan state public records, cross-referencing voter postal codes, we were able to find precise dates of birth for those who had voted - and as we had anticipated, they failed to match the dates of birth on the death records.\n\nSo we could be confident that we were dealing with two sets of people - those who had voted and those with the same name and age who had died elsewhere.\n\nBut what we really wanted to do was to speak to the voters themselves.\n\nWe called Roberto Garcia, a retired teacher in Michigan. He told us: \"I'm definitely alive and I definitely voted for Biden - I would have to have been dead to vote for Trump.\"\n\nWe also found a 100-year-old woman who, according to the \"dead voter\" list, had died in 1982. She was alive and is currently living in a nursing home in Michigan.\n\nBut the results of our search weren't always so straightforward.\n\nWhen we looked for another centenarian, who according to the list had died in 1977, we found that she had still been alive when her postal ballot was returned in September. However, a neighbour told us the woman had died just a few weeks ago. We also found a matching obituary from October to confirm this.\n\nIf a voter dies before election day after submitting their ballot, the Michigan authorities say the ballot will be rejected.\n\nWe have not been able to establish whether her ballot was counted.\n\nVotes were still being tallied as unproven claims of fraud went viral\n\nFor those we couldn't reach by phone, we wanted to use other means to confirm they were alive.\n\nThese included public records of, for example, business activities, from state and local authorities.\n\nFor one woman who was supposed to have died in 2006 we found an annual company statement signed under her name from January 2020.\n\nTwo other men on our list of 31 died some time ago, yet votes had been cast in their names - with the correct postcodes and years of birth - according to the voting database.\n\nWe found that for both men, there were sons with the same name currently registered at the same address as their deceased fathers.\n\nIn both cases, a ballot was sent in for the dead fathers.\n\nLocal election officials told us that one of the votes had been counted but there was no record of the son having voted.\n\nIn the other, it was the son who actually voted, but it had been recorded as the father's due to a clerical error.\n\nMichigan residents came out to celebrate Joe Biden's election success\n\nOur selection of 31 cases is only a small sample of the 10,000 names on the list, but it has clearly revealed the flaws in the database shared by Trump supporters.\n\nFrom our investigation it's clear that in almost all of our 31 test cases, the data for genuine voters in Michigan has been combined with records of dead people with the same name and birth month and year from across the United States to yield false matches.\n\n\"If the lists are linked based on name and birth date alone, in a state the size of Michigan, you're guaranteed to get false positives,\" says Prof Justin Levitt, an expert on the law of democracy.\n\nIt's known as the birthday problem - the high probability that two students in the same class share the same birthday.\n\nSo if you compare millions of voters in Michigan with a database of deaths across the United States you're bound to find cross-over, particularly if the voter database doesn't include the day of the month on which a person is born.\n\n\"It's simply a matter of statistics that if you cross-reference millions of records with millions of other records, you'll get a sizable number of false positive matches. We've seen this before,\" says Prof Justin Levitt.\n\nWith her vote safely cast, and counted, Maria Arredondo tells us she's looking forward to the new administration.\n\n\"He was a great vice-president under Obama. I'm so pleased. A weight has lifted off my shoulders.\"", "Blackburn with Darwen has had one of the highest Covid-19 infections in England\n\nDozens of guests have been fined for travelling from as far as Inverness to an illegal wedding party in Lancashire.\n\nPeople at the event tried to flee when police arrived at the furniture factory in the Mill Hill district of Blackburn on Monday.\n\nOfficers who rounded up guests, issuing 29 fines, described the scenes as being like \"a game of hide-and-seek\".\n\nSgt Steve Dundon, of Lancashire Police, said the party was a \"slap in the face\" to those following lockdown rules.\n\nThe force is speaking with Blackburn with Darwen Council to look at taking action against the wedding organiser.\n\nEarlier this month, the area had the second highest infection rate in the country at 688 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nIt has since dropped to 597, based on data between 6 and 12 November. The average cases per 100,000 in the country is 221.\n\nIn a post on Blackburn Police's Facebook page, the force said officers had been \"shocked to discover what was essentially a wedding function taking place\".\n\nGuests had travelled to the party from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Inverness.\n\nSgt Dundon said: \"The blatant disregard for the rules is a slap in the face to those of us who are doing our very best in this current situation.\"\n\nSeven people caught working out at a gym in Blackburn have also been fined and the gym owner has been reported to the local authority.\n\nSgt Dundon added: \"We urge anyone who is tempted to engage in these kinds of activity to just think twice and consider the serious consequences if they were to catch or spread the virus to a vulnerable person. Would you really want that on your conscience?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adam Isfendiyar's online photo exhibition in the Being Human Festival records how people have coped in lockdown\n\nThe week after the clocks went back saw Britain's highest levels of acute loneliness in the pandemic, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nThe start of November, with darker evenings, saw 8% of adults who were \"always or often lonely\" - representing 4.2 million people.\n\nThis was the peak in this measure of loneliness since the lockdown in March.\n\nLoneliness Minister Baroness Barran says the next few months will be \"incredibly challenging\".\n\nAn online photo exhibition shows people in East London who faced isolation during the pandemic\n\nFigures also show that 5% of adults - representing 2.6 million people - had not left their home for any reason in the previous seven days.\n\nPsychologist Vivian Hill says the \"descent into winter\" can be a \"very significant factor\" in how people feel about loneliness, with less daylight and colder weather reducing the opportunity to get outside.\n\nMillions of people, young and old, are facing loneliness, isolation and separation during the lockdown. A BBC News project, on TV, radio and online, reveals some of their stories and how they are fighting back.\n\nMillions of people, young and old, are facing loneliness, isolation and separation during the lockdown. A BBC News project on TV, radio and online reveals some of their stories and how they are fighting back.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) research has seen levels of loneliness fluctuating during the pandemic - with a broader measure, including those \"sometimes\" lonely, showing about one in four adults experiencing loneliness.\n\nBut in the week up to 1 November the measure of more acute loneliness - those \"always or often\" lonely - reached 8%, the highest it has been since the start of the pandemic, and representing 4.2 million people.\n\nPre-pandemic surveys showed about 5% of adults \"always or often\" lonely - or about 2.6 million people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marjorie Wells, 91, gives her advice on fighting loneliness\n\nThe research shows that young people are particularly likely to feel cut off - with 16 to 29-year-olds twice as likely as the over-70s to be experiencing loneliness in the pandemic.\n\nElorm Fiavor from Salford, a young carer looking after her mother who is shielding, said there needed to more recognition of the pressures of loneliness on young people.\n\n\"It needs to be OK to talk about it,\" says the 16-year-old, who misses being able to go out with friends and socialising and who is helping a charity, Lonely Not Alone, which tackles isolation among the young.\n\n\"There's a lot of stigma attached to it.\n\n\"There's a great misconception that when people think of loneliness they only think of older people who are living alone.\"\n\nElorm says that there is a misconception that loneliness is only a problem for older people\n\nStudent Jade Low says he has missed partying and socialising in the pandemic - but the challenge is to \"punch through\" and find ways to keep in touch and stay motivated.\n\n\"Everyone feels lonely sometimes,\" says the student at Imperial College London - and to keep himself busy he has taught himself to play the ukulele.\n\nThe figures from the ONS show about one in four people experiencing some form of loneliness at the start of November.\n\nDr Vivian Hill, who is the British Psychological Society's lead on isolation in the pandemic, says loneliness is a serious problem - and could be made more difficult in winter.\n\nStaying in touch with neighbours or making a phone call can help to tackle loneliness\n\nBut she says it is something that can be tackled and people should be optimistic about being able to make connections and reduce loneliness.\n\nBaroness Barran says there are new groups facing loneliness in the pandemic - such as those without internet access and those working from home who would usually rely on workplaces for their social lives.\n\nThe loneliness minister said there was funding for grassroots community projects to help people stay in touch.\n\nBut she said it was important not to underestimate the impact of things individuals could do - such as ringing someone up, writing a letter or helping a neighbour.\n\n\"It's those simple things that make people feel valued,\" she said.\n\nPhotos by Adam Isfendiyar are from an exhibition recording the pandemic in East London, being shown in the Being Human festival of the humanities. Due to the lockdown, the exhibition has been moved online.\n\nHave you been experiencing loneliness since the recent lockdown measures were enforced? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "McDonald's has apologised to food delivery drivers after they were denied access to its toilets in lockdown.\n\nIt comes after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had to remind restaurants of their legal obligations following complaints from couriers.\n\nFast food chains KFC, Subway, Nando's and Wagamama have also been accused of blocking access to their facilities.\n\nUnder health and safety law, restaurants must give drivers access to \"suitable sanitary conveniences\".\n\n\"We apologise to any courier that has been affected,\" McDonald's said.\n\n\"We are sorry to hear that on some occasions this guidance has not been implemented, and we will be reminding our restaurant teams about the policy.\"\n\nTakeaway delivery drivers have been crucial through the pandemic to enable restaurants to continue to trade.\n\nBut the HSE said it had received complaints suggesting some restaurants were breaching the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations of 1992.\n\nThese not only oblige restaurants to provide toilet access for delivery drivers, but also washing facilities at \"readily accessible places\".\n\nNandos said it was reminding its restaurants of the rules\n\nIn a joint letter to restaurant chains earlier this month, the HSE and the Department for Transport said: \"Ensuring that hygiene facilities are readily available to visiting drivers is especially important during the current Covid-19 crisis, to avoid unwanted public health implications and to help tackle the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThis was at a time \"when there are fewer locations operating with facilities that drivers can access\", it added.\n\nA spokesman for Nando's, which has also been accused to denying toilet access, said its policy was to let delivery drivers use the facilities at all of its restaurants.\n\n\"We've reiterated this to all restaurants again [this week],\" he added.\n\nA KFC spokesman said guest toilets were available for couriers at its outlets, adding: \"We're ensuring all our team members are aware this is the case.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Subway and Wagamama for comment.\n\n\"However, the entire process for food pick up at McDonalds is a shambles which needs urgent management attention,\" general secretary James Farrar told the BBC.\n\nThe Unite union agreed, stressing that fast food chains and restaurants needed to heed their legal obligations to delivery drivers.\n\n\"The restaurant's staff will still be able to use the toilets and food couriers have the same legal rights to use the toilets,\" said Unite national officer Adrian Jones.\n\n\"McDonald's must end the ban which is endangering the health of the couriers and their customers or the Health and Safety Executive should take immediate action.\"", "Thanks for following along with us\n\nAs we step away from our live coverage today, we leave you with our favourite story today... This week's Beano comic includes a pull-out section called Bean-OLD, designed to cheer up adults in the midst of the pandemic - with a comic strip featuring Boris Johnson, his outgoing aide Dominic Cummings and some other famous faces from 2020. Our colleague Justin Parkinson was given a sneak preview here. Our reporters on the live page today were Gavin Stamp, Kate Whannel, and Richard Morris, with Johanna Howitt in the editor's chair. Hope you will join us again next week.", "The PSNI has issued 210 of the new, tougher Covid penalties of £200 since they came into effect six days ago.\n\nOn Thursday of last week, 'COV4' fines replaced the previous minimum penalty notice of £60 for breaches of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nThe executive agreed on 8 October to raise the minimum fine to £200 and fines on conviction up to £10,000.\n\nHowever, their introduction was delayed until 12 November because of a problem with printing the notices.\n\nSince then, the majority of the new notices (77) were issued in Belfast, followed by 48 in the Derry City and Strabane council area and 41 in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area.\n\nNone were issued in the Causeway Coast and Glens area, while just one £200 notice was issued in Fermanagh and Omagh.\n\nSince March, the PSNI has issued a total of 2,101 penalty notices and 48 £1,000 fines for failure to isolate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Service NI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 1,184 Community Resolution Notices (CRN) issued since March. CRNs are not Covid-specific notices but can be issued to anyone over the age of 10. They are designed to act as warnings and do not incur any fines.\n\nThe latest figures also show that 93 commercial premises and 487 private dwellings were issued prohibition notices by police (580 have been handed out in total).\n\nThe PSNI has also said that there are currently 509 officers or members of staff absent due to Covid-19, 429 of whom are self-isolating.", "A £165m deal to improve broadband connectivity in Northern Ireland will be \"transformational\" for people living in rural areas, according to the company chosen to carry out the work.\n\nThe contract for the upgrade work has been awarded by the Department for the Economy to broadband provider Fibrus.\n\nThe aim of the investment - known as Project Stratum - is improving rural internet connectivity.\n\nAbout 76,000 premises are to benefit from full-fibre broadband access.\n\nThe total funding for Project Stratum is £165m, with £150m coming from the confidence-and-supply agreement deal signed between the DUP and the Conservative Party in 2017.\n\nThe remaining £15m is being provided by Stormont's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds described the announcement as a \"significant milestone\".\n\n\"We are one step closer to bringing next generation broadband services to those businesses and people who need it most,\" she said.\n\n\"Fibrus proposes a full-fibre solution, capable of offering speeds of up to one gigabit per second to almost 97% of premises in the target intervention area.\"\n\nThe process is set to run until March 2024.\n\nThe latest Connected Nations report from Ofcom suggests Northern Ireland has the best full-fibre coverage.\n\nHowever, the September report said the number of premises unable to access decent internet is higher when compared with other UK nations.\n\nFibrus chair Conal Henry said superfast broadband was a vital part of infrastructure and \"key to unlocking the full economic and social potential of our rural communities\".\n\n\"This investment enables towns, villages and rural communities to change the narrative, keep people and communities connected and facilitate the increasing demand for working and studying at home,\" he said.\n\n\"The benefits of full-fibre broadband are more relevant now in a Covid context than ever before.\"\n\nPaddy McEldowney, who lives in the Sperrin Mountains outside Draperstown, County Londonderry, is one of those hoping to see a vast improvement in his broadband speed.\n\n\"We're getting speeds of probably just less than one megabit per second, which is atrocious when you're trying to live a normal family life,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"It was difficult before lockdown but lockdown just exacerbated everything - working from home and Zoom calls every day and home-schooling on Google classroom, with myself and my wife both working from home and three children.\n\n\"We had a situation for a couple of years where we just couldn't be on the internet together - we had to take it in turns, we had to around the house seeing who's on and who's off.\"\n\nHe added: \"My biggest concern about the Project Stratum would be is everyone going to be looked after or are there still going to be in four years' time houses like mine where the broadband is still atrocious?\"\n\nFibrus said it has already invested £65m to improve broadband in towns across Northern Ireland.\n\nUK Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"This £150m investment from the UK Government will help deliver lightning fast gigabit speeds not just to Northern Ireland's towns and cities but also to rural areas stuck in the digital slow lane.\"", "The report says Northern Ireland's civil service recruitment system needs to be transformed\n\nNorthern Ireland's Civil Service is at a \"critical crossroads\" and struggling to cope because of the extra pressure on staffing levels, a report has found.\n\nAuditor General Kieran Donnelly said almost 1,500 vacancies have yet to be filled and sickness levels remain the highest in the UK.\n\nHe also raised concerns about how civil servants are being recruited and called for the system to be transformed.\n\nA total of 268,000 days of absences were recorded at a cost of £32.9m.\n\nMr Donnelly said to function effectively departments need to have \"the right people in the right place at the right time\" and there has not been the \"strategic focus\" to ensure this is the case.\n\nThe report notes the latest figures which show, on average, almost 13 working days are lost due to sickness per staff member in Northern Ireland, compared with between seven and eight days in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"This high sickness absence level across a head count of 22,000 can only have reduced the strength of Northern Ireland Civil Service's (NICS) capacity and capability, so addressing the area is clearly a matter of priority,\" the report said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Civil Service is still without a leader, months after the retirement of David Sterling\n\nAnxiety, stress and depression among staff accounted for almost 40% of the days lost.\n\nThe report reveals that 4,000 civil service jobs were lost between 2015 and 2019, mainly through a voluntary exit scheme.\n\nBut the auditor warned the civil service is now facing unprecedented challenges because of welfare reform, preparations for Brexit and dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThere is one glaring vacancy in the civil service, which is proving difficult to fill, and it is the one which will be key to fixing the problems laid bare by the auditor.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Civil Service is still without a leader almost three months after the previous holder of the post, David Sterling, retired.\n\nThree candidates interviewed for the job were not deemed suitable by the first and deputy first ministers.\n\nBut leaving such a void at a time when civil servants are battling a pandemic and preparing for Brexit is far from suitable and raises big questions about this recruitment process.\n\nWe may end up with an interim head of the civil service - yet another short-term solution to a long-term problem.\n\nThe report recognised that NICS staff \"have continued to deliver vital services to the people of Northern Ireland during unprecedented challenging circumstances, including preparing for the exit from the European Union and responding to the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nHowever, it added that the NICS \"is now at a critical crossroads, struggling to deal with providing 'business as usual services'\".\n\nThe auditor's report revealed that in one year only 19 unsatisfactory performance ratings were recorded across a workforce of more than 22,000 people.\n\nAlison Millar, the general secretary of the public service union Nipsa, rejected any suggestion that civil servants were under no pressure to perform.\n\nShe said a \"failure of leadership within the civil service\" had been a significant issue.\n\nAlison Millar of Nipsa says the civil service has been hindered by the lack of a successor to David Sterling\n\n\"Civil servants delivered through three years when there was no executive in place,\" she said.\n\n\"We now have a situation where there are 43 days left to the European exit, again we're left with no certainty in what that is and civil servants have been working incredibly hard in this Brexit world with no leadership.\"\n\nThere are high staff vacancy rates in the civil service, with 1,420 full time posts remaining unfilled.\n\nThe report also revealed that agency staff costs last year rose from almost £18m to £45.7m.\n\nMary Madden, a former civil servant who ended her career in the Department of Justice, said that although there is an \"awful lot of hardworking people in the civil service\" it needs to become \"more professional and upskill its workforce\".\n\n\"You need to bring in more specialists - most civil servants are generalists and they are dealing with very complex things,\" she told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.\n\nMs Madden said that an aging workforce - due to a recent lack of recruitment - meant the service needed a refresh in terms of its staffing.\n\n\"It is a natural thing that older people are generally more susceptible to illnesses which take them out of work.\n\n\"That is a common theme across all departments - an ageing workforce as well as extra pressure because the numbers were reduced\".\n\nThe auditor general also found the current recruitment process was \"cumbersome, slow, and did not provide sufficient assurance that the right people are placed in the right posts\".\n\nIt noted that appointments were made to grades rather than to specific job roles and \"skills and experience most relevant to positions are not always tested\".\n\nStormont's Department of Finance, which has responsibility for the NICS, said it had recently carried out an external recruitment drive, helping to fill about 500 vacancies with more appointments planned.\n\nIt added that the service recognised the need for \"fundamental change\" and would build on \"progress\" made through the reform of the organisation.\n\n\"The Audit Office report acknowledges that the Civil Service has delivered vital services against a backdrop of unprecedented and challenging circumstances and has made progress in many of the areas highlighted in this report,\" added the department.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "A decision on whether or not the Welsh Government will introduce a further \"firebreak\" lockdown shortly after Christmas will be “a matter for the first minister and the Cabinet”, the head of NHS Wales has said.\n\nDr Andrew Goodall said there had been “encouraging signs that the firebreak has had some influence on our system”, with regards to reducing the number of coronavirus cases in the community.\n\nHe went on to say that early data appeared to show the reproduction rate of Covid-19 had decreased as a result of the 17-day lockdown.\n\n“There are some emerging signs maybe of some stabilisation, in terms of some of the pressures in the hospital side of the system,” Dr Goodall said.\n\n“We currently assess that the reproduction rate is between 0.9 and 1.2, but it’s quite possible that we may see that reduce further as a reflection of the firebreak.”\n\nDr Goodall suggested that was an encouraging sign that similar measures would have an impact, but stopped short of saying that a single lockdown would be enough to keep transmission levels low across the winter.\n\n“They will reinforce that we know that things can make a difference,” he said.\n\n“There will be an evaluation of the data, we will see whether that will be sufficient to manage through, but ultimately that will revert to the ministerial reflections and considerations.”", "House prices in the South West of England have risen fastest in the UK in the last year amid a Covid-related rethink by many homeowners.\n\nHouse prices rose by 6.4% in the year to the end of September, compared with a UK average rise of 4.7%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nLand Registry data also shows that detached homes saw the biggest annual price rises in the UK.\n\nThe pandemic has led some people to move to more rural locations.\n\nThere was also some pent-up demand during the first national lockdown among those looking to relocate, which was released in the late summer and reflected in these newly-published ONS and Land Registry figures.\n\nHowever, this has tended to focus on the upper-end of the property market, as some people working from home have looked to buy properties with more space, both inside and outside.\n\nDetached homes rose in price by 6.7% in a year.\n\n\"No part of the UK economy has flown over the Covid storm like the property market and the picture in September strengthened across the board,\" said Nicky Stevenson, managing director at estate agent group Fine and Country.\n\n\"The race for space is still the market's main driver. Price growth for flats and maisonettes is muted compared to larger properties, which have been flourishing amid high demand.\"\n\nSome have been taking advantage of a temporary stamp duty holiday across the UK which began in the summer.\n\nThe city of Bath has some attractions for property hunters\n\nThe annual price rise recorded in the South West of England in September was double the level seen in the region the previous month.\n\nPrices rose by at least 3% compared with a year earlier in every nation and region of the UK, except Northern Ireland, which recorded a 2.4% increase.\n\nThe UK housing market is made up of lots of local markets, with different factors affecting property prices such as the performance of schools and the availability of jobs. The ONS figures are based on sale completions.\n\nOverall, the UK increase in house prices was 4.7% over the year to September, up from 3% in August, with the average home valued at £245,000.\n\nWhile property prices may not have risen as fast in London, the city still have the highest average house price, at £496,000.\n\nFor tenants of private landlords, rents in the UK rose by an average of 1.4% in the year to October, the ONS said,\n\nLondon saw its biggest slowdown in private rental prices growth since March 2017, slowing to 0.9% in the year to October, down from a 1.2% rise in September.\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.", "Discussions have taken place about the four nations of the UK taking a joint approach to Covid rules over Christmas.\n\nThe Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish first ministers held a virtual meeting with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and other senior UK officials.\n\nIt was the first of what UK ministers hope will be weekly meetings.\n\nUK government sources said topics including international travel, mass testing and the priority list for vaccinations were also discussed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster took part in the meeting, as did Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, Welsh Secretary Simon Hart and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nMr Gove said they all recognised families across the UK \"want to be able to see their loved ones this Christmas\".\n\nHe added: \"Today my ministerial colleagues and I met with the devolved administrations to work towards that shared aim and to help ensure that our collective response delivers for the public in every part of the UK\".\n\nIt is understood government officials will now be considering how to put the desire for a \"joint approach to Christmas\" into action.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The four nations call had an initial discussion about a co-ordinated approach to issues such as travel over the Christmas period and discussed recent developments in testing, including the use of lateral flow testing to enable students to return home, and initial lessons from the Liverpool pilot.\"\n\nSenior UK ministers have warned the situation remains highly volatile, with different levels of restrictions in different parts of the country and high rates of transmissions across the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said recently that people may not be able to gather like normal in large groups while Ms Sturgeon's most senior public health adviser, Jason Leitch, said last month that people should prepare themselves for a \"digital Christmas\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, a plan was announced to get students in England home safely for Christmas.\n\nStudents are to be allocated departure dates during a \"student travel window\" between 3 and 9 December, to minimise the risk of them spreading Covid-19.\n\nIn Wales, they are being asked to travel by 9 December at the latest.\n\nThe Scottish government wants as many as possible of the 80,000 or so students going home for Christmas to be offered voluntary tests before they travel.\n\nNorthern Ireland is expected to publish plans for students' return in the coming days.", "80% of the contracts were for personal protective equipment\n\nCompanies recommended by MPs, peers and ministers' offices were given priority as the government raced to obtain Personal Protective Equipment, the National Audit Office found.\n\nOver half of the £18bn spent on pandemic-related contracts was awarded without competitive tender, it said.\n\nThe spending watchdog said the government was not transparent about suppliers and services.\n\nIt also found there was inadequate explanation of key spending decisions.\n\nThe findings are part of an NAO investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nThe watchdog found not enough was done to address potential conflicts of interest by ministers and other government officials.\n\nIt found more than 8,600 coronavirus contracts had been awarded by 31 July, ranging in value from less than £100 to £410m.\n\nOf these, £10.5bn-worth (58%) were awarded directly without a competitive tender process.\n\nPersonal protective equipment (PPE) accounted for 80% of the number of contracts awarded.\n\nThe report comes after the BBC revealed on Tuesday that a Spanish businessman who acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff in the pandemic was paid $28m (£21m) in UK taxpayer cash.\n\nGabriel Gonzalez Andersson had been in line for a further $20m of UK public funds, documents filed in a US court reveal.\n\nHe worked with Florida-based jewellery designer Michael Saiger who set up a business at the start of the pandemic to supply PPE to governments.\n\nFlorida-based jewellery designer Michael Saiger set up a business to supply PPE to governments\n\nMeg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, called for ministers to \"come clean\" and publish all information about the contracts awarded.\n\nThe government acknowledged it had procured services with \"extreme urgency\" during the crisis but it said it had \"robust processes in place\".\n\nWhen asked about the $28m paid to the Spanish businessman, Business Secretary Alok Sharma told Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Department of Health did look at that contract at the time.\"\n\n\"At the time there was huge pressure to get PPE into the system and that's what we did,\" he added.\n\nThe government is keen to note that the National Audit Office found \"no evidence that ministers had been involved in either the award or management of the contracts\" for £18bn of pandemic-related contracts.\n\nIt was under huge pressure to get more PPE immediately and was bidding against governments all over the world. It's even understandable that most of the contracts were awarded without the normal (and time-consuming) competitive tendering process that is there to ensure value for money for taxpayers - and to eliminate the risk that someone gets a lucrative public sector contract not because of what they offer but because of who they know.\n\nBut as the NAO points out, if you ditch that competitive process, the remaining safeguards - such as properly documenting what you've done to avoid conflicts of interest - become all the more important.\n\nAnd if you have a process where companies referred by ministers' offices, MPs, peers and health chiefs get 'fast-tracked' - and are therefore ten times as likely to win a contract - there's an even stronger risk that contracts are seen to be awarded not on merit or value for money but because of personal connections.\n\nTo eliminate that risk, the public accounts committee chair Meg Hillier is calling for all contracts awarded so far to be published.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said it remained \"essential that decisions are properly documented and made transparent if government is to maintain public trust\".\n\nMs Hillier, a Labour MP, said the failings uncovered may be the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"The government overlooked a serious conflict of interest, paid consultants for months before giving them contracts and purchased masks it knew weren't up to scratch.\n\n\"It's bad enough that it set up a 'high-priority lane' to fast-track companies with the right connections.\n\n\"But the failure to track how half the companies had ended up on it made it impossible to ensure proper safeguards were in place.\"\n\nThe NAO looked in detail at 20 contracts including:\n\nThe NAO concluded that in cases of potential conflicts of interest involving ministers, all had properly declared their interests and it found \"no evidence of their involvement in procurement decisions or contract management\".\n\nThe spending watchdog acknowledged the pandemic required acting with \"extreme urgency\" and the Public Contracts Regulations allowed an emergency response, including awarding deals directly without a formal competition.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Julia Lopez said: \"We have been dealing with an unprecedented global pandemic that has posed the biggest challenge to the UK in a generation.\n\n\"As this report rightly recognises, we needed to procure contracts with extreme urgency to secure the vital supplies required to protect frontline NHS workers and the public and we make no apology for that.\n\n\"We have robust processes in place for spending public money to ensure we get critical equipment to where it needs to go as quickly as possible, whilst also ensuring value for money for the taxpayer.\n\n\"It is important to maintain the public's confidence in how we manage their money, and we welcome the NAO's scrutiny of our processes and recommendations on how they can be improved.\"\n\nTom Sasse from the think tank the Institute for Government, told Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money that procurement processes exist to make sure taxpayers get the best value for money.\n\n\"The NAO point to some pretty serious problems with how public procurement has happened during the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"We've also seen a big story in August around £150m that went on PPE that couldn't be used. So there are questions about how this process is working.\"", "Aiden and his family had been trying to raise money to adapt his bathroom\n\nA lifelong Wrexham FC fan said he \"feels amazing\" after the club's new Hollywood star owner donated £6,000 to adapt his home.\n\nAiden Stott, who has cerebral palsy, had been trying to raise the cash to get a bathroom so his family could wash him.\n\nOn Wednesday, he woke up to find the entire sum had been donated by actor Rob McElhenney, who is set to take over the club, alongside Ryan Reynolds.\n\nMr Stott said he \"couldn't believe it\".\n\nThe football fan, who has been a season ticket holder for several years and is a member of the club's Disabled Supporters' Association, said he was blown away by the generosity of everyone who had donated.\n\nAiden's favourite player is Paul Rutherford and he never misses a home game\n\n\"It means the world to me, it really does,\" said Mr Stott.\n\nAfter cuts to his care, the 37-year-old's parents sold their family home to buy a flat for him to live closer to them in Manchester.\n\nBut after finding out adapting the bathroom to make it safe for Aiden, his family and carers, would cost £6,000, the family decided to set up a fundraising campaign.\n\n\"I had been deliberating whether to do it or not, because there are so many people in worse positions than us, it's not like Aiden is starving, he's got a roof over his head,\" his sister Cheryl said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Wrexham has the potential for growth\"\n\nOn Monday, Wrexham Supporters Trust (WST) members voted overwhelmingly to back the takeover by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star McElhenney and Reynolds.\n\nWhile a number of people had already donated to the fundraising campaign, Cheryl said she was woken up on Wednesday by a friend telling her to look at the page.\n\n\"It was there, his name, no message, obviously I wrote a message to him and told him he made my mum cry, but we haven't heard anything from him,\" she said.\n\n\"That a Hollywood movie star looked at a picture of my brother and read his little story and what he's going through, it's just incredible.\n\n\"It's amazing that he bought the club in the first place, which we are all really excited about, but to do that as well, it just shows his true character and meaning.\"\n\nMs Stott, a firefighter, said since the donation, more companies had come forward saying they would adapt the bathroom for a lower price.\n\n\"This means we can get him carers quicker as well... it's not just the bath it's being able to employ people to look after him and not to rely on his dad,\" she said.\n\nSteve Gilbert, chairman of the club's Disabled Supporters' Association, said everyone was overwhelmed by the star's generosity.\n\nMr Gilbert said he tweeted McElhenney the link to Aiden's campaign on Tuesday in the hope he could generate some interest.\n\n\"I am still choked up about it, I still can't really put into words what it means,\" he said.\n\n\"Rob contacted us on Twitter five or six weeks ago, he told us he had spoken to Ryan, and he had said accessibility and inclusion was very important to them.\n\n\"A day into their ownership and they have already done this, we are just chuffed.\"\n\nAiden said the atmosphere at the matches was \"brilliant\"\n\nMr Stott said he would love to meet the club's new owners and thank McElhenney for his lovely gift.\n\n\"That would make my day,\" he 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.", "The government has lost two more votes in the Lords over its Brexit bill.\n\nPeers voted by 367 to 209 to amend the Internal Market Bill, after claims that it would allow the UK government to \"shackle\" devolved administrations as powers are returned from Brussels.\n\nAnd they voted by 327 to 223 to curb ministers' powers to rewrite parts of the bill at a later stage.\n\nThe proposed law aims to create a UK-wide internal market after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nIt was approved by the Commons in September but is encountering strong resistance in the Lords, where Boris Johnson's government does not have a majority.\n\nLast week, peers defeated the government over plans to allow the UK to override parts of the legally-binding withdrawal agreement that apply to Northern Ireland.\n\nOnce peers have finished debating the bill it will head back to the House of Commons where MPs will decide either to reject or accept the Lords' amendments.\n\nIn the event of a stalemate between the two Houses, the government has not ruled out forcing through the changes through a rarely-used law known as the Parliament Act, which dates back to 1911.\n\nThe act, which enshrined the primacy of the elected Commons over the unelected Lords, was used in 2004 by Tony Blair's government to push through a ban on fox and deer hunting and hare-coursing with dogs.\n\nIn the first of Wednesday's reverses for the government, peers supported an amendment that sought to strengthen the role of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking in favour of the amendment, Crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff said the bill would allow Westminster to bypass the views of devolved governments in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast and consign current arrangements to a \"meaningless sideshow\".\n\nShe added that the proposed legislation \"shackles the ability of the elected parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to find their own solutions to the problems we face\".\n\nAnd Labour said it would, for example, prevent the Welsh government from banning different types of plastic ahead of the rest of the UK.\n\nSpeaking for the government, Cabinet Office Minister Lord True said the right place for final decisions on the internal market should be the Westminster Parliament.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland once the transition period is over.\n\nCurrently regulations and standards on issues like animal welfare are agreed and applied across the EU.\n\nAfter the transition period, many of these standards will be directly controlled by the devolved administrations - but the UK government has said they will still have to accept goods and services from all other parts of the UK, even if they have set different standards locally.", "Some parts of the south Wales valleys have seen among the highest rates in the UK\n\nMore restrictions are \"inevitable\" if the current regulations cannot keep coronavirus cases in check, a public health official has warned.\n\nGiri Shankar, Public Health Wales' outbreak response director, said the firebreak lockdown achieved its purpose of halting the rapid growth of cases.\n\nBut he said it was not yet known if the action has been enough.\n\nCase data over the next two weeks would indicate if the current downward trend of cases would continue, he added.\n\n\"What remains to be seen is whether the reduction is sufficient enough, whether we can sustain it for enough to be able to manage the essential services,\" Dr Shankar said.\n\nHe emphasised this depended on \"individual and collective responsibility\" in following the national guidelines which came into effect on 9 November and ran for 17 days.\n\n\"If there is an uncontrolled spread of the virus and if there is a further increase in cases and that leads to inevitably higher hospitalisations and a proportion of those translate to deaths then it is inevitable at some point that we will have to consider further additional restrictions,\" he added.\n\nHe said any further restrictions were ultimately the Welsh Government's decision.\n\nHis warning comes on the day Merthyr Tydfil became the first part of Wales where a mass testing scheme will be rolled out.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall said Merthyr Tydfil was an \"obvious choice\" for mass testing, given the recent high level of Covid-19 infections in the area.\n\nDr Goodall said the Welsh Government was \"appealing to the population\" in the county \"to support us in this initiative to undertake that more repeated testing, whether they have symptoms or not\".\n\nFor more see Wales Live, Wednesday, 22:35 GMT on BBC One Wales.", "Karim Ennarah was reportedly detained while on holiday at a Red Sea resort (family handout)\n\nA leading human rights group in Egypt says security forces have detained two members of its staff in recent days.\n\nThe Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights reported that its director of criminal justice, Karim Ennarah, was arrested on Wednesday in Dahab and taken to an undisclosed location.\n\nIts office manager, Mohammed Basheer, was detained in Cairo on Sunday.\n\nAmnesty International condemned what it called the \"chilling escalation\" of a crackdown on civil society in Egypt.\n\nHuman rights groups say dozens of activists have been targeted with arrests, travel bans and asset freezes under President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.\n\nMr Sisi led the military's overthrow of his democratically elected predecessor Mohammed Morsi in 2013 following protests against his rule.\n\nThe EIPR is an independent human rights group whose work covers a variety of political, civil, economic and social issues in Egypt.\n\nOn Sunday, the EIPR issued a statement saying security personnel had raided Mr Basheer's home overnight and taken him to a State Security Sector facility, where he was questioned about a visit on 3 November by senior Western diplomats to the EIPR's Cairo office to discuss human rights.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was later taken to the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) and asked about the EIPR's work, its latest publications and its legal aid work, the statement added.\n\nMr Basheer was accused of charges including \"joining a terrorist organisation\" and \"spreading false news\", and added to an SSSP case involving investigations over what Amnesty International said were unfounded terrorism-related charges against other human rights defenders..\n\nThe EIPR said prosecutors did not present Mr Basheer with any reliable evidence and demanded his immediate release.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, the EIPR tweeted that Mr Ennarah had been arrested by National Security officers in Dahab, a Red Sea resort in South Sinai province, and that his whereabouts were unknown.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from the Egyptian authorities.\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\"These arrests, following a meeting at EIPR with Western diplomats, serve a heavy blow against the legitimate work of human rights defenders,\" Amnesty International tweeted.\n\n\"Time for the international community to call on Egypt to end reprisals against human rights organizations and release EIPR staff now,\" it added.\n\nFrance expressed \"deep concern\" over the arrest of Mr Basheer on Tuesday, and stressed that it maintained \"a frank, exacting dialogue with Egypt on human rights issues\".\n\nThe Egyptian foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected France's \"interference in an Egyptian internal affair and the attempt to influence the investigations\". It also stressed that Egypt respected the rule of law and equality before it.", "Dr McBride has said the current restrictions are \"having an impact\" and \"slowing the spread of infection\", \"however not enough nor sufficient to take us through the challenges of the next few months\".\n\nHe thanks the public for the contribution they have been making, also stressing the importance of people looking after their mental health.\n\n\"It is important to know that others are there and will understand - none of us, absolutely none of us are alone,\" he adds.\n\nHe says it is also important to acknowledge in these \"challenging times\" that there \"is hope\".\n\n\"Hope for a better and different future,\" he adds.\n\nDr McBride notes the announcements with regard to a number of potential vaccines which \"are yet to be approved for use in the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"However, there is now a very real prospect that we will be in a different place by the spring or summer and almost certainly by next year.\"", "Rangers fear the unique white skin of the giraffe may make the animal vulnerable to poachers\n\nThe world's only known white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device to keep poachers at bay in north-east Kenya, conservationists say.\n\nA conservation group said rangers could monitor the lone male giraffe's movements in real time.\n\nThe giraffe has a rare genetic condition called leucism, which causes the loss of skin pigmentation.\n\nHe is thought to be the last of his kind, after poachers killed two of his family members in March.\n\nRangers fear the giraffe could suffer the same fate as his relatives, a female and her seven-month-old calf with similar white skin.\n\nTheir carcasses were found in a conservation area in Kenya's north-eastern Garissa County, where the male giraffe is currently living alone.\n\nThe Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, which oversees wildlife in the area, said the tracking device was attached to one of the giraffe's horns on 8 November.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, the non-profit group said the tracking device would give hourly updates on the giraffe's whereabouts, enabling rangers to \"keep the unique animal safe from poachers\".\n\nThe male giraffe's family - a female and a calf - were found dead in March this year\n\nThe manager of the group, Mohammed Ahmednoor, thanked conservationists for their help in protecting the giraffe and other wildlife.\n\n\"The giraffe's grazing range has been blessed with good rains in the recent past and the abundant vegetation bodes well for the future of the white male,\" he said.\n\nThe Kenya Wildlife Society, the main conservation body in the east-African country, said it was happy to assist in efforts to protect \"unique wildlife like the only known white giraffe\".\n\nWhite giraffes were first spotted in Kenya in March 2016, about two months after a sighting in neighbouring Tanzania.\n\nA year later, white giraffes made headlines again, after the mother and her calf from the conservancy in Kenya's Garissa County were caught on camera.\n\nNative to more than 15 African countries, giraffes are the world's tallest mammals. They are hunted by poachers for their hides, meat and body parts.\n\nSome 40% of the giraffe population has disappeared in the last 30 years, with poaching and wildlife trafficking contributing to this decline, according to the Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF).\n\nGiraffes have been designated as a vulnerable species on The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List, with an estimated population of 68,293 globally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why we should worry about giraffes", "Jewellery designer Michael Saiger, who brokered PPE contracts for the NHS, at a fashion show in 2009\n\nA Spanish businessman who acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff in the coronavirus pandemic was paid $28m (£21m) in UK taxpayer cash.\n\nThe consultant had been in line for a further $20m of UK public funds, documents filed in a US court reveal.\n\nThe legal papers also reveal the American supplier of the PPE called the deals \"lucrative\".\n\nThe Department of Health said proper checks are done for all contracts.\n\nA legal dispute playing out in the courts in Miami has helped shine a light on the amount of money some companies have made supplying the NHS with equipment to protect staff from Covid infection.\n\nEarlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading rapidly around the world, Florida-based jewellery designer Michael Saiger set up a business to supply PPE to governments.\n\nHe used his experience of working with factories in China to land what are described as \"a number of lucrative contracts\" supplying protective gloves and gowns to the NHS.\n\nMr Saiger signed up a Spanish businessman, Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson, to help with \"procurement, logistics, due diligence, product sourcing and quality control\" of the PPE equipment. In effect, Mr Andersson was expected to find a manufacturer for deals that had already been done.\n\nMr Andersson was paid more than $28m (£21m) for his work on two government contracts to supply the NHS. He was described in court documents as having done \"very well under this arrangement\".\n\nEarlier in the year there was a shortage of protective equipment for NHS medics\n\nIn June, Mr Saiger signed three more agreements to supply the NHS with millions of gloves and surgical gowns.\n\nWhen the UK government paid up, his go-between, Mr Andersson, would have been in line for a further $20m in consulting fees.\n\nBut the court documents allege that once the agreements had been signed, Mr Andersson stopped doing any work for Mr Saiger. It's not clear whether Mr Andersson received any of the money for this second batch of deals.\n\nThis led to PPE deliveries being delayed to NHS frontline workers, Mr Saiger claims, and the company \"scrambling\" to fulfil the contracts by other means.\n\nSo far the UK's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published contracts with Mr Saiger's company, Saiger LLC, totalling more than £200m. These were awarded without being opened to competition.\n\nAlongside the legal dispute in Florida, the deals are set to be challenged in UK courts, by campaign group the Good Law Project. It accuses government ministers of not paying \"sufficient regard\" to tax-payers' money over a contract with the firm.\n\n\"We do not understand why, as late as June, government was still making direct awards of contracts sufficiently lucrative as to enable these sorts of profits to be made,\" Jolyon Maugham, the project's director told the BBC.\n\n\"The real criticism that is to be made here is of the huge profits that government allows to be generated.\"\n\nThis is not the first time concerns have been raised about PPE contracts the DHSC signed during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC revealed that 50 million face masks the government bought could not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns. And last week, it exposed concerns that the government had leaned on safety officials to certify PPE which had been wrongly classified.\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said the department had been \"working tirelessly\" to deliver PPE, with more than 4.9 billion items delivered to frontline health workers so far and nearly 32 billion items ordered \"to provide a continuous supply\".\n\nThey added: \"Proper due diligence is carried out for all government contracts, and we take these checks extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson for comment but he has not so far responded.\n\nSaiger LLC said: \"At the height of the pandemic, and at a time when the NHS was in need of high-quality PPE that met the required safety standards, we delivered for Britain, on time and at value.\n\n\"At no time have we ever used any 'middlemen'. We have few full-time staff so for large projects we bring in short-term contractors for additional expertise and capacity, allowing us to deliver what is needed.\n\n\"We are exceptionally proud to have played our part in providing frontline workers in the UK, including nurses, doctors and hospital staff, with the millions of pieces of PPE they need to stay safe and to save lives.\"\n\nMore from Phil on Twitter @phill_kemp", "Apple is halving the commission it takes from the sale of apps and virtual goods sold within them from many of the smaller developers using its stores.\n\nFrom January, any existing app-maker who earned $1m (£830,000) or less from Apple's marketplaces in 2020 will only have to give up a 15% cut in 2021.\n\nThat compares to the standard rate of 30%. New developers also qualify.\n\nIt follows widespread criticism by developers of the fees Apple charges, and coincides with anti-trust scrutiny.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook was questioned several times about the rates his firm charges when he appeared before US lawmakers at a competition hearing in July. It emerged there that Amazon had negotiated a special 15% rate for in-app charges within its Prime Video app.\n\nAnd the preceding month the European Commission opened its own probe into the marketplace's rules.\n\nApple, however, has characterised the move as being a natural evolution of its policies, which it had made after listening to feedback from its developer communities.\n\nAbout 28 million developers use Apple's store, and the firm says the vast majority of those who charge fees will benefit.\n\nBut it has not provided a figure for how many it forecasts will be affected.\n\nOne of those who will earn more told the BBC he welcomed the move, but said that might not be true of everyone.\n\n\"Earlier in the year, Apple faced a lot of bad PR because it was seen to be capitalising on the pandemic by charging its 30% cut on small businesses - like those offering fitness training or classes - that had gone virtual via an app,\" said Benjamin Mayo, creator of the Daily Dictionary and Bingo Machine apps.\n\n\"So they and others of us in the indie community will see this as a good thing.\n\n\"But the bigger apps like Spotify and Epic will likely see this as unfair as they're being excluded despite earning the App Store more money.\"\n\n\"This would be something to celebrate were it not a calculated move by Apple to divide app creators and preserve their monopoly on stores and payments, again breaking the promise of treating all developers equally,\" said the firm's chief executive Tim Sweeney.\n\nBy design, the scheme will exclude the highest-earning software creators for Apple products.\n\nAt present, the only way for developers to offer native apps - rather than those that run via a web browser - for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and the Apple TV set-top box is via the firm's App Store.\n\nBy contrast, they can sell their products directly to consumers or via alternative marketplaces on its Mac computers.\n\nApple claims the App Store ecosystem made about $519bn in commerce possible in 2019\n\nUnder the new scheme, the 15% rate applies if their total earnings from apps sold via Apple fell below the $1m threshold the previous year.\n\nBut it rises to 30% again for any additional sales made beyond $1m during 2021.\n\nThe $1m figure is calculated on the basis of the developers' post-commission earnings rather than the total revenue of their products.\n\nAnd Apple intends to continue the initiative in later years.\n\nOne quirk of the scheme is that it gives developers an incentive to pull products or make them free towards the end of the year to avoid crossing the cut-off point.\n\nThis is because if a software-maker earns $1,000,001 they would face the full 30% rate the following year, but if they made $999,999 they would qualify for the discount.\n\nAn alternative would have been to simply let all developers benefit from the lower rate on the first $1m of their earnings.\n\nBut the tech giant has indicated it wanted to limit the scheme to its smaller, independent developer community and believed this was the best way to do that.\n\nMarket research firm Sensor Tower told the BBC its data suggests about 4.9% of the App Store's total revenue in 2019 came via those earning less than $1m.\n\n\"Other platform holders who have yet to budge on their own 30% cut will be taking note and may now feel the need to act,\" said Craig Chapple, a strategist at the firm.\n\nThis is a clever move by Apple to try to show both developers and regulators that it is responding to concerns that it abuses its dominant position in the iOS app market.\n\nBut there is less to this change than meets the eye.\n\nSure, the cut in commission will probably benefit the vast majority of its 28 million developers.\n\nBut as Apple won't be transparent about how many of them release paid apps but earn less than $1m a year from them, we can't put a number on how many will be affected.\n\nSimilarly, the company won't tell us what proportion of its App Store revenue comes from developers earning more than $1m who will continue to pay a 30% commission.\n\nWhat we do know is that services now make a very important contribution to Apple's bottom line and it's thought it earned $50bn from the App Store in 2019.\n\nYou can bet that this move is not going to affect that flow of cash in any material fashion.\n\nCynics will say this is a divide-and-rule strategy to quieten the complaints from smaller developers.\n\nBut don't expect the giants - or indeed the EU regulators - to turn down the volume.", "Ministers are looking at how to relax coronavirus restrictions so families can celebrate Christmas together.\n\nThe government's medical adviser on Covid, Susan Hopkins, said they were working on a plan and wanted Christmas to be \"as close to normal as possible\".\n\nShe said tough restrictions might be needed before and after the holiday to allow mixing to take place.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said any rule change would be for a limited time, maybe just a few days.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman confirmed ministers were \"looking at ways to ensure that people can spend time with close family over Christmas at the end of what has been an incredibly difficult year\".\n\nIt comes after the Sun reported that families may be able to mix indoors for five days from Christmas Eve.\n\nAll four UK nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - are trying to work out a common approach to Christmas so families spread across the UK can still meet up.\n\nOur correspondent said any final decisions would not be made for a few weeks while health chiefs wait to see whether cases have started to come down during the lockdown in England.\n\nBut, he said, the advice was likely to urge families not to hold big gatherings and to travel by car, rather than public transport.\n\nScientific advice indicates that for every day that measures are relaxed, five days of tighter restrictions would be needed.\n\nThe government has recorded another 19,609 Covid cases in the UK and 529 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nEngland is expected to come out of its second national lockdown on 2 December and return to the tier system of localised restrictions, with household mixing banned indoors in the top two tiers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We're keen to have Christmas as close to normal as possible'\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Dr Hopkins, from Public Health England, suggested restrictions could be needed either side of Christmas if curbs were to be eased over the festive period.\n\nShe said two days of tighter restrictions would be required for every one day relaxed - although officials later clarified the advice is actually for five days.\n\nPeople would need to be \"very careful\" about the contacts they have in the lead-up to Christmas and would have to be \"responsible\" and reduce contacts again after the festive period, she added.\n\nShe said she knew ministers were \"working hard to develop an outline\" of what the new tiers would look like after 2 December and what Christmas would look like.\n\nThe BBC has been told new tougher regional tiers could see pubs and restaurants closed entirely in areas in the top tier throughout the festive period.\n\nStrict rules on meeting up and social distancing have meant millions of people have been unable to hug, or sometimes even see, close family for many months.\n\nChris, from Norfolk, said he feared this might be the last Christmas his father, who has advanced cancer, has with his three grandchildren.\n\n\"I'm not interested in Christmas as a party or celebration. All I want is one day,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nDowning Street said Christmas would not be normal but the prime minister would look at the latest data to make decisions and an update would be given next week.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet minister Alok Sharma said it was too early for \"conclusions\" but he wanted to see his family for Christmas.\n\nMr Sharma told BBC Breakfast people needed to keep bearing down on the infection and \"do our bit\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Prof Neil Ferguson, whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, suggested extending support bubbles to up to four households to allow families to celebrate Christmas together.\n\nThis year, Christmas Eve falls on Thursday and there is a bank holiday on the following Monday, giving most workers at least a four-day break.\n\nProf Ferguson also warned that reopening pubs and restaurants in the run-up to Christmas would be likely to lead to rising infection levels.\n\nWhat to do about Christmas is delicately poised.\n\nOn the one hand, allowing mixing over the festive period will undoubtedly lead to an increase in infections.\n\nWhat is more, there are concerns the impact of lockdown will be more limited than hoped. We are yet to see infections rates start falling - although it is still early days - so there will be no final decision on Christmas yet.\n\nBut stamping down on the virus is, of course, not the be all and end all.\n\nProviding an opportunity to meet will bring much needed respite from the hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nBut there is also a widespread recognition that even if the government bans mixing at Christmas, significant numbers of people may well ignore it.\n\nThe fear is that then starts to normalise breaking the restrictions and will make compliance worse over the rest of winter.\n\nThe expectation is that there will be some limited relaxation - in the hope that the psychological boost it will give the public and the longer-term goodwill it will engender will outweigh any cost in terms of virus spread.\n\nThat much was clear from the Downing Street briefing when government advisers admitted publicly for the first time that it may be on the cards.\n\nBut the pay-off for that could be tighter regional restrictions on hospitality in the areas with the highest rates all through the festive period.\n\nThere have been calls for a single approach from the devolved administrations in the UK about Christmas - so families who live in different nations can deal with a single set of rules.\n\nWelsh ministers have said it could be weeks before an announcement on Covid rules is made, and warned this year's festive period would \"not be like normal\".\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland said they would do all they could to \"protect\" as much of Christmas as possible.\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new, stricter measures announced on Tuesday were needed, in part, to allow the possibility of people meeting up over Christmas. \"We are all desperate for some normality around Christmas and I absolutely include myself in that,\" Ms Sturgeon said.", "Rises in the cost of clothing and food helped to push UK inflation higher-than-expected last month.\n\nThe UK's inflation rate, which tracks the prices of goods and services, jumped to 0.7% in October from 0.5% in September, official figures show.\n\nSecond-hand cars and computer games also saw price rises, but these were partially offset by falls in the cost of energy and holidays.\n\nAnalysts had expected the rate to remain flat at 0.5%.\n\n\"The rate of inflation increased slightly as clothing prices grew, returning to their normal seasonal pattern after the disruption this year,\" said Office for National Statistics deputy statistician Jonathan Athow.\n\nNormally prices for clothes and shoes fall each year between June and July in summer sales before autumn ranges come in, and then rise before sales towards the end of the year, the ONS said.\n\nHowever, the coronavirus crisis has changed how prices move.\n\nThroughout 2020 this pattern has been different, with increased discounting in March and April, probably as a response to lockdown, it said. After a small increase in July and August, prices rose by more than a year ago.\n\nInflation is the rate at which the prices for goods and services increase.\n\nIt affects everything from mortgages to the cost of our shopping and the price of train tickets.\n\nIt's one of the key measures of financial well-being, because it affects what consumers can buy for their money. If there is inflation, money doesn't go as far.\n\nFood prices rose between September and October, with most of the increase coming in fruit and vegetables, the ONS said.\n\nAnalyst firm Capital Economics said food price inflation could continue to rise in November as supermarket demand continues to increase during the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, there was a fall in the amount of supermarket promotions as shoppers bulk bought essentials.\n\nSome surveys of consumers had suggested renewed stockpiling as health restrictions spread through Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in October.\n\nA one-month lockdown was announced for England at the end of the month and started on 5 November.\n\nSecond-hand car prices also rose in October as people tried to reduce their reliance on public transport.\n\nHowever, car prices may stabilise and fall back in the middle of 2021 should a vaccine become widely available, according to Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nOne of the largest downward pressures on inflation came from a fall in household energy prices.\n\nGas prices dropped by 12.3% and electricity prices fell 3.2% between September and October.\n\nThis was mainly due to energy regulator Ofgem's latest six month energy price cap, which came into effect on 1 October, the ONS said.\n\nInflation may have ticked up in October but delve into the figures and you're reminded: it's not the risk of inflation that looms large right now but the opposite.\n\nServices are still rising in price but if you take the price of goods there's been no inflation at all in the past year.\n\nThe price of energy fell - not only this time because of the price cap, but because anti-virus measures have caused a sharp economic contraction worldwide, cutting global demand and pulling down the wholesale price of oil and gas.\n\nWhere some prices are slowly rising, the national lockdown measures currently in place can only exert further deflationary pressure.\n\nThere's not a lot the Bank of England can do here to stimulate activity when the battle against Covid is pulling in the other direction.\n\nBut if we're to avoid deflation, further fiscal measures may be needed to stimulate and repair a stricken economy once mass vaccination is underway.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sandra Lazarus says she was denied seeing husband before his death due to Covid-19 rules\n\nThe trauma of not being able to visit relatives in care homes will stay with people \"for years\", the older people's commissioner for Wales has said.\n\nHer calls come after the family of John Lazarus, 83, said they were not allowed to be with him before his death, which was not related to Covid-19.\n\nMr Lazarus died last month at Glanffrwd Care Home in Bridgend.\n\nThe owner, HC-One, said a visit was not allowed as he was not considered to be at the end of his life.\n\nMr Lazarus's wife of 59 years, Sandra, said she knew her husband did not have long to live but not being able to say goodbye made the situation much worse.\n\n\"I can't turn back the clock. I can't say, can we have a re-run and let me see him. He's gone now. I missed the boat. I just wanted to tell him we loved him.\"\n\nJohn Lazarus, pictured with daughter Claire, was a much-loved husband and father\n\nThe father-of-three, who served with South Wales Police for 30 years, had Alzheimer's disease.\n\nMrs Lazarus said it \"broke her heart\" when he had to move into the care home at the end of 2019.\n\nBefore the outbreak of Covid-19, she visited every afternoon and they would have a cup of tea and a \"tot of whisky and Coke\" and watch a film.\n\nVisits were cancelled in March, outdoor visits were then permitted in the summer, but in September Bridgend was put under local restrictions.\n\nUnder Welsh Government policy, end-of-life visits are still allowed regardless of any local restrictions or national lockdown.\n\nThe Lazarus family said they had been allowed to look through the window at him, but it was difficult as he was deaf and would get distressed and beckon his wife and other family members to come in.\n\n\"He'd say 'I don't care about the virus. I just want you in here now',\" said his daughter Claire Jones.\n\nJohn Lazarus with son Mark, daughter Claire, wife Sandra and son Nigel before the pandemic\n\nMrs Lazarus said her husband had stopped eating and drinking and they would drive up past the window to see how he was because they knew his condition was deteriorating.\n\n\"I think in his mind he had nothing to live for now,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd been with John since I was 17 and we'd always been together, we've done everything together.\"\n\nOn their wedding anniversary a carer held the phone for him.\n\n\"He said to me 'I love you'. He said it three times, I'll never forget it. Those were the last words I heard from my husband.\"\n\nOn 19 October, Mr Lazarus was rushed into hospital with a temperature and returned to the home in the middle of the night.\n\nTwo hours later his family received a call from the home to say he had died.\n\n\"I hope he didn't think that we didn't love him and we just left him there and forgot about him,\" Mrs Lazarus said, \"because we didn't and we never will.\"\n\nFormer police officer John Lazarus was a \"proud man\" say his family\n\nHis wife and daughter were allowed into the home, wearing full PPE, after he died.\n\n\"It was horrendous,\" Ms Jones said. \"Giving your dead parent a kiss in PPE with visors is beyond. It's overwhelming.\"\n\nShe said people were being \"kept safe to the detriment of their health\" by not having visitors.\n\nShe wants rapid testing to be available for relatives so they can care for their loved ones during the final moments of their lives.\n\nMrs Lazarus added: \"They say you can come in at the end of life, but when is 'end of life'? None of us know.\"\n\nShe wants care homes to \"look at this and say 'this person's really not going to last long... they need to be with their families now, not wait until their last breath\".\n\nThe older people's commissioner Helena Herklots is urging care homes to allow visits for residents, particularly those who are at the end of their lives.\n\n\"We know that this can be done safely because care homes are doing it,\" she said. \"So I would urge those that for whatever reason decided they can't to think again.\"\n\nJohn Lazarus died in October in his care home in Bridgend\n\nA spokesperson for HC-One said that Mr Lazarus was not considered to be at the end of his life, meaning they applied local visiting restrictions from mid-September.\n\n\"We would like to express our deepest condolences for the sad passing of Mr Lazarus, who will be dearly missed by those who knew him.\"\n\nThey said that in October they had planned safe weekly window visits for the family, but Mr Lazarus died shortly afterwards.\n\nHC-One said it recognised how difficult it was for families to be apart from loved ones and said it had \"done everything we can to keep them connected\".\n\n\"We have had to make difficult decisions to ensure a balanced approach is in place that enables residents to spend more time with their loved ones, whilst also ensuring we do everything possible to prevent coronavirus entering our homes.\"", "Winter activities on ice are becoming increasingly dangerous as the world warms, scientists say.\n\nWhen researchers looked at data on drowning accidents in largely frozen lakes or rivers, they saw a \"strong correlation\" to rising temperatures.\n\nThey found that deaths from drowning were five times higher when warmer weather made the ice thinner and weaker.\n\nChildren aged under nine years and younger adults were most at risk.\n\nFor indigenous peoples in many northern regions of the world, livelihoods often depend on access to frozen lakes in winter for hunting, fishing and travel.\n\nIn countries like the US, Canada and Russia, winter leisure activities such as skating or tobogganing on ice are also hugely popular.\n\nBut as the world warms, winter ice is becoming less stable and scientists believe it poses a greater threat of accidental drowning.\n\nCanadian researchers looked at data on 4,000 drowning events in 10 countries over three decades since the 1990s.\n\nThey found that higher temperatures were a good predictor of the number of deaths by drowning.\n\n\"We can confidently say that there is a quite a strong correlation between warmer winter air temperatures and more winter drownings,\" said study leader Sapna Sharma, from York University in Toronto, Canada.\n\n\"Almost half of the winter drownings were associated with warmer temperatures.\"\n\nThe researchers collated data from official sources including coroner's offices. They were able to compare these figures to longstanding records from lakes showing when ice formed and melted each winter.\n\nCanada and the US had the highest number of drownings related to ice, an issue that was particularly acute among indigenous communities further north.\n\nIce fishing is very popular in many northern countries\n\nThe use of snowmobiles on lakes was associated with many of the lake fatalities.\n\nOne of the saddest aspects of the study was the fact that many of the victims were very young.\n\n\"We found that almost half of those drowned in Minnesota where there was no vehicle involved were children under nine years old,\" said Sapna Sharma.\n\n\"They were playing on the ice, tobogganing or ice skating and they just weren't able to recognise when the ice was unsafe. They may not have recognised that slushy ice or a little open patch of water could be so fatal.\"\n\nEven where lake or river accidents weren't deadly, they often had life-changing results.\n\nIn cold water accidents where children suffered cardiac arrest, some 90% also experienced significant neurological damage - and only 27% were alive a year later.\n\nHowever, some countries have managed to limit the number of drownings during winter, including Germany and Italy.\n\nLocal laws prohibit the use of snowmobiles on lakes and activities like skating are often limited until local authorities deem the ice to be safe.\n\nEducation is also seen to be a key element. According to Barbara Byers from the Canadian Lifesaving Society, people just don't recognise the personal threat that a changing climate can pose.\n\nSnowmobiles are widely used on frozen lakes for transport\n\n\"People think that ice is ice but appearances can be deceiving,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"People may think it's cold out, the ice must be fine but it really is the quality of the ice or the type of ice that's really important.\n\n\"Ice now gets frozen and thawed and when that happens there's water in-between the layers of the ice. So it may look hard and frozen, but it's not.\"\n\nResearchers say that despite efforts to educate, they expect that drowning events will likely increase in the future.\n\nThey are particularly worried about this winter, as people may be spending more time outdoors due to the pandemic, with potentially fatal results.\n\n\"Everything's closed right now, and more people are spending time in nature and where they might not have done so before,\" said Sapna Sharma.\n\n\"This year, it's forecast to be a warmer, wetter winter in Canada, so in combination with more people going outside that could be that could be quite dangerous.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Plos One.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association is setting up a new taskforce to further examine the issue of brain injury diseases in football.\n\nThe PFA has been criticised for a lack of support by families of ex-players who have died of, or have dementia.\n\nIt is understood it plans to speak to ex-Blackburn forward Chris Sutton, whose father, Mike, has dementia.\n\nThe union will also engage with Dawn Astle, the daughter of former West Brom and England striker Jeff Astle.\n\nNeuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart said Astle died of a brain condition normally linked to boxers, and that it was caused by heading footballs.\n\nStewart's research into the issue, which was commissioned by the PFA and the Football Association, found that former footballers were between two and five times more likely to die from degenerative brain diseases.\n\nThe PFA said on Tuesday that it would continue to fund Stewart's research at Glasgow University.\n\nOn Wednesday, it said members of its new Neurodegenerative Disease Working Group (NDWG) \"will be invited personally and are not yet confirmed\" and added that the taskforce would \"ensure a more holistic support system is available for former footballers and their families\".\n\n\"By establishing this advisory group, we hope to give the people most affected a strong voice in how the PFA supports former players and seeks to protect current players,\" the union said.\n\nThe introduction of a taskforce comes amid criticism from the family of 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles, who said football needs to \"address the scandal\" of dementia in football.\n\nThe ex-Manchester United and England midfielder died in October, aged 78, after suffering from dementia and prostate cancer.\n\nStiles is one of five members of England's World Cup-winning squad to have been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Sutton, whose father played for Norwich, Chester and Carlisle, said: \"Not enough is being done and the players of Nobby Stiles' generation aren't getting looked after well enough. It's as simple as that.\n\n\"It's not just the dementia sufferer, it's actually the effect that has on the families.\n\n\"I know only too well the effect it has had on my mother.\"\n\nCould former players take legal action?\n\nLawyers are asking to hear from former players who want to take legal action against football and other sports regulators \"with respect to brain injuries caused by contact sports including football\".\n\nThe move would be similar to the class action taken by NFL players in the United States, where they sued the sport for £700m because of the brain damage they suffered from concussions.\n\nThe legal team bringing the action features personal injury specialists John Foy QC and James Byrne, plus sports lawyer Nick de Marco QC, who said: \"The litigation is still in its early stages and we still want to hear from professional sports players.\n\n\"Nonetheless, the stories emerging tell us of a pattern of silent suffering caused by life changing and sadly often fatal brain injury conditions, that underlines that this is a serious endemic issue.\n\n\"The science proving the link between repeated blows to the head and brain injury has been around for many years, a key question the courts will be interested in is whether football, and other contact sport regulators, have taken timely and proper steps to prevent the injuries we are seeing.\n\n\"By bringing this case we hope, not only to provide our clients with adequate compensation to pay for the future medical treatment and care they will inevitably need, but also to bring about much needed reform to protect all players in sport, whether amateur or professional, adult or child.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst told BBC Breakfast he thought heading a football in training is \"probably more detrimental\" to players than in matches.\n\nHurst, who wants to donate his brain to dementia research, believes links between heading and dementia are \"more than a coincidence\".\n\nBut the medical chief of the world players' union said more \"robust\" evidence of a link between heading and dementia is required before football can introduce training restrictions at the professional level.\n\n\"You could look at some of the games I played in where I hardly headed the ball, but it's the practice,\" Hurst said.\n\n\"I look at my club West Ham, we had a ball hanging from the ceiling in the gym, you'd spend half an hour, 45 minutes practising heading a ball swinging from the ceiling.\n\n\"We'd play head tennis in the gym and then you get on to the field and you'd practise what we were well-known for at West Ham, which was the near-post crosses and the near-post headers. That could be 20 minutes, half an hour.\n\n\"So the enormous amount of practice of heading the ball is probably more detrimental to players than in a match.\"\n\nDr Vincent Gouttebarge, the chief medical officer at world players' union Fifpro, said: \"We need to have more robust evidence in order to make a decision.\n\n\"I know in the UK you have referred to the very good study from Professor Willie Stewart, but I looked at the study again this morning and I didn't see the words 'heading' or 'concussion' mentioned one time in this study.\n\n\"Based on that study a lot of media in the UK made the conclusion that heading the ball or concussion lead to dementia, and I don't think this is a very thorough conclusion.\n\n\"I don't think we have the scientific evidence with this study that there is a causal relationship between heading the ball, concussion and dementia.\"\n• None See the scale of the problem in the game", "A French stuntman famous for airborne feats using jetpacks and carbon-fibre wing packs has been killed in a training accident in Dubai.\n\nVincent Reffet was part of the company Jetman Dubai.\n\nThe 36-year-old went viral for flights over the Gulf city's waterfront and the Alps.\n\nA statement said Reffet died \"during training in Dubai\" but did not give any further details. An investigation into the death is now under way.\n\n\"Vince was a talented athlete, and a much-loved and respected member of our team,\" the statement said. \"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and all those who knew and worked with him.\"\n\nReffet was the child of skydivers and had performed numerous stunts throughout his career, including BASE-jumping off the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.\n\nHe became well known for his flights with Jetman Dubai, created by the Swiss pilot Yves Rossy - himself known as \"Jetman\". Rossy's equipment allows the group's pilots to fly at speeds of up to 250mph (402km/h).\n\n\"Everything we do is something new,\" Reffet told AFP news agency in an interview last month. \"We have so many dreams and life is so short.\"\n\nReffet's exploits often went viral on social media, including one occasion when he jumped from a mountain into a moving plane with colleague and fellow Frenchman Fred Fugen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We cannot go back to normal, says health minister\n\nIt could be \"weeks\" before there is an announcement on the Covid rules around Christmas, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nWelsh ministers and other UK administrations are in talks over a set of agreed rules for the festive period.\n\nVaughan Gething said whatever happened, the period would \"not be like normal\".\n\n\"You shouldn't expect there to be a definitive statement in the next few days or weeks,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"We have quite a long way to go in the course of the pandemic we've been dealing with before we get to the Christmas period.\"\n\nThere had been calls for a single approach from the different UK administrations about Christmas so families who live in different areas can deal with a single set of rules.\n\nVaughan Gething said this Christmas would \"not be like normal\"\n\nMr Gething said discussions were ongoing about what will be in place for travel, \"and we're still looking at the evidence about what we might be able to do around contact\".\n\n\"But it does rely on the picture that we'll see in the developing evidence over the coming weeks\", he added.\n\nHe noted that other faiths had seen their festivals limited by Covid restrictions, most recently Diwali.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Gething said the rate of cases in Wales was continuing to fall, one week after Wales' firebreak lockdown.\n\nCases in Merthyr Tydfil, which has seen the highest case rate of any local authority in the UK, have more than halved, he said.\n\n\"On Friday, I said we were starting to see some very early positive signs that cases of coronavirus are beginning to fall. This downward trend is continuing.\"\n\nThe seven-day incidence rate for Wales is now at about 160 cases per 100,000 people - a reduction of 70 from this time last week, he said.\n\nHe also said people needed to be aware of the differences between coronavirus and seasonal flu, with the former having a higher mortality rate and a greater proportion of sufferers becoming seriously ill.\n\nAfter the news of another potentially effective vaccine, Mr Gething said he \"doesn't plan\" to make Covid vaccines mandatory.\n\nHe said he had never tried to mandate any vaccine, and would not want to do so with Covid.\n\n\"I'm interested in people understanding the evidence for the safety of the vaccine , then making the right choice to protect them, their family and their community\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers are back in Cardiff after lockdown ends\n\nOn Sunday, Public Health Wales' Dr Giri Shankar said it was a \"worry\" to see queues of people outside shops at the weekend.\n\nMr Gething said there had been \"pent-up demand\" after the firebreak, with retailers operating limits on numbers in their stores.\n\nWhile he had seen pictures of people socially-distancing, \"I have seen some images that are more concerning where people have forgotten about social distancing and are returning to a more normal way of behaving.\n\n\"Now, if that continues we really will face difficult choices, and we're likely to see the trend that we've already seen with reducing cases - that can easily reverse.\"\n• None Is it too early for Christmas decorations?", "The head of NHS Test and Trace is self-isolating after receiving a notification from the NHS mobile app.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding tweeted that she was \"feeling well\", and added: \"Nothing like personal experience of your own products.\"\n\nIt comes a week after her husband, Conservative MP John Penrose, was told to isolate by the app, and days after PM Boris Johnson began self-isolating.\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis also said he was self-isolating.\n\nMr Powis, who appeared at a Downing Street briefing over video call, said he was \"perfectly fine\" but had been told to self-isolate by Test and Trace after a member of his household tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister was told to stay at home after having a meeting last week with Tory MP Lee Anderson, who then tested positive.\n\nBaroness Harding's husband was told to self-isolate on 9 November after potentially coming into contact with someone who had the virus.\n\nIn Baroness Harding's tweet, it showed she had nine days of self-isolation left - having to stay at home until 23:59 GMT on 26 November.\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 reason her screenshot shows she has to isolate for nine days - rather than the standard 14 days - is because the 14-day isolation period starts from when the app made the contact.\n\nIf a person tests positive for coronavirus, they can choose to share their result with the NHS app anonymously.\n\nThe NHS then sends alerts to other app users who have spent time near them or been in \"close contact\" - meaning they have been within two metres for 15 minutes or more.\n\nThe app calculates when to send an alert by tallying up points depending on the time spent together and distance.\n\nAnyone who gets an alert is instructed to isolate for 14 days from when they had the contact.\n\nBaroness Harding's tweet indicating she has been told to self-isolate has caused some confusion, highlighting the fact that her team needs to do better in communicating how the app works.\n\nWhy, some ask, has she been asked to isolate for only nine rather than 14 days?\n\nHere's the answer. When an app user starts to feel unwell or gets a Covid test for some other reason, they enter a positive result into the app.\n\nThey can then choose to share that result with other users. Their phone will have used its Bluetooth connection to record close contacts with other app users - usually involving being within two metres for 15 minutes - over the previous days.\n\nThose people will then get an alert in their app to self-isolate but the duration will be 14 days from the last close contact.\n\nSo if I enter a positive test on a Sunday and I've been in close contact with you the previous Tuesday, you will get an alert on the Sunday to isolate for nine days.\n\nBaroness Harding was appointed the head of NHS Test and Trace in May, and has since been appointed chair of the National Institute for Health Protection - the new agency replacing Public Health England.\n\nThe 52-year-old is the former head of internet service provider TalkTalk, and for the past three years has been chair of NHS Improvement - focusing on driving up standards across the service.\n\nShe has come under criticism for her handling of NHS Test and Trace after a raft of issues, including delayed results and test centres struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nBut Baroness Harding has defended her own performance after calls for her to quit, and warned testing is not the \"silver bullet to hold back the tide of Covid\".", "Earlier on, we reported that the head of NHS Test and Trace is self-isolating after receiving a notification from the NHS mobile app.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding tweeted that she was \"feeling well\", and added: \"Nothing like personal experience of your own products.\"\n\nShe joins a host of people in the same situation. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting a Tory MP on Thursday who later tested positive for Covid-19, while today NHS England's medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, also revealed he was self-isolating after someone in his household tested positive.\n\nBut how does NHS Test and Trace work?\n\nIf a person tests positive for coronavirus, they can choose to share their result with the NHS app anonymously.\n\nThe NHS then sends alerts to other app users who have spent time near them or been in \"close contact\" - meaning they have been within two metres for 15 minutes or more.\n\nAnyone who gets an alert is instructed to isolate for 14 days from when they had the contact.\n\nRead our explainer here about how the app works, how contact tracing has been carried out and other questions you might have.", "Donald Trump says he has fired a top election official who contradicted the US president's claims of voter fraud.\n\nPresident Trump said he \"terminated\" Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) chief Chris Krebs for his \"highly inaccurate\" remarks on vote integrity.\n\nMr Trump has refused to concede the US election, and has made unsubstantiated claims of \"massive\" voter fraud.\n\nElection officials said the vote was the \"most secure\" in US history.\n\nMr Krebs is the latest official to be dismissed by the US president following his defeat, with Defense Secretary Mark Esper also shown the door amid reports Mr Trump doubted the Pentagon chief's loyalty.\n\nThere is speculation in Washington DC that before Mr Trump leaves office in January, CIA director Gina Haspel and FBI director Christopher Wray could also be for the chopping block.\n\nLike many others fired by Mr Trump, Mr Krebs reportedly only learned he was out of a job when he saw the president's tweet on Tuesday.\n\nBut following his dismissal, the former Microsoft executive appeared to have no regrets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe had run the agency from its inception two years ago in the aftermath of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.\n\nTo guard against potential cyber-threats, Cisa works with state and local election officials and the private companies that supply voting systems, while monitoring ballot tabulation and the power grid.\n\nHe had reportedly incurred the White House's displeasure over a Cisa website called Rumor Control, which debunked election misinformation, much of it amplified by the president himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to move on after the US election\n\nHours before he was fired, he posted a tweet that appeared to take aim at Mr Trump's allegation that voting machines in various states had switched ballots to Mr Biden.\n\nMr Krebs tweeted: \"On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, 'in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.' #Protect2020\".\n\nThis post, and others by Mr Krebs dating back to the end of July this year, appear to have been deleted from his Twitter account.\n\nHe was among senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security who last week declared the 3 November US general election the \"most secure in American history\", while rejecting \"unfounded claims\".\n\nThough that statement did not name Mr Trump, on the same day it was published Mr Krebs retweeted a Twitter post by an election law expert saying: \"Please don't retweet wild and baseless claims about voting machines, even if they're made by the president.\"\n\nMr Krebs' dismissal brought outrage from Democrats. A spokesman for President-elect Joe Biden said \"Chris Krebs should be commended for his service in protecting our elections, not fired for telling the truth\".\n\nMr Krebs' firing was the latest - and not necessarily the last - chapter in the long battle between President Trump and his own national security community. At issue from the start has been the legitimacy of both election campaigns he has fought in.\n\nHis presidency began with him lashing out at his own spies for their assessment that Russia interfered in 2016 to support his candidacy. That began a long tussle in which the president almost appeared to see a zero-sum battle; one in which he sought to undermine the credibility of his own spies to avoid any question being raised about his victory.\n\nThe tension has ebbed and flowed, with some officials sacked and others walking a fine line to try to protect themselves and their own institutions.\n\nBut the 2020 election result has led it to explode again.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trump was angry at claims there had been election interference. This time his anger is at the refusal of those like Chris Krebs to back up his claims that there was.\n\nMr Krebs is gone and with an uncertain, uneasy transition ahead, he may not be the last.\n\nMr Trump's campaign and its allies have filed a barrage of lawsuits in battleground states contesting the results, although election officials say no evidence of widespread irregularities has been found.\n\nTime is running out. All outstanding election disputes nationwide must be resolved by 8 December. The official results are set to be confirmed when the US Electoral College meets on 14 December.\n\nOn Tuesday, Republican members of a bipartisan election board in Michigan refused to certify Mr Biden's projected win in that state, only to back down after an outcry.\n\nThe two Republicans on the four-member board had objected to minor voting irregularities in Wayne County, home to Detroit.\n\nBut they relented after Democrats accused them of trying to disenfranchise voters in the majority-black city.\n\nAs a compromise, the board passed a resolution requesting that Michigan's Democratic secretary of state conduct an audit of the jurisdictions involved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barack Obama tells the BBC about the \"crazy conspiracies\" and \"truth decay\" in US politics\n\nMeanwhile, election officials conducting a by-hand recount in Georgia - where a fraction of a percent separates the two rivals - found more uncounted ballots for the second time this week.\n\nAlmost 2,800 previously untallied ballots were discovered on Tuesday in Fayette County, a day after 2,600 uncounted votes turned up in Floyd County. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system manager, blamed human error.\n\nThe discoveries are expected to shave Mr Biden's lead in the state to under 13,000, not enough to flip Georgia into Mr Trump's column.\n\nThere was another setback for Mr Trump on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where the state supreme court rejected his campaign's argument that its observers had been denied sufficient rights to watch ballot counts in Philadelphia.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the Trump campaign, along with Nevada's Republican party, filed another lawsuit challenging that state's election results.\n\nMr Biden is the projected victor in Nevada, but the latest legal action asked a judge to declare Mr Trump the winner, or annul the race altogether.\n\nJudges have rejected other Trump campaign lawsuits disputing the tally in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, after ruling there was no evidence to support claims of systemic fraud.", "£1.3bn will be invested in electric vehicle charging points as part of the plan\n\nNew cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nBut some hybrids would still be allowed, he confirmed.\n\nIt is part of what Mr Johnson calls a \"green industrial revolution\" to tackle climate change and create jobs in industries such as nuclear energy.\n\nCritics say the £4bn allocated to implement the 10-point plan is far too small for the scale of the challenge.\n\nThe total amount of new money announced in the package is a 25th of the projected £100bn cost of high-speed rail, HS2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will the UK be ready for a 2030 ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars?\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma told BBC Breakfast the £4bn was part of a broader £12bn package of public investment, which \"will help to bring in three times as much in terms of private sector money\".\n\nMr Sharma, who is president of the COP26 international climate summit that the UK will host next year, said the money would also support the creation of 250,000 jobs in parts of the UK \"where we want to see levelling up\".\n\nThe government hopes that many of those jobs will be in northern England and in Wales, and that 60,000 will be in offshore wind.\n\nThe government has also given funding to boost cycling and walking\n\nThe plan includes provision for a large nuclear plant - likely to be at Sizewell in Suffolk - and for advanced small nuclear reactors, which it is hoped, will create an estimated 10,000 jobs at Rolls-Royce and other firms.\n\nThe government is close to giving the green light to a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk\n\nThe plans will also affect some people's homes.\n\nThe government will bring forward, to 2023, the date by which new homes will need to be warmed without using gas heating.\n\nIt will aim to install 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 - these are low-energy electrical devices for warming homes.\n\nAnd it has extended the Green Homes Grant for home insulation for a year after the first tranche was massively over-subscribed.\n\nClean hydrogen will be blended into the natural gas supply to reduce overall emissions from gas, and the government wants a town to volunteer for a trial of 100% hydrogen for heat, industry and cooking.\n\nThe hydrogen - attracting a subsidy of up to £500m - will be produced in places such as the North East of England, partly by energy from offshore wind.\n\nThe prime minister wants his green plan to be powered by wind farms like this one in Redcar, Teesside\n\nThe government wants to breathe new life into de-industrialised areas by teaming hydrogen production with the manufacture of wind turbines, and with four clusters of firms using carbon capture and storage.\n\nThis is when emissions from chimneys are captured and forced into rocks underground. The hope is to transform depressed areas into hi-tech hubs. This will get funding of an extra £200m.\n\nAnother key point of the plan is a £1.3bn investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging points. Grants for EV buyers will stretch to £582m to help people make the transition.\n\nThere is also nearly £500m for battery manufacture in the Midlands and the north-east of England.\n\nMany of the details of the plan will be written into an energy white paper proposing future legislation, which is expected by the end of the month.\n\nIn the race to clean up motoring, the UK is now in second place after Norway, which has a fossil fuel vehicle abolition date of 2025.\n\nUK car makers have warned about the scale of the challenge, but the government believes that forcing technological change can give firms a competitive edge.\n\nBut will the so-called \"green revolution\" achieve its aim of massive job creation?\n\nExperts said the £4bn would go a long way if it were spent on labour-intensive insulation, but not far if ploughed into expensive, mechanised carbon capture.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"My 10-point plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050.\n\n\"Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.\"\n\nMr Johnson said his plans aimed to create jobs and address climate change at the same time.\n\nThe UK will host the COP26 UN summit - seen as the most important round of talks to tackle climate change since the Paris Agreement in 2015 - in Glasgow this time next year. It had been due to take place in 2020 but was postponed by 12 months because of the pandemic.\n\nThe plans are aimed to put the UK on track to meet its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband criticised the plan, saying that the funding \"in this long-awaited\" announcement does not \"remotely meet the scale of what is needed\" to tackle unemployment and the climate emergency.\n\n\"Only a fraction of the funding announced today is new.\"\n\nMr Miliband, who served as energy and climate change secretary from 2008-10, said Labour wanted the government to bring forward £30bn of capital investment over the next 18 months and invest it in low-carbon sectors to support 400,000 additional jobs.\n\nAnd Green Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed some measures but said the plan \"completely fails to rise to the gravity of this moment\".\n\n\"When you put it in the context of the scale of the climate and nature emergencies that we face, and indeed the scale of the job emergencies that we face, then it's nowhere near ambitious enough, it's not urgent enough, it's not bold enough,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe criticised the £4bn allocation, saying \"the resources aren't there in order to make this a really strategic package\".\n\nMs Lucas also said the government's message is \"inconsistent\" and it must make clear which technologies it wants to invest in.\n\nShe said nuclear power is \"massively costly\", will not be \"on stream\" until the middle of the 2030s, and risks undermining focus on offshore wind.\n\nThe Green Party called for a transformation of the entire economy to reduce emissions, including scrapping the £27bn road-building programme, which will actually increase emissions.\n\nHowever, Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of energy supplier SSE, told the Today programme he was pleased \"to see this level of ambition from the government\".\n\nHe said the plan was \"a really important step in getting the green recovery going\" and would \"help create a lot more jobs\".\n\nMike Hulme, professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge, said critics should not \"nit-pick about precise details\" of the plan as it was \"far more important is to endorse the direction of travel that has been set for the next decade\".\n\nTanya Steele from WWF-UK said the government had \"fired the starting gun on the action we need to see\".\n\nShe added: \"We now need the chancellor to live up to the ambition expressed today through a spending review that tests every line of public spending to ensure it's compatible with meeting our climate goals.\"", "The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe driver who dropped off a lorry container carrying 39 migrants who were later found dead told a court he was \"devastated\" for their families.\n\nEamonn Harrison towed the trailer to a Belgian port, where it was transported to Essex. When opened on 23 October 2019, it was found to have the dead Vietnamese migrants inside.\n\nMr Harrison told jurors at the Old Bailey he did not know they were there.\n\nThe 23-year-old, of Newry, County Down, denies manslaughter.\n\nThe court had previously been told the victims, aged 15 to 44, suffocated in the sealed trailer en route from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex.\n\nMr Harrison told a jury he had suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) which meant he struggled at school and found it hard to make friends.\n\nHowever, he added he had \"loved\" his work as a lorry driver, a job he started at the age of 18.\n\nHe said when he met Mr Hughes he was \"a gentleman\", and he started to work for him.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, and Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, were among the victims\n\nIn May 2019 Mr Harrison crashed his lorry when driving while drunk in Germany, writing off the tractor unit and damaging the load, the court was told.\n\nJurors heard after that he owed Mr Hughes £16,000 and he agreed to help with \"stolen goods jobs\", agreeing that he would \"walk away\" when the lorry was being loaded and come back 15 minutes later.\n\nAsking about the events of October 2019, Mr Harrison's barrister, Alasdair Williamson QC, said: \"You drove the tractor unit that pulled the trailer that contained 39 people on their way to their deaths. How do you feel about that?\"\n\nMr Harrison replied with an expletive for bad.\n\nAsked how he felt for the families, he said: \"Devastated.\"\n\nMr Williamson then said: \"Did you know that there was anyone on your trailer?\"\n\nMr Harrison and Gheorge Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nMr Harrison, lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, have denied being part of a wider people-smuggling conspiracy, which Nica has admitted he was involved in.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Lord Feldman, whose PR firm went on to work with a company the government had struck a deal with\n\nA public relations firm whose managing partner previously advised ministers on Covid is providing consultancy for a testing company signed up by government.\n\nLord Feldman's PR firm began advising Oxford Nanopore after it struck a £28m deal with the Department of Health.\n\nHe insists he had no involvement in the award of the contract.\n\nThe Department of Health said it drew on the expertise of private sector partners to help in its Covid response.\n\nOn 29 October many Westminster journalists were preoccupied with the release of a significant report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nSome would have missed the publication of dozens of documents on the Cabinet Office website, done under rules designed to make the government more transparent with the public about its spending and conduct.\n\nAmong the documents was a list of meetings health ministers had held at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThese reveal that on 1 April Health Secretary Matt Hancock met with Oxford Nanopore, a company which makes Covid-19 tests, and Lord Feldman, the former Conservative party chairman.\n\nAt the time, Lord Feldman was acting for the government, which had employed him as an unpaid adviser on Covid. He was also a managing partner with the lobbying firm Tulchan Communications.\n\nBy the date of his next meeting with Oxford Nanopore, six weeks later, the testing firm had agreed a £27.9m contract with Mr Hancock's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This was to supply Covid testing kits, reagents (chemicals needed for testing), training material and support.\n\nThe firm went on to win a further contract worth more than £100m with the department, to supply rapid Covid tests.\n\nIt has now been confirmed to the BBC, by Tulchan, that it is employed by Oxford Nanopore to do \"PR and public affairs\" for the company.\n\nLobbying rules require companies, such as Tulchan, to disclose publicly any communication they have with ministers or permanent secretaries on behalf of paying clients.\n\nBBC News asked the firm whether Lord Feldman had been advising the government when Tulchan was working with Oxford Nanopore, and whether that conflict of interest had been disclosed.\n\nTulchan said that it began an \"advisory role\" with the biotech firm to provide \"communications advice\" on 25 June, a month after Lord Feldman had ceased working as a government adviser, on 15 May.\n• None MarchLord Feldman (pictured) begins work as unpaid Covid adviser to Department of Health (DHSC)\n• None 21 AprilOxford Nanopore starts £27.9m contract with DHSC for diagnostic supplies. It starts a further deal in August for £100m+\n\nIt said that since he had stood down, neither Lord Feldman nor any member of Tulchan had arranged or attended meetings between Oxford Nanopore and ministers or permanent secretaries.\n\nIt added that Oxford Nanopore had already been discussing providing Covid testing solutions to the government before Lord Feldman's meeting with them in April.\n\nBut the revelations have prompted questions from the opposition.\n\n\"This latest story follows a string of troubling incidents where a select group have been given privileged access to the government,\" said Rachel Reeves, the shadow cabinet office minister.\n\n\"The country deserves to have confidence their money is being spent effectively by the government - and to know without doubt that friends and donors to the Conservative Party aren't profiting from this pandemic.\"\n\nEarlier this month the Sunday Times alleged that one lobbyist, who had worked on NHS Test and Trace, went on to share information with clients.\n\nThe Labour Party has called for an inquiry into whether lobbyists employed by the government during the Covid response benefited from privileged information.\n\nThe DHSC said it had \"rightly... drawn on the expertise of a number of private sector partners who provided advice and expertise to assist in the Government's vital work\".\n\n\"As a result of the public and private sectors working together at pace, we were able to strengthen our response to the pandemic so we are better prepared for the challenges of the coming months.\"\n\nMore from Phil on Twitter @phill_kemp", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Kenya have arrested four more people for allegedly running a child-trafficking syndicate following a BBC investigation into the theft and sale of babies.\n\nBBC Africa Eye revealed children were stolen to order from illegal clinics and at a Nairobi public hospital.\n\nSeven people are now in custody in connection with the case including medics and a hospital administrator.\n\nThe babies were sold for as little as $400 (£300).\n\nIn the wake of the BBC Africa Eye story, police chief Hillary Mutyambai ordered an investigation into hospitals, as well as children's homes in the Kenyan capital.\n\nTwo hospital administrators, a nurse and a social worker appeared in court on Thursday, adding to the three senior medical officials who were in court on Wednesday.\n\nThey have not been formally charged and did not enter pleas.\n\nBBC Africa Eye uncovered a trade in children stolen from vulnerable mothers living on the streets, as well as the existence of illegal clinics dotted around Nairobi, where babies were being sold.\n\nThe investigation also revealed alleged corruption at Mama Lucy Kibaki, a public hospital in Nairobi.\n\nThree senior medical officers were in court on Wednesday\n\nFred Leparan, a clinical social worker at the hospital, is alleged to have facilitated the sale of an abandoned two-week-old baby boy to undercover reporters, later accepting 300,000 shillings ($2,700; £2,000) in cash.\n\nBoth Mr Leparan and Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital declined requests to comment on the investigation's findings.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Kenya's Labour and Social Protection Minister Simon Chelugui said the culprits would face the \"full force of the law\".\n\nThe suspects have not commented on the allegations against them\n\nMr Chelugui also acknowledged that improvements to some of Kenya's child protection services were needed.\n\nHis colleague in the Interior Ministry Fred Matiang'i thanked the BBC for exposing the \"rot\" at Mama Lucy hospital. He added that human and drug trafficking were the biggest challenges Kenyan security was dealing with.\n\nThere are no reliable statistics on child trafficking in the East African state, but a non-governmental organisation, Missing Child Kenya, said it had been involved in nearly 600 cases in the past three years.\n\nIt wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the BBC exposé caught the government unawares.\n\nOn the day it was published, state officials including the inspector general of police, the labour and social protection minister and the government spokesman held an emergency meeting.\n\nThe next day, three arrests were made and police acknowledged there was a crime ring involving medical officers and child traffickers. Three suspects were immediately hauled to court - all medical officers. The interior minister was impressed by this efficiency and praised the decisive action.\n\nBut Kenyans were livid. Did the police have to wait for the BBC investigate for them? How high does the syndicate go? Will they get convictions?\n\nThese were some of the questions Kenyans asked, in a guarded response to the legal process which has just began, which many hope will ultimately paralyse one of Kenya's biggest crimes - human trafficking.", "Bitcoin, the world's best-known cryptocurrency, has jumped above $17,000 (£12,800) to hit a three-year high.\n\nThe digital currency has suffered plenty of wild price swings since it was launched in 2009.\n\nBut investors have been flocking to cryptocurrencies during the pandemic-driven volatility on global stock markets.\n\nHowever, experts have cautioned about viewing them as a \"safe haven\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Bitcoin had climbed more than 7% to $17,891, its highest level since December 2017.\n\nSome analysts said the Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged investors to reassess the long-term outlook for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.\n\nBut there are still concerns about the fraudulent trading in cryptocurrencies following a succession of high-profile hacks.\n\nDuring times of volatility, investors tend to move their money out of shares and into what are considered safer havens, like cash and gold.\n\nSome feel cryptocurrencies are now being viewed as a shelter from stock market volatility.\n\n\"Covid-19 has disrupted the traditional safe-haven trade and gold's inability to outperform. Periods of extreme risk aversion have forced many traders to diversify into Bitcoin,\" said Edward Moya, at trading firm Oanda.\n\nOne attraction of Bitcoin is its limited supply, which is capped at 21 million.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome feel this scarcity provides an innate value and shields Bitcoin from inflation, which is becoming a worry.\n\nBut Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital, warned about jumping into Bitcoin.\n\n\"Its huge volatility hardly makes it a safe haven as a store of value. I have far more confidence in the $50 note in my wallet retaining its value over time than Bitcoin, which seems to bounce around like a yo-yo.\"\n\nLast month, PayPal announced that its customers will be able to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies using their PayPal accounts, allowing customers to buy things from the 26 million sellers which accept PayPal, it said.\n\nNext year, PayPal plans to allow cryptocurrency to be used as a funding source.\n\nBut Oanda's Mr Moya warned traders to prepare for more volatility.\n\n\"The amount of hedge funds and high-frequency trading systems driving Bitcoin higher will likely deliver exaggerated moves once its price nears the $20,000 level,\" he added. \"Traders need to expect $1,000 swings in a matter of minutes.\"\n\nSome believe the recent rise in Bitcoin is partly driven by the \"fear of missing out\" (FOMO).\n\n\"Its rebound is creating more interest from speculators and so they are jumping in which then pushes it even higher,\" added Mr Oliver.\n\n\"I think most people would put more faith in a digital currency run by their government rather than one like Bitcoin that they have trouble understanding or explaining.\"\n\nOne trader, Jon Son, told the BBC: \"I think more people are beginning to buy Bitcoin first not to miss the rise and then research into what exactly Bitcoin is.\"", "Owen and Bredge Ward's son said his parents \"were always together\"\n\nTributes have been paid to a couple who died 12 hours apart after contracting Covid-19.\n\nOwen and Bredge Ward, who were both 69, passed away in hospital on Monday.\n\nLast week, their family had hoped Mr and Mrs Ward, from Strabane, County Tyrone, were recovering from Covid-19. Instead, they are now preparing for their funeral on Wednesday.\n\nTheir son, Martin, said he was in \"complete shock\" and urged people to adhere to public health guidance.\n\nMartin, who is one of six children, held his father's hand as he died, while his siblings were with his mother at the funeral home.\n\nHe sais his parents \"doted\" on their nine grandchildren and, sadly, they will never get to meet their 10th grandchild.\n\nMr and Mr Ward enjoyed spending time with their grandchildren before the coronavirus pandemic\n\n\"We can't have a proper wake, hear all the stories that people would be talking about,\" Martin, a nurse at University College Hospital Galway, told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We can't do that because of Covid-19 and all the restrictions, which need to be in place.\"\n\nHe said his mother's condition started to improve last week, but then his father \"went downhill\" and was put into a coma.\n\n\"This is what the disease does - it can be mild or it can devastate lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Within hours, my mum, who was improving, just went downhill. Maybe it was the shock.\n\n\"Fast forward a week and my father was improving and my mother was getting worse.\n\n\"She passed away yesterday, then my father, from a position where he was getting better, just completely collapsed and within a couple of hours of my mother dying, he passed away too.\n\n\"Even though they were sedated and had pain relief and loving care from the staff at Altnagelvin Hospital, both of them just completely collapsed within a couple of hours and that's just how it is.\n\n\"It's the hurt and suffering that this virus can cause.\"\n\nMartin, who lives in Galway, in the Republic of Ireland, with his young family, said Covid-19 guidance should be the same on both sides of the border.\n\nMartin Ward has urged people to follow the public health guidelines following his parents' death\n\n\"It's a cross-border thing,\" he said.\n\n\"We live on an island and we can't separate each jurisdiction because it impacts upon all of us. It impacts on communities on both sides of the border.\n\n\"The only thing I want to say to people north and south of the border is to think about other people.\n\n\"We knew from February or March what could happen and people have to take on board that this can cause a hell of a lot of harm to people's families.\n\n\"The economic aspect is terribly damaging too, so we have to try to limit the spread and adhere to the guidelines, social distancing where you can and when you can't, put on a face mask.\n\n\"Treat everyone the same - with respect and as if they are one of your family - so you can minimise the harm to others.\"", "Labour has readmitted former leader Jeremy Corbyn as a member following his suspension last month.\n\nHe was punished after saying the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been \"overstated\", in response to a damning report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn issued a statement earlier saying he regretted any \"pain\" caused.\n\nBut current leader Sir Keir Starmer maintained Mr Corbyn's initial reaction to the report had been \"wrong\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a decision had not yet been taken on whether to restore the Labour whip to Mr Corbyn, which would allow him to sit once more as one of its MPs.\n\nA panel made up of members of the party's National Executive Committee met on Tuesday to decide whether to take further disciplinary action against him or to lift the suspension.\n\nAfter it decided to readmit Mr Corbyn, Sir Keir tweeted that it had been a \"painful day for the Jewish community and those Labour members who have fought so hard to tackle anti-Semitism\".\n\nHe added: \"Jeremy Corbyn's statement in response to the EHRC report was wrong and completely distracted from a report that identified unlawful conduct in our tackling of racism within the Labour Party. This should shame us all.\"\n\nWhen Labour acted swiftly and decisively to suspend Jeremy Corbyn, it was seen as a signal the party wanted to distance itself from a toxic period in its recent past.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said he hadn't instigated the action but he supported it.\n\nBut whatever decision was reached on Tuesday, criticism would have followed.\n\nMr Corbyn didn't apologise for suggesting the scale of anti-Semitism had been overstated by political opponents, which was the reason for his suspension. He simply clarified what he had meant.\n\nSo reinstating him was bound to attract criticism from those cheered by his suspension.\n\nNot to have reinstated him, however, would most likely have fuelled a factional war between those supportive of the Starmer leadership and those - including some union leaders - who remain close to Mr Corbyn.\n\nSir Keir reiterated his commitment to an independent complaints process in the New Year - an Equality and Human Rights Commission recommendation.\n\nBut putting Labour under fresh leadership hasn't silenced or banished those still supportive of the old leadership.\n\nAnd the line Sir Keir wants to draw under the anti-Semitism rows hasn't been fully drawn.\n\nIn a statement earlier on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn - who is currently an independent MP - said it was \"not his intention\" to say anti-Jewish racism should be tolerated, and that he regretted the \"pain\" caused.\n\nHis statement added: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear whether Mr Corbyn will face further sanctions from the party.\n\nIts general secretary, David Evans, took the decision to suspend him in October, although Sir Keir endorsed it.\n\nThe ECHR's report found Labour had breached the Equalities Act over its handling of complaints of anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn's time in charge.\n\nLabour said Mr Corbyn had been suspended \"for a failure to retract\" his words.\n\nFollowing his readmission, the Islington North MP said: \"I hope this matter is resolved as quickly as possible, so that the party can work together to root out anti-Semitism and unite to oppose and defeat this deeply damaging Conservative government.\"\n\nBut the Jewish Labour Movement called the decision to readmit Mr Corbyn \"extraordinary\", adding: \"After his failure of leadership to tackle anti-Semitism, so clearly set out in the EHRC's report, any reasonable and fair-minded observer would see Jeremy Corbyn's statement today as insincere and wholly inadequate.\"\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: \"What message does this send? Zero tolerance either means zero tolerance or it's meaningless.\"\n\nThe co-chairman of the Conservative Party, MP Amanda Milling, has written to Sir Keir, saying: \"You have claimed that Labour is 'under new leadership', but now is the moment to prove it - Mr Corbyn should be expelled permanently.\"\n\nFormer Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman, who quit the party over anti-Semitism concerns last year, said the decision was a \"backward step\".\n\n\"What Keir Starmer and the chief whip should do now is to refuse to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn, in that way they can show that they are determined… to rid the party of this dreadful stain,\" she told BBC Newsnight.\n\nHowever, Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union and a close ally of Mr Corbyn, called the reinstatement a \"correct, fair and unifying decision\".\n\nHe said Labour had to \"move forward\" in implementing the EHRC's recommendations and \"redouble our efforts to inspire voters\" about Sir Keir's policies, acting as a \"unified and strong\" party.\n\nAnd Jenny Manson, co-chairman of pro-Corbyn group Jewish Voice for Labour, told BBC Newsnight that \"an awful lot of us are very happy he (Mr Corbyn) is back in the party\" and would be \"very sad indeed\" if the whip is taken away from him.", "The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old.\n\nMore data released from their continuing phase three trial suggests it works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities.\n\nThe companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US.\n\nThe trial involved 41,000 people worldwide. Half were given the vaccine, and half a placebo.\n\nLast week, Pfizer and BioNTech published preliminary data suggesting the vaccine offered 90% protection against Covid-19 and said there were no safety concerns.\n\nThis was followed by data on a vaccine made by US company Moderna suggesting nearly 95% protection and similarly promising results from trials of another developed in Russia, called Sputnik.\n\nWednesday's data from Pfizer and BioNTech, which builds on last week's data, suggests the vaccine is 95% effective based on 170 cases of Covid-19 developing in volunteers.\n\nJust eight were in the group given the vaccine, suggesting it offers good protection. The rest of the cases were in the placebo group given a dummy jab.\n\nIn older adults, who are most at risk from the virus and have weaker immune systems, the vaccine worked as well as it did in younger people.\n\nScientists said the data was further encouraging news, with Prof Trudie Lang from the University of Oxford describing it as \"a remarkable and very reassuring situation\".\n\n\"To go from identifying a new virus to having several vaccines at the point of applying for regulatory approval is an incredible milestone for science,\" she said.\n\nAlthough the full trial data has yet to be published, the companies say there have been no serious safety concerns.\n\nBut they did notice fatigue in 3.8% of volunteers given the vaccine and headaches in 2%, both after the second dose, although older people seemed to experience minimal side effects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nThere is also evidence that the vaccine protects against severe Covid - but this is based on only 10 cases.\n\nIt's still unclear how long protection from the vaccine lasts and if it stops people transmitting the virus.\n\nIn the trial, 42% of all participants are from diverse ethnic backgrounds and 41% are aged between 56 and 85 years old.\n\nMore vaccine good news is what we've all been waiting for. This time it's really encouraging to know the Pfizer vaccine seems to work on older people as effectively as in younger ones.\n\nBut this vaccine is still a long way off widespread use. First, regulators need to be absolutely sure in their own minds that it's safe - not least because Moderna and Pfizer both use an experimental technology that's never been approved before.\n\nThat process could still take a few weeks. Then there's the massive issue of availability. Pfizer is promising 50 million doses by the end of the year. But remember: it's a two-shot vaccine.\n\nPerhaps one of the biggest problems is that wealthy countries have already swooped in to buy up the first batches that will be ready. That's good news for a country such as the UK, but not such good news for developing countries which haven't got the money to place bids.\n\nThat's why so much hinges on other vaccines such as the Oxford AstraZeneca one, as they may be more scalable, and there are more advanced plans to get it to low- and middle-income countries through a UN-backed project called Covax.\n\nThe trial, which is testing people at 150 sites in the US, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, will collect data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine for another two years.\n\nThe companies behind it expect to produce up to 50 million doses of the vaccine this year and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 40 million doses and should get 10 million by the end of the year.\n\nIt has also ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which is planning to release data from its phase three trial soon.\n\nThere are hundreds of vaccines in development around the world, and about a dozen in the final stages of testing, known as phase three.\n\nThe first two to show any results - made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - both use an experimental approach, called mRNA, which involves injecting part of the virus's genetic code into the body to train the immune system.\n\nAntibodies and T-cells are then made by the body to fight the coronavirus.\n\nThe Sputnik vaccine, developed in Russia, has also released early data from phase three based on a smaller number of volunteers and Covid cases.\n\nThere are some logistical challenges with mRNA vaccines, namely the need to store them at cold temperatures.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine must be stored at about minus 80C, although it can be kept in a fridge for five days.\n\nModerna's vaccine needs to be stored at minus 20C for up to six months and kept in a standard fridge for up to a month.\n\nProf Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the full data would have to be submitted to bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for approval.\n\n\"We can expect both agencies to conduct a very careful evaluation and we can rely on their conclusions,\" he said.\n\nThis process could take several weeks.\n\nCorrection 26 March 2021: This article was amended to make clear that fatigue was noted in a slightly higher percentage of volunteers than headaches after the second dose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and church goers took to their knees in prayer asking for protection from Iota\n\nAt least 30 people have lost their lives as the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year rips through areas of Central America.\n\nTens of thousands were forced to flee their homes as Hurricane Iota hit Nicaragua and neighbouring countries.\n\nThe rainfall is expected to cause mudslides and potentially deadly flash flooding and river flooding.\n\nWinds of 257km/h (160mph) have hit areas still recovering from Eta, a major hurricane that hit two weeks ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeaths were recorded in Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Panama and El Salvador.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have moved into shelters in the region.\n\nResidents recover a mattress from the debris of their house in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua\n\nA child pushes his bicycle through a flooded road in Honduras\n\nWinds of over 250 km/h have hit some areas\n\nThe hurricane remains significant but has now weakened in terms of wind strength and has sustained winds of 170km/h. It will continue to weaken as it moves further inland.\n\nIota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.\n\nPeople walk along a beach after the passing of Hurricane Iota Nicaragua\n\nThis year's Atlantic hurricane season has broken the record for the number of named storms. For only the second time on record officials have had to start using the letters of the Greek alphabet to start storm names after running out of names on its traditional alphabetical list.\n\nEta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead. At least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.", "Much of the EU cash for Wales has gone to the West Wales and the Valleys region\n\nThe Welsh Government says it should be free to control Wales' share of a forthcoming fund to replace EU grants.\n\nLong-awaited details of the fund, designed to replace economic aid paid out by Brussels, are expected soon.\n\nBut there is disagreement over who should control the purse strings between UK and Welsh ministers.\n\nThe Conservatives say Labour has failed to make the most from the billions of pounds of EU funding received by Wales since the year 2000.\n\nFurther details of the UK-wide Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) are expected after the Chancellor's spending review next week.\n\nIn the meantime, Labour ministers in Cardiff have published their own proposals for how the money should be spent in Wales.\n\nThey say the UK government should set a \"policy agenda\", similar to the way the EU does.\n\nBut it should then allocate funding \"in full\" to Cardiff, giving the Welsh Government \"full autonomy over its SPF share on a multi-annual basis\".\n\nLegislation going through Parliament would give the UK government new powers to spend in devolved areas, such as economic development.\n\nRunning for the Tory leadership in 2019, Boris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"strong Conservative influence\" over spending after Brexit.\n\nBut First Minister Mark Drakeford has said any attempt to centralise control over funding to London would be an \"attack on devolution\".\n\nThe Welsh EU transition minister Jeremy Miles said the Welsh Government had \"learned lessons\" from the way it has spent billions of pounds in EU funding since 2000.\n\nMuch of the money has gone to the West Wales and the Valleys region which, as one of the EU's least prosperous areas, has qualified for the top level of funding three times since the turn of the millennium.\n\nResearch by the House of Commons says it would probably have qualified again were Britain staying in the EU.\n\nJeremy Miles said Welsh firms needed to know how to claim aid with just 50 days to the end of EU rules\n\nMr Miles denied money had been wasted, saying it had created jobs and helped train thousands of people.\n\nHe said the UK government had to deliver on promises to match EU funding and respect the devolution settlement.\n\n\"But what is obviously the case is that with less than 50 days to go to the end of the transition period, organisations, projects right across Wales deserve certainty of knowing whether the replacement programmes are capable of supporting what they're doing,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for the UK government said the replacement fund would tackle \"inequality and deprivation across all four nations\" of the UK.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with the devolved administration in Wales and other interested parties as we develop the fund. Further details will be set out following the upcoming spending review,\" the spokesman said.\n\nDarren Millar, of the Welsh Conservatives, said Brexit was a chance to \"reboot and revamp\" regional funding around Wales.\n\n\"The new UK shared prosperity fund will replace the overly bureaucratic EU system, and Wales is guaranteed to receive at least the same level of funding as we currently receive from the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"This funding will be used to tackle inequality and deprivation right across Wales but local decision-making on how it is spent, not a 'Welsh Government knows best' and Cardiff-centric approach, will be critical to its success.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Dai Lloyd criticised Boris Johnson's government for being \"still to detail its plans for the shared prosperity fund, more than three years after announcing it and four years after bold promises of replacing the approximately £2bn in funding that Wales received under European structural funds\".\n\n\"It must uphold these promises next week,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson is to take an \"extended\" break from the pop group for \"private medical reasons\", their publicist has said.\n\nA statement didn't give any further details about the 29-year-old's condition.\n\nIt comes after Nelson recently missed the final of the girl group's BBC One talent show, and their hosting of the MTV European Music Awards.\n\nLittle Mix's latest album entered the UK chart at number two on Friday.\n\nAll six of the studio albums they have released since forming on The X Factor in 2011 have gone into the top five, and they have had four UK number one singles.\n\nNelson (right) missed the final of BBC One's Little Mix The Search earlier this month\n\nIn a statement, the group's publicist said: \"Jesy is having extended time off from Little Mix for private medical reasons.\n\n\"We will not be issuing any further comment currently and ask media to please respect her privacy at this time.\"\n\nNelson's bandmates Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall were seen without her on the final of Little Mix: The Search on 7 November, and on the MTV EMAs the following night.\n\nLast year, Nelson received widespread praise for discussing her mental health battle on the BBC Three documentary Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out. The documentary, which won a National Television Award, addressed body image and the impact of online bullying.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The actor introduced himself as \"Grint on the Gram\" last week\n\nHarry Potter star Rupert Grint has broken Sir David Attenborough's record for the fastest time to reach a million Instagram followers.\n\nThe actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films, made his first post on 10 November, joking that he was \"only 10 years late\".\n\nHe reached the million mark in four hours and one minute.\n\nThat's 43 minutes quicker than it took Sir David when he joined in September, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nDubbing himself \"Grint on the Gram\", the 32-year-old actor's first post was a photo of himself with his baby daughter.\n\nGrint said he was \"here to introduce you all to Wednesday\", the six-month-old girl his partner Georgia Groome gave birth to in May.\n\nSir David used Instagram to promote his A Life On Our Planet documentary\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Regulators around the world ordered 737 Max grounded after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia\n\nUS safety regulators have cleared Boeing's 737 Max plane to fly again, lifting grounding orders put in place in March 2019 after two deadly crashes.\n\nIt marks a milestone for Boeing which was thrust into crisis by the tragedies and investigations that blamed company failures for the accidents.\n\nIts financial woes deepened this year as air travel slowed due to the virus.\n\nExisting aircraft will need to be modified before going back into service, with changes to their design.\n\nSafety regulator, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said the clearance would not allow the plane to \"return immediately\" to the skies.\n\nAlongside the software and wiring changes, pilots will also need training.\n\nThe FAA said the design changes it had required \"have eliminated what caused these particular accidents\".\n\nThe boss of the FAA said he was \"100% confident\" in the safety of the plane.\n\n\"We've done everything humanly possible to make sure\" these types of crashes do not happen again,\" Steve Dickson said.\n\nAs well as improvements to the plane, Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun said the company had strengthened its safety practices and culture since the disasters.\n\n\"We will never forget the lives lost in the two tragic accidents that led to the decision to suspend operations,\" said Mr Calhoun, who took over when his predecessor, Dennis Muilenburg, was fired last year.\n\n\"These events and the lessons we have learned as a result have reshaped our company and further focused our attention on our core values of safety, quality and integrity.\"\n\nPaul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three children and mother-in-law in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, says he lacks confidence in Boeing\n\nWednesday's approval comes roughly a year after Boeing had first hoped, but too soon for many of the families of those killed on the flights.\n\nSome expressed \"sheer disappointment\" over the decision, while others said they did not have confidence in regulators or Boeing, which initially sought to pin the crashes on pilot error and is still fighting victims' families in court.\n\n\"Who's going to believe them? Not me,\" said Paul Njoroge, whose wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash.\n\nWill the 737 Max be safe?\n\nBoeing and the FAA insist it will be - and certainly the direct cause of the accidents has now been fixed. Pilots and safety experts seem confident that the changes made to the plane will be effective.\n\nBut both Boeing and the regulator still have much to prove.\n\nFor Boeing, that the scathing criticisms of its corporate culture have been addressed, and that safety really is, as it often claims, its number one priority.\n\nFor the FAA, that it can stand up to the aerospace giant and recover from the failures that allowed a deeply flawed plane into service, resulting in tragedy.\n\nThe aircraft is coming back, but the world has changed. It was designed for a booming market, in which airlines desperately needed new planes and in which high fuel prices put a premium on efficiency.\n\nNow, the aviation industry is on its knees thanks to the Covid crisis. It's no surprise then that some airlines have been cancelling orders.\n\nHowever, the industry looks to the long term. Air traffic will ultimately recover, and pressure to keep costs down will return. Environmental pressures are only going to grow.\n\nThe 737 Max still has a role to play.\n\nThe US is the first to reverse the grounding orders, which hit the firm around the world in March 2019. European aviation officials have said they are close to making a similar decision.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Civil Aviation Authority said the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) was in charge of re-certification for EU member states, as well as the UK. \"We continue to work closely with EASA on all issues relating to the B737 Max and any EASA decision on a return to service,\" he added.\n\nOn a briefing with reporters, Mr Dickson said the FAA had been working closely with officials in Europe, Canada and Brazil and he expected them to re-certify the plane in a \"matter of days\".\n\nBut analysts have said the process in other places, such as China, is likely to take longer.\n\nThe crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia came within five months of each other and together killed 346 people. They have been attributed to flaws in automated flight software called MCAS, which prompted the planes to nosedive shortly after take-off.\n\nA Boeing 737 Max, operated by Indonesia's Lion Air, crashed into the sea killing all 189 passengers and crew\n\nA US congressional report last month said Boeing's rush to production, a decision to ignore internal safety concerns and concealment of key changes to the plane, including pilot training needs, contributed to the accidents.\n\nIt also faulted the FAA for oversight lapses, including \"excessive delegation to Boeing\".\n\nCongress has since approved legislation intended to reform the agency.\n\nBoeing, which has estimated the cost of the grounding at roughly $20bn, still faces investigations, potential fines and other lawsuits as it tries to rebuild its reputation in the midst of what it has described as an unprecedented downturn in air travel.\n\nBefore the crashes, Boeing churned out more than 50 of the popular 737 Max per month. But airlines around the world have cancelled and delayed orders since the pandemic.\n\nLast month, Boeing said it did not expect its production rate to top 30 planes a month until 2022. It warned investors of a backlog of about 450 737 Max planes, of which only about half of which would be delivered by the end of next year.\n\nAmerican Airlines said it expected its first 737 Max flights in the US to resume on 29 December. United Airlines and Southwest Airlines said they planned to put their planes into service next year.\n\nBut consumer association Which? warned that many passengers may remain uncomfortable with the idea of flying the jet, which is used by airlines such as Tui and Ryanair in the UK.\n\n\"Airlines that plan on flying these aircraft should give passengers with existing bookings the option of transferring to another flight for free, while operators should also make clear which planes will be used for future bookings, so people can make an informed choice before travelling,\" travel editor Rory Boland said.\n\nJohn Grant of aviation data firm OAG said upgrades, maintenance and pilot training required by the FAA are a logistical \"nightmare\" for airlines at a time of week demand, making it likely that many jets will not return to the skies soon.\n\nThe stain on Boeing will linger as well, he warned.\n\n\"It's got a bad name and it's going to take some time to recover,\" he said. \"It will do. It's been certified, it's safe, but it's going to take time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should lockdown continue where cases are high?\n\nLockdown should continue in Merthyr Tydfil \"for weeks, even months\", according to a top doctor.\n\nEarlier this week, Merthyr had the UK's highest weekly infection rate - but it has dropped in the past few days.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We are not returning to the network of local restrictions which was in place before the firebreak started.\"\n\nMerthyr Tydfil has a rate of 639.9 cases for every 100,000 people over the past seven days, up until 3 November.\n\nIt is a fall in infection rates by 100 in a matter of days, but it still remains one of the worst rates in the UK, and nearly a third of people in the area who were tested returned positive results.\n\nEarlier this week, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent were ninth and 10th respectively for infection rates in the UK.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cymru, consultant hepatologist Dr Samuel said: \"Everyone's tired of the restrictions but it's hard to say we're going back to normal on Monday when the numbers are still rising.\n\n\"Traditionally, places like Merthyr and the valleys pull together in tough times, so I think we all now need to call on our friends and relatives to follow the rules - wear a mask, keep 2m distance and don't go to places that aren't essential.\n\n\"A solution might be more fines and asking people 'where did you get Covid?' because at the moment, it's not working.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how the proportion of positive cases has climbed - but may now have reached the summit\n\nAt the Welsh Government's Friday press briefing, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said extending the firebreak in places such as Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent would be a \"massive breach of trust\".\n\nHe added: \"It would have much greater consequences for people doing what we all should, in terms of changing the way we live our lives, and the trust people have in government.\n\n\"It is always the case, though, that if we see sustained localised increases we'll be prepared to take measures that are appropriate.\"\n\nHe said it would not be possible to see the impact of the firebreak lockdown until two tor three weeks after it ends.\n\nMr Gething also added that Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board was \"at the centre\" of \"big pressures and pinch points\" on the NHS.\n\nHowever, in a joint statement, Merthyr Tydfil's MP and MS said the situation in the constituency remained \"alarming enough so as to require further action\".\n\n\"We believe that we need an even clearer view on the extent of the virus in the local population and testing needs to increase further,\" said Gerald Jones and Dawn Bowden.\n\n\"We must all still try to ensure that our behaviour helps to reduce the spread of the virus and save lives. We are currently discussing the situation with Welsh Government ministers, public health and local authority representatives.\"\n\nJamie Jenkins, an independent statistician and former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, said data over the coming days would prove crucial in identifying whether the end of the lockdown would \"light the fire again\".\n\nThe growth in the rate of positive tests is beginning to stall in areas including Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"What we are starting to see for the first time is that the positivity rate is starting to come down in some areas,\" Mr Jenkins said.\n\n\"In recent days it has flattened. That's a positive sign, which suggests we are seeing a turning point in the rate of people coming back positive with Covid-19 in the community. We are seeing that in Wales overall, and in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"Whilst we are stalled, there is a considerable way to come back down.\"\n\nMerthyr florist owner Suzanne Edwards says people are \"in and out\" of each other's homes\n\nSuzanne Edwards, who owns a florists on Brecon Road, Merthyr, said she thinks lockdown rules should continue.\n\n\"Two weeks hasn't been long enough and the numbers are still going up, so I don't know what the purpose of this two weeks has been.\n\n\"They're in and out of each other's homes, having little get-togethers and they just don't think it's going to happen to them.\"\n\nMerthyr council leader Kevin O'Neill said people living in the county were \"close emotionally and physically\" which helped the spread of the virus.\n\n\"There's a band across the valleys, I think that's also to do with the geography, contained roadways, narrow valleys, lack of facilities, lack of places to go,\" Mr O'Neill added.\n\nWhen asked if Merthyr should move out of lockdown with the rest of the country on Monday, he said: \"I think there's a need to graduate some of the release of those regulations, but also the vast majority of the public have complied.\"\n\nLee Davies, councillor for the Gurnos, said it was \"always going to be quite difficult in these communities\".\n\n\"You are all condensed into one community, there's one shop, and one place that everyone goes to. People are living on top of each other.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A \"number of people\" attended a bonfire on the Gurnos estate, police said\n\nMeanwhile, police confirmed that a number of people attended a bonfire on the Gurnos estate on Thursday evening.\n\nSouth Wales Police officers attended to give “suitable advice” and remind them of Covid regulations.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for a Liverpool-style testing regime in areas hit hard by the virus.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, the party's health spokesman, said he was \"not satisfied\" with Mr Gething's explanation that the lockdown should be lifted in areas with high incidence and the numbers in places such as Merthyr Tydfil \"ring alarm bells\".\n\nAndrew RT Davies, the Welsh Conservative's spokesman on health, said: \"If Labour ministers were to apply their Covid logic and policy consistently, they would be reconsidering their decision to ease restrictions in high-incidence areas in counties such as Merthyr Tydfil, Blaenau Gwent and Rhondda Cynon Taf on Monday.\n\n\"Welsh Conservatives have called for targeted intervention in the hot-spot areas in Wales and we once again repeat that call today.\"\n\nMerthyr remains one of the worst-hit areas in the UK when it comes to cases per 100,000 people\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Monday he did not \"intend to step away from\" the bargain he made to return freedoms after the 17-day firebreak.\n\nOn Friday, a Welsh Government spokesman said: \"To keep the virus under control, we need to think about our own lives and how we can keep our families safe and stop thinking about the maximum limit of rules and regulations.\n\n\"There will be a national set of measures, which will come into force on Monday.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKenya's government has ordered an investigation into the theft and sale of babies following a BBC investigation into the black market trade.\n\nThe announcement came after BBC Africa Eye revealed children were stolen to order from a Nairobi public hospital.\n\nA hospital official used legitimate paperwork to take custody of a two-week-old boy before selling him directly to an undercover reporter.\n\nA government minister said the culprits would face the \"full force of the law\".\n\nAddressing a packed press conference in Nairobi, Labour and Social Protection Minister Simon Chelugui said the sellers and buyers were equally culpable.\n\nThe investigation by BBC Africa Eye uncovered a trade in children stolen from vulnerable mothers living on the street, as well as the existence of illegal clinics dotted around Nairobi where babies are sold for as little as £300 ($400).\n\nThe investigation also revealed corruption at Mama Lucy Kibaki, a public hospital in Nairobi. Fred Leparan, a clinical social worker at the hospital, facilitated the sale of an abandoned two-week-old baby boy to undercover reporters, later accepting 300,000 shillings (£2,000) in cash.\n\nBoth Mr Leparan and Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital declined requests to comment on the investigation's findings.\n\nSpeaking at the press conference on Tuesday, the labour minister, Mr Chelugui, also acknowledged that improvements to some of Kenya's child protection services were needed.\n\nThere are no reliable statistics on child trafficking in the East African state, but a non-governmental organisation, Missing Child Kenya, said it had been involved in nearly 600 cases in the past three years.", "Lifting lockdown must be handled better this time round to avoid a surge in Covid that could overwhelm the NHS, doctors say.\n\nThe British Medical Association has published a blueprint for how it thinks England should proceed with any easing.\n\nIt includes replacing the \"rule of six\" with a two-households restriction to reduce social mixing and banning travel between different local lockdown tiers.\n\nGovernment has yet to say if or exactly how England will exit on 2 December.\n\nIt will decide next week, based on whether cases have fallen enough and how much strain hospitals are under.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said ministers want to see a \"significant easing\" of coronavirus controls.\n\nBut Public Health England medical director and NHS Test and Trace chief medical adviser Susan Hopkins said the government would have to look at \"strengthening\" the three-tier system introduced in October.\n\nAnd now, the BMA, a trade union for UK doctors, has said robust measures to keep the virus under control must be in place before lockdown ends, including:\n\nBMA chair of council Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the government must learn from mistakes from the ending of the first lockdown - rapid relaxation and inadequate monitoring, while people had been encouraged to go to the pub and dine out.\n\n\"It is unthinkable that we make the same mistakes again,\" he said, \"because this time, the impact will be far worse.\"\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose modelling led to the original lockdown in March, has said reopening pubs and restaurants in the run-up to Christmas would likely lead to rising infection levels.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"The big question in practical terms is can we reopen hospitality venues - pubs and restaurants - in the run-up to Christmas and still avoid infection levels increasing?\n\n\"I suspect we can't, but the decision may be made to do so anyhow on the basis that any increase will be slow and may be able to be counteracted later.\"\n\nThe NHS was preparing to roll out Covid vaccinations should a jab become available soon, the BMA said.\n\nBut such a mass immunisation programme must be properly resourced and funded by government.\n\nAnd all of that groundwork should be done now, rather than later.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it has invested over £230m into manufacturing any successful vaccine and there had been \"an enormous amount of planning and preparation\" for distributing it to the people who needed it.\n\nA spokesman said: \"As we've set out, we will seek to ease restrictions on Wednesday 2 December, going back into a tiered system on a local and regional basis according to the latest data and trends.\n\n\"Guidance on infection control measures such as returning to work, social distancing and household mixing are constantly under review to ensure we can visit loved ones and support the economy whilst controlling the spread of the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson says he is \"proud\" of the way the government got supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA report by a spending watchdog found suppliers with links to Conservative MPs were given priority.\n\nSir Keir Starmer asked why the usual processes had been bypassed - and £21m had been handed to a \"middle man\".\n\nThe PM told the Labour leader \"fast\" action had been needed and \"any government\" would have done the same.\n\nSir Keir asked about a BBC report that £21m in UK taxpayers' cash had been given to Spanish businessman who acted as a go-between to secure protective garments for NHS staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I remind the prime minister that a few weeks ago he couldn't find that amount of money for free school meals for kids over half term,\" he told Mr Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe also highlighted a National Audit Office report, which showed £10.5bn worth of contracts were handed out without competitive tender and \"suppliers with political connections were 10 times more likely to be awarded contracts\".\n\nHe said: \"Can the prime minister give a cast-iron assurance that from now on all government contracts will be subject to proper process, with full transparency and accountability?\"\n\nThe prime minister said all government contracts will be published.\n\n\"I think it is extraordinary he attacks the government for securing PPE in full quantities,\" he added.\n\n\"At the time he bashed the government for not moving fast enough, now, absolutely absurdly, Captain Hindsight is trying to score political points by attacking the government for moving too fast.\n\n\"I am proud of securing PPE supplies and any government would have done the same.\"\n\nThe prime minister, who was taking part in PMQs via video link after being asked to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace, thanked suppliers.\n\nAnd he highlighted calls from Labour's own MPs to get hold of supplies from unusual sources, including, he said, a football agent seeking to supply ventilators, and a \"historical clothing\" company.\n\n\"Nobody had enough PPE and we shifted heaven and earth to get 32 billion items of PPE to this country.\n\n\"I am very proud of what has been achieved - 70% of PPE is now made in this country, or capable of being made in this country, when it was only 1% at the beginning of the pandemic.\"\n\nIn its report, the National Audit Office said the government was not transparent about suppliers and services, and there were inadequate explanation of key spending decisions.\n\nThe watchdog also found not enough was done to address potential conflicts of interest by ministers and other government officials.\n\nThe findings are part of an NAO investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "Content moderators say they have Facebook's \"most brutal job\"\n\nMore than 200 Facebook workers from around the world have accused the firm of forcing its content moderators back to the office despite the risks of contracting coronavirus.\n\nThe claims came in an open letter that said the firm was \"needlessly risking\" lives to maintain profits.\n\nThey called on Facebook to make changes to allow more remote work and offer other benefits, such as hazard pay.\n\nFacebook said \"a majority\" of content reviewers are working from home.\n\n\"While we believe in having an open internal dialogue, these discussions need to be honest,\" a spokesperson for the company said.\n\n\"The majority of these 15,000 global content reviewers have been working from home and will continue to do so for the duration of the pandemic.\"\n\nIn August, Facebook said staff could work from home until the summer of 2021.\n\nBut the social media giant relies on thousands of contractors, who officially work for other companies such as Accenture and CPL, to spot materials on the site that violate its policies, such as spam, child abuse and disinformation.\n\nThe letter comes a day after Mr Zuckerberg was grilled by Washington lawmakers over its handling of problematic posts\n\nIn the open letter, the workers said the call to return to the office had come after Facebook's efforts to rely more on artificial intelligence to spot problematic posts had come up short.\n\n\"After months of allowing content moderators to work from home, faced with intense pressure to keep Facebook free of hate and disinformation, you have forced us back to the office,\" they said.\n\n\"Facebook needs us. It is time that you acknowledged this and valued our work. To sacrifice our health and safety for profit is immoral.\"\n\nThis letter gives a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into what is happening at Facebook - and all is not well.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's dream is that AI moderation will one day solve some of the platform's problems.\n\nThe idea is that machine learning and sophisticated software will automatically pick up and block things like hate speech or child abuse.\n\nFacebook claims that nearly 95% of offending posts are picked up before they are flagged.\n\nYet it's still easy to find grim stuff on Facebook.\n\nOn Monday I published a piece showing the kinds of racist and misogynistic content aimed at Kamala Harris on the platform.\n\nFacebook removed some of the content, however even though I flagged it to Facebook, some of it is still there - a week after I reported it.\n\nWhat this letter suggests is that AI is simply not working as Facebook execs would hope.\n\nOf course, these are voices of moderators - Facebook will have a different take.\n\nYou could also argue that human voices may have a vested interest to say AI doesn't work.\n\nBut clearly, as the spotlight is well and truly on Facebook, there are internal problems that have now spilled out into the open.\n\nFacebook said the reviewers have access to health care and that it had \"exceeded health guidance on keeping facilities safe for any in-office work\".\n\nBut the workers said only those with a doctor's note are currently excused from working in an office and called on Facebook to offer hazard pay and make its contractors full-time staff.\n\n\"Before the pandemic, content moderation was easily Facebook's most brutal job. We waded through violence and child abuse for hours on end. Moderators working on child abuse content had targets increased during the pandemic, with no additional support,\" they said.\n\n\"Now, on top of work that is psychologically toxic, holding onto the job means walking into a hot zone.\"\n\nThe letter is addressed to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, as well as the chiefs of Accenture and CPL. It was organised by UK law firm Foxglove, which works on tech policy issues. More than 170 of the signatories were anonymous.\n\nFacebook is not the only company to face staff worries about in-person work amid the pandemic.\n\nAmazon has also come under fire for conditions in its warehouses, while outbreaks at firms from manufacturers to finance companies have stirred fears.\n\nIt comes just a day after Washington lawmakers grilled Mr Zuckerberg on the firm's content review policies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Defence spending a boost for \"safety of the British people\"\n\nA \"once-in-a-generation modernisation\" of the armed forces is required to extend British influence and protect the public, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs a new four-year funding deal would protect \"hundreds of thousands\" of jobs and create 40,000 new roles.\n\n\"I have decided that the era of cutting our defence budget must end, and it ends now,\" he said.\n\nLabour welcomed more defence spending but asked how it would be funded.\n\nOutlining the new package in the Commons, the PM - speaking over video link as he is self-isolating - said the benefits \"will go far beyond our armed forces\".\n\nMr Johnson described the increase in defence spending as being worth £16.5bn in new money over four years.\n\nHowever economist Ben Zaranko, from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said that while this represented a big rise in spending, the figure of £16.5bn was a \"misleading way to present this announcement\".\n\nHe continued: \"It would be more accurate to say that by 2024-25, defence spending will be £7bn higher than it would have been under previous plans.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Our plans will safeguard hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry, protecting livelihoods across the UK and keeping the British people safe.\"\n\nThe PM pledged to end defence budget cuts, protect shipping lanes that supply the country, press on with renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent and restore Britain as \"the foremost naval power in Europe\" with a \"renaissance of British shipbuilding across the UK\".\n\nHe also said the funding would allow investment in new technology such as:\n\n\"From aerospace to autonomous vehicles, these technologies have a vast array of civilian applications opening up new vistas of economic progress, creating 10,000 jobs every year - 40,000 in total - levelling-up across our country and reinforcing our union,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nThis is a big win for Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who's been fighting hard for a significant increase in defence spending and a long-term financial settlement to end what he calls a cycle of overambitious, under-funded defence reviews of the past.\n\nThe Treasury had been arguing for a much smaller annual increase. But Mr Wallace found an ally in the PM, who says his first priority is defence of the realm.\n\nBoris Johnson also believes it'll boost Britain's place in the world and create jobs.\n\nThe extra money will be used to modernise the armed forces with more spent on robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nDespite the palpable relief inside the MoD it still has to fill a £13bn black hole in its equipment budget. Difficult decisions about cutting old equipment to fund the new are still to be made.\n\nThe MoD, which doesn't have a strong track record of balancing its books, now has to prove it can spend wisely.\n\nAnd good news for defence might also mean bad news for other government departments - there's already speculation the international aid budget could be cut.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of making a \"spending announcement without a strategy\" and asked whether the money would be raised through cuts or tax rises, or both.\n\nMr Johnson did not respond to the question but said Sir Keir's record of support for the armed forces was \"very thin indeed\".\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt urged Mr Johnson \"not to listen to any voices in his ear\" saying that cutting international aid could help to fund the increase in defence spending.\n\nAnd Labour MP Sarah Champion, chairwoman of the international development committee, asked Mr Johnson to \"quash rumours and confirm his manifesto commitment\" of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, \"now and going forwards\".\n\nThe PM responded by telling the Commons: \"I think we can all be proud of our record on overseas aid and that will continue.\"\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the announcement.\n\n\"But of course we're also conscious that living through this Covid crisis, the armed forces have stepped up to the plate to provide some of the resilience that the nation has needed,\" he added.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said the \"extraordinary announcement\" would be very good for morale\n\nEarlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"letting go\" of some older weapons would create \"headroom\" for new investment.\n\nHe added: \"When I looked across at the armed forces today I saw them with equipment that was out-of-date, I saw our adversaries across the world having better equipment, the ability to attack us and harm us getting wider and wider from our capabilities.\"\n\nThe funding announcement is part of the first conclusions of the government's Integrated Review which looks at security, defence, development and foreign policy.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said the extra money would give \"a welcome and long-overdue upgrade to Britain's defences after a decade of decline\".\n\nConservative MP and defence select committee chairman Tobias Ellwood said: \"This is a lot of money but ultimately there are still huge financial pressures facing our armed forces.\"\n\nBut he said the \"key takeaway\" for him was the \"message this sends to the British people, to the MoD as well, that we want to be back as a strong power capability\".", "A dumper truck driver lay dead on a building site for two days before his body was discovered by colleagues.\n\nDavid White, 38, was crushed when his vehicle overturned as he worked alone on a weekend shift on a renovation project at an isolated farm property.\n\nMr White's death in October 2016 was outlined at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nTwo men involved with the firm Mr White worked for - Pro'Conn - pleaded guilty to health and safety charges and were given suspended prison sentences.\n\nProject manager and principal designer Graham Kulhamann, 48, of Parcau Road, Bridgend, was sentenced to 21 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay £5,000 towards prosecution costs.\n\nDirector Kevin March, 59, of Fields Park Road, Cardiff, received 32 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and has to pay £46,270 in costs.\n\nPro'Conn was responsible for the redevelopment at West Aberthaw Farm in the Vale of Glamorgan, but went into liquidation following the incident on 1 October.\n\nThe court heard the project was behind schedule and people were working weekend shifts to catch up.\n\nSimon Morgan, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said grass was found gripped in Mr White's fingers which suggested he had not been killed instantly.\n\nMr Morgan said Mr White had not been wearing a seatbelt - an essential element of the safety of dumper trucks.\n\nFollowing the death the HSE issued a closure notice for the site and launched an investigation.\n\nThe court heard a catalogue of safety failings and lack of proper plans were found at the site, and that when safety concerns had been raised in the past they had not been acted upon.\n\nThere had also been a number of \"near misses\" involving vehicles which had not led to action.\n\nMr Morgan said there had been \"insufficient monitoring and supervision\" on the site, which was a failing both defendants shared.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC told the defendants: \"In law the buck stops with each of you.\"", "Is this the start of a green revolution?\n\nRevolutions are often born out of crises and the government's long awaited plan to start a green industrial revolution is a central part of its ambition to \"build back better\" after the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBut does this plan deliver?\n\nThe eye-catching and headline-grabbing abolition of new petrol and diesel cars a decade earlier than originally planned has been welcomed by environmental groups.\n\nIt puts the UK toward the front of the pack in the electric vehicle race and was also widely expected in a year when the UK needed to demonstrate the kind of leadership required of the next hosts of the world's biggest environment summit COP 26.\n\nInvestment in capturing carbon at the point it is burnt and burying it deep underground has also been seen as an essential part of the roadmap to net zero.\n\nThere was also money for new nuclear - big and small - and a drive to make new homes more efficient by retro-fitting old ones with better insulation, or replacing old gas boilers with new electric pumps which convert and concentrate heat underground into central heating for our homes.\n\nA pilot to replace 600,000 home heating systems a year by 2028 sounds like a lot - but it's hard to exaggerate the scale and cost of the task involved in replacing 25 million gas boilers.\n\nIf that happens, this will be a revolution that won't be about international summits, climate protests, or huge and distant infrastructure projects. It's a revolution that is coming to our front doors and inside our cupboards.\n\nHeating is the single biggest contributor to carbon emissions, and the Committee on Climate Change says this will be the hardest nut to crack and on its own could cost up to £500bn.\n\nThat's the problem for many. Today's commitment of £4bn in new money seems like a very small sum to be considered evidence that a \"revolution\" is under way.\n\nIn its defence, the government will rightly point out that a little bit of government money and political will can generate a lot of private investment. It will also point to the fact that the Covid crisis has limited its ability to commit right now to future spending.\n\nCritics cry that if there is a bigger crisis than coronavirus, it is climate change and there are no vaccines for this one on the horizon.\n\nBut in one way there is a mini-revolution here.\n\nIn the past, and in the parsimonious eyes of treasury officials, green stuff = cost. There is now a new orthodoxy that green stuff = jobs.\n\nThe government is very keen for these measures to be seen as not only steps towards hitting a climate target but a way of creating jobs in a post-Covid world.\n\nThe bigger the project, the more jobs it creates, the more favourably the government will look at it.\n\nThat's a new shade of green for a Conservative government.", "Long queues built up on Friday after mass testing started in Liverpool\n\nThe number of coronavirus testing sites in Liverpool has doubled after \"really good interest\" in the scheme, its public health director has said.\n\nMatthew Ashton said a total of up to 12,000 people were tested at six centres on Friday as England's first trial of city-wide testing began.\n\nMr Ashton said a further eight sites were brought in on Saturday.\n\nThe city council said it could extend the two-week pilot scheme as more opened.\n\nAll residents and workers in Liverpool - the first area to be placed under England's tier three restrictions - have been offered regular tests, regardless of whether they display symptoms.\n\nOfficials say this is in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHealthcare, education and other key workers, along with students, have been particularly encouraged to take a test.\n\nMr Ashton told BBC Radio 4 Today: \"We are still working on the numbers but we think (there were) about 1,500-2,000 people per testing centre.\n\n\"So really good numbers and lots of interest, so it was very encouraging.\n\n\"For the most part, it ran very smoothly. It was good, it wasn't perfect but we'll improve it\".\n\nCity mayor Joe Anderson said: \"The people of Liverpool did not let us down on the first day and I am delighted that so many people turned out for a test.\n\n\"This is a huge logistical exercise the likes of which has not been tried before, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank people for their patience and understanding as I know many had to queue for a while for a test.\"\n\nResidents are urged to book tests online or by phone, and not to turn up without an appointment.\n\nPeople with symptoms have been told to not attend the mass testing centres but instead arrange a test at one of the mobile testing units in the city.\n\nSome health experts have criticised the trial, with Allyson Pollock, professor of public health at Newcastle University, warning that plans to test asymptomatic people went against advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) to prioritise tests for those displaying symptoms.\n\nThe military has been drafted in to help the NHS\n\nMr Ashton said he thought the nationwide lockdown, which started in England on Thursday, was necessary because tier three rules had not been successful in limiting transmission.\n\nHe said the summer exit from the first national lockdown occurred when Liverpool \"still had levels of the virus in our community\".\n\n\"They weren't high but they were still very present and it was higher than other parts of the country, and I think that's what drove the big increases in the north west […] so we were first to have the second wave,\" he said.\n\nBy cutting social contact, he said, the new lockdown measures would \"absolutely help\" to bring transmission down.\n\n\"The big question is will they cut them enough, will it take the levels of the virus low enough?\"\n\nAs of Friday, 58 deaths were reported in the city during the past week, according to data.\n\nOverall, Liverpool recorded 1,501 coronavirus cases in the seven days to 3 November, compared with 2,074 cases in the previous week.\n\nThis means the rate had dropped from 416 per 100,000 people to 301 per 100,000. Across England overall, the rate was 240 per 100,000.\n\nLiverpool aims to test up to 50,000 people a day\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Johnson believes there is 'a deal to be done'\n\n\"Significant differences\" between the UK and the EU remain, as negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal continue, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said\n\nFollowing a call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday, the PM said progress had been made but there were still issues around the \"level playing field\" and fishing.\n\nBoth parties agreed negotiating teams would resume talks in London on Monday.\n\nThey also agreed to remain \"in close contact\" over the coming days.\n\nA statement from Downing Street on Saturday said:\n\n\"Prime Minister Boris Johnson today spoke with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a stock take on the progress in the negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\n\"The prime minister set out that, while some progress had been made in recent discussions, significant differences remain in a number of areas, including the so-called level playing field and fish.\n\n\"The prime minister and president agreed that their negotiating teams would continue talks in London next week, beginning on Monday, in order to redouble efforts to reach a deal.\n\n\"They agreed to remain in personal contact about the negotiations,\" the statement said.\n\nEchoing Mr Johnson, Ms von der Leyen acknowledged \"some progress had been made, but large differences remain\". \"Our teams will continue working hard next week,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister has said he believes there is \"a deal to be done\" and \"very much hopes\" to come to an agreement, but he has insisted the country was \"very well prepared\" to move on should the two parties not be able to agree a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Audit Office has warned of \"significant disruption\" when the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and entered the transition period - continuing to follow many EU rules - while a trade deal was negotiated.\n\nBut while both sides said a deal needed to be done in October, they have yet to come to an agreement, and talks between the negotiating teams have intensified.\n\nThe transition period is due to come to an end on 31 December, meaning the UK would trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation rules - meaning tariffs are imposed - if a deal is not in place.\n\nCritics say this could cause damage to the UK economy, but the government insists the country will prosper with or without a deal.\n\nEarlier this week, both the UK and EU's chief trade negotiators warned of \"wide\" and \"serious divergences\" between the two sides.\n\nSticking points include fishing rights, competition rules and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nAsked on Friday if the UK could get a deal in the next 10 days, Mr Johnson said: \"I very much hope that we will, but obviously that depends on our friends and partners across the Channel.\n\n\"I think there is a deal to be done, if they want to do it.\n\n\"If not, the country is, of course, very well prepared. As I have said before, we can do very well with on Australian terms [without a deal], if that is what we have to go for.\"\n\nThomas Byrne, Ireland's minister for European affairs, said the talks up to this point between the EU and UK's negotiators, Michel Barnier and David Frost, had been \"difficult\", with \"big issues\" still remaining.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I personally don't expect that there would me major progress today, but at the same time I think it's very good that they are talking - I think that's really positive. But I'm not sure that we would expect a moment at this point.\"\n\nMr Byrne was also asked if there could be a \"new dynamic\" to discussions between the UK and EU if Joe Biden was elected the US president, saying it was \"certainly possible\".\n\nMr Biden, who has Irish roots, said in September that he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if he was elected president.\n\nMr Byrne said: \"He was very clear in his suggestion and statement on the 16th of September that any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent on respect for the Good Friday Agreement and preventing the return of the hard border.\"", "Investigations continued at the scene in Summers Street throughout Sunday\n\nA man has been shot dead by a police officer in Swindon.\n\nThe 57-year-old man died just before 03:00 GMT in the shooting in Summers Street, said the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is investigating.\n\nIt said the shooting happened after Wiltshire Police were called to two men \"arguing in the street\".\n\nThe force said it would be stepping up its presence in the area but added there was no danger to the public.\n\nIn a statement the IOPC said police were called to Summers Street, in the Rodbourne area of Swindon, just after 02:00 GMT.\n\n\"At this early stage it is believed a 57-year-old man has been fatally shot during the police response to reports of two men arguing in the street,\" the statement said.\n\nThe IOPC said the man was confirmed dead in an ambulance at 02:56 GMT.\n\nArmed police were called to the Rodbourne Area of Swindon at about 02:00 GMT\n\nIt said investigators were at the scene and were speaking to officers involved in the incident.\n\nThe IOPC added it was \"mandatory for us to conduct an independent investigation when the police fatally shoot a member of the public\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all of those affected by this terrible incident,\" it added.\n\nWiltshire Police said it would not be commenting on the incident because of the IOPC investigation.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We would, however, like to reassure the public there is no risk to the wider community and that there is likely to be an increased police presence in the area for a considerable time.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Up to 10,000 war veterans marched during the remembrance service at the Cenotaph last year\n\nThe Royal British Legion is encouraging people to mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend by observing a two-minute silence on their doorstep.\n\nThe charity said this was a way \"you can still play your part from home\", with coronavirus restrictions affecting annual remembrance events.\n\nIt comes after thousands of households took to their doorsteps to applaud the NHS during lockdown.\n\nAt 11:00 GMT on Sunday, a two-minute silence will be held across the UK.\n\nIt is part of the annual commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflicts, although events this year have had to be scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFor the first time in its history, the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London will not be open to the public.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, the government and the armed forces are still expected to attend the ceremony, which will have strict social distancing measures in force, but the annual march past the Cenotaph will not take place.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he wanted to \"properly\" mark 100 years since the monument was installed but said \"it is with a heavy heart that I must ask people not to attend the ceremony at the Cenotaph this year in order to keep veterans and the public safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We will ensure our plans for the day are a fitting tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and that our veterans are at the at the heart of the service - with the nation able to watch safely from home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAround 10,000 people usually gather at the Cenotaph each year for the service, which will be broadcast on BBC One from 10:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nDowning Street said Remembrance Sunday events in England could go ahead despite the national lockdown, so long as they were outdoors, with social distancing.\n\nGovernment guidance advises that any events should be \"short and focused on wreath laying\" and event organisers should \"discourage the public from attending\".\n\nIn Wales, which is also under a national lockdown, outdoor events are also permitted up to a maximum of 30 people, although parades are not allowed.\n\nTraditional annual remembrance events at local war memorials across Scotland have been cancelled, with outdoor standing events not permitted in areas under Covid levels one, two and three.\n\nHowever, services held in places of worship can proceed - as long as they comply with the restrictions on size.\n\nThe pandemic has affected fundraising efforts by the Royal British Legion\n\nThe Royal British Legion said that although many remembrance services and events couldn't take place this year, it was \"asking the nation to still come together to honour all who have served in our armed forces\" by joining the national two-minute silence from their doorstep at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe charity behind the annual Poppy Appeal, which raises money for veterans, has asked people to donate online because collectors are not allowed out on the streets during the lockdown in England and Wales.\n\nBob Gamble, from the Royal British Legion, said the pandemic had created \"difficulties of loneliness, homelessness, unemployment and stress\" for the Armed Forces veteran community, which needed the support of the Royal British Legion charities \"more this year than any other\".", "Ms O'Neill said the executive was looking at reopening some areas of the hospitality industry\n\nCafes and restaurants could be allowed to reopen from Friday but not bars, the deputy first minister has suggested.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"something we are considering\" ahead of the executive meeting to discuss easing some Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nCurrent measures are due to end on Friday, and ministers have been advised pubs and restaurants should remain closed for another two weeks.\n\nMs O'Neill said there could be some \"flexibility\" for easing restrictions.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics, she said any decisions would be taken in a \"graduated\" manner.\n\nMeanwhile, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has confirmed it has closed its training college at Garnerville in Belfast for two days for a deep clean.\n\nFour student officers have tested positive for coronavirus and 15 more have been advised to self-isolate.\n\nCh Supt Emma Bond wished those affected a speedy recovery and said it was the first confirmed positive cases of Covid 19 concerning student officers since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, First Minister Arlene Foster said the restrictions imposed on 16 October had helped bring the R-rate - or reproduction number - down to 0.7.\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin vice-president Ms O'Neill said that number did not take into account the reopening of schools last week, and the impact of that may not be known until next week.\n\nOn Sunday, there were seven further coronavirus-related deaths reported by the Department of Health in the previous 24-hour period.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths reported by the department to 781.\n\nThere were also an additional 420 cases of coronavirus confirmed.\n\nThere are 55 people being treated in intensive care units and 41 of them are on ventilators.\n\nBelfast Chamber chief executive Simon Hamilton said footfall across city businesses was down by 50%\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, there have been two further coronavirus-related deaths and 542 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt brings the total confirmed cases to 65,394, while the death toll stands at 1,947. The number of people in ICU is 39, down one since Saturday.\n\nMs O'Neill said the executive would not keep any measure in place \"longer than necessary\" and they were looking at reopening some areas.\n\n\"For example, close- contact services, is there space for us to open those things up again from next Friday, in a very regulated way of course, on an appointment-by-appointment basis, a one-in one-out basis?\" she said.\n\n\"The restrictions very much focus on the hospitality sector right now so we're looking at that wide family.\n\n\"Across hospitality, you've everything from a cafe or a coffee shop, right through to a nightclub and they're two very different scenarios.\n\n\"We're looking at whether there is any space or scope there to lift some of those things in a graduated way over the course of the next number of weeks.\"\n\nThe executive is looking at whether the hospitality industry can reopen but without alcohol\n\nHospitality business have called for clarity as soon as possible, but the deputy first minister said the sale of alcohol was a factor to consider in coming to a decision.\n\n\"We have to be very mindful of the fact that perhaps people's defences come down when there is alcohol taken.\n\n\"So what we're looking at is - are there ways that we can open things up perhaps without alcohol?\n\n\"If we can find a way to get ourselves into the new year with the restrictions that we bring in now, then that's the prize that we're going for here.\n\n\"We don't want to have to intervene again before Christmas, we want to be able to allow some flexibility to allow people to move around as much as possible, to allow as much of our economy to open up as possible.\"\n\nBelfast Chamber chief executive Simon Hamilton said footfall across businesses in the city was down by 50% and many firms were facing the \"real prospect of closure and a serious number of job losses\".\n\n\"If at least some life isn't breathed back into the city centre later this week, then I worry not only for those forced to remain closed but also those who can still trade but have decreasing numbers of people to trade to,\" he said.\n\n\"What I seriously see is a city centre that is on the edge with many businesses and their staff facing a dire future.\n\n\"What the executive decides this week will either kill off city and town centres or give them a fighting chance.\"\n\nHe has called on executive ministers to find a way to allow businesses to reopen for the traditionally busy Christmas period.\n\nA Department of Health proposal, seen by BBC News NI, indicates that a two-week extension of the restrictions on hospitality until the end of November could mean the possibility of avoiding further interventions before Christmas.\n\nThe full interview with Michelle O'Neill was broadcast on Sunday Politics and is available on BBC iPlayer.", "The election of Joe Biden leaves Boris Johnson facing a substantial diplomatic repair job. The two men have never met. Last December the president-elect described the prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Donald Trump.\n\nThere are people around Mr Biden who remember bitterly how Mr Johnson once suggested President Obama harboured anti-British sentiment because of his part-Kenyan ancestry.\n\nMr Biden and his team think Brexit is an historic mistake. They would not want Britain to leave the EU without a trade deal, particularly if it involved breaking commitments made in the Northern Ireland protocol.\n\nLast month Mr Biden warned publicly in a tweet that a future UK-US trade deal was contingent on the UK not unravelling the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.\n\nThere is an expectation among many observers that when President Biden seeks to repair transatlantic relationships, he may focus more of his attention on Paris and Berlin than London.\n\nAnd when Mr Biden does turn his attention to the UK, he may put pressure on Mr Johnson to repair its relations with the EU just when the prime minister wants to focus his \"global Britain\" foreign policy elsewhere, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.\n\nSo the government has a lot of work to do to in improving its relations with the incoming administration. That has not been made easier by a reluctance of Conservatives in recent years to meet Democrats when visiting Washington.\n\n\"We just couldn't persuade ministers ever to go and see Democrats on the Hill,\" one diplomatic source told me.\n\nThe foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, did meet the influential Democratic senator Chris Coons in September. The prime minister's foreign affairs adviser, John Bew, has also been cultivating links with those close to Mr Biden. But they are both playing catch-up.\n\nJoe Biden's camp see Boris Johnson as very similar to Donald Trump\n\nThat said, sometimes too much can be made of past comments and personal animus. Mr Biden is considered a pragmatist and under him the United States may well prove a more stable and predictable ally to the UK than was the case in the last four years.\n\nMr Trump's America First policy will be replaced by one that recognises America's place in a multilateral, international system from which the UK benefits. A Biden presidency would renew US support for Nato the World Health Organisation and the World Trade Organisation, all of which are priorities for the UK.\n\nAnd there are issues where Mr Biden's views align significantly with the UK's: being tough on Russia; reviving the Iran nuclear deal; combatting human rights abuses in China and elsewhere; agreeing new carbon emission reduction targets.\n\nNext year's COP26 summit, delayed because of Covid, will attempt to agree coordinated action on climate change\n\nThis last issue is, perhaps, the most important. The UK will want to use its chairmanship next year of the United Nations COP26 climate change summit to forge a bond with the Biden administration, hoping to act as a broker between the US and other countries, especially China, in agreeing a deal.\n\nThe UK will still, of course, come under pressure to support America's confrontation with China, which is held as strongly by Democrats as Republicans.\n\nBut British policymakers hope that under Biden, the US will share a closer position with the UK, one that challenges malign behaviour by China - such as in Hong Kong and Xinjiang - but also engages on global issues such as climate change.\n\nThey also hope to forge a new alliance of liberal democratic countries to counter the influence of autocratic governments around the world.\n\nThe truth, though, is that Mr Biden's priorities will be overwhelmingly domestic - namely fixing America's economy and the Covid crisis. Relations with the UK - including a possible free trade deal - will not be a top priority.\n\nAnd for all Mr Biden's internationalist instincts, there will be no return to America's global interventionism of the past. That means that despite Mr Biden's arrival in the White House, the UK post-Brexit may still have to forge a new role in the world, one that does not automatically slipstream behind US foreign policy.", "Freight drivers who are not UK citizens and have been through Denmark in the last fortnight are warned they will be turned away from the British border.\n\nIt follows concern over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans.\n\nReturning drivers who are UK citizens will have to self-isolate for 14 days along with their households.\n\nIt comes as further 156 people in the UK were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nIt brings the overall UK death toll to 49,044, according to government data. Both the number of UK deaths and the daily cases - 20,572 in the past 24 hours - mark a significant drop on previous days, but Sunday figures are often lower due to a lag in weekend reporting.\n\nThe new rules for hauliers returning from Denmark began at 04:00 GMT on Sunday - and follow a ban on all non-UK citizens coming to the UK from Denmark.\n\nAny UK citizens who have travelled to Denmark must isolate for 14 days, along with their household.\n\nPassenger planes and ships carrying freight (as well as passengers) from Denmark will also not be allowed to dock at English ports.\n\nCabin crew are also no longer exempt from the quarantine rules - which Ryanair described on Saturday as a \"bizarre and baseless\" move.\n\nThe airline said it had cancelled all flights to and from Denmark while the rules remain in place, and urged Mr Shapps to reverse the decision. Scottish airline Loganair said it has suspended flights between Scotland and Denmark from 9 to 22 November.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the latest rules followed the release of \"further information\" from health officials in Denmark, where 12 people have been found to have mink-related mutations of virus, most of them connected to farms in the North Jutland region.\n\nThe travel ban and extra requirements will be reviewed after a week, the DfT has said.\n\nAsked about the restrictions by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab denied the suggestion they were \"draconian\", insisting the government had taken \"safe and responsible steps\" in light of the \"new and evolving\" science on the mutated virus strain.\n\nHe told the Andrew Marr show: \"I wouldn't describe it as draconian taking a precautionary measure that if and when we come up with a vaccine it can't be sidestepped by a mutation in the virus that the Danes have found through their mink population.\n\n\"I think that's a common sense measure that the public would expect us to take.\"\n\nJohn Littleton, who returned from a business trip in Denmark on Friday, says he would have done things differently if he had known how rules would have affected his family.\n\n\"I was in Denmark on business. My flight back was Friday afternoon.\n\nOn Friday morning a colleague told me that Denmark had been put back on the restricted list. I assumed I would have to self isolate for two weeks. There was no official contact.\n\nOnce home I started self-isolating. On Saturday morning I missed a call from the tracing service who said they would ring me on Sunday.\n\nLast evening, two police officers arrived at my home. They read out a statement recommending the whole household self-isolate for two weeks. It was rather ambiguous - but the police said we would be fined if we didn't.\n\nBoth my son and his partner now can't go to work. She is a teacher, he manages an electrical retailer. Not being at work causes real problems.\n\nWhen the announcement about Denmark was made, there was no that the entire household would have to self-isolate. If it had said that, I would have done things differently - perhaps I would have stayed out there or isolated somewhere else upon my return.\n\nI just don't understand why such extreme measures are being taken. I was not in the north of Denmark and followed all social distancing guidelines while there. Denmark are only imposing local restrictions.\n\nWhy can I not simply be tested, so that the rest of the household can carry on with work? As usual, the whole situation is being handled in a haphazard way with little thought.\"\n\nDenmark is the UK's largest source of imported pork - including bacon - with machinery among the other major import items.\n\nRod McKenzie, managing director of policy at the Road Haulage Association, said the latest restrictions were \"significant and unique\" because lorry drivers working in supply chains have been \"exempt\" from travel quarantine rules.\n\nHe suggested that whilst different organisations, such as supermarkets, may have their own plans to address any supply issues, he warned that if the restrictions continue for a \"long time\" there could be \"a potential disruption to bacon supplies in the UK\".\n\nMeanwhile, Logistics UK, a freight trade body, said the industry was \"agile\" so \"importers can switch between transport modes to ensure that products still arrive\".\n\nIn a statement it added: \"Much of the ferry transport between the UK and Denmark is sent in unaccompanied trailers, so drivers simply collect their loads from ports, with no need to travel across the border.\n\n\"The industry will continue to maintain high levels of vigilance and follow all necessary health protocols to protect the UK.\"\n\nIn England, where a new national lockdown came into force on Thursday, people are still allowed to travel overseas for work or education trips.\n\nLeaving home to go on holiday is currently banned for most people in the UK.\n\nDenmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod called Mr Shapps' travel announcement a \"very drastic step\" and said he had discussed it with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday.\n\nDenmark had been taken off the UK coronavirus travel corridors list on Friday after it first became apparent the mutated form of coronavirus was present in the country. It meant any passengers arriving in the UK from Denmark would need to self-isolate after their arrival.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care estimates that between 300 and 500 people have arrived in the UK from Denmark in the last 14 days.\n\nOfficials will contact anyone in the UK who has been in Denmark in the last fortnight to make sure they also self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nWere you planning to travel from Denmark to the UK? Have you just returned to the UK? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jill Biden: Joe will \"keep the promise of America\"\n\nStanding in an empty classroom where she taught English in the 1990s, Jill Biden delivered an address at the Democratic Party's convention after her husband was officially named presidential candidate.\n\nAfter making the case for Joe Biden to be elected, she was joined by her husband who lauded her qualities as a potential first lady.\n\n\"For all of you out there across the country, just think of your favourite educator who gave you the confidence to believe in yourself. That's the kind of first lady... Jill Biden will be,\" he said.\n\nBut what do we know about the woman who will soon be joining her husband in the White House?\n\nJill Jacobs was born in June 1951 in the US state of New Jersey. The oldest of five sisters, she grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove.\n\nPrior to marrying Joe, she was married to former college football player Bill Stevenson.\n\nJoe Biden lost his first wife and his one-year-old daughter in a car accident in 1972. (His sons Beau and Hunter both survived the accident.) Jill says she was introduced to Joe through his brother three years later.\n\nAt the time, he was a senator, while she was still in college.\n\n\"I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts, he came to the door and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought: 'God, this is never going to work, not in a million years.'\n\n\"He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theatre in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off,\" she told Vogue of their first date.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said Joe proposed to her five times before she accepted.\n\n\"I couldn't have them [Joe's children] lose another mother. So I had to be 100% sure,\" she explained.\n\nThe couple married in New York City in 1977. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981.\n\nMrs Biden talked about her family and the struggles they have faced when she endorsed her husband for president at the convention.\n\nHis son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May 2015, at the age of 46.\n\n\"I know that if we entrust this nation to Joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours - bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need, keep the promise of America for all of us,\" she said.\n\nAs well as a bachelor's degree, she has two master's degrees, and a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware in 2007.\n\nPrior to moving to Washington, DC, she taught at a community college, at a public high school and at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents - she gave her address at the Democratic Party's convention this year from her old classroom at Delaware's Brandywine High School, where she taught English from 1991 to 1993.\n\nWhile her husband served as vice-president, Mrs Biden was professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.\n\n\"Teaching is not what I do. It's who I am,\" she tweeted in August.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Biden previously held the title of Second Lady while her husband served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017.\n\nDuring this period, her work included promoting community colleges, advocating for military families and raising awareness about breast cancer prevention.\n\nShe also launched the Joining Forces initiative with First Lady Michelle Obama, which included helping military veterans and their families access education programmes and employment resources.\n\nIn 2012, she published a children's book called Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops based on her granddaughter's experience of being in a military family.\n\nShe has been a prominent supporter of her husband during the 2020 campaign, appearing alongside him and holding events and fundraisers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time as she laid the wreath\n\nThe Queen has worn a face mask in public for the first time.\n\nOn Wednesday, the monarch, 94, made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of his burial.\n\nIt comes ahead of Remembrance Day commemorations on Sunday. She requested the service after some events were scaled back due to the pandemic.\n\nFace coverings are required by law in England in certain indoor settings, including places of worship.\n\nThe Queen was last seen in public when she visited Porton Down, near Salisbury, to meet scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), in October, alongside her grandson, Prince William. She did not wear a mask on that occasion, and neither did the prince.\n\nA bouquet, similar to the Queen's wedding bouquet, was placed on the Unknown Warrior's grave\n\nThe Queen unveils a plaque to officially open the new Energetics Analysis Centre at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on 15 October 2020\n\nThat decision attracted criticism from the pressure group Republic, but a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said at the time that \"specific advice had been sought... and all necessary precautions taken\".\n\nThe Queen's attendance at the private ceremony in London at Westminster Abbey earlier this week was described as a \"simple but deeply personal act\".\n\n\"The grave of the Unknown Warrior is as relevant and poignant today as it was when Her Majesty's grandfather and father stood in the Abbey at its side 100 years ago,\" said a royal aide.\n\n\"It holds enormous significance for the country and the Royal Family. The Queen was keen that the centenary was marked appropriately.\"\n\nThe bouquet of flowers was placed by the Queen's Equerry on her behalf\n\nThe grave of the Unknown Warrior represents those who died in World War One whose place of death is not known, or whose remains are unidentified.\n\nThe brief service was attended only by the Dean of Westminster, Dr David Hoyle, and the Queen's Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, after royal doctors advised limiting the numbers.\n\nIn keeping with a tradition established by her mother in 1923, the Queen - who was married at the Abbey in November 1947 - left a bouquet based on her own wedding flowers at the grave, close to Westminster Abbey's Great West Door.\n\nThat was followed by a prayer, recited by the Dean, and the lament Flowers of the Forest played by the Queen's piper, Pipe Major Richard Grisdale, who stood in the organ loft.\n\nSpeaking after the service, the Dean said: \"It was wonderful to see Her Majesty in such good spirits and good health.\n\n\"This is a moment where the Abbey does its job as the national place of worship. The story of the Unknown Warrior touches us all.\n\n\"It's very hard for all churches to shut their doors, it goes against everything we are ordained to do, which is to gather people together. Like so many communities, we're divided and that's difficult.\n\n\"It is very special for Her Majesty to do this, given the current restrictions. I know, because people tell me, that these moments when Her Majesty is in the Abbey gives us a sense of renewed purpose and encouragement. It makes us feel very privileged.\"\n\nThe Queen, who spent the first lockdown shielding at Windsor Castle, was advised against attending a service at the Abbey to mark the warrior's centenary on Armistice Day, next Wednesday, when the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will join the congregation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinutes after Joe Biden had been declared the next president of the United States, people in Washington, DC began to flood the streets.\n\nStreams of people - banging pans, honking horns, clutching signs - moved to the city's Black Lives Matter Plaza, swarming the barricaded border of the White House to celebrate.\n\nFor hours after the announcement, masked Biden supporters remained to cheer, dance and sing.\n\n\"Everyone is just joyous,\" said DC resident Andrew Jackson, dressed in a shirt covered with photos of Kamala Harris, now the vice-president-elect. \"Look at the atmosphere, it's crazy.\"\n\nThe collective jubilation makes sense here: 93% of voters in Washington this year cast their ballot for the Democratic ticket.\n\nJust beneath the excitement was palpable relief. Every person I spoke to mentioned the anxiety and stress of the past week, and now the exhale knowing that Mr Biden will be president.\n\n\"All the anxiety is gone,\" Mr Jackson said. \"The last four years it felt like we were just stuck under a dark cloud, but that cloud's been lifted.\"\n\nAs much as this relief is a response to the Democrats' win, it seemed to be just as much a reaction to the last four years of President Donald Trump - who still has two months left in office.\n\nFor every sign or t-shirt celebrating Mr Biden or Ms Harris, there was one directed at Mr Trump - mocking the current president and applauding his looming departure. And just as often as a voter would reference Mr Biden, they would mention Mr Trump, and what they described as his divisive, damaging agenda.\n\n\"Everybody's excited to see the back of Trump,\" said Margaret O'Gorman, 54. \"We are in a complete U-turn from where we were.\"\n\nRepairing that division has been an animating theme of Mr Biden's candidacy. He has vowed to be a president for all Americans, to restore the \"soul of America\" and fix the national discord he blames on Mr Trump.\n\nIt might be a tough sell for some 70 million Americans who cast their ballot for Mr Trump this year - roughly eight million more than sent him to the White House in 2016. But for those gathered outside the White House on Saturday, it is a welcome message.\n\nFor some in Washington DC the elation was unconfined\n\nBrandishing a \"Former Republicans for Biden\" sign, Ken Wright said he is confident that the next president will reach across the aisle, and embrace Republican voters. \"Biden is about compromise, Trump was not. I'm very optimistic that Biden's going to do what he's always done.\"\n\n\"I think this atmosphere proves that the country can ease now back into some regularity,\" said Vincent Moten, holding the hand of his partner, Derrick Petit. \"Now that we're here, the idea is what can we do to come together. Let's agree on some baseline stuff - I'm a human, so I should have the rights that you have and then start from there.\n\nFor Anisley Valdas, 32, the key to moving forward is to understand where Trump voters are coming from, \"why people feel angry, why people feel disenfranchised\".\n\nAnisley Valdas said she thinks Joe Biden will be a president for all Americans\n\n\"I think trying to understand people's pain and their suffering is a way to start to get us on the right track,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Cuba, America's political divides cut through her family. In this year's election, Ms Valdas voted for Mr Biden - splitting from her sister, cousins and the majority of Cuban immigrants in her hometown of Miami.\n\nMs Valdas said she was \"angry and disappointed\" that her own family had voted for a candidate who, she said, \"demonstrated such hatred and bigotry\", for people of colour. She hasn't spoken to her sister since learning the results, she said, after an argument this week about the election.\n\nWhen she does, she said, she will tell her that \"Biden is the president for everyone. You just don't know it yet.\"", "Pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its decision not to provide free school meals over the holidays in England.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs are opposing No 10's stance, as Labour threatens to push for another Commons vote and some 2,000 doctors call for a U-turn.\n\nIt comes as the PM faces calls to meet footballer Marcus Rashford to discuss his free school meals campaign.\n\nThe government has said it has increased welfare support.\n\nDowning Street has also highlighted tens of millions of pounds in funding for councils to help vulnerable families during the pandemic.\n\nBut there is increasing criticism from within Tory ranks over the government's decision to rule out extending meal vouchers for around 1.3 million vulnerable children in England to cover holidays.\n\nFormer Tory children's minister Tim Loughton, who did not support Labour's motion, said he would lobby ministers to reverse the decision for the Christmas break.\n\nAnd Tobias Ellwood, a former defence minister, said the free school meals scheme was \"well received\" and a \"simple and practical\" way of supporting families.\n\nJohnny Mercer, a defence minister, admitted on Twitter that the government had dealt with the issue \"poorly\".\n\nAnd more than 2,000 paediatricians who work with young people have signed a letter saying England should follow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in providing meals during the holidays.\n\nMarcus Rashford has led a viral social media campaign highlighting organisations providing food during half term\n\nMeanwhile, chairman of the education select committee Robert Halfon said a meeting would help ministers create a long-term strategy to combat child food hunger.\n\nLabour has said it will force a new Commons vote on the issue if the government does not change its position before the Christmas Commons recess.\n\nTulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children, said she was sorry the issue had \"become a political football\" but some Conservative MPs \"are realising this is principles before party\" and she appealed for more to stand against the government.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that, with some local councils agreeing to supply meal vouchers during the holidays, the issue had become \"a postcode lottery\" because not every council had \"stepped up\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Conservative MPs rejected Labour's Opposition Day motion to extend free school meals by 322 votes to 261, with five Tory MPs rebelling.\n\nOne of those rebels, Mr Halfon, called on Mr Johnson to meet Rashford, telling the BBC: \"It may be that they don't agree with everything that Marcus Rashford is proposing, but it would give us a chance to come up with a long-term plan to combat child food hunger once and for all.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Rashford, 22, tweeted to condemn the \"unacceptable\" abuse some MPs had received for voting against the motion.\n\nThe government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year.\n\nFollowing the Manchester United striker's campaign, it bowed to pressure to do the same throughout the summer holiday.\n\nBut this time it has refused to do so, saying it has given councils £63m for families facing financial difficulties due to pandemic restrictions, as well as increasing welfare support by £9.3bn.\n\nBusinesses have been offering to provide children with food during half-term\n\nThis puts it at odds with the other UK nations, which have all extended the policy beyond term time.\n\nHowever, hundreds of cafes, restaurants and some local councils have since pledged to help feed children facing hardship during the October half term - prompting Rashford to say he \"couldn't be more proud to call myself British\".\n\nRashford's petition on child food poverty was approaching 800,000 names on Sunday morning.\n\nMeanwhile, two Conservative MPs have said comments they made about the issue were \"taken out of context\" after their remarks were criticised.\n\nCommenting on a school in Mansfield, Ben Bradley said that \"one kid lives in a crack den, another in a brothel\". Another Twitter user responded, saying that \"£20 cash direct to a crack den and a brothel sounds like the way forward with this one\", to which Mr Bradley replied: \"That's what FSM [free school meal] vouchers in the summer effectively did...\"\n\nMr Bradley said the tweet, which has since been deleted, had been \"totally taken out of context\".\n\nSimilarly, Conservative MP, Selaine Saxby, used the same defence after writing in a since-deleted Facebook post that she hoped businesses who were giving away food for free \"will not be seeking any further government support\".\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The former chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has died aged 72 about a month after being diagnosed with cancer, a spokesman for his office has confirmed.\n\nHe died in the early hours of Saturday morning, the spokesman said.\n\nLord Sacks was a prolific writer and regularly contributed to radio and TV programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.\n\nHe is survived by his wife of 50 years, Elaine Taylor, their three children and several grandchildren.\n\nA statement from Lord Sacks' office on 15 October announced he had been \"recently diagnosed with cancer\" and was undergoing treatment.\n\nLord Sacks, an Orthodox Jew, was born in London on 8 March 1948.\n\nIn 1991 he became Britain's chief rabbi - the spiritual head of the largest grouping of Orthodox Jewish communities in the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Lord Sacks' death, adding: \"His leadership had a profound impact on our whole country and across the world.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also paid tribute, saying: \"He was a towering intellect whose eloquence, insights and kindness reached well beyond the Jewish community.\"\n\nMarie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, described Lord Sacks as a \"giant of both the Jewish community and wider society\".\n\n\"His outstanding tenure as chief rabbi led to a revolution in Jewish life and learning which has ensured his legacy will pass not just through his own beloved family, but through generations of our community's young people too,\" she said.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis hailed his predecessor as \"an extraordinary ambassador for Judaism\".\n\nA statement from the chief rabbi's office said on Saturday that Lord Sacks' \"remarkable legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of the countless people he inspired\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, praised Lord Sacks' religious devotion and leadership, as well as his \"deep commitment to interpersonal relationships\".\n\n\"You couldn't help but be swept up in his delight at living, his sense of humour, his kindness, and his desire to know, understand and value others,\" he said.\n\nController of BBC Radio 4 Mohit Bakaya said Lord Sacks was a \"man of great intellect, humanity and warmth\".\n\nHe added: \"He brought all of that to Radio 4 through some of the most erudite Thought for the Days as well as a landmark series on morality.\"\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (left) said Lord Sacks (centre) inspired \"countless people\", while the Prince of Wales (right) previously described him as a \"steadfast friend\"\n\nLord Sacks, who was made a crossbench life peer in 2009, often tried to find compromise between conservative and liberal factions of the British Jewish population.\n\nAt a tribute dinner held in May 2013 for the departing chief rabbi, the Prince of Wales said Lord Sacks was \"a steadfast friend\" and \"a valued adviser\" and praised his \"spiritual awareness and [his] comprehensively informed philosophical and historical perceptiveness\".\n\nLord Sacks was an outspoken critic of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn amid the row over anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nIn an interview with the New Statesman, Lord Sacks said comments Mr Corbyn made about British Zionists were the \"most offensive statement\" by a politician since Enoch Powell's \"Rivers of Blood\" speech, a comparison Labour said was \"absurd\".\n\nLast week, the Labour Party suspended Mr Corbyn over his reaction to a highly critical report on anti-Semitism.", "Princess Diana's brother has made new allegations about how the BBC gained his trust and access to his sister prior to her 1995 Panorama interview.\n\nNotes Charles Spencer says he made at the time of a meeting he held with Martin Bashir suggest the Panorama reporter made a number of false and defamatory claims about senior royals.\n\nThe BBC has promised an inquiry if new evidence is presented.\n\nBashir, 57, is seriously unwell and is unable to respond to the allegations.\n\nThis week, Earl Spencer called for a BBC inquiry over faked bank statements he says helped secure his sister's interview with Panorama.\n\nAlmost 23 million people tuned in to watch the programme.\n\nIn it, the princess famously said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to the Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\nAt the time, Princess Diana was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said the notes Earl Spencer says he made with Bashir two months before the interview, reported by the Daily Mail, are \"astonishing\".\n\nThey appear to record Bashir \"spinning lie after lie about members of the Royal Family, and its staff, in an attempt, Earl Spencer says, to win his trust and that of his sister, Diana\" our correspondent said.\n\nThese claims, described by the Mail as \"preposterous lies\", include that Diana's private correspondence was being opened, her car tracked and phones tapped.\n\nIt was also claimed that her bodyguard was plotting against her and close friends were betraying her by leaking stories to the press.\n\nThis week, Earl Spencer said he never would have introduced Bashir to his sister were it not for him seeing the faked bank statements.\n\nThe faked statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister, the Daily Mail said.\n\nEarl Spencer has yet to supply the BBC with any of the material he has this week given to a newspaper.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the faked statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nThe corporation has promised what it calls a \"robust inquiry\" with \"appropriate independence\".\n\nA source at the BBC said the \"appropriate independence\" referred to \"means an independent investigation\".\n\nThe BBC has said an investigation has been \"hampered at the moment\" by the fact that Bashir was \"seriously unwell\".\n\nBashir, currently BBC News religion editor, has been unwell with Covid-19 complications, the BBC said last month.\n\nThe Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997, aged 36, in a car crash in a Paris underpass.", "More than a million people have signed Marcus Rashford's petition calling for children from poor families in England to get free meals in school holidays.\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward wants the government to provide free lunches amid fears for incomes as coronavirus restrictions increase.\n\nHis Parliamentary petition says that \"no child should be going hungry\".\n\nThe government says it has already introduced more effective measures to support families.\n\nIt has ruled out extending free meals across England beyond term time - as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have done - saying it has given councils £63m for families facing financial difficulties due to pandemic restrictions, as well as increasing welfare support by £9.3bn.\n\nLast week, MPs rejected Labour's motion to extend the provision of free school meals, with five Conservative MPs rebelling.\n\nSome businesses are giving out free food to underprivileged children during half-term\n\nSince then, some Conservative and Labour councils have agreed to supply meal vouchers for pupils during half-term.\n\nSome have said they will fund this using cash from the £63m government hardship fund, others from within existing budgets.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes have also been among those to support the initiative.\n\nIf Parliamentary petitions get more than 100,000 signatures, the subject is considered for a House of Commons debate.\n\nRashford's petition calls for the government to implement three recommendations made by a government-commissioned review on food published in July last year:\n\nMeanwhile, a separate petition on campaigning website 38 Degrees calling for MPs to lose their ability to claim for food on expenses has nearly reached a million signatures.\n\nMPs can claim up to £25 for food and non-alcoholic drink for each night spent outside London or their constituency as part of their work.\n\nThe petition also calls for MPs to be charged \"market rates\" for food they consume at parliamentary catering outlets, which are run at a loss.\n\nIt was announced on Wednesday that Mr Rashford will receive the City of Manchester Award in honour of his campaigning.\n\nThe 22-year-old has already been made an MBE for his work on child poverty.\n\nThe UK government extended free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays this year and, after a campaign by Mr Rashford, repeated this during the summer break.\n\nBut, with England's schools having reopened fully in September, cabinet minister Brandon Lewis told the BBC at the weekend that it was now up to councils to use the welfare system so that money is \"targeted where it's needed most\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nAbout 10,000 people usually attend the annual National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in London. This year it will look very different because of the pandemic. Members of the Royal Family, the government and the armed forces will still attend and social distancing will be in force. However, for the first time it will be closed to the public. Meanwhile, it was revealed on Saturday that the Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday to mark the centenary of his burial. She was pictured wearing a face mask in public for the first time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time as she laid the wreath\n\nHospital chiefs in Greater Manchester say they are treating \"more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave\". They say non-urgent hospital surgery and appointments will not go ahead as planned, after coronavirus admissions there increased by 64 patients in a week. However, urgent and emergency care, such as cancer treatment, will continue.\n\nLiverpool's director of public health says the number of coronavirus testing sites in the city has doubled after \"really good interest\" in its mass testing scheme. Matthew Ashton says a total of up to 12,000 people were tested at six centres on Friday, as England's first trial of city-wide testing began. A further eight sites were brought in on Saturday, he says. Our health and science correspondent James Gallagher has considered whether mass testing can save us from another lockdown.\n\nLlanymynech is a village of two halves, straddling the border between England and Wales. It has meant that for two weeks, half of its residents were told to stay home, looking on as their English neighbours have enjoyed relative freedom. But now, England is in a second lockdown and Wales set to emerge from a two-week \"firebreak\". BBC News' Riyah Collins has spoken to people in the village about the situation.\n\nJohn Turner's pub will be the only one in Llanymynech that can open\n\nSince her first love died four years ago, female swan Mrs Newbie had rejected all potential mates. But during a chance visit to a swan sanctuary in Shepperton, the day before the UK went into national lockdown, she found love with a male swan called Wallace. The pair were taken back to Mrs Newbie's pond in Hampstead Heath, London, where love blossomed. Their tale is set to feature in a book.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The heartbroken swan that found love in lockdown\n\nWith England in lockdown, we take a look at which shops are allowed to open.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "US President-Elect Joe Biden has spoken of his wish to \"unify\" the United States, in his first speech since his election win.\n\nSome of those who voted for Joe Biden tell the BBC what their message would be to friends who supported Donald Trump.", "The knife-edge vote has been closely watched abroad\n\nAfter days of uncertainty, Joe Biden has won the US presidential election, BBC projections show.\n\nDuring Donald Trump's four years in office, America's relationship with the world changed profoundly.\n\nBBC reporters across the globe, from Beijing to Berlin, explain how news of Mr Biden's victory is being received and what it could mean for key US relationships.\n\nJoe Biden's victory offers another challenge for the Chinese system, writes John Sudworth in Beijing.\n\nYou might think Beijing would be glad to see the back of Donald Trump. As China-basher-in-chief he hit them with a trade war, levied a raft of punitive sanctions and badgered and blamed them for the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut some analysts have suggested that the Chinese leadership may now be feeling secretly disappointed. Not because they have any lasting fondness for Mr Trump, but because another four years of him in the White House held out the tantalising prospect of a bigger prize. Divisive at home, isolationist abroad - Mr Trump seemed to Beijing the very embodiment of the long-anticipated and hoped for decline in US power.\n\nIt was a message rammed home by the country's Communist Party-controlled TV news bulletins. They focused not on the election itself - but on the protests, rancour, and rising US virus infection rates alongside it.\n\nChina might, of course, try to find advantage in Joe Biden's willingness to seek co-operation on big issues like climate change. But he's also promised to work to repair America's alliances, which may prove to be far more effective in constraining China's superpower ambitions than Trump's go-it-alone approach.\n\nAnd a Biden victory offers another challenge for a Chinese system devoid of democratic control. Far from a decline in American values, the transition of power itself is proof that those values endure.\n\nKamala Harris's roots are a source of pride in India but Narendra Modi may get a more frigid reception from Mr Biden than his predecessor, Rajini Vaidyanathan writes from Delhi.\n\nIndia has long been an important partner to the US - and the overall direction of travel is unlikely to change under a Biden presidency.\n\nSouth Asia's most populous nation will remain a key ally in America's Indo-Pacific strategy to curtail the rise of China, and in fighting global terrorism.\n\nThat said, the personal chemistry between Mr Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be trickier to navigate. Mr Trump has held back from criticising Mr Modi's controversial domestic policies - which many say discriminate against the country's Muslims.\n\nMr Biden has been far more outspoken. His campaign website called for the restoration of rights for everyone in Kashmir, and criticised the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) - two laws which sparked mass protests.\n\nIncoming Vice-President Kamala Harris - half Indian herself - has also spoken out against some of the Hindu nationalist government's policies. But her Indian roots will spark mass celebration in much of the country. That the daughter of an Indian woman who was born and raised in the city of Chennai will soon be second-in-command at the White House is a moment of immense national pride.\n\nNorth Korea once described Mr Biden as a \"rabid dog\" - but now Kim Jong-un will be making careful calculations before trying to provoke the new US president, writes Laura Bicker in Seoul.\n\nIt's likely Chairman Kim would have preferred another four years of Donald Trump.\n\nThe leaders' unprecedented meeting and follow-ups made for incredible photo-ops for the history books but very little of substance was signed. Neither side got what they wanted out of these talks: North Korea has continued to build up its nuclear arsenal and the US has continued to enforce strict sanctions.\n\nIn contrast, Joe Biden has demanded North Korea show that it is willing to abandon its nuclear weapons programme before he holds any meetings with Kim Jong-un. Many analysts believe that unless Mr Biden's team initiates talks with Pyongyang very early on, the days of \"fire and fury\" may return.\n\nIt’s likely Chairman Kim would have preferred another four years of Donald Trump.\n\nMr Kim might want to get Washington's attention with a return to long-range missile tests, but he won't want to increase tensions to the point that the already impoverished state would be hit with even more sanctions.\n\nSouth Korea has already warned the North not to go down a provocative path. Seoul may have struggled to deal with Donald Trump at times - but President Moon is keen to put an end to the 70-year war on the Korean peninsula and he praised Mr Trump for having the \"courage\" to meet with Mr Kim. The South will closely watch for any sign that Mr Biden is willing to do the same.\n\nThe US and UK's \"special relationship\" may face a downgrade with Joe Biden at the helm, writes political correspondent Jessica Parker in London.\n\nThey won't be seen as natural allies: Joe Biden, the seasoned Democrat, and Boris Johnson, the bombastic Brexiteer.\n\nIn looking at how their future relationship might work, it's worth considering the past. Specifically that seminal year, 2016, when Donald Trump won the White House and the UK voted to leave the EU. Both Joe Biden and his boss at the time, Barack Obama, made no secret they preferred another outcome on Brexit.\n\nThe UK government's recent manoeuvres in relation to Brexit have not gone down well with key Democrats and the Irish lobby, including the US president-elect. Mr Biden said he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if elected - stating that any future US-UK trade deal would be contingent upon respecting the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nRemember how Donald Trump once called Boris Johnson \"Britain Trump\"? Well, Mr Biden seemingly agreed, once reportedly describing the UK prime minister as Mr Trump's \"physical and emotional clone\". So it's possible Joe Biden may initially be more eager to talk to Brussels, Berlin or Paris than love-bomb London. The \"special relationship\" could, feasibly, face a downgrade.\n\nHowever, the two men may yet find some common ground. The two countries they lead, after all, have long-standing and deep-running diplomatic ties - not least in the areas of security and intelligence.\n\nA more predictable administration may be the \"silver lining\" for Russia of Mr Biden's win, writes Steven Rosenberg in Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin has an acute sense of hearing. So when Joe Biden recently named Russia as \"the biggest threat\" to America, they heard that loud and clear in Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin also has a long memory. In 2011 Vice-President Biden reportedly said that if he were Mr Putin, he wouldn't run again for president: it would be bad for the country and for himself. President Putin won't have forgotten that.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Putin are not a match made in geo-political heaven. Moscow fears the Biden presidency will mean more pressure and more sanctions from Washington. With a Democrat in the White House, could it be payback time for Russia's alleged intervention in the 2016 US election?\n\nMoscow fears the Biden presidency will mean more pressure, more sanctions from Washington.\n\nOne Russian newspaper recently claimed that under Mr Trump, US-Russian relations had plunged \"to the seabed\". But it likened Mr Biden to a \"dredger\" who was going to \"dig even deeper\". Little wonder Moscow has that sinking feeling.\n\nBut for the Kremlin there could be a silver lining. Russian commentators predict a Biden administration will, at least, be more predictable than the Trump team. That might make it easier to reach agreement on pressing issues, like New Start - the crucial US-Russian nuclear arms reduction treaty due to expire next February.\n\nMoscow will want to move on from the Trump era and try to build a working relationship with the new White House. There's no guarantee of success.\n\nGermans hope for a return to smooth-sailing with their key ally once Donald Trump has departed, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nGermany will breathe a sigh of relief at this result.\n\nOnly 10% of Germans trust President Trump on foreign policy, according to the Pew Research Centre. He is more unpopular in Germany than in any other country surveyed. Even Russia's Putin and China's Xi Jinping poll better in Germany.\n\nPresident Trump is accused of undermining free trade and dismantling the multinational institutions which Germany relies on economically. His spats with China have rattled German exporters and he has a notoriously poor relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel — it's hard to imagine two leaders more different in ethos and personality. German politicians and voters have been shocked by his abrasive style, his unconventional approach to facts and his frequent attacks on Germany's car industry.\n\nThe transatlantic relationship is critical for European security\n\nDespite this, the US is Germany's biggest trading partner and the transatlantic relationship is critical for European security. So the Trump presidency has been a rocky ride. German ministers have criticised President Trump's calls for vote-counting to stop and his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer called the situation \"explosive\".\n\nThere is an awareness here that major policy differences between Washington and Berlin will not go away under a Biden presidency. But Berlin is looking forward to working with a president who values multilateral co-operation.\n\nA Biden victory could bring Tehran back to the negotiating table, writes BBC Persian Service correspondent Kasra Naji.\n\nIn the weeks before the US election, President Trump said rather optimistically that once re-elected the first telephone call he received would be from Iran's leaders asking to negotiate.\n\nThat phone call to Mr Trump - if he had won - was never going to happen. Negotiating with the Trump administration would have been impossible for Iran; it would be too humiliating.\n\nUnder President Trump, US sanctions and a policy of maximum pressure have left Iran reeling on the edge of economic collapse. Mr Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal. Worse still, he ordered the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, a close friend of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Taking revenge for his killing remains near the top of the agenda for hardliners.\n\nNegotiating with a Trump administration would have been impossible; it would be too humiliating.\n\nThe election of Joe Biden makes entering negotiations with a US administration far easier for Iran. President-Elect Biden does not have the same baggage. He has said he wants to use diplomacy and return to the nuclear deal with Iran.\n\nBut Iran's hardliners will not come to the table easily. As Americans went to the polls on 3 November, the Supreme Leader claimed the election would have \"no effect\" on Tehran's policies. \"Iran followed a sensible and calculated policy which cannot be affected by changes of personalities in Washington,\" he said.\n\nMillions of Iranians thought differently as they quietly watched the US election unfold on their illegal satellite TV screens, convinced their futures depended on the results and hoping a Biden victory would see sanctions eased.\n\nThere are expectations of a reset of much of Donald Trump's Middle East policy, writes Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nPresident Trump supercharged the two poles of the Middle East. He sought to reward and consolidate America's traditional regional allies, while isolating its adversaries in Tehran.\n\nPresident-elect Biden will try to rewire US Middle East policy back to the way he left it as Vice-President under Barack Obama: Easing Mr Trump's \"maximum pressure\" campaign on Iran and aiming to re-join the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the White House two years ago.\n\nThat prospect horrifies Israel and Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE. One Israeli minister said in response to Mr Biden's likely win that the policy would end with \"a violent Israeli-Iranian confrontation, because we will be forced to act\".\n\nThe result also dramatically shifts the US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr Trump's plan was seen to heavily favour Israel and give it the chance to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. That was shelved in favour of historic deals to establish ties between Israel and several Arab states.\n\nThis drive to regional \"normalisation\" is likely to continue under Mr Biden, but he may try to slow controversial US weapons sales to the Gulf and would likely seek more Israeli concessions. Annexation now seems definitively off the table and Mr Biden will also object to further Israeli settlement building.\n\nBut there won't be the \"complete U-turn\" that one Palestinian official demanded this week. The rhetoric will return to the traditional understanding of a \"two-state solution\", but the chances of making much progress in the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process look slim.\n\nHopes are high among activists that the Biden administration will increase pressure on Egypt over human rights, writes Sally Nabil in Cairo.\n\nEgypt's military-backed President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi enjoyed a very good relationship with Donald Trump. It would have been better for him to keep a friend in the White House, but now he will have to start a fresh chapter with Joe Biden.\n\nCritics of President Sisi accused the Trump administration of turning a blind eye to his alleged human rights abuses. Egypt receives $1.3bn in US military aid per year. In 2017, a small tranche of this aid was suspended over human rights concerns but was released the following year.\n\nJoe Biden winning the White House is seen as good news by many human rights groups here. Activists hope the new US administration will put pressure on the Egyptian government to change its heavy-handed policies toward the opposition - with tens of thousands of political prisoners reportedly in prison. The Egyptian authorities have always denied jailing any prisoners of conscience, challenging the credibility of critical human rights reports.\n\n\"US-Egyptian relations have always been strategic, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office,\" says Ahmed Sayyed Ahmed, a political analyst. \"Partnership will continue, but the Democrats' rhetoric about human rights might not be well received by some Egyptians, who see this as meddling in their country's affairs.\"\n\nAfter harsh sanctions, Joe Biden's victory brings relief, writes the BBC's Cuba Correspondent Will Grant.\n\nA Biden presidency is exactly what most Cubans have been hoping for. Indeed, the majority of people on the island would happily see almost anyone in the White House other than Donald Trump. His sanctions have brought real hardship and Cubans are exhausted after four years of unrelenting hostility.\n\nJoe Biden, on the other hand, revives memories of the recent highpoint in Cuban-US relations under President Obama. In fact, the former vice-president is said to have been instrumental in making the two years of detente possible.\n\nThe majority of people on the island would happily see almost anyone in the White House other than Donald Trump\n\nThe communist-run government in Havana will no doubt continue to say all US presidents are essentially cut from the same cloth. But among the people queuing for basic goods and struggling to make ends meet, the overriding feeling will nonetheless be one of great relief.\n\nThe only drawback from Cubans point of view? Mr Biden is now well aware of just how positively President Trump's harsh treatment of Cuba played to voters in the key election battleground of Florida. They fear he may be far less inclined to ease some of Mr Trump's measures than he otherwise might have been.\n\nJustin Trudeau will see an ally in his new neighbour, writes Jessica Murphy in Toronto.\n\nThe Canadian prime minister pledged to deepen ties with the US no matter who won the presidential election - but it's likely relief was felt in Ottawa when it became clear Democrat Joe Biden had clinched victory.\n\nCanada's relationship with the US has been rocky under President Trump, though not without its accomplishments. They include the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, along with Mexico.\n\nBut Justin Trudeau has made clear he felt a political kinship with former President Barack Obama - who endorsed him during the recent Canadian federal election. That feeling of warmth extends to the man who served as Mr Obama's vice-president - Joe Biden.\n\nIn Mr Biden, Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party will find an ally on issues like climate change and multilateralism. But that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for friction with his administration. President Trump authorised the construction of the Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project seen as key to Canada's struggling energy sector - but President-elect Biden opposes the project.\n\nAnd Joe Biden's \"Buy American\" economic plan to revive US industry after the coronavirus pandemic will be a concern given Canada's deep dependence on trade with the US.", "Alex Trebek, who had hosted Jeopardy! since 1984, had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer\n\nAlex Trebek, the long-time host of American television quiz show Jeopardy!, has died at the age of 80.\n\nMr Trebek announced he had been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer in March 2019.\n\nThe Jeopardy! Twitter account said on Sunday he had \"passed away peacefully at home\" surrounded by family and friends.\n\nMr Trebek had hosted Jeopardy! since 1984, and had received numerous awards and honours for his work.\n\nProducer of Jeopardy!, Sony Pictures, led tributes to the \"legend\", writing in a statement: \"For 37 amazing years, Alex Trebek was that comforting voice, that moment of escape and entertainment at the end of a long, hard day for millions of people around the world.\"\n\nKnown for his sharp wit and charisma, the Canadian-American presenter became the face of Jeopardy! during his three decades on the show, turning it into a ratings smash hit.\n\nHe fronted more than 8,200 episodes of the popular quiz show, making him among the most well-known people on television in the US and Canada.\n\nIn 2014 he set a Guinness World Record for \"most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeopardy! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Trebek had vowed to continue presenting Jeopardy! while receiving treatment including chemotherapy. He was contracted to host the show until 2022.\n\nIn a typically light-hearted tone, the presenter said in a video statement he had no choice but to beat the cancer because of his contractual obligations.\n\nHe was candid about his medical treatment, regularly updating fans on his condition.\n\n\"I am optimistic about my current plan, and thank them for their concerns,\" Mr Trebek said in a statement released by Jeopardy! In July.\n\nMr Trebek is survived by his second wife, Jean, and his children Matthew, Emily and Nicky.\n\nFormer Jeopardy! contestant Buzzy Cohen was among the first to pay tribute to the presenter.\n\n\"Absolutely heartbreaking to lose someone who meant so much to so many. Even if this show hadn't changed my life in so many ways, this loss would be immeasurable,\" Mr Cohen tweeted.\n\nIn another tweeted tribute, Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings said Mr Trebek was a \"deeply decent man\" as well as being \"the best ever at what he did\".\n\n\"I'm grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,\" Mr Jennings tweeted. \"Thinking today about his family and his Jeopardy! family — which, in a way, included millions of us.\"\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also praised Mr Trebek, whom he described as \"a proud Canadian and beloved TV star who was a familiar face to millions of people across North America and around the world\".\n\nNancy Sinatra tweeted: \"Part of our lives for decades, he taught us about so many things and now Alex Trebek has gone from us. Sending love to his family and friends. We will miss you, sir. Godspeed.\"\n\nActor Ryan Reynolds, a fellow Canadian, said he had enjoyed working with Trebek on a film in 2019.\n\n\"Alex Trebek was kind enough to film a cameo for our film Free Guy last year despite his battle,\" Reynolds tweeted. \"He was gracious and funny. In addition to being curious, stalwart, generous, reassuring and of course, Canadian. We love you, Alex. And always will.\"\n\nUS TV presenter Steve Harvey said his \"heart was so sad\" about Trebek's death, while Dr Phil said: \"Television has lost a true treasure and icon.\"", "China has successfully launched what has been described as \"the world's first 6G satellite\" into space to test the technology.\n\nIt went into orbit along with 12 other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province.\n\nThe telecoms industry is still several years away from agreeing on 6G's specifications, so it is not yet certain the tech being trialled will make it into the final standard.\n\nIt involves use of high-frequency terahertz waves to achieve data-transmission speeds many times faster than 5G is likely to be capable of.\n\nThe satellite also carries technology which will be used for crop disaster monitoring and forest fire prevention.", "Sir Mo Farah, Shane Richie and Victoria Derbyshire are among the stars heading to a Welsh castle to take part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!\n\nThe pandemic means they aren't going to the Australian jungle as usual - this year's series has been relocated to the ruined Gwrych Castle in Abergele.\n\nITV confirmed to the BBC that \"one member of the cast\" had tested positive for Covid-19 and was self-isolating.\n\nThe series will begin next Sunday, 15 November.\n\nSir Mo, Richie and Derbyshire will be joined by actress Beverley Callard, presenter Vernon Kay and former Strictly dancer AJ Pritchard.\n\nEastEnders actress Jessica Plummer, BBC Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold, and author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher will also be hoping to be crowned the first king or queen of the castle.\n\nA spokesman for ITV would not reveal the name of the contestant who had contracted the virus, but did stress on Monday that the show was in \"robust health\" and operating within the coronavirus guidelines.\n\nGwrych Castle in north Wales will host this year's I'm A Celebrity\n\nWhile they won't face the usual bush tucker trials, ITV has promised that the contestants can still look forward to \"a basic diet of rice and beans and plenty of thrills and surprises\".\n\nPreparations at the 19th Century castle have gone ahead despite the \"firebreak\" lockdown in Wales, which ended on Monday.\n\nThe 2019 launch show was ITV's most-watched programme of the year, seen by more than 13 million people.\n\nShe won her fourth consecutive javelin world title at the 2019 World Para-Athletics Championships a year ago, and won a gold medal at the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016. She was appointed an MBE in 2017, and was nominated for BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nBest known as Coronation Street's Liz McDonald, she began playing the ITV soap's leopard skin-loving landlady in 1989. In 2019, she announced that she was leaving the cobbles.\n\nThe BBC journalist won a Bafta for best TV news coverage in 2017, and won the Royal Television Society's network presenter of the year and interview of the year awards in 2018. But her self-titled BBC Two show was axed as part of BBC cuts earlier this year.\n\nWith four Olympic gold medals, he is Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete. But his participation in I'm A Celebrity... has raised questions about how the show will affect his preparation for the 10,000m at the rescheduled Tokyo Games next year.\n\nGiovanna Fletcher is an author, presenter and parenting guru, and the wife of McFly star Tom Fletcher. Her books include Happy Mum, Happy Baby: My Adventures in Motherhood, and she also presents The Baby Club at Home on CBeebies.\n\nKay is a former BBC Radio 1 and T4 presenter, as well as the ex-host of ITV shows including All Star Family Fortunes, Beat the Star and Splash! He is married to Tess Daly, co-presenter of I'm A Celebrity's ratings rival Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One.\n\nNorth hosts Radio 1's lunchtime show from Fridays to Sundays, as well as the podcast Help I Sexted My Boss, and previously presented 4Music's Trending Live. He started his broadcasting career as a researcher for fellow campmate Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nPlummer has just left EastEnders after starring as Chantelle Atkins, who was murdered by her abusive husband. Before that, Plummer was a member of girl group Neon Jungle, who had two UK top 10 hits in 2014.\n\nThe dancer joined Strictly in 2016 and was in the show's professional ranks for four years. But in March he announced he was leaving to \"follow his dreams to explore opportunities in the presenting world alongside his brother Curtis\".\n\nHe's been a game show host, West End actor and singer, but Richie is best known for playing the lovable and long-suffering Alfie Moon in EastEnders on and off between 2002 and 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was just speaking on the Senate floor. He defended President Trump's right to challenge the election results and not concede.\n\n\"No states have yet certified election results,\" he noted. This is true - states have until 8 December to certify their electors.\n\nMcConnell continued to say all legal ballots should count and the process must be \"transparent\".\n\n\"If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light and if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny,\" the majority leader added.\n\nExperts have long said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in postal voting.\n\n\"We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,\" McConnell said.\n\n\"The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president.\"\n\nOnly three Republican Senators have thus far acknowledged Biden's win. Republican President George W Bush has also congratulated Biden on his win.", "There was an atmosphere of jubilation in many US cities on Saturday, as media outlets projected victory for Joe Biden\n\nScenes of joy and disappointment have been seen across the US after Joe Biden was projected to win the presidential election, ending a nail-biting wait for results that left the world in suspense.\n\nSpontaneous celebrations erupted in major cities after media outlets announced Mr Biden's victory over President Donald Trump on Saturday.\n\nFrom New York to Los Angeles, news of the result was met with cheers, honking and dancing as supporters of Mr Biden flooded the streets.\n\nElsewhere, the mood was more sombre among Mr Trump's supporters, with some refusing to accept Mr Biden's projected victory.\n\nFor all Americans, the result was a moment of release after a bitterly contested election that took place in the shadow of a pandemic.\n\nMasks were worn widely in Washington DC, where hundreds of people gathered near the White House to celebrate outside a security fence erected before election day.\n\nThousands of people thronged the streets of Washington DC hours after the result was projected\n\nA banner saying \"You're fired\" - Mr Trump's catchphrase on his TV show the Apprentice - was seen outside the White House\n\nSome Americans seemed visibly emotional as they celebrated the result\n\nMusic blared, fireworks boomed, people embraced but Mr Trump, who was playing golf in Virginia when the result was declared, was far from the party, in spirit or person.\n\n\"I was on the bus and I jumped off the bus to come right down here to the White House,\" Washington resident Donna Thomas told Reuters news agency. \"It is something to celebrate. We have been waiting so long.\"\n\nCar horns were honked nationwide by drivers joining in the celebrations\n\nThe result brought joy to Biden supporters after a closely fought race\n\nWithin hours of the result, Black Lives Matter Plaza, the scene of many recent racial injustice protests in the capital, was thronged with thousands of people.\n\n\"I'm here to celebrate,\" Jack Nugent, a 24-year-old software engineer, told AFP news agency. \"I'm really happy with the outcome. It's been so many years waiting for this day to happen.\"\n\nMr Trump was playing golf in Virginia when the result was projected by media outlets\n\nTimes Square in New York City was packed with Biden supporters\n\nEnthusiasm for Mr Biden's victory reverberated through the streets of New York\n\nTimes Square in New York was equally packed, as the result breathed new life into the pandemic-stricken city.\n\n\"I feel like I've been holding my breath,\" Justin Oakley, a 30-year-old web developer, told the New York Times. \"We've been through so much, the city has been through so much this year, I've been to so many protests. But now it's like, ah, finally, something to celebrate.\"\n\nSome Democratic voters toasted the victory, popping champagne bottles near Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.\n\nThose outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, were no less jubilant. The streets were a sea of signs promoting the ticket of Mr Biden and his vice-presidential running mate, Kamala Harris.\n\nLocals expressed an outpouring of joy at Mr Biden, who lives in Wilmington, ascending to the highest office in the country.\n\nTension had been building for days as the results trickled in\n\nBiden-Harris signs were seen in abundance in Wilmington, Delaware\n\nPhiladelphia turned out to be a vital city for Mr Biden\n\n\"I'm happy, I wanted Trump out,\" Kristina Moncada, 31, told AFP. \"It's awesome because [Joe Biden] knows the area. He's just more relatable, he's a genuine guy. He means what he says and he'll keep his word.\"\n\nTriumphant, Mr Biden's supporters raised their fists to the sky in sunny Philadelphia, a Pennsylvanian city that proved crucial to the Democrat's victory.\n\nSupporters of Mr Trump have been holding protests over the counting of votes\n\nSome men were seen carrying guns at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania\n\nSome Trump supporters lambasted the media for projecting a win for Mr Biden\n\nNot all Americans were pleased with the numbers, however. Despite the projected result, some of Mr Trump's supporters were adamant that the Republican president was still in the race for the White House.\n\nMany repeated the president's unsubstantiated allegations of fraud.\n\nChants of \"This is not over\" and \"We will be here forever\" were heard on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How voters in the US responded to Joe Biden's defeat of Donald Trump in the US election\n\nSimilar sentiments were expressed in Phoenix, Arizona, where some Trump supporters shouted \"Trump won\" and \"We will win in court\", referring to the flurry of legal challenges the president has mounted against the results.\n\nSome protesters blamed the media for declaring Mr Biden the winner. \"The media is part of the coup,\" one protester shouted.\n\nTrump and his supporters have made allegations of vote fraud, without providing evidence\n\nLike President Trump, some Americans have made unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election\n\nThere were tense scenes in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Biden and Trump supporters argued on the streets\n\nOne Trump supporter, Jodi Lavoie-Carnes from Dover, New Hampshire said she was appalled by the tone of the celebrations thrown to mark Mr Biden's win. The 48-year-old said some Biden supporters had been waving inappropriate anti-Trump signs at a rally in her town.\n\n\"I'm like, are you serious?\" she told the New York Times. \"The language doesn't need to be there. My children need to drive by that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government is to spend more than £400m to support poor children and their families in England, following a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nA winter grant scheme, to be run by councils, will provide support with food and bills, and a holiday food and activities programme is to be expanded.\n\nRashford said it would improve the lives of almost 1.7 million children.\n\nThe move represents a climbdown for the government, which had said Universal Credit was the best way to help.\n\nFrom the package of support, a £170m ring-fenced fund will be distributed through councils, with at least 80% earmarked for help with food and bills.\n\nThis will receive funding from the beginning of December until the end of March.\n\nThe holiday food and activities programme will be expanded with a £220m investment to cover Easter, summer and Christmas in 2021.\n\nOn top of that, there will be a £16m cash boost for the nation's food banks.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson telephoned the Manchester United and England player on Saturday to tell him of the new plans.\n\nSpeaking after he took part in United's 3-1 Premier League win against Everton, Rashford said: \"Following the game today, I had a good conversation with the prime minister to better understand the proposed plan, and I very much welcome the steps that have been taken to combat child food poverty in the UK.\"\n\nRashford said he remained concerned about the children who would miss out on help \"because their family income isn't quite low enough\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"The intent the government have shown today is nothing but positive and they should be recognised for that.\n\n\"The steps made today will improve the lives of near 1.7 million children in the UK over the next 12 months, and that can only be celebrated.\"\n\nRashford also told the BBC Mr Johnson had agreed to speak with the footballer's child food poverty taskforce.\n\n\"I am fully committed to this cause, and I will fight for the rest of my life for it, because in my mind, no child should ever go hungry in the United Kingdom,\" the player said.\n\nSeeing the role everyone had played in supporting the most vulnerable children had been \"the greatest moment of my life,\" he added.\n\nRashford's campaign began in June, after the government insisted it would not provide vouchers over the summer holidays for the 1.3 million children in England who were receiving free school meals in term time.\n\nThe government had previously given this support during the first coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nRashford's campaign led to the government changing its policy to allow children to claim free meals during the summer holidays.\n\nThe footballer then called for free meals to be provided over the October half-term, with more than a million people signing a petition he set up.\n\nBut the government refused, saying enough support was being provided through the benefit system.\n\nLast month, it whipped Conservative MPs to vote against a Labour motion in the House of Commons that called for the extension of free school meal provision.\n\nThis prompted a number of local authorities to say they would continue offering free school meals throughout the week's holiday in spite of that.\n\nIn October, a Downing Street spokesman said it was \"not for schools to regularly provide food to pupils during the school holidays.\"\n\nThey added: \"We believe the best way to support families outside of term time is through Universal Credit rather than government subsidising meals.\"\n\nMarcus Rashford has prompted the government to act before.\n\nIt is the second time the prime minister has picked up the phone to the 23-year-old footballer, whose campaign has struck a chord with many, and left many Conservatives acknowledging privately for some time they would have to change tack.\n\nStrikingly, Rashford insists this isn't about politics, or criticising Boris Johnson, it's about helping poor families.\n\n\"We're not against him. That's the main reason I was happy to talk to him,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nBut what also stands out is he's moving onto the next strand of his campaign - arguing that more families should get help.\n\nGiven his success so far, don't bet against him pursuing this pretty doggedly in the months ahead.\n\nAnnouncing the support package, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the government knew it was a challenging time for many, and insisted it had consistently supported the lowest paid families by boosting welfare support.\n\n\"We want to make sure vulnerable people are cared for throughout this difficult time and, above all, no one should go hungry or be unable to pay their bills this winter,\" she added.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said Labour had been campaigning for such a change, adding: \"This should have been announced weeks ago to help the children at risk of going hungry over half term.\"\n\nShe added that ministers needed to bring forward a long-term plan to child poverty.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner Anne Longfield welcomed the move but called on ministers to \"go further\" with Universal Credit support by retaining a £20 increase.\n\n\"Hunger does not take a holiday when schools close and a long-term solution to the growing number of children in poverty is urgently needed,\" she said.\n\nAnna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, who also chairs the End Child Poverty Coalition, said Rashford deserved \"enormous credit for pushing the issue of poverty to the top of the public's agenda\", adding that the government should be acknowledged for \"listening\".\n\nJames Toop, chief executive, of food charity Bite Back 2030, said: \"It's great that Boris has listened to the voices of our young people who have been campaigning for meal provision through the holidays to be a priority through this crisis.\"\n\nLeora Cruddas, chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts, said the scheme was particularly welcome.\n\n\"Christmas will not be the same this year - and it is therefore even more important that we ensure that children have food and are kept warm.\"\n\nHead teachers also welcomed the scheme but questioned why it could not have been in place for October's half term.\n\nNick Brook, deputy general secretary of school leaders' union the NAHT, said while the expansion of the activities programme was a positive move, it \"falls short in addressing fully the issue of holiday hunger\".\n\nHe added: \"We would question whether provision of food to those going hungry should be dependent upon them attending an activity, which for a whole host of reasons might not be suitable, available or accessible for particular groups.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, said the winter grant would help them find the best way to help families and individuals most in need, but called on the government to \"adequately fund councils so they can provide wider long-term preventative support to all households who need it\".\n\nWhat is your reaction to the proposed support package? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are projected to win Pennsylvania, sealing their bid for the White House\n\nThe world is reacting to the projected victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the US presidential election.\n\nFor days, people around the world have been glued to the White House race.\n\nIt is not just the US that the election of a new president affects - a new leader in the White House can transform the country's foreign policy and its approach to its friends and foes alike. Here is how some of the world's leaders have reacted, and where they stand with the US.\n\n\"Congratulations Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Joe, we've had a long & warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel. I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel.\n\n\"Thank you Donald Trump for the friendship you have shown the state of Israel and me personally, for recognizing Jerusalem and the Golan, for standing up to Iran, for the historic peace accords and for bringing the American-Israeli alliance to unprecedented heights.\"\n\nUS policy in the Middle East shifted massively during Donald Trump's presidency. He heightened tensions with Iran while recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital and helped establish ties between Israel and several Arab states.\n\nMr Biden's suggestion he may rejoin the Iran nuclear deal will deeply concern Israeli policymakers. His likely objections to further Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank will also mark a shift from his predecessor.\n\n\"Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election... and to Kamala Harris on her historic achievement. The US is our most important ally and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security\"\n\nWith Brexit looming, the UK will soon have a very different transatlantic partner in Joe Biden. The UK currently trades with the US on terms set by the EU, but this will change on 1 January 2021 when the transition period ends - and the US and UK are trying to negotiate a new post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nMr Biden - who often speaks of his Irish background - has said said he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if elected.\n\nOne of the most complicated issues as the UK leaves the EU is the frontier between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which Mr Biden does not want to become a \"hard border\". Currently there are no passport or customs controls on the border, and politicians on all sides fear a return to checks which existed during the decades of deadly civil unrest in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.\n\n\"Congratulations Joe Biden on your spectacular victory! As the VP, your contribution to strengthening Indo-US relations was critical and invaluable. I look forward to working closely together once again...\n\n\"Heartiest congratulations Kamala Harris! Your success is path-breaking, and a matter of immense pride not just for your chittis [aunts], but also for all Indian-Americans. I am confident that the vibrant India-US ties will get even stronger with your support and leadership.\"\n\nKamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian biologist, and there have been celebrations in India after her victory. But both she and Mr Biden have criticised the Hindu nationalist policies of Mr Modi's government, something Donald Trump did not do during his time in office.\n\n\"Congratulating Mr Joseph Biden on his victory in the presidential elections in the United States of America.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia's reaction to Mr Biden's win has been rather delayed compared with other Arab nations.\n\nPresident Trump's Middle East policies and opposition to Iran boosted relations between Washington and Riyadh. However the two countries clashed over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.\n\n\"America will have its first female Vice President in the person of Kamala Harris, and we are proud that she bears Jamaican heritage.\n\n\"Her ascension to this role is a monumental accomplishment for women all over the world and I salute her.\"\n\nWhile Ms Harris's mother was Indian, her father is Jamaican by birth - sparking similar joy in the Caribbean country.\n\n\"Congratulations, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our two countries are close friends, partners, and allies. We share a relationship that's unique on the world stage. I'm really looking forward to working together and building on that with you both.\"\n\nMr Trudeau and Mr Trump did not have the smoothest relationship. The Canadian liberal leader had noticeably different politics to his US counterpart, and will likely have a warmer partnership with Mr Biden who shares his views on climate change and international affairs.\n\n\"Our transatlantic friendship is indispensable if we are to deal with the major challenges of our times\"\n\nDonald Trump is deeply unpopular in Germany. He and Chancellor Merkel clashed repeatedly on Nato funding, global diplomacy and even the coronavirus, in sharp contrast to Ms Merkel's close relationship with his predecessor Barack Obama. Issues like military spending will remain but the US will likely renew its ties with Germany under Mr Biden.\n\n\"The Americans have chosen their President... We have a lot to do to overcome today's challenges. Let's work together!\"\n\nMr Macron tried repeatedly to develop a good relationship with Mr Trump - including inviting him to the Bastille Day military parade in 2017 - but has more political similarities to Mr Biden, who like him favours international cooperation on climate change and diplomacy.\n\nJoe Biden met members of the Kearney clan at a Louth restaurant in 2016\n\n\"Joe Biden has been a true friend of this nation throughout his life and I look forward to working with him in the years ahead. I also look forward to welcoming him back home when the circumstances allow!\"\n\nThe president-elect can trace his roots back to County Mayo and County Louth. He has spoken many times about his pride in his heritage and frequently quotes the works of Irish poets.\n\nThe leader of Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy said Mr Biden's victory came at a \"time of uncertainty and fear in world affairs\".\n\n\"His election is a reminder that democracy is the best form of government because it offers the people the opportunity to change their government by peaceful means,\" Mr Buhari said.\n\nHe looked forward to greater co-operation with the US \"especially at economic, diplomatic and political levels, including the war against terrorism\", and he urged greater US engagement with Africa as a whole.\n\nDescribing Mr Biden as \"a friend to our country\", President Kenyatta said his election showed \"Americans' confidence in the leadership credentials of the former vice-president\".\n\nKamala Harris would be a role model who would \"help inspire and embolden millions of young girls across the world to chase and achieve their dreams of greatness and success\".\n\n\"I congratulate Joe Biden on his election as the next US President & Kamala Harris as Vice President. I know Joe Biden as a strong supporter of our Alliance & look forward to working closely with him. A strong NATO is good for both North America & Europe\"\n\n\"We don't want to be suckers anymore,\" Donald Trump once said of the Nato alliance. Throughout his presidency he demanded other members pay their fair share and even considered withdrawing the US. Joe Biden will support a return to defence co-operation, although US requests for greater contributions from allies will likely continue.\n\n\"Together, we have a planet to save from a Climate Emergency and a global economy to build back better from Covid-19.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need the USA at the helm of these multilateral efforts (and back in the Paris Agreement - ASAP!)\"\n\nThe Fijian leader congratulated Mr Biden before the White House race had even been called.\n\nThe reason why is best explained by the reference to \"a climate emergency\" - Fiji is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and while Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accords aimed at limiting global temperature rises, Joe Biden has vowed to bring the country back into the agreement on day one of his presidency.\n\n\"The situation in the US & what they themselves say about their elections is a spectacle! This is an example of the ugly face of liberal democracy in the US. Regardless of the outcome, one thing is absolutely clear, the definite political, civil, & moral decline of the US regime.\"\n\nBarack Obama's administration negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 while Mr Biden served as his vice-president. Mr Trump unilaterally abandoned the agreement, but Mr Biden has said he is considering rejoining it.", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has won the race to become US president, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election.\n\nThis was the moment of the BBC News announcement on TV.", "There has been a sharp rise in the number of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands\n\nMore than 1,600 African migrants have been rescued at sea or reached Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend, Spanish emergency services said.\n\nAbout 1,000 arrived on Saturday alone, setting out on about 20 barely seaworthy boats.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital by helicopter.\n\nThere has been a sharp increase in the number of migrants from West Africa attempting to reach the Canary Islands in recent months.\n\nThe island chain is just 100km (60 miles) off the coast of North Africa.\n\nAccording to the Spanish government, more than 11,000 arrivals have been recorded in the Canary Islands this year compared with 2,557 during the same period last year.\n\nA spokeswoman for Canary services told AFP news agency the migrants had arrived on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and El Hierro.\n\nThe body of one person who died during the perilous journey was recovered by rescuers on El Hierro, the spokeswoman said.\n\nImages taken from Arguineguin port in Gran Canarias this weekend show migrants queuing up to receive assistance.\n\nAccording to the Spanish government, more than 11,000 arrivals have been recorded in the Canary Islands this year\n\nLast month at least 140 migrants bound for Europe drowned after a boat carrying around 200 people sank off the coast of Senegal.\n\nThe boat caught fire and capsized shortly after leaving the town of Mbour, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.\n\nAbout 60 people were rescued, according to reports.\n\nIt is believed the migrants were attempting to reach mainland Europe via the Canary Islands.\n\nAt least 414 people are known to have died along this route so far this year according to the IOM. A total of 210 fatalities were recorded on the same stretch in the whole of 2019.", "The world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, has no plans for the permanent closure of any of its thousands of stores despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChief executive Alexander Lacik told the BBC he also intended to continue paying all staff in full.\n\nThe firm could \"withstand a big drop in sales\" before he would even start considering store closures, he said.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, 80% of the company's 2,700 stores around the world were closed.\n\nHowever, Pandora \"kept its staff on the payroll\". Even those among the 28,000 employees who were unable to work because stores were closed by government restrictions were paid in full.\n\nMr Lacik is proud of that and said that as well as this being \"a very good decision\" for the business, it was the \"ethical thing to do\" and the loyalty to staff was now being rewarded.\n\nHe said: \"Looking at how people have kind of returned that when stores reopen, I think it was a fantastic thing to do.\"\n\nThis month, he reckons 18% of the stores will be closed as a second wave of coronavirus sweeps across Europe. That is likely to hurt sales in the run-up to Christmas, which is traditionally one of the busiest times of the year.\n\nAlexander Lacik says his stores are \"incredibly profitable\"\n\nAs with many other companies, there has been a huge growth in online sales. They almost doubled, growing 89% in the three months to the end of September and accounting for 21% of the company's $648m (£493m) of sales.\n\nMr Lacik says that despite the huge growth in online, physical retail will \"continue being an important part of the industry at large\", because consumers want a \"seamless\" experience between the virtual world and the physical world.\n\nJust over a year ago, the company invested heavily in a big relaunch to allow customers a more hands-on experience in-store.\n\nThe stores are \"incredibly profitable\" and Mr Lacik said his company would not close any for good, because it was \"not an average retailer\".\n\nWhether they are buying rings, bracelets or earrings, Mr Lacik concedes that digital does not have all the answers. Customers \"want to see it, they want to touch it, they want to feel it\", he said.\n\nHowever, they increasingly have an initial look online, then go into a store for advice before making a purchase, either in-store or online.\n\n\"The most successful players now, they are good at integrating all of this,\" he said.\n\nOn average, Pandora says, it sells three pieces of jewellery a second. It is perhaps best known for its charm bracelets, which let customers choose different symbols to personalise their pieces. They are seen as critical to its profits, which started to fall a few years ago, but have improved after a turnaround plan was launched by Mr Lacik.\n\nFrans Hoyer, an analyst at Swedish bank Handelsbanken, said the company \"lost focus on its core products and its messaging to customers, which led sales to fall\". Pandora, however, was \"always profitable\".\n\nThis underlying strength, combined with fewer promotions and raising money from investors, meant the company could keep paying its staff during lockdowns, Mr Hoyer added.\n\n\"Keeping staff on the payroll so they were ready to go when stores reopened, and a continued spend on advertising when others weren't, has helped the jeweller through the pandemic.\"\n\nKnown for its charm bracelets, Pandora is the world's largest jeweller by production volume\n\nMr Lacik said recent collaborations with brands such as Harry Potter and Star Wars had definitely broadened the appeal of the jewellery, but were \"never going to be the core of Pandora\".\n\nHaving the option to dangle Darth Vader or R2-D2 from your wrist \"keeps the brand interesting and keeps it fresh\", he added.\n\nCelebrity tie-ups have also helped, but Mr Lacik said it was important these partnerships had authenticity, or customers would not be convinced to part with their cash.\n\nThe new face of Pandora is Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star Millie Bobbie Brown, who Mr Lacik says \"was a Pandora fan even before we started that collaboration\".\n\nIt doesn't hurt that she also has 31 million Instagram followers and is hugely influential amongst the young women who are Pandora's core market.\n\nAnalysts say these tie-ups have helped keep the company's finances healthy. In the first nine months of this year, sales are down only 2% on the same period a year ago, at almost $1.8bn.\n\nMr Lacik said: \"I could lose half the sales and I'd still be profitable in most of my stores.\"\n\nStore closures had a broader impact too, he said, adding: \"What we see, for instance, in places where we have closed down physical retail, my ecommerce retail also goes down. So it's a combination of the two. That seems to be the sweet spot, at least now.\"\n\nYou can watch Alexander Lacik's full interview on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst on BBC World News on Sunday at 16:30 GMT, Monday 07:30 GMT and 11:30 GMT and Tuesday at 11:30 GMT.\n• None LVMH and Tiffany make up over takeover dispute", "The UK has imposed a ban on non-UK citizens coming from Denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans.\n\nUK citizens can return from Denmark - but will have to isolate along with all members of their household for 14 days.\n\nCabin crew are also no longer exempt from the rules, which Ryanair described as a \"bizarre and baseless\" move.\n\nThe transport secretary announced the changes less than two hours before they took effect on Saturday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Grant Shapps said: \"This decision to act quickly follows on from health authorities in Denmark reporting widespread outbreaks of coronavirus in mink farms. Keeping the UK public safe remains our top priority.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a further 413 people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest daily figures from the government. It brings the overall UK death toll, by this measure, to 48,888.\n\nDenmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod called Mr Shapps' travel announcement a \"very drastic step\" and said he had discussed them with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday.\n\nMr Kofod said Danish health authorities were \"working closely\" with international health organisations to share information and \"reaching out\" to ensure any \"relevant knowledge\" is passed to UK officials.\n\nOfficials will contact anyone in the UK who has been in Denmark in the last fortnight to make sure they also self-isolate.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care estimates that between 300 and 500 people have arrived in the UK from Denmark in the last 14 days.\n\nDenmark had been taken off the UK coronavirus travel corridors list on Friday after it first became apparent the mutated form of coronavirus was present in the country. It meant any passengers arriving in the UK from Denmark would need to self-isolate after their arrival.\n\nThe latest rules, which took effect at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, ban foreign visitors who have been in or transited through Denmark and also expand the self-isolation requirements for returning Britons and residents to include all members of their households.\n\nThe changes also mean any cabin crew and pilots in Denmark are no longer exempt from quarantine rules, and must self-isolate along with the rest of their household for 14 days.\n\nCrew who were in Denmark before the deadline in the last seven days are not legally required to self-isolate, but the DfT is strongly recommending they do so.\n\nRyanair said the quarantine for cabin crew was \"bizarre and baseless\", in part because crew members \"never leave the aircraft during their 25-minute turnaround on the ground in Copenhagen airport\".\n\nIn a statement the airline said it had no choice but to cancel all flights to and from Denmark while the rules remain in place, and urged Mr Shapps to reverse the decision.\n\nScottish airline Loganair said that due to government restrictions it has suspended flights between Scotland and Denmark from 9 to 22 November.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the government told lorry drivers and freight handlers returning to the UK from Denmark that they must also self-isolate for two weeks. All direct passenger flights and ships carrying freight (as well as passengers) from Denmark have also been stopped.\n\nDenmark was the UK's 23rd largest export market in 2019, worth £6.8bn for goods and services.\n\nA mutated strain of coronavirus that has spread to humans has triggered culls of millions of mink across Denmark and a lockdown in some parts of the country.\n\nMore than 200 people have been infected with strains related to mink, according to reports.\n\nMink kept in large numbers on farms have caught the virus from infected workers. And, in a small number of cases, the virus has crossed back from mink to humans, picking up genetic changes on the way.\n\nMutations in some of the strains, which have infected a small number of people, are reported to involve the spike protein of the virus, which is targeted by some, but not all, vaccines being developed.\n\nThe coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates over time, but there is no evidence that any of the mutations pose an increased danger to people.\n\nThe World Health Organization has said it is too early to jump to conclusions.\n\nYou can read more from Helen here.\n\nThe Denmark travel ban and new requirements will be reviewed after a week, the DfT said.\n\nA DfT spokeswoman said the government was working closely with international partners to understand the changes in the virus that have been reported in Denmark and conducting a programme of further research in the UK \"to inform our risk assessments\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nMink-related mutations of the Covid have been detected in 200 people in Denmark, most of them are connected to farms in Denmark's North Jutland region.\n\nThe Danish authorities have described the situation as very serious - and have ordered the cull of all mink in the country - thought to number around 17 million.\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over the coronavirus mutation.\n\nLeaving home to go on holiday is currently banned for most people in the UK.\n\nIn England, where a new national lockdown came into force on Thursday, people are still allowed to travel overseas for work or education trips.\n\nWere you planning to travel from Denmark to the UK? Have you just returned to the UK? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is among politicians to have congratulated Joe Biden on his US election win.\n\nHe said he looked forward to \"working closely\" with the new president-elect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised Mr Biden's campaign of \"decency, integrity, compassion and strength\".\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid said Biden's win was \"good news\" for the UK in terms of closer co-operation on climate change, free trade and fighting the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Sky News' Ridge on Sunday that Mr Johnson's closeness to Donald Trump had been \"overstated\" and the Conservative government actually had more in common, in terms of policy, with his Democratic rival.\n\nVote counting continues after Tuesday's election, but the BBC projected on Saturday that Mr Biden has surpassed 270 electoral college votes - the threshold required to win.\n\nDonald Trump's campaign has indicated the incumbent president does not plan to concede.\n\nMr Johnson said in a statement on Twitter on Saturday: \"The US is our important ally and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who has yet to meet Mr Biden, also congratulated the president-elect's running mate, Kamala Harris, on \"her historic achievement\". She will be the country's first female vice-president.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said Mr Trump had \"fought hard\" but that he was looking forward to working with the new administration.\n\n\"The UK-US friendship has always been a force for good in the world,\" he added.\n\nThey won't be seen as natural allies: Joe Biden, the seasoned Democrat, and Boris Johnson, the enthusiastic Brexiteer.\n\nIn looking at how their future relationship might work, it's worth considering the past. Specifically that seminal year, 2016, when Donald Trump won the White House and the UK voted to leave the EU. Both Mr Biden and his boss at the time, Barack Obama, made no secret they preferred another outcome on Brexit.\n\nThe UK government's recent manoeuvres in relation to Brexit have not gone down well with key Democrats and the Irish lobby, including the US president-elect. Mr Biden said he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if elected - stating that any future US-UK trade deal would be contingent upon respecting the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe \"special relationship\" could, feasibly, face a downgrade. However, the two men may yet find some common ground.\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said the result was \"a great victory for social justice, climate action and democracy\".\n\nFirst Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon also shared her congratulations, while SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the win \"gives great hope to progressives here in Scotland and around the world\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford tweeted that he was looking forward to working with Mr Biden \"to build on the strong links between Wales and USA\".\n\nThe UK is currently in trade talks with both the US and the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Biden warned that he would not accept any agreement that imperilled the Good Friday Agreement and peace in Northern Ireland. While vice-president, he signalled his opposition to Brexit.\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry told Sky News that it would \"very difficult but not impossible\" for a government led by staunch Brexiteer Mr Johnson to develop a close relationship with the president-elect.\n\nJoe Biden visited the UK as vice-president in 2013, when David Cameron was prime minister\n\nShe told Ridge on Sunday the UK's primary focus must be on completing an agreement with the EU.\n\n\"The reality is getting an all-singing, all-dancing trade deal is something that takes many years and is quite complex,\" she said.\n\n\"Let's make sure we have a proper deal with the EU...and that we are not undermining the Good Friday Agreement and then we could move to work with the US in other areas where we could increase trade.\"\n\nThe BBC's projection of Mr Biden's victory is based on the unofficial results from states that have already finished counting their votes, and the expected results from states like Wisconsin where the count is continuing.\n\nMr Biden has won more than 73 million votes so far, the most ever for a US presidential candidate. Mr Trump has drawn almost 70 million, the second-highest tally in history.", "A new set of stamps features the artwork of Alfred Bestall, who wrote and illustrated more than 270 Rupert stories\n\nA little bear is celebrating a very big birthday: Rupert has turned 100. To commemorate the milestone, the anthropomorphic adventurer has been honoured by the Royal Mail in a set of eight stamps.\n\nRupert first appeared in the Daily Express on 8 November 1920, as Little Lost Bear - the work of illustrator Mary Tourtel.\n\nThe character, whose famous red jumper was originally blue, was part of the newspaper's push to attract new readers.\n\nAlfred Bestall took over from Tourtel in 1935 as Rupert's illustrator, remaining with him until the early 1970s, and it's his distinctive style that appears in the new stamps.\n\nBut a century on from his first appearance, can Rupert stay relevant to young readers?\n\nIan Dodds remembers Rupert from his childhood but his son Charlie isn't familiar with the bear\n\nAt Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle, an imaginative world of colourful characters has been brought to life but there's little sign of the scarf-wearing bear.\n\n\"Charlie? Would you like a Rupert the Bear teddy for Christmas?\" Ian Dodds asks his three-year-old son, who beams \"Yes!\" when he's shown a picture.\n\nIan, from Tynemouth, remembers the character fondly from his childhood, but the bear is not a familiar figure to his son.\n\n\"I think there are old characters who have been modernised; Charlie loves Thomas the Tank Engine, even Bob the Builder, so I think if they modernised him he would be well into him,\" he says.\n\nRupert lives in the village of Nutwood and originally had a blue jumper\n\nNicholas Tucker, former senior lecturer in children's literature at Sussex University, believes Rupert's popularity was about being able to get into children's imaginations.\n\n\"With Rupert you can fly in a plane, you can look at the roots of tree and suddenly find a passage down to another world entirely, and you get back in the evening,\" he says.\n\n\"He's never in too much danger and although there are some malign figures, Rupert is a good person and nobody ever gets too angry with him.\"\n\nThe 2021 Rupert annual celebrates the character's centenary with a new adventure about his birthday\n\nThe Rupert Bear Annual has been published ahead of Christmas every year since 1936. Rare copies have fetched more than £20,000.\n\nStuart Trotter can still remember receiving his first copy as a four-year-old. He coloured in a picture for a competition but changed his mind about sending it off as he didn't want to tear the page out.\n\nSix decades later and he's just as meticulous over Rupert - this time as the annual's illustrator.\n\nStuart Trotter is an established illustrator who has also worked on Postman Pat and Kipper the Dog\n\nStuart, from County Durham, has illustrated the annual's cover and created a story for it since 2008. It's a process that can take up to six months.\n\n\"I lived in Ferryhill, it was a mining town, everything was very black and white - the TV was black and white, the newspaper was black and white, and then on Christmas Day I got my first annual and there was this amazing blaze of colour and imaginative stories, and I was just hooked from then on,\" says Stuart, who has also illustrated Postman Pat and Kipper the Dog.\n\nThe picture Stuart coloured in as a four-year-old when he received his first Rupert annual on Christmas Day\n\n\"I never drew him when I was a kid, I just used to like reading the stories. And the opportunity came later on in life and I took it,\" he says.\n\nStuart says he would like to continue to draw Rupert until he can \"draw no more\".\n\n\"I'm not in a job where you retire. I work very long hours and enjoy it; it's never a chore,\" he adds.\n\n\"The Rupert I remember was illustrated by Alfred Bestall. I just loved his style of artwork and Rupert is an iconic character; he's very much in his time, and so there's no mobile phones, there are no computers - I did introduce a television in one story, but it was a Bakelite television.\n\n\"I like to keep him in that era as it's an era I remember fondly and I just don't think he should be modernised - I think he should stay in that period.\"\n\nRupert's story is told through a series of panels, which along with a front cover, can take six months to create\n\nGill Rennie, curator at Seven Stories, believes there still is a place for Rupert, despite today's hi-tech world being a far cry from the quaintness of Nutwood.\n\n\"The world he lives in is like a nostalgic adventuring world but it's probably not the most accessible for children getting into reading today,\" she says.\n\n\"The annuals are a big thing in British Christmas culture, and it's lovely that Rupert has been kept alive in that way. That goes back to classic children's book characters or children's cartoon characters; they become part of culture, whether or not you have read every story.\"\n\nShe said although most people knew who Alice from Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was, few would have read the whole of the Lewis Carroll book.\n\n\"That doesn't really matter because she lives on and she can be adapted and that's good, that's creative, and I think that's the same for Rupert,\" Ms Rennie adds.\n\nRupert, with his familiar checked trousers, first appeared in the Daily Express on 8 November 1920\n\nRupert and his friends did receive a makeover more than a decade ago when they appeared in a new series on Channel 5, aimed at younger children.\n\nSo are his older fans worried about the latest version of their beloved bear?\n\nThe Followers of Rupert, who meet every year, are very protective of the character\n\n\"We have an open mind as long as it keeps the original ethos,\" says John Swan, chairman of the Followers of Rupert, which has about 600 members.\n\nThe society was formed in 1984 and takes its name from the slogan: \"Follow Rupert every day in the Daily Express\". Illustrator Bestall even attended the society's first meeting.\n\nThe group meets each year, although the long-awaited centenary event has had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"Many of the fans appreciate the artwork, the illustrations, and we talk about that,\" says John, who lives in Whitley Bay.\n\n\"We don't all wear yellow trousers,\" he explains. \"Although someone might for a laugh.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thames Valley Police said they would remain in the area where the boy died for some time\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another teenager in Milton Keynes.\n\nA 17-year-old boy died after he was found with chest injuries in Kenwood Gate, in the Springfield area.\n\nThames Valley Police were called to reports of an altercation in nearby Tyburn Avenue at about 18:40 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe arrested teenager, who is from Milton Keynes, remains in police custody.\n\nA large police presence would remain in the area for some time while officers conducted door-to-door inquiries, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Blaik said: \"I would encourage anyone who has information about what may have happened to please come forward, as well as those who may have been in this area between 18:25 and 18:50.\"\n\nHe also asked people with dashcams and CCTV to check footage and contact police if anything had been captured which could be connected to the case.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as a running mate, helped keep centrist voters on-side\n\nAfter nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House.\n\nIt was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic and unprecedented social unrest. He was running against an unconventional, precedent-defying incumbent. But in his third try for the presidency, Biden and his team found a way to navigate the political obstacles and claim a victory that, while narrow in the electoral college tally, is projected to surpass Trump's overall national total by millions of votes.\n\nThese are the five reasons the son of a car salesman from Delaware finally won the presidency.\n\nPerhaps the biggest reason Biden won the presidency was something entirely out of his control.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, as well as claiming more than 230,000 lives, also transformed American life and politics in 2020. And in the final days of the general election campaign, Donald Trump himself seemed to acknowledge this.\n\n\"With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,\" the president said at a rally last week in Wisconsin, where cases have spiked in recent days.\n\nThe media focus on Covid, however, was a reflection rather than a driver of the public's concern about the pandemic - which translated into unfavourable polling on the president's handling of the crisis. A poll last month by Pew Research, suggested Biden held a 17 percentage point lead over Trump when it came to confidence about their handling of the Covid outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How much is Covid-19 an election issue?\n\nThe pandemic and the subsequent economic decline knocked Trump off his preferred campaign message of growth and prosperity. It also highlighted concerns that many Americans had about his presidency, over its occasional lack of focus, penchant for questioning science, haphazard handling of policies large and small, and prioritisation of the partisan. The pandemic was a lead weight on Trump's approval ratings, which, according to Gallup, dipped to 38% at one point in the summer - one that the Biden campaign exploited.\n\nOver the course of his political career, Biden established a well-earned reputation for talking himself into trouble. His propensity for gaffes derailed his first presidential campaign in 1987, and helped ensure that he never had much of a shot when he ran again in 2007.\n\nIn his third try for the Oval Office, Biden still had his share of verbal stumbles, but they were sufficiently infrequent that they never became more than a short-term issue.\n\nPart of the explanation for this, of course, is that the president himself was an unrelenting source of news cycle churn. Another factor was that there were bigger stories - the coronavirus pandemic, protests after the death of George Floyd and economic disruption - dominating national attention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tale of two rallies: Trump and Biden stage duelling events in Florida\n\nBut at least some credit should be given to a concerted strategy by the Biden campaign to limit their candidate's exposure, keeping a measured pace in the campaign, and minimising the chances that fatigue or carelessness could create problems.\n\nPerhaps in a normal election, when most Americans weren't worried about limiting their own exposure to a virus, this strategy would have backfired. Maybe then Trump's derisive \"hidin' Biden\" jabs would have taken their toll.\n\nThe campaign sought to stay out of the way and let Trump be the one whose mouth betrayed him - and, in the end, it paid off.\n\nThe week before election day, the Biden campaign unveiled its final television adverts with a message that was remarkably similar to the one offered in his campaign kickoff last year, and his nomination acceptance speech in August.\n\nThe election was a \"battle for the soul of America\", he said, and a chance for the national to put what he characterised as the divisiveness and chaos of the past four years behind it.\n\nThe election became a referendum on Trump\n\nBeneath that slogan, however, was a simple calculation. Biden bet his political fortunes on the contention that Trump was too polarising and too inflammatory, and what the American people wanted was calmer, steadier leadership.\n\n\"I'm just exhausted by Trump's attitude as a person,\" says Thierry Adams, a native of France who after 18 years living in Florida cast his first vote in a presidential election in Miami last week.\n\nDemocrats succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump, not a binary choice between the two candidates.\n\nBiden's winning message was simply that he was \"not Trump\". A common refrain from Democrats was that a Biden victory meant Americans could go for weeks without thinking about politics. It was meant as a joke, but it contained a kernel of truth.\n\nDuring the campaign to be the Democratic candidate, Biden's competition came from his left, with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who ran well-financed and organised campaigns that generated rock-concert sized crowds.\n\nDespite this pressure from his liberal flank, Biden stuck with a centrist strategy, refusing to back universal government-run healthcare, free college education, or a wealth tax. This allowed him maximise his appeal to moderates and disaffected Republicans during the general election campaign.\n\nThis strategy was reflected in Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate when he could have opted for someone with stronger support from the party's left wing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden was not first choice for most young Democrats, but he listened to their priorities\n\nThe one place where Biden moved closer to Sanders and Warren was on the environment and climate-change - perhaps calculating that the benefits of appealing to younger voters for whom the issue is a priority was worth the risk of alienating voters in energy-dependent swing-state industries. It was the exception, however, that proved the rule.\n\n\"It's no secret that we've been critical of Vice-President's Biden's plans and commitments in the past,\" said Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the environmental activist group the Sunrise Movement in July. \"He's responded to many of those criticisms: dramatically increasing the scale and urgency of investments, filling in details on how he'd achieve environmental justice and create good union jobs, and promising immediate action.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Biden's campaign coffers were running on empty. He entered the general election campaign at a decided disadvantage to Trump, who had spent virtually his entire presidency amassing a campaign war chest that approached a billion dollars.\n\nFrom April onward, however, the Biden campaign transformed itself into a fundraising juggernaut, and - in part because of profligacy on the part of the Trump campaign - ended up in a much stronger financial position than his opponent. At the beginning of October, the Biden campaign had $144m more cash on hand than the Trump operation, allowing it to bury the Republicans in a torrent of television advertising in almost every key battleground state.\n\nA Biden supporter in Texas, where a cash advantage enabled him to spend campaign money\n\nMoney isn't everything, of course. Four years ago, the Clinton campaign had a sizeable monetary lead over Trump's shoestring operation.\n\nBut in 2020, when in-person campaigning was curtailed by coronavirus and Americans across the country spent considerably more time consuming media in their homes, Biden's cash advantage let him reach voters and push his message out until the very end. It allowed him to expand the electoral map, putting money into what once seemed to be longshot states like Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. Most of those bets didn't pay off, but he put Trump on the defence, flipping what was once reliably conservative Arizona and staying highly competitive in Georgia.\n\nMoney gives a campaign options and initiative - and Biden put his advantage to good use.", "Let the 2020 election bury the mistaken notion once and for all that the 2016 election was a historical accident, an American aberration.\n\nDonald Trump won more than 70 million votes, the second highest total in American history. Nationally, he has more than a 47% share of his vote, and looks to have won 24 states, including his beloved Florida and Texas.\n\nHe has an extraordinary hold over large swathes of this country, a visceral connection that among thousands of supporters has brought a near cult-like devotion. After four years in the White House, his supporters studied the fine print of his presidency and clicked enthusiastically on the terms and conditions.\n\nAny analysis of his political weakness in 2020 also has to acknowledge his political strength. However, he was defeated, becoming one of only four incumbents in the modern era not to get another four years. Also he has become the first president to lose the popular vote in consecutive elections.\n\nDonald Trump won the presidency in 2016 partly because he was a norm-busting political outsider who was prepared to say what had previously been unsayable.\n\nBut Donald Trump also lost the presidency in 2020 partly because he was a norm-busting political outsider who was prepared to say what had previously been unsayable.\n\nThough much of the Trump base might well have voted for him if he had shot someone on Fifth Avenue, his infamous boast from four years ago, others who supported him four years ago were put off by his aggressive behaviour.\n\nMany found the manner in which he defied so many norms off-putting and often offensive\n\nThis was especially true in the suburbs. Joe Biden improved on Hillary Clinton's performance in 373 suburban counties, helping him claw back the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and enabling him to gain Georgia and Arizona. Donald Trump has a particular problem with suburban women.\n\nWe witnessed again in the 2020 presidential election what we had seen in the 2018 mid-term election - more highly-educated Republicans, some of whom had voted for Trump four years ago prepared to give him a chance, thought his presidency was too unpresidential. Though they understood he would be unconventional, many found the manner in which he defied so many customs and behavioural norms off-putting and often offensive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How US networks reported the Biden win\n\nThey were put off by his aggressiveness. His stoking of racial tensions. His use of racist language in tweets maligning people of colour. His failure, on occasions, to adequately condemn white supremacy. His trashing of America's traditional allies and his admiration for authoritarian strongmen, such as Vladimir Putin.\n\nHis strange boasts about being \"a very stable genius\" and the like. His promotion of conspiracy theories. His use of a lingua franca that sometimes made him sound more like a crime boss, such as when he described his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, as \"a rat\".\n\nThen there was what critics derided as his creeping authoritarianism, seen after the election in his refusal to accept the result.\n\nA telling moment for me during this campaign came in Pittsburgh, when I chatted with Chuck Howenstein on the stoop of his terraced home. A Trump supporter in 2016, he voted for Joe Biden.\n\n\"People are tired,\" he told me. \"They want to see normalcy back in this country. They want to see decency. They want to see this hatred stop. They want to see this country united. And that together is going to bring Joe Biden the presidency.\"\n\nA political problem for Trump was that he failed to expand his support beyond his core Trump base. Nor did he try hard to do so. In 2016, he won 30 states and often governed as if he was the president solely of conservative, red America. The most deliberately divisive president of the past 100 years, he made little attempt to woo blue America, the 20 states that voted for Hillary Clinton.\n\nAfter four exhausting years, many voters simply wanted a presidency they could have on in the background - an occupant of the White House who would behave in a more conventional manner. They had tired of the infantile name-calling, the ugly language and the ceaseless confrontation. They wanted a return to some kind of normalcy.\n\nBut the 2020 election was not a re-run of the 2016 election. This time he was the incumbent, not the insurgent. He had a record to defend, including his mishandling of a coronavirus outbreak which by Election Day had killed more than 230,000 Americans. In this age of negative partisanship, where politics is often driven by loathing of the opposition, he was not pitted against a hate figure like Hillary Clinton.\n\nJoe Biden was hard to demonise, which is partly why the Democratic establishment was so keen to have him as its presidential nominee. This 77-year-old centrist also did the job he was hired to do, which was to claw back white working class voters in the Rust Belt.\n\nThe question of why Trump lost the presidency turns also on a more interesting and arguable question - when did he lose the presidency?\n\nBy sundown of his first full day, it was clear Trump would seek to change the presidency, more than the presidency would change him\n\nWas it in the immediate aftermath of his victory in 2016, when people who had voted for Trump partly as a protest vote against the Washington political establishment instantly had misgivings? After all, many of those voters never expected him to win.\n\nWas it in the first 24 hours of his presidency, when he delivered his \"American Carnage\" inaugural address - which portrayed the country as a near dystopia of shuttered factories, left-behind workers and wealth \"ripped\" from middle class homes - before he ranted about the crowd size and vowed to continue using Twitter? By sundown of his first full day in charge, it had become clear that Donald Trump would seek to change the presidency more than the presidency changed him.\n\nWas it more cumulative, the snowball effect of so many scandals, so many slurs, so much staff turn-over, and so much chaos?\n\nOr was it as a result of the coronavirus, the biggest crisis that engulfed his presidency? Before the virus arrived on these shores, Trump's political vital signs were strong. He had survived his impeachment trial. His approval ratings matched the highest level it had been - 49%. He could boast a strong economy and the advantage of incumbency: the twin factors that usually secure a sitting president a second term. Often presidential elections turn on a simple question: is the country better off now than it was four years ago? After Covid hit, and the economic crisis that followed, it became almost impossible to make that case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nBut it is wrong to say that the Trump presidency was inevitably doomed by the coronavirus. Presidents often emerge from national convulsions stronger. Crises can often bring out greatness. That was true for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose rescuing of America from the Great Depression made him politically unassailable. George W Bush's initial response to the attacks of September 11th also boosted his popularity, and helped him win a second term. So it was by no means preordained that Covid would finish Donald Trump. It was his botched handling of the crisis that contributed to his fall.\n\nStill, again it is worth remembering that Donald Trump remained politically viable up until the end, despite the country experiencing its worst public health crisis in more than a 100 years, its biggest economic crisis since the 1930s and also its most widespread racial turbulence since the late 1960s.\n\nMuch of red America, and much of a conservative movement he came to dominate, will yearn for his return. He will continue to be the dominant figure in the conservative movement for years to come. Trumpism could end up having the same transformative effect on American conservatism as Reaganism.\n\nThe outgoing president will remain a deeply polarizing figure, and could run again in 2024. These disunited states have not suddenly become united again, not least because so many Americans will harbour such different emotions about Trump, ranging from devotion to abject hate.\n\nThe country surely has not heard or seen the last of the most unorthodox president in its history.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Socially-distanced events have taken place across the UK, including at the Cenotaph in London\n\nThe Queen has led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, as people around the UK privately paid their respects at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe was joined by family members and the PM at the scaled-back service at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.\n\nSocial distancing measures were in place and the service was closed off to the public for the first time.\n\nFollowing a two-minute silence, wreaths were laid by Prince Charles, Prince William and the PM, among others.\n\nThe commemorations remember the armed forces community, British and Commonwealth veterans, the allies who fought alongside the UK and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.\n\nNormally, Whitehall is packed with thousands of veterans and members of the military for the commemorations, but on Sunday less than 30 veterans were in attendance.\n\nThe Queen, dressed in a black hat and coat, looked on from a balcony at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office building, as her son, the Prince of Wales, laid a wreath on her behalf.\n\nOthers who took part in the wreath laying included the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Royal and Earl of Wessex, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nAlso present at the service were former UK prime ministers Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair and Sir John Major.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Cambridge attended the service\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was joined by former leaders Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair and Sir John Major\n\nPrince Charles laid a wreath on behalf of the Queen\n\nPrince William was also among those who laid a wreath\n\nIt felt the same on Whitehall this year, but also really quite different.\n\nAt the heart of the ceremony, as ever, was the Cenotaph - the simple stone memorial to the dead of so many conflicts, unveiled a century ago by George V, overlooked on Sunday by the Queen on a Foreign Office balcony.\n\nThere was the familiar and always-moving grandeur of the two-minute silence, the wreath laying, the solemn contemplation of so much sacrifice and loss.\n\nBut missing were the members of the public who normally travel from all over the country to be here, who stand three or four-deep along the barriers that line either side of Whitehall.\n\nMissing too were the great number of military veterans who march past the Cenotaph after the wreath-laying.\n\nThe public and the veterans bring life to this commemoration of loss - they ground this remembrance and make it more personal, more sharply felt.\n\nRemembrance Sunday belongs to those who gave - their lives, their health, their loved ones.\n\nEveryone here in Whitehall will hope that next year will see the public and military veterans return.\n\nMembers of the Royal Navy marched down Whitehall ahead of the Remembrance Sunday service\n\nThe Duke of Sussex, who stepped down as a working member of the Royal Family and now lives in California, was not at the ceremony but spoke about what serving his country means to him.\n\nIn a podcast to mark Remembrance Sunday, Harry, who spent 10 years in the armed forces, said: \"Being able to wear my uniform, being able to stand up in service of one's country, these are amongst the greatest honours there are in life.\n\n\"To me, the uniform is a symbol of something much bigger, it's symbolic of our commitment to protecting our country, as well as protecting our values.\n\n\"These values are put in action through service, and service is what happens in the quiet and in the chaos.\"\n\nGeneral Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, said some veterans might find Remembrance Sunday a lonely experience this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nSir Nick told the BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the guidelines would be \"particularly tough on our veterans\", adding: \"They traditionally have had the opportunity to get together and talk about their memories and their reflections, but equally to strut their stuff.\"\n\nUsually, about 10,000 people gather at the Cenotaph in Whitehall for the remembrance service.\n\nBut with the event being closed to the public, the Royal British Legion and Legion Scotland advised people to observe the silence in honour of those who lost their lives in conflicts from their doorsteps.\n\nThe public was also encouraged to share family histories and messages of remembrance online using the hashtag #WeWillRememberThem.\n\nIn Wales, which is also under a national lockdown, outdoor events were permitted up to a maximum of 30 people, although parades were not allowed.\n\nThe national service of remembrance in Cardiff was held with a small number of invited guests present,\n\nTraditional annual remembrance events at local war memorials across Scotland were also cancelled, with outdoor standing events not permitted in areas under Covid levels one, two and three. However, thousands of people observed the two-minute silence on their doorsteps.\n\nRestrictions were also in place in Belfast, with members of the public unable to attend the event at City Hall.\n\nEx-servicemen were among those who paid tribute to the fallen from their own doorstep in Scotland\n\nA national service of remembrance was held at the Welsh National War Memorial, Cathays Park, Cardiff\n\nThe Irish Republic's Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster laid wreaths in Enniskillen\n\nAbout 10,000 people usually gather for the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph\n\nLegion Scotland asked the public to observe the two-minute silence from their doorsteps\n\nIt comes after Prince Charles paid tribute to the nation's armed forces for standing \"side-by-side\" with frontline NHS staff and key workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's annual Festival of Remembrance at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was pre-recorded and filmed without an audience, the Prince of Wales said the country had endured \"anxiety and grief not previously experienced in peacetime\".\n\n\"In this challenging year, we have perhaps come to realise that the freedoms for which they fought are more precious than we knew, and that the debt we owe them is even greater than we imagined,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time as she laid the wreath\n\nOn Wednesday at Westminster Abbey, the Queen commemorated the 100th anniversary of the interment of the Unknown Warrior, who represents World War One soldiers whose place of death is not known or whose remains are unidentified.\n\nShe was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time during the visit.\n\nThe 94-year-old monarch had requested the private pilgrimage after she was advised not to attend the warrior's centenary service next week. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are expected to join this service on 11 November, Armistice Day.\n\nHow will you be marking Remembrance Sunday? You can 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The party was at a residential property in The Works, near Manchester Arndale\n\nA man has been fined £10,000 after about 60 people turned up at a party in a two-bedroom flat in Manchester.\n\nPolice said they found people were not distancing and music was being played from large speakers at the gathering in Withy Grove last Sunday.\n\nThe organiser, aged 38, was fined on Friday for holding an illegal gathering of more than 30 people.\n\nSupt Chris Hill said \"organising this flat party was a clear act of non-compliance\".\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. Watch the moment Prince Fumihito leaves for the ceremony where he was declared heir to the throne\n\nPrince Fumihito, the brother of Japan's Emperor Naruhito, has been officially declared heir to the throne during a ceremony in Tokyo.\n\nFumihito is six years younger than his brother Naruhito, who became monarch last year after their father abdicated.\n\nEmperor Naruhito has no sons and his daughter is barred from inheriting the throne, despite calls for reform.\n\nThe \"Rikkoshi no rei\" ceremony had been delayed by seven months because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt was attended by the imperial family and 46 guests, most of whom were wearing masks and maintained a distance from each other, according to Kyodo news agency.\n\nFumihito's son is now third in line to the throne\n\nDuring the ceremony, Naruhito declared Fumihito crown prince to the people of Japan and abroad.\n\nFumihito also received a sword passed down by crown princes.\n\nPrime Minister Yoshihide Suga said: \"The people have revered the crown prince and the crown princess after seeing how they have shown kindness in their interactions with people, so it is a pleasure to see the Rikkoshi no rei being held.\"\n\nEmperor Emeritus Akihito abdicated last year. He was given permission to abdicate after saying he felt unable to fulfil his role because of his age and declining health.\n\nHe was the first Japanese monarch to stand down in more than 200 years.\n\nUnder the Imperial Household law of 1947 only men can ascend to the throne. In 2004 the government began working on changing the law to allow for an empress but it was put on hold after Fumihito's wife gave birth to a son - Prince Hisahito.