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more than any other game in Bafta's history.", "Three-year-old Salwa made headlines with a game she played with her father to try not to be scared.", "The firm had hoped to revolutionise payments with a single digital currency.", "The supermarket warns that some accounts may have been compromised, but no data has been stolen.", "Managing the outbreak is a balancing act for the government with lots of unpredictable factors.", "Central bankers may be involved in the plan, which will acknowledge the potential impact on growth.", "Tests will be used to find out whether serious offenders should be returned to jail, under a new law.", "MPs will hear the experiences of women with endometriosis as part of an inquiry into the condition.", "Markets rise as policymakers launch fresh stimulus measures to tackle the impact of the virus.", "Ministers still face questions - despite promising more than £300bn to help the economy.", "Rishi Sunak announces \"unprecedented\" help for companies as the economy goes through an \"economic emergency\".", "There were reports of issues with voice calls at a time more people are working from home.", "Unions say the retailer is putting \"profit before safety\" as it tells some warehouse staff to work overtime.", "Brothers Hashem and Salman Abedi spent months preparing the Manchester Arena atrocity.", "The Leeds University study looked at 86 countries and came to broadly the same conclusions about the rich.", "The UK, US and France promise large sums to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.", "It is hoped the move will ease population pressures in jails across England and Wales.", "Experts answer your questions on the government’s measures in response to the coronavirus.", "More programmes, including The One Show, will focus on the coronavirus outbreak.", "The coronavirus crisis has turned into the biggest peacetime task any modern government has faced.", "A double lung transplant patient says younger people with health issues are being \"forgotten about\".", "All five UK sites are to close as a recent guest and member of staff test positive for coronavirus.", "The retailer is the latest business casualty of the pandemic as firms struggle with plunging demand.", "Clive Myrie is joined by BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym and other experts to answer your questions.", "Ministers were warned hundreds of thousands of people in the UK would die without stronger measures.", "Five ways to successfully self-isolate to prevent the spread of the virus.", "The move, which is not related to the coronavirus outbreak, will lead to 531 shops being shut.", "Lord Chief Justice bows to pressure from barristers and reaches \"compromise\" on halting length of cases.", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection", "Theatres around the UK shut after Prime Minister Boris Johnson advises people to avoid such venues.", "We all might feel the walls closing in a bit more, as more families have to spend time at home.", "Family members and friends have described their loved ones and paid tribute to their lives.", "The presenting duo resigned \"because it was not a kind show\" and had \"stiff words\" with producers.", "The move comes a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised people to avoid public venues.", "Climate change: It's Back to Nature on Britain's holiday coast", "Restrictions will be in place for 30 days initially but could be extended, the foreign secretary says.", "Euro 2020 is postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "A group of healthy, young volunteers in Seattle are being given the experimental jab.", "Meanwhile, fellow actor Idris Elba announces he has the virus - telling followers \"no panic\".", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson advises against mass gatherings amid the coronavirus outbreak - effectively cancelling all remaining sporting events.", "Many schools will not be able to stay open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.", "Emergency laws to tackle the outbreak and the Budget will get \"nodded through\" the Commons.", "A medical devices firm doubts that engineering companies can quickly switch to making ventilators.", "Cambridge scientists say they are working \"as hard and as fast as we possibly can\" to find a vaccine.", "The British-Iranian charity worker will be released for two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Small businesses across the country face bankruptcy as coronavirus fears put the brakes on the economy.", "Great Ormond Street Hospital is accused of putting reputation above patient care.", "Hashem Abedi is convicted of planning the suicide blast which left hundreds injured in May 2017.", "\"We’re looking at sending cheques to Americans immediately,\" says treasury secretary unveiling a rescue package.", "Boris Johnson announces significant new measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.", "The NHS tries to free up hospital beds to cope with coronavirus, £350bn in loans and aid is offered to firms, and major travel restrictions come in.", "Damani Mauge, 17, was found with fatal stab wounds on a bus in Croydon, police say.", "President Macron says the vote can go ahead, but said schools and colleges would shut from Monday.", "Reaction and analysis to the publication of Sir Patrick Coghlin's report into the RHI inquiry.", "They say they faced a backlash for wearing skirts due to \"deeply ingrained cultural pressures\".", "April's London Marathon is rearranged for 4 October because of the coronavirus outbreak, with marathons in Manchester and Brighton also postponed.", "Augusta National hope to stage The Masters \"at some later date\", after postponing April's tournament because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Peter Dutton, a senior member of government, woke up with a \"temperature and sore throat\".", "Several major sporting events were cancelled or postponed by the coronavirus outbreak on an unprecedented day. What sport is on and off?", "Robyn Williams has been unfairly targeted due to her race, the Met Black Police Association says.", "Food banks are asking the public to continue to donate as stockpiling affects their supplies.", "China Gold is found guilty of causing \"horrific\" injuries to Olivia Cooke at a pub in Kent.", "The new instalment in the hit film franchise is delayed as a result of the fallout from coronavirus.", "Disney boss Bob Chapek responded to a campaigner worried about the rising number of LGBT characters.", "Black and ethnic minorities face inequalities linked to mental illness a new report finds.", "Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash last year shortly after signing for Cardiff City.", "Buckingham Palace says changes to the Queen's diary commitments are a \"sensible precaution\".", "The Met was 'slow to learn lessons' from a report on its investigation into a VIP paedophile ring, says watchdog.", "Investigators also say the footballer, 28, would have been \"deeply unconscious\" during the crash.", "EU leaders said President Trump's decision was made \"unilaterally and without consultation\".", "Borders close and sports events are cancelled as leaders themselves are quarantined.", "Many major events have already been called off by organisers concerned about the spread of coronavirus.", "The delay comes as visitor access to Parliament is restricted to reduce the impact of the virus.", "Troublesome crabs on Australia's Christmas Island are suspected of pinching expensive equipment.", "The Australian Grand Prix is called off after teams and drivers forced the hand of Formula 1's bosses over coronavirus concerns.", "Measures include ending term early, moving teaching online and cancelling exams.", "Wasseim and his daughter are among the survivors of New Zealand's Christchurch mosques shooting.", "Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi and Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta have tested positive for coronavirus.", "A report into a renewable heating scheme that helped collapse NI's government will be published later.", "The St Patrick's Day celebration due at Trafalgar Square on Sunday has also been called off.", "The World Travel and Tourism Council says that up to 50 million jobs are at risk.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "All elite football in Britain is suspended until at least 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus.", "Head teachers back schools being kept open but ask for exams advice for worried parents.", "The company's 64-year-old co-founder will spend more time on philanthropic activities.", "Estimates suggest one in 20 people will develop the disorder, with a spike in diagnosis linked to obesity.", "A group of girls from London document being quarantined in an abandoned Vietnamese hospital.", "A judge rules that it is no longer necessary for her to testify in the inquiry into Wikileaks.", "Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tests positive for coronavirus and the club's game against Brighton on Saturday has been postponed.", "Hassan Yahya was carrying two knives when he was shot dead in Westminster on Sunday night.", "The scheme aims to ease the burden on Greece, where migrant camps are squalid and overcrowded.", "The order allows the federal government to tap up to $50bn (£40bn) in emergency relief funds.", "Equity says it was \"a mistake\" for the organisation to call the actor \"a disgrace\" to his industry.", "Footage shows the desperate search for PC Andrew Harper after he was dragged away by a car.", "Emily Eavis says her team is \"working hard\" and hopes the festival can go ahead in June.", "All Uefa competitions, including the Champions League and Europa League, are postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Dr Lisa Cameron had been in contact with the UK health minister, who has tested positive for the virus.", "The remainder of the Scottish football season is suspended indefinitely over fears about the coronavirus, the SPFL confirms.", "The UK government have issued the next stage of response to the virus, with added measures for the public.", "Brodie Gillon, killed on a military base, was \"destined for great things\", her commanding officer says.", "The government needs to \"get on\" with improving standards of estate agents, house sellers say.", "The only known example of a once-mythical prototype becomes the most expensive gaming item ever.", "Olivia Alkir is described by her family as a \"fun-loving, wise, ambitious individual\".", "The bill to clean up after storms Dennis and Ciara will be more than £360m, insurers say.", "A teenager and her brother are leading a campaign to make sign language part of the school curriculum.", "The death of the patient, who had underlying health issues, comes as the number of UK cases rises to 164.", "It means a total of 16 people have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus in Scotland.", "Vasconcelos's Instagram-friendly art is is all about vibrant colour and baroque kitsch.", "The 5% VAT rate will go in January, and the chancellor will also protect the future of cash in the Budget.", "Prince Harry and Meghan attend one of their final royal events in matching red outfits.", "But the owners of BA are critical of the move, saying alternative plans would not be ready by December.", "Former Wales centre Matthew J Watkins has died at the age of 41 after a long illness.", "Oxford Street was partially closed as fire crews tackled a blaze at a shop in central London.", "Trump ally Mark Meadows takes over the job, as Mr Mulvaney is sent to Northern Ireland as an envoy.", "The man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.", "The former Brazilian footballer and his brother, who was also arrested in Paraguay, deny wrongdoing.", "A series of controversies has highlighted the need for a single leader, says Suzy Davies AM.", "Lydia O'Sullivan normally contacts her family daily, but has not been in touch since 28 February.", "The men are being held on suspicion of murder after the woman in her 40s was found dead at her home.", "The move comes as Italy struggles with one of the worst outbreaks outside China.", "The £5.2bn over five years will mean 2,000 new flood defences in England, the Treasury says.", "Flames engulfed the centre on Saturday, as Greece announced fresh restrictions on asylum seekers.", "Clashes have erupted at Turkey's border with Greece, where migrants seeking access to the EU have gathered.", "A health chief says measures to slow the spread must be proportionate and warns against panic-buying.", "Lydia O'Sullivan is found after photos of her posted by a mountain retreat are spotted online.", "Scotland's Women's Six Nations match with France in Glasgow on Saturday is postponed after one of the home players tests positive for coronavirus.", "The family of a man who died with coronavirus say they cannot arrange his funeral because they are self-isolating.", "Amber Rudd was given 30 minutes notice that her appearance at Oxford University was cancelled.", "Scotstoun sports campus closes after a Scotland women's rugby player tests positive for coronavirus.", "A 64-year-old man from Glasgow and a 30-year-old man from County Antrim were also detained.", "The former president was impeached in 1998 for lying to investigators about the affair.", "England survive a late red card for Manu Tuilagi to secure a first Triple Crown in four years and inflict a third successive defeat on Wales.", "The hotel in Quanzhou was being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility, state media says.", "Prince Harry joins Lewis Hamilton to cut the ribbon on the Silverstone Experience.", "London paramedics are asked to shave but plans to order them to do so have been put on hold.", "The teenager was found seriously injured in a house in North Lanarkshire but died later in hospital.", "The 17-year-old girl's younger brother and mother were also attacked by Joseph McCann in their home.", "The Dow rose more than 11% for its best day since 1933, while the FTSE 100 closed 9% higher.", "Commons and Lords will stay empty until after the Easter break, to combat the spread of coronavirus.", "The system is reeling as hundreds of thousands of people, suddenly without work, try to claim support.", "The exemption comes into force on 30 March which means vehicles due an MOT before then must take it.", "Rishi Sunak says bailing out airlines would be a \"last resort\" as the sector braces for a $252bn loss.", "Pedestrian Anisha Vidal-Garner died when she was hit by a car in south London.", "The foreign secretary is urged by MPs to step up efforts to help thousands of people get home.", "The health secretary addresses confusion over what workers should do, as UK deaths rise by 87 in a day.", "Netflix has also pledged £1m for TV and film workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "The social media platform has seen usage rocket in countries hardest hit by coronavirus lockdowns.", "Facing medical supply shortages, two US states impose restrictions - critics warn move goes too far.", "The disco hit is deemed historically important enough to enter the US National Recording Registry.", "The former Beautiful South duo will give away 9,000 tickets to hospital staff to say thank you.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Coronavirus poses an \"acute\" risk in prisons, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says.", "The Labour leader says his \"voice will not be stilled\" as he faces Boris Johnson for the final time.", "The Prince of Wales, 71, has mild symptoms but \"otherwise remains in good health,\" Clarence House says.", "Evidence that could lead to the execution of two of the IS murder squad should not have been sent to the US.", "The All England Club will make a decision on this year's Wimbledon next week, with postponement and cancellation possible.", "The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak reaches another grim milestone.", "Newsroom cuts won't be made while journalists face the demands of covering the coronavirus pandemic.", "Stocks keep gains as the president and the US Senate agree a massive stimulus package for the economy.", "This news briefing has ended.", "Brighton girls Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were sexually assaulted and strangled in 1986.", "A controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object which was discovered near Rosslea.", "Government updates list of shops allowed to open during the pandemic to include those selling alcohol.", "Confusion deepens as some firms decide to stay open, citing government guidelines for essential work.", "People have been quarantined at immigration removal units, the BBC is told.", "Shops have brought in a host of measures following the introduction of strict new government curbs.", "Steven Dick, 37, who worked at the British Embassy in Budapest, died on Tuesday.", "All the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak in Wales as it happened.", "London mayor Sadiq Khan said the number of Tube passengers fell by a third on Wednesday.", "With millions of people working from home, media watchdog Ofcom issues tips to boost internet speed.", "Kirsten and Richard Groom's dream wedding was thrown into doubt by the coronavirus restrictions.", "More than 20 people were \"freely mingling and standing shoulder to shoulder round a buffet\".", "The drastic move is announced as Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is quarantining herself.", "Participants of cancelled events are choosing to carry on with their challenges alone.", "An army of volunteers joins Mutual Aid groups to help the vulnerable during the coronavirus crisis.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged the public to follow the government's Covid-19 advice and help save lives.", "Care home residents have found their own ways of contacting their friends and families on Mother’s Day.", "New York's mayor issues a stark warning as the state struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "The man people call to minimise the risk of coronavirus spreading.", "The London-based start-up expands its network with a Soyuz launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan", "Seven more deaths were confirmed and visitors were urged to stay away from popular places.", "Sue Bonnington says the mammals are in \"serious danger\" and caring for them makes her happy.", "Restaurant chains including McDonald's and Nando's close, saying they want to protect staff and customers.", "The fashion chain says it wants to protect the health of employees and customers.", "Southampton's chief executive suggests Premier League matches could be on television every day while people are still confined to their homes because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Prisoners held protests against overcrowding and poor health services during the coronavirus outbreak.", "The government's message comes as supermarkets are facing a huge demand during the coronavirus outbreak.", "With the impact that coronavirus is having on our daily lives, people are finding new ways to fill their free time.", "Pubs that flout government instructions to close are putting lives at risk, says the first minister.", "They will be advised to stay at home for 12 weeks, as the UK's death total reaches 281.", "Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday's curfew would test India's ability to fight the virus.", "A 59-year-old appears in court after fake treatment kits were sold online.", "From environmental improvements to acts of kindness, there are glimmers of light amid the crisis.", "One beach has been forced to shut, while a police commissioner calls for arcades to close.", "A 30-year-old woman, who is not known to the girl's family, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.", "Communities urge those trying to escape the city not to travel north to avoid the coronavirus outbreak.", "Private hospitals will reallocate almost their entire capacity to tackling the coronavirus outbreak.", "The 51-year-old is accused of loosening bolts on a railway track just before a bridge outside Frankfurt.", "A campaign group says people without technology could be forgotten as interaction moves online.", "Stephen Fry looks at the positives around self-isolation and managing stress.", "Russia's president intends to defy the spread of coronavirus and push ahead with a national vote.", "The Coratian PM says the 5.3 magnitude earthquake is the largest to hit Zagreb in 140 years.", "A senior nurse warns there will not be a functioning health service without widespread testing.", "An 18-year-old with underlying health issues dies in England after testing positive for coronavirus.", "Religious communities take on the coronavirus lockdown by going virtual.", "The 5.3-magnitude tremor sent chunks of buildings falling into the streets in Zagreb.", "A group due to dance at a football game on World Down's Syndrome Day will continue to share \"hope\".", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Eight million people use Mumbai's suburban train network every day - and it's an easy vector of transmission.", "The International Olympic Committee is considering a postponement of Tokyo 2020, and has given itself a deadline of four weeks to make a decision.", "Tourists are urged to stay away from parks and beaches as social distance rules are flouted.", "The country expands restrictions on social interaction as Chancellor Merkel goes into quarantine.", "Arlene Foster says schools will shut at some point but Michelle O'Neill repeats immediate closures call.", "It comes as mosques prepare for virus to affect Ramadan and synagogues ask worshippers not to shake hands.", "Sporting fixtures, cultural events and holiday flights are all disrupted.", "Swansea Bay University Health Board is introducing the restrictions immediately.", "Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead as planned in July, despite coronavirus concerns.", "The attack comes a day after US air strikes in retaliation for a previous attack on the base.", "Some of the money will go to projects dealing with challenges caused by the coronavirus.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "The Air Charter Association says the death of Emiliano Sala should be a \"watershed moment\".", "Reaction and analysis to the publication of Sir Patrick Coghlin's report into the RHI inquiry.", "The move on 14 March came as President Donald Trump confirmed he has been tested for coronavirus.", "Investigators also say the footballer, 28, would have been \"deeply unconscious\" during the crash.", "Prisons in England and Wales bring in measures to deal with \"unprecedented\" challenges.", "Many major events have already been called off by organisers concerned about the spread of coronavirus.", "How the popular video game Minecraft is being used as a way for journalism to beat global censors.", "The company's 64-year-old co-founder will spend more time on philanthropic activities.", "A group of girls from London document being quarantined in an abandoned Vietnamese hospital.", "The delay comes as visitor access to Parliament is restricted to reduce the impact of the virus.", "Several major sporting events were cancelled or postponed by the coronavirus outbreak on an unprecedented day. What sport is on and off?", "Robyn Williams has been unfairly targeted due to her race, the Met Black Police Association says.", "Abdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, died from gunshot wounds to his back, West Midlands Police say.", "The author has learnt a thing or two himself from the Sweet Swan of Avon about the art of storytelling.", "More than 200 scientists write to the government calling for tougher measures to tackle Covid-19.", "Kate Forbes has also promised a £50m hardship fund for people who lose their jobs as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.", "Holidaymakers due to return await news on planes and at airports as the country prepares for lockdown.", "Hassan Yahya was carrying two knives when he was shot dead in Westminster on Sunday night.", "UK Hospitality says well-known cafe, dining and pub chains could fold because of the coronavirus.", "The order allows the federal government to tap up to $50bn (£40bn) in emergency relief funds.", "PM Jacinda Ardern says it is the world's strictest measure, with only Pacific islanders being exempt.", "Rebel Tory MPs fail to pass their amendment blocking the company's involvement in the UK's 5G network.", "Belfast's parade has been postponed along with all parades in the Republic of Ireland.", "The Chinese Jingye Group has reportedly paid about £50m for the British steel manufacturer.", "Court of Appeal judges dismiss the appeal, which argued the lack of choice breached human rights.", "Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League campaign comes to an end as they are well beaten by RB Leipzig in the last 16.", "Health officials say nine more individuals have tested positive for the virus bringing total to 15.", "A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died in hospital in Watford, the NHS says.", "RBS, TSB, and Lloyds will allow borrowers to defer mortgage and loan repayments for up to three months.", "A rape survivor, living in a specially adapted home for her safety, had housing benefits cut by 14%.", "Police are investigating whether New South Wales politician David Elliott broke the law at a gun range.", "Lottie, a three-year-old Dalmatian, was taken from a home in Leicestershire before Christmas.", "The Cookstown-born businessman managed boxer Barry McGuigan to world title success.", "A strap trailing behind a car \"lassoed\" PC Andrew Harper's ankles before his death, a court hears.", "Rangers found the carcasses of a female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya.", "The withdrawal is part of an historic peace deal with the Taliban that aims to end the 18-year war.", "Scientists reveal the average incubation time for the virus that's infected more than 116,000 people globally.", "Thanks to a BBC report, Hana Bedong was reunited with her son, who she last saw when he was six.", "The Italian football federation (FIGC) says after a meeting on Tuesday that the Serie A season may not finish because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "The father of London Bridge victim Jack Merritt says longer sentences are \"not a solution\" to extremism.", "Several Middle East countries ban the film because of a reference to lesbian parents, reports say.", "The singer and former X Factor judge says the condition causes her \"face to drop on occasions\".", "Nell had run off during the earlier rescue of her owner in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands.", "Kaden Reddick, 10, died in 2017 after the 110kg barrier fell on his head at a store in Reading.", "NI's biggest cinema chain introduces a 'seat separation' policy in response to coronavirus.", "Nadine Dorries is self-isolating at home, while another MP says she has been advised to do the same.", "A woman who has accused Alex Salmond of sexual assault denies suggestions that the incidents did not happen.", "Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has coronavirus, the Championship club confirm in a statement.", "Wales' \"very large proportion of older people\" should be considered in the fight against the virus.", "Medical advice could change within 10 to 14 days, as a fifth person is confirmed to have died.", "Fourteen flood warnings remain in place across Wales with travel disruption caused by flood water.", "The federal government has introduced legislation that would criminalise the discredited practice.", "The actor appeared in more than 100 films and TV series, from The Exorcist to Game of Thrones.", "Afghan President Ashraf Ghani agrees to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners as negotiations begin.", "Two County Armagh schools, two amateur football clubs and a Belfast GAA club close over virus concerns.", "A man in his early 80s with underlying health conditions died in hospital in Watford, the NHS says.", "Russia's president says the final decision would be in the hands of the Constitutional Court.", "Joe Biden wins in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan in his duel with Bernie Sanders for Democratic nomination.", "Millions of women stay away from work and school to show what a society without women looks like.", "There are now 16 cases in Northern Ireland and a total of 34 cases in the Republic of Ireland.", "The 60-year-old, the third person to die with the disease in the UK, was in quarantine, his son says.", "Rishi Sunak says there will be over £600bn put into infrastructure projects over five years.", "Sky says an employee in its Cardiff contact centre has been diagnosed with Covid-19.", "The entire population - some 60 million people - started having their movements restricted on 10 March.", "The UK cannot reach net zero before 2050 unless people stop flying and eating red meat, a report says.", "Kaila Haines found herself stuck in Milan due to Italy's efforts to contain the coronavirus.", "Damani Mauge was killed in south London on Sunday evening after a fight broke out on a bus, police say.", "President Xi Jinping says the spread of the disease had been \"basically curbed\" in Hubei province.", "Ofcom received 309 complaints that rapper Dave's performance was racist against white people.", "A BBC data request reveals what data is being stored by the Amazon-owned business about its users.", "The report also found that WeChat censored more keywords as the outbreak grew.", "Japan's Olympic minister says the Tokyo 2020 games could be postponed from the summer until later in the year amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak.", "The annual dog show, which starts on Thursday, will go ahead with \"enhanced measures\" to protect visitors.", "The video platform said it would remove such content from its platform when reported.", "The education minister confirms institutions will be closed across the country until mid-March.", "The UK foreign secretary is to raise areas of \"difference\" on visit, as well as the Yemen conflict.", "A £100m government loan to help stabilise the business is now unlikely to happen, the BBC understands.", "Schools in areas with worse public transport seem to have lower results, research suggests.", "He says he was not aware of safety concerns over the use of combustible panels on housing blocks.", "Justin Rowlatt reports from Antarctica's Ross Sea, where rising temperatures could affect marine life.", "Action by the broadcaster and naturalist comes after the high-speed rail link was approved last month.", "Ross Barkley says it was \"a dream\" to score against Liverpool as he helped Chelsea reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.", "Joe Biden claims big wins as he eyes Democratic nomination, but Bernie Sanders still performs well.", "Jeremy Corbyn accuses the PM of having \"no shame\" after more claims about the home secretary emerge.", "The Commons also debated flooding and health inequalities.", "Fourteen states will pick who they want to run against Trump. We may soon know the likely nominee.", "Claims that stretched resources and a lack of information for women mean some are being denied.", "Sir Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey quizzed by Andrew Neil on whether they have what it takes.", "At least 22 people have died after two tornadoes ripped through central Tennessee.", "Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford will play 10 UK and Ireland dates later this year.", "The officer suffered stab wounds to his head, chest and face at HMP Whitemoor in January.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a string of formal events during the day.", "Attackers using stolen passwords have tried to access Boots accounts, the company says.", "The government is consulting on making lower carbon E10 the new standard grade of fuel for vehicles.", "Jeffrey Gafoor, who killed Ms White in a row over £30, evaded justice for more than 10 years.", "In a tribute, 16-year-old Ramani Morgan's family say he was \"kind, caring, and humble\".", "The cash will help MPs deal with \"challenging\" casework, including constituents with mental health issues.", "The medal was awarded to a boxer who helped save Princess Anne from an attempted armed kidnap.", "The government says it will declare coronavirus a \"notifiable disease\" after pressure from businesses.", "Myfanwy Elliot denies theft and says the packet was used to carry aspirin for a heart condition.", "BBC Panorama broadcast footage from inside a scam call centre - now its owner is in police custody.", "Tim Krul was the hero as Norwich beat Tottenham on penalties after a 1-1 draw to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 28 years.", "What is life like for a family living in one of Italy's quarantined villages?", "Three-year-old Salwa made headlines with a game she played with her father to try not to be scared.", "The ex-mayor of New York suffers a series of defeats - but insists he's the man to beat the president.", "Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders gave victory speeches and made some not-so-subtle digs at each other.", "One is a postgraduate student at Queen's University who had been in northern Italy, the BBC understands.", "There is no need to investigate police contact with Caroline Flack before her death, a watchdog says.", "The home secretary urges staff to \"come together\" after Sir Philip Rutnam's exit over bullying claims.", "Woody Allen's son is \"disappointed\" that his own publisher will also release his father's book.", "Two years ago an attack on a former Russian spy in the UK sent shockwaves though MI6.", "The operators of the petrochemical plant in Fife have blamed a problem with a major compressor at the site.", "Finance chiefs including US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin will use \"all tools\" to tackle the hit to growth.", "Can you match the A-list admirer to the US election candidate they're backing?", "America's central bank makes the biggest interest rate cut since the financial crisis.", "The claims are from her time at DfID and follow similar allegations from the Home Office and DWP.", "Pharmacy chains say they are limiting hand gel sales as demand spikes amid coronavirus fears.", "The firm had hoped to revolutionise payments with a single digital currency.", "Tuesday's storm was so fast-moving that many people didn't have time to take shelter.", "Commons and Lords will stay empty until after the Easter break, to combat the spread of coronavirus.", "In a South Korean ICU, nurses wearing heavy self-contained respiratory systems work two-hour shifts.", "Singapore's sharp slowdown suggests a major contraction for a world economy battling coronavirus.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils a package of support for self-employed workers facing financial difficulties.", "People should be \"emotionally more open\" after the coronavirus pandemic, says Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta following his recovery from the illness.", "Buyers and renters should delay moving while emergency measures are in place, the government says.", "Josiah and Tahlia Lenton are asking people to obey the rules on social isolation.", "Rishi Sunak says the money will be paid in a single lump sum, but will not begin to arrive until June.", "A petition signed by 400,000 called on the government to thank NHS staff by axing the fees.", "The number of people in the US seeking jobless benefits jumped to nearly 3.3 million last week.", "Pre-1960s handwritten rain gauge data can inform drought and flood planning, but only if digitised.", "Edwin Hillier was an inmate at HMP Littlehey, a category C sex offenders' prison.", "Anxiety UK have experienced a big rise in callers since the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "With 82,404, the US now has more cases, but President Trump says this is due to widespread testing.", "The Prince of Wales, 71, has mild symptoms but \"otherwise remains in good health,\" Clarence House says.", "The army says officers from the Royal Engineers have been assessing Glasgow's SEC as a temporary hospital.", "Evidence that could lead to the execution of two of the IS murder squad should not have been sent to the US.", "New powers will allow Scottish police to hand out fines to anyone breaking social distancing rules.", "Doctors fear some patients could have the virus but no symptoms and unwittingly infect staff.", "The All England Club will make a decision on this year's Wimbledon next week, with postponement and cancellation possible.", "It is hoped more militias will follow suit to allow people to get medical treatment amid the pandemic.", "The UK thanks frontline coronavirus staff as firefighters agree to drive ambulances to help the NHS.", "A report on the global impact of Covid-19 finds the effects on developing countries will be greatest.", "Amazon and Microsoft are among those helping with a dashboard to model where ventilators should go.", "Stocks keep gains as the president and the US Senate agree a massive stimulus package for the economy.", "The self-employed will be paid up to £2,500 a month to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The chancellor's coronavirus support package comes after the PM pledges to do \"whatever we can\".", "Government updates list of shops allowed to open during the pandemic to include those selling alcohol.", "Steven Dick, 37, who worked at the British Embassy in Budapest, died on Tuesday.", "All the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak in Wales as it happened.", "A package to help the self-employed was unveiled and new fines came into force.", "The death toll has risen from 475 to 578, the Department of Health and Social Care confirms.", "Experts say demand outside of China is likely to be weak because of the virus pandemic and absent apps.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Labour demands an \"urgent explanation\" from ministers over why they did not join EU equipment plan.", "The service, provided by the government, failed to respond to some users when launched on Wednesday.", "The 31-year-old daughter of the Duke of York is due to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29.", "Rishi Sunak announces \"unprecedented\" help for companies as the economy goes through an \"economic emergency\".", "There were reports of issues with voice calls at a time more people are working from home.", "Tories and Labour ordered that only those asking the PM questions attend, amid coronavirus fears.", "A double lung transplant patient says younger people with health issues are being \"forgotten about\".", "Online shopping website Ocado has suspended its service as supermarkets crack down on stockpiling.", "The 28-year-old, who cannot be named, was jailed for at least 17 years last month for her murder.", "Five ways to successfully self-isolate to prevent the spread of the virus.", "A group of protesters are angry about the use of facial recognition cameras by police in London.", "The British-Iranian charity worker will be released for two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "Scottish minister Mike Russell says preparations for an independence referendum are on hold.", "\"We’re looking at sending cheques to Americans immediately,\" says treasury secretary unveiling a rescue package.", "The announcement comes after the total number of confirmed cases in the Republic rose to 223.", "Experts answer your questions on the government’s measures in response to the coronavirus.", "Exams in England and Wales will not go ahead this academic year, as the coronavirus outbreak worsens.", "Venetians say they're seeing fish once again in the city's famous waters.", "Schools in England are expected to follow suit as the UK coronavirus death toll jumps by 32 to 104.", "Climate change: It's Back to Nature on Britain's holiday coast", "Euro 2020 is postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Many schools will not be able to stay open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.", "Cambridge scientists say they are working \"as hard and as fast as we possibly can\" to find a vaccine.", "Small businesses across the country face bankruptcy as coronavirus fears put the brakes on the economy.", "\"We, like the millions of you around the world, are extremely saddened,\" say organisers.", "Hashem Abedi is convicted of planning the suicide blast which left hundreds injured in May 2017.", "The violinists say their widely shared performance is about coping and having a laugh in tough times.", "Ministers still face questions - despite promising more than £300bn to help the economy.", "Restaurant owner Peter Kinsella has written a heartfelt open letter to Boris Johnson.", "The government had been urged to do more for families, workers and tenants affected by coronavirus.", "Firms which support people at home are struggling with the extra demands, care chiefs say.", "Nearly 500 deaths are registered in Italy, the highest one-day total of any country in the outbreak.", "More programmes, including The One Show, will focus on the coronavirus outbreak.", "The coronavirus crisis has turned into the biggest peacetime task any modern government has faced.", "Lord Chief Justice bows to pressure from barristers and reaches \"compromise\" on halting length of cases.", "Health workers feel like \"cannon fodder\" as they don't have equipment to keep them safe from the virus.", "The Independent Monitoring Board also had concerns about women facing homelessness on release.", "Rail timetable reductions could take effect in days as train firms deal coronavirus effects.", "There is help for firms thinking of cutting jobs because of the coronavirus crisis, says Andrew Bailey.", "The bill protects troops from prosecution for alleged historical offences in conflicts overseas.", "Older people who may not already have video-calling devices are being told to avoid leaving home.", "Boris Johnson has announced that schools in the UK will close to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.", "The pound falls to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, trading at $1.15.", "The NHS tries to free up hospital beds to cope with coronavirus, £350bn in loans and aid is offered to firms, and major travel restrictions come in.", "A newly discovered fossil bird could be the oldest-known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.", "A rural GP says local health services will not be able to cope with a surge in people relocating.", "Olympic organisers warn \"no solution will be ideal\" in preparing for Tokyo 2020 after being accused of putting athletes \"in danger\".", "Craig Ruston, who had motor neurone disease, died on Monday morning in Kettering.", "Keep the message calm, understandable and try not to overemphasise the risks, experts suggest.", "The chancellor's coronavirus stimulus measures are bold but speed is of the essence.", "We all might feel the walls closing in a bit more, as more families have to spend time at home.", "Different accounts of an alleged 2015 fight with Amber Heard are debated at a preliminary hearing.", "Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar had been due to headline the event in June.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Production of BBC dramas Casualty, Doctors and Holby City is also on hold until further notice.", "Mohamed Haouas is sent off as Scotland beat France 28-17 to end their bid for a Six Nations Grand Slam with a fourth consecutive Murrayfield defeat.", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says it is a \"privilege\" to manage his players as they complete the Premier League double over Manchester City.", "It means a total of 16 people have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus in Scotland.", "California senator Kamala Harris says Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate to \"unify the people\".", "Italy is restricting the movement of up to 16 million people across the north of the country", "Financial institutions launch contingency plans to keep markets humming as coronavirus spreads in UK.", "New measures in an upcoming bill will also see an expansion of the use of video hearings in courts.", "Ruth and Zac Jones have complained to police 50 times about incidents involving arson.", "Prince Harry and Meghan attend one of their final royal events in matching red outfits.", "But the owners of BA are critical of the move, saying alternative plans would not be ready by December.", "Plans to double funding for flood defences in England over the next five years have been announced.", "The supermarket begins restricting sales of some food and household goods amid signs of stockpiling.", "Garlic and taking hot baths are among the dodgy health advice for treating coronavirus being shared online.", "Due to the threat of coronavirus, Pope Francis delivers his weekly blessing via videolink to avoid large crowds gathering in the Vatican.", "The Duchess of Sussex made a surprise visit to a school to mark International Women's Day.", "It follows a five-year campaign by mum Catriona Ogilvy whose petition was signed by thousands.", "The 17-year-old girl's younger brother and mother were also attacked by Joseph McCann in their home.", "Measures such as school closures will not yet be introduced, as the UK's fourth virus death is confirmed.", "Formula 1's season-opener will go ahead as planned in Melbourne with fans in attendance, says race chief Andrew Westacott.", "Services from London Euston will be delayed or cancelled after 1,000m of cables were damaged.", "Australia demolish India by 85 runs to win their fifth Women's T20 World Cup in front of a 86,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.", "A 36-year-old woman is arrested on suspicion of murder after a baby's body is found in Hampshire.", "The move comes as Italy struggles with one of the worst outbreaks outside China.", "The chancellor says he is also considering more support for businesses and individuals in an epidemic.", "But he says there was \"always a bit of a tussle\" between left and right in the party.", "Flames engulfed the centre on Saturday, as Greece announced fresh restrictions on asylum seekers.", "The £5.2bn over five years will mean 2,000 new flood defences in England, the Treasury says.", "Clashes have erupted at Turkey's border with Greece, where migrants seeking access to the EU have gathered.", "Scottish Women's Aid says increased demand means it now supports more than 1,000 victims on any given day.", "The cause of 64-year-old Janice Child's death was severe blunt force head injuries, police say.", "The family of a man who died with coronavirus say they cannot arrange his funeral because they are self-isolating.", "Scotstoun sports campus closes after a Scotland women's rugby player tests positive for coronavirus.", "A 64-year-old man from Glasgow and a 30-year-old man from County Antrim were also detained.", "The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death.", "The 20-month-old was taken to hospital after officers went to a property in Mansfield.", "England survive a late red card for Manu Tuilagi to secure a first Triple Crown in four years and inflict a third successive defeat on Wales.", "Four people are treated in hospital following a fire at a flat in Flax Street in north Belfast.", "Tanya Lloyd was refused entry by Exeter Chiefs at the end of \"one of the worst weeks of my career\".", "London paramedics are asked to shave but plans to order them to do so have been put on hold.", "The hotel in Quanzhou was being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility, state media says.", "The Oxford West and Abingdon MP said her party needed to focus on a \"positive vision for the UK\".", "A number of homes are evacuated as the bomb squad remove parts of the failed device to make it safe.", "The search for survivors continues at the building which was being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility.", "The pair won the Radio Academy awards for best new show and best music breakfast show respectively.", "The singer's trial in Chicago is delayed after prosecutors seize new items including phones and iPads.", "As the airline operates 80% of flights at Belfast City Airport, the implications are huge for the region.", "The partnership, which also owns Waitrose, is reviewing the business after its annual profits dive.", "England are eliminated from the Women's T20 World Cup without a ball being bowled as their semi-final against India is washed out.", "England's Six Nations games against Italy in Rome on 14 and 15 March are postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.", "The video platform said it would remove such content from its platform when reported.", "Joseph McCann committed 37 offences against 11 people after being released from jail.", "A study has called into question the measures to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade.", "Yusuf Mohamed was stabbed \"for no obvious reason\" as he walked down the street with friends.", "The 21-year-old PC's arrest is understood to be related to banned neo-Nazi group National Action.", "Figures suggest that IT now generates as much CO2 as flying, with some arguing it's nearly double.", "The star uses the video for Never Worn White to announce she's having a baby with Orlando Bloom.", "The former Brazil forward, who denies wrongdoing, has not been arrested but is still under investigation.", "The chancellor will refocus the National Infrastructure Strategy in line with \"net zero\" climate ambitions.", "The Muslim Council of Britain claims Islamophobia in the party is \"systemic and widespread\".", "Events as they happened on 5 March 2020, as countries across the world battle to contain the virus.", "There were \"serious failures\" in how Save the Children UK dealt with complaints, a watchdog says.", "East Kent Hospitals did not learn from past failings, say a couple whose baby nearly died in 2012.", "Officers are trying to trace the mother after the newborn was discovered near Southampton.", "It was one of the couple's final public engagements before they quit royal life later this month.", "Claims that stretched resources and a lack of information for women mean some are being denied.", "The Herald Sun said women's Australian rules players and commentators called for the measure.", "Flybe operated 14 routes from Belfast City Airport, making up about 80% of all scheduled flights.", "Sir Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey quizzed by Andrew Neil on whether they have what it takes.", "Tony Brien, who was abused by scout Ted Langford, said he wanted an apology from the clubs involved.", "New statistics highlight the wealthiest and poorest neighbourhoods in England and Wales.", "What do aviation experts, businesses, and consumers in the regions make of the airline's demise?", "Henrietta Mitaire assaulted Captain Guido Keel after being told not to take a buggy in the cabin.", "Jolyon Maugham apologises for the \"tone\" of his tweets that said he killed a fox with a baseball bat.", "Attackers using stolen passwords have tried to access Boots accounts, the company says.", "Oliver Dowden says the corporation needs to do more to reflect the UK's \"genuine diversity\".", "Sheikh Mohammed told his estranged wife she would \"never be safe in England\", the High Court says.", "Thirty-seven-year-old Ruth Williamson is hoping the drugs will slow down the fatal condition.", "BBC Panorama broadcast footage from inside a scam call centre - now its owner is in police custody.", "Tim Krul was the hero as Norwich beat Tottenham on penalties after a 1-1 draw to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 28 years.", "Trials of a vaccine for cattle will take place, while more badgers will also be vaccinated.", "A hospital list and a doctor's letter containing confidential details are found at a nature reserve.", "Eric Dier was involved in a confrontation in the stands at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after being \"insulted\" by a fan, says boss Jose Mourinho.", "The Duke of Cambridge says relationships between people are \"more essential\" than legal treaties.", "The move comes after world governments and central banks have taken action to ease the outbreak's impact.", "Keep the message calm, understandable and try not to overemphasise the risks, experts suggest.", "Users took to Twitter to complain the micro-blogging site was just following the competition.", "The celebrity chef shares a laugh with Prince Charles as he receives the gong at Buckingham Palace.", "The UN Development Programme analysed biases against gender in 75 countries around the world.", "Pharmacy chains say they are limiting hand gel sales as demand spikes amid coronavirus fears.", "Police numbers in England and Wales fell by 21,000 between 2010 and 2018.", "The new UK blue passport is as \"near as damn it black\", an expert on colours says.", "The firm said \"insufficient protection\" meant customers' details were made accessible for 10 months.", "Off-duty Lucy Duncan spends five hours in A&E with the elderly stranger after a car crash.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said there would be increased antigen testing for frontline workers.", "The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.", "The UN warns that camps for the displaced in north-western Syria could be devastated by coronavirus.", "Some people who fall outside the terms of the rescue grants say their hopes have been dashed.", "People should be \"emotionally more open\" after the coronavirus pandemic, says Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta following his recovery from the illness.", "Public transport and active travel will be the \"natural first choice\", the Transport Secretary says.", "You'll Never Walk Alone is among tracks enjoying renewed popularity amid the coronavirus crisis.", "Buyers and renters should delay moving while emergency measures are in place, the government says.", "It is believed to be the biggest daily rise in the world taking the country's total fatalities to 9,134.", "New advice clarifies that people should use \"open spaces\" close to home when they go out for exercise.", "The singer says Little Mix are going back to \"pure pop\" after splitting with Simon Cowell.", "People must not travel beyond two kilometres from their home unless absolutely necessary.", "The health secretary also has the virus, England's chief medical officer has symptoms, and the number of UK deaths jumps to 759.", "Police in England and Wales have fined people for ignoring guidance to stop the spread of coronavirus.", "Investors are betting that measures by the US and G20 will ease the economic impact of the pandemic.", "Nations, like individuals, reveal themselves at times of crisis. So what does this global catastrophe tell us?", "Boris Johnson vows to carry on working with coronavirus, but it's not business as usual.", "After trade from business stops, food and drink wholesalers are launching online home deliveries.", "Mike Ashley admits it was a mistake to lobby the government to keep his shops open.", "The government insists the coronavirus crisis will not slow its timetable for reaching a trade deal.", "It is hoped more militias will follow suit to allow people to get medical treatment amid the pandemic.", "Pictures show people across the UK stepping outside to pay tribute to the work of the NHS in the coronavirus crisis", "Labour have welcomed the plan but said councils \"need more support\" and money to achieve it.", "The UK thanks frontline coronavirus staff as firefighters agree to drive ambulances to help the NHS.", "Luxury fashion brands are shifting manufacturing to make vital medical wear for the coronavirus effort.", "A report on the global impact of Covid-19 finds the effects on developing countries will be greatest.", "Boris Johnson says he's self-isolating in Downing Street, as that's \"entirely the right thing to do\".", "A religious preacher in the northern state of Punjab who died of Covid-19 may have infected hundreds.", "The family of Dr Habib Zaidi, 76, say he sacrificed his life for his job.", "Coverage of all the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic from 27 March.", "Amazon and Microsoft are among those helping with a dashboard to model where ventilators should go.", "The self-employed will be paid up to £2,500 a month to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis.", "The food chain is in talks with administrators after previously warning of coronavirus impact.", "The latest US unemployment numbers were predicted to be catastrophic. They were worse than that.", "The 17-minute song ruminates on the 1960s and the assassination of President John F Kennedy.", "Madonna pays tribute to \"loving and professional\" Mark Blum following his coronavirus-related death.", "Hundreds of tests are to take place in England this weekend and be scaled up next week.", "The Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar says the move is to protect new mothers and babies.", "The death toll has risen from 475 to 578, the Department of Health and Social Care confirms.", "New rules on when health staff should wear masks and gloves are expected amid the Covid-19 crisis.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The facilities in Manchester and Birmingham are in addition to one being built in London's Docklands.", "Labour demands an \"urgent explanation\" from ministers over why they did not join EU equipment plan.", "New data confirms the improvement in air quality over Europe - a by-product of the coronavirus crisis.", "Plans to launch a programme of post-Brexit renewal have given way to the challenge of coronavirus.", "Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League campaign comes to an end as they are well beaten by RB Leipzig in the last 16.", "Rishi Sunak announces small venues and shops will not have to pay small business rates this year.", "Parent company Alphabet is the latest tech firm to make such a move as the outbreak spreads in the US.", "Tens of thousands of retail and leisure firms in England will not pay business rates in the coming year.", "Footballer Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash last year shortly after signing for Cardiff City.", "Phil Pearce's body was found in November but Spanish police did not tell his sons for three months.", "Police say DNA evidence could identify the killer of Susan Long, who was found dead in March 1970.", "NHS England will be able to carry out 10,000 tests per day, up from 1,500 currently.", "The Little Britain star will join Noel Fielding as co-host in the Great British Bake Off tent.", "Andy Anokye \"took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering upon his victims\", prosecutors said.", "Afghan President Ashraf Ghani agrees to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners as negotiations begin.", "Harley Facades suggested the use of aluminium panels that fuelled the 2017 fire, the inquiry hears.", "Manchester United's Europa League last-16 first leg at LASK in Austria is to be played behind closed doors because of coronavirus concerns.", "Astronomers study an exotic planet where they suspect iron droplets fall through the atmosphere.", "Live coverage as Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers his first Budget, amid concerns over coronavirus.", "Kaden Reddick, 10, died in 2017 after the 110kg barrier fell on his head at a store in Reading.", "How will the prime minister manage the UK economy?", "The NHS confirms two more patients with coronavirus have died in the UK, bringing the total to eight.", "Germany's leader warns on 11 March that millions could be infected, as WHO declares a \"pandemic\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will present plans to deal with the outbreak in his first Budget.", "The new chancellor certainly found his stride as the astonishing scale of the government's first Budget became clear.", "Jenny Tompkins posted on social media to say her son was selling squirts of sanitiser for 50p.", "Investors fear slowdown due to the coronavirus could mean a recession.", "Delivering his first budget as chancellor, Rishi Sunak warned of a \"significant\" but temporary disruption to the UK economy.", "It's been dubbed the \"coronavirus Budget\", but what can Rishi Sunak do to ease the impact?", "The chancellor warns the outbreak is likely to cause a temporary but significant disruption to the UK economy, in his first Budget.", "The chancellor warns that as many as 58 million Germans could become infected by coronavirus.", "Rangers found the carcasses of a female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya.", "A strap trailing behind a car \"lassoed\" PC Andrew Harper's ankles before his death, a court hears.", "Thanks to a BBC report, Hana Bedong was reunited with her son, who she last saw when he was six.", "Scientists reveal the average incubation time for the virus that's infected more than 116,000 people globally.", "Two trains crash into each other at Tacubaya metro station in Mexico City injuring dozens.", "Rishi Sunak unveils a huge stimulus programme to support the economy through coronavirus.", "Nadine Dorries is self-isolating at home, while another MP says she has been advised to do the same.", "Rishi Sunak has unveiled one of the most significant Budgets in a generation.", "The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned higher government spending could raise the cost of borrowing.", "Regulations hope to tackle products that are are bought, used briefly, then binned.", "The UK's largest manufacturer of toilet paper says it can meet any increased demand from the coronavirus outbreak", "Question time takes place ahead of the Budget statement", "Two prank callers claim they rang the Duke of Sussex pretending to be Greta Thunberg and her father.", "James Lattimer forged a dead man's MCC membership card to get access to the best seats.", "Several Arsenal players are in self-isolation after meeting Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, who has contracted coronavirus.", "Watchdog upholds complaint that ad for It should not have been played alongside children's music.", "Court of Appeal judges dismiss the appeal, which argued the lack of choice breached human rights.", "Use our Budget calculator to find out how your pocket may be affected by the latest tax measures.", "The government is considering keeping those at higher risk from coronavirus in group isolation.", "Housing tops the list of young people's Budget concerns, but they may well be disappointed.", "Liverpool's hopes of defending their Champions League title are over after a 4-2 aggregate defeat by Atletico Madrid in the last 16.", "Footage has emerged showing numerous body bags, as the country struggle to cope with the virus.", "The senior Scottish government official also alleges that Mr Salmond \"deliberately\" touched her bottom.", "Joe Biden wins in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan in his duel with Bernie Sanders for Democratic nomination.", "This year's event in April was set to be headlined by Rage Against The Machine and Frank Ocean.", "There are now 16 cases in Northern Ireland and a total of 34 cases in the Republic of Ireland.", "It is only the second time in two decades that duty on all types of alcohol has been frozen.", "Rishi Sunak says there will be over £600bn put into infrastructure projects over five years.", "Promising big bucks for big projects won't make the very real strain on some public services go away.", "The defendants had close calls with other vehicles as they tried to avoid capture, the court heard.", "Three universities are suspending face-to-face lectures and school closures are not ruled out.", "Arlene Foster says schools will shut at some point but Michelle O'Neill repeats immediate closures call.", "The first non-British governor to lead the Bank in its 325-year history steps down this weekend.", "Sporting fixtures, cultural events and holiday flights are all disrupted.", "It comes as mosques prepare for virus to affect Ramadan and synagogues ask worshippers not to shake hands.", "Boris Johnson is to ask engineering firms to shift production lines to build the life-saving equipment.", "Anyone showing coronavirus symptoms no longer needs to call the NHS helpline, says new advice.", "Swansea Bay University Health Board is introducing the restrictions immediately.", "Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead as planned in July, despite coronavirus concerns.", "Two other high-value works were stolen from the Christ Church Picture Gallery late on Saturday.", "Supermarkets are urging people not to buy more than they need.", "Thousands condemned the decision to hold the race in Bath when other sporting events were cancelled.", "Train operators are in talks with government to slash services as passenger numbers fall.", "The Harry Potter star says his family and living in the UK helped him keep a sense of \"perspective\".", "Airlines said the industry may not survive the coronavirus pandemic without financial support.", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection", "The blaze in the early hours at the Guildhall in Bristol has left it \"extensively damaged\".", "King Felipe cancels an annual allowance of €194,000 for his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos.", "The musician, artist and provocateur had been battling leukaemia for two-and-a-half years.", "Abdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, died from gunshot wounds to his back, West Midlands Police say.", "It follows criticism of the government's handling of the outbreak and confusion over its advice to the over-70s.", "More than 200 scientists write to the government calling for tougher measures to tackle Covid-19.", "Holidaymakers due to return await news on planes and at airports as the country prepares for lockdown.", "The move is part of social distancing measures to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "Wayne Rooney says the government and football authorities have treated footballers as \"guinea pigs\" during the coronavirus outbreak.", "Schools, shops and bars are told to close as the number of deaths in Italy jumps by 368 in 24 hours.", "The pill is already free in Scotland to people who are at the highest risk of contracting the virus.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "The move to combat the impact of coronavirus is a co-ordinated action with Europe, Japan and Canada.", "Becky Wass came up with the idea because she wanted to \"spread kindness\" amid the coronavirus fear.", "Residents in the locked-down countries show their gratitude to health personnel treating the virus.", "Lib Dem Layla Moran warns rough sleepers could be held in detention centres under new emergency powers.", "Some UK retailers have started rationing products such as pasta and hand gels to stop them selling out.", "The government is refunding the cost of season tickets for workers staying at home over virus fears.", "Organisers are hopeful a celebration can take place before the end of 2020.", "As schools closed, millions of parents became instant homeschoolers. What happened on day one?", "The jury in the Andrew Harper murder trial is discharged after three jurors go into self-isolation.", "The PM's announcement from Downing Street has no comparison in our recent history.", "When the jury announced that he had been cleared, Mr Salmond reacted the way he had throughout the trial - by not reacting.", "One former mental health patient says she is \"haunted\" by her \"horror story\" experience.", "The International Olympic Committee is considering a postponement of Tokyo 2020, and has given itself a deadline of four weeks to make a decision.", "Measures to stop people from leaving their homes are strengthened in a bid to stop the coronavirus spread.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland is \"on the cusp of a rapid acceleration of coronavirus cases\".", "Alex Davies was stabbed 128 times by a fellow teenager he agreed to meet at a remote location.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a raft of new restrictions people in the UK must follow.", "New York's mayor issues a stark warning as the state struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "It now seems almost certain that Tokyo 2020 will be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, BBC Sport takes a closer look.", "The country expands restrictions on social interaction as Chancellor Merkel goes into quarantine.", "Care home residents have found their own ways of contacting their friends and families on Mother’s Day.", "Restaurant chains including McDonald's and Nando's close, saying they want to protect staff and customers.", "Nicola Sturgeon reacts to Alex Salmond being cleared of sexually assaulting nine women while he was Scotland's first minister.", "The fashion chain says it wants to protect the health of employees and customers.", "Prisoners held protests against overcrowding and poor health services during the coronavirus outbreak.", "The decision is designed to \"ensure social distancing in court\" amid the ongoing spread of coronavirus.", "BBC News is bringing you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories at this challenging time.", "More than 300,000 cases have now been reported, as Covid-19 spreads to almost every country.", "It comes after some NHS staff complained of shortages and said they were being treated as \"cannon fodder\".", "A woman in her 70s was left with a black eye after a fight broke out when a man tried to help.", "From environmental improvements to acts of kindness, there are glimmers of light amid the crisis.", "A 30-year-old woman, who is not known to the girl's family, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.", "Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond is cleared of sex assault charges.", "Gatherings of more than two people are banned, shops ordered to close and social events halted as part of rules to keep Britons at home and stop the spread of coronavirus.", "The prime minister is to address the UK, as the NHS texts at-risk patients telling them to stay at home.", "Universities warned not to put pressure on anxious applicants after A-levels cancelled.", "A seven-year-old girl was stabbed to death in front of her parents in a Bolton park on Sunday.", "Tourists are urged to stay away from parks and beaches as social distance rules are flouted.", "The former producer was convicted of rape and sexual assault last month and is now in a New York prison.", "Retailer says it will not open its shops \"until we are given the go-ahead by the government\".", "Scientists are to track the spread of the coronavirus in the UK by using clues in its genetic code.", "An 18-year-old with underlying health issues dies in England after testing positive for coronavirus.", "The crowding has left London Underground drivers and staff \"furious\", a union leader says.", "Reality Check tackles misleading health advice being shared online.", "Police say three men cut a lock to steal eight canisters of oxygen and nitrous oxide and fled in a car.", "Robert Longcake died after climbing to the top of Dixons Chimney and getting stuck upside down.", "OECD boss Angel Gurría says the economic shock is already bigger than the financial crisis.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The day the Welsh Government asked everyone to stay at home in a bid to contain the outbreak.", "Shares slide again as more drastic action is taken by governments to stop the virus spreading.", "The prime minister has announced strict measures on social gatherings which will be police enforced.", "A £5m homeless centre opens in east London and it all began with a £5 donation from a 10-year-old boy.", "A virology expert demonstrates how viruses can spread using UV light.", "Dr Olivia Clarke saved the life of Monty, an 18-year-old jungle carpet python who had managed to swallow a whole beach towel.", "Police said a 36-year-old woman was found dead close to junction 9.", "The tree came down during Storm Jorge late on Saturday night but the driver saw it falling.", "Temperatures in Germany's wine-growing regions were not cold enough to produce the dessert wine.", "Sir Philip Rutnam's departure, and the manner of it, goes way beyond any normal policy problems or clashes.", "Liverpool suffer their first Premier League defeat of the season as Watford winger Ismaila Sarr scores a double at Vicarage Road.", "Manchester City beat Aston Villa in an entertaining final at Wembley to win the Carabao Cup for a third successive year.", "Michael Russell and Stewart Stevenson are both leaving parliament at next year's election.", "Dozens of flood warnings remain in place as Storm Jorge brings high winds and yet more rain.", "A woman is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic which treated her as a teenager.", "Minister Michael Gove confirms the inquiry after allegations made by an ex-top civil servant.", "President Erdogan \"opened the doors\" for them to exit, saying his country can no longer host them.", "The Home Office's top civil servant tells of tension with Home Secretary Priti Patel, as he steps down.", "The government takes over services from Sunday which were previously operated by Arriva Rail North.", "Other big winners include & Juliet, a new musical featuring songs by Pink and Britney Spears.", "It is suggested Wales could face political turmoil after 2021's Senedd election, in light of a poll.", "More floods are expected in parts of the West Midlands but peak river levels will be lower.", "Scientists say the discovery near the top of Wales' highest mountain must prompt action.", "Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds, who says she feels \"blessed\", are expecting the baby this summer.", "Priti Patel's top civil servant intends to claim for constructive dismissal by the government.", "The campaign was dominated by anger over the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancée.", "Greek officials earlier said they stopped 10,000 migrants crossing the land border with Turkey.", "Two boys are arrested on suspicion of murdering Ramani Morgan who died after a stabbing in Coventry.", "Director Mohammad Rasoulof is banned from leaving Iran and filmed There Is No Evil in secret.", "Passengers are warned to check before travelling with two lines closed following storms.", "Hundreds call for the organisers of a Bristol climate change rally to pay for damage caused.", "Italy announces another big rise in the number of people who have died, bringing the total to 463.", "Belfast's parade has been postponed along with all parades in the Republic of Ireland.", "Mohamed Haouas is sent off as Scotland beat France 28-17 to end their bid for a Six Nations Grand Slam with a fourth consecutive Murrayfield defeat.", "The Chinese Jingye Group has reportedly paid about £50m for the British steel manufacturer.", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says it is a \"privilege\" to manage his players as they complete the Premier League double over Manchester City.", "California senator Kamala Harris says Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate to \"unify the people\".", "The chart-topping rapper was filmed lashing out at a woman who was filming him on her phone.", "Police say the incident, in which a Taser was also used three times, is \"not being treated as terrorism\".", "Financial institutions launch contingency plans to keep markets humming as coronavirus spreads in UK.", "The Cookstown-born businessman managed boxer Barry McGuigan to world title success.", "Plans to double funding for flood defences in England over the next five years have been announced.", "Scientists reveal the average incubation time for the virus that's infected more than 116,000 people globally.", "The supermarket begins restricting sales of some food and household goods amid signs of stockpiling.", "Several Middle East countries ban the film because of a reference to lesbian parents, reports say.", "The singer and former X Factor judge says the condition causes her \"face to drop on occasions\".", "All sport in Italy suspended until at least 3 April because of the coronavirus outbreak, the country's prime minister says.", "Failure of oil cartel Opec and ally Russia to agree to supply cuts has seen prices crash around 30%.", "It follows a five-year campaign by mum Catriona Ogilvy whose petition was signed by thousands.", "All the day's economic and business news as it happens, and market updates.", "Indian Wells - one of the leading events outside of the Grand Slams - is cancelled because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.", "Speaking after a Cobra meeting, Arlene Foster says the UK is still in coronavirus containment phase.", "Measures such as school closures will not yet be introduced, as the UK's fourth virus death is confirmed.", "Medical advice could change within 10 to 14 days, as a fifth person is confirmed to have died.", "A jury finds online dealer Bernard Rebelo guilty of killing a woman who took toxic pills.", "A 36-year-old woman is arrested on suspicion of murder after a baby's body is found in Hampshire.", "The actor appeared in more than 100 films and TV series, from The Exorcist to Game of Thrones.", "Two County Armagh schools, two amateur football clubs and a Belfast GAA club close over virus concerns.", "Health officials confirm another two cases of the virus - taking the number to six in Wales.", "The cause of 64-year-old Janice Child's death was severe blunt force head injuries, police say.", "Two teenagers accused of murdering PC Andrew Harper admit conspiracy to steal a quad bike.", "Shoppers will scan their payment card on entry and then be automatically charged as they leave.", "Campaigners, citing the cases of 19 women, say perpetrators can be protected from facing justice.", "Damani Mauge was killed in south London on Sunday evening after a fight broke out on a bus, police say.", "Kaila Haines found herself stuck in Milan due to Italy's efforts to contain the coronavirus.", "The boy, thought to be 17, was killed in south London on Sunday evening.", "The couple join the Queen and other royals at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.", "Four people are treated in hospital following a fire at a flat in Flax Street in north Belfast.", "When a cancer patient was blocked at a Chinese checkpoint, her mother's tears went round the world.", "Ofcom received 309 complaints that rapper Dave's performance was racist against white people.", "Stockpiled protective equipment will also be released for front-line NHS and social services staff.", "The former chief of the UK's equality watchdog faces a probe and could be expelled from the party.", "Some regions show significant drops in air pollutants as the coronavirus hits work and travel.", "The company's collapse last year left 9,000 staff out of work and 150,000 holidaymakers stranded.", "The 31-year-old daughter of the Duke of York is due to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29.", "A newly discovered fossil bird could be the oldest-known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.", "The Bank of England takes more emergency action to support the British economy.", "Parliament's vote to remove the procedure from the Crimes Act changes a law in force since 1977.", "The education secretary says the \"unprecedented\" move is a measure of the gravity of the virus pandemic.", "A \"Miss Hitler\" contest entrant is among four people convicted of being members of National Action.", "Charities are working to help pupils who are entitled to free school meals after they are sent home.", "Education Secretary John Swinney gives an update on schooling in Scotland during the Covid-19 pandemic.", "Prepayment meter customers may get credit through the post or funds automatically added to their meter.", "The 93-year-old monarch issues a message to the nation from Windsor Castle amid the coronavirus crisis.", "The airline wants pilots and cabin crew to accept sweeping changes to their terms and conditions.", "Next says both online and store sales will suffer \"significant losses\" as a result of coronavirus.", "Nearly 500 deaths are registered in Italy, the highest one-day total of any country in the outbreak.", "Exams in England and Wales will not go ahead this academic year, as the coronavirus outbreak worsens.", "The pound falls to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, trading at $1.15.", "Online shopping website Ocado has suspended its service as supermarkets crack down on stockpiling.", "European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde: \"There are no limits to our commitment to the euro\".", "Boris Johnson says he believes the UK can \"send it packing\" if people follow government advice.", "English football will be suspended until at least 30 April because of the continuing coronavirus outbreak.", "Keep the message calm, understandable and try not to overemphasise the risks, experts suggest.", "The Windrush scandal review adds there was a \"profound institutional failure\" affecting thousands of people.", "Health workers feel like \"cannon fodder\" as they don't have equipment to keep them safe from the virus.", "Boris Johnson says the UK can \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus within 12 weeks, on 19 March 2020.", "Schools across England are to close on Friday because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "We all might feel the walls closing in a bit more, as more families have to spend time at home.", "Families are preparing for a protracted time with children at home - but how will they cope?", "Cor-ona is a social media group where people can post videos of themselves singing while isolated.", "There is help for firms thinking of cutting jobs because of the coronavirus crisis, says Andrew Bailey.", "The move would help families during the coronavirus crisis, but providers say it could disrupt service.", "How do we keep fit while heeding the government's new advice on avoiding unnecessary social contact?", "The first minister has indicated that Scottish schools and nurseries will shut this Friday.", "An EU commissioner has suggested that TV streaming services should provide content in lower resolution.", "Retailers feel the strain with delivery services at full capacity and extra security hired at stores.", "Boris Johnson has announced that schools in the UK will close to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.", "The video-streaming giant wants to ease strain on internet service providers.", "With coronavirus spreading, ministers are looking for new ways to make us behave more hygienically.", "The night Tube will be stopped from this weekend as part of new contingency plans across London.", "A online tool aims to help shoppers identify fake coronavirus products offered for sale on the internet.", "Some of your key questions about coronavirus answered by the BBC's experts over one day.", "Scottish minister Mike Russell says preparations for an independence referendum are on hold.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "Ghislaine Maxwell's lawsuit also claims she has had to hire security over \"regular death threats\".", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says six people have now died in Scotland after contracting Covid-19.", "\"We, like the millions of you around the world, are extremely saddened,\" say organisers.", "The government will provide more details on how people will be affected by the school closures.", "The continent has a low number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, but is warned to prepare for the worst.", "Odion Ighalo scores twice as Manchester United cruise past Derby County and their record goalscorer Wayne Rooney.", "Olivia Alkir is described by her family as a \"fun-loving, wise, ambitious individual\".", "The only known example of a once-mythical prototype becomes the most expensive gaming item ever.", "He says he's \"finished with stand-up\" because Parkinson's has \"made my brain work differently\".", "The airline industry is under huge financial pressure as passenger numbers drop during the coronavirus.", "The death of the patient, who had underlying health issues, comes as the number of UK cases rises to 164.", "Sheikha Latifa's friend feels \"positive\" after a court ruled the princess was abducted by her father.", "Officers are trying to trace the mother after the newborn was discovered near Southampton.", "One executive says the health secretary has \"made up\" claims of \"working with the supermarkets\".", "Visitors to Northampton General Hospital have even ripped hand sanitiser dispensers from walls.", "In October last year, 22,000 civil servants were working on Brexit, the public spending watchdog said.", "It was one of the couple's final public engagements before they quit royal life later this month.", "A social media video showed D'Adrien Anderson licking ice cream and putting it back.", "Global markets continue to fall amid fears about the economic cost of the epidemic.", "Oxford Street was partially closed as fire crews tackled a blaze at a shop in central London.", "Youngsters are at \"huge risk of harm\" and should be given more protection, the NSPCC says.", "The 21-year-old PC's arrest is understood to be related to banned neo-Nazi group National Action.", "Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust received almost £1m despite an inquiry into preventable baby deaths.", "A 27-year-old Ukrainian chess champion and his girlfriend aged 18 are found dead in a Moscow flat.", "The ads made it appear users were taking part in the official 2020 US census, not a general survey.", "The Herald Sun said women's Australian rules players and commentators called for the measure.", "Labour leadership contender Lisa Nandy tells the BBC senior figures wanted to \"crush\" internal opposition.", "The celebrity chef shares a laugh with Prince Charles as he receives the gong at Buckingham Palace.", "The UN Development Programme analysed biases against gender in 75 countries around the world.", "A rural practice moves to telephone-only appointments to try to curb the spread of Covid-19.", "Thirty-seven-year-old Ruth Williamson is hoping the drugs will slow down the fatal condition.", "Scotland's Women's Six Nations match with France in Glasgow on Saturday is postponed after one of the home players tests positive for coronavirus.", "Pharmacy chains say they are limiting hand gel sales as demand spikes amid coronavirus fears.", "Sheikh Mohammed told his estranged wife she would \"never be safe in England\", the High Court says.", "The cash includes extra funds to develop a vaccine and new rapid test for the disease.", "Amber Rudd was given 30 minutes notice that her appearance at Oxford University was cancelled.", "The chancellor will refocus the National Infrastructure Strategy in line with \"net zero\" climate ambitions.", "Customers with personal cups will still get a 25p discount - but drinks will be served in paper cups.", "Could Fife become a place of pilgrimage for fans of legendary country star Johnny Cash?", "The former president was impeached in 1998 for lying to investigators about the affair.", "Barbara Martin was one of the original members, singing with the pop group in the early 1960s.", "Prince Harry joins Lewis Hamilton to cut the ribbon on the Silverstone Experience.", "Gilbert Khoo was caught after a consignment of the endangered fish was seized at Heathrow Airport.", "The firm said \"insufficient protection\" meant customers' details were made accessible for 10 months.", "Lydia O'Sullivan normally contacts her family daily, but has not been in touch since 28 February.", "Retailers have \"robust plans\" in place to ensure people can buy the supplies they need, George Eustice says.", "The PM's announcement from Downing Street has no comparison in our recent history.", "Pedestrian Anisha Vidal-Garner died when she was hit by a car in south London.", "From supermarkets to warehouses to pharmacies, these are the people keeping things running.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a raft of new restrictions people in the UK must follow.", "Netflix has also pledged £1m for TV and film workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.", "The fashion chain says it wants to protect the health of employees and customers.", "More than 300,000 cases have now been reported, as Covid-19 spreads to almost every country.", "The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.", "The controversial director's autobiography finds a new publisher.", "Reality Check tackles misleading health advice being shared online.", "The day the Welsh Government asked everyone to stay at home in a bid to contain the outbreak.", "Alex Davies was stabbed 128 times by a fellow teenager he agreed to meet at a remote location.", "The foreign secretary is urged by MPs to step up efforts to help thousands of people get home.", "The country recorded 743 deaths on Tuesday but the number of new cases appears to be slowing down.", "Boris Johnson is facing calls for clarity after introducing drastic measures, including banning gatherings of three or more.", "Police say it is \"beyond belief anyone would be so reckless\" after two vans were gutted.", "From environmental improvements to acts of kindness, there are glimmers of light amid the crisis.", "Michael Gerard, 73, died in hospital on Sunday after getting pneumonia-like symptoms two weeks ago.", "Health chiefs are asked to be more open about plans for an app to tackle the spread of coronavirus.", "Universities warned not to put pressure on anxious applicants after A-levels cancelled.", "A tiny, 555-million-year-old seafloor creature reveals why our bodies are organised the way they are.", "Brighton girls Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were sexually assaulted and strangled in 1986.", "A controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object which was discovered near Rosslea.", "Shops have brought in a host of measures following the introduction of strict new government curbs.", "The crowding has left London Underground drivers and staff \"furious\", a union leader says.", "Robert Longcake died after climbing to the top of Dixons Chimney and getting stuck upside down.", "Nadia Whittome, 23, said \"the care system is in serious danger of falling apart\".", "The Dow rose more than 11% for its best day since 1933, while the FTSE 100 closed 9% higher.", "Milo was woken by officers after his phone ran out of power overnight, meaning he could not be tracked.", "The Frenchman illustrated the famous comic book series and eventually took over the writing.", "The car industry is pledging to help tackle a shortage of ventilators and masks as virus spreads.", "The BBC's Stephen McDonell met people venturing out for the first time in weeks.", "Restaurant chains including McDonald's and Nando's close, saying they want to protect staff and customers.", "An inquiry is launched after soldiers discover elderly coronavirus victims \"dead in their beds\".", "For the first time, UK mobile networks send out a government message with a link to more information.", "A woman in her 70s was left with a black eye after a fight broke out when a man tried to help.", "Tim Martin says workers can take up jobs with supermarkets following the coronavirus shutdown.", "Commuters pack into trains for a second day despite the PM banning non-essential travel.", "Online retail giant Amazon and Microsoft's Bill Gates are working together to track the outbreak's spread.", "Police say three men cut a lock to steal eight canisters of oxygen and nitrous oxide and fled in a car.", "Chloe Miazek was strangled to death during sex but her father rejects claims that she consented.", "More than 20 people were \"freely mingling and standing shoulder to shoulder round a buffet\".", "Freelance gig economy workers say they cannot survive on the support offered by the government.", "A Bristol couple were among up to 150 people stranded in Egypt amid coronavirus flights confusion.", "As schools closed, millions of parents became instant homeschoolers. What happened on day one?", "Shareholders register their unhappiness with the leadership of Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct.", "Rishi Sunak says bailing out airlines would be a \"last resort\" as the sector braces for a $252bn loss.", "The health secretary addresses confusion over what workers should do, as UK deaths rise by 87 in a day.", "As conservative voices warn of damage to the economy, the president reassesses restrictions.", "Gatherings of more than two people are banned, shops ordered to close and social events halted as part of rules to keep Britons at home and stop the spread of coronavirus.", "Retailer says it will not open its shops \"until we are given the go-ahead by the government\".", "The prime minister has announced strict measures on social gatherings which will be police enforced.", "After one minister airs confusing advice, parents give their verdict on visiting under coronavirus.", "James Lattimer forged a dead man's MCC membership card to get access to the best seats.", "President Macron says the vote can go ahead, but said schools and colleges would shut from Monday.", "Investors fear slowdown due to the coronavirus could mean a recession.", "Rishi Sunak says low interest rates make the £30bn Budget package \"the right economic thing to do\".", "A jury hears a recording of Peter Wallis as he watched three alleged killers steal his bike.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says the measures take effect from 18:00 on Thursday until 29 March.", "The couple are being isolated after confirming they have coronavirus in Australia, Hanks says.", "Use our Budget calculator to find out how your pocket may be affected by the latest tax measures.", "The Gambling Commission says the firm failed to protect customers and make proper money-laundering checks.", "EU leaders said President Trump's decision was made \"unilaterally and without consultation\".", "The ex-intelligence analyst was taken to hospital after attempt at a Virginia detention centre.", "Ministers consult on a ban to help pedestrians, but the AA warns it could lead to \"parking chaos\".", "Liverpool's hopes of defending their Champions League title are over after a 4-2 aggregate defeat by Atletico Madrid in the last 16.", "Between 2015 and 2018 11 people a year have died on average on smart motorways in England.", "A former civil servant says Alex Salmond told her he was sorry for his \"unacceptable\" behaviour.", "The Earth's great ice sheets are losing mass six times faster today than they were in the 1990s.", "The chancellor warns the outbreak is likely to cause a temporary but significant disruption to the UK economy, in his first Budget.", "No or low alcohol will drive the 2020 market, the craft beer trade body says, as it claims 23% of 18-24 year-olds are teetotal.", "Gatherings of more than 500 in Scotland will be cancelled from next week as the UK moves to the delay phase.", "Latest updates as countries around the world react to the spread of the coronavirus.", "Roux passed away at his home in Bray, Berkshire, following a long battle with a lung condition.", "Three Leicester City first-team players are in self-isolation after showing symptoms of coronavirus.", "Emily Eavis says her team is \"working hard\" and hopes the festival can go ahead in June.", "Inquiry says apps should screen posts before displaying them to help tackle 'explosion' of child abuse imagery.", "Josie Harris, mother to three of the boxer's children, was unresponsive on her California driveway.", "A judge rules that it is no longer necessary for her to testify in the inquiry into Wikileaks.", "Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tests positive for coronavirus and the club's game against Brighton on Saturday has been postponed.", "The Australian Grand Prix is called off after teams and drivers forced the hand of Formula 1's bosses over coronavirus concerns.", "The broadcaster is \"gaming out\" what could happen in studios and newsrooms if many staff went sick.", "Spain's La Liga, the Dutch Eredivisie, Portugal's Primeira Liga and USA's Major League Soccer have been suspended over coronavirus concerns.", "The box tree caterpillar comes top of the list of gardeners' concerns for the third year in a row.", "Andy Anokye \"took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering upon his victims\", prosecutors said.", "This year's event in April was set to be headlined by Rage Against The Machine and Frank Ocean.", "The scheme aims to ease the burden on Greece, where migrant camps are squalid and overcrowded.", "Jenny Tompkins posted on social media to say her son was selling squirts of sanitiser for 50p.", "China Gold is found guilty of causing \"horrific\" injuries to Olivia Cooke at a pub in Kent.", "Howard Lewis spent six days in a windowless cabin on the Grand Princess cruise liner.", "The new instalment in the hit film franchise is delayed as a result of the fallout from coronavirus.", "One man with type 1 diabetes describes his symptoms after contracting the virus in Italy.", "The GAA imposes a blanket ban on all activity at every age level in response to government advice aimed at combating coronavirus.", "Harley Facades suggested the use of aluminium panels that fuelled the 2017 fire, the inquiry hears.", "The owner of the Trafford Centre and Lakeside shopping centres reports a loss of £2bn.", "The England and Wales polling watchdog wants to \"mitigate\" the impact of coronavirus on voters.", "The UK government have issued the next stage of response to the virus, with added measures for the public.", "Astronomers study an exotic planet where they suspect iron droplets fall through the atmosphere.", "Brodie Gillon, killed on a military base, was \"destined for great things\", her commanding officer says.", "A family describes being tested at home and a student says she moved into a caravan on her parents' drive.", "Couples are having to change their plans around their nuptials because of the exceptional circumstances.", "Schools in Aberdeen, Perth and Dunblane are among those shut after being linked to people with the virus.", "Boris Johnson is to ask engineering firms to shift production lines to build the life-saving equipment.", "Evidence of past underwater landslides suggests giant waves probably hit the British territory.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "Anyone showing coronavirus symptoms no longer needs to call the NHS helpline, says new advice.", "Two other high-value works were stolen from the Christ Church Picture Gallery late on Saturday.", "Millions were due to lose free licences on 1 June, but coronavirus means it's \"not the right time\".", "Supermarkets are urging people not to buy more than they need.", "Andrew Bailey - who has taken over from Mark Carney - pledges to protect the economy from coronavirus.", "Clive Myrie is joined by BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym and other experts to answer your questions.", "Train operators are in talks with government to slash services as passenger numbers fall.", "A Venice resident shows us how the city has been completely transformed by the coronavirus shutdown.", "As coronavirus spreads, ITV says its soaps will \"remind people of important public health issues\".", "The move comes as supermarkets continue to limit the sales of certain products to avoid them selling out.", "Theatres around the UK shut after Prime Minister Boris Johnson advises people to avoid such venues.", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection", "The first minister insists \"we will get through this\" as blanket social distancing measures are announced.", "King Felipe cancels an annual allowance of €194,000 for his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos.", "Matt Colvin, from Tennessee in the US, bought 17,700 bottles of hand gel to re-sell on Amazon.", "Other weaker carriers could go bust, analysts say, with losses in the sector expected to grow.", "Cafer Aslan and Bulent Kabala were shot dead six months apart in what police say were contract killings.", "The alleged assault in Sydney took place as other shoppers argued over stockpiling items.", "It follows criticism of the government's handling of the outbreak and confusion over its advice to the over-70s.", "A Devon hospital is linked to 20 deaths or serious harm cases since 2008, according to an NHS review.", "The UK, France and Germany introduce new measures to control the virus as infections grow.", "The move is part of social distancing measures to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "Luxury goods firm LVMH will make disinfectant gels in France as demand soars during virus pandemic.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson advises against mass gatherings amid the coronavirus outbreak - effectively cancelling all remaining sporting events.", "A group of healthy, young volunteers in Seattle are being given the experimental jab.", "What is it like to have the coronavirus, how will it affect you and how is it treated?", "A medical devices firm doubts that engineering companies can quickly switch to making ventilators.", "Emergency laws to tackle the outbreak and the Budget will get \"nodded through\" the Commons.", "Many schools will not be able to stay open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.", "The move to combat the impact of coronavirus is a co-ordinated action with Europe, Japan and Canada.", "The entertainer presented the News Huddlines and played Archie Shuttleworth in Coronation Street.", "A jury hears how PC Andrew Harper's colleagues tried to treat his \"catastrophic injuries\".", "Lib Dem Layla Moran warns rough sleepers could be held in detention centres under new emergency powers.", "Super League and the Rugby Football League suspend the season until 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus.", "Live BBC News coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest advice.", "The idea is to let older, higher risk customers shop without coming into contact with young people.", "Boris Johnson announces significant new measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.", "More than 65,000 ex-doctors and nurses are asked to help tackle the \"greatest global health threat in history\".", "Rishi Sunak announces \"unprecedented\" help for companies as the economy goes through an \"economic emergency\".", "Workouts, cooking lessons and pub quizzes - how people are using the internet to socialise in self-isolation.", "The star says she hopes her first original song since 2010 lifts spirits in \"these troubling times\".", "The Bank of England takes more emergency action to support the British economy.", "The chancellor says employees who cannot work will receive 80% of their salary, up to £2,500 a month.", "The education secretary says the \"unprecedented\" move is a measure of the gravity of the virus pandemic.", "Unions welcome the government's wages plan - but Labour says more cash is needed now.", "The UK wage move is proportionate to the scale of the crisis, but will employers hold their nerve?", "The UK closes pubs and bars, as confirmed cases worldwide pass 250,000 and Italy records 627 deaths in a day.", "Teachers will base assessments on coursework and mock results as schools await key workers' children.", "A \"Miss Hitler\" contest entrant is among four people convicted of being members of National Action.", "Operators will gradually reduce services from Monday, amid falling demand.", "The 93-year-old monarch issues a message to the nation from Windsor Castle amid the coronavirus crisis.", "More than 65,000 ex-doctors and nurses are asked to help tackle the \"greatest global health threat in history\".", "Doctors in a Watford surgery have been working 11-hour days, and say their current protective gear isn't good enough.", "The chancellor warns the outbreak is likely to cause a temporary but significant disruption to the UK economy, in his first Budget.", "Bars and alehouses across England mark the final night of business before closing to customers.", "The airline wants pilots and cabin crew to accept sweeping changes to their terms and conditions.", "In a gloomy trading update the retailer says it served customers during world wars will continue to do so.", "Boris Johnson says he believes the UK can \"send it packing\" if people follow government advice.", "The Dow falls 4.5% to finish its worst week since 2008 as New York orders many to stay at home.", "Year six pupils spoke of their sadness as they left primary school for what could be the last time.", "Researchers observing the mammals saw them sharing regurgitated blood with their neighbours.", "As pubs and restaurants closed, the first minister urged people to avoid large gatherings.", "The Windrush scandal review adds there was a \"profound institutional failure\" affecting thousands of people.", "The government has closed all schools, but what does that mean for exams, and who can still go in?", "Nicola Sturgeon warns there will be \"difficult days ahead\" as pubs and restaurants close for final time.", "Supermarket chains to take on thousands of staff, but Topshop owner Arcadia closes all its stores.", "Boris Johnson says the UK can \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus within 12 weeks, on 19 March 2020.", "More than a dozen staff at a Highland hotel were sacked and asked to leave staff accommodation.", "The exhausted critical care nurse says that people need to make sure everyone can get healthy food.", "Scams range from \"sanitiser\" made from banned chemicals to cold-callers pretending to be health officials", "The government has set out emergency powers to tackle the coronavirus outbreak with a new bill.", "Medics, police officers, teachers and transport staff are among those whose children will stay in school.", "The death of Grace Fusco and three of her adult children is an \"unbearable tragedy\", relatives say.", "Organisers say an alternative event will replace the contest, which was scrapped on Wednesday.", "The move would help families during the coronavirus crisis, but providers say it could disrupt service.", "How do we keep fit while heeding the government's new advice on avoiding unnecessary social contact?", "Retailers feel the strain with delivery services at full capacity and extra security hired at stores.", "With scores of people self-isolating, how can people celebrate this Mother's Day?", "The video-streaming giant wants to ease strain on internet service providers.", "The singer famed for entertaining troops during World War Two calls on the country to pull together.", "Some of your key questions about coronavirus answered by the BBC's experts over one day.", "An emergency coronavirus law in the Isle of Man means arrivals must quarantine themselves for 14 days.", "Rishi Sunak is expected to launch a fresh package of measures to try to protect millions of UK jobs.", "The government's scientific advisers say this will help to limit the spread of coronavirus.", "Psychs says he made a coronavirus track to raise awareness \"especially for my generation\".", "David Beckham watches on as his Inter Miami team are beaten by Los Angeles FC in their inaugural Major League Soccer game.", "\"Gross failures\" led to Prince Fosu's death from malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia, an inquest finds.", "The Environment Agency warns people not to get \"complacent\" as warnings remain on the Severn.", "Keith Lennon, 20, appears in court charged with causing the deaths of three people by dangerous driving.", "The charismatic former executive transformed GE into America's most valuable company.", "Thomas Hanlon had denied causing the death of Sakine Cihan while riding a modified e-bike in 2018.", "The DWP staff member claimed she had been the victim of bullying by the then employment minister.", "The moderate Minnesota senator is expected to endorse Joe Biden.", "British Muslims would be more likely to tip off Prevent 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same day as a Senate briefing on the virus.\n\nMr Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has also come under fire after US outlet NPR obtained a recording of him warning a group of wealthy constituents last month about the dire economic impact of the coronavirus, at a time when the Trump administration was publicly downplaying the threat. He also told the group to curtail their travel.\n\nMr Burr has accused NPR of “misrepresenting” his speech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 60 days of coronavirus in the US - in 60 seconds\n\nThe latest revelations come after an investigation by ProPublica into his financial filings.\n\nAs chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr Burr receives nearly daily briefings on threats to US national security.\n\nOn 7 February, shortly after the first case of coronavirus was reported, Mr Burr wrote on Fox News that the US government was “better prepared than ever” to tackle an outbreak.\n\nBut a week later, when President Donald Trump assured the public that the virus would not hit America hard, Mr Burr and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.72m in stocks, including shares in two hotel groups. Two weeks after that, he gave the speech obtained by NPR.\n\nAmong those calling for his resignation and investigation are Fox News host Tucker Carlson, usually a supporter of Republicans.\n\nThe presenter said that unless an honest explanation for Mr Burr's stock sell-off was forthcoming, \"he must resign from the Senate and face prosecution for insider trading\".\n\nSeveral of the stocks that Mr Burr sold, including in the hotel and travel industry, have since lost value.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Burr again responded, tweeting that his decision to sell stock was made \"solely based on public news reports\". He specifically cited the Asia coverage provided by the CNBC network.\n\n\"Understanding the assumption many could make in hindsight however,\" he said in a short statement, \"I spoke with the chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee this morning and asked him to open a complete view of the matter with full transparency.\"\n\nIn these early days of the coronavirus crisis, the American people have shown a significant capacity to endure hardships to slow the spread of the virus. They've stayed in their homes and watched as the economy crumbled around them. Many have confronted the loss of income and wealth with no guarantee these setbacks are only temporary.\n\nWhat they may not abide, however, is the prospect that the rich and influential have used their positions of power to avoid the worst consequences of this financial collapse - particularly as their leaders were telling them to hold fast.\n\nThat's why the stories of senators selling stock portfolios in anticipation of a market drop are so toxic. It's a controversy that cuts across normally impervious partisan lines and has even conservatives and those \"close to the president\" sharply criticising the Republicans, like North Carolina Senator Burr, at the centre of the fury.\n\nThis story comes on the heels of grumbling over how some of the well-connected were getting virus tests while most Americans had to wait. It's a sign that this pandemic could lay bare the sharp divides in the US between the haves and the have-nots and make more than a few realise that - perhaps to their surprise - they are among the latter, not the former.\n\nSeparately, an investigation by the Daily Beast found Mrs Loeffler, who sits on the Senate Health Committee, and her husband sold millions of dollars in stocks, beginning on 24 January, the day her panel received a private briefing on the coronavirus from top US public health officials.\n\nIn the weeks after the sale, she sought to downplay the virus’ impact on the economy and public health in a series of tweets.\n\n“Democrats have dangerously and intentionally misled the American people on #Coronavirus readiness,” she tweeted on 28 February.\n\n“Here’s the truth: @realDonaldTrump & his administration are doing a great job working to keep Americans healthy & safe.”\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least $100,000 of stock in a teleworking software company, Citrix, was also reportedly bought in Mrs Loeffler's name. The shares have risen during the pandemic.\n\nMrs Loeffler has called the Daily Beast's investigation a “ridiculous and baseless attack”.\n\nIn a statement, she said decisions about her investments were made by “multiple third party advisors without [her or her husband’s] knowledge or consent”.\n\nMs Feinstein and her husband reportedly sold stock worth up to $6m\n\nMrs Loeffler is married to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and is thought to be the wealthiest member of Congress, with an estimated fortune of $500m.\n\nMr Inhofe sold $400,000 of stock at the end of January, according to a Senate disclosure report, including shares in Apple, PayPal and a real estate company.\n\nThe senator for Oklahoma responded in a statement that his financial adviser made the decisions for him, and he was \"not aware of or consulted about any transactions\".\n\nThe senator said he had told his adviser to move into mutual funds after he became chairman of the armed services committee in 2018, and he said these share sales were part of those transactions.\n\nTop California Democrat Ms Feinstein and her husband meanwhile reportedly sold stock worth between $1.5m and $6m in a biotech company between the end of January and mid-February.\n\nA spokesman for the senator, who is a member of the intelligence committee, told the New York Times her assets were in a blind trust and she had \"no involvement in her husband's financial decisions\".\n\nThe US government has come under criticism for its early response to the outbreak - testing and tracing for the virus has lagged far behind that of other countries, and the president initially downplayed the threat caused by the virus.\n\nMore than 14,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the US, along with 205 virus-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.", "Manchester City and Manchester United have joined up to donate £100,000 for food banks in response to coronavirus.\n\nEach club will donate £50,000 to the Trussell Trust, with the funds going to its 19 food banks in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe clubs said the donations would \"compensate for the temporary loss of food donations on match days\".\n\n\"We are pleased to come together with our fans to help vulnerable members of society in a City United.\"\n\nThe Manchester United Supporters Trust said they were also \"overwhelmed\" after fans' groups at Everton and Liverpool also pledged £3,000 towards the fund.\n\nFans at Liverpool and Everton, seen here in 2018, are also donating to the Manchester fund\n\nIt follows a new co-operation between the Fans' Foodbanks fundraising groups of the Manchester clubs.\n\nThe groups usually collect supplies outside Old Trafford and the Etihad stadiums before games but this has been interrupted by the suspension of football due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a joint statement, Manchester City and Manchester United said: \"We are proud of the role our supporters play in helping local food banks and recognise the increased strain likely to be placed on these charities by the impact of coronavirus.\"\n\nMCFC Fans Foodbank Support said the donation would be \"an enormous help\", adding \"hunger doesn't wear club colours\".\n\nRachel Macklin from the Trussell Trust said: \"We're working closely with our network to understand each food bank's situation, offer guidance, and work out how we can best support them.\n\n\"We know we won't be able to do this alone, so we are truly grateful for the support Manchester United and Manchester City are showing local food banks.\"\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. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nA family representative said he \"passed away peacefully at home from natural causes\".\n\nRogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards.\n\nKnown for his husky voice and ballads including The Gambler, Lucille and Coward Of The County, his career spanned more than six decades.\n\nHe once summed up his popularity by explaining that he believed his songs \"say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear\".\n\nAfter growing up in poverty on a federal housing estate in Houston, Texas, Rogers began recording with a string of bands, including Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, before launching his solo career in 1976.\n\nHe was never a favourite of music critics, but became one of the most successful pop-country crossover acts of all time, and the 10th best-selling male artist in US history in terms of album sales.\n\nHe collaborated with other country music legends during his career, including Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.\n\nRogers and close friend Dolly Parton had a smash hit in 1983 with Islands in the Stream\n\nIn 2007 he unexpectedly found himself back in the limelight in the UK when The Gambler became the unofficial World Cup anthem of England's Rugby Team.\n\nThe song became so popular that during his 2013 Glastonbury Festival legends slot Rogers played it twice.\n\nThat same year, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Country Music Association.\n\nIn their statement his family said he had \"left an indelible mark on the history of American music\".\n\nA keen businessman, Rogers led several ventures over the years, mainly in property and the restaurant sector.\n\nHe also acted in several movies and TV shows, including starring as a race car driver in the 1982 movie Six Pack.\n\nDuring an interview with the BBC in 2013, he recalled his \"obsession\" with tennis, and said he became so good that he ranked higher than Bjorn Borg in the ATP's doubles table.\n\nHe was married five times and had five children.\n• None Kenny Rogers prepares to hang up his microphone", "The Soyuz launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan\n\nThe London-based start-up OneWeb launched another big batch of satellites on Saturday.\n\nA Soyuz rocket lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying 34 more spacecraft into orbit to continue the build-up of the firm's broadband internet constellation.\n\nThe mission took place despite the coronavirus pandemic, which has limited much space activity elsewhere.\n\nIt also comes amid rumours the firm may consider seeking bankruptcy protection.\n\nA report by Bloomberg on Thursday said OneWeb was examining different options it could use to stave off the difficulties of a cash crunch.\n\nA spokesperson wouldn't comment on those rumours, telling BBC News only that OneWeb was \"focused 100% on launch\".\n\nThe Soyuz rocket left the Kazakh spaceport right on schedule at 22:06 local time (17:06 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nIts payload took the current size of the start-up's constellation to 74 satellites. Forty spacecraft were lofted in two previous launches.\n\nThe completed network aims to achieve an orbital configuration of approximately 650 satellites, with internet access becoming available first for some customers at northern latitudes, before eventually being offered globally.\n\nOneWeb is in a race with a number of other companies that want to provide the same kind of service.\n\nCalifornia entrepreneur Elon Musk is developing his Starlink constellation which envisages thousands of connected satellites. Likewise, Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon and the world's wealthiest individual, has proposed a system he calls Kuiper.\n\nWhat they all are trying to do is very expensive. OneWeb has raised so far £2.6bn to fund its activities, but will need much more than this to fulfil all its plans.\n\nIt has a huge contracted launch campaign with European rocket operator Arianespace. Most of its Soyuz flights are supposed to be carried out from Baikonur, but a number are also expected to be conducted from the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's far east.\n\nThe stated OneWeb plan is to have its completed constellation in place by the end of the fourth quarter of 2021.\n\nHow achievable that is given the disruption created by the coronavirus pandemic remains to be seen. The aerospace industry, like much of the global economy, is having to implement contingency measures, including putting restrictions on the movement of equipment and personnel.\n\nArianespace, for example, has already suspended all launches from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n\nAfter Saturday's launch, OneWeb accentuated the positives. In a statement issued by the start-up, CEO Adrian Steckel said: \"In these unprecedented times following the global outbreak of Covid-19, people around the world find themselves trying to continue their lives and work online. We see the need for OneWeb, greater now more than ever before.\n\n\"High-quality connectivity is the lifeline to enabling people to work, continue their education, stay up to date on important healthcare information and stay meaningfully connected to one another. The crisis has demonstrated the imperative need for connectivity everywhere and has exposed urgent shortcomings in many organizations' connectivity capabilities. Our satellite network is poised to fill in many of these critical gaps in the global communications infrastructure.\"", "Dr Henderson said hand sanitisers were not being sign-posted in the main entrance of the hospital\n\nA senior doctor has raised concerns over hand hygiene at Scotland's largest hospital.\n\nDr Fiona Henderson, who works as a consultant anaesthetist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, said hand sanitisers were not clearly sign-posted at main public entrances.\n\nShe also said some supermarkets were currently doing a better job at cleaning public spaces.\n\nThe hospital's medical director has said he will look into installing better signs.\n\nDr Henderson also raised concerns about people entering the hospital and not being compelled to use hand sanitisers.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"I've never done anything like this before but I just absolutely have to speak out about the standard of basic infection control at the Queen Elizabeth.\n\n\"There's no enforcement of hand hygiene. What we need is manned hand-gel stations.\"\n\nDr Henderson said supermarkets were currently doing a better job at cleaning public spaces\n\nShe said the hospital, which can hold up to a thousand patients, was a \"super, super, spreader right now\".\n\n\"As I walked into Sainsbury's there was a man cleaning the handle of my trolley - now it's a sad state of affairs that Sainsbury's are doing it better than the NHS.\"\n\nDr Henderson said a hand gelling station in the main entrance of the adult hospital was \"tucked away\" by Marks and Spencers and that no-one was using it.\n\nShe said she understood the hospital didn't have the staff to create manned hand-gelling stations, but she called on the hospital's executive team to \"empower volunteers on social media\".\n\n\"Similarly, we don't have the cleaners. We need an army of cleaners going round keeping all the public areas absolutely spotless, we could equip these people with appropriate protective gear.\n\n\"The mere presence of these people would alter the behaviour of the public and staff coming through the doors.\"\n\nDr Scott Davidson, deputy medical director of acute services, said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised by one of my colleagues and have written to her directly to reassure her of the measures we are taking in response to Covid-19.\"\n\nDr Davidson said there was a significant amount of work and effort to address what was a \"developing situation\".\n\nHe added: \"We are taking a wide range of measures across all our healthcare facilities to ensure the spread of the virus is minimised.\"\n\nDr Davidson said hand sanitisers were strategically placed across the hospital to maximise their benefit for staff and patients.\n\n\"They are outside all ward entrances, outside rooms and inside rooms and in critical areas. There are also a number of areas where they are accessible to both staff and patients across the main atrium at the QEUH.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board said: \"Our cleaning compliance is regularly monitored internally and reported to our Board. It is also monitored externally by Health Facilities Scotland who report the latest data on their website. The latest published data shows the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital above the 90% compliance at 94.1%.\n\n\"All our hospitals also receive unannounced visits from Health Improvement Scotland and their report published in February on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital positively recognised the hospital for its cleanliness and infection control measures.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"The government is going to step in and help to pay people's wages\"\n\nThe government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a radical move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe \"unprecedented\" measures will stop workers being laid off due to the crisis, chancellor Rishi Sunak said.\n\nFirms have warned the virus could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nMr Sunak said closing pubs and restaurants would have a \"significant impact\" on businesses.\n\nIt is understood that the wage subsidy will apply to firms where bosses have already had to lay off workers due to the coronavirus, as long as they are brought back into the workforce and instead granted a leave of absence.\n\nThe chancellor said the move would mean workers should be able to keep their jobs, even if their employer could not afford to pay them.\n\nHe said they were \"unprecedented measures for unprecedented times.\"\n\n\"I know that people are worried about losing their jobs, about not being able to pay the rent or mortgage, about not having enough set by for food and bills... to all those at home right now, anxious about the days ahead, I say this: you will not face this alone,\" Mr Sunak added\n\nThe wages cover, which relates to gross pay, will be backdated to the start of March and last for three months, but Mr Sunak said he would extend the scheme for longer \"if necessary\".\n\nThe scheme, which will be run by HMRC, is expected to make the first grants to businesses \"within weeks\", a Treasury spokeswoman said.\n\nEmployers' body the CBI said Mr Sunak's announcement was \"a landmark package\".\n\n\"It marks the start of the UK's economic fightback - an unparalleled joint effort by enterprise and government to help our country emerge from this crisis with the minimum possible damage,\" said director general Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank also said the package was \"hugely welcome\", reaching lower-paid workers that were most at risk of job losses.\n\nBut other lobby groups warned of the potential risk to firms which had to wait for the money to arrive.\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of trade body UK Hospitality, said many businesses faced rent payments before the support was due.\n\n\"Banks and landlords need to do more to help us bridge the gap towards this generous government support. Damage is being done now, so we need help now.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses also warned the delay in wages help - potentially until the end of April - meant many small firms would still face \"an immediate, potentially terminal cash flow crunch\".\n\nThe government has faced huge pressure to intervene to support workers to prevent mass unemployment as anti-virus measures have seen many firms' revenues evaporate almost overnight.\n\nThe wage package is the latest in a series of government moves aimed at easing the burden on businesses and their employees.\n\nHowever, there was not the same wages guarantee for the self-employed. Instead, Mr Sunak increased benefits that many will have to fall back on.\n\nOther measures to support firms and workers included:\n\nCapital Economics said that it expected the unemployment rate to rise from just under 4% to about 6% due to the crisis. However, without this latest government intervention, that rate would have risen to the financial crisis level of 8%, it said.\n\nThis move is an incredible intervention for any British government, let alone a Conservative one, but proportionate to the size of the terrible, but temporary, economic impact that could follow the coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nIn theory, it should save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Perhaps more. Employers have to accept that the government is doing something they would have never imagined a UK government to do.\n\nAt 80% cent of wages up to £2,500 a month it is a scheme more generous than some of the high welfare Scandinavian countries. It instantly transforms the social safety net of this nation.\n\nIt shows that the Treasury does believe that the very sharp plunge in the size of the economy can be followed by a bounceback - but not if millions of people are scarred by unemployment. Economics shows that these can have long lasting impact.\n\nThe chancellor was given the room for this partly by the Bank of England's biggest ever announcement of purchasing government debt.\n\nThere are risks if this pandemic lasts much longer than three months. But the risks of not acting were much greater.\n\nNow it requires employers to hold their nerve until the payments begin at the end of next month. And for the banks to help that process.", "Labour has urged ministers to go \"further and faster\" to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nUnions have welcomed the government's emergency financial support package for workers, announced earlier by the chancellor.\n\nAnd business group UK Hospitality said the move could potentially save up to a million jobs.\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said cash must be available now and not subject to \"weeks of delays\".\n\nLabour had been calling for the government to intervene to pay the wages of those unable to work due to school closures and other disruptions and those at most risk of redundancy - to a level of up to 90% of monthly earnings.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the government would subsidise the monthly salaries of employees unable to work as part of an \"unprecedented\" package of measures to help protect people's jobs.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Downing Street, in which he also announced increases to certain benefits, he said he understood the fear of not being able to pay bills and promised workers \"you will not face this alone\".\n\nLeading trade unions, who were consulted about the plans in advance, said they represented a huge step forward in stopping millions of low-paid workers falling into hardship.\n\n\"Securing jobs through government underwriting of wages is hugely welcome, and that’s what we've been calling for action on,\" said the GMB's general secretary Tim Roache.\n\n“This gives businesses and workers enhanced security and will help us recover in the long term.\"\n\nHe called on employers to pay the remaining 20% to ensure people were not left any worse off.\n\nThe GMB union said the plan to pay 80% of wages for employees not working, up to £2,500 a month, was \"hugely welcome\".\n\nThe government's announcement was welcomed by leading Labour figures, such as Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and former leader Ed Miliband.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has said he was \"concerned about the ability of the NHS to cope\" if the number of coronavirus cases increases as expected.\n\nReferring to the \"huge increase\" in the number of people in the capital city contracting the virus, he urged Londoners to \"please stay at home\" or risk their own health and the lives of the vulnerable.\n\nAsked about the the prime minister's call for many meeting places to shut their doors, he said, \"It's right that pubs, that rests, that cafes... are closed down.\"\n\nHe said that only key workers should be using public transport and urged others to work from home.\n\nMr McDonnell warned the government's plans still represented \"quite a significant wage cut\" and said further action was needed to boost statutory sick pay and to make it easier for the self-employed to claim via universal credit.\n\n\"The chancellor has shifted under the pressure we put on him but...he needs to go further and faster\".\n\nEd Davey, the acting leader of the Lib Dems, welcomed the government's intervention but said \"far too little is being done for the self-employed, those on zero hours contracts or those on statutory sick pay and benefits\".", "\"It's like sleep mode\" was the way one Cabinet minister described the point of this significant intervention in the employment market.\n\nThe idea here is to help employers put the workforce temporarily not needed in a sharp downturn into hibernation for when normality returns, not to fire them and do irreparable damage to the nation's productive capacity.\n\nThis move is an incredible intervention for any British government, let alone a Conservative one, but proportionate to the size of the terrible but temporary economic impact that could follow the coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nLet's be clear, we are in a recession already, as is most of the coronavirus-afflicted developed world. The point of actions such as this is to prevent the permanent scars of depression.\n\nThe seeds are there for a quick return to growth - all the same buildings and computer systems and networks and transport infrastructure are there, once this wretched pandemic passes, whether that is in six months or nine months or a year.\n\nIn theory it should save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Perhaps many more.\n\nEmployers have to accept that the government is doing something they would have never imagined a UK government would do.\n\nAt 80% of wages up to £2,500 a month it is a scheme more generous than some of the high welfare Scandinavian countries. It instantly transforms the social safety net of this nation.\n\nWeeks after Brexit, the UK does the most continental European-style economic intervention for decades.\n\nA massive support package that was the product of government negotiating in a small room with business groups and the unions.\n\nIt shows that the Treasury does believe that the very sharp plunge in the size of the economy can be followed by a bounceback - but not if millions of people are scarred by unemployment. Economics shows that these can have long lasting impact.\n\nThe chancellor was given the room for this partly by the Bank of England's biggest ever announcement of purchasing government debt.\n\nThere are fiscal risks here if this pandemic lasts much longer than three months. But the risks of not acting were much greater.\n\nIndeed thousands of workers had already been fired.\n\nThe Treasury scheme is designed to get those immediate economic victims of the crisis back in to their workforces. Business owners will then have to give them a leave of absence and receive taxpayer funding worth four-fifths of their salary.\n\nSuch employees should be picking up the phone to their ex-bosses.\n\nThere are gaps. The government is not saying there will be no pain.\n\nThe self-employed still have it relatively tough, despite some changes to the benefit system. A delay to billions in VAT payments should also help things in the interim.\n\nBut for those in jobs, or very recently fired, it requires employers to hold their nerve until the taxpayer payments begin at the end of next month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"The government is going to step in and help to pay people's wages\"\n\nFinancial help is urgently needed for the five million self-employed workers hit by the coronavirus pandemic, trade unions and a former cabinet minister have urged.\n\nConservative MP David Davis said the economy could suffer a near \"fatal seizure\" if they were not protected.\n\nThe government is to pay 80% of salaries of staff kept on by employers.\n\nBut Treasury minister Stephen Barclay said it would be \"operationally\" hard to protect self-employed incomes.\n\nHe said the self-employed were being helped by measures such as the deferral of self-assessment tax requirements, payment holidays for mortgage payers and the strengthening of the welfare \"safety net\".\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, told the BBC's Today programme that the lack of measures put in place for the self-employed \"will cause real hardship unless we get to grips with it\".\n\nThe cinema workers' union Bectu said the measures were a \"devastating blow\" to its freelance and self-employed members and that workers needed \"much more\" support than was promised.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak, who announced the support package on Friday at the daily coronavirus briefing with the PM, said closing pubs and restaurants would have a \"significant impact\" on businesses.\n\nBut he added the government intervention - covering wages of up to £2,500 a month - would mean workers should be able to keep their jobs, even if their employer could not afford to pay them.\n\nHowever, there was not the same wages guarantee for millions of self-employed people in the UK. Instead, Mr Sunak increased benefits that many will have to fall back on.\n\nMr Davis said it was vital the chancellor found a way of extending support to the self-employed.\n\n\"It is absolutely necessary. Without this the whole of the British economy will have a seizure - almost a fatal seizure in economic terms,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It is great for those who have got jobs but it does miss out a pretty important sector of the economy - namely the self-employed - and he (Mr Sunak) is going to have to find a way of replicating this for the self-employed as well.\"\n\nIt is understood the government's wage subsidy will apply to firms where bosses have already had to lay off workers due to the pandemic, as long as they are brought back into the workforce and instead granted a leave of absence.\n\nThe news was welcomed by UK business leaders who expressed \"relief\" after the government committed to pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry, the UK's biggest business group, said it was a \"landmark\" offering from the government.\n\n\"It marks the start of the UK's economic fightback - an unparalleled joint effort by enterprise and government to help our country emerge from this crisis with the minimum possible damage,\" director general Carolyn Fairbairn told BBC Newsnight.\n\nNik Antona, national chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), said many pubs had been \"hung in limbo\" and welcomed the \"clear instruction that closing their doors is the right thing to do\" and gave owners confidence that the government would support their staff and their business.\n\nPubs have been ordered to close to help slow the spread of the virus\n\nThe government had been under growing pressure to intervene to support workers to prevent mass unemployment as a result of measures directed against the outbreak.\n\nBut some business groups warned of the potential risk to firms if they had to wait for the money to arrive, with some businesses facing rent payments before the support is due.\n\nThe wage package is the latest in a series of government moves aimed at easing the burden on businesses and their employees.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it was not yet clear how many people would take advantage of the government's offer, but he estimated that for every 1% of private sector workers who do, it will cost about £1bn.\n\n\"So if, for example, 10% of private sector workers do, it's £10bn over three months and if it's 20% then it's £20bn, or thereabouts,\" Mr Johnson told BBC 4's Today programme.\n\nThe Bricklayer's Arms pub in West Putney, London is pictured with a closed sign\n\nThis move is an incredible intervention for any British government, let alone a Conservative one, but proportionate to the size of the terrible, but temporary, economic impact that could follow the coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nIn theory, it should save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Perhaps more. Employers have to accept that the government is doing something they would have never imagined a UK government to do.\n\nAt 80% cent of wages up to £2,500 a month, it is a scheme more generous than some of the high welfare Scandinavian countries. It instantly transforms the social safety net of this nation.\n\nThe new measures came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the closures of cafes, pubs and restaurants would be enforced \"strictly\" and that the situation would be reviewed each month.\n\nHe also announced that all the UK's nightclubs, theatres, cinemas, gyms and leisure centres had been told to close \"as soon as they reasonably can\".\n\n\"The more effectively we follow the advice we are given, the faster this country will stage both a medical and an economic recovery in full,\" the prime minister said.\n\nIt follows similar measures taken in other countries - including in Ireland, where pubs and bars were asked to close from last Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of deaths in the UK rose to 177 on Friday - with 167 in England, six in Scotland, three in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are telling cafes, pubs, bars and restaurants to close tonight... and not to open tomorrow\"", "Pupils whose exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic will be given grades estimated by their teachers, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes as most UK schools closed their doors to a majority of pupils indefinitely in an effort to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nBut many schools will re-open on Monday with a skeleton staff to accommodate the children of \"key workers\".\n\nThere are concerns the hastily arranged system may struggle to cope.\n\nTeachers in England will look at coursework, mocks and other evidence from A-level and GCSE students and will award grades.\n\nAnd a process will be agreed with exam regulators and exam boards to see that pupils' \"hard work and dedication is rewarded and fairly recognised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government has closed all schools, but what does that mean for exams, and who can still go in?\n\nA similar process is likely to be followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said cancelling exams was something no education secretary would ever want to do, but it was vital in these \"extraordinary times\".\n\n\"My priority now is to ensure no young person faces a barrier when it comes to moving onto the next stage of their lives - whether that's further or higher education, and apprenticeship of a job,\" he said.\n\nThe announcement came as hundreds of thousands of school pupils were saying sometimes tearful goodbyes to each other for possibly the last time.\n\nPupils at the end of primary, GCSE and A-Level students do not know whether they will see their classmates again in school.\n\nHead teachers and local authority officials have been struggling to work out whose children they should be accommodating when schools partially re-open on Monday.\n\nThe government has published a list of key workers whose children can still go to school if they cannot be looked after at home.\n\nThese workers' jobs are considered \"critical\" for the response to the pandemic.\n\nThe list has been separated into eight categories, including frontline health workers and social-care staff, nursery and teaching workers and those involved in food production and delivery.\n\nIt also includes the police, those in key public services, transport workers and critical staff in financial services and utilities.\n\nNorthern Ireland Education Minister Peter Weir has said all schools there should be prepared to cater for key workers' children after they close on Monday.\n\nAnyone who thinks the emergency schools that are due to open on Monday will run like regular ones is wrong.\n\nThey will instead comprise a patchwork of available teachers, support staff and pupils whose parents find themselves lucky enough to be on the key workers' list.\n\nThey will not be following a specific curriculum, there will be no working towards exams and pupils are unlikely to be taught in their own year groups.\n\nHow many pupils each school can accommodate will be a daily moving picture as staff fall ill.\n\nAnd head teachers will have to make some tough decisions about who can come into class - and sometimes their decisions will not be popular\n\nOne spoke of arguing with a father who asked for a place because he worked in McDonald's; others in more obviously frontline jobs have also been disappointed.\n\nOn the up side, the lucky ones may have a chance to learn in new and different ways, while their former classmates grapple with online learning from home.\n\nNurseries, colleges and childminders are also closing their doors, though some are being asked to re-open to accommodate key workers' children.\n\nVulnerable children, including those who have a social worker and those with special educational needs, will also be allowed to go to school.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint-general secretary of the National Education Union, said: \"This is a very long list and could result in some schools having the majority of pupils attending.\"\n\nShe also called for education workers to be tested for Covid-19 to ensure safe working in schools.\n\nShe added: \"There simply won't be enough education staff available for work on school sites if all members with symptoms are forced to self-isolate.\"\n\nThe government stressed that \"every child who can be safely cared for at home should be\" and asked workers to consult their employers to confirm whether \"their specific role is necessary\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it would help local authorities identify those \"who most need support at this time\".\n\nThe government has encouraged local authorities to keep residential special schools and specialist colleges open wherever possible.", "After several days with no \"home-grown\" infections, according to China’s official figures, there is a feeling there that the coronavirus emergency appears to be under control.\n\nPeople in Beijing are finally heading outdoors, as China correspondent Stephen McDonell reports.", "A brewery in Reading that has been financially hit by advice to avoid pubs has switched to home deliveries instead and has had its \"busiest ever day\".\n\nThe independently-owned Loddon Brewery said it had not received a trade order since Tuesday, but after deciding to focus solely on home deliveries, the firm said work soared.\n\n\"We normally do takeaway beer, but that was only about 20% of our business. But we had to change that overnight,\" marketing manager Dan Hearn said.\n\n\"We pulled in everyone - our head brewer is answering the phones, our assistant brewer is out driving the van. It's an all-hands-on-pump situation, our sales manager is out delivering direct to the customer.\"", "According to South Korea, two projectiles were fired towards the sea by North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has fired two projectiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military.\n\nIt said the projectiles appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles.\n\nThey were launched early on Saturday from Pyongan province towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.\n\nNorth Korea launched multiple missiles as part of firing drills earlier this month. The US and China have called on Pyongyang to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programmes.\n\nOn Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff said it was monitoring the situation in case there are additional launches.\n\nIt described the actions as \"extremely inappropriate\" at a time when the world was dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe projectiles flew for 410km (255 miles) with a maximum altitude of around 50km, the South Korean military said.\n\nJapan's coast guard confirmed a missile had landed outside the waters of its exclusive economic zone.\n\nIt comes as North Korea announced it would be holding a session of the Supreme People's Assembly, the country's parliament, on 10 April. Analysts say the meeting will involve almost 700 of the country's leaders in one spot.\n\nRachel Minyoung Lee, from North Korea monitoring website NK News said on Twitter that the meeting would \"be the ultimate show of (North Korea's) confidence in managing the coronavirus situation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Minyoung Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been no reported cases of coronavirus in North Korea, though some experts have cast doubt on this.\n\nNorth Korea borders China, where the virus emerged, and South Korea, where there has been a major outbreak.\n\nA top US military official said last week he was \"fairly certain\" there were infections in North Korea.\n\nNorth Korea quarantined around 380 foreigners - mostly diplomats and staff in Pyongyang - in their compounds for at least 30 days. The restrictions were lifted at the beginning of March. Around 80 foreigners, mainly diplomats, were flown out of the capital on 9 March.", "Doctors in this GP surgery in Hertfordshire have been working 11-hour days and have redesigned their surgery in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Bridgewater GP practice on the outskirts of Watford looks after more than 30,000 patients.\n\nThe BBC’s Jim Reed spent the day there to see how doctors on the front line are dealing with the outbreak.", "Drinkers around England won't be able to prop up the bars at their regular haunts after Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown.\n\nDespite the prime minster's plea for people not to enjoy \"one last pint\" on Friday night, a few establishments reported an influx of customers before last orders.\n\nFor others, a quiet week continued as it had started, and their final night of trading was marked by empty seats.\n\nRyan North has \"a lot of beer to use up\"\n\nRyan North, manager at city centre bar The Wardrobe, said staff had been \"in limbo\" since Monday.\n\n\"It's slowed right down since then when people came in for their last pint.\n\n\"Picture says it all really, no point in staying open, but we've got a lot of beer to use up.\"\n\nRefurbishments and the ban have hit Daniel Force\n\nDaniel Force, barkeeper at the Brunswick Arms in Dawlish, said they had been closed for six weeks for a refurbishment.\n\n\"We tried to open up this week just to get some people through the door, and now we're being told we're closing tonight,\" he said.\n\n\"We even had a police officer come in to enforce the closure and make sure we close our doors at midnight.\"\n\n\"It's going to be tough, but hopefully with everyone's help, we'll be able to knuckle through.\"\n\n\"Relief\" at certainty for The Loft\n\nThe Loft, near the city's Hippodrome theatre, was empty on Friday evening.\n\nOwner Lawrence Barton said the chancellor's announcement had \"actually brought a sense of conclusion and relief\".\n\n\"I think the measures the Chancellor announced this evening are going to greatly help business and give us confidence we can support our workforce.\n\n\"We've been very concerned, the hospitality sector has been decimated, at least now it will give business owners the confidence to take the measure they need to secure as many jobs as possible.\"\n\nA late storm before the calm in Kent\n\nManager Anthony Price closed the doors of the Bedford pub in Tunbridge Wells at 20:00 GMT. Staff took over £500 in their last hour and were forced to turn away dozens of people shortly before closing, he said.\n\nThe owners had considered closing earlier in the week, but had waited to receive the government order to close \"because we didn't know whether the insurance companies would cover us\".\n\n\"It was pay day for the staff today, so we wanted to make sure they got paid and made sure they were going to be alright for at least a month,\" he said.\n\nMr Price expects the pub to be closed for 12 weeks, but said it was \"all up in the air\".\n\nForcing pubs to close was the wrong decision, he said.\n\n\"I think the public are very resilient, especially the British, we are known for our stiff upper lip. I think, let the public decide what they want to do.\n\n\"If the older generation, the younger generation, they want to go to bars and restaurants, let them. At least give them the option.\n\n\"By me working, that's down to me, that's my risk. If the older generation want to come in for a beer, that's at their risk.\n\n\"I understand why they've done it and hopefully it brings a quicker resolution to the end of the virus, but I just think let people do what they want to do. It's locking people up for a minimum of 12 weeks, it is like prison.\n\n\"What you see on the news in other countries, you don't expect it to happen in England, you don't expect it to happen in Royal Tunbridge Wells.\"\n\nClaire Brookes is using life savings while she waits for a lifeline\n\nClaire Brookes, landlady of the Walnut Tree Shades, is planning to use her life savings to pay her staff until government money comes through at the end of April.\n\n\"I signed a tenancy agreement for five years and have lots of plans but now I've been told I have to close my business.\n\n\"I want to believe what the government will do will be good but I will not get access to their money until the end of April.\n\n\"I'm looking at financial ruin because the only thing I can do to help my staff till the money comes through is to use my life savings.\"\n\nJames Winfield, of Frank's Bar in the city centre, said he was going to develop a takeaway business.\n\nFriday was his last night and he said he would be doing a lot of number-crunching over the weekend.\n\n\"I'm worried but full of hope so will be ordering food and drink for the new business while taking one day at a time,\" he said.\n• None Pubs and restaurants told to shut to fight virus\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: \"Buying more than you need means that others may be left without\"\n\nShoppers in the UK have been told to \"be responsible\" and think of others such as NHS workers, after panic-buying amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was more than enough food to go around - but the challenge for shops is keeping shelves stocked.\n\nIt comes as supermarkets have been overwhelmed by increased purchasing.\n\nAnother 53 people with coronavirus have died in England, bringing the total of deaths in the country to 220.\n\nMeanwhile, cafes, pubs and restaurants across the UK have closed as part of measures to stop the virus spreading.\n\nAnd, on Saturday night, the National Trust announced it was closing its parks and gardens from midnight \"to help restrict the spread of the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Frankly we should all be ashamed,\" said Prof Stephen Powis, medical director at NHS England, who said panic-buyers are depriving NHS staff of the supplies they need.\n\n\"These are the very people that we all need to look after perhaps us or our loved ones in the weeks to come.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a critical care nurse made an emotional video appeal for people to stop panic-buying and leave some goods for others who need to stay healthy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critical care nurse Dawn was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers\n\nAlso speaking at the news conference in Downing Street on Saturday, the head of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson, said: \"There is plenty of food in the supply chain.\"\n\n\"The issue is around people and lorries\" getting food onto shelves quick enough, she said.\n\nShe said the food industry was experiencing \"a peak in demand\" like at Christmas, but \"without the four-month build-up period.\"\n\n\"There is £1bn more food in people's houses than there was three weeks ago, so we should make sure we eat some of it,\" she said.\n\nShoppers have been met with empty shelves at stores across the UK\n\nThere was a large queue of shoppers trying to get into the Costco store in Glasgow on Saturday\n\nTape in a fast food store marks the floor where customers should stand to practice social distancing\n\nMr Eustice said the government recognised it was a \"challenging time\" but that \"buying more than you need means others may be left without.\"\n\nHe added: \"There's no shortage of food. Food manufacturing has geared up to meet an increase in demand and it is up by 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether he can rule out rationing or ration books, Mr Eustice said it was up to supermarkets to decide whether to put limits on how much of each item shoppers can buy.\n\nSome supermarkets have already imposed limits after some members of the public started buying items like toilet roll in bulk.\n\nAnd many stores including Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl have said they are hiring thousands of staff to meet the unprecedented demand.\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, said it wants to take on 20,000 temporary workers \"to help feed the nation\".\n\nLabour said the government had been too slow and too quiet to reassure people that were was enough food.\n\nProf Powis, of NHS England, also reiterated the importance of people avoiding social contact.\n\n\"It's not for somebody else to follow, it's for you to follow, it's for me to follow, it's for everybody to follow,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Powis, NHS England: \"By not stockpiling...our health workers are able to get access to what they need\"\n\n\"This is all our problem and if we do it together, it will be an effective strategy. If you do it, you follow the advice, you will be saving somebody's life.\n\n\"This is the time in your lifetime whereby your action can save somebody's life. It is as simple and as stark as that.\"", "The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 major American companies fell more than 4.5% on Friday, erasing all the gains it had made since Donald Trump became president in January 2017.\n\nThe drop helped to finish the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, with all three indexes down at least 12%.\n\nThe falls come as authorities tighten restrictions on activity in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nNew York state on Friday ordered non-essential businesses to close.\n\nIllinois also made a similar move, while California earlier mandated that its residents shelter in place.\n\nThe Dow lost more than 900 points to close at 19,173, while the wider S&P 500 dropped 4.3% to 2,304 and the Nasdaq lost 3.8% to 6,879.5.\n\nThey have now fallen more than 30% from their recent records.\n\nMr Trump has taken credit as the share indexes climbed during his presidency - gaining nearly 50% as of last month. He has written about them on Twitter at least 131 times, according to a tally by the New York Times.\n\nAt briefings this week, Mr Trump has said he is not worried about the economy in the long-run, arguing that business will bounce back after the pandemic eases and restrictions can be relaxed.\n\nFor now, however, the upheavals are severe.\n\nUnemployment claims in the US surged 30% this week, as thousands of people lost their jobs, while in the restaurant industry alone as many as 7 million jobs could be cut in the next three months, according to estimates by the National Restaurant Association.\n\nDelta Air Lines on Friday said it would lose $10bn in its second quarter, while United Airlines warned that it would cut jobs starting in April if the government does not provide relief funding. Both firms saw share prices fall about 30% this week.\n\nCoca-Cola lost more than 8%, after warning the virus had upended its growth forecast, as sales to theatres, sporting venues and restaurants evaporate.\n\nEarlier, the FTSE 100 index of top UK firms ended up 0.76%, while Germany's Dax and France's CAC 40 gained more than 3%.\n\nThe market moves came as the state of New York ordered staff at all \"non-essential\" businesses to remain at home as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.\n\nThe move expands earlier restrictions and comes as California on the west coast said its nearly 40 million residents should \"shelter in place\".\n\nThe US has confirmed more than 14,000 cases of the coronavirus, including more than 7,000 in New York.\n\nThe surge has started to strain its health care system.\n\n\"This is the most drastic action we can take,\" New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said,\n\nNew York said pharmacies, grocery stores, banks and shipping firms were among those exempt from the order, which goes into effect on Sunday.\n\nMany places have already been forced to shut, including schools, shopping centres, and theatres.\n\nMr Cuomo also issued additional rules for the state's 19.5 million citizens, saying healthy people who are not at risk may go outside for exercise and to go grocery shopping, but should otherwise remain at home.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, who has been a leader of the national response, said he supported the move.\n\n\"Please co-operate with your governor,\" he said at the White House's daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nThe US also said it would bar non-essential travel between the US and Canada, from midnight.\n\nHowever, US President Donald Trump said he did not think shelter in place orders needed to be expanded nationally, noting that many states have far lower infection rates.\n\n\"They're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems,\" he said.\n\nRestrictions aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus have expanded rapidly this week and are already having a devastating economic effect, with the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits surging more than 30% this week.\n\nEconomists are predicting a sharp contraction in economic growth in coming months, and have warned that millions of jobs are at risk.\n\nCongress is working on a more than $1tn relief bill, that is expected to include direct payments of more than $1,000 for each American who earns less than a certain amount. It would also include millions for businesses affected by the pandemic, such as airlines and hotels.