\n\nShould Hisahito not grow up to have a son that would spark another succession crisis and could see the government pick up plans from 2004 and change the law.", "Nelson has also pulled out of an appearance at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday evening\n\nJesy Nelson has pulled out of Saturday evening's live final of Little Mix: The Search.\n\nThe 29-year-old was due to appear alongside her bandmates in the last episode of the BBC One talent show.\n\nBut a spokesman for the group said in a statement: \"Jesy is unwell and will not be appearing on tonight's final of Little Mix The Search.\n\n\"She will also not be hosting or performing at tomorrow's MTV EMAs [Europe Music Awards].\"\n\nThe statement, which was made on Saturday morning, did not make clear what is wrong with Nelson or how unwell she is.\n\nThe announcement comes the day after Little Mix released their sixth album, Confetti.\n\nThe group were due to host the MTV EMAs on Sunday evening, which will be filmed in various locations around the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIt is thought Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall will still host the ceremony, which will feature performances from Doja Cat, Sam Smith, DaBaby and Alicia Keys.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Little Mix say the pressures associated with an online presence can be harmful to young people's mental health\n\nLast month, filming on Little Mix: The Search was halted after a \"small number of people\" involved in the series tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe band were not among those who tested positive, but Thirlwall self-isolated as a precaution.\n\nShe still took part in the first live show virtually, dialling in via video link to judge and score the bands from home.\n\nAround two million viewers have been tuning in to each episode of Little Mix The Search, which has been airing since late September.\n\nThe task for the group is to assemble six bands from thousands of wannabes, and eventually choose one to support them on tour.\n\nNelson has previously discussed her mental health battle on the BBC Three documentary Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out.\n\nThe documentary, which won a National Television Award, addressed body image and the impact of online bullying.\n\nIn the programme, Nelson revealed that negative comments online had led to an attempt to take her own life.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hospitals in Greater Manchester are treating \"more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave\", resulting in non-urgent care being suspended.\n\nNon-urgent hospital surgery and appointments will not go ahead as planned as coronavirus admissions have increased by 64 patients in a week.\n\nUrgent and emergency care, such as cancer treatment, will continue.\n\nHospital chiefs said non-urgent work was \"pausing\" to ensure critical care facilities could be expanded.\n\nThose affected by the delay will be contacted by hospitals, a spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership said.\n\nHospital admissions of coronavirus patients in the region have risen to 132 in the week ending 3 November, compared to 68 during the week ending 27 October.\n\nBefore a nationwide lockdown came into force in England on Thursday, Greater Manchester had been in the highest level of the three-tier system of restrictions.\n\nGreater Manchester has been under tighter restrictions since July\n\nA statement from the partnership, which co-ordinates health and social care across Greater Manchester, said: \"Staff have worked tirelessly to try to maintain services and deliver the highest quality of healthcare to local people.\n\n\"Despite these efforts it is now necessary to pause non-urgent work to ensure we are in a position to expand critical care facilities, whilst maintaining cancer and other urgent care, including cardiac services, vascular surgery and transplantation.\"\n\nIt said that The Christie cancer hospital will continue to provide care, while Rochdale will also provide cancer surgery as a Covid-secure site for Greater Manchester.\n\nDiagnostic services, including endoscopy, and the majority of out-patient services will not be affected.\n\nPatients were advised to \"assume your treatment is continuing as planned\" unless told otherwise.\n\nThis hard decision by health authorities in Manchester comes after similar moves by individual hospitals in Birmingham, Nottingham and Edinburgh, amongst others.\n\nNational NHS leaders had wanted to keep services open while a second wave of coronavirus unfolded.\n\nBut the BMA, which represents around 160,000 doctors in the UK, says hospitals have too few beds and staff to keep hip replacements, cataract surgery and other non-emergency operations going.\n\nAcross the UK there are 12,949 Covid patients currently in hospital, up from a low of just 736 in the summer, but still well below the 19,849 we saw in April.\n\nStricter lockdown measures are designed to bring the R number down. But hospitalisations now reflect infections some weeks ago and it's widely expected services will continue to be stretched in some areas for some time to come.\n\nThe partnership spokeswoman added: \"Our hospitals are now treating more Covid patients than at the peak of the first wave and as a result of this, a number of non-urgent operations will be temporarily delayed - we are contacting the affected patients.\n\n\"Urgent and emergency care, including cancer treatment and operations will continue as normal and it's important that anyone with concerns continues to come forward for help and treatment.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just Park is an app that allows land owners to rent out their driveways as parking spaces\n\nA parking website has apologised after scammers exploited it by listing spaces on driveways which they do not own.\n\nJust Park is one of several websites which allow people to make money by advertising parking spaces for hire on their own land.\n\nBut some homeowners have been surprised to discover their driveways have been listed without their permission.\n\nJust Park says it has stringent checks in place to prevent fraud and cases are \"extremely rare\".\n\nSimon Gallagher started getting complaints from tenants at the flat he owns at Bexleyheath in Greater London.\n\nStrangers were leaving cars in their dedicated parking bays, leaving them with nowhere to park.\n\n\"This was going on for about a month or so\", says Simon, \"until one day somebody had left a note in the window of one of the cars that was parked there with a booking reference for Just Park\".\n\n\"I looked it up on the website and to my surprise, found a photograph of the flat advertised out for rent\".\n\nSomeone was charging £8 a day for the use of his tenants' parking spaces.\n\nTo prevent them from being used by anyone else, he has now had bollards installed.\n\nSimon Gallagher, a landlord, had to install bollards in the driveway of a flat he owns after scammers rented out his tenants' driveway to commuters to park in\n\nIn Edinburgh, Barbara Oliver was alerted by a neighbour to a similar problem outside her property.\n\nShe was away on holiday when mystery vehicles began parking right in front of her garage door.\n\n\"It appeared that these people had used Just Park and had information to say that they could park there, which, as the property's owner, I knew was not true\", Barbara says.\n\nJust Park removed the unauthorised adverts after Barbara Oliver and Simon Gallagher complained.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's You & Yours programme, the company's founder and chief executive officer, Anthony Eskinazi, said \"I'd like to apologise to Mrs Oliver and Mr Gallagher for their experiences.\n\n'We do have stringent checks in place to prevent spaces from being listed fraudulently. On rare occasions where they are added, we immediately remove them once notified and ensure that our community is not adversely affected\".\n\nJust Park says its policies and procedures have successfully reduced instances of fraud to \"less than two listings per month, which represents less than one out of every 1000 new listings\".\n\nIt says that new space owners cannot withdraw funds for at least 48 hours after the first booking.\n\nThe company was launched in 2006, matching drivers with spare parking spaces outside people's homes through its website and app.\n\nIt says over 45,000 people have earned a combined total of more than £50m by listing spare parking spaces on its platform.", "The council said the sinkhole had been caused by surface water running onto the road from farmland\n\nA main road has reopened after a sinkhole the \"width of three houses\" was repaired.\n\nSouth Gower Road in Swansea was closed on 1 October after the sinkhole was found and deemed to be at \"risk of imminent collapse\".\n\nSwansea council closed the A4118 between Penmaen and the turn-off to Oxwich for emergency repairs.\n\nThe authority said the sinkhole had been caused by surface water running onto the road from farmland.\n\nIn a statement the council said this was complicated by the \"presence of voids in the rock beneath the road\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinkholes are often caused by an abnormal amount of water seeping into the ground, but they are difficult to predict\n\nRepairs included the creation of a new drainage system to help direct water away from the road surface to stop it happening again, the statement reads.\n\nCabinet Member for Environment Enhancement and Infrastructure Management Mark Thomas said: \"Early fears that the subsidence has been caused by the large voids deep in the ground were fortunately not the case.\n\n\"However, running water had created some smaller voids much nearer the road surface and it was this issue that had caused the problem.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'd like to thank motorists for the patience they have shown while we have completed these works and also thank our highways staff for the hard work and effort put in to get the road open again.\"", "The installation has been set up to raise funds for the Royal British Legion\n\nLife-size silhouettes of 200 soldiers have been set up at Blenheim Palace to mark Remembrance Sunday.\n\nThe installation, set up to raise funds for the Royal British Legion, is laid out by the Column of Victory and also features 75 poppy wreaths.\n\nThe \"Standing with Giants\" figures were made from recycled building materials by Witney-based artist Dan Barton.\n\nShe said: \"As a result of the coronavirus, many of the planned parades and services to mark Remembrance Day have had to be cancelled.\n\n\"We wanted to do something that would still mark the occasion and help raise awareness of the ongoing need to support our veterans and the amazing work being carried out by the Royal British Legion.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, the assistance they can provide is sorely needed and we hope Dan's extraordinary figures will serve as a fitting tribute to all the fallen and a reminder of the terrible cost of conflict.\"\n\nThe 200 silhouettes were made from recycled building materials\n\nThe figures are joined by 75 poppy wreaths\n\nThe palace in Oxfordshire is a World Heritage Site and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nIt was used as a rehabilitation hospital for World War One soldiers, and a secret testing ground for landing craft in the run up to D-Day in World War Two.\n\nThe Column of Victory was erected in 1730 and commemorates John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough.\n\nThe palace was built to celebrate Britain's victory over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession and completed in 1733.\n\nThe 6ft (1.8m) tall silhouettes will remain in place for two weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales has seen almost 7,000 new Covid cases in the last seven days\n\nWales is starting to see a \"levelling off\" of Covid-19 case rates, the country's health minister has said on the final day of its 17-day lockdown.\n\nVaughan Gething also said mass testing, as being trialled in Liverpool, will be considered in Wales' high case rate areas like Merthyr and the valleys.\n\nHe said the full impact of the lockdown would not be seen for two weeks yet.\n\nOpposition parties have suggested high case rate areas should have stricter local rules.\n\nWales' lockdown - which the Welsh Government said would help stop the health service in Wales becoming \"overwhelmed\" - ends on Monday just a few days after England's four-week lockdown started.\n\nThe number of patients in Welsh hospitals with coronavirus is now the highest since the height of the pandemic in April.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 1,344 people are being treated in hospital for Covid-19 while 54 of the 163 critical care patients have the virus - with the intensive care occupancy rate beyond Wales' usual 152-bed capacity.\n\nMr Gething warned cancer, heart and stroke \"treatments\" could be affected if Covid infection rates surge again.\n\nBut he said: \"We think we're starting to see a plateauing, a levelling off, in the rates of coronavirus across the country.\n\n\"It's still at a high rate which means that there's still a reservoir of coronavirus within our communities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives want \"local measures\" to help slow down Covid-19 cases in communities to avoid \"such draconian measures as a firebreak lockdown or just a straight lockdown\".\n\n\"We would also then have targeted testing in areas where we know there's high infection rates to suppress the virus,\" their health spokesperson Andrew RT Davies told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nAnd Plaid Cymru said the Welsh Government should show it \"has a plan in place\" to deal with areas of high infection rates.\n\n\"I doubt whether it is right to treat those areas in the same way as we treat some of the areas with very low incidence,\" said the party's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nBut Mr Gething said: \"If we breach trust with the public and extend the end of the firebreak, having been clear it would come to an end, I don't think people would be prepared to trust the government again and go along with what we want people to do.\"\n\nHe thanked the people of Wales for their sacrifice during the lockdown, saying: \"We have seen significant reductions in movement, we're confident there's been a reduction in household contact and all of those things will make a difference.\n\n\"What I can't do is rule out what we will have to do in the future because that is down to the choices we make.\"\n\nWhile pubs, bars and restaurants, gyms, and other non-essential businesses will be allowed to reopen on Monday, Mr Gething urged people to reduce contact and time spent with people outside their household bubble.\n\n\"We don't want to throw away what we think we have gained in the firebreak,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"If we go back to the way the things were before the firebreak, we'd have thrown away all of the sacrifice put together to make the firebreak successful and that would be heart-breaking for so many people who have done the right thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how cases of Covid-19 have changed across Wales during the firebreak\n\nMr Gething warned that if infections surge again \"hospitals will become full\" then elective surgeries and other \"non-Covid care\" which was relatively unaffected during this latest lockdown, may be hit.\n\n\"It will mean people will be treated in an undignified way, it's about saving as many lives as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"It's to make sure the NHS isn't overwhelmed because, if that happens, then non-Covid care like cancer care, heart, stroke and all of those other treatments will be affected.\"\n\nWales has seen almost 7,000 coronavirus cases in the last seven days and the death toll is now more than 2,000 people since the pandemic began.\n\nWhile Office for National Statistics data suggests Covid-19 cases are \"stabilising\" across Wales and the UK, Mr Gething has said the effectiveness of the lockdown may not be known for another few weeks.\n\n\"The infection rates we see reported today reflect behaviour from two to three weeks ago,\" he said.\n\n\"That's how long it takes to feed through. We think we will see a dip in the next two to three weeks but we're cautious as we need to see what the evidence is.\"\n\nMerthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent have some of the worst Covid-19 infection rates in the UK and, amid calls from Plaid Cymru for widespread testing in high case rate areas, Mr Gething says the Welsh Government was \"considering\" mass testing.\n\n\"Liverpool is a test pilot for the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking at what might be possible here in Wales to go alongside how we can use our testing resources here.\"\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government would \"formally review\" the coronavirus data from across Wales in two weeks' time.\n\nThe people of Wales have been warned to expect another lockdown in the new year as First Minister Mark Drakeford has said there was a \"path through to Christmas\" without needing another \"firebreak\".\n\n\"If we avoid contact with other people and we travel only when we need to, work from home wherever we can, we will build on what has been achieved here over the last 17 days,\" Mark Drakeford told Sky News.\n\n\"That will give us a path through to Christmas without needing to go back into this extraordinary period of restriction.\"\n\nMr Drakeford has called on the UK government to make good on its promise for the four nations to meet this week and discuss a single approach to \"pool ideas, plan together and have a common approach to the Christmas period\".\n\n\"The restrictions people have had to live with are incredibly difficult and demanding, and everybody is tired and fatigued of coronavirus,\" he said.\n\n\"If we can offer respite over Christmas that is what we would want to do.\"", "Why do different news sites have different tallies?\n\nIf you are seeing different tallies at the top of the live coverage from various news sites, you might well be confused.\n\nThe BBC is projecting that Joe Biden will take Wisconsin, in line with our US sister network CBS.\n\nWith 99% of the votes counted, Biden currently has a lead there of just over 20,000 on Donald Trump. The tally above now includes the state's 10 electoral college votes.\n\nOur projection that Joe Biden is the presumptive winner in Wisconsin reflects the situation now. If, as the Trump campaign has requested, a recount takes place, we will report that and the result - and if necessary, we'll change our projections accordingly.\n\nFor the 2020 election, the BBC is using data supplied via Reuters, from polling firm Edison Research, which does the field work for the exit polls and works with US television networks in the National Election Pool.\n\nEdison Research has not projected a result for Wisconsin because the margin between Biden and Trump is less than one percentage point, meaning a candidate can request a recount.\n\nYou may have noticed that some other news sites are also projecting a win in Arizona for Biden, giving him an extra 11 electoral college votes. The BBC, again in line with CBS, considers the state too early to project.\n\nWith 87% of the vote in Arizona counted, Biden currently has a lead of about 68,000 over Trump.", "Teams in protective kit for the cull - usually mink are gassed with carbon monoxide\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over a coronavirus mutation found in mink that can spread to humans.\n\nThe government has warned that the effectiveness of any future vaccine could be affected by the mutation.\n\nBars, restaurants, public transport and all public indoor sports will be closed in seven North Jutland municipalities.\n\nThe restrictions will come into effect from Friday and initially last until 3 December.\n\nIt comes soon after an announcement that Denmark would cull all its mink - as many as 17 million.\n\nThe Scandinavian country is the world's biggest producer of mink fur and its main export markets are China and Hong Kong. Culling began late last month, after many mink cases were detected.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Health Organization said mink appear to be \"good reservoirs\" of coronavirus. It also commended Denmark's \"determination and courage\" for going ahead with the culls, despite the economic impact it would bring.\n\nThere are more than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark\n\nCoronavirus cases have been detected in other farmed mink in the Netherlands and Spain since the pandemic began in Europe.\n\nBut cases are spreading fast in Denmark - 207 mink farms in Jutland are affected - and at least five cases of the new virus strain were found. Authorities said 12 people had been infected with the mutated strain.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said about half of the 783 human cases reported in north Denmark related to a strain of the virus that originated in the mink farms.\n\nUnder the new rules, gatherings of 10 or more people will be banned, and locals have been urged to stay within the affected municipalities and get tested.\n\nAt a press conference, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said: \"Right now the eyes of the world are resting on us. I hope and believe that together we can solve the problems we face.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Frederiksen said the mutated virus had been found to weaken the body's ability to form antibodies, potentially making the current vaccines under development for Covid-19 ineffective.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic Denmark has reported 52,265 human cases of Covid-19 and 733 deaths, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out\n\nSpain culled 100,000 mink in July after cases were detected at a farm in Aragón province, and tens of thousands of the animals were slaughtered in the Netherlands following outbreaks on farms there.\n\nStudies are under way to find out how and why mink have been able to catch and spread the infection.\n\nMink become infected through catching the virus from humans, the BBC's environment correspondent Helen Briggs reports.\n\nBut genetic detective work has shown that in a small number of cases, in the Netherlands and now Denmark, the virus seems to have passed the other way, from mink to humans, our correspondent adds.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Elsa Raven appeared in films such as The Amityville Horror and In The Line of Fire\n\nElsa Raven, a character actress who appeared in Back To The Future and Titanic, has died at the age of 91.\n\nShe appeared in episodes of TV series such as Everybody Loves Raymond, The A-Team and Seinfeld in her long career.\n\nBut Raven will perhaps be best remembered as the \"clock tower lady\" in 1985's Back To The Future.\n\nShe is seen in the film shaking a donations box in front of Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer, urging them to help \"save the clock tower\".\n\nRaven died on Tuesday at home in Los Angeles, her agent David Shaul confirmed.\n\nRuss Cundiff, producer and co-founder of Divide Pictures, was among those paying tribute on social media, tweeting: \"RIP Elsa - you have no idea how much my sister and I loved your role and how many times we quoted you.\"\n\nBorn Elsa Rabinowitz in September 1929, Raven began her acting career on stage in New York City and went on to appear in several Hollywood films.\n\nRaven filmed several scenes for 1997's Titanic, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.\n\nMost of her scenes were cut from the feature film, but they were used in the music video for Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, the movie's theme song.\n\nRaven can be seen in the video as one half of the older couple who embrace on the bed as water is pouring into their cabin.\n\nHer other roles included the estate agent who sold the house in The Amityville Horror, John Malkovich's landlady in In The Line of Fire and Gertrude Stein in The Moderns.\n\nThe actress's biggest TV roles included Inga the Swedish maid on Amen, Lucille on Days of Our Lives, and Tugboat Tessie on General Hospital.\n\nShe also appeared in several sitcoms including 3rd Rock From The Sun, as Aunt Florence, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and played multiple roles in Quincy ME during its seven year run, including a nurse and a judge.\n\nRaven was a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the body which awards the Oscars.\n\nHer final acting role was in 2011, when she played Mrs Harrison in Answers To Nothing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tough restrictions on household visits and hospitality are starting to have an effect on the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nA new five-level system of restrictions came into force on Monday.\n\nThe first minister said the \"R number\" metric - showing on average how many people each patient with the virus will infect - had dropped to about one.\n\nShe said she still could not rule out a full lockdown, but said Scotland was in a \"better position\" than England.\n\nA further 1,216 cases of coronavirus were registered on Thursday, along with the deaths of 39 who had tested positive.\n\nThe number of people in hospital dropped by five to 1,252, while the number of patients in intensive care rose by one, to 95.\n\nMs Sturgeon said admissions to hospital had been \"slightly lower\" over the past seven days compared with previous weeks, saying this provided \"very tentative and cautious grounds for optimism.\"\n\nShe said: \"Scotland is in a relatively strong position because of the decisions we are taking, and the compliance of the public.\"\n\nThe government will continue to monitor the figures ahead of the first review of the five-level system next Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she particularly wanted to see a clearer reduction in the number of cases as Scotland moves deeper into winter.\n\nShe said: \"There is no room for complacency, and that's why we should all continue to abide by the rules and why we will consider very carefully whether we need to take any further steps - either next week or in the weeks after that.\"\n\nThere have previously been suggestions that the government could introduce travel restrictions in law or move some areas or even the whole country into the top level of restrictions.\n\nAt her weekly question session at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon was pressed by opposition leaders about the readiness of the NHS for winter and a second wave of the virus.\n\nConservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised the concerns of health staff who say the NHS is \"facing a perfect storm\" due to shortages of staff and hospital beds.\n\nThe first minister insisted that \"we are not short right now of staff or beds\", but said \"we do face a very challenging winter\".\n\nShe said: \"Our NHS is under intense pressure. We look closely at bed capacity and intensive care capacity literally on a daily basis across all the health boards of Scotland as we take judgements to ensure we are giving the health service the best chance of coping through winter.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said NHS staff absences due to stress and poor mental health had been rising for years, and the pandemic was \"just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she worried \"deeply\" about the strain health staff are under, saying plans were in place to support their mental health.\n• None Sunak to extend furlough scheme to end of March", "A man has admitted killing his two children at their family home during lockdown.\n\nNadarajah Nithiyakumar attacked 19-month-old Pavinya and three-year-old Nigish with a knife in Ilford, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe children's mother had been in the shower at the time and was the person who alerted police.\n\nNithiyakumar, 41, admitted two counts of manslaughter by diminished responsibility at the Old Bailey.\n\nEmergency services were called to the home in Aldborough Road North where they found both children injured.\n\nPavinya was pronounced dead at the scene while Nigish was rushed to a hospital in Whitechapel where he later died.\n\nThe children were found fatally injured in the home in Aldborough Road North\n\nNithiyakumar was also treated for knife wounds and when he was discharged from hospital he was charged with killing his children.\n\nThe 41-year-old admitted to police he had killed his son and daughter, explaining that he had been depressed and customers had \"upset him\" while he was working in a shop.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC told the Old Bailey psychiatrists believed the defendant was \"suffering from a delusional disorder\" which had \"led him to kill his children\".\n\n\"It was one from which he had suffered for some time, for the best part of 10 years, with very little indication and very little treatment,\" he said.\n\nMr Atkinson added that one expert thought it was \"remarkable he was able to function for as long as he did\" considering his condition.\n\nThe court heard the defendant had no previous history of violence and prosecutors felt it was \"appropriate to accept the plea of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility\", Mr Atkinson said.\n\nMrs Justice Cutts adjourned sentencing until 10 December, saying she would need \"further information from the doctors\".\n\nNithiyakumar was sent back to the medium secure mental health centre in east London where he has been treated.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uber's food delivery business has more than doubled, as the pandemic increases appetite for online grocery orders and restaurant takeaway.\n\nThe firm said revenue from its Uber Eats service hit $1.4bn (£1bn) in the three months to 30 September, jumping 124% from the same period in 2019.\n\nThe growth helped offset steep declines in the firm's core rides business.\n\nBut Uber still recorded a loss of about $1.1bn in the quarter, roughly the same as last year.\n\nUber boss Dara Khosrowshahi said demand for food delivery has stayed strong even as countries lift restrictions, a promising sign for growth in the Uber Eats business.\n\n\"We've got more eaters, they're staying longer, they're eating more,\" he told investors on a conference call to discuss the firm's quarterly results.\n\n\"There's no question in my mind that ... there's a fundamental behavioural shift that has gone on,\" he added later. \"People aren't going to stop using Amazon. People aren't going to stop using Eats.\"\n\nThe growth in delivery marked a stark contrast to the firm's ride-hailing business.\n\nThere, Uber said bookings and revenue for its taxi service remained roughly half of last year's levels, despite improvement since the spring.\n\nDemand has recovered most in Europe, while lagging in the US and Canada, its most important market, executives said.\n\nThey warned that the resurgence in Covid cases in Europe and new restrictions in countries like the UK and France would likely hit demand in coming months.", "Owners of iPhones and iPads could soon be able to play Fortnite again, via a cloud service, the BBC has discovered.\n\nNvidia has developed a version of its GeForce cloud gaming service that runs in the mobile web browser Safari.\n\nApple will not get a cut of virtual items sold within the battle royale fighting title when played this way.\n\nApple is embroiled in a legal fight with Fortnite's developer Epic, which led the iPhone-maker to remove the game from its iOS App Store.\n\nEpic has claimed that the 30% commission Apple charges on in-app gaming purchases is anti-competitive.\n\nBut Apple has accused Epic of wanting a \"free ride\".\n\nThe case is due to go to trial in May and could take years to be resolved.\n\nPapers filed in the case indicate that Fortnite had 116 million users on iOS, 73 million of whom only played it via Apple's operating system.\n\nUnlike Android, Apple does not allow games or other apps to be loaded on to its phones or tablets via app stores other than its own.\n\nBut it does not restrict which third-party services can run within Safari or other web browsers available via its store.\n\nNvidia spotlights GeForce Now's support for Fortnite on its website\n\nNvidia currently offers GeForce Now for Mac, Windows, Android and Chromebook computers.\n\nIt has not formally announced that it is bringing the service to iOS but is expected to do so before the winter holidays.\n\nHowever, it is still possible that Fortnite gets excluded from the list of games offered to Apple's devices.\n\nAccording to several online forums, the game was briefly removed from GeForce Now's Android service in December.\n\n\"Nvidia is not commenting on any new clients coming to the service, or on the availability of any game on unannounced or unreleased platforms,\" a spokesman for the firm told the BBC.\n\n\"Fortnite is not confirmed for GeForce Now on platforms beyond PC, Mac and Android.\"\n\nEpic also indicated it had nothing to say at this time.\n\nIn theory, Apple mobile device owners will be able to play Fortnite via Nvidia's service without charge.\n\nBoth the game and GeForce Now's basic tier offer free access, although Nvidia limits these sessions to one hour.\n\nIt is unclear whether playing via the cloud will put players at a disadvantage.\n\nNvidia uses remote computer servers to process the players' commands and to generate graphics. Streaming the relevant data back and forth to the mobile devices introduces a very short delay.\n\nWinning or losing Fortnite's multiplayer battles can come down to split-second decisions, so lag could be a problem.\n\nApple removed Fortnite from its App Store in August\n\nOne recent review of GeForce Now praised the platform's performance, but warned that there was an \"occasional degradation in the video quality\" and reports of \"spotty connection\" errors, even when tested on fast internet connections.\n\nAmazon already offers its rival Luna cloud-gaming platform to select \"early access\" iOS users, but does not include Fortnite in its current library of games.\n\nGoogle's Stadia cloud gaming service was briefly available to iOS users via an unofficial app, but it has since been removed from Apple's store and likewise did not support Fortnite.\n\nMicrosoft is reportedly developing a version of its xCloud service for the mobile version of Safari, but it is not clear when it will launch.", "A second lockdown will last until 2 December in England\n\nThe government has been criticised by the official statistics watchdog for the way it presented data to justify England's second lockdown.\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority highlighted the use of modelling at Saturday's TV briefing showing the possible death toll from Covid this winter.\n\nIt said there needed to be more transparency about data and how predictions were being made.\n\nThe projections were out of date and over-estimated deaths, it has emerged.\n\nA forecast made by Public Health England and Cambridge University said the country could soon be seeing more than 4,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe projections were shown at the TV briefing on Saturday when lockdown was announced\n\nThe projection was made weeks ago and had forecast there would be 1,000 deaths a day by the end of October when the average was actually four times less than that - a fact that was known at the time of Saturday's TV briefing.\n\nWhat is more, the model had already been updated to predict a lower estimate, but this was not used in the briefing fronted by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt is understood the graph was used by the two senior advisers in meetings last week where the decision to impose a nationwide lockdown in England was made.\n\nThe pair were grilled about it by MPs on Tuesday and Sir Patrick apologised for any confusion caused.\n\nSir David Norgrove , chair of the UK Statistics Authority, said: \"I recognise the pressures faced by all those working on decisions related to coronavirus.\n\n\"But full transparency of data used to inform decisions is vital to public understanding and public confidence.\"\n\nThe use of the data has also drawn criticism from former prime minister Theresa May, who abstained from the lockdown vote in parliament on Wednesday. The vote saw MPs agree to the four-week restrictions in England.\n\nSir David Spiegelhalter, one of the most respected statisticians in the country, said the whole saga had been \"really unfortunate\".\n\nBut he said the situation with Covid was sufficient to warrant \"radical action\" - but it was not for him to say what precise measures were needed and the decisions to be taken must look at the bigger picture.", "Hundreds of musicians staged a protest outside Parliament in early October\n\nThe government has been urged to do more to help performers and other arts freelancers as venues are shut again during lockdowns in England and Wales.\n\nLabour MP Chris Elmore told the House of Commons there were \"growing numbers of freelancers, musicians, performance artists who are excluded\" from support.\n\nTheatre workers face \"adding to the queues at food banks\", another MP said.\n\nArts minister Caroline Dinenage said the government was \"working very hard\" to help freelancers access support.\n\nShe said Arts Council England had allocated £119m for individuals, on top of the £1.57bn available to venues in England through the government's Culture Recovery Fund.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden acknowledged that a third of freelancers in all walks of life had not been able to access the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, which the government confirmed on Thursday would be extended to cover 80% of average trading profits.\n\n\"I understand the many challenges faced by freelancers and I hear about it every day,\" Mr Dowden said. \"It is the case that across the economy 66% of freelancers are able to benefit from the Treasury scheme, which has been increased again by the chancellor.\"\n\nResponding to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement, Deborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said she was \"delighted\" but that \"expanding the eligibility criteria remains essential for preventing an exodus of highly skilled talent from our world-leading arts sector\".\n\nThe Musicians' Union said the extension of SEISS was \"fantastic news for many of our members\", but added that it was \"time to close the gaps in support\" that it said 38% of musicians had fallen through.\n\nThe Equity performers' union has said 40% of members were ineligible for SEISS, and warned last week that \"the trickle of lost talent will become a flood\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons earlier on Thursday, Labour MP Ruth Cadbury said she had been contacted by West End performers, make-up artists, instrumentalists and others who had been struggling to survive on benefits after being ineligible for other support.\n\n\"Here in west London, Universal Credit barely [covers] or fails to cover the cost of rent, meaning they now face going through lockdown with no additional support and adding to the queues at food banks,\" she said.\n\nMr Elmore said: \"There are growing numbers of freelancers, musicians, performance artists who are excluded from getting any support from government… and there are growing numbers of organisations calling for support specifically for musicians.\"\n\nIn response, Ms Dinenage said: \"Our world-beating cultural and creative industries are absolutely nothing without the people who work in them, and we're working very hard to help freelancers in those sectors to access support, particularly if they don't qualify for the SEISS.\n\n\"Arts Council England has made £119m available to individuals, £23m of that has already been distributed and about £96m is still available to apply for.\"\n\nShe added that the Culture Recovery Fund would \"benefit freelancers because it does enable organisations to be assisted to reopen, and to restart performances, maybe in a digital or live stream capacity\".\n\nThe National Audit Office reported last month that up to 2.9 million people had fallen through the cracks of the furlough and SEISS schemes.\n\nAlso in October, the charity Help Musicians published the results of a survey saying more than half of musicians were not earning anything at all from music, and that four in five were worried about being able to pay their household bills.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown, 22% of businesses in the arts, entertainment and recreation industry had temporarily closed or paused trading - more than in any other sector; and the industry had the highest proportion of its workforce on furlough, at 27%, according to the Office For National Statistics.\n\nMeanwhile on Thursday, singer Van Morrison launched The Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund for musicians, and started a petition calling on the Northern Ireland Executive to provide a timeline for live music to resume.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police had been called to North Place in Colliers Wood on Tuesday morning\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping a teenage girl in south-west London.\n\nPolice were called to North Place in Colliers Wood shortly after 07:00 GMT on Tuesday over reports of an alleged attack.\n\nKadian Nelson, of the Mitcham area, has been charged with rape and kidnap, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 26-year-old is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court later on Thursday.\n\nScotland Yard added that the girl and her family \"continue to be supported by specialist officers\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said they expect the number of arrests to rise\n\nPolice have arrested at least 104 protesters during anti-lockdown demonstrations in central London.\n\nA large police presence remains in place near Trafalgar Square where the protest was dispersed shortly after 19:00 GMT.\n\nSmaller groups of protesters remained on Oxford Street and along the Strand.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"This gathering is unlawful and is putting others at risk. We are directing those there to go home.\"\n\nOfficers urged demonstrators to disperse as they took to the streets near Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening, warning those who had gathered that they were breaching coronavirus restrictions.\n\nProtesters began to walk up the Strand soon after 18:00 GMT, chanting \"freedom\" and \"no more lockdown\".\n\nSome protesters wore Guy Fawkes masks as part of the anti-government Million Mask March held annually on 5 November\n\nCommander Jane Connors said: \"Our main priority this evening has been to keep Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are eight months into this national pandemic and frankly there can be no excuse for people to dangerously breach regulations which are there to prevent further spread of Coronavirus.\n\n\"Tonight, a crowd of people chose to ignore the new regulations, to behave irresponsibly and meet in a dangerous manner. More than 100 of these people have now been arrested and will have to face the consequences of their actions.\n\n\"We expect the number of arrests to increase as our policing operation continues into the night.\n\n\"I would continue to urge people across the city to keep yourselves safe and stick to the regulations.\"\n\nProtesters have been told to head home or face arrest\n\nThe Met said in a statement the majority of arrests were for breaches of coronavirus regulations.\n\nNew restrictions mean people should stay at home except for education, work, exercise, medical reasons, shopping for essentials, or to care for others.\n\nHouseholds are not allowed to mix with others indoors, or outdoors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Chappell was not of \"positive good character\", prosecutors said\n\nDominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, has been sentenced to six years in jail for tax evasion.\n\nA Southwark Crown Court jury found him guilty of failing to pay tax of around £584,000 on £2.2m of income he received after buying the failed chain for £1.\n\nThe court heard the 53-year-old spent the money on two yachts, a Bentley and a holiday to the Bahamas.\n\nChappell's lawyers claimed he became \"utterly broke\" after BHS's \"pension problem exploded\" in 2015.\n\nMr Chappell controversially bought the retailer from tycoon Sir Philip Green that year, but the chain collapsed soon after in 2016. It led to the loss of 11,000 jobs and a pension deficit of £571m.\n\nIn sentencing, the judge said Chappell had engaged in a \"long and consistent course of conduct designed to cheat the revenue\".\n\n\"You are not of positive good character. Your offending occurs against a backdrop of successive bankruptcies,\" he said.\n\nSimon York, director of the Fraud Investigation Service at HMRC, said: \"This was deliberate theft from UK citizens. Chappell was a high-profile businessman who knew tax had to be paid on his income and profits but chose not to do so.\n\n\"That's money that should have been supporting our vital public services instead of funding his lavish lifestyle.\"\n\nBHS, once one of Britain's best known retailers, was losing £1m a week and had a huge pension deficit when Chappell's consortium, Retail Acquisitions, bought it in 2015.\n\nIn his year of ownership Mr Chappell received £2.5m in payments from BHS , largely for consultancy fees provided by another of his companies, the bankrupt finance firm Swiss Rock Limited.\n\nSir Philip Green was heavily criticised for agreeing to the deal, and later agreed a £363m cash settlement with the Pensions Regulator to plug the gap in the pension scheme.\n\nHowever, on Thursday prosecutors condemned Chappell for spending large sums of money at a time when he should have been trying to save BHS.\n\n\"Chappell purchased the struggling retail chain for just £1 and was paid thousands of pounds in his new role, where he was tasked with avoiding more redundancies,\" said crown prosecutor Andrew Fox.\n\n\"Instead, while the company fell further into financial difficulty, he spent his new income lavishly on luxury breaks abroad and expensive yachts.\"\n\nThe court heard Chappell, a former racing driver, also bought £11,000 worth of items from a gun and outdoor wear shop, including expensive Beretta firearms.\n\nProsecutors said HMRC repeatedly tried to chase down the missing funds, but Chappell ignored their requests, at one point going on a skiing break before asking for more time to pay the money when he returned home.\n\nIn his defence, Chappell argued he was too busy resolving issues with BHS to deal with the outstanding taxes that were due.\n\nHe had denied three charges of tax fraud.\n\nEarlier this year Chappell was ordered to pay £9.5m into BHS pension schemes after losing an appeal.\n\nAnd in 2019 the Government's Insolvency Service banned him from running a company for 10 years, saying he had carried out \"reckless financial transactions\" and \"failed to maintain adequate company records\".", "Why do different news sites have different tallies?\n\nIf you are seeing different tallies at the top of the live coverage from various news sites, you might well be confused.\n\nThe BBC is projecting that Joe Biden will take Wisconsin, in line with our US sister network CBS.\n\nWith 99% of the votes counted, Biden currently has a lead there of just over 20,000 on Donald Trump. The tally above now includes the state's 10 electoral college votes.\n\nOur projection that Joe Biden is the presumptive winner in Wisconsin reflects the situation now. If, as the Trump campaign has requested, a recount takes place, we will report that and the result - and if necessary, we'll change our projections accordingly.\n\nFor the 2020 election, the BBC is using data supplied via Reuters, from polling firm Edison Research, which does the field work for the exit polls and works with US television networks in the National Election Pool.\n\nEdison Research has not projected a result for Wisconsin because the margin between Biden and Trump is less than one percentage point, meaning a candidate can request a recount.\n\nYou may have noticed that some other news sites are also projecting a win in Arizona for Biden, giving him an extra 11 electoral college votes. The BBC, again in line with CBS, considers the state too early to project.\n\nWith 87% of the vote in Arizona counted, Biden currently has a lead of about 68,000 over Trump.", "The government is facing criticism over its guidance on safe visits to care homes in England.\n\nLabour and a number of charities have described the suggestions, including floor-to-ceiling screens, designated visitor pods and window visits, as impractical.\n\nAlzheimer's Society has said it \"completely misses the point\".\n\nThe updated government advice, which came into effect on Thursday, says care homes - especially those which have not allowed visits since March - \"will be encouraged and supported to provide safe visiting opportunities\".\n\nVisits should be \"tailored to residents and facilities and should prioritise residents and staff's safety\" to limit the spread of coronavirus, the advice says, with measures such as social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nCare minister Helen Whately said the new measures would give people more opportunities to see loved ones \"in a safe way\".\n\nHowever, Julia Jones, co-founder of dementia charity John's Campaign, told the Today programme that visits should be more \"meaningful\" than meeting through a window.\n\n\"When people are in the later stages of dementia, when people love each other, when people are approaching the end of their lives, they need to hold hands,\" she said.\n\nThe chief executive of leading care home group MHA, Sam Monaghan, told the programme the best way to carry out Covid-secure visits in care homes was \"through routine testing of at least one relative for each resident\".\n\nAsked about such a scheme, Mr Buckland stressed the government was \"interested in all ideas that are Covid-compliant\" and that the guidance was not an exhaustive list of options.\n\nAll face-to-face visits were banned during the first national lockdown in the spring.\n\nGuidance in England over recent months has allowed visits on a \"limited basis\" where alternative arrangements were not possible, but visits have been severely curtailed or prohibited entirely in those areas subject to enhanced restrictions, which have applied to large parts of England.\n\nMs Whately said she knew the restrictions on visiting had been \"incredibly painful\" and she had been \"in tears\" with some of the stories she had heard.\n\nShe said the government was \"absolutely trying to enable more visiting\" but, against the \"backdrop of this second wave\", it was \"only right that we make sure visiting care homes is safe\".\n\nShe said a trial would start later this week as part of plans to carry out testing on visitors to care homes.\n\nThe government also said a new national programme for weekly testing of professionals who regularly visit care homes would be \"rolled out in the coming weeks\" following a pilot in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Northamptonshire.\n\nLabour's shadow care minister Liz Kendall said many care homes would not be able to comply with the government's requirements which meant \"in reality thousands of families are likely to be banned from visiting their loved ones\".\n\nShe said instead of suggesting measures such as screens, the government should \"designate a single family member as a key worker - making them a priority for weekly testing and proper PPE\".\n\nKate Lee, chief executive at Alzheimer's Society, said: \"We're devastated by today's new care home visitor guidance - it completely misses the point: this attempt to protect people will kill them.\"\n\nShe said the pandemic had left people with dementia isolated and thousands had died. The guidelines \"completely ignore the vital role of family carers in providing the care for their loved ones with dementia that no one else can\", she added.\n\nShe said the \"prison-style screens\" proposed by the government with people speaking through phones were \"frankly ridiculous when you consider someone with advanced dementia can often be bed-bound and struggling to speak\".\n\nThat view was echoed by Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, who said she was \"acutely aware\" that the methods being sanctioned were \"unlikely to be useable by many older people with dementia, or indeed sensory loss\".\n\nShe added: \"Overall we think this new guidance is too restrictive. In practice we fear it will result in many care homes halting meaningful visiting altogether, because they will be unable to comply with the requirements laid down.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said there was 'light at the end of the tunnel' as a new lockdown began in England\n\nThe prime minister has stressed that people in England should stay at home, as a second lockdown begins.\n\nBoris Johnson said he knew people were weary but four weeks of measures would make a \"real impact\" on the virus.\n\nPubs, restaurants and non-essential shops were forced to close on Thursday as part of the new restrictions.\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the furlough scheme to support jobs would be extended across the UK until the end of March.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said the measures were \"not a repeat of the spring\" and there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nHe said the restrictions in England would \"automatically expire\" on 2 December. There is expected to be another vote on the next steps needed to tackle the virus before the lockdown ends.\n\nHe added that although the challenge was \"significant across the UK\", the devolved nations were working together on a \"joint approach\", with the objective of having \"as normal a Christmas as possible\".\n\nThe devolved nations each make their own restrictions with Wales currently in a 17-day firebreak lockdown, while Scotland is in a tier system and Northern Ireland in the midst of a four-week limited lockdown.\n\nIn addition to the extension of the furlough scheme, the prime minister said a further £1.1bn will be made available for local authorities to support businesses, with £2bn for the devolved nations.\n\nHe said the government will also put £15m towards a scheme to help to provide accommodation for rough sleepers during the pandemic. This money is part of funding previously announced by the government to tackle homelessness.\n\nMr Johnson said by September the government had supported more than 29,000 vulnerable people, with two thirds now moved into settled accommodation.\n\nThe UK recorded a further 378 coronavirus deaths and 24,141 confirmed cases on Thursday.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens, who appeared alongside the prime minister, said about 30,000 staff in the health service were either off with coronavirus or were having to self-isolate, and \"that has an impact\".\n\n\"This second wave of coronavirus is real and it's serious,\" he said.\n\n\"The health service has been working incredibly hard to prepare and to catch up on the care that was disrupted during the first wave.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens said hospitals were filling up across Europe, including in the UK\n\nSir Simon added it will be known \"conclusively\" by the end of the second national lockdown whether it had affected the increase in Covid-19 hospital admissions, but said the NHS was \"hoping and expecting\" they would not see the increases that infectious disease experts had warned about.\n\nEarlier, the UK Statistics Authority criticised the way data has been presented by the government to justify England's second lockdown, highlighting the use of modelling in a TV briefing on Saturday showing the possible death toll from Covid this winter.\n\nShunning projections that have proved so controversial, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens tried to play it straight at the news briefing.\n\nHe presented a chart showing how the numbers in hospital have gone up since the summer with more than 11,000 in hospital in England.\n\nHe then provided some important context - comparing that to the numbers in hospital with flu - around 3,000 in the depths of winter - or getting treatment for cancer, normally 7,000.\n\nThis shows the burden Covid is placing on the health service.\n\nBut two things that were not shown were the numbers in hospital at the peak in the spring - 17,000 - or the number of free beds, thought to be 15,000 to 20,000.\n\nWe don't know the latter because NHS bosses are not publishing them.\n\nAn important point on the day that the UK Statistics Authority called for greater transparency over the way Covid data is presented.\n\nUnlike the first national lockdown in March, schools, universities, and nurseries will remain open, and people will be able to meet another person who they do not live with in an outdoor public place such as a park or beach.\n\nThe rules say people cannot mix with anyone they do not live with indoors or in private gardens and people should stay at home except for specific reasons including education and work, if it cannot be done from home.", "Figures showed 82% of secondary schools recorded at least one case of the virus among pupils or staff\n\nAlmost half of schools in Wales have had at least one case of coronavirus since the start of September, according to new data.\n\nFigures from Public Health Wales showed 44% of schools in Wales had been affected by the virus since then.\n\nThey showed 82% of secondary schools recorded at least one case of the virus among pupils or staff.\n\nIn primary schools the figure was lower, with 39% recording a positive case so far.\n\nPublic Health Wales said cases linked to schools did not \"necessarily imply that transmission occurred in that setting\".\n\nSecondary school pupils in Years 9 and above are currently at home because of the firebreak lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billy: \"I got upset when I was told to isolate\"\n\nYounger children returned to classes as normal after half-term.\n\nSince 1 September there have been 1,150 coronavirus cases in pupils recorded across Wales.\n\nOver the same period there were 951 cases in staff.\n\nMore than half of schools with cases recorded in the past 21 days had fewer than five people testing positive.\n\nThree schools in Wales had more than 20 positive cases - with one recording 40 cases.\n\nThere were fewer cases recorded among primary school pupils\n\nStatistics suggested there were more coronavirus cases in older age groups.\n\nCases among 17 to 18-year-olds peaked at more than 600 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nMeanwhile, for pupils aged 16 and under, rates have never exceeded 200 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThe data suggested that last week there were around twice as many Covid-19 cases linked to schools in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area than anywhere else in Wales.\n\nIt comes after Merthyr Tydfil, in the health board's area, posted the highest Covid-19 rates in the UK.\n\nThe area was one of nine local authorities where every secondary school recorded coronavirus cases.\n\nIn contrast only a third of secondary schools in Gwynedd had cases - while there were no cases recorded at secondary schools in Ceredigion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils are \"getting used to the new pattern of life\"\n\nThe data from Public Health Wales does not include independent primary and secondary schools.\n\nAll schools in Wales will reopen as normal from Monday following the end of the firebreak lockdown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Economy Minister Ken Skates gives his reaction to the furlough extension\n\nThe chancellor's announcement that the furlough job support scheme will be extended until March has been welcomed in Wales amid complaints it should have come sooner.\n\nRishi Sunak said it will cover up to 80% of a wage up to £2,500 a month.\n\nHe told the Commons that UK ministers will review the policy in January.\n\nWales' Economy Minister Ken Skates said the Welsh Government had been calling \"for some time\" for furlough to be extended.\n\nThe availability of funding for businesses and staff who cannot work during Wales' current 17-day firebreak lockdown has caused a row between the Welsh and UK governments.\n\nA less generous Job Support Scheme had been due to come into effect on 1 November, until the original Job Retention Scheme, known as furlough, was extended until December to cover the four-week lockdown which began in England on Thursday.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said it was not fair that the Treasury waited until England's lockdown was announced to extend furlough throughout the UK.\n\nAs part of the revised scheme, now extended to the end of March, anyone made redundant after 23 September can be rehired and put back on furlough.\n\nThis includes anyone laid off by a Welsh firm during the Wales-wide firebreak which began on 23 October, a week before the scheme was originally due to end.\n\nSpeaking at a Welsh Government coronavirus briefing, Mr Skates said there was a \"necessity to support people for as long as it takes to get through the pandemic, so I would welcome the chancellor's announcement today\".\n\n\"Of course I'll be digesting the detail of the announcement and implications for Wales, but... the greatest risk to the economy, to our wellbeing, our economic wellbeing, is in doing too little and too late.\"\n\nRishi Sunak said the scheme was for \"all the people of the United Kingdom\"\n\nReacting to the announcement in the Commons, Pontypridd Labour MP Alex Davies-Jones claimed businesses in Wales had suffered because UK ministers had \"blocked\" Welsh ministers from using key job support schemes during the current lockdown in Wales.\n\nMr Sunak responded that \"10,000 of her constituents\" had had their jobs supported by the UK government furlough scheme.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Treasury spokesperson, Ben Lake MP, welcomed the extension of furlough, but said the chancellor should have apologised for the \"uncertainty that his initial refusal, and subsequent U-turn, had caused households and businesses\".\n\nArguments about the availability of furlough support during lockdowns not including England had been fuelled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday when he told Parliament: \"If other parts of the UK decide to go into measures which require the furlough scheme then of course that is available to them - that applies not just now but in the future.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Sunak said: \"The furlough scheme was designed and delivered by the government of the United Kingdom on behalf of all the people of the United Kingdom - wherever they live.\n\n\"That has been the case since March; it is the case now; and it will remain the case until next March.\"\n\nThe chancellor also confirmed the Welsh Government will be receiving £600m more funding as a result of additional spending in England - bringing the total during the pandemic to £5bn.\n\nPaul Davies, who leads the Conservative group in the Senedd said furlough extension would be \"very re-assuring for a lot of Welsh workers and that again just shows the UK government's commitment to Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nSimon James says his firm has had a huge number of enquiries from companies wanting to make staff redundant\n\nSimon James, managing director of Cardiff-based Atlantic Resource recruitment services, has seen a \"very big influx\" of people made redundant because the furlough scheme had been coming to end.\n\nThey were \"preparing to do jobs that really they're not really wanting to do just to ensure they've got an income,\" he said.\n\nMr James said his firm's legal side had also had a \"massive influx of clients requesting information on how to make people redundant\".\n\nAlex Cole: \"It's tough times, it's worrying and stressful, but you have to carry on\"\n\nAlex Cole has worked in hospitality for 16 years was put on furlough in March and made redundant about five weeks ago.\n\nHe is hoping to get a job at a new Cardiff city centre restaurant and bar on which building work is currently being finished.\n\nMr Cole said his line of work had been \"shot again\" by the current Wales-wide 17-day lockdown \"which means my prospects - mine meaning millions of others within this industry - have been cut in half\".\n\n\"Applying for jobs is hard, there are loads of people going for the same roles, with the same qualifications, the same expertise in what they do.\n\n\"It's tough times, it's worrying and stressful, but you have to carry on, stay positive, stay strong.\"", "In the second question from the public, the PM is asked what consideration has been given to limited vaccine success and how we live with Covid going forward if they don't work.\n\nJohnson says there is a \"tripod we are resting our programme on the way ahead\", starting with therapeutics and medicines, moving to the testing regime, and then the vaccines.\n\n\"That's the way forward, but if you talk to the scientists they believe things will start naturally to improve in the spring for other reasons\", such as the improvement in weather conditions.\n\nThe PM adds: \"I think the real progress we are going to see is with science.\n\n\"There isn't a virus that has threatened humanity that we haven't beaten.\"\n\nSir Simon says there are six \"front runner\" vaccines and the ones coming first are the \"cleverest\", so he remains positive.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League is likely to scrap the controversial pay-per-view method for matches after November's international window.\n\nClubs will instead look to devise a new solution that will cover the Christmas period.\n\nA definitive decision was not taken at a shareholders' meeting on Thursday but discussions are said to be ongoing.\n\nHowever, the £14.95 fee - which led to significant protests among fan groups - is expected to be dropped.\n\nIt is understood the model used in September, when all games were shown live by the Premier League's broadcast partners, is the likely direction of travel.\n\nPay-per-view remains on the table but a final decision is not expected this week.\n\nIn a statement, the Premier League said shareholders met on Thursday \"to discuss a number of important issues\", including the broadcast options for matches following the international break.\n\n\"Discussions with all stakeholders are ongoing and a broadcast solution will be announced in due course,\" it added.\n\nMore than £300,000 has been raised for charity by fans boycotting pay-per-view games, which were introduced in October after clubs voted 19-1 in favour of the \"interim solution\".\n\nLiverpool's fan group the Spirit of Shankly described the decision to charge £14.95 as \"disgraceful\", while the Football Supporters' Association said many fans were \"concerned\" over the price and wanted it reduced.\n\nFollowing Thursday's meeting, an FSA spokesperson said: \"Supporters made clear their revulsion at the £15 cost to see their teams on Sky and BT Sport's pay-per-view platforms last month, an emotion running so deep that fan protests across the country even reached the ears of untouchable Premier League club owners.\n\n\"We await to see the detail of what the Premier League and its broadcasters will now offer supporters who remain locked out of grounds for the foreseeable future - they simply must come up with a solution that is affordable for all.\"\n\nNewcastle owner Mike Ashley and manager Steve Bruce have said the fee for one-off matches is too high, while former Manchester United and England right-back Gary Neville, now a Sky pundit, said the system \"just needs scrapping\".\n\nPay-per-view will still be used for this weekend's fixtures, for games not selected for regular television broadcast, and whatever decision is made would come into force from 21 November and is due to last for the rest of the year.\n\nLast month, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the £14.95 fee was \"defensible\", and the announcement of the model came at a time when top-flight clubs were lobbying for spectators to be allowed back into grounds.\n\nHowever, England has since entered a second national lockdown, which will last until 2 December, and hopes of an imminent return of fans have faded.\n\nIn September, all 28 Premier League matches were shown live, with all broadcast partners - Sky Sports, BT Sport, the BBC and Amazon Prime - screening matches.\n\nMeanwhile, the Premier League said its shareholders also reiterated that a rescue package remains on the table for EFL clubs suffering financially during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The offer guarantees no EFL club need go out of business as a result of the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, and our intention is to play an active role in helping clubs return to financial stability,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The Premier League will engage directly with any EFL club that is suffering severe financial losses due to the pandemic, and will remain in dialogue with the EFL on this important issue.\n\n\"The rescue package is on top of solidarity payments totalling £110m already advanced to the EFL this season, alongside additional financial support for youth development and community programmes.\"\n• Watch 13 first-round ties on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app this weekend. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A woman was arrested after removing her mother, who has dementia, from her care home\n\nA retired nurse was arrested after she removed her 97-year-old mother from a care home before lockdown began.\n\nYlenia Angeli, 73, said she took \"drastic action\" due to a lack of face-to-face contact during the pandemic.\n\nShe said she wanted to care for her mother, who has dementia, herself. She was returned to the home and Ms Angeli was released without further action.\n\nHumberside Police said it was called to reports of an assault. The care home has declined to comment.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman said they \"understand how difficult the current situation is\" and would be publishing new guidance to enable more visits to take place in a safe and \"Covid-secure\" environment.\n\nMs Angeli, from Market Weighton, was later de-arrested and the force said it was their \"legal duty\" to return her mother to the care home.\n\nThe incident took place on Tuesday as Ms Angeli visited her mother with her daughter, former Coronation Street actress Leandra Ashton, who filmed the arrest.\n\nMs Ashton said her mother, who previously lived in Shetland, had been pushed to \"breaking point\" because they had been unable to see her grandmother for nine months.\n\nShe said: \"When we got there things just escalated. We didn't plan it, it was just a moment of high emotions.\"\n\nLeandra Ashton said care home restrictions on seeing family had meant her grandmother's condition had deteriorated\n\nMs Ashton said the family had been allowed \"window visits\" or Skype calls but these had caused too much distress to her grandmother.\n\n\"Because the home are now stopping window visits due to the lockdown, we we were desperate to see her,\" she explained.\n\n\"My mum has wanted to look after for her for a very long time and it just seemed like an opportunity to physically take her.\"\n\nMs Ashton, from York, appeared in Coronation Street in 2016 as Saskia Larson, whose fiance Will Chatterton had an affair with wedding planner Michelle Connor.\n\nShe said the family only had power of attorney over her grandmother's finances but not her health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Every attempt to see my Nan has been met with inflexibility,\" she said.\n\n\"Other homes have been creative in how they've allowed relatives to visit but we've just constantly hit a brick wall.\n\n\"These are such desperate times and there doesn't seem to be a rational explanation as to why we can't find a safe way.\"\n\nIn a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Noble, of Humberside Police, said the force responded to \"a report of an assault at a care home\" in Market Weighton at 11:15 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nHe added: \"The care home had also reported that a woman who they were legally responsible for had been taken from the home by her daughter.\n\n\"Officers found both women along with a third woman nearby and informed them that they would need to return the lady to the home, as is their legal duty to do so.\n\n\"The situation was distressing and emotional for everyone and the woman did not want her mother to be returned to the care home staff.\"\n\nACC Noble said officers \"briefly\" restrained Mrs Agneli until the situation was under control.\n\nThe spokesman at Downing Street said there was not a \"one-size-fits all answer unfortunately\" to whether families could take their loved ones out of care homes.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None 'I have cancer but I am not going to shield'", "Cases and hospital admissions have been steadily rising\n\nThere were more than 100,000 new cases of coronavirus in the US on Wednesday - a record one-day increase.\n\nThe figure, reported by the Covid Tracking Project, is accompanied by a steep rise in hospital admissions - suggesting that it is not solely due to increased testing.\n\nMore than 1,100 deaths linked to coronavirus were recorded on Wednesday.\n\nThe Covid crisis is being overshadowed by tensions over vote counting in the fraught aftermath of the US election.\n\nMore than 50,000 people across the US are currently in hospital with coronavirus - an increase of about 64% from early October.\n\nAverage daily death rates in the country have also been increasing again, although they are still lower than at the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post newspaper on Friday, commenting on the US nearing 100,00 cases, the country's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci said: \"We're in for a whole lot of hurt.\"\n\nHe added that the US \"could not possibly be positioned more poorly\", with colder weather driving people indoors.\n\nIn response, White House spokesman Judd Deere said the comments were \"unacceptable and breaking with all norms\".\n\nWith almost 9.5 million total coronavirus infections and more than 233,000 deaths, the US has both the highest number of cases and the highest total death toll in the world.", "A worker shuts the doors in a bar in Bristol city centre, ahead of the lockdown beginning\n\nPeople who seriously flout new lockdown restrictions in England will face steep fines, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has warned.\n\nUnder the rules, people have been told to stay at home and non-essential shops, pubs and gyms ordered to close.\n\nHouseholds are also banned from mixing indoors or in private gardens, unless in a support bubble.\n\nCurrently there is a £200 fine for each breach which doubles on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give a Downing Street press conference at 17:00 GMT, alongside NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor extended the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March - paying up to 80% of an employee's wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Buckland said law enforcement would continue its approach of \"policing by consent\" to encourage the public to comply with the four-week lockdown.\n\nBut he added that police would respond to \"egregious breaches\" and then the law would \"take its course\".\n\nHe said: \"Where a more intense intervention is needed then the police will be involved and of course the fine structure is still in force.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From getting your bike repaired to going to the vet, Laura Foster explains the things you're allowed to do this lockdown\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council has also warned the most serious offenders will face fines.\n\nMr Buckland said he supported the police clamping down on the \"tiny minority\" of people who are not willing to obey the lockdown.\n\n\"I think the message has to go out very clearly that this will only work if we all play our part,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThere will also be an expansion of the number of Covid marshals, who help ensure social distancing rules are followed in local communities, according to Mr Buckland.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told MPs the extension of the furlough scheme, which the government will review in January, would \"give people and businesses up and down our country immense comfort over what will be a difficult winter\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Holyrood she had not seen the detail of the announcement, but she would \"unreservedly welcome\" an extension of furlough on 80% terms.\n\nHer Welsh counterpart Mark Drakeford tweeted that the announcement gave businesses and workers \"some certainty\".\n\nElsewhere, the governor of the Bank of England has vowed to do \"everything we can\" to support the economy, announcing a further £150bn of support. It has left interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.1%.\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs backed the lockdown, which aims to combat a surge in coronavirus cases and replaces the three tiers of regional restrictions that were previously in place across England.\n\nMr Johnson has said the lockdown will \"expire automatically\" on 2 December, and there is expected to be another vote on the next steps needed to tackle the virus before it ends.\n\nIt came as the UK recorded a further 492 coronavirus deaths - the highest daily figure since 19 May - and 25,177 confirmed cases.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, people should stay at home except for specific reasons including education and work, if it cannot be done from home.\n\nAll non-essential retailers, leisure and entertainment venues must shut, with pubs and restaurants told to close except for takeaways.\n\nDowning Street said there was \"no change\" to a ban on religious services, after Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, said there was no scientific evidence for the decision.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said the government was continuing to work with faith leaders and added places of worship were open for private prayer.\n\nUnlike the first lockdown in March, schools, universities, and nurseries will remain open, and people will be able to meet another person who they do not live with in an outdoor public place such as a park or beach.\n\nThe rules say people cannot mix with anyone they do not live with indoors or in private gardens.", "Constantine said it felt \"liberating\" to publicly acknowledge her alcohol battle for the first time\n\nFormer What Not To Wear presenter Susannah Constantine has revealed she is an alcoholic and has been in recovery for almost seven years.\n\nThe TV host said she previously felt \"a lot of shame\" about her drinking.\n\nBut she added it has been \"liberating\" to publicly acknowledge it for the first time.\n\n\"I'm an alcoholic and I've been in recovery for nearly seven years now,\" Constantine told the My Mate Bought A Toaster podcast.\n\nThe 58-year-old has previously referred to giving up alcohol, but not discussed the full extent of her drinking.\n\nIn 2017, she told The Mirror: \"I stopped drinking entirely three years ago. Alcohol is fun when you're younger, but it's also a crutch, and it wasn't having a great impact on my life. Nowadays, I'm happy writing and gathering dust at my desk.\"\n\nConstantine co-presented five series of the BBC's What Not To Wear in the early 2000s, alongside her long-time friend and collaborator Trinny Woodall, who has previously discussed her own alcohol addiction.\n\nMore recently, Constantine appeared on the 2018 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She was partnered with Anton Du Beke and the pair were voted out first.\n\nTrinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine presented five series of What Not To Wear\n\nSpeaking to podcast host Tom Price about her battle with alcohol, Constantine said: \"It's not something I've spoken about before really, but it's important.\"\n\nShe went on to explain how her addiction to alcohol caused her to behave towards those closest to her.\n\n\"As an addict, often what you would do, and certainly what I did, I would put all my own defects - I would find someone else to attach them to,\" she explained.\n\n\"And so I thought my husband was passive aggressive, but actually I was the one who was passive aggressive. And that I've realised over time and being in recovery.\n\n\"I was the awful, angry, passive-aggressive one and my poor husband was the one who had to live with it.\"\n\nConstantine has been married to her husband, Danish businessman and entrepreneur Sten Bertelsen, since 1995.\n\nShe gave up drinking in 2013, and said her addiction did not affect her work because she was a \"highly functioning\" alcoholic.\n\nConstantine took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018\n\nConstantine also told the podcast about the moment she first acknowledged she had a problem.\n\n\"It was so liberating. I felt a lot of shame most of the time... the relief was so immense because I could change it,\" she said.\n\n\"I wasn't having to try and change someone else. It was down to me. I was responsible and accountable for becoming a better person and getting sober and well.\n\n\"And so it was the most extraordinary relief to have that light-bulb moment.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What happened to Trinny after Susannah?", "Sainsbury's is to cut 3,500 jobs with the closure of 420 Argos outlets and all its meat, fish and deli counters.\n\nThe 420 standalone Argos stores will close by March 2024, although Sainsbury's said it would open 150 Argos outlets in its supermarkets.\n\nBoss Simon Roberts said Sainsbury's was responding to changing consumer habits and the growth of online shopping.\n\nHe said the counter closures was a response to lower customer demand and a desire to reduce food waste.\n\nThe supermarket also reported half-year results, revealing a £137m loss which it blamed on closures and \"market changes\".\n\nIt comes on the day England enters a second lockdown, which Sainsbury's said would continue to accelerate \"a number of shifts in our industry\" as it expands its online and digital operations.\n\nSainsbury's, which bought Argos in 2016, said in its statement that the 120 standalone Argos stores that had not reopened since they were closed in March would now shut permanently.\n\nBy the end of the restructuring programme, Sainsbury's said it expected the total number of standalone Argos outlets to be about 100. The restructuring will save about £600m by 2024, the grocer said.\n\nIn addition to the 150 Argos stores it plans to open in its supermarkets by 2024, it also plans a further 150-200 collection points.\n\n\"We are talking to colleagues today about where the changes we are announcing in Argos standalone stores and food counters impact their roles,\" said Simon Roberts, Sainsbury's chief executive.\n\n\"We will work really hard to find alternative roles for as many of these colleagues as possible and expect to be able to offer alternative roles for the majority of impacted colleagues.\"\n\nHe said the aim was to make Argos \"a simpler, more efficient and more profitable business\". Products from the Habitat brand will also be more widely available in the stores and via Argos.\n\n\"Our other brands - Argos, Habitat, Tu, Nectar and Sainsbury's Bank - must deliver for their customers and for our shareholders in their own right,\" he said.\n\nDespite the cutting of the 3,500 roles, the supermarket expects that it will have created about 6,000 net new jobs by the end of the year.\n\nSainsbury's said it was responding to changing consumer demands\n\nHowever, the redundancies increase the mounting jobs toll announced by companies facing a coronavirus hit to trading.\n\nOn Wednesday, John Lewis and Lloyds Banking Group said they were cutting a combined 2,500 jobs.\n\nMore than 200,000 potential job losses have been announced across sectors including banking, hospitality, travel and retail since the start of Covid-19 pandemic in March. Thousands more workers remain on furlough.\n\nDespite Sainsbury's cost-cutting, the company said on Thursday it would pay out a special dividend of 7.3p to shareholders after strong sales in the face of Covid-19.\n\nSainsbury's revealed that total like-for-like sales increased by 6.9% for the 28 weeks to 19 September, helped by an 8.2% growth in groceries. The supermarket also said there had been \"stronger-than-expected sales, particularly at Argos\".\n\nOnline sales more than doubled, jumping 117% to £5.8bn, as demand for online deliveries surged.\n\nAnalysts said the Argos restructuring seemed sensible in the current climate, and Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, felt opening more in-store operations could be an \"ace in the hole\" this Christmas.\n\n\"The brand is synonymous with festive shopping for a generation of consumers, but it needs to ensure that the delivery service is able to meet demand in lockdown,\" she said.\n\nHowever, John Colley, associate dean of Warwick Business School, said the announcement was an admission that the £1.4bn purchase of Argos was a mistake.\n\n\"The closure of a further 420... Argos stores says it all. Sainsbury's management clearly did not know how to run Argos and the plan to transplant into spare store space has not worked.\n\n\"There was always a concern that Argos and Sainsbury's appealed to very different customer segments with little overlap. That seems now to be true,\" he said.\n\nThese Argos closures were on the cards long before the pandemic. When Sainsbury's bought the business in 2016, it was clear that hundreds of Argos stores would be closed and relocated inside Sainsbury's supermarkets.\n\nThis integration is already well under way and it's easy to see why the business is accelerating these plans. Sales at Argos grew by 11% over the last six months despite all its stores being shut during lockdown. It doesn't need as many standalone Argos shops.\n\nThe company says our shifting shopping habits is also behind the need to close its deli, fresh fish and meat counters. Counters aren't cheap to run and demand, it says, has been falling.\n\nSainsbury's needs to cut costs, partly so it can invest in lowering its prices to keep up with the intense competition. Customers will vote with their feet if they've got it wrong.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"These coronavirus regulations do not change the existing legal position on assisted dying.\"\n\nPeople travelling abroad for the purpose of assisted dying will not be breaking coronavirus travel rules, the health secretary has said.\n\nNew lockdown rules in England place restrictions on leaving home without a reasonable excuse.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told MPs that seeking an assisted death abroad counted as a reasonable excuse.\n\nHe also stressed that it remains a criminal offence to encourage or assist the death of another person.\n\nHe was replying to Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, who said new coronavirus regulations could \"deter\" people from travelling to Switzerland for an assisted death.\n\nMr Mitchell referred to an article in the Times by a mental health professional who said the pandemic meant she would travel to Switzerland for an assisted death \"before I am truly ready\".\n\nJane Parker is 69 from Devon was diagnosed with motor neurone disease last October.\n\n\"It is killing me and has already taken my speech, my ability to swallow and is now robbing me of my breathing,\" she says.\n\n\"I have only months left and I want to be able to choose how and when I die, but the current law in the UK denies me this right.\n\n\"Before lockdown, I could have travelled to Switzerland with suitable advance preparations and cash, accompanied by brave family members who are prepared to risk a police interview and possible arrest.\n\n\"Although I would much prefer to be able to die in my own bed and not have to travel to a foreign country to die, knowing the option of Dignitas was there brought me comfort.\n\n\"But now the latest lockdown has made this is virtually impossible.\n\n\"While the health secretary has said today that travelling abroad for an assisted death is permitted under lockdown, there are now vanishingly few flights to Switzerland, it is impossible to plan ahead with the ever-changing restrictions, and it is extremely difficult to get hold of the documents you need to prove that you are terminally ill and of sound mind.\n\n\"And so I must contemplate letting nature take its course, with no guarantee that end of life care will be enough to relieve my suffering, or try to hasten my end by refusing food through my PEG [Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] tube and effectively starving to death.\n\n\"I find it barbaric that these are the only options now open to me, and I know there will be terminally ill people across the country facing the same stark choices.\n\n\"The time has come to review these cruel laws and I hope the health secretary will give people in my position the opportunity to have our voices heard.\"\n\nSarah Wootton, chief executive of campaign group Dignity in Dying, said: \"The pandemic has proven what we have long known, that banning assisted dying does not protect people; it merely drives the practice overseas and underground and criminalises acts of genuine compassion.\n\n\"Parliamentarians must step up and grasp this nettle. Gathering evidence on what is really going on under the ban on assisted dying can only help them in that task, and a review of the functioning and impact of our current law would give terminally ill Brits and their loved ones a much-needed voice in this debate.\"\n\nIntentionally helping another person to kill themselves is known as assisted suicide - this can include buying someone a ticket to Switzerland (where assisted suicide is legal) to end their life.\n\nDignity in Dying are campaigning for a law that would allow assisted dying, for those who are terminally ill.\n\nThe Care Not Killing alliance, which is against assisted dying, argues that changing the law could result in elderly or vulnerable people feeling under greater pressure to end their lives.\n\nLast month, New Zealand voted in a referendum to allow terminally ill people with less than six months to live the opportunity to choose assisted dying if approved by two doctors.\n\nAddressing MPs, Mr Hancock said \"Under current law, based on the Suicide Act 1961, it is an offence to encourage or assist the death of another person.\n\n\"However, it is legal to travel abroad for the purpose of assisted dying where it is allowed in that jurisdiction.\n\n\"The new coronavirus regulations which come into force today place restrictions on leaving the home without a reasonable excuse.\n\n\"Travelling abroad for the purpose of assisted dying is a reasonable excuse and so anyone doing so would not be breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added that the \"question of how we best support people in their choices at the end of their life is a complex moral issue that, when considered, weighs heavily upon us all.\"\n\n\"I think it is right that we locate this question within a broader discussion of how we care for people at the end of their lives which has become sadly - due to the coronavirus pandemic - a central issue of public debate in this country,\" said the health secretary.\n\nOpponents to a bill legalising assisted dying protest outside Parliament in 2014\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth welcomed Mr Hancock's \"sensitive\" tone but said: \"Charities have warned that since the March lockdown terminally ill people are ending their lives in the most traumatic of circumstances because of a lack of clarity - although he has given clarity today - but until that point a lack of clarity about the law.\"\n\nConservative MP Daniel Kawcynski told MPs his opinion on the subject had been changed by his constituent Noel Conway from Garmston who lives near Shrewsbury.\n\n\"I said to him, 'why don't you go to Switzerland?'. And his answer will stay with me forever: 'No, I'm an Englishman, I want to die in England.' And I think it's extremely important that our citizens have this right.\"\n\nBut his Conservative colleague, Fiona Bruce, said the pandemic had left people feeling vulnerable and argued that it would be \"completely inappropriate indeed insensitive to go anywhere near considering making access to any form of suicide easier at this time\".", "World War Two veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore raised £33m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden\n\nCaptain Sir Tom Moore has launched a new campaign to get people walking to help support those who feel \"lonely and frightened\" during lockdown.\n\nThe veteran raised £33m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday.\n\nCapt Sir Tom said: \"We are in a difficult situation but we'll get through it if we all join together.\"\n\nThe challenge encourages people to log their walking on social media using the hashtag #WalkWithTom over the next week.\n\nCapt Sir Tom hopes to raise money for his foundation, which aims to combat loneliness and support those facing bereavement.\n\nThe army veteran, who lives in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine, released his autobiography this summer\n\nThe 100-year-old, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, said he has \"always been optimistic things will improve\".\n\nHe said the second England-wide lockdown would be difficult but \"we will get through it\".\n\nCapt Sir Tom said: \"We've got to consider that during this next coming period there are going to be a lot of unhappy people who are lonely and frightened and we need to go out and help those people.\n\n\"That's why we've got the Captain Tom Foundation.\"\n\nSet up in September, it works with four charities, the mental health charity Mind, The Royal British Legion, Helen and Douglas House children's hospice in Oxfordshire, and Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes.\n\nCapt Sir Tom was knighted by the Queen in a \"unique ceremony\" on 17 July\n\nCapt Sir Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said the family had been \"given an incredible gift of a voice and platform to do powerfully positive things with\".\n\nShe said they wanted to \"remind people that we are British and we can get through this\".\n\n\"We would like everyone to walk together with Tom so we can help support those who are lonely,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A six-year-old boy who had an aggressive form of leukaemia has switched on the Christmas lights in Worcester, the city where people raised thousands of pounds to help save him.\n\nOscar Saxelby-Lee, who lives with his family in Worcester, flew with his parents to Singapore for CAR-T therapy, after more than £700,000 was raised through crowdfunding.\n\nOlivia Saxelby, Oscar's mother, previously said that the therapy was not available to Oscar on the NHS. Any money left over from his treatment will go to the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust.\n\nMrs Saxelby said turning on the lights was a lovely way to end the year.", "Paul Farrell is alleged to have targeted victims between 1985 and 2018\n\nA former Great Ormond Street Hospital porter has admitted sexual offences against six boys over 35 years.\n\nPaul Farrell, 55, pleaded guilty to 58 sex offences against children carried out between 1985 and 2020.\n\nThe charges relate to six victims, who cannot be named, who are now aged between eight and 43.\n\nFarrell, from Camden, appearing at Wood Green Crown Court, admitted charges including attempted rape and the sexual assault of a child aged under 13.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to 33 charges, having previously admitted 25 counts at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe has denied a further 21 charges, including rape.\n\nThe court heard Farrell held a number of positions, including working as a porter at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) between 1994 and 2020.\n\nAt least two victims allege they were sexually abused by Farrell at the hospital.\n\nJudge Noel Lucas said: \"The prosecution have made it clear that this is not a case where it is alleged that Mr Farrell was targeting children at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\n\"Rather that children were abused in parts of the hospital in which he had access.\"\n\nAccording to the charges, Farrell continued to offend until June this year.\n\nOne boy, under the age of 13, says he was sexually assaulted \"during lockdown\".\n\nIn a statement the hospital said: \"These charges relating to a former member of GOSH staff are awful.\n\n\"It is upsetting to hear in court today that some of the charges relate to the hospital site.\n\n\"It is important to stress, as stated by the judge today, that GOSH patients were not targeted.\n\n\"Due to the ongoing legal proceedings, we are really limited in what we can say, but we can confirm again that Paul Farrell was dismissed from the Trust.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Simon Read was found to have intentionally scanned the wrong barcode\n\nA police officer accused of trying to buy a £9.95 box of doughnuts for seven pence by sticking on a cheaper barcode has been sacked for gross misconduct.\n\nPC Simon Read, from Cambridgeshire Police, was found to have switched the price for the cakes at a Wisbech supermarket on 10 February.\n\nA misconduct hearing found he had breached professional standards of honesty and integrity.\n\nPC Read, who had denied the charges, was dismissed without notice.\n\nPC Read had previously worked at several royal weddings and a visit to Blenheim Palace by Donald Trump\n\nAt the two-day hearing in Peterborough PC Read said he had made an honest mistake at a Tesco Extra self-service till.\n\nWhile in uniform, he said he purchased four items from the store - the tray of 12 doughnuts, the carrots, a sandwich and a drink.\n\nThe hearing was told he scanned the carrots barcode twice and failed to scan the doughnuts barcode, paying around £4 for the items instead of about £14.\n\nHe said: \"I simply scanned where I believed the barcodes were and placed them down (in the bagging area).\"\n\nThe panel ruled his explanation was \"lacking in credibility\".\n\nA manager at Tesco Extra reported his \"suspicious\" actions to the police\n\nSharmistha Michaels, chairwoman of the disciplinary panel, said: \"On the balance of probabilities we are satisfied that PC Read did intentionally scan the wrong barcode.\"\n\nPC Read had previously said: \"I didn't check the screen. I wish I had have done.\"\n\nMs Michaels said CCTV footage showed him looking at it at the time as he selected his method of payment.\n\nShe added that if he intended to pay the correct price he could have checked that he scanned the right barcode and it if was a \"genuine mistake\" he had opportunities to put it right.\n\nHis actions were \"incompatible with his role as a police officer\".\n\nMark Ley-Morgan, a lawyer who set out the misconduct case, said it was \"an officer effectively stealing while in uniform\".\n\nCarolina Bracken, PC Read's lawyer, said he had an \"unblemished career\", had served in the armed forces, before he joined Cambridgeshire police in January and had served with Thames Valley Police from 2008.\n\nMs Bracken said the case weighed heavily on him and he had received prank calls in the night from people offering him doughnuts.\n\nPC Read has the right to appeal the decision.\n\nAfter the ruling the Jane Gyford, deputy Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police, said: \"The public should be able to trust that police officers in their duty will act with honesty and integrity at all times.\n\n\"I hope this outcome offers reassurance to our communities that our officers and staff will be held to account for their actions.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pig guts were thrown and scuffles broke out in Taiwan's parliament over the easing of US pork imports.\n\nThe government have been criticised for a recent decision to allow pork containing ractopamine in to the country.\n\nThe additive ractopamine is currently banned for pig use in Taiwan, as well as in China and the European Union, due to concerns about safety for animals and humans.\n\nRead more: Pig guts fly as Taiwan lawmakers brawl over US pork imports", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Drinkers visiting pubs in tier two regions will have to leave when they finish eating, under new restrictions being introduced from 2 December, No 10 has confirmed.\n\nUnder the post-lockdown guidance, pubs in those high risk areas can only open if they function as a restaurant.\n\nAnd alcohol can only be served as part of a \"substantial meal\".\n\nPubs and restaurants are currently closed across England, apart from for takeaways.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman, asked how long drinkers can stay in a pub after buying a meal, said: \"We've been clear that, in tier two I believe, that you need to have a substantial meal if ordering any alcohol and it remains the case that the guidance says that once the meal is finished, it is at that point [you have to leave].\"\n\nPeople can currently meet in Wales for a drink\n\nWhen the current lockdown ends, the rules will change according to where you live.\n\nIn tier two regions, pubs and restaurants must shut at 23:00 GMT, with last orders an hour earlier.\n\nYou can only socialise inside with people you live with, or those in your support bubble if you live alone. Groups of up to six can meet outside, but social distancing must be adhered to.\n\nIn tier three, very high risk areas, you cannot mix with anyone outside your household either indoors or in pub gardens or private gardens. Hospitality venues - such as bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants - must stay closed, except for delivery and takeaway services.\n\nIn tier one, medium level, people can meet inside or outside in groups of up to six. Most of England is in tier two or three, however, with only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and Isles of Scilly in tier one.\n\nStricter measures for pubs, restaurants and bars will come into force in Wales on 4 December, it was announced on Friday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in a two-week circuit-breaker lockdown, with cafes, coffee shops, pubs, bars and restaurants closed, except for takeaways and deliveries. And in Scotland, the rules on pubs and restaurants depend where your region is placed in the four-tier system.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchools must be closed early ahead of the festive break to help children and teachers avoid having to self-isolate on Christmas Day, a union has warned.\n\nThe UCAC teaching union said coronavirus cases in schools could force whole class \"bubbles\" into self-isolation over the holidays.\n\nThe union said schools should close on 11 December and move lessons online.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said there were no plans to close schools early.\n\nIn a letter to Education Minister Kirsty Williams, the union said there were \"serious concerns\" among UCAC members \"that pupils and students will continue to attend an educational setting a week before Christmas Day\".\n\nMost schools are due to break up in the week starting 14 December, but if positive cases are found in pupils' class bubbles, children would have to self-isolate for two weeks, meaning some may have to isolate on Christmas Day.\n\n\"If a pupil or student tested positive with Covid-19 during the last week of term, it would mean that the whole bubble would have to self-isolate, preventing them from joining their extended family for Christmas,\" General Secretary Dilwyn Roberts-Young said in the letter.\n\n\"The same could be true for the education workforce.\n\n\"In addition, Test, Trace and Protect could continue to contact school and colleges leaders on Christmas Day, which is totally unacceptable.\"\n\nThe union said that closing schools early would give families \"greater reassurance\" that they could get together to celebrate during the five day Christmas travel rules.\n\n\"We are acutely aware of the need to ensure continuity of learning for all pupils and students in Wales, particularly in the wake of the disruption earlier in the year, which has continued to some extent since September,\" the letter said.\n\n\"We believe that making an early announcement on this would not only allow the workforce to prepare thoroughly for that week, but also enable families to make alternative childcare arrangements as needed.\"\n\nIt said a survey of members prompted a thousand responses with 75% in favour of online learning in the final week of term.\n\nThe union has also asked the minister to consider an alternative or parallel move to offer Covid tests to staff members once contact with pupils and students has come to an end, from 18 December onwards.\n\nSome local authorities are also believed to be in favour of closing school sites a week early, though provision for children of key workers and vulnerable children would be one potential concern.\n\nThe latest Public Health Wales figures show that 50.3% of primary schools and 87.9% of secondary schools have had at least one Covid-19 case since the start of term.\n\nThere were 414 positive tests amongst school pupils or staff in the week up to 25 November.\n\nFace masks are now compulsory in communal areas in schools across Wales\n\nHowever Mr Drakeford said he had \"no intention\" in allowing schools to close early.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to keep our schools working up until Christmas,\" he said during the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing on Friday.\n\n\"We'll do that alongside the unions, the head teachers and the local education authorities.\n\n\"It is more important for our children not to miss out further on the education planned for them for the whole of the rest of this term. That's what we will be working to achieve.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI Political Reporter Jayne McCormack explains what the new restrictions mean for people in Northern Ireland\n\nNew guidance has been issued to help retailers run a click and collect service in a controlled way during NI's two-week circuit breaker.\n\nTougher new Covid-19 restrictions came into force across NI on Friday.\n\nNon-essential retailers have been told to close except for click-and-collect services.\n\nOn Friday morning, a framework setting out how these services can be provided safely was published by the Department for the Economy.\n\nThe department said click and collect facilities will operate \"on an appointment-only basis with maximum mitigations in place\".\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said the guidance will \"help business owners and customers ensure they are operating safely and within Northern Ireland legislation\".\n\nThe framework includes guidance such as:\n\nIn other restrictions, cafes and restaurants can only provide a take-away service and close-contact services such as hairdressers and beauty salons have to close.\n\nThe restrictions came into force at 00:01 GMT on Friday and will be in place until 00:01 on 11 December.\n\nIt means Northern Ireland will revert to similar measures introduced in March, with the exception of schools remaining open.\n\nGarden centres, supermarkets and homeware stores are exempt from closing under the new regulations.\n\nMrs Dodds has also confirmed that the closing date for applications to Part A and Part B of the Covid Restrictions Business Support Scheme has been extended to 16 December.\n\nShe said payments to eligible businesses will be extended to cover the latest restrictions agreed by the executive.\n\nIt is hoped the measures, announced by the Stormont Executive, will help control the spread of coronavirus and bring the reproduction (R) number down ahead of the Christmas period.\n\nOn Thursday, First Minister Arlene Foster said R number in Northern Ireland was \"just below 1\", but the two-week circuit breaker was \"crucial... so that we can all have the safest and the happiest Christmas possible\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was important to reduce the transmission rate to \"as low as possible\" and \"do everything possible to limit the number of people you come into contact with\".\n\nThe run-up to the festive period is traditionally the busiest time of the year for the businesses affected by the latest lockdown and the decision has been criticised by retailers and the groups which represent them.\n\nLisa and Peter Mahaffey own a gift shop in Bangor, County Down.\n\nThey extended their opening hours this week to cope with the big rise in customers attempting to beat both the lockdown and the Christmas rush.\n\nBut they say the new rules over what constitutes essential retail are confusing as a large proportion of the items sold in the shop are homeware.\n\nGift shop owner Peter Mahaffey says there needs to be more clarity on what constitutes essential retail\n\n\"All the big retailers like Sainsbury's and Tesco don't close, but they sell the same stuff that we sell. We don't know where we really stand,\" said Mr Mahaffey.\n\nHe thinks the other main issue is the timing of the move by Stormont.\n\n\"They would have been much better closing us at the beginning of November and letting us re-open now with the run-in to Christmas,\" he said.\n\n\"This is our busiest time of the year. The main time is just being taken away from us.\"\n\nThe doors may be closed to customers, but Christmas stock deliveries are still arriving at shops.\n\nJenny Doherty, from a book shop shop in Londonderry, is not sure if online sales will be enough to clear that stock and pay the suppliers.\n\nShe is not sure yet what the financial hit will be and she said not having customers coming in at this time of year is \"frightening\".\n\nShe added: \"Books aren't perishable. There will be a plan B, but I do worry.\"\n\nFlorist Penny Hamilton is also trialling a click-and-collect service at her east Belfast shop, but is worried it will not suit some of her older customers.\n\n\"They are used to coming in and being able to smell all the flowers and see all the colours,\" she said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is a generation that maybe don't understand, or even have, mobile phones, so it's difficult for them.\"", "People coming to the UK from Estonia and Latvia will need to quarantine from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe two Baltic states have been taken off of the UK government's travel corridor list.\n\nAt the same time, Aruba, Bhutan, East Timor, Mongolia and some Pacific islands have been added, meaning travellers from those places will not need to self-isolate.\n\nHowever, current rules ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.\n\nThe UK government has also changed its rules on Denmark, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nWhile travellers from Denmark to the UK will still need to self-isolate, the government is lifting the \"total travel ban\" on Saturday.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently advises against all but essential travel to Denmark amid concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 14 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nFrom 15 December, people who need to quarantine will only need to do so for five days - if they pay for a private Covid test and are virus free.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nMaking the announcement on Thursday, Mr Shapps said latest data means Estonia and Latvia must be taken off the list.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in Latvia in recent weeks, according to the Foreign Office. The Latvian government has announced a state of emergency lasting until 6 December.\n\nEstonia's government has also introduced extra restrictions from 24 November.\n\nMr Shapps said Bhutan, East Timor, Mongolia, Aruba and six Pacific islands (Samoa, Kiribati, Micronesia, Tonga, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands) had been added to the list, effective from 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nIn England until 2 December, foreign travel is currently only permitted for work, education or if someone has another valid reason.\n\nPeople can only travel in and out of Wales with a reasonable excuse, such as going to work or school.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, people are advised to only travel for necessary reasons and to \"carefully consider\" their holiday and travel options, in light of the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, people living in higher risk areas should avoid unnecessary travel to other places.", "Topshop owner Arcadia is in talks with lenders to secure around £30m in funding following the second coronavirus lockdown in England.\n\nThe discussions, revealed by Sky News, are understood to be progressing and a deal could be close to being reached.\n\nAnother report suggested that Arcadia is drawing up plans to place the business into administration.\n\nBut the company said: \"It is not true that administrators are about to be appointed.\"\n\n\"Clearly, the second UK lockdown presents a further challenge for all retailers and we are taking all appropriate steps to protect our employees and other stakeholders from its consequences.\"\n\nIt is understood that Arcadia - led by Sir Philip Green - has contingency plans in place regarding the future of the business but there is confidence it will secure financing to continue trading.\n\nAs well as Topshop, the group also owns the chains Topman, Miss Selfridge, Evans, Burton and Dorothy Perkins.\n\nNon-essential retailers in England have been forced to close for four weeks until 2 December to contain the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nDuring the first country-wide lockdown, Arcadia furloughed the vast majority of its 13,000-strong workforce across more than 500 outlets.\n\nSir Philip Green leads Arcadia while his wife, Lady Cristina Green, is its biggest shareholder\n\nStaff at its shops in England have been placed back on the government's wage subsidy scheme though its stores in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have now reopened.\n\nArcadia said: \"We are continuing to trade online through our own channels as well as through those of our partners.\"\n\nHowever, Debenhams, a major Arcadia partner which sells a number of its brands, is facing its own challenges. The department store chain is in administration and is in talks to find a buyer.\n\nArcadia underwent restructuring last year through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). It agreed to shut 50 shops, secured a rent cut with landlords on property and struck a deal with the Pension Protection Fund to put money into the company's pension schemes.\n\nAt the time, the pension scheme deficit was estimated to be around £700m but the Sunday Times reported it is now £350m on a buyout basis.\n\nIn a deal with the Pensions Regulator, trustees of Arcadia's pension schemes were granted security over £210m worth of assets by the company.\n\nSir Philip's wife, Lady Cristina Green, who is Arcadia's biggest shareholder, agreed to pump £100m into the schemes over three years while Arcadia said it would inject a further £75m.\n\nSir Philip faced controversy over the pension scheme at one of his other businesses, BHS, which he sold to Dominic Chappell for £1 in 2015.\n\nBHS collapsed a year later, with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a pension deficit of £571m.\n\nSir Philip reached a deal with the Pensions Regulator to inject £363m into that scheme.\n\nMore recently, Chappell was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of tax evasion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Covid uncertainty is \"awful\", pub owner Sian Shepphard says\n\nPubs, restaurants and bars will be subject to stricter Covid-19 restrictions in the run up to Christmas, the first minister has said.\n\nThe new restrictions, which have not yet been finalised, will come into force from Friday, 4 December.\n\nThey may be based on the system in some parts of Scotland where no alcohol can be served.\n\nCinemas, bowling alleys and indoor entertainment venues will also have to shut before the festive break.\n\nA date for these to close has not yet been agreed.\n\nMark Drakeford said action was needed as case rates continued to rise in the run up to Christmas.\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives said any new restrictions would be a \"real blow\" for businesses who had already \"suffered greatly\", while Plaid Cymru said the lack of detail was leaving employers unable to prepare.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants had only reopened on 9 November after the Wales-wide 17-day lockdown, and are currently made to close at 22:00 GMT.\n\nAhead of the announcement people working in the hospitality industry had warned any further restrictions before Christmas would be a \"big blow\".\n\nPlans for the new rules have not yet been finalised, but BBC Wales understands one option being considered is the \"level three\" Scottish system, where venues are banned from selling alcohol and have to close at 18:00.\n\nThe R rate - the number of people each infected person passed the virus on to - has risen again to 1.4 in Wales, with the rate needing to be below one for the number of cases to fall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need to reduce Covid spread before Christmas\"\n\nIn England about 55 million people are being placed under the tightest level of lockdown rules from 2 December, when an England-wide lockdown ends and a new tiered system is introduced.\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing, Mr Drakeford said Wales had to use the \"coming weeks\" to reduce the spread of the virus, to \"create more headroom for the Christmas period\".\n\nMr Drakeford said while case rates had fallen following the 17-day firebreak, as people had resumed socialising it they had risen \"faster and further than we anticipated\", and action was needed.\n\nA further major package of financial support for businesses affected will be announced on Monday\n\n\"This does not mean a return to the firebreak arrangements, but the cabinet has agreed to take further specific and targeted action to reinforce the current national measures we have place,\" he said.\n\nMr Drakeford said he could \"not rule anything out for the future\" in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nNon-essential retail, hairdressers, gyms and leisure centres will stay open, it was confirmed.\n\nSpeaking of the new measures for pubs, bars and restaurants, Mr Drakeford added: \"I know this will be a worrying time for all working in the industry.\n\n\"We will be working over the weekend with partners to finalise the details of the new arrangements and to put in place a further major package of financial support to respond to those changes.\n\n\"I will give further details about the package on Monday.\"\n\nClaire Vaughan, programme manager at Chapter cinema in Cardiff, said: \"Globally no cases of coronavirus have been traced back to a visit to the cinema.\n\n\"Cinemas are a low-risk way of spending time outside the house at a time when the mental health of people in Wales is a huge concern.\n\nPeople will watch Mared Williams outside the venue\n\n\"Masks are worn, there are air circulation units and no one is facing another person... Not everyone is living in a warm, safe home - many people need these spaces to be open.\"\n\nLiam Evans-Ford, Theatr Clwyd's executive director, added the announcement had been a \"huge surprise\".\n\n\"This is devastating for our business, for our employees, for our freelancers and for our communities,\" he said.\n\nSian Shepphard, owner of the Horse and Jockey in Pontypool, opened the pub in August so has not been eligible for government support.\n\nSian Shepphard is worried about her staff\n\n\"The main problem is we are trying to get people to stay at home but it is ruining our businesses,\" she said.\n\n\"I employ over 25 staff here - we are a really family-run business. We are all family - how am I supposed to put food on the table for them?\"\n\nPhil James, a customer at the pub, said the potential changes would affect his Christmas plans.\n\n\"We just don't know what arrangement to make at the end of the day - people have to know. You come out to socialise - people want to be social for Christmas, alcohol is a part of it.\"\n\nPhil James says pubs play a big part in his festive celebrations\n\nSimon Buckley, chairman of The Brewers of Wales, said: \"Is this finally the straw that will break the industry's back?\n\n\"We as an industry are being thrown to the wind, and the looming prospect of significant job losses seems to count for nothing.\"\n\nPlaid's economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said: \"They [pubs and restaurants] don't know if they're being asked to close altogether again, to only do takeaways, to have restricted opening without alcohol.\n\n\"So, they can't really prepare. They need to be given the maximum length of time to prepare.\"\n\nClwyd West member of the Senedd Darren Millar called for a targeted rather than a Wales-wide blanket approach.\n\n\"It is grossly unfair to impose the same level of restrictions in Conwy and Denbighshire as Covid-19 hotspots in south Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"The virus is circulating at different rates in different parts of the country.\"\n\nMr Drakeford insisted there were no plans to introduce regionalised \"tiered\" restrictions, similar to those coming into force in England.\n\nHe said there was no case for aligning the Welsh and English systems to ensure no-one was left out of UK-wide Treasury schemes that offer financial assistance to businesses affected by lockdown measures.\n\n\"We don't lose out on any UK system by having a single tier for Wales, so there is no disadvantage to us in that,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The advice we have is that a single set of arrangements for Wales works best, is easiest to communicate and delivers benefits in all parts of Wales.\"\n\nPembrokeshire councillor John Davies welcomed the restrictions after a spike in cases in his ward, Cilgerran, linked to the recent outbreak in nearby Cardigan.\n\nHe told Newyddion 9: \"If people aren't willing to exercise common sense and be citizens of responsibility towards each other, there is no other option.\n\n\"We've seen what happens in this part of the world when people act in a selfish manner.\"\n\nChildren are currently in \"class bubbles\" during school\n\nMr Drakeford said he had no plans to allow schools to close early for Christmas.\n\nTeaching union UCAC had called for classrooms to be shut on 11 December and for lessons to be moved online amid fears teachers and pupils may have to isolate on Christmas Day.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said ministers would do \"everything we can\" to keep schools working up until the Christmas holiday.\n\nHe added: \"It is more important for our children not to miss out further on the education that is planned for them for the whole of the rest of this term and that's what we will be working to achieve.\"", "Christopher Robinson was linked to the murder by DNA and CCTV evidence\n\nA west Belfast man found guilty of murdering a prison officer, who died 11 days after a bomb exploded under his van, has been given a minimum jail term of 22 years.\n\nAdrian Ismay, 52, died in hospital in 2016 after he was injured in the explosion near his home at Hillsborough Drive in east Belfast.\n\nChristopher Robinson, 50, from Aspen Walk, had denied the murder.\n\nIn March, a judge said Robinson was \"intimately and inextricably involved\".\n\nRobinson was also found guilty of possessing an improvised explosive device.\n\nThe non-jury trial heard that Robinson knew his victim from their time volunteering together for St John Ambulance.\n\nMr Justice McAlinden told Belfast Crown Court that Mr Ismay's murder had been \"perpetrated in pursuance of a twisted republican terrorist ideology\".\n\nAdrian Ismay had volunteered with St John Ambulance along with Robinson\n\n\"The defendant played an important and integral role in planning and carrying out the terrorist operation which resulted in the death of Mr Ismay,\" he added.\n\nRobinson was given a life sentence for the murder, but will be eligible to apply for release under licence after 22 years, the judge said.\n\nIn 2016, a dissident republican group widely referred to as the New IRA had claimed it had carried out the attack on Mr Ismay.\n\nRobinson had denied he was an active member of the New IRA.\n\nBefore determining the appropriate minimum sentence, the judge highlighted the victim impact statements the court had received from Mr Ismay's widow and his daughters.\n\nHe said the \"heart-wrenching statements managed with dignified reserve to convey how deeply they all loved Mr Ismay and how intensely he adored them\".\n\n\"Only the hardest and coldest heart of stone would not be deeply affected reading them and anyone of normal sensitivity could not but readily perceive how each of the authors of those statement and those referred to therein have been utterly devastated by this murder and their lives have been altered irretrievably,\" he added.\n\n\"They will endure the cruel impact of the tragic loss of Mr Ismay for the rest of their lives.\"\n\nMr Justice McAlinden said \"the loss of Mr Ismay's life cannot be measured by the length of a minimum term prison sentence\".\n\nA bomb detonated under Adrian Ismay's van in the Cregagh area of Belfast\n\nThe judge also paid tribute to the \"unstinting community service\" which Mr Ismay had engaged in.\n\n\"He lived to train, help and guide others,\" he said.\n\n\"He was a decent, warm, generous and loving human being and our society is the poorer for his loss.\n\n\"If only there were more like him.\n\n\"His legacy is his example of unstinting and enthusiastic community engagement; reaching out to and engaging with all, irrespective of background.\"\n\nMr Ismay had just left his home and was driving along Hillsborough Drive at about 07:00 GMT on 4 March 2016 when the bomb planted under his van detonated.\n\nIn spite of appearing to make a good recovery from shrapnel injuries, he died 11 days later.\n\nIn March, a judge said Robinson was linked to the murder by evidence including his DNA on a Poppy Appeal sticker that was removed from a vehicle containing traces of Semtex.\n\nHe also said CCTV footage clearly showed the vehicle - which was registered to Robinson's sister-in-law - outside Mr Ismay's home when the bomb was planted.\n\nThe judge added that CCTV at the workplace of Robinson's brother had been disabled several times by his sibling so he could not be filmed visiting him.\n\nRobinson's high level of online interest into the treatment of dissident republican prisoners - as well as internet searches about militant republican activity - was further evidence cited by the judge.\n\nDet Supt Richard Campbell, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said Robinson's sentence was \"deserving\" for the \"brutal and horrific killing\" of Mr Ismay.\n\n\"He knew Mr Ismay, as they volunteered together in the local community, but callously betrayed him by his involvement in planting an explosive device under the prison officer's van just because of how he earned his living,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Richard Campbell, from the PSNI's Major Investigation Team, said it was a \"reckless attack\"\n\n\"Adrian Ismay, who was a husband and a father, was a hard-working man who had left his home that Friday morning to do his job and to keep people safe,\" he added.\n\nHe said his thoughts were with Mr Ismay's family who \"will be reliving the horror of what happened more than four and a half years ago\".\n\n\"They face their own life sentence as they will never see Mr Ismay again. Their lives have been shattered,\" he said.\n\nHe added that while sentencing would not \"take away the pain and heartache felt each day by his family\" he hoped it would \"bring them some comfort in knowing that his killer is behind bars\".", "NHS Test and Trace incorrectly told 1,311 people they had tested positive\n\nHundreds of people have been wrongly told they have coronavirus by NHS Test and Trace after a laboratory error.\n\nMore than 1,300 people who gave samples between 19 and 23 November received positive results, when the tests were actually void.\n\nAll of those affected will be told to take another test, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.\n\nDuncan Larcombe, whose daughter received the wrong result, said it was \"more than an inconvenient mistake\".\n\nThe PR company director, from Maidstone, Kent, said his two children, aged 14 and nine, were both sent home from school to self-isolate and he was unable to work.\n\nHe said his 14-year-old daughter had not left her bedroom for four days, with meals being left outside her door, until the family learned the result was void on Thursday.\n\n\"We were taking it very seriously,\" he said.\n\nMr Larcombe, a former royal editor at the Sun newspaper, said the mistake \"brings into question for me whether or not this testing system is competent\".\n\n\"The entire economy is relying on the competence of the testing laboratories and if they are not doing their job they need to be held to account,\" he said.\n\nDHSC said it was an \"isolated incident\" caused by an \"issue with a batch of testing chemicals\" which had affected tests taken across the UK.\n\nIt is \"being fully investigated to ensure this does not happen again,\" the department said.\n\nMr Larcombe's daughter has now received a negative result after taking a second test on Thursday.\n\n\"Given that [the government] have just decided to put the whole of Kent in tier 3, you just wonder, is their modelling flawed,\" he said.\n\nAsked if the 1,311 incorrect results would affect regional figures for infection rates, which are represented as the number of cases per 100,000 people, DHSC issued a statement saying: \"Any impact on regional figures would be minimal, but in any event this incident was taken into account when the tiering discussions took place.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's asylum system has become mired in delay during the lockdown, with tens of thousands of people still waiting for their cases to be determined. Among them is \"Karim\", an Iraqi doctor who wants to use his skills to help the NHS fight the virus.\n\nKarim, not his real name, was a doctor working in a hospital in Iraq in 2019 when a group of militiamen entered with a dying patient on a trolley.\n\nThey demanded to see a doctor and Karim claims he was with the patient in moments, doing his best to save his life, but the man died and the militia blamed Karim.\n\nKarim says he was not the first doctor to be targeted - and it was what happened to the others that meant he had to flee.\n\n\"I think my fate will be death, because this is what had happened to one of our consultants in the hospital a few months before I fled the country.\n\n\"They followed him for about six months and then they shot him over the whole of his body. I had no choice but to flee,\" he told the BBC.\n\nKarim says another consultant was told by a militia member that he would be killed if he did not pay them $20,000 after he had treated a pregnant mother whose child was born with a congenital abnormality.\n\nKarim and his wife, who is also a doctor, flew to the UK last November, claiming asylum when they arrived.\n\nJust over a year later, their application has no end in sight.\n\n\"We don't have any exact date which tells us that at least we will be interviewed or we will have a decision by this time, nothing like this,\" says Karim.\n\n\"Me and my wife tried our best by contacting the Home Office to get an exemption to support the NHS as doctors during this pandemic, and all our efforts were refused.\n\n\"I also offered to volunteer as a doctor but the NHS will not allow you to do any work inside their hospitals if you don't have permission to work.\"\n\nKarim wants to remain anonymous, fearful of attack, even now he is in the UK\n\nAs a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Home Office cancelled asylum interviews on 19 March.\n\nGuidance published on 6 August stated there would be a phased resumption of interviews using video conferencing.\n\nSome face-to-face interviews have now resumed.\n\nHowever, figures published this week show a rise in the number of asylum seekers waiting for more than six months for their case to be determined.\n\nThat represents a rise of more than 16,000 people.\n\n\"More than 36,000 asylum seekers, many of whom are traumatised and vulnerable, have waited longer than six months for a Home Office decision that is pivotal for their future, their family and their security. This is unacceptable,\" Law Society President David Greene told the BBC.\n\n\"Asylum seekers are living in limbo, unable to earn a living, contribute to the economy or, as in Karim's case, support the NHS.\n\n\"We need an immigration and asylum system that treats people fairly, that is efficient and provides timely, lawful decisions.\n\nAnyone wishing to stay in the UK as a refugee must apply for asylum.\n\nTo be eligible you must have left your country and be unable to go back because you fear persecution.\n\nApplications should be made on arrival in the UK or as soon as it is thought it would be unsafe to return to your own country.\n\nAfter you apply, you will have a meeting with an immigration officer, a process known as screening.\n\nThere will then be an asylum interview with a caseworker which will determine your asylum status. If successful you may be given permission to stay in the UK for five years. This is known as \"leave to remain\".\n\nIn May 2019 the government scrapped its target of processing most asylum claims within six months but said it was committed to ensuring claims were considered without unnecessary delay \"to ensure individuals who need protection are granted asylum as soon as possible and can start to integrate and rebuild their lives, including those granted at appeal\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC the need for change in the UK's asylum system had never been clearer.\n\n\"With over 48,000 asylum cases stuck in this broken system, I will bring forward new legislation next year to ensure vulnerable people get the support they need instead of being stuck in the system waiting for a decision and unable to get on with rebuilding their lives.\n\n\"This also means ending abuse of the asylum system. Our new legislation will introduce a new firm system to expedite removals of foreign criminals, stop people coming here illegally and instead prioritise those most in need who play by the rules.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Monaco, models and money – who is retail mogul Sir Philip Green?\n\nSir Philip Green, once known as the 'King of the High Street' is facing his biggest challenge yet.\n\nHis Arcadia retail empire is teetering on the brink of collapse, the latest saga in a colourful career that once saw him branded as the \"unacceptable face of capitalism\".\n\nThe retail tycoon's life story to date is rich in character and anecdote, from his failed attempts to take over M&S, to a lavish lifestyle that has attracted accusations of tax avoidance.\n\nBut questions now swirl over the fate of his empire, and its 13,000 employees.\n\nDespite being born into a well-to-do family in south London, Sir Philip prided himself on having worked his way to the top.\n\nHis competitive streak was apparent from an early age, noticed by school mates at Carmel College, his exclusive boarding school, nicknamed the \"Jewish Eton\".\n\nSchool friend Tony Rauch recalls Sir Philip making a beeline for the table-tennis table at break time and losing a tussle with another boy who had been trying to get the best bat.\n\n\"He got very angry; cried a little bit,\" Mr Rauch told BBC Radio 4's Profile programme in 2012. \"He wasn't physically hurt, I think he was just very angry at having lost.\"\n\nSir Philip left school aged 15 and began working on the forecourt of the petrol station that his mother managed.\n\nHe then went on to learn business basics as an apprentice in a shoe warehouse. At 23 years old, he set up his own business importing and selling jeans.\n\nStaff leaving the BHS headquarters after being told the company would go into administration\n\nStuart Lansley, the author of an unauthorised biography of Sir Philip, described those early days for Radio 4.\n\n\"He had a very mixed track record of starting up companies, and closing them down, working with other people, falling out with people,\" said Mr Lansley.\n\n\"He travelled a lot, learning a lot about the supply chain, who the cheaper suppliers were and so on - but he certainly wasn't a household name.\"\n\nIt was BHS, known then as British Home Stores, that marked the moment Sir Philip Green finally \"arrived\" in 2000.\n\nHe paid £200m for what was already a slightly faded, dowdy chain.\n\n\"He borrowed very large sums of money, invested a little bit himself, and bought up companies that were relatively cheap, because they weren't doing very well. He turned them around, paying off his debt, and then tripling - quadrupling - the money he put in, in a matter of a couple of years,\" Mr Lansley said.\n\nTwo years later, he copied that model when he bought the giant retail empire Arcadia, which owns brands such as Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, and of course, Topshop and Topman.\n\nSir Philip Green's most ambitious move came in 2004, when he put together £10bn, much of it from investment banks, to make an offer for Marks and Spencer.\n\nEven Sir Stuart Rose - then his rival and at the helm of Marks at the time - was impressed.\n\n\"Philip is not only a first-class retailer, he is absolutely pre-eminent in his generation in terms of his financial nous and ability,\" Sir Stuart told Profile.\n\n\"If I wanted to be slightly uncharitable, I could say that he came to the market to raise a very, very large sum of money at a time when money was cheap and freely available - but only Philip could have put that together.\"\n\nAs chairman of Marks and Spencer, Sir Stuart Rose (L) faced two takeover bids from Sir Philip Green (R)\n\nSir Stuart Rose also has first-hand experience of his reportedly very short fuse. Sir Philip reportedly grabbed the then M&S boss by the lapels during his second unsuccessful takeover bid in 2004.\n\n\"There was a fairly physical occasion one morning, yes. I think tension had got quite high during the bid and Philip got upset about something,\" said Sir Stuart.\n\n\"He wasn't above ringing me up during the height of the bid and singing 'if I were a rich man' down the telephone to me, trying to point out the error of my ways [for not selling]... that I would make more money.\n\n\"He used to say, 'The only jet you know is Easyjet.'\"\n\nSir Philip is not shy about enjoying the trappings of his success.\n\nHe commutes into London from Monaco in a private jet, has a super-yacht called Lionheart, and has been known for throwing extravagant parties for friends and family in exotic places, with entertainment from the likes of Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez.\n\nWhat has attracted the most controversy though is not the lavish lifestyle, but his tax affairs.\n\nIn 2005, his company paid a £1.2bn dividend to the owner of Arcadia - Sir Philip's wife, Cristina. Since she is a resident of Monaco, she paid no tax in the UK.\n\nIn 2010, activists demonstrated outside the flagship Topshop and BHS stores in central London after Sir Philip was chosen by then Prime Minister David Cameron to conduct a government efficiency review.\n\nThey thought his tax arrangements made him the wrong choice. Despite their anger, however, Arcadia has paid significant sums in corporation tax.\n\nBut some of Arcadia's glamour has waned in recent years. Critics say that Sir Philip, reportedly averse to electronic gadgets, has not embraced online shopping as aggressively as competitors such as Asos or Boohoo.\n\nWhile sales remained steady through the group, BHS was seen as the weakest link, and was sold for £1.\n\nQuestions were asked following the sale over just how much money Sir Philip had taken out of the company in the years before.\n\nAt the time, Angela Eagle, the former shadow business secretary, said: \"In this situation, it appears this owner extracted hundreds of millions of pounds from the business and walked away to his favourite tax haven, leaving the Pension Protection Scheme to pick up the bill.\"\n\nSir Philip agreed a £363m cash settlement with the Pensions Regulator in 2017 to plug the gap in the BHS pension scheme.\n\nAre you an Arcadia employee? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helen Jeremy believes she would not have become blind if her monthly eye injections were not cancelled during lockdown\n\nA woman has become blind after her monthly eye injections were delayed for four months during lockdown.\n\nHelen Jeremy, 73, said everything she enjoyed doing has \"gone out of the window\" after losing her eyesight.\n\nThousands more people in Wales are at risk of \"irreversible sight loss\" because of treatment delays, RNIB Cymru warns.\n\nThe Welsh Government said health boards are working to increase services.\n\nMrs Jeremy, from Bridgend, has glaucoma and was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration four years ago.\n\nMonthly injections controlled the condition and meant she could still drive and play the piano.\n\nHowever, her appointments were cancelled when the pandemic struck and her eyesight deteriorated.\n\n\"I was panicking. It was terrifying. Because I'm a widow I'm on my own and it was awful,\" she said.\n\n\"Suddenly my eyesight was basically gone. By the time of my next appointment I was told there was no point in going on with these injections because the damage had been done to the back of my eye.\n\n\"Everything I loved doing has gone out of the window and my life's changed totally.\"\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said priority at the time was based on patient risk.\n\n\"We are sorry that Mrs Jeremy sadly experienced deterioration in her eyesight a few weeks following her last treatment in July,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Sadly, some eye conditions can become worse over time despite ongoing treatment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, a Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales to all health boards in Wales found more than 33,000 people at risk of sight loss were waiting too long for treatment.\n\nHealth boards are expected to meet the target to see 95% of the most serious cases on time.\n\nThe average was 66% for all health boards in March - and that figure fell to just 53% in October.\n\nThe number of people waiting more than nine months for cataract surgery has also quadrupled in the last year, from 1,096 in October last year to 5,693 this October.\n\nConsultant ophthalmologist Gwyn Williams, who specialises in cataract surgery at Singleton Hospital, said the number of people waiting had \"ballooned almost exponentially\".\n\n\"It is simply impossible to bring forward the appointment of everybody that asks because our capacity has been cut so severely,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a visual price being by the people of our country for the coronavirus restrictions in the name of a greater good of controlling the spread of this virus.\"\n\nRNIB Cymru described the delays are \"extremely worrying\" and said it has helped other people who believe they have lost vision because of cancelled appointment during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDirector Ansley Workman said that while she recognises the impact of Covid on the NHS, \"that doesn't take away from the fact that there are thousands of people in Wales who are at risk of irreversible sight loss\".\n\nRNIB Cymru director Ansley Workman called on the Welsh Government to ensure \"sight is saved\"\n\nShe called on the Welsh Government to commit to putting in the \"investment and resources to make sure that people are seen in a timely manner and that sight is saved.\"\n\n\"Before Covid came along there were already people waiting far too long for the treatment they needed to make sure they didn't lose their sight unnecessarily,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh Government said optometric practices and hospital eye care departments across Wales have been open for essential and urgent eye care during the pandemic.\n\n\"As with all planned care specialities, ophthalmology has been impacted by the pandemic and performance has been effected,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Health Boards are working to increase ophthalmology activities and are prioritising patients based on clinical risk.\n\n\"They are doing all they can to keep Covid and non-Covid patients separate and have been changing the care environment with the creation of 'green zones'.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bruno Tonioli is a judge on Strictly, as well as on US show Dancing with the Stars\n\nStrictly judge Bruno Tonioli will miss being at this year's final in person, as he is unable to fly back to the UK from his US home amid Covid concerns.\n\nThe Italian choreographer has appeared on the show on a Sunday via video link, and had hoped to return in person for next month's final.\n\nHowever, travelling across the Atlantic is now considered too risky for the 65-year-old, the BBC One show confirmed.\n\nHe is also a judge on Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly.\n\nStrictly judges (left to right) Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Bruno Tonioli\n\nPreviously, Tonioli has commuted between the shows every week, but for this series of Strictly Come Dancing, he has watched it on television rather than in the studio.\n\nHe has been a permanent fixture on the UK programme's judging panel since 2004.\n\nFellow judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse will now oversee the 2020 final without him.\n\nEarlier this month, the competition's longest-serving professional dancer, Anton Du Beke, filled in on the panel, after Mabuse had to self-isolate following a trip to Germany.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The zoo will move from its Clifton site in 2022\n\nBristol Zoo has announced it will relocate from its current site to the outskirts of the city to \"safeguard its future\".\n\nThe site in Clifton will be sold, and the zoo will move to its Wild Place Project site, near junction 17 of the M5 in South Gloucestershire.\n\nThe zoo has been at Clifton since it began in 1836.\n\nBosses said the site will stay open until late 2022, and the new zoo would open in early 2024.\n\nBristol Zoological Society, which owns and operates both Bristol Zoo Gardens in Clifton and Wild Place Project, said the zoo had \"suffered years of declining visitor numbers\", and had made an operating loss in four of the past six years.\n\nThe society's chief executive, Dr Justin Morris, said 2020 had been \"by far the most challenging year the society has faced\" in its 185-year history.\n\nThe zoo has a special place in people's hearts\n\nHe said the zoo had been \"struggling with fundamental and persistent challenges\" which had had an \"enormous impact\" on its finances.\n\n\"Namely an inability to meet the changing needs of the animals within the available space and infrastructure, and declining visitor numbers.\"\n\nHe added the impact of Covid-19 has caused the society to \"radically rethink\" its plans for the future.\n\n\"We know Bristol Zoo Gardens has a special place in the hearts of many, and lots of people have fond memories of visiting the zoo.\n\n\"But a lot has changed and many of the animals associated with these memories are no longer at Bristol Zoo Gardens, for very valid reasons.\n\nThe zoo will move to the Wild Place Project site in South Gloucestershire\n\n\"This new strategy presents an opportunity to create a world-class zoo that sets the standard for a modern, forward-looking zoo in the 21st century.\"\n\nHe said the new zoo would have \"conservation and sustainability at its heart, where animals will have the space and facilities to thrive\".\n\nBosses said they will seek planning permission to create housing on the Clifton site in existing buildings, and the existing gardens will be largely unchanged.\n\nThe zoo's iconic main entrance building would become an \"'urban conservation hub\", a spokesperson added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some big High Street names have decided to shun the Black Friday shopping bonanza even though online spending in the UK is set to soar.\n\nNext, M&S, Wilko and B&M will not be taking part in the sales event on Friday, which is seen as a key trading day in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nSeveral retailers told the BBC they were focussed on offering good value all-year round instead.\n\nMany shoppers use the annual event to buy discounted Christmas gifts.\n\nMore than two-thirds of shoppers have delayed a purchase to try to find a bargain in the sale, according to research by Lloyds Bank.\n\nIt expects Black Friday spending in the UK to jump to £750m this year. Last year, it totalled £718m, although drawing annual comparisons is difficult as the event covers more days and more shops take part.\n\nBut retailer Next has confirmed it will not participate. The decision comes after it reported that in-store sales have been badly affected by the pandemic and are about half of what they were by this time in 2019.\n\nDespite the fact Next was a late adopter of Black Friday, previous sales saw bargain hunters queue up early in the morning for heavily discounted clothes, homeware and furniture.\n\nHigh Street stalwart Marks & Spencer has also decided not to take part.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC that it had not offered any \"specific Black Friday deals\" for the last few years, and that there were no plans to change that. \"We focus on offering great value and deals throughout the whole festive season,\" M&S said.\n\nThe festive period will be crucial for the firm off the back of a difficult year, during which it reported the first loss in its history as a publicly traded company and was forced to announce 7,000 job cuts across stores and management.\n\nAlthough sales of clothes and homeware slid during the six months to 26 September, its boss Steve Rowe has said that M&S was in a \"much better position\" in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe Wilko homeware chain also said there would be \"no specific Black Friday activity\", and that it offered \"great value products at great prices every day\".\n\nDiscount chain B&M said that selling products at a lower price point throughout the festive trading period instead \"avoids excessive crowds on any one day\".\n\nThey added that Black Friday shoppers are often \"chasing largely deceptive offers that do not represent real savings, or are only available in very limited stocks\".\n\nConsumer group Which? urged consumers to \"do some research\" to find genuine bargains\n\nConsumer group Which? recently found that nearly nine in 10 products sold on Black Friday are available for the same price or cheaper earlier in the year.\n\nIt urged consumers to \"do some research\", which may include using websites to check previous prices, in order to spot genuine bargains during the sales.\n\nThe shopping bonanza, imported from the US, now sees shops advertising price cuts several days before the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday.\n\nBrands such as Jigsaw had previously pledged not to take part, opting for end-of-season sales instead. But in 2018, it launched its first Black Friday sale, saying that the \"economic, political and retail landscapes have changed dramatically.\"\n\nBut retail expert Kate Hardcastle told the BBC it \"makes good sense\" for retailers to shift away from the extended event.\n\n\"[Black Friday] creates a challenging retail calendar for a lot of shops\", with many customers now expecting discounts throughout the year as a matter of course.\n\nAlthough some sales might be lost, she said: \"Brands need to remember it's not just a race to the bottom on price and use it as an opportunity to shift attention elsewhere.\"\n\nCompanies such as clothing brand Baukjen, for example, is giving the profits made during the \"Black Friday weekend\" to charity, while footwear firm Allbirds will raise prices by £1 across all of its products and donate those proceeds.\n\nAlthough many firms have been struggling with job losses, subdued sales and lockdowns in the face of the pandemic, Ms Hardcastle suggests this is a \"key moment\" for brands to make sure they are not just associated with discounts.", "Claire Elms, who was celebrating her 35th birthday, said she felt \"sad\" but not surprised by the decision\n\nNottinghamshire's return to the top tier of Covid-19 restrictions is \"a kick in the teeth\", residents have said.\n\nThe city and county moved into tier three in October, but a four-week England-wide lockdown has seen the rates of positive cases drop.\n\nSome residents said the decision will affect their livelihoods, with one describing it as heartbreaking.\n\nThe government said rates remained \"very high\" among those over 60.\n\nLia Primrose (left), pictured with her friend Poppi, said the decision felt like a \"kick in the teeth\"\n\nLia Primrose, 17, who is studying health and social care at college, said: \"It just feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth after cases went down so much.\"\n\nShe said that because she worked as a waitress, she would be unable to return to work and described the announcement as, \"the biggest heartbreak\".\n\nNottingham Trent University students Laura Puttock (left) and Emma de Duve said they were \"absolutely gutted\"\n\nHer classmate, Poppi West, also 17, added: \"It feels like we're going round in circles.\n\n\"I know it's not the biggest issue but we're both nearly 18 and we won't be able to go out and have a drink to celebrate. It's just a bit sad.\"\n\nPat West, 63, from Newark, said she did not understand why the region was in tier three.\n\n\"I'm really disappointed,\" she said. \"My grandchildren can't come round to see me at home. I'm not seeing them grow up.\"\n\nJulia West said she really felt for young people in the area\n\nJulia West, 69, from West Bridgford, said: \"I think it's disheartening we're going back into tier three after we all did our bit to bring it down.\n\n\"I feel especially for the young people who need some sort of outlet.\"\n\nNottingham Trent University students Laura Puttock and Emma de Duve said they were \"absolutely gutted\".\n\n\"It's our 21st [birthdays] in December,\" said Laura.\n\n\"It's our last year of uni and we thought we could have a last celebration, but now it's going to have to be a takeaway.\n\n\"It's hardly the 21st I'd dreamed of. It just feels [as if] we've done our bit, cases are going down, but we're still not seeing any change.\n\n\"With uni being online I wake up, sit at a screen until my eyes go square and then go back to bed, all in the same room.\"\n\nRates have dropped in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire during the national lockdown\n\nEmma added: \"Everyone was hanging on for this day to see if we were in tier two.\n\n\"I think for people's mental health just being able to go out of the house [and] meet people not from your household is really important.\"\n\nPat Brown, 75, a West Bridgford resident, said: \"To be perfectly honest I didn't think in a million years we'd be in tier two.\"\n\nMandy Middlecote said the tiers system would not make much difference to her\n\nHowever, other residents said they had expected the announcement.\n\nClaire Elms, who was celebrating her 35th birthday, said she felt \"sad\" but not surprised.\n\n\"I live on my own and I want to get out and meet my friends,\" she said.\n\nMandy Middlecote, 44, from Beeston, said she was not surprised by the announcement either.\n\n\"Cases are still pretty high,\" she said. \"Me and my family are keeping to ourselves so tier two or three doesn't make much difference.\n\n\"It would have been nice for the kids to be able to go and play with their friends, but we want to see our family at Christmas so we have to limit things.\"\n\nMuhammed Jonaid described the tiers system as baffling\n\nAnd some residents said they had been left confused by the reintroduction of the tiers system.\n\n\"I think a lot of people aren't even sure of the rules in the different tiers,\" said Muhammed Jonaid, 36, from Aspley. \"The difference between them baffles me.\"\n\nDavid Mellen, the leader of Nottingham City Council, described the decision as a \"bitter blow\".\n\n\"We will need the government to provide further support for businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"However, we must of course accept these are the new rules we must abide by and given the valiant efforts locally in the past few weeks, I have no doubt that we will continue to drive down infection rates and be able to leave tier three and enter tier two very soon.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Nottinghamshire to return to tier 3 after lockdown", "Diggers tipped piles of dead mink into trenches in Jutland\n\nOpposition MPs in Denmark have urged the government to dig up millions of mink that were buried in mass graves amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nThe two burial sites in Jutland are highly controversial - one is near a bathing lake and the other not far from a source of drinking water.\n\nThe discovery of a mutated form of the virus prompted a cull of nearly 17 million mink, devastating the Danish fur industry - the largest in the EU.\n\nThe new Agriculture Minister, Rasmus Prehn, said on Friday he supported the idea of exhuming the mink and incinerating them. But that would require the environmental protection agency's approval, he added.\n\nHis predecessor Mogens Jensen resigned last week in the furore over the government's legal basis for the cull, as more than 10,000 tonnes of dead mink were hastily buried.\n\nDenmark's DR news reports that about 11 million mink have been culled so far.\n\nWarning: you may find a picture below showing a burial site disturbing\n\nThe government has admitted that the cull was mishandled. The grisly mass burial got even more macabre when there were reports of buried mink resurfacing because of the nitrogen and phosphorus gases produced by their decay.\n\nThe two mass graves are near Karup and Holstebro.\n\nDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen became tearful when discussing the plight of mink farmers\n\nPrime Minister Mette Frederiksen wept on Danish TV while visiting a mink farm on Thursday.\n\n\"We have two generations of really skilled mink farmers, father and son, who in a very, very short time have had their life's work shattered, and that… It's been emotional for them. Sorry. For me as well,\" she said, wiping away tears.\n\nLaw experts quoted by Danish TV2 say the government went ahead with mass burial without getting an environmental impact assessment.\n\nThe opposition Liberal Party (Venstre) says the mink should be dug up and loaded into containers of manure, which would allegedly be a safer disposal method.\n\nThe cull of 17 million mink is still going on\n\nEnvironment Minister Lea Wermelin spoke to parliament - the Folketing - on Friday, in a crisis session called to deal with the mink problem.\n\nShe admitted that mass burial had not been the best method - incineration would have been preferable - but the spread of Covid-19 on mink farms had made the disposal urgent and there had been no other quick way to handle such a quantity of dead animals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out\n\nOn Danish TV, the Liberals' environment spokesman Thomas Danielsen said \"this is a case full of errors and illegalities\".\n\nA Socialist People's Party (SF) MP for West Jutland, Signe Munk, called the buried mink \"a ticking environmental bomb\" and said \"the mink must be removed\".\n\nThe head of the mink breeders' association, Tage Pedersen, said the cull spelt doom for Danish fur producers - a sector employing about 6,000 people and worth $800m (£600m) annually in exported pelts, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nDenmark has about 1,100 mink farms - and so far no compensation deal has been decided.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nTeenager Jack Welsby scored a last-gasp try as St Helens retained their Super League crown against Wigan Warriors with the most dramatic climax in Grand Final history.\n\nWelsby's decisive try came after the full-time hooter, touching down after a drop-goal attempt hit the post.\n\nExtra time was imminent with the score 4-4, Lachlan Coote with two penalties and Wigan's Jake Bibby scoring a try.\n\nBut Welsby pounced as Bevan French hesitated to claim a thrilling win.\n\nHaving the youngest player on the field score the winning try in such sensational fashion gave Saints, England and Great Britain legend James Graham a triumphant farewell.\n\nBut it was a heart-breaking way to send Wigan talisman Sean O'Loughlin into retirement.\n\nNo moment summed up the commitment and ferocity of the first half better than Saints' effort to hold Zak Hardaker up over the line in the 28th minute, with five defenders rushing across to deny the Warriors the first points of the game.\n\nIt was a defensive effort celebrated like a try.\n\nUp until that moment, it was Wigan's stubborn defence repelling a St Helens side that dominated possession that defined the contest.\n\nIt was not until a shoulder charge from Morgan Smithies on Coote in the final minute of the half that Wigan conceded, with the forward gifting Saints two points and the half-time lead with a penalty.\n\nThe defending champions, playing in their alternative blue, continued to pound Wigan in waves but struggled to break their resistance.\n\nAn effort from Zeb Taia, another decorated Saint playing his final game, was as close as anyone got to a try in the first hour, with his touchdown from a James Roby kick ruled out as he was marginally offside in pursuit of the delicate grubber.\n\nA stumble from Bibby on the right wing saw a chance go begging for Wigan, but it was a slip he quickly atoned for as he dived over for the opening try after 65 gruelling minutes.\n\nHardaker's conversation attempt came off the bar, allowing Coote to level with seven minutes remaining with his second penalty of the night after Jackson Hastings was adjudged to have caught Theo Fages with a high tackle.\n\nSaints half-back Fages was the first to try to win it with a kick after that with a drop-goal attempt, and his miss was followed up by a Hardaker penalty that was agonisingly short and right of the posts with two minutes remaining.\n\nThen, with the last action of the game, Tommy Makinson went for a long-range drop-goal of his own, which came off the post and bounced behind the Wigan goal, where it was pounced upon by 19-year-old Welsby ahead of French to spark celebrations for Saints.\n\nThese two fierce rivals last met in a Grand Final in 2014 and it was in front of a raucous crowd of more than 70,000 at Old Trafford - home of not only Manchester United, but Super League's biggest occasion for 21 years.\n\nBut at the end of a 2020 campaign hit hard by the pandemic, there was no trip to the Theatre of Dreams.\n\nInstead, Hull FC's KCOM Stadium was the makeshift stage.\n\nIn a city where rugby league passions run high, it remained a fitting venue on a freezing November night.\n\nBut in the absence of fans during the ongoing global health crisis, it was a game of unparalleled intensity and physicality despite being robbed of an electric atmosphere and pulsating soundtrack befitting of the occasion.\n\nThe relentless action ensured the showdown on the Humber - which was low on points but high on drama - will be remembered as a classic.\n\nAnd with the sub-plot of each side having a modern-day great of the English game playing their final match before retirement, it was guaranteed to be a memorable occasion even before kick-off.\n\nOnly one man could sign off as champion, and it was Graham who brought his distinguished 17-year career to an end with a second Super League title and his first since 2006, having previously been part of five Grand Final-losing sides.\n\nHe was able to see out his career in fitting fashion despite serious concerns over his chances of playing in the final after suffering a head injury in the first half of the semi-final thrashing of Catalans Dragons a week earlier.\n\nThere was also an early moment of worry for the veteran prop as medics attended to him after he was hit by an unsighted Tommy Leuluai tackle.\n\nThe forward, who spent eight years in Australia's NRL competition with the Canterbury Bulldogs and St George Illawarra Dragons, returned to his boyhood club this year to help keep the Super League crown on Merseyside.\n\nIn doing so, Saints denied Graham's former England team-mate and one-club man O'Loughlin a fifth Super League title.\n\nIt was decade on from his first Grand final win that the 38-year-old was hoping to once again hold the trophy aloft, but Wigan could not replicate their result of 2010, when they overcame Saints for the first of four titles in 10 years.\n\nAs significant as the departures are for both clubs and the English game as a whole, Welsby offered a glorious view of the future with his final-winning heroics at the end of a breakthrough season.\n\nWhat a game! You've got to admire both teams.\n\nThis has been a game of the highest quality with the highest intensity, a fitting end to the season but you've got to feel sorry for Wigan because I thought they were magnificent.\n\nHowever you've got to admire Saints' attitude and the tenacity to come through this.\n\nThis has been the greatest Grand Final, no doubt.\n\nIt was pure theatre, it really was, and it was a privilege to be here, it's just so sad that it wasn't packed here to witness something like that.", "Nigel Owens will become the first referee to take charge of 100 Tests when he officiates the Autumn Nations Cup match between France and Italy on Saturday.\n\nThe historic milestone will be the latest in a long and illustrious career for the Welshman, who refereed the 2015 Rugby World Cup final as well as several European club finals.\n\nSaturday's match in Paris could also be his last in international rugby, with the 49-year-old planning to retire at the end of this season.\n\nBut Owens has not had much time to consider his looming achievement this week, not when he has been busy working on his Carmarthenshire farm.\n\n\"It's been a strange one this week because I had TB [bovine tuberculosis] testing on the farm on Monday and thankfully everything was fine,\" Owens tells BBC Sport Wales.\n\n\"It's been a stressful week so the game itself has been far from my mind this week with the TB testing, which can be heart-breaking if the result is positive - but thankfully everything was negative and all was good thankfully.\n\n\"Now I'm able to switch my focus to the weekend and the build-up to it, reaching a very special milestone.\n\n\"It is something that you think about, something that you'd like to achieve, and I think if any referee or any player tells you 'I'm on 97, 98 or whatever I don't really care or think about getting to 100' then I don't think they're being very honest with you because it is something special, particularly to be the first referee to achieve that.\n\n\"I certainly won't be the last but I'll be the first one.\n\n\"It is something I'm looking forward to but also a bit of realisation that this could be my last Test match.\"\n\nOwens is the longest serving member of World Rugby's elite international panel, having officiated his first full Test in 2003 when Portugal played Georgia.\n\nHe turns 50 next June and, as he prepares to step aside from international rugby at the end of this season, he hopes to play a part in the 2021 Six Nations before bowing out.\n\n\"Hopefully I'll be selected for the Six Nations and, if so, that will definitely be the end of my Test match referee career and things will come to an end at the end of this season,\" he adds.\n\n\"We'll have to see, but this could be my last Test match at the weekend. So there is a bit of a realisation around the fact that this could be the last time I walk out on to the field for a Test match.\n\n\"There's a little bit of excitement and happiness with it but also maybe a little sadness as well when the final whistle goes.\"\n\nOwens has become a household name thanks to his witty rapport with players on the field, as well as his media appearances away from it too.\n\nAnd beyond his quick one-liners, Owens is respected across the sport as one of the world's finest referees, as evidenced by glowing tributes from England head coach Eddie Jones and his Wales counterpart Wayne Pivac this week.\n\nHaving officiated the biggest games in international and club rugby, Owens is spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing a career highlight - but refereeing the 2015 World Cup final between New Zealand and Australia stands out.\n\n\"I think it is the favourite because of everything around the game off the field,\" Owens says.\n\n\"My village of Mynyddcerrig [in Carmarthenshire, west Wales] had bunting and flags out, everyone in the working men's club that week enjoying themselves and people coming from everywhere.\n\n\"There were people driving down from Merthyr, from Pontypool, up from Cardigan, some down from Aberystwyth. People were driving down to see the village I was born in because it was on the news that week.\n\n\"What it meant to the village and what it meant to me, the fact that the village was so proud of me achieving that, it was special because of that.\n\n\"It's the biggest game in world rugby that only happens once every four years but, even more so, what it meant to my dad, my family and my community of Mynyddcerrig as well as Pontyberem and the Gwendraith Valley as well. That would be the special one.\"", "Mass testing plans in England threaten to be a \"distraction\" from other priorities such as the rollout of a vaccine, health leaders have warned.\n\nThe PM has said mass community testing, as seen in Liverpool, will be offered to all areas in tier three after lockdown ends.\n\nBut experts have questioned whether this is possible due to the \"enormous\" resources it requires.\n\nThe government said it will work with local authorities to support plans.\n\nIn a joint statement, the Faculty of Public Health and the Association of Directors of Public Health said improving NHS Test and Trace must remain the top focus for testing.\n\nMass testing of people without symptoms using new rapid \"lateral flow\" tests - which give a result in about 20 minutes, without the need for a lab - has been piloted in Liverpool.\n\nSo far more than 100,000 people without symptoms have been tested using the new rapid tests, with just over 700 positive results.\n\nNow thousands of rapid tests have been sent to more than 90 local authorities in England as part of an expansion of the Liverpool scheme, which was supported by 2,000 members of the military.\n\nOne of those is Liverpool's neighbour, the borough of Sefton, which has half as many residents.\n\nBut the area says it only has a team of 12 people to carry out mass testing and has been offered no other support.\n\nThe Faculty of Public Health and the Association of Directors of Public Health said: \"The additional capacity provided to Liverpool to set up and manage testing sites alone has been enormous and it is difficult to envisage how or even whether this could be replicated at the pace being proposed across the country.\n\n\"This threatens to be a distraction from other activities, like planning and rolling out vaccines.\"\n\nTheir statement added: \"The key priority needs to be targeted community testing... in settings or locations of higher risk of transmission or where the consequence of infection is higher.\"\n\nThe government is asking local leaders and directors of public health in tier three to put forward proposals and said it will work with them to make sure they're resourced.\n\nIt said it is not expecting to see Liverpool replicated up and down the country.\n\nLiverpool's mass testing pilot began earlier this month. Prof Louise Kenny, pro vice chancellor at Liverpool University, which is running the pilot scheme with the city council, said they were delighted with the results.\n\n\"It was a pilot, we had very few expectations about how it would turn out. But I'm really pleased by how the city has embraced it from all corners,\" she said.\n\n\"Yes, it's been lower in some areas but we're addressing that by making the testing more available, we assess what the barriers are, that's a work in progress.\n\n\"And I think the fact that we have identified over 700 of our residents who were positive, didn't know it, were at risk to their fellow citizens is a hugely encouraging thing.\"", "Seven-year-old Emily Jones was stabbed as she played in Queen's Park, Bolton\n\nA seven-year-old girl had her throat cut in a random attack at a park on Mother's Day, a jury at Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nEmily Jones was at Queen's Park in Bolton with her parents when she was attacked by Eltiona Skana, 30, on 22 March, the court was told.\n\nMs Skana, 30, has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.\n\nShe appeared at court via video link from high security Rampton Hospital.\n\nMichael Brady QC, prosecuting said Emily was on a scooter and had been brought to the park by her father Mark Jones.\n\nMoments before the attack Emily spotted her mother, Sarah Barnes, who was jogging around the park wearing headphones.\n\nOblivious of the defendant she called out to her mum and scooted towards her some yards ahead of her father.\n\nEmily was grabbed by Ms Skana who \"in one movement\" cut the girl's throat and threw her to the ground, said Mr Brady.\n\nHe added: \"There had been no interaction between Emily and the defendant.\"\n\nIn a statement read to the jury, Emily's father said: \"I do not know why this happened. Emily was simply riding her scooter to her mum. I simply can't explain it.\"\n\nMs Skana, who bought the knife earlier that day, fled but was chased by Tony Canty who was walking in the park with his wife Lynsey and their baby daughter.\n\nMr Canty barged Ms Skana to the ground and detained her until police arrived.\n\nAfter her arrest, Ms Skana, originally from Albania, was assessed, telling the on-call psychiatrist \"I know I'm a paranoid schizophrenic\". She was detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nMs Skana was moved to the high-security hospital at Rampton where she told a psychiatrist, Dr Afghan, she had been \"psychotic, hearing and seeing things\".\n\nWhile there she may have had a possible psychotic episode and another time it was reported while watching a children's TV programme she began laughing hysterically when she saw a child who looked similar to Emily, the court heard.\n\nMs Skana said she was \"perfectly normal\" before coming to the UK and claiming asylum in 2014, she told medics.\n\nThe jury was also told she showed \"indifference\" to the killing and spoke with a \"smirk\" but also showed appropriate emotional response when talking about her own family.\n\nSpeaking to a nurse at Rampton, Ms Skana said: \"Like I said, it's been three months, what do you want me to do cry all the time?\"\n\nShe later told the same nurse: \"It was premeditated, I waited in a park and picked my victim, I did what I did, then tried to run away.\"\n\nMr Brady told jurors the main issue was whether Ms Skana's paranoid schizophrenia is the reason behind the killing or her illness is simply \"a convenient excuse behind which to hide\".\n\nThe trial is scheduled for five days.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@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. Bar chain owner Martin Greenhow: ''This is pure and simple business torture\"\n\nThe hospitality sector will be \"decimated\" by the new Covid tiers, according to bar chain owner Martin Greenhow, who says it \"isn't viable to operate\" under the conditions.\n\nMr Greenhow, who has bars in cities including Manchester, says the measures are \"a mortal blow\" to the sector.\n\nThe hospitality industry has warned that tens of thousands of businesses will close without extra support.\n\nIt comes as more pub groups have been forced to make additional job cuts.\n\nMitchells & Butlers, owner of the All Bar One and Harvester chains, revealed it had cut 1,300 jobs while Fuller Smith & Turner made 350 redundancies.\n\nThe government has set out what level of restrictions England's regions will face when lockdown ends with cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle put in the highest tiers.\n\nBut chains such as Mr Greenhow's Mojo bars were struggling even before the second lockdown in England, imposed on 5 November.\n\nOn the Friday before lockdown, Mr Greenhow's Manchester bar took £175. On the same Friday night a year before, it took £10,000.\n\nEven tier one means that bars have less than half the usual number of customers, he says.\n\n\"It's simply not a business model that can work,\" he adds. \"Right now, for hospitality, all the tiers are a version of waterboarding. We're allowed out for a brief gasp of fiscal oxygen, then we're slammed back down.\"\n\n\"This is pure and simple business torture.\"\n\nUK Hospitality boss Kate Nicholls said the sector is \"bearing the brunt of the pain of closure\" under the new Covid rules. She added that tens of thousands of businesses will close without additional support.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, pubs in tier 2 regions can only open if they serve substantial meals and households are not allowed to mix indoors.\n\nUnder tier 3, pubs and restaurants must close their doors but can offer takeaways.\n\nMs Nicholls said that 98% of its members were in areas with tier 2 or tier 3 coronavirus restrictions, and nearly nine in 10 \"say that they are not viable to operate at those level of restrictions\".\n\n\"Without additional support to sustain these businesses through this crisis, we are going to see tens of thousands of businesses closing and over a million job losses,\" she added.\n\nBirmingham City Council leader Ian Ward said hospitality and other businesses needed a \"meaningful package\" of support from the government so the economy can \"continue to function in an effective way\".\n\n\"The crisis faced by hospitality businesses across Birmingham is of particular concern from an economic perspective - a crisis that would have been exacerbated whether our city was placed in tier 2 or 3,\" said Mr Ward.\n\n\"Many businesses in this previously thriving sector are warning they may not survive the coming months if they are dealt the double blow of more restrictions and inadequate financial support.\"\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) described the imposition of the tier three level as \"devastating news\" for those areas.\n\n\"The government must compensate these businesses for the period of time they have been closed, and the loss of business suffered due to restrictions through the festive period,\" said NTIA chief executive Michael Kill.\n\nThe British pub industry sent a letter on Wednesday pleading with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to save the industry, which it said was facing \"the darkest of moments\".", "Christmas fears for pubs and restaurants in Wales\n\nTighter Covid restrictions in Wales before Christmas would be \"incredibly difficult\" for the hospitality sector, the industry is warning. It comes after Health Minister Vaughan Gething said new rules could be introduced if infection rates \"move in the wrong direction\". The Welsh Government's cabinet is meeting on Friday to discuss its latest response to the pandemic. \"It's been a year of great struggle - a year of stop-start - mostly stop,\" said Simon Wright, who runs a restaurant in Carmarthen. \"We are approaching the time of year when people would anticipate being at their busiest. We weren't anticipating this post-firebreak, not being able to trade before Christmas. \"If something like that happens, it is going to be a huge blow.\"", "Tougher rules for England will \"strike a balance\" when the national lockdown ends next week, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAt a Downing Street briefing, the PM acknowledged that the stricter three-tiered system of regional measures to tackle coronavirus would bring \"heartbreak and frustration\".\n\nBut he said \"your tier is not your destiny\" and stressed that \"every area has the means of escape\".\n\nMost of England will be in the toughest two levels of measures from 2 December.\n\nThe system will be reviewed every two weeks, with the first review scheduled for 16 December - so an area's tier level may change before Christmas.\n\nHowever, it means 55 million people will remain banned from mixing with other households indoors after the lockdown ends.\n\nMore than a third of England's population, including large parts of the Midlands, North East and North West, as well as Kent, will be in the highest level - tier three.\n\nAnd the majority of places are in the second highest level - tier two - including London, and Liverpool city region.\n\nThe Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - where there have been no recorded cases in the past week - will be the only areas of England in the lowest level of curbs - tier one.\n\nThe new tier restrictions will be voted on by MPs next week, with a revolt already brewing among the government's own backbenchers.\n\nMeanwhile, hospitality bosses have warned the sector will be \"decimated\" by the new tiers.\n\nOn Thursday, another 498 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK, and a further 17,555 positive cases, the latest figures showed.\n\nThe prime minister warned that easing off risked \"losing control, casting aside our hard-won gains and forcing us back into a new year national lockdown\".\n\nHe said there was \"no doubt the restrictions in all tiers are tough\" but admitted previous tiers \"were never quite enough\".\n\nThe new approach was \"designed to reduce\" the R number - the average number of people an infected person will pass the disease on to - \"below one\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson said mass community testing would be offered to tier three areas \"as quickly as possible\" and hailed Liverpool City region as a \"success story\", where mass testing had brought the area down to tier two.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the PM to clarify \"what was the point\" of the second national lockdown, if more people were facing tougher rules than before it began.\n\nMr Johnson insisted this was \"not continuing the lockdown\".\n\n\"Across all tiers, shops will be open, hairdressers, personal services will be open, gyms will be functioning, places of worship will be open for communal worship as well, so this is a very different thing,\" he said.\n\nThe PM added: \"And I'm convinced that by April things genuinely will be much, much better.\"\n\nSome cold hard truths are emerging about the government's approach to controlling coronavirus.\n\nMuch about today's announcement was familiar.\n\nA promise of hope on the horizon followed by a dose of reality about the spread of the virus and tough measures taken as a result.\n\nBut months on from the arrival of Covid-19, the once solid political consensus over the response to the pandemic has worn thin.\n\nNow new measures are met with Conservative MPs up in arms and cutting criticism from the opposition.\n\nBut wearily, reluctantly, the prime minister has clearly priced all that in and come to the view that tighter restrictions are needed for many more months before things can even begin to get back to something like normal.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty and its chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance have warned against hugging and kissing elderly relatives this Christmas.\n\nSpeaking at the news conference, Prof Whitty said people's behaviour at Christmas would \"matter a great deal\" this year.\n\n\"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss elderly relatives? No, I would not,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not against the law. You can do it within the rules that are there, but it does not make sense because you could be carrying the virus.\"\n\nSir Patrick echoed his remarks, saying \"hugging elderly relatives is not something to go out and do\" over the festive season.\n\nProf Whitty also said tier two would \"hold the line\" but not bring cases down - prompting scepticism from Conservative MP Mark Harper about the PM's claim that \"your tier is not your destiny\".\n\nMr Harper, whose Forest of Dean constituency is in tier two, tweeted: \"Unfortunately, just after the PM said this, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, said tier two would only hold infections level, and tier one would see them go up.\n\n\"That rather suggests if you're in tier two, it is your destiny - at least until the spring.\"\n\nDifferences between the new tiers include restrictions on where households can meet up:\n\nGyms and close-contact beauty services like hairdressers will be able to open in all tiers. People in all tiers who can work from home, should continue to do so.\n\nPubs in tier two can only open to serve \"substantial meals\", while those in tier three can only operate as a takeaway or delivery service.\n\nDecisions on tiers are based on public health recommendations informed by a series of public health data, including Covid-19 cases among the over-60s, positivity rates, pressure on the NHS and how quickly cases are rising or falling.\n\nBBC analysis shows a north-south divide in England when it comes to restrictions:\n\nDevolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations, though all four UK nations have agreed a joint plan for Christmas.\n\nEarlier, data from the Office for National Statistics showed coronavirus infection rates in England were continuing to show signs of levelling off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon said countries would have to consider what type of society they wanted be after the Covid pandemic.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said a second independence referendum should be held \"in the earlier part\" of the next Scottish Parliament term.\n\nThe SNP leader, who is also Scotland's first minister, said her focus was currently on guiding the country through the pandemic.\n\nBut she insisted that the UK government's current opposition to indyref2 was unsustainable.\n\nShe would not be drawn on what she might do if it consent was refused.\n\nMs Sturgeon was being interviewed by the BBC ahead of the SNP's virtual conference which opens on Saturday and concludes on Monday with her leader's speech.\n\nThe party, which has formed the Scottish government since 2007, believes that winning the next Holyrood election in May would give it a mandate to hold another referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, the UK government has repeatedly said it would not grant the consent that Ms Sturgeon has argued would be needed if any referendum was to be legal.\n\nIt argues that the referendum result in 2014 - when voters rejected independence by 55% to 45% - still stands, and points to quotes at the time from both Ms Sturgeon and her predecessor, Alex Salmond, that it was a \"once in a generation\" event.\n\nAnd Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has said there should not be another referendum for \"25 or 40 years\".\n\nSome within the SNP and wider independence movement have urged Ms Sturgeon to develop a so-called Plan B strategy for securing a referendum if the UK government does not change its stance.\n\nRecent opinion polls now suggest a majority of people in Scotland are in favour of independence\n\nThe include the prominent MP Joanna Cherry, who said on Friday that the Scottish Parliament should legislate to hold an independence referendum - even if the UK government refused agreement.\n\nShe acknowledged that a Holyrood-only referendum would almost certainly face legal challenge because the UK constitution is not devolved.\n\nBut Ms Cherry argued that there was nothing to be lost from testing this in court, if independence supporting parties win a majority of the seats at Holyrood.\n\nShe is also urging Ms Sturgeon to restart independence planning, which has been suspended during the pandemic, if there is to be a referendum anytime soon.\n\nMs Cherry and some of her allies are seeking election to the SNP's ruling body this weekend.\n\nJoanna Cherry is among those in the SNP who want Ms Sturgeon to set out a Plan B for securing a referendum\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's leader at Westminster, said earlier this month that the referendum \"must\" be held next year - which critics argue would be all but impossible to do.\n\nMs Sturgeon appeared to distance herself from that strict timescale, saying only that: \"I think the referendum should, for a whole variety of reasons, be in the earlier part of the next parliament.\"\n\nShe added: \"I intend to say more about this before the election in our manifesto, but we are still in a global pandemic that I feel a bit more hopeful about seeing the end of than I did even just a couple of months ago.\n\n\"There's still a lot of uncertainty ahead. I'm a life-long believer and campaigner and advocate for independence, but right now I'm also the first minister of Scotland.\n\n\"My responsibility is to the health and wellbeing of the country and trying to steer it through a pandemic and I'm very focused on that.\"\n\nHowever, she said countries across the world - including Scotland - would have to decide \"what kind of society we want to be\" as they emerge from the pandemic.\n\nThe added element for Scotland, Ms Sturgeon predicted, would be questioning whether its future should be decided by \"a Westminster government that seems determined to take us in the wrong direction\" or a \"Scottish government, of whatever party in the future, that is accountable to the Scottish people\".\n\nAnd she insisted: \"If people in Scotland vote for a referendum, there will be a referendum.\n\n\"Across the Atlantic, even Trump is having to concede the outcome of a fair and free democratic election\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said another independence referendum is \"the last thing Scotland needs\".\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon says we should have another independence referendum 'sooner rather than later' and won't even rule one out next year,\" he said.\n\n\"The only thing to stop this and keep us focused on beating Covid and supporting our recovery after this virus is a vote for the Scottish Conservatives.\"\n\nHe called for the country to stay focused on beating Covid and supporting the recovery from the pandemic.\n\nWillie Rennie, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, said Scotland needed a government that was focused \"needle sharp\" on recovery from the Covid crisis.\n\nHe commented: \"Scotland has been through huge turmoil over the last nine months. We haven't even embarked on the economic recovery from the pandemic and the first minister wants to spend months or even years dividing the country over Scotland going its own way with independence.\"\n\nIt was confirmed last week that the number of deaths in Scotland which have been linked to Covid-19 had passed the 5,000 mark.\n\nStatistics released earlier in the year found that the country had seen one of the biggest rises in its death rates in Europe at the height of the pandemic - behind only England and Spain.\n\nBut a poll for BBC Scotland which was published last week suggested that people are largely supportive of Ms Sturgeon's handling of the pandemic.\n\nWhen asked what mistakes she had made during her response to the crisis, Ms Sturgeon said some of the early decisions had been based on a \"under-developed knowledge\" of the virus.\n\nThis impacted on the length of time it took it introduce regular testing in care homes - something she said she \"deeply regrets\".\n\nMs Sturgeon admitted that her relationship with predecessor Alex Salmond has broken down\n\nMs Sturgeon has been involved in a bitter war of words with her predecessor, Mr Salmond, over her government's handling of harassment allegations that were made against him.\n\nThe Scottish government paid Mr Salmond's legal fees of £500,000 after it admitted acting unlawfully during its investigation, with a Holyrood inquiry currently investigating the affair.\n\nA separate inquiry is also examining whether Ms Sturgeon may have broken the ministerial code.\n\nWhen asked whether she would resign if she was found to have broken that code, Ms Sturgeon said she would not speculate on the outcome but added that she was \"satisfied in my conduct and the decisions I took\".\n\nHowever, she admitted that her relationship with Mr Salmond had \"broken down\".\n\nShe added: \"These are deeply personal matters. Alex Salmond is somebody who I have been close to for a very long time, so there is a degree of personal pain for all sorts of people in this.\n\n\"But I'm also mindful that in talking about this, this whole thing all started off because women came forward with complaints.\n\n\"At every stage all I've tried to do is make sure that complaints that came forward, whoever they were about, could be properly investigated without fear or favour\".", "The music producer, named only as Michel, spoke to reporters outside the National Police General Inspectorate in Paris\n\nFrench authorities have suspended three police officers after they were seen on video beating up a black music producer in central Paris.\n\nThe incident on Saturday has prompted a fresh outcry over the conduct of French security forces.\n\nOn Monday police were accused of using unnecessary force as they dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in Paris.\n\nThe incidents come as the government tries to bring in laws banning the broadcast of police officers' faces.\n\nCritics of the legislation say that without such images, none of the incidents which took place over the past week would have come to light.\n\nOn Thursday, French football star Kylian Mbappe, who is black, joined national teammates and fellow athletes in condemning the latest incident.\n\n\"Unbearable video, unacceptable violence. Say no to racism,\" he wrote on Twitter next to a picture of the bloodied face of the injured producer, who has been named only as Michel.\n\nThe security camera video was published on Thursday by the online news site Loopsider. It shows three officers kicking, punching and using their truncheons on the man after he entered his studio. Loopsider said he had initially been stopped for not wearing a mask.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Loopsider This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMichel said that he was also subjected to racist abuse during the five minute beating.\n\nHe was detained and charged with violence and resisting arrest, but prosecutors threw the charges out and instead opened an investigation against the officers.\n\nAs he arrived at police headquarters on Thursday with his lawyer to file a complaint, Michel told reporters: \"People who should have been protecting me attacked me. I did nothing to deserve this. I just want these three people to be punished according to the law.\"\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was \"profoundly shocked\" by the \"intolerable act\".\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French television that he would press for the officers' dismissal, saying they had \"soiled the uniform of the republic\".\n\nEarlier this week Mr Darmanin ordered police to provide a full report after they violently dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the capital, clashing with migrants and activists.\n\nHe tweeted that some of the scenes were \"shocking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police tipped some migrants out of their flimsy tents\n\nMeanwhile, the French government is pressing ahead with its controversial security bill, which opponents say could undermine the media's ability to scrutinise police behaviour.\n\nArticle 24 of the bill makes it a criminal offence to post images of police or soldiers on social media which are deemed to target them as individuals.\n\nThe government argues that the new bill does not jeopardise the rights of the media and ordinary citizens to report police abuses.\n\nBut in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 \"will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity\".\n\nPeople found guilty could be punished by a year in prison or a fine of up to €45,000 (£40,000).", "The R number for coronavirus has fallen to between 0.9 and 1 for the first time since mid-August, which means the epidemic is thought to be no longer growing.\n\n'R' is calculated by the government's scientific advisers, and represents how many extra people each infected person passes the virus onto.\n\nThe aim is to keep R below 1 until a vaccine is rolled out.\n\nDuring the first peak in the spring, R was thought to be around 3.\n\nThe latest estimate of the growth rate of the virus has also fallen, to between -2% and 0%, which indicates that the number of new infections each day is coming down.\n\nOn Friday in the UK, 521 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test. There were also 16,022 new cases reported - a 25% fall on the previous week.\n\nHowever cases in some regions of England are still high, particularly the North West, the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber. When lockdown ends on 2 December, most of England will move into the two toughest tiers of restrictions.\n\nAn R or reproduction number of 1 means that, on average, every person with the virus will infect one other person.\n\nSo an R number between 0.9 and 1.0 means that on average every 10 people infected will infect between 9 and 10 other people, indicating it is shrinking.\n\nWith the four nations of the UK following different policies on restrictions, the government says the estimate for R for the whole of the UK has become \"less meaningful in recent weeks\".\n\nIt says the impact of the second lockdown in England, which began on 5 November, cannot be fully evaluated yet, and adds that R \"may be below 1 for all regions already\" in England.\n\nR is estimated using a range of data, including testing numbers, hospital admissions, intensive care deaths and estimates of how many people are infected in households across the country.\n\nScientists from different universities then use this data to estimate the spread of infections.\n\nThere is always a slight time lag in the R number of a matter of weeks - the latest estimate is based on data up to 24 November.\n\nThe UK government has said in the past that the R number was one of the most important factors in making policy decisions.\n\nFrom Wednesday in England, more than 32 million people are due to be living under tier two restrictions, banning indoor meetings between households.\n\nA further 23 million people will be placed under the highest - tier three - restrictions, which further limit contact between people outdoors.\n\nBoris Johnson has defended the approach, arguing the country needs \"simplicity and clarity\" and the restrictions would \"drive\" Covid down until a vaccine is available.\n\nR was last below 1 on the 14 August\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology, from the University of Edinburgh, said the R numbers across the UK \"may decrease further as the full impact of lockdown becomes apparent\".\n\n\"It is worth noting that the falls in R began in the second half of September which may indicate that measures taken during that month did have some impact in some regions of the UK,\" he said.\n\nHowever he added that the data raised the question \"of whether the earlier implementation of measures short of full lockdown would have been sufficient to keep the epidemic in check and prevent local NHS Trusts from being overwhelmed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tiffany Pearson-Gills took over the Junction pub in September Image caption: Tiffany Pearson-Gills took over the Junction pub in September\n\nThe landlords of two pubs in an English village that sits on a county border say it makes no sense that only one of them can open under coronavirus measures coming into force next week.\n\nGroombridge has two pubs, but the Crown Inn is in Kent's tier three and the Junction is in East Sussex's tier two.\n\nIn tier three, pubs must close apart from offering takeaway or delivery services, but in tier two, they can open as long as they serve substantial meals.\n\nUnder next week's rules, residents on either side of Groombridge, home to about 1,600 people, should not cross over the county border at a bridge over the River Grom - meaning Kent villagers cannot enjoy the reopening of the East Sussex pub.\n\nSteve Harmes, at the Crown, says not being able to open is \"very frustrating\".\n\n\"We were not in such a bad position before, but now, being put in this position, it's really hard for us to move forward.\"\n\nHe said even if the tiers were reviewed in December, the pub would not be able to prepare and take advantage of the busy Christmas period.\n\nA seven-minute walk away - or 0.4 miles - at the Junction pub, landlady Tiffany Pearson-Gills calls the new rules \"perplexing\".\n\nThe Crown Inn is in Kent, so will go into tier three next week Image caption: The Crown Inn is in Kent, so will go into tier three next week\n\n\"For such a small village... it just doesn't make any sense at all,\" she said.\n\nShe took over the Junction in September and spent several weeks renovating it but had to put off an opening on 5 November.\n\nShe said the pub had been fortunate, adding: \"It's great for us, but it doesn't make sense that the Crown up the road cannot [open]. It's just so close, it's a really, really difficult one.\"", "An escort accused of helping burglars steal property worth £26m from celebrities was only in the UK for a client, a court has heard.\n\nMaria Mester, 47, a Romanian national, denies conspiring to carry out raids on homes including Tamara Ecclestone's.\n\nShe told Isleworth Crown Court she had agreed to spend a week with a \"generous\" man, as it also allowed her to see her son.\n\nThe court was previously told that she, her son Emil Bogdan Savastru, and two other men were part of a plot to target the homes of Tamara Ecclestone, Chelsea manager Frank Lampard and the former Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.\n\nThree alleged burglars - who cannot be named for legal reasons - are said to have carried out the raids between 1 and 13 December last year.\n\nThe homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were all broken into last December\n\nGiving evidence through an interpreter, Ms Mester told the court she was paid up to £5,300 to accompany one of the alleged burglars, who was one of her regular clients, to London for a week.\n\n\"I knew he was a sweet client, I thought 'why not?',\" she said.\n\nShe knew her son would also be in the capital at time.\n\nMs Mester told the court her client said he was in London \"on business\".\n\nShe said he was \"very generous\" and would give her presents.\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly stolen in the burglary of Tamara Ecclestone's home\n\nAsked whether she had conversations with any of the alleged burglars about carrying out the raids, she replied: \"No. About all these burglaries, I found out from the lawyers and here in court.\"\n\nDefence counsel Leonard Smith then asked: \"Did you ever have any knowledge at all prior to being arrested that you may have come into contact with property from those burglaries?\"\n\nMs Mester and Mr Savastru, 30, are accused alongside Alexandru Stan, 49, and Sorin Marcovici, 52, who also deny conspiracy to burgle.\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\nBoris Johnson has defended his decision to place 55 million people in England into the two highest tiers of Covid restrictions, arguing the country needs \"simplicity and clarity\".\n\nThe PM said measures due to come in when lockdown ends on Wednesday were more \"relaxed\" but would \"drive\" Covid down until a vaccine is available.\n\nBut a group of Tory MPs is threatening to rebel in a Commons vote on Tuesday.\n\nIf Labour backs them, this could threaten the government's majority.\n\nThere is concern that the government is adopting a \"one-size-fits all\" approach, which does not reflect local levels of infection.\n\nFrom Wednesday, more than 32 million people are due to be living under tier two restrictions, banning indoor meetings between households.\n\nA further 23 million people would be placed under the highest - tier three - restrictions, which further limit contact between people outdoors.\n\nJust over 1% of England's population would enter the lowest - tier one - restrictions, under which the \"rule of six\" applies both indoors and outdoors.\n\nConservative MP and former cabinet minister Damian Green, who represents Ashford, in Kent, which is set to go into tier three, told the BBC he would vote against the government unless it provided \"new and convincing evidence\".\n\n\"Instead of having these wide county-based areas, where people are put in tiers, then we should do it on a borough basis,\" he said.\n\n\"In an area like mine, the incidence is less than it is in Liverpool, which has just been released down into tier two. So, as it stands, the current policy, the current allocation of tiers on these wide bases, are just not evidence-based.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Public Health England laboratories, at Porton Down, Wiltshire, Mr Johnson said he understood the \"frustration\" of those in higher-tier areas, whose own town or village did not have high levels of the disease.\n\nBut he added that the government \"cannot divide the country up into loads and loads of very complicated sub-divisions\" and had to ensure \"some simplicity and clarity\".\n\n\"Unless you beat the problem in the high-incidence area, the low-incidence area, I'm afraid, starts to catch up,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said \"tough tiering\" was still more \"relaxed by a long way than the current lockdown measures\" and it would \"drive the disease down... until a vaccine comes on stream, which we hope will be over the next weeks and months\".\n\nAsked about mass Covid testing, Mr Johnson said: \"The supply [of kits] I don't think is going to be the problem. The issue is going to be getting everybody mobilised to understand the potential advantage of [it].\"\n\nAware of the disquiet on its own backbenches, the government has promised to publish impact assessments of the new restrictions; a key demand from concerned MPs.\n\nThere's also a suggestion that areas could move into lower tiers when numbers are reviewed at regular intervals.\n\nBut that's unlikely to see off the brewing Tory rebellion.\n\nSome Conservatives have already publicly declared that they won't vote for the new tier system when it's put before the Commons next week.\n\nIf enough rebel the government might have to look to the opposition to get this through Parliament.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is still deciding whether his party will back the plan, although it is likely to have enough support overall.\n\nHowever, it's not a good look for the government to have to rely on Labour in the face of unrest on its own benches.\n\nThe Covid Recovery Group of Conservative MPs, set up to scrutinise the government's response to the pandemic, is threatening a revolt in next Tuesday's vote.\n\nThe group's chair, Mark Harper, said evidence provided by the government to justify the tier system was not \"compelling\". He called for more information on the measures' effects on different sectors of the economy.\n\nHe added that on \"too many occasions, ministers have made arguments and they've not stacked up\".\n\nDeputy chairman Steve Baker called the measures \"truly appalling\" and said the modelling used by government scientists had been \"wrong time and time again\".\n\nThe group claims to have 70 members, but it is not certain how many of them would be expected to rebel against the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Laura Foster explains the new three tier system for England.\n\nForty-three Conservatives would have to defy the prime minister to defeat the plan, if all opposition MPs also voted against.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to decide early next week whether to support Mr Johnson, after consulting government coronavirus experts.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour was \"not against\" tougher restrictions or tiers, but would seek \"reassurances\" on support for the poor and vulnerable.\n\nUnder the government's plan, Kent and large parts of the Midlands, north-east and north-west England would go into tier three.\n\nOnly Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight would be in tier one.\n\nMr Johnson said the government's planned \"review point\" - on 16 December - gave the \"prospect of areas being able to move down the tier scale\".\n\nBut Professor John Edmunds, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said he could not imagine \"huge changes\" to restrictions by then.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that experts were unlikely to \"have accumulated much data\" in time.\n\nThe government has promised to publish an impact assessment before MPs vote on the new rules.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What does the tier system mean for you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The image of 81-year-old Stefano Bozzini playing the accordion from an Italian street below his wife's hospital window stole hearts around the world.\n\nCarla Sacchi was allowed out of the hospital near Piacenza a few days ago but has now died at her home.\n\nAlthough she had not contracted coronavirus, hospital rules meant her husband was unable to visit her.\n\nPiacenza Mayor Patrizia Barbieri said the disease had \"broken their embrace\".\n\nHowever, in a Facebook message, she paid tribute to Mr Bozzini's gesture of \"tenderness\".\n\n\"In that serenade we all recognised love, in the simplicity and immediacy of its universal language.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHospital staff and residents in the town of Castel San Giovanni watched as the former member of Italy's Alpine regiment donned his Alpine hat, sat on a stool and played a succession of melodies including Spanish Eyes from the courtyard beneath his wife's window.\n\nHis son Maurizio said Stefano had asked the hospital if he could \"perform a few songs for her to give her five minutes of happiness\".\n\n\"It was a sunny day, I would have liked to play longer, for the whole day,\" Mr Bossini told the Piacenza Libertà newspaper.\n\nThe couple had been married for 47 years and he blew his wife a kiss as she watched from behind the window.\n\nHe recently told his local paper how he still played the accordion regularly at village festivals and nursing homes. He said everyone had asked him to play at his wedding but he pretended he had hurt his hand \"because I wanted to dance - me with her\".\n\nNorthern Italy has borne the brunt of the second wave in Italy's Covid-19 pandemic but the Emilia-Romagna region where Castel San Giovanni is located has not been hit as hard as neighbouring Lombardy.\n\nOther stories you might like:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Captain Tom, the 99-year-old who raised £33m for the NHS\n• None Pay by the hour: Italians find new ways to eat out", "Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said 2020 cannot be a normal Christmas\n\nPeople should limit their contact with others before Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed at Christmas, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said.\n\nAcross the UK, three households can mix for five days from 23-27 December.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill said it was important to reduce Covid-19 transmission \"as low as possible\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the next two weeks \"are crucial... so that we can all have the safest and the happiest Christmas possible\".\n\nFrom midnight, Northern Ireland enters a two-week circuit breaker, with the closure of many businesses in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.\n\nThe deputy first minister also said a \"number of things need clarified\" around Christmas arrangements which will be the focus of the executive's meeting on Tuesday.\n\nShe said these included care home arrangements, students coming home and the definition of a household.\n\n\"There is a different in approach across all the jurisdictions in terms of, for example, what a household looks like and it's important that we define that for ourselves,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIn Scotland, a three household bubble should contain no more than eight people over the age of 11.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill gave a briefing at Stomont after the executive meeting on Thursday\n\nThe executive also announced that a Covid-19 Taskforce was being established to oversee the roll-out of the vaccine and testing programmes.\n\nThe deputy first minister said it will be chaired by a new interim head of the Civil Service and will also be responsible for public messaging to improve compliance.\n\nMrs Foster said the rate of transmission was currently believed to be \"just below 1\".\n\nShe said she commended \"all those who are re-doubling their efforts to make our high street as Covid secure as possible for their reopening on 11 December\".\n\n\"I want to pay tribute to our scientists, our academics, medics and health workers who are providing us with the pathways out of this pandemic through mass vaccination and testing programmes,\" she continued.\n\nThe broadcast press conferences from Stormont that follow executive meetings have understandably often been sombre occasions.\n\nThe news of daily deaths and increased hospital admissions bring home the reality of Covid-19.\n\nThe news that many families are suffering shows that eight months on, we are still struggling with this pandemic.\n\nWhilst this is bleak and painful, today's press conference did offer some shades of light for the future.\n\nThe news of a vaccination programme offers hope that could save lives and end talk of lockdown and restrictions.\n\nThere was also news that Northern Ireland's R value is just below one - lower than England and Wales.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers also offered some hope to the hospitality sector who desperately want to get back into business on 11 December.\n\nConversations with the Chief Medical Officer Dr McBride and the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Ian Young about lifting the trading restrictions are ongoing.\n\nMuch depends on how the next fortnight pans out.\n\nToday offered some glimpses of the future and for some at least there is hope on the horizon.\n\nOn Thursday, eight further deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland were reported by the Department of Health, bringing its total to 962.\n\nThe department also recorded 442 new cases of coronavirus.\n\nFive hospitals are currently operating beyond their bed capacity. They are the Causeway, Mater, Royal Victoria, Ulster and South West Acute.\n\nThere are confirmed outbreaks of Covid-19 in 139 care homes.\n\nThe UK government has said anyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland can travel on 22 and 28 December, but \"only meet with their Christmas bubble\" between 23 and 27 December.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. School holiday Christmas decision will be reached \"as soon as we can\"\n\nDiscussions have been taking place about whether the Christmas school holidays could be extended in Scotland.\n\nIt has been suggested that the dates could be standardised across the country, with all schools closing on 18 December and reopening on 11 January.\n\nHoliday dates vary between different council areas, with most schools due to return between the 5 and 7 January.\n\nThe proposal is designed to limit the spread of Covid after families get together for Christmas.\n\nThe issue was discussed at the Scottish government's education recovery group, but no decisions have yet been made.\n\nThe group brings together a number of stakeholders in the education sector, including unions, councils and the government.\n\nA document from Thursday's meeting was leaked to the Daily Record newspaper.\n\nThe memo says the government is considering a national extension to the holidays, with schools either remaining closed or introducing remote learning for a temporary period.\n\nAt the daily briefing, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the Scottish government was very conscious that parents, teachers and pupils wanted to know what was going to happen.\n\nThe length of Christmas holidays is being discussed by the education recovery group\n\n\"We will make sure that we reach a view based on the advice from that expert recovery group, and make sure that we reach a view as soon as we can so that people do have advance notice,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to give people as much notice as possible if there is to be any change at all, but at this point that decision hasn't been reached.\"\n\nMs Freeman said it would be wrong to \"overly speculate or jump to conclusions\" just because they were looking at the issue.\n\n\"The deputy first minister (John Swinney) and his colleagues will be working through what they think is the best way for schools to enter the Christmas break and come out of the Christmas break - and that applies to colleges and universities as well,\" she added.\n\nThere are a number of important issues to be discussed about changing the holiday dates.\n\nFirst of all parents will want clarity - changes to the dates could mean people having to arrange childcare or take time off work.\n\nSecondly, if schools return a few days later than planned in January, some secondary schools may want to change prelim dates.\n\nThirdly, councils are protective of their role in the education system. They would want to ensure any standardisation of dates in an emergency does not set a precedent.\n\nAnd there is, of course, also the question of whether an extended school holiday would by itself make any meaningful difference to the efforts to control coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC understands councils will discuss the matter again on Friday.\n\nIt is expected that the education recovery group will meet on Wednesday to discuss the potential impact on exams, and that a decision could be made on the holiday extension next week.\n\nWhile many schools are already due to close on 18 December, others are set to remain open until 23 December. The dates for returning to school in January also vary.\n\nThe memo says that extending the holidays would act as a break following the relaxation of rules over the festive period.\n\nHowever, concerns are raised over the time needed to set up the remote learning, and the potential impact caused by the loss of emergency childcare which had previously been provided by school staff.\n\nSchool holidays have traditionally varied in different council areas across Scotland, but the start of the autumn term was standardised in August as schools reopened for the first time since March.\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Alison Johnstone told the BBC's daily briefing programme that parents and pupils needed clarity on extending the Christmas school holidays.\n\n\"We have learned about this today through a leak to a newspaper so I think transparency and clarity are key here,\" she said.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' education spokesman Jamie Greene said any further \"watering down\" of pupils' time in class would need to be \"properly catered for at home\".\n\nHe added: \"Every child should have access to proper IT equipment and learning materials to ensure they don't fall behind with their studies.\"\n\nUse the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\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.", "Thousands of fans came to see Maradona's coffin on display at the presidential palace\n\nThree workers hired to help with the funeral and burial of Diego Maradona have been condemned for taking photos next to his open coffin.\n\nA funeral parlour took on the three to help prepare the coffin of the football icon, who died on Wednesday aged 60.\n\nIn two pictures, the men can be seen posing next to the open casket at the parlour, smiling with their thumbs up.\n\nThe photos surfaced online as Maradona's body lay in repose at the presidential palace, provoking outrage.\n\nMaradona's agent and lawyer, Matías Morla, vowed to take legal action against the \"scoundrel\" responsible for the photos.\n\n\"For the memory of my friend, I won't rest until he pays for such an atrocity,\" Mr Morla wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe manager of the Sepelios Pinier funeral parlour in the Paternal district of Buenos Aires, Matías Picón, told local media that the three men in the photos were \"outsourced employees\" who had helped carry the heavy coffin.\n\n\"We are devastated,\" Mr Picón, told the TN news channel. \"The family trusted us, we have been working with them for a long time.\"\n\nArgentina's President Alberto Fernández was among those to pay his respects to Maradona\n\nMr Picón said his company had organised funeral services for other members of the Maradona family. \"The family has total confidence in us, that's why we are so affected,\" he said.\n\n\"My father is 75 years old and he is crying, I am crying, my brother too, we are destroyed,\" Mr Picón added.\n\nWhen he called Maradona's ex-wife, Claudia Villafañe, to tell her about the photos, \"she was furious\".\n\nThe coffin was draped in Argentina's national flag\n\nThe Picóns said they did not know if the Maradona family planned to take any legal action.\n\nJudicial sources told the Télam news agency that no crime had been reported in relation to the photos, so no complaint had been filed by prosecutors.\n\nMaradona was buried in a private ceremony on Thursday, the first of three days of mourning declared over his death in Argentina.\n\nMaradona was buried in a cemetery where his parents were laid to rest\n\nMaradona's coffin - draped in Argentina's national flag and football shirt, bearing his trademark No 10 - was on public display at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires earlier in the day.\n\nThousands of adoring fans filed through the door of the Casa Rosada to say goodbye to their hero, but the wake ended prematurely after clashes between police and some mourners waiting in line.\n\nRegarded by many as the greatest football player of all time, the former Argentina attacking midfielder died at his home in Tigre, near Buenos Aires.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diego Maradona \"will live in our heart forever\"\n\nA preliminary post-mortem, widely reported by Argentinian media, indicated that Maradona had suffered \"acute heart failure\".\n\nHe had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency. He had a tumultuous personal life, scarred by alcohol and cocaine addiction, which caused him health problems.\n\nMany of the footballing world's biggest stars have paid tribute to Maradona, including former England striker Gary Lineker, who said the Argentine was \"by some distance, the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch some of Maradona's best goals for Argentina", "Music producer Michel Zecler spoke to reporters outside the National Police General Inspectorate in Paris\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron says footage of three police officers beating up a black music producer in Paris is \"unacceptable\" and \"shameful\".\n\nHe demanded quick proposals from the government aimed at rebuilding trust between police and citizens.\n\nFrance should never \"resign itself to violence\" or \"let hatred or racism prosper\", he said.\n\nThe three officers identified in the video beating Michel Zecler have been suspended and are under investigation.\n\nThey were questioned in police custody on Friday.\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin has told French television that he will press for the officers' dismissal, saying they had \"soiled the uniform of the republic\".\n\nThe incident has led to fresh scrutiny of the security forces.\n\nStars of the French World Cup football team are among a number of public figures who have spoken of their anger after the footage captured in the French capital was made public.\n\nEarlier on Friday, French media reported that a presidential official had described Mr Macron as being visibly upset by the incident.\n\nIn a series of tweets Mr Macron said proposals were also needed to fight more effectively against all types of discrimination.\n\n\"Those who apply the law must respect the law. I will never accept that the gratuitous violence of some stains the professionalism of the men and women who work courageously to protect us in our daily lives,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday, French football star Kylian Mbappé, who is black, joined national teammates and fellow athletes in condemning the latest incident.\n\n\"Unbearable video, unacceptable violence. Say no to racism,\" he wrote on Twitter next to a picture of the bloodied face of the injured producer.\n\nThe security camera video was published on Thursday by the online news site Loopsider. It shows three officers kicking, punching and using their truncheons on the man after he entered his studio. Loopsider said he had initially been stopped for not wearing a mask.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Music producer Michel Zecler is seen being beaten up by officers in his studio\n\nMr Zecler said he was also subjected to racist abuse during the five minute beating.\n\nHe was detained and charged with violence and resisting arrest, but prosecutors threw the charges out and instead opened an investigation against the officers.\n\nAs he arrived at police headquarters on Thursday with his lawyer to file a complaint, Mr Zecler told reporters: \"People who should have been protecting me attacked me. I did nothing to deserve this. I just want these three people to be punished according to the law.\"\n\nParis Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was \"profoundly shocked\" by the \"intolerable act\".\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Darmanin also ordered police to provide a full report after they violently dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the capital, clashing with migrants and activists.\n\nHe tweeted that some of the scenes were \"shocking\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police tipped some migrants out of their flimsy tents\n\nMeanwhile, the French government is pressing ahead with its controversial security bill, which opponents say could undermine the media's ability to scrutinise police behaviour.\n\nArticle 24 of the bill makes it a criminal offence to post images of police or soldiers on social media which are deemed to target them as individuals.\n\nCritics of the legislation say that without such images, none of the incidents which took place over the past week would have come to light.\n\nThe government argues that the new bill does not jeopardise the rights of the media and ordinary citizens to report police abuses.\n\nBut in the face of criticism the government added an amendment, specifying that Article 24 \"will only target the dissemination of images clearly aimed at harming a police officer's or soldier's physical or psychological integrity\".\n\nPeople found guilty could be punished by a year in prison or a fine of up to €45,000 (£40,000).", "Families have been warned against hugging and kissing elderly relatives at Christmas \"if you want them to survive to be hugged again\".\n\nPeople \"just have to have sense\", said the UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nCoronavirus rules announced this week mean three households can form a bubble and mix for five days over Christmas.\n\nFrom 23 to 27 December, three households can mix indoors in homes, at a place of worship or outdoors.\n\nThe rules apply to the whole of the UK, although in Scotland the number of people who can be in the Christmas bubble is limited to eight.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, the rules are relaxed from 22 to 28 December, to allow time to travel between the nations.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference on Thursday, Prof Whitty - who revealed he would be \"on the wards\" over Christmas - said: \"Would I want someone to see their family? Of course, that's what Christmas is about.\n\n\"But would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not.\n\n\"It's not against the law - and that's the whole point. You can do it within the rules that are there, but it does not make sense because you could be carrying the virus and if you've got an elderly relative, that would not be the thing you'd want to do in the period where we are running up to a point where we actually might be able to protect older people.\n\n\"So I think people just have to have sense. The fact that you can do something - this is true across so many other areas of life - doesn't mean you should.\"\n\nMr Whitty urged people not to do \"stupid things\" at Christmas\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, added: \"It's not going to be a normal Christmas but if you want to make those connections with family, it has to be done in a way where you try and make sure that you don't increase the risk.\n\n\"I think hugging elderly relatives is not something to go out and do. It will increase the spread to a vulnerable population.\"\n\nProf Whitty added: \"If you want them to survive to be hugged again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson also responded to the question about hugging elderly relatives, urging people to be \"common sensical\".\n\n\"Until the vaccine comes on stream, we are not out of the woods yet and we have to be very, very vigilant.\"\n\nProf Whitty also said it was \"not a secret\" that Christmas would increase the risk of transmission.\n\n\"Take it really seriously during Christmas. Don't do stupid things. Don't do unnecessary things just because the rules say you can. Think sensibly.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has that said the \"default advice\" and \"safest position\" was still that people should avoid contact.\n\n\"Just because we are allowing people to meet up in a limited way does not of course mean people have to do so, and people should not feel under pressure to do so,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nThe government's official guidance on Christmas bubbles advises people with loved-ones who are vulnerable advises to take personal responsibility to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nThe NHS considers anyone 70 and over as \"clinically vulnerable\" and at moderate risk from coronavirus.\n\nThe government guidance also has specific advice for people considered extremely vulnerable, as well as care home residents.\n\nIt suggests forming a Christmas bubble is \"a personal choice\" for extremely vulnerable people, while those in care homes should only visit families if they are of working age.\n\nUnder the government's rules, the three households must be fixed, so you will not be able to mix with two households on Christmas Day and two different ones on Boxing Day. Households in your Christmas bubble can't bubble with anyone else.\n\nScotland has announced that the bubbles of three households should contain no more than eight people - but children under 12 are exempt.\n\nPeople who are self-isolating should not join a Christmas bubble. If someone tests positive, or develops coronavirus symptoms up to 48 hours after the Christmas bubble last met, everyone will have to self-isolate.", "Michel Barnier at St Pancras railway station in London on Friday\n\nThe UK and EU will resume face-to-face Brexit trade talks in London this weekend, as negotiators race to reach a deal before a looming deadline.\n\nIt comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier left a period of self-isolation after a colleague tested positive for Covid last week.\n\nAhead of travelling to the UK, he said the \"same significant divergences persist\" in negotiations.\n\nAfter arriving, he said he would work with \"patience and determination\".\n\nEarlier, Boris Johnson insisted the likelihood of a deal depended on the EU.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the prime minister told reporters that \"there's a deal there to be done if they want to do it\".\n\nBut he added \"substantial and important differences\" remained between the two sides, with just over a month left before a December deadline.\n\nNegotiators are striving to strike a deal to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in January 2021.\n\nTalks have been continuing via video link for the past week or so, after the positive Covid-19 test in a member of Mr Barnier's team.\n\nMr Barnier travelled to London after briefing EU ambassadors and members of the European Parliament on talks.\n\n\"In line with Belgian rules, my team and I are no longer in quarantine. Physical negotiations can continue,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAhead of in-person talks getting back under way, his UK counterpart Lord David Frost pledged to \"do my utmost\" see if a deal is possible.\n\n\"It is late, but a deal is still possible, and I will continue to talk until it's clear that it isn't,\" he tweeted on Friday.\n\nHe added that any deal would have to \"fully respect UK sovereignty,\" including over fishing waters and a regime for subsidising businesses.\n\n\"An agreement on any other basis is not possible,\" he added.\n\nIf the UK is holding off making compromises, in the hope of squeezing more last-minute concessions out of Brussels, it might be successful when it comes to fish.\n\nOn Friday, we heard talk of Michel Barnier being about to propose that between 15% and 18% of the fish quota caught in UK waters by EU fleets would be restored to the UK under a free trade agreement.\n\nThat was later dismissed by a number of European diplomats, as merely one of \"many proposals doing the rounds\".\n\nBut whatever happens on the fish front - and Brussels knows it has some big compromises to make - as much as the EU wants a deal with the UK, it's unlikely to let go of its insistence on two other issues: common competition regulations and a tough means of policing them.\n\nAsked about the chances of an agreement, Mr Johnson said the \"likelihood of a deal is very much determined by our friends and partners in the EU\".\n\nHe added that a trade agreement would \"benefit people on both sides of the Channel,\" but insisted the UK could \"prosper mightily\" without one.\n\n\"Everybody's working very hard - but clearly there are substantial and important differences to be bridged, but we're getting on with it.\"\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but it is continuing to follow the bloc's rules until the end of the year as part of an 11-month transition period.\n\nIf a trade deal is not agreed by then, trading between the two will default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nThe EU and UK can keep negotiating if they want to after this, but the two sides would face import taxes on goods traded between them.\n\nThe UK would have no access to the EU's energy market, and no agreement on police and judicial co-operation.\n\nFishing has been a major flashpoint in the talks, along with post-Brexit competition rules and how any deal would be enforced.\n\nThe two sides are also at odds over how closely the UK should have to follow the EU's social, labour, and environmental standards after the transition.\n\nThey are also haggling over how any rules in this area - including on \"state aid\" support for businesses - would be enforced as part of the agreement.", "A blood test designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer at an early stage will be trialled by the NHS.\n\nMore than 165,000 people in England will be offered the tests from next year. If successful, the NHS hopes to expand it to 1m people from 2024.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, NHS England chief executive, said early detection had the potential \"to save many lives\".\n\nWhile some welcomed the pilot, others cautioned the test was still untried and untested.\n\nDeveloping a blood test for cancer has been keeping scientists busy for many years without much success.\n\nMaking one that's accurate and reliable has proved incredibly complex - the danger is that a test doesn't detect a person's cancer when they do have it, or it indicates someone has cancer when they don't.\n\nThis test, developed by the Californian firm Grail, is designed to detect molecular changes in the blood caused by cancer in people with no obvious symptoms.\n\nAs part of a large-scale pilot, also funded by the company, 140,000 participants aged between 50 and 79 will be asked to take the tests for the next three years.\n\nAnother 25,000 people with possible cancer symptoms will also be offered testing after being referred to hospital in the normal way.\n\nLesley (left) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 62\n\nLesley Maiden was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer seven months after she was first told there was something wrong with her pancreas.\n\nHer sister, Sue, says an earlier diagnosis at an earlier stage of the cancer might have given her a better chance.\n\n\"I can't say that it would have saved her life - I will never know, but it might have extended her life.\n\n\"Maybe she could have had a few years of good, quality life,\" Sue says.\n\nInstead, her cancer was too advanced to allow her to be part of a clinical trial and surgery was no longer an option.\n\nLesley died eight months after her diagnosis on Christmas Day 2018, aged 63.\n\nThe aim is to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stage one or two, from half to three-quarters by 2028.\n\nTumours in organs such as the pancreas and ovaries are often diagnosed at a late stage, making treatment far more difficult and reducing survival rates.\n\nThe NHS hopes the blood tests will help increase five-year survival rates for cancer, which are below the levels seen in many other high-income countries.\n\n\"This promising blood test could therefore be a game-changer in cancer care, helping thousands more people to get successful treatment,\" Sir Simon said.\n\nCancer Research UK said large research studies of tests were \"essential for determining if they're effective, and a vital step in getting them to patients, if proven to work\".\n\n\"All too often, people are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage, when their disease is more difficult to treat,\" said Michelle Mitchell, the charity's chief executive.\n\n\"This is a human tragedy, not just in terms of lives lost, but it also means more expensive treatments, hospital stays and monitoring.\"\n\nBut Prof Paul Pharoah, professor of cancer epidemiology, University of Cambridge, said that the NHS \"should not be investing in such a test before it has been adequately evaluated in well-conducted, large-scale clinical trials.\"", "Christopher Wilson admitted having sex with a woman who was reporting a crime at Launceston Police Station\n\nA police constable is facing a prison sentence after having sex with a crime victim in a disabled toilet at his station.\n\nPC Christopher Wilson, 43, invited the woman to the toilet via text on 2 December, Exeter Crown Court was told.\n\nHe told her sex inside the police station in Launceston, Cornwall, was \"the naughty bit which makes it more exciting\".\n\nThe woman was reporting a crime when Wilson approached her, asking if she wanted to \"get with a man in uniform\".\n\nShe followed him into the unisex disabled toilet where they engaged in sexual activity, the court heard.\n\nJudge Timothy Rose told Wilson he was likely to be sent straight to jail when he returned for sentencing in January.\n\n\"Obviously, the court will consider other options but I don't want to mislead you. You must come back realising that prison is very high on the agenda,\" he said.\n\nMr James le Grys, prosecuting, said messages were found in which Wilson discussed sex with another woman.\n\nHe also sent sexual messages to the woman after she left the police station, the court heard.\n\nSusannah Stevens, defending, said Wilson had not expected the woman to follow him into the toilet but accepted acting improperly when she did.\n\nWilson remains suspended from duty with Devon and Cornwall Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The choir included sixteen trebles as laid down in King Henry VI’s statutes\n\nThe world-famous King's College carol service will be performed in an empty chapel this year.\n\nUsually, the Christmas performance - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols - is watched by a rapt congregation and broadcast to millions.\n\nBut this year the public will be barred from the hallowed cloisters of the gothic Cambridge chapel.\n\nDean Stephen Cherry said he was \"sorry to disappoint\" choral enthusiasts hoping to attend.\n\nBut he urged them to enjoy the regular broadcast of the performance on BBC Radio 4 at 15:00 GMT on 24 December.\n\nThe college said there would be no congregation this year \"as part of the necessary precautions... to ensure that the services are safe\".\n\nInstead, it was \"looking forward to sharing the joy of its annual Christmas services with the world on radio and television\".\n\nA Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was introduced in 1918 to \"bring a more imaginative approach to worship\".\n\nKing's College, Cambridge, is illuminated by candlelight on Christmas Eve\n\nIt was first broadcast in 1928, and always opens with the carol Once In Royal David's City.\n\nThe order of service will be available to download from 18 December.\n\nA Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service on 24 December and will be repeated at 14:00 on Radio 3 on Christmas Day.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on bonuses for Christmas staff after sales at the online giant soared during the pandemic.\n\nFull-time warehouse workers in the UK and the US will receive £300 or $300, with £150 or $150 for part-time staff.\n\nThe money, $500m in total, will go to staff working between 1-31 December.\n\nThe firm, run by Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, praised staff for \"serving customers' essential needs\" during the pandemic.\n\nIn a blog post, Dave Clark, senior vice president of Amazon Worldwide Operations, wrote: \"I'm grateful to our teams who continue to play a vital role serving their communities.\n\n\"As we head into the peak of the holiday season, we want to share our appreciation through another special recognition bonus, totalling more than $500 million for our front-line employees.\"\n\nThe firm has come under intense scrutiny for working practices in its warehouses during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour activists in the US, for example, recently called on big retailers like Amazon and Walmart to do more to protect workers as surging Covid-19 cases coincide with the holiday shopping rush.\n\nThey are calling for hazard pay, paid sick leave and better communication about outbreaks.\n\nAmazon workers have raised concerns about their health and working conditions in Europe as well as in the US, claiming it is almost impossible to practice social distancing.\n\nEarlier this year, Amazon was forced to shut down several warehouses in France in an ongoing row over conditions.\n\nThe company has previously said that its guidelines are adequate and that it provides employees with face masks.\n\nHowever, the company said in a statement that it \"provides some of the most advanced workplaces of their kind in the world, with industry-leading pay, processes and systems to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all employees\".\n\nAmazon said it had introduced additional cleaning and other safety measures to increase protection, and in the UK had started a pilot scheme offering voluntary Covid testing for employees.\n\nThe retail giant has been one of the retail winners during coronavirus lockdowns as online deliveries skyrocketed when High Street shops closed.\n\nSales will also be boosted during the Black Friday bonanza, although a coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and other activists have urged consumers to boycott the firm.\n\nProtests are being planned in several countries, and in Germany, the trade union Verdi has organised three-day strikes at Amazon warehouses,\n\nSales at the internet giant shot to $96.1bn in the three months to 30 September - up 37% from the same period in 2019. And profits hit a record $6.3bn, nearly three times last year's total.\n\nBut that level of growth has not come without additional costs. Amazon said it had $2.5bn in Covid-related expenses.\n\nIn the UK it has also had to create thousands of jobs, as well as 20,000 seasonal posts, in a bid to keep up with shoppers.", "Quizzes rather than board games are one of the recommendations from scientists for a Covid-safe Christmas.\n\nEarlier this week, the government announced up to three households will be allowed to form a \"Christmas bubble\" from 23 to 27 December.\n\nBut the government's scientific advisory committee, Sage, warns coronavirus could easily spread during the festive relaxation of the rules.\n\nThey say people should still weigh up if an event could be postponed.\n\nIf not, meeting online or outdoors where the risks of transmission are lower, could be a better option.\n\nBut if you do go ahead, they say, it's important to include everyone taking part in drawing up a plan for how to manage the event.\n\nThey highlight the particular importance of involving women in the decision-making.\n\nThe document says: \"Women carry the burden of creating and maintaining family traditions and activities at Christmas.\n\n\"Messaging should be supportive of women adapting traditions and encouraging those around them to share the burden and to be supportive of any alterations to adapt for Covid-19 restrictions.\"\n\nThe advisers recognise that negotiating these arrangements may \"create tensions\".\n\nBut they suggest a series of measures, ranging from minimising the numbers getting together to keeping events brief to avoiding physical contact.\n\nMaintaining social distancing, keeping surfaces clean and opening windows to allow in fresh air are all highlighted.\n\nThere are also practical suggestions:\n\nBut there's a warning that no single measure will guarantee that Christmas is risk-free.\n\nScientists warn that, within households, one infected person can pass the virus to as many as 50% of the rest.\n\nAnd they say that the spread of the disease could multiply as the newly-infected people return to their usual lives after the break.\n\nIn one paper, the advisers spell out that \"this is not a theoretical risk\".\n\nThey point to earlier research into how other respiratory diseases such as pneumonia increase as older family members are exposed during the school holidays.\n\nThat's why they conclude that cases are set to rise.\n\n\"The prevalence could easily double during a few days of the festive season, with further multiplicative increases as new infections go back to their \"routine\" networks.\"\n\nAnother document published by Sage makes clear that most coronavirus infections happen during prolonged indoor gatherings of people who are familiar with each other.\n\nThat creates what's called an \"intimacy paradox\" in which we let our guard down because we don't see our loved ones as a potential dangers.\n• None Covid: What can and should you do this Christmas?", "Last updated on .From the section Sport Africa\n\nThe Tunisian referee from England's infamous defeat by Argentina at the 1986 World Cup says he is \"proud and honoured\" to have helped Diego Maradona score the \"goal of the century\". .\n\nMaradona, who died on Wednesday at the age of 60, beat several England players on a mazy dribble from just inside his own half before scoring to put Argentina 2-0 up, four minutes after scoring the controversial goal he famously credited to the \"Hand of God\".\n\nReferee Ali Bin Nasser, now 76, also said he had no option but to award the first goal and recalled how Maradona gave him a signed shirt when they met again in 2015.\n\nOn the second goal of the game, Bin Nasser told BBC Sport: \"He took off from midfield, and I was shadowing him closely. When you're refereeing someone like Maradona, you can't take your eyes off them.\n\n\"They tried to take him down on three occasions, but his desire for victory kept pushing him forward.\n\n\"Every time I would shout 'advantage' until he reached the box.\n\n\"I was watching from outside the box, wondering how this player shook off three defenders, and sprinted for nearly 50 metres. I thought 'the defenders will try to take him down now'. I was expecting that to happen and was ready to whistle for a penalty.\n\n\"To my surprise, he dribbled past another defender and the goalkeeper [Peter Shilton] to score what would become 'the goal of the century'.\n\n\"I'm proud and honoured as a person and as a referee for having played a role in that historical achievement.\n\n\"Had I whistled [for] a foul in any of the first three contacts, we wouldn't have witnessed something that magnificent. That advantage I gave is one my proudest achievements.\"\n\nBin Nasser added that the 1986 quarter-final, played in front of nearly 115,000 fans at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City was the \"highlight\" of his career, despite his decision to allow the controversial first goal.\n\n\"The English defender [Steve Hodge] had the ball, sent it back and Maradona was in the air with Peter Shilton, and they were both facing away from me.\n\n\"They were facing my assistant referee, the Bulgarian Bogdan Dochev.\n\n\"I was hesitant at first, I glanced over to Dochev, who was headed back to the centre of the pitch, confirming the goal. He didn't signal for handball.\n\n\"The instructions Fifa gave us before the game were clear - if a colleague was in a better position than mine, I should respect his view.\"\n\nDochev, who died in 2017 aged 80, would later say that \"Fifa did not allow assistants to discuss decisions with the referee\".\n\n\"If Fifa had put a referee from Europe in charge of such an important game, the first goal of Maradona would have been disallowed,\" he insisted.\n\nHowever, Bin Nasser says the sportsmanship shown by the England players was \"beautiful\".\n\nHe recalled: \"Gary Lineker came over to me and said 'please referee, handball!' I replied: Please play!'\n\n\"To me, that was 100% a goal according to Fifa guidelines.\"\n\nLineker pulled a goal back for England with nine minutes remaining and then came close to an equaliser.\n\n\"When England scored their goal, I secretly wanted them to score the equaliser,\" admitted Bin Nasser.\n\n\"I wanted to enjoy that game for 30 more minutes. It was an absolute joy from start to finish.\n\n\"Despite the heat that day, I wanted things to go on. It was a beautiful game between two great teams.\"\n\nWhen Maradona came to Tunisia in 2015, he visited Bin Nasser at his home.\n\n\"I told him 'it wasn't Argentina that won the World Cup that year, it was Maradona',\" said the Tunisian.\n\n\"He replied: 'Had it not been for you, I wouldn't have been able to score the goal of the century.'\n\n\"He gave me a signed jersey that said 'Para Ali Mi Amigo Eterna'.\"", "Dive teams will search the No1 pond in Highgate \"over the coming weeks\" police said\n\nPolice divers are searching a pond on Hampstead Heath for the body of a man who disappeared nearly eight years ago.\n\nRobert Duff, who would now be 45, has not been seen since 12 January 2013 when he failed to attend his daughter's 18th birthday party.\n\nPolice now believe his remains might be in the No1 pond in Highgate, Camden, after new information came to light.\n\nMr Duff's mother said the prospect his remains could be in \"a pond I walk past regularly is quite upsetting\".\n\n\"The appropriate steps weren't taken even though we told them that Robert's actions were completely out of character,\" she said.\n\n\"It feels like a lot of time has been wasted and evidence lost.\"\n\nIn May 2018, two men were arrested on suspicion of murdering Mr Duff but were later released under investigation.\n\nThe Met has worked on the theory that Mr Duff was involved in a fight with two men on the day he vanished and was killed that evening.\n\nThat night several people saw him in a flat in Bredgar Road in Archway, north London.\n\nDet Insp Tom Williams said: \"My team remains committed to finding Robert and providing the answers that his family are so desperately longing for.\n\n\"Following previous appeals, information was provided to my team that has led us to conduct a search of the No1 pond in Highgate.\n\n\"This work will continue over the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The IFS says student numbers have held up better than expected\n\nUniversities and colleges in England face \"significant funding shortfalls and heightened uncertainty\" due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report warns.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says fewer overseas students, potentially higher dropouts and high pension costs are a financial risk for universities.\n\nFurther education colleges still face budget pressures, despite a £400m cash boost, says the report.\n\nThe government says it understands this is a \"challenging time\" for the sector.\n\nThe IFS report on education spending in England, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, warns that universities could be exposed to a range of financial losses, such as falling international student numbers and more students failing to complete their degrees.\n\n\"By far the largest source of financial risk for universities is pension costs,\" it says.\n\n\"New figures suggest the additional cost to universities of meeting existing pension promises may well be as high as £8bn, or double our previous estimate of around £4bn.\"\n\nUniversities could only reduce this by \"taking on more risk, making further reductions in the pensions provided by the scheme, big rises in employees' contributions\" or a combination of these.\n\nBut such measures are likely to be controversial - last academic year, lecturers went on strike over pensions, as well as pay and conditions.\n\nThe IFS also says student numbers in further education colleges and sixth forms are likely to increase this year, partly due to rising numbers of young people and partly due to \"unusually high GCSE results\" and significant reductions in training and employment opportunities.\n\nWhile England's colleges and sixth forms will receive an extra £400m this year, \"exceptional rises in student numbers could still generate a real-terms fall in funding per student\".\n\nThe early years sector could face further financial pressure from Covid lockdowns, says the IFS study\n\nThey will also face challenges around educational catch-up, but may also \"need to expand to accommodate extra students as apprenticeship and employment opportunities dry up\", the IFS says.\n\nThe report also raises concerns about early years provision, saying settings are likely to be \"much more financially exposed, both to the second lockdown and more broadly to a rather slow and incomplete return of demand for childcare\".\n\nWhile early years providers \"were financially well protected\" during the first lockdown by the government's commitment to continue to fund the free entitlement hours, a reassessment of this funding in January 2021 could prove problematic for providers.\n\nReport co-author Ben Waltmann said there had been speculation in the summer that universities would need a financial bailout.\n\n\"In the end, student numbers have held up better than expected, but universities still face financial risks from no-shows or higher-than-usual dropout, as well as reductions in other income streams,\" he said.\n\n\"By far the biggest source of risk now appears to be the large deficit on the main university pension scheme, which has increased from £3.6bn in March 2018 to a monumental £21.5bn in August 2020, according to the latest preliminary estimate.\n\nLecturers went on strike over pensions last academic year\n\n\"With contributions already at more than 30% of earnings, it is hard to see how a deficit on this scale, if confirmed, could be evened out without further cuts in the generosity of the scheme.\"\n\nCo-author Imran Tahir said the government had made transforming further education colleges a big priority, pledging £400m in extra funding at the 2019 Spending Review.\n\nHe said this could be \"the first real-terms increase in spending per student for about a decade\".\n\n\"However, student numbers could have risen dramatically more than expected due to a reduction in training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, on top of population growth.\n\n\"If there is no additional funding forthcoming, planned real-terms increases in spending per student could be mostly - if not entirely - eroded.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said the government had introduced a range of support.\n\n\"We have protected grant funding for further education, worth over £3bn for a full year and increased education and training investment this year for 16-19 year olds by an additional £400m.\n\n\"We also brought forward over £2bn worth of tuition fee payments for universities and announced a major package of £280m to stabilise research funding.\"\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the head teachers' union ASCL, said colleges were often \"treated by the government in terms of funding as a Cinderella service\".\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said the reduction in funding had led to \"courses being cut, support services reduced and extra-curricular activities removed for 16 to 18 year olds across the country\".\n\nThe £400m investment \"was a welcome step\", he said, \"but was only a one year deal following a decade of neglect.\"", "The hidden text can be easily seen after the colours of the image are manipulated\n\nThe government has blamed a \"technical error\" for a Boris Johnson tweet congratulating Joe Biden on his US election victory which faintly showed the name \"Trump\" in the background.\n\nSocial media users commented on the discrepancy while the Guido Fawkes website said the message also included the word \"second term\" buried in it.\n\nOfficials said two messages were prepared before the result was known.\n\nThe alternative one had been \"embedded\" in the other by mistake, they said.\n\nMr Johnson posted the message on Twitter on Saturday after broadcasters in the US and elsewhere declared the Democratic former vice-president the winner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister - who has never met Mr Biden - congratulated him on his victory in a phone conversation which the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said lasted about 20 minutes.\n\nMr Johnson said he and the president-elect discussed their \"shared priorities\" and was looking forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the two countries.\n\nThe UK PM is believed to be the first European leader Mr Biden has spoken to since the election.\n\nMr Biden is preparing to assume office in January, although incumbent President Donald Trump is refusing to accept the outcome of the election and is mounting a series of legal challenges in certain states.\n\nThe message the PM sent on Sunday read: \"Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as president of the United States and to Kamala Harris on her historic achievement.\n\n\"The US is our most important ally and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security.\"\n\nBut the message appeared to include traces of a different one referring to Mr Trump, who has been in office since 2017.\n\nGuido Fawkes said the \"remnants\" of this could be seen by adjusting the contrast and brightness levels of the actual message that was posted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking about Joe Biden's victory: \"There's far more that unites us than divides us\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As you'd expect, two statements were prepared in advance for the outcome of this closely contested election.\n\n\"A technical error meant that parts of the alternative message were embedded in the background of the graphic.\"\n\nUK ministers have said they are excited about working with Mr Biden on issues such as climate change and trade.\n\nIn recent days, Mr Biden's team has sought to downplay lingering tensions over Mr Johnson's role in Brexit and past comments he has made about both President Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama.\n\nMr Biden, who has made his opposition to Brexit well known, has insisted maintaining peace in Northern Ireland is paramount in any post-Brexit UK-US trade deal.\n\nThe president-elect is continuing a ring-round of world leaders, having also spoken to Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron.\n\nBefore news of Mr Biden's conversation with Mr Johnson emerged, the Irish PM Michael Martin posted a Twitter message saying he had just finished a \"positive\" conversation with the president-elect.\n\nThe message was quickly deleted, after which the Irish government revealed it had been sent in error and although a call had been arranged the two had yet to speak.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Martin posted another message saying he had had a \"warm and engaging\" call with Mr Biden.", "An extremely rare purple-pink Russian diamond has sold at auction in Switzerland for $26.6m (£20.1m).\n\nThe 14.8-carat diamond, dubbed \"The Spirit of the Rose,\" is the largest of its kind to be auctioned, as 99% of all pink diamonds are under 10 carats.\n\nIts size, along with its colour and flawless internal structure, helped to attract the high price at Sotheby's in Geneva.\n\nThe name of the winning bidder has not been publicly disclosed.\n\nIt was one of three stones in a collection by Russian mining company Alrosa - all named after famous Russian ballets.\n\nThe Spirit of the Rose was cut from a rough diamond discovered in Russia in 2017.\n\nThe rough diamond was called Nijinsky, in honour of the Russian-Polish ballet dancer and choreographer.\n\nThe current price record for a pink diamond is held by CTF Pink Star. The 59-carat stone sold at auction for $71m (£57m) at Sotheby's in Hong Kong in April 2017.\n\nMay 2016: A large diamond known as the Oppenheimer Blue set a new auction record, reaching a price of $50.6m (£34.7m at the exchange rate of the time). The 14.62-carat gem was sold after 20 minutes of phone bidding at Christie's auction house in Geneva. The buyer's identity is unknown.\n\nNovember 2015: The Blue Moon, a 12.03-carat ring-mounted blue diamond, caught the eye of Hong Kong tycoon Joseph Lau, who paid a record $48.4m (£31.7m) for the cushion-shaped stone. He bought it for his seven-year-old daughter, renaming it the \"Blue Moon of Josephine\" after her.\n\nMay 2015: An unnamed buyer made history after purchasing the Sunrise Ruby, a 25.59-carat \"pigeon blood\" coloured gemstone, for $30m (£19.1m). At that price, it became the world's most expensive precious stone other than a diamond.\n\nNovember 2013: The \"largest vivid orange diamond in the world\", according to Christie's, attracted the highest price paid per carat for any diamond at auction, selling for $35m (£22m), or $2.4m (£1.5m) per carat.\n\nNovember 2010: The Graff Pink, a 24.78-carat \"fancy intense pink\" stone described as \"one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered\", auctioned for $46.2m (£29m). At the time it was believed to be the most expensive gemstone bought at auction and was sold to the well-known British dealer Laurence Graff.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritish Cycling has sacked a senior coach for gross misconduct and a \"long-term pattern of inappropriate relationships\" with riders.\n\nThe governing body said it followed repeated warnings to Kevin Stewart that his behaviour \"fell short of the values and standards expected\".\n\nAn investigation into the senior sprint coach found no evidence of any physical relationship with any rider.\n\nBut Stewart said he \"wholeheartedly apologised\" for actions that were \"not acceptable\".\n\nBritish Cycling said Stewart had also \"failed to follow specific direction...in regard to relationship with riders and professional boundaries\".\n• None Brian Facer: London Irish chief executive to join British Cycling in same role\n\nHe was also found guilty by British Cycling of inappropriate use of electronic communication and actions that brought the governing body into disrepute.\n\nStewart, who represented Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, said: \"I wholeheartedly apologise to the team for my actions, which I acknowledge were not acceptable.\n\n\"I realised my actions had made my position on the team untenable and had handed in my resignation before being dismissed while on my notice period.\"\n\nStephen Park, performance director for British Cycling, said: \"While this has been uncomfortable for everybody concerned, it demonstrates the robustness of the processes we have in place when concerns are raised.\n\n\"The GB Cycling Team has a clear set of expected behaviours and values and we must hold ourselves and each other to account when we do not meet the standards of behaviour we set as a team.\"\n\nThe latest scandal to hit the governing body after a series of controversies, news of Stewart's sacking comes just a day after British Cycling announced Brian Facer will be its new chief executive, and just eight months before the postponed Tokyo Games.\n\nStewart, who is married to Irish international track cyclist Robyn Stewart, had been preparing to help sprint legend Jason Kenny's bid to become Team GB's most successful ever Olympian in Japan.\n• None Alex Dowsett to attempt new hour record at Manchester Velodrome\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "The monkey is known for its white eye patches\n\nA monkey that is new to science has been discovered in the remote forests of Myanmar.\n\nThe Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.\n\nLangurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.\n\nThe newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur.\n\nIt is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.\n\nScientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find.\n\nAbout 100 of the monkeys live in a protected forest near Mount Popa\n\nWith very little information to go on, they turned to historical specimens stored in natural history museums in London, Leiden, New York and Singapore.\n\nEarly explorers to Burma collected the monkey specimens, which had never been examined in detail.\n\nThe researchers extracted DNA and measured physical features such as tail and ear length, which they compared with those of wild populations.\n\nThis revealed a new species, the Popa langur, which is found only in patches of forest in the centre of the country. Most live in a wildlife sanctuary park on the slopes of the sacred pilgrimage site of Mount Popa.\n\nDescribing the species scientifically will help in its conservation, said Frank Momberg of the conservation group Fauna & Flora International.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"The Popa langur, just newly described, is already critically endangered and facing extinction so it's absolutely critical to protect the remaining population and to engage with local communities as well as private sector stakeholders to safeguard its future.\"\n\nThere are only 200 to 250 animals of the new species, which live in four isolated populations.\n\nIn the last decade or so, Myanmar has opened up to international collaborations with scientists, which has led to the discovery of species new to science, including reptiles, amphibians. But the discovery of a new primate is rare.\n\nChristian Roos of the primate genetics laboratory at the German Primate Centre in Gottingnen said the animals faced threats from habitat loss and hunting.\n\n\"Hunting is a big problem but the bigger threat is the habitat is almost gone and it is reduced, fragmented and isolated due to human encroachment, \" he said.\n\nThe discovery is described in the journal Zoological Research.\n\nGenetic studies revealed that the Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) separated from other known species around one million years ago.", "Harry Dunn was killed after a crash outside RAF Croughton last year\n\nHarry Dunn's alleged killer was never entitled to immunity from prosecution in the UK, the High Court has heard.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was in a crash with a car near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, on 27 August last year.\n\nThe suspect, Anne Sacoolas, later left for the USA citing diplomatic immunity.\n\nShe was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request was denied in January.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 43, whose husband Jonathan worked as a technical assistant at the base, was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road when she hit Mr Dunn.\n\nHis parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, claim the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) wrongly decided Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity and unlawfully obstructed Northamptonshire Police's investigation.\n\nMr Dunn's parents Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles want Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK\n\nIn 1995, the UK agreed to include staff at RAF Croughton on the diplomatic list, but asked the US to waive the immunity of administrative and technical staff in relation to \"acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\nThe FCDO says that waiver only applied to staff at RAF Croughton and not their family members, meaning Mrs Sacoolas did have immunity at the time of the crash.\n\nBut, at a remote hearing, Sam Wordsworth QC - representing the parents - said Mrs Sacoolas had \"no duties at all\" at the base and therefore \"never had any relevant immunity for the US to waive\".\n\nHe told the court that, under the agreement, \"the US agreed to waive the immunity of the administrative and technical staff from criminal jurisdiction in respect of acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\n\"It follows that administrative and technical staff at RAF Croughton were only ever entitled to a limited immunity.\"\n\nHe said as \"no immunity from criminal jurisdiction was conferred on Mr Sacoolas in respect of acts performed outside the course of his duties\" it followed that his wife was not beyond prosecution either.\n\n\"Hence she was not immune with respect to the criminal proceedings at issue in this case,\" he said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nGeoffrey Robertson QC - also representing the parents - earlier said the FCDO \"tacitly accepted the Sacoolas family's departure from the UK\".\n\nHe referred to a text message sent to a US embassy official on 14 September 2019 - a day before Mrs Sacoolas and her family left for the USA.\n\nThe message read: \"I think that now the decision has been taken not to waive (immunity), there's not much mileage in us asking you to keep the family here.\n\n\"It's obviously not us approving of their departure but I think you should be able to put them on the next flight out.\"\n\nIn written submissions, the FCDO's barrister Sir James Eadie QC said \"Mrs Sacoolas automatically had diplomatic immunity as the spouse of the administrative and technical staff of the US mission\".\n\nHe denied claims the FCDO had obstructed the police investigation.\n\nHe said officials had \"objected in strong terms\" to Mrs Sacoolas leaving the UK, and \"repeatedly emphasised\" that the department \"wanted the Sacoolas family to co-operate with the UK authorities\".\n\nThe hearing before Lord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini is expected to conclude on Thursday.", "Khairi Saadallah was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man has admitted murdering three men during a knife rampage in a park in Reading.\n\nKhairi Saadallah killed friends James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the two-minute attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Saadallah, 26, also admitted three charges of attempted murder ahead of a scheduled trial.\n\nThe prosecution case is that the murders were a terror attack.\n\nBut judge Mr Justice Sweeney said Saadallah had submitted a basis of plea, denying substantial preparation or planning and saying he was not motivated by an ideological cause.\n\nHe said a Newton hearing, which will start in the week of 7 December, was \"essential\" to decide whether Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said: \"they were always happy\"\n\nMembers of the victims' families sat in court for the hearing as Saadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, entered his guilty pleas while wearing a face mask.\n\nThe defendant, who is originally from Libya, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nThe attack was \"without warning or provocation and in rapid succession\", according to the case summary,\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nMr Young was stabbed in the head, Mr Edwards was stabbed in the back and Mr Nisudan suffered injuries to his face and hand.\n\nThe defendant then discarded the knife and ran out of the park before he was caught by police.\n\nWitnesses were said to have heard him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" (God is greatest) and \"victory on infidels\".\n\nMr Furlong, who was head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, was described as by his parents as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett's father Robert told US TV network CBS his son, who was originally from Philadelphia, was \"brilliant and loving\".\n\nMr Wails was described as \"always happy\" and a person who \"always made people smile\".\n\nIn the aftermath of the attack, security sources told the BBC that Saadallah was known to MI5 after coming to its attention in 2019.\n\nBut when the information was further investigated, no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified and no case file was opened.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Toobin has apologised to his wife, friends and colleagues\n\nA star reporter has been fired by the New Yorker magazine after he exposed himself on a staff Zoom call.\n\nJeffrey Toobin, 60, who is also senior legal analyst for CNN, confirmed in a tweet that he had been sacked.\n\nThe New Yorker's parent company Conde Nast wrote in an email to staff: \"I want to assure everyone that we take workplace matters seriously.\"\n\nAfter he was suspended last month Mr Toobin said he had believed himself to be off-camera during the incident.\n\nVice News, which broke the initial story, reported that senior colleagues had seen Mr Toobin masturbating while apparently on a separate video 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 Jeffrey Toobin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCondé Nast's chief people officer, Stan Duncan, wrote in a note to staff quoted by US media that as a result of their internal investigation Mr Toobin was \"no longer affiliated with our company\".\n\nHe added: \"We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct.\"\n\nThe incident happened on 15 October during an election simulation involving the New Yorker and WNYC radio. Mr Toobin was immediately suspended.\n\nIn a statement to Vice last month, he said: \"I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.\"\n\nHe apologised to his family, friends and colleagues.\n\n\"I believed I was not visible on Zoom,\" he told Vice. \"I thought no-one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.\"\n\nVice quoted two anonymous sources who were at the meeting as saying they had witnessed the incident.\n\nThe election simulation involved prominent New Yorker figures playing politicians, such as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Mr Toobin was representing the courts.\n\nDuring a break in proceedings, according to Vice's sources, Mr Toobin appeared to be on a different video call but was seen moments later on camera touching his penis.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke has resigned over the \"unacceptable\" language he used when referring to black players.\n\nClarke said he was \"deeply saddened\" for the offence he had caused by using the term \"coloured footballers\".\n\nThe comments came as he was talking about the racist abuse of players by trolls on social media to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee via video link.\n\nClarke said his words were a \"disservice to our game\".\n\nHe prompted further criticism when referring to gay players making a \"life choice\" and a coach telling him young female players did not like having the ball hit hard at them.\n\nHe also said there were \"a lot more South Asians than there are Afro-Caribbeans\" in the FA's IT department because \"they have different career interests\".\n• None Black FA chairman would be 'huge step' in fight for equality, says England's Mings\n• None Newsbeat: why Greg Clarke's language was so offensive (warning - contains offensive language)\n\n\"We can confirm that Greg Clarke has stepped down from his role as our chairman,\" said an FA statement.\n\n\"Peter McCormick will step into the role as interim FA chairman with immediate effect and the FA Board will begin the process of identifying and appointing a new chair in due course.\"\n\nFollowing his resignation, Clarke said: \"My unacceptable words in front of Parliament were a disservice to our game and to those who watch, play, referee and administer it. This has crystallised my resolve to move on.\n\n\"I am deeply saddened that I have offended those diverse communities in football that I and others worked so hard to include.\"\n\nDuring the parliamentary hearing, Clarke apologised after being prompted to say sorry by MP Kevin Brennan.\n\nBrennan said Clarke's language in reference to black players was the kind that did not encourage inclusion, while fellow committee member Alex Davies-Jones called it \"abhorrent\".\n\nClarke had earlier spoken of the need to attract people into the sport from a diverse range of communities.\n\nThe equality charity Kick It Out said his remark about black players should be \"consigned to the dustbin of history\" and criticised his comments concerning people from South Asia, gay players and female footballers.\n\nClarke had been called to give evidence to the DCMS committee about the Premier League's potential bailout of English Football League clubs and the structural reforms proposed as part of Project Big Picture.\n\n\"As a person who loves football and has given decades of service to our game, it is right that I put the interests of football first,\" added Clarke in the statement confirming his departure.\n\n\"2020 has been a challenging year and I have been actively considering standing down for some time to make way for a new chair now our CEO transition is complete and excellent executive leadership under Mark Bullingham is established.\"\n\n'Right to stand down' - reaction\n\nA statement from anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card said Clarke's comments \"only serve to demonstrate the power of language and the damage of stereotyping groups of people\".\n\nSpeaking before the resignation was announced, Sanjay Bhandari, executive chair at Kick It Out, said Clarke's comments to the DCMS were outdated.\n\n\"I was particularly concerned by the use of lazy racist stereotypes about South Asians and their supposed career preferences. It reflects similar lazy stereotypes I have heard have been spouted at club academy level,\" he said.\n\n\"Being gay is not a 'life choice' as he claimed too. The casual sexism of saying girls do not like balls hit at them hard is staggering from anyone, let alone the leader of our national game. It is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"Greg Clarke's comments have caused deep offence and were completely unacceptable. I acknowledge his decades of service to football and his apology, but he was right to stand down as chairman of the FA.\"\n\nDavid Bernstein, former FA chairman, told BBC Sport: \"I am just surprised that the chair of any organisation who's got a feel of what's going on in the year 2020 could use those types of words, that sort of language. It's just inappropriate.\"\n\nDarren Bent, former England striker: \"Slip of the tongue was it? Awful, just awful.\"\n\nAnton Ferdinand, former West Ham, Sunderland and QPR defender: \"Clearly education is needed at all levels.\"\n\nJulian Knight, DCMS select committee chairman: \"It's right that Greg Clarke apologised before the committee. However, this isn't the first time that the FA has come to grief over these issues. It makes us question their commitment to diversity.\"\n\nAlex Davies-Jones, DCMS committee member: \"The language used by Greg Clarke in our meeting this morning was absolutely abhorrent. It speaks volumes about the urgent progress that needs to made in terms of leadership on equalities issues in sport. I can't believe we're still here in 2020.\"\n\nThree years ago - in front of the same parliamentary committee, Greg Clarke was criticised for referring to institutional racism as \"fluff\". He apologised after being chastised by MPs and reminded that language matters.\n\nIt appears the message did not get through.\n\nTwo weeks after the FA launched a new diversity code with the aim of finally tackling racial inequality in the game, such efforts have once again been called into question, despite Clarke always insisting it was one of his priorities.\n\nAmid under-representation of BAME managers and board members, many critics will see Clarke's comments as evidence of the attitudes and language that has prevented the organisation from overseeing the progress hoped for in recent years, and it is no surprise that he has decided to step down.\n\nThere have been other awkward moments. In 2018, LGBT supporters group Pride in Football said it was \"shocked\" after Clarke signed a memorandum of understanding with the FA of Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.\n\nIn July, he had to backtrack after claiming representatives of the Premier League and EFL had blocked plans to increase racial diversity on the FA Board.\n\nDespite having barely been seen since the start of the year, Clarke was already under pressure over his role initiating secret talks over the Project Big Picture plans for a radical overhaul of the English game. Indeed earlier in the committee hearing, he was asked if his authority was \"shot\", something he strongly denied.\n\nBut then came his comments on diversity. Amid an unprecedented financial crisis for the sport and damaging divisions with fans, leagues and government, the FA chairman has now had to go over yet another controversy.\n\nThis is another grim day for the game, at the worst possible moment.\n• None Can the boys track down the boxing promoter?\n• None The biggest tracks that were never topped", "Negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU are expected to continue next week as the deadline draws nearer.\n\nThe two sides resumed talks in London this week, with a UK government source saying they were in the \"final stage\".\n\nBut big gaps still remain, such as on fishing access, with the UK source describing the EU's position as \"wholly unrealistic\".\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is prepared to move forward without a deal.\n\nIreland's foreign minister, Simon Coveney said it was \"quite possible [the talks] could fall apart and we don't get a deal\".\n\nBut he said, while reaching an agreement would be \"very difficult\", it was \"doable\" and the coming days were \"crucial\".\n\nThe UK officially left the EU on 31 January, but has been in a transition period since then - following many of the bloc's rules while a trade agreement is negotiated.\n\nThat period is due to end on 31 December and if a deal is not agreed, the UK will trade with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules - leading to tariffs being introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs for businesses and consumers.\n\nBoth sides say they want to avoid this outcome, but the the EU has said it will not do a deal \"at any price\", and Mr Johnson has said the UK will prosper either way.\n\nIf a deal is agreed, it would need to be signed off by MPs in the UK and parliaments across the EU before the end of the transition period to come into force by 1 January.\n\nMr Johnson spoke on the phone to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday, agreeing some progress had been made in recent weeks after the EU agreed to discuss specific legal texts.\n\nBut Ms von der Leyen said \"large differences\" remained over the question of access to British fishing waters from 2021 and regulations on workers' rights, environmental protection, and state aid designed to maintain a \"level-playing field\".\n\nAny talk of an end game, final stage, or make or break moment has become foolish throughout the Brexit process.\n\nNegotiations between the two sides over a future trading relationship are, predictably, going to the wire.\n\nBut as it stands there is a deadline of 31 December, after which the UK and EU will have to operate in a very different way.\n\nIf a trade deal is agreed before then, the EU member states will each need to ratify it, along with the European Parliament and MPs at Westminster.\n\nGiven that time pressure and the big gaps still evidently separating both sides, progress is needed soon for agreement to be reached.\n\nNobody expects the talks to continue beyond the end of next week, so while a breakthrough doesn't seem imminent, it will have to come within days if a deal is to be done.\n\nThe extension to the talks comes after a heavy defeat for the government in the Lords over its controversial Brexit legislation.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill contains measures that overrule parts of the UK's Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU, and the government has said it could break international law.\n\nThe Lords voted to remove the sections, but the government has pledged to reintroduce them when the bill returns to the Commons.", "William Shakespeare's Fourth Folio has an estimate of up to £50,000\n\nA \"rare\" Shakespeare book being sold by Rugby School is estimated to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.\n\nWilliam Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, from 1685, is one of about 300 books from the school's library going under the hammer.\n\nCharles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and titles from Daniel Defoe and Aristotle are also among volumes expected to fetch the most money.\n\nThe school said it was committed to using resources to benefit students.\n\nIn 2018, Mail Online reported the private school had raised nearly £15m by selling a large selection of artwork, with one item fetching more than £11m.\n\nThe books due to be auctioned next week cover \"an impressively wide range of interests\", the school said, including mountaineering, botany, sermons, military history, psalms and maps.\n\nThe first edition of A Christmas Carol has an estimate of £3,000 to £4,000\n\nA Shakespeare Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies second edition, from 1632, has an estimate of between £20,000 and £30,000.\n\nAristotle's Politiques, or Discourses of Government, from 1598, and Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, from 1719, both have estimates of up to £6,000.\n\nA first edition of A Christmas Carol, dating back to 1843, is expected to fetch up to £4,000.\n\nThe auction will take place next week\n\nRugby School Group executive head master Peter Green said the decision to sell the \"rare books\" was \"twofold\".\n\n\"They deserve to be preserved, stored - and enjoyed - in specialist conditions,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, the school is committed, as a registered charity, to use its resources to benefit current and future students.\n\n\"Rugby School already operates a generous bursary system. It is entirely fitting that the proceeds from the sale of this collection will go towards extending the benefit of a Rugby education.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said the school was \"not in any financial difficulty\".\n\nForum Auctions said the online auction would take place on 18 November at 13:00 GMT.\n\nRugby School says it is selling off the works to benefit students\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The report said the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols had sometimes failed to demonstrate compassion\n\nThe head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has, at times, shown he cares more about the impact of abuse on the Church's reputation than on the victims, a report says.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse criticised the leadership of Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, and the Vatican.\n\nThe cardinal said the church was \"deeply sorry this happened\".\n\nA lawyer representing survivors said the cardinal \"must go right away\".\n\nCardinal Nichols told the BBC he had offered to resign on Sunday upon turning 75, as is church law when bishops reach this age, but this was rejected by the Vatican.\n\nHe said: \"I offered my resignation to Pope Francis. His answer has come back very clear, very unambiguous. He wants me to stay in post, so I will stay because that's where my orders come from, that's where my mandate comes from.\n\n\"He wants me to stay - I'm going to stay and continue to work wholeheartedly at these matters.\"\n\nThe inquiry found that between 1970 and 2015 the Church received more than 3,000 complaints of child sexual abuse against more than 900 individuals connected to the Church.\n\nThose complaints involved more than 1,750 victims and complainants, though the report said the true scale of abuse was much higher and would likely never be known.\n\nIt was \"far from a solely historical issue\", the inquiry found, adding that more than 100 allegations of abuse had been reported each year since 2016.\n\nThe Catholic Church's \"explicit moral purpose has been betrayed by those who sexually abused children, and by those who turned a blind eye and failed to take action against perpetrators\".\n\nIt said the cardinal, who apologised for the Church's actions when he gave evidence, \"did not always exercise the leadership expected of a senior member of the Church, at times preferring to protect the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and in Rome\".\n\nIt added that Cardinal Nichols had shown \"no acknowledgement of any personal responsibility to lead or influence change\".\n\n\"Nor did he demonstrate compassion towards victims in the recent cases which we examined.\"\n\nThe report said that two previous inquiries into abuse in the Church, by Lord Nolan in 2001 and Lady Cumberlege in 2007, had brought change and improvements, but their recommendations had been implemented too slowly and not in full.\n\nIt highlighted that in 2016, internal correspondence between members of the Diocese of Westminster's safeguarding commission described a victim of sexual abuse as \"manipulative\" and \"needy\".\n\nThe report states: \"Real and lasting changes to attitudes have some way to go if the Roman Catholic Church is to shake off the failures of the past.\"\n\nOne of the \"repeated failures\" highlighted in the IICSA report was the case of Father James Robinson, a serial paedophile, who was moved to another parish within the Archdiocese of Birmingham after complaints were first made in the 1980s.\n\nHe later fled to the US but was extradited back to the UK where he was convicted in 2010 of 21 sexual offences against four boys and jailed for 21 years.\n\nThe report said \"appalling sexual abuse\" was inflicted on pupils at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and its adjoining junior school.\n\nFive people connected to the school have been convicted or cautioned in relation to \"offences involving sexual activity with a large number of children, or offences concerning pornography\", the report said.\n\nOne of them was Father Piers Grant-Ferris who was moved to at least six other parishes after allegations of abuse came to light 1975.\n\nHe was convicted of indecent assault against 15 boys in 2006.\n\nThe inquiry also criticised the Vatican, describing its actions as in \"direct contrast with Pope Francis's public statement on child sexual abuse\".\n\nIn 2019, the Pope called for \"concrete and effective actions that involve everyone in the Church\".\n\nThe Holy See did not provide a statement to the inquiry and the ambassador at the time refused to give evidence.\n\nThe report said: \"In responding in this way, the Holy See's stance was contrary to the spirit of its public statements and it missed the opportunity to demonstrate its engagement and leadership on the issue of child sexual abuse.\"\n\nIt added its response \"manifestly did not demonstrate a commitment to taking action\".\n\nOne abuse survivor said it was bad enough to have been abused but \"to have it dismissed and covered up just takes even more of a toll on you\".\n\nAnother survivor, who gave evidence to the inquiry, said \"thousands of pounds have been spent by the Diocese of Westminster in employing lawyers to keep me at arm's length\" as they continued to make their case.\n\nThey added: \"The church needs a seismic shift in culture, especially at the top. If there is any hope at all of real change it will require a relinquishing of power, and a will to treat survivors as human beings.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, specialist abuse lawyer at Slater & Gordon who represents 32 survivors in IICSA, said: \"This is an absolutely damning report.\n\n\"It highlights the shocking scale of abuse, the disgraceful slowness of the church's response, the abject failures of leadership by Cardinal Nichols, and the Vatican's appalling refusal to cooperate properly with the inquiry.\n\n\"Cardinal Nichols needs to go right away - in any other walk of life he would be gone immediately.\"\n\nResponding to the report, Cardinal Nichols told the BBC: \"The things in this report are in the public sphere, and I'm sure they've been taken into account, but the response I've got is very unambiguous. It is to stay, and stay I will.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I'm not here to defend myself... I am here to say we accept this report, we are grateful to IICSA for bringing the light and giving public space to those who have been abused, we are deeply sorry this happened...\n\n\"Today is more about me saying again, on behalf of everybody in the Catholic Church, how deeply, deeply regretful and sorry I am that anybody suffered, and that so many suffered is a terrible shame with which I must live and from which I must learn.\"\n\nThe report follows the publication of a similar inquiry into abuse in the Church of England, which concluded the church had created a culture where abusers \"could hide\".\n\nIf you have been the victim of sexual abuse, or have been affected by the themes in this article, you can go to the BBC Action Line for support.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have joined figures from government and the armed forces for an Armistice Day service, as the UK fell silent to remember the war dead.\n\nA special service was held at Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.\n\nThe congregation - and millions around the UK - commemorated those who died with a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT.\n\nArmistice Day marks the day World War One ended in 1918.\n\nThe grave of the Unknown Warrior represents those who died in the war and whose place of death is not known or whose remains are unidentified.\n\nThe scaled-back Westminster Abbey service, led by the Dean of Westminster, Dr David Hoyle, was attended by the prime minister, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick.\n\nBoris Johnson was seated apart from the royal couple to follow social distancing rules\n\nIt included an address from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who paid tribute to the many millions who had died \"unnamed and unclaimed, except by God\".\n\nHe went on to refer to the thousands, even millions, who were making sacrifices today, whose names may never be known.\n\n\"They may be anonymous but their actions are glorious,\" he told the congregation, all seated two metres apart.\n\nPoet Laureate Simon Armitage read his poem The Bed about a fallen soldier transported from being \"broken and sleeping rough in a dirt grave\" to being buried \"among drowsing poets and dozing saints\" in Westminster Abbey.\n\nAfterwards, former Catatonia singer now BBC radio presenter, Cerys Matthews, read the words of a World War One widow convinced the Unknown Warrior was her own husband.\n\nRuby Turner, accompanied by Jools Holland, sang the hymn Abide with Me, which was sung at the burial 100 years ago.\n\nCommemorations have also been held at the Edinburgh Gardens Of Remembrance, Cardiff National War Memorial, Belfast City Hall and National Arboretum in Staffordshire.\n\nThe public and veterans observed the two-minute silence away from the Cenotaph\n\nBefore the scheduled events, an Extinction Rebellion activist staged a protest at the Cenotaph in central London.\n\nPrivate Donald Bell, who served four tours in Northern Ireland, placed a banner in front of the war memorial that read 'Honour Their Sacrifice, Climate Change Means War'.\n\nHe also laid a wreath of poppies with the slogan 'Act Now' at the site, saying \"unchecked climate change means a return to a world at war\". Both the banner and the wreath were later taken down by police.\n\nBoris Johnson's spokesman said their removal was \"an operational matter\" for officers and condemned the protest as \"profoundly disrespectful\".\n\nAhead of the commemorations, the Duchess of Cambridge spoke to military families who have lost loved ones, telling them they should be \"proud\" of their achievements and \"the sacrifice and the bravery that they've shown\".\n\nThe duchess marked Remembrance week by speaking via video call on Monday to three women about how they had been supported by the Royal British Legion.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge spoke to three women who mourned the loss of partners or close family\n\nThe Queen visited the Unknown Warrior's grave last week\n\nIt comes after the Queen led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday at a scaled-back service at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.\n\nSocial distancing measures were in place and the service was closed to the public for the first time.\n\nDays before, the Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time when she made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior.\n\nThe concept of the grave of the Unknown Warrior was inspired by Rev David Railton, who had served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War One.\n\nAfter the conflict he wrote to the then-Dean of Westminster, Herbert Ryle, about his proposal which was later supported by King George V and Prime Minister David Lloyd George.\n\nThe body was chosen from four unknown British servicemen - exhumed from four battle areas - by Brig Gen Louis Wyatt, commander of British forces in France and Flanders, and transported back to Britain.\n\nOn 11 November 1920, the coffin was draped with a union jack and taken on a gun carriage to the Cenotaph, where the Queen's grandfather George V placed a wreath upon it.\n\nThe King - and nearly 1,000 widows and mothers of men killed in World War One - were present as the warrior was buried at the Abbey. A handful of earth from France was then dropped by the king onto his coffin during the service.", "New laws should help prevent consumers from buying food grown on rainforest land that has been illegally logged.\n\nUK firms will be banned from selling commodities if their production breaches local laws protecting forests and other natural areas.\n\nThe change will be included in a new Environment Bill that MPswill discuss.\n\nThe aim is to stop British consumers playing an inadvertent role in an environmental crime through the goods in their supermarket basket.\n\nThe key commodities most grown on land that is illegally cleared are:\n\nIt is estimated that around half of tropical deforestation is illegal - and linked to the expansion of commercial forestry and agriculture, with land being cleared to make way for grazing animals and growing crops.\n\nThat matters to humanity because rainforests are vital for absorbing climate-heating emissions, their diverse species, their capacity to store water and their potential for new medicines.\n\nPalm oil plantations have led to a loss of rainforest\n\nThe government has agreed the UK must stop metaphorically \"importing\" the problem of deforestation. Its move has been welcomed by environmentalists, but they raise questions whether it will be possible to trace all products. They also ask what level the fines will be, and how the law will be enforced.\n\nRuth Chambers, from the umbrella group Greener UK, said “This is really a great step to protect rainforests – but we don’t know the full details yet.\n\n“The other issue is that this ban only refers to illegally deforested land… in some countries forest protection is so weak that rainforests are being felled legally. What will the government do about that?”\n\nOther green groups said much more was needed to halt rainforest loss.\n\nThe government’s decision follows recommendations from the independent Global Resource Initiative Taskforce, which consulted more than 200 businesses and organisations.\n\nIt said the UK should work in partnership with other countries and support farmers to transition to less damaging forms of farming.\n\nInternational Environment Minister, Lord Goldsmith, said: “In every conceivable way we depend on the natural world around us. Protecting rainforests must be a core priority.\n\n“Our new due diligence law is one piece of a much bigger package of measures that we are putting in place to tackle deforestation.”\n\nSir Ian Cheshire, chairman of the taskforce, said: “We are at an extraordinary inflection point – governments are having to invest in recovery and have choices about how to invest to build back better.\n\n\"One of the ways we can do this is through our supply chains and what we buy.\n\n“The government recognises the responsibility of the UK to ensure we are not importing deforestation and contributing to further environmental crisis.”\n\nSupermarkets have played a part in the global taskforce.\n\nTesco chief executive Jason Tarry said: “This aligns with Tesco’s goal of zero deforestation. We hope this encourages all businesses to do the right thing.”\n\nThe government will welcome the positive reaction of green groups towards this addition to the Environment Bill.\n\nMinisters have been at loggerheads with green campaigners and the Lords over their refusal to enshrine in law that imported food stuffs should match the standard of foods from British farms.", "Guinness is recalling cans of its non-alcoholic stout because of contamination fears, just two weeks after they were launched.\n\nThe brewer described the recall as \"precautionary\", but said \"microbiological contamination\" might mean some products were unsafe.\n\nThe company urged anyone with cans of Guinness 0.0 not to drink them.\n\nIt said it was working with supermarkets and other shops to remove all of the products from the shelves.\n\nThe recall only affects customers in Great Britain, as the product was not yet on sale in Ireland or Northern Ireland. No other Guinness drinks have been recalled.\n\nGuinness 0.0 was launched to much fanfare in supermarkets on 26 October, having taken the brewer four years to perfect.\n\nIn a statement, the brand, which is owned by Diageo, apologised to customers.\n\n\"We wanted to let you know that as a precautionary measure, we are recalling Guinness 0.0 in Great Britain because of a microbiological contamination which may make some cans of Guinness 0.0 unsafe to consume.\n\n\"If you have bought Guinness 0.0 do not consume it. Instead, please return the product to your point of purchase for a full refund.\n\n\"Alternatively, contact the Diageo Consumer Careline... with details of your purchase to receive a refund voucher before disposing of the product.\"\n\nOn its website, the brewery also says its team is \"working hard to investigate and determine the root cause\" of the contamination.\n\nSeveral concerned social media users called on the firm to issue further information on the type of contamination as soon as possible.\n\nThe new stout was created in response to what Guinness said was growing consumer demand for lower-calorie and non-alcoholic drinks.\n\nIt is produced with the same amounts of water, barley, hops and yeast as a traditional Guinness, before the alcohol is removed using a cold filtration method.\n\nAt the time of launch, Guinness bosses insisted that none of the traditional flavour had been lost, with the seal of approval being given by independent taste testers.\n\nThe new product was due to become available on draught in pubs next spring, before being launched in other parts of the world later in 2021.", "Early results from trials of a Covid vaccine developed in Russia suggest it could be 92% effective.\n\nThe data is based on 20 cases of Covid-19 from 16,000 volunteers given the Sputnik V vaccine or a dummy injection.\n\nWhile some scientists welcomed the news, others said the data had been rushed out too early.\n\nIt comes after Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine could prevent 90% of people getting Covid-19, based on a study of 43,500 people.\n\nAlthough the Sputnik data is based on fewer people being vaccinated and fewer cases of Covid developing during the trial, it does confirm promising results from earlier research.\n\nThe Sputnik V vaccine, developed at the National Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, is currently going through phase III clinical trials in Belarus, UAE, Venezuela and India.\n\nSo far there are no safety issues, with Russian researchers saying there were \"no unexpected adverse events\" 21 days after volunteers received their first of two injections.\n\nBut there's still a long way to go - this is interim data and, like the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial, the data is still being collected and the full results have not yet been published or scrutinised.\n\nThere are questions that still need answering for both vaccines - for example, how well does it protect older people who are most at risk and how long does protection from the vaccine last?\n\nThe Russian researchers say their data will be published \"in one of the leading international peer-reviewed medical journals\".\n\nIf it's positive, it means there will almost certainly be more than one way of protecting people against the virus.\n\nHundreds of vaccines are in development and around a dozen are in the final stages of testing - the Sputnik, Pfizer and Oxford vaccines are three of those.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine injects part of the genetic code of the virus into the body to train the immune system. The other two use a harmless virus that has been genetically modified to resemble the coronavirus.\n\nTwo doses are also required, but one advantage of Sputnik is that it doesn't need to be stored at very low temperatures, around -80C, unlike Pfizer's.\n\nAlexander Gintsburg, director of Moscow's Gamaleya Research Centre, said Sputnik V would soon be available for a wider population and \"lead to an eventual decrease in Covid-19 infection rates, first in Russia, then globally\".\n\nProf Charles Bangham, chair of immunology at Imperial College London, said the results \"provide further reassurance that it should be possible to produce an effective vaccine against Covid-19\".\n\nHowever, he added that proper evaluation of the safety and efficacy of both the Russian and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines was needed when the full data on the trials is published.\n\nProf Eleanor Riley, from University of Edinburgh, worried the data had been rushed out too soon.\n\n\"This is not a competition. We need all trials to be a carried out to the highest possible standards,\" she said.\n\nThe researchers say there have been requests for more than 1.2 billion doses of the Sputnik vaccine from more than 50 countries.\n\nThey claim it's possible to produce 500 million doses every year for the global market.\n• None The first interim data analysis of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 phase III clinical trials in the Russian Federation demonstrated 92% efficacy - Official website vaccine against COVID-19 Sputnik V- The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A significantly lower number of Covid patients need intensive care treatment now Image caption: A significantly lower number of Covid patients need intensive care treatment now\n\nThe chief executive of the Welsh NHS has revealed more information on the scale of the fall in the proportion of Covid-19 patients needing critical care in this second wave of coronavirus.\n\nDr Andrew Goodall told the Senedd's health committee that during the first wave earlier this year it had been assumed around 30% of patients admitted to hospital with the virus would require intensive care.\n\nHe said it was \"probably\" about 12% now, with some areas of Wales as low as seven or eight per cent.\n\nDr Goodall said there were \"treatments and interventions that can make a difference\" to prevent more patients' health deteriorating.\n\nThis was \"very helpful\", he said, \"because, ultimately, the fewer patients who will end up in a critical care environment, we would therefore expect mortality to be much improved and therefore we are saving lives\".\n\nBut he added critical care was now \"busier than it normally is\", with the combination of Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"I think we need to respect that level of workload that is on the shoulders of our critical care staff and our intensivists across Wales,\" he said.", "An MP has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock about concerns in anorexia treatment in the wake of five inquests for women who died with the illness.\n\nIssues including patient monitoring and poor clinical training were raised at inquests for the women, who died in Cambridgeshire between 2012 and 2018.\n\nCambridge MP Daniel Zeichner asked Mr Hancock what \"the government plan to learn from this terrible situation\".\n\nThe Department of Health told the BBC: \"It is vital we learn lessons\".\n\nCambridgeshire and Peterborough assistant coroner Sean Horstead said he would write a prevention of future deaths report following the inquests into the deaths of Averil Hart, Emma Brown, Maria Jakes, Amanda Bowles and Madeline Wallace.\n\nAmanda Bowles was found dead at her Cambridge home in September 2017\n\nMr Horstead said the \"absence of a formally commissioned monitoring service in primary or secondary care is the context wherein a number of these deaths have arisen\".\n\nThe coroner also raised concerns over education and training, finding a \"level of ignorance amongst medical practitioners that has yet to change\".\n\nMr Horstead said there was \"a hope that the tide can be turned\" and that the inquests \"can be the start of that in some small way\".\n\nMaria Jakes died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in September 2018\n\nMs Bowles, Ms Jakes and Miss Hart all died in Cambridge and in his letter to Mr Hancock, the city's Labour MP Mr Zeichner said: \"I am sure you agree with me that these are truly tragic cases and our hearts go out to the families of these women.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would be grateful if you could let me know what lessons the government plan to learn from this terrible situation so as to improve the quality of NHS provisions for those with eating disorders such as anorexia to prevent more deaths, both in Cambridge and Peterborough, and nationally.\"\n\nA spokesman for the department said: \"Every death from an eating disorder is a tragedy and it is vital we learn lessons where things have gone wrong to ensure the NHS provides safe, high quality care, including by responding effectively to matters of concern raised by coroners.\n\n\"We are committed to ensuring those who need it can access support and are expanding eating disorder services through the NHS's long-term plan, including scaling up early intervention services to support young people.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Late-night gatherings have been identified as a key source of infection spread in New York\n\nNew York has introduced new restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning it was the city's \"last chance\" to stop a second wave.\n\nBars, restaurants and gyms must close by 22:00 and people can only meet in groups of 10 or less.\n\nThe US is seeing a surge in coronavirus - a record 65,368 Americans were in hospital on Wednesday.\n\nThe Covid Tracking Project also reported a record 144,270 new cases.\n\nAn average of over 900 people a day are now dying with the disease.\n\nMore than a million new cases in November pushed the total confirmed cases to over 10 million nationally, with 233,080 deaths so far.\n\nThe US has been seeing more than 100,000 new cases per day over the last eight days in what experts say may be a worse outbreak than those seen in the spring and summer.\n\nExperts warn hospitals across the country could soon be overwhelmed.\n\nOn Wednesday a member of President-elect Joe Biden's Covid-19 advisory panel said a four to six week lockdown could bring the pandemic under control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fauci: \"We have got to double down\" to fight Covid\n\nDr Michael Osterholm said that the government could borrow enough money to cover lost income for businesses during a shutdown.\n\n\"We're seeing a national and global Covid surge, and New York is a ship on the Covid tide,\" state Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.\n\nNew measures come into effect on Friday affecting hospitality after Mr Cuomo said contact tracing identified late-night gatherings as key virus spreaders in the state.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mayor Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf the rate of spread of infection continued to rise, Mayor Blasio said the New York City's public school system would close and children would begin online classes.\n\n\"This is our last chance to stop a second wave. We can do it, but we have to act now,\" Mr de Blasio tweeted.\n\nNew York City was badly hit by the virus earlier this year when nearly 18,000 people died with Covid-19 in March, April and May, according to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.\n\nStates across the US have broken new case records this week with Texas becoming the first state to hit one million total cases on Tuesday. If Texas were a separate country, it would rank 11th in the world for most cases.\n\nOther states, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Florida, have also seen numbers rise. CBS News reports 15 states saw the numbers of patients in hospital due to the virus double in the last month.\n\nSome hospitals, such as in Idaho and Missouri, have had to turn patients away because they ran out of room.\n\nState leaders have been re-imposing pandemic restrictions as a result. Residents of Wisconsin and Nevada have been urged to stay at home for two weeks and in Minnesota, bars and restaurants must shut by 22:00.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Osterholm warned of a \"perfect storm\". Speaking to CBS This Morning, Mr Osterholm said there was \"no question that our hospitals are about to be overrun\". He noted \"the darkest days of this pandemic between now and next spring\", before the vaccine arrives.\n\nMr Osterholm, who heads the infectious disease research centre at the University of Minnesota, said during the summer spike after the Labour Day national holiday, new cases rose to 32,000 a day.\n\n\"Now we're running in the 120- to 130,000 cases a day,\" he said. \"Do not be at all surprised when we hit 200,000 cases a day.\"\n\nThe same day, US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci offered some hopeful news. He said the new Covid vaccine by Pfizer was expected to go through an emergency authorisation process in the next week or so. Human trials suggest it is 90% effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\nDr Fauci told MSNBC: \"I'm going to look at the data, but I trust Pfizer, I trust the [Food and Drug Administration]. These are colleagues of mine for decades, the career scientists.\"\n\nAmid the ongoing outbreak, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its research around masks, saying that wearing one not only protects others but also the person wearing the mask.\n\nPrevious guidance had rested on the idea that the main benefit of mask-wearing came from potentially stopping an infected person transmitting Covid to others.\n\nThe CDC referenced several studies, including one case where two Covid-positive hair stylists interacted with 139 clients - but of the 67 clients researchers tested, none developed an infection. The stylists and all clients had worn masks in the salon.\n\nAnother study looking into the outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier found mask-wearing seemed to have reduced the risk of virus transmission by 70%, the CDC said.\n\nHow are the new measures affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The new Wylfa power station would have been built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nA leading American engineering firm has said Wylfa is considered by many as \"the best site in the UK\" to build a large new nuclear power plant.\n\nBechtel has been reported to be leading a consortium of companies in a bid to restart the project on Anglesey.\n\nIt comes after Japanese firm Hitachi pulled the plug on the £20bn Wylfa Newydd scheme in September.\n\nBut while Bechtel has not confirmed the move it has confirmed being involved in Wylfa Newydd from the start.\n\nCritics have argued nuclear energy is expensive, dangerous and has a legacy of waste lasting generations.\n\nThey want to see greener solutions such as wind and marine energy.\n\nBut Bechtel told BBC News Wales: \"We remain committed to working with our partners in the UK and abroad to deliver the best clean energy solutions to power millions of homes.£\n\nA site on Anglesey would be \"helping the UK reach net zero, supporting the government's levelling up agenda and turbocharging the UK's domestic nuclear supply chain capability, setting it on a path to deliver and export future clean energy solutions\", the firm added.\n\nThe UK government remains committed to building large-scale nuclear power plants, which it sees as central to decarbonising the energy supply.\n\nIt is expected to publish a 10-point plan next week to meet a target of net zero emissions in the UK by 2050.\n\nSix previous nuclear sites had been identified as locations for new plants to be built.\n\nBut only Hinkley Point in Somerset has gone ahead, with three others, including Wylfa Newydd, losing their financial backers.\n\nDespite the UK government's commitment to large scale nuclear power plants, the cost of construction has raised concerns for investors.\n\nIt had held a public consultation on bills for energy payers being increased to help cover the costs of building new nuclear power stations, but nothing concrete followed.\n\nOther financial support has been made available by the UK government for the nuclear industry.\n\nYnys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie hopes projects such as Wylfa Newydd would help keep young people on the island.\n\n\"Anglesey desperately needs skilled employment which is why I have championed Wylfa Newydd and Anglesey as 'Energy Island' at every opportunity, and I am working with all levels of local and national partners to make it happen,\" she said.\n\n\"There are many other innovative projects on Anglesey that have the potential to offer skilled employment and I am keen to encourage young people to stay on the island and invest in their community.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary John Swinney said a full 2021 exam diet was \"too big a risk\"\n\nNational 5 exams are to be cancelled in Scotland in 2021 and replaced with teacher assessments and coursework.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney said going ahead with all exams during the continuing Covid pandemic was \"too big a risk\".\n\nHigher and Advanced Higher exams will go ahead as usual - but will start on 13 May, two weeks later than planned.\n\nThe move came as new restrictions were imposed across Scotland in response to a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases.\n\nSchools are to remain open but Mr Swinney said it was likely students would still face disruption - meaning an \"alternative approach\" was needed.\n\nHe said National 5 qualifications - which account for about half of all exams sat in Scotland and are roughly equivalent to GCSEs in England - would be judged on \"teacher judgement supported by assessment\".\n\nOpposition parties have been split on whether exams should go ahead, with the Greens calling for them to be axed entirely - but the Scottish Conservatives saying Mr Swinney had \"thrown in the towel\".\n\nScotland's school exams were cancelled for the first time ever in 2020, with the country locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority initially drew up results using a system which took teacher estimates for each pupil, then moderated them based on results from previous years.\n\nHowever, this sparked an outcry after 125,000 results were downgraded, with claims the moderation system unfairly penalised children at schools which had historically not performed as well.\n\nThe government subsequently agreed to accept the original teacher estimates of grades, and commissioned an independent review of the row.\n\nProf Mark Priestly recommended the new approach to National 5 exams and the development of a new approach to assessments, and this was accepted by ministers.\n\nResults will again be moderated to \"maintain standards\", but Mr Swinney stressed that \"awards will not be given or taken away on the basis of a statistical model or on the basis of a school's past performance\".\n\nMr Swinney has suggested that exams could be held later in the year in Scotland in 2021\n\nWe are already eight weeks in to this academic year and teachers, pupils and parents had been calling for clarity about what would happen with the 2021 exams.\n\nIf they planned for \"normality\" next summer it risked last-minute changes close to exam time and a repeat of the problems of this summer.\n\nThe decision to scrap the final exams for National 5 students, which are usually taken by 15 and 16-year-olds, means their grades will be decided by continuous assessment throughout the year. Teachers and pupils can now prepare for this.\n\nThe decision to scrap the largest group of exams means there will be more space and time for Highers and Advanced Higher to take place under exam conditions in as close a way to normal as possible.\n\nThey will be pushed back slightly later to allow for extra teaching time, but will still be completed before the end of the school term.\n\nThis will allow papers to be graded and marks sent to pupils at the beginning of August, meaning applications for university and college places can continue as they normally would.\n\nThe education secretary said: \"The risk remains that there may be further disruptions for individual pupils, schools, college, or more widely across the country during the course of this academic year.\n\n\"Due to the level of disruption already caused by Covid, and due to the likely disruption faced by some or all pupils and students this academic year, a full exam diet is simply too big a risk - it would not be fair.\"\n\nHe added that a \"contingency plan\" was in place should Highers and Advanced Highers need to be called off, which could see grades again being awarded on teacher judgement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said a full exam diet \"could and should\" have taken place, with MSP Jamie Greene saying \"it does feel like the towel has been thrown in\".\n\nLabour's Iain Gray said the decision had come late, with staff \"months in to teaching courses already\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens have backed calls for all exams to be cancelled, asking why the same approach could not be applied to Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nMr Swinney replied that the \"significant weight\" attached to Highers in university admissions meant they should be maintained if at all possible.", "A report by the education standards body, Ofsted, says many children have slipped back since the first lockdown. A lack of resources, enabling children to learn at home, has been one factor. The government has supplied laptops to schools in England but has struggled to deliver the amount originally promised to many schools this term.\n\nOne of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs is calling on businesses to step into the breach to recycle obsolete laptops and tablets to bridge the gap.", "Each day brings confirmation of hundreds more coronavirus deaths in the UK, each one marking a devastating loss for a family or community somewhere in the country.\n\nThe UK announced its first coronavirus fatality in early March. By 12 April, which was Easter Sunday, there had been more than 10,000 confirmed hospital deaths. Less than two weeks later, that figure doubled again.\n\nThe scale of the pandemic means it's easy for the stories of many of the virus' victims not to be heard.\n\nOn 12 April alone, at least 1,174 people died in England and Wales. These are the stories of seven of those.\n\nRobert Savory, or Bob to all who knew him, would normally be organising Easter egg hunts or games like \"pin the carrot on the rabbit\". A doting grandad, Bob was rarely happier than when he was spending quality time with his family.\n\nIt was a family tradition for everyone to gather at Bob and his wife Jo's house in Gloucestershire at weekends and on special occasions.\n\nBut the house that would have been full with four children and seven grandchildren was quiet this year, as isolation measures prevented everyone getting together. By then, 63-year-old Bob had been admitted to hospital. He passed away that day.\n\nBob was best known locally for his involvement in rugby club Chosen Hill Former Pupils RFC.\n\nThe club said he was \"Chosen Hill through and through\", having held positions there from player to chairman.\n\nIt was in the changing rooms of the club that Bob's shoulder-length mousy brown hair was shaved off some 40 years ago. His shaved head became his trademark look and following his death, friends and family shaved their own heads to raise money for local hospitals in honour of the man they jokingly called Dr Bob.\n\nMore than 150 miles to the north-west in Cumbria, another sportsman and doting parent also died on Easter Sunday.\n\nBrian Arrowsmith spent his career in the lower reaches of the football league, but was a hero to the fans of his hometown club Barrow AFC.\n\nHe started out playing at right-back in the 1960s, but was a versatile defender and served as captain when the club won promotion from the old Fourth Division.\n\nNo-one made more appearances in the league for Barrow than Brian, and his impact was celebrated three years ago when the club named a stand after him.\n\nHe was particularly proud of playing for his local team. He was born and bred on Walney Island, a sliver of land on the southern tip of Barrow-in-Furness that he described as \"God's little acre\".\n\n\"He was well known in the town and Brian couldn't walk past anybody without stopping and chatting,\" Jean, his wife of 56 years, said.\n\nBrian remained faithful to the football team for his entire life, transitioning from the pitch to the stands.\n\nThe last match he would ever attend was in early March. Brian's beloved Barrow were defeated 0-2 by Notts County - their first home league loss since September. As usual Brian was offering his support at the sidelines, still hoping his club would win promotion.\n\nWeeks later the father-of-two contracted coronavirus and passed away in hospital, almost three months before his 80th birthday. Jean said he was at peace in his final moments.\n\n\"He would tell you if he was here that he had a great life.\"\n\nNot everyone who passed away on Easter Sunday died in a hospital.\n\nMary Andrew was one of at least 339 people in England and Wales to die in a care home that day. Those deaths were not included in the more than 10,000 announced by the government up to that point.\n\nMary had moved into a Derbyshire nursing home about seven months earlier, after a life defined by her independence.\n\nShe started a career as a dispensing chemist, but her life's passion was the card game bridge.\n\nMary set up her own bridge club in the 1960s and played tournaments, working her way up to the top of the standings to become a grandmaster, meaning she was one of the few people able to make a living from the game.\n\nHer son David, who jokingly refers to himself as a \"bridge orphan\", says the game was an obsession for Mary, who organised tournaments, clubs and holidays.\n\nAn intellectual and gregarious woman, she was drawn to bridge because it was mentally stimulating and an opportunity for her to socialise.\n\nIt also led to an unlikely encounter with a Hollywood heartthrob, when Mary played in a tournament with Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif at a London hotel in the 1960s.\n\nMary shared her love for the game with hundreds of others, teaching people to play even in her 80s.\n\nShe was also a \"scatterbrain\", says her son - she once took him and their family pet to the local shop and accidentally returned with only the dog.\n\nThe last time David saw his 92-year-old mother, he was informed that there was a suspected case of coronavirus at the care home, meaning visits would be forbidden and residents kept in their rooms.\n\nWithin weeks he got a call to say Mary had contracted coronavirus and that she would be put on an \"end of life pathway\".\n\nMary had held on to the ashes of her husband, who died in 2012, so that they could be interred together. In their 63 years together, the couple had rarely spent a night apart.\n\nCoronavirus has not only taken the lives of people in care homes like Mary, but also the people looking after them, like Rahima Sidhanee.\n\nCaring was in her nature. Her home was full of orchids that she bought cheaply when they were past their best and then nursed back to life. If you invited her round for dinner, she would almost certainly bring some of her own food.\n\nThe 69-year-old nurse was renowned among friends, family, neighbours and colleagues for her delicious and eclectic cooking. Her samosas stirred excitement at school fairs and efforts by family members to emulate her legendary roti always fell short.\n\nThe last dinner her son Abu shared with her was just before the lockdown. He and his wife urged Rahima, who suffered from respiratory problems, to retire or at least take a break from work until the situation improved.\n\nBut Rahima was a compassionate woman. She had been working at the Grennell Lodge nursing and care home in the town of Sutton for the past 20 years and was not prepared to give up when they needed her most.\n\nShe continued working, and contracted coronavirus three weeks later.\n\nRahima had what her son described as a basic upbringing on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, with no electricity, gas, or running water at home.\n\nShe moved to the UK in the 1960s as part of a drive for recruitment into the NHS, and worked as a nurse and midwife before moving into the care sector.\n\nHer family were Hindu, but Rahima converted to Islam when she married. Despite divorcing some 30 years ago, the mother-of-three remained committed to her Muslim faith for the rest of her life.\n\nDescribed by Abu as quiet and understated, Rahima had suffered from depression in recent years. This meant that she wasn't as socially active as she might once have been, but she always maintained a close relationship with her family, particularly through the regular meals they would share at each other's houses.\n\nAt this time in the Islamic calendar, Rahima and her loved ones would normally meet for iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan.\n\nShe died 11 days before the Muslim holy month began. One family friend, for whom she made chilli sauce every year, said Ramadan would never be the same again.\n\nAbdul Karim Sheikh also emigrated to the UK in the 1960s.\n\nBorn in Jalalpur Jattan in Pakistan's Punjab province as the eldest of 10 children, Abdul was always driven by dreams of a better life.\n\nThat led him to the UK, where he settled in Newham, in east London. Abdul quickly became a central member of the community, dedicating his life to civic causes.\n\n\"It would literally not matter to him whether he was sleeping - you could knock on the door and he would wake up and answer the call. It didn't matter what time of day you came to our door,\" his son Saleem said.\n\n\"He always put himself second.\"\n\nIn one of his first acts in the community, Abdul helped found one of Newham's first mosques, serving the religious, social and cultural needs of the area's growing Muslim population.\n\nHe was particularly dedicated to promoting racial equality and dialogue between different faiths, in what is one of London's most racially and culturally diverse boroughs.\n\nWith a passion for debate and ideas for change, politics was a natural career choice for Abdul. He became a local councillor in 1990 and ceremonial mayor of Newham in 1998.\n\nHis work took the boy from Punjab to Buckingham Palace, when his service to the Muslim community was recognised through the British Empire Medal.\n\nHis son Saleem said his achievements were a source of great personal pride to Abdul. \"Coming from humble backgrounds to [being a mayor] in the UK was amazing,\" he said.\n\nEven in his 80s, Abdul continued to work on the causes close to his heart. His sons say he remained healthy and independent, and had recently returned from a trip overseas.\n\nBut in April, Abdul developed a temperature and breathing difficulties. He was admitted to hospital and passed away within days.\n\nHis family have been inundated with calls and cards from those whose lives he touched.\n\n\"He was loved by everybody. He's being missed by everyone in the community,\" his son Naeem said.\n\nWhile coronavirus has disproportionately affected older people, young people are also among those dying.\n\nAt 37 years old, with a thriving business and children she adored, Salina Shaw had everything to look forward to.\n\nSalina strove to make the most of every moment, and employed her favourite phrase each day in urging loved ones to live their \"best life\".\n\nSalina was a \"vibrant character who stood out within a crowd\", her sister Simone said - someone who proved to others it was possible to be happy and successful as a single parent.\n\nShe ran a child-minding business in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and had also set up an affordable holiday club, which she hoped would bring communities together and allow parents to continue work during the school holidays.\n\nTo Simone, she was a great listener who could always be relied upon to offer sound advice.\n\nHer biggest passion in life was her children. When the coronavirus outbreak hit the UK, she was heavily pregnant with her third daughter.\n\nShe was admitted to hospital on 1 April, with suspected Covid-19.\n\nOther than gestational diabetes - a condition that can occur during pregnancy but usually disappears after giving birth - Salina was a healthy young woman with no other health conditions.\n\nHer baby was delivered via Caesarean section on 4 April, but Salina passed away just over a week later.\n\nHer daughters are now being looked after by family. Simone said Salina would \"shine within her children forever\".\n\nIn the nearby Essex town of Romford, Keith Parker was also in hospital with coronavirus.\n\nWith several underlying health conditions, Keith, 53, was among those particularly vulnerable to the pandemic. But he had overcome so much that family members jokingly called him \"the cat with nine lives\".\n\nJoanna first met Keith at school, when she had a crush on his best friend. The pair lost touch before their paths crossed again as adults in 2001. They agreed to meet for a meal, and three years later they married on the hottest day of the year.\n\nIn recent years, Joanna had been his full-time carer.\n\nHe was known among family and friends for his sense of humour. At a cousin's wedding, he started a flour and squirty cream fight. An old home video shows him putting M&Ms in his nose and blowing them out.\n\nThe family loved going on holiday to Butlins, where Keith would be the first person to raise his hand to get up on stage.\n\nHe fell ill with coronavirus in the week leading up to Easter Sunday. Other members of the family had also been unwell, but with relatively mild symptoms.\n\nBy the Friday morning, Keith's condition had deteriorated - Joanna says his face had turned grey and his cheeks and nose purple from lack of oxygen.\n\nAfter he was taken to hospital, it quickly became clear that he would not survive.\n\nJoanna was allowed a short visit to say goodbye. Dressed in a gown, gloves and mask she struggled not to kiss or hug him. All she could do was hold his hand.\n\nWhen Joanna left the room, she stole a final look through a window into the room.\n\n\"I knew that was going to be the last time I was going to see him,\" she recalled. \"That would be it.\"\n\nThe family are now grappling with the reality of life without him.\n\nHis infant granddaughter knew him as Grandad Munchkin. Every night she waves at a picture of him and blows a kiss.\n\nDo you have a story to share about your loved one? You can contact us with your tribute.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some pupils are happy with the news but others less so\n\nA union has expressed concerns that teachers' workload will increase as Wales' GCSE, AS and A-level exams in summer 2021 are cancelled.\n\nOn Tuesday it was announced assessments would be done under teacher supervision due to the impact of Covid-19.\n\nThey will be externally set and marked but delivered within the classroom.\n\nNASUWT Cymru welcomed the move but warned teachers could not be expected to \"come up with, prepare, assess, standardise and moderate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nSpeaking on behalf of the teaching union, Sion Amlyn said it was \"imperative that as much of that workload is taken off the teachers as possible\".\n\n\"There are still question marks in terms of what exactly the mechanism will be,\" he said.\n\n\"When you consider what's been happening with this pandemic in general, and when you apply that to a school based scenario, our members are already telling us that they are struggling to finish the syllabus let alone anything else.\n\n\"Any mechanism that they come up with for this continual assessment style approach to give qualifications - the mechanism needs to have the assessment, the moderation and the standardisation done elsewhere because fundamentally we must be able to let the teachers carry on with their fundamental workload, and that is teaching kids to prepare them for whatever lies ahead.\"\n\nBut Mr Amlyn added it was beneficial that a decision had been made so that teachers can now plan ahead.\n\nOn Tuesday Education Minister Kirsty Williams said it was impossible to guarantee a level playing field for exams due to the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic.\n\nShe said cancelling exams would give time for teaching to continue through the summer term adding that teachers would have flexibility on when to take the assessments, within the \"context of results timelines\".\n\nCerys Harris has had to study at home while self-isolating for a total of four weeks since September\n\nA-level student Cerys Harris, 17, from Rhyl, has already had four weeks of self-isolation this term because of cases in her \"bubble\".\n\nShe wants to start a degree next September in England.\n\nAlthough the education minister said universities are familiar with different qualifications, Cerys said she did not feel reassured, and was looking forward to more detail as to how the system is going to work.\n\n\"I've taken from [the announcement] that exams are cancelled, but it's not very straightforward,\" she said.\n\nJess Foster says she has had \"stress\" taken away by the announcement\n\nJess Foster, 17, who is taking her A-levels at Bassaleg School in Newport, was \"immediately relieved\".\n\n\"I stress out about things personally a lot. To hear that taken off me instantly just felt really good,\" she said.", "An MP \"threatened\" and made \"numerous unwanted telephone calls\" to a woman, a court has heard.\n\nClaudia Webbe, who represents Leicester East, is accused of one count of harassment between September 2018 and April this year.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the details of the charge include making threats \"on at least two occasions\".\n\nThe 55-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charge on Wednesday.\n\nShe was granted unconditional bail and her trial will take place at the same location on 16 March.\n\nMs Webbe was elected as an MP in December's general election, taking over the seat previously held by Keith Vaz.\n\nShe remains a councillor in Islington, north London, and was also a member of Labour's National Executive Committee.\n\nShe was suspended from the party in September pending the outcome of the case.\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 patrons may be absent but the players still attempt the tradition of skimming their ball across the pond on to the 16th green at Augusta National as they prepare for the Masters, which starts on Thursday.\n\nAnd Spain's Jon Rahm manages to hole his effort, with the help of a friendly pin position on a sloping green.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nFollow the Masters across the BBC from Thursday 12 November. Full details here", "Discussions have taken place about the four nations of the UK taking a joint approach to Covid rules over Christmas.\n\nThe Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish first ministers held a virtual meeting with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and other senior UK officials.\n\nIt was the first of what UK ministers hope will be weekly meetings.\n\nUK government sources said topics including international travel, mass testing and the priority list for vaccinations were also discussed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster took part in the meeting, as did Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, Welsh Secretary Simon Hart and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nMr Gove said they all recognised families across the UK \"want to be able to see their loved ones this Christmas\".\n\nHe added: \"Today my ministerial colleagues and I met with the devolved administrations to work towards that shared aim and to help ensure that our collective response delivers for the public in every part of the UK\".\n\nIt is understood government officials will now be considering how to put the desire for a \"joint approach to Christmas\" into action.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The four nations call had an initial discussion about a co-ordinated approach to issues such as travel over the Christmas period and discussed recent developments in testing, including the use of lateral flow testing to enable students to return home, and initial lessons from the Liverpool pilot.\"\n\nSenior UK ministers have warned the situation remains highly volatile, with different levels of restrictions in different parts of the country and high rates of transmissions across the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said recently that people may not be able to gather like normal in large groups while Ms Sturgeon's most senior public health adviser, Jason Leitch, said last month that people should prepare themselves for a \"digital Christmas\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, a plan was announced to get students in England home safely for Christmas.\n\nStudents are to be allocated departure dates during a \"student travel window\" between 3 and 9 December, to minimise the risk of them spreading Covid-19.\n\nIn Wales, they are being asked to travel by 9 December at the latest.\n\nThe Scottish government wants as many as possible of the 80,000 or so students going home for Christmas to be offered voluntary tests before they travel.\n\nNorthern Ireland is expected to publish plans for students' return in the coming days.", "Helen Roberts is worried about the impact no trade deal would have on lamb sales\n\nWelsh businesses and ports are not yet ready for the end of the Brexit transition phase in 50 days' time, a Welsh minister has said.\n\nLabour's Jeremy Miles has asked firms to urgently look at what they need to do by 31 December.\n\nHe urged UK ministers to \"support jobs\" by not ending the transition period without a trade deal with the EU.\n\nBut Conservative Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said that \"by and large people are getting ready\".\n\nOn Wednesday the Welsh Government published its plan for the end of the transition period.\n\nThe report says a \"Crisis Intervention Scheme' may be needed to support Welsh meat exporters if no deal on UK-EU trade is struck.\n\n\"Such a scheme could potentially be of a substantial scale and would require cross-UK collaboration and additional UK Government financial support to be provided to the Welsh Government to deliver,\" the document says.\n\nIt also warns of \"potential for major disruption to international trade (particularly, but not only, with the EU) impacting on exporting businesses, import supply chains and inward investment which all in turn could risk the sustainability of some businesses and negatively impact on jobs and wages\".In the meantime Mr Miles, Welsh minister for European transition, has urged people to look at how their business or family could be affected by the end of the transition period and take steps to prepare.\n\nHe called on the UK Government to \"take responsibility and act with us\" on areas it is responsible for.\n\nThe transition phase, until the 31 December, allows the UK to trade with the European Unions as if it were a member, with the United Kingdom following EU rules and regulations.\n\nJeremy Miles says not agreeing a trade deal with the EU would be \"grossly irresponsible\"\n\nThe UK is currently negotiating a trade deal with the EU, but there are sticking points on issues such as fishing rights and business competition rules.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted the United Kingdom is \"very well prepared\" to move on if the two parties cannot agree a deal.\n\nWithout a trade deal, the UK would trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation terms - meaning higher taxes would be imposed on products being imported and exported. A lamb producer, whose farm spans the Wales-England border south of Wrexham, is concerned about the impact of these tariffs if the UK has to sell its lamb to the EU without a trade deal.\n\nHelen Roberts, who is also development officer of the National Sheep Association Cymru, said a deal would offer farmers security.\n\n\"We've taken the decision to carry on putting the ram out, and producing next year's crop, and we'll have to take the consequences of what a no deal might bring for us next year, which could possibly be a cut in income of up to 30%,\" she said.\n\nMr Miles said it was difficult to mitigate all the impacts of the transition period ending but businesses needed the \"certainty\" of knowing whether a deal would be agreed or not.\n\nHe said: \"These are big challenges and the message from us isn't 'everything will be fine', but everyone needs to make sure they're aware of the impact on them and take the appropriate steps in the short period we have left.\"\n\nHowever Mr Hart said businesses should be aware that deals \"by and large go to the wire\".\n\nHe added: \"I don't buy the argument that somehow the fact this hasn't been settled by now comes as a surprise. That's not how substantial negotiations like this work.\"\n\nMr Miles said that while some of the responsibilities of preparing Welsh ports were Welsh Government responsibilities, checks on the border from 1 January would be a UK government responsibility.\n\n\"We need to make sure that businesses, exporters, hauliers, the port companies are all prepared for that and the infrastructure is in place to deal with it,\" he said.\n\nMr Miles added there had not been \"as much engagement as we should have\" over the Welsh Government having more involvement in the discussions.\n\nSimon Hart says Wales could \"weather that storm\" of no trade deal with the EU\n\nHowever Mr Hart said there \"has been proper engagement\".\n\n\"The infrastructure plans around Holyhead are well advanced,\" he said. \"There has been discussion around the precise location of a site, that involves local authorities and others.\n\n\"I'm confident we can meet the deadlines by June or July next year so any disruption is absolutely minimised.\n\n\"That does require UK and Welsh Government collaboration - that element has been quite positive.\"\n\nMr Miles said it would be \"grossly irresponsible\" of the UK government to fail to agree a trade deal with the EU.\n\n\"If the UK leaves the transition period with a weak deal or no deal at all - that will be a matter of political choice for the UK government.\n\n\"We are asking the UK government to make the right choices to support jobs and livelihoods in Wales, to give people the clarity and the certainty that they are crying out for what will happen at the end of December.\"\n\nBut Mr Hart said that if no deal was agreed then Wales could \"weather that storm and come out stronger the other side\" and ruled out an extension of the transition period.\n\n\"We made a commitment in our manifesto to deliver on the outcome of that referendum, that's precisely what we are doing - no ifs no buts.\"", "Linda Johnson, who is partially sighted, is now in fear of leaving her house after receiving abuse for accidentally breaching social distancing guidelines.\n\nHer guide dog is not trained in social distancing and does not recognise queues of people as anything more than an obstacle to bypass. She told the BBC's Simon McCoy about the difficulties she faces.", "Street artist Akse says Marcus Rashford has \"inspired the whole nation\"\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has thanked the artist who painted a mural of him near to where he grew up.\n\nStreet artist Akse has created the artwork on the side of Coffee House Cafe in Copson Street, Withington, Manchester.\n\nHe said the England and Manchester United star's recent successful campaign to extend free school meals inspired the project.\n\nRashford tweeted an image of the finished mural with a \"thank you\".\n\nThe artwork, based on a photograph by Daniel Cheetham, was done in collaboration with Withington Walls, a community street art project.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nFollowing Rashford's campaign, the government announced it was to spend more than £400m on a winter grant scheme to support poor children and their families in England.\n\nIt follows the footballer's campaign in June which led to the government changing its policy to allow children to claim free meals during the holidays.\n\nRashford became an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list last month.\n\nManchester-based artist Akse said the mural was close to where the footballer grew up in Old Moat, Withington, before his family moved to Wythenshawe.\n\nRashford's mother provided the quote on the mural, which read: \"Take pride in knowing that your struggle will play the biggest role in your purpose.\"\n\n\"It's incredible,\" said Ed Wellard of Withington Walls. \"Akse is a world class artist but it's exceeded my expectations. It is amazing.\"\n\nAkse said he had a video call with 23-year-old Rashford while working on the painting.\n\n\"It was very kind of him to take time to chat with me,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope the mural will inspire the local community as he has inspired the whole nation with his campaign to fight child food poverty.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid tests for students in England, so they can go home safely for Christmas, could begin on 30 November, according to a letter from the universities minister to vice chancellors.\n\nA week of mass testing for students is proposed - running between 30 November and 6 December.\n\nThe letter, seen by the BBC, promises a fast turnaround for tests and \"results within an hour\".\n\nThe aim is to stop students spreading the virus as they return home.\n\nThe first week of December, after the lockdown ends, could then become the \"travel window\" for many students to leave university for the Christmas holidays, with face-to-face teaching expected to finish earlier than usual this term.\n\nThis could mean that by about 9 December many students will have left for home.\n\nBut those who test positive will have to take another test and, if found to be infectious, have to stay in isolation.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students, said: \"The government have finally listened to our calls to ensure that students can travel home safely for Christmas.\n\n\"We particularly welcome this mass-testing approach as it equips students with the knowledge to make informed decisions about travel ahead of the winter break,\" she said.\n\nBut the University and College Union, which represents university lecturers, said it was not yet clear whether all universities would take part in the testing programme or how many students would be included.\n\n\"There are huge hurdles to overcome to manage this process,\" said union leader Jo Grady.\n\nAround 1.2 million students are expected to move at Christmas from their university term-time address to a home in another part of the country, where there might be different levels of infection.\n\nThis has raised concerns among the Sage scientific advisers of a \"significant risk\" that this migration could spread the coronavirus.\n\nTo prevent this danger, plans are being made for mass testing using so-called \"lateral flow tests\".\n\nThese nose and throat swabs are self-administered, with no need for tests to be sent to laboratories for results.\n\nPilots for this type of rapid testing have already begun at De Montfort and Durham universities. Other universities have been operating their own testing processes, which could also continue.\n\nThe tests will be able to provide results within an hour\n\nThe letter from Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and its accompanying documents, says: \"The tests we are deploying have a high specificity which means the risk of false positive test results is low.\n\n\"Although the test does not detect all positive cases, it works extremely well in finding cases with higher viral loads - which is those who are most infectious.\n\n\"As the test is easy to administer and does not require a laboratory, testing can take place on a very regular basis,\" the letter to university leaders said.\n\nAccompanying documents show a planning timetable in which sites are prepared for testing from 15 November, ready to operate the following week, with \"pre end-of-term testing\" between 30 November and 6 December.\n\nThe test kits will be given free to universities, which will have to provide a place for the tests to be carried out, in a way that can process thousands of students within a short time frame.\n\nMinisters have already indicated that universities will stop in-person teaching two weeks before the end of term and move online - so when students have been given the all-clear they could be expected to leave their term-time address and go home, in a \"test and release\" process.\n\nThere are also believed to have been discussions about how the departure of students can be made safe - such as co-ordinating staggered times for leaving between universities in the same city.\n\nThere could also be calls to avoid public transport - with suggestions of chartering coaches or using private transport, such as parents collecting students, and creating \"travel corridors\" to control traffic away from universities.\n\nUniversity leaders have previously raised concerns about why this guidance has been left so close to the end of term - and there will be questions about the capacity of universities to be ready in time for the mass testing.\n\nThere have also been questions about whether students will return as usual in January or whether there will be a staggered start and more testing, or whether more courses will switch online with some students initially studying from home.\n\nUniversities UK welcomed the plans for more testing capacity, but warned that universities would \"now need clear assurance of the effectiveness of the tests as well as further details from the government on specific responsibilities under the proposed scheme including the governance, indemnity, resourcing and costs recovery\".", "Students could be allowed home for Christmas if they test negative twice\n\nUniversity students are to be allowed to return home for Christmas in Scotland if they return two negative Covid-19 tests before travelling.\n\nUniversities minister Richard Lochhead said up to 80,000 students are expected to travel home at the end of term.\n\nDates for courses ending are due to be staggered to make sure there is not a \"great surge of movement\" in December.\n\nAnd a testing system is being set up UK-wide to ensure students do not carry the virus across the country.\n\nPeople will be given two tests, five days apart, and those who test negative on both occasions will be allowed to travel.\n\nThose who return a positive result would have to self-isolate, although it is hoped this would end in time for them to go home before the festive period.\n\nOnce students are home, they will need to abide by the same restrictions on household gatherings and meetings as everyone else - but there will be no special rules for students at home.\n\nMr Lochhead told MSPs that students would be advised to \"voluntarily reduce their social mixing\" for two weeks before going home, only going out for essential reasons.\n\nHe said tests \"cannot tell us with certainty that someone is Covid-free\" because people may be incubating the disease, saying it was \"vital for students to continue to follow all of the other measures in place\".\n\nAnd he added that work was ongoing to work out how students should return to universities after Christmas, saying lessons must be learned from outbreaks at the start of term in August.\n\nHe said: \"It is clear that the return after the new year will not be normal and we will work with the sector to offer as much clarity for students and staff as we can in the coming weeks.\"\n\nUnder the plans students will be tested twice five days apart\n\nAlastair Sim, director of Universities Scotland, said the testing programme would involve up to 65,000 students living in halls and student accommodation.\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that lessons had been learned from the spike in cases at the start of the academic year.\n\nHe said: \"If you are a student who is going home for Christmas it gives that extra assurance to you, and to the people that you are going home to, that you are not bringing the virus home with you.\"\n\nMr Sim added that some in-person teaching on campuses would end early on 30 November to ensure there was no \"surge of movement\" of students.\n\nMany universities are, however, anticipating more students than usual will remain in university accommodation over the holidays.\n\nIn particular, they are aware many overseas students may be unable to return home or may be reluctant to risk travelling in case they need to quarantine once they return to the UK.\n\nIn recent weeks, some students have claimed they could have remained at home as their lectures and tutorials are mostly taking place online.\n\nHowever, universities have argued students still have access to certain facilities which they could not use from home.\n\nMatt Crilly, NUS Scotland president, said students deserved the right to return home for the winter break and he wanted to see a coherent strategy from the Scottish government that allowed students to return home safely, while avoiding mass outbreaks.\n\n\"Many students rely on the support networks offered by their friends and families and going home to see them over the Christmas period can be critical for their mental health and wellbeing,\" Mr Crilly said.\n\n\"NUS Scotland is calling for a clear plan that has ample lead time, with a strategy including the use of mass testing, staggered departure dates and compassion.\n\n\"However, there will also be many students whose halls are their only home and others who will choose not to return home this festive period. We want to see the Scottish government offering additional support to student associations to ensure all students have access to facilities including catering (even if they are in non-catered halls), access to post rooms and mental health support.\"", "Asian giant hornets are not native to the Pacific North-West and kill honeybees\n\nWashington is unlikely to have seen its last Asian giant hornets, the state's agricultural department has said, after scientists found 200 queens in one nest.\n\nThe nest - the first in the US - of the so-called murder hornets was captured with a vacuum from a tree in October.\n\nResearchers believe more queens - which are responsible for establishing colonies - could remain at large.\n\nBut they are confident the population can be brought under control.\n\nAsian giant hornets are an invasive species in the Pacific North-West. They target honeybees, which pollinate crops. The insect, which is native to Japan and South Korea, can slaughter a bee colony in a matter of hours.\n\nThey can also spit venom and inflict numerous powerful stings on humans.\n\nScientists in Washington extracted the US's first nest of Asian giant hornets in October\n\n\"We believe there are additional nests. There is no way to be certain we got them all,\" Sven-Erik Spichiger, who researches insects with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, said in a press conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe nest was extracted from a tree in the city of Blaine, close to the Canadian border, on 24 October. Scientists then quarantined the 22cm (9 in) diameter nest and after 24 hours were able to open it to examine the contents.\n\nInside they found evidence of almost 500 insects at various stages of life including 112 worker hornets and close to 200 queens.\n\n\"It's possible some [queens] emerged before we did the extraction. There is no way of knowing how many more,\" Mr Spichiger said, explaining that three queens were found in the local area after scientists had removed the nest.\n\nBut he said they had arrived \"in the nick of time\" to prevent the majority of queens from leaving the nest and mating.\n\n\"Frankly we are encouraged because of the number of queens we were able to count and kill,\" he said.\n\nQueen hornets go on to establish new colonies when they mate with a male and successfully hibernate over the winter season. When they wake up in spring, a small portion go on to establish nests.\n\nMr Spichiger said it was likely that the insects arrived in the Pacific North-West as part of international commerce. \"We will never know how they got here...but it could have been a vehicle, wood chips, hay bales,\" he explained.\n\nThe Washington State Department of Agriculture is committed to eradicating the invasive species from the region, he added.\n\nAsian giant hornets \"are not going to hunt you down and murder you\", Mr Spichiger explained, but that if a person were to walk into a nest, their life would be \"probably in danger\".\n\nAround 40 people are killed annually by the hornets in Asia, according to the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC.\n• None Millions of cicadas to emerge in US after 17 years", "The most vulnerable children are being \"failed by the state\" and a broken residential care system, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nGreater use of private provision has led to a fragmented, unco-ordinated and irrational system amid \"significant profits\", said Anne Longfield.\n\nThe system has been allowed to slip deeper into crisis, she said.\n\nThe government said an independent review of children's social care would begin \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Longfield has published three reports detailing the plight of children the system \"doesn't know what to do with\".\n\nShe said the government has failed to respond to previous warnings that thousands of these children are in danger of becoming victims of criminal and sexual exploitation.\n\nOlder children were found to be living in \"disgusting\" conditions akin to a prison cell, one of the reports said.\n\nIt described how one 17-year-old said her accommodation was filthy and smelly, with just one working shower - covered in mould - between 14 children and young adults.\n\n\"Elsewhere children have told us they have not even been provided with the means to eat or sleep - things like duvet covers, plates or cutlery,\" the same report said.\n\nAll three reports highlight a shortage of children's home places, resulting in:\n\n\"Only last month, a High Court judge wrote to me after an extremely vulnerable child in care could not get a suitable care home place anywhere in the country, even though the courts had found their life was in danger,\" said Ms Longfield.\n\n\"These shocking cases used to be rare but are now routine, and I am worried the whole system is becoming immune to the devastating effect this is having on children who may have previously been abused and neglected, or have serious mental or physical health needs.\"\n\nOne of the reports analyses how, over the past decade, as demand for care has grown and local authority provision has failed to keep pace, private provision has expanded.\n\nThe researchers found the majority of private provision was rated good or outstanding by Ofsted, although smaller providers were more likely to have lower ratings than either larger providers or local authorities.\n\nSome providers are owned by private equity companies and carry \"significant amounts of debt\" which could \"risk their stability\", says the report.\n\n\"Both the government and councils have failed in their responsibilities by leaving it to the market,\" said Ms Longfield.\n\n\"The growing reliance on private providers, some of whom are making millions, is another symptom of a system failing to prioritise the needs of children.\"\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the reports were enormously worrying but not surprising.\n\n\"The Children's Society is very concerned about how children in care are being failed by the very services who are supposed to be caring for and protecting them,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The findings of a 2019 BBC investigation on children in care were called \"a scandal\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils across England, says it shares the commissioner's concerns about the risk of businesses running children's homes going bust as adult care provider Southern Cross did, almost a decade ago.\n\n\"Providers should also not be making excessive profit from providing placements for children,\" said Judith Blake, who chairs the LGA's Children and Young People Board.\n\nA Department for Education statement said: \"The education secretary has been clear that no child should be denied the opportunity for a loving, stable family life, or be bounced around the care system in accommodation that does not meet their needs.\n\n\"We have also set out that children under the age of 16 should not be living in unregulated homes.\n\n\"Our bold, broad and independently led care review will launch as soon as possible, and will support improvements in the children's social care system.\"", "Croydon Council announced in the summer it wanted to cut staff numbers by 15% - about 410 roles\n\nCash-strapped Labour-run Croydon Council has imposed emergency spending restrictions with \"immediate effect\", the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Section 114 notice bans all new expenditure at Croydon Council, with the exception of statutory services for protecting vulnerable people.\n\nA document seen by the BBC said \"Croydon's financial pressures are not all related to the pandemic\".\n\nIt is under a government review amid claims of \"irresponsible spending\".\n\nSection 114 notices are issued when a council cannot achieve a balanced budget.\n\nIn June, the BBC found many large councils in England feared going effectively bankrupt because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nTo cope with coronavirus, councils revealed they were planning a mix of responses including using up cash reserves, reducing services and cancelling or postponing spending on big projects.\n\nThe Section 114 letter, which was sent by Croydon's director of finance Lisa Taylor, said she was not confident the council \"can make the level of savings required to deliver a balanced budget\".\n\n\"Despite the council having put in place spending controls over the summer 2020, non-essential cost have continued to be incurred,\" she said.\n\n\"I am still not seeing an organisation that is taking the necessary radical decisions to stop all but essential expenditure.\"\n\nThe document also says £17.7m of the £27.9m of the \"new savings\" presented to Croydon's cabinet on 21 September and the full council meeting on 28 September were \"incorrectly identified as new savings\".\n\nAs a result it forecasted that overspend \"had not reduced by as much as previously reported\".\n\nCroydon is the first council to declare a Section 114 order since Northamptonshire County Council in 2018.\n\nLast month, Croydon's cabinet member for finance Simon Hall resigned from his role, while former council leader Tony Newman announced his departure a few days later.\n\nBoth resignations came two weeks after the pair survived a vote of no confidence proposed by the Conservative opposition.\n\nCouncillor Hamida Ali, who took over as leader, accepted that the council \"had made mistakes\" in addition to the impact of coronavirus.\n\n\"While we continue to work hard to find savings, we must focus our spending on essential services and protecting our vulnerable residents,\" she said.\n\n\"We're not going to fix these problems overnight and there will be difficult decisions ahead but I want to reassure local people that the council will still be here to support you.\"\n\nCroydon's chief executive Jo Negrini also announced in August that she would be stepping down.\n\nThe council's Conservative opposition leader Cllr Jason Cummings said the report was \"scathing\" and he had fears local residents \"would suffer most\".\n\nHe added: \"Labour were warned repeatedly over the last few years but ploughed on anyway, they must take full responsibility for the damage they have caused.\"\n\nConstruction of the £1.4bn Croydon Westfield shopping project has been repeatedly delayed since it was approved in 2017\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said Croydon's decision was \"necessary\" for it to manage its own finances.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're aware of serious concerns around the council's governance and risk management and the recent Public Interest Report was damning about the governance within Croydon Council, which has been entirely irresponsible with their spending and investments.\n\n\"The council has decided to issue a section 114 notice and we will consider the findings of the review which concludes later this month.\"\n\nIt's not often a council needs to issue a Section 114 - but the pressures of coping with coronavirus have combined with at least questionable previous investment strategies to push Croydon over the edge.\n\nIt was heading for an overspend of £60m at the end of the year from dealing with the pandemic and government support didn't look like covering it.\n\nCroydon went into the coronavirus health crisis in a vulnerable state - with depleted reserves and £1.5bn debts.\n\nIt's a financial position partially reached through buying up property including a hotel and a shopping centre.\n\nIn good times, it's easy to see how that might have paid dividends but with weeks of lockdown, it left the council seriously exposed.\n\nThe latest development means new spending must be stopped immediately except for on statutory services like social care.\n\nNow the council's administration has 21 days to come up with a strategy which looks likely to mean more job losses to add to at least 400 already being cut.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "United Parcel Service (UPS) is relaxing its rules on employee appearance, lifting a long-standing ban on facial hair.\n\nThe delivery giant said the changes also include eliminating gender-specific rules.\n\nUPS says the new guidelines are part of an effort to \"celebrate diversity rather than corporate restrictions\".\n\nThe company, which has more than 500,000 workers globally, has a long list of personal appearance guidelines.\n\nRules cover everything from hairstyles to the length of shorts. Hairstyles such as Afros and braids will now be allowed as UPS tackles bias, diversity and inclusion.\n\nUPS says piercings should be limited to earrings and small facial ones, and must be \"business-like\".\n\nHowever, tattoos should still be covered up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With over 48,000 followers online Curlture use their influence to represent and inspire other black women\n\nThe strict rules were aimed mostly at public-facing employees like delivery drivers.\n\n\"These changes reflect our values and desire to have all UPS employees feel comfortable, genuine and authentic while providing service to our customers and interacting with the general public,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nIn May, UPS hired its first female chief executive, Carol Tomé. She \"listened to feedback from employees and heard that changes in this area would make them more likely to recommend UPS as an employer\".\n\nUPS workers were allowed to have a beard if they got a medical or religious exemption, often to referred to as \"shaver waivers\".\n\nHowever, in 2018 UPS paid $4.9m (£3.7m) to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its rules on beards and hair length.\n\nWorkers have previously launched petitions to overturn the ban on beards.\n\nThe new policy allows facial hair like beards and moustaches \"as long as they are worn in a business-like manner and don't create a safety concern\", according to internal documents.", "A report into allegations Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff should be made public, the prime minister's adviser on standards in public life has said.\n\nFormer MI5 chief Lord Evans warned that unresolved inquiries into ministers' conduct undermined public trust.\n\nA Cabinet Office investigation into allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March.\n\nShe has always strongly denied claims that she bullied staff.\n\nIn February Sir Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the Home Office, resigned saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\". He is pursuing an employment tribunal claim.\n\nThe Committee on Standards in Public Life advises the prime minister on ethical standards across public life in England and is chaired by ex-MI5 boss Lord Evans of Weardale.\n\nThe Times first reported that Lord Evans wanted the Patel report to be made public.\n\nHe told the BBC he was not in a position to judge the accuracy of the complaints about the home secretary but said the public needed to know that allegations are \"properly and independently investigated\".\n\n\"We want to make sure the system we have in place can resolve those issues so that people can have confidence the standards are being upheld in the right places and by everybody involved,\" he told Radio 4's The World at One.\n\nLord Evans was appointed Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public life in October 2018\n\nAsked specifically about Ms Patel's case he said there may be \"good reasons\" why some findings are not published but argued that any causes for delay should be explained.\n\n\"I think because they are left hanging in the air people are worried about it and that tends to reduce people's trust.\"\n\nHe also said that the process of investigating ministers should be more independent and transparent - and he suggested taking the responsibility for triggering such inquiries away from the prime minister.\n\nIn an interview with the Times, he said because the report on Ms Patel had not been published \"it is very difficult to know whether there was something here or whether there wasn't\".\n\nResponding to Lord Evans' comments, Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"It is a disgrace that the report into allegations of bullying against the home secretary is being suppressed.\n\n\"Continuing to refuse to release the report not only makes clear that the Tories have something to hide, it also undermines trust in politics at a crucial time - the report must be published without further delay.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The process is ongoing and the prime minister will make any decision on the matter public once the process has concluded.\"", "Blackburn or ballet? Jake Berry's remarks have come under fire\n\nPeople in the south of England enjoy opera and ballet but football clubs are what matter to those living further north, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nFormer minister Jake Berry made the comparison as he warned \"northern culture\" is being hit by Covid-19.\n\nHe pressed the government to intervene to \"save\" football clubs.\n\nBut his comments were criticised by the Northern Ballet as it perpetuates \"tropes that culture in the north is of less value than that in London\".\n\nThe former northern powerhouse minister compared Accrington Stanley to the Royal Ballet as he insisted action is required from Westminster to help protect clubs that are the \"cornerstone\" of communities.\n\nThe former minister said \"northern culture\" was being hit by Covid-19\n\nMr Berry, who made the comment as MPs debated support for the economy in the north of England, said: \"First of all is the hit that northern culture has taken from this Covid crisis.\n\n\"For many people who live in London and the south of England, things like the opera house and ballet will be at the heart of their culture.\n\n\"But for many of us in the north it is our local football club - our Glyndebourne or Royal Ballet or Royal Opera House or Royal Shakespeare Company will be Blackburn Rovers, Accrington Stanley, Barrow, Carlisle or Sunderland.\n\nHe added the \"time has come where the government must seek to intervene to unblock this to save local football clubs across the north of England, many of which are the cornerstone of our communities and at the heart of our culture\".\n\nTreasury minister Kemi Badenoch did not address Mr Berry's football plea in her reply to the debate, acknowledging the north of England has been a \"hotbed\" of energy, ideas and creativity for centuries.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Northern Ballet said it was \"disappointed\" by the MP's comments while other social media users criticised Mr Berry for his remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Eleanor Watts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We've been asking our readers for their most pressing questions about the US election. Now it's our turn to respond.\n\nStéphane Longuet, 50, from London asks: Is it possible electors would designate another winner? Could some electors from Pennsylvania decide to vote for Donald Trump instead of Joe Biden or are they legally bound to follow the popular vote?\n\nThis is a great question - so let's dive into what the deal is with these \"faithless electors\".\n\nThe majority of states in the US, including this year's key battlegrounds of Arizona and Michigan, have laws that bind electors to vote for their state's majorities.\n\nThis year, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld those laws, saying electors have \"no ground for reversing\" the popular vote in their state, noting that in America, \"We, the People rule\".\n\nOf course, this doesn't mean that we haven't seen faithless electors before, though it is rare.\n\nIn 2016, 10 electors reneged on their popular vote winner to vote for other candidates. And way back in 1796, one elector switched to vote for the opposing party.\n\nBut it's important to remember these faithless electors have never actually changed the outcome of a presidential election.\n\nAccording to FairVote, an election reform nonprofit, across 58 presidential elections with more than 23,500 votes cast, only 90 electors have failed to honour the popular vote.\n\nNow a quick look at Pennsylvania: the state doesn't require electors to vote in line with the popular result or penalise faithless electors. However, any swaps here are unlikely, as the party campaigns choose their electors in the state.\n\nClick here to learn more about this project - or submit a question of your own.", "Three members of one family in Northern Ireland have died with Covid-19 in the past two weeks, the BBC has learned.\n\nThey include a man in his early 50s, who worked for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nStaff at the trust have paid tribute to him, saying he was a dedicated member of the health service.\n\nBelfast Trust senior manager Dr Paul Glover said his colleague, who died on Wednesday, was \"a very valued member of staff\".\n\n\"I'd like to offer my condolences to the family one of our members of staff who sadly passed away with Covid-19 today.\n\n\"I am sure all of his colleagues and those who have worked with him will feel this right at this moment in time.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Dolores Kelly also offered condolences to the family of those who died.\n\n\"It is just unimaginable,\" she told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"I cannot begin to imagine how the surviving members of the family come to terms with it and I do hope and pray that they get the help and support that they need.\"\n\nMrs Kelly appealed to the executive to \"take account of the families who are suffering, who have suffered, those that are in hospital and the staff who are trying their best to actually keep people safe and to save their lives\".\n\nNews of the health care worker's death comes as hospitals across Northern Ireland continue to report pressures.\n\nThe Department of Health in Northern Ireland reported eight further coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, with 791 more people testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe number of hospital inpatients with the virus has increased from 420 to 441.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, there have been two Covid-19 related deaths and 362 new cases of the disease reported in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths there to 1,965.\n\nForty-seven men and women are in ICU in Northern Ireland and 35 of them are on a ventilator.\n\nDr Glover, who specialises in critical care, said there must be a \"sustained and ongoing\" decrease in community transmission rates before any relaxation of restrictions is considered.\n\n\"Our healthcare system is very much under pressure and is being stretched at this moment,\" he said.\n\n\"What we absolutely need is a sustained and ongoing decrease in transmission rates to stop the hospitals being overwhelmed, to take the pressure off staff and to allow us to be able to treat other conditions.\n\n\"We are not at the stage yet where community transmission is at such a low level as is safe to release restrictions.\"\n\nDr Glover added that \"everyone has a role to play\" to ensure that Covid-19 numbers are \"stamped down\" and \"kept down\".\n\n\"This is not just about government guidelines. It's also about public behaviours,\" he said.\n\nHealth unions are also asking why restrictions would be relaxed, given the number of deaths in recent weeks.\n\nChair of the BMA in Northern Ireland, Dr Tom Black, said: \"You need restrictions to reduce the transmission of the infection, to reduce the demands on hospitals.\"\n\nDr Black said demands on NI hospitals \"are nearly overwhelming hospital services\".\n\nMeanwhile, cases in care homes have also increased, with 143 facilities dealing with outbreaks - over 100 more than this time last month.\n\nRobin Swann told MLAs that staff, through no fault of their own, were carrying the virus - another reason, he said, for maintaining restrictions.", "The statue is on display at Newington Green, near the site of the school Mary Wollstonecraft founded\n\nA memorial to the \"mother of feminism\" has provoked an online backlash after being unveiled in north London.\n\nThe sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft, by artist Maggi Hambling, went on display on Newington Green, Islington, on Tuesday.\n\nBorn in London in 1759, Wollstonecraft was an 18th Century author and radical who promoted the rights of women.\n\nThe silvered-bronze sculpture has drawn criticism from some who have queried the inclusion of a naked female figure.\n\nBee Rowlatt, chairwoman of the Mary on the Green campaign for a statue, said: \"Her ideas changed the world. It took courage to fight for human rights and education for all.\n\n\"But following her early death in childbirth, her legacy was buried, in a sustained misogynistic attack. Today we are finally putting this injustice to rights.\n\n\"Mary Wollstonecraft was a rebel and a pioneer, and she deserves a pioneering work of art.\n\n\"This work is an attempt to celebrate her contribution to society with something that goes beyond the Victorian traditions of putting people on pedestals.\"\n\nThe statue is believed to be the world's first memorial sculpture in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft\n\nThe unveiling is the culmination of a decade of campaigning to raise the £143,000 required to create the statue.\n\nThe statue is already on display, and an unveiling ceremony was live-streamed.\n\nIt portrays a silver female figure emerging from a swirling mingle of female forms.\n\nMore than 90% of London's monuments celebrate men, despite the population being 51% women, according to the campaign.\n\nHowever, it has been met with criticism for its symbolic depiction of a female figure, rather than being a lifelike representation of Wollstonecraft.\n\nSome have also queried the decision to make the figure naked.\n\nWriter Caitlin Moran claimed a better representation of a naked \"everywoman\" would be of \"Wollstonecraft dying, at 38, in childbirth, as so many women did back then - ending her revolutionary work.\"\n\n\"That would make me think, and cry,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriter Tracy King tweeted: \"There is no reason to depict Mary naked unless you are trying to be edgy to provoke debate.\n\n\"Statues of named men get to be clothed because the focus is on their work and achievements.\n\n\"Meanwhile, women walking or jogging through parks experience high rates of sexual harassment because our bodies are considered public property.\"\n\nCaroline Criado Perez, who campaigned for Jane Austen to appear on the £10 note, said the statue \"feels disrespectful to Wollstonecraft herself\".\n\nHistorian Simon Schama wrote that he \"always wanted a fine monument to Wollstonecraft - this isn't it\".\n\nWollstonecraft was born into prosperity in 1759, but her father, a drunk, squandered the family money.\n\nLike her mother, she often suffered abuse at his hands.\n\nAs a woman, Wollstonecraft received little formal education but she set out to educate herself and at 25 opened a girls' boarding school on Newington Green, near the site of the statue.\n\nWollstonecraft was 33 when she wrote her most famous work \"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman\" which imagined a social order where women were the equals of men.\n\nShe mixed with the intellectual radicals of the day - debating with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Joseph Priestley.\n\nShe died aged 38 following the birth of her daughter, the author Mary Shelley.\n\nMs Hambling has hit back at those who criticise her art work.\n\nShe said: \"This sculpture encourages a visual conversation with the obstacles Ms Wollstonecraft overcame, the ideals she strived for, and what she made happen.\"\n\nThe Suffolk-based artist said her critics \"are not reading the word, the important word, which is on the plinth, quite clearly 'for' Mary Wollstonecraft, it's not 'of' Mary Wollstonecraft.\n\n\"Clothes define people and restrict people, they restrict people's reaction. She's naked and she's every woman.\n\n\"Most male historic statues are way over life-size. My point was that the female figure doesn't need to dominate to be powerful.\n\n\"It's been compared to a rocket of hope going up to the sky, tracking the fight for female empowerment Wollstonecraft started.\"\n\nThe statue shows a silver female figure emerging from a swirling mingle of female forms\n\nOthers have praised the statue. On Twitter historian Dr Fern Riddle said she \"loved\" the design.\n\n\"It reminds me of Metropolis crossed with the birth of Venus,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't see 'me' in that figure, but I wouldn't see 'me' in a figurine of a fully dressed Mary either. I just like that it's here, and that anyone can interpret it how they want.\"\n\nHistorian Dr Sophie Coulombeau said she hopes those \"with a very strong opinion\" on the statue would also read Wollstonecraft's work.\n\n\"She's a lot weirder and ickier and more surreal than most [people] realise,\" Dr Coulombeau said.\n\n\"I think Hambling gets that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nUniversities are being told to stagger the return home of England's 1.2 million students in the week after the national lockdown ends. The aim is to avoid a sudden exodus that could spread infection. Universities will be expected to move almost all teaching online by 9 December. Before travelling, as many students as possible will be offered Covid tests and anyone who's positive will be required to self-isolate on campus for 10 days. They'll still be able to get home for Christmas once that period is up. The Scottish government is expected to outline similar plans later.\n\nCoronavirus has \"exacerbated\" regional inequalities in poverty, education, employment and mental health, according to a study from the Northern Health Science Alliance. Researchers also found the mortality rate, even after factoring in deprivation, ages and ethnicity, was worst in the north. The report recommends a series of steps to \"level up\" - to use Boris Johnson's own language - including prioritising deprived communities in the first phase of any vaccine rollout.\n\nLess than 48 hours before Northern Ireland's four-week lockdown is due to end ministers still haven't decided what happens next. The executive is divided over whether to reopen certain sectors of the economy, such as cafes and hairdressers. Meanwhile, about 50 Conservative MPs have formed a new group to fight the imposition of any further blanket restrictions in England beyond the end of the current lockdown on 2 December. They're calling for the publication of a cost-benefit analysis and more scrutiny of government scientists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hospitality Ulster #HelpOurHospitality This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenior counter-terrorism officer Supt Matthew Davison is warning young people are being targeted \"in their bedrooms\" during lockdown by those using the pandemic to spread hate and disinformation. He said extremists know young people are spending more time online and are making \"proactive plans\" to take advantage of that. At the same time referrals to the anti-extremism Prevent programme are falling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, developments this week have brought us closer to a Covid-19 vaccine, but how far off world immunisation are we? BBC correspondent Tulip Mazumdar explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The amount of tax levied on capital gains could be raised by billions of pounds, according to a new report.\n\nAbout £14bn could be raised by cutting exemptions and doubling rates, according to the review, which was commissioned by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe main losers would wealthy people who own second homes or assets not shielded from tax.\n\nIt comes as Chancellor Rishi Sunak looks for ways to cover the enormous costs of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn September, he reassured recently-elected Tory MPs there would not be a \"horror show of tax rises with no end in sight\".\n\nThe Office for Tax Simplification (OTS), however, found that many current features of capital gains tax \"can distort behaviour\" as people try to lower their bills.\n\nThe government-run body says the tax, levied at 10% for basic-rate taxpayers and 20% for higher-rate taxpayers, could be doubled if it were brought in line with income tax.\n\nCapital gains tax is the levy you pay on the profits - or gain - that you make when you sell, give away or dispose of something you own. For residential property, for example, it is charged at 18% or 28% for basic-rate taxpayers and higher-rate taxpayers respectively.\n\nThe report also suggests the amount raised could also be boosted by cutting exemptions.\n\nAt the moment, the first £12,300 of capital gains is exempt. About 50,000 taxpayers reported profits narrowly under that threshold last year.\n\nOn Wednesday, the body said that the current rules were \"counter-intuitive\" and created \"odd incentives\".\"The disparity in rates between capital gains tax and income tax can distort business and family decision-making and creates an incentive for taxpayers to arrange their affairs in ways that effectively re-characterise income as capital gains,\" the report said.\n\nBefore dropping your jaw in horror that the Office of Tax Simplification is suggesting capital gains tax could be brought more in line with income tax - or doubled - pause for a second. In most years, most of us won't pay it. In fact, even if the number of people paying it trebled, it probably still wouldn't be you.\n\nMore than 31 million people pay tax on their income, raising £180bn in 2017/18. By contrast, only 265,000 pay tax on capital gains - the profits they make when they sell assets such as shares or bonds.\n\nThe first £12,300 is exempt; and because you can control when you sell an asset and realise a gain, many - some 50,000 - can arrange their affairs so any gain they made comes just in under the threshold. And when they do pay capital gains tax, it's at half the rate of income tax.\n\nThe OTS report says most gains are concentrated among relatively few taxpayers, who are paying \"proportionately less\" tax than everyone else. In other words, the light capital gains tax regime aggravates the already yawning inequality of wealth between the few who can actually make capital gains and the many - who will rarely or never do so.\n\nThe independent tax adviser also suggested scrapping the rule which allows capital gains tax to be wiped on inherited assets, as well as removing relief for investors selling shares in unlisted companies who have had them for a minimum of three years.\n\nIf the recommendations are taken on by the government, thousands of taxpayers may face higher rates on the profits made on selling second homes or investments.\n\nMr Sunak commissioned the report in July, but does not have to accept its findings.\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"The government's priority right now is supporting jobs and the economy.\n\n\"We thank the OTS for their independent report which will be considered in due course.\"", "The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA total of 50,365 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 595 in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 50,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the figures showed, despite hopes for a vaccine, \"we are not out of the woods\".\n\nHe said: \"Every death is a tragedy,\" but added: \"I do think we have got now to a different phase in the way that we treat it.\"\n\nA further 22,950 cases of coronavirus were recorded on Wednesday, government figures show.\n\nThere have been some 1.2 million confirmed cases in the UK since the epidemic began, and more than 185,000 people have been admitted to hospital with the virus.\n\nThe UK's Covid death toll has reached a grim and tragic milestone - and illustrates what a devastating impact the pandemic has had on the country.\n\nBut one figure alone cannot tell the full story. The burden has not been felt equally.\n\nThe single biggest factor has been age - with more than nine in 10 deaths in the over 65s.\n\nPoorer areas and ethnic minorities have also been disproportionately affected.\n\nDeaths from other causes have also risen as people have gone without treatment.\n\nThe UK has on most measures seen one of the highest death rates in the world.\n\nBlame, understandably, has been laid at the government's door. It has been criticised in particular for being too slow to lockdown and for its record on testing and tracing.\n\nBut the UK is not alone in struggling. Similar debates have been had in Italy, Spain and France.\n\nAnd the sad reality is this figure will keep climbing in the months to come.\n\nBut there is now at last some real hope that, with a vaccine looking likely, the toll will be much, much less next year.\n\nThe government's death figures only include people who died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus - but two other ways of measuring deaths give higher overall figures.\n\nThe first includes all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. The most recent figures suggest there had been more than 60,000 deaths by 23 October, by this measure.\n\nThe second is a measure of \"excess deaths\" - the number of deaths over and above the usual number at this time of year.\n\nDeaths normally do rise at this time of the year, but the latest data from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland show the second wave of the virus has pushed the death rate above the average seen over the past five years.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the latest death figures were a \"grim milestone\" and criticised the government for being \"slow\" in its response to the pandemic during the first wave.\n\nHe said the government owed it to the families of those who have lost their lives to the virus \"to get on top\" of its response to the second wave.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said lessons had to be learned.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said: \"This is a point that should never have been reached.\"\n\nHe added: \"Today's figure is a terrible indictment of poor preparation, poor organisation by the government, insufficient infection control measures, coupled with late and often confusing messaging for the public.\"\n\nThe government had to \"ensure that nothing on this scale ever happens again\", he added, with a public inquiry to \"go over every step with a fine-tooth comb\".\n\nIt comes as officials said no decision has yet been made on how people under the age of 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe current priority list of people who would get a vaccine in \"phase one\" starts with those living and working in care homes, then - in stages - everyone over 60 years old.\n\nBut the list is subject to change, with close attention being paid to how the vaccines work in older age groups, who often have a weak response to immunisation.\n\nAttention has turned to how a vaccine will be rolled out after Pfizer and BioNTech revealed their vaccine protects more than 90% of people from developing Covid symptoms.\n\nThe prime minister urged everybody to get a coronavirus vaccine once one becomes available, adding that the arguments of anti-vaccination activists were \"total nonsense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “Anti-vax is total nonsense is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\nMr Johnson would be happy to receive a coronavirus vaccine, Number 10 has said.\n\nOn a visit to a Tesco distribution centre in south-east London on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said the prospect of a vaccine and the ramping up of testing were \"two big boxing gloves\" to \"pummel\" the virus with, but said: \"Neither of them is capable of delivering a knock-out blow on its own.\n\n\"That's why this country needs to continue to work hard to keep discipline and to observe the measures we've put in.\"\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nRestrictions have been tightened across the UK in recent weeks. In England, a new four-week lockdown started last Thursday - replacing the three-tier system until 2 December.\n\nMr Johnson said England must \"get through this current period of tough autumn measures\" to \"hopefully\" curb the spread of the virus enough to allow Christmas to be \"as normal as possible for as many people as possible\".\n\nMeanwhile, pubs reopened and travel restrictions were lifted in Wales on Monday, as it ended a two-week \"firebreak\" lockdown.\n\nAdditional restrictions in Northern Ireland are due to end on Friday after a proposal from the Northern Ireland Assembly's health minister to extend restrictions was blocked.\n\nIn Scotland, there is now a five-tier system of virus alert levels with different measures in place in different parts of the country. The tiers are numbered from zero to four, with level four requiring the introduction of lockdown restrictions for that area.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has congratulated Joe Biden on his US election win.\n\nMr Biden called the PM ahead of the leaders of other major European countries.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nHe is also understood to have assured Mr Biden that Brexit would not undermine the Good Friday Agreement on peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Biden's office said he had \"reaffirmed\" his support for the Good Friday Agreement, which his Democratic predecessor in the White House, President Bill Clinton, played an instrumental role in bringing about.\n\nIt said he had also expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries and \"redouble co-operation\" on issues of mutual concern, including health security and promoting democracy.\n\nThe media declared Mr Biden the election winner on Saturday after he passed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes.\n\nBut counting is ongoing in some states, with incumbent President Donald Trump disputing many of the results.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the prime minister had \"warmly congratulated\" Mr Biden and \"conveyed his congratulations\" to Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\n\"They discussed the close and longstanding relationship between our countries and committed to building on this partnership in the years ahead, in areas such as trade and security - including through Nato,\" the No 10 spokesperson added.\n\n\"The prime minister and president-elect also looked forward to working closely together on their shared priorities, from tackling climate change, to promoting democracy, and building back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nThere is always a clamour to get an early call with a US President-elect.\n\nIt seems Boris Johnson has fared well - with his phone ringing before other European leaders.\n\nDowning Street will hope that's a sign that Joe Biden values the \"special relationship\" and wants to work closely with Mr Johnson.\n\nBut it's important to note President-elect Biden has been talking tonight about the importance of the Good Friday Agreement in the context of Brexit.\n\nIt was raised in the call with the UK prime minister, who insisted the peace treaty would be protected by his plans.\n\nThe controversial Internal Market Bill - which Mr Biden has previously raised questions about - wasn't discussed by name.\n\nBut the UK knows the sands in the White House are shifting. A Brexit enthusiast is being replaced by a sceptic.\n\nThe 25-minute conversation came amid concerns that Mr Biden's previously stated dislike of Brexit - which Mr Trump, by contrast, supported - could strain relations.\n\nIt's understood Mr Johnson and Mr Biden discussed the importance of implementing Brexit in a way that upholds the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMr Johnson assured the President-elect that would be the case.\n\nMr Biden later spoke to Ireland's Taoiseach (PM) Micheál Martin, in what Mr Martin's aides described as a \"warm conversation\".\n\n\"President-elect Biden recalled his strong Irish roots and his visit to Ireland with his family in 2016,\" the Irish government said in a statement.\n\n\"The President-elect reaffirmed his full support for the Good Friday Agreement and they discussed the importance of a Brexit outcome that respects the Good Friday Agreement and ensures no return of a border on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nThe president-elect later spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Macron promised to work with the US to tackle climate change and terrorism, while Mrs Merkel said she wanted a close working relationship with the Biden administration, their spokespeople said.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the UK government blamed a \"technical error\" for a tweet from Mr Johnson congratulating Mr Biden on his US election victory which faintly showed the name \"Trump\" in the background.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness footage shows a man pouring petrol on the ground and setting light to it\n\nA police station in north London had to be evacuated after a car crashed into the building.\n\nThe crash happened in Edmonton shortly before 19:00 GMT on Wednesday. The man then left the car and tried to set fire to the road using petrol, police said.\n\nFootage, posted on social media, showed a vehicle partially embedded in the entrance of the building.\n\nA man, aged 45, has been arrested on suspicion of arson, affray and criminal damage. He remains in custody.\n\nThe Met Police said the incident was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nBoth the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were called to the crash on Fore Street.\n\nPolice said officers had been able to return to the station and nearby residents, who had been initially evacuated, were allowed home. No injuries have been reported.\n\nEnfield Council leader Nesil Caliskan had earlier described the crash as a \"major incident\" and urged people to avoid the area.\n\nStore manager Ogur Mazlum, 34, witnessed the moment the car crashed into the building.\n\nHis wife Serife Mazlum said: \"He literally just walked out [of his shop] to just call me and see if everything's okay at home.\n\n\"Then he said I have to shut the phone quickly... that was when the car crashed into the front of the police station.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London 999 Feed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Mazlum said her husband, who speaks limited English, saw the car had crashed through an exterior glass entrance to the police station and a man was trying to get through a second barrier.\n\n\"He was insisting on trying to get inside, but the glass door wouldn't break anymore so he couldn't get any closer,\" she added.\n\n\"Then he casually got out of the car with a tank of petrol. He poured it down from the car into the middle of the road and then he just set it on fire.\"\n\nVideo footage of the immediate aftermath shows police officers tackling the man and putting out the flames.\n\nMrs Mazlum said another man watching the scene from across the street ran to intervene after the driver had set the fuel alight.\n\n\"He pinned [the driver] to the ground just as the police was arriving,\" she added.\n\n\"So by the time the police came and got out of the cars the citizen had already slammed him to the ground.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had been in \"constant contact\" with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick about the incident.\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said: \"I'm grateful to the police officers and other emergency services who brought the situation under control and continue to investigate the incident.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In response to a question about government contracts awarded to private firms for personal protective equipment (PPE) against coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:“This government has secured and delivered 32 billion items of personal protective equipment.”\n\nHe added that the government has to work with the private sector and that some are more effective than others.\n\nThe 32 billion figure, which the PM quoted, refers to the number of PPE items which have been ordered, according to the government’s latest PPE strategy document from 28 September .\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) says it is looking into the government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic as “concerns have been raised” about some of them “including around a lack of transparency”. The NAO will report its findings in late 2020.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says 4.6 billion PPE items have been distributed to GPs, social care providers, community pharmacists, dentists and hospices, from February to 1 November 2020.\n\nThe government worked with over 15,000 suppliers.\n\nThe PPE includes masks, gloves, eye protection, aprons and coveralls but also cleaning equipment, general purpose detergent and hand hygiene items.\n\nYou can read more here on PPE supply in the NHS.", "The UK's Covid death toll has reached a grim and tragic milestone - and illustrates what a devastating impact the pandemic has had on the country.\n\nBut one figure alone cannot tell the full story. The burden has not been felt equally.\n\nThe single biggest factor has been age - with more than nine in 10 deaths in the over-65s.\n\nPoorer areas and ethnic minorities have also been disproportionately affected.\n\nDeaths from other causes have also risen as people have gone without treatment.\n\nThe UK has on most measures seen one of the highest death rates in the world.\n\nBlame, understandably, has been laid at the government's door. It has been criticised in particular for being too slow to lockdown and for its record on testing and tracing.\n\nBut the UK is not alone in struggling. Similar debates have been had in Italy, Spain and France.\n\nAnd the sad reality is this figure will keep climbing in the months to come.\n\nBut there is now at last some real hope that, with a vaccine looking likely, the toll will be much, much less next year.\n\nRead more of Nick Triggle's analysis here.", "Jiya Saggu, 20, is torn between desperately wanting to go home and wanting to keep her medically vulnerable family safe.\n\nHer 15-year-old sister had a kidney transplant some years ago and still has a weakened immune system, as does her mother who has rheumatoid arthritis.\n\nAlso her uncle, one of the earliest of England's Covid cases, spent weeks on a ventilator before finally recovering.\n\nShe says: \"That really brought home the fact that if any of my family get this virus, it would be devastating.\"\n\nReading the plans in the news to test students, before helping them get home, brought the third year University of Durham student \"a great sense of relief because it is a possible way out\".\n\nShe says: \"I think having designated days for people to leave may be a little difficult, especially within a week.\n\n\"But if it means I can get home safely then that's all that matters.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I definitely have good days and bad days. My housemates are quite good friends to me. They know how stressed I am.\n\n\"I've had days where I've rang my parents and said: 'I just want to come home.'\n\n\"They have been coming up with solutions like to stay in a hotel and isolate for two weeks, but they are also quite keen that I have some semblance of a university experience.\"\n\nShe has also been concerned about her sister, who is sitting GCSEs this year and is worried because she has missed so much teaching time.\n\n\"She telephoned me on Saturday and started crying. They're being told that the mocks they're having in January may be her final exams.\n\n\"It's really hard not to be at home to help her through that.\"\n\nJiya has been taking stringent precautions to protect herself from catching Covid-19. She wears a mask every time she leaves the house.\n\nSo far Jiya has had one face-to-face learning session this term, with the rest of her combined studies course being taught online. She says if she had realised how little contact she was going to have, she may well have stayed at home.\n\n\"If everything is going to be online again, I don't see the point in coming back. But if there are in person sessions or I can do rowing, it's different.\n\n\"It's how to do it safely. I don't think we came up here safely this term. You can see from the spikes that we've had in the university - it wasn't safe.\"", "Conservative MPs have set up a group to fight any future lockdown in England, arguing it would be \"devastating\" for the economy and \"cost lives\".\n\nThe Covid Recovery Group, which has around 50 MP members, wants the country to \"live with\" coronavirus after nationwide restrictions end next month.\n\nThe \"cure\" prescribed by the government ran \"the risk of being worse than the disease\", MP Mark Harper said.\n\nBut the PM has stressed the NHS faces a \"medical disaster\" without action.\n\nA further 20,412 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, with another 532 deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.\n\nThe four-week lockdown in England - which includes the closure of pubs, restaurants and non-essential retail, while curbing household mixing and unnecessary travel - is scheduled to end on 2 December.\n\nParliament overwhelmingly backed the restrictions earlier this month, but 34 Conservative MPs, concerned about civil liberties and the effect on wider health and the economy, rebelled against the government.\n\nAnother 19, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, abstained.\n\nThe government says it wants a return to regionalised, tiered restrictions when lockdown ends - and ministers have been warned of an even larger rebellion if they try to extend it into Christmas and the New Year.\n\nThe Covid Recovery Group - which includes ex-Chief Whip Mr Harper and the chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady - says the \"devastating cycle\" of prohibitions cannot go on.\n\nIt wants ministers to investigate whether restrictions are costing more lives than they are saving, by stopping cancer and dementia treatments and increasing suicide rates among the under-40s.\n\nThe group is calling for the \"monopoly\" it says scientists have on advising the government to end, and an assurance that no policies will go before Parliament without three \"independent\" experts backing them first.\n\nFigures published on Tuesday showed redundancies rose to a record high of 314,000 in the three months to the end of September, as firms laid off people in anticipation of furlough ending in November.\n\nDespite the government extending the wage-subsidy scheme to March, economists say the jobs picture remains bleak.\n\nMr Harper said the country needed to find a \"sustainable way\" of living with Covid until a vaccine was available for mass use to stop \"immense\" economic damage.\n\n\"Lockdowns cost lives, whether in undiagnosed cancer treatments, deteriorating mental health, and missed A&E appointments - not to mention the impact it has on young people's education, job prospects and our soaring debts,\" he said.\n\n\"The cure we're prescribing runs the risk of being worse than the disease.\"\n\nThe new group, he added, would \"play its part in helping the government to deliver an enduring strategy for living with the virus... command public support, end this devastating cycle of repeated restrictions\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was critical people continued to follow the rules to get the infection rate down, adding that \"our plan is working\".\n\nHe added that the NHS would be ready to begin the roll-out of a new vaccine from next month, if it gets approval.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people not to \"rely\" on this \"as a solution\" to the medical emergency caused by coronavirus.", "Nóra Quoirin was reported missing on the morning of 4 August 2019\n\nThe mother of a British girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle heard a voice inside their family chalet the night her daughter went missing, an inquest heard.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from London, was reported missing on 4 August 2019. Her body was discovered nine days later.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who believes her daughter was abducted, said she heard a \"voice\" inside the chalet.\n\nShe was not concerned as she \"was not fully conscious\", she told the court.\n\nNóra's family, from Balham, were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nThe 15-year-old, who was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development, was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nMrs Quoirin told the court in Seremban, Malaysia, she recounted hearing \"muffled sounds\" at the front of the resort on the night her daughter went missing.\n\nShe added that it sounded like young people having a party.\n\nShe said she fell into a deep sleep after that and did not leave the bed at any point in the night to avoid waking up and exacerbating her jet-lag, the inquest heard.\n\nMrs Quoirin added she distinctly remembered being aware of muffled sounds in the chalet at another point saying that they \"felt very close\".\n\nShe was not concerned by the voices as she was not fully conscious, she explained to the court.\n\nAt 07:30, Nóra's father Sebastien went to the mezzanine level of the chalet where Nora had been sharing a double bed with her 12-year-old sister Innes.\n\nIt was then that they discovered their daughter was missing, Mrs Quoirin said.\n\nNóra's mother said her daughter \"wasn't very autonomous\" and that she could not manage zips or buttons\n\nDescribing Nóra learning and physical difficulties, Mrs Quoirin said that her daughter had \"a lot of physical challenges\" with her motor skills and struggled with balance and coordination.\n\nShe described how if Nóra tried to run or move quickly she would have an \"awkward gait and she would stumble if it was not flat.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter struggled with zips and buttons and that she had \"core strength\" problems.\n\n\"She would tire easily just sitting\", Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"Her school day was very tiring, just sitting would demand quite a lot of effort.\"\n\nThe mother said that her eldest daughter did not do anything at home without her help.\n\n\"She would always sit beside her mum or dad ... she never went anywhere by herself,\" she told the court.\n\n\"Overall we explained it that she had a mental age of about five or six.\"\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nMrs Quoirin rejected the possibility that her daughter might have wandered off alone.\n\n\"Scratchings and markings\" were found on Nóra's body, but the mother claimed they were not consistent with a child walking naked in the jungle \"constantly\".\n\nMrs Quoirin said a lot of damage would be done to the body because of the terrain and that it would have been \"extremely difficult\" for Nóra to navigate it.", "Lee Cain arrived for work on Thursday, having already handed in his notice to No 10\n\nOne of Boris Johnson's closest aides, director of communications Lee Cain, has resigned amid reports of internal tensions in Downing Street.\n\nHe will leave next month, despite being offered a promotion to chief of staff.\n\nHis departure prompted speculation about the future of the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings, but the BBC was told he would stay for now.\n\nNo 10 denied Mr Johnson had been distracted by the saga, saying he was \"fully focussed\" on tackling Covid.\n\nMr Cain has been at the PM's side since he was a press officer for the Vote Leave campaign under Mr Cummings.\n\nMany will not have heard of him before the story broke, but his resignation comes at a time when the government is facing big decisions over its coronavirus strategy and the future of post-Brexit trade with the EU.\n\nAfter a number of rows and U-turns within government in recent months, No 10 will see communications as key in connecting with the country and trying to gain support for its decisions.\n\nThe news that Mr Cain - who worked with Mr Cummings and the PM in the Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU - could become Mr Johnson's chief of staff had led to consternation among some MPs and ministers, said BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nOne Tory source even suggested that Mr Johnson's fiancee, Carrie Symonds - a former head of communications for the Conservatives - had misgivings about that plan.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told LBC Radio: \"This is pathetic. I think millions of people will be waking up this morning, scratching their heads, saying what on earth is going on?\n\n\"We're in the middle of a pandemic, we're all worried about our health and our families, we're all worried about our jobs, and this lot are squabbling behind the door of No 10. Pull yourselves together, focus on the job in hand.\"\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson was concentrating on fighting coronavirus, adding: \"You can see the progress we are making, in terms of rolling out mass testing, in securing vaccines and also in terms of making improvements to test and trace.\"\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said there was also a \"complete focus in government on making sure we can work with business and work with citizens in order to deliver on the promise of Brexit\".\n\nThis is much more than a random resignation.\n\nLee Cain was Boris Johnson's longest serving aide in No 10 and very close to his most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nArguments and rivalry in any Downing Street operation are not unusual.\n\nThis feels different though, perhaps the final act of Vote Leave is playing out after months of building tensions.\n\nOne insider - who until now has kept their counsel - spoke out in frustration last night, saying: \"I just can't describe to you how much of a mess it is.\"\n\nThis is about who is running the country and the prime minister's ability to manage his own operation.\n\nThe question now is whether the chaos that has spilled into public spirals into something more serious, or whether it is the chance for a reset the prime minister requires.\n\nAllies of Mr Cain were unhappy about how he had been treated, which prompted initial speculation about Mr Cummings's own future.\n\nMr Cummings and Mr Cain are long-time colleagues, having worked together on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nMr Cain, who is set to step down next month, will be replaced as the director of communications by James Slack - a former journalist and one of the PM's spokesmen.\n\nMr Johnson is thought to be looking to fill the post of chief of staff as part of a wider reorganisation, which will also see ex-BBC journalist Allegra Stratton take on a role fronting new daily televised press briefings.\n\nLee Cain spent time as a journalist before entering No 10 - including a stint following David Cameron around dressed as a chicken\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Cain said it had been a privilege to work for Mr Johnson, but he added: \"After careful consideration I have this evening resigned as No 10 director of communications and will leave the post at the end of the year.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson thanked Mr Cain for his \"extraordinary service\" to him, calling him a \"true ally and friend\".\n\nBut several Conservative MPs have expressed dismay at the wrangling in Downing Street, which comes at a time of growing unease on the government's own benches over its handling of the pandemic - especially the use of lockdown measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCharles Walker, the vice chairman of the influential 1922 committee of backbench MPs, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there has been \"unhappiness about the No 10 operation for some time\".\n\nHe added: \"Members of Parliament have felt excluded from the decision-making process, and that's no secret.\n\n\"The real opportunity here is for the chief of staff position to be filled by someone who has good links with the Conservative Party and its representation in the House of Commons.\"\n\nFellow Tory backbencher Sir Roger Gale said it was \"very worrying indeed\" that No 10 \"consider it proper to devote this amount of energy to internal squabbles\" in the midst of a pandemic and Brexit trade negotiations.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We really do need people there with their minds on the job. It really is time that Downing Street got in place, what I think is now in common parlance is known as somebody with big boy pants on.\n\n\"A prime minister, particularly one facing the difficulties that Mr Johnson is facing, needs heavyweight help.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reeves: Public 'looks on with astonishment' at No 10", "Supporters maintain that small nuclear reactors can be unobtrusive and safe\n\nA consortium led by Rolls-Royce has announced plans to build up to 16 mini-nuclear plants in the UK.\n\nIt says the project will create 6,000 new jobs in the Midlands and the North of England over the next five years.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to be poised to announce at least £200m for the project as part of a long-delayed green plan for economic recovery.\n\nRolls-Royce argues that as well as producing low-carbon electricity, the concept may become an export industry.\n\nThe company's UK \"small modular reactor\" (SMR) group includes the National Nuclear Laboratory and the building company Laing O'Rourke.\n\nLast year, it received £18m to begin the design effort for the SMR concept.\n\nThe government says new nuclear is essential if the UK is to meet its target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 - where any carbon released is balanced out by an equivalent amount absorbed from the atmosphere.\n\nBut there is a nuclear-sized hole opening up in the energy network.\n\nSix of the UK's seven nuclear reactor sites are due to go offline by 2030 and the remaining one, Sizewell B, is due to be decommissioned in 2035.\n\nTogether they account for around 20% of the country's electricity.\n\nRolls-Royce and its partners argue that instead of building huge nuclear mega-projects in muddy fields we should construct a series of smaller nuclear plants from \"modules\" made in factories.\n\nThe aim is to re-engineer nuclear power as a very high-tech Lego set.\n\nThe components would be broken down into a series of hundreds of these modules which would be made in a central factory and shipped by road to the site for assembly.\n\nThe objective is to tackle the biggest problem nuclear power faces: the exorbitant cost.\n\nThe reason it is so expensive is that the projects are huge and complex and have to meet very high safety standards.\n\nAnd, because so few new nuclear power stations are built, there are very few opportunities to learn from mistakes.\n\nEDF says Sizewell C will provide electricity for six million homes and create 25,000 jobs\n\nSo, Rolls-Royce and its partners are saying: let's make them smaller and make lots of them so that we get really good at it.\n\nThe concept would dramatically reduce the amount of construction that would be associated with a nuclear project, claimed Tom Samson, the chief executive of the UK Small Modular Reactor consortium (UK SMR).\n\n\"If we move all that activity into a controlled factory environment that drives down cost by simplification and standardisation,\" he explained.\n\nEach plant would produce 440 megawatts of electricity - roughly enough to power Sheffield - and the hope is that, once the first few have been made, they will cost around £2bn each.\n\nThe consortium says the first of these modular plants could be up and running in 10 years, after that it will be able to build and install two a year.\n\nBy comparison, the much larger nuclear plant being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset is expect to cost some £22bn but will produce more than 3 gigawatts of electricity - over six times as much.\n\nIn addition to the six nuclear plants going offline by 2030, there's another challenge. You have to factor in a massive increase in electricity demand over the coming decades.\n\nThat's because if we're going to reach our net zero target, we need to stop using fossil fuels for transport and home heating.\n\nThe government has said this could lead to a three-fold increase in electricity use.\n\nThe government says it remains committed to the construction of new nuclear power stations\n\nUK SMR isn't the only player which has spotted that there could be a gap in the market for smaller reactors. There are dozens of different companies around the world working on small reactor projects.\n\nThat has got the critics of nuclear power worried. Greenpeace and other environmental groups say small nuclear power stations pose similar risks of radioactive releases and weapons proliferation as big ones.\n\nGreenpeace UK's chief scientist, Doug Parr, said that if the government wanted to take a punt on some new technology to tackle climate change it would be better off investing in hydrogen or geothermal power.\n\nAnd there are other reasons to question the SMR concept, says Prof MV Ramana of the University of British Columbia in Canada. He is a physicist and an expert on nuclear energy policy who has studied small modular reactors.\n\nHe said UK SMR's 10-year time-scale for its first plant may prove optimistic. The one constant in the history of the nuclear industry to date is that big new concepts never come in on time and budget, he said.\n\nHe is sceptical that the factory concept can deliver significant cost savings given the complexity and scale of even a small nuclear plant. Smaller plants will have to meet the same rigorous safety standards as big ones, he points out.\n\nHe said that where the concept has been tried elsewhere - in the US and China, for example - there have been long delays and costs have ended up being comparable to those of large nuclear power stations.\n\nFinally, he questioned whether there will be a market for these plants by the 2030s, when UK SMR says the first will be ready.\n\n\"Ten years from now, the competition will be renewables which are going to be far cheaper with much better storage technology than we have today,\" said Prof Ramana.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's powerful adviser, Dominic Cummings, is known to be taken with the modular nuclear idea.\n\nOne of the reasons the government has been fighting so hard to free itself from the EU's state aid rules is so it can get its shoulder behind technologies it thinks will give the UK economy and its workers a real boost.\n\nModular nuclear has the potential to do just that.\n\nIf Rolls-Royce and its partners can show that the factory concept really does deliver high quality nuclear plants on time and on budget then there is potentially a huge world market for the technology.\n\nThe price per unit of electricity may be higher than with wind or solar, said the clean energy consultant Michael Liebreich, but nuclear delivers power pretty much 24/7 and therefore can command a premium.\n\nUK SMR is pitching the concept as a UK solution to the global challenge of tackling climate change and says there will be a vast export market as the world starts to switch to low carbon energy.\n\nBoris Johnson is rumoured to be planning to take a big punt on nuclear power.\n\nHis government has always said new nuclear is going to be a key part of Britain's future energy system.\n\nAs well as the potential investment in SMRs, the BBC has already reported that the government is expected to give the long-discussed new large nuclear plant at Sizewell in Suffolk the go-ahead.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say these investments are essential if the UK is going to meet its promise to decarbonise the economy by 2050 as part of the worldwide effort to tackle climate change.\n\nAnd, while there may be good reasons to question whether the SMR concept will deliver on its promise of low-cost nuclear power, there is no question it holds out exactly the kind of optimistic vision for the UK's industrial future the government is desperate for.\n\nI've travelled all over the world for the BBC and seen evidence of environmental damage and climate change everywhere. It's the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. Tackling it means changing how we do virtually everything. We are right to be anxious and afraid at the prospect, but I reckon we should also see this as a thrilling story of exploration, and I'm delighted to have been given the chance of a ringside seat as chief environment correspondent.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The train came off the tracks as it passed through platform one at Sheffield station\n\nA freight train has derailed in Sheffield, resulting in disruption to services across the north of England.\n\nNetwork Rail said some services had been cancelled or were being diverted, with disruption lasting all day.\n\nThe cement-carrying train derailed at low speed at 02:45 GMT north of the city's station, meaning trains are unable to run through the city.\n\nServices run by CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Northern and Transpennine Express were affected.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was working around the clock to get the station fully reopened\n\nNetwork Rail said the freight train had come off the tracks while passing though platform one at Sheffield station.\n\nIt said multiple carriages had derailed and there was \"no indication as to the cause at this time\".\n\nNo one was injured but Network Rail said the derailment had led to significant damage to signalling and points equipment, which meant five of the station's eight platforms were closed.\n\nThe cause of the derailment is not yet known\n\nMatt Rice, Route Director for Network Rail's North and East Route, said: \"We will have our people working around the clock to get the station fully reopened as quickly as possible, but it's going to be a complex problem that won't be resolved immediately.\"\n\nHe added: \"Thankfully, train derailments are very rare, but when they do happen we have to act with utmost caution to protect the safety of everyone using the railway.\"\n\nThis derailment happened at very low speed, but still the train has caused significant damage to the tracks at the north end of Sheffield station.\n\nSeveral wagons of the train are off the rails, one has tipped on its side.\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) are at the site now.\n\n\"We understand that 16 wagons have derailed and no injuries have been reported,\" the statement added.\n\n\"If the evidence collected indicates there are likely to be important safety lessons for the railway industry then a full and thorough investigation will be carried out and the findings, along with any safety recommendations, published.\"\n\nNetwork Rail said three platforms had been made available to \"enable a very limited service to run\".\n\nNorthern warned passengers that due to a lack of alternative road transport and the number of routes affected, passengers should not travel.\n\nThree platforms have been made available to enable a very limited service to run, Network Rail said\n\nOperator Cross Country, TransPennine Express and East Midlands Railway said trains were able to run via Sheffield but may be delayed due to congestion at the station and the limited number of platforms available.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None National Rail Enquiries - Official source for UK train times and timetables The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Norton's final programme will be on Saturday 19 December\n\nGraham Norton will leave his Saturday morning show on Radio 2 before the end of the year, the BBC has announced.\n\nThe presenter, who has fronted the show for 10 years, will host his final episode on 19 December.\n\nHe is not leaving the BBC and will continue commentating Eurovision, judging on Drag Race UK and hosting his weekly chat show on BBC One.\n\nNorton said he was \"sad to be stepping away\" from Radio 2, adding that he will \"miss the listeners and their lives\".\n\nIt has not yet been announced who will replace him on Saturday mornings.\n\nNorton took over the slot from Jonathan Ross, who left the BBC in 2010.\n\n\"Obviously I'm sad to be stepping away from my Radio 2 show,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I'll miss being a part of the Wogan House family, as well as the listeners and their lives. I'd like to thank my producer Malcolm Prince and all the teams I've worked with for a great decade of radio.\n\n\"Happily with the chat show, Eurovision and Drag Race the BBC continues to be my perfect TV home.\"\n\nNorton took over from Jonathan Ross, who left the BBC in 2010\n\nNorton's guests on his Radio 2 show over the last decade have included Olivia Colman, Kylie Minogue, JK Rowling and Tina Turner.\n\nRegular features include the agony aunt slot Grill Graham, with co-presenter Maria McErlane, and his pick of a cheesy song of the week, I Can't Believe It's Not Better.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's chief content officer, said he would be \"hugely missed on Saturday mornings on Radio 2\".\n\n\"He is a first class broadcaster but I'm thrilled he's committed to continuing to be a regular fixture on the BBC,\" she added.\n\nHelen Thomas, Head of Radio 2 said: \"For the past decade, Graham has made Saturday mornings his own on Radio 2.\n\n\"His sparkling interviews, as well as his brilliant shows from the Eurovision host city each May, have kept millions of listeners entertained each week.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: “Our plan is working and I am more sure than ever that we will prevail together”\n\nThe NHS will be ready from December to roll out the new coronavirus vaccine if it gets approved, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs the news about the vaccine was an important step but \"there are no guarantees\".\n\nHe also said \"we don't know\" how many people will need to be vaccinated in order for life to return to normal.\n\nAnd he announced that, from Tuesday, NHS staff will begin being tested twice a week.\n\nIt comes as a further 20,412 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Tuesday, with another 532 deaths within 28 days of a positive test recorded.\n\nWhile the number of deaths recorded is higher than previous days, there is often an increase at the beginning of the week due to delays in weekend reporting.\n\nOn Monday, early results from the world's first effective coronavirus vaccine showed it could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid.\n\nThe vaccine has been developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech and is one of 11 vaccines that are currently in the final stages of testing.\n\nThe companies now plan to apply for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of November - and a limited number of people may get the vaccine this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK has already ordered 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate up to 20 million people, as each person will need two doses for it to work effectively.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned people not to \"rely on this news as a solution\" as it is still \"very, very early days\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Mr Hancock said: \"If this or any other vaccine is approved, we will be ready to begin a large-scale vaccination programme.\n\n\"We do not yet know whether or when a vaccine is approved, but I have tasked the NHS with being ready from any date from 1 December.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock said the bulk of the rollout of a vaccine was always expected to be in the first part of 2021.\n\nAsked about how many people would need to be vaccinated, Mr Hancock said: \"The honest truth to that question is we don't know what proportion of the population vaccination needs to reach in order for this to stop the epidemic.\n\n\"The reason we don't know that is you can check in a clinical trial for the impact of the vaccine on protecting the individual... what you cannot check is the impact on the transmission of the disease by those people, because you have to have enough of the population, a significant proportion of the population, to have had the vaccine to understand that.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told the BBC that vaccinations would take place in care homes, centres such as sports halls and also clinics that would open seven days a week.\n\nHe said he was giving GPs an extra £150m to help with the roll-out, and he believed NHS staff \"will rise to this challenge of being ready when the science comes good to inject hope into millions of arms this winter\".\n\n\"There are many hard days ahead, many hurdles to overcome, but our plan is working and I'm more sure than ever that we will prevail together,\" he added.\n\nMr Hancock also said new rapid swab tests - which give results in less than an hour - will be made available across 67 local areas, after they were used in a mass testing trial in Liverpool.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that we are still in a 'critical moment' of Covid-19 response\n\nOlder care home residents and care home staff are at the top of a list from government scientific advisers of who should be immunised first, followed by health workers.\n\nMr Hancock said children would not be vaccinated.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called on Mr Hancock to give priority access to relatives of care home residents so they can see their loved ones.\n\nAnd he asked the government to publish a strategy on how the vaccine would be rolled out.\n\nThe Covid vaccine is the fastest ever vaccine to go from the drawing board to being proven highly effective.\n\nIt will not be released for use until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.\n\n\"Our strong and independent regulator the MHRA will not approve a vaccine until it's clinically safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nThe British Medical Association, which represents doctors, said GPs have been told to prepare to give patients two vaccine doses - to be delivered between 21 and 28 days apart - during clinics that could run between 08:00 and 20:00 GMT seven days a week.\n\nIt added that, due to the logistics and delivery requirements, including the need to store it at very cold temperatures, it was likely that groups of GP practices would need to work together with one \"designated vaccination site\".\n\nIn Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the government there has purchased around 20 large freezers to store the new vaccine at strategic locations.\n\nCautious optimism is the tone of today.\n\nMatt Hancock insists the NHS will be ready to start deploying a coronavirus vaccine as soon as humanly possible.\n\nIf regulators are able to give the green light in the next few weeks, some people could get their jab before Christmas - a most welcome gift for those at highest risk of severe Covid-19 illness.\n\nBut he doesn't want people to get their hopes up too soon or assume life can now return to \"normal\". It can't.\n\nIt would be a colossal mistake to relax now and let the virus rip, say leading medical advisers.\n\nUntil and unless mass vaccination can happen, society needs to use the other weapons at its disposal to fight the virus and stop the spread.\n\nThat means sticking with the social distancing and face masks, and testing people who may have the virus and asking them to isolate.\n\nThe UK is still in the second wave and the actions taken by all of us now will influence how it plays out.\n\nData from the UK national statistics agencies also showed the number of deaths was more than 11% higher than normally expected.\n\nIt showed 1,597 deaths mentioning Covid on the death certificate in the last week of October - up from 1,126 the week before.\n\nAlthough deaths usually do rise at this time of year, the data shows the second wave of the virus has pushed the death rate above the average seen over the past five years.\n\nThe government is sending 600,000 of the rapid tests out to more than 60 local directors of public health including \"across Yorkshire, the West Midlands, other parts of the North West, and the whole of the North East\".\n\nAnd Nottinghamshire will follow the Liverpool in trialling mass coronavirus testing.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the vaccine?", "The Scottish government has not ruled out cancelling Higher exams in Scotland next year and will make a final decision in mid-February.\n\nLast month Education Secretary John Swinney confirmed there would be no National 5 exams in 2021.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland the \"latest point\" he could make such a call for Highers would be the first break after Christmas\n\nOn Tuesday GCSE and A-levels in Wales were cancelled for 2021.\n\nAsked whether Scotland might follow suit, Mr Swinney, said: \"The latest point at which we can take that decision will be the February break, around about the middle of February.\n\n\"Obviously we will be looking very carefully at what is the degree of disruption to young people and what is the state of the pandemic at that stage.\n\n\"It is quite a long way off but we have to make sure that we have the effective contingency plans in place.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative's accused Mr Swinney of leaving pupils and teachers \"in the dark\".\n\nMr Swinney, who appeared before a committee of MSPs at Holyrood earlier, said that ministers would be closely monitoring the situation going into the new year.\n\nOn whether there was an argument for giving clarity now, Mr Swinney acknowledged there are a broad range of opinions on the subject and said he has looked carefully at it.\n\nHe added: \"I concluded that there was a very clear desire among stakeholders for the Highers and Advance Highers to take their course because they are of course, the passport to the next stage of education, work and life for young people.\n\n\"That was also very strongly the view that I heard from young people into the bargain.\n\n\"It is a difficult question and it is one that we reflect on very carefully because we want to make sure young people are able to have certification for their achievements.\"\n\nConservative MSP Jamie Greene said the education secretary had already thrown in the towel on National 5 exams and \"he's now kicking a decision on Higher exams into the long grass\".\n\nHe urged the government to \"pull out all the stops to ensure Higher exams go ahead as planned\".\n\nMr Greene went on: \"Instead, they're leaving pupils and teachers in the dark again, with barely any time to plan and prepare for vital exams. The pandemic has been damaging to Scotland's schools but not nearly as damaging as the SNP's lack of leadership.\"\n\nAfter summer 2020 exams were cancelled because of the pandemic, Prof Mark Priestley was commissioned to conduct a review of what had happened.\n\nHis report, which was issued at the beginning of October, said Nat 5s should be cancelled and that Higher and Advanced Higher exams in 2021 \"will go ahead\".\n\nAs things stand, the expectation is that Scottish Higher and Advanced Higher exams will take place in the spring.\n\nNational 5 exams have already been cancelled.\n\nUnions had argued for the cancellation of all Scottish exams in 2021 but the government decided Highers and Advanced Higher exams should still go ahead if possible.\n\nThe exam diet will take place a few weeks later than normal.\n\nThis is to allow some slack for disruption.\n\nThere have already been examples of individual schools being closed temporarily and there are concerns about interruption to teaching if staff are self-isolating or students are off for a prolonged period.\n\nThere will also be changes to the formats of individual exams which could help if individuals have missed part of the course\n\nOf course, things may still change depending on the severity of the crisis through the winter and the spring.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Swinney has insisted that school attendance was holding up in the face of the coronavairus pandemic.\n\nHe was responding to a story in The Herald that in Lanarkshire about 1,000 pupils from both primary and secondary school had been off in the last month.\n\nThe education secretary told Good Morning Scotland: \"I think it is important that we look at the sources of the infection. What I think is very clear from the information about the circumstance,s in which people have identified education as part of their contact tracing work, that is a very small proportion of positive cases that relate back to education.\n\n\"Now when you look into the particular outbreaks that take place that affect school pupils or staff we tend to find that those are cases where it has been an external community transmission that has happened. There is very little evidence of in-school transmission.\"\n• None Scottish National 5 exams to be cancelled in 2021", "Blackpool is one of the towns awarded money by the towns fund\n\nThe government's process for choosing towns in England to benefit from a £3.6bn fund was \"not impartial\" a group of MPs have said.\n\nThe scheme was originally launched in 2019 to boost struggling towns.\n\nBut the Commons spending watchdog warned that a \"lack of transparency\" over how money has been awarded could \"fuel accusations of political bias\".\n\nThe Ministry of Housing and Communities said the selection process was \"comprehensive, robust and fair\".\n\nMoney from the Towns Fund is aimed at \"places with proud industrial and economic heritage\" but which have not \"always benefitted from economic growth in the same way as more prosperous areas\", the government has said.\n\nIn September 2019 it published a list of the 100 towns that would benefit from the fund. Beneficiaries included Blackpool, Grimsby, St. Ives and Hastings.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick came under fire last month when it was announced that his constituency would receive £25m from the fund.\n\nMr Jenrick told the BBC that the decision to give the money to Newark, Nottinghamshire, had been taken by then-Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry.\n\nHe said he had himself decided to grant funds to a town in Mr Berry's constituency under the same scheme.\n\nLabour called the process \"murky\" but Mr Jenrick said it was \"perfectly normal\" and insisted he had had no involvement in the decision to select Newark as one of the beneficiaries.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said the committee's report \"raises yet more questions about the government's misuse of taxpayers' money\".\n\n\"Scandal-prone Robert Jenrick deprived more deserving towns of funding so he could funnel it into Conservative target seats ahead of the general election,\" he added.\n\n\"The secretary of state must now publish the Accounting Officer's findings because the public deserve to know if their money was used to benefit the Conservative Party instead of the struggling towns and high streets it was intended for.\"\n\nIn its report, the Public Accounts Committee said it was \"not convinced by the rationales for selecting some towns and not others\", adding that justifications offered by ministers were \"vague and based on sweeping assumptions\".\n\nIt also said some towns were picked by ministers \"despite being identified by officials as the very lowest priority\".\n\n\"This lack of transparency has fuelled accusations of political bias in the selection process, and has risked the civil service's reputation for integrity and impartiality,\" the report said.\n\nThe committee said the communities department should be transparent about how funding decisions were reached in order \"to avoid accusations that government is selecting towns for political reasons\".\n\nSt. Ives will use part of the Towns Fund money to build a new skate park\n\nAs part of the selection process, ministers picked towns from a pool of 541 places which had been ranked by officials based on local need and growth potential.\n\nMinisters chose all 40 \"high-priority\" towns, then selected a further 60 places from the low and medium priority categories.\n\nTwelve low-priority areas were selected over medium-priority towns including one town ranked 536th out of 541, the committee noted.\n\nThe government said it completely disagreed with the criticism of the criteria used to award the money, saying factors such as the number of people without formal qualifications or a job were taken into account.\n\n\"The Towns Fund will help level up the country, creating jobs and building stronger and more resilient local economies,\" a spokesman for the Ministry of Local Government. Communities and Housing said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClashes have broken out in the Peruvian capital, Lima, between security forces and protesters angry at the impeachment of President Martín Vizcarra.\n\nRiot police were out in force to keep the demonstrators back, using tear gas and jets of water.\n\nThe police tried to keep hundreds of people away from the Congress building.\n\nOn Monday, Congress voted to impeach Mr Vizcarra over allegations he handed out government contracts in return for bribes.\n\nThe unrest occurred as the Speaker of Congress Manuel Merino was being sworn in as the country's interim president.\n\nThere are concerns of a growing political crisis as Peru faces a severe economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Vizcarra enjoys continued support among many voters for his reform attempts.\n\nPresident Martin Vizcarra has denied the allegations of wrongdoing\n\nAs an independent, he repeatedly clashed with Congress, and some of his supporters have labelled his ousting a coup.\n\nMr Vizcarra previously said he would accept the impeachment vote, not take any legal action, and leave the presidential palace. But on Tuesday, he questioned the \"legality and legitimacy\" of his removal.\n\n\"Legality is in question because the Constitutional Court has not yet ruled, and legitimacy is given by the people,\" he told reporters outside his home in Lima.\n\nSome of Mr Vizcarra's supporters have labelled his ousting a coup\n\nMr Merino is expected to assume the presidency until July 2021 - when Mr Vizcarra's term was due to end.\n\nMonday's move in Congress came after a previous attempt to oust the president. An earlier vote held on 18 September fell far short of gaining the necessary votes when only 32 lawmakers cast their ballot in favour of removing Mr Vizcarra.\n\nMr Vizcarra, 57, has previously denied allegations that he accepted bribes worth 2.3m soles ($640,000; £487,000) when he was governor of the southern Moquegua region.\n\nAs well as Lima, several other cities across the country saw hundreds of people join rallies\n\nHe became president in March 2018 and had been embroiled in a bitter battle with Congress, which is dominated by rival parties, since he took office.\n\nLast year, the president dissolved Congress, arguing that lawmakers were obstructing his anti-corruption agenda.\n\nA new Congress was elected in January, but tension remains high between the legislative and the executive, with Mr Vizcarra accusing lawmakers of fostering \"chaos and disorder\".\n\nPresidential elections are scheduled for April 2021, and Mr Vizcarra is banned by the constitution from running for a second term.", "Brian Murdoch, pictured with his wife Joan and grandson Ben, was a dedicated football fan, his family said\n\nThe family of a man famed for his football stadium pies have been \"overwhelmed\" by tributes following his death at the age of 81.\n\nBrian Murdoch, whose family business has fed fans at Kidderminster Harriers for nearly 60 years, died on Saturday, the club said.\n\nThe lifelong Harriers fan was known for his \"incomparable character and warmth\", a club spokesman said.\n\nHis pies regularly topped charts as the most expensive pie in British football.\n\nBut some fans defended the cost, saying they were a tasty meal made from fresh ingredients.\n\nClub spokesman Matty Paddock said the Harriers Pies and Aggborough Soup had a \"cult following in football\".\n\nThe family-run business is set to continue selling pies and other food at the ground\n\nSpeaking in 2012, Mr Murdoch said he would \"not compromise\" on quality.\n\n\"Barcelona have Messi, Real Madrid have Ronaldo and Kidderminster have our pies,\" he said.\n\nNeil Male, Harriers chief executive, said: \"I know how much Brian and his family's food business meant to the fans here - for those coming to matches at Aggborough, he was a constant for many, many years and he'll be sadly missed.\"\n\nFans saluted Mr Murdoch on Twitter, with Brighton fan Simon Harris tweeting: \"One of the best things about being a fan of a lower league club is the away days. The local fans and staff at small grounds that have a passion for it that you just don't get at the 'big clubs'.\"\n\nMr Murdoch will be \"sadly missed\" at the stadium, the club said\n\nBBC Sport journalist Ged Scott said Mr Murdoch was a \"lovely bloke\" who always had time to chat.\n\n\"Even sometimes actually during match days at half-time at Aggborough, when it was clearly all hands to the pump behind the scenes in his kiosk,\" he said.\n\nMr Murdoch had been unwell for three years, and leaves his wife Joan, four children and 11 grandchildren.\n\nHis daughter Helen will continue to run the catering business at Aggborough, once the National League North side is allowed to let supporters back into the stadium.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None The man behind football's most expensive pie\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saudi police blocked off a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where the bomb was detonated\n\nSeveral people have been wounded in a bomb attack at a Remembrance Day ceremony attended by foreign diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah.\n\nThe embassies of France, Greece, Italy, the UK and the US said an improvised explosive device blew up at a cemetery for non-Muslims on Wednesday morning.\n\nSaudi authorities confirmed that a Greek consulate employee and a Saudi security officer had been hurt.\n\nThe government of Mecca province described the attack on the ceremony as \"cowardly\" and said security forces had launched an investigation.\n\nThe French consulate in Jeddah was the scene of a knife attack on 29 October\n\n\"This morning, at the Jeddah Cemetery, a ceremony commemorating the end of World War I was the target of an improvised explosive device attack,\" said a joint statement issued by the French, Greek, Italian, British and American embassies in Riyadh.\n\n\"Such attacks on innocent people are shameful and entirely without justification,\" it added.\n\n\"We wish those who were injured a prompt recovery, and thank the brave Saudi first responders who assisted those at the scene. We pledge our support to the Saudi authorities as they investigate this attack and prosecute its perpetrators.\"\n\nA Saudi-based French journalist, Clarence Rodriguez, tweeted photographs showing the aftermath of the bombing, including one appearing to show an injured person receiving treatment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence Rodriguez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Attempted attack this morning at the non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah. During the #11November ceremony. In the presence of the consuls-general of France, [Ireland], [Britain]... and French expatriates,\" she wrote.\n\n\"There are wounded... [13] days after the knife attack at the consulate, France targeted once again!?\"\n\nShe added that a Greek security officer in plain clothes was seriously wounded. He had just taken up his post at the Greek consulate.\n\nA Greek diplomatic official told Reuters news agency that four people were slightly injured by the blast, one of them Greek.\n\nThe French consulate in Jeddah urged French nationals in Saudi Arabia to exercise \"maximum vigilance\" following the attack, according to Reuters.", "Lucy Letby was arrested for a third time on Tuesday\n\nA nurse has been charged with murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of another 10 at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nLucy Letby, 30, was previously arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at the neo-natal unit.\n\nThe charges relate to baby deaths and non-fatal collapses at the hospital from June 2015 to June 2016.\n\nMs Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is due to appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016\n\nShe was rearrested by police on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the hospital which began in 2017.\n\nA statement from Cheshire Police said: \"The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Cheshire Police to charge a healthcare professional with murder in connection with an ongoing investigation into a number of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the force said parents of all the babies involved were being kept fully updated on developments and were supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Naomi Walker says fashion boutiques 'are being slowly strangled to death'\n\nRetailers forced to close because their businesses are deemed \"non-essential\" have hit out at the government's latest lockdown rules for England.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of Waterstones, told the BBC that bookshops were \"a support for people\" and should be allowed to stay open.\n\nMeanwhile, 60 independent fashion shops have teamed up to campaign against the impact of the coronavirus curbs.\n\nBoutiques in Business say that the government should think again.\n\nThe organisation is led by fashion shop owner Amanda Leigh Slattery, who complains that \"essential\" retailers such as supermarkets and garden centres are being allowed to sell \"non-essential\" items including clothes.\n\n\"You can go to supermarkets and buy chinos, jeans or a white shirt - none of that is essential,\" she said.\n\nMs Leigh Slattery said her own shop, Maya Maya in Kendal, was managing to stay above water, but a lot of fashion boutiques \"have £100,000 of stock sat in our stockrooms because we didn't sell it this summer\".\n\nIn protest against the restrictions, the group of boutiques are turning their shop-window mannequins around, as they say that the government has turned its back on them.\n\n\"It just feels completely unfair. I'm absolutely livid,\" said another shop owner, Naomi Walker, who runs the Bombshell Betty Boutique in Garstang, Lancashire.\n\nMannequins are turned in Betty Bombshell Boutique as part of a protest against the restrictions\n\n\"Our landlords want our rent paid. Our suppliers want their invoices paid,\" said Ms Walker. \"We can't sell a thing. In the last lockdown, I didn't take a penny.\n\n\"November is our busiest trading month and we're hamstrung. I feel we are being slowly strangled to death.\"\n\nThe Booksellers Association has also written to government ministers calling for independent bookshops to be classed as essential retailers during the lockdown, which will last until 2 December.\n\nWaterstones' Mr Daunt told the BBC's Today programme: \"I think we are a support for people as they work through their lockdowns.\n\n\"The government knows and does recognise that retail as a whole is very safe environment, which is why so much of it is open,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you sell books in a lockdown?\n\nHe argued that \"arbitrary lines\" had been drawn, with smaller bookshops forced to shut, while large newsagents such as WHSmith, which sell books alongside other items, were able to stay open.\n\n\"It can be catastrophically unfair on some people. The question is, has the line been remotely sensibly drawn? And in this case, I think not.\"\n\nWithout a good run-up to the key Christmas trading period, the outlook is bleak for smaller bookshops, he said.\n\n\"I have absolutely no doubt that if small bookshops do not get their Christmas, that many of them will go out of business.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said it does not agree with the decision to close \"non-essential\" retail outlets, arguing that their role in spreading the virus is minor.\n\nIt estimates that £2bn of sales will be lost in November.\n\nLast week, the British Independent Retail Association called for greater government intervention over retail restrictions.\n\nHowever, the Department For Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy maintained that the new restrictions had been brought in to limit social contact and slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"We recognise this continues to be a very difficult period for businesses, which is why we've confirmed that there will be a full package of financial support in place,\" a government spokesperson said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe departure of the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings is a chance to \"reset government\", a senior Tory MP has said.\n\nMr Cummings left Downing Street for the last time on Friday following internal battles about his role.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said Boris Johnson had taken \"decisive action\" in removing his aide.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson was not distracted by the row and was \"focused\" on tackling coronavirus.\n\nMr Cummings and director of communications Lee Cain, who resigned on Thursday, will work out their notices at home following tensions within No 10.\n\nMr Davis said Mr Cummings had a \"very confrontational-style\" which had turned people in Downing Street against him.\n\nHe said: \"Lots of my colleagues are hoping for a new relationship - with more openness and interaction with Parliament - and I am told the cabinet is hoping to get more say, as it were, in events.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, said Tory MPs had felt like they were \"losing\" the prime minister, and there had been an \"iron curtain\" around Mr Johnson which stopped MPs seeing him to raise concerns.\n\nHe told the BBC the changes in No 10 were a sign of the PM's \"determination to rebuild relationships\" and was a chance to address the \"significant and growing gap\" between Downing Street and the Conservative Party.\n\nThe departure of Mr Cummings and Mr Cain comes as the government grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, and as trade talks between the UK and the EU on their future relationship reach a \"make or break\" point.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said it was \"scandalous\" that in a week when the UK's coronavirus death toll passed 50,000, redundancies rose to a record high and the country was negotiating \"the most significant trade deal for 50 years\", that the \"people in No 10 round the prime minister are arguing and jockeying for position\".\n\nLabour said the PM could \"rearrange the deckchairs all he wants... but the responsibility for this government's incompetence still lies firmly at Boris Johnson's door\".\n\n\"The fact there is no plan and no focus in the government's response to Covid is entirely down to him,\" a party source said.\n\nMr Cummings had a notoriously difficult relationship with Conservative MPs, some of whom have said it is time for things to be done differently in Downing Street.\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Mr Cummings' influence had led to \"a ramshackle operation in the hands of one man\".\n\nLord Gavin Barwell, who was former Prime Minister Theresa May's chief of staff, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was an opportunity for Mr Johnson to rebuild relations with Conservative MPs and \"set a less confrontational and more unifying tone that is maybe more in tune with his natural instincts\".\n\nAnd former Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, said: \"Both Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were pretty dismissive of backbenchers and sometimes ministers and secretaries of state, and I don't think that was helpful.\"\n\nLee Cain worked with Dominic Cummings on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum\n\nBoth Mr Cummings, 48, and Mr Cain, 39, are veterans of the Vote Leave campaign and worked closely with Mr Johnson to deliver the Brexit vote during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nLord Edward Lister, who was Mr Johnson's chief of staff when he was Mayor of London, will become interim chief of staff pending a wide-ranging shake-up of the prime minister's team.\n\nMr Cain will be replaced by James Slack, who is currently the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nAllies of the two men who've departed Downing Street insist it was entirely amicable, despite the enduring war of words.\n\nThey may have been eyeing an exit before too long in any case, although it's hard to see that this is how anyone wanted it to happen.\n\nBut in the end, whether Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were forced out in anger or reluctantly let go doesn't matter too much.\n\nThe fact is the tussle for control in No 10 had become such a distraction that something needed to give.\n\nAs many have said, their departure is an opportunity for the prime minister to make a fresh start.\n\nSo what now? With Downing Street in something of a state of limbo, decisions in the coming days may prove very revealing about the prime minister and his priorities.\n\nMr Cummings prompted controversy this summer after it emerged he made a 260-mile trip from London to County Durham with his family at the height of the UK's first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe adviser later said the journey was intended to secure childcare, but he was mocked for claiming a subsequent outing to the picturesque town of Barnard Castle was to help test his eyesight.\n\nBronwen Maddox, director of the Institute for Government, said she thought Mr Cummings' departure \"went beyond just this week's events\", pointing to his trip to Barnard Castle which she said had given public trust in the government \"a battering\".\n\n\"I think in a way this has been brewing since then and the kind of restlessness amongst Conservative MPs on the backbenches shows how strained some of the government's key relationships have been,\" she said.\n\nJill Rutter, senior research fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, said Mr Cummings had been \"disproportionately influential\" but it was ultimately up to the prime minister who to appoint as his advisers.\n\n\"You have to assume that what Dominic Cummings was doing was what the prime minister wanted him to do, up until he didn't which is what appears to have happened yesterday,\" she said.\n\nMr Cain is said to have left Downing Street through a discreet exit on Friday evening.\n\nBut Mr Cummings walked through the black front door of No 10 with a cardboard box and was later seen arriving home with a bottle of champagne.\n\nMr Davis said his exit from Downing Street holding a cardboard box was \"entirely deliberate\" as he wanted to leave an \"image\".", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper Ray Clemence has died aged 72.\n\nClemence, who won five league titles and three European Cups with Liverpool between 1967 and 1981, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2005.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the Clemence family said he \"passed away peacefully today surrounded by his loving family\".\n\n\"After fighting so hard, for such a long time, he's now at peace and in no more pain,\" they added.\n\nAs well as league and European Cup success, Clemence also won the FA Cup, League Cup and two Uefa Cups during his time at Anfield.\n• None 'He was one of the world's best keepers' - Phil McNulty looks back at Clemence's life\n\nHe made 470 league appearances for Liverpool before joining Tottenham.\n\nDuring his seven-year spell at Spurs, Clemence helped the club retain the FA Cup in 1982 and clocked up 330 appearances.\n\nThe legendary goalkeeper, capped by England on 61 occasions, also worked on the north London club's coaching staff and was inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame in November 2014.\n\nClemence made his England debut in 1972 and spent the majority of his 11-year international career in a battle with Peter Shilton for the number one shirt.\n\nHe captained the Three Lions for the first and only time in a narrow defeat to Brazil at Wembley in 1981 and later took up the role of goalkeeper coach with the Football Association.\n\nHis wife Veronica, son Stephen - a former Spurs midfielder and current assistant coach at Newcastle United - and daughters Sarah and Julie said: \"The family would like to say a huge thank you, for all the love and support that he's received over the years.\n\n\"He was loved so much by us all and he will never be forgotten.\"\n\nShilton wrote on Twitter : \"I'm absolutely devastated to be told of the sad news that Ray Clemence has just passed away. We were rivals but good friends.\n\n\"Ray was a brilliant goalkeeper with a terrific sense of humour. I will miss him a great deal as we've kept friends long after retiring. RIP my friend.\"\n\nLiverpool great Sir Kenny Dalglish said: \"Today we have lost a true legend. Clem was a fantastic team-mate and great to be around. I will never forget how he helped me to settle in at Anfield.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the Clemence family. RIP Clem.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate added: \"He was a very special man and my thoughts are with his family. I've got to know them reasonably well over the years and I know he's had some really difficult battles with illness. It's a very sad day.\"\n\n'An LFC giant who was also a giant of a man' - tributes from former players", "The battle for Nagorno-Karabakh was not only for land, but also for a sense of national identity, and pride.\n\nSomething that generations of Armenian and Azerbaijani residents of this region have been willing to fight, and die for.\n\nAfter six weeks of war, gains and losses are being counted. But it's the loss of life on both sides that leaves the most painful legacy of all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blast off: Watch the SpaceX rocket head into space\n\nFour astronauts - three from the US and one from Japan - have launched from Florida on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nThe crew rode to orbit in a rocket and capsule provided by the SpaceX company.\n\nIt's only the second time the firm has supplied the service.\n\nThe US space agency Nasa has said it is now entering a new era in which routine astronaut journeys to low-Earth orbit are being conducted by commercial providers.\n\nThe four individuals making their way up to the ISS are the Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and the highly experienced Japanese space agency (Jaxa) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.\n\nBy participating in this mission, Noguchi becomes only the third person in history to leave Earth in three different types of space vehicle, having previously flown on Soyuz and shuttle hardware.\n\nThe traditional \"walk-out\": The suited crew waved to family and friends\n\nThe crew's Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule left the pad at the Kennedy Space Center at 19:27 local time (00:27 GMT, Monday).\n\nIt took 12 minutes for the Falcon to get the Dragon into the right part of the sky and drop it off.\n\n\"Well done, that was one heck of a ride,\" crew commander Mike Hopkins radioed down to controllers. \"Congratulations to everyone. Resilience is in orbit.\"\n\n\"Resilience\" is the name the astronauts have given their capsule.\n\nThe ship will use its own thrusters to complete the rest of the journey up to the station. A docking with the orbiting platform is set for about 0400 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joe Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen the team arrives, it will join Nasa's Kate Rubins and Russian space agency (Roscosmos) cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.\n\nHaving seven people on the 410km-high outpost will triple the amount of science that can be performed in its special microgravity environment.\n\nThe crew was driven down to the launch pad in a convoy of Tesla electric cars\n\nSpaceX has signed contracts with Nasa valued in excess of $3bn (£2.3bn) to develop, test and fly an astronaut taxi service.\n\nAs part of this relationship, the company ran a demonstration mission in May in which astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken were taken to the station and then returned safely to Earth.\n\nThe contracted arrangements also call for six \"operational\", or routine, missions - this flight being the first.\n\n\"The big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and test and into operational flights. And in fact this operational flight was licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. So this is a truly a commercial launch,\" commented Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine.\n\nNasa has a similar deal with the Boeing aerospace company, although its service is more than a year behind SpaceX.\n\nThe agency says its new model of contracting out transportation to low-Earth orbit is saving billions of dollars in procurement costs.\n\nIt intends to use these economies to fund its Moon and Mars ambitions. To that end, Nasa is close to testing the giant new rocket it has commissioned to take astronauts back to the lunar surface, a goal it hopes to attain in 2024, or soon after.\n\nHopkins, Glover, Walker and Noguchi will stay on the ISS for six months.\n\nJust before they return to Earth, they'll be joined aloft by another SpaceX-launched crew for a brief handover.\n\nIndeed, the coming year is going to be very busy for the Californian service provider with plenty of trips up to the station being made by both its crewed and cargo-only versions of Dragon.\n\n\"In the next 15 months, we should be flying roughly seven Dragon missions. And this mission represents the initiation of a Dragon in orbit continuously - knocking on wood - and certainly is really the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight,\" said SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell.\n\nThe company president was in attendance at Kennedy, carrying out media duties in place of founder and CEO Elon Musk who is said to be suffering a mild case of Covid.\n\nA dramatic shot of the Merlin engines firing at the base of the Falcon rocket\n\nNasa retired its winged space shuttles in 2011. In the intervening years, it's been buying seats for its astronauts on Russian Soyuz vehicles.\n\nThis purchase option will now close in favour of the new American-sourced taxis. But US astronauts will continue to go to the station on Soyuz from time to time - it's just that no money will change hands.\n\nInstead, Russian cosmonauts will get flights in the American capsules in exchange.\n\nSoichi Noguchi has now flown in a SpaceX Dragon, a Soyuz capsule and a space shuttle\n\nThe new crew will have at least four spacewalks to perform in their time at the station.\n\nIn one of those walks, they will install the first significant UK industrial contribution to the platform.\n\nThis is the ColKa communications terminal. Made by MDA UK, the radio equipment will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds.\n\nColKa will be fixed to the exterior of Europe's ISS research module, Columbus.\n\nThe UK participates on the station through its membership of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental organisation that is a separate legal entity to the European Union.\n\nWill the UK have a seat on a space taxi? Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency\n\nThe UK participates in the International Space Station, because the UK Space Agency exploration programme is part of the European Space Agency programme.\n\nWe already have British scientists who are able to use the facilities on the ISS. And there are some experiments in development now to be carried out aboard the space station in the coming years. One, called the BioAsteroid project, run by the University of Edinburgh, will investigate how gravity affects the interaction between microbes and rock in reduced gravity.\n\nAstronauts on these space taxis will be taking these UK-led experiments to and from the space station. And much of the science can actually be operated remotely from the ground.\n\nWe may well also see British astronauts flying on this vehicle in the future, too.\n\nThe British antenna terminal will be attached to the station during a spacewalk", "Police officers stood at the entrance to the church's Mount Zion Hall building, stopping people from entering\n\nPolice halted a baptism service after about 30 worshippers gathered in breach of national lockdown restrictions.\n\nRegan King, lead pastor at The Angel Church, Islington, defended his decision to hold the service, saying it served \"the greater good\".\n\nThe pastor agreed to hold a brief \"socially distanced outdoor gathering in the church courtyard\" after officers halted the service.\n\nFour officers stood at the entrance stopping people from entering.\n\nUnder current restrictions weddings and baptisms are not allowed in England. Funerals can be attended by a maximum of 30 people.\n\nLead pastor Regan King said he held the baptism because he \"served a greater good\"\n\nMr King, 28, said he wanted to hold the baptism as it was providing \"an essential service\".\n\nHe said: \"We were told not to have a baptism and police began to block people from entering the church, so we decided to make other arrangements.\"\n\nAsked why he had decided to breach the restrictions, Mr King said: \"Because I believe we serve a greater good.\n\n\"This is an essential service that we provide.\n\n\"It's about loving our neighbour, and you can talk with a number of people here who are extremely vulnerable, homeless or on the verge of being very isolated.\"\n\nTwo police vans and a police car parked outside the church's hall.\n\nA 22-year-old attendee said: \"While the restrictions allow people to go to the supermarket to get food, I think there needs to be consideration for spiritual food as well.\"\n\nOn Friday, more than 100 church leaders launched a judicial review of the decision to ban people from worshipping together.\n\nA Met spokesman said officers spoke with the pastor following reports he intended to hold a \"baptism and an in-person service\".\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Officers explained that due to Covid-19, restrictions are in place preventing gatherings and that financial penalties can be applied if they are breached.\"", "Laura Linkson helps run a Facebook group for women like her who believe they have been affected by the device\n\nLawyers have begun legal action on behalf of 200 UK women against the makers of a sterilisation device, after claims of illness and pain.\n\nThe device, a small coil called Essure, was implanted to prevent pregnancies.\n\nManufacturer Bayer has already set aside more than $1.6bn (£1.2bn) to settle claims from almost 40,000 women in the US.\n\nIt has withdrawn the device from the market for commercial reasons but says it stands by its safety and efficacy.\n\nThe metal coil was inserted into the fallopian tube to cause scarring, blocking the tube and preventing pregnancy.\n\nIntroduced in 2002, it was promoted as an easy, non-surgical procedure - a new era in sterilisation.\n\nBut many women who had the device fitted have now either had hysterectomies or are waiting for procedures to remove the device.\n\nTracey Pitcher, who lives in Hampshire, felt she had completed her family and did not want any more children.\n\nHer doctor strongly encouraged her to have an Essure device fitted, she says.\n\nBut after it had been, she began to feel very unwell.\n\n\"I just started to have heavy periods, migraines, which I had only ever had when I was pregnant so they were hormonal,\" she says.\n\n\"My back was so painful I'd wake up crying in the middle of the night with pains in my hips and my back.\"\n\nTracey says she battled to persuade doctors to take her symptoms seriously.\n\nBut the only information she received was from a Facebook group.\n\n\"It's easy to get it done,\" she says.\n\n\"It's easy to say, 'You have this - it's wonderful.'\n\n\"But then the fallout - there's nobody there, there's no support apart from people that we've found ourselves, no-one will listen, because it's just 'women's things'.\"\n\nMore than 1,000 women have now subscribed to that Facebook page.\n\nLaura Linkson, who has helped run it, believes she was harmed by her Essure device, and says the severe physical and psychological nature of her symptoms has had a devastating impact on her family life.\n\n\"I'd say it's destroyed my life and my children's lives,\" she says.\n\nKim Henderson, who lives near Southampton, feels her doctor pushed her into having an Essure coil fitted.\n\nAs soon as it had been, she started feeling severe pain.\n\nLike many of the women, she was regularly admitted to hospital only to be told there was nothing wrong with her.\n\nAnd she began to wonder if it was all in her head, until she found other women discussing their symptoms on the Facebook page.\n\n\"It's been really hard,\" she says, \"not just physically but mentally.\n\n\"I feel my children have missed out on a lot.\n\n\"And it makes me feel guilty because if I hadn't had Essure, then I wouldn't be where I am now.\"\n\n\"Life would be very different for me and my children.\"\n\nKim feels her doctor pushed her into having an Essure coil fitted\n\nSolicitor Lisa Lunt, head of medical product liability at the law firm PGMBM, who is leading the group action in England, says: \"The reports that have come out from the American proceedings are that [developer] Conceptus and Bayer were failing to report adverse events.\n\n\"That's when they become aware that there are problems with the device.\n\n\"And that's something that we're going to look at very, very, carefully indeed.\"\n\nBayer strongly denies the allegations, saying it has never violated regulations around complaints.\n\n\"Patient safety is Bayer's highest priority,\" it said.\n\n\"We take all adverse events seriously, continually collect and analyse the data we receive, and work with the [US Food and Drug Administration] to monitor Essure's safety profile.\n\n\"The company stands behind the safety and efficacy of Essure, which are demonstrated by an extensive body of research, undertaken by Bayer and independent medical researchers, involving more than 270,000 women over the past two decades.\"\n\nBut some doctors who have fitted Essure devices remain sceptical.\n\nGynaecology professor Bas Veersema, an expert in Essure removal, at UMC Utrecht hospital, in Holland, says the monitoring of new medical devices is inadequate.\n\n\"We learned from the mesh problems, we have learned from the breast implants, we have learned from the Essure device, that if you put materials in the body for a long time, we need more information, with long follow-ups, what it does to the body,\" he says.\n\n\"And, to be honest, we don't know.\"\n\nThe UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said: \"Patient safety is our highest priority.\n\n\"And there is currently no evidence to suggest any increased risk to patient safety.\n\n\"Any women with questions should speak to their GP or healthcare professional.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We've looked into some of the most widely shared false vaccine claims - everything from alleged plots to put microchips into people to the supposed re-engineering of our genetic code.\n\nThe fear that a vaccine will somehow change your DNA is one we've seen aired regularly on social media.\n\nThe BBC asked three independent scientists about this. They said that the coronavirus vaccine would not alter human DNA.\n\nSome of the newly created vaccines, including the one now approved in the UK developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, use a fragment of the virus's genetic material - or messenger RNA.\n\n\"Injecting RNA into a person doesn't do anything to the DNA of a human cell,\" says Prof Jeffrey Almond of Oxford University.\n\nIt works by giving the body instructions to produce a protein which is present on the surface of the coronavirus.\n\nThe immune system then learns to recognise and produce antibodies against the protein.\n\nClaims that Bill Gates plans to use a vaccine to \"manipulate\" or \"alter\" human DNA have been widely shared\n\nThis isn't the first time we've looked into claims that a coronavirus vaccine will supposedly alter DNA. We investigated a popular video spreading the theory back in May.\n\nPosts have noted that messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology \"has never been tested or approved before\".\n\nIt is true that no mRNA vaccine has been approved before now, but multiple studies of mRNA vaccines in humans have taken place over the last few years. And, since the pandemic started, the vaccine has been tested on tens of thousands of people around the world and has gone through a rigorous safety approval process.\n\nLike all new vaccines, it has to undergo rigorous safety checks before it can be recommended for widespread use.\n\nIn Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials, vaccines are tested in small numbers of volunteers to check they are safe and to determine the right dose.\n\nIn Phase 3 trials they are tested in thousands of people to see how effective they are. The group who received the vaccine and a control group who have received a placebo are closely monitored for any adverse reactions - side-effects. Safety monitoring continues after a vaccine has been approved for use.\n\nNext, a conspiracy theory that has spanned the globe.\n\nIt claims that the coronavirus pandemic is a cover for a plan to implant trackable microchips and that the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is behind it.\n\nThere is no vaccine \"microchip\" and there is no evidence to support claims that Bill Gates is planning for this in the future.\n\nThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told the BBC the claim was \"false\".\n\nOne TikTok user created a video about being \"microchipped\" and called a vaccine the \"mark of the beast\"\n\nRumours took hold in March when Mr Gates said in an interview that eventually \"we will have some digital certificates\" which would be used to show who'd recovered, been tested and ultimately who received a vaccine. He made no mention of microchips.\n\nThis led to one widely shared article headlined: \"Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus.\"\n\nThe article makes reference to a study, funded by The Gates Foundation, into a technology that could store someone's vaccine records in a special ink administered at the same time as an injection.\n\nHowever, the technology is not a microchip and is more like an invisible tattoo. It has not been rolled out yet, would not allow people to be tracked and personal information would not be entered into a database, says Ana Jaklenec, a scientist involved in the study.\n\nThe billionaire founder of Microsoft has been the subject of many false rumours during the pandemic.\n\nHe's been targeted because of his philanthropic work in public health and vaccine development.\n\nDespite the lack of evidence, in May a YouGov poll of 1,640 people suggested 28% of Americans believed Mr Gates wanted to use vaccines to implant microchips in people - with the figure rising to 44% among Republicans.\n\nWe've seen claims that vaccines contain the lung tissue of an aborted fetus. This is false.\n\n\"There are no fetal cells used in any vaccine production process,\" says Dr Michael Head, of the University of Southampton.\n\nOne particular video that was posted on one of the biggest anti-vaccine Facebook pages refers to a study which the narrator claims is evidence of what goes into the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. But the narrator's interpretation is wrong - the study in question explored how the vaccine reacted when introduced to human cells in a lab.\n\nConfusion may have arisen because there is a step in the process of developing a vaccine that uses cells grown in a lab, which are the descendants of embryonic cells that would otherwise have been destroyed. The technique was developed in the 1960s, and no fetuses were aborted for the purposes of this research.\n\nMany vaccines are made in this way, explains Dr David Matthews, from Bristol University, adding that any traces of the cells are comprehensively removed from the vaccine \"to exceptionally high standards\".\n\nThe developers of the vaccine at Oxford University say they worked with cloned cells, but these cells \"are not themselves the cells of aborted babies\".\n\nThe cells work like a factory to manufacture a greatly weakened form of the virus that has been adapted to function as a vaccine.\n\nBut even though the weakened virus is created using these cloned cells, this cellular material is removed when the virus is purified and not used in the vaccine.\n\nWe've seen arguments against a Covid-19 vaccine shared across social media asking why we need one at all if the chances of dying from the virus are so slim.\n\nA meme shared by people who oppose vaccination put the recovery rate from the disease at 99.97% and suggested getting Covid-19 is a safer option than taking a vaccine.\n\nA meme using images of rapper Drake has been used to promote false vaccine claims\n\nTo begin with, the figure referred to in the meme as the \"recovery rate\" - implying these are people who caught the virus and survived - is not correct.\n\nAbout 99.0% of people who catch Covid survive it, says Jason Oke, senior statistician at the University of Oxford.\n\nSo around 100 in 10,000 will die - far higher than three in 10,000, as suggested in the meme.\n\nHowever, Mr Oke adds that \"in all cases the risks very much depend on age and do not take into account short and long-term morbidity from Covid-19\".\n\nIt's not just about survival. For every person who dies, there are others who live through it but undergo intensive medical care, and those who suffer long-lasting health effects.\n\nThis can contribute to a health service overburdened with Covid patients, competing with a hospital's limited resources to treat patients with other illnesses and injuries.\n\nConcentrating on the overall death rate, or breaking down the taking of a vaccine to an individual act, misses the point of vaccinations, says Prof Liam Smeeth of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It should be seen as an effort by society to protect others, he says.\n\n\"In the UK, the worst part of the pandemic, the reason for lockdown, is because the health service would be overwhelmed. Vulnerable groups like the old and sick in care homes have a much higher chance of getting severely ill if they catch the virus\".", "The government is set to revise its proposals for controversial planning reforms in England, after new housing targets prompted a backlash amongst some senior Conservative MPs.\n\nMinisters have proposed updating the formula for where to build houses to meet its aim of delivering more homes.\n\nBut some said the \"mutant algorithm\" would fail to \"level up\" the North and see the South \"concreted over\".\n\nCritics of the proposal include former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nShe said the new formula \"does not guarantee a single extra home being built\".\n\nIn the House of Commons, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said he would make a statement on revised plans \"in the weeks ahead\".\n\nHe told MPs the Covid crisis was causing the \"most substantial change to city centres and town centres since the Second World War and that does give us pause for reflection\".\n\nThe government would \"consider what those opportunities will be for the repurposing of offices into residential, for turning retail into mixed use and that will, I think, lead us to a different approach to distributing housing numbers across the country,\" he said.\n\nThe new formula was proposed as part of wider government planning reforms.\n\nThey include a target to build 300,000 new homes across England each year by the mid-2020s, with the formula providing a rough estimate to local councils on how many need to be built in their communities.\n\nMr Jenrick has said local authorities will then be expected to come forward with potential sites for new buildings - taking into account constraints, such as areas protected by the green belt.\n\nBut several Tory MPs have expressed concern that the government's plan could mean more homes in rural areas and in the South East, rather than the North and Midlands.\n\nWhile the 300,000 target remains \"undiminished\", the government says it has listened to the feedback of critical MPs and ministers are looking to \"rebalance\" the formula.\n\nIt is thought the focus will shift towards building more homes in the North and Midlands, and in urban areas or city centres - where the coronavirus pandemic has potentially accelerated a longer-term drop in demand for office and retail spaces.\n\nIt does not mean there will not still be new homes built in the South East.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who met Mr Jenrick this week to raise his concerns about the formula, thanked his colleague on Twitter for \"listening to the concerns of me and many other MPs\".\n\nHe added: \"We support your desire for more houses to help young people get on the housing ladder and will work with you to make sure a revised algorithm achieves that.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Isle of Wight Bob Seely, who led calls for a change to the plan - and secured a recent Commons debate on the issue - told the BBC he also welcomed the fact the government was willing to listen to the \"strength of feeling and depth of concern\" backbenchers had.\n\nBut he said it now had to work with MPs and \"rethink\" as the UK needed \"levelling up, not concreting out.\"\n\nFormer Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers also said the change in approach from government was \"encouraging\", but \"a few tweaks are not enough\".\n\nShe said: \"We need radical change to the proposal if we're to ensure that this algorithm doesn't lead to unacceptable overdevelopment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson has defended his proposals for overhauling the planning system.\n\nMeanwhile, sources from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have also confirmed the department is looking to move a \"proportion\" of its operations to the West Midlands, with Wolverhampton understood to be the preferred location.\n\nThis would involve moving ministerial offices and senior officials, although ministers would still spend time in Westminster.\n\nNext year has been described as a \"ball park\" timeline for the move.", "The family of Oscar Jealous said they have been \"overwhelmed\" by the response to their appeal for cards\n\nHundreds of people have sent birthday cards to a nine-year-old boy after an appeal by his family.\n\nOscar Jealous, from Kingstanding in Birmingham, was diagnosed with life-limiting Batten disease in February.\n\nHis family put out a plea for cards about 10 days ago and said they had been \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\nHis father, Alex, said they wanted to do something to \"make Oscar feel special\" and give him a birthday to remember on Sunday.\n\nThousands of pounds have already been raised to help Oscar's family pay for his specialist care and also to help him fulfil a \"bucket list of dream days\".\n\nOscar's condition means he is losing his sight, will gradually lose speech and mobility and is developing dementia.\n\nOscar Jealous, who turned nine on Sunday, was diagnosed with Batten disease earlier this year\n\n\"The intention when he was diagnosed was to have a big family party in the garden,\" Mr Jealous said.\n\n\"The simple fact is, it is more likely that next year will be very different, this is probably going to be the last birthday where he understands what is going on.\"\n\nMr Jealous said they had received more than 500 cards, about 20 presents and were expecting a \"mountain\" of balloons to be delivered on Oscar's birthday.\n\n\"It is a very overwhelming thing, but at the same time it is nice,\" he said.\n\n\"It highlights how supported we are as a family, not just from close friends and family but from the wider community.\n\n\"It is about memory making so we have things, and his brother has things, that we can sit and look back on.\"\n\nOscar Jealous has made a list of dream days, which included spending the day with West Midlands Police\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ephraim, a British-Nigerian activist at the heart of the End Sars protests in Lagos, talks about what he saw\n\nThe Nigerian army has rejected claims it killed unarmed protesters at a rally in Lagos in October, saying its soldiers were firing blank bullets.\n\nBrigadier General Ahmed Taiwo presented video evidence to back up his claims made to a panel of inquiry.\n\nAmnesty International says 12 people were killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest about police brutality in the wealthy Lagos suburb of Lekki.\n\nMultiple eyewitnesses have told the BBC they saw soldiers shoot people.\n\nSome 1,000 protesters had gathered at the Lekki toll gate on 20 October to prevent cars using a major motorway. Soldiers were reportedly seen barricading the protest site moments before the shooting started.\n\nIn video footage shared on social media at the time, shots could be heard as protesters sat down, locked arms and sang the national anthem together. Live footage was also streamed from the scene showing protesters tending to the wounded.\n\nThe attack had followed days of protests against the much-hated police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), which had morphed into greater calls for better governance.\n\nBrig Gen Taiwo told the judicial panel investigating alleged historic abuses by Sars there had been \"a lot of misinformation\" about his troops. Their \"only crime was to report for duty to protect us all\".\n\nBrig Gen Ahmed Taiwo vigorously defended his troops against accusations they killed unarmed protesters\n\nHe pointed to video showing what appeared to be soldiers at the scene. \"You can see they are firing in the air, and firing blank ammunitions.\"\n\nResponding to a claim that a witness had seen a dead body at the scene, he said \"the casualty she saw had been overcome by shock\", AFP news agency reports.\n\nIt is not clear if he will respond to the many other accounts from eyewitnesses.\n\nSince the shooting those involved in the protests say they are being targeted by the government, the BBC's Mayeni Jones reports.\n\nA number of protesters and companies say their bank accounts have been frozen and others have been arrested. The passport of a lawyer who organised legal aid for the protesters was seized as she tried to leave the country, although it has now been returned to her.\n\nNationwide protests erupted on 8 October calling for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, which had been accused of widespread human rights violations, including illegal detention, torture and extrajudicial killings.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari disbanded the squad a few days later, but the protests continued with demands for more changes in the security forces and reforms to the way the country is run.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two families whose lives have been forever changed by police violence seek justice for their loved ones.\n\nFollowing the 20 October attack, Amnesty International Nigeria said it had evidence from hospital records and witnesses to show that \"the Nigerian military opened fire on thousands of people who were peacefully calling for good governance and an end to police brutality\".\n\nThe Lagos state government said 30 people had been injured with one fatality.\n\nLagos and other parts of Nigeria have seen buildings torched, shopping centres looted and prisons attacked since the shooting.\n\nNigeria's vice-president has promised justice for victims shot during the protests amid widespread condemnation from international leaders.", "Topshop owner Arcadia is in talks with lenders to secure around £30m in funding following the second coronavirus lockdown in England.\n\nThe discussions, revealed by Sky News, are understood to be progressing and a deal could be close to being reached.\n\nAnother report suggested that Arcadia is drawing up plans to place the business into administration.\n\nBut the company said: \"It is not true that administrators are about to be appointed.\"\n\n\"Clearly, the second UK lockdown presents a further challenge for all retailers and we are taking all appropriate steps to protect our employees and other stakeholders from its consequences.\"\n\nIt is understood that Arcadia - led by Sir Philip Green - has contingency plans in place regarding the future of the business but there is confidence it will secure financing to continue trading.\n\nAs well as Topshop, the group also owns the chains Topman, Miss Selfridge, Evans, Burton and Dorothy Perkins.\n\nNon-essential retailers in England have been forced to close for four weeks until 2 December to contain the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nDuring the first country-wide lockdown, Arcadia furloughed the vast majority of its 13,000-strong workforce across more than 500 outlets.\n\nSir Philip Green leads Arcadia while his wife, Lady Cristina Green, is its biggest shareholder\n\nStaff at its shops in England have been placed back on the government's wage subsidy scheme though its stores in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have now reopened.\n\nArcadia said: \"We are continuing to trade online through our own channels as well as through those of our partners.\"\n\nHowever, Debenhams, a major Arcadia partner which sells a number of its brands, is facing its own challenges. The department store chain is in administration and is in talks to find a buyer.\n\nArcadia underwent restructuring last year through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). It agreed to shut 50 shops, secured a rent cut with landlords on property and struck a deal with the Pension Protection Fund to put money into the company's pension schemes.\n\nAt the time, the pension scheme deficit was estimated to be around £700m but the Sunday Times reported it is now £350m on a buyout basis.\n\nIn a deal with the Pensions Regulator, trustees of Arcadia's pension schemes were granted security over £210m worth of assets by the company.\n\nSir Philip's wife, Lady Cristina Green, who is Arcadia's biggest shareholder, agreed to pump £100m into the schemes over three years while Arcadia said it would inject a further £75m.\n\nSir Philip faced controversy over the pension scheme at one of his other businesses, BHS, which he sold to Dominic Chappell for £1 in 2015.\n\nBHS collapsed a year later, with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a pension deficit of £571m.\n\nSir Philip reached a deal with the Pensions Regulator to inject £363m into that scheme.\n\nMore recently, Chappell was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of tax evasion.", "Unemployment following the mine closures was largely confined to communities in the south Wales valleys, Baroness Debbie Wilcox says\n\nThe impact of the coronavirus pandemic on communities in Wales will be on a \"different scale\" to that seen after the coal and steel industries collapsed in the 1980s, a peer has said.\n\nBaroness Debbie Wilcox, who once led Newport council, said its effect would be more wide-ranging and last longer.\n\nHer warning comes as unemployment in Wales saw the highest rise in the UK.\n\nOne bar owner in Newport said it had been the most difficult period of his 45 years in the business.\n\nBaroness Wilcox, former leader of the Welsh Local Government Association and a Labour life peer in the House of Lords, has first-hand experience of the economic hardship felt in coal-mining communities in the 1980s.\n\nBaroness Debbie Wilcox says she \"remembers the anguish\" of the 1980s\n\n\"My stepfather was a miner at Ty Mawr colliery and I was part of Maerdy women's support group, and by goodness we thought we had it bad then,\" she explained.\n\n\"I remember the anguish of those times - but this is on a different scale.\"\n\nShe said communities in the south Wales valleys had never fully recovered from the \"destruction\" of the coal industry.\n\n\"But this [pandemic] affects everyone,\" she added. \"No job, no industry, none of us are exempt from it, therefore it is bound to have a longer lasting effect.\"\n\nBaroness Wilcox said it was important to invest in young people and called on communities to pull together.\n\nThe Waterloo Hotel in Newport has been closed since March\n\nThe Waterloo Hotel, near Newport's Transporter Bridge, used to be packed full of docks workers and steelworkers, and once boasted the longest bar in the UK.\n\nIt is not full of dockers any more, Bob Evans bought the bar 14 years ago and developed it into a vibrant bistro and boutique hotel.\n\nBut it has been closed since March and Mr Evans decided against reopening in the summer because it would not have been profitable, and is now selling up.\n\nBob Evans has worked in hospitality for 45 years but says he has never known a time like it\n\n\"We spent so much money here and built up the trade. So to have to close your doors through no fault of your own - I can't tell you, it was awful,\" Mr Evans said.\n\nMr Evans, who has worked in hospitality for 45 years, said he had never known a time like it.\n\n\"This has been the worst, without a doubt - I have never had to shut my doors,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a total disaster and there are lots of people who won't come out of this.\"\n\nThe latest official figures show unemployment in Wales has risen to 4.6% - slightly lower than the UK average.\n\nBut more than 20,000 people have left pay rolls since February, not including many who are self-employed.\n\nThe figures also show unemployment rose between July and September when businesses were allowed to open, the Eat Out to Help Out scheme was operating and tourists flooded to Wales for holidays because of restrictions on travelling abroad.\n\nOne reason for this could be redundancies which had been announced earlier in the year but were delayed. This was the case particularly in the aerospace sector, which is highly important to the Welsh economy.\n\nFormer head of employment statistics at the ONS Jamie Jenkins says furlough might have \"masked\" the scale of joblessness in Wales\n\nMany employers had already finalised redundancy agreements before the UK government extended the the furlough scheme, according to the former head of employment statistics at the ONS.\n\nJamie Jenkins explained: \"It could be that the furlough scheme has masked the true unemployment problem we have had in Wales during the summer months.\n\n\"As that came to an end [in October] it was announced that it was extended, but it was probably too late for many people.\"", "The number of school-age children with coronavirus has risen \"significantly\" in the second wave compared with the first, according to the government's scientific advisers.\n\nChildren are now more likely than adults to be the person bringing a Covid infection into a household.\n\nBut families with children are at no higher risk of severe illness.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) said it was \"troubled\" by the number of children testing positive.\n\nThe exact role children play in transmitting coronavirus has long been an open question.\n\nIt's clear young people as a group are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus themselves.\n\nThere is also some evidence younger children are less likely to even contract it in the first place.\n\nBut when it comes to older children, their role in passing on the virus has been much less clear.\n\nA review presented to government and published on 13 November outlines the growing evidence older children can catch and transmit Covid-19 at similar rates to adults.\n\nFrom around the time schools reopened in September, a rising number of children have been testing positive for coronavirus, according to the advisory group.\n\nBut the paper said the extent to which transmission was occurring in schools was \"unproven and difficult to establish\".\n\nTwo major surveillance studies by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Imperial College London show infections among people aged 16-24 were increasing in September.\n\nBy October increases could be seen throughout the 2-24-year-old age bracket.\n\nThere were signs of rising infection in the wider population before schools went back, however.\n\nThe government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has previously said reopening schools was likely to increase transmission of the virus.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty also acknowledged this, but said trade-offs would have to be made to allow schools to remain open while controlling the virus.\n\nThe 13 November advisory paper said there were \"significant educational, developmental and mental health harms from schools being closed\".\n\nSchoolchildren and young adults have experienced a much faster rise in infections than other age groups in the second wave.\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse at the University of Edinburgh said this was \"not surprising given that schools are operating much closer to normality than most other parts of society\".\n\nThe review made clear it was not possible to separate contacts in school from contacts around school including travelling to and from, and socialising afterwards.\n\nHowever, teachers were no more likely to test positive for coronavirus than other workers, according to ONS data.\n\nDr Sarah Lewis, an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol, said this was \"reassuring\" and suggested \"the measures in place to reduce transmission in schools are working\".\n\nPeople living with secondary-school-age children were 8% more likely to catch the virus.\n\nBut research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford found that people living with under-18s had no increased risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid.\n\nThe NEU said it was concerned by the \"finding that children aged 12-16 played a 'significantly higher role' in introducing infection into households in the period after schools reopened their doors to all students\".\n\nThe union suggested this was down to \"the difficulty of social distancing, the absence of face masks inside classrooms, the problems of ventilation, the size of 'bubbles' and the cross mixing on school transport, as well as of secondary pupils mixing outside school\".", "The Lake District is one of England's 10 existing national parks\n\nA further £40m is to be ploughed into green spaces in England as part of a plan to restore species and combat climate change.\n\nThe government says the cash will fund thousands of jobs in conservation.\n\nThe prime minister also promised new national parks and greater protections for England’s iconic landscapes.\n\nEnvironmentalists welcomed the investment but said it was a fraction of what is needed to restore Britain’s depleted wildlife.\n\nBoris Johnson said the scheme was part of his 10-point plan for combating climate change, which Downing Street said would be unveiled this week.\n\nThe plan has been widely leaked and it is thought to include a commitment to:\n\nThe natural environment funding will go to environmental charities creating or restoring important habitats like peatland and wetland; preventing or cleaning up pollution; creating woodland; and helping people connect with nature.\n\nMr Johnson said this will in turn create and retain skilled and unskilled jobs, such as ecologists, project managers, tree planters and teams to carry out nature restoration.\n\nThe projects could give a home to species that flourished in similar initiatives across the country, including the curlew, nightingale, horseshoe bat, pine marten, red squirrel and wild orchids.\n\nMr Johnson said: “Britain’s iconic landscapes are part of the fabric of our national identity - sustaining our communities, driving local economies and inspiring people across the ages.\n\n“That’s why, with the natural world under threat, it’s more important than ever that we act now to enhance our natural environment and protect our precious wildlife and biodiversity.”\n\nThere are currently 10 national parks in England - including the South Downs, Lake District and Peak District - as well as 34 areas of outstanding national beauty (AONB).\n\nThe government says the process for designating new national parks and AONB will start next year.\n\nAnd 10 long-term \"landscape recovery\" projects will be initiated between 2022 and 2024 to restore wilder landscapes.\n\nCraig Bennett, from the Wildlife Trusts, said: \"Of course this is welcome, but it’s a tiny amount compared with what’s needed.\n\n“A previous promise of £40m was over-subscribed seven times over.\n\n“The government has pledged to protect 30% of the countryside by 2030, but at the moment only 5% is protected for wildlife. We need £1bn every year for this enormous task.\"\n\nTony Juniper, head of government agency Natural England, said: \"I warmly welcome this as part of the delivery of the National Nature Recovery Network - and I’m really pleased to have all this coming from the PM.”\n\nThe government has slashed funding for his organisation and earlier this week he told MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee that its current funding is below the level required to carry out statutory duties to a good standard.\n\nMr Juniper said taking action to protect species at risk of extinction, ceasing management duties for National Nature Reserves and engaging only a small number of planning authorities to support landscape and biodiversity activities are some of the areas where Natural England has had to scale back support.", "Emergency laws to \"stamp out dangerous\" anti-vaccine content online should be introduced, Labour has said.\n\nThe party is calling for financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines.\n\nIt follows news of progress on the first effective coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe government said it took the issue \"extremely seriously\" with \"a major commitment\" from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle anti-vaccine content.\n\nMany social media platforms label false content as misleading or disputed - and all remove posts that contravene terms of service.\n\nBut Labour said a commitment by platforms to remove content flagged by the government was not enough.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said such content was \"exploiting people's fears, their mistrust of institutions and governments and spreading poison and harm\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast his party wanted to work with the government on a cross-party basis to build trust and help promote take-up of the vaccine.\n\nHe said people would have legitimate questions about what the vaccine means for them, levels of immunity and whether the vaccine was appropriate for those with chronic health conditions.\n\n\"There's nothing wrong with asking those questions and strong public health messaging from the government, reinforced by us, will allay those fears,\" he said.\n\nBaseless conspiracy theories about a coronavirus vaccine have been spreading on social media for months - and the latest vaccine news rekindled these pre-existing narratives online.\n\nThese includes false claims that the vaccine is a means of inserting microchips into the population, altering our DNA, or are even a weapon of genocide.\n\nWithin hours of news breaking about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, comments and memes suggesting it will deliberately harm us were popping up in local Facebook groups, parent chats and on Instagram.\n\nThis kind of disinformation is worlds away from legitimate concerns that a vaccine is safe and properly tested.\n\nDespite commitments to tackle falsehoods from social media sites and the government, a constant bubbling of conspiracies online looks to have already eroded trust for some in an effective vaccine.\n\nThe anti-vax movement, which pre-dates the pandemic, is not the only thing responsible for the spread of this disinformation online.\n\nPseudoscience figures with large online followings - who have spread other false claims such as linking coronavirus to 5G or suggesting the pandemic is a hoax - have also turned their attention to vaccines.\n\nThere is no truth to the false and harmful claims they make - but that hasn't stopped them spilling into the average social media feed for weeks and impacting those who come across them.\n\nMeanwhile, a member of the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, has criticised ministers' strategy of \"flip-flopping\" between encouraging people to socialise and spend money - and tough lockdown restrictions in England.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said: \"We need to take a long-term view and be sensible and realise that we're going to have to have restrictions in place for some time.\n\n\"Yes, we can lift them when it's safe to do so, which will be primarily when large numbers of people have been vaccinated.\n\n\"But flip-flopping between encouraging people to mix socially, which is what you're doing by encouraging people to go to restaurants and bars, versus then immediately closing them again, isn't a very sensible way to run the epidemic.\"\n\nThe national lockdown in England is currently due to end on 2 December, with a return to the tiered system of local restrictions.\n\nProf Edmunds also criticised that system of lower to higher restrictions, saying it was not \"very well thought through\".\n\nScotland has moved to a five-tier system of coronavirus restrictions. Wales has now ended a \"circuit breaker\" while Northern Ireland has extended its own temporary lockdown.\n\nA further 26,860 UK coronavirus cases were recorded on Saturday and 462 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported.\n\nSuspicion of vaccines has been around almost as long as modern vaccines themselves. But in recent years, the anti-vaccination - or \"anti-vax\"- movement has gained traction online.\n\nSocial media has been blamed for allowing unfounded claims about vaccines to spread more easily.\n\nIn 2019, the UK lost its measles-free status designated by the World Health Organization - and there has been a marked decline in vaccination rates for all 13 diseases covered in jabs for children.\n\nSince the pandemic, anti-vaccination campaigners have moved their focus to the coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the letter to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, Labour said there were dedicated anti-vaccination groups online with hundreds of thousands of followers who were \"churning out disinformation\" on the issue.\n\nLast week, the government announced that social media companies had agreed a package of measures - including that no company should be profiting from Covid vaccine fake news.\n\nBut Labour warned that the measures do not go far enough and has questioned why anti-vax groups are not being closed down.\n\n\"The announced collaboration with social media companies last week was welcome but feels grossly inadequate with a promise by them to remove only the content which is flagged by government and which generates profit,\" Labour said.\n\nLabour called for emergency legislation that would see financial and criminal penalties for a continued failure to act, and said they would vote for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Research shows a number of young people may choose not to have a Covid-19 vaccination\n\nOn Monday, news of a potential vaccine made headlines after preliminary results from Pfizer and BioNTech showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from catching Covid.\n\nThe vaccine is one of 11 vaccines that are currently in the final stages of testing. Pfizer and BioNTech companies now plan to apply for emergency approval to use the vaccine by the end of November and a limited number of people may be given the vaccine this year.\n\nThe UK has bought enough doses for 20 million people.\n\nBut it will not be released for use in the UK until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the MHRA - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.\n\nThe head of the MHRA said this week it will not lower its safety standards despite the need to get a Covid vaccine quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “Anti-vax is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\nAnd this week, he said he had \"no inhibitions\" about getting one, adding: \"Anti-vax is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\n\"We take this issue extremely seriously and have secured a major commitment from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle it by not profiting from such material, and by responding to flagged content more swiftly.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with social media firms to promote authoritative sources of information so people have access to vaccine facts not fiction.\"", "Yorke Beach, near Stanley, has been closed since the 1982 Falklands conflict\n\nFalkland Islanders have been celebrating the day their beaches and coves have been declared free of landmines - after almost 40 years.\n\nThe British overseas territory was peppered with an estimated 13,000 mines by Argentine forces in the 1982 conflict.\n\nOn hand for the mine-free declaration day was Welsh-born doctor Barry Elsby.\n\nHe is one of the islanders who has never walked on the last beach to be cleared, Yorke Beach near Stanley.\n\nHe moved to the Falklands with his wife for a two-year medical contract in 1990, and never left.\n\nHe is now one of the islands' eight members of the legislative assembly governing the 2,500 population.\n\n\"I have friends who were born here after the 1982 conflict, and have never been able to stroll along this beach,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking forward to reclaiming the beach by blowing up the last mines.\n\n\"This will be another good bit of closure for people who were here when the invasion happened and lived through the horrors of that time.\n\nIt was only supposed to be a two year posting to the Falkland Islands for Dr Elsby\n\n\"All the mine signposts were a constant reminder of what happened but now they are all away, it's another return to normality.\n\n\"It is a very welcome development and I don't think anyone ever thought this would come about.\"\n\nA programme to remove the mines has been under way since 2009 as part of the UK's obligations under the international anti-personnel mine ban convention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Islanders will celebrate by playing cricket on beaches which were previously out of bounds\n\n\"We never thought the islands would be completely mine free, so this is a momentous change,\" added Dr Elsby.\n\n\"More importantly, no-one has been seriously harmed doing this. It speaks volumes for the teams that have been responsible for doing this over so many years.\"\n\nIt also speaks volumes for the islanders, according to the doctor, and gives an insight into why he was happy to swap his former childhood home of Garden City in Flintshire, north Wales, for somewhere like the Falklands.\n\n\"We had clear plans when we came here in 1990 - we had no intention of staying,\" he said.\n\n\"But we were captivated, not just by the beauty, but also by the way of life and friendliness of the community.\"\n\nThe son of a crane driver in the Shotton steelworks, his links with Wales remain strong despite being almost 8,000 miles (12,735km) away.\n\n\"For the last eight years, I have been laying wreaths at Fitzroy where so many Welsh Guards died and were injured, so I think those links will remain forever,\" he said.\n\nIt has been a long process across four decades to rid the islands of mines\n\nThe UK minister with responsibility for the Falklands, Wendy Morton said the final de-mining exercise on Saturday was a \"significant achievement\" for the Falklands and its population.\n\n\"We must pay tribute to the brilliant team of deminers who made a long-term commitment to this programme and put their lives at risk day-to-day, removing and destroying landmines to make the Falklands safe,\" she said.\n\n\"Our commitment to ridding the world of fatal landmines does not end with our territories being mine free.\n\n\"A further £36m of UK funding will allow demining projects across the world to continue, protecting innocent civilian lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gordon Brown also said the \"middle of a recession\" was not the time to consider a second referendum\n\nA referendum on Scottish independence should not be held while the country \"heals\" from coronavirus, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said.\n\nMr Brown said the country was facing \"huge problems\" and should not hold a referendum.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a virus, we're in the middle of a recession,\" he told BBC's Andrew Marr programme.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford has said his party \"must\" plan for a referendum in 2021.\n\nMr Blackford tweeted that a vote for the SNP in the Scottish Parliament elections next year would be a vote for a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"It is the people of Scotland who will determine our future. That is their right, sovereignty rests with us collectively. A vote for @theSNP in 2021 is for that right to be exercised, we know it, @BorisJohnson knows it,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking in the Sunday National newspaper, Mr Blackford apologised for having to \"put off\" holding a referendum in 2020 as the Scottish government had to focus on its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut Mr Blackford insisted that a referendum would happen and \"must take place in 2021\".\n\nHowever Gordon Brown said the country needed \"time to heal\" before \"any divisive, conflicting referendum that really will cause consternation in Scotland for months and months to come\".\n\n\"The question at the moment is not whether you could have a referendum, the question is whether you should have a referendum,\" the former Labour leader said.\n\n\"I see the SNP leader is saying there's got to be a referendum in 2021. I think most Scottish people will make up their mind that in the middle of a virus, when you've got to heal the virus, you've got to heal the recession and you've got to look at the whole future of Britain... I don't think this is the right time at all.\"\n\nMr Brown also told the BBC that a \"wholesale, root and branch constitutional review\" was needed to bring people together.\n\n\"It's not just a Scottish problem now. It's not even just a Welsh problem and a Scottish problem - you see the revolt of the regions round the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\n'Indyref2 next year' may be what some increasingly impatient sections of the 'yes' movement want to hear two weeks before the SNP's virtual conference but it seems an unlikely timetable.\n\nFirstly, the pandemic will continue into 2021 and dealing with that will remain the overwhelming priority for all governments.\n\nSecondly, the Scottish government favours a referendum agreed with the UK government which has given every indication, so far, that it would refuse.\n\nThirdly, the months available after the Holyrood election in May offer a very tight timetable for organising a referendum to the standards recommended by the Electoral Commission.\n\nThat's a lot to navigate before you consider the work the SNP has to do to revise its independence plans to take account of whatever new trading relationship with the EU emerges from Brexit.\n\nI don't doubt the SNP's determination to push for another referendum. Nicola Sturgeon has promised a draft bill before the election and to put an explicit commitment to indyref2 in her party's manifesto.\n\nBut that's not the same as actually holding the vote in 2021.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said \"It beggars belief\" that Mr Blackford should suggest that another referendum was needed.\n\nHe added: \"Ian Blackford's commitment to a referendum a few months from now is not just irresponsible but delusional and shows how out of touch the SNP are.\n\n\"The Scottish Conservatives are focusing on fighting the pandemic and rebuilding the economy. That is what people want and expect.\"\n\n\"They feel they're not listened to, the government doesn't consult. They've got the local knowledge but not the resources. The government's got the resources but not the local knowledge. This is now a UK problem.\"", "Face coverings in corridors are already compulsory in other parts of the UK\n\nFace coverings could become compulsory for pupils at secondary schools in Wales.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams says the Welsh Government is examining new scientific evidence about the spread of coronavirus among schoolchildren.\n\nShe has told BBC Wales they are investigating what other measures can be put in place to make schools more \"Covid secure\".\n\nIt included asking if there are \"more opportunities\" to use face masks.\n\nNew evidence suggests higher levels of infection and transmission in school based age groups \"than previously recognised\".\n\nSpeaking to Politics Wales, Ms Williams said: \"We're considering whether that, in light of this new evidence, it would be the appropriate thing to do.\"\n\nOver the summer, the Welsh Government made schools and councils responsible for deciding where and when face masks should be worn in educational setting.\n\nOpposition parties and some education unions accused ministers at the time of passing the responsibility to schools.\n\nThat was denied by Health Minister Vaughan Gething, who said a \"one-size-fits-all approach\" would not work in Wales.\n\nThe education minister said the latest reports from Welsh Government advisers and UK scientists still reinforces the view that children are \"very unlikely\" to suffer harm from Covid-19.\n\n\"But we have seen a growth in the amount of cases in the secondary school population and it does seem that those age group children do have a role in passing the virus around,\" said Ms Williams.\n\nThe minister said the Welsh Government is also looking at \"further measures where we can reduce contacts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nPotential measures under consideration, according to government officials, include preventing children from changing in close proximity after exercise and reducing indoor group singing.\n\nAll pupils and staff in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland must wear face masks in corridors and communal areas.\n\nSenior students and staff at schools in areas of Scotland with higher infections rates are also advised to wear masks in the classroom.\n\nHowever data from the latest Office for National Statistics surveillance study shows higher levels of infection and transmission in school-based age groups than previously recognised, according to the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Group (TAC).\n\nIt also suggests there is a higher rate of transmission without symptoms and that children are more likely to be the first case in a household.\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman in the Senedd Sian Gwenllian said face masks should already by mandatory.\n\n\"Time and again, we raised concerns that the virus was transmitting in secondary schools from pupil to pupil and from pupil to teacher - thereby triggering transmission in the wider community,\" said the Arfon MS.\n\n\"For the sake of our children's safety, the Welsh Government now needs to move quickly to adopt the latest scientific evidence from TAC and make masks mandatory in all secondary schools across Wales.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative Suzy Davies said it was critical schools remain open.\n\nBut the South Wales West MS said there needed to be \"clarity\" on the source of Covid infections.\n\n\"It would be pretty unfair to point the finger at older pupils and students if actually the source of the infection is outside in the community and they just happen to be bringing it in,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Harper has been described as \"one of the bravest men\" on the Titanic\n\nA letter written by a Titanic hero who sacrificed his life to save others has sold at auction for £42,000.\n\nBaptist preacher John Harper gave his lifejacket to another passenger and went down with the doomed ocean liner in April 1912.\n\nHis last letter was sold at an online auction of Titanic memorabilia in Wiltshire on Saturday.\n\nAuctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: \"John Harper was probably one of the bravest men on that boat.\"\n\nWritten on Titanic stationery on April 11, 1912 to a fellow clergyman, the letter was posted at Cobh in Ireland, which was known as Queenstown when the Titanic stopped at the port before setting out across the Atlantic.\n\nPastor Harper, 39, was the pastor of Walworth Road Baptist Church, in London. He was a widower and was travelling with his daughter Annie Jessie and his sister Jessie W. Leitch to Chicago to preach at the Moody Church.\n\nJohn Harper's daughter Annie Jessie went on to be the longest living Scottish Titanic survivor.\n\nHe refused a seat in a lifeboat alongside his daughter and sister, instead staying on board to offer words of comfort to passengers.\n\nHe then gave his lifejacket to another passenger who survived, with other survivors reporting he continued to preach the Gospel as the ship sank.\n\nThe letter talks about life on board the ship and thanks his friend and colleague for a recent kindness.\n\nOriginally from Glasgow, Pastor Harper first preached at the Paisley Road Baptist Church which would later be renamed the Harper Memorial Church in 1921.\n\nThe letter begins: \"I am penning you this line just before we get to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while we were north.\"\n\nHis daughter Annie Jessie went to be the longest-living Scottish Titanic survivor and died in 1986.\n\nMr Aldridge, from Henry Aldridge and Sons auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, said: \"His actions epitomised that British generation in times of adversity.\n\n\"The condition of the letter is superb, it has been owned by a private collector for the last 25 years who has decided to pass the baton on to the next generation.\"\n\nMy Dear Brother Young. I am penning you this line just before we get to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while we were north.\n\nI intended sending on Mrs Pratt's train fares just before I left but in the rush, which was exceptional having had 11 or 12 services for the week-end, I was unable to get it done.\n\nI will send it on from Chicago. We had a great season of blessing during the last few days in Walworth.\n\nI don't know how I am to thank dear Aunty Mary and yourself for all your kindness. The Lord will repay you for it all. Trust things are going well at Paisley Road. The warriors are with me here and are doing well so far on the journey.", "Are the winds of change about to blow off the Welsh coast?\n\nWind turbines floating miles out to sea could one day provide electricity to our homes, experts believe.\n\nWales currently meets about 50% of its needs from renewable sources, including solar and wind.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants to see fixed offshore wind farms power UK homes by 2030, while Plaid Cymru believes Wales could be self-sustainable through renewables by then.\n\nBut how big a part could turbines floating off the Welsh coast play?\n\nA 96 megawatt (MW) wind farm capable of powering 90,000 homes is proposed for an area of sea 28 miles (45km) off Pembrokeshire by 2027.\n\nHowever, this could be just the tip of the iceberg, in light of other developments.\n\nSuccessful trials in Scotland suggest floating turbines could have advantages over other types of renewables, including cost and environmental impact.\n\nTurbines would tower over some of the world's most famous landmarks\n\nTidal lagoons, for example, have proved hard to get off the ground because of the large upfront investment needed to build, with no return for a number of years, according to Cardiff University professor of renewable energy Nick Jenkins.\n\nA proposed £1.3bn Swansea Bay project was shelved because of cost.\n\nPlacing solar panels and wind turbines on a large scale in rural Wales can also be difficult, with objections from campaigners and locals over the impact on the landscape.\n\nAs Wales has about 1,680 miles (2,704 km) of coast, generating electricity there could be the obvious solution.\n\nHowever, given the sea bed \"drops dramatically\" in many locations, Prof Jenkins believes fixed turbines are difficult in many places.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The fact that these (floating) turbines are so far out to sea make them less visible,\" said Rhodri James, of global energy firm Equinor.\n\n\"It does help, as some people in certain areas don't want to see them. And in protected areas, such as Pembrokeshire National Park, putting them close to the shore might be difficult.\"\n\nThere are also other benefits, such as saving on the expense on steel to fix turbines 60m underwater into the seabed, and the higher wind speeds further out to sea and potentially more power generated.\n\nCables are used to attach the floating turbines to the seabed, meaning they can be placed in depths of hundreds of metres\n\nGlobal energy company Equinor first had the idea of floating turbines in 2001, to power offshore oil and gas platforms in Norwegian waters.\n\nThese were run off diesel, which proved expensive and bad for the environment.\n\nWhile the initial aim was to provide clean energy at low cost, Mr James said Equinor quickly realised this was scratching the surface, adding: \"It had the potential to feed into the National Grid if done on a utility scale.\"\n\nIn trials, floating turbines produced impressive results in terms of generation\n\nMr James said adding more turbines reduced costs because of more power generated and saw expenditure per megawatt reduced by 70% with hopes of a further 40% cut.\n\nFixed platforms are generally placed up to a depth of 60m, with floating turbines able to go in waters up to 1,000m.\n\n\"Pembrokeshire is the most favourable part of Wales as it has deep waters. There is a fair bit of offshore generation off north Wales, but they are fixed platforms in shallower waters,\" Mr James added.\n\n\"Wales is well-placed as an area to look into further as is Cornwall, Ireland, the Celtic Sea, but it's currently more extensive in Scotland, where there will be more tests and demonstrations and we are very confident of moving to full scale.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The world's first floating offshore wind farm in Scotland\n\nCurrently, UK offshore farms produce about 10 gigawatts (GW) of power, with a target of 40GW by 2030.\n\nA recent Welsh Government report said just two or three farms could provide 2GW of power, enough for more than a million homes.\n\nGraham Ayling, of the Energy Saving Trust, said the potential to create infrastructure \"looks promising\" and Wales could be self-sufficient from green energy within a decade.\n\n\"Given the pace that renewable technologies have been deployed and developed, and the cost reductions that have been seen in recent years, it is possible that Wales may well meet 100% of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030,\" he said.\n\nThe Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland generates enough power for more than 450,000 properties\n\nBeing self-sustainable in renewables by the end of the 2020s was something proposed by Plaid Cymru in its 2019 General Election manifesto.\n\nEnvironment spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said wave and tidal sources off Pembrokeshire, in the Celtic Sea and off Anglesey were \"some of the best potential renewable energy resource in the world\".\n\nHe said utilising these should be \"a strategic priority\", but also the most promising forms of renewable energy are emerging technologies and will not be fully utilised until the end of the decade.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Gruffydd wants to see investment in research, development and building skills in the workforce, so the country is ready to take advantage in areas such as floating wind technology.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' energy spokeswoman Janet Finch-Saunders said Wales' natural resources provide the opportunity to help stimulate the economy with the creation of \"long-term green-collar jobs\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most of the debilitating effects of statins are not caused by the drug, but by people believing it will make them sick, a UK study suggests.\n\nThe phenomenon is known as the \"nocebo effect\" and may account for 90% of the ill health associated with the cholesterol-lowering drugs.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation said the results were undeniable.\n\nThe Imperial College London researchers hope the findings will help more people stay on statins.\n\nThe drugs are one of the most prescribed in the UK. Nearly eight million people taken them to lower their cholesterol and in turn reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke.\n\nHowever, up to a fifth of people stop taking them due to side-effects such as muscle aches, fatigue, feeling sick and joint pain.\n\nThe nocebo effect - when expecting a drug to make you worse, genuinely does - has been seen before in medicine.\n\nIt is thought to explain the high number of people who think they have penicillin allergies when tests suggest otherwise.\n\nThe statin study, which took place at Hammersmith Hospital, focused on 60 patients who had all come off the drugs in the past due to severe side effects.\n\nThey were given 12 bottles - four contained a month's worth of statins, four a month's worth of dummy pills and four were empty.\n\nEvery day for a year they would score, from zero to 100, how bad their symptoms were.\n\nThe study showed an average score of:\n\nThe Imperial researchers said 90% of the severity of their symptoms was present when the volunteers were taking dummy pills they thought could be a statin.\n\n\"The side effects are mainly caused by act of taking tablets, not what is in them,\" Dr James Howard, one of the researchers told BBC News.\n\nHe added: \"It is crazy when you think about it, to most people it is complete incongruous.\"\n\nSymptoms were so bad that people had to stop taking the tablets on 71 occasions, including 31 times while they were just taking the dummy pill, during the course of the study.\n\n\"Our patients were really suffering, patients are not making it up,\" Dr Howard said.\n\nBut does it matter either way? Whether it is nocebo effect or the chemicals in the statin themselves, the net result is some people find the drugs intolerable.\n\n\"I think it matters a lot,\" Dr Howard said. He said talking the results through with patients meant half of them were able to restart their statins.\n\nThe nocebo effect is the opposite of the more familiar placebo effect, in which people feel better after being given a therapy, even if there is nothing in it.\n\nThe exact reason why statins produce a nocebo effect is unknown. The suspicion is they have achieved a self-fulfilling destiny with media reports, GPs and cardiologists warning of the side-effects of statins.\n\n\"If you stopped a man in the street and asked how do you feel about an aspirin or a statin a day, I think people would be much more positive about the aspirin,\" Dr Howard said.\n\nThe study is being published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Heart Association Conference.\n\nProf Sir Nilesh Samani, the medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: \"These results undeniably show that statins are not responsible for many of the side effects attributed to them.\n\n\"Decades of evidence have proven that statins save lives and they should be the first port of call for individuals at high risk of heart attack and stroke.\"", "The blaze on Saturday evening ripped through the intensive care unit at the hospital\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and several others seriously injured in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in Romania, officials say.\n\nThe blaze broke out in the intensive care unit of the public hospital in the north-eastern city of Piatra Neamt.\n\nOne doctor who tried to rescue patients is said to be in a critical condition after suffering serious burns.\n\nRomania's Health Minister Nelu Tataru told local media the fire was \"most likely triggered by a short circuit\".\n\nMr Tataru said that other Covid patients being treated at the hospital were being transferred to another facility in the city of Iasi.\n\nThe injured doctor, who is said to have suffered severe burning to most of his body, was being transferred to the capital, Bucharest, by a military plane, local media report.\n\n\"There are other medical staff who suffered burns, not only the doctor on duty,\" Mr Tataru said, adding that he was heading to Piatra Neamt following the incident at the hospital on Saturday evening.\n\nEight of the victims were reportedly killed in the room where the fire broke out on the second floor, and two others in a room next to it. All were said have been receiving treatment for coronavirus. Many in the ward were on ventilators.\n\nThe fire was believed to have spread quickly after it was fed oxygen by the supplies used to intubate patients, the health ministry said.\n\nRomania has reported more than 350,000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, and 8,813 deaths.\n\nOn Friday, the country recorded 9,489 new daily Covid cases, 174 deaths and 1,149 patients in intensive care.", "Lewis Hamilton clinched a seventh World Championship and became the most successful racing driver ever with a masterful victory in the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday.\n\nThe Mercedes driver equalled Michael Schumacher's achievement in terms of titles, after already surpassing the German's number of race wins last month.\n\nVictory at a treacherously wet and slippery Istanbul Park track in a topsy-turvy race was the 94th of the 35-year-old Briton's career.\n\nAs he received the congratulations of his team, Hamilton was almost overcome with emotion in the car after the race, saying: \"To all the kids out there, dream the impossible.\"\n\nOnce out of the car, he added: \"Seven is just unimaginable but when you work with such a great group of people and you really trust each other, there is just no end to what you can do together.\n\n\"I feel like I'm only just getting started, it's really weird.\"\n\nHamilton, who does not yet have a contract for next year, added he would \"love to stay\" in F1 and wanted to continue to campaign for change when it comes to human rights, diversity and environmentalism.\n\nThe Englishman won his first world title with McLaren in 2008 with further successes in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.\n• None The greatest ever? We examine the stats\n\nHow Hamilton won it in style\n\nIt was a drive befitting the monumental nature of Hamilton's achievement.\n\nHe trod carefully in the opening stages of the race and even made a couple of small mistakes as the drivers fought for grip in the wet conditions.\n\nBy five laps in he was in sixth place, well over 20 seconds off the lead held by Racing Point's Lance Stroll, ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez.\n\nAfter all the leaders made an early stop for fresh intermediate tyres, Hamilton was stuck behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, faster but unable to pass because of the lack of grip off line.\n\nBut the race opened up for Hamilton at around half-distance as he once again made decisive strategy calls on tyres from the cockpit and drove with the skill and class that has enabled him to put himself in this position.\n\nStroll and Perez began to be caught by those behind.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was the first to pressure them, but fell out of contention when he lost control and spun behind Perez on lap 18, destroying his tyres and needing to stop again.\n\nThen, Red Bull's Alex Albon was running third, ahead of Vettel's Ferrari and Hamilton.\n\nFerrari pitted Vettel for fresh tyres on lap 33, having seen how quickly team-mate Charles Leclerc was going on his fresh intermediates, and then Albon spun at Turn Four.\n\nThat gave Hamilton a clean run to attack the Racing Points and he told his team: \"Don't box [pit] me, man.\"\n\nDespite Stroll saying he did not want to change tyres, Racing Point did pit the Canadian on lap 36, removing him from the lead and, shortly afterwards, Hamilton took the lead from Perez and never looked back.\n\nHamilton and Perez stayed out on worn tyres, as the Mercedes driver pulled away in the lead, his only concern being whether his worn intermediate tyres would last.\n\nAnd Hamilton's excellence was put into stark perspective by his team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\nThe Finn went into the race knowing he had to out-score Hamilton by at least eight points to keep the championship alive. But he had a dreadful day, spinning at least five times and finishing 14th, lapped by Hamilton.\n\nWhen told there were four laps left late in the race, a downcast Bottas said: \"I wish it was less.\"\n\nIt was a heartbreaking day for Stroll, who confidently led for the first 36 laps after the first pole position of his career, only to see his race unravel after he made his stop for fresh tyres.\n\nBut while the Canadian could not make the new tyres work on his car, and slumped to ninth at the end, a second pit stop mid-race worked well for both Ferrari drivers.\n\nPerez hung on to second, after briefly losing the place to Leclerc on the final lap, only for the Monegasque to slide wide at the final chicane, allowing team-mate Vettel through into the final podium position, his first of the season.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen pushed Perez hard early on, but a spin at the kink on the back straight ended his hopes.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nHamilton has clinched the title with three races still to go, two in Bahrain starting in two weeks' time and then a finale in Abu Dhabi in mid-December.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"It felt so far fetched. I remember watching Michael win those world championships. To get one or two or even three is so hard. Seven is unimaginable. There is no end to what we can do together, me and this team. We dreamed of this when I was young. It is so important for kids to see this and don't listen to anyone who says you can't achieve something. Dream the impossible. You have got to chase it and never give up.\"\n\nPerez: \"I told my team on the radio: 'One more lap on those tyres, I think they will have exploded.' The vibrations were really bad towards the end. But I think it also made our race. Looking after them towards the beginning and towards the end, with drying conditions, I think the team did a fantastic job with the strategy in the race.\"\n\nVettel: \"It was quite intense but good fun. I had a really good opening lap, I found myself already in P4. It is a bit of a surprise to snatch the podium but I am certainly very happy.\"\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "Restaurants and cafes are closed except for takeaway in England until 2 December\n\nThe next two weeks will be \"absolutely crucial\" if England's lockdown is to end as planned on 2 December, a government scientific adviser has said.\n\nProf Susan Michie said the public must resist breaking the rules in order to \"be in a position\" to spend the festive period with loved ones.\n\nNews of a potential vaccine would make \"no difference\" to the current wave but could lead to complacency, she added.\n\nThe prime minister has said the current restrictions will \"expire\" next month.\n\nProf Michie, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was too early to know what should replace the measures when they end, with the coming fortnight being key.\n\nShe said: \"They're going to be a very challenging two weeks, partly because of the weather, partly because, I think, the promise of a vaccine may be making people feel complacent.\"\n\nBut she said data showed adherence to lockdown rules had been \"pretty steady since the summer\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 26,860 Covid cases on Saturday, along with 462 deaths within 28 days of positive test.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants as well as non-essential shops have been forced to close during the four-week lockdown in England.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously insisted the measures will end as scheduled but Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said measures could last beyond 2 December.\n\nProf Michie said people had to \"get their resolve together\" and resist any urge to break the rules, in order to maximise the chance of leaving lockdown.\n\nHowever, she said she was \"quite hopeful\" after tough measures in Wales and Northern Ireland brought transmission rates down.\n\nWales finished its 17-day firebreak lockdown restrictions on Monday. Much of Northern Ireland's economy was placed under tight measures on 16 October.\n\nScotland introduced a four-tier system on 2 November after ending national curbs on the hospitality industry. Areas in the west of Scotland have been warned they may be placed under the highest level of restrictions next week.\n\nIt comes after documents released by Sage on Friday, and dated 4 November, warned that a return to the tiered system of coronavirus restrictions in England after lockdown ends could see infections rise again.\n\nOn Friday, Sage said that the R number - the rate at which the virus spreads - for the UK had fallen to 1-1.2, with experts believing it is already below 1 in some places.\n\nIf the R number is lower than one then the disease will eventually stop spreading\n\nDame Anne Johnson, professor of epidemiology at University College London, said the evidence suggested tier three restrictions had brought the R value down but it was not clear if they would get it under 1.", "Thousands of pro-Trump protesters rallied in Washington DC for the Million MAGA March, turning out to support President Trump and back his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the US election.\n\nWe asked some of the supporters what they feel about president-elect Joe Biden.\n\nWhile the daytime event was largely orderly, Trump supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the night.", "Two people have died in clashes in Peru's capital Lima between police and protesters angry at the impeachment of President Martín Vizcarra.\n\nSeveral people were injured in the violence that saw police fire tear gas into the crowd of many thousands.\n\nPeru has been rocked by mass protests since Congress voted on Monday to impeach Mr Vizcarra over alleged bribery - charges he denies.\n\nSpeaker of Congress Manuel Merino has taken over as interim president.\n\nThere are concerns of a growing political crisis as Peru faces a severe economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTens of thousands of demonstrators - many of them young - gathered again in Lima and other cities on Saturday for protests that were for the large part peaceful.\n\nThe capital echoed with sirens, shouts and chants of protesters demanding the removal of Mr Merino, Reuters reports.\n\nClashes broke out towards the evening after a group of hooded protesters threw fireworks and stones at the police, who responded with tear gas.\n\nTwo men, one aged 24 and the other 25, were killed.\n\nMr Vizcarra, 57, has enjoyed continued support among many voters for his attempts at reform.\n\nHe has been embroiled in a bitter battle with Congress, which is dominated by rival parties, since he took office in March 2018.\n\nLast year, the president dissolved Congress, arguing that lawmakers were obstructing his anti-corruption agenda. A new Congress was elected in January, but tension remained high between the legislative and the executive, with Mr Vizcarra accusing lawmakers of fostering \"chaos and disorder\".\n\nMr Vizcarra has denied allegations that he accepted bribes worth 2.3m soles ($640,000; £487,000) when he was governor of the southern Moquegua region.\n\nMonday's move in Congress came after a previous attempt to remove him. An earlier vote held on 18 September fell far short of gaining the necessary votes when only 32 lawmakers cast their ballot in favour of removing Mr Vizcarra.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peru has seen days of protests\n\nMr Vizcarra had previously said he would accept the impeachment vote, not take any legal action, and leave the presidential palace. But on Tuesday, he questioned the \"legality and legitimacy\" of his removal.\n\n\"Legality is in question because the Constitutional Court has not yet ruled, and legitimacy is given by the people,\" he told reporters outside his home in Lima.\n\nMr Merino is expected to retain the presidency until July 2021 - when Mr Vizcarra's term was due to end.", "Are the winds of change about to blow off the Welsh coast?\n\nWind turbines floating miles out to sea could one day provide electricity to our homes, experts believe.\n\nWales currently meets about 50% of its needs from renewable sources, including solar and wind.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants to see fixed offshore wind farms power UK homes by 2030, while Plaid Cymru believes Wales could be self-sustainable through renewables by then.\n\nBut how big a part could turbines floating off the Welsh coast play?\n\nA 96 megawatt (MW) wind farm capable of powering 90,000 homes is proposed for an area of sea 28 miles (45km) off Pembrokeshire by 2027.\n\nHowever, this could be just the tip of the iceberg, in light of other developments.\n\nSuccessful trials in Scotland suggest floating turbines could have advantages over other types of renewables, including cost and environmental impact.\n\nTurbines would tower over some of the world's most famous landmarks\n\nTidal lagoons, for example, have proved hard to get off the ground because of the large upfront investment needed to build, with no return for a number of years, according to Cardiff University professor of renewable energy Nick Jenkins.\n\nA proposed £1.3bn Swansea Bay project was shelved because of cost.\n\nPlacing solar panels and wind turbines on a large scale in rural Wales can also be difficult, with objections from campaigners and locals over the impact on the landscape.\n\nAs Wales has about 1,680 miles (2,704 km) of coast, generating electricity there could be the obvious solution.\n\nHowever, given the sea bed \"drops dramatically\" in many locations, Prof Jenkins believes fixed turbines are difficult in many places.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The fact that these (floating) turbines are so far out to sea make them less visible,\" said Rhodri James, of global energy firm Equinor.\n\n\"It does help, as some people in certain areas don't want to see them. And in protected areas, such as Pembrokeshire National Park, putting them close to the shore might be difficult.\"\n\nThere are also other benefits, such as saving on the expense on steel to fix turbines 60m underwater into the seabed, and the higher wind speeds further out to sea and potentially more power generated.\n\nCables are used to attach the floating turbines to the seabed, meaning they can be placed in depths of hundreds of metres\n\nGlobal energy company Equinor first had the idea of floating turbines in 2001, to power offshore oil and gas platforms in Norwegian waters.\n\nThese were run off diesel, which proved expensive and bad for the environment.\n\nWhile the initial aim was to provide clean energy at low cost, Mr James said Equinor quickly realised this was scratching the surface, adding: \"It had the potential to feed into the National Grid if done on a utility scale.\"\n\nIn trials, floating turbines produced impressive results in terms of generation\n\nMr James said adding more turbines reduced costs because of more power generated and saw expenditure per megawatt reduced by 70% with hopes of a further 40% cut.\n\nFixed platforms are generally placed up to a depth of 60m, with floating turbines able to go in waters up to 1,000m.\n\n\"Pembrokeshire is the most favourable part of Wales as it has deep waters. There is a fair bit of offshore generation off north Wales, but they are fixed platforms in shallower waters,\" Mr James added.\n\n\"Wales is well-placed as an area to look into further as is Cornwall, Ireland, the Celtic Sea, but it's currently more extensive in Scotland, where there will be more tests and demonstrations and we are very confident of moving to full scale.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The world's first floating offshore wind farm in Scotland\n\nCurrently, UK offshore farms produce about 10 gigawatts (GW) of power, with a target of 40GW by 2030.\n\nA recent Welsh Government report said just two or three farms could provide 2GW of power, enough for more than a million homes.\n\nGraham Ayling, of the Energy Saving Trust, said the potential to create infrastructure \"looks promising\" and Wales could be self-sufficient from green energy within a decade.\n\n\"Given the pace that renewable technologies have been deployed and developed, and the cost reductions that have been seen in recent years, it is possible that Wales may well meet 100% of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030,\" he said.\n\nThe Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland generates enough power for more than 450,000 properties\n\nBeing self-sustainable in renewables by the end of the 2020s was something proposed by Plaid Cymru in its 2019 General Election manifesto.\n\nEnvironment spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said wave and tidal sources off Pembrokeshire, in the Celtic Sea and off Anglesey were \"some of the best potential renewable energy resource in the world\".\n\nHe said utilising these should be \"a strategic priority\", but also the most promising forms of renewable energy are emerging technologies and will not be fully utilised until the end of the decade.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Gruffydd wants to see investment in research, development and building skills in the workforce, so the country is ready to take advantage in areas such as floating wind technology.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' energy spokeswoman Janet Finch-Saunders said Wales' natural resources provide the opportunity to help stimulate the economy with the creation of \"long-term green-collar jobs\".\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. George Eustice: \"We're not asking for anything miraculous... it should be possible.\"\n\nSticking points over a post-Brexit trade agreement between the UK and EU \"can be resolved\" and a deal \"can be done\", says a government minister.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC's Andrew Marr \"agreement exists\" between the two sides.\n\nBut earlier, he told Sky News there was still \"some way between us\" and \"time is very, very short\" to agree a deal.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said talks have \"got to make big progress\" in the coming week.\n\nHe told Sky's Sophy Ridge getting a trade agreement was \"difficult but also very doable\", and the consequences of failing to would be \"significant\".\n\nThe talks between the UK and EU are due to resume on Monday in Brussels.\n\nThe UK's chief negotiator, Lord David Frost, has arrived in the city, tweeting that there had been \"some progress in a positive direction in recent days\".\n\nBut he said \"significant elements\" of the deal are yet to be agreed, adding: \"We may not succeed.\"\n\nAny deal between the UK and EU would need to be ratified by parliaments on both sides, so time is running out for an agreement to be reached and to get the sign off before 31 December.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but continues to follow the bloc's rules until the end of the year while negotiations take place.\n\nIf there is no agreement at that point, trade between the two will default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules - with tariffs set to be introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs.\n\nMr Eustice said there would be \"some impact\" in this situation, because of tariffs, but added most would be \"quite modest\".\n\nHowever, he conceded products such as lamb being sold into the EU could face taxes of more than 40%.\n\nThe environment secretary told Andrew Marr: \"We do want to get a free trade agreement with the European Union and an agreement could be done.\n\n\"We are not asking for anything remarkable. We are asking for an agreement akin to the one they have with Canada.\n\n\"We are asking for something that has got a precedent.\"\n\nThe main sticking points between the two sides are over competition rules - where governments give state aid support to businesses - and on fishing rights.\n\nMr Coveney said the conversation over fishing had become \"very emotive\" and both sides needed to \"dial down the language\", or the deal could collapse over the issue.\n\nHe added: \"If a deal isn't done this week we have real problems. We are running out of time now.\"", "Legendary Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, famed for his work with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, has died from Covid complications.\n\nThe 85-year-old actor was admitted to hospital in Kolkata city on 6 October after he tested positive for the virus.\n\nHe will be mourned by fans and critics who avidly followed his six-decade-long career in Bengali language films.\n\nChatterjee, who starred in more than 300 movies, was also an accomplished playwright, theatre actor and poet.\n\nHe tested negative a few weeks after he was admitted to hospital but his condition soon deteriorated and he was put on a ventilator in the last week of October. He died on Sunday morning.\n\nChatterjee was perhaps best-known for his work with Ray, one of the world's most influential directors and maker of the much-feted Apu Trilogy. The series followed the life of a man who grew up in a Bengali village. The films garnered critical acclaim, winning many awards worldwide, and put Indian cinema on the global map.\n\nThe third movie of the trilogy, Apur Sansar, which released in 1959, was also Chatterjee's debut film. He would go on to star as the lead actor in 14 of Ray's films.\n\nPauline Kael, one of America's most influential and respected film critics, called Chatterjee Ray's \"one-man stock company\" who moved \"so differently in the different roles he plays that he is almost unrecognisable\".\n\nChatterjee was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, in 2012 and in 2018, he was given France's highest award, the Legion of Honour.\n\nHe began acting when he was in school, where he starred in several plays. He was in college when a friend introduced him to Ray - it was a chance meeting, but it eventually led to Chatterjee's film debut.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do when Mr Ray first asked me. I didn't know what was the real difference between stage and screen acting. I was afraid I'd overact,\" he told Marie Seton, film critic and biographer, in an interview.\n\nChatterjee's roles in more than a dozen films made by the auteur spanned a wide range.\n\nHe played a Sherlock Holmes-like detective in Sonar Kella, an effete bridegroom in Devi, a hot-tempered north Indian taxi driver in Abhijan, a city slicker in Aranyer Din Ratri, and a mild-mannered village priest in Ashani Sanket. He also played what Seton called a \"thinly veiled portrait\" of Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore in Charulata, one of Ray's most admired films.\n\n\"His chief asset was the natural sensitivity of his appearance,\" Seton wrote of the actor.\n\nRay mentored his favourite actor, lending him books on cinema and often taking him to watch Sunday morning shows of Hollywood films in Kolkata. \"The entire exercise he did with a purpose, it was not as if he was taking me out on Sundays for entertainment,\" Chatterjee once said.\n\nChatterjee acted with Hugh Grant in a 1989 film set in Calcutta\n\nRay, who died in 1992, had said that Chatterjee was an intelligent actor and \"given bad material, he turns out a bad performance\".\n\n\"Not a day passed when I do not think of Ray or discuss him or miss him. He is a constant presence in my life, if not for anything else but for the inspiration I derive when I think about him,\" Chatterjee told an interviewer.\n\nChatterjee also played the romantic lead in popular Bengali films, but his appeal, say critics, was more limited than the reigning star, Uttam Kumar.\n\nOver the years, Chatterjee worked with leading directors like Tapan Sinha, Mrinal Sen, Asit Sen, Ajoy Kar, Rituparno Ghosh and Aparna Sen. In 1988, he worked with John Hurt and Hugh Grant in The Bengali Night, a film set in Kolkata.\n\nAdoor Gopalakrishnan, one of India's greatest filmmakers, said that on screen, Chatterjee \"became the quintessential Bengali - intellectually inclined, of middle-class orientation, sensitive and likeable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside films, Chatterjee was tirelessly creative: he edited a literary magazine, published more than 30 books of essays and poetry; acted, directed and wrote an equal number of plays; and painted.\n\nOne of his most successful plays, Ghatak Bidey, a comedy, ran for 500 nights. Chatterjee acted in a commercially successful Bengali adaption of King Lear, which many believe was one of his finest performances on stage.\n\nFor all his popularity, Chatterjee stayed away from Bollywood, preferring to act in Bengali language films.\n\n\"Soumitra is the finest actor in the land today, but totally unheard of outside Bengal. It's a loss for India, Bollywood and I guess, a bit for Soumitra,\" Pritish Nandy, poet, journalist and filmmaker, said of the actor in 2012.\n\nAmitava Nag, author of a biography of the actor, says Chatterjee was \"the thinking man's hero. He was an intellectual and a poet\".\n\nNag once asked Chatterjee whether he felt burdened by the obligation to entertain.\n\n\"Very seldom. This is my job,\" he said.", "Entertainer Des O'Connor has died at the age of 88, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe comedian, singer and TV host died on Saturday following a fall at his home in Buckinghamshire just over a week ago.\n\nHe was known for hosting his own chat show, as well as Take Your Pick and Countdown - and for his friendship with Morecambe and Wise.\n\nIn a statement his agent said he was \"well loved by absolutely everybody\" and \"loved life\".\n\nHis long-time agent and family friend Pat Lake-Smith described him as the \"ultimate entertainer\" and said he had been recovering from the fall before his condition had suddenly deteriorated.\n\nShe said: \"He was a joy to work with - he was talented, fun, positive, enthusiastic, kind and a total professional. He loved life, and considered enthusiasm almost as important as oxygen.\"\n\nLondon-born O'Connor presented his own prime-time TV shows for more than 45 years but also had success as a singer.\n\nHis friendship with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise saw him mocked for his singing ability in sketches despite a successful career which included four Top 10 hits and more than 30 albums.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nO'Connor appeared on stages around the world including hundreds of shows at the London Palladium.\n\nHis fame soared when he was hired to host The Des O'Connor Show, which ran on ITV from 1963 to 1971.\n\nIn 1977 he began hosting Des O'Connor Tonight, which started on BBC Two before moving to ITV, where it stayed until it ended in 2002.\n\nHe later hosted the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown alongside Carol Vorderman, with the pair bowing out together in 2008, and was made a CBE for his services to entertainment and broadcasting in that year's birthday honours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gyles Brandreth: \"I don't think you'll find anybody...who's got a thing to say against Des O'Connor\"\n\nO'Connor was married four times, and has described the end of his first three relationships as casualties of his obsession with work.\n\nIn 2007, he married long-term girlfriend Jodie Brooke Wilson, who was 37 years his junior and gave birth to their son Adam when O'Connor was 72.\n\nO'Connor also had four daughters, Karin, TJ, Samantha and Kristina from his previous marriages.\n\nTributes have been paid following his death, with Countdown co-host Vorderman saying he was a born entertainer and it had been a \"complete joy to work with him\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"I grew up throughout the Des O'Connor years, when he was on the television all the time, on Des O'Connor Tonight and the Morecambe and Wise shows.\n\nO'Connor was made a CBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours\n\n\"Up to 20 million people would sit around the television and watch and laugh, and I mean laugh until they cried.\n\n\"He was the king; he was one of the very great British television entertainers.\"\n\nFellow Countdown star Susie Dent described him as a \"true gent\" while Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann said O'Connor \"never took himself too seriously\".\n\nMelanie Sykes, who hosted TV show Today With Des And Mel alongside O'Connor, said it was an \"education and a privilege to work with him\".\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"He had talent in every fibre of his being and was stubborn as a mule. He was the full ticket as a friend and colleague.\"\n\nBroadcaster Tony Blackburn said \"he was a great entertainer and more importantly a very nice person\", and TV presenter Gyles Brandreth described him as \"the ultimate professional\".\n\nSpeaking about his sketches with Morecambe and Wise, comedian David Baddiel said: \"RIP Des O' Connor. It's worth remembering how brilliant he is at his own expense in these sketches.\"\n\nNorthampton Town Football Club also joined the tributes to their former reserve player.\n\nThe club said: \"We are very sorry to learn of the passing of Des O'Connor. Des famously played for our reserve team on a few occasions just after World War Two. Our thoughts are with all who knew Des.\"\n\nViolinist Sue Croot told the BBC she had always treasured a signed photograph O'Connor gave to her father Ronald Croot, who was helping out on a production of Cinderella at the Grand Theatre in Swansea in the late 1950s. \"Dad said that Des was just such fun to be around and that he was such a down-to-earth person,\" she said.", "The Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"enduring connections\" between the UK and Germany as negotiators prepare for post-Brexit trade talks to continue.\n\nPrince Charles said though politicians were discussing the \"shape\" of the countries' relationship, their \"fundamental bond\" would remain strong.\n\nHis wife, Camilla, has joined him on their first official overseas visit since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nEarlier, they attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial in Berlin.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are the first members of the Royal Family to attend the ceremony at the Bundestag, the German parliament, in Berlin, marking the country's National Day of Mourning for victims of war.\n\nThe prince told those gathered: \"The United Kingdom has chosen a future outside the European Union, and the relationship between our countries is evolving once again.\n\n\"Its shape is a matter negotiated between our governments and its essence is defined by the enduring connections between our people.\n\n\"It is, therefore, my heartfelt belief that the fundamental bond between us will remain strong: we will always be friends, partners and allies.\n\n\"As our countries begin this new chapter in our long history, let us reaffirm our bond for the years ahead.\"\n\nThe speech comes 75 years after the end of World War Two and as post-Brexit trade talks are reaching their crucial final stages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting Berlin to commemorate Germany’s National Day of Mourning\n\nReferring to the English poet John Donne, who wrote that \"no man is an island\", the heir to the throne said: \"One might equally submit that no country is really an island either, other than in the wholly literal sense.\n\n\"Our histories bind us tightly together and our destinies, although each our own to forge, are interdependent to a considerable degree.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were welcomed to Germany by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender on the steps of the Bellevue Palace in Berlin.\n\nThe four then travelled to the Neue Wache Central Memorial, dedicated to victims of war and tyranny, where a wreath had been laid on behalf of the prince in front of a sculpture titled Mother With Her Dead Son.\n\nThe sculpture was designed by German artist Kathe Kollwitz in memory of her own son who died in World War One.\n\nPrince Charles briefly touched the wreath before joining the president and four other German dignitaries in a silence as a trumpet solo echoed through the building.\n\nThe message on the prince's poppy wreath read: \"In everlasting remembrance of all victims of conflict and tyranny. Charles.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stand in silence along with other dignitaries\n\nCamilla then laid a posy featuring rosemary for remembrance and olive, white daisies and nerines for peace.\n\nThee royal couple flew to Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Saturday evening in the UK's ministerial RAF Voyager jet - the first time it has flown dignitaries since a makeover costing almost £1m.\n\nThe prince, who celebrated his 72nd birthday on Saturday, was presented with a birthday cake during the flight.\n\nThe royal couple flew to Germany in the refurbished ministerial RAF Voyager jet\n\nThe Royal Family have carried out a number of European visits since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nDuring a tour of Germany in May last year, Prince Charles said the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\" post-Brexit.\n\nAnd when his son, the Duke of Cambridge, visited the country in 2016, William said the depth of Britain's friendship with Germany would not change after the UK left the EU.\n\nAhead of his trip, the Prince Charles held a telephone meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.", "Elon Musk said at the start of the pandemic that the \"panic\" could \"cause more harm than the virus\"\n\nTech entrepreneur Elon Musk says he \"most likely\" has a \"moderate case\" of Covid-19 but has been \"getting wildly different results from different labs\".\n\nThe boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who is 49, tweeted his symptoms were those of a \"minor cold\". On Friday he said he had been tested four times, with two positive and two negative results.\n\nMr Musk appeared to play down concerns about the pandemic when it first hit.\n\nCovid-19 has now infected nearly 10.9 million people in the US.\n\nMore than 245,000 people have died there, and more than 67,000 people are currently in hospital.\n\nSome 35 US states now require face coverings to be worn in public and many are urging residents to stick to social distancing amid fears their health care systems will be swamped with infected patients.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Musk, who has 40 million followers on Twitter, said about his symptoms that he was \"a little up & down. Feels just like a regular cold, but more body achy & cloudy head than coughing/sneezing\".\n\nOn Friday, he had questioned the veracity of rapid antigen testing, tweeting: \"Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse.\"\n\nHe said he was awaiting the results of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, which are regarded as the gold standard by epidemiologists and the one used most around the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n\nBack in March, Mr Musk had tweeted to his 32 million followers on Twitter: \"My guess is that the panic will cause more harm than the virus.\"\n\nTwo months later he threatened to move his electric car firm's headquarters out of California after his Tesla factory was ordered to stay shut because of lockdown measures.\n\nMr Musk's SpaceX firm is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday. Nasa chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday ruled out the presence of anyone who tested positive for Covid-19 at the Kennedy Space Center.", "Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe prime minister said he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace on Sunday but is not showing symptoms.\n\nMr Johnson on Thursday spent about 35 minutes with Ashfield MP Lee Anderson who has since tested positive.\n\nThe news came as No 10 said Mr Johnson would make \"critical announcements\" about coronavirus and \"levelling up\" the UK over the coming weeks.\n\nIn an announcement planned before Mr Johnson was told to self-isolate, Downing Street said there would be a \"clear signal\" of his \"ongoing ambitions for the United Kingdom\".\n\nIt said Mr Johnson would chair \"key Covid meetings\" and work with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to devise the upcoming spending review with an aim to fulfil his promise to \"build back better\".\n\nBut No 10's effort to start the week afresh following the departure of two of Mr Johnson's top aides amid an internal power struggle was overshadowed by news the prime minister was self-isolating.\n\nMr Johnson wrote on Twitter on Sunday night: \"Today I was notified by NHS Test and Trace that I must self-isolate as I have been in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.\n\n\"I have no symptoms, but am following the rules and will be working from No 10 as I continue to lead the government's pandemic response.\"\n\nA No 10 spokesman added: \"The PM is well and does not have any symptoms of Covid-19.\"\n\nIn a WhatsApp message to Tory MPs seen by the BBC the PM added: \"The good news is that NHS Test and Trace continues to improve. The bad news is that I have been pinged!\"\n\nHe said that he would observe self-isolation rules despite \"following the guidance and socially distancing\" during his meeting with Mr Anderson.\n\n\"It doesn't matter that I feel fine - better than ever - or that my body is bursting with antibodies because I have already had the damn thing,\" he added.\n\n\"The rules are the rules and they are there to stop the spread of the disease.\"\n\nIn April, Mr Johnson spent three nights in intensive care after falling ill with the virus.\n\nHe later said it \"could have gone either way\" and thanked healthcare workers for saving his life.\n\nBoris Johnson will now have to stay at home in No 10.\n\nIt means he will not be able to be in Parliament, though I'm told he will be working from Downing Street.\n\nHe does still intend to keep communicating with the country.\n\nIt was supposed to be a pretty big week for Boris Johnson - he is trying to reset his government after some factional fighting in his office over the last few days.\n\nThere are conversations taking place with the parliamentary authorities to see whether he can still contribute to the Commons.\n\nI think it is fair to say this has not come at the best time for Mr Johnson: he has big decisions to make on Brexit and what happens when England's lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nAnd it is also worth bearing in mind he was extremely ill with coronavirus earlier in the year and we do not know what getting the virus does for a person's immunity.\n\nLeader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Sunday evening he was urgently exploring how to \"support additional virtual participation\" in the chamber following a campaign by vulnerable MPs.\n\nSuch a move could allow more MPs, including Mr Johnson, to attend Commons' debates virtually and possibly even Prime Minister's Questions as he self-isolates.\n\nOn Thursday, Conservative MP Mr Anderson posted a photo of himself with Mr Johnson at No 10 alongside the words: \"Breakfast with the PM.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he observed all the guidelines and distancing advice during his meeting with Lee Anderson on Thursday\n\nMr Anderson posted on his Facebook page to say he was self-isolating with his wife, who is clinically vulnerable.\n\n\"On Friday I lost my sense of taste at the same time my wife had a bad headache,\" he said. \"I had no cough, no fever and felt well. We both had a test on Saturday and the result came in Sunday morning.\n\n\"My wife and I both tested positive. I feel absolutely fine and my biggest concern is my wife who is in the shielded group.\n\n\"But we are both feeling good.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg tweeted the news had come the night before what was meant to be a \"big relaunch week\", following the row last week involving the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings left Downing Street for the last time on Friday following internal battles about his role.\n\nEarlier this weekend, senior Tory MP David Davis said Mr Cummings' departure was a chance to \"reset government\".\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, said the changes were a sign of Mr Johnson's \"determination to rebuild relationships\".\n\nA meeting between the PM and the Northern Research Group of backbench Tory MPs had been scheduled for Monday.\n\nOfficials also confirmed the government's 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\" would be published \"to boost green jobs whilst invigorating plans to achieve net zero by 2050\".\n\nIn addition, another week of negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are set to begin in Brussels.\n\nThe transition period, which followed Brexit in January, ends on 31 December by which time a deal needs to be agreed and approved by parliaments in the UK and EU.\n\nChief UK negotiator David Frost has said there had been some progress between the two sides but that considerable differences remained.\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "Ant and Dec said the the show would feel \"reassuringly familiar\" despite the new location\n\nAnt and Dec told campmates \"things are going to be a bit different this year\" as the latest series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here launched on Sunday.\n\nThis year's series is taking place in Gwrych Castle in North Wales instead of the Australian jungle due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nSir Mo Farah, Vernon Kay and Beverley Callard are among the new campmates.\n\n\"I can't tell you how excited we are to see you all here together finally,\" said Dec. \"Welcome to the castle.\"\n\n\"Things are going to be a bit different this year,\" continued Ant. \"There's no jungle obviously, there's no dunny, there's a privy [toilet] and I can guarantee you there's absolutely no chance of sunbathing.\"\n\nDec added: \"Some things will stay exactly the same. Some things will be reassuringly familiar. So you will live on a diet of rice and beans and you'll do trials to win food for the camp.\"\n\nSunday's launch episode drew an average audience of 10.9 million, almost two million more than the audience that tuned into the Strictly Come Dancing results show on BBC One earlier that evening.\n\nThat was more than the overnight audience of 10 million recorded for last year's launch episode - though that figure rose to 13.17 million once on-demand and catch-up views were taken into account.\n\nThe celebrities were split into two groups of five for the opening challenge\n\nThe other campmates this series include former EastEnders star Shane Richie, Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold, and journalist Victoria Derbyshire.\n\nActress Jessica Plummer, Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, podcaster Giovanna Fletcher and former Strictly pro dancer AJ Pritchard complete the line-up.\n\nThe episode opened with the 10 celebrities split into two groups of five, with one group meeting at the top of a cliff and the other at the bottom.\n\nThose at the top then had to start abseiling down the cliff to collect the team's rucksacks, which were padlocked half way down the cliff side.\n\nNorth was so nervous about the challenge he was sick before it began. \"I've only been here 5 minutes and I'm puking up already,\" 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 I'm A Celebrity... This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the episode, the 10 celebrities were told they would all take part in the first trial of the series, titled The Gates To Hell.\n\nThe challenge saw each of the campmates locked in 10 adjacent chambers. The team then had to pass gold stars, each worth a meal for the camp, from one end to the other - while having cockroaches, maggots and crickets dropped on them.\n\nThe group managed to move seven of the 10 gold stars to the end of the line.\n\nDerbyshire said she felt \"ecstatic that we got so many stars and that it's all over\", but North described the experience as \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nAfter the challenge was over, Callard discovered there were still critters in her pockets and said: \"Oh my god this is my worst nightmare!\"\n\nThis year's series is taking place in Gwrych Castle in North Wales\n\nThe campmates were also seen exploring their new home, with several of them less than impressed by the castle's washroom.\n\n\"Its minging, it needs a really good clean. Well I'm sorry but no. My hair. I will look like I've had Donald Trump's hairdresser,\" joked Callard.\n\nReflecting on the new location, Kay said: \"There are certain things that Australia would've provided that Wales doesn't - a tan, and the opportunity to wear budgie smugglers.\"\n\nOn social media, viewers enjoyed poking fun at the latest round of celebrities and their reactions to the first challenges.\n\nSeveral Twitter users made light of Arnold introducing herself as \"Hollie Arnold MBE\" when she met her fellow campmates.\n\nOthers enjoyed Plummer's struggle to remember where her group Neon Jungle's single had charted, confusing the Scottish singles chart with the overall UK chart.\n\nGiovanna Fletcher's husband Tom, from the band McFly, got particularly nervous watching the opening challenge, tweeting: \"Did Shane Richie just drop my wife off a cliff?!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 new setting broadly went down well with viewers, with TV critic Emma Bullimore writing: \"Wales looks gorgeous, it's a great group of celebs and Ant and Dec are on good form. I'd be happy for them never to go back to Australia.\"\n\nRadio 1 DJ Greg James agreed: \"I think it's gonna be better in Wales and won't ever go back to Australia.\"\n\n\"It wasn't what ITV bosses had planned but the early signs for this revamped, relocated series were promising,\" wrote Michael Hogan in the Telegraph. \"The new castle setting was telegenic and atmospheric.\"\n\n\"Who needs the Australian jungle when you've a draughty tower in Wales?\" wrote The Independent's Ed Power. \"Despite the new location and the fact it's being shot in winter, I'm A Celeb 2020 was exceedingly I'm A Celebrity.\"\n\nNorth's reaction to the first challenge led several viewers to suggest the public would inevitably vote for him to do the majority of the trials this series.\n\nAnd, sure enough, the episode concluded with North and Richie finding out they would face the next bushtucker trial.\n\nThis series will run for three weeks, with one winner ultimately being crowned the king or queen of the castle - instead of jungle.\n\nIt took a minute to acclimatise to I'm A Celebrity's new look as Ant and Dec welcomed viewers to North Wales, but it wasn't long before it began feeling like business as usual.\n\nJust like Love Island's move from Spain to South Africa for its winter series, the location might be different, but it fundamentally remains the same show with the same basic format underneath.\n\nAll the usual I'm A Celebrity building blocks are in place - it's already clear there will still be exhausted and terrified celebrities doing bushtucker trials while Ant and Dec hold the show together (and try not to laugh at them too much).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 year's line-up is strong and the group supported each other well during the first challenge, with Ant telling them they \"worked well as a team\".\n\nThis could end up being one of the most successful series of I'm A Celebrity yet for ITV. The current lockdown restrictions have resulted in a major ratings boost for programmes like Strictly Come Dancing as people stay at home.\n\nThe weather might be worse than in Australia, but there are a few big bonuses about being in the UK for this year's celebrities. Not only have they avoided jet lag, but staying in the UK's time zone will mean they won't have to get up at the crack of dawn for the live evictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The R number for the UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2, the closest it's been to 1 since early September.\n\nIt comes as the Office for National Statistics says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.\n\nData up to 6 November, the day after England's second lockdown began, shows infections falling in the north west but rising in the south and Midlands.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, infection rates were levelling off, the ONS says.\n\nBut in Wales rising infection levels were still continuing.\n\nAnd it's too early to say if they were stabilising a week ago in Scotland.\n\nAlthough growth may be slowing in some parts of the country, the government's scientific advisers say \"significant levels of healthcare demand and mortality will persist until R is reduced to and remains well below 1 for an extended period of time\".\n\nAn estimate of the R number, or reproduction number, of the virus is published every week and based on a number of different sources of data, including the ONS infection survey.\n\nThe ONS figures are based on thousands of swab tests in random households across the UK, thought to be one of the most reliable ways of judging how many people are infected with the virus - not just those with symptoms.\n\nThe data for the week to 6 November shows:\n\nIn England, the number of new cases is stabilising at 50,000 per day, the ONS says.\n\nBut infection rates appeared to be increasing in the south east, south west and East Midlands during that week where they had previously been low.\n\nAmong teenagers and young adults, who have seen the highest levels of the virus, infection rates appear to be levelling off or even falling.\n\nData from the Covid symptom app, based on one million people reporting symptoms, suggests cases are coming down across most areas of the UK - although numbers are still high.\n\nTheir figures are based on 13,000 swab tests carried out by users during the two weeks up to 8 November.\n\nGovernment figures on lab-confirmed cases show a picture of rising cases in many regions of England, but falling in the north west.\n\nOn Friday, there were 27,301 new confirmed cases of the virus in the UK - down from a record-high of 33,470 on Thursday. These represent people with symptoms who've received positive tests.\n\nHealth officials said Thursday's rise could be a result of people being infected while socialising in the days before England's second lockdown started on 5 November.\n\nAccording to the latest data from Public Health England, infection rates are rising quickly in the over-80s, who are most at risk from Covid-19.\n\nPHE said limiting contact with others \"will help to stop the spread of the virus and protect the people we love\".\n\nDifferent levels of restrictions on people's lives are currently in place across the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vienna imposed a partial lockdown at the start of November, including an overnight curfew\n\nAustria is moving from a night curfew and partial shutdown to a second national lockdown that will be in place for at least two and a half weeks.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz has urged Austrians not to meet anyone from outside their household in an attempt to curb a rapid rise in Covid cases.\n\nHe said schools would close and students would learn from home when new measures come into force on Tuesday.\n\nAustria reported a record number of 9,586 new daily infections on Friday.\n\nThat figure was nine times higher than at the peak of the initial wave earlier this year. The country has recorded more than 191,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, and 1,661 Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe new lockdown measures, which will see all non-essential shops and services - including hairdressers - close, will remain in place until 6 December. People have been told to work at home wherever possible.\n\nAustria's Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said it was the last chance to stop the health service from collapsing under the pressure of new infections.\n\nHe said Austrians had already done it once and they could do it again.\n\nAustria had its first nationwide lockdown in March, during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nAmid rising numbers, the capital Vienna had already imposed a partial lockdown, including a curfew from 20:00 to 06:00, at the start of November.\n\nCountries across Europe are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, with some - such as Sweden - warning that it is too early to plan for Christmas travel.\n\nIn Italy, more regions have been added to the list of coronavirus high-risk \"red zones\". Campania and Tuscany will join other regions placed under the strictest lockdown measures from Sunday.\n\nAuthorities in Campania, which includes Naples, have warned that the health system there is close to collapse. Italy passed one million confirmed cases earlier this week and there have been more than 44,000 deaths in the country.\n\nRestaurant workers in Rome protested against the latest restrictions on Friday\n\nA quarter of the new cases are in Lombardy, which includes Milan. It was the worst-hit area in Italy's first outbreak and it was Europe's first coronavirus hotspot.\n\nCampania, however, has shot straight from the yellow zone to red as a spike in cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.\n\nRegions are divided into three zones - red for the highest risk, then orange and yellow. In the red zone at the moment are Lombardy, Bolzano, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north, and Calabria in the south.\n\nIn these areas, which cover about 16.5 million people in a population of 60 million, residents can only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies. All non-essential shops are closed.\n\nBars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks. Hairdressers can remain open.\n\nGreece has announced that primary schools, kindergartens and day-care centres must close, as it tackles a death rate that has quadrupled since late October.\n\nSince Friday night, a curfew from 21:00 to 05:00 is in place nationwide.\n\nLockdowns and other measures are in force in several European countries experiencing a second wave of the virus. In other developments:", "Celebrations on Leicester's Golden Mile are said to be the largest outside of India\n\nEvery year, Leicester's Golden Mile - the city's length of road famous for its South Asian connections - becomes a noisy, joyous mass of colour and light as residents and visitors from around the world celebrate Diwali. But this year's lockdown means festivities will look very different.\n\nFor years the city has played host to one of the biggest celebrations of the festival of light outside India, with Hindus, Sikhs and Jains catching up, dressing in their finest clothes, cooking feasts and exchanging gifts.\n\nFor two nights of the year the road attracts 40-50,000 people for the lights switch-on and an evening of music and dancing.\n\nJoshna (left) said she had missed the atmosphere on the Golden Mile\n\nJoshna Ramji, 62, who lives in nearby Oadby, said she loved the \"buzz of the Golden Mile\" during Diwaili but this year felt very strange.\n\n\"Normally all the shops have decorations and signs up in their windows,\" she said. \"[The Golden Mile] is full of people buying gifts, food, new clothes or getting their hair done.\n\n\"But this year nobody is doing that and it is very, very quiet as businesses are closed. The atmosphere is very different.\"\n\nLeicester is the only British city to have been living under coronavirus restrictions continuously since March, meaning even though its usual celebrations have been severely curtailed, the urge to enjoy the festivities has for many people in the city been stronger than ever.\n\nDiwali for Joshna usually includes a big meal with family and friends\n\n\"Diwali is all about light over darkness and good over evil, which is even more important this year,\" said Mrs Ramji.\n\n\"It will bring a lot of pleasure to everybody at a time some people are feeling isolated and alone.\"\n\nInstead of the usual week-long of celebrations with friends and family, Mrs Ramji will just be cooking for herself and her husband at home.\n\n\"Normally we wake up early for prayers, light up candles and then have a lavish, lavish Indian meal at my sister's house and have fireworks,\" she said.\n\n\"This year it will just be us, but I'm going to put candles at the front of the house, inside, the back of the house and in the garden, just to make it feel as special as possible.\n\n\"It is a bit sad but we have to try and keep the Diwali spirit however we can otherwise it would be miserable.\"\n\nOwners of businesses on the Golden Mile who had hoped to rely on Diwali to make up for their losses this year described the road as \"very eerie\".\n\nDharmesh Lakhani, who owns Bobby's restaurant, said: \"The lights are up, the decorations are up but there are only a few people shopping for food and groceries.\n\n\"This festival is like our Christmas. So this is our Christmas gone.\"\n\nMr Lakhani said takings around the festival would be 15% of the usual trade.\n\n\"Businesses all down the road would be gearing up for this period with their new clothing designs and making all the sweets and we would have bookings of families meeting up for dinner,\" he said.\n\n\"Usually our shop is really busy, the road is busy and it's something celebrated by not just Hindus and Sikhs, but the whole city.\"\n\nThe crowds will be absent from Leicester's Diwali celebrations this year\n\nKaran Modha, who owns clothes shop Anokhi Sarees, said people would usually be buying new clothes for their Diwali celebrations or to give as gifts.\n\n\"People who are furloughed or lost their jobs are not going to be thinking about buying new outfits this year,\" he said.\n\n\"If they are doing a Zoom, they will just put some make up on, do their hair and wear something old.\"\n\nThis year will be the first time the shop has not hosted an in-store party for the celebration since the 1970s.\n\n\"It's going to be sad sitting at home instead, not knowing what to do with myself,\" added Mr Modha.\n\n\"The whole street feels weird at the moment. It doesn't feel like Diwali. There's not that jolly, vibrant feel.\n\n\"We are known for our window display at Diwali and we did it anyway because we wanted to still keep that tradition.\n\n\"This year I included a statue of Ganesh to spread some luck and joy, not just for ourselves and the other businesses on the street, but for everybody.\n\n\"We all need some kind of luck this year.\"\n\nAnokhi Sarees hopes their Diwali window display will bring luck and joy to the city\n\nPraful Bhatt, who runs meals on wheels charity Jalaram Sadvrat Leicester, has been delivering Diwali goody bags to elderly people to lift their spirits.\n\n\"This time has been pretty bad for the elderly and the vulnerable,\" he said.\n\n\"We've put together some bags with special Diwali foods - ghughra, chakli, mathia and Indian sweets barfi and halwa.\"\n\nMr Bhatt, who has been delivering food to elderly people since March, said it would be a very different festival.\n\n\"This time it'll be staying home as opposed to going out to celebrate but people are still upbeat about it,\" he said.\n\nPraful Bhatt has been delivering Diwali goody bags across Leicestershire to cheer up the elderly\n\nDespite the lockdown restrictions, the city council said it wanted people to enjoy Diwali from their own homes with a virtual celebration.\n\nCouncillor Piara Singh Clair said a video including messages from community leaders, as well as religious, musical and cultural elements, would be available on the Visit Leicester website from 19:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe said his \"heart went out\" to businesses on the Golden Mile.\n\n\"It was a big day they were looking forward to,\" he said.\n\nMr Singh Clair said he was disappointed so many key celebrations for the city had been disrupted this year but hoped one positive of the virtual Diwali event was that it would be shared with families worldwide.\n\nNima will be holding prayers at home with her husband and two children\n\nIndeed, there have been hopes the quieter tone of this year's celebrations could bring other aspects of Diwali to the fore.\n\nNima Suchak, a volunteer at the Hare Krishna Temple in Granby Street, has been taking part in virtual meditation and prayers every evening this month, which she said had been \"comforting\" during lockdown.\n\n\"In one sense it takes away all the external stuff of Diwali that people do get caught up in - the food, the gifts,\" said the 43-year-old from Knighton.\n\n\"Diwali is the pinnacle of the year for us, of bringing light into our lives, and there are opportunities that have come with lockdown that have meant personal reflection.\n\n\"Covid has impacted us all, so in one sense we might not be celebrating in a big way but we can take this time to look after ourselves and each other.\n\n\"We are going to be thinking about those less fortunate and see Diwali, just like Christmas, as a time that's not just about eating and drinking, but about thinking of others.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech's Ugur Sahin: \"I'm confident that...we could have a normal winter next year\"\n\nThe impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.\n\nProf Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the virus, resulting in a \"dramatic reduction in cases\".\n\nLast week, BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.\n\nAbout 43,000 people took part in tests.\n\nIn an interview on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Prof Sahin said he expected further analysis to show the vaccine would reduce transmission between people as well as stop symptoms developing in someone who has had the vaccine.\n\n\"I'm very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine - maybe not 90% but maybe 50% - but we should not forget that even that could result in a dramatic reduction of the pandemic spread,\" he said.\n\nThe UK is expected to get 10 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered. The jab, which was trialled in six countries, is given in two doses, three weeks apart.\n\nOlder residents and staff in care homes are likely to be prioritised, followed by health workers and the over-80s. People would then be ranked by age.\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nAfter the announcement of the world's first effective vaccine came on Monday, Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, suggested life could be back to normal by spring.\n\n\"I am probably the first guy to say that, but I will say that with some confidence,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Sahin said it would take longer.\n\nIf everything continued to go well, he said, the vaccine would begin to be delivered at the \"end of this year, beginning of next year\".\n\nHe said the goal was to deliver more than 300 million doses worldwide by next April, which \"could allow us to only start to make an impact\".\n\nHe said the bigger impact would happen later, adding: \"Summer will help us because the infection rate will go down in the summer and what is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate until or before autumn/winter next year.\"\n\nProf Sahin said it was essential that all immunisation programmes were completed before next autumn.\n\nThe vaccine has given a boost of confidence that an end to the pandemic is close, with the leading scientist behind it hopeful life could return to normal by next winter.\n\nBut there are some big uncertainties.\n\nThe vaccine needs approval from regulators - and they will only grant that if they're happy the jab is safe and works well. Early results look very good, but we await the full ones in the coming weeks.\n\nThere is also no data yet to show how well the jab works in those who need it the most - the elderly.\n\nNor do we know if it stops people spreading the disease, as well as getting sick.\n\nAnd it's not clear how long immunity might last. People might need yearly boosters.\n\nIf the vaccine is rolled out, it will take time to immunise and protect enough people.\n\nOther Covid-19 vaccines may come along that work just as well or even better than this new vaccine.\n\nBut it is possible that by the summer, mass immunisation will be well under way and we could start to reap the benefits.\n\nAsked if the vaccine was as effective in older people as it is in younger people, he said he expected to have a better idea in the next three weeks.\n\nHe said it was not yet known how long immunity would last after the second dose of the vaccine is given.\n\nHowever, he said, a booster immunisation \"should not be too complicated\" if it was found immunity was reduced significantly after one year.\n\nProf Sahin also said the \"key side effects\" of the vaccine seen so far were a mild to moderate pain in the injection site for a few days, while some participants had a mild to moderate fever over a similar period.\n\n\"We did not see any other serious side effects which would result in pausing or halting of the study,\" he added.\n\nHis vaccine is one of 11 currently in the final stages of testing.\n\nIt will not be released for use in the UK until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The agency's head has said it would not lower its safety standards despite the need to get a vaccine quickly.\n\nIf it was approved, the NHS would be ready to roll out the vaccine from December, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people not to slacken their resolve in the meantime, saying the vaccine's development \"cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go\".\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have been raised that mutated forms of the virus might hamper the effectiveness of future vaccines.\n\nIt comes after 12 people were found with a mink-related strain of the virus following an outbreak in Denmark.\n\nVirology professor Wendy Barclay, a scientific adviser for the government, said there was a \"worry\" that the vaccines currently under development \"won't work quite so well as the virus continues to evolve\".\n\nThis did not mean vaccines would not work at all, she added, but adaptable and fast-responding jabs could be the best option.\n\nEarlier, Labour accused the government of not doing enough to \"stamp out dangerous\" anti-vaccine content online and called for emergency laws brought in.\n\nIt wants financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said such content was \"exploiting people's fears, their mistrust of institutions and governments and spreading poison and harm\".\n\nHis party wanted to work with the government on a cross-party basis to build trust and help promote take-up of the vaccine, he said.\n\nThe government said it took the issue \"extremely seriously\" with \"a major commitment\" from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle anti-vaccine content.\n\nMany social media platforms label false content as misleading or disputed - and all remove posts that contravene terms of service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Joanna C, registered in Brixham in Devon, sank three miles off the coast at Seaford\n\nA search for two missing fishermen whose boat sank off the Sussex coast has been called off.\n\nA major rescue effort began at Seaford, near Newhaven, on Saturday when the coastguard received an emergency alert at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nOne crew member was found clinging to a buoy and taken to hospital.\n\nDespite an extensive search for two other crew members, the coastguard confirmed it had terminated efforts to find them at 15:00 GMT.\n\nThe emergency signal put the 45ft scalloping vessel, which was registered in Brixham, about three nautical miles off the coast.\n\nThroughout Saturday a number of vessels, including local fishing boats, took part in the search.\n\nEastbourne and Newhaven's RNLI lifeboats, two coastguard rescue helicopters and a fixed wing aircraft, and Birling Gap and Beachy Head Coastguard Rescue Teams were all involved, as were 12 other vessels which responded to appeals for help.\n\nThroughout Saturday a number of vessels took part in the search\n\nChris Thomas, deputy director of HM Coastguard said its National Maritime Operations Centre co-ordinated Saturday's rescue effort \"with many units searching tirelessly since first light\".\n\nHe continued: \"Sadly two other crewmen have not yet been found and all our thoughts are with their families and friends.\n\n\"It is testament to the local maritime community that HM Coastguard was so admirably supported throughout the day by nearby vessels and the local fishing communities, who joined us in force and made strenuous efforts to locate their colleagues during the search.\"\n\nOn Saturday, HM Coastguard controller Piers Stanbury said debris had been located close to where the alert had originated.\n\nHelen Lovell, from the Fishermen's Mission in Brixham, said the community was \"really pulling together\" and \"lighting candles and putting them in their windows\" to show they were thinking of the missing men.\n• None One rescued and two missing as fishing boat sinks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people who have tested positive in England, as a way to reduce the current 14-day quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said people will be offered tests every day for a week - and they will not need to isolate unless they test positive.\n\nHe also said rapid tests will allow every care home resident to have up to two visitors tested twice a week.\n\nThe chairman of the Independent Care Group which represents independent care homes, Mike Padgham, said the government was being \"rather ambitious\".\n\nAnnouncing the government's Covid-19 winter plan, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said repeat testing will be expanded for people in England whose close contact has tested positive for Covid-19, in a bid to cut the 14-day quarantine.\n\nCurrently those deemed to have been in contact with a Covid-positive person are required to isolate for 14 days.\n\nBut, under the new plan, people will be offered the opportunity to be tested every day for a week and, as long they test negative, will be able to go about their normal life.\n\nThe prime minister suggested the plan would begin in Liverpool this week - although the city council said plans were yet to be finalised.\n\n\"If successful this approach will be extended across the health system next month and to the whole of England from January,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson also said that mass testing will be introduced in all England's tier three areas, the highest alert level.\n\nIt follows a pilot of mass testing in Liverpool, which used rapid \"lateral flow\" tests. These are swab tests which give results within 30 minutes.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"If it works we should be able to offer those who test negative the prospect of fewer restrictions, for example meeting up in certain places with others who have also tested negative.\"\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the number of cases in Liverpool had \"gone down far more than I would have hoped for, frankly\" since the mass testing was introduced.\n\n\"The number of cases in Liverpool is now down by more than two thirds from when we started that process,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Now I know the PM will talk about increased testing, mass testing - that's welcome - but it's only part of the story because the other two parts: trace and isolate, are not fit for purpose.\n\n\"Sage advised, and continues to advise, that for trace and isolate to be effective the percentage of contacts traced needs to be about 80%. It's currently nowhere near that level.\"\n\nOn testing for care home visitors, Mr Johnson said: \"We are beginning to deploy these tests in our NHS and in care homes in England, so people will once again be able to hug and hold hands with loved ones instead of waving at them through a window.\"\n\nThe testing of care home visitors is already being piloted in 20 care homes in Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs this will be rolled out to every care home resident by the end of the year.\n\nHe said care workers who look after people in their own homes will also be offered weekly tests - as well as, from December, workers in food manufacturing, staff in prisons, and those delivering and administering Covid vaccines.\n\nThe idea of scrapping the isolation period for close contacts is an interesting development.\n\nOther countries have moved to shorter periods of isoaltion in the acknowledgement that large numbers of people are not completing their 14-day isolation if they are a close contact.\n\nThe 14-day timeframe was introduced as that is the length of time in theory incubation and the development of symptoms can take.\n\nBut the problem when infection rates are high is that people can find themselves having to come in and out of isolation on a regular basis.\n\nWhat is more, there is little evidence of how many infections the isolation of close contacts is actually preventing.\n\nThe result is that compliance is low. NHS Test and Trace estimates half of people asked to isolate follow the rules, although other studies have suggested it is even lower.\n\nSome have called for more pragmatism, arguing a shorter isolation will be more effective in controlling the spread of the virus because of greater compliance.\n\nScrapping the need to isolate altogether while linking it to regular testing is a different way of approaching it.\n\nConcerns have been expressed about the accurateness of the rapid tests being used - research has suggested they may only pick up half of positive cases.\n\nRepeating the test over a number of days could help tackle this.\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told Today the plan to test all care home visitors would make a \"massive difference\" although it would be a \"huge challenge\".\n\nThere have been strict restrictions on visiting in many care homes over the last eight months, due to the pandemic.\n\nAsked what extra support care homes would get, Mr Hancock said: \"We're going to put in place the protocols to allow it to be done.\n\n\"I don't think it takes extra staff to allow visitors to test. What I'm telling you is how we can make this happen.\"\n\nCare home boss Mr Padgham - who runs four care homes - said: \"Generally in principle we welcome it, there's lots of ifs and buts to go through yet.\"\n\n\"Depending on what type of test it is, if it's a lateral flow test which the results come back in 30 minutes we'll probably going to have to employ someone particularly to do that in each home.\n\n\"Which is going to be, not easy, from our perspective.\"\n\nCare homes have been badly affected by Covid-19 and, as in England, there are still rules over visits in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "The UK's four nations have backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is due to unveil on Monday a tougher three-tiered system for England - to be introduced at the end of the current lockdown on 2 December.\n\nThe 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants will also be relaxed.\n\nWork to finalise the arrangements for a UK-wide approach to restrictions this Christmas is ongoing.\n\nOne option that was discussed in meetings this weekend was that three households could be allowed to meet up for up to five days, according to the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young.\n\nMr Johnson will detail the strengthened tiered system in a statement to the House of Commons on Monday, and every region of England will be told on Thursday which tier they will be put into after the lockdown ends.\n\nGyms and non-essential retail are expected to be allowed to re-open in all areas under the new plans.\n\nLast orders in pubs and restaurants will remain at 10pm, but customers will have an extra hour to drink up.\n\nThe PM had also been hoping to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh cabinets to agree the plans.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had endorsed a \"shared objective of facilitating some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".\n\nBut they have emphasised that the public will be advised to \"remain cautious\", and that \"wherever possible people should avoid travelling and minimise social contact\".\n\nDiscussions are continuing - including about travel arrangements - but it is hoped agreement on the joint approach can be reached this week. The Scottish government said \"no agreement has been reached\".\n\nIn respect of Northern Ireland, ministers have also \"recognised that people will want to see family and friends across the island of Ireland, and this is the subject of discussions with the Irish government\", the Cabinet Office said.\n\nPre-lockdown, there were three tiers of restrictions - medium, high, and very high:\n\nMore areas are set to be placed into the higher tiers in England after lockdown.\n\nSome local measures will be the same as those in the previous three-tier system - which was in place in England until the current lockdown began - but some tiers will be strengthened, according to Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson met with his Cabinet to sign off on the plans on Sunday.\n\nThere have been calls by a cross-party group of MPs and peers for the PM to guarantee that church services will go ahead this Christmas, as current lockdown restrictions forbid most religious services.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is expected to publish research on Monday saying the previous tiered restrictions in England were not strong enough.\n\nBut 70 Tory MPs have said they will not back the proposals without evidence.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG) said it cannot support a tiered approach unless it sees evidence measures \"will save more lives than they cost\".\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the new tier system in the days before it comes into force.\n\nGovernment ministers and advisers have been hinting about new tougher tiers over the past week.\n\nBefore lockdown there was some evidence that tiers two and three were having an impact, but not tier one.\n\nCrucially, both the top two tiers involved banning mixing inside homes, so one option being discussed behind the scenes is introducing a ban across all the tiers until winter is over.\n\nThe exception will, of course, be Christmas.\n\nThat is a move that divides opinion. But the government sees it as a necessity, believing significant numbers of people will ignore any attempt to ban gatherings over the festive period.\n\nIt is also a recognition the public needs a break from the long hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nInfection rates will of course rise, but that will be offset to some extent by a wider boost to wellbeing.\n\nLabour has so far supported the need for restrictions to slow the spread of Covid-19, making a Commons defeat on the plan unlikely.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC her party wanted clarity from the government over how tiers would be decided and the support available for businesses.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another 18,662 new coronavirus cases and 398 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, bringing the UK total to 55,024.\n\nOf the figures, the government said: \"Due to a processing update, 141 previously published deaths within 28 days in England were excluded from the published data on November 21.\n\n\"This issue has now been corrected for data published on November 22, which includes deaths omitted yesterday in today's total and daily number of newly reported deaths.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Shamima Begum ran away to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the self-proclaimed Islamic State. But when the terror group was defeated, she ended up in a camp in Syria.\n\nNow, she wants to return home to the UK, but her British citizenship has been revoked by the government who say she poses a threat to national security.\n\nThe Supreme Court is deciding exactly how her case should be handled, and its decision could have huge implications on how cases like Shamima's are dealt with in the future.", "Many businesses in Northern Ireland will be forced to close for two weeks from Friday\n\nStormont ministers have agreed a multi-million pound support package to help people hit by tightened Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.\n\nFrom Friday, non-essential shops and businesses will close for two weeks, as part of tougher measures across NI.\n\nThe executive had pledged to provide additional financial support to businesses forced to close.\n\nThe immediate package will be worth about £338m, while £150m is being set aside for longer-term rates relief.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy set out full details of the plan in the assembly on Monday afternoon.\n\nIt comes as three more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland on Monday, bringing the total to 936.\n\nAmong the measures agreed by the executive are:\n\nThe pre-paid card issued through the voucher scheme will be worth about £200 per household, said Mr Murphy.\n\nHe said the Department for the Economy will roll out the plan in early 2021, as it takes about six weeks to develop.\n\n\"It's not meant to support households, it's meant to stimulate growth on the High Street,\" he told assembly members.\n\nOther allocations include £26.3m to the Department for Infrastructure to replace lost income for Translink, the Crumlin Road Gaol, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and the Rathlin Ferry, and £1.2m to support the City of Derry Airport.\n\nThere is also £5m to support the scheme for charities, to run until the end of March 2021, and £2.3m to top up the social enterprise grant scheme.\n\nThe finance minister also confirmed previously announced plans to extend free school meals payments until 2022, with £26.4m allocated to this.\n\nMr Murphy said uncertainty with the virus and not knowing how much Stormont would receive from the Treasury had made planning difficult.\n\nHe said the financial support package he was announcing was as a result of an additional £400m provided from Westminster two weeks ago to support the executive's response.\n\n\"Had we as an Executive allocated this funding immediately, we wouldn't have been able to take into account the new restrictions agreed by the Executive last week,\" he said.\n\n\"In my view it was right to have a plan in place to take us to the New Year, before making these allocations.\"\n\nMr Murphy and Economy Minister Diane Dodds are understood to have spent the weekend working on plans, with their departmental officials.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, three more coronavirus-related deaths were announced by the department of health on Monday, bringing its total to 936.\n\nA further 280 positive tests were recorded, meaning there have been 50,064 cases of Covid-19.\n\nThere were no additional deaths documented in the Republic of Ireland, where the total stands at 2,022.\n\nThere have been 70,711 confirmed cases after 252 more were reported.\n\nThere was a cautious welcome in the assembly for Mr Murphy's announcement, but as one MLA remarked: \"The devil will be in the detail.\"\n\nOfficials worked at pace over the weekend to draw up a support plan, using a mix of schemes already in place and some new grants.\n\nThe proposal grabbing most headlines is the voucher scheme for households to support the High Street, and some have questioned why every family will receive it, when some will obviously need more support than others.\n\nBut Mr Murphy defended the plan and said its purpose is to boost the High Street in the early New Year.\n\nThere are also concerns about how quickly payments will be made: Some businesses have been waiting more than five weeks for their grants promised during the first round of restrictions, implemented in October.\n\nThe executive will have to work at rapid speed to ensure people across Northern Ireland aren't left waiting, given Christmas is just around the corner.\n\nThe executive had faced criticism for not having new financial support in place before it announced the lockdown measures last Thursday evening.\n\nBut Mr Murphy said his officials were working as quickly as possible to process payments to those who need them.\n\nThe Belfast Chamber of Commerce has outlined a number of proposals to the executive about increasing assistance to businesses.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive Simon Hamilton welcomed the measures announced in the assembly.\n\nHe said he was particularly pleased by the voucher scheme, which his organisation had lobbied for.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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'We'd gladly have taken a full lockdown in October'\n\nThe lockdown measures will last until 11 December, with ministers saying the new restrictions represented the \"best chance\" of getting to Christmas and new year without further regulations being needed.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has called on his executive colleagues to show \"unity\" and he has called for an end to \"party-political point scoring\".\n\nHe was speaking in the assembly on Monday as he gave details of the latest Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe minister said the executive needs to \"put the last few weeks behind it\", and that the leaking of executive discussions to the media were not helpful.\n\nMr Swann and the first and deputy first ministers are also expected to continue discussions with the Westminster government and other devolved administrations this week about a coordinated approach to Christmas.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers told the assembly the DUP and Sinn Féin had \"undermined\" efforts to tackle Covid-19.\n\nHe said there was a \"sense of outrage\" at the behaviour of Sinn Féin figures who attended the funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June, while DUP politicians undermined the \"vital message\" of wearing masks by not doing so or by speaking out against the restrictions.\n\nSDLP MLA Dolores Kelly also attacked Sinn Féin for the party's actions around Mr Storey's funeral. She said the health message had been \"disregarded\".\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill took part in talks over the weekend, where leaders backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nBelfast's Castle Lane was busy with shoppers on Sunday\n\nIn respect of Northern Ireland, ministers have also \"recognised that people will want to see family and friends across the island of Ireland, and this is the subject of discussions with the Irish government\", the Cabinet Office said.\n\nThe government said work is continuing to finalise the arrangements, including on travel.", "Claudia Winkleman also co-hosts Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly\n\nClaudia Winkleman will replace Graham Norton when he leaves his Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2.\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing host will front the new programme from February, she confirmed on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Monday morning.\n\nWinkleman will take over the 10am-1pm slot in February. Norton will present his final show on 19 December after a decade with the station.\n\nHe is joining Virgin Radio to present a new show on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nNorton tweeted: \"Congratulations Claudia Winkleman, you'll love it!! Welcome to BBC Radio 2 Saturday mornings!!\"\n\nBall responded to the news with a simple but effective \"Wahooo\".\n\nDrivetime host Sara Cox said it was \"the BEST news\", adding: \"As a massive fan of Graham I was a little wibbly of belly about who was taking over his Saturday morning show so absolutely over the moon & thrice round Uranus that it's Claudia Winkles.\n\nThe BBC confirmed Winkleman would present her new show throughout the year - including the months where she also presents Strictly on Saturday nights.\n\nWinkleman's new programme will contain a similar mix of chat with showbiz stars and music.\n\n\"I'm not often speechless but the chance to be with the wonderful Radio 2 listeners every Saturday has left me, quite frankly, gobsmacked,\" said Winkleman in a statement\n\n\"I hope my voice comes back in time for the first show as I can no longer simply rely on a fake tan and a fringe.\"\n\nGraham Norton's final Radio 2 programme will be on Saturday 19 December\n\n\"There's nobody I'd rather be with at the weekend, it's a privilege and an honour,\" she added.\n\nThe 48-year-old is no newcomer to the station, having previously presented its Friday night arts show, as well as Claudia on Sunday - which ended in March.\n\nIn 2019, Winkleman, along with Ball and Vanessa Feltz, featured in the top 10 of the BBC's star salaries list after the corporation made efforts to tackle its equal pay problem.\n\nOn this year's list, Norton was confirmed as earning £750,000.\n\nRadio 2 is the UK's most listened to radio station, with a weekly audience of more than 14 million.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kevin Branton, left, and Richard Smith died at a property in Saltash in 2010\n\nThere were \"serious failings\" in the way home appliance firm Beko acted when it found its gas cookers had the potential to emit fatal levels of carbon monoxide, a coroner has found.\n\nAn inquest heard five people in Cornwall died after inadvertently turning on their grills.\n\nCoroner Geraint Williams concluded they died as the result of an accident.\n\nThe cookers have been linked to 13 other deaths in the UK and Ireland, the inquest heard.\n\nKevin Branton, 32, and Richard Smith, 30, died in 2010 in Saltash, while Maureen Cook, 47, Audrey Cook, 86, and Alfred \"John\" Cook, 90, died in 2013 in Camborne.\n\nThe Cook family were found dead in their home\n\nCornwall Coroner's Court heard that if the grill was used with the door shut, fatal levels of the poisonous gas built up due to a design fault with a rubber seal around the door.\n\nSumming up the six-day inquest, Mr Williams said it was \"glaringly obvious\" a grill might be deliberately or accidentally used with the door closed and this issue should have been recognised by Arcelik, Beko's parent company, which manufactured the cookers.\n\n\"This singular failure led ultimately to the deaths of Mr Smith, Mr Branton and the Cook family,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest heard Beko became aware of the first fatality - that of French student Alexis Landry in Ireland - on 13 November 2008.\n\nA list of the affected models, including the Flavel cooker Mr Smith and Mr Branton had in their Saltash home, is on Beko's website\n\nIt was contacted about two further deaths in Doncaster on 1 December.\n\nMr Williams said Beko's \"failure to pursue\" more information about the Doncaster deaths was a \"serious error\".\n\nHe found that a delay in Beko sharing information about testing results and further deaths was a \"serious failing\" and said there was a \"lost opportunity\" to stop Mr Smith's father from buying his cooker on 31 December - or to obtain his details from the retailer Co-op Homemaker in Plymouth, before it went out of business in 2009.\n\nIn a statement released after the hearing, Mr Branton's mother Denise said she believed \"Beko should and could have reacted quicker and more proactively\".\n\n\"If they had, I'm sure the cooker that killed our sons would not have been able to be purchased,\" she said.\n\n\"It would appear that there is a likelihood that some of these cookers may still be in use in some homes today.\n\n\"I strongly urge people who know of someone who owns an older cooker to check Beko's list of recalled cookers online as they are not all sold under the Beko name.\"\n\nMr Smith's father Brian said the cookers, which were not tested with their grill doors closed, should have undergone \"every conceivable test\" before being sold.\n\nHe said: \"I hope that the lessons learnt during this inquest are taken on board by all persons concerned who have a duty of care for public safety and regulations are changed to prevent further deaths.\"\n\nMr Williams said he would now consider whether to make any recommendations to prevent future deaths.\n\nIn a statement Beko said its main objective was to \"ensure that every Beko product is safe for our customers\".\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Since these tragic incidents, we've continued to raise our safety standards... We also collaborated with the industry to get the UK and EU gas safety standards changed in 2009.\n\n\"The new standard helps prevent a similar tragic event from happening again.\"", "Gyms and non-essential shops in all areas are expected to be allowed to reopen when England's lockdown ends.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Boris Johnson will explain the detail of England's return to the \"three-tier system\" when lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nIt is reported pubs in tier three will stay shut except for takeaway. In tier two, only those serving meals can open.\n\nLast orders in all pubs will remain at 22:00 GMT, but customers will have an extra hour to drink up.\n\nThe ban on outdoor grassroots sport is also set to be lifted in all tiers, following calls for this restriction to be eased.\n\nAnd mass testing will be introduced in all tier three areas.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Sport understands that outdoor sporting events in the lowest-risk areas will be allowed to admit up to 4,000 spectators in England from 2 December.\n\nThere will be no crowds allowed at sport in the highest-risk areas.\n\nDetails of which tier every region of England will be put into are expected on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to make a statement to the House of Commons at about 15:30 GMT unveiling the plans for Covid-19 restrictions in England from 2 December. MPs will vote on these proposals later this week.\n\nMore areas are set to be placed in the higher tiers - high risk or very high risk - after lockdown, No 10 has said.\n\nGyms and non-essential shops have been closed in England since 5 November, but are expected to reopen in all areas. Gyms were previously allowed to open in tier three, despite initially being told to shut in some places.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will we be allowed to do at Christmas?\n\nThe prime minister had hoped to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh governments to agree the plans.\n\nIt comes after the Westminster government said the UK's four nations had backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nOne option that was discussed in meetings this weekend was that three households could be allowed to meet up for up to five days, according to the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government hoped to agree a \"cautious, balanced approach\" for Christmas \"that can allow people to see their families, but also makes sure that we can keep the virus under control\".\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell the House of Commons later: \"The selflessness of people in following the rules is making a difference.\"\n\nThe increase in new cases is \"flattening off\" in England following the introduction of the nationwide lockdown measures, he will say.\n\nThe prime minister will say \"we are not out of the woods yet\", with the virus \"both far more infectious and far more deadly than seasonal flu\".\n\n\"But with expansion in testing and vaccines edging closer to deployment, the regional tiered system will help get the virus back under control and keep it there,\" he will say.\n\nReacting to the news of the reported proposals, the Campaign for Pubs - which represents publicans across the UK - said it \"will cause hardship for thousands of families of publicans, pub staff and suppliers, as well as the loss of thousands of pubs.\"\n\nIts chairman Paul Crossman, who is the licensee of three pubs in York, told BBC Radio York a relaxation of the 22:00 closing time was \"very welcome indeed\" but the news on the tiers was \"worrying\".\n\nKate Nicholls, chief of UKHospitality, which represents businesses in the industry, said news of \"significant additional controls\" will \"cripple the UK's hospitality sector and impede economic recovery\".\n\nAnd Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham told the Today programme that many hospitality businesses \"will not survive\" tougher restrictions.\n\n\"It seems that a toughened tier three could be devastating for the hospitality industry and will hit cities and the city economy very, very hard indeed,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of Conservative MPs in the Covid recovery group (CRG) are threatening to oppose any new restrictions in a Commons vote.\n\nGroup member and Tory MP Steve Baker said while they were \"reassured\" by some of the messages coming out of government, they needed to know more.\n\n\"It is still the case that where there are restrictions we still want to be sure they are going to have an impact on the transmission of Covid and we want to know that whatever is proposed they will save more lives than it will cost,\" he told Today.\n\n\"I think we will have to hear what the prime minister says before we decide how we are voting. There is of course always a danger colleagues will vote against.\"\n\nThe plan for extensive community testing in tier three areas follows a pilot programme in Liverpool, where more than 200,000 people were tested and which the government said contributed to the fall in cases there.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell MPs that rapid testing will \"help get the virus back under control and keep it there\".\n\nDaily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people who have tested positive in England, as a way to reduce the current 14-day quarantine.\n\nDowning Street also said weekly testing would be expanded to all staff working in food manufacturing, prisons and the vaccine programme from next month.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another 18,662 confirmed coronavirus cases and 398 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. The total includes 141 deaths which were omitted from the 21 November figures in error.", "The UK hospitality industry says that new Covid rules in England \"are killing Christmas\" and has warned pubs, restaurants and hotels face going bust.\n\nThe government will roll out regional restrictions after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the second lockdown in England will end on 2 December.\n\nBut new rules mean pubs operating under Tier 2 can only trade if customers have a \"substantial meal\".\n\nIn Tier 3, pubs must shut and can only sell goods for takeaway.\n\nIn contrast, gyms will be allowed to stay open under Tier 3 restrictions while outdoor and indoor spectator sports venues can reopen in Tier 1 and Tier 2 with limits.\n\nNon-essential shops and personal care, such as hairdressers, will also be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I'm very sorry, obviously, for the unavoidable hardship that this will cause for business owners who have already endured so much disruption this year.\"\n\nBut UK Hospitality's chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"The government is making a point of saying that these measures are needed in order to save Christmas.\n\n\"In reality, they are killing Christmas and beyond for many businesses and their customers who look forward to, and rely on, venues being open at this time of year. Sadly, for many staff, it will be a Christmas out of work.\"\n\nThe government also said it would ditch the 10pm curfew. However, pubs and restaurants must stop serving alcohol and food at 10pm and customers will have until 11pm to leave the premises.\n\nMs Nicholls said that under the rules that were in place before the current lockdown came into force on 5 November, some 76% of its members warned their business \"would not be viable\" if Tier 2 restrictions remained in placed for three months.\n\nThat number rose to 94% under the previous Tier 3 rules which stated that pubs could only stay open if they offered a substantial meal.\n\nBut she said under the new rules \"large swathes will just not be able to open at all\".\n\nIt's beginning to look a BIT like Christmas for some parts of the economy.\n\nFor retailers considered non-essential, reopening on 3 December was absolutely crucial. That industry will be breathing a huge sigh of relief as they will now have an opportunity - albeit truncated - to sell the Christmas stock they have bought in.\n\nIndustry sources told the BBC that although there had been a huge switch in consumer behaviour to internet shopping, the online pipe was still not wide enough to deliver Christmas on its own and the decision to reopen stores would help preserve hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\nHowever, the hospitality industry is still looking at a very bleak winter.\n\nThe prime minister said most of the UK would emerge from various forms of lockdown into a higher tier than they were in before it started. That is a disaster for pubs and restaurants. with 76% of them saying that even under the old Tier 2 conditions - in the middle - it was hardly worth opening as capacity was so constrained and alcohol sales so limited.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents the sector, said the return to this would be \"devastating\" and risk one million jobs.\n\nThe hospitality hit may have a knock-on effect on retailers as fewer shoppers are expected to take the streets if access to pubs, bars and restaurants is heavily restricted.\n\nMPs will vote on the proposed rules this week. Mr Johnson is expected to detail which regions in England will be placed into either Tier 1, 2 or 3 on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson said that \"without sensible precautions, we would risk the virus escalating into a winter or new year surge. The incidence of the disease is still, alas, widespread in many areas.\"\n\nHe said: \"While the previous local tiers did cut the 'R' number, they were not quite enough to reduce it below 1 so the scientific advice I'm afraid is that as we come out [of lockdown] our tiers need to be made tougher.\"\n\nBut Greater Manchester's Mayor Andy Burnham said a toughened Tier 3 \"could be devastating for the hospitality industry and will hit cities and the city economy very, very hard indeed\".\n\nWilliam Lees-Jones, managing-director of the brewery and pub chain JW Lees, hopes his pubs are not in Tier 3 areas\n\nHe warned that \"we will see widespread business failure\" in the hospitality sector if the tougher regional rules go ahead.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged Mr Johnson to outline which regions would be placed into which tier as soon as possible.\n\nWilliam Lees-Jones, managing-director of the brewery and pub chain JW Lees, said: \"I just hope that we are all in Tier 2 which means that we can be in business.\n\n\"We've brewed an awful lot of beer which we won't have anything to do with.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething says tiered lockdown restrictions may be introduced in the run up to Christmas\n\nTighter Covid restrictions could be implemented in Wales in the run-up to Christmas to bring the country more in line with other parts of the UK.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was hoping for a \"common approach\" from the four UK nations over the festive period.\n\nIt comes as details emerge of how rules could be relaxed at Christmas.\n\nBut Mr Gething dismissed as \"kite flying\" reports suggesting three households could meet for five days.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said ministers are considering whether Wales should adopt some of the restrictions currently in place in Scotland and those planned for England after the lockdown there ends in December.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Mr Gething said: \"We need to get to the festive season.\n\n\"And that may mean that we'll look to potentially think about the measures that Scotland have introduced as well as England, where they have a tiered system that largely complements each other.\n\n\"So we'll be thinking over the next week about whether we do need to have common approaches, as far as possible, in terms of how we ask people to go about living their lives.\n\n\"And that may mean that there'll be some changes [to the rules in Wales].\"\n\nCould Wales be facing tougher restrictions in the run-up to Christmas?\n\nMr Gething said a common set of measures \"would really help with the message for the public and to get us to the point where we have more headroom for the festive season when we know there will be more mixing between different groups of people\".\n\nFollowing those comments, a Welsh Government spokesman said ministers were considering a single system, rather than the tiered approach used in England and Scotland.\n\nMinisters in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been in talks with their UK government counterparts about the rules for Christmas.\n\nReports say they have backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\".\n\nThe BBC reported that one option discussed in meetings over the weekend was allowing three households to meet up for up to five days.\n\nBut Mr Gething said they had discussed \"the potential\" for a limited period of time to have some relaxation in the current measures in place but had not agreed numbers.\n\nSuggestions that three households could be allowed to meet over Christmas was welcomed by Paul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, who said it would be a \"sensible approach\".\n\nIt was \"crucial\" that there were common rules for Christmas across the four nations, he added.\n\nA single set of rules is expected to be agreed by the four UK governments\n\nCases of coronavirus among under-25s in Wales have risen again.\n\nInfection rates for younger people fell during and immediately after the recent firebreak lockdown.\n\nHowever Mr Gething described the latest increase as \"worrying\".\n\n\"We know, from the pattern of the pandemic so far in Wales, that infections in younger people quickly work their way through the community and into older people,\" he said.\n\nThere have been incidents in recent weeks of parties having to be broken up by authorities, including one in Cardiff that saw 52 students fined.Concerns were also raised when shops and bars reopened after the 17-day lockdown on 9 November.\n\nMinisters are worried about rising cases amongst young people spreading once again to older generations.\n\nSo with talks continuing about a four-nation approach to Christmas, Welsh Government is considering whether there are aspects of the pre-Christmas restrictions in the rest of the UK that they might usefully cherry-pick.\n\nIt is not inevitable that ministers will borrow any rules from England or Scotland - it depends what happens to case numbers.\n\nBut if they do import rules, it's safe to assume they'll be tougher than those currently in place here and they will be part of a single system across the whole of Wales.", "An American boy who was made to threaten President Donald Trump in an Islamic State group video says it was \"sweet relief\" to return to the US.\n\nMatthew, taken to Syria by his mother and stepfather, was 10 when he was filmed telling Mr Trump to prepare for a battle on US soil.\n\nNow 13, he has been living with his father for a year, after being flown home by the US military in 2018.\n\n\"It's happened and it's done. It's all behind me now,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I was so young I did not really understand any of it.\"\n\nMatthew has had counselling to help him deal with everything that happened to him and is coping well.\n\nHis stepfather, Moussa Elhassani, died in a suspected drone attack in the summer of 2017, while his mother, Samantha Sally, was convicted earlier this month of financing terrorism and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.\n\nMatthew with his mother and stepfather in the US\n\nIt was in April 2015 when the seemingly ordinary American family crossed into IS territory from the Turkish border province of Sanliurfa.\n\n\"We ran across an area that was very dark. It was at night, there was a lot of random spots of barbed wire… There wasn't much going through my head except, 'I need to run,'\" Matthew said, speaking about his ordeal for the first time to the BBC's Panorama programme and to Frontline, a programme made by US public broadcaster PBS.\n\nIn the city IS claimed as its capital, Raqqa, Matthew's stepfather, Elhassani, was sent for military training and became an IS sniper.\n\nThen eight years old, Matthew did his best to make sense of his new home. \"When we were first in Raqqa, we were in the city parts. It was pretty noisy, gunshots normally,\" he said. \"Once in a while a random explosion, like far away, though. So we didn't have too much to worry about.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew is now enjoying life in the US with his father Juan\n\nBut in early 2017 his mother emailed her sister in the US with a desperate plea for money to help the family escape, attaching extremely disturbing videos of Matthew.\n\nIn one, Elhassani forced Matthew to assemble a suicide belt. At his stepfather's instruction, Matthew role-played how he would welcome potential American rescuers, but then kill them by detonating the explosives.\n\nIn another video, he was seen taking apart a loaded AK-47, challenged by his stepfather to do so in under a minute.\n\nAs the US-led coalition intensified its airstrikes on Raqqa, a bomb hit a neighbouring house, which collapsed on to the family home, leaving Matthew to feel his way out through the rubble and dust.\n\nMatthew seen in the IS propaganda video, in which he was forced to recite a message to Donald Trump\n\nBy August 2017, Raqqa was in ruins, but the Islamic State group was still predicting victory and it forced Matthew to deliver a message of defiance. It released a video of him, then aged 10, threatening the president of the United States.\n\n\"My message to Trump, the puppet of the Jews: Allah has promised us victory and he's promised you defeat,\" said Matthew, reciting lines he had been made to learn. \"This battle is not going to end in Raqqa or Mosul. It's going to end in your lands… So get ready, for the fighting has just begun.\"\n\nIn his interview, Matthew said he was given no choice but to take part in the video, because of his stepfather's outbursts of anger. \"He was starting to lose it, like he was mentally unstable, very mentally unstable,\" he said.\n\nShortly afterwards, Elhassani was killed in a suspected drone strike. \"I was happy 'cause I didn't like him, obviously,\" Matthew said. \"I don't think I should have been, because a person died, but I was. We were all crying out of joy.\"\n\nMatthew's mother, Samantha Sally, was then able to pay people smugglers to get herself and her four children out of IS territory, with Matthew hidden inside a barrel on the back of a truck as it passed through IS checkpoints.\n\nWhen they reached Kurdish-controlled territory, they were held in a detention camp, and it's there in the winter of 2017 that Panorama first started talking to Sally.\n\nSamantha Sally being interviewed while in detention in Kurdish-controlled Syria\n\nShe said she had been tricked by her husband into taking her family to Syria and that she had had no idea what he had been planning.\n\nOnce in Raqqa, he had become violent towards her, she said. She admitted that they had bought two Yazidi teenage girls as slaves, and that her husband had regularly raped them.\n\nShe continued to stick to the story that she had been tricked after the family's return to the US, while she was in jail awaiting trial. Although she had supported her husband \"in his stupid ventures\", she was not guilty of supporting him to join IS, she insisted.\n\nBut the Panorama/Frontline investigation uncovered evidence that undermined this story.\n\nA member of the Elhassani family said that Moussa had become obsessed with IS in the months before the family left the US, and that he had seen him watching IS propaganda, including videos of executions, in the family home.\n\nA friend of Samantha Sally's also recalled a conversation with her in which she had said her husband had told her he'd been called to join \"the holy war\".\n\nAnd the Panorama/Frontline investigation discovered that Sally had made a series of trips to Hong Kong in the weeks before the family left the US, depositing at least $30,000 in cash and gold in safety deposit boxes.\n\nMatthew on a fishing trip with his father, Juan\n\nAfter almost 12 months behind bars, Sally changed her story and pleaded guilty to financing terrorism as part of a plea deal. Struggling to accept her guilt, she said, \"It was the only deal they could have offered with the T-word that didn't put the guidelines at a lifetime sentence.\"\n\nProsecutors described as \"horrifying\" their discovery that Sally had helped film the videos of her son Matthew being forced to assemble a suicide belt and take apart an AK-47.\n\nThey said it may never be known why she had helped her husband to join IS. Her defence argued that she had been coerced by her controlling husband.\n\nSpeaking about how it felt to step back on to US soil, Matthew said: \"It's like being in tight clothes or tight socks and shoes all day and then just taking it off and just feeling nice and chilling in a hot bath. That's what it felt like. Like sweet relief. It felt good.\"\n\nViewers in the UK can watch Return from ISIS: A Family's Story on Panorama, at 21:00 on BBC One on 23 November, or catch up later online.\n\nThe first episode of I'm Not a Monster, a 10-part podcast telling the family's story, will be available for download on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Reece\" rejects the idea that making people wait for the referral gives them \"time to think\" about their identity\n\nA 14-year-old transgender boy is starting legal proceedings against NHS England over delays to gender reassignment treatment.\n\nThe teenager has waited over a year for referral to the only NHS gender clinic for children and adolescents.\n\nThe Good Law Project, which is acting for the teenager, says the NHS has a legal obligation to provide specialist care to all patients within 18 weeks, or provide an alternative.\n\nNHS England says a review is under way.\n\nIt announced the independent review into gender identity services for young people in September. An NHS England spokesperson said this would include \"how and when children and young people were referred to specialist services\".\n\nThere have been previous reports of trans young people experiencing \"hugely distressing\" waits for treatment at the gender-identity development service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.\n\nBut others believe the clinic is too quick to offer gender transition treatment to teenagers.\n\nThe teenager at the centre of this latest case, who we are calling Reece at his request to protect his anonymity, told the BBC he \"ideally\" would not have to bring legal action.\n\nBut he says he had no choice because \"nobody else is sticking up for trans young people\".\n\nReece first came out as a trans boy in primary school. His family, friends and teachers were all supportive of him transitioning.\n\nSince moving to secondary school, everyone has always known him as a boy, only referring to his new name and he/him pronouns.\n\nHowever, Reece says he was able to access help with his transition only through expensive private healthcare.\n\nIn October 2019, Reece's GP referred him to the Tavistock. He has been on the waiting list for over a year, for the first stage of the process - a mental health assessment.\n\nHe says he is aware of others awaiting gender reassignment treatment.\n\n\"I know more than 30 trans people, from school and LGBT groups. Everybody's been waiting for months, or even years, but nobody's been able to get in yet.\n\n\"It's scary because it shows the service isn't available to the people who need it.\"\n\nThe Tavistock is currently booking appointments for people who have been waiting for an initial session since September 2017.\n\nHowever, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by the BBC has revealed that, since 2017, over 10,000 more young people have been referred to the already over-subscribed service.\n\nWaiting times, the number of referrals, and the treatment given, are all being investigated by an independent review.