\n• None The city that never sleeps put on lockdown", "A GP says a \"significant amount of people\" are relocating to holiday homes and caravans in the area\n\nPeople should be banned from travelling to second homes and caravan parks should be shut down, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has told the first minister.\n\nIn the letter to Mark Drakeford, Mr Price called for action, echoing calls from other politicians and GPs.\n\nTravel is one of many restrictions in place since the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Welsh Government has warned second-home owners and caravanners they could face action by ignoring advice not to travel unnecessarily.\n\nMr Price said concerns had been raised about \"a large scale population shift\" into generally rural areas.\n\nHis letter added: \"I am asking that you now take urgent steps to avoid unnecessary additional pressure on our health and social care system at this difficult time.\"\n\nCalls have previously been made for people not to come to Gwynedd, which has more second homes than any other county in Wales.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Seren This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 now neighbouring Anglesey council has told all tourists to stay away from the island until the outbreak is over.\n\nThe main concern is putting extra pressure on health services.\n\n\"There's clear advice for people to avoid unnecessary travel and going to your caravan on the weekend doesn't strike me as necessary travel,\" Health Minister Vaughan Gething said.\n\n\"We're asking people to be responsible. And I really hope we take that advice seriously because I certainly don't want our healthcare system in any part of Wales or indeed the UK to be overwhelmed by people moving around.\n\n\"And that's something that of course is within Wales as well. There are plenty of people who have caravans and second homes in some of our coastal areas.\n\n\"We are of course taking it seriously and if we need to act, we are prepared to use the powers that we have, as we already demonstrated last night with the measures we took.\"\n\nGP Darren Cornish fears Gwynedd does not have the resources to cope with an increase in the population as coronavirus spreads\n\nOn Saturday, there were reports of social gatherings at Pen Y Fan in Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia in Gwynedd, and seaside resorts around Wales.\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said she was left with \"no other option but to urge visitors and tourists, including those who own second homes, to stay away\".\n\nShe added: \"We have seen a recent influx of visitors coming to stay in caravans or second homes on Anglesey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Claire Turner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"They will undoubtedly put an immense extra strain on essential public services, including the NHS, which are already under tremendous pressure.\n\n\"They must consider the implications of their actions on the people of Anglesey.\"\n\nThe calls have been echoed by Ynys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie and Clwyd West AM Darren Millar.\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\nMs Crosbie said: \"After several discussions with ministers yesterday, today I wrote to the prime minister asking him to re-affirm to the people of the UK that non-essential travel includes taking unnecessary holidays during a time of national crisis.\"\n\nDarren Cornish, a lead GP at Criccieth, Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog surgeries, wants to see holiday parks closed.\n\n\"I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation,\" 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 4 by Darren Millar AM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 4 by Darren Millar AM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿\n\n\"If people do travel, a number will be bringing the virus with them and expediting the process.\n\n\"We need to close these campsites.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chris Lloyd, from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association said people were being \"irresponsible\" going up mountains during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"We clearly weren't expecting a flood of people on Snowdonia today because we are actually trying to reduce the risk of team members having to deal with people who are possibly infected.\n\n\"The message is simple - don't go on the mountains if you have the virus or have been self-isolating because if you need to be rescued, mountain rescue may not be able to help.\"\n\nEASY STEPS: How to keep safe", "Year six pupils spoke of their sadness as they left primary school for what could be the final time.\n\nFriday has been the last school day for most children until further notice, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe students from St John's Church of England Academy, Coventry, said they were emotional about their final year at primary school being cut short.\n\nTeachers at the school have put together a package of videos and online resources so children can continue learning at home in the coming weeks.", "Letters are being sent telling 1.5 million people in England most at risk of coronavirus to stay at home.\n\nThey will receive letters or text messages strongly advising them not to go out for 12 weeks to protect themselves, the government said.\n\nIt comes as the PM asked the UK not to visit loved ones on Mother's Day, and follow social distancing guidelines.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan asked people to heed the advice, saying \"do it for loved ones who will die if you don't\".\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK with coronavirus rose to 281 on Sunday, as cases reached 5,683.\n\nBoris Johnson has called on the public to join a \"collective national effort\" and follow social distancing guidance, warning the NHS could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nAt-risk people include those who have received organ transplants, those living with severe respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis or those who have specific cancers, such as blood or bone marrow.\n\nIn a message to the country on Saturday evening, Mr Johnson said: \"The numbers are very stark, and they are accelerating.\n\n\"The Italians have a superb health care system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand.\n\n\"The Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together, unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread - then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.\"\n\nDespite the social distancing advice, some public spaces like parts of London's Battersea Park were busy\n\nAt Columbia Road flower market in east London, shoppers did not always follow the 2m advice\n\nHe said the UK is only \"two or three\" weeks behind Italy, adding that he recognised the government was imposing measures \"never seen before either in peace or war\" - but said they were essential.\n\nThere have been more than 300,000 cases of the virus worldwide with more than 13,000 deaths.\n\nItaly has seen its death toll for the past month reach 4,825, the highest in the world.\n\nAs families prepared to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday, Mr Johnson said the best single present for mothers was to stay away.\n\nIt comes after the government this week told all restaurants, cafes and pubs - as well as some other public spaces like gyms and cinemas - to close.\n\nIn Keele, one woman socialised with her family through a window as she received a Sunday roast by delivery\n\nAnd shoppers queued outside a supermarket in south London\n\nMeanwhile, as churches closed their doors to worshippers, some faith leaders like the Dean of Durham live-streamed the service\n\n\"This time, the best thing is to ring her, video call her, Skype her, but to avoid any unnecessary physical contact or proximity,\" the PM said.\n\n\"And why? Because if your mother is elderly or vulnerable, then I am afraid all the statistics show that she is much more likely to die from coronavirus, or Covid-19. We cannot disguise or sugar-coat the threat.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson was asked at his daily press conference whether he would be visiting his own mother, who is 77. He said he would \"certainly be sending her my very best wishes and hope to get to see her\".\n\nA Downing Street source later said his contact with his mother on Sunday would be over Skype.\n\nElsewhere, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan echoed the PM's call for social distancing.\n\nAppealing to the public, he said: \"Don't leave home unless you have to, don't use public transport unless essential… do it for loved ones who will die if you don't.\"\n\nMr Khan told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show that additional restrictions in London may have to be \"considered\" if people in the capital \"continue to act in a way that's leading to this disease spreading\".\n\nUnder emergency legislation going through Parliament next week, airports could be shut and people held on public health grounds, while immigration officials could place people in isolation.\n\nHousing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was too early to know how long the current measures would need to stay in place.\n\nHe told Andrew Marr: \"Nobody is pretending that this will be over in 12 weeks. What the prime minister said is that if everyone follows the advice, we can turn the tide on this virus within that period.\"\n\n\"We all have to play our part\" in staying at home to protect the NHS and save lives, he said.\n\nThe government was \"working around the clock\" to deliver vital equipment to frontline staff, he said, pledging that every hospital will have had their next pack of personal protective equipment (PPE) by Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe said PPE had also been delivered to pharmacists, GPs and will be delivered to all social care providers \"this coming week\".\n\nHe also revealed the government had received some prototype ventilators, after it called on manufacturers to switch their operations to making ventilators to boost NHS stocks.\n\nOn testing, in the last week he said there had been days when 8,000 tests were reached, but conceded \"there is a long way to go\" to meet the government's target of 25,000 a day.\n\nAn unprecedented health emergency has led to an unprecedented challenge for government.\n\nOver the last few days we have seen decisions made that would have been scarcely seemed possible just a fortnight ago.\n\nThere's another one today - 1.5 million people in England alone will be told not to leave their homes to protect themselves from the virus.\n\nThe concern in government is set out by the prime minister. His warning that the UK could be just a fortnight behind Italy - and that the NHS could be overwhelmed - is one of the starkest we've heard yet.\n\nIt's designed to be so; to persuade us all to follow advice, to stay home and help save lives.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will keep \"reviewing\" the package of financial support he announced last week, Mr Jenrick said, following calls for increased help for the self-employed.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has said members of the Armed Forces will help ensure essential items like groceries can be delivered to people who are at-risk.\n\nMr Jenrick said he hopes from the end of the week the government will be able to get food parcels to the most vulnerable, who have no support network.\n\n\"We are going to be creating a big national effort to help those individuals,\" Mr Jenrick added.\n\nThe number of people with coronavirus include 10 in Scotland, 12 in Wales and two in Northern Ireland.\n\nTape has been put on some shop floors to mark how far customers should stand apart", "Police warned people to only buy medicines and kits - like this genuine coronavirus testing kit - from registered healthcare professionals\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with making fake kits which claimed to treat Covid-19.\n\nFrank Ludlow, 59, was arrested in a post office near his home in West Sussex on Friday, the City of London Police said.\n\nHe was arrested by the force's Intellectual Property Crime Unit after it was contacted by US counterparts.\n\nThe kits allegedly contained harmful chemicals which people were being told to use to rinse their mouths with.\n\nMr Ludlow has been charged with one count of fraud by false representation, one count of possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of unlawfully manufacturing a medicinal product.\n\nHe appeared before Brighton Magistrates' Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody until 20 April, police said.\n\nPolice officers have urged people to seek advice only from a registered healthcare professional.\n\nTariq Sarwar, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, also said people should only buy medicines they need from an authorised seller.\n\nHe added when buying online to beware of illegitimate websites and suspicious URLs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many across India clapped from their balconies on Sunday as a mark of respect for medical staff\n\nWe appreciate that these are dark times for people around the world, as the coronavirus continues to spread. Numbers of infections and fatalities are rising, cities and even countries are shutting and many people are being forced into isolation. But amid all the worrying news, there have also been reasons to find hope.\n\nAs countries go into lockdown over the virus, there have been significant drops in pollution levels.\n\nBoth China and northern Italy have recorded major falls in nitrogen dioxide - a serious air pollutant and powerful warming chemical - amid reduced industrial activity and car journeys.\n\nResearchers in New York also told the BBC that early results showed carbon monoxide, mainly from cars, had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nAnd with airlines cancelling flights en masse and millions working from home, countries around the world are expected to follow this downward path.\n\nOn a similar note, residents of Venice have noticed a vast improvement in the water quality of the famous canals running through the city.\n\nThe streets of the popular tourist destination in northern Italy have emptied amid the outbreak leading to a drastic drop in water traffic, which has allowed sediment to settle.\n\nThe usually murky water has gone so clear that fish can even be seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cruise ship cancellations have led to cleaner canals in Venice\n\nThere are plenty of stories of panic buying and fights over toilet roll and tins, but the virus has also spurred acts of kindness around the world.\n\nTwo New Yorkers amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to elderly and vulnerable people in the city.\n\nFacebook said hundreds of thousands of people in the UK had joined local support groups set up for the virus, while similar groups have been formed in Canada, sparking a trend there known as \"caremongering\".\n\nSupermarkets in Australia are among those to create a special \"elderly hour\" so older shoppers and those with disabilities have a chance to shop in peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have also donated money, shared recipe and exercise ideas, sent uplifting messages to self-isolating elderly people and transformed businesses into food distribution centres.\n\nBetween a hectic work and home life it is often easy to feel disconnected from those around you. As the virus affects us all, it has brought many communities around the world closer together.\n\nIn Italy, where a countrywide lockdown is in place, people have joined together on their balconies for morale-boosting songs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Italians sing from their windows to boost morale\n\nA fitness instructor in southern Spain led an exercise class from a low roof in the middle of an apartment complex, which residents in isolation joined from their balconies.\n\nMany people have used the opportunity to reconnect with friends and loved ones over phone or video calls, while groups of friends have organised virtual clubbing or pub sessions using mobile apps (including those of us in the BBC who are working from home).\n\nThe virus has also highlighted the importance of health workers and other people working in key services. Thousands of Europeans have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors and nurses fighting the virus, while medical students in London have volunteered to help healthcare professionals with childcare and household chores.\n\nWith millions of people now stuck in isolation, many are using the opportunity to get creative.\n\nSocial media users have shared details of their new hobbies, including reading, baking, knitting and painting.\n\nThe DC Public Library in Washington is among those hosting a virtual book club, while Italian Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura has launched an Instagram series called Kitchen Quarantine, teaching basic recipes to aspiring foodies who are stuck at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook group helps parents and their kids during coronavirus lockdown\n\nAn art teacher in the US state of Tennessee has been live-streaming classes for children who are out of school, inspiring them to get creative at home.\n\nAnd while many public spaces have been shut, art fans have been making the most of virtual tours offered by the world's biggest galleries, observing the famous paintings of the Louvre in Paris and the classic sculptures of the Vatican museum from their living rooms.\n\nAustralia's Sydney Observatory offered a tour of the night sky for people stuck at home.\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 Sydney Observatory 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\nPop stars including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and country singer Keith Urban have also been live-streaming gigs to combat the boredom of self-isolation.\n\nOn Monday, we're going to bring you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories, like these, that are emerging from the coronavirus crisis. We hope you can join us from 07:00 GMT.", "The government has closed all schools, but what does that mean for GCSE's and A Levels. And which children are still able to go in?", "Supermarkets have gone on a hiring spree as demand surges as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nTesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl said they would hire thousands of staff after hugely increased demand saw shoppers clearing shelves.\n\nThat move came before the government said it would pay the wages of workers at firms affected by the pandemic.\n\nAnd Sainsbury's has asked shoppers to stay 1m away from shop staff if possible, to help keep them safe.\n\nSupermarkets have been overwhelmed by a wave of panic-buying as shoppers rush to stock up amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTo combat the stockpiling, in recent days the major British supermarkets imposed limits on how much of each item shoppers can buy.\n\nAlong with other measures to cope with the increased demand, some of the chains have embarked on big recruitment drives for a total of more than 30,000 jobs.\n\nPeople have been queuing outside supermarkets before they open their doors\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, wants to take on 20,000 temporary workers \"to help feed the nation\", it said.\n\n\"The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented increase in demand for food and household products,\" the chain said.\n\n\"At Tesco, we're working around the clock to help ensure families have access to the shopping items they need.\n\n\"We launched our recruitment drive online on Wednesday and since then we have already been overwhelmed by support from the public and thank everyone who has applied to work with us in stores.\"\n\nIt added that \"over the coming days thousands of new colleagues will join us\".\n\nThe chain also announced on Saturday it will give all its workers across stores, distribution centres and customer engagement centres a 10% bonus on their hourly rate until 1 May - backdated to 9 March.\n\nFrontline salaried managers will receive a 10% bonus on actual hours worked, it added.\n\nAsda said it wanted to recruit more than 5,000 temporary staff from among people whose jobs have been impacted by the virus.\n\nAldi announced it was looking to fill 5,000 new temporary posts and take on 4,000 permanent new workers for jobs in all its stores and distribution centres.\n\nAnd Lidl said it would create about 2,500 temporary jobs across its 800 stores in the UK.\n\nThe discounter said it was hiring to \"help with an extremely busy time for stores\".\n\nLidl GB chief executive Christian Haertnagel said staff were doing an \"incredible job at keeping our shelves stocked, and serving communities during an extremely challenging period\".\n\n\"Temporarily expanding our teams is one way we can help support our colleagues and customers, whilst providing work to those that have had their employment affected by the current situation.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Morrisons announced it was creating 3,500 new jobs to expand its home delivery service, about 2,500 pickers and drivers, plus 1,000 staff in its distribution centres.\n\nIt said it would make more slots available and also set up a call centre for those without access to online shopping.\n\nMorrisons said the move would help \"at a time of national need\".\n\nShoppers outside a Tesco in West London endeavour to follow social distancing measures\n\nAs well as introducing social distancing measures, Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe said the store would prefer customers to pay with a card rather than cash.\n\nHe also said Sainsbury's would be expanding its reserved 08:00-09:00 slot for elderly, disabled and vulnerable customers to NHS and social care workers.\n\nConsultant cardiologist Dr Lisa Anderson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this would lead to cross-infection.\n\nShe said: \"It's not just about the risk to ourselves and our family; we're travelling home on the Tube and on buses, we're cross-infecting everybody at the moment.\"\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the programme he agreed the move by supermarkets could pose a risk.\n\nHe said: \"We're going to have to learn as we go along about these unintended consequences.\"\n\nOn Friday, at his daily Downing Street briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would be chairing a meeting with supermarket bosses on Saturday to discuss the situation.\n\nIn an environment that was already tough for the High Street due to higher costs and changes in shopping habits, the coronavirus crisis has added a huge burden for retailers as many people avoid their stores.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia retail group, which includes Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, and Miss Selfridge, said on Friday it was closing all its stores.\n\nThe company said it would focus on its digital and social platforms. Staff were to remain employees and receive their full pay for March, but it was not clear what would happen with staffing beyond then.\n\nHowever, this news came before a massive UK intervention in which Chancellor Rishi Sunak will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe radical move is aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nA number of travel operators have outlined measures they have been forced to bring in, due to the outbreak:\n\nHowever, all these warnings and job cuts were made before the latest government announcement - and it is now unclear whether those moves will still hold.\n\nAs well as the wage payments, it is understood the government wage subsidy will apply to firms where bosses have already had to lay off workers due to the coronavirus, as long as they are brought back into the workforce and instead granted a leave of absence.", "Hove seafront in East Sussex attracted many visitors on Saturday morning\n\nThousands of people have been heading to seaside attractions in the sunshine despite government advice to avoid social gatherings due to coronavirus.\n\nOne beach in Sussex is to close, while Lincolnshire's police and crime commissioner called for caravan sites and arcades in Skegness to shut.\n\nPCC Marc Jones said there were \"hundreds of thousands of visitors\".\n\nWest Wittering Beach was being shut at 18:00 GMT after \"thousands\" of people turned up, the estate office said.\n\nThere are also reports of large crowds along the East Yorkshire coast.\n\nOther resorts, including Brighton and Hove, were also reported to be busy.\n\nMr Jones said it was \"time for everyone to be socially responsible or be made to be\".\n\nLocal councillor Jimmy Brookes said it was \"madness,\" adding: \"Skegness is packed, cafes and arcades are open.\"\n\nA member of the management team in West Wittering said: \"The crowds were into the thousands - dispersed on to the large beach - but it's the method of getting here... we're at the end of a peninsula, there's one way in and one way out.\"\n\nPolice in Cumbria had earlier warned tourists not to travel to the Lake District and urged them to follow the government's advice on social distancing, which is intended to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSkegness dentist Dr Mitchell Clark, who voluntarily shut his practice last week over the coronavirus outbreak, said many local businesses were \"acting like nothing is happening\".\n\nIn a video posted on Facebook he called for caravan sites and businesses to close and people to remain at home.\n\n\"I was appalled to see as I drove home Skegness looking like it does on a busy summer day,\" he said.\n\n\"I view these actions as massively, massively socially irresponsible and I personally think those involved should be ashamed of themselves.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are a small town. We have a cottage hospital supported by two main district hospitals and this is a disaster waiting to happen.\"\n\nThe Swan Inn in Lewes, Sussex, has now reopened as a farm shop following the orders for pubs to shut to fight coronavirus\n\nOn Friday Butlin's announced it was closing its Skegness resort as well as its sites in Bognor Regis and Minehead.\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"We expect business owners will want to support the measures designed to keep us all safe.\n\n\"If officers see specified businesses open, they will remind them of the government advice.\"\n\nHowever, in Lewes, Sussex, the Swan Inn has now reopened as a farm shop following the orders for pubs to shut, and urged customers to keep a distance from each other.", "Campervans pictured in the Highlands on Saturday\n\nPeople have been urged to stop travelling to the Highlands in a bid to avoid the coronavirus.\n\nIt follows reports of people with second homes or those with campervans travelling to the area in recent days.\n\nThe issue has prompted Scotland's finance secretary, who is also a Highlands MSP, to tell people to stay away.\n\nKate Forbes said people should not make the Highlands their \"means of self-isolation\".\n\nTo date there have been 373 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Scotland, only eight of them have been in the Highlands.\n\nIn a tweet posted on Friday evening, Ms Forbes, who represents Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said: \"If you live elsewhere, please don't use the Highlands as your means of self-isolation. People live here who are trying to follow government guidance and the continuing flow of campervans and other traffic who appear to be escaping the cities is not helping.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kate Forbes MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer intervention comes as the first minister confirmed compulsory closures of restaurants, cafes, pubs, gyms and cinemas across Scotland.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon said the crisis would pass if people followed health advice and looked out for each other.\n\nMs Sturgeon also warned that the number of Covid-19 cases was \"set to rise sharply\".\n\nShe urged people to follow social distancing advice to save lives and reduce pressure on the NHS.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the Western Isles, where there have been no confirmed cases of the virus so far, locals from Barra and Vatersay also urged people not to travel there to avoid the virus.\n\nThey described the isles as \"closed\".\n\nA social media post said: \"Don't travel here, don't put unnecessary strain on our medical staff and limited resources.\n\n\"We will open again and be delighted to see you. But in the meantime we are looking after our community, the thing that makes us so special.\"", "The private sector will reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity in the first of its kind deal\n\nThe NHS has struck a deal with private hospitals to acquire thousands of extra beds, ventilators and medical staff to fight the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAn extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.\n\nIt comes as the number of people in the UK to die with coronavirus rose to 233.\n\nThe agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.\n\nThe extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there are more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe number of people with coronavirus who have died is now 220 in England, seven in Scotland, five in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe most recent 53 deaths in England were people aged 41 to 94 who had underlying health conditions, NHS England said.\n\nIn London, the extra resources includes more than 2,000 hospital beds and more than 250 operating theatres and critical beds.\n\nThe additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England.\n\nEarlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met NHS 111 staff who had been taking calls from the public\n\nChief executive Sir Simon Stevens hailed the deal with the private sector.\n\nHe said: \"We're dealing with an unprecedented global health threat and are taking immediate and exceptional action to gear up.\n\n\"The NHS is doing everything in its power to expand treatment capacity and is working with partners right across the country to do so.\"\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, the private sector will be reimbursed at cost, meaning no profit will be made for doing so.\n\n\"Open book\" accounting and external auditors will verify the public funds being deployed.\n\nThe NHS often uses private sector facilities when the need arises.\n\nBut the mass purchasing of these resources is unprecedented.\n\nThe ventilators will be crucial in helping the sickest.\n\nJust over 4% of people who developed symptoms are likely to need hospital care - and a third of those intensive care support.\n\nThere are nearly 4,000 adult critical care beds in England currently.\n\nThese extra ventilators will add to the hundreds freed up by the move to cancel routine operations from April, as well as steps to source others from elsewhere including the Ministry of Defence and old and new stocks.\n\nDavid Hare, chief executive of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, said: \"We have worked hand-in-hand with the NHS for decades and will do whatever it takes to support the NHS in responding to this pandemic.\"\n\nHe added the independent sector \"stands ready\" to maintain that support for as long as needed.\n\nShortly after the NHS announcement, Spire Healthcare released a statement confirming it had signed up to assist NHS England for a minimum of 14 weeks.\n\nThe independent UK hospital group said it would spend the first week preparing staff and facilities before making all its 35 hospitals in England available to the NHS from 30 March.\n\nIt added that it would be suspending all non-urgent elective surgery for patients over the age of 70 and vulnerable patients from 5:00 GMT on 20 March.\n\nThe NHS deal comes as a consultant warned that frontline NHS staff risked \"cross infecting everybody\" because they are not getting the recommended protective equipment.\n\nThe face mask, short gloves and apron worn by NHS staff is far short of the World Health Organization recommendations, said Dr Lisa Anderson of St George's Hospital in London.\n\nEarlier this week, professional health bodies wrote to 65,000 former doctors and nurses who have left the NHS in the last three years, asking them to rejoin the workforce.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed Saturday's announcement and praised the \"heroes returning to the front line\".\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS England announced that its hospitals across the country would be taking a range of actions to prepare, including freeing up 30,000 of the overall 100,000 beds available by postponing non-urgent operations and providing care in the community for those who are fit to be discharged.\n\nThe NHS is also sourcing up to 10,000 beds in independent and community hospitals, which this deal largely now delivers.", "Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world\n\nCanadian scientists have discovered a fragment of an ancient continent, suggesting that it was 10% larger than previously thought.\n\nThey were studying diamond samples from Baffin Island, a glacier-covered land mass near Greenland, when they noticed a remnant of North Atlantic Craton.\n\nCratons are ancient, stable parts of the Earth's continental crust.\n\nThe North Atlantic Craton stretched from present-day Scotland to North America and broke apart 150m years ago.\n\nScientists chanced on the latest evidence as they examined exploration samples of kimberlite, a rock that often contains diamonds, from Baffin Island.\n\n\"For researchers, kimberlites are subterranean rockets that pick up passengers on their way to the surface,\" University of British Columbia geologist Maya Kopylova said. \"The passengers are solid chunks of wall rocks that carry a wealth of details on conditions far beneath the surface of our planet over time.\"\n\nMs Kopylova and her colleagues says the sample bore a mineral signature that matched other portions of the North Atlantic Craton.\n\n\"Finding these 'lost' pieces is like finding a missing piece of a puzzle,\" Ms Kopylova is quoted as saying in an article published by the University of British Columbia's website.\n\nThe samples were taken from deep below the Chidliak Kimberlite Province in southern Baffin Island. Previous reconstructions of the Earth's plates had been based on shallow rock samples formed at depths of one to 10km (six miles).\n\nMs Kopylova said the discovery adds about 10% to the known size of the craton. \"Our knowledge is literally and symbolically deeper,\" she said.", "Management at the Coylumbridge Hotel near Aviemore claimed they were following government advice.\n\nA hotel has claimed that letters sent to staff sacking them and ordering them to leave their accommodation immediately were sent in error.\n\nStaff at the Coylumbridge Hotel near Aviemore were told on Thursday by management to leave the hotel in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe action resulted in widespread criticism from politicians and a public backlash on social media.\n\nBritannia Hotels has now apologised and blamed an administrative error.\n\nStaff were given a letter, dated 19 March, to say the hotel was \"taking the latest government advice\" and that staff employment had been terminated.\n\nThe firm told the Liverpool Echo: \"With regards to the current situation regarding staff at our Coylumbridge Hotel and being asked to vacate their staff accommodation.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the communication sent to these employees was an administrative error.\n\n\"All affected employees are being immediately contacted. We apologise for any upset caused.\"\n\nMore than a dozen employees were given the letter from hotel manager Mark Johnston also telling them to vacate their accommodation immediately.\n\nThe letter said: \"Taking the latest government advice, this letter is to confirm that with effect from 19 March 2020, your employment has been terminated and your services are no longer required.\"\n\nIt added: \"You are asked to vacate the hotel accommodation immediately, returning any company property.\"\n\nThe letter sent to staff to terminate their employment\n\nEarlier Alvarito Garcia from Madrid, who has worked at the hotel for nearly two years, said his best option now was to live in his tent until his food ran out.\n\nHe said he was unsure if he would be able to return to Spain due to the travel restrictions imposed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAlvarito had worked at the Coylumbridge Hotel for nearly two years\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland that staff had no warning they were about to lose their jobs.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know what to do. They gave me the letter and they said I had to leave immediately. They didn't give me any notice. Even in my rota, they didn't put anything different.\"\n\nAlvarito said the letter had been given to at least 13 people - most of whom were waiters in the hotel restaurant. He said that he was unsure if the letter had been handed out to others working in different areas of the hotel.\n\nHe added: \"I don't know why. They didn't say anything\n\n\"I don't have words to say. I feel useless, I feel bad.\"\n\nAnother worker at the hotel, Normunds Varslavans, from Latvia, said he was notified his job had been terminated about 30 minutes after finishing his shift.\n\nAlvaro said at least 13 member of staff working in the hotel restaurant were given the letters\n\nMarc Crothall, the chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said he was \"speechless\" when he was made aware of the situation.\n\nHe said: \"There is huge anger among our industry. This is not reflective of how all our businesses and our members behave.\"\n\nHe said: \"Yes the crisis has hit every business but we have seen nothing but compassion and respect across the sector and our upmost priority is to protect the employee welfare.\"\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes said the hotel owners' response to a time of national crisis was \"intolerable\".\n\nShe said: \"The decision to make staff redundant and homeless with no advance warning whatsoever is nothing short of callous, heartless and frankly unacceptable.\"\n\nMs Forbes praised the actions of the local community and businesses in trying to help the workers.\n\nShelter Scotland said people living in accommodation linked to their employment had rights even after they had lost their job. It said their employer had to follow proper procedure.\n\nOn Friday hotel chain Macdonald Hotels stepped in to help sacked employees at the Coylumbridge.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said: \"The entire hospitality industry is being hit really hard, with temporary closures and lay-offs across the board.\n\n\"However, when we heard of the situation at Coylumbridge Hotel, we immediately contacted the management there to offer their employees access to our staff accommodation at the nearby Macdonald Aviemore Resort to ensure they wouldn't be put out on the street.\"\n\nBBC Scotland contacted the hotel and were directed to the head office for Britannia Hotels, where no-one was available for comment.", "Gabe and Hattie, both four, have been preparing rainbows for their home in Bristol\n\nPictures of rainbows have started springing up in windows after schools closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHundreds of schools are encouraging pupils to put up paintings to \"spread hope\" after a trend started online.\n\nThough many of the buildings have closed, one head teacher said the school spirit was still very much alive with online lessons.\n\nSchools across the UK shut on Friday to children of non-key workers.\n\nAmelia, five, Aaron, seven and Alex, three, each made a rainbow...\n\n... to proudly display at their home in Newcastle\n\nA spokesman for Grange First School in Newcastle said: \"We are hoping to spread our cheerful windows campaign as wide as possible.\n\n\"Signs are going up in windows all over our area and beyond and will really help maintain morale for children (and families) in these difficult times.\"\n\nEight-year-old Harrison from Cottingham in Leicestershire opted for a 3D artwork...\n\n... and seemed very pleased with the result\n\nAngela Ruthven, whose son Harrison made a rainbow, said it was \"a truly wonderful idea while we are all facing such worries with our health, our jobs and children's education\".\n\n\"This has offered a positive approach,\" she said.\n\n\"It's bringing families together at home to create a rainbow, making people smile if they are spotted in windows. It's bringing our wonderful school and even the world together.\n\n\"It's showing that we are all in this together.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kirsty Hall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSix-year-old Eva has \"Always loved painting rainbows\" according to her mother so leapt at the chance of joining her school's campaign.\n\nShona Richardson, head teacher of Eva's school in Rosewell in Midlothian, said: \"We did not want it all to be doom and gloom for the children.\n\n\"We thought this would be a really visual way of bringing hope at a time when there is not much out there.\n\n\"It also sends a message to the elderly people to say we are thinking of you and hopefully it will give them some joy to.\n\n\"These children won't be able to see their friends so much so it's a way they can communicate together.\"\n\nFour-year-old Eadie, a pupil at Lakeside Primary School in Tamworth, has also demonstrated her artistic flair\n\nShe said teachers were working from home and were in contact online with families.\n\n\"We do not want families to be forgotten about just because they can't come into school,\" Ms Richardson said.\n\n\"We were really devastated when we all said goodbye to one another.\n\n\"It's the unknown. Breaking up for the holidays you know when you will be back together, but in this case we really don't know.\"\n\nEight-year-old Tayen, who lives in Bridgwater, Somerset, also wanted to take part in the chase the rainbow trend.\n\nTayen has made a rainbow for her window\n\nTayen, who has been blind since she was 22 months old and is currently undergoing chemotherapy, made a raised rainbow she could feel.\n\nHer mother Kali said: \"We used paper which is put through a machine so the surface is raised so she can feel it.\n\n\"She coloured it in with paint sticks and her brothers helped her choose the colours - although she tells everyone its entirely pink.\n\n\"She knows it's up in the window and that it's her picture and other people can enjoy it and she asked me to take a picture of it to send to family members we can't visit at the moment.\"\n\nDebbie Frost's home in Bristol has a new window display thanks to her children\n\nIsla, seven, and Archie, four, stuck an enormous rainbow across the window of their Bristol home.\n\nIsla said: \"We're making it because it might cheer people up.\"\n\nHer mother Debbie Frost said: \"We are stuck in isolation and it got the kids thinking about arts, crafts and also about others and the impact we can have on them, even though we may never see them or come into contact with them.\"\n\nJo Tambie, of Hall Green, Birmingham, said her four children were prompted to create the rainbows as an antidote to the \"negativity\".\n\n\"My daughter came up with the words 'be confident and be brave'.\n\n\"Those are words from an eight-year-old and I think it just makes you smile when you see it and quite emotional.\"\n\nSarah Constatin's children added their own message of support to their picture in Bristol", "Frontline NHS staff risk \"cross infecting everybody\" because they are not getting the recommended protective equipment, a consultant has warned.\n\nThe face mask, short gloves and apron worn by NHS staff is far short of the World Health Organization recommendations, Dr Lisa Anderson of St George's Hospital, London, said.\n\nFormer Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the government to \"sort this out\".\n\nThe PM has said work was continuing to get more personal protective equipment.\n\nShe said that the government had changed the rules to deviate from WHO guidelines, which currently recommend health staff wear a full gown and visor.\n\nSince Monday, staff in the NHS only have to wear a simple face mask, short gloves and a pinafore apron, Dr Anderson said.\n\nMr Hunt told the programme: \"We are asking people to put their own lives at risk on the NHS frontline. We have seen the terrible scenes as to what is happening in Italy.\n\n\"It is absolutely heartbreaking when NHS frontline professionals don't have the equipment they need.\n\n\"I think the government has done a lot in the last week. I think they have unblocked the supply chains, but there is this question about whether it's the right equipment.\"\n\nNHS staff told the BBC this week there was not enough protective gear and that not enough of them were being tested for the virus.\n\nMr Hunt said there were still \"gaps on the frontline\" and added that questions remained over whether doctors should wear full hazmat suits.\n\nDr Anderson said that in Italy, which has seen the highest number of deaths from the virus, health workers have run out of stock and that nearly 10% of the health care force is infected.\n\nShe questioned the risk posed by not enabling healthcare staff to sufficiently protect themselves.\n\n\"It's not just about the risk to ourselves and our family, we are travelling home on the Tube, on buses,\" Dr Anderson said.\n\nSainsbury's is expanding its reserved 08:00-09:00 slot for elderly, disabled and vulnerable customers to NHS and social care workers, after panic-buying this week led to shelves being cleared of produce.\n\nBut Dr Anderson warned of the health implications by such a move.\n\n\"Sainsbury's this morning has announced that they are opening up the early hours to frail, elderly and NHS workers. We're cross infecting everybody at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"There's a lack of protection for us, but it extends to a lack of planning of how to segregate patients from clean and dirty, how to protect us and keep us away from the public and doctors have no faith in what's going on.\"\n\nAsked during Prime Minister's Questions about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), Boris Johnson said: \"Our NHS should feel that they are able to interact with patients with perfect security and protection.\n\n\"There is a massive effort going on, comparable to the effort to build enough ventilators, to ensure that we have adequate supplies of PPE equipment not just now, but throughout the outbreak.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Department of Health and Social Care for further comment.", "Palliative care doctors are urging people to have a conversation about what they would want if they, or their loved ones, became seriously unwell with coronavirus.\n\nWe should discuss all possible scenarios - even those we are not \"comfortable to talk about\", they said.\n\nMedics said the virus underlined the importance of these conversations.\n\nNew guidelines are being produced for palliative care for Covid-19 patients, the BBC understands.\n\nDr Iain Lawrie, president of The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, told the BBC that palliative care teams around the country were working together to create the guidance.\n\nHe said the impact of the virus was likely to change how palliative care would be delivered in future.\n\nWhile the majority of patients with Covid-19 will get mild or moderate symptoms, for some patients the virus will be life-threatening.\n\nSome of the patients who have already died from the virus have not been in intensive care, as this would not have made any difference to their outcome. Instead they have been cared for on an NHS ward.\n\n\"The great temptation when you are scared, and of course, we are all scared, is to try to close your mind to your worst fears,\" says Dr Rachel Clarke, author and palliative care specialist.\n\n\"Why would anyone want to contemplate their own mortality right now when everyone could be threatened? But it is precisely that uncertainty that makes this the most important time for advanced care planning.\"\n\nAdvanced care planning is a technical term but, \"really advanced care planning amounts to nothing more complicated than having a think - with your nearest and dearest - about what would matter to you if you became so sick that you may die\", Dr Clarke said.\n\n\"Are you the kind of person who would want to go to hospital, to intensive care or would you want to stay at home?\" she added.\n\n\"If you don't have these conversations and the worst does happen, it would be terrible, if your loved one suddenly became sick and couldn't speak for themselves, and you realised you didn't know what Mum would have wanted - you would have to say, 'I don't know',\" Dr Clarke says.\n\n\"You might always be left with the haunting, nagging fear that you weren't able to advocate for her.\n\n\"Isn't it more important to have these conversations, just in case, than end up in a panic, wondering what a loved one would have wanted?\"\n\nAdrienne Betteley, from Macmillan Cancer Support said: \"It is never too early to have conservations about advance care plans. We need to encourage people to start talking about their wishes as soon as possible.\"\n\nDr Lawrie said the coronavirus crisis was highlighting the \"lack of resourcing\" for palliative care medicine. He said there were 60 unfilled consultant palliative care posts across the UK and he said the number of specialist nurses was a \"worry\".\n\nHe told the BBC that palliative care teams were currently looking at new ways of working as the crisis deepened, using telephone support, FaceTime and Skype.\n\nThey also were looking at alternative medicines and routes of administration of drugs that families could give, if patients decided they wanted to stay at home.\n\nHe told the BBC new guidelines were being drawn up for the crisis.\n\n\"I think the coronavirus crisis could change how palliative care is delivered in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The coronavirus crisis underlines the need to have these difficult conversations, that we often put off, what our wishes are, what is most important to us.\"", "Four people in the same family have died from coronavirus in the US state of New Jersey, with three more relatives in hospital.\n\nGrace Fusco, 73, and six of her adult children fell ill after attending a large family gathering.\n\nNearly 20 other relatives are now self-quarantining and waiting to find out if they have also been infected.\n\nThe death toll across the US has continued to rise, as experts warn against any kind of social gathering.\n\nThe four family members who died are Grace Fusco and her children Rita Fusco-Jackson, Carmine Fusco and Vincent Fusco.\n\nRita Fusco-Jackson, a Catholic school teacher, 55, died on Friday. She had no underlying health issues, according to state health commissioner Judith Persichilli.\n\nNew Jersey health officials said Ms Fusco-Jackson was the second person to die from Covid-19 in the state, and the first fatality had also recently attended a Fusco family gathering.\n\nCarmine Fusco died on Wednesday, followed hours later by his mother, Grace Fusco.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, Grace Fusco died without knowing that two of her children had already succumbed to the deadly respiratory illness sweeping the planet.\n\nOn Thursday, Vincent Fusco died in the same hospital where his mother had recently passed.\n\nAccording to family member Paradiso Fodera, 19 family members who attended the same dinner are now self-isolating, and have waited nearly a week to learn the results of their virus tests.\n\n\"Why don't the family members who are not hospitalised have the test results? This is a public health crisis,\" Ms Fodera told CNN.\n\nShe continued: \"Why should athletes and celebrities without symptoms be given priority over a family that has been decimated by this virus?\"\n\n\"This is an unbearable tragedy for the family.\"\n\nA niece of Fusco-Jackson took to Facebook to grieve the sudden loss, NBC reported.\n\n\"My mom is one of 11, last Thursday I went to sleep having 10 aunts and uncles! Friday I woke up and found out I only had 9. Just a few minutes ago I found out I only have 8,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Please hold your love ones close and cherish every second and minute you have together.\"\n\nMore than 200 people have now died from Covid-19 in the US, with over 15,000 known infections and cases in all 50 states.\n\nMore and more US states and cities have begun lockdown procedures in an effort to prevent the rampant virus from overwhelming hospitals.\n\nTesting in the US has lagged behind other industrialised nations, leading to questions about the actual spread of the infection in North America.", "Russias Little Big were considered a front-runner for this year's contest\n\nOrganisers of the Eurovision Song Contest are investigating an \"alternative\" show after this year's event was cancelled due to coronavirus.\n\nAlthough the format has yet to be decided, they stressed the programme would not be a competition.\n\nHowever, the show will \"honour the songs and artists\" that were due to take part of the contest this May.\n\n\"With that in mind,\" organisers said, \"this year's songs will not be eligible to compete when the contest returns.\"\n\n\"Participating broadcasters may decided which artist(s) to send in 2021, either this year's or a newly chosen one.\"\n\nGeorgia, the Netherlands, Spain and Azerbaijan have already confirmed their artists will return next year. There has been no indication on whether the UK's entrant, James Newman, will get a second chance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EBU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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's the first time that Eurovision has not taken place since it first aired in 1956.\n\nThe 2020 contest would have seen performers from 41 countries gather with 16,000 fans at Rotterdam's Ahoy Arena to compete for the songwriting trophy.\n\nBut after the Dutch government banned large public gatherings, the European Broadcasting Union called off the event to protect the \"health of artists, staff, fans and visitors\".\n\nThe event's executive supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, added: \"We are very proud of the Eurovision Song Contest, that for 64 years has united people all around Europe.\n\n\"We regret this situation very much,\" he added, but promised the event would return \"stronger than ever\" next year, preferably in the Netherlands, which won the contest in 2019.\n\nJames Newman was due to represent the UK at the contest\n\nNewman, said he was \"gutted not to be going to Rotterdam\" but recognised it was \"more important for everyone to remain safe during these unprecedented times\".\n\nRussia's Little Big, whose song Uno was considered a front-runner at the contest, shared a similar sentiment on Facebook, writing: \"We regret about it and we also assume that this is the only proper decision in such a situation.\"\n\nThe decision to stage an alternative event came just 48 hours after Eurovision was called off, and was prompted by the \"overwhelming\" response of fans.\n\n\"The EBU is very aware of how much the Eurovision Song Contest will be missed,\" organisers explained.\n\n\"The contest's values of universality and inclusivity, and our proud tradition of celebrating diversity through music, are needed more than ever right now.\"\n\nThey said they hoped the alternative programme would \"help unite ands entertain artists around Europe at this challenging time\".\n\n\"We ask for your patience while we work through ideas in the coming days and weeks,\" the statement concluded.\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. Ken Finlayson: \"You need to be strong for your family\"\n\nThe husband of a British woman who died in Bali after contracting coronavirus has said he has \"lost half of himself\".\n\nKimberley Finlayson, 52, had underlying health conditions and had two emergency operations in an Indonesian government hospital before dying on holiday.\n\nThe couple, from Hertfordshire, was able to say goodbye \"for a few minutes\" before her death on 11 March.\n\nKen Finlayson said he and his four children were \"absolutely devastated\" to lose her.\n\nMr Finlayson warned others about travelling abroad and said perhaps the outcome for his wife might have been different if she had been treated in the UK.\n\n\"The lesson for the British public to realise is that if you go to these places then people really mean well but you're giving up that level of care which we expect,\" he said.\n\n\"You are playing Russian roulette with your lives if you become critical.\n\n\"Mistakes were being made. I don't believe... if this had happened in Barnet Hospital, I believe our great NHS would have saved Kimberley.\"\n\nShe founded a dental communications company and was \"so powerful, courageous, supportive of all of us\" her widower said.\n\nMr Finlayson has tested negative for the virus so far but the UK government expects many people to be infected with the illness in the UK in the coming weeks and months.\n\nHe said there was an irony in the now-familiar phrase \"underlying health issues\" referring to his wife, who had diabetes.\n\n\"I don't know many people in their 50s who haven't received medication, haven't had some health issues. My wife is the most incredibly generous, loving mum.\"\n\nMrs Finlayson was reportedly the first British victim of coronavirus to be named.", "Many people have elderly parents, grandparents or neighbours who are part of the older demographic hit hardest by coronavirus. But what if they prefer to ignore the risks and don't want to stay in?\n\nAs a teenager in the rural US state of Maine, Karen Swallow Prior used to sneak out at night so she could see her friends. Now Prior, an English professor, tries to make sure that her parents, who are both in their 80s, don't try to slip away and head into town themselves.\n\nThe irony is not lost on Prior, 55, who lives next door to her mother and father in Amherst, Virginia. Like many others who have elderly parents, she is doing her best to keep them safe from coronavirus - even when they seem sceptical about the dangers.\n\nPeople of all ages can be infected by the virus. But it is especially dangerous for older people. Less than 1% of patients under the age of 50 died with the coronavirus disease in China, according to the New York Times. But it was fatal for nearly 15% of those who were over the age of 80.\n\nStill, many older adults in the US seem somewhat blasé about the disease. Most of those who are over 60 say that they are not worried about dying from it, according to a Harris Poll.\n\nPrior says that her mother seemed a bit flippant about the disease, saying that she never got the flu. So Prior had \"the talk\", as she put it, with her mother and her father several days ago. She told them about the danger of the virus and explained the recommendations from health experts and those who specialise in infectious diseases - elderly people should stay home.\n\nPrior's parents said they understood the risks and would be cautious. Later, though, Prior's husband told her that he had seen her parents heading into town.\n\n\"So I was looking out the window to see if they'd gotten home,\" Prior says. \"The dogs were barking.\" They were all anxious. When her parents returned, she explained the risks again, and they promised they'd stay put.\n\nKaren Swallow Prior (right) is trying to stop her mum and dad from sneaking out to meet friends\n\nThat conversation Prior had with her parents is being repeated the world over by adults doing their best to convince their older loved ones to isolate themselves and to take other precautions against the disease.\n\nEven routine trips to the store, visits with friends or a meeting with an accountant, as Prior's parents had done during their outing in town, increases the risk of infection.\n\nSarah Marshall, a 31-year-old podcast co-host, says that she has been trying to protect her parents as much as she can. She was recently visiting her mother near Portland, and she reluctantly agreed to take her on a trip with her to a grocery store.\n\nAs it turned out, the place was packed with panic shoppers, and Marshall wished that her 71-year-old mother had not come.\n\n\"We drove home, and I screamed at her like she used to scream at me when I was a child,\" says Marshall. She says that she is now forging a new relationship with her parents, and she describes her current role - the disciplinarian - in bittersweet terms.\n\nSpeaking on the phone at her parent's house, Marshall said that she was looking out the window at their back yard. She saw her parents with their dog, Beau, and one of their friends, \"appropriately social distancing\", sitting more than six feet from each other.\n\n\"It's like my parents have a play date in the yard, and I'm the parent,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs she and others know, their parents consume the news in a different manner and may be slow to realise the extent of the pandemic and how it affects them directly. Sometimes they are not following the news as closely.\n\n\"The urgency hasn't hit them yet,\" says Tavae Samuelu who lives with her parents in Long Beach, California. In some cases, the older parents have been downplaying the severity of the crisis.\n\nDianne Anderson, 34, a writer in Minneapolis, says her father, 68, a teacher who lives in South Dakota, was initially sceptical about the health warnings. \"He said: 'Oh, well, I'll be fine.'\" Then she spoke with him on the phone: \"When I say something's a big deal, he knows to trust me and to look into it.\" Now, she says, he is taking precautions.\n\nDianne Anderson had to convince her father to be careful\n\nFor the parents, too, the experience of learning from their children has been chastening. They understand the concerns their children have, and they try to follow their advice and the public-health guidelines. But still they chafe at the restrictions.\n\nDennis Horn, a 69-year-old lawyer in Chevy Chase, Maryland, says that recently he had breakfast with friends in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, and then his son found out. \"My son just exploded,\" he says. \"He let me have it.\"\n\nHorn says that he sometimes feels nostalgic for the way things used to be. \"Remember the days when kids took direction from their parents?\" he says, wistfully.\n\nStill Horn says that he has been trying to hunker down. He knows that his son is watching out for him - just as he once did for him.", "Nigeria will close its airspace to all international flights on Monday Image caption: Nigeria will close its airspace to all international flights on Monday\n\nNigeria has confirmed 10 new coronavirus cases - three in the capital Abuja and seven in Lagos.\n\nSo far there are now a total of 22 confirmed cases in the country.\n\nNine out of the 10 new cases have travel history outside Nigeria in the last week, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control\n\nOne case is said to be a close contact of a confirmed case.\n\nAuthorities said they were engaged in aggressive contact tracing and containment strategies to curtail further spread.\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it is closing its airspace to all international flights from Monday. The use of passenger trains shall also to be suspended on that day.\n\nOn the brighter side however, Lagos state governor announced that the Italian man who was the first registered case back on 28 February was discharged from hospital on Friday.", "Dame Vera Lynn was known as the Forces' Sweetheart during her World War Two heyday\n\nDame Vera Lynn has used her 103rd birthday to call on the British public to find \"moments of joy\" during these \"hard times\".\n\nThe London-born singer marked the special occasion with a new video for her wartime classic We'll Meet Again.\n\nIt features archive footage of her performing the anthem alongside new visuals, and words tackling current themes such as the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nIn the video, she urges the nation to \"keep smiling and keep singing”.\n\nDame Vera says in a voiceover: “We are facing a very challenging time at the moment, and I know many people are worried about the future.\n\n“I’m greatly encouraged that despite these struggles, we have seen people joining together.\n\n“Music is so good for the soul, and during these hard times we must all help each other to find moments of joy.\"\n\nOne of Vera Lynn's most famous songs, We'll Meet Again, was released in 1939\n\nDame Vera, who lives in Ditchling, East Sussex, is best known for performing for the troops during World War Two in countries including Egypt, India and Burma.\n\nHer famous songs include The White Cliffs Of Dover and There’ll Always Be An England.\n\nIn another video message on Wednesday, Dame Vera called for people to pull together during a trying period.\n\n“All around the world, people are facing extremely difficult times. It is likely that we will all have to make hard decisions in the coming months,\" she said.\n\n“I am reminded of World War Two, when our country faced the darkest of times and yet, despite our struggles, pulled together for the common good and we faced the common threat together as a country, and as a community of countries that joined as one right across the world.”\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Dancers at Project 21 normally meet in Ipswich and Colchester on Saturday mornings\n\nA group of dancers with Down's syndrome say they are determined to carry on performing, even though they were no longer allowed to meet in person.\n\nMembers of Project 21 - a musical theatre charity - have started sharing videos with each other, dancing in their bedrooms.\n\nThey normally meet weekly in Ipswich and Colchester to sing and dance.\n\nThey were due to perform during half-time at Saturday's Ipswich Town match to mark World Down's Syndrome Day.\n\nHowever, the celebration - and the match - were cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.\n\nInstead, Project 21 has released a video which it hopes will lift people's spirits.\n\nMembers Molly and Jilly are just two of the group's dancers who have been taking part in the online sessions\n\nFounder Alex Munn said: \"Our group was built on the basis of providing a support network and lifeline for families, so being in isolation on our big day is desperately sad.\n\n\"However, in the true spirit of Down's syndrome, our community refuses to let this dampen our celebrations and we hope these virtual sharing groups bring love and hope whilst reminding our members they are never alone.\"\n\nThe members said the virtual meet-ups had made them feel closer, while they have to be physically apart.\n\nSharon Hobbs, whose son Kyle attends the Ipswich group, said it was \"so important\" they could still connect and friendships could \"continue to blossom during this isolating time\".\n\nOther parents said it made sure their children could look forward to being together again one day soon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We heard earlier from Chris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association, who said it was \"irresponsible\" for people to be going up mountains during the outbreak.\n\nNow the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team have posted on Facebook.\n\nTheir chairman Alun Allcock says: \"As a team made up wholly of volunteers with day jobs, some of these in critical occupations, our team members are thinking and making decisions about their own families and personal wellbeing which will undoubtedly impact on our ability to call a team together.\n\n\"The advice is that if you are going to go out into the outdoors, you should walk, climb and cycle well within your capabilities so you are less likely to have to call on the services of a mountain rescue team.\"", "Robert Ormsby had planned to propose to his girlfriend Patsy Murdoch in Reykjavik\n\nA nurse proposed to his girlfriend in a branch of Iceland after a romantic trip to the country of the same name was cancelled due to the coronavirus.\n\nRobert Ormsby popped the question in an empty aisle after their holiday to Reykjavik was called off on Monday.\n\nPatsy Murdoch said \"yes\", but admitted she was \"laughing hysterically\" as he got on one knee in the Tonbridge store.\n\nA photo of the proposal has gone viral and the couple said they were happy to spread some joy at this tough time.\n\n\"It's nice to know you can cheer somebody up by doing something that was just a humorous thing to make up for what we were going to miss,\" said Mr Ormsby, a charge nurse at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.\n\nThe couple, both 58, were on their way to dinner when he nipped into Iceland under the pretence of picking something up.\n\n\"I was actually looking for an empty aisle,\" he said.\n\nAs he dropped on one knee, his partner \"looked embarrassed at first,\" but quickly said \"yes\" and he \"popped the ring on her finger,\" he said.\n\nThe online response to their proposal had been a welcome distraction, Ms Murdoch said\n\nThe couple, from Sevenoaks, Kent, had bought the ring together and Ms Murdoch said she had been a \"bit suspicious when his suit went on\" earlier in the evening, but expected the proposal would be made at the restaurant.\n\n\"I was thinking 'what do you want in Iceland?' I didn't twig for a minute and then suddenly he went down on one knee....I was just laughing hysterically.\"\n\nMs Murdoch, who works for Hospice in the Weald, added: \"It was very exciting.\"\n\nShe said the online response had \"gone berserk\" and had been a welcome distraction from the impact of the pandemic.\n\n\"We all need a bit of distraction at the moment,\" she added.\n\nThe couple posed for a photograph near the checkout as they left and gave permission for the company to post the images on social media.\n\n\"It's kind of gone a bit crazy since then,\" said the groom-to-be, who coincidentally worked for the frozen food firm in the 1980s.\n\nMr Ormsby, who now works in operating theatres, said he would like to use the attention to praise the hard work of colleagues preparing for the worst of the outbreak.\n\nAnaesthetists are the \"frontline people for this\", he said, adding that it was \"frightening and reassuring at the same time\" to see the lengths they have gone to, to get ready for when the crisis hits.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played.", "Bondi Beach has been temporarily closed after crowds exceeded the 500-person limit decreed by the government\n\nThe country has banned outdoor gatherings of more than 500 people in a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever large crowds of people are still flocking to beaches across Sydney, flouting advice to stay inside.\n\nImages from Bondi Beach on Friday showed swimmers, surfers and sunbathers packed in huge numbers onto the sand.\n\nNew South Wales (NSW) Police Minister David Elliott said in a televised news conference that lifeguards would conduct a head count of the number of people on the beach.\n\nIf numbers exceed 500, the beach will be closed and people will be moved on. If anyone refuses to move, the police will be brought in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kalifauna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth Minister Greg Hunt said the beachgoers' behaviour was \"unacceptable\" and called on local councils to step in to ensure people are complying with the social distancing advice. Under the advice, people should try to stay 1.5m (4 ft 10 in) apart.\n\nMr Elliott warned that other beaches could take similar action if people failed to comply with the regulations.\n\nHe told ABC News: \"Some of the photos that I saw from this very beach, of dozens of families using communal showers and toilets is in complete denial of what this virus is all about.\"\n\nLifeguards are required to conduct a headcount on the number of people on the beach\n\nNSW Labor's Shadow Treasurer, Walt Secord, urged the government to consider closing the beach completely.\n\n\"The decisions we make today can be life and death decisions for other people in a few days. People are ignoring the social-distancing guidelines and I just think it's absolutely ludicrous.\"\n\nNew rules on socialising were announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday. Indoor venues such as bars and restaurants must have a density of no more than one person per four square metres (43 sq ft) of floor space.\n\nThe previous overall limit of 100 people indoors and 500 people outdoors remain in place.\n\nThe number of coronavirus infections across Australia has risen to more than 1,000 and seven people have died.", "Social distancing would be needed for \"at least half of the year\" to stop intensive care units being overwhelmed, according to the government's scientific advisers.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommended alternating between more and less strict measures for most of a year.\n\nStrict measures include school closures and social distancing for everyone.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the UK could \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus outbreak within 12 weeks.\n\nSchools in England, Scotland and Wales will close on Friday until further notice - except for vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker.\n\nMore than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales have been asked to return to work in the NHS to help tackle the outbreak.\n\nAnd the chancellor is set to announce a wage subsidy package to try to protect millions of jobs.\n\nDocuments prepared by Sage said alternating measures could \"plausibly be effective at keeping the number of critical care cases within capacity\".\n\nLess strict measures would also include social distancing - but just in vulnerable groups.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said the evidence in the documents published on Friday has \"played a considerable role in shaping our recommendations\".\n\n\"The UK is home to experts who are at the forefront of their chosen fields and we are making full use of their expertise to grow our understanding of Covid-19 as we work tirelessly to tackle this disease,\" he said.\n\nWe are in this for the long haul.\n\nThe science that has informed government strategy shows we can expect disruption to our lives for most of the next 12 months.\n\nMore than half that time is expected to involve the strict measures in place now, which include school closures.\n\nThis won't all be in one go, instead the heavy restrictions will come and go in order to manage the number of cases.\n\nThe government's aim is to prevent one massive spike in infections that would completely overwhelm intensive care.\n\nIf that happens then death rates would soar as the sickest patients would not get the treatment they need.\n\nInstead the strategy will be to have a series of smaller, manageable peaks.\n\nIt should save lives, but the cost is widespread disruption to society for some time to come.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nRoss Barkley said it was \"a dream\" to score against Liverpool as the midfielder helped Chelsea reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.\n\nThe result meant Liverpool suffered their second successive defeat of this stellar season in a highly competitive encounter at Stamford Bridge.\n\nLiverpool made seven changes to the side that lost surprisingly at Watford on Saturday - the first reverse of their league campaign after 18 successive victories left them on the brink of a first title for 30 years.\n\nChelsea, however, still had to overcome a Liverpool team containing the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Andy Robertson and Joe Gomez in a hard-fought fifth-round tie.\n\nLiverpool goalkeeper Adrian gifted Willian Chelsea's opener after 13 minutes when he hopelessly fumbled his 20-yard shot, but the European champions had chances of their own only to see recalled keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga present a formidable barrier with a string of saves.\n\nThe game was effectively settled after 64 minutes when former Everton midfielder and Toffees fan Barkley surged from inside his own half on a solo run before beating Adrian with an emphatic strike.\n\n\"It was brilliant, a massive result for the lads,\" Barkley told BBC One. \"We needed a top performance tonight at home after two disappointing results.\n\n\"Scoring against Liverpool is massive for me. As an Everton fan, it's always a dream to score against them.\"\n\nThe hosts could have had more but Mason Mount rattled the crossbar with a 25-yard free-kick, before striker Olivier Giroud saw an effort brilliantly tipped on to the woodwork by Adrian.\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard will now have Wembley in his sights while Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp returns to the task of wrapping up the Premier League title and overcoming a 1-0 deficit from the Champions League last-16 first leg against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe tiny figure of Billy Gilmour looked like a boy among men at the heart of this FA Cup tie between two Premier League superpowers - but the 18-year-old Scot gave a performance that was huge in stature.\n\nGilmour, who has only played six games with three starts and a total of 281 minutes, may be short on experience but he looked big on talent as his controlled, creative display deservedly won him the man-of-the-match award.\n\nHe glided around midfield, happy to take the ball in deep positions but also willing to make an impact further forward in the face of experienced opposition such as Fabinho.\n\nLampard told BBC One: \"What an incredible performance for a young player. He was a calm head in that first five or 10 minutes. He's a throwback of a midfielder.\n\n\"Can you put your foot in? Yes. Can you make angles to play the passes? Yes. He's only slight in stature but he's huge in personality. He deserves people to talk about him after a performance like that.\"\n\nGilmour deserved to be on the winning side, victory clinched by the great enigma that is Barkley.\n\nBarkley, at 26, is approaching the key point of his career when potential must be transformed into something more tangible for Chelsea and England.\n\nHere, Barkley showed both sides to his character, often making the wrong decisions but showing his natural brilliance when he took possession in his own half and surged forward before sending a flashing finish past Adrian.\n\nThis was a big victory for Chelsea and Frank Lampard.\n\nTheir Champions League hopes look all but over after a 3-0 home defeat in the home leg of the last-16 tie against Bayern Munich and they face a fight to finish in the top four - but they are at the heart of that battle and are now in the later stages of the FA Cup.\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp's animated demeanour demonstrated that this was a match he was taking very seriously and was desperate to win but it was to no avail.\n\nIt has been an unusual FA Cup campaign for Liverpool, with a scratch side full of youngsters winning a Merseyside derby against Everton in the third round, then effectively a youth team beating Shrewsbury Town in a fourth-round replay at Anfield while Klopp and his senior players enjoyed a winter break.\n\nLiverpool and their fans have been given a glimpse of the talents of youngsters such as Curtis Jones and Neco Williams but this was the end of the line.\n\nThey had their chances, with Kepa keeping them at bay, particularly in a remarkable sequence in the first half when he blocked from Mane, Jones and Divock Origi in swift succession.\n\nIn the end, however, the task was too much, their cause not helped by Adrian's awful blunder.\n\nLiverpool may not have the Treble of title, FA Cup and Champions League to pursue any more - but the Premier League crown is coming back to Anfield and this side still has enough to make it a memorable night against Atletico Madrid.\n\nKlopp said: \"A lot of parts of the performance I really liked. We know we have to improve, it is not about destiny, not about not clicking here or there, it is all about us and we have to take it in the right way.\n\n\"It is not the best three weeks of the whole season but it is a chance to make it the best three weeks now and that is the plan.\n\n\"We are not interested in Atletico Madrid, it is all about Bournemouth. They are fighting with all they have and they did really well against Chelsea.