\n\nBev Jackson, from the LGB Alliance, a self-funded lobby group, said: \"We don't think children should be allowed to self-diagnose any medical condition.\n\n\"The numbers of referrals are so huge that I believe this is a social problem caused by miseducation. It is impossible for the NHS to deal with all of these young people who are coming forward.\n\n\"We need to take a step back and ask why are so many young people presenting at the clinic for a gender treatment?\"\n\nOne psychotherapist, who wanted to remain anonymous, said she believed the long waiting times could be \"a positive\".\n\n\"Having to wait a few years for initial treatment may benefit some young people who question their gender, as they will become more mature and more knowledgeable about their identity.\"\n\nHowever, Reece disagrees, saying this view \"really frustrates\" him.\n\n\"The solution to working out if a person is trans or not, is not to leave them on their own in a bad situation. If a person isn't actually trans, they won't realise that without professional support. That's why the different stages exist.\"\n\nJolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, who is representing the teenager, said: \"NHS England has a statutory duty to ensure that patients referred by their GP to a gender identity development service are seen within 18 weeks.\"\n\n\"This is not happening, and as a result, we believe the law shows they should be providing alternative care to anyone on the waiting list. That could include private and overseas healthcare.\n\n\"Whilst the young people are waiting, puberty passes and transitioning becomes a lot harder - some people are effectively denied treatment.\n\n\"The NHS needs to make a cultural decision that trans people are real, and they have the same rights to treatment as everybody else.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"There has been more than a 500% rise in the number of children and young people being referred to the Tavistock's gender identity service since 2013 as more people come forward for support and treatment.\n\n\"The NHS has already asked Dr Hilary Cass to carry out an independent review including how and when children and young people are referred to specialist services, so legal action against the NHS will only cost taxpayers' money and not help the actions already under way.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's new investment bank has opened for business with a mission to foster innovation and help meet climate change targets.\n\nThe Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) will be backed by £2bn of Scottish government funding over the next decade.\n\nOfficials have announced the bank's first investment - a Glasgow-based laser technology firm called M Squared.\n\nMSPs unanimously passed plans for the bank in January.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the bank as \"one of the most significant developments in the lifetime of this parliament\".\n\nIn its first decade, it will invest in businesses and projects that help Scotland meet its 2045 net zero target, tackle inequality and foster innovation in the country's businesses.\n\nSNIB chairman Willie Watt said he hoped the bank would eventually become a national, non-political institution.\n\nHe said: \"I want it to become a trusted institution that is seen as being owned by the whole of Scotland.\n\n\"A non-political, cornerstone institution in the investment landscape in Scotland.\n\n\"I want it to have a list of really good investments against each of those three missions so we can look back and say that we actually invested against these missions.\"\n\nFunding will be provided in multiple forms, according to Mr Watt, including through loans and equity purchases.\n\nThe idea is well established in other countries, and it's not new to Scotland. Enterprise agencies have been lending and investing in growth companies for many years.\n\nThe SNIB is different and important now because it steps up scale and ambition for what can be achieved.\n\nIt does so when there is less negativity about the role of the state in trying to \"pick winners\", and a growing appreciation that such investments can bring big dividends for the economy, society and technology.\n\nThe \"moonshot\" language used by Boris Johnson about Covid-19 testing reflects a belief that the state can set strategic goals and draw together the resources to achieve them, as the USA did with its 1969 moon landing. His former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, is a passionate advocate of America's way of supporting technology firms with government action.\n\nAnd the power of government procurement and support for private medical research through the pandemic is leading others to review the way they think about the other big global challenge, of tackling climate change.\n\nWhether the SNIB works depends on the quality of its foresight and decision-making, not only in getting returns but in drawing in private sector partners. It requires scale, and plans so far are not huge.\n\nThe trickiest bit can be getting the right level of autonomy - an arm's length from government interference, and denying ministers the easy option of bailouts when important employers are in financial distress.\n\nOnly two days before the SNIB was launched, a Scottish government policy paper was calling for it to bail out defaulting companies: \"We should consider scrapping interest charges on Covid-19 related loans, or converting these loans to equity, managed by public policy banks such as the Scottish National Investment Bank\".\n\nThere are positive examples, including Scottish Water. But the Scottish government portfolio of Ferguson shipyard, BiFab fabrication yards and Prestwick Airport so far does little to reassure taxpayers that their money is being put behind winning investments.\n\nProfit targets for the bank will be set in the coming months but the chairman said he does not expect money to be flowing back into the bank for the first few years.\n\nScottish National Investment Bank CEO Eilidh Mactaggart, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and bank chairman Willie Watt launched the national bank\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"The Scottish National Investment Bank will help to tackle some of the biggest challenges we face now and in the years to come, delivering economic, social and environmental returns.\n\n\"It is hitting the ground running with its first major investment in M Squared - a great example of the ambitious and innovative companies we have here in Scotland that will be key to our economic recovery and future prosperity.\n\n\"The launch of the bank is one of the most significant developments in the lifetime of this parliament, with the potential for it to transform, grow and decarbonise Scotland's economy.\"\n\nM Squared is based in Glasgow and specialises in quantum technology\n\nDr Graeme Malcolm, the founder of M Squared, said: \"Science and advanced technologies have a major role to play in Scotland's future economic prosperity.\n\n\"By increasing investment in research and development with a mission-based approach, Scotland has a real opportunity to actively tackle climate change and benefit from the coming quantum revolution.\n\n\"We are delighted that the Scottish National Investment Bank has invested in M Squared as its very first business - our shared commitments to society and the environment makes this an ideal partnership that will enable accelerated growth and progress in frontier technologies.\"", "A company that made insulation used on Grenfell Tower was \"stretching the truth\" by claiming its product was appropriate for use on high-rise buildings, a former employee has said.\n\nKingspan fire-tested its cladding product in 2005, but changed the insulation's formulation the next year.\n\nThe new version of the product failed to repeat the same performance.\n\nEx-technical director Ivor Meredith told the inquiry into the fire this was \"common knowledge\" at Kingspan.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on the west London tower block during its refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry is now examining how the blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nMr Meredith described a fire test using the new version of Kingspan's K15 in 2007 as a \"raging inferno\", with the insulation \"burning on its own steam\".\n\nHe told the inquiry he was shocked by what he saw.\n\nDespite this, Kingspan continued to use the results from the original 2005 test to sell its material as appropriate for use on high-rise buildings.\n\nKingspan K15 insulation was used in the flammable cladding system mounted on to Grenfell Tower, alongside Celotex RS5000.\n\nIn 2015, two years before the Grenfell Tower fire, Mr Meredith told his managers he had been put in a position where he had been asked to maintain the appearance of fire safety performance that - as he put it - \"that perhaps our products don't deserve\".\n\nHe added that many would question the company \"playing in [a] market [they were] not suitable for\".\n\nThe evidence comes a month after it was confirmed that test certificates for K15 from the 2005 tests had been withdrawn.\n\nA letter sent to the inquiry from Kingspan dated 23 October - shown in full to Monday's hearing - read: \"We have undertaken a comprehensive review of all past and current test data which relates to K15.\"\n\nIt added: \"It became apparent that the K15 manufactured in 2005 would not be representative of the product currently sold on the market from 2006 to today.\n\n\"While both products are still phenolic foam, Kingspan is now of the view that there are sufficient differences to consider withdrawing the test report.\"\n• None Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?", "There has been a huge rise in the number of children removed from school to be home educated, with many parents saying they were driven by Covid fears.\n\nA survey of 151 local councils by the Association of Directors of Children's Services suggests the number of home-schooled children in England rose 38%.\n\nThe ADCS estimates as many as 75,668 children were home educated on 1 October, up from 54,656 a year earlier.\n\nLocal councils said fear about Covid-19 was the top reason parents gave.\n\nSeveral councils said many families had told them they were intending to send their children back to school once their concerns over the pandemic and its risks were alleviated.\n\nOthers reported that some parents said they had made the decision because they felt so positively about having their children home during the closure of regular schools between March and July.\n\nFurther analysis by the ADCS found 25% of those children and young people registered for home education on 1 October had become so since term started.\n\nThere is no official national data on the number of home educated children and estimates vary widely.\n\nThe ADCS has carried out a comparable survey of its members in 151 local authorities in England on home education, every year since 2014 when it was about 23,000.\n\nThis year members from 133 councils responded to the survey. A total of 66,648 children were registered for Elective Home Education (EHE) on 1 October (school census day).\n\nThe researchers extrapolated these figures across the remaining 18 local authorities to come to the estimate of 75,668 children being home educated.\n\nOverall, the latest official government figures suggest there were 8.89 million children registered in schools in England in 2020.\n\nParents have a legal right to home educate their children, instead of sending them to school. Many do this for philosophical, ethical or religious reasons.\n\nOthers home educate as a last resort due to lack of support for special educational or mental health needs.\n\nBut children's services bosses are also concerned that removing a child from school takes them out children out of sightline of children's services, creating a safeguarding risk in a small number of cases.\n\nLocal authorities have a duty to ensure children are receiving a suitable education, but there is no statutory register of children with Elective Home Education.\n\nChairwoman of the ADCS Educational Achievement Policy Committee Gail Tolley said many parents and carers had felt the need to remove their child from school due to health concerns over the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We want to be able to support these families to make sure they are making an informed decision and are equipped to offer a good and broad education to their child/ren.\n\n\"However, without a statutory register it is impossible to know of every child or young person who is being electively home educated.\n\n\"Schools play an important role in safeguarding as they provide a direct line of sight to the child. If a child is taken out of school, it is vital we know that they are in a safe environment and that their needs are being met.\"\n\nThe Department for Education last year consulted on setting up a register of all children and young people who are not educated in school.\n\nCouncil leaders and heads of children's services say this would provide greater oversight of this growing trend. They also want resources to cover their responsibilities in this area.\n\nThe government is yet to publish its response to the consultation, but existing guidance is due to be renewed by December.\n\nA DfE spokesman said it was a national priority to keep schools open and any parents who were still concerned should engage with their school.\n\nAnd he pointed out that local authorities already have powers to request that home educating parents demonstrate that the education they are providing is sufficient and appropriate. The DfE has also published a blog setting out the responsibilities of parents educating their own children.\n\nThe Commons Education Committee is holding a session on home education on Tuesday as part of its inquiry into the issue.\n\nIt will also be examining the impact of Covid-19 on elective home education.\n• None Concern over numbers out of full-time school", "On 29 November 2019, a man with knives went on the attack in the London Bridge area.\n\nPhone footage from the day shows Darryn Frost fighting off Usman Khan with a narwhal tusk, to help end the attack.\n\nKhan, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was then shot dead by police.\n\nA year on, Darryn spoke to BBC Breakfast about his memories of the day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina has launched a mission to try to retrieve rock samples from the Moon.\n\nIts robotic Chang'e-5 spacecraft departed the Wenchang launch complex on a Long March 5 rocket early on Tuesday morning local time, and if successful should return to Earth in mid-December.\n\nIt's more than 40 years since the Americans and the Soviets brought home lunar rock and \"soil\" for analysis.\n\nChina aims to be only the third country to achieve this feat, which will be an extremely complex endeavour.\n\nIt's a multi-step process that involves an orbiter, a lander-ascender and finally a return component that uses a capsule to survive a fast and hot entry into Earth's atmosphere at the end of the mission.\n\nBut confidence should be high after a series of well-executed lunar missions that started just over a decade ago with a couple satellites.\n\nThese were followed up by lander-rover combinations - with the most recent, Chang'e-4, making a soft touch down on the Moon's farside, something no spacefaring nation had previously accomplished.\n\nA moment of joy for the Chang'e-5 launch team as the mission gets under way\n\nChang'e-5 is going to target a nearside location called Mons Rümker, a high volcanic complex in a region known as Oceanus Procellarum.\n\nThe rocks in this location are thought to be very young compared with those sampled by the US Apollo astronauts and the Soviet Luna robots - something like perhaps 1.3 billion years old versus the 3-4-billion-year-old rocks picked up on those earlier missions.\n\nThis will give scientists another data point for the method they use to age events in the inner Solar System.\n\nEssentially, researchers count craters - the older the surface, the more craters it has; the younger the surface, the fewer it has.\n\n\"The Moon is the chronometer of the Solar System, as far as we're concerned,\" explained Dr Neil Bowles at Oxford University.\n\n\"The samples returned by the Apollo and Luna missions came from known locations and were dated radiometrically very accurately, and we've been able to tie that information to the cratering rate and extrapolate ages to other surfaces in the Solar System.\"\n\nArtwork: This mission is the next step up in complexity\n\nThe new Chang'e-5 samples should also improve our understanding of the Moon's volcanic history, said Dr Katie Joy from the University of Manchester.\n\n\"The mission is being sent to an area where we know there were volcanoes erupting in the past. We want to know precisely when that was,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"This will tells us about the Moon's magmatic and thermal history through time, and from that we can start to answer questions more widely about when volcanism and magmatism was occurring on all of the inner Solar System planets, and why the Moon could have run out of energy to produce volcanoes earlier than some of those other bodies.\"\n\nThe Chang'e-4 mission touched down on the Moon's farside\n\nWhen Chang'e-5 arrives at the Moon it will go into orbit. A lander will then detach and make a powered descent.\n\nOnce down, instruments will characterise the surroundings before scooping up some surface material.\n\nThe lander has the capacity also to drill into the soil, or regolith.\n\nAn ascent vehicle will carry the samples back up to rendezvous with the orbiter.\n\nIt's at this stage that a complicated transfer must be undertaken, packaging the rock and soil into a capsule for despatch back to Earth. A shepherding craft will direct the capsule to enter the atmosphere over Inner Mongolia.\n\nEvery phase is difficult, but the architecture will be very familiar - it's very similar to how human missions to the Moon were conducted in the 1960/70s.\n\nChina is building towards that goal.\n\n\"You can certainly see the analogy between what's being done on the Chang'e-5 mission - in terms of the different elements and their interaction with each other - and what would be required for a human mission,\" said Dr James Carpenter, exploration science coordinator for human and robotic exploration at the European Space Agency.\n\n\"We're seeing right now an extraordinary expansion in lunar activity. We've got the US-led Artemis programme (to return astronauts to the Moon) and the partnerships around that; the Chinese with their very ambitious exploration programme; but also many more new actors as well.\"\n\nArtwork: The return capsule will approach Earth's atmosphere very fast\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Train companies are extending a scheme offering free travel to those fleeing domestic abuse in Great Britain until the end of March next year.\n\nThe \"Rail to Refuge\" scheme is a joint initiative involving rail operators and the charity Women's Aid.\n\nThe companies provide free tickets for women, men and children travelling to refuge services.\n\nCharities dealing with domestic abuse have reported a surge in appeals for help since the start of the pandemic.\n\nAnd after the first lockdown was lifted there was an increase in those seeking refuge places. Charities are now preparing for a repeat.\n\nNicki Norman, acting chief executive at Women's Aid, welcomed the news that the \"important\" scheme was being extended, saying: \"Thanks to the rail industry removing the financial barriers of travel, hundreds of women have left abusive relationships and been able to get to safety.\"\n\nShe added: \"Women face huge barriers in leaving an abuser. They tell us that they simply cannot afford to leave because the perpetrator has controlled their money and they have none of their own. Many women and children escape to a refuge with nothing at all.\"\n\nAnd many have to travel considerable distances to escape their abusers, moving to different local authorities.\n\nSince the first lockdown in the spring, train operators have provided free tickets to more than 600 adults and 200 children, according to the Rail Delivery Group, which brings together train companies across Britain.\n\nIt says the majority of those who have been helped said they would not have travelled if the journey had not been paid for.\n\nSurvivors need to have a confirmed refuge space in a refuge that is a member of the Women's Aid Federation of England (including Respect, which runs the Men's Advice line); Welsh Women's Aid; Scottish Women's Aid; and Imkaan, which specifically helps black, Asian and minority ethnic women in order to obtain a ticket. The refuge will then book the ticket on their behalf.\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer at the Rail Delivery Group said: \"We're proud to have provided a lifeline for people escaping a desperate situation, but there are still too many women, men and children who need help.\n\n\"Our staff are working hard to support the survivors of domestic abuse.\"\n\nRail to Refuge was first introduced by Southeastern before the Covid crisis in September 2019, after one of its station managers, Darren O'Brien, saw a TV documentary about the work done by Women's Aid at a refuge in Surrey.\n\nThe scheme was brought in across Britain shortly after the start of the first lockdown.\n\nSince then, domestic abuse charities have been dealing with big increases in calls and contacts to their helplines.\n\nProfessionals have always warned that for victims the most threatening periods can be when they are preparing to leave their abuser or when they have just left.\n\n\"Not only is it an extremely dangerous time,\" says Ms Norman. \"But many survivors have experienced years of economic abuse which restricts their practical ability to escape.\"\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "A large police operation was launched to close down the rave\n\nAn investigation has been launched into injuries caused by a police dog at an illegal rave.\n\nA young woman at the event in Yate near Bristol claims to have sustained \"life-changing injuries\" to her leg.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nAt the time, the force said officers were pelted with missiles when they moved in to disperse the crowd.\n\nIn an interview with the Independent newspaper, 28 year-old Jessica Mae Andrew said the dog attacked as police closed down the event on 31 October.\n\nShe says her injuries included a broken bone and she needed skin and muscle grafts along with reconstructive surgery.\n\nThe event took place on Halloween\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC said: \"We received a referral from Avon and Somerset Police after a member of the public sustained a dog bite injury in Yate.\n\n\"After careful consideration, we decided the matter was suitable for local investigation by the force.\n\n\"The IOPC will be provided with a copy of the force's final report so will retain some oversight of this matter.\"\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: \"The process is ongoing and will include reviewing body-worn camera footage.\n\n\"Our final report will be provided to the IOPC.\"\n\nSome police officers who went to break up the rave suffered minor injuries after having missiles thrown at them.\n\nAvon and Somerset Chief Constable Andy Marsh said those running the event had acted \"criminally and disgracefully\".\n\n\"It is hard to adequately explain how reckless it was to organise an unlicensed music event during the midst of a pandemic that has claimed so many lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police cordon was put in place around Westgate Street in Hackney\n\nA woman is in a life-threatening condition in hospital after being shot in a London street.\n\nThe woman, 32, was found with wounded on Westgate Street, Hackney, at 20:52 GMT on Sunday.\n\nPolice said the victim was \"an innocent bystander\". She was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital. Her next of kin has been informed.\n\nThe Met Police's specialist gang crime unit is investigating. There have been no arrests.\n\nDet Insp Matt Webb, said: \"We have been told that the area was busy at the time of the shooting.\n\n\"I am confident that someone has information that will help our investigation.\n\n\"At this early stage, we believe that the victim was an innocent bystander.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in south London.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at Ramillies Close, Brixton Hill, just before 18:00.\n\nOfficers are trying to trace his next of kin. No arrests have been made, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a man was knifed to death in Kensal Green, north-west London.\n\nA man in his 50s has been arrested in connection with the death and remains in police custody, but no details about the victim have been released.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's chancellor has raised concerns about the world's poorest securing access to Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nAngela Merkel was speaking at a G20 summit which saw leaders promise a fair distribution of jabs.\n\nBut Mrs Merkel warned progress was slow, saying she would raise the matter with global vaccine alliance GAVI.\n\n\"We will now speak with GAVI about when these negotiations will begin because I am somewhat worried that nothing has been done on that yet,\" she said.\n\nHer comments come as the US announced that some Americans could be vaccinated as early as 11 December.\n\nThe G20 summit of the world's leading economic powers was hosted by Saudi Arabia. Due to the pandemic meetings were held virtually.\n\nDuring the conference, the world's richest nations promised to support poor countries whose economies have been badly damaged by the crisis, but gave few details about what spending would entail.\n\nThe virus has infected nearly 60 million people around the world since emerging in China last December, and killed almost 1.4 million.\n\nG20 nations also pledged to address the immediate financing required to support the production and fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, as well as treatments for the virus, and tests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We will spare no effort to ensure their affordable and equitable access for all people,\" the group said in their closing communique.\n\nAt a news conference, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan emphasised that there was consensus among G20 nations that \"if we leave any country behind, we will be behind\".\n\nRich countries including the UK have already bought up huge numbers of vaccine doses from pharmaceutical firms.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron called on G20 leaders to \"go further and faster\" in supporting poorer nations by donating doses, forging industrial partnerships and even sharing intellectual property.\n\nBut the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said \"more funding is needed,\" to plug a $4.5bn (£3.3bn) gap in the so-called ACT-Accelerator, a mechanism led by the World Health Organization that aims to ensure access to tests, treatments and vaccines for all.", "Some of the UK's biggest food companies have attacked a plan that could see all online junk food advertising banned to tackle childhood obesity.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, bosses of firms including Britvic, Kellogg's and Mars said they supported government efforts to tackle obesity.\n\nBut they said the plans were \"disproportionate\" and lacked evidence.\n\nThe government has said it is determined to help children and families make \"healthier choices\".\n\nIt originally planned to ban online adverts and TV commercials for unhealthy foods that appeared before 9pm, but strengthened this in November.\n\nThe prime minister is said to have changed course after being hospitalised with Covid-19, something he links to being overweight.\n\nThe proposal, which is still under consultation, could usher in some of the toughest digital marketing restrictions in the world by the end of 2022.\n\nFirms would not be able to promote foods high in fat, salt or sugar in Facebook ads, paid search results on Google, text promotions and posts on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram.\n\nBut the letter, which has been signed by 800 food and drink manufacturers and 3,000 UK brands, says food companies have not been given enough time to submit detailed objections.\n\n\"The UK government is quite correctly committed to evidence-based policy making. However, the evidence base underpinning these proposals is lacking in both detail and efficacy,\" it says.\n\n\"Additionally, there is still no agreed definition of which foods the government is including in these proposals.\n\n\"They are so broad they even capture family favourites from chocolate to peanut butter to sausage rolls.\"\n\nUnilever, which also signed the letter, said it would stop marketing ice cream to children earlier this year\n\nThe government estimates children aged under 16 were exposed to 15 billion junk food adverts online in 2019, versus 700 million two years earlier.\n\nBut in the letter, firms said advertisers could use sophisticated online tools to aim their advertisements at adult audiences, not children.\n\nIt also voiced concern about plans to police how producers described their products on their own websites and social media channels, saying this would disproportionately impact smaller businesses - which make up 96% of the industry.\n\n\"Is it really the government's intention that a local wedding cake business, for example, would not be able to share product details on its Instagram account in order to grow its sales?\" the letter said.\n\nThe food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK, worth more than £28bn to the economy and employing almost 500,000 people.\n\nUnveiling plans for the ban earlier this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I am determined to help parents, children and families in the UK make healthier choices about what they eat.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We have committed to restricting HFSS adverts [for products high in fat, sugar and salt] on television before 9pm, but we also need to go further to address how children can be influenced online by adverts promoting unhealthy foods.\n\n\"We have launched a consultation to gather views from the public and industry stakeholders to understand the impact and challenges of introducing a total ban on the advertising of these products online.\"", "Deepspot is a diving pool that goes 45.5m (150ft) down and provides a space for divers to train.\n\nIt includes a ship wreck and separate chambers for divers to explore.\n\nDeepspot's president said he hopes the pool will also be used for training by firefighters and the army, not just scuba divers.", "Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with ALS in 2013\n\nPatrick Quinn, one of the men who helped drive the wildly popular Ice Bucket Challenge fundraising campaign, has died aged 37.\n\nQuinn, a New Yorker, was diagnosed with the incurable neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2013.\n\nHe died on Sunday morning, his supporters wrote on his official Facebook page. \"He was a blessing to us all in so many ways,\" they said.\n\nThe viral campaign has raised $220m (£163m) for ALS research.\n\nThe Ice Bucket Challenge did not begin with Quinn, but he and his family and friends helped it become a global social media phenomenon in the summer of 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former US President George W Bush was among those to take the challenge\n\nTo complete the challenge, people would dump a bucket of ice water over their heads and post the video to social media, challenging others to do the same or make a donation to ALS research. Often, people did both.\n\nThe challenge drew high-profile participants like former President George W Bush, Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and President Donald Trump.\n\nLast year, Pete Frates - the former college baseball star who was another key figure in the campaign - died aged 34.", "Restaurant owners have expressed anger at Stormont's approach to Covid-19 rules after large numbers of weekend shoppers lined Belfast's streets.\n\nIt comes ahead of non-essential shops in Northern Ireland being ordered to shut for two weeks from Friday.\n\nRestaurateur Bob McCoubrey said the scenes were \"hard to accept\", while pubs and restaurants remain closed.\n\nThe chief medical officer said there was a greater risk of spreading infection in hospitality settings.\n\nBBC News NI has contacted the Executive Office for a comment.\n\nChief Medical Officer Michael McBride said: \"In restaurants and in pubs, individuals are engaged in different interaction, they are closer together for a longer period of time and the risk is therefore greater.\"\n\nCafes, bars and restaurants closed on 17 October but shops, including those deemed non-essential, have been allowed to remain open during that time.\n\nLast Friday, hospitality businesses without an alcohol licence were allowed to reopen, but they must close again along with all non-essential retail at the end of the week.\n\nMr McCoubrey, who owns the Mourne Seafood Bar in Belfast's city centre, said he could not understand why his restaurant had to stay closed while shops were still open.\n\nHe retweeted the photo of a long queue outside Primark in Castle Street on Saturday, with a message that read: \"Hard to accept pictures like this when we can't even use our outside area.\"\n\n\"We're just angry\", he later told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I'm very frustrated. We've been closed for five weeks and we're no further forward in terms of the infection or the pressure on hospitals.\"\n\nWhile Mr McCoubrey did not see the queue outside Primark on Saturday, he said he had seen similar queues in recent days.\n\nShoppers lined both sides of the street outside Primark on Saturday afternoon\n\nThe photo outside Primark was taken by Caítlin Webb at about 14:00 GMT on Saturday. She sent it privately to a relative via WhatsApp and it later appeared on Twitter and Facebook, where it has since been widely shared.\n\nThe 21-year-old told BBC News NI the queue began on one side of Castle Street, snaked up as far as the Hercules Bar, and then continued along the other pavement into the shop.\n\nMs Webb said she briefly joined the queue herself, but left after about 10 minutes as she was concerned by a lack of social distancing.\n\nPrimark said: \"Nothing matters more to us than the safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers.\"\n\n\"As we re-open our stores in Northern Ireland in line with government advice, we continue to have extensive health and safety measures in place including a strict social distancing protocol and limits on the number of customers allowed in store,\" a Primark spokesperson added.\n\n\"Dedicated employees and security staff are on hand to help ensure these measures are adhered to.\n\n\"We continue to closely follow all safety advice from government across all our stores.\"\n\nAnother restaurateur described the scenes as an \"absolute scandal\" and claimed the situation had been created by the Stormont Executive \"with your inability to govern our country\".\n\nStevie Higginson, who owns two restaurants in Lisburn and Ballynahinch, said the current rules were a \"joke\".\n\n\"I can't serve 30 guests inside, socially-distanced with sanitiser on every table, staff wearing masks, screens up,\" he said.\n\nHe said restaurants had track-and-trace systems in place \"for every customer\", and service would be limited to a maximum of six people from the same household at each table if they were allowed to reopen.\n\nThe chief medical officer said: \"The retail sector are putting in place measures to restrict the number of people in their stores to maintain flows in a safe way to minimise contact between individuals indoors.\n\n\"The consequence of limiting the number of people indoors is that there may be, where there is demand for a particular retail outlet, there may be individuals outside waiting to come in.\"\n\n\"It is also important that those queues are managed appropriately, socially distanced, but they are outside and we need to bear that in mind,\" Dr McBride told BBC NI's Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on Monday,\n\nNI's Chief Scientific Adviser Prof Ian Young said that within the retail sector the interactions of people tended to:\n\nIt comes as the executive's plans to curtail church services due to Covid-19 have been criticised by a series of MLAs.\n\nPaul Givan the DUP MLA for Lagan Valley said the decision put people of faith in a conflicted place.\n\nMr Givan wondered whether some large churches could remain open with social distancing in place.\n\nThere was \"real anger\" that churches were closed, according to DUP MLA William Humphrey said.\n\nSDLP MLA Justin McNulty said he was worried about what effect closure would have on the mental health of church goers.\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann said such decisions were \"not taken easily\".\n\nMr Swann said he would be in favour of churches opening for private worship if \"social distancing is followed\".", "Students in England will be urged to take two Covid tests three days apart, to cut the risk of spreading infection when they travel home for Christmas.\n\nThese are lateral flow tests with rapid results - with those testing negative expected to leave university within the following 24 hours, according to the latest guidelines seen by the BBC.\n\nThe pre-Christmas testing will start in many universities early next week.\n\nBut testing will remain voluntary - and not all universities will offer tests.\n\nThe National Union of Students said there should be capacity for all students who wanted a test to get one before Christmas.\n\nMore than a million students in England will leave their university addresses to spend the Christmas holidays in another part of the country - and plans for testing are intended to stop this migration from spreading coronavirus.\n\nIt is understood that most universities, but not all, are taking part in the government's plans for the mass testing of students using lateral flow tests, starting on 30 November.\n\nStudents will be encouraged to take two tests\n\nDurham University, which has piloted testing, says about 2,000 students have already booked tests ahead of the Christmas departures.\n\nThe government guidelines recommend a double test to increase accuracy, three days apart, in the form of swab tests administered by the students themselves, at centres being set up by universities.\n\nThe results will be sent by text or email - with students who are not infected expected to leave their term-time accommodation \"immediately\", which is defined as within 24 hours of the second negative test.\n\nGetting students to leave soon after they get results is intended to cut the risk of infections post-testing.\n\n\"The closer to your travel time the better,\" says Professor Jacqui Ramagge, who is leading on testing for Durham University. And at her university, the two tests will be seven days apart rather than three.\n\nMinisters are urging students to take Covid tests before travelling, as a way of protecting their families, but it is not compulsory and not all universities will offer the testing.\n\nThose who do not take tests, or only have one test, will still be able to leave at the same time - with an encouragement to \"travel home as safely as possible\" during the \"travel window\" of 3 to 9 December, which the government has identified as when it expects most students to leave university for Christmas.\n\nThis will be after the current lockdown ends on 2 December, and ahead of universities switching to online teaching for the end of term.\n\nStudents who test positive will be directed towards taking another type of test - a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test to confirm whether they are infected - and will have to stay and self-isolate while waiting for the result.\n\nBut those who test positive from this PCR test will be required to stay in their term-time accommodation for 10 days of self-isolation - which should still leave enough time to get back before Christmas.\n\nThe \"window\" for students to travel home begins from 3 December\n\nTeesside University is among those opening testing centres from 30 November - and is encouraging students to book for two lateral flow tests at its Middlesbrough campus.\n\nPro Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Simpson said it would provide a \"quick and easy testing option to our students and enable them to make an informed decision about returning home for the upcoming Christmas break\".\n\nHe said it would help to address the \"considerable anxiety and a need for reassurance\" about the safety of travel ahead of the end of term.\n\nUniversities Minister Michelle Donelan said: \"Testing will offer further assurances that students can keep their families safe this winter, and I urge all students who can to take the tests on offer.\"", "The original bike appeared at about the same time as the hula-hooping girl artwork\n\nA bicycle that provided the foreground to a Banksy artwork was removed by the owner of the building the piece was painted on, a council has confirmed.\n\nThe bike went missing from its position outside a beauty salon in Nottingham over the weekend, leading to fears it had been stolen.\n\nResident Kyle Myatt was so disappointed by its disappearance he replaced it with a bike he bought himself.\n\nBut the council said on Monday the bike had been taken away \"for safekeeping\".\n\nThe Nottingham Project, an organisation aiming to \"rejuvenate\" the city, said on Twitter they are working with the council and the building owner to protect the artwork, including the bike.\n\nThe artwork first appeared on the building, on the junction of Rothesay Avenue and Ilkeston Road, on 13 October.\n\nA few days later it was claimed by the elusive artist via his Instagram account.\n\nThis new bike is also a Raleigh, a brand that used to be manufactured in the area the artwork is located\n\nThe original bike - sporting the livery \"Arkansas\" with a twisted front wheel and missing a back one, which the girl is depicted using as a hula hoop - was locked to a street sign.\n\nCrowds had flocked to see the artwork, and the city council protected it with a transparent cover before it was twice targeted with spray paint.\n\nWhen Mr Myatt, a 23-year-old food delivery rider, saw the original bike had gone he thought it had been stolen and decided to replace it.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Banksy put us on the radar by putting it on that wall. It makes the area look a lot better.\"\n\nHe said he found a £20 Raleigh bike on sale on Facebook and, using an old lock he already had, he took off the back wheel and put it where the old bike had been on Sunday evening.\n\nHe added: \"I just did it to see people happier.\n\n\"Even if it's not been stolen I'm still glad I replaced it as it looks like part of the Banksy.\n\n\"And at least now if someone does nick it, the original is safe.\"\n\nKyle Myatt said he regularly passes the Banksy while working and wanted to restore it for everyone to enjoy again\n\nArt fan and Nottingham resident Jasinya Powell, 39, said she too had thought it was a theft.\n\nShe said: \"This shows how Banksy has seen something we don't see in this city.\n\n\"We all assumed it had been stolen, but it was just for safekeeping.\n\n\"And now it's been replaced with another iconic piece by a member of the public. It's brilliant.\"\n\nResident Tracy Jayne found the artwork was missing its bike when she went to visit it on Sunday\n\nPeople queued to see the artwork\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTributes have been paid to a D-Day veteran who spent decades teaching \"peace and reconciliation\" to children in France and Wales.\n\nDavid Edwards, 95, had a French school named after him for his work promoting peace and understanding.\n\nMr Edwards died at home in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, leaving Diane, his wife of more than 70 years.\n\nOne of his sons, Chris, described him as his \"hero\" and vowed to continue his work with schools.\n\n\"Dad always said 'freedom' was a very powerful word, but the first four letters - free - is a bit of a misnomer, because he said freedom will always cost,\" he said.\n\nCaroline de Pechy, a head teacher from Normandy, first met Mr Edwards in the summer of 2000, when her new school in Mondrainville, near Caen, was named after the Normandy veteran and fellow ex-soldier Tom Griffiths.\n\nThe photograph of the house sparked a four-decade friendship\n\nHis link to the village stretched back decades - to a photo in the rubble of a farmhouse, just after D-Day in 1944.\n\nMr Edwards had signed up at 19 and joined 2nd battalion Monmouthshire Regiment, 53rd Welsh Division, and was one of thousands who fought to liberate France.\n\nSheltering in a ruined building, he spotted a photograph among the devastation.\n\n\"I just picked it up and kept it, you know as a kind of souvenir of the war, something to remember the place by,\" he said in 2014.\n\nHe was wounded in 1944, but returned back to his unit to fight through into the Netherlands and Germany, and was later sent as part of a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslavia, before returning to Abergavenny in 1946.\n\nAfter a 30-year career in the police force, Mr Edwards retired and went back to Normandy with Mr Griffiths for the 40th anniversary of D-Day.\n\nThe pair decided to try to find the house in the photo - and villager Jean-Louis le Goffe recognised it as his family's home.\n\nIt led to a four-decade friendship between the men, the village and the local school.\n\nCaroline de Pechy and David Edwards at one of his many visits to the school\n\nMr Edwards would regularly come back to speak to the pupils about his time fighting to liberate their country.\n\nMs de Pechy, head teacher of the Edwards-Griffiths school, said: \"I hope that in his heart, every single smile on our pupils' faces lightened the weight of the sacrifice they made.\n\n\"He was a beautiful soul and no doubt a great man - he leaves a legacy of tolerance and I think his legacy continues for many, many years.\"\n\nWayne Jones, head of Llanyrafon Primary school in Torfaen, where Mr Edwards also gave talks to pupils, said: \"David spoke about peace and reconciliation as much as the events of those dark days of the war.\n\n\"David was, quite simply, a hero and - at the same time as we send our deepest condolences to his family - we also celebrate the life of an exceptional man.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nA ban on outdoor grassroots sport is set to be lifted in England when the national lockdown ends.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will make a statement to the House of Commons on Monday unveiling plans for Covid-19 restrictions from 2 December, which MPs will vote on later in the week.\n\nWhile parts of the tier system will be toughened, it is expected that outdoor grassroots sport will be allowed across all tiers.\n\nGyms are also set to reopen.\n\nWhile elite sports has continued behind closed doors during England's four-week lockdown, grassroots and amateur sport has been halted since 5 November.\n\nThat saw leisure centres and gyms close, as well as other indoor and outdoor leisure facilities including golf courses, while all adult and children's grassroots football was suspended, despite calls for exemptions from the restrictions.\n\nTalking about grassroots sport, culture secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Sport on Thursday: \"I'm desperate for it to come back.\n\n\"I am pretty hopeful and confident as we go back into the tier system. It's top of the list for us to get it back from 2 December. I know how valuable it is.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We have to go through a proper process of evaluating the evidence; we have to wait until the final decisions are made.\"\n\nIn Scotland, only non-contact training is allowed in grassroots football under lockdown rules in areas under the most severe restrictions.\n\nLast week a £300m bail-out for spectator sports in England was announced, but no additional funding was directed specifically at recreational sport.\n\nLisa Wainwright, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, said it was \"critical that a proportion of this money goes to the lifeblood of each sport at the community level\".\n\nShe added: \"It remains crucial that community sport and recreation is opened up as soon as possible to enhance the physical and mental health of the nation as we move out of the debilitating effects of lockdown.\n\n\"While this release of funding is a very welcome development, we should remember that many sports are not covered by this package and they remain in a perilous situation with clubs and community centres struggling to survive the latest restrictions.\n\n\"To this extent, community sport and leisure still stands on a precipice.\"\n• None Check out his specially selected tracks from influential artists\n• None A World Cup winner on getting to grips with British slang", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"People will be able to leave their home for any purpose,\" says Prime Minister Boris Johnson\n\nGyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends next month, the prime minister has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson told the Commons that the three-tiered regional measures will return from 2 December, but he added that each tier will be toughened.\n\nSpectators will be allowed to return to some sporting events, and weddings and collective worship will resume.\n\nRegions will not find out which tier they are in until Thursday.\n\nThe allocation of tiers will be dependent on a number of factors, including each area's case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and the current and projected pressure on the NHS locally.\n\nTier allocations will be reviewed every 14 days, and the regional approach will last until March.\n\nThe PM, who is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for coronavirus, told MPs via video link he expected \"more regions will fall - at least temporarily - into higher levels than before\".\n\nHe said he was \"very sorry\" for the \"hardship\" that such restrictions would cause business owners.\n\nSpeaking later at a Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson added that \"things will look and feel very different\" after Easter, with a vaccine and mass testing.\n\nHe warned the months ahead \"will be hard, they will be cold\" - but added that with a \"favourable wind\" the majority of people most in need of a vaccination might be able to get one by Easter.\n\nUntil then, the PM said, there would be a three-pronged approach of \"tough tiering, mass community testing, and [the] roll-out of vaccines\".\n\nDescribing how the tiers had become tougher, the PM said:\n\nWhere pubs and restaurants are allowed to open, last orders will now be at 10pm, with drinkers allowed a further hour to finish their drinks.\n\nIndoor performances - such as those at the theatre - will also return in the lower two tiers, although with reduced capacity.\n\nIn terms of households mixing, in tier one a maximum of six people can meet indoors or outdoors; in tier two, there is no mixing of households indoors, and a maximum of six people can meet outdoors; and in tier three - the toughest tier - household mixing is not allowed indoors, or in most outdoor places.\n\nIn all tiers, exceptions apply for support bubbles. From 2 December, parents with babies under the age of one can form a support bubble with another household.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains the new three tier system for England\n\nMr Johnson said the tiers would now be a uniform set of rules, with no negotiations on additional measures for any particular region.\n\nMeasures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be decided by the devolved administrations, but a joint approach to Christmas, involving all four nations, will be set out later in the week.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I can't say that Christmas will be normal this year, but in a period of adversity time spent with loved ones is even more precious for people of all faiths and none.\n\n\"We all want some kind of Christmas; we need it; we certainly feel we deserve it.\n\n\"But this virus obviously is not going to grant a Christmas truce… and families will need to make a careful judgement about the risks of visiting elderly relatives.\"\n\nFor the third week running we have had some positive vaccine news, but the announcement about the toughened tiers is a reminder, if we needed any, that the next few months will be tough.\n\nMinisters and advisers have been hinting for the past week that the tiers will be toughened - and that is exactly what has happened.\n\nAttention will now naturally turn to which areas will be in which tiers.\n\nDeciding that is a complex equation that will take into account whether the cases are going up or down, the percentage of tests that are positive, hospital pressures and infection rates among older age groups.\n\nTo give a flavour of how complex this is places in the North West and Yorkshire have some of the highest rates but they are falling the fastest.\n\nLondon and the South East have lower rates and more hospital capacity but cases are going up.\n\nFine judgements will have to be made. We will find out on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson also announced changes to sport for both spectators and participants.\n\nWhile elite sport has continued behind closed doors during the lockdown, grassroots and amateur sport has been halted since 5 November.\n\nFrom 2 December, outdoor sports can resume, while spectators will be allowed to return in limited numbers. Some organised indoor sports can also resume.\n\nIn the lowest risk areas, a maximum of 50% occupancy of a stadium, or 4,000 fans - whichever is smaller - will be allowed to return. In tier two, that drops to 2,000 fans or 50% capacity, whichever is smaller.\n\nIn tier three, fans will continue to be barred from grounds.\n\nIn tiers one and two, business events can also resume inside and outside with tight capacity limits and social distancing, as can indoor performances in theatres and concert halls, the government's plan says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is the red-hot question\": Kier Starmer asks the PM which tiers each local area will be in\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the government's return to the regional system as \"risky... because the previous three-tier system didn't work\".\n\nHe added that decisions on which areas will belong to each tier must be taken without delay - \"I just can't emphasise how important it is that these decisions are taken very quickly and very clearly so everybody can plan.\n\n\"That is obviously particularly important for the millions who were in restrictions before the national lockdown, because the message to them today seems to be 'you will almost certainly be back where you were before the national lockdown - probably in even stricter restrictions'.\"\n\nHelen Dickinson, of the British Retail Consortium, said shops would be \"relieved\" at the decision to allow them to reopen.\n\n\"Sage data has always highlighted that retail is a safe environment, and firms have spent hundreds of millions on safety measures including Perspex screens, additional cleaning, and social distancing and will continue to follow all safety guidance,\" she said.\n\nBut the UK hospitality industry warned the new rules \"are killing Christmas and beyond\" and said pubs, restaurants and hotels faced going bust.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 15,450 positive coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Monday. There have also been a further 206 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. Figures can be lower on a Monday, due to a lag in reporting.\n\nEarlier, it was announced that daily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people who have tested positive in England, as a way to reduce the current 14-day quarantine period.\n\nMr Johnson said people will be offered tests every day for a week - and they will not need to isolate unless they test positive.\n\nHe also said rapid tests will allow every care home resident to have up to two visitors tested twice a week.", "Phrases including mask up, anti-mask, anti-masker and mask-shaming became much more commonly used\n\nThis year has seen so many seismic events that Oxford Dictionaries has expanded its word of the year to encompass several \"Words of an Unprecedented Year\".\n\nIts words are chosen to reflect 2020's \"ethos, mood, or preoccupations\".\n\nUse of the word pandemic has increased by more than 57,000% this year.\n\nCasper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, said: \"I've never witnessed a year in language like the one we've just had. The Oxford team was identifying hundreds of significant new words and usages as the year unfolded, dozens of which would have been a slam dunk for Word of the Year at any other time.\n\n\"It's both unprecedented and a little ironic - in a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other.\"\n\nAll languages evolve, but the rate of evolution has sped up today.\n\nIn this, the Too Much Information Age, when media is all pervasive, new words and usages adapt at an ever faster rate.\n\nIt's inevitable that the pandemic should have rescued old words (coronavirus), super-charged some that were loitering in our culture (furlough), and - in the case of Covid - created a neologism.\n\nWhat's more striking to me is how the news cycle generates new phrases and usages.\n\nBlack Lives Matter - BLM - was in usage before George Floyd was killed; but today it has penetrated our public domain as never before. So too mail-in and conspiracy theory - not because the conspiracy theories about mail-in ballots are new or true, but rather because they are espoused by the most famous person in the world, in Donald J Trump.\n\nYet the news cycle is a fickle friend, and sometimes not even a friend. That usage of Brexit should be down by 80% even as we enter its most critical phase shows that, sadly, the limited bandwidth of news programmes and human attention can harm priorities.\n\nIsn't now exactly the moment when we should be using Brexit more than ever?\n\nOxford University Press said it used \"evidence-based data\" to explore this year's language developments.\n\n\"We saw new words emerge, and historical words resurface with new significance, as the English language developed rapidly to keep pace with the political upheaval and societal tensions that defined the year,\" they added.\n\nThey divided their findings into specific areas:\n\nThe words key workers were included on a mural painted by Redcar resident Drew Allan earlier this year\n\nThe report said the word coronavirus dates back to the 60s and was previously \"mainly used by scientific and medical specialists\".\n\nBut by April this year it had become \"one of the most frequently used nouns in the English language, exceeding even the usage of the word time. By May, it had been surpassed by Covid-19.\n\nIt stated that the arrival of the pandemic saw \"huge increases\" from March in the use of circuit breaker, lockdown, and shelter-in-place, along with support bubbles or pods, face masks, PPE, medics, delivery drivers, and supermarket staff key workers, frontliners, or essential workers.\n\nThe report also stated that phrases including mask up, anti-mask, anti-masker and mask-shaming were \"among the proliferation of words reflecting attitudes towards the issue of mask-wearing\". Superspreader is a word dating back to the 70s, the report said, but it spiked in October when coronavirus cases spread in the White House.\n\nThe word reopening also increased in frequency as summer approached, relating to the number of shopping outlets that were closed during lockdown, while moonshot came into use, as the name of the UK government's programme for mass Covid testing.\n\nZoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues\n\nTwo words that have seen a growth of more than 300% since March are remote and remotely. As for Zoom meetings, it will come as no surprise that the words mute and unmute have had a \"significant rise in usage this year\".\n\nOther words getting a lot more use include workcation (up 500%) - a holiday in which you also work - and staycation (up 380%) - a holiday at home or in your home country. Both words have seen increase in usage, almost 500% and 380% respectively.\n\nThis year also saw an increase in activism and demonstrations, despite social distancing being in place. Usage of Black Lives Matter and BLM surged following the death of George Floyd in the US.\n\nThe report also said use of conspiracy theory has \"almost doubled between October 2019 and October 2020\" and use of the term QAnon increased 960% during that time.\n\nIt added that the words impeachment and acquittal, relating to US President Donald Trump, were more prevalent at the early part of the year, whereas more recently, words such as mail-in, relating to US voting, were up 3,000% compared with 2019.\n\nMeanwhile the word Brexit was used 80% less this year, but usage was up for the phrase cancel culture - the withdrawing of support from public figures whose words and actions were considered socially unacceptable.\n\nMany people commented on being able to hear more birdsong during lockdown\n\nThe report said that levels of media coverage for climate change have fallen this year due to the pandemic. But it said that the result was a new word being used - anthropause, referring to \"the global slowdown of travel and other human activity and the subsequent welcome consequences, such as a decrease in light and noise pollution\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The first known cases of the virus were detected in Wuhan, China last December Image caption: The first known cases of the virus were detected in Wuhan, China last December\n\nChina has given assurances that it will allow international experts into the country to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.\n\nThe WHO’s emergencies director, Dr Michael Ryan, said Chinese government officials had promised to facilitate a field trip to the country “as soon as possible”.\n\nThe first cases of the virus were detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.\n\nChina has rejected calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, arguing that such demands were politically motivated.\n\nBut China has been co-operating with the WHO, allowing it to send an advance team to Beijing in July to lay the groundwork for the international probe.\n\nSince then it has remained unclear when a larger team of scientists would be sent to China to begin more detailed studies of the virus and its origins.\n\nDr Ryan said “we fully expect to have a team on the ground”, with phase one of the investigation expected “over the next couple of months”.\n\n“Clearly, we all need to understand the origin of the virus,” Dr Ryan told a virtual media briefing on Monday. “We all need to understand where it has come from, not least to understand where it may re-emerge in the future. I believe our Chinese colleagues are just as anxious to find those answers as we are.”", "Infection rates have risen across Swale, including in towns such as Sittingbourne\n\nCoronavirus rules are being \"wilfully disregarded\" in the district with one of the highest infection rates in England, the local council leader said.\n\nSwale in Kent has the second highest rate in England, according to figures for the week to 19 November.\n\nRoger Truelove, leader of Swale Borough Council, said it was \"frustrating\" to see people not wearing face coverings and breaking social distancing rules.\n\nAn emergency meeting took place earlier to discuss the issue.\n\nThe district, which includes the Isle of Sheppey and towns such as Sittingbourne and Faversham, has a population of about 150,000.\n\nAs the meeting took place, nearby Medway Maritime Hospital announced the death of nurse Hannah Jackson, who is understood to have died after developing Covid-19.\n\nIt has been uncommon for an area of the South East to report an infection rate in the top 20 of England's 315 local authorities.\n\nBut two areas in Kent are now showing significant increases - Swale, with the second highest infection rate of 565 per 100,000 people and Thanet with the third highest rate of 508.\n\nSwale had earlier overtaken Hull as the worst-hit area in England, with a rate of 631.7 per 100,000 people in the week to 18 November.\n\nFigures for the week to 19 November show Hull once again has the highest rate in England, at 568.6 cases per 100,000. The rate has fallen from 743.4 in the week to 9 November.\n\nAbout 2,500 inmates are housed at three prisons on the Isle of Sheppey in Swale\n\nPrison Service officials joined the emergency meeting in Kent following suggestions that outbreaks in the area's three jails could be making a \"limited contribution\" to the high infection rate.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mr Truelove said it was found that only 12% of cases in the past fortnight were in care homes and prisons.\n\nThe virus was being spread in people's homes and at social gatherings, he said.\n\n\"It only takes a small number of people to create the clusters of cases that are driving up our figures,\" he added.\n\nSupport would be targeted at people who \"might not feel able to follow the rules,\" including people who \"may be unwilling to get a test as they can't afford to have time off work,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Scott-Clark, public health director at Kent County Council, said infections were rising among households with lower incomes.\n\n\"They are effectively some of our care workers and key workers who have to go out and are more likely to be exposed by the virus,\" he said.\n\nWhole families were being infected as the virus spread within a home, he added.\n\nMr Truelove had earlier: \"I know most people and businesses are doing what they should, but it is frustrating to still see people not wearing face coverings or keeping their distance when they should.\n\n\"This kind of wilful disregard of the rules means we are more likely to have further restrictions imposed on us in December, which is hugely unfair for people and businesses who have been doing the right thing since March.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Kayll died in hospital after being attacked at a home in Linton\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a teacher and the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy.\n\nCaroline Kayll, 47, died in hospital after she and the boy were attacked at a home in Linton in Northumberland on 15 November.\n\nThe boy suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries, police said.\n\nPaul Robson, 49, of Stanley Street in Wallsend, was arrested in Glasgow on Friday. He is due at Bedlington Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMs Kayll worked at Atkinson House school in Seghill, Northumberland, which caters for children with social, emotional and mental health issues.\n\nDet Insp Graeme Barr said: \"A murder investigation is always tragic for those involved and our thoughts go out to the families at this very difficult time.\n\n\"I'd like to thank those who have come forward with information to assist us with this case, and would appeal for anyone with further information - who has yet to do so - to get in touch.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has said people \"will not see austerity\" when he makes spending announcements for public services this week, despite the billions spent on the pandemic response.\n\nThe government has indicated it will keep to past promises when allocating funds for policing, nurses and schools.\n\nOn Wednesday the chancellor will detail the Spending Review.\n\nIt will outline how taxpayers' money will be spent on departments such as health and education.\n\nBut while ruling out a return to austerity, Mr Sunak has also warned people will soon see an \"economic shock laid bare\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that record government borrowing to deal with the coronavirus must be \"grappled with\".\n\nThe Spending Review will give a clearer picture of the economic damage wrought by the pandemic so far.\n\nHowever tax rises and spending cuts were unlikely in the short term, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We are still in the position of being able to borrow incredibly cheaply and really wanting to protect the economy,\" he said.\n\nAlthough tax rises might end up being \"quite significant\" they might not come until after the next election, Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"It's not something that is super-urgent as we come out of this crisis,\" he said.\n\nThere is speculation that the chancellor wants to freeze public sector pay\n\nLast week, reports that Mr Sunak would freeze wages for public sector staff were met with fierce criticism from unions and workers, though NHS frontline staff are likely to be excluded from such a move.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the chancellor said: \"You will not see austerity next week, what you will see is an increase in government spending, on day-to-day public services, quite a significant one coming on the increase we had last year.\"\n\nBut, while he said that he \"cannot comment on future pay policy\", Mr Sunak added: \"When we think about public pay settlements, I think it would be entirely reasonable to think of those in the context of the wider economic climate.\"\n\nIt is thought the chancellor is keen to freeze public sector pay since average private sector earnings have fallen this year.\n\nThe IFS's Mr Johnson said that while a pay freeze would save about £2bn a year, the chancellor would need to balance that with the need to keep money in the economy and the recruitment and retention of teachers and nurses.\n\n\"Over this year public sector pay has done much better than private sector pay... but this has come off the back of 10 years when public sector pay has done really quite badly,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, the shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, will give a speech which argues that: \"Freezing the pay of firefighters, hospital porters and teaching assistants will make them worried about making ends meet ahead of Christmas - that means they'll cut back on spending and our economy won't recover as quickly.\"\n\nLabour is calling on the government to bring forward £30bn in capital spending over the next 18 months to create new jobs.\n\nPrior spending commitments made by the government include the hiring of 50,000 more nurses, and 20,000 extra police officers by 2023.\n\nHowever, the BBC's Reality Check team points out that while 30,000 new nurses will be trained locally or recruited from overseas, 20,000 of the 50,000 roles announced will be existing nurses persuaded to stay in the profession.\n\nThe Reality Check team also points out that adding 20,000 police officers will return total staffing levels to the 143,000 police officers employed prior to the 2010 election when the Conservatives came to power.\n\nThe government has also promised to increase spending on schools by £2.2bn in the 2021-2022 financial year, and direct £1.5bn towards building works at Further Education colleges.\n\nThe Treasury announced on Sunday that another £1.25bn would be allocated to the prisons service.\n\nThe government says a total of £4bn will be allocated to build more than 18,000 additional prison places across England and Wales over the next four years. Some 10,000 of these places have been planned since 2015.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This has been a tough year for us all. But we won't let it get in the way of delivering on our promises - the British people deserve outstanding public services, and we remain committed to delivering their priorities as we put our public services at the heart of our economic renewal.\"", "A tougher three-tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in England when the lockdown ends on 2 December, Downing Street has said.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to set out his plan - including details of how families can see different households at Christmas - to MPs on Monday.\n\nMore areas are set to be placed into the higher tiers to keep the virus under control, No 10 said.\n\nAnd some tiers will be strengthened to safeguard lockdown progress.\n\nSome local measures will be the same as those in the previous three-tier system, which was in place in England until the current lockdown began.\n\nBut the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) is expected to publish research on Monday saying the previous restrictions were not strong enough.\n\nThe government will identify the tiers that each area will be placed into on Thursday.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants was one of the things it was looking to \"refine\".\n\nIt is understood rules will be relaxed to give people an extra hour to finish their food and drinks after last orders at 10pm.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said this would help businesses - but would be \"meaningless\" unless people were allowed to socialise with friends and family, particularly over the crucial Christmas period.\n\nPre-lockdown, there were three tiers of restrictions - medium, high, and very high:\n\nNewspaper reports suggest rules could be temporarily relaxed UK-wide over Christmas. Several families could be allowed to join in one \"bubble\" and mix between 22 and 28 December, according to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nMinisters have made clear the festive season will be different to normal - with some restrictions expected to remain in place.\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said conversations about Christmas between the different nations of the UK were ongoing.\n\nSources believe a deal is probable later next week - but it is unlikely to be signed off before the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nThe four nations have different Covid rules but ministers are hoping to agree a joint approach for the festive period.\n\nGovernment ministers and advisers have been hinting about new tougher tiers over the past week.\n\nBefore lockdown there was some evidence that tiers two and three were having an impact, but not tier one.\n\nCrucially, both the top two tiers involved banning mixing inside homes, so one option being discussed behind the scenes is introducing a ban across all the tiers until winter is over.\n\nThe exception will, of course, be Christmas.\n\nThat is a move that divides opinion. But the government sees it as a necessity, believing significant numbers of people will ignore any attempt to ban gatherings over the festive period.\n\nIt is also a recognition the public needs a break from the long hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nInfection rates will of course rise, but that will be offset to some extent by a wider boost to wellbeing.\n\nProf Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool, said he hoped it would be possible to relax rules over Christmas if the new tiered system worked but warned \"there will be a price\", including tighter restrictions in the future.\n\nHowever, Prof Semple, who is a member of Sage, told Sky News's Sophy Ridge there was \"a lot to be optimistic about\".\n\nHe said he expected mass vaccination of the general population to happen towards next summer, which would give \"broad immunity\" and allow a \"return back to normal\".\n\nMPs are expected to vote on the new tier system in the days before it comes into force.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are opposed to stricter measures, with 70 signing a letter coordinated by the recently-formed Covid Recovery Group (CRG), saying they cannot support a tiered approach unless they see evidence measures \"will save more lives than they cost\".\n\nEarlier this month, 32 Conservatives rebelled by voting against the current lockdown and 17 more, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, abstained.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, the CRG, led by former chief whip Mark Harper and ex-Brexit minister Steve Baker, warned against inflicting \"huge health and economic costs\".\n\nThe letter said: \"We cannot live under such a series of damaging lockdowns and apparently arbitrary restrictions, and expect our constituents to be grateful for being let out to enjoy the festive season, only to have strict restrictions imposed on them afterwards that cause them health problems and destroy their livelihood.\"\n\nAsked whether he would publish a cost-benefit analysis of any future measures, as called for by the CRG, the chancellor told Sky News it was \"very hard to be precise\" on the economic impacts of individual restrictions.\n\nLabour has so far supported the need for restrictions to slow the spread of Covid-19, making a Commons defeat on the plan unlikely.\n\nBut shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the BBC her party wanted clarity from the government over how tiers would be decided and the support available for businesses.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded another 19,875 new coronavirus cases and 341 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths was down from 511 on Friday, and 462 on Saturday 14 November.", "A 16-year-old girl has become the first TikTok user to cross the 100 million subscriber mark.\n\nCharli D'Amelio, from Norwalk, Connecticut, hit the milestone after a year and a half on the app.\n\nIt comes days after a controversy over her behaviour in a YouTube video.\n\nIn the first episode of her family's reality series, Dinner with the D'Amelios, fans claimed the star acted disrespectfully toward the personal chef who prepared them dinner.\n\nMore than 600,000 fans swiftly unfollowed her in protest.\n\nHowever, controversy died down after D'Amelio shared a video in which she apologised for her actions, and promised to do better.\n\nShe took to Twitter to thank fans for her record-breaking achievement on Sunday: \"100 million people supporting me... I truly cannot believe that this is real,\" she wrote.\n\nThe 16-year-old started out - as many did on TikTok - sharing videos of herself dancing in her bedroom.\n\nHer profile both on TikTok and outside the platform, has rocketed in the last year. She became the first person to hit 50 million subscribers in April.\n\nShe made her film debut in the 2019 animated feature Stardog and Turbocat, voice-acting alongside Luke Evans, Bill Nighy and Gemma Arterton.\n\nThe TikTok star has collaborated with global brands on fashion and make-up lines, and also had a drink named after her at Dunkin' Donuts.\n\nHer first book, Charli: The Ultimate Guide To Keeping It Real, will be released later this year.\n\nAccording to Forbes, such deals have earned her an estimated $4 million in the last year alone.\n\nD'Amelio found herself at the centre of another controversy earlier this year when she was falsely credited with creating the \"Renegade\" dance trend - something which actually came from Jalaiah Harmon, a black teenager from Atlanta, Georgia.\n\nWhile D'Amelio had never claimed to have created the dance, the confusion sparked claims that TikTok's algorithm showed unintentional racial bias.", "Messaging app Snapchat is offering a share of $1m (£750,000) to its users every day as it tries to compete with TikTok on viral videos.\n\nIts new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend \"the most engaging\" posts to watch based on what a user is interested in.\n\nSnapchat says the feature will include people with \"private, personal accounts\" as well as its biggest stars.\n\nThe $1m-a-day payment would run until at least the end of the year, it said.\n\nBut if successful it could potentially continue into 2021, the company said.\n\nVideos have to be submitted to the scheme to be eligible for the earnings. How much a video makes for its owner depends on a complicated formula - but includes how many views the video has.\n\nSnapchat has not, however, said how many people the $1m a day will be split between, or what the maximum individual earnings might be.\n\nUsers have to be 16 or over to be paid, and obey a host of rules around copyright, sponsorship, and drugs and alcohol, among other things.\n\nThe company says it will moderate the feed for violations - and for anyone attempting to game the algorithm.\n\n\"We actively monitor for fraud to ensure that we only account for authentic engagement with Snaps,\" it warned.\n\nThe payment system reflects the competitive market for the latest viral hits, according to Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"Snapchat lives and dies by how engaged users are with its content,\" he explained.\n\n\"Surfacing viral content and rewarding the creators that conceived that content is a sensible way to sustain its business, particularly in the light of the growing threat from TikTok and others.\"\n\nSnapchat rose to prominence for its 24-hour disappearing messages almost a decade ago. In the years since, the idea has been co-opted by competitors such as Instagram Stories and, most recently, Twitter's Fleets.\n\nAt the same time, TikTok has emerged as a favourite platform for original viral content, fuelled in part by its focus on easily adding music to posts.\n\nDespite the competitive market for users' attention, Snapchat recently announced that its daily user numbers had surged to almost 250 million during the pandemic.\n\nAnd while TikTok has faced its own challenges this year - most notably the constant threat of being banned by US President Donald Trump's administration - one of its stars became the first to reach more than 100 million followers.", "Nicola Sturgeon says progress is being made in talks on easing Covid rules at Christmas - but does not expect a similar relaxation at Hogmanay.\n\nScotland's first minister said a deal on a UK-wide approach to Christmas would be announced later in the week.\n\nShe said the plans would need to be \"sensible and careful\" to prevent a fresh wave of new cases in January.\n\nAnd she added: \"I do not expect that we will be announcing any particular relaxation over the new year period.\"\n\nOn Monday night Ms Sturgeon confirmed plans to move Midlothian from level three to level two had been postponed due to an increase in case numbers.\n\nBut an improving picture in East Lothian will see the local authority move to level two from 06:00 on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, responding to a question at her daily briefing, the first minister addressed the intense speculation surrounding the festive period.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We can't do everything. The Christmas thing is hard enough.\n\n\"Why Christmas and not new year? Well, maybe Christmas is a more important time for the kids.\n\n\"I think for most of us, even if we value new year, Christmas is still the time when families are more likely to not have someone on their own. So we can't do everything right now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM: No plans to relax restrictions for Hogmanay\n\nThe easing of rules at Christmas is expected to see \"a small number of households\" allowed to meet up over \"a small number of days\".\n\nTalks on the issue were held between ministers from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the UK government on Saturday.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the ministers had endorsed a \"shared objective of facilitating some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".\n\nThe BBC understands that one option under consideration is that three households could be allowed to meet up for five days over the festive period.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson had been hoping to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh cabinets to agree the plans.\n\nAny announcement is also expected to include rules on travelling between nations.\n\nMs Sturgeon said talks were \"making progress\", but stressed that \"details of this approach are still to be finalised\".\n\nEdinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party has been cancelled this year\n\nShe said: \"This is a particularly difficult balance to strike. If my email inbox is anything to go by, public opinion on this is quite mixed, as you would perhaps expect.\n\n\"There is an obvious desire to see loved ones at Christmas, but there is also a lot of anxiety about the potential risks associated with that - particularly at a time when we are perhaps starting to see the end of this pandemic loom on the horizon.\"\n\nThe first minister said the deal would likely see \"some households able to form slightly larger bubbles over a short period\".\n\nHowever, she said this \"has to be on a very limited basis\" - focusing on gatherings in people's homes rather than in hospitality settings.\n\nExperts have raised concerns about relaxing restrictions over Christmas\n\nMs Sturgeon said isolation and loneliness could \"hit people particularly hard over the Christmas period\".\n\nBut she said people should \"think very carefully\" about whether they need to travel or meet up indoors.\n\nShe added: \"The virus won't take Christmas off. If you provide it with opportunities to spread from household to household, it will take them.\n\n\"Just because you might be able to mix a bit more doesn't mean you have to do that if you don't think it's necessary, or if you can get though Christmas without it.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that she was against restrictions being eased \"simply because it's Christmas\".\n\nShe added: \"It certainly sounds as if that it's a trade-off - that you behave now, keep transmission low, then we might be able to do something over Christmas that resembles something familiar to us.\n\n\"The best Christmas present we can give to people is to keep them safe - it really is the bottom line.\n\n\"The best way to keep safe is to try and avoid the risk as much as possible and if you must meet family, which most of us are longing to do, try to do it outdoors if you possibly can - and fingers crossed we get a dry and less windy and wet Christmas time.\"\n\nMinisters are considering allowing some household mixing over Christmas\n\nLast month John Keenan, the bishop of Paisley, called for a Christmas \"truce\" - a 24-hour lifting of restrictions - to give people a \"moment of joy in the midst of so much despair\".\n\nReacting to news of the four-nations discussions, he told BBC Scotland he was glad politicians were considering some way of accommodating Christmas during the pandemic.\n\nBut he admitted he was \"conflicted\".\n\n\"The thought of my mum - who's a widow - being on her own all through Christmas day is an awful thought for me,\" he said.\n\n\"On the other hand the thought that I might go there and pass on a virus to her is equally awful so I think we're all conflicted about it. \"", "China and glassware offered in First Class are up for grabs\n\nCan't think what to buy your loved one for Christmas?\n\nHow about a British Airways drinks trolley? A First Class cabin bread basket or slippers, perhaps? Or even a hot towel (available cold)?\n\nOn Monday, the cash-strapped airline began selling off thousands of items of surplus stock, from champagne flutes to bedding.\n\nOther items include an insulated box from a Boeing 747 kitchen, yours for £75, and serving trays - £10 for five.\n\nThe move comes months after BA decided to auction some of its precious artwork hanging in offices and airport lounges, including a £1m-plus work by Bridget Riley.\n\nBA's profits have evaporated and the airline is making thousands of job cuts because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on air travel.\n\nLast month, BA's parent company IAG reported a £5.1bn loss for the first nine months of 2020, a dramatic reverse from the £1.6bn profit made during the same period in 2019.\n\nBut the latest sale is not just because it needs to save every penny, the airline says.\n\nChanges in the mix of aircraft fleet and in-cabin service, plus the likelihood that BA will be a slimmer operation until air travel picks up, mean its warehouses are full of items that will never be used.\n\nMeal/equipment boxes from planes are up for sale\n\nBA retired its 747 aircraft this year, and has put some memorabilia in the sale.\n\nAnd while the event is not quite a sell-off of the family silver, the airline is getting rid of stacks of English bone china made by William Edwards, including plates, soup bowls, cups, saucers, and butter dishes. A set of four William Edwards pasta bowls is £40.\n\nCarolina Martinoli, British Airways' director of brand and customer experience, said it was the first time the airline had organised such a sale.\n\n\"We know that these special items will fly and we are delighted to be able to offer them in time for Christmas to give people the opportunity to make it memorable during a difficult year,\" she said.\n\nRob Burgess, of the frequent flyer website www.headforpoints.com, said that from the reaction among the community using his site \"it appears there's a huge appetite to buy\".\n\n\"I think it is partly nostalgia, and partly because it is actually excellent value for money given the suppliers that BA uses. Some items such as the day blankets have already sold out along with the brandy and champagne glasses.\"\n\nThe metal boxes used in the aircraft kitchens seem to be going fast, he added, probably simply because it's a chance for people to \"get their hands on some unusual items\".\n\nAircraft items and memorabilia can be hugely popular among enthusiasts. For example, Concorde products are among the most sought-after. At the top-end of collectibles, the famous dropped nose cones fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds on the rare occasions they come up for auction.", "The artwork showed a girl hula-hooping with a tyre next to a bike missing its back wheel\n\nA bicycle which formed part of Banksy's hula-hooping girl artwork has gone missing.\n\nThe graffiti artist's latest piece appeared on a residential street in Nottingham on 13 October.\n\nIt showed a girl hula-hooping with a tyre next to a bike missing its back wheel.\n\nBut the bicycle vanished from its post outside a beauty parlour in Rothesay Avenue over the weekend, which one visitor described as \"such a shame\".\n\nResident Tracy Jayne found the artwork had been targeted when she went to visit it on Sunday morning.\n\n\"The artwork records an important part of Nottingham's history, Raleigh bikes,\" she said.\n\n\"My late husband worked for Raleigh until it closed in 2002. He died at age 48 in 2017.\n\n\"It's such a shame if someone has stolen the bike. It's sheer disrespect and saddens me very much. \"\n\nResident Tracy Jayne found the artwork had been targeted when she went to visit it on Sunday\n\nBanksy's work drew queues of sightseers when it was claimed by the artist's Instagram feed and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.\n\nThe council protected it with a transparent cover, but the artwork has been targeted with spray paint at least twice.\n\nBoth Nottinghamshire Police and Nottingham City Council said the removal of the bike had not been reported to them.\n\nBanksy began spray-painting trains and walls in his home city of Bristol in the 1990s, and before long was leaving his artistic mark all over the world.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A maximum of 4,000 fans will be allowed at outdoor events in the lowest-risk areas when the four-week lockdown in England ends on 2 December.\n\nUp to 2,000 people will be allowed in tier two areas but none in tier three.\n\nIndoor venues in tiers one and two can have a maximum of 1,000 spectators, with capacity across indoor and outdoor venues limited to 50%.\n\nOrganised grassroots sport will be able to resume, and gyms and leisure centres can reopen across all tiers.\n\nElite sport has continued behind closed doors during the national lockdown, but grassroots and amateur sport has been halted since 5 November.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government's new measures and Covid-19 restrictions in England on Monday via video link to the House of Commons.\n\nThe news of which areas will be in which tiers is expected to be made public on Thursday.\n\n\"In tiers one and two, spectator sports and business events will be free to resume inside and outside with capacity limits and social distancing,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"Later this week, we will announce which areas will fall into which tier - I hope on Thursday - based on analysis of cases in all age groups, especially the over-60s.\n\n\"Also, [it will involve] looking at the rate at which cases are rising or falling, the percentage of those tested in a local population who have Covid and current and projected pressures on the NHS.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"This is a big step forward for sport.\n\n\"Bringing grassroots sport back was my number one priority, so I'm pleased we are reopening sports and gyms in every tier, in recognition of the significant health benefits.\n\n\"I'm also delighted we are able to get the turnstiles turning sooner than expected, taking a cautious approach and starting with the lowest-risk areas first.\n\n\"I'm confident that sports will take every step to ensure their fans are safe and fans will play their part and look out for each other until we can safely get everyone back in.\"\n\n'We have missed our fans'\n\nFootball across England's top four divisions has been played behind closed doors since its return in June, following the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Premier League said it welcomed the prospect of fans returning in \"small numbers\" but it hopes to work with the government to increase this to more \"substantial levels\" to stop clubs operating \"at a financial loss\".\n\nIt added: \"Our priority continues to be the agreement of a roadmap, with DCMS and the Sports Technology and Innovation Group, for pilot events that can help our clubs quickly scale up to larger capacities.\"\n\n\"Even if it is limited numbers, it brings that feel and that connection back,\" said Dyche, before his side's home Premier League match against Crystal Palace.\n\n\"Hopefully it will build quickly after that. We have missed our fans.\"\n\nThe English Football League (EFL) is looking at the possibility of shifting some of next week's fixtures to take advantage of the plan.\n\nThe EFL has a full schedule of matches in the Championship, League One and League Two across 1-2 December.\n\nNo decisions have yet been taken but any club in a tier one or two area that requested a move from Tuesday to Wednesday is likely to receive a favourable response if there is no conflict with broadcasting requirements.\n\n\"Fans have always felt football should be treated the same as other sectors,\" said a Football Supporters' Association statement.\n\n\"We welcome today's announcement, which does suggest that will be the case, and we look forward to seeing further details.\n\n\"For many lower-league and non-league clubs in particular, getting paying fans into stadiums safely is absolutely critical to their survival during a very difficult season.\n\n\"Clubs, leagues and the Sports Ground Safety Authority have worked hard to put in procedures to make stadiums safe places and we hope this is the first step on the road back to normality.\"\n\nGrassroots sports can take place in all areas but the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said there will be \"some restrictions on highest-risk activity in tier three areas\".\n\nIts statement added: \"Spectators at non-elite sports will be able to attend events in line with Covid-secure guidance for each tier.\"\n\nIndoor sports can resume but, because of \"the higher transmission risk of coronavirus in an indoor setting\", the DCMS said there would be restrictions on \"some activities\" depending on the \"alert level\" of the local area.\n\nThis re-emergence of sport, both in terms of the long-awaited return of fans and the resumption of recreational activity, is an important and encouraging milestone.\n\nThe second shutdown of community sport has been devastating for the grassroots, with tens of thousands of clubs, gyms, pools and jobs jeopardised, activity levels affected and participants' physical and mental health harmed at the worst possible time, with exercise seen as crucial to the country's recovery.\n\nThe return of grassroots sport will be celebrated by many, especially after it was not included in the list of direct beneficiaries in last week's £300m bailout of spectator sports.\n\nBut there are still frustrations, with gyms disappointed that group activity is restricted in certain areas, disproportionately affecting female users, for whom exercise classes are especially important. There have also been further calls for the government to provide more financial support to the community sport sector.\n\nEqually, with large swathes of the country in the higher-risk areas, it is unclear how many football or rugby clubs will be in tier one and actually allowed to welcome the maximum 4,000 fans back.\n\nFor many bigger clubs, who firmly believe they should have been able to have their grounds a third full from the start of last month, this will be of little comfort amid an unprecedented financial crisis, and they will want that number to increase rapidly. In fact, some clubs have said they will actually lose money by opening up their grounds for just 2000-4000 fans.\n\nThere are also concerns over fairness if only certain teams can reopen their turnstiles.\n\nBut eight months after fans were last seen at regular sporting events in England, this has at least provided hope and a possible road to recovery.\n• In tier one areas, indoor sports can take place within the rule of six. For example, people from different households could play three v three volleyball, or four people from different households could play doubles tennis or badminton.\n• None Group activities such as training sessions and exercise classes can take place in larger numbers, provided that people are in separate groups (up to six people) that do not mix.\n• In tier two areas, indoor sport can take place within households and people can take part in group activity, like exercise classes, as long as there is no mixing between households.\n• None People can play certain sports which do not involve close proximity or physical contact against one person from another household, such as a singles tennis match.\n• In tier three areas, indoor sport will be restricted to within your household only and there should be no group activity such as exercise classes.\n\nWhat has the reaction been?\n\nSport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said: \"Huge credit is due to the many organisations and individuals who have worked so hard to evidence how safe their activities and facilities are and to set out so clearly what they are doing to reduce risk.\n\n\"From the prime minister down, there is now a strong recognition of the vital benefits of playing sport and being active, not just for your physical wellbeing but also, crucially, as a support for your mental health.\n\n\"As we head into the winter months having a range of safe opportunities available like this is more important than ever.\"\n\nA joint statement from some of horse racing's leading bodies said that, while it had been operating behind closed doors since 1 June, test events had shown \"no evidence of transmission\" of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the numbers are limited to begin with and not all venues will be allowed to admit spectators, but this is progress,\" said British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust.\n\n\"I am confident that all our racegoers will follow the government's public health guidelines when they return to racing and this will allow us to increase the numbers attending.\"\n\nPremiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs said: \"We won't know the exact impact on our clubs until the tiers are announced on Thursday, so my team stands ready to work with government to tackle the challenges of fan attendance in a way that minimises health risks.\n\n\"Keeping the league intact has been my number one priority during the pandemic and now we have the foundations from which to grow the game and build longer-term financial stability.\"\n\nBefore the announcement, Daniel Levy, chairman of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, said preparations had already been made for supporters coming back.\n\n\"Premier League clubs are entirely capable, similar to the experience in several other countries, of responsibly delivering outdoor events with social distancing, exemplary hygiene standards, qualified stewards, testing capabilities and diverse travel plans, operating in some of the most technologically advanced venues in the world,\" said Levy.\n• None A World Cup winner on getting to grips with British slang", "Labour's chief whip has asked ex-party leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"unequivocally\" apologise for saying the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been \"overstated for political reasons\".\n\nMr Corbyn was suspended from the party following his comments but later readmitted as a member after saying he regretted any \"pain\" caused.\n\nBut, Sir Keir Starmer blocked Mr Corbyn from returning as a Labour MP.\n\nThe Labour leader said he would keep the decision under review.\n\nThe row between the former and current leader was triggered when the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published a report, saying Labour had broken the law over its handling of anti-Jewish racism complaints by party members .\n\nIn a letter to his former boss, Nick Brown, Labour's chief whip, said Mr Corbyn's response to the report caused \"distress and pain\" to the Jewish community.\n\nThe chief whip is responsible for organising a party's MPs in Parliament so they vote the way the party wants them to, and can discipline any who do not follow the party line.\n\nMr Brown asked the Islington North MP to \"unequivocally, unambiguously and without reservation apologise for your comments\".\n\nHe also sought confirmation that Mr Corbyn would remove or edit his response on Facebook - and that he would cooperate fully with the party's efforts to implement the EHRC's recommendations.\n\nThe tone of Nick Brown's letter suggests that without making an unequivocal apology, Mr Corbyn is unlikely to have the Labour whip restored.\n\nBut allies of Mr Corbyn have accused the current Labour leader of acting in bad faith.\n\nThey claim an agreement was reached with party officials and members of Sir Keir's staff that would have seen Mr Corbyn readmitted without an apology.\n\nThey now fear his suspension could be indefinite, and that the dispute between a former and current leader will end up in the courts.\n\nLabour sources deny that any such deal was reached.\n\nFollowing publication of the EHRC report in October Mr Corbyn said he was \"always determined to eliminate all forms of racism\" and insisted his team had \"acted to speed up\" the complaints process.\n\nHe also said the scale of anti-Semitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party\".\n\nHis comments prompted the party to suspend its former leader.\n\nThree weeks later Mr Corbyn sought to clarify his words saying: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nHe was subsequently readmitted to the party as a member; however Sir Keir did not allow him back into the Parliamentary Labour Party - a decision Mr Corbyn's lawyers have challenged.", "Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has denied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Gulf kingdom on Sunday to secretly meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nMr Netanyahu has declined to comment on the Israeli reports that he was on board a private jet that travelled from Tel Aviv to the Red Sea city of Neom.\n\nIt would be the first known meeting between leaders of the historical foes.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been pressing them to normalise relations after brokering deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan in recent months.\n\nSaudi Arabia cautiously welcomed those moves, but indicated it would wait until there was a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nAlso on Monday, a delegation of senior Israeli officials travelled to Sudan on what would also be the first such visit to a formerly hostile country, an unnamed Israeli official confirmed. The countries are expected to map out areas of co-operation.\n\nCiting unnamed Israeli sources, Israeli public broadcaster Kan and other media earlier reported that Mr Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad intelligence service, Yossi Cohen, attended talks in Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening with Crown Prince Mohammed and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nA senior Saudi adviser told the Wall Street Journal that the leaders discussed several issues, including normalisation of ties and Iran, but that no substantial agreements were reached.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held talks on Sunday\n\nHowever, the Saudi foreign minister later denied that any Israeli officials had attended the meeting between Prince Mohammed and Mr Pompeo.\n\n\"The only officials present were American and Saudi,\" Prince Faisal said.\n\nThe BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, who is in Riyadh, says senior Saudi officials are denying this highly sensitive story, on and off the record.\n\nThis has long been a matter of very delicate diplomacy for the kingdom, which has taken an awkward, if not embarrassing, turn, she adds.\n\nMr Pompeo meanwhile tweeted that he held constructive talks with Prince Mohammed in Neom and posted a photograph showing them together.\n\nThe reported trip was spotted by an Israeli journalist on a flight-tracking website; a private jet used by Mr Netanyahu was flying to the Saudi city of Neom.\n\nThe Red Sea resort is a hi-tech and tourism hub planned by Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nIt is close to the borders of Egypt and Jordan, and only some 70km (44 miles) from the southern tip of Israel - a symbolic destination for the leaders to discuss a changing Middle East, mediated by President Trump's outgoing team.\n\nWith the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan signed up, normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be the big deal.\n\nThe agreements mark big diplomatic and trade wins; also in the background are some controversial US arms sales, and the Trump team's desire to consolidate its regional allies against Iran.\n\nBut Saudi Arabia will be cautious over going public with an Israeli rapprochement for fear of a backlash in the conservative nation. And the big hurdle comes back to a core issue - the Saudis still say there will be no deal before the Israelis reach a permanent peace agreement with the Palestinians.\n\nIsraeli media reported that Mr Netanyahu flew on a private jet belonging to Israeli businessman Udi Angel that the prime minister had used for previous overseas trips.\n\nAccording to data from FlightRadar24.com, a Gulfstream IV jet took off from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International airport on Sunday afternoon and flew south along the eastern coast of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula before heading towards Saudi Arabia's north-western Red Sea coast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by avi scharf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 aircraft landed in Neom just after 18:30 GMT and remained there until 21:50, according to the data. It then returned to Tel Aviv via the same route.\n\nMr Netanyahu said he would not comment, adding only that he was \"working on broadening the circle of peace\".\n\nBut in an interview with Army Radio, Israel's Education Minister Yoav Gallant appeared to confirm the meeting took place, saying talks between Mr Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed were an amazing achievement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi FM: \"No Israel normalisation before peace deal with Palestinians\"\n\nMr Netanyahu's social media adviser, Topaz Luk, meanwhile tweeted: \"Gantz is playing politics while the prime minister is making peace\".\n\nMr Luk seemed to be referring to a decision by Defence Minister Benny Gantz, Mr Netanyahu's rival, to establish a commission of inquiry into a $2bn (£1.5bn) submarine deal with Germany that has been described by some as the biggest corruption scandal in Israeli history.\n\nPresident Trump has said he expects Saudi Arabia to normalise relations with Israel, but such a move faces big hurdles.\n\nPrince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said in an interview on Saturday with Reuters news agency during the G20 summit - hosted by Saudi Arabia but with world leaders participating virtually - that the kingdom's position had not changed.\n\n\"We have supported normalisation with Israel for a long time, because we are the authors of the 2002 Arab Peace initiative, which envisioned complete normalisation with Israel.\"\n\n\"But there is one very important thing that has to happen first, which is a permanent and full peace deal between the Palestinians and Israelis that delivers a Palestinian state with dignity within the 1967 borders to the Palestinians.\"\n• None The biggest Arab-Israeli breakthrough could be coming", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. 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A controlled explosion was used to flatten the former high-rise police station\n\nA former high-rise police station has been demolished in a controlled explosion, after crowds were told to stay away.\n\nThe 10-storey 1970s block in Wrexham closed in 2019 with officers moving to a new base.\n\nA supermarket and drive-through coffee shop is due to be built on the site.\n\nThe demolition was streamed online as Wrexham council asked people to observe Wales' national lockdown, and avoid travel to cut Covid-19 cases.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HGC Uned Drôn / NWP Drone Unit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGone: North Wales Police Drone Unit filmed the demolition with an aerial vantage\n\n\"There was a good couple of bangs and the ground did shudder,\" said one online spectator.\n\nAn attempt to have the station listed as historic failed, and people also signed a petition seeking a better use of the building.\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 73 Degree Films 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\nPeople were advised to avoid the area, with road closures in place until the demolition was completed.\n\nGavin Nicolas, from Total Demolition Services, said demolitions were usually popular with spectators but he had asked people to \"stay away from this particular one in order to control the spread of Covid and ensure everyone remains safe\".\n\nThe building had dominated Wrexham's skyline since the 1970s\n\nThe demolition was filmed for the Scrap Kings TV programme which will be shown next summer, the council said.\n\nNorth Wales Police opened a new £1.9m police station in Wrexham Library and a £21.5m divisional base at Llay after leaving the tower block.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nGareth Bale's first goal since re-signing for Tottenham helped his side beat Brighton to go second in the Premier League table.\n\nIn an action-packed game, Harry Kane put Spurs ahead from the penalty spot, his 149th Premier League goal, after a video assistant referee check deemed Adam Lallana had fouled the England captain.\n\nTariq Lamptey scored a controversial equaliser, the exciting 20-year-old sweeping home after Solly March appeared to foul Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the build-up.\n\nReferee Graham Scott consulted the pitchside monitor before allowing the goal to stand, much to Tottenham's disbelief, before substitute Bale had the final say.\n\nThe Wales forward powered home a cross by Sergio Reguilon past debutant Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez, his first Spurs goal since May 2013.\n\nBale celebrated his first Spurs goal in seven years and 166 days as though he had won the Champions League again, wheeling away to celebrate with his jubilant team-mates.\n\nJose Mourinho turned the clock back in an attempt to get his Tottenham tenure moving into the future when he brought Bale back to the club he left in 2013 for Real Madrid.\n\nBale was derided in Spain as more golfer than footballer after being marginalised by coach Zinedine Zidane but he played a key role as Spurs climbed two points behind leaders Liverpool.\n\nMourinho demanded a reaction following his side's surprise Europa League defeat at Royal Antwerp on Thursday, a game in which he made four changes at half-time.\n\nHe got one although his side were made to battle hard against Brighton, who cancelled out Kane's opener in highly contentious circumstances before Bale stole the headlines.\n\nErik Lamela hit the post and Kane missed a great chance from close range to score his landmark 150th top-flight goal, yet this was not vintage Spurs.\n\nBut for the second successive league game they dug deep to come away with three points.\n\nBrighton played without a recognised striker, with leading scorer Neal Maupay left out of the 18.\n\nIn addition, the visitors gave a debut to keeper Sanchez, whose last competitive match was against Rotherham United for Rochdale in League One last season.\n\nBut Graham Potter's side played some good football and in Lamptey, who was a bundle of energy, they have one of the most exceptional young talents in the Premier League.\n\nHis first career goal came from a pass by Pascal Gross, who has now assisted 16 Premier League goals for Brighton, double that of any other player at the club.\n\nThe worry for Potter is his side are not winning enough games.\n\nDespite enjoying more possession than Spurs, it is now one victory in seven league matches.\n\n'Tottenham fans love Gareth' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"It wasn't a surprise because I knew Brighton were a very good team with a very good coach. They created lots of difficulties but we had a very good reaction after they equalised.\"\n\nOn Brighton's controversial equaliser: \"I have to try and stay away from this. I don't know what to say.\"\n\nOn Gareth Bale's winner: \"We were in need of a goal and I've been telling you for a couple of weeks that Bale is improving. I know he doesn't have 90 minutes of Premier League in his legs.\n\n\"The good thing with him is he is very intelligent, very experienced and very Tottenham. He understands.\n\n\"We are using the Europa League matches to improve his condition and today he scored a winning goal, which is a great feeling for the team. It's also a great feeling for the fans because Tottenham fans love Gareth.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"There is a little bit of a talking point about our penalty decision. It is another conversation around refereeing and VAR, which I am not too interested in.\n\n\"I can't control what they do, when I saw them live I wasn't sure about Harry Kane's one. I'd rather focus on our performance, it was really, really good.\n\n\"I'm disappointed with the result, but really pleased with the positives. We pushed Tottenham hard and are disappointed to come away with nothing.\"\n• None Harry Kane has moved into the top-10 all-time Premier League goals list, notching his 149th strike to move level with Les Ferdinand.\n• None Only the bottom three sides have lost more games in the Premier League this season than Brighton (four).\n• None Tottenham (14 points) end the day as high as second in the Premier League table for the first time since February 2019 under Mauricio Pochettino.\n• None Of the 12 players to have taken at least 25 Premier League penalties, only Matt Le Tissier (96%) and Thierry Henry (92%) have a higher penalty conversion rate than Harry Kane (88%, 22/25).\n\nTottenham are off to Bulgaria to face Ludogorets in the Europa League on Thursday (17:55 GMT), while Brighton are back in action on Friday at home to Burnley in the Premier League (17:30 GMT).\n• None Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Robert Sánchez tries a through ball, but Dan Burn is caught offside.\n• None Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gareth Bale.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Alexis Mac Allister replaces Tariq Lamptey because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sergio Reguilón with a cross.\n• None Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box. Assisted by Gareth Bale following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "Oleksandr Usyk delivered a stylish and measured display to pick apart Derek Chisora in a points win that underlined his credentials at heavyweight.\n\nThe former unified world cruiserweight champion moved with grace and picked punches beautifully to frustrate his British rival over 12 rounds.\n\nAn attack in the seventh sent Chisora staggering to the ropes as Usyk found ways to land while on the move.\n\nChisora worked hard but had no reply and lost 117-112 115-113 115-113.\n• None The fight as it happened\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, Chisora said he felt he had done enough to beat the Ukrainian but the BBC 5 Live Boxing team at ringside at Wembley Arena felt Usyk comfortably merited the judges' decision.\n\nFans were unable to attend a heavyweight bout that was highly anticipated for the clash of styles on offer but WBA, WBO and IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was among those watching from ringside.\n\nWith this win, Usyk, 33, remains mandatory challenger for Briton Joshua's WBO belt and, while he may not have found the eye-catching knockout win fans so often long for at heavyweight, his skill set is obvious.\n\nThe craft, quick feet and general intelligence that saw him dominate at cruiserweight was on display and while Chisora, 36, always looked to walk forward and engage, the movement from his rival ultimately dictated large spells of the fight.\n\nChisora brought the pressure and rugged style he had promised early on when he enjoyed his best period and Usyk - in just his second fight since stepping up to heavyweight - staggered after taking a shot in the opening 30 seconds.\n\nChisora looked to tire his opponent by working the body, while Usyk's approach was to test his rival's stamina with constant movement. By the end of the seventh, a combination looked to have Chisora in trouble just as the bell ended the round.\n\nUsyk landed a clean left hook in the eighth and, with BBC 5 Live pundit Dillian Whyte questioning the guidance Chisora was receiving in his corner, the Briton was unable to dig out the kind of thrilling fightback that has endeared him to fans in recent years.\n\nWhile Usyk only gave himself \"three out of 10\" for the display, he will undoubtedly prove a tricky puzzle to solve in his new weight division.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic champion could now move on to face another gold medallist from the Games in Joshua if the British boxer still holds the WBO belt in 2021.\n\nAsked if his goal is to still become a world champion at heavyweight, Usyk replied: \"Absolutely. The undisputed world heavyweight champion. Not just world champion.\n\n\"It is a real test at heavyweight. Chisora is a big guy, a hard guy. I was expecting the fight like that and an even tougher fight.\"\n\nA dejected Chisora, who fell to his 10th defeat in 42 outings, felt he had won, adding: \"I gave a few rounds away but I was pushing the pace. But the judges saw it a different way.\n\n\"He did very well. I am gutted.\"\n\nUsyk has pedigree and is a good mover so of course he can be a force. I don't see anything where I think 'wow this is crazy'. He's a good mover that's it.\n\nI don't know what advice Chisora was being given. I don't know what was going on.\n\n\"I made Usyk an emphatic winner based on his much cleaner punching. Chisora started well and had success with his plan of sticking close to Usyk in the early rounds. By halfway though, Chisora's aggression had waned and became spirited rather than effective, as Usyk took a lot of the punches on the arms and gloves.\n\n\"Dillian Whyte joined us for the fight commentary and dismissed Usyk as a force in the heavyweight division. But being the type of character he is, Usyk will have learned from this experience, his first real test as a heavyweight.\"\n\nFormer world super-middleweight champion George Groves: I had it 9-3 Usyk. Felt he took his foot off the gas when he didn't get Chisora out of there after the big seventh round. Waited for the last onslaught from Chisora to come and pass but didn't fancy pushing for an early finish. Great win nonetheless.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Audley Harrison: Good, good fight - Derek fought his heart out and did everything he could to break Usyk down ... a classic boxer versus the slugger match-up but the right man won. But salute to Chisora for digging deep and having such a solid performance.\n\nFormer world-title challenger Paul Smith Jr: Had it 9-3 Usyk. Chisora unfortunately did what a lot of fighters do against elite fighters and started in fourth gear. Brave and very good effort from Chisora, tough as old boots and moves great for a heavyweight.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The man sailing the yacht was uninjured after it capsized in rough seas off the Isles of Scilly\n\nA \"freak wave\" caused by the gale-force winds during Storm Aiden capsized a 34ft (10m) yacht, the coastguard said.\n\nA man was rescued after getting into difficulty six miles south west of the Isles of Scilly, with severe gale force nine winds in the area.\n\nThe lone yachtsman was uninjured and his stricken sailing vessel was towed to safety by the St Mary's RNLI lifeboat in \"challenging conditions\".\n\nIan Guy from the coastguard said: \"The yachtsman described being hit by a large freak wave which capsized, rolled and disabled the vessel and with a such a severe gale forecast for the area this morning, it was important to get assistance out to this small sailing vessel quickly.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by St Marys RNLI Lifeboat Station 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\nPaddy Cochrane from Falmouth coastguard confirmed in the last 24 hours of stormy conditions they had dispatched lifeboat crews from all over Cornwall, the coastguard helicopter and multiple lifeguard rescues on beaches.\n\nHe said: \"It's people going down to have a look at the large storm conditions, wave watching and what have you.\"\n\nMr Cochrane said he could \"guarantee\" they would have a further rescues through the weekend, caused by \"people making silly mistakes and getting far too close to very, very dangerous conditions\".\n• None Heavy rain and winds as Storm Aiden sweeps in\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The funding will enable Transport for London (TfL) to continue to support the capital for the remainder of the financial year\n\nTransport for London (TfL) has secured a £1.8bn government bailout, to keep Tube and bus services running until March 2021.\n\nThe funding will ensure TfL can address its financial shortfall due to the loss of passengers as a result of Covid-19.\n\nThe exact amount of money involved is subject to passenger revenue in the coming months.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the deal was \"not ideal\" but the government said it was \"proof of our commitment\".\n\nMr Khan said he fought hard against the \"very worst\" proposals, adding: \"The only reason TfL needs government support is because its fares income has almost dried up since March.\"\n\nWithout a bailout the network would be forced to issue a Section 114 order, the equivalent of bankruptcy for a public company.\n\nTfL said it had not seen such rapidly reducing passenger numbers in 100 years\n\nAmendments to the Congestion Charge introduced in June as part of a previous bailout - a 30% increase in the fee and longer operating hours - will remain in place due to the new deal.\n\nMr Khan said last month the government wanted TfL to extend the charging zone to the North and South Circular roads, covering around four million more Londoners.\n\nIs that the sound of a can getting kicked down the road?\n\nBoth sides are declaring an element of victory in a negotiation that went down to the wire.\n\nThe mayor is pleased he has seen off an extension to the congestion charging zone but - and this is crucial - the government is pleased concessions for over 60s and under 18s will have to be paid for in the future by City Hall.\n\nThat could mean an increase in council tax. And don't forget fares will now be going up in January by inflation plus 1%.\n\nThe timing of this is also very interesting - it puts the renegotiations around a new deal right slap bang in the middle of a mayoral election campaign.\n\nTfL Commissioner Andy Byford said: \"The agreement will enable TfL to continue to support the capital for the remainder of the financial year as discussions on longer-term sustainable funding continue.\n\n\"Reaching this agreement with the government allows us to help London through this next phase of the pandemic.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"This deal is proof of our commitment to supporting London and the transport network on which it depends.\n\n\"The mayor has pledged that national taxpayers will not pay for benefits for Londoners that they do not get themselves elsewhere in the country.\"\n\nMr Shapps said he was looking \"forward to working with London's representatives to achieve a long-term settlement, with London given more control over key taxes so it can pay more costs of the transport network itself\".\n\nTfL said it would receive a \"core amount of £1bn\", consisting of a £905m grant and £95m of borrowing.\n\nTfL has had to significantly reduce Tube services because of coronavirus\n\nLast month Boris Johnson claimed TfL was \"effectively bankrupted\" before coronavirus, and proposals to hike charges were \"entirely the responsibility\" of Mr Khan.\n\nMr Khan previously said TfL was spending £600m a month with hardly any income to cover those costs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Premier League and other elite sport can continue behind closed doors during a new four-week national lockdown in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new restrictions for the country that will start on Thursday and run until 2 December to combat coronavirus and avoid the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden tweeted that \"travel to a place of work will be permitted\" for \"elite sport played behind closed doors\".\n\nDuring a news conference to announce the measures, Johnson gave a thumbs up and said \"Yes to the Premier League\" when asked if top-flight football will continue.\n\nThe Premier League was halted in March before the first national lockdown and has been played without fans since it restarted in June. Players are tested weekly for the virus.\n\nThe English Football League says it has been told by the government that its competitions can continue in England and Wales.\n\n\"We acknowledge the government's national efforts in tackling this outbreak and would hope that during this next phase of the crisis, our national sport, negatively affected by Covid-19 like many other industries, can continue to provide some form of welcome distraction and give people in our communities up and down the country a sense of normality in very challenging times,\" the EFL said in a statement.\n\nIt is not clear how grassroots and amateur sport will be affected, but guidance is being drawn up.\n\nHowever sources have indicated to BBC Sport that is unlikely that grassroots team sport will be permitted to continue.\n\nNine of the 40 FA Cup first round ties due to be played over 6-9 November involve teams from \"non-elite\" leagues.\n\nThe Football Association says it is \"awaiting further information before we can confirm how this may affect non-elite football across England\".\n\nUnder the new restrictions:\n• None People are being told to stay at home unless they have a specific reason to leave, such as work which cannot be done from home and education.\n• None People are allowed to exercise outdoors alone, with their household or with one other person.\n\nThe government has confirmed leisure centres and gyms will close, as will other indoor and outdoor leisure facilities including:\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association says that, while indoor tennis will be halted, it will \"make a case\" to the government for outdoor tennis between two individuals from different households to be allowed in line with restrictions on exercise, adding that tennis is a \"socially distanced sport with the net acting as a natural barrier\".\n\nThe Sport and Recreation Alliance, which represents UK national sports organisations including the Football Association and Rugby Football Union along with community sport, has called for \"urgent support\" from the government.\n\nChief executive Lisa Wainwright said: \"These restrictions will critically affect the 150,000 plus local sports clubs in every community across England and will place them in a perilous scenario not knowing if they will ever open their doors again\" adding it could be the \"final nail in the coffin for grassroots clubs which have struggled to survive the initial lockdown\".\n\nSwim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said her organisation thought it was \"extremely disappointing and frustrating to see indoor leisure being forced to close again,\" adding that pools were a \"safe and a lifeline for many people\" and should be \"considered an essential service\".\n\n\"A second period of closure will push many facilities over the edge and there is the dangerous prospect of losing so many facilities for good,\" she said.\n\nNickerson urged the government to \"dig deep and find the necessary funding to ensure we don't see swimming pools and other leisure facilities permanently close\".\n\nUK Active, a non-for-profit body representing gyms and leisure centres said it was \"deeply concerned\" by the new measures.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We urge the Prime Minister to ensure comprehensive financial support for the health and fitness sector is available to help it survive this period, minimising the now grave threat to further business failure and significant job losses.\"\n\nSpeaking after his side's 2-1 win over West Ham, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said: \"It is obviously what we wanted (football to continue) and I think we proved we can keep the bubble safe.\n\n\"Everyone had cases, that is the time we are in, but we could isolate these cases pretty quickly to prevent spread.\n\n\"I think it never happened at a training ground but it has happened when travelling, with international teams, normal life. I think we proved we can do it.\n\n\"And in a lockdown it is really important for the people that they can do things they like to do, and watching football is obviously something they like to do. I am happy we can continue.\"\n\nThis is a hammer-blow to the sports sector.\n\nThe major professional governing bodies will be relieved that, unlike in the spring during the first national lockdown, action can at least continue behind closed doors, but hopes of a quick return of spectators eight months after turnstiles closed have suffered a major setback.\n\nThe closure of gyms, pools and indoor sports facilities just a few months after they introduced strict hygiene and safety protocols enabling them to re-open, despite data showing comparatively low risk of transmission, will reinforce demands for a £1.5bn recovery fund for the sports sector, similar to the bail-out given to the culture and arts industry earlier this year.\n\nThe fear is that these latest restrictions could lead to thousands of job losses, cause many facilities to close, and adversely affect physical and mental health, just when it is needed most to help the country get through this crisis.\n• None Gary Lineker on his move from player to presenter\n• None All you need to know as the US election day nears", "Austria and Portugal have announced new restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Austria, the restrictions include a curfew from 20:00 to 06:00. Cafes and restaurants will be takeaway only.\n\nPortugal's measures cover 70% of the country. People will be required to stay at home except for work, school or essential errands.\n\nA number of European countries have enforced new measures as the continent grapples with a second wave.\n\nFrance introduced measures on Friday and on Saturday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a four-week lockdown for England.\n\nOn Friday, Austria recorded a record 5,627 infections, just short of the 6,000 level that the government claims will stretch hospitals beyond capacity. Figures were slightly lower on Saturday with 5,349 infections.\n\nAustria's measures will last until the end of November\n\nThe restrictions, announced on Saturday, will come into effect on Tuesday and last until the end of November.\n\nGyms will shut along with museums however shops will remain open.\n\nKindergartens and primary schools will remain open, but high schools and universities will switch to online learning.\n\n\"We did not take this decision lightly but it is necessary,\" Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said during a news conference.\n\nPortugal also announced new measures on Saturday, which will apply to 121 communes out of 308 in the country. The measures encompass both Lisbon and Porto.\n\nPeople in those areas are being told to stay at home and work remotely where possible. Shops must close by 22:00.\n\nPortuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said: \"If nothing is done, the rise in infections will inevitably lead us to a situation of failure of our health system.\"\n\nThe measures will be reviewed in two weeks' time.\n\nOn Saturday, Portugal recorded 4,007 cases and 39 deaths. Almost 2,000 people are receiving treatment, of whom 286 are in intensive care.\n\nMuch of Europe is battling with soaring infection rates, with several countries reinstating lockdowns or partial lockdowns to try to stem the wave.\n\nSlovakia has announced it is testing everyone over the age of 10 to try and stop the spread of the disease there. The project to test four million people in the country, where infections have soared, is expected to last over two weekends.\n\nPoland saw cases go up for a fifth day in a row, with Covid-19 patients occupying 16,144 hospital beds - 1,305 of them on ventilators - according to the Polish health ministry. There were 280 new deaths.\n\nThe rise comes as protesters against last week's near-total ban on abortion continue to defy government calls to stay at home due to rising infections.\n\nThe country already has the highest level of restrictions to date, with public gatherings banned, most schools closed and restaurants and cafes only offering take-away service.\n\nLast week, Polish President Andrzej Duda, 48, tested positive for the virus, but experienced no symptoms.\n\nAs of Saturday, Poland had 340,834 total cases, with 5,351 deaths according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nDeaths from Covid-19 in Hungary rose by 51, bringing the total to 1,750, the government said on Saturday.\n\nIt also said the number of Covid patients in hospital had exceeded 4,000 for the first time.\n\nHungary's prime minister has so far held back from imposing strict measures across the country\n\nHungary has yet to impose restrictions on mass events, with schools and shops remaining open and football matches operating throughout the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a radio interview on Friday that authorities would hand out fines to anyone failing to wear a mask where required.\n\nAs of Saturday, Hungary had 71,413 total cases, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nGreece has announced a partial lockdown, with restaurants and other leisure activities closed in major Greek cities from Tuesday. Greece has not seen as many cases as other parts of Europe, but there has been a steady increase since early October.\n\nBelgium has announced a return to a national lockdown from Monday, as latest coronavirus figures show it has the highest infection rate in Europe. It means non-essential shops and businesses offering personal services like hair salons will be closed until mid-December. The country has more than half of its 2,000 intensive care unit beds already occupied by Covid-19 patients\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nTennis and golf officials are among those urging the government to make their sports exempt from new lockdown rules for England.\n\nIt follows Saturday's announcement of a new four-week lockdown from Thursday until 2 December to combat rising Covid-19 numbers.\n\nNine FA Cup first-round ties involving teams from 'non-elite' leagues are set to to ahead from 6-9 November.\n\nBut the Football Association has said it is awaiting further information on how the wider grassroots game may be affected.\n\n\"Yet again sport and physical wellbeing is an afterthought,\" Wirral South MP McGovern tweeted. .\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservative chairman of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee called for exemptions.\n\n\"Today I was in touch with the minister for sport to request that the blanket ban on sports like tennis and golf be lifted,\" said Solihull MP Julian Knight.\n\n\"Government ought to allow the mixing of one other household in these socially distanced sports.\"\n\nMcGovern posted her message in response after the FA Women's National League (FAWNL) said it was waiting on guidance about what the new restrictions meant for its competition.\n\n\"The [DCMS] need to answer questions ASAP unless they want more sports to face collapse,\" she added.\n\n\"And we need to see a cross-government effort on physical and mental wellbeing.\"\n• None English lockdown may last beyond 2 Dec, says Michael Gove\n\nThe Premier League and other elite sports have been told they can continue behind closed doors.\n\nIt is not exactly clear how grassroots and amateur sport will be affected.\n\n\"We understand people will have a lot of questions and DCMS officials and ministers will be working through these and detailed implications with sectors over the coming days,\" said Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary.\n\nMany facilities, including gyms and pools, must close, along with other indoor and outdoor leisure centres.\n\nEngland Hockey says it is disappointed the new measures will mean no club or community hockey for at least a month.\n\nUnder the new restrictions:\n• None People are being told to stay at home unless they have a specific reason to leave, such as education and work that cannot be done from home.\n• None People are allowed to exercise outdoors alone, with their household or with one other person.\n\nThe Sports and Recreation Alliance, which represents UK national sports organisations including the FA and Rugby Football Union along with community sport, has warned the new measures may \"prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a number of these clubs\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Wainwright said: \"The closure of our facilities will once again place a financial burden on thousands of community clubs who are already reeling from the initial lockdown and we fear that many may never reopen their doors without a comprehensive sports recovery fund provided by government.\"\n\nThe Sport for Development Coalition backed calls for more funding from the government as many sporting clubs, charities and local organisations \"support mental wellbeing, contribute to tackling social isolation, facilitate community connections and engage young people excluded from education and employment\".\n\nSport England said there were \"difficult days ahead for many in our sector\" but that \"it is vital we do everything we can to continue to support people to keep active within what is permitted\".\n\nIt added: \"Sport England already has several live funding packages available to help support grassroots clubs and organisations who have lost vital income this year as well as help them enable people to be active within the rules and we're working hard with officials in government to help make wider financial support available.\"\n\nSwimming pools will also have to close but Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson says she will be \"working in partnership with other indoor sports to lobby government\", with meetings scheduled for Monday.\n\nShe added: \"I am championing our clubs and the health benefits of swimming to the nation as this is a key message to government.\"\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association says that, while indoor tennis will be halted, it will \"make a case\" to the government for outdoor tennis between two individuals from different households to be allowed in line with restrictions on exercise, adding that tennis is a \"socially distanced sport with the net acting as a natural barrier\".\n\nPeople are being asked by the LTA to lobby their local MPs for tennis courts to stay open, allowing for singles and one-to-one coaching, and use by same households.\n\nGolf courses and driving ranges have also been told to close but England Golf chief executive Jeremy Tomlinson says it will \"respectfully challenge the government's rationale\" over the decision.\n\n\"It is our sincere belief that it is now counter-productive to shut down a healthy pursuit which naturally lends itself to social distancing and is played in a Covid-secure manner in the open air,\" said Tomlinson in a letter of the England Golf website.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to keep gyms and leisure centres open during the new lockdown.\n\nGrey-Thompson wants the facilities to stay open because of the \"essential role they play in both our fight and recovery from this virus\".\n\nThe major professional governing bodies will be relieved that, unlike in the spring during the first national lockdown, action can at least continue behind closed doors, but hopes of a quick return of spectators eight months after turnstiles closed have suffered a major setback.\n\nThe closure of gyms, pools and indoor sports facilities just a few months after they introduced strict hygiene and safety protocols enabling them to re-open, despite data showing comparatively low risk of transmission, will reinforce demands for a £1.5bn recovery fund for the sports sector, similar to the bail-out given to the culture and arts industry earlier this year.\n\nThe fear is that these latest restrictions could lead to thousands of job losses, cause many facilities to close, and adversely affect physical and mental health, just when it is needed most to help the country get through this crisis.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attendees posted footage of the rave on Snapchat\n\nPolice say they were attacked as they tried to break up an illegal rave at a warehouse near Bristol.\n\nOfficers who were called to Yate at around 22:30 GMT on Saturday said up to 700 people were there.\n\nSome of the crowd began acting violently towards officers and threw objects when they were told to leave, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nThe site was cleared by Sunday afternoon after eight people had been arrested and music equipment seized.\n\nA force spokesman said when officers arrived they \"found a number of vehicles and several hundred people\" at the site.\n\n\"Roads approaching the area were closed to prevent more people reaching the site by car, but large numbers of people continued to arrive on foot from several different directions,\" he said.\n\nPolice said power was cut to the building but an alternative source was used\n\nThe warehouse was empty on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe spokesman said some people became hostile towards the police.\n\n\"Items, including lit spray cans and bottles, were thrown at police, some of whom were injured but remained on duty,\" he said.\n\nMains power was cut to the building, but an alternative source was being used the spokesman said.\n\nThe eight people arrested include a man in his 30s who was held on suspicion of being involved in organising the event.\n\nCh Insp Mark Runacres said it was a \"challenging operation\" with a \"large number of people in a confined space and several officers being assaulted\".\n\n\"Our investigations team will be involved in reviewing officers' body worn footage and other inquiries as we seek to take appropriate action against those responsible,\" he said.\n• None Why did raves become illegal?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge contracted Covid-19 earlier this year, palace sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt is believed he tested positive in April at a similar time to his father, the Prince of Wales.\n\nAccording to the Sun newspaper, which first reported the story, Prince William, 38, kept his diagnosis private to avoid alarming the nation.\n\nKensington Palace, the office and home of Prince William, refused to comment officially.\n\nPrince William, second in line to the throne, did not tell anyone about his positive test result because \"there were important things going on and I didn't want to worry anyone\", according to the Sun.\n\nHe was treated by palace doctors and followed government guidelines by isolating at the family home Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, the paper added.\n\nBBC royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said Prince William's condition may not have been revealed publicly at the time as they may have wanted to avoid further alarm, given the national mood.\n\n\"But the palace also tries to preserve some privacy for the Royal Family,\" our correspondent adds.\n\nPrince William reportedly carried out 14 telephone and video call engagements during April.\n\nEarlier in that month, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video-called the children of key workers at a primary school in Burnley, Lancashire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a video call to the children of key workers at a school in Lancashire\n\nPrince Charles contracted coronavirus in March and travelled to Scotland to self-isolate for seven days after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nAt the time, the Duchess of Cornwall tested negative for the virus and self-isolated for 14 days.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, 71, later said he \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nDuring his first public engagement after recovering from coronavirus, Prince Charles said he had not fully regained his sense of taste and smell.\n\nIn April, Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe prime minister was moved to intensive care and later thanked healthcare workers for saving his life, saying it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nNews of Prince William's diagnosis comes days before England is due to enter a second national lockdown, with four-week measures to start on Thursday.\n\nThe UK recorded another 23,254 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 1,034,914.\n\nAnother 162 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test. It brings the total number of UK deaths to 46,717.", "Mayors of some of the areas hardest-hit by Covid-19 have called for England's schools and colleges to close during the lockdown.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said that education institutions should close to reduce the spread of the virus more quickly.\n\nScientists have also warned Covid-19 is spreading fast in secondary schools.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said: \"We want to keep schools open.\"\n\nMr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the government was taking the necessary measures to keep schools open.\n\nHe rejected the suggestion that it would mean a longer period of lockdown because schools staying open would contribute to the continued transmission of coronavirus.\n\nInfection rates among secondary school children \"appear to be steeply increasing\", according to the latest survey by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAn estimated 2% of children in Year 7 to Year 11 tested positive for the virus in the most recent week of testing, the highest positivity rate of any age group except sixth-formers and young adults.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told the Andrew Marr Show that keeping schools open was the \"big difference\" between the new restrictions and the lockdown in spring.\n\n\"Because we have delayed the onset of this lockdown it does make keeping schools open harder,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that transmission, particularly in secondary schools, is high.\"\n\nHe said that closing schools \"may have to be revisited\" over the next four weeks if the transmission of the virus continues to rise.\n\nThe Manchester and Liverpool mayors said at a joint press conference that they wanted to see a period of two weeks' closure towards the second half of November, giving schools some time to prepare online learning.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"That would create the conditions for the biggest drop in cases that we could achieve and it would then create the conditions for some kind of Christmas for more families, because they need it right now.\"\n\nWithout this, the mayors said they feared their regions would simply be back in the restrictive tier three measures.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he supports keeping schools open, but said \"we've got to manage the risk\".\n\nThe National Education Union has called for schools and colleges to close, saying that if they stay open the restrictions will be less effective.\n\nJoint general secretary Kevin Courtney said the lockdown was \"another half measure and, without school closures as part of it, it is unlikely to have the effect that the prime minister wants\".\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken a different approach to schools during the second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, schools are due to reopen on Monday after an extended two-week half-term holiday, as part of a four-week period of additional restrictions.\n\nAnd in Wales, Years 9 and above in secondary schools will only return when the nation's \"firebreak\" lockdown ends on 9 November.\n\nBut Scotland aims to keep schools open under its five-level system of restrictions, coming into force on Monday.\n\nAre you the parent of schoolchildren? How do you feel about schools remaining open during the second lockdown? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Fourteen people are currently on trial in France over the 2015 attack\n\nThe main suspect in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in France has tested positive for Covid-19 and his trial has been suspended, lawyers say.\n\nAli Reza Polat is accused of helping the militant Islamist attackers who killed 12 people at the satirical magazine four years ago.\n\nThe presiding judge says 10 accused accomplices must be tested for the virus before the trial can resume.\n\nThe suspension is likely to delay the trial's conclusion later this month.\n\nAli Reza Polat, 35, was sick and seen by a doctor, prompting the judge to suspend court for several days.\n\nJudge Regis de Jorna said 10 other suspects must be tested, and \"the resumption of the trial will depend on the results of these tests and the development of the health of the people concerned\".\n\nThe defence lawyers were due to give their final submissions in the coming days, and verdicts were expected in two weeks' time.\n\nFourteen people in total are on trial over the attack on the magazine, as well as related attacks on a police woman and Jewish supermarket that left 17 people dead in total over three days. Three of the 14 are being tried in absentia.\n\nThe three gunmen in the two attacks were shot dead by police.\n\nTwo gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the magazine's office in 2015\n\nAli Reza Polat is seen as the main link between the attacks and is believed to have had a key role in obtaining the weapons used. He subsequently attempted to flee to Dubai, Lebanon and Syria but without success.\n\nThe trial had already been delayed four months because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFrance returned to strict lockdown on Friday after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent days.", "The search for survivors in Izmir, Turkey continues after a powerful earthquake on Friday.\n\nWork continued through the night to search for survivors in buildings that were destroyed as a result of the earthquake.\n\nAround 100 survivors have been pulled out alive from the rubble so far, Turkey's Environment and Urbanisation Minister Murat Kurum told reporters.\n\nHowever many people are still trapped and aftershocks have hampered rescue workers.", "Religious groups in England have strongly criticised the new lockdown rule banning communal worship.\n\nEngland's four-week lockdown will see most religious services banned. Funerals will still be allowed, with a maximum of 30 attending.\n\nThe Catholic Church described the ban as a cause of \"anguish\" and demanded the government gives its reasons for stopping services.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain called for an urgent review of restrictions.\n\nThe Catholic Church Bishops' Conference said communal worship had helped many during the pandemic.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, president and vice president of the association, also stressed that churches had acted responsibly and been Covid-safe.\n\n\"It is... a source of deep anguish now that the government is requiring, once again, the cessation of public communal worship,\" the bishops said in a statement.\n\n\"Whilst we understand the many difficult decisions facing the government, we have not yet seen any evidence whatsoever that would make the banning of communal worship, with all its human costs, a productive part of combating the virus.\n\n\"We ask the government to produce this evidence that justifies the cessation of acts of public worship.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday that England would be under a new lockdown from 5 November until 2 December.\n\nOther than for funerals, the only other reasons places of worship can stay open is to broadcast acts of worship, individual prayer, formal childcare, or essential services such as blood donation or food banks.\n\nCardinal Nichols and Archbishop McMahon said everyone has to make \"sustained sacrifices for months to come\" to tackle Covid.\n\nBut they added: \"In requiring this sacrifice, the government has a profound responsibility to show why it has taken particular decisions.\n\n\"Not doing so risks eroding the unity we need as we enter a most difficult period for our country.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, chairwoman of the Church of England's recovery group, said she would study the new regulations and \"seek clarification\" on how public worship would be affected.\n\nAnd John Steven, director or the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, said the new restrictions came as a \"very significant emotional blow\" for couples who had weddings planned this month.\n\nHe added: \"For people in church and other religious communities it seems a very unfair restriction - churches have put a great deal of effort into coronavirus measures and they are much safer than other settings which are still allowed to be open like secondary schools.\"\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said in a statement: \"The government's inadequate consultation and poor engagement with faith communities remain a problem as the pandemic endures.\"\n\nWhile the rules allow places of worship to remain open for individual prayer, the MCB said the distinction is \"not straightforward or practical for many mosques, compared to other faith communities\".", "\"We've had tremendous success in Afghanistan… but it's time, after all these years, to go and to bring our people back home… There are many countries that surround Afghanistan that can help. We're 8,000 miles away.\" - President Trump, during a press conference at the White House, 29 Feb 2020 President Trump during a surprise Thanksgiving trip to see US troops in Afghanistan (Getty Images) Afghanistan has been near the top of every president's in-tray since US forces invaded the country in 2001. Before he became president, Mr Trump repeatedly described the war in Afghanistan as a \"disaster\" and talked about pulling US troops out of the country. Back in 2013, he tweeted: \"We have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Their government has zero appreciation. Let's get out!\" But in September 2017, he agreed to send 3,000 extra troops to bolster the US contingent there as the Taliban gained ground and security deteriorated. That same year, the US used the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, killing dozens of militants from the so-called Islamic State group (IS) near the border with Pakistan. More recently though, President Trump talked of peace in the country and in February this year the US signed an agreement with the Taliban to lift sanctions on the group and oversee a prisoner swap with the Afghan government in return for a ceasefire. Talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government remain ongoing, but President Trump is keen to push ahead with the withdrawal of US troops despite recent violence. In early October, he tweeted that the remaining troops \"should\" be home by Christmas - but that wasn't endorsed by his top general.\n\n\"Great talk with my friend President Mauricio Macri of Argentina this week. He is doing such a good job for Argentina.\" Mr Trump is welcomed to a G20 summit in Buenos Aires by President Macri (Getty Images) President Trump has dealt with two leaders of Argentina in his first term. The first, Mauricio Macri, is a man whose relationship with Donald Trump dates back decades to when he and his father were doing business in 1980s New York. That relationship came under scrutiny when Mr Macri called the US president-elect in November 2016 to congratulate him on his victory. According to reports in Argentina, Mr Trump asked the Argentine president for help with a stalled building project by one of his companies in Buenos Aires - a claim both men denied. Mr Trump welcomed Mr Macri to the White House in April 2017 and his only trip to Latin America as president was to take part in the G20 summit hosted by the Argentine in 2018. But Mr Macri was defeated in 2019 by Alberto Fernández, a centre-left politician who in 2016 described Mr Trump's election win as a victory for the \"worst reactionary politics\". Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump's relationship with Mr Fernández has been less positive than it was with his predecessor. Just days before Mr Fernández entered office in December 2019, Mr Trump said he was restoring tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Argentina - a threat that turned out to be empty but signalled a shift in the relationship. There has been less tension between the two countries this year, mostly because both have had to focus their attention on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the United States and Australia!\" Prime Minister Morrison gives a thumbs-up to Mr Trump during a press conference at the White House (Getty Images) Australia has been one of America's closest allies in recent years, with its troops fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that relationship came under strain almost as soon as President Trump entered the White House. Mr Trump was said to have had a \"contentious\" phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the end of January 2017, reportedly over a deal agreed with President Obama that the US would take in about 1,200 refugees who had been denied entry into Australia. A Washington Post report said the president abruptly ended the call after calling it \"the worst deal ever\". Mr Trump, who later publicly criticised the deal as \"dumb\", insisted the phone call had been \"civil\" while Mr Turnbull said it was a \"very frank and forthright\" conversation. Later in 2017, footage leaked to the media showing Mr Turnbull poking fun at his US counterpart but officials in both countries dismissed it as harmless fun. Still, on the face of it neither episode appeared to affect the relationship much, with President Trump saying it was \"terrific\" and \"probably stronger now than ever before\". That continued when Scott Morrison replaced Mr Turnbull in 2018. He was given the full red-carpet treatment on a visit to the US in 2019 and was only the second person to have been given a state dinner by President Trump - the other being French President Emmanuel Macron. The pair have lavished praise on one another, with Mr Trump a particular fan of Prime Minister Morrison's immigration policies. He tweeted about a controversial ad campaign in Australia last year, saying that \"much can be learned\" from the approach. In return, Mr Morrison has praised the American president as \"a strong leader who says what he's going to do and then goes and does it\".\n\n\"Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was. Not anymore, it is from a different world!\" President Trump at a Nato photoshoot at a summit in Brussels in 2017 (Getty Images) On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump referred to Belgium's capital Brussels as a \"hellhole\" and said it was no longer beautiful or safe after being attacked by terrorists earlier that year. Still, everything appeared to be amicable when he was welcomed to the country by King Philippe and Queen Mathilde in May 2017 before a Nato summit in the country. Mr Trump met Prime Minister Charles Michel at the summit, praising Belgian contributions in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group and noting the \"critical importance of Belgian F-16s flying missions in Iraq and Syria\". He also took the chance to remind him of \"the responsibility of all nations to share our common defense burden,\" and to meet Nato spending commitments - a topic Mr Trump has raised again and again during his time as president. But his most memorable moment in Belgium was when he appeared to shove Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, out of the way before a Nato family photo - putting his campaign slogan of \"America First\" firmly into action.\n\n\"Just had a great call with the President of Brazil, @JairBolsonaro. We discussed many subjects including Trade. The relationship between the United States and Brazil has never been Stronger!\" President Bolsonaro presents Mr Trump with a Brazil national football team jersey at the White House (Getty Images) President Trump has not had much to say about Brazil, South American's most influential country - a sign, perhaps, of his more isolationist approach to foreign policy. He had few public dealings with Michel Temer, while the latter was Brazil's president, but he's had a much more vocal relationship with Jair Bolsonaro, since he took over in January 2019. The Brazilian's first trip overseas after becoming president was to the US, where he swapped football shirts with Mr Trump and told him: \"I've always admired the USA and this sense of admiration has only increased since you took office.\" That high praise wouldn't have shocked many back home in Brazil, where he was dubbed the \"Trump of the Tropics\" by some parts of the media in the run-up to his election victory. President Trump has been equally lavish in his praise of Mr Bolsonaro and even said he would help Brazil join Nato - a suggestion ruled out by the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But the White House did designate Brazil as a \"major non-NATO ally\" in 2019, giving the country preferential access to US military equipment and training. Also notable is that Mr Trump and Mr Bolsonaro have shared a similar view of the coronavirus pandemic with both downplaying the seriousness of the threat it posed. They are also among a handful of world leaders to have caught the virus themselves, with both recovering fully.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language. As the African Union expressed \"shock, dismay and outrage\" and demanded an apology, Botswana summoned the US ambassador and asked the envoy \"to clarify if Botswana is regarded as a 'shithole' country given that there are Botswana nationals residing in the US.\" According to the Washington Post, Mr Trump told lawmakers the US should instead be taking in migrants from countries like Norway, whose prime minister visited him a day earlier, or Asian nations.\n\n\"I love Canada, but they've taken advantage of our Country for many years!\" President Trump offers to shake hands with Mr Trudeau during a meeting at the White House (Getty Images) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the first dozen or so world leaders to visit the White House under Donald Trump and he will have been pleased with how it went. Not only did he deal with President Trump's fierce handshake, he also got a guarantee that the White House would only be making \"tweaks\" to its relationship with Canada. But the relationship between the two leaders became strained not long after that first meeting with those tensions surfacing in public in June 2018 at a G7 summit in Quebec. When Mr Trudeau said he would not be pushed around by the US at a post-summit press conference, Mr Trump responded by refusing to sign the joint G7 communique on trade before tweeting that the Canadian leader \"acts hurt when called out\". Most of the animosity was generated by President Trump's desire to replace Nafta, the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in 1994 by the US, Mexico and Canada. He used tariffs to encourage both nations to renegotiate a deal, which was eventually agreed in October 2018. After the announcement, Mr Trump tweeted: \"Mexico, Canada and the United States are a great partnership and will be a very formidable trading force. We will now, because of the USMCA, work very well together. Great Spirit!\" Mr Trudeau, who has been in office since November 2015, has certainly had a slightly different relationship with Mr Trump to the \"bromance\" he had with former President Barack Obama. Describing Mr Trump's style, the Canadian PM said in 2018: \"The president prides himself on a level of disruption and unpredictability that is challenging certain aspects of global systems that we've perhaps taken for granted. And, it does keep me on my toes.\"\n\nPresident Trump was quick to congratulate Sebastián Piñera, a conservative like himself, when he was voted into office in January 2018, saying he looked forward to working together on \"issues of mutual interest\". Since then, the two billionaire presidents - Mr Piñera's estimated personal fortune is about $2.7bn (£2bn) - have had few dealings in public. But when the country was rocked by protests over inequality in late 2019, President Trump backed his Chilean counterpart despite accusations from Amnesty International and others that the security forces were using excessive force on demonstrators. More recently, President Piñera has tried to use his good relationship with Mr Trump to put Chile in \"pole position\" to get early access to a vaccine for coronavirus should the US develop one.\n\n\"All over the World the CoronaVirus, a very bad \"gift\" from China, marches on. Not good!\" Mr Trump with President Xi at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida (Getty Images) Donald Trump mentioned China so frequently on the campaign trail in 2016 that it turned into a meme. He repeatedly called the Communist state a \"currency manipulator\" and even accused them of \"raping\" the US. After entering the White House, he antagonised Beijing again by breaking with diplomatic norms and accepting a call from the president of Taiwan, which is considered a breakaway province by China. When China raised objections, however, President Trump spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone and agreed to follow the so-called \"One China\" policy, which states that there is only one Chinese government. After that initial tension, Mr Trump changed tack and in April 2017 hosted his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago, his retreat on the Florida coast, saying their relationship was \"outstanding\" and that \"tremendous progress\" had been made in their talks. President Xi then welcomed Mr Trump to Beijing in November that year, with the American describing the ceremony as a \"truly memorable and impressive display\". At a joint press conference afterwards, Mr Trump told the Chinese president: \"You are a very special man.\" The two countries spent a lot of 2018 discussing a trade deal, with President Trump complaining that previous negotiations had been \"so one sided in favour of China\". But despite the talks, no agreement emerged and the two countries engaged in a trade war that carried over into 2019. A \"phase one\" deal was eventually signed at the beginning of 2020, with Mr Trump modestly declaring it \"one of the greatest trade deals ever made!\" Analysts were split over how good a deal it was, but both leaders were able to present themselves as winners. Not long after celebrating the deal, President Trump tweeted about a little known virus in China that was beginning to look concerning: \"China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!\" Two months later, more than 1,000 people infected with the virus had died in the US and the number of confirmed cases was fast approaching 100,000. Mr Trump described having had a \"good conversation\" with President Xi and said: \"We are working closely together. Much respect!\" But by the summer of 2020 though, his tone had changed. Mr Trump began referring to coronavirus as the \"China virus\" and tweeted: \"China has caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the World!\" And as the election has neared, he's upped his anti-China rhetoric, accusing them of working to replace him with his Democratic rival Joe Biden \"so they can continue to rip-off the United States\".\n\n- President Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, 30 Aug 2019 President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet Colombian President Iván Duque and his wife Maria Ruiz at the White House (Getty Images) Donald Trump's relationship with the two Colombian presidents he's dealt with - first Juan Manuel Santos and then Iván Duque - has concentrated on drug cartels and Venezuela. He has hosted both men at the White House and held talks with them on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. President Duque visited the White House in February 2019, mainly to discuss the situation in Colombia's neighbour Venezuela, which has been engulfed in a political crisis for several years now. In a joint press conference after the meeting, the US president was asked if he would be visiting Colombia, to which he replied: \"I'll be visiting. I really want to. I want to visit Colombia. I look forward to visiting.\" He's yet to make the trip. Later that year, President Trump said of US-Colombia ties: \"We have a great relationship. They're not doing badly. They have a problem because of Venezuela a lot of people are pouring in. But Colombia, we've had a great relationship with Colombia.\"\n\n\"The last administration made a pathetic one-sided deal with the Castro dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist regime.\" - Donald Trump, in a speech at the White House, 23 Sep 2020 Mr Trump signs into effect some policy changes towards Cuba at an event in Miami (Getty Images) One of Donald Trump's many campaign promises was that he would roll back on President Obama's historic move in 2014 to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba. Once in office, Mr Trump did indeed say he was \"cancelling\" the deal with Cuba and he re-imposed certain travel and trade restrictions eased by his predecessor. But the president's approach has not scrapped all of the Obama-era policy regarding the island nation. Both countries will keep their embassies open in each other's capitals, commercial flights will continue and US tourists can still visit the country, albeit under stricter conditions. During a speech in 2017 in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood, where Mr Trump signed a directive outlining his policy, he lambasted President Obama's deal with the \"brutal\" Castro government as \"terrible and misguided\". He said the US would not lift sanctions on Cuba until \"all political prisoners are freed\" and vowed to \"help the Cuban people themselves form businesses and pursue much better lives\". Later that year, the US withdrew most staff from its embassy in Havana after several people there came down with mysterious health issues, including hearing loss, nausea and dizziness. US officials said the incident was an acoustic attack, but it remains a bit of a mystery. As the election approaches, President Trump has sought to win over the large population of Cuban-Americans in the swing state of Florida by tightening the sanctions on the country. Talking at a ceremony in September honoring veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs operation in 1961, Mr Trump described his predecessors' policy as \"weak\" and \"pathetic\" and boasted: \"I canceled the Obama-Biden sellout to the Castro regime.\"\n\n\"Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting.\" The front page of the New York Daily News leading on Mr Trump's attempt to buy Greenland (Getty Images) President Trump has had a bumpy relationship with Denmark's leaders. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was one of the first world leaders to meet Donald Trump at the White House. Their talks at the end of March 2017 focused on the future of the Nato alliance and President Trump \"urged\" the Danish leader to commit to the target of spending 2% of his country's GDP on defence. But the meeting appeared to go well, with Mr Rasmussen saying afterwards that he was \"more positive\" about Denmark's relationship with the US than when he \"evaluated the situation right after the [US] election.\" However, things got a little bizarre in August 2019 when it emerged that President Trump had discussed buying Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory. Mr Rasmussen, who had been replaced as PM a couple of months earlier, tweeted his response to the story: \"It must be an April Fool's Day joke ... but totally out of season!\" But it wasn't a joke and Mr Trump promptly cancelled a planned trip to Denmark after Mette Frederiksen, the new Danish prime minister, described the suggested sale as \"absurd\" - a comment Mr Trump called \"nasty\".\n\n\"I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President Sisi.\" President Sisi and Mr Trump share a laugh during a meeting at the UN General Assembly (Getty Images) Donald Trump first met Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - a \"fantastic guy\" - in September 2016 and when he won the election two months later, Mr Sisi was reportedly the first foreign leader to call him. Their close relationship continued once Mr Trump was in office and President Sisi visited the White House in April 2017 for the first time since he led a military coup in Egypt in 2013. Human rights groups, however, criticised Mr Trump for meeting a man accused of a violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood group which left more than 1,000 people dead. But officials said the US was seeking to \"reboot\" relations between the two countries because President Trump saw a stable Egypt as an invaluable ally in the battle against terrorism. Mr Sisi, who wants to ensure Egypt continues to receive US military aid worth about $1.3bn a year, has praised President Trump as someone who has a \"deep and great understanding\" of the Middle East. The two met again during Mr Trump's first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia in May 2017. At a summit in Riyadh, Mr Trump said Mr Sisi had \"done a tremendous job under trying circumstances\". An image of Mr Trump, Mr Sisi and Saudi King Salman placing their hands on a glowing orb at the meeting set social media abuzz. The US did withhold $195 million in military aid to Egypt in 2017 amid concerns about the country's human rights record - but the funds were released the following year. Mr Trump has not visited Egypt as president but his wife has been there while first lady. The most memorable moment of Melania Trump's visit, which was part of a whistle-stop tour of Africa in October 2018, was a tour of the Giza pyramids she did sporting a Panama hat.\n\n\"They have worked well with us on immigration at the Southern Border!\" Mr Trump and President Bukele shake hands at a meeting in New York (Getty Images) President Trump's relationship with El Salvador got off to a bumpy start when he was reported to have made a controversial remark during a meeting with US lawmakers about a new immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language. Mr Trump's administration announced in January 2018 that it would cancel permits that allow nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador to live and work in the US. They were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) after earthquakes rocked the Central American country in 2001. Salvadoreans were originally given until January 2020 to leave, face deportation, or find a legal way to stay. But that deadline was extended to January 2021. President Trump met Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2019, where he told reporters that the relationship between the two men \"has been excellent\". In April this year, Mr Trump tweeted that the US would be helping El Salvador get ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying: \"They have worked well with us on immigration at the Southern Border!\"\n\n\"I made a deal, I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country.\" Ethiopia hasn't featured on Mr Trump's agenda for much of his presidency, but he has caused some controversy in the capital Addis Ababa this year. In January, President Trump said he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize because he had \"made a deal\" that \"saved a country\" - seemingly a reference to negotiations between Ethiopia and Eritrea that ended in a peace deal between the two countries. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the prestigious prize for his part in the process, which appeared to upset Mr Trump somewhat. Speaking at a campaign rally in Ohio, the president said: \"I made a deal, I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country... As long as we know, that's all that matters... I saved a big war.\" While not integral to the talks between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Mr Trump did play a role in discussions over water resources in the region between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia is building a huge dam on part of the River Nile within its borders, but this has upset neighbouring Sudan and Egypt who are concerned about water shortages further up the river. In Addis Ababa, the US is seen as having sided with Egypt on the dispute. The US announced in September that it would cut some aid to Ethiopia after it began filling the reservoir behind the dam in July, while discussions with Egypt and Sudan were still under way. In October, while on a call with the leaders of Sudan and Israel, Mr Trump said the issue of the dam was a \"very dangerous situation because Egypt is not going to be able to live that way,\" adding: \"I say it loud and clear - they'll blow up that dam. And they have to do something.\" In response, PM Abiy Ahmed said: \"Ethiopia will not cave in to aggression of any kind.\" He added that threats of any kind over the issue were \"misguided, unproductive and clear violations of international law\".\n\nMr Trump at a press conference with President Niinisto in the Oval Office (Getty Images) Finland's President Sauli Niinistö was invited to the White House in October 2019 but his relationship with Donald Trump has been fairly low-key. In fact, his visit was overshadowed by questions surrounding Mr Trump's impending impeachment and much of the leaders' joint press conference was taken up by an angry exchange between the American president and a reporter. Another notable moment in the relationship came in 2018 amid bad wildfires in California, when Mr Trump said poor management was to blame and pointed towards Finland as a country that managed the risk better. \"I was with the president of Finland,\" Mr Trump told reporters, \"and he said: 'We're a forest nation' and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem.\" President Niinisto, however, said he could not remember talking about raking when the two met.\n\n\"The friendship between our two nations and ourselves is unbreakable.\" President Macron and Mr Trump embrace at a press conference at the White House (Getty Images) President Trump accepted an invitation to attend 2017's Bastille Day celebrations in France after a somewhat rocky start with the French president. After the first meeting between the two men in Brussels in May 2017, Mr Macron described his white-knuckled handshake with Mr Trump as \"not innocent\". But since then their relationship has warmed, with Mr Trump describing the Bastille Day event as \"one of the greatest parades I've ever seen\" and saying the US relationship with France was \"stronger than ever\". Although there was an awkward moment during the trip, when Mr Trump told President Macron and his wife that she was \"in such good shape\". President Macron visited the White House in April 2018 and was also given the honour of making an address to the US Congress. His speech was described as a \"thinly veiled rebuke\" to President Trump by the BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel. But despite their differences on policy, they appear to get on well. There have been several moments of tension though. In November 2019, President Macron described Nato as \"brain dead\" because of a waning commitment to the alliance by the US. Mr Trump hit back by saying the French leader had been \"nasty\" and \"very disrespectful\". He also called Mr Macron \"foolish\" when France moved to introduce a tax on US technology companies and threatened to add a tax on French wine as retaliation, tweeting: \"I've always said American wine is better than French wine!\" Mr Macron put the new tax on hold.\n\n\"I extend Georgians my warmest wishes for a productive, secure, and prosperous future.\" - President Trump, in a letter to Prime Minister Gakharia, 26 May 2020 President Trump's only mention of Georgia on Twitter was in 2017, when he posed for a photo with the country's leader at the time, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, at the White House. He has not yet met the new Georgian prime minister, Giorgi Gakharia, but he reportedly sent him a letter in May this year to celebrate the country's independence day. In the letter, President Trump thanked Georgia for its \"significant contributions\" to the Nato mission in Afghanistan and said the US would continue to support the country's bid to become a Nato member state.\n\n\"We have a really great relationship and we actually have had a great relationship right from the beginning, but some people didn't understand that. But we understand it and that's what's important.\" - President Trump, talking to reporters alongside Angela Merkel at the White House - 27 Apr 2018 Chancellor Merkel and Mr Trump exchange views at a G7 meeting in Canada (Reuters) When Donald Trump won the US election he did so with the isolationist slogan of \"America First\", leading many to declare German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the free world. Her pivotal role in global politics could be seen clearly on the White House call sheet during Mr Trump's first few months in office - she was one of the world leaders he spoke to most frequently and she also paid the new president a visit in March 2017. President Trump's tone towards Mrs Merkel has changed significantly since he took office. In 2015, he took to Twitter to describe her as the \"person who is ruining Germany\" after Time magazine picked her as their person of the year. The German leader clearly noticed Mr Trump's disparaging comments, saying at their joint press conference that she's \"always said it's much, much better to talk to one another and not about one another\". The pair have met several times since that first meeting and while Mr Trump has paid tribute to Mrs Merkel in public, his tone on Twitter is often less approving. President Trump has repeatedly taken issue with Germany failing to spend the Nato target of 2% on defence, accusing the country of being \"delinquent\" in its payments to the alliance. He has also accused Germany of being \"totally controlled by Russia\" because it imports \"so much of its energy\" from the country and has a new pipeline planned. Mrs Merkel responded by saying Germany \"can make our own policies and make our own decisions\". But it has not been empty rhetoric from President Trump. In July this year, the US announced it was withdrawing about 12,000 of its troops from Germany in what officials described as a \"strategic\" repositioning of its forces in Europe. Mr Trump's explanation was a little more direct, telling reporters: \"We don't want to be the suckers anymore. We're reducing the force because they're not paying their bills; it's very simple.\"\n\n\"Ancient Greece achieved extraordinary feats of architecture, geometry, map-making, and so much else that has inspired all wonders of the world. And Greece is the birthplace of democracy. Have you heard that?\" - President Trump, at a Greek Independence Day celebration at the White House, 18 Mar 2018 President Trump and the first lady with Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his wife, Mareva Grabowski, outside the Oval Office (Getty Images) The visit of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the White House in October 2017 could have been awkward, as he had previously criticised Mr Trump and even called him \"evil\". But the two held a cordial joint press conference and Mr Trump joked about the Greek leader's past remarks: \"I wish I knew before my speech.\" Mr Tsipras said the two had a productive exchange and he shared common values with the US. The Greek prime minister was replaced by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in January 2019 and Mr Trump hosted him and his wife at the White House a year later. Speaking in the Oval Office, Mr Trump said the relationship between the two countries was \"really extraordinary\" and said Greece had made a \"tremendous comeback\" after its financial crisis. Mr Mitsotakis will have charmed the president by comparing his economic policy to Mr Trump's, saying: \"The Greek economy has done extremely well over the past months. We have lowered taxes. We are deregulating. We're following a recipe that has also worked here.\" The pair spoke again on the phone in August this year, with Mr Trump expressing concerns about rising tension between Greece and Turkey. In September, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Mr Mitsotakis during a visit to a US naval base on the Greek island of Crete and said: \"The relationship between our two countries is at an all-time high and getting stronger.\"\n\n\"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. He tweeted that he had \"never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.'\" Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump reportedly asked, \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language. Haiti's US Ambassador Paul Altidor told the BBC the idea that \"we're simply immigrants who come here to take advantage of the US\" is wrong. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, granted to Haitians following the 2010 earthquake, would end in July 2019. The move was initially deemed unlawful but in September 2020, an appeals court sided with the Trump administration, meaning those with TPS could be forced to leave the US early next year. Joe Biden, Mr Trump's Democratic rival in the election, has vowed to reverse the decision if he wins.\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked: \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and that the president did call some African nations \"shitholes\". President Trump has sought to decrease the number of migrants coming into the country from Latin America, threatening to cut aid to Honduras unless its government stopped large caravans of people heading towards the US. He has also tried to reduce the number of Hondurans already in the country, with his administration announcing in June 2018 that it was ending the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) that had granted nearly 60,000 Hondurans the right to live in the US. Hondurans were granted this status after Hurricane Mitch hit the Central American country in 1998, but the Department of Homeland Security said conditions in the country had \"notably improved\" since the disaster. At the moment, the TPS for Hondurans in the US is due to end in January 2021, but Joe Biden, Mr Trump's Democratic rival in the election, has vowed to reverse the decision if he wins.\n\n\"The First Lady and I have just traveled 8,000 miles around the globe to deliver a message to every citizen across this nation: America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people.\" President Trump and the first lady pose during a visit to the Taj Mahal (Getty Images) President Trump has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi several times and the pair appear to have developed a strong relationship. At the White House in June 2017, the two leaders shared a warm embrace in front of reporters before vowing to fight terrorism together and praising US-India relations. \"The relationship between India and the United States has never been stronger, never been better,\" said Mr Trump, who described himself and Mr Modi as \"world leaders in social media\". President Trump dispatched his daughter Ivanka to India in November 2017 for what was described by local media as a \"royal visit\", with officials in Hyderabad removing beggars from the streets and rushing through road repairs before she arrived. But the president himself finally visited the country in February this year and was welcomed by huge crowds everywhere he went. Mr Modi organised a huge event to honour President Trump - thought to have cost more than $13m - with 100,000 people turning up to hear the two men speak. Although, most of them were on their way out by half-way through Mr Trump's speech. During the speech, Mr Trump spoke of increasing defence cooperation between the two countries and said India had agreed to buy helicopters and other US military equipment worth $3bn. He told the crowd: \"I believe that the United States should be India's premier defence partner, and that's the way it's working out.\" The pair were unable to agree a trade deal during President Trump's visit though, but they announced that negotiations would continue. Trade has been the major hiccup to their relationship so far, with Mr Trump complaining in 2019 that Indian tariffs on US products were \"unacceptable\". Another recent move that will have strained relations between the two was Mr Trump's late-night Twitter announcement in April that he was suspending immigration into the US in a bid to ease unemployment among Americans due to the coronavirus pandemic. The move included the H-1B visa, which allows US companies to employ highly-skilled foreign workers and is widely used by the technology sector. Indians reportedly make up nearly 70% of the 85,000 H-1B visas issued every year.\n\n\"We've become friends, and we're going to be doing a lot of deals together.\" - President Trump, speaking before a meeting with Joko Widodo at a G20 summit, 8 Jul 2017 Mr Trump and President Widodo at a meeting on the sidelines of a G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany (Getty Images) Mr Trump and Indonesia's President Joko Widodo have met a few times at international and regional summits. The only mention Mr Widodo has had in the president's tweets was in April this year when Mr Trump said his \"friend\" had asked for ventilators to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic, which the US would provide. \"Great cooperation between us!\" he added. Mr Widodo didn't get an invitation to Mr Trump's inauguration in 2017, but Indonesian businessman Hary Tanoesoedibjo reportedly did and the president's relationship with him has raised some eyebrows in the US. \"I don't know whether I am the only Indonesian who was invited, but I didn't see any other over there,\" he told Indonesian magazine Tempo in February 2017. Mr Tanoesoedibjo is overseeing the development of a Trump Hotel in West Java and another resort in Bali and he told the magazine he has \"close access\" to the US president. In June 2019, it was reported that President Trump had sold a mansion he owned in Los Angeles to Mr Tanoesoedibjo for some $13.5 million.\n\n\"Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!\" A photograph of President Trump burns during protests against the US in the Iranian capital Tehran (Getty Images) While Donald Trump hasn't spoken to Iran's leader since coming to power, he has spent a lot of his time talking about the country. One of his administration's first moves was to impose new sanctions against the country in response to a ballistic missile test, which Tehran said had not violated a UN resolution on its nuclear activities. The US confirmed that Tehran was continuing to comply with the UN agreement but Mr Trump labelled it a \"terrible deal\" and ordered a review into it nonetheless. During a trip to Israel in 2017, Mr Trump said Iran \"must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon - never, ever - and must cease its deadly funding, training and equipping of terrorists and militias.\" He later claimed in a tweet that Iran was working with North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Then in May 2018, President Trump finally decided to pull out of the UN agreement with Iran, saying: \"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of this deal.\" Going against advice from European allies, he said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015. In June 2019, Iran announced it would ignore some elements on the deal and begin ramping up enrichment of low-grade uranium. President Trump responded on Twitter by saying: \"Be careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\" Then in December 2019, the rhetoric turned into violence when the US conducted air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed Iraqi militia blamed for an attack that killed a US civilian contractor. In response, protesters attacked the US embassy in Baghdad and Mr Trump said Iran was responsible, tweeting: \"They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat.\" Then just a couple of days later, a US air strike in Iraq killed Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised \"severe revenge\" on those behind the attack and missiles were fired at air bases housing US forces in Iraq. In September, Mr Trump tweeted about reports that Iran was preparing to retaliate for the killing of Gen Soleimani and said any attack on the US would be met with an attack on Iran \"that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!\"\n\n\"Frankly, I didn't think [the Iraq war] was a good idea... But we were there, and now we're getting out. We'll be leaving shortly.\" - President Trump, talking to Prime Minister Kadhimi at the White House, 20 Aug 2020 President Trump speaks to US troops during a visit to Iraq (Getty Images) Donald Trump made defeating the so-called Islamic State group (IS) the focus of much of his campaign, so Iraq was central to his initial foreign policy objectives in office. However, his relationship with Iraq's leaders got off to a bumpy start when he called for a ban on the travel of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq. Eventually, however, Iraq was taken off the list after it agreed to conditions from the US government. That omission came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi spoke to President Trump over the phone in February 2017 amid a large-scale offensive by his army to retake the city of Mosul from IS fighters. Mr Abadi travelled to the US a few weeks later for a meeting at the White House, when President Trump told reporters: \"Our main thrust is we have to get rid of [IS]. We're going to get rid of [IS]. It will happen. It's happening right now.\" In July 2018, Mr Abadi formally declared victory over IS in Mosul and Mr Trump congratulated his Iraqi counterpart, saying the city had been \"liberated from its long nightmare\" under the rule of IS. Battles against IS continued into 2019, but a happy President Trump presented a map in March of that year showing how their territory had been eradicated since he came into office, telling reporters: \"So that's the way it goes.\" Then in October 2019, Mr Trump announced IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had killed himself during a US military operation in Syria, saying he had been \"violently eliminated\" and \"died like a coward\". The president later praised a US military dog for the \"wonderful job\" it did in the operation, tweeting a photo that he said had been declassified. Despite the successful operation against IS forces, there was some tension between the US and Iraq later in 2019. When a US air strike in Baghdad killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, Iraq's parliament called on US troops to leave the country. Mr Trump threatened Iraq with \"sanctions like they've never seen before\" and US troops remained in the country. President Trump is now talking about US troops in Iraq returning home though. During a meeting with the country's new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, President Trump said: \"We're going to be leaving, and hopefully we're going to be leaving a country that can defend itself.\" In September, the US announced it was reducing its force in the country that month from about 5,200 to 3,000.\n\n\"Very popular man doing a wonderful job. The people love him, and that's very important.\" The Trump administration's plans to toughen America's immigration laws have been focused on Latin America and the Middle East, but thousands of unregistered Irish immigrants in the US have also been concerned. Former Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny raised this issue with President Trump when he visited the White House in March 2017, saying there were \"millions out there who want to... make America great.\" Mr Trump met the new taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, at the White House's St Patrick's Day celebrations in March 2018, saying the two had \"become friends - fast friends - over a short period of time\". After the meeting at the White House, Mr Varadkar said there was \"enthusiasm from the administration to work on a solution\" for the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants that are in the US. President Trump did visit Ireland in June 2019, telling reporters during the trip: \"We love the Irish, so it's an honour to be here.\" Mr Trump spent two nights at the golf resort he owns in Doonbeg, County Clare, during the trip - where his sons paid a visit to a local pub. Despite the pair's good relationship, Mr Varadkar was critical of the US earlier this year when he said there had been an \"absence of moral leadership\" in the wake of protests over the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers.\n\n\"I will always stand with the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I strongly support their safety and security and their right to live within their historical homeland. It's time for peace!\" Donald Trump is the first sitting US president to have visited the Western Wall in East Jerusalem (Getty Images) President Trump looked set to follow a fairly traditional path in his relationship with America's closest ally, Israel. He was quick to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and during a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, he said he had come to \"reaffirm the unbreakable bond\" between the two countries. In August that year, Mr Trump tweeted that \"Peace in the Middle East would be a truly great legacy for ALL people!\" But by December he had chosen a new path, recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, to the amazement of much of the international community. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the move \"deplorable\" and said the US could no longer be a peace broker. Mr Trump pushed ahead with the decision though and in May 2018, his daughter Ivanka was part of a delegation dispatched to open a new US embassy in Jerusalem. Marking the one year anniversary of the opening, President Trump tweeted in May 2019: \"Our beautiful embassy stands as a proud reminder of our strong relationship with Israel and of the importance of keeping a promise and standing for the truth.\" In a sign of his warm relationship with Mr Netanyahu, the president congratulated him on becoming the country's longest serving prime minister in July 2019, tweeting that he had \"led Israel with a commitment to the values of democracy, freedom, and equal opportunity that both our nations cherish and share!\" In January 2020, President Trump unveiled his long-awaited \"vision for peace, prosperity and a brighter future for the Israelis and Palestinians\". Mr Netanyahu called the plan the \"opportunity of the century\" but the Palestinian president dismissed it as the \"slap of the century\". In September, Mr Trump hailed the \"dawn of a new Middle East\" after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements fully normalising their relations with Israel - becoming just the third and fourth Arab countries to recognise Israel since its founding in 1948.\n\n\"Just met the new Prime Minister of Italy, @GiuseppeConteIT, a really great guy. He will be honored in Washington, at the @WhiteHouse, shortly. He will do a great job - the people of Italy got it right!\" President Trump and Prime Minister Conte after a joint press conference in the White House (Getty Images) President Trump has dealt with two Italian prime ministers during his time in the White House. The first, Paolo Gentiloni, was welcomed to Washington DC in April 2017 and his relationship with Mr Trump appeared amicable enough. But the president was clearly happier after meeting Giuseppe Conte, the leader of a populist coalition who became Italy's 58th prime minister in June 2018. After a brief meeting at the G7 summit in Canada, during which Mr Conte backed Mr Trump's call for Russia to be readmitted to the group, the US president called Mr Conte a \"great guy\". The two leaders have some similarities in their policies, with Mr Trump tweeting in 2018 that he'd spoken to Mr Conte about Italy's \"very hard line on illegal immigration\" and said: \"I agree with their stance 100%, and the US is likewise taking a very hard line on illegal immigration.\" In March this year, Mr Trump tweeted a video of Italian air force jets creating their national flag with coloured smoke and said: \"THE UNITED STATES LOVES ITALY!\" The display came amid a rising death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. President Trump visited the country twice in quick succession in May 2017 and he also travelled to Vatican City where he met with Pope Francis, which he described as the \"honour of a lifetime\".\n\n\"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\" Amid the NFL national anthem controversy in 2017, President Trump singled out Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as an example for other sportspeople to follow. He tweeted: \"Even Usain Bolt from Jamaica, one of the greatest runners and athletes of all time, showed RESPECT for our National Anthem!\" Mr Trump had criticised NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a protest, to highlight the treatment of black Americans.\n\n\"Just had a wonderful conversation with my friend, Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan, who will be leaving office soon. Shinzo will soon be recognized as the greatest Prime Minister in the history of Japan, whose relationship with the USA is the best it has ever been. Special man!\" Prime Minister Abe shakes hands with President Trump in the Oval Office (Getty Images) Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has developed a strong relationship with President Trump, with the pair having met several times both in the US and in Japan. Mr Abe has visited Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida twice and paid several visits to the White House. Mr Trump spoke to the Japanese leader frequently throughout his first two years in office, mainly to discuss US negotiations with North Korea. Golf has been a key part of their relationship and they've managed to fit in several rounds, playing in Florida and also in Virginia. The pair also found time for a round of golf when President Trump visited Japan in November 2017 - although Mr Abe may want to forget about that after he took a tumble into a bunker. Mr Trump was keen to land a new trade deal with Japan, tweeting in 2019 that Mr Abe has been \"working with me to help balance out the one-sided Trade with Japan\". The two countries did agree an initial deal focusing on agriculture in September that year, with President Trump calling it a \"tremendous\" agreement. Prime Minister Abe resigned for health reasons in August 2020, with Mr Trump saying he would soon be \"recognised as the greatest Prime Minister in the history of Japan\".\n\n\"I am deeply committed to preserving our strong relationship & to strengthening America's long-standing support for Jordan\" King Abdullah has met with Donald Trump several times since he became president (Getty Images) Jordan's King Abdullah was the first Arab leader to meet President Trump and has had several meetings since. The first occasion came in February 2017 on the sidelines of the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event held in Washington DC, and appeared to be little more than a brief conversation. King Abdullah was invited back to the capital in April that year for an official meeting with President Trump at the White House and he was back in Washington DC in June 2018 as well. Jordan was a key member of the US-led coalition in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and Mr Trump has praised the king and his armed forces for their help. \"Jordanian service members have made tremendous sacrifices in this battle against the enemies of civilisation, and I want to thank all of them for their, really, just incredible courage,\" Mr Trump said. The relationship was strained in late 2017 though, when President Trump announced that the US would be recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving its embassy there. King Abdullah said the decision would \"undermine efforts to resume the peace process\".\n\n\"One of the most beautiful countries, from what I understand, Mr. President. We have lots of pictures and lots of people that tell me how beautiful your country is.\" - President Trump speaking at a joint press conference with President Kenyatta at the White House, 27 Aug 2018 President Kenyatta and his wife Margaret visiting the White House in 2018 (Getty Images) US relations with Kenya were always likely to be very different under Donald Trump to how they were under Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan. When Mr Trump entered office in 2017, his decision to speak to the leaders of three African nations - Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa - before speaking to Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta was taken as a snub by some in the country. When they did speak, the two leaders discussed security in the region and President Trump praised Kenya's \"significant contributions\" to the African Union force fighting against the al-Shabaab group in neighbouring Somalia. While President Trump has not visited the country - or any others in Africa - First Lady Melania Trump did stop in Kenya briefly during her whirlwind tour of the continent in October 2018. But her decision to wear a pith helmet while on safari caused some controversy.\n\n\"A leader in the Middle East for decades, the emir has been a truly unwavering friend and partner to the United States.\" - President Trump, in a statement awarding a top US honour to the Kuwati emir, 18 Sep 2020 Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah with President Trump at the White House (Getty Images) President Trump met the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, for the first time during his May 2017 visit to Saudi Arabia. He called the leader a \"special person\" and said Kuwait's purchasing of \"tremendous amounts of our military equipment\" means \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" for Americans. The emir then visited the White House later that year and held a joint press conference, during which Mr Trump claimed the relationship between the US and Kuwait \"has never been stronger - never, ever\". President Trump also referenced the \"tremendous investments\" that Kuwait has made in the US, especially in plane sales. Mr Trump lamented to New York and New Jersey politicians after the press conference that his plane was not as big as the emir's, according to Politico. The Kuwaiti emir visited the White House again in 2018, when President Trump described him as \"a very special friend of mine\". Earlier this year, while the emir was being treated for an illness in the US, Mr Trump awarded him the Legion of Merit, a rarely awarded honour, saying he had \"been a truly unwavering friend and partner to the United States\" and an \"unparalleled diplomat\". The emir died at the age of 91 in September.\n\n\"A lot of countries are involved with respect to Libya. And it's, right now, a mess.\" - Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, 7 Jan 2020 Mr Trump cited Libya as an example of the failure of Western military intervention regularly on his way to winning the US election, but the record shows he backed action at the time. He hosted Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj at the White House in December 2017, where the pair \"agreed to work together to advance Libyan stability and unity\". The country has been beset by chaos since Nato-backed forces helped rebel fighters overthrow long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. But the US leader has been keen to take a less engaged approach to the country's problems, telling reporters in 2017 that he did not \"see a role\" there for the US. Since then, however, the country has become a battleground for regional powers with Turkey and Russia backing opposing forces. Mr Trump has appeared keen not to get involved in the ground war. A statement from Robert O'Brien, his national security adviser, in August said the US was deeply troubled by the \"escalating conflict\" but remained an \"active, but neutral, actor\".\n\n\"With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.\" Mr Trump and President López Obrador at a press conference at the White House (Getty Images) No Donald Trump rally during his 2016 election campaign was complete without the crowd chanting: \"Build the wall, build the wall!\" It was the policy that defined Mr Trump's insurgent run for office, so it was little surprise that who would pay for the wall caused a diplomatic dispute just days into his presidency. Mr Trump, who has said repeatedly that Mexico will pay for it, officially announced his intention to build the wall in an executive order signed on 25 January 2017. Two days later, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto used a televised address to tell Mr Trump: \"I've said time and again: Mexico won't pay for any wall.\" Mr Peña Nieto and Mr Trump unsurprisingly had a bumpy relationship at best. The Mexican leader was due to visit the White House but twice cancelled planned trips because of disagreements with the US president. But Mr Trump appears to have changed tack with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who became the new Mexican president in 2018. They spoke for the first time in July that year, with Mr Trump saying he had predicted Mr Obrador would become president of Mexico years earlier. In 2019, President Trump turned up the rhetoric once again, accusing Mexico of having \"taken advantage of the United States for decades\" and threatening to put tariffs on their goods. But after negotiations, the two countries signed a deal that required Mexico to deploy troops along its southern border with Guatemala to stem the flow of migrants heading for the US. Earlier this year, Mr López Obrador said President Trump had \"completely changed his rhetoric\" towards the country, telling a reporter: \"The relationship with President Trump is very good and, as I said yesterday, he has treated us like friends, not as distant neighbours.\"\n\nJacinda Ardern and Donald Trump at the APEC summit (Getty Images) A few months after Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand, the headline of a feature about her in Vogue magazine called her \"young, forward-looking, and unabashedly liberal - call her the Anti-Trump\". So it should come as no surprise that Ms Ardern and Mr Trump have not become best friends - but their relationship has appeared amicable enough most of the time. The pair met for the first time at a summit in Vietnam in 2017, where Ms Ardern said President Trump joked to someone else present that she had \"caused a lot of upset in her country\" with her election win. She replied: \"You know, no-one marched when I was elected.\" When New Zealand suffered from a terrorist attack in March 2019, Mr Trump said he had spoken to Prime Minister Ardern and told her \"we stand in solidarity with New Zealand – and that any assistance the USA can give, we stand by ready to help. We love you New Zealand!\" The two leaders had a private meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2019, with Mr Trump describing it as \"wonderful\". But there has been some tension recently, specifically over the two countries' different approach to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. In August this year, Mr Trump alleged New Zealand was experiencing a \"big surge\" in cases but Ms Ardern said his comparison of her country and the US was \"patently wrong\". On the day of Mr Trump's remark, the US recorded 40,000 new cases while New Zealand had just nine. And in October, when Ms Ardern was asked whether President Trump had called to congratulate her on an historic election victory, she told reporters: \"I don't tend to have those direct communications with the president of the United States.\"\n\n\"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" - President Trump's widely reported comments made in private during a meeting on immigration, 11 Jan 2018 Mr Trump's reported remark came as lawmakers from both parties visited him to propose a bipartisan immigration deal, in part to deal with an influx of migrants from Central America. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics, when Mr Trump asked: \"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\" Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Senator Durbin responded by saying Mr Trump used \"racist\" language. Mr Trump's administration announced in November 2017 that it would remove the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Nicaragua, introduced in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America. At the moment, the TPS for Nicaraguans in the US is due to end in January 2021, but Joe Biden, Mr Trump's Democratic rival in the election, has vowed to reverse the decision if he wins.\n\n\"I'd like very much to visit Nigeria. It's an amazing country. And in certain ways, I hear, from the standpoint of the beauty of a country, there's no country more beautiful.\" - President Trump, during a joint press conference with Mr Buhari at the White House, 30 Apr 2018 President Trump caused some controversy when he first spoke to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari over the phone in February 2017. During the call, Mr Trump signalled his intention to renew a deal to sell military aircraft put on hold by the Obama administration after Nigerian forces mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the country's north-east, killing more than 100 people. Meeting President Buhari for the first time at the White House in April 2018, Mr Trump said the aircraft would help \"improve Nigeria's ability to target terrorists and protect civilians\". The controversial deal went ahead, despite some concerns from members of Congress, and the aircraft are due to be delivered in 2021. There was an awkward moment for both leaders at that joint press conference in 2018 when a journalist asked about reports that Mr Trump had referred to some African countries as \"shitholes\". President Buhari sidestepped the question, saying he was unsure of the report's validity, but Mr Trump didn't deny he'd made the comment. \"The [Nigerian] president knows me and he knows where I'm coming from,\" Mr Trump said. \"And you do have some countries that are in very bad shape and very tough places to live in.\" Earlier this year, President Trump expanded his administration's curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria, reportedly due to them not meeting US security and information-sharing standards. In response, President Buhari said the country would work to fix the issues in order to maintain \"productive relations\" with the US.\n\n\"Chairman Kim has a great and beautiful vision for his country, and only the United States, with me as President, can make that vision come true.\" Kim Jong-un shakes hands with President Trump during their historic summit in Singapore (Getty Images) President Trump made history in June 2018 when he became the first sitting US president to meet with a North Korean leader. It was an event few could have imagined just a few months after Mr Trump had threatened to unleash \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" if North Korea endangered the US. The heated rhetoric from Mr Trump was in response to North Korea's repeated testing of long-range missiles in its pursuit to establish itself as a nuclear power. North Korea responded by vowing to launch a \"nuclear pre-emptive strike\" if it felt at risk. Mr Trump and Kim Jong-un then traded insults for a few months - including the president tweeting that he had a \"nuclear button\" and it was \"much bigger and more powerful one than his\" - as military conflict began to look inevitable. But then all of a sudden, the tone changed. In 2018, Mr Trump signalled that he would be willing to sit down with Mr Kim and eventually the long-awaited summit happened in Singapore in June, with the US president thanking the North Korean leader for taking \"the first bold step toward a bright new future for his people\". The pair signed an agreement that while historic, was a little short on details. It committed North Korea to work towards \"the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula\" and promised \"new relations\" between Washington and Pyongyang. They met again in Hanoi in February 2019 but talks ended without agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief. \"Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times,\" Mr Trump said afterwards. In May that year, North Korea tested several missiles, but President Trump tweeted: \"Deal will happen!\" The next month, Mr Trump became the first sitting US president to step foot in North Korea by meeting Mr Kim in the Demilitarized Zone. But talks broke down again later in the year and North Korea conducted a further series of missile tests in March 2020. Speaking at the White House in September, Mr Trump said he had saved \"millions of lives\" by averting a war with North Korea.\n\nPresident Trump and Prime Minister Solberg at the White House (Getty Images) When Prime Minister Erna Solberg met Mr Trump in Washington in 2018 she may have been surprised to be told Norway had bought a fighter jet only available in Call of Duty, a computer game. A day later Norway was reportedly mentioned by Mr Trump as an example of the sort of country the US should be taking migrants from in a meeting with lawmakers from both parties to propose a bipartisan immigration deal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin had just been discussing US temporary residency permits granted to citizens of countries hit by natural disasters, war or epidemics. Senator Durbin said Mr Trump used \"racist\" language and called some African nations \"shitholes\". Mr Trump tweeted that he had used \"tough\" language but not that specific term. Responding to Mr Trump, Torbjoern Saetre, a politician in Norway's Conservative Party, tweeted: \"On behalf of Norway: Thanks, but no thanks.\"\n\n\"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.\" President Trump with Prime Minister Khan at the White House (Getty Images) Tensions between the US and its previously close ally have been strained for years, but it was clear that the relationship would become even more strained when President Trump outlined his strategy towards the region in his first year in office. \"We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting. It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilisation, order and peace,\" Mr Trump said in a speech in August 2017. In January 2018, he took to Twitter again to accuse Pakistan of giving \"safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan\" before adding: \"No more!\" Military aid worth $300m (£230m) was eventually cut in September that year, with a Pentagon spokesman saying the US would continue \"to press Pakistan to indiscriminately target all terrorist groups\". It was with this as the backdrop that new Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan flew to Washington DC to meet President Trump for the first time in July 2019. There were smiles for the cameras and Mr Trump opened a joint press conference by calling Mr Khan \"very popular\" and \"a great athlete\". He once again accused Pakistan of failing to respect the US in recent years but he said the country was \"helping us a lot now\". Shortly after their meeting, there was renewed violence in Kashmir between Pakistani and Indian forces. At a meeting with Mr Khan in September during the UN General Assembly, Mr Trump offered to mediate between the two sides, saying: \"I think I would be an extremely good arbitrator. I have done it before, believe it or not, and I have never failed as an arbitrator.\" The pair met again earlier this year, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. Mr Trump said the relationship between the two countries had \"never been closer\" but admitted he had no plans to visit the country - although he did travel to India the next month.\n\n\"We were paying a lot of money to the Palestinians every year and we were not being treated properly. They were not saying nice things for many years.\" President Trump with Mr Abbas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem (Getty Images) Mr Trump first met President Mahmoud Abbas during the Palestinian leader's White House visit at the beginning of May 2017. He said there was a \"very good chance\" of a Middle East peace deal, telling Mr Abbas during a joint news conference: \"We will get this done\". During a visit to Bethlehem to meet Mr Abbas again later that month, Mr Trump said he would \"do everything\" to help Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace. But Mr Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 2017 led to a sharp deterioration in relations as did his threats to withdraw financial support. Discussing Mr Trump's plans for Middle East peace in January 2018, Mr Abbas said: \"The deal of the century is the slap of the century and we will not accept it.\" Later that year, the US ended its funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, describing it a \"irredeemably flawed\" - a move President Abbas said was an \"assault\" against his people. Despite the rift though, Mr Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, told reporters in June 2019 that the president was \"very fond\" of Mr Abbas, adding: \"He likes him very much personally. And at the right time, if they're willing to engage, I believe that they'll find that they'll have an opportunity.\" President Trump unveiled the details of his Middle East peace plan in January 2020, which involved recognising Israeli sovereignty over settlements in the West Bank. Mr Abbas rejected the plan and said: \"All our rights are not for sale and are not for bargain.\" As recently as September, however, President Trump said his plan was still on the table. Talking at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said: \"We're working on a deal. We're talking to the Palestinians. At the right time, they'll be joining too.\"\n\nPresident Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcoming President Varela and his wife to the White House (Getty Images) President Trump met President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama in June 2017, discussing illegal immigration, organised crime and drug gangs. But the most memorable moment from their joint press conference was when Mr Trump appeared to take credit for building the Panama Canal, which was opened by the US in 1914. \"The Panama Canal is doing quite well,\" the president said at the meeting. \"I think we did a good job building it, right?\" Mr Trump also praised US-Panama relations, saying \"things are going well\" and \"the relationship has been very strong\". Mr Varela was replaced by Laurentino Cortizo in 2019. Mr Trump sent a delegation to Mr Cortizo's inauguration, led by Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross. Mr Cortizo said he spoke to Mr Trump on the phone in May this year, during which the American president offered to help Panama during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We're interested in the free movement of people. I emphasised that to President Trump and we prefer bridges to walls\" - President Kuczynski after a meeting at the White House, 24 Feb 2017 Mr Trump met with President Kuczynski in the Oval Office in February 2017 (AFP) Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a substantial amount of contact with Mr Trump in his first few months in the White House. The two men spoke several times over the phone and Mr Kuczynski also visited Washington DC for a meeting with the president. As well as discussing regional security and trade between the two countries, the Peruvian president was particularly interested in persuading the US to deport its fugitive ex-leader Alejandro Toledo. Mr Toledo, who is believed to be in San Francisco, is accused of taking $20m (£16m) in bribes. He denies that and says he is the victim of a witch-hunt. But he was eventually arrested in the US in July 2019 before being released on bail in March this year because of the risk he faced of contracting coronavirus while waiting for trial. Mr Kuczynski was replaced by Martín Vizcarra in March 2018. Mr Trump was due to meet President Vizcarra at a summit in Peru's capital Lima in April 2018, but he cancelled the trip at short notice to deal with reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria.\n\n\"We were having a lot of problems with the Philippines. The relationship with the past administration was horrible, to use a nice word… And now we have a very, very strong relationship with the Philippines.\" Mr Trump joins hands with Mr Duterte and other world leaders at a summit in Manila (Getty Images) Donald Trump has only had a couple of interactions with President Rodrigo Duterte, but they caused a lot of controversy in the US. Mr Trump first spoke to Mr Duterte over the phone in April 2017, in what was a \"very friendly conversation\" in which they discussed \"the fact that the Philippine government is fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs, a scourge that affects many countries throughout the world.\" Mr Duterte has been widely criticised for human rights violations in the Philippines, after he authorised police and vigilantes to maim and kill drug users on the streets of Manila. His relationship with the US had been rocky in the past, in part because former President Barack Obama criticised the extrajudicial executions. Mr Obama cancelled a trip to the Philippines in September 2016 after Mr Duterte called him a \"son of a whore\". Mr Trump, however, has had a warmer relationship with his Philippine counterpart. After meeting Mr Duterte during a visit to the Philippines in November 2017, Mr Trump hailed their \"great relationship\" and their joint statement pledged to \"further deepen the extensive United States-Philippine economic relationship\". Mr Trump did invite Mr Duterte to the White House but that meeting has yet to take place. Earlier this year, Mr Duterte said his American counterpart \"is a good president and deserves to be re-elected\".\n\nMr Trump gave a speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising monument (Getty Images) Donald Trump is a big fan of Poland and its people. During a visit there in July 2017, he described Poland as an example of a country ready to defend Western freedoms, warning against the threats of \"terrorism and extremism\". Mr Trump spoke of \"the triumph of the Polish spirit over centuries of hardship\" as an inspiration \"for a future in which good conquers evil, and peace achieves victory over war\" during his speech in Warsaw. He also thanked the country for buying Patriot missile defence systems from the US in a multi-billion dollar contract as well as its investments in the Nato alliance. \"America loves Poland, and America loves the Polish people,\" he declared. Polish President Andrzej Duda has visited the White House a couple of times since then, most recently in June 2019, when Mr Trump tweeted: \"US-Poland ties are at an all-time high. Thank you for being such an exemplary Ally!\" Mr Trump sent his congratulations to Mr Duda after he was re-elected in July this year. A month later, the US announced it was redeploying about 1,000 American troops from Germany to Poland.\n\n\"The nation of Qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.\" President Trump shakes hands with Sheikh Tamim at a meeting in Saudi Arabia (Getty Images) The first phone call with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, came in February 2017 amid an attempted travel ban by Mr Trump that affected several Middle Eastern countries, but not Qatar itself. The two men are said to have discussed the fight against the so-called Islamic State group, with Qatar being a prominent member of the US-led coalition. But soon after that, several Gulf countries cut travel and embassy links with Qatar over its alleged support for militants. Qatar strongly denied supporting radical Islamism. Mr Trump took initial credit for applying pressure on Qatar in the longstanding Arab-world rift, saying it could mark \"the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism\". In June 2017, he again accused Qatar of funding terrorism, tweeting: \"During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!\" Barely a year later, however, Mr Trump welcomed Sheikh Tamim to the White House and praised him for becoming a \"big advocate\" of combating terrorist financing. He also said the emir was a \"great gentleman\" and a \"friend of mine\". They met again in the White House the following year. Mr Trump said Qatar was \"creating a lot of jobs\" in the US by \"buying tremendous amounts of military equipment including planes and they are buying commercial planes... we very much appreciate it\".\n\n\"Very good call yesterday with President Putin of Russia. Tremendous potential for a good/great relationship with Russia, despite what you read and see in the Fake News Media.\" President Trump chats with Mr Putin at the APEC summit in Vietnam (AFP) No US relationship has been more closely scrutinised than Donald Trump's ties to Russia. At a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July 2018, Mr Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 US election. He was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to allegations of meddling in the election. \"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be,\" he replied. But a day later, Mr Trump said he had misspoken. \"The sentence should have been: 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't' or 'why it wouldn't be Russia'. Sort of a double negative,\" he explained to reporters when he arrived back in the US. A special counsel was set up in May 2017 to investigate whether there was any collusion between Russia and Mr Trump's team during the election campaign. It eventually concluded that Russia had interfered in the election with the intention of benefitting Mr Trump's campaign but that there was no evidence the campaign conspired with Russia. Mr Trump has tweeted more about Russia than any other country during his time as president, with the investigation being a big reason why. His administration has been pretty tough on Russia, punishing it with sanctions. But Mr Trump has also spoken of his desire to improve relations with Russia. In March 2018, he tweeted: \"I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory. The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…\" Then the following month, he alarmed allies by saying Russia should be readmitted to the G7 group of industrialised nations. Russia was suspended from what was then the G8 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. In December 2019, President Putin warned that the US now viewed space as \"a military theatre\" and said Russia needed to develop its own space forces further. But a few weeks later, he thanked Mr Trump for US intelligence that helped foil \"acts of terrorism\" on Russian soil.\n\n\"Saudi Arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild Syria, instead of the United States. See? Isn't it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors rather than a Great Country, the US, that is 5000 miles away. Thanks to Saudi A!\" Saudi Arabia has had a close relationship with the US for decades and that has continued under President Trump - despite some issues along the way. Mr Trump made his first foreign trip as president to meet King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh, where the White House said it signed deals worth more than $350bn (£270bn). Mr Trump appeared a little out of his comfort zone when he took part in a ceremonial sword dance during the trip. Relations had soured somewhat under President Obama after his administration's nuclear deal with Iran, but Mr Trump appeared to want to restore the partnership after he sided with Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic standoff with Qatar. When Saudi Arabia's leaders launched a purge of allegedly corrupt officials last November, Mr Trump tweeted: \"I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing... Some of those they are harshly treating have been \"milking\" their country for years!\" There was some tension when Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist with US residency, was killed in Turkey in October 2018. President Erdogan of Turkey said it was a \"political murder\" carried out by Saudi intelligence officers, which Saudi Arabia denied. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Mr Trump said: \"They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups. He later said he had spoken to King Salman, whose denial was \"very, very strong,\" before adding: \"It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?\" More recently, Mr Trump called on the king to increase the kingdom's oil production, complaining that the price of a barrel of oil had risen too high. He tweeted his gratitude when the Saudis and Russia agreed on a deal in April.\n\n\"We are close friends with Singapore and with Prime Minister Lee and we've gotten to know each other very well and we are signing a memorandum of defence and it's a very strong understanding.\" President Trump and Prime Minister Lee shake hands at the White House (Getty Images) President Trump has met Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong several times during his four years in office. Their relationship had an awkward moment early on, when the president's social media team posted a photo of the two leaders on Instagram after their first meeting at a G20 summit and mistakenly identified the prime minister as Indonesian President Joko Widodo. But Mr Lee was welcomed to the White House a few months later during a visit in which Singapore Airlines signed a deal with Boeing for new aircraft worth more than $13.8 billion. Reacting to the deal, Mr Trump said: \"I want to thank the Singaporean people for their faith in the American engineering and American workers.\" The two men also signalled the two countries' alliance in 2019 when they renewed a military pact that allows US forces to use Singapore's air and naval bases, extending it to 2035. Announcing the move, PM Lee said it reflected the \"very good cooperation\" of the countries on defence but also the broader cooperation \"in security, in economics, in counterterrorism, and in culture and education, as well\".\n\nSomalia felt the effects of the Trump presidency almost immediately, with the country among those whose citizens were banned from entering the US. The move followed Mr Trump's call in 2015 for \"a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on\". His statement came after a mass shooting in California carried out by a radicalised couple. While the travel ban was initially blocked by court challenges, it was eventually upheld in 2018 by the Supreme Court. In May 2017, a member of the US military was killed in Somalia, the first confirmed combat death there since the disastrous Black Hawk Down incident in 1993, when more than a dozen US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis were killed. There was another US fatality in June 2018. The deaths came after the US announced in April 2017 that it was sending dozens of troops to Somalia to train forces fighting Islamist group al-Shabab. The number of drone strikes carried out by the US military in Somalia has increased a lot under President Trump. But the militant Islamist group has stubbornly resisted the offensive and killed three Americans across the border in Kenya in January this year. Mr Trump is reported to have recently told his military advisers to draw up plans for the withdrawal of the remaining few hundred US troops still in the country. Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman in Minnesota who was born in Somalia, has found herself a focal point for much of President Trump's recent anti-immigration rhetoric. Talking about her at a campaign rally in Oklahoma in June, he said: \"She would like to make the government of our country just like the country from where she came - Somalia. No government, no safety, no police, no nothing, just anarchy. And now, she's telling us how to run our country. No, thank you.\"\n\nDonald Trump the businessman didn't have much positive to say about South Africa, tweeting that the country was a \"mess\" back in 2015. He took a slightly different approach as president though, telling President Jacob Zuma that he hoped to \"expand cooperation and trade\" between the two countries. Mr Trump held a working lunch for African leaders, including Mr Zuma, in New York in September 2017. During the meeting, Mr Trump said: \"Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich.\" Mr Zuma was replaced as president in February 2018 by Cyril Ramaphosa. President Trump caused some controversy in the country a few months later when he tweeted that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to \"closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.\" His tweet followed a piece on Fox News about South Africa's planned land reforms but a spokesman for Mr Ramaphosa said the American president was \"misinformed\". President Trump and Mr Ramaphosa spoke by phone earlier this year amid a growing outbreak of coronavirus in the US, with the South African leader saying he had \"passed our condolences to the Government and people of the US on the devastation the virus has wrought\".\n\n\"We're doing a tremendous service. We have a wonderful feeling and a wonderful relationship with each other, but we have to be treated equitably and fairly.\" - President Trump, talking to reporters at the White House, 20 Apr 2020 President Moon and Mr Trump during a meeting at the UN General Assembly (Getty Images) President Trump's tough rhetoric towards North Korea had many in the South feeling worried for much of 2017. But there was hope that tensions on the peninsula had been diffused when the US president brought North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table. After South Korean President Moon Jae-in's historic meeting with Mr Kim in April 2018, Mr Trump tweeted: \"After a furious year of missile launches and Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and South Korea is now taking place. Good things are happening, but only time will tell!\" Mr Moon, for his part, said Mr Trump \"deserves big credit\" for getting North Korea to agree to talks. Trade has also been a key part of the two countries' relationship during Mr Trump's term. The American president had long wanted to renegotiate the \"horrible\" free trade agreement the US struck with South Korea in 2012, claiming it had \"destroyed\" the US. In September 2018, the two sides signed a revised trade pact that, among other things, allows US carmakers greater access to the South Korean market while protecting Seoul from some of the tariffs that the US had introduced on steel. Mr Trump hailed it as a \"a very big deal\". There have been several moments of tension in the relationship, however. A frequent complaint of Mr Trump's has been that South Korea should pay the US more for its military support. In March 2019, he tweeted that military drills between the countries had been cancelled \"to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed\". Later that year, he confirmed South Korea had started talks over increasing their payments to the US, saying: \"South Korea is a very wealthy nation that now feels an obligation to contribute to the military defence provided by the United States of America.\" But in April this year, he said he had rejected an offer from Seoul, telling reporters: \"We're asking them to pay for a big percentage of what we're doing. It's not fair... It's a question of will they contribute toward the defence of their own nation.\"\n\n\"Our relationship has been outstanding over the years and, I think, especially right now. Excellent trade relationship, military relationship. Just about everything you can have. So we love Spain.\" President Trump with King Felipe outside the Oval Office (Getty Images) Donald Trump has enjoyed relatively warm relations with Spain's leaders. At a meeting with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in June 2017, Mr Trump said he thought Spain was \"a great country\" and that he hoped it would remain \"united\" despite a push from people in the Catalonia region for independence. Mr Rajoy was ousted by a vote of no confidence in June 2018 and replaced by Pedro Sánchez, who President Trump has met at Nato and G7 summits but not at the White House. Mr Trump and his wife Melania have, however, welcomed Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the White House, celebrating \"over 300 years of historic and cultural ties between our two great countries\" at a meeting in June 2018. The American president had been due to host the Spanish royals for a second time in April this year, but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It would have been only the third state visit under Mr Trump - the other two were by the French and Australian leaders. In 2018, Mr Trump reportedly suggested to Spain's foreign minister that Europe should build a wall across the Sahara, similar to the one on the US-Mexico border, to solve the migrant crisis. In recent months, Mr Trump has mentioned Spain frequently when trying to suggest that Europe has had much bigger problems dealing with coronavirus compared to the US. Speaking at the White House in June, he said: \"Look what happened to Spain… It's just been shattered.\" But both countries have been hit hard by the virus, with the death rate in Spain only slightly higher than in the US.\n\n\"GREAT news! New government of Sudan, which is making great progress, agreed to pay $335 MILLION to U.S. terror victims and families. Once deposited, I will lift Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At long last, JUSTICE for the American people and BIG step for Sudan!\" Sudan is another of the predominantly Muslim countries that Donald Trump included on his initial travel ban list. The Supreme Court partly reinstated the ban after it was twice rejected by judges in the US, but by that point Sudan had been removed from the list reportedly due to improved cooperation. However, the country was added once again in early 2020, meaning Sudanese nationals can no longer apply for \"diversity visas\", which are available by lottery for applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the US. In better news for the relationship of the two countries, Mr Trump has recently signalled his intention to remove Sudan from a US list of state sponsors of terror, meaning sanctions dating back to the 1990s could be removed. In another sign of the improving relations since Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in 2019, Mr Trump also recently announced that the country was normalising its relations with Israel, saying it was a \"HUGE win today for the United States and for peace in the world\". Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said the move was part of the new government's efforts in working \"towards international relations that best serve our people\".\n\n\"Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!\" Prime Minister Lofven at a joint press conference with President Trump at the White House (Getty Images) President Trump caused a bit of a stir in Sweden early on in his presidency. \"Look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers of migrants]. They're having problems like they never thought possible,\" the president [told a crowd in Florida. The only problem was that no-one seemed to know what incident he was referring to - not least lots of baffled Swedes. Mr Trump later said he had been referring to a Fox News report on gun violence and rape in Sweden since it opened its doors to large numbers of asylum-seekers in 2013 - but the police officers interviewed said their comments had been taken out of context and data didn't appear to back up claims that there had been a surge in gun crimes or rape. The president raised eyebrows again in 2019, when he took to Twitter to call for the release of American rapper A$AP Rocky, who had been charged with assault in Stockholm. \"Give A$AP Rocky his FREEDOM. We do so much for Sweden but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Sweden should focus on its real crime problem!\" the president tweeted in July 2019. \"Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act,\" he added. The rapper was eventually found guilty and given a suspended sentence, but he had returned to the US by that point. In recent months, Mr Trump has mentioned Sweden frequently when talking about the coronavirus pandemic, tweeting in April that the country was \"paying heavily for its decision not to lockdown\". Sweden's foreign minister, however, has called Mr Trump's assessments \"factually wrong\". Despite the bumps, Mr Löfven insisted during a visit to the White House in 2018 that the two countries had a good relationship despite some differences because they shared the same values. Mr Trump told reporters: \"Sweden is a great country. It's small, but it's very sharp, I will tell you. They are very sharp.\"\n\n\"If anybody but Donald Trump did what I did in Syria... they would be a national hero.\" President Trump in the Situation Room of the White House, monitoring the operation in which the leader of the so-called Islamic State group was killed in Syria (Getty Images) Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of military intervention - particularly in Syria - for some time. When his predecessor was considering military action in the country back in 2013, Mr Trump tweeted: \"Again, to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the US gets nothing.\" But just over two months into his term, President Trump said he was so moved by images of children in the aftermath of a chemical attack by Syrian forces that he was taking military action. \"Using a deadly nerve agent, Syrian President] Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,\" Mr Trump [said. \"No child of God should ever suffer such horror.\" Two US Navy ships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base from their positions in the Mediterranean in April 2017. It was the first direct US military action against Mr Assad. Mr Trump deployed his military again in April 2018, with 100 missiles targeting suspected government chemical weapons facilities in response to another chemical attack. After the strikes, Mr Trump tweeted: \"A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!\" At the end of 2018, Mr Trump made the surprise announcement that US troops would be leaving Syria, saying they had achieved his objective of defeating the so-called Islamic State group (IS). But even allies criticised the move and the withdrawal failed to materialise. US troops did begin withdrawing from northern Syria in 2019, however, leaving their Kurdish allies to face a Turkish offensive in the region. Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Mr Trump's, was one of many Republicans to voice their anger at the move, tweeting in October: \"Pray for our Kurdish allies who have been shamelessly abandoned by the Trump Administration.\" President Trump rejected the criticism and said Turkey and the Kurdish people had been \"fighting each other for 200 years\". He was involved with securing a ceasefire in the region though, saying that the \"Kurds are safe and have worked very nicely with us.\" Later that month, Mr Trump announced that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had killed himself during a US military operation in Syria, saying he had been \"violently eliminated\" and \"died like a coward\".\n\nPresident Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Chan-ocha outside the White House (Getty Images) President Trump moved quickly to establish a good relationship with Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, who took control of the country in a 2014 coup. The pair \"expressed a strong shared interest in strengthening the trade and economic ties between the two countries\" during a call in April 2017. Thailand's relationship with the US had been somewhat strained in the past because of human rights complaints. Former President Barack Obama did not invite Mr Chan-ocha to visit Washington. During their phone call, President Trump invited Mr Chan-ocha to visit the White House for the first time, a trip that took place in October 2017. Talking to reporters with Mr Chan-ocha alongside him, Mr Trump said: \"We have a very strong relationship right now, as of this moment, and it's getting stronger in the last nine months.\" More recently, Mr Trump caused a stir in Thailand when he mispronounced Thailand as \"thigh-land\" at a campaign rally in Ohio.\n\nPerhaps the unlikeliest country to have made our list, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley spoke to Donald Trump on the phone in February 2017 to discuss \"shared priorities\". One of those priorities is terrorism, with some US officials worried that the small Caribbean island could become a \"breeding ground for extremists\", according to the New York Times. The island's former US ambassador John Estrada told the newspaper that more than 100 people had travelled from there to fight with the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.\n\nWhen Donald Trump announced a ban on people entering the US from several predominantly Muslim countries, some analysts were surprised not to see Tunisia on the list. The Arab Spring began there in 2010, but it became a breeding ground for the so-called Islamic State group (IS) - more Tunisians joined them to fight in Iraq and Syria than any other nationality. President Trump appeared to have decided that a close relationship with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi was important in the fight against IS and he praised the country's \"stability and security\" in a phone call with its leader in February 2017. When Mr Essebsi died at the age of 92 in July 2019, a White House statement praised him for being a \"tireless advocate for the Tunisian people\".\n\n\"I had a very good conversation with President Erdogan. I respect him. We have a very good relationship. Yes, I agree, he's a tough guy. But we have a very good relationship. I seem to do better with tough people.\" Mr Trump met with President Erdogan in the Oval Office in May 2017 (Getty Images) Donald Trump's relationship with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had a lot of ups and downs over the past four years. Relations were strained initially by Mr Trump's decision to arm the Syrian Kurds in the battle against the so-called Islamic State group (IS). Turkey views the YPG (Popular Protection Units) as a terrorist group linked to the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group. But the pair were united at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017, where they reaffirmed their rejection of a planned Kurdistan referendum. In 2018, however, there were tensions over the case of an American pastor who had been arrested and charged in Turkey over alleged links to political groups. Taking to Twitter to protest, Mr Trump accused Turkey of having \"taken advantage of the United States for many years\" and said the US would be \"cutting back on Turkey!\" In another tweet around the same time, Mr Trump announced increased tariffs on the country and said: \"Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!\" Two months later, the pastor was released and President Trump said that while there was no deal made, there was \"great appreciation on behalf of the United States, which will lead to good, perhaps great, relations between the United States & Turkey!\" In 2019, Mr Trump's decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria and allow Turkish forces to launch an offensive on Kurdish forces was criticised heavily both at home and abroad. In response, he tweeted a threat to Turkey: \"As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!)\" Mr Trump sent Mr Erdogan a letter at the time, telling him: \"Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!\" But the Turkish leader was reported to have \"thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin\". A fortnight later, President Trump lifted sanctions on Turkey after it agreed to a ceasefire in Syria. Earlier this year, Mr Erdogan suggested relations may be improving between the two countries, saying after a phone call with his American counterpart: \"To be honest, after our conversation tonight, a new era can begin between the United States and Turkey.\"\n\n\"Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?\" Mr Trump and President Zelensky at a meeting in New York (Getty Images) Ukraine was at the centre of the Democrats' bid to impeach President Trump so relations between the two countries have been under the spotlight in the last four years. Mr Trump has repeatedly accused Barack Obama of having been weak on Russia and allowing them to \"pick off\" the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine - the kind of rhetoric that will have pleased Kyiv. But early on in his presidency, the American also called for better ties to Russia, which will have worried Ukrainian authorities. In June 2017, Mr Trump said he had \"very, very good discussions\" with President Petro Poroshenko during a visit to the White House by the Ukrainian. The pair discussed \"support for the peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine\", where government forces have been fighting Russian-backed rebels since 2014. The following month, Mr Trump called on Russia to stop \"destabilising\" Ukraine and \"join the community of responsible nations\". The Kremlin brushed off the comments. Mr Poroshenko was replaced by Volodymyr Zelensky in May 2019 and his name became well known in the US later in the year when a phone call he had with Mr Trump became a key part of impeachment proceedings against the American president. Democrats accused Mr Trump of trying to pressure Mr Zelensky into investigating unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Joe Biden, who would later become his opponent in the 2020 president election. For his part, Mr Zelensky said there was \"no blackmail\" in the phone call with President Trump, adding: \"This is not corruption, it was just a call.\" In response, Mr Trump tweeted: \"This should immediately end the talk of impeachment!\" Mr Trump was eventually impeached at the end of 2019 but found not guilty after a vote in the Senate in February 2020.\n\nPresident Trump welcoming the Crown Prince to the White House (Getty Images) The Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan spoke to Donald Trump on the phone just a few days after the former businessman became the new US president. The two leaders discussed the fight against international terrorism and \"committed to further strengthen cooperation on fighting radical Islamic terrorism\". The UAE was not one of the Middle Eastern countries from which Mr Trump tried to ban travel to the US in 2017 and the state's foreign minister was one of the few officials in the region to defend the move. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan described Mr Trump's proposed ban as a \"sovereign decision\" and said some of the countries on the list \"face structural problems\" that need to be dealt with. The strength of the relationship was on show recently, when President Trump announced that his administration had overseen a deal with the UAE and Israel that will see the Arab state normalise relations with its historic foe. \"After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East,\" Mr Trump told a crowd of hundreds gathered at the White House in September this year as he celebrated both the UAE deal with Israel and a similar one with Bahrain.\n\n\"Congratulations to Boris Johnson on his great WIN! Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a massive new Trade Deal after BREXIT.\" President Trump and Prime Minister Johnson at a G7 summit in France (Getty Images) President Trump had a slightly bumpy relationship with Theresa May, the first British prime minister he had to deal with in his presidency. He arrived for his first visit to the UK as president on 12 July 2018 but it was immediately overshadowed by the publication of an interview the US president gave to The Sun newspaper. In it, he said the UK would \"probably not\" get a trade deal with the US if the prime minister's Brexit plan went ahead. \"If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,\" he told the paper, adding that Mrs May's plan \"will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way.\" But at a joint news conference on the second day of his visit, he changed his tone and said a trade deal \"will absolutely be possible\" after the UK leaves the EU. He also said Brexit was an \"incredible opportunity\". Mr Trump also met the Queen, although there was no open carriage ride with her through the streets of the capital as the trip was designated a \"working visit\" rather than an official state visit. Asked about the protests that greeted his arrival in the UK, he insisted many people were \"delighted\" he was visiting, adding: \"I get thousands of notifications from people in the UK that they love the president of the United States.\" But when he arrived in London for a state visit the following year, he was welcomed by further protests and a giant balloon depicting him as a baby. This time around, the president was given the honour of a state banquet at Buckingham Palace with the Queen, during which he praised the \"eternal friendship\" between the UK and US. But earlier in the day, he had called London Mayor Sadiq Khan - who had said the UK should \"not roll out the red carpet\" for Mr Trump - a \"stone cold loser\". A few weeks later, Mr Trump also laid into Mrs May and her proposed Brexit deal, tweeting: \"What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way.\" So it was little surprise when Mr Trump appeared excited to congratulate Boris Johnson on becoming the new prime minister in July 2019, saying: \"He will be great!\" When asked what advice he would give to Mr Johnson on Brexit, the president replied: \"He needs no advice. He's the right man for the job. I've been saying that for a long time.\" While the pair have enjoyed warm personal relations, there have been some differences on policy, most notably on China, the Iran nuclear deal and the future of Nato. But after this year, they now have another thing in common - they both got and recovered from coronavirus. When Mr Johnson left intensive care back in April, Mr Trump said it was \"great news\" and after he returned to the White House to recover from the virus in October, he thanked the British PM for \"his friendship and support\".\n\nMr Trump spoke to Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in December 2017 to discuss \"discuss regional security and to explore opportunities for improved cooperation.\" That came after Mr Mirziyoyev told Mr Trump his country was ready to \"use all forces and resources\" to help investigate the New York truck attack, in which eight people were killed. The suspect arrested by police was an Uzbek immigrant. The two leaders met for the first time in May at the White House, with Mr Trump saying the two countries were \"working together from the standpoint of the military\".\n\n\"My Admin has always stood on the side of FREEDOM and LIBERTY and against the oppressive Maduro regime!\" President Trump with Juan Guaidó at the White House (Getty Images) Venezuela has suffered from economic and political crises for several years now and it is deeply divided between those who support the government of the socialist President Nicolás Maduro and those who blame him for the country's dire state. Mr Trump has discussed the situation in Venezuela with leaders of several neighbouring countries, including Brazil and Colombia, but he has not spoken directly to President Maduro. In a tweet in October 2017, Mr Trump called \"for the full restoration of democracy and political freedoms in Venezuela\". President Maduro, however, sent a word of warning to Mr Trump, saying in a televised speech: \"Don't repeat the errors of Obama and Bush when it comes to Venezuela and Latin America.\" Mr Maduro was reelected in 2018 but the election was widely dismissed as rigged. After months of a political crisis, opposition leader Juan Guaidó labelled Mr Maduro a \"usurper\" and declared himself interim president in January 2019. Shortly afterwards, Mr Trump tweeted: \"The citizens of Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate Maduro regime. Today, I have officially recognized the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as the Interim President of Venezuela.\" The following month Mr Trump said: \"I ask every member of the Maduro regime: End this nightmare of poverty, hunger and death. LET YOUR PEOPLE GO. Set your country free!\" Dozens of countries around the world have recognised Mr Guaidó as president but the Venezuelan military has remained loyal to Mr Maduro. Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he would be open to meeting Mr Maduro, telling Axios: \"I would maybe think about that... Maduro would like to meet.\" But he later clarified his position, tweeting: \"I would only meet with Maduro to discuss one thing: a peaceful exit from power!\"\n\nMr Trump and President Trong pose at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi (Getty Images) Vietnam played host to President Trump with a lavish two-day state visit around the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in November 2017. Mr Trump tweeted his thanks for \"a wonderful visit\" and was keen to highlight a $12bn (£9bn) purchase of Boeing aircraft in a joint statement after the visit. A little over a year later, Mr Trump was back in Hanoi to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. But talks ended without agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief. \"Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times,\" Mr Trump said afterwards. After the talks, Mr Trump tweeted: \"THANK YOU to our generous hosts in Hanoi this week: President Trong, Prime Minister Phuc, and the wonderful people of Vietnam!\"", "Mr Obama said Mr Biden would take care of Americans\n\nUS Democratic candidate Joe Biden is in Michigan and President Donald Trump is in Pennsylvania, states that could be key to winning the White House as the last weekend of campaigning hots up.\n\nMr Biden, joined by ex-President Barack Obama, said the US was \"done with the chaos\" of the Trump administration.\n\nMr Trump said there would be a \"great red wave\" of Republican victories.\n\nMr Biden has a solid lead in the polls, but his advantage is narrower in swing states that could decide the election.\n\nMore than 85 million people have voted early in the US elections, 55 million of them by post, setting the country on course for its biggest voter turnout in over a century.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Obama campaigned at a drive-in event in Flint, Michigan, before heading to Detroit where they were joined by singer Stevie Wonder. Mr Trump narrowly won Michigan in 2016.\n\nAt the event, Stevie Wonder changed the lyrics to his song Superstition to praise Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris\n\nIn his first appearance on the campaign trail with his former vice-president, Mr Obama compared Mr Biden's character favourably with Mr Trump's.\n\n\"It used to be that being a man meant taking care of other people... not looking for credit but trying to live right,\" he said.\n\n\"When you elect Joe, that's what you'll see reflected from the White House.\"\n\nTaking the stage, Mr Biden tore into his opponent, saying it was time for him to \"pack his bags and go home\".\n\n\"We're done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the failure, the refusal to take any responsibility,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How much is Covid-19 an election issue?\n\nMr Biden's campaign events have generally been small, as the candidate keeps rigorously to social distancing rules.\n\nNot so for Mr Trump, who is holding a series of four rallies in Pennsylvania on Saturday.\n\nAt the first, in Newtown, he appeared on stage serenaded by chants of \"Four more years!\" and told the state where the US independence movement began centuries ago that \"three days from now this is the state that will save the American dream\".\n\nHe also joked about his recent brush with coronavirus, which also infected First Lady Melania Trump.\n\n\"At least those rumours that we don't live together proved to be false,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump said Pennsylvania would \"save the American dream\"\n\nAfter a rally of several hundred people - relatively small for him - the president flew to Reading, where thousands greeted him on the tarmac.\n\nMr Trump is planning another 10 rallies over the final two days of the campaign.\n\nHis campaign has five events in Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida on Sunday, and then five more on election eve in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can we believe the polls this time?", "Police arrested the suspect in the early hours of Sunday morning\n\nAt least two people have been stabbed to death in the Canadian city of Quebec by a man armed with a sword and dressed in medieval clothing, police say.\n\nFive others were wounded in the Halloween night attack. A man in his mid-20s was arrested shortly before 01:00 (06:00 GMT) on Sunday.\n\nPolice said an initial probe found the suspect was not affiliated with any extremist groups.\n\nThe attack took place in the historic Old Quebec neighbourhood.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter: \"My heart breaks for the loved ones of the two killed in last night's horrific attack in Quebec City.\n\n\"I'm also wishing a full recovery to the injured. We're keeping you in our thoughts and will be there for all of you.\"\n\nHe also thanked first responders for their critical work.\n\nThe identity of the suspect has not been made public.\n\nAt a news conference on Sunday, Quebec City Police Chief Robert Pigeon said it was believed that the attack was premeditated, adding that the suspect, from the Montreal suburbs, came to Quebec City with \"the intention of doing the most damage possible\".\n\n\"Dressed in medieval costume and armed with a Japanese sword, everything leads us to believe he chose his victims at random,\" Mr Pigeon added.\n\nThe suspect had spoken of conducting an attack \"in a medical context\" five years ago but was not known to police and did not have a criminal record, police said.\n\n​First reports of the incident near the French-speaking city's national assembly came through shortly before 22:30 local time on Saturday.\n\nThe suspect was arrested near the Espace 400e business park.\n\nQuebec's Le Soleil newspaper reported that he was lying on the ground, barefoot and hypothermic, when he was arrested. He surrendered to police without any resistance, it said.\n\nFollowing his arrest, the suspect was taken to hospital for \"evaluation\".\n\nThe five wounded are also being treated in hospital, with varying levels of injury, according to police.\n\nPolice have not released details of the victims' identities or ages.\n\nReporters at the scene have tweeted photos of a police command post outside Quebec's Parliament Building.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ICI Québec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 news conference on Sunday, Quebec City police spokesman Étienne Doyon offered \"sincerest condolences to the loved ones and families of the people who died\".\n\nAre you in Quebec? How have you been affected by the incident? If you have any information to share, and only if it is safe for you 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nicola Sturgeon said only essential journeys should be made across the border with England\n\nNicola Sturgeon has told people not to travel to or from England except for \"essential purposes\".\n\nThe first minister issued the appeal as Boris Johnson prepared to announce a month-long lockdown south of the border.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government would \"take account\" of the developments but would base decisions on Scottish measures on circumstances in Scotland.\n\nShe said there were early signs existing action was having an impact.\n\nBoris Johnson has announced the closure of non-essential shops and hospitality, although schools and universities will remain open.\n\nIt followed scientific modelling which suggested the number of deaths in the UK could rise much higher than anticipated, possibly as high as 4,000 a day by mid December, without further action.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, as speculation about new restrictions mounted, Ms Sturgeon indicated that Scotland would continue with its regional tiered strategy for the time being.\n\nA new five-level system of restrictions will come into force in Scotland on Monday, which will see travel restrictions imposed on many Scots.\n\nShe tweeted: \"Prevalance of the virus is currently lower than in other parts of the UK and there are early signs that the tough restrictions in place since we moved quickly in late September have started to slow the rate of the increase\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe urged people not to travel to or from areas in Scotland under level 3 restrictions and added: \"For now, we are asking people not to travel to or from England at all, except for essential purposes.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said decisions on action beyond this would consider what financial support was available as a consequence of any new restrictions in England.\n\nEarlier public health expert Prof Linda Bauld warned the path of the pandemic in Scotland over the next fortnight would determine whether the country goes into lockdown.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland: \"You can see from the figures in Scotland that the case numbers are levelling off.\n\n\"We are making progress. The question I would ask is the progress quick enough?\n\nOn Saturday the Scottish government confirmed a further 1,101 positive cases and 24 deaths.\n\nProf Bauld said these figures are a \"reflection of infection rates in September.\"\n\nShe told the programme significant action has already been taken in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Bauld added: \"I think the big debate is 'Why is England dragging its feet?' That is essentially the issue.\"\n\nProf Linda Bauld said cases in Scotland are currently levelling off but the next fortnight will determine whether the country goes into lockdown\n\nProf Bauld, of Edinburgh University, said: \"Along with the other devolved nations you can see from the latest ONS data that Scotland is really in quite a different position from many parts of England so I would not assume that we are going to go the same way as England.\"\n\nBut looking ahead, Prof Bauld said: \"We need to continue to expect these infection rates to go up and I think that the government strategy in Scotland is to keep an eye on the situation over the next week or two.\n\n\"My feeling would be unless we see improvements, particularly in some parts of the central belt, we really, realistically, could be looking at level 4, which we want to avoid but would be necessary, essentially just to avoid these preventable deaths escalating even further.\"\n\nShe also cautioned that in order to get the R-number below one it is possible the existing measures will not be sufficient.\n\nThe latest estimate for Scotland is that the R-number is between 1 and 1.3, a slight fall on the previous estimate.\n\nProf Bauld said: \"If the trends go in the wrong direction again then I think everybody in the country recognises that more action will be taken.\"\n\nMotherwell is one of the towns in Scotland's central belt which will be under level 3 restrictions from Monday\n\nThe Scottish government has meanwhile launched a new campaign to warn the general public of the serious implications of \"twisting the rules\".\n\nIt highlights how even small lapses in compliance have an impact not only on health, but the economy and wider society.\n\nLaunching the campaign, Ms Sturgeon acknowledged the \"huge sacrifices\" that have been made since March.\n\nShe added: \"I know that people are tired and frustrated, but at this critical point in the pandemic, I want to remind people that the decisions they make over the coming days and weeks have a real impact on not only themselves but others.\n\n\"Right now, we rely more than ever on public willingness to adhere to the measures in place.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the new new protection levels should enable communities to \"control outbreaks quickly and effectively and minimise transmission of the virus\".\n\nBut she added: \"If we all put our own twist on the rules, they simply won't work.\"", "Police cordoned off streets as they searched for the assailant\n\nA Greek Orthodox priest has been seriously wounded in a shooting in the French city of Lyon, officials say.\n\nThe gunman fled the scene, sparking a manhunt. A suspect resembling witness descriptions was later taken into custody.\n\nThe motive for the attack remains unclear. Authorities have opened an investigation of attempted murder.\n\nThe incident came days after three people were killed in a knife attack at a church in the southern city of Nice.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron called the killings an \"Islamist terrorist attack\" and deployed thousands of extra soldiers to protect public sites, including places of worship.\n\nThe shooting in Lyon happened at about 16:00 local time (15:00 GMT) on Saturday when the priest was closing his church, officials said.\n\nThe attacker, who police said was armed with a sawn-off shotgun, fled the scene.\n\nThe French interior ministry said security and emergency personnel were on the scene, and urged people to avoid the area.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday night, Lyon's public prosecutor, Nicolas Jacquet, said \"a person who could correspond to the description given by the initial witnesses has been placed in police custody\".\n\nHe added that the suspect had not been carrying a weapon at the time of his arrest. Investigators are trying to determine his identity.\n\nLyon Mayor Gregory Doucet earlier told reporters: \"We don't know at this stage the motive for this attack.\"\n\nThe priest has been identified as Nikolas Kakavelakis. He is in hospital and is reported to be in a serious condition.\n\nThe priest is said to have life-threatening injuries after being shot twice in the abdomen.\n\nFrance Prime Minister Jean Castex said the government was determined to allow \"each and everyone to practice their worship in complete safety and in complete freedom\".", "What does the surge in early voting tell us?\n\nThe massive surge of early in-person and mail voting in the 2020 general election is tangible evidence that interest and enthusiasm in the presidential race has translated into actual ballots cast. That should come as good news for Democrats, who may have wondered whether a supposed lack of excitement over Joe Biden’s candidacy would damp down turnout on their side. Whether the Delaware Democrat has surprising devotion from his party’s faithful or the prospect of four more years of a Trump presidency is too abhorrent for them to contemplate, the end result is the same – registered Democrats voted early in record-breaking numbers. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton’s campaign celebrated encouraging early voting numbers as well, particularly in Florida. On election day, however, an unexpected wave of support for Donald Trump erased that advantage. This time around, that phenomenon could be even more pronounced, given the president’s calls for his side to vote in-person instead of by mail. That would create its own set of problems if the race is close and overwhelmingly Democratic postal ballots take longer to count than in-person Republican ones. For the moment, however, higher civic involvement is something both sides can celebrate.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nLate extra-time goals from Georgia Stanway and Janine Beckie settled a terrific Women's FA Cup final as Manchester City eventually overcame Everton at Wembley to lift the trophy for the third time.\n\nSubstitute Stanway latched on to Jess Park's clever through ball and slotted in off the post, when a penalty shootout had been looming, and Beckie calmly netted an ever later third.\n\nUnited States midfielder Sam Mewis had deservedly nodded City in front from Alex Greenwood's corner shortly before half-time, but France's Valerie Gauvin headed level from Izzy Christiansen's second-half corner as Everton fought back.\n\nPlayed without any fans at Wembley amid ongoing coronavirus restrictions, the contest was the closest-fought the women's final has seen since the fixture was first staged at the home of English football in 2015, as last season's delayed competition came to a dramatic conclusion.\n\nGareth Taylor's City side could have settled it earlier in the game, as Scotland midfielder Caroline Weir struck the woodwork twice in the second half before England skipper Steph Houghton saw a header tipped on to the post in extra time.\n\nThat was one of a number of superb saves from Everton's 22-year-old stopper Sandy MacIver, on a day when City's 21-year-old England keeper Ellie Roebuck also impressed, adding to an entertaining spectacle.\n\nThe 50th Women's Cup final had originally been scheduled for May but was delayed because of the pandemic and the cup resumed at the quarter-final stage in September, after the 2020-21 league season had already commenced.\n\nUnbeaten in their first five games of that new Women's Super League season, the Toffees arrived at Wembley in fine form, but it was still last season's WSL runners-up City who were considered the pre-match favourites and they lived up to that tag with a strong opening 45 minutes.\n\nBut Everton, appearing in their first final since 2014 and trying to win their first cup since 2010, battled back strongly and the game was almost end-to-end at times in the final 20 minutes of normal time, before holders City edged clear in the latter stage of extra time to win the cup for the third time in four seasons.\n\nSunday's result continued City, Arsenal and Chelsea's combined six-season-long dominance of the major domestic trophies in the English women's game.\n\nNot since Liverpool lifted the league title in 2014 has any club other than the modern-day 'big three' won the WSL, Women's FA Cup or Continental League Cup.\n\nCity only turned professional in the build-up to the 2014 summer season but have won seven major honours since then, adding their third FA Cup to three League Cups and the 2016 league crown.\n\nThey were made to dig deep against a hard-working Everton side who will feel they could have taken the lead in the second half when France's Gauvin glanced a header just wide.\n\nHowever few could deny that City were worthy winners - they created the greater number of chances and twice went close in second-half stoppage time, with the game stretched.\n\nOn a day when both young English goalkeepers shined, Everton's MacIver won the plaudits with a series of excellent saves, with arguably the best of the lot keeping out Houghton's header.\n• None Goal! Everton Women 1, Manchester City Women 3. Janine Beckie (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Izzy Christiansen (Everton Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Samantha Mewis (Manchester City Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicoline Sørensen (Everton Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Simone Magill.\n• None Attempt blocked. Chloe Kelly (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Caroline Weir.\n• None Goal! Everton Women 1, Manchester City Women 2. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jessica Park with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chloe Kelly. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Traders have been reopening their businesses in Melbourne\n\nAustralia has recorded its first day of no local cases of Covid-19 in almost five months.\n\nZero cases were reported in the 24 hours between 20:00 on Friday and 20:00 on Saturday - the first time this has happened since 9 June.\n\nThe state of Victoria - epicentre of Australia's second wave - recorded zero cases for the second day in a row after a 112-day lockdown.\n\nHealth officials say more restrictions may be eased in the coming days.\n\n\"Thank you to all of our amazing health & public health workers & above all else the Australian people,\" Health Minister Greg Hunt said on his Twitter account.\n\nAustralia has recorded some 27,500 infections and 900 deaths to Covid-19 since the pandemic started - far fewer than many nations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coping with Melbourne lockdown: 'I cycled every street in my 5km radius'\n\nThe nation of 25 million adopted an approach of using lockdowns and proactive testing and tracing to contain the virus, and Victoria - where 90% of Covid deaths occurred - imposed some of the severest stay-at-home and curfew rules in the world.\n\nVictoria and its largest city Melbourne began to reopen earlier this week after recording no new community-transmitted cases since June. People were able to freely leave their homes, retail stores, restaurants, cafes and bars could reopen and groups of up to 10 could start gathering.\n\nVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews praised the state's six million residents for following such strict rules and said they were well placed for a \"Covid-normal Christmas\".", "Liverpool has the third highest number of infections in England\n\nIncreased furlough payments for the national Covid lockdown shows the government \"believes the North is worth less than the South\", Liverpool's metro mayor has claimed.\n\nBoris Johnson announced workers would receive 80% of their wages if businesses close during a four-week lockdown in England from Thursday.\n\nOnly 67% of pay was offered during tier three closures in the north of England.\n\nThe government has yet to respond to the mayor's accusation.\n\nHowever, the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show: \"The announcement about furlough that was made yesterday was about the extension of a scheme, that would have expired last night, throughout the rest of this month.\n\n\"The chancellor and his team are looking at every aspect of economic support and more will be said in the days ahead about how we provide it.\"\n\nLabour's Steve Rotheram said the government was \"unequivocal\" it would not consider changes to the local scheme offered in the north west.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region mayor added: \"This morning millions of people woke up knowing the prime minister of this country believes the North is worth less than the South.\"\n\nAndy Burnham was in a high profile battle with the government over furlough support\n\nIn October, a row broke out between leaders in north-west England and the government over the level of compensation offered to workers and businesses when much of the region was placed into tier three, the highest level of restrictions.\n\nAt a press conference earlier, Mr Rotheram said: \"Apparently all votes count equally, but all voters demonstrably don't to this government and the support you get from the chancellor of the exchequer depends on a horizontal line drawn across the country and on which side of it you sit.\"\n\n\"I can assure the government that the people of the North won't easily forget that they were judged to be worth less than their southern counterparts.\"\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said people in the region had \"just completed three months of morale-sapping restrictions and now they are waking up to the prospect of a month of even tougher restrictions\".\n\nHe called for work to be done on a \"substantial localisation\" of the test and trace system, for self-employed people to be financially supported and for schools to close for two weeks for a \"true circuit break\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said there is a crisis of confidence in the government\n\nLiverpool city mayor Joe Anderson accused the government of showing \"contempt\" for northern workers by offering more aid for the national lockdown than to regions placed in tier three restrictions.\n\nHe said it was \"interesting... all of a sudden\" the money has been found.\n\nMr Anderson said he welcomed the national lockdown but added: \"So, relief that it's finally been done but real contempt has been shown by this government for the people who advised for it [another lockdown], Sage, and also leaders like me and others that were calling for it six, seven weeks ago.\n\n\"I think there's now a crisis of confidence in relation to this government and their ability to actually manage this.\"\n\nThe government has been approached for a response.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland won the Six Nations after France beat Ireland on a thrilling final day of the delayed tournament.\n\nEddie Jones' side had claimed a bonus-point win against Italy earlier on Saturday but faced a tense wait as both teams in the day's final fixture attempted to take the title.\n\nEngland's first title since 2017 was confirmed by France's 35-27 victory.\n\nIreland, who would have taken the crown if they had beaten France by six points or more, led 10-7 at one point.\n\nThe hosts took control to win in Paris but needed a bonus point and a winning margin of 31 points or more to claim the Six Nations themselves.\n\nBut they were unable to win by a large enough margin as England took the title on points difference.\n\nEngland will fly home on Sunday and be presented with the trophy on their return. They will then have a week off before playing Georgia, Ireland and Wales in the Autumn Nations Cup.\n\nTheir victory comes at the end of the longest Six Nations in history after the tournament was suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEngland's women have already won the title with a game to spare and face Italy in search of a second successive Grand Slam on Sunday.\n\nEngland came into this tournament as World Cup runners-up, but the Six Nations title seemed far from their reach after the opening game:\n• None as resurgent France side stun England with first-half blitz in Paris. Jones' men did leave the Stade de France with a losing bonus point which would later prove crucial in their title win.\n• None 8 February: Ellis Genge scores the only try as England overcome terrible weather conditions\n• None 7 March: Survive late red card for Manu Tuilagi to secure the Triple Crown . The next day, France's Mohamed Haouas was shown a first-half red card, allowing\n• None 31 October: Ben Youngs scores twice on his 100th cap as and later secure the title thanks to France's victory against Ireland\n\n'We want to make people smile' - What they said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"I'm very proud of all the players and staff. They've reacted superbly to the changing situations in the past couple of weeks and remained focused on the goal of winning the Six Nations.\"We'd also like to thank all of our supporters. It's strange not having fans in the stadium and we know it's a tough time for the country, but we felt your support throughout the campaign and it does make a difference.\n\n\"Hopefully we can continue to deliver more good moments for our fans in the coming weeks.\"\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell: \"It's a massive achievement for us as a group to win the Guinness Six Nations in the strangest year and circumstances.\n\n\"We've worked really hard in training the past few weeks to get ready for the Italy game, we knew what we had to do and we kept our focus and got the result.\n\n\"This is a great group of players, we really think we can continue to get better and achieve more for England.\n\n\"We know how difficult things are for everyone at home at the moment and we've been saying all through our training camps how we want to do our bit to make people smile.\n\n\"Hopefully we've done that today and we'll do more of the same throughout the autumn.\"\n\nBen Youngs put in a man-of-the-match performance for England as he became only the second male player to reach 100 caps for the country after Jason Leonard.\n\nThe scrum-half had been stuck on 99 caps since the Six Nations was halted but scored once in each half to make the wait more than worth it.\n\nAfter his achievement, he was presented with a gold cap and an engraved watch by his team-mates in the Stadio Olimpico dressing room.\n\n\"It was an incredible touch and something that I wasn't expecting,\" the 31-year-old said.\n\n\"It was a great presentation from Eddie [Jones] and Owen [Farrell] and I will now reflect and enjoy this moment.\"\n\nFormer England captain Martin Johnson on BBC One: \"France coming back and playing the rugby they did is brilliant for the tournament.\n\n\"I am already looking forward to England v France next year. England will pick up the trophy on Sunday but they will be thinking they have blown a Grand Slam because they played poorly in Paris in the first half and did not really compete.\"\n\nFormer England wing Ugo Monye on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It is a magic day for England. Any day you win a Six Nations title is, of course, but it is made more special by the debutants they had, plus Jamie George reaching 50 caps and Ben Youngs reaching 100.\n\n\"Ben has been incredible. We often try to select our national team based on club form and his form for Leicester hasn't always been great for the past couple of years.\n\n\"But whenever he has put on an England jersey he's been incredible. To be only the second Englishman [after Jason Leonard] to reach that achievement is fantastic.\"\n\nEngland prop Ellis Genge posted photos of himself with debutant Jonny Hill then and now.\n• None Gary Lineker on his move from player to presenter\n• None All you need to know as the US election day nears", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland World Cup winner and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton has been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nThe news follows the deaths of his older brother Jack in July and fellow World Cup-winner Nobby Stiles on Friday, both of whom had also been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nSir Bobby, 83, won three league titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup with United during 17 years at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Stay strong, we love you,\" said United striker Marcus Rashford.\n\nHis wife, Lady Norma Charlton, expressed the hope that the knowledge of his diagnosis - first reported by the Telegraph - could help others.\n\nManchester United said in a statement: \"Everyone at Manchester United is saddened that this terrible disease has afflicted Sir Bobby Charlton and we continue to offer our love and support to Sir Bobby and his family.\"\n\nRashford, 23, said on Instagram: \"Sir Bobby, you are my hero and I am devastated that you are having to go through this.\n\n\"I filmed alongside this man as a child and was in awe. I still am when I see you. This man, from day one, was everything I wanted to be. Kind, professional, caring, talented.\"\n\nJoining United in 1953, he scored 249 goals in 758 games for the club, long-standing records which were eventually broken by Wayne Rooney in 2017 and Ryan Giggs in 2008 respectively.\n\nBorn in Ashington, Northumberland, he remained England's record goal scorer until Rooney surpassed him against Switzerland in September 2015.\n\nAt the age of 20, Sir Bobby was a survivor of the Munich air crash of 1958 in which 23 people died, including eight of his Manchester United team-mates.\n\nHe inspired United to a first European Cup win in 1968, scoring twice in the final, and was awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1966 after playing every minute of England's World Cup victory.\n\nSir Bobby came second in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 1958 and 1959. In 2008, he received the lifetime achievement award.\n\nUnited renamed Old Trafford's South Stand in honour of Sir Bobby in 2016.\n\nSir Bobby is the fifth member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side to be diagnosed with dementia.\n\nIn addition to his brother, Jack, and Stiles, both Martin Peters and Ray Wilson - who died in 2019 and 2018 respectively - also had the condition.\n\nStiles, Peters and Wilson were diagnosed with it while still in their sixties. In a BBC documentary screened in 2017, Stiles' son John told former England captain Alan Shearer he was \"utterly convinced\" heading a football was responsible for his father's dementia.\n\nA study by Glasgow University in 2019 found former professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims that former West Brom striker Jeff Astle died at the age of 59 because of repeated head trauma and compared deaths of 7,676 ex-players to 23,000 from the general population.\n\nThe inquest into Astle's death found heading heavy leather footballs repeatedly had contributed to trauma to his brain, but research by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association was later dropped because of what were said to be technical flaws.\n\nAstle's daughter, Dawn, said \"players who have suffered dementia must not be a statistic\" after she was left \"staggered\" by the study's findings.\n\nIn response, the FA launched new coaching guidelines to restrict the amount of heading by under-18 players in training.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "Not so long ago, the prime minister swore that it was not inevitable. The second wave of the deadly disease would not, and did not, he vowed, have to mean a second moment where our doors would close, high streets fall silent, and the frightened quiet of lockdown return.\n\nBut day after day as the numbers of infections have risen, quibbles with local areas on their status continued, the moment has come closer, and now it seems almost sure to return.\n\nOfficial government documents, seen by the BBC, make the case clear.\n\nThe papers suggest that the UK is on course for a significantly higher death toll from coronavirus than during the first wave of the pandemic, unless ministers implement further restrictions.\n\nOne of the documents, circulated among members of the government's Sage committee in recent days and discussed by Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday, says that \"all models suggest a significantly higher peak than those estimated at any point in the current Reasonable Worst Case Scenario\".\n\nThe document, says that \"median peak infections are projected to be 50% to 150% greater\" than those in the first wave.\n\nOne key document shows several UK daily death projections by different modellers, compared with the first wave and the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" - which was seen in a report in August\n\nSo, with the worsening data, the prime minister is now understood to be considering bringing in a new \"stay at home\" instruction to the country, perhaps as soon as Monday, although the government would still plan for schools, colleges and universities to stay open this time, rather than a total lockdown like in the spring.\n\nDowning Street is understood to be considering a month-long form of lockdown, which would put the brakes on the spread of the disease, while plans for mass testing are accelerated, in the hope that restrictions could be eased before Christmas.\n\nThe papers seen by the BBC, understood to be part of a presentation by the government's SPI-M group of scientists, feature several different projections of the likely course of the disease. All models predict a significantly higher number of infections and deaths than during the spring, when deaths reached more than a thousand a day and much higher than the government's current worst case scenario.\n\nOne of the models featured in the document suggest that deaths could even reach more than 4,000 a day if no policies are brought in to slow the spread of the disease, although the central expectation is not that high.\n\nAll the models in the document predicts that hospitalisations are likely to peak in the middle of December, with deaths continuing to rise until at least late December before falling from early January.\n\nAnd a separate document circulating in government, based on NHS England modelling from 28 October, warns that the health service would not be able to accept any more patients by Christmas, even if the Nightingale hospitals are used and non-urgent procedures are cancelled. The document warns that south west England and the Midlands will be the first to run out of capacity, potentially within a fortnight.\n\nThe document warns \"the window to act is now for the majority of the country\" and warns that if no action is taken to control the number of Covid infections, other forms of emergency care may have to be rationed.\n\nA government source said that the country is at a \"crunch point\". No final decisions have yet been taken, and not all cabinet members have yet been consulted on the next steps. But it seems that Mr Johnson is likely to take the national action that he swore he would do everything to avoid.", "He starred in six official Bond films - or seven if you include 1983's Never Say Never Again, which wasn't produced by Eon. Honor Blackman was one of the Bond girls in 1964's Goldfinger.", "Nuclear weapon. Misery. Disaster. That's what he called it. And yet that is what he has done.\n\nBoris Johnson made absolutely no bones about his reluctance to act to instruct England to close its doors again in recent weeks.\n\nOn Saturday evening, he was at pains to claim that lockdown 2.0 in England will be not nearly as restrictive as first time round.\n\nBut again, the prime minister stood at the lectern and told us to \"stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives\".\n\nAgain, he warned the public that if the government didn't take draconian action then the health service would have to turn patients who need care away.\n\nAgain, he and his top scientists presented evidence that the country could face an intolerable number of deaths during a wave of the pandemic that has turned our lives upside down in the last eight months.\n\nThe prime minister's defence to the country, just squeezing a televised public briefing into the Halloween prime time TV schedules after a few hours of delay, was a well-worn political standby - when the facts change, it is the right thing to change course.\n\nIt is true that data shared by the government on Saturday points to a prognosis that has worsened.\n\nOne key document shows several UK daily death projections by different modellers, compared with the first wave and the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" - which was seen in a report in August\n\nThe UK is not the only country that has seen the progress of the disease go the wrong way, with France and Germany acting in recent days.\n\nBut it is also true that Mr Johnson cannot say for a second that he was not warned.\n\nMore than six weeks ago, not just the opposition, but some of Mr Johnson's own ministers, and some of his own advisers were pushing for another limited lockdown to try to slow the spread of the disease.\n\nConversations were active in government by the third week in September about the possibility of taking national action as the second wave was developing, potentially in a more serious way than the scale of the pandemic in the spring.\n\nThe PM decided at that point to plump instead for a local lockdown system, in the hope of controlling the spread without taking a hammer to the whole of the fragile economy only starting to get back to life.\n\nHe chose to side with the Treasury and many newly assertive Tory backbenchers.\n\nAs that tier system stuttered into life, complete with clashes with the local leaders around the country, conversations continued on and off about the possibility of a short, sharp, limited lockdown, or \"circuit-breaker\".\n\nStill, publicly, while those discussions continued, day after day ministers insisted the tier plan could and would work.\n\nThe decisions were never simple. There was a logic to trying to resist taking more draconian action like this to try to limit the damage to the economy, the other terrible effects of lockdown.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's original judgement now seems like it was a political accident just waiting to happen.\n\nLockdown 2.0 is not an exact replica of first time round. There are notable differences - with schools, colleges and universities staying open, a fixed time limit of a month and, perhaps the most vital of all, the hope of a rapid acceleration of mass testing to make life with the virus more liveable.\n\nThe picture is also different in different corners of the UK.\n\nScotland is sticking to its new tiered approach for now, where there have been tighter regional restrictions for a while. Northern Ireland and Wales are also both already in forms of a second lockdown, with plans already for their exit.\n\nBut something is very familiar. Having waited until this moment, the PM has again, just like in the spring, left himself open to the accusation that he delayed the inevitable, and the timing of his decisions is costly, perhaps to lives, and likely the government's own reputation.", "Spain, like many European nations, is seeing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases\n\nStaff at funeral homes in Spain have gone on strike to demand more workers as coronavirus deaths continue to rise.\n\nUnions say more staff are needed to prevent the delay in burials that was seen during the first wave of the pandemic in March.\n\nEurope is grappling with a second wave as cases and deaths continue to rise.\n\nA number of countries have introduced new measures such as curfews and lockdowns to try and bring infection rates down.\n\nOn Saturday, Austria and Portugal became the latest countries to announce new restrictions.\n\nWorkers at funeral homes across Spain took part in a strike on Sunday. The strike came on All Saints Day, when families usually visit the graves of loved ones.\n\nOne funeral home in Madrid told AFP news agency that it needed between 15-20 more staff to handle the surge in deaths. On Friday, 239 deaths were confirmed in the country by the health ministry.\n\nIn March, burials had a delay of about a week and cremations took place in cities hundreds of miles away, as funeral homes struggled with the demand.\n\nSpain has recorded more than 1.1 million cases and 35,800 deaths since the outbreak began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere, in France Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has reacted strongly to reports that a group of cadets at the national police school in Nimes held a clandestine party on the school's premises last week.\n\nHe described the reports as \"totally unacceptable\". \"If this is confirmed, the pupils responsible will not be worthy of wearing the uniform and will be excluded,\" he said.\n\nThe news came as France reported 46,290 cases in 24 hours, compared to 35,641 the previous day. Another 231 people died over the same period, bringing the total to 37,019.\n\nItaly is accelerating preparations for a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions in the country.\n\nOn Saturday, it reported 31,758 cases of the virus, a new daily record.\n\nHealth Minister Roberto Speranza warned that a nationwide lockdown appeared to be the only way to stop hospital wards becoming more crowded with coronavirus patients.\n\nIn an interview with newspaper, Corriere della Sera, Mr Speranza said the rising curve of transmission rates was \"terrifying\".\n\nRestrictions are already in place in the country with cinemas, swimming pools, theatres and gyms forced to close.\n\nBars, restaurants and cafes have to stop table service by 18:00. However shops and the majority of businesses are still operating.\n\nMourners kissed the hands of Montenegro's religious leader, despite the fact that he died with Covid-19\n\nIn Montenegro, thousands of people attended the funeral of the country's leading religious figure, Archbishop Amfilohije Radovic, who died with coronavirus on Friday, aged 82.\n\nDespite pleas from doctors to ban the funeral, the metropolitan's open coffin was paraded in front of crowds at the Serbian Orthodox cathedral in the capital Podgorica. Some mourners even touched or kissed his head or hands.\n\nThere are fears that the funeral will have made infection rates in the country - already among the highest in Europe - even worse.\n\nSlovakia has tested nearly half of its population after announcing a plan to test everyone in the country over 10 years old.\n\nInfections have soared in Slovakia and officials argue the only alternative would be a total lockdown.\n\nDefence Minister Jaroslav Nad confirmed that 2.58 million people took the test on Saturday. Of those, 25,850 have tested positive and must quarantine.\n\nMore than 2.58 million people in Slovakia have been tested\n\nOn Monday, new restrictions will come into effect in Germany. Daily infection rates have hit record highs over the past week.\n\nOn Saturday, the country recorded more than 20,000 cases.\n\nUnder the new measures, theatres, cinemas, swimming pools and bars must close. However schools and shops will remain open.\n\nSpeaking in parliament earlier this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of a long, hard winter ahead.\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds are hitting the UK as Storm Aiden sweeps in from the west, bringing risks of flooding.\n\nThe Met Office says all of the UK will get wet and windy weather thanks to the storm on Saturday and the tail edge of a hurricane on Sunday.\n\nYellow weather warnings for rain are in place for Ireland and the west coast of England, Scotland and Wales, with wind warnings in some areas.\n\nThere could be power cuts and travel disruption in those areas.\n\nYellow weather warnings for rain are in place until 19:00 GMT on Saturday for Ireland and the west coast of England, Scotland and Wales, where travel disruption and potential power cuts are expected.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning for wind in place in Northern Ireland and western parts of Wales, Scotland and England.\n\nThe bad weather could last much of the weekend, and people have been urged to pay attention to the weather forecast as well as flood alerts and warnings in their area.\n\nMartin Young, deputy chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \"As the heavy rain and strong winds from Storm Aiden sweeps eastwards on Saturday, another system quickly follows on Sunday that contains the remnants of ex-Hurricane Zeta, bringing further heavy rain and strong winds.\n\n\"Given that this is falling on already saturated ground from what has been a wet October, there is an increased risk of flooding in some warnings areas.\"\n\nPeople have been told to prepare for wind and rain\n\nAnother yellow warning for rain covering Wales and north-west England is in force from 18:00 GMT on Sunday to 06:00 on Monday, and some communities could be cut off by fast flowing and deep floodwater.\n\nHilly areas could see 40-60mm (1.6-2.4 inches) of rain on Saturday, with 20mm-40mm ( 0.8-1.6 inches) in lower-lying areas.\n\nGary White, the duty tactical manager for Natural Resources Wales, said flooding was likely up and down the country over the next few days.\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds are already causing flooding and travel disruption across Scotland, and Scotrail reporting delays on a number of routes.\n\nVery strong winds could also affect north-west Scotland between noon and 21:00 on Sunday, including the possibilities of power cuts and delays for high-sided vehicles and public transport.\n\nThe Met Office said there could be gusts of 60-65mph (97-105km/h), up to 70mph (113km/h) on exposed coasts and hills.\n\nDuring the day they will ease across England and Wales but they will stay strong across Scotland and Northern Ireland into the evening, and there could be gusts of 75mph (121km/h) across the Western Isles and up to 70mph on the west coast.\n\nLifeguards rescued a man at 05:00 GMT on Saturday morning after his yacht was capsized by a \"large freak wave\" off the Isles of Scilly, south-west England.\n\nFalmouth Coastguard's helicopter and an RNLI lifeboat rescued the French man and his 34-foot yacht six miles from the coast.\n\nIan Guy, duty controller at the National Maritime Operations Centre, said the yachtsman described being hit by a \"large freak wave\" which capsized, rolled and disabled the vessel.\n\nHe said the man was not injured.", "Wales is in the middle of a 17-day firebreak lockdown\n\nThere will not be local lockdowns after the end of Wales' 17-day firebreak, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\nOnce the current Wales-wide restrictions end on 9 November, there will not be any local variations.\n\nBars, non-essential shops, restaurants, cafes and churches will reopen at the end of the current lockdown.\n\nBut the system of 17-separate local lockdowns will not return when new restrictions are announced on Monday.\n\nPlaid Cymru said any new restrictions should aim to bring the R number - the rate that the virus reproduces - below 1.\n\nMr Drakeford told a press conference the local lockdowns had helped, but were not sufficient to deal with the \"onslaught\" of the virus and \"didn't work well enough\".\n\nHe added: \"For the sake of clarity and simplicity, our decision is that the other side of the firebreak period from 9 November, we will have a set of national rules that will apply in all parts of Wales.\n\n\"I hope that that will help people in Wales, just to be clearer about what they are being asked to do.\n\n\"Because we have had evidence of people wanting to do the right thing, but not always being certain what the right thing is, because the rules have been more difficult to follow than we would have liked.\n\n\"We're going to simplify. We're going to clarify.\"\n\nMeanwhile, he said giving false information to NHS contact tracers would become a criminal offence in Wales, with fines to be decided.\n\nThere will be a legal requirement to self-isolate if asked to do so by contact tracers and employers will be banned from preventing people from doing so.\n\nSelf-isolating social care care workers will have sick-pay topped up to full pay, Mr Drakeford promised, and payments of £500 will be given for people on low incomes who are self-isolating.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have criticised ministers for first announcing the £500 payment a month ago, but failing to get the scheme up and running until now.\n\nSimilar schemes in England and Scotland are already in place.\n\nChief Medical Officer Frank Atherton is considering making the length of time people have to self-isolate shorter.\n\nMark Drakeford said recent scientific work says \"you are most infectious to somebody else in the two days before and the two days after you feel the first onset of symptoms\".\n\n\"By the time seven days have gone by, you know, that level of risk to other people has gone down quite a lot\", he told Capital South Wales radio.\n\nCurrently people need to self-isolate for between 10 and 14 days, depending on the circumstances.\n\nHe said community centres would be able to have \"groups of up to 15 people meeting in them\" over the winter when the firebreak ends on 9 November.\n\nMore will be done to encourage people to work from home after the lockdown ends, he added.\n\nThe 17-day lockdown was introduced on 23 October to stem a rise in coronavirus cases, which have continued to increase during the lockdown.\n\nThe press conference heard there were 1,700 more confirmed infections on Friday and 1,191 patients in hospital, up 20% in a week.\n\n\"They tell us, as I said earlier, just how important, and just how necessary, this firebreak period has been,\" Mr Drakeford said of the figures.\n\n\"Our hope has to be that the actions we are all taking will change the course of this disease,\" he added, saying the weeks that follow will show \"its full impact.\"\n\nAn estimated 26,100 people in Wales had coronavirus in the week up to 23 October, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said local lockdowns were not sufficient to deal with the \"onslaught\" of the virus\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said any plan for coming out of the firebreak \"must aim to keep R below 1, avoiding a third wave and the need for a further national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the key issue \"is still testing\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must focus on optimising Wales's own testing capacity through NHS and university laboratories in order to expedite the testing process and facilitate reaching the '24-hour turnaround' timescale target.\"\n\nCaerphilly was the first part of Wales to go into local lockdown\n\nThe first minister said a ban implemented prior to the firebreak banning people from areas of the UK with high levels of coronavirus from entering Wales could continue after 9 November.\n\nUnder lockdown no-one can travel into Wales except for a limited set of reasons - but in the days before people from tier 2 and tier 3 areas in England, the central belt in Scotland and Northern Ireland were subject to travel restrictions.\n\n\"I will want to study, over this weekend and into next week, the comparative incidence rates between Wales and parts of England which are under tier 2 and tier 3 restrictions,\" Mr Drakeford told the press conference.\n\n\"The point of asking people in those places not to travel into Wales was because the rate of virus circulation in those places was so much more than it is here.\n\n\"I'm afraid there is still a significant gap between those places and Wales.\n\n\"If that remains the same, then we will expect to have a similar regime after November 9 as we had prior to October 23\".\n\nHe said he would reveal on Monday whether people will be able to leave their respective counties - during local lockdowns most people in Wales were prevented from doing so.\n\nMr Drakeford said he would not anticipate that decision on Friday but was \"acutely aware\" of the impact the restrictions in the local lockdowns had had on peoples' lives.", "Nicola Sturgeon urged people to stick to the rules to avoid a tighter lockdown\n\nThe Treasury has been asked to provide clarity over the furlough scheme extension following the announcement of a four-week lockdown in England.\n\nThe scheme, which pays up to 80% of wages of people unable to work, will now run until December.\n\nBoth First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross said support should be available if Scotland goes into a full lockdown later on.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said such a move could not be ruled out.\n\nLatest figures reveal there were 1,148 new Covid cases - 7% of those tested - and a further six deaths in the last 24 hours.\n\nOf the total, 443 cases were recorded by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 253 by NHS Lanarkshire and 140 by NHS Lothian.\n\nScotland is currently adopting a regional approach to restrictions, with a new five-level system coming into effect on Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she believed tougher measures introduced in late September were starting to have an impact.\n\nHowever, she added: \"We are monitoring the spread of the virus in all parts of Scotland on a daily basis to assess if, to what extent and at what speed the slowdown is continuing. We will not hesitate to increase the level of protection either locally or nationally if required.\"\n\nThe four-week lockdown in England, which begins on Thursday, will see the closure of pubs, restaurants, gyms, non-essential shops and places of worship although schools, colleges and universities can stay open.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the measures, despite his previous opposition to a new national lockdown, after modelling suggested the spread of the infection could overwhelm the NHS and see the number of deaths rise possibly as high as 4,000 a day across the UK.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is unlikely to be bounced into an immediate lockdown for Scotland because Boris Johnson's decided there will be one in England.\n\nAside from the political optics, the first minister has already imposed weeks of tough restrictions in Scotland and there are signs they are working.\n\nBanning visits to other people in their own homes and shutting pubs and restaurants across the central belt seems to be slowing the growth in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new levels system, which only takes effect from 06:00 on Monday, will ease hospitality restrictions in much of the country, with the notable exception of Dundee.\n\nIt would be odd to confirm the details of that system one week and switch to lockdown the next.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to carefully monitor the spread of the virus and adjust the protection level for each local authority as required, rather than rushing to new national action.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly made clear that if that doesn't work, she is prepared to consider another lockdown.\n\nWhat she wants is maximum flexibility to decide if and when that's needed.\n\nThat means securing a guarantee from the Treasury that the furlough extension made available UK-wide during the lockdown for England would also be there if Scotland locked down at a later date.\n\nShe's backed in that call by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross.\n\nWithout that assurance, the Scottish government would face a serious dilemma - to stick with its current plan and hope it works or impose more restrictions than it was planning, in case it cannot access the financial support to do so in future.\n\nWhile the furlough scheme is UK-wide, Ms Sturgeon said there would be discussions on the details of how it would work in Scotland.\n\n\"A crucial point for us is whether support on the scale announced for English businesses is available for Scottish businesses now or if we needed to impose further restrictions later - or if it is only available if Scotland has a full lockdown at the same time as a lockdown in England,\" she said.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross tweeted that the same level of UK government job support must be available if Scotland needs to impose a national lockdown in future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a speech tomorrow, he will argue the furlough scheme is a \"tangible reminder of the economic security of the Union\".\n\n\"Now that the scheme has been extended to cover the impact of a second lockdown in England, how could a Unionist government not restart the scheme if a second lockdown is required in Scotland?\" he is expected to say.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC's Politics Scotland that household and hospitality restrictions have put the country in a \"stronger position\" than England.\n\nBut Mr Swinney told the programme: \"I cannot rule out the possibility of further measures or indeed a national lockdown being required should the circumstances arise.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister said he had \"high confidence\" in the new level system.\n\nHe continued: \"The time that we have taken to bear down on the virus over the course of the last two months has put us into, in general, a stronger position compared to the situation that prevails in England today.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy First Minister John Swinney says another national lockdown cannot be ruled out\n\nMr Swinney added that there is also \"significant differential\" in the virus in different parts of the country and also early signs that it may be \"flattening out\".\n\nOn the issues of furlough, the deputy first minister said \"urgent clarity\" was needed on the circumstances in which it will be made available.\n\nHe said: \"Are they only going to be available when England has got a problem? Or are they only going to be available at all times, in all parts of the United Kingdom when we all, at different stages, face difficulties and have to apply restrictions?\"\n\nTalks will take place on Sunday between the Scottish government and the Treasury to determine how the scheme will work.\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was right to stick with the new five level system for now.\n\nHe told Politics Scotland: \"Of course, we should never rule out a lockdown on a national basis but I hope we can avoid that because I think it is so restricting in terms of peoples' freedoms, opportunities and jobs.\"\n\nMr Rennie also welcomed the furlough scheme but urged the Treasury to be flexible and allow businesses to \"pick and choose\" when they use it.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer argued the lockdown should apply across the whole of the UK.\n\nAsked about the prospect on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show he said: \"Ideally, yes, and I have said for months that it ought to be a four nations approach.\n\n\"It is for the prime minister to lead on that and get people round the table.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeated her advice to avoid non-essential travel to and from England, as well as other parts of the UK.\n\nShe also urged people follow the new rules that come into force in Scotland at 06:00 on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"I encourage everyone to find out what level their local authority is in and to stick to the rules in their area.\n\n\"I also urge everyone to follow two key national restrictions by not mixing with other households inside our homes, and not travelling to or from any part of the country in level 3 unless it is absolutely essential.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of residents of this apartment block remain unaccounted for\n\nRescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are continuing to search for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake, as officials say the death toll has increased to at least 64.\n\nSixty-two deaths have been confirmed in Turkey, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos.\n\nDozens of people remain unaccounted for following the quake.\n\nA 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a building in Izmir after being trapped for some 33 hours.\n\nThe US Geological Survey (USGS) said Friday's quake was 7.0 magnitude, but Turkey put it lower at 6.6.\n\nThe shallow tremor triggered tidal waves that hit coastal areas and islands in both Turkey and Greece.\n\nRescue teams were searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings in western Turkey for a third day on Sunday, hoping to find survivors.\n\nThousands of personnel were deployed to help with the rescue efforts, using mechanical diggers to remove blocks of concrete.\n\nA 70-year-old man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was pulled out from beneath the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Izmir in the early hours of Sunday morning and taken to hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTurkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca visited Mr Citim in hospital, and said he was doing well.\n\nLater on Sunday, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced the new national death toll of 62, all in Izmir.\n\nIt said more than 900 people had been injured, though the majority have now been discharged from hospitals.\n\nEight people are reported to be in intensive care.\n\nBuildings were damaged and destroyed in Friday's earthquake\n\nFood was distributed among survivors and thousands of tents set up for those unable to return to their homes.\n\nVice-President Fuat Oktay said 26 badly damaged buildings would be demolished.\n\n\"It's not the earthquake that kills but buildings,\" he told reporters.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government was \"determined to heal the wounds of our brothers and sisters in Izmir before the cold and rains begin\".\n\nThe earthquake struck 14km (nine miles) off the Greek town of Karlovasi on Samos island at 13:51 local time (11:51 GMT), according to the USGS.\n\nIt said the quake - which was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul - struck at a depth of 21km (13 miles), although Turkish officials said it was 16km below ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Powerful earthquake destroys buildings and causes flooding on Turkey's Aegean coast\n\nMost of the damage occurred in Izmir, off Turkey's Aegean coast - where the tremor sent many people running out into the streets in fear and panic.\n\n\"It was a really strong shaker almost enough to knock you off your feet. Running out of the house with my children was like a drunken wobble,\" Chris Bedford, a retired British teacher who lives in Urla, west of Izmir, told the BBC.\n\nThere were reports of flooding in Izmir after the sea level rose, with one person killed after their wheelchair was hit and overturned by rising water.\n\nIzmir is Turkey's third largest city with a population of nearly three million.\n\nTurkey and Greece both sit on fault lines and earthquakes are common.\n\nTwo teenagers were killed when a wall collapsed on Samos. Eight people were injured across the island, where about 45,000 people reside.\n\nA mini-tsunami flooded the port of Samos and a number of buildings were damaged. Greek officials put the magnitude of the tremor at 6.7.\n\n\"We felt it very strongly,\" local journalist Manos Stefanakis told the BBC.\n\nFareid Atta, another Samos-based journalist, told the BBC that the damage was \"quite extensive along the seafront\" of the island's main town.\n\n\"Many businesses will be going under after this,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows town on Greek island of Samos flooded by earthquake\n\n\"Whatever our differences, these are times when our people need to stand together,\" Mr Mitsotakis wrote in a tweet.\n\nMr Erdogan later responded in a tweet: \"Turkey, too, is always ready to help Greece heal its wounds. That two neighbours show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life.\"\n\nRelations between Greece and Turkey have been particularly strained in recent months by a dispute relating to control of territorial waters in the Mediterranean and the resources beneath them.", "Teagan Appleby's mum says she faces a \"ridiculous pressure\" to raise funds for medicine\n\nThe NHS has repeatedly refused to fund medical cannabis for children with severe epilepsy, families have said.\n\nThree prescriptions are thought to have been written for \"whole plant cannabis\" oil since it was legalised two years ago, campaign group End Our Pain say.\n\nBut at least 20 families are paying for costly private prescriptions after being turned down by the NHS, it said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says more research is needed before it can be routinely prescribed.\n\nEmma Appleby, from Aylesham in Kent, pays £2,000 a month for the medicine for her daughter Teagan, 11.\n\n\"That's ridiculous pressure I've got every month to try and find this kind of money to keep her alive,\" she said.\n\nTeagan was admitted to intensive care in May as her seizures increased\n\nSince 1 November 2018, it has been legal for doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis products, but most such products are unlicensed and have not been through full clinical trials.\n\nOnly one drug - called Epidyolex - is licensed in the UK and recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a treatment for epilepsy.\n\nIt contains only CBD and not the other active chemicals in cannabis, including THC.\n\nSome families say it does not effectively stop seizures.\n\nIn May, as Covid-19 restrictions made fundraising more difficult, Ms Appleby ran out of money to buy Teagan's medicine.\n\nTeagan was prescribed Epidyolex, but within two weeks she was experiencing up to 300 seizures a day, Ms Appleby said.\n\nUnable to stop the seizures, doctors put Teagan in an induced coma and transported her to the intensive care unit at Evelina London Children's Hospital, Ms Appleby said.\n\nTwo days later, after receiving an anonymous donation of £2,500, she bought the oil.\n\n\"We woke Teagan up, gave it to her and within two days we were allowed home,\" she said.\n\nEach month is a battle to raise the money, Ms Appleby said. \"There's been times where I've just sat and cried and thought how the hell am I going to get through this.\"\n\nHannah Deacon led a campaign for her son Alfie to be allowed to use the drug legally\n\nAlfie Dingley, from Warwickshire, is one of the few to receive the drug on the NHS, following a campaign led by his mother Hannah Deacon.\n\n\"We feel very blessed. It's changed our lives and it should be available to everyone,\" she said.\n\nIt is \"not fair\" that NHS prescriptions have only been issued to people who have had \"media attention,\" she said.\n\nMedical cannabis is saving the NHS millions of pounds a year by reducing the time children with severe epilepsy spend in hospital, she added.\n\n\"Why on earth should [families] have to try and find the money to pay for it?\" she asked.\n\nPeter Carroll, of End Our Pain, said the campaign group works with about 20 families with private prescriptions, but there may be dozens more in a similar position or unable to pay for the drugs at all.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said Epidoylex could be prescribed on the NHS because there was clear evidence of its \"safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness\".\n\nAnother drug, called Sativex, is recommended for adults with multiple sclerosis.\n\nIt said that \"more evidence is needed to routinely prescribe and fund other treatments on the NHS and we continue to back further research and look at how to minimise the costs of these medicines\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three men were rescued by fire crews from the industrial-sized tumble dryer\n\nThree men had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a tumble dryer.\n\nEssex County Fire and Rescue Service were called to a derelict laundry in Bower Hill, Epping, on Friday after the men, thought to be in their late teens, crawled into an industrial-sized dryer.\n\nTwo were in the dryer when the third's \"ankles became trapped in the door\" as he crawled in, the service said.\n\nThe men were left in the care of the ambulance service.\n\nEssex Police, the Helicopter Medical Emergency Service (HEMS) and the East of England Ambulance Service's Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) also attended the incident, which happened at about 18:35 GMT.\n\nFire service watch manager Glenn Jackson said crews had to help the third man into the tumble dryer before being able to remove the door and release all three.\n\n\"We used a range of equipment to free the casualty's ankles and allow him to crawl into the tumble dryer,\" he said.\n\n\"The HEMS team gave him pain relief and we then managed to move the door, again using a range of equipment, so the men could crawl out.