\n\n\"Nobody has to feel sorry for us, we will win football games and that is what we want to do on Saturday.\"\n\nEx-Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas on BBC One: \"There have been a lot of good performances but I have been so impressed by this young lad. He's had such a calm head and he's not given the ball away all night. It's been a brilliant evening for him.\"\n• None Chelsea have reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in four of the past five seasons - going on to win the competition the last time they reached this stage in 2018 (1-0 v Manchester United in the final).\n• None Chelsea have won seven of their 11 FA Cup meetings with Liverpool - on the past two occasions they've beaten them (1997 and 2012) they've gone on to win the competition.\n• None Liverpool have been eliminated in three of their past five FA Cup fifth-round ties, losing at this stage for the first time since February 2014 (2-1 v Arsenal).\n• None Liverpool have lost three consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since November 2014.\n• None Since his FA Cup debut in January 2014, Willian has been directly involved in 16 goals for Chelsea (11 goals, 5 assists), at least five more than any other player for the club in that time.\n• None Willian has scored 24 goals from outside the box since his Chelsea debut in September 2013, 13 more than any other Blues player.\n• None Chelsea's Ross Barkley scored his first ever goal against Liverpool on his 12th appearance. Before today he had played more games against them (11) without scoring than against any other team.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Gilmour.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The attack happened as prison cells were being unlocked\n\nTwo men are being questioned under terror laws over an attack on a prison officer at a maximum security jail.\n\nThe officer suffered stab wounds to his head, chest and face as the cells were unlocked at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on 9 January.\n\nThe men, aged 24 and 26, were arrested on Monday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and preparation of a terrorist act, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThey are alleged to have attacked an officer with improvised weapons.\n\nThe attackers were wearing fake suicide belts, police said at the time.\n\nThree prison officers and a nurse also suffered injuries as they rushed to the aid of their stabbed colleague.\n\nBoth the arrested men are in custody in a London police station while inquiries continue.\n\nHMP Whitemoor houses more than 400 Category A and B prisoners on three wings, including a number of the highest-risk inmates.\n\nIn February last year, a \"small number\" of prison staff there needed medical treatment after violence broke out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The royal couple cradle pints of Guinness at the end of the first day of their visit to Ireland\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended the first day of their first official visit to the Republic of Ireland with a pint of the black stuff.\n\nThe royal couple arrived at Dublin Airport for the three-day trip on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThey began the visit by meeting Irish President Michael D Higgins at his residence, Áras an Uachtaráin.\n\nThe day ended with Prince William speaking some words of Irish at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge opened a speech at a reception, attended by guests from the worlds of sport, film, television and the armed forces, by saying: \"Ladies and gentlemen, a dhaoine uaisle [noble people].\"\n\nThe duchess continued to honour the host country with the colour of her evening attire\n\n\"We are very much looking forward to our next two days in Ireland, where I have no doubt we will continue to be impressed by the creativity, warmth and hospitality the Irish people have to offer,\" he added.\n\nAfter his speech, the duke raised his pint of Guinness and took a sip as he uttered the Irish toast \"Sláinte\".\n\nDuring their earlier meeting with President Higgins, the duke and duchess discussed the implications of Brexit.\n\nThey also chatted about building on the foundations of the Good Friday Agreement, which ushered in peace in Northern Ireland, a spokesman for the president said.\n\nThe duke and duchess attended a string of formal events during the day, including meeting Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar at the country's government buildings.\n\nThey travelled to the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin - dedicated to people who fought for Irish independence - where they laid a wreath.\n\nTheir handwritten message on the wreath read: \"May we never forget the lessons of history as we continue to build a brighter future together.\"\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Coyne showed the royal couple around the grounds of their residence\n\nThe duke and duchess rang the peace bell at Áras an Uachtaráin\n\nThe couple paid their respects at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin\n\nIt may be a chilly day in Dublin but the sun came out for the duke and duchess.\n\nTheir visit to the Garden of Remembrance, where Irish people remember those who fought for independence, was not open to the public but a modest crowd gathered outside nonetheless.\n\nThey were treated to a piper playing an Irish lament before a cheer erupted.\n\nThey had arrived - and to a warm welcome.\n\nAlmost a decade after the Queen bowed her head and laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance, the next generation of royals repeated the gesture.\n\nIt may not have had the same significance as 2011's turning point in Anglo-Irish relations but it was another step in continuing the friendship.\n\nRead more from Amy: What do William and Kate hope to achieve in Ireland?\n\nThe duke and duchess met Ireland's Taoiseach Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett\n\nThe duchess made a new friend in the form of one of President Higgins' Bernese mountain dogs\n\nAmong those watching at the Garden of Remembrance was Melissa Garza, from Texas.\n\n\"I saw this was on the list so I came along to see them,\" he said.\n\n\"It was great and so important to lay a wreath like the Queen did.\"\n\nHilary, from County Monaghan, said she was \"disappointed\" in the number of people who tried to catch a glimpse.\n\n\"It was a poor enough crowd - maybe people didn't know or they were busy.\n\nHelena, from Dublin, watched as her partner made up part of the guard of honour for the ceremony.\n\nShe said she would have come anyway as it was \"lovely to see Kate and William\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were suitably dressed for their visit to the Emerald Isle\n\nThe royal visit aims to highlight the \"many strong links between the UK and Ireland\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nDuring their stay, the couple are visiting Dublin, Galway and counties Meath and Kildare.", "Prince Fosu was found dead at 31 on the floor of an isolation cell\n\nA mentally ill man died from dehydration, malnutrition and hypothermia \"in plain sight\" at an immigration centre, an inquest found.\n\nPrince Kwabena Fosu's death at 31 was partly due to \"gross failure\" by agencies at the centre, the jury said.\n\nMr Fosu was left in an isolation cell for six days without bedding while he suffered from a psychotic illness.\n\nThe Home Office said the standard of care had been \"unacceptable\" and new safeguarding steps had been introduced.\n\nCoroner Chinyere Inyama said that \"almost unbelievably\" Mr Fosu died \"in plain sight\" of many people at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.\n\nWarning: Contains images some people may find distressing\n\nThe jury at West London Coroner's Court found that procedures to protect vulnerable detainees at the centre were \"grossly ineffective\".\n\nAgencies running the centre and its healthcare failed to recognise, monitor and respond to the worsening condition of someone who was unable to look after himself, they found.\n\nStripping the bedding and mattress from his cell without any lawful written authority was an indication of the \"casual approach\" of centre staff to Mr Fosu's welfare, the jury said in its conclusions.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, prisons and probations ombudsman Sue McAllister said it was \"inhuman and degrading\" for Mr Fosu to have been \"segregated, living naked in a room dirty with faeces, urine and uneaten food\" with no justification or review of the isolation.\n\nMr Fosu arrived in the UK from Ghana in April 2012 on a valid business visa, but it was cancelled at Heathrow Airport.\n\nHe appealed but in September 2012, his appeal was rejected. In October, he was arrested: a passer-by called police after seeing him walking naked on a road in Kettering, Northamptonshire.\n\nAt Corby police station, officers said he continued to act bizarrely and kept undressing, but medical professionals said he did not need to be sectioned.\n\nCCTV footage from within the station recorded him being told: \"You're going to an immigration centre. They are going to look after you. Yeah?\"\n\nSix days later he was dead in a filthy isolation cell at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.\n\nAt the centre, healthcare services were in \"chaos\" after the previous provider had been \"sacked\" the year before, a healthcare manager told the inquest.\n\nA nurse assessed Mr Fosu in five minutes without seeing his medical notes, later telling the inquest she had done a \"completely inadequate assessment\" and was \"out of her depth\".\n\nAfter his arrest, police said Mr Fosu continued to behave bizarrely\n\nMr Fosu was seen by a cellmate to be acting oddly and talking to himself in the mirror. When approached by staff, Mr Fosu assaulted one of them and had to be restrained by at least three officers.\n\nLabelled as being disruptive and placed in segregation, Mr Fosu had no mattress or bedding and lay naked in his cell.\n\nThe jury heard evidence that suggested he barely ate. Records showed that he drank a sip of tea and he appeared to sleep for only 45 minutes in six days.\n\nIn less than a week, he lost 18 pounds (8kg), weighing 7 stone 6 pounds (47kg) when he died.\n\nDetention centre staff records referred to him shuffling on his bottom, talking to himself in a language people couldn't understand, defecating in his cell and throwing food.\n\nStaff told the inquest they thought he was protesting about his removal, but no-one asked him about his behaviour.\n\nBecause he urinated in his police cell before his transfer, he was labelled a \"dirty protester\".\n\nThe inquest heard that there were five layers of subcontracting in the provision of healthcare for detainees.\n\nMr Fosu had died \"in plain sight\", a watchdog organisation said\n\nThe Home Office contracted the running of the centre to GEO Group UK Ltd, which contracted healthcare to Nestor Primecare Services Ltd.\n\nIt in turn contracted the recruitment of doctors to The Jersey Practice - a GP surgery in west London - which used a locum agency, Beacon Care Services Ltd.\n\nThe jury said police, Home Office staff and GEO staff all failed to spot Mr Fosu's worsening condition and behaviour.\n\nGEO staff showed a \"casual approach\" to his welfare when they removed his bedding and mattress, which contributed to his hypothermia, they concluded.\n\nThe jury said the failure of Primecare staff to effectively provide healthcare to Mr Fosu was \"inexplicable\", while the GPs showed \"insufficient professional curiosity\".\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board, which was at the centre to monitor standards, was \"ineffective and inadequate\", the jury also concluded.\n\nDetention centre staff repeatedly said at the inquest that they expected healthcare staff to identify problems with detainees.\n\nThe jury heard that Steve Scott, head of residence for GEO, had told an investigation into the death that he thought at the time that Mr Fosu was a \"prat\".\n\nMental health nurse Lesley Dube said he could not remember seeing Mr Fosu but had written in detention centre notes that he had no mental health issues.\n\nHe told the inquest he had not carried out a full mental health assessment, nor was he asked to.\n\nDuring Mr Fosu's time in isolation, he was seen by four family doctors, who were unfamiliar with all relevant detention centre rules and could not recall seeing Mr Fosu face-to-face in his cell.\n\nTwo of those doctors made no notes about him in the GP records, while the other two noted he had declined to be seen but did not assess whether he was well enough to make that decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The father of Prince Kwabena Fosu says he wants answers into his son's death\n\nThe BBC has learned that three of these family doctors have since been referred to their regulator, the General Medical Council.\n\nThe jury also found that staff at Corby police station \"failed to react to Mr Fosu's challenging behaviour\" and re-refer him to medical staff.\n\nIt also concluded that opportunities were missed by the station's mental health team to fully look into Mr Fosu's medical background and history, \"resulting in an inadequate mental health assessment\".\n\nThe Home Office conceded it had failed Mr Fosu with \"tragic consequences\", the jury heard.\n\nPhilip Riley, director of detention and escorting services in immigration enforcement, said at the time staff did not have sufficient training or know how to manage detainees with potentially complex mental health issues, adding that the centre was severely short-staffed.\n\nA Home Office investigation identified learning opportunities on detainees in segregation and food and fluid refusal policies. A key failure identified had been healthcare and Home Office staff not seeing Mr Fosu in person.\n\nResponding to the inquest's findings, the department issued a statement in which it offered its \"deepest condolences\" to Mr Fosu's family.\n\n\"The standard of care Mr Fosu received was unacceptable, and we must never allow this to happen again,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Since Mr Fosu's death we have increased the number of staff in immigration removal centres, improved how detainees are managed and safeguarded, including the introduction of the Adults at Risk policy and increased monitoring of vulnerable people in detention.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service had decided to charge GEO Group UK Ltd and Nestor Primecare Services Ltd with breaches in health and safety legislation but the charges were dropped in 2018.\n\nSince 2014, healthcare in removal centres has been commissioned by NHS England.\n\nMr Fosu is bured with three others in a south London cemetery\n\nBut lawyers and charities working with detainees told the BBC they were still seeing cases where centres do not recognise the seriousness of mental illnesses and failings like some of those in the case of Mr Fosu recur.\n\nMr Fosu's father, Prince Charles Obeng, told the BBC it had always been his son's wish to come to the UK.\n\nNow he is buried in a south London cemetery alongside three others, his father was told. There is a plaque with his name marking the grave, but Mr Obeng wants the government to pay for a headstone.\n\n\"If someone is placed in an immigration centre, you have to check whether the person is eating, whether the person is sleeping, whether the person is sick - you try to take care of the person,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAt his grave, Mr Obeng tells his son he prays that God will give him a better place to stay.", "Rainfall from Storm Ciara left the village of Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire's Calder Valley devastated for the second time in five years\n\nLast month was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe UK received an average of 209.1mm of rainfall, 237% above the average for the month between 1981 and 2010.\n\nElsewhere, a survey suggested that almost a quarter of people felt that climate change was the \"most pressing issue facing the UK\".\n\nThe representative sample of 1,401 people also suggested that \"climate concern\" had doubled since 2016.\n\nDuring February, storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge all delivered a vast volume of rainfall over parts of the UK.\n\nStorm Dennis also delivered the second highest UK average daily total in a dataset that dates back to 1891.\n\nCiara and Jorge also dropped enough rain to feature in the top 0.5% of days for UK average rainfall.\n\n\"Having three such widespread extreme rainfall events in the same calendar month is exceptionally rare,\" said Dr Mark McCarthy, head of the National Climate information Centre.\n\n\"Met Office ground-breaking research has contributed to a growing body of evidence that [suggests] extreme rainfall is a significant risk factor for the UK, and that climate change has increased the likelihood of extreme rainfall events.\"\n\nA study by Cardiff University's Understanding Risk Group, based on 1,401 nationally representative respondents, suggested that the issue and impacts of climate change was of growing concern among members of the public.\n\nTwenty-three percent of those questioned said climate change was the most pressing issue facing the UK in the next two decades, second only to Brexit (25%).\n\nConcern about climate change had also soared, with 40% - twice as many as in 2016 - of the respondents saying they were \"very or extremely worried\" about the issue.\n\nIt also found in its sample group that climate scepticism was low, with 64% of respondents feeling that Britain was already feeling the effects of change, compared with 41% in the 2010 survey.\n\nPeople in the UK are getting more concerned about heatwaves and warming, the survey shows\n\nProf Nick Pidgeon, one of the study's authors, said that the increased activism and media coverage of the issue meant that he was not surprised about the growing concern about climate change among people.\n\nHowever, he was \"really surprised\" about people's attitude towards climate risks, such as heatwaves and warming, which had \"radically changed\" since it was last featured in a survey back in 2013.\n\n\"In the last [survey], it was pretty clear that the 'heat reference' was not something people saw as part of climate change for the UK,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"That has now changed, and to us, that's very important to the policy and climate adaptation message.\"\n\nAlthough the survey was carried out in October 2019, before the global spread of the coronavirus, Prof Pidgeon said concern about climate change was becoming established in people's minds, and a paradigm shift towards greater environmental awareness was occurring in society.\n\nProf Pidgeon said the findings of the study, funded by UK research councils, would be used by the UK Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on the matter.\n\nDr Kate Lonsdale, co-champion of the UK Climate Resilience Programme, observed: \"The scientific consensus is increasingly clear that climate risks are increasing in likelihood and severity.\n\n\"Now we have evidence that people in Britain see these risks are relevant to their lives today rather than something that will happen to people in the future and in other places.\n\nThe arrival of the three named storms during February meant that a number of river systems were unable to cope, resulting in thousands of homes in Yorkshire, Wales and the West Midlands being flooded.\n\nJohn Curtin, executive director for the Environment Agency's Flood and Coastal Risk Management, said the record rainfall and river levels had tested the nation's flood defences, and had been able to protect more than 80,000 homes.\n\nHowever, he added: \"Every flooded home is a personal tragedy, and with a changing climate we will need to become more resilient to flooding.\"", "Smart cameras and baby monitors can be watched by criminals over the internet by default, security chiefs warn.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising people to tweak the settings after buying them.\n\nEasy-to-guess default passwords might let a hacker secretly observe a home through connected devices, it said.\n\nThe NCSC's technical director, Dr Ian Levy, warned while the devices were \"fantastic innovations\", they were vulnerable to cyber-attackers.\n\nThere are many examples of devices being accessed without permission.\n\nIn one, the attacker spoke to a young girl, pretending to be Father Christmas.\n\nIn another, a couple from Leeds had been watched thousands of times online without their knowledge.\n\nAnd security researchers easily breached an adult toy that had a camera attached, in 2017.\n\nThe new guidance for owners of smart cameras suggests three steps:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a couple were spied on by thousands\n\nThis warning suggests growing concern about the potential dangers posed by the \"internet of things\".\n\nAs connected devices move into people's homes and everyday lives, cyber-security risks are becoming intensely personal, with challenges in protecting people's data and privacy.\n\nCameras that provide details of what is going on inside your house are a prime example.\n\nOne of the problems is the companies making these devices often try to make them cheap and fast to capture the new market - and security is often an afterthought, if it is thought about at all.\n\nThe problem is leading towards not just more warnings such as this one but also new laws to mandate security standards.\n\nConsumer group Which?, which has highlighted security flaws in the past in children's toys and other smart devices, backed the new advice.\n\nIt says \"mandatory security requirements and strong enforcement\" are needed.\n\nIn January, the government announced plans to bring in a new law to require all manufacturers selling smart devices in the UK to obey new rules.\n\nBut while such regulations are \"a positive step\", some experts believe they could go further.\n\nAdditional steps could include mandatory two-factor authentication, according to Blake Kozak, a smart home analyst with Omdia.\n\n\"More detailed legislation will be needed to enforce best practices by brands, from the components in the devices to the security of data centres,\" he said.\n\nThe NCSC's latest guidance also recommends disabling UPnP (universal plug and play) and \"port forwarding\" in the settings of your internet router – technologies often used by legitimate services such as online gaming.", "The home secretary said her department's work would continue despite the furore over Sir Philip Rutnam's departure\n\nPriti Patel has said she regrets the resignation of her former top civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam amid bullying allegations against her.\n\nIn an e-mail to Home Office staff, she thanked him for his service but said it was \"now time for the Home Office to come together as one team\".\n\nShe said she \"deeply cared\" about the \"wellbeing\" of her civil servants and valued their professionalism.\n\nSir Philip said he had been forced out of his job after a \"vicious\" campaign.\n\nThe prime minister has given Mrs Patel his support but the Cabinet Office is investigating whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nShe has not commented publicly on the allegations against her, but government sources have said she denies them.\n\nResigning from his position on Saturday, Sir Philip said he had received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said she had failed to disassociate herself from press briefings against him and he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal.\n\nHere is an effort to show a united front at the top of the Home Office after a torrid time.\n\nThere's no direct acknowledgement of the bullying allegations levelled against Priti Patel. But with references to the importance of staff wellbeing and courtesy amongst colleagues, there is a tacit acknowledgement of the kind of controversy that has rocked the department in recent weeks.\n\nAnd while the use of the word \"regret\", when it comes to Sir Philip Rutnam's resignation, may strike a nuanced note of contrition the email also suggests that the home secretary has little intention of leaving.\n\nRather, she's hoping to put the episode behind her and haul this huge department onto a new chapter.\n\nBut with Sir Philip's plan to pursue a claim of constructive dismissal and an ongoing Cabinet Office inquiry (albeit one that critics claim will be a whitewash) this saga likely isn't over. Not yet.\n\nIn the internal email to Home Office staff, Mrs Patel thanked Sir Philip for his \"long and dedicated career of public service\" and praised the civil service for the support they gave to ministers.\n\nThe e-mail, co-written by Sir Philip's acting successor Shona Dunn, adds: \"We both regret Sir Philip's decision to resign.\n\n\"We both deeply value the work that every person in this department does and care about the wellbeing of all our staff.\n\n\"It is therefore a time for us all to come together as one team.\n\n\"We also recognise the importance of candour, confidentiality and courtesy in building trust and confidence between ministers and civil servants. Both of us are fully committed to making sure the professionalism you would expect to support this is upheld.\"\n\nWhile acknowledging the \"huge amount\" achieved by her department in a short period, she said it needed to continue to \"drive forward\" the government's priorities, including tackling violent crime and implementing the biggest changes to the UK's immigration system in a generation after Brexit.\n\n\"We have one of the most important jobs to do, keeping people safe and our country secure and delivering on the government's priorities, which were endorsed by the British people at the recent general election,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Our work continues, and our focus must be on working, in partnership with you, to deliver this agenda as the public would expect.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cabinet Office is leading an internal inquiry to \"establish the facts\" regarding Sir Philip's claims and whether they represented a breach of the ministerial code.\n\nLabour has called for Mrs Patel to resign while the First Division Association union, which represents civil servants, has called for an \"independent\" inquiry into Ms Patel's behaviour to be led by an external lawyer.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that a former aide to Mrs Patel received a £25,000 payout from the government after claiming she was bullied by the then employment minister.\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC alleges the woman took an overdose of prescription medicine following the alleged incident in 2015. The DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal.", "Tommy Robinson was arrested on suspicion of common assault on Sunday and has since been charged\n\nTommy Robinson has been charged with common assault after an \"altercation\" at a Center Parcs swimming pool.\n\nPolice were called to the upmarket holiday camp's Woburn Forest site when a guest sustained a facial injury on Sunday.\n\nThey arrested a 37-year-old man at the scene, while the injured man received first aid.\n\nBedfordshire Police said the arrested man had been bailed until 2 April to appear at Luton Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe ex-English Defence League leader, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, released a video saying he had been arrested.\n\nCenter Parcs and police confirmed that officers had been called to the site at around 13:10 GMT on Sunday.\n\nCenter Parcs' Woburn Forest has a \"subtropical swimming paradise with rides and slides for all ages\" the company said\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 Olympics\n\nJapan's Olympic minister says the Tokyo 2020 Games could be postponed from the summer until later in the year amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn a response to a question in Japan's parliament, Seiko Hashimoto said Tokyo's contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) \"calls for the Games to be held within 2020\".\n\nShe added that \"could be interpreted as allowing a postponement\".\n\nThe Games are due to be held from 24 July to 9 August.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to ensure that the Games go ahead as planned,\" Hashimoto added.\n\nUnder the hosting agreement the right to cancel the Games remains with the IOC.\n\nIOC president Thomas Bach says his organisation remains \"very confident with regard the success\" of the Games in Tokyo.\n\n\"I would like to encourage all the athletes to continue their preparations with great confidence and full steam,\" added the German.\n\nA number of high-profile sporting events have already been cancelled or postponed as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, including the World Athletics Indoor Athletics Championships and the Chinese Grand Prix, which was scheduled for 19 April.\n\nCoronavirus, which originated in China, has spread to more than 60 countries and claimed more than 3,000 lives so far.\n• None Coronavirus & sport: What now for Six Nations, Tokyo Olympics, F1, Euro 2020 & Cheltenham?\n• None Tokyo Olympics still 'business as usual', says IOC's Dick Pound\n\nThe IOC executive board met in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday and in a statement \"expressed its full commitment to the success of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 taking place from 24 July to 9 August\".\n\nIt said a \"joint task force\" was started in mid-February, involving the IOC, Tokyo 2020 organisers, the host city of Tokyo, the government of Japan and the World Health Organization.\n\nThe executive board added that it \"appreciates and supports the measures being taken, which constitute an important part of Tokyo's plans to host safe and secure Games\".\n\n\"We will continue to support the athletes and their NOCs with regular updates of information, which we will provide,\" Bach added.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales & Radio Cymru, with text commentary on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nProp Mako Vunipola is training with his club Saracens, despite being stood down by England over coronavirus fears.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union confirmed on Tuesday Vunipola was not available for Saturday's Six Nations game against Wales after he travelled through Hong Kong last weekend.\n\nAn RFU spokesperson said Vunipola was \"not sick\" but was not in camp \"on medical grounds\".\n\nHowever, he is available for Sarries' Premiership match with Leicester.\n• None Coronavirus - how worried should we be?\n\nThe confusion centres around differing interpretations of the governmental guidance for those potentially affected by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nVunipola spent much of the past fortnight in Tonga attending to a family illness, missing England's victory over Ireland on 23 February.\n\nHe returned to the UK via Hong Kong, an area which has been hit by the virus since January.\n\nGuidelines say those who have travelled from places such as Hong Kong should self-isolate if they \"have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breath\".\n\nWhile the RFU medics took the precautionary measure not to have Vunipola involved this week, he has not shown any symptoms.\n\nTherefore Saracens feel Vunipola, along with brother Billy, are both safe to return to the club's training base in north London.\n\nSaracens said the Vunipolas made a \"short stop\" at Hong Kong airport on their return from Tonga.\n\n\"Travellers returning from Hong Kong are not currently subject to mandatory quarantine or self-isolation unless they become symptomatic,\" the club statement added.\n\n\"Neither Billy nor Mako have displayed symptoms of coronavirus and on their return to London were assessed by the club's medical staff.\n\n\"The duo have been around the Saracens environment for the past couple of days, with the latter available for selection this weekend.\"\n\nSaracens will continue to follow the Public Health England and World Health Organisation regulations surrounding coronavirus and the medical staff will be closely monitoring Billy and Mako on a regular basis.\n\nIreland's game against Italy has been postponed because of coronavirus, but Six Nations organisers said on Monday that the rest of the weekend's fixtures were currently set to go ahead.\n\nWithout Vunipola, England head coach Eddie Jones has streamlined his squad to a group of 27 players, with Exeter scrum-half Jack Maunder among those left out.\n\nExeter prop Harry Williams, Bath hooker Tom Dunn, Exeter centre Ollie Devoto, Gloucester wing Ollie Thorley and Wasps fly-half Jacob Umaga were also omitted.\n• None Six Nations 2020: England v Wales & Scotland v France to go ahead", "The Queen has been pictured wearing large white gloves as she handed out honours at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday.\n\nShe shook hands with recipients of MBEs and CBEs while wearing the gloves, which covered her wrists.\n\nThe Queen does not typically wear gloves when awarding honours at investitures.\n\nShe usually wears gloves when meeting members of the public on official engagements, however.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not commented on the Queen's decision to wear gloves for the event.\n\nD-Day veteran Harry Billinge, 94, was among those receiving honours, becoming an MBE.\n\nHealth experts say the elderly and those with underlying health conditions are most at risk of contracting coronavirus\n\nCoronavirus cases continue to rise in the UK, with confirmed infections climbing from 39 to 51 on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"highly likely\" the country will see further infection than at present.\n\nRead the full story: Up to fifth of UK workers 'could be off sick at same time'", "Thomas Hanlon was cleared of casuing death by careless driving on while riding his e-bike\n\nA cyclist has been cleared of killing a pedestrian while riding a modified e-bike in Hackney, east London.\n\nThomas Hanlon, 32, was accused of \"going way too quickly\" when he hit Sakine Cihan in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, on 28 August 2018.\n\nHe was acquitted of causing death by careless driving and driving without a licence at the Old Bailey.\n\nJurors took just over an hour to reach their verdicts in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind.\n\nSakine Cihan was crossing Kingsland High Street in Dalston when she was struck\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's modified e-bike was travelling at more than 10mph over the 20mph speed limit.\n\nIn law, e-bikes which are fitted with an electric motor can only be driven without a licence or insurance if their power is limited, and the motor automatically switches off at speeds above 15.5mph.\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's bike was capable of going double that speed and as such should have been categorised as a motorbike.\n\nProsecutor Nathan Rasiah read out a statement by cyclist Raymond Murphy, a witness to the 28 August crash, who said he was \"struck\" that Mr Hanlon's bike was \"going way too quickly for a normal electric bicycle\".\n\nBut, Mr Hanlon's defence barrister Claire Howell argued that Ms Cihan \"ran out in front of him\".\n\nShe added: \"He is going straight along a straight road on a sunny clear day when he has got the right of way and he can see the lights have changed to green and he's just moving through.\n\n\"His reactions were quicker than many confident and careful drivers in the time it took him to react to her stepping out, which suggests he was keeping a good look out.\"\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.", "Over the day, we've been introducing you to young Democrats voting in 2020.\n\nThe fourth is Paige Thielke, 17, from California. Although she was too young to vote in today’s primary, she will take part in November’s general election.\n\nWhat’s at stake in this election?\n\nA lot, not just because it could bring about a change in government, but because the world is at a crossroads. Far-right, nationalistic political movements have been gaining popularity all around the world, and the climate crisis is only getting worse. Whoever becomes the president will have to deal with those issues, and after almost four years of Trump, it’s pretty clear how he would address those issues.\n\nDo you know who you are voting for? If not, what will decide your vote?\n\nWhile I understand the appeal of Bernie Sanders, who is by far the favorite candidate among many of my friends and fellow high school students, his reputation as being disliked by his fellow senators and the drastic nature of his policy proposals doesn’t make me feel like he could work across the aisle to get stuff done during his presidency.\n\nBecause of that, my support tends to lean more towards moderates, even though the majority of them in the race aren’t ideal options.\n\nWhat should someone outside the US know about your state that makes it unique?\n\nCalifornia has the unique quality of being generally known across the world. But 40 million people live here (a bigger population than Canada), and there is no typical “Californian”. While the entertainment industry is certainly big, the Central Valley also produces 13% of all agricultural products in the US. It’s the most diverse state in the country, and is diverse not only in terms of race, but socioeconomic status, cultural experience, etc. So while the majority of voters do lean liberal, there are plenty of conservative areas as well.", "Priti Patel was a minister at the department for work and pensions\n\nA former aide to Priti Patel received a £25,000 payout from the government after claiming she was bullied by the then employment minister.\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC alleges the woman took an overdose of prescription medicine following the alleged incident in 2015.\n\nThe DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal.\n\nMs Patel is facing allegations - which she denies - that she mistreated staff in her current role as home secretary.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office's most senior official, resigned on Saturday alleging Ms Patel's conduct towards staff included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal, alleging that he had been forced out of his job.\n\nThe government said on Monday, before the latest allegations, that the Cabinet Office would investigate whether Ms Patel has breached the ministerial code and to \"establish the facts\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has now called on Ms Patel to step down from her role while the investigation takes place.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We want a genuinely independent inquiry. A lawyer-led inquiry and something that can seen to be independent.\n\n\"I'm afraid it would be better if she stepped down. We are calling on her to step down whilst the inquiry goes on.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock declined to comment on the allegations of bullying against the home secretary because of the ongoing investigation and \"potential legal action\".\n\nBut he added: \"I know Priti well and she is robust and she is determined and that is what you would expect with a home secretary.\n\n\"She is also extremely courteous and kind.\"\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC show a junior employee at the DWP brought a formal complaint of bullying and harassment against the department, including Ms Patel, after being dismissed from her role in October 2015.\n\nThe staff member's grievance letter alleges she had previously attempted to kill herself after reporting similar allegations of workplace bullying concerning another individual in 2014, before Ms Patel was a minister.\n\nThe staff member also alleges she was told the decision to dismiss her a year later was not made on performance grounds but because Ms Patel did not \"like [her] face\", according to comments attributed to her line manager and a colleague.\n\nOn that day in October 2015, Ms Patel had shouted at the woman in her private office and told her to \"get lost\" and \"get out of her face\", the correspondence alleges.\n\nMs Patel is described as having acted \"without warning\" and with an \"unprovoked level of aggression\", in the woman's formal grievance complaint.\n\nShortly after, the staff member allegedly took an overdose of prescription medication in the office and lay with her head on the desk for some time.\n\nShe was then said to have become unresponsive and her partner was called by a colleague to collect her as she was unable to walk unaided.\n\nThe woman then took a further overdose at home in what is described as an attempt to kill herself and was rushed to hospital where she spent the night in resuscitation, according to the documents.\n\nA settlement was reached in 2017 for £25,000 after the member of staff threatened to bring a legal claim of bullying, harassment and discrimination on the grounds of race and disability against the department, including Ms Patel who is directly named.\n\nWhen asked last week about a complaint against Ms Patel during her time at the DWP, a source close to her said she was \"unaware of any complaint being made\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson backed Priti Patel following Sir Philip's allegations, saying she was \"a fantastic home secretary\".\n\nOn Monday, before the latest allegations emerged, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told MPs Ms Patel \"absolutely rejects these allegations\".\n\nBut he said the prime minister had asked the Cabinet Office to carry out an investigation into whether she had breached the ministerial code and \"to establish the facts\".\n\nLabour MP Hilary Benn asked Mr Gove if any complaints had been made about Ms Patel's conduct at the DWP, or in her former role as international development secretary.\n\nMr Gove said: \"The inquiry that is proceeding will look at all complaints that may have been made, I cannot say more than that.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the government said \"All ministers are subject to the ministerial code. We do not comment on individual personnel matters.\"\n\nAsked by Labour's Yvette Cooper how many complaints had been made against Ms Patel, Mr Gove said it would be \"improper\" to comment on an \"individual personnel case\".", "Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIn a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely.\n\nThe company also said it was \"strongly encouraging\" all of its 5,000 employees around the world to not come into work.\n\nIt comes a day after the firm banned all non-essential business travel and events for its workers.\n\nThe company had already announced that it was pulling out of this month's South by Southwest media conference in Austin, Texas.\n\nTwitter's head of human resources Jennifer Christie said: \"Our goal is to lower the probability of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus for us - and the world around us.\"\n\nThe post also highlighted that Twitter has been developing ways to work from home for some time: \"While this is a big change for us, we have already been moving towards a more distributed workforce that's increasingly remote. We're a global service and we're committed to enabling anyone, anywhere to work at Twitter.\"\n\nTwitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey has long-supported remote working and in November announced plans to live in Africa for up to six months of this year.\n\nThe move is similar to measures put in place by many companies in Asia as the virus sweeps the region, but goes further than most big American businesses as they respond to the outbreak.\n\nOther leading technology companies, including Facebook and Google, have postponed or cancelled conferences in the US. Facebook has also joined Twitter by pulling out of South by Southwest.\n\nStaff at Google's European headquarters in Dublin will work from home on Tuesday as the company tests its preparedness for a potential outbreak in Ireland, but most of the 8,000 workers are expected to return to their desks on Wednesday.\n\nAt the same time companies, including telecoms operator A&T and banking giant Citigroup, have restricted international travel, especially to Asia.\n\nThe announcement comes as deaths due to the coronavirus around the world have passed 3,000 as the outbreak spreads from Asia to the US, Europe and the Middle East.\n\nHas your employer advised you to work from home because of Covid-19 fears? Tell us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar will abandon her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.\n\nSenator Klobuchar came in a distant sixth place in Saturday's South Carolina primary.\n\nMs Klobuchar, 59, will join Joe Biden at his Dallas, Texas rally on Monday to endorse the former vice-president, US media report.\n\nThe news comes on the heels of fellow moderate Pete Buttigieg suspending his campaign on Sunday.\n\nDespite some strong debate performances and a surprise surge in the early primary voting state of New Hampshire, Ms Klobuchar failed to gain broader traction.\n\nOn the campaign trail, the Minnesota senator sold herself to moderate voters as the candidate who could win swing states back for the Democrats. However, her profile was largely eclipsed by centrist rivals Mr Biden, 77, and Mr Buttigieg, 38.\n\nThe former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Mr Buttigieg also endorsed Mr Biden for the nomination in an apparent effort to consolidate moderate voters and block the progressive Bernie Sanders, who currently leads the field. Mr Buttigieg and Mr Biden campaigned together in Dallas on Monday night.\n\nYet another former presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, is set to endorse Mr Biden, according to people familiar with his plans.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Biden picked up endorsements from former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, US Senators Mark Udall and Tammy Duckworth, and former Senate leader Harry Reid.\n\nMs Klobuchar's withdrawal comes on the eve of the so-called Super Tuesday primaries. On Tuesday, 14 US states will cast their votes to determine the Democratic presidential nominee.\n\nWith Ms Klobuchar's exit, five Democrats are left in the race to take on Republican President Donald Trump - Mr Biden, Mr Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard. With the exception of Ms Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, all are septuagenarians.\n\nSeven delegates - representatives who will cast nominating votes for a candidate at the Democratic national convention in July - Ms Klobuchar had won from previous primaries are now free to vote for someone else. A candidate must pick up 1,990 delegates, gathered up from primary contests throughout the country, to secure the nomination. Mr Sanders, the leftwing Vermont senator, currently leads the delegate count with 60 delegates, followed by Mr Biden with 54.\n\nSeats on Joe Biden's campaign train are starting to fill up. Former presidential rivals Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg travelled to Dallas on Monday night, joining former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke in appearing with, and endorsing, the former vice-president.\n\nThe faceoff between Mr Biden, the \"establishment\" candidate, and Mr Sanders, the outsider, is taking shape - a contrast in styles and sensibilities that gives Democrats a clear choice between two directions to take the party.\n\nIt's not quite that simple, of course, as Elizabeth Warren seems set to stick around as a progressive-left alternative, while Michael Bloomberg continues to money-bomb his way into Super Tuesday.\n\nStill, this represents a remarkable run of good fortune for Mr Biden, who has been landing endorsements from Democratic politicians across the US the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, it may turn out that Mr Sanders' big win in Nevada just over a week ago didn't give the Vermont senator much of a boost. Instead, it woke up moderates and other voters not sold on his calls for a progressive revolution, prompting a rapid consolidation around an alternative.\n\nAfter more than a year of campaigning, the race for the Democratic nomination is now shifting by the hour.\n\nAnnouncing her candidacy in the middle of a blizzard last February, Ms Klobuchar, a former prosecutor, pitched herself as a pragmatist who could appeal to voters in America's geographic and ideological middle.\n\nShe opposed the \"Medicare for All\" universal healthcare schemes touted by her leftwing rivals, Mr Sanders and Ms Warren, making the case for what she called more \"practical\" healthcare reform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is the Latino vote so important?\n\n\"I always tell people,\" Ms Klobuchar would say on the campaign trail. \"If you are tired of the nonsense and the noise in our politics, and you are tired of the extremes in our politics and you are looking for something different, then you have a home with me\".\n\nDespite winning some support from moderate Republicans who oppose Mr Trump she had failed to attract support from the black and Hispanic voters who are key Democratic blocs.", "Greggs said its vegan sausage roll had helped boost sales\n\nGreggs boss Roger Whiteside has said his firm would pay staff who have to self-isolate because of coronavirus.\n\n\"Our default position is that we pay contract hours. We don't have any zero contract hours,\" he told BBC's Today.\n\nThe firm's policy is in contrast to some other firms, which say they will only pay the legal minimum. He said Greggs' policy could be reviewed if coronavirus became a \"big problem\".\n\nThe comments came as Greggs posted a 13.5% rise in 2019 sales to £1.168bn.\n\nThe sandwich chain's success was helped by the popularity of its new vegan range, but the baker saw a significant slowdown last month as storms kept customers away.\n\nAnd Greggs also cautioned there is some uncertainty in the outlook, particularly given the potential impact of coronavirus.\n\nPre-tax profits rose to £108.3m from £82.6m in 2018, the company said.\n\nGreggs' policy for staff who are ordered to stay at home if they been in contact with an infected person is in contrast to some other companies.\n\nLast week Wetherspoons, one of the UK's biggest employers, said staff would be subject to regular statutory sick pay rules if they had to self-isolate.\n\nUnder statutory sick pay rules, an employee is not paid for the first three days of absence, and then only if they earn at least £118 a week.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has sent guidance to UK employers telling them that staff who have been asked to self-isolate are entitled to take the time as sick leave.\n\nMichele Piertney, of the independent arbitration service Acas, said people would not get sick leave as a matter of course if a medical expert put them into quarantine.\n\nMany casual or agency workers may be entitled to sick pay, but self-employed people are not. Citizens Advice says people on zero-hours contracts can still get sick pay and should ask their employer.\n\nDave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, has written to Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey asking her to change the rules around sick pay.\n\nHe was speaking after fears that zero-hours workers would go into work, even if they were supposed to be self-isolating, to ensure they got paid.\n\n\"The government must bring in emergency measures so these low-paid workers are protected financially, particularly those caring for the most vulnerable in society,\" said Mr Prentis. \"It should be made compulsory for employers to give them sick pay, even if they're not officially eligible.\"\n\nThe startling success of Greggs - rising sales for six years in a row, a rapid expansion in geographical coverage and a share price that has doubled in three years - is one of the enduring puzzles of British business.\n\nGeneral retailers have been in retreat across the board, and general bakers have been squeezed by tough competition from supermarkets and booming coffee chains like Pret a Manger and Costa. If the formula is not quite right, disaster awaits, as the dramatic failure of Patisserie Valerie proved. Despite all this Greggs has prospered. Why?\n\nPart of the answer is that Greggs has the formula right - it has constantly tweaked what it sells to get the price and range right, and has not been afraid to follow trends. It has also been cute with its marketing, using social media to give the chain an image that belies its traditional roots.\n\nThe magic ingredient though, has been its attitude to staff and customers. Chief executive Roger Whiteside says the company's \"default position\" when staff are off work is to pay. It has fixed hours contracts, not zero hours, and when its stores were closed by floods recently, it continued to pay staff who could not come to work.\n\nIt has paid out big bonuses when the times are good - 10% of profits, so £13m this year - and has just reworked its internal culture statement after an extensive consultation with staff. For customers there is the \"Greggs Pledge\", which promises the company will be run for their good as well.\n\nBut this does not mean the company operates in some feelgood happy zone. There is also a pragmatic edge, with the warning that while it intended to pay workers who self-isolate because of coronavirus, that largesse could not continue indefinitely.\n\nJustin Tomlinson, a work and pensions minister, said the current advice for workers with no sick pay who had to self-isolate was to claim universal credit, the Guardian reports.\n\nThe impact of coronavirus could hit Greggs' figures in 2020.\n\n\"We made a very strong start to 2020 in January, but in February saw a significant slowdown in sales growth as a result of the storms that have affected the UK,\" said Mr Whiteside.\n\n\"There is some uncertainty in the outlook, particularly given the potential impact of coronavirus. This aside, we expect to make year-on-year progress and will do so from a strong financial position.\"", "Some British tourists have been given the all-clear to go back home after spending a week quarantined inside their hotel rooms in Tenerife.\n\nBBC correspondent Dan Johnson took to the skies to report on the current atmosphere in the area.", "Voters across America are preparing to take part in the biggest day of the 2020 election so far.\n\nMore than a year after the first Democratic candidates joined the race to take on Donald Trump, we've now reached Super Tuesday.\n\nFourteen states will vote on which Democrat they want to run in November's election. Bernie Sanders is in the lead after the early contests.\n\nBy Wednesday, we could have a clearer picture of who the nominee will be.\n\nDemocrats across the US have been taking part in a series of caucuses (essentially party meetings, where you vote publicly at the end) or primaries (secret ballots) to pick their preferred candidate.\n\nBernie Sanders's success has come as a bit of a surprise. The Vermont senator lost out to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race, but he isn't a typical Democrat by any means (in fact, he sits as an Independent in the Senate).\n\nHe's a staunch left-winger, so may struggle to convince the party's moderates if he becomes the candidate. He's also 78, and suffered a heart attack in the autumn. But he's proven extremely popular in the primaries so far across many age groups and ethnicities, and all the momentum is on his side.\n\nThe handful of moderate Democrats running have split the vote, so it's made it hard for any of them to break out (and this has helped Sanders build up a lead).\n\nOne of them, former vice-president and early favourite Joe Biden, underwhelmed before winning convincingly in South Carolina on Saturday. However, he has since seen a swell in momentum after centrist rivals Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar quit the race to endorse him.\n\nSanders does not have the left lane to himself either - Elizabeth Warren, the experienced Massachusetts senator, shares several of his policy objectives but has not lived up to expectations.\n\nSo might any of these candidates win the election in November? Honestly, it's too close to call, and there are so many unknown factors.\n\nIt's all about the delegates.\n\nLet's say Candidate A gets the most support in one state. Candidate B does OK, but not as well. Candidate A is then awarded the most delegates, and Candidate B fewer. The number of delegates available differs in each state.\n\nLater in the summer, those delegates will then vote for their candidate to become the Democratic nominee. The target for any candidate is to reach an unbeatable majority of 1,990 delegates.\n\nThis is where Super Tuesday comes in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Alexis and Amira could help decide the US election\n\nUp to now, only 155 delegates have been awarded in four states. On Super Tuesday, a massive 1,357 delegates will be distributed, and 14 states are voting. The two most populous, California and Texas, will take part - the former for the first time on Super Tuesday.\n\nHere's what is at stake in each state - the smallest to the largest - with some bonus nuggets of trivia thrown in.\n\nWho will do best? A no-brainer: Bernie Sanders. He is one of the state's senators, after all.\n\nWho could do well? Honestly? There's a chance no-one except Sanders will cross the 15% threshold of votes and get any delegates. He is extremely popular in his home state and won the 2016 primary here with 86% of the vote (though he eventually lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton). We could see the first results from here at about 19:00 local time (midnight GMT).\n\nOne piece of context In a poll by Vermont Public Radio in February, almost a third of people said the economy, jobs and cost of living were among the main issues on their minds - although Vermont has the joint-lowest unemployment rate in the country, at 2.3%.\n\nWho will do best? We're going to start sounding repetitive, but polls point to Bernie Sanders. In 2016, he won more than double the number of delegates claimed by Hillary Clinton here.\n\nWho could do well? There are more contenders than in 2016 which means Sanders' lead won't be as large. But billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden are polling far behind.\n\nOne piece of context This isn't the only thing on the ballot on Super Tuesday in Maine. There's also a referendum on whether to reject a law that would block religious and philosophical objections to vaccinations.\n\nWho will do best? Clue: his name is an anagram of Desire Banners. Sanders won here convincingly in 2016.\n\nWho could do well? It's unlikely anyone will challenge Sanders. The most recent poll put Bloomberg in a distant second and former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg in third, before he dropped out. Could Bloomberg win votes that might have gone to Buttigieg, and tighten the gap on Sanders?\n\nOne piece of context Utah has not voted for a Democrat in the presidential election since 1964, when it picked Lyndon B Johnson. So whoever comes out on top here may not take the state in November.\n\nWho will do best? A recent poll by Hendrix College in Arkansas suggested Bloomberg's plan of concentrating on Super Tuesday states could pay off here.\n\nWho could do well? Biden and Sanders possibly, although it's a close-run thing. Forecasting site FiveThirtyEight gives Biden a stronger chance - the vote could be split fairly evenly.\n\nOne piece of context It might not matter who Democrats pick: Arkansas has opted for a Democrat in a presidential election only twice in 40 years (and even then, it was local boy Bill Clinton, twice).\n\nWho will do best? It's tough to say. Biden, maybe just.\n\nWho could do well? Bloomberg and Sanders, according to Oklahoma polling group Sooner last week.\n\nOne piece of context Fracking is a big issue here, and Sanders and Warren (who was born in Oklahoma City) have both proposed measures to ban it. The underground disposal of waste water used in fracking has led to a rise in earthquakes in this part of the US.\n\nWho will do best? We're in safe Biden territory. He has the support of plenty of senior Democrats in Alabama, and is widely liked among African Americans there.\n\nWho could do well? Biden's lead in the polls looks fairly comfortable, but Bloomberg and Sanders appear most likely to challenge him.\n\nOne piece of context Republicans are also deciding who will run in November's Senate race, where they are very hopeful of ousting Democrat Doug Jones (and making it harder for Democrats to win the Senate later this year). The favourite right now is Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's former attorney general.\n\nWho will do best? It's close. FiveThirtyEight suggests Biden's chances here have improved a lot over the past few days.\n\nWho could do well? There has been very little polling here, but it could well be Sanders, who was a distant second to Hillary Clinton here in 2016.\n\nOne piece of context In Tennessee, who votes may be a bigger issue than who wins - it has one of the worst voter turnout rates in the US. In the last presidential election, just over half of registered voters turned out, 10 points below the national average.\n\nWho will do best? FiveThirtyEight gives Sanders a seven in eight chance of winning most votes here. You may notice that a picture is starting to form.\n\nWho could do well? The site puts Biden in a distant second, with Elizabeth Warren just behind him.\n\nOne piece of context Once a Republican stronghold, out-of-state migration and population growth has turned Colorado increasingly \"blue\" - a Democratic tilt that extends down the ballot. In its latest predictions, election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball changed its rating of the state's US Senate race from \"toss up\" to \"leans Democratic\".\n\nWho will do best? It was all set to be Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar until she withdrew on Monday. She has now endorsed Biden, so... maybe Biden?\n\nWho could do well? Sanders had been close behind Klobuchar in second, and is likely to pick up a decent amount of delegates here.\n\nOne piece of context This part of the US was badly hit by Donald Trump's trade war with China - advocacy group Tariffs Hurt The Heartland said businesses in Minnesota had to pay $797m (£604m) more in tariffs as a result. Will that translate into more support for Democrats in this election?\n\nWho will do best? Sanders, maybe. But it will be close.\n\nWho could do well? Elizabeth Warren, but it might be embarrassing if she doesn't win, given she is the senior senator for the state. Buttigieg's withdrawal may help her.\n\nOne piece of context A massive 40% of the candidates left in the race (two people) live in Massachusetts - as well as Warren, the other is Michael Bloomberg, who lives in Medford. Despite actor Michael Douglas campaigning for him there, he is not expected to do especially well here.\n\nWho will do best? This will be a really interesting one to follow. The vote could be split fairly evenly between Sanders, Bloomberg and Biden.\n\nWho could do well? See above.\n\nOne piece of context Watch the results in the Washington DC suburbs. This suburban vote will be crucial across the country in November's election (as it was in the 2018 mid-terms). How will the nationwide favourite, Bernie Sanders, perform there? Will moderates in the suburbs warm to him?\n\nWho will do best? It's quite a similar picture to neighbouring Virginia, and will also be worth following - it's close between Sanders and Biden.\n\nWho could do well? Bloomberg was polling well here at one point, but is drifting behind a little by now.\n\nOne piece of context This will also be a battleground state in November. As with Virginia, watch the crucially important suburbs of cities like Charlotte and Raleigh. But watch who they vote for, and whether that person ends up becoming the nominee. The way the votes go here in November might help decide the election.\n\nWho will do best? We're into the big league now. It's very close between Sanders and Biden here. Either way, it looks likely Sanders will claim a large amount of delegates and by the time the results come in from Texas, his lead could be big.\n\nWho could do well? It is likely to be a good night for Biden here too. Elizabeth Warren is third or fourth in most polls.\n\nOne piece of context There's reason to think that the so-called sleeping giant of the Texas Hispanic vote - now almost two million voters - is about to wake up. In the 2018 midterms, 46.9% of registered Hispanic voters turned out, a leap from 24.4% in 2014.\n\nWho will do best? If Sanders really does have an eight in nine chance of winning most votes here, as FiveThirtyEight predicts, you might as well call him the nominee. This is where Sanders' appeal to his \"multiracial coalition\" pays off - he looks like he could do well with African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans here.\n\nWho could do well? Right now, Biden looks like being a distant second.\n\nOne piece of context This will be a Super Tuesday debut for California. Lawmakers moved the state's primary up a month from its traditional spot in June in an effort to increase California's impact. The shift could matter: the country's most populous state will award 30% of the delegates on Super Tuesday.\n\n*American Samoa (six delegates) and Democrats Abroad (13) are also voting on Super Tuesday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The flaring was clearly visible from Cowdenbeath\n\nMore unplanned flaring is being carried out at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife after a problem with a major compressor at the site.\n\nThe environmental watchdog Sepa was alerted by site operator ExxonMobil just before 15:00.\n\nResidents, who have repeatedly complained about flaring incidents, said flames were visible from Edinburgh and as far away as Dundee.\n\nProduction at the plant only resumed on 21 February after a temporary shutdown.\n\nThe site was closed for five months from last August after it suffered two boiler explosions.\n\nExxonMobil said it was \"progressing with the steps required to re-start the machine\" but could not say when that would happen.\n\nA company statement said: \"To keep the rest of the plant running and reduce total duration of flaring, we safely manage this process through the use of our elevated flare.\n\n\"We are taking actions to reduce the size of the flare during this work, including maximising the use of ground flares.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience to our local communities.\"\n\nExxonmobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran was shut down for five months last August\n\nLocal campaigners said ExxonMobil's response to the latest incident \"explained nothing\".\n\nLinda Holt, of the Mossmorran Action Group said, \"Once again ExxonMobil is forced to resort to emergency flaring because something has gone badly wrong.\n\n\"As the ground shakes, and a huge bright flame amid clouds of black smoke looms over communities, they are expected to suffer in ignorance.\n\n\"Reassurances that the plant is 'safe' do not wash.\"\n\nChris Dailly, Sepa's head of environmental performance, said: \"Having been clear that flaring must become the exception rather than routine, we're disappointed that (it) has occurred again so soon after the restart.\n\n\"We expect the company to provide timely updates to the community.\"\n\nIn February, about 200 workers at the site staged an unofficial walkout over safety, working conditions and pay.", "Flack, pictured in November 2019, took her own life in February\n\nA petition calling for curbs on the British media in the wake of the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack has been handed in to the government.\n\nMore than 850,000 people have signed up to support a so-called \"Caroline's Law\", which would make media bullying and harassment a criminal offence.\n\nThe petition was set up following Flack's suicide last month.\n\nIt was delivered to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on Tuesday morning.\n\nHolly Maltby, of campaigning group 38 Degrees, said the media should be \"held accountable for the way they harass and vilify people\".\n\n\"Politicians need to urgently step in and make sure there are consequences when the media bully and harass,\" she added.\n\nAt the time of her death, Love Island presenter Flack was under media scrutiny as she awaited trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend.\n\nIn an unpublished Instagram post written shortly before her death, the 40-year-old said: \"The truth has been taken out of my hands and used as entertainment.\"\n\nThe majority of newspapers and magazines in the UK are currently regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) under a set of rules called the Editors' Code of Practice.\n\nCommunication watchdog Ofcom regulates television and radio broadcasters, including the BBC, and is to be given new powers over social media firms.\n\nMaltby said celebrities weren't the only people experiencing harassment from the press.\n\n\"It's people up and down the country, whose lives can be completely torn apart in a moment, because of harassment, intimidation and bullying, often at very difficult times,\" she said as she delivered the petition.\n\n\"We're gathering those case studies every day now, of people who said regulators need to be doing more, and the government need to be doing more.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police are treating the stabbing as a domestic incident\n\nDetectives are waiting to question a woman about a fatal stabbing incident in County Antrim that left one of her children dead and a baby injured.\n\nEmergency services were called to Bankhall Road in Magheramorne near Larne on Monday after three people had been stabbed.\n\nThe woman, who is in her 30s and has been named locally as Fiona Magowan, is critically ill with a knife wound.\n\nPolice say they are not seeking anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nThe dead child is believed to have been aged about two.\n\nThe woman was taken to hospital in Belfast along with her injured baby on Monday.\n\nForensic investigators were at the scene for much of Monday\n\nInformation on the baby's condition has not been released by hospital authorities.\n\nThe mother is a nurse, according to neighbours who have spoken of their shock at the stabbing.\n\nThey reported hearing a police helicopter in the area at about 10:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt is understood the family has been living in the farmhouse for less than a year.\n\nThe house and outbuildings are situated on a narrow lane on a hillside overlooking Larne Lough.\n\nThe farmhouse was cordoned off throughout Monday\n\n\"I heard the sirens and the helicopter, the air ambulance, came and it landed up at the back of the farm,\" neighbour Rhonda Kernohan told the Press Association.\n\n\"We thought it was a farm accident but when we looked out there was a lot of shouting and a lot of police, a lot of ambulances about.\"\n\nAnother neighbour added: \"We are feeling absolutely awful, so sad it is terrible.\n\n\"The shock of it, when it happens nearly on your doorstep.\"\n\nForensic investigators were at the scene for much of Monday and took a number of items from the house.\n\nOn Monday, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said their investigation was \"at an early stage\" and detectives are \"not looking for anyone else\" in connection with the child's death.\n• None Toddler dies and two injured in stabbing", "US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin led a conference call with finance chiefs from other major economies\n\nFinance ministers from the G7 group of nations have said they will use \"all appropriate policy tools\" to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe group of major economies said in a joint statement they were monitoring the outbreak and ready to deploy \"fiscal measures\".\n\nIt follows warnings the economic impact could tip countries into recession.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bank of England boss Mark Carney said the virus could produce a \"large\" but temporary hit to UK growth.\n\nCentral bankers and finance ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US held a conference call on Tuesday, led by US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell.\n\n\"Given the potential impacts of Covid-19 on global growth, we reaffirm our commitment to use all appropriate policy tools to achieve strong, sustainable growth and safeguard against downside risks,\" they said.\n\n\"Alongside strengthening efforts to expand health services, G7 finance ministers are ready to take actions, including fiscal measures where appropriate, to aid in the response to the virus and support the economy during this phase.\n\n\"G7 central banks will continue to fulfill their mandates, thus supporting price stability and economic growth while maintaining the resilience of the financial system.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned the global economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year because of the virus.\n\nThe influential think tank forecast growth of just 2.4% in 2020, down from 2.9% in November, but it said a longer \"more intensive\" outbreak could tip many countries into recession.\n\nThere were also sharp falls on global stock markets last week as factory activity in China contracted.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Carney told MPs that the virus was \"beyond the containment phase\", before adding the economic effects in the UK could last up to six months.\n\nBut he said he expected to see \"disruption not destruction\" and added that the Bank was ready to help businesses and households adjust.\n\nMr Carney hands over his role to Andrew Bailey on 16 March, and said the two had been in constant contact in order to have a smooth transition.\n\nStock markets have rebounded this week amid signs that governments and major central banks will work together to tackle the economic hit of coronavirus.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have said they are ready to help stabilise markets, after the recent volatility.\n\nAnd both Australia and Malaysia cut interest rates on Tuesday as a result of the outbreak.\n\nThe Reserve Bank of Australia cut rates to a record low of 0.5% because of the \"significant effect\" of the outbreak on the country's economy.\n\nMalaysia's central bank - Bank Negara Malaysia - cut its rates to 2.5%, saying: \"The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak has disrupted production and travel activity, especially within the region.\"", "The US central bank has slashed interest rates in response to mounting concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus.\n\nThe Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to a range of 1% to 1.25%.\n\nThe emergency move comes after the G7 group of finance ministers pledged action earlier on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows warnings that slowdown from the outbreak could tip countries into recession.\n\nFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US economy remains strong but it is difficult to predict the \"magnitude and persistence\" of the effects of the spreading virus.\n\n\"The virus and the measures that are being taken to contain it will surely weigh on economic activity for some time, both here and abroad,\" he said at a press conference in Washington.\n\n\"We don't think we have all the answers. But we do believe that our action will provide a meaningful boost to the economy.\"\n\nThe last time the bank made an interest rate cut at an emergency meeting was during the global financial crisis of 2008.\n\nThe unanimous decision is a \"dramatic turnaround from last week\", when many Fed officials appeared confident that rates, already low by historical standards, would not need to be cut further, said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics said.\n\n\"With financial markets in turmoil and evidence growing that the coronavirus is developing into a pandemic, the Fed's change of heart is entirely understandable,\" he said.\n\nMr Powell said the bank believed the rate cut would help strengthen consumer and business confidence, and keep money flowing.\n\nMany analysts in recent days had said they expected the Fed to act.\n\nHowever, Peter Tuchman, a stock trader at Quattro Securities, said he did not think financial markets would necessarily welcome the move. \"They're doing it to support the markets but that makes people fearful that we must be in bad shape,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"To pull that bullet out so fast and so furiously leaves us with not that much ammo,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US central bank has cut rates amid concerns about the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, both Australia and Malaysia cut interest rates as a result of the outbreak, while finance ministers from the G7 group of nations pledged to use \"all appropriate policy tools\" to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe group of major economies said in a joint statement they were monitoring the outbreak and ready to deploy \"fiscal measures\".\n\nOn Monday, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned the global economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year because of the virus.\n\nThe influential think tank forecast growth of just 2.4% in 2020, down from 2.9% in November, but it said a longer \"more intensive\" outbreak could halve growth and tip many countries into recession.\n\nGrowth concerns contributed to sharp falls on major stock markets last week, but shares had started to rebound on Monday amid signs that governments and major central banks would work together to tackle the economic hit of coronavirus.\n\nOn Tuesday, shares briefly rallied on the decision before turning negative.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Mr Powell to lower interest rates, ignoring tradition that presidents stay quiet on bank policy to preserve the bank's independence.\n\nFollowing the bank's announcement, he said it should cut further. \"It is finally time for the Federal Reserve to LEAD. More easing and cutting!\" he Tweeted.\n\nMr Powell denied that the bank had been influenced by political considerations. But he kept the door open to further cuts.\n\nSatyam Panday, senior US economist at S&P Global Ratings, said the Fed \"did well by acting decisively and moving sooner\".\n\n\"Given that monetary policy works with a lag, cutting now will help speed up recovery when the coronavirus concerns have passed,\" he said. \"If the rout in the financial market continues, more rate cuts are likely to follow in the upcoming March policy meeting, and beyond if required.\"\n\nFirst the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors told us they would use all appropriate policy tools. Not much more than an hour later, the Fed acted. Will it help?\n\nJerome Powell said it could avoid what he called a tightening of financial conditions - higher borrowing costs for businesses and households, banks becoming more reluctant to lend and being less willing to give some leeway to businesses with cash flow problems.\n\nThose are real risks if the disruption were to get more serious. Mr Powell also said it could boost confidence. But it doesn't look like it will help much with the most direct economic damage. A rate cut now is probably not going to make people more enthusiastic about getting on a plane.\n\nNor is it much direct help for firms struggling with shortages of components due to transport disruptions. Mr Powell acknowledged that a rate cut would not \"fix a broken supply chain\".\n\nThe main effort in this crisis is for health agencies. But we can expect to see more actions from finance ministries and central banks seeking to mitigate the economic impact.", "MPs are to be given a £20m increase in their staffing budgets to help deal with \"challenging\" casework, including constituents with mental health issues.\n\nThe UK's 650 MPs will each receive more than £25,000 extra towards their staffing costs, with cash specifically for training, welfare and security.\n\nIt follows a review which suggested MPs' staff were underpaid compared with equivalent workers in other sectors.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said his own staff were \"struggling to cope\".\n\nThe £19.7m increase - equivalent to a 13% year-on-year rise in staffing budgets - was approved by a committee headed by the Speaker on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows a campaign by more than 200 MPs last year for their staff to get a pay rise.