\"\n\nMr Jackson said crews \"worked really hard in arduous conditions\".\n\n\"It was a difficult site to access and we had to carry a lot of heavy equipment a large distance from the appliances to the tumble dryer and then use our expertise to free the men safely.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSubstitute Diogo Jota scored for the third straight game as Liverpool came from behind to beat in-form West Ham and go top of the Premier League table.\n\nIn an intriguing encounter, the Hammers took an early lead through Spanish midfielder Pablo Fornals' smart finish, which clipped the post on its way in after a poor headed clearance by Joe Gomez.\n\nThat was the 15th goal Liverpool have conceded in seven games this season - as many as Chelsea let in all season on their way to the title in 2004-05.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side were level shortly before half-time, Arthur Masuaku's foul on Mohamed Salah allowing the Egypt forward to equalise from the penalty spot with Liverpool's first attempt on target.\n\nBut the Reds, who gave a league debut to central defender Nathaniel Phillips in the absence of injured trio Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip and Fabinho, found it tough going.\n\nJota, a £41m signing from Wolves in September, netted in the 85th minute after a smart pass by fellow substitute Xherdan Shaqiri - moments after already seeing a goal disallowed for a foul.\n• None Who is Phillips, Liverpool's man thrown in at the deep end?\n\n\"He's much better than I thought he would be and that's really impressive,\" Klopp said after Jota's latest performance.\n\n\"He's an exceptional talent. He has the speed, physicality, technique, and he's both-footed.\"\n\nWith this win, Liverpool equalled a club record 63 league games unbeaten at Anfield set by Bob Paisley's all-conquering side between 1978 and 1981.\n\nLiverpool are back on top of the Premier League table for the first time since they ended last season as champions but they were far from their fluent best.\n\nThey are three points clear of neighbours Everton, who will return to the summit if they win at Newcastle on Sunday (14:00 GMT).\n\nQuestion marks remain over Liverpool's defence, which has now conceded 27 in 14 matches since Klopp's side were confirmed Premier League champions in June.\n\nPhillips, whose dad, Jimmy, played against Liverpool for Bolton in the 1995 League Cup final, at least provided an aerial presence, the 23-year-old making a series of headed clearances during a commanding performance.\n\nIt was his more experienced defensive partner Gomez who was at fault for West Ham's goal, the England centre-back heading Masuaku's cross straight into the path of Fornals to put David Moyes' side ahead.\n\nSalah levelled with his eighth goal of the season after hitting his penalty straight down the middle before Jota's introduction from the bench lifted the side.\n\nThe Portugal forward had the ball in the back of the net but it was ruled out for Sadio Mane's foul on Angelo Ogbonna after referee Kevin Friend watched a replay on the pitchside monitor.\n\nHowever, Jota was not to be denied as he lashed past keeper Lukasz Fabianski in front of an empty Kop following a delightful pass by Shaqiri that split the West Ham defence.\n\nHaving held Manchester City last week, this was another gutsy performance by West Ham, who attacked in numbers and gave Liverpool a real scare.\n\nThey arrived at Anfield unbeaten in their previous four games against sides who finished in the top seven last season.\n\nHowever, they were without key forward Michail Antonio, who scored a superb goal against City before suffering a hamstring injury.\n\nAfter being restricted to 50 minutes of Premier League football this season, Sebastien Haller was handed his first top-flight start of the season in place of Antonio.\n\nBut it was midfielder Fornals who produced a lovely finish to put his side ahead.\n\nAfter Salah equalised, the former Villarreal player was denied a second goal by Andrew Robertson's important block, yet West Ham were unable to secure a point their hard work deserved as they were undone at the end by Jota.\n\n\"It's a good sign that we're disappointed not to take anything from Anfield,\" said Moyes after West Ham's first league defeat since 19 September.\n\n\"We had really good opportunities to maybe get a second goal. I wanted it to be more than just the odd counter-attack. We were a threat, we were well organised and disciplined in the jobs we had to do.\"\n\n'Masuaku disappointed with the dive' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"It's so difficult with the number of games we have. Seeing the determination and desire of the boys, the will to play football, to deal with setbacks is really exceptional.\n\n\"The tricky thing is that you have to be patient, but also lively to keep them moving. It's a constant concentration level you have to keep up, which we did - except maybe for their goal.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes on Liverpool's penalty: \"It's not the sort of football I want to be involved in.\n\n\"I think our player stops and throws his arms up because he's so disappointed about the dive.\n\n\"I'm just disappointed they didn't turn the decision around. Maybe in the second half the decision [Jota's disallowed goal] went for us, but the first-half one didn't.\"\n\nHammers drop more points from winning position - the stats\n• None Only Aston Villa in 1897-98 (17) have conceded more goals in their first seven league matches as reigning top-flight champions than Liverpool this season (15). The Reds took 23 games to concede 15 Premier League goals last season.\n• None Since David Moyes' first game back in charge of West Ham in January, the Hammers have dropped more points from winning positions than any other side in the Premier League (16).\n• None Liverpool have conceded the first goal in three of their four home league games this season - as many times as they did in all 19 league matches at Anfield last term.\n• None Since the start of last season, West Ham's Pablo Fornals is the only visiting player to score two Premier League goals away to Liverpool, also netting in this exact fixture for the Hammers in 2019-20.\n• None Liverpool are only the second side in Premier League history to concede the first goal in three consecutive home matches but still win all three, after Blackburn Rovers in November 2009.\n\nLiverpool head to Italy next to face Champions League Group D rivals Atalanta on Tuesday (20:00 GMT), while West Ham have a week to prepare for a London derby with Fulham at London Stadium on Saturday, 7 November (20:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Tomas Soucek (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, West Ham United 1. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a through ball.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Diogo Jota (Liverpool) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Gary Lineker on his move from player to presenter\n• None All you need to know as the US election day nears", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAlbania has emerged as the leading candidate to host England's Nations League game against Iceland next on 18 November if required - with Germany another option being explored.\n\nThe game is in doubt because of the UK government's new travel ban on non-UK visitors coming from Denmark.\n\nIceland are set to play Denmark in Copenhagen three days before facing England at Wembley on 18 November.\n\nAlbania's Football Association is willing to provide a neutral venue.\n\nThe Football Association is awaiting clarification from the government but is exploring all options.\n\nIt has made a tentative approach to its counterparts in Germany about the possibility of the game being staged there too.\n\nSince June, elite sportspeople have been exempt from coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nThe restrictions relating to Denmark have been implemented because of concerns over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans.\n\nThe latest rules, which took effect at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, will be reviewed after a week, the Department For Transport said.\n\nUefa's coronavirus protocols state that international matches can be rescheduled at a date fixed by the European football governing body, or be played at a neutral venue if necessary.\n\nBBC Sport has been told rescheduling is not an option. Uefa, which will have the final decision on deciding any neutral venue, is understood to be studying the matter.\n• None Can the boys track down the boxing promoter?\n• None The biggest tracks that were never topped", "About 160 million Americans - the most in US history - cast their votes for president this election, but the results held some surprises.\n\nDonald Trump pulled in more Latino support than expected in some key states - decisively, perhaps, in Florida - while Joe Biden was able to convince many young progressives (the more liberal-leaning wing of the Democratic Party) to vote for him.\n\nAlthough Biden has been declared the winner, Democrats will have to think hard about how they do better with some minority communities and people without university degrees.\n\nAnd Republicans will have to find a way to pull back members of their own party who feel turned off by Trumpism.\n\nWe talked to five voters who represent a demographic that helped sway the election results.\n\nChristopher Badillo is a young progressive who reluctantly voted for Joe Biden. Of voters 18-29, 62% of them voted for Joe Biden.\n\nWhat does this moment mean for you?\n\nThis is the start of the work, not the end. We need to get back to work. I need to go back into my community and start doing the work to organise for a Democratic infrastructure that will actually make progressive change. In my area of Florida, the Democrats have lost a lot of local seats. We need to reflect on how we build up Democratic candidates that serve the community but who can also win.\n\nWhy did so many first-time voters come out for Biden?\n\nI think my generation is more politicised than any generation before. That means we're more involved and more informed about politics. The large voter turnout didn't necessarily come from enthusiasm for Joe Biden, but more from an understanding that Donald Trump is the most dangerous president that we've had in modern history. I think a lot of young people saw Joe Biden as the only other alternative.\n\nHow does the country come together?\n\nIf we're going to define unity as everybody coming together and singing in the streets, that's just not going to happen. We're going to have to work to get ourselves to the point where we feel like our country is one. That's going to be a long process because our systems are truly broken and it's going to take all of us to put it back together.\n\nGabriel Montalvo is a Latino voter who switched from Democrat to Republican this year to cast his vote for Donald Trump. Over 32% of Latino voters went for Trump, more than was expected.\n\nWhat does this moment mean for you?\n\nThe mainstream media has jumped the gun projecting that Biden will win the electoral college. Nothing has changed since yesterday and President Trump's campaign has signalled that he will mount vigorous legal action in multiple swing states on Monday. The Americans political process continues and this is the media playing psychological warfare to make President Trump seem like a sore loser in the court of public opinion.\n\nWhy did so many Hispanic voters come out for Trump?\n\nPrior to the 2016 election, I was a far-left Democrat. Beyond being a Democrat, I was a communist until I learned what the ideology really meant. I had my own \"walk away\" moment from thinking that way and the Trump campaign did a great job with actual outreach to the minority community. It seems like the Republican Party has gone back to its roots, where it's not about that country club mentality. Lincoln was our first Republican president and he helped give people rights in the United States. The current president and administration has created a bigger tent for the Republican Party, and Trump was able to convey that message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did so many Latinos back Trump?\n\nHow does the country come together?\n\nI do think the country can heal. There's going to be people on either side that don't support this election but it should never get to the point of violence. You have a right to protest but you do not have a right to riot. But Biden's win is seen as disingenuous to a lot of us.\n\nA'Kayla Sellers is a young African-American woman who fully supports Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. African-Americans came out in strong support of Joe Biden, with over 87% casting their vote for the former vice-president. A'Kayla's state of South Carolina helped secure the nomination for Joe Biden in the primaries when he trounced Bernie Sanders among African-American voters in the state.\n\nWhat does this moment mean for you?\n\nThis moment means so much to me because Biden is a glimmer of hope not just for Democrats, for all Americans. To make America equitable we need a sense of stability and normalcy. It was empowering for me to vote for Biden in South Carolina but it's also discouraging because we are still a very Republican state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Now the world sees our vote matters' - how Biden depended on black voters\n\nWhy did so many black women come out for Biden?\n\nBeing a black woman is not a monolith. Some of us live in cities, some of them are rural areas, so our needs are very different. But I think black women recognised that Biden and Harris would implement policies that are going to directly benefit us - health care, maternal mortality, school to prison pipeline. We came out because we knew that we had a duty to vote for them.\n\nHow does the country come together?\n\nWhen Biden's president, he's not going be a president for the Democrats. He has stated firmly that he is a president for all, he is going to be a president for America. When he served as our vice-president, he was a vice-president to all. He's going to provide policies and opportunities that's going to affect everybody that's going to make living here in America more equitable. He's here to help everyone, not just one party.\n\nTaylor Golden is a white woman who became energised about politics for the first time in 2016 - because of Trump. Over half of white women are believed to have cast their vote for Donald Trump in 2020.\n\nWhat does this moment mean for you?\n\nIt's so exhausting because Trump has been fighting his entire presidency. People never left him alone to let him do his job. I'm exhausted, I'm so tired of it. I've had to turn off social media and unplug and calm myself not to stress about it. I don't believe in the results, Biden can't legally become president yet. I believe that everything will be settled in the Supreme Court. If Biden does win, it's going to be a crappy next four years. It will inspire me to get involved more for the next election with the Republicans in my town.\n\nWhy did so many white women come out for Trump?\n\nI believe suburban white women are starting to wake up and get more involved. I think they definitely had an influence in the election, there were a ton of \"women for Trump\" groups that popped up that I was a part of. He has a lot of, a lot of female fans despite what the media says and what people would have you think. Every woman I know voted for him. I definitely had a sense we were going to make a difference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow does the country come together?\n\nI think we have so much division right now in our country, it's heartbreaking. I think the truth will bring unity, whatever that truth is. I know that a lot of my Republicans friends, if Biden wins, we're not going to go to the streets rioting and burning stuff. We will use our voice in a legal and peaceful way. And I think that's probably one of the biggest differences - that the right is not controlled by radical emotion like the left, we control our emotion. So to bring unity I think the truth has to come out honestly.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who voted for Joe Biden. It was his first time voting for a Democrat. He represents the group of anti-Trump moderate Republicans and independents who were able to be swayed away from the president by Biden's centrist enough policies.\n\nWhat does this moment mean for you?\n\nFor me, it means the nation will return to a sense of civility in its politics. Biden is a seasoned politician who has all sorts of personal connections in the Senate. Even if the Senate remains in Republican hands, I believe that Biden as president will be able to reach across the aisle and get things done. This is the first time I've ever voted for a Democrat for president. The very first time. I'm looking forward to Trump being gone so I can become a Republican again.\n\nWhy did independents and moderate Republicans come out for Biden?\n\nPeople are tired of a president that isn't presidential. I'm interested in fiscal restraint. On social issues, I tend to be not conservative, but rather moderate. Look at what the president has done. The last four years have been a total mess. In a tweet by the president on election night, he refers to the polls and spells it p-o-l-e-s. This guy is not terribly smart and does not have an educated mind.\n\nHow does the country come together?\n\nI fear that Trump will set himself up with his own TV network. Certainly a running commentary for the next four years as he seeks to run for president again in 2024. He will continue for the next four years to spout this nonsense about massive fraud and there's no evidence of massive fraud. It's just amazing to me the kind of stuff he says.", "Freight drivers who are not UK citizens and have been through Denmark in the last fortnight are warned they will be turned away from the British border.\n\nIt follows concern over a new coronavirus strain that has spread from mink to humans.\n\nReturning drivers who are UK citizens will have to self-isolate for 14 days along with their households.\n\nIt comes as further 156 people in the UK were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nIt brings the overall UK death toll to 49,044, according to government data. Both the number of UK deaths and the daily cases - 20,572 in the past 24 hours - mark a significant drop on previous days, but Sunday figures are often lower due to a lag in weekend reporting.\n\nThe new rules for hauliers returning from Denmark began at 04:00 GMT on Sunday - and follow a ban on all non-UK citizens coming to the UK from Denmark.\n\nAny UK citizens who have travelled to Denmark must isolate for 14 days, along with their household.\n\nPassenger planes and ships carrying freight (as well as passengers) from Denmark will also not be allowed to dock at English ports.\n\nCabin crew are also no longer exempt from the quarantine rules - which Ryanair described on Saturday as a \"bizarre and baseless\" move.\n\nThe airline said it had cancelled all flights to and from Denmark while the rules remain in place, and urged Mr Shapps to reverse the decision. Scottish airline Loganair said it has suspended flights between Scotland and Denmark from 9 to 22 November.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the latest rules followed the release of \"further information\" from health officials in Denmark, where 12 people have been found to have mink-related mutations of virus, most of them connected to farms in the North Jutland region.\n\nThe travel ban and extra requirements will be reviewed after a week, the DfT has said.\n\nAsked about the restrictions by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab denied the suggestion they were \"draconian\", insisting the government had taken \"safe and responsible steps\" in light of the \"new and evolving\" science on the mutated virus strain.\n\nHe told the Andrew Marr show: \"I wouldn't describe it as draconian taking a precautionary measure that if and when we come up with a vaccine it can't be sidestepped by a mutation in the virus that the Danes have found through their mink population.\n\n\"I think that's a common sense measure that the public would expect us to take.\"\n\nJohn Littleton, who returned from a business trip in Denmark on Friday, says he would have done things differently if he had known how rules would have affected his family.\n\n\"I was in Denmark on business. My flight back was Friday afternoon.\n\nOn Friday morning a colleague told me that Denmark had been put back on the restricted list. I assumed I would have to self isolate for two weeks. There was no official contact.\n\nOnce home I started self-isolating. On Saturday morning I missed a call from the tracing service who said they would ring me on Sunday.\n\nLast evening, two police officers arrived at my home. They read out a statement recommending the whole household self-isolate for two weeks. It was rather ambiguous - but the police said we would be fined if we didn't.\n\nBoth my son and his partner now can't go to work. She is a teacher, he manages an electrical retailer. Not being at work causes real problems.\n\nWhen the announcement about Denmark was made, there was no that the entire household would have to self-isolate. If it had said that, I would have done things differently - perhaps I would have stayed out there or isolated somewhere else upon my return.\n\nI just don't understand why such extreme measures are being taken. I was not in the north of Denmark and followed all social distancing guidelines while there. Denmark are only imposing local restrictions.\n\nWhy can I not simply be tested, so that the rest of the household can carry on with work? As usual, the whole situation is being handled in a haphazard way with little thought.\"\n\nDenmark is the UK's largest source of imported pork - including bacon - with machinery among the other major import items.\n\nRod McKenzie, managing director of policy at the Road Haulage Association, said the latest restrictions were \"significant and unique\" because lorry drivers working in supply chains have been \"exempt\" from travel quarantine rules.\n\nHe suggested that whilst different organisations, such as supermarkets, may have their own plans to address any supply issues, he warned that if the restrictions continue for a \"long time\" there could be \"a potential disruption to bacon supplies in the UK\".\n\nMeanwhile, Logistics UK, a freight trade body, said the industry was \"agile\" so \"importers can switch between transport modes to ensure that products still arrive\".\n\nIn a statement it added: \"Much of the ferry transport between the UK and Denmark is sent in unaccompanied trailers, so drivers simply collect their loads from ports, with no need to travel across the border.\n\n\"The industry will continue to maintain high levels of vigilance and follow all necessary health protocols to protect the UK.\"\n\nIn England, where a new national lockdown came into force on Thursday, people are still allowed to travel overseas for work or education trips.\n\nLeaving home to go on holiday is currently banned for most people in the UK.\n\nDenmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod called Mr Shapps' travel announcement a \"very drastic step\" and said he had discussed it with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday.\n\nDenmark had been taken off the UK coronavirus travel corridors list on Friday after it first became apparent the mutated form of coronavirus was present in the country. It meant any passengers arriving in the UK from Denmark would need to self-isolate after their arrival.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care estimates that between 300 and 500 people have arrived in the UK from Denmark in the last 14 days.\n\nOfficials will contact anyone in the UK who has been in Denmark in the last fortnight to make sure they also self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nWere you planning to travel from Denmark to the UK? Have you just returned to the UK? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Aldi began the click and trial earlier this year\n\nDiscount supermarket Aldi is to extend its trial click-and-collect shopping service to 200 more UK stores as it faces growing competition from rivals.\n\nIt means about 25% of its 900 shops will offer the service by Christmas, compared with 18 now.\n\nAldi and discount rival Lidl, which have challenged the big supermarket rivals on price, have missed out in the pandemic as more sales go online.\n\nBy contrast traditional grocers such as Tesco have seen their sales accelerate.\n\nAldi first launched its click and collect service to customers at a single store in the Midlands in September, before extending the trial last month.\n\nShoppers can choose from a full range of grocery items online, then collect them in their cars \"contact-free\" at their local stores.\n\nThe German discounter has expanded rapidly over the past decade, largely by outcompeting traditional chains on price.\n\nHowever, it has seen growth slow since March as online grocery shopping has doubled its share of the UK market to around 14%.\n\nAnalysts say mounting competition from traditional retailers with established online shopping services will make it harder for Aldi and Lidl to expand as quickly as they once did.\n\nTesco has benefitted from the shift to online shopping\n\nFor example, in the 12 weeks to May, Tesco and Sainsbury's increased sales at a faster rate than Aldi for the first time in a decade as the pandemic spurred weekly shops and more online ordering.Aldi has been rolling out new online options in response.\n\nIn April, Aldi started selling online food parcels to help self-isolating and vulnerable customers and has also started a rapid delivery service in partnership with Deliveroo.\n\nGiles Hurley, boss of Aldi UK and Ireland, said its click and collect trial had been \"hugely popular\" so far.\n\n\"By extending it to hundreds of new stores, we're making Aldi accessible to thousands of shoppers who might never have visited one of our stores before.\"\n• None Ocado says switch to online shopping is permanent", "Twitter alternative Parler has become the most-downloaded app in the United States as conservatives flock to the self-styled \"free speech\" app after the US election.\n\nIt follows a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook in recent days.\n\nProminent investor Dan Bongino said the service was adding \"thousands to users per minute\" on Sunday.\n\nBut the sudden boom also caused technical issues for users.\n\nSome reported problems registering and a slowdown of the app as its servers attempted to deal with the influx.\n\nParler founder John Matze said the app had added two million new users in a day, and increased its daily active users four-fold over the weekend.\n\n\"Don't worry, the app isn't normally this slow,\" he promised new arrivals.\n\nSome of Parler's most popular users are Republicans and media personalities\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth this year.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 2.6 million followers on the platform, while Fox News hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity each have more than two million.\n\nNewsmax, a conservative-leaning news outlet, also crept near the top of the charts at the same time.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among Trump supporters and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nIt is one of a handful of start-up social networks - such as MeWe or Gab - trying to appeal to disgruntled users of the biggest platforms.\n\nParler is ahead of bigger, better-funded apps in Apple's US download charts\n\nMr Trump has been among Twitter's most vocal critics and has seen many of his tweets hidden and labelled as misleading during the election period.\n\nNamed after the French verb \"to speak\", the app has very similar functions to Twitter. Posts can be replied to with comments, \"echoed\" in a way similar to retweeting, and upvoted instead of liked.\n\nParler says it keeps bans to an \"absolute minimum\", and does not fact-check posts.\n\nParler does, however, ban some things, including pornography, threats of violence, and support for terrorism.\n\nFollowing Joe Biden's projected win in the presidential election - and Mr Trump's unsubstantiated claims of fraud - many conservatives encouraged each other to leave Twitter and Facebook for Parler.\n\nOn Facebook, multiple events and groups with thousands of members are encouraging a \"mass exit\" from Facebook to Parler from Friday 13 November.\n\nThe planned exodus has been mocked by left-leaning Twitter users as an escape to a \"safe space\" devoid of challenge or criticism.\n\nThe light-touch approach to content moderation means that misinformation can spread more easily on the platform than on those with stricter rules.\n\nThe first \"mass migration\" of right-wing users from major social networks to Parler happened in June, after a number of accounts that posted misleading content about Covid-19 and George Floyd protests got banned from the bigger social media sites.\n\nThousands of supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory have joined in in the last few weeks, after Facebook, Instagram and YouTube took sweeping action against them in early October. Followers believe President Trump is waging a secret war against a \"deep state\" elite of Satan-worshipping paedophiles.\n\nFacebook's ban on organisations that promote violence has also forced groups such as the Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois to rebuild on Parler.\n\nHowever, platforms like Parler have become an echo-chamber for a relatively limited group of like-minded users. That's why many users who have migrated to Parler make repeated attempts to create new accounts to return to major networks - as they know that's where their content can get widespread traction.\n\nWhile the content posted on Parler is usually not as extreme as other self-proclaimed \"free speech\" platforms like Gab and MeWe, it is the home of many posts that would either be flagged as misleading or removed by major platforms - on topics like the election, Covid-19, child trafficking and vaccines.\n\nSenator Cruz, who recently lambasted Twitter boss Jack Dorsey at a congressional committee hearing, said in June that he had joined Parler because social networks use their power \"to silence conservatives and promote their radical left-wing agenda\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Who put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report?\" Twitter's Jack Dorsey is quizzed by Senator Ted Cruz\n\nTweeting on Sunday, Mr Levin encouraged his followers to \"hurry\" and join Parler because \"I may not stay at Facebook or Twitter if they continue censoring me\".\n\nBut technology analyst Benedict Evans questioned how long-standing such a shift would be.\n\n\"How many core Trump voters will now think that Fox is too left-wing and Twitter or Facebook too controlled?\" he said.\n\n\"And even if that's a lot of people, will these stick - or will the scale effect of the mainstream networks pull them back?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government is to spend more than £400m to support poor children and their families in England, following a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nA winter grant scheme, to be run by councils, will provide support with food and bills, and a holiday food and activities programme is to be expanded.\n\nRashford said it would improve the lives of almost 1.7 million children.\n\nThe move represents a climbdown for the government, which had said Universal Credit was the best way to help.\n\nFrom the package of support, a £170m ring-fenced fund will be distributed through councils, with at least 80% earmarked for help with food and bills.\n\nThis will receive funding from the beginning of December until the end of March.\n\nThe holiday food and activities programme will be expanded with a £220m investment to cover Easter, summer and Christmas in 2021.\n\nOn top of that, there will be a £16m cash boost for the nation's food banks.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson telephoned the Manchester United and England player on Saturday to tell him of the new plans.\n\nSpeaking after he took part in United's 3-1 Premier League win against Everton, Rashford said: \"Following the game today, I had a good conversation with the prime minister to better understand the proposed plan, and I very much welcome the steps that have been taken to combat child food poverty in the UK.\"\n\nRashford said he remained concerned about the children who would miss out on help \"because their family income isn't quite low enough\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"The intent the government have shown today is nothing but positive and they should be recognised for that.\n\n\"The steps made today will improve the lives of near 1.7 million children in the UK over the next 12 months, and that can only be celebrated.\"\n\nRashford also told the BBC Mr Johnson had agreed to speak with the footballer's child food poverty taskforce.\n\n\"I am fully committed to this cause, and I will fight for the rest of my life for it, because in my mind, no child should ever go hungry in the United Kingdom,\" the player said.\n\nSeeing the role everyone had played in supporting the most vulnerable children had been \"the greatest moment of my life,\" he added.\n\nRashford's campaign began in June, after the government insisted it would not provide vouchers over the summer holidays for the 1.3 million children in England who were receiving free school meals in term time.\n\nThe government had previously given this support during the first coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nRashford's campaign led to the government changing its policy to allow children to claim free meals during the summer holidays.\n\nThe footballer then called for free meals to be provided over the October half-term, with more than a million people signing a petition he set up.\n\nBut the government refused, saying enough support was being provided through the benefit system.\n\nLast month, it whipped Conservative MPs to vote against a Labour motion in the House of Commons that called for the extension of free school meal provision.\n\nThis prompted a number of local authorities to say they would continue offering free school meals throughout the week's holiday in spite of that.\n\nIn October, a Downing Street spokesman said it was \"not for schools to regularly provide food to pupils during the school holidays.\"\n\nThey added: \"We believe the best way to support families outside of term time is through Universal Credit rather than government subsidising meals.\"\n\nMarcus Rashford has prompted the government to act before.\n\nIt is the second time the prime minister has picked up the phone to the 23-year-old footballer, whose campaign has struck a chord with many, and left many Conservatives acknowledging privately for some time they would have to change tack.\n\nStrikingly, Rashford insists this isn't about politics, or criticising Boris Johnson, it's about helping poor families.\n\n\"We're not against him. That's the main reason I was happy to talk to him,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nBut what also stands out is he's moving onto the next strand of his campaign - arguing that more families should get help.\n\nGiven his success so far, don't bet against him pursuing this pretty doggedly in the months ahead.\n\nAnnouncing the support package, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the government knew it was a challenging time for many, and insisted it had consistently supported the lowest paid families by boosting welfare support.\n\n\"We want to make sure vulnerable people are cared for throughout this difficult time and, above all, no one should go hungry or be unable to pay their bills this winter,\" she added.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said Labour had been campaigning for such a change, adding: \"This should have been announced weeks ago to help the children at risk of going hungry over half term.\"\n\nShe added that ministers needed to bring forward a long-term plan to child poverty.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner Anne Longfield welcomed the move but called on ministers to \"go further\" with Universal Credit support by retaining a £20 increase.\n\n\"Hunger does not take a holiday when schools close and a long-term solution to the growing number of children in poverty is urgently needed,\" she said.\n\nAnna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, who also chairs the End Child Poverty Coalition, said Rashford deserved \"enormous credit for pushing the issue of poverty to the top of the public's agenda\", adding that the government should be acknowledged for \"listening\".\n\nJames Toop, chief executive, of food charity Bite Back 2030, said: \"It's great that Boris has listened to the voices of our young people who have been campaigning for meal provision through the holidays to be a priority through this crisis.\"\n\nLeora Cruddas, chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts, said the scheme was particularly welcome.\n\n\"Christmas will not be the same this year - and it is therefore even more important that we ensure that children have food and are kept warm.\"\n\nHead teachers also welcomed the scheme but questioned why it could not have been in place for October's half term.\n\nNick Brook, deputy general secretary of school leaders' union the NAHT, said while the expansion of the activities programme was a positive move, it \"falls short in addressing fully the issue of holiday hunger\".\n\nHe added: \"We would question whether provision of food to those going hungry should be dependent upon them attending an activity, which for a whole host of reasons might not be suitable, available or accessible for particular groups.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, said the winter grant would help them find the best way to help families and individuals most in need, but called on the government to \"adequately fund councils so they can provide wider long-term preventative support to all households who need it\".\n\nWhat is your reaction to the proposed support package? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as a running mate, helped keep centrist voters on-side\n\nAfter nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House.\n\nIt was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic and unprecedented social unrest. He was running against an unconventional, precedent-defying incumbent. But in his third try for the presidency, Biden and his team found a way to navigate the political obstacles and claim a victory that, while narrow in the electoral college tally, is projected to surpass Trump's overall national total by millions of votes.\n\nThese are the five reasons the son of a car salesman from Delaware finally won the presidency.\n\nPerhaps the biggest reason Biden won the presidency was something entirely out of his control.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, as well as claiming more than 230,000 lives, also transformed American life and politics in 2020. And in the final days of the general election campaign, Donald Trump himself seemed to acknowledge this.\n\n\"With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,\" the president said at a rally last week in Wisconsin, where cases have spiked in recent days.\n\nThe media focus on Covid, however, was a reflection rather than a driver of the public's concern about the pandemic - which translated into unfavourable polling on the president's handling of the crisis. A poll last month by Pew Research, suggested Biden held a 17 percentage point lead over Trump when it came to confidence about their handling of the Covid outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How much is Covid-19 an election issue?\n\nThe pandemic and the subsequent economic decline knocked Trump off his preferred campaign message of growth and prosperity. It also highlighted concerns that many Americans had about his presidency, over its occasional lack of focus, penchant for questioning science, haphazard handling of policies large and small, and prioritisation of the partisan. The pandemic was a lead weight on Trump's approval ratings, which, according to Gallup, dipped to 38% at one point in the summer - one that the Biden campaign exploited.\n\nOver the course of his political career, Biden established a well-earned reputation for talking himself into trouble. His propensity for gaffes derailed his first presidential campaign in 1987, and helped ensure that he never had much of a shot when he ran again in 2007.\n\nIn his third try for the Oval Office, Biden still had his share of verbal stumbles, but they were sufficiently infrequent that they never became more than a short-term issue.\n\nPart of the explanation for this, of course, is that the president himself was an unrelenting source of news cycle churn. Another factor was that there were bigger stories - the coronavirus pandemic, protests after the death of George Floyd and economic disruption - dominating national attention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tale of two rallies: Trump and Biden stage duelling events in Florida\n\nBut at least some credit should be given to a concerted strategy by the Biden campaign to limit their candidate's exposure, keeping a measured pace in the campaign, and minimising the chances that fatigue or carelessness could create problems.\n\nPerhaps in a normal election, when most Americans weren't worried about limiting their own exposure to a virus, this strategy would have backfired. Maybe then Trump's derisive \"hidin' Biden\" jabs would have taken their toll.\n\nThe campaign sought to stay out of the way and let Trump be the one whose mouth betrayed him - and, in the end, it paid off.\n\nThe week before election day, the Biden campaign unveiled its final television adverts with a message that was remarkably similar to the one offered in his campaign kickoff last year, and his nomination acceptance speech in August.\n\nThe election was a \"battle for the soul of America\", he said, and a chance for the national to put what he characterised as the divisiveness and chaos of the past four years behind it.\n\nThe election became a referendum on Trump\n\nBeneath that slogan, however, was a simple calculation. Biden bet his political fortunes on the contention that Trump was too polarising and too inflammatory, and what the American people wanted was calmer, steadier leadership.\n\n\"I'm just exhausted by Trump's attitude as a person,\" says Thierry Adams, a native of France who after 18 years living in Florida cast his first vote in a presidential election in Miami last week.\n\nDemocrats succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump, not a binary choice between the two candidates.\n\nBiden's winning message was simply that he was \"not Trump\". A common refrain from Democrats was that a Biden victory meant Americans could go for weeks without thinking about politics. It was meant as a joke, but it contained a kernel of truth.\n\nDuring the campaign to be the Democratic candidate, Biden's competition came from his left, with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who ran well-financed and organised campaigns that generated rock-concert sized crowds.\n\nDespite this pressure from his liberal flank, Biden stuck with a centrist strategy, refusing to back universal government-run healthcare, free college education, or a wealth tax. This allowed him maximise his appeal to moderates and disaffected Republicans during the general election campaign.\n\nThis strategy was reflected in Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate when he could have opted for someone with stronger support from the party's left wing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden was not first choice for most young Democrats, but he listened to their priorities\n\nThe one place where Biden moved closer to Sanders and Warren was on the environment and climate-change - perhaps calculating that the benefits of appealing to younger voters for whom the issue is a priority was worth the risk of alienating voters in energy-dependent swing-state industries. It was the exception, however, that proved the rule.\n\n\"It's no secret that we've been critical of Vice-President's Biden's plans and commitments in the past,\" said Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the environmental activist group the Sunrise Movement in July. \"He's responded to many of those criticisms: dramatically increasing the scale and urgency of investments, filling in details on how he'd achieve environmental justice and create good union jobs, and promising immediate action.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Biden's campaign coffers were running on empty. He entered the general election campaign at a decided disadvantage to Trump, who had spent virtually his entire presidency amassing a campaign war chest that approached a billion dollars.\n\nFrom April onward, however, the Biden campaign transformed itself into a fundraising juggernaut, and - in part because of profligacy on the part of the Trump campaign - ended up in a much stronger financial position than his opponent. At the beginning of October, the Biden campaign had $144m more cash on hand than the Trump operation, allowing it to bury the Republicans in a torrent of television advertising in almost every key battleground state.\n\nA Biden supporter in Texas, where a cash advantage enabled him to spend campaign money\n\nMoney isn't everything, of course. Four years ago, the Clinton campaign had a sizeable monetary lead over Trump's shoestring operation.\n\nBut in 2020, when in-person campaigning was curtailed by coronavirus and Americans across the country spent considerably more time consuming media in their homes, Biden's cash advantage let him reach voters and push his message out until the very end. It allowed him to expand the electoral map, putting money into what once seemed to be longshot states like Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. Most of those bets didn't pay off, but he put Trump on the defence, flipping what was once reliably conservative Arizona and staying highly competitive in Georgia.\n\nMoney gives a campaign options and initiative - and Biden put his advantage to good use.", "Let the 2020 election bury the mistaken notion once and for all that the 2016 election was a historical accident, an American aberration.\n\nDonald Trump won more than 70 million votes, the second highest total in American history. Nationally, he has more than a 47% share of his vote, and looks to have won 24 states, including his beloved Florida and Texas.\n\nHe has an extraordinary hold over large swathes of this country, a visceral connection that among thousands of supporters has brought a near cult-like devotion. After four years in the White House, his supporters studied the fine print of his presidency and clicked enthusiastically on the terms and conditions.\n\nAny analysis of his political weakness in 2020 also has to acknowledge his political strength. However, he was defeated, becoming one of only four incumbents in the modern era not to get another four years. Also he has become the first president to lose the popular vote in consecutive elections.\n\nDonald Trump won the presidency in 2016 partly because he was a norm-busting political outsider who was prepared to say what had previously been unsayable.\n\nBut Donald Trump also lost the presidency in 2020 partly because he was a norm-busting political outsider who was prepared to say what had previously been unsayable.\n\nThough much of the Trump base might well have voted for him if he had shot someone on Fifth Avenue, his infamous boast from four years ago, others who supported him four years ago were put off by his aggressive behaviour.\n\nMany found the manner in which he defied so many norms off-putting and often offensive\n\nThis was especially true in the suburbs. Joe Biden improved on Hillary Clinton's performance in 373 suburban counties, helping him claw back the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and enabling him to gain Georgia and Arizona. Donald Trump has a particular problem with suburban women.\n\nWe witnessed again in the 2020 presidential election what we had seen in the 2018 mid-term election - more highly-educated Republicans, some of whom had voted for Trump four years ago prepared to give him a chance, thought his presidency was too unpresidential. Though they understood he would be unconventional, many found the manner in which he defied so many customs and behavioural norms off-putting and often offensive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How US networks reported the Biden win\n\nThey were put off by his aggressiveness. His stoking of racial tensions. His use of racist language in tweets maligning people of colour. His failure, on occasions, to adequately condemn white supremacy. His trashing of America's traditional allies and his admiration for authoritarian strongmen, such as Vladimir Putin.\n\nHis strange boasts about being \"a very stable genius\" and the like. His promotion of conspiracy theories. His use of a lingua franca that sometimes made him sound more like a crime boss, such as when he described his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, as \"a rat\".\n\nThen there was what critics derided as his creeping authoritarianism, seen after the election in his refusal to accept the result.\n\nA telling moment for me during this campaign came in Pittsburgh, when I chatted with Chuck Howenstein on the stoop of his terraced home. A Trump supporter in 2016, he voted for Joe Biden.\n\n\"People are tired,\" he told me. \"They want to see normalcy back in this country. They want to see decency. They want to see this hatred stop. They want to see this country united. And that together is going to bring Joe Biden the presidency.\"\n\nA political problem for Trump was that he failed to expand his support beyond his core Trump base. Nor did he try hard to do so. In 2016, he won 30 states and often governed as if he was the president solely of conservative, red America. The most deliberately divisive president of the past 100 years, he made little attempt to woo blue America, the 20 states that voted for Hillary Clinton.\n\nAfter four exhausting years, many voters simply wanted a presidency they could have on in the background - an occupant of the White House who would behave in a more conventional manner. They had tired of the infantile name-calling, the ugly language and the ceaseless confrontation. They wanted a return to some kind of normalcy.\n\nBut the 2020 election was not a re-run of the 2016 election. This time he was the incumbent, not the insurgent. He had a record to defend, including his mishandling of a coronavirus outbreak which by Election Day had killed more than 230,000 Americans. In this age of negative partisanship, where politics is often driven by loathing of the opposition, he was not pitted against a hate figure like Hillary Clinton.\n\nJoe Biden was hard to demonise, which is partly why the Democratic establishment was so keen to have him as its presidential nominee. This 77-year-old centrist also did the job he was hired to do, which was to claw back white working class voters in the Rust Belt.\n\nThe question of why Trump lost the presidency turns also on a more interesting and arguable question - when did he lose the presidency?\n\nBy sundown of his first full day, it was clear Trump would seek to change the presidency, more than the presidency would change him\n\nWas it in the immediate aftermath of his victory in 2016, when people who had voted for Trump partly as a protest vote against the Washington political establishment instantly had misgivings? After all, many of those voters never expected him to win.\n\nWas it in the first 24 hours of his presidency, when he delivered his \"American Carnage\" inaugural address - which portrayed the country as a near dystopia of shuttered factories, left-behind workers and wealth \"ripped\" from middle class homes - before he ranted about the crowd size and vowed to continue using Twitter? By sundown of his first full day in charge, it had become clear that Donald Trump would seek to change the presidency more than the presidency changed him.\n\nWas it more cumulative, the snowball effect of so many scandals, so many slurs, so much staff turn-over, and so much chaos?\n\nOr was it as a result of the coronavirus, the biggest crisis that engulfed his presidency? Before the virus arrived on these shores, Trump's political vital signs were strong. He had survived his impeachment trial. His approval ratings matched the highest level it had been - 49%. He could boast a strong economy and the advantage of incumbency: the twin factors that usually secure a sitting president a second term. Often presidential elections turn on a simple question: is the country better off now than it was four years ago? After Covid hit, and the economic crisis that followed, it became almost impossible to make that case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nBut it is wrong to say that the Trump presidency was inevitably doomed by the coronavirus. Presidents often emerge from national convulsions stronger. Crises can often bring out greatness. That was true for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose rescuing of America from the Great Depression made him politically unassailable. George W Bush's initial response to the attacks of September 11th also boosted his popularity, and helped him win a second term. So it was by no means preordained that Covid would finish Donald Trump. It was his botched handling of the crisis that contributed to his fall.\n\nStill, again it is worth remembering that Donald Trump remained politically viable up until the end, despite the country experiencing its worst public health crisis in more than a 100 years, its biggest economic crisis since the 1930s and also its most widespread racial turbulence since the late 1960s.\n\nMuch of red America, and much of a conservative movement he came to dominate, will yearn for his return. He will continue to be the dominant figure in the conservative movement for years to come. Trumpism could end up having the same transformative effect on American conservatism as Reaganism.\n\nThe outgoing president will remain a deeply polarizing figure, and could run again in 2024. These disunited states have not suddenly become united again, not least because so many Americans will harbour such different emotions about Trump, ranging from devotion to abject hate.\n\nThe country surely has not heard or seen the last of the most unorthodox president in its history.", "The UK government has signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe vaccines are being developed by the Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen and the US biotech company Novavax.\n\nIt means the UK has placed orders for six experimental vaccines, taking its potential stockpile to 340 million doses.\n\nIn theory, there should be enough for everyone in the UK to get five doses. Most of the vaccines require only two.\n\nWith most vaccine trials ending in failure, the government is effectively hedging its bets, hoping that at least one of the vaccines it has purchased proves safe and effective.\n\nThe price being paid has not been revealed.\n\nKate Bingham, chair of the UK government Vaccine Taskforce, told the BBC: \"We don't know if any of these vaccine formats that we've acquired will actually work. There are no licensed vaccines for any human coronavirus.\"\n\nShe added it was a \"priority\" to ensure the UK has \"sufficient vaccine\" for groups \"who are most at risk from coronavirus infection\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"The government's strategy to build a portfolio of promising vaccine candidates will ensure we have the best chance possible of finding one that works.\n\n\"Today's agreements will not only benefit people in the UK but will ensure fair and equitable access of a vaccine around the world, potentially protecting hundreds of millions of lives.\"\n\nThe government has now purchased experimental coronavirus vaccines that have been developed using four different scientific approaches:\n\nIt takes Britain's potential stockpile to a total of 340 million doses - one of the biggest in the world.\n\nThe Oxford and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines are in advanced, phase three clinical trials, with tens of thousands of volunteers recruited.\n\nIt is possible that some indication on how effective they are could come in late autumn, but that is not guaranteed.\n\nThe government says if the Janssen and Novavax vaccine trials go well, the first deliveries could take place in mid-2021.\n\nThe UK has also agreed to co-fund a clinical study of the Janssen vaccine.\n\nBy the end of the year, there could be at least half a dozen different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials in the UK - and members of the public are being encouraged to register their interest online, because without medical volunteers we will not know if any of the vaccines actually works.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA driver has been jailed for 10 years for ramming into a scooter rider who accidentally cracked his wing mirror.\n\nChristian Verrall, 32, caused 20-year-old Craig Bond life-changing injuries in the attack in Pill, Newport, earlier this year.\n\nVerrall performed a U-turn to chase Mr Bond through busy streets, his trial heard. He was convicted last month of wounding with intent.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard Verrall used his 1,000kg Ford Fiesta as a \"weapon\".\n\nMr Bond was sent flying over the bonnet, leaving him with fractures to his leg and foot.\n\nHe now has \"suicidal thoughts\" and has continuing problems with his leg, the court heard.\n\nVerrall's trial heard he had dumped the car and reported it stolen. When he was shown CCTV footage of what happened, he told police: \"That doesn't even look like me.\"\n\nHowever, the father of one, from Newport, later admitted dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.\n\nChristian Verrall used his 1,000kg Ford Fiesta as a \"weapon\"\n\nSentencing him, Judge Caroline Rees QC said: \"You lost your temper and it is clear from the evidence that the red mist of rage descended.\"\n\nIn mitigation, Verrall's lawyer Harry Baker claimed his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder due to \"an early-life trauma\".\n\nDet Con Rebecca Hamilton, an officer involved in the case, said the level of violence used was \"appalling\".\n\n\"This has been a difficult and distressing time for the victim and his family,\" she said.\n\nVerrall was also disqualified from driving for nine years and eight months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jill Biden: Joe will \"keep the promise of America\"\n\nStanding in an empty classroom where she taught English in the 1990s, Jill Biden delivered an address at the Democratic Party's convention after her husband was officially named presidential candidate.\n\nAfter making the case for Joe Biden to be elected, she was joined by her husband who lauded her qualities as a potential first lady.\n\n\"For all of you out there across the country, just think of your favourite educator who gave you the confidence to believe in yourself. That's the kind of first lady... Jill Biden will be,\" he said.\n\nBut what do we know about the woman who will soon be joining her husband in the White House?\n\nJill Jacobs was born in June 1951 in the US state of New Jersey. The oldest of five sisters, she grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Willow Grove.\n\nPrior to marrying Joe, she was married to former college football player Bill Stevenson.\n\nJoe Biden lost his first wife and his one-year-old daughter in a car accident in 1972. (His sons Beau and Hunter both survived the accident.) Jill says she was introduced to Joe through his brother three years later.\n\nAt the time, he was a senator, while she was still in college.\n\n\"I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts, he came to the door and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought: 'God, this is never going to work, not in a million years.'\n\n\"He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theatre in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off,\" she told Vogue of their first date.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said Joe proposed to her five times before she accepted.\n\n\"I couldn't have them [Joe's children] lose another mother. So I had to be 100% sure,\" she explained.\n\nThe couple married in New York City in 1977. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981.\n\nMrs Biden talked about her family and the struggles they have faced when she endorsed her husband for president at the convention.\n\nHis son Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May 2015, at the age of 46.\n\n\"I know that if we entrust this nation to Joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours - bring us together and make us whole, carry us forward in our time of need, keep the promise of America for all of us,\" she said.\n\nAs well as a bachelor's degree, she has two master's degrees, and a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware in 2007.\n\nPrior to moving to Washington, DC, she taught at a community college, at a public high school and at a psychiatric hospital for adolescents - she gave her address at the Democratic Party's convention this year from her old classroom at Delaware's Brandywine High School, where she taught English from 1991 to 1993.\n\nWhile her husband served as vice-president, Mrs Biden was professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College.\n\n\"Teaching is not what I do. It's who I am,\" she tweeted in August.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dr. Jill Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Biden previously held the title of Second Lady while her husband served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017.\n\nDuring this period, her work included promoting community colleges, advocating for military families and raising awareness about breast cancer prevention.\n\nShe also launched the Joining Forces initiative with First Lady Michelle Obama, which included helping military veterans and their families access education programmes and employment resources.\n\nIn 2012, she published a children's book called Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops based on her granddaughter's experience of being in a military family.\n\nShe has been a prominent supporter of her husband during the 2020 campaign, appearing alongside him and holding events and fundraisers.", "South Hams District Council turned down plans to screen the development with trees\n\nA millionaire fashion mogul has lost a bid to save a skate park, tennis court and garage unlawfully constructed on a Devon beauty spot.\n\nSean Thomas, founder of the White Stuff fashion brand, had his plans to plant 1,000 trees to screen the site turned down by South Hams District Council.\n\nThe authority said the construction near Salcombe was \"detrimental\" to the \"highly sensitive\" local environment.\n\nIt said formal enforcement action would begin. Mr Thomas is yet to comment.\n\nMr Thomas has six months to appeal against the decision. He may have to tear down the development, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported.\n\nThe buildings are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty near Salcolme, Devon\n\nHe built the additions to land adjoining his home in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and alongside the Salcombe to Kingsbridge Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest.\n\nAfter complaints from residents about the \"eyesore\" development, a retrospective planning application was refused in 2019.\n\nIn April, Mr Thomas submitted the plans to plant more than 1,000 native trees.\n\nRefusing the proposals, the council report described the constructions as an \"incongruous development in a highly sensitive area of the open countryside\".\n\nThe district council report said: \"The development has a detrimental impact upon the surrounding landscape... resulting in adverse impacts to the natural beauty, special qualities, distinctive character, landscape and scenic beauty of the South Devon AONB.\"", "Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, many of which have been destroyed, during the three-year insurgency (file photo)\n\nMore than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report.\n\nThe militants turned a football pitch in a village into an \"execution ground\", where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said.\n\nSeveral people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported.\n\nThe beheadings are the latest in a series of gruesome attacks that the militants have carried out in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017.\n\nUp to 2,000 people have been killed and about 430,000 have been left homeless in the conflict in the mainly-Muslim province.\n\nThe militants are linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, giving it a foothold in southern Africa.\n\nThe group has exploited poverty and unemployment to recruit youth in their fight to establish Islamic rule in the area.\n\nMany locals complain that they have benefited little from the province's ruby and gas industries.\n\nThe BBC's Jose Tembe reports from the capital, Maputo, that the latest attack was probably the worst carried out by the militants.\n\nMany people are shocked, and they are calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, he adds.\n\nThe gunmen chanted \"Allahu Akbar\" (\"God is greatest\", in English), fired shots, and set homes alight when they raided Nanjaba village on Friday night, the state-owned Mozambique News Agency quoted survivors as saying.\n\nTwo people were beheaded in the village and several women abducted, the news agency added.\n\nA separate group of militants carried out another brutal attack on Muatide village, where they beheaded more than 50 people, the news agency reported.\n\nVillagers who tried to flee were caught, and taken to the local football pitch where they were beheaded and chopped to pieces in an atrocity carried out from Friday night to Sunday, privately-run Pinnacle News reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMozambique's government has appealed for international help to curb the insurgency, saying its troops need specialised training.\n\nIn April, more than 50 people were beheaded or shot dead in an attack on a village in Cabo Delgado and earlier this month, nine people were beheaded in the same province.\n\nRights groups say Mozambican security forces have also carried out human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture and killings, during operations to curb the insurgency.\n• None Is Mozambique the latest outpost of Islamic State?", "US President-Elect Joe Biden has spoken of his wish to \"unify\" the United States, in his first speech since his election win.\n\nSome of those who voted for Joe Biden tell the BBC what their message would be to friends who supported Donald Trump.", "A low bridge in Leicestershire has been dubbed the \"most bashed\" in Britain after being struck 25 times in a year.\n\nThe Watling Street railway bridge on the A5 in Hinckley saw crashes almost once a fortnight on average in the year to the end of March, Network Rail said.\n\nIts list of the most commonly struck bridges also included structures in Dudley, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.\n\nHowever, the organisation said there had been an 11% decrease in bridge crashes compared to the previous year.\n\nLorry drivers are being encouraged to check the height of their vehicles\n\nNetwork Rail said there was an average of five railway bridge crashes per day nationally, with repairs costing an average of £13,000 per strike.\n\nIt has started a new awareness campaign ahead of an expected increase in traffic encouraging lorry drivers to familiarise themselves with the height of their vehicle before setting off.\n\nChairman Sir Peter Hendy said: \"We've done a lot of work with partners across the industry in recent years to tackle bridge strikes, and whilst it's encouraging to see our work is paying off with numbers now on the decline, there's a lot more to be done to cut the unnecessary delays, costs and safety risks they pose.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which looks after about 10,000 bridges over roads, has also written to operators of large vehicle fleets warning they could lose their licence if they fail to have measures in place to minimise the risk of drivers misjudging height restrictions.\n\nSenior structures adviser at Highways England, Hideo Takano, said: \"Around two-thirds of bridge strikes on our roads are caused by vehicles carrying a load.\n\n\"So to reduce the risk of this happening, we urge all drivers to follow these simple steps: Know your height, plan your route and secure your load.\"\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 UK is making \"good progress\" in developing a testing regime to reduce the quarantine period for international arrivals, the transport secretary has said.\n\nThe \"test and release\" programme could allow a \"much reduced\" self-isolation period, Grant Shapps said.\n\nIt is currently 14 days for many international arrivals.\n\nMr Shapps also said rapid tests being used in Liverpool could \"open the way\" for quarantine-free air travel.\n\nHe told an airport industry conference that the government aimed to launch the \"test and release\" programme after England's lockdown ends - currently due to be 2 December.\n\n\"Beyond the lockdown, this should encourage many more people to book flights with confidence knowing there is an option that allows them to shorten self isolation,\" the transport secretary said.\n\nThe tests would be paid for by passengers arriving in the UK but the Department for Transport would not comment on how much they might cost.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was working with other countries to help establish an \"international standard\" for self-isolation and testing to be carried out before travelling to and from the UK, to stop passengers having to quarantine on arrival in their destination country.\n\nAnd he said quick-turnaround tests being trialled in Liverpool gave \"some hope for optimism\" as they could \"open the way for non-quarantine air travel\".\n\nThe air travel industry has been hit hard by the drop in passenger numbers since the start of the pandemic, with airlines such as British Airways and EasyJet cutting thousands of jobs.\n\nAirline and airport groups have called on governments around the world to provide financial support for the struggling industry.\n\nShadow transport secretary Jim McMahon told the conference it was \"inconceivable\" the government had not taken more action to limit job losses across the aviation industry, adding that Mr Shapps's \"warm words\" needed \"to be translated into action\".\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK must self-isolate for 14 days unless travelling from a country listed by the government, with some exceptions for certain occupations.\n\nThe mass coronavirus testing programme launched in Liverpool last week is the first trial of whole-city testing in England. All residents are being offered regular Covid-19 tests - whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nChildren aged 11 and over will be tested in schools as part of the scheme, the city's council has said.\n\nThe pilot includes a mix of existing swab tests and the new lateral flow tests - which can provide a result within an hour without the need to use a lab.\n\nEarlier, Environment Secretary George Eustice told BBC Breakfast the new \"lateral flow\" test was available to everyone in Liverpool and could be a \"major breakthrough\" if successful.\n\n\"A test is only as good as the speed with which you can turn a result around,\" he said.\n\n\"What we've really been focusing on more recently is a faster test, so that people can act more quickly to prevent the spread of the virus so this, if we can make it work, is a major breakthrough.\"\n\nBBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher said rapid or \"lateral flow\" tests needed high levels of the virus in the body to work. It is not yet clear how good they are at catching people in the early stages of the infection, when the virus is still taking hold.\n\nThey are similar to pregnancy tests and are easy, cheap and fast.\n\nFluid from a nasal swab or saliva goes on to one end of the test, then a marking appears if the person is positive.\n\nThe prime minister said last month that he shared \"people's frustrations\" at the turnaround times for results, following criticism of England's test-and-trace system.\n\nMr Johnson's comments came after figures for the week ending 14 October showed that just 15.1% of people who were tested received their result within 24 hours.\n\nLast week, the government said it had hit its target of having the capacity to carry out 500,000 coronavirus tests a day across the UK by the end of October.\n\nThe data for 31 October showed just over 525,000 tests could be done - a doubling of capacity in two months. However, just under 300,000 tests were actually carried out.\n\nMr Johnson previously said mass testing had \"the potential to be a powerful new weapon in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nHowever, some health experts have criticised the Liverpool trial, with Allyson Pollock, professor of public health at Newcastle University, warning that plans to test asymptomatic people went against advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) to prioritise tests for those displaying symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, another 156 people in the UK were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, with a further 20,572 cases of the virus.", "Meanwhile, Joe Biden has made his first speech about coronavirus after forming a panel made up of 13 scientists to advise him as he prepares to take office.\n\nHe tells Americans that regardless of how they voted in the election, they should wear masks in order to protect themselves and other citizens. \"Wear a mask, it's the single most potent weapon against the virus,\" he says. Face coverings have become politically divisive in the US.\n\nBiden says the vaccine development process must be transparent so Americans can have confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine. He notes it won't be available for many months yet.\n\n\"The challenge before us right now is still immense and growing. Although I'm not in office yet I'm just laying out what we expect to do and hope some of it can be done between now and the time I'm sworn in.\"\n\nHe adds that \"there's a need for bold action\" as cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all going up.\n\nHis remarks contrast with many of Donald Trump's who at times underplayed the severity of the pandemic.", "Michel Barnier (right) is returning to London for the talks with Lord Frost\n\nEU and UK officials have resumed trade talks in London at the start of another key week for the negotiations.\n\nThey are trying to bridge what the two sides have said are still significant differences on fishing quotas and competition issues.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Sunday that the \"outlines\" of an agreement were clear and a deal was \"there to be done\".\n\nBut he has insisted the UK is prepared to leave the single market and customs union on 31 December without agreement.\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and his UK counterpart Lord Frost are in a race against the clock to conclude a future economic partnership in time for it to come into force when the post-Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January but continues to follow the bloc's rules until the end of the year.\n\nIf there is no agreement at that point, trade between the two will default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules - with tariffs set to be introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs for firms and consumers.\n\nBoth sides say they want to avoid this although the EU has said it will not do a deal \"at any price\".\n\nThe UK has said it is prepared to accept what it calls \"Australian terms\" - which it conceives as limited sector-by-sector agreements mirroring those the EU currently has with Australia. But it would mean the UK would largely be trading on WTO rules.\n\nMr Johnson told the Associated Press on Sunday that a more comprehensive deal on trade in all goods and services, based on the EU's agreement with Canada, was \"there to be done\".\n\n\"I've always been a great enthusiast for a trade deal with our European friends and partners,\" he said.\"The broad outlines are pretty clear, we just need to get on and do it if we can.\"\n\nFollowing a phone call with Mr Johnson on Saturday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said some progress had been made in recent weeks after the EU agreed to discuss specific legal texts.\n\nBut she said \"large differences\" remained over the question of access to British fishing waters from 2021 and regulations on workers' rights, environmental protection, and state aid designed to maintain a \"level-playing field\".\n\nAhead of his visit to London, Mr Barnier tweeted that any deal must \"respect the interests and values of the EU and its 27 member states\".\n\nThe meeting comes as the House of Lords look likely to vote down controversial clauses in the government's Internal Market Bill.\n\nThe clauses would give ministers powers to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement reached with the EU, including obligations on state aid rules.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden has previously been openly critical of the bill, fearing it could lead to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - and has warned this could be a deal-breaker for any US-UK trade deal.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Environment Secretary George Eustice said the bill was \"all about protecting peace and stability\" arguing that it ensured Northern Ireland businesses have \"unfettered access to GB markets\".\n\nBut Conservative peer Michael Howard is opposed to the bill, alongside Labour's Charlie Falconer, who told BBC News the government should \"stop digging\".\n\nHe argued that the bill, would push the EU into having to close the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland to protect the bloc's single market.\n\nIreland's Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney described Mr Biden as \"a real friend of Ireland\" and added that his election would give Downing Street \"pause for thought... to ensure that the Irish issues are prioritised as we try to close out this phase of the Brexit negotiation\".\n\nWhile Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told LBC a Biden presidency would bring \"a degree of clarity\" to the Brexit talks. He said UK-EU negotiations would be helped by Mr Biden's clear stance on the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nOn Monday the prime minister announced that he was establishing a new Office for Investment to encourage investors to do business in a post-Brexit UK.\n\n\"Our departure from the European Union is not and has never been about walling our islands off from the outside world, rather, it is about building bridges to friends, allies and trading partners old and new in every corner of every continent\" he wrote in a LinkedIn article.\n\nHe said the Office for Investment would be \"a targeted, agile organisation designed for the fast-moving society in which we now live, and a great big flashing neon sign that advertises both our openness to the world and our desire to do business with it.\"", "Mr Penrose said his wife, Baroness Dido Harding, had not been told to self isolate\n\nThe husband of NHS Test and Trace chief Baroness Dido Harding has been told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app\n\nTory MP John Penrose said he was alerted by the app, part of the operation overseen by his wife.\n\nThe Weston-super-Mare MP said on Twitter: \"It never rains but it pours... my NHS app has just gone off, telling me to self-isolate, which I'm doing.\"\n\nLady Harding has not been told to self-isolate, Mr Penrose said.\n\nPeople are told to self-isolate after potentially coming into contact with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Penrose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Penrose said on Twitter that he had no symptoms as yet.\n\nAsked if he had spoken to his wife about it, he told the Press Association: \"We are trying to make sure we are doing it by the book, if I can put it that way.\n\n\"Her NHS app has not gone off, so it's someone I have been in contact with rather than her.\"\n\nIn response to a suggestion that it showed the system worked, Mr Penrose said: \"I suppose it does.\"\n\nThe contact-tracing scheme was launched to reduce the spread of coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland closed their doors to sit-in customers in mid-October\n\nThe NI Executive has failed to reach a decision on whether to extend or change Covid-19 restrictions regarding the hospitality sector.\n\nMinisters held a series of meetings throughout Monday but were unable to agree what steps to take.\n\nOne option being considered would be to allow cafes to open but licensed premises would remain closed.\n\nIt is understood hairdressers and beauticians would be allowed to open with certain restrictions in place.\n\nTen further coronavirus-related deaths were reported by Stormont's Department of Health on Monday, along with 471 more cases.\n\nOf the 10 deaths, nine occurred within the most recent 24-hour reporting period, while one happened prior to it.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, one further coronavirus-related death was reported on Monday and there have been 270 new confirmed cases.\n\nThe Republic's death toll now stands at 1,948 since the pandemic began and a total of 65,659 cases of the disease have been diagnosed.\n\nPubs, restaurants and cafes across Northern Ireland closed their doors to sit-in customers on Friday 16 October under stricter Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHair and beauty salons also had to shut for four weeks.\n\nThe first minister had said the current coronavirus restrictions would end at midnight on Thursday.\n\nIt had been expected that ministers were going to agree a partial reopening of the sector, allowing restaurants to open but unable to serve booze and keeping alcohol-only pubs shut for another fortnight.\n\nOn Sunday, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the sale of alcohol was a factor in reaching a decision because \"defences come down when alcohol is taken\".\n\nMs O'Neill said cafes and coffee shops were a different matter.\n\nIn other coronavirus developments on Monday:\n\nMs O'Neill said the executive was looking at reopening some areas of the hospitality industry\n\nBelfast restaurant owner Michael Deane said he was appalled at the idea not to allow premises to serve alcohol,\n\nHe appealed to the executive to \"stop making us the bogeyman\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that his business had lost close to £2m.\n\n\"I think they should just tell us to close until this is all over, fund the hospitality business and leave it at that,\" he added.\n\nHospitality Ulster chief executive Colin Neill urged the first and deputy first ministers to \"make the right call to save thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses\" by allowing licensed premises to reopen on 13 November.\n\n\"We really need the executive to make sure that the focus is on getting the entire hospitality sector back up and running again this Friday to save a significant amount of jobs and businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We now face a really important part of the year and although we are live to the fact that this will be an extremely challenging trading period, we need to have the doors open.\n\n\"Hundreds of businesses are struggling and now in debt as they try to keep staff in the face of mounting bills and a lack of financial aid from the government, which covers very little in reality.\"\n\nHair and beauty salons also had to shut for four weeks on 17 October\n\nSimon Hamilton, chief executive of Belfast Chamber, urged ministers to reconsider their decision to give businesses \"a fighting chance\" to remain open.\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, he said: \"Suggesting that alcohol will not be allowed to be sold in premises is one which no logic or evidence has been offered for, and would suggest there is a lack of understanding around the viability of businesses like restaurants.\"\n\nHe said he has spoken to many businesses that do not believe it will be viable to open with the new restrictions.\n\nHe added that grant support launched by the executive several weeks ago has not been paid to businesses yet and many that were forced to close will not be able to avail of it.\n\nMeanwhile Justice Minister Naomi Long is self isolating after developing a persistent cough.\n\nThe Alliance leader took to social media to say she had booked a test for Covid-19.\n\nShe said on Twitter: \"Hopefully, with a clear test and 10 days isolation, we'll be able to get it back on track next week. Still, very frustrating but has to be done.\"\n\nMs Long said she was following the official advice she had received.\n\nDepartment of Health guidance says if a person has a negative test, they are not required to self-isolate, as long as everyone they live with who has symptoms has tested negative; they feel well enough; and are not a close contact of a confirmed case.\n\nMs Long is the latest executive minister to self isolate and follows assembly members including Conor Murphy, Pam Cameron, John Stewart and Michelle O'Neill who have all had stay at home in recent weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that we are still in a 'critical moment' of Covid-19 response\n\nThe development of a coronavirus vaccine has \"cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said early findings showing a jab could prevent 90% of people getting Covid-19 were positive, but added it was \"very, very early days\".\n\nHe warned people not to \"rely on this news as a solution\" to the pandemic.\n\n\"The biggest mistake we could make now would be to slacken our resolve at a critical moment,\" he said.\n\nIt came as a further 21,350 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Monday, along with 194 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, said he was \"hopeful\" the first vaccine could be seen by Christmas and there would be a \"much better horizon\" by spring.\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Johnson at a Downing Street news conference, Prof Van-Tam said there was more work to be done before it became available to the public.\n\n\"This is a very important scientific breakthrough. I am certain of that,\" he said.\n\nHe said age would be the \"biggest priority\" when drawing up a list of who would be able to access the new vaccine.\n\nOlder care home residents and care home staff are at the top of a preliminary priority list published by the government, followed by health workers.\n\nProf Van-Tam described the development as similar to \"getting to the end of the playoff final, it's gone to penalties, the first player goes up and scores a goal\".\n\n\"You haven't won the cup yet, but what it does is it tells you that the goalkeeper can be beaten,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister said \"if and when\" the vaccine was approved for use, the UK \"will be ready to use it\".\n\nHe said 40 million doses - enough to vaccinate up to 20 million people - had been ordered, putting the UK near the front of the queue of countries in securing the jab.\n\nMr Johnson said he had talked for a long time about \"the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the brow of the hill\" with a solution.\n\n\"I can tell you that tonight that toot of the bugle is louder, but it's still some way off, we absolutely cannot rely on this news as a solution,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe vaccine - developed by Pfizer and German-based BioNTech - has been hailed as a \"milestone\" by many scientists.\n\nIt has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries with no safety concerns raised.\n\nProf Van-Tam warned it was not yet known whether any vaccine would prevent someone passing on coronavirus to someone else.\n\nDr Charlie Weller, a vaccines specialist at the Wellcome Trust, said the speed of the vaccine's progress was \"phenomenal\" but warned no single jab would be a silver bullet against the virus.\n\nShe added that the technology behind the vaccine, so-called messenger RNA, had not been proved effective in jabs before. It has been suggested it could lead to safer vaccines for many types of viruses in future.\n\nMeanwhile, Surrey Police chief constable Gavin Stephens confirmed discussions with the Army were under way to determine the location of mass Covid-19 vaccination centres.\n\nHe said there was a question over whether vaccinations should happen in the same place as testing and how many sites would be needed to meet capacity.\n\nGPs in England have been told to prepare to give patients two vaccine doses - to be delivered between 21 and 28 days apart - during clinics that could run between 08:00 and 20:00 GMT seven days a week as early as December, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).\n\nThe BMA, which represents doctors, said it expects \"vaccine availability to be limited to begin with, meaning only small numbers of vaccine may be given in December and most vaccinations taking place in early 2021\".\n\nManaging expectations seemed to be a key theme of Monday's televised briefing.\n\nBoth Prime Minister Boris Johnson and England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam were at pains to inject a bit of realism into some of the euphoria over the vaccine news.\n\nThe PM said we must not \"slacken our resolve\", while Prof Van-Tam said it would not make \"any difference\" for the second wave this winter.\n\nTheir message was simple - do not drop your guard against the virus.\n\nIt is easy to understand why. The world has been waiting so long for positive vaccine news.\n\nBut the announcement is just the first hurdle of many.\n\nSafety has still to be proved, the jab's ability to stop transmission rather than just prevent disease is not yet known, how long immunity lasts is uncertain, and whether it works with older people is still to be confirmed.\n\nOther regulatory hurdles will have to be overcome - and that is before we even think about manufacture and distribution.\n\nIt could be that one of the many other vaccines being trialled proves more effective in the long-term. But, as Prof Van-Tam said, Monday's news showed the opponent could be beaten.\n\nMr Johnson said levels of Covid-19 remained significant and were doubling in many areas, with recent data showing one in 90 people in England currently has the virus.\n\n\"There is a long way before we have got this thing beat,\" he said.\n\nHe reiterated the government's intention to end England's current lockdown on 2 December and replace it with tiered regional restrictions.", "Shares around the world have seen healthy gains with the race for the White House finally over\n\nGlobal markets have rallied in response to Saturday's declaration that Joe Biden has won the US election.\n\nThe end of uncertainty about the race's outcome saw London's FTSE 100 rise 1.5% to 5,994.58 points in early trade, with similar gains seen across Europe.\n\nAsian shares also jumped, with Japan's Nikkei 225 climbing 2.1% to 24,839.84 - it's highest level since 1991.\n\nThere were similar gains in Australia, China and Hong Kong while oil and currency markets also climbed.\n\nDonald Trump has yet to concede and Mr Biden's win remains a projection as key states are still counting votes.\n\nHowever, the Democrat is forging ahead with his plans for assuming power in January after major US networks called the election in his favour on Saturday.\n\nRandeep Somel, director of global equities at M&G, told the BBC: \"First and foremost it looks as if the uncertainty of who is going to be the president is going away, with world leaders coming out and openly congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.\n\n\"I think the markets can focus now on the policies that Joe Biden is likely to enact going forward as opposed to this constant, 'is it going to be litigious? Are we looking at another potential Bush-Gore event like we saw in 2000, where it took 6-7 weeks to realise what was going to happen.\"\n\nMr Biden has already said he will reverse many Trump era policies, including rejoining the Paris Climate agreement on his first day in office in January.\n\nThere are also hopes that the new administration will expand fiscal stimulus in the US and widen measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Mr Biden could struggle to enact key planks of his agenda as its looks unlikely the Democrats with have control of both houses in Congress. This means the Senate may be able to block any big regulatory or tax policies, a plus for some businesses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden and Harris call for unity in victory speeches\n\nIn China, the main shares benchmark - the Shanghai Composite - rose almost 2% on Monday, as investors viewed the Biden win as positive for trade and technology policy.\n\nRelations between Donald Trump and China deteriorated during his four-year tenure, sparking a tariff war in 2018 that imposed taxes on imported goods from both countries.\n\n\"The market is taking the Biden win as a positive, as he is not very likely to fight a new trade war with China. The chance for a new tech war is also drifting lower,\" said Larry Hu, head of China economics at Macquarie bank.\n\nBruce Pang, an economist at Hong-Kong based China Renaissance, agreed: \"We think the Chinese authorities might be betting on a less confrontational but more predictable Biden administration that they can work with.\"\n\nThe best performer in Asia was Japan's Nikkei 225, which hit a near 30-year high - although the index remains well below the highs of the late 1980s.\n\nAlongside the election result, strong earnings from Japanese car makers such as Toyota were credited for the gains.\n\n\"The Nikkei 225 is breaking out and is a poster child of strength and momentum,\" said Chris Weston, head of research at brokers Pepperstone.\n\nHowever, it was a different story at Japan Airlines, which saw its shares sink after saying it would raise as much as 168bn yen (£1.2bn) by selling new shares to support its finances during the coronavirus crisis.", "Wales has seen almost 7,000 new Covid cases in the last seven days\n\nWales is starting to see a \"levelling off\" of Covid-19 case rates, the country's health minister has said on the final day of its 17-day lockdown.\n\nVaughan Gething also said mass testing, as being trialled in Liverpool, will be considered in Wales' high case rate areas like Merthyr and the valleys.\n\nHe said the full impact of the lockdown would not be seen for two weeks yet.\n\nOpposition parties have suggested high case rate areas should have stricter local rules.\n\nWales' lockdown - which the Welsh Government said would help stop the health service in Wales becoming \"overwhelmed\" - ends on Monday just a few days after England's four-week lockdown started.\n\nThe number of patients in Welsh hospitals with coronavirus is now the highest since the height of the pandemic in April.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 1,344 people are being treated in hospital for Covid-19 while 54 of the 163 critical care patients have the virus - with the intensive care occupancy rate beyond Wales' usual 152-bed capacity.\n\nMr Gething warned cancer, heart and stroke \"treatments\" could be affected if Covid infection rates surge again.\n\nBut he said: \"We think we're starting to see a plateauing, a levelling off, in the rates of coronavirus across the country.\n\n\"It's still at a high rate which means that there's still a reservoir of coronavirus within our communities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives want \"local measures\" to help slow down Covid-19 cases in communities to avoid \"such draconian measures as a firebreak lockdown or just a straight lockdown\".\n\n\"We would also then have targeted testing in areas where we know there's high infection rates to suppress the virus,\" their health spokesperson Andrew RT Davies told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nAnd Plaid Cymru said the Welsh Government should show it \"has a plan in place\" to deal with areas of high infection rates.\n\n\"I doubt whether it is right to treat those areas in the same way as we treat some of the areas with very low incidence,\" said the party's health spokesperson Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nBut Mr Gething said: \"If we breach trust with the public and extend the end of the firebreak, having been clear it would come to an end, I don't think people would be prepared to trust the government again and go along with what we want people to do.\"\n\nHe thanked the people of Wales for their sacrifice during the lockdown, saying: \"We have seen significant reductions in movement, we're confident there's been a reduction in household contact and all of those things will make a difference.\n\n\"What I can't do is rule out what we will have to do in the future because that is down to the choices we make.\"\n\nWhile pubs, bars and restaurants, gyms, and other non-essential businesses will be allowed to reopen on Monday, Mr Gething urged people to reduce contact and time spent with people outside their household bubble.\n\n\"We don't want to throw away what we think we have gained in the firebreak,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"If we go back to the way the things were before the firebreak, we'd have thrown away all of the sacrifice put together to make the firebreak successful and that would be heart-breaking for so many people who have done the right thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how cases of Covid-19 have changed across Wales during the firebreak\n\nMr Gething warned that if infections surge again \"hospitals will become full\" then elective surgeries and other \"non-Covid care\" which was relatively unaffected during this latest lockdown, may be hit.\n\n\"It will mean people will be treated in an undignified way, it's about saving as many lives as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"It's to make sure the NHS isn't overwhelmed because, if that happens, then non-Covid care like cancer care, heart, stroke and all of those other treatments will be affected.\"\n\nWales has seen almost 7,000 coronavirus cases in the last seven days and the death toll is now more than 2,000 people since the pandemic began.\n\nWhile Office for National Statistics data suggests Covid-19 cases are \"stabilising\" across Wales and the UK, Mr Gething has said the effectiveness of the lockdown may not be known for another few weeks.\n\n\"The infection rates we see reported today reflect behaviour from two to three weeks ago,\" he said.\n\n\"That's how long it takes to feed through. We think we will see a dip in the next two to three weeks but we're cautious as we need to see what the evidence is.\"\n\nMerthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent have some of the worst Covid-19 infection rates in the UK and, amid calls from Plaid Cymru for widespread testing in high case rate areas, Mr Gething says the Welsh Government was \"considering\" mass testing.\n\n\"Liverpool is a test pilot for the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking at what might be possible here in Wales to go alongside how we can use our testing resources here.\"\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government would \"formally review\" the coronavirus data from across Wales in two weeks' time.\n\nThe people of Wales have been warned to expect another lockdown in the new year as First Minister Mark Drakeford has said there was a \"path through to Christmas\" without needing another \"firebreak\".\n\n\"If we avoid contact with other people and we travel only when we need to, work from home wherever we can, we will build on what has been achieved here over the last 17 days,\" Mark Drakeford told Sky News.\n\n\"That will give us a path through to Christmas without needing to go back into this extraordinary period of restriction.\"\n\nMr Drakeford has called on the UK government to make good on its promise for the four nations to meet this week and discuss a single approach to \"pool ideas, plan together and have a common approach to the Christmas period\".\n\n\"The restrictions people have had to live with are incredibly difficult and demanding, and everybody is tired and fatigued of coronavirus,\" he said.\n\n\"If we can offer respite over Christmas that is what we would want to do.\"", "Julia Rawson was last seen alive on 12 May 2019\n\nA man obsessed with horror films has been convicted along with his boyfriend of murdering and dismembering a woman in their flat.\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis, 30, took Julia Rawson home after meeting her in a pub in Dudley, West Midlands, in May 2019.\n\nHe and David Leesley, 25, then killed her and hid her body parts in undergrowth, the trial at Coventry Crown Court was told.\n\nMaynard-Ellis was also found guilty of rape charges relating to another woman.\n\nThe four rapes, an attempted rape, and threats to kill were revealed when a woman came forward after his murder arrest.\n\nBoth men had admitted perverting the course of justice and concealing a body, but had denied murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJurors heard Maynard-Ellis had a fascination with decapitation and horror films and had been addicted to fantasies about the \"sexualised killing of women\".\n\nHis victim would have seen swords and spiders mounted on the walls of the Tipton flat, reptiles kept in tanks, and \"gory face masks\" of horror film characters, Karim Khalil QC, prosecuting, told jurors at the start of the trial.\n\nMs Rawson \"could not have known that she was about to enter a flat of horrors\", he said.\n\n\"But she must have realised this very soon after she went in.\"\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis and David Leesley had admitted perverting the course of justice and concealing a body, but had denied murder\n\nTracey Barrett, a neighbour of the two killers, told the BBC their flat \"was the making of horror stories\", with Freddy Krueger figures and Chucky dolls.\n\nPolice said Maynard-Ellis had gone out the night of the murder with the aim of finding a victim.\n\n\"Unfortunately that victim was Julia\", Det Insp Jim Colclough, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\nMaynard-Ellis and Leesley's home had Chucky dolls and other horror movie paraphernalia\n\nMs Rawson, 42, was struck about the head. Her remains, including her severed head, hands and feet, were found on 12 and 29 June last year in two different locations, near a canal and on wasteland.\n\nAfter identifying Maynard Ellis from CCTV video when he was with Ms Rawson at the pub, he was arrested on suspicion of kidnap and officers discovered a bloodstain underneath a new underlay in the living room of the couple's flat.\n\nDet Insp Colclough described the killing as \"a terrible, terrible thing to have taken place\".\n\nMs Rawson, who was reported missing by friends, came from a close-knit family and was a talented musician and a fun-loving character, he said.\n\n\"Of course her family are absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\nJulia Rawson met Nathan Maynard-Ellis in the Bottle and Cork pub in Dudley\n\nIn a statement, Ms Rawson's family said her loss was \"felt as keenly today as when we heard she had first gone missing\".\n\n\"Her death has had a devastating impact on us, the mutilation of her body and the callous way in which her remains were scattered has revolted us,\" they said.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Soole, told the jury: \"It has been a very demanding case because of the subject matter.\"\n\nMaynard-Ellis and Leesley will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fi Anderson says she only has one remaining ventilator filter, even though it should be changed daily\n\nSome disabled people in the UK have been struggling to obtain essentials such as medication and breathing equipment during the Covid pandemic, research for the BBC suggests.\n\nSome 60% of those who rely on social care told a YouGov survey they were finding it hard to obtain at least one of their necessities.\n\nCharity WellChild said people felt more \"forgotten than they ever have been\".\n\nBut ministers say the needs of disabled people were being considered.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it has sufficient stocks and patients should contact their local care provider.\n\nLike one in 20 of those survey respondents who receive social care, Fi Anderson, a mother of two with muscular dystrophy from Bolton in Greater Manchester, said she has faced problems obtaining breathing apparatus.\n\nHer local hospital told her to re-use the filter for her portable ventilator, recommending she boil it, because supplies were so short.\n\nShe ended up using a dirty filter for six months when it should be changed every day.\n\n\"I appreciate the government is in a difficult position and is trying to increase the supply, but it's not happening fast enough. It's putting us at increased risk of hospitalisation,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm scared I will end up with pneumonia from using dirty filters too long and the girls will end up without a mum.\"\n\nDisabled people who rely on social care - which funds equipment and other support to allow them to live independent lives - also said they had struggled to obtain personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks.\n\nMany of them receive funding directly to employ carers in their home, so they also need to provide them with PPE during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe survey, which the BBC commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act, asked more than 1,000 people about life in the UK with a disability and how it has changed in the shadow of a pandemic.\n\nMore than 65% felt their rights had regressed, and 71% said disabled people's needs had been overlooked.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the DDA?\n\nThe Coronavirus Act, which granted the government emergency powers, gave local councils the ability to reduce care, education and mental health provision for disabled people if it became necessary during the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, nearly six out of 10 deaths from Covid-19 were of disabled people.\n\nTara Parker, director of programmes at WellChild, criticised the government for failing to recognise the needs of disabled people.\n\nShe said: \"It's a complete lack of contingency planning and thought about disabled people and their families.\n\n\"They've struggled with the right PPE, access to their usual therapies, respite, across the board, there has been a lack of clarity for disabled people what their path should be through this pandemic.\"\n\nMany of the nurses at Wellchild working with disabled children and young people who use ventilators report that they are experiencing problems with the supply of vital equipment, Ms Parker said.\n\nShe said this has happened despite reassurances from the government that there would not be problems in the event of a second wave.\n\nJustin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, defended the government's record and said it had sought to create \"good awareness\" of disability issues to ensure \"our support is inclusive\".\n\nHe said the government is developing a national strategy for disabled people, which is setting challenges for each department to \"remove barriers in society and help create a more inclusive society\".", "Alex Trebek, who had hosted Jeopardy! since 1984, had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer\n\nAlex Trebek, the long-time host of American television quiz show Jeopardy!, has died at the age of 80.\n\nMr Trebek announced he had been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer in March 2019.\n\nThe Jeopardy! Twitter account said on Sunday he had \"passed away peacefully at home\" surrounded by family and friends.\n\nMr Trebek had hosted Jeopardy! since 1984, and had received numerous awards and honours for his work.\n\nProducer of Jeopardy!, Sony Pictures, led tributes to the \"legend\", writing in a statement: \"For 37 amazing years, Alex Trebek was that comforting voice, that moment of escape and entertainment at the end of a long, hard day for millions of people around the world.\"\n\nKnown for his sharp wit and charisma, the Canadian-American presenter became the face of Jeopardy! during his three decades on the show, turning it into a ratings smash hit.\n\nHe fronted more than 8,200 episodes of the popular quiz show, making him among the most well-known people on television in the US and Canada.\n\nIn 2014 he set a Guinness World Record for \"most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeopardy! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Trebek had vowed to continue presenting Jeopardy! while receiving treatment including chemotherapy. He was contracted to host the show until 2022.\n\nIn a typically light-hearted tone, the presenter said in a video statement he had no choice but to beat the cancer because of his contractual obligations.\n\nHe was candid about his medical treatment, regularly updating fans on his condition.\n\n\"I am optimistic about my current plan, and thank them for their concerns,\" Mr Trebek said in a statement released by Jeopardy! In July.\n\nMr Trebek is survived by his second wife, Jean, and his children Matthew, Emily and Nicky.\n\nFormer Jeopardy! contestant Buzzy Cohen was among the first to pay tribute to the presenter.\n\n\"Absolutely heartbreaking to lose someone who meant so much to so many. Even if this show hadn't changed my life in so many ways, this loss would be immeasurable,\" Mr Cohen tweeted.\n\nIn another tweeted tribute, Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings said Mr Trebek was a \"deeply decent man\" as well as being \"the best ever at what he did\".\n\n\"I'm grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,\" Mr Jennings tweeted. \"Thinking today about his family and his Jeopardy! family — which, in a way, included millions of us.\"\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also praised Mr Trebek, whom he described as \"a proud Canadian and beloved TV star who was a familiar face to millions of people across North America and around the world\".\n\nNancy Sinatra tweeted: \"Part of our lives for decades, he taught us about so many things and now Alex Trebek has gone from us. Sending love to his family and friends. We will miss you, sir. Godspeed.\"\n\nActor Ryan Reynolds, a fellow Canadian, said he had enjoyed working with Trebek on a film in 2019.\n\n\"Alex Trebek was kind enough to film a cameo for our film Free Guy last year despite his battle,\" Reynolds tweeted. \"He was gracious and funny. In addition to being curious, stalwart, generous, reassuring and of course, Canadian. We love you, Alex. And always will.\"\n\nUS TV presenter Steve Harvey said his \"heart was so sad\" about Trebek's death, while Dr Phil said: \"Television has lost a true treasure and icon.\"", "Ed Sheeran's abstract painting Dab 2 went for £40,000 at the charity auction\n\nEd Sheeran memorabilia has raised more than £400,000 to support children and young people with disabilities and life-limiting illnesses.\n\nMore than 220 collectibles went under the hammer as part of the Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk Legacy Auction.\n\nThe star lot was the singer's abstract painting Dab 2 that fetched £40,000.\n\nA donation of £100,000 was also made by Suffolk firm Tru7 Group, taking the total to £506,000. Organiser Gina Long MBE said the response was \"remarkable\".\n\nThe painting Dab 2, created using house paints, was Sheeran's only artwork he has ever made available for public sale.\n\nOther top sellers included the handwritten lyrics for Perfect, dedicated to his wife Cherry, which raised £23,500.\n\nDab 2 was Sheeran's only artwork he has ever made available for public sale\n\nMeanwhile, Colin Davidson's sketch of the pop star raised £12,400, a ticket for his first public gig sold for £6,400, and a handful of his childhood Lego fetched £4,150.\n\nThe handwritten lyrics to his hit song Perfect raised £23,500\n\nWhile a handful of Lego from his childhood collection sold for £4,150\n\nAll of the proceeds will go to GeeWizz children's charity, which was founded by Mrs Long, and Zest, which is part of St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich.\n\nProjects it will fund include a new playground at the Thomas Wolsey Ormiston Academy in Ipswich.\n\nMrs Long said: \"Seeing the huge amount we have raised fills all of us on the auction team with joy, knowing our wonderful legacy projects can now become a reality.\"\n\nIt is literally going to change many lives for the better, that has to be the greatest gift of all.\"\n\nA ticket to his first gig in his hometown of Framlingham, with a £3 entry price, sold for £6,400\n\nThe auction ended on Sunday to coincide with the final day of the Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk exhibition at Ipswich's Christchurch Mansion, which told the story of his rise to global stardom.\n\nAuction proceeds will support children and young adults in Sheeran's home county of Suffolk\n\nIt was organised with help from Sheeran's parents.\n\nHis father John said the total was \"way beyond our expectations\".\n\n\"We are so pleased that it will create important lasting legacies to improve the quality of care and wellbeing for children and young adults across Suffolk and beyond,\" he added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a sharp rise in the number of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands\n\nMore than 1,600 African migrants have been rescued at sea or reached Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend, Spanish emergency services said.\n\nAbout 1,000 arrived on Saturday alone, setting out on about 20 barely seaworthy boats.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital by helicopter.\n\nThere has been a sharp increase in the number of migrants from West Africa attempting to reach the Canary Islands in recent months.\n\nThe island chain is just 100km (60 miles) off the coast of North Africa.\n\nAccording to the Spanish government, more than 11,000 arrivals have been recorded in the Canary Islands this year compared with 2,557 during the same period last year.\n\nA spokeswoman for Canary services told AFP news agency the migrants had arrived on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and El Hierro.\n\nThe body of one person who died during the perilous journey was recovered by rescuers on El Hierro, the spokeswoman said.\n\nImages taken from Arguineguin port in Gran Canarias this weekend show migrants queuing up to receive assistance.\n\nAccording to the Spanish government, more than 11,000 arrivals have been recorded in the Canary Islands this year\n\nLast month at least 140 migrants bound for Europe drowned after a boat carrying around 200 people sank off the coast of Senegal.\n\nThe boat caught fire and capsized shortly after leaving the town of Mbour, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.\n\nAbout 60 people were rescued, according to reports.\n\nIt is believed the migrants were attempting to reach mainland Europe via the Canary Islands.\n\nAt least 414 people are known to have died along this route so far this year according to the IOM. A total of 210 fatalities were recorded on the same stretch in the whole of 2019.", "Nuclear power's role in the UK's future energy strategy will be discussed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the chancellor and business secretary at a meeting this month.\n\nIt comes ahead of a new 10-point plan for the UK to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nThe report is expected to be published next week.\n\nThe government insists it remains committed to the construction of new nuclear power stations.\n\nThey are part of an overall strategy to decarbonise the UK's electricity supply.\n\nThe trilateral meeting between Number 10, Number 11 and the Business Department will discuss what form that should take.\n\nOf the six sites originally identified a decade ago, three have seen contractors pull out and only one is under construction - at Hinkley Point in Somerset.\n\nThe government is not expected to explicitly single out which project will get the go-ahead, but officials told the BBC that Sizewell in Suffolk is the only project ready to go if the government is to hit a target of starting construction of new nuclear within this parliament.\n\nThe Stop Sizewell C campaign The Stop Sizewell C campaign projected images onto the Beis building ahead of the meeting\n\nWhile there is strong union support for the transfer of jobs skills and new opportunities from Somerset to Suffolk, there is considerable local resistance to a massive construction project, which activists say will pose an ecological threat to important local wildlife areas.\n\nThe government is also considering bringing forward a ban on new petrol and diesel engines from its current official target of 2040, to 2035 or earlier.\n\nIt's thought the new time frame will be somewhere between 2030 and 2034.\n\nThe 10-point plan is also expected to include:\n\nIts also expected that the government will set a new target for heating homes with ground-source heat pumps.\n\nThe replacement of 25 million gas boilers in UK homes is recognised as one of the hardest parts of the move to net zero carbon by 2050.\n\nAlthough many energy industry experts remain sceptical that small nuclear reactors can play a significant role, the BBC understands that the government has big ambitions to progress this technology, and that it will form an important part of the government's long term plans.\n\nA detailed white paper on the future shape of UK energy policy is expected in late November.", "Countries have imposed a number of measures as they try to curb the spread of the virus\n\nThe total of confirmed coronavirus cases has surged past 50 million following record numbers of new cases in several countries.\n\nMore than 1.25 million people have now died after contracting the virus, according to Johns Hopkins university.\n\nBut the numbers are thought to be higher because of insufficient testing in many countries.\n\nA second wave of the virus has accounted for a quarter of all cases, Reuters reported.\n\nEurope, with more than 12.5 million cases and 305,700 deaths, is again a hotspot after being the first epicentre of the pandemic earlier this year.\n\nIn the US just under 10 million have tested positive. It has seen more than 125,000 cases per day three days in a row.\n\nThe states of North and South Dakota have the highest rates of death per capita.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden has vowed a much more aggressive approach to the pandemic, after Mr Trump repeatedly downplayed its gravity and resisted public health measures including wearing masks and social distancing.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to name a group of top scientists to his coronavirus task force as early as Monday, wants more testing and plans to call on every American to wear a mask when they are around people outside their own household.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Get a closer look at how scientists develop a Covid-19 vaccine\n\nHe is likely to take charge when the pandemic is at its peak in the country, former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb says.\n\nDr Gottlieb told US media that the rate of new infections would probably be starting to decrease by late January, and \"the only question is going to be how many people have died in the course of this and how many people have been infected\".\n\nIn Europe, France on Sunday recorded 38,619 new cases - many less than Saturday's record increase of 86,852 cases. However the health ministry said it had problems collecting data and there would be a correction on Monday.\n\nOlympic champion Kohei Uchimura in action at an event in Tokyo seen as a crucial trial run for next year's postponed Olympics\n\nFrance also registered 271 deaths, bringing the total to 40,439. The country is just over a week into a second lockdown with the aim of curbing the spread of the virus.\n\nUnder the lockdown restrictions, expected to be in place until 1 December, people can only leave their homes to go to work if they cannot work from home, to buy essential goods, seek medical help or to exercise for one hour a day.\n\nIn the UK - which has seen the highest number of deaths in Europe - there were 20,572 new cases and 156 new deaths, bringing the total to 49,044 deaths.\n\nHowever the latest figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics suggest the increase in infections may be stabilising around the UK, with the rate of increase slower than in recent weeks.\n\nIndia and Brazil have also been hard hit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Prince Fumihito leaves for the ceremony where he was declared heir to the throne\n\nPrince Fumihito, the brother of Japan's Emperor Naruhito, has been officially declared heir to the throne during a ceremony in Tokyo.\n\nFumihito is six years younger than his brother Naruhito, who became monarch last year after their father abdicated.\n\nEmperor Naruhito has no sons and his daughter is barred from inheriting the throne, despite calls for reform.\n\nThe \"Rikkoshi no rei\" ceremony had been delayed by seven months because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt was attended by the imperial family and 46 guests, most of whom were wearing masks and maintained a distance from each other, according to Kyodo news agency.\n\nFumihito's son is now third in line to the throne\n\nDuring the ceremony, Naruhito declared Fumihito crown prince to the people of Japan and abroad.\n\nFumihito also received a sword passed down by crown princes.\n\nPrime Minister Yoshihide Suga said: \"The people have revered the crown prince and the crown princess after seeing how they have shown kindness in their interactions with people, so it is a pleasure to see the Rikkoshi no rei being held.\"\n\nEmperor Emeritus Akihito abdicated last year. He was given permission to abdicate after saying he felt unable to fulfil his role because of his age and declining health.\n\nHe was the first Japanese monarch to stand down in more than 200 years.\n\nUnder the Imperial Household law of 1947 only men can ascend to the throne. In 2004 the government began working on changing the law to allow for an empress but it was put on hold after Fumihito's wife gave birth to a son - Prince Hisahito.\n\nShould Hisahito not grow up to have a son that would spark another succession crisis and could see the government pick up plans from 2004 and change the law.", "Almost four in 10 people are keeping \"money secrets\" from their loved ones, including hiding debt problems, the Money & Pensions Service (MaPS) says.\n\nThe most common secrets are hidden credit cards (37%), undisclosed loans (23%) and secret savings accounts (21%), the government body said.\n\nMillennials aged 25-34 were the most secretive generation, with three in five hiding details of their finances.\n\nThere are \"numerous reasons\" for it, said Sarah Porretta of MaPS.\n\n\"A secret savings account could act as a buffer for those who want to escape a difficult relationship; an unpaid bill could be kept under wraps in order to protect anxious family members.\n\n\"For many who keep money secrets, it can be a feeling of shame or embarrassment that debts have spiralled out of control.\"\n\nThe survey, which covered 5,200 people nationwide, suggests there is still a stigma around talking about your personal finances in Britain.\n\nAlmost 40% of respondents said they stayed silent about concerns, often due to feeling embarrassed or a fear of being judged.\n\nThe survey also found people in relationships tended to underestimate the extent of money secrets their partner kept from them.\n\nWhile 23% of people in relationships suspected their spouse hid things, nearly half admitted to having hidden things themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"In our generation the whole saving concept's gone out the window\"\n\nOne respondent, who preferred not to be named, told MaPS: \"I was once close to bankruptcy due to credit cards and loans which I did not reveal to my partner until it couldn't be hidden any longer. I admitted the issues eventually and we sorted it.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I didn't tell my husband when I lost control of our credit card debt and ended up juggling cards and minimum payments.\n\n\"Eventually I admitted it to him and actually acknowledged the amount of debt I now had - he supported me to get onto a debt payment plan which I have been paying for just over a year now, and we are far more financially stable.\"\n\nThe survey marks Talk Money Week, which is encouraging people who are struggling financially in the pandemic to talk it over with a friend, family member or expert.\n\nMaPS says it could help make money problems more manageable, benefiting people's health, relationships and overall wellbeing.\n\nHave you kept \"money secrets\" from loved ones? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was just speaking on the Senate floor. He defended President Trump's right to challenge the election results and not concede.\n\n\"No states have yet certified election results,\" he noted. This is true - states have until 8 December to certify their electors.\n\nMcConnell continued to say all legal ballots should count and the process must be \"transparent\".\n\n\"If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light and if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny,\" the majority leader added.\n\nExperts have long said there is no evidence of widespread fraud in postal voting.\n\n\"We have the system in place to consider concerns and President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,\" McConnell said.\n\n\"The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president.\"\n\nOnly three Republican Senators have thus far acknowledged Biden's win. Republican President George W Bush has also congratulated Biden on his win.", "Trial passengers Sara Luchian and Josh Giegel - who both work at Virgin Hyperloop - inside their pod\n\nVirgin Hyperloop has trialled its first ever journey with passengers, in the desert of Nevada.\n\nIn the trial, two passengers - both company staff - travelled the length of a 500m test track in 15 seconds, reaching 107mph (172km/h).\n\nHowever, this is a fraction of Virgin's ambitions for travel speeds of more than 1,000km/h.\n\nVirgin Hyperloop is not the only firm developing the concept but nobody has carried passengers before.\n\nSara Luchian, director of customer experience, was one of the two on board and described the experience as \"exhilarating both psychologically and physically\" to the BBC shortly after the event.\n\nShe and chief technology officer Josh Giegel wore simple fleeces and jeans rather than flights suits for the event, which took place on Sunday afternoon outside of Las Vegas. Ms Luchian said the journey was smooth and \"not at all like a rollercoaster\" although the acceleration was \"zippier\" than it would be with a longer track. Neither of them felt sick, she added.\n\nShe said that their speed was hampered by the length of the track and acceleration required.\n\nThe Virgin Hyperloop test track in the Nevada desert\n\nThe concept, which has spent years in development, builds on a proposal by Tesla founder Elon Musk. Some critics have described it as science fiction.\n\nIt is based on the world's fastest magnetic levitation (maglev) trains, then made faster by speeding along inside vacuum tubes.\n\nThe Maglev train speed world record was set in 2015 when a Japanese train reached 374mph in a test run near Mount Fuji.\n\nFounded in 2014, Virgin Hyperloop received investment from the Virgin Group in 2017. It was previously known as Hyperloop One and Virgin Hyperloop One.\n\nIn a BBC interview in 2018, then Virgin Hyperloop One boss Rob Lloyd, who has since left the firm, said the speed would in theory enable people to travel between Gatwick and Heathrow airports, 45 miles apart on opposite sides of London, in four minutes.\n\nVirgin says the pods could reach speeds of over 1,000km/h\n\nLos Angeles-based Virgin Hyperloop is also exploring concepts in other countries, including a hypothetical 12 minute connection between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which takes more than an hour by existing public transport.\n\nCritics have pointed out that Hyperloop travel systems would involve the considerable undertaking of both getting planning permission and then constructing vast networks of tubes for every travel path.\n\nMs Luchian acknowledges the potential difficulties, saying: \"Of course there's a lot of infrastructure to be built but I think we've mitigated a lot of risk that people didn't think was possible.\"\n\nShe added: \"Infrastructure is such an important focus for so many people in government. We know people are looking for solutions. They're looking for the transportation of the future. We can keep building today's or yesterday's transport systems and keep encountering the same problems they bring or we can really look to build something that solves those problems.\"\n• None Hyperloop track to be built in Saudi Arabia", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Local lockdowns 'where necessary' in Wales\n\nLocal lockdowns within Wales have not been ruled out in future and they will be imposed \"where that is necessary\", the first minister has said. Mark Drakeford explained that current figures for Merthyr Tydfil, which has one of the highest rates of coronavirus in the UK, are \"showing some promise\". \"We've never said that we wouldn't consider further local action where that is necessary\", he said. The first minister added there has been a reduction in the incidence rate per 100,000 people in Merthyr Tydfil. \"It's always important to give a bit of a health check with Merthyr figures, because it's the smallest local authority in Wales and relatively small raw numbers drive large percentage and incidence changes,\" he said. \"But the path that we are following in that part of Wales is showing the advantages of the firebreak period that we have just completed.\" Mr Drakeford added he thought it was a \"bit rich\" to hear some opposition politicians calling for an extension to the firebreak after they voted against the policy in the Senedd.", "American Emily Harrington is being celebrated for becoming one of the few women to free-climb Yosemite National Park's famous El Capitan within a day.\n\nShe is also the first woman to have used a challenging route known as the Golden Gate to reach the 3,000ft (1,000m) summit within 24 hours.\n\nThe achievement comes a year after she was sent to hospital after a 150ft fall during an El Capitan climb.\n\nFree-climbers do not use ropes to ascend, but have them for safety.\n\n\"I never believed I could actually free-climb El Cap in a day when I first set the goal for myself,\" the 34-year-old wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Impossible dreams challenge us to rise above who we are now to see if we can become better versions of ourselves.\"\n\nShe set off with her boyfriend, Mount Everest guide Adrian Ballinger, and renowned climber Alex Honnold, who made history when he scaled El Capitan in 2017 solo and unassisted.\n\nThe trio began their climb at 01:34 on 4 November - just after Election Day in the US. Ms Harrington noted she was caught between her own \"internal drama of achieving a life goal\" and that of the election as they began.\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 emilyaharrington 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\nDuring her attempt this year, Ms Harrington fell again - she ended up with a bleeding wound above her eye, but kept pressing on.\n\nShe described it in her post as a \"nasty slip\" that \"almost took [her] resolve\".\n\n\"A deep gash on my forehead left my bloody and defeated. I pulled on again, part of me not really wanting to stay on the wall, the other part gathering courage and flow.\"\n\nPhotographer and climber Jon Glassberg, who was there to document the journey, said in his own post about Ms Harrington: \"I have not seen toughness like this in climbing before and likely won't again.\"\n\nIt used to take weeks for rock climbers to reach the top of El Capitan, even with the aid of a partner and climbing aids.\n\nFew women have accomplished the free climb.\n\nThe first, Lynn Hill, some three decades ago, used the The Nose route.\n\nIn recent years, three people - all men - have managed to climb the granite monolith via the Golden Gate route within a day.\n\nMs Harrington told the San Francisco Chronicle it was important to her to become the first woman to do the same.\n\n\"I spent a lot of years feeling like I didn't belong, like maybe I hadn't earned my place to be a Yosemite climber,\" she told the paper. \"But throughout this experience I learned that there is no belonging or not belonging, no formula to achievement up there.\"\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Emily Harrington was the first woman to free-climb El Capitan within a day, information supplied by a news agency. She was in fact the fourth but the first to do so using the Golden Gate route.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Investigations continued at the scene in Summers Street throughout Sunday\n\nA man has been shot dead by a police officer in Swindon.\n\nThe 57-year-old man died just before 03:00 GMT in the shooting in Summers Street, said the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is investigating.\n\nIt said the shooting happened after Wiltshire Police were called to two men \"arguing in the street\".\n\nThe force said it would be stepping up its presence in the area but added there was no danger to the public.\n\nIn a statement the IOPC said police were called to Summers Street, in the Rodbourne area of Swindon, just after 02:00 GMT.\n\n\"At this early stage it is believed a 57-year-old man has been fatally shot during the police response to reports of two men arguing in the street,\" the statement said.\n\nThe IOPC said the man was confirmed dead in an ambulance at 02:56 GMT.\n\nArmed police were called to the Rodbourne Area of Swindon at about 02:00 GMT\n\nIt said investigators were at the scene and were speaking to officers involved in the incident.\n\nThe IOPC added it was \"mandatory for us to conduct an independent investigation when the police fatally shoot a member of the public\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all of those affected by this terrible incident,\" it added.\n\nWiltshire Police said it would not be commenting on the incident because of the IOPC investigation.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We would, however, like to reassure the public there is no risk to the wider community and that there is likely to be an increased police presence in the area for a considerable time.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Doak admitted manslaughter of his 15-year-old son who died as a teenager\n\nA father who admitted causing the death of his teenage son by shaking him as a baby has been jailed for three years.\n\nJack Mitchell, 15, from Harwich, Essex, died in March 2016 from a pulmonary infection and pneumonia.\n\nHis biological father John Doak, 37, of Spalding, Lincolnshire, had denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nJustice John Cavanagh said only Doak knew what happened as he was alone with the child when the incident happened.\n\nDavid Emanuel, defending Doak, said that according to an expert report \"what probably happened was the loss of control temporarily while trying to stop him crying\".\n\nJustice Cavanagh said Jack suffered severe brain damage, required 24-hour care, was blind and unable to talk, had limited ability to move and had a \"very poor... if non-existent\" quality of life as a result of the assault.\n\n\"The cause of his death was a shaking-type assault that you inflicted on Jack many years previously, on May 22 2001, when he was only four months old.\n\n\"In the intervening period, Jack suffered from brain damage and from other very serious health problems that were the direct result of your assault on him.\n\n\"However, I sentence you on the basis that you did not intend to kill him or to cause him really serious harm.\"\n\nMr Emanuel added that unemployed lorry driver Doak was married with three children and three step-children.\n\nHe said Doak \"grieves for (Jack) every day\" and was otherwise of good character.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Corona Newton used to only have to put up with jokes about beer\n\nCorona Newton has endured jokes about her unusual name for as long as she can remember.\n\nBeer-related nicknames have followed the 49-year-old civil servant since before she was legally able to sup her first pint.\n\n\"People used to call me Guinness and Budweiser,\" she said. \"That I could always laugh off. But this is more frustrating, especially when it gets aggressive.\"\n\nCorona lives in Oldham, which currently has the highest number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in England.\n\nResidents of the Greater Manchester town have endured some of the toughest enhanced lockdown measures for weeks.\n\nCorona said no-one takes her seriously when they discover her Christian name, while she cannot book a table or open an account without staff giving her peculiar looks.\n\n\"People have said to me 'as if I'm going to listen to somebody named after a virus',\" she said.\n\nMum-of-five Corona has even been plagued by \"really nasty\" cold callers, with people just saying things like: \"Is that the virus?\"\n\nWhile driving her daughter to the dentist last week, she picked up a highly abusive phone call from a man who swore at her.\n\nShe said: \"He screamed down the phone at me 'what does it feel like to [do] the world over?'\"\n\nHer name also leads to awkward situations, like at a recent parents' evening when a teacher thought her daughter was being rude by saying Corona.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, fewer than three girls were named Corona in 2019 and it has not been recorded in the top 100 girls names at any time from 1904-2019.\n\nSo how did Corona come by her unusual moniker?\n\nThe name comes from the Latin word for crown and also means the aura around stars or the moon. It is quite a common Spanish surname but less so as a forename.\n\nGrowing up in Drogheda, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Corona said she stood out for not sounding Catholic despite being named after the missionary midwife who delivered her.\n\n\"My parents couldn't decide between Sarah and Catherine, so they ended up choosing Corona,\" she said.\n\nBefore news bulletins became dominated by the pandemic, Corona said it was much easier to have a sense of humour about her name.\n\n\"I had my hen do in Blackpool not long before lockdown started in March,\" she said.\n\n\"We played 'guess my name' with strangers and no-one managed it, so they all had to buy me shots.\"\n\nDespite Covid-19 scuppering her wedding plans for now, as well as any dreams of a massive 50th birthday party, Corona said 2020 would certainly be a year to remember.\n\n\"In these tough times, if I've brightened someone's day by having a funny name, so be it,\" she said. \"At least no-one will ever forget me.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nNew rules for Wales from Monday 9 November\n\nSome disabled people in the UK have found it difficult to obtain essentials such as medication and breathing equipment during the pandemic, research for the BBC suggests. Some 60% of the 1,000 people interviewed reported problems. Charity WellChild said people felt more \"forgotten than they ever have been\", but the minister for disabled people defended the government's record. The YouGov survey was commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act - see more on how the law came about.\n\nFi Anderson says she only has one remaining ventilator filter, even though it should be changed daily\n\nNorthern Ireland imposed a four-week nationwide lockdown on 17 October. That was due to end on Friday, but it appears that alcohol-only pubs could be kept closed for a further fortnight. The executive is expected to agree a partial reopening of the hospitality sector at meeting later today. Scotland's five-tier system of regional restrictions came into force almost a week ago and is due to be reviewed on Tuesday. England, meanwhile, is beginning the first full week of its second nationwide lockdown.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From getting your bike repaired to going to the vet, Laura Foster explains the things you're allowed to do this lockdown\n\nThe line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! has been revealed, but the contestants won't be jetting off to the Australian jungle. The pandemic means the series has been relocated to the ruined Gwrych Castle in Conwy. The stars include Sir Mo Farah, actor Shane Richie and the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire. They won't endure the usual bush-tucker trials but ITV has promised plenty of suffering nonetheless. It'll all kick off next Sunday.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, see how the UK marked Remembrance Sunday, despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The election of Joe Biden leaves Boris Johnson facing a substantial diplomatic repair job. The two men have never met. Last December the president-elect described the prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Donald Trump.\n\nThere are people around Mr Biden who remember bitterly how Mr Johnson once suggested President Obama harboured anti-British sentiment because of his part-Kenyan ancestry.\n\nMr Biden and his team think Brexit is an historic mistake. They would not want Britain to leave the EU without a trade deal, particularly if it involved breaking commitments made in the Northern Ireland protocol.\n\nLast month Mr Biden warned publicly in a tweet that a future UK-US trade deal was contingent on the UK not unravelling the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.\n\nThere is an expectation among many observers that when President Biden seeks to repair transatlantic relationships, he may focus more of his attention on Paris and Berlin than London.\n\nAnd when Mr Biden does turn his attention to the UK, he may put pressure on Mr Johnson to repair its relations with the EU just when the prime minister wants to focus his \"global Britain\" foreign policy elsewhere, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.\n\nSo the government has a lot of work to do to in improving its relations with the incoming administration. That has not been made easier by a reluctance of Conservatives in recent years to meet Democrats when visiting Washington.\n\n\"We just couldn't persuade ministers ever to go and see Democrats on the Hill,\" one diplomatic source told me.\n\nThe foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, did meet the influential Democratic senator Chris Coons in September. The prime minister's foreign affairs adviser, John Bew, has also been cultivating links with those close to Mr Biden. But they are both playing catch-up.\n\nJoe Biden's camp see Boris Johnson as very similar to Donald Trump\n\nThat said, sometimes too much can be made of past comments and personal animus. Mr Biden is considered a pragmatist and under him the United States may well prove a more stable and predictable ally to the UK than was the case in the last four years.\n\nMr Trump's America First policy will be replaced by one that recognises America's place in a multilateral, international system from which the UK benefits. A Biden presidency would renew US support for Nato the World Health Organisation and the World Trade Organisation, all of which are priorities for the UK.\n\nAnd there are issues where Mr Biden's views align significantly with the UK's: being tough on Russia; reviving the Iran nuclear deal; combatting human rights abuses in China and elsewhere; agreeing new carbon emission reduction targets.\n\nNext year's COP26 summit, delayed because of Covid, will attempt to agree coordinated action on climate change\n\nThis last issue is, perhaps, the most important. The UK will want to use its chairmanship next year of the United Nations COP26 climate change summit to forge a bond with the Biden administration, hoping to act as a broker between the US and other countries, especially China, in agreeing a deal.\n\nThe UK will still, of course, come under pressure to support America's confrontation with China, which is held as strongly by Democrats as Republicans.\n\nBut British policymakers hope that under Biden, the US will share a closer position with the UK, one that challenges malign behaviour by China - such as in Hong Kong and Xinjiang - but also engages on global issues such as climate change.\n\nThey also hope to forge a new alliance of liberal democratic countries to counter the influence of autocratic governments around the world.\n\nThe truth, though, is that Mr Biden's priorities will be overwhelmingly domestic - namely fixing America's economy and the Covid crisis. Relations with the UK - including a possible free trade deal - will not be a top priority.\n\nAnd for all Mr Biden's internationalist instincts, there will be no return to America's global interventionism of the past. That means that despite Mr Biden's arrival in the White House, the UK post-Brexit may still have to forge a new role in the world, one that does not automatically slipstream behind US foreign policy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinutes after Joe Biden had been declared the next president of the United States, people in Washington, DC began to flood the streets.\n\nStreams of people - banging pans, honking horns, clutching signs - moved to the city's Black Lives Matter Plaza, swarming the barricaded border of the White House to celebrate.\n\nFor hours after the announcement, masked Biden supporters remained to cheer, dance and sing.\n\n\"Everyone is just joyous,\" said DC resident Andrew Jackson, dressed in a shirt covered with photos of Kamala Harris, now the vice-president-elect. \"Look at the atmosphere, it's crazy.\"\n\nThe collective jubilation makes sense here: 93% of voters in Washington this year cast their ballot for the Democratic ticket.\n\nJust beneath the excitement was palpable relief. Every person I spoke to mentioned the anxiety and stress of the past week, and now the exhale knowing that Mr Biden will be president.\n\n\"All the anxiety is gone,\" Mr Jackson said. \"The last four years it felt like we were just stuck under a dark cloud, but that cloud's been lifted.\"\n\nAs much as this relief is a response to the Democrats' win, it seemed to be just as much a reaction to the last four years of President Donald Trump - who still has two months left in office.\n\nFor every sign or t-shirt celebrating Mr Biden or Ms Harris, there was one directed at Mr Trump - mocking the current president and applauding his looming departure. And just as often as a voter would reference Mr Biden, they would mention Mr Trump, and what they described as his divisive, damaging agenda.\n\n\"Everybody's excited to see the back of Trump,\" said Margaret O'Gorman, 54. \"We are in a complete U-turn from where we were.\"\n\nRepairing that division has been an animating theme of Mr Biden's candidacy. He has vowed to be a president for all Americans, to restore the \"soul of America\" and fix the national discord he blames on Mr Trump.\n\nIt might be a tough sell for some 70 million Americans who cast their ballot for Mr Trump this year - roughly eight million more than sent him to the White House in 2016. But for those gathered outside the White House on Saturday, it is a welcome message.\n\nFor some in Washington DC the elation was unconfined\n\nBrandishing a \"Former Republicans for Biden\" sign, Ken Wright said he is confident that the next president will reach across the aisle, and embrace Republican voters. \"Biden is about compromise, Trump was not. I'm very optimistic that Biden's going to do what he's always done.\"\n\n\"I think this atmosphere proves that the country can ease now back into some regularity,\" said Vincent Moten, holding the hand of his partner, Derrick Petit. \"Now that we're here, the idea is what can we do to come together. Let's agree on some baseline stuff - I'm a human, so I should have the rights that you have and then start from there.\n\nFor Anisley Valdas, 32, the key to moving forward is to understand where Trump voters are coming from, \"why people feel angry, why people feel disenfranchised\".\n\nAnisley Valdas said she thinks Joe Biden will be a president for all Americans\n\n\"I think trying to understand people's pain and their suffering is a way to start to get us on the right track,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Cuba, America's political divides cut through her family. In this year's election, Ms Valdas voted for Mr Biden - splitting from her sister, cousins and the majority of Cuban immigrants in her hometown of Miami.\n\nMs Valdas said she was \"angry and disappointed\" that her own family had voted for a candidate who, she said, \"demonstrated such hatred and bigotry\", for people of colour. She hasn't spoken to her sister since learning the results, she said, after an argument this week about the election.\n\nWhen she does, she said, she will tell her that \"Biden is the president for everyone. You just don't know it yet.\"", "Mink are kept in crowded conditions, ideal for spreading a virus\n\nA mutant form of coronavirus found in Denmark has arisen previously in mink, scientists have revealed.\n\nThe mutated virus, which appears to have spread from animals to humans in Denmark, has been detected retrospectively at a mink farm in the Netherlands, according to a leading Dutch expert.\n\nThe mink were culled and the mutated strain did not infect humans, he said.\n\nSix countries have reported coronavirus outbreaks at mink farms.\n\nThey include the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the US.\n\nMink are known to be susceptible to Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, which can spread rapidly from animal to animal in conditions where thousands of animals are kept in close proximity.\n\nThe farmed weasel-like animals have become infected by farm workers during the pandemic, and have occasionally passed the virus on to humans, raising the risk of the virus acquiring mutations.\n\nDanish scientists are worried that genetic changes in a mink-related form of the virus, infecting a dozen people, has the potential to make future vaccines less effective.\n\nThe genetic change is in the spike protein of the virus, which is important in the body's immune response, and a key target for vaccines.\n\nThe Danish government has ordered widespread culling of mink\n\nThe Danish genome sequences were recently released on a public database, allowing scientists in other countries to search for evidence of the mutation.\n\nProf Wim van der Poel, a veterinary expert at Wageningen University, said analysis of genetic data from the Netherlands revealed one previous case of the mutation at a mink farm in early May.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We have once seen a mutant virus with a comparable mutation in the spike protein encoding region, in mink in the Netherlands, but this mutant did not spread to humans and the mink of the involved farm were culled.\"\n\nThe Netherlands launched a widespread cull of mink after signs, in a small number of cases, that humans had picked up coronavirus from mink.\n\nMink, like their relatives, ferrets, are susceptible to respiratory viruses\n\nThe genetic data from Denmark was released on an international database a few days ago, with some scientists questioning why it had not been released sooner.\n\n\"I think that it is most disappointing that the data have only just reached the light of day,\" said Prof James Wood, head of the department of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge in the UK.\n\nHe said the genetic changes needed careful evaluation, as reports from Denmark suggested an effect on immunity. \"This may be what triggered the enhanced quarantine measures for travellers from Denmark. But far more careful evaluation is urgently needed.\"\n\nMink farming required \"enhanced biosecurity (or suspension) at this time\", he added.\n\nIt is normal for viruses to change over time and accumulate mutations, but experts are particularly concerned when viruses pass between humans and animals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists believe another pandemic will happen during our lifetime\n\nA number of animals have caught the virus from humans, but mink appear particularly susceptible.\n\nProf Dirk Pfeiffer, of the Royal Veterinary College in London, said while mutations in viruses happen all the time as they spread, the question is whether these change the characteristics of the virus.\n\n\"At this stage, it seems to be that there may be issues with vaccine effectiveness, but this is still unclear,\" he said.\n\nEffective surveillance is needed to detect emergence of new pathogens early, and then have an effective way of responding, he added.\n\nThe European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, an agency of the European Union, has said it will publish risk assessments on the spread of Sars-CoV-2 in mink farms this week.\n\nIt remains to be seen if the Danish mutation in the Sars-CoV-2 virus will be detected in mink farms in other countries. The outbreak of this mutated variant has become known as \"cluster 5\".\n\nIn Sweden, there have been outbreaks at mink farms in the south-east part of the country. Scientists reported that the genetic mutation found in Danish mink had not been detected so far.\n• None What's the science behind mink and coronavirus?", "In small room in the Royal Derby Hospital, there's a table bearing a laminated sign. \"You are not alone,\" it says.\n\nIt continues: \"Kindness will get you through. Embrace the challenge. Look after each other. You are stronger than you think.\"\n\nThis is the \"wobble room\", set aside not for patients but for front-line staff to get them away - briefly - from the intense pressure and strain experienced in the first wave of Covid-19.\n\n\"We made a wobble room because that's what we needed,\" Kelly-Ann Gurney, an intensive-care nurse, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's a room where staff could just go and sit and cry if they needed to and get it all out and then come back and 'put their face on' and get back into it again.\"\n\nNow the second wave is hitting the hospital, and the need for the room is just as great.\n\nConcerns are growing about the physical and mental health of front-line NHS staff. There has been no lull since the April peak of the virus as normal treatments and operations, postponed during the crisis, have returned to hospitals.\n\nThe second wave is now breaking on them, but this time there has been no widespread clearing of beds and cancellations of non-urgent work to create capacity for Covid patients.\n\nTo add to the pressure, winter with all its additional health challenges is not far off, and some staff are wondering whether they can cope.\n\nCaroline Swan, a senior sister and manager of the intensive care unit at the Royal Derby, says she is ready to face what is ahead but feels very tired.\n\n\"I am also very concerned. My staff are very tired and stressed out. We have a lot of sickness either due to burnout or they are unwell.\n\n\"A lot of staff have to self-isolate at home - and that puts a lot of strain on staffing here.\"\n\nDr Magnus Harrison, medical director of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust, says managing rotas is getting harder due to staff sickness and the need for some to self-isolate if family members are infected.\n\n\"It is worth acknowledging what staff did in the first wave. They behaved tremendously and worked incredibly hard, and we're expecting them to do it again in winter - and Covid numbers could be higher than in the first wave. People are tired out.\"\n\nIntensive care nurse Kelly-Ann Gurney says staff will support each other\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing has said it has \"grave concerns\" about how services will be safely staffed this winter with the NHS in England back at the highest alert level.\n\nIt argues that even with an increase in newly trained nurses and those returning from retirement, there may not be enough staff to cope with the second Covid wave.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, said at a recent Downing Street media conference that about 30,000 NHS staff were either off with coronavirus or having to self-isolate.\n\nHe added that controlling the spread of the virus in local communities was essential if the NHS was to be fully staffed.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said it was committed to ensuring the NHS in England had \"the funding and resources it needs, including front-line staff\".\n\nHe added: \"We are on our way to delivering 50,000 more nurses by the end of this Parliament - with already over 14,000 more in the NHS over the last year.\"\n\nDr Greg Fletcher, an intensive-care consultant, has worked at Royal Derby for 12 years. He points to the unprecedented strain of caring for very sick patients in critical-care beds, some of whom will not survive because there is no cure for the coronavirus.\n\n\"I've seen more people die seemingly needlessly or unexpectedly in the last six months than I have seen in the whole of my career. It's been despite trying everything we could to save life. It does take its toll on an emotional and psychological level.\"\n\nStaff at the hospital are encouraged to think about what they are looking forward to\n\nThe mood at the Royal Derby is stoical. Staff know what to expect after their experience of the first wave. But this time the days are shorter and colder, and there is no opportunity to take a break in the sunshine.\n\nKelly-Ann Gurney says \"a lot of staff are struggling\". But she adds: \"We've done it before and we'll do it again. We just have to support each other through it.\"\n\nGreg Fletcher adds that there will be no let-up and no holidays to look forward to.\n\n\"We go into the next few months with a significant degree of trepidation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Mo Farah, Shane Richie and Victoria Derbyshire are among the stars heading to a Welsh castle to take part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!\n\nThe pandemic means they aren't going to the Australian jungle as usual - this year's series has been relocated to the ruined Gwrych Castle in Abergele.\n\nITV confirmed to the BBC that \"one member of the cast\" had tested positive for Covid-19 and was self-isolating.\n\nThe series will begin next Sunday, 15 November.\n\nSir Mo, Richie and Derbyshire will be joined by actress Beverley Callard, presenter Vernon Kay and former Strictly dancer AJ Pritchard.\n\nEastEnders actress Jessica Plummer, BBC Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold, and author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher will also be hoping to be crowned the first king or queen of the castle.\n\nA spokesman for ITV would not reveal the name of the contestant who had contracted the virus, but did stress on Monday that the show was in \"robust health\" and operating within the coronavirus guidelines.\n\nGwrych Castle in north Wales will host this year's I'm A Celebrity\n\nWhile they won't face the usual bush tucker trials, ITV has promised that the contestants can still look forward to \"a basic diet of rice and beans and plenty of thrills and surprises\".\n\nPreparations at the 19th Century castle have gone ahead despite the \"firebreak\" lockdown in Wales, which ended on Monday.\n\nThe 2019 launch show was ITV's most-watched programme of the year, seen by more than 13 million people.\n\nShe won her fourth consecutive javelin world title at the 2019 World Para-Athletics Championships a year ago, and won a gold medal at the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016. She was appointed an MBE in 2017, and was nominated for BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nBest known as Coronation Street's Liz McDonald, she began playing the ITV soap's leopard skin-loving landlady in 1989. In 2019, she announced that she was leaving the cobbles.\n\nThe BBC journalist won a Bafta for best TV news coverage in 2017, and won the Royal Television Society's network presenter of the year and interview of the year awards in 2018. But her self-titled BBC Two show was axed as part of BBC cuts earlier this year.\n\nWith four Olympic gold medals, he is Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete. But his participation in I'm A Celebrity... has raised questions about how the show will affect his preparation for the 10,000m at the rescheduled Tokyo Games next year.\n\nGiovanna Fletcher is an author, presenter and parenting guru, and the wife of McFly star Tom Fletcher. Her books include Happy Mum, Happy Baby: My Adventures in Motherhood, and she also presents The Baby Club at Home on CBeebies.\n\nKay is a former BBC Radio 1 and T4 presenter, as well as the ex-host of ITV shows including All Star Family Fortunes, Beat the Star and Splash! He is married to Tess Daly, co-presenter of I'm A Celebrity's ratings rival Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One.\n\nNorth hosts Radio 1's lunchtime show from Fridays to Sundays, as well as the podcast Help I Sexted My Boss, and previously presented 4Music's Trending Live. He started his broadcasting career as a researcher for fellow campmate Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nPlummer has just left EastEnders after starring as Chantelle Atkins, who was murdered by her abusive husband. Before that, Plummer was a member of girl group Neon Jungle, who had two UK top 10 hits in 2014.\n\nThe dancer joined Strictly in 2016 and was in the show's professional ranks for four years. But in March he announced he was leaving to \"follow his dreams to explore opportunities in the presenting world alongside his brother Curtis\".\n\nHe's been a game show host, West End actor and singer, but Richie is best known for playing the lovable and long-suffering Alfie Moon in EastEnders on and off between 2002 and 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stock markets have rocketed on hopes of a potential breakthrough in the search for a vaccine against Covid-19.\n\nDrugs firm Pfizer's own shares climbed 9% after it said that preliminary analysis indicated that its coronavirus vaccine was 90% effective.\n\nMarkets, already buoyed after a clear end to the US election, piled on gains. The FTSE 100 jumped nearly 5%.\n\nBut some of the initial optimism appeared to fade by the end of the trading session.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had jumped 5.6% in opening trade, closed up about 3%. The S&P 500 also retreated from its morning leap, ending just 1.1% higher, short of a new record.\n\nMeanwhile the Nasdaq, where many of the tech firms that have benefited from the lockdowns are listed, fell 1.5%.\n\nThe vaccine hopes revived investor appetite for airlines, hotels, energy firms and others hit hardest by the pandemic, sending shares soaring - in some cases by more than 40%. Firms lifted by the pandemic dived, in contrast, dived.\n\nSuch sizable swings are rare. In the case of the UK, the FTSE 100 added roughly £82bn to the value of its shares in the market's best day since March - and one of the ten largest ever single-day gains for the index.\n\nMarkets are primarily about sentiment - does tomorrow look better than today - and in that regard there has been a radical and probably permanent sea change.\n\nWith more vaccines in development that optimism could grow.\n\nWhat this result demonstrates is that while the virus is not yet beaten it is beatable.\n\nThat ray of light has lit up stock markets around the world.\n\nAs always, some people in the markets are already looking for something else to worry about.\n\nIf we are returning to a semblance of normality in the months ahead, do the US authorities really need a stimulus package as big as the $3tn to $4tn being discussed by the Biden team?\n\nBut for now, the markets, like the rest of us, are enjoying the warm glow of the first significant sentiment boost since the virus started ravaging the world economy.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, called it \"very very unusual\", but said that a vaccine was \"one of the things that markets have been waiting for\".\n\nHowever, he told the BBC there were \"still lots and lots of questions around the vaccine\" and it was still too early to say when economies would bounce back or whether the market surge would be sustained.\n\nIn the UK, shares in travel firms - which have been hit hard by the pandemic - saw the biggest rises, with British Airways owner IAG soaring 25%.\n\nElsewhere in the sector, EasyJet shares rose 34%, while aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce surged almost 45%.\n\nAnother sector of the economy that has been hit hard by coronavirus is hospitality - catering firm Compass Group saw its shares rise more than 21%.\n\nUS-listed Royal Caribbean cruises meanwhile were up 29%, while travel booking firm Expedia jumped 24% and Disney climbed almost 12%.\n\nHowever, shares in those companies that have benefitted in the crisis fell sharply given the hopes of a successful vaccine.\n\nDrugmakers have been racing to be the first to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIf Pfizer's vaccine is authorised, the number of doses will be limited initially. Many questions also remain, including how long the vaccine will provide protection.\n\nStock markets had already been rallying in response Saturday's declaration that Joe Biden had won the race to become the next US president.\n\nThe Pfizer announcement then pushed market optimism \"exceedingly high\", but it \"could fade\" said Neil Wilson.\n\n\"We should not be jumping any guns here, but ultimately a vaccine that works effectively would be good for the economy and favours the cyclical parts of the market that we thought were going to struggle,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear the market is forward looking and pricing in recovery in a number of beaten-down areas next year.\"\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said: \"The Pfizer announcement is not yet a panacea, but adds to investor sentiment which had already been buoyed by the Biden victory, and has sent markets to strongly positive levels.\"\n\nHe noted that airline and related stocks had been rising rapidly, while \"housebuilders, banks and retailers are all in the boat currently being lifted by a rising tide\".\n\n\"It is still early days, and the practicalities point to any meaningful distribution not being available until the first few months of next year,\" he added.\n\n\"Even so, the news is without question a positive development and has certainly captured the imagination of investors.\"", "The BBC projects that Joe Biden has won the race to become US president, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election.\n\nThis was the moment of the BBC News announcement on TV.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM says easing of restrictions \"highly unlikely\"\n\nScotland's Covid-19 restrictions are \"highly unlikely\" to be eased when they are reviewed on Tuesday, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nTuesday will mark the first review of local measures under Scotland's new five-level alert system.\n\nThe first minister said the curbs currently in place had undoubtedly had an impact on the spread of the virus.\n\nHowever, she said it was important for this to translate into a \"significant and sustained reduction in cases\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she \"would not expect areas to go down a level\", and that \"careful judgement\" would be given to whether any councils had to move up a level.\n\nScotland began its new five-level system of coronavirus restrictions on 2 November, with most of the central belt in level three and much of the rest of the country in level two.\n\nThis is due to be reviewed on Tuesday. Ms Sturgeon said decisions would be made by her cabinet in the morning, then announced at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nThe first minister said the measures currently in place were \"undoubtedly having a positive impact\" on the spread of the virus, with the increase in cases having \"pretty much levelled off\".\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus fell by 19 on Monday, to 1,226, while the number in intensive care dropped by six to 105.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said there was a \"very real concern\" that overall case numbers were not yet falling.\n\nShe said: \"Although there are positive signs, it's really important we start to see these translate into significant and sustained decline in Covid cases and we cannot be sure we are yet seeing that.\n\n\"So I think it is highly unlikely that we will see any significant easing of restrictions announced tomorrow.\n\n\"We can't afford for cases simply to plateau at their current quite high level - we need them to fall, otherwise we will be badly exposed by any rise in cases as we go further into winter.\"\n\nThere has been speculation that some areas, including Glasgow and Fife, could move up a level in the alert system, while some local leaders in areas like the Borders and Aberdeen have called for their levels to be reduced.\n\nWhen deciding on levels, ministers consider a range of data on case numbers and hospital admissions as well as issues like travel patterns and how closely local areas are interconnected.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It's not just the data on any given day we look at, we have to look at the trend and satisfy ourselves before any area moves down a level that a downward trend has been established and we think it is sustainable.\n\n\"Moving down a level is not a neutral act. It leads to opening up, and that leads to an increase in transmission, so we have to make sure the levels there are low enough to cope with that.\n\n\"I would not anticipate much easing of restrictions when we announce the first review outcome.\n\n\"I would not expect areas to go down a level. We are looking at whether there is a case for any part of the country to go up a level.\n\n\"We want to avoid that, but we have to make careful judgements.\"\n\nAsked specifically about Glasgow - which accounted for 363 out of the 912 new cases registered on Monday - Ms Sturgeon said there had been a \"levelling off\" in cases locally.\n\nHowever, she said ministers had to consider whether the current restrictions \"allow us to continue to move that to a declining position\", or whether \"something more\" had to be done.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would announce on Tuesday whether the current travel advice barring people from moving in or out of level three areas would be backed up by new laws.\n\nAnd she said she was \"not anticipating\" a return to nation-wide restrictions, although she said she could not rule this out in future.\n\nThe first minister also welcomed \"good news\" about vaccine development, as it emerged that one under development can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"There is a long way to go of course, but this is news that should give us all some tentative hope - and it should give us some motivation to keep our efforts up in the meantime to keep the virus in check.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government is reviewing the status of anyone licensed to own a mink in Scotland after concerns about a new mutated strain of coronavirus linked to mink farms in Denmark.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Socially-distanced events have taken place across the UK, including at the Cenotaph in London\n\nThe Queen has led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, as people around the UK privately paid their respects at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe was joined by family members and the PM at the scaled-back service at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.\n\nSocial distancing measures were in place and the service was closed off to the public for the first time.\n\nFollowing a two-minute silence, wreaths were laid by Prince Charles, Prince William and the PM, among others.\n\nThe commemorations remember the armed forces community, British and Commonwealth veterans, the allies who fought alongside the UK and the civilian servicemen and women involved in the two world wars and later conflicts.\n\nNormally, Whitehall is packed with thousands of veterans and members of the military for the commemorations, but on Sunday less than 30 veterans were in attendance.\n\nThe Queen, dressed in a black hat and coat, looked on from a balcony at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office building, as her son, the Prince of Wales, laid a wreath on her behalf.\n\nOthers who took part in the wreath laying included the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Royal and Earl of Wessex, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nAlso present at the service were former UK prime ministers Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair and Sir John Major.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Cambridge attended the service\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was joined by former leaders Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair and Sir John Major\n\nPrince Charles laid a wreath on behalf of the Queen\n\nPrince William was also among those who laid a wreath\n\nIt felt the same on Whitehall this year, but also really quite different.\n\nAt the heart of the ceremony, as ever, was the Cenotaph - the simple stone memorial to the dead of so many conflicts, unveiled a century ago by George V, overlooked on Sunday by the Queen on a Foreign Office balcony.\n\nThere was the familiar and always-moving grandeur of the two-minute silence, the wreath laying, the solemn contemplation of so much sacrifice and loss.\n\nBut missing were the members of the public who normally travel from all over the country to be here, who stand three or four-deep along the barriers that line either side of Whitehall.\n\nMissing too were the great number of military veterans who march past the Cenotaph after the wreath-laying.\n\nThe public and the veterans bring life to this commemoration of loss - they ground this remembrance and make it more personal, more sharply felt.\n\nRemembrance Sunday belongs to those who gave - their lives, their health, their loved ones.\n\nEveryone here in Whitehall will hope that next year will see the public and military veterans return.\n\nMembers of the Royal Navy marched down Whitehall ahead of the Remembrance Sunday service\n\nThe Duke of Sussex, who stepped down as a working member of the Royal Family and now lives in California, was not at the ceremony but spoke about what serving his country means to him.\n\nIn a podcast to mark Remembrance Sunday, Harry, who spent 10 years in the armed forces, said: \"Being able to wear my uniform, being able to stand up in service of one's country, these are amongst the greatest honours there are in life.\n\n\"To me, the uniform is a symbol of something much bigger, it's symbolic of our commitment to protecting our country, as well as protecting our values.\n\n\"These values are put in action through service, and service is what happens in the quiet and in the chaos.\"\n\nGeneral Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, said some veterans might find Remembrance Sunday a lonely experience this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nSir Nick told the BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the guidelines would be \"particularly tough on our veterans\", adding: \"They traditionally have had the opportunity to get together and talk about their memories and their reflections, but equally to strut their stuff.\"\n\nUsually, about 10,000 people gather at the Cenotaph in Whitehall for the remembrance service.\n\nBut with the event being closed to the public, the Royal British Legion and Legion Scotland advised people to observe the silence in honour of those who lost their lives in conflicts from their doorsteps.\n\nThe public was also encouraged to share family histories and messages of remembrance online using the hashtag #WeWillRememberThem.\n\nIn Wales, which is also under a national lockdown, outdoor events were permitted up to a maximum of 30 people, although parades were not allowed.\n\nThe national service of remembrance in Cardiff was held with a small number of invited guests present,\n\nTraditional annual remembrance events at local war memorials across Scotland were also cancelled, with outdoor standing events not permitted in areas under Covid levels one, two and three. However, thousands of people observed the two-minute silence on their doorsteps.\n\nRestrictions were also in place in Belfast, with members of the public unable to attend the event at City Hall.\n\nEx-servicemen were among those who paid tribute to the fallen from their own doorstep in Scotland\n\nA national service of remembrance was held at the Welsh National War Memorial, Cathays Park, Cardiff\n\nThe Irish Republic's Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster laid wreaths in Enniskillen\n\nAbout 10,000 people usually gather for the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph\n\nLegion Scotland asked the public to observe the two-minute silence from their doorsteps\n\nIt comes after Prince Charles paid tribute to the nation's armed forces for standing \"side-by-side\" with frontline NHS staff and key workers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's annual Festival of Remembrance at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was pre-recorded and filmed without an audience, the Prince of Wales said the country had endured \"anxiety and grief not previously experienced in peacetime\".\n\n\"In this challenging year, we have perhaps come to realise that the freedoms for which they fought are more precious than we knew, and that the debt we owe them is even greater than we imagined,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time as she laid the wreath\n\nOn Wednesday at Westminster Abbey, the Queen commemorated the 100th anniversary of the interment of the Unknown Warrior, who represents World War One soldiers whose place of death is not known or whose remains are unidentified.\n\nShe was seen wearing a face mask in public for the first time during the visit.\n\nThe 94-year-old monarch had requested the private pilgrimage after she was advised not to attend the warrior's centenary service next week. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are expected to join this service on 11 November, Armistice Day.\n\nHow will you be marking Remembrance Sunday? You can 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sjt Deacon Cutterham was presented with his medal at Buckingham Palace in 2012\n\nThe heroic acts that earned a former British soldier a medal have been called into question by some of those who served alongside him, days before he plans to sell his medal collection.\n\nDeacon Cutterham was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for picking up and hurling away a Taliban grenade.\n\nBut some soldiers who served with Mr Cutterham in Helmand province have told BBC News they dispute what happened that day in Afghanistan in 2011.\n\nSome of his former colleagues in the 1st Battalion the Rifles chose to speak to the BBC after reading reports that Mr Cutterham expects his collection of seven medals to fetch up to £120,000 when sold at auction on Thursday.\n\n\"I don't believe he earned that medal and now he might make money from it,\" said one soldier, who added that it was \"abhorrent\" to hold the auction so close to Remembrance Day on 11 November.\n\nAnother said: \"We didn't care if he wanted to tell people how brave he was. What we care about now is him making financial gain from this.\"\n\nMr Cutterham, 37, from Bristol, joined the Army at 16 and served in Iraq and Afghanistan during a 19-year military career.\n\nThe grenade incident happened when, with the 1st Battalion the Rifles, he was leading a patrol in Nahr-e-Saraj District in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.\n\nDeacon Cutterham has given several interviews about the incident.\n\nIn 2012 he described what happened to the BBC: \"Grenade came over the top. With that I shouted 'grenade' and then advanced on it, picked the grenade up and and then posted it, and it literally went off as soon as I pulled my hand away - and prevented me and my lead scout from getting serious injuries or death.\"\n\nIn other accounts he said the grenade was thrown over a wall and then landed in a ditch: \"I had seen exactly where it had landed but couldn't see it in the stream.\n\n\"I quickly placed my hand in the water to search for it and placed my hand directly on the grenade, shouted to take cover and posted it.\"\n\nThe Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, which is one level down from the Victoria Cross, is awarded in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations.\n\nMr Cutterham's name was put forward by his officers, and their recommendations would have been passed up the chain of command.\n\nThe citation on Mr Cutterham's award reads: \"The action itself was utterly courageous, carried out with composure and clarity of thought.\n\n\"Cutterham's gritty leadership and gallant act saved lives and inspired his men.\"\n\nNo-one disputes that a grenade did go off that day. Everyone on Mr Cutterham's patrol - and back at the patrol base - said they heard an explosion.\n\n\"We believe a grenade was thrown, but it was his,\" one of his former comrades told the BBC.\n\nAnother soldier, who says he carried out an equipment check when the patrol returned to base, claimed: \"There was one grenade missing.\"\n\nThe soldiers the BBC has spoken to also questioned why any member of the Taliban who was close enough to a British army patrol to throw a grenade did not follow up with any further attack.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC on condition that their names not be used because most are still serving soldiers.\n\nOne soldier said: \"He [Mr Cutterham] says he saw someone running away. Nobody else did. Nor was a single shot fired on that patrol.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told by several sources that a drone was flying above the patrol at the time and the video feed showed no sign of enemy activity in the area or any individuals nearby.\n\nThe BBC asked the Ministry of Defence to provide any statements from anyone on the patrol who could back up Mr Cutterham's account, but none were given.\n\nA BBC request to interview someone from the MoD in response to the allegations was turned down, but the ministry said in a statement: \"Acts of courage that warrant an honour or award are rigorously scrutinised before being approved.\n\n\"If serving personnel have a grievance, there is a formal process for them to register their complaint through the chain of command, which would be looked into accordingly.\"\n\nSeveral of the soldiers who spoke to the BBC said they did raise concerns at the time, but were told they were only doing so because they disliked Mr Cutterham.\n\nMost of those who spoke to the BBC have admitted they disliked him.\n\nMr Cutterham did not award himself an honour. It was the decision of his officers to put his name forward. But in this case some soldiers clearly question the process.\n\nOne said: \"If you have a medal it makes you look good; it makes the commanders look good.\"\n\nHe added: \"You have to look to history when it comes to medals, there are witnesses… there's been other people backing up what they've done.\"\n\nThe BBC approached Mr Cutterham for an interview on several occasions. He said in a statement by email: \"I'm extremely disappointed that people are questioning the events of that day. I strongly deny these claims.\"\n\nHe added that the incident had an enormous impact on his life and that he has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health issues.", "Bears, like this female brown bear, are fairly common in the Kamchatka peninsula (file photo)\n\nThe Russian Navy has defended the shooting of a mother bear and its cub on a nuclear submarine following outrage among many social media users.\n\nThe navy says there was no other option after the animals climbed onto the vessel moored off the Vilyuchinsk base in the far-eastern Kamchatka region.\n\nIt says a hunting instructor was called in to \"neutralise the wild animals\".\n\nHundreds of social media users accused the navy of unnecessary cruelty after seeing a video of the shooting online.\n\n\"Animals!\" and \"The whole essence of Russia in one video\" were some of the comments.\n\nThe footage was published on 8 November, although it is unclear when the shooting happened.\n\nIn the video, one of the animals is seen falling into the water after apparently being hit by a bullet.\n\nA male voice in the video is heard saying the animals would have gone to local villages had they been driven away.\n\nThe bears, whose species was not disclosed, are believed to have swum across the bay to get onto the submarine for reasons unknown.\n\nThe Kamchatka peninsula is home to about 24,000 bears that can frequently be seen on local beaches.\n\nLast year, more than 50 polar bears descended on a village in Russia's far north.\n\nAll public activities in Ryrkaypiy, Chukotka region, had to be cancelled, and schools were guarded to protect residents from the animals.\n\nConservationists say climate change could be to blame, with weak coastal ice forcing the bears to search for food inland rather than at sea.", "The babies were delivered at 26 weeks and weighed just 27oz and 30oz\n\nA Covid-19 patient whose twins were delivered while she was in an induced coma said she struggled to believe they were hers.\n\nPerpetual Uke, a rheumatology consultant at Birmingham City Hospital, began to feel unwell in late March.\n\nShe was later admitted to a critical care unit, placed on a ventilator and put in an induced coma to help her recover.\n\nHer babies were delivered by caesarean section at 26 weeks on 10 April.\n\nSochika Palmer weighed just 770g (27oz) while her brother, Osinachi Pascal, weighed 850g (30oz).\n\nDr Uke remained in her coma for another 16 days.\n\nThe twins Sochika and Osinachi had progressed well, their mother said - here pictured at 10 weeks old\n\n\"It was really terrifying... every passing day I was hoping my wife was not among those who are dead,\" Dr Uke's husband Matthew said.\n\n\"We are a team, the idea she might not be there was really difficult to accept.\"\n\nWhen Dr Uke regained consciousness, it was the result the family had prayed for, but she said she was suffering \"ICU delirium\" and was \"so confused\".\n\nThe mother-of-four said waking up two weeks after the delivery \"was unbelievable\" and although hospital staff said the twins were hers, she \"didn't believe\" it.\n\n\"When they showed me the pictures, they were so tiny, they didn't look like human beings, I couldn't believe they were mine,\" she said.\n\nThe twins were discharged after spending 116 days in hospital and are \"getting better as the days go by,\" Dr Uke said.\n\n\"I had never wanted them to go through this difficult path at the start of their lives. They couldn't see their mum for two weeks, which obviously made me very sad but, importantly, things had progressed well.\"\n\nPerpetual Uke with her four children and husband Matthew\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Governments across the UK face a \"difficult balance\" in easing Covid-19 restrictions for Christmas, Scotland's first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon took part in UK-wide talks on Wednesday as part of efforts to find a \"sensible and safe plan\" to lift restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped to be able to announce further details next week.\n\nBut she said it was important to ensure it did not cause a spike in the number of cases - and deaths - in January.\n\nAbout 2.3m people in western and central Scotland are to be subject to the top level of Covid restrictions from 18:00 on Friday in a bid to drive down \"stubbornly high\" levels of the virus ahead of the festive period.\n\nA survey for BBC Scotland has suggested that many Scots are happy for the government to set \"strict rules\" to contain the pandemic, but that a majority would also like a break from them over the festive period.\n\nTalks have been held between leaders in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland to agree a \"common approach\" to relaxing restrictions to allow family get-togethers.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Friday that reducing the number of people who have the virus by Christmas would obviously lower the risk of it being transmitted to others.\n\nAt her weekly question session, Ms Sturgeon said officials had been tasked with drawing up a \"sensible and safe plan to allow people a greater degree of normality over Christmas\", and said she would announce further details next week.\n\nHowever, she said a balance had to be struck between allowing people some leeway to celebrate together, while avoiding a major spike in the number of cases.\n\nShe said: \"We are determined to strike the right balance between the understandable desire - which I share - to see family over the Christmas period, but also to do that in a way that does not lead to increased loss of life and harm to health over January.\"\n\nThis echoed a warning from one scientist who advises the government, Prof Andrew Hayward, who said mixing households at Christmas could pose \"substantial risks\" to older and more vulnerable people.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson pressed Ms Sturgeon for details, asking if \"the current restrictions are the price for a relaxation this Christmas\", or \"if we have to start preparing ourselves now for a January shutdown too\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was important to drive down prevalence of the virus in advance of any easing of the rules, saying this would lower the risk of infections spreading when people are allowed to meet.\n\nShe added: \"I don't underestimate what a difficult balance this will be for all of us to strike. I want people to have a degree of normality over Christmas, but I don't want to be in a position of the country having to live with a death toll that could have been avoidable if we get that balance wrong.\"\n\nThe first minister also said the government was working to provide extra support to older people and \"anyone who is on their own\" through winter, and was considering a specific \"loneliness campaign\".\n\nNew laws restricting travel in many areas of Scotland are due to come into force on Friday\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard urged the first minister to drop plans to enforce travel restrictions in law.\n\nFrom 18:00 on Friday the police will be able to impose fines on people who travel in or out of areas which are in level three or four without a reasonable excuse.\n\nMr Leonard said the move was a \"red herring\" which would confuse and potentially criminalise people.\n\nHe said the government should instead focus on properly resourcing the testing and tracing system and providing comprehensive support for health workers and businesses.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the rules and exemptions had been published on the Scottish government website, adding that it was \"absolutely incumbent\" on her to \"do the right thing\" even if it was not popular.\n\nShe said \"a significant proportion\" of the population was moving into the highest level of restrictions, and said \"we must avoid taking the virus from high prevalence areas to low prevalence ones\".", "Apple will pay $113m (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.\n\nThirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.\n\nMillions of people were affected when the models of iPhone 6 and 7 and SE were slowed down in 2016 in a scandal that was dubbed batterygate.\n\nApple declined to comment, however, it has previously said the phones were slowed to preserve ageing battery life.\n\nThe deal is separate from a proposed settlement Apple reached in March to pay affected iPhone owners up to $500m in a class action lawsuit.\n\nIn 2016 Apple updated software on models of the iPhone 6, 7 and SE - which throttled chip speeds on aging phones.\n\nApple acknowledged its update reduced power demands after researchers found unusual slowdowns in 2017.\n\nThe states argued that Apple had acted deceptively and should have replaced batteries or disclosed the issue.\n\nAccording to an Arizona filing, millions of users were affected by power shutoffs.\n\nApple denies that the slowdown was for financial gain.\n\nBut Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a court document made public on Wednesday: \"Many consumers decided that the only way to get improved performance was to purchase a newer-model iPhone from Apple.\n\n\"Apple, of course, fully understood such effects on sales.\"\n\nUnder the settlement, Apple did not admit to any wrongdoing or breaking any law.\n\nThe tech titan also agreed for the next three years to provide \"truthful information\" about iPhone power management across its website, software update notes and iPhone settings.\n\nThe settlement comes after a series of other allegations against Apple.\n\nIt is currently locked in a legal battle with Epic Games - amid accusations the iPhone-maker uses its stranglehold over its App Store to unfairly charge developers.", "The move to fund free school meals will cost more than £40m\n\nThe Department of Education (DE) will pay for free school meals for eligible children during all school holidays until April 2022.\n\nThe move has been approved by the Northern Ireland executive and will cost more than £40m.\n\nIt means the families of approximately 100,000 children will receive payments when children are off school.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said the payments would begin during the Christmas break in 2020.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has led calls for similar support to be provided during holiday periods in England.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, payments to those eligible for free school meals were previously made over the summer and half-term holidays in 2020.\n\nFamilies of about 97,000 children received payments of £27 every fortnight per child in lieu of free meals.\n\nThose families will now receive a similar two week payment from the week beginning Monday 14 December.\n\nThose payments will continue over the half-term, Easter, summer and Christmas holidays in 2021 and until Easter 2022.\n\nMr Weir said he welcomed the decision the Executive had taken to support the department's proposal.\n\n\"This is very good news, especially for those families who are struggling financially during this pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"The issue of 'holiday hunger' has become an increasing concern this year.\n\nPeter Weir says access to a health nutritious meal should be \"a basic right for all children\"\n\n\"I realise the vital importance for children who normally receive a free school meal to have access to a nutritious meal without placing their family under further hardship in these difficult times.\n\n\"Access to a healthy nutritious meal should be a basic right for all children and it is vital that we continue this support to ensure children and young people come back to school after holiday periods, healthy and ready to learn.\n\n\"Their future depends on it,\" he added.\n\nThe decision was welcomed by the Children in Northern Ireland charity.\n\nTheir chief executive Pauline Leeson said the executive had taken a \"courageous\" decision.\n\n\"This is a major step for every parent who struggles to find the money for meals outside term time, every child and young person who might otherwise go hungry and for every organisation who has stepped up and provided holiday hunger projects,\" she said.", "Military helicopters were deployed to support the NHS as part of the coronavirus response\n\nMPs have accused the Ministry of Defence of a \"lamentable\" failure to properly fund new military equipment required for the armed forces.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said it was \"extremely frustrated\" that the MoD had still not made the hard choices needed to plug a £13bn funding gap.\n\nThe warning comes ahead of a government review which is expected to overhaul defence procurement.\n\nThe MoD said it was committed to securing the best equipment.\n\nIn a highly critical report, the Public Accounts Committee - which examines public spending - expressed \"extreme\" frustration that \"we see the same problems year after year\".\n\nThe MPs accused the MoD of failing to make the \"hard choices\" necessary to plug a gap of up to £13bn pounds in the current equipment programme.\n\n\"The government has still not taken the strategic decisions required to establish an affordable equipment plan and deliver the crucial military capabilities needed by our armed forces.\n\n\"The department's lamentable failure to get a grip on the equipment plan continues, despite this committee and the NAO [National Audit Office] consistently highlighting serious affordability issues in the plan year after year.\"\n\nCommittee chair Meg Hillier said: \"The MoD knows what it's getting wrong. We know what it's getting wrong.\n\n\"For years, we have made concrete proposals to improve delivery of key strategic priorities and here we are again, with the same gaps in our national defence and the same risk to our armed forces personnel, year after year.\"\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois recently warned General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, that he should \"nip back to the department and ask them to sort their bloody selves out, because if not, Cummings is going to come down there and sort you out his own way, and you won't like it.\"\n\nThe prime minister's chief advisor, Dominic Cummings has been a harsh critic of defence procurement in the past.\n\nThe government has said its new integrated defence and security review - due to be completed next year - would seek \"innovative ways\" to promote UK interests while committing to spending targets.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"As the committee acknowledges, managing complex defence programmes can be challenging and we continue to reduce the gap between our budget and predicted costs, achieving £7.8 billion of efficiency savings last year and securing an extra £2.2 billion for defence.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nThe government has announced £300m of emergency funding for sports impacted by the absence of spectators because of coronavirus. Both rugby codes and horse racing are among the beneficiaries - but not clubs in football's Premier League nor the English Football League.\n\nFashion chains Peacocks and Jaeger have fallen into administration after suffering \"the well-known challenges that many retailers face at present\". Joint administrator Tony Wright said there were \"advanced discussions with a number of parties\" about taking on the troubled brands, which together employ more than 4,700 people across 500 stores.\n\nPost-Brexit trade talks have been suspended after a member of the EU team tested positive for Covid-19. The EU's Michel Barnier said his UK counterpart Lord David Frost had agreed to stop negotiations between them for a \"short period\". Both sides are locked in talks as the clock counts down to a December deadline.\n\nJack, 28, ended a six-year relationship in the summer and is back dating again. But dating now is very different to what it was pre-Covid. So, who better to chat to than someone who's seen more good - and bad - dates than most of us? First Dates' Cici Coleman gives her advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd we've had a look at seven things that might be different this Christmas.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The government has announced a rescue package of £300m of emergency funding for sports in England impacted by the absence of spectators because of coronavirus.\n\nBoth rugby codes and horse racing are among the beneficiaries, but not clubs in football's Premier League or the English Football League.\n\nCricket was not on the initial list.\n\nDCMS minister Oliver Dowden told BBC Sport it is \"the most generous single package of any country in the world\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan, Dowden added that the package is \"essential\" to the sport sector and provides a \"lot of support\".\n\nWhen asked if it was enough to prevent clubs and competitions folding, he said the package is \"evidence-based\" and reflects the numbers provided by each sport to help them through a \"difficult winter\".\n• None Northern Ireland elite sport to go behind closed doors\n\nThe government said the Sports Winter Survival Package, which will be largely composed of low-interest loans, will support rugby union, horse racing, women's football and the lower tiers of the National League. It added that rugby league, motorsport, tennis, netball, basketball, ice hockey, badminton and greyhound racing were also in line to benefit.\n\nIn July, the government announced a £1.57bn support package for Britain's arts industry.\n\n\"It's worth remembering we have provided well over £1bn to sports already through things like the job retention scheme and various loan facilities,\" said Dowden.\n\n\"This is a very specific thing - sports, and mainly winter sports, were expecting to have fans in stadiums and didn't, we said we'd help them out.\"\n\nSports minister Nigel Huddleston added that grants would be available where organisations were unable to repay loans. He also said \"the door was open\" to any sport requiring funding, including cricket which was not on the initial list.\n\nThe money available is for sports in England, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland responsible for their own budgets.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) statement added: \"Preliminary allocations have been made on a needs-based assessment process and reflect the submissions made from the individual sports, and the funding process will be overseen by an independent decision-making board and supported by Sport England.\"\n\nIt said the first tranche of funding will be distributed in the coming weeks.\n\nNote: The final amount received by each sport/organisation may differ from the amounts set out when final decisions are made by an independent decision-making board, and supported by Sport England.\n\nThe Football Association welcomed the announcement and said it would \"await further detail of the eligibility, application process and timelines from Sport England\" before it was able to advise leagues and clubs.\n\n\"A number of clubs from across the football pyramid have been greatly affected by the pandemic and this financial package will provide vital assistance for them during this challenging period,\" the FA statement said.\n\nChief executive officer Bill Sweeney said the Rugby Football Union was grateful for the \"much-needed support\" and that the organisation would work with the government to find the \"appropriate balance between loans and grants\" for the different areas of the sport.\n\nBoxing did not receive any funding and Olympic gold medallist Luke Campbell said the sport has to \"come together to fight this\" and \"get the funding it needs to survive at all levels\".\n\n\"We would welcome the opportunity to have a grown-up conversation with someone involved in the decision making of this to see how we can get financial help for boxing and hopefully move the sport up the pecking order,\" he added.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce said the sport \"expected\" and \"deserved\" £2m-4m of funding and missing out means \"thousands of boxers denied, hundreds of gyms left struggling\".\n\nKat Ratnapala, director of netball at Saracens Mavericks, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the funding would help her club compete in next season's Superleague, starting in February.\n\n\"It's been a tough year for us, financially, to make ends meet,\" she said. \"We set up a funding page just so we could come through the first Covid lockdown. It's a loan and we need to pay that back eventually.\n\n\"We're definitely not out of the woods, but it's a bit of breathing room so that we can get back on to court at least and get a full season under our belts.\"\n\nAdrian Christy, Badminton England's chief executive, said the funding could help stave off the threat of job losses in the organisation.\n\n\"Since the start of the pandemic, Badminton England has lost more than £2.2m in income,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"The £2m award will help significantly towards closing the gap.\n\n\"It ensures the Yonex All-England Championships can take place - it's the biggest event on the world tour and a qualification event for the Olympics.\n\n\"The operation of the organisation also needs the support with 25% of our staff at risk of redundancy - we hope we can save some jobs as a direct consequence. And also, we repurposed Sport England's money from the outset for our survival. That money was taken away from the grassroots.\"\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust praised members of his team for presenting their case to government and officials.\n\n\"The support for racing recognises the sport's position as the second biggest spectator sport in the UK and the financial peril faced by the tens of thousands who depend upon racing for their livelihoods,\" he said.\n\n\"The BHA team work tirelessly to protect the interests of racing. While advancing the case for financial support, they have also helped to ensure the sport continues behind closed doors, with owners present, and supported the efforts to get spectators back. I am very proud of all they are achieving.\"\n\nSwimming missed out on the funding and Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson stressed aquatic sports are also \"fighting for survival\" and need to be supported.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see support being provided for those organisations who have lost their major spectator income - now what I would like to see is any further government investment focused on sports that have missed out on this package but have also been severely impacted by coronavirus restrictions,\" she said.\n\n\"While we may not be classed as a major spectator sport, swimming is one of the biggest participation sports with 14 million adults swimming in 2019.\"\n• None See the scale of the problem in the game", "The rheumatoid arthritis drugs tocilizumab appears to treat people who are critically ill with Covid-19, early trial data shows.\n\nThe researchers in the UK and the Netherlands said it was \"an absolutely amazing result\".\n\nThe drug is no longer being trialled as the researchers are so confident in the data, but the precise effect on survival is still being calculated.\n\nOther experts have urged caution until the full data is released.\n\nTocilizumab targets the immune system, which goes into overdrive in some patients with coronavirus. It is this reaction, rather than the virus itself, which can be deadly.\n\nThe trial was run by Imperial College London, the UK's Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, and Utrecht University. It focused on the most severely ill patients, who needed to be put on a ventilator.\n\nTrials of the drug were stopped two days ago as independent monitors said there was enough evidence, from the first 303 patients, to show it was working.\n\nHowever, interpreting the results is complex.\n\nThey show an improvement in \"outcomes\", but this is a statistical conflation of other measures such as survival rates and time in intensive care. Doctors know the drug is doing something, but it will take time to know whether it is saving lives or just speeding up recovery.\n\n\"We don't know that yet, we are hopeful it does both,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon from Imperial.\n\nHowever, he said it was \"very encouraging\", a \"big result\", and that tocilizumab could \"become the standard of care\".\n\nIt will still take weeks to properly assess the data, which has not yet been formally published.\n\nThe treatment costs between £500 and £1,000 and is given intravenously.\n\nSteroids, including dexamethasone, are the only drugs proven to be save lives from Covid-19 and they tend to calm the whole of the immune system. Tocilizumab targets specific parts within that complex system.\n\nThe researchers hope they have found another.\n\nDr Lennie Derde, an intensive care consultant at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, said: \"This is an absolutely amazing result.\n\n\"To have a second effective therapy for critically ill patients within months of the start of the pandemic is unprecedented.\"\n\nHowever, other experts have urged caution until the final results are analysed, as previous studies have given a mixed picture.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who was part of the team at the University of Oxford that showed dexamethasone was protective, said: \"This is an encouraging result which suggests that other, more targeted, anti-inflammatory drugs may also help.\n\n\"The results so far on tocilizumab have been mixed, with four randomised controlled trials having reported results, of which two were negative and two were positive... I eagerly look forward to seeing the full results.\"", "Kapoor and Himid won the Turner Prize in 1991 and 2017 respectively\n\nSigned prints by Sir Anish Kapoor and others are being offered as rewards to people who donate to a fund to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nLubaina Himid and Michael Landy prints can also be claimed by those who donate to the Art Fund's Together For Museums crowd funding appeal.\n\nRewards include a set of David Shrigley tea towels for a donation of £25.\n\nHigher up the scale, donors who contribute £4,000 can receive a limited edition Kapoor print.\n\nA £100 donation will earn a print of Landy's Look Around logo, while a signed Himid print will set you back £500.\n\nThe appeal hopes to raise £1m for UK museums and galleries facing financial problems due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSir Anish is offering limited edition prints of his 2019 work Omo\n\nThe Art Fund charity has already distributed £2.25m in \"Respond and Reimagine\" grants to help institutions cope.\n\nLast month it decided to split its £200,000 Museum of the Year prize five ways, rather than give it to a single recipient.\n\nAccording to the Art Fund's own research, six out of every 10 museums are worried about their survival.\n\nMore than 60% of workers in the sector fear for their jobs, while only a third of closed museums expect to reopen in the coming months.\n\nNine out of 10 institutions say that they will need to adapt and innovate in order to survive the virus and its aftermath.\n\nMore than 200 museums, galleries and historic houses took part in the survey, conducted this month by market research agency Opinium.\n\nHill said he often visits museums when he is performing around the country\n\nHarry Hill may seem an unlikely advocate for visiting museums. Yet the comedian says such institutions provide a much-needed \"mental workout\".\n\n\"If I'm ever stuck for an idea, or just not in a particularly sunny mood, I'll go to an art gallery or a museum, because museums are full of ideas,\" he told the PA news agency.\n\n\"Museums, on the whole, don't close,\" he said. \"But we're in this bizarre situation where perhaps half of them are faced with closure if they don't get some sort of bailout.\n\n\"When this pandemic is over, the last thing we want is for none of these places to be open. We're not going to go abroad and we'll want something to do.\"\n\nOver the last six months the Art Fund received funding applications from more than 450 organisations amounting to more than £16.9m.\n\nThe Postal Museum in London, the Roald Dahl Museum in Buckinghamshire and Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art are among the institutions to benefit from its latest round of grants.\n\nArt lovers can claim a print of Michael Landy's Look Around for a £100 donation\n\nArt Fund director Jenny Waldman said the \"innovative\" ideas put forward by museums had been \"hugely inspiring\" and that it had been \"heartbreaking\" not to be able to support them all.\n\n\"We are urging everyone who loves and uses museums to come together now to help so many more museums thrive,\" she continued.\n\nMuseums and galleries also have the option of applying for money from the £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund that the government unveiled in July.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many staff members reported working over their contracted hours\n\nMaternity services inspectors raised concerns about staffing levels, emergency equipment and training before the Covid pandemic, a report has found.\n\nHealthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) visited 25 maternity units between July 2019 and January 2020 as part of a national review.\n\nIt found the quality of care was generally good, with the majority of women having positive experiences.\n\nBut some \"areas for improvement\" were also identified.\n\nInspectors sought immediate improvements around the checking of neonatal and emergency equipment as well as medical emergency arrangements, the security of newborn babies and the management of medicines.\n\nThe report comes after serious failings were found at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board which resulted in maternity services at hospitals in Merthyr Tydfil and Llantrisant being placed in special measures last year.\n\nBut the HIW inspections found services across Wales were \"safe and effective and that's a really nice thing to be able to say,\" said Alun Jones, interim chief executive.\n\n\"Of course there's no room for complacency there and we did find some areas for improvement as well.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We are pleased that the report recognises the commitment and dedication of staff working within maternity services throughout Wales.\n\n\"We welcome the report by HIW and will give careful consideration to its recommendations.\"\n\nInspectors surveyed 122 patients during their visits to maternity wards across Wales\n\nIn the Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff and Vale, Cwm Taf Morgannwg and Hywel Dda health boards, inspections revealed inconsistencies in the way temperatures were monitored and recorded for medication fridges.\n\nStaff were not always clear on their roles and some were unable to clearly explain why the information was recorded, and what they should do if the temperatures fell outside of manufacturer's recommendations.\n\nThe inspections also found issues with the prescribing and administering of medication during labour, with particular concerns in Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg.\n\nThose concerns were dealt with and resolved, but HIW said it was an issue all health boards should consider.\n\nHIW received more than 3,300 responses from women and their families as part of the review and also surveyed 122 patients during their inspections.\n\nWorkers were also surveyed and raised concerns about staffing levels, with 40% saying there were \"always\" or \"usually\" enough staff for them to do their job properly.\n\nMany staff reported working in excess of their contracted hours and there were also worries about using temporary staff during shortages and the impact on continuity of care.\n\nHIW found some units did not monitor the number of hours individual staff members were working, and did not take steps to ensure staff had adequate rest time between shifts.\n\nLess than half of respondents agreed their job was good for their health.\n\nHIW said health boards across south Wales had the most negative comments about staffing ratios.\n\n\"Whilst we found that the staff working across Wales were very much committed and striving to provide a high quality service, there were lots of examples where we were told by staff that they were under pressure,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"There was a sense that the sustainability of some services was a challenge so we made a number of recommendations to health boards to think about workforce planning.\"\n\nThe second phase of HIW's national review is due to begin before the end of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Father Christmas has some tips on how to have a safe Christmas\n\nThe four UK governments have announced their plans to enable families to celebrate Christmas together.\n\nSo how is the festive period likely to be different this year?\n\nThe governments of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have agreed a common approach allowing up to three households to form a Christmas bubble and meet up from 23 to 27 December (22 to 28 December in Northern Ireland).\n\nPeople can mix in homes, places of worship and outdoor spaces, and travel restrictions will also be eased.\n\nHowever, a Christmas bubble must be exclusive, so people cannot swap between them. Bubble members also will not be able to visit pubs or restaurants together.\n\nThere will be no limit to the number of people in a household joining a bubble in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Scottish government has said that Christmas bubbles should contain no more than eight people. Children under 12 will not count in the total.\n\nFears that a lack of skilled overseas workers on poultry farms could hit the supply of turkeys have been overcome after travel rules were relaxed so they could travel to the UK.\n\nBut many people are buying smaller turkeys than usual because they are likely to have fewer guests.\n\nAn Aberdeenshire farmer has warned many birds could go to waste, while a farm in Wales cut its turkey numbers by 20% in September.\n\nAny turkey shortage may make some people consider a vegetarian or vegan meal instead.\n\nThis year's work celebrations seem certain to take place on Zoom and other online platforms.\n\nRules on big groups meeting up in pubs or anywhere outdoors are very unlikely to be eased in December, so seeing friends for a pre-Christmas drink or meal will probably not be allowed.\n\nCurrent rules for socialising outside your household/support bubble/extended household are:\n\nAt the moment, it is not known what will happen about traditional Christmas religious services like midnight Mass.\n\nFrom 2 December in England, places of worship will reopen for communal prayer.\n\nUp to 50 people can attend indoor services in Scotland in levels zero to three areas, but only up to 20 in level four places.\n\nPlaces of worship have reopened in Wales, but with social distancing in place and communal singing banned.\n\nThey are also open in Northern Ireland with no limit on numbers if safety measures are in place. Weddings, civil ceremonies and funerals can happen, but only 25 people. can attend\n\nWhile in-person shopping in non-food shops can currently happen in all of the UK except England, online retailers are expecting a big surge in demand this year.\n\nIn September, shoppers were warned by an industry boss to buy as early as possible.\n\nAndy Mulcahy, from the online businesses' industry body, told the BBC: \"At this point, I think we can expect an increase of at least 30% for the peak festive trading season, but if stores have to close this might push to 50%.\"\n\nLast posting dates inside the UK range from 18 to 23 December, while we have already passed some international dates.\n\nTheatres in England can reopen on 2 December, and plans have been made for some Christmas pantomimes.\n\nWhile many venues and production companies have cancelled their shows, others are going ahead thanks to National Lottery backing.\n\nOne is at the London Palladium, where the Lottery will buy seats that cannot be used because of social distancing. It will also donate 20,000 free tickets to Lottery players.\n\nMeanwhile a drive-in show - the Car Park Panto - will tour Great Britain with audience members watching from inside their cars.\n\nTheatres in Scotland are closed in level two, three and four areas, throughout Wales, and to audiences in Northern Ireland, where they can open for rehearsals or a live recording.\n\nThe Christmas relaxation of meeting up rules does not extend to New Year's Eve, so that is likely to be a quiet affair this year, with house parties banned in most places.", "Boris Johnson used video link for this week's Prime Minister's Questions Image caption: Boris Johnson used video link for this week's Prime Minister's Questions\n\nPlans to allow MPs who are shielding to take part in House of Commons debates via video link have been criticised for not going far enough.\n\nThe influential cross party Procedure Committee is calling on the government to allow all MPs to take part in debates virtually during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt the moment, MPs can ask questions and respond to statements virtually but they are not allowed to speak during debates on legislation, or anything else, unless they are physically present in the Commons chamber.\n\nOn Monday the Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said the government planned to allow only MPs who are clinically vulnerable to take part in debates until the end of March.\n\nDuring a short debate, the Conservative chair of the Procedure Committee Karen Bradley said his \"refusal to listen\" to the \"views of the House\" was \"indefensible\".\n\nShe said the public would be \"baffled by a situation where the prime minister can answer Prime Minister's Questions virtually yesterday and and make a statement to the House virtually today, but cannot then take part in a debate until he has finished self isolating\".\n\n\"This is an utterly farcical situation,\" she said.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "Twenty-one people were killed in two blasts on 21 November 1974\n\nA man arrested in connection with the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings which killed 21 people is reported to be Michael Patrick Reilly.\n\nThe blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night of 21 November also injured 220 people.\n\nPolice said a man, 65, was held at his Belfast home on Wednesday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and would be questioned in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Reilly has strongly denied any involvement in the bombings.\n\nInquests into the deaths of those killed in the bombings found they were unlawfully killed\n\nWest Midlands Police added the address was being searched and the man was to be interviewed under caution at a police station.\n\nFresh inquests last year ruled the victims were unlawfully killed, but did not establish who was responsible.\n\nSix men, who became known as the Birmingham Six, were wrongly jailed for the bombings in 1975 following a botched police investigation, but their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.\n\nSaturday marks the 46th anniversary of the bombings and the arrest comes within a month of an announcement from Home Secretary Priti Patel that she would consider the case for a public inquiry into the attacks.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Price comparison site ComparetheMarket has been fined £17.9m by the competition watchdog for keeping home insurance costs artificially high.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that over a two-year period the firm's contracts stopped insurers advertising more cheaply elsewhere.\n\nIt meant getting the cheapest possible deal was not as \"simples\" for consumers as the company's adverts suggest.\n\nBut the firm hit out at the ruling, saying it \"fundamentally\" disagreed.\n\nThe CMA said clauses in contracts between December 2015 and December 2017 prohibited home insurers from offering lower prices on other comparison websites, and prevented these other platforms from expanding.\n\nThe competition watchdog found that this was likely to have resulted in higher insurance premiums for consumers.\n\nBut, in a strongly-worded statement, ComparetheMarket - part of the BGL Group - said it was disappointed with the CMA's decision and did not recognise its analysis of the market.\n\n\"We fundamentally disagree with the conclusions the CMA has drawn and will be carefully examining the detailed rationale behind the decision and considering all of our options.\" a spokesman said.\n\nComparetheMarket is one of the UK's biggest price comparison websites and well-known for its adverts featuring meerkat puppets and their \"simples\" catchphrase.\n\n\"Price comparison websites are excellent for consumers. They promote competition between providers, offer choice for customers, and make it easier for consumers to find the best bargains,\" said Michael Grenfell, executive director of enforcement at the CMA.\n\n\"It is therefore unacceptable that ComparetheMarket, which has been the largest price comparison site for home insurance for several years, used clauses in its contracts that restricted home insurers from offering bigger discounts on competing websites - so limiting the bargains potentially available to consumers.\"\n\nMr Grenfell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the contract clauses meant many of the benefits of shopping around were lost for consumers, pointing out that the harm to competition was \"more than theoretical\".\n\n\"We show that it had real anti-competitive effects, that there were cases where insurance companies wanted to offer promotions or discounts on other websites, and they were prevented from doing so as a result of the clauses,\" he said.\n\nThe company has the right to legally challenge the ruling, which came at the end of a three-year investigation.\n\nAn investigation by consumers' association Which? in 2018 concluded that some price comparison websites offering car insurance policies were riddled with errors.\n\nIt said millions of consumers were \"not getting a clear picture from the websites they visit\".\n\nExperts suggest consumers search on more than one price comparison website when buying utilities, financial products, and services.\n• None Comparethemarket 'may be breaking the law'", "Mike Pompeo flew by helicopter to the Psagot winery, in a Jewish settlement close to Ramallah\n\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo has toured a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank - the first such visit by a top US official.\n\nThe trip to Psagot came a year after Mr Pompeo said the settlements did not contradict international law, reversing a long-held US position.\n\nThe declaration outraged Palestinians, who oppose settlements on land they claim for a future independent state.\n\nMr Pompeo later paid a similar visit to the occupied Golan Heights.\n\nPresident Donald Trump last year officially recognised Israeli sovereignty over the strategic plateau, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981.\n\nMr Trump is a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and analysts say Mr Pompeo's actions could be seen as a valedictory gesture before he and the president leave the world stage.\n\nMr Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday for what is likely to be his last trip to Israel before leaving office in January.\n\nAfter meeting Mr Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday morning, he announced that the state department would declare as anti-Semitic the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which campaigns for a complete boycott of Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: 'US regards BDS movement as anti-Semitic'\n\nIsrael says that BDS opposes the country's very existence and is motivated by anti-Semitism. BDS rejects the charge, saying Israel is using it as a cover for its actions.\n\nMr Pompeo also told reporters that \"for a long time the state department took the wrong view of settlements\" in the West Bank.\n\n\"It took a view that didn't recognise the history of this special place and instead now today the United States department of state stands strongly to the recognition that settlements can be done in a way that's lawful and appropriate and proper,\" he added.\n\nPalestinians protested near Psagot on Wednesday after reports of Mike Pompeo's plans emerged\n\nHe then travelled by helicopter to the Psagot winery, in a Jewish settlement close to Ramallah.\n\nMore than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.\n\nWhile Psagot winery staff would not comment officially on this visit in advance, the BBC was shown one of the last bottles of \"Pompeo\" red - a blend of shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and merlot, described on the label as \"refreshing, fruity and beautifully balanced\".\n\nIt was named after the US secretary of state declared last year that settlements were \"not, per se, inconsistent with international law\". Most countries still believe that they are.\n\nThe Psagot winery has a vineyard on privately-owned Palestinian land and is owned by US donors to the Trump administration.\n\nIt is well-known for its international efforts to have its wines labelled as coming from Israel. However, European courts have rejected its attempts to mark bottles in this way, saying that products manufactured in West Bank settlements need to be labelled as such.\n\nFollowing his visit to Psagot, Mr Pompeo issued a statement saying the US would require goods imported from areas \"where Israel exercises the relevant authorities\" to be marked as \"Israel\", \"Made in Israel\", or \"Product of Israel\".\n\nThe guidelines, he said, applied \"most notably\" to the 60% of the West Bank, classified as \"Area C\" under the Oslo Accords, that is under full Israeli military and civilian control and where much of the settler population lives. It includes the Jordan Valley and many Palestinian communities.\n\nExports from West Bank areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority had to be labelled \"West Bank\", and those from Hamas-controlled Gaza marked as \"Gaza\", Mr Pompeo added, arguing that the territories were \"politically and administratively separate and should be treated accordingly\".\n\nMr Pompeo also became the first top US official to visit the occupied Golan Heights\n\nNabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said: \"Pompeo's visit to occupied land is an active participation in the occupation.\"\n\nSyria has also appealed to the United Nations to condemn the \"provocative\" visit, calling it \"a flagrant violation\" of Syrian sovereignty, a government source told state media.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is expected to reverse Mr Pompeo's declaration on settlements, but he has said he will not undo Mr Trump's decision in 2017 to recognise of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.\n\nMr Pompeo later became the first US secretary of state to visit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, visiting a hilltop overlooking the Syrian-held part of the plateau with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.\n\n\"You can't stand here and stare out at what's across the border and deny the central thing that President Trump recognised, that previous presidents had refused to do, that this is a part of Israel, and a central part of Israel,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Pompeo in the Golan Heights: \"This is a part of Israel and a central part of Israel\"\n\nHe also condemned what he described as calls \"in the salons in Europe and in the elite institutions in America\" for Israel to return the Golan to Syria.\n\n\"Imagine with [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad in control of this place, the risk, the harm to the West and to Israel and to the people of Israel,\" he added.\n\nIsrael's annexation of the Golan has not been recognised by the rest of the international community, and Syria demands the return of the territory. It called Mr Trump's declaration \"a blatant attack on its sovereignty\".", "Mixing between households at Christmas could pose \"substantial risks\", particularly for older people more vulnerable to coronavirus, a scientist advising the government has warned.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward said there would be a \"cost\" to families getting together.\n\nIt comes as No 10 said proposals to ease restrictions over Christmas will be set out next week.\n\nScientists have suggested that for every day measures are eased, five days of tighter rules would be needed.\n\nProf Hayward, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London, said mixing at Christmas does pose \"substantial risks\" particularly where generations \"with high incidence of infection\" socialise with older people \"who currently have much lower levels of infection and are at most risk of dying\" if they catch Covid-19.\n\nProf Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"My personal view is we're putting far too much emphasis on having a near-normal Christmas.\n\n\"We know respiratory infections peak in January so throwing fuel on the fire over Christmas can only contribute to this.\"\n\nSage is a committee attended by scientists across a range of fields. While its members may not individually agree, their role is to look at the evidence, and present a view to the government.\n\nAnother 22,915 cases of Covid have been recorded in the UK, and there were 501 further deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the government's dashboard shows.\n\nThe UK's four nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - are trying to work out a common approach to Christmas so families spread across the UK can still meet up.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a meeting between the four nations on Wednesday had \"discussed the Christmas period and how we could come to a sensible... and safe plan that would allow people, not 100% normality, but a greater degree of normality - in particular the ability to spend some time with loved ones\".\n\nMeanwhile, it is understood that Northern Ireland is set to face a two-week period of tougher restrictions from 27 November - with non-essential retail, pubs, restaurants and hotels all closed. There will be a partial reopening of some sectors for a week from Friday.\n\nDowning Street said plans for what will follow England's lockdown - which is expected to end on 2 December - and proposals to ease restrictions over Christmas would be set out next week.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said on Thursday that ministers would keep case numbers \"under review\" into next week, when it will \"set out more details of the next phase\" after lockdown ends.\n\nThe spokesman pointed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's previous comment that \"whilst Christmas will be a little bit different from normal this year, we continue to hope to ensure that families can spend Christmas together\".\n\nAny rule change would be for a limited time, maybe just a few days, BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle has said.\n\nBut, he said, the advice was likely to urge families not to hold big gatherings and to travel by car, rather than public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Father Christmas has some tips on how to have a safe Christmas\n\nEngland is expected to return to the tier system of localised restrictions, with household mixing banned indoors in the top two tiers, when its lockdown ends.\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins said on Wednesday that tough restrictions might be needed before and after Christmas to allow mixing to take place during the holiday.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said he did not want to be \"the Grinch that stole Christmas\" but No 10 wanted to safeguard the NHS and protect lives.\n\nHe told ITV's Good Morning Britain: \"I would love all of us to be able to have a Christmas, but more than anything I want us to get through this Covid and try and get this country back to normal and I want to protect lives.\"\n\nDr Gabriel Scally, president of epidemiology at the Royal Society of Medicine, told the same programme: \"There is no point having a very merry Christmas and then burying friends and family in January or February... It's too dangerous a time and opportunity for the virus to spread.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, Dr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said she was concerned some NHS hospitals in Covid hotspots were seeing \"crowded\" emergency departments, as well as the beginnings of \"corridor care\" and \"problems unloading ambulances\".\n\nShe said: \"That's the reality of what we've got in hospitals at the moment. Let's not have that happening and then we can talk about Christmas. But we're not in that situation at the moment.\"\n\nDr Henderson warned that we would \"regret\" a [festive] season that's given Granny Covid for Christmas\" rather than working through a \"rational, controlled, plan to come out the other side of this when we've got a vaccine into spring and we can actually start having a much more normal society\".\n\nHer comments follow news that the University of Oxford coronavirus vaccine has shown a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s - raising hopes it could protect age groups most at risk from the virus.\n\nProf Hayward also told the Today programme government messaging had not been consistent.\n\nHe said: \"When policy is undulating between stay at home to save lives, eat out to help out, the tier system, the second lockdown and now proposals for an amnesty on social distancing - it is a highly inconsistent message.\"\n\nCarl Heneghan, professor of evidence based medicine at the University of Oxford told the BBC said some \"coherent thinking\" from health officials was now required and they would need to \"take the public with them\" in the run up to Christmas.\n\nHe said there had been some \"impressive falls\" in Covid cases in some areas and \"if we can see that carrying on we would be in a much better position to see what to do at Christmas\".\n\nIt comes as scientists who advised the government during the early stages of the pandemic told a BBC documentary focused on the first lockdown that they \"never checked\" how Covid-19 could be spread by staff working at more than one care home.", "The EU and UK chief negotiators have stepped back from post-Brexit trade talks after a member of the EU team tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe EU's Michel Barnier said his UK counterpart Lord David Frost had agreed to suspend negotiations between them for a \"short period\".\n\nMr Barnier added their teams would continue discussions in \"full respect\" of safety guidelines.\n\nThey are locked in talks as the clock counts down to a December deadline.\n\nBoth sides are seeking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK's post-Brexit transition period ends in January 2021.\n\nFishing rights, competition rules and how any deal would be enforced remain key areas of disagreement.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Barnier tweeted that a member of his negotiating team had tested positive for the virus, as talks over a deal continued in Brussels.\n\n\"With David Frost, we have decided to suspend the negotiations at our level for a short period,\" he added.\n\nIn reply, Lord Frost said he was in \"close contact with Michel Barnier about the situation,\" and \"the health of our teams comes first\".\n\nBBC Brussels correspondent Nick Beake said he had been told Mr Barnier would now self-quarantine following the team member's test result.\n\nOur correspondent added it was not clear how long the pause in top-level talks would last.\n\nBut he said it was understood no members of the UK team in Brussels would be required to self-isolate, and that most of them would return to London soon, with talks continuing remotely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuspension of talks between the chief negotiators will come as an unhelpful development, with just five weeks remaining before the 31 December deadline.\n\nEU leaders are holding a video conference later on Thursday and could discuss the latest developments - although it is not officially on the agenda.\n\nOn Sunday, before the latest round of talks began, Lord Frost said there had been \"some progress in a positive direction in recent days\".\n\nBut he warned the two sides \"may not succeed\" to strike a deal, with \"significant elements\" not yet agreed.\n\nHe added that any deal would have to be \"compatible with our sovereignty,\" and allow the UK to \"take back control of our laws, our trade, and our waters\".\n\nThe two sides are seeking to reach agreement on limits on government subsidies for industry, to prevent what the EU regards as unfair competition with the UK.\n\nThey are also negotiating how closely the UK should have to follow the EU's social, labour, and environmental standards after the transition.\n\nThey are yet to agree how any such commitments should be enforced - with the EU demanding robust powers in case there are disputes.\n\nThe UK and EU teams are also haggling over how much access European fishing boats should have to British waters and how much they would be allowed to catch from next year.", "Aiden and his family had been trying to raise money to adapt his bathroom\n\nA lifelong Wrexham FC fan said he \"feels amazing\" after the club's new Hollywood star owner donated £6,000 to adapt his home.\n\nAiden Stott, who has cerebral palsy, had been trying to raise the cash to get a bathroom so his family could wash him.\n\nOn Wednesday, he woke up to find the entire sum had been donated by actor Rob McElhenney, who is set to take over the club, alongside Ryan Reynolds.\n\nMr Stott said he \"couldn't believe it\".\n\nThe football fan, who has been a season ticket holder for several years and is a member of the club's Disabled Supporters' Association, said he was blown away by the generosity of everyone who had donated.\n\nAiden's favourite player is Paul Rutherford and he never misses a home game\n\n\"It means the world to me, it really does,\" said Mr Stott.\n\nAfter cuts to his care, the 37-year-old's parents sold their family home to buy a flat for him to live closer to them in Manchester.\n\nBut after finding out adapting the bathroom to make it safe for Aiden, his family and carers, would cost £6,000, the family decided to set up a fundraising campaign.\n\n\"I had been deliberating whether to do it or not, because there are so many people in worse positions than us, it's not like Aiden is starving, he's got a roof over his head,\" his sister Cheryl said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Wrexham has the potential for growth\"\n\nOn Monday, Wrexham Supporters Trust (WST) members voted overwhelmingly to back the takeover by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star McElhenney and Reynolds.\n\nWhile a number of people had already donated to the fundraising campaign, Cheryl said she was woken up on Wednesday by a friend telling her to look at the page.\n\n\"It was there, his name, no message, obviously I wrote a message to him and told him he made my mum cry, but we haven't heard anything from him,\" she said.\n\n\"That a Hollywood movie star looked at a picture of my brother and read his little story and what he's going through, it's just incredible.\n\n\"It's amazing that he bought the club in the first place, which we are all really excited about, but to do that as well, it just shows his true character and meaning.\"\n\nMs Stott, a firefighter, said since the donation, more companies had come forward saying they would adapt the bathroom for a lower price.\n\n\"This means we can get him carers quicker as well... it's not just the bath it's being able to employ people to look after him and not to rely on his dad,\" she said.\n\nSteve Gilbert, chairman of the club's Disabled Supporters' Association, said everyone was overwhelmed by the star's generosity.\n\nMr Gilbert said he tweeted McElhenney the link to Aiden's campaign on Tuesday in the hope he could generate some interest.\n\n\"I am still choked up about it, I still can't really put into words what it means,\" he said.\n\n\"Rob contacted us on Twitter five or six weeks ago, he told us he had spoken to Ryan, and he had said accessibility and inclusion was very important to them.\n\n\"A day into their ownership and they have already done this, we are just chuffed.\"\n\nAiden said the atmosphere at the matches was \"brilliant\"\n\nMr Stott said he would love to meet the club's new owners and thank McElhenney for his lovely gift.\n\n\"That would make my day,\" he 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.", "The pupils were inspired by a David Attenborough show on the plight of the penguins\n\nA group of Stirling High School pupils have been praised after helping discover a new colony of emperor penguins in the Antarctic.\n\nThe pupils initially developed and coded an algorithm to identify penguin colonies from satellite imagery.\n\nResearchers at the British Antarctic Survey then used higher-resolution imaging to confirm the colony.\n\nTheir study reveals nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought.\n\nThe smudges on the ice show the existence of an emperor penguin colony\n\nThe students were inspired by a Sir David Attenborough programme on the plight of penguins.\n\nThey wanted to see if the colonies could be located using freely-available satellite imagery and processing software.\n\nDr Andrew McDonald from Stirling High School said: \"To be acknowledged in a peer-reviewed paper was a great boost to the group and showed that it is possible to perform meaningful real science in schools.\"\n\nThe pupils' work was part of an Institute for Research in Schools project called Earth Observation.\n\nEmperor penguins need sea ice in order to breed\n\nDr Peter Fretwell and Philip Trathan, the geographers and researchers for the British Antarctic Survey, praised the pupils in their research paper on the study.\n\nIt found 11 new colonies, three of which were previously identified but never confirmed.\n\nA number of colonies were located far offshore, situated on sea ice that has formed around icebergs that had grounded in shallow water.\n\nDr Phil Trathan, head of conservation biology at the British Antarctic Survey said: \"Whilst it's good news that we've found these new colonies, the breeding sites are all in locations where recent model projections suggest emperors will decline.\n\n\"We need to watch these sites carefully as climate change will affect this region.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South Georgia is real and has probably been under way for a little while now, say scientists.\n\nWhen a survey was conducted at the British Overseas Territory earlier this year, 58 of the animals were seen.\n\nThat was described as \"astonishing\" at the time because there had been so few sightings previously.\n\nBut a reassessment of 30 years of observational data suggests this bumper crowd of blues was no anomaly.\n\nSouth Georgia is home to millions of king penguins\n\nIt most likely signals they really are making a comeback in the waters around the sub-Antarctic island.\n\nSouth Georgia is infamous, of course, for being the epicentre of commercial whaling in the early 20th Century.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jennifer Jackson: \"I don't think this is a surprise phenomenon\"\n\nIts steam boats, with their grenade-tipped harpoons, decimated all the large whale populations - and at the peak of the carnage were removing 3,000 blues a year.\n\nAnd while fur and elephant seals, which were also heavily exploited, managed to bounce back to historic levels relatively quickly - the whales, and the blues in particular, did not.\n\nGrytviken: Remnants of the old whaling stations can still be seen today\n\nTheir absence long after commercial whaling ended even led some whale experts to wonder if these majestic creatures would ever be seen again in significant numbers at South Georgia.\n\n\"It was held up as an example of how you can exploit a population beyond the point where it can recover,\" Susannah Calderan, who led the reassessment, told BBC News.\n\nSusannah Calderan uses ex-military sonobuoys to pick up the sounds of whales\n\nIt's possible that as the population crashed, the blues simply lost the cultural memory that had drawn them to South Georgia in the first place, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) fellow said.\n\nThe British Overseas Territory is in the path of a food train coming up from the Antarctic on strong currents. This train carries abundant krill, the small crustaceans that whales love.\n\nBut because there were so few blues left after commercial whaling, it may be that the knowledge of the island's productive feeding ground could not be passed on to future generations - so the theory goes.\n\n\"So, perhaps now they have re-discovered 'the larder',\" Susannah Calderan speculated. \"South Georgia remains an extremely productive feeding ground. Nothing ever happened to its productivity. It's not as if the whales stopped coming because there was nothing left to eat.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Male blues communicate over vast distances with their repetitive, low-frequency calls (B.Miller/AAD)\n\nThe SAMS scientist, with colleagues, has reviewed all the observational data on blue whales at South Georgia going back three decades.\n\nThis includes the systematic surveys that have been conducted by researchers and the opportunistic reporting that's come in from mariners and from cruise ships, whose visits to South Georgia have increased in frequency.\n\nThe study also includes data from acoustics - the use of listening devices, such as sonobuoys, which are put in the water to detect the booming, low-frequency calls that are made by blue whales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. So-called D-calls made by blue whales are probably associated with social behaviour and feeding (B.Miller/AAD)\n\nAll this information points to a gradual increase in the presence of blue whale numbers around the island in recent years.\n\nEven before the remarkable observation of 58 blues in February, it's now recognised that a total of 41 animals from the species were photo-identified off South Georgia between 2011 and 2020.\n\nConservationists say South Georgia is an all-too-rare example of an ecosystem in recovery\n\n\"It should be said, the survey we carried out at the beginning of this year was not dedicated to blues. This was an accidental finding. We were actually looking for right whales, but the team saw blue whales when they were doing their transects,\" explained co-researcher Jennifer Jackson from the British Antarctic Survey, which led the February expedition.\n\n\"I don't think this is a surprise phenomenon. I think we're going to continue seeing blue whales in the years to come. What we need to understand now is why they are using South Georgia waters again.\"\n\nA humpback whale in the waters around South Georgia\n\nAnd it's not just blues. Those other species that were also driven to the brink, like the humpbacks, are also on the rise.\n\nSusannah Calderan would like to see a network of acoustic moorings placed around the island, in particular off its southwest coastline where little systematic survey work has been conducted.\n\nThis would help fill gaps in the data and smooth biases which mean the same locations tend to dominate sightings - such as the popular routes taken by cruise ships.\n\nAt the peak of harvesting, 3,000 blue whales were being taken each year\n\nThe whale scientists are also now watching closely what will happen with the world's biggest iceberg - the 4,200 sq km tabular block known as A68a.\n\nDrifting in the same currents that deliver krill to South Georgia, it risks being caught in the shallows surrounding the island. If that happens, the iceberg could disrupt the foraging behaviour of many animals that depend on the krill.\n\n\"South Georgia is a kind of home to dead icebergs. Generally, they tend to go there to die. But, yes, this one's massive,\" said Susannah Calderan.\n\n\"Will it affect productivity? Will it affect the krill? Will that affect the whales? It's a really interesting question.\"\n\nThe team's analysis, which is published in the journal Endangered Species Research, was funded by South Georgia Heritage Trust and Friends of South Georgia Island.\n\nThe giant iceberg A68a could become stuck in shallow water near the island", "Jeremy Corbyn is currently sitting as an independent MP in the Commons\n\nJeremy Corbyn's solicitors have written to Labour calling for his suspension as one of the party's MPs to be lifted, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe former leader was readmitted as a party member on Tuesday, after a short suspension for his reaction to a report into anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nBut his successor Sir Keir Starmer has refused to let him sit as a Labour MP.\n\nHe said his predecessor's remarks had \"undermined trust\" in the party within the Jewish community.\n\nMr Corbyn has been told his suspension from the parliamentary party will last for three months, though this can be reviewed.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Corbyn's lawyers criticised the lack of a specific timescale when the suspension took place.\n\nAnd he could face a further investigation under the parliamentary party's rules.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson has seen a letter from 15 members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) who support Mr Corbyn to the most senior party official, alleging political interference in the former leader's case.\n\nBut many MPs and Jewish groups stand by the decision taken by the new leader.\n\nThe parliamentary chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, MP Margaret Hodge, said the move by Sir Keir had stopped her from resigning from the party.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[Mr Corbyn] is not a victim. We have been the victim of the anti-Semitism.\"\n\nThe Labour Party confirmed that a solicitor's letter had been received but no legal proceedings had begun.\n\nThe uneasy truce between the current leadership and the supporters of the former leader ended when Sir Keir Starmer refused to readmit Jeremy Corbyn to the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nAnd so, a battle has begun.\n\nAnother former Labour leader and ex-prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for Mr Corbyn to apologise for the comments leading to his suspension, in which he said the scale of anti-Semitism had been dramatically overstated.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn shows no signs of doing so.\n\nIn the coming week, Sir Keir will want to focus on the government's handling of the pandemic and on the spending review.\n\nBut, like Labour leaders before him, he is now facing a serious conflict in his own ranks.\n\nMr Corbyn was suspended at the end of October after a damning report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into Labour's handling of anti-Semitism allegations during his tenure as leader.\n\nBut it was the former leader's response to the report - saying the scale of anti-Jewish abuse had been \"dramatically overstated\" by his political opponents - that led to the decision by Labour's general secretary David Evans to suspend him after 54 years of membership.\n\nA panel of the NEC decided on Tuesday to readmit Mr Corbyn as a member, but this did not mean he would automatically be reinstated as a Labour MP.\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Keir decided not to allow his predecessor to represent Labour in the Commons - known as stripping him of the party whip - meaning while Mr Corbyn remains an MP, he will sit as an independent.\n\nAnother former Labour leader, ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has called for Mr Corbyn to apologise for his comments.\n\nAnd former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who served under Mr Corbyn, told the BBC's Newscast podcast: \"It would just be a lot easier if there could be more contrition [on Mr Corbyn's part], rather than lawyers' letters flying around.\"", "The government has lost two more votes in the Lords over its Brexit bill.\n\nPeers voted by 367 to 209 to amend the Internal Market Bill, after claims that it would allow the UK government to \"shackle\" devolved administrations as powers are returned from Brussels.\n\nAnd they voted by 327 to 223 to curb ministers' powers to rewrite parts of the bill at a later stage.\n\nThe proposed law aims to create a UK-wide internal market after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nIt was approved by the Commons in September but is encountering strong resistance in the Lords, where Boris Johnson's government does not have a majority.\n\nLast week, peers defeated the government over plans to allow the UK to override parts of the legally-binding withdrawal agreement that apply to Northern Ireland.\n\nOnce peers have finished debating the bill it will head back to the House of Commons where MPs will decide either to reject or accept the Lords' amendments.\n\nIn the event of a stalemate between the two Houses, the government has not ruled out forcing through the changes through a rarely-used law known as the Parliament Act, which dates back to 1911.\n\nThe act, which enshrined the primacy of the elected Commons over the unelected Lords, was used in 2004 by Tony Blair's government to push through a ban on fox and deer hunting and hare-coursing with dogs.\n\nIn the first of Wednesday's reverses for the government, peers supported an amendment that sought to strengthen the role of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking in favour of the amendment, Crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff said the bill would allow Westminster to bypass the views of devolved governments in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast and consign current arrangements to a \"meaningless sideshow\".\n\nShe added that the proposed legislation \"shackles the ability of the elected parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to find their own solutions to the problems we face\".\n\nAnd Labour said it would, for example, prevent the Welsh government from banning different types of plastic ahead of the rest of the UK.\n\nSpeaking for the government, Cabinet Office Minister Lord True said the right place for final decisions on the internal market should be the Westminster Parliament.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland once the transition period is over.\n\nCurrently regulations and standards on issues like animal welfare are agreed and applied across the EU.\n\nAfter the transition period, many of these standards will be directly controlled by the devolved administrations - but the UK government has said they will still have to accept goods and services from all other parts of the UK, even if they have set different standards locally.", "Coleen Rooney accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking stories to the press about her private life in 2019\n\nColeen Rooney \"pointed the finger\" at Rebekah Vardy as \"the villain\" who leaked stories to the press about her private life, the High Court has heard.\n\nThe wife of ex-England footballer Wayne Rooney was dubbed \"Wagatha Christie\" for her \"sting operation\" involving posting false stories on Instagram which later appeared in The Sun.\n\nMrs Rooney then said the source of those leaks was the account of Mrs Vardy.\n\nShe is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nMrs Vardy, 38, was accused by Mrs Rooney of leaking stories over the course of five months. She denies the accusation.\n\nAt the High Court, Mrs Vardy's barrister Hugh Tomlinson QC said Mrs Rooney's posts were an \"untrue and unjustified defamatory attack... published and republished to millions of people\".\n\nHe said the spat had been trivialised in the media as \"wag wars\" but \"the impact on Mrs Vardy was not trivial\".\n\nRebekah Vardy was pictured arriving at training for ITV's Dancing On Ice in Nottingham on Thursday\n\nLast year Mrs Rooney said she planted three false stories on her Instagram stories and blocked all users except for Mrs Vardy's account.\n\nCourt documents say the three fake stories that appeared in The Sun consisted of Mrs Rooney travelling to Mexico to \"see what this gender selection is all about\", returning to TV, and the basement flooding in her house.\n\nOn a Twitter post, she wrote: \"I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.\n\nMr Tomlinson said Mrs Rooney's social media post made it clear that the person accused of leaking the stories \"is Rebekah Vardy, the finger is being pointed at her, as the villain, the person, the someone, the one person\".\n\nThe Twitter backlash led some social media users to link Mrs Vardy with \"the disappearance of Madeline McCann\", and joke she was the new leader of the so-called Islamic State group, the barrister added.\n\nMr Tomlinson wrote that the accusations had made Mrs Vardy feel suicidal, she had taken three trips to the hospital due to anxiety, and had fears she would lose her baby due to the stress of the situation.\n\nLeicester City striker Jamie Vardy was the subject of ridicule from opposition fans\n\nThe written statement claims Mrs Vardy's footballer husband Jamie has also been the subject of ridicule, with opposition supporters shouting taunting chants such as \"Becky Vardy's a grass\".\n\nMrs Rooney's legal team claims Mrs Vardy \"was in fact responsible for consistently passing on information about the defendant's private Instagram posts and stories to The Sun\".\n\nDavid Sherbourne, representing Mrs Rooney, stated in written submissions the message readers would take away from Mrs Rooney's tweet was \"it was Rebekah Vardy's account that was the source of private stories about the defendant appearing in The Sun - not Rebekah Vardy herself\".\n\nHe added: \"The fact that these sting operation stories also then appeared in The Sun... is the reason why the defendant published the post which is the subject of this claim.\"\n\nMrs Vardy's counsel Hugh Tomlinson QC and Mrs Rooney's representative David Sherbourne made representations to Mr Justice Warby at the preliminary hearing\n\nMr Tomlinson said both Mrs Vardy and Mrs Rooney had agreed for a \"stay\" of proceedings until February, so there could be \"one final attempt to resolve the matter without the need for a full trial\".\n\nNeither Mrs Rooney nor Mrs Vardy attended the preliminary hearing in London.\n\nAt the hearing, Mr Justice Warby was asked to determine the \"natural and ordinary\" meaning of Mrs Rooney's posts.\n\nThe judge said he would give his ruling on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe hearing took place at the High Court in London\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.", "Ministers are looking at how to relax coronavirus restrictions so families can celebrate Christmas together.\n\nThe government's medical adviser on Covid, Susan Hopkins, said they were working on a plan and wanted Christmas to be \"as close to normal as possible\".\n\nShe said tough restrictions might be needed before and after the holiday to allow mixing to take place.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said any rule change would be for a limited time, maybe just a few days.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman confirmed ministers were \"looking at ways to ensure that people can spend time with close family over Christmas at the end of what has been an incredibly difficult year\".\n\nIt comes after the Sun reported that families may be able to mix indoors for five days from Christmas Eve.\n\nAll four UK nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - are trying to work out a common approach to Christmas so families spread across the UK can still meet up.\n\nOur correspondent said any final decisions would not be made for a few weeks while health chiefs wait to see whether cases have started to come down during the lockdown in England.\n\nBut, he said, the advice was likely to urge families not to hold big gatherings and to travel by car, rather than public transport.\n\nScientific advice indicates that for every day that measures are relaxed, five days of tighter restrictions would be needed.\n\nThe government has recorded another 19,609 Covid cases in the UK and 529 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nEngland is expected to come out of its second national lockdown on 2 December and return to the tier system of localised restrictions, with household mixing banned indoors in the top two tiers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We're keen to have Christmas as close to normal as possible'\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Dr Hopkins, from Public Health England, suggested restrictions could be needed either side of Christmas if curbs were to be eased over the festive period.\n\nShe said two days of tighter restrictions would be required for every one day relaxed - although officials later clarified the advice is actually for five days.\n\nPeople would need to be \"very careful\" about the contacts they have in the lead-up to Christmas and would have to be \"responsible\" and reduce contacts again after the festive period, she added.\n\nShe said she knew ministers were \"working hard to develop an outline\" of what the new tiers would look like after 2 December and what Christmas would look like.\n\nThe BBC has been told new tougher regional tiers could see pubs and restaurants closed entirely in areas in the top tier throughout the festive period.\n\nStrict rules on meeting up and social distancing have meant millions of people have been unable to hug, or sometimes even see, close family for many months.\n\nChris, from Norfolk, said he feared this might be the last Christmas his father, who has advanced cancer, has with his three grandchildren.\n\n\"I'm not interested in Christmas as a party or celebration. All I want is one day,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nDowning Street said Christmas would not be normal but the prime minister would look at the latest data to make decisions and an update would be given next week.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet minister Alok Sharma said it was too early for \"conclusions\" but he wanted to see his family for Christmas.\n\nMr Sharma told BBC Breakfast people needed to keep bearing down on the infection and \"do our bit\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Prof Neil Ferguson, whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, suggested extending support bubbles to up to four households to allow families to celebrate Christmas together.\n\nThis year, Christmas Eve falls on Thursday and there is a bank holiday on the following Monday, giving most workers at least a four-day break.\n\nProf Ferguson also warned that reopening pubs and restaurants in the run-up to Christmas would be likely to lead to rising infection levels.\n\nWhat to do about Christmas is delicately poised.\n\nOn the one hand, allowing mixing over the festive period will undoubtedly lead to an increase in infections.\n\nWhat is more, there are concerns the impact of lockdown will be more limited than hoped. We are yet to see infections rates start falling - although it is still early days - so there will be no final decision on Christmas yet.\n\nBut stamping down on the virus is, of course, not the be all and end all.\n\nProviding an opportunity to meet will bring much needed respite from the hard slog of the pandemic.\n\nBut there is also a widespread recognition that even if the government bans mixing at Christmas, significant numbers of people may well ignore it.\n\nThe fear is that then starts to normalise breaking the restrictions and will make compliance worse over the rest of winter.\n\nThe expectation is that there will be some limited relaxation - in the hope that the psychological boost it will give the public and the longer-term goodwill it will engender will outweigh any cost in terms of virus spread.\n\nThat much was clear from the Downing Street briefing when government advisers admitted publicly for the first time that it may be on the cards.\n\nBut the pay-off for that could be tighter regional restrictions on hospitality in the areas with the highest rates all through the festive period.\n\nThere have been calls for a single approach from the devolved administrations in the UK about Christmas - so families who live in different nations can deal with a single set of rules.\n\nWelsh ministers have said it could be weeks before an announcement on Covid rules is made, and warned this year's festive period would \"not be like normal\".\n\nMinisters in Northern Ireland said they would do all they could to \"protect\" as much of Christmas as possible.\n\nAnd Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new, stricter measures announced on Tuesday were needed, in part, to allow the possibility of people meeting up over Christmas. \"We are all desperate for some normality around Christmas and I absolutely include myself in that,\" Ms Sturgeon said.", "Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died aged 88 in a care home in Oxfordshire in April\n\nA woman whose father died with Covid has won the first stage of a legal challenge over measures taken to protect those living in care homes.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner, from Sidmouth in Devon, claims there was a failure to implement \"adequate\" measures to protect residents.\n\nIt follows the death of her father in an Oxfordshire care home in April.\n\nThe government and health bodies oppose Dr Gardner's challenge and asked the judge to dismiss the case.\n\nDr Gardner said: \"This is for the thousands of families affected by the loss of loved ones in care homes since March.\"\n\nAt a remote hearing on Thursday, Mr Justice Linden granted Dr Gardner permission for a full hearing of her challenge.\n\nHe said: \"I consider it in the interests of justice for the claim to be heard.\"\n\nDr Gardner, who is bringing her case alongside Fay Harris, argues certain key policies and decisions led to a \"shocking death toll\" of care home residents.\n\nThese include an alleged policy of discharging patients from hospital into care homes without testing and suitable isolation arrangements.\n\nThe legal action is being brought against the Department for Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England.\n\nDr Gardner, who has a PhD in virology, said her legal team would ask \"to see the evidence behind the decisions that they took, how those decisions were taken, who was involved in discussions, why they decided to discharge people from hospital without testing and why they didn't commence any sort of real protection of people in care homes\".\n\nSir James Eadie QC, barrister for the government and PHE, said the challenge was \"unarguable\".\n\nIn court documents, he said: \"The government was faced with unprecedented challenges and fast-evolving scientific advice.\n\n\"Throughout the period in issue it considered how best to protect older people both within and outside care homes.\n\n\"That involved making a series of judgments based on expert scientific advice, in an area in which the science was uncertain and evolving.\n\n\"There is no arguable basis on which to conclude that those judgments fell outside the range of reasonable responses to the pandemic as it, and understanding of it, developed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has said revenue from parcel deliveries has surpassed letters for the first time, fuelled by a surge in online shopping during the pandemic.\n\nThe postal group said turnover from parcels now makes up 60% of its total revenue, which rose by nearly 10% in the first half of its financial year.\n\nBut it was not enough to stop a sharp drop in profits, due to a number of costs including extra staff to sort the increased parcel volume by hand.\n\nDuring the six months to 27 September, Royal Mail's increased costs included £85m related to Covid-19 as well as £147m on voluntary redundancies due to a continuing restructuring of the business.\n\nWhile revenue from letters dropped by 20.5%, parcel rose by 33.2%.\n\nRoyal Mail said that on its busiest day it processed 2.5 million tracked parcels while its international parcels business, GLS, also saw increased volumes, \"in particular as China emerged from Covid-19 restrictions and economic activity increased early in the period\".\n\nHowever, it added that growth in international volumes \"weakened\" as the first half progressed, \"impacted by reduced global air capacity\" and other increased costs.\n\n\"Royal Mail's performance continues to reflect structural changes in the sector, which have only intensified through the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said John Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin.\n\n\"The fact that for the first time parcels revenue is now larger than letters revenue is a milestone for the business and only goes to underline the importance of Royal Mail's restructuring programme, which was long overdue even when it was introduced.\"\n\nAt present only a third of parcels dealt with by Royal Mail are processed through a parcel sorting machine, with the majority sorted by hand.\n\nThe increased volume incurred higher costs for Royal Mail such as taking on extra staff, personal protective equipment to guard against the coronavirus as well as social distancing measures.\n\n\"Due to the uncertain risks over future infection rates, there are challenges in being able to accurately predict volumes and potential impact on absence rates,\" Royal Mail said.\n\nThe company is investing in four more parcel sorting machines, however the first one will only start after Christmas and the remainder will be installed in the next financial year.\n\nIt is currently building a parcels hub in the north west, which is scheduled to become operational in 2022 and it has begun construction of a similar facility in the midlands.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that \"adapting to the e-commerce boom is proving a painful shift for the company\".\n\n\"With demand for letters plummeting, there is a risk that the red post box could go the same way as the iconic telephone box, revered for its history and not its usefulness,\" she added.\n\nLooking ahead, Royal Mail said it was difficult to give an outlook for its second half, \"given the uncertainty surrounding the development of the pandemic in the remainder of the year and possible recessionary impacts across our business, which could have a significant influence on parcel volumes\".\n\nIn the meantime, it said it was preparing for the peak Christmas period and is recruiting around 33,000 additional flexible workers to handle the expected demand.", "Winter activities on ice are becoming increasingly dangerous as the world warms, scientists say.\n\nWhen researchers looked at data on drowning accidents in largely frozen lakes or rivers, they saw a \"strong correlation\" to rising temperatures.\n\nThey found that deaths from drowning were five times higher when warmer weather made the ice thinner and weaker.\n\nChildren aged under nine years and younger adults were most at risk.\n\nFor indigenous peoples in many northern regions of the world, livelihoods often depend on access to frozen lakes in winter for hunting, fishing and travel.\n\nIn countries like the US, Canada and Russia, winter leisure activities such as skating or tobogganing on ice are also hugely popular.\n\nBut as the world warms, winter ice is becoming less stable and scientists believe it poses a greater threat of accidental drowning.\n\nCanadian researchers looked at data on 4,000 drowning events in 10 countries over three decades since the 1990s.\n\nThey found that higher temperatures were a good predictor of the number of deaths by drowning.\n\n\"We can confidently say that there is a quite a strong correlation between warmer winter air temperatures and more winter drownings,\" said study leader Sapna Sharma, from York University in Toronto, Canada.\n\n\"Almost half of the winter drownings were associated with warmer temperatures.\"\n\nThe researchers collated data from official sources including coroner's offices. They were able to compare these figures to longstanding records from lakes showing when ice formed and melted each winter.\n\nCanada and the US had the highest number of drownings related to ice, an issue that was particularly acute among indigenous communities further north.\n\nIce fishing is very popular in many northern countries\n\nThe use of snowmobiles on lakes was associated with many of the lake fatalities.\n\nOne of the saddest aspects of the study was the fact that many of the victims were very young.\n\n\"We found that almost half of those drowned in Minnesota where there was no vehicle involved were children under nine years old,\" said Sapna Sharma.\n\n\"They were playing on the ice, tobogganing or ice skating and they just weren't able to recognise when the ice was unsafe. They may not have recognised that slushy ice or a little open patch of water could be so fatal.\"\n\nEven where lake or river accidents weren't deadly, they often had life-changing results.\n\nIn cold water accidents where children suffered cardiac arrest, some 90% also experienced significant neurological damage - and only 27% were alive a year later.\n\nHowever, some countries have managed to limit the number of drownings during winter, including Germany and Italy.\n\nLocal laws prohibit the use of snowmobiles on lakes and activities like skating are often limited until local authorities deem the ice to be safe.\n\nEducation is also seen to be a key element. According to Barbara Byers from the Canadian Lifesaving Society, people just don't recognise the personal threat that a changing climate can pose.\n\nSnowmobiles are widely used on frozen lakes for transport\n\n\"People think that ice is ice but appearances can be deceiving,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"People may think it's cold out, the ice must be fine but it really is the quality of the ice or the type of ice that's really important.\n\n\"Ice now gets frozen and thawed and when that happens there's water in-between the layers of the ice. So it may look hard and frozen, but it's not.\"\n\nResearchers say that despite efforts to educate, they expect that drowning events will likely increase in the future.\n\nThey are particularly worried about this winter, as people may be spending more time outdoors due to the pandemic, with potentially fatal results.\n\n\"Everything's closed right now, and more people are spending time in nature and where they might not have done so before,\" said Sapna Sharma.\n\n\"This year, it's forecast to be a warmer, wetter winter in Canada, so in combination with more people going outside that could be that could be quite dangerous.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Plos One.", "Protesters have condemned President Macron over his comments about Islam\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to agree a \"charter of republican values\" as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam.\n\nOn Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) 15 days to work with the interior ministry.\n\nThe CFCM has agreed to create a National Council of Imams, which will reportedly issue imams with official accreditation which could be withdrawn.\n\nIt follows three suspected Islamist attacks in little more than a month.\n\nThe charter will state that Islam is a religion and not a political movement, while also prohibiting \"foreign interference\" in Muslim groups.\n\nMr Macron has strongly defended French secularism in the wake of the attacks, which included the beheading of a teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion last month.\n\nLate on Wednesday, the president and his interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, met eight CFCM leaders at the Élysée palace.\n\n\"Two principles will be inscribed in black and white [in the charter]: the rejection of political Islam and any foreign interference,\" one source told the Le Parisien newspaper after the meeting.\n\nThe formation of the National Council of Imams was also agreed upon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. French President Emmanuel Macron says France 'will never give in'\n\nPresident Macron has also announced new measures to tackle what he called \"Islamist separatism\" in France.\n\nThe measures include a wide-ranging bill that seeks to prevent radicalisation. It was unveiled on Wednesday, and includes measures such as:\n\n\"We must save our children from the clutches of the Islamists,\" Mr Darmanin told the Le Figaro newspaper on Wednesday. The draft law will be discussed by the French cabinet on 9 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The French president led a vigil for Samuel Paty in Paris, attended by Mr Paty's family and about 400 guests\n\nSamuel Paty, the teacher who was killed outside his school last month, was targeted by an online hate campaign before his death on 16 October.\n\nLe Monde newspaper has published emails sent between Paty and colleagues in the days after he showed the cartoons in class.\n\n\"It's really distressing and particularly as it comes from a family whose child wasn't in my lesson and isn't someone I know,\" Paty wrote. \"It's becoming a malicious rumour.\"\n\nHe later wrote in a separate email: \"I won't do any more teaching on this topic - I'll choose another freedom as a subject for teaching.\"\n\nEarlier this year, President Macron described Islam as a religion \"in crisis\" and defended the right of magazines to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Such depictions are widely regarded as taboo in Islam and are considered highly offensive by many Muslims.\n\nFollowing these comments, the French leader became a figure of hate in several Muslim-majority countries. Protesters have also called for a boycott of French products.\n\nIn France, state secularism (laïcité) is central to the country's national identity. Freedom of expression in schools and other public spaces is part of that, and curbing it to protect the feelings of a particular religion is seen as undermining national unity.\n\nClarification 23 November: This article has been amended to make clear that identification numbers already exist for many school pupils, but under these plans would be extended to include all children.", "The UK has one of the largest defence budgets in the world\n\nThe UK is to \"overhaul its approach to foreign policy\" as part of a government review, Downing Street has announced.\n\nNo 10 says insights from internal and external experts will challenge \"traditional Whitehall assumptions\".\n\nThe diplomatic service, tackling organised crime, the use of technology and the procurement of military supplies will all be looked at.\n\nThe review will also seek \"innovative ways\" to promote UK interests while committing to spending targets.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative manifesto promised that the UK would continue to spend 0.7% of gross national income on international aid. The party also said it would exceed the Nato target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defence.\n\nBoris Johnson's new government faces a number of foreign policy challenges including securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian recently predicted the two sides would \"rip each other apart\" during negotiations which are due to begin on Monday.\n\nThe UK is also hoping to secure a trade deal with the US but relations have been strained by the prime minister's decision to use Huawei to build the 5G network in the face of US opposition.\n\nThe government is also keen to strengthen ties with China, but some of the prime minister's own MPs - including Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat - have cautioned against allowing Chinese companies' heavy involvement in projects such as the 5G network and HS2.\n\nSetting out details of the Integrated Review - first announced in December's Queen's Speech - Number 10 said Brexit presented \"new opportunities to define and strengthen Britain's place in the world\".\n\nIts remit, as set out by the government, is to:\n\nIn a written statement, the prime minister said a cross-Whitehall team in the Cabinet Secretariat and a \"small taskforce\" in Number 10 will report to him and the National Security Council during the review.\n\n\"The review will be closely aligned with this year's Comprehensive Spending Review but will also look beyond it,\" he said in the statement.\n\nExperts \"beyond Whitehall\" in the UK and \"among our allies\" will be consulted, Mr Johnson said, and Parliament will be kept \"fully informed\".\n\nThe review is expected to conclude later this year.\n\nThe UK is seeking to negotiate a new trade deal with both the US and the EU\n\nThe government says it will \"utilise expertise from both inside and outside government for the review, ensuring the UK's best foreign policy minds are feeding into its conclusions and offering constructive challenge to traditional Whitehall assumptions and thinking\".\n\nThe UK's last full-scale security and defence review was completed in late 2015, before the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nBut Mr Tugendhat suggested it had been more than 20 years since a British government comprehensively reviewed its foreign policy objectives and the \"tools\" needed to achieve them.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today it would premature to speculate on whether any \"rejigging\" of defence and aid priorities would result in cuts to manpower in any of the armed services.\n\n\"We all know that the fundamental decisive factor in battle, whether that is in sea, land or air, is people. It is basically draining the resources of your enemy and undermining their ability to fight,\" he said.\n\n\"That can be done in different ways - sometimes it is done by infantry soldiers... sometimes it is done by ships denying access to areas or protecting convoys and sometimes it is done by RAF pilots flying drones... All of these are different tools.\"\n• None The tough questions facing the UK and US", "A report into allegations Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff should be made public, the prime minister's adviser on standards in public life has said.\n\nFormer MI5 chief Lord Evans warned that unresolved inquiries into ministers' conduct undermined public trust.\n\nA Cabinet Office investigation into allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March.\n\nShe has always strongly denied claims that she bullied staff.\n\nIn February Sir Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the Home Office, resigned saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\". He is pursuing an employment tribunal claim.\n\nThe Committee on Standards in Public Life advises the prime minister on ethical standards across public life in England and is chaired by ex-MI5 boss Lord Evans of Weardale.\n\nThe Times first reported that Lord Evans wanted the Patel report to be made public.\n\nHe told the BBC he was not in a position to judge the accuracy of the complaints about the home secretary but said the public needed to know that allegations are \"properly and independently investigated\".\n\n\"We want to make sure the system we have in place can resolve those issues so that people can have confidence the standards are being upheld in the right places and by everybody involved,\" he told Radio 4's The World at One.\n\nLord Evans was appointed Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public life in October 2018\n\nAsked specifically about Ms Patel's case he said there may be \"good reasons\" why some findings are not published but argued that any causes for delay should be explained.\n\n\"I think because they are left hanging in the air people are worried about it and that tends to reduce people's trust.\"\n\nHe also said that the process of investigating ministers should be more independent and transparent - and he suggested taking the responsibility for triggering such inquiries away from the prime minister.\n\nIn an interview with the Times, he said because the report on Ms Patel had not been published \"it is very difficult to know whether there was something here or whether there wasn't\".\n\nResponding to Lord Evans' comments, Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"It is a disgrace that the report into allegations of bullying against the home secretary is being suppressed.\n\n\"Continuing to refuse to release the report not only makes clear that the Tories have something to hide, it also undermines trust in politics at a crucial time - the report must be published without further delay.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The process is ongoing and the prime minister will make any decision on the matter public once the process has concluded.\"", "Travellers returning to England from Israel and Sri Lanka will no longer need to quarantine from Saturday.\n\nNamibia, Rwanda, the US Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba and the Northern Mariana Islands were also added to the travel corridor list.\n\nHowever, current rules ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.\n\nThe exemption also applies to those returning to Wales and Northern Ireland, but people returning to Scotland will need to self-isolate.\n\nNo countries have been removed from the list, which is updated weekly by the Department for Transport.\n\nThe DfT said the additions are due to \"a decrease in risk from coronavirus in these countries\".\n\nIt said the new exemptions, which come into effect at 04:00 GMT on Saturday, apply to Israel and Jerusalem in their entirety. For the occupied West Bank, only people returning from East Jerusalem would not need to quarantine. The rest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not covered by the lifting of the rules.\n\nScotland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said it had been decided not to change the country's travel corridor list this week.\n\nIt comes as more than two million people are to be placed under Scotland's toughest Covid lockdown restrictions from Friday.\n\nDr Smith said: \"This approach aligns with the other home nations when they went into stricter measures several weeks ago and we will continue to closely monitor the global situation.\"\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, Estonia, Hong Kong, Iceland, mainland Greece, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Singapore and South Korea are among the countries on the DfT list where returning travellers do not need to self-isolate.\n\nBut anyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 14 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nIn England, foreign travel is currently only permitted for work, education or if someone has another valid reason.\n\nPeople can only travel in and out of Wales with a reasonable excuse, such as going to work or school.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, people are advised to only travel for necessary reasons and to \"carefully consider\" their holiday and travel options, in light of the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, people living in higher risk areas should avoid unnecessary travel to other places.", "Cineworld introduced extra safety measures in its cinemas including wearing masks and social distancing\n\nCineworld is looking to arrange a rescue deal that could mean UK cinema closures, the BBC understands.\n\nOne option being discussed with bank lenders is a company voluntary arrangement, an insolvency process that could help Cineworld cut its rent bill.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, which first reported the news, Cineworld has appointed restructuring experts AlixPartners.\n\nLike other cinema chains, Cineworld has been hit hard by the lockdown.\n\nThe company reported a huge loss for the first six months of the year after it was forced to temporarily close some cinemas, and movie studios delayed the release of some blockbusters.\n\nThe cinema giant warned in September that it might need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions or film delays due to Covid-19.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has hit the film and entertainment industry hard. Cineworld swung to a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) loss for the six months to June as its cinemas were forced to close as a result of Covid lockdowns.\n\nAlthough cinemas reopened when restrictions were relaxed, delays in big budget releases - such as the new James Bond movie - led Cineworld to temporarily close its UK cinemas on 9 October until further notice.\n\nRival Odeon cut opening hours in October for the same reason, and all cinemas in England have been closed during the second lockdown which began on 5 November. Cinemas can open in Scotland if they meet certain criteria, but Cineworld is closed throughout the UK.\n\nThe chain has been in talks with lenders to try to negotiate waivers on banking agreements, which fall due in December and in June next year.\n\nCompany voluntary arrangements (CVA) have been used by retailers are part of restructurings to push through closures and rent cuts. But they have faced opposition from landlords.\n\nHowever, a source stressed to the BBC that a CVA was only one option being discussed.\n\nThe Financial Times said Cineworld had been individually negotiating with landlords for rent cuts at its 127 sites.", "Stormont ministers are continuing to meet in a bid to reach agreement on further Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann had warned more interventions were necessary before the end of this month.\n\nOtherwise, he said a full lockdown in mid-December would not be enough to stop hospital services being overwhelmed.\n\nThe executive has been considering advice from health officials throughout the afternoon.\n\nIt is thought discussions will continue into Thursday evening, with ministers taking a brief adjournment until 18:00 GMT.\n\nIt is believed that is to allow health officials to take some of the minister's advice and put it into formal recommendations.\n\nSeveral Stormont sources said it appeared all the parties were \"in the right space\" to support Mr Swann's proposals, reported BBC News NI's Jayne McCormack.\n\nThe DUP, which previously opposed the extension of some restrictions, has indicated it may support recommendations this time - given the advice being presented by health officials.\n\nClose-contact services, cafes and coffee shops are set to reopen this Friday but restrictions on pubs, restaurants and hotels will expire at midnight next Thursday.\n\nIt is understood the minister has also asked the executive to consider the possible introduction of local, legally enforceable travel restrictions.\n\nUntil now, the executive has only advised against \"unnecessary travel\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health has said Northern Ireland will initially be in line for up to 4.35 million doses of vaccines when they are eventually made available.\n\nTwo of the leading vaccines - Pfizer and AstraZeneca - have completed their final trials and are seeking authorisation.\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed to the Press Association that NI would receive 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and 2.85 million doses of AstraZeneca.\n\nIt said this will be in line with allocations made through the Barnett Formula.\n\nIt is possible they could be available for use in the UK by the end of December.\n\nOn Thursday, the Department of Health confirmed 12 coronavirus-related deaths in the previous 24 hours, bringing the department's death toll to 901.\n\nThere were 487 new cases of the virus recorded.\n\nThere are also 456 people being treated in hospitals in Northern Ireland for Covid-19, with 41 in ICU and 32 on ventilators.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland four further coronavirus-related deaths and 429 new cases were recorded on Wednesday.\n\nThe Irish Department for Health said there were 290 patients being treated in hospital, and there were 33 people in ICU.\n\nThere have been 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.\n\nThursday's full meeting at Stormont is the first since last week's row over extending some regulations.\n\nDUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party was focused on finding consensus and said Arlene Foster had \"spent a lot of time this week talking to her fellow ministers, trying to get people back together\"..\n\n\"If the infection rate is rising and the current restrictions are not working, we need to learn the lessons of that,\" he told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster.\n\nThe marked change in tone from the DUP is certainly significant.\n\nJust seven days ago, the party was the loudest advocate against more restrictions on hospitality, and Arlene Foster had insisted the regulations would fall away on 27 November.\n\nThe party's attitude to lockdown measures has changed, which senior figures put down to the rising rates of infection - something health officials had already warned of last week.\n\nHowever it's thought the DUP wants more measures introduced as lockdown on its own does not appear to be doing enough.\n\nThe atmosphere around the executive table appears very different today, so far - with the potential that consensus could be reached by the five parties.\n\nBut we have been here before, and it could still take time before any final decision is reached.\n\nIf the executive does now reach agreement, some may wonder what the difficult events of last week were all about.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Swann said he would bring a range of options to ministers including restrictions and initiatives.\n\nHe said the measures were aimed at restricting the spread of Covid-19 ahead of Christmas.\n\nNI's Chief Scientific Adviser Prof Ian Young has said the R-rate - the rate of transmission of the virus - in Northern Ireland is currently sitting at \"around one\", and has risen since schools reopened two weeks ago.\n\nSir Jeffrey said his party would \"work with the health minister and other ministers in the executive to arrive at a consensus\".\n\n\"I certainly hope we're not in a position where anyone has to use a veto in this situation and we're working closely with the health minister and with other ministers to arrive at a set of proposals that people can agree to on all sides,\" he added.\n\nHospitality Ulster chief executive Colin Neill said not being able to open on 27 November would be \"devastating\" for businesses.\n\n\"If we are not open, the current funding does not save the businesses, and furlough is not free,\" he said.\n\nBut Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) in NI, said easing restrictions now would see \"us paying the price further down the road\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Swann has written to the UK government asking for four million fast-turnaround Covid-19 tests.\n\nThe Department of Health confirmed Mr Swann's request for the fast tests, which would allow Northern Ireland's entire population to be tested.\n\nHowever, it is thought they would, if approved, more likely be used in a targeted way, by focusing on health workers or specific communities.", "Dame Nancy Rothwell told BBC Newsnight she had written to Zac Adan and apologised\n\nA university leader has apologised to a student who was allegedly \"racially profiled\" on campus by security officers.\n\nBut Manchester University's vice chancellor said she could not \"commit\" to meeting 19-year-old Zac Adan, due to an ongoing inquiry.\n\nFootage posted online showed Mr Adan held up against a wall at Fallowfield halls of residence.\n\nHe said he was accused of \"looking like a drug dealer\" by staff.\n\nDame Nancy Rothwell told BBC Newsnight she had written to Mr Adan and apologised but could not meet him \"because that could influence the investigation\".\n\nThe security staff have been suspended and an inquiry is ongoing, she said.\n\nMr Adan, a first year French and Linguistics student at the university, previously said he had been left \"traumatised\" after being stopped.\n\nReturning to his halls of residence after visiting a local shop, he had been asked to present his identification and \"the next thing I know I was being pinned up against the wall\", he said.\n\nZac Adan said he was left traumatised after being \"pinned against the wall\"\n\nMr Adan said: \"There was no conversation. They just pinned me up against the wall and said I looked like a drug dealer. Why? Because I am black and wearing a hoodie?\"\n\nDame Nancy said: \"I was very, very concerned by it, I've apologised to the student for the distress that he felt.\n\n\"I immediately suspended the staff and there is now an investigation ongoing.\"\n\nMr Adan, who moved to the UK from Italy a few years ago, said earlier this week that he wanted to talk to university leaders about the incident.\n\nDame Nancy said she would \"consider\" meeting Mr Adan in person but did not want to \"influence the investigation\", adding: \"Just as I won't meet with the security staff either. He has met with several of our staff.\"\n\nMr Adan had also been offered counselling, she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Lewis, 81, lost his two sons and wife within a week of each other\n\nMourners lined the streets to celebrate the lives of an adoring mother and her two sons who died within days of each other after contracting coronavirus.\n\nGladys Lewis, 74, from Pentre, and sons Dean, 44, Darren, 42, from Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, died within a week.\n\nOn Thursday people gathered outside St Peter's Church in Pentre to listen to the funeral service through loudspeakers.\n\nTheir family urged people to \"do their part\" to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nRelatives had previously described how the family had been careful to avoid catching Covid-19 because Gladys had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and Darren, who had Down's syndrome, had been on life support with pneumonia earlier in the year.\n\nFather Philip Leyshon and Father Haydn England Simon wear PPE face visors as they stand beside the coffins of Gladys, Dean and Darren Lewis the evening before their funeral\n\nRelatives, who were inside the church, had wanted the three funerals to be held at the same time so that they could be together.\n\nMourners wore masks and clapped as the three coffins were taken through the town.\n\nFather Haydn England-Simon, who led the service, said no family \"should ever go through\" what the Lewises had.\n\nDavid Lewis and his wife Gladys \"adored each other\"\n\nGrandmother Gladys Lewis died at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 29 October.\n\nThe next day her eldest son Dean was found unresponsive at his home in Treorchy. He had only gone out once a week to shop for his parents.\n\nHis younger brother Darren died on 2 November after being treated in intensive care at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\n\nThe family were unable to be with Darren before his death, due to them testing positive for Covid-19 and having to self-isolate.\n\nThe family at the beach when the children were younger\n\nThe grandmother-of-13 and great-grandmother-of-four would \"fight the world and win to make sure her children and grandchildren had what they needed and deserved\".\n\nDuring the service the family said Mrs Lewis had been married to husband David, 81, for 44 years after meeting him in Blackpool.\n\nThey were keen dancers and \"absolutely adored\" each other.\n\nFather-of-three Dean was said to have a \"heart of gold\", while Darren was a keen football fan.\n\nWriting in the order of service, the family said: \"As a family we cannot express how much your love, messages and support mean to us all.\"\n\nMourners clapped and paid their respects as the three hearses passed", "A lorry driver accused over the deaths of 39 migrants has told a court he was watching Netflix as people were allegedly loaded into his trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison dropped off a trailer containing Vietnamese migrants at a Belgian port and they were found dead the next day in Essex, jurors heard.\n\nMr Harrison told the court he did not know there were people in the trailer.\n\nThe 23-year-old, of Newry, County Down, denies manslaughter and being involved in a wider people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe court had previously been told the 39 victims, aged 15 to 44, suffocated in the sealed trailer en route from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex.\n\nGiving evidence in an Old Bailey trial Mr Harrison told jurors he had agreed to deal with \"stolen goods\" as he owed Mr Hughes over a drink-drive accident.\n\nPham Thi Tra My, 26, and Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, were among the victims\n\nThe court heard on 22 October 2019 Mr Harrison parked his lorry in northern France and said he expected to take a consignment of Coca-Cola before speaking with Mr Hughes, who instead told him it would be \"a load of stolen goods\".\n\nHe said he waited for 30 minutes for a Romanian he knew as Alex to arrive before setting off to get breakfast at McDonald's.\n\nMr Harrison said: \"Ronan was in contact with me to tell me to turn around and the man was there.\"\n\nHe said Alex was not present but another eastern European was and \"he clearly knew the lorry, what it was there for\".\n\n\"He goes to me, 'are you OK?' I said yes. He was telling me where he wanted me to go. His English was not really the best.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nMr Harrison said the man told him to \"close the curtains\" and \"lie down\" once he had moved his lorry.\n\nHe did as he was told and watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed, Mr Harrison told the court.\n\nHe told jurors: \"I got a bang on the door. He gives me a thumbs up and I move off. That's what I did. It was fairly quick, five minutes.\"\n\nAlisdair Williamson QC, defending, asked Mr Harrison: \"Did you - in order to work off your debt to Mr Hughes - agree that human beings could be put in the back of your trailer?\"\n\n\"No I did not,\" Mr Harrison replied.\n\nDuring cross-examination, prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said it was \"my case that you shut them into your trailer. Did you?\"\n\nMr Harrison replied: \"No I did not.\" When questioned further he added: \"I did not know they were [in the trailer].\"\n\nMr Harrison and Gheorge Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, deny 39 counts of manslaughter.\n\nMr Harrison, lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, of County Armagh, and Valentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, have denied being part of a wider people-smuggling conspiracy, which Nica has admitted he was involved in.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK will be less safe if it fails to strike a post-Brexit security deal with the EU, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer has said.\n\nNeil Basu told the BBC's Newscast podcast a deal was \"incredibly important for the safety and security of our country\".\n\nHe said he was hopeful of a better security and law enforcement agreement than the UK currently has.\n\nThe government said the safety and security of citizens was a priority.\n\nTalks between the UK and EU are ongoing ahead of the 31 December deadline for a deal.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but continues to follow current EU rules until the end of the year while negotiations take place.\n\nAny deal would need to be ratified by parliaments on both sides.\n\nOn security, the UK had wanted to maintain the same access to shared databases that it has now, but the EU says that is not on offer to non-members.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mr Basu told BBC Newscast: \"We need to negotiate a security treaty that either retains or improves on the current position that we've got today.\n\n\"It's incredibly important for the safety and security of our country. And I know the government gets that. And I know that that is what it's aiming for.\"\n\nWhen asked what a no-deal Brexit would mean for UK security, he said: \"The country would be less safe in a non-negotiated outcome where a security treaty wasn't forthcoming. That's the bottom line.\"\n\nMr Basu said he was keen to know the outcome of negotiations as soon as possible.\n\n\"We've made it very clear that we need as much time to negotiate those agreements with our European counterparts as possible, and we can't do that until the negotiations are finished,\" he said.\n\n\"We've been very clear to government right from the start of this process, and I'm confident they have listened to our concerns.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government said: \"The safety and security of our citizens is our top priority, and the UK will continue to be a global leader on security and one of the safest countries in the world.\n\n\"We are focused on reaching an agreement with the EU and there is a good degree of convergence in what the UK and EU are seeking to negotiate in terms of operational capabilities.\"\n\nIf it was impossible to reach an agreement, they said, \"we have well-developed and well-rehearsed plans in place\".\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"confident [the UK] will prosper\" outside the EU if a post-Brexit trade deal is not agreed with the bloc\".\n\nFollowing the most recent talks in Brussels, the UK's chief negotiator Lord David Frost said there had been \"progress\", while his EU counterpart Michel Barnier said he wanted \"future cooperation to be open but fair\" with the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe government is set to confirm a rescue package of emergency funding for sports impacted by the absence of spectators because of coronavirus.\n\nA bailout of several hundred million pounds will be announced on Thursday, consisting of both grants and loans.\n\nBoth rugby codes and horse racing will be among the 11 beneficiaries, although a range of sports in England will receive assistance.\n\nThe Premier League and English Football League will not be among them.\n\nThe government says the sport is wealthy enough to support itself.\n\nCricket will also not be among those receiving money.\n\nNigel Huddleston, the UK sports minister, has said he will be making a statement on financial support for the sport sector in the House of Commons on Thursday after weeks of talks with the Treasury.\n\nIn September, more than 100 sports bodies wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nThe coalition of organisations said they were \"united in our concern that at a time when our role should be central to the nation's recovery, the future of the sector is perilous\".\n\nThey also pointed to the £1.6bn of support that the arts sector received in July.\n\nSports were then asked to tell the government how much they estimated they would lose as a result of turnstiles being closed.\n\nIn a devastating blow to cash-strapped sports bodies, plans for a partial return of spectators from 1 October were scrapped amid a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTurnstiles have been closed since March, despite sports saying that pilot events with socially-distanced crowds have been achieved safely.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is working on allowing fans into stadiums in areas where rates of infections are deemed sufficiently low - possibly before Christmas.\n\n\"I understand the frustration over fans and we hope to get crowds back in the ground as soon as possible,\" Johnson said on Wednesday in response to a question from Karl McCartney, the Conservative MP for Lincoln.\n\nMeanwhile, the petition to exempt golf courses from the list of venues required to close during lockdown will be debated by MPs on 23 November, as will a similar one relating to gyms.\n• None See the scale of the problem in the game", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph showing them opening a card from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children.\n\nThe homemade gift was created by Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and is emblazoned with 73.\n\nThe photograph was taken earlier this week in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen, 94, was a 21-year-old princess when she married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947.\n\nTheir enduring relationship has lasted the longest of any British sovereign.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Buckingham Palace tweeted a message thanking \"everyone for their kind wishes\" for the Queen and Duke on their anniversary and sharing a picture of the couple on their honeymoon in Hampshire in 1947.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on their honeymoon in 1947 at Broadlands in Hampshire\n\nThe monarch was 21 when she married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, then 26, at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with their bridal party at Buckingham Palace on their wedding day\n\nThe Queen and the duke, 99, who has retired from public duties, are spending the lockdown at Windsor Castle in England and anniversary celebrations are expected to be low key.\n\nThere is no traditional gift, jewel or colour associated with 73rd wedding anniversaries in the UK.\n\nIn the new photograph, the Queen is wearing a pale blue double wool crepe dress by Stewart Parvin and a chrysanthemum brooch made from sapphires and diamonds set in platinum.\n\nThe couple are seated beside one another reading the colourful card from Prince William and Catherine's three children. They also have five other great-grandchildren. including one-year-old Archie, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who now live in California.\n\nEarlier this month, the monarch was seen wearing a face mask for the first time in public when she made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.\n\nShe subsequently led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, with commemorations scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC News uncovers evidence that women have not been told about serious abnormalities\n\nA BBC News investigation has uncovered failures in the diagnosis of serious medical issues during private baby scans.\n\nMore than 200 studios across the UK now sell ultrasound scans, with hundreds of thousands being carried out each year.\n\nBut the BBC has found evidence of women not being told about serious conditions and abnormalities.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission says there is good quality care in the industry but it has a \"growing concern\".\n\nSome diagnose medical issues while others market themselves as providers of souvenir images or video of the ultrasound. Most sell packages providing a \"reassurance scan\" to expectant mums.\n\nThe growing popularity of gender reveal parties means many women visit private baby scan studios to buy confetti cannons and balloons which unveil the sex of their baby after the scan.\n\nMany women BBC News spoke to said they had positive experiences at private studios, but we have also learned of instances where women said they were failed.\n\nCharlotte, from Manchester, attended a scan in Salford with one of the biggest franchises, Window to the Womb, to record her baby's sex for a party and check its wellbeing.\n\nBBC News has learned the sonographer identified a serious abnormality that meant the baby could not survive, where part or all of its head is missing, called anencephaly.\n\nBut rather than refer her immediately to hospital and provide a medical report, Charlotte was told the baby's head could not be fully seen and recommended to book an NHS anomaly scan.\n\nShe was also given a gender reveal cannon and a teddy bear containing a recording of its heartbeat as a present for her daughter.\n\nCharlotte only found out the baby could not survive the day after her gender reveal party, when she showed scan images to a family friend who was an experienced sonographer.\n\n\"I was distraught,\" Charlotte said. \"You've bonded with that baby.\"\n\n\"To get that news the next day, I then had to go and tell every single one of those people what happened.\n\n\"It's like a deep cut feeling,\" she added. \"All of it could have just been avoided, we could have processed the news all together as a family because I was with my mum and dad, I would have had the support there.\"\n\nCharlotte was given a teddy bear containing her baby's heartbeat even though the scan showed it could not survive\n\nWindow To The Womb has said all its staff are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council but BBC News has learned the sonographer who conducted the scan was not.\n\nThe company said: \"An anomaly was identified however the communication from the sonographer was not to the standard that we expect.\"\n\nIt apologised to Charlotte at the time. It says that the sonographer left shortly afterwards and the incident led to best practice being reinforced across its branches.\n\nThe profession of those scanning women, sonography, is not regulated like midwifery or radiography, leading some to question the quality of private baby scans and their interpretation.\n\n\"You're doing the most difficult scans at the trickiest time for the most anxious group of people with a workforce that you don't necessarily know their level of skills, expertise and what training they've actually had,\" said Jeanette Dickson, president of the Royal College of Radiologists.\n\nAlmost all sonographers are regulated separately as radiographers or midwives in the NHS, as are many in private studios.\n\nBut Dr Dickson says regulation of sonographers is necessary because of the growth of the industry.\n\n\"It matters now because of the massive increase in these companies,\" she said.\n\nDr Dickson says regulation of sonographers is needed\n\nSome baby scan studios say they do not diagnose medical problems but still sell scans offering \"reassurance\" which typically detect a heartbeat.\n\nOne of these companies, Meet Your Miracle, advertises scans which its website says \"visualise\" wellbeing.\n\nBBC News has seen messages from a WhatsApp group of the company's management and sonographers which shared and reviewed customer scans, sometimes during appointments.\n\nOne sonographer told the group she felt guilty after having to let a woman leave without informing her of a possible abnormality identified by a colleague as potentially being foetal hydrops, which has a very low chance of survival.\n\n\"I knew something was wrong straight away, didn't know what to do,\" reads one message from the sonographer.\n\nShortly after, she added: \"I feel terrible at saying nothing and I'm wracked with guilt for not saying anything.\"\n\nMessages from one company WhatsApp group reveal anxiety over not informing a woman about a potential abnormality\n\nDespite being a non-medical company, a former employee told the BBC women who were bleeding and in pain were accepted for scans, rather than being recommended to immediately contact the NHS.\n\nMeet Your Miracle says its scans are largely \"recreational\" and under its registration it cannot discuss any concerns unless they are relevant to the baby's heartbeat nor offer a potential diagnosis which requires further tests by the NHS.\n\nIt says it advises women bleeding and in pain to attend the NHS.\n\nThe NHS says bleeding during pregnancy is relatively common but advises women to contact their midwife or GP if bleeding from their vagina.\n\nBBC News looked at the practices of many private companies and also uncovered concerns about how the industry operates more widely including:\n\nThe findings reveal a \"catalogue of incredibly poor practice\", according to Jacqueline Torrington, a lecturer in medical ultrasound at City University London.\n\n\"[There is] an entire range of harms here, which are completely unnecessary,\" she said.\n\n\"It ranges from incredibly dangerous to anxiety inducing to false reassurance.\"\n\nWomen were allowed to bring partners to many private scans, but not NHS ones, early in the coronavirus pandemic\n\nIn England, all studios must register with the CQC, which regulates the care provided by services.\n\nBut BBC News has learned the CQC does not review samples of scans as part of its inspections and found a studio which had not been inspected since opening four years ago.\n\nThe CQC says it bases decisions over which studios to inspect on \"information of concern\" or according to risk.\n\nIt says there is good quality care in the industry as a whole but it has a \"growing concern\".\n\nStudios need only register with the regulator in Scotland if they are run by registered healthcare professionals. In Wales, businesses have to register only if a doctor is employed to interpret scans.\n\nIn a statement, the government said: \"We are committed to appropriate regulations for all health and care professions so patients can feel confident their care has been placed in safe and qualified hands.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Department of Health said it was not aware of any baby scan studios.\n\nNHS advice for pregnant women can be found here.\n\nMore from Noel on Twitter @noeltitheradge\n\nWhat are your experiences of private baby scan studios? You can get in touch in the following ways:\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old.\n\nMore data released from their continuing phase three trial suggests it works equally well in people of all ages and ethnicities.\n\nThe companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US.\n\nThe trial involved 41,000 people worldwide. Half were given the vaccine, and half a placebo.\n\nLast week, Pfizer and BioNTech published preliminary data suggesting the vaccine offered 90% protection against Covid-19 and said there were no safety concerns.\n\nThis was followed by data on a vaccine made by US company Moderna suggesting nearly 95% protection and similarly promising results from trials of another developed in Russia, called Sputnik.\n\nWednesday's data from Pfizer and BioNTech, which builds on last week's data, suggests the vaccine is 95% effective based on 170 cases of Covid-19 developing in volunteers.\n\nJust eight were in the group given the vaccine, suggesting it offers good protection. The rest of the cases were in the placebo group given a dummy jab.\n\nIn older adults, who are most at risk from the virus and have weaker immune systems, the vaccine worked as well as it did in younger people.\n\nScientists said the data was further encouraging news, with Prof Trudie Lang from the University of Oxford describing it as \"a remarkable and very reassuring situation\".\n\n\"To go from identifying a new virus to having several vaccines at the point of applying for regulatory approval is an incredible milestone for science,\" she said.\n\nAlthough the full trial data has yet to be published, the companies say there have been no serious safety concerns.\n\nBut they did notice fatigue in 3.8% of volunteers given the vaccine and headaches in 2%, both after the second dose, although older people seemed to experience minimal side effects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nThere is also evidence that the vaccine protects against severe Covid - but this is based on only 10 cases.\n\nIt's still unclear how long protection from the vaccine lasts and if it stops people transmitting the virus.\n\nIn the trial, 42% of all participants are from diverse ethnic backgrounds and 41% are aged between 56 and 85 years old.\n\nMore vaccine good news is what we've all been waiting for. This time it's really encouraging to know the Pfizer vaccine seems to work on older people as effectively as in younger ones.\n\nBut this vaccine is still a long way off widespread use. First, regulators need to be absolutely sure in their own minds that it's safe - not least because Moderna and Pfizer both use an experimental technology that's never been approved before.\n\nThat process could still take a few weeks. Then there's the massive issue of availability. Pfizer is promising 50 million doses by the end of the year. But remember: it's a two-shot vaccine.\n\nPerhaps one of the biggest problems is that wealthy countries have already swooped in to buy up the first batches that will be ready. That's good news for a country such as the UK, but not such good news for developing countries which haven't got the money to place bids.\n\nThat's why so much hinges on other vaccines such as the Oxford AstraZeneca one, as they may be more scalable, and there are more advanced plans to get it to low- and middle-income countries through a UN-backed project called Covax.\n\nThe trial, which is testing people at 150 sites in the US, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, will collect data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine for another two years.\n\nThe companies behind it expect to produce up to 50 million doses of the vaccine this year and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 40 million doses and should get 10 million by the end of the year.\n\nIt has also ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which is planning to release data from its phase three trial soon.\n\nThere are hundreds of vaccines in development around the world, and about a dozen in the final stages of testing, known as phase three.\n\nThe first two to show any results - made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - both use an experimental approach, called mRNA, which involves injecting part of the virus's genetic code into the body to train the immune system.\n\nAntibodies and T-cells are then made by the body to fight the coronavirus.\n\nThe Sputnik vaccine, developed in Russia, has also released early data from phase three based on a smaller number of volunteers and Covid cases.\n\nThere are some logistical challenges with mRNA vaccines, namely the need to store them at cold temperatures.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine must be stored at about minus 80C, although it can be kept in a fridge for five days.\n\nModerna's vaccine needs to be stored at minus 20C for up to six months and kept in a standard fridge for up to a month.\n\nProf Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the full data would have to be submitted to bodies like the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for approval.\n\n\"We can expect both agencies to conduct a very careful evaluation and we can rely on their conclusions,\" he said.\n\nThis process could take several weeks.\n\nCorrection 26 March 2021: This article was amended to make clear that fatigue was noted in a slightly higher percentage of volunteers than headaches after the second dose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and church goers took to their knees in prayer asking for protection from Iota\n\nAt least 30 people have lost their lives as the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year rips through areas of Central America.\n\nTens of thousands were forced to flee their homes as Hurricane Iota hit Nicaragua and neighbouring countries.\n\nThe rainfall is expected to cause mudslides and potentially deadly flash flooding and river flooding.\n\nWinds of 257km/h (160mph) have hit areas still recovering from Eta, a major hurricane that hit two weeks ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDeaths were recorded in Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Panama and El Salvador.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people have moved into shelters in the region.\n\nResidents recover a mattress from the debris of their house in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua\n\nA child pushes his bicycle through a flooded road in Honduras\n\nWinds of over 250 km/h have hit some areas\n\nThe hurricane remains significant but has now weakened in terms of wind strength and has sustained winds of 170km/h. It will continue to weaken as it moves further inland.\n\nIota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.\n\nPeople walk along a beach after the passing of Hurricane Iota Nicaragua\n\nThis year's Atlantic hurricane season has broken the record for the number of named storms. For only the second time on record officials have had to start using the letters of the Greek alphabet to start storm names after running out of names on its traditional alphabetical list.\n\nEta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead. At least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sedwill: Not all of Patel report will be public\n\nA report into allegations Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff is \"with\" the prime minister, a former head of the civil service has said.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill said Boris Johnson \"needs to reflect and make a decision\" following a fact-finding review led by a senior civil servant.\n\nA Cabinet Office inquiry was launched eight months ago into the allegations, which Ms Patel denies.\n\nA spokesman for the PM said he was not yet ready to publish the findings.\n\nThe spokesman added that the probe into Ms Patel's behaviour - which was launched when Sir Mark was cabinet secretary - was an \"ongoing process\".\n\nLabour has previously called for the report to be published \"without further delay,\" claiming trust in politics has been undermined as a result.\n\nAn official investigation into the facts of Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March, when Sir Mark was in charge of the UK civil service.\n\nThe probe was launched to investigate whether she had breached the ministerial code - the official rulebook for government ministers.\n\nIn February, Sir Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the Home Office, resigned, saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\".\n\nHe is pursuing an employment tribunal claim for constructive dismissal.\n\nSir Mark said Mr Johnson had begun consulting his independent adviser on ministers' interests, Sir Alex Allan, about the fact-finding review by the time his left his post in September.\n\n\"I think Alex had been in discussion with the prime minister,\" he told MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.\n\n\"I don't know the exact date of when that part of the process was submitted to the PM, but it was under way, and it's with him as I understand it now.\n\n\"The process was: establish the facts, have Alex Allan consider it, because the prime minister wanted his advice, and the prime minister needs to reflect and make a decision.\n\n\"That, as I understand it, is still in train.\"\n\nA decision on whether to publish the report will be made by Mr Johnson - who also has the ultimate power to decide whether the ministerial code has been breached.\n\nSir Mark suggested the full report might never be published, to protect the confidentiality of those interviewed as part of the inquiry.\n\n\"It is a decision in the end for the PM whether he publishes anything,\" he said.\n\n\"But [they] would have to be very careful, if there were any publication, to respect the basis on which individuals interviewed in the process had submitted their evidence.\n\n\"That doesn't mean you can't publish or release anything, but it does mean you have to be careful about it.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said: \"Once we are in a position to make public the prime minister's conclusions then we will do so, but we are not at that point yet.\"", "Fifteen pro-democracy lawmakers resigned this month in protest at China's new rules\n\nChina has strongly rebuked the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada after being accused of a concerted effort to silence critics in Hong Kong.\n\nThe countries, which form the Five Eyes alliance, criticised China's imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong.\n\nThey urged Beijing to reverse course.\n\nA Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded that if countries \"dared harm China's sovereignty, they should beware that their eyes could be blinded\".\n\n\"The Chinese never stir trouble , but they aren't afraid of trouble either,\" Zhao Lijian told journalists in Beijing on Thursday, saying it did not \"matter if they had five or 10 eyes\".\n\nLast week, Hong Kong expelled four pro-democracy lawmakers from its legislature after Beijing passed a resolution allowing the city's government to dismiss politicians deemed a threat to national security.\n\nIn response, all of Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers announced their resignation. For the first time since the UK handed the territory back to China in 1997, the body has almost no dissenting voices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claudia Mo: \"We have given up the legislative fight at least for the time being.\"\n\nThe dismissal of the four lawmakers was viewed by many as the latest attempt by China to restrict Hong Kong's freedoms, something Beijing denies.\n\nForeign ministers from the Five Eyes group urged China to reinstate them, saying the move was a clear breach of Beijing's legally binding commitments to protect the territory's freedoms and autonomy.\n\nThey also accused Beijing of undermining the rights of people in Hong Kong to elect their representatives.\n\nFive Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance of the five Anglophone countries set up during the Cold War and initially developed to monitor the USSR and its allies.