\n\nA report commissioned by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the watchdog which oversee MPs' salaries and expenses, found that the job descriptions of those working for MPs did not \"sufficiently match\" the actual work they were doing.\n\nIt concluded that many of the 3,500 staff employed by MPs were increasingly \"dealing with complex and challenging constituency cases\" while also managing their offices - necessitating long, unsociable hours.\n\nStaff were often having to support constituents with mental health issues, sometimes at risk to their own safety, while not being properly equipped to do so.\n\nThe new measures will mean each of the 650 MPs getting a staffing budget increase of £21,900 in London and £21,600 outside the capital. An additional £4,000 has been added to each budget to fund training, health and welfare costs.\n\n\"Bearing in mind the growing number of complex cases that are brought to our constituency offices, it's important staff are paid fairly for the vital job they do,\" said Sir Lindsay, who represents the Lancashire seat of Chorley.\n\n\"My own staff regularly have to help distressed constituents who are suicidal, fleeing domestic violence, have suffered rape, are homeless, need referrals to food banks, have the bailiffs banging at their doors, and are struggling to cope.\"\n\nIPSA's interim chair Richard Lloyd said MPs' offices were having to deal with \"difficult and stressful casework\" with \"relatively little time or money spent on training, wellbeing and development\".\n\n\"We have provided additional funding in MPs' 2020-21 staffing budgets for staff training and welfare, security, and changes to the salary bands and job descriptions for MPs' staff to bring them into line with the jobs they actually do,\" he said.", "Footage has emerged of Greek coast guards firing into the sea near a migrant dingy, and shoving it around, as they attempted to force it back towards Turkey.\n\nMigrants on another dinghy were met with shouts of \"go away\" by angry residents of the island of Lesbos.", "One of America's most famous news anchors has abruptly quit days after a female guest on his show alleged he made inappropriate remarks.\n\nChris Matthews, a veteran host at liberal cable channel MSNBC, said Monday's Hardball show was his last.\n\nLast month he apologised after likening a Democratic presidential contender's victory to the Nazi invasion of Europe.\n\nOnce a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, Mr Matthews launched his political talk show in 1997.\n\nThe 74-year-old said on Monday that \"compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have incorrectly thought were OK were never OK.\n\n\"Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.\"\n\nMr Matthews, who underwent prostate surgery last year, said he came to his decision after talks with MSNBC.\n\nLast Friday a journalist, Laura Bassett, wrote a first-person cover story for GQ magazine in which she alleged Chris Matthews had made remarks that made her uncomfortable when she was a guest on his show back in 2016.\n\nShe wrote that in the make-up room before the show, Mr Matthews looked at her and said: \"Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?\"\n\nMs Bassett wrote: \"When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the make-up artist. 'Keep putting makeup on her, I'll fall in love with her.'\n\n\"Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. 'You going out tonight?' he asked.\"\n\nIt was not the first time Mr Matthews had been accused of making inappropriate comments about women.\n\nIn 2016, a hot mic picked up his remarks about Melania Trump as she took to the stage at a rally for her husband in Indiana.\n\nThe MSNBC host was heard saying of the former model: \"Did you see her walk? Runway walk. My God, is that good!\"\n\nIn 2011, Mr Matthews raised eyebrows for saying that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin \"could not be hotter as a candidate\".\n\nLast month, Mr Matthews was hosting the cable network's coverage of left-wing Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders' victory in the Nevada caucuses when he said: \"I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940.\n\n\"And the general calls up Churchill and says, 'It's over,' and Churchill says, 'How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?' He said, 'It's over.'\"\n\nSupporters of Mr Sanders, a Jewish candidate whose family members were murdered in the Holocaust, said the analogy was deeply offensive.\n\nMr Matthews went on his show two days later to apologise to Mr Sanders and promised he would \"strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion\".\n\nBut last Friday, the TV host caused further embarrassment when he confused the identities of two black men, Senator Tim Scott and a South Carolina Senate candidate, Jaime Harrison.", "Yannick Glaudin who posed as a man made the lives of two gay men she met via a dating app \"hell\"\n\nA woman who posed as a man on a gay dating app has been jailed for sending naked photos of a man to his family.\n\nYannick Glaudin, 30, admitted in July to disclosing private sexual photos and stalking as part of her \"disturbing campaign of harassment\".\n\nShe set up fake accounts to cause distress to the victim, whom she never met, and his new boyfriend after he ended their online relationship.\n\nThe victim called it off after she kept making excuses to meet in person.\n\nProsecutor John McNamara told Inner London Crown Court that in May 2017 Glaudin, using the pseudonym Steven St Pier, met her male victim over the Grindr app.\n\nThe pair exchanged phone numbers, email addresses and even the victim's CV as he was job-hunting.\n\n\"During the period of contact, (the victim) sent to the defendant a number of intimate and personal pictures and videos,\" Mr McNamara said.\n\nBut the victim had doubts over Glaudin's true identity and ended their online-only contact in December 2017.\n\nThis triggered months of harassment by Glaudin, beginning with her sending the sexual images to the victim's stepfather and his friends.\n\nGlaudin escalated the harassment from February 2018 when her victim started a new relationship with another man.\n\nThe court was told she contacted police and Crimestoppers on multiple occasions making false claims of assault and paedophilia.\n\nShe also gave the victims' home address to young men under false pretences so they would show up looking for casual sex.\n\nSpeaking in court, the former boyfriend said the harassment had been \"hell on earth\".\n\nSentencing, Judge Reid questioned why Glaudin had not faced more serious charges than those put by the prosecution.\n\n\"It's difficult to understand why you did what you did other than that during the period of your offending you were consumed by jealousy and a desire for revenge,\" he told Glaudin.\n\nGlaudin, from Mile End, London, was sentenced to 12 months for a charge of disclosing private sexual photos and films with intent to cause distress, four months for harassment without violence and four months for one of stalking without fear, alarm or distress.\n\nA further one month sentence for breaching bail to be served consecutively.\n\nShe was also subject to a lifelong restraining order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The architect for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has admitted that he did not check official advice on fire safety in high rises, during the work.\n\nBruce Sounes, from Studio E, told the inquiry he was not aware of concerns over the safety of combustible panels often being used on housing blocks.\n\nHe said fire safety details were for specialist consultants and added that he had not designed the cladding used.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey tower in west London killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry - now in its second phase - is looking into how the building came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nMr Sounes was in charge of the day-to-day management of the refurbishment project for the tower.\n\nOn the second day of hearings, Mr Sounes was being examined about his knowledge of the building regulations and associated guidance.\n\nHe was unable to explain to the inquiry how the new cladding system chosen for Grenfell met the government's guidance for fire safety in tall buildings, despite accepting that fire safety was \"fundamental to the work of an architect's practice\".\n\nMr Sounes said he was familiar with the broad regulation that a building should not be able to spread fire on the outside.\n\nBut he \"didn't recall hearing of\" the specific guidance that materials had to be of \"limited combustibility\" when used above 18m (59ft).\n\nInquiry barrister Kate Grange asked him: \"You didn't apply your mind at the time of the Grenfell project to how this clause applied to the materials that you were selecting?\"\n\nHe responded: \"As I wasn't myself preparing the documents - I did not, no.\"\n\nLater the inquiry was shown the specification for the project - which Mr Sounes had drawn up - and he was asked why he had not checked the products he had chosen complied with regulations.\n\n\"We asked for advice,\" he said, \"but it wasn't for us to... satisfy ourselves because I don't think that was within our ability.\"\n\nThe inquiry had already heard that Studio E had no experience of working on tall buildings.\n\nAnd in Tuesday's evidence, it heard that the architects had tried to keep the budget for the project below a limit which would have required the project to be put out to tender.\n\nMr Sounes said fees were delayed to keep the architect's cost below the £174,000 limit.\n\nStudio E may have designed the refurbished tower but, Mr Sounes said, council building control was responsible for making sure it was within the building regulations.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council, which operates public sector building control, has admitted Grenfell Tower was not properly inspected, because of a series of failures.\n\nThe inquiry has already ruled that Grenfell Tower breached the regulations.\n\nMeanwhile, campaigners have written to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to demand extra money to remove cladding beyond the type used at Grenfell.\n\nIn a letter, four anti-cladding groups across the UK, also said funding for the private sector had \"proved woefully difficult to access\".", "The founders of two of the most popular James Bond fan sites are asking the studios behind the next Bond film to delay its release due to coronavirus.\n\nNo Time to Die is due for release on 3 April but fans have asked for it to be held back to the summer \"when experts expect the epidemic to have peaked\".\n\nThe open letter is from the founders of MI6 Confidential and The James Bond Dossier, James Page and David Leigh.\n\n\"It is time to put public health above marketing release schedules.\"\n\nThe letter, titled No Time for Indecision, continued: \"With a month to go before No Time to Die opens worldwide, community spread of the virus is likely to be peaking in the United States.\n\n\"There is a significant chance that cinemas will be closed, or their attendance severely reduced, by early April. Even if there are no legal restrictions on cinemas being open, to quote M in Skyfall, 'How safe do you feel?'\"\n\nTheir request came as Disney cancelled plans for a red carpet gala to launch its streaming service, Disney+, in the UK.\n\nThe event, which was due to take place on Thursday 5 March, was called off \"due to a number of media attendee cancellations and increasing concerns at the prospect of travelling internationally,\" the company explained.\n\nAcknowledging that the decision had been made out of an \"abundance of caution\", it said alternative plans, including webcasts, would be put in place for interviews with actors and Disney executives.\n\nNo Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nA similar level of caution prompted Page and Leigh's open letter to the Bond producers.\n\nThey cited particular concern over the UK premiere set for 31 March, suggesting that with numbers gathering at London's Royal Albert Hall expected to top 5,000, \"just one person, who may not even show symptoms, could infect the rest of the audience\".\n\n\"This is not the type of publicity that anyone wants.\"\n\nThe pair wrote that delaying the release until the summer wouldn't be a huge hardship for the companies involved.\n\n\"It's just a movie. The health and wellbeing of fans around the world, and their families, is more important. We have all waited over four years for this film. Another few months will not damage the quality of the film and only help the box office for Daniel Craig's final hurrah.\"\n\nThe letter was addressed to producers EON, and the film companies MGM and Universal. The BBC has approached the various parties for comment.\n\nSome film analysts have suggested the coronavirus could wipe $5bn off the global box office, with many of China's cinemas already closed and revenues hit in South Korea and Italy.\n\nMeanwhile, there is concern over the viability of the 10-day South by Southwest (SXSW) festival that usually attracts more than 70,000 attendees to Austin, Texas.\n\nDeadline reported that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has cancelled his plans to appear, due to a company-wide curb on travel prompted by the virus.\n\nOrganisers said in a statement on the festival website: \"SXSW is working closely on a daily basis with local, state, and federal agencies to plan for a safe event\".\n\nThe event includes music performances, film screenings and events and comedy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin wants marriage to be defined as the union of a man and woman in a revised constitution, ruling out gay marriage.\n\nIt is among several constitutional amendments proposed by Mr Putin, which are set to be put to a public vote.\n\nCritics see the proposals as a move by Mr Putin to keep a hold on power after his presidential term ends in 2024.\n\nThe package includes a proclamation of Russians' faith in God and a ban on giving away any Russian territory.\n\nThe territorial amendment would strengthen Russia's hold on Crimea - a Ukrainian region it annexed in 2014 - and the Kuril Islands, disputed with Japan since World War Two, according to Vladimir Mashkov, a renowned actor-director involved in drafting the new constitution.\n\nWhy does Vladimir Putin suddenly feel the need to write all this into Russia's constitution?\n\nIt has less to do with reflecting current values in society and more to do with creating talking points that conceal the suspected chief reason behind the constitutional rewrite: providing a legal basis for President Putin to remain in a position of influence or power after 2024 - if not as president, then in some other role.\n\nAmong the proposed changes that get little mention in the state media here is the inclusion in the constitution of a little-known body called the State Council. It's believed this could be a possible future power base for Mr Putin. Other amendments will end up strengthening the power of the president.\n\nBut since Mr Putin has decided he wants Russians to vote on the proposals, he needs to find a way of getting people excited about the changes - and getting them to the ballot boxes on 22 April. That's where the populist slogans come in - and subjects like God, family and marriage - as well as promises to include in the constitution support for wages and pensions.\n\nMr Putin also proposed an amendment on \"historical truth\", to protect \"the great achievement of the people in their defence of the Fatherland\".\n\nHe has railed against what he sees as foreign attempts to diminish the enormous sacrifice made by the USSR in World War Two. The defeat of Nazi Germany cost an estimated 27 million Soviet lives.\n\nMr Putin embraces symbols of traditional Russia: the Orthodox Church and armed forces\n\nMr Putin is in his fourth presidential term; he has been the dominant figure in Russian politics for 20 years.\n\nHis presidency has been marked by a revival of Soviet-era symbols, conservative values and the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.\n\nHe surprised the nation in January with plans for constitutional changes that include transferring some powers from the presidency to parliament.\n\nWhile most Russians identify as Orthodox Christians, the state is officially secular. The current constitution dates from 1993, when then President Boris Yeltsin was embracing Western democracy and capitalism.\n\nMr Putin's drive against Western liberalism has included a controversial ban on disseminating \"gay propaganda\" among young Russians. The ban - condemned by many liberals and the European Court of Human Rights - has been used to harass gay rights activists.\n\nThe constitutional reform bill was approved by the Russian parliament's lower house - the State Duma - in January, and Mr Putin's amendments were introduced in time for a second reading next week. The Russian legislature is dominated by Putin supporters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ordinary Russians have taken to appealing directly to Putin to solve their problems\n\nA public vote on the constitutional revision is scheduled for 22 April, but before then it has to get final approval from parliament and the Constitutional Court.\n\nA Russian political analyst, Konstantin Kalachev, told BBC Russian that the proposals were \"a mixed bag\". \"It turns out that our forefathers gave us faith in God and the ideas of communism,\" he commented, but added: \"Putin is a mirror for the majority of Russians\".\n\nMany of the amendments were submitted to Mr Putin by prominent social and cultural figures appointed to a constitutional working group.\n\nPolitical scientist Grigory Golosov criticised the changes as \"political\". \"The constitution we have indicates that the state should be free of ideology. So I think these changes are inappropriate.\"", "Police are at the scene of the incident on the Bankhall Road\n\nA toddler has died and a woman and a baby have been seriously injured in a stabbing in County Antrim.\n\nThe alert was raised on Monday morning at an isolated house in Bankhall Road, Magheramorne, near Larne.\n\nIt is understood the injured woman is the mother of the children.\n\nThe incident is being treated as domestic. Neighbours reported hearing a police helicopter at about 10.30 GMT and emergency services were called to the scene.\n\nPolice have confirmed the woman, who is in her 30s, and the baby are being treated in hospital.\n\nA spokesman said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nForensics officers have been at the scene\n\nThe house has been cordoned off as a police operation continues.\n\nGordon Lyons, a DUP assembly member from the area, said it was clear \"something horrific\" had happened.\n\n\"It is absolutely awful when you hear of anybody suffering in this kind of way but when young children are involved it is particularly horrific,\" he said.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers and the thoughts and prayers of everybody across east Antrim will be with the family.\"", "Some stores have run out of hand sanitisers as people prepare for the virus spreading\n\nHand sanitiser sales are being limited at pharmacy chains as fears over the coronavirus have boosted demand.\n\nBoots and LloydsPharmacy both said they are restricting the products - which can help to prevent the spread of the virus when hand-washing is not possible - to two per person.\n\nThe decision comes as some hand sanitisers are being sold online at inflated prices.\n\nPharmacies said they are working to increase the supply of the products.\n\nThe NHS says that washing your hands is a key part of preventing the spread of viruses, but hand sanitiser gel can be used when soap and water are not available.\n\nAs the UK warns that widespread infection is \"highly likely\", chemist chains said they had to ration the products, with market research data from Kantar Worldpanel showing sales more than tripled in February.\n\nMeanwhile, one pharmacy in Coventry told BBC News they have struggled to restock hand sanitisers amid increased demand for the product - including from local businesses such as taxi companies and hairdressers.\n\nAli Shiraz, of Hillfields Pharmacy, said: \"We can't get any hand sanitisers at all. The demand has been really, really high.\n\n\"We're looking at maybe 50 to 60 people a day have been asking for particular hand sanitisers.\"\n\nA spokesman for LloydsPharmacy, which has 1,500 branches across the UK, said: \"We know that having access to products like hand gels is extremely important to our customers, so we are doing everything we can to ensure availability, despite increasing demand and supply challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nBoots said it was limiting sales but still had stock in warehouses for online sales and high street stores.\n\nBut Well Pharmacy, which has 700 branches, said it was not limiting sales despite a surge in demand which could see some products become temporarily unavailable.\n\n\"We certainly have no intention of profiteering over the current situation by increasing prices,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAmazon Marketplace and other online sales platforms have hand sanitisers available at inflated prices.\n\nA 100ml bottle of Cuticura Total - which kills viruses as well as bacteria - is sold for £1.55 by Boots. But some Amazon sellers are offering 40ml of the brand's anti-bacterial gel for £24.99.\n\nOn social media, people posted images of empty shelves and patients with weakened immune systems called for shoppers to stop panic-buying.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHand sanitiser manufacturer PZ Cussons, which makes Carex hand gel, said it was \"working at full capacity in response to the exceptional demand being experienced\".\n\nKarium, which makes Cuticura hand gel, said sales have \"soared\" due to the coronavirus.\n\n\"We have taken immediate action to increase our production volumes, in order to meet this initial increased demand and to avoid empty shelves,\" said marketing director Kerry Owens.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was questioned about low supplies of products such as hand sanitiser and whether the UK will have enough of medicines such as paracetamol.\n\n\"Our no-deal planning and our no-deal stockpiles are playing an important part in making sure we are fully prepared and ready,\" he said.", "At least 22 people have died after two tornadoes ripped through central Tennessee, including the state's biggest city Nashville.\n\nOfficials said the tornadoes also caused widespread damage to buildings in the city.", "Andrzej Kuszell is a director of the company which designed the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower before the fire\n\nA senior architect from the company that designed the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has apologised to victims of the fire in which 72 people died.\n\nAndrzej Kuszell, a director of Studio E, told the inquiry into the disaster he was \"really, really sorry\", he wanted to \"turn the clock back\", and the firm lacked tower block experience.\n\nHowever, he blamed other firms for giving misleading information and said fire safety rules were \"not robust\".\n\nIt came after protests at the hearing.\n\nThe second stage of the inquiry into the tragedy on 14 June 2017 is looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nStudio E was given the task of renovating Grenfell Tower because it was working on a new school and leisure centre nearby.\n\nDuring nearly five hours of questioning Mr Kuszell told the inquiry: \"Hindsight now comes into play - we've lived two-and-a-half years since the tragedy and doubtless absolutely every one of us would wish to turn the clock back.\"\n\nHe also said his company lacked experience in working on tall buildings and that \"if we (Studio E) had understood that building regulations were not robust\" the tragedy might not have happened.\n\n\"It really shouldn't have happened, and I'm really, really sorry for all of you and everybody else who was involved in the project,\" he said.\n\n\"Because I can only say to you from my heart that we really wanted to do the absolute best on this project as we could which is why I didn't enjoy having the project being described as an add-on because in our hearts it wasn't an add-on at all.\"\n\nMonday's hearing was the first time the inquiry has sat since last week's decision by Attorney General Suella Braverman to guarantee some witnesses will not be prosecuted on the basis of what they say at the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry's chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick had also backed the request for the guarantee from firms that refurbished the building.\n\nProtesters against the move had briefly delayed the hearing as Mr Kuszell began to give evidence.\n\nShouts of \"it's a disgrace\" were heard, and one protester asked the chairman: \"Have you sold your soul yet, Sir Martin?\"\n\nOne man, bereaved by the fire, argued with the protesters saying that he and other victims of the fire wanted to hear what witnesses were to say.\n\nSecurity staff were called and a senior police officer who leads the police investigation into the fire spoke to three men who were shouting. The hearing resumed about 10 minutes later.\n\nAfterwards, one of the protesters, Jonty Leff, told reporters the decision was \"outrageous\" and a \"whitewash\".\n\n\"It means the inquiry is defunct and the whole thing has to be shut down and they have to move straight to the prosecution,\" he said.\n\nSir Martin has stressed the decision does not mean witnesses have automatic immunity from prosecution.\n\nPolice are able to use evidence they gather separately to the inquiry, as well as documents produced during it.\n\nThose documents - between some of the many companies involved in the refurbishment - have now begun to be released to the inquiry.\n\nOne email from the Kensington and Chelsea council to the architects Studio E showed that cladding manufacture Arconic (AAP) believed the \"current choice of cladding\" was \"dull and lifeless\" offering little visual improvement.", "Laura is ineligible for support payments as she was not married to her partner of nine years, Nigel, when he died. They have a son, Noah, together\n\nThe government must act quickly to ensure unmarried parents can receive bereavement support payments, 18 groups have said in an open letter.\n\nMeans-tested payments of up to £10,000 are made to parents whose husband, wife or civil partner has died.\n\nLast month, a landmark legal case found denying these to co-habiting partners was against human-rights law.\n\nThe government said losing a loved one was devastating and it was \"carefully considering\" the court judgments.\n\nThe prime minister has previously vowed to seek to \"remedy\" an \"injustice\".\n\nEvery year about 2,000 families with children lose out on the payments, according to analysis of Office for National Statistics data by the Childhood Bereavement Network charity, which is behind the open letter.\n\n\"We respectfully ask that this be done quickly, as another five families with children fall foul of the current criteria each day,\" the letter says.\n\nLaura Rudd's partner, Nigel Glanville, died from a heart attack while out running in February.\n\nThey had been together nine years and had a two-year-old son, Noah.\n\nNigel - pictured with Laura and Noah - died while out running\n\nBut because they were not married, Ms Rudd does not qualify for the bereavement support payment.\n\n\"Many couples mistakenly believe they have the same legal and financial rights and protections as married couples,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"But when they are struck by tragedy, they are treated like second-class citizens.\"\n\nThe couple had recently bought a house together and Ms Rudd now faces paying the mortgage alone while juggling childcare for her son.\n\nShe must also find about £3,000 to pay for Nigel's funeral, which she says she does not have.\n\nShe describes the current law as \"heartless discrimination, adding to an already painful process\" - and has begun a petition calling for change, which has received more than 90,000 signatures.\n\nLaura said she had had to register Nigel as \"single\"\n\nOn the paperwork registering Nigel's death, Ms Rudd said she had been recorded as the \"person organising a funeral\", rather than his partner or the mother of his child.\n\n\"According to the law, I don't count,\" she said. \"I even had to register Nigel as 'single'.\n\n\"It was a spit in the face for nearly a decade spent together.\"\n\nIn August 2018, the current system was declared incompatible with human rights legislation by the Supreme Court - after hearing the case of unmarried mother-of-four Siobhan McLaughlin.\n\nHowever, the government has taken no action to amend the relevant legislation - which Ms McLaughlin told the BBC showed \"complete disregard for the highest court in land\".\n\nShe added: \"The government should hang their heads in shame\".\n\nA Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said: \"Losing a loved one is devastating and we are carefully considering the court judgments on cohabiting couples with children.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The May polls will be the first electoral test of Labour's new leader\n\nThe challenge facing Labour's next leader has been laid bare by internal research suggesting the party is facing \"one of its worst\" results in recent history in May's local elections.\n\nAn internal party document, passed to the BBC, says it should brace itself for the loss of councils including Plymouth, Amber Valley and Harlow.\n\nIn a worst-case scenario, Labour risks losing 315 seats and control of historic strongholds such as Sheffield.\n\nVoters go to the polls on 7 May.\n\nSeats in about 118 councils in England will be up for grabs.\n\nMr Corbyn's successor as Labour leader will be announced on 4 April, leaving them with barely a month to lead the party into its most significant electoral test since December's general election defeat.\n\nThe challenge facing whichever of Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey or Lisa Nandy wins the contest is laid bare in an internal party document based on research from Labour's Targeting and Analysis team.\n\nIt says the party is facing \"one of our worst local election performances in recent history\" in England and should brace itself for the loss of \"hard working councillors\" across the country.\n\nThe document examines three different scenarios, based on varying polling methods - and taking into account Labour's general election performance.\n\nThese suggest the so-called Red Wall, breached so spectacularly by the Conservatives in December's general election, is continuing to crumble in some areas.\n\nSeats are up for grabs in around 118 English local councils on 7 May, including in newly-created unitary authorities in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nAll councillors are up for re-election in a number of Labour-controlled councils, including Rotherham, Salford and Bristol.\n\nVoters will also be able to elect a third of councillors in 33 metropolitan boroughs and 51 non-metropolitan district councils.\n\nThey will also elect a third of councillors in 15 unitary authorities, including areas like Plymouth, Southampton, Hull and Slough where Labour are in charge.\n\nElections for 36 Police and Crime Commissioners and eight directly elected mayors - including in London - will take place on the same day.\n\nIn every scenario, Labour would lose control of Plymouth, Harlow in Essex, Amber Valley in Derbyshire and West Lancashire. In two scenarios Southampton would be lost and in the worst-case scenario, the bastion of Sheffield, held by Labour for most of the last 75 years, would also fall.\n\nIn this scenario, Labour would lose control of another nine councils, with 315 councillors across England losing their seats.\n\nOnly Wirral, where Labour is currently running a minority administration, and Burnley, where Labour is already the largest party in a \"hung\" council, are listed as possible gains.\n\nThe document suggests that the situation could be even worse as the party's polling hasn't taken into account the recent Conservative poll \"bounce\" but it adds that it can not yet estimate the effect of a change of leadership on the election results.\n\nTo state the obvious, that leader will have their work cut out.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"We recognise the scale of the challenge we face on May 7th and we will be fighting for every vote in the local elections.\"", "TV naturalist and Springwatch presenter Chris Packham is launching a new legal challenge to HS2\n\nThe Springwatch presenter said the government's approval of the controversial project fails to take carbon emissions targets into account.\n\nMr Packham said: \"In regard to the HS2 rail project I believe our government has failed.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was considering the challenge and would respond \"in due course\".\n\nMr Packham said that the Oakervee review into the project's spiralling costs and delays was \"compromised, incomplete and flawed\".\n\nThe review strongly advised against cancelling HS2, saying it would benefit the transport system and there was no \"shovel-ready\" alternative upgrade for the existing railways. It did however recommend tighter controls on costs and better management.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson approved the decision to build the rail link in February, on the recommendation of the review.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds and it is hoped it will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nOnce built, London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport\n\nLeigh Day, Mr Packham's solicitors, sent a letter to the prime minister challenging the decision to go ahead with HS2.\n\nThe letter points out that the Oakervee report failed to take into account the full impact of HS2's potential carbon emissions impact. The initial environmental assessment for the project was published in 2013, before the government signed up to achieving \"net zero\" carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nTom Short, a solicitor at Leigh Day, said that the \"environmental impacts relevant to the decision whether to proceed have not been properly assessed\".\n\nMr Packham also argues that construction of the rail link would damage or destroy almost 700 wildlife sites, including about 100 ancient woodlands. Mr Packham added: \"Today some of us are making a last stand for nature and the environment and we will not go quietly into any good night.\"\n\nHS2 says that only 62 ancient woodlands would be affected, and that most would remain intact.\n\nIn response to the broadcaster's crowdfunded campaign, the DfT said: \"We understand campaigners' concerns, and have tasked HS2 Ltd to deliver one of the UK's most environmentally responsible infrastructure projects.\n\n\"When finished, HS2 will play a key part in our efforts to tackle climate change, reducing carbon emissions by providing an alternative to domestic flights and cutting congestion on our roads.\"\n\nThe legal challenge follows a Court of Appeal ruling against the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.\n\nJudges found that the government's decision to allow the expansion was unlawful because it did not take climate commitments into account.\n• None Why do big projects cost more than planned?", "Death Stranding and Control lead the nominations at the Bafta Games Awards, with 11 each.\n\nIt's the most nominations any game has received in the awards' history, although Death Stranding missed out on the best game category.\n\nDisco Elysium, a role-playing detective game that blends the old with the new, received seven nominations - including best game and debut game.\n\nThe awards will take place on Thursday 2 April.\n\nBafta also announced that Hideo Kojima - the creator of Death Stranding - will receive the Fellowship, the highest accolade it can give.\n\nThe games nominated this year are a showcase of worlds we've never seen before - rather than returning fan favourite franchises. Those nominated in multiple categories range from 2019's most surprising critical success to a game about a goose.\n\nControl was an unheralded release that passed many people by. But it impressed critics so much it was named game of the year by sites like IGN.\n\nIts supernatural game play is unique and engrossing - and has earned it a record-breaking 11 nominations despite many gamers on the street not being able to tell you much about it.\n\nOn the other end of the spectrum is Hideo Kojima's latest, Death Stranding. It's a technical marvel with grand ambitions and impressive performances from its cast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kojima's aim with Death Stranding was for players to \"re-use their in-game experiences in the real world\"\n\nIt was Kojima's first release since leaving his former employers Konami to set up his own studio. Last year Radio 1 Newsbeat spent three days behind-the-scenes to see the final hours of the game's creation - where Kojima told us Death Stranding's central theme was connectivity.\n\n\"The era of today is about individualism,\" he said.\n\n\"We may be connected through the internet more than ever, but what's happening is that people are attacking each other because we're so connected.\"\n\nBut it divided opinion when released which is probably why it missed out on being shortlisted for the biggest prize of the awards - best game.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BAFTA Games This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhat has been nominated in that category, and three others, is Untitled Goose Game.\n\nThe fact a title that sees you rampaging around gardens as a wild bird has been nominated alongside science fiction and fantasy releases is a real testament to the variety and creativity of the gaming industry.\n\nYou can add Disco Elysium to that list too - the independent release which sees you control a detective suffering from alcohol and drug-induced amnesia. It's a perfect blend of old game play and new ideas.\n\nSome will argue that games like Control and Death Stranding have broken records this year because there were fewer returning franchises and major releases hitting the shelves in 2019.\n\nOthers will say their many nominations prove that gaming is the perfect medium to tackle complex ideas and concepts and make it entertaining.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 BAFTA Games This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Bafta Games always throw up a surprise or two - so don't be too shocked if despite bossing the nominations both Control and Death Stranding end up losing out to a disgruntled bird…\n\nThe awards will take place on Thursday 2 April. See the full list of nominees here.\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. How a father helps his daughter cope with life in a warzone\n\nA three-year-old Syrian girl whose father taught her to laugh at the sound of bombs in order not to be afraid has reached safety in Turkey, reports say.\n\nSalwa made headlines in a video that went viral last month. It showed her playing a game as warplanes dropped bombs near her home in Idlib.\n\nThe Turkish government helped her and her parents cross the border a week later, it has emerged.\n\nIdlib is the final major rebel-held stronghold in Syria.\n\nNearly a million people have fled to the Syrian-Turkish border since December, amid heavy fighting in the Idlib region between Turkish-backed rebels and Syrian government forces.\n\nSalwa and her father Abdullah Mohammad came up with a unique way to cope with the air strikes.\n\nHe taught her that rather than being scared, she could laugh at the sound of bombs.\n\nHe used the sound of children letting off fireworks to show her that loud noises could be funny, and said the game helped his daughter stay calm and happy.\n\nAbdullah Mohammed helped his daughter Salwa with the trauma of living under bombardment in Sarmada, a town in Idlib province\n\nTheir game provoked an outpouring of sympathy and led the Turkish government to help them flee.\n\nThey crossed into Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate on 25 February, Turkey's Anadolu Agency says.\n\nThey were reportedly taken to a refugee camp in Reyhanli in southern Turkey.\n\nGuardian reporter Bethan McKernan tweeted a photo of Salwa and her father on Tuesday.\n\n\"For the first time ever, she can laugh at normal things,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bethan McKernan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbdullah Mohammad told Turkish media that he and his daughter had tried to send a message to the international community with their video.\n\nHe said he was happy to have arrived in Turkey and that Salwa would get the chance to go to school.\n\n\"I hope that the conflict in Syria can soon end and that I can return,\" he was quoted by Anadolu as saying.\n\nIt lifted controls on migrants exiting for the EU on Friday. It took the decision after suffering a heavy military loss in north-west Syria, where it has been trying to create a safe area to resettle many of the Syrian refugees it took in during the ongoing civil war.", "Facebook is reportedly rethinking its plans for its own digital currency after resistance from regulators.\n\nIt is now considering a system with digital versions of established currencies, including the dollar and the Euro, according to Bloomberg and tech site The Information.\n\nThe Libra Association, which Facebook founded to create the currency, will continue its work, the reports said.\n\nThe plan will include Libra, the company said in response.\n\nThe social network's digital wallet is now expected to launch this autumn, several months later than initially planned, according to the reports.\n\nOf earlier reports that it might drop Libra itself, the firm said: \"Facebook remains fully committed to the project.\"\n\nFacebook announced in June last year that it would launch the Libra digital currency, with a goal of making payments easier and cheaper.\n\nIts partners in the Libra Association include Lyft, Spotify, Shopify, but several other high-profile members such as Visa left after the idea was criticised by authorities.\n\nDante Disparte, head of Policy and Communications at the Libra Association said: \"The Libra Association has not altered its goal of building a regulatory compliant global payment network, and the basic design principles that support that goal have not been changed nor has the potential for this network to foster future innovation.\"\n\nIn October, the world's biggest economies warned cryptocurrencies such as Libra pose a risk to the global financial system.\n\nFrance has said it threatens the \"monetary sovereignty\" of governments; others have warned it could be abused for money laundering and other nefarious purposes.", "Tesco is issuing new cards to 600,000 Clubcard account holders after unearthing a security issue.\n\nThe supermarket giant said it believed a database of stolen usernames and passwords from other platforms had been tried out on its websites, and may have worked in some cases.\n\nNo financial data was accessed and its systems have not been hacked, it added.\n\nIt said this was a precautionary measure and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\n\"We are aware of some fraudulent activity around the redemption of a small proportion of our customers' Clubcard vouchers,\" a Tesco spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our internal systems picked this up quickly and we immediately took steps to protect our customers and restrict access to their accounts.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it had emailed everybody potentially affected, that nobody would lose their points and new vouchers would also be issued.\n\nOne of those who received an email was Josh, who works in IT.\n\n\"The email was very ambiguous,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought it was because I'd just used a new bank card. I didn't realise it was actually my account details that could have been compromised.\n\n\"It worried me - I feel better now it's been clarified.\"\n\nOthers responded in good humour on social media, questioning how much their points would actually be worth to a hacker.\n\nThe UK loyalty scheme offers one point for every pound spent in store. Every 100 points are worth £1.\n\nThe BBC understands about 19 million people have a Clubcard account.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aiden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJake Moore, cyber-security specialist at the firm Eset, told the BBC plenty of people still use simple passwords or similar log-ins for many different platforms.\n\n\"Cyber-criminals can do a lot of damage with a large breached list simply containing names and emails or other trivial data,\" he said.\n\n\"The big risk is via brute force attacking the accounts where criminals use leaked common password combinations against the emails to try to break into other personal accounts.\"\n\nMr Moore suggested using password managers to generate and store uniquely different passwords, and two factor authentication where possible - in which a text message or email code is required as well as the password.\n• None How do companies use my reward card data?", "Handling the coronavirus is plainly at the top of the government's to-do list. Boris Johnson came under attack in recent days for not being visible enough at a time of a potential health emergency.\n\nNo 10 clearly now wants to show they are trying hard to contain the outbreak. But the government will be tested on many different fronts. First off, they want to appear to be taking the disease as seriously as it ought to be.\n\nWith some cities around the world in lockdown and the rate of the spread picking up here too, the prime minister's words today don't leave you in much doubt about how serious a situation the country could face.\n\nBut managing the outbreak is a balancing act with lots of factors. The government wants the public to take the virus seriously, but it doesn't want panic. Ministers want the option of closing schools, or cancelling big events, or changing the numbers of teachers schools have to have on duty per child.\n\nBut they do not, at this stage, want to use those kinds of measures straight away and cause widespread disruption to people's daily lives.\n\nThe government wants, of course, to protect as many people's health as possible but also to protect the economy, the prime minister acknowledging that there may well be an \"economic downside\", here at home as well as in the countries that have already been much more affected.\n\nThe Treasury is publishing a Budget next week too, which not so long ago government aides were vowing \"had to be big, and had to be bold\". But in this context - and of course with a different politician in charge - No 11's big day next week might be rather different.\n\nThey are already making some extra taxpayers' cash available for the health service. Boris Johnson promised he would allocate the NHS whatever it asked for which, with the scale of the outbreak as yet impossible to predict, could be rather a large blank cheque.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on coronavirus: \"We will face a challenge in the weeks, months ahead\"\n\nBehind closed doors in government there is a realisation that an outbreak of coronavirus could go on for many months and cause a lot of disruption to many people's lives.\n\nMany of us might be asked to work at home. There are questions too about how self-employed people or those on zero hours contracts can make a living. What happens to the local elections in May? Can the NHS, already under a lot of pressure, really cope?\n\nThere is a lot that neither the public, nor our politicians, can be sure of. The science will guide the approach that ministers take, but that is understandably changing by the day.\n\nBoris Johnson's government is certainly no longer in the position of surveying the new political landscape and wondering which of its priorities it can choose to deal with first. Instead, it faces an immediate and highly complicated question it needs to answer.\n\nGet it wrong and there could be serious political damage too.", "G7 finance ministers including UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak will take part in a conference call on the economic impact of coronavirus on Tuesday at 12:00 GMT.\n\nCentral bankers could also be involved in the call, and I understand the current plan is to produce a joint statement acknowledging the potential impact on growth and agreeing to work together.\n\nThis has raised expectations of a round of global interest rate cuts, to help bring confidence back to the world economy, reeling from the real and feared impact of the growing coronavirus epidemic.\n\nAlready the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) anticipates that global growth could fall to its slowest growth rate since the financial crisis. Chinese measures of manufacturing activity have collapsed to record lows in February.\n\nThere are some concerns that world central bankers may not have enough ammunition to help in such concerted action.\n\nIndeed there is a fundamental issue that a feared global pandemic can not be solved by looser monetary policy.\n\nUS Stock Markets surged by over 5% after early news of the meeting.", "Domestic violence offenders in England and Wales could face compulsory lie-detector tests when released from prison under proposed new laws.\n\nThose deemed at high risk of re-offending will be given regular polygraph tests to find out if they have breached release conditions.\n\nThe long-awaited Domestic Violence Bill will also specify that controlling a victim's finances can count as abuse.\n\nAlleged abusers will also be banned from cross-examining victims in court.\n\nLie-detector tests - which work by measuring changes in heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and sweat - are not 100% accurate.\n\nBut the Home Office said it was already using the tests to monitor high-risk sex offenders and had found them to be 89% accurate.\n\nThe government also plans to use lie-detector tests on convicted terrorists freed under licence.\n\nIf the Domestic Abuse Bill passes, a three-year pilot will be carried out on domestic abusers which are deemed at high-risk of causing serious harm. If successful, the scheme will be rolled out nationwide.\n\nAround 300 offenders will take a lie detector test three months after their release and every six months after that, according to the Home Office.\n\nThose who fail the test will not be returned to prison - but they may be jailed if they refuse to take the test or attempt to \"trick\" it, the Home Office added.\n\nThey can also be returned to prison if the tests show \"their risk has escalated to level whereby they can no longer be safely managed in the community\".\n\nInformation gathered from failed lie-detector tests is routinely shared with the police who use it to carry out further investigations.\n\nCampaigners say action to help the nearly two million victims of domestic abuse in the UK each year, two thirds of whom are women, is long overdue.\n\nThe Conservatives first proposed tougher measures in their 2017 election manifesto but legislative progress has been slow.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill was among several proposed laws which fell by the wayside last autumn after Boris Johnson suspended Parliament and MPs subsequently voted for an early general election.\n\nThe government is now bringing back the legislation, saying MPs will be presented with an \"enhanced\" package of measures that will \"protect victims and punish perpetrators\" of this \"horrendous\" crime.\n\nThere will also be a ban on perpetrators cross-examining their victims during family court proceedings and a legal duty on councils to find safe accommodation for domestic abuse victims and their children.\n\nCharity Women's Aid said this could be a \"life-saving\" move, but only if it was accompanied by guaranteed funding for specialist women's services - including for \"marginalised\" groups in society, which it estimates will cost about £173m a year.\n\nWhile welcoming many of the initiatives, children's charities warned that some families with children risked \"falling through the cracks in support\".\n\n\"The bill risks dividing victims into 'haves and have nots',\" said Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan.\n\n\"Children are the hidden victims of domestic abuse, suffering trauma that can last a lifetime.\n\n\"I'm disappointed that while the Domestic Abuse Bill may improve access to refuges, it will not help the majority of victims and children who remain in the family home.\"\n\nCampaigners say refuges need to be properly funded\n\nThe NSPCC's senior policy officer Emily Hilton said it was \"extremely disappointing that the bill in its current form fails to protect children from the devastating impact of living with domestic abuse, leaving thousands at continued risk because the help they deserve is not in place\".\n\nThe Home Office said the UK's new domestic abuse commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, would consider what support the government can provide children who have been affected by domestic abuse.\n\nThe legislation will also enshrine a new definition of domestic abuse in law that recognises economic abuse - when a perpetrator controls a victim's finances - as a specific type of the crime.\n\nCourt protection orders banning perpetrators from contacting a victim or forcing them to take part in alcohol or drug treatment programmes may also be introduced.\n\nSupport for migrant domestic abuse victims will also be reviewed, while ministers will consider what more can be done to stop the so-called \"rough sex\" defence being used by perpetrators in court.\n\nThe majority of the measures in the Domestic Abuse Bill will apply only to England and Wales, but it will create a specific new criminal offence in Northern Ireland of controlling or coercive behaviour, already on the statute book in the rest of the UK.\n\nCertain provisions in the bill also apply to court proceedings in Northern Ireland and Scotland.", "Rosie Longman says she is \"bent double\" and unable to stand at times because of the pain\n\nA woman who had to change careers because of endometriosis has said an improvement in attitude towards women with the condition feels \"incredible\".\n\nEndometriosis affects one in 10 UK women and can cause debilitating pain, very heavy periods and infertility.\n\nMPs began an inquiry into the condition after BBC research, and will listen to the experiences of those living with it when hearings get under way later.\n\nRosie Longman, 40, said: \"We're finally being believed and listened to.\"\n\nMs Longman, from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, has had four operations since being diagnosed a decade ago and is due to have a hysterectomy.\n\nHer career as a practising criminal barrister came to an end when she could no longer spend hours in court.\n\n\"The pain is like someone has a grip on your insides, pulling and twisting them and kicking you in the crotch,\" she said.\n\n\"You are bent double and can't stand at times.\"\n\nEmma Barnett will tell MPs she was only diagnosed after more than 20 years of painful periods\n\nMore than 13,500 women took part in BBC research into endometriosis, with half saying they had suicidal thoughts and many telling how they have had to rely on highly addictive painkillers.\n\nMost also said endometriosis had badly affected their education, career and relationships.\n\nOn average it takes seven and a half years to be diagnosed, there is no cure and treatment has included hormone therapy and surgery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Endometriosis: The condition that can take more than seven years to diagnose\n\nMs Longman is set to be among those to give evidence to the All Parliamentary Group for Endometriosis.\n\n\"For endometriosis to be discussed like this is incredible,\" she said.\n\n\"This inquiry is the culmination of years of campaigning and fighting for better care.\"\n\nBBC 5 Live presenter Emma Barnett will also give evidence, having suffered from painful periods for more than 20 years before being diagnosed at 31.\n\nShe said: \"I want to talk about how long it took for me to be diagnosed and how I wasn't believed by doctors and told to take painkillers.\"\n\nThe inquiry is due to hear from doctors and look at ways to improve diagnosis and treatment.\n\nEmma Cox, from Endometriosis UK, said: \"We need to see stark changes to the system. Society and the NHS must wake-up and understand the devastating impact the condition can have.\"", "Financial markets remain turbulent as a massive slowdown in economic activity due to the coronavirus takes hold across Europe and the US.\n\nIn the US, shares rebounded about 6% after steep falls on Monday.\n\nLondon's FTSE 100 also jumped 2.7% after being down more than 1% earlier on Tuesday. Other major European markets made similar moves.\n\nIt comes amid fresh promises of financial aid to helped bolster growth.\n\nIn the US, President Donald Trump's administration said it was considering sending cheques to Americans as part of a $1tn stimulus package.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve also said it would use emergency powers to purchase up to $1tn in short-term corporate debt directly from companies, reinstating a funding facility that was created during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nThe Dow ended 5.2% higher, while the S&P 500 gained 6% and the Nasdaq rose 6.23%.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced £330bn in financial help for UK firms affected by the outbreak.\n\nThe outgoing head of the Office For Budget Responsibility, Robert Chote, has said a temporary spike in borrowing would be sensible.\n\nSpeaking to the Treasury Select Committee he said it was better to spend a \"little too much\" than too little, adding: \"When the fire is large enough, you just spray water\" (and worry about the clean up after).\n\nOn Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said his government would guarantee €300bn of loans, and pledged that no French company would be allowed to collapse.\n\nItaly, Germany, Japan and Spain have also all announced hundreds of billions of dollars in government relief.\n\nThe scale of the US response - from both the central bank and the government - has been the most aggressive, even if many details remain unknown, said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Markit.\n\n\"The good news is they're talking about it now, which is more than I can say about the Japanese or the Europeans,\" he said.\n\n\"It's too late to do anything to stop the recession. All you can do is limit the pain, limit the damage,\" he added.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Asian shares continued to see volatile trading on with markets in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai swinging between losses and gains.\n\nThe turbulence follows one of the worst days in history for US markets. The Dow Jones lost close to 13% and the S&P 500 fell almost 12%, marking the biggest one-day falls for both indexes since \"Black Monday\" in 1987.\n\nThat followed the US Federal Reserve making another emergency rate cut on Sunday, prompting central banks around the world to ease policy in the biggest co-ordinated response since the global financial crisis more than a decade ago.\n\nIn the last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has racked up the five biggest one-day points falls in its 135-year history. In March alone the index has also seen its four biggest one-day points gains on record.\n\nWall Street's so-called \"Fear Gauge\" has just topped the levels seen during the financial crisis more than a decade ago. The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX, a measure of stock market volatility, surged by almost 43%, surpassing the level seen in 2008.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a package of financial measures to support the economy on Tuesday\n\nAs we discussed earlier, the government had to act credibly, and act fast.\n\nThere is no question that offering to pump more than £300bn into the economy to protect it from the worst is a very serious move - the lion's share government backed loans, with around £20bn of grants and tax cuts too.\n\nYou can't question the government's intention tonight to show boldness and to show intent that they will do \"whatever it takes\" (the chancellor and the PM's mantra) not just to support the health of the country, but our livelihoods too.\n\nRarely, but every now and then, there is a day in Westminster when it feels like the landscape has transformed - and this is one of them.\n\nNot just because the size of the promises is vast and represents a huge extension of state intervention in the economy; also, it will have massive implications for the taxpayer for years and years to come.\n\nOne insider whispered to me that the moves could end up with the government essentially supporting every UK business in one way or another, and the national debt ballooning once again.\n\nTogether with sweeping new powers in the government's emergency legislation, which also deserves careful scrutiny, the government is clearly buckling up for a period of profound disruption and change, and that will see ministers' roles become much more central in all of our lives.\n\nThere are still holes in the vast plans - it's not yet clear what will happen to people who rent their homes rather than have mortgages.\n\nCan businesses who are making decisions right now about whether they need to shut up shop possibly get money and support fast enough to stave off the worst?\n\nCan families who have lost their sources of income get help quickly so they can pay the bills right now?\n\nThere is pressure on the ministers to answer these, and many other questions as quickly as they can.\n\nBut with the government announcing enormous and expensive emergency promises, planes grounded, hospital operations cancelled, even religious worship curtailed, for now, even if on a temporary basis, the UK is changing before our eyes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nThe government has unveiled a package of financial measures to shore up the economy against the coronavirus impact.\n\nIt includes £330bn in loans, £20bn in other aid, a business rates holiday, and grants for retailers and pubs. Help for airlines is also being considered.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told a press conference it was an \"economic emergency. Never in peacetime have we faced an economic fight like this one.\"\n\nAnd he promised that if this package was not enough, he would go further.\n\nFrom the hospitality industry to the airline sector, companies have warned that their long term survival is under threat.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This is not a time for ideology and orthodoxy, this is a time to be bold, a time for courage. I want to reassure every British citizen this government will give you all the tools you need to get through this.\n\n\"That means any business who needs access to cash to pay their rent, their salaries, suppliers or purchase stock will be able to access a government-backed loan or credit on attractive terms.\n\n\"And if demand is greater than the initial £330bn [for loans] I'm making available today, I will go further and provide as much capacity as required. I said whatever it takes, and I meant it,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said during the same media briefing that \"we must do whatever it takes to support the economy\". He added: \"This a time to be bold, to have courage. We will support jobs, we will support incomes, we will support businesses... We will do whatever it takes.\"\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Some sectors are facing particularly acute challenges. In the coming days, my colleague the Secretary of State for Transport and I will discuss a potential support package specifically for airlines and airports.\"\n\nThe chancellor said he was extending the business rates holiday to all firms in the hospitality sector and funding grants of between £10,000 and £25,000 for small businesses. And Mr Sunak said that for those in financial difficulty due to coronavirus, mortgage lenders will offer a three-month mortgage holiday.\n\nBBC personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz said it was important for borrowers to remember that they would have to make up the payments at a later date.\n\n\"The result is that you have some breathing space but when you resume payments the amount will be adjusted to be slightly higher, because the missed interest payments have been added to the loan,\" he said. \"This doesn't mean the mortgage holiday is a bad idea.\"\n\nThe chancellor unveiled the measures after the government's chief scientific adviser said about 55,000 people in the UK now have Covid-19, as the NHS moved to cancel all non-emergency surgery and 71 people are now known to have died.\n\n\"Whatever it takes\" was the promise from the chancellor to support businesses, families and individuals through the coronavirus crisis. It was a phrase successfully used by a European central banker eight years ago - and effectively calmed a significant eurozone crisis.\n\nBut this intervention is a bigger bazooka than that, because the challenge of coronavirus and the measures to contain it pose to peoples livelihoods and wellbeing are more significant.\n\nThe extraordinary figure here was £330bn in state-backed loans for all businesses through the banking system with the help of the Bank of England.\n\nThat is 15% of the value of the economy. Normally economic announcements are worth a fraction of a percent of national income - this move is about a fraction of our entire GDP. And that is because the self-isolation and suppression moves announced yesterday will remove a chunk of our economy.\n\nAt a stroke, every single forecast number in the Budget the chancellor gave less than a week ago are out of date. We are in an entirely new world. A wartime effort, with wartime deficits to cover it.\n\nIt's not just there will be less tax and more income support required, which typically causes deficits to spike in recessions. Now we face the need for subsidy and provision of incomes in these very tough times.\n\nThis is not a bailout. It's a very expensive bridge that the government cannot afford to fail to build.\n\nCompanies and trade bodies welcomed the announcement, but said they needed to work through the fine print. Like several sectors, the aviation industry has warned it is in a fight for survival as travel bans are put in place and travellers delays bookings.\n\nJohan Lundgren, chief executive of Easyjet, said Mr Sunak's measure were welcome, but added: \"Airlines are facing significant pressure and without government action there is a real risk to the industry. It will be important to work through the detail, but we are already talking to government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak annouces a three-month mortgage holiday \"to help people get back on their feet\"\n\nRetailers, too, have warned the future looks grim without help. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said the new measures would help ease the burden.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: \"The business rates holiday, together with the announcement of a loan package, represent a vital shot in the arm for a sector facing enormous uncertainty. We still need to see the details and make sure that retailers can access cash with the minimum of delay, but it is a welcome and necessary first step to protect jobs.\n\nAdam Marshall, chief executive of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the size of the grants and loans were good news for smaller businesses. \"But what's going to be hugely important . is that cash actually gets to the front line and gets there quickly,\" he said.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said the business rates holiday was targeted directly at the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. But he warned: \"This is a substantial level of support. However, it is probably not well targeted at saving jobs in those industries. It will remain as expensive to pay people and if demand is down then jobs are likely to go.\"\n\nHe said it may be necessary to cut employer national insurance contributions, delay increases to the National Living Wage, and increase support for individuals through Universal Credit.\n\nHas your business been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK's mobile networks have experienced problems with their services.\n\nEE told the BBC it was something \"affecting all operators and we are working closely to fix it\".\n\nThe problem has been blamed on \"interconnect issues\" between the operators.\n\n\"We don't believe it is connected to the rise in home working [due to the coronavirus],\" added EE.\n\nO2 had posted on its website that some customers were experiencing issues with its voice service but added that a full service was being restored. The alert has since been removed.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, O2 said the problem meant that O2, Vodafone and Three customers were unable to connect to EE – and EE customers were unable to connect to O2, Vodafone and Three.\n\nIt added that the issues were limited to making and receiving calls on its 2G, 3G and 4G networks, while data and messaging services were not affected.\n\nO2 also denied that the problem stemmed from its network, which had initially been blamed, saying it was a \"cross-industry issue\".\n\n\"At a time when the country needs connectivity most, it is important we work together rather than pointing fingers before facts have been determined,\" it said.\n\nThe firm added that a conference call had been scheduled with the communications regulator Ofcom to help determine the exact cause and \"ensure this doesn't happen again\".\n\nVodafone said that it was a \"short-lived problem\" only affecting around 9% of voice calls on 3G networks.\n\n\"All operators are working together on the matter,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nDowndetector, a website which monitors network problems, had shown issues for all four operators in a range of locations, including Birmingham, London, Manchester and Glasgow.\n\nAre you working from home? Have you encountered problems with your mobile network? You can get in touch by email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Workers at Amazon's UK warehouses are being told to work overtime to tackle huge demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, despite government calls to restrict social contact.\n\nThe GMB union says that workers across at least four different sites were informed that they had to work \"compulsory overtime\" from Monday.\n\nNational officer Mick Rix said Amazon had put \"profit before safety\".\n\nAmazon said it was working to ensure it can continue to deliver to customers.\n\nCompulsory overtime means that some employees must work additional hours as requested by an employer - if their contract says so.\n\nAmazon employs 27,000 people in the UK and has 17 warehouses.\n\nOne worker at Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse in Scotland, who asked not to be named, told the BBC that staff in the \"inbound goods\" department are having additional hours imposed.\n\nThe worker, who thinks they have a compulsory overtime clause in their contract, believes this will be for at least two weeks.\n\nThey said that there is extra pressure on the workforce to deal with an influx of goods the company is bringing in due to a spike in demand.\n\nThe worker added that these actions were \"very rare\" outside of the Christmas trading period or Amazon \"Prime week\", where the firm offers discounts on goods for subscribers.\n\nThe worker said other departments in the Dunfermline warehouse are not saying staff should do more hours, but offering them up to 60 hours of voluntary overtime.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company had ramped up shifts across the UK.\n\nThey said: \"As demand continues to increase, we are working to ensure we can continue to deliver to the most-impacted customers while keeping our people safe\".\n\n\"Many of these customers have no other way to get essential items and we want to be sure that we have the right resources in place to deliver on their needs.\n\n\"Starting this week, we'll be prioritising the intake and dispatch of items most needed by our customers right now. These are items such as food, health and personal care products, items needed to work from home, books and toys for children.\"\n\nAmazon also said that there is an exemptions process in place for employees who cannot work additional hours for personal reasons, such as caring responsibilities.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson said people should work from home where possible as part of a range of stringent new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe GMB union's national officer Mick Rix called the overtime reports \"extremely concerning\", and accused Amazon of \"imposing its demands on workers without any regard for their safety\".\n\nMr Rix said he was concerned that if staff are overworked, stress will make them more susceptible to the Covid-19 virus.\n\nSarah Evans, employment law partner at JMW solicitors, said that if a worker's contract has a clause in it that says there \"may be an element of compulsory overtime\", then a boss is entitled to use it to make them do additional hours.\n\nAmazon has seen a spike in demand for health and personal care products amid the coronavirus pandemic\n\nShe pointed out that under Working Time Regulations in the UK, overtime is limited to a maximum of 48 hours per week, averaged over a 17-week period.\n\nWorkers can \"opt out\" of the maximum weekly limit, however, and some are required to do so as a condition of employment.\n\nHannah Ford, a partner and employment law expert at Stevens & Bolton, said that these were \"unprecedented times, but all employers must operate within the law.\"\n\nShe added: \"All employers also owe an implied duty to take reasonable care for the health and safety of its employees... this extends to mental health as well as physical health.\"\n\nWorkers in the US have also been posting on social media about working overtime at Amazon fulfilment centres.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pacino This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmazon has said it will hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with the surge in sales due to pandemic.\n\nThe online retail giant also said it would increase pay for its staff in the UK, US and Europe.\n\nAmazon said it would increase hourly wages by $2 in the US, £2 in the UK, and €2 in Europe. The company said it expects the pay rises expected to cost it more than $350m (£285m).", "A CCTV image of Salman Abedi seconds before the bomb detonated\n\nThe Manchester Arena suicide bombing, an attack lasting only a moment, was the endpoint of a lengthy conspiracy.\n\nAt 22:30 on 22 May 2017, in a large foyer filling with people after an Ariana Grande concert, the attacker emerged from a stairway, crossed the concourse and detonated his device.\n\nOf those he walked among, 22 were killed: children, teenagers, parents.\n\nThey included students, a nurse, a police officer, a support worker for those with special needs, and a school receptionist.\n\nThey came from different parts of the UK and diverse backgrounds, each with their own reason for being there.\n\nSaffie Roussos, aged only eight, had attended the concert with her mother and sister.\n\nOlivia Campbell-Hardy, 15, had attended with a friend, as had 14-year-old Nell Jones. So too had Eilidh Macleod, also 14.\n\nLiam Curry and Chloe Rutherford, from South Shields, were teenage sweethearts out for the night together.\n\nSorrell Leczkowski, 14, was in the foyer, along with her mother and grandmother, to meet her sister.\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\nAlison Howe and Lisa Lees, from Oldham, were friends waiting together to collect their children, just like Marcin and Angelika Klis, a couple from York there to meet their daughters.\n\nMichelle Kiss was present for the same reason, while Wendy Fawell had taken her teenage daughter and others to the concert.\n\nElaine McIver, the police officer, was at the arena with her partner waiting to collect his daughter and her friend.\n\nJane Tweddle, from Blackpool, was there to accompany a friend whose daughter was at the event.\n\nKelly Brewster, from Sheffield, had attended the concert with her sister and niece.\n\nPhilip Tron, from Gateshead, was there with his partner's daughter, 19-year-old student Courtney Boyle.\n\nGeorgina Callander, 18, from Preston, was also a student.\n\nJohn Atkinson, 28, from Manchester, was there socialising, as was 29-year-old Martyn Hett, from Stockport.\n\nMegan Hurley, 15, lived in Liverpool and attended the concert with her older brother, who survived but suffered very serious injuries.\n\nMany others were also seriously injured.\n\nSalman Abedi's debit card, found at Manchester Arena after the attack\n\nThe conspiracy that destroyed so many lives involved two siblings: Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber himself, and his younger brother Hashem, who was in Libya at the time of the attack.\n\nWorking in tandem, the Manchester-born pair spent months preparing the atrocity.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, the official terror threat level was raised to its maximum, amid fears a bomb maker could be at large, and senior police spoke of a \"network\" when discussing the multiple arrests that took place in the UK, none of which later resulted in charges.\n\nWhat emerged during the lengthy police investigation was more prosaic and arguably more troubling.\n\nSalman and Hashem Abedi, two of six siblings, grew up in Manchester, the children of parents who had fled Col Gaddafi's Libya in the 1990s.\n\nRamadan, their father, was a political radical who associated with members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was banned as a terrorist organisation and regarded as an al-Qaeda affiliate.\n\nWhen civil war broke out in 2011, his sons were removed from school and taken to Libya - thus exposing them to weapons and violence in the process, as they delivered aid to rebels fighting the Gaddafi regime.\n\nSalman would later return to school, completing his GCSEs, and Hashem would eventually enrol on a college course.\n\nAn image of a young Hashem Abedi from his father's Facebook page\n\nPhotos from the time show a youthful Hashem and his elder brother Ismael brandishing large firearms.\n\nRamadan, his wife and their youngest children eventually based themselves in Libya, although hundreds of pounds in benefits and tax credits were still paid into her UK bank account each month, money that Salman and Hashem used during their attack planning.\n\nThe two brothers, although travelling between the two countries, lived together at the former family home in Elsmore Road, with their eldest brother having got married and moved elsewhere in the city.\n\nBoth were involved in gang culture and drug-taking, with Salman regarded as an aggressive, vindictive figure.\n\nIn time, their ease with this lifestyle would augment their commitment to terrorism, providing the context for what was to come.\n\nAfter a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2015 they both became more overtly religious, but their commitment was to Islamist Jihadist violence rather than any benign expression of faith.\n\nSalman, in particular, began openly identifying with the violent revolutionary aims of the self-styled Islamic State group, which was then at the height of its influence in Syria - and claiming to its followers to be the true path of believers - killing anyone, including Muslims, who stood in its way.\n\nHe was briefly investigated by the security service MI5, before being discounted as a threat, but he continued to appear as a contact of other extremists and the authorities received reports about his pro-IS mindset.\n\nHashem, although a regular at local mosques who lectured others on what constituted being a Muslim, carried on using drugs, drinking alcohol and partying with his friends.\n\nIn summer 2016, having dropped out of college, Hashem moved to Germany to work at a property business owned by Mohammed Benhammedi - a man once sanctioned by the United Nations for financing the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group - but had returned to Manchester by the following January.\n\nIt was at this point that the brothers actively embarked on their plot, renting a flat at Somerton Court in the Blackley area of Manchester, which they used over the following weeks to make the explosive TATP.\n\nHashem Abedi after his arrest on UK soil in July 2019\n\nThe pair are believed to have followed instructions from an IS video, then accessible online, although they might also have gained relevant expertise in Libya.