\n\nEarlier, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong said any attempt by foreign states to threaten or pressure Beijing to make concessions was \"doomed to fail\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history behind Hong Kong's identity crisis and protests - first broadcast November 2019\n\nHong Kong was returned to China under the \"one country, two systems\" principle, which allowed it to retain more rights and freedoms than the mainland until 2047.\n\nAs a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong was to have its own legal system, multiple political parties, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech.\n\nBut in late June China passed a controversial, far-reaching national security law in the territory after years of pro-democracy and anti-Beijing protests, which reduced Hong Kong's autonomy and made it easier to punish demonstrators. It criminalises \"secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces\".\n\nBeijing says the law will return stability to the territory, but western governments and human rights groups say it effectively curtails freedom of speech and protest. After the law was introduced, a number of pro-democracy groups disbanded out of fears for their safety.\n\nEarlier this month, a reporter who helped investigate suspected police involvement in a violent attack on protesters last year was arrested, in what journalists said was a tactic to discourage reporting.\n\nIn response to the security law, the UK offered Hong Kong residents still holding British National Overseas (BNO) status a route to British citizenship.\n\nAround 300,000 people currently hold BNO passports, while an estimated 2.9 million people born before the handover are eligible for one. China last month strongly criticised the UK in response, telling London to \"immediately correct its mistakes\".", "The song was a duet between The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl\n\nBBC Radio 1 will not play the original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics.\n\nThe station said young listeners were particularly sensitive to derogatory terms for gender and sexuality.\n\nIt will instead play an edited version with different lyrics sung by MacColl.\n\nBut the 1987 original will still be played on Radio 2, while 6 Music DJs can choose between the two versions.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We know the song is considered a Christmas classic and we will continue to play it this year, with our radio stations choosing the version of the song most relevant for their audience.\"\n\nThe duet is one of the most enduring Christmas pop songs, having returned to the UK top 20 every year since 2005. Along with a string of other festive favourites, it is now rising the chart again, at 59 in the current midweek chart.\n\nThe track is regularly voted one of the UK's favourite Christmas songs\n\nBut Radio 1 has decided younger listeners who are unfamiliar with the track would find some of the words stark and not in line with what they would expect to hear on air.\n\nThe new edited version changes two lines - one swapped for an alternative version in which MacColl sings \"You're cheap and you're haggard\" in place of a homophobic slur.\n\nMacColl sang the newly-added line on Top of the Pops in 1992. She died in a boat accident in Mexico eight years later, at the age of 41.\n\nThe same wording was used by Ronan Keating and Moya Brennan in their 2000 cover version. When Ed Sheeran and Anne-Marie performed the song in Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2017, she opted to call him a \"cheap lousy blagger\".\n\nIn Radio 1's newly-edited version, another line, sung by Shane MacGowan in the second verse, has a word removed entirely.\n\nRadio 1 has played the song in its original form in recent years, but the insults contained in the lyrics, sung in the form of a blazing row between an alcoholic and a heroin addict, have long been criticised by some.\n\nThe track was censored by Radio 1 back in 2007, but that decision was swiftly reversed after an outcry by its fans.\n\nAndy Parfitt, the station's controller at the time, explained the U-turn by saying its audiences were \"smart enough to distinguish between maliciousness and creative freedom\", and there was no \"negative intent behind the use of the words\".\n\nAled Haydn-Jones, who worked as producer of Chris Moyles' breakfast show at the time, was made head of Radio 1 this June.\n\nThe original song was a number two hit in 1987\n\nIn 2018, MacGowan defended the song, explaining: \"The word was used by the character because it fitted with the way she would speak and with her character. She is not supposed to be a nice person, or even a wholesome person.\n\n\"She is a woman of a certain generation at a certain time in history, and she is down on her luck and desperate. Her dialogue is as accurate as I could make it, but she is not intended to offend.\n\n\"She is just supposed to be an authentic character and not all characters in songs and stories are angels or even decent and respectable. Sometimes characters in songs and stories have to be evil or nasty in order to tell the story effectively.\"\n\nLast year, there were hundreds of complaints after Gavin and Stacey characters Nessa and Bryn sang the unedited version in the sitcom's seasonal special.\n\nThis Christmas, Radio 2 said it had considered the issue carefully and would continue to monitor listeners' views, but had decided to continue to play the original.\n\n6 Music, meanwhile, has said both versions can be played, at the discretion of each individual presenter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Fashion chains Peacocks and Jaeger have fallen into administration, putting more than 4,700 jobs and almost 500 shops at risk.\n\nIt comes after owner Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group failed to find a buyer for both businesses.\n\nNo redundancies have been announced yet and no stores closed.\n\nEWM Group blamed the pandemic for a collapse in trade, but said it was still in talks with potential buyers.\n\n\"In recent weeks we have had constructive discussions with a number of potential buyers for Peacocks and Jaeger,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"But the continuing deterioration of the retail sector due to the impact of the pandemic and second lockdown have made this process longer and more complex than we would have hoped.\"\n\nIt said that a \"standstill agreement\" secured with the High Court that temporarily put off administration had now expired.\n\n\"Therefore as directors we taken the desperately difficult decision to place Peacocks and Jaeger into administration while those talks continue,\" it said.\n\nJaeger is a London-based fashion business with 76 stores and concessions and employs 347 staff. Cardiff-based Peacocks operates 423 stores with 4,369 staff.\n\nSome Peacocks stores had already begun to shut following an announcement on 15 October.\n\nPhilip Day has quietly built a retail empire over the last 18 years and his huge footprint on high streets across the UK served him well. He did so by snapping up a string of businesses out of administration.\n\nCritics say he didn't do much with them. He didn't do much business online, either. That left him and his chains more exposed when shoppers stampeded to the internet during lockdown.\n\nMr Day still has Bonmarche, a business which he bought through a separate investment vehicle and isn't affected by the current insolvency process. It went into administration last year amid challenging trading conditions. He went on to buy it back, with fewer stores.\n\nWill he now do the same with Peacocks or walk away? According to the most recent company accounts, the EWM Group made a pre-tax profit of £31m in the six months until March 2019. It also had plenty of cash in the bank and next to no debt. How quickly things have unravelled.\n\nThe news come two weeks after Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group called in administrators for its eponymous clothing chain and its homeware brand Ponden Home, putting almost 3,000 more jobs at risk.\n\nTony Wright, joint administrator of the business from FRP Advisory, said talks with potential buyers for Jaeger and Peacocks were at an advanced stage, suggesting the brands could still be saved.\n\n\"Jaeger and Peacocks are attractive brands that have suffered the well-known challenges that many retailers face at present,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in advanced discussions with a number of parties and working hard to secure a future for both businesses.\"\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill (EWM) is owned by businessman Philip Day, who has a £1.14bn fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published in May 2020.", "Elisa Granato was one of the volunteers given the Oxford vaccine\n\nThe Oxford coronavirus vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk from the virus.\n\nResearchers say the Lancet phase two findings, based on 560 healthy adult volunteers, are \"encouraging\".\n\nThey are also testing whether the vaccine stops people developing Covid-19 in larger, phase three trials.\n\nEarly results from this crucial stage are expected in the coming weeks.\n\nThree vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech, Sputnik and Moderna - have already reported good preliminary data from phase three trials, with one suggesting 94% of over-65s could be protected from Covid-19.\n\nThe Oxford data is from an earlier stage, which tests the safety of the vaccine and the body's response to it, but in the long run it's likely this vaccine could be easier to roll out because it doesn't need to be stored at very cold temperatures.\n\nThe UK government has ordered more of the Oxford vaccine, manufactured by AstraZeneca, than any other - 100 million doses - compared to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and five million of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, study lead from the University of Oxford, told the BBC he was \"absolutely delighted with the results\" showing a strong immune response \"even in those over 70 years of age\".\n\nOn whether the vaccine protects people against Covid-19, he said they were \"not there yet\" but the data would probably be released \"before Christmas\".\n\nProf Pollard said there was \"no competition\" with other vaccines, adding that multiple vaccines needed to be successful.\n\n\"We will need all of them to protect people around the globe,\" he said.\n\nThe challenge with developing a Covid vaccine is to trigger the body to fight back against the virus no matter how old someone is.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nOlder people's weaker immune systems mean vaccines do not tend to function as well as they do in younger people.\n\nThese trial results from the University of Oxford, peer-reviewed in the Lancet, suggest that may not be a problem.\n\nThey show that older adults aged 56-69 and over 70 had a similar immune response to younger adults aged 18-55.\n\nDr Maheshi Ramasamy, an investigator at the Oxford Vaccine Group, said: \"The next step will be to see if this translates into protection from the disease itself.\"\n\nTwo weeks after the second dose, more than 99% of participants had neutralising antibody responses. These included people of all ages.\n\nThe T-cell response - another measure of how well the immune system responds - peaked two weeks after the first dose of the vaccine, regardless of age.\n\n\"The robust antibody and T-cell responses seen in older people in our study are encouraging,\" Dr Ramasamy said.\n\n\"The populations at greatest risk of serious Covid-19 disease include people with existing health conditions and older adults.\n\n\"We hope that this means our vaccine will help to protect some of the most vulnerable people in society, but further research will be needed before we can be sure.\"\n\nOlder adults were also less likely to experience side-effects, which were usually mild.\n\nAnd there were no serious safety issues relating to the vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCov-2019.\n\nVolunteers in the trial were put into groups and given one or two doses of the vaccine or a dummy jab. The reaction of their immune systems was assessed on the day they got the jab, then one, two and four weeks after both doses.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus (known as an adenovirus) from chimpanzees that has been modified so it cannot grow in humans.\n\nWork began on the vaccine in January and it was developed in under three months, starting human trials - the first in Europe - in April in Oxford.\n\nPhase three trials of the vaccine, which look at how effective it is at protecting people against the Covid-19, started at the end of August and are still continuing.\n\nWhen data from this stage is sent to the regulators, scrutinised and approved, the vaccine can be given the green light to be used on people worldwide.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is expected to be easier to manufacture on a global scale than Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine, and the university is committed to making hundreds of millions of doses available to the developing world.\n\nThe UK's large order of the vaccine means that if it is approved before Christmas and becomes available early next year, it would make a major difference to how quickly Covid vaccines could be given to people in priority groups.\n\nNews of the vaccine comes amid a debate in the UK about whether people will be able to see their families over the Christmas period.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies - told the BBC that family gatherings at Christmas would pose \"substantial risks\".\n\n\"We're on the cusp of being able to protect those elderly people, who we love, through vaccination,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It would be tragic to throw that opportunity away... by trying to return to normality over the holidays.\"\n\nHe added: \"My personal view is we're putting far too much emphasis on having a near-normal Christmas.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The first vaccination against coronavirus is expected to be delivered in Scotland next month, the health secretary has announced.\n\nJeane Freeman said the NHS would be ready to vaccinate people from the first week of December if safety approval is given.\n\nIt is hoped up to one million people could be vaccinated by the end of January if there are no delays.\n\nFrontline NHS and care workers will be among the first recipients.\n\nMs Freeman said distributing the vaccine would be one of \"the biggest civilian logistical challenges in our lifetime\".\n\nA total of three vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford and Moderna - have already reported good preliminary data from trials.\n\nThe health secretary said it was not yet known which vaccines would be approved for use or precisely when the first doses would be delivered.\n\nShe added: \"The safety of the Covid-19 vaccine is paramount to us.\n\n\"Scotland has a strong track record of delivering immunisation programmes, but this programme will be the largest of its kind ever undertaken.\n\n\"NHS Boards will identify acceptable and accessible locations, both for mass vaccination and for local access.\n\n\"We will be getting in touch with the first priority groups in the coming weeks and I urge people to take up the vaccine when they are offered it.\"\n\nMs Freeman said that if the vaccines at the most advanced stage get regulatory approval then the Scottish government hopes to have 320,000 doses to deploy in the first two weeks of December.\n\nThe UK government health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said the NHS in the rest of the UK is ready to begin delivering the Pfizer vaccine from the start of next month but warned what was \"more likely is that we may be able to start rolling it out before Christmas\".\n\nEveryone over the age of 18 in Scotland, a total of 4.4m people, will be offered the vaccination by the end of the programme.\n\nMs Freeman suggested this could be achieved by the spring of next year. A senior Scottish government health source later said the aim was to vaccinate all over-18s \"as fast as possible\" but stressed there was \"no firm delivery timetable\".\n\nThe priorities for the first wave of vaccine distribution, from December to February, are:\n\nThe next tranche of immunisations is expected to take place from February if there are no delays. It will target those over the age of 65 and younger people with extra clinical risks.\n\nThey will be followed by the wider general population.\n\nA workforce of about 2,000 vaccinators will be needed, and support from the military will be provided to ensure the vaccination programme runs smoothly.\n\nMs Freeman said the NHS was looking at mirroring some aspects of the flu jab programme for the rollout of the vaccine\n\nThe logistics of how the vaccines are transported and stored are still being addressed, she added.\n\nThe vaccines will be delivered in a range of public locations, as well as through mobile sites and in some cases in people's homes.\n\nWalk-through and drive-through clinics being used for the flu vaccination programme are being considered for use in the rollout of the Covid vaccine.\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said lessons needed to be learned from the \"chaotic\" flu vaccination programme.\n\nShe added: \"The ambition to deliver one million vaccinations by the end of January needs to be matched by resources and investment in staff, and a clear plan on logistics.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesman Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said distributing the vaccine would be \"one of the biggest public health exercises in history\".\n\nHe said: \"The national booking service will be critical to an orderly rollout of a Covid-19 vaccination, so we need more details of how this will be established urgently.\"", "Content moderators say they have Facebook's \"most brutal job\"\n\nMore than 200 Facebook workers from around the world have accused the firm of forcing its content moderators back to the office despite the risks of contracting coronavirus.\n\nThe claims came in an open letter that said the firm was \"needlessly risking\" lives to maintain profits.\n\nThey called on Facebook to make changes to allow more remote work and offer other benefits, such as hazard pay.\n\nFacebook said \"a majority\" of content reviewers are working from home.\n\n\"While we believe in having an open internal dialogue, these discussions need to be honest,\" a spokesperson for the company said.\n\n\"The majority of these 15,000 global content reviewers have been working from home and will continue to do so for the duration of the pandemic.\"\n\nIn August, Facebook said staff could work from home until the summer of 2021.\n\nBut the social media giant relies on thousands of contractors, who officially work for other companies such as Accenture and CPL, to spot materials on the site that violate its policies, such as spam, child abuse and disinformation.\n\nThe letter comes a day after Mr Zuckerberg was grilled by Washington lawmakers over its handling of problematic posts\n\nIn the open letter, the workers said the call to return to the office had come after Facebook's efforts to rely more on artificial intelligence to spot problematic posts had come up short.\n\n\"After months of allowing content moderators to work from home, faced with intense pressure to keep Facebook free of hate and disinformation, you have forced us back to the office,\" they said.\n\n\"Facebook needs us. It is time that you acknowledged this and valued our work. To sacrifice our health and safety for profit is immoral.\"\n\nThis letter gives a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into what is happening at Facebook - and all is not well.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's dream is that AI moderation will one day solve some of the platform's problems.\n\nThe idea is that machine learning and sophisticated software will automatically pick up and block things like hate speech or child abuse.\n\nFacebook claims that nearly 95% of offending posts are picked up before they are flagged.\n\nYet it's still easy to find grim stuff on Facebook.\n\nOn Monday I published a piece showing the kinds of racist and misogynistic content aimed at Kamala Harris on the platform.\n\nFacebook removed some of the content, however even though I flagged it to Facebook, some of it is still there - a week after I reported it.\n\nWhat this letter suggests is that AI is simply not working as Facebook execs would hope.\n\nOf course, these are voices of moderators - Facebook will have a different take.\n\nYou could also argue that human voices may have a vested interest to say AI doesn't work.\n\nBut clearly, as the spotlight is well and truly on Facebook, there are internal problems that have now spilled out into the open.\n\nFacebook said the reviewers have access to health care and that it had \"exceeded health guidance on keeping facilities safe for any in-office work\".\n\nBut the workers said only those with a doctor's note are currently excused from working in an office and called on Facebook to offer hazard pay and make its contractors full-time staff.\n\n\"Before the pandemic, content moderation was easily Facebook's most brutal job. We waded through violence and child abuse for hours on end. Moderators working on child abuse content had targets increased during the pandemic, with no additional support,\" they said.\n\n\"Now, on top of work that is psychologically toxic, holding onto the job means walking into a hot zone.\"\n\nThe letter is addressed to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, as well as the chiefs of Accenture and CPL. It was organised by UK law firm Foxglove, which works on tech policy issues. More than 170 of the signatories were anonymous.\n\nFacebook is not the only company to face staff worries about in-person work amid the pandemic.\n\nAmazon has also come under fire for conditions in its warehouses, while outbreaks at firms from manufacturers to finance companies have stirred fears.\n\nIt comes just a day after Washington lawmakers grilled Mr Zuckerberg on the firm's content review policies.", "Customers queue outside Game in Westfield in Stratford, east London\n\nMany customers hoping to get hold of a PlayStation 5 on its launch day have been left disappointed after online retailers sold out of the console.\n\nIn an email to customers, Game blamed courier firm Yodel, which has strenuously denied it is at fault, for some pre-ordered consoles not being delivered on launch day.\n\nCurrys PC World and John Lewis had sold out of the PS5 by lunchtime.\n\nThat led some gamers to pay nearly double the retail price on eBay.\n\nThe PS5 was released in the UK on 19 November but lockdown has meant that people cannot purchase one in physical stores. The US launch took place last week.\n\nCurrys PC World was forced to institute a virtual queuing system which grew to 150,000 long.\n\nJohn Lewis was among retailers that have struggled with demand\n\nThere were also issues with the PlayStation 5 order pages on Game, Amazon, Tesco and John Lewis's websites, which failed to load or appeared broken for many visitors.\n\nMatt, 29 from Essex, who tried to order a PS5 online but could not get one, said he was \"very disappointed\" with how the launch had been handled.\n\nHe said: \"There's clearly not been sufficient stock made available by Sony, and the suppliers haven't managed sales well either, none of my stock alerts worked, and I visited websites when I could only to find the consoles hadn't been listed yet or were already sold out.\n\n\"To make matters worse some consoles are now cropping up on second hand sales sites at double the price due to the severe lack of supply, and it's worrying that some people may buy them when they should have been able to get one at launch day.\"\n\nCurrys PC World said it had sold 12,000 PS5s but was sorry for those unable to get their hands on one, although it assured customers there would be \"other chances in the lead up to Christmas\".\n\nJohn Lewis tweeted that consoles had sold out at 10:00 GMT.\n\nThose hoping to receive their consoles today are from pre-orders that took place in September. Many people who were not allocated a pre-order tried to buy a console when launch day stock went on sale at 09:00.\n\nSome people pre-ordering from one of the largest retailers, Game, faced disappointment if they were expecting to unbox their goods on launch day.\n\nIn an email to customers, Game said: \"Due to the volume of PlayStation 5s in the UK market and the size of the product, the launch has led to UK-wide delivery challenges for all retailers and couriers.\"\n\nIt goes on to say that it has had to use \"multiple couriers\" to get the consoles delivered on time but then singled out Yodel, saying the firm has \"informed us that not all orders due to be delivered by them will be delivered on release day\".\n\nGame customers received this message, which blamed Yodel for late deliveries\n\nYodel issued a furious clarification about its role. \"Yodel does not work directly with Game. Our client is GFS, a fulfilment business who work in partnership with Game,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We have been consistently clear on the order volumes we are able to carry for them and it is deeply disappointing that Yodel's name has been incorrectly used in an email to customers on the status of orders.\"\n\nIt said there were \"currently no delays within our network\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGame has since clarified that the \"vast majority\" of deliveries would be made on time, with the remainder coming a day later.\n\nConsumers should take note that if they try and call GFS directly and use the telephone number listed at the top of its website, they face up to about a £4 charge for a five minute call, despite the fact the firm's home page does not mention a fee.\n\nNevertheless, the delays have led to customers venting frustration on Twitter - much of it targeted at Yodel.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of those who had pre-ordered from Game asked why they had paid an extra fee to have a Royal Mail delivery that has now been given to another courier firm.\n\nOthers reported delays with orders from Amazon and other retailers.\n\nSome gamers went to online auction site eBay, with many paying double the recommended retail price.\n\nThe vast majority of listings were sold between £700 and £800, despite the disc edition costing £449.99 and the digital edition at £349.99 - however, some bids pushed beyond the £1,000 mark.\n\nHe added he had resigned himself to having to wait until after Christmas.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, a gaming analyst with research firm Ampere said demand for both the PS5 and the new Xbox consoles had been very strong and would probably \"come in waves as the product is restocked\".\n\n\"Clearly it is disappointing for consumers that have pre-ordered not to receive their console on launch day. The situation is exacerbated as there is no opportunity to buy on launch day at physical retail as in the past.\n\n\"Whether you are impacted or not appears to come down to the retailer you pre-ordered with which indicates that this is a company-specific issue rather than a broader industry problem. The UK is not alone in this respect - some US retailers also had their challenges last week during the launches.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Defence spending a boost for \"safety of the British people\"\n\nA \"once-in-a-generation modernisation\" of the armed forces is required to extend British influence and protect the public, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs a new four-year funding deal would protect \"hundreds of thousands\" of jobs and create 40,000 new roles.\n\n\"I have decided that the era of cutting our defence budget must end, and it ends now,\" he said.\n\nLabour welcomed more defence spending but asked how it would be funded.\n\nOutlining the new package in the Commons, the PM - speaking over video link as he is self-isolating - said the benefits \"will go far beyond our armed forces\".\n\nMr Johnson described the increase in defence spending as being worth £16.5bn in new money over four years.\n\nHowever economist Ben Zaranko, from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said that while this represented a big rise in spending, the figure of £16.5bn was a \"misleading way to present this announcement\".\n\nHe continued: \"It would be more accurate to say that by 2024-25, defence spending will be £7bn higher than it would have been under previous plans.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Our plans will safeguard hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry, protecting livelihoods across the UK and keeping the British people safe.\"\n\nThe PM pledged to end defence budget cuts, protect shipping lanes that supply the country, press on with renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent and restore Britain as \"the foremost naval power in Europe\" with a \"renaissance of British shipbuilding across the UK\".\n\nHe also said the funding would allow investment in new technology such as:\n\n\"From aerospace to autonomous vehicles, these technologies have a vast array of civilian applications opening up new vistas of economic progress, creating 10,000 jobs every year - 40,000 in total - levelling-up across our country and reinforcing our union,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nThis is a big win for Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who's been fighting hard for a significant increase in defence spending and a long-term financial settlement to end what he calls a cycle of overambitious, under-funded defence reviews of the past.\n\nThe Treasury had been arguing for a much smaller annual increase. But Mr Wallace found an ally in the PM, who says his first priority is defence of the realm.\n\nBoris Johnson also believes it'll boost Britain's place in the world and create jobs.\n\nThe extra money will be used to modernise the armed forces with more spent on robots, autonomous systems and meeting new threats in the domains of space and cyber.\n\nDespite the palpable relief inside the MoD it still has to fill a £13bn black hole in its equipment budget. Difficult decisions about cutting old equipment to fund the new are still to be made.\n\nThe MoD, which doesn't have a strong track record of balancing its books, now has to prove it can spend wisely.\n\nAnd good news for defence might also mean bad news for other government departments - there's already speculation the international aid budget could be cut.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of making a \"spending announcement without a strategy\" and asked whether the money would be raised through cuts or tax rises, or both.\n\nMr Johnson did not respond to the question but said Sir Keir's record of support for the armed forces was \"very thin indeed\".\n\nFormer foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt urged Mr Johnson \"not to listen to any voices in his ear\" saying that cutting international aid could help to fund the increase in defence spending.\n\nAnd Labour MP Sarah Champion, chairwoman of the international development committee, asked Mr Johnson to \"quash rumours and confirm his manifesto commitment\" of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, \"now and going forwards\".\n\nThe PM responded by telling the Commons: \"I think we can all be proud of our record on overseas aid and that will continue.\"\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" by the announcement.\n\n\"But of course we're also conscious that living through this Covid crisis, the armed forces have stepped up to the plate to provide some of the resilience that the nation has needed,\" he added.\n\nGen Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, said the \"extraordinary announcement\" would be very good for morale\n\nEarlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said \"letting go\" of some older weapons would create \"headroom\" for new investment.\n\nHe added: \"When I looked across at the armed forces today I saw them with equipment that was out-of-date, I saw our adversaries across the world having better equipment, the ability to attack us and harm us getting wider and wider from our capabilities.\"\n\nThe funding announcement is part of the first conclusions of the government's Integrated Review which looks at security, defence, development and foreign policy.\n\nLabour's shadow defence secretary John Healey said the extra money would give \"a welcome and long-overdue upgrade to Britain's defences after a decade of decline\".\n\nConservative MP and defence select committee chairman Tobias Ellwood said: \"This is a lot of money but ultimately there are still huge financial pressures facing our armed forces.\"\n\nBut he said the \"key takeaway\" for him was the \"message this sends to the British people, to the MoD as well, that we want to be back as a strong power capability\".", "Former US President Barack Obama likens Russia's Vladimir Putin to a tough Chicago \"ward boss\" and describes former French President Nicolas Sarkozy as being full of \"overblown rhetoric\" in the first volume of his two-part memoir.\n\nA Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours - a record for publisher Penguin Random House. It is expected to become by far the biggest-selling presidential memoir in history.\n\nIn the book, Mr Obama recalls his travels around the world as the 44th US president and his meetings with world leaders. So who made a good impression and who didn't?\n\nThe Eton-educated conservative who served as UK prime minister from 2010-2016 was \"urbane and confident\" and had \"the easy confidence of someone who'd never been pressed too hard by life\".\n\nMr Obama said he warmed to him as a person (\"I liked him personally, even when we butted heads\") but made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with his economic policies. \"Cameron hewed closely to free-market orthodoxy, having promised voters that his platform of deficit reduction and cuts to government services - along with regulatory reform and expanded trade - would usher in a new era of British competitiveness,\" he wrote. \"Instead, predictably, the British economy would fall deeper into a recession.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barack Obama and David Cameron team-up for table tennis at the Globe Academy in south London\n\nMr Obama said the Russian leader reminded him of the political barons he encountered during his early career in Chicago. He writes he was \"like a ward [district] boss, except with nukes and a UN Security Council veto\".\n\nHe continues: \"Putin did, in fact, remind me of the sorts of men who had once run the Chicago machine or Tammany Hall [a New York City political organisation] - tough, street-smart, unsentimental characters who knew what they knew, who never moved outside their narrow experiences, and who viewed patronage, bribery, shakedowns, fraud, and occasional violence as legitimate tools of the trade.\"\n\nThe former French president was \"all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric\" and like \"a figure out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting\", according to Mr Obama.\n\n\"Conversations with Sarkozy were by turns amusing and exasperating, his hands in perpetual motion, his chest thrust out like a bantam cock's, his personal translator... always beside him to frantically mirror his every gesture and intonation as the conversation swooped from flattery to bluster to genuine insight, never straying from his primary, barely disguised interest, which was to be at the centre of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for.\"\n\nBarack Obama said he liked Nicolas Sarkozy's \"boldness, charm and manic energy\"\n\nThe German leader is referred to as \"steady, honest, intellectually rigorous, and instinctually kind\". Mr Obama notes that she had, at first, been sceptical of him, because of his lofty rhetoric and speech-making skills. \"I took no offence, figuring that as a German leader, an aversion to possible demagoguery was probably a healthy thing.\"\n\nBarack Obama described Angela Merkel as \"honest\" and \"kind\"\n\nMr Obama found the Turkish leader to be \"cordial and generally responsive to my requests\".\n\n\"But whenever I listened to him speak, his tall frame slightly stooped, his voice a forceful staccato that rose an octave in response to various grievances or perceived slights. I got the strong impression that his commitment to democracy and the rule of law might last only as long as it preserved his own power.\"\n\nThe former Indian prime minister is described as having been \"wise, thoughtful, and scrupulously honest\" and the \"chief architect of India's economic transformation\". Mr Singh was a \"self-effacing technocrat who'd won the people's trust not by appealing to their passions but bringing about higher living standards and maintaining a well-earned reputation for not being corrupt\", Mr Obama observes.\n\nBarack Obama met Václav Klaus (c) and the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in 2010\n\nMr Obama was an admirer of Václav Havel - the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution - but found his successor Václav Klaus more troubling. Mr Obama writes that he feared the Eurosceptic president signalled a rise of right-wing populism across Europe and embodied \"how the economic crisis [of 2008-9] was causing an uptick in nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and scepticism about [European] integration\". He added: \"The hopeful tide of democratisation, liberalisation, and integration that had swept the globe after the end of the Cold War was beginning to recede.\"\n\nA Promised Land is the first volume of Barack Obama's planned two-part memoir", "Online news and lifestyle site Buzzfeed is taking over HuffPost in a deal that brings together two of the most high-profile digital media firms.\n\nSeller Verizon Media will become a minority shareholder in Buzzfeed as part of the deal and invest in the combined company.\n\nThe two firms will also join up for advertising and sharing content, a partnership they said would \"create new revenue opportunities\".\n\nThe price was not disclosed.\n\nBuzzfeed chief executive Jonah Peretti will lead the combined business. He co-founded HuffPost, formerly known as the Huffington Post, in 2005 with publisher Arianna Huffington and started Buzzfeed a year later.\n\nHuffPost rose to prominence during the George W Bush presidency as a site for liberal bloggers, many of whom contributed for free.\n\nBuzzfeed made its name creating content like listicles and quizzes, which drew young audiences. It also brought on reporters for its news site.\n\nBut digital media firms have struggled to draw online advertising dollars away from tech giants such as Facebook and Google. In recent years, Buzzfeed and HuffPost have both shed staff. In May, Buzzfeed closed its newsrooms in the UK and Australia and slashed staff pay.\n\nMr Peretti said the new deal would increase Buzzfeed's heft, by adding HuffPost readers to its audience and allowing it to tap into Verizon's ad network.\n\nHuffPost is expected to remain a standalone brand, alongside other Buzzfeed sites, including Tasty and Buzzfeed News.\n\nA spokeswoman for Buzzfeed declined to comment on the possibility of job losses triggered by the tie-up.\n\nVerizon Media is part of a US telecom giant, which is known primarily for its pay-TV and mobile phone service. It acquired HuffPost in 2015 when it bought AOL for $4.4bn (£3.32bn), later combining it with Yahoo.\n\nJust a few years later, it wrote down the value of the properties by nearly $5bn.\n\n\"While considering opportunities to work together, naturally, Jonah and I also discussed the property he co-founded, HuffPost,\" said Verizon Media boss Guru Gowrappan.\n\n\"We quickly realised BuzzFeed's strategy would complement HuffPost's roadmap, injecting it with new energy and growing the brand into the future.\n\n\"We are deeply invested in the continued success of HuffPost and I couldn't think of a better partner to take HuffPost to the next level.\"\n\nA few years ago companies like BuzzFeed and HuffPost were growing fast.\n\nThe business model was simple. Produce viral content aimed at younger, online savvy audiences and cash in on online advertising revenue.\n\nThat hasn't been as lucrative as they would have hoped.\n\nAds on digital news stories can actually be quite a clunky way to advertise - less focussed than many advertisers would like.\n\nSo Facebook and Google, which offer incredibly bespoke targeting, mop up a massive percentage of online advertising. More than half of all the money spent on online advertising is with these two companies.\n\nMany smaller digital media companies were laying off staff even before the pandemic. Covid-19 has inflamed these problems. People, stuck at home, are clicking more, but advertisers have been cautious.\n\nThat's left companies that were seen as revolutionary only a few years ago trying to work out how to survive.\n\nThis takeover should be seen in this context - the latest attempt to find a better way of making digital media work financially.", "Andrew Bates works with the Terence Higgins Trust to raise awareness around HIV issues\n\nThe number of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV has dropped to its lowest number in 20 years, says Public Health England (PHE).\n\nA new report shows a drop in diagnosed cases across people of all sexualities and genders.\n\nAnd it's not just because we've been in lockdown and not having sex with new people, because these numbers are all about 2019.\n\nThe report shows there were 1,700 new HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men last year, compared to the previous low of 1,500 in 2000.\n\nNumbers overall dropped 10% from 4,580 diagnosed cases in 2018 to 4,139 in 2019.\n\nIt's a 34% decline from a 2014 peak, when there were 6,312 diagnoses in the UK.\n\nThere were 1,600 diagnosed cases in heterosexual adults in 2019 - and this is the first time the numbers between straight and gay and bi people have been so close.\n\nMen who have sex with other men are one of the groups most at risk of contracting HIV.\n\nPHE says further progress can only be made if \"inequalities that exist around sexuality, ethnicity and geography\" are addressed\n\nThe report is good news to 26-year-old Andrew Bates. He's gay and was diagnosed as HIV+ when he was 21.\n\n\"At that time, it wasn't on my radar, and it sounds kind of ridiculous now, but I didn't think I was at risk,\" he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"It was never spoken about so it was a scary time for me.\"\n\nHe says awareness around HIV, prevention and treatment today hopefully makes a new HIV diagnosis for someone now much less difficult than it was for him.\n\n\"I would hope that because of speaking about it more than we were then - even though it's just five years ago - that people who do go through that process now, who have received a diagnosis, it's not as worrying.\"\n\nAndrew has been on medication since shortly after his diagnosis and is now \"undetectable\", which means the amount of the HIV virus in his body is so low, he can't pass it on to someone else.\n\nPHE says the decline in cases among gay and bisexual men can be linked to the use of condoms, PrEP, frequent HIV testing and starting on HIV therapy soon after diagnosis.\n\nPrEP is a drug you can take that prevents you from catching HIV. The government provided funds to local authorities to provide the drug on the NHS to people most at risk of infection.\n\nThis was delayed from April, and HIV charity Terence Higgins Trust says the six-month wait is \"frustrating\" after seeing the PHE report and the progress that was made last year.\n\n\"Terrence Higgins Trust is still hearing story after story of people being turned away from clinics with no PrEP and no way of accessing this effective HIV prevention drug,\" says Ian Green, chief executive of the charity, in a statement.\n\nAndrew believes another factor is changes in how sex education is taught in schools.\n\n\"Schools weren't talking about LGBT matters within sex education,\" he says.\n\n\"When I was in school, it was never spoken about, I think HIV was only ever brought up in a science lesson once in biology.\n\n\"I don't want to speak for teenagers now but we're told that they have a bit more of a healthier perspective on sex and relationships and growing up with these different forms of sexuality.\"\n\n\"Frequent HIV testing, the offer of PrEP among those most at risk of HIV, together with prompt treatment among those diagnosed, remain key to ending HIV transmission by 2030,\" says Dr Valerie Delpech, head of HIV surveillance at PHE.\n\n\"Further progress can only be achieved if we also address the inequalities in reducing HIV transmission that exist around sexuality, ethnicity and geography.\"\n\nAndrew's hopeful HIV transmissions in the UK can end even sooner than that.\n\n\"You think of what we've achieved and if we keep going up the rate that we've been going at, the we'll get there even sooner.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "UK insurance group RSA, which is best known for its More Than brand, is in talks with a consortium of Canadian insurer Intact Financial and Danish insurer Tryg about a possible takeover.\n\nThe deal, which could see the British insurer broken up, values the company at about £7.2bn ($9.5bn).\n\nRSA has large operations in Canada, Ireland and Scandinavia.\n\nThe news saw the shares surge 46% to 670p on Thursday. In early trade on Friday they dipped 1% to 662p.\n\nIf the deal goes ahead it will be the biggest takeover of a UK-listed company so far this year.\n\nThe offer from Intact Financial and Tryg would pay 685p in cash per RSA share. It also includes a previously-announced 8p per share interim dividend.\n\nThis represented about a 50% premium to RSA's closing price on 1 October. Analysts at Jefferies said the offer price represented \"more than fair value\".\n\nIn a statement, the UK insurer said: \"The board of RSA has indicated to the consortium that it would be minded to recommend the proposal, subject to satisfactory resolution of the other terms of the possible offer, including a period of due diligence.\"\n\nRSA was formed by the merger of Sun Alliance and Royal Insurance in 1996 and provides home, motor and commercial insurance.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Intact and Tryg would split up RSA's businesses with the Canadian firm keeping its Canada and UK operations.\n\nDenmark-based Tryg would take control of RSA's Sweden and Norway operations, while the pair would also co-own RSA's Danish unit.\n\nTryg would take on the highest bill paying RSA about £4.2bn, while Intact would contribute £3bn.\n\nThe two insurers have until 3 December to make a formal offer.\n\nRSA has a history going back more than 300 years.\n\nSun Alliance had its origins in Sun Fire Office, the oldest documented insurance company in the world founded in London in 1710.\n\nRoyal Insurance was established in Liverpool in 1845.\n\nRSA has long been seen as a takeover target and came close to a sale to Switzerland's Zurich Insurance in 2015.\n\nThe company employs 13,500 people across more than 100 countries.", "UK trade with the EU faces \"significant disruption\" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said it was \"very unlikely\" traders would be ready for checks the EU is due to impose at its borders.\n\nIt also warned \"limited\" time remained for UK ports to test new IT systems.\n\nThe government said \"significant\" efforts had been made to avoid disruption to businesses.\n\nThe UK formally left the EU earlier this year but is following EU trading rules until the end of December.\n\nPreparations are under way to prepare the border for the change, amid warnings the new systems might not be ready in time to avoid disruption.\n\nIn a report, the NAO said the end of the transition period would bring \"significant change,\" even if the UK agrees a trade deal with the EU.\n\nEven with a deal, traders will face new hurdles to clear - including the need to fill in customs declarations on goods being traded.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates it may need to process 270 million customs declarations from 2021, compared with 55 million currently.\n\nIn June, the government announced that - regardless of whether it reaches a post-Brexit trade deal - new checks on EU goods entering Great Britain would be phased in over six months from January 2021 to give firms \"time to adjust\".\n\nHowever, the NAO said there was still \"uncertainty\" over where new border infrastructure would be located and whether it would be ready.\n\nIt also expressed concern traders would not be ready for the full checks on UK exports the EU is planning to implement from the start of 2021.\n\nIt cited the government's latest \"worse case scenario\" planning figures, which estimate 40% to 70% of lorries crossing the English Channel will not be ready.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal deal, Northern Ireland is due to enforce EU customs rules at its ports, requiring declarations for goods coming from GB.\n\nThe NAO said Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), which is responsible for planning checks on food and live animal imports, had been \"severely hampered\" by the continuing UK-EU trade talks.\n\nThe watchdog added that DAERA lacked \"clarity\" about the checks required, and now considers it will not be possible to finish work on its border infrastructure in time for January 2021 and is \"exploring contingency options\".\n\nIt added that the UK government's controversial Internal Market Bill, giving ministers powers to override sections of the Brexit divorce deal, had \"further increased this uncertainty\".\n\nThe government has warned of 7,000-long truck queues to cross the Channel in its worst-case scenario planning.\n\nIn addition, it added there were still \"various operational issues to be resolved\" for goods crossing the English Channel.\n\nThis included making sure hauliers are able to use a planned online service allowing them to declare they have the correct documents for the EU border and thus obtain a permit to drive on certain roads in Kent.\n\nThe NAO also said border preparations had been hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic, with senior officials being diverted to the emergency response and communication efforts being temporarily paused.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, said ministers had not given businesses \"enough time to prepare\".\n\n\"It's incredibly worrying that, with two months to go, critical computer systems haven't been properly tested,\" she added.\n\n\"The government can only hope that everything comes together on the day, but this is not certain.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Rod McKenzie, policy director for the Road Haulage Association, told a Scottish Parliament committee his industry had been \"been badly let down by the UK government from beginning to end.\"\n\nHe added that the information given to hauliers to help them implement the international permits they will require in the event of no trade deal being reached had been \"quite often totally incomprehensible\".\n\nIn response to the NAO's report, a UK government spokesperson said it had invested £705m to ensure the \"right border infrastructure, staffing and technology is in place\".\n\n\"With fewer than two months to go, it's vital that businesses and citizens prepare too,\" they added.\n\n\"That's why we're intensifying our engagement with businesses and running a major public information campaign so they know exactly what they need to do to grasp the new opportunities available as the transition period ends.\"", "Mr Johnson believes there is 'a deal to be done'\n\n\"Significant differences\" between the UK and the EU remain, as negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal continue, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said\n\nFollowing a call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday, the PM said progress had been made but there were still issues around the \"level playing field\" and fishing.\n\nBoth parties agreed negotiating teams would resume talks in London on Monday.\n\nThey also agreed to remain \"in close contact\" over the coming days.\n\nA statement from Downing Street on Saturday said:\n\n\"Prime Minister Boris Johnson today spoke with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a stock take on the progress in the negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\n\"The prime minister set out that, while some progress had been made in recent discussions, significant differences remain in a number of areas, including the so-called level playing field and fish.\n\n\"The prime minister and president agreed that their negotiating teams would continue talks in London next week, beginning on Monday, in order to redouble efforts to reach a deal.\n\n\"They agreed to remain in personal contact about the negotiations,\" the statement said.\n\nEchoing Mr Johnson, Ms von der Leyen acknowledged \"some progress had been made, but large differences remain\". \"Our teams will continue working hard next week,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister has said he believes there is \"a deal to be done\" and \"very much hopes\" to come to an agreement, but he has insisted the country was \"very well prepared\" to move on should the two parties not be able to agree a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Audit Office has warned of \"significant disruption\" when the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January and entered the transition period - continuing to follow many EU rules - while a trade deal was negotiated.\n\nBut while both sides said a deal needed to be done in October, they have yet to come to an agreement, and talks between the negotiating teams have intensified.\n\nThe transition period is due to come to an end on 31 December, meaning the UK would trade with the EU on World Trade Organisation rules - meaning tariffs are imposed - if a deal is not in place.\n\nCritics say this could cause damage to the UK economy, but the government insists the country will prosper with or without a deal.\n\nEarlier this week, both the UK and EU's chief trade negotiators warned of \"wide\" and \"serious divergences\" between the two sides.\n\nSticking points include fishing rights, competition rules and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nAsked on Friday if the UK could get a deal in the next 10 days, Mr Johnson said: \"I very much hope that we will, but obviously that depends on our friends and partners across the Channel.\n\n\"I think there is a deal to be done, if they want to do it.\n\n\"If not, the country is, of course, very well prepared. As I have said before, we can do very well with on Australian terms [without a deal], if that is what we have to go for.\"\n\nThomas Byrne, Ireland's minister for European affairs, said the talks up to this point between the EU and UK's negotiators, Michel Barnier and David Frost, had been \"difficult\", with \"big issues\" still remaining.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I personally don't expect that there would me major progress today, but at the same time I think it's very good that they are talking - I think that's really positive. But I'm not sure that we would expect a moment at this point.\"\n\nMr Byrne was also asked if there could be a \"new dynamic\" to discussions between the UK and EU if Joe Biden was elected the US president, saying it was \"certainly possible\".\n\nMr Biden, who has Irish roots, said in September that he would not allow peace in Northern Ireland to become a \"casualty of Brexit\" if he was elected president.\n\nMr Byrne said: \"He was very clear in his suggestion and statement on the 16th of September that any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent on respect for the Good Friday Agreement and preventing the return of the hard border.\"", "Half a million borrowers mis-sold payday loans by collapsed lender Sunny are likely to receive no more than 1% of their compensation entitlement.\n\nAdministrators KPMG are emailing all those who have a right to a payout, inviting them to make a claim.\n\nBut they are warning that the funds available mean they may not receive a penny, or 1% at most.\n\nHowever, victims of mis-selling will automatically have negative entries on their credit records cleared.\n\nThis will be done automatically by the end of November, with any notes of defaults on their first five Sunny loans cleared, and notices of any subsequent loans deleted entirely.\n\nThat should help those struggling to access credit, as a result of their history with Sunny, having more success in the future.\n\nSunny was one of a series of high-profile payday lenders to have collapsed, mostly in response to a wave of complaints over the mis-selling of short-term, high-cost loans.\n\nMany of these loans were found to have been unaffordable to repay, and should never have been granted.\n\nWonga was the most high-profile collapse in August 2018, followed by other big names in the sector such as WageDay Advance and QuickQuid.\n\nMany of Sunny's payday loans were found to have been unaffordable to repay\n\nSunny, the brand name of Elevate Credit International Limited, fell into administration in June. In October, some of the existing loan book was sold to Perch Capital, and others were written off.\n\nAdministrators then assessed how many of Sunny's 700,000 customers had been mis-sold loans, and concluded that 500,000 had been affected and could make a claim. It is emailing all of them in the coming weeks.\n\nOthers whose cases have already been dealt with by the Financial Ombudsman, but have not received any payout, can also put in a claim for compensation.\n\nAll claims must be submitted by the end of January.\n\n\"Whilst the dividend will depend on the volume of claims and queries received, we estimate that any dividend payable could be less that 1p in the pound and that any payment would likely be made in spring 2021,\" the administrators said.\n\nDebt adviser Sara Williams, who runs the Debt Camel blog, said: \"Since Wonga went under, the figures have been emerging about the massive scale of payday loan mis-selling.\n\n\"These show how ineffective regulation was at preventing so many people being trapped in unaffordable debt for so long.\"", "Work is beginning on what is thought to be the world's first major plant to store energy in the form of liquid air.\n\nIt will use surplus electricity from wind farms at night to compress air so hard that it becomes a liquid at -196 Celsius.\n\nThen when there is a peak in demand in a day or a month, the liquid air will be warmed so it expands.\n\nThe resulting rush of air will drive a turbine to make electricity, which can be sold back to the grid.\n\nThe 50MW facility near Manchester will store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes for five hours.\n\nThe system was devised by Peter Dearman, a self-taught backyard inventor from Hertfordshire, and it has been taken to commercial scale with a £10m grant from the UK government.\n\n\"It's very exciting,\" he told BBC News. \"We need many different forms of energy storage - and I'm confident liquid air will be one of them.\"\n\nThe energy plant will use surplus electricity from wind farms at night\n\nMr Dearman said his invention was 60-70% efficient, depending how it is used.\n\nThat is less efficient than batteries, but he said the advantage of liquid air is the low cost of the storage tanks - so it can easily be scaled up.\n\nAlso, unlike batteries, liquid air storage does not create a demand for minerals which may become increasingly scarce as the world moves towards power systems based on variable renewable electricity.\n\n\"Batteries are really great for short-term storage,\" Mr Dearman said. \"But they are too expensive to do long-term energy storage. That's where liquid air comes in.\"\n\nMr Dearman had been developing a car run on similar principles with liquid hydrogen when he saw the potential for applying the technology to electricity storage.\n\nHe is now a passive shareholder in Highview, one of the firms building the 50MW plant.\n\nProf John Loughhead, from the government's business and energy department, has previously praised the technology.", "Up to 10,000 war veterans marched during the remembrance service at the Cenotaph last year\n\nThe Royal British Legion is encouraging people to mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend by observing a two-minute silence on their doorstep.\n\nThe charity said this was a way \"you can still play your part from home\", with coronavirus restrictions affecting annual remembrance events.\n\nIt comes after thousands of households took to their doorsteps to applaud the NHS during lockdown.\n\nAt 11:00 GMT on Sunday, a two-minute silence will be held across the UK.\n\nIt is part of the annual commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflicts, although events this year have had to be scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFor the first time in its history, the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London will not be open to the public.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, the government and the armed forces are still expected to attend the ceremony, which will have strict social distancing measures in force, but the annual march past the Cenotaph will not take place.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he wanted to \"properly\" mark 100 years since the monument was installed but said \"it is with a heavy heart that I must ask people not to attend the ceremony at the Cenotaph this year in order to keep veterans and the public safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We will ensure our plans for the day are a fitting tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and that our veterans are at the at the heart of the service - with the nation able to watch safely from home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAround 10,000 people usually gather at the Cenotaph each year for the service, which will be broadcast on BBC One from 10:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nDowning Street said Remembrance Sunday events in England could go ahead despite the national lockdown, so long as they were outdoors, with social distancing.\n\nGovernment guidance advises that any events should be \"short and focused on wreath laying\" and event organisers should \"discourage the public from attending\".\n\nIn Wales, which is also under a national lockdown, outdoor events are also permitted up to a maximum of 30 people, although parades are not allowed.\n\nTraditional annual remembrance events at local war memorials across Scotland have been cancelled, with outdoor standing events not permitted in areas under Covid levels one, two and three.\n\nHowever, services held in places of worship can proceed - as long as they comply with the restrictions on size.\n\nThe pandemic has affected fundraising efforts by the Royal British Legion\n\nThe Royal British Legion said that although many remembrance services and events couldn't take place this year, it was \"asking the nation to still come together to honour all who have served in our armed forces\" by joining the national two-minute silence from their doorstep at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe charity behind the annual Poppy Appeal, which raises money for veterans, has asked people to donate online because collectors are not allowed out on the streets during the lockdown in England and Wales.\n\nBob Gamble, from the Royal British Legion, said the pandemic had created \"difficulties of loneliness, homelessness, unemployment and stress\" for the Armed Forces veteran community, which needed the support of the Royal British Legion charities \"more this year than any other\".", "Nick Rewcastle says the government should be helping people who are starting their own businesses in the pandemic\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has dramatically changed course by extending the furlough scheme until the end of March and pledging more generous help for self-employed people.\n\nSupport through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will be increased, with the third grant covering November to January calculated at 80% of average trading profits, up to a maximum of £7,500.\n\nBut not everyone has welcomed the new measures. While some see them as a lifeline, others are dismayed that they fail to qualify for much-needed assistance.\n\nNick Rewcastle, of Peacehaven in Sussex, is one of the latter. Before the pandemic struck, he was head of the communications team at Harlequins Rugby Club.\n\nHe spent three months on furlough before being made redundant, then decided to strike out on his own by founding his own sports PR consultancy, NRPR.\n\n\"The fact that I'm newly self-employed means I don't qualify for any support,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I've managed to find a few clients and that's keeping me busy until mid-December, but then in January it's looking pretty scary.\n\n\"I'm doing my own thing and it's brilliant, but as far as the government is concerned, they don't care.\n\n\"It's disappointing. It doesn't make sense that people like me are being left in the dark.\"\n\nMr Rewcastle is unimpressed by Mr Sunak's assurance that anyone made redundant after 23 September can be rehired and put back on furlough.\n\n\"Harlequins aren't in a position to take anyone back,\" he says.\n\n\"He's saying all these people can go back into work, but businesses are so unstable at the moment, people who've been made redundant are going to stay redundant.\"\n\nGreg Wilson runs a one-man company and has furloughed himself\n\nGreg Wilson, 35, of Wells in Somerset, has managed to qualify for some support, although his income has taken a hit from the pandemic.\n\nHe is the owner and director of a \"one-man band\" company, Chew Valley Generators, which supplies electricity to weddings and other events.\n\nHe would normally service about 120 events a year, but that fell to just six this year. As a result, he took the decision to furlough himself.\n\n\"Furlough has been a lifesaver for myself and my small company, as we missed every other grant,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHowever, like many other company directors, he normally pays himself a salary of £1,000 a month and takes the rest of his income in dividends, which are not included in his furlough.\n\nThat means the government is paying him 80% of his salary - that is, £800 a month.\n\nMr Wilson objects to what he sees as the government's \"one-size-fits-all\" approach to company directors.\n\n\"They class me as the same sort of director as Richard Branson,\" he says. \"But as well as being director, I'm also the tea-boy, the delivery driver and the service engineer.\"\n\nHe describes the furlough extension as \"amazing news\". With the scheme now ending in March and the events season running from April to October, he hopes it will tide him over.\n\n\"We get to wait until April to see what happens,\" he says. \"Fingers crossed, we will be back.\"\n\nJewellery designer Sarah Herriot, 58, also runs her one-woman set-up as a limited company, but decided that furloughing herself would be bad for her business in the long term.\n\nSarah Herriot is striving to save her business\n\n\"I've been working six days a week trying to keep my business afloat,\" she told the BBC. \"I've worked very hard at it and to be fair, I've managed to keep my head above water.\"\n\nBefore the onset of coronavirus, she mainly sold her jewellery at shows and fairs, but these have all been cancelled, so she is now left with her website.\n\n\"That's not really working, so I've been surviving on commissions and bits and pieces of work,\" she says.\n\nThe only support she has received is a local discretionary business grant from Camden council in London, because she was able to demonstrate that she had lost 70% of her income during the pandemic.\n\nIronically, she says, she would have been able to make a claim under the Job Support Scheme, which had originally been set to replace the furlough scheme this month, but that has now been postponed.\n\n\"I would have had to go down to one day a week to get that. That's the first thing that I could have applied for,\" she says.\n\n\"But now we're back to furlough, so I'm out in the cold again.\n\n\"It makes me angry. It's so depressing, it beggars belief. All these businesses going to the wall and you wonder whether you're going to be next.\"", "Teams in protective kit for the cull - usually mink are gassed with carbon monoxide\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over a coronavirus mutation found in mink that can spread to humans.\n\nThe government has warned that the effectiveness of any future vaccine could be affected by the mutation.\n\nBars, restaurants, public transport and all public indoor sports will be closed in seven North Jutland municipalities.\n\nThe restrictions will come into effect from Friday and initially last until 3 December.\n\nIt comes soon after an announcement that Denmark would cull all its mink - as many as 17 million.\n\nThe Scandinavian country is the world's biggest producer of mink fur and its main export markets are China and Hong Kong. Culling began late last month, after many mink cases were detected.\n\nOn Thursday, the World Health Organization said mink appear to be \"good reservoirs\" of coronavirus. It also commended Denmark's \"determination and courage\" for going ahead with the culls, despite the economic impact it would bring.\n\nThere are more than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark\n\nCoronavirus cases have been detected in other farmed mink in the Netherlands and Spain since the pandemic began in Europe.\n\nBut cases are spreading fast in Denmark - 207 mink farms in Jutland are affected - and at least five cases of the new virus strain were found. Authorities said 12 people had been infected with the mutated strain.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said about half of the 783 human cases reported in north Denmark related to a strain of the virus that originated in the mink farms.\n\nUnder the new rules, gatherings of 10 or more people will be banned, and locals have been urged to stay within the affected municipalities and get tested.\n\nAt a press conference, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said: \"Right now the eyes of the world are resting on us. I hope and believe that together we can solve the problems we face.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Frederiksen said the mutated virus had been found to weaken the body's ability to form antibodies, potentially making the current vaccines under development for Covid-19 ineffective.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic Denmark has reported 52,265 human cases of Covid-19 and 733 deaths, data from Johns Hopkins University shows.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out\n\nSpain culled 100,000 mink in July after cases were detected at a farm in Aragón province, and tens of thousands of the animals were slaughtered in the Netherlands following outbreaks on farms there.\n\nStudies are under way to find out how and why mink have been able to catch and spread the infection.\n\nMink become infected through catching the virus from humans, the BBC's environment correspondent Helen Briggs reports.\n\nBut genetic detective work has shown that in a small number of cases, in the Netherlands and now Denmark, the virus seems to have passed the other way, from mink to humans, our correspondent adds.", "A man has admitted killing his two children at their family home during lockdown.\n\nNadarajah Nithiyakumar attacked 19-month-old Pavinya and three-year-old Nigish with a knife in Ilford, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe children's mother had been in the shower at the time and was the person who alerted police.\n\nNithiyakumar, 41, admitted two counts of manslaughter by diminished responsibility at the Old Bailey.\n\nEmergency services were called to the home in Aldborough Road North where they found both children injured.\n\nPavinya was pronounced dead at the scene while Nigish was rushed to a hospital in Whitechapel where he later died.\n\nThe children were found fatally injured in the home in Aldborough Road North\n\nNithiyakumar was also treated for knife wounds and when he was discharged from hospital he was charged with killing his children.\n\nThe 41-year-old admitted to police he had killed his son and daughter, explaining that he had been depressed and customers had \"upset him\" while he was working in a shop.\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson QC told the Old Bailey psychiatrists believed the defendant was \"suffering from a delusional disorder\" which had \"led him to kill his children\".\n\n\"It was one from which he had suffered for some time, for the best part of 10 years, with very little indication and very little treatment,\" he said.\n\nMr Atkinson added that one expert thought it was \"remarkable he was able to function for as long as he did\" considering his condition.\n\nThe court heard the defendant had no previous history of violence and prosecutors felt it was \"appropriate to accept the plea of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility\", Mr Atkinson said.\n\nMrs Justice Cutts adjourned sentencing until 10 December, saying she would need \"further information from the doctors\".\n\nNithiyakumar was sent back to the medium secure mental health centre in east London where he has been treated.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There was an alarming 20% rise in babies being killed or harmed during the first lockdown, Ofsted's chief inspector Amanda Spielman has revealed.\n\nSixty four babies were deliberately harmed in England - eight of whom died. Some 40% of the 300 incidents reported involved infants, up a fifth on 2019.\n\nMs Spielman believes a \"toxic mix\" of isolation, poverty and mental illness caused the March to October spike.\n\nHealth staff and social workers were hampered by Covid restrictions.\n\nAnd many regular visits could not take place, while others were carried out remotely, using the telephone or video links.\n\nWhen schools were closed in March, children's charities and teachers expressed fears that children at risk would be left even more vulnerable under lockdown. This was part of the reason schools stayed open to vulnerable children.\n\nMs Spielman told a conference of local authority leaders on Friday: \"Of course, babies can't tell an adult if there's a problem.\n\n\"Often, abuse is only uncovered when there's a critical injury, or it's too late.\n\n\"Another young life damaged, and in the worst cases, lost, before it's really had the chance to begin… It doesn't bear thinking about.\n\n\"But we must all be alive to this hidden danger.\"\n\nEvery week, Ofsted is seeing more serious incident notifications about harm to under-ones - the youngest and most vulnerable of all children, she said.\n\nShe added: \"The pandemic has brought difficult and stressful times. Financial hardship, loss of employment, isolation, and close family proximity have put extra pressure on families that were already struggling.\n\n\"Poverty, inadequate housing, substance misuse and poor mental health all add to this toxic mix.\n\n\"You'll be well aware of the increase in domestic violence incidents over the summer - just one symptom of the Covid pressure cooker.\"\n\nViolence towards babies was already a worry before the Covid-19 pandemic, Ofsted says.\n\nOver a quarter of all incidents reported to the child safeguarding practice review panel last year involved non-accidental injuries to babies.\n\nThis often involves children being abused by young parents, or other family or household members, who have very little social support, Ofsted says.\n\nPresident of the Association of Directors of Children's Services Jenny Coles said Covid-19 was exacerbating many of the difficulties that families face and putting more vulnerable babies at even more risk.\n\n\"The pandemic has seriously disrupted a key line of sight into the lives and homes of many families.\"\n\nShe welcomed the government's move to ensure health visitors were not drawn away from their work with young children, but called for more investment to in services supporting parents.\n\nAs well as babies being intentionally harmed, Ofsted has seen a high number of unexpected infant deaths.\n\nThis includes preventable tragedies: babies not being put down to sleep safely, for example, sharing a bed or sofa with a parent who has been drinking.\n\nMs Spielman will acknowledge that there has been good work to identify high risk babies during lockdown, such as the children of parents misusing substances, or with serious mental health problems.\n\nIn these cases, professionals who understand the risk factors acted decisively to give families the help they need, she said.\n\nBut she is urging all those working with children to be on the alert as England heads into the next lockdown.\n\n\"Everyone needs to play their role. That includes professionals across whole communities.\n\n\"Midwives, health visitors, GPs and other health workers who have good relationships with families and can build on that trust. Staff working in schools and nurseries who may have information about a vulnerable infant because an older sibling attends the setting.\n\n\"And help for younger parents is important, but without labelling or patronising them. Building their trust so that they accept advice and learn how to look after their children safely.\n\n\"Continuing restrictions may be hampering face-to-face visits but while these children are out of sight, they should never be out of mind,\" she adds.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford said: \"Every death or harm is tragic but harms to young babies are deeply heart wrenching.\n\n\"New parents have faced unprecedented challenges so we have asked children's services to prioritise support for families with new babies and especially those families who had already faced difficulties before Covid.\"\n\nA spokesman added the government had invested £4.3bn in councils to meet the additional demands being made of them.\n\nCouncillor Judith Blake, chairwoman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said the pandemic had led to an increasing number of families facing exceptionally difficult circumstances.\n\n\"Councils have worked tirelessly to try and keep children and their families safe and well, through online and virtual contact and resources, as well as high priority home visits.\n\n\"It is absolutely critical that professionals are able to keep engaging with families throughout any restrictions, whether local or national.\n\n\"As we experience a second wave of the virus and learn lessons from the first, it is vital that health visitors and other community health practitioners are not diverted to acute care.\"", "Uber's food delivery business has more than doubled, as the pandemic increases appetite for online grocery orders and restaurant takeaway.\n\nThe firm said revenue from its Uber Eats service hit $1.4bn (£1bn) in the three months to 30 September, jumping 124% from the same period in 2019.\n\nThe growth helped offset steep declines in the firm's core rides business.\n\nBut Uber still recorded a loss of about $1.1bn in the quarter, roughly the same as last year.\n\nUber boss Dara Khosrowshahi said demand for food delivery has stayed strong even as countries lift restrictions, a promising sign for growth in the Uber Eats business.\n\n\"We've got more eaters, they're staying longer, they're eating more,\" he told investors on a conference call to discuss the firm's quarterly results.\n\n\"There's no question in my mind that ... there's a fundamental behavioural shift that has gone on,\" he added later. \"People aren't going to stop using Amazon. People aren't going to stop using Eats.\"\n\nThe growth in delivery marked a stark contrast to the firm's ride-hailing business.\n\nThere, Uber said bookings and revenue for its taxi service remained roughly half of last year's levels, despite improvement since the spring.\n\nDemand has recovered most in Europe, while lagging in the US and Canada, its most important market, executives said.\n\nThey warned that the resurgence in Covid cases in Europe and new restrictions in countries like the UK and France would likely hit demand in coming months.", "A commemoration was held on Thursday in Vienna for the four people who died\n\nAustrian officials have revealed new intelligence failings ahead of the murder of four people in Vienna on Monday night, prompting the city's anti-terror chief to step aside.\n\nErich Zwettler was being suspended at his own request, police said.\n\nIt has already emerged the Austrians were told in July that the suspect had tried to buy ammunition in Slovakia.\n\nNow, the Austrians have admitted the gunman met two people from Germany who were already under observation.\n\nInterior Minister Karl Nehammer has spoken of \"obvious, and in our view intolerable mistakes\".\n\nIn a further development, a mosque and a mosque association frequented by the 20-year-old have been closed, which Integration Minister Susanne Raab said had contributed to his radicalisation.\n\nHe had repeatedly visited the mosques in the suburbs of Ottakring and Meidling. The Ottakring mosque association was notorious for its links to militant Islamists: a preacher there is said to have led a German-speaking brigade to Syria before being killed in a drone strike.\n\nPrayers were held on Friday for the victims of the Vienna shootings\n\nMs Raab said the aim of terror was to drive a wedge in society between Muslims and non-Muslims.\n\nSoon after the fatal shooting of two men and two women in the centre of Vienna, it became clear that the heavily armed gunman had been released early from a 22-month jail term for trying to join Islamic State jihadists in Syria.\n\nThe interior minister claimed he had fooled the organisers of a deradicalisation programme, although they have denied that.\n\nThen Slovak police revealed that they had told their Austrian counterparts that the gunman had tried to buy ammunition in July. Austria's BVT domestic intelligence agency appears to have mishandled the case, although officials had trouble identifying the suspect.\n\nOn Friday, German police searched the homes of four men in Kassel, Osnabrück and the Pinneberg area near Hamburg, over suspected links with the gunman, identified by Austrian authorities as an \"Islamist terrorist\" called Kujtim Fejzulai.\n\nAlthough they were not seen as suspects in the shooting itself, two of the four are thought to have met the attacker in Vienna in July and were described in Germany as \"part of the Islamist scene\".\n\nBoth men met him several times and one of them stayed at his home, German news agency DPA reported. Another of the men had stayed with the gunman's family in Vienna and tried unsuccessfully to travel to Syria, it is alleged.\n\nGerman Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had already highlighted a German connection involving people who were being \"monitored around the clock\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVienna police chief Gerhard Pürstl said the visitors from Germany were watched by Vienna's LVT domestic intelligence and counter-terror agency on behalf of their German counterparts, but no action had been taken.\n\nThose meetings and the failed attempt to buy ammunition \"could have led to a different outcome in assessing the danger posed by the perpetrator\", the police chief said.\n\nAustria's interior minister had earlier refused to comment on reports suggesting that security forces had been hours away from conducting a major anti-terror operation when the shooting began.\n\nOperation \"Ramses\" was due to start at 03:00 on Tuesday, with raids on the homes of people known to the gunman, the reports say. But information about the searches was reportedly passed on by an interpreter.\n\nAt 20:00 on Monday, the gunman went on the rampage for nine minutes in the centre of Vienna, opening fire on people at bars and restaurants in the hours before they were about to close under new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe attack, in six separate places, left four people dead and 23 others wounded, and it was finally brought to an end when the gunman was shot dead.\n\nA series of arrests were made in Vienna and elsewhere after the shooting. Eight people aged 16 to 24 were remanded in custody by a court in the Austrian capital on Friday. Another two people have been detained in neighbouring Switzerland.", "A second lockdown will last until 2 December in England\n\nThe government has been criticised by the official statistics watchdog for the way it presented data to justify England's second lockdown.\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority highlighted the use of modelling at Saturday's TV briefing showing the possible death toll from Covid this winter.\n\nIt said there needed to be more transparency about data and how predictions were being made.\n\nThe projections were out of date and over-estimated deaths, it has emerged.\n\nA forecast made by Public Health England and Cambridge University said the country could soon be seeing more than 4,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe projections were shown at the TV briefing on Saturday when lockdown was announced\n\nThe projection was made weeks ago and had forecast there would be 1,000 deaths a day by the end of October when the average was actually four times less than that - a fact that was known at the time of Saturday's TV briefing.\n\nWhat is more, the model had already been updated to predict a lower estimate, but this was not used in the briefing fronted by chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt is understood the graph was used by the two senior advisers in meetings last week where the decision to impose a nationwide lockdown in England was made.\n\nThe pair were grilled about it by MPs on Tuesday and Sir Patrick apologised for any confusion caused.\n\nSir David Norgrove , chair of the UK Statistics Authority, said: \"I recognise the pressures faced by all those working on decisions related to coronavirus.\n\n\"But full transparency of data used to inform decisions is vital to public understanding and public confidence.\"\n\nThe use of the data has also drawn criticism from former prime minister Theresa May, who abstained from the lockdown vote in parliament on Wednesday. The vote saw MPs agree to the four-week restrictions in England.\n\nSir David Spiegelhalter, one of the most respected statisticians in the country, said the whole saga had been \"really unfortunate\".\n\nBut he said the situation with Covid was sufficient to warrant \"radical action\" - but it was not for him to say what precise measures were needed and the decisions to be taken must look at the bigger picture.", "Boris Johnson has defended how Covid statistics are being used after data shown in a presentation to justify the lockdown in England had to be revised.\n\nA chart presented at Saturday's No 10 briefing suggested a worse-case figure of up to 1,500 deaths a day by December 8, well above April's 1,000 peak.\n\nThis has now been adjusted down to 1,010 a day, after an error was found.\n\nNo 10 has accepted a mistake was made but the PM said data on the spread and impact of the virus was \"irrefutable\".\n\nSpeaking during a visit to the East Midlands, Mr Johnson said the number of people being admitted to hospital was \"climbing fast\", having gone up by 25% in the last week.\n\n\"The data is really irrefutable about what is happening in the country,\" he said.\n\n\"The number of deaths alas is on an upward curve that is just unmistakable, more than any time since May, and the government has to act. That's why we're taking the steps we are.\"\n\nConservative MPs opposed to the second lockdown in England, which came into force on Thursday, have questioned the reliability of the modelling used by the government to bolster its case.\n\nThe UK's statistics regulator says there needs to be more transparency about the data used to make predictions after it emerged figures cited at last weekend's Downing Street briefing were out of date and over-estimated deaths.\n\nAt the briefing, the UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance presented a graph outlining a range of projections for the Covid death toll over the next month, including one from Public Health England and Cambridge University suggesting it could rise as high as 4,000 a day.\n\nHe also cited two other graphs illustrating \"medium-term\" projections from the government's advisory committee SPI-M for hospitalisations and deaths up to 8 December.\n\nHow the graph looked when it was presented by Sir Patrick Vallance at Downing Street briefing\n\nThe amended version published by the government\n\nOn Friday, the Daily Telegraph reported that some of the details in the graphs had since been changed.\n\nThe Government Science Service found an error in the charts, affecting the upper limit for the possible outcomes shown by the shaded areas. For hospitalisations, the incorrect upper limit shown was 9,000 instead of 6,200.\n\nBut the central line was not changed and the government argues that the error \"did not affect the insights\".\n\nThe PM's official spokesman acknowledged an error had been made but insisted there was no error in the \"underlying analysis\", adding that Mr Johnson continued to have confidence in his chief scientific adviser.\n\nThe errors in the Chief Scientific Adviser's slides all gave the impression that the worst case scenario is more serious than current data support.\n\nBut the government's case for action does not rest solely on future projections of a worst case scenario. They argue that the numbers of people going into hospital or dying right now make the case.\n\nCoronavirus hospital admissions are currently doubling roughly every three weeks.\n\nDeaths are doubling every fortnight, with just over 2,000 reported in the last week. That growth is slower than it was in September and October, but it is still growth.\n\nSo in the near future, the expectation, not the worst case, is that the daily number deaths will rise and pressure on hospitals will increase.\n\nBusiness Minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News the government would \"strive to improve our graphs and presentations\" but the threat facing the NHS from the rise in cases was \"very clear\".\n\nThe health service in England has been placed on its highest alert level ahead of what its bosses said was a \"very difficult winter\" ahead.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, the chief executive of the NHS in England Simon Stevens said there were more than 11,000 Covid patients being treated in hospital, up from 2,000 at the start of October.\n\nBut Sir David Spiegelhalter, one of the most respected statisticians in the country, said he had been \"very unimpressed\" by some of the data presented in recent times, particularly Saturday's scenario of possible deaths.\n\n\"It was a frightening graph and presented these headline figures of 4,000 deaths a day which is terrifying,\" he told Politics Live on Tuesday.\n\n\"But there are a number of problems. We did not have the sources of these projections and if you look at the small print, you see they were done at the beginning of October...And at least one of the groups have revised their projections since.\"", "Poor diets for school-age children may contribute to an average height gap of 20cm (7.9in) between the tallest and shortest nations, an analysis suggests.\n\nIt reports that in 2019 the tallest 19-year-old boys lived in the Netherlands (183.8cm or 6ft) and the shortest lived in Timor Leste (160.1cm or 5ft 3in).\n\nMeanwhile the UK's global height ranking fell, with 19-year-old boys being 39th tallest in 2019 (1.78m or 5ft 10in) from 28th tallest in 1985.\n\nThe study appears in The Lancet.\n\nResearchers say tracking changes in the height and weight of children across the world and over time is important because they can reflect the quality of nutrition available, and how healthy environments are for young people.\n\nThe team analysed data from more than 65 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years from more than 2000 studies between 1985 and 2019.\n\nThey found that in 2019, on average, children and teenagers in north-western and central Europe (eg those in the Netherlands and Montenegro) were the tallest in the world.\n\nMeanwhile, the 19-year-olds who were on average the shortest lived in South and South-East Asia, Latin America and East Africa.\n\nEast Timor is also known as Timor Leste\n\nThe analysis suggests that in 2019:\n\nThe study also looked at children's BMI, a measure that helps indicate whether a person is a healthy weight for their height.\n\nResearchers found older teenagers with the largest BMI lived in the Pacific Islands, Middle East, USA and New Zealand.\n\nMeanwhile 19-year-olds with the lowest BMI lived in South Asian countries such as India and Bangladesh.\n\nThe researchers estimate broadly that the difference between countries with the lowest and highest BMIs in the study was equivalent to about 25kg (55lb).\n\nIn some countries children reached a healthy BMI at the age of five, but were likely to become overweight by the time they were 19.\n\nWhile researchers acknowledge that genetics play an important part in individual children's height and weight, they say when it comes to the health of entire populations, nutrition and the environment are key.\n\nThey also argue that global nutrition policies overwhelmingly focus on under-fives, but suggest their study shows more attention needs to be paid to the growth patterns of older children.\n\nDr Andrea Rodriguez Martinez from Imperial College London, one of the lead researchers, said healthy weights and heights in childhood and adolescence have lifelong benefits for people's wellbeing.\n\nShe said: \"Our findings should motivate policies that increase the availability and reduce the cost of nutritious foods, as this will help children grow taller without gaining excess weight for their height.\n\n\"These initiatives include food vouchers towards nutritious foods for low-income families, and free healthy school meals.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Alan Dangour, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it was a unique and powerful analysis.\n\nHe added: \"For the first time, this global analysis has focused on the growth of school-aged children and adolescents, and identifies that governments around the world are not doing enough to ensure that children enter adulthood in good health.\"", "The coroner said systemic failures had been identified in Averil Hart's care\n\nSystemic failures and neglect caused the death of a teenager who had severe anorexia, a coroner has said.\n\nAveril Hart, 19, from Newton in Suffolk, died from anorexia on 15 December 2012, a week after collapsing at her university flat in Norwich.\n\nThe coroner identified seven areas that he said contributed to her death.\n\nThey included a \"gross failure\" not to give nutritional support at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), which he said amounted to neglect.\n\nA Prevention of Future Deaths report has been written by coroner Sean Horstead after he identified a theme between Miss Hart's case and four other anorexia deaths.\n\nAmanda Bowles, Madeline Wallace, Emma Brown and Maria Jakes died between 2017 and 2018.\n\nMr Horstead said a gap in formally commissioned medical monitoring as seen in Miss Hart's case continued, and \"gives rise to risk of future deaths\".\n\nNic Hart, Miss Hart's father, said: \"It's a huge relief to hear the coroner come to the conclusions we all knew to be the case.\n\n\"My heart bleeds for those families who have lost loved ones after Averil died.\"\n\nMiss Hart had been under the care of Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust but was transferred to the Norfolk Eating Disorder Service when she started a creative writing degree at the University of East Anglia in September 2012.\n\nShe died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, after an emergency transfer from NNUH.\n\nOn the final day of the four-week inquest in Peterborough, Mr Horstead read out a narrative conclusion.\n\n\"The failure to adequately plan for or provide any nutritional support to Averil over the course of her four days at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, in the context of her severely malnourished condition recognised on admission, was a gross failure that had a direct causal connection with, and more than minimally contributed to, the death,\" he said.\n\n\"Averil Hart's death was therefore contributed to by neglect.\"\n\nAveril Hart was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after collapsing at her university flat\n\nThe coroner identified a total of seven areas which he said directly or possibly contributed to her death:\n\nDelays at Addenbrooke's were ruled possibly causative as her condition had deteriorated significantly by the time she arrived.\n\nNNUH medical director Prof Erika Denton said: \"We acknowledge the devastating impact that Averil's death has had on her family and we offer our sincere condolences for their loss.\n\n\"We recognise that the care and treatment we gave to Averil was not of the quality that we or our patients expect, for which we are very sorry and offer an unreserved apology.\n\n\"We have endeavoured to learn and make improvements to our services, including expanding our clinical nutrition team with expert consultants, nurses and dieticians, additional specialist under-nutrition training for staff, and enhanced, 24/7 access to services that can support staff in caring for patients with particular mental health needs.\n\n\"We remain committed to improving services for our most vulnerable patients.\"\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this story, you can talk in confidence to eating disorders charity Beat by calling its adult helpline on 0808 801 0677 or youth helpline on 0808 801 0711.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they expect the number of arrests to rise\n\nPolice have arrested at least 104 protesters during anti-lockdown demonstrations in central London.\n\nA large police presence remains in place near Trafalgar Square where the protest was dispersed shortly after 19:00 GMT.\n\nSmaller groups of protesters remained on Oxford Street and along the Strand.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"This gathering is unlawful and is putting others at risk. We are directing those there to go home.\"\n\nOfficers urged demonstrators to disperse as they took to the streets near Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening, warning those who had gathered that they were breaching coronavirus restrictions.\n\nProtesters began to walk up the Strand soon after 18:00 GMT, chanting \"freedom\" and \"no more lockdown\".\n\nSome protesters wore Guy Fawkes masks as part of the anti-government Million Mask March held annually on 5 November\n\nCommander Jane Connors said: \"Our main priority this evening has been to keep Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are eight months into this national pandemic and frankly there can be no excuse for people to dangerously breach regulations which are there to prevent further spread of Coronavirus.\n\n\"Tonight, a crowd of people chose to ignore the new regulations, to behave irresponsibly and meet in a dangerous manner. More than 100 of these people have now been arrested and will have to face the consequences of their actions.\n\n\"We expect the number of arrests to increase as our policing operation continues into the night.\n\n\"I would continue to urge people across the city to keep yourselves safe and stick to the regulations.\"\n\nProtesters have been told to head home or face arrest\n\nThe Met said in a statement the majority of arrests were for breaches of coronavirus regulations.\n\nNew restrictions mean people should stay at home except for education, work, exercise, medical reasons, shopping for essentials, or to care for others.\n\nHouseholds are not allowed to mix with others indoors, or outdoors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Chappell was not of \"positive good character\", prosecutors said\n\nDominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, has been sentenced to six years in jail for tax evasion.\n\nA Southwark Crown Court jury found him guilty of failing to pay tax of around £584,000 on £2.2m of income he received after buying the failed chain for £1.\n\nThe court heard the 53-year-old spent the money on two yachts, a Bentley and a holiday to the Bahamas.\n\nChappell's lawyers claimed he became \"utterly broke\" after BHS's \"pension problem exploded\" in 2015.\n\nMr Chappell controversially bought the retailer from tycoon Sir Philip Green that year, but the chain collapsed soon after in 2016. It led to the loss of 11,000 jobs and a pension deficit of £571m.\n\nIn sentencing, the judge said Chappell had engaged in a \"long and consistent course of conduct designed to cheat the revenue\".\n\n\"You are not of positive good character. Your offending occurs against a backdrop of successive bankruptcies,\" he said.\n\nSimon York, director of the Fraud Investigation Service at HMRC, said: \"This was deliberate theft from UK citizens. Chappell was a high-profile businessman who knew tax had to be paid on his income and profits but chose not to do so.\n\n\"That's money that should have been supporting our vital public services instead of funding his lavish lifestyle.\"\n\nBHS, once one of Britain's best known retailers, was losing £1m a week and had a huge pension deficit when Chappell's consortium, Retail Acquisitions, bought it in 2015.\n\nIn his year of ownership Mr Chappell received £2.5m in payments from BHS , largely for consultancy fees provided by another of his companies, the bankrupt finance firm Swiss Rock Limited.\n\nSir Philip Green was heavily criticised for agreeing to the deal, and later agreed a £363m cash settlement with the Pensions Regulator to plug the gap in the pension scheme.\n\nHowever, on Thursday prosecutors condemned Chappell for spending large sums of money at a time when he should have been trying to save BHS.\n\n\"Chappell purchased the struggling retail chain for just £1 and was paid thousands of pounds in his new role, where he was tasked with avoiding more redundancies,\" said crown prosecutor Andrew Fox.\n\n\"Instead, while the company fell further into financial difficulty, he spent his new income lavishly on luxury breaks abroad and expensive yachts.\"\n\nThe court heard Chappell, a former racing driver, also bought £11,000 worth of items from a gun and outdoor wear shop, including expensive Beretta firearms.\n\nProsecutors said HMRC repeatedly tried to chase down the missing funds, but Chappell ignored their requests, at one point going on a skiing break before asking for more time to pay the money when he returned home.\n\nIn his defence, Chappell argued he was too busy resolving issues with BHS to deal with the outstanding taxes that were due.\n\nHe had denied three charges of tax fraud.\n\nEarlier this year Chappell was ordered to pay £9.5m into BHS pension schemes after losing an appeal.\n\nAnd in 2019 the Government's Insolvency Service banned him from running a company for 10 years, saying he had carried out \"reckless financial transactions\" and \"failed to maintain adequate company records\".", "Zara and Mike Tindall feature in a promotional video for the platform\n\nAn advert for a coronavirus \"passport\" app, which has been promoted by Zara Tindall, has been referred to the advertising regulator over concerns it may be at odds with health guidance.\n\nThe VHealth Passport allows Covid test results to be uploaded to a phone - meaning people can demonstrate they are safe to attend sports and other events.\n\nBut in an ad to promote it, Mrs Tindall is shown having an antibody test.\n\nGovernment guidance says these tests do not show if you currently have Covid.\n\nThe platform was initially referred to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), who concluded that it was not a matter for them and passed the issue to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for further investigation.\n\nThe ASA confirmed that the matter had been referred to them.\n\nVST Enterprises, which owns the app, said it had \"fully engaged\" with the MHRA over the concerns.\n\nVST Enterprises said VHealth Passport was not being used as a so-called \"immunity passport\", adding that the platform \"encourages the user to have a regular test cycle to manage their personal contact with the virus\".\n\nVHealth Passport \"does not promote or recommend any specific Covid test or manufacturer\", it said, and \"will always be guided by medical science and the regulatory governing bodies\" over tests.\n\nThe test kit used was for professional use only, CE marked and registered with the MHRA, VST Enterprises said.\n\nEarlier, VST Enterprises said the particular antibody test featured in its video was used for \"illustrative purposes\".\n\nAfter creating an account with VHealth Passport, members of the public can book a coronavirus test - with a medical centre that follows government guidelines - via the app.\n\nThe person's test results are then uploaded to VHealth Passport, which will display their current health status - as a unique digital code that can be scanned from more than 2m (6ft) away.\n\nA negative test result will also show up as a green tick on the \"passport\".\n\nMrs Tindall, an Olympic medal-winning equestrian and the Queen's granddaughter, features in an advert for the app with her husband Mike, a member of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning squad.\n\nIn the video, she explains that the app can be used by sports men and women, as well as support staff, volunteers and fans, to give them confidence to attend large events again.\n\nMr Tindall has described the device as a potential \"game-changer\" for getting fans back to watching sports.\n\nMost sports fixtures in England have been held behind closed doors since the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIn the ad, viewers are told that Mrs Tindall is taking a test to see if she \"currently\" has the virus or whether she had previously had it. When her results are revealed, she is told she is \"clearly negative\" for Covid-19 \"current\" infection.\n\nHowever, the video shows Mrs Tindall having an antibody test. Government guidance says such a test is limited to answering whether someone has previously been infected by Covid and understanding the spread of the virus.\n\nIt says antibody tests cannot tell you if you can or cannot spread the virus to other people.\n\nThe test taken by Mrs Tindall looks for three types of antibody - IgG, IgM and IgA. These start to appear a few days after coronavirus infection and stick around for weeks in the blood.\n\nA negative result means there are no signs that someone has had coronavirus - but it doesn't give someone the all clear and mean they are \"safe\" in terms of infection risk.\n\nThey could still currently have Covid, and their body has not yet had time to make antibodies against it.\n\nYou would need to use a different test to tell if someone is currently infected and risks spreading it to others.\n\nA positive antibody test result means that someone has, most likely, recently been infected and now has some immunity against the virus.\n\nBut, like any test, antibody checks can give false results.\n\nJon Deeks, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, says he reported the advert to the MHRA.\n\n\"If people use these tests, they get a negative result and they go and think they haven't got Covid when they could actually still be infectious, that might mean that people don't social distance and so on,\" he said.\n\n\"And that might increase the risk of actually spreading Covid.\"\n\nHe has argued the tests would still miss cases in the very early stages of infection - when people are most likely to pass on the disease.\n\nSimon Clarke, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, said the government was right to say that antibody tests cannot test for current infection.\n\n\"They are a poor diagnostic and that is why they are not used,\" he said. \"They are used to look to see who has had the infection in the past.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr and Mrs Tindall for a comment.\n\nVST Enterprises said it was correct that antibody tests are usually only used to identify previous infection.\n\nBut it added that the one it had featured was different - because it tested for antibodies that presented as early as three to four days after infection. That meant it was possible to use the test to screen for \"possible current infection\".\n\nThe platform has been submitted to the government as a way of getting fans safely back into sports stadiums, according to the firm.\n\nIn a statement, VST Enterprises said: \"In this particular instance the VHealth Passport was demonstrating how a rapid Covid test kit could be used. It will work with any test that is recommended by government.\"\n\nAn MHRA spokesperson said: \"Antibody tests are not used for diagnosis but rather to give a better understanding of the prevalence of the virus in different places and therefore cannot be relied upon for protection to COVID-19 or to or detect previous infection.\"\n\nIt comes as most sports in England have been played behind closed doors since lockdown was introduced in March. The chief executives of the Premier League and the Rugby Football League have urged the government to allow the return of crowds to games as soon as possible.\n\nBut in September, the government halted a plan for a phased return of spectators because of rising coronavirus case numbers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said there was 'light at the end of the tunnel' as a new lockdown began in England\n\nThe prime minister has stressed that people in England should stay at home, as a second lockdown begins.\n\nBoris Johnson said he knew people were weary but four weeks of measures would make a \"real impact\" on the virus.\n\nPubs, restaurants and non-essential shops were forced to close on Thursday as part of the new restrictions.\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the furlough scheme to support jobs would be extended across the UK until the end of March.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said the measures were \"not a repeat of the spring\" and there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nHe said the restrictions in England would \"automatically expire\" on 2 December. There is expected to be another vote on the next steps needed to tackle the virus before the lockdown ends.\n\nHe added that although the challenge was \"significant across the UK\", the devolved nations were working together on a \"joint approach\", with the objective of having \"as normal a Christmas as possible\".\n\nThe devolved nations each make their own restrictions with Wales currently in a 17-day firebreak lockdown, while Scotland is in a tier system and Northern Ireland in the midst of a four-week limited lockdown.\n\nIn addition to the extension of the furlough scheme, the prime minister said a further £1.1bn will be made available for local authorities to support businesses, with £2bn for the devolved nations.\n\nHe said the government will also put £15m towards a scheme to help to provide accommodation for rough sleepers during the pandemic. This money is part of funding previously announced by the government to tackle homelessness.\n\nMr Johnson said by September the government had supported more than 29,000 vulnerable people, with two thirds now moved into settled accommodation.\n\nThe UK recorded a further 378 coronavirus deaths and 24,141 confirmed cases on Thursday.\n\nNHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens, who appeared alongside the prime minister, said about 30,000 staff in the health service were either off with coronavirus or were having to self-isolate, and \"that has an impact\".\n\n\"This second wave of coronavirus is real and it's serious,\" he said.\n\n\"The health service has been working incredibly hard to prepare and to catch up on the care that was disrupted during the first wave.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Simon Stevens said hospitals were filling up across Europe, including in the UK\n\nSir Simon added it will be known \"conclusively\" by the end of the second national lockdown whether it had affected the increase in Covid-19 hospital admissions, but said the NHS was \"hoping and expecting\" they would not see the increases that infectious disease experts had warned about.\n\nEarlier, the UK Statistics Authority criticised the way data has been presented by the government to justify England's second lockdown, highlighting the use of modelling in a TV briefing on Saturday showing the possible death toll from Covid this winter.\n\nShunning projections that have proved so controversial, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens tried to play it straight at the news briefing.\n\nHe presented a chart showing how the numbers in hospital have gone up since the summer with more than 11,000 in hospital in England.\n\nHe then provided some important context - comparing that to the numbers in hospital with flu - around 3,000 in the depths of winter - or getting treatment for cancer, normally 7,000.\n\nThis shows the burden Covid is placing on the health service.\n\nBut two things that were not shown were the numbers in hospital at the peak in the spring - 17,000 - or the number of free beds, thought to be 15,000 to 20,000.\n\nWe don't know the latter because NHS bosses are not publishing them.\n\nAn important point on the day that the UK Statistics Authority called for greater transparency over the way Covid data is presented.\n\nUnlike the first national lockdown in March, schools, universities, and nurseries will remain open, and people will be able to meet another person who they do not live with in an outdoor public place such as a park or beach.\n\nThe rules say people cannot mix with anyone they do not live with indoors or in private gardens and people should stay at home except for specific reasons including education and work, if it cannot be done from home.", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home have been placed into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk.\n\nThe clothing retailer had 328 sites and 2,571 staff across the UK, while homeware store Ponden had 329 staff.\n\nToday 866 jobs were lost across the two chains adding to the hundreds that went after 64 stores across the two brands were permanently closed.\n\nEWM Group owns both chains but is still trying to strike a rescue deal to save remaining brands, Peacocks and Jaeger.\n\nA spokesperson for EWM Group said: \"Over the past month we explored all possible options to save Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home from going into administration, but unfortunately the ongoing trading conditions caused by the pandemic and lockdowns proved too much.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart we acknowledge there is no alternative but to place the businesses into administration.\"\n\nTony Wright, the joint administrator from business advisory firm FRP, said both Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden were trading well before the coronavirus pandemic and FRP would continue to search for buyers for the businesses so they do not disappear completely.\n\nHe added: \"Regrettably, the impact of Covid-19 on the brands' core customer base and tighter restrictions on trading mean that the current structure of the businesses is unsustainable and has resulted in redundancies.\n\n\"We are working with all affected members of staff to provide the appropriate support.\"", "Guatemala's army has reached a remote village where dozens of houses were buried by mudslides triggered by Storm Eta's torrential rains.\n\nPresident Alejandro Giammattei said around 100 people were feared dead in Quejá in the central region of Alta Verapaz.\n\nBad weather has hampered rescue efforts while roads are still blocked and large areas remain flooded.\n\nEarlier, the authorities had confirmed at least 50 deaths across the country.\n\nEta made landfall in neighbouring Nicaragua on Tuesday as a Category Four hurricane with winds of 140mph (225km/h) and torrential rains. It then weakened into a tropical depression as it moved into neighbouring Honduras and later Guatemala.\n\nPresident Giammattei said rescue efforts were limited by the country having only one helicopter adequate for these operations.\n\n\"We have a lot of people trapped [whom] we have not been able to reach,\" he said. A state of emergency has been declared in many areas.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in many regions of Guatemala\n\nThe president described the situation in Queja as \"critical\". No bodies have yet been recovered from the area.\n\nIn neighbouring Honduras, at least 10 deaths have been confirmed, with hundreds of people reportedly waiting to be rescued from flooded areas.\n\nMen remain on a rooftop in the Honduran city of El Progreso\n\nWendi Munguía Figueroa, 48, who lives in La Lima, a San Pedro Sula suburb, told the Associated Press: \"We can't get off our houses' roofs because the water is up to our necks in the street.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Foreign Affairs Minister Lisandro Rosales said: \"The destruction that Eta leaves us is enormous and public finances are at a critical moment because of Covid-19.\"\n\nHe added: \"We make a call to the international community to accelerate the process of recovery and reconstruction.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have nothing... I am in pain\" – Central America is counting the cost of Storm Eta\n\nOn Friday, the storm was off Belize's coast and heading out to the Caribbean Sea, charting a course to Cuba and Florida this weekend, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).", "Elyas Elmehdi was an associate of the Abedi brothers\n\nSix people are wanted for questioning by detectives investigating the Manchester Arena bombing, a legal document has revealed.\n\nThe parents of the brothers responsible for the atrocity are both suspects, as are two associates.\n\nOne of the associates, who was arrested following the attack, was able to flee the UK despite remaining a suspect and being charged with other offences.\n\nTwo further men are of interest to police but have not been spoken to.\n\nSalman Abedi detonated the bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring many more.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi, who was central to the conspiracy, was jailed this year after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nThe six names, which appear in a ruling published by the public inquiry into the attack, have not been disclosed publicly before.\n\nThe ruling followed an application by police to restrict publication of the information - it was successfully opposed by the BBC and five other media organisations.\n\nThe media's position was supported by many bereaved families and opposed by none.\n\nFour of the people are wanted as suspects. Two others are what are described as \"trace/interview/eliminate subjects\", meaning that police wish to trace them, interview them and, if appropriate, eliminate them from their investigations.\n\nRamadan Abedi is the father of brothers Salman and Hashem\n\nRamadan Abedi, father of Salman and Hashem Abedi, is wanted for questioning after his fingerprints were found inside a car used by the brothers to store explosives and bomb-making material.\n\nThe vehicle - a Nissan Micra - was owned by the brothers for around 40 hours before they flew to Libya with their father in April 2017. Ramadan has not returned to the UK since.\n\nThe car was purchased specifically to store the lethal material, which the two brothers had previously kept in a flat rented in order to prepare their bomb.\n\nWhile the suicide bomber Salman Abedi was in Libya, the car was parked outside the property of an associate called Elyas Elmehdi, who is also one of the four outstanding suspects.\n\nOn arrival back in the UK in May 2017, days before the attack, Salman Abedi went straight to the car and later returned to collect material from it.\n\nThe BBC previously revealed that Elmehdi had fled to Libya despite being charged with drugs offences following his arrest early in the arena bombing investigation.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis, Eilidh MacLeod - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThe ruling reveals that, despite being released following questioning, he remained a suspect and that further evidence was found to connect him to the Micra that contradicts what he said in interview.\n\nLast year he was convicted in his absence of involvement in a drugs conspiracy and given a four year prison sentence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has not answered questions from the BBC about how Elmehdi was able to flee abroad - more than a year after the bombing - despite being on bail for drugs offences.\n\nOn what was supposed to be day one of Hashem Abedi's trial in January, Elmehdi posted an image of himself online stating \"they can tell you how I was restricted to doing bits\" alongside an emoji of two champagne glasses.\n\nHe later posted a photo of himself holding a firearm sitting on a vehicle bearing the logo of a military operation - involving various militias - organised by the so-called \"Government of National Accord\" in Tripoli, which is battling other belligerents in the Libyan civil war.\n\nPolice also want to speak to Samia Tabbal, the mother of Salman and Hashem Abedi. She too is in Libya.\n\nMohammed Soliman is the other suspect. He purchased a bomb-making chemical for the brothers, but left Manchester for Libya in April 2017.\n\nThe two people that police want to trace are Majdi Alamari, who lives in Libya, and Anas Abuhdaima, whose location is unknown but is believed to be somewhere in the UK.\n\nBBC research suggests that Mr Abuhdaima, who is originally from Manchester, was in the city for a time after the bombing and that he was convicted of a driving offence there in December 2017.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League is likely to scrap the controversial pay-per-view method for matches after November's international window.\n\nClubs will instead look to devise a new solution that will cover the Christmas period.\n\nA definitive decision was not taken at a shareholders' meeting on Thursday but discussions are said to be ongoing.\n\nHowever, the £14.95 fee - which led to significant protests among fan groups - is expected to be dropped.\n\nIt is understood the model used in September, when all games were shown live by the Premier League's broadcast partners, is the likely direction of travel.\n\nPay-per-view remains on the table but a final decision is not expected this week.\n\nIn a statement, the Premier League said shareholders met on Thursday \"to discuss a number of important issues\", including the broadcast options for matches following the international break.\n\n\"Discussions with all stakeholders are ongoing and a broadcast solution will be announced in due course,\" it added.\n\nMore than £300,000 has been raised for charity by fans boycotting pay-per-view games, which were introduced in October after clubs voted 19-1 in favour of the \"interim solution\".\n\nLiverpool's fan group the Spirit of Shankly described the decision to charge £14.95 as \"disgraceful\", while the Football Supporters' Association said many fans were \"concerned\" over the price and wanted it reduced.\n\nFollowing Thursday's meeting, an FSA spokesperson said: \"Supporters made clear their revulsion at the £15 cost to see their teams on Sky and BT Sport's pay-per-view platforms last month, an emotion running so deep that fan protests across the country even reached the ears of untouchable Premier League club owners.\n\n\"We await to see the detail of what the Premier League and its broadcasters will now offer supporters who remain locked out of grounds for the foreseeable future - they simply must come up with a solution that is affordable for all.\"\n\nNewcastle owner Mike Ashley and manager Steve Bruce have said the fee for one-off matches is too high, while former Manchester United and England right-back Gary Neville, now a Sky pundit, said the system \"just needs scrapping\".\n\nPay-per-view will still be used for this weekend's fixtures, for games not selected for regular television broadcast, and whatever decision is made would come into force from 21 November and is due to last for the rest of the year.\n\nLast month, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the £14.95 fee was \"defensible\", and the announcement of the model came at a time when top-flight clubs were lobbying for spectators to be allowed back into grounds.\n\nHowever, England has since entered a second national lockdown, which will last until 2 December, and hopes of an imminent return of fans have faded.\n\nIn September, all 28 Premier League matches were shown live, with all broadcast partners - Sky Sports, BT Sport, the BBC and Amazon Prime - screening matches.\n\nMeanwhile, the Premier League said its shareholders also reiterated that a rescue package remains on the table for EFL clubs suffering financially during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The offer guarantees no EFL club need go out of business as a result of the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, and our intention is to play an active role in helping clubs return to financial stability,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The Premier League will engage directly with any EFL club that is suffering severe financial losses due to the pandemic, and will remain in dialogue with the EFL on this important issue.\n\n\"The rescue package is on top of solidarity payments totalling £110m already advanced to the EFL this season, alongside additional financial support for youth development and community programmes.\"\n• Watch 13 first-round ties on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app this weekend. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"My father-in-law is broken, he has lost his wife and his two children\"\n\nA woman and her two sons have died in the space of five days after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nDavid Lewis, 81, from Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taf, lost his wife Gladys, 74, on Thursday last week, and sons Dean, 44, the next day and Darren, 42, on Monday.\n\nAll of them lived in the same block of flats in Treorchy. Other family members are now isolating.\n\nDean's widow, Claire Lewis, said the family were struggling to come to terms with what had happened.\n\nThe family, she said, had been careful to avoid catching Covid-19 because Gladys had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Darren, who had Down's syndrome, had been on life support with pneumonia earlier in the year and her husband David \"was not well himself\".\n\nBrothers Darren and Dean Lewis died within days of each other\n\nMrs Lewis said she did not understand how they had caught the virus.\n\nThe 44-year-old, from Treorchy, said: \"We are totally devastated, all of us. My father-in-law is broken, he has lost his wife and his two children.\n\n\"He keeps on saying to us, 'It should have been me, it should have been me'.\n\n\"It's so difficult to try and help him, and hold me and my children together, because my children are absolutely devastated, and my sister-in-law is.\n\n\"She just she does not know what to do with herself, she is the baby of the family and she has lost her big brothers.\"\n\nShe said her mother-in-law Gladys would do \"anything for anyone\".\n\n\"To think she is not going to be there anymore is almost heartbreaking,\" she said.\n\nMrs Lewis, who has three children, warned people thought Covid-19 was \"a big joke\".\n\n\"People need to wise up,\" she said.\n\nShe added being in isolation made coping \"so difficult\".\n\nDarren Lewis died the week after his mother and brother\n\nMrs Lewis and her youngest son, 12, have tested positive for the virus and she is waiting on results for her eldest children, 14 and 19.\n\n\"People don't think this is going to happen to them, but look at our family,\" Mrs Lewis said.\n\nA GoFundMe page has raised more than £5,000 for the family since being started four days ago.", "The actress said she \"did not connect limb difference\" with her Grand High Witch character\n\nThe Witches star Anne Hathaway has promised to \"do better\" following the criticism the film has received for its portrayal of limb difference.\n\nThe actress acknowledged that many people \"are in pain\" over the way her Grand High Witch character is depicted.\n\n\"I owe you all an apology,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nIn the new adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1983 book, the witches are revealed to have three elongated fingers on each hand and toe-less feet.\n\nComedian Alex Brooker and others with hand and arm impairments have accused the film of being insensitive towards disabled people.\n\n\"To me It sends out a message that we should be scared of people with missing fingers,\" Brooker told the BBC earlier this week.\n\nBut he added he does not blame Hathaway for this situation, and feels that more awareness and education is needed.\n\nHathaway said she \"did not connect limb difference with the GHW [Grand High Witch] when the look of the character was brought\" to her.\n\n\"If I had, I assure you this never would have happened,\" continued the star, who won an Oscar for her role in Les Miserables.\n\n\"I particularly want to say I'm sorry to kids with limb differences,\" she went on. \"Now that I know better I promise I'll do better.\n\n\"And I owe a special apology to everyone who loves you as fiercely as I love my own kids: I'm sorry I let your family down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Brooker says the way the film depicts limb difference is \"heartbreaking\"\n\nThe actress described herself as \"someone who really believes in inclusivity and really, really detests cruelty\".\n\nShe also shared a video from the Lucky Fin Project, an organisation supporting those with limb differences.\n\nHathaway's message followed the apology Warner Bros issued earlier this week over the portrayal of the witches in the film, which varies from the one in Dahl's original.\n\nThe studio said it was \"deeply saddened\" to learn Robert Zemeckis's film \"could upset people with disabilities\".\n\n\"In adapting the original story, we worked with designers and artists to come up with a new interpretation of the cat-like claws that are described in the book,\" its statement continued.\n\n\"It was never the intention for viewers to feel that the fantastical, non-human creatures were meant to represent them.\"\n\nThe Witches had originally been set for a cinema release but was instead distributed on digital platforms last month following the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShortly afterwards, the hashtag #NotAWitch began trending on social media.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Paul Dunleavy was jailed for five years and six months, after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA teenager who was part of a banned neo-Nazi group has been jailed for preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nA judge ruled 17-year-old Paul Dunleavy can be named but described his efforts to commit the act as \"inept\".\n\nDunleavy had admitted nine counts of possessing terror manuals and also had videos of the New Zealand terror attack in 2019, in which 51 people died.\n\nAt Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Paul Farrer QC jailed the defendant for five years and six months.\n\nDunleavy, who had denied preparing an attack, had joined a neo-Nazi group called Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) in July last year, the court was told.\n\nThe group was created by a 13-year-old Estonian and was outlawed in the UK this summer after being linked to terrorism cases around the world.\n\nNotepads made by the teenager and a gun were recovered from his room\n\nJudge Farrer said Dunleavy had offered practical advice on firearms to other FKD members, some of whom have gone on themselves to be convicted of terrorism offences in other countries.\n\nThe judge told the defendant he harboured an intention to commit an act of terrorism, but added it was unlikely the he would have followed through, describing his preparations as \"inept\".\n\nHe added: \"Your autism impacts on your maturity and understanding.\"\n\nProsecutors said FKD's aim was to overthrow the liberal democratic system by bringing about a race war through individuals carrying out acts of mass murder.\n\nAfter joining FKD's online chat group, Dunleavy unwittingly began communicating with an undercover police officer, telling him: \"I'm getting armed and getting in shape.\"\n\nThe court was told Dunleavy had researched how to convert a blank-firing gun and asked an adult friend for advice on where to buy one.\n\nDunleavy had an \"unhealthy interest in other attacks across the world\", police said\n\nFollowing his arrest at his home in September 2019, West Midlands Police said detectives seized his phone, finding over 90 documents on firearms, explosives and military tactics, right wing material and online chat conversations.\n\nThey also found several knives, air rifles, face coverings, camouflage face paint, shotgun cartridges and bullet casings.\n\n\"This boy had an unhealthy interest in other attacks across the world and he knew exactly what online platforms to join to share his extreme views,\" said Det Ch Supt Kenny Bell, head of West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.\n\n\"He believed he had the skills to convert a blank firing weapon into a viable firearm and was willing to help others with his abilities.\"\n\nDunleavy had named Adolf Hitler as one of his heroes, West Midlands Police said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Johnny Depp at the Royal Courts of Justice in July\n\nJohnny Depp has left the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, days after losing a libel case over a newspaper article which called him a wife beater.\n\nIn a letter to fans, Depp said he had been \"asked to resign\" from his role as Gellert Grindelwald and had \"respected that and agreed to that request\".\n\nHe called the libel judgement \"surreal\" and confirmed his plans to appeal.\n\nFilm studio Warner Bros confirmed Depp's departure and said his role would be recast.\n\n\"We thank Johnny for his work on the films to date,\" it said in a statement.\n\nDepp, 57, had sued the publisher of The Sun newspaper over a 2018 article, which claimed he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nEarlier this week, Judge Mr Justice Nicol ruled The Sun had proved the article to be \"substantially true\".\n\nIn his letter, posted on Instagram, Depp said the judgement would not \"change my fight to tell the truth\".\n\nIn light of recent events, I would like to make the following short statement.\n\nFirstly I'd like to thank everybody who has gifted me with their support and loyalty. I have been humbled and moved by your many messages of love and concern, particularly over the last few days.\n\nSecondly, I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by Warner Bros. from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected that and agreed to that request.\n\nFinally I wish to say this, The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal.\n\nMy resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false. My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time.\n\nThank you for reading. Sincerely, Johnny Depp\n\nDepp made a brief appearance as Grindelwald in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and reprised his role in 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\n\nThe films are prequels to the eight Harry Potter films, which were based on the novels by JK Rowling.\n\nAccording to Warner Bros, the third film in the series is currently in production and will be released in summer 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito looks back on the libel case\n\nMonday's judgement followed a trial that was heard over 16 days in July at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.\n\nThe trial contained allegations of violence that spanned the period between 2013 and 2016, when Depp and Heard split up.\n\nIn his ruling, Judge Nicol found that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence had occurred.\n\nMr Depp is suing Ms Heard, 34, in the US in a separate case, over an opinion piece she wrote in the Washington Post.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The prime minister has defended data used by the government to justify the lockdown in England, saying the \"data is really irrefutable about what is happening now in the country.\"\n\nA chart presented at Saturday's No 10 briefing suggested a worse-case figure of up to 1,500 deaths a day by 8 December, but that has been adjusted down to 1,010 a day, after an error was found.\n\nDowning Street said it accepted a mistake had been made but the \"underlying analysis\" of the threat to the NHS was correct.\n\nAsked about it on a visit to Leicestershire, Boris Johnson said: \"The thing is the data is really irrefutable about what is happening in the country - that's why we've had to take the action we have and I very much regret it.\n\n\"But if you look at the admissions to hospitals, they are 25% up on last week, the overall number of Covid patients in hospitals is now more than 10,000... and climbing quite fast, and the number of deaths alas is on an upward curve.\"", "Constantine said it felt \"liberating\" to publicly acknowledge her alcohol battle for the first time\n\nFormer What Not To Wear presenter Susannah Constantine has revealed she is an alcoholic and has been in recovery for almost seven years.\n\nThe TV host said she previously felt \"a lot of shame\" about her drinking.\n\nBut she added it has been \"liberating\" to publicly acknowledge it for the first time.\n\n\"I'm an alcoholic and I've been in recovery for nearly seven years now,\" Constantine told the My Mate Bought A Toaster podcast.\n\nThe 58-year-old has previously referred to giving up alcohol, but not discussed the full extent of her drinking.\n\nIn 2017, she told The Mirror: \"I stopped drinking entirely three years ago. Alcohol is fun when you're younger, but it's also a crutch, and it wasn't having a great impact on my life. Nowadays, I'm happy writing and gathering dust at my desk.\"\n\nConstantine co-presented five series of the BBC's What Not To Wear in the early 2000s, alongside her long-time friend and collaborator Trinny Woodall, who has previously discussed her own alcohol addiction.\n\nMore recently, Constantine appeared on the 2018 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She was partnered with Anton Du Beke and the pair were voted out first.\n\nTrinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine presented five series of What Not To Wear\n\nSpeaking to podcast host Tom Price about her battle with alcohol, Constantine said: \"It's not something I've spoken about before really, but it's important.\"\n\nShe went on to explain how her addiction to alcohol caused her to behave towards those closest to her.\n\n\"As an addict, often what you would do, and certainly what I did, I would put all my own defects - I would find someone else to attach them to,\" she explained.\n\n\"And so I thought my husband was passive aggressive, but actually I was the one who was passive aggressive. And that I've realised over time and being in recovery.\n\n\"I was the awful, angry, passive-aggressive one and my poor husband was the one who had to live with it.\"\n\nConstantine has been married to her husband, Danish businessman and entrepreneur Sten Bertelsen, since 1995.\n\nShe gave up drinking in 2013, and said her addiction did not affect her work because she was a \"highly functioning\" alcoholic.\n\nConstantine took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018\n\nConstantine also told the podcast about the moment she first acknowledged she had a problem.\n\n\"It was so liberating. I felt a lot of shame most of the time... the relief was so immense because I could change it,\" she said.\n\n\"I wasn't having to try and change someone else. It was down to me. I was responsible and accountable for becoming a better person and getting sober and well.\n\n\"And so it was the most extraordinary relief to have that light-bulb moment.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What happened to Trinny after Susannah?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of the election results so far...\n\nIt's two days after the US presidential election, and a winner still eludes us. As the ballots from more than 160 million Americans continue to be counted, however, a picture is starting to come into focus.\n\nNow that Michigan and Wisconsin have been projected for Biden, the national race is boiling down to Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.\n\nIt's 253 electoral college votes to Biden and 214 to Trump, with the White House in their grasp if they reach 270.\n\nHere's what the candidates need to happen in order to win the White House.\n\nTo put it simply, Democrat Joe Biden simply has to maintain the lead he currently holds in Arizona and Nevada (light blue states on the map). If he does that, he hits 270 electoral votes - the bare minimum needed to take the White House.\n\nIn Michigan, Biden pulled ahead of Trump in the early morning hours as mail-in ballots were counted in heavily Democratic Detroit - and by late afternoon he was projected to win the state. In neighbouring Wisconsin, the trend there has been decidedly in his favour too. Republicans are talking about a recount.\n\nBiden has maintained a steady lead in Arizona with more mail-in ballots to be counted. The margin in Nevada is just a few thousand votes, but all election-day votes - which have tilted Republican - have been counted and only mail-in ballots, which have typically favoured Democrats, are left.\n\nFor the moment, Biden seems to have the path of least resistance to the presidency.\n\nLike Biden, to retain the White House Trump has to hold on in the remaining key states where he has a lead. In his case, that's Pennsylvania and Georgia (light red on the map above). Then, the Republican has to peel away at least one of those aforementioned states where Biden is on top.\n\nNevada is very, very close. It wouldn't take much of a shift to move the state into Trump's column. If the late-arriving mail ballots - postmarked on election day but can be delivered after - turn out to be from Trump-leaning independents or Republicans, not Democrats as expected, the picture for the president could brighten considerably.\n\nArizona is another possible flip for the president. Like Nevada, there are only mail-ballots left to be tabulated. The state has a more established tradition of postal voter, however, and Arizona Democrats haven't shown the same kind of advantage in those ballots as they have in Nevada. Biden's lead in Arizona is much larger than his margin in Nevada, but there is also the possibility of bigger shifts.\n\nAs for Wisconsin, it is heading in the wrong direction for the president. While Trump may be holding out hope in this Midwest battleground, the numbers are moving away from him.\n\nTrump's route back to the White House may rely on holding his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, but that doesn't mean he's safe in either of those states. The ballots remaining to be counted in Georgia are from heavily Democratic counties around Atlanta.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, there are more than a million mail-in ballots left to tabulate. Even though Trump has a bigger lead in the Keystone State, the vote-counting trends that moved Biden ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan may play themselves out there, as well.\n\nIf Biden can pick off Pennsylvania, he can afford to lose both Arizona and Nevada. If the Democrat flips Georgia, he can lose one or the other (otherwise, it's an electoral college tie that goes to the House).\n\nIn other words, unlike Trump, Biden has a number of different paths to get to presidential victory. They may be less likely, but they are still very real.\n\nRegardless of the ultimate outcome, what was once a nightmare scenario is taking shape, with Biden claiming he is on a path to victory and Trump lobbing accusations of voter fraud and electoral theft without providing any evidence.\n\nIt's a recipe for acrimony and a protracted court battle, which ends with supporters on the losing side feeling angry and cheated. The Trump campaign has already announced that they will request a recount in Wisconsin.\n\nAlthough the final results aren't known, what is clear on election night is that the US continues to be a sharply divided nation. The American voters did not repudiate Trump in any meaningful way. Nor did they give him the kind of ringing endorsement that the president had hoped for.\n\nInstead, the battle lines are drawn - and the political warfare will continue no matter who prevails in this particular election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Sillito looks back on the career of Geoffrey Palmer\n\nActor Geoffrey Palmer, known for his roles in such sitcoms as Butterflies, As Time Goes By and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, has died aged 93.\n\nHe died peacefully at home, his agent said.\n\nVersatile and prolific, he was known and loved for his hangdog expression, lugubrious delivery and the often testy demeanour he gave to his characters.\n\nAs Time Goes By saw him star with Dame Judi Dench, a partnership they revived in Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.\n\nHe also acted in Mrs Brown, again with Dench, and The Madness of King George.\n\nDame Judi, who starred in nine series of As Time Goes By with Palmer, told BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme: \"Geoffrey was master of comedy, an absolute master.\"\n\nPaying tribute to his \"wonderful deadpan expression\", she added: \"I've admired him all my life. How lucky to have been in something with him for so long.\"\n\nHis co-star in Butterflies from 1978 to 1983, Wendy Craig, told the programme: \"He was just a delight to work with, his timing was perfect.\"\n\nDespite his \"rather serious face\", she said he was \"full of fun\" in person. \"When he laughed and when he smiled his whole face lit up, his eyes twinkled. He was always up for a laugh and not a heavy-going serious person at all,\" she said.\n\nHis early television roles included appearances in The Army Game, The Saint and The Avengers and he went on to appear in Doctor Who and the Kipper and the Corpse episode of Fawlty Towers.\n\nThe Doctor Who programme listed the shows he had appeared in with a tribute 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 Doctor Who This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Doctor Who\n\nBroadcaster and author Gyles Brandreth said: \"RIP Geoffrey Palmer - such a wonderful actor, such a lovely guy. Brilliant at his craft and just the best company: wickedly funny. He did everything he did so well. Thanks for all the happy memories Geoffrey: we'll cherish them as time goes by.\"\n\nComedian Marcus Brigstocke, who starred alongside Palmer in BBC One sitcom The Savages, remembered him as \"the kindest, most brilliant man\", while Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright said he was \"brilliantly funny\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 edgarwright This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard added: \"Very sad to hear that Geoffrey Palmer has left us. I was very excited to meet him once and then had the honour to act with him in the film Lost Christmas. His work will stay with us and through that he can live on forever. Good work Sir. Rest in peace.\"\n\nActress Annette Badland said: \"He was such a gifted actor and enormously good company. We worked together several times, laughed a lot and he was kind and generous. I am much saddened. Love to his family. Sleep well Mr Palmer.\"\n\nReece Shearsmith from The League of Gentlemen described him an \"immaculate singular actor\", singling out his performance in Butterflies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nPalmer appeared in four series of the Carla Lane sitcom, in which he played the stuffy husband of Wendy Craig's Ria.\n\nYet it was his partnership with Dench in As Time Goes By for which he will perhaps be best remembered.\n\nPalmer worked with Judi Dench in As Time Goes By\n\nThe BBC sitcom, about two former lovers who meet unexpectedly and later marry, ran from 1992 to 2005.\n\nIn 2018 Dame Judi described her co-star as \"the naughtiest man I ever had the pleasure to work with\" as she gave him a prize at that year's Oldie Awards.\n\nIn Tomorrow Never Dies, released in 1997, Palmer's combative Admiral Roebuck sparred with Dame Judi's M, the head of the secret service.\n\nProducers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli remembered the actor as \"a much beloved star of TV and film and a treasured member of the Bond family\".\n\nPalmer's distinctive voice made him a popular choice for narration, audiobooks and adverts.\n\nHe narrated the Grumpy Old Men series and introduced British viewers to \"Vorsprung durch Technik\" in adverts for Audi cars.\n\nActress Frances Barber remembered an occasion when he had queried a residuals payment he had received for the ubiquitous commercial.\n\n\"I just called my agent and said they've put too many 0's on the cheque,\" she recalled him saying. \"After lunch he said 'Apparently they haven't'. His face didn't change.\"\n\nIn his later years Palmer was seen in Paddington, Parade's End and W.E, in which he was directed by pop star Madonna.\n\nHe was made an OBE in 2004 for services to drama.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPalmer, a keen fly fisherman, campaigned against the HS2 railway line, the proposed route of which ran close to his home in the Chilterns.\n\n\"Stop this vanity project and leave our countryside alone,\" he told then-PM David Cameron in a 2013 video filmed for the Daily Politics show.\n\n\"I am not grumpy,\" he once said of his distinctively jowly features. \"I just look this way.\"\n\nHe is survived by his wife Sally Green, with whom he had a daughter and a son.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Bryce Hall accused Ariana Grande of chasing clout with her comments\n\nA minor war of words has broken out after Ariana Grande criticised social media influencers for partying during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe pop star condemned people who were gathering at the cowboy-themed Saddle Ranch restaurant in LA, which has become a hangout for Tik Tok stars.\n\n\"Couldn't we have stayed at home just a few more weeks?\" she asked on The Zach Sang Show last week.\n\n\"Because she knew that Tik Tokers have a high audience, she knew a lot of people would agree,\" he said on the Hollywood Raw podcast, \"because there's a lot of people that hate TikTokers especially\".\n\n\"I mean, it was obviously like a marketing move and good for her,\" he added. \"But like, she's not wrong.\"\n\nGrande's comments came during an hour-long interview to promote her new album, Positions, which is on course to top the UK charts this week.\n\n\"Did we all need to go to [expletive] Saddle Ranch that badly that we couldn't wait for the deathly pandemic to pass?\" she said.\n\n\"Did we all need to put on our cowgirl boots and ride a mechanical bull that bad? We all needed that Instagram post that badly?\"\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 Zach Sang Show 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\nTik Tok personality Addison Rae, who celebrated Hallowe'en at Saddle Ranch with Hall, admitted Grande had a point.\n\n\"I think it's fair, I think it's understandable,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm staying in and working out a lot and preparing for my movie,\" added the star, who is working on a remake of the 90s romcom She's All That.\n\nDixie D'Amelio - who is one of Tik Tok's most-followed stars - agreed that Grande's advice made sense.\n\n\"I don't really know what to think,\" she said, when approached by the gossip site Pap Galore.\n\n\"I mean, she's right. She's right, yeah,\" D'Amelio added. \"She's a queen. I love her.\"\n\nGrande has taken a hard line on Covid-19 safety, most recently encouraging her fans to stay at home for Hallowe'en.\n\n\"Please dress up, take pics, but then get in your PJs and watch some scary movies,\" she tweeted. \"Going to parties right now is unsafe and absolutely not worth it.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Hall and fellow Tik Tok star Blake Gray were charged with violating Los Angeles' health orders after throwing parties at the home they shared in the Hollywood Hills.\n\n\"If you have a combined 19 million followers on TikTok in the middle of a public health crisis, you should be modelling great behaviour... rather than brazenly violating the law,\" said Los Angeles city lawyer Mike Feuer.\n\nLos Angeles' mayor Eric Garcetti also authorised the city to shut off water and power to the home. \"Despite several warnings, this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The fencing was pulled down after hundreds of students - who said they were not warned about the measure - protested\n\nA university that spent £11,000 on fencing has been forced to remove the barriers hours later amid protests.\n\nStudents living at the University of Manchester's Fallowfield halls of residence awoke to find workers putting up \"huge metal barriers\" on Thursday.\n\nIt sparked a protest among hundreds of students over the \"prison-like\" campus fencing, which was later torn down.\n\nThe university has announced it will hold an inquiry into the decision to erect the fencing.\n\nWork to remove the fencing began last night and will be completed later.\n\nThe university confirmed it had spent £11,000 net to install, inspect and remove the fencing, which had been hired for four weeks in response to security concerns about non-residents accessing the Owens Park site.\n\nProf Dame Nancy Rothwell, the university's president and vice-chancellor, said: \"Firstly, I want to apologise again for the distress caused by putting up the fence yesterday and the very poor communication surrounding this.\n\n\"I am determined to find out what went wrong and to learn from it.\"\n\nThe inquiry will be conducted by a former vice-president for teaching, learning and students with the report submitted by the end of the month.\n\nProf Rothwell said she would meet with student representatives from the halls \"as soon as possible\".\n\nStudents said the fences made them feel as if they had been imprisoned\n\nProf Rothwell added: \"I know the events of yesterday were distressing for many students on a personal level at what is already a very difficult time. I'm sorry for that.\n\n\"I also regret that our actions led to protests and unrest at the residences last night.\n\n\"The fence has been removed today and, in consultation with students, additional security measures will be put in place to help to keep all of our residents safe.\"\n\nStudents said the fences, placed between buildings, blocked off some entry and exit points and left them feeling trapped.\n\nThird-year drama student Billie Harvey-Munro has criticised the lack of communication over the fencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students said they felt \"trapped\" and \"imprisoned\" by the fencing\n\n\"There's been no transparency whatsoever. Students weren't warned,\" said Ms Harvey-Munro, who is part of a campaign group Student Action for a Fair and Educated Response.\n\n\"You have a bunch of first-year students who are scared about the current crisis anyway.\n\n\"I think it really demonstrates to us how little the university had prioritised students at this time.\"\n\nThe university initially insisted it had written to students informing them about the construction, but has since acknowledged work began \"ahead of the message being seen\".\n\nUnder the new lockdown rules in England, university students have been told not to move back and forward between their permanent and student homes during term time. The government says they should only return home at the end of term.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you on Saturday morning.\n\nOfficial figures suggest the increase in new coronavirus infections appears to be slowing around the UK. Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that although new cases continue to rise, in England daily infections have stabilised at around 50,000 a day. That means around one person in every 90 has the virus in England, while it is one in 110 in Scotland and Wales. In Northern Ireland it is one in 75 - but experts warn it is too soon to say if rates are levelling off there. How many cases are in your area?\n\nPeople have been queuing for Covid tests in Liverpool on the opening day of the UK's first city-wide testing programme. Everyone living or working in the city are being offered regular tests, whether or not they have symptoms. New test sites have been set up across the city, with about 2,000 military personnel helping to deliver them. What can mass testing realistically achieve? We have been taking a look.\n\nA graph used during Saturday's Downing Street briefing to justify the current lockdown in England has had to be revised, but the government - which has accepted a mistake was made - has defended its use. It says the \"underlying analysis\" of the threat to the NHS was correct. The chart in question suggested a worse-case figure of up to 1,500 deaths a day by 8 December. This has now been adjusted down to 1,010 a day, after an error was found.\n\nHow the graph looked when it was presented by Sir Patrick Vallance at Downing Street briefing\n\nWales' health minister has said it would be a \"massive breach of trust\" if the 17-day national lockdown in Wales was not lifted as promised on Monday. Vaughan Gething said departing from the plan to end it on 9 November would have consequences in terms of people's trust in the Welsh government. However, there have been calls for restrictions to remain in place in areas such as Merthyr Tydfil, which has one of the worst case rates in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The health minister says the Welsh government has been \"clear\" on when the firebreak will end\n\nRosanna Wilson and Andrew Monck first met in 2011, but got in contact again during the pandemic. Andrew lives in Australia but, after being granted an exemption to leave the country permanently, he is now going to move to the UK to live with Rosanna in Devon. They explain how, despite being more than 9,300 miles (15,000km) apart, they fell in love.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith different coronavirus restrictions in place across the UK, you can check the rules for where you live here.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Denmark has been taken off the UK's coronavirus travel corridor list, the transport secretary has said.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK from 04:00 GMT on Friday will need to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nGrant Shapps said it was an \"urgent decision\" taken overnight following recent \"developments\".\n\nIt comes after health authorities in Denmark found a mutated form of coronavirus that can pass to humans was present in the country's mink farms.\n\nThe announcement was made at around 01:30 GMT - two and a half hours before the change came into force.\n\nMr Shapps called it a \"swift decision\" in a statement published on the government's website.\n\n\"I understand that this will be concerning for both people currently in Denmark and the wider UK public, which is why we have moved quickly to protect our country and prevent the spread of the virus to the UK,\" he said.\n\nHe said the \"precautionary measure\" was introduced at the recommendation of the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nThere are more than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark\n\nThe decision about Denmark came less than 12 hours after Germany and Sweden were taken off the travel corridor list, which applies to the whole of the UK.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK from Germany or Sweden after 04:00 GMT on Saturday will need to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nTravellers currently in Denmark are allowed to finish their trips and are advised to follow the local rules and Foreign Office travel advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nLeaving home to go on holiday is currently banned for most people in the UK.\n\nIn England, where a new national lockdown came into force on Thursday, people are still allowed to travel overseas for work or education trips.\n\nIn Wales, which is in a \"firebreak\" lockdown until 9 November, the devolved government says people can only go abroad if they have \"a reasonable excuse\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are being urged by the government there to \"carefully consider\" their holiday and travel options\n\nDanish authorities have said a lockdown will be introduced in some areas over the coronavirus mutation found in mink farms.\n\nBars, restaurants, public transport and all public indoor sports will be closed in seven North Jutland municipalities.\n\nThe restrictions will come into effect from Friday and initially last until 3 December.\n\nThis week, Denmark's prime minister said the country would cull all of its mink - as many as 17 million.\n\nMette Frederiksen said the mutated virus posed a \"risk to the effectiveness\" of a future Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe Scandinavian country is the world's biggest producer of mink fur and its main export markets are China and Hong Kong.\n\nCulling began late last month, after many mink cases were detected.\n\nAre you planning to travel from Denmark to the UK? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Many businesses in Northern Ireland will be forced to close for two weeks from Friday\n\nStormont ministers have agreed a multi-million pound support package to help people hit by tightened Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.\n\nFrom Friday, non-essential shops and businesses will close for two weeks, as part of tougher measures across NI.\n\nThe executive had pledged to provide additional financial support to businesses forced to close.\n\nThe immediate package will be worth about £338m, while £150m is being set aside for longer-term rates relief.\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy set out full details of the plan in the assembly on Monday afternoon.\n\nIt comes as three more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland on Monday, bringing the total to 936.\n\nAmong the measures agreed by the executive are:\n\nThe pre-paid card issued through the voucher scheme will be worth about £200 per household, said Mr Murphy.\n\nHe said the Department for the Economy will roll out the plan in early 2021, as it takes about six weeks to develop.\n\n\"It's not meant to support households, it's meant to stimulate growth on the High Street,\" he told assembly members.\n\nOther allocations include £26.3m to the Department for Infrastructure to replace lost income for Translink, the Crumlin Road Gaol, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and the Rathlin Ferry, and £1.2m to support the City of Derry Airport.\n\nThere is also £5m to support the scheme for charities, to run until the end of March 2021, and £2.3m to top up the social enterprise grant scheme.\n\nThe finance minister also confirmed previously announced plans to extend free school meals payments until 2022, with £26.4m allocated to this.\n\nMr Murphy said uncertainty with the virus and not knowing how much Stormont would receive from the Treasury had made planning difficult.\n\nHe said the financial support package he was announcing was as a result of an additional £400m provided from Westminster two weeks ago to support the executive's response.\n\n\"Had we as an Executive allocated this funding immediately, we wouldn't have been able to take into account the new restrictions agreed by the Executive last week,\" he said.\n\n\"In my view it was right to have a plan in place to take us to the New Year, before making these allocations.\"\n\nMr Murphy and Economy Minister Diane Dodds are understood to have spent the weekend working on plans, with their departmental officials.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, three more coronavirus-related deaths were announced by the department of health on Monday, bringing its total to 936.\n\nA further 280 positive tests were recorded, meaning there have been 50,064 cases of Covid-19.\n\nThere were no additional deaths documented in the Republic of Ireland, where the total stands at 2,022.\n\nThere have been 70,711 confirmed cases after 252 more were reported.\n\nThere was a cautious welcome in the assembly for Mr Murphy's announcement, but as one MLA remarked: \"The devil will be in the detail.\"\n\nOfficials worked at pace over the weekend to draw up a support plan, using a mix of schemes already in place and some new grants.\n\nThe proposal grabbing most headlines is the voucher scheme for households to support the High Street, and some have questioned why every family will receive it, when some will obviously need more support than others.\n\nBut Mr Murphy defended the plan and said its purpose is to boost the High Street in the early New Year.\n\nThere are also concerns about how quickly payments will be made: Some businesses have been waiting more than five weeks for their grants promised during the first round of restrictions, implemented in October.\n\nThe executive will have to work at rapid speed to ensure people across Northern Ireland aren't left waiting, given Christmas is just around the corner.\n\nThe executive had faced criticism for not having new financial support in place before it announced the lockdown measures last Thursday evening.\n\nBut Mr Murphy said his officials were working as quickly as possible to process payments to those who need them.\n\nThe Belfast Chamber of Commerce has outlined a number of proposals to the executive about increasing assistance to businesses.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive Simon Hamilton welcomed the measures announced in the assembly.\n\nHe said he was particularly pleased by the voucher scheme, which his organisation had lobbied for.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We'd gladly have taken a full lockdown in October'\n\nThe lockdown measures will last until 11 December, with ministers saying the new restrictions represented the \"best chance\" of getting to Christmas and new year without further regulations being needed.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has called on his executive colleagues to show \"unity\" and he has called for an end to \"party-political point scoring\".\n\nHe was speaking in the assembly on Monday as he gave details of the latest Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe minister said the executive needs to \"put the last few weeks behind it\", and that the leaking of executive discussions to the media were not helpful.\n\nMr Swann and the first and deputy first ministers are also expected to continue discussions with the Westminster government and other devolved administrations this week about a coordinated approach to Christmas.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers told the assembly the DUP and Sinn Féin had \"undermined\" efforts to tackle Covid-19.\n\nHe said there was a \"sense of outrage\" at the behaviour of Sinn Féin figures who attended the funeral of republican Bobby Storey in June, while DUP politicians undermined the \"vital message\" of wearing masks by not doing so or by speaking out against the restrictions.\n\nSDLP MLA Dolores Kelly also attacked Sinn Féin for the party's actions around Mr Storey's funeral. She said the health message had been \"disregarded\".\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill took part in talks over the weekend, where leaders backed plans to allow some household mixing \"for a small number of days\" over Christmas.\n\nBelfast's Castle Lane was busy with shoppers on Sunday\n\nIn respect of Northern Ireland, ministers have also \"recognised that people will want to see family and friends across the island of Ireland, and this is the subject of discussions with the Irish government\", the Cabinet Office said.\n\nThe government said work is continuing to finalise the arrangements, including on travel.", "A military dog who served alongside British soldiers in Afghanistan has been awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.\n\nDuring a raid, Kuno charged through enemy gunfire and tackled a gunman to save the lives of British soldiers fighting al-Qaeda. He was hit by bullets in both back legs, and lost one of his paws, becoming the first UK military dog to get custom-made prosthetics.\n\nThe four-year-old has been given the Dickin Medal from vet charity the PDSA.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf now has the second highest death rate in England and Wales after Tameside, Greater Manchester\n\nDeaths involving Covid-19 have risen again in Wales to the highest weekly total since early May.\n\nA total of 190 deaths were registered in the week ending 13 November, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThis is 24 more than the previous week and account for a quarter of all deaths in Wales.\n\nMeanwhile, 19 more deaths have been reported linked to hospital infections at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nThere have been 10 more deaths at the Princess of Wales hospital, Bridgend, five at the Royal Glamorgan hospital and four deaths at Prince Charles Hospital in the last week.\n\nIt takes the total deaths to 177. That includes six deaths at Maesteg hospital reported a few weeks ago.\n\nThe number of cases linked to the outbreaks has slowed down, rising from 597 to 628.\n\nThe ONS figures show deaths in care homes involving the virus have also risen to their highest total - 36 - for five months.\n\nThe proportion of Covid deaths compared to all deaths is higher in Wales than in England in this latest week.\n\nThere were 56 deaths registered across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area, which covers Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr. Of those, 44 were in hospital.\n\nThere were also 51 deaths in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, across all settings, 29 deaths in Swansea Bay, 27 in Betsi Cadwaladr and 14 in Cardiff and Vale.\n\nThere were 10 deaths in Hywel Dda and three hospital deaths involving Powys residents.\n\nSo-called 'excess deaths', which compare all registered deaths with previous years, are above the five-year average.\n\nComparing current figures with the number of deaths normally seen at this point in the year is regarded as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell to 742 in the latest week, but this was still 84 deaths (12.8%) higher than the five-year average.\n\nIn the latest week, England had 2,274 deaths involving Covid, followed by Scotland (278), Wales (190) and Northern Ireland (96).\n• None Covid in Wales: What do the stats tell us?", "Ministers have said they cannot rule out leaseholders in England having to meet some of the costs of removing flammable cladding from their homes.\n\nWhile £1.6bn had been made available, Chris Pincher told MPs the government would not write an \"open cheque\".\n\nIt was up to developers and building owners to \"step up\" and take primary responsibility for repairs, he added.\n\nMPs say delays to the process and uncertainty over who will pay are causing \"unimaginable anxiety\".\n\nRaising the issue in the Commons, Labour's Clive Betts said government support was \"totally inadequate\" given the cost of removal aluminium composite and other dangerous materials could be as much as £15bn.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18 metres by last June.\n\nBut a report in September found that only 155 out of 455 high-rise buildings with similar cladding to Grenfell have had it replaced.\n\nTo speed up the process, the Commons Housing Committee said the government should foot the bill for the work in the short term, looking to recover costs from those responsible for historic construction failures at a later date.\n\nMr Betts, the committee's chair, said the issue had dragged on for too long and urgent action was needed.\n\n\"Leaseholders should not have to pay any of the costs. They bought their properties in good faith, they have not done anything wrong and they should not be financially distressed,\" he said.\n\n\"Without assurances on these points, many people are going to have a very miserable Christmas, trapped in properties they can't sell, often they can't insure...and wondering how on earth they are going to pay for the bills that could arrive on their doormats at any time.\"\n\nHe was backed by Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley, the longest-serving MP in the Commons, who said delays to fixing high-rise and other affected buildings had effectively \"frozen\" parts of the leasehold property market.\n\nThose affected had been lumbered with \"unimaginable anxiety and costs beyond the possible chance of paying\".\n\nIt has been estimated that replacing unsafe cladding on buildings will cost £4bn in London alone.\n\nMr Pincher said the government was looking at a range of innovative solutions to help minimise the costs borne by individuals but he said he could not guarantee that all leaseholders would not have to contribute.\n\n\"We cannot write an open cheque on behalf of the taxpayer. That would send the wrong signal to developers and those who are responsible for these buildings that they don't have to pay because the taxpayer will.\n\n\"I am clear that public funding does not absolve the industry from taking responsibility. We expect investors, developers and building owners who have the means to pay to cover remediation costs themselves.\"\n\nMinisters have said two new pieces of legislation, the Fire Safety Bill and Building Safety Bill, combined with a separate proposed law on building and fire safety - will deliver the biggest changes to building safety for nearly 40 years, ensuring greater accountability in law for the upkeep of buildings and enforcement of safety obligations.\n\nMr Betts said the proposals were \"welcome\" but more safeguards were needed, including a central register of building safety managers and more rigorous regulation of construction products.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina has launched a mission to try to retrieve rock samples from the Moon.\n\nIts robotic Chang'e-5 spacecraft departed the Wenchang launch complex on a Long March 5 rocket early on Tuesday morning local time, and if successful should return to Earth in mid-December.\n\nIt's more than 40 years since the Americans and the Soviets brought home lunar rock and \"soil\" for analysis.\n\nChina aims to be only the third country to achieve this feat, which will be an extremely complex endeavour.\n\nIt's a multi-step process that involves an orbiter, a lander-ascender and finally a return component that uses a capsule to survive a fast and hot entry into Earth's atmosphere at the end of the mission.\n\nBut confidence should be high after a series of well-executed lunar missions that started just over a decade ago with a couple satellites.\n\nThese were followed up by lander-rover combinations - with the most recent, Chang'e-4, making a soft touch down on the Moon's farside, something no spacefaring nation had previously accomplished.\n\nA moment of joy for the Chang'e-5 launch team as the mission gets under way\n\nChang'e-5 is going to target a nearside location called Mons Rümker, a high volcanic complex in a region known as Oceanus Procellarum.\n\nThe rocks in this location are thought to be very young compared with those sampled by the US Apollo astronauts and the Soviet Luna robots - something like perhaps 1.3 billion years old versus the 3-4-billion-year-old rocks picked up on those earlier missions.\n\nThis will give scientists another data point for the method they use to age events in the inner Solar System.\n\nEssentially, researchers count craters - the older the surface, the more craters it has; the younger the surface, the fewer it has.\n\n\"The Moon is the chronometer of the Solar System, as far as we're concerned,\" explained Dr Neil Bowles at Oxford University.\n\n\"The samples returned by the Apollo and Luna missions came from known locations and were dated radiometrically very accurately, and we've been able to tie that information to the cratering rate and extrapolate ages to other surfaces in the Solar System.\"\n\nArtwork: This mission is the next step up in complexity\n\nThe new Chang'e-5 samples should also improve our understanding of the Moon's volcanic history, said Dr Katie Joy from the University of Manchester.\n\n\"The mission is being sent to an area where we know there were volcanoes erupting in the past. We want to know precisely when that was,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"This will tells us about the Moon's magmatic and thermal history through time, and from that we can start to answer questions more widely about when volcanism and magmatism was occurring on all of the inner Solar System planets, and why the Moon could have run out of energy to produce volcanoes earlier than some of those other bodies.\"\n\nThe Chang'e-4 mission touched down on the Moon's farside\n\nWhen Chang'e-5 arrives at the Moon it will go into orbit. A lander will then detach and make a powered descent.\n\nOnce down, instruments will characterise the surroundings before scooping up some surface material.\n\nThe lander has the capacity also to drill into the soil, or regolith.\n\nAn ascent vehicle will carry the samples back up to rendezvous with the orbiter.\n\nIt's at this stage that a complicated transfer must be undertaken, packaging the rock and soil into a capsule for despatch back to Earth. A shepherding craft will direct the capsule to enter the atmosphere over Inner Mongolia.\n\nEvery phase is difficult, but the architecture will be very familiar - it's very similar to how human missions to the Moon were conducted in the 1960/70s.\n\nChina is building towards that goal.\n\n\"You can certainly see the analogy between what's being done on the Chang'e-5 mission - in terms of the different elements and their interaction with each other - and what would be required for a human mission,\" said Dr James Carpenter, exploration science coordinator for human and robotic exploration at the European Space Agency.\n\n\"We're seeing right now an extraordinary expansion in lunar activity. We've got the US-led Artemis programme (to return astronauts to the Moon) and the partnerships around that; the Chinese with their very ambitious exploration programme; but also many more new actors as well.\"\n\nArtwork: The return capsule will approach Earth's atmosphere very fast\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance will begin to ease its strict coronavirus restrictions this weekend, allowing non-essential shops to reopen, President Emmanuel Macron has said.\n\nPeople will also be able to share \"moments with the family\" over the Christmas period, Mr Macron announced.\n\nBut he said bars and restaurants would have to remain closed until 20 January.\n\nFrance has reported more than 2.2 million cases and more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic.\n\nIn a televised address on Tuesday evening, Mr Macron said the country had passed the peak of the second wave of virus infections.\n\nHe said that the bulk of lockdown restrictions would be eased from 15 December for the festive period, with cinemas reopening and general travel restrictions lifted, as long as new infections were at 5,000 a day or less.\n\nOn Monday, France reported 4,452 daily Covid-19 infections - its lowest tally since 28 September.\n\nThe latest seven-day rolling average for new infections in France is reported to be 21,918. That figure peaked at 54,440 on 7 November.\n\nMr Macron said the recent news of successful vaccine trials offered \"a glimmer of hope\" and that France would aim to begin vaccinations against Covid-19 \"at the end of December or at the beginning of January\", starting with the elderly and most vulnerable.\n\nThe French president said the situation would be reviewed on 20 January, and if infections remained low, bars and restaurants would then be permitted to reopen. Universities would also be able to accept students again.\n\nHowever, if the situation had worsened, he said he would look at options to avoid triggering a third wave.\n\n\"We must do everything to avoid a third wave, do everything to avoid a third lockdown,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe later tweeted to say that all businesses forced to remain closed during the restrictions, such as restaurants, bars and sports halls, would have the choice of receiving up to €10,000 (£8,900) from a \"solidarity fund\" or the payment of 20% of their turnover.\n\nHe said that France's ski resorts may have to remain closed until next year because the current risks associated with the virus made it difficult for such sports to resume.\n\nHowever, he said he would discuss the issue with other European leaders and provide an update in the coming days.\n\nSki resorts were responsible for numerous outbreaks of Covid-19 cases across Europe in the early days of the pandemic.\n\nMr Macron said the lockdown would be replaced by a nationwide curfew between 21:00 and 07:00, except on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.\n\nFrance has been under a second national lockdown since the beginning of November. People have only been permitted to leave home to go to work, buy essential goods, seek medical help or exercise for one hour a day. Anyone going outside must carry a written statement justifying their journey.\n\nWhile all non-essential shops, restaurants and bars have been shut, schools and crèches have remained open. Social gatherings have been banned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeasures to deal with coronavirus outbreaks remain in place across Europe, but a reduction in daily reported cases in some areas - coupled with the reported success of a number of vaccines - has led countries to revisit their restrictions. Some of the latest developments include:", "Dominici played 67 times for France and in recent years had become a familiar figure on TV and radio\n\nTributes have been paid to \"immense\" former France rugby union international Christophe Dominici, who has died aged 48.\n\nDominici was best known for helping France knock New Zealand out of the 1999 Rugby World Cup.\n\nA witness saw him climb the roof of a disused building at Saint-Cloud park, near Paris, on Tuesday before falling, officials say.\n\nProsecutors have opened an inquiry into the cause of his death.\n\n\"So much sadness. Christophe Dominici was an immense player, an artist. His sudden death is a shock,\" said sports minister Roxana Maracineanu.\n\nDominici played 67 times for his country and won the French championship five times with Stade Français before retiring in 2008. In recent years he had worked as a pundit for French radio and TV.\n\nHis 1999 World Cup semi-final performance spurred France to a sensational comeback, as he darted down the left of the pitch and seized the ball ahead of two New Zealand defenders to score a try. The All Blacks were leading the game at the time and had the brilliant Jonah Lomu in their line-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 France Rugby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKnown as Domi, he was 1.72m (5ft 6in) tall and earned a reputation for weaving runs that could change the course of a match. He played in four Six Nations-winning teams, including two Grand Slams.\n\nHis death has stunned the world of rugby. France's rugby federation said the national sport was \"in mourning after the tragic death of our wing Christophe Dominici\".\n\nIt added: \"We're particularly thinking of his family and loved ones.\"\n\nA similar message came from the other big rugby union nations. The Welsh Rugby Union said: \"Adieu, Christophe Dominici... what a player.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 England Rugby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Stade Français president Max Guazzini, who was close to Dominici, told French radio he was deeply upset by the news. \"I always told the others he was my favourite player,\" he said.\n\nEx-team-mate Vincent Clerc said: \"I came up against him in the past and it was tough. You felt he had this passion to win.\"\n\nFormer Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll described \"a French player full of flair with huge success throughout his career\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Irish Rugby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, Dominici was heavily involved in a bid by a consortium from the United Arab Emirates to take over the financially troubled Beziers rugby club in the south of France.\n\nThe bid was halted by the sport's financial regulator and Dominici was said by friends to have taken the failure very badly.\n\nIn a 2009 Le Monde interview, he said: \"[Rugby] let me understand many things - respect for life, people and oneself, along with the values of humility and combat. I was aggressive and put that to collective use. Now I have far more wisdom and maturity.\"", "'Janet' was pinned to the ground and punched when she was arrested in May.\n\nEight officers are under investigation after a black woman was pinned to the ground and punched during an arrest, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.\n\nThe woman has told the BBC she feared for her life, and says police subjected her to further violence in custody.\n\nTwo of the officers under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) have been placed on restricted duties.\n\nDetails into the probe have been made public after a Newsnight investigation.\n\nMobile phone footage of the woman's arrest, which happened on 9 May after officers pulled over a car in south-east London, shows how several police officers physically restrained the young woman - who is a student in her 20s and had been a passenger in the car.\n\nOne female officer can be seen repeatedly striking the woman.\n\nIn a statement the IOPC said: \"Eight officers have been served with notices advising them they are subject to investigation, with six officers at misconduct level and two officers at gross misconduct level.\"\n\nDetails of the IOPC probe into the treatment of the woman have been made public after an investigation by BBC Newsnight into the way she was handled during her arrest.\n\nJanet - not her real name - told the programme she had been working on an essay and went to get a takeaway, where she met an old friend with whom she ended up driving to a cash machine.\n\nWhile she was a passenger in the man's car, it was pulled over after officers allegedly noticed he had been driving erratically. The driver has since been convicted of drink-driving.\n\nJanet, who wished not to be identified, described the incident as \"dehumanising\"\n\nJanet told BBC Newsnight she was pulled out of the car by an officer before it had come to a complete stop: \"I just remember things turning like they looked a bit radioactive to me because I couldn't... I knew that I was losing consciousness.\"\n\nShe says she told the female police officer who punched her that the officer holding her down was killing her. She says the female officer \"smirked\" and responded: 'If you can talk, you can breathe.\"\n\nJanet was arrested on suspicion of obstructing a drug search. She says she was lifted up from the street by her handcuffs and her hair braids, causing hair to be ripped out of her scalp, and was carried to the police van.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage showing the arrest of the woman.\n\nInside Lewisham police station, she was subjected to further violence during a strip search which happened in the presence of male as well as female officers - something against police regulations.\n\n\"They didn't even tell me they were going to strip-search me. It literally just happened when in the presence of the male and female officers with my cell door wide open, so people were passing.\"\n\nShe claims this was done to \"humiliate me more - dehumanise me more\".\n\nOnce stripped naked, Janet says she was subjected to more violence, during which one police officer punched her repeatedly \"very, very, very, very hard - there was a lot of intensity in her\".\n\nJanet said she resisted as she had recently had surgery on her stomach, and was worried about the pressure they were applying to her while she was on the floor.\n\nThe tactics used in this arrest such as handcuffing, restraint and hitting, are known as Use of Force, and are all measures officers are permitted to take under certain circumstances.\n\nHowever, senior police figures who have seen the video of the detention of the woman told BBC Newsnight the level of force and the number of officers applying it in this case, seem unusual.\n\nBBC Newsnight has obtained Use of Force data from 37 out of the 44 police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDuring the lockdown months of April and May, 27 out of the 37 police forces saw a rise in Use of Force, compared with the same months in 2019.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police - the UK's biggest force - saw a rise of 26% from 25,993 Use of Force incidents recorded in April and May 2019, to 32,705 in the same months in 2020.\n\nHome Office figures for England and Wales show black people are approximately six times more likely to be subjected to Use of Force than white people - a disparity that does not apply to other ethnic minorities.\n\nThe woman whose story features in BBC Newsnight's report has not received an apology from the police. All charges against her have been dropped.\n\nPolice are required to record each time they use force\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"All police officers are fully aware that they will be asked to account for their actions. Officers are not exempt from the law, and nor would we wish to be.\n\n\"The Met continues to co-operate with the IOPC's investigation team to ensure that all the facts are established.\n\n\"Eight officers are under investigation in relation to this incident; two of whom have been placed on restricted duties.\"\n\nThe IOPC said: \"Use of Force is an essential policing tool and like all police powers must be used properly, proportionately and responsibly.\n\n\"We are examining the circumstances of the woman's arrest and the Use of Force on her.\n\n\"Our investigation is also looking at the woman's subsequent treatment in custody. As part of the investigation, we have already taken a statement from the woman.\"\n\nIt added: \"To uphold public confidence in the police complaints system, we are investigating the use of stop-and-search tactics in this incident and whether the actions of those officers were appropriate and proportionate and followed approved police policies.\n\n\"We are also investigating if racial profiling or discrimination played a part in the incident.\n\n\"This incident took place in public view late at night and was probably witnessed by passers-by and members of the public. We would ask anybody who was in the area that evening and saw police activity to get in touch with us.\"\n\nRegarding the Use of Force figures, the Home Office told BBC Newsnight: \"We are clear that all Use of Force must be reasonable, proportionate and necessary - and no-one should be subject to it based on their race or ethnicity.\"\n\nAnd responding to the rise in Use of Force incidents, the National Police Chiefs Council said the fall in crime during lockdown gave police \"breathing space to carry out pro-active operations against known criminals\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We have also seen a notable increase in assaults against emergency services workers since the beginning of the pandemic, and officers have accordingly had to use non-verbal tactics against offenders.\n\n\"Any action of this kind would necessitate that a Use of Force form is completed, which would therefore show an increase of overall force used.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as a running mate, helped keep centrist voters on-side\n\nAfter nearly 50 years in public office, and a lifetime of presidential ambitions, Joe Biden has captured the White House.\n\nIt was not the campaign anyone predicted. It took place amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic and unprecedented social unrest. He was running against an unconventional, precedent-defying incumbent. But in his third try for the presidency, Biden and his team found a way to navigate the political obstacles and claim a victory that, while narrow in the electoral college tally, is projected to surpass Trump's overall national total by millions of votes.\n\nThese are the five reasons the son of a car salesman from Delaware finally won the presidency.\n\nPerhaps the biggest reason Biden won the presidency was something entirely out of his control.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic, as well as claiming more than 230,000 lives, also transformed American life and politics in 2020. And in the final days of the general election campaign, Donald Trump himself seemed to acknowledge this.\n\n\"With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,\" the president said at a rally last week in Wisconsin, where cases have spiked in recent days.\n\nThe media focus on Covid, however, was a reflection rather than a driver of the public's concern about the pandemic - which translated into unfavourable polling on the president's handling of the crisis. A poll last month by Pew Research, suggested Biden held a 17 percentage point lead over Trump when it came to confidence about their handling of the Covid outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How much is Covid-19 an election issue?\n\nThe pandemic and the subsequent economic decline knocked Trump off his preferred campaign message of growth and prosperity. It also highlighted concerns that many Americans had about his presidency, over its occasional lack of focus, penchant for questioning science, haphazard handling of policies large and small, and prioritisation of the partisan. The pandemic was a lead weight on Trump's approval ratings, which, according to Gallup, dipped to 38% at one point in the summer - one that the Biden campaign exploited.\n\nOver the course of his political career, Biden established a well-earned reputation for talking himself into trouble. His propensity for gaffes derailed his first presidential campaign in 1987, and helped ensure that he never had much of a shot when he ran again in 2007.\n\nIn his third try for the Oval Office, Biden still had his share of verbal stumbles, but they were sufficiently infrequent that they never became more than a short-term issue.\n\nPart of the explanation for this, of course, is that the president himself was an unrelenting source of news cycle churn. Another factor was that there were bigger stories - the coronavirus pandemic, protests after the death of George Floyd and economic disruption - dominating national attention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tale of two rallies: Trump and Biden stage duelling events in Florida\n\nBut at least some credit should be given to a concerted strategy by the Biden campaign to limit their candidate's exposure, keeping a measured pace in the campaign, and minimising the chances that fatigue or carelessness could create problems.\n\nPerhaps in a normal election, when most Americans weren't worried about limiting their own exposure to a virus, this strategy would have backfired. Maybe then Trump's derisive \"hidin' Biden\" jabs would have taken their toll.\n\nThe campaign sought to stay out of the way and let Trump be the one whose mouth betrayed him - and, in the end, it paid off.\n\nThe week before election day, the Biden campaign unveiled its final television adverts with a message that was remarkably similar to the one offered in his campaign kickoff last year, and his nomination acceptance speech in August.\n\nThe election was a \"battle for the soul of America\", he said, and a chance for the national to put what he characterised as the divisiveness and chaos of the past four years behind it.\n\nThe election became a referendum on Trump\n\nBeneath that slogan, however, was a simple calculation. Biden bet his political fortunes on the contention that Trump was too polarising and too inflammatory, and what the American people wanted was calmer, steadier leadership.\n\n\"I'm just exhausted by Trump's attitude as a person,\" says Thierry Adams, a native of France who after 18 years living in Florida cast his first vote in a presidential election in Miami last week.\n\nDemocrats succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump, not a binary choice between the two candidates.\n\nBiden's winning message was simply that he was \"not Trump\". A common refrain from Democrats was that a Biden victory meant Americans could go for weeks without thinking about politics. It was meant as a joke, but it contained a kernel of truth.\n\nDuring the campaign to be the Democratic candidate, Biden's competition came from his left, with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who ran well-financed and organised campaigns that generated rock-concert sized crowds.\n\nDespite this pressure from his liberal flank, Biden stuck with a centrist strategy, refusing to back universal government-run healthcare, free college education, or a wealth tax. This allowed him maximise his appeal to moderates and disaffected Republicans during the general election campaign.\n\nThis strategy was reflected in Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate when he could have opted for someone with stronger support from the party's left wing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden was not first choice for most young Democrats, but he listened to their priorities\n\nThe one place where Biden moved closer to Sanders and Warren was on the environment and climate-change - perhaps calculating that the benefits of appealing to younger voters for whom the issue is a priority was worth the risk of alienating voters in energy-dependent swing-state industries. It was the exception, however, that proved the rule.\n\n\"It's no secret that we've been critical of Vice-President's Biden's plans and commitments in the past,\" said Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the environmental activist group the Sunrise Movement in July. \"He's responded to many of those criticisms: dramatically increasing the scale and urgency of investments, filling in details on how he'd achieve environmental justice and create good union jobs, and promising immediate action.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Biden's campaign coffers were running on empty. He entered the general election campaign at a decided disadvantage to Trump, who had spent virtually his entire presidency amassing a campaign war chest that approached a billion dollars.\n\nFrom April onward, however, the Biden campaign transformed itself into a fundraising juggernaut, and - in part because of profligacy on the part of the Trump campaign - ended up in a much stronger financial position than his opponent. At the beginning of October, the Biden campaign had $144m more cash on hand than the Trump operation, allowing it to bury the Republicans in a torrent of television advertising in almost every key battleground state.\n\nA Biden supporter in Texas, where a cash advantage enabled him to spend campaign money\n\nMoney isn't everything, of course. Four years ago, the Clinton campaign had a sizeable monetary lead over Trump's shoestring operation.\n\nBut in 2020, when in-person campaigning was curtailed by coronavirus and Americans across the country spent considerably more time consuming media in their homes, Biden's cash advantage let him reach voters and push his message out until the very end. It allowed him to expand the electoral map, putting money into what once seemed to be longshot states like Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. Most of those bets didn't pay off, but he put Trump on the defence, flipping what was once reliably conservative Arizona and staying highly competitive in Georgia.\n\nMoney gives a campaign options and initiative - and Biden put his advantage to good use.", "The total number of deaths occurring in the UK is nearly a fifth above normal levels, latest figures show.\n\nData from national statisticians show there were almost 14,000 deaths in the week ending 13 November.\n\nSome 2,838 of the deaths involved Covid - 600 more than the preceding week, according to the analysis of death certificates.\n\nThe North West and Yorkshire have seen the most excess deaths.\n\nThe number of deaths in both regions were more than a third above expected levels.\n\nBy comparison, the number of deaths in the South East was just 2% above the five-year average.\n\nBut there is hope the rise in the number deaths may soon start slowing.\n\nThe daily figures published by government - which rely on positive tests - show deaths are not rising as quickly as they were, and may be levelling off.\n\nAnd unlike in the first wave, when the lack of testing meant the government figures underestimated the number of Covid deaths, the two sets of data are mirroring each other.\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust health think tank, said: \"Despite the end of the second national lockdown in England coming into focus, today's figures are a sobering reminder of the dreadful impact of this virus.\n\nShe said the high number of deaths was \"piling on the pressure\" on the NHS.\n\n\"For some hospitals, particularly in Covid hotspot areas, it will feel as if they are in the depths of winter already.\"", "Harry Dunn died in a crash outside RAF Croughton last year\n\nHarry Dunn's parents have lost their High Court battle against the Foreign Office over whether their son's alleged killer had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike was in a crash with a car near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019.\n\nThe suspect, 43-year-old Anne Sacoolas, later left for the United States citing diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the High Court ruling was \"just a blip along the way\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas, whose husband Jonathan worked as a technical assistant at the RAF base, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December, but an extradition request was denied in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's just another hurdle', Harry Dunn's parents say\n\nThe legal challenge by Mrs Charles and Mr Dunn's father Tim Dunn claimed Mrs Sacoolas should not have been granted immunity.\n\nBut Lord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini concluded \"that Mrs Sacoolas enjoyed immunity from UK criminal jurisdiction at the time of Harry's death\".\n\nMrs Charles said: \"The government and Mrs Sacoolas need to understand that this court ruling is just a blip along the way.\n\n\"I promised my boy I would get him justice and that is just what we are going to do. No-one is going to stand in our way.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's obviously disappointing that this court did not find in our favour but we are more focused now than ever on fulfilling our promise.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said Mr Dunn and Mrs Charles would be appealing against the ruling.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash and returned to the US\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"While this judgment makes clear the Foreign Office acted properly and lawfully throughout, I appreciate that won't provide any solace to the family in their search for justice.\n\n\"We stand with them, we're clear that Anne Sacoolas needs to face justice in the UK, and we will support the family with their legal claim in the US.\"\n\nThe High Court judges also rejected a claim by Mr Dunn's parents that the Foreign Office had \"usurped\" Northamptonshire Police's investigation into their son's death.\n\nLord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini found officials had \"sought to assist rather than obstruct Northamptonshire Police in their investigation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: 'We continue to offer the Dunn family support'\n\nThe family's case centred on a 1995 agreement between the UK and the US, granting immunity to administrative and technical staff at the RAF base, which the US waived in relation to \"acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\nLawyers for Mr Dunn and Mrs Charles argued that the Foreign Office \"took upon itself the authority to resolve the question of immunity and ultimately and unlawfully decided to accept the US embassy's decision that Anne Sacoolas had immunity\".\n\nIn written submissions, the Foreign Office argued its officials had \"objected in strong terms\" to Mrs Sacoolas leaving the UK, and \"repeatedly emphasised\" that the department \"wanted the Sacoolas family to co-operate with the UK authorities\".\n\nLord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini ruled that Mrs Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity \"on arrival in the UK\" under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.\n\nAs this had not been \"expressly waived\", it meant Mrs Sacoolas \"had immunity at the time of Harry's death\" on 27 August, they said.\n\nMr Dunn said: \"It's bad enough feeling the horrible pain of not having Harry around and missing him, but I can't believe the governments are putting us through this.\n\n\"It all seems so cruel and needless and I am just as angry today as I ever have been but so determined to see it all through until we have justice.\"", "A deal to allow families to meet over Christmas has been reached by the leaders of all four UK nations.\n\nA source told the BBC that details on how Covid restrictions will be relaxed will be announced shortly.\n\nScotland's first minister said she would \"continue to ask people to err on the side of caution\".\n\nBBC Scotland's chief political correspondent said three households will be allowed to meet indoors over five days between 23-27 December.\n\nGlenn Campbell said they will be able to meet in each other's homes, at a place of worship and in an outdoor public space. But the groupings must be \"exclusive\", meaning you cannot get together with people from more than two other households.\n\nHe added the leaders of the nations are expected to urge Britons to use any new flexibility sparingly because public health officials are worried Christmas get-togethers could cause a January spike in Covid cases.\n\nSpeaking ahead of a meeting of the UK government's emergency committee Cobra, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford cautioned any extra freedoms would not be an instruction to do \"risky things\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also stressed any changes would be \"temporary\" and \"limited\".\n\nShe said that the \"details\" may differ \"to reflect different circumstances in each nation\", such as what the definition of a \"household\" might be.\n\nShe added: \"I know everyone has a desire to see loved ones over the festive period.\n\n\"However, there is also a very real and a very legitimate anxiety that doing so could put those we love at risk, set back our progress as a country and result in unnecessary deaths and suffering.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government has recorded another 608 deaths of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test. There were also a further 11,299 cases of people testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWhat to do about Christmas divides opinion.\n\nIncreased mixing indoors will certainly mean there is greater transmission of the virus.\n\nBut, as chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said on Monday, there is a balance to be struck between the harm the virus can cause and the societal and economic impacts of trying to control it.\n\nBy that he means adhering to the restrictions in the lead up to Christmas, being responsible with the opportunity the relaxation gives people and then immediately switching back to compliance.\n\nIf that happens any impact could be minimised - and, of course, it will be up to individuals to decide just how much they mix within the rules.\n\nThese are very fine judgement calls by ministers.\n\nThey hope Christmas will provide respite and help steel the public for what is clearly going to be a long, hard winter.\n\nThey also feel they have little choice, believing large numbers of people would ignore pleas not to mix and this way they can provide advice on how to enjoy Christmas as safely as possible.\n\nBut there is also the risk by sanctioning it there will be more mixing than there would have otherwise been.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged there would be risks of letting people meet over Christmas but said families should have the chance to reunite.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps earlier said Christmas travellers should plan journeys carefully and prepare for restrictions on passenger numbers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps: People will have to \"think about the routes they are taking\"\n\nReferring to domestic travel during the festive period, Mr Shapps urged those travelling on public transport to pre-book tickets as the capacity of services remains reduced to allow for social distancing and as a result of staff self-isolating.\n\nMr Shapps also highlighted Network Rail's plans for a series of upgrades and routine maintenance across Britain between 23 December to 4 January.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would appeal to people to think very carefully about their travel plans and consider where they are going to travel and look at the various alternatives available.\"\n\nCoronavirus restrictions and work from home guidance have led to a sharp reduction in train passenger numbers\n\nMr Shapps added that people who live in areas placed in the highest tier of restrictions in England should avoid leaving their region entirely.\n\nMr Shapps said confirmation of the exact rules would come by Thursday - when people find out which tier their local area will be in - or potentially before then.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister confirmed tougher tier curbs once England's lockdown ends.\n\nGyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen from 2 December under a strengthened three-tiered system.\n\nAreas will not find out which tier they are in until Thursday - and the decision will be based on a number of factors including case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and pressure on local NHS services.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Monday to outline a \"Covid-19 winter plan\", Mr Johnson admitted Christmas this year would be very different to normal.\n\n\"I can't say that Christmas will be normal this year, but in a period of adversity time spent with loved ones is even more precious for people of all faiths and none,\" he said.\n\n\"We all want some kind of Christmas; we need it; we certainly feel we deserve it.\n\n\"But this virus obviously is not going to grant a Christmas truce… and families will need to make a careful judgement about the risks of visiting elderly relatives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Shapps announced people arriving in England from many countries will be soon able to reduce their quarantine period by more than half if they pay for a coronavirus test after five days.\n\nThe rules will come into force from 15 December and the tests from private firms will cost between £65 and £120.\n\nElsewhere, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the UK's new mass testing capacity could be used after the pandemic to diagnose a wider range of illnesses.\n\nHe said a British culture of \"soldiering on\" and going to work despite having symptoms of illnesses, including flu, \"should change\".\n\n\"In fact, I want to have a change in the British way of doing things where 'if in doubt, get a test' doesn't just refer to coronavirus, but refers to any illness you might have,\" he said.\n\nLatest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the total number of deaths occurring in the UK is nearly a fifth above normal levels.", "China and glassware offered in First Class are up for grabs\n\nCan't think what to buy your loved one for Christmas?\n\nHow about a British Airways drinks trolley? A First Class cabin bread basket or slippers, perhaps? Or even a hot towel (available cold)?\n\nOn Monday, the cash-strapped airline began selling off thousands of items of surplus stock, from champagne flutes to bedding.\n\nOther items include an insulated box from a Boeing 747 kitchen, yours for £75, and serving trays - £10 for five.\n\nThe move comes months after BA decided to auction some of its precious artwork hanging in offices and airport lounges, including a £1m-plus work by Bridget Riley.\n\nBA's profits have evaporated and the airline is making thousands of job cuts because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on air travel.\n\nLast month, BA's parent company IAG reported a £5.1bn loss for the first nine months of 2020, a dramatic reverse from the £1.6bn profit made during the same period in 2019.\n\nBut the latest sale is not just because it needs to save every penny, the airline says.\n\nChanges in the mix of aircraft fleet and in-cabin service, plus the likelihood that BA will be a slimmer operation until air travel picks up, mean its warehouses are full of items that will never be used.\n\nMeal/equipment boxes from planes are up for sale\n\nBA retired its 747 aircraft this year, and has put some memorabilia in the sale.\n\nAnd while the event is not quite a sell-off of the family silver, the airline is getting rid of stacks of English bone china made by William Edwards, including plates, soup bowls, cups, saucers, and butter dishes. A set of four William Edwards pasta bowls is £40.\n\nCarolina Martinoli, British Airways' director of brand and customer experience, said it was the first time the airline had organised such a sale.\n\n\"We know that these special items will fly and we are delighted to be able to offer them in time for Christmas to give people the opportunity to make it memorable during a difficult year,\" she said.\n\nRob Burgess, of the frequent flyer website www.headforpoints.com, said that from the reaction among the community using his site \"it appears there's a huge appetite to buy\".\n\n\"I think it is partly nostalgia, and partly because it is actually excellent value for money given the suppliers that BA uses. Some items such as the day blankets have already sold out along with the brandy and champagne glasses.\"\n\nThe metal boxes used in the aircraft kitchens seem to be going fast, he added, probably simply because it's a chance for people to \"get their hands on some unusual items\".\n\nAircraft items and memorabilia can be hugely popular among enthusiasts. For example, Concorde products are among the most sought-after. At the top-end of collectibles, the famous dropped nose cones fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds on the rare occasions they come up for auction.", "As much as £1bn in benefit fraud has been prevented from being paid to organised-crime groups in recent months, BBC News has learned.\n\nBut before the scam was spotted, officials unwittingly confirmed thousands of stolen identities.\n\nFraudsters took advantage of looser rules introduced to cope with a surge of universal credit claims during the pandemic.\n\nBBC News has asked the Department for Work and Pensions for a response.\n\nIn May, a junior civil servant working with High Street banks noticed dozens of claims for universal credit had been made asking for money to be paid into the same bank account.\n\nFurther investigation identified more than 100,000 fraudulent claims.\n\nAnd officials admit they had confirmed thousands of people's identities to the gangs that had stolen them - and passed on their National Insurance numbers.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions wants to write to those whose data has been compromised.\n\nBut BBC News has learned it is struggling to identify many of them and is wary of sending out letters to last known addresses in case they end up in the wrong hands, exacerbating the data breach.\n\nClaimants whose identities have been stolen can face real hardship, as it can be months before their accurate benefits are paid.\n\nCurrently, 5.7 million people receive universal credit, almost double the figure for March.\n\nTo cope with the surge, identity checks were processed online, rather than face-to-face, and information such as the cost of rent and whether someone had been self-employed taken on trust.\n\nDWP officials have asked the Treasury for £200m over three years, in this spending round, calculating it would enable it to prevent such mass scams and save taxpayers about £500m each year.\n\nIt is estimated more than a million claims for universal credit have still to be properly checked, with additional rising concerns tens of thousands of people may have claimed the benefit without declaring they had received government grants to help the self-employed.\n\nHowever, the Treasury has turned down the request.", "Covid-19 case numbers in parts of Kent (Swale and Thanet) in the South East are among the worst in England.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Johnson has been trying to find out if people are sticking to the rules in Canterbury, where case numbers are still rising, bucking the national trend in England where case numbers are dropping.", "The UK hospitality industry says that new Covid rules in England \"are killing Christmas\" and has warned pubs, restaurants and hotels face going bust.\n\nThe government will roll out regional restrictions after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the second lockdown in England will end on 2 December.\n\nBut new rules mean pubs operating under Tier 2 can only trade if customers have a \"substantial meal\".\n\nIn Tier 3, pubs must shut and can only sell goods for takeaway.\n\nIn contrast, gyms will be allowed to stay open under Tier 3 restrictions while outdoor and indoor spectator sports venues can reopen in Tier 1 and Tier 2 with limits.\n\nNon-essential shops and personal care, such as hairdressers, will also be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I'm very sorry, obviously, for the unavoidable hardship that this will cause for business owners who have already endured so much disruption this year.\"\n\nBut UK Hospitality's chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"The government is making a point of saying that these measures are needed in order to save Christmas.\n\n\"In reality, they are killing Christmas and beyond for many businesses and their customers who look forward to, and rely on, venues being open at this time of year. Sadly, for many staff, it will be a Christmas out of work.\"\n\nThe government also said it would ditch the 10pm curfew. However, pubs and restaurants must stop serving alcohol and food at 10pm and customers will have until 11pm to leave the premises.\n\nMs Nicholls said that under the rules that were in place before the current lockdown came into force on 5 November, some 76% of its members warned their business \"would not be viable\" if Tier 2 restrictions remained in placed for three months.\n\nThat number rose to 94% under the previous Tier 3 rules which stated that pubs could only stay open if they offered a substantial meal.\n\nBut she said under the new rules \"large swathes will just not be able to open at all\".\n\nIt's beginning to look a BIT like Christmas for some parts of the economy.\n\nFor retailers considered non-essential, reopening on 3 December was absolutely crucial. That industry will be breathing a huge sigh of relief as they will now have an opportunity - albeit truncated - to sell the Christmas stock they have bought in.\n\nIndustry sources told the BBC that although there had been a huge switch in consumer behaviour to internet shopping, the online pipe was still not wide enough to deliver Christmas on its own and the decision to reopen stores would help preserve hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\nHowever, the hospitality industry is still looking at a very bleak winter.\n\nThe prime minister said most of the UK would emerge from various forms of lockdown into a higher tier than they were in before it started. That is a disaster for pubs and restaurants. with 76% of them saying that even under the old Tier 2 conditions - in the middle - it was hardly worth opening as capacity was so constrained and alcohol sales so limited.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents the sector, said the return to this would be \"devastating\" and risk one million jobs.\n\nThe hospitality hit may have a knock-on effect on retailers as fewer shoppers are expected to take the streets if access to pubs, bars and restaurants is heavily restricted.\n\nMPs will vote on the proposed rules this week. Mr Johnson is expected to detail which regions in England will be placed into either Tier 1, 2 or 3 on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson said that \"without sensible precautions, we would risk the virus escalating into a winter or new year surge. The incidence of the disease is still, alas, widespread in many areas.\"\n\nHe said: \"While the previous local tiers did cut the 'R' number, they were not quite enough to reduce it below 1 so the scientific advice I'm afraid is that as we come out [of lockdown] our tiers need to be made tougher.\"\n\nBut Greater Manchester's Mayor Andy Burnham said a toughened Tier 3 \"could be devastating for the hospitality industry and will hit cities and the city economy very, very hard indeed\".\n\nWilliam Lees-Jones, managing-director of the brewery and pub chain JW Lees, hopes his pubs are not in Tier 3 areas\n\nHe warned that \"we will see widespread business failure\" in the hospitality sector if the tougher regional rules go ahead.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged Mr Johnson to outline which regions would be placed into which tier as soon as possible.\n\nWilliam Lees-Jones, managing-director of the brewery and pub chain JW Lees, said: \"I just hope that we are all in Tier 2 which means that we can be in business.\n\n\"We've brewed an awful lot of beer which we won't have anything to do with.\"", "A company that made insulation used on Grenfell Tower was \"stretching the truth\" by claiming its product was appropriate for use on high-rise buildings, a former employee has said.\n\nKingspan fire-tested its cladding product in 2005, but changed the insulation's formulation the next year.\n\nThe new version of the product failed to repeat the same performance.\n\nEx-technical director Ivor Meredith told the inquiry into the fire this was \"common knowledge\" at Kingspan.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on the west London tower block during its refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nThe inquiry is now examining how the blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nMr Meredith described a fire test using the new version of Kingspan's K15 in 2007 as a \"raging inferno\", with the insulation \"burning on its own steam\".\n\nHe told the inquiry he was shocked by what he saw.\n\nDespite this, Kingspan continued to use the results from the original 2005 test to sell its material as appropriate for use on high-rise buildings.\n\nKingspan K15 insulation was used in the flammable cladding system mounted on to Grenfell Tower, alongside Celotex RS5000.\n\nIn 2015, two years before the Grenfell Tower fire, Mr Meredith told his managers he had been put in a position where he had been asked to maintain the appearance of fire safety performance that - as he put it - \"that perhaps our products don't deserve\".\n\nHe added that many would question the company \"playing in [a] market [they were] not suitable for\".\n\nThe evidence comes a month after it was confirmed that test certificates for K15 from the 2005 tests had been withdrawn.\n\nA letter sent to the inquiry from Kingspan dated 23 October - shown in full to Monday's hearing - read: \"We have undertaken a comprehensive review of all past and current test data which relates to K15.\"\n\nIt added: \"It became apparent that the K15 manufactured in 2005 would not be representative of the product currently sold on the market from 2006 to today.\n\n\"While both products are still phenolic foam, Kingspan is now of the view that there are sufficient differences to consider withdrawing the test report.\"\n• None Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?", "England's education secretary acted unlawfully in scrapping a string of legal protections for children in care, Appeal Court judges have ruled.\n\nThey said Gavin Williamson should have consulted England's children's commissioner and other groups, before scrapping 65 safeguards for children.\n\nThe court said consulting such bodies would have been \"manifestly in the interest of vulnerable children\".\n\nThe government says it is disappointed by the ruling.\n\nChildren's rights group Article 39 mounted the challenge against what it called a \"bonfire of children's rights\" after the government changed the rules safeguarding children through the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) regulations in April.\n\nParliament did not debate the changes until after they were introduced in April.\n\nThe legal challenge came after a lengthy battle between the government, peers, opposition MPs and children's rights groups over attempts to push through the changes which cover the rights to support for children in care. The High Court previously ruled in the government's favour.\n\nThe regulations affected included legal timescales for social-worker visits to children in care, six-monthly reviews of children's welfare, independent scrutiny of children's homes and senior officer oversight of adoption decision-making for babies and children.\n\nThe protections affected also cover disabled children having short breaks and children in care sent many miles away from home.\n\nThe government had argued in an earlier court hearing that these changes were \"minor bureaucratic burdens\", but the Appeal Court said the alterations to children's rights were \"substantial and wide-ranging\".\n\nAfter the government review of the legislation was begun in February, Department for Education officials had private telephone, email and face-to-face conversations with adoption agencies, private providers and local government bodies.\n\nBut bodies representing children and young people affected by the changes were not consulted, and the children's commissioner - the statutory protector of children's issues - was not informed until after the changes went through.\n\nAnnouncing the ruling, Lord Justice Baker said: \"I can find nothing about the circumstances that existed in March 2020 to justify the secretary of state's decision (if indeed any conscious decision was made) to exclude the children's commissioner and other bodies representing the rights of children in care from the consultation on which he embarked.\n\n\"He decided to undertake a rapid informal consultation, substantially by email.\"\n\nHe said he found it appropriate for the consultation to be carried out that way because of the circumstances of the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"But having decided to undertake the consultation, there was no good reason why that process should not have included the children's commissioner and the other bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"On the contrary, there were very good reasons why they should have been included.\"\n\nLord Baker said it was \"potentially misleading\" for the government to claim their actions were \"broadly endorsed by the sector\".\n\nThe children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, said she would be seeking urgent assurances from the DfE that this would not be repeated in future.\n\nCarolyne Willow, director of Article 39, called the government's actions \"shameful, both in the scale of the protections they took away from very vulnerable children in England and the way they went about it\".\n\n\"This should draw to a close back-room, secret government consultations which exclude the rights , views and experiences of children and young people.\"\n\nA DfE spokesman said: \"Protecting vulnerable children has been at the heart of our response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and our intention has always been to act in their best interests.\n\n\"We took swift action to bring in temporary changes during a national crisis, all of which have now expired.\n\n\"We will continue working with the Children's Commissioner and children's charities to provide the best possible support to vulnerable children.\"", "Nearly nine in 10 products sold on Black Friday are available for the same price or cheaper earlier in the year, according to consumer group Which?.\n\nIt urged consumers to \"do some research\" in order to spot genuine bargains during the 27 November sale.\n\nRetailers including Amazon, Argos and John Lewis said they offered good deals all year round, not just during seasonal shopping events.\n\nMany shoppers see Black Friday as a way to buy gifts cheaply before Christmas.\n\nMore than two-thirds have delayed a purchase to try to find a bargain in the sale, according to Lloyds Bank.\n\nIt expects Black Friday spending in the UK to soar to £750m this year.\n\nWhich? tracked the prices of 219 popular home and tech products for six months before the 2019 sale and for six months afterwards.\n\nIt looked at goods from Amazon, AO.com, Argos, Currys PC World and John Lewis and found only three items were at their cheapest on Black Friday.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?, said: \"Deals that look too good to be true often are, so don't fall for time-limited offers and if you are looking for something in particular, do some research first.\n\n\"That way you'll know a genuine bargain when you see one.\"\n\nCurrys PC World was the retailer most likely to have cheaper or similar pricing earlier in the year.\n\nFor example, a pair of Bose Quietcomfort headphones at the retailer was £249 on Black Friday but had been cheaper or the same price on at least 15 occasions in the previous six months.\n\nAt John Lewis, 70 of 78 products were found to have cost the same or less before the sale.\n\nFor example, a De'Longhi coffee machine cost £1,285 on Black Friday, but had cost the same or less on at least 35 occasions beforehand - falling to less than £1,200 on several days in May and June 2019.\n\nAmazon came out top of the retailers Which? looked at, although over half (57%) of its products were available cheaper or for the same price in the six months before Black Friday.\n\nResponding to the research, most retailers stressed that they price-matched throughout the year.\n\nShoppers are also being warned to watch out for Black Friday scams.\n\nBarclays said consumers who fall victim to an online scam this week could lose an average of £735 each.\n\nElectronics, trainers, phones and clothing are all popular products used to trick people.\n\nCriminals set up fake websites and may offer goods that are bogus, shoddy, or never arrive.\n\nA bargain is only a bargain if you get a cheaper price for something you were going to buy anyway.\n\nWhich? says shoppers should do their research, which may include using websites to check previous prices, and should not buy on impulse.\n\nDebt charities would say that, even before you get to that point, make sure you are not busting a budget. Only buy what you can afford and, if it is on credit, have a strict plan to make repayments.\n\nGetting caught up in a Black Friday frenzy risks your financial health and, research has shown, your mental health, if a spending spree gets out of control.", "Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has topped Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world's second richest man after a meteoric rise in his personal fortune.\n\nMr Musk's net worth jumped by $7.2bn (£5.4bn) to $128bn after shares in his car firm Tesla surged.\n\nOnly Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is richer, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.\n\nIt comes after news Tesla shares will be added to the S&P 500, one of the main share indexes in the US.\n\nThat triggered a fresh wave of buying of the electric carmaker's shares, sending the company's market value above $500bn and boosting the value of Mr Musk's holding in the business.\n\nTesla is already the most valuable car firm in the world, despite producing a fraction of the vehicles of rivals such as Toyota, VW and General Motors.\n\nOn Tuesday, in a speech in Germany, Mr Musk said it could \"make sense\" for Tesla to expand in Europe by entering the mass-market segment with a small car.\n\n\"In the US, the cars tend to be bigger for personal taste reasons,\" he said. \"In Europe, (they) tend to be smaller.\"\n\nAnd after years of losses, Tesla has seen five consecutive quarters of profit as sales of its cars perform well despite the pandemic.\n\nThe California-based firm will be the biggest new entrant on the S&P 500, with a market value of more than $500bn.\n\nIt means investment funds tracking the index will automatically hold its stock and benefit from gains in its share price - news that has excited investors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blast off: Watch the SpaceX rocket head into space\n\nBill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, was the world's richest person for years before Mr Bezos knocked him off the top spot in 2017.\n\nMr Gates's fortune is worth $127.7bn but would be higher had he not donated large sums to charity over the decades.\n\nJeff Bezos's net worth is estimated at £182bn by Bloomberg. He too has seen his personal fortune rise this year as demand for Amazon's services climbed in the pandemic.\n\nMr Musk, who regularly courts controversy, has had an eventful past few weeks.\n\nLast weekend he tweeted that he \"most likely\" had a moderate case of Covid-19 and has had symptoms of \"a minor cold.\"\n\nIt came the day before four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station in a rocket built by Mr Musk's SpaceX.", "US President-Elect Joe Biden has spoken of his wish to \"unify\" the United States, in his first speech since his election win.\n\nSome of those who voted for Joe Biden tell the BBC what their message would be to friends who supported Donald Trump.", "As president of the United States, Donald Trump enjoyed unique protection from legal action, be it criminal or civil.\n\nNow, after losing the 2020 presidential election, Mr Trump will soon become a private citizen again.\n\nThat means he will lose his presidential privileges, putting him in the crosshairs of litigators and prosecutors.\n\n\"Once he is out of office, the atmosphere will change,\" Daniel R Alonso, a former US federal and New York state prosecutor, told the BBC. \"He will no longer have the reality or the threat of presidential power to thwart investigations.\"\n\nA wide-ranging criminal investigation in New York is the most serious legal concern for Mr Trump and his real-estate company, the Trump Organization.\n\nOn top of that, there is an array of lawsuits ranging from allegations of fraud by a family member to sexual harassment by an advice columnist.\n\nA legal storm is brewing. Here, we consider how the six biggest legal battles may develop.\n\nWhat we know: Playboy model Karen McDougal, adult film actress Stormy Daniels and claims of a conspiracy of silence.\n\nThis was the gist of the so-called hush-money scandal. Both women said they had had sexual relationships with Mr Trump and had received payments to keep them quiet, ahead of the 2016 presidential election.\n\nWhen they spoke out in 2018, they threw political dynamite under Mr Trump's presidency, lighting the fuse of two criminal investigations.\n\nStormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006\n\nThe first focused on violations of federal, or national, laws and the role of Michael Cohen, Mr Trump's former personal lawyer and \"fixer\".\n\nUnder investigation, Cohen admitted to arranging payments to the two women. The payments were prosecuted as campaign-finance violations and Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump\n\nCohen alleged that Mr Trump had \"directed\" him to make the payments, yet no charges were brought against the president. Why?\n\nFirstly, to charge Mr Trump, prosecutors would have needed to prove that he had indeed directed Cohen to make those payments. Secondly, even if prosecutors did have sufficient evidence, it is against US government policy to indict a sitting president on federal criminal charges, legal experts say.\n\nCase closed, right? Well, not exactly. This is where it gets technical.\n\nKaren McDougal apologised to Melania Trump for the affair she says she had with her husband\n\nPut simply, a second criminal investigation into the payments is still under way in New York.\n\nWe know that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is examining whether the Trump Organization falsified business records related to the payoffs.\n\nWhat we don't know is whether Mr Vance has any evidence to file criminal charges. That matters.\n\nWhat might happen next: Falsifying business records is a misdemeanour under New York law. A misdemeanour is a minor crime that can be punishable by a jail term of up to a year.\n\nNow, here's the tricky part for Mr Vance.\n\nThere is a two-year time limit for filing criminal charges for a misdemeanour in New York.\n\n\"So, because those payments happened over two years ago, it looks like [prosecutors] are out of luck,\" Mr Alonso said.\n\nThat said, there are other possibilities.\n\nCyrus Vance has been leading a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization since 2018\n\nIn New York, falsifying business records can be charged as a felony if it is done to conceal other crimes, such as tax fraud.\n\nFelonies are more serious crimes that can be prosecuted over a longer period and are punishable by tougher jail sentences.\n\nStill, the route to prosecution is uncertain. It is not clear if Mr Trump can be prosecuted under New York law for campaign-finance violations - the federal crime Cohen was jailed for.\n\nThis is where the other strands of Mr Vance's investigation come in.\n\nWhat we know: It's a \"political hit job\", a Trump Organization lawyer said of Mr Vance's inquiry in August 2019.\n\nMr Vance had just issued a request for documents, known as a subpoena. He demanded to see years of financial records, including the Holy Grail - Mr Trump's tax returns, eight years of them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince then, Mr Trump has tried to block the subpoena, arguing in courts that it amounts to political harassment. In October, a federal appeals court disagreed, putting his tax returns within touching distance of prosecutors.\n\nIndeed, Mr Vance has stressed the significance of Mr Trump's tax returns in court papers.\n\nWhen requesting the returns in August, Mr Vance referred to \"public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization\", including allegations of possible insurance and bank fraud. Another court filing in September mentioned tax fraud as a hypothetical crime that could be established, should evidence be found to support it.\n\nIn New York, some types of tax fraud can be charged as felonies, which can carry lengthy prison sentences. At the moment, though, the \"public reports\" of possible crimes cited by Mr Vance's office are merely grounds for investigation, nothing else.\n\nWhat might happen next: Mr Trump is expected to appeal against the demand to hand over his tax returns in the Supreme Court. There, the matter may be settled.\n\nFor Mr Trump, the stakes are high.\n\n\"The most significant criminal investigations are those exploring his tax and bank filings,\" Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, told the BBC. \"But whether there's a criminal case has yet to become evident.\"\n\nIf Mr Vance does obtain Mr Trump's tax returns, a criminal case may or may not become evident. Either way, Mr Vance needs those tax returns to move his investigation forward.\n\nWhat we know: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been another thorn in Mr Trump's side.\n\nSince March 2019, Ms James has been leading a civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed real-estate fraud.\n\nAgain, the roots of this investigation lead back to Cohen who, in February 2019, told Congress that Mr Trump had inflated the value of his property assets to secure loans and understated them to reduce his taxes.\n\nMichael Cohen, fixer for Mr Trump, was called to testified before the House Oversight Committee in February 2019\n\nCohen's testimony gave Ms James grounds to seek information about Mr Trump's property empire. Like Mr Vance, Ms James has had to fight for that information in the courts.\n\nEric Trump, the executive vice-president of the Trump Organization and the president's son, has accused her of waging a \"political vendetta\". Despite this, he complied with a request to sit for testimony with her office in October.\n\nWhat might happen next: Ms James needs more testimony and information to take the investigation forward.\n\nIn office, Mr Trump argued that he was too busy to deal with lawsuits. Now, he cannot use that excuse.\n\nMs James can treat Mr Trump with less deference, pressing him to sit for questioning under oath, just like his son.\n\nLetitia James has taken testimony from Mr Trump's son, Eric\n\n\"Most courts would be very indulgent with a president-defendant on things like scheduling, for instance. Not so with a private citizen,\" Mr Alonso said.\n\nCivil investigations like this can result in financial penalties, if evidence of wrongdoing is found. If it is, another criminal inquiry cannot be ruled out.\n\nWhat we know: Emolument is an archaic word that is seldom used today, except in legal contexts. The definition is contested, but it is generally understood to mean gain, profit or advantage from employment or holding public office.\n\nSo what does this have to do with Mr Trump?\n\nHe has been accused of breaking rules against \"emoluments\" during his presidency. These rules, known as the emoluments clauses, were written into the country's bedrock legal text, the US Constitution.\n\nMr Trump's hotel in Washington was often the site of protests during his presidency\n\nOne clause requires all federal officials, including the president, to seek the consent of Congress before accepting any benefits from foreign states.\n\nThree separate civil lawsuits alleged that Mr Trump had not sought that consent. One cited the hosting of foreign officials at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC as a possible violation.\n\nMr Trump has derided \"this phony emoluments clause\", suggesting other sitting presidents have made money.\n\nWhat might happen next: Regardless, the emoluments lawsuits will probably be dismissed or dropped, legal experts say. One brought by congressional Democrats has already been rejected by the Supreme Court.\n\n\"Emoluments are not likely to be the basis of any criminal action,\" said Mr Turley, an expert on constitutional law.\n\n\"The emoluments cases relate to Trump holding office, so once he leaves office, the controversy becomes largely academic.\"\n\nWhat we know: Mr Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women whose allegations span decades. Mr Trump has denied all the allegations, dismissing them as \"fake news\", political smears and conspiracies.\n\nMany of the accusers came forward ahead of Mr Trump's election win in 2016. Mr Trump vowed to sue them all but, as yet, has not done so.\n\nInstead, some of the accusers have sued Mr Trump. Two of those women have filed defamation lawsuits against Mr Trump for calling them liars.\n\nE Jean Carroll has accused Mr Trump of raping her in the 1990s\n\nE Jean Carroll, a long-time columnist for Elle magazine, is one of them. She has accused Mr Trump of raping her in a dressing room at a luxury Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Mr Trump denies it and is contesting the defamation claim.\n\nIn her lawsuit, Ms Carroll argues Mr Trump defamed her by saying he could not have raped her because \"she's not my type\". Her lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a retraction of Mr Trump's statements.\n\nMs Carroll v Mr Trump seemed straightforward enough until September, when the US Department of Justice weighed in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Leeds, one of Mr Trump's accusers, has demanded action\n\nThe department took the unusual step of trying to replace Mr Trump with the United States as a defendant in the case.\n\nIn the end, a federal judge ruled against the department's intervention, arguing \"the allegations have no relationship to the official business of the United States\".\n\nWhat might happen next: The case can now proceed, allowing Ms Carroll's lawyers to gather evidence.\n\nFor example, they could press on by attempting to verify if Mr Trump's DNA is on a dress Ms Carroll says she was wearing at the time of the alleged assault. For that, they would need a DNA sample from Mr Trump.\n\nA similar but separate defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Mr Trump's television show The Apprentice, may go the same way.\n\nSummer Zervos (left) was one of several women to accuse Mr Trump of sexual misconduct ahead of the 2016 election\n\nMs Zervos alleged that Mr Trump had sexually assaulted her during a meeting to discuss job opportunities at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.\n\nMr Trump dismissed the allegation as \"phony\", accusing Ms Zervos of fabricating it for fame. Ms Zervos then sued him for defamation in 2017, seeking damages of at least $3,000.\n\nMr Trump tried to get the case dismissed during his presidency. His lawyers suggested that, as president, he should be immune to lawsuits in state courts.\n\n\"That argument completely evaporates on 20 January,\" Barbara L McQuade, professor of law at the University of Michigan, told the BBC. \"Once that happens, we move to the discovery phase of the case and there could be some movement there.\"\n\nWhat we know: \"Fraud was not just the family business - it was a way of life,\" reads the first line of Mary Trump's lawsuit against her uncle Donald.\n\nAs an opening salvo, it could hardly be more contemptuous.\n\nIt mirrors the animosity of Ms Trump's newly released memoir, in which she chastises her uncle as a \"narcissist\" who threatens the life of every American.\n\nIn her book, Mary Trump calls her uncle the \"the world's most dangerous man\"\n\nThe family beef is as personal as it gets and Ms Trump's lawsuit, filed in September, reflects that acrimony.\n\nIn it, she accuses Mr Trump and two of his siblings of cheating her out of an inheritance while pressuring her to give up interests in the family business.\n\nMs Trump inherited valuable interests in the family business when Fred Trump Jr - her father and the president's older brother - died in 1981 at the age of 42. Ms Trump was 16 at the time.\n\nMr Trump and his siblings \"committed to watch over\" Ms Trump's interests, the lawsuit says.\n\n\"They lied,\" the lawsuit says. \"Rather than protect Mary's interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift [fraud], and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited.\"\n\nThe lawsuit seeks at least $500,000 in damages.\n\nWhat might happen next: The White House said Ms Trump's book was full of \"falsehoods\", but Mr Trump is yet to reply to the lawsuit.\n\nIf requests for documents and testimony come, Mr Trump cannot cite his presidential duties as a reason to deny them.\n\nNo American citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the law.", "Members of Labour's ruling body loyal to Jeremy Corbyn have walked out of a meeting in protest over his continued exclusion from the parliamentary party.\n\nThe 13 representatives of the National Executive Committee said Sir Keir Starmer's decision not to re-instate the whip to Mr Corbyn in a bitter anti-Semitism row was a \"factional\" move.\n\nMr Corbyn has been urged to apologise for remarks downplaying the extent of anti-Semitism when he was leader.\n\nHis lawyers are challenging the ban.\n\nTuesday's row reflects continuing upheaval at the top of the party over Mr Corbyn's recent suspension from Labour.\n\nThe NEC agreed to lift the suspension last week after he issued a statement distancing himself from his previous claims that anti-Semitism within the party when he was leader was overstated for political reasons.\n\nThe NEC is the guiding body for the Labour Party, making key decisions about the party's objectives.\n\nBut Sir Keir has declined to re-admit him to the parliamentary party, meaning he continues to sit as an independent in the House of Commons.\n\nLabour's chief whip Nick Brown has written to Mr Corbyn urging him to make a full and unreserved apology for his earlier comments, which he made after the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found the party had broken the law over its handling of anti-Semitism claims.\n\nAfter their mass walkout from Tuesday's virtual meeting, the 13 representatives, including former MP Laura Pidcock, issued a statement saying they had \"decided not to remain in the NEC meeting today in order to show very clearly how factional the decisions of the current Labour leader have become\".\n\nThey added: \"We will be returning to future NEC meetings to be the legitimate voice of the membership.\"\n\nIn a letter to the NEC's general secretary David Evans, the group said Tuesday's election of veteran MP Dame Margaret Beckett as chair of the ruling body was a breach of protocol, suggesting the role should have typically passed to the current vice-chair Ian Murray.\n\nThe former foreign secretary is the longest-serving member of the NEC\n\nThey suggested the party leadership had \"lobbied for\" Dame Margaret because Mr Murray, who is a senior member of the Fire Brigades Union, had been one of those who had criticised Sir Keir's for his decision to withhold the whip from his predecessor.\n\nHowever Jon Lansman, founder of the pro-Corbyn Momentum group, advised his fellow left-wingers to \"get over themselves\".\n\nLabour sources insisted that Margaret Beckett's election was the result of democracy not factionalism.\n\nAnd it demonstrated that, following recent elections, the party leadership now enjoys majority support on the national executive.\n\nBut it also provides further evidence of an increasing rift between supporters of the current leader and those of the previous incumbent.\n\nDame Margaret, a former foreign secretary who been a Labour MP since 1974, succeeds TSSA union official Andi Fox in the role.\n\nAlice Perry, a London councillor seen as loyal to Sir Keir, was elected vice-chair.\n\nSir Keir won the leadership of his party by a wide margin in April but his grip on the NEC remains more tenuous.\n\nHe has won the body's backing for his reforms so far - but sometimes by very tight margins.\n\nIn last week's elections of nine constituency representatives, the \"Grassroots Voice\" candidates - who represent the left and are closer to the former leader Jeremy Corbyn - won five places.", "Amazon has apologised after UK customers received an email announcing the launch of a service available in the US only.\n\nAmazon Sidewalk uses customer broadband accounts to create a neighbourhood-wide network for local devices.\n\nIt can be accessed by certain Amazon-branded devices up to 500m (0.3 miles) away if the home wi-fi is out of reach or not working.\n\nBut customers with a US-registered device only should have been contacted.\n\nAnd UK customers who received Amazon's email have told BBC News this was not the case.\n\n\"We recently began emailing customers with Echo devices registered in the US to give them more information about Amazon Sidewalk,\" an Amazon spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This service will only be available in the US when it launches.\n\n\"We apologise for any confusion.\"\n\nIt means Amazon-branded security cameras and smart speakers can still function without a connection.\n\nFor US customers, the update will arrive in the form of a software update and owners of devices which can use it - including the Ring security camera and Amazon Echo - have to opt out of being part of it.\n\nOnly certain Amazon devices will be able to access it - not, for example, individual smartphones.\n\nAmazon says in the email that Sidewalk \"uses a small portion of your internet bandwidth\" for the service.\n\n\"Sidewalk can also extend the coverage for Sidewalk-enabled devices, such as Ring smart lights and pet and object trackers, so they can stay connected and continue to work over longer distances,\" it adds.\n\nSecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont tweeted Amazon appeared to be offering only very limited access to other people's broadband connections.\n\n\"It isn't blindly allowing anybody to browse the internet from your connection,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Alan Woodward, a cyber-security expert from Surrey University, said he thought people should not be added to the network by default.\n\n\"I think you should opt in rather than opt out of these things,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels wrong not knowing what your device is connected to.\"", "Spain's King Felipe VI has begun ten days of quarantine after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nPalace sources say the king, 52, was in \"close contact\" with the individual on Sunday, but gave no further details.\n\nThe monarch's wife and the couple's two daughters will continue their activities as normal.\n\nSpain has recorded nearly 1.6 million cases and 43,131 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nLast week, the World Health Organization warned that Europe, which is once again at the centre of the pandemic, faced a \"tough\" six months ahead.\n\nHowever, recent results from a number of vaccine trials have given hope and on Tuesday the Spanish government is due to meet to discuss plans to vaccinate the population.\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the country hoped to offer the vaccine to \"a very substantial part\" of its population within the first half of 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tegnell: \"Not yet possible to say which country has right strategy\" (November 2020 interview)", "Animals have been \"a lifesaver\" for people struggling during Covid lockdown, according to retailer Pets at Home which has seen sales rise sharply.\n\nChief executive Peter Pritchard said pets had played \"an incredibly important role\" through a period of \"social loneliness\".\n\nHe added that during the early days of lockdown one of the few reasons people could go out \"was to walk your dog\".\n\nIn the six months to 8 October, Pets at Home saw revenues rise by 5.1%.\n\nMr Pritchard told the BBC's Today programme: \"The pet care market has been incredibly strong throughout and I think that tells you an awful lot about people's relationships with their pets and the roles that pets play in people's lives.\n\n\"It has been a lifesaver for many through this incredibly challenging period for everybody in the country.\"\n\nHe added that the change in more people working from home had allowed them to get a dog or a cat. \"More people have considered having a pet because their lives have changed and they are at home more often,\" he said.\n\nThe company sells some small animals and fish but does not sell cats or dogs. It said, however, that membership of its Puppy & Kitten Club for new owners had risen by 25% during the six-month period.\n\nPets at Home said the first half of its financial year, which runs between April and 8 October, reflected the entire period since the week after national lockdown was implemented. Restrictions on households weighed on trade in the first quarter before a 12.7% jump in like-for-like sales in the second three months.\n\nPets at Home is classed as an essential retailer and has been allowed to stay open during lockdown. Total sales over the six months rose to £574.4m while pre-tax profit grew by more than 14% to £38.9m.\n\nThe company did not place any employees on furlough and said that it has actually been recruiting more staff.\n\nHowever, Pets at Home's share price dropped by 7.3% to 388p in early trading.\n\nThe company warned of uncertainty because of the pandemic and said: \"At this stage, absent any escalation of restrictions, or other significant disruption to our operations, we now anticipate full-year underlying pre-tax profit to be in line with the prior year.\"\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at professional services firm Begbies Traynor, said: \"Looking ahead, with the value of the resilient UK pet market set to hit £7bn next year and the nation's love affair with pet ownership showing little sign of abating, chief executive Peter Prichard's optimism for the future appears well justified.\"\n\nHowever, she added that the retailer would be \"mindful of the dampening effect of social distancing measures in store, which may impact margins over the all-important Christmas period and into the first quarter of 2021\".\n• None 'Look after your mental health this winter'", "Kevin Branton, left, and Richard Smith died at a property in Saltash in 2010\n\nThere were \"serious failings\" in the way home appliance firm Beko acted when it found its gas cookers had the potential to emit fatal levels of carbon monoxide, a coroner has found.\n\nAn inquest heard five people in Cornwall died after inadvertently turning on their grills.\n\nCoroner Geraint Williams concluded they died as the result of an accident.\n\nThe cookers have been linked to 13 other deaths in the UK and Ireland, the inquest heard.\n\nKevin Branton, 32, and Richard Smith, 30, died in 2010 in Saltash, while Maureen Cook, 47, Audrey Cook, 86, and Alfred \"John\" Cook, 90, died in 2013 in Camborne.\n\nThe Cook family were found dead in their home\n\nCornwall Coroner's Court heard that if the grill was used with the door shut, fatal levels of the poisonous gas built up due to a design fault with a rubber seal around the door.\n\nSumming up the six-day inquest, Mr Williams said it was \"glaringly obvious\" a grill might be deliberately or accidentally used with the door closed and this issue should have been recognised by Arcelik, Beko's parent company, which manufactured the cookers.\n\n\"This singular failure led ultimately to the deaths of Mr Smith, Mr Branton and the Cook family,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest heard Beko became aware of the first fatality - that of French student Alexis Landry in Ireland - on 13 November 2008.\n\nA list of the affected models, including the Flavel cooker Mr Smith and Mr Branton had in their Saltash home, is on Beko's website\n\nIt was contacted about two further deaths in Doncaster on 1 December.\n\nMr Williams said Beko's \"failure to pursue\" more information about the Doncaster deaths was a \"serious error\".\n\nHe found that a delay in Beko sharing information about testing results and further deaths was a \"serious failing\" and said there was a \"lost opportunity\" to stop Mr Smith's father from buying his cooker on 31 December - or to obtain his details from the retailer Co-op Homemaker in Plymouth, before it went out of business in 2009.\n\nIn a statement released after the hearing, Mr Branton's mother Denise said she believed \"Beko should and could have reacted quicker and more proactively\".\n\n\"If they had, I'm sure the cooker that killed our sons would not have been able to be purchased,\" she said.\n\n\"It would appear that there is a likelihood that some of these cookers may still be in use in some homes today.\n\n\"I strongly urge people who know of someone who owns an older cooker to check Beko's list of recalled cookers online as they are not all sold under the Beko name.\"\n\nMr Smith's father Brian said the cookers, which were not tested with their grill doors closed, should have undergone \"every conceivable test\" before being sold.\n\nHe said: \"I hope that the lessons learnt during this inquest are taken on board by all persons concerned who have a duty of care for public safety and regulations are changed to prevent further deaths.\"\n\nMr Williams said he would now consider whether to make any recommendations to prevent future deaths.\n\nIn a statement Beko said its main objective was to \"ensure that every Beko product is safe for our customers\".\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Since these tragic incidents, we've continued to raise our safety standards... We also collaborated with the industry to get the UK and EU gas safety standards changed in 2009.\n\n\"The new standard helps prevent a similar tragic event from happening again.\"", "Restaurant owners have expressed anger at Stormont's approach to Covid-19 rules after large numbers of weekend shoppers lined Belfast's streets.\n\nIt comes ahead of non-essential shops in Northern Ireland being ordered to shut for two weeks from Friday.\n\nRestaurateur Bob McCoubrey said the scenes were \"hard to accept\", while pubs and restaurants remain closed.\n\nThe chief medical officer said there was a greater risk of spreading infection in hospitality settings.\n\nBBC News NI has contacted the Executive Office for a comment.\n\nChief Medical Officer Michael McBride said: \"In restaurants and in pubs, individuals are engaged in different interaction, they are closer together for a longer period of time and the risk is therefore greater.\"\n\nCafes, bars and restaurants closed on 17 October but shops, including those deemed non-essential, have been allowed to remain open during that time.\n\nLast Friday, hospitality businesses without an alcohol licence were allowed to reopen, but they must close again along with all non-essential retail at the end of the week.\n\nMr McCoubrey, who owns the Mourne Seafood Bar in Belfast's city centre, said he could not understand why his restaurant had to stay closed while shops were still open.\n\nHe retweeted the photo of a long queue outside Primark in Castle Street on Saturday, with a message that read: \"Hard to accept pictures like this when we can't even use our outside area.\"\n\n\"We're just angry\", he later told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I'm very frustrated. We've been closed for five weeks and we're no further forward in terms of the infection or the pressure on hospitals.\"\n\nWhile Mr McCoubrey did not see the queue outside Primark on Saturday, he said he had seen similar queues in recent days.\n\nShoppers lined both sides of the street outside Primark on Saturday afternoon\n\nThe photo outside Primark was taken by Caítlin Webb at about 14:00 GMT on Saturday. She sent it privately to a relative via WhatsApp and it later appeared on Twitter and Facebook, where it has since been widely shared.\n\nThe 21-year-old told BBC News NI the queue began on one side of Castle Street, snaked up as far as the Hercules Bar, and then continued along the other pavement into the shop.\n\nMs Webb said she briefly joined the queue herself, but left after about 10 minutes as she was concerned by a lack of social distancing.\n\nPrimark said: \"Nothing matters more to us than the safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers.\"\n\n\"As we re-open our stores in Northern Ireland in line with government advice, we continue to have extensive health and safety measures in place including a strict social distancing protocol and limits on the number of customers allowed in store,\" a Primark spokesperson added.\n\n\"Dedicated employees and security staff are on hand to help ensure these measures are adhered to.\n\n\"We continue to closely follow all safety advice from government across all our stores.\"\n\nAnother restaurateur described the scenes as an \"absolute scandal\" and claimed the situation had been created by the Stormont Executive \"with your inability to govern our country\".\n\nStevie Higginson, who owns two restaurants in Lisburn and Ballynahinch, said the current rules were a \"joke\".\n\n\"I can't serve 30 guests inside, socially-distanced with sanitiser on every table, staff wearing masks, screens up,\" he said.\n\nHe said restaurants had track-and-trace systems in place \"for every customer\", and service would be limited to a maximum of six people from the same household at each table if they were allowed to reopen.\n\nThe chief medical officer said: \"The retail sector are putting in place measures to restrict the number of people in their stores to maintain flows in a safe way to minimise contact between individuals indoors.\n\n\"The consequence of limiting the number of people indoors is that there may be, where there is demand for a particular retail outlet, there may be individuals outside waiting to come in.\"\n\n\"It is also important that those queues are managed appropriately, socially distanced, but they are outside and we need to bear that in mind,\" Dr McBride told BBC NI's Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on Monday,\n\nNI's Chief Scientific Adviser Prof Ian Young said that within the retail sector the interactions of people tended to:\n\nIt comes as the executive's plans to curtail church services due to Covid-19 have been criticised by a series of MLAs.\n\nPaul Givan the DUP MLA for Lagan Valley said the decision put people of faith in a conflicted place.\n\nMr Givan wondered whether some large churches could remain open with social distancing in place.\n\nThere was \"real anger\" that churches were closed, according to DUP MLA William Humphrey said.\n\nSDLP MLA Justin McNulty said he was worried about what effect closure would have on the mental health of church goers.\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann said such decisions were \"not taken easily\".\n\nMr Swann said he would be in favour of churches opening for private worship if \"social distancing is followed\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Testing is due to start in two weeks according to the port's owners\n\nHauliers have claimed there will be \"mayhem\" at Holyhead port when the Brexit transition period ends.\n\nHolyhead is the second biggest \"roll-on roll-off\" port in the UK after Dover, carrying 1,200 lorries and trailers a day across the Irish Sea.\n\nThe Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) said the first six months of 2021 would be \"terrible\" as the port is not ready to cope with the change.\n\nBut the port's owner, Stena Line, has said the process would be smooth.\n\nThe IRHA remain unconvinced as the deadline to agree a new UK-EU deal approaches and the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nIt is concerned border-ready pre-boarding IT systems have not been tested for outbound travel.\n\nThe European Union is planning to enforce border controls on the Irish side from 1 January but inbound lorries into Wales will not face any checks by UK authorities until July 2021.\n\n\"We're very concerned,\" said IRHA president Eugene Drennan.\n\nEugene Drennan claims there has been no transition\n\n\"After the deadline and UK 'Brexiting', the decisions still won't be made. They'll unfold as the problems appear.\n\n\"That leads to a certain degree of mayhem. You will have time delay, you'll have a lot of anxious moments.\n\n\"You'll have a lot of truck people getting a little hot under the collar. You'll have ferry times delayed and you'll have a general upset.\n\n\"Even though it's called a transition period, there has been no transition.\n\n\"It's a rush now these last few weeks to try and get systems together, to try and get things up and running and though the Irish side has a reasonable degree of preparedness done, some of it is very cumbersome.\n\n\"And none of it links up with Her Majesty systems. England and on that side, on the Holyhead side, they're not ready at all.\"\n\nIan Davies is confident everything will be ready in time despite the tight schedule\n\nIan Davies, Stena Line's head of UK Port Authorities, said he was confident despite \"very, very tight\" timescales.\n\nHe said: \"We are live testing in the next two weeks. We're starting to educate our staff on the new checking processes.\n\n\"We have always planned on the worst case scenario of 'no deal' because that's the only thing you can base your preparations on and so we are now confident that we are in the right place for that.\n\n\"Trader preparation is a big question. That's been hanging over everyone, but I believe that most of the guys now are fully engaged in the process.\"\n\n\"There should be a clear flow through Holyhead port for inward goods from Ireland.\"\n\nStena Line confirmed the decision had been made to develop an inland custom checks facility away from Holyhead port.\n\nIt is believed those will be sites in Warrington and Birmingham.\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi Huws, who is also a member of the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, has called for any checkpoint to be as close to Holyhead port as possible.\n\n\"The main concern we have is the impact that's going to have on the use of this port and the loss of jobs,\" she said.\n\n\"So the sooner we have any clarification on that we can make sure that the jobs here are safeguarded and that the people of Holyhead don't have to worry.\"\n\nLlinos Medi Huws wants to see jobs protected on Anglesey\n\nDr Edward Jones, from Bangor Business School, added: \"We seem to be getting the headache of Brexit here in that we could see parts of the island becoming a car park for the trucks, but we don't seem to be getting any of the benefits of those customs jobs. They seem to be going elsewhere.\"\n\nThere are fears that supply chains could be disrupted if documentation and congestion lead to delays and businesses decide to use alternative routes.\n\nA new ferry route has been set up between France and Ireland.\n\nChris Yarsley from Logistics UK, which represents freight businesses, said the automotive manufacturing industry relies on vehicles delivering spare parts with hours to spare.\n\n\"Any break in that supply chain will cause manufacturing issues, therefore people will look to other places to source their goods and that could impact on the economic viability of the UK,\" he added.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The government is working closely with the devolved administrations and ports, right across the United Kingdom, to plan for the end of the transition period and beyond.\n\n\"The delivery of IT systems necessary for the end of the transition period is on track.\"", "Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa lead the nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards.\n\nBeyoncé leads the field, with nine nominations overall, including four for Black Parade, a protest anthem released at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer.\n\nSwift, with six nods, could win album of the year for a record-breaking third time with her lockdown album Folklore.\n\nDua Lipa also picked up six nominations for the disco-tinged Future Nostalgia.\n\nThe British star, who was named best new artist by the Grammys two years ago, was also on hand to read out some of the nominees - including best children's album and best historical album - in an online livestream.\n\nRapper Roddy Ricch tied with Swift and Lipa on six nominations, the majority of which recognised his hit single The Box, which spent 11 weeks at number one earlier this year.\n\nHowever, there was disappointment for R&B star The Weeknd, who was completely shut out, despite having the biggest-selling album of 2020 in the US with After Hours.\n\nThe star, who is due to perform at the Super Bowl half-time show in February, had been expected to dominate the main categories, after picking up multiple awards at both the MTV VMAs and American Music Awards this year.\n\nThe Weeknd's Blinding Lights is the longest-running top 10 hit in US chart history\n\nThere was better news for Billie Eilish, who picked up multiple nominations for her single Everything I Wanted, as well as her Bond theme No Time To Die.\n\nThe 18-year-old made history earlier this year by becoming the first female artist to win all four of the Grammys main categories - best new artist, song of the year, record of the year and best album.\n\nThe nominees in those categories for 2021 are:\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 Beyoncé Brasil 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\nHarry Styles received his first Grammy nominations as a solo artist\n\nBritish nominees included Harry Styles - who picked up his first ever Grammy nominations in the pop genre categories. His previous band, One Direction, were consistently overlooked by the awards despite their international success.\n\nColdplay were listed in the best album category for their eighth album Everyday Life, while Mercury Prize-winner Michael Kiwanuka was nominated for best rock album and Laura Marling was listed alongside the late Leonard Cohen in the best folk album category.\n\nBeyoncé's nine nominations increased her historic lead as the Grammys' most-nominated female artist ever. She now has 79 nominations, tying her with Sir Paul McCartney for the second-most nominations of all time.\n\nAhead of her are Thriller producer Quincy Jones, and her husband Jay-Z, who both have 80.\n\nThree of Beyoncé's nominations came for a guest verse on Savage (Remix) - the breakout hit by fellow Texan musician Megan Thee Stallion. Megan, whose real name is Megan Pete, also picked up a coveted slot in the best new artist category.\n\n\"What? Who me? Oh my God!\" said the star as the nominations were revealed.\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 Dua Lipa 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\nKorean band BTS scored their first musical nomination - with the single Dynamite gaining attention in the best group performance category (the band had previously been cited for the obscure 'best album packaging' award).\n\nAnd rapper Pop Smoke picked up a posthumous nomination for his hit single Dior.\n\nMany of the nominees were far from being household names, with retro rock band Black Pumas and British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier listed in the main categories.\n\nCollier's album, Djesse vol 3 also earned the dubious distinction of being the first album of the year nominee not to have earned a place on Billboard's Top 200 chart.\n\nThere was also a notable presence for songs inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement - most notably H.E.R.'s moving ballad I Can't Breathe, which is up for song of the year.\n\nBTS only had one previous Grammy nomination - for best recording package in 2019\n\nThe 84 categories also threw up a few quirks. Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill - which won best album in 1996 - is now nominated in the best musical theatre album category, thanks to a Broadway show based on the star's angst-rock classic.\n\nTaylor Swift picks up a nomination for Beautiful Ghosts - her song from the critically-panned Cats movie; while Billie Eilish's No Time To Die is up for an award, despite the James Bond film it accompanies still not having come out.\n\nAnd Kanye West finds himself in the best contemporary Christian music category, thanks to his devotional rap album Jesus Is King,\n\nThese are the first nominations to be announced since the Recording Academy updated its award categories and rules earlier this year.\n\nAmongst the changes, it dropped the term \"urban\" as a way of describing music of black origin, to ensure the awards were \"inclusive and reflect[ed] the current state of the music industry\".\n\nThe rules on voting were also tightened up following allegations of irregularities by the Academy's former president, Deborah Dugan.\n\nThe latest winners will be announced at the 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony on 31 January, 2021. Comedian Trevor Noah will host the show, the Recording Academy announced.\n\n\"Despite the fact that I am extremely disappointed that the Grammys have refused to have me sing or be nominated for best pop album, I am thrilled to be hosting this auspicious event,\" said The Daily Show presenter, who was previously up for best comedy album at the 2020 ceremony.\n\n\"I think as a one-time Grammy nominee, I am the best person to provide a shoulder to all the amazing artists who do not win on the night because I too know the pain of not winning the award.\n\n\"This is a metaphorical shoulder,\" he added. \"I'm not trying to catch Corona.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sharn Hughes was described as \"selfless, and had such a joyous, charitable attitude to life\"\n\nA woman died after being hit by a car while going to take pictures of the castle where TV show I'm a Celebrity is being filmed, her family has said.\n\nSharn Hughes, 58, died on Abergele Road, Llanddulas, near Gwrych Castle, in Conwy county.\n\n\"Her curiosity led to her wanting to see the lights at Gwrych Castle which, unfortunately, led to her untimely tragic death,\" said a family statement.\n\n\"She was hoping to take a photo and send it to a friend.\"\n\nThe family said other people might also plan to take photos there.\n\n\"We urge people to take so much care and remember it is a busy main A-class road,\" they said.\n\nMrs Hughes, from Prestatyn, was described as the devoted wife of Elfyn Hughes, and loving mother to Arron and Annah Hughes.\n\n\"Sharn was so selfless, and had such a joyous, charitable attitude to life,\" said the statement.\n\n\"She was in the process of organising deliveries of hampers to the local food bank through the Women's Institute. We'll miss her kindness forever.\"\n\nThe crash happened on the A547 Abergele Road which runs alongside Gwrych Castle\n\nIn a separate statement, a member of the institute said Mrs Hughes was \"very generous with her time\".\n\nThe statement said she \"put other people first and was a born organiser\" who was also a church treasurer.\n\nNorth Wales Police is appealing for witnesses to the crash, which involved a blue Volvo estate car on the A547 at a location known as Middle Gate, on Saturday at about 17:00 GMT.\n\nSgt Raymond Williams said: \"Our thoughts remain with Sharn's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"She was clearly a much-loved woman and her family are now being supported by a family liaison officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charles Darwin's work on evolution theory by natural selection changed the way we think about the natural world\n\nCambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, worth many millions of pounds, have been missing for 20 years.\n\nOne of them contains the 19th Century scientist's famous Tree of Life sketch, exploring the evolutionary relationship between species.\n\nFollowing an \"extensive search\", curators have now concluded they have probably been stolen.\n\nThey are launching a public appeal for help in trying to find them.\n\n\"This is heartbreaking,\" Dr Jessica Gardner, the university's librarian, tells the BBC. \"We will leave no stone unturned,\" in trying to discover what has happened, she adds.\n\nThe notebooks were last seen in November 2000 after \"an internal request\" to remove them from a special manuscripts storeroom to be photographed.\n\nThey were taken to a temporary studio, which at the time was in a temporary building in the grounds of the university library because building work was taking place.\n\nIt was only during \"a routine check\" two months later that it was discovered they were missing.\n\n\"We know they were photographed in November,\" says Dr Gardner. \"But we do not know what happened between then and the time in January 2001, when it was determined they were not in their proper place on the shelves.\n\n\"And I'm afraid there isn't anything on the remaining record which tells us anything more.\"\n\nHis Tree of Life sketch is among the missing notes\n\nInitially librarians thought they might have been put back in the wrong place. \"My predecessors genuinely believed they had been misfiled and they would find them,\" adds Dr Gardner, who became director of library services in 2017.\n\nThere were a number of \"intense\" searches over the years. They all drew a blank.\n\nPerhaps it is not that surprising given the size of the library. It is vast, containing more than 200km of shelving, roughly the distance from Cambridge to Southampton by road. It is home to more than 10 million maps and manuscripts and other objects.\n\nAt the beginning of this year, Dr Gardner arranged a new search. Specialist staff combed through specific zones of the library's storage facilities. They conducted a \"fingertip\" check through 189 boxes which contain Darwin's books, drawings and letters. But still no notebooks.\n\nA new approach was needed, according to Dr Gardner. She says she was \"not willing to accept\" the notebooks would just \"turn up\".\n\nSo she and her team \"completely reviewed what happened at the time and critically we took a big step back from what had become a common understanding that they had been mis-shelved.\n\n\"Reluctantly I have decided that was not the right conclusion.\"\n\nInstead, she believes: \"These notebooks have probably been stolen.\"\n\nTheft, she says, \"should be ruled in as a possibility from the start and that wasn't\".\n\nSecurity procedures, she explains, have been \"revised and reviewed\" and \"tightened\" over the last two decades.\n\n\"Now if anything of this scale and significance was not found we would be going to the police.\"\n\nCambridgeshire Police have now been informed and the disappearance of the notebooks has been recorded on the national Art Loss Register for missing cultural artefacts. The police have also added the missing notebooks to Interpol's database of stolen artworks.\n\nCambridge University Library have appealed for the notebooks to be returned\n\nIn July 1837, Charles Darwin was a young man of 28. At his home in London, he wrote at the top of the page of one of his red leather notebooks, \"I think\". Then he drew a spindly sketch of a tree.\n\nHe had recently returned from the Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle and was working through scientific ideas inspired by his trip.\n\n\"These notebooks really are Darwin's attempt to pose to himself the question about where do species come from, what is the origin of species?\" explains Jim Secord, emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University.\n\nMore than 20 years later, on 24 November 1859, Darwin published a more fully developed tree of life in On the Origin of Species.\n\n\"It's almost like being inside Darwin's head when you're looking at these notebooks,\" says Professor Secord. \"They're jottings of all sorts of information that he's writing down.\n\n\"You have the sense of him working through these ideas at great speed and that kind of intellectual energy which I think the notebooks really convey.\n\n\"I'm a fan of James Joyce and it's always struck me that it's a bit like Leopold Bloom on steroids. You just get the sense of scientific imagination running really deep.\"\n\nAlthough the notebooks have been digitised, Professor Secord says the scans can never replace the real thing.\n\n\"To have such an iconic object go missing is really a tragedy.\"\n\nDarwin produced two groundbreaking works - On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man\n\nThe notebooks themselves are small, no bigger than a postcard. They were kept in a bespoke blue box, about the size of a paperback.\n\nIt is still possible the notebooks might be found. \"We won't stop looking,\" says Dr Gardner. But it will take another five years to complete a full search of the remaining shelves and storage rooms.\n\nIn the meantime, the library is asking the public for help.\n\n\"There are good examples where things have been found, thanks to the help of the public,\" says Dr Gardner.\n\n\"So I would really appeal to members of the public, former staff, researchers, anyone who might have information which would shed light.\n\nBut Dr Gardner is reluctant to speculate where the notebooks might be.\n\n\"It's possible they are under a bed, that's the best case scenario, someone has found they can't sell them or they're just holding on to them,\" she says.\n\n\"This is the time to just safely, even anonymously, get in touch.\n\n\"It's those new leads we're looking for, with the help of the police, in order to help recover these for the nation.\"\n\nAnyone who may have information about the missing notebooks is asked to contact Cambridge University Library, via email at ManuscriptAppeal@lib.cam.ac.uk or Cambridgeshire Police.\n\nCharles Darwin was an English scientist - naturalist, geologist and biologist - best known for his work on the theory of evolution by natural selection.\n\nHis groundbreaking work, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859 and changed the way we think about the natural world.\n\nAt the time it was highly controversial, as it provided evidence that certain animals had evolved from others over time, apparently best fit for their surroundings. This was at odds with the long-established religious belief that God had created all creatures, great and small.\n\nDarwin studied the divergence of 18 species of passerine birds [\"Darwin's finches\"] in the Galápagos Islands, in the Pacific. He noted the remarkable diversity in beak form and function.\n\n\"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history,\" he wrote, as a result.\n\nIn his second seminal publication, 1871's The Descent of Man, Darwin applied his theory to the evolution of humans, suggesting we share a common ancestor with the great apes.\n\nSimple yet profound, his theory is one of the most influential scientific ideas ever conceived.\n\nEven today, its conclusions and implications have an impact on religion, politics, economics and art, as well as our understanding of the world around us.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Playhouse in Londonderry had been given an indicative reopening date of 1 September\n\nMore than one-third of jobs in arts, culture and heritage are vulnerable as a result of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThat is according to a new study from Ulster University's Economic Policy Centre (UUEPC).\n\nThe report suggests a high proportion of jobs in museums, galleries, theatres and music are particularly at risk.\n\nIn general, the creative sector is \"more exposed to the challenges arising from Covid-19 than other sectors and occupations.\"\n\nThe main factors for that are social distancing measures limiting capacity and a reluctance among audiences to return even when venues can re-open.\n\nThe UUEPC report estimated that there are 39,100 people employed in the arts, creative, culture and heritage sector in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, the type of occupation that figure includes is very wide.\n\nIt ranges from people working in Information Technology (IT) and architecture to those employed in music, crafts, the performing arts, museums, galleries and libraries.\n\nThe study said that while a high proportion of jobs in areas such as IT were not vulnerable, jobs in the other sectors were \"much more at risk.\"\n\nIt estimated that more than 60% of jobs in museums, galleries and libraries were vulnerable, along with almost half of jobs in music, theatre and visual art.\n\nA significant number of jobs in film and TV production were also at risk.\n\n\"The pandemic has caused the immediate closure of non-essential business including the Arts, Culture and Heritage industries resulting in cancelled work and events such as large music events like Belfast Vital and Belsonic which attracted thousands of people to Belfast annually,\" the report said.\n\n\"The healthcare situation in NI will be more important in this sector than in the average NI occupation, given the interactive nature of work and a dependence on discretionary consumer spending.\"\n\nThe authors of the report also make a number of suggestions on how venues and visitor attractions could be helped to recover from the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThey include \"visitor vouchers,\" which would subsidise 30-50% of the cost of tickets to venues to encourage audiences to return.\n\nVenues would also be compensated if they had to cancel events at short notice due to new or changing restrictions.\n\nThe authors of the study also suggest a bursary of £1,000 a month for arts workers who have not been able to benefit from other job support schemes.\n\nNorthern Irish artists could also be commissioned to create new public art, the UUEPC report said.\n\nA number of emergency funding schemes for arts and heritage have been opened by the Department for Communities.\n\nThe Northern Ireland executive received £33m from Westminster in July as part of a UK-wide support package for arts and culture.", "Sickness absence levels in Northern Ireland councils are the highest in the UK, auditors have found.\n\nFigures show an average of almost 14 days per employee in 2018-19 - a 13% increase in five years.\n\nThe findings come from a joint report by Northern Ireland's two public sector auditors.\n\nTeachers in Northern Ireland also take more sick days than other parts of the UK, according to the report.\n\nAuditor General Kieran Donnelly and Local Government Auditor Pamela McCreedy warned that sickness absence is placing a strain on services.\n\nOverall sickness absence in the Northern Ireland civil service has also increased by 10% in five years, with staff off for an average of almost 13 days annually.\n\nNorthern Ireland's two public sector auditors said the levels are almost double that within the civil service in England.\n\nIt comes after a report last week by the auditor general revealed how Northern Ireland's civil service is struggling to cope because of a crisis in staffing levels with almost 1,500 unfilled vacancies.\n\nAccording to the figures published in the latest, report council workers in 2018/19 took on average 14 days off because of sickness.\n\nThat compares to 11 days for councils in Scotland and eight in England and Wales.\n\nthe auditors point to long term absences in many cases caused by mental health illness as being a key reason for the high levels of sickness. Northern Ireland has the highest rates of mental illness in the UK with one in five adults experiencing a mental health problem at any given time.\n\nThe age profile of those who work in councils and the wider civil service is another contributing factor. Over 40 per cent are over the age of 50 and as a result are more prone to develop health complication.\n\nThis table shows the average number of days lost due to sickness across NI councils\n\nThe highest level of sickness absence among council workers was recorded in Causeway Coast and Glens, with 17 days lost to sickness per employee, while the lowest was in Fermanagh and Omagh council were on average 10 days were lost.\n\n\"High levels of sickness absence within the public sector are not a new phenomenon. However, this report finds few signs of sustained improvement,\" said Mr Donnelly.\n\n\"It is time for public sector organisations to make a concerted effort to reduce the level of sickness absence and to develop a consistent approach to managing attendance.\"\n\nMr Donnelly said a \"strong attendance culture needs to be embedded\" across the public sector and he called for a heavy focus to be placed on long term absence with preventative and early intervention measures put in place.\n\n\"Sickness absence in NI councils consistently ranks as the highest in the UK, with no indication of significant improvement,\" said Mr Donnelly.\n\n\"When significant numbers of staff are unable to work because of sickness, the impact on service delivery including delays, increased workloads, lost productivity and additional financial costs to cover absences is likely to be considerable.\"\n\nThe auditors also report that teachers in 2018/19 took almost 10 days off because of sickness which is an increase of 10% in the past five years.\n\nThe figure is also the highest in the UK with teachers in Scotland taking six days off while four days per employee were lost in England.\n\nhe auditors point to long term absences in many cases caused by mental health illness as being a key reason for the high levels of sickness. Northern Ireland has the highest rates of mental illness in the UK with one in five adults experiencing a mental health problem at any given time.\n\nThe age profile of those who work in councils and the wider civil service is another contributing factor. Over 40 per cent are over the age of 50 and as a result are more prone to develop health complication.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Just one month into his new role as consul general, Stephen Ellison saves a university student from drowning\n\nA British diplomat who dived into a river to save a woman's life has been presented with a red velvet banner - a sign of gratitude in China.\n\nThe banner was given to Stephen Ellison, consul-general in Chongqing, by the 24-year-old university student he pulled from the river last week.\n\nIt reads \"righteous and courageous, saving people from water\".\n\nThe 61-year-old was met with widespread praise and was hailed as a hero in China for his actions.\n\n\"This is the first banner I have ever received in my life, it is of great significance to me,\" Mr Ellison said, according to a post by the British Consulate General Chongqing on China's micro-blogging site Weibo last Friday.\n\nBig red banners, known in China as jinqi, are typically given as a means of expressing gratitude - and it is not uncommon for the recipient to display it, like one would an award.\n\nMr Ellison, originally from Newcastle, is head of the British mission in Chongqing, where his role is primarily to support bilateral trade links between Britain and China.\n\nHowever, it was his bravery rather than his profession which thrust him into the spotlight, after he was filmed jumping into a river to rescue the unnamed woman who had slipped into the water from some rocks.\n\nThe footage shows her struggle and disappear under a footbridge before emerging face down - apparently unconscious.\n\nMr Ellison is seen throwing off his shoes before launching into the water himself, turning her over and bringing her to safety.\n\nHe then swam round to shallower rocks and climbed out.", "One of the bones comes from the tibia (lower leg bone) of a two-legged meat-eater similar to Sarcosaurus\n\nThe only dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland have been confirmed to belong to two different species.\n\nThe bones were previously discovered on the east coast of County Antrim.\n\nBut a new scientific study from the universities of Portsmouth and Queen's in Belfast has confirmed the origins of the bones for the first time.\n\nOne is part of the lower leg bone of a carnivore similar to Sarcosaurus; the other is from the upper leg bone of a Scelidosaurus, a four-legged herbivore.\n\nThe two fossil bones, confirmed to be from early Jurassic rocks, were discovered in Islandmagee during two separate finds in the late 19th Century and the 1980s.\n\nOriginally it was assumed the fossils were from the same animal, but new analysis published in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association has confirmed they belong to the two different species.\n\nIreland was underwater for most of the period during which dinosaurs roamed the earth, so there is less chance the remains of land animals would be preserved in rocks dating to that period.\n\nUlster Museum has announced plans to put the bones on display when it reopens after the current coronavirus restrictions are lifted.\n\nDr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National Museums NI, said the development was \"a hugely significant discovery\".\n\nExperts suggest Scelidosaurus may have been a coastal animal, perhaps even eating seaweed like modern-day marine iguanas\n\n\"The great rarity of such fossils here is because most of Ireland's rocks are the wrong age for dinosaurs, either too old or too young, making it nearly impossible to confirm dinosaurs existed on these shores,\" he said.\n\n\"The two dinosaur fossils... found were perhaps swept out to sea, alive or dead, sinking to the Jurassic seabed where they were buried and fossilised.\"\n\nRobert Smyth, researcher at the University of Portsmouth and Professor David Martill, used high-resolution 3D digital models of the fossils in their analysis of the bone fragments, produced by Dr Patrick Collins of Queen's University Belfast.\n\n\"Analysing the shape and internal structure of the bones, we realised that they belonged to two very different animals,\" said Mr Smyth, who is originally from Ballymoney.\n\n\"Despite being fragmentary, these fossils provide valuable insight on a very important period in dinosaur evolution, about 200 million years ago.\n\n\"It's at this time that dinosaurs really start to dominate the world's terrestrial ecosystems.\"\n\nProfessor Martill said: \"Scelidosaurus keeps on turning up in marine strata, and I am beginning to think that it may have been a coastal animal, perhaps even eating seaweed like marine iguanas do today.\"\n\nThe study is part of a larger project to document Jurassic rocks in Northern Ireland and draws on many fossils in Ulster Museum's collections.", "Messaging app Snapchat is offering a share of $1m (£750,000) to its users every day as it tries to compete with TikTok on viral videos.\n\nIts new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend \"the most engaging\" posts to watch based on what a user is interested in.\n\nSnapchat says the feature will include people with \"private, personal accounts\" as well as its biggest stars.\n\nThe $1m-a-day payment would run until at least the end of the year, it said.\n\nBut if successful it could potentially continue into 2021, the company said.\n\nVideos have to be submitted to the scheme to be eligible for the earnings. How much a video makes for its owner depends on a complicated formula - but includes how many views the video has.\n\nSnapchat has not, however, said how many people the $1m a day will be split between, or what the maximum individual earnings might be.\n\nUsers have to be 16 or over to be paid, and obey a host of rules around copyright, sponsorship, and drugs and alcohol, among other things.\n\nThe company says it will moderate the feed for violations - and for anyone attempting to game the algorithm.\n\n\"We actively monitor for fraud to ensure that we only account for authentic engagement with Snaps,\" it warned.\n\nThe payment system reflects the competitive market for the latest viral hits, according to Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight.\n\n\"Snapchat lives and dies by how engaged users are with its content,\" he explained.\n\n\"Surfacing viral content and rewarding the creators that conceived that content is a sensible way to sustain its business, particularly in the light of the growing threat from TikTok and others.\"\n\nSnapchat rose to prominence for its 24-hour disappearing messages almost a decade ago. In the years since, the idea has been co-opted by competitors such as Instagram Stories and, most recently, Twitter's Fleets.\n\nAt the same time, TikTok has emerged as a favourite platform for original viral content, fuelled in part by its focus on easily adding music to posts.\n\nDespite the competitive market for users' attention, Snapchat recently announced that its daily user numbers had surged to almost 250 million during the pandemic.\n\nAnd while TikTok has faced its own challenges this year - most notably the constant threat of being banned by US President Donald Trump's administration - one of its stars became the first to reach more than 100 million followers.", "Nicola Sturgeon says progress is being made in talks on easing Covid rules at Christmas - but does not expect a similar relaxation at Hogmanay.\n\nScotland's first minister said a deal on a UK-wide approach to Christmas would be announced later in the week.\n\nShe said the plans would need to be \"sensible and careful\" to prevent a fresh wave of new cases in January.\n\nAnd she added: \"I do not expect that we will be announcing any particular relaxation over the new year period.\"\n\nOn Monday night Ms Sturgeon confirmed plans to move Midlothian from level three to level two had been postponed due to an increase in case numbers.\n\nBut an improving picture in East Lothian will see the local authority move to level two from 06:00 on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, responding to a question at her daily briefing, the first minister addressed the intense speculation surrounding the festive period.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We can't do everything. The Christmas thing is hard enough.\n\n\"Why Christmas and not new year? Well, maybe Christmas is a more important time for the kids.\n\n\"I think for most of us, even if we value new year, Christmas is still the time when families are more likely to not have someone on their own. So we can't do everything right now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM: No plans to relax restrictions for Hogmanay\n\nThe easing of rules at Christmas is expected to see \"a small number of households\" allowed to meet up over \"a small number of days\".\n\nTalks on the issue were held between ministers from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the UK government on Saturday.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the ministers had endorsed a \"shared objective of facilitating some limited additional household bubbling for a small number of days\".\n\nThe BBC understands that one option under consideration is that three households could be allowed to meet up for five days over the festive period.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson had been hoping to announce arrangements for the Christmas period on Monday, but this has been delayed until at least Tuesday to allow the Scottish and Welsh cabinets to agree the plans.\n\nAny announcement is also expected to include rules on travelling between nations.\n\nMs Sturgeon said talks were \"making progress\", but stressed that \"details of this approach are still to be finalised\".\n\nEdinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party has been cancelled this year\n\nShe said: \"This is a particularly difficult balance to strike. If my email inbox is anything to go by, public opinion on this is quite mixed, as you would perhaps expect.\n\n\"There is an obvious desire to see loved ones at Christmas, but there is also a lot of anxiety about the potential risks associated with that - particularly at a time when we are perhaps starting to see the end of this pandemic loom on the horizon.\"\n\nThe first minister said the deal would likely see \"some households able to form slightly larger bubbles over a short period\".\n\nHowever, she said this \"has to be on a very limited basis\" - focusing on gatherings in people's homes rather than in hospitality settings.\n\nExperts have raised concerns about relaxing restrictions over Christmas\n\nMs Sturgeon said isolation and loneliness could \"hit people particularly hard over the Christmas period\".\n\nBut she said people should \"think very carefully\" about whether they need to travel or meet up indoors.\n\nShe added: \"The virus won't take Christmas off. If you provide it with opportunities to spread from household to household, it will take them.\n\n\"Just because you might be able to mix a bit more doesn't mean you have to do that if you don't think it's necessary, or if you can get though Christmas without it.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that she was against restrictions being eased \"simply because it's Christmas\".\n\nShe added: \"It certainly sounds as if that it's a trade-off - that you behave now, keep transmission low, then we might be able to do something over Christmas that resembles something familiar to us.\n\n\"The best Christmas present we can give to people is to keep them safe - it really is the bottom line.\n\n\"The best way to keep safe is to try and avoid the risk as much as possible and if you must meet family, which most of us are longing to do, try to do it outdoors if you possibly can - and fingers crossed we get a dry and less windy and wet Christmas time.\"\n\nMinisters are considering allowing some household mixing over Christmas\n\nLast month John Keenan, the bishop of Paisley, called for a Christmas \"truce\" - a 24-hour lifting of restrictions - to give people a \"moment of joy in the midst of so much despair\".\n\nReacting to news of the four-nations discussions, he told BBC Scotland he was glad politicians were considering some way of accommodating Christmas during the pandemic.\n\nBut he admitted he was \"conflicted\".\n\n\"The thought of my mum - who's a widow - being on her own all through Christmas day is an awful thought for me,\" he said.\n\n\"On the other hand the thought that I might go there and pass on a virus to her is equally awful so I think we're all conflicted about it. \"", "As coronavirus began spreading around the world at the start of 2020, in the UK there were weaknesses in the expert analysis of its likely impact, according to a BBC documentary.\n\n\"There is going to be a lot of criticism of the scientists - because it's easy to have hindsight.\n\n\"It's easy to say if only we'd done this a week earlier we'd have saved 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 lives. But if you look at where we were in February, would you really have made these decisions any differently? I don't think you would have.\"\n\nThose are the words of Prof Calum Semple of the University of Liverpool, one of the key scientists advising the government on Covid-19.\n\nEver since the novel coronavirus arrived in the UK, ministers have repeatedly said they were \"following the science\".\n\nBut the UK has ended up with one of the worst death rates in the world - coronavirus has killed more than 50,000 people so far.\n\nSo how good was the scientific evidence provided in the run-up to lockdown?\n\nOn 23 January 2020, a woman unknowingly infected with coronavirus flew to the UK from Wuhan and passed through the airport undetected. Eight days later she, and a family member, became the first confirmed UK cases.\n\nBut what wasn't understood was how many others then followed in their footsteps through February and March - not just from China, but from across Europe.\n\n\"What we hadn't realised was that the virus had already moved into Italy, France and Spain, and was in the ski resorts,\" says Prof Semple, who is on Sage, the government's scientific advisory group.\n\n\"It turns out that we had probably 1,500 cases that came in during that period, and that's why Britain was hit so hard. We were given a really bad dose at a very early stage in a large number.\"\n\nItaly was the first European country to be badly hit by Covid-19\n\nProf Graham Medley, who chairs the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), which feeds in to Sage, agrees.\n\n\"If I could have known one thing, it would have been the number of imports coming in from mainland Europe.\n\n\"I should have thought that if northern Italy has got an epidemic then it's quite likely that other places in Europe have probably got an epidemic as well, and I didn't think that.\"\n\nProf Gabriel Scally, a public health expert and former health adviser to Labour, said: \"There was a steady flow of people coming in from various countries as the virus spread.\n\n\"We left our borders open, we left our door open to the virus, and that contributed substantially to the very rapid growth in the virus that we subsequently saw.\"\n\nInformation about those early cases was fed into a database called the First Few Hundred (FF100), which was closely studied by modellers for clues about how the virus might spread .\n\nData on Ebola may have been better than that from the current pandemic\n\nBut there was a problem. \"Unfortunately the First Few Hundred data was not as good as we expected,\" says another SPI-M member, Dr Thibaut Jombart, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"There were clearly quite a few mistakes: basic information, basic epidemiological information, was missing.\n\n\"At the time I was coming back from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where I spent six months as part of the response to an Ebola outbreak - a very, very messy situation in a warzone, you expect messy data there. It felt like the data situation was less good in the UK than it was in the DRC.\"\n\nBut Prof Medley, who is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, defends the FF100 data. \"Modellers always want more and better data. Yes, you could always want it more complete, you could always want it more accurate, but nonetheless the data that we had fulfilled our purpose.\n\n\"We were in quite a good position to understand what might happen in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nData was not just key to understanding where coronavirus was coming from, but who was worst affected.\n\nBy mid-February, evidence from China showed older people were particularly at risk.\n\nIn the UK, modellers warned government that the virus could kill tens of thousands, and advised \"cocooning\" would reduce deaths.\n\nThere was a lack of understanding about care homes\n\nBut Dr Ian Hall, of SPI-M, admits models did not reflect how care homes actually work, or identify the serious risk posed by agency staff working in different homes.\n\n\"The failure of those models, I guess, was that we didn't know how connected the social care settings were with the community,\" he says.\n\n\"As modellers we didn't know - I'm sure there are lots of academics and policy-makers out there, that could have told us this, if we'd asked them.\"\n\nCoronavirus would go on to kill more than 20,000 people in care homes.\n\nThe modellers were also trying to predict when the UK would see the peak of cases.\n\nIn early March, SPI-M was still estimating it was 12 to 14 weeks away. \"We were planning for a pandemic that was fairly slowly growing, on the basis that we had kind of a ramping up of social distancing, over a period of time,\" says Dr Hall.\n\nBut one member of the committee, Prof Steven Riley, from Imperial College, believed the government's strategy was seriously flawed and would leave intensive care units overwhelmed for a long period of time.\n\nOn 10 March, when official figures suggested there had been a total of 913 cases - but experts now estimate there were 75,000 - he submitted a paper calling for an immediate lockdown.\n\nHe says: \"Based only on my knowledge of the epidemiological situation, I did think, at that point, there was an argument for stringent social distancing, for lockdown, as soon as possible.\n\n\"The point that I thought needed to be addressed as a matter of urgency, was that initially we should lock down in order to have time to formulate a more precise strategy.\"\n\nSPI-M's Prof Mark Jit was asked to investigate what the true numbers might be.\n\n\"I think everyone knew that they were not picking up all the cases. The big question was by how much were they underestimating the number.\n\n\"We decided to look at the number of cases in intensive care units. We knew for each of these cases there will probably be many hundreds of thousands of people who have Covid but didn't have it that seriously.\"\n\nHis calculations predicted that by mid-March there would soon be close to 100,000 new cases each day. \"That was extremely worrying because 100,000 new cases would mean that about a week later we would get 20,000 new hospital patients a day.\n\n\"There was the sense that, OK. we really need to get this information to Sage to make decisions about what we're going to do in the UK.\"\n\nAt the same time, other modellers realised that the NHS data they were relying on for their modelling was out of date.\n\n\"The data coming in from the UK which we thought was up to the minute was in fact in some cases up to a week old, and so really we weren't looking at a snapshot of how the epidemic was developing now, but how it was in the past,\" says Dr Nick Davies, who is also on SPI-M.\n\n\"That was the first time when I started to feel like things really were not under control.\"\n\nOn 17 March, people across the UK were spending their first day living with unprecedented restrictions on daily life.\n\nIn a TV address the previous evening, Prime Minister Boris Johnson had told the nation: \"Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary travel. We need people to start working from home where they possibly can. And you should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues. Without drastic action, cases could double every five or six days.\"\n\nBut at the University of Manchester, SPI-M's Dr Lorenzo Pellis was looking at data from Italy, and realising that the virus was spreading in Britain at almost twice the speed that had previously been thought.\n\n\"I got really concerned,\" said Dr Pellis. \"I was coming out with really short times between that day and potentially breaching hospital capacity.\"\n\nIt meant the NHS was just days away from being swamped by coronavirus patients.\n\nThe analysis was fed back to Sage. \"And that led to the cascade to full lockdown,\" said his SPI-M collegue Dr Hall.\n\nSo do the scientists believe they should have acted earlier?\n\n\"I obviously feel that it's incredibly tragic what has happened in the UK and of course I wish that interventions had been brought in earlier\", says Dr Davies.\n\n\"Our own modelling suggests that had lockdown been imposed a week earlier, we may have avoided about half or slightly more than half the number of deaths.\"\n\n\"I think we got ourselves into a mess by relying on modelling and allowing modelling to drive the whole response,\" says Prof Scally. \"I think the failure of the science, so to speak, will be seen as one of the most important features in what has been a very, very poor response to this global health tragedy.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"This is a new virus and an unprecedented global pandemic and our priority from the outset has been to save lives. We have been guided by the advice of experts from Sage and its sub-committees and our response helped to ensure the NHS was not overwhelmed.\"\n\n'Lockdown 1.0 - Following The Science?' is on BBC2 at 21:00 GMT on Thursday 19 November and on the BBC iPlayer afterwards.", "A maximum of 4,000 fans will be allowed at outdoor events in the lowest-risk areas when the four-week lockdown in England ends on 2 December.\n\nUp to 2,000 people will be allowed in tier two areas but none in tier three.\n\nIndoor venues in tiers one and two can have a maximum of 1,000 spectators, with capacity across indoor and outdoor venues limited to 50%.\n\nOrganised grassroots sport will be able to resume, and gyms and leisure centres can reopen across all tiers.\n\nElite sport has continued behind closed doors during the national lockdown, but grassroots and amateur sport has been halted since 5 November.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government's new measures and Covid-19 restrictions in England on Monday via video link to the House of Commons.\n\nThe news of which areas will be in which tiers is expected to be made public on Thursday.\n\n\"In tiers one and two, spectator sports and business events will be free to resume inside and outside with capacity limits and social distancing,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"Later this week, we will announce which areas will fall into which tier - I hope on Thursday - based on analysis of cases in all age groups, especially the over-60s.\n\n\"Also, [it will involve] looking at the rate at which cases are rising or falling, the percentage of those tested in a local population who have Covid and current and projected pressures on the NHS.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"This is a big step forward for sport.\n\n\"Bringing grassroots sport back was my number one priority, so I'm pleased we are reopening sports and gyms in every tier, in recognition of the significant health benefits.\n\n\"I'm also delighted we are able to get the turnstiles turning sooner than expected, taking a cautious approach and starting with the lowest-risk areas first.\n\n\"I'm confident that sports will take every step to ensure their fans are safe and fans will play their part and look out for each other until we can safely get everyone back in.\"\n\n'We have missed our fans'\n\nFootball across England's top four divisions has been played behind closed doors since its return in June, following the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Premier League said it welcomed the prospect of fans returning in \"small numbers\" but it hopes to work with the government to increase this to more \"substantial levels\" to stop clubs operating \"at a financial loss\".\n\nIt added: \"Our priority continues to be the agreement of a roadmap, with DCMS and the Sports Technology and Innovation Group, for pilot events that can help our clubs quickly scale up to larger capacities.\"\n\n\"Even if it is limited numbers, it brings that feel and that connection back,\" said Dyche, before his side's home Premier League match against Crystal Palace.\n\n\"Hopefully it will build quickly after that. We have missed our fans.\"\n\nThe English Football League (EFL) is looking at the possibility of shifting some of next week's fixtures to take advantage of the plan.\n\nThe EFL has a full schedule of matches in the Championship, League One and League Two across 1-2 December.\n\nNo decisions have yet been taken but any club in a tier one or two area that requested a move from Tuesday to Wednesday is likely to receive a favourable response if there is no conflict with broadcasting requirements.\n\n\"Fans have always felt football should be treated the same as other sectors,\" said a Football Supporters' Association statement.\n\n\"We welcome today's announcement, which does suggest that will be the case, and we look forward to seeing further details.\n\n\"For many lower-league and non-league clubs in particular, getting paying fans into stadiums safely is absolutely critical to their survival during a very difficult season.\n\n\"Clubs, leagues and the Sports Ground Safety Authority have worked hard to put in procedures to make stadiums safe places and we hope this is the first step on the road back to normality.\"\n\nGrassroots sports can take place in all areas but the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said there will be \"some restrictions on highest-risk activity in tier three areas\".\n\nIts statement added: \"Spectators at non-elite sports will be able to attend events in line with Covid-secure guidance for each tier.\"\n\nIndoor sports can resume but, because of \"the higher transmission risk of coronavirus in an indoor setting\", the DCMS said there would be restrictions on \"some activities\" depending on the \"alert level\" of the local area.\n\nThis re-emergence of sport, both in terms of the long-awaited return of fans and the resumption of recreational activity, is an important and encouraging milestone.\n\nThe second shutdown of community sport has been devastating for the grassroots, with tens of thousands of clubs, gyms, pools and jobs jeopardised, activity levels affected and participants' physical and mental health harmed at the worst possible time, with exercise seen as crucial to the country's recovery.\n\nThe return of grassroots sport will be celebrated by many, especially after it was not included in the list of direct beneficiaries in last week's £300m bailout of spectator sports.\n\nBut there are still frustrations, with gyms disappointed that group activity is restricted in certain areas, disproportionately affecting female users, for whom exercise classes are especially important. There have also been further calls for the government to provide more financial support to the community sport sector.\n\nEqually, with large swathes of the country in the higher-risk areas, it is unclear how many football or rugby clubs will be in tier one and actually allowed to welcome the maximum 4,000 fans back.\n\nFor many bigger clubs, who firmly believe they should have been able to have their grounds a third full from the start of last month, this will be of little comfort amid an unprecedented financial crisis, and they will want that number to increase rapidly. In fact, some clubs have said they will actually lose money by opening up their grounds for just 2000-4000 fans.\n\nThere are also concerns over fairness if only certain teams can reopen their turnstiles.\n\nBut eight months after fans were last seen at regular sporting events in England, this has at least provided hope and a possible road to recovery.\n• In tier one areas, indoor sports can take place within the rule of six. For example, people from different households could play three v three volleyball, or four people from different households could play doubles tennis or badminton.\n• None Group activities such as training sessions and exercise classes can take place in larger numbers, provided that people are in separate groups (up to six people) that do not mix.\n• In tier two areas, indoor sport can take place within households and people can take part in group activity, like exercise classes, as long as there is no mixing between households.\n• None People can play certain sports which do not involve close proximity or physical contact against one person from another household, such as a singles tennis match.\n• In tier three areas, indoor sport will be restricted to within your household only and there should be no group activity such as exercise classes.\n\nWhat has the reaction been?\n\nSport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said: \"Huge credit is due to the many organisations and individuals who have worked so hard to evidence how safe their activities and facilities are and to set out so clearly what they are doing to reduce risk.\n\n\"From the prime minister down, there is now a strong recognition of the vital benefits of playing sport and being active, not just for your physical wellbeing but also, crucially, as a support for your mental health.\n\n\"As we head into the winter months having a range of safe opportunities available like this is more important than ever.\"\n\nA joint statement from some of horse racing's leading bodies said that, while it had been operating behind closed doors since 1 June, test events had shown \"no evidence of transmission\" of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the numbers are limited to begin with and not all venues will be allowed to admit spectators, but this is progress,\" said British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust.\n\n\"I am confident that all our racegoers will follow the government's public health guidelines when they return to racing and this will allow us to increase the numbers attending.\"\n\nPremiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs said: \"We won't know the exact impact on our clubs until the tiers are announced on Thursday, so my team stands ready to work with government to tackle the challenges of fan attendance in a way that minimises health risks.\n\n\"Keeping the league intact has been my number one priority during the pandemic and now we have the foundations from which to grow the game and build longer-term financial stability.\"\n\nBefore the announcement, Daniel Levy, chairman of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, said preparations had already been made for supporters coming back.\n\n\"Premier League clubs are entirely capable, similar to the experience in several other countries, of responsibly delivering outdoor events with social distancing, exemplary hygiene standards, qualified stewards, testing capabilities and diverse travel plans, operating in some of the most technologically advanced venues in the world,\" said Levy.\n• None A World Cup winner on getting to grips with British slang", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students from Knowsley on Merseyside say they feel extra stressed in the lead up to exams this year\n\nMore than one in five secondary pupils in England missed school last week, with worsening Covid disruption.\n\nThe latest attendance figures show 22% of secondary pupils were missing, based on who was in school last Thursday - up from 17% the previous week.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union warned of a \"collapse\" in attendance, with almost three quarters of secondary schools sending home pupils.\n\nThe Department for Education says keeping schools open is a \"priority\".\n\n\"The situation has reached a crisis point and the government cannot let coronavirus run riot in schools any longer,\" said Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, with almost 900,000 pupils out of school because of Covid incidents.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, backed the principle of keeping schools open, but said it was time for schools to be allowed to operate rota systems.\n\n\"The reality behind these figures is that many schools are experiencing disruption on a monumental scale and are desperately trying to cling on to the end of term,\" said the heads' leader.\n\n\"The other parents and I have a WhatsApp group and our phones ping and we're all filled with dread over which year group is told to isolate next,\" says Josephine Abbott Millar, a parent from Rugby.\n\nHer two sons have faced school being disrupted - and she says they have missed the social life as well as lessons at school.\n\nNot every family has the technology to allow children to switch to learning online\n\n\"As my eldest has started a new school I think he's really suffered as he's not been allowed to settled in properly,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Every time he starts to feel a bit settled he has to isolate again for two weeks and he's home again. It's the back and forth that is really disruptive.\"\n\nThere have been concerns about how exams will go ahead next summer when so many pupils have been missing lessons.\n\nRussell Hobby, chief executive of Teach First, said being out of school would be most disruptive for the most disadvantaged.\n\n\"Studying from home is difficult for all pupils. But our research has found it's pupils from the poorest backgrounds who are the least likely to have laptops and internet while self-isolating, making it nearly impossible for them,\" he said.\n\n\"These children will not recover from this if we don't acknowledge the barriers they face,\" says Matthew Martin, head of department in a south London secondary school.\n\nHe says some pupils have missed a month already this term and only a limited number will really be able continue learning online at home.\n\nThis is not because of an unwillingness to keep studying, he says, but because families do not have the computer equipment at home to make it possible.\n\nEngland's Department for Education has been committed to keeping schools open, but the weekly figures show rising numbers of pupils missing from the classroom.\n\nOverall attendance is down to 83% of pupils, below 86% in the previous week - and although the way figures were gathered changed in October, they show attendance dipping since half term.\n\nThis fall is particularly concentrated in secondary schools, with 78% in class last Thursday, down from 87% on 5 November.\n\nAcross both primary and secondary schools, the figures show about one in 10 pupils were out of school because of Covid-related concerns.\n\nThe great majority of pupils being sent home are because of potential contacts - rather than pupils having caught coronavirus, with only 0.2% of pupils recorded as confirmed cases.\n\nPrimary schools have so far been less disrupted, with 87% of pupils attending - but the number of schools sending home one more pupils has risen to 29%, compared with 22% the week before.\n\nThere have been worries about how exams will go ahead next summer\n\nAmong secondary schools, 73% were sending home pupils, compared with 64% the week before.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said almost all schools had remained open this term - and there was online learning for those pupils who were self-isolating.\n\n\"It is a national priority to keep education settings open full-time, and that remains equally as important in the weeks up to the end of term as it was when young people returned for the new school year,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nHas your child's education been disrupted? Or are you a teacher whose work has been affected? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sam says she wants to get together \"even if it's just for one day\" Image caption: Sam says she wants to get together \"even if it's just for one day\"\n\nFamilies are now facing a big choice about whether to take advantage of the freedom to meet up at Christmas - or whether to play it safe.\n\nSam in Devon is building a grotto in her garden ready for a small family gathering.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It’s the only time of the year I get everybody together, it's very important, it's special.\n\n\"It’s not the presents or anything else, it’s having my family. Even if it’s just for one day.\"\n\nBut she said people \"have to be sensible otherwise we’re going to have a really rotten January\".\n\nBut others said they would not be travelling. Father and daughter Naomi and Roy said they would not be making the trip between Devon and South Wales this year.\n\n\"I would love to do it, but no,\" Naomi said. \"Especially with the vaccine development, it just seems like too high risk regardless of what we're allowed to do.\"\n\n\"The only thing that’s missing is the physical contact,\" said Roy, adding that he missed the grandchildren, \"If that has to be, I would rather miss out in 2020 if it means we can do what we normally do in 2021.\"\n\nThis year, Naomi and dad Roy will spend Christmas apart Image caption: This year, Naomi and dad Roy will spend Christmas apart", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Call the Midwife filmed its Christmas special under coronavirus restrictions\n\nDoctor Who, Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown's Boys are among the shows that will be in this year's Christmas TV schedule, the BBC has revealed.\n\nIt has been \"a real struggle\" to make the usual range of festive shows during Covid, the BBC's Charlotte Moore said.\n\nBut, she added, the stars and crews \"pulled out all the stops\".\n\n\"Some of the big talent and the production teams have rallied together, and we feel it's really important to have a good Christmas.\"\n\nThe Vicar of Dibley will return in three 10-minute lockdown-inspired episodes\n\nThe BBC's Christmas TV line-up includes special episodes The Goes Wrong Show, Ghosts, Not Going Out, King Gary, Motherland and the return of The Vicar of Dibley.\n\nMiranda Hart will host a one-off celebrity game show, and there will be Christmas editions of shows ranging from The Repair Shop and The Great British Sewing Bee to The Hit List, The Wall and Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.\n\nThe Goes Wrong Show will tackle the nativity story\n\nThe vast majority have been filmed under Covid restrictions.\n\n\"Trying to work out what we could actually manage to pull off for Christmas... I can't pretend it's been relaxing or without its challenges,\" said Moore, who is the BBC's chief content officer.\n\nThe Doctor Who Christmas episode was filmed before coronavirus struck.\n\nDoctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks, in which John Barrowman returns as Captain Jack Harkness to help the Doctor battle her age-old enemies, was one of the few to have been filmed before coronavirus struck.\n\nCall the Midwife, another perennial favourite, was among the shows that had to be shot after the first UK lockdown. \"We were so relieved when they sent me a picture of them finishing production,\" Moore said.\n\n\"With some shows it's been easier than others to get talent and everyone together, and with some shows it's taken a lot of effort. But I sensed a real camaraderie to make this happen.\"\n\nThe pandemic interrupted filming for two major drama series, requiring \"herculean efforts\" in the editing room, Moore said.\n\nOne was Black Narcissus, which stars Gemma Arterton as a nun in the Himalayas in the 1930s and Dame Diana Rigg in her final role.\n\nThe other, The Serpent, stars Jenna Coleman in the real-life story of the unsolved murders of young Western travellers in India, Thailand and Nepal in the 1970s. It completed its filming after the first lockdown.\n\nJenna Coleman and Tahar Rahim star in The Serpent\n\nBut some shows proved impossible in the current conditions. The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special will be a compilation of the 25 most memorable dances of all time, rather than the usual dancefloor contest, for example.\n\nLast year's biggest ratings hit was the return of Gavin and Stacey. Moore said a follow-up had never been planned for this Christmas. \"That wasn't something that was going to happen this year,\" she said. \"One day.\"\n\nDanny Dyer will host a celebrity edition of The Wall\n\nOther highlights this year will include:\n\nMoore added: \"It's been a real struggle but I think people have really wanted to make sure these shows could get on air.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is unveiling the government's spending plans for the coming year.\n\nThe Spending Review will include details on public sector pay, NHS funding and money for the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.\n\nMr Sunak will also set out the extent of the damage done to the UK economy by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the economic forecasts will be \"a sobering read\".\n\nThe government's Covid response has led to huge spending and borrowing rises.