\n\nHashem began asking people known to him to buy chemicals with their Amazon accounts in order to avoid the multiple purchases being traced directly back to the brothers.\n\nWhen requesting some purchases of sulphuric acid, Hashem claimed the chemical was needed to fill a car battery or a generator in Libya, but he lacked the necessary money and therefore needed a favour.\n\nSome people, including Hashem's contacts in Germany, refused to make the suspicious purchases.\n\nOthers attempted to do so, but the purchases were declined due to a lack of funds in their own accounts.\n\nSome of the men provided accounts to police that led to them ultimately appearing as prosecution witnesses in Hashem's trial.\n\nSeveral other associates appeared in the evidence, but were not called as witnesses.\n\nOne man, Yahya Werfalli from Manchester, provided his debit card details to Hashem, asking him \"When u doing this Amazon thing\", only to call his bank within hours claiming he knew nothing about pending transactions relating to the website.\n\nThe details of Zuhir Nassrat, a friend of Hashem, were used in attempts to buy hydrogen peroxide, with one of them made from his home address.\n\nLast year, Nassrat pleaded guilty to offences of perverting the course of justice, drinking and driving, and driving without a licence or without insurance. He had earlier provided his own brother's personal details in an attempt to evade responsibility when his vehicle was stopped after he was spotted driving erratically. He has since moved to Libya.\n\nMohammed Soliman, who was employed at a takeaway where Hashem was also working, purchased 10 litres of sulphuric acid using his own Amazon account and bank details.\n\nHe knew both Abedi brothers - and his relevant online activity was preceded, and followed by, contact with them.\n\nSoliman, who grew up in Libya, was stopped by counter-terrorism police at Manchester Airport on 23 March 2017 as he attempted to leave the UK.\n\nHis mobile was seized and the contents were downloaded as part of that stop, but he left for Libya the following month and has not returned.\n\nThe information found on his phone later formed part of the evidence at Hashem's trial.\n\nWerfalli, Nassrat and Soliman all had money deposited in their bank accounts by Hashem but the evidence in the case did not indicate if they knew or had any suspicion about what the brothers were plotting.\n\nHashem even used his role as a takeaway delivery driver to obtain large empty cans of oil and sauce which the brothers then cut-up and manipulated to make bomb parts.\n\nHe also created a Gmail address to make chemical purchases, whose title, Bedab7jeana, translates from Arabic as \"we come to slaughter\" and is the slogan of Katibat al-Battar al-Libi, an IS-linked militant group operating in Syria.\n\nAbdalraouf Abdallah was serving time at HMP Altcourse on Merseyside\n\nThere was direct contact with a known extremist in the UK.\n\nThe first chemical purchase of all, by a cousin who later gave evidence at trial, took place on the same day in January 2017 that Salman and two associates visited Abdalraouf Abdallah, a convicted terrorist then serving time at Altcourse prison on Merseyside.\n\nAbdallah, seen as an influence on Salman, is confined to a wheelchair due to injuries he received fighting in Libya.\n\nA dangerous radicaliser jailed for IS organising largely via a phone, Abdallah nevertheless had an illegal mobile in prison that he used to call Salman.\n\nNeither the Ministry of Justice nor G4S, the private firm that runs the prison, provided a statement when the BBC asked how it was possible for a serving terrorist prisoner to obtain a phone.\n\nPolice images shows the brothers driving in Manchester during their preprations\n\nIn addition to the flat for making explosives, the brothers also gained access to an empty terraced house - on Lindum Street, in a different area of Manchester - which was used to order and take delivery of 55 litres of hydrogen peroxide.\n\nNeither brother had a driving licence, yet they bought and drove three cars in the relevant period, using them to travel between the different addresses, transporting their purchases.\n\nOne car, fraudulently insured in the name of their elder brother Ismael, was involved in a crash, with the pair fleeing the scene after taking care to remove an address label from a box on the back seat.\n\nElyas Elmehdi was an associate of the Abedi brothers\n\nIn early April 2017 their parents returned to Manchester, intent on taking the two brothers back to Libya.\n\nThe pair made a hurried late-night effort to clean out the property where they had been making TATP, buying a cheap Nissan Micra as a form of storage, which was then parked outside the flat of an associate called Elyas Elmehdi.\n\nSalman was out of the UK for nearly five weeks.\n\nJust before flying back, he called Elmehdi, who then visited Abdalraouf in prison - the day before Salman's return.\n\nLast year Elmehdi was convicted of drugs offences, which came to light following his arrest during the Arena investigation, but he could not be jailed as he had fled to Libya.\n\nWhen Salman returned on 18 May 2017 he was not stopped at the airport nor subject to any scrutiny.\n\nHe went straight to the Nissan Micra, checking its contents, before renting a city centre flat in which he would make his final preparations, as well as visiting the Manchester Arena as a form of reconnaissance.\n\nIt had become the target.\n\nOver the following days he used a taxi to transport the explosive to his new flat, before visiting various shops to buy items for his bomb, including thousands of nuts and bolts for use as shrapnel and a rucksack in which to hide the device.\n\nA public inquiry later this year will examine any potential opportunities to prevent the attack.\n\nAn official report previously recorded that on two separate occasions in the months beforehand, MI5 received intelligence which was deemed at the time to be non-terrorist activity by Salman, but can subsequently be seen as \"highly relevant to the planned attack\".\n\nOn the night of 22 May he made his way to the arena, visibly weighed down by the rucksack on his back, making a final call to his family's Libyan number - almost certainly to Hashem - two hours before the attack.\n\nAt 22.30, after waiting for the concert to end, he walked amongst the crowds.\n\nSalman Abedi bought thousands of nuts and screws to use as shrapnel in the bomb\n\nA militia arrested Hashem Abedi in Libya the day after the attack.\n\nRamadan Abedi and Mohammed Soliman have also been questioned in the country, but both are now free.\n\nBritish investigators want to speak to Ramadan and say there are still outstanding matters in the UK, although the inquiry has done as much as it can based on the available information.\n\nIt is also understood that one individual linked to the investigation has been stripped of their British citizenship\n\nHashem has not left custody since his Libyan arrest. During pre-trial legal submissions, his lawyers said he had been subjected to torture during his time in Libya\n\nA lengthy extradition process took place, which saw him brought back to the UK last July when he was charged and sent for trial.\n\nDetectives had built an overwhelming circumstantial case: his finger-marks were in the flat used to make TATP, all over the car in which the explosives and other relevant items were stored, and on the cans that had been cut up to create parts for a bomb.\n\nHe was involved in the chemicals purchases and present at every central moment of preparation.\n\nOfficers had to build up a fingerprint profile using marks found on his every-day possessions, such as college books, but were only able to prove they were Hashem's on the night he returned to the UK.\n\nAt trial, he displayed no emotion and gradually withdrew from the proceedings, at first apparently staying in the cells instructing his legal team, before eventually refusing to leave prison and ordering his legal team to stop representing him.\n\nThis meant he was not in court - unlike some victims' families and survivors - when the jury returned its unanimous verdicts.\n\nNo one in an English court has ever been convicted of so many murders.", "The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study by the University of Leeds of 86 countries claims.\n\nThe wealthiest tenth of people consume about 20 times more energy overall than the bottom ten, wherever they live.\n\nThe gulf is greatest in transport, where the top tenth gobble 187 times more fuel than the poorest tenth, the research says.\n\nThat’s because people on the lowest incomes can rarely afford to drive.\n\nThe researchers found that the richer people became, the more energy they typically use. And it was replicated across all countries.\n\nAnd they warn that, unless there's a significant policy change, household energy consumption could double from 2011 levels by 2050. That's even if energy efficiency improves.\n\nThe researchers combined European Union and World Bank data to calculate how different income groups spend their money. They say it’s the first study of its kind.\n\nIt found that in transport the richest tenth of consumers use more than half the energy. This reflects previous research showing that 15% of UK travellers take 70% of all flights.\n\nThe ultra-rich fly by far furthest, while 57% of the UK population does not fly abroad at all.\n\nThe study, published in Nature Energy, showed that energy for cooking and heating is more equitably consumed.\n\nBut even then, the top 10% of consumers used roughly one third of the total, presumably reflecting the size of their homes.\n\nCo-author Professor Julia Steinberger, leader of the project at Leeds, asked: “How can we change the vastly unequal distribution of energy to provide a decent life for everyone while protecting the climate and ecosystems?”\n\nThe authors say governments could reduce transport demand through better public transport, higher taxes on bigger vehicles and frequent flyer levies for people who take most holidays.\n\nThey say another alternative is to electrify vehicles more quickly, although previous studies suggest even then demand for driving must be reduced in order to reduce the strain on resource use and electricity production and distribution.\n\nThe research also examined the relative energy consumption of one nation against another.\n\nIt shows that a fifth of UK citizens are in the top 5% of global energy consumers, along with 40% of German citizens, and Luxembourg’s entire population.\n\nOnly 2% of Chinese people are in the top global 5% of users, and just 0.02% of people in India.\n\nEven the poorest fifth of Britons consumes over five times as much energy per person as the bottom billion in India.\n\nThe study is likely to ignite future UN climate negotiations, where the issue of equity is always bitterly contentious.\n\nIn the USA, libertarian politicians have typically portrayed climate change as a harbinger of global socialism.\n\nBut Professor Kevin Anderson, from the Tyndall Centre in Manchester, who was not involved in the study, told BBC News: “This study tells relatively wealthy people like us what we don’t want to hear.\n\n“The climate issue is framed by us high emitters – the politicians, business people, journalists, academics. When we say there’s no appetite for higher taxes on flying, we mean WE don’t want to fly less\n\n“The same is true about our cars and the size our homes. We have convinced ourselves that our lives are normal, yet the numbers tell a very different story,” he said.\n\nThe study says transport energy alone could increase 31% by 2050. “If transport continues to rely on fossil fuels, this increase would be disastrous for the climate,” the report says.\n\nIt suggests different remedies for different types of energy use. So, flying and driving big cars could face higher taxes, while energy from homes could be reduced by a housing retrofit.\n\nThe authors note that the recent Budget declined to increase fuel duty and promised 4,000 miles of new roads. It did not mention home insulation.\n\nThe Treasury was contacted to discuss the taxation issues raised in the research, but declined to comment.", "Today was the day when millions of Britons were forced to come to terms with wholesale changes to their daily lives.\n\nBut of course, people in every corner of the world are being affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage for now but we'll continue to bring you updates across the BBC News website until our teams in Asia pick things up.\n• The UK unveiled \"unprecedented\" financial measures to support the economy, including mortgage holidays for those in financial difficulty and loans to businesses\n• The death toll in Britain rose to 71 and we were told the actual number of cases could be as high as 55,000\n• The British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily released from prison in Tehran because of the outbreak\n• The US said it was considering sending money directly to Americans as part of a $1tn (£830bn) stimulus package aimed at averting an economic crisis\n• The European Union, meanwhile, announced it would ban travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days. The Euro 2020 football competition was also postponed by a year\n• In Italy, which has registered the most cases outside China at more than 31,500, deaths surged from 2,150 to 2,500\n• The number of confirmed cases in Spain soared by 2,000 to 11,178, France spent its first day under strict lockdown and Belgium announced it would follow suit\n• But Iran remains the world's third-worst-affected nation with 16,000 confirmed cases\n• China reported just one new domestic infection on Tuesday - but 20 more from people arriving from abroad\n• The virus has now infected more than 185,000 people worldwide across 159 countries and territories\n\nWe leave you with this gallery showing how the virus has emptied cities around the world.\n\nYou can find all our coronavirus stories here.", "The government is planning to extend a scheme which allows some prisoners to be freed early to ease pressures in jails across England and Wales.\n\nUnder the programme, certain inmates jailed for less than four years can be let out before the halfway point of their sentence.\n\nThey are made to wear an electronic tag and abide by a curfew.\n\nMinisters want to increase the maximum period for which they can be released from four-and-a-half to six months.\n\nAn official estimate, carried out last year, said it would lead to a \"spike\" of about 600 in the number of prisoners who are freed early.\n\nLast Friday, 2,718 prisoners were on the scheme, which is known as home detention curfew (HDC).\n\nThe timing of the announcement is likely to fuel speculation that it is linked to fears of a possible outbreak of coronavirus in prisons, but sources insisted the two were not connected and it was instead related to wider capacity concerns.\n\nThe prison population stands at 83,917, which is 1,431 more than 12 months ago, and is expected to increase further due to sentencing changes and the recruitment of 20,000 extra police officers.\n\nThe HDC changes were presented to MPs on Monday and will require parliamentary approval.\n\nThey were first put forward in July 2019 when David Gauke was justice secretary but were dropped as Boris Johnson prepared to take over as prime minister.\n\nA Ministry of Justice \"impact assessment\", published last July and signed by Robert Buckland, who was prisons minister before succeeding Mr Gauke, said the aim was to better manage the release of prisoners and prepare them for supervision in the community.\n\nThe document said changes to the scheme would also \"reduce the prison population by allowing suitable offenders to be managed in the community rather than in custody for up to six weeks (45 days) longer\".\n\nIt said: \"This will contribute to improving prison conditions and enable prisoners to feel safer, calmer and readier to engage in their rehabilitation.\n\n\"A reduction in prison population may also contribute to making them safer places for staff and other offenders.\"\n\nThe planned changes to the HDC scheme will not affect the category of prisoner who is eligible for early release.\n\nHDC does not apply to offenders serving four or more years in jail or less than 12 weeks, those liable to deportation and registered sex offenders.\n\nA number of other prisoners are also considered unsuitable including people convicted of terror-related offences and cruelty to children.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said the government had been clear serious offenders should stay in prison for longer and public protection was its \"top priority\".\n\nHowever, the spokesperson added: \"Any effective justice system must also rehabilitate whenever possible and Home Detention Curfew allows carefully assessed offenders, who committed less serious crimes, to begin their reintegration back into the community.\n\n\"They remain subject to strict conditions, including electronic tags, and can be returned to custody if they fail to comply with any of these.\"", "Sorry, this episode is not currently available", "Alex Jones presented The One Show solo on Tuesday as Matt Baker self-isolated\n\nThe BBC has announced it will focus more of its programmes, including The One Show, on the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe broadcaster will also offer more about education, fitness, religion and recipes for those stuck at home.\n\nA dedicated coronavirus podcast will be released daily, and the BBC's local radio stations will provide support to communities around the country.\n\nITV will also broadcast news specials and suspend some planned entertainment shows including The Voice UK.\n\nAnt & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will go ahead this weekend, but without a live audience for the first time.\n\nThere will be \"further developments and challenges ahead - such as filling the gaps left by the suspension of sporting events\", ITV director of television Kevin Lygo said.\n\n\"We are already seeing new ideas coming through which might provide innovative new ways of producing TV in these uniquely challenging times.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said: \"We all know these are challenging times for each and every one of us. As the national broadcaster, the BBC has a special role to play at this time of national need.\n\n\"We need to pull together to get through this. That's why the BBC will be using all of its resources - channels, stations and output - to help keep the nation informed, educated and entertained.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live presenters such as Nicky Campbell will host listener phone-ins\n\nLord Hall added: \"It will take time to emerge from the challenges we all face, but the BBC will be there for the public all the way through this. Clearly there will be disruption to our output along the way, but we will do our very best.\"\n\nAlso on Wednesday, BBC soaps and continuing dramas including EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors put their production schedules on hold.\n\nITV also announced changes to its schedules, including a new weekly Monday night show - Coronavirus Report - which will be produced by ITV News and \"give viewers an in-depth insight into issues affecting them during the current crisis\".\n\nThe live semi-final and final of The Voice UK have been postponed until later in the year. The knockouts, which are pre-recorded, will continue to be broadcast this weekend as planned.\n\nThe Britain's Got Talent audition shows are still due to be broadcast in the next few weeks as planned, and ITV said it was looking at logistical options for the live finals.\n\nITV has already confirmed its soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street will continue, but with reduced filming schedules and only three episodes of Corrie per week.\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC also announced a number of changes to its news output in light of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nQuestion Time will move to a new slot during the pandemic\n\nProgrammes including Politics Live and Victoria Derbyshire have been temporarily suspended, allowing the BBC News Channel to focus on \"core news\".\n\nQuestion Time, which sees political figures and commentators take questions from the public, will move to a prime time 20:00 slot on BBC One. However, it will proceed without a studio audience for the time being.\n\nThe practicalities of putting questions to the panel during this period is \"still being worked on\", BBC media editor Amol Rajan said.\n\nNewsnight on BBC Two and The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One will remain on air but will be operated by fewer technical staff; while The Andrew Neil Show, Newswatch and the News Channel's The Travel Show will be suspended. Hardtalk will also be suspended from next week.\n\nRadio news will see fewer changes initially, although news summaries on Radios 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live will be combined into a single output from Friday.\n\nThe Americast, Beyond Today and The Next Episode podcasts will be suspended, while Newscast will become the BBC Coronavirus podcast for the foreseeable future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"The government is about to involve itself in the lives of millions of people in ways we haven't seen since the war,\" one senior figure in government said after Cabinet this morning.\n\nYou can only imagine the mood around the table as ministers absorb the scale of what we face as a country and the scale of the responsibility they hold.\n\nWhether it is urging people not to travel abroad, providing huge emergency assistance to particular industries, or telling people to stay at home, according to that Cabinet minister, we are living through a massive change in the relationship between government and the public that could last for many months.\n\nWhat the prime minister said barely two weeks ago, that the UK would \"likely face a challenge\", has very rapidly turned into the biggest peacetime task any modern government has faced - managing a very serious international health emergency and trying to stave off the worst of a potential economic emergency too.\n\nBoris Johnson told his colleagues this morning: \"We are engaged in a war against the disease which we have to win.\"\n\nAs I write the details of exactly what the Chancellor will promise to prop the economy are still being thrashed out.\n\nLess than a week ago, Rishi Sunak unveiled a programme that made sick pay more generous, promised to scrap business rates this year for some small firms and make it easier to claim benefits for people who were at risk of losing their income.\n\nBut as the pace of the outbreak has accelerated, so too has the potential for enormous economic damage.\n\nSo expect later today to hear about plans for bigger interventions.\n\nThere is clearly urgent demand from business large and small to help.\n\nBut the priority right now may be reassurance as much as a radical final blueprint.\n\nAs during the financial crisis, perhaps the details of what will be announced this afternoon matter less than the promise of a comprehensive approach that genuinely will provide support to every part of the economy and every part of the country.\n\nIt is also worth remembering that the financial system itself is in a much, much more robust state than it was then.\n\nBut there is no spreadsheet that can capture the potential for disruption and hardship here, no set of calculations that can accurately predict what will happen to the economy.\n\nThere is no end date to the epidemic, no precise sense of when we will hit the peak of the infections, although Whitehall sources still believe it is maybe a couple of months away.\n\nBut the government knows that it has to act, very fast, and very credibly.\n\nOne senior Treasury source said: \"There aren't options to let this float around - we have to take control because it is so unprecedented.\"\n\nIn the last 24 hours, Downing Street's instructions to the public to protect everyone's health changed at breakneck speed as new scientific data emerged.\n\nNow the government's approach to how the country makes its living is changing too.", "It won't just be the elderly who are asked to stay at home for 12 weeks as part of the government's coronavirus strategy.\n\nThousands of younger people with serious lung or heart problems will also be among them.\n\nAdam Divall, from Bracknell, has begun his three-month isolation.\n\nThe IT engineer had a lung transplant which resulted in other health issues.\n\nThat means he’s in the highest risk category for COVID-19. After taking precautions, he’s been talking to reporter Ben Moore.", "Center Parcs said a former guest and member of staff who tested positive for coronavirus are no longer at the site and are in isolation\n\nCenter Parcs has announced it is temporarily closing all its UK sites from Friday following government advice over the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday it was confirmed a recent guest and a member of staff at its village in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, had tested positive.\n\nBoth have left the venue and are in isolation.\n\nThe holiday company said its five UK sites would be closed until 16 April and all guests were being informed.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our guests and staff is our absolute priority and we feel that this decision supports government recommendations,\" it said in a statement.\n\nAll visitors with upcoming stays booked will be eligible for a full refund or a free rebooking, the company has confirmed.\n\nAs well as its Nottinghamshire site, Center Parcs runs holiday villages in Bedfordshire, Cumbria, Suffolk and Wiltshire.\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.", "Fashion and furniture chain Laura Ashley has become the latest business casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks after regional airline Flybe collapsed, the retailer has said it will have to call in administrators, putting 2,700 jobs at risk.\n\nIt is one of the many firms reeling from the impact of the coronavirus, with the government advising people to avoid unnecessary contact with others.\n\nIts action comes as the chancellor prepares fresh support for companies.\n\nFirms from many industries including airlines, retailers, restaurants, theatres and pubs have said the virus has pushed them to the brink, with several warning of imminent collapse without government help.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has already announced a £12bn Budget package to help businesses deal with the crisis, including business rates relief for small firm and a new hardship fund.\n\nBut he said in his Budget speech he would \"not hesitate to act\" if more was needed, and he is expected to unveil new financial measures in the government's daily briefing on the outbreak on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, head of the CBI business lobby group, called for co-ordinated and fast action to support businesses. \"We do not want to look back and say we acted too late,\" she said.\n\nThe bosses of sixty big High Street retailers including Top Shop owner Arcadia, Costa Coffee, JD Sports and Primark wrote to the government on Tuesday pushing for a suspension of business rates for large retailers.\n\n\"Turning specifically to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic: there is no doubt that it is already being widely felt amongst the members of this group, with footfall and turnover declining by up to 50% in many towns and shopping centres,\" the chief executives said.\n\nEarlier Robert Chote, head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, told MPs that Britain was facing something akin to a wartime situation for its public finances.\n\nHe added that now was not the time for the government to hold back on spending.\n\nSectors which have warned of problems include:\n\nMost businesses do not have insurance cover to compensate them for coronavirus losses, a trade body and other experts have said.\n\nSmall businesses, in particular, are unlikely to have such a policy.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) chair Mike Cherry said: \"Many will feel like they are being made to choose between their health and the very survival of their business. Nobody should have to make this choice.\"\n\nHe added that the prospect for small businesses over the coming weeks \"is increasingly bleak\".\n\nHowever, some retailers are seeing a huge spike in demand, with Amazon workers abeing told to work overtime to tackle demand for goods.\n\nLaura Ashley said the outbreak \"has had an immediate and significant impact on trading\". It had been in talks with its lenders about accessing more funds to continue trading.\n\nBut based on cashflow forecasts and continued virus uncertainty, it said it would not get that money in time.\n\nThe firm, which was also facing challenging High Street conditions, said: \"The Covid-19 outbreak has had an immediate and significant impact on trading, and ongoing developments indicate that this will be a sustained national situation.\"\n\nThe outgoing head of the Office for Budget Responsibility, Robert Chote, has warned the Treasury Select Committee that some businesses will \"inevitably\" fail during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nFar from his usual approach of urging fiscal restraint, Chote says a temporary spike in borrowing would be sensible - saying it's better to spend a \"little too much\" than too little, adding: \"When the fire is large enough, you just spray water\" (and worry about the clean up after).\n\nHe highlighted that the government ran deficits of 20% of GDP for five years during the WW2 era (vs just under 2% of GDP last year), and said that was the right thing to do.\n\nHe also urged help for those working in the gig economy.\n\nHis words, coming hours before the chancellor is expected to outline more support, helped limit the fall in the FTSE 100 this morning.", "Clive Myrie is joined by BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym and other experts to answer your questions.\n\nThis programme was originally broadcast on the BBC News Channel on Monday 16 March.", "Change course or a quarter of a million people will die in a \"catastrophic epidemic\" of coronavirus - warnings do not come much starker than that.\n\nThe message came from researchers modelling how the disease will spread, how the NHS would be overwhelmed and how many would die.\n\nThe situation has shifted dramatically and as a result we are now facing the most profound changes to our daily lives in peacetime.\n\nThis realisation has happened only in the past few days.\n\nHowever, it is long after other scientists and the World Health Organization had warned of the risks of not going all-out to stop the virus.\n\nThe crucial piece of evidence came from the scientists at Imperial College London who first realised the scale of the problem in China and whose advice is heavily influential in government.\n\nThey said coronavirus was the most serious public health threat seen in a respiratory virus since the 1918 flu pandemic - known as the Spanish flu.\n\nIt was on only Friday that Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, explained the mitigation plan to the BBC.\n\nHe said: \"Our aim is to try and reduce the peak, broaden the peak, not suppress it completely.\n\n\"Also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some kind of herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease.\"\n\nIf mitigation worked it would have avoided the most draconian measures other countries have used and built up immunity, which would help limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMitigation involves some social distancing strategies, while suppression beefs up those measures, including possible restriction of movement and increased periods of isolation.\n\nThe modelling projected that if the UK did nothing, 81% of people would be infected and 510,000 would die from coronavirus by August.\n\nThe mitigation strategy is better, but would still result in about 250,000 deaths and completely overwhelm intensive care in the NHS.\n\nThe experience of Italy, and the first cases in the UK, led to this dawning realisation.\n\nAbout 30% of cases that end up in hospital are expected to need intensive care, such as ventilators or ECMO machines, which take over the job of breathing from the lungs.\n\nThat is quite simply beyond the ability of the NHS to cope.\n\nThe analysis estimated the limits of intensive care would be \"exceeded by at least eight-fold\" even under the most optimistic mitigation plans.\n\n\"Even with the sort of interventions which were being planned and been announced last week, there would be a risk of intensive care units being overwhelmed,\" said Prof Neil Ferguson from Imperial.\n\nThe report concludes \"suppression is the only viable strategy at the current time\". It is hoped deaths could be limited to the thousands or tens of thousands.\n\nThe government has always said it is following the science and the science has changed profoundly.\n\nHence, we should be waving goodbye to pubs, clubs and theatres, work from home and isolate whole households if any one person becomes sick.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, the suppression approach comes with major problems.\n\nIt effectively requires shutting down parts of society and there is no exit strategy.\n\nAs fewer people would be infected there would be little immunity in the population and cases would soar soon after measures were lifted again.\n\nThis is the conundrum China now faces. Research suggests 95% of people in Wuhan were still susceptible to the virus at the end of January.\n\nThe report suggests we may have to wait 18 months for a vaccine, but even that is not guaranteed.\n\nWe could be in this for the very long term.\n\nIt is worth stressing this is all based on mathematical models. They make assumptions, they are not perfect and what they find is not written in stone.\n\nThis virus emerged only in December and we're still trying to fully understand it. The scale and role of asymptomatic infections or the summer weather in the pandemic are still unknown.\n\nBut Dr Adam Kucharski, another disease modeller who was not part of the Imperial study, told me: \"There's no simple solution to this, it is probably toughest epidemic I've ever had to analyse.\n\n\"There is no way of it playing out without some serious downsides.\"", "In the UK the official advice if you suspect you have coronavirus, have been in contact with someone who has it, or have been to a place where there are a lot of cases of the virus, is to self-isolate.\n\nBut what does that actually mean and what's the right way to do it?\n\nThe BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains the top five methods to successfully self-isolate.", "Carphone Warehouse is to close all its 531 standalone stores on 3 April, resulting in 2,900 redundancies.\n\nThe firm says the move is not related to the coronavirus outbreak, but was because of the changing mobile market.\n\nThe mobile phone retailer has shops inside 305 big PC World and Curry's stores and these will not be affected by the changes.\n\nAlmost 40% of staff (1,800) affected by the closures are expected to take new roles in the business, the firm said.\n\nGroup chief executive Alex Baldock said customers were increasingly buying online and from its big stores - which sell computers and TVs as well as mobiles - instead of its smaller, standalone mobile shops.\n\n\"They can't find all this in the small mobile-only stores that are one-twentieth of the size; they're visiting these less and these stores are losing more money as a result,\" he added.\n\nIt says the move is \"an essential next step\" in turning around its mobile business as part of a strategy outlined in December 2018.\n\nThe aim is to return this side of the business, which will lose £90m this year, to profitability.\n\nTalking about the job losses, Mr Baldock added: \"I don't underestimate how upsetting this news will be for our colleagues, and we'll treat everyone with honesty, respect and care.\n\n\"But though this is by far the toughest decision we've had to make, it is necessary. We must follow our customers. They want help with all technology, all in one place, and this trend is only going to accelerate in a more connected 5G world.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he emphasised the decision was nothing to do with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"The coronavirus and uncertain outlook ahead has underlined the importance of acting decisively, but no, the driver here is what we're seeing from customers,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to take the difficult decisions to throw our weight behind the parts of the business that the customers are showing us they want... that's with the big stores and that's online.\"\n\nSelling electrical gadgets on the High Street has been a tough game ever since internet retailers got into gear a decade ago.\n\nTough competition from the likes of Amazon sparked the deal that created Dixons Carphone in the first place - the 2014 merger of Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail. The plan was that the merged entity would have the financial muscle to make a decent fist of selling online, and save millions by rationalising the two companies' retail estates.\n\nThat did happen, but the bricks and clicks plan was too ambitious. For Dixons Carphone, mobile retailing loses £90m a year, so further retrenchment was inevitable.\n\nThere will be questions about the timing of the announcement - on a day when so many are distracted by the wider impact of the coronavirus, few will notice the news that 2,900 staff are to lose their jobs.\n\nDixons Carphone, though, will point to the inevitability of the closures, given the continued losses, and the increasing share of the market being taken by internet players.\n\nThe people who are losing their jobs face a desperate few months - few retailers were hiring, and now the coronavirus has put most other potential hirings on hold.\n\nDixons Carphone added that it remained committed to mobile and said customers would receive the same expert service in its big stores as in the standalone shops.\n\nIt added that it was launching a new mobile offer later in the year and everything would still be available online.\n\nKester Mann, from market researchers CCS Insight. told the BBC: \"Carphone Warehouse has been caught in the unfortunate crosshairs of lengthening mobile phone replacement cycles and ongoing apathy on the UK High Street.\n\n\"It has been clear for some time that something had to give in its business. A greater focus on online sales is a logical move.\n\n\"With more than twice as many people expected to keep their current mobile phone for longer than their last one, footfall has declined and mobile phone retailing is tougher than ever. Carphone Warehouse had no option but to make some major changes.\"", "No new Crown Court trials will take place in England and Wales if they are expected to last longer than three days, following concerns from lawyers amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey had urged a halt to jury trials to stop \"Russian roulette\" with the health of legal staff, jurors and the public.\n\nThe government says during the current phase of the outbreak, courts and tribunals will continue to operate.\n\nBut long cases listed to start before the end of April will be adjourned.\n\nPressure on the government and judiciary to stop new and halt ongoing jury trials has been growing, as jurors and court staff up and down the country heed government advice to self-isolate.\n\nA statement from the Judicial Office said: 'In all jurisdictions steps are being taken to enable as many hearings as possible to be conducted with some or all of the participants attending by telephone, video-link or online.'\n\nHowever, Crown Courts where jury trials of the most serious criminal cases take place present particular problems because so many participants, judge, jury, defendants, witnesses, lawyers and court staff need to be present.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Given the risks of a trial not being able to complete, the Lord Chief Justice has decided that no new trial should start in the Crown Court unless it is expected to last for three days or less.\n\n\"All cases estimated to last longer than three days listed to start before the end of April 2020 will be adjourned. These cases will be kept under review and the position regarding short trials will be revisited as circumstances develop and in any event next week. As events unfold decisions will be taken in respect of all cases awaiting trial in the Crown Court.\"\n\nTrials that are under way will continue in the hope that they can be completed.\n\nThose taking part should follow Public Heath England guidance \"suitably adjusted to reflect the distinct features of a court as a working environment for all concerned, including jurors.\".\n\nSome criminal barristers in England and Wales have called for the government to go further.\n\nResponding to the statement, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) - which represents nearly 4,000 members in England and Wales - has called for every jury trial to be delayed for 30 days in order to \"allow the public health impact to be properly assessed\".\n\nIt said: \"Barristers choosing to self isolate in following government advice are entitled to leave trials and will not be in breach of their professional obligations.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland said criminal courts \"have a critical role to play and should go on sitting\".\n\nCourts would have stood empty if barristers succeeded in their demand to halt all jury trials\n\nEarlier, Amanda Pinto QC, chairwoman of the Bar Council, which represents all barristers in England and Wales, has also called on the government to temporarily end jury trials during the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\n\"We are calling for the Ministry of Justice to put an urgent halt to jury trials for the time being,\" she said.\n\n\"Barristers up and down the country are telling us that jurors are having to drop out of cases because they are self-isolating or, worse, coming to court when they should not, and thereby putting everyone's health at risk.\n\n\"Being in a jury trial should not be a game of Russian roulette with the participants' health.\"\n\nCourt users \"should not be expected to attend court, whilst the rest of the country is very strongly urged to work from home and to avoid 'non-essential contact' and 'confined spaces',\" Ms Pinto argued.\n\nDespite government advice to work from home and avoid contact with others, the latest HM Court Service guidance says: \"Jury service is one of the most important civic duties a citizen can undertake and is an essential part of the criminal justice system.\n\n\"If you are serving on a jury now, your jury service will continue as normal and you are expected to attend court unless you have a reason not to (for example, you have symptoms or need to self-isolate).\"\n\nJurors considering the alleged murder of PC Andrew Harper were sent home on Tuesday after one of them fell ill, and a juror in the trial of Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi was discharged from service after they went into self-isolation over the weekend.\n\nCriminal barristers who are unable to attend court due to government advice, \"will remain compliant with their professional duties provided they continue as normal to give due notice to their clients and to the court\", the CBA added.\n\nThere is now a divergence between Westminster and the court systems of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Scottish government announced: \"No new criminal jury trials will be commenced or new juries empanelled until further notice.\n\n\"This will be kept under review.\n\n\"Where jury trials have already commenced, these will run to conclusion of the trial, if practical to do so.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there will likewise be no new jury trials for the foreseeable future after an announcement by the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan.\n\nBut jurors serving in a Crown Court trial or an inquest that has already started should continue to attend, the Belfast Telegraph reported.\n\nMany lawyers believe it will be only a matter of time before Westminster follows suit.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, said earlier that there was an \"urgent need to increase the use of telephone and video technology immediately to hold remote hearings where possible\" in England and Wales.\n\nEmergency legislation is being drafted which is likely to contain clauses that expand the powers in criminal courts to use technology in a wider range of hearings.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice urged greater use of video technology in courts\n\nThe halting of jury trials raises a host of highly challenging issues for a criminal justice system that is already beset by time delays due to a reduced number of court sitting days.\n\nWith some defendants held on remand, the time limits for holding in custody are likely to have to be extended.\n\nIn addition, barristers and solicitors fear they will not be paid and could go out of business or have to lay off staff in law firms and sets of chambers.\n\nSome believe another option to keep the system going might be to reduce the number of jurors.\n\nDuring World War Two, legislation was passed to allow juries to sit with seven members, except in murder and treason cases.\n\nThe Law Society Gazette reports that one family judge has imposed emergency measures in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, ordering lawyers to stay at home if possible, despite the government claiming courts will continue to \"operate normally\".\n\nIn an email, His Honour Judge Moradifar, the designated family judge for Berkshire, said all suitable hearings should be conducted via video link, Skype or telephone.\n\nPhysical presence in court buildings \"should be kept to a minimum\", witnesses should give evidence remotely where possible and, if coming to court is unavoidable, attendance should be limited to advocates, said the judge.", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection.\n\nOn Saturday, the country's 47 million citizens were ordered to stay indoors except for necessary trips.", "Les Miserables is among the shows that have closed for the foreseeable future\n\nTheatres in London's West End and around the UK have shut after PM Boris Johnson advised people to avoid such venues as coronavirus spreads.\n\n\"You should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of forcing venues to close, leaving some in the affected industries in limbo.\n\nThe Society of London Theatre, which represents the West End, said theatres would close from Monday night until further notice.\n\nSister organisation UK Theatre said its 165 venues around the country would take the same step.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nSpeaking during his first daily news briefing on Monday, Mr Johnson said the government advice was that \"public venues such as theatres should no longer be visited\".\n\nHe added: \"The proprietors of those venues are taking the logical steps that you would imagine, you are seeing the change happen already.\n\n\"As for enforcement, we have the powers if necessary but I don't believe it will be necessary to use those powers.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that from Tuesday mass gatherings were something \"we are now moving emphatically away from\".\n\nHe also said people should now avoid \"non-essential\" travel and contact with others.\n\nBut many figures from the worlds of theatre, music and nightlife were angry that Mr Johnson advised people to stay away while not forcing venues to close, which could have given them financial protection.\n\nUK Music, which represents the music industry, said the hundreds of likely gig and festival cancellations would cause \"immense damage\", and Mr Johnson's comments risked exacerbating the problem.\n\n\"The prime minister's latest advice on mass gatherings has resulted in huge uncertainty and confusion over what exactly it will mean for the music industry,\" acting chief executive Tom Kiehl said.\n\n\"The government must spell out whether there will be a formal ban, when that might come into effect, which venues and events will be impacted and how long the measures will remain in place.\n\n\"The virus is having a catastrophic impact on the UK music industry and will threaten many jobs and businesses across our right across our sector.\"\n\nPatrick Gracey, producer of Tom Stoppard's latest play Leopoldstadt, said the prime minister \"has just doomed an entire industry by telling people not to attend the theatre\".\n\nHe added: \"By not enforcing a shutdown, production insurance will not apply so producers and shows will go bankrupt, and tens of thousands of people will be without pay.\"\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\nTamara Rojo, artistic director of the English National Ballet, said she wanted the government to come up with \"clear plans to how they are going to support the industry when we are all going dark\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This is an industry that provides £111bn annually to the economy, that employs two million people, and a third of them are freelancers.\n\n\"So, for many, this sudden closure without a clear ban - which means that many venues, theatres, museums won't be able to claim compensation for a devastating loss - means a lot of uncertainty and potentially a lot of loss of employment and income.\"\n\nCaroline Norbury, chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation, said: \"As the social distancing measures announced are only advisory, rather than an outright ban, we are deeply concerned that creative organisations and cultural spaces will find they are unable to claim compensation for the huge losses they will experience as a result of COVID-19.\"\n\nSociety of London Theatre and UK Theatre chief executive Julian Bird said: \"Closing venues is not a decision that is taken lightly, and we know that this will have a severe impact on many of the 290,000 individuals working in our industry.\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House also shut down immediately after the prime minister's press conference.\n\nMeanwhile, the Museums Association called on the government to divert money from the planned Festival of Britain to help institutions that will find themselves in financial trouble.\n\n\"We are calling for an emergency fund to be created to support museums through this difficult period,\" MA director Sharon Heal said.\n\n\"The government had earmarked £120m for a Festival of Britain in 2022. We believe this should now be made available to support museums at risk of permanent closure as a result of the Coronavirus epidemic.\"\n\nThe Natural History Museum has closed its buildings in South Kensington and Tring; while Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives will be shut until 1 May.\n\nLondon's Serpetine gallery is also shut, but the National Gallery remains open for now.\n\nIn other developments on Monday in the entertainment world:\n\nA number of plays and gigs had already been scrapped as the virus continued to spread.\n\nEarlier, Daniel Radcliffe's new play Endgame became the first major London production to be cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCiting travel and other restrictions, the Old Vic said it was \"becoming increasingly impractical to sustain business as usual at our theatre\".\n\nThe theatre warned that giving full refunds for all lost performances would be \"financially devastating for us\", so asked ticket-holders to consider the ticket price as a donation.\n\nIn New York, Broadway shut down last week and will stay dark for at least a month in a move that could cost $565m (£455m) in lost revenues, based on takings for the equivalent period last year as reported by The Wrap.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nAre you affected by the closure of theatres? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Eloise Rickman says if all parents did was read until August they would be setting them up for a good education\n\n“Whether you’re living in a massive six bedroom house or all sharing a smaller two-bed flat, we’re all going to feel the walls closing in a little bit more,” says Eloise Rickman, who runs courses on home-schooling.\n\nFeeling cooped up might be just one of several potential knock-on effects as more families self-isolate together following the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe government’s current advice is that if anyone develops symptoms, everyone they live with must self-isolate. And now schools in the UK are to close over coming days for most children.\n\nAmong the families in quarantine are Annie Ridout, 34, her husband and their three young children. Two of her children have developed symptoms.\n\n“It’s a very weird time,” she said. “We are focusing on getting through it and being as upbeat as we can.”\n\nMs Ridout, who teaches online courses for freelancers and entrepreneurs, says she has created a daily schedule for her school-age children.\n\n“An hour of maths, my husband has been doing that in the morning. And then an hour of reading and writing. There will be creative time, artwork, and then time in the garden, digging and getting muddy. And that will be it.”\n\nAnnie Ridout and two of her young children who are off school\n\nShe says originally she planned a schedule with 30-minute chunks, but it’s now less rigid and more focused on ticking off tasks each day. “We had to loosen up in terms of accepting they are going to watch telly,” she says.\n\nMs Rickman, from south London, agrees that a schedule is important - especially for children who are already at nursery or school and will be used to routine.\n\n“Children really thrive on predictability, especially when life is changing around them,” she says.\n\nBut the 31-year-old, who already home-schools her children, stresses that any schedule should be more like a “flow” - rather than something strict.\n\nShe suggests creating weekly or daily activities and then read the plan out or “stick it on the wall”.\n\n“Maybe Wednesdays have a family film afternoon. Or give teenagers some private time to Skype their friends,” she suggests.\n\nEducational psychologist Zubeida Dasgupta also stressed the importance of structure, from her home in Brighton and Hove where she and her family are also currently self-isolating.\n\n“We know when people are faced with uncertainty or worry, having some certainties, for example through a bit of structure, could really help,” she says.\n\n“Although on the face of it, some children may feel excited by being off school, the reality is weeks - or months - on end playing Xbox and watching movies may not be as fun as we think.\n\n“It’s about getting a balance - having a structure and integrating some fun,” she says. “It might be helpful to think about how we distinguish weekdays and weekends.”\n\nIn terms of schoolwork, some schools and teachers have already spoken about the possibility of setting work for pupils to access online.\n\nThe current health crisis is certainly a “unique situation” for schooling, says Ms Rickman.\n\n“For parents who are suddenly plunged into it, I think it could be a challenge.”\n\nBut she adds: “I have had a few messages from families who said they have always wanted to try home-schooling and are looking forward to doing it for the first time.”\n\nShe says the most important thing in home-schooling is family relationships. A lot of siblings will not be used to being together all day, and “that’s a lovely opportunity to build and strengthen your family relationships - but it will come with some bumps in the road”.\n\nShe suggests parents try and carve out some one-on-one time with the children.\n\nThinking about the environment is also important, she says - but “this is not about setting up a classroom in the living room”.\n\nShe suggests making spaces for children to do arts or craft - for example covering a coffee table with newspaper and arranging pens in mugs - and even moving furniture.\n\n“If you don’t want the kids looking at the TV for five hours a day, think do we need to rejig the furniture? Do we want to think about pushing tables back so the kids have space to run about, especially if you have a flat.”\n\n\"This is a time we need to prepare for our houses to be a bit messier. Having kids about all day, it’s going to get messy.”\n\nAnd she says learning at home is not simply replicating school at home. It’s not necessary to do six hours of learning like in school, she says, as lessons will be one-on-one and so more intense.\n\nBut it’s not just the children who may be impacted as whole families in isolation. Parents too could find it a challenge.\n\nSpending hours on end every day with your children can be difficult, says Ms Rickman. She says the first piece of advice she would give to parents who are with their children at home is to “think about yourself first”.\n\n“Our children respond so much to ourselves and our leadership,” she says. “Especially now when things are being disrupted. I would say as a parent the best thing to focus on before you go down rabbit holes looking for curriculum is to think about how to support yourself first because you are that bedrock.\n\n“Even just opening a window and taking 10 deep breaths, doing a free three-minute meditation or writing down 10 things you’re grateful for. And things like limiting how much news you’re taking in in a day”\n\nThe advice for parents is also reiterated by educational psychologist Ms Dasgupta.\n\n“People need space and time on their own”, she says, urging families to have conversations to negotiate uninterrupted time alone.\n\nMs Dasgupta says social contact with the outside world is also vital, as well as exercise, such as going for a walk where you won't bump into anyone. If you are self-isolating after having symptoms, the NHS advises not going for a walk.\n\n“Being together could feel a little like cabin fever, not just being in the space for so long but also interacting only with the people in your immediate family,\" says Ms Dasgupta. \"Thank God for being able to Skype and WhatsApp.”\n\nBut there are positives, she adds.\n\n“I suppose the positives are we can spend some time together, some nice, unhurried time. We don’t have to get to places and juggle all the different commitments.\n\n“You can slow down. It can help you enjoy the moment a little bit more.\"", "Saffie-Rose Roussos was a \"beautiful, sensitive soul with an amazing magnetic personality\", her mother Lisa said.\n\nShe was at the arena with eight-year-old Saffie and was injured in the attack, as was Saffie’s elder sister, Ashlee Bromwich.\n\nShe said she would watch Saffie “with wonder”, adding that she loved to dance and make people laugh and would “leave little notes of 'I love you' everywhere”.\n\nSaffie’s father Andrew said she was his “perfect, precious beautiful daughter” who \"melted people's hearts\" with \"those big brown eyes\", adding: \"It's like the best artists got together and drew her from top to toe.\"", "Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc famously quit as presenters of The Great British Bake Off after it moved to Channel 4.\n\nBut the pair have now revealed to the Radio Times it wasn't the first time they had resigned from the show.\n\n\"On day one we had quite a frank chat with the producers,\" Giedroyc said.\n\n\"We resigned, basically,\" Perkins said. \"Because it was not a kind show. They were pointing cameras in the bakers' faces and making them cry and saying, 'Tell us about your dead gran.'\"\n\nClearly, the problems were ironed out and the presenters decided to continue, hosting the show from 2010 to 2016.\n\nThe duo have now known each other for 32 years. They met at Cambridge University and have worked together in radio and TV ever since.\n\nWhen Bake Off was at its peak, it was announced that the show would move from the BBC to Channel 4.\n\nGiedroyc and Perkins quit, saying they were \"not going with the dough\".\n\nPerkins says they found out about the move to Channel 4 via a TV news report.\n\n\"We wish it the best and in return we just wanted them to understand that it would have been hard for us to carry on in those circumstances. There's no antagonism there. I just think, 'If you're going to let us find out that way [from TV], then we're not really a team, are we?'\"\n\nJudge Mary Berry also left, while Paul Hollywood went to the show's new home, where he was joined by Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig.\n\nToksvig recently announced she was quitting. Matt Lucas is replacing her.\n\nTheir latest project is playing assassins in Sky 1 comedy Hitmen.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A sign in the window of a Vue cinema in Altrincham, Greater Manchester\n\nCinema chains Odeon, Cineworld, Vue and Picturehouse are shutting all their UK screens amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move comes a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised people to avoid public venues.\n\nCinema UK, which represents the industry, said \"most UK cinema sites\" would close in the coming days following the government advice.\n\nTheatres in London's West End and around the UK have already closed, and many concerts have been called off.\n\nOdeon has more than 120 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, while Vue has 91, Cineworld has 100, and also runs 24 Picturehouse sites. The BFI's Southbank complex has also been shut.\n\nEven before the announcements, many film fans were staying away from cinemas, with UK and Ireland box office takings down 50% between Friday and Sunday compared with the previous weekend, according to Screen Daily.\n\nOn top of that, cinemas that remain open might not have much to show. Many of the biggest new releases of the coming months, such as James Bond's No Time To Die and the new Fast and Furious film F9, have been put back in the schedules.\n\nWith more people staying at home, some film studios have decided to bring forward the home streaming releases of their latest releases.\n\nOn Monday, Universal Pictures said it would start making its movies available on home entertainment on the same day as the films' global theatrical releases, starting with the family animation Trolls World Tour next month.\n\nThe company will also make films that are currently in cinemas available on demand, starting as early as this week. This would include such titles as The Invisible Man and Emma.\n\nThe Invisible Man director and writer Leigh Whannell posted a message confirming the news 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 Leigh Whannell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Prime Minister was heavily criticised by the entertainment and nightlife industries on Monday, for advising people to stay away from theatres and cinemas while not forcing venues to close, which could have given them financial protection.\n\nSome independent venues, such as the Lonsdale Alhambra in Penrith, Cumbria, have decided to stay open for now.\n\nCinema UK said: \"The priority now is to ensure that thousands working in the sector are helped during an exceptionally challenging period for them, and that UK cinema venues are supported during what, for many, represents an unprecedented challenge to their existence.\"\n\nAn Odeon spokesperson said: \"In line with the latest government guidance on Covid-19, we are temporarily closing our cinemas.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the situation and look forward to welcoming back guests as soon possible.\"\n\nCineworld Group chief executive Mooky Greidinger said: \"At Cineworld and Picturehouse we are committed to providing safe and healthy environments for our employees and guests and have therefore made the difficult decision to close our cinemas in UK and Ireland until further notice.\n\n\"We deeply value our cinema-loving customers and have no doubt we will be serving everyone again as soon as possible with a full slate of Hollywood blockbusters and the best of independent films and content.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Conservationists want to triple the size of an existing nature reserve in Dorset\n\nOne of the UK’s most popular wildlife tourism destinations is getting a back-to-nature makeover.\n\nConservationists have teamed up to triple the size of a nature sanctuary on Purbeck Heath by adding private land to three existing reserves.\n\nIt will create the largest lowland heathland in England and it’ll allow species to shift round the landscape as the climate changes.\n\nThe area is currently among the finest in the UK for wildlife diversity.\n\nHowever, proponents say the new plan for the site in Dorset will allow smarter management.\n\nThe RSPB’s Peter Robertson told BBC News: “In recent years we’ve been trying to protect individual species on a micro-level on small fragmented sites.\n\nPeter Robertson says grazing animals will create different habitats on the heath\n\n“Sometimes we’ve even employed volunteers to reshape the earth with trowels to help a single type of wasp.\n\n“Now the fences are coming down, we’ll be able to allow grazing animals to roam around and do the job of disturbing the ground and creating different habitats for us.”\n\nThe Purbeck area – stretching from Poole to Wareham in the south-west of England – already attracts more than 2.5 million visitors a year, and many come to catch a glimpse of red squirrels or seabirds.\n\nThe new, expanded National Nature Reserve is a mosaic of lowland wet and dry heath, valley mires, acid grassland and woodland, along with coastal sand dunes, lakes and saltmarsh. It’s the size of Blackpool.\n\nAngela Cott says the reserve will help return local farmland to nature\n\nIt nurtures star attractions like rare sand lizards; Dartford warblers, silver-studded blue butterflies; nightjars; smooth snakes; and woodlarks.\n\nAt the heart of the reserve are two large tracts of mostly forested ground owned by Forestry England and the Rempstone Estate. They’ve both agreed to co-operate with the nature plan.\n\nMuch of the forest will be removed and the land will be restored to wet heath, which is highly effective at trapping carbon in the soil.\n\nOther partners are Natural England; Forestry England; Dorset Wildlife Trust and Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and the National Trust.\n\nAngela Cott, the National Trust’s manager on Brownsea island in Poole Harbour, told BBC News the new reserve is the latest initiative in a long drive to return local farmland to nature.\n\n“Brownsea Island was lowland heath since prehistoric times, but the Victorians worked hard to convert it into farmland and forestry,” she said. “We’re in it for managing nature now. It’s being transformed.”\n\nDoug Ryder, whose family has owned land on Purbeck for hundreds of years, told BBC News: “The estate sees the benefit of a combined management approach to enhance the environment, while balancing that with the continued need to operate a viable, rural estate for all those who derive their livelihood from it.\n\n\"Who benefits from the nature reserve? We all do... but the biggest winner has to be the environment itself.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"I have taken the decision to advise British national against international travel, globally\"\n\nBritish nationals should avoid all non-essential foreign travel to tackle the spread of coronavirus, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has advised.\n\nThe restrictions will be in place for 30 days initially but could be extended, the foreign secretary said.\n\nMeanwhile the Euro 2020 tournament has been postponed and all Church of England services have been suspended.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to unveil financial measures to ease the burden of the virus on UK businesses.\n\nIn another day of fast-changing developments across the globe:\n\nIt is the first time the FCO has advised against foreign travel anywhere in the world.\n\n\"UK travellers abroad now face widespread international border restrictions and lockdowns in various countries. The speed and range of those measures across other countries is unprecedented,\" Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement.\n\nThe Archbishops of Canterbury and York have said all Church of England services and other public worship should be suspended until further notice - although weddings and funerals can still go ahead, a spokesman said.\n\nThe number of people who have died with the virus in the UK has reached 56, after a second death was confirmed in Scotland.\n\nSome 1,950 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures - but the actual number of cases could be as high as 55,000.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the health select committee that a death rate of one fatality for every 1,000 cases was a \"reasonable ballpark\" figure, based on scientific modelling.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have been tested for the virus in the UK, but the government is primarily testing people who are in hospital. This means many people who have mild symptoms may never be diagnosed with the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nBritish people currently abroad do not have to immediately return to the UK - except for those in a few countries detailed in the FCO's travel advice.\n\nBut the FCO said travellers should bear in mind that flights could be cancelled at short notice as foreign countries grapple with restrictions being imposed by their own authorities.\n\nMr Raab said anyone who is still considering foreign travel should be \"realistic about the level of disruption they are willing and able to endure\".\n\nThe foreign secretary said the government would issue advice on how the flow of food and goods to the UK can be maintained.\n\nMr Raab said staff working on shipping routes should continue to do so as their travel was \"essential\".\n\nThe travel advice for British nationals has in part been brought in because of the stringent social distancing measures announced by Boris Johnson on Monday.\n\nThe key new measures the prime minister announced included:\n\nWhile schools will not be closed for the moment, a union leader has described the \"intolerable pressure\" teachers are under as a result of the lack of clarity about pupil and staff safety.\n\nBusinesses have also called for more details about the measures. Many small firms are unlikely to have insurance cover to compensate them for loss due to the virus, experts have warned.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to appear at the now daily Downing Street news conference later, where he will unveil more financial plans to help the economy during the pandemic.\n\nAt a cabinet meeting earlier, Mr Johnson told ministers: \"We are engaged in a war against the disease which we have to win.\"\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister urged the government to support businesses \"through what will be hugely challenging times\".\n\nMr Johnson has set up a daily meeting about the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease, which he will chair.\n\nIn other developments in relation to coronavirus:\n\nHave you been affected by travel restrictions? Are you struggling to get back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nEuro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEuropean football's governing body made the decision during an emergency video conference involving major stakeholders on Tuesday.\n\nThe tournament, due to take place from 12 June-12 July this summer, will now run from 11 June to 11 July next year.\n\nThe postponement provides a chance for European leagues that have been suspended to now be completed.\n\nBy moving the European Championship, Uefa now has a clash with the Women's European Championship, which is due to be held in England in 2021, beginning on 7 July.\n\nThe Nations League and the European Under-21 Championships are also scheduled to take place next summer.\n\nUefa said all three events will be \"rescheduled accordingly\", but it is currently unclear if that involves minor tweaks to dates, or large-scale postponements.\n\nIn delaying Euro 2020, Uefa said it wanted to avoid \"placing any unnecessary pressure on national public services\" of its 12 host countries, as well as helping allow domestic competitions to be finished.\n\n\"We are at the helm of a sport that vast numbers of people live and breathe that has been laid low by this invisible and fast-moving opponent,\" said Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.\n\n\"It is at times like these, that the football community needs to show responsibility, unity, solidarity and altruism.\n\n\"The health of fans, staff and players has to be our number one priority and in that spirit, Uefa tabled a range of options so that competitions can finish this season safely and I am proud of the response of my colleagues across European football.\n\n\"There was a real spirit of co-operation, with everyone recognising that they had to sacrifice something in order to achieve the best result.\"\n\nCeferin said it was important Uefa \"led the process and made the biggest sacrifice\", adding it comes \"at a huge cost\" but \"purpose over profit has been our guiding principle in taking this decision for the good of European football as a whole\".\n\nThe European Championship qualifying play-offs, scheduled to begin in March, have provisionally been moved to June.\n\nThey include two-legged ties between Scotland and Israel, Northern Ireland and Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Republic of Ireland and Slovakia.\n\nFriendly international matches due to be played this month have also been pushed back until June.\n\nUefa says a working group will examine calendar solutions that would allow for the completion of the current season and any other consequence of Tuesday's decisions.\n\nElsewhere, the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) says this year's Copa America, due to take place from 12 June to 12 July, has been postponed until 2021.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa says the newly-expanded Club World Cup, originally scheduled to take place in China in June 2021, will be postponed and a new date announced when \"there is more clarity on the situation\".\n\nThe organisation is also going to donate $10m (£8.3m) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.\n\nMany of Europe's domestic leagues - as well as the Champions League and Europa League - have been suspended following an increasing number of coronavirus cases around the continent.\n\nPlayers and coaches have also been affected by the virus or been told to go into self-isolation, meaning leagues have had to shut down.\n• Premier League: All elite football in Britain cancelled until 4 April at the earliest subject to \"conditions at the time\".\n• La Liga: Spain's top flight suspended until 4 April at the earliest when it will \"revaluate\" the situation.\n• Serie A: Italy has the highest number of cases in Europe and the country is in lockdown.\n• Bundesliga: Suspended until at least 2 April in Germany.\n• Ligue 1: Games initially played behind closed doors in France but now suspended \"until further notice\".\n\nEuropean Leagues, which represents football leagues across the continent, says it is committed to completing European and domestic seasons by 30 June at the latest.\n\nA mini-tournament to decide the Champions League and Europa League is expected to be one option put forward to ease fixture congestion caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPoland's representative in the meeting suggested the Champions League final could be played on 27 June and Europa League final on 24 June.\n\nThe scheduling of domestic matches in midweek alongside Champions League games or playing European games at weekends is also expected to be approved.\n\nThe qualifying rounds for the 2020-21 Champions League and Europa League tournaments may also be adjusted to take into account the delayed calendar.\n\nWhat do the nations involved say?\n\nThe Norwegian FA, whose side are yet to qualify for the tournament, were first to announce the news, followed by the French and other FAs.\n\nMark Bullingham, chief executive of the Football Association, said English football's governing body supported the decision.\n\nJonathan Ford, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, said his organisation \"fully supports the decisions taken\" and added that the health and safety of everyone is \"the most important and only factor to consider\".\n\nFrench Football Federation president Noel le Graet says the governing body \"fully supports\" Uefa and it was a \"wise and pragmatic decision\".\n\nWhat other limitations are there?\n\nWhile the big domestic leagues have problems over television contracts to solve if games do not take place, most countries rely on the payments from Uefa that come out of major international tournaments to allow their own leagues to function properly.\n\nThese would be at risk from any movement of the European Championship and are likely to form part of any agreement.\n\nAn estimated 400 staff are working for Uefa on the Euros. It is unknown what will happen to them if the tournament does not take place for another 12 months.", "The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US.\n\nFour patients received the jab at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle, Washington, reports the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless genetic code copied from the virus that causes the disease.\n\nExperts say it will still take many months to know if this vaccine, or others also in research, will work.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on Monday was a 43-year-old mother-of-two from Seattle.\n\n\"This is an amazing opportunity for me to do something,\" Jennifer Haller told AP.\n\nScientists around the world are fast-tracking research.\n\nThe biotechnology company behind the work, Moderna Therapeutics, says the vaccine has been made using a tried and tested process.\n\nDr John Tregoning, an expert in infectious diseases at Imperial College London, UK, said: \"This vaccine uses pre-existing technology.\n\n\"It's been made to a very high standard, using things that we know are safe to use in people and those taking part in the trial will be very closely monitored.\n\n\"Yes, this is very fast - but it is a race against the virus, not against each other as scientists, and it's being done for the benefit of humanity.\"\n\nTypical vaccines for viruses, such as measles, are made from a weakened or killed virus.\n\nBut the mRNA-1273 vaccine is not made from the virus that causes Covid-19.\n\nInstead, it includes a short segment of genetic code copied from the virus that scientists have been able to make in a laboratory.\n\nThis will hopefully prime the body's own immune system to fight off the real infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe volunteers were being given different doses of the experimental vaccine.\n\nThey will each be given two jabs in total, 28 days apart, into the upper arm muscle.\n\nBut even if these initial safety tests go well, it could still take up to 18 months for any potential vaccine to become available for the public.", "US actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have been released from a hospital in Australia after receiving treatment for coronavirus.\n\nThe couple, who are now in self-quarantine in their Queensland rented home, announced they had tested positive last week.\n\nThe couple were on the Gold Coast as Hanks made a film about Elvis Presley. Production has been put on hold.\n\nThere are currently 375 confirmed cases of the virus in Australia.\n\nHanks, 63, said last Thursday on Instagram he had come down with the virus.\n\n\"We felt a bit tired, like we had colds and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too,\" he said in a post.\n\nHe later followed up with another post, thanking \"everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of us\".\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 tomhanks This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor is not the only celebrity to have tested positive for the virus. British actor Idris Elba on Monday revealed he had tested positive.\n\n\"I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far. No panic,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nHe was tested because he was \"exposed\" to someone who had tested positive, he said. He has been self-isolating since Friday.\n\n\"We live in a divided world, we all feel it...now's the time for solidarity,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Idris Elba This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Australia's Department of Health, there are currently 68 confirmed cases in Queensland, where Hanks is located.\n\nAustralia's prime minister on Monday ordered a 14-day self-isolation period for anyone arriving in the country.