\n\nThe chancellor is expected to begin his statement at around 12:30 GMT following Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nSome Spending Review announcements have already been trailed.\n\nThe government is expected to announce a cut in the UK's overseas aid budget to 0.5% of national income, down from the legally binding target of 0.7%.\n\nLockdown restrictions have forced many businesses to temporarily close\n\nThere have also been reports that the chancellor is considering a pay freeze for all public sector workers except frontline NHS staff.\n\nPlans to change the way big spending projects are analysed - which the Treasury says is currently biased in favour of the south east of England - will be published alongside the Spending Review.\n\nThe chancellor may also choose to set aside money to tackle climate change and regional inequalities.\n\nDevolved governments will receive money proportionate to any funding England gets in the Spending Review.\n\nThis is decided using the Barnett formula - devised by Lord Barnett, a Labour politician, in the 1970s.\n\nMr Sunak and Treasury Chief Secretary Stephen Barclay updated the Cabinet on Wednesday morning.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"Cabinet was told the OBR forecasts will show the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on our economy and they will make for a sobering read, showing the extent to which the economy has contracted and the scale of borrowing and debt levels.\n\n\"But - as the IMF (International Monetary Fund), OBR and others have pointed out - the costs would have been much higher had we not acted in the way we have done.\"\n\n\"It's going to look horrible.\"\n\nThe simple truth about the Spending Review according to a senior MP.\n\nThe chancellor will bang the drum for his plans to keep people in jobs, or help find new ones.\n\nRishi Sunak will take out the metaphorical megaphone to explain how he'll allocate billions of taxpayers' cash to spend on infrastructure in the coming months.\n\nBut the headlines of the Spending Review, when governments put their money where their mouths are, won't be in any rhetorical flourishes at the despatch box, nor likely in any surprise announcements kept back as goodies for the public.\n\nThe government had intended to use the Spending Review to set out its plans for the next three years, however this was reduced to just one year due to the economic turmoil caused by Covid.\n\nThe difficult financial backdrop will dominate this year's review with the economy projected to be 10% smaller than it was pre-virus.\n\nTax revenues have fallen as many businesses have been forced to close and government schemes to support furloughed workers have led to soaring levels of spending.\n\nPublic borrowing is expected to rise to £372bn - compared to the £55bn the government had originally expected to borrow.\n\nThe Spending Review will be accompanied by economic forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility - including predictions on how tax will be raised.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the government's \"irresponsible choices\" during the pandemic had \"led to our country experiencing the worst downturn in the G7, and created a jobs crisis\".\n\n\"This prime minister and his government talk a good game but they haven't delivered on their promises - and regional inequality has got worse under their watch,\" she said.\n\n\"They clapped for key workers - but now they're freezing their pay, and looking to scrap planned minimum wage increases for the private sector.\"\n\nUnions called for Mr Sunak to maintain investment in the public sector, the TUC's deputy general secretary Paul Nowak telling BBC Breakfast \"now is not the time to make cuts to public services\".\n\nAnd the SNP is calling for a huge stimulus package to support growth and jobs across the whole of the UK.\n\n\"The spending has to match the challenges we see in the economy,\" said its economic spokeswoman Alison Thewliss. \"At the moment interest rates are at a record low so the government should be borrowing.\"", "US President Trump has officially pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey, in the annual White House tradition.\n\nTwo birds, Corn and Cob, were chosen to face a public vote to get the pardon. Corn won, but both of them will be spared the dinner table and retire to Iowa State University.\n\nBut the idea can be tracked back to Abraham Lincoln - it's believed his son Tad begged him to spare the bird destined for the family table.", "The government is planning to pass new laws to cut Britain's overseas aid budget, the BBC has learned.\n\nIt has raised fears among MPs that the reduction could be permanent.\n\nThere had been speculation the chancellor was proposing a temporary, one-off cut to help pay down the government's record deficit.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK is \"a leading, if not one of the leading, countries on aid\" and \"that will continue\".\n\nThe idea behind a temporary cut was to reduce aid spending next year to just 0.5% of national income, down from the legally binding target of 0.7%.\n\nBut the BBC understands that Rishi Sunak's reforms will require new legislation to be passed by Parliament, which MPs believe implies a permanent cut to the aid target or even its abolition.\n\nThe issue is that the 0.7% baseline for Britain's aid budget is enshrined in law by the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act.\n\nThis does allow the government to miss the target in certain circumstances, such as if there is a substantial change in the country's national income.\n\nForeign and Development Secretary Dominic Raab is simply required to lay a report before Parliament explaining why he has missed the target.\n\nBut there is a growing belief at Westminster that this exemption can apply only retrospectively.\n\nThe act places a duty on Mr Raab to ensure the 0.7% target is met. If he misses it, the act requires him to describe what steps he has taken to ensure the target is met the following year.\n\nSome MPs and charities believe these two provisions mean the government cannot declare in advance its intention to miss the target without breaking the law.\n\nTo cut the aid budget without fresh legislation might lay the decision open to judicial review.\n\nMPs also believe that a one-off cut to the aid target - a saving of about £4bn - would hardly touch the sides of the £350bn deficit projected for this year. They say it only makes sense for the Treasury if the cut is permanent.\n\nThey also believe that if the government is going to reduce aid spending and face significant political and international criticism, ministers will be tempted to go the whole hog and scrap the target entirely.\n\nAlmost 200 charities, two former prime ministers, opposition parties, church leaders, ex-heads of the armed forces, global philanthropists have all come out against the cuts.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to go ahead with cuts, saying that \"helping the world's poorest is one of the great moral and ethical achievements of our country\".\n\nThe risk for the government is that passing new legislation would give critics of the aid cut the chance to oppose and potentially block the changes in Parliament.\n\nAlthough the government has a working majority of more than 80, it has seen a number of rebellions of late. One senior Tory MP said defeating the government on this \"would be entirely doable\".\n\nSuch is the scale of the reforms to the aid target that Mr Raab is expected to make a statement to MPs about it on Thursday.", "US shares hit fresh records on Tuesday with the Dow Jones index closing above 30,000 points for the first time amid hopes of a strong economic recovery and end of political uncertainty.\n\nThe S&P 500 also hit an all-time high as investors bought economically sensitive financial and energy stocks.\n\nTrading was fuelled by positive Covid vaccine news and moves to start the Joe Biden presidential transition.\n\nEurope's main markets also jumped, with London's FTSE 100 closing up 1.5%.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has given the green light for the formal transfer of power to begin following Mr Biden's election victory.\n\nAnd positive news about coronavirus vaccines has boosted hopes that the US and global economies could be on the path to normality next year.\n\nAsian markets followed Wall Street's lead, with Japan's Nikkei up nearly 2% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index 1.4% higher.\n\nIndexes in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore have all edged higher.\n\n\"The possibility of having a vaccine next year increases the odds that we're going to see demand return in the new year,\" said Phil Flynn, senior analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.\n\nRoss Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at US-based Baird, said: \"If 2020 has shown us anything it is that stock markets have a tremendous ability to look past bad news if there is sun on the horizon.\"\n\nAnalysts say market sentiment was also helped by news suggesting Mr Biden wants former Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen as his treasury secretary.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"It’s a team that reflects the fact that America is back\"\n\nAmong the big Wall Street share movers were plane-maker Boeing, up 3.3%, and oil company Chevron, 5% ahead. Investment banks Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase closed up 3.8% and 4.6% respectively.\n\nOther big gainers included Disney, American Express and IBM. A rise in Tesla shares took the electric carmaker's market value above $500bn (£374bn).\n\nAt the close, the Dow Jones was up 1.54% at 30,046.2, while the S&P 500 gained 1.62% to 3,635.4. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index rose 1.3%, to 12,036.7.\n\nOil prices also rose, with US crude up 4.25% to $44.89 a barrel and Brent up 4% at $47.89. The gold price, a favoured asset when investors are fearful, fell 1.6% to $1,806 an ounce.\n\nBut the bullish sentiment comes despite US coronavirus cases surging and millions of Americans still unemployed, and some analysts fear shares are due a reality check.\n\nRising Covid-19 cases and delayed economic stimulus measures are red flags, said James McDonald, chief executive of Hercules Investments.\n\nBut it is not just in the US where shares are surging. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.91%, while the MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 1.44%, putting it on track to close at a record high.", "Students in England will be urged to take two Covid tests three days apart, to cut the risk of spreading infection when they travel home for Christmas.\n\nThese are lateral flow tests with rapid results - with those testing negative expected to leave university within the following 24 hours, according to the latest guidelines seen by the BBC.\n\nThe pre-Christmas testing will start in many universities early next week.\n\nBut testing will remain voluntary - and not all universities will offer tests.\n\nThe National Union of Students said there should be capacity for all students who wanted a test to get one before Christmas.\n\nMore than a million students in England will leave their university addresses to spend the Christmas holidays in another part of the country - and plans for testing are intended to stop this migration from spreading coronavirus.\n\nIt is understood that most universities, but not all, are taking part in the government's plans for the mass testing of students using lateral flow tests, starting on 30 November.\n\nStudents will be encouraged to take two tests\n\nDurham University, which has piloted testing, says about 2,000 students have already booked tests ahead of the Christmas departures.\n\nThe government guidelines recommend a double test to increase accuracy, three days apart, in the form of swab tests administered by the students themselves, at centres being set up by universities.\n\nThe results will be sent by text or email - with students who are not infected expected to leave their term-time accommodation \"immediately\", which is defined as within 24 hours of the second negative test.\n\nGetting students to leave soon after they get results is intended to cut the risk of infections post-testing.\n\n\"The closer to your travel time the better,\" says Professor Jacqui Ramagge, who is leading on testing for Durham University. And at her university, the two tests will be seven days apart rather than three.\n\nMinisters are urging students to take Covid tests before travelling, as a way of protecting their families, but it is not compulsory and not all universities will offer the testing.\n\nThose who do not take tests, or only have one test, will still be able to leave at the same time - with an encouragement to \"travel home as safely as possible\" during the \"travel window\" of 3 to 9 December, which the government has identified as when it expects most students to leave university for Christmas.\n\nThis will be after the current lockdown ends on 2 December, and ahead of universities switching to online teaching for the end of term.\n\nStudents who test positive will be directed towards taking another type of test - a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test to confirm whether they are infected - and will have to stay and self-isolate while waiting for the result.\n\nBut those who test positive from this PCR test will be required to stay in their term-time accommodation for 10 days of self-isolation - which should still leave enough time to get back before Christmas.\n\nThe \"window\" for students to travel home begins from 3 December\n\nTeesside University is among those opening testing centres from 30 November - and is encouraging students to book for two lateral flow tests at its Middlesbrough campus.\n\nPro Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Simpson said it would provide a \"quick and easy testing option to our students and enable them to make an informed decision about returning home for the upcoming Christmas break\".\n\nHe said it would help to address the \"considerable anxiety and a need for reassurance\" about the safety of travel ahead of the end of term.\n\nUniversities Minister Michelle Donelan said: \"Testing will offer further assurances that students can keep their families safe this winter, and I urge all students who can to take the tests on offer.\"", "Up to three households will be able to meet up during a five-day Christmas period of 23 to 27 December, leaders of the four UK nations have agreed.\n\nPeople can mix in homes, places of worship and outdoor spaces, and travel restrictions will also be eased.\n\nBut a formed \"Christmas bubble\" must be \"exclusive\" and would not be able to visit pubs or restaurants together.\n\nThe leaders urged people to \"think carefully about what they do\" to keep the risk of increased transmission low.\n\nThey added 2020 \"cannot be a normal Christmas\" but family and friends will be able to see each other in a \"limited and cautious\" way.\n\nHowever, some scientists have warned that the relaxation of Covid restrictions over the festive period could spark another wave of infections and further deaths.\n\nThe measures will see travel restrictions across the four nations, and between tiers and levels, lifted to allow people to visit families in other parts of the UK.\n\nAnyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland may travel on the 22 and 28 December, but otherwise travel to and from bubbles should be done between the 23 and 27.\n\nPeople will not be able to get together with others from more than two other households, and once a bubble is formed, it must not be changed or be extended further.\n\nThe guidance says a bubble of three households would be able to stay overnight at each other's home but would not be able to visit hospitality, theatres or retail settings.\n\nHowever, existing local restrictions will still be in place mean many pubs and restaurants - such as those in England's tier three or Scotland's level four - will remain closed during the festive period.\n\nThe leaders of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reached the agreement at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"Even where it is within the rules, meeting with friends and family over Christmas will be a personal judgement for individuals to take, mindful of the risks to themselves and others, particularly those who are vulnerable.\n\n\"Before deciding to come together over the festive period we urge the consideration of alternative approaches such as the use of technology or meeting outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Cardiff share their views on the relaxation of Covid-19 rules over Christmas\n\nPublished guidance for England gives further details of the rules for 23 to 27 December:\n\nScientists say a typical Christmas gathering at home is the type of environment where infections can spread.\n\nThe guidance also advises people to take precautions when meeting their Christmas bubble such as washing hands frequently and opening windows to clear potential virus particles.\n\nIn a video message from Downing Street, the prime minister described the agreement as a \"special, time-limited dispensation\", saying: \"This year means Christmas will be different.\"\n\nBoris Johnson said people must make a \"personal judgment\" about the risk of who they form a bubble with or if they visit elderly relatives., adding: \"Many of us are longing to spend time with family and friends... And yet we can't afford to throw caution to the wind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"All the governments agreed\" on the five-day plan for Christmas in the UK, says Michael Gove\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said it was \"not an instruction to travel, it's not an instruction to meet with other people. People should still use a sense of responsibility\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon added: \"The virus is not going to be taking Christmas off, so although we want to give a little bit of flexibility for Christmas we are still urging people to be very cautious and to use this flexibility responsibly and only if you think it is necessary.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said she hoped people would have space to plan, adding: \"We of course recognise how important Christmas time is for so many people.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill urged people to \"be responsible\", saying while they wanted to mark Christmas after such a \"desperate\" year the relaxations would increase opportunities for the virus to spread.\n\nShe added it was hoped that an alignment with rules in the Irish Republic could be achieved.\n\nWhat to do about Christmas divides opinion.\n\nIncreased mixing indoors will certainly mean there is greater transmission of the virus.\n\nBut, as chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said on Monday, there is a balance to be struck between the harm the virus can cause and the societal and economic impacts of trying to control it.\n\nBy that he means adhering to the restrictions in the lead-up to Christmas, being responsible with the opportunity the relaxation gives people, and then immediately switching back to compliance.\n\nIf that happens, any impact could be minimised - and, of course, it will be up to individuals to decide just how much they mix within the rules.\n\nThese are very fine judgement calls by ministers.\n\nThey hope Christmas will provide respite and help steel the public for what is clearly going to be a long, hard winter.\n\nThey also feel they have little choice, believing large numbers of people would ignore pleas not to mix - and this way they can provide advice on how to enjoy Christmas as safely as possible.\n\nBut there is also the risk by sanctioning it there will be more mixing than there would have otherwise been.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps earlier said Christmas travellers should plan journeys carefully and prepare for restrictions on passenger numbers to allow for social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has recorded another 608 UK deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test. There have also been a further 11,299 cases of people testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nGyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen from 2 December under a strengthened three-tiered system.\n\nAreas will not find out which tier they are in until Thursday - and the decision will be based on a number of factors including case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and pressure on local NHS services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How you and your family can celebrate Christmas and minimise the spread of coronavirus\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, and a member of the government's Sage committee, told BBC Newsnight that allowing families to meet up over Christmas amounted to \"throwing fuel on the Covid fire\".\n\nHe said it would \"definitely lead to increase[d] transmission and likely lead to third wave of infections with hospitals being overrun, and more unnecessary deaths.\"\n\nProf Hayward said while you cannot ban Christmas, he called for clearer messaging to families about the \"dangers\" of socialising and inter-generational mixing.\n\nAnd Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, suggested the relaxation of restrictions at Christmas will \"almost inevitably\" lead to an increase in transmission.\n\nBut he said: \"Providing that the new tier system is better managed than in October, any increase in cases could be relatively short-lived.\n\n\"After Christmas we will still have to live through a few more months of restrictions at least.\"\n\nJillian Evans, the director of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the easing of restrictions over Christmas would cost lives.\n\n\"We've got winter weather, we know that people are more susceptible to infection over the colder period, and we've got a festive period where people will be socialising,\" she said.\n\n\"Those are facts, and I would rather be honest and tell you that those are the facts, and be truthful about it so people can understand the risks that they're taking.\"\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the UKHospitality lobby group, said there was \"muddled thinking\" over the Christmas rules and they would cause the sector more economic harm.\n\nShe said: \"Hospitality venues should be considered part of the solution for providing people a well-deserved safe and enjoyable Christmas, especially given that allowing multiple households to mix in the confines of private homes presents an exponentially greater risk.\"", "Britons should stop \"soldiering on\" by going to work when sick and making others ill, the health secretary says.\n\nMatt Hancock said people in the UK were \"peculiarly unusual and outliers\" for still going to work when unwell.\n\nHe made the comments in a joint session of the Health and Social Care and the Science and Technology committees.\n\nHe also told MPs he would like to see the diagnostic capacity built for Covid used to test for other illnesses like flu once the pandemic had passed.\n\nThe UK now has the capacity to carry out over 500,000 tests a day, with new labs to be opened next year to double that number.\n\nHe said he wanted to see the \"global-scale diagnostics capability\" continued to be used.\n\n\"Afterwards we must use it, not just for coronavirus, but everything,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"I want to have a change in the British way of doing things where 'if in doubt, get a test' doesn't just refer to coronavirus but refers to any illness that you might have.\n\n\"Why in Britain do we think it's acceptable to soldier on and go into work if you have flu symptoms or a runny nose, thus making your colleagues ill?\n\n\"I think that's something that is going to have to change.\n\n\"If you have, in future, flu-like symptoms, you should get a test for it and find out what's wrong with you, and if you need to stay at home to protect others, then you should stay at home.\n\n\"We are peculiarly unusual and outliers in soldiering on and still going to work, and it kind of being the culture that 'as long as you can get out of bed you still should get into work'. That should change.\n\n\"This year there's been far fewer respiratory and other communicable diseases turning up in the NHS.\n\n\"I want this massive diagnostics capacity to be core to how we treat people in the NHS so that we help people to stay healthy in the first place, rather than just looking after them when they're ill.\"\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. \"People will be able to leave their home for any purpose,\" says Prime Minister Boris Johnson\n\nGyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends next month, the prime minister has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson told the Commons that the three-tiered regional measures will return from 2 December, but he added that each tier will be toughened.\n\nSpectators will be allowed to return to some sporting events, and weddings and collective worship will resume.\n\nRegions will not find out which tier they are in until Thursday.\n\nThe allocation of tiers will be dependent on a number of factors, including each area's case numbers, the reproduction rate - or R number - and the current and projected pressure on the NHS locally.\n\nTier allocations will be reviewed every 14 days, and the regional approach will last until March.\n\nThe PM, who is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for coronavirus, told MPs via video link he expected \"more regions will fall - at least temporarily - into higher levels than before\".\n\nHe said he was \"very sorry\" for the \"hardship\" that such restrictions would cause business owners.\n\nSpeaking later at a Downing Street briefing, Mr Johnson added that \"things will look and feel very different\" after Easter, with a vaccine and mass testing.\n\nHe warned the months ahead \"will be hard, they will be cold\" - but added that with a \"favourable wind\" the majority of people most in need of a vaccination might be able to get one by Easter.\n\nUntil then, the PM said, there would be a three-pronged approach of \"tough tiering, mass community testing, and [the] roll-out of vaccines\".\n\nDescribing how the tiers had become tougher, the PM said:\n\nWhere pubs and restaurants are allowed to open, last orders will now be at 10pm, with drinkers allowed a further hour to finish their drinks.\n\nIndoor performances - such as those at the theatre - will also return in the lower two tiers, although with reduced capacity.\n\nIn terms of households mixing, in tier one a maximum of six people can meet indoors or outdoors; in tier two, there is no mixing of households indoors, and a maximum of six people can meet outdoors; and in tier three - the toughest tier - household mixing is not allowed indoors, or in most outdoor places.\n\nIn all tiers, exceptions apply for support bubbles. From 2 December, parents with babies under the age of one can form a support bubble with another household.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains the new three tier system for England\n\nMr Johnson said the tiers would now be a uniform set of rules, with no negotiations on additional measures for any particular region.\n\nMeasures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be decided by the devolved administrations, but a joint approach to Christmas, involving all four nations, will be set out later in the week.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I can't say that Christmas will be normal this year, but in a period of adversity time spent with loved ones is even more precious for people of all faiths and none.\n\n\"We all want some kind of Christmas; we need it; we certainly feel we deserve it.\n\n\"But this virus obviously is not going to grant a Christmas truce… and families will need to make a careful judgement about the risks of visiting elderly relatives.\"\n\nFor the third week running we have had some positive vaccine news, but the announcement about the toughened tiers is a reminder, if we needed any, that the next few months will be tough.\n\nMinisters and advisers have been hinting for the past week that the tiers will be toughened - and that is exactly what has happened.\n\nAttention will now naturally turn to which areas will be in which tiers.\n\nDeciding that is a complex equation that will take into account whether the cases are going up or down, the percentage of tests that are positive, hospital pressures and infection rates among older age groups.\n\nTo give a flavour of how complex this is places in the North West and Yorkshire have some of the highest rates but they are falling the fastest.\n\nLondon and the South East have lower rates and more hospital capacity but cases are going up.\n\nFine judgements will have to be made. We will find out on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson also announced changes to sport for both spectators and participants.\n\nWhile elite sport has continued behind closed doors during the lockdown, grassroots and amateur sport has been halted since 5 November.\n\nFrom 2 December, outdoor sports can resume, while spectators will be allowed to return in limited numbers. Some organised indoor sports can also resume.\n\nIn the lowest risk areas, a maximum of 50% occupancy of a stadium, or 4,000 fans - whichever is smaller - will be allowed to return. In tier two, that drops to 2,000 fans or 50% capacity, whichever is smaller.\n\nIn tier three, fans will continue to be barred from grounds.\n\nIn tiers one and two, business events can also resume inside and outside with tight capacity limits and social distancing, as can indoor performances in theatres and concert halls, the government's plan says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is the red-hot question\": Kier Starmer asks the PM which tiers each local area will be in\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the government's return to the regional system as \"risky... because the previous three-tier system didn't work\".\n\nHe added that decisions on which areas will belong to each tier must be taken without delay - \"I just can't emphasise how important it is that these decisions are taken very quickly and very clearly so everybody can plan.\n\n\"That is obviously particularly important for the millions who were in restrictions before the national lockdown, because the message to them today seems to be 'you will almost certainly be back where you were before the national lockdown - probably in even stricter restrictions'.\"\n\nHelen Dickinson, of the British Retail Consortium, said shops would be \"relieved\" at the decision to allow them to reopen.\n\n\"Sage data has always highlighted that retail is a safe environment, and firms have spent hundreds of millions on safety measures including Perspex screens, additional cleaning, and social distancing and will continue to follow all safety guidance,\" she said.\n\nBut the UK hospitality industry warned the new rules \"are killing Christmas and beyond\" and said pubs, restaurants and hotels faced going bust.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 15,450 positive coronavirus cases were recorded across the UK on Monday. There have also been a further 206 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. Figures can be lower on a Monday, due to a lag in reporting.\n\nEarlier, it was announced that daily coronavirus tests will be offered to close contacts of people who have tested positive in England, as a way to reduce the current 14-day quarantine period.\n\nMr Johnson said people will be offered tests every day for a week - and they will not need to isolate unless they test positive.\n\nHe also said rapid tests will allow every care home resident to have up to two visitors tested twice a week.", "Labour's chief whip has asked ex-party leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"unequivocally\" apologise for saying the scale of anti-Semitism in the party had been \"overstated for political reasons\".\n\nMr Corbyn was suspended from the party following his comments but later readmitted as a member after saying he regretted any \"pain\" caused.\n\nBut, Sir Keir Starmer blocked Mr Corbyn from returning as a Labour MP.\n\nThe Labour leader said he would keep the decision under review.\n\nThe row between the former and current leader was triggered when the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published a report, saying Labour had broken the law over its handling of anti-Jewish racism complaints by party members .\n\nIn a letter to his former boss, Nick Brown, Labour's chief whip, said Mr Corbyn's response to the report caused \"distress and pain\" to the Jewish community.\n\nThe chief whip is responsible for organising a party's MPs in Parliament so they vote the way the party wants them to, and can discipline any who do not follow the party line.\n\nMr Brown asked the Islington North MP to \"unequivocally, unambiguously and without reservation apologise for your comments\".\n\nHe also sought confirmation that Mr Corbyn would remove or edit his response on Facebook - and that he would cooperate fully with the party's efforts to implement the EHRC's recommendations.\n\nThe tone of Nick Brown's letter suggests that without making an unequivocal apology, Mr Corbyn is unlikely to have the Labour whip restored.\n\nBut allies of Mr Corbyn have accused the current Labour leader of acting in bad faith.\n\nThey claim an agreement was reached with party officials and members of Sir Keir's staff that would have seen Mr Corbyn readmitted without an apology.\n\nThey now fear his suspension could be indefinite, and that the dispute between a former and current leader will end up in the courts.\n\nLabour sources deny that any such deal was reached.\n\nFollowing publication of the EHRC report in October Mr Corbyn said he was \"always determined to eliminate all forms of racism\" and insisted his team had \"acted to speed up\" the complaints process.\n\nHe also said the scale of anti-Semitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party\".\n\nHis comments prompted the party to suspend its former leader.\n\nThree weeks later Mr Corbyn sought to clarify his words saying: \"To be clear, concerns about anti-Semitism are neither 'exaggerated' nor 'overstated'.\n\n\"The point I wished to make was that the vast majority of Labour Party members were and remain committed anti-racists deeply opposed to anti-Semitism.\"\n\nHe was subsequently readmitted to the party as a member; however Sir Keir did not allow him back into the Parliamentary Labour Party - a decision Mr Corbyn's lawyers have challenged.", "The salon has opened at least twice over the November lockdown\n\nA hair salon owner is facing £17,000 in fines for repeatedly opening in breach of Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nSinead Quinn was working at Quinn Blakey Hairdressers in Oakenshaw, Bradford, on Saturday when Kirklees Council officers issued a £4,000 fine.\n\nThe council found the salon open again on Monday and issued a further £10,000 fine. It already had £1,000 and £2,000 fines for previous breaches.\n\nMs Quinn said on Instagram she did not consent to or accept the fines.\n\nThe salon owner posted videos on the social networking site which show her talking to council officials and police, saying she had not broken any laws.\n\nOn the video, she is heard saying: \"I don't consent to any fines, so it will just be returned to sender.\"\n\nA similar sign to the one on the salon door, which references Magna Carta\n\nShe had also displayed a poster on the salon door which refers to Magna Carta, and says the shop is \"under the jurisdiction of common law\".\n\nEngland is currently in a national lockdown with strict rules which say non-essential shops, including hairdressers, must close.\n\nA council spokesman confirmed the fines, saying it had found the business to be \"open and trading\".\n\nThe first was on 9 November, when a prohibition notice to close was served and £1,000 fine issued, and the second on 12 November, when a £2,000 fine was imposed.\n\nThe council said in a statement: \"We completely understand how tough it has been, and continues to be, for local businesses throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We will do all we can to support them through what has been a devastating period, but it is absolutely crucial for people's safety that we all follow the latest Covid-19 rules and guidance.\"\n\nIt added Kirklees had the fifth highest rate in the country, with 135 hospital admissions last week and 25 people dying with coronavirus.\n\nThe council said it was now \"in the process of exploring alternative action\".\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it was a matter for the council.\n\nCorrection 27 November 2020: In an earlier version of this report we said the salon had been fined £27,000 based on information from Kirklees Council which was later corrected.\n\nThe council said Quinn Blakey had been found to be open on Tuesday 24 November, but it later transpired there were no clients in the salon, so a £10,000 fine was not issued on that occasion.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Xbox Series X and Series S consoles were released to the public on Tuesday\n\nThe UK's leading internet providers have experienced record broadband use as a result of new Xbox consoles and fresh releases to the Call of Duty games franchise.\n\nBT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre and Zen Internet said they had all coped with the spike in demand on Tuesday.\n\nMuch of the activity was generated by video gamers downloading large files.\n\nSome people will have experienced slower speeds as a consequence.\n\nThe internet service providers will be tested again on 19 November when the PlayStation 5 comes to the UK.\n\nFactors that may have fed in to Tuesday's figures include:\n\nCall of Duty downloads have been linked to previous record days for the UK's internet providers\n\nBT said broadband traffic peaked at 18 terabits per second (Tbps) - equivalent to delivering about 1,510 hours of high-definition video every second.\n\nThat compared with the previous record of 17.5Tbps it reported on an evening when it had experienced high demand for both streaming football and video games.\n\n\"This is comfortably within the network's capacity,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\nVirgin Media said 108 petabytes of data were consumed via its network - 1PB is equivalent to one billion megabytes (MB) or one million gigabytes (GB).\n\nIt said this was 30% higher than its average figure last month. Its previous busiest day was in June, when Call of Duty: Warzone's Season 4 launched.\n\n\"Keeping the country connected throughout the Covid-19 pandemic remains a top priority, and we anticipate another busy weekend with the streaming of the Autumn Nations Cup,\" said Jeanie York the firm's chief technology and information officer.\n\nTalkTalk said its network traffic spiked at 6.8Tbps.\n\n\"It appears that our appetite for data is showing no signs of slowing down during this second lockdown,\" commented Gary Steen, managing director of technology at the firm.\n\nAssassin's Creed Valhalla - like many other games - comes with a day one patch to allow developers to provide additional fixes to the version burned to disc\n\nZen Internet said its equivalent figure was 11.6% higher than its previous peak, which occurred in October.\n\n\"We're looking forward to the PlayStation launch next week - although we cannot accurately predict it, we anticipate the traffic on our network to be higher again,\" said chief executive Paul Stobart.\n\nCity Fibre said Tuesday had been a record day for it too, but added that Wednesday had been even busier as gamers and others continued their downloads.\n\n\"We are now having almost daily reminders about the nation's increased reliance on connectivity,\" said a spokesman.\n\n\"Whether that's people playing online with next generation consoles, streaming content, or working from home, demand for capacity is sky-rocketing.\"\n\nVodafone said Tuesday's peak had been 8% higher than its previous record, which was the Champions League final on 23 August.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 has already launched in some parts of the world, but does not come to the UK until next week\n\nSky said it observed a traffic surge of 16.6Tbps at its highest peak, setting a new record for its network. Its usual usage peak for a Tuesday is about 14Tbps.\n\nThe BBC also asked KCom and the Post Office to share their figures.\n\nOpenreach - which provides the network infrastructure to many of the UK's internet service providers - said its traffic had been high but not quite record-breaking.\n\nIt told the BBC that 174PB of data was consumed on Tuesday versus a figure of 193PB on 5 August, which was when season five of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare went live.\n\n\"This far exceeds what we'd consider a normal Tuesday,\" added Colin Lees, chief technology innovation officer at Openreach.\n\n\"We're also expecting to see another jump in traffic with the upcoming release of the PS5.\"", "An extremely rare purple-pink Russian diamond has sold at auction in Switzerland for $26.6m (£20.1m).\n\nThe 14.8-carat diamond, dubbed \"The Spirit of the Rose,\" is the largest of its kind to be auctioned, as 99% of all pink diamonds are under 10 carats.\n\nIts size, along with its colour and flawless internal structure, helped to attract the high price at Sotheby's in Geneva.\n\nThe name of the winning bidder has not been publicly disclosed.\n\nIt was one of three stones in a collection by Russian mining company Alrosa - all named after famous Russian ballets.\n\nThe Spirit of the Rose was cut from a rough diamond discovered in Russia in 2017.\n\nThe rough diamond was called Nijinsky, in honour of the Russian-Polish ballet dancer and choreographer.\n\nThe current price record for a pink diamond is held by CTF Pink Star. The 59-carat stone sold at auction for $71m (£57m) at Sotheby's in Hong Kong in April 2017.\n\nMay 2016: A large diamond known as the Oppenheimer Blue set a new auction record, reaching a price of $50.6m (£34.7m at the exchange rate of the time). The 14.62-carat gem was sold after 20 minutes of phone bidding at Christie's auction house in Geneva. The buyer's identity is unknown.\n\nNovember 2015: The Blue Moon, a 12.03-carat ring-mounted blue diamond, caught the eye of Hong Kong tycoon Joseph Lau, who paid a record $48.4m (£31.7m) for the cushion-shaped stone. He bought it for his seven-year-old daughter, renaming it the \"Blue Moon of Josephine\" after her.\n\nMay 2015: An unnamed buyer made history after purchasing the Sunrise Ruby, a 25.59-carat \"pigeon blood\" coloured gemstone, for $30m (£19.1m). At that price, it became the world's most expensive precious stone other than a diamond.\n\nNovember 2013: The \"largest vivid orange diamond in the world\", according to Christie's, attracted the highest price paid per carat for any diamond at auction, selling for $35m (£22m), or $2.4m (£1.5m) per carat.\n\nNovember 2010: The Graff Pink, a 24.78-carat \"fancy intense pink\" stone described as \"one of the greatest diamonds ever discovered\", auctioned for $46.2m (£29m). At the time it was believed to be the most expensive gemstone bought at auction and was sold to the well-known British dealer Laurence Graff.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "The train came off the tracks as it passed through platform one at Sheffield station\n\nThe derailment of a freight train as it passed through a station is likely to cause disruption for several days, officials say.\n\nThe 34-wagon cement-carrying train derailed at low speed at Sheffield station, at 02:45 GMT on Wednesday. No-one was injured.\n\nBut \"significant damage\" was caused and the train will need to be removed by crane, Network Rail said.\n\nIt said repair work would cause disruption \"over the coming days\".\n\nA number of the wagons came off the tracks while passing though platform one on route from Hope, Derbyshire, to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.\n\nThe arrival of the cranes will require a partial road closure of the A61 Sheaf Street, which runs in front of the station.\n\nThe train was travelling from Hope to Dewsbury when it derailed\n\nAn investigation into the derailment has been launched by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).\n\nNetwork Rail route director Matt Rice, said: \"This is a significant incident, so it's only right that we take time to find out all of the facts and understand what has caused this.\n\n\"Once it is safe to do so, we will start work to remove the train, better assess the extent of the damage and make a plan for repairs.\n\n\"This process is taking some time and we are sorry for the disruption which this is causing. There will still be service changes tomorrow and over the coming days.\n\n\"We urge anyone planning to travel to, from or via Sheffield, to check before travelling.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EMR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorthern and East Midlands Railway services continue to be disrupted, but CrossCountry and TransPennine Express expect to operate full timetables.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, a RAIB spokesperson said: \"If the evidence collected indicates there are likely to be important safety lessons for the railway industry then a full and thorough investigation will be carried out and the findings, along with any safety recommendations, published.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aboriginal activists had been campaigning to include traditional place names in addresses\n\nAustralia Post says it will support the optional use of Aboriginal place names on mail addresses, following a large grassroots campaign.\n\nThe national mail service changed its guidelines this week to include advice on how to include traditional names.\n\nWhile some areas are known by their original names, many Australians often have little knowledge of place names that pre-date European settlement.\n\nActivists welcomed the endorsement of their push for greater awareness.\n\nAboriginal woman Rachael McPhail started the campaign on social media in August, noting Aboriginal people had lived in Australia for at least 60,000 years.\n\n\"Every area in this country had an original place name prior to being given its colonial town/city name, and I believe that it's important to acknowledge this,\" she said.\n\nAustralia Post advised people to identify traditional place names from a map on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) website, or through local land councils and cultural centres.\n\nThese traditional names represent language, social or nation groups. Their general locations have been mapped by AIATSIS, which notes boundaries are not exact.\n\nClose to 15,000 people have signed her petition.\n\n\"These are excellent first steps towards social change, so thank you again to all of you for signing the petition and emailing Australia Post,\" Ms McPhail said.\n\nIn its new guidelines, Australia Post says mail senders can include original names to \"acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land your item is being delivered on\".\n\nIt advises people to use the second line of the address - after the sender's name and before the street address.\n\nAn example of how to include a traditional place name in the address lines\n\nIt also plans to introduce envelopes and packaging printed with an \"Acknowledgement of Country\" message - a standard statement in Australia which acknowledges the local people's connection to the land.\n\nMs McPhail said she would continue to lobby Australia Post to create a national database of traditional place names, through consulting with Aboriginal elders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriwoong: The push to keep an Australian language alive\n\n\"In order to achieve true social change and decolonisation of the address system within Australia, we need Australia Post to undertake this project,\" she said.", "Emily Ashton, from Bloomberg, asks the final set of questions.\n\nShe first asks Powis: Lockdown will end 2 December, is that the right thing to do given the rise in cases?\n\nShe also asks Sharma: Can you categorically say that the supply of the vaccine won’t be affected by Brexit disruption?\n\nPowis replies that that is \"a matter for our elected representatives\" but “we will not be going back completely to normal” after lockdown.\n\n“Exactly what those measures are [after lockdown] it’s too early to say yet,” he says. “We need to see what transpires over the next few weeks.”\n\nSharma says the government has been preparing for Brexit, including investing hundreds of millions of pounds in border infrastructure.\n\nHe says the key message is that businesses \"do need to be prepared\", adding that information for them is available on the .gov website.\n\nAll bars and restaurants in England have had to close for four weeks Image caption: All bars and restaurants in England have had to close for four weeks", "Staff have been trained to analyse Covid tests in care homes as part of a trial\n\nRapid Covid tests in care homes could be a game-changer for vulnerable people and their families, say researchers.\n\nAccess to fast tests will make it easier for relatives to visit care home residents isolated by the pandemic.\n\nA trial suggests tests by staff are as accurate as those done in hospitals, says lead researcher Prof Adam Gordon of Nottingham University.\n\nIn time, tests could be offered not just to residents and staff but also to relatives and friends, he says.\n\nStaff at four care homes in England have been trained to carry out and analyse the tests as part of a trial.\n\nMany care homes first shut their doors to visitors eight months ago to try to protect residents from the spread of coronavirus.\n\nBut with visits still very limited, families argue the restrictions are causing huge distress and confusion, particularly for residents with dementia.\n\nFor care home residents like 96-year-old Janet Dunham, rapid testing for relatives would mean she could see more of her family. She found the weeks when all visiting was stopped very difficult.\n\n\"It felt as if you had done something wrong and you'd got to be kept in prison and you knew you hadn't. Not to be able to see your family is dreadful really,\" she says.\n\nShe lives in Landersmeads care home on the outskirts of Nottingham, which is taking part in the trial.\n\nJanet Dunham, 96, teaches her great granddaughter the violin through a screen\n\nAt the moment, only staff and residents are being tested, but it is hoped that eventually, relatives could be checked before visits.\n\nIn one of its outbuildings, the home has set up what amounts to a small Covid-19 testing centre and staff have had special training.\n\nThey take throat and nasal swabs, place them in a solution and then put the sample in a machine that runs the test. It can do eight tests at once and takes 85 minutes to provide results. Next, they will trial a machine that takes just 15 minutes to run a single test.\n\nProf Adam Gordon, who is president-elect of the British Geriatric Society, says care home staff have found the technology relatively easy to use, with a very low error rate.\n\nHe says the system \"gets it right in 99 cases out of every 100 tests that are done - that's about as good as a diagnostic test could be. And it means that care home staff are delivering this test with the same level of specificity that we see when it's used in hospitals.\"\n\nThey still have to finalise results, but expect to send a report to the government within weeks. Prof Gordon believes rapid testing will make a real difference.\n\n\"This test works at least as well in care homes as it does in other settings. And it could be a game-changer for the vulnerable people who live here.\"\n\nUntil then the home has built pods so relatives can visit safely. It means Janet Dunham can once again teach her great granddaughter the violin, but there is still a screen between them and they cannot touch or hug.\n\nSo far, in England and Wales, nearly 17,000 care home residents have died in the pandemic, the majority during the first wave. At Landersmeads they lost six residents to the virus.\n\nRos Heath runs the home, which is one of relatively few in the country rated outstanding. She says their priority has to be protecting people from Covid, but she also believes it is vital for residents to see the people they love.\n\n\"If we could have testing [for relatives] where someone can actually come in and be with somebody, obviously taking necessary precautions, I think it would be a massive step forward,\" she says.\n\n\"We support a lot of people with dementia,\" says Ros. \"They can't rationalise why their relatives aren't here… So when it became a long-term thing - and we are now into the eighth month of not having open visiting - it had a devastating effect on people's health.\"\n\nAt the moment, all care staff in England have access to weekly testing and residents are tested monthly, but it can take several days for the laboratory results to come back.\n\nRapid tests run by individual homes should make it easier to check people on the day they want to visit, but it is not clear how that would work in practice.\n\nHelen Brown's daughter says her mother deteriorated during the lockdown\n\nThe government says a pilot scheme to test the safety and practicalities of testing visitors will begin on 16 November, involving 30 homes, across four local authority areas where there is a low prevalence of Covid-19.\n\nFor Clare Brown, whose mother Helen lives in Landersmeads, this needs to happen quickly. Her mother has dementia and Clare believes her ability to understand what is going on deteriorated significantly in the weeks when her family couldn't visit.\n\n\"For the people who have been desperate for it for months and months and months, it can't happen quickly enough now. And for my mum, in particular, and people like her, to have access to people who know her and love her best is such an important part of her care. It can't be ignored.\"\n\nThe research is part of the Covid-19 National Diagnostic Research and evaluation programme, or Condor, to look into the use of new technologies in the fight against coronavirus. It is funded by the National Institute for Health Research and backed by the government.", "Mr Toobin has apologised to his wife, friends and colleagues\n\nA star reporter has been fired by the New Yorker magazine after he exposed himself on a staff Zoom call.\n\nJeffrey Toobin, 60, who is also senior legal analyst for CNN, confirmed in a tweet that he had been sacked.\n\nThe New Yorker's parent company Conde Nast wrote in an email to staff: \"I want to assure everyone that we take workplace matters seriously.\"\n\nAfter he was suspended last month Mr Toobin said he had believed himself to be off-camera during the incident.\n\nVice News, which broke the initial story, reported that senior colleagues had seen Mr Toobin masturbating while apparently on a separate video 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 Jeffrey Toobin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCondé Nast's chief people officer, Stan Duncan, wrote in a note to staff quoted by US media that as a result of their internal investigation Mr Toobin was \"no longer affiliated with our company\".\n\nHe added: \"We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct.\"\n\nThe incident happened on 15 October during an election simulation involving the New Yorker and WNYC radio. Mr Toobin was immediately suspended.\n\nIn a statement to Vice last month, he said: \"I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.\"\n\nHe apologised to his family, friends and colleagues.\n\n\"I believed I was not visible on Zoom,\" he told Vice. \"I thought no-one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.\"\n\nVice quoted two anonymous sources who were at the meeting as saying they had witnessed the incident.\n\nThe election simulation involved prominent New Yorker figures playing politicians, such as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Mr Toobin was representing the courts.\n\nDuring a break in proceedings, according to Vice's sources, Mr Toobin appeared to be on a different video call but was seen moments later on camera touching his penis.", "Two key members of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet have called for the party to issue a '\"full throated apology\" for its stance on Brexit.\n\nEx-party chairman Ian Lavery and former elections chief Jon Trickett say backing a second referendum at last year's election destroyed trust.\n\nIn a new report, the pair call for the current leadership to apologise to both Remain and Leave voters.\n\nSir Keir Starmer was a leading advocate of another referendum.\n\nThe party's then Brexit spokesman was elected to replace Mr Corbyn as leader in April.\n\nIn their report, to be published later, Mr Lavery and Mr Trickett - who were both fired from the front bench by Sir Keir - say Leave and Remain voters were equally let down by the party's Brexit policy at the 2019 election.\n\n\"Leave voters were too often sneered at and Remain voters were led up the garden path with a position - of overturning the referendum result - that was never seriously achievable.\n\n\"To put this aside, Leavers and Remainers need an apology.\"\n\nThe pair's report, entitled No Holding Back, was co-written with former MP Laura Smith, who lost Crewe and Nantwich to the Conservatives at the 2019 election. It is result of zoom conversations with Labour activists, trade unionists, voters and former voters.\n\nAnd the report indeed does not hold back on what the authors think went wrong at the general election.\n\nMr Lavery and Mr Trickett maintain they warned their shadow cabinet colleagues of the electoral consequences of backing a second referendum.\n\nThey say: \"Our argument, back in the summer of 2019, that seeking to overturn the referendum would lead to electoral disaster in the North and the Midlands was drowned out by other elements in the top ranks of the Party… we opposed the moves which were made to turn the party into a Remain-facing political unit.\"\n\nBut their criticisms go beyond Brexit.\n\nIan Lavery on the campaign trail last year\n\nThe party machine was in 2019 under the control of Jeremy Corbyn's allies - and Ian Lavery in particular played a prominent role in touring seats Labour needed to win or couldn't afford to lose.\n\nBut the report acknowledges serious mistakes.\n\nIt argues that \"we did not develop a narrative that threaded our policies together and told a story about what Labour would do in power.\n\n\"… the 2019 general election was a hard lesson in how not to do policy - it was confused, contradictory in some places and was not believable to most voters.\"\n\nThe report analyses why Labour has recovered in the polls since Sir Keir Starmer became leader,\n\nIt suggests he is picking up more support amongst former Liberal Democrats and middle-class voters in the South.\n\nIn Leave-voting areas, the report argues that there has been \"a glacial pace of change among voters who are still overwhelmingly in the Tory camp. At present Sir Keir Starmer's leadership is yet to cut through.\"\n\nSupporters of the current Labour leader maintain that Jeremy Corbyn was mentioned on the doorsteps during last year's election as a reason for not voting Labour more often than Brexit.\n\nAnd Sir Keir Starmer's personal ratings have not only been much higher than his predecessor's but have also run ahead of the prime minister's in some polls.\n\nThe report acknowledges that the Corbyn leadership and his perceived lack of patriotism was an issue at the last election.\n\nIt says that it had been a failing of the then leadership not to \"re-interpret what patriotism really means in a progressive sense\".\n\nBut it also claims that \"media smears\" meant that he was viewed less favourably by the public in 2019 than at the 2017 election.\n\nThe report suggests Labour's problems go much deeper than the issues of Brexit and leadership - that for too long in predominantly working class areas, voters felt they were being taken for granted - and that Labour was seen as the establishment party.\n\nFrom conversations with activists and trade unionists, the report's authors say: \"People repeatedly claimed that Labour had become too southern and too middle class.\"\n\nThey have some recommendations, too - including, when candidates are selected, introducing quotas for those from working-class backgrounds.\n\nClose to general elections, supporters of the party leadership - under Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn - have been selected with little say from local members.\n\n\"The old days of parachuting political professionals into working-class communities that they have no connection to must now end in totality,\" says the report.\n\nAnd while Mr Lavery and Mr Trickett left the shadow cabinet at Sir Keir Starmer's request, they have what they call some \"comradely advice\" for him: \"be bold and transformational\".\n\nCriticism of the Starmer leadership had been fairly muted until the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut the report from Jon Trickett, Ian Lavery and Laura Smith could signal a renewed willingness to speak out.\n\nClosely-fought elections to Labour's ruling national executive conclude on Thursday, and will determine whether the Left's influence will continue to wane, or whether grassroots members want to limit Sir Keir's growing control of the party machine.", "Nóra Quoirin was reported missing a day after the family had arrived at the resort\n\nThe feet of a British girl who was found dead in the Malaysian jungle were not in a state to suggest she had been on the move for days, an inquest heard.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from London, was discovered dead nine days after she was reported missing on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer father Sebastien told a court he noticed her feet were \"dirty\" but \"didn't seem to be particularly damaged\" when he identified her body.\n\nHe said he also saw that some of the fences around the resort were broken.\n\nNóra's family, from Balham, were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur.\n\nThe 15-year-old was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nShe was reported missing the day after they arrived and was eventually found less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe 15-year-old was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\nSpeaking via video-link, Mr Quoirin said he had spotted her feet as he went to identify her body for the second time to authorise an autopsy.\n\nHe told Seremban Coroner's Court they \"didn't seem to be particularly damaged, in fact they seemed just dirty\" and questioned how that could be possible since the police had suggested that she had been \"on the move for seven days\".\n\n\"How was that compatible with the state of Nora's feet?\" he said.\n\nThe 48-year-old said the family had been \"super excited\" to be going on a \"big adventure\", although the trip was not a novelty for Nóra as they had spent time in Singapore and Bali two years earlier.\n\nMr Quoirin told the court he saw some of the perimeter fences of the resort were broken and had fallen to the ground as he went for a walk after they had arrived.\n\nThe inquest heard that after the family had gone to bed that night, Mr Quoirin was woken by noises from a nearby chalet where they \"seemed to be having a party\".\n\nHe said he later heard a \"muffled noise\" coming from the chalet but he had been \"half asleep\" and \"couldn't describe what exactly that noise was\".\n\nMr Quoirin said he woke at 07:00 the next day and left the room at 08:00 to check on his daughter.\n\nHe climbed up a staircase to the mezzanine level where Nóra was sharing a bed with her sister Innes, but when he looked at the bed Nóra's side was empty.\n\nInnes explained to her father she had noticed Nóra was not in the bed earlier when she went downstairs to the toilet but she had assumed the 15-year-old was with her parents \"having a cuddle\", the court heard.\n\nMr Quoirin said he \"very quickly... realised something very dramatic was in front of us\" and immediately began searching the area, including out of a back gate which he described as \"porous\" and something that \"anyone could walk through it\".\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nMr Quoirin said he and his wife realised their daughter's shoes were still there so believed she must not have gone far due to the difficulty of the surrounding terrain.\n\nThey also noticed the kitchen window was open, the inquest heard.\n\nHe said the resort's owner went to the local police station to report that Nóra was missing and he followed two hours later but when he arrived he found officers \"did not realise the seriousness of the problem\".\n\nHe described how at about 15:00 a police officer with a dog came to the resort but \"the dog wasn't fit for purpose\" and \"after two minutes it was exhausted and couldn't do the job properly\".\n\nHe added that he felt the police had not done enough to search for Nora during those \"precious hours\".\n\nMr Quoirin told the court his daughter \"had no survival instinct\" and she would have been unable to cope with the \"dense and slippery\" terrain to get to the spot where she was eventually found.\n\nHe also said it was \"impossible\" that she had opened or climbed out of the kitchen window, adding that it \"would be totally out of character for her to do that\".", "The UK's three biggest unions are changing leadership, while Labour's governing body has been holding elections. What does all this mean for Sir Keir Starmer?\n\nIt can help or hinder Sir Keir Starmer in his efforts to prove the party really is under new leadership.\n\nAnd his control over it is on a knife edge.\n\nThe NEC brings together representatives from across the Labour movement - from the shadow cabinet, the parliamentary party, councillors, the unions and the grassroots membership.\n\nPolling closes on Thursday for the election of nine grassroots members - along with the election of Wales, youth and disability representatives, and a party treasurer.\n\nA BAME representative was elected separately and the Scottish Labour leader also sits on the body.\n\nThe election results - due out at 12:00 GMT on Friday - should be a clue to the party's future direction.\n\nWhen left candidates - including Momentum's founder, Jon Lansman - swept the board early in 2018 in elections for the grassroots seats, it signalled that Jeremy Corbyn and his allies had finally gained control of the party machine.\n\nThe NEC has a lot of contentious issues in its in-tray.\n\nIt will draw up rule changes designed to implement recommendations of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nIt will also have to respond to a forthcoming report from the Forde Inquiry in to the party's internal culture.\n\nThis was set up following the leak of a report which claimed that the previous leadership had been undermined by party officials and argued that factional interests had undermined the election campaign.\n\nAnd ultimately the NEC - or at least a panel drawn from its membership - could decide the political fate of Mr Corbyn, currently suspended from the party for suggested Labour's opponents had dramatically overstated the scale of anti-Semitism.\n\nWhile Sir Keir has not lost any major votes on the NEC since his election in April, his hold is tenuous.\n\nTwo reps elected in the summer suggested a move away from Momentum - the group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn's leadership - was taking place at the grassroots.\n\nThe successful candidates came from the Labour To Win ticket - representing the \"moderate\" groups Labour First and Progress.\n\nOne of its declared aims is to \"work together to make Keir Starmer's leadership a success\".\n\nAllies of Sir Keir say only 18 of the current 37 members are solidly reliable.\n\nSome others - including the representatives of the GMB union - are usually helpful, but as one insider put it: \"They usually want something in return.\"\n\nSo Labour to Win is looking for reinforcements.\n\nBut the method of electing representatives has changed from a first-past the-post system to a form of proportional representation, where candidates are ranked in order of preference.\n\nThe effect of this will be to make any result less clear-cut.\n\nThis change was backed by the party leadership.\n\nJeremy Corbyn is currently suspended from the Labour Party\n\nOne staunch Starmer supporter said it was about \"managing risk\".\n\nWhile the voting system would prevent Labour To Win from sweeping the board, it eliminated the risk of Momentum doing so too.\n\nIn other words, if there is a backlash against decisions taken by the new leadership, any damage would be limited.\n\nSo under the new voting system, we are likely to see Momentum's standard bearer and former MP Laura Pidcock elected, alongside the leading candidate from Labour To Win - Luke Akehurst.\n\nHe runs the Labour First group to help rally and organise critics and opponents of the Corbyn leadership.\n\nOne of its avowed aims is to ensure \"the party is kept safe from the organised hard left\". But it is less clear how well the rival camps will fare overall.\n\nMomentum candidates are bullish about their prospects and believe the message of stopping a rightward drift will play well with the activist electorate.\n\nLabour To Win does not lack confidence either. The membership has changed to an extent since the general election, as some Corbyn supporters have left the party while some of his opponents joined, or rejoined, to support Sir Keir's leadership campaign.\n\nBut if there are no clear-cut winners in the grassroots seats, the role of the NEC members appointed by the affiliated unions becomes more crucial.\n\nThree big unions affiliated to the party - and which generously donate funds to Labour - will also see a change of leadership over the next year or so.\n\nEach has representatives on the NEC.\n\nThere's an imminent contest in the public service union Unison.\n\nOutgoing Unison boss Dave Prentis has been a firm supporter of Sir Keir\n\nIts 1.3 million members have been sent ballot papers and the contest closes on 27 November, with the winning candidate taking over from veteran leader Dave Prentis in the New Year.\n\nUnder his leadership, Unison nominated Sir Keir to become Labour leader, but it is by no means certain that another ally will replace Mr Prentis.\n\nHis favoured replacement is Christina McAnea - an assistant general secretary who has said she supports Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nShe has been nominated for the job (though not unanimously) by the union's executive committee and more than 200 local branches.\n\nMs McAnea grew up on a Glasgow council estate and her campaign has focused on what she can do to improve working conditions.\n\nShe is seen as a tough negotiator who has delivered for NHS staff.\n\nAnd although a long-standing (though not lifelong) Labour member, union insiders say she does not see things through the prism of internal party politics.\n\nBut her elevation to the top job is not guaranteed.\n\nShe faces tough competition from Roger Mackenzie - another assistant general secretary and Unison's first senior official from a BAME background.\n\nHis candidacy has been endorsed by none other than Mr Corbyn - who said: \"Roger and I have stood together on picket lines, on demonstrations together, and he did a huge amount of work supporting my leadership campaigns.\"\n\nIn a twist in the contest, the campaign group Labour Against Anti-Semitism has made a complaint against Mr Mackenzie to Labour headquarters, based largely on his social media activity.\n\nHe denies any anti-Semitic behaviour. The party is investigating.\n\nAnd this week, complaints have also been made to Unison which sources say are \"being looked into\".\n\nHowever, even were Mr Mackenzie to be suspended subject to investigation - and I'm told that's by no means certain - the union's rules would not stop him running for office.\n\nHis opponents believe that his profile has been boosted by his support for a campaign to reinstate Mr Corbyn.\n\nIf he too was suspended by either the party or the union, they fear that this may not derail his campaign.\n\nIndeed, in an election where turnout among the wider membership is expected to be low, but higher among left-wing activists, he may actually receive a boost.\n\nAnother left-wing candidate is already suspended from the union, but is also taking part in the contest.\n\nPaul Holmes - who is employed by Kirklees Council, in West Yorkshire - came third in the 2010 contest and has vowed to take his current £32,000 salary if elected, and not the six-figure sum that comes with the job.\n\nHe has campaigned to sell off the union's expensive London HQ.\n\nThe fourth candidate is Hugo Pierre, who isn't a Labour member.\n\nHe is backed by the Socialist Party, a successor organisation to the Trotskyite Militant Tendency, and is not expected to come close to winning.\n\nIt's a first-past-the-post election so with the left-wing vote split three ways, Ms McAnea remains favourite.\n\nBut if much of the activist vote were to coalesce behind Roger Mackenzie, things could all become politically more choppy for Sir Keir in the New Year.\n\nAn imminent change of leadership was also expected at the GMB union - the UK's third largest - following the departure of the previous general secretary Tim Roache amid allegations of misconduct. He said was resigning on grounds of ill health.\n\nThe timetable, though, has slipped following a devastating report by Karen Monaghan QC on the culture at the union. She found \"bullying, misogyny, cronyism and sexual harassment\" were endemic.\n\nI am told that the union's ruling body has made dealing with this, and an internal probe in to the circumstances around the previous general secretary's departure, a priority - hence the delay.\n\nA contest in March next year has been mooted but not confirmed.\n\nGMS is the UK's third largest trade union\n\nPutting the union's own house in order is seen as more important than internal Labour politics.\n\nA GMB insider suggested that any likely candidate would have to be informally \"vetted\" to ensure they were not tainted by any criticism.\n\nHowever, the internal rumours are that the likely candidates will be the relatively youthful Scotland regional secretary Gary Smith, and union's public services lead Rehana Azam.\n\nGiven the strength of the Monaghan report, and the previous lack of women in the most senior positions, Ms Azam would most clearly represent a break from the past.\n\nBut neither candidate is thought to be problematic for Sir Keir, and newly installed interim general secretary Warren Kenny, son of the former GMB leader Sir Paul Kenny, is seen as convivial to the party leadership.\n\nPotentially the biggest problem for Sir Keir is if the leadership of the union most generous in its funding of Labour moves from being critical of him to downright hostile. Unite gave the party £3m in the run-up to the last election.\n\nCurrent general secretary and Corbyn ally Len McCluskey has said he will stand down in 2022, though some in the union still believe he may go a little sooner.\n\nIn any case, the contest to replace him will begin next year.\n\nOne candidate - Howard Beckett, who already represents the union on Labour's NEC - has been enraged by Mr Corbyn's suspension.\n\nHe has said that \"an attack on Corbynism is an attack on all of us\".\n\nMr Beckett has advocated reducing the union's contributions to Labour and devoting cash to setting up a broadcasting rival to the mainstream media.\n\nUnite already punches above its not inconsiderable weight on Labour's NEC and under his leadership he would, at the very least, also be throwing political punches at the current Labour leadership.\n\nA left-wing rival - and the candidate of the union's United Left faction, Steve Turner - is seen as more willing to do deals with Sir Keir than act as a rival power base.\n\nIt is also likely that a member of the union's executive, Sharon Graham, also on the left, will campaign to become the first female general secretary, with a focus on improving her members' lot rather than seeking to get involved in internal Labour struggles.\n\nBut considering another attempt at the top job is Gerard Coyne, who challenged Mr McCluskey last time and lost narrowly.\n\nA split in the left vote in a first-past-the-post contest could help him.\n\nHe was seen as close to Labour's former deputy leader Tom Watson after the latter's relations with Mr McCluskey soured.\n\nThis contest is likely to be dramatic and bitter - the NEC elections certainly won't be the last word in internal party disputes.\n\nSo if the NEC elections tilt Sir Keir's way and the contests in three biggest unions are ultimately won by candidates who are willing to be constructive, he could end up with an even more supportive party machine than his predecessor.\n\nBut his critics haven't gone away.\n\nThe contests could turn on very narrow margins and potentially make it more difficult for him to effect a change in his party's direction.", "Late-night gatherings have been identified as a key source of infection spread in New York\n\nNew York has introduced new restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning it was the city's \"last chance\" to stop a second wave.\n\nBars, restaurants and gyms must close by 22:00 and people can only meet in groups of 10 or less.\n\nThe US is seeing a surge in coronavirus - a record 65,368 Americans were in hospital on Wednesday.\n\nThe Covid Tracking Project also reported a record 144,270 new cases.\n\nAn average of over 900 people a day are now dying with the disease.\n\nMore than a million new cases in November pushed the total confirmed cases to over 10 million nationally, with 233,080 deaths so far.\n\nThe US has been seeing more than 100,000 new cases per day over the last eight days in what experts say may be a worse outbreak than those seen in the spring and summer.\n\nExperts warn hospitals across the country could soon be overwhelmed.\n\nOn Wednesday a member of President-elect Joe Biden's Covid-19 advisory panel said a four to six week lockdown could bring the pandemic under control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fauci: \"We have got to double down\" to fight Covid\n\nDr Michael Osterholm said that the government could borrow enough money to cover lost income for businesses during a shutdown.\n\n\"We're seeing a national and global Covid surge, and New York is a ship on the Covid tide,\" state Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.\n\nNew measures come into effect on Friday affecting hospitality after Mr Cuomo said contact tracing identified late-night gatherings as key virus spreaders in the state.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mayor Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIf the rate of spread of infection continued to rise, Mayor Blasio said the New York City's public school system would close and children would begin online classes.\n\n\"This is our last chance to stop a second wave. We can do it, but we have to act now,\" Mr de Blasio tweeted.\n\nNew York City was badly hit by the virus earlier this year when nearly 18,000 people died with Covid-19 in March, April and May, according to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.\n\nStates across the US have broken new case records this week with Texas becoming the first state to hit one million total cases on Tuesday. If Texas were a separate country, it would rank 11th in the world for most cases.\n\nOther states, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Florida, have also seen numbers rise. CBS News reports 15 states saw the numbers of patients in hospital due to the virus double in the last month.\n\nSome hospitals, such as in Idaho and Missouri, have had to turn patients away because they ran out of room.\n\nState leaders have been re-imposing pandemic restrictions as a result. Residents of Wisconsin and Nevada have been urged to stay at home for two weeks and in Minnesota, bars and restaurants must shut by 22:00.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Osterholm warned of a \"perfect storm\". Speaking to CBS This Morning, Mr Osterholm said there was \"no question that our hospitals are about to be overrun\". He noted \"the darkest days of this pandemic between now and next spring\", before the vaccine arrives.\n\nMr Osterholm, who heads the infectious disease research centre at the University of Minnesota, said during the summer spike after the Labour Day national holiday, new cases rose to 32,000 a day.\n\n\"Now we're running in the 120- to 130,000 cases a day,\" he said. \"Do not be at all surprised when we hit 200,000 cases a day.\"\n\nThe same day, US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci offered some hopeful news. He said the new Covid vaccine by Pfizer was expected to go through an emergency authorisation process in the next week or so. Human trials suggest it is 90% effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How close are we to Covid immunisation?\n\nDr Fauci told MSNBC: \"I'm going to look at the data, but I trust Pfizer, I trust the [Food and Drug Administration]. These are colleagues of mine for decades, the career scientists.\"\n\nAmid the ongoing outbreak, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its research around masks, saying that wearing one not only protects others but also the person wearing the mask.\n\nPrevious guidance had rested on the idea that the main benefit of mask-wearing came from potentially stopping an infected person transmitting Covid to others.\n\nThe CDC referenced several studies, including one case where two Covid-positive hair stylists interacted with 139 clients - but of the 67 clients researchers tested, none developed an infection. The stylists and all clients had worn masks in the salon.\n\nAnother study looking into the outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier found mask-wearing seemed to have reduced the risk of virus transmission by 70%, the CDC said.\n\nHow are the new measures affecting you? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Octavian, who has worked with artists including Skepta and Mura Masa, won BBC Music's Sound of 2019\n\nRapper Octavian has been dropped by his record label after allegations of physical and emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend.\n\nPosting on Twitter and Instagram, the musician's ex-partner claimed he \"frequently kicked and punched\" her during their three-year relationship.\n\nOctavian, 24, has strongly denied the allegations and said he was dealing with the matter \"legally and properly\".\n\nBlack Butter Records said it was no longer working with the rapper.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We at Black Butter have taken the decision not to continue working with Octavian and we will not be releasing his album.\n\n\"We do not condone domestic abuse of any kind and we have suggested Octavian seeks professional help at this time.\"\n\nHis ex-partner has posted a thread on Twitter, including a video and photos, saying she was subject to physical, verbal and psychological abuse during their relationship. She alleges violence including being kicked in the stomach.\n\nIn a video on Instagram today, Octavian acknowledged she was his ex-girlfriend and said he broke up with her. In a separate, longer video reposted by another account he said he had never been abusive.\n\nOctavian won BBC Music's Sound of 2019 and his long-anticipated debut album, Alpha, was due to be released tomorrow.\n\nPattern Publicity said it had stopped all work with Octavian since the allegations came to light.\n\nRadio 1 and 1Xtra said there were currently no tracks by Octavian on the stations' playlists.\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. MP Tracey Crouch says she is “disappointingly unable to participate” in a Commons debate on breast cancer.\n\nMPs have called for wider virtual participation to be allowed in Parliament, arguing that those with cancer were \"excluded\" from taking part in a debate on the illness.\n\nEx-minister Tracey Crouch, who has cancer, expressed disappointment she could not speak in the debate.\n\nLabour's Chris Bryant said this was due to Jacob Rees-Mogg's reluctance to allow greater use of video links.\n\nBut the Commons leader said it was down to a lack of broadcasting equipment.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has previously argued that virtual working was not an effective way to hold the government to account and was no substitute for the \"cut and thrust\" of live debate.\n\nCurrently, MPs who cannot be in Westminster due to coronavirus are only able to take part in some events.\n\nThey can put questions to ministers by video link, but are not able to contribute to general debates on legislation or events in Westminster Hall - a separate chamber from the House of Commons.\n\nWestminster Hall debates were suspended from 20 March during the first wave of coronavirus. They only resumed from 5 October, around a month after business returned in the main chamber following the summer recess.\n\nThose trying to avoid travel during the pandemic are also able to register for proxy votes.\n\nOn Thursday, a debate on breast cancer services took place in Westminster Hall, and Conservative MP Ms Crouch said because of Mr Rees-Mogg's ruling, those \"with real and current life experience of the disease are disappointingly unable to participate\".\n\nShe added: \"While I respect his commitment to traditional parliamentary procedures, I'm sure if he was on the backbenches and not the fine specimen of health and fitness he clearly is, he would be arguing forcefully for members to be able to contribute more often in proceedings by modern technology.\"\n\nThe MP asked him to \"please stop thinking those of us at home are shirking our duties\" and urged him to allow virtual participation in Westminster Hall.\n\nLeader of the House Mr Rees-Mogg said when events in Westminster Hall restarted, \"the broadcasting facilities were already being fully utilised\".\n\n\"So it wasn't an issue then of whether we wanted to do it or not, it simply wasn't an option,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he also added there needed to be a balance between the needs of MPs with the needs of the House of Commons \"to proceed with its business\".\n\nMr Bryant said it was \"appalling that Tracey Crouch is excluded from a debate on breast cancer because she's recuperating from cancer by Jacob Rees-Mogg rules\".\n\nHis party colleague Barbara Keeley agreed and said she was also \"excluded\" having just been through breast cancer treatment.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour - recorded before Thursday's debate - Ms Crouch said she would not have been able to participate in debates at all before the pandemic as the video technology was not set up.\n\n\"So actually, in a way, and I don't mean this to sound insensitive, this is a good time to have gone through this,\" she added.\n\nHowever, she told the programme that wider use of video technology, beyond the debates where it is currently used, would make for a \"better\" system and called for MPs to be allowed to carry on contributing virtually \"while coronavirus exists\".\n\nMs Crouch added that she would also like to see the proxy voting scheme extended to cover MPs suffering from other health conditions or on bereavement leave.", "The number of people waiting over a year for hospital treatment in England has hit its highest levels since 2008.\n\nPatients are meant to be seen within 18 weeks - but nearly 140,000 of the 4.35 million on the waiting list at the end of September had waited over a year.\n\nThe number waiting 12 months or more has increased sharply this year - the figure in February was just 1,600.\n\nSurgeons said it was \"tragic\" patients were being left in pain while they waited for treatment.\n\nAnd others warned the situation could become even worse during winter with the NHS seeing rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\nIn recent weeks, major hospitals in Bradford, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham and Liverpool, which have seen high rates of infection, have announced the mass cancellation of non-urgent work.\n\nDonna Doyle, 52, was referred for surgery at the end of 2019.\n\nShe has rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis and needed reconstructive surgery on the front half of her right foot.\n\nBut her pre-op appointment was cancelled in the spring because of pandemic. And now she has been told she will have to wait until February at the earliest.\n\n\"The pain isn't something that affects me every now and then, it's a problem every single day,\" she says.\n\n\"Imagine two pebbles grinding against the bone in your feet. It's constant.\n\n\"It causes a lot of problems in my life, physically and mentally. I psyched myself up for having the surgery, so the day I was told nothing would be happening, I was so upset.\n\n\"I work from home at moment. And some days, my husband comes home and I'm crying, feeling really down.\n\n\"I'm fed up with seeing Matt Hancock say \"the NHS is open for business\" because it's not true. I'm being overlooked.\"\n\nProf John Appleby, director of research at health think tank the Nuffield Trust, said the situation was a \"real concern\".\n\nHospitals were facing a real battle to keep non-Covid services going, he said, pointing out the number of Covid patients in hospital had risen from just over 2,000 to more than 10,000 since the end of September.\n\n\"It is clear that over the summer months, NHS staff have put in tremendous amounts of work to boost activity across the board,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the service has fallen short of the tall order of recovering all non-Covid activity between the two waves of this pandemic.\"\n\nRoyal College of Surgeons of England president Prof Neil Mortensen said these patients had paid a \"heavy price\".\n\n\"It is tragic to see so many lives put on hold,2 he said.\n\n\"Each statistic represents someone waiting patiently, potentially in pain, for the treatment they need to get on with living an independent life.\n\n\"Older people and poorer people are particularly hard hit by these delays.\"\n\nTracey Loftis, of the charity Versus Arthritis, said the situation was \"appalling\".\n\n\"We're currently seeing some hospitals entirely pausing elective surgery because of the pressures of the second phase of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\n\"The consequences of these further delays will reverberate for years to come.\"\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said the NHS was doing its best but was facing a really challenging winter.\n\n\"We are keenly aware of the inconvenience, anxiety and distress for patients caused by any delays for diagnostic tests, treatment or consultations,\" he added.\n\nAlongside routine care, significant numbers have missed out on treatment for cancer.\n\nThe numbers receiving urgent check-ups have dropped by a quarter during the pandemic, with 300,000 fewer people seeing a cancer specialist from April to September than during the same period last year.\n\nThe numbers starting cancer treatment are also down by a fifth.\n\nMother-of-three Anoushka Kurkjian, 41, found a cyst on her breast in June.\n\nShe sought medical advice and was told it was benign but remained concerned because she was in pain.\n\nAs a last resort - three months later - she went to her local accident-and-emergency unit and was diagnosed with breast cancer.\n\nShe had been afraid to go because of worries over catching the coronavirus.\n\nThe cancer has now spread to her lymph nodes.\n\n\"If it had been a year ago, I would have gone in earlier,\" Anoushka says.\n\n\"I am now undergoing chemotherapy and have lost my hair.\n\n\"I feel very angry that I was not diagnosed earlier.\n\n\"I wish I could say to women, 'Seek treatment.\n\n\"But there's a lot more going on out there.\"\n\nBut NHS bosses said cancer services had returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity by the end of September.\n\nAn NHS England spokeswoman said: \"The NHS message to the public has always been clear - do not delay, help us to help you by coming forward for care.\"\n\nHave you had an operation cancelled or delayed recently? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel joined dozens of ex-officials in signing the letter Image caption: Former Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel joined dozens of ex-officials in signing the letter\n\nMore than 150 former national security officials in the US have joined the prominent voices urging the Trump administration to recognise Joe Biden as the next president.\n\nIn a letter to the General Services Administration, which was sent on Thursday and obtained by news website Politico, they said that \"delaying the transition further poses a serious risk to our national security\".\n\nUnder the Presidential Transition Act, the General Services Administration is tasked with co-ordinating funding and access to federal agencies for incoming administrations.\n\nBut the body has so far declined to formally recognise Biden as president-elect, meaning that he is unable to access information such as the president's daily brief or obtain security clearances for key members of his transition team, as is usually the case after an election.\n\nThe former officials noted that the 9/11 Commission had found that delays in transition after the 2000 election had led to key national security bodies not being fully staffed for six months, leaving \"our country more vulnerable to foreign adversaries\".\n\n\"In this moment of uncertainty, we must put politics aside,\" the letter concluded, warning that further delays would compromise \"the continuity and readiness of our national leadership, with potentially immense consequences for our national security\".\n\nThe letter was signed by dozens of former officials, including former Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, former CIA and NSA Director Gen Michael Hayden and former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power.\n\nOther key former officials in the US and abroad have warned over the delay in transition, including former heads of the Department for Homeland Security and the Elders, a group of former heads of state founded by Nelson Mandela.", "Discussions have taken place about the four nations of the UK taking a joint approach to Covid rules over Christmas.\n\nThe Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish first ministers held a virtual meeting with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and other senior UK officials.\n\nIt was the first of what UK ministers hope will be weekly meetings.\n\nUK government sources said topics including international travel, mass testing and the priority list for vaccinations were also discussed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster took part in the meeting, as did Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, Welsh Secretary Simon Hart and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nMr Gove said they all recognised families across the UK \"want to be able to see their loved ones this Christmas\".\n\nHe added: \"Today my ministerial colleagues and I met with the devolved administrations to work towards that shared aim and to help ensure that our collective response delivers for the public in every part of the UK\".\n\nIt is understood government officials will now be considering how to put the desire for a \"joint approach to Christmas\" into action.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The four nations call had an initial discussion about a co-ordinated approach to issues such as travel over the Christmas period and discussed recent developments in testing, including the use of lateral flow testing to enable students to return home, and initial lessons from the Liverpool pilot.\"\n\nSenior UK ministers have warned the situation remains highly volatile, with different levels of restrictions in different parts of the country and high rates of transmissions across the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said recently that people may not be able to gather like normal in large groups while Ms Sturgeon's most senior public health adviser, Jason Leitch, said last month that people should prepare themselves for a \"digital Christmas\".\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, a plan was announced to get students in England home safely for Christmas.\n\nStudents are to be allocated departure dates during a \"student travel window\" between 3 and 9 December, to minimise the risk of them spreading Covid-19.\n\nIn Wales, they are being asked to travel by 9 December at the latest.\n\nThe Scottish government wants as many as possible of the 80,000 or so students going home for Christmas to be offered voluntary tests before they travel.\n\nNorthern Ireland is expected to publish plans for students' return in the coming days.", "Soldiers have helped with a city-wide trial in Liverpool, as one of several ways the government has ramped up coronavirus testing\n\nA record 33,470 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK government's latest daily figure.\n\nIt is the highest daily number reported in the UK, although testing capacity has increased greatly since the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nIt brings the total number of cases in the UK to more than 1.29 million.\n\nGovernment minister Alok Sharma said rising case numbers were \"a reminder to us about why we are taking action to stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nOn Wednesday the UK became the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 Covid deaths, based on government figures.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 563 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, down from Wednesday's figure of 595.\n\nOther ways to measure deaths, such as the number of people whose death certificates mention Covid-19, have put the overall toll at more than 60,000.\n\nThursday's daily number of cases showed a 45.8% increase on Wednesday's figure of 22,950.\n\nBBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher said the spike in cases could have been driven by changes in people's behaviour in the run-up to England's four-week national lockdown, which began on 5 November but was announced on 31 October.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England (PHE), said: \"The majority of cases reported today were from tests carried out on 9 and 10 November, which includes infections acquired in the days leading up to new measures on 5 November.\n\n\"Limiting contact with others will help to stop the spread of the virus and protect the people we love,\" she said.\n\nDr Doyle added that the highest rate of infections continues to be seen in the younger generations, but is \"worryingly\" rising quickly in those aged over 80, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill.\n\nIn parts of England in the lower tiers of Covid restrictions, pubs remained open until the national lockdown began on 5 November\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis played down the jump in cases, telling a Downing Street press conference it was important to \"not just take one day in isolation\".\n\nBut he added: \"It is clear that infection rates have been going up. What is really important is to get those infection rates down.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said \"daily fluctuations\" can happen in the daily figures \"so it is important to avoid drawing conclusions from one day's figures\".\n\n\"We must instead focus on the wider trend which is increasing, particularly in those at highest risk of disease,\" it said, adding it was \"vital\" the public continued to follow the guidance to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nExperts have previously warned against describing the daily figure as a record because there was no widespread testing programme during the first wave of the epidemic.\n\nReading too much into one day's data is dangerous.\n\nBut there is no getting away from the fact the jump in positive cases is worrying.\n\nWe've not seen this kind of jump before - it is both 10,000 above Wednesday's figure and the current rolling average.\n\nIt's unclear why this is. The government says there was no backlog of tests that were processed, which could have explained it.\n\nThe mass testing in Liverpool is not thought to be feeding into the figure yet.\n\nThe number of tests processed has gone up, but that has happened previously without returning such a high number of positive cases.\n\nAn increase in socialising last week ahead of lockdown could be a factor.\n\nWhatever the cause, the hope is it's a one-off blip. Cases had been pretty stable for a fortnight before this.\n\nAnd there was growing hope next week would see figures falling as the impact of lockdown takes effect.\n\nThe next few days will be crucial.\n\nDespite the UK-wide rise in cases, the average number of new cases every day is no longer rising in Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said recent measures, including the introduction of a new five-tier system of rules for different areas, have slowed the spread of the virus \"very significantly\".\n\nHowever, latest figures show there are more patients in hospitals in Wales with Covid-19 than at any other time - including during the peak of the first wave of the epidemic earlier this year.\n\nMeanwhile, tighter Covid restrictions in Northern Ireland - which have been in place since 16 October - will be extended for one more week, the executive has agreed.\n\nMass testing - where a huge proportion of the population is tested for Covid, whether or not people have symptoms - has been touted as a way to allow people to live a more normal life, and even to help avoid future lockdowns.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has promised a \"massive expansion\" in such testing in the UK.\n\nLiverpool has been the first city to trial this, with all residents and workers in the city being offered a test.\n\nMr Johnson has urged all of the city's 500,000 residents to take part, in an attempt to drive the spread of the disease down.\n\nEarlier this week some 23,000 people had been tested as part of the trial - which saw Anfield football stadium become one of 18 test centres - with 154 people testing positive.\n\nAs the number of daily cases jumped on Thursday, Prof Powis also warned of an increasing number of people needing hospital treatment for Covid-19.\n\nHe told the Downing Street briefing there were now more than 12,700 people in hospital with coronavirus in England - up from 3,827 a month ago.", "The Queen is Britain's longest reigning monarch and the longest reigning living monarch in the world\n\nA \"once-in-a-generation show\" over a four-day bank holiday weekend will mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.\n\nThe Queen, 94, hopes as many people as possible across the UK will have the opportunity to join the celebrations, Buckingham Palace said.\n\nShe will have reigned for 70 years on 6 February 2022 but plans are in place to stage a series of events from 2-5 June.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said it would be a \"truly historic moment\" and deserved a \"celebration to remember\".\n\nHe added it would \"bring the entire nation and the Commonwealth together.\"\n\nThe events will reflect the Queen's reign, the longest of any British sovereign, and her impact on the UK and the world since her accession to the throne in 1952.\n\nTo create the four-day weekend in June 2022, the late May Spring Bank Holiday that year will be moved to Thursday 2 June and an additional Bank Holiday on Friday 3 June will be created.\n\nMr Dowden told MPs that ministers were working with the Royal Household, the devolved administrations and \"leading creative minds\" to make this a \"jubilee weekend to remember - one that mixes the best of British ceremonial splendour and pageantry with cutting edge artistic and technological display\".\n\nHe added there were also plans to plant trees across the UK to commemorate the occasion.\n\n14 November 1973 - The wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips\n\n29 July 1981 - The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer\n\n29 April 2011 - The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton\n\nMembers of the Royal Family are expected to take part in the celebrations over the extended weekend and in the run-up to it.\n\nIn keeping with tradition established with previous royal milestones, a Platinum Jubilee medal will be awarded to people who work in public service, including representatives of the Armed Forces, the emergency services and the prison services.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle announced plans to commemorate the anniversary in Parliament.\n\nA stained-glass window was placed in the Palace of Westminster as a gift to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and a sundial was built in parliamentary grounds for the Golden Jubilee.\n\nMPs and peers will be invited to fund the gift at their own discretion, Sir Lindsay said.\n\nThe Queen toured the country for her Diamond Jubilee in 2012\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"The Platinum Jubilee offers an opportunity for the Queen to express her thanks for the support and loyalty Her Majesty has received throughout her reign.\n\n\"The Queen hopes that as many people as possible will have the opportunity to join the celebrations.\"\n\nLike for the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the first week in June has been chosen for the celebratory weekend, with the summer offering a better chance of good weather than February.\n\nThe Queen also became monarch on the day of the death of her father King George VI and and is known not to want to celebrate on the specific day of his anniversary.\n\nThe Queen marked her Golden Jubilee in 2002\n\nThe Royal Household and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are organising the commemorations.\n\nThe DCMS has said \"spectacular\" moments in London and other major cities will be complemented by events in communities across the UK and the Commonwealth.\n\nFor the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 a river pageant took place on the Thames", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This 2019 film shows the hospital when the plan was to open in 2021\n\nA senior doctor has said she has \"huge concerns\" about patient safety if a new hospital opens next week, four months ahead of schedule.\n\nDeborah Wales said there were not enough doctors and nurses to staff the new Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran and existing hospitals.\n\nIn an email seen by BBC Wales, she told colleagues it \"cannot function as intended\" amid a second Covid surge.\n\nSarah Aitkin from the health board said a \"minority of doctors\" were worried.\n\nDr Aitkin, medical director at Aneurin Bevan health board, said detailed work was under way to ensure patients' safety across all sites.\n\n\"We are very confident about opening this hospital safely, there is an enormous amount of planning that has gone into that.\n\n\"It is making Nevill Hall hospital and the Royal Gwent safe that is now in detailed planning, and that is what Dr Wales is concerned about. We are working through that patient-by-patient.\n\nThe £350m new hospital in Llanfrechfa is a 471-bed facility which has taken three years to build, and will provide a range of services including accident and emergency for the most seriously ill or injured, and obstetrics.\n\nDeborah Wales is concerned the hospital \"cannot function as intended\" amid a second Covid surge\n\nThe opening on 17 November is happening during the second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nDr Wales is a divisional director of unscheduled care at the health board, and in an email marked \"official - sensitive\" she outlined concerns about the opening of the new hospital.\n\nShe wrote: \"I thought it important to write to everyone regarding the huge concerns that I have about patient safety if the GUH [Grange University Hospital] opens as planned in a week's time.\n\n\"I have been communicating these concerns via email and directly to executive colleagues however the plan remains to go ahead.\n\n\"We are in the midst of the Covid second surge; as such we will be going into the GUH in surge and it cannot function as intended.\"\n\nDr Wales detailed how the new hospital will open with considerable changes to its planned services due to the pandemic, and set out her concerns that staffing levels would not match the demands faced at the new hospital and the area's existing hospitals.\n\nThe workforce was \"depleted, stretched, tired\" and unprepared for the opening of the new hospital, she said, and highlighted a staff sickness rate \"in excess of 15%\".\n\nThere was a shortage of doctors, she said, but that was \"dwarfed by the nursing deficit\".\n\nEfforts had been made to block-book temporary nursing staff, she added, but that there \"remain many wards with inadequate/no staffing\" at all at the health board's major hospitals including the new hospital.\n\n\"Trying to cope with the inpatients across four sites will inevitably reduce the ability to continue with elective work such as endoscopy. This presents further risk to our patients particularly in cancer work, where delays in diagnosis and treatment will cause increased mortality,\" she said.\n\nThe workforce is \"depleted, stretched, tired\", and there is a shortage of doctors and nurses, the email said\n\nFrom 17 November the new hospital will become the accident and emergency department for everyone in the health board area, treating the most seriously ill patients, those with significant injuries, and babies under 12 months even if they have a minor injury or illness.\n\nThere will be 24-hour minor injury units at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach.\n\nYsbyty Aneurin Bevan in Ebbw Vale will continue to have a minor injury unit open from 09:00 to 19:00, Monday to Friday.\n\nServices at the Grange University Hospital will also include obstetric inpatients and high-risk births, a neonatal intensive care and special care baby unit, paediatrics, and cardiology among others.\n\nTim Rogerson, clinical director for emergency medicine for the health board, said: \"We're going to be able to deliver the standard of care in an environment that we've always wanted to.\n\n\"The hospitals we've had have been great for their time but it has been time for quite a while for us to move onto a modern facility and this delivers that.\"\n\nHe added opening during a pandemic had not been ideal but \"everyone's really stepped up and delivered early\".\n\n\"The first wave was really hard and we saw things and did things that we never wanted to do in our career and I think all NHS staff are carrying a burden of that.\n\n\"How it feels in the department now is very similar to April and May with a steady and increasing flow of really sick people and not just the elderly - you know, young people, people at the same age as me have come in with numbers that are really worrying, so it's starting to feel like it did.\n\n\"Hopefully we'll see something from the firebreak that it will start to plateau the numbers but it's a stage that we didn't want to be at.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lee Cain is one of the prime minister's closest allies\n\nWhat is going on? I know from time to time that's a question we ask on here.\n\nThis time, it's about what is happening behind the shiny black door in Downing Street, and whether the government machine is ticking along as it should.\n\nThe short answer, well, no.\n\nAfter a bumpy few weeks, late last night The Times and The Daily Mail reported that the prime minister had been in discussions about offering his director of communications, Lee Cain, a promotion to become his chief of staff.\n\nAfter the turmoil of recent weeks it's not exactly surprising that Boris Johnson wants to try to bring order to 'the house' as it's known on the inside.\n\nLeaks, u-turns, on top of the obvious political nightmare of trying to manage a pandemic mean it's not that surprising that the prime minister wants to try at least to create a calmer atmosphere where things happen in a slightly more conventional way.\n\nBut just as soon as news of this potential appointment emerged, which several sources have told me has been discussed, with an actual offer made by the prime minister at the weekend, so did consternation among some MPs, some ministers, and other insiders in government.\n\nOne Tory source even suggested that the prime minster's fiancée, Carrie Symonds, is understood to be unhappy about it and has made that clear.\n\nThe new press spokesperson, Allegra Stratton, whose appointment created some tension with Mr Cain, is also thought to believe it would be a mistake to give him the position. And his influential policy adviser, Munira Mirza, is also though to be against.\n\nOne insider told me that the prime minister was still mulling it as a possibility, and hadn't yet taken a final decision. Another suggested: \"Boris is a brave chap to do something that his leading ladies are not thrilled about.\"\n\nFrom the outside, his influence has often been understated - he is a long serving and important part of the PM's operation, with influence well beyond his official brief of running communications.\n\nBut the concern about increasing his power would be about extending the influence of the Vote Leave faction inside Number 10, rather than try to expand the range of advice, opinion, and experience in the machine.\n\nOne Cabinet minister sniped: \"He is hardly Leo McGarry\" - a reference to the fictional chief of staff figure in The West Wing, the US political drama that nearly everyone in SW1 is obsessed with.\n\nGuess what? None of the people involved will comment officially about what is going on. So I'm afraid that it is extremely difficult to know what is really happening.\n\nOne source even suggested to me that this had all blown up because Mr Cain was the source of the leak of the government's decision to lock down again, although that is flatly denied by Number 10 who are running a leak inquiry. Others have told me that he has been threatening to leave government in frustration at how things are being handled, and this was an effort to make him stay.\n\nWhatever the truth, what actually matters about this is that it gives a flavour of an administration that's made up of different factions, vying for influence over the prime minister.\n\nThe government has certainly faced challenges of epic proportions, but it seems often there is a dysfunction in how it operates that consumes political energy which is needed to solve the public's problems.\n\nThe irony: a process designed in theory to bring order to Number 10, has created a disorder of its own.", "The Planning Inspectorate said the decision was made following \"careful consideration\"\n\nA plan to dig a £1.7bn road tunnel near Stonehenge has been approved by the Transport Secretary.\n\nThe A303, a popular route for motorists travelling to and from the south west, runs within a few hundred metres of the world heritage site.\n\nThe decision to build a two-mile (3.2km) tunnel out of sight of the monument goes against the recommendations of planning officials.\n\nCampaigners said it was a \"complete violation\" and \"international scandal\".\n\nThe Planning Inspectorate had recommended Transport Secretary Grant Shapps withhold consent, warning it would cause \"permanent, irreversible harm\" to the World Heritage site.\n\nBut the Department for Transport wrote to Highways England stating: \"The Secretary of State is satisfied that, on balance, the need case for the development together with the other benefits identified outweigh any harm.\"\n\nSarah Richards, the Planning Inspectorate's chief executive, said there had been a \"great deal of public interest in this project\".\n\nShe said: \"A major priority for us over the course of the examination was to ensure that communities who might be affected by this proposal had the opportunity to put forward their views.\n\n\"As always, the examining authority gave careful consideration to these before reaching its conclusion.\"\n\nSome environmentalists and archaeologists have voiced their opposition to the plan due to its potential impact on the area\n\nSome environmentalists and archaeologists had voiced their opposition to the plan due to its potential impact on the area.\n\nTom Holland, from the Stonehenge Alliance, said the scheme was \"a £2 billion white elephant\" and called the decision \"shocking and shameful\".\n\n\"The decision to inject a great gash of tarmac and concrete into Britain's most precious prehistoric landscape is one that ranks simultaneously as spendthrift and sacrilegious,\" he said.\n\n\"This has huge implications not just for Britain, but for the entire world. What's to stop people at Giza (site of the pyramids), or in Rwanda getting rid of gorillas because they're in the way of mining developments?.\"\n\nCas Smith, a druid and anti-tunnel campaigner, said it was a \"complete violation\".\n\n\"You wouldn't dream of pushing a bore tunnel next door to Salisbury Cathedral, so why Stonehenge,\" she said.\n\nProf David Jacques, from the University of Buckingham, described the news as \"gut-wrenching\".\n\n\"The tunnel is going to clearly compromise the archaeology,\" he said.\n\n\"Stonehenge is precious for the whole of humanity, for our understanding of how we have adapted and evolved as a species since the Ice Age.\n\nHighways England said the cost range for the whole scheme is between £1.5bn to £2.4bn but it is \"currently working to £1.7bn\"\n\nIn June, it emerged that a team of archaeologists had discovered a ring of at least 20 large shafts within the ancient religious monument, a short distance from the stones.\n\nBut Highways England said the finds were \"well outside the scheme boundary\" and no closer than 500 metres from the planned road upgrade.\n\nChief executive Jim O'Sullivan welcomed the decision and said: \"The A303 Stonehenge tunnel project is part of the biggest investment in our road network for a generation.\n\n\"This transformational scheme will return the Stonehenge landscape towards its original setting and will improve journey times for everyone who travels to and from the South West.\"\n\nAnna Eavis, from English Heritage which looks after Stonehenge, said the scheme would \"restore the ancient landscape\" around the monument.\n\n\"At the moment the A303 is a great blight which cuts through the world heritage site,\" she said.\n\n\"The project will transform this great blight so people will be able to walk freely and experience those monuments without the assault on the senses.\"\n\nThere is now a six-week period in which the decision can be challenged in the High Court.\n\nPreparatory work is due to begin in spring next year, with the five-year construction phase expected to start by 2023.\n\nHighways England said the cost range for the whole scheme was between £1.5bn to £2.4bn but it was \"currently working to £1.7bn\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced in March that funding was in place for the project.\n\nPublic-private funding was due to be used to finance the work, but in October 2018 then-Chancellor Philip Hammond cancelled future deals using that model.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uncertainty has reigned over exactly who is in charge in Downing Street.\n\nThe director of communications, Lee Cain, is out. But it is much more than a random resignation. He was Boris Johnson's longest serving aide in No 10, and very close to his most senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nDespite those longstanding relationships, the possibility that Mr Cain would be promoted to chief of staff met resistance from some MPs and ministers and he quit.\n\nHis promotion was also being resisted, it's understood, by the prime minister's fiancee, Carrie Symonds and his incoming press spokesperson, Allegra Stratton.\n\nArguments and rivalry in any Downing Street operation are not unusual. This feels different though, like a final act has started to play out after months of building tension.\n\nOne insider, who until now has kept their counsel, spoke out in frustration saying: \"I just can't describe to you how much of a mess it is.\"\n\nThis is about who is running the country. It's not just about whether a man, who you probably haven't heard of, has fallen out with a politician.\n\nThe wider issue now though is not just Mr Cain's departure. It is the unhappiness it leaves behind - anger about what has unfolded shared by other key advisers like the prime minister's most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, and the Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost.\n\nNeither is leaving their jobs - for now. But after months of strain, and fractures inside a government under pressure, tensions are spilling fully into the open.\n\nRather than a government united in trying to confront a pandemic, a picture emerges instead of rival groups vying for influence over the prime minister himself.", "The isolation suits supplied by PestFix were similar to those pictured here\n\nBritain's safety watchdog felt leaned on by the government to make factually incorrect statements about PPE suits bought for NHS staff earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, the BBC has found.\n\nEmails reveal how the Health and Safety Executive said protective suits, bought by the government in April, had not been tested to the correct standard.\n\nBut the emails describe \"political\" pressure to approve them for use.\n\nThe government said all PPE is \"quality assured\" and only sent out if safe.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic, the NHS experienced severe shortages of personal protective equipment, known as PPE. As the country woke up to the lethal threat of Covid-19, there was a scramble to secure gloves, overalls and masks for NHS staff.\n\nThe shortage was so drastic that some hospital staff were even pictured at the time wearing bin bags.\n\nMedics at a hospital in the Midlands don bin bags in place of PPE, in April 2020\n\nThe government had to find new suppliers quickly to meet demand and to compete with rising global competition. But that rush has prompted questions about its choice of provider.\n\nOne of those providers was small pest control firm Crisp Websites Ltd, trading as PestFix, which secured a contract in April with the Department of Health and Social Care for a £32m batch of isolation suits.\n\nThree months after it was signed, the suits from PestFix had still not been released for use in the NHS, despite the rush to get PPE into hospitals. Instead, they were being stored at an NHS supply chain warehouse, in Daventry, waiting for safety assessments.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had concluded they had not been specified to the correct standard for use in hospitals when they were bought.\n\nSeparately, the contract was being challenged in the courts by campaign group the Good Law Project. It asked why DHSC had agreed to pay 75% upfront when the provider, it claimed, was \"wholly unsuited\" to deliver such a large and important order.\n\nThe contract had been awarded without being opened to competition because of the urgency of the crisis.\n\nNow, emails from the HSE - given to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) - reveal how its officials came under pressure from government over the summer to release the suits to the NHS.\n\nIn June, one email from a firm working alongside the HSE describes \"political pressure\" being applied to get the suits through the quality assurance process.\n\nBy September, the legal wrangling was still going on, the emails show, even though the suits had, by then, been released to the NHS.\n\n\"We are being drawn into the legalities\", one official wrote, saying they'd been asked to provide a statement that PestFix's products had had the right safety documents.\n\n\"I have been contacted by [name redacted] today requesting a statement to the effect that HSE were provided with the required documentation by Pestfix… This is not factually correct,\" the safety regulator wrote.\n\nThe following day, another email reveals: \"…various colleagues in DHSC are contacting those involved in the assessment of the Pestfix products requesting statements to the effect that HSE assessed the products and they were compliant - not factually correct\".\n\nAn email, dated 25 June, said Pestfix was worried news its equipment had not completed necessary testing might leak to the public.\n\n\"We are very concerned about whom we speak to with regard to getting these suits tested as we do not want it to be made public knowledge that PPE from Pestfix has not passed HSE inspection,\" it read.\n\nThe firm added that, with the legal challenge looming, it hoped that new tests could be done quickly. This was so that \"we and the DHSC can confirm that the product… has been certified and accepted\".\n\nThe isolation suits were ultimately tested to the required standard, and on 6 August the regulator allowed them to be used for staff treating Covid-19 in hospitals.\n\nBut it insisted the products were relabelled because the description was incorrect. The decision says: \"The product refers to itself as an isolation gown, but it is clearly a disposable coverall\".\n\nLast month, the government published five more contracts it had signed with PestFix for gowns, gloves, masks and aprons totalling more than £300m.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have been working tirelessly to deliver PPE to protect our health and social care staff throughout the pandemic, with more than 4.7 billion items delivered so far and 32 billion items ordered to provide a continuous supply to the frontline over the coming months.\n\n\"All PPE products are quality assured and only distributed if they are safe to use.\"\n\nIn a statement, PestFix said it had \"delivered these products to DHSC on time and in compliance with the DHSC's specification and applicable regulations.\n\n\"After delivery, there was some delay while the product was re-categorised as a PPE product and further testing was carried out to confirm that the product was PPE compliant.\"\n\nMore from Phil on Twitter @phill_kemp", "Boris Johnson's director of communications - and longest serving aide - Lee Cain (right) has resigned following a power struggle in Downing Street\n\nAfter the hurricane of the last 24 hours, what's left behind the storm?\n\nLet's face it, there are plenty of people in the Tory Party who have been deeply unhappy about the government's performance in the last few months and who hope, if perhaps don't quite believe, that the shenanigans in Downing Street could be the beginning of a new, calm, world order.\n\nAnd the departure of Lee Cain may even hasten the exit of the prime minister's most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nIt's been clear for a while in SW1 that he wanted to do less of the day-to-day political fire fighting, trying to focus more on particular projects.\n\nBut given his closeness to the departing Lee Cain, and it is understood, frustration with what has been going on, it is not impossible that he might end up leaving Boris Johnson's side sooner rather than later.\n\nIt was suggested to me tonight that he was always due to go in the New Year.\n\nOne insider said he had let it be known fairly widely that he was interested in stepping back in the next few months. He did not, however, it's understood, threaten to quit last night.\n\nThere is no official confirmation of that from any of the factions involved in the No 10 implosion.\n\nBut from the outside it seems, with the UK about to leave the departure lounge of the EU in a matter of weeks, that the group that drove through Brexit, and drove the prime minister's victory is losing its muscle.\n\nMr Cummings' departure would be a huge change to the dynamics in Downing Street, if it happens.\n\nHe has had unparalleled power, aside from the prime minister. He's provoked rage, but inspired loyalty too, and he broke the cardinal rule of any government adviser by becoming the story so dramatically in May.\n\nBut while many MPs and ministers would cheer that, hoping for a shift to a more conventional Downing Street, it is far from certain that Mr Johnson would prosper as an individual politician if he lost two of his closest aides in quick succession.\n\nThe prime minister's senior adviser Dominic Cummings was instrumental in the successful pro-Brexit campaign\n\nAnd as ever, the picture is more complicated than it might appear.\n\nThe divides inside government are simply not as straightforward as Vote Leavers on one side, everyone else on the other.\n\nMr Johnson has been prime minister for well over a year, it's nearly 12 months since the election victory, and the referendum was more than four years ago.\n\nCertainly the operation in there sought publicly to emphasise the divide and there has been a natural division between Leavers and Remainers, but in terms of the individuals and personalities working together behind closed doors, the world is less binary than the political universe that Boris Johnson was part of creating.\n\nAnd now, while the Vote Leave tribe made plenty of enemies, and often seemed to enjoy doing so, even deliberately, the prime minister cannot be sure that a new operation will bring him more political success or stability.\n\nHe is still the same person, the same leader, with the same flaws and and the same strengths.\n\nA rejigged team may, or may not make life easier for him. Just as the talks over a trade deal after Brexit grind towards a finale, the dominance of Vote Leave is coming to a close too.\n\nBut just as the negotiations haven't finished, the final act of the Brexit project is yet to end.", "Scientists have sequenced and recorded the genomes - the genetic make-up or \"code of life\" - of species from almost every branch of the bird family tree.\n\nThe 363 species' genomes, including 267 sequenced for the first time, are catalogued in the journal Nature.\n\nIt is a list that now features more than 92% of the world's avian families.\n\nThis has revealed the code for things \"Darwin was intrigued by and wrote about\", Dr Michael Braun from the Smithsonian Institution told BBC News.\n\nFrom wildly different coloured feathers, body sizes ranging from the giant ostrich to the diminutive wren and raptor flight speeds of up to 300km/h [186.4mph], \"it's all coded for in the genome\", he said.\n\nThe information will help scientists understand the evolution of strange and elaborate courtship displays such as the Victoria's riflebird's\n\nAnd this milestone, he added, was \"just the beginning\".\n\nThe project aims eventually to include a genome from every living species of bird. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, which is a a key contributor through its vast collection of specimens, said this would \"advance research on the evolution of birds and aid in the conservation of threatened bird species\".\n\nThe list of sequences so far now includes rare species such as the Henderson crake, which lives on only one small Pacific island.\n\nBut Dr Braun said it was the humble chicken that was the \"model species\" for studying some extreme examples of avian evolution - including how giant, flightless birds like the ostrich evolved.\n\nBiologists have learned about the evolution of bird limbs by studying chickens\n\n\"We've intensively studied limb development in the chicken,\" he said.\n\n\"And we can apply that to this group of birds called the ratites - birds like the ostrich and emu.\n\n\"With the evolution of flightlessness, there were a lot to changes in the limb anatomy - wings get short, flight feathers become useless, their legs get longer and they lose toes, because they're running instead of perching.\n\n\"With these resources, you have the detail - the code - of how that happened.\"\n\nThe acute vision and speed of flight is encoded into the genome of raptors such as the osprey\n\n\"It permits a refined look at the avian tree of life - stretching back into deep time - that may close the door on longstanding arguments between evolutionary biologists about 'who is whose' common ancestor,\" he said.\n\nAnd new data on more than 60 globally threatened species would be a \"crucial toolkit for conservation geneticists\".\n\n\"This is information that may prove crucial in reducing extinction risk in the long term for species with tiny population sizes today,\" Dr Lees added.", "People arriving in the UK from mainland Greece will need to self-isolate for two weeks from 04:00 on Saturday, the transport secretary has said.\n\nThe rules will not apply to the Greek islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos, Grant Shapps said.\n\nTravellers from Qatar, the UAE, Laos and the Turks and Caicos Islands will no longer need to quarantine.\n\nBahrain, Chile, Iceland and Cambodia will also be exempt from isolation rules.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said data had shown \"a consistent increase\" in newly reported cases in Greece over the past fortnight, with a 136% increase in new cases to 16,429 between 5 and 12 November from 6,965 between 22 and 29 October.\n\nIt added the islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zakynthos and Kos had not seen as significant a growth in cases over recent weeks as the rest of Greece and therefore quarantining was not required.\n\nThe UAE, Qatar, Turks & Caicos islands, Laos, Iceland, Cambodia, Chile and Bahrain were also seen as \"posing a lower infection risk\", a statement said.\n\nDenmark was cut from the UK's safe list last week after a mutated strain of Covid-19 was found to have spread to humans from mink.\n\nMr Shapps said the UK's travel ban on non-UK citizens arriving from Denmark would be extended for a further 14 days.\n\nUK citizens can return from the country - but will have to isolate along with all members of their household for 14 days.\n\nCurrent restrictions in England mean that only people with valid reasons are supposed to travel abroad at the moment.\n\nPeople who break the rules face fines starting at £200 and rising to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nIn Wales, travel abroad is only permitted for people with a reasonable excuse.\n\nEngland's Nations League match against Iceland will be played at Wembley on Wednesday after a government exemption was granted for Iceland's football team.\n\nIceland play Denmark in Copenhagen three days before that fixture - and there is currently a ban on entry to the UK for foreign visitors who have travelled directly or indirectly from Denmark.\n\nBut the \"temporary and extremely limited exemption\" was agreed, providing the Icelanders follow the strict medical protocols, introduced in June, that allow elite sporting teams to travel around the continent.\n\nMeanwhile, the transport secretary said earlier this week that the UK is making \"good progress\" in developing a testing regime to reduce the amount of time people need to spend self-isolating.\n\nHe has previously said he is \"very hopeful\" a new testing regime for travellers to the UK could be in place by 1 December.\n\nIt comes as a record 33,470 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK in the past day, official data shows.\n\nIt is the highest daily figure since mass testing began in the UK, and brings the total number of cases to more than 1.29 million.", "There are two versions of the PS5 - one with a Bluray drive and another digital-only device\n\nPlayStation 4 is the most popular console of its generation, with over 112 million sold worldwide.\n\nNow, Sony is trying to replicate that success as it steps into a new era of gaming with the PlayStation 5.\n\nThe big difference this time is \"sensory engagement\" according to Jim Ryan, the PlayStation boss.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat about launching it in a pandemic, he says: \"It's easily the most extraordinary of all the launches we've ever done.\"\n\nCompared to previous generational changes in PlayStation consoles, the PS5 sees a more subtle shift but Jim says it's still going to be \"transformational\".\n\nBoss of PlayStation Jim Ryan explains why UK gamers will have to wait until 19 November for the PS5\n\nThe PS5 will cost about £450 and gamers will be getting a completely different experience in the console's look and feel compared to the current generation.\n\n\"It has more horsepower and runs faster with better graphics. But the difference goes way beyond that,\" Jim says.\n\nNew controllers will change the game too, PlayStation hopes.\n\n\"You've got to get one of these controllers in your hands to really feel the action of pulling a bow or letting an arrow go or shooting a gun.\"\n\n\"It's something people have been doing for years. But this is taking something that had become rather mundane, and adding a whole new layer of meaning and experience to it,\" he adds.\n\nThe PS5 controller is seen as a gamechanger for gameplay experience\n\nSony is following a similar strategy to the one that worked in 2013, selling discs and downloads for premium prices.\n\nBut there's questions over the lack of big exclusive blockbuster games on release day - with big-hitting titles being seen as one of the reasons for the success of the PS4 over its competition.\n\nIt's not a worry for Jim who says there'll be \"something for everyone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSony has said that dozens of popular PS4 games, including the 100 most played, will work on the PS5.\n\nFans don't need to look beyond the \"not too distant future\" for when new games will come out, he says.\n\nSpider-Man: Miles Morales will be available at launch on PS5.\n\nThose in the UK wanting to get the console will have a slightly longer and frustrating wait until 19 November.\n\nBut Jim says with each generation of console, the wait between the UK and rest of the world is reducing.\n\n\"In a completely ideal world, we would like to launch everywhere in the world on the same day.\"\n\n\"We just needed an extra few days to get everything in order to be able to have a proper, professional, seamless PlayStation-style launch,\" he adds.\n\nThe launch of a console in the midst of a global pandemic has been \"a rollercoaster\" he says.\n\n\"The most extraordinary thing is all of this has taken place in 2020. The one thing I've learned is I'll never do this again in a pandemic\".\n\nThe company's been \"astonished\" by the level of pre-orders.\n\n\"We're making more PS5's in this difficult environment then we made PS4s in that launch. If people are unable to find one at launch, we're very sorry and apologetic about that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They can rest assured we're working really hard to get significant supplies into the market before and after Christmas.\"\n\n\"This is going to be a bigger launch [than the PS4]. And I think given the circumstances we're in, that's something that we can be quietly proud of.\"", "HN-329 his boss, Conrad Dixon, and another officer\n\nA former undercover police officer has admitted for the first time that the Metropolitan Police set out half a century ago to infiltrate left-wing political groups, even if they posed no threat to the public.\n\nThe officer - the first to give evidence at a mammoth public inquiry - said his task had been to gather intelligence on anti-establishment campaign groups threatening the political status quo in the late 1960s.\n\nThe officer's evidence is the first insider testimony to be put before the Undercover Policing Inquiry that shows that Scotland Yard's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) targeted groups merely because of their aims, rather than because they threatened violence.\n\nDuring this first day of evidence from a former police officer, Sir John Mitting, the inquiry chairman, threatened to silence a barrister acting for some of those who say they were unjustly spied on.\n\nCodenamed HN329, the elderly retired officer was a founding member of the SDS that's accused of serial abuses over decades, including miscarriages of justice, unjustified political operations and tricking women into sexual relationships.\n\nThe SDS was disbanded in 2008. Six years ago Theresa May, when she was home secretary, ordered an inquiry into its activities.\n\nHN329 told the inquiry he joined the SDS in August 1968. It had been set up following an anti-Vietnam War protest in March that year that led to disorder in London.\n\nThe officer invented a cover name, \"John Graham\", and grew a beard and his hair long.\n\nDonning a jacket with a leopard skin lining and a pair of Hush Puppy shoes, he set out to blend into the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC), a left-wing alliance planning an October protest in London.\n\nOperating under the command of Chief Inspector Conrad Dixon, HN329 said his job had been to gather intelligence on people trying to undermine the status quo and the political establishment.\n\n\"Ultimately, any group that came to notice as a result of causing trouble, for example throwing bricks through shop windows and actions of that sort, would have been reported on if they were anti-establishment in a political sense,\" said the officer in his opening statement.\n\nHe then added: \"It may well be that a particular group is completely harmless but we would be asked to find out what their objectives were. A file would then be opened.\"\n\nDavid Barr QC, the barrister leading questioning for the inquiry, asked what the officer meant by \"anti-establishment\".\n\n\"Well, it was people who were opposed to the current political situation, or the current government,\" he replied.\n\nOne crucial meeting of the VSC was infiltrated by a total of nine officers including HN-329 - but the officer said that during all his time with the SDS he uncovered no crimes and saw no violence.\n\nRecollecting his career with the squad, HN329 said: \"The original group, from Conrad Dixon down, were the finest representatives of Special Branch. They were excellent officers who did exactly the proper job.\"\n\nRajiv Menon QC, representing some of the victims of alleged undercover abuses, asked to put further matters to the officer, saying the inquiry needed to hear more specific information about his activities and the directions he had been given by superiors. Under the inquiry's rules, lawyers for the participants are required to send suggested topics for questions to the lead barrister, so that he can then examine a witness on behalf of all.\n\nSir John Mitting, the chairman, ruled out all the additional topics proposed by Mr Menon, other than one specific set of questions.\n\nWhen the senior barrister sought to further explain his position, the chairman cut across him and said: \"No, you may not. I'm sorry.\n\n\"You may ask your questions, or you will be silenced.\"", "Asian giant hornets are not native to the Pacific North-West and kill honeybees\n\nWashington is unlikely to have seen its last Asian giant hornets, the state's agricultural department has said, after scientists found 200 queens in one nest.\n\nThe nest - the first in the US - of the so-called murder hornets was captured with a vacuum from a tree in October.\n\nResearchers believe more queens - which are responsible for establishing colonies - could remain at large.\n\nBut they are confident the population can be brought under control.\n\nAsian giant hornets are an invasive species in the Pacific North-West. They target honeybees, which pollinate crops. The insect, which is native to Japan and South Korea, can slaughter a bee colony in a matter of hours.\n\nThey can also spit venom and inflict numerous powerful stings on humans.\n\nScientists in Washington extracted the US's first nest of Asian giant hornets in October\n\n\"We believe there are additional nests. There is no way to be certain we got them all,\" Sven-Erik Spichiger, who researches insects with the Washington State Department of Agriculture, said in a press conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe nest was extracted from a tree in the city of Blaine, close to the Canadian border, on 24 October. Scientists then quarantined the 22cm (9 in) diameter nest and after 24 hours were able to open it to examine the contents.\n\nInside they found evidence of almost 500 insects at various stages of life including 112 worker hornets and close to 200 queens.\n\n\"It's possible some [queens] emerged before we did the extraction. There is no way of knowing how many more,\" Mr Spichiger said, explaining that three queens were found in the local area after scientists had removed the nest.\n\nBut he said they had arrived \"in the nick of time\" to prevent the majority of queens from leaving the nest and mating.\n\n\"Frankly we are encouraged because of the number of queens we were able to count and kill,\" he said.\n\nQueen hornets go on to establish new colonies when they mate with a male and successfully hibernate over the winter season. When they wake up in spring, a small portion go on to establish nests.\n\nMr Spichiger said it was likely that the insects arrived in the Pacific North-West as part of international commerce. \"We will never know how they got here...but it could have been a vehicle, wood chips, hay bales,\" he explained.\n\nThe Washington State Department of Agriculture is committed to eradicating the invasive species from the region, he added.\n\nAsian giant hornets \"are not going to hunt you down and murder you\", Mr Spichiger explained, but that if a person were to walk into a nest, their life would be \"probably in danger\".\n\nAround 40 people are killed annually by the hornets in Asia, according to the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC.\n• None Millions of cicadas to emerge in US after 17 years", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin: A breakdown in talks between Europe and the UK would be \"very negative\".\n\nThe UK has to \"knuckle down\" to get a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of the year, the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.\n\nHe also said failing to reach an agreement would be \"very, very damaging all round\".\n\nThe UK and EU are in talks but big differences remain on fishing access and rules on state help for businesses.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted there is a deal \"to be done\" and that the \"outlines\" of an agreement are clear.\n\nThe UK officially left the EU on 31 January, but has been in a transition period since then - following many of the bloc's rules while a trade agreement is negotiated.\n\nThat period is due to end on 31 December and if a deal is not reached, the UK will trade with the EU on World Trade Organization rules - leading to tariffs being introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs for businesses and consumers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Irish prime minister Mr Martin warned that failure to get a deal would be \"ruinous\" for the UK and that Ireland would suffer.\n\n\"We've all had a very significant shock to our economic system because of Covid-19 - the last thing we need now across all of our respective economies is a second major shock,\" he said.\n\nHe said US President-elect Joe Biden would introduce a \"greater thrust towards multilateralism\" and that the UK should follow his \"orientation\" by working with the EU.\n\nMr Martin dismissed suggestions the EU had not compromised in the talks and said he believed a deal could still be reached.\n\nHe also warned the UK government to be \"very careful that they do not do anything that could destabilise the politics of Northern Ireland\" as it leaves the transition period.\n\nThroughout the Brexit process the UK and EU have insisted they want to avoid a hard border - with cameras and border posts - between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMr Martin said failure to reach a deal could create \"tensions that are unnecessary\" and that there was a danger these concerns were not being taken seriously enough.\n\nHe cited the UK government's Internal Market Bill as an example. The bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland after 1 January - when the post-Brexit transition period runs out.\n\nIt gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU Withdrawal Agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of Brexit made earlier this year.\n\nUK ministers say the bill would provide a \"safety net\" in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way.\n\nThe UK government has said the bill protects peace but Mr Martin said it did not \"take on board the implications for politics within Northern Ireland itself\".\n\nHe added that the bill had created \"niggling doubts\" over whether the UK could be trusted.\n\nJoe Biden has said any UK-US trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement\n\nMr Martin also called Mr Biden \"probably the most Irish of presidents\" since John F Kennedy.\n\nHe said Mr Biden was \"very committed\" to the Good Friday Agreement - the peace deal that among other things established power-sharing in Northern Ireland - and that he did not want Brexit to undermine it.\n\nAsked if he thought the new American president would be closer to the UK or Ireland, he said \"I don't buy that simplistic narrative. He loves Ireland and he has great time for the UK.\"\n\nSpeaking for the UK Labour Party, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Rachel Reeves said failing to agree a deal with the EU would be \"a disaster for already stretched businesses and workers\".\n\nMs Reeves said the UK government had to \"listen to industry, get prepared and ensure their incompetence doesn't disrupt businesses and cost jobs\".", "Croydon Council announced in the summer it wanted to cut staff numbers by 15% - about 410 roles\n\nCash-strapped Labour-run Croydon Council has imposed emergency spending restrictions with \"immediate effect\", the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Section 114 notice bans all new expenditure at Croydon Council, with the exception of statutory services for protecting vulnerable people.\n\nA document seen by the BBC said \"Croydon's financial pressures are not all related to the pandemic\".\n\nIt is under a government review amid claims of \"irresponsible spending\".\n\nSection 114 notices are issued when a council cannot achieve a balanced budget.\n\nIn June, the BBC found many large councils in England feared going effectively bankrupt because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nTo cope with coronavirus, councils revealed they were planning a mix of responses including using up cash reserves, reducing services and cancelling or postponing spending on big projects.\n\nThe Section 114 letter, which was sent by Croydon's director of finance Lisa Taylor, said she was not confident the council \"can make the level of savings required to deliver a balanced budget\".\n\n\"Despite the council having put in place spending controls over the summer 2020, non-essential cost have continued to be incurred,\" she said.\n\n\"I am still not seeing an organisation that is taking the necessary radical decisions to stop all but essential expenditure.\"\n\nThe document also says £17.7m of the £27.9m of the \"new savings\" presented to Croydon's cabinet on 21 September and the full council meeting on 28 September were \"incorrectly identified as new savings\".\n\nAs a result it forecasted that overspend \"had not reduced by as much as previously reported\".\n\nCroydon is the first council to declare a Section 114 order since Northamptonshire County Council in 2018.\n\nLast month, Croydon's cabinet member for finance Simon Hall resigned from his role, while former council leader Tony Newman announced his departure a few days later.\n\nBoth resignations came two weeks after the pair survived a vote of no confidence proposed by the Conservative opposition.\n\nCouncillor Hamida Ali, who took over as leader, accepted that the council \"had made mistakes\" in addition to the impact of coronavirus.\n\n\"While we continue to work hard to find savings, we must focus our spending on essential services and protecting our vulnerable residents,\" she said.\n\n\"We're not going to fix these problems overnight and there will be difficult decisions ahead but I want to reassure local people that the council will still be here to support you.\"\n\nCroydon's chief executive Jo Negrini also announced in August that she would be stepping down.\n\nThe council's Conservative opposition leader Cllr Jason Cummings said the report was \"scathing\" and he had fears local residents \"would suffer most\".\n\nHe added: \"Labour were warned repeatedly over the last few years but ploughed on anyway, they must take full responsibility for the damage they have caused.\"\n\nConstruction of the £1.4bn Croydon Westfield shopping project has been repeatedly delayed since it was approved in 2017\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said Croydon's decision was \"necessary\" for it to manage its own finances.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're aware of serious concerns around the council's governance and risk management and the recent Public Interest Report was damning about the governance within Croydon Council, which has been entirely irresponsible with their spending and investments.\n\n\"The council has decided to issue a section 114 notice and we will consider the findings of the review which concludes later this month.\"\n\nIt's not often a council needs to issue a Section 114 - but the pressures of coping with coronavirus have combined with at least questionable previous investment strategies to push Croydon over the edge.\n\nIt was heading for an overspend of £60m at the end of the year from dealing with the pandemic and government support didn't look like covering it.\n\nCroydon went into the coronavirus health crisis in a vulnerable state - with depleted reserves and £1.5bn debts.\n\nIt's a financial position partially reached through buying up property including a hotel and a shopping centre.\n\nIn good times, it's easy to see how that might have paid dividends but with weeks of lockdown, it left the council seriously exposed.\n\nThe latest development means new spending must be stopped immediately except for on statutory services like social care.\n\nNow the council's administration has 21 days to come up with a strategy which looks likely to mean more job losses to add to at least 400 already being cut.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNorthern Ireland and Scotland are set for massive games on Thursday, with both nations one win away from a place at next summer's delayed Euro 2020.\n\nScotland face Serbia in Belgrade in their play-off final (19:45 GMT), hoping to qualify for a major men's tournament for the first time since 1998.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland host Slovakia at Windsor Park in their final (19:45), aiming to reach a second European Championship, four years after their debut appearance in the competition.\n\nEuro 2020, which has retained its name despite being moved to next year because of the coronavirus pandemic, will start on 11 June.\n\n'If they come off the pitch with regrets they'll never forget'\n\nScotland are on their longest unbeaten run since 1988, having not lost in their previous eight matches, and will be hopeful their good form can take them that final step.\n\nTheir most recent major tournament appearance came at the 1998 World Cup in France, while they last featured at a Euros in 1996.\n\nIf Scotland can overcome Serbia, they will join England, Croatia and the Czech Republic in Group D at next year's tournament.\n\n\"It is really difficult to say but this is just another game,\" said Scotland boss Steve Clarke.\n\n\"When you go into every game, [no regrets] is a message you give. A game of this magnitude, I probably don't need to say that because the players understand if they come off the pitch with regrets they'll never forget that night.\n\n\"You go out there, do your best, give everything you can and hopefully the footballing gods smile on you and you get the right result.\"\n• None 'We're desperate for it' - Robertson ready for Euro play-off\n• None The last time Scotland were 90 minutes away\n\n'We're delighted we'll have a number of fans back in the stadium'\n\nNorthern Ireland came through a dramatic penalty shootout against Bosnia-Herzegovina to secure their place in the play-off final.\n\nSlovakia also won their semi-final on penalties, overcoming the Republic of Ireland after a goalless draw.\n\nThere will 1,060 spectators at Windsor Park to cheer on Ian Baraclough's side on Thursday, with fans given socially distanced seats in the 18,500-capacity stadium.\n\nA spot in Group E alongside Spain, Sweden and Poland is up for grabs.\n\n\"They want to get down to business. That's how it was last month and how I feel it was this week. We'll build that up as we go on,\" said Baraclough.\n\n\"It's a game we're capable of winning if we set our minds right; if we do the right things.\"\n\nCaptain Steven Davis added: \"Qualifying for Euro 2016 was unbelievable. There are different circumstances now.\n\n\"It will definitely be on an equal level, if not better, to do it again.\n\n\"It's a game we believe we can win. It's a game we've been looking forward to for a long time and we're delighted we'll have a number of fans back in the stadium to back us.\"\n• None Why Evans is Northern Ireland's 'best ever defender'\n\nFirst wins and table-topping the Nations League target\n\nFor Northern Ireland and Scotland, hot on the heels of their Euro 2020 play-offs are Nations Leagues fixtures, with England and Wales also in action in that competition.\n\nGareth Southgate's England are at Belgium on Sunday (19:45) and then at home to Iceland on 18 November (19:45), although there is doubt over the second fixture because of travel restrictions.\n\nBelgium are top of Group A2 and if they beat England, and Denmark fail to win against Iceland, Roberto Martinez's side cannot be caught.\n\nEngland are third - level on points with Denmark - but have won their past four away games without conceding a goal.\n\nHowever, continuing that run will be severely tested by a Belgium side who have won their past 10 competitive home games, scoring 46 goals.\n\nNorthern Ireland, meanwhile, will take on Austria and Romania looking for their first Nations League win after picking up a single point from their four Group B1 games so far.\n\nScotland are top of Group B2, four points clear of the Czech Republic in second, and face games against Slovakia (Sunday, 15 November 14:00 GMT) and Israel (Wednesday, 18 November 19:45 GMT).\n\nFinally, Wales look to continue their good run with back-to-back home games against the Republic of Ireland (Sunday, 15 November 17:00 GMT) and Finland (Wednesday, 18 November (19:45 GMT).\n\nWales, who will not have manager Ryan Giggs in the dugout for any of their games in November after an allegation of assault made against him - which he denies - are top of Group B4 with three wins and a draw from their four games so far.\n• None Is Grealish England's future or odd man out?\n\nWhat do you do when you have a packed couple of weeks with big Euro 2020 qualifying games and Nations League fixtures taking place? Schedule in a few friendlies too, of course...\n\nEngland warm up for their Nations League games with a friendly at home to the Republic of Ireland on Thursday (20:00).\n\nOn the same night, Wales are in action too as they host the USA. (19:45)\n• None Pick your England XI to play Republic of Ireland\n• None Page in charge for Wales v USA but Giggs 'only a call away'\n• None Can you names Wales' starting XI against US in 2003?\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "Blackburn or ballet? Jake Berry's remarks have come under fire\n\nPeople in the south of England enjoy opera and ballet but football clubs are what matter to those living further north, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nFormer minister Jake Berry made the comparison as he warned \"northern culture\" is being hit by Covid-19.\n\nHe pressed the government to intervene to \"save\" football clubs.\n\nBut his comments were criticised by the Northern Ballet as it perpetuates \"tropes that culture in the north is of less value than that in London\".\n\nThe former northern powerhouse minister compared Accrington Stanley to the Royal Ballet as he insisted action is required from Westminster to help protect clubs that are the \"cornerstone\" of communities.\n\nThe former minister said \"northern culture\" was being hit by Covid-19\n\nMr Berry, who made the comment as MPs debated support for the economy in the north of England, said: \"First of all is the hit that northern culture has taken from this Covid crisis.\n\n\"For many people who live in London and the south of England, things like the opera house and ballet will be at the heart of their culture.\n\n\"But for many of us in the north it is our local football club - our Glyndebourne or Royal Ballet or Royal Opera House or Royal Shakespeare Company will be Blackburn Rovers, Accrington Stanley, Barrow, Carlisle or Sunderland.\n\nHe added the \"time has come where the government must seek to intervene to unblock this to save local football clubs across the north of England, many of which are the cornerstone of our communities and at the heart of our culture\".\n\nTreasury minister Kemi Badenoch did not address Mr Berry's football plea in her reply to the debate, acknowledging the north of England has been a \"hotbed\" of energy, ideas and creativity for centuries.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Northern Ballet said it was \"disappointed\" by the MP's comments while other social media users criticised Mr Berry for his remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Letby spoke only to confirm her name, address and date of birth during the short hearing\n\nA nurse accused of murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of another 10 has appeared in court.\n\nLucy Letby, 30, had previously been arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe charges relate to baby deaths and non-fatal collapses at the hospital from June 2015 to June 2016.\n\nThe judge at Warrington Magistrates' Court remanded her in custody to appear at Chester Crown Court on Friday.\n\nMs Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is accused of murdering five baby boys and three girls.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of another nine babies - five boys and four girls.\n\nLucy Letby was arrested for a third time on Tuesday\n\nMs Letby spoke only to confirm her name, address and date of birth during the 10-minute hearing.\n\nPascale Jones, prosecuting, told the court Ms Letby should be remanded into custody for her own safety.\n\nShe said: \"The crown will also stress there is substantial grounds to believe for her own protection this defendant should be remanded into custody.\"\n\nMs Letby was rearrested by police on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the hospital and charged on Wednesday evening.\n\nA Cheshire Police investigation launched in May 2017 looked into the deaths of 17 babies and 16 non-fatal collapses at the Countess of Chester between March 2015 and July 2016.\n\nOn Tuesday, the force said parents of all the babies involved were being kept fully updated on developments and were supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA total of 50,365 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 595 in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 50,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the figures showed, despite hopes for a vaccine, \"we are not out of the woods\".\n\nHe said: \"Every death is a tragedy,\" but added: \"I do think we have got now to a different phase in the way that we treat it.\"\n\nA further 22,950 cases of coronavirus were recorded on Wednesday, government figures show.\n\nThere have been some 1.2 million confirmed cases in the UK since the epidemic began, and more than 185,000 people have been admitted to hospital with the virus.\n\nThe UK's Covid death toll has reached a grim and tragic milestone - and illustrates what a devastating impact the pandemic has had on the country.\n\nBut one figure alone cannot tell the full story. The burden has not been felt equally.\n\nThe single biggest factor has been age - with more than nine in 10 deaths in the over 65s.\n\nPoorer areas and ethnic minorities have also been disproportionately affected.\n\nDeaths from other causes have also risen as people have gone without treatment.\n\nThe UK has on most measures seen one of the highest death rates in the world.\n\nBlame, understandably, has been laid at the government's door. It has been criticised in particular for being too slow to lockdown and for its record on testing and tracing.\n\nBut the UK is not alone in struggling. Similar debates have been had in Italy, Spain and France.\n\nAnd the sad reality is this figure will keep climbing in the months to come.\n\nBut there is now at last some real hope that, with a vaccine looking likely, the toll will be much, much less next year.\n\nThe government's death figures only include people who died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus - but two other ways of measuring deaths give higher overall figures.\n\nThe first includes all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. The most recent figures suggest there had been more than 60,000 deaths by 23 October, by this measure.\n\nThe second is a measure of \"excess deaths\" - the number of deaths over and above the usual number at this time of year.\n\nDeaths normally do rise at this time of the year, but the latest data from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland show the second wave of the virus has pushed the death rate above the average seen over the past five years.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the latest death figures were a \"grim milestone\" and criticised the government for being \"slow\" in its response to the pandemic during the first wave.\n\nHe said the government owed it to the families of those who have lost their lives to the virus \"to get on top\" of its response to the second wave.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said lessons had to be learned.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said: \"This is a point that should never have been reached.\"\n\nHe added: \"Today's figure is a terrible indictment of poor preparation, poor organisation by the government, insufficient infection control measures, coupled with late and often confusing messaging for the public.\"\n\nThe government had to \"ensure that nothing on this scale ever happens again\", he added, with a public inquiry to \"go over every step with a fine-tooth comb\".\n\nIt comes as officials said no decision has yet been made on how people under the age of 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe current priority list of people who would get a vaccine in \"phase one\" starts with those living and working in care homes, then - in stages - everyone over 60 years old.\n\nBut the list is subject to change, with close attention being paid to how the vaccines work in older age groups, who often have a weak response to immunisation.\n\nAttention has turned to how a vaccine will be rolled out after Pfizer and BioNTech revealed their vaccine protects more than 90% of people from developing Covid symptoms.\n\nThe prime minister urged everybody to get a coronavirus vaccine once one becomes available, adding that the arguments of anti-vaccination activists were \"total nonsense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “Anti-vax is total nonsense is total nonsense, you should definitely get a vaccine.\"\n\nMr Johnson would be happy to receive a coronavirus vaccine, Number 10 has said.\n\nOn a visit to a Tesco distribution centre in south-east London on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said the prospect of a vaccine and the ramping up of testing were \"two big boxing gloves\" to \"pummel\" the virus with, but said: \"Neither of them is capable of delivering a knock-out blow on its own.\n\n\"That's why this country needs to continue to work hard to keep discipline and to observe the measures we've put in.\"\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nRestrictions have been tightened across the UK in recent weeks. In England, a new four-week lockdown started last Thursday - replacing the three-tier system until 2 December.\n\nMr Johnson said England must \"get through this current period of tough autumn measures\" to \"hopefully\" curb the spread of the virus enough to allow Christmas to be \"as normal as possible for as many people as possible\".\n\nMeanwhile, pubs reopened and travel restrictions were lifted in Wales on Monday, as it ended a two-week \"firebreak\" lockdown.\n\nAdditional restrictions in Northern Ireland are due to end on Friday after a proposal from the Northern Ireland Assembly's health minister to extend restrictions was blocked.\n\nIn Scotland, there is now a five-tier system of virus alert levels with different measures in place in different parts of the country. The tiers are numbered from zero to four, with level four requiring the introduction of lockdown restrictions for that area.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness footage shows a man pouring petrol on the ground and setting light to it\n\nA police station in north London had to be evacuated after a car crashed into the building.\n\nThe crash happened in Edmonton shortly before 19:00 GMT on Wednesday. The man then left the car and tried to set fire to the road using petrol, police said.\n\nFootage, posted on social media, showed a vehicle partially embedded in the entrance of the building.\n\nA man, aged 45, has been arrested on suspicion of arson, affray and criminal damage. He remains in custody.\n\nThe Met Police said the incident was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nBoth the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were called to the crash on Fore Street.\n\nPolice said officers had been able to return to the station and nearby residents, who had been initially evacuated, were allowed home. No injuries have been reported.\n\nEnfield Council leader Nesil Caliskan had earlier described the crash as a \"major incident\" and urged people to avoid the area.\n\nStore manager Ogur Mazlum, 34, witnessed the moment the car crashed into the building.\n\nHis wife Serife Mazlum said: \"He literally just walked out [of his shop] to just call me and see if everything's okay at home.\n\n\"Then he said I have to shut the phone quickly... that was when the car crashed into the front of the police station.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London 999 Feed This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Mazlum said her husband, who speaks limited English, saw the car had crashed through an exterior glass entrance to the police station and a man was trying to get through a second barrier.\n\n\"He was insisting on trying to get inside, but the glass door wouldn't break anymore so he couldn't get any closer,\" she added.\n\n\"Then he casually got out of the car with a tank of petrol. He poured it down from the car into the middle of the road and then he just set it on fire.\"\n\nVideo footage of the immediate aftermath shows police officers tackling the man and putting out the flames.\n\nMrs Mazlum said another man watching the scene from across the street ran to intervene after the driver had set the fuel alight.\n\n\"He pinned [the driver] to the ground just as the police was arriving,\" she added.\n\n\"So by the time the police came and got out of the cars the citizen had already slammed him to the ground.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had been in \"constant contact\" with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick about the incident.\n\nWriting on Twitter, he said: \"I'm grateful to the police officers and other emergency services who brought the situation under control and continue to investigate the incident.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nThe UK's economy bounced back from the slump brought on by the coronavirus pandemic to grow by a record 15.5% between July and September, according to the Office for National Statistics. However, the country's economy is still 8.2% smaller than before the virus struck, with September's growth of 1.1% weaker than in previous months. Analysts say it is likely to shrink again in the final three months of the year because of the impact of recent restrictions.\n\nMany of England's largest local authorities are warning they could be forced into \"damaging\" cuts to services next year to remain solvent, with social care among the areas likely to suffer without more government support. Only one in five of England's county councils and county unitary authorities is confident of delivering a balanced budget without drastic action, says the County Councils Network. Ministers say councils have been given an \"unprecedented\" £7bn.\n\nMajor retailers have been accused of taking advantage of lockdown loopholes for Christmas trading while other stores are forced to remain closed. Sheffield toy store owner Hellen Stirling Baker says her local supermarket is packed with children's playthings. \"Big supermarkets are capitalising on the fact they are able to sell non-essential goods alongside their essentials,\" she argues. We hear similar complaints from the bosses of department stores and bookshops.\n\nSix NHS Trusts across England are using pop-up isolation rooms that can be wheeled into hospital wards and erected in five minutes. Royal Derby Hospital has installed 25 of the bays in its medical assessment unit to separate patients until they receive the results of a Covid-19 test.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff explain how the \"Redirooms\" work - and how they can reassure patients and staff\n\nIs there still hope for festive family reunions? Michael Gove certainly thinks so. The UK Cabinet Office minister says he and the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all recognise families \"want to be able to see their loved ones this Christmas\". The ministers held discussions to \"work towards that shared aim\" during the first of what the UK government hopes will be weekly virtual meetings. International travel, mass testing and vaccination priorities were also discussed.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWe've been looking at how schools are keeping pupils safe.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Goods for sale in The Range during lockdown\n\nRetailers and supermarkets have been accused of taking advantage of lockdown loopholes for Christmas trading while other stores remain closed.\n\nHomeware chain The Range has been encouraging consumers in England to \"Shop Christmas in-store and online\".\n\nThe Plymouth-based firm - which sells groceries alongside soft furnishings and art supplies - says it's acting within the rules.\n\nBut traders whose businesses are closed say some companies aren't playing fair.\n\nA competitor to The Range who didn't want to be named, told the BBC: \"It's the wild west out there. The legislation was rushed and now government has lost control, with some retailers taking liberties in a very unfair playing field.\"\n\nBut The Range said it was following government guidance.\n\n\"The Range is classed as an essential retailer and is complying with all aspects of government legislation and guidelines,\" a spokesman for the firm said.\n\n\"Our stores trade in a fully Covid-compliant manner, creating a safe environment for our customers and staff.\"\n\nAdvertising from The Range encourages consumers to 'shop Christmas' in-store and online\n\nMartin Coles-Evans runs a gifts and homeware store called Hargreaves & Sons in Buxton, Derbyshire. The business has been going for more than 150 years, but now he says times are \"tough\".\n\n\"Shops like ourselves, we're following the rules and we're making people stay safe so we're closed, and yet these bigger companies are trying on loopholes left, right and centre to stay open, when really they shouldn't be,\" he said.\n\n\"It does seem to be they're mopping up all the Christmas trade while we're just limping along, struggling trying to get by with some government support.\"\n\nThe gifts and homeware store owned by Martin Coles-Evans is closed during lockdown.\n\nThe business owner says he visited a garden centre at the weekend that was also selling clothing, shoes, books, home décor, candles and photo frames. He's written to his local MP to voice his concerns but so far he's heard nothing back.\n\nAll non-essential retail stores - as well as hospitality and leisure venues - must remain closed in England from 5 November to 2 December.\n\nToy store owner Hellen Stirling Baker was dismayed to find Lidl supermarket in Sheffield with shelves full of children's playthings, while her doors remain firmly closed.\n\n\"Lidl is stacked high with wooden toys and books. It feels like the big supermarkets are capitalising on the fact they are able to sell non-essential goods alongside their essentials, in the run up to Christmas,\" she said.\n\nUnder government guidelines, Lidl is allowed to sell toys alongside essential items.\n\nLidl says it is closely following government guidance, which states: \"A business selling a significant amount of essential retail may also continue to sell goods typically sold at non-essential retail. For example, a supermarket that sells food is not required to close off or cordon off aisles selling homeware.\"\n\n\"Why is that allowed to happen?\" asks Ms Stirling Baker. \"It's definitely given the bigger supermarkets and retailers a massively unfair advantage.\"\n\nOnly stores that sell non-essential goods on another floor or in a different building are required to close those parts of their premises, according to the guidance.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (Beis) said the restrictions were necessary to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"These restrictions have been brought in because we have to limit social contact in order to control the virus, protect the NHS and save lives,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We recognise this continues to be a very difficult period for businesses, which is why we've confirmed that there will be a full package of financial support in place, with the furlough scheme extended and grants worth up to £3,000 per month for businesses legally required to close.\"\n\nToy store owner Hellen Stirling Baker says it seems 'incredibly unfair' that the supermarket chains can sell toys during lockdown\n\nBut just six weeks out from Christmas, many store owners say that help doesn't go far enough to compensate business owners who've been forced to close.\n\n\"I don't think the government truly understand how retail works in the UK,\" says William Coe, who runs Coe's department store in Ipswich.\n\n\"They think if we pay their wages and give them a little towards overheads, they'll be alright. But these are key trading weeks that have massive implications for cash flow and stock and ongoing implications.\"\n\nWilliam Coe says government support doesn't go far enough for businesses closed at such a crucial time of year.\n\nMr Coe says he understands the government is in a difficult position, \"but if you tell people they have to shut, you have to give them adequate support.\"\n\nOther \"non-essential\" retailers including bookstore owners and clothing firms have criticised the government's handling of the second coronavirus lockdown.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of Waterstones, told the BBC that \"arbitrary lines\" had been drawn, with smaller bookshops forced to shut, while large newsagents such as WHSmith, which sell books alongside other items, were able to stay open.\n\nBut a spokesman for WHSmith said the chain isn't really benefitting from the rules, since lockdown means there are far fewer shoppers on High Streets anyway.\n\nHe said the company is operating in line with government guidance, which allows newsagents and post offices to keep trading.", "Lee Cain arrived for work on Thursday, having already handed in his notice to No 10\n\nOne of Boris Johnson's closest aides, director of communications Lee Cain, has resigned amid reports of internal tensions in Downing Street.\n\nHe will leave next month, despite being offered a promotion to chief of staff.\n\nHis departure prompted speculation about the future of the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings, but the BBC was told he would stay for now.\n\nNo 10 denied Mr Johnson had been distracted by the saga, saying he was \"fully focussed\" on tackling Covid.\n\nMr Cain has been at the PM's side since he was a press officer for the Vote Leave campaign under Mr Cummings.\n\nMany will not have heard of him before the story broke, but his resignation comes at a time when the government is facing big decisions over its coronavirus strategy and the future of post-Brexit trade with the EU.\n\nAfter a number of rows and U-turns within government in recent months, No 10 will see communications as key in connecting with the country and trying to gain support for its decisions.\n\nThe news that Mr Cain - who worked with Mr Cummings and the PM in the Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU - could become Mr Johnson's chief of staff had led to consternation among some MPs and ministers, said BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nOne Tory source even suggested that Mr Johnson's fiancee, Carrie Symonds - a former head of communications for the Conservatives - had misgivings about that plan.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told LBC Radio: \"This is pathetic. I think millions of people will be waking up this morning, scratching their heads, saying what on earth is going on?\n\n\"We're in the middle of a pandemic, we're all worried about our health and our families, we're all worried about our jobs, and this lot are squabbling behind the door of No 10. Pull yourselves together, focus on the job in hand.\"\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said Mr Johnson was concentrating on fighting coronavirus, adding: \"You can see the progress we are making, in terms of rolling out mass testing, in securing vaccines and also in terms of making improvements to test and trace.\"\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said there was also a \"complete focus in government on making sure we can work with business and work with citizens in order to deliver on the promise of Brexit\".\n\nThis is much more than a random resignation.\n\nLee Cain was Boris Johnson's longest serving aide in No 10 and very close to his most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings.\n\nArguments and rivalry in any Downing Street operation are not unusual.\n\nThis feels different though, perhaps the final act of Vote Leave is playing out after months of building tensions.\n\nOne insider - who until now has kept their counsel - spoke out in frustration last night, saying: \"I just can't describe to you how much of a mess it is.\"\n\nThis is about who is running the country and the prime minister's ability to manage his own operation.\n\nThe question now is whether the chaos that has spilled into public spirals into something more serious, or whether it is the chance for a reset the prime minister requires.\n\nAllies of Mr Cain were unhappy about how he had been treated, which prompted initial speculation about Mr Cummings's own future.\n\nMr Cummings and Mr Cain are long-time colleagues, having worked together on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nMr Cain, who is set to step down next month, will be replaced as the director of communications by James Slack - a former journalist and one of the PM's spokesmen.\n\nMr Johnson is thought to be looking to fill the post of chief of staff as part of a wider reorganisation, which will also see ex-BBC journalist Allegra Stratton take on a role fronting new daily televised press briefings.\n\nLee Cain spent time as a journalist before entering No 10 - including a stint following David Cameron around dressed as a chicken\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Cain said it had been a privilege to work for Mr Johnson, but he added: \"After careful consideration I have this evening resigned as No 10 director of communications and will leave the post at the end of the year.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson thanked Mr Cain for his \"extraordinary service\" to him, calling him a \"true ally and friend\".\n\nBut several Conservative MPs have expressed dismay at the wrangling in Downing Street, which comes at a time of growing unease on the government's own benches over its handling of the pandemic - especially the use of lockdown measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCharles Walker, the vice chairman of the influential 1922 committee of backbench MPs, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there has been \"unhappiness about the No 10 operation for some time\".\n\nHe added: \"Members of Parliament have felt excluded from the decision-making process, and that's no secret.\n\n\"The real opportunity here is for the chief of staff position to be filled by someone who has good links with the Conservative Party and its representation in the House of Commons.\"\n\nFellow Tory backbencher Sir Roger Gale said it was \"very worrying indeed\" that No 10 \"consider it proper to devote this amount of energy to internal squabbles\" in the midst of a pandemic and Brexit trade negotiations.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We really do need people there with their minds on the job. It really is time that Downing Street got in place, what I think is now in common parlance is known as somebody with big boy pants on.\n\n\"A prime minister, particularly one facing the difficulties that Mr Johnson is facing, needs heavyweight help.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reeves: Public 'looks on with astonishment' at No 10", "Nicola Adams and Katya Jones during the launch show of Strictly 2020\n\nFormer boxer Nicola Adams and her Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones have left the BBC contest after Jones tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nA statement said the programme's \"protocols\" meant the pair would now self-isolate and would not be able to take part in the rest of the series.\n\nThey made history as the first same-sex couple to take part in the UK show.\n\nMeanwhile, judge Motsi Mabuse has said she will be self-isolating this weekend after an \"urgent\" trip abroad.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Adams said: \"I'm absolutely devastated my Strictly journey has come to an end so soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Adams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I had so much more to give and so many people to win this for! But I just want to say a huge thank you to Katya for being the best dance partner anyone could ask for.\n\n\"I'm gutted to be out of the competition but in these unprecedented times and as frustrating as it is, the Covid measures in place are to keep everyone safe, and I'm doing what I can to help.\"\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 katyajones 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\nJones is asymptomatic and said she was \"devastated to leave this way\".\n\n\"But I've made a friend for life and loved every moment of this special journey,\" she added.\n\nHost Claudia Winkleman said she was \"so sad\", while It Takes Two presenter Zoe Ball said she was \"gutted for Nicola and Katya\", adding: \"You made history girls.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nAdams, who won Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016, said she had asked the BBC for a female partner because it was \"definitely time for change\".\n\nThe pair came in the top half of the leader board with their quickstep in week one, and impressed the judges again in week two with their street/commercial routine.\n\nBut they found themselves in the dance-off last week after performing their jive, eventually being saved by the judges at the expense of former NFL player Jason Bell.\n\nA number of crew members are also self-isolating after coming into contact with Jones, according to the PA news agency.\n\nThe show's executive producer Sarah James said: \"We are incredibly sad that these unfortunate circumstances mean that Nicola and Katya are unable to continue on Strictly. They are a brilliant partnership and had already achieved so much during their time on the show.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse will appear on the show via video link this weekend, as she is self-isolating following an \"urgent\" trip to Germany.\n\nThe judge, who lives in Germany, wrote on Twitter: \"I'll be watching from home and by the power of technology, should be in your living rooms. Watch out though, I'll be doing my own hair and make-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 3 by Motsi Mabuse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Takes Two co-host Rylan Clark-Neal is also self-isolating after revealing he has been in recent contact with someone \"outside of work\" who has tested positive.\n\nHe said he had since tested negative, but will miss two weeks of the BBC Two spin-off and his BBC Radio 2 weekend programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Rylan Clark-Neal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdams' departure leaves nine celebrities in the line-up. One, HRVY, tested positive before the launch show but was able to finish isolating in time to take part.\n\nThe series will continue as planned on Saturday, the BBC said. Each partnership is in a bubble and having regular coronavirus tests.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScotland's agonising 23-year absence from major men's tournaments is finally over after an historic shootout victory over Serbia.\n\nDavid Marshall saved magnificently from Aleksandar Mitrovic for a 5-4 sudden-death win after Scotland had dominated, led until the 90th minute, then hung on for penalties in Belgrade.\n\nRyan Christie's second-half opener had Steve Clarke's side tantalisingly close to a Euro 2020 place but Luka Jovic netted amid a late Serbian rally to force extra time.\n\nHowever, a tiring Scotland were impeccable from the spot as they ended a barren streak of 10 missed tournaments.\n\nClarke's men are now nine games unbeaten - their best run in 44 years - and will face England, Croatia and the Czech Republic in Group D at next summer's delayed finals.\n• None Scotland qualify - what happens now?\n\nIf there was a Scotland way to finally get back to the big time, then this was it. Not content with putting the nation through the trauma of a shootout in the semi-final against Israel, they repeated the dose.\n\nGut-wrenching does not come close to describing it.\n\nYet while a nation's nerves were fraying back home, Scotland's players exuded a calm authority. They were comfortable in possession for an hour, zipping passes around, and harrying the visitors.\n\nLyndon Dykes was putting in a gruelling shift, winning countless aerial duels and making the ball stick. He was just one of the heroes in blue all over the pitch.\n\nOn an occasion demanding a big performance, every Scotland player delivered.\n\nThere were flashes of first-half threat from Scotland, the best when a Dykes knockdown led to John McGinn breaking free down the left-hand channel. The midfielder's shot needed power and precision but lacked both as Predrag Rajkovic smothered at the second attempt.\n\nSerbia - for all their talent - looked uneasy and had barely a sniff. When they did muster a chance midway through the opening half, it almost yielded the opener, with Sasa Lukic's drive from a Mitrovic lay-off whistling inches wide.\n\nIt was an isolated scare, though, and the interval did nothing to halt Scotland's momentum. They should have led early in the second half when Dykes danced past three defenders and squared for the in-rushing Andy Robertson to blaze over.\n\nA big chance gone. But within moments the disappointment made way for euphoria. Callum McGregor pounced on a stray pass out of Serbia's defence and shuttled the ball to his Celtic team-mate. Christie's nifty footwork opened up the space for a shot and he arrowed in off the base of the post.\n\nScotland were in dreamland. Serbia had been pretty abject so far - surely there was an onslaught to come? The nagging doubt that it could all go horribly wrong kept gnawing away at fans ingrained in glorious failure.\n\nClarke's men could have put the tie to bed - a McGregor strike drifted wide and Christie was agonisingly close with a curling effort.\n\nBut Serbia began to hammer at the door in the frantic closing stages. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Mitrovic and Jovic all thundered headers narrowly past Marshall's right-hand upright.\n\nBy now it was an excruciating watch. And - in true Scotland fashion - the sucker-punch arrived. Serbia slung over a corner and Jovic had lost his marker to send a header down into the turf and up over Marshall into the top corner.\n• None Podcast: All the reaction to an epic game\n• None Can you name the men Clarke has emulated?\n\nClarke's men were crestfallen, but not out for the count. Extra time was arduous with Serbia on top as Nemanja Gudelj's dipping drive brought out a brilliant diving save from Marshall and Aleksandar Katai had pot-shots either side of the interval.\n\nThe Tartan Army's fingernails were nibbled nearer the quick but their heroes were not to be denied. Scotland staggered towards the shootout, clearly exhausted. One final push was required and Leigh Griffiths, McGregor, Scott McTominay, Oli McBurnie and Kenny McLean all delivered from the spot.\n\nThen Marshall flung himself to his left to palm away Mitrovic's effort. Cue bedlam in the Scotland ranks as two decades of frustration poured out. Scotland are back.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nThis can be the start of something special for a Scotland squad who have the mentality to match their talent. The devastating blow of conceding a last-minute equaliser would have broken lesser men.\n\nYet Clarke's players dug in with a sheer bloody-minded refusal to be beaten, then showed nerves of steel - and no little skill - in the shootout.\n\nGoal hero Christie's tearful and poignant post-match interview captured the mood of a nation. He and his team-mates have delivered where so many before them failed.\n• None Scotland's men have reached a major tournament for the first time since the 1998 World Cup and their first European Championship since 1996.\n• None Christie's goal was Scotland's first against Serbia, in their third meeting.\n• None Christie has scored four in his past five games for Scotland, having failed to net in his previous nine.\n• None Scotland are unbeaten in nine consecutive games (W6 D3). They last enjoyed a longer run without defeat in February 1930 (11 games).\n• None Serbia have now failed to qualify for the Euros in each of their four attempts since first competing as an independent country in 2006.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"It's been a very difficult time for everyone. We spoke about trying to make the nation smile, hopefully we've done our bit.\n\n\"Every player turned up and not just the ones that started, I'm also talking about the players from the bench and the whole squad.\"\n\nScotland will have to peel themselves off the ceiling for a double-header to end their Nations League campaign away to Slovakia (14:00 GMT) on Sunday and Israel (19:45) on Wednesday.\n• None Penalty saved! Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(4), Scotland 1(5). Kenny McLean (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(4), Scotland 1(4). Aleksandar Katai (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(3), Scotland 1(4). Oliver McBurnie (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(3), Scotland 1(3). Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(2), Scotland 1(3). Scott McTominay (Scotland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(2), Scotland 1(2). Luka Jovic (Serbia) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(1), Scotland 1(2). Callum McGregor (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1(1), Scotland 1(1). Dusan Tadic (Serbia) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Serbia 1, Scotland 1(1). Leigh Griffiths (Scotland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A hilarious look at trying to grow up", "Black people are twice as likely as white people to catch the coronavirus, a study of 18 million people suggests.\n\nThe research also indicates Asian people are 1.5 times more likely than white people to be infected - and may be more likely to need intensive care.\n\nResearchers say their findings are of \"urgent public-health importance\" and raise questions about how vaccines will be prioritised within at-risk groups.\n\nThe work, in EClinical Medicine, adds support to other studies' findings.\n\nThere has been mounting evidence people belonging to ethnic minorities are at greater risk from Covid-19.\n\nBut whether the risks centre around a higher likelihood of catching the disease or of developing more severe illness from the virus is not fully understood.\n\nThe researchers at the universities of Leicester and Nottingham looked at data from eight UK and 42 US studies.\n\nSome tentative evidence suggests Asian people may be at higher risk of death than other groups, they found.\n\nBut lead researcher Dr Manish Pareek said there was little evidence the risks were driven by genetic factors.\n\nPeople belonging to ethnic minorities were more likely to work in front-line roles and live in large households with several generations, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFellow lead researcher Dr Shirley Sze said: \"The clear evidence of increased risk of infection among ethnic minority groups is of urgent public health importance.\n\n\"We must work to minimise exposure to the virus in these at-risk groups by facilitating their timely access to healthcare resources and target the social and structural disparities that contribute to health inequalities.\"\n\nThe researchers suggest \"racism and structural discrimination may also contribute to an increased risk of worse clinical outcomes within ethnic minority communities\".\n\nIt comes after a scientific adviser to the government previously suggested racism did not explain the increased risk to people belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nDr Raghib Ali, speaking last month at a briefing on a government report about Covid disparities, said ethnicity should no longer be used to judge whether people were at greater risk from the virus.\n\nHe added focusing on all those at higher risk due to the underlying factors, such as jobs and housing, would help more people overall - from all ethnic groups.\n• None Ethnic minority Covid risk 'not down to racism'", "Helga Wauters said she would \"regret this death [her] entire life\"\n\nA Belgian anaesthetist has been jailed for three years after a British woman died following a botched emergency Caesarean.\n\nHelga Wauters, 51, was also banned from practising following a court hearing in France on Thursday.\n\nShe was found guilty of manslaughter over the death of 28-year-old Xynthia Hawke in 2014.\n\nWauters pushed a breathing tube into Ms Hawke's oesophagus instead of her windpipe, investigators said.\n\nShe was under the influence of alcohol during the procedure.\n\nWauters did not appear in court on Thursday. Ms Hawke's partner, meanwhile, travelled to attend the proceedings in the French city of Pau.\n\nMs Hawke was admitted to Orthez hospital near Pau in September 2014. She was given an epidural by Wauters, but problems occurred during the birth which meant an emergency Caesarean was needed.\n\nWauters, a chronic alcoholic, admitted being an alcoholic who started \"every day\" drinking vodka and water. She also said she had a glass of wine before she was called back to the hospital for the Caesarean.\n\nWitnesses reported smelling alcohol on her when she returned. When she was taken into custody, the alcohol content in her blood was 2.38 grams per litre, or the equivalent of around 10 glasses of wine.\n\nThe 51-year-old was less than two weeks into the job when she inserted the breathing tube incorrectly. She also allegedly used an oxygen mask instead of a ventilator.\n\nMs Hawke, who is from Somerset in the UK, woke up during the operation and began vomiting and shouting \"it hurts\", witnesses said. One nurse told the court the scene was like a war zone.\n\nShe suffered a cardiac arrest and died four days after the procedure, but her baby boy survived.\n\nBut Wauters denied being solely responsible for the death and insisted other staff were to blame. She claimed the ventilator was not working at the time - but investigators found this to be untrue.\n\nOn Thursday, the court ordered her to pay almost 1.4 million euros (£1.25m; $1.65m) in damages to Ms Hawke's family.\n\n\"Justice has set an example for this type of doctor who, in my eyes, is not a doctor,\" her partner Yannick Balthazar said.\n\nWauters moved to France after she was fired from her job at a Belgian hospital for being under the influence of alcohol.\n\nThe recruitment company that hired her did not check her credentials or disciplinary record, investigators said.\n\n\"I recognise now that my addiction was incompatible with my job,\" Ms Wauters said during an earlier hearing, according to the AFP news agency. \"I will regret this death my entire life.\"", "The fire caused an estimated £47,500-worth of damage to the hospital ward\n\nA man has been jailed for five years after admitting causing a fire at a hospital by lighting a cigarette.\n\nLee Williams, of Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was wearing an oxygen mask when he lit the cigarette on a ward at University Hospital of Wales.\n\nThe fire caused almost £50,000-worth of damage, a court heard.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker and arson with intent to endanger life at a hearing at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nNurses had to evacuate 38 patients after the fire took hold on the ward, which was subsequently closed for two weeks in May 2019.\n\nLee Williams had been treated with oxygen and a nebuliser prior to the blaze\n\nWilliams, 44, had been receiving treatment for two weeks on the C5 ward at the hospital when the fire happened.\n\nThe court heard Williams had been told on three previous occasions he was not allowed to smoke on the ward, but Williams told them he would smoke if he wanted to.\n\nHe had been found in his bed with a lit cigarette the day before the blaze, but appeared to be sleeping.\n\nA nurse took away the lit cigarette and he was again warned against smoking in the hospital.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Kendall told the court: \"The ward was forced to close for two weeks and medical staff had treatment for smoke inhalation.\"\n\nMedical staff needed treatment for smoke inhalation in the aftermath of the blaze\n\nHe added an investigation found that \"smoking while using an oxygen mask\" was the \"probable cause\" of the fire.\n\nThe fire caused £47,500 worth of damage and the closure \"added pressure to the rest of the hospital\".\n\nWilliams suffered a blackened nose and injuries to his mouth after the fire.\n\nLaurence Jones, defending, said Williams \"may have been in a state of confusion through self-medication\".\n\nJudge David Wynn Morgan said: \"You were told in the clearest terms you could not smoke in the hospital.\n\n\"The dangers of fire were made clear to you. Your response was: 'I don't care, it is my decision to have a cigarette'.\n\n\"You put at risk the life of the doctor who rushed to treat you, the two nurses who helped, the security staff who put out the fire, and the 38 patients who had to be evacuated in the thick smoke.\"", "A&E visits in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began.\n\nBefore the pandemic, about two million patients a month were visiting A&E but in April that dropped to 916,581.\n\nNHS bosses are concerned seriously ill patients are being put off seeking treatment.\n\nDrops in cancer referrals and routine operations were also seen as services were scaled back and staff redeployed.\n\nHealth experts said it could take months to get the NHS back to normal and tackle the backlog.\n\nThe drop in A&E visits - to just above 900,000 in April - was the lowest since records began in 2010.\n\nBefore the coronavirus outbreak, more than 2.1 million patients a month were visiting A&E. In March that dropped to 1.53 million.\n\nThere is particular concern that patients who have suffered strokes and heart problems have stayed away because of fears over coronavirus.\n\nNHS England clinical director for stroke Dr Deb Lowe said she and her fellow doctors were \"really worried\" that the numbers seeking help for stroke care had gone down.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancer\n\nData for other areas lags a month behind - so for routine treatments and cancer care NHS England has only been able to publish the data for March. Lockdown was announced in late March.\n\nGPs made 181,873 urgent cancer referrals during March - down from 196,425 on the same month in 2019.\n\nThe number of patients admitted for routine surgery and treatment, such as knee and hip operations, dropped by a third to 207,754, down from 305,356 in March 2019.\n\nHospitals were told to start stopping routine care to free up beds for the coronavirus peak.\n\nAt the end of last month Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged hospitals to re-start routine treatments - guidance has now been updated advising patients to isolate for two weeks before going in for surgery\n\nMeanwhile, community services have had to be scaled back as staff have been redeployed and face-to-face contact has had to be restricted.\n\nHealth visitors, for example, have been having to carry out most of their consultations with new mothers via phone or using video technology.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support chief executive Lynda Thomas said despite urgent cancer care being prioritised during the lockdown, services were still affected, while she fears some patients were put off seeking help.\n\n\"Cancer must not become the forgotten 'C' in this pandemic.\"\n\nThree leading think tanks - the Nuffield Trust, King's Fund and Health Foundation - said restoring services was going to take time.\n\nThey warned staff were exhausted because they had been working flat out and needed time to recover.\n\nThe availability of protective kit, such as aprons and goggles, would need to be improved and expanded, while changes would need to be made to allow for social distancing and extra cleaning.\n\nWhat is more, capacity would still need to be set aside for a second peak.\n\nThe NHS is expected to use the space at the 10 field hospitals - known as Nightingales in England - to provide some of this. Only two of them are currently being used.\n\nNuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards said: \"With the virus still at large there is no easy route back to the way things were before.\n\n\"Unfortunately that will mean people waiting much longer and some services being put on hold.\"", "Coronavirus vaccinations could be given to people in north Wales from December, a health board executive has said.\n\nDr Chris Stockport, from Betsi Cadwaladr health board, told a meeting that plans to conduct mass vaccinations were \"well advanced\".\n\nDr Stockport said work had been going on for months to organise how vaccines would be distributed in the UK.\n\nIt follows news of a vaccine trial by Pfizer appeared to show its injections gave 90% protection from Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDetailed information about how long people are protected and what age groups it will be most effective for are yet to be made public.\n\nAn Oxford University/AstraZeneca trial of a different vaccine is also said to be close to producing preliminary results.\n\nAccording to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Dr Stockport said: \"We are formalising those plans now that a date is starting to become a little clearer and a little closer.\n\n\"We will be in a position in north Wales to do what we need to do in delivering that vaccination when it becomes available.\"\n\nIt is envisaged key staff, such as health and social care workers, would be first in line to get the new vaccine when it arrives.\n\nThe most vulnerable in society are likely to be immunised next, before specific age groups are called in to be protected.", "Fashion giant Hugo Boss has dropped its legal fight with an artist over his use of the word \"boss\" in a clothing range.\n\nJohn Charles, from Huyton, Merseyside, planned to launch the merchandise as a spin-off from online art lessons he started during the first lockdown.\n\nMr Charles, who ends lessons by saying \"Be boss, be kind\", said an agreement had been reached over the slogan.\n\nHugo Boss confirmed it had \"reached an amicable solution with Mr Charles that does justice to both sides\".\n\nThe artist's sign-off was so popular it led to a demand for merchandise with the motto, which caught the attention of the German fashion brand.\n\nThe word \"boss\" is Liverpool slang for great.\n\nMr Charles said: \"I'm buzzing - it is just boss. The key thing is that we're able to continue our free online art classes and release our merchandise.\"\n\nThe artist says he has no desire to rival the global brand\n\nMr Charles conducted his first meeting alongside his wife Jen with Hugo Boss officials over Skype, before a company offering pro bono legal advice took over the negotiations.\n\nHe said he wanted to say a \"massive thank you\" to people who had given him \"overwhelming\" public support.\n\n\"Hugo Boss were really sound. Very friendly,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"By the end of the call we had them all laughing and one of their reps said she will get her kid to join in on one of our live online art classes.\"\n\nMore than 27,000 people logged into Mr Charles' free online classes which he devised with the help of his 10-year-old daughter.\n\n\"We always wanted to finish positively which is why we said 'Be boss, be kind',\" he said.\n\nJohn Charles and his wife spoke to the company over Skype\n\nPeople from Australia, Italy and Mexico were among those who took part.\n\nThe artist began marketing the slogan after people started asking for baseball caps, T-shirts and hoodies.\n\nMoney from the merchandise is being put into a trust fund for his daughter.\n\nHe received a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of Hugo Boss after he applied to trademark \"Be Boss, Be Kind\" in July.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Lucy Letby was arrested for a third time on Tuesday\n\nA nurse has been charged with murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of another 10 at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nLucy Letby, 30, was previously arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a probe into deaths at the neo-natal unit.\n\nThe charges relate to baby deaths and non-fatal collapses at the hospital from June 2015 to June 2016.\n\nMs Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is due to appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016\n\nShe was rearrested by police on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the hospital which began in 2017.\n\nA statement from Cheshire Police said: \"The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Cheshire Police to charge a healthcare professional with murder in connection with an ongoing investigation into a number of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the force said parents of all the babies involved were being kept fully updated on developments and were supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The students hung up a banner reading: \"Put students and staff before profits.\"\n\nStudents are \"occupying\" a University of Manchester building in a protest against \"extremely high\" rents and a claimed lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey accuse the university of \"putting profits before students\" and have asked for rents to be reduced by 40%.\n\nIzzy Smitheman, 18, said they had enough food to stay there for a week but could get more.\n\nThe university said it was \"already engaging\" with student unions.\n\nMs Smitheman, who is studying English Literature and French, said she was protesting at the Owens Park Tower in Fallowfield because the university had \"put us on unsafe campuses, paying extremely high rent\" and she felt there had been a lack of support.\n\n\"They brought us here for profit rather than our safety,\" she said, adding: \"We've tried protesting and withholding our rent but the university won't respond to our demands with support.\"\n\nThe students say they are following social distancing guidelines\n\nLast week, students living at the University of Manchester's Fallowfield halls of residence tore down \"prison-like\" fencing erected around their campus on day one of England's national lockdown.\n\nMs Smitheman said the university had tried \"fearmongering and threatening\" students who have not paid their rent as part of the UoM Rent Strike action group.\n\n\"This is the same university that fenced us in and told us when we were isolating to put on a mask and get to the shops,\" she said.\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"I thought the university would be on our side and try help us but it feels like it is us against them. They're here to take our money and that's all they care about.\"\n\nAnother protester Ben McGowan said: \"There have been so many mistakes made by the university.\n\n\"The state of the accommodation has been ridiculous with regular flooding in the rooms.\"\n\nHe said he wanted a refund on rent paid for December as new government guidelines meant he had to leave the accommodation, but the university had \"refused to engage\" and he had been \"threatened with fines\".\n\nBarnaby Peter, a first year student who is also a rent striker, said he had been told his contract would be terminated if he continued to withhold rent.\n\n\"We are being charged for things like use of common room facilities which are actually shut, among other things.\n\n\"We are also not being provided adequate mental health support.\"\n\nSecurity has already removed the protesters' banner\n\nA University of Manchester spokesperson said a \"handful of students\" were protesting in an empty residential building and they had been told \"they shouldn't be there\" and they could be breaking Covid-19 public health regulations.\n\nThe university statement added: \"We are already engaging with elected Students' Union representatives about many of the issues being highlighted by the protestors.\"\n\nMs Smitheman said: \"We are forming a household. We are aware of Covid and are wearing masks and socially distancing.\n\n\"We're not doing it for ourselves but for every other student on campus.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers would support the university \"wherever necessary\" to deal with those involved.\n\n\"We condemn any breaches of Covid legislation and the risk it poses to those present, the emergency services and the wider public,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adrian Grant, Gareth Delbridge's nephew, said the report was \"too little, too late\"\n\nTwo workers were struck and killed by a train partly because of a long-term failure by Network Rail to improve track safety, an investigation found.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael Lewis, 58, were hit by a Swansea to Paddington train in July 2019.\n\nThe Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) said they were part of a group of six carrying out maintenance work at Margam.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"It should never have happened on our railway.\"\n\nIn its report, the RAIB said Network Rail's \"long-term failure to improve the safety of people working on the railway\" was an underlying factor in the deaths.\n\nGareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train in July 2019\n\nA third worker also came \"very close\" to being hit while the group of six carried out maintenance work, it said.\n\n\"Over a period of many years, Network Rail had not adequately addressed the protection of track workers from moving trains,\" the report said.\n\n\"The major changes required to fully implement significant changes to the standard governing track worker safety were not effectively implemented across Network Rail's maintenance organisation.\"\n\nIt made 11 recommendations, nine aimed specifically at Network Rail - which cover safe work planning processes, developing safety behaviours among staff, and research into train horns automatically sounding when safety brakes are applied.\n\nNetwork Rail's route director for Wales, Billy Kelly, said thoughts remained with the family of the men, adding the way it worked was \"fundamentally changing\".\n\n\"We've already halved the amount of work taking place while lines are open to traffic and are on course to dramatically reduce it further by 2022,\" he said.\n\n\"A safety task force, comprising of more than 100 people, has also been set up to further improve safety on the railway.\"\n\nThe men were hit and killed by the 09:29 service from Swansea to London Paddington\n\nMr Delbridge's son-in-law, Adrian Grant, said the family were \"devastated\" but could take comfort that they can be part of \"putting something right\".\n\nHe said: \"It is a real catalogue of errors. It's very antiquated and needs updating. It needs to be brought into the 21st Century.\n\n\"Even though the report goes into improvements and what network rail are trying to improve, for these two families it's too little too late.\n\nMr Grant said the report was a \"catalogue of errors\"\n\n\"Today both families are in shock because it brings everything flooding back but we can take a little bit of comfort from these findings.\n\n\"And we just hope our voices are heard and Network Rail follow through on the recommendations.\n\n\"We'll never have full closure. Families can be prepared for a family member who is ill or poor health but these guys just went to work, something they've done all their lives but they never came home.\"\n\nRAIB chief inspector of rail accidents Simon French said: \"I remain hopeful that the rail industry will find a way to address these thorny and persistent issues.\n\n\"There is now a real sense that things must change. We've come a long way since the days when fatal accidents involving track workers were commonplace.\n\n\"However, it's now time for some clear thinking on how best to further reduce the risk to our colleagues.\"\n\nThere were no formally appointed lookouts at the site where them men were hit and killed, the report found.\n\n\"All three workers were almost certainly wearing ear defenders, because one of them was using a noisy power tool, and all had become focused on the task they were undertaking,\" it added.\n\n\"None of them was aware that the train was approaching until it was too late for them to move to a position of safety.\"\n\nThe men were hit and killed by the 09:29 service from Swansea to London Paddington\n\nIt also detailed how the driver made an \"emergency application of the train's brakes\" about nine seconds before the accident.\n\nThe train was travelling at about 50mph (80km/h) when it hit the track workers.\n\nPlanning paperwork indicated work was due to start at 12:30 to coincide with the planned blockage of the a line, but workers began at about 08:50.\n\nThe Office of Road and Rail, which regulates the rail industry's health and safety performance, said it would continue its own investigation while welcoming the report's findings.\n\nChief inspector of railways Ian Prosser said: \"Track worker safety is paramount and in the 18 months prior to the incident at Margam we undertook additional inspections following our growing concerns that Network Rail was not doing enough to control risks to track workers.\n\n\"These inspections had resulted in formal enforcement action being taken. Network Rail responded by forming a significant task force to bring about much needed improvements.\"\n\nRail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash said: \"All parties in the industry need to reflect on the implications of the report and strive to put track safety as a top priority and make the necessary changes with the aim of eliminating fatalities and serious injuries.\"", "The number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 was the highest since records began. By 2019 youth violence was being called a \"national emergency\" with MPs calling on the government to \"get a grip\" on the crisis in the wake of a string of teenagers being killed.\n\nTo find out more about what was going on behind the headlines the BBC started to track the killings across the UK in 2019, looking at the lives of the people affected.\n\nWhile the suggestion was that gang violence and cuts to police numbers was the problem, the BBC project highlighted a far more complicated picture.\n\nWe reported on the first 100 victims of fatal stabbings in 2019 which showed those killed were mostly young and male.\n\nBut we also saw a rise in \"invisible victims of knife crime\" - those killed in incidents of domestic violence and highlighted how the excessive use of drugs and alcohol was a major factor in attacks across the UK.\n\nThe project has now examined the first 100 killings. This includes fatal stabbings, as well as deaths caused by shooting, assault and smothering.\n\nWe've identified 100 people held legally responsible for most of the deaths. In some cases, more than one killer was involved.\n\nThe age range of killers is wide but more than a quarter were teenagers - 14 of them were children (under 18).\n\nEvidence in their trials revealed a pattern of abuse or neglect, mental health problems and limited educational attainment in the background of the young killers.\n\nThe circumstances of each killing is varied but there are also some strikingly common themes. Many were influenced by drugs and alcohol and some impacted with serious mental health problems.\n\nBut although such cases naturally grab the headlines, the violence generated by the market in illicit drugs doesn't tell the whole story.\n\nFrom the dozens of murder trials we followed across the country, the killings were actually more likely to be the result of rows settled under the influence of drink and drugs rather than turf wars.\n\nMost of the killers had been in trouble with the law before. Some were prolific offenders.\n\nOver a fifth of the killers had links to street gangs, illustrating why police and government prioritise tackling this to drive down serious violence. But domestic killings also feature prominently.\n\nMost of the 100 killings (66) led to criminal convictions, others went to inquests where a suspect had taken their own life after carrying out a homicide.\n\nSome trials are waiting to be heard, having been delayed by Covid-19. The 13 cases with no charges include those that went to inquests and seven which are currently unsolved.\n\nBy January this year our research found the number of people killed across the UK actually fell in 2019 for the first time in five years.\n\nIt remains unclear what impact the pandemic will have on levels of violent crime in the UK but since lockdown restrictions began charities say there has been a rise in the number of people seeking help for domestic abuse and fears that higher rates of unemployment, homelessness and trauma could lead to an increase in violence, particularly among vulnerable young people.\n\nIf you can't see this interactive, click this link.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughters, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper Ray Clemence has died aged 72.\n\nClemence, who won five league titles and three European Cups with Liverpool between 1967 and 1981, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2005.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the Clemence family said he \"passed away peacefully today surrounded by his loving family\".\n\n\"After fighting so hard, for such a long time, he's now at peace and in no more pain,\" they added.\n\nAs well as league and European Cup success, Clemence also won the FA Cup, League Cup and two Uefa Cups during his time at Anfield.\n• None 'He was one of the world's best keepers' - Phil McNulty looks back at Clemence's life\n\nHe made 470 league appearances for Liverpool before joining Tottenham.\n\nDuring his seven-year spell at Spurs, Clemence helped the club retain the FA Cup in 1982 and clocked up 330 appearances.\n\nThe legendary goalkeeper, capped by England on 61 occasions, also worked on the north London club's coaching staff and was inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame in November 2014.\n\nClemence made his England debut in 1972 and spent the majority of his 11-year international career in a battle with Peter Shilton for the number one shirt.\n\nHe captained the Three Lions for the first and only time in a narrow defeat to Brazil at Wembley in 1981 and later took up the role of goalkeeper coach with the Football Association.\n\nHis wife Veronica, son Stephen - a former Spurs midfielder and current assistant coach at Newcastle United - and daughters Sarah and Julie said: \"The family would like to say a huge thank you, for all the love and support that he's received over the years.\n\n\"He was loved so much by us all and he will never be forgotten.\"\n\nShilton wrote on Twitter : \"I'm absolutely devastated to be told of the sad news that Ray Clemence has just passed away. We were rivals but good friends.\n\n\"Ray was a brilliant goalkeeper with a terrific sense of humour. I will miss him a great deal as we've kept friends long after retiring. RIP my friend.\"\n\nLiverpool great Sir Kenny Dalglish said: \"Today we have lost a true legend. Clem was a fantastic team-mate and great to be around. I will never forget how he helped me to settle in at Anfield.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the Clemence family. RIP Clem.\"\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate added: \"He was a very special man and my thoughts are with his family. I've got to know them reasonably well over the years and I know he's had some really difficult battles with illness. It's a very sad day.\"\n\n'An LFC giant who was also a giant of a man' - tributes from former players", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blast off: Watch the SpaceX rocket head into space\n\nFour astronauts - three from the US and one from Japan - have launched from Florida on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nThe crew rode to orbit in a rocket and capsule provided by the SpaceX company.\n\nIt's only the second time the firm has supplied the service.\n\nThe US space agency Nasa has said it is now entering a new era in which routine astronaut journeys to low-Earth orbit are being conducted by commercial providers.\n\nThe four individuals making their way up to the ISS are the Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and the highly experienced Japanese space agency (Jaxa) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.\n\nBy participating in this mission, Noguchi becomes only the third person in history to leave Earth in three different types of space vehicle, having previously flown on Soyuz and shuttle hardware.\n\nThe traditional \"walk-out\": The suited crew waved to family and friends\n\nThe crew's Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule left the pad at the Kennedy Space Center at 19:27 local time (00:27 GMT, Monday).\n\nIt took 12 minutes for the Falcon to get the Dragon into the right part of the sky and drop it off.\n\n\"Well done, that was one heck of a ride,\" crew commander Mike Hopkins radioed down to controllers. \"Congratulations to everyone. Resilience is in orbit.\"\n\n\"Resilience\" is the name the astronauts have given their capsule.\n\nThe ship will use its own thrusters to complete the rest of the journey up to the station. A docking with the orbiting platform is set for about 0400 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joe Biden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen the team arrives, it will join Nasa's Kate Rubins and Russian space agency (Roscosmos) cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.\n\nHaving seven people on the 410km-high outpost will triple the amount of science that can be performed in its special microgravity environment.\n\nThe crew was driven down to the launch pad in a convoy of Tesla electric cars\n\nSpaceX has signed contracts with Nasa valued in excess of $3bn (£2.3bn) to develop, test and fly an astronaut taxi service.\n\nAs part of this relationship, the company ran a demonstration mission in May in which astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken were taken to the station and then returned safely to Earth.\n\nThe contracted arrangements also call for six \"operational\", or routine, missions - this flight being the first.\n\n\"The big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and test and into operational flights. And in fact this operational flight was licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. So this is a truly a commercial launch,\" commented Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine.\n\nNasa has a similar deal with the Boeing aerospace company, although its service is more than a year behind SpaceX.\n\nThe agency says its new model of contracting out transportation to low-Earth orbit is saving billions of dollars in procurement costs.\n\nIt intends to use these economies to fund its Moon and Mars ambitions. To that end, Nasa is close to testing the giant new rocket it has commissioned to take astronauts back to the lunar surface, a goal it hopes to attain in 2024, or soon after.\n\nHopkins, Glover, Walker and Noguchi will stay on the ISS for six months.\n\nJust before they return to Earth, they'll be joined aloft by another SpaceX-launched crew for a brief handover.\n\nIndeed, the coming year is going to be very busy for the Californian service provider with plenty of trips up to the station being made by both its crewed and cargo-only versions of Dragon.\n\n\"In the next 15 months, we should be flying roughly seven Dragon missions. And this mission represents the initiation of a Dragon in orbit continuously - knocking on wood - and certainly is really the beginning of a new era in human spaceflight,\" said SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell.\n\nThe company president was in attendance at Kennedy, carrying out media duties in place of founder and CEO Elon Musk who is said to be suffering a mild case of Covid.\n\nA dramatic shot of the Merlin engines firing at the base of the Falcon rocket\n\nNasa retired its winged space shuttles in 2011. In the intervening years, it's been buying seats for its astronauts on Russian Soyuz vehicles.\n\nThis purchase option will now close in favour of the new American-sourced taxis. But US astronauts will continue to go to the station on Soyuz from time to time - it's just that no money will change hands.\n\nInstead, Russian cosmonauts will get flights in the American capsules in exchange.\n\nSoichi Noguchi has now flown in a SpaceX Dragon, a Soyuz capsule and a space shuttle\n\nThe new crew will have at least four spacewalks to perform in their time at the station.\n\nIn one of those walks, they will install the first significant UK industrial contribution to the platform.\n\nThis is the ColKa communications terminal. Made by MDA UK, the radio equipment will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds.\n\nColKa will be fixed to the exterior of Europe's ISS research module, Columbus.\n\nThe UK participates on the station through its membership of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental organisation that is a separate legal entity to the European Union.\n\nWill the UK have a seat on a space taxi? Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency\n\nThe UK participates in the International Space Station, because the UK Space Agency exploration programme is part of the European Space Agency programme.\n\nWe already have British scientists who are able to use the facilities on the ISS. And there are some experiments in development now to be carried out aboard the space station in the coming years. One, called the BioAsteroid project, run by the University of Edinburgh, will investigate how gravity affects the interaction between microbes and rock in reduced gravity.\n\nAstronauts on these space taxis will be taking these UK-led experiments to and from the space station. And much of the science can actually be operated remotely from the ground.\n\nWe may well also see British astronauts flying on this vehicle in the future, too.\n\nThe British antenna terminal will be attached to the station during a spacewalk", "Global share prices have surged following news of a second breakthrough coronavirus vaccine, following last week's positive results from Pfizer.\n\nInterim data from the US firm Moderna suggests its vaccine is highly effective in preventing people getting ill and works across all age groups.\n\nThe news pushed Moderna shares more than 9% higher and the Dow to a record.\n\nIt also lifted firms hit by the virus, with British Airways owner IAG rising 10% and Cineworld up 13.5%.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high, after jumping about 1.6%. The wider S&P 500 increased almost 1.2% from Friday's record and the Nasdaq gained 0.8%.\n\nEarlier, the UK's FTSE 100 share index closed about 1.6% higher, while the main market in Paris rose 1.7% and in Germany shares gained 0.5%.\n\nLast week, stock markets enjoyed one of their best ever days when a vaccine by Pfizer/BioNTech raised hopes that the business world might return to normal next year. A number of other vaccines are also being developed.\n\nThe gains spurred by Moderna's news on Monday were more muted but still helped the MSCI World Index of global shares to rise further, climbing to a new record high.\n\nFirms that have been hit most badly in the pandemic have seen the biggest rises. In the travel sector, cruise line Carnival jumped more than 10%, while Intercontinental Hotels closed almost 5% higher.\n\nThe prospect of an end to lockdowns also helped oil prices strengthen. Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude prices were up about 3%, and shares in energy companies also gained.\n\nThe price of gold - which is often seen as a safer asset in times of uncertainty - slipped 0.7% before recovering.\n\nTerry Sandven, chief equity strategist at US Bank Wealth Management, said markets are being driven by a \"tug-of-war between optimism over COVID-19 vaccine progress versus fear of economic slowing as COVID-19 cases continue to rise\".\n\nBut he said low interest rates, stimulus and medical progress give him a \"glass half-full\" outlook.\n\n\"We expect equity prices to inch higher into year-end and 2021, with increased volatility being more the norm than exception,\" he said,\n\nUntil vaccines can be rolled out, rising cases of the coronavirus were a risk, said Morgan Stanley strategists in a research note to investors.\n\nBut the investment bank urged shareholders to \"keep the faith... We think this global recovery is sustainable, synchronous and supported by policy\".", "Boris Johnson has come under fire for reportedly telling a virtual meeting of Conservative MPs that devolution had been a \"disaster\" in Scotland.\n\nMr Johnson also reportedly described it as predecessor Tony Blair's \"biggest mistake\".\n\nThe SNP and Labour have both criticised the prime minister.\n\nBut Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said Mr Johnson has \"always supported devolution\".\n\n\"What he does feel strongly, and I would agree, is that devolution in Scotland has facilitated the rise of separatism and nationalism in the form of the SNP, and that that's trying to break apart the United Kingdom,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Anybody, like the prime minister, who loves the UK wants to keep it together thinks that that's a very, very dangerous and disappointing outcome that we need to battle against.\"\n\nMr Johnson was in a Zoom meeting with Tory MPs representing dozens of seats in northern England on Monday when he is said to have made the remarks.\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported the PM had told the MPs \"devolution has been a disaster north of the border\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSNP MP Drew Henry said the prime minister's comments \"underline the contempt that Boris Johnson and the Scottish Tories have for the people of Scotland\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast he said: \"Effectively what they are saying is it's alright for Scotland to have devolution as long as they vote for the Westminster party we want them to.\"\n\nDevolution is the name for the way powers once held by the government in Westminster have been passed to elected groups in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDevolved powers include health, housing, fire services, some areas of transport and education. However, Scotland has always had its own education system and a separate legal system.\n\nThe UK government, based in London, has kept many powers, such as defence, foreign policy and most forms of tax.\n\nPublic votes about devolution were held in 1997 in Scotland and Wales, and in both parts of Ireland in 1998, as part of the Good Friday Agreement. It led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSome parts of England have directly-elected mayors, who also have devolved powers. The mayor of London, for example, is responsible for transport and policing in the capital.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government brought in devolution for Scotland in 1999, including the setting up of a parliament in Edinburgh.\n\nA Downing Street source said: \"The PM has always supported devolution, but Tony Blair failed to foresee the rise of separatists in Scotland.\n\n\"Devolution is great - but not when it's used by separatists and nationalists to break up the UK.\"\n\nThis comes six months before vital elections right across the UK, important particularly in Scotland, just when the SNP has been starting to warm up its campaign, and just when discussions about how the UK government ought to respond are taking place too.\n\nIt is one thing - and, of course, legitimate - for political rivals to criticise each other. But to suggest the way that Scotland has been run for more than a decade is a \"disaster\" is quite another.\n\nAnd the worry among Scottish Tories is the implication that Boris Johnson's understanding of the political situation is far from complete.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross insisted the prime minister \"believes in devolution\", adding: \"I'm saying very clearly devolution is not the problem.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Mr Ross said: \"The problem has been the SNP government's obsession with separating Scotland from rest of the UK.\n\n\"My efforts are focused on holding the SNP government to account, because they have failed.\n\n\"Any other discussion is a distraction from the key aim that we have to do to improve services right across the country.\n\n\"These are all services that the SNP have been in charge of and in control of for thirteen and half years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElections for the Scottish Parliament take place next May. The SNP is currently the largest party with 61 MSPs and the Conservative Party is the second-largest with 31 - eight seats ahead of Labour.\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP says a second referendum on independence - following Scotland's vote against it in 2014 - should happen if her party wins. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nIn response to Mr Johnson's reported remarks to Tory MPs, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Worth bookmarking these PM comments for the next time Tories say they're not a threat to the powers of the Scottish Parliament - or, even more incredibly, that they support devolving more powers.\"\n\nThe SNP is seeking a mandate for another independence referendum in May's election\n\nShe added that the \"only way to protect and strengthen\" the Scottish Parliament was through independence for Scotland.\n\nBut the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Devolution has not been a disaster. The SNP's non-stop obsession with another referendum - above jobs, schools and everything else - has been a disaster.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the \"Neanderthal\" reported remarks made by the PM \"expose the underlying thinking and philosophy in Downing Street\".\n\nHe told BBC News the comments were \"reminiscent of the voices of Thatcherism and Majorism of the 1980s and 1990s, which were steadfastly opposed to devolution\".\n\n\"In my view, what Boris Johnson is doing is defying the popular will of the people of Scotland, and I don't think that's a very good place for any prime minister to be in.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, who served as Scottish secretary during the coalition government, said Boris Johnson \"is not making it easier to resist the demands for another independence referendum\".\n\nHe added that the prime minister was a \"bigger threat to the continuation of the United Kingdom than Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond could ever hope to be\".\n\nIt has been suggested by some taking part in the MPs' Zoom meeting that Mr Johnson was answering a question that had been put to him about devolution in England.", "Police officers stood at the entrance to the church's Mount Zion Hall building, stopping people from entering\n\nPolice halted a baptism service after about 30 worshippers gathered in breach of national lockdown restrictions.\n\nRegan King, lead pastor at The Angel Church, Islington, defended his decision to hold the service, saying it served \"the greater good\".\n\nThe pastor agreed to hold a brief \"socially distanced outdoor gathering in the church courtyard\" after officers halted the service.\n\nFour officers stood at the entrance stopping people from entering.\n\nUnder current restrictions weddings and baptisms are not allowed in England. Funerals can be attended by a maximum of 30 people.\n\nLead pastor Regan King said he held the baptism because he \"served a greater good\"\n\nMr King, 28, said he wanted to hold the baptism as it was providing \"an essential service\".\n\nHe said: \"We were told not to have a baptism and police began to block people from entering the church, so we decided to make other arrangements.\"\n\nAsked why he had decided to breach the restrictions, Mr King said: \"Because I believe we serve a greater good.\n\n\"This is an essential service that we provide.\n\n\"It's about loving our neighbour, and you can talk with a number of people here who are extremely vulnerable, homeless or on the verge of being very isolated.\"\n\nTwo police vans and a police car parked outside the church's hall.\n\nA 22-year-old attendee said: \"While the restrictions allow people to go to the supermarket to get food, I think there needs to be consideration for spiritual food as well.\"\n\nOn Friday, more than 100 church leaders launched a judicial review of the decision to ban people from worshipping together.\n\nA Met spokesman said officers spoke with the pastor following reports he intended to hold a \"baptism and an in-person service\".\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Officers explained that due to Covid-19, restrictions are in place preventing gatherings and that financial penalties can be applied if they are breached.\"", "Boris Johnson says the UK will \"prosper\" without a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU\n\nBoris Johnson has reiterated he is \"confident [the UK] will prosper\" outside the EU if a post-Brexit trade deal is not agreed with the bloc.\n\nTalks began again in Brussels on Monday, with the UK's chief negotiator saying there had been \"progress\".\n\nLord David Frost told reporters: \"We're working very hard to get a deal but there's quite a lot to do.\"\n\nHis EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, said he wanted \"future cooperation to be open but fair\" with the UK.\n\nTweeting as talks started, he added: \"We remain determined, patient, respectful.\"\n\nSticking points between the two sides focus on competition rules and state aid for businesses, as well as fishing rights.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said there was still a \"very, very wide gap\" on fishing, with no progress on the issue since the summer.\n\nHe told RTE: \"Until we can find a way of doing that, there isn't going to be an agreement.\"\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but continues to follow the bloc's rules until the end of the year while negotiations take place.\n\nAny deal between the UK and EU would need to be ratified by parliaments on both sides, so time is running out for an agreement to be reached and to get the sign off before 31 December.\n\nIf there is no agreement at that point, trade between the two will default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules - with tariffs set to be introduced on many imports and exports, which could push up costs.\n\nThe government was planning a policy re-launch this week after rows within Downing Street and departures of key members of staff - including Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nAs part of its reset statement, No 10 said the talks this week would be \"crucial\".\n\nThe statement added: \"The prime minister has been clear that we will not accept any proposals in the negotiations that undermine our status as a sovereign, independent country.\n\n\"If the EU don't respect the sovereignty of the UK, we will leave on Australian terms and the prime minister is confident that we will prosper.\"\n\nMr Johnson is now having to self-isolate for 14-days after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nBut in a video made by Downing Street, he said he was \"in good health\", \"had no symptoms\", and would \"continue to lead\" from his flat.\n\nGovernment and EU officials describe this negotiating week as \"crucial\".\n\nTime really is running out now. The standstill transition period, which followed Brexit in January, stops at the end of next month.\n\nBy then, not only does a deal need to have been agreed, but also ratified by parliament in the UK and the EU.\n\nChief UK negotiator David Frost said on Sunday that some progress had been made of late, but that considerable differences remained.\n\nHe said he'd only agree to a deal that respected UK sovereignty and a no deal outcome was still possible.\n\nTo avoid that, the government and the EU know they will have to compromise.\n\nBut who's going to move first? And are both sides prepared to concede enough to clinch a deal?\n\nMeanwhile, the chief executive of the British Ports Association said his industry has found it \"agonising\" to get some of the information from the government about the infrastructure they will need to function after the transition period ends.\n\nGiving evidence to the Lords' EU Goods Sub-Committee, Richard Ballantyne said leaving without a trade deal could make it \"completely impossible\" to accommodate animal and plant products coming into the country.\n\nHe added: \"It would basically put traders at a real disadvantage bringing their goods in to certain routes and gateways if they know that a high percentage of those volumes need to be opened and inspected.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM: More restrictions now may allow easing at Christmas\n\nIntroducing tougher Covid restrictions in the west of Scotland now could help pave the way to easing the rules over Christmas, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister believed it was \"likely\" but \"not inevitable\" that some areas would be moved into level four.\n\nShe said infection rates were still \"stubbornly high\" in some areas.\n\nAnd that could lead to \"less flexibility\" for some limited easing of restrictions over the Christmas period - something she was \"very keen to do\".\n\nShe said the rates of infection also meant that the Scottish government \"do not have as much assurance as we would want\" that hospitals and intensive care facilities would be able to cope over the winter.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that moving to level four restrictions \"for a limited period in some areas\" would address both of those concerns.\n\nShe explained: \"Where we have stubbornly high prevalence, if we want to protect our NHS and if we want to get to a point at Christmas where we might be able to have a bit of easing of restrictions, albeit that will be very careful, then we need to get that prevalence down more right now.\"\n\nQuestioned at her daily briefing, she said: \"I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here - because there is lots of consideration and discussions, not least across the four nations of the UK right now - before we get to a settled point before Christmas.\n\n\"But if you are asking me my priority for Christmas it is to allow families some ability to get together.\n\n\"That should be the priority, and if we do go to level four for any areas tomorrow then part of it, not the whole reason, is to try to get prevalence down to the point where we think we can have some limited easing around that.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the council areas in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with the possible exception of Inverclyde, were causing the most concern, along with North and South Lanarkshire.\n\nLevel four may well be coming for the west of Scotland. All the government indicators suggest it should be, but the reluctance until now can perhaps be explained by more than just economic consequences.\n\nThe effects of loneliness and isolation on people's mental health are already at alarming levels, doctors tell me.\n\nClosing cafes where people who live on their own at least have a chance to meet someone will exacerbate that.\n\nIt will likely put even more pressure onto GPs, with community support services unable to operate in the same way.\n\nAnd then for shielders. The governments strategic framework says that level four would see the chief medical officer write an automatic two week fit note for those in the shielding category.\n\nThat could affect staffing in the NHS or in schools and other vital services.\n\nLater, she added: \"I think it is likely that we will see some areas go to level four this week.\n\n\"But is it inevitable? Until we have taken that final decision, no of course it's not.\"\n\nThe next decision about restriction levels will be made on Tuesday, with any changes taking effect from Friday.\n\nIn level four bars and restaurants, non-essential shops, gyms and indoor sports facilities would close - but schools would remain open.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, an expert in public health at the University of Edinburgh, said she thought it was \"highly likely\" that large parts of central Scotland would be placed in level four.\n\nShe said the rolling average of cases per 100,00 people was about 143 in Scotland.\n\n\"For Greater Glasgow and Clyde it is up to 247. That is very high - and Lanarkshire is just below that at 241.\n\n\"So action clearly does need to be taken,\" she said.\n\nThe latest figures show that a further 717 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland, and six more deaths have been recorded.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that an era was \"firmly on the horizon\" where better therapies, vaccines, testing and treatments would be available.\n\n\"The end is not quite with us, but we can see hope on the horizon now that we couldn't see just a few weeks ago,\" she added.", "Vaughan Gething has rejected claims that people are dying in Welsh care homes because Covid test results are taking too long to come back.\n\nHe said it was “an assertion, not borne out by all of the facts\".\n\n“We know there are challenges in the turnaround times for testing in care homes. We’ve been clear and upfront about that. We’re now starting to see an improving picture when it comes to Lighthouse lab turnaround,” the health minister told journalists.\n\nLatest figures from Public Health Wales show around 20% of Lighthouse lab tests for organisations - mostly care homes - were processed within 24 hours and 82% within 48 hours.\n\nMr Gething said Lighthouse labs were the responsibility of the UK government.\n\nThe health minister said it was not just the test that kept someone safe which was why “there’s so much importance placed on infection prevention”.\n\n“We’ve been helping with that throughout this pandemic by making available free PPE.”\n\nMr Gethting said a review on transmission within health care settings would report within the next few days and he would have more to say then.\n\n“We’ll be clear if there is any further action to be taken to help provide people with the assurance I know they’re looking for.”\n\nAsked when the WG would publish weekly data for outbreaks in care homes, Mr Gething replied that some information was already in the public domain via PHW and the Care Inspectorate. He said he was examining what was already published to “make sure there’s a regular provision of information.”\n\n“I accept this is an entirely reasonable thing for people to want to see…whether there are new infections in care homes,” he added.\n\nMr Gething said officials were developing a way to provide the information in a transparent way, saying: “I’m expecting the issue to be resolved and then to have provided clearly and transparently as soon as possible.”", "The Queen, who is very much alive, was on the list published by mistake\n\nA French radio station has apologised after publishing the obituaries of several prominent - and alive - people, including the Queen.\n\nOthers on the list that went live prematurely on the website of Radio France Internationale included Clint Eastwood, Pele and Brigitte Bardot.\n\nA \"technical problem\" led to the publication, RFI said.\n\n\"We offer our apologies to the people concerned and to you who follow and trust us,\" the broadcaster added.\n\nBroadcasters and media outlets often prepare obituary material in order to be able to publish it promptly when a death is announced.\n\nThe problem occurred when RFI was moving its website to a different content management system, according to its statement.\n\nIt said \"around a hundred\" draft stories were published in error - not just to its own site but to partner sites including Google and Yahoo.\n\nFrench businessman Bernie Tapie, 77, who was on the list of people who had their death notice published by RFI, has had his obituary published on at least two other occasions by other news outlets.\n\nOthers who made the cut on this occasion included Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, former US President Jimmy Carter and Cuba's Raul Castro.\n\nNone of them are currently dead. RFI has said it is \"mobilising to rectify this major bug\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The government is set to revise its proposals for controversial planning reforms in England, after new housing targets prompted a backlash amongst some senior Conservative MPs.\n\nMinisters have proposed updating the formula for where to build houses to meet its aim of delivering more homes.\n\nBut some said the \"mutant algorithm\" would fail to \"level up\" the North and see the South \"concreted over\".\n\nCritics of the proposal include former Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nShe said the new formula \"does not guarantee a single extra home being built\".\n\nIn the House of Commons, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said he would make a statement on revised plans \"in the weeks ahead\".\n\nHe told MPs the Covid crisis was causing the \"most substantial change to city centres and town centres since the Second World War and that does give us pause for reflection\".\n\nThe government would \"consider what those opportunities will be for the repurposing of offices into residential, for turning retail into mixed use and that will, I think, lead us to a different approach to distributing housing numbers across the country,\" he said.\n\nThe new formula was proposed as part of wider government planning reforms.\n\nThey include a target to build 300,000 new homes across England each year by the mid-2020s, with the formula providing a rough estimate to local councils on how many need to be built in their communities.\n\nMr Jenrick has said local authorities will then be expected to come forward with potential sites for new buildings - taking into account constraints, such as areas protected by the green belt.\n\nBut several Tory MPs have expressed concern that the government's plan could mean more homes in rural areas and in the South East, rather than the North and Midlands.\n\nWhile the 300,000 target remains \"undiminished\", the government says it has listened to the feedback of critical MPs and ministers are looking to \"rebalance\" the formula.\n\nIt is thought the focus will shift towards building more homes in the North and Midlands, and in urban areas or city centres - where the coronavirus pandemic has potentially accelerated a longer-term drop in demand for office and retail spaces.\n\nIt does not mean there will not still be new homes built in the South East.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who met Mr Jenrick this week to raise his concerns about the formula, thanked his colleague on Twitter for \"listening to the concerns of me and many other MPs\".\n\nHe added: \"We support your desire for more houses to help young people get on the housing ladder and will work with you to make sure a revised algorithm achieves that.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Isle of Wight Bob Seely, who led calls for a change to the plan - and secured a recent Commons debate on the issue - told the BBC he also welcomed the fact the government was willing to listen to the \"strength of feeling and depth of concern\" backbenchers had.\n\nBut he said it now had to work with MPs and \"rethink\" as the UK needed \"levelling up, not concreting out.\"\n\nFormer Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers also said the change in approach from government was \"encouraging\", but \"a few tweaks are not enough\".\n\nShe said: \"We need radical change to the proposal if we're to ensure that this algorithm doesn't lead to unacceptable overdevelopment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson has defended his proposals for overhauling the planning system.\n\nMeanwhile, sources from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have also confirmed the department is looking to move a \"proportion\" of its operations to the West Midlands, with Wolverhampton understood to be the preferred location.\n\nThis would involve moving ministerial offices and senior officials, although ministers would still spend time in Westminster.\n\nNext year has been described as a \"ball park\" timeline for the move.", "Parents who home educate say it allows them to set a time-table that best suits their child\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic could be fuelling an increase in the number of children moving out of full-time schooling, town hall bosses warn.\n\nThe Local Government Association says some areas have seen significant rises in registrations for home schooling.\n\nIt comes after separate LGA analysis for 2018-19 suggested between 250,000 and a million children in England were out of full-time school.\n\nThe government says school is the best place for the majority of children.\n\nA lack of oversight on how and why pupils leave, and where they end up, makes tracking them difficult.\n\nThere are no official figures for children who are missing out on school, and the issue has been a challenge for successive education departments which do not track it centrally.\n\nDepending on how \"missing school\" is defined, the LGA, which represents councils in England. estimates the number could be around 280,000.\n\nBut if the point at which councils are formally required to provide tuition for sick pupils - 15 days absence - was adopted as a measure, children out of school would number one million.\n\nThe LGA began looking into how many children were out of full-time school before coronavirus hit the UK.\n\nBut there are concerns that the pandemic continues to push numbers up, and that the closure of schools and extreme pressure on support systems for special needs and mental health issues, make its findings even more worrying.\n\nThe LGA says that between September 2019 and September 2020, some local authorities, saw huge rises in registrations for elective home education.\n\nFor example, in Kent the figure rose by almost 200%, and in Leeds by almost 150%.\n\nIt is calling for more funds to enable schools to support children and more powers to keep an eye on them if their parents do take them out of school.\n\nJudith Blake, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, says the rising numbers of children not in education are hugely concerning.\n\n\"It is hard to tackle due a lack of council powers and resources, and flaws in an education framework ill-suited to an inclusive agenda.\n\n\"Children are arriving in schools with a combination of needs, often linked to disruption in their family lives, at a time when schools' capacity to respond is stretched to capacity.\"\n\nMs Blake says while parents, councils and schools all have responsibilities to ensure children receive suitable education, significant gaps in the law mean it is possible for children to slip through the net and face serious risks.\n\nThese include safeguarding issues, gangs and criminality, serious under-achievement and damaged future prospects.\n\n\"The pandemic is only likely to increase these risks and add to the significant lifetime costs to the public purse of a young person not in education, employment or training,\" she says.\n\nThere have always been a small proportion of parents who, for a variety of philosophical, cultural, lifestyle or religious reasons, decide to educate their children themselves, at home.\n\nThis is a right, set out in law, which parents are free to exercise.\n\nPhilosophical or life-choices remain the most commonly cited reasons but research for the LGA suggests health or emotional reasons are the fastest growing factors.\n\nSome parents make the decision because they are frustrated with \"zero tolerance\" behaviour policies, their children's refusal to attend or a lack of understanding of their child's particular needs, the report says.\n\nThe LGA is keen to stress that not all the children who are taken out of school at the instigation of their parents end up missing out on their entitlement to education, and acknowledges that many parents provide an excellent home education.\n\nIt argues, however, that children are more likely to miss out on education if their parents remove them out of desperation because they feel the school is not meeting their child's needs, or out of fear and hostility towards safeguarding or development interventions.\n\nThe report concludes: \"Many have said that the world after lock-down might never be the same again.\n\n\"If that is the case, we should use this period of reflection to determine how we reconnect our education system going forward in a way that we can be confident that all children can access their entitlement to a formal, full-time education.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said: \"For the vast majority of children, particularly the most vulnerable, school is the best place for their education.\n\n\"Home education is never a decision that should be entered into lightly, and now more than ever, it is absolutely vital that any decision to home educate is made with the child's best interests at the forefront of everyone's minds.\n\n\"Any parents who are considering home education on the grounds of safety concerns should make every effort to engage with their school and think very carefully about what is best for their children's education.\n\n\"The protective measures in place make schools as safe as possible for children and staff, and schools are not the main drivers of infection in the community.\"", "A major trial of a vaccine to protect against Covid-19 has launched in the UK - the third such trial in the country.\n\nThe jab - designed by the Belgian company Janssen - uses a genetically modified common cold virus to train the immune system.\n\nIt comes a week after preliminary results showed another vaccine offered 90% protection.\n\nHowever, many types of vaccine are likely to be needed to end the pandemic.\n\nThe success of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has caused global excitement. However, it has not yet been approved for use and we still do not know how well it works in the elderly or how long immunity lasts.\n\nThe hunt for Covid vaccines continues as a different approach may yet be better, or better in some age groups, and one company will struggle to immunise the planet.\n\n\"It is really important we pursue many different vaccines from many different manufactures,\" said Prof Saul Faust, the director of the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, who will run the trial.\n\nHe added: \"We just don't know how each of these vaccines is going to behave and we can't be certain vaccine supply will be efficient and secure from one manufacturer.\"\n\nThe trial has started the job of recruiting 6,000 people in the UK. Other countries will join the effort to bring the total up to 30,000.\n\nHalf of the volunteers will be given two doses of the vaccine around two months apart.\n\nJanssen already has one large scale trial of its vaccine in which volunteers get one dose. This trial will see if two gives a stronger and longer lasting immunity.\n\nIt could take six to nine months before the results are available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHopes for the Janssen vaccine have been buoyed by Pfizer's preliminary data as they both target a part of the virus called the spike protein.\n\nThe seemingly successful jab injected part of the virus' genetic code into volunteers.\n\nThe Janssen vaccine instead uses a common cold virus that has been genetically modified to make it harmless and to look more like coronavirus at a molecular level. This should train the immune system to recognise and fight coronavirus.\n\nThis approach is similar to the vaccine designed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, which is also being trialled in the UK. The subtle difference is the Janssen vaccine uses a virus that normally infects people and the Oxford group are using one that infects chimpanzees.\n\nBut all these approaches are relatively new and experimental. The Novavax jab, which uses the more traditional method of injecting viral proteins to train the body, started in September in the UK.\n\nIn total 25,000 people are already taking part in Covid trials in the UK.\n\nThe UK government has already put in advanced orders for six Covid vaccines, including 30 million doses of the Janssen jab.\n\nKate Bingham, the chairwoman of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, said: \"Many vaccines are needed both here in the UK, and globally, to ensure we can provide a safe and effective vaccine for the whole population.\n\n\"That is why the launch of this trial to establish the safety, effectiveness, and very importantly the durability, of the Janssen vaccine is so significant, and I would continue to encourage people to sign up and take part in vaccine trials.\"\n\nAre you involved in the new Janssen vaccine trial? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Users reported the app getting \"stuck\" at the logo screen when launched\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has stopped working for many iPhone owners, who are unable to get it to launch.\n\nUsers report being stuck at a blue loading screen with the contact-tracing app's logo - but nothing else happens.\n\nThe NHS has published a workaround for the problem in its help files, but has not said what caused the problem or when it will be fixed.\n\nApple does not believe the problem is at its end, since it has not seen the issue arise in other countries' apps.\n\nMany different nations use the same underlying technology, which is designed by Apple and Google, to notify users if they were recently near to someone who subsequently tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome users have deleted and reinstalled the app to fix the fault, but that deletes useful information - this includes a log of venues the user has checked into via QR barcode scans.\n\nThe NHS's workaround instead asks users to reset their iPhone's location and privacy settings. It also recommends users have the most up-to-date version of Apple's iOS operating system downloaded and installed.\n\nBut carrying out the reset prevents all apps on the handset from using the device's location until they are granted permission again.\n\nSome users have said they fixed the problem by force-quitting the app - which can be done by flicking the frozen screen up and off the display - and then re-launching it.\n\nThe problem first emerged last week, but complaints became more frequent over the weekend and into Monday.\n\nThe cause, however, remains unclear.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said it was aware of the issue.\n\n\"The app is still scanning, even if the screen appears blue,\" it said.\n\n\"There are simple steps iPhone users can take to resolve this issue, which are set out on the app's website, and work is underway to identify the cause.\n\n\"Users experiencing this issue should make sure their Apple iOS is updated to the latest version of the software.\"", "Christmas lights were switched on at Belfast City Hall on Saturday, but without the crowds usually in attendance, due to the virus\n\nThe executive will do all it can to \"protect\" as much of the Christmas period as possible, Michelle O'Neill has said.\n\nIt comes after NI's chief scientific adviser warned further Covid-19 restrictions will likely be recommended before Christmas.\n\nProf Ian Young said mid-December could be the \"big risk period\".\n\nThe deputy first minister said it was difficult to provide certainty but she wanted to give people \"some comfort\".\n\nThe executive's \"clear commitment\" was to secure that, she added.\n\nSome of the current Covid-19 restrictions are due to end on Friday with the reopening of close-contact services and unlicensed hospitality businesses.\n\nThat decision was taken by ministers on Thursday, following four days of heated disagreements and delay.\n\nProf Young has warned that Christmas \"cannot be completely normal\" as allowing people to interact will increase the risks.\n\n\"There would be an option of measures which the executive would need to consider and I think everybody is familiar with what those restrictions look like,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"They have to minimise the interactions between people, particularly in indoor settings, in order to reduce transmission of the virus as much as possible.\"\n\nHis warning came the Department of Health recorded a further 14 coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the death toll to 869.\n\nA further 331 positive cases have been reported in the last 24 hours.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland five further coronavirus-related deaths and 456 new cases were recorded on Monday.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health said there were 33 people in ICU, two more than Sunday.\n\nSpeaking in the assembly on Monday, Ms O'Neill said the executive wanted to be able to \"give people something, in terms of being able to spend some time with family members\".\n\n\"It will be dependent of the virus spread at the time... we should be able to give people a bit of flexibility to allow people to get over the Christmas period,\" she said.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the R-number - or reproduction value of the virus - in Northern Ireland was now at 0.9, and \"perhaps going towards one\".\n\nAny decisions about the Christmas period would have to be taken on the basis of health advice, she said.\n\nAddressing the criticism directed at ministers over the delay in agreeing restrictions, Ms O'Neill said the executive needed to \"collectively get a grip\".\n\nThe deputy first minister said it was a \"matter of profound concern and regret\" that the DUP had blocked health proposals by triggering a cross-community vote.\n\nIt can be deployed on any issue in the executive, if three or more ministers ask for a vote to be taken on that basis.\n\nIt effectively gives parties with enough ministers a veto.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, Ulster Unionists and Alliance had voted to extend the restrictions - but the DUP's decision to deploy the cross-community mechanism meant the plan was blocked.\n\n\"It should have been the will of the executive which carried it through, but I accept this is now the outworking of the executive, and we're all duty-bound to communicate the decision to the public,\" she added\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster defended her party's decision to use the veto.\n\n\"We all know those who want to apportion blame and the use of vetoes, but the truth is we should never have gotten to that point,\" she told the assembly on Monday.\n\n\"I hope in our discussions in the coming days, which again will be difficult, which again will be controversial, I hope we can get to a point without invoking all of that.\"\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:\n\nProf Young was also asked about schools closing early for Christmas\n\nWhen asked about schools closing early for Christmas, Prof Young said keeping schools open was a top priority for the executive.\n\nHowever, he said \"opening schools will tend to increase the transmission of the virus in the community\".\n\n\"Less because of what happens in schools and more because of what happens outside schools as people interact in different ways,\" he said.\n\nSimon Hamilton, chief executive of Belfast Chamber, said comments by the health minister and chief scientific adviser on the possibility of further restrictions has a \"damaging and demoralising\" effect on business owners and staff.\n\n\"It makes them worry about whether or not the new dates they've been told when they can reopen will actually happen,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has rejected accusations that not enough planning was done to manage a winter surge of Covid-19 in NI.\n\nHe said the health service had been ready, but he could \"never have planned for scientific and medical advice given to the executive being blocked\".\n\nMr Swann was answering an urgent question in the assembly from the DUP about his assessment of whether the surge planning framework had worked, in light of \"hospitals across Northern Ireland operating at over capacity\".\n\nWith news potential vaccines that protect against Covid-19 are on the horizon, BBC News NI wants to answer your questions.\n\nIs there something you don't understand or something you want to know more about? Let us know.\n\nWe'll answer your questions with virologist Dr Lindsay Broadbent live on Tuesday at 19:00 here on the BBC News NI, or tune in on BBC iPlayer or the BBC News NI Facebook page.\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.\n\nA large fire involving thousands of scrap tyres in Bradford has caused school closures and travel disruption.\n\nThe blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. There are no reports of any casualties.\n\nRail services into Bradford Interchange have been cancelled or diverted and roads in the area have been closed.\n\nBradford Council said Bronte Girls Academy, Rainbow Primary and Dixons City Academy would be closed on Monday following advice from the fire service.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said about 100 firefighters were at the scene and people living nearby should keep their windows closed \"due to the large amount of smoke\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bradford Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrain operator Northern Rail tweeted: \"A large fire at a go-kart track next to the railway at Bradford Interchange is on fire. Around 8,000 tyres and railway equipment are at risk from the fire which is around 50m from the railway.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene at 04:27 GMT. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it had sent its Hazardous Area Response Team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Smoke from a tyre fire blows across railway lines in Bradford\n\nThe roads closed because of the fire are: Albany Street, Spring Mill Street, Parma Street, Wood Road, Upper Castle Street, Bowling Old Lane, Mill Lane, Ripley Street, Nelson Street and Round Street/Gaythorne Lane.\n\nThere are no reports of any casualties\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Military personnel have been drafted to help at test sites including at Liverpool FC's stadium\n\nA mass Covid-19 testing trial in Liverpool has found 700 people unknowingly had the virus.\n\nPublic Health England director Dr Susan Hopkins said nearly 100,000 people had been tested over the last 10 days.\n\nShe stressed that these positive cases would have not been detected otherwise.\n\nAbout 2,000 soldiers have been deployed in the city for the project, which was intended to run for an initial period of 10 to 14 days.\n\nDevices which give results within an hour have been used to test people in the city since the scheme began on 6 November.\n\nMass testing will be rolled out to 67 more areas in England\n\nLiverpool had among the highest rates of deaths from coronavirus in October, when it became the first area in England to face the tightest restrictions before the second national lockdown.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press briefing, Dr Hopkins said \"we are looking to replicate this across the country\".\n\nShe said: \"We are also running evaluations in schools and universities and are planning to test university students prior to going home at Christmas.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace visited a test centre at Exhibition Centre Liverpool on Monday and said the Army would assist with the programme for \"as long as there is a need\".\n\nSoldiers at Liverpool's Anfield stadium which has been turned into a test centre\n\nMr Wallace said: \"The rollout's been good, the soldiers have been welcomed, the public have come from all over the city.\"\n\nTrooper Dan House, 22, said up to 500 tests a day were being carried out at the site where he was based and people had given soldiers tubs of chocolates as a thank you.\n\nHe said: \"It's nice to know the work we're doing is coming across to the British public and they're happy we're here.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Widespread working from home could lead to an increase in racism and prejudice, a new report warns.\n\nWorkplace friendships are key to breaking down misconceptions, the England and Wales study for the Woolf Institute suggests.\n\nInstitute founder Ed Kessler said as more people work from home they risk going \"back into isolated silos\".\n\nHe called on ministers to focus on offices and workplaces as a \"vital\" area for improving community relations.\n\nThe study, conducted by polling company Survation for the Woolf Institute, which researches interfaith relations, surveyed 11,701 people.\n\nHadiya Masieh, who is Muslim, became close friends with Samuel Rosengard, an Orthodox Jew, after working together.\n\nSamuel said that while he had never had racist or Islamophobic views in the past, he may have had \"misconceptions\" about Muslim communities.\n\n\"Meeting Hadiya has really helped clarify where my thinking can be askew,\" he said.\n\nHadiya agreed saying that for her \"it was more of a political thing about Israel and Palestine\".\n\nBut through their work they have become close friends.\n\n\"It was just a very natural relationship that we formed because we had the exact same agenda and passions,\" Hadiya said.\n\n\"We were both from very different backgrounds and the idea of Israel and Palestine was a hot topic. But we were able to discuss that in a way that was understanding of each other.\"\n\nSamuel added: \"Before Covid we would have regular discussions about these kinds of issues. And also identifying common cultural traits between Jewish and Muslim communities, and areas of agreement and disagreement.\n\n\"Hadiya and I would often start off conversations just bumping into each other in the open plan office and then head off for a coffee. But that just doesn't happen. So that is a loss.\"\n\nThe study suggests that of those who work in shared offices, three-quarters (76%) - regardless of ethnicity - were in a setting that is ethnically diverse.\n\nHowever, it suggests that unemployed people are 37% more likely to only have friends from their own ethnic group.\n\nAnd it warns that without alternative settings to offices being set up, opportunities for social mixing between different religious and ethnic groups will be greatly reduced.\n\nThe study also examined people's opinions on diversity.\n\nIts findings suggest that while nearly three-quarters of non-black or non-Asian respondents were comfortable with a close relative marrying a black or Asian person (74% and 70%), less than half (44%) said they were comfortable with the idea of a close relative marrying a Muslim person.\n\n\"The word 'Muslim' appears to trigger more negative sentiment than the word 'Pakistani',\" the report says. This is \"despite the fact that 90% of people of British Pakistani heritage are Muslim\".\n\nThe report also indicates that a majority of Muslims were themselves uncomfortable with a close relative marrying a Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish or Sikh person, or someone of no religion. Around a third of Muslim respondents (38%) said they were uncomfortable with a close relative marrying a Christian person.\n\n\"Muslims were both the primary target for 'uncomfortable' responses, but also the primary source,\" the report said.\n\nThe study estimated the level of prejudice in each local authority across England and Wales. Researchers used a technique known as Multilevel Regression Poststratification (MRP), which looks at the survey responses and the demographics of each area.\n\nAs well as being the most common target of negative attitudes by other faith groups, the report indicates Muslims are the group most likely to hold negative attitudes towards people of other religions.\n\nThe study also suggests that diversity of friendships and colleagues varies significantly around the country.\n\nEven after accounting for factors such as the age, educational attainment and ethnic makeup of an area, people in north-east England are 150% more likely to have only British friends and 68% more likely to have only British colleagues, compared with people in London.\n\nThe report says any apparent prejudice toward religion could be due to people feeling it is more acceptable to express negative sentiment towards religion than ethnicity.\n\nReligion remains \"a place where individuals are willing to express negative attitudes,\" the report says.\n\n\"Being Muslim, in particular, appears to remain a 'trigger' for prejudice, making religion a 'final frontier' for prejudice in England and Wales,\" the report's author Dr Julian Hargreaves added.\n\nThe survey was undertaken by Survation on behalf of the Woolf Institute. Survation spoke to a nationally representative sample of 11,701 adults across England and Wales between 29 March and 5 April 2019.\n\nThe results indicating the proportion of people in each local authority who would be happy with a friend or close relative marrying someone from various backgrounds use a technique called Multilevel Regression Poststratification (MRP).\n\nMRP projects the results of the survey onto local authorities based on the demography of the area. However, some estimates contain wide margins of error and statistically non-significant differences between local authorities.", "Dr Catalin Denciu is being treated for second to third degree burns\n\nA Romanian doctor who suffered severe burns after trying to save Covid-19 patients from a hospital fire has been taken to Belgium for treatment.\n\nDr Catalin Denciu was called \"heroic\" by PM Ludovic Orban, who praised his \"particular courage and spirit of sacrifice\" trying to save the patients.\n\nTen patients died in the blaze at the hospital in Piatra Neamt on Saturday.\n\nAn inquiry has been launched into how the deadly fire broke out in the public hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nThe fire also spread to an adjoining room.\n\nSome reports suggest a medical appliance caught fire, igniting a nearby oxygen cylinder. Regional officials say the unit was moved from the third floor of the hospital to the second without official notification.\n\nThe blaze on Saturday evening ripped through the intensive care unit at the hospital\n\nSeven men and three women, aged between 67 and 86, died in the fire. Six other Covid-19 patients injured in the fire were transferred to another hospital in the city of Iasi.\n\nDr Denciu was transferred to Belgium's Queen Astrid military hospital, having been taken to the capital Bucharest after suffering second to third degree burns to 40% of his body, officials said.\n\nRomanian President Klaus Iohannis called it a \"huge tragedy\" and said it was important to find out what had happened \"in order to avoid similar situations in future\".\n\nRomania has reported more than 360,000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, and nearly 9,000 deaths.\n\nNearly 13,000 Covid-19 patients were in hospital across Romania as of Sunday, including 1,169 in intensive care units, Reuters news agency reports.", "Capcom is best known for franchises such as Street Fighter\n\nVideo-game-maker Capcom has warned a ransomware attack might have compromised gamers' personal information.\n\nUp to 350,000 people could be affected, it said, and some of its own financial information had been stolen.\n\nThe Japanese developer is best known for franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter.\n\nA week-and-a-half earlier, it had said there was no indication customer information had been accessed.\n\nBut in an update on Monday, Capcom confirmed its servers had been hit by an attack on 2 November.\n\nRansomware is malicious software that typically threatens to block a victim's access to their own records unless a blackmail payment is made.\n\nIn this case, the attackers digitally scrambled some of the data on Capcom's servers, making it impossible to view or amend, and destroyed some files outright.\n\nThe Ragnar Locker hacker group had then demanded to be paid to undo the encryption involved, Capcom said.\n\nOn Ragnor Locker's dark-net webpage, the hackers didn't just post Capcom's data but also an ominous message.\n\nIn broken English they wrote the Japanese company didn't \"make a right decision and save data from leakage\".\n\nThis - and the fact Capcom is openly talking about the hack - suggests the company chose not to pay the cyber-criminals' extortion demand.\n\nMany, including law enforcement, would actually see this as absolutely the right decision.\n\nFor 18 months, police the world over have been desperately imploring ransomware victims not to pay hackers.\n\nThe groups have made millions from companies, which often feel they have no other option but to fork out.\n\nBut it seems Capcom has found a way through without yielding.\n\nNo doubt the incident has affected the firm's reputation and some sensitive data is already surfacing online.\n\nBut reading the disappointment in Ragnor Locker's statement is refreshing and rare.\n\nSo far, Capcom has confirmed only nine people's personal information was definitely compromised, all current or former employees.\n\nBut up to 350,000 customers, business partners, and other employees might also be affected, it said.\n\nAlthough, it could not be sure because its own logs had been \"lost as a result of the attack\".\n\nThe information includes different combinations of names, addresses, birthdays, phone numbers and email addresses, depending on why the data was gathered.\n\nFor example, some was from Japanese customer support and some from the American Capcom store or e-sports operation.\n\n\"None of the at-risk data contains credit-card information,\" Capcom's statement said.\n\n\"All online transactions... are handled by a third-party service provider.\n\n\"And as such, Capcom does not maintain any such information internally.\"\n\nThe company also said it was safe for gamers to continue to play its games online and to use its websites.\n\nPolice have been notified, as have the Japanese and UK data-protection watchdogs.\n\n\"Capcom would once again like to reiterate its deepest apologies for any complications or concerns caused by this incident,\" it said.\n\n\"As a company that handles digital content, it is regarding this incident with the utmost seriousness.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We cannot go back to normal, says health minister\n\nIt could be \"weeks\" before there is an announcement on the Covid rules around Christmas, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nWelsh ministers and other UK administrations are in talks over a set of agreed rules for the festive period.\n\nVaughan Gething said whatever happened, the period would \"not be like normal\".\n\n\"You shouldn't expect there to be a definitive statement in the next few days or weeks,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"We have quite a long way to go in the course of the pandemic we've been dealing with before we get to the Christmas period.\"\n\nThere had been calls for a single approach from the different UK administrations about Christmas so families who live in different areas can deal with a single set of rules.\n\nVaughan Gething said this Christmas would \"not be like normal\"\n\nMr Gething said discussions were ongoing about what will be in place for travel, \"and we're still looking at the evidence about what we might be able to do around contact\".\n\n\"But it does rely on the picture that we'll see in the developing evidence over the coming weeks\", he added.\n\nHe noted that other faiths had seen their festivals limited by Covid restrictions, most recently Diwali.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Gething said the rate of cases in Wales was continuing to fall, one week after Wales' firebreak lockdown.\n\nCases in Merthyr Tydfil, which has seen the highest case rate of any local authority in the UK, have more than halved, he said.\n\n\"On Friday, I said we were starting to see some very early positive signs that cases of coronavirus are beginning to fall. This downward trend is continuing.\"\n\nThe seven-day incidence rate for Wales is now at about 160 cases per 100,000 people - a reduction of 70 from this time last week, he said.\n\nHe also said people needed to be aware of the differences between coronavirus and seasonal flu, with the former having a higher mortality rate and a greater proportion of sufferers becoming seriously ill.\n\nAfter the news of another potentially effective vaccine, Mr Gething said he \"doesn't plan\" to make Covid vaccines mandatory.\n\nHe said he had never tried to mandate any vaccine, and would not want to do so with Covid.\n\n\"I'm interested in people understanding the evidence for the safety of the vaccine , then making the right choice to protect them, their family and their community\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers are back in Cardiff after lockdown ends\n\nOn Sunday, Public Health Wales' Dr Giri Shankar said it was a \"worry\" to see queues of people outside shops at the weekend.\n\nMr Gething said there had been \"pent-up demand\" after the firebreak, with retailers operating limits on numbers in their stores.\n\nWhile he had seen pictures of people socially-distancing, \"I have seen some images that are more concerning where people have forgotten about social distancing and are returning to a more normal way of behaving.\n\n\"Now, if that continues we really will face difficult choices, and we're likely to see the trend that we've already seen with reducing cases - that can easily reverse.\"\n• None Is it too early for Christmas decorations?", "A senior officer at British Transport Police has accepted the force let the public down on the night of the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan has been giving evidence to the public inquiry into the atrocity.\n\nHe agreed mistakes were made, including having no officers in the foyer where bomber Salman Abedi hid before the blast which killed 22 people.\n\nMr O'Callaghan said the attack had \"happened on [BTP's] watch\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more were injured as they left an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry previously heard there were no police officers on patrol when 22-year-old Abedi made his journey from Victoria Station to the City Room.\n\nBTP had primary responsibility for policing in the arena foyer due to the proximity of Victoria railway station.\n\n\"The attack that happened that night happened on our watch,\" Mr O'Callaghan, who was not working for the force at the time, said.\n\n\"There is not a day that goes by when BTP doesn't consider that.\"\n\nHe added: \"Did we let the people down?\n\n\"It was our responsibility to police that arena and that attack happened when we were policing it, there were police officers planned to be deployed to the site of the attack and they were not there - so in that term, yes.\"\n\nTop row (left to right): Alison Howe, Martyn Hett, Lisa Lees, Courtney Boyle, Eilidh MacLeod, Elaine McIver, Georgina Callander, Jane Tweddle - Middle row (left to right): John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Marcin Klis, Angelika Klis, Megan Hurley, Michelle Kiss - Bottom row (left to right): Nell Jones, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Philip Tron, Saffie-Rose Roussos, Sorrell Leczkowski, Wendy Fawell\n\nMr O'Callaghan agreed if BTP officers had been in the City Room at the end of the show, Abedi could have been challenged before he detonated his bomb.\n\nHe acknowledged it was \"unacceptable\" two of the officers on duty had taken a two-hour break including a 10-mile round trip to buy a kebab, but it would be \"right and proper\" to wait for the inquiry's findings before taking any further action.\n\nJohn Cooper QC, representing some of the bereaved families, said: \"You'll understand the families' concerns when at least one of them has photographs receiving commendations?\"\n\nMr O'Callaghan said that after the bomb went off, the officers went on to perform \"extremely brave actions\".\n\nHe also denied the threat of terrorism at the arena had been disregarded by BTP at the time, saying: \"The information officers had at the time was up to 100 concerts a year had been going on at the arena…there was nothing to focus the mind on people planning a policing response that a person-borne IED was plausible at that time.\"\n\nSince the attack there have been a number of improvements made to police planning for events at the arena, Mr O'Callaghan told the court.\n\nThis includes specific counter-terrorism briefings for officers, documented risk assessments specific to each event and more multi-agency meetings.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is \"grossly unfair\" that supermarkets can sell greeting cards in lockdown while specialist retailers have to shut their shops, the boss of Clintons cards has told the BBC.\n\nEddie Shepherd said some retailers were \"exploiting\" ambiguities in the rules.\n\nUntil 2 December, shops in England selling \"non-essential\" goods such as gifts, books and homeware must close.\n\nBut those deemed essential can continue to sell non-essential items if they are stocked on their aisles.\n\nIt has sparked a wave of complaints against supermarkets, garden centres and newsagents, with the boss of book chain Waterstones saying the government guidance \"doesn't make sense\".\n\nMr Shepherd told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up To Money programme: \"If our category and product is deemed to be non-essential, which it is, then that should apply in all retail scenarios.\n\n\"But garden centres and supermarkets often operate card and gift sections as large as some High Street stores and they are able to continue to trade in these sections whilst we're not.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think elements of the legislation are unclear and it's affording an ambiguity that people are able to exploit.\"\n\nThe Range, which also sells groceries, has been criticised for marketing non-essential goods ahead of Christmas\n\nClintons' sales dropped sharply in the first national lockdown and the chain - which has 270 UK shops - hoped to make up for it this Christmas.\n\nBut Mr Shepherd said its revenue in December was likely to be 20% lower than usual, in part due to trade lost to essential retailers.\n\n\"Undoubtedly an element of what was the available market will be gone at the point we reopen,\" he said.\n\nClothes and book sellers have also criticised the lockdown rules in England, with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) accusing the government of creating \"arbitrary\" lines between retailers.\n\nDuring Wales's recent two-week lockdown, essential retailers had to cordon off aisles selling clothes and toys, although this sparked anger among some customers.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of book chain Waterstones, has repeatedly criticised the fact that WH Smith continues to sell books in its shops in lockdown because it is a newsagent, while his business can only sell online.\n\nOn Monday, he told the BBC: \"I don't think anyone would object to the supermarkets being open to sell food and pharmacies to sell medicines.\n\n\"What I am objecting to is really very comparable retailers are open, and others closed, and I think that really hurts the independents.\"\n\nThe BRC estimates non-essential retailers in England will lose £2bn of sales in the lockdown, which began on 5 November.\n\nHowever, the Department For Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy maintains the new restrictions will limit social contact and slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"We recognise this continues to be a very difficult period for businesses, which is why we've confirmed that there will be a full package of financial support in place,\" a government spokesperson said last week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHurricane Iota has strengthened as it roars towards Central America, less than two weeks after another devastating storm struck the region.\n\nWith winds of up to 160mph (260km/h), it is now a category five storm - the strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale.\n\n\"What's drawing closer is a bomb,\" said the president of neighbouring Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.\n\nIota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.\n\nIn a joint press conference, Mr Hernández and Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei said Central America was the worst affected region in the world by climate change, and highlighted the damage caused by Hurricane Eta earlier in the month.\n\nThousands lost their crops when that storm hit, and parts of Central America remain water logged.\n\nBefore reaching Central America the storm moved past the Colombian island of Providencia in the Caribbean, cutting off electricity.\n\nThe country's President Iván Duque said the island could have been hit badly by the storm and stressed there had been \"very poor\" communication after it struck.\n\nThe NHC has warned that heavy rainfall from Iota could lead to \"life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding across portions of Central America\".\n\nIota already caused flooding in Cartagena, a popular tourist destination on Colombia's Caribbean coast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe effect of the rains could be particularly devastating in areas already drenched by Hurricane Eta two weeks ago.\n\nEta left at least 200 people dead. The worst-hit area was Guatemala's central Alta Verapaz region, where mudslides buried dozens of homes in the village of Quejá, with some 100 people feared dead.\n\nAt least 50 deaths were reported elsewhere in Guatemala.\n\nHonduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua have evacuated residents living in low-lying areas and near rivers in the Atlantic coastal region which Iota is expected to hit.\n\nA resident of Bilwi, a coastal town in Nicaragua, said some locals were refusing to leave their homes for fear of catching coronavirus in shared shelters.\n\n\"Some of us prefer to stay and die in our homes. There has never been a repeat hurricane in such a short time, but what can we do against the force of God and nature,\" Silvania Zamora told AFP news agency.\n\n\"We are worried, nervous. Psychologically we are not doing well, because losing our things and starting over is not easy. Some of us have old little houses and we risk losing everything,\" she added.\n\nIn Honduras, the country's second city and its industrial hub, San Pedro Sula, is bracing for major flooding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The rail operator said the measure would help to maintain the physical distancing required when travelling\n\nA ban on the consumption of alcohol on trains and at stations in Scotland has come into effect.\n\nScotRail said the temporary policy had been put in place to support public health measures and keep people safe during the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe rail operator said the new measures would help to maintain the physical distancing required while travelling.\n\nBritish Transport Police has been asked to assist railway staff to ensure the new guidelines are being followed.\n\nScotRail said the restriction would be reviewed continuously as government guidelines changed and it was not intended to be permanent.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that parts of the central belt face being placed under the highest level of Covid restrictions to stem the rate of infection.\n\nCouncils in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire and Stirling health board areas have been told it is possible they may need to move from level three to level four.\n\nThe move would see the closure of gyms, hospitality and non-essential shops.\n\nThe consumption of alcohol had previously been banned on ScotRail services between 21:00 and 10:00.\n\nHowever, that has now been extended to all journeys.\n\nDavid Lister, ScotRail sustainability and safety assurance director, said the operator had been encouraged by compliance with safety measures so far, including the use of face coverings on trains, which he said stood at about 90%.\n\nHe said that people would be \"politely\" encouraged to comply with the new alcohol measures and that on-train and station staff would have body cameras to record breaches.\n\nHe added: \"If they don't comply we will be contacting the British Transport Police to deal with the matter.\"", "England's regional Covid tier system may need to be \"strengthened\" to get the country \"through the winter\", a senior government adviser has said.\n\nPublic Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins said they needed to look at what \"tiers there may be in the future\" when the lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nA three-tier system was used in England to tackle the spread of coronavirus before the national lockdown began.\n\nMatt Hancock said the government hoped to bring back the regional tiers.\n\nIt comes as the UK announced another 21,363 daily Covid cases, as well as a further 213 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nSpeaking at the government's evening coronavirus briefing, Dr Hopkins, who is also a member of the government's scientific advisory group (Sage), said the \"key\" to knowing if the four-week lockdown in England was working was \"if cases fall\" and they expect to know that \"in the next week\".\n\n\"As long as we see cases decline we can make judgments... about opening up,\" she said.\n\nShe added that, prior to the lockdown, the \"tiering of the country\" had had a \"different effect in each area\".\n\n\"Tier three plus\" had led to a reduction in cases in the North West, she said, while tier two \"holds in some areas and not in others\", depending on \"how well individuals are taking that advice in\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"We see very little effect from tier one and when we look at what tiers may be there in the future, we will have to think about strengthening them to get us through the winter months until the vaccine is available for everyone.\"\n\nThe government is adamant that it wants England's lockdown to end on 2 December.\n\nBut what replaces it is still very much a live discussion in the corridors of power.\n\nThere was always a question mark about how much infections would fall during the lockdown.\n\nAnd clearly the impact has been undermined by the spike in cases last week when the daily number jumped by 10,000 to over 33,000 on Thursday.\n\nThat rise has been linked to a last bout of socialising before the lockdown came in.\n\nThe hope is cases will start falling this week.\n\nBut it will take much longer for that to filter through into fewer hospital cases - hence the suggestion that the regional tiers may need to be strengthened when lockdown ends.\n\nOne idea is to create a new tier four, which would see much tighter restrictions on hospitality opening.\n\nBut do not expect an announcement soon. Ministers will want to see exactly what happens to cases over the rest of the month.\n\nAlso speaking at the government's coronavirus briefing, Mr Hancock, the health secretary, said it was too early to know the impact of the second lockdown in England, which began on 5 November.\n\n\"At the moment, most of the tests we're getting back, and most of the positive cases, are from around the time the lockdown came in, so we are yet to see in the data - and it's too early to expect to see in the data - the impact of the second lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"But we absolutely hope to be able to replace the national lockdown with a tiered system similar to what we had before.\"\n\nAt a briefing on Monday, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"We are committed to setting out next week what the replacement regime will be and that will be a return to the localised approach and we're actively working on those plans at the moment.\"\n\nBefore England went into its second lockdown, nearly a fifth of the population was living in tier three areas - those under the toughest coronavirus restrictions. They included those in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, the Liverpool City Region, Warrington and Nottinghamshire.\n• None Postcode check: What are the rules where you live?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"For the doubters out there who don’t believe in it...it’s here.\"\n\nCouncil bosses in Hull are asking the prime minister to take urgent action over an \"astonishing and terrifying\" rise in the number of Covid cases.\n\nCouncil leader Stephen Brady has written a personal letter to Boris Johnson asking him to intervene.\n\nHe said the city had one of the highest infection rates and the virus was \"now ravaging our communities more than anywhere else in our country\".\n\nThe government has been approached for comment.\n\nHull currently has 770 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people, and in his letter Mr Brady said: \"I am writing to express my grave concerns about the consequences of the current Covid-19 health emergency in Hull and the absence of central government support to assist us in overcoming it.\n\n\"As I am sure you are aware, our infection rate is now one of the highest in the country and... the infection rates in our city have increased at a, frankly, astonishing and terrifying rate over the last few weeks.\n\n\"We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the absolute minimum we need to get through this pandemic.\"\n\nMr Brady is calling for a range of measures to be introduced including more freedom to put local restrictions in place, particularly with regard to schools, and additional support and resources for health.\n\nHe also wants discussions on the financial support needed for local businesses and about what will happen when the current restrictions end.\n\n\"We will not stand by and let Hull be forgotten,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I am hopeful that the prime minister will take this letter seriously and will urgently speak to us about what the government will do.\"\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.", "Zac Adan says he was left traumatised by the incident\n\nThe University of Manchester has suspended security officers who were accused of \"racially profiling\" a student.\n\nIt comes after footage posted online showed first-year student Zac Adan held up against a wall by security guards who demanded to see his ID.\n\nMr Adan, 19, said he was accused of \"looking like a drug dealer\" by staff at Fallowfield halls of residence.\n\nThe university said it was investigating the \"serious incident\".\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by these images,\" it added in a statement.\n\n\"We have spoken to the student concerned, launched a full investigation and have suspended the security officers (without prejudice), pending the results of this investigation.\"\n\nMr Adan, a French and Linguistics student at the university, said he had been \"traumatised\" by the incident and has not been able to sleep since it took place.\n\nReturning to his halls of residence after visiting a local shop, he had been asked to present his identification, he said.\n\n\"I had my ID card in my hand and they tried to snatch it from me. The next thing I know I was being pinned up against the wall,\" he said.\n\nMr Adan said everyone on campus had been told to show their identification to security guards on the gate before entering.\n\nHe added: \"There was no conversation. They just pinned me up against the wall and said I looked like a drug dealer. Why? Because I am black and wearing a hoodie?\"\n\nZac considered studying law at another university before opting for languages at Manchester\n\nIn the footage, security guards can be seen walking off after looking at his university identification. One officer explains to a student nearby: \"When you showed your card, you covered your face up - that's all.\"\n\nIt comes after students tore down \"prison-like\" fencing which was erected around Fallowfield campus on day one of England's new lockdown.\n\nThe university apologised \"for the concern and distress caused\" at the time, saying \"alternative security measures, including additional security patrols are being put in place\".\n\nIn an exclusive interview, Mr Adan, who is the first in his family to go to university, told the BBC he believed this was an example of racial profiling and said it could be damaging to prospective students.\n\n\"It's disgusting, I haven't been able to sleep. I am traumatised by the situation,\" he said.\n\n\"My parents came from Somalia as refugees and have given up everything for me to be at this institution.\n\n\"I am the first person in my family to go to university, so for me it's an achievement - but when they hear about things like this happening, my parents are begging me to go back home.\"\n\nMr Adan said he moved to the UK from Italy a few years ago and has \"suffered racism\" all his life, but added: \"Britain has been so accepting and welcoming, I genuinely think this is one of the most accepting countries in the world and, when things like this happen, it lets the country down.\"\n\nHe is calling for the university to apologise and says he wants to speak to its chancellor.\n\n\"I want to be able to live in peace and enter my flat in peace and not be stopped and abused by the people we are paying to protect us,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the university said: \"On Saturday, 14 November we were made aware of an alleged serious incident on our campus and began investigating it immediately.\n\n\"We have been in regular contact with the affected party and keeping them fully informed of our progress.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our students is always of the utmost importance to us and we take these kind of allegations extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Downing Street says the prime minister and MP Lee Anderson were standing \"side by side\" and observed guidelines and distancing advice during their meeting with on Thursday\n\nBoris Johnson, six Tory MPs and two political aides are self-isolating after a breakfast meeting inside Downing Street last Thursday.\n\nOne of the MPs, Lee Anderson, later tested positive for Covid-19, and on Sunday the prime minister was told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn a video from No 10, Mr Johnson urged others to \"follow the rules\" if contacted by the system.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman insisted that Downing Street is \"Covid-secure\".\n\nHe said \"social distancing did happen\" but factors such as the length of the meeting were considered by Test and Trace.\n\nMr Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with coronavirus seven months ago, spent about 35 minutes with Mr Anderson - who lost his sense of taste the day after the meeting.\n\nThe five other MPs self-isolating following the meeting with \"Red Wall\" Tories include:\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman declined to name the aides but suggested they were not Lee Cain or Dominic Cummings, who left Downing Street last week.\n\nJacob Young, MP for Redcar, is also self-isolating - but said he was not at the meeting - while Basingstoke MP Maria Miller has said she is self-isolating after having been contacted by Test and Trace.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister was right to self-isolate as \"it is important for all of us to say that we have got to comply with the advice and guidance\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe PM's period of isolation began as the government prepares a policy relaunch.\n\nDowning Street said a series of \"critical announcements\" would this week detail Mr Johnson's \"ambitions for the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson will chair \"key Covid meetings\" and work with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to devise the upcoming spending review with an aim to fulfil his promise to \"build back better\".\n\nThe prime minister had been expected to lead a No 10 news conference on Monday but Health Secretary Matt Hancock took his place.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson is hoping to take part in Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons virtually, Downing Street said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Hancock said the prime minister's self-isolation would make no difference to the amount of work he would be able to do \"driving forward the agenda\".\n\nAsked if the PM and Mr Anderson followed social distancing rules during their meeting, he said there were rules \"around Downing Street being a Covid-secure workplace\".\n\nHe added: \"The central point is that it doesn't matter who you are, if you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate that is what you must do.\"\n\nPhotos of Mr Johnson and several Tory MPs show them standing close together. The prime minister had to self-isolate after one of them, Mr Anderson, developed Covid symptoms.\n\nGuidelines for offices require social distancing of 2m (6ft), or 1m plus precautions such as frequent cleaning and one-way systems where that is not possible.\n\nNo 10 is yet to respond to a request from BBC Reality Check for details of the Covid-secure guidelines in Downing Street.\n\nBut the PM's spokesman said \"social distancing did happen\" and that the picture shows Mr Johnson and Mr Anderson \"stood side-by-side, rather than face-to-face\".\n\nHowever, Test and Trace guidance defines a close contact as someone you spent more than 15 minutes with at a distance of under 2m. Mr Johnson's meeting with Mr Anderson lasted about 35 minutes and he would therefore be required to self-isolate if they were not more than 2m apart.\n\nIn his video posted on Twitter, the PM said: \"The good news is that NHS Test and Trace is working ever-more efficiently, but the bad news is that they've pinged me and I've got to self-isolate because someone I was in contact with a few days ago has developed Covid.\n\n\"It doesn't matter that we were all doing social distancing, it doesn't matter that I'm fit as a butcher's dog, feel great.\n\n\"And actually, it doesn't matter that I've had the disease and I'm bursting with antibodies. We've got to interrupt the spread of the disease and one of the ways we can do that now is by self-isolating for 14 days when contacted by Test and Trace.\"\n\nAccording to No 10, the prime minister has had at least one antibody test for coronavirus.\n\nIt remains unclear what effect, if any, previously having the coronavirus has on a person's immunity but experts think reinfection is likely to be rare, BBC health correspondent James Gallagher has reported.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said there have been more than 25 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reinfection globally.\n\nHe added: \"I think most of us think the rate of reinfection is quite a lot higher than that, but not enormous.\"\n\nSelf-isolation means staying at home and not leaving it - even to buy food, medicines or other essentials, or for exercise.\n\nIf you are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or the NHS Covid-19 app, you must self-isolate for 14 days from the day you were last in contact with the person who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAnd if you develop symptoms during the 14 day period, you should get a test as soon as possible.\n\nIf the result is negative, you should continue isolating for the rest of the 14 days.\n\nIf positive, you should self-isolate for at least another 10 days from when your symptoms started.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield, posted a photo of himself with Mr Johnson at No 10 alongside the words: \"Breakfast with the PM.\"\n\nOn Sunday, he posted on his Facebook page to say he was self-isolating with his wife, who is clinically vulnerable, after they both tested positive.\n\nThe PM wrote on Twitter on Sunday night that he had been notified by NHS Test and Trace that he must self-isolate as he had been in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus, and he would be working from No 10.\n\nThe new policy plans follow the dramatic departure of the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings last week.\n\nOver the weekend, senior Tory MPs said his exit was a chance to \"reset government\" and a series of announcements are planned for this week, including the government's 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\"\n\nA meeting between the PM and the Northern Research Group of backbench Tory MPs is scheduled to take place via online video conference later on Monday.\n\nAnd talks over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU have resumed in Brussels.\n\nMeanwhile, in other coronavirus developments:\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "Most of the debilitating effects of statins are not caused by the drug, but by people believing it will make them sick, a UK study suggests.\n\nThe phenomenon is known as the \"nocebo effect\" and may account for 90% of the ill health associated with the cholesterol-lowering drugs.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation said the results were undeniable.\n\nThe Imperial College London researchers hope the findings will help more people stay on statins.\n\nThe drugs are one of the most prescribed in the UK. Nearly eight million people taken them to lower their cholesterol and in turn reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke.\n\nHowever, up to a fifth of people stop taking them due to side-effects such as muscle aches, fatigue, feeling sick and joint pain.\n\nThe nocebo effect - when expecting a drug to make you worse, genuinely does - has been seen before in medicine.\n\nIt is thought to explain the high number of people who think they have penicillin allergies when tests suggest otherwise.\n\nThe statin study, which took place at Hammersmith Hospital, focused on 60 patients who had all come off the drugs in the past due to severe side effects.\n\nThey were given 12 bottles - four contained a month's worth of statins, four a month's worth of dummy pills and four were empty.\n\nEvery day for a year they would score, from zero to 100, how bad their symptoms were.\n\nThe study showed an average score of:\n\nThe Imperial researchers said 90% of the severity of their symptoms was present when the volunteers were taking dummy pills they thought could be a statin.\n\n\"The side effects are mainly caused by act of taking tablets, not what is in them,\" Dr James Howard, one of the researchers told BBC News.\n\nHe added: \"It is crazy when you think about it, to most people it is complete incongruous.\"\n\nSymptoms were so bad that people had to stop taking the tablets on 71 occasions, including 31 times while they were just taking the dummy pill, during the course of the study.\n\n\"Our patients were really suffering, patients are not making it up,\" Dr Howard said.\n\nBut does it matter either way? Whether it is nocebo effect or the chemicals in the statin themselves, the net result is some people find the drugs intolerable.\n\n\"I think it matters a lot,\" Dr Howard said. He said talking the results through with patients meant half of them were able to restart their statins.\n\nThe nocebo effect is the opposite of the more familiar placebo effect, in which people feel better after being given a therapy, even if there is nothing in it.\n\nThe exact reason why statins produce a nocebo effect is unknown. The suspicion is they have achieved a self-fulfilling destiny with media reports, GPs and cardiologists warning of the side-effects of statins.\n\n\"If you stopped a man in the street and asked how do you feel about an aspirin or a statin a day, I think people would be much more positive about the aspirin,\" Dr Howard said.\n\nThe study is being published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Heart Association Conference.\n\nProf Sir Nilesh Samani, the medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: \"These results undeniably show that statins are not responsible for many of the side effects attributed to them.\n\n\"Decades of evidence have proven that statins save lives and they should be the first port of call for individuals at high risk of heart attack and stroke.\"", "Lewis Hamilton clinched a seventh World Championship and became the most successful racing driver ever with a masterful victory in the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday.\n\nThe Mercedes driver equalled Michael Schumacher's achievement in terms of titles, after already surpassing the German's number of race wins last month.\n\nVictory at a treacherously wet and slippery Istanbul Park track in a topsy-turvy race was the 94th of the 35-year-old Briton's career.\n\nAs he received the congratulations of his team, Hamilton was almost overcome with emotion in the car after the race, saying: \"To all the kids out there, dream the impossible.\"\n\nOnce out of the car, he added: \"Seven is just unimaginable but when you work with such a great group of people and you really trust each other, there is just no end to what you can do together.\n\n\"I feel like I'm only just getting started, it's really weird.\"\n\nHamilton, who does not yet have a contract for next year, added he would \"love to stay\" in F1 and wanted to continue to campaign for change when it comes to human rights, diversity and environmentalism.\n\nThe Englishman won his first world title with McLaren in 2008 with further successes in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.\n• None The greatest ever? We examine the stats\n\nHow Hamilton won it in style\n\nIt was a drive befitting the monumental nature of Hamilton's achievement.\n\nHe trod carefully in the opening stages of the race and even made a couple of small mistakes as the drivers fought for grip in the wet conditions.\n\nBy five laps in he was in sixth place, well over 20 seconds off the lead held by Racing Point's Lance Stroll, ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez.\n\nAfter all the leaders made an early stop for fresh intermediate tyres, Hamilton was stuck behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, faster but unable to pass because of the lack of grip off line.\n\nBut the race opened up for Hamilton at around half-distance as he once again made decisive strategy calls on tyres from the cockpit and drove with the skill and class that has enabled him to put himself in this position.\n\nStroll and Perez began to be caught by those behind.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was the first to pressure them, but fell out of contention when he lost control and spun behind Perez on lap 18, destroying his tyres and needing to stop again.\n\nThen, Red Bull's Alex Albon was running third, ahead of Vettel's Ferrari and Hamilton.\n\nFerrari pitted Vettel for fresh tyres on lap 33, having seen how quickly team-mate Charles Leclerc was going on his fresh intermediates, and then Albon spun at Turn Four.\n\nThat gave Hamilton a clean run to attack the Racing Points and he told his team: \"Don't box [pit] me, man.\"\n\nDespite Stroll saying he did not want to change tyres, Racing Point did pit the Canadian on lap 36, removing him from the lead and, shortly afterwards, Hamilton took the lead from Perez and never looked back.\n\nHamilton and Perez stayed out on worn tyres, as the Mercedes driver pulled away in the lead, his only concern being whether his worn intermediate tyres would last.\n\nAnd Hamilton's excellence was put into stark perspective by his team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\nThe Finn went into the race knowing he had to out-score Hamilton by at least eight points to keep the championship alive. But he had a dreadful day, spinning at least five times and finishing 14th, lapped by Hamilton.\n\nWhen told there were four laps left late in the race, a downcast Bottas said: \"I wish it was less.\"\n\nIt was a heartbreaking day for Stroll, who confidently led for the first 36 laps after the first pole position of his career, only to see his race unravel after he made his stop for fresh tyres.\n\nBut while the Canadian could not make the new tyres work on his car, and slumped to ninth at the end, a second pit stop mid-race worked well for both Ferrari drivers.\n\nPerez hung on to second, after briefly losing the place to Leclerc on the final lap, only for the Monegasque to slide wide at the final chicane, allowing team-mate Vettel through into the final podium position, his first of the season.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen pushed Perez hard early on, but a spin at the kink on the back straight ended his hopes.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nHamilton has clinched the title with three races still to go, two in Bahrain starting in two weeks' time and then a finale in Abu Dhabi in mid-December.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"It felt so far fetched. I remember watching Michael win those world championships. To get one or two or even three is so hard. Seven is unimaginable. There is no end to what we can do together, me and this team. We dreamed of this when I was young. It is so important for kids to see this and don't listen to anyone who says you can't achieve something. Dream the impossible. You have got to chase it and never give up.\"\n\nPerez: \"I told my team on the radio: 'One more lap on those tyres, I think they will have exploded.' The vibrations were really bad towards the end. But I think it also made our race. Looking after them towards the beginning and towards the end, with drying conditions, I think the team did a fantastic job with the strategy in the race.\"\n\nVettel: \"It was quite intense but good fun. I had a really good opening lap, I found myself already in P4. It is a bit of a surprise to snatch the podium but I am certainly very happy.\"\n• None The artists face their first challenge", "Why was UK not at front of Moderna vaccine queue?\n\nSky's Thomas Moore asks why the UK government has not bought up some of the Moderna vaccine before now. Matt Hancock says there is not a stockpile, the vaccine has not yet been manufactured and in Europe first availability will be in the spring. \"It is critical we have been buying the first vaccines that will be available,\" he says. He adds that, if you take the Astrazeneca agreements and Pfizer vaccines into account, the UK has more than 100 million doses on order. Jonathan Van-Tam says the spiked coronavirus protein is being targeted by most of the vaccine trials around the world and these early results are beginning to show us this is a \"plausible target for vaccines to be working against\". \"When we started this journey in February/March we didn't even know that, so we are in a happier place than we were,\" he says.", "Facebook has taken down a string of racist and misogynistic posts, memes and comments about US Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe social network removed the content after BBC News alerted it to three groups that regularly hosted hateful material on their pages.\n\nFacebook says it takes down 90% of hate speech before it is flagged.\n\nOne media monitoring body described the pages as \"dedicated to propagating racist and misogynistic smears\".\n\nHowever, despite the pages being places where hate-speech is regularly directed towards the vice-president-elect, Facebook said it would not take action on the groups themselves.\n\nMedia Matters president Angelo Carusone said: \"Facebook's removal of this content only after it's been flagged to them by the media confirms that the rules and guidelines they establish are hollow because they put little to no effort into detection and enforcement.\n\n\"We are talking about the lowest of low-hanging fruit from a detection perspective.\n\n\"And yet, these escaped Facebook's notice until flagged by a third party.\"\n\nThe pages included accusations Ms Harris was not a US citizen - because her mother was from India and her father from Jamaica.\n\nOther comments suggested she was not \"black enough\" for the Democrats.\n\nAnother post said she should be \"deported to India\".\n\nAnd, in several memes, her name is mocked.\n\nOne of the pages has 4,000 members, another 1,200.\n\nA series of other sexually graphic and misogynistic submissions were also removed.\n\nFacebook has been repeatedly criticised by advertisers and civil-rights groups for not doing enough to tackle hate speech.\n\nIn August, hundreds of companies stopped advertising on the platform in protest.\n\nPreviously, other campaigners have told BBC News racism and hate speech is not picked up by Facebook's internal moderation tools - and in some situations even promoted.\n\nRishad Robinson, from the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, told BBC News Facebook had \"created a set of algorithms that incentivise people to spread hate\".\n\nFacebook's own civil-rights audit, in August, said the company had made \"vexing and heartbreaking\" decisions about hate speech that represented \"significant setbacks for civil rights\".\n\nAnd last week, one of Joe Biden's senior aides attacked Facebook over its handling of conspiracy theories, calls to violence and disinformation in the days following the US election.\n\n\"Our democracy is on the line,\" tweeted the US president-elect's deputy press secretary, Bill Russo.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\nHollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are to be the new owners of National League club Wrexham.\n\nWrexham Supporters Trust (WST) members voted overwhelmingly to back the takeover with 98.6% of those who responded backing the bid.\n\nOut of more than 2,000 trust members eligible to vote, 1,809 approved, 26 were against and nine abstained.\n\nThe trust wished the pair \"the very best of luck in charge\" and \"look forward to what the future brings\".\n\nIn a statement, the trust added: \"Subject to final agreement, league and FA confirmation - the RR McReynolds Company, LLC will take 100% control of Wrexham Football Club Limited from the WST.\n\n\"Both parties will now proceed with finalising the details of the takeover, and we will update Wrexham supporters as soon as we can.\"\n\nReynolds and fellow actor McElhenney had told trust members they want to turn Wrexham into a \"global force\".\n\nThe takeover could lead to £2m being invested in the club, which has been in fan ownership since 2011.\n\nBoard director Spencer Harris previously said he expected the club to be in Reynolds' and McElhenney's hands within a few weeks of the vote going their way.\n\nReynolds and McElhenney presented their vision to trust members on 8 November at a virtual meeting with voting starting the following day and ending on Sunday.\n\nThe duo also issued a mission statement and have said they intend to attend games when work commitments allow.\n\nThe pair set out their plans for the club at the virtual meeting after trust members voted 95% in favour of holding talks with the pair.\n\nThey also answered fans' questions during the online gathering.\n\nMore than 2,000 trust members were eligible to take part in the vote with 75% of members who responded to the ballot needing to vote in favour for the takeover to go ahead.\n\nTrust members had received voting packs before the presentation detailing the next steps of the proposed takeover bid by The RR McReynolds Company.\n\nThe north Wales club, formed in 1864, play in English football's fifth tier following their relegation from the Football League in 2008.