\n\n\"We know that the virus cannot be absolutely stopped... but we can slow the spread,\" said Scott Morrison.\n\nForeign cruise liners will also be banned from docking in Australia for 30 days, but schools will remain open.\n\nIn February, more than 200 Australian nationals were flown home after 14 days in quarantine on remote Christmas Island.\n\nThey had been evacuated from China's Hubei province, where the outbreak emerged late last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the stars want you to fight coronavirus", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has advised against mass gatherings in the UK amid the coronavirus outbreak - effectively cancelling all remaining sporting events.\n\nJohnson said that from Tuesday mass gatherings requiring emergency workers are something \"we are now moving emphatically away from\".\n\nHe added that social venues, including pubs, should be avoided.\n\nBut he reiterated that transmission risks at mass gatherings remain low.\n• None 'In this current dark reality, sport doesn't matter but it does'\n• None How coronavirus has impacted sporting events around the world\n\n\"It remains true - as we said in the last few weeks - that this sort of transmissions of the disease at mass gatherings such as sporting events are relatively low, but obviously, logically, as we advise against unnecessary social contact of all kinds, it's right that we should extend that advice to mass gatherings as well,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"And so we've also got to ensure that we have the critical workers we need that might otherwise be deployed for those gatherings, to deal with those emergencies.\n\n\"So from tomorrow we will no longer be supporting mass gatherings with emergency workers in the way that we normally do.\"\n• None The Grand National, due to take place on 4 April, was cancelled\n• None Rugby union's Premiership was suspended for five weeks\n• None The Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup quarter-final matches will not be played\n• None The RFU suspended all rugby activity at both professional and community level until 14 April\n• None The 2020 Boat Race, due to take place on 29 March, was cancelled\n• None The Isle of Man TT races, due to take place from 30 May to 12 June, was cancelled\n• None The Olympic European boxing qualifying event in London, which started on Saturday and went behind closed doors on Sunday, will be suspended after Monday night's session\n• None British Gymnastics cancelled all its events, including the FIG World Cup and the British Artistic Championships, until the end of June 2020\n• None Premier League Darts, due to take place in Newcastle on Thursday, was postponed\n• None Snookers' Tour Championship, due to start on Tuesday in Llandudno, Wales, will take place behind closed doors\n\nA Football Association statement on grassroots football said: \"Following the government's announcement today, for people to avoid social contact and gatherings where possible, we are now advising that all grassroots football in England is postponed.\n\n\"Throughout this period, we have taken government advice with the priority being the health and wellbeing of all. We will continue to work closely with the grassroots game during this time.\"\n\nLast Friday, the coronavirus pandemic wiped out most of the world's major sporting events in an unprecedented 24 hours.\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, is hosting a video conference with major stakeholders on Tuesday.\n\nEuro 2020 is set to be postponed to allow league seasons to be completed.\n\nThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics, to be held from 24 July and 9 August, remain on. Organisers will meet via teleconference on Tuesday to discuss the latest coronavirus developments and the impact on the Games.", "Many schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.\n\nASCL general secretary Geoff Barton said experienced head teachers in large schools were saying they would struggle to stay up and running past Friday.\n\nIt comes after teaching unions spoke of the \"intolerable pressure\" of staying open as more and more staff get sick.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser has reiterated that schools will remain open for now.\n\nBut Sir Patrick Vallance, speaking to MPs at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, said school closures were still \"on the table\", as one of the measures that could be used to fight the virus.\n\nAt his press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said school closures were under \"continuous review\".\n\nMr Barton told the BBC: \"Some very seasoned head teachers have been calling me to say they will not be able to manage much longer.\n\n\"One said he had 17 members of staff call in sick. And I think this will be replicated around the country.\n\n\"Some areas may be worst hit than others, but there's an inevitability about this. The trajectory cannot go anything other than downwards.\n\n\"People are saying they will do well to get to the end of the week.\"\n\nHe thought it was time to work out how schools could best support the community if they did have to close, and said he had discussed this with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson at a meeting on Monday.\n\n\"If the assumption is we can't run schools as normal, what that may mean is getting ourselves some time to plan for the next phase of this,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nDecisions would have to be made, he said, as to who should be prioritised: \"Would it be those with exams coming up or children on free school meals?\"\n\nEarlier, NASUWT union head Chris Keates said government advice to keep schools open is causing chaos and confusion, amid fears pupils are carrying the virus.\n\nShe told of a \"rising sense of panic\" in schools as staff fear for their safety as more and more people get ill.\n\nAnother teaching union, the National Education Union, has urged ministers to close schools, and said it would be advising members with underlying conditions to stay off work from next Monday.\n\nThe schools watchdog in England, Ofsted, has been given permission by the government to temporarily suspend all routine inspections of schools, further education, early years and social care providers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said funding for early years grants will continue during any periods of nursery, preschool or childminder closures, or where children cannot attend due to coronavirus.\n\nThe uncertain situation is causing concern among many parents.\n\nHayley Beards from Sutton Coldfield, who has an eight-year-old, says she doesn't feel confident people will \"follow the rules\".\n\n\"There are other parents with vulnerable children, or vulnerable people all still sending their children in.\n\n\"People aren't used to making decisions and it's like they want to be told what to do - they want less guidance and more telling.\"\n\nJen from the East Riding told the BBC she is frustrated by the lack of information from her son's school.\n\n\"My son has had a cold since the end of last week, as children do, but last night he told me he feels like someone's punching him in his chest and his throat feels weird.\n\n\"This morning I was still in two minds but I called the school and the head teacher answered in two rings and said we should definitely self isolate as he's got two pregnant members of staff and children with grandparents to think about.\"\n\nDespite pressure from teaching unions, the government insists sending hundreds of thousands of pupils home would leave NHS and frontline care staff facing childcare crises.\n\nIt has said closures may be necessary in the future, but only \"at the right stage\" of the outbreak.\n\nThis notion was reflected by head teacher of The Chantry School, in rural Worcestershire, Andy Dickenson.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"If I close my school tomorrow to avoid a mass gathering are you coming for me @BorisJohnson?#schoolclosure.\"\n\nHe told the BBC he had been moved to question the policy due to the inconsistency between advice about mass gatherings and schools remaining open.\n\n\"Schools are an absolute breeding ground for bugs - we know that. Equally we have a social responsibility so ensure we are not putting into the care of their grandparents or NHS workers.\"\n\nHe suggested setting online learning for pupils at home and schools running on a skeleton staff to support the children of parents who need to go to work.\n\nNicola from Aberdeenshire has children in primary school, where regular hand washing has been implemented, and teaches in a secondary where there are no gels or hand washing.\n\n\"It seems like they are relying on students to follow guidance themselves, but they are teenagers so they just don't - it feels like we've been forgotten,\" she said.\n\nTara Telford from Cumbria, who has an eight-year-old and a five-year-old, is vulnerable because because she takes immunosuppressive medication due to a chronic disease.\n\n\"I have reason to be terrified but my kids are in. People should talk to schools, have the conversation, if more did what my kids' school did we could keep schools open for longer.\"", "Legislation will pass through the Commons unopposed this week as MPs feel the pressure to tackle coronavirus.\n\nEmergency legislation on the outbreak and the government's Budget will get \"nodded through\", rather than opposition MPs calling for a vote.\n\nSources said Labour was attempting to strike a balance between scrutinising government and facing up to the virus.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has written to the PM, saying both parties should work together on coronavirus legislation.\n\nThe outgoing Labour leader said he would ensure the opposition's concerns were taken on board as part of its drafting, rather than the party having to push for changes on the floor of the Commons.\n\nMPs are expected to wrap up the Budget debate on Tuesday without calling for a division - where members would shuffle through the lobbies for their votes to be counted.\n\nEmergency legislation dealing with the coronavirus outbreak is expected to come before the Commons on Thursday.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar thanked his colleagues on the opposition benches for their \"constructive approach\" to the outbreak.\n\n\"They are good and decent people,\" he said. \"Their approach is a prime example of how we can work together during this crisis.\"\n\nIn other signs that Parliament is trying to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak, the clerk of the House of Commons has suggested changes that could be implemented.\n\nAt present it is understood there are no specific proposals in place for Wednesday's session of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nKaren Bradley, chair of the Procedure Committee, which looks at the way MPs conduct business in the Commons, said: \"We are examining the appropriate and responsible steps to take to ensure that the core work of the House continues in a responsible manner.\n\n\"Implementation of any changes to the way the House functions will be a matter for the Speaker or the House, in consultation with the government and the House authorities.\"", "A medical devices maker has cast doubt on using non-specialist manufacturers to produce more ventilators.\n\nCraig Thompson, head of products at Oxfordshire company Penlon, said the idea that other firms could switch production was unrealistic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has urged engineering firms, including carmakers, to explore if they could make the life-saving equipment.\n\nVentilators are critical in the care of some people suffering coronavirus.\n\nBut there is concern the National Health Service will face a shortage of equipment as the virus infects more people.\n\nThe manufacturers association, Make UK, says that it would be possible for some specialist engineers to scale up production under licence.\n\nFord, Honda, car parts firm Unipart, digger maker JCB, and aero-engine maker Rolls Royce are among companies looking into the feasibility of switching some production.\n\nMedical ventilators are used to provide oxygen to patients with breathing difficulties, but there are not nearly enough of them to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Hancock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Department of Health has revealed that in a worst case scenario the NHS will need an additional 20,000 of the machines. The NHS currently has about 5,000 adult ventilators and 900 for children in critical care facilities.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has tweeted asking for help from \"all manufacturers who can support our National Effort for coronavirus ventilator production\".\n\nBut Penlon, which makes anaesthesia machines that include a ventilator, is cautious about hopes that other companies can start making the equipment.\n\n\"The idea that an engineering company can quickly manufacturer medical devices, and comply with the rules, is unrealistic because of the heavy burden of standards and regulations that need to be complied with,\" said Penlon's Mr Thompson.\n\nHe said \"the focus should be on existing medical device companies increasing supply of ventilators\".\n\nHis firm makes 750 machines a year and could double production, given time. In the short term he could provide the NHS with up to 200 more machines.\n\n\"The manufacture of medical devices, such as ventilators, is highly regulated,\" Mr Thompson adds. \"Typically a new medical device takes two or three years to develop and launch.\"\n\nThe UK's only specialist maker of ventilators for intensive care units, Breas, in Stratford-upon-Avon, has already increased capacity and moved to seven-day working.\n\nBreas makes a range of ventilators called Nippy, which are widely used in the NHS, but it only has 150 staff worldwide.\n\nMake UK believes that the solution to the ventilator problem is to use what it calls contract manufacturing.\n\n\"Rather than a particular company trying in their own factory to make thousands and thousands of ventilators - which they would struggle to do - you have around them other manufacturers with capacity,\" said Stephen Phipson, Make's chief executive.\n\nThe ventilator makers would licence their designs to other contractors. \"There are quite a few companies in the UK which do that sort of work every day of the week,\" Mr Phipson added.\n\nSmall manufacturers are already responding to the government's appeal for help.\n\nJules Morgan, who owns KPM Marine, in Birmingham, making equipment for the marine industry, has offered to see whether he could make ventilator components.\n\nJules Morgan says some components would have to be sourced from China\n\n\"The key will be in how it's managed. It'll involve different manufacturers making different parts - and somewhere it can go to be assembled,\" he says. \"It's a big ask, but I think it's doable.\"\n\nHe said challenges would include sourcing electrical components from China and testing the units, which is a time consuming process.\n\nBut he said expectations may have to change. \"These are extraordinary times, so you have to be pragmatic and innovative. We need to speak to medical professionals to find out what the core requirements are, and work to those.\n\n\"We may need to consider using older technology that's easier to produce in high volumes,\" Mr Morgan said.", "Scientists at the University of Cambridge say they are working \"as hard and as fast as we possibly can\" to find a vaccine to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nProf Jonathan Heeney spoke to BBC science correspondent Richard Westcott at a laboratory in the city, with access so restricted he had to talk through a glass window.\n\n\"It's a complex process. Right now we have our vaccine candidates in mice and they're generating immune responses to the vaccine,\" said Prof Heeney.\n\n\"We're working around the clock with a team of experts and everybody's collaborative. The sooner we can get a vaccine or therapy out there the better.\"", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has always denied the charges against her\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released from prison in Iran because of the coronavirus outbreak, her husband says.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker will be required to wear an ankle tag and remain within 300m (984ft) of her parents' home in Tehran.\n\n“The issue now is to make it permanent,” her husband Richard Ratcliffe said.\n\nHe added: “It is hard to relax just yet.”\n\nIran has temporarily released tens of thousands of prisoners in recent weeks in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOn Tuesday, it said it had released about 85,000 prisoners who had tested negative for the virus and had posted bail.\n\nThere had been reports that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be released earlier this month, but she was kept in detention.\n\nThe 41-year-old from London was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of espionage charges that she has always denied. The UK has also insisted she is innocent.\n\nShe was arrested at Tehran airport after visiting her family on holiday. She insists the visit was to introduce her daughter Gabriella to her relatives.\n\nWhat has the reaction been?\n\n\"I am relieved that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was today temporarily released into the care of her family in Iran,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n“We urge the regime to ensure she receives any necessary medical care,” he added.\n\n“My feelings today have been all of a mix – pleased at the happiness for Nazanin and Gabriella, but fear this is a new drawn out game of chess,” Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\n“It is one feeling to walk out of prison. It is completely different to walk back in. No-one should be asked to go and be a hostage again. So we are watching carefully,” he said.\n\nIn a statement released through the Free Nazanin campaign, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she was “so happy to be out”.\n\n“Even with the ankle tag, I am so happy,” she said. “Being out is so much better than being in - if you knew what hell this place is. It is mental. Let us hope it will be the beginning of coming home.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Ratcliffe urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be tougher with Iran. He said there had been “no breakthrough” in efforts to secure her permanent release.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he would leave \"no stone unturned\" to help free Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he pushed the PM to be \"brave\" with regards to Iran\n\nThe charity worker remains on medication for depression and on beta blockers - medicines which slow down the heart - for the panic attacks she's been suffering in jail, her husband said at the time.\n\nHer family and the UK government has always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nWhile he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson mistakenly said that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists when she was arrested.\n\nShe has always maintained she was in Iran visiting relatives.", "\"We don't want the business to fail, we've worked really hard and we love it,\" says Emma Gregory, who - together with Caroline Wakil - has built Urbanberry into a £140,000-a-year business.\n\nBut since the coronavirus outbreak, all the interviews set up by the fledging travel recruitment firm have been cancelled.\n\n\"This is devastating for us, it means no income indefinitely and all the people we love helping are losing their jobs and we have nothing to offer them,\" Emma told the BBC.\n\nThey are just one of the millions of small firms trying to survive the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're £12,000 down because of coronavirus\"\n\nMany industries are suffering due to the impact of social distancing and self-isolation, with the travel industry being one of the hardest hit.\n\nEmma and Caroline started their specialist firm in October 2017 with the aim of creating a business that also enabled them to have a life.\n\nBut, despite splitting the working week to make time for family Ms Gregory says they never have a day off.\n\n\"We basically do anything to try to build our business.\"\n\nEmma and Caroline worry that the future of that business is in doubt as a result of firms putting a freeze on hiring amid uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey hope the government will step in to help small businesses through the crisis.\n\nThe travel and hospitality sectors are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic\n\n\"We don't have the resources or additional revenue streams that a larger business will have and for us, a delay in paying corporation tax bills that are due in July would be beneficial,\" Emma says.\n\n\"Temporary help with childcare costs to enable us to keep ploughing away at recovering our business and not have to withdraw our children from coveted nursery spots - which would then impact the childcare provider themselves - would also be hugely appreciated.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) chair Mike Cherry told the BBC: \"Many will feel like they are being made to choose between their health and the very survival of their business. Nobody should have to make this choice.\"\n• None 5.8 millionsmall businesses in the UK at the start of 2019\n\n\"These are already very difficult times for all small businesses right across the country. There are huge concerns over supply chains, while on top of this footfall continues to drop. The prospect for these businesses over the coming weeks is increasingly bleak.\n\n\"The self-employed in particular will be worried about their livelihoods if they lose contracts or must go into self-isolation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's critical that the necessary support is in place to support the 5.8 million small businesses and self-employed.\"\n\nThe leisure and hospitality industry has also been calling for help after Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contact and to stay away from pubs and restaurants.\n\nEven before the prime minister's announcement, restaurant reservation app OpenTable had reported a 31% UK-wide drop in bookings compared to the same period in 2019.\n\nGavin Webb has run a successful music-based promotion and events company in Essex for almost two decades.\n\nThe events division of Catman Boogie Music & Entertainments is the biggest part of the company. It puts on private music festivals as well as events for schools and colleges.\n\nBut its schedule for the next two months has been emptied due to cancellations in response to the pandemic.\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 catmanboogie 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\nHe told the BBC: \"In the last week we have had our entire turnover from now until mid-May completely cancelled.\"\n\nMr Webb says the significant drop in income has had a devastating impact on the rest of his business.\n\n\"As a result we have had to lay some of our workforce off this week,\" he said.\n\n\"This morning we have also had to give our landlord notice to withdraw from our recording studio complex which helps local artists with recording and media services.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm not sure we'll survive.\"\n\nFounder of Exhale Pilates, Gaby Noble, said she was trying to remain positive in the face of the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"Being a small business there is always a vulnerability,\" but added that the coronavirus had spurred her to provide online lessons sooner rather than later.\n\n\"It was a matter of time until I was going to offer this service, I just didn't think it would be made under these circumstances.\"\n\nIn her studio where she trains some celebrities, there is additional deep cleaning going on.\n\nOverall, she's trying to maintain a sense of normality, as many other firms will in the face of uncertainty.\n\n\"I have wanted to maintain as much calmness as possible to keep the morale high for my self-employed teachers who are uncertain whether they will have enough money to pay their rent if and when the studio might have to close.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I feel like Great Ormond Street have taken her from me'\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital failed to properly investigate child deaths, suggests evidence uncovered by the BBC.\n\nThe source of one fatal infection was never examined and in another case GOSH concealed internal doubts over care.\n\nAmid claims GOSH put reputation above patient care, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged it to consider a possible \"profound cultural problem\".\n\nResponding, the central London hospital said it rejected all suggestions that it treated any child's death lightly.\n\nBBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme has spoken to several families whose children were treated at the world-famous hospital.\n\nAll said that while care at one point had been excellent, when things went wrong GOSH appeared to have little interest in fully understanding what had happened.\n\nTwo-year-old Alice Hobbs died at the hospital in November 2018.\n\nShe was prone to infection when she was admitted in September after a bone marrow transplant at the hospital early that year.\n\nAlice Hobbs had a bone marrow transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2018\n\nBut the ward she was placed on was dirty, her mother Kerry told BBC News.\n\n\"There were hairs on the side, almost like somebody had plucked their eyebrows. There were toys that had obviously been used and left in the room, and there was dust on the side. It was just dirty.\"\n\nWhile the hospital cleaned the room, Kerry argued that her daughter should be on an isolation ward.\n\nGreat Ormond Street disagreed, but in late October, Alice was diagnosed with invasive aspergillosis, a fungal infection which can be fatal for people with low immune systems.\n\nThe hospital did not investigate where it had come from.\n\n\"I was very upset,\" said Kerry. \"I was just told: 'No, no, no... we don't know, we couldn't possibly tell you how long she's had it for.'\"\n\nGOSH said that as Alice's death was not unexpected given the infection, it decided not to launch a Serious Incident Investigation, a national framework which outlines how it should examine the case and requires the hospital to report the incident to health regulators and NHS England.\n\nWe passed the details to Prof David Denning, who leads the UK's national aspergillosis centre.\n\nHis conclusion was stark: \"I would say there's about a 70 - 80% chance that this was a hospital-acquired infection.\"\n\nHe said that if Alice's death had occurred at a hospital where he worked. he would have launched a Serious Incident Investigation.\n\nAfter Alice died, Kerry Hobbs discovered her daughter was one of six children to die at GOSH since 2016, of invasive aspergillosis.\n\nThe hospital told us none of the cases was treated as a Serious Incident, while internal reviews of each death found no \"modifiable\" factors.\n\nThe concerns over how Great Ormond Street is run are shared by staff. A staff survey, published last month, made grim reading for management.\n\nOf 11 headline measures, GOSH is below average on 10.\n\nJeremy Hunt was Secretary of State for Health until 2018\n\nOn two aspects, including whether there is a safety culture, it received the lowest score of all trusts in its category, while on three other questions, including how bad bullying and harassment were, and how good the quality of care was, its own staff rated it as among the worst.\n\n\"If we want the NHS to offer the highest quality care in the world, then we have to change a blame culture and sometimes a bullying culture, for a learning and an improvement culture,\" the former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told File on 4.\n\n\"That staff survey would indicate they don't have that culture at Great Ormond Street.\n\n\"We know they deliver world-class care, it's an extraordinary institution.\n\n\"I hope that if they're going to preserve that, they will look at the profound cultural problems that the staff survey would appear to suggest is the case.\"\n\nThe hospital also faces allegations of covering up errors following the death of 14-year-old Amy Allan in 2018, after elective spinal surgery.\n\nLast year, the coroner found significant failings in her care by GOSH.\n\nAmy, from Dalry in North Ayrshire, had a number of heart problems\n\nImmediately after Amy's death, her parents raised numerous questions and complained to the hospital, which convened an internal meeting, chaired by Matthew Shaw, now its chief executive.\n\nThe minutes, seen by the BBC, show that as in Alice's case, instead of dealing with Amy's case as a Serious Incident Investigation, it chose to deal with it as a complaint, a process not requiring any external scrutiny.\n\nPeter Walsh, head of the charity Action Against Medical Accidents, said GOSH clearly failed in its statutory duty to carry out the highest level of investigation.\n\n\"It shouldn't make an iota of difference if a family complain about an incident as to whether it's recorded as a serious incident, if it meets the criteria. They're not mutually exclusive.\"\n\nThe complaint response did not acknowledge any major concerns about Amy's care, but the inquest process gave the family access to more than 3,000 documents and a rare insight into the hospital's complaint handling.\n\nEmails from two clinicians reveal concerns that Amy was not stable when her ventilation tube was removed, with one doctor writing: \"Do not send what you have written to parents as it is inaccurate and misleading.\"\n\nThe response did not hint at any of those disagreements - by then, however, it had gone through 18 rewrites.\n\n\"They knew what they were doing. They chose to take all that information out, that's what's unforgivable,\" said Richard Allan.\n\n\"They seem to be experts at covering up and protecting the GOSH reputation at all costs and it's staggering.\"\n\nChief executive Matthew Shaw told the BBC the hospital now accepts that it should have treated Amy's case as a serious incident.\n\n\"It was a decision made in good faith at that particular time and - in hindsight - I think we'd have wished that we'd have made a different one,\" Mr Shaw said.\n\nHe also said the hospital \"as a learning organisation\" would be open to Prof Denning's input on the death of Alice Hobbs.\n\nIn a further statement, the hospital said: \"We currently have the lowest complaint rate in the country.\n\n\"But we do not always get everything right.\n\n\"We always look to provide the very best care for our patients and families and are always seeking to learn and share these learnings when things haven't gone as we all would have hoped.\"\n\nFile on 4's Critical Condition: Allegations of failings at Great Ormond Street is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 17 March at 20:00 and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Hashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nThe brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been found guilty of murdering 22 people.\n\nHashem Abedi had denied helping to plan the \"sudden and lethal\" blast which killed or injured \"nearly 1,000\".\n\nThe Old Bailey heard the pair worked together to source materials used in the suicide blast after an Ariana Grande show at the venue.\n\nProsecutors said Hashem was \"jointly responsible\" with his brother for the attack on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe Manchester-born siblings \"stood shoulder to shoulder\" in the plot, with younger sibling Hashem \"just as guilty of murder\" as the bomber himself, the court heard.\n\nHashem, 22, was also found guilty of one count of attempted murder, encompassing the remaining injured, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nHe was not in court for the unanimous verdicts after he dismissed his legal team last week and decided to take no further part in the trial.\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\nSome of the victims' family members burst into tears as the verdicts were delivered after the seven-week trial.\n\nFigen Murray, mother of victim Martyn Hett, said while the verdicts bring her \"comfort to know the British justice system has played its role...it doesn't give us closure\".\n\nHis father, Paul Hett, added that while \"this verdict will not bring back the 22 victims murdered by Salman and Hashem Abedi,\" he said it will provide \"an overwhelming sense of justice to all those affected by this heinous crime\".\n\nTwenty-two men, women and children, aged eight to 51, were killed in the attack while 264 \"were physically injured\" and 670 more have since \"reported psychological trauma as a result of these events\".\n\nDuncan Penny QC, prosecuting, said the Abedi brothers had spent \"months\" planning the blast and had a \"shared goal [to] kill, maim and injure as many people as possible\".\n\nThe bomb comprised a five-litre paint can placed inside a money tin, packed with thousands of nuts and screws\n\nThey worked together to source chemicals and buy screws and nails to use as \"anti-personnel shrapnel\" in experimental improvised bombs, the court was told.\n\nThe brothers used 11 mobile phones in five months - some for as little as two hours - and used a variety of vehicles, despite neither passing their driving test, to transport components around the city.\n\nAfterwards, police found Hashem's fingerprints at key addresses and in a car, which still contained traces of explosives. Although he was in Libya when the device was detonated he was \"just as guilty\" as his brother, Mr Penny said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said Hashem may have been the senior figure in the plot, and intended to cause \"further bloodshed\" around the world.\n\nThe former Manchester College electrical installation student held down a series of menial jobs working in restaurants and takeaways, including a £5-an-hour role as a delivery driver.\n\nHe was described as \"unreliable\" and \"with the wrong idea of Islam\" by his boss, before he left for his parents' home country of Libya, 2,000 miles away, a month before the bombing.\n\nHashem was detained a day after the attack, and claimed he was subjected to torture by Libyan militiamen before his extradition two years later.\n\nHe told police he was \"relieved to be back in the UK\", adding: \"[I] wish to assist in this investigation as much as I can.\" He then offered \"no comment\" during police interviews.\n\nSalman Abedi and his brother lived in Fallowfield, four miles south of Manchester city centre\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Barraclough said Hashem was \"with his brother throughout the entire process\" of making and building the bomb and that he had taken a four-minute phone call from Salman on the night the device went off.\n\n\"At that point he (Salman) is getting that last-minute inspiration (from Hashem)...and he's telling him what he's about to do,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe he provided encouragement right up to the end. This was all about the sick ideology of Islamic State and this desire for martyrdom.\"\n\nHe added: \"These two brothers are literally hand in glove in this process.\"\n\nSalman Abedi was seen on CCTV arriving at Manchester Victoria station carrying a rucksack\n\nFollowing the verdicts, lawyer Victoria Higgins - representing 11 of the bereaved families - said they were relieved that the \"calculating\" killer had finally been brought to justice.\n\n\"Families have waited a long time to see Hashem Abedi face justice for his crimes and I think the overwhelming emotion for most will be one of relief that he cannot hurt anyone else,\" she said.\n\nSentencing will take place at a later date but the judge Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said it was a \"little way off\".\n\nA public inquiry into the bombing is due to begin in June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Secretary to the Treasury announced measures to help workers affected by coronavirus disruptions\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he supports sending money directly to Americans as part of a $1tn (£830bn) stimulus aimed at averting an economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.\n\n\"We're looking at sending cheques to Americans immediately,\" he said.\n\nThe $250bn (£207bn) in cheques are part of a huge aid package which the White House is discussing with Congress.\n\nIt follows widespread school and shop closures as the number of coronavirus cases in the US approached 6,000.\n\nThe US has been debating how to provide relief as activity grinds to a halt in response to curfews and other measures intended to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nDetails such as the size of the cheques, and who would qualify for them, are still under discussion.\n\nA $1tn aid package - roughly the size of the entire UK budget - would be larger than the US response to the 2008 financial crisis, amounting to nearly a quarter of what the US federal government spent last year.\n\nIn addition to the $250bn in cheques for families, the plan includes a bailout for airlines and hotels, among other measures. The proposal must be approved by Congress to move forward.\n\nWall Street rebounded sharply on Tuesday after the plan was announced, though not nearly enough to make up for the previous day's heavy losses.\n\nSeparate from the $1tn package, Mr Mnuchin said the government would also allow companies and individuals to delay their tax payments for 90 days.\n\n\"We look forward to having bipartisan support to pass this legislation very quickly,\" he said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump initially proposed a payroll tax cut, which would reduce the money the government automatically withholds from worker pay to pay for social programmes.\n\nHowever, critics said that relief would come too slowly and leave out those without jobs. Several high-profile economists had urged more direct assistance, including $1,000 payments, winning support from lawmakers such as Republican Senator Mitt Romney.\n\nMr Trump said he had come round to the view that faster, more direct relief is necessary.\n\n\"With this invisible enemy, we don't want people losing their jobs and not having money to live,\" Mr Trump said, adding that he wanted to target the relief to those who need it.\n\nMr Mnuchin said he hoped to send the cheques within two weeks.\n\n\"Americans need cash now and the president wants to give cash now and I mean now, in the next two weeks.\"\n\nJason Furman, an economist at Harvard University who had championed the idea, wrote on Twitter that he was thrilled to see it gain traction.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier, he said direct payments would help, even with so many shops closed for business.\n\n\"It would enable people to not work, if that's what they need to do. It will prevent some people from not making their rent payments,\" said Mr Furman, who served as a top economic adviser under former President Barack Obama.\n\n\"There are a lot of ways to spend money that don't involve going out.\"\n\nBut economist Gabriel Zucman, a professor at the University of California who has advised Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, said the government should prioritise help to businesses if it wants to avoid mass layoffs and company failures.\n\n\"What the US needs is massive support to small businesses to cover wages and maintenance costs during shutdown,\" he said, adding that lawmakers could opt to do both.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Zucman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe White House push for relief comes as Republicans and Democrats in Congress remain divided about what help is necessary.\n\nIt follows actions by the Federal Reserve to ease financial strains.\n\nThe bank on Tuesday said it will use emergency powers to purchase up to $1tr in short-term corporate debt directly from companies, reinstating a funding facility that was created during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIt is also offering another $500bn in overnight loans to banks. It has previously enacted two emergency rate cuts, and other stimulus measures.\n\nUS markets rallied about 6% following Tuesday's announcements after steep falls a day earlier. They have been in turmoil for weeks, as investors respond to the likelihood that the coronavirus will cause a sharp contraction in the US economy in coming months.", "The Prime Minister said Londoners should pay special attention to \"no contact advice\"\n\nTransmission of Covid-19 is happening more rapidly in London, the Prime Minister has said.\n\nAddressing the UK, Boris Johnson said London is weeks ahead of other regions in terms of the virus curve, meaning transmission is happening more rapidly.\n\nHe told Londoners to pay special attention to the advice to work from home and to avoid unnecessary social contact.\n\nPubs, clubs and theatres should no longer be visited, he added.\n\nAs of 16 March, London has 480 confirmed coronavirus cases. A total of 55 people have died in the UK due to Covid-19 - 14 of those were from London.\n\n\"The very draconian measures outlined will be asking a lot from the everyone\", the PM said.\n\n\"What we're doing is giving very strong advice that public venues such as theatres should no longer be visited.\n\n\"It's important that Londoners now pay special attention to what we're saying about non-essential contact and to take particularly seriously the advice about working from home and avoiding confined spaces such as pubs and restaurants.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nHis comments come after news passenger numbers on the London Underground have declined 19% during the outbreak.\n\nA shutdown of the West End and other theatres around the country is also likely.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan cancelled the upcoming St Patrick's Day celebrations and Buckingham Palace announced The Queen cancelled a planned visit to Camden on 26 March.\n\nThe mayor also told BBC London the Tube would run a Saturday service on weekdays.\n\nBethnal Green Tube station was quiet at 09:00 on Monday morning\n\n\"You should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues,\" Mr Johnson said in his first daily news briefing on Monday.\n\n\"The proprietors of those venues are taking the logical steps that you would imagine; you are seeing the change happen already.\n\n\"As for enforcement, we have the powers if necessary but I don't believe it will be necessary to use those powers.\"\n\nMr Johnson added that by the weekend those with the most serious health conditions will be shielded from social contact for 12 weeks.\n\nMr Khan said he supported the advice to Londoners and hopes the measures will reduce the chance of transmission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled an \"unprecedented\" set of financial measures to support the UK economy through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey include mortgage \"holidays\" for those in financial difficulty as well as £330bn in loans and £20bn in other aid to protect businesses facing losses as a result of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile all non-urgent operations in England and Scotland will be postponed to free up beds for virus patients.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll hit 71.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it would be a \"good outcome\" for the UK if the number of deaths from the virus could be kept below 20,000.\n\n\"Never in peacetime have we faced an economic fight like this one,\" Mr Sunak said at a Downing Street press conference, as he detailed measures to ease financial burdens caused by the virus.\n\nThe chancellor said the £330bn in loans - equivalent to 15% of GDP - would be available from next week to help businesses pay for supplies, rent and salaries.\n\nOther measures to be put in place include extended business rates relief and a three-month mortgage holiday for people in financial difficulty as a result of the virus.\n\n\"We must act like any wartime government and do whatever it takes to support our economy,\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at the same conference.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said there was nothing in the statement to protect renters - although Mr Sunak said measures would be announced in the \"coming days\".\n\nMr McDonnell also called for statutory sick pay to be increased and for those losing their jobs to be given some support.\n\nAnd unions raised concern that no measures were announced to help freelancers and people working in the so-called gig economy,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We must act like any wartime government\"\n\nNHS England's chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said postponing routine surgery from 15 April would help to expand critical care capacity to the maximum - to prepare for \"the likely influx of more coronavirus patients\".\n\nThe emergency policy to free up 30,000 beds will be in place for at least three months, he said.\n\nHowever, cancer operations will continue to go ahead, Sir Simon added.\n\nSir Simon said the health system in England has about 7,000 ventilators and there are plans to increase this to 12,000.\n\nBritish engineering firms have been called on to switch to making medical ventilators to help efforts to cope with the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nThe government set out emergency legislation before MPs in the Commons to tackle the outbreak, including measures giving powers to police and immigration officers to detain people and put them in isolation to protect public health.\n\nIn another day of fast-changing developments across the globe:\n\nMeanwhile Sir Patrick said that, despite the upcoming Mother's Day celebration, the over-70s should avoid having Sunday lunch with their families.\n\nHe also advised people taking painkillers to use paracetamol instead of ibuprofen, after French health officials indicated anti-inflammatory drugs could worsen the virus - a suggestion Sir Patrick said \"may or may not be right\".\n\nBBC news online health editor Michelle Roberts said up to 15,000 of England's 100,000 hospital beds could be freed up for coronavirus admissions by discharging other patients who are well enough to go home or be cared for in the community.\n\nShe added that Sir Simon would not say whether the measures will ultimately be enough to ease the pressure on the NHS.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said emergency measures by the NHS in Scotland would also include doubling the number of intensive care beds.\n\nThe number of people who have died with the virus in the UK has reached 71, after a second death was confirmed in Scotland, as well as a second in Wales. and a further 14 in England.\n\nSome 1,950 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures - but the actual number of cases could be as high as 55,000.\n\nSir Patrick told the health select committee that a death rate of one fatality for every 1,000 cases was a \"reasonable ballpark\" figure, based on scientific modelling.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have been tested for the virus in the UK, but the government is primarily testing people who are in hospital. This means many people who have mild symptoms may never be diagnosed with the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"I have taken the decision to advise British national against international travel, globally\"\n\nEarlier the Foreign Office advised British nationals to avoid all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nThe restrictions will be in place for 30 days initially but could be extended, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the House of Commons.\n\nIt is the first time the UK has advised against foreign travel anywhere in the world.\n\n\"UK travellers abroad now face widespread international border restrictions and lockdowns in various countries,\" Mr Raab said in a statement.\n\n\"The speed and range of those measures across other countries is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish people currently abroad do not have to immediately return to the UK - except for those in a few countries detailed in the Foreign Office's travel advice.\n\nBut the Foreign Office said travellers should bear in mind that flights could be cancelled at short notice as foreign countries grapple with restrictions being imposed by their own authorities.\n\nThe foreign secretary added the government would issue advice on how the flow of food and goods to the UK can be maintained, and that staff working on shipping routes should continue to do so as their travel was \"essential\".\n\nThe travel advice for British nationals has in part been brought in because of the stringent social distancing measures announced by Boris Johnson on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nThe key new measures the prime minister announced included:\n\nWhile schools will not be closed for the moment, a union leader has described the \"intolerable pressure\" teachers are under as a result of the lack of clarity about pupil and staff safety.\n\nSir Patrick said closing schools remained an option to help curb the spread of the virus but would cause an \"enormous problem\" for the workforce.\n\nHe told MPs such an intervention could have \"all sorts of complicated effects\" such as that children off school might have to be looked after by elderly grandparents.\n\nAt a cabinet meeting earlier, Mr Johnson told ministers: \"We are engaged in a war against the disease which we have to win.\"\n\nMr Johnson has set up a daily meeting about the virus, which he will chair.\n\nIn other developments in relation to coronavirus:\n\nHave you been affected by travel restrictions? Are you struggling to get back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Damani Mauge was fatally stabbed while on the number 130 bus\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering teenager Damani Mauge, who was found with fatal stab wounds on a bus in Croydon.\n\nThe teenager, from Mitcham, was arrested on Sunday and is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe has also been charged with attempted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.\n\nPolice were called to a stabbing on a 130 bus in Whitehorse Lane in south London at about 20:30 GMT on 8 March.\n\nDamani, 17, was found with fatal stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene almost 40 minutes later.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was a stab wound to the chest, police said.\n\nThe attack happened on Whitehorse Lane in South Norwood\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Macron says the first round of the country's municipal elections vote can go ahead on Sunday, but said schools and colleges would shut from Monday.\n\nIn an address to the nation, he also urged people over 70 and people with underlying health conditions to stay at home as far as possible.", "Speaking on BBC Evening Extra, Sinn Féin's chief whip John O'Dowd says his party will spend the next few days \"reading and studying the report\".\n\nWhen asked about references in the document to his party colleague Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, he says any \"criticism relating to his role\" was after issues with the RHI scandal had come to light and \"did not relate to the RHI scheme itself\".\n\nHe adds that the scheme was the responsibility of the DUP minister who was in control of commissioning, designing and overseeing the scheme.\n\nHowever Mr O'Dowd says there are lessons in the recommendations to be learnt by all parties.\n\nMr O'Dowd adds that there are \"clearly differences between us and other parties\" but that everyone is \"trying to make\" power sharing work and to ensure \"proper procedures are in place\".\n\n\"We need to be ensuring that we are working for families and workers and delivering change this society needs,\" he adds.", "Amaleelah wants to raise awareness of \"slut shaming\" in different communities\n\nTwo sisters who had experienced \"honour hate\" in their community are to work to raise awareness of it in schools.\n\nAmaleehah and Nadia Aslam-Forrester, from Bristol, were targeted by members of the Asian community for posting photos of themselves in skirts online.\n\nThe sisters, who have a Pakistani mother and English father, said they were \"slut-shamed\" for not upholding cultural norms of women's behaviour.\n\nThey are now working with a charity to educate young people about the issue.\n\nSo-called honour crimes are acts that have been committed to protect or defend the supposed honour or reputation of a family and extended community.\n\nAmaleehah Aslam-Forrester, 22, said the pair had always been creative and would use Instagram to express their love of art, modelling and clothes.\n\nHowever, they faced a backlash online for the photographs because of what they said were \"deeply ingrained cultural pressures\".\n\nAmaleelah said the \"hate messages\" they received were \"awful\"\n\nTheir social media presence also alarmed their mother.\n\nWorried about their safety, she put the sisters in touch with Integrate, a youth-led charity in Bristol which has campaigned for gender and racial equality and been supported by Sport Relief.\n\nThey attended a series of workshops with other young women about issues including female genital mutilation, sexism and honour-based violence and eventually made a film about the issue.\n\nAmaleehah said: \"In our community, honour lies within the body of a woman.\n\n\"There's always pressure on her to uphold men's honour in her behaviour and also in the way she dresses.\n\n\"We had one case where someone told us to drink bleach [on social media].\n\n\"We got a lot of hate messages. Some people were anonymous, making fake accounts. It was awful.\n\n\"And that was all because we were being judged, there was stereotyping involved.\"\n\nShe said \"slut-shaming\" in general was about women's honour and there is no culture in society that does not experience some form of this.\n\n\"Integrate gave us a voice in a community that didn't really understand us.\"\n\nAmaleehah is now employed to raise awareness of honour hate in all communities in schools across the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nApril's London Marathon has been postponed and rearranged for 4 October because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe event was scheduled to take place around the streets of the city on Sunday, 26 April.\n\nIt is the first time the race has been postponed since its launch in 1981.\n\n\"The world is in an unprecedented situation, grappling with a global pandemic of Covid-19, and public health is everyone's priority,\" said event director Hugh Brasher.\n• None Coronavirus information: What should I do?\n\nThe Manchester Marathon, scheduled for Sunday, 5 April, has also been postponed, with organisers hoping to hold the race on an alternative date in the autumn.\n\nAnd the Brighton Marathon, due to take place on Sunday, 19 April, has been rescheduled for 20 September.\n\nLondon Marathon organisers say every runner with a marathon place will be eligible for the new October date, but they can claim a refund if they want to.\n\nNearly 43,000 runners competed in 2019, with £66.4m raised for charity.\n\nThe decision comes on a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide.\n• None has been suspended until 3 April.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between has been postponed, as has Sunday's Premiership Cup final between\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n• None the Masters, has been postponed.\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\n\"We know how disappointing this news will be for so many - the runners who have trained for many months, the thousands of charities for which they are raising funds and the millions who watch the race every year,\" added Brasher.\n\n\"We know that there will be many, many questions from runners, charities and others and we ask you to please bear with us as we work through the detailed planning process to deliver the 2020 London Marathon on its new scheduled date.\"\n\nThe event was also scheduled to incorporate Team GB trials for this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo.\n\nBritish Athletics says it hopes to organise a separate marathon trial specifically for the Olympics for the end of April, likely to be in a closed location with limited numbers.\n\nIt is the latest sporting event to be cancelled as authorities seek to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nOn Friday, all elite football in Britain, including the Premier League, EFL, FA Women's Super League and Scottish Premiership, was suspended until at least April 3.\n\nGolf's PGA Tour cancelled all events until 16 April including the Players Championship, which began in Florida on Thursday, and next month's Masters in Augusta.\n\nThe England cricket team's two-Test series in Sri Lanka has also been called off.\n\nAt the time of publication (17:00 GMT) more than 132,500 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in 123 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization. The total number of deaths worldwide is nearly 5,000.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nThe Masters has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe first men's major championship of the year was due to begin on 9 April at Augusta National in Georgia.\n\n\"We hope this puts us in the best position to safely host the Masters Tournament and our amateur events at some later date,\" said Fred Ridley, chairman of Augusta National.\n\nIt is the Masters' first postponement since World War II, which stopped the tournament in 1943, 1944 and 1945.\n\nEarlier on Friday the PGA Tour cancelled the Players Championship and stopped play on the circuit until after the Valero Texas Open, which was scheduled to end on 5 April - the day before Masters week would have begun.\n\nThe decision comes on a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide.\n• None has been suspended until 3 April.\n• None has been moved from 26 April to 4 October, with the Manchester and Brighton Marathons also postponed.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between has been postponed, as has Sunday's Premiership Cup final between\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\nThere is therefore no golf scheduled on the PGA Tour until the RBC Heritage on 16 April, with the European Tour's next event set to be the Andalucia Open on 30 April. The first ladies major of the year - the ANA Inspiration - was also called off on Friday.\n\n\"Considering the latest information and expert analysis, we have decided at this time to postpone the Masters Tournament, the Augusta National Women's Amateur and the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals,\" Ridley added in a statement.\n\n\"The health and well-being of everyone associated with these events and the citizens of the Augusta community led us to this decision.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the ever-increasing risks associated with the widespread coronavirus have led us to a decision that undoubtedly will be disappointing to many, although I am confident is appropriate under these unique circumstances.\n\n\"As coronavirus continues to impact the lives of people everywhere, we seek your understanding of this decision and know you share our concern given these trying times.\"\n\nAs of 14:45 GMT, more than 125,000 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in 118 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization. The total number of deaths is more than 4,600.", "A senior member of the Australian government, home affairs minister Peter Dutton, has tested positive for coronavirus, he said on Friday.\n\nMr Dutton, who sits on the national security committee, said he woke up with a \"temperature and sore throat\".\n\nHe said he immediately contacted his local health department in Queensland and is now in hospital.\n\nThere are currently 156 confirmed cases in Australia, including US actor Tom Hanks, who is in Queensland.\n\nHanks is there with his wife Rita Wilson - who also has the virus - to make a film about Elvis Presley.\n\n\"This morning I woke up with a temperature and sore throat. I feel fine and will provide an update in due course,\" said Mr Dutton on Twitter.\n\n\"It is the policy of Queensland Health that anyone who tests positive is to be admitted into hospital and I have complied with their advice.\"\n\nMr Dutton had on Thursday been asked why people entering Australia weren't being tested. He said it was not possible to test everyone coming into the country.\n\n\"For 99% of people there's no issue,\" he said, according to radio station 4BC.\n\nMr Dutton recently travelled to Washington DC for a meeting on child sexual exploitation. While there, he met President Trump's daughter, Ivanka.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Australia in the US 🇦🇺🇺🇸 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Australia in the US 🇦🇺🇺🇸\n\nEarlier on Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for gatherings of more than 500 people to be cancelled, but said he would still attend a weekend rugby game.\n\nThree people in Australia have died from the virus so far, but health officials warn that millions more are likely to contract the virus within the next six months.\n\n\"We're anticipating 20% of the population in the first wave to be affected,\" said Kerry Chant, the chief medical officer for the New South Wales (NSW) state government, according to a Reuters report.\n\nMore than 125,000 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in 118 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic wiped out most of the world's major sporting events in an unprecedented 24 hours.\n\nAs Friday began, the Premier League was one of the last football competitions standing - albeit with fans awaiting the outcome of an emergency meeting.\n\nDuring the wait, at 10:20 GMT, England's men's cricket Test tour or Sri Lanka was cancelled. Then at about 11:00 GMT the Premier League and EFL announced: no football until April.\n\nIn fact, there will be no elite football in the whole of Britain for the next three weeks at least - with BBC Sport's Dan Roan reporting that a Premier League and EFL re-start on 3-4 April is privately deemed \"almost impossible\".\n\nThe only Six Nations fixture still scheduled for this weekend, Wales v Scotland, was definitely on at 09:30 GMT, but called off by 14:00.\n\nMore followed. The Masters was also postponed at 14:00, and it was announced at 17:05 that April's London Marathon will be moved to October.\n\nThere was still some live sport happening. A crowd of 68,859 watched Al Boum Photo win a second successive Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n• None Coronavirus information - what should I do?\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\nIf you struggled to keep up with Friday's continuous stream of cancellations, here is what is off and what is still going ahead this weekend.\n\nWhich sports events have been cancelled because of coronavirus?\n\nOn a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide, here is a round-up:\n• None has been suspended until 3 April.\n• None were postponed, joining the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and USA leagues in taking action.\n• None has been moved from 26 April to 4 October, with the Manchester and Brighton Marathons also postponed.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between has been postponed, as has Sunday's Premiership Cup final between\n• None hours after the Players Championship was\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n\nWhich sports events are still going ahead?\n\nBut there is still live sport this weekend, here's what remains at the time of publication:\n• None Horse racing in England is continuing as scheduled with the Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on Saturday, where several thousand spectators are expected, and fixtures at Fontwell, Kempton, Newcastle and Wolverhampton.\n• None Rugby league fixtures, with the exception of Catalans v Leeds Rhinos, are on this weekend.\n\nWhat could be next?\n\nBBC News reports that the UK Government could ban mass gatherings from as early as next week in a shift in policy to ease pressure on emergency services.\n\nAs it stands, the Grand National is still going ahead on 4 April.\n\nAttention will now turn to the summer. European football's governing body Uefa has called an emergency meeting on Tuesday at which the possibility of postponing Euro 2020 by one year will be an option discussed.\n\nPremier League clubs will hold a second emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the outcome of the Uefa decision on Euro 2020 and how it might impact the rest of the domestic season.\n\nAnd what about the world's biggest sporting event - the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games?\n\nJapan's Olympics minister has conceded the Games could be postponed until later in the year if the coronavirus outbreak makes their scheduled start on 24 July unfeasible.\n• None How to keep safe\n• None What are the symptoms?\n• None How prepared is the UK?\n• None What are your rights?", "Supt Robyn Williams has been sacked for gross misconduct after a 36-year police career\n\nOne of the UK's most senior black female police officers has been sacked after her conviction for possessing a video clip of child abuse.\n\nSupt Robyn Williams was ruled by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball to have committed gross misconduct.\n\nAt a fast-track misconduct hearing, Ms Ball said Williams's failure to report the matter was \"very grave\".\n\nShe pointed to Williams's \"lack of truthfulness and judgement\".\n\nThe superintendent was found guilty in November of having footage of child sexual abuse on her phone. At her trial, Williams said she had not viewed the 54-second video, which was sent by her sister, and did not know it was on her phone.\n\nBut Ms Ball said that Williams's conduct amounted to \"discreditable behaviour\" likely to undermine public confidence and was not a \"trivial lapse\".\n\nThe assistant commissioner said her failure to report the matter could have caused significant further harm to the child.\n\nShe said it was \"entirely unacceptable\" for police officers responsible for enforcing the law to break it themselves.\n\nMs Ball added that racial bias had played \"no part\" in her decision, although the Metropolitan Black Police Association argues Williams has been unfairly targeted because she is black and accuses the force of \"institutional racism\".\n\nIn a statement, the association said the decision to sack Williams was \"outrageous\".\n\n\"There are guidelines that allow for discretion, however Robyn was not afforded this privilege from start to finish of the process,\" it added.\n\n\"Despite the unprecedented and overwhelming expressions of support from colleagues, communities of London and beyond, calling for Robyn to continue to serve London, their voices were ignored.\"\n\nWilliams's friends and supporters, who were following the hearing on monitors in a separate room, gasped as the decision was read out. One of them started applauding sarcastically.\n\nWilliams, pictured with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, was highly commended for her work helping families affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster\n\nDuring Williams's trial, Judge Richard Marks QC said she had made a \"grave error of judgement\" in failing to report the video after it was sent to her.\n\nThe superintendent, who has been a police officer for 36 years, was ordered to do unpaid work in the community and register as a sex offender, even though the court accepted there was no sexual element to her offending.\n\nGerard Boyle QC, for Williams, told the special misconduct hearing that she had spent her entire police career since the age of 18 acting on behalf of victims of crime and abuse and that she was appalled by such abuse imagery.\n\nHe added that she was accused of one allegation of one breach of one paragraph of professional standards behaviour.\n\nMr Boyle told the hearing his client \"poses no risk to anyone, let alone children or young people\".\n\nWilliams has lodged an appeal against her conviction but judges have not yet decided whether to grant approval for the case to be heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sufra foodbank and community centre said it was struggling to obtain enough supplies\n\nFood banks say they have a shortage of basic items because shoppers are stockpiling as fears grow over the spread of coronavirus.\n\nLondon food bank Sufra, which donates 9,540 parcels annually, says the likes of pasta and rice are hard to get.\n\nA food bank in Bedfordshire has warned stockpiling \"will hit the vulnerable\".\n\nIn Coventry, one food bank said supplies have \"never been so low\" and in Billingham donations have dropped considerably in recent days.\n\nFood bank charity The Trussell Trust said it hoped the \"generous public\" would continue donating.\n\n\"We're working with our network on how best to support people as the situation unfolds,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Food banks say they have a shortage of basic items because of coronavirus\n\nThe North Paddington Foodbank (NPF) in London said its donations were down by 25% meaning it had to spend an additional £200 per week to top up supplies.\n\nBut manager James Quayle said finding supplies has been difficult.\n\n\"The items we are trying to purchase may not be available [from supermarkets],\" he said.\n\n\"We've been hit quite hard by it to be honest.\"\n\nVolunteers wear gloves at the North Paddington Foodbank to prevent cross contamination\n\nIn Coventry, the Queen's Road Baptist Church Food Bank, which has been operating for a decade, usually helps up to 4,000 people each year.\n\nAlthough now is traditionally a quieter time for donations, contingency plans are in place, in the event the virus takes hold.\n\nBut Graham Carpmail, from the bank, said his fridge is all but empty and supplies have diminished.\n\n\"I've never been so low with what we've got to give people,\" he added.\n\nOn Teesside, the Billingham and Stockton Borough Food Bank said donations had dropped.\n\n\"I think we're lower on stock because people have started to stockpile and so don't give as much,\" Jill Coyle, from the bank, said.\n\n\"We put [long-life] milk in every bag and we are low. Likewise with juice and squash.\n\n\"Sugar and coffee are the other things everybody wants. Coffee is a bit more expensive so we get less of it donated.\n\n\"Shops don't donate food as such, but have a basket at the end of the tills so people can shop and donate an item. It's that collection that's been lower.\"\n\nIn Coventry, staff say supplies have \"never been so low\"\n\nBack in Paddington, King Anthony Sarkar, a regular food bank user, said he could not manage without it.\n\n\"Tinned foods, rice and pasta, everything here makes a meal,\" he said. \"You get a meal all the time.\"\n\nMr Quayle said he was concerned they could have to close their doors and run a delivery service only to those in greatest need.\n\nHis experience was echoed by Rajesh Makwana, from the Sufra food bank in north-west London, who said 40% of its users are refugees or asylum seekers who rely on the food banks as they are not allowed to work.\n\nIt has put out an emergency appeal for donations after receiving fewer items from its collection points at schools, churches and local small businesses.\n\nMr Makwana said they have struggled to buy staple items from their normal outlets as supermarkets ran out of these cheaper items.\n\n\"The families we support simply can't afford to panic buy and hoard food, they're already knocking on our door in search of basic supplies,\" he said.\n\nRajesh Makwana says his food bank in Brent was pre-packaging goods into parcels to prevent germs spreading\n\nKing Anthony Sarkar has been relying on a food bank for the past four years\n\nMr Makwana said the charity had now started rationing things like pasta and toiletries.\n\nLike NPF, Sufra is also looking at running a delivery-only service in order to protect volunteers from cross-contamination.\n\n\"We want to provide a service but we're struggling on so many fronts,\" he added.\n\nThe Parson Cross Initiative in Sheffield is planning for a fall off in donations in the coming weeks.\n\nThe food bank said it was also taking precautions by issuing \"grab bags\" from next week in a bid to cut down on person-to-person contact.\n\nNormally, people can have a snack and a drink while they wait.\n\n\"Grab bags\" being prepared at one Sheffield food bank to avoid spreading germs\n\nThe Felix Project in Enfield, London, which collects just-in-date and surplus food from supermarkets and restaurants to distribute to 330 charities and schools, said its warehouses were now short.\n\n\"Everyone is scaling back and we've seen a significant drop. It is worrying,\" Damian Conrad said.\n\nHe was especially concerned for his schools which have a high percentage of pupils relying on a school dinner as their main meal.\n\nThe Oasis Project in Plymouth is almost empty and has seen a run on its meat, fruit juices and tinned tomatoes.\n\nEunice Halliday said: \"If more people self-isolate and only get statutory sick pay, that's likely to lead to an increase in people needing the food bank.\"\n\nAbout 70 people a day rely on the food bank in Plymouth\n• None Coronavirus cases and risk in the UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who smashed a wine glass into a Miss England finalist's face during a row at a bar has been convicted of unlawful wounding.\n\nChina Gold, 27, caused \"horrific\" injuries and left professional golfer Olivia Cooke, 21, with glass embedded in her forehead and needing stitches.\n\nMaidstone Crown Court heard the women were at the Farm House pub in West Malling, Kent, on 19 October 2018.\n\nGold, of London Road, Ditton, is due to be sentenced on 27 April.\n\nJudge Philip Statman told Gold it was \"a very serious matter\" with a starting point of three years in prison.\n\nHe agreed to a request for a pre-sentence report for Gold from her defence barrister.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were told the last orders bell had sounded when the row started.\n\nMs Cooke told the court Gold made a \"crude comment\" and started \"coming at me verbally, just calling me a slag and a slut and all this, and I am definitely not\".\n\nShe said Gold followed her outside the pub, grabbed her by the throat, and hit her twice in the ensuing struggle, \"one to break the glass and the second one to cause injury\".\n\nOlivia Cooke was attacked by China Gold in a West Malling pub\n\nProsecutor Emin Kandola said it was not in dispute Gold caused the injuries, but said the defendant claimed to have been acting in self-defence.\n\nDefence barrister Robin Griffiths suggested to Ms Cooke during cross-examination that she was the one who had confronted Gold.\n\n\"You weren't prepared to let it go, you went after her,\" he said.\n\nMr Griffiths suggested Gold had thrown the glass at Ms Cooke, and did not strike her twice with it.\n\nMs Cooke told jurors she had no glass in her hand at that point. She also said Gold did not throw the glass.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actors Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel pictured promoting the film in January\n\nThe release of the new Fast and Furious film has been pushed back by almost a year as the impact of the coronavirus outbreak hits Hollywood.\n\nF9 was due out in May, but will now not reach cinemas until April 2021.\n\n\"It's become clear that it won't be possible for all of our fans around the world to see the film this May,\" a statement said on Twitter.\n\nF9 is the ninth main instalment in the franchise, and will star Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron.\n\n\"While we know there is disappointment in having to wait a little while longer, this move is made with the safety of everyone as our foremost consideration. Moving will allow our global family to experience our new chapter together.\"\n\nIt follows delays to other films including James Bond's No Time To Die, A Quiet Place II and Peter Rabbit 2.\n\nThe high-speed Fast and Furious franchise is one of the most popular and lucrative in Hollywood.\n\nIt started in 2001 and the last film, 2017's The Fate of the Furious, took more than $1.2bn (£940m) at box offices worldwide.\n\nA Quiet Place II had been due for release on 20 March.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, thriller sequel A Quiet Place II was also postponed from its 20 March release date.\n\nDirector John Krasinski wrote on Twitter: \"One of the things I'm most proud of is that people have said our movie is one you have to see all together. Well due to the ever-changing circumstances of what's going on in the world around us, now is clearly not the right time to do that.\n\n\"As insanely excited as we are for all of you to see this movie... I'm gonna wait to release the film til we CAN all see it together!\"\n\nThe decisions come amid growing fears about the spread of the virus and increasing restrictions on public gatherings in many countries.\n\nThe unused red carpet was rolled up outside the European premiere of Mulan on Thursday\n\nOther developments on Thursday in the world of film, TV and games:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Disney has promised to continue making films and TV shows with \"an increased commitment\" to diversity in its output, according to its boss Bob Chapek.\n\n\"We want to represent our audience,\" he said at a meeting for the company's shareholders this week.\n\n\"We want to tell stories that our audience wants to hear, that reflects their lives.\"\n\nHe was responding to a question about LGBT characters in their films and pride events at theme parks.\n\nThere will be a transgender character in a future Marvel film, and upcoming superhero movie The Eternals will introduce Marvel's first openly gay lead character to cinema screens.\n\nThere has been some criticism recently after Disney moved the Love, Simon spin-off series from the Disney+ streaming service to Hulu, which it also owns.\n\nCalled Love, Victor, the show is a based on the film and is about a teenage boy who comes out as gay at high school.\n\nVariety reported that it wouldn't fit in with \"family-friendly\" shows on Disney+.\n\nHilary Duff recently appeared to suggest the Lizzie McGuire reboot is on hold for a similar reason.\n\nA gay character was planned to appear in the revival of the Disney star's show.\n\nOther shows on the streaming service do feature gay characters.\n\nDisney boss Bob Chapek said the company won't stop pushing forward with more diversity\n\nAt the shareholder's meeting, Disney CEO Bob Chapek was asked a question by Catholic campaigner Caroline Farrow, who represents conservative group Citizen Go.\n\nAs part of her question, she asked: \"Is it perhaps time to reconsider what you can do to make Disney more family friendly, to make it safe for people around the world, not just one particular minority?\"\n\nShe also claimed a petition which asks Disney not to hold gay pride events in its parks was signed by \"almost 700,000 people\".\n\nA petition on the Citizen Go website entitled: \"Stop LGBT indoctrination at Disneyland\" has just over 400,000 signatures.\n\nDisneyland Paris hosted a pride event last year and this year's celebration is currently scheduled for June.\n\nAvengers: endgame became the highest-grossing film ever\n\nNew Disney-Pixar film Onward includes a reference to a lesbian couple - which led to it being banned in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.\n\nThere have also been brief references to gay characters in other big Disney-owned franchises.\n\nAvengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo played the minor role of \"grieving man\" in the 2019 blockbuster.\n\nAnd Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features (spoiler) the first same-sex kiss in the franchise's history - described by a reviewer as \"a brief flash of two women kissing... among a crowd of characters\".\n\nIn January, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said there will be an openly transgender character \"in a movie that we're shooting right now.\"\n\nAnd Phastos, the character played by Bryan Lee Henry in The Eternals, was announced to be openly gay - with a husband and kids.\n\nHaaz Sleiman, who plays Phastos' husband in the upcoming film, recently said the film features \"a beautiful, very moving kiss. Everyone cried on set.