\n• None Is the new Xbox console worth the money?", "Two new \"mega labs\" will open in early 2021 with the aim of doubling the UK's daily coronavirus testing capacity, the government has said.\n\nThe sites - at Leamington Spa in the Midlands and another at an unconfirmed site in Scotland - will increase testing capacity by 600,000.\n\nThe latest data shows current capacity is around 519,000 - although the number of tests actually processed is lower.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour is calling for a national plan to roll out the vaccine.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the vaccination programme will probably be the largest logistical operation since World War Two - and called for a plan setting out who will be eligible for a jab and when.\n\nTesting is considered a key way to control the epidemic, but the government's system has experienced setbacks during the pandemic.\n\nIn recent weeks, the government has started to pilot mass testing - including people with no symptoms - using a new type of rapid swab tests which do not need to be sent to a lab.\n\nHowever, the bulk of the UK's testing still uses the standard swab test that need to be analysed in a lab.\n\nAnnouncing the two new \"mega labs\", the government said they will use technology to speed up the process - for example through automation and robotics.\n\n\"This means more tests will be processed more quickly and at a lower cost, and therefore faster turnaround times for test results,\" the Department of Health said.\n\nThe sites will create up to 4,000 jobs, with the labs also being used to process tests for other illnesses including cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.\n\nThey would each add 300,000 to the UK's daily testing capacity - defined as how many tests can be processed in the lab each day - when operating at maximum.\n\nThe testing capacity is different to how many tests are actually processed. For example, the latest figures for Friday showed that although the UK's capacity was 519,951, the number of tests carried out was 379,955.\n\nOfficials have previously said it is natural that not all the capacity is used up, and there needs to be flexibility in the system to cope with surges in demand or problems with equipment or staff.\n\nOn the face of it the planned new \"mega labs\" will mark a significant boost to UK testing capacity. The current capability of 500,000 tests a day will be more than doubled when the two labs are up and running.\n\nBut the big unanswered question is when?\n\nThe timing is vague with only an aim for an opening early next year. The site for the Scottish lab has not yet been announced.\n\nPrevious pledges on testing capacity have not always been met.\n\nA new \"lighthouse lab\" at Charnwood in the East Midlands was due to open in early October.\n\nThat didn't happen although government sources say it will come online \"in the coming months\" along with three others.\n\nPlans are one thing. Delivery is another. More details of the \"mega labs\" will be closely scrutinised when they are published.\n\n\"We didn't go into this crisis with a significant diagnostics industry, but we have built one, and these two mega labs are another step forward,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"These mega labs are future-proofing our national infrastructure to respond to future epidemics and improving care for other diseases.\"\n\nThe Scotland lab - which will be rolled out after Leamington Spa - will create about 1,800 jobs, the Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said. Its location is yet to be confirmed.\n\nShe described the establishment of the mega lab as \"an important step in our fight against the virus\" that will \"significantly\" increase testing and diagnostic capacity.\n\nMs Freeman added: \"The facility, which will follow on from the lab in Leamington Spa, will also have the flexibility to provide diagnostic capability in the future for other diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and will support Scotland's growing precision medicine industry.\"\n\nSeparately, the NHS announced it is launching 40 clinics specialising in \"long Covid\" which will start opening at the end of November. The condition is thought to affect more than 60,000 people in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, hope continues that a Covid vaccine will be rolled out in coming months.\n\nAt the weekend, the co-founder of pharmaceutical company BioNTech, whose vaccine with Pfizer has shown positive early results, said life should be back to normal by next winter.\n\nProf Ugur Sahin said if everything continued to go well, the vaccine would begin to be delivered at the \"end of this year, beginning of next year\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech's Ugur Sahin: \"I'm confident that...we could have a normal winter next year\"\n\nLabour's Sir Keir has called on Boris Johnson to publish a national action plan for rolling out a vaccine \"that harnesses all of the talents of the British people: our businesses, nurses, doctors, scientists and public servants\".\n\nHe said the government should consider supporting councils to refurbish town halls or sport centres into local vaccine clinics, and also launch a nationwide public health campaign to crack down on vaccine fake news.\n\n\"We are world leaders in vaccines, and I believe we should be aiming for a world class programme for rolling it out,\" he said.\n\nLast week, BioNTech and Pfizer became the first vaccine developers to share preliminary analysis that showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.\n\nTheir vaccine is one of 11 in the final stages of testing.\n\nHowever, there is no data yet to show how well the jab works in the elderly, and it is also not known if it stops people spreading the disease, as well as getting sick.\n\nThe UK has ordered enough doses for 20 million people. But it will not be released for use in the UK until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nThe agency's head has said it would not lower its safety standards despite the need to get a vaccine quickly.\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. It takes the UK's number of people who have died to 51,934.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rainbow says Carl always had a smile for everyone, even when he was at his \"lowest ebb\"\n\nPeople struggling with their mental health during the pandemic \"do not feel entitled to seek help\" while others suffer with Covid-19, a charity said.\n\nA Mind Cymru survey of 900 people found a third of adults and a quarter of young people fail to get help because they did not think they deserved it.\n\nThe charity said conditions had become \"more acute but also more complex\".\n\nA woman from Newport has urged people to ask for help after the father of her children took his own life in July.\n\nRainbow, pictured with daughter Holli, says Carl \"struggled to talk\"\n\nCarl Morgan took his own life, aged 43, and Rainbow Chicharro said he \"struggled to talk\".\n\nShe added: \"You would never have known Carl was suffering on the inside because even when he was at his lowest ebb, he would always have a smile for everybody.\n\n\"He would always put everybody else first before himself. His energy was infectious and whenever we had a gathering he was always the loudest and brightest of the bunch. It's really sad.\"\n\nTheir eight-year-old daughter Holli has raised thousands of pounds for charity by having her hair cut off on the date of her father's birthday.\n\nShe said her favourite things to do with her father were \"game nights, pizza nights and all the bike rides we did because I got to spend time with my dad\".\n\n\"It would always make him smile and we would always have so much fun,\" said Holli.\n\nShe explained she wants to raise awareness so people \"don't have to suffer anymore\".\n\nHolli said she enjoyed \"game nights, pizza nights and all the bike rides we did\" with her dad\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru has warned of the effects of the pandemic on people's mental health and on people's willingness to seek help.\n\n\"People haven't been seeking help for a number of reasons, fear of contracting the virus, but also maybe not feeling they deserve help at that time,\" said Simon Jones, head of policy at Mind Cymru.\n\n\"You may feel that how you're feeling emotionally isn't as important as the physical challenges that people are facing, but we know in the long run it's really important that people talk, and that people still seek help, because your mental health is as important as your physical health.\"\n\nFigures published earlier in the year suggested twice as many adults had reported symptoms of depression compared with the same time last year.\n\nA survey of more than 3,500 adults found almost one in five appeared to have depressive symptoms compared with just under one in ten before the pandemic.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, visit BBC Action Line for information on support available to you.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It can be shocking sometimes,\" says probation officer Salli Dixon\n\nWorking from home during a pandemic has brought extra challenges for probation officers who work with serious offenders after their release from prison. Many have had to handle unpleasant subject matter in their own homes, as they deal remotely with violent or sexual offenders.\n\nI spent the day with a member of the probation team that works with the 50 most dangerous male offenders in Cardiff, to see how they are managing.\n\nSalli Dixon is part of the special team of probation officers usually based at a police station.\n\nWhile some face-to-face appointments have continued, whether in the office or the offender's doorstep, others have to be done over the phone or by video call.\n\nThe pandemic also means more of the work is done remotely from home, including work with sex offenders.\n\n\"It makes it a little more hard to switch off mentally, and you're having really difficult conversations in your home environment, which feels intrusive,\" she says.\n\n\"But it hasn't made the service any less effective. We can't have a less effective service - we protect the public, so we've just had to adapt.\"\n\nHer first call of the day is with a registered child sex offender, who is living in a halfway house after recently being released from prison.\n\nSalli speaking to a registered sex offender who \"gets anxious\" and thinks the \"way out\" might be going back to prison\n\nHe's tested positive for Covid-19 and has been moved into isolation quarters, meaning their appointment must now be over the phone.\n\nHe tells her he's anxious about plans to find him his own flat where he would be living alone full-time.\n\nThe length of time prison leavers spend in approved premises like a halfway house has been reduced during the pandemic.\n\n\"It's a little early if I'm honest - far, far too early,\" he says.\n\n\"When my mind is in a corner and up against a wall - it just goes 'right where is the way out? The way out is to go back to prison'.\"\n\nHis anxieties are kicking in, meaning his risks increase, Salli explains.\n\n\"He has got 16 or 17 instances of breaching his restrictions, usually by going too close to an area where there are children - like a nursery or school. He says he does that because he wants to self-sabotage and go back into prison,\" she says.\n\n\"So when he feels that he is being moved into his own accommodation, where he'll be by himself, he gets anxious and he thinks it's easier to just do something that would warrant him going back inside.\n\n\"The risk to the public would be that he would commit a child contact sex offence. He hasn't done that yet, but we can't rule out that he wouldn't.\"\n\n\"We're not completely desensitised, we still hear things that shock us\"\n\nHow does she feel discussing the nature of his offending?\n\n\"We're not completely desensitised as probation officers, because we still hear things that shock us,\" she says.\n\n\"No matter how long you've done a job it is quite difficult sometimes and quite unusual to hear somebody talk candidly about their sexual views towards children.\"\n\nThe small team deals with complex cases - like repeat domestic violence or sex offenders who also have additional issues, such as a personality disorder, mental health problems or drug and alcohol misuse.\n\nKnown as Wisdom (Wales Integrated Serious and Dangerous Offender Management), they have a reduced case load to reflect the risks posed, as well as more resources than typical probation officers.\n\nHer second case of the day is able to come to the office. He committed a sex offence against a vulnerable adult and was released earlier this year after decades in prison.\n\nOne of the sex offenders Salli is working with has struggled with the pace of life outside prison, but has done \"phenomenally well\"\n\nMuch has changed since he was a young man on the outside, and he says the pace of life compared with prison has felt overwhelming at times.\n\nWeeks after his release, lockdown was announced and he too wonders whether it would be better to be back in prison.\n\n\"We've done a lot of work around what's going well and the reasons he wants to stay out,\" says Salli.\n\n\"If you reinforce that enough, they will make changes and they will stay out. He's done phenomenally well.\"\n\nShe still carries out some home visits, but they're now on the doorstep, which naturally makes the job more challenging.\n\n\"We're risk assessors, it's what we're trained to do. So even though we might not be able to physically go inside, we'll do everything we can to make sure that everyone is safe.\"\n\nThe use of video calls also means more checks can be done in a day, but if Salli is working from home she has to make sure none of her personal items are on view.\n\n\"I would try and have video calls in the office because not only is it safer but I'm in the right frame of mind to be talking to somebody [in that] environment.\"\n\nCovid-19 has also brought greater practical challenges for the men she works with.\n\n\"It's made it more difficult for people to access basic things like housing, money and universal credit, signing up at the doctors, getting a prescription. We've had to be more hands on in terms of helping people get set up.\"\n\nThe rewards keep her going, she said, and she is proud of the good the team is doing for the wider community.\n\n\"We change people's lives,\" she says.\n\n\"I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it. It's got its ups and downs and you know you can't help change everyone. You have to manage your expectations about what you can help people achieve.\"", "The Public Health Agency said uptake of the vaccine has been higher than ever before.\n\nThere is \"no shortage\" of ordered flu vaccines for Northern Ireland, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nNI's GP committee had said that Northern Ireland was almost 200,000 doses short of the flu vaccine.\n\nThe chair of NI's GP committee had raised concerns that it would not be possible to complete the vaccination programme for those aged over 65.\n\nBut the Public Health Agency (PHA) now says that this is not the case.\n\nConcerns about a shortage of flu vaccine initially emerged after a meeting of GPs and Public Health Agency representatives last week.\n\nDr Alan Stout, chair of NI's GP committee (NIGPC), then wrote to GPs across Northern Ireland and said he was \"deeply concerned and frustrated\" about a shortfall in flu vaccines.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that after last week's meeting, Dr Stout wrote to the chief medical officer highlighting their concerns over the shortfall of about 200,000 vaccine doses.\n\nIn an email to Dr Michael McBride and seen by BBC News NI Dr Alan Stout said: \"You will see that it is far from satisfactory and puts practices in a very difficult situation and really does put at risk the completion of the flu campaign this year.\n\n\"Is this all consistent with your own understanding?\n\n\"We have a large number of practices with significant numbers of patients still to be vaccinated. We need to get advice to them ASAP about when they can do this and what vaccine they should give. \"\n\nBut on Monday Dr Gerry Waldron from the PHA said there was not a shortage and he hoped the confusion would not deter those coming forward.\n\nLater on Monday Robin Swann also denied there was a shortage and said Northern Ireland had ordered in total 1,050,300 doses for this year.\n\nAs of last Friday, 826,890 doses had been delivered into Northern Ireland, with 601,243 doses delivered to GPs and health trusts.\n\nMr Swann said two further deliveries had arrived in NI on Monday morning, with the total amount of vaccine delivered now standing at 1,019,590 doses.\n\nThirty thousand doses of childhood vaccine still to be delivered are the \"only remaining order outstanding\", he told the assembly.\n\nFrom the outside looking in, things appear a bit of a mess.\n\nHere are two reputable bodies - the Public Health Agency and the NI GP committee - each with their own versions of an important meeting last week.\n\nOn the one hand GPs have said they were left in no doubt of the shortfall; on Sunday the Public Health Agency confirmed in a statement that postponing clinics would \"inconvenience\" GPs. At no point did the PHA challenge or contradict what GPs had told the BBC.\n\nTwenty-four hours on, however, and it is an entirely different story with the PHA adamant that Northern Ireland now has enough vaccine to go around.\n\nThe British Medical Association has reacted saying it is \"delighted\" with the news.\n\nAll of this highlights the importance of clear messaging, especially during a pandemic.\n\nCommunication between health officials and those on the ground needs to be accurate and up to date.\n\nAll of that will go some way in reassuring the public that when it comes to vaccines, those charged with obtaining and delivering them are in complete control of everything that is going on.\n\nThe PHA's Dr Gerry Waldron said for those aged over 65, about 296,000 vaccines are in Northern Ireland and this is \"the full amount that was planned\".\n\n\"It was always anticipated that stock would arrive in planned batches, and with the initial batch of vaccine for under-65s used up extremely quickly, the decision to pause was purely practical, as it was simply not possible to continue to vaccinate until the next planned tranche of vaccine became available,\" Dr Waldron said.\n\nThere are two different flu vaccines available for different age groups\n\nFollowing the clarification from Mr Swann and the PHA, Dr Stout said: \"As of 8am when practices opened this morning they did not know that there was additional flu vaccine available in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We've only found that out during the course of the day and the only communication that I have got on that is through the press and through the media.\n\n\"It is a good thing that we now know that it is here, but this is part of the confusion, this is part of the problem.\"", "Dentists have provided around 19m fewer treatments in England since March this year compared to the same period last year, figures show.\n\nBritish Dental Association (BDA) analysis, seen by the BBC, shows practices operating at a fraction of their capacity during the pandemic.\n\nIt warns hundreds of practices could be forced to close within the next year without extra financial support.\n\nThe government said the NHS was working hard to restore dental care.\n\nNew coronavirus regulations mean dentists have had to significantly reduce the numbers they treat - in order to clean the surgery between patients to minimise the risk of transmitting the virus.\n\nNHS data shows 19 million fewer treatments - which includes both appointments for emergency treatment and check-ups - were offered in England between March and October in 2020, compared to the same period in 2019.\n\nAnd during September and October, dental practices were operating at just one-third of last year's level.\n\nThe BDA has warned that the reduction in the number of patients seen, paired with the closing of dentists, could have a dramatic impact on patients' oral health.\n\nThe group sent a questionnaire to all 12,000 owners of NHS and private dental practices. Of the 1,337 who responded, 740 said they would not be financially viable a year from now unless they were given extra support.\n\nIt has now written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock warning that, without government intervention, the country risks \"an oral health crisis\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Miller: \"It felt like acid was being poured in my eye\"\n\nTim Miller, 50, had a fractured tooth which became an abscess that went behind his eye, damaging his eyesight.\n\n\"It felt like acid was being poured in my eye. That was the start of about eight and a half months of discomfort and pain as I tried to find an NHS dentist.\"\n\n\"I must have tried about 10. When eventually I located one - the best advice they could come up with was can you go private?\"\n\n\"I did have some incredibly dark thoughts. I got to the point where I wanted it to stop and there wasn't much I wouldn't have done to make it stop.\"\n\nTim, who is on benefits, is not signed up with an NHS dentist. He only managed to afford private treatment after several of his friends chipped in to pay the bill.\n\nHis tooth was taken out and his infection is now receding - but he is waiting to find out if he may have permanent damage to his eyesight.\n\nChristina Chatfield, who owns the Dental Health Spa in Brighton, where Tim was treated, says she has taken on £100,000 worth of debt to keep her practice open.\n\nBut she says: \"The real problem is for those who don't get care. Problems will exacerbate. Kids will have more root canals which aren't available on the NHS. That means more extractions and more orthodontics.\n\n\"And without check ups we will be missing mouth cancers - normally nationally we spot 22 cases per day.\"\n\nThe BDA poll found 70% of the practices who responded were operating at less than half their pre-pandemic capacity.\n\nSam Shah, group clinical director for East Village Dental, a group of six practices in the south of England, said: \"At least two of my surgeries, both in deprived communities with high levels of need, are at risk of closing within the next 12 months if the government doesn't intervene.\n\n\"The communities have a lack of access to any other NHS dental services.\"\n\nMr Shah added: \"We've seen an increase in the number of people using painkillers to manage dental pain - and that has led to an increase in the number of people presenting at A&E after inadvertently overdosing on paracetamol or ibuprofen.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The NHS is working hard to resume the routine elective services that were paused as part of the response to the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"All dentists are able to remain open to patients and those holding NHS contracts have continued to be paid in full throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"Priority access is expected to be given to urgent care and vulnerable groups, with over 600 urgent dental centres continuing to provide extra support to the dental sector.\"", "A British diplomat has saved a student who was floating face down in a river near Chongqing in south-west China.\n\n61-year-old Stephen Ellison, who is only a month into his new post as consul general, jumped in after the 24-year-old woman slipped on rocks and fell.", "Norton's new Saturday and Sunday shows will begin in 2021\n\nGraham Norton is to present weekend shows on Virgin Radio from next year following his exit from BBC Radio 2.\n\nThe 57-year-old said he was \"excited and a little surprised\" to be joining the station after hosting a Saturday morning show on Radio 2 for 10 years.\n\n\"I was very content where I was but the opportunity to host shows across the weekend seemed too good to miss.\"\n\nNorton will host shows on both Saturday and Sunday at times yet to be announced as part of his new deal.\n\nHe will continue commentating Eurovision, judging on Drag Race UK and hosting his weekly chat show on BBC One after leaving Radio 2 on 19 December.\n\nNorton is the latest high-profile sign-up for Virgin Radio, which previously wooed Chris Evans away from Radio 2 in 2018.\n\nLast month Norton appeared on Evans' breakfast show, during which Evans lightheartedly attempted to lure him to the station.\n\n\"You can see your house from here, so it's even more convenient for when you leave the BBC,\" Evans joked.\n\n\"The energy and enthusiasm at Virgin Radio are infectious and I can't wait to get started,\" said Norton in a statement.\n\nVirgin Radio UK, which launched in 2016, said it would \"share more details about his new show as soon as we can\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In the 1960s, Farrukh Dhondy and Leila Hassan Howe became activists in Britain's Black Power movement.\n\nWith racial tensions running high, many black Britons looked to American movements for inspiration.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC’s Amanda Kirton about how it felt to be on the brink of a revolution of change.\n\nPlease note that this report contains offensive language.", "Entertainer Des O'Connor has died at the age of 88, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe comedian, singer and TV host died on Saturday following a fall at his home in Buckinghamshire just over a week ago.\n\nHe was known for hosting his own chat show, as well as Take Your Pick and Countdown - and for his friendship with Morecambe and Wise.\n\nIn a statement his agent said he was \"well loved by absolutely everybody\" and \"loved life\".\n\nHis long-time agent and family friend Pat Lake-Smith described him as the \"ultimate entertainer\" and said he had been recovering from the fall before his condition had suddenly deteriorated.\n\nShe said: \"He was a joy to work with - he was talented, fun, positive, enthusiastic, kind and a total professional. He loved life, and considered enthusiasm almost as important as oxygen.\"\n\nLondon-born O'Connor presented his own prime-time TV shows for more than 45 years but also had success as a singer.\n\nHis friendship with comedy duo Morecambe and Wise saw him mocked for his singing ability in sketches despite a successful career which included four Top 10 hits and more than 30 albums.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nO'Connor appeared on stages around the world including hundreds of shows at the London Palladium.\n\nHis fame soared when he was hired to host The Des O'Connor Show, which ran on ITV from 1963 to 1971.\n\nIn 1977 he began hosting Des O'Connor Tonight, which started on BBC Two before moving to ITV, where it stayed until it ended in 2002.\n\nHe later hosted the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown alongside Carol Vorderman, with the pair bowing out together in 2008, and was made a CBE for his services to entertainment and broadcasting in that year's birthday honours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gyles Brandreth: \"I don't think you'll find anybody...who's got a thing to say against Des O'Connor\"\n\nO'Connor was married four times, and has described the end of his first three relationships as casualties of his obsession with work.\n\nIn 2007, he married long-term girlfriend Jodie Brooke Wilson, who was 37 years his junior and gave birth to their son Adam when O'Connor was 72.\n\nO'Connor also had four daughters, Karin, TJ, Samantha and Kristina from his previous marriages.\n\nTributes have been paid following his death, with Countdown co-host Vorderman saying he was a born entertainer and it had been a \"complete joy to work with him\".\n\nShe told BBC News: \"I grew up throughout the Des O'Connor years, when he was on the television all the time, on Des O'Connor Tonight and the Morecambe and Wise shows.\n\nO'Connor was made a CBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours\n\n\"Up to 20 million people would sit around the television and watch and laugh, and I mean laugh until they cried.\n\n\"He was the king; he was one of the very great British television entertainers.\"\n\nFellow Countdown star Susie Dent described him as a \"true gent\" while Call the Midwife star Stephen McGann said O'Connor \"never took himself too seriously\".\n\nMelanie Sykes, who hosted TV show Today With Des And Mel alongside O'Connor, said it was an \"education and a privilege to work with him\".\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"He had talent in every fibre of his being and was stubborn as a mule. He was the full ticket as a friend and colleague.\"\n\nBroadcaster Tony Blackburn said \"he was a great entertainer and more importantly a very nice person\", and TV presenter Gyles Brandreth described him as \"the ultimate professional\".\n\nSpeaking about his sketches with Morecambe and Wise, comedian David Baddiel said: \"RIP Des O' Connor. It's worth remembering how brilliant he is at his own expense in these sketches.\"\n\nNorthampton Town Football Club also joined the tributes to their former reserve player.\n\nThe club said: \"We are very sorry to learn of the passing of Des O'Connor. Des famously played for our reserve team on a few occasions just after World War Two. Our thoughts are with all who knew Des.\"\n\nViolinist Sue Croot told the BBC she had always treasured a signed photograph O'Connor gave to her father Ronald Croot, who was helping out on a production of Cinderella at the Grand Theatre in Swansea in the late 1950s. \"Dad said that Des was just such fun to be around and that he was such a down-to-earth person,\" she said.", "Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe prime minister said he was contacted by NHS Test and Trace on Sunday but is not showing symptoms.\n\nMr Johnson on Thursday spent about 35 minutes with Ashfield MP Lee Anderson who has since tested positive.\n\nThe news came as No 10 said Mr Johnson would make \"critical announcements\" about coronavirus and \"levelling up\" the UK over the coming weeks.\n\nIn an announcement planned before Mr Johnson was told to self-isolate, Downing Street said there would be a \"clear signal\" of his \"ongoing ambitions for the United Kingdom\".\n\nIt said Mr Johnson would chair \"key Covid meetings\" and work with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to devise the upcoming spending review with an aim to fulfil his promise to \"build back better\".\n\nBut No 10's effort to start the week afresh following the departure of two of Mr Johnson's top aides amid an internal power struggle was overshadowed by news the prime minister was self-isolating.\n\nMr Johnson wrote on Twitter on Sunday night: \"Today I was notified by NHS Test and Trace that I must self-isolate as I have been in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.\n\n\"I have no symptoms, but am following the rules and will be working from No 10 as I continue to lead the government's pandemic response.\"\n\nA No 10 spokesman added: \"The PM is well and does not have any symptoms of Covid-19.\"\n\nIn a WhatsApp message to Tory MPs seen by the BBC the PM added: \"The good news is that NHS Test and Trace continues to improve. The bad news is that I have been pinged!\"\n\nHe said that he would observe self-isolation rules despite \"following the guidance and socially distancing\" during his meeting with Mr Anderson.\n\n\"It doesn't matter that I feel fine - better than ever - or that my body is bursting with antibodies because I have already had the damn thing,\" he added.\n\n\"The rules are the rules and they are there to stop the spread of the disease.\"\n\nIn April, Mr Johnson spent three nights in intensive care after falling ill with the virus.\n\nHe later said it \"could have gone either way\" and thanked healthcare workers for saving his life.\n\nBoris Johnson will now have to stay at home in No 10.\n\nIt means he will not be able to be in Parliament, though I'm told he will be working from Downing Street.\n\nHe does still intend to keep communicating with the country.\n\nIt was supposed to be a pretty big week for Boris Johnson - he is trying to reset his government after some factional fighting in his office over the last few days.\n\nThere are conversations taking place with the parliamentary authorities to see whether he can still contribute to the Commons.\n\nI think it is fair to say this has not come at the best time for Mr Johnson: he has big decisions to make on Brexit and what happens when England's lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\nAnd it is also worth bearing in mind he was extremely ill with coronavirus earlier in the year and we do not know what getting the virus does for a person's immunity.\n\nLeader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said on Sunday evening he was urgently exploring how to \"support additional virtual participation\" in the chamber following a campaign by vulnerable MPs.\n\nSuch a move could allow more MPs, including Mr Johnson, to attend Commons' debates virtually and possibly even Prime Minister's Questions as he self-isolates.\n\nOn Thursday, Conservative MP Mr Anderson posted a photo of himself with Mr Johnson at No 10 alongside the words: \"Breakfast with the PM.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he observed all the guidelines and distancing advice during his meeting with Lee Anderson on Thursday\n\nMr Anderson posted on his Facebook page to say he was self-isolating with his wife, who is clinically vulnerable.\n\n\"On Friday I lost my sense of taste at the same time my wife had a bad headache,\" he said. \"I had no cough, no fever and felt well. We both had a test on Saturday and the result came in Sunday morning.\n\n\"My wife and I both tested positive. I feel absolutely fine and my biggest concern is my wife who is in the shielded group.\n\n\"But we are both feeling good.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg tweeted the news had come the night before what was meant to be a \"big relaunch week\", following the row last week involving the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings left Downing Street for the last time on Friday following internal battles about his role.\n\nEarlier this weekend, senior Tory MP David Davis said Mr Cummings' departure was a chance to \"reset government\".\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, said the changes were a sign of Mr Johnson's \"determination to rebuild relationships\".\n\nA meeting between the PM and the Northern Research Group of backbench Tory MPs had been scheduled for Monday.\n\nOfficials also confirmed the government's 10-point plan for a \"green industrial revolution\" would be published \"to boost green jobs whilst invigorating plans to achieve net zero by 2050\".\n\nIn addition, another week of negotiations over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are set to begin in Brussels.\n\nThe transition period, which followed Brexit in January, ends on 31 December by which time a deal needs to be agreed and approved by parliaments in the UK and EU.\n\nChief UK negotiator David Frost has said there had been some progress between the two sides but that considerable differences remained.\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.", "Ant and Dec said the the show would feel \"reassuringly familiar\" despite the new location\n\nAnt and Dec told campmates \"things are going to be a bit different this year\" as the latest series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here launched on Sunday.\n\nThis year's series is taking place in Gwrych Castle in North Wales instead of the Australian jungle due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nSir Mo Farah, Vernon Kay and Beverley Callard are among the new campmates.\n\n\"I can't tell you how excited we are to see you all here together finally,\" said Dec. \"Welcome to the castle.\"\n\n\"Things are going to be a bit different this year,\" continued Ant. \"There's no jungle obviously, there's no dunny, there's a privy [toilet] and I can guarantee you there's absolutely no chance of sunbathing.\"\n\nDec added: \"Some things will stay exactly the same. Some things will be reassuringly familiar. So you will live on a diet of rice and beans and you'll do trials to win food for the camp.\"\n\nSunday's launch episode drew an average audience of 10.9 million, almost two million more than the audience that tuned into the Strictly Come Dancing results show on BBC One earlier that evening.\n\nThat was more than the overnight audience of 10 million recorded for last year's launch episode - though that figure rose to 13.17 million once on-demand and catch-up views were taken into account.\n\nThe celebrities were split into two groups of five for the opening challenge\n\nThe other campmates this series include former EastEnders star Shane Richie, Paralympic champion Hollie Arnold, and journalist Victoria Derbyshire.\n\nActress Jessica Plummer, Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, podcaster Giovanna Fletcher and former Strictly pro dancer AJ Pritchard complete the line-up.\n\nThe episode opened with the 10 celebrities split into two groups of five, with one group meeting at the top of a cliff and the other at the bottom.\n\nThose at the top then had to start abseiling down the cliff to collect the team's rucksacks, which were padlocked half way down the cliff side.\n\nNorth was so nervous about the challenge he was sick before it began. \"I've only been here 5 minutes and I'm puking up already,\" 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 I'm A Celebrity... This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the episode, the 10 celebrities were told they would all take part in the first trial of the series, titled The Gates To Hell.\n\nThe challenge saw each of the campmates locked in 10 adjacent chambers. The team then had to pass gold stars, each worth a meal for the camp, from one end to the other - while having cockroaches, maggots and crickets dropped on them.\n\nThe group managed to move seven of the 10 gold stars to the end of the line.\n\nDerbyshire said she felt \"ecstatic that we got so many stars and that it's all over\", but North described the experience as \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nAfter the challenge was over, Callard discovered there were still critters in her pockets and said: \"Oh my god this is my worst nightmare!\"\n\nThis year's series is taking place in Gwrych Castle in North Wales\n\nThe campmates were also seen exploring their new home, with several of them less than impressed by the castle's washroom.\n\n\"Its minging, it needs a really good clean. Well I'm sorry but no. My hair. I will look like I've had Donald Trump's hairdresser,\" joked Callard.\n\nReflecting on the new location, Kay said: \"There are certain things that Australia would've provided that Wales doesn't - a tan, and the opportunity to wear budgie smugglers.\"\n\nOn social media, viewers enjoyed poking fun at the latest round of celebrities and their reactions to the first challenges.\n\nSeveral Twitter users made light of Arnold introducing herself as \"Hollie Arnold MBE\" when she met her fellow campmates.\n\nOthers enjoyed Plummer's struggle to remember where her group Neon Jungle's single had charted, confusing the Scottish singles chart with the overall UK chart.\n\nGiovanna Fletcher's husband Tom, from the band McFly, got particularly nervous watching the opening challenge, tweeting: \"Did Shane Richie just drop my wife off a cliff?!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 new setting broadly went down well with viewers, with TV critic Emma Bullimore writing: \"Wales looks gorgeous, it's a great group of celebs and Ant and Dec are on good form. I'd be happy for them never to go back to Australia.\"\n\nRadio 1 DJ Greg James agreed: \"I think it's gonna be better in Wales and won't ever go back to Australia.\"\n\n\"It wasn't what ITV bosses had planned but the early signs for this revamped, relocated series were promising,\" wrote Michael Hogan in the Telegraph. \"The new castle setting was telegenic and atmospheric.\"\n\n\"Who needs the Australian jungle when you've a draughty tower in Wales?\" wrote The Independent's Ed Power. \"Despite the new location and the fact it's being shot in winter, I'm A Celeb 2020 was exceedingly I'm A Celebrity.\"\n\nNorth's reaction to the first challenge led several viewers to suggest the public would inevitably vote for him to do the majority of the trials this series.\n\nAnd, sure enough, the episode concluded with North and Richie finding out they would face the next bushtucker trial.\n\nThis series will run for three weeks, with one winner ultimately being crowned the king or queen of the castle - instead of jungle.\n\nIt took a minute to acclimatise to I'm A Celebrity's new look as Ant and Dec welcomed viewers to North Wales, but it wasn't long before it began feeling like business as usual.\n\nJust like Love Island's move from Spain to South Africa for its winter series, the location might be different, but it fundamentally remains the same show with the same basic format underneath.\n\nAll the usual I'm A Celebrity building blocks are in place - it's already clear there will still be exhausted and terrified celebrities doing bushtucker trials while Ant and Dec hold the show together (and try not to laugh at them too much).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 year's line-up is strong and the group supported each other well during the first challenge, with Ant telling them they \"worked well as a team\".\n\nThis could end up being one of the most successful series of I'm A Celebrity yet for ITV. The current lockdown restrictions have resulted in a major ratings boost for programmes like Strictly Come Dancing as people stay at home.\n\nThe weather might be worse than in Australia, but there are a few big bonuses about being in the UK for this year's celebrities. Not only have they avoided jet lag, but staying in the UK's time zone will mean they won't have to get up at the crack of dawn for the live evictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A former employee from the company which made the combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower in west London has admitted behaving unethically.\n\nJonathan Roper of Celotex told a public inquiry that the work he did to get the insulation approved for use on high rise buildings was \"dishonest\".\n\nHe added that he felt \"incredibly uncomfortable\" with what he was being asked to do at the time.\n\nCelotex says following disciplinary processes, staff have left the company.\n\nThe first phase of the Grenfell inquiry concluded that cladding put on during the refurbishment fuelled the fire in June 2017 in which 72 people died.\n\nIt is now examining how the tower block blaze could have happened in the first place.\n\nMr Roper, a former product manager at Celotex, told the inquiry on Monday that the way in which the company presented the results of its fire test was misleading.\n\nHe said that Celotex should have considered not selling its products for use on high-rise buildings.\n\nIn 2013, while being asked to research how Celotex insulation could be approved for use on buildings over 18m, Mr Roper had written to colleagues asking if they should take the view that the materials \"realistically should not be used behind most cladding panels, because in the event of a fire it would burn\".\n\nHe told the inquiry that the responses he received from colleagues made it clear that Celotex was determined to launch the insulation - known as Rs5000 - onto the market regardless of how it could pass fire tests.\n\nMr Roper accepted that the discussion within the company was whether Celotex complied with the building regulations or bent the rules to make more money.\n\nAfter a first test failure in January 2014, a second system passed in May 2014, but Celotex failed to disclose additional non-combustible elements which it added to prevent this system from failing, the inquiry heard.\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry heard Celotex added a 6mm fire-resisting magnesium oxide board to a cladding test rig made up of 12mm fibre cement panels for the second test.\n\nThe inquiry heard 8mm fibre cement panels were added over the magnesium oxide to \"conceal\" its presence, making the whole system almost flush - but for the 2mm difference.\n\nMr Roper agreed with the inquiry's chief lawyer Richard Millett QC that the decision to use \"a thinner layer was to make it less noticeable there was something else behind it\", which would aid to \"see off any prospect of anyone asking questions\" about its make-up.\n\nThe inquiry's chief lawyer Richard Millett QC asked: \"Did that not strike you at the time as dishonest?\"\n\nMr Roper said: \"Yes it did. I went along with a lot of actions at Celotex that, looking back on reflection, were completely unethical and that I probably didn't potentially consider the impact of at the time.\n\n\"I was 22 or 23, first job, I thought this was standard practice, albeit it did sit very uncomfortably with me.\"\n\nMr Roper said his superiors ordered the removal of any mention in marketing literature of the magnesium oxide. He agreed that was \"misleading and intended to mislead\".\n\nMr Millett asked: \"Did you realise at the time that if this was how the test was to be described to the market it would be a fraud on the market?\"\n\nMr Roper said: \"Yes I did.\n\n\"I felt incredibly uncomfortable with it. I felt incredibly uncomfortable with what I was asked to do.\"\n\nMr Roper said there was no-one in the firm he could tell about his concerns.\n\nIn its opening statement for the second phase of the inquiry, Celotex said: \"In the course of investigations carried out by Celotex after the Grenfell Tower fire, certain issues emerged concerning the testing, certification and marketing of Celotex's products... These matters involved unacceptable conduct on the part of a number of employees.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard Celotex saw Grenfell as a \"flagship\" for its product and cynically exploited the \"smoke of confusion\" which surrounded building regulations at the time.\n\nCelotex, part of the French multinational Saint-Gobain group, has maintained it promoted Rs5000's use on buildings taller than 18m only on a \"rainscreen cladding system with the specific components\", used when it passed the fire safety test.\n• None Four possible reasons for the Grenfell Tower fire", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech's Ugur Sahin: \"I'm confident that...we could have a normal winter next year\"\n\nThe impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.\n\nProf Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the virus, resulting in a \"dramatic reduction in cases\".\n\nLast week, BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.\n\nAbout 43,000 people took part in tests.\n\nIn an interview on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Prof Sahin said he expected further analysis to show the vaccine would reduce transmission between people as well as stop symptoms developing in someone who has had the vaccine.\n\n\"I'm very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine - maybe not 90% but maybe 50% - but we should not forget that even that could result in a dramatic reduction of the pandemic spread,\" he said.\n\nThe UK is expected to get 10 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered. The jab, which was trialled in six countries, is given in two doses, three weeks apart.\n\nOlder residents and staff in care homes are likely to be prioritised, followed by health workers and the over-80s. People would then be ranked by age.\n\nThe UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nAfter the announcement of the world's first effective vaccine came on Monday, Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, suggested life could be back to normal by spring.\n\n\"I am probably the first guy to say that, but I will say that with some confidence,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Sahin said it would take longer.\n\nIf everything continued to go well, he said, the vaccine would begin to be delivered at the \"end of this year, beginning of next year\".\n\nHe said the goal was to deliver more than 300 million doses worldwide by next April, which \"could allow us to only start to make an impact\".\n\nHe said the bigger impact would happen later, adding: \"Summer will help us because the infection rate will go down in the summer and what is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate until or before autumn/winter next year.\"\n\nProf Sahin said it was essential that all immunisation programmes were completed before next autumn.\n\nThe vaccine has given a boost of confidence that an end to the pandemic is close, with the leading scientist behind it hopeful life could return to normal by next winter.\n\nBut there are some big uncertainties.\n\nThe vaccine needs approval from regulators - and they will only grant that if they're happy the jab is safe and works well. Early results look very good, but we await the full ones in the coming weeks.\n\nThere is also no data yet to show how well the jab works in those who need it the most - the elderly.\n\nNor do we know if it stops people spreading the disease, as well as getting sick.\n\nAnd it's not clear how long immunity might last. People might need yearly boosters.\n\nIf the vaccine is rolled out, it will take time to immunise and protect enough people.\n\nOther Covid-19 vaccines may come along that work just as well or even better than this new vaccine.\n\nBut it is possible that by the summer, mass immunisation will be well under way and we could start to reap the benefits.\n\nAsked if the vaccine was as effective in older people as it is in younger people, he said he expected to have a better idea in the next three weeks.\n\nHe said it was not yet known how long immunity would last after the second dose of the vaccine is given.\n\nHowever, he said, a booster immunisation \"should not be too complicated\" if it was found immunity was reduced significantly after one year.\n\nProf Sahin also said the \"key side effects\" of the vaccine seen so far were a mild to moderate pain in the injection site for a few days, while some participants had a mild to moderate fever over a similar period.\n\n\"We did not see any other serious side effects which would result in pausing or halting of the study,\" he added.\n\nHis vaccine is one of 11 currently in the final stages of testing.\n\nIt will not be released for use in the UK until it passes final safety tests and gets the go-ahead from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The agency's head has said it would not lower its safety standards despite the need to get a vaccine quickly.\n\nIf it was approved, the NHS would be ready to roll out the vaccine from December, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people not to slacken their resolve in the meantime, saying the vaccine's development \"cleared one significant hurdle but there are several more to go\".\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have been raised that mutated forms of the virus might hamper the effectiveness of future vaccines.\n\nIt comes after 12 people were found with a mink-related strain of the virus following an outbreak in Denmark.\n\nVirology professor Wendy Barclay, a scientific adviser for the government, said there was a \"worry\" that the vaccines currently under development \"won't work quite so well as the virus continues to evolve\".\n\nThis did not mean vaccines would not work at all, she added, but adaptable and fast-responding jabs could be the best option.\n\nEarlier, Labour accused the government of not doing enough to \"stamp out dangerous\" anti-vaccine content online and called for emergency laws brought in.\n\nIt wants financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do not remove false scare stories about vaccines.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said such content was \"exploiting people's fears, their mistrust of institutions and governments and spreading poison and harm\".\n\nHis party wanted to work with the government on a cross-party basis to build trust and help promote take-up of the vaccine, he said.\n\nThe government said it took the issue \"extremely seriously\" with \"a major commitment\" from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle anti-vaccine content.\n\nMany social media platforms label false content as misleading or disputed - and all remove posts that contravene terms of service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The government aims to have coronavirus testing available to allow visits in all care homes in England by Christmas, according to the health secretary.\n\nMatt Hancock said it was \"working closely with the social care sector\" to try to make it happen.\n\nIt comes as a screening pilot across 20 care homes in Hampshire, Devon and Cornwall was launched on Monday.\n\nIt is hoped the trial could end restrictions on visits, when used with other measures such as face coverings.\n\nMany people have seen strict restrictions placed on visits to care homes over the last eight months, due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Hancock said he understood how important it was for people to be able to visit loved ones in care homes.\n\n\"Our goal is to ensure that we have the testing available in every care home by Christmas, to make sure that people can take a test and therefore see their loved ones safely,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe government issued updated guidance on visits to care homes on 5 November when England went into its second national lockdown.\n\nThis includes care homes ensuring PPE is used during visits, there are screens between the resident and any visitor and social distancing must be maintained \"at all times\".\n\nMichael Blakstad said his wife Tricia is confined to a single room at her care home due to an outbreak of the virus\n\nMichael Blakstad said the guidelines at his wife Tricia's care home was making her situation a \"nightmare\".\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme she had been isolated in her room for the last three weeks due to an outbreak of the virus.\n\n\"She's basically got this form of dementia which means she doesn't like sitting down,\" Mr Blakstad said. \"That makes it a nightmare being in a single room - it is like being stuck in a hotel room for three weeks without being able to go out. It's just awful.\"\n\nHe said the only visitors she is allowed are care home staff dressed in personal protective equipment, which makes it difficult to \"form a relationship\".\n\nThe health secretary said he had personal experience of how tough the coronavirus restrictions were for families with loved ones in care homes.\n\nBut he told the Today programme that people in care homes are \"particularly vulnerable\" to the virus and when it gets into the facilities it \"runs rife\".\n\n\"So we both need to protect people from the virus but also do that in as a humane a way as possible, and we know the impact on people's health, let alone everything else, on not being able to see visitors.\"\n\nMr Hancock said \"protocols\" were being written alongside the current trial in care homes to allow the scheme be widened to all care homes in England.\n\n\"Describing how this can be done well with the availability of the testing, which of course is now much more widely available than it was at the start of the crisis, means that we'll be able to roll that out right across the country.\"\n\nSeparately to the new screening pilot, care home staff in Liverpool are being trained by soldiers in how to carry out coronavirus tests.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: this would allow staff to take the test to the care homes and delivering them to residents and their relatives \"so that people can try and at least have some visits or indeed get back to normal\".\n\nA mass testing trial is currently taking place in Liverpool.\n\nDo you work or live in a care home? Or do have a loved one in a care home? How will you be affected by the issues in this story? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The leaflet describes how lockdown measures are \"ruining lives\"\n\nLeaflets containing \"false information and conspiracy theories\" about Covid have been posted through letterboxes.\n\nThe flyer accuses the government of \"misrepresenting the facts\" and says: \"The situation is on course to get very much worse unless we act together.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said an officer \"provided reassurance\" to a person in Crundale, Pembrokeshire, who reported receiving one of the leaflets.\n\n\"We are not being told the full facts by the government or the NHS about Covid-19,\" the leaflet starts.\n\n\"There are many examples through history of the government and media misleading the people in order to push through an agenda.\"\n\nIt then accuses the government \"and its representatives in the NHS and media\" of attempting to \"create the illusion of an unprecedented deadly pandemic\" to justify \"extreme lockdown measures\".\n\nCrundale resident Simon Moffett made the complaint to police after the leaflet was posted through his door.\n\nHe said: \"We're all making a tremendous effort to avoid catching and spreading it, because there are vulnerable people here. It takes away the foundations of what everybody is trying to do.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said: \"The leaflet contained false information and conspiracy theories in respect of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"A member of the local neighbourhood policing team got in touch with the resident to discuss and provide reassurance.\"\n\nIt is not yet known exactly how many leaflets have been sent out.\n\nResidents in areas of Pembrokeshire have received a leaflet through their letterboxes\n\nThe leaflet then describes how issues such as suicide, substance abuse and domestic abuse have \"soared\" this year.\n\n\"Lockdown measures are ruining lives not saving them, and the situation is on course to get very much worse - unless we act together,\" it says.\n\nThe flyer does not elaborate on why the author believes the public is being misled, calling it \"a very good question\" and says it would take a more detailed response than the leaflet could provide.\n\nInstead, they ask the residents to study \"comprehensive and evidence-based information\" on three websites it provides links for, one falsely claiming coronavirus \"is not dangerous at all\".\n\nAnother claims people get ill due to concern and worry about the virus rather than because of it.\n\nFacebook, Twitter and Google have vowed to try and stamp out misinformation being spread about coronavirus\n\nMr Moffett, who lives close to Haverfordwest's Withybush Hospital, added: \"There are people who work in the hospital locally and who have suffered as well with the virus.\n\n\"What's more worrying is there are lots of older people here who are vulnerable. Whoever is doing this needs to be stopped.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Labour called for financial and criminal penalties for those that spread \"dangerous\" anti-vaccine content online.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sebastian’s mum became one of the leaders of Britain’s conspiracy community\n\nMr Gething said: \"It's really worrying to see these leaflets, which are spreading fake news and conspiracy theories about coronavirus, being posted through people's doors.\n\n\"Coronavirus is a real and highly infectious virus, which we should all take seriously.\n\n\"More than 1.3 million people have died this year after contracting coronavirus and sadly, this number is growing every day.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones, MS for Mid and West Wales, said: \"Freedom of speech is a very important principle, but sharing outright lies with people and frightening people? Freedom of speech is something that you should use responsibly.\"", "The move to fund free school meals will cost more than £40m\n\nThe Department of Education (DE) will pay for free school meals for eligible children during all school holidays until April 2022.\n\nThe move has been approved by the Northern Ireland executive and will cost more than £40m.\n\nIt means the families of approximately 100,000 children will receive payments when children are off school.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said the payments would begin during the Christmas break in 2020.\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has led calls for similar support to be provided during holiday periods in England.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, payments to those eligible for free school meals were previously made over the summer and half-term holidays in 2020.\n\nFamilies of about 97,000 children received payments of £27 every fortnight per child in lieu of free meals.\n\nThose families will now receive a similar two week payment from the week beginning Monday 14 December.\n\nThose payments will continue over the half-term, Easter, summer and Christmas holidays in 2021 and until Easter 2022.\n\nMr Weir said he welcomed the decision the Executive had taken to support the department's proposal.\n\n\"This is very good news, especially for those families who are struggling financially during this pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"The issue of 'holiday hunger' has become an increasing concern this year.\n\nPeter Weir says access to a health nutritious meal should be \"a basic right for all children\"\n\n\"I realise the vital importance for children who normally receive a free school meal to have access to a nutritious meal without placing their family under further hardship in these difficult times.\n\n\"Access to a healthy nutritious meal should be a basic right for all children and it is vital that we continue this support to ensure children and young people come back to school after holiday periods, healthy and ready to learn.\n\n\"Their future depends on it,\" he added.\n\nThe decision was welcomed by the Children in Northern Ireland charity.\n\nTheir chief executive Pauline Leeson said the executive had taken a \"courageous\" decision.\n\n\"This is a major step for every parent who struggles to find the money for meals outside term time, every child and young person who might otherwise go hungry and for every organisation who has stepped up and provided holiday hunger projects,\" she said.", "Some self-harm images remain on Instagram despite being marked with users' own trigger warnings\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC has said a drop in Facebook's removal of harmful content was a \"significant failure in corporate responsibility\".\n\nFacebook's own records show its Instagram app removed almost 80% less graphic content about suicide and self-harm between April and June this year than in the previous quarter.\n\nCovid restrictions meant most of its content moderators were sent home.\n\nFacebook said it prioritised the removal of the most harmful content.\n\nFigures published on Thursday showed that as restrictions were lifted and moderators started to go back to work, the number of removals went back up to pre-Covid levels.\n\n\"We want to do everything we can to keep people safe on Instagram and we can report that from July to September we took action on 1.3m pieces of suicide and self-harm content, over 95% of which we found proactively,\" said Instagram's head of public policy Tara Hopkins in a statement.\n\n\"We've been clear about the impact of Covid-19 on our content-review capacity, so we're encouraged that these latest numbers show we're now taking action on even more content, thanks to improvements in our technology.\n\n\"We're continuing to work with experts to improve our policies and we are in discussions with regulators and governments about how we can bring full use of our technology to the UK and EU so we can proactively find and remove more harmful suicide and self-harm posts.\"\n\nAfter the death of the teenager Molly Russell, Facebook committed itself to taking down more graphic posts, pictures and even cartoons about self-harm and suicide.\n\nBut the NSPCC said the reduction in takedowns had \"exposed young users to even greater risk of avoidable harm during the pandemic\".\n\nThe social network has responded by saying \"despite this decrease we prioritised and took action on the most harmful content within this category\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Can artificial intelligence help with online safety?\n\nChris Gray is an ex-Facebook moderator who is now involved in a legal dispute with the company.\n\n\"I'm not surprised at all,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You take everybody out of the office and send them home, well who's going to do the work?\"\n\nThat leaves the automatic systems in charge.\n\nBut they still miss posts, in some cases even when the creators themselves have added trigger warnings flagging that the images featured contain blood, scars and other forms of self-harm.\n\nThis warning preceded distressing images that Facebook's AI tools did not catch\n\nMr Gray says it is clear that the technology cannot cope.\n\n\"It's chaos, as soon as the humans are out, we can see... there's just way, way more self-harm, child exploitation, this kind of stuff on the platforms because there's nobody there to deal with it.\"\n\nFacebook is also at odds with moderators about their working conditions.\n\nMore than 200 workers have signed an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg complaining about being forced back into offices which they consider unsafe.\n\nThe staff claimed the firm was \"needlessly risking\" their lives. Facebook has said many are still working from home, and it has \"exceeded health guidance on keeping facilities safe\" for those who do need to come in.\n\nThe figures published on Thursday in Facebook's latest community standards enforcement report again raise questions about the need for greater external regulation.\n\nThe UK government's promised Online Harms Bill would impose a statutory duty of care on social media providers and create a new regulator.\n\nBut it has been much delayed and it is thought legislation won't be introduced until next year.\n\nIan Russell, Molly's father, said there was a need for urgent action.\n\n\"I think everyone has a responsibility to young and vulnerable people, it's really hard,\" he explained.\n\n\"I don't think the social media companies set up their platforms to be purveyors of dangerous, harmful content but we know that they are and so there's a responsibility at that level for the tech companies to do what they can to make sure their platforms are as safe as is possible.\"\n\nMolly Russell took her own life after looking at suicide and self-harm content on Instagram\n\nThe NSPCC is more forthright.\n\n\"Sadly, young people who needed protection from damaging content were let down by Instagram's steep reduction in takedowns of harmful suicide and self-harm posts,\" said Andy Burrows, the charity's head of child safety online policy.\n\n\"Although Instagram's performance is returning to pre-pandemic levels, young people continue to be exposed to unacceptable levels of harm.\n\n\"The government has a chance to fix this by ensuring the Online Harms Bill gives a regulator the tools and sanctions necessary to hold big tech to account.\"\n\nLast week, Instagram announced it was deploying new software tools across the EU that would lead to more automatic removals of the worst kind of content.\n\nFacebook said \"our proactive detection rates for violating content are up from the second quarter across most policies\".\n\nIt put this down to the development of AI tools that have helped it detect offending posts in a wider range of languages.", "Boris Johnson has said he continues to have \"full confidence\" in Priti Patel following a report concluding the home secretary had \"unintentionally\" breached the ministerial code in her behaviour towards civil servants.\n\nThe report's author, Sir Alex Allen, has quit after the PM rejected his findings. Here is the summary of those findings that has been released by the government:\n\nThe Ministerial Code says \"ministers should be professional in their working relationships with the civil service and treat all those with whom they come into contact with consideration and respect.\n\nI believe civil servants - particularly senior civil servants - should be expected to handle robust criticism but should not have to face behaviour that goes beyond that.\n\nThe home secretary says that she puts great store by professional, open relationships. She is action orientated and can be direct.\n\nThe home secretary has also become - justifiably in many instances - frustrated by the Home Office leadership's lack of responsiveness and the lack of support she felt in the Department for International Development (Dfid) three years ago.\n\nThe evidence is that this has manifested itself in forceful expression, including some occasions of shouting and swearing.\n\nThis may not be done intentionally to cause upset, but that has been the effect on some individuals.\n\nThe Ministerial Code says that \"harassing, bullying or other inappropriate or discriminating behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code\".\n\nDefinitions of harassment concern comments or actions relating to personal characteristics and there is no evidence from the Cabinet Office's work of any such behaviour by the Home Secretary.\n\nThe definition of bullying adopted by the Civil Service accepts that legitimate, reasonable and constructive criticism of a worker's performance will not amount to bullying.\n\nIt defines bullying as intimidating or insulting behaviour that makes an individual feel uncomfortable, frightened, less respected or put down.\n\nInstances of the behaviour reported to the Cabinet Office would meet such a definition.\n\nThe Civil Service itself needs to reflect on its role during this period.\n\nThe Home Office was not as flexible as it could have been in responding to the home secretary's requests and direction. She has - legitimately - not always felt supported by the department.\n\nIn addition, no feedback was given to the home secretary of the impact of her behaviour, which meant she was unaware of issues that she could otherwise have addressed.\n\nMy advice is that the home secretary has not consistently met the high standards required by the Ministerial Code of treating her civil servants with consideration and respect.\n\nHer approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by individuals.\n\nTo that extent her behaviour has been in breach of the Ministerial Code, even if unintentionally.\n\nThis conclusion needs to be seen in context. There is no evidence that she was aware of the impact of her behaviour, and no feedback was given to her at the time.\n\nThe high pressure and demands of the role, in the Home Office, coupled with the need for more supportive leadership from top of the department has clearly been a contributory factor.\n\nIn particular, I note the finding of different and more positive behaviour since these issues were raised with her.", "Coleen Rooney \"clearly identified\" Rebekah Vardy when she made allegations about social media stories being leaked to the tabloids, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe row dubbed 'Wagatha Christie' broke out in October 2019 when Rooney said fake stories had been leaked after only being seen by Vardy's Instagram account.\n\nIn July, Vardy filed for defamation, saying she had been falsely accused.\n\nHer lawyer told the High Court he would be seeking costs of £22,913.50.\n\nThe initial argument in this case, which Vardy has won, has been over the wording of Rooney's social media post, which she put up for her 1.2m Twitter followers and 885,000 Instagram followers to see last year.\n\nRooney named the culprit of the leaks as \"Rebekah Vardy's account\" meaning her lawyers could argue it wasn't implying Rebekah herself was guilty - and could have been anyone with access to her Instagram account.\n\nBut Judge Mark Warby ruled against this, saying the post looked like it was putting the blame solely on Vardy.\n\nThere are still further factors to be considered in the legal battle though, and this ruling marks the beginning of Vardy's libel case.\n\nVardy decided to sue for defamation in July, with court documents written by her lawyers saying the incident had affected her mental and physical health.\n\nWhen Rooney's social media posts were released, Vardy was seven months pregnant and her lawyers claim they led to her being taken to hospital three times with anxiety attacks.\n\nThe pair originally became friends through their husbands, former Manchester United and England player Wayne Rooney and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy.\n\nSocial media was set ablaze on 9 October 2019 when Coleen Rooney pressed send on her Instagram and Twitter posts, accusing Rebekah Vardy of leaking details about her life to the tabloids.\n\nIn an effort to work out which of her friends had been sharing stories, she'd published different fake stories on Instagram to different people. The ones that made headlines, were ones being leaked.\n\nRebekah Vardy took to social media to deny any involvement in the leaking.\n\nBut things did take a more sinister turn - Vardy's lawyers said her husband faced abuse on the pitch which meant they couldn't let their young children attend games anymore.\n\nBoth Vardy and Rooney have agreed to a stay in proceedings - until February.\n\nThis means they're going to try and resolve things privately without the need for a full trial, but if they can't it could become a full court case in the new year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Dutch police have questioned a security researcher who said he successfully logged into the US president's Twitter account by guessing his password.\n\nLast month, well-known cyber investigator Victor Gevers said he had gained access to Donald Trump's Twitter account with the password 'MAGA2020!'.\n\nThe White House denied it had happened and Twitter said it had no evidence of a hack.\n\nBut Mr Gevers has now revealed more information to back up his claims.\n\nAs part of the police interrogation, Mr Gevers revealed for the first time that he had substantially more evidence of the \"hack\" than he had previously released.\n\nHe did not reveal exactly what information he had, but by logging in to somebody's Twitter account someone would in theory be able to:\n\nThey would even be able to download an archive of all the user's data, including photos and messages.\n\nMr Gevers had previously shared this screenshot that appeared to show him editing Donald Trump's Twitter profile information\n\nA spokesman for the Dutch Public Prosecution Service confirmed to De Volkskrant newspaper: \"We are currently investigating whether something criminal has happened.\"\n\nThe spokesman said their inquiry was an \"independent Dutch investigation\" and not based on a US request for legal assistance.\n\nThe police told the BBC that Mr Gevers had been questioned as a witness by the High Tech Crime Team and was not a suspect yet.\n\nVictor Gevers has been discovering security flaws in software and websites for 22 years\n\nPolice must first prove that the hack happened. If prosecutors consider Mr Gevers' actions to be illegal and outside the realm of cyber-security research, he could face up to four years in prison.\n\nMr Gevers told reporters of his hack on 22 October. Dutch news outlet Vrij Nederland first reported the story.\n\nMr Gevers says he was doing a semi-regular sweep of the Twitter accounts of high-profile US election candidates on 16 October when he guessed President Trump's password.\n\nHe did not post any tweets or change any settings, but said he took screenshots of some parts of the president's account.\n\nHe said he had spent days trying to contact the Trump campaign to warn them about their security, which was lacking extra safeguards like two-factor authentication, before going to the press.\n\nTwo-factor authentication is a widely-used security system that links a phone app or number to an account, to add an extra step to the process of logging in.\n\nThe US president's account is now secure.\n\nAt the time, Twitter said: \"We've seen no evidence to corroborate this claim. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government.\"\n\nTwitter refused to answer any further questions about the hack, including whether or not the extra security measures were permanently enforced or if the company even has access to the president's account activity.\n\nMr Gevers' story has been met with scepticism by some in the information security world as his screenshots could have been faked.\n\nHowever, he claims to have a lot more data. He hopes he will not have to disclose it to prosecutors but says he is prepared to if necessary.\n\nHe said: \"I have evidence that was not included in the responsible disclosure to the Trump team because it did not add anything in alerting the victim of the risk.\n\n\"I have shown some of it to a select group of journalists. Police asked me if I was willing to show it and I said no. Only if there is an indication of wrongdoing will the archived material be unlocked.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen some evidence but has not been able to verify whether all the additional material is genuine.\n\nBut Mr Gevers says he is standing by his account of events and hopes that his actions are ruled to have been a normal part of his job as an ethical hacker.\n\n\"There should not be a reason for the Dutch National Police, especially the team at the High Tech Crime Unit, to doubt my statement. They know me, they know my work for more than 22 years with the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure.\n\n\"I did not 'hack' Trump's account, I did not bypass any security system as there was no adequate security in place. I just guessed the password and then tried to warn his team about the risks and how to solve them.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Gevers also claimed to have successfully logged into Mr Trump's Twitter account in 2016.\n\nIn that login he and other security researchers used a password linked to another of Donald Trump's social network accounts that was discovered in a previous data breach.\n\nIn that instance Mr Gevers claims the password was another famous catchphrase from the reality TV star and politician: \"yourefired\".", "The rheumatoid arthritis drugs tocilizumab appears to treat people who are critically ill with Covid-19, early trial data shows.\n\nThe researchers in the UK and the Netherlands said it was \"an absolutely amazing result\".\n\nThe drug is no longer being trialled as the researchers are so confident in the data, but the precise effect on survival is still being calculated.\n\nOther experts have urged caution until the full data is released.\n\nTocilizumab targets the immune system, which goes into overdrive in some patients with coronavirus. It is this reaction, rather than the virus itself, which can be deadly.\n\nThe trial was run by Imperial College London, the UK's Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, and Utrecht University. It focused on the most severely ill patients, who needed to be put on a ventilator.\n\nTrials of the drug were stopped two days ago as independent monitors said there was enough evidence, from the first 303 patients, to show it was working.\n\nHowever, interpreting the results is complex.\n\nThey show an improvement in \"outcomes\", but this is a statistical conflation of other measures such as survival rates and time in intensive care. Doctors know the drug is doing something, but it will take time to know whether it is saving lives or just speeding up recovery.\n\n\"We don't know that yet, we are hopeful it does both,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon from Imperial.\n\nHowever, he said it was \"very encouraging\", a \"big result\", and that tocilizumab could \"become the standard of care\".\n\nIt will still take weeks to properly assess the data, which has not yet been formally published.\n\nThe treatment costs between £500 and £1,000 and is given intravenously.\n\nSteroids, including dexamethasone, are the only drugs proven to be save lives from Covid-19 and they tend to calm the whole of the immune system. Tocilizumab targets specific parts within that complex system.\n\nThe researchers hope they have found another.\n\nDr Lennie Derde, an intensive care consultant at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, said: \"This is an absolutely amazing result.\n\n\"To have a second effective therapy for critically ill patients within months of the start of the pandemic is unprecedented.\"\n\nHowever, other experts have urged caution until the final results are analysed, as previous studies have given a mixed picture.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who was part of the team at the University of Oxford that showed dexamethasone was protective, said: \"This is an encouraging result which suggests that other, more targeted, anti-inflammatory drugs may also help.\n\n\"The results so far on tocilizumab have been mixed, with four randomised controlled trials having reported results, of which two were negative and two were positive... I eagerly look forward to seeing the full results.\"", "Morris wrote more than 40 books including a notable trilogy about Britain's empire, Pax Britannica, during the 1960s and 70s.\n\nIn 1972, she transitioned from male to female, undergoing gender reassignment surgery and changing her name to Jan.\n\nHer son Twm announced her death, saying she was on her \"greatest journey\".\n\n\"This morning at 11.40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey. She leaves behind on the shore her life-long partner, Elizabeth,\" he said.\n\nMorris attended a 2013 reception with Prince Philip to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the ascent of Everest\n\nElizabeth was Morris's wife before Morris transitioned - they had five children together and stayed together, later entering a civil partnership. One of their children died in infancy.\n\nMorris told Michael Palin in 2016: \"I've enjoyed my life very much, and I admire it. I think it has been a very good and interesting life and I've made a whole of it, quite deliberately.\n\n\"I've done all of my books to make one big, long autobiography. My life has been one whole self-centred exercise in self-satisfaction!\"\n\nShe is arguably most famous for her widely admired travel writing, and Palin said: \"She's kind of a non-fiction novelist. She creates an image and a feeling of a place that stays in your mind.\"\n\nAuthor Kate Mosse, whose books include Labyrinth, paid tribute to an \"extraordinary woman\". Fellow writer Sathnam Sanghera tweeted: \"What a life, and what a writer.\"\n\nJournalist Katherine O'Donnell added her \"public visibility and account of her transition... let others like me know they were not alone\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katherine O'Donnell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 for Cardiff North Anna McMorrin added that Morris was \"an incredible writer, pioneer and historian\".\n\nMorris's book Venice, about the Italian city, is considered to be a classic by The Guardian.\n\nPalin said it was \"one of the most influential books of my life\".\n\n\"Her description of the city transcended any conventional travel writing I've come across. Morris's heart and soul was in the book. It was like a love affair,\" he said.\n\n\"Her book started my own love affair with the city, which has lasted all my life. And as a writer she taught me the importance of curiosity and observation.\"\n\nThe author also wrote fiction, however, and her book Last Letters from Hav made the Booker Prize shortlist in 1985. It was a novel written in the form of travel literature.\n\nMorris was particularly renowned as a journalist for announcing the ascent of Everest, in an exclusive scoop for The Times in 1953.\n\nShe accompanied Edmund Hillary as far as the base camp on the mountain, to witness the historic attempt on the summit.\n\nThe news was announced on the same day as the Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Later, in 1999, she accepted a CBE from the Queen, but said it was out of politeness.\n\nMorris wrote about her transition in her 1974 book Conundrum, which was hugely successful.\n\nShe wrote in the book about having surgery in a clinic in Casablanca. The Guardian described it as a \"powerful and beautifully written document\".\n\nThe writer told the Financial Times in 2018 she did not think her gender reassignment had changed her her writing, saying: \"Not in the slightest. It changed me far less than I thought it had.\"\n\nShe added that she did not think she would have achieved more as a man.\n\nWhen not abroad, her home was in Gwynedd in Wales, where she held staunchly nationalist views and was honoured by the Eisteddfod for her contribution to Welsh life.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Obituary: Jan Morris, a poet of time, place and self", "UK households may have to pay more for gas and electricity bills from April, energy regulator Ofgem says.\n\nIt is considering raising the price cap on household bills by £21 per year to help energy companies which have been hit by a rise in unpaid bills.\n\nThe news was met with dismay from campaigners, who questioned the logic of raising prices when many householders were struggling to pay.\n\nThe current price cap is set at £1,042 per household for gas and electricity.\n\nIt runs to the end of March and consumers will learn in February what it plans to do.\n\nOctopus Energy boss Greg Jackson said the plans let dominant suppliers off the hook.\n\n\"Legacy suppliers charge long-standing customers hundreds of pounds more than new customers,\" said Mr Jackson, whose firm is now the UK's sixth biggest supplier.\n\n\"If they cared about customers, they could handle Covid debt by reducing this disparity, rather than exacerbating it by lobbying for a hike in the price cap.\"\n\n\"Ofgem's single biggest success of the last decade has been the price cap - saving billions for customers and finally forcing dinosaur companies to become more efficient. They should resist all attempts to undermine it.\"\n\nThe price cap was introduced in January 2019 and limits energy unit prices for about 11 million customers on more expensive variable tariffs.\n\nThese are often default tariffs that customers are moved to after a period on a lower fixed rate.\n\n\"Just like every other business, there have been challenges from the pandemic,\" Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of trade body Energy UK, said.\n\n\"It is the independent regulator's job to hear views, look at the evidence, and weigh up how to support energy retailers through their own commercial difficulties in the pandemic, so that they can continue to supply and support all customers.\"\n\nThe £21 rise to £1,063 is based on a household with typical usage and which pays for both electricity and gas by direct debit.\n\nPrice comparison website Uswitch says 12-month deals can be had for as little as £821.40 by comparison.\n\nCat Hobbs, the director of We Own It, which campaigns to nationalise energy supply, said: \"These proposals from Ofgem are absolutely shocking. The idea that at a time when millions of people are struggling to pay their bills, the solution would be to charge people even more is farcical.\"", "There are \"no plans\" to extend the Christmas break for schools in NI, Education Minister Peter Weir has said.\n\nHe dismissed the possibility that schools could close early for the holiday as a \"rumour\".\n\nNI's current R number has now climbed closer to 1.0 and is expected to rise as the hospitality industry opens up over the next couple of weeks.\n\nAs a result, additional interventions are expected before Christmas, the chief scientific adviser said.\n\nProf Ian Young said the R value had risen in recent weeks due to continued widespread community transmission of the virus.\n\nHe added that additional mitigations will be suggested to the hospitality industry including reducing numbers and increasing ventilation.\n\nMeanwhile the Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride appealed to everyone to continue playing their part despite the fact that the \"virus continues to mess with our heads and our lives\".\n\nDr McBride said he's optimistic that Northern Ireland will begin to vaccinate some people by the end of the year.\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Arlene Foster said she did not rule out blocking more Covid-19 restrictions if required.\n\nHowever, the first minister added she wanted to \"find consensus\" with executive colleagues.\n\nLast week, the DUP blocked two separate proposals from the health minister to extend restrictions by triggering a cross-community vote.\n\nThe DUP has been criticised by other Stormont parties for using the measure.\n\nIt can be used on any issue in the executive, of three or more ministers ask for a vote to be taken on that basis, effectively giving parties with enough ministers a veto.\n\nOn Monday, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was a \"matter of profound concern and regret\" that the DUP had used it twice.\n\nMrs Foster said the veto was used on a \"key decision\" because of the impact of restrictions on the economy.\n\n\"I hope we can come to decisions in a collaborative, collegiate way... I want to make sure we go forward together,\" she added.\n\nThe first minister also dismissed reports that an executive meeting scheduled for Tuesday had been cancelled.\n\n\"We normally only meet on a Thursday - nothing should be read into that at all. Government is continuing, we don't need an executive to make that happen,\" she said.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she had considered her position in the executive because of last week's handling of restrictions, and said continued use of the veto was an \"abuse of power\" by the DUP.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said an extended Christmas break could lead to a greater spread of the virus\n\nSome of the current Covid-19 restrictions are due to end on Friday with the reopening of close-contact services and unlicensed hospitality businesses.\n\nRestaurants, pubs and hotels can reopen on 27 November, as the rest of the Covid-19 restrictions introduced on 16 October will expire at midnight on 26 November.\n\nMs O'Neill has said the executive will do all it can to \"protect\" as much of the Christmas period as possible.\n\nIt comes after NI's chief scientific adviser warned further Covid-19 restrictions will likely be recommended before Christmas.\n\nProf Ian Young said mid-December could be the \"big risk period\".\n\nA further nine people with Covid-19 have died in NI, the Department of Health has said.\n\nThe death toll recorded by the department now stands at 878.\n\nThere were also another 549 confirmed cases of the virus recorded in the last 24-hour reporting period.\n\nA total of 47,711 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.\n\nOn Tuesday, 11 more people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland died, according to Department of Health figures.\n\nThe total number of Covid-19 related deaths in the country is now 1,995.\n\nIn addition, a further 366 cases of coronavirus were confirmed, bringing the total number to 68,686.\n\nOn Tuesday, Education Minister Peter Weir said schools would not be closing early for the Christmas holidays for two reasons.\n\n\"We want to ensure the maximum amount of education for our young people and I don't want to see any further disruption to that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also the case that we've seen the biggest problems not within the controlled environment of schools but actually some of the things that have happened outside of schools.\n\n\"If we simply inject an extra week of holiday into the Christmas period, from a public health point of view, it's likely to lead to much higher levels of socialisation and greater spread of the virus.\"\n\nMr Weir was speaking during a visit to a school in Bangor where he announced an additional £5m for schools to pay for mental health help for pupils.\n\nThe minister said the money would allow schools to pick which wellbeing initiatives they want to invest in.\n\nIn other coronavirus developments on Tuesday:", "US President Donald Trump's oldest son has tested positive for coronavirus, according to his spokesman.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, 42, was diagnosed at the start of this week and has been quarantining at his hunting cabin since the result, the spokesman said.\n\n\"He's been completely asymptomatic so far and is following all medically recommended Covid-19 guidelines,\" according to the statement.\n\nDon Jr is the second of the president's children to test positive.\n\nBarron Trump, 14, was also diagnosed last month, but made a swift recovery.\n\nA firebrand speaker, Don Jr played a major role in his father's presidential campaign.\n\nThere has also been speculation that Don Jr is interested in running for the White House, conjecture he hasn't tried to tamp down.\n\nDon Jr's partner, Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, tested positive for the disease in July, and also recovered. He apparently did not contract the infection at the time.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Andrew Giuliani, a special assistant to President Trump, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMr Giuliani, the son of the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tweeted that he was experiencing mild symptoms after receiving his positive test on Friday morning.\n\nCBS News, the BBC's US partner, confirmed that at least four other White House aides have tested positive for Covid-19 in a new outbreak there.\n\nEarlier this month, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was among several aides who tested positive for the infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How effective is getting a Covid test before you travel for Thanksgiving?\n\nThe president himself spent three nights in hospital at the beginning of October after being hit by Covid-19. First Lady Melania Trump also had a bout of the infection.\n\nLast month, Don Jr was criticised for downplaying the US coronavirus death toll.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News, he argued that the media was focusing on the caseload, while ignoring the mortality rate.\n\nHe said: \"I was like, 'Well, why aren't they talking about deaths?' Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we've gotten control of this, and we understand how it works.\"\n\nThe virus has infected 11.8 million Americans and killed more than 253,000.\n\nOn Friday alone, 192,000 people in the US tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Covid Tracking Project.", "Adelaide went into lockdown with the rest of South Australia on Wednesday\n\nSouth Australia decided to enter a state-wide lockdown based on a lie told by a man with Covid-19 about his link to a pizza shop, police say.\n\nThe strict lockdown began on Wednesday after the state detected 36 infections, including its first locally acquired cases since April.\n\nBut this would have been avoided if the man had told the truth, that he worked shifts at the shop, officials said.\n\nHe said he only went there to buy a pizza.\n\nThis misinformation prompted health officials to assume the man had caught the virus during a very brief exposure and that the strain must be a highly contagious one.\n\n\"To say I am fuming is an understatement,\" state Premier Steven Marshall told reporters on Friday.\n\nAustralia has relied on lockdowns, widespread testing and aggressive contact tracing to push daily infections close to zero.\n\n\"We are absolutely livid with the actions of this individual and we will be looking very carefully at what consequences there [are] going to be,\" Mr Marshall added.\n\nSouth Australia Police Commissioner Grant Stevens initially said the man was unlikely to face charges because there was \"no penalty associated with telling lies\".\n\nBut he later announced a special task force would be set up to look at the circumstances surrounding the incident and investigate whether any laws were broken.\n\nSouth Australian Premier Steven Marshall said he was \"livid\"\n\nState officials said they would lift the lockdown on Saturday - three days earlier than planned - after recording only three new cases on Friday.\n\nPolice did not identify the man, but said he worked at the Woodville Pizza Bar in Adelaide.\n\nSydney Morning Herald newspaper reported that he worked with a security guard who contracted the virus at a quarantine hotel at the centre of the outbreak, which prompted South Australia to go on high alert on Monday.\n\nWhen asked by reporters if the shop may need extra security because of public anger, Mr Stevens said: \"There are all sorts of things we are considering at this point.\"\n\nThe state's outbreak follows neighbouring Victoria's success in crushing a second wave of coronavirus which caused about 800 deaths.\n\nVictoria has recorded 21 consecutive days of no cases or deaths after its capital, Melbourne, emerged from a strict four-month lockdown.\n\nAustralia has recorded about 900 deaths and 28,000 infections in total.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coping with Melbourne lockdown: 'I cycled every street in my 5km radius'", "Colin Hoad is hoping the books arrive by Christmas\n\nA UK book publisher says congestion at Felixstowe Port has left it with no books to sell in the lead up to Christmas.\n\nColin Hoad and Matt Green run a publishing company, Idesine, which has 4,000 books stuck on a ship that has been trying to dock since 31 October.\n\nThey are one of many businesses encountering problems importing goods.\n\nImporters say congestion issues at UK ports have led to shipping firms quadrupling their freight costs.\n\n\"People are contacting us saying they've paid for books on pre-order as gifts, and we ultimately can't guarantee delivery,\" Mr Hoad said.\n\nThe company has just one sample copy of the book, and 2,500 orders\n\nDelays at Felixstowe have been caused by a surge in import traffic as companies increased orders after the initial lockdown and some looked to stockpile goods before the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe pandemic has made matters worse as large orders of PPE added to the backlog of containers on the quayside.\n\nThe port's owner, Hutchison UK, has said it is in the process of recruiting an additional 104 equipment drivers plus a number of engineers to help solve the problem.\n\nBut congestion at England's ports is now so bad, some shipping firms have limited the amount of cargo they will bring to the UK.\n\nOne of the world's biggest shipping lines, CMA CGM, told the BBC it was allocating less space on its fleet for UK imports for the time being.\n\n\"UK ports are currently experiencing yard and port congestion mostly in Felixstowe, and in London Gateway and Southampton to a lesser extent,\" said a spokeswoman for CMA CGM Group.\n\n\"We are controlling import volumes while maximising empty container evacuation wherever possible.\"\n\nEmpty containers waiting to be shipped back to Asia are causing traffic jams at ports across Europe and North America. That could have knock-on effects for companies' Christmas orders, said Peter Wilson, managing director of the UK freight forwarder Cory Brothers.\n\n\"We are already seeing that goods due by Christmas… are very unlikely to arrive because they're in their origin ports, waiting for containers,\" he said.\n\nCausing even further headaches for importers, shipping companies have sharply increased freight prices in response to the congestion at UK ports - some by as much as 300%.\n\n\"What the lines are trying to do is to dissuade people sending stuff to the UK,\" said Alan Joseph, operations director of The Cotswold Company, which imports some of its wooden furniture from Asia.\n\nThis week, a freight company quoted a price of $8,000 to transport a 40ft container from Asia to the UK.\n\n\"At the end of September, market rates were less than a quarter of that, at $1,700 per unit,\" Mr Joseph said.\n\nFurniture seller Alan Joseph has seen shipping costs quadruple in recent weeks\n\nHe added that while individual businesses will negotiate unique import costs based on the volume of goods they want to move, at the moment, prices are increasing across the board. And there are few alternatives for businesses whose goods are manufactured overseas.\n\n\"Airlines are not moving as much cargo because there are fewer passenger flights. The railway from China to Germany is now quoting rates in excess of $10,000 per container - which is not much of an option.\"\n\nHe said two other shipping firms are now refusing bookings for importing refrigerated containers to the UK.\n\n\"It's a worrying sign that big shipping lines are drastically reducing UK volumes because so much of the imports in the UK arrive through our ports, and if there's less coming there are less supplies of everything that gets imported.\"\n\nImporting stock is also becoming increasingly difficult for Joe Burgwin, who is head of supply chain at the garden furniture firm Supremo Leisure, based in Telford. The business has been booming recently as the virus led to people spending more on their outdoor spaces.\n\nJoe Burgwin says his freight costs have more than doubled.\n\n\"Previously for us, shipping cost $1,400-$1,500 tops per 40ft unit, which was manageable,\" he said.\n\n\"Now in negotiations with freight companies, prices have more than doubled and there are fears it could move even higher. We're predicting this to last until at least January, which makes business planning pretty challenging.\"\n\nThe ship carrying books belonging to publisher Idesine was originally supposed to dock at Felixstowe at the end of October, but the port was too busy so it was diverted to Europe.\n\nSince Saturday, the ship has been moored outside Felixstowe waiting for a berthing slot.\n\nAfter launching the company in June, Matt Green now has 2,500 pre-paid orders waiting to be delivered.\n\n\"It's incredibly frustrating that we can't get the book into our customers' hands,\" he said. \"We just hope that we can do it before Christmas.\"\n\nCongestion at Felixstowe Port could last into the new year\n\nShipping analysts say ports across the world are battling to manage the surging demand for imports, and Felixstowe has struggled to cope.\n\n\"At the moment, the port has become a bottleneck because other elements of the supply chain have got out of balance,\" said Eleanor Hadland, a ports analyst at the maritime consultancy Drewry.\n\nShe said getting a berthing slot at Felixstowe \"is like trying to get a Tesco delivery in the beginning of lockdown\".\n\n\"Partly that's because of Covid, partly Brexit preparation and a lot of external factors which have resulted in ports reporting congestion. But Felixstowe could have dealt better with these external challenges,\" she said.\n\nHutchison UK has warned congestion at Felixstowe Port could continue into the new year.\n• None Port in 'chaos' as Christmas and Brexit loom", "A high-profile figure in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet, Priti Patel was appointed home secretary in July last year.\n\nA Eurosceptic, she was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nShortly after taking up the post of home secretary, she said she wanted criminals to \"literally feel terror\" at the thought of breaking the law.\n\nA Cabinet Office inquiry into her conduct found that Ms Patel had \"unintentionally\" breached the ministerial code in her behaviour towards civil servants.\n\nHer \"approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying,\" the government's independent advisor on standards said.\n\nMr Johnson decided Ms Patel had not broken the ministerial code and could remain in her post as home secretary. Ms Patel said \"I am direct and have at times got frustrated\", but added: \"It has never been my intention to cause upset to anyone.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2020 after the resignation of the top civil servant at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam. Sir Philip - who is suing for constructive dismissal - alleged staff felt that Ms Patel had \"created fear\".\n\nAs home secretary she has had to deal with several crises, including the London Bridge and Streatham stabbing attacks - later deemed by police to be terrorist incidents - and the deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a lorry in Essex.\n\nShe has also played a key role in drawing up a new points-based immigration system for after the UK's Brexit transition period, saying she wants firms to invest more in British workers \"rather than simply relying on labour from abroad\".\n\nDuring the summer and autumn of 2020, she also took a leading role in negotiations with France over preventing a rising number of migrants crossing the English Channel.\n\nPriti Patel has asked French authorities to intercept and return migrant boats trying to cross the Channel.\n\nMs Patel, who is 48, also served in Theresa May's cabinet as secretary of state for international development.\n\nHer appointment was greeted with concern by some in the aid community, who recalled that she had previously suggested that the department should be abolished and subsumed into a new trade department.\n\nIn post, she said she wanted the UK's aid budget to provide greater value for money. The aid department has since been merged with the Foreign Office.\n\nShe resigned from the role in 2017 after it emerged she had held undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials while on holiday. She acknowledged that her actions \"fell below the high standards\" expected.\n\nBorn in London to Gujarati parents who left Uganda in the 1960s, she was educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls.\n\nShe went on to study at Keele and Essex universities before getting a job at Conservative Central Office, which she left to head up the press office for the Referendum Party, founded by Eurosceptic billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, from 1995 to 1997.\n\nAfter William Hague became Conservative leader, she returned to the party to be his deputy press secretary, from 1997 to 2000.\n\nShe went on to spend a number of years working with the Weber Shandwick public affairs consultancy - reportedly advising Ikea, the Meat & Livestock Commission and British American Tobacco, among others.\n\nShe also had a spell as international public policy adviser for drinks giant Diageo.\n\nMs Patel sought to get elected to Parliament in 2005 but lost out in Nottingham North. A year later, she was one of those selected for new leader David Cameron's A-list of candidates and went on to become MP for Witham, Essex, in 2010.\n\nMs Patel achieved ministerial rank four years later as exchequer secretary to the Treasury, before promotion to employment minister following David Cameron's 2015 general election victory.\n\nShe is positioned on the right of the party - she voted against gay marriage, campaigned against the smoking ban, and previously advocated bringing back the death penalty, before later saying she did not support it.\n\nMs Patel, whose father stood as a UKIP councillor in 2013, names Margaret Thatcher as her political hero.", "A drug that was weaponised by the UK's most prolific rapist and the serial killer Stephen Port should be reclassified, says an official report.\n\nThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs says GHB should become a Class B drug - the same as speed or cannabis.\n\nIt also advises better data collection and reporting of the drug's use.\n\nPolicing Minister Kit Malthouse said the government would be looking at the report's recommendations \"as a priority\".\n\nTesting for GHB and related compounds should be routine in cases of unexplained sudden death, the report also advises.\n\nThe three categories of drugs are Class A, Class B and Class C, with heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD in class A, and speed, cannabis, ketamine, mephedrone and some amphetamines in Class B.\n\nCurrently GHB is in class C, with anabolic steroids and some tranquilisers.\n\nThe official review was commissioned following calls for a change in the law by the children of a man who was murdered with the drug.\n\nEric Michels, a father of three from south London, was killed in 2018 by a GHB dealer who gave him a catastrophic overdose in order to steal from him.\n\nHis sons Sam and Josh campaigned for the drug to be reclassified.\n\n\"Today is a positive day,\" Sam Michels told the BBC but said he thought GHB should be a Class A drug.\n\n\"There is still work for us to do,\" he said, adding that the recommendation to test for GHB following unexpected deaths is a \"real positive from this report\".\n\nHe said: \"We hope the government is going to take this seriously and take action.\"\n\nEric Michels was found dead at his home by his daughter in Chessington in August 2018\n\nThe home secretary commissioned the review in January on the day that Reynhard Sinaga - the UK's most prolific sex offender - was jailed for drugging and raping multiple victims, with his trials hearing that he used GHB to render the men unconscious.\n\nThe ACMD report into GHB and related substances called GHBRS - says there is evidence of a concerning increase in the health and social harms among those who use these drugs, adding that the number of deaths where the drug was implicated has also increased since its last report in 2003.\n\nProfessor Owen Bowden-Jones, chair of the ACMD, said: \"Given the evidence of significant harms across different contexts, the ACMD have today made a broad set of recommendations on monitoring, legislation, prevention and treatment, which should be taken forward as a whole to reduce harms associated with GHBRS.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is significant evidence of stigma experienced by LGBT GHBRS users, currently the predominant users of these drugs, and these recommendations seek to avoid further stigmatisation and reduce the barriers to treatment for those who need it.\"\n\nReynhard Sinaga was jailed for life in January\n\nThe report also recommends that drug and sexual health services should routinely record usage of these drugs, and the Crime Survey for England and Wales should collect and publish data on GHBRS.\n\nThe ACMD also says the government should provide sufficient funding to enable analysis of The Gay Men's Sex Survey for at least five years, so trends of the use of this drug can be analysed over time.\n\nResponding to the report, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"We wholeheartedly support tightening controls on these highly dangerous drugs and we will be looking at the recommendations in this report as a priority.\"\n\nGHB, which was designated a Class C drug in 2003, usually comes as a powder that is dissolved in water.\n\nIt is closely related to GBL, a colourless liquid that is sold as an industrial cleaner and converts to GHB in the body. GBL is only classed as a controlled narcotic when knowingly intended for human consumption.\n\nPort was given a whole life prison term for four murders\n\nGHB can lead to feelings of euphoria in very small doses, but in only slightly larger amounts can cause unconsciousness and death.\n\nMany users attempt to attain an affect similar to that sought from \"Ecstasy\", with the result that liquid GHB has been sometimes referred to as \"Liquid E\".\n\nGHB was the weapon of choice for both the most prolific rapist in UK history, but also the deadliest serial killer of the last decade, Stephen Port, who gave his victims catastrophic overdoses.\n\nThe drug is particularly associated with so-called Chemsex, being used in order to facilitate sexual activity.\n\nIt is frequently implicated in sexual offences - as a so-called 'date rape' drug - and also in cases of theft.\n\nIn the 10 years to 2018, figures from the Office of National Statistics say GHB was mentioned on the death certificate of 219 people - with or without other drugs or alcohol - who had an underlying cause of death by drug poisoning, and in 92 cases it was the sole drug mention on the death certificate.\n\nExperts say the deaths data is almost certainly an underestimate, since GHB is not routinely tested for after death and, in any case, it exits the body within 24 hours.\n\nIt is thought to be linked to thousands of hospital admissions each year - although the figures are kept by few health authorities.\n\nGHB, short for Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid - was first synthesised in 1960 and was later used as an anaesthetic.", "A woman who faked a cancer diagnosis to claim more than £45,000 in donations has been convicted of fraud.\n\nNicole Elkabbas, 42, set up an online fundraising campaign, claiming she needed money to pay for private treatment for ovarian cancer.\n\nBut police began an investigation after a doctor, who had recently given her the all-clear, raised suspicions.\n\nElkabbas, of Broadstairs, Kent, pleaded not guilty and told Canterbury Crown Court she had believed she had cancer.\n\nJudge Mark Weekes said Elkabbas had been convicted on \"clear and compelling evidence\" and should expect a custodial sentence.\n\nThe fundraising campaign included a picture taken while she had been receiving routine gallbladder treatment, the court heard\n\nBen Irwin, prosecuting, earlier told the court Elkabbas's actions had been \"utterly dishonest\".\n\nIn February 2017, she set up a GoFundMe campaign, which said she had just weeks to raise money for a major surgery in Spain.\n\nShe claimed a costly \"breakthrough drug\" could improve her chances, and included an image of her lying in a hospital bed.\n\nHowever, the court heard the image had actually been taken during routine gallbladder treatment several months earlier.\n\nMr Irwin said the \"obvious lie\" was built around the photo, which had been \"staged to convince people that she was seriously unwell\".\n\nAfter she \"tricked\" people into donating, she \"frittered\" the money on foreign travel, football tickets and online gambling, Mr Irwin said.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 5 February for one count of fraud by false representation and another of possessing criminal property.\n\nGoFundMe said all donations made to Elkabbas through the site were refunded last year after misuse allegations were raised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Antibodies bind to viral proteins, marking them for destruction by other immune cells\n\nCoronavirus antibodies last at least six months and offer protection against a second infection, a study of healthcare workers suggests.\n\nStaff at Oxford University Hospitals were regularly tested both for Covid-19 infections and for antibodies revealing a past infection.\n\nThe more antibodies people had, the lower their chances of re-infection.\n\nA separate study found pre-existing immunity from other coronaviruses also protected against Covid.\n\nInfection consultant Dr Katie Jeffery described the Oxford findings as \"encouraging news\" ahead of forthcoming Covid vaccines.\n\nThey indicated that having the virus once \"provides at least short-term protection\" from getting it again, she said.\n\nThe Oxford study enrolled more than 12,000 healthcare workers of which 11,000 tested negative for Covid-19 antibodies.\n\nAntibodies build up during a viral infection and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells and attacking the rest of the immune system.\n\nOf those without any antibodies at the start of study, 89 developed symptomatic infections that were confirmed with a swab test.\n\nOf those that did have coronavirus-specific antibodies, none developed a symptomatic infection during the study period.\n\nThere were three individuals who developed asymptomatic Covid-19 infections despite having positive antibody tests, compared with 76 in the group without any antibodies.\n\nBut none of the three became unwell.\n\nThe results were \"consistent with Sars-CoV-2 re-exposure that did not lead to repeat symptoms\", the study said.\n\nThe antibodies being studied are those designed to bind to the \"spike\" of the Sars-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19 infections.\n\nThis \"spike\" is what many of the vaccines in development target.\n\nThe staff tested were followed for up to 30 weeks.\n\nEarlier in the week, a study conducted by Public Health England looked at T-cells - another element of our immune systems' response to infection.\n\nIt found in June about a quarter of the key workers studied had high levels of T-cells which recognised the Covid virus in their blood - but only just over half of them appeared to have had Covid-19.\n\nThe paper concluded this immunity was likely to be there \"because of previous infection with coronaviruses other than SARS-CoV-2\", for example the common cold virus.\n\nAnd those people with high levels of the relevant T-cells \"appeared to be protected from Covid-19 in the four months after recruitment\", whether they had previously been infected Covid-19 or not.\n\nBut Dr Rupert Beale at the Francis Crick Institute pointed out that this equated to \"only a very small proportion of adults (less than 10%, maybe much less than 10%)\" who would be protected by pre-existing T cell immunity.\n\nAn earlier paper suggested just looking at antibodies might underestimate how many people were protected from re-infection by T cells - another part of the immune response.", "People aged over 50 in England are being urged to get a flu jab, as ministers hope for a mass roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine next year.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock stressed it was \"more important than ever\" for people to get a flu jab to fight the \"twin threats\" of coronavirus and flu.\n\nHe said the NHS was preparing to roll out a Covid vaccine if one is approved.\n\nIt comes as 30 million people are being offered a flu jab in England's largest flu-immunisation scheme to date.\n\nPeople aged 50 to 64 will be eligible for the vaccine from 1 December.\n\nMr Hancock and Prof Stephen Powis, the national medical director of NHS England, will speak at a Downing Street briefing later.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Breakfast earlier that all over 50s would be able to get the vaccine by January.\n\nHe also said that Christmas wouldn't be \"fully normal\" this year, adding there would \"have to be rules to keep the virus under control\" which ministers were still working on.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has said the force has \"no interest in interrupting family Christmas dinners\" to catch Covid-19 rule breakers and will work with whatever government restrictions are in place at the time.\n\nMr Hancock added that while 2020 had been \"a difficult year\" there were signs England's current lockdown - which is expected to end on 2 December - was working.\n\n\"There are promising signs that we have seen a flattening of the number of cases since lockdown was brought in and that is good news, though clearly there is further to go,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever Tory MP Steve Baker, deputy chair of the Covid Recovery Group - which was set up to oppose future national lockdowns - urged Mr Hancock to correct his statement to \"avoid any damaging misunderstandings about the interpretation of data\".\n\nHe said: \"Government scientists briefing MPs were clear this week that the effects of lockdown would not be visible in the data until this weekend. Cases may have flattened since lockdown but any change is not yet because of lockdown.\"\n\nProf Calum Semple, who sits on the government's Sage committee and the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there was reason for optimism that England's lockdown would have pushed case numbers to a low level before Christmas.\n\nHe said there was \"encouraging evidence\" in the north-west of England with \"a plateauing of cases in the community and a slight downturn\" in Covid hospital admissions.\n\nHe added this gave \"great optimism that, with lockdown on top, we will be seeing overall numbers in the country driven down\", though he acknowledged that some areas were still in a \"very difficult situation\" with rising cases.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said there would be a programme of Covid-19 vaccinations after recent \"promising news\" from the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine trials.\n\nAsked if he knew from what date people might be able to get a Covid-19 jab, he said: \"We don't know if we'll be getting coronavirus jabs yet, but we have had two weeks of promising news...so we are preparing the roll-out.\"\n\nHe added: \"The likely big numbers - if it comes off - will be next year for a Covid vaccine, but we still hold out the hope that we might get some going in December this year.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n\nMr Hancock said volunteers were currently being trained to take part in the vaccination programme, which will be led by the NHS.\n\n\"We've changed the law to change the number of clinically qualified people who can vaccinate because this is going to be one of the biggest civilian projects in history.\"\n\nHe said the \"deep freezers\" were already \"stabilising over the last few weeks\" in order to be ready for the Pfizer vaccine, which needs to be stored at -70C, and confirmed the NHS would have \"access to any resources of the state they might need\" to assist with the mass administering of vaccines.\n\nIt comes as talks are underway between the government and Derby city council over the possibility of using Derby arena as a mass coronavirus vaccination centre - one of a number expected to be needed across the country.\n\nPeter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London, said he was \"pretty sure\" the logistical hurdles in delivering any Covid-19 vaccine on a mass scale could be overcome.\n\nHe told Today the UK would have enough cold storage to keep vaccines secure if required, adding that bulk stocks could be kept in \"ultra-cold freezers\" in hospital departments, and then sent out to GP surgeries where they would then be refrigerated.\n\nA big flu season combined with coronavirus could overwhelm hospitals - especially if many NHS or care-home staff are off sick with flu.\n\nAnd there is some evidence that a double infection, of Covid-19 and flu together, could be more deadly than getting either single virus.\n\nFlu - or influenza - is a very common, highly infectious disease caused by a virus.\n\nIt can be deadly - particularly for older adults, very young children and people with underlying health conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should I get a flu jab this winter?\n\nThe Department of Health said GPs, NHS trusts and pharmacists could order more doses of the flu vaccine to accommodate the extra age group, from a centrally-secured government supply.\n\nThe other groups of people already eligible for a free flu jab in England are:\n\nAs health is a devolved issue, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are running separate flu vaccination campaigns.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, urged everyone who is eligible for the flu vaccine \"to book their appointments as soon as they can\" as the jab remained a \"critical tool\" to prevent severe illness and potential hospitalisation for thousands of people.\n\nIn the autumn, some pharmacists and GP surgeries had to limit flu jabs to the most at-risk groups due to increased demand.", "Fergal Keane looks at the legacy of the trials and speaks to a Holocaust survivor, a prosecutor and the son of a defendant.", "Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died aged 88 in a care home in Oxfordshire in April\n\nA woman whose father died with Covid has won the first stage of a legal challenge over measures taken to protect those living in care homes.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner, from Sidmouth in Devon, claims there was a failure to implement \"adequate\" measures to protect residents.\n\nIt follows the death of her father in an Oxfordshire care home in April.\n\nThe government and health bodies oppose Dr Gardner's challenge and asked the judge to dismiss the case.\n\nDr Gardner said: \"This is for the thousands of families affected by the loss of loved ones in care homes since March.\"\n\nAt a remote hearing on Thursday, Mr Justice Linden granted Dr Gardner permission for a full hearing of her challenge.\n\nHe said: \"I consider it in the interests of justice for the claim to be heard.\"\n\nDr Gardner, who is bringing her case alongside Fay Harris, argues certain key policies and decisions led to a \"shocking death toll\" of care home residents.\n\nThese include an alleged policy of discharging patients from hospital into care homes without testing and suitable isolation arrangements.\n\nThe legal action is being brought against the Department for Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England.\n\nDr Gardner, who has a PhD in virology, said her legal team would ask \"to see the evidence behind the decisions that they took, how those decisions were taken, who was involved in discussions, why they decided to discharge people from hospital without testing and why they didn't commence any sort of real protection of people in care homes\".\n\nSir James Eadie QC, barrister for the government and PHE, said the challenge was \"unarguable\".\n\nIn court documents, he said: \"The government was faced with unprecedented challenges and fast-evolving scientific advice.\n\n\"Throughout the period in issue it considered how best to protect older people both within and outside care homes.\n\n\"That involved making a series of judgments based on expert scientific advice, in an area in which the science was uncertain and evolving.\n\n\"There is no arguable basis on which to conclude that those judgments fell outside the range of reasonable responses to the pandemic as it, and understanding of it, developed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales manager Ryan Giggs has been rebailed after denying an allegation of assault made against him.\n\nEarlier this month, several newspapers reported he had been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said it was called to reports of a disturbance at an address in Worsley, Salford, just after 22:00 GMT on 1 November.\n\nIt said a woman in her 30s \"sustained minor injuries but did not require any treatment\".\n\nThe force said officers had arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of section 47 assault and section 39 common assault and he had been bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nAt the time, Giggs' representatives said he denied all allegations of assault and was co-operating with the police.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) said it was \"aware of an alleged incident involving the men's national team manager Ryan Giggs\" and it had mutually agreed he would not be involved in the upcoming international camp.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Greater Manchester Police said: \"A 46-year-old man has been rebailed pending further inquiries.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A report into allegations Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff should be made public, the prime minister's adviser on standards in public life has said.\n\nFormer MI5 chief Lord Evans warned that unresolved inquiries into ministers' conduct undermined public trust.\n\nA Cabinet Office investigation into allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March.\n\nShe has always strongly denied claims that she bullied staff.\n\nIn February Sir Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the Home Office, resigned saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\". He is pursuing an employment tribunal claim.\n\nThe Committee on Standards in Public Life advises the prime minister on ethical standards across public life in England and is chaired by ex-MI5 boss Lord Evans of Weardale.\n\nThe Times first reported that Lord Evans wanted the Patel report to be made public.\n\nHe told the BBC he was not in a position to judge the accuracy of the complaints about the home secretary but said the public needed to know that allegations are \"properly and independently investigated\".\n\n\"We want to make sure the system we have in place can resolve those issues so that people can have confidence the standards are being upheld in the right places and by everybody involved,\" he told Radio 4's The World at One.\n\nLord Evans was appointed Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public life in October 2018\n\nAsked specifically about Ms Patel's case he said there may be \"good reasons\" why some findings are not published but argued that any causes for delay should be explained.\n\n\"I think because they are left hanging in the air people are worried about it and that tends to reduce people's trust.\"\n\nHe also said that the process of investigating ministers should be more independent and transparent - and he suggested taking the responsibility for triggering such inquiries away from the prime minister.\n\nIn an interview with the Times, he said because the report on Ms Patel had not been published \"it is very difficult to know whether there was something here or whether there wasn't\".\n\nResponding to Lord Evans' comments, Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: \"It is a disgrace that the report into allegations of bullying against the home secretary is being suppressed.\n\n\"Continuing to refuse to release the report not only makes clear that the Tories have something to hide, it also undermines trust in politics at a crucial time - the report must be published without further delay.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The process is ongoing and the prime minister will make any decision on the matter public once the process has concluded.\"", "Steve Dymond was found dead at his home days after he took a lie-detector test on the Jeremy Kyle Show\n\nTV presenter Jeremy Kyle \"may have caused or contributed\" to the death of a man who was found dead after filming an episode of his ITV show, a coroner has said.\n\nThe body of Steve Dymond, 63, was discovered at his home on 9 May last year, days after he took a lie-detector test on the programme.\n\nThe show was axed shortly afterwards.\n\nHampshire coroner Jason Pegg has made Jeremy Kyle an \"interested person\" for the inquest.\n\nDuring a pre-inquest review in Winchester, he said the presenter \"may have caused or contributed\" to Mr Dymond's death.\n\n\"It might seem ludicrous not to have Mr Kyle to give evidence to give his take on the situation,\" Mr Pegg said.\n\nLawyers for Mr Kyle and ITV argued that Mr Dymond's \"upsetting experience\" on the show was \"established fact\" and the scope of the inquest should not be a \"detailed top to bottom inquiry into the Jeremy Kyle Show, its selection, treatment and aftercare of participants\".\n\n\"It would not be required to call for evidence from ITV employees involved in his appearance to get to that starting point,\" Neil Sheldon QC said.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was axed following Mr Dymond's death\n\nMr Dymond died of a morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy, which is when the left chamber of the heart is not pumping properly, at his home in Portsmouth.\n\nSeven days earlier he took a lie detector test on the programme to show whether he had cheated on his ex-fiancee Jane Callaghan, who is from Gosport.\n\nCounsel for Mr Dymond's family, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, told the hearing Mr Dymond became \"distressed\" after he failed the lie detector test.\n\nShe said Mr Dymond had gone on the show to \"prove his fidelity\", and had said: \"I pushed and pushed but it all went wrong.\"\n\nAfter the result was announced during filming, the audience \"booed and jeered\" at him and he was \"called a failure by the presenter\", Ms Gallagher said.\n\nShe said Mr Kyle was \"in his face\" and even when he was \"at the point of collapsing, he was still being heckled\".\n\nMs Gallagher said his state of mind was known by the crew on the show, with a message sent on a WhatsApp group stating: \"Just so you know, he's still crying, he has just said he wishes he was dead. Just giving you the heads up.\"\n\nThe hearing was told Mr Dymond was originally turned down to appear on the show but was accepted as a guest after gaining a letter from his doctor.\n\nHe had been receiving mental health care from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the inquest heard.\n\nCoroner Mr Pegg said the inquest would \"not be an inquiry into the show generally\" and would not be held in front of a jury.\n\n\"What was in his [Mr Dymond's] mind, it seems to me, what happened on the show and how he was treated was relevant to how he came by his death,\" he said.\n\nMs Gallagher said it was \"still unclear\" as to whether all the recorded footage of the programme had been released by ITV.\n\nShe said the family was concerned about something happening on the studio stage that attracted the attention of the audience but was not seen in the footage.\n\nThe coroner gave ITV six weeks to confirm that all recorded material had been handed over.\n\nThe full inquest, which is expected to last about a week, is not expected to be held before May next year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of NHS Test and Trace is self-isolating after receiving a notification from the NHS mobile app.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding tweeted that she was \"feeling well\", and added: \"Nothing like personal experience of your own products.\"\n\nIt comes a week after her husband, Conservative MP John Penrose, was told to isolate by the app, and days after PM Boris Johnson began self-isolating.\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis also said he was self-isolating.\n\nMr Powis, who appeared at a Downing Street briefing over video call, said he was \"perfectly fine\" but had been told to self-isolate by Test and Trace after a member of his household tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister was told to stay at home after having a meeting last week with Tory MP Lee Anderson, who then tested positive.\n\nBaroness Harding's husband was told to self-isolate on 9 November after potentially coming into contact with someone who had the virus.\n\nIn Baroness Harding's tweet, it showed she had nine days of self-isolation left - having to stay at home until 23:59 GMT on 26 November.\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 reason her screenshot shows she has to isolate for nine days - rather than the standard 14 days - is because the 14-day isolation period starts from when the app made the contact.\n\nIf a person tests positive for coronavirus, they can choose to share their result with the NHS app anonymously.\n\nThe NHS then sends alerts to other app users who have spent time near them or been in \"close contact\" - meaning they have been within two metres for 15 minutes or more.\n\nThe app calculates when to send an alert by tallying up points depending on the time spent together and distance.\n\nAnyone who gets an alert is instructed to isolate for 14 days from when they had the contact.\n\nBaroness Harding's tweet indicating she has been told to self-isolate has caused some confusion, highlighting the fact that her team needs to do better in communicating how the app works.\n\nWhy, some ask, has she been asked to isolate for only nine rather than 14 days?\n\nHere's the answer. When an app user starts to feel unwell or gets a Covid test for some other reason, they enter a positive result into the app.\n\nThey can then choose to share that result with other users. Their phone will have used its Bluetooth connection to record close contacts with other app users - usually involving being within two metres for 15 minutes - over the previous days.\n\nThose people will then get an alert in their app to self-isolate but the duration will be 14 days from the last close contact.\n\nSo if I enter a positive test on a Sunday and I've been in close contact with you the previous Tuesday, you will get an alert on the Sunday to isolate for nine days.\n\nBaroness Harding was appointed the head of NHS Test and Trace in May, and has since been appointed chair of the National Institute for Health Protection - the new agency replacing Public Health England.\n\nThe 52-year-old is the former head of internet service provider TalkTalk, and for the past three years has been chair of NHS Improvement - focusing on driving up standards across the service.\n\nShe has come under criticism for her handling of NHS Test and Trace after a raft of issues, including delayed results and test centres struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nBut Baroness Harding has defended her own performance after calls for her to quit, and warned testing is not the \"silver bullet to hold back the tide of Covid\".", "Dame Nancy Rothwell told BBC Newsnight she had written to Zac Adan and apologised\n\nA university leader has apologised to a student who was allegedly \"racially profiled\" on campus by security officers.\n\nBut Manchester University's vice chancellor said she could not \"commit\" to meeting 19-year-old Zac Adan, due to an ongoing inquiry.\n\nFootage posted online showed Mr Adan held up against a wall at Fallowfield halls of residence.\n\nHe said he was accused of \"looking like a drug dealer\" by staff.\n\nDame Nancy Rothwell told BBC Newsnight she had written to Mr Adan and apologised but could not meet him \"because that could influence the investigation\".\n\nThe security staff have been suspended and an inquiry is ongoing, she said.\n\nMr Adan, a first year French and Linguistics student at the university, previously said he had been left \"traumatised\" after being stopped.\n\nReturning to his halls of residence after visiting a local shop, he had been asked to present his identification and \"the next thing I know I was being pinned up against the wall\", he said.\n\nZac Adan said he was left traumatised after being \"pinned against the wall\"\n\nMr Adan said: \"There was no conversation. They just pinned me up against the wall and said I looked like a drug dealer. Why? Because I am black and wearing a hoodie?\"\n\nDame Nancy said: \"I was very, very concerned by it, I've apologised to the student for the distress that he felt.\n\n\"I immediately suspended the staff and there is now an investigation ongoing.\"\n\nMr Adan, who moved to the UK from Italy a few years ago, said earlier this week that he wanted to talk to university leaders about the incident.\n\nDame Nancy said she would \"consider\" meeting Mr Adan in person but did not want to \"influence the investigation\", adding: \"Just as I won't meet with the security staff either. He has met with several of our staff.\"\n\nMr Adan had also been offered counselling, she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People are most likely to pass on coronavirus within the first five days of having symptoms, an extensive study suggests.\n\nThe research indicates patients had the highest levels of virus early on in their illness and \"live\" virus, capable of replicating, was found up to nine days after symptoms began.\n\nUK scientists say their study emphasises early isolation is critical to stopping spread.\n\nThe work appears in the Lancet Microbe.\n\nHow infectious individuals are depends on many factors, including how much viable virus (essentially, virus that is able to replicate) they are carrying and the amount of virus they have in their bodies.\n\nSome reports have shown people are most infectious just before they have symptoms and in the first week of having the virus.\n\nScientists examined 79 global studies on Covid-19, involving symptomatic people in hospitals who had already tested positive for the virus.\n\nResearchers were able to identify and replicate viable virus from throat samples taken up to nine days after infections started.\n\nAnd they found the amount of viral RNA particles (fragments of genetic material from the virus) in people's throat samples peaked at the time symptoms began or within five days.\n\nMeanwhile, inactive viral RNA fragments were still found in nose and throat samples on average up to 17 days after symptoms started.\n\nThe researchers conclude that despite these fragments persisting, as no viable replicating virus was found beyond nine days it was unlikely that the majority of people were still very infectious beyond this point.\n\nDr Muge Cevik, of the University of St Andrews, told the BBC that the findings showed people were most infectious very early on, in line with other studies involving contact tracing.\n\n\"People really need to be supported to make sure they isolate as soon as they get symptoms, however mild. By the time some people get the results of swabs, they may be past their most infectious phase.\n\n\"So we need to look more at why some people are unable to isolate immediately and help them to do so,\" she said.\n\nThe study did not look at asymptomatic people, but the authors warn other research has shown people can be infectious before they get symptoms and may pass on the virus with no symptoms at all.\n\nIn the UK, officials say people must isolate immediately and for at least 10 days if they have any symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n• None New coronavirus vaccine begins trials in the UK", "Bobby Storey's funeral caused a row at Stormont about potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has agreed to participate in a police investigation into the funeral of senior IRA figure Bobby Storey, five months after the controversy began.\n\nThe PSNI said that letters received from the legal representatives of those they wish to speak to \"confirmed their intention to participate\".\n\nMs O'Neill said she was \"available to talk to them whenever they're ready\".\n\nPolice had written to Ms O'Neill and 23 other people on 18 September.\n\nBut two months passed before the police received confirmation from them.\n\nOn Friday, Ms O'Neill said she had \"done everything\" she needed to do in line with the PSNI investigation.\n\nShe said the PSNI contacted her in mid-September and she \"immediately responded\".\n\nThe PSNI told the BBC's Nolan Show it received the letters on Wednesday and that it was \"anticipated these interviews will take place in due course\".\n\nMary Lou McDonald, Gerry Adams and Michelle O'Neill were among the senior Sinn Féin members at the funeral\n\nMark Webster, the deputy chief constable of Cumbria Police, is overseeing the PSNI's investigation.\n\nHe said he was committed to completing it \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHundreds of people lined streets for the funeral, which was held in west Belfast on 30 June.\n\nAt that time the Covid-19 regulations stated that a maximum of 30 people were allowed to gather together outdoors.\n\nMs O'Neill was one of several Sinn Féin politicians who took part in the funeral cortege and attended the service and a subsequent event at Milltown Cemetery where speeches were made by senior republicans.\n\nIn September, Ms O'Neill acknowledged that Stormont's public health messaging about the pandemic had been \"undermined\" by the controversy about the funeral.\n\nShe said she wanted to \"rebuild trust\" with the public.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said the investigation must be speeded up.\n\nThe North Antrim MLA said: \"It is important to remember that breaches of the Covid regulations are summary offences, meaning that prosecutions must be brought within six months.\n\n\"I suspect that a republican tactic has been to run down the clock.\"", "The health secretary says that if a vaccine is approved, it will be available across the UK and will be free according to need, not ability to pay - with the earliest doses being available next month.\n\nHe says he's working with the devolved administrations to ensure it's deployed fairly to everyone across the UK - but that high-risk groups will be prioritised.\n\n\"The rollout will be a massive logistical challenge, but I know that the NHS can do it,\" he said.\n\nHe adds that the NHS is in the process of setting up vaccine centres across the country, which will be able to store the Pfizer vaccine at the required -70C.\n\nThe NHS is also preparing to give doses of the vaccine to hospital staff, he says.\n\nHe says these two routes for receiving the vaccine are likely to be the \"bulk\" of how the vaccine will be offered before the end of 2020.\n\nAfter that, there will be a community rollout involving GPs and pharmacists.\n\nHancock says these \"three delivery models\" will help the vaccine to reach all parts of the country.", "David Lewis, 81, lost his two sons and wife within a week of each other\n\nMourners lined the streets to celebrate the lives of an adoring mother and her two sons who died within days of each other after contracting coronavirus.\n\nGladys Lewis, 74, from Pentre, and sons Dean, 44, Darren, 42, from Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, died within a week.\n\nOn Thursday people gathered outside St Peter's Church in Pentre to listen to the funeral service through loudspeakers.\n\nTheir family urged people to \"do their part\" to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nRelatives had previously described how the family had been careful to avoid catching Covid-19 because Gladys had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and Darren, who had Down's syndrome, had been on life support with pneumonia earlier in the year.\n\nFather Philip Leyshon and Father Haydn England Simon wear PPE face visors as they stand beside the coffins of Gladys, Dean and Darren Lewis the evening before their funeral\n\nRelatives, who were inside the church, had wanted the three funerals to be held at the same time so that they could be together.\n\nMourners wore masks and clapped as the three coffins were taken through the town.\n\nFather Haydn England-Simon, who led the service, said no family \"should ever go through\" what the Lewises had.\n\nDavid Lewis and his wife Gladys \"adored each other\"\n\nGrandmother Gladys Lewis died at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 29 October.\n\nThe next day her eldest son Dean was found unresponsive at his home in Treorchy. He had only gone out once a week to shop for his parents.\n\nHis younger brother Darren died on 2 November after being treated in intensive care at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.\n\nThe family were unable to be with Darren before his death, due to them testing positive for Covid-19 and having to self-isolate.\n\nThe family at the beach when the children were younger\n\nThe grandmother-of-13 and great-grandmother-of-four would \"fight the world and win to make sure her children and grandchildren had what they needed and deserved\".\n\nDuring the service the family said Mrs Lewis had been married to husband David, 81, for 44 years after meeting him in Blackpool.\n\nThey were keen dancers and \"absolutely adored\" each other.\n\nFather-of-three Dean was said to have a \"heart of gold\", while Darren was a keen football fan.\n\nWriting in the order of service, the family said: \"As a family we cannot express how much your love, messages and support mean to us all.\"\n\nMourners clapped and paid their respects as the three hearses passed", "The lives of people in Scotland are currently governed by an unprecedented range of rules and restrictions. But which of the coronavirus suppression measures can be enforced by law, and which ones are guidance?\n\nPeople have been banned from visiting other households indoors since 25 September, with some exemptions for couples who don't live together, extended households and childcare arrangements.\n\nRestrictions on household visits in Scotland are legally enforceable - as has been demonstrated by police breaking up hundreds of house parties and other large gatherings.\n\nShould any part of Scotland be moved into Level 0, then up to eight people from three households will be allowed to meet indoors there.\n\nAnd in future Level 1 may be tweaked to allow six people from two households to meet indoors - but at present, the law prohibits this.\n\nIn recent months, the only travel rules which have been enforceable by law have been quarantine rules for people travelling from some other parts of the world.\n\nWhen the new five-level Covid alert system was introduced it did not include mandatory travel restrictions, with Ms Sturgeon acknowledging that these would be difficult to enforce.\n\nHowever, from 18:00 on Friday 20 November, that changes.\n\nNew regulations will make it an offence to travel in or out of a council area which is in level three or four without \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nThere is an extensive list of possible exemptions listed in the regulations - including travelling for work, essential shopping, accessing childcare, or visiting a care home.\n\nAnd the rules don't just apply within Scotland - there are also to be \"restrictions on leaving or entering Scotland\".\n\nThis section of the law carries a similarly long list of exemptions, but the thrust is clear - people who live in Scotland should not leave without good reason, and those living elsewhere in the UK or even in the Republic of Ireland should not enter.\n\nBeyond the new laws, there continues to be advice on avoiding public transport unless absolutely necessary and not to car-share - but this is guidance rather than a legal requirement.\n\nThe wearing of face coverings in various settings is included in the law, and can be enforced on anyone over the age of five.\n\nThere are exemptions for people with specific health conditions, couples taking part in marriage or civil partnership ceremonies, shop staff who are physically separated by plastic screens and emergency responders.\n\nThese laws cover public transport (other than school transport) and most indoor places, including:\n\nWhile immediate sanctions could include people being refused service in shops and restaurants for failing to comply with the rules, the police can also intervene and levy fines for non-compliance.\n\nThe rules covering whether or not shops, pubs and restaurants can open are underpinned by regulations, running from very few closures in Level 0 areas to wide-ranging ones in Level 4.\n\nThey have been simplified somewhat under the latest set of regulations, with there no longer being a need for a legal definition of what constitutes a \"cafe\".\n\nMany of the rules affecting staff and customers are also subject to legal requirements.\n\nIt is the law that food and drink can only be served to a customer who is seated, and who remains seated while consuming it.\n\nBusinesses have a duty to collect customer contact details for the Test and Protect system - and to store them securely in line with data protection laws.\n\nHowever, customers technically do not have a legal requirement to provide them. Premises are advised to refuse service to people who refuse to provide their details.\n\nThose responsible for businesses and places of worship also have a responsibility in law to make sure people maintain physical distancing \"so far as reasonably practical\" and to take steps to minimise the risk of the virus spreading, for instance by installing screens or changing the layout of the premises.\n\nThis extends outside, if there is a queue to enter - businesses must make sure they only admit sufficiently small numbers of customers to maintain physical distancing inside, and ensure people remain two metres (6ft 6in) apart in the queue.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, people in Scotland have been advised to work from home wherever possible. Employers have been urged to \"make every reasonable effort to make working from home the default position\".\n\nThere is not a specific set of Covid-19 regulations underpinning this - other than where the law forces businesses to close altogether, and the responsibility it places on firms to maintain workplace health and safety.\n\nHowever, there is a raft of guidance in place for those operating offices and other workplaces to maintain physical distancing and increase hygiene and cleaning routines.\n\nThey have also been encouraged to take measures to reduce the wider risks for staff who do have to come to work, such as by staggering start and finish times to ease the traditional \"rush hour\".\n\nOne thing that has been put down in law, as noted above, is the wearing of face coverings in communal areas of offices.", "Christian B has been named as the suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance\n\nThe prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has had his appeal against a rape conviction rejected.\n\nChristian B, who is currently serving a prison sentence for drug offences in Germany, was given a seven-year term for raping a 72-year-old woman.\n\nHe attacked the American woman in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2005, the same area where three-year-old Madeleine disappeared in 2007.\n\nHis appeal hinged on a legal point in relation to his extradition to Germany\n\nIt was rejected by Germany's Federal Court of Justice which means he will now remain in prison beyond January, when his prison sentence for the drug offences ended.\n\nSuspects' surnames are not usually revealed in Germany for privacy reasons.\n\nChristian B's legal team had challenged the European arrest warrant issued over the 2005 rape charge.\n\nHe was extradited from Italy to Germany two years ago on drug trafficking charges. But he was later convicted of a separate crime, the rape, and sentenced to seven years in prison.\n\nThe basis for his appeal is that his extradition was not related to the rape case, and authorities in Portugal did not give permission for him to be charged.\n\nHe has not been convicted of any crime related to Madeleine McCann.\n\nChristian B, 43, was revealed as the main suspect in the case in June, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for information about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine was last seen while on holiday in the Algarve in Portugal.\n\nPolice said he was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nGerman prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the Madeleine investigation, has previously said prosecutors have evidence that leads them to believe Christian B killed her, but it is not strong enough to take him to court.\n\nIn July, the Metropolitan Police said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or not.\n\nThe same month, a police search was carried out at an allotment in Hanover which it is understood was rented to Christian B in the year of her disappearance.", "Retailers in Wales should not encourage people \"to all rush to the shops together' for post-Christmas sales, the first minister says.\n\n“It isn't just the risk when you're in a shop, it's everything that goes with people travelling, people mingling outside - all of those things add to risks,\" Mark Drakeford said.\n\n“We have worked very hard with the retail sector and others to try to find a pathway through to Christmas where those shops can stay open because I understand that if you're selling goods for Christmas, you need to sell them before the 25th of December.\n\n“But beyond Christmas there seems to be much less of a case for the need to try and encourage people to come together in large numbers and run the risks that will inevitably be there.\"\n\nMr Drakeford urged shops to “go on doing all the things that they have done very carefully already\".\n\nBut he also asked them to \"think carefully about whether or not patterns of sale beyond Christmas can be smoothed out, done over a longer period, rather than encouraging people to all rush to the shops together\".\n\nMark Drakeford does not want to see scenes like this in Wales after Christmas Image caption: Mark Drakeford does not want to see scenes like this in Wales after Christmas", "Home Secretary Priti Patel gives an \"unreserved\" apology if she upset people during her work at the Home Office.\n\nIt follows a report on bullying claims. She says she is working to reform the department.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph showing them opening a card from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children.\n\nThe homemade gift was created by Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and is emblazoned with 73.\n\nThe photograph was taken earlier this week in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen, 94, was a 21-year-old princess when she married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947.\n\nTheir enduring relationship has lasted the longest of any British sovereign.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Buckingham Palace tweeted a message thanking \"everyone for their kind wishes\" for the Queen and Duke on their anniversary and sharing a picture of the couple on their honeymoon in Hampshire in 1947.\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip on their honeymoon in 1947 at Broadlands in Hampshire\n\nThe monarch was 21 when she married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, then 26, at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe Queen and Prince Philip with their bridal party at Buckingham Palace on their wedding day\n\nThe Queen and the duke, 99, who has retired from public duties, are spending the lockdown at Windsor Castle in England and anniversary celebrations are expected to be low key.\n\nThere is no traditional gift, jewel or colour associated with 73rd wedding anniversaries in the UK.\n\nIn the new photograph, the Queen is wearing a pale blue double wool crepe dress by Stewart Parvin and a chrysanthemum brooch made from sapphires and diamonds set in platinum.\n\nThe couple are seated beside one another reading the colourful card from Prince William and Catherine's three children. They also have five other great-grandchildren. including one-year-old Archie, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who now live in California.\n\nEarlier this month, the monarch was seen wearing a face mask for the first time in public when she made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.\n\nShe subsequently led the nation in marking Remembrance Sunday, with commemorations scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Edwin Poots 'replied all' to an email from a member of the public criticising the executive's decision on restrictions\n\nDUP minister Edwin Poots has said he is opposed to new Covid-19 restrictions agreed by the executive, in an email sent to more than 80 people.\n\nHe answered a member of the public who emailed MLAs about the restrictions.\n\nThe original email criticised the government for the \"devastating effect\" the tougher restrictions will have.\n\nIn a reply to all, Mr Poots said: \"I entirely agree, unfortunately the majority of the Executive see things differently.\"\n\n\"The failure of the health department will inevitably lead to the failure of the economy.\"\n\nTwo weeks of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions will take force across NI from next Friday.\n\nMr Poots, who is a former Stormont health minister, declined a request to comment further on the contents of his email, which he said was \"self explanatory\".\n\nWhen asked asked by BBC News NI if he had intended to \"include all\" of the Stormont MLAs in his reply, he declined to comment.\n\nThe email from the member of the public had also stated that current pressure on the NHS was \"nothing new\" and that the NHS was \"overwhelmed every year at this time\".\n\nIt continued: \"This shows the utter incompetence of NHS and health department planning expecting the rest of the country to pay for their failings.\"\n\nUlster Unionist health spokesman Alan Chambers MLA said Mr Poots's comments showed \"how detached from reality he is\".\n\n\"A few days ago he was pointing the finger of blame at the nationalist community for Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"Now he's blaming the health service, and in the process, insulting everyone within it who is working so hard at this particular time to save lives.\n\n\"Edwin Poots needs to get real and stop playing pathetic political games in the middle of a global health pandemic, which has already delayed crucial life-saving decisions.\n\n\"His words and actions are grossly irresponsible.\"\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie also responded saying: \"His reply went into my spam folder.\"\n\n\"Spam - irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet - typically to a large number of users,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots' party colleague, the South Antrim MLA Pam Cameron, who is DUP deputy chair of the health committee, described Mr Poots' reasoning as \"a little simplistic\".\n\n\"Cruel reality is that everyone is responsible for the spread of virus. If we all follow the most basic guidelines, the economy could carry on.\n\n\"It's brutal that business pays the price for our actions,\" she tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Doug Beattie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 understood Mr Poots voiced opposition to the restrictions during Thursday's executive meeting.\n\nStormont sources said the minister, who has previously spoken out against imposing tighter lockdown measures, said it was illogical to close non-essential retail as it could severely damage the high street.\n\nIt is believed Mr Poots did not ask for the measures to be put to a vote by the executive and said he would accept whatever measures were agreed by the executive.", "John McDermott used a drone to spy on his ex-girlfriend\n\nA stalker who used a drone to spy on his ex-partner and her friend has been jailed for 16 weeks.\n\nJohn McDermott, 42, of Birch Court, Connah's Quay, Flintshire, was also banned under an indefinite restraining order from possessing or using a drone in Holywell and Trelawnyd.\n\nMagistrates at Llandudno also ordered the destruction of the drone.\n\nMcDermott pleaded guilty to stalking Kerry Williams and her friend Daniel Redford.\n\nHe used the drone to monitor them after Ms Williams moved into Mr Redford's home at Holywell.\n\nMcDermott also admitted assaulting Ms Williams' stepbrother by pushing him.\n\nProsecutor Diane Williams said Ms Williams contacted police on 29 September because she was being followed in a car by the defendant.\n\nMcDermott had also tried to call her and she said she felt unsafe in her home.\n\nMcDermott went to Mr Redford's home, making threats towards him and rude gestures.\n\nIn October he again followed his ex-partner and repeatedly used a drone to watch where she lived.\n\nThe prosecution said he was bailed for police inquiries with conditions which he breached.\n\nOn October 20 a drone was seen flying above the property once again.\n\nMs Williams, who had ended the 16-week relationship in September, said in a victim impact statement: \"I couldn't cope with his controlling nature. I felt trapped.\"\n\nShe said she had been unable to sleep and felt terrified of what he might do.\n\n\"I feel absolutely mortified, sick and intimidated,\" she said.\n\nDefence solicitor Victoria Handley said McDermott \"completely accepts what he did was wrong\", adding he had been in the armed forces and had suffered post traumatic stress.\n\nCourt chairman John Rooney told McDermott it was behaviour intended to cause maximum fear and distress and he had offended while on bail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sedwill: Not all of Patel report will be public\n\nA report into allegations Home Secretary Priti Patel bullied staff is \"with\" the prime minister, a former head of the civil service has said.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill said Boris Johnson \"needs to reflect and make a decision\" following a fact-finding review led by a senior civil servant.\n\nA Cabinet Office inquiry was launched eight months ago into the allegations, which Ms Patel denies.\n\nA spokesman for the PM said he was not yet ready to publish the findings.\n\nThe spokesman added that the probe into Ms Patel's behaviour - which was launched when Sir Mark was cabinet secretary - was an \"ongoing process\".\n\nLabour has previously called for the report to be published \"without further delay,\" claiming trust in politics has been undermined as a result.\n\nAn official investigation into the facts of Ms Patel's behaviour was launched in March, when Sir Mark was in charge of the UK civil service.\n\nThe probe was launched to investigate whether she had breached the ministerial code - the official rulebook for government ministers.\n\nIn February, Sir Philip Rutnam, the top civil servant in the Home Office, resigned, saying he had been the target of a \"vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\".\n\nHe is pursuing an employment tribunal claim for constructive dismissal.\n\nSir Mark said Mr Johnson had begun consulting his independent adviser on ministers' interests, Sir Alex Allan, about the fact-finding review by the time his left his post in September.\n\n\"I think Alex had been in discussion with the prime minister,\" he told MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.\n\n\"I don't know the exact date of when that part of the process was submitted to the PM, but it was under way, and it's with him as I understand it now.\n\n\"The process was: establish the facts, have Alex Allan consider it, because the prime minister wanted his advice, and the prime minister needs to reflect and make a decision.\n\n\"That, as I understand it, is still in train.\"\n\nA decision on whether to publish the report will be made by Mr Johnson - who also has the ultimate power to decide whether the ministerial code has been breached.\n\nSir Mark suggested the full report might never be published, to protect the confidentiality of those interviewed as part of the inquiry.\n\n\"It is a decision in the end for the PM whether he publishes anything,\" he said.\n\n\"But [they] would have to be very careful, if there were any publication, to respect the basis on which individuals interviewed in the process had submitted their evidence.\n\n\"That doesn't mean you can't publish or release anything, but it does mean you have to be careful about it.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said: \"Once we are in a position to make public the prime minister's conclusions then we will do so, but we are not at that point yet.\"", "Theresa May said she felt anxious after Shah sent a message threatening to kill her\n\nA man who threatened to kill Theresa May while she was prime minister has been jailed.\n\nWajid Shah emailed Mrs May with the threat and sent similar messages to ex-home secretary Lord Blunkett, Baroness Lister, MPs Tan Dhesi and Caroline Nokes, and former MP Mark Lancaster.\n\nThe 27-year-old, of Slough, had denied sending the \"abusive\" and \"disturbing\" messages, in March and April.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years in jail, after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nThe judge said Shah had a \"very low IQ and severe learning difficulties\" but did not suffer from mental health problems\n\nIn a victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Barry McElduff, Mrs May said the \"extremely offensive, threatening and disturbing\" message to her left her \"feeling anxious and concerned\".\n\nShe explained she had received abusive messages before, but \"what made this one different was the explicit and repeated threat to kill me\".\n\n\"The fact it came close to my constituency raised me concern,\" she said.\n\nShah, of Connaught Road, Slough, had denied six counts of sending a letter/communication or article conveying a threatening message.\n\nLord Blunkett, Caroline Nokes and Tan Dhesi were among the MPs sent similar messages\n\nThe court heard he sent emails to the politicians that contained racial slurs and threats to kill them \"with a gun or a knife\".\n\nIn messages to his local MP Mr Dhesi and former armed forces minister Lord Lancaster, Shah said he would chop their heads off, which led to Mr Dhesi being advised by police to leave his constituency office.\n\nMr McElduff said the email to Ms Nokes, a former immigration minister, \"weighed heavy on her mind\" and she \"drew comparisons... with the events that led to the tragic death of Jo Cox MP\".\n\nShah sent Lord Blunkett two emails and abused him for being blind, the prosecutor added.\n\nHe also made attempts to send more emails, including to Boris Johnson, which were intercepted, the court heard.\n\nJudge Philip Bartle QC told the court the defendant's \"motivation\" for sending the emails to the politicians was to assist his mother with \"immigration matters\" and the \"UK citizens' test\".\n\nHe said the defendant had \"chose the recipients carefully\" through their links through previous or current immigration work.\n\nThe judge said Shah sent the emails under different names, including that of his father, to \"get back\" at him following a family dispute.\n\nHe added Shah maintained he was innocent, had a \"very low IQ and severe learning difficulties\", but did not suffer from mental health problems.\n\nDet Insp Will Crowther, based at Slough police station, said the messages were \"horrendous\" and \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nThe Thames Valley Police officer added: \"Even after his first arrest, Shah continued to offend, sending further messages which were threatening serious violence and death to the recipients.\n\n\"Shah felt that he could hide behind a keyboard of a computer to send these messages, and his intention was very clear that he wanted to cause great distress.\n\n\"The messages are too violent and graphic to describe, but would no doubt have caused tremendous upset. One of the messages even forced the evacuation of a building, such were the nature of the threats.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nThe UK government has formally asked the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, one of the frontrunners in the race for a coronavirus cure. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was \"another important step forward\" and that, if approved, it would be available across the NHS for free across all of the UK. He said the UK has contributed more than any other country towards researching a vaccine, something he said the country should be proud of. It follows Pfizer and BioNTech seeking emergency authorisation for the vaccine in the US.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should it prove viable\n\nThe \"second peak is flattening\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock told this afternoon's Downing Street press briefing. He pointed to the latest data which suggests coronavirus infection rates appear to be levelling off in England and Scotland - and decreasing in Wales and Northern Ireland. The Office for National Statistics estimates that one in 80 people in England currently have coronavirus. In Northern Ireland it is one in 135 people; in Scotland one in 155, and in Wales one in 165. Meanwhile, the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average - for the whole of the UK is estimated to have dropped to between 1 and 1.1. Last week it was between 1 and 1.2. You can read more about the R number and why it matters here.\n\nMore than two million Scots are, as of 18:00 GMT, now living under the country's toughest coronavirus restrictions. The level four rules apply to 11 council areas, including Glasgow - and mean restrictions on who people can meet, and the closure of pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops. New travel laws are coming in at the same time, to try to stop the virus spreading to areas where it is less common. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she hoped it would bring levels of infection down ahead of Christmas. Meanwhile, we ask - how come Scotland's biggest city is under these restrictions, but its capital has escaped the near-full lockdown?\n\nThe level four restrictions will remain in place until 11 December\n\nNorthern Ireland's first minister has denied her DUP party performed a U-turn by agreeing to tighter restrictions a week after voting against measures proposed to the Stormont Executive. Arlene Foster said the evidence \"had changed\". Earlier today some businesses reopened as rules lifted across Northern Ireland - but any celebration will be short-lived as a two-week \"circuit-break\" has been announced, beginning next Friday. The decision has been met with anger from many business leaders, but Mrs Foster said the executive \"had to act\".\n\nHair salons in Northern Ireland are reopening after a five-week forced shutdown but will have to close again from next Friday\n\nTwo women, 88-year-old Joan Martin and 36-year-old freelance filmmaker Karolina Malinowska, have found one way to beat the loneliness of lockdown - by signing up to a homesharing scheme. Now, the pair watch TV, play Scrabble, and bake together. Karolina says she enjoys having someone to talk to, while Joan says it is \"refreshing\" and \"opens up new areas of conversation every day\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd we've had a look at seven things that might be different this Christmas.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Fashion chains Peacocks and Jaeger have fallen into administration, putting more than 4,700 jobs and almost 500 shops at risk.\n\nIt comes after owner Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group failed to find a buyer for both businesses.\n\nNo redundancies have been announced yet and no stores closed.\n\nEWM Group blamed the pandemic for a collapse in trade, but said it was still in talks with potential buyers.\n\n\"In recent weeks we have had constructive discussions with a number of potential buyers for Peacocks and Jaeger,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"But the continuing deterioration of the retail sector due to the impact of the pandemic and second lockdown have made this process longer and more complex than we would have hoped.\"\n\nIt said that a \"standstill agreement\" secured with the High Court that temporarily put off administration had now expired.\n\n\"Therefore as directors we taken the desperately difficult decision to place Peacocks and Jaeger into administration while those talks continue,\" it said.\n\nJaeger is a London-based fashion business with 76 stores and concessions and employs 347 staff. Cardiff-based Peacocks operates 423 stores with 4,369 staff.\n\nSome Peacocks stores had already begun to shut following an announcement on 15 October.\n\nPhilip Day has quietly built a retail empire over the last 18 years and his huge footprint on high streets across the UK served him well. He did so by snapping up a string of businesses out of administration.\n\nCritics say he didn't do much with them. He didn't do much business online, either. That left him and his chains more exposed when shoppers stampeded to the internet during lockdown.\n\nMr Day still has Bonmarche, a business which he bought through a separate investment vehicle and isn't affected by the current insolvency process. It went into administration last year amid challenging trading conditions. He went on to buy it back, with fewer stores.\n\nWill he now do the same with Peacocks or walk away? According to the most recent company accounts, the EWM Group made a pre-tax profit of £31m in the six months until March 2019. It also had plenty of cash in the bank and next to no debt. How quickly things have unravelled.\n\nThe news come two weeks after Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group called in administrators for its eponymous clothing chain and its homeware brand Ponden Home, putting almost 3,000 more jobs at risk.\n\nTony Wright, joint administrator of the business from FRP Advisory, said talks with potential buyers for Jaeger and Peacocks were at an advanced stage, suggesting the brands could still be saved.\n\n\"Jaeger and Peacocks are attractive brands that have suffered the well-known challenges that many retailers face at present,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in advanced discussions with a number of parties and working hard to secure a future for both businesses.\"\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill (EWM) is owned by businessman Philip Day, who has a £1.14bn fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published in May 2020.", "Julie-Ann Haines said companies were \"surviving, not thriving\"\n\nThe UK government does not \"fully comprehend how difficult it is for businesses to plan\" for Brexit, the boss of Wales' largest building society has said.\n\nPrincipality CEO Julie-Ann Haines said firms were \"being thrown a huge number of curveballs day in, day out\".\n\nThe deadline to agree a new UK-EU deal is approaching as the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK government said \"significant preparations\" were being made.\n\nMs Haines said \"the twist and turns of Brexit and clearly the global pandemic mean that businesses are really trying to focus on surviving not thriving\", adding that Westminster needs to support firms with investment.\n\nShe expects to see some knock-on effects for \"consumers, business and indeed the wider economy\" given the ongoing lack of clarity and the impending deadline.\n\nThis meant businesses were \"thinking about the impact\" of Brexit on supply chains, but with the pandemic on top of that, \"for many, at the moment, this is about survival\".\n\nShe also anticipates unemployment continuing to rise into 2021 and the UK's economic performance falling back significantly.\n\nSam Taylor said Tayna Batteries' sales doubled during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nWhile the pandemic has been devastating for many parts of the economy, online car battery retailer Tayna Batteries, based in Abergele, Conwy county, enjoyed rocketing sales as more people chose internet shopping.\n\nDirector Sam Taylor said sales increased by 100% in March at the beginning of the UK-wide lockdown, compared with the same period in 2019, and were \"still riding at about 50% above the previous year\".\n\nThe business, which employs 80 staff and has a turnover of £15m, took on eight new starters in the summer and has just bought an additional warehouse at Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire.\n\n\"We're looking to take on at least another 50 staff in the next two to three years,\" he said.\n\nWith the end of the Brexit transition period approaching they are \"planning for the worst, but hoping for the best\".\n\n\"Until we get any clear guidance from the government on whether there is going to be a deal or not, we're limited in what we can do.\"\n\nThe company has been able to take on more staff this summer\n\nThe company currently imports from countries which have trade deals with the European Union - Turkey and Vietnam. He said if there was no trade deal in place with these two countries from 1 January, it would cost the firm more to bring goods into the UK.\n\n\"We've got some large stock orders coming in December to try to alleviate any problems that may occur with delays at the port or any extra tariffs we may incur.\n\n\"The best for us would be to have a deal in place where there would be no extra documentation or any handling incurred just to keep the flow across the border nice and smooth and as charge-free as possible.\"\n\nCompany owner Alan Brayley still backs Brexit - but thinks the transition period should be extended\n\nAlan Brayley, president of the Swansea Bay Business Club and owner of AB Glass Doors and Windows, said he was \"positive\" about the future for businesses in the area, having continued manufacturing throughout 2020.\n\nHe is in favour of Brexit, but thinks because of time lost to the pandemic, the UK should ask the EU for an extension of the transition period for another 12-24 months to get businesses prepared.\n\nHis firm imports materials from the EU and he said he would \"rather leave with a deal [rather] than just no deal at all because that's going to be an uncertain future\".\n\nHe said businesses have been focusing on keeping going through the pandemic, \"but now Brexit is creeping up quite fast we need to start shifting that focus\".\n\n\"It's been extremely difficult for businesses to prepare.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said \"significant preparations\" for \"guaranteed changes\" at the end of the transition period included a £705m investment in infrastructure, staffing and technology at the border.\n\n\"With fewer than 50 days to go, it's vital that businesses also take steps to prepare now for the changes ahead,\" he added.\n\n\"That's why we're intensifying our engagement with businesses and running a major public information campaign so they know exactly what they need to do to hit the ground running in the new year.\"", "Former US President Barack Obama likens Russia's Vladimir Putin to a tough Chicago \"ward boss\" and describes former French President Nicolas Sarkozy as being full of \"overblown rhetoric\" in the first volume of his two-part memoir.\n\nA Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours - a record for publisher Penguin Random House. It is expected to become by far the biggest-selling presidential memoir in history.\n\nIn the book, Mr Obama recalls his travels around the world as the 44th US president and his meetings with world leaders. So who made a good impression and who didn't?\n\nThe Eton-educated conservative who served as UK prime minister from 2010-2016 was \"urbane and confident\" and had \"the easy confidence of someone who'd never been pressed too hard by life\".\n\nMr Obama said he warmed to him as a person (\"I liked him personally, even when we butted heads\") but made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with his economic policies. \"Cameron hewed closely to free-market orthodoxy, having promised voters that his platform of deficit reduction and cuts to government services - along with regulatory reform and expanded trade - would usher in a new era of British competitiveness,\" he wrote. \"Instead, predictably, the British economy would fall deeper into a recession.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barack Obama and David Cameron team-up for table tennis at the Globe Academy in south London\n\nMr Obama said the Russian leader reminded him of the political barons he encountered during his early career in Chicago. He writes he was \"like a ward [district] boss, except with nukes and a UN Security Council veto\".\n\nHe continues: \"Putin did, in fact, remind me of the sorts of men who had once run the Chicago machine or Tammany Hall [a New York City political organisation] - tough, street-smart, unsentimental characters who knew what they knew, who never moved outside their narrow experiences, and who viewed patronage, bribery, shakedowns, fraud, and occasional violence as legitimate tools of the trade.\"\n\nThe former French president was \"all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric\" and like \"a figure out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting\", according to Mr Obama.\n\n\"Conversations with Sarkozy were by turns amusing and exasperating, his hands in perpetual motion, his chest thrust out like a bantam cock's, his personal translator... always beside him to frantically mirror his every gesture and intonation as the conversation swooped from flattery to bluster to genuine insight, never straying from his primary, barely disguised interest, which was to be at the centre of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for.\"\n\nBarack Obama said he liked Nicolas Sarkozy's \"boldness, charm and manic energy\"\n\nThe German leader is referred to as \"steady, honest, intellectually rigorous, and instinctually kind\". Mr Obama notes that she had, at first, been sceptical of him, because of his lofty rhetoric and speech-making skills. \"I took no offence, figuring that as a German leader, an aversion to possible demagoguery was probably a healthy thing.\"\n\nBarack Obama described Angela Merkel as \"honest\" and \"kind\"\n\nMr Obama found the Turkish leader to be \"cordial and generally responsive to my requests\".\n\n\"But whenever I listened to him speak, his tall frame slightly stooped, his voice a forceful staccato that rose an octave in response to various grievances or perceived slights. I got the strong impression that his commitment to democracy and the rule of law might last only as long as it preserved his own power.\"\n\nThe former Indian prime minister is described as having been \"wise, thoughtful, and scrupulously honest\" and the \"chief architect of India's economic transformation\". Mr Singh was a \"self-effacing technocrat who'd won the people's trust not by appealing to their passions but bringing about higher living standards and maintaining a well-earned reputation for not being corrupt\", Mr Obama observes.\n\nBarack Obama met Václav Klaus (c) and the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague in 2010\n\nMr Obama was an admirer of Václav Havel - the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution - but found his successor Václav Klaus more troubling. Mr Obama writes that he feared the Eurosceptic president signalled a rise of right-wing populism across Europe and embodied \"how the economic crisis [of 2008-9] was causing an uptick in nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and scepticism about [European] integration\". He added: \"The hopeful tide of democratisation, liberalisation, and integration that had swept the globe after the end of the Cold War was beginning to recede.\"\n\nA Promised Land is the first volume of Barack Obama's planned two-part memoir", "Coronavirus infection rates are levelling off in England and Scotland and decreasing in Wales and Northern Ireland, latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nIt shows rates in school-age children are still rising while falling in young adults.\n\nThe R number for the UK continues to fall and is now between 1 and 1.1.\n\nBut that doesn't yet reflect the impact of the second lockdown in England, introduced on 5 November.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers, Sage, say the epidemic in the north-west of England is now shrinking, although infection levels in the region still remain high.\n\nThe ONS survey, which covers the week to 14 November, tests people in thousands of households across the UK, whether they have symptoms or not. It does not include people in hospitals or care homes.\n\nThis equates to nearly 39,000 infections a day in England, down from 50,000 the previous week.\n\nBut the picture across England's regions is mixed - rates of infections are rising in London and the south-east while coming down in the north and Midlands, the ONS says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nThe highest levels of infection, meanwhile, are still in Yorkshire and the north-west.\n\nIn Wales, infection rates appear to have decreased over the past two weeks after peaking around the end of October.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, they have been going down for four weeks. In Scotland, infection rates are now stabilising after rising through most of October.\n\nAmong school-age children in England, the percentage testing positive for Covid-19 may be rising slowly while levelling off in older teenagers, young adults and the over-25s - but the ONS says the sample size is small and there is uncertainty over the estimates.\n\nThe ONS estimate of infections is usually higher than the daily lab-confirmed cases announced by the government and is thought to provide a more accurate picture of the epidemic.\n\nWhile the government figures are based on people with symptoms requesting a test, the ONS estimates are based on swab tests on everyone in a household.\n\nOn Friday, 20,252 new positive tests were reported in the UK through the government system - down nearly 7,000 on a week ago. There have been more than 500 deaths reported every day - within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19 - for the last four days.\n\nThe Covid symptom app offers another estimate. It reports around 34,000 new cases of Covid in the UK in the two weeks up to 15 November, down slightly on the previous week.\n\nThis is based on one million people reporting positive swab tests via the app.\n\nThe official R number, which estimates how many people on average one infected person passes the virus onto, is edging closer to 1. The current restrictions in place around the UK are aiming to push the R below 1, which would mean the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nAfter promising results from scientists developing vaccines against Covid-19 recently, the UK nations are preparing to roll-out a vaccine to a small number of people in some priority groups in December with many more receiving a jab next year.\n\nPfizer, along with its partner BioNTech, has filed for emergency authorisation of its Covid vaccine in the US.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online news and lifestyle site Buzzfeed is taking over HuffPost in a deal that brings together two of the most high-profile digital media firms.\n\nSeller Verizon Media will become a minority shareholder in Buzzfeed as part of the deal and invest in the combined company.\n\nThe two firms will also join up for advertising and sharing content, a partnership they said would \"create new revenue opportunities\".\n\nThe price was not disclosed.\n\nBuzzfeed chief executive Jonah Peretti will lead the combined business. He co-founded HuffPost, formerly known as the Huffington Post, in 2005 with publisher Arianna Huffington and started Buzzfeed a year later.\n\nHuffPost rose to prominence during the George W Bush presidency as a site for liberal bloggers, many of whom contributed for free.\n\nBuzzfeed made its name creating content like listicles and quizzes, which drew young audiences. It also brought on reporters for its news site.\n\nBut digital media firms have struggled to draw online advertising dollars away from tech giants such as Facebook and Google. In recent years, Buzzfeed and HuffPost have both shed staff. In May, Buzzfeed closed its newsrooms in the UK and Australia and slashed staff pay.\n\nMr Peretti said the new deal would increase Buzzfeed's heft, by adding HuffPost readers to its audience and allowing it to tap into Verizon's ad network.\n\nHuffPost is expected to remain a standalone brand, alongside other Buzzfeed sites, including Tasty and Buzzfeed News.\n\nA spokeswoman for Buzzfeed declined to comment on the possibility of job losses triggered by the tie-up.\n\nVerizon Media is part of a US telecom giant, which is known primarily for its pay-TV and mobile phone service. It acquired HuffPost in 2015 when it bought AOL for $4.4bn (£3.32bn), later combining it with Yahoo.\n\nJust a few years later, it wrote down the value of the properties by nearly $5bn.\n\n\"While considering opportunities to work together, naturally, Jonah and I also discussed the property he co-founded, HuffPost,\" said Verizon Media boss Guru Gowrappan.\n\n\"We quickly realised BuzzFeed's strategy would complement HuffPost's roadmap, injecting it with new energy and growing the brand into the future.\n\n\"We are deeply invested in the continued success of HuffPost and I couldn't think of a better partner to take HuffPost to the next level.\"\n\nA few years ago companies like BuzzFeed and HuffPost were growing fast.\n\nThe business model was simple. Produce viral content aimed at younger, online savvy audiences and cash in on online advertising revenue.\n\nThat hasn't been as lucrative as they would have hoped.\n\nAds on digital news stories can actually be quite a clunky way to advertise - less focussed than many advertisers would like.\n\nSo Facebook and Google, which offer incredibly bespoke targeting, mop up a massive percentage of online advertising. More than half of all the money spent on online advertising is with these two companies.\n\nMany smaller digital media companies were laying off staff even before the pandemic. Covid-19 has inflamed these problems. People, stuck at home, are clicking more, but advertisers have been cautious.\n\nThat's left companies that were seen as revolutionary only a few years ago trying to work out how to survive.\n\nThis takeover should be seen in this context - the latest attempt to find a better way of making digital media work financially.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock: \"We will be ready to start vaccination next month\"\n\nThe NHS is setting up coronavirus vaccination centres across the UK in preparation for any jab being approved, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nPeople will be vaccinated at sites around the country, as well as in hospitals and by GPs in the community.\n\nThe government has also officially asked the medical regulator to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nMr Hancock said if the regulator approved it, vaccination could start next month.\n\nBut the bulk of the vaccination rollout would be in the new year, he added.\n\nIt comes as another 20,252 confirmed Covid cases were announced by the government on Friday, as well as a further 511 deaths.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"The NHS is in the process of establishing vaccination centres across the country that can manage the logistical challenge of needing to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at -70C.\n\n\"In addition it is establishing vaccination hubs in hospitals for NHS staff.\n\n\"These two routes are likely to comprise the bulk of the campaign this side of the new year. Then there will be a community rollout involving GPs and pharmacists.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus vaccine: How close are you to getting one?\n\nVaccination centres could be set up in places like sports halls, and earlier this week it was confirmed that a sports arena in Derby had been earmarked to be used.\n\nOn the question of when people could get vaccinated, Mr Hancock said: \"I know everyone wants to know about the timing and the speed of the rollout. That will depend on the speed at which the vaccines can be manufactured.\n\n\"We know that the manufacturing process for all vaccines is difficult and uncertain so I've asked the NHS to be ready to deploy at the speed at which the vaccine can be produced.\n\n\"If, and it still is an if, if the regulator approves a vaccine, we will be ready to start the vaccination next month with the bulk of the rollout in the new year. We're heading in the right direction but there is still a long way to go.\"\n\nMr Hancock also confirmed the government had formally asked the independent medical regulator - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nHe said the UK government had been given the \"confidence\" to begin the process, after the vaccine-makers applied for approval in the US.\n\nThree vaccines - Pfizer/BioNTech, Sputnik and Moderna - have already reported good early results from the final stages of testing, called phase-three trials.\n\nThe first breakthrough came from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which published data first and showed it protected 94% of adults over 65.\n\nAnother vaccine, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, has shown positive results at an earlier stage, phase two.\n\nThe UK government has ordered more doses of the Oxford vaccine than any other (100 million doses) - but has also ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and five million of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe NHS Confederation, which represents NHS bosses, said the vaccine offered \"a glimmer of hope but it won't save the NHS this Christmas\".\n\n\"When the national restrictions are lifted in two weeks' time, life cannot go back to normal and they will have to be replaced with measures that protect the NHS from becoming overwhelmed,\" it said.\n\nAsked about Christmas and whether Covid restrictions could be relaxed, Mr Hancock said the government was still working to decide what should happen after England's lockdown ends on 2 December.\n\n\"It's still too early to tell, although we can see from the data out in the last couple of days, and also from the ONS survey out today, that this is clearly flattening,\" he said. \"We're clearly near the peak of this second increase and the second wave.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis also said it appeared the number of hospital patients with coronavirus had been \"levelling off\" in the last few days.\n\nBut he added: \"That is just a few days' data and it's important not to read too much into it yet.\"\n\nIt comes as the government's group of scientific advisers said the R rate - the number of people on average that one infected person passes the virus onto - had dropped to between 1 and 1.1 for the UK as a whole.\n\nMr Hancock also urged people aged 50 and over to get a flu jab.\n\nThirty million people are being offered a flu jab in England's largest flu-immunisation scheme to date. People aged 50 to 64 will be eligible for the vaccine from 1 December.", "Tougher penalties agreed by the NI Executive for breaches of Covid restrictions are not yet law due to a delay in printing enforcement notices.\n\nThe executive agreed on 8 October to raise the minimum fine to £200, and fines on conviction up to £10,000.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long said the regulations \"should be laid shortly\" in the assembly to become law.\n\nA total of 268 fines and warnings have been issued in NI during the past seven days for breaches of Covid regulations.\n\nMore than 3,000 fines and warnings have been given out by police since March, according to the PSNI.\n\nAt present, fixed penalty notices start at £60, but can rise to £960 for repeat offenders.\n\nOn Monday, police said 1,775 fixed penalty notices have been handed out, an increase of 177 since 26 October.\n\nTwo further £1,000 fines for failure to self-isolate were given out, taking the total issued by police to 47.\n\nThe justice minister was asked for a timeframe for the tougher penalties by DUP assembly member Gary Middleton on Monday.\n\nMrs Long said the regulations will not be laid in the assembly until the police are ready to enforce them\n\nMr Middleton said they were \"of utmost importance\" to suppress the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We also want to ensure that we can get our economy back open again, so enforcement and penalties are very important,\" he said.\n\nMrs Long said the regulations will not be laid in the assembly until the police are ready to enforce them, describing delays in printing enforcement notices.\n\n\"It is important that we do so as quickly as possible, however the timing of this will unfortunately be led largely by the time it will take for the PSNI to be able to police the new enforcement notices,\" she told MLAs during justice minister questions.\n\nThe PSNI said 652 officers or members of staff absent due to Covid-19\n\n\"There have been some issues around delays in that because of the pressure on the bespoke printing that is required for those enforcement notices.\n\n\"However, as soon as those enforcement notices are ready to be able to be rolled out across the police service, we have the regulations ready to be laid in the chamber.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said that after the penalties were announced on 8 October there followed a drafting process at the assembly.\n\n\"When the above process was completed, the police service was able to confirm the design for the new penalty notices and place the order with suppliers,\" he said.\n\n\"The tickets are produced by a specialist printer within a defined production and delivery schedule and we anticipate delivery in the near future.\n\n\"All partners including the Department of Justice and the Executive Office have been kept fully informed of the timeframes involved.\"\n\nIn October, ministers agreed to replace the £60 fixed penalty notice which could increase on each detection with a single tariff of £200.\n\nThree other offences will be punishable on conviction by a fine of up to £10,000, or attract a fixed penalty notice starting at £1,000 and going up to a maximum of £10,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Service NI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Monday, police revealed there have been 1,115 Community Resolution Notices (CRN) issued since March, 40 of those given out in the past week.\n\nCRNs are not Covid-specific notices but can be issued to anyone over the age of 10. They are designed to act as warnings and do not incur any fines.\n\nThe latest figures also show that 82 commercial premises and 362 private dwellings were issued prohibition notices by police. 449 have been handed out in total.\n\nThe PSNI has also said that there are currently 652 officers or members of staff absent due to Covid-19, 570 of whom are self-isolating.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nGareth Bale's first goal since re-signing for Tottenham helped his side beat Brighton to go second in the Premier League table.\n\nIn an action-packed game, Harry Kane put Spurs ahead from the penalty spot, his 149th Premier League goal, after a video assistant referee check deemed Adam Lallana had fouled the England captain.\n\nTariq Lamptey scored a controversial equaliser, the exciting 20-year-old sweeping home after Solly March appeared to foul Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the build-up.\n\nReferee Graham Scott consulted the pitchside monitor before allowing the goal to stand, much to Tottenham's disbelief, before substitute Bale had the final say.\n\nThe Wales forward powered home a cross by Sergio Reguilon past debutant Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez, his first Spurs goal since May 2013.\n\nBale celebrated his first Spurs goal in seven years and 166 days as though he had won the Champions League again, wheeling away to celebrate with his jubilant team-mates.\n\nJose Mourinho turned the clock back in an attempt to get his Tottenham tenure moving into the future when he brought Bale back to the club he left in 2013 for Real Madrid.\n\nBale was derided in Spain as more golfer than footballer after being marginalised by coach Zinedine Zidane but he played a key role as Spurs climbed two points behind leaders Liverpool.\n\nMourinho demanded a reaction following his side's surprise Europa League defeat at Royal Antwerp on Thursday, a game in which he made four changes at half-time.\n\nHe got one although his side were made to battle hard against Brighton, who cancelled out Kane's opener in highly contentious circumstances before Bale stole the headlines.\n\nErik Lamela hit the post and Kane missed a great chance from close range to score his landmark 150th top-flight goal, yet this was not vintage Spurs.\n\nBut for the second successive league game they dug deep to come away with three points.\n\nBrighton played without a recognised striker, with leading scorer Neal Maupay left out of the 18.\n\nIn addition, the visitors gave a debut to keeper Sanchez, whose last competitive match was against Rotherham United for Rochdale in League One last season.\n\nBut Graham Potter's side played some good football and in Lamptey, who was a bundle of energy, they have one of the most exceptional young talents in the Premier League.\n\nHis first career goal came from a pass by Pascal Gross, who has now assisted 16 Premier League goals for Brighton, double that of any other player at the club.\n\nThe worry for Potter is his side are not winning enough games.\n\nDespite enjoying more possession than Spurs, it is now one victory in seven league matches.\n\n'Tottenham fans love Gareth' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"It wasn't a surprise because I knew Brighton were a very good team with a very good coach. They created lots of difficulties but we had a very good reaction after they equalised.\"\n\nOn Brighton's controversial equaliser: \"I have to try and stay away from this. I don't know what to say.\"\n\nOn Gareth Bale's winner: \"We were in need of a goal and I've been telling you for a couple of weeks that Bale is improving. I know he doesn't have 90 minutes of Premier League in his legs.\n\n\"The good thing with him is he is very intelligent, very experienced and very Tottenham. He understands.\n\n\"We are using the Europa League matches to improve his condition and today he scored a winning goal, which is a great feeling for the team. It's also a great feeling for the fans because Tottenham fans love Gareth.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"There is a little bit of a talking point about our penalty decision. It is another conversation around refereeing and VAR, which I am not too interested in.\n\n\"I can't control what they do, when I saw them live I wasn't sure about Harry Kane's one. I'd rather focus on our performance, it was really, really good.\n\n\"I'm disappointed with the result, but really pleased with the positives. We pushed Tottenham hard and are disappointed to come away with nothing.\"\n• None Harry Kane has moved into the top-10 all-time Premier League goals list, notching his 149th strike to move level with Les Ferdinand.\n• None Only the bottom three sides have lost more games in the Premier League this season than Brighton (four).\n• None Tottenham (14 points) end the day as high as second in the Premier League table for the first time since February 2019 under Mauricio Pochettino.\n• None Of the 12 players to have taken at least 25 Premier League penalties, only Matt Le Tissier (96%) and Thierry Henry (92%) have a higher penalty conversion rate than Harry Kane (88%, 22/25).\n\nTottenham are off to Bulgaria to face Ludogorets in the Europa League on Thursday (17:55 GMT), while Brighton are back in action on Friday at home to Burnley in the Premier League (17:30 GMT).\n• None Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Robert Sánchez tries a through ball, but Dan Burn is caught offside.\n• None Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gareth Bale.\n• None Attempt saved. Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Alexis Mac Allister replaces Tariq Lamptey because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 1. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sergio Reguilón with a cross.\n• None Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box. Assisted by Gareth Bale following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "The many ways the body's immune system responds to Sars-CoV2 are still being discovered\n\nScientists have found evidence of immune cells responding to Covid-19 six months after people were infected.\n\nIn a study of 100 people with the virus, those with symptoms had a much higher T-cell reaction.\n\nBut it is still not clear whether this leads to better protection against re-infection.\n\nThe UK research team says the findings are \"just one piece of the puzzle\" on immunity and there is still a lot to learn.\n\nThe key question is whether being infected once with coronavirus can protect the body against being infected again and, if so, how long this immunity could last.\n\nScientists know that antibodies are made by the body from around 10 days after infection, but appear to dwindle over time. They stick to the virus in order to stop it.\n\nThey have also discovered that a kind of immune cell, called a T-cell, attacks the cells infected with the virus. This is known as the cellular immune response and could also be key.\n\nThis study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal, suggests T-cells could play the more important role.\n\nThe research was carried out by the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium, involving the University of Birmingham, the NIHR Manchester clinical research facility and Public Health England.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\n\"Early results show that T-cell responses may outlast the initial antibody response, which could have a significant impact on Covid vaccine development and immunity research,\" said Dr Shamez Ladhani, study author and consultant epidemiologist at Public Health England.\n\nProf Paul Moss, from the University of Birmingham, said the study was the first in the world \"to show robust cellular immunity remains at six months after infection\".\n\nThis was based on samples taken from 23 male and 77 female healthcare workers who had been infected with coronavirus in March or April, and had either mild to moderate symptoms or were asymptomatic. None of them were ill enough to be admitted to hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe researchers say it is possible that a good T-cell response might provide people who had symptoms with more protection against being infected again.\n\nBut it could also be that asymptomatic people are simply able to fight off the virus without needing to build up a large immune response.\n\nThey said it was important to check for a T-cell response in trials of vaccines.\n\n\"We now need more research to find out if symptomatic individuals are better protected against re-infection in the future,\" Prof Moss said.\n\nProf Arne Akbar, president of the British Society for Immunology, called the study \"a step forward in our understanding of immunity against SARS-CoV-2\".\n\n\"By analysing the contribution of T-cells to immunity after infection, we are moving closer to discerning a clearer picture of the complex question of individual protection after infection,\" he said.\n• None Can you become immune to coronavirus?", "One of Barry McGuigan's sons has defended his family's management of boxer Carl Frampton during the nine years they worked together.\n\nBlain McGuigan said the fighter was paid a lot of money and was looked after very well.\n\nMr McGuigan, 37, a boxing promoter and part-time musician, testified in the court case involving his father and Mr Frampton.\n\n\"We always wanted Carl to get the best money possible,\" he said.\n\nMr McGuigan told the High Court that before the relationship turned sour, he regarded Mr Frampton as a friend.\n\n\"We worked very well together… close-knit… worked hard,\" he said.\n\nMonday was the 16th day of hearings in the case at the High Court in Belfast.\n\nMr Frampton is suing Barry McGuigan and Cyclone Promotions over alleged unpaid earnings.\n\nMr Frampton, on the other hand, has been accused of a breach of contract. Both men deny any wrongdoing.\n\nTheir successful partnership broke down in August 2017.\n\nBarry McGuigan has three sons who all work in the boxing business - Jake, Shane and Blain, the eldest.\n\nOne of the issues in the case is how much Mr Frampton was paid during the time he worked with the McGuigans from 2009 to 2017.\n\nBlain McGuigan told the court that the boxer was paid well and was always consulted about financial matters.\n\n\"Carl was always kept informed,\" he said.\n\n\"My dad insisted on him having the ability to check up on anything.\"\n\nBlain McGuigan told the court Carl Frampton was paid well and was always consulted about financial matters\n\nMr McGuigan was asked about a Frampton fight in New York in 2016 which was attended by a number of celebrities including the golfer Rory McIlroy.\n\nAn issue was raised earlier in the case about whether or not celebrities were given free tickets for major fights or asked to pay for them.\n\nWhen this was put to Mr McGuigan, he said: \"I remember Rory didn't pay for his individual ticket.\"\n\nHowever, he said the golfer may have paid for his friends and security team to attend the fight.\n\n\"That's really standard. Big-time celebrities would pay for additional tickets,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked for his view on Mr Frampton's new management company MTK Global, Mr McGuigan said: \"I don't think they're a good influence around sport.\"\n\nThe case will continue on Tuesday when Blain McGuigan is scheduled to face cross-examination.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Small-group tuition has been shown to boost pupil attainment\n\nDisadvantaged pupils in England could begin focused tuition as early as next week, as booking opens for the new National Tutoring Programme.\n\nThe government says there is clear evidence that poor pupils lost out most when schools were closed. This scheme aims to close the learning gap.\n\n\"This is about levelling up those opportunities,\" said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBut education unions say tuition should be delivered by qualified teachers.\n\nThe 32 organisations selected to deliver the programme are braced for a flood of tuition bookings for pupils from poorer families aged five to 16.\n\nThe tutoring will be subsidised by 75% and some sessions could cost schools as little as £50 for a block of 15, say the organisers.\n\nHow much tuition will the funding deliver?\n\nThe scheme was designed by a group of five independent charities and is funded from part of the government's £350m allocation to tutoring through the £1bn coronavirus catch-up package.\n\n\"We need to do everything in our power to help pupils make up for any lost time, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds,\" said Mr Williamson.\n\n\"Tutoring provides tailored teaching support to individual pupils and can be transformational in boosting academic progress.\n\n\"This is about levelling up those opportunities across the country.\"\n\nSir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation which selected the organisations providing the tuition, said he was delighted schools would have access to high-quality tutoring.\n\n\"For too long, low income pupils have not been able to afford tutoring.\n\n\"This is an important step in enabling them to access it.\"\n\nHowever, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, while welcoming the programme said it was \"an incredibly complicated way of delivering catch-up support when it would have been far simpler and quicker for the government to have given this funding directly to schools alongside other catch-up money\".\n\n\"There is good evidence that small group tuition can be extremely beneficial, but this funding could have been used to support schools in delivering this through their teaching staff who already know their pupils, rather than this system in which schools buy in subsidised tuition from external agencies,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Morris, assistant general secretary of the National Education Union, called the NTP \"a cut-price scheme which doesn't require qualified teacher status and pays any qualified teachers who do sign up far less than they should be earning\".\n\nWhile Nick Brook, deputy general secretary of school leaders union NAHT said the scheme was not enough to help all pupils in need.\n\n\"The scope of the NTP this year appears to be capped at 250,000 pupils - a significant number but still a fraction of the 1.4 million children in receipt of free school meals.\"\n\nNick Bent and Abigail Shapiro who co-founded the Tutor Trust which is one of the organisations selected and already delivers affordable tuition to schools in Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and Liverpool said the programme \"puts rocket boosters under our mission of 'transforming lives through tutoring' across the North\".\n\nHowever, they too suggested it could go further: \"We are doing all we can to support teachers and to help every child achieve their potential, despite family disadvantage or the impact of Covid.\"\n\n\"As an active member of the Fair Education Alliance, we campaigned for the National Tutoring Programme and we welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement in June.\n\n\"Now, we urge Mr Johnson to follow the logic of the evidence and of his own commitment to 'levelling up', and to fund the NTP for a further two years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: First minister faces 'dilemma' over lockdown decision\n\nThe furlough scheme will be available if there is a Covid-19 lockdown in Scotland in the future, the prime minister has suggested.\n\nBoris Johnson announced an extension of the job support scheme to 2 December as tough measures were imposed in England.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said decisions on any Scottish lockdown may depend on when this funding would be available.\n\nMr Johnson has now told MPs that the furlough scheme would \"continue to be available wherever it is needed\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be \"very welcome\" - but added she was \"seeking urgent confirmation from the Treasury that it will be exactly as we asked for\".\n\nA new five-level system of coronavirus restrictions came into force in Scotland on Monday.\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"ideally\" want to assess the impact of the latest measures before deciding whether it would be necessary to impose harsher measures.\n\nShe said there were \"some encouraging signs\" that restrictions were having an impact in Scotland, with the rate of increase in cases \"slowing down\".\n\nBoris Johnson was questioned on the issue in the Commons\n\nHowever, she said the position remained \"very fragile\" - and that she faced a \"dilemma\" about imposing stricter measures in the short-term if there was a time limit on the furlough scheme.\n\nShe said: \"I made clear last week that we might yet have to go further and we can't rule out a move to level four for all parts of the country.\n\n\"While that decision would never be easy, there is no doubt that the availability of a more extensive furlough scheme would make it slightly less difficult, because workers would have more of their wages paid.\n\n\"The decision we have to weigh up is should we take the opportunity of more generous financial support to step harder on the brakes now, to drive down infections.\"\n\nShe added: \"It cannot be right that the only time that additional financial support is made available is when the south of England needs to go into a lockdown. That just isn't fair given the situation we are dealing with.\"\n\nThe UK-wide job support scheme - which covers up to 80% of workers wages' and has supported hundreds of thousands of jobs north of the border - was extended to 2 December when Mr Johnson announced the four-week lockdown in England.\n\nHowever, the UK's devolved administrations complained that this \"time limited\" extension only covered the period when England is under enhanced restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a \"firebreak\" lockdown since 23 October, and First Minister Mark Drakeford said requests to boost wage subsidies there had been repeatedly turned down.\n\nCalls for more flexibility over furlough were backed by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who said in a speech on Monday morning that \"this has to be cleared up, now\".\n\nHe said: \"It cannot be that furlough is not affordable when Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or parts of Northern England need to go into lockdown - but when all of England goes into lockdown, the taps are turned on.\n\n\"We all hope that by following the guidance and doing the right thing, a second Scottish lockdown will not be necessary.\n\n\"But if it is, the UK government must treat Scotland the same way as England.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRepeatedly questioned about the matter in the Commons, Mr Johnson said that the job support scheme applied across the UK.\n\nHe initially refused to be drawn about whether this could continue to be the case beyond December, should local lockdowns be needed in other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever, he then appeared to confirm that this would be the case when asked by Mr Ross to \"explain why it seems an English job is more important than a Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish one\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"If other parts of the UK decide to go into measures which require the furlough scheme then of course that is available to them - that applies not just now but in the future.\"\n\nPressed on the question by SNP MP Pete Wishart, he added: \"The furlough scheme will continue to be available wherever it is needed.\"", "A three-year-old girl has been pulled out alive after being trapped under rubble for 65 hours following a powerful earthquake in Turkey.\n\nThe earthquake on Friday has killed at least 85 people, with more still missing.\n\nDehydrated but without serious injuries, the girl clung to a rescue worker's thumb as she was carried to safety.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "All adult and children's grassroots football is to be suspended in England during the national Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nRestrictions will run from Thursday, 5 November until Wednesday, 2 December.\n\nNo men's teams in leagues below National Leagues North or South will be able to train or play and women's competitions below the second-tier Championship are also suspended.\n\nThe restrictions also apply to all youth and indoor teams, but lower-league sides can play in the FA Cup.\n\n'Non-elite' teams in this weekend's FA Cup first round will play and train under 'elite' conditions for as long as they remain in the competition.\n\nHowever, BBC Sport understands the Women's FA Cup will be paused during lockdown, while the Football Association has yet to make an announcement on their plans for the FA Trophy, FA Vase and FA Youth Cup.\n\n\"Our aim is to ensure that the 2020-21 season is completed at these levels and will liaise with the relevant leagues in the NLS [National League System] and WFP [Women's Football Pyramid] and the County Football Associations to provide support and establish appropriate options to do so if required,\" an FA statement read.\n• None FA Cup ties to go ahead, amateur golf and tennis halted\n\n\"Re-starting football at these levels has taken substantial determination and commitment from stakeholders across the game and we would like to thank everyone for their vital contributions.\n\n\"However, health and wellbeing remain the priority, so it is extremely important that clubs, players, coaches, match officials, league officials, volunteers, parents, carers and facility providers adhere to the UK Government's new national Covid-19 restrictions during this period.\"\n\nThere were calls for youth sport to be exempt when the new restrictions come into effect on Thursday.\n\nBut Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden confirmed it would only be permitted in school.\n\n\"Unfortunately we need to pause grassroots sport outside school to reduce the transmission risk from households mixing,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As soon as we can resume this, we will.\"\n\nElite sport can continue behind closed doors during the lockdown.\n\nFormer Wales midfielder Robbie Savage, who coaches a junior team, criticised the decision to suspend children's sport in a series of tweets.\n\nQuoting Dowden's tweet, he said: \"Have you or any of your senior government officials been to a grassroots game since lockdown? Do you have any idea what it's like for thousands of grassroots volunteers? Do you know the impact of this decision on youngsters' mental and physical wellbeing?\"\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard added: \"I'm a massive advocate for children to play all sorts of sports, but at unprecedented times, we are reliant on the government and scientists. If it can be done if a safe way, I think for physical and mental health, we must strive to do it as much as we can.\n\n\"It's a tough time and I'm a father, so I do worry. I don't know all the data, but as a parent, if you can remain active and encourage your children to be active in this tough time, it's a great thing to do.\n\n\"I would really encourage us to find a way to keep children active, but it has to be in a safe way so we don't see long term issues coming back from it later in these youngsters' lives.\"\n\nYouth Sports Trust chief executive Ali Oliver earlier told BBC Sport that under a quarter of secondary schools do not offer physical education.\n\n\"To lose some grassroots clubs will leave us with a legacy of a generation who are inactive and unable to find a way into sport,\" she said.\n\nFormer Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee chair Damian Collins had written to Dowden asking the government to allow youth sport to continue in England after 5 November.\n\nHe called on the government to extend the definition of elite sport to include academy players at Premier League clubs and those in development centres such as the England Rugby developing player programme and Sport England's talented athlete scholarship scheme.\n\n\"Young people will currently be allowed to continue with sport at school, and we believe that the risks to the spread of the coronavirus from outdoor grassroots youth sport would be minimal,\" he said, in a letter also signed by former sports ministers Tracey Crouch and Helen Grant.\n\n\"There would, however, be clear and lasting benefits for these young people if the government could support this.\"\n\nLeisure centres and gyms will close, as will other indoor and outdoor leisure facilities.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that there would be no exemptions.\n\nBritish Cycling, England Athletics and British Triathlon have joined together to write to Dowden to ask that small group rides and runs, and coaching sessions for young people and those with disabilities, are allowed to continue.\n\nThe three said that while they understood the government's challenges, the new rules would have the worst impact on those who need additional support to enable them to be active.\n\n\"We know that sport must play its part in this national effort, and we fully accept that as governing bodies we must play our part while the rest of the country is being asked to make such enormous sacrifices in their own lives,\" said a statement.\n\n\"However, we also believe that we have a duty to enable people to lead healthy, active lives during this period of extreme mental toil - particularly when, as we have demonstrated over the course of this year, it can be done safely.\"\n\nThe government's refusal to grant exemptions to tennis, golf, gyms and swimming pools is proving among the most contentious elements of the second national lockdown.\n\nBut the decision to suspend youth sport is especially controversial.\n\nThe government insists it is necessary to reduce the risk of transmission through the mixing of households. But for many involved in junior grassroots teams, it is a disproportionate and unnecessary measure that risks doing more harm than good, damaging youngsters' physical and mental health at a time when the amount of PE and organised sport provided in many schools has already decreased as a result of the pandemic.\n\nLast month the Youth Sport Trust found that a fifth of secondary schools and a sixth of primary schools had cut PE since the first lockdown, and half would be delivering less extracurricular sport in the autumn term.\n\nGiven this trend - and the fact it is harder for young people to exercise outside school hours in the winter months - there will be mounting pressure on ministers to reconsider - and if not, to make the return of youth sport next month a priority, even if the lockdown extends beyond that.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nTennis and golf officials are among those urging the government to make their sports exempt from new lockdown rules for England.\n\nIt follows Saturday's announcement of a new four-week lockdown from Thursday until 2 December to combat rising Covid-19 numbers.\n\nNine FA Cup first-round ties involving teams from 'non-elite' leagues are set to to ahead from 6-9 November.\n\nBut the Football Association has said it is awaiting further information on how the wider grassroots game may be affected.\n\n\"Yet again sport and physical wellbeing is an afterthought,\" Wirral South MP McGovern tweeted. .\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservative chairman of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee called for exemptions.\n\n\"Today I was in touch with the minister for sport to request that the blanket ban on sports like tennis and golf be lifted,\" said Solihull MP Julian Knight.\n\n\"Government ought to allow the mixing of one other household in these socially distanced sports.\"\n\nMcGovern posted her message in response after the FA Women's National League (FAWNL) said it was waiting on guidance about what the new restrictions meant for its competition.\n\n\"The [DCMS] need to answer questions ASAP unless they want more sports to face collapse,\" she added.\n\n\"And we need to see a cross-government effort on physical and mental wellbeing.\"\n• None English lockdown may last beyond 2 Dec, says Michael Gove\n\nThe Premier League and other elite sports have been told they can continue behind closed doors.\n\nIt is not exactly clear how grassroots and amateur sport will be affected.\n\n\"We understand people will have a lot of questions and DCMS officials and ministers will be working through these and detailed implications with sectors over the coming days,\" said Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary.\n\nMany facilities, including gyms and pools, must close, along with other indoor and outdoor leisure centres.\n\nEngland Hockey says it is disappointed the new measures will mean no club or community hockey for at least a month.\n\nUnder the new restrictions:\n• None People are being told to stay at home unless they have a specific reason to leave, such as education and work that cannot be done from home.\n• None People are allowed to exercise outdoors alone, with their household or with one other person.\n\nThe Sports and Recreation Alliance, which represents UK national sports organisations including the FA and Rugby Football Union along with community sport, has warned the new measures may \"prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a number of these clubs\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Wainwright said: \"The closure of our facilities will once again place a financial burden on thousands of community clubs who are already reeling from the initial lockdown and we fear that many may never reopen their doors without a comprehensive sports recovery fund provided by government.\"\n\nThe Sport for Development Coalition backed calls for more funding from the government as many sporting clubs, charities and local organisations \"support mental wellbeing, contribute to tackling social isolation, facilitate community connections and engage young people excluded from education and employment\".\n\nSport England said there were \"difficult days ahead for many in our sector\" but that \"it is vital we do everything we can to continue to support people to keep active within what is permitted\".\n\nIt added: \"Sport England already has several live funding packages available to help support grassroots clubs and organisations who have lost vital income this year as well as help them enable people to be active within the rules and we're working hard with officials in government to help make wider financial support available.\"\n\nSwimming pools will also have to close but Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson says she will be \"working in partnership with other indoor sports to lobby government\", with meetings scheduled for Monday.\n\nShe added: \"I am championing our clubs and the health benefits of swimming to the nation as this is a key message to government.\"\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association says that, while indoor tennis will be halted, it will \"make a case\" to the government for outdoor tennis between two individuals from different households to be allowed in line with restrictions on exercise, adding that tennis is a \"socially distanced sport with the net acting as a natural barrier\".\n\nPeople are being asked by the LTA to lobby their local MPs for tennis courts to stay open, allowing for singles and one-to-one coaching, and use by same households.\n\nGolf courses and driving ranges have also been told to close but England Golf chief executive Jeremy Tomlinson says it will \"respectfully challenge the government's rationale\" over the decision.\n\n\"It is our sincere belief that it is now counter-productive to shut down a healthy pursuit which naturally lends itself to social distancing and is played in a Covid-secure manner in the open air,\" said Tomlinson in a letter of the England Golf website.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to keep gyms and leisure centres open during the new lockdown.\n\nGrey-Thompson wants the facilities to stay open because of the \"essential role they play in both our fight and recovery from this virus\".\n\nThe major professional governing bodies will be relieved that, unlike in the spring during the first national lockdown, action can at least continue behind closed doors, but hopes of a quick return of spectators eight months after turnstiles closed have suffered a major setback.\n\nThe closure of gyms, pools and indoor sports facilities just a few months after they introduced strict hygiene and safety protocols enabling them to re-open, despite data showing comparatively low risk of transmission, will reinforce demands for a £1.5bn recovery fund for the sports sector, similar to the bail-out given to the culture and arts industry earlier this year.\n\nThe fear is that these latest restrictions could lead to thousands of job losses, cause many facilities to close, and adversely affect physical and mental health, just when it is needed most to help the country get through this crisis.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "The risk to UK consumers was \"very low\" according to the Food Standards Agency\n\nThirteen thousand birds are to be culled at farm in Cheshire after avian flu was confirmed there.\n\nThe H5N8 strain of bird flu was detected at a broiler breeders premises in Frodsham, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nIt said it was not related to the H5N2 strain found at a small farm near Deal in Kent earlier.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the risk to public health was \"very low\".\n\nAll 13,000 birds at the farm, which produces hatching eggs, will be culled, said Defra.\n\nFurther testing is under way to determine if it is a highly pathogenic strain and whether it is related to the virus currently circulating in Europe.\n\nThe UK's chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss, said: \"Immediate steps have been taken to limit the risk of the disease spreading.\n\n\"This includes 3km and 10km temporary control zones around the infected site.\n\n\"We are urgently looking for any evidence of disease spread associated with this farm to control and eliminate it.\"\n\nDr Gavin Dabrera from PHE said: \"There have never been any confirmed cases of H5N8 in humans and the risk to public health is considered very low.\"\n\nA Food Standards Agency spokesperson said: \"On the basis of the current scientific evidence, avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Hundreds of birds culled at farm hit by avian flu\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge contracted Covid-19 earlier this year, palace sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt is believed he tested positive in April at a similar time to his father, the Prince of Wales.\n\nAccording to the Sun newspaper, which first reported the story, Prince William, 38, kept his diagnosis private to avoid alarming the nation.\n\nKensington Palace, the office and home of Prince William, refused to comment officially.\n\nPrince William, second in line to the throne, did not tell anyone about his positive test result because \"there were important things going on and I didn't want to worry anyone\", according to the Sun.\n\nHe was treated by palace doctors and followed government guidelines by isolating at the family home Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, the paper added.\n\nBBC royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, said Prince William's condition may not have been revealed publicly at the time as they may have wanted to avoid further alarm, given the national mood.\n\n\"But the palace also tries to preserve some privacy for the Royal Family,\" our correspondent adds.\n\nPrince William reportedly carried out 14 telephone and video call engagements during April.\n\nEarlier in that month, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge video-called the children of key workers at a primary school in Burnley, Lancashire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a video call to the children of key workers at a school in Lancashire\n\nPrince Charles contracted coronavirus in March and travelled to Scotland to self-isolate for seven days after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nAt the time, the Duchess of Cornwall tested negative for the virus and self-isolated for 14 days.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, 71, later said he \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nDuring his first public engagement after recovering from coronavirus, Prince Charles said he had not fully regained his sense of taste and smell.\n\nIn April, Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe prime minister was moved to intensive care and later thanked healthcare workers for saving his life, saying it \"could have gone either way\".\n\nNews of Prince William's diagnosis comes days before England is due to enter a second national lockdown, with four-week measures to start on Thursday.\n\nThe UK recorded another 23,254 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 1,034,914.\n\nAnother 162 people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test. It brings the total number of UK deaths to 46,717.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attendees posted footage of the rave on Snapchat\n\nPolice say they were attacked as they tried to break up an illegal rave at a warehouse near Bristol.\n\nOfficers who were called to Yate at around 22:30 GMT on Saturday said up to 700 people were there.\n\nSome of the crowd began acting violently towards officers and threw objects when they were told to leave, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nThe site was cleared by Sunday afternoon after eight people had been arrested and music equipment seized.\n\nA force spokesman said when officers arrived they \"found a number of vehicles and several hundred people\" at the site.\n\n\"Roads approaching the area were closed to prevent more people reaching the site by car, but large numbers of people continued to arrive on foot from several different directions,\" he said.\n\nPolice said power was cut to the building but an alternative source was used\n\nThe warehouse was empty on Sunday afternoon\n\nThe spokesman said some people became hostile towards the police.\n\n\"Items, including lit spray cans and bottles, were thrown at police, some of whom were injured but remained on duty,\" he said.\n\nMains power was cut to the building, but an alternative source was being used the spokesman said.\n\nThe eight people arrested include a man in his 30s who was held on suspicion of being involved in organising the event.\n\nCh Insp Mark Runacres said it was a \"challenging operation\" with a \"large number of people in a confined space and several officers being assaulted\".\n\n\"Our investigations team will be involved in reviewing officers' body worn footage and other inquiries as we seek to take appropriate action against those responsible,\" he said.\n• None Why did raves become illegal?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mayors of some of the areas hardest-hit by Covid-19 have called for England's schools and colleges to close during the lockdown.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said that education institutions should close to reduce the spread of the virus more quickly.\n\nScientists have also warned Covid-19 is spreading fast in secondary schools.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said: \"We want to keep schools open.\"\n\nMr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the government was taking the necessary measures to keep schools open.\n\nHe rejected the suggestion that it would mean a longer period of lockdown because schools staying open would contribute to the continued transmission of coronavirus.\n\nInfection rates among secondary school children \"appear to be steeply increasing\", according to the latest survey by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAn estimated 2% of children in Year 7 to Year 11 tested positive for the virus in the most recent week of testing, the highest positivity rate of any age group except sixth-formers and young adults.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told the Andrew Marr Show that keeping schools open was the \"big difference\" between the new restrictions and the lockdown in spring.\n\n\"Because we have delayed the onset of this lockdown it does make keeping schools open harder,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that transmission, particularly in secondary schools, is high.\"\n\nHe said that closing schools \"may have to be revisited\" over the next four weeks if the transmission of the virus continues to rise.\n\nThe Manchester and Liverpool mayors said at a joint press conference that they wanted to see a period of two weeks' closure towards the second half of November, giving schools some time to prepare online learning.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"That would create the conditions for the biggest drop in cases that we could achieve and it would then create the conditions for some kind of Christmas for more families, because they need it right now.\"\n\nWithout this, the mayors said they feared their regions would simply be back in the restrictive tier three measures.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he supports keeping schools open, but said \"we've got to manage the risk\".\n\nThe National Education Union has called for schools and colleges to close, saying that if they stay open the restrictions will be less effective.\n\nJoint general secretary Kevin Courtney said the lockdown was \"another half measure and, without school closures as part of it, it is unlikely to have the effect that the prime minister wants\".\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken a different approach to schools during the second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, schools are due to reopen on Monday after an extended two-week half-term holiday, as part of a four-week period of additional restrictions.\n\nAnd in Wales, Years 9 and above in secondary schools will only return when the nation's \"firebreak\" lockdown ends on 9 November.\n\nBut Scotland aims to keep schools open under its five-level system of restrictions, coming into force on Monday.\n\nAre you the parent of schoolchildren? How do you feel about schools remaining open during the second lockdown? 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 get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Religious groups in England have strongly criticised the new lockdown rule banning communal worship.\n\nEngland's four-week lockdown will see most religious services banned. Funerals will still be allowed, with a maximum of 30 attending.\n\nThe Catholic Church described the ban as a cause of \"anguish\" and demanded the government gives its reasons for stopping services.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain called for an urgent review of restrictions.\n\nThe Catholic Church Bishops' Conference said communal worship had helped many during the pandemic.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, president and vice president of the association, also stressed that churches had acted responsibly and been Covid-safe.\n\n\"It is... a source of deep anguish now that the government is requiring, once again, the cessation of public communal worship,\" the bishops said in a statement.\n\n\"Whilst we understand the many difficult decisions facing the government, we have not yet seen any evidence whatsoever that would make the banning of communal worship, with all its human costs, a productive part of combating the virus.\n\n\"We ask the government to produce this evidence that justifies the cessation of acts of public worship.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday that England would be under a new lockdown from 5 November until 2 December.\n\nOther than for funerals, the only other reasons places of worship can stay open is to broadcast acts of worship, individual prayer, formal childcare, or essential services such as blood donation or food banks.\n\nCardinal Nichols and Archbishop McMahon said everyone has to make \"sustained sacrifices for months to come\" to tackle Covid.\n\nBut they added: \"In requiring this sacrifice, the government has a profound responsibility to show why it has taken particular decisions.\n\n\"Not doing so risks eroding the unity we need as we enter a most difficult period for our country.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, chairwoman of the Church of England's recovery group, said she would study the new regulations and \"seek clarification\" on how public worship would be affected.\n\nAnd John Steven, director or the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, said the new restrictions came as a \"very significant emotional blow\" for couples who had weddings planned this month.\n\nHe added: \"For people in church and other religious communities it seems a very unfair restriction - churches have put a great deal of effort into coronavirus measures and they are much safer than other settings which are still allowed to be open like secondary schools.\"\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said in a statement: \"The government's inadequate consultation and poor engagement with faith communities remain a problem as the pandemic endures.\"\n\nWhile the rules allow places of worship to remain open for individual prayer, the MCB said the distinction is \"not straightforward or practical for many mosques, compared to other faith communities\".", "Robert Fisk was best known for his coverage of the Middle East, where he began reporting from in the 1970s\n\nVeteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has died of a suspected stroke at the age of 74.\n\nHe had been admitted to St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin after falling ill at his home on Friday, and died shortly afterwards, the Irish Times reported.\n\nFisk won numerous awards for his reporting on the Middle East, starting from the 1970s.\n\nBut he also drew controversy for his sharp criticism of the US and Israel, and of Western foreign policy.\n\nCovering wars in the Balkans, Middle East and North Africa for UK newspapers over five decades, Fisk was described by the New York Times, in 2005, as \"probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain\".\n\nBorn in Maidstone, Kent in 1946, he later took Irish citizenship and had a home in Dalkey outside the capital Dublin.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins has expressed his \"great sadness\" about Fisk's death on Sunday.\n\n\"With his passing the world of journalism and informed commentary on the Middle East has lost one of its finest commentators,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by President of Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by President of Ireland\n\nAfter starting his career at the Sunday Express, Fisk moved to Belfast in 1972 to cover the Troubles as Northern Ireland correspondent for the Times. He became the paper's Middle East correspondent in 1976.\n\nBased in Beirut, he reported on the civil war in Lebanon, as well as the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq War.\n\nHe resigned from the Times in 1989 after a dispute with the owner Rupert Murdoch and moved to the Independent, where he worked for the remainder of his career.\n\nIn the 1990s he interviewed Osama Bin Laden three times for the paper. He described him as a \"shy man\" and looking \"every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend\" in their first interview in 1993.\n\nRobert Fisk was brave and controversial. He was a brilliant writer, who did his best work in wars, transporting readers to his side in some burning village. He relished making enemies, especially if they defended US or Israeli activities in the Middle East.\n\nFisk could be obsessive. He collected bits of shrapnel, often American made and fired by Israel, so he could use serial numbers to trace their origins.\n\nWhen I visited Beirut from Jerusalem in the 1990s he served me gin and tonics on his balcony overlooking the Mediterranean in a Yasser Arafat souvenir glass. Robert was old school. He poked fun at the flak jacket I brought to Lebanon from the former Yugoslavia, sniffing it to check for slivovitza plum brandy.\n\nJournalism can be a dog-eat-dog trade. Fisk's colleagues were not always kind about his work. I was an admirer, eating up his vivid reportage from Beirut when I was at school, and was awestruck when first I met him. I'll miss Robert, his guts and his appetite for the fight, even though usually he followed a warm hello with some crack about the evils of television news or the BBC.\n\nAfter the 11 September attacks plotted by Bin Laden, Fisk, an Arabic speaker, spent the next two decades covering conflicts throughout the Middle East, including in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.\n\nHe was highly regarded for his knowledge of, and deep experience in, the region, and often dismissed journalists who sat behind desks instead of venturing out into the field.\n\nBut he also drew criticism for his attacks on Western policy in the Middle East and was accused of being lenient towards the Syrian government in his reporting of the country's long and brutal civil war.\n\nArticles by Fisk about the US and Israel were often considered highly controversial. He said the Trump administration's acceptance in 2019 of Israel's annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights showed Israel had effectively annexed the US, and repeatedly accused Israel of committing war crimes against the Palestinians.\n\nIn 2011 Fisk was forced to apologise after the Independent was successfully sued by the then-Saudi interior minister over a report that alleged the minister had ordered police to shoot and kill unarmed protesters, based on a document which turned out to be fake.\n\nFisk married US journalist Lara Marlowe in 1994 but the pair divorced in 2006. He had no children.", "All payments made in error through Stormont's emergency Covid grant scheme will be recovered, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said.\n\nA £10,000 payment was sent automatically to any business in receipt of small business rates relief, but some were found to be ineligible.\n\nMrs Dodds said of the 452 payments made incorrectly, 74 have been recouped by her department.\n\nThey were repaid but the delay in returning the payments has led to the resignations of four party members.\n\nFormer Foyle MP and Irish senator Elisha McCallion and West Tyrone MLA Catherine Kelly were among those who stepped down.\n\nNo Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politicians received the payment but a landlord who rents an office to DUP MP Paul Girvan received a grant, however this has now been repaid.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster has said she supports a call for police to investigate delays in repaying Covid support payments made in error.\n\nMrs Foster told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme her party could not \"deal with a situation where tenants are taking responsibility for their landlords' actions\".\n\n\"It's not the fact that people received the money in error, it's the fact that the money hadn't been returned after seven months.\"\n\nArlene Foster said there were questions over how long it took Sinn Féin to repay the money\n\nIn a statement issued on Monday, Cinq Properties Ltd, which rents office space to Mr Girvan, confirmed it did \"receive an unsolicited £10,000 small business grant earlier this year\".\n\n\"However, it has now transpired that the company was not entitled to this grant,\" the firm said.\n\n\"Several attempts were made to repay the funds and the £10,000 was repaid to an account of the Department of Finance on Friday.\"\n\nLast week, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said the \"incorrect\" payments came to the attention of the party's leadership on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 October and were repaid on those dates.\n\nOn Friday, it emerged Gary Middleton from the DUP had asked police to carry out a criminal investigation into the delayed repayments.\n\nThe PSNI said it was considering whether a criminal investigation is required.\n\n\"I think Gary is right to report this to the police,\" Mrs Foster said on Monday.\n\n\"The money is not theirs, the money was received in error and therefore it should have been returned.\"\n\nShe added that public representatives have \"particular duty\" over public funds.\n\n\"It's up to the police, of course, whether they decide to instigate a criminal investigation but I absolutely support my party colleague in the complaint he has made.\"\n\nPayments were also sent to 52 wind turbine owners who were ineligible.\n\nAppearing in the assembly on Monday to face MLAs about the matter, Mrs Dodds defended her department's handling of the scheme.\n\nShe said ineligible payments issued amounted to less than 2% of all grants approved by the Department of the Economy back in March.\n\n\"I am content my department took the necessary and swift action to support tens of thousands of businesses and jobs under threat caused by Covid-19,\" she added.\n\n\"My department is committed to undertaking a post-scheme evaluation and will put in a place a process.\"\n\nCatherine Kelly was a signatory for an account into which a payment was made\n\n\"Payments made in error will be recovered and we will be writing to everyone that we identify as being ineligible for payment and asking them to return the money,\" insisted the minister.\n\n\"It is important that we have proper accountability for taxpayers' money and indeed particularly important at a time like this when so many businesses and individuals are suffering.\"\n\nThe controversy was first revealed by the BBC's Stephen Nolan Show last week.\n\nFollowing Ms Kelly's resignation, Sinn Féin's leader said the party's examination of the matter was now complete.\n\nMeanwhile Sinn Féin have seven days to replace Ms Kelly as MLA for West Tyrone once her resignation letter has been handed in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There's a critical role for parents to play - education minister\n\nSchools have reopened after an extended half-term break.\n\nThey closed on 19 October as part of tighter Covid-19 restrictions imposed by the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAs coronavirus cases continue to rise, extra safety measures will be in place, including the mandatory wearing of face coverings for post-primary pupils on school transport.\n\nThe education minister said on Monday he is \"not envisaging exams being cancelled\".\n\n\"It is particularly important that we have compatibility and portability with the rest of the United Kingdom,\" he said during a visit to Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor, County Down.\n\n\"This is not something we can go on a solo run because particularly when it comes to universities and jobs, our students are going to be competing with those from different parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere.\"\n\nHe said his department had asked CCEA to look at \"contingency arrangements\" and said it was likely there would be \"a range of mitigations, some of which have been announced already.\"\n\nExams have been scheduled for one week later than normal in 2021.\n\nMr Weir again stressed that keeping schools open remained his key priority and urged people not to congregate at school gates when dropping off pupils.\n\nBut he said parents and carers \"are at the heart of fighting the virus and minimising any disruption to education\".\n\nPeter Weir said that transmission of the virus in schools remains low\n\nHe asked parents and carers to practise social distancing, wear a mask and try to avoid going beyond the school gate unless an appointment has been made.\n\nAs for pupils, he asked them to have face coverings with them at all times, practise good hand hygiene and not to eat or share food on transport.\n\n\"I know from speaking to parents, carers and teachers that they want their children to be in school,\" the education minister said.\n\n\"Face to face teaching is the best form of educational provision.\"\n\nMr Weir said he understood there may be concerns over children's wellbeing during the pandemic.\n\n\"Children and young people have missed so much this year already, not just in terms of learning but in socialising with their friends, taking part in sports and other activities,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that the overwhelming desire of parents and carers is to maintain a full return to school and I thank them for all the sacrifices they are making in very difficult circumstances.\"\n\nCaroline McCarthy, from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, said teachers are feeling anxious and concerned about the return to school.\n\n\"Protecting children's education actually goes hand in hand with protecting the staff in schools,\" she told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"When we closed for the extended Halloween break for the children, some some schools were suffering serious staff shortages and I think the anxiety of staff within schools has to be acknowledged as well.\"\n\nMs McCarthy also called for the wearing of masks to be extended to the school environment in post-primary schools.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said she agreed with her party colleague Peter Weir that school was \"the best place for our young people to be\".\n\n\"We said they would be back at school by the 2nd of November and they are,\" she told Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"I, of course, understand the concerns that I hear from some of the teachers unions, however, it is very important for our young people that they are back at school.\"\n• None 519Schools with at least one positive Covid case out of 1,035 total schools\n• None 237Schools with a cluster of two to five cases\n• None 69Schools with a cluster of more than five cases\n\nThere have been confirmed Covid-19 cases in half of Northern Ireland's schools since the start of term, according to the Public Health Agency.\n\nAccording to Department of Education (DE) attendance guidance issued to schools, pupils are to be marked absent using code eight if they are \"advised not to attend school following advice from PHA Contact Tracing Service\".\n\nCode eight can also be used if \"a pupil chooses not to attend school or parent chooses not to send their child to school on the advice of a medical professional as the child is self-isolating due to a significant underlying medical condition\".\n\nUsing code eight is \"important to identify the number of pupils choosing to self-isolate due to Covid-19\", the DE guidance to schools said.\n\nPupils self-isolating at home are still expected to complete work provided by their school or be taught remotely.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nLate extra-time goals from Georgia Stanway and Janine Beckie settled a terrific Women's FA Cup final as Manchester City eventually overcame Everton at Wembley to lift the trophy for the third time.\n\nSubstitute Stanway latched on to Jess Park's clever through ball and slotted in off the post, when a penalty shootout had been looming, and Beckie calmly netted an ever later third.\n\nUnited States midfielder Sam Mewis had deservedly nodded City in front from Alex Greenwood's corner shortly before half-time, but France's Valerie Gauvin headed level from Izzy Christiansen's second-half corner as Everton fought back.\n\nPlayed without any fans at Wembley amid ongoing coronavirus restrictions, the contest was the closest-fought the women's final has seen since the fixture was first staged at the home of English football in 2015, as last season's delayed competition came to a dramatic conclusion.\n\nGareth Taylor's City side could have settled it earlier in the game, as Scotland midfielder Caroline Weir struck the woodwork twice in the second half before England skipper Steph Houghton saw a header tipped on to the post in extra time.\n\nThat was one of a number of superb saves from Everton's 22-year-old stopper Sandy MacIver, on a day when City's 21-year-old England keeper Ellie Roebuck also impressed, adding to an entertaining spectacle.\n\nThe 50th Women's Cup final had originally been scheduled for May but was delayed because of the pandemic and the cup resumed at the quarter-final stage in September, after the 2020-21 league season had already commenced.\n\nUnbeaten in their first five games of that new Women's Super League season, the Toffees arrived at Wembley in fine form, but it was still last season's WSL runners-up City who were considered the pre-match favourites and they lived up to that tag with a strong opening 45 minutes.\n\nBut Everton, appearing in their first final since 2014 and trying to win their first cup since 2010, battled back strongly and the game was almost end-to-end at times in the final 20 minutes of normal time, before holders City edged clear in the latter stage of extra time to win the cup for the third time in four seasons.\n\nSunday's result continued City, Arsenal and Chelsea's combined six-season-long dominance of the major domestic trophies in the English women's game.\n\nNot since Liverpool lifted the league title in 2014 has any club other than the modern-day 'big three' won the WSL, Women's FA Cup or Continental League Cup.\n\nCity only turned professional in the build-up to the 2014 summer season but have won seven major honours since then, adding their third FA Cup to three League Cups and the 2016 league crown.\n\nThey were made to dig deep against a hard-working Everton side who will feel they could have taken the lead in the second half when France's Gauvin glanced a header just wide.\n\nHowever few could deny that City were worthy winners - they created the greater number of chances and twice went close in second-half stoppage time, with the game stretched.\n\nOn a day when both young English goalkeepers shined, Everton's MacIver won the plaudits with a series of excellent saves, with arguably the best of the lot keeping out Houghton's header.\n• None Goal! Everton Women 1, Manchester City Women 3. Janine Beckie (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Izzy Christiansen (Everton Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Samantha Mewis (Manchester City Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicoline Sørensen (Everton Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Simone Magill.\n• None Attempt blocked. Chloe Kelly (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Caroline Weir.\n• None Goal! Everton Women 1, Manchester City Women 2. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jessica Park with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chloe Kelly. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Immy struggles to safely cross the busy road in her wheelchair\n\nThe mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has been fighting for 10 years to make a junction safe for pedestrians.\n\nSue Hurrell first asked for a dropped kerb and lights at the Colchester Avenue and Penylan Road junction in Cardiff a decade ago when she struggled with her son's pushchair.\n\nNow she is asking again for lights, as her daughter Immy, 15, has difficulties with her wheelchair.\n\nCardiff council said it planned to ask the Welsh Government to fund the work.\n\nSue said Immy was unable to meet friends and go shopping because there were no safe places to cross on the busy road.\n\n\"Walking about together as a family, it's difficult to get across the junction, it is safe to do so at certain times but it's complicated as you have to wait for the lights and the cars,\" Ms Hurrell said.\n\n\"There is no proper island in the middle with safety barriers, so the wheelchair doesn't fit, if Immy doesn't time her crossing right, she is putting herself at risk.\"\n\nImmy,15, says she finds it difficult to cross roads without a pedestrian light to help\n\nImmy said: \"I always look for the green man, but there isn't a green man and I find it difficult to cross the road because it's not very safe.\"\n\nMs Hurrell first wrote to the council more than 10 years ago when her son was born and she struggled to get a double pushchair up Penylan Road safely.\n\nAfter three years of correspondence she received a letter which agreed \"pedestrian facilities were justified at the junction\".\n\nDropped kerbs were installed on several side street corners in 2012, but no progress was made on the junction lights, so she wrote to the council again in 2013 and was told the project was \"unlikely to be implemented in the foreseeable future\".\n\nLast year, Ms Hurrell was told the council had secured funding, but this spring she found \"no indication about further action or timescales for our local junction\".\n\n\"There are no safe routes in any direction from our house. This means that Immy can't have her independence,\" she said.\n\n\"It is exhausting for the individuals to have to do all the fighting.\"\n\nSue Hurrell and Immy want to see an island and lights for pedestrians fitted at this busy junction\n\nShe said she is asking the council to find the £260,000 funding for these junction improvements or look at an alternative solution.\n\n\"I fear the window of opportunity has gone and she won't get this time back. Come 2021 this scheme will have been on the list 10 years and we are back to square one,\" she said.\n\nThe council said: \"The proposals developed by the council and which the public have been consulted on, would see formal pedestrian crossing points around the whole junction at the Penylan Road end of Colchester Avenue, and a new 'all red' phase introduced to enable people to cross safely.\n\n\"The council currently intend to resubmit a bid to Welsh Government for funding at the end of the year.\"", "Liverpool has the third highest number of infections in England\n\nIncreased furlough payments for the national Covid lockdown shows the government \"believes the North is worth less than the South\", Liverpool's metro mayor has claimed.\n\nBoris Johnson announced workers would receive 80% of their wages if businesses close during a four-week lockdown in England from Thursday.\n\nOnly 67% of pay was offered during tier three closures in the north of England.\n\nThe government has yet to respond to the mayor's accusation.\n\nHowever, the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show: \"The announcement about furlough that was made yesterday was about the extension of a scheme, that would have expired last night, throughout the rest of this month.\n\n\"The chancellor and his team are looking at every aspect of economic support and more will be said in the days ahead about how we provide it.\"\n\nLabour's Steve Rotheram said the government was \"unequivocal\" it would not consider changes to the local scheme offered in the north west.\n\nThe Liverpool City Region mayor added: \"This morning millions of people woke up knowing the prime minister of this country believes the North is worth less than the South.\"\n\nAndy Burnham was in a high profile battle with the government over furlough support\n\nIn October, a row broke out between leaders in north-west England and the government over the level of compensation offered to workers and businesses when much of the region was placed into tier three, the highest level of restrictions.\n\nAt a press conference earlier, Mr Rotheram said: \"Apparently all votes count equally, but all voters demonstrably don't to this government and the support you get from the chancellor of the exchequer depends on a horizontal line drawn across the country and on which side of it you sit.\"\n\n\"I can assure the government that the people of the North won't easily forget that they were judged to be worth less than their southern counterparts.\"\n\nMayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said people in the region had \"just completed three months of morale-sapping restrictions and now they are waking up to the prospect of a month of even tougher restrictions\".\n\nHe called for work to be done on a \"substantial localisation\" of the test and trace system, for self-employed people to be financially supported and for schools to close for two weeks for a \"true circuit break\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said there is a crisis of confidence in the government\n\nLiverpool city mayor Joe Anderson accused the government of showing \"contempt\" for northern workers by offering more aid for the national lockdown than to regions placed in tier three restrictions.\n\nHe said it was \"interesting... all of a sudden\" the money has been found.\n\nMr Anderson said he welcomed the national lockdown but added: \"So, relief that it's finally been done but real contempt has been shown by this government for the people who advised for it [another lockdown], Sage, and also leaders like me and others that were calling for it six, seven weeks ago.\n\n\"I think there's now a crisis of confidence in relation to this government and their ability to actually manage this.\"\n\nThe government has been approached for a response.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Payment holidays on credit cards, car finance, personal loans and pawned goods have been extended ahead of tougher coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said customers who had not yet deferred a payment could now request one for up to six months.\n\nThose with short-term credit such as payday loans can defer for one month.\n\n\"It is important that consumer credit customers who can afford to do so continue to make repayments,\" it said.\n\n\"Borrowers should only take up this support if they need it.\"\n\nIt comes after the government announced a nationwide lockdown for England beginning on Thursday, which will force all non-essential retailers to close.\n\nThe FCA had already brought in payment holidays for credit customers in April, extending them for three months in July.\n\nBut it has now reviewed the rules - which apply across the UK - amid fears tougher restrictions will hit many more people's finances. The payment holidays will also apply to those with rent to own and buy-now pay-later deals, it said.\n\nIn addition, anyone already benefitting from a payment deferral will be able to apply for a second deferral.\n\nHowever, the FCA would not comment on whether people could still have interest on the first £500 of their overdrafts waived. It said it would make a fuller statement in due course.\n\n\"We will work with trade bodies and lenders on how to implement these proposals as quickly as possible, and will make another announcement shortly,\" the FCA said of the payment deferrals.\n\nIn the meantime, it said customers should not contact lenders who will provide information \"soon\" on how to apply for the support.\n\nIt advised anyone still experiencing payment difficulties to speak to their lender to agree \"tailored support\".\n\nOn Saturday, the FCA also announced plans to extend payment holidays for mortgage borrowers.\n\nThe extension of payment holidays will be a relief to many people already in lockdown and facing a drop in income, and those just about to return to restrictions.\n\nBut the theme running through this FCA statement is that a debt problem delayed is not a debt problem solved.\n\nThe financial watchdog is stressing that deferrals should not be used unless they are really needed, and that \"tailored support\" may be a better option for many people.\n\nPeople who think they will only have a short-term squeeze on their finances will watch developments keenly and hope for an extension to interest-free overdrafts.\n\nImportantly, banks and other lenders have a duty to identify anyone who is vulnerable and make sure they are supported. As this crisis intensifies, the number of people falling into that category is likely to rise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe story of a former music teacher with dementia who composed a piece based on just four notes has inspired a £1m charity donation from Scotland's first ever billionaire.\n\nSir Tom Hunter told BBC Breakfast when he saw a video of Paul Harvey, 80, performing the piece, he immediately wanted to stump up the money.\n\nMr Harvey's son Nick had posted the clip online to show how musical ability can survive memory loss.\n\nHe \"lit up the screen\", said Sir Tom.\n\nThe donation will be split between the Alzheimer's Society and Music for Dementia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video of Paul Harvey went viral after his son posted it on social media\n\nMr Harvey, a composer from Buxted, in Sussex, was diagnosed with dementia late last year but has continued to be able to play piano pieces from memory - as well as create new ones.\n\nHis son said it had been an \"old party trick\" of his father's to request four random notes and then improvise a song.\n\nIn the video Nick picked F natural, A, D and B natural for his father to play.\n\nThe clip went viral and the performance was then aired on Radio 4's Broadcasting House for World Alzheimer's Day on 21 September.\n\nAfter listeners asked the BBC to have the performance orchestrated, Mr Harvey recorded it with the BBC Philharmonic orchestra and it was released as a single on Sunday.\n\nAll proceeds will be split between the Alzheimer's Society and Music for Dementia.\n\nNick said when he told his dad he had reached the number one spot in just days he \"laughed and thought I was joking\".\n\nHe said: \"Dad is so happy his music is resonating with people.\n\n\"He is being defined by his music, not his dementia and that is wonderful to see.\"\n\nSir Tom told BBC Breakfast he and his wife Marion had been so moved by watching Mr Harvey's \"wonderful piece\" at a time when people are \"searching for good news\" they decided to donate £1m from The Hunter Foundation to the two charities.\n\nThe entrepreneur and philanthropist told Mr Harvey: \"You lit up the screen with, first of all the relationship between the father and the son, and then the relationship with music.\"\n\n\"We really believe music is a key,\" he said, adding that he had lost both his parents to Alzheimer's.\n\n\"We really believe you're on to something and we really want to help,\" he said.\n\nMr Harvey said: \"That is fantastic, it really is. I didn't think I could be moved much more now - but I can.\n\n\"For all this to happen and I'm in my 80s - I think that's pretty good.\"\n\n\"Just think what you'll achieve in your 90s,\" added Nick.", "Nigel Farage has applied to change the Brexit Party's name to Reform UK, promising to focus on dealing with the government's \"woeful\" Covid response.\n\nHe said renewed lockdown would \"result in more life-years lost than it hopes to save\" and argued that \"building immunity\" would be more effective.\n\nThe party leader also said there should be \"focused protection\" from coronavirus for the vulnerable.\n\nBut Boris Johnson will tell MPs later there is \"no alternative\" to lockdown.\n\nFrom Thursday, pubs, restaurants, gyms, non-essential shops and places of worship in England will close for four weeks, in an effort to stem the increase in infections.\n\nThe House of Commons vote on the measures on Wednesday, with the prime minister outlining his plans to MPs on Monday.\n\nSeveral Conservatives are expected to oppose the lockdown, including Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, and former cabinet minister Esther McVey.\n\nLabour will back the government, although leader Sir Keir Starmer says it is bringing in the restrictions later than should have been the case.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded 23,254 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThis isn't the first time Nigel Farage has raised the idea of rebranding the Brexit Party. Even before the results of last year's general election rolled in, he said his plan was to change its name into - guess what? - the Reform Party. He even claimed to have registered the new title.\n\nThe idea was to change politics \"for good\", campaigning to overhaul the voting system and abolish the House of Lords.\n\nNow it seems Mr Farage is returning to the idea of a re-launch - this time with an anti-lockdown focus.\n\nPerhaps he sensed an opportunity to return to the political debate.\n\nIt might cause some nerves in No 10. Mr Farage has posed a threat to mainstream parties - not least the Tories - in the past, espousing populist views which have at times shifted the national debate.\n\nBoris Johnson is attempting to find some middle ground between lockdown advocates and sceptics, with increasing push-back from the latter within his own party.\n\nThere is a risk he ends up pleasing neither, and Mr Farage stands poised - as he has before - with an alternative view he'll have no qualms in expressing.\n\nMr Farage set up the Brexit Party ahead of last year's European Parliament elections, winning 29 seats - the most of any UK party.\n\nIn an email to supporters, he and party chairman Richard Tice said this had \"rescued Brexit and in so doing, restored some confidence in democracy in the UK\".\n\nWhile they were \"keeping a close eye\" on Mr Johnson \"to make sure he does not sell us down the river\" in any trade deal with the EU, they said it was time to \"apply our energy and resources to the other pressing issues facing the nation\".\n\nThey applied last Friday to the Electoral Commission to rename the Brexit Party as Reform UK.\n\nTheir email to supporters said: \"The government has dug itself into a hole [with coronavirus] and rather than admit its mistakes, it keeps on digging.\n\n\"The new national lockdown will result in more life-years lost than it hopes to save, as non-Covid patients with cancer, cardiac, lung and other illnesses have treatments delayed or cancelled again. Suicides are soaring. Businesses and jobs are being destroyed.\"\n\nMr Farage and Mr Tice said the UK should follow the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for \"focused protection\" for the elderly and other groups particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, while others continue to live relatively normally.\n\nTheir email said: \"The rest of the population should, with simple hygiene measures and a dose of common sense, get on with life - this way we build immunity in the population. We must learn to live with the virus not hide in fear of it.\"\n\nTreatments were \"getting better\" and survival rates were improving, they added.\n\nOn Sunday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the lockdown in England could be extended if it took longer than four weeks to bring the transmission rate of the virus down.\n\nThe government has said schools will remain open, with Mr Johnson expected to tell the Commons later that he was \"right to try every possible option\" - including region-by-region restrictions - before moving on to a national measures.\n\nAfter an extension to the furlough scheme was announced for England, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross called for similar support to be available if the country needed to go into a full lockdown.\n\nIn Wales, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said the 17-day \"firebreak\" lockdown will end on 9 November, as planned.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland reopen on Monday after an extended half-term break, while other restrictions including the closure of pubs, bars and restaurants continue until 13 November.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland World Cup winner and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton has been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nThe news follows the deaths of his older brother Jack in July and fellow World Cup-winner Nobby Stiles on Friday, both of whom had also been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nSir Bobby, 83, won three league titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup with United during 17 years at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Stay strong, we love you,\" said United striker Marcus Rashford.\n\nHis wife, Lady Norma Charlton, expressed the hope that the knowledge of his diagnosis - first reported by the Telegraph - could help others.\n\nManchester United said in a statement: \"Everyone at Manchester United is saddened that this terrible disease has afflicted Sir Bobby Charlton and we continue to offer our love and support to Sir Bobby and his family.\"\n\nRashford, 23, said on Instagram: \"Sir Bobby, you are my hero and I am devastated that you are having to go through this.\n\n\"I filmed alongside this man as a child and was in awe. I still am when I see you. This man, from day one, was everything I wanted to be. Kind, professional, caring, talented.\"\n\nJoining United in 1953, he scored 249 goals in 758 games for the club, long-standing records which were eventually broken by Wayne Rooney in 2017 and Ryan Giggs in 2008 respectively.\n\nBorn in Ashington, Northumberland, he remained England's record goal scorer until Rooney surpassed him against Switzerland in September 2015.\n\nAt the age of 20, Sir Bobby was a survivor of the Munich air crash of 1958 in which 23 people died, including eight of his Manchester United team-mates.\n\nHe inspired United to a first European Cup win in 1968, scoring twice in the final, and was awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1966 after playing every minute of England's World Cup victory.\n\nSir Bobby came second in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 1958 and 1959. In 2008, he received the lifetime achievement award.\n\nUnited renamed Old Trafford's South Stand in honour of Sir Bobby in 2016.\n\nSir Bobby is the fifth member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side to be diagnosed with dementia.\n\nIn addition to his brother, Jack, and Stiles, both Martin Peters and Ray Wilson - who died in 2019 and 2018 respectively - also had the condition.\n\nStiles, Peters and Wilson were diagnosed with it while still in their sixties. In a BBC documentary screened in 2017, Stiles' son John told former England captain Alan Shearer he was \"utterly convinced\" heading a football was responsible for his father's dementia.\n\nA study by Glasgow University in 2019 found former professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims that former West Brom striker Jeff Astle died at the age of 59 because of repeated head trauma and compared deaths of 7,676 ex-players to 23,000 from the general population.\n\nThe inquest into Astle's death found heading heavy leather footballs repeatedly had contributed to trauma to his brain, but research by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association was later dropped because of what were said to be technical flaws.\n\nAstle's daughter, Dawn, said \"players who have suffered dementia must not be a statistic\" after she was left \"staggered\" by the study's findings.\n\nIn response, the FA launched new coaching guidelines to restrict the amount of heading by under-18 players in training.\n• None How does the voting system work?\n• None What you need to look out for on the night", "Machu Picchu, the ancient city high in the Andes mountains, has reopened after nearly eight months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPeruvian authorities organised an Incan ritual to thank the gods on Sunday as the major tourist attraction once again allowed visitors.\n\nBut numbers will be restricted to just 675 tourists a day for safety reasons, around 30% of previous capacity.\n\nThe citadel was designated a Unesco World Heritage site in 1983.\n\nRediscovered in 1911 by a US explorer, the site is the most recognisable ruin from the Inca Empire, which dominated the Andes from the 1430s until the 1530s.\n\nArchaeologists believe Machu Picchu, meaning old mountain in Quechua, was built as an estate in the 15th century for the Incan emperor Pachacuti. It was abandoned a century later when Spanish invaders conquered and colonised the region.\n\nPeople dressed in costumes for the ceremony\n\nAuthorities also put on a special light show at the event\n\nNow it is a major draw for Peru's tourism industry. Tens of thousands of people in the mountainous Cusco region rely on visitors for their livelihoods and have suffered due to the coronavirus lockdown closure this year.\n\nReporters and tourists arrived for the ceremony on Sunday morning after a 90-minute trip from the Incan village of Ollantaytambo.\n\n\"Today, Machu Picchu reopens,\" Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Rocio Barrios said in a speech. New health and safety protocols show they are opening \"with responsibility and great prudence\", he added.\n\nTourists travelled to the site on Sunday for its reopening\n\nOnly a limited number of tourists will be allowed in at once however, for safety reasons\n\nOne traveller was however able to visit the site during its closure. Japanese tourist Jesse Katayama had travelled to Peru to see Machu Picchu in March but was stranded nearby when lockdown measures were imposed.\n\nLast month officials granted Mr Katayama permission to see the attraction after he submitted a special request.\n\nJesse Katayama was originally due to visit Machu Picchu in March", "Dashcam footage showed the two drivers racing at speeds of more than 100mph\n\nA man who caused the death of his son after racing with another driver at more than 100mph has been jailed for four-and-a-half-years.\n\nIsrar Muhammed, 41, from Batley, West Yorkshire, hit a tree after crashing off the M62 in East Yorkshire when a tyre blew out.\n\nHis three-year-old son, Say Han Ali, died and his daughter and wife suffered \"life-changing\" injuries.\n\nAdam Molloy, the other driver, was also jailed for four-and-a-half-years.\n\nThe pair were found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a trial last month.\n\nMuhammed was also convicted of two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and causing death while uninsured.\n\nHumberside Police said Molloy, 29, from Normanton, West Yorkshire, failed to stop after the crash and was later traced and arrested.\n\nHe was also found guilty of two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nPassing sentence at Hull Crown Court, Judge David Tremberg said Muhammed was driving \"in an erratic and unsafe manner\" for many miles before the accident, failing to give way at a roundabout and weaving in and out of traffic.\n\n\"Expert assessment of the footage reveals that each of you was travelling in excess of 100mph and there were roughly 10 metres between your cars as you sped along,\" he said.\n\n\"Other drivers formed the impression that you were racing and driving like idiots.\"\n\nSgt Rob Mazingham said officers carried out an \"extensive and exhaustive investigation\" into the crash near Goole on 1 July 2018.\n\n\"The car that Israr Muhammed was driving was not roadworthy, its rear tyre was 16 years old and defective and the resulting blow-out caused the series of events that led to the death of his three-year-old son and the serious, life changing injuries of his wife and second child,\" the officer said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump International Hotel has been surrounded by fences Image caption: Trump International Hotel has been surrounded by fences\n\nThe nation’s capital is gearing up for the presidential election not by organising rallies or canvassing, but by putting up boards and fences.\n\nI took a walk around Washington DC downtown today, and the city was eerily quiet.\n\nAt the Trump International Hotel, fences have been installed around the hotel entrances. Only a driveway with enhanced security was open to allow guests to come in and out.\n\nThere are few on the streets on this chilly, windy day, but a man on a scooter passes by and shouts: “Trump 2020!”\n\nAlong the Black Lives Matter Plaza, one block away from the White House, it’s hard to tell whether anything is open for business, as storefronts are all covered up with plywood, in case of civil unrest on the election night and after.\n\nThe fences wall that off the White House and nearby Lafayette Square are covered with anti-Trump signs. Through the fences, I saw a crane lifting construction materials, said to be preparing to put up more fences around the White House.\n\nDemonstrators and journalists gather in front of the White House, and tomorrow night they will return in greater number.\n\nThe world will be watching closely - not only for whether Biden or Trump will be residing here in the next four years, but also for whether the US democratic institutions can withstand the challenges it is facing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenda Ceasar explains her compensation bid over the Windrush scandal.\n\nAt least nine people have died before receiving money applied for through the Windrush compensation scheme, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe Windrush scandal saw deportation threats made to the children of Commonwealth citizens.\n\nDespite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.\n\nThe government apologised in 2018 and the compensation scheme was launched.\n\nIt was intended to help those who did not have the right documentation to prove their status in the UK.\n\nIt's also meant to compensate victims for things such as loss of earnings and periods of detainment.\n\nBut the Home Office figures, released to the BBC under Freedom of Information laws, show that in addition to people dying before they receive any money, fewer than five people have been offered the top level of \"Impact on Life\" payment.\n\nThese payments reflect how badly a claimant's life was affected and range from Level 1 - essentially a minor inconvenience worth £250, to Level 6 - a profound and likely irreversible impact worth £10,000 or more. More than 1,500 claims have been made using the scheme, with 250 being offered an \"Impact on Life\" payment.\n\nThe figures are correct as of 31 August.\n\nGlenda came to the UK from Dominica in 1961 before her first birthday.\n\nIn 2009 she lost her job as a GP's practitioner as she didn't have the paperwork to prove she could legally work in the UK.\n\nGlenda, who lives in Hackney, east London, was unable to work for almost 10 years and in this time could not claim welfare. After being detained for several hours at Gatwick airport following a family holiday, she was told if she left the UK again she would likely not be allowed to return.\n\nLast year she rejected a compensation offer of £22,000 and has since rejected a further offer.\n\nCampaigners take their case to Downing Street\n\n\"I was shocked,\" she says, \"to get a letter saying we're offering you £13,000 for loss of employment, we're offering you £7,000 for Impact on Life and we're offering you £1,500 for detainment.\n\n\"I was like, there's something wrong somewhere, I have to go public with this, this isn't fair.\"\n\nGlenda, who contemplated taking her own life during the period in which she could not work, says her anxiety levels have been affected by the compensation process.\n\n\"It's stressful, it's long, it's tiring and the whole process of doing the compensation form is something you cannot do by yourself, you definitely need legal help.\n\n\"You call them up and you're not getting directly through to the person who's supposed to be allocated to your case and that alone just raises your stress level, because you're getting more angry because you're not getting a result.\n\n\"'It's in process.' 'Okay what's the process?' 'I can't say anything.' 'But it's about me, why can't you tell me? Can you get the caseworker to call me?' 'I don't know if we'll be able to do that.' No one wants to answer directly.\"\n\nPaulette Wilson, from Wolverhampton, died aged 64 without receiving her compensation\n\nHolly Stow, a senior caseworker at the North Kensington Law Centre, which represents almost 50 Windrush claimants, including Glenda, says no one she represents has ever received an \"Impact on Life\" offer in the top level.\n\n\"We've seen various claimants where they have been detained, threats of deportation, they've lost their jobs, they've lost their house, they've been homeless.\n\n\"We've submitted evidence where people have gone to their GP and mention they're feeling suicidal, considering self-harm and even that type of evidence is not enough for a Level 6.\n\n\"So it makes you wonder, what do these people have to go through to be able to show that their life has seriously been affected by this?\"\n\nShe says the Home Office has asked some of the people she represents for evidence that no longer exists.\n\n\"The delays come from caseworkers asking for further documentation and evidence that we've already supplied to them, asking for documents that simply are not there and we cannot gather.\"\n\nEarlier this year, one of the most prominent Windrush victims, Paulette Wilson, died aged 64 without receiving any compensation.\n\nThe Home Office says Paulette had not completed an official application through the Windrush Compensation Scheme\n\nGlenda, who campaigned alongside Paulette, says her death, along with the revelation that at least nine claimants have now died, has people worried about the likelihood of claims being resolved.\n\n\"It's made people realise, my God she was a high profile case and to know that they still haven't sorted out her compensation, well what are they doing?\"\n\n\"It's such a straightforward thing, but they make it so complicated and turn it into something which is causing a lot of anxiety to people and some people give up.\n\nGlenda Caesar (second right), who came to the UK in 1961, was 'shocked' by the offer\n\n\"I don't want to hear another person's died through stress, I don't want to hear that at all and that's exactly what is happening to our age group.\"\n\nHolly says some claimants have been making plans for what should happen to their compensation claim if they pass away before it's resolved.\n\n\"For people to have to think ahead about the fact that they might die before having any compensation is a terrible state of affairs.\n\n\"After all that people have been through because of the Windrush scandal, and now they have to plan their death around their justice?\"\n\nA Home Office statement said, \"We are determined to right the wrongs of the Windrush generation, and the Windrush compensation scheme has paid out or offered more than £2.8m, with more offers being made every single week.\n\n\"We continue to work with families to ensure compensation is still paid out where claimants have sadly passed away.\n\n\"While we aim to process claims as quickly as possible, it is important we get this right, and that we carefully consider each person's circumstances and experiences, treating everyone with the care and sensitivity they deserve.\n\n\"This will mean that the maximum payment can be made to every single person.\"", "Covid patient Harry King, who has double pneumonia, with wife Diane\n\nIf you want to know why England is going into lockdown, Liverpool's intensive care units may help give you the answer.\n\nThey are struggling to cope.\n\n\"We are hanging by a thread,\" says Dr Oliver Zuzan, divisional medical director at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.\n\nHe is speaking to me in a six-bed intensive care unit, reserved for non-Covid patients. At least here there's no requirement for the staff to spend their shifts in full PPE, with tight-fitting masks that dig into their faces. Here it's just an apron, gloves and surgical mask.\n\nThe intensive care unit has had to be split into Covid and non-Covid areas. In the side rooms, patients wait for a diagnosis that will determine whether they are cared for in a red zone (Covid) or green zone (non-Covid).\n\n\"People are right to say that these are pressures that occur every winter, but this time it's just a lot worse. This is winter plus, plus, plus,\" says Dr Zuzan.\n\nAs such, it is a glimpse of what hospitals across England could look like if cases of coronavirus continue to rise unchecked - a scenario the new lockdown is designed to prevent. Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, which includes Royal Liverpool and three other hospitals, has 463 Covid in-patients, 73 more than the peak of 390 in early April.\n\nWe're very close to the limits of what Liverpool hospitals can cope with\n\nA key difference between the spring and now is the additional medical demands.\n\nBack then, there was little demand for intensive care from non-Covid patients. Many people with urgent conditions stayed away. Half the trust's beds were empty. Now they are about 95% full.\n\nLike other hospitals, there are plans to expand capacity to look after critically ill patients. But that depends on having enough staff. Sickness levels are about three times normal levels. Having dealt with the first wave, and then spent the summer trying to catch up with surgery that was postponed, the medical teams are looking at months of sustained pressure.\n\nThe critical care units are depending on nurses who usually work in operating theatres. Their skills are similar, but not the same. The units are relying on nurses like Marie Brady, who has come out of retirement to rejoin the ICU team she worked with for 30 years.\n\n\"A lot of the NHS is working on goodwill. And unfortunately, people are starting to get tired and exhausted now. I'm 58 now and I'm looking after patients that are my age or a year or two older or even younger than me. And it does make you very aware of your susceptibility,\" she says.\n\nI have never ever been so ill in all my born days - this is an absolute crippler\n\nI spend most of the morning in the ICU red zone. My first impression is how different this is to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary which I visited the week before. There, the unit was flooded with natural light. It was not that busy, and several patients were able to chat to me.\n\nIn Liverpool, the only ICU patient who appears well enough to talk is Douglas Thom, a former bus driver and crane operator. The 73-year-old is sitting up in bed, his head covered with a domed plastic hood that enables oxygen to flow into his lungs under pressure. It looks like something out of science fiction, but he is stoical.\n\n\"It's a bit claustrophobic but it's doing the job, so that's all that matters to me.\"\n\nDouglas's wife tested positive at the same time as him but recovered.\n\nHe takes a dim view of those who dismiss coronavirus.\n\n\"All these people who go around saying it's a hoax or a bad cold, they need to get their heads straight because I have never ever been so ill in all my born days.\n\n\"This is an absolute crippler.\"\n\nThe trust is not helped by its ageing infrastructure. The Royal was built in the '60s and is crumbling. Its replacement is three years overdue and not scheduled to open for two years. The Royal and Aintree University hospitals have about 40 operating theatres. Half are standing idle since almost all non-urgent surgery has been cancelled.\n\nStaff absence and the need to redeploy nurses from surgery to critical care meant the trust had no alternative.\n\nEven more worryingly, nine urgent cancer operations have been cancelled in the past month.\n\n\"It's devastating for the patient,\" says Dr Tristan Cope, the trust's medical director, \"if they've come into a hospital, expecting to have a potentially life-saving cancer operation and that morning are told it can't go ahead.\"\n\nDr Cope is speaking in one of the moth-balled operating theatres. We are either side of the operating table. He is worried about the coming weeks.\n\n\"We're very close to the limits of what Liverpool hospitals can cope with in terms of the number of patients, particularly - without having to postpone more of those urgent surgical procedures.\"\n\nAbout a third of in-patients now have Covid-19\n\nHe assures me the cancelled cancer operations are being quickly rescheduled, but adds that whether they take place soon depends on beds being available. It is worth stressing, though, that most cancer treatment is unaffected by coronavirus. I was shown around a brand new cancer centre, near the Royal.\n\nAlison Taylor, an acute oncology nurse consultant, says people with potential symptoms should seek help. \"We are open for business. We will investigate and get patients to treatment as quickly as possible. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are continuing as normal.\"\n\nThe public may not be clapping for carers anymore, but every patient I meet speaks with reverence about the medical staff treating them, especially the nurses. Staff here understand why so many are tired of limits placed on their lives and livelihoods.\n\nLiverpool was the first part of England to go into \"tier three\", the highest level of restrictions, on 14 October. Since then, infection rates in the city have declined. But the government's medical advisers have said the measures are not enough to bring the outbreak under control.\n\n\"If you don't listen to us, if you don't adhere to those restrictions, you will harm your friends,\" says Dr Zuzan. \"You will harm your family, your neighbours, and you might even harm yourself.\"\n\nOn a Covid ward at Aintree Hospital, I meet Jay Madden who was working on a novel before he was admitted to hospital. The 44-year-old ended up with blood clots on his lungs. Keen to get home to his wife and two children, his breathing is still laboured. A Covid-19 infection is, he says, like a random hand of cards: it could be nothing or you could end up in hospital.\n\n\"Keep your mask on, keep your distance and keep yourself clean. You do not want to go through this.\"\n\nDiane King has been sleeping in a chair at her husband's bedside. Harry, 75, has late-stage Alzheimer's and Covid-19. One cruel condition compounded by another. He has double pneumonia and may have just a few days to live.\n\n\"He keeps asking, 'Can we go home?' but we can't because of the oxygen. I'd love to take him home and be at home with him when it happens,\" says Diane, who couldn't visit for the first 10 days because she also tested positive.\n\nShe has brought in old photos - memories of almost 50 years of marriage.\n\n\"It's very hard. There aren't any words. I just wish… he could communicate a bit more. But on the other hand, I think maybe he doesn't understand, so hopefully he's not worrying.\"\n\nHarry King, who may have just a few days to live, is tended to by his wife Diane\n\nTheir two grown-up children have been to hospital to say farewell to their dad.\n\nLater that day, when we are back in the hospital foyer, I meet Diane again briefly. She's just popping out for some air. She gives me a big smile. It was humbling to meet them both. A wife dedicated to her husband, determined to care for him and be with him, right to the very end.\n\nThe NHS is a cradle to grave service; for the beginning through to the end of life. Boris Johnson says a lockdown in England is needed to prevent a medical and moral disaster. Liverpool is an example of where having to deal with coronavirus, on top of all the usual health demands, has created huge pressures, especially in intensive care.\n\nFor the moment it appears to be a unique example of where demand is threatening to overwhelm supply.\n\nI'm the BBC's medical editor. Since 2004 I have reported on a huge range of topics from cancer, genetics, malaria, and HIV, to the many significant advances in medical science which have improved people's health. I've also followed pandemic threats such as bird flu as well as Sars and Mers. Now I'm focusing on Covid-19 and its immense global impact.", "TikTok's pledge to take \"immediate action\" against child predators has been challenged by a BBC Panorama investigation.\n\nThe app says it has a \"zero tolerance\" policy against grooming behaviours.\n\nBut when an account created for the programme - which identified itself as belonging to a 14-year-old girl - reported a male adult for sending sexual messages, TikTok did not ban it.\n\nAnd it only took such action after Panorama sought an explanation.\n\nThe video-sharing platform claimed its moderators did not intervene in the first instance because the child's account had not made it clear the offending posts had been received via TikTok's direct messaging (DM) facility.\n\n\"We... have a duty to respect the privacy of our users,\" it told the BBC, adding that complaints do \"not generally trigger a review\" of DMs.\n\nHowever, Panorama's account had in fact selected and submitted each of the seven chat messages involved via the app's own reporting tool.\n\nChild safety experts say parents need to be aware of the risks involved with letting their children use TikTok.\n\n\"The thing with TikTok is it's fun, and I think whenever someone is having fun they're not recognising the dangers,\" said Lorin LaFave, founder of the Breck Foundation.\n\n\"[Predators] might be looking to groom a child, to exploit them, to get them to do something that could be harmful to them.\"\n\nTikTok does not allow an account to receive or send direct messages if the user registers themselves as being under 16.\n\nBut many of its youngest members get round this by lying about their date of birth when they join.\n\nTo simulate this, Panorama registered the account with a 16-year-old's birth date.\n\nBut in her profile, it stated the owner was a 14-year-old girl in its biography description.\n\nThe team recruited a journalism graduate who creates TikToks for an internet search company.\n\nShe is 23, but posed as the 14-year-old, putting her pictures through photo-editing software to make her look younger.\n\nEvery day she posted videos, copying popular dances to trending tracks.\n\nOver the period, the account picked up followers including what appeared to be older men.\n\nOne sent a series of DMs in the early hours of the morning asking if the user wanted to see his penis, describing it in explicit terms.\n\nWhen she responded, the \"girl\" asked how old he was and he replied, saying he was 34 years old.\n\nShe told him she was 14, to which he replied: \"Ohhh you are under age sorry.\"\n\nHe did not send an image or follow-up DMs, but continued to like the account's videos.\n\nAll of his messages were sent to TikTok.\n\nAfter three days, the man's account was still active, at which point Panorama contacted the company.\n\nThe following day, TikTok banned the man's account and blocked his smartphone from being able to set up a new one.\n\nPanorama sent the messages involved to TikTok via its report tool\n\nA spokesman noted the app offered privacy features to help parents avoid such problems.\n\n\"We offer all our users a high level of control over who can see and interact with the content they post,\" he said.\n\n\"These privacy settings can be set either at account level or on a video-by-video basis.\"\n\nTikTok's moderators also terminated two other men's accounts without need for follow-up prompts.\n\nIn both these cases, the men continued to send the \"child\" private messages even after she had told them \"she\" was 14.\n\nIf users register they are under-18 when they sign up, TikTok automatically suggests they restrict who sees their videos.\n\nBut many youngsters decide not to do this because they want to have a wider audience than just pre-approved friends.\n\nEven so, their parents or guardians can still protect them.\n\nOne way to do this is to:\n\nThe adults can subsequently limit the types of content the child sees, and restrict who sends DMs or block private chats altogether.\n\nThe teens can subsequently unpair the accounts, but doing so will send the adult an alert and give them 48 hours to restore the link before the child can turn off the restrictions.\n\nIf parents do not want to install the app themselves, they can alter the settings of the child's app instead.\n\nAfter doing this, the youngsters should only be able to see suitable videos, although TikTok acknowledges that its filters are not guaranteed to screen out all \"inappropriate\" content.\n\nThe first option only lets approved users see the child's activity, the second stops their profile being shown to people interested in similar accounts.\n\nPanorama also spoke to one of the company's former moderators, who had worked in its London office.\n\nThe ex-employee explained that predators take advantage of the fact that TikTok's recommendation algorithm is designed to identify what users are interested in and then find them similar content.\n\n\"If you're looking at a lot of kids dancing sexually and you interact with that, it's going to give you more kids dancing sexually.\n\n\"Maybe it's a predator... they see these kids doing that and that's their way of engaging with these kids.\"\n\nThe interviewee - who asked to remain anonymous - left before TikTok's announcement earlier this year that it would stop using moderation staff based in Beijing.\n\nBut prior to this, employees at the firm's Beijing headquarters are claimed to have made key decisions.\n\n\"It felt like not very much was being done to protect people,\" the ex-worker said.\n\n\"Beijing were hesitant to suspend accounts or take stronger action on users who were being abusive.\n\n\"They would pretty much only ever get a temporary ban of some form, like a week or something.\n\n\"Moderators at least on the team I was on did not have the ability to ban accounts. They have to ask Beijing to do that. There were a lot of... clashes with Beijing.\"\n\nTikTok says none of its content is moderated in China anymore - although it does use a team there to censor a sister-version of the app, Douyin, targeted at Chinese users.\n\n\"We have a dedicated and ever-growing expert team of over 10,000 people in 20 countries, covering 57 languages, who review and take action against content and accounts that violate our policies,\" said a TikTok spokesman.\n\nTikTok added that it also used automated tools to screen content.\n\nAnd it said agents based in Dublin, San Francisco and Singapore were available to deal with any pressing threats within five minutes \"to ensure swift actions is taken\".\n\nViewers in the UK can watch Panorama: Is TikTok Safe? on BBC One on Monday 2 November at 19:35 GMT", "Spain, like many European nations, is seeing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases\n\nStaff at funeral homes in Spain have gone on strike to demand more workers as coronavirus deaths continue to rise.\n\nUnions say more staff are needed to prevent the delay in burials that was seen during the first wave of the pandemic in March.\n\nEurope is grappling with a second wave as cases and deaths continue to rise.\n\nA number of countries have introduced new measures such as curfews and lockdowns to try and bring infection rates down.\n\nOn Saturday, Austria and Portugal became the latest countries to announce new restrictions.\n\nWorkers at funeral homes across Spain took part in a strike on Sunday. The strike came on All Saints Day, when families usually visit the graves of loved ones.\n\nOne funeral home in Madrid told AFP news agency that it needed between 15-20 more staff to handle the surge in deaths. On Friday, 239 deaths were confirmed in the country by the health ministry.\n\nIn March, burials had a delay of about a week and cremations took place in cities hundreds of miles away, as funeral homes struggled with the demand.\n\nSpain has recorded more than 1.1 million cases and 35,800 deaths since the outbreak began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nElsewhere, in France Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has reacted strongly to reports that a group of cadets at the national police school in Nimes held a clandestine party on the school's premises last week.\n\nHe described the reports as \"totally unacceptable\". \"If this is confirmed, the pupils responsible will not be worthy of wearing the uniform and will be excluded,\" he said.\n\nThe news came as France reported 46,290 cases in 24 hours, compared to 35,641 the previous day. Another 231 people died over the same period, bringing the total to 37,019.\n\nItaly is accelerating preparations for a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions in the country.\n\nOn Saturday, it reported 31,758 cases of the virus, a new daily record.\n\nHealth Minister Roberto Speranza warned that a nationwide lockdown appeared to be the only way to stop hospital wards becoming more crowded with coronavirus patients.\n\nIn an interview with newspaper, Corriere della Sera, Mr Speranza said the rising curve of transmission rates was \"terrifying\".\n\nRestrictions are already in place in the country with cinemas, swimming pools, theatres and gyms forced to close.\n\nBars, restaurants and cafes have to stop table service by 18:00. However shops and the majority of businesses are still operating.\n\nMourners kissed the hands of Montenegro's religious leader, despite the fact that he died with Covid-19\n\nIn Montenegro, thousands of people attended the funeral of the country's leading religious figure, Archbishop Amfilohije Radovic, who died with coronavirus on Friday, aged 82.\n\nDespite pleas from doctors to ban the funeral, the metropolitan's open coffin was paraded in front of crowds at the Serbian Orthodox cathedral in the capital Podgorica. Some mourners even touched or kissed his head or hands.\n\nThere are fears that the funeral will have made infection rates in the country - already among the highest in Europe - even worse.\n\nSlovakia has tested nearly half of its population after announcing a plan to test everyone in the country over 10 years old.\n\nInfections have soared in Slovakia and officials argue the only alternative would be a total lockdown.\n\nDefence Minister Jaroslav Nad confirmed that 2.58 million people took the test on Saturday. Of those, 25,850 have tested positive and must quarantine.\n\nMore than 2.58 million people in Slovakia have been tested\n\nOn Monday, new restrictions will come into effect in Germany. Daily infection rates have hit record highs over the past week.\n\nOn Saturday, the country recorded more than 20,000 cases.\n\nUnder the new measures, theatres, cinemas, swimming pools and bars must close. However schools and shops will remain open.\n\nSpeaking in parliament earlier this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of a long, hard winter ahead.\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?", "Many self-employed claim they have been excluded from other support schemes\n\nThe self-employed will be able to claim state aid of up to 80% of profits during the month-long lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.\n\nThe rise is up from the current 40%, and will mean £4.5bn of government support for the self-employed between November and January, he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has faced a backlash from within his own party over the new lockdown.\n\nThat criticism included not doing enough to help the self-employed.\n\nIt was also announced that businesses will continue to be able to apply to banks for government-backed support loans until 31 January, compared with a previous 30 November deadline for some of the programmes.\n\nEngland will enter a second lockdown on Thursday, which will close restaurants, pubs and non-essential shops until at least 2 December, although unlike the first lockdown in late March and April, schools will stay open for all pupils.\n\nUnder the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS), eligible workers can currently claim support covering 40% of their average earnings from last year to cover a period of three months, capped at £3,750.\n\nThe new enhanced scheme will open for applications from the end of November, and cover 80% of trading profits for that month. Including the new higher November grant, it means the November-January payment will be at 55% of profits, up to a maximum of £5,160.\n\nHowever, as eligibility criteria will be the same as for previous grants, critics said it still meant as many as 2.9 million freelancers, contractors and newly self employed people would remain excluded.\n\nThe Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) said the new measures will give \"vital support\" to some, but accused the government of still \"wilfully ignoring a third of self-employed\".\n\nDerek Cribb, the group's chief executive, said it was important to note the enhanced 80% rate only covered November, mirroring the extended furlough scheme. \"It is vital that if the furlough scheme is extended, SEISS should be adjusted accordingly,\" he said.\n\n\"It is deeply troubling that the government has still not fixed the devastating gaps in SEISS, despite urgent recommendations from the Treasury Select Committee. After so many calls to resolve the problems, it now looks as if the government is wilfully ignoring a third of the self-employed.\n\n\"The first lockdown drastically undermined self-employed incomes, and the gaps in government support led to the biggest drop in self-employed numbers on record.\n\n\"Unless government wakes up to the problem and supports all the self-employed, the second lockdown will accelerate the decline and hollow out swathes of this vital sector.\"\n\nSmall businesses have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to go even further than Mondays announcement\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) also warned that too many self-employed people remain excluded. FSB chairman Mike Cherry said: \"This is a five-million strong community that drives our economy forward, but the government has insisted that large swathes of it do not warrant any help where income is concerned.\n\n\"We have sadly already seen 250,000 self-employed people stop working and become economically inactive, a figure which is set to continue rising.\n\n\"Fundamentally, the business support landscape still remains too much of a mixed picture - a fact made all the more concerning given that this fresh lockdown in England is taking effect during the critical festive season.\"\n\nMonday's announcement increases help for many people - but, then again, many people still say it is not nearly enough.\n\nThe National Audit Office said last week up to 2.9 million people have been excluded from both the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme since March - some newly self-employed, others set up as limited companies and still others denied furlough.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said it was \"clear that many people have lost earnings and have not been able to access support\". Some have had little or no income for months, ineligible even for benefits. Yet they've paid their taxes and say they deserve the same level of support as everyone else.\n\nAccording to the ExcludedUK Facebook group, of 2,400 members in a recent poll, 79% described themselves as having trouble sleeping, 81% as being anxious or stressed, 58% had low self-esteem, 48% were depressed; and 14% had had suicidal thoughts - over three times the norm in the wider population.\n\nThe cross-party Treasury Committee said in June these exclusions \"cannot be right\" and Sir Keir Starmer told the CBI conference today the chancellor must close the gaps in support. But so far those gaps remain wide open.\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?\n• None What happens when furlough ends?", "Conservative MP Bob Seely voiced concerns about coronavirus data the government has been using and asked Boris Johnson to “publish in full, the four studies that have gone into the work this weekend”.\n\nAt Saturday’s government briefing, as the case for the new England lockdown was being made, a chart was used showing potential paths of the daily death count over the coming months.\n\nThe most eye-catching showed a peak of just above 4,000 deaths a day (roughly four times the figure during the worst days of the first wave). The rest were lower but still peaked at roughly double the level seen earlier this year.\n\nThese curves were all produced at the start of October, just after the rapid rise in cases that followed students returning to university. These were based on models for worst-case planning that assumed no changes in policy or behaviour.\n\nBut, since then, England has introduced a three-tier system of stricter measures and the epidemic has grown more slowly than the curves assumed it would.\n\nOn the day the chart was used, an average of 215 deaths had been reported each day in the previous week. That is far below the 1,000 a day envisioned by the most pessimistic model.\n\nBut it is only a little better than the most optimistic of the models, which still described a very high level of deaths through the winter.\n\nModels like these describe possible futures, if certain assumptions turn out to be true – but they do not predict the future.", "Businesses borrowing from banks will leap more than fivefold in 2020 compared to last year, according to analysis from the EY Item Club.\n\nThe economic forecaster found that net borrowing from banks rose to £43.2bn between January and August from £8.8bn for 2019.\n\nFirms have been adding to their borrowing in order to survive the pandemic as many have seen sales slump.\n\nIt expects the total stock of loans from banks to businesses to increase 11% to £493bn by the end of the year.\n\nThe figures excluded lending to other lenders and financial companies and included repayments.\n\n\"Financial Services Firms entered the pandemic in a position of capital strength and have supported the economy and business to unprecedented levels since March,\" Omar Ali, UK Financial Services Managing Partner at EY said.\n\n\"However, rising unemployment and the ongoing challenges faced by small businesses mean the outlook for the sector is testing.\"\n\nThe lending splurge peaked in March and net lending fell in the summer months as stronger businesses paid back money borrowed as a precaution, said the forecasters, who use a similar economic model to the Treasury.\n\n\"However, for the vast majority of firms the loans appear to have been critical, and it is forecast they won't start to repay debt, and reduce their borrowing, until 2022 or even later,\" the analysis said.\n\nThe rise in lending to business contrasts with a dip in consumer borrowing, the analysis found. Consumer loans will probably fall about 6%, the biggest drop since 2011.\n\nIt expects write-off rates on consumer credit to rise from 1.3% this year to 2.5% in 2021.", "Wales is in the middle of a 17-day firebreak lockdown\n\nThere will not be local lockdowns after the end of Wales' 17-day firebreak, First Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed.\n\nOnce the current Wales-wide restrictions end on 9 November, there will not be any local variations.\n\nBars, non-essential shops, restaurants, cafes and churches will reopen at the end of the current lockdown.\n\nBut the system of 17-separate local lockdowns will not return when new restrictions are announced on Monday.\n\nPlaid Cymru said any new restrictions should aim to bring the R number - the rate that the virus reproduces - below 1.\n\nMr Drakeford told a press conference the local lockdowns had helped, but were not sufficient to deal with the \"onslaught\" of the virus and \"didn't work well enough\".\n\nHe added: \"For the sake of clarity and simplicity, our decision is that the other side of the firebreak period from 9 November, we will have a set of national rules that will apply in all parts of Wales.\n\n\"I hope that that will help people in Wales, just to be clearer about what they are being asked to do.\n\n\"Because we have had evidence of people wanting to do the right thing, but not always being certain what the right thing is, because the rules have been more difficult to follow than we would have liked.\n\n\"We're going to simplify. We're going to clarify.\"\n\nMeanwhile, he said giving false information to NHS contact tracers would become a criminal offence in Wales, with fines to be decided.\n\nThere will be a legal requirement to self-isolate if asked to do so by contact tracers and employers will be banned from preventing people from doing so.\n\nSelf-isolating social care care workers will have sick-pay topped up to full pay, Mr Drakeford promised, and payments of £500 will be given for people on low incomes who are self-isolating.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have criticised ministers for first announcing the £500 payment a month ago, but failing to get the scheme up and running until now.\n\nSimilar schemes in England and Scotland are already in place.\n\nChief Medical Officer Frank Atherton is considering making the length of time people have to self-isolate shorter.\n\nMark Drakeford said recent scientific work says \"you are most infectious to somebody else in the two days before and the two days after you feel the first onset of symptoms\".\n\n\"By the time seven days have gone by, you know, that level of risk to other people has gone down quite a lot\", he told Capital South Wales radio.\n\nCurrently people need to self-isolate for between 10 and 14 days, depending on the circumstances.\n\nHe said community centres would be able to have \"groups of up to 15 people meeting in them\" over the winter when the firebreak ends on 9 November.\n\nMore will be done to encourage people to work from home after the lockdown ends, he added.\n\nThe 17-day lockdown was introduced on 23 October to stem a rise in coronavirus cases, which have continued to increase during the lockdown.\n\nThe press conference heard there were 1,700 more confirmed infections on Friday and 1,191 patients in hospital, up 20% in a week.\n\n\"They tell us, as I said earlier, just how important, and just how necessary, this firebreak period has been,\" Mr Drakeford said of the figures.\n\n\"Our hope has to be that the actions we are all taking will change the course of this disease,\" he added, saying the weeks that follow will show \"its full impact.\"\n\nAn estimated 26,100 people in Wales had coronavirus in the week up to 23 October, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said local lockdowns were not sufficient to deal with the \"onslaught\" of the virus\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said any plan for coming out of the firebreak \"must aim to keep R below 1, avoiding a third wave and the need for a further national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the key issue \"is still testing\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must focus on optimising Wales's own testing capacity through NHS and university laboratories in order to expedite the testing process and facilitate reaching the '24-hour turnaround' timescale target.\"\n\nCaerphilly was the first part of Wales to go into local lockdown\n\nThe first minister said a ban implemented prior to the firebreak banning people from areas of the UK with high levels of coronavirus from entering Wales could continue after 9 November.\n\nUnder lockdown no-one can travel into Wales except for a limited set of reasons - but in the days before people from tier 2 and tier 3 areas in England, the central belt in Scotland and Northern Ireland were subject to travel restrictions.\n\n\"I will want to study, over this weekend and into next week, the comparative incidence rates between Wales and parts of England which are under tier 2 and tier 3 restrictions,\" Mr Drakeford told the press conference.\n\n\"The point of asking people in those places not to travel into Wales was because the rate of virus circulation in those places was so much more than it is here.\n\n\"I'm afraid there is still a significant gap between those places and Wales.\n\n\"If that remains the same, then we will expect to have a similar regime after November 9 as we had prior to October 23\".\n\nHe said he would reveal on Monday whether people will be able to leave their respective counties - during local lockdowns most people in Wales were prevented from doing so.\n\nMr Drakeford said he would not anticipate that decision on Friday but was \"acutely aware\" of the impact the restrictions in the local lockdowns had had on peoples' lives.", "An officer run over when trying to stop a motorist from driving into runners has won a Pride of Britain award.\n\nPC Claire Bond was pursuing a drug dealer who had crashed into parked cars and was heading towards the ongoing Stafford 10k run.\n\nThe driver reversed, crushing her against a fence before flipping her in the air and dragging her along the ground, breaking her leg and kneecap.\n\nPC Bond dedicated her award to her husband and all police officers.\n\nShe and colleague PC Dave Mullins were called to reports of a car that had crashed into a garage in Coton Fields, Staffordshire, on 3 September 2018.\n\nPC Bond, of Walsall, had previously said she knew she had to stop Gurajdeep Mali from driving \"because if he got through, he was gonna be just driving straight into the 10k run\".\n\n\"I punched him in the face as hard as I could, saying 'get out of the car, stop the car'...\n\n\"He's driven me into a fence... [Later] I've looked down and my legs aren't looking good. They're pointing the wrong way and I just remember crying.\"\n\nMalhi drove at her again but her colleague managed to pull her to safety.\n\n\"To win a Pride of Britain Award, I am totally honoured,\" she said.\n\n\"I still can't get used to it. I was up until 3 o'clock the morning I found out, saying, 'Is this actually happening? This has actually happened hasn't it?'\"\n\nShe underwent a five-hour operation to save her legs\n\nShe underwent a five-hour operation to save her legs and has gone on to raise money for a police charity by completing the 10k race - nine in a wheelchair, but managing to walk the final kilometre with a stick.\n\nPC Bond said she still hoped to return to policing.\n\nPhil Jones, chairman of Staffordshire Police Federation, said the force was \"exceptionally proud\" of PC Bond and described her as an \"inspiration\".\n\nGurajdeep Malhi was jailed for 12 years and nine months\n\nMalhi was tracked down after the incident and cocaine with a street value of more than £2,000 was found in his BMW.\n\nHe was jailed in September 2019 for 12 years after admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent, as well as various driving and drug offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dozens of residents of this apartment block remain unaccounted for\n\nRescue teams in the Turkish port city of Izmir are continuing to search for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake, as officials say the death toll has increased to at least 64.\n\nSixty-two deaths have been confirmed in Turkey, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos.\n\nDozens of people remain unaccounted for following the quake.\n\nA 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a building in Izmir after being trapped for some 33 hours.\n\nThe US Geological Survey (USGS) said Friday's quake was 7.0 magnitude, but Turkey put it lower at 6.6.\n\nThe shallow tremor triggered tidal waves that hit coastal areas and islands in both Turkey and Greece.\n\nRescue teams were searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings in western Turkey for a third day on Sunday, hoping to find survivors.\n\nThousands of personnel were deployed to help with the rescue efforts, using mechanical diggers to remove blocks of concrete.\n\nA 70-year-old man, identified as Ahmet Citim, was pulled out from beneath the rubble of a destroyed residential building in Izmir in the early hours of Sunday morning and taken to hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTurkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca visited Mr Citim in hospital, and said he was doing well.\n\nLater on Sunday, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced the new national death toll of 62, all in Izmir.\n\nIt said more than 900 people had been injured, though the majority have now been discharged from hospitals.\n\nEight people are reported to be in intensive care.\n\nBuildings were damaged and destroyed in Friday's earthquake\n\nFood was distributed among survivors and thousands of tents set up for those unable to return to their homes.\n\nVice-President Fuat Oktay said 26 badly damaged buildings would be demolished.\n\n\"It's not the earthquake that kills but buildings,\" he told reporters.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government was \"determined to heal the wounds of our brothers and sisters in Izmir before the cold and rains begin\".\n\nThe earthquake struck 14km (nine miles) off the Greek town of Karlovasi on Samos island at 13:51 local time (11:51 GMT), according to the USGS.\n\nIt said the quake - which was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul - struck at a depth of 21km (13 miles), although Turkish officials said it was 16km below ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Powerful earthquake destroys buildings and causes flooding on Turkey's Aegean coast\n\nMost of the damage occurred in Izmir, off Turkey's Aegean coast - where the tremor sent many people running out into the streets in fear and panic.\n\n\"It was a really strong shaker almost enough to knock you off your feet. Running out of the house with my children was like a drunken wobble,\" Chris Bedford, a retired British teacher who lives in Urla, west of Izmir, told the BBC.\n\nThere were reports of flooding in Izmir after the sea level rose, with one person killed after their wheelchair was hit and overturned by rising water.\n\nIzmir is Turkey's third largest city with a population of nearly three million.\n\nTurkey and Greece both sit on fault lines and earthquakes are common.\n\nTwo teenagers were killed when a wall collapsed on Samos. Eight people were injured across the island, where about 45,000 people reside.\n\nA mini-tsunami flooded the port of Samos and a number of buildings were damaged. Greek officials put the magnitude of the tremor at 6.7.\n\n\"We felt it very strongly,\" local journalist Manos Stefanakis told the BBC.\n\nFareid Atta, another Samos-based journalist, told the BBC that the damage was \"quite extensive along the seafront\" of the island's main town.\n\n\"Many businesses will be going under after this,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows town on Greek island of Samos flooded by earthquake\n\n\"Whatever our differences, these are times when our people need to stand together,\" Mr Mitsotakis wrote in a tweet.\n\nMr Erdogan later responded in a tweet: \"Turkey, too, is always ready to help Greece heal its wounds. 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