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A new report by the Race Equality Foundation has found a wide range of inequalities linked to mental illness in Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities.", "Emiliano Sala signed for Cardiff City just two days before he was killed in the plane crash\n\nInvestigators are set to reveal what caused a plane crash which killed footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nThe Piper Malibu plane carrying the 28-year-old striker from Nantes, France to his new club Cardiff City crashed into the English Channel on 21 January 2019.\n\nThe body of the Argentine player was recovered from the wreckage, but Mr Ibbotson's body has never been found.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) will publish its report later.\n\nIt is expected to establish why and how the plane crashed, detailing its final moments and how carbon monoxide might have leaked into the cabin.\n\nIn August, the AAIB said potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide had been found in Sala's blood during toxicology tests.\n\nLevels were such that they could have triggered a seizure, heart attack or unconsciousness.\n\nInvestigators concluded 59-year-old Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, a private pilot who was not licensed to carry paying passengers, would also have been affected by the gas.\n\nDorset Police, the coroner and the Civil Aviation Authority are also investigating the crash.\n\nA man in his 60s from North Yorkshire was arrested in June on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act in connection with the crash.\n\nBut on Wednesday it was confirmed he would face no further action.\n\nDavid Ibbotson's body has not been found\n\nA pre-inquest review is scheduled to be held at Bournemouth Coroner's Court on Monday.\n\nCardiff City FC and FC Nantes remain in dispute over the £15m transfer fee for Sala.\n\nCardiff have refused to pay the fee, claiming the Argentine was not officially their player at the time of his death.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland is expected to rule this summer on whether the Bluebirds should pay Nantes £5.3m - the first tranche of Sala's transfer fee - as ordered by football's governing body Fifa in September.\n\nIn January, Cardiff passed a file to French prosecutors, asking them to investigate the arrangements for the flight and wider questions around the transfer.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen has postponed visits to Cheshire and Camden, north London, next week amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBuckingham Palace said changes were being made to the Queen's diary commitments \"as a sensible precaution\".\n\nShe was due to visit Crewe and Macclesfield in Cheshire on 19 March and Camden on 26 March.\n\nIt comes after the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall postponed their spring tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, and Jordan due to the pandemic.\n\nThere have been 798 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the UK - as of Friday morning - and more than 125,000 globally.\n\nIn total, 10 people have now died in the UK as a result of the virus.\n\nA spokesman for the Queen said her diary would be adjusted in the coming weeks \"for practical reasons in the current circumstances\".\n\n\"Audiences will continue as usual,\" a statement added. \"Other events will be reviewed on an ongoing basis in line with the appropriate advice.\"\n\nNext Thursday's day of engagements would have seen the monarch, 93, travel to Cheshire to meet staff and apprentices at the Bentley car factory, operate the Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory and meet local school children engaging in hands-on science activities.\n\nIt comes after the Queen wore gloves when she handed out honours to recipients at a Buckingham Palace investiture on 3 March.\n\nShe has since attended the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey and held one-to-one audiences at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen will continue to hold audiences amid the public health crisis\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Charles and Camilla have postponed a tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Jordan - due to begin in four days' time. It was to be the first official royal visit to Cyprus for 27 years.\n\nA spokesman for Clarence House said on Friday that the decision was taken \"owing to the unfolding situation with the coronavirus pandemic\".\n\nPrince Charles was preparing to travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday, and was to be joined by Camilla in Cyprus from Wednesday, before the couple would travel together to Jordan until 25 March.\n\nThe prince's solo visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina was for him to pay his respects as the country marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.\n\nThe trip may be replaced with engagements in the UK - but not involving significant gatherings of people to avoid any extra strain on public services.", "Carl Beech was jailed for 18 years after making false claims of abuse\n\nA watchdog has criticised the Met Police for being slow to learn lessons from a damning review of its probe into a Westminster paedophile ring.\n\nOperation Midland - sparked by false claims made by Carl Beech - cost £2.5m but led to no arrests.\n\nInspectors said they had been \"pretty underwhelmed\" by the force's response to a critical review received in 2016.\n\nIn response, the Met said it had been \"deliberately cautious\" due to criminal proceedings and another investigation.\n\nLast year, Beech was jailed for 18 years for inventing false allegations of murder and child sexual abuse by high-profile figures, which led to Operation Midland.\n\nA review by ex-High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques in 2016 into that operation said that 43 police errors were made during the investigation.\n\nThe home secretary then asked the Inspectorate of Constabulary - the police watchdog - to inquire into how the Met handled the criticism in that report.\n\nIn a report published on Friday, the inspectorate found the force's bosses had been concerned with \"restricting access\" to the 2016 report, rather than \"learning the lessons from it\".\n\nHM Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said: \"We were pretty underwhelmed by the Met's response for the first three years.\n\n\"It's pretty clear generally learning lessons from the Henriques report doesn't seem to have been the top priority and it should have been.\n\n\"There are claims that they intervened and they changed the training and produced new material, but when we actually started scratching the surface and saying, 'who's had it, what difference did it make?' we really struggled to find any evidence.\"\n\nThe report found that the Met had not done enough to learn lessons in 2016 and had only started acting on some of the recommendations towards the end of last year.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, who was falsely accused of murder by Beech, described the review as a \"devastating criticism\" of the Met.\n\nHe added: \"It looks as though the Met only started to do things once they knew the inspectorate had been commissioned by the home secretary to report on it.\"\n\nThe Henriques report had reprimanded the force for believing Beech for too long, and was critical of a senior detective for announcing publicly that Beech's claims were \"credible and true\".\n\nThe latest review said there was a \"fine balance\" between the need to take victims seriously and the need for \"thorough, impartial investigations\", but it was \"critically important to guard against regression\" given the police's track record on crime recording.\n\nIt recommended changing guidance for police officers on the \"concept of belief\" of a victim, to make clear that once a crime has been recorded \"any investigation should be conducted impartially to establish the truth\".\n\nHarriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, hit out at these proposals, describing the recommendations as \"most disturbing\".\n\nShe said: \"Essentially, because one man made a series of allegations against high-profile individuals which were believed by police officers, all rape victims are to face further hurdles in the process to hold rapists to account.\"\n\nIn its response, the Met said the force had been \"deliberately cautious\" due to criminal proceedings and an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said: \"Operation Midland had a terrible impact on those who were falsely accused by Carl Beech.\n\n\"The previous commissioner and I have apologised to them and I repeat that apology again today.\n\n\"The MPS took Sir Richard's report extremely seriously and quickly recognised that many of the recommendations would affect policing nationwide.\n\n\"However, the Inspectorate believe more work should have been done between the initial response and our current renewed focus following the conviction of Carl Beech and the conclusion of the IOPC [Independent Office for Police Conduct] investigation.\"\n\nThat investigation cleared five officers involved in the Midland investigation of misconduct, but identified \"organisational failings\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pilot of the plane that crashed killing footballer Emiliano Sala was not licensed to fly the aircraft, a report has found.\n\nSala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson died in the crash in the English Channel, two days after the Argentine signed for Cardiff City in January 2019.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch published its findings on Friday.\n\nIt said Sala would have been \"deeply unconscious\" from carbon monoxide poisoning at the time.\n\nChief Inspector of Air Accidents Crispin Orr said it had been a \"long and complex\" investigation, and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was probing whether there had been breaches of the Air Navigation Order.\n\nThe Sala family said they were \"grateful\" the report had been published but said it left \"many questions\" to be answered at the upcoming inquest.\n\n\"It is crucial that the information held by the police and which went into compiling this report now be made available to the coroner and in turn to the family,\" they added in a statement.\n\nThey said they \"remain distraught by their loss\" but were determined to \"find the full truth of how and why he died\".\n\nCardiff City FC said the club was \"encouraged to read that the CAA is determined to tackle illegal activities by pursuing those involved\".\n\nSala was travelling from Nantes, in France, to Cardiff on 21 January 2019, when the single-engine Piper Malibu N264DB aircraft in which he was travelling lost contact with air traffic control north of Guernsey.\n\nMr Ibbotson lost control of the plane while descending to avoid cloud and he was probably also affected by carbon monoxide, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded.\n\nThe plane began to break up in mid-air as the pilot tried to regain control, investigators found.\n\nHis efforts to pull up from its final dive caused the tail fin and then the outer edges of both wings to shear off before it hit the sea near Guernsey at an estimated 270mph (434kph).\n\nDavid Ibbotson's body has not been found\n\nThe AAIB report found Mr Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle in North Lincolnshire, was not qualified to fly at night and was inexperienced at using the plane's instruments, rather than flying by sight.\n\nHis rating for that type of aircraft had expired in November 2018, invalidating his licence for flying that plane.\n\n\"Significant evidence\" was found that Mr Ibbotson had been expecting to be paid for the flight, despite not being licensed to carry passengers.\n\nThe investigation concluded that \"neither the plane nor the pilot had the required licences or permissions to operate commercially\".\n\nThe plane's autopilot had been diagnosed as having an intermittent fault and should have been labelled \"inoperative\".\n\nSala was heading to his first training session with Cardiff City since signing for them in a £15m deal.\n\nA voice message to close friends in Argentina, in which he says, \"I'm in a plane that seems to be falling apart,\" and ending, \"I'm scared,\" was sent while the plane was taxiing on the runway.\n\nThe plane took off from Nantes Atlantique Airport at 19:15 GMT on 21 January.\n\nIt disappeared from radar 22 nautical miles north of Guernsey about an hour later.\n\nThe final radar trace of the aircraft was recorded at 2016:34 hours\n\nSala's body was found in the plane wreckage on the seabed in early February. A post-mortem examination found he died from head and trunk injuries.\n\nMr Ibbotson's body has never been found.\n\nDave Edwards, chief executive of the Air Charter Association, said of the findings: \"This flight was clearly an illegal charter, something we've said for a long time needs to stop.\n\n\"I think what's most sad is that there were probably about seven opportunities throughout the sequence where this flight could have stopped, and in a commercial environment it would have stopped, but in this case it just carried on through those levels until the ultimate moment of impact.\n\n\"Everything that could go wrong sadly did go wrong.\"\n\nRadar and simulator evidence, photographs and video footage of the wreckage enabled investigators to piece together its trajectory in the four-and-a-half minutes between the pilot's final contact with air traffic control and the moment when it crashed.\n\nPhotographs of the plane's wreckage show the damage done to the aircraft\n\nThey believe carbon monoxide (CO) was leaking into the cabin through the plane's heating system from the exhaust.\n\nToxicology tests on Sala's blood found sufficient levels to cause a seizure, heart attack or unconsciousness.\n\n\"The pathologist considered he would almost certainly have been deeply unconscious at impact,\" the report states.\n\nBut it is thought Mr Ibbotson was still conscious and flying the plane in the final moments of the flight.\n\nThe AAIB's report includes a number of recommendations for aviation regulatory bodies, including a call for audible CO detectors to be fitted in all planes.\n\nA pre-inquest review is scheduled to be held at Bournemouth Coroner's Court on Monday.\n\nAfter the revelation last summer about fatal levels of CO in Emiliano Sala's blood, one of the lingering questions about this crash has been what about the pilot?\n\nSurely David Ibbotson would have been subjected to similar levels of CO, making it impossible for him to fly the plane? No, says the AAIB.\n\nWhile the pilot's body has never been found, investigators say previous plane crashes show the poisonous gas affects people differently, adding that the evidence suggests Mr Ibbotson must have been affected at the lower end of the spectrum.\n\nThe AAIB wants all single-engine piston planes to be fitted with CO detectors, but regulators have been reticent, saying plane design and regular inspections mitigate for CO poisoning.\n\nThe plane had a visual inspection of its exhaust 11 flying hours before the crash, on the basis of it being used privately.\n\nHad it been licensed to take paying passengers, as it did on this flight, it would have needed a more rigorous pressure test of its exhaust to check for cracks or leaks.\n\nThat still might not have revealed a potential problem, but a cheap CO detector would have alerted the pilot to the presence of the deadly gas in his cabin at the first instance.\n\nOne of the passenger seats in the plane\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\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus travel ban on 26 European countries has been met with anger and confusion, with EU leaders accusing him of making the decision \"without consultation\".\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic is a \"global crisis\", said top European Union officials Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel.\n\nIt \"requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,\" they said.\n\nThe ban is due to go into effect on Friday at midnight EDT (0400 GMT).\n\nIt affects only countries that are members of the Schengen border-free travel area and does not affect US citizens, the UK, or Ireland.\n\nIt is a major escalation in the response to Covid-19 by Mr Trump, who has been accused of inaction. However, the ban was met with frustration in Washington as well as abroad.\n\nOn Thursday, the US leader said he did not inform his EU counterparts because \"it takes time\".\n\n\"We had to move quickly,\" Mr Trump said, adding that the EU did not consult the US when raising taxes on American goods.\n\n\"We feel there should have been cooperation rather than action that targets one continent,\" the diplomat, who asked not to be named, says on the phone, referring to the travel ban. Mr Trump's action took him and other ambassadors in Washington by surprise.\n\nStill he made his views about the travel ban, as well his frustration and anger about the restrictions, clear: \"We are not very pleased,\" he says. \"No.\"\n\nOthers are equally dismayed: the Atlantic Council's Daniel Fried, a former US ambassador to Poland, says he found the president's remarks disappointing: \"Anti-EU bashing is indulgence.\" Ambassadors here in Washington, both current and former, are now waiting for the president's next move - with a fair amount of dread.\n\nAs another former ambassador put it: \"I am not confident.\"\n\nOver 1,300 confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in the US, with 38 deaths so far.\n\nItaly now has over 12,000 confirmed cases and 827 deaths, second to China. France, Spain and Germany have also seen a rise in cases.\n\nMr Trump called the ban the \"most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history\".\n\nHe accused the EU of failing to take \"the same precautions\" as the US in fighting the virus to justify the ban.\n\nStocks plummeted following Mr Trump's announcement, in which he said that the travel ban would also include trade and cargo. The statement was later retracted.\n\nTrading on Wall Street was stopped on Thursday morning after the Dow Jones dropped 7% and UK indices fell to their lowest since the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nTom Bossert, Mr Trump's former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, criticised the ban, saying: \"There's little value to European travel restrictions. Poor use of time & energy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Thomas P. Bossert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Democrats said it was \"alarming\" that President Trump had not addressed a shortage of coronavirus testing kits in the US.\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.", "“I just got the result, and he’s negative for Covid-19.”\n\nRelief flooded through me, as the family paediatrician relayed the news that our middle son Toby did not have the coronavirus.\n\nIt has been a horrendous week - beginning with Toby being hospitalized in Brooklyn with a fever of almost 106F and flu-like symptoms. But he tested negative for flu.\n\nThis struck our paediatrician and the ER doctor as suspicious, and both wanted to test our 17-year-old athletic high school senior for the coronavirus. Yet this was no easy matter.\n\nOn Monday, the paediatrician had no tests at the practice. In the ER, the protocol is to call the department of health and ask if the patient should be tested.\n\nUntil extremely recently, the department of health would only test people who had come into contact with other infected people, or travelled to an area where coronavirus is rampant. I heard several ER doctors complain that for days, people they suspected to be infected were turned down for tests.\n\nToby and I were put in a negative pressure isolation room at the hospital emergency room, wearing masks, and medical staff who came into contact with us had to wear masks too.\n\nThe ER doctor told me that the protective clothing and visors worn by hospital staff were made in Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak in China. And now there’s a shortage of that vital protective gear. We were sent home from the ER awaiting the results of other tests before a request for the coronavirus test could be made.\n\nBy Tuesday, our paediatrician had the Covid-19 test, which is a nasal swab - and Toby was tested. On Friday morning, after nearly three days of stressful family quarantine, we found out that Toby’s test was negative. He leaped around the apartment like a newborn lamb. He’s one of the lucky ones.\n\nWith the lag in testing in New York, now it’s been scaled up, we’ll rapidly see more confirmed cases. The anxiety on the rapidly emptying streets of the city is palpable.", "Mass gatherings could be banned in the UK from as early as next weekend as the outbreak of coronavirus intensifies.\n\nA government source said ministers were now drawing up plans for the move - to ease pressure on emergency services.\n\nIt came hours after the government's chief scientific advisor insisted it was not the right time to shut down big events.\n\nScores of major sporting and cultural events have already been cancelled in response to the pandemic.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases of the virus in the UK rose to 798 on Friday and a total of 11 people have died.\n\nBut the government estimates the true number of cases to be around 5,000 to 10,000 around the UK.\n\nIt is understood ministers are working on plans to stop various types of public events.\n\nThe source said: \"There are many complex considerations to make all these measures as effective as possible.\n\n\"We will make the right decisions at the right time based on the best scientific evidence.\"\n\nIt is thought a ban could start to take effect as early as next weekend, although exact timescales are not clear.\n\nThere has been criticism of the government's handling of the crisis, including from former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who described its previous decision to hold off cancelling large gatherings as \"concerning\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Newsnight that the government's \"rapid change\" in tactic following the cancellation of sporting events suggested it was \"playing catch-up with the rest of British society\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth welcomed the move but urged the government to be \"clear\" about its plans.\n\n\"If that means publishing the scientific modelling so that all the experts can analyse it and peer review it and stress test it, if that maintains public confidence, that's an important step,\" the Labour MP told Newsnight.\n\nThe government's action plan - published last week - did raise the possibility of reducing the number of large-scale gatherings.\n\nBut the most recent tactics, announced on Thursday, advised people to self-isolate for seven days if they have a cough or fever, with no advice to avoid large gatherings.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said shutting down mass events would not have a \"big effect\" on transmission rates - though he did not rule out such a move going forward.\n\nWhitehall sources say the government's approach has not changed but that there were concerns about the burden that large events might put on health services and the police.\n\nProminent events still set to go ahead include the Grand National in April, the 75th anniversary VE Day commemorations and Chelsea Flower Show in May, and Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nEmergency legislation - including compensation for organisations affected by a temporary ban on big events - is due to be published next week.\n\nMany sports bodies did not wait for a government directive and have already suspended competitions.\n\nFootball authorities suspended all top-flight matches until early April, while Saturday's Wales v Scotland Six Nations rugby match was suspended and England's cricket tour of Sri Lanka was called off.\n\nThe Scottish government has already advised that gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled from next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nEnglish local and mayoral elections, planned for May, are being postponed for a year until May 2021.\n\nSmall businesses such as music venues are also starting to feel the squeeze.\n\nMusic venue owner Vince Power told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had a sell-out show on Friday night near London's Portobello Road, but fewer than half of the 550 people who had bought tickets showed up.\n\n\"I think people are scared,\" Mr Power said.\n\n\"I feel sad about the whole thing,\" he added, blaming the \"uncertainty\" and lack of direction given to small businesses. \"The news keeps changing every day.\"\n\nBands are also cancelling, he said. \"They are just saying they are just unsure, they don't know... they have got no real reason.\"\n\nMr Power, whose venues hold between 100 and about 500 guests, said: \"Venues are sold out but people are not coming.\"\n\nMr Power warned that his business \"can't really last very long\" - just a few weeks.", "Local and mayoral elections in England will be postponed for a year to May 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDowning Street said it would be impractical to hold the elections as planned, as they would come during the peak of the spread of the virus.\n\nPolls were due in 118 English councils, the London Assembly and for seven English regional mayors.\n\nVoting was also due to take place for the London mayor and police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes after the Electoral Commission said on Thursday the elections should be delayed until the autumn to \"mitigate\" the impact of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, visitor access to Parliament will be restricted from Monday, and MPs and peers are being \"strongly\" discouraged from making overseas trips.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said the \"proportionate and reasonable\" measures would help preserve the operation of Parliament during the outbreak.\n\nTen people have died with the virus, with 798 cases confirmed UK-wide.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it would be bringing forward legislation to enact the elections delay in England, and would ensure the Welsh authorities had the same powers.\n\nThe last time elections were delayed was in 2001, when they took place one month late due to the foot and mouth outbreak.\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the move to delay the polls was the \"right decision\".\n\nBut he added it was \"not clear\" why the government had opted for a year-long delay, rather than postpone until the autumn as the Electoral Commission recommended.\n\nBefore the postponement was announced, Labour had backed calls for a delay, adding it had \"serious concerns\" about the welfare of party staff and members.\n\nLabour General Secretary Jennie Formby wrote to local party branches earlier on Friday advising them to suspend campaigning ahead of the polls.\n\nDefending the decision to delay the polls, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said it was important \"everyone feels confident they are able to take part\".\n\n\"Respecting the annual cycle of local government, postponing them seems to me in the circumstance to be the right thing to do,\" he added.\n\nJames Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, said: \"The LGA has been raising a number of issues with government including the possible impact of coronavirus on local elections. The swift decision is very helpful.\n\n\"Councils will now continue to put all of their efforts into supporting their local communities as the nation tackles Covid-19.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the polls was also backed by the Association of Electoral Administrators.\n\nIts chief executive Peter Stanyon said: \"This is uncharted territory and our members have been raising significant concerns about the safe delivery of these elections.\"\n\nLabour has cancelled the special conference in London at which it was due to announce the result of its leadership election on 4 April.\n\nThe party said on Thursday it would instead put on a \"scaled-back event\" instead.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and Welsh Labour have all cancelled their spring conferences due to the spread of the virus.\n\nThe SNP and Scottish Conservatives have also announced their spring conferences will be postponed.\n\nOnly one MP, health minister Nadine Dorries, has tested positive for the virus - but an increasing number are self-isolating after either feeling unwell or learning that colleagues they have recently mingled with now have the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Mr Buckland said there was currently \"no evidence\" to suggest that keeping Parliament open posed a \"public health issue in itself\".\n\nBut he added: \"If that evidence and information changes, then we'll have to take appropriate steps.\"", "Researcher Annabel Dorrestein set up a thermal imaging camera to study flying foxes, or bats, at night on Australia's Christmas Island.\n\nBut when she returned one morning to collect the camera, she discovered it had been stolen – almost certainly by the island’s famous robber crabs.", "The Australian Grand Prix has been called off after teams and drivers forced the hand of Formula 1's bosses.\n\nA decision to cancel the race was made in the early hours of Friday morning after a McLaren team member tested positive for the coronavirus in Melbourne.\n\nThe race's abandonment was not made official for another eight hours.\n\nBy that time Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Alfa Romeo's Kimi Raikkonen had flown home.\n\nAnd McLaren said later on Friday that 14 further team members had been placed in quarantine in their hotel for the next 14 days because of their close contact with the infected employee.\n\nThe decision throws into doubt the rest of the F1 season, with the Bahrain Grand Prix due to take place next weekend without spectators the next race to come under scrutiny.\n\nBBC Sport understands Ferrari were the first team to make it clear they were not prepared to race in Melbourne in the circumstances.\n\nConfirmation of the abandonment in from the FIA and F1 came after Mercedes sent a letter requesting the cancellation of the race.\n\nMercedes said: \"We share the disappointment of the sport's fans that this race cannot go ahead as planned. However, the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our team members and of the wider F1 community are our absolute priority.\n\n\"In light of the force majeure events we are experiencing with regards to the coronavirus pandemic, we no longer feel the safety of our employees can be guaranteed if we continue to take part in the event.\n\n\"If organisers try to press ahead with the weekend it appears at this stage as if not all the teams will take part.\"\n\nThe statement cancelling the race said a majority of teams suggested overnight they felt the race should not go ahead.\n\nEvents developed rapidly following McLaren's decision to pull out of the race after their team member's positive coronavirus test.\n\nOn Friday morning, with a statement cancelling the race still not forthcoming, Australian GP organisers initially told local media the race was going ahead as planned.\n\nBut Victoria state premier Daniel Andrews then announced if the race went ahead it would be without spectators.\n\nLegal complications delayed the announcement of the cancellation but the farcical situation will be seen by many to have damaged the reputations of both the F1 and the FIA.\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday at the official F1 news conference he was \"very, very surprised\" the sport was pressing on with plans to continue with the race while the outbreak of the virus worsened and other sports suspended or cancelled events.\n\nAn initial meeting of team bosses with F1 and FIA officials on Thursday night, after a tense day in the paddock at Albert Park, broke up with an agreement to carry on with Friday practice as normal and review the situation later that day.\n\nBut the plans changed later in the evening as several insiders - including leading drivers - expressed their concerns about the idea of racing amid the risk of further cases of coronavirus in the tight-knit F1 paddock.\n\nThe decision was reviewed at later meetings and eventually, at around 0200 Friday local time (1500 GMT on Thursday), the decision was made to call the race off.\n\nAfter that, Vettel and Raikkonen flew back to Europe on the same flight although Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas remain in Melbourne.\n\nMany F1 team members woke up thinking the race was going ahead, only to read news of its cancellation.\n\nOn Friday morning, a senior source reconfirmed to BBC Sport, which first reported the information, that the race was still off.\n\nBut in farcical scenes, crowds flocked to Albert Park expecting to see the cars out on track and organisers initially told Australian media that the race weekend was going ahead as planned.\n\nIn total, eight F1 workers have been assessed and tested for Covid-19.\n\nSeven were cleared on Thursday but an eighth, from McLaren, tested positive.\n\nAustralian Grand Prix organisers said in a statement a ninth person had been assessed and tested, with the result pending. This person was \"not associated with any F1 team, the FIA or associated suppliers\", the statement said.\n\nIt now seems certain a huge question mark will hang over the Bahrain Grand Prix, scheduled to be the second meeting of the season on 22 March.\n\nA decision is also expected imminently on the Vietnam Grand Prix, scheduled for 5 April, after the government in Hanoi banned travel into the country for anyone who has been in Italy - among other locations - in the previous 14 days.\n\nF1 chief executive Chase Carey was in Hanoi on Thursday trying to find a way around the restrictions.\n\nThe Chinese Grand Prix, scheduled to be the fourth race, was postponed in February after government officials said it could not go ahead.\n\nThe next race after Vietnam is scheduled to be the Dutch Grand Prix on 5 May, the start of a run of three races in four weekends that also includes the Spanish and Monaco events.\n\nBut with the coronavirus situation developing by the day, and countries imposing tighter restrictions on travel, it is impossible to know at this stage whether any of those races can go ahead.\n\nThe decision to cancel the race in Australia raises huge questions about the future of the sport this year.\n\nF1 authorities faced criticism for their decision to press ahead with the season-opening race, and it is true the teams feel they lacked direction and leadership from the powers that be.\n\nBut the FIA and F1 were responding to advice from local authorities, with Australian officials saying earlier in the week they saw no reason for their race not to go ahead.\n\nThe fact it has now been called off is an illustration of the speed with which the coronavirus pandemic has developed across the globe.\n\nBut it also shines a spotlight on what some will see as the F1 authorities having rather too firm a focus on 'keeping the show on the road' - as well as the dollars rolling in - and not enough on the realities of what really matters.\n\nNow, not only does the sport not know when - or even if - the season can start, but the authorities, teams and race promoters have to face the question of what happens to all the fees that have been paid for races that might now never happen.\n\nThe answer to that may well be different for separate events, and it will depend on who has made this decision, who pays for the race in each specific country, and the legal and contractual complexities of each deal.\n\nIn addition, there are the knock-on effects for the teams themselves, as a large proportion of their income comes from those race fees.\n\nSome teams need that income more than others - and some need it very much indeed.\n\nF1 is entering uncharted waters, and to describe them as choppy could be a massive understatement.", "Face-to-face lectures are being suspended at many universities\n\nSalford, Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Southampton universities are among the latest to rearrange teaching and exams to limit the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe moves came as six Oxford students were diagnosed with the virus, while St Andrew's and Bristol universities have each reported a case.\n\n\"I recognise many of you are understandably anxious,\" Nottingham's vice-chancellor told students.\n\nProf Shearer West said in a letter, which she asked students to share with friends and family: \"I am writing to let you know what measures we are taking immediately to reassure you, protect your health and ensure that your learning can continue.\"\n\nNottingham will put all teaching online from 23 March and is cancelling all trips overseas and residential trips within the UK.\n\nHowever, the letter stresses the university - including its libraries - will remain open.\n\nSalford University has announced all teaching - except for final-year students - will be suspended from Monday, but the campus and student accommodation will remain open.\n\n\"This will give us time and space to plan for what may be necessary,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nEdinburgh is also transferring teaching online. Exams are cancelled for first- and second-year students, with those in their third year and beyond taking them online.\n\nAgain, the university stressed it was still open, with libraries, counselling, research and study spaces operating as usual.\n\n\"Students should be assured that they will achieve their qualifications on time and an Edinburgh degree will still hold the same value,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nThe University of West of Scotland has asked students not to attend its campuses from Monday, although it, too, says it will remain open.\n\nIt intends to move to remote learning \"to reduce the number of individuals on campus at any one time\".\n\nMeanwhile, the University of Southampton has decided to bring its spring holiday forward by a week so that term now ends on 13 March.\n\n\"We will keep any impact to the absolute minimum and ensure all students can successfully complete their term's learning,\" it said in a statement.\n\nSummer term is scheduled to start as normal next month.\n\nEven if teaching and exams are off, libraries will remain open, say universities\n\nIn a similar move, the University of Bristol has announced it will end face-to-face teaching earlier this term, on 18 March. Online teaching will begin after the holidays and all overseas fieldtrips are cancelled.\n\nBristol vice-chancellor Hugh Brady, said he believed the measures were \"balanced and proportionate\".\n\n\"This is indeed a very worrying time for us all - professionally and personally - but I am confident that we can harness our collective ingenuity, resolve and passion for our institution to navigate the choppy waters ahead,\" he said.\n\nAcross the city, University of West of England took a different approach, tweeting: \"It is currently business as usual here but please rest assured we're monitoring the situation very closely and are able to act quickly if it changes to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our students, staff and visitors.\"\n\nA number of universities had previously announced moves to online teaching, including Durham, Manchester Metropolitan, the London School of Economics and Loughborough, where one student has tested positive for the virus.", "Fifty-one people were killed when a gunman opened fire during Friday prayers at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nWasseim and his daughter were at the Al Noor mosque at the time.\n\nAhead of the one-year anniversary this coming Sunday, Wasseim spoke of the challenges of their recovery.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi has become the first Premier League player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta is also self-isolating after also testing positive.\n\nAll Premier League games, EFL fixtures and matches in the FA Women's Super League and Women's Championship have been postponed until at least 3 April.\n\nEverton's squad joined those of Chelsea and Arsenal in self-isolation after one of their first-team players showed symptoms of the virus.\n\nChelsea say Hudson-Odoi \"displayed symptoms similar to a mild cold on Monday morning\" and stayed away from the the training ground.\n\nThe club added that the player is \"doing well and looking forward to returning to the training ground as soon as it is possible\".\n\nOn Friday, the 19-year-old tweeted a video where he said: \"As you may be aware I had the virus for the last couple of days which I have recovered from.\n\n\"I am following the health guidelines and self-isolating myself from everybody for the week. I hope to see everybody soon and hopefully will be back on the pitch very soon.\"\n\nOfficial advice from Public Health England is that most people will no longer be likely to transmit the virus seven days after the onset of symptoms. However people who have had contact with a confirmed case but not yet displayed symptoms should self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nChelsea's full squad has gone into isolation and the club cancelled Friday's scheduled news conference.\n\nThe Gunners have closed their training ground and club staff who had recent contact with Arteta will also self-isolate.\n\n\"This is really disappointing,\" said Spaniard Arteta, 37. \"I took the test after feeling poorly. I will be at work as soon as I'm allowed.\"\n\nArsenal say they expect a \"significant number of people\" will self-isolate, including the \"full first-team squad\".\n\n\"The health of our people and the wider public is our priority and that is where our focus is,\" said Arsenal managing director Vinai Venkatesham.\n\n\"We are in active dialogue with all the relevant people to manage this situation appropriately, and we look forward to getting back to training and playing as soon as medical advice allows.\"\n\nArsenal's Premier League match with Manchester City on Wednesday was postponed as a \"precautionary measure\" and several Gunners players went into self-isolation after Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis contracted coronavirus.\n\nArsenal said Marinakis, 52, met a number of their players when the Gunners hosted the Greek side in a Europa League match two weeks ago.\n\nThe club said no players or staff would be tested for coronavirus.\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution after a member of his family was admitted to hospital displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThree Leicester City first-team players have also self-isolated after showing symptoms of coronavirus.\n• None 14:06 GMT - Brendan Rodgers says three Leicester City players have self-isolated after showing symptoms.\n• None 16:00 GMT - Manchester City's Champions League last-16 tie with Real Madrid, due to take place on Tuesday, is postponed.\n• None 17:25 GMT - Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK government is considering banning sporting fixtures - but it will not happen immediately.\n• None 20:45 GMT - Manchester City say defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution.\n• None 21:30 GMT - The Premier League announces all this weekend's games \"will go ahead as scheduled\".\n• None 22:17 GMT - Arsenal say manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus.\n• None 22:33 GMT - The Premier League announces it will hold \"an emergency club meeting\" on Friday to discuss future fixtures.\n\nThe Premier League now appears to be edging closer to an unprecedented suspension.\n\nFor several days now senior officials have privately believed matches would soon have to be played closed doors with preparations made to do so. Despite mounting criticism for carrying on as normal and being so out of step with other competitions around the world, the Premier League agreed to follow government policy.\n\nBut with several clubs now directly affected by the outbreak the integrity of the league is clearly in jeopardy. So what happens next?\n\nBoth the Premier League and EFL are desperate to get their remaining matches played.\n\nIf Euro 2020 is postponed by Uefa for a year on Tuesday, space could perhaps be created in the calendar for any delayed matches to be played, and a case could be made to government to pause the Premier League and EFL seasons for several weeks.\n\nThat would at least avert the threat of legal action from clubs claiming they have been denied promotion or European qualification.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme?\n\nA report into a green energy scheme that contributed to the collapse of Northern Ireland's government in 2017 is due to be published later.\n\nThe findings of the inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme will be outlined at Stormont.\n\nThe scheme was set up to encourage the use of renewable energy sources, but it closed to new entrants in 2016 amid concerns about the potential cost.\n\nA public inquiry into the scheme was set up in 2017, led by a retired judge.\n\nForty eight individuals and organisations have been given advance warning that they will face criticism in the findings.\n\nWhen the report is published on Friday, much of the media focus will be on what it says about Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster and other party figures.\n\nThe fall-out from the RHI scheme contributed to the collapse of Stormont in 2017\n\nMrs Foster was the minister in the Enterprise Department that was responsible for the botched green energy scheme. Her party was in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with Theresa May's Conservative government from June 2017 until December 2019.\n\nIt was alleged, during the RHI inquiry, that DUP special advisers conspired to delay cost controls in the lucrative scheme.\n\nAt one point, it was estimated that the overspend on the poorly designed scheme could be up to £700m over 20 years - to be paid from Stormont funds.\n\nScheme changes and deep cuts to subsidies eliminated that risk, but the debacle still cost Stormont about £30m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Highlights of the inquiry into the RHI scheme\n\nAnother focus of the report will be the competence of the Northern Ireland Civil Service which was responsible for the design and governance of the project.\n\nThe inquiry findings are the culmination of more than three years of work by a team led by Sir Patrick Coghlin.\n\nThey looked at the design, operation and closure of the RHI scheme, that was set up by the Northern Ireland Executive in 2012.\n\nDesign flaws, oversight arrangements, poor governance, confusion over the budget and allegations of fraud and greed were all aired. There was the mistaken belief that London was paying the bill, not Stormont.\n\nThere were also claims that information, inappropriately shared from inside government, led to a massive spike in applications to beat proposed subsidy cuts.\n• None £30m The amount Stormont had to pay to cover the actual overspend\n• None £490-700m Cost of 20-year projected overspend before RHI was reformed\n• None £38,000Average cost of the most popular-sized RHI boiler\n• None 2,128Total number of RHI boilers in NI, many in poultry industry\n\nThe scheme paid 1,200 businesses to switch from oil and gas to what was meant to be environmentally friendly heating, using wood pellet boilers. Some businesses put in multiple boilers.\n\nBut the subsidy payment was higher than the cost of the fuel, creating an incentive to use the boilers to generate income.\n\nIt became known as \"cash for ash\" and a lack of cost controls meant it threatened a massive overspend on the Stormont budget.\n\nThe financial scandal led to the collapse of Northern Ireland's political institutions in 2017 and caused a three-year political stalemate. The political institutions were only reinstated in January 2020.\n\nThe inquiry panel is made of up of Sir Patrick Coghlin (centre), Dame Una O'Brien and Dr Keith MacLean\n\nThe inquiry took evidence from high-profile politicians, civil servants and consultants who designed the scheme, and administrators who ran it.\n\nIts findings will address whether people involved acted professionally and ethically and whether their behaviour was compliant with codes of conduct for ministers, advisers and others in public life.\n\nIt is likely to be critical of the power exercised by unelected special advisers or Spads; the level of ministerial scrutiny of RHI policy; the fact that a whistleblower was ignored; the vigorous promotion of the scheme by the Agriculture Department at a time when the Enterprise Department was trying to rein in spending; and a lack of rigour, transparency and accountability in the policy-making process.\n\nThe RHI scheme caused huge public controversy in 2016 following a claim that a business was being paid £1m over 20 years to heat an empty shed. That allegation was never proven.\n\nScheme participants say the subsidy cuts implemented were totally disproportionate. They have brought average annual payments for the most common boilers down from £23,000 to £2,200.\n\nThat has led to tens of millions of pounds of unspent budget for support of renewable heat in Northern Ireland being returned to the Treasury.\n\nBoiler owners are set to go to court in the summer to challenge the tariff changes.\n\nThe Renewable Heat scheme was closed to new claimants in February 2016.\n\nThe New Decade New Approach deal, that restored the Stormont institutions in January, recommended it be shut down completely and an entirely new scheme be established.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA London Underground train driver on the Jubilee Line has tested positive for coronavirus, Transport for London (TfL) has said.\n\nThe driver, based at the North Greenwich depot, had recently returned from a holiday in Vietnam.\n\nIt comes as the mayor of London cancelled the upcoming St Patrick's Day celebrations because of the outbreak.\n\nBuckingham Palace has also announced The Queen has cancelled a planned visit to the borough of Camden on 26 March.\n\nA spokesman for the Queen, who turns 94 in April, said: \"As a sensible precaution and for practical reasons in the current circumstances, changes are being made to The Queen's diary commitments in the coming weeks.\n\n\"Audiences will continue as usual. Other events will be reviewed on an ongoing basis in line with the appropriate advice.\"\n\nSadiq Khan said he had been left with no choice but to call off the annual St Patrick's Day parade, which had been due to take place in Trafalgar Square on Sunday.\n\nOfficial St Patrick's Day events have been held in London since 2002 and attract more than 50,000 people.\n\nBirmingham's St Patrick's Day parade, which claims to be the third biggest in the world and attracts crowds of up to 100,000, has also been cancelled.\n\nThe UK government has warned that the virus will spread at speed\n\nThe Government's top scientist has warned that up to 10,000 people in the UK are already infected with Covid-19\n\nThe election for the next mayor of London, scheduled to take place in May, has been postponed until next year.\n\nMr Khan also warned that \"things will get worse before they get better\" and \"more deaths\" were to be expected.\n\nClosing public transport would be \"unsustainable\", the mayor added.\n\nThe Tube driver is self-isolating, and the train and depot he worked in is being deep-cleaned, TfL said.\n\nThe driver said he had not worked in any public-facing job since returning from Vietnam.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The safety of our staff and customers is our top priority and we are taking all necessary precautions.\n\n\"The areas where the driver worked are being cleaned, including the depot and the trains, in line with guidance from Public Health England with whom we are working closely.\"\n\nFind out how many confirmed cases of coronavirus there are in your area:\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How many confirmed cases are in your area? Enter a postcode, English or Welsh council or Scottish NHS area to find out. Northern Ireland do not currently provide localised figures Note: Not all those with the virus will have been tested\n\nElsewhere, King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford have had to suspend in-patient surgeries in order to \"protect\" patients from the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nEarlier Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust confirmed that a patient in her 60s, who tested positive for Covid-19, died at Queen's Hospital.\n\nThe trust said it would still carry out cancer and emergency surgeries, and said it was only allowing parents to visit neonatal intensive care unit and all children's wards.\n\nThe Arsenal and Chelsea football squads are in self-isolation\n\nHeathrow Airport said any passengers flying to the US would have their immediate travel histories checked by their airline before leaving the UK.\n\nThe move will come into place from 04:00 GMT on Saturday, and comes after the US government announced there would be a travel ban on 26 European countries.\n\nDeutsche Bank said one employee at its City headquarters has tested positive for the virus, and two London School of Economics (LSE) students have been infected.\n\nAs of 12 March the government said there had been 136 confirmed cases of coronavirus in London\n\nEngland's friendlies against Italy and Denmark at Wembley on 27 and 31 March will not take place\n\nOrganisers of the London Marathon have postponed this year's event for the first time ever.\n\nIt was due to take place on 26 April but has been put back until 2 October.\n\nKing's College London has cancelled its spring exams and all field trips abroad, but said that the university would remain open and teaching would continue.\n\nUniversities including Regent's University London, Loughborough, Durham, Manchester Metropolitan and the LSE have all said they will offer online teaching instead of face-to-face lessons.\n\nAll Premier League football matches have been postponed until 3 April at the earliest, following an emergency meeting in central London.\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi have tested positive for the virus and are in self-isolation.\n\nThe English Football League (EFL) has suspended matches in the Championship, League One and League Two, also until 3 April. But National League fixtures are still expected to go ahead.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n• None Coronavirus cases and risk in the UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The global coronavirus outbreak means millions of travel and tourism jobs are at risk, says a leading industry body.\n\nThe World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) says up to 50 million jobs could be lost because of the pandemic.\n\nIts chief executive, Gloria Guevara, said the outbreak \"presents a significant threat to the industry\".\n\nNew figures from the WTTC suggest that the travel sector could shrink by up to 25% in 2020.\n\nThe trade body is calling on governments to take several steps to protect the industry, including:\n\nBut Ms Guevara added: \"Travel and tourism has the strength to overcome this challenge and will emerge stronger.\"\n\nThe tourism industry has been massively affected by the spread of coronavirus, as many countries have introduced travel restrictions in an attempt to contain its spread.\n\nCruise ship firm Princess Cruises is suspending all operations for 60 days. One of its cruises was kept off the cost of San Francisco for five days after 21 passengers tested positive for the virus.\n\nBritish Airways, EasyJet and Norwegian Air have all also cut flights in response to the outbreak.\n\nKorean Air even warned that the coronavirus could threaten its survival.\n\nAustralia's Qantas is reducing international flights by nearly 25% in response to the outbreak\n\nChinese airline passenger numbers dropped by 84.5% last month, highlighting the huge economic impact on the country where the virus originated.\n\nIts aviation regulator said on Thursday that the drop had caused a 21bn-yuan (£2.35bn) fall in revenue.\n\nTravel industry experts have expressed concerns about Chinese tourists being kept at home.\n\nIn the UK, for example, there were 415,000 visits from China in the 12 months to September 2019, according to VisitBritain.\n\nChinese travellers also spend three times more than an average visitor to the UK at £1,680 each.\n\nAs more large-scale events are cancelled and the number of flight cancellations increases, there are fears the industry could take a bigger hit.", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nElite football in Britain has been suspended until at least 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAll games in England's Premier League, EFL, Women's Super League and Women's Championship, plus in Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland, are postponed.\n\nThe Premier League said play will start on 4 April subject to \"conditions at the time\".\n\nBut BBC sports editor Dan Roan says resuming on the date is privately deemed \"almost impossible\".\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke is known to have expressed his fear at Friday's emergency meeting that the season may have to be abandoned.\n\nEngland's international friendly matches against Italy on 27 March and Denmark four days later are off.\n\nThe EFL, which hopes to resume play a day earlier than the Premier League on 3 April, said clubs were also advised to suspend \"non-essential activities\" such as \"player appearances, training ground visits and fan meetings\".\n\nThe Euro 2020 play-offs have also moved closer to being postponed after Fifa recommended that all impending internationals should be called off.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic are all scheduled to play their semi-finals on 26 March, with the finals five days later.\n\nThe suspension comes on a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide.\n• None has been moved from 26 April to 4 October, with the Manchester and Brighton Marathons also postponed.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between has been postponed, as has Sunday's Premiership Cup final between\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n• None the Masters, has been postponed.\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\nLate on Thursday, it was announced Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta had tested positive for the virus, and early on Friday Chelsea striker Callum Hudson-Odoi revealed he had been affected, while Everton say a first-team player has shown symptoms.\n\nEarlier this week, several clubs - including Arsenal, Chelsea, Leicester City, Bournemouth, Manchester City, Juventus and Real Madrid - revealed they have either all or some of their playing staff in self-isolation.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters said: \"In this unprecedented situation, we are working closely with our clubs, government, the FA and EFL and can reassure everyone the health and welfare of players, staff and supporters are our priority.\"\n\nThe Premier League said its \"aim is to reschedule the displaced fixtures\", while the Football Association said \"all parties are committed at this time to trying to complete this season's domestic fixture programme\".\n\nOn Thursday Prime Minister Boris Johnson said suspending major public events such as sporting fixtures was being considered by the government but would be a measure primarily to protect public services, rather than delay the spread.\n\nThe EFL said: \"This decision has not been taken lightly, but the EFL must prioritise the health and well-being of players, staff and supporters while also acknowledging the government's national efforts in tackling this outbreak.\"\n\nFootball has also been suspended in Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the USA.\n\nThese are deeply worrying times for football - and for world sport - which is having to face up to a period of disruption and dislocation unprecedented in peacetime.\n\nPrivately, senior football figures admit that resuming the English league season in early April - when the initial suspension will be reviewed - will be almost impossible.\n\nTheir hope is that next week a decision is taken by Uefa to postpone Euro 2020 for a year, thereby freeing up space in the calendar to reschedule outstanding matches, and complete domestic league seasons across the continent at some stage.\n\nThe problem is that the outbreak is expected to be at its peak in May and June, so some within the game fear that if the suspension keeps on being extended, the season will have to be abandoned and declared void.\n\nThis would obviously be a nightmare scenario for the fans of Liverpool and Leeds United, who both stand on the brink of long-awaited glory. But it would also have severe financial ramifications for clubs, players, staff and broadcasters, along with the wider sporting industry.\n\nAmid the threat of legal action and demands for refunds from season ticket holders, clubs will now be scrambling to check insurance policies and commercial contracts.\n\nThis a crisis no one saw coming.\n\nAnd one that leaves a gaping hole in the country's cultural fabric at a tense and troubling time, when many people could do with the welcome distraction that football brings to so many.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are real worries over the impact the virus will have on learning\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said keeping schools open in England is the \"best course of action\", despite fears about the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes as blanket school closures are being announced in European nations such as Spain, France and Ireland.\n\nHe told a head teachers' conference in Birmingham that sending all pupils home would put a big strain on key workers who would also have to stay at home.\n\nSchool leaders agreed keeping schools open was the right decision.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which is meeting for its annual conference, said head teachers would authorise absence if parents took the decision to keep their children off lessons.\n\nHe anticipated absences would be small in scale and similar to \"snow days\".\n\nThe government has said individual schools may be advised to shut by Public Health England if necessary.\n\nMr Barton said there was pressure from parents for more information and guidance about what might happen to national exams.\n\nThe exam season starts in early May, when the virus outbreak is expected to reach its peak, but exam regulators are urging schools to prepare for public exams as normal.\n\nGCSE exams start in the second week of May and run until mid-June.\n\nMr Barton said many head teachers were facing questions about the exam season, and there was an urgent need for reassurance.\n\n\"Parents and pupils are worried about being the victim of something out of their control and are asking, 'Will I get into college or university?'\"\n\nMr Williamson said: \"We're doing everything we can to make sure it's fair for students, we're having regular discussions with Ofqual.\"\n\nThe government warned on Thursday that within weeks, whole households would be asked to self-isolate if one person showed symptoms consistent with coronavirus.\n\nIt is not clear exactly what this would mean for a teenager unable to sit their exams, but there are mechanisms for allocating marks in exceptional circumstances, which have been used before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Welsh government has been advised that school closures are not an appropriate move at the moment, though the situation remains under review.\n\nThe Scottish government has also said school closures would not be an effective measure at this stage.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's decision to close schools, colleges and public childcare facilities until 29 March is likely to affect businesses in Northern Ireland's border region that employ staff from the Irish Republic.\n\nIn the meantime, many schools will continue to assess how technology could be used to continue pupils' learning in the event of isolated closures.\n\nSharon Bruton, chief executive of the Keys Federation Academy Trust in Wigan, whose schools use an artificial-intelligence learning platform, said teachers could set assignments via email and social media accounts.\n\n\"Schools are adaptable and flexible places - I'm certain school leaders and curriculum leaders will be thinking about how teaching can continue for their students should this be an eventuality,\" she said.\n\n\"Educators are remarkably resilient and adaptable and I think part of our job is to meet the needs of our children and make sure they can thrive in challenging circumstances - and this [coronavirus outbreak] won't be any different.\"\n\nSo the possibility of blanket school closures has been kicked down the road, but that doesn't remove the uncertainty entirely.\n\nNo head teacher can rule out the possibility their school could be affected at some point. More pressing is the likelihood that the peak in cases could coincide with exams due to begin in mid-May.\n\nThis might mean more households isolating, more teachers off work.\n\nOne option could be to move some exams to later in June, when fewer are traditionally scheduled to take place.\n\nThis would prolong the agony for teenagers, and their families, but could increase the chances of most being able to sit the exams that are the passport to the next stage of their life.\n\nIn the meantime, despite expert advice, some parents continue to call for school closures.\n\nThe exams watchdogs for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all urging teachers and students to prepare for the exams season as normal.\n\nIn Scotland, where exams start earlier than the rest of the UK, the Scottish Qualifications Authority said there was no change to the 2020 national-qualifications timetable.\n\n\"Current deadlines for coursework, and other assessments, remain in place,\" it added.\n\nEngland's exams watchdog, Ofqual, said: \"We continue to work closely with exam boards, other regulators and the Department for Education and we have met to plan for a range of scenarios, as the public would expect.\n\n\"Our overriding priorities are fairness to students this summer and keeping disruption to a minimum.\"\n\nQualifications Wales said: \"We will provide guidance on our website to reflect any specific arrangements that schools and colleges should put in place if required.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) said there were \"a broad range of contingencies to ensure the smooth operation of examinations\", which would be updated if necessary.\n\n\"In the meantime, students, schools and colleges should continue to prepare for the summer examinations and assessments as usual,\" it added.", "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.\n\nHe says he wants to focus on global health and development, education and tackling climate change.\n\nOne of the world's richest men, Mr Gates, 64, has also left the board of Warren Buffett's massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.\n\nMr Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role running Microsoft in 2008.\n\nAnnouncing his latest move, Mr Gates said the company would \"always be an important part of my life's work\" and he would continue to be engaged with its leadership.\n\nBut he said: \"I am looking forward to this next phase as an opportunity to maintain the friendships and partnerships that have meant the most to me, continue to contribute to two companies of which I am incredibly proud, and effectively prioritise my commitment to addressing some of the world's toughest challenges.\"\n\nMr Gates is listed by Forbes as the world's second richest man after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and is worth $103.6bn (£84.4bn).\n\nHe made his fortune developing software for the personal computer.\n\nAs a young man, he dropped out of college and moved to Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, who died in 2018.\n\nTheir big break came in 1980 when Microsoft signed an agreement with IBM to build the operating system that became known as MS-DOS.\n\nMicrosoft went public in 1986 and within a year Bill Gates, at the age of 31, had become the youngest self-made billionaire.\n\nMr Gates has served on Berkshire's board since 2004 but devotes much of his time to the charitable organisation he set up with his wife, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\n\nThe couple were named the most generous philanthropists in the US in 2018 by the The Chronicle of Philanthropy, after giving $4.8bn to their foundation the previous year.", "People with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are having to wait up to two years for appropriate treatment.\n\nAbout two million people in the UK have moderate or severe symptoms related to OSA, which makes patients temporarily stop breathing while asleep.\n\nThis can happen hundreds of times a night, leaving them exhausted, with poor memory and concentration and a significantly higher risk of accidents.\n\nA recent spike in diagnosis has been linked to rising levels of obesity.\n\nPaul Wilson, 72, from Essex, went to see his GP in April 2018 when he first began to experience chronic drowsiness.\n\nIt took nine months before he was given an appointment at his local hospital and then a further three months before he was able to see a sleep specialist.\n\n\"I was told I would be referred and was given the choice of five clinics, even though none of them had appointments available,\" Mr Wilson told BBC News.\n\n\"I then chased, after a few months, to no success and it wasn't until the following year that I was finally contacted about an appointment to see a specialist.\"\n\nSleep apnoea can impact the loved ones of those who suffer too\n\nTest results showed Mr Wilson was stopping breathing about 56 times every hour while asleep and he was given a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask to wear while sleeping, which significantly improved his quality of life immediately.\n\n\"I was not aware how much it was impacting me and I had no idea how dangerous it was,\" he said. \"It came as quite a shock.\n\n\"I'm not falling asleep during the day any more, I'm sleeping through the night and so is my wife now my snoring has improved.\"\n\nRespiratory consultant Dr Annabel Nickol, who leads the sleep and ventilation service in Oxford, said patients with \"disabling symptoms\" were being left to struggle alone because services were at capacity across the country.\n\n\"There is a crisis facing sleep services in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"During prolonged waiting periods, patients are exposed to ongoing burdensome symptoms and the sixfold increased risk of having a road traffic accident due to loss of concentration or 'micro-sleeps' behind the wheel.\n\n\"If patients are advised to discontinue driving until they receive effective treatment, they may have significant loss of independence or even loss of employment.\"\n\nPeople should consult their GP if they have loud snoring, pauses in breathing at night, excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue and sudden awakening at night.", "A group of girls from London being quarantined in an abandoned Vietnamese hospital are keeping sane by documenting their isolation on Instagram.\n\nSisters Lucy and Alice Parker, 22 and 25, and their friend Hanna Ahlberg, 23, were traced to their Ha Long Bay hostel by authorities days after Lucy disembarked a plane where a passenger tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nTo make a bad situation better, the girls, who are graphic designers, say they are keeping positive by drawing cartoons for \"corona merchandise\".", "Chelsea Manning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files\n\nFormer US army intelligence analyst and Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning has been released from prison.\n\nManning was remanded for refusing to testify in an inquiry into Wikileaks. She had been held in a detention centre in Virginia since last May.\n\nShe was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, but the judge ruled that it was no longer necessary for her to testify.\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks.\n\nShe accrued more than $250,000 (£198,000) in fines for refusing to co-operate with the inquiry. Her legal team had asked for these to be vacated, but the judge said they must be paid in full.\n\nManning, 32, refused to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she said she had already given her testimony during the 2013 trial.\n\nHer release order on Thursday came shortly after her legal team said she had tried to take her own life and was recovering in hospital.\n\nPolice confirmed there was \"an incident\" involving Manning at the detention centre in Virginia on Wednesday afternoon. \"It was handled appropriately by our professional staff and [she] is safe,\" a police statement said.\n\nManning leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US military files relating to the Afghan war to Wikileaks in 2010. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but former President Barack Obama commuted the rest of her sentence in 2017.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for several years.\n\nThey are currently seeking the extradition of its co-founder Julian Assange from the UK over his alleged role in the 2010 release of classified military and diplomatic material.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces 18 criminal charges in the US, including conspiring to hack government computers and violating espionage laws.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus and the club's game against Brighton on Saturday has been postponed.\n\nThe Gunners have closed their training ground and club staff who had recent contact with Arteta will now self-isolate.\n\nThe Premier League will hold \"an emergency club meeting\" on Friday to discuss future fixtures.\n\n\"This is really disappointing,\" said Spaniard Arteta, 37.\n\n\"I took the test after feeling poorly. I will be at work as soon as I'm allowed.\"\n\nArsenal expects a \"significant number of people\" will self-isolate, including the \"full first-team squad\".\n\nThe club were due to face Brighton in the Premier League at Amex Stadium on Saturday (15:00 GMT) but Brighton released a statement, shortly after confirmation of Arteta's positive test, announcing that the game had been called off.\n\nBBC Sport understands all 20 Premier League clubs want to decide on a unified strategy, and one of the possible options that will be discussed at the meeting is postponing the rest of this weekend's scheduled fixtures.\n\n\"The health of our people and the wider public is our priority and that is where our focus is,\" said Arsenal managing director Vinai Venkatesham.\n\n\"We are in active dialogue with all the relevant people to manage this situation appropriately, and we look forward to getting back to training and playing as soon as medical advice allows.\"\n\nArsenal's Premier League match with Manchester City on Wednesday was postponed as a \"precautionary measure\" and several Gunners players went into self-isolation after Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis contracted coronavirus.\n\nArsenal said Marinakis, 52, met a number of their players when the Gunners hosted the Greek side in a Europa League match two weeks ago.\n\nThe club said no players or staff would be tested for coronavirus.\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution after a member of his family was admitted to hospital displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThree Leicester City first-team players have also self-isolated after showing symptoms of coronavirus.\n• None 14:06 GMT - Brendan Rodgers says three Leicester City players have self-isolated after showing symptoms.\n• None 16:00 GMT - Manchester City's Champions League last-16 tie with Real Madrid, due to take place on Tuesday, is postponed.\n• None 17:25 GMT - Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK government is considering banning sporting fixtures - but it will not happen immediately.\n• None 20:45 GMT - Manchester City say defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution.\n• None 21:30 GMT - The Premier League announces all this weekend's games \"will go ahead as scheduled\".\n• None 22:17 GMT - Arsenal say manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus.\n• None 22:33 GMT - The Premier League announces it will hold \"an emergency club meeting\" on Friday to discuss future fixtures.\n\nThe Premier League now appears to be edging closer to an unprecedented suspension.\n\nFor several days now senior officials have privately believed matches would soon have to be played closed doors with preparations made to do so. Despite mounting criticism for carrying on as normal and being so out of step with other competitions around the world, the Premier League agreed to follow government policy.\n\nBut with several clubs now directly affected by the outbreak the integrity of the league is clearly in jeopardy. So what happens next?\n\nBoth the Premier League and EFL are desperate to get their remaining matches played.\n\nIf Euro 2020 is postponed by Uefa for a year on Tuesday, space could perhaps be created in the calendar for any delayed matches to be played, and a case could be made to government to pause the Premier League and EFL seasons for several weeks.\n\nThat would at least avert the threat of legal action from clubs claiming they have been denied promotion or European qualification.", "No members of the public or police officers were injured in Westminster\n\nA man shot dead by police in Westminster has been named by the watchdog investigating the killing.\n\nHassan Yahya, 30, was carrying two knives and said to be \"acting suspiciously\" before he died on Sunday night.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said he is thought to have run over Hungerford Bridge and into Northumberland Avenue.\n\nThree Tasers were fired before Mr Yahya was shot by City of London police.\n\nThe armed officers had been responding to an emergency call, but police have said the incident was not terror-related.\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC said its investigators \"have obtained accounts from officers on the scene and gathered CCTV and body-worn video footage\".\n\nIt added: \"The investigation is at an early stage and we are still gathering information. The coroner has been informed, a post-mortem examination carried out and we are awaiting the results.\"\n\nMr Yahya's next of kin has been informed, the watchdog said.\n\nFollowing the shooting, investigators said two Ministry of Defence police officers, who were on patrol, were told a man was acting suspiciously near Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.\n\nHe failed to stop and, after they fired a Taser, they radioed for back-up warning he was carrying knives.\n\nA second Taser was fired by Met Police officers in Northumberland Avenue, and a third Taser was fired before the victim was shot dead by a City of London officer after two armed response vehicles arrived on the scene.\n\nTwo knives were recovered from Great Scotland Yard, a road that connects Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square.\n\nIt is mandatory for the IOPC to carry out an independent investigation when the police fatally shoot a member of the public.\n\nThe armed officers had been responding to an emergency call\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Migrants live in squalor in Moria camp on Lesbos\n\nThe EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries.\n\nEU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government.\n\nShe said it was temporary - open for one month only - and only for migrants who arrived before 1 January.\n\nShe said 5,000 migrants would be eligible for the \"voluntary return\".\n\nThis month, hundreds of migrants and refugees have reached Greek islands near Turkey by boat, increasing the pressure on struggling reception centres. The camps on those islands already have nearly 42,000 asylum seekers, though they were designed for about 6,000.\n\nAid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which is working on the islands, says more than 14,000 of the migrants are children.\n\n\"Men, women and children are living in horrific conditions in these overcrowded centres, in constant fear and with very basic access to services like toilets, showers, electricity,\" Stephan Oberreit, MSF head of mission in Greece, told the BBC.\n\n\"Our teams in the clinic opposite Moria camp receive around 70 children per day, including children suffering from chronic illnesses, for which we are not able to provide proper care.\"\n\nMs Johansson said seven EU member states had agreed to take in at least 1,600 unaccompanied children from the camps, seen as especially vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children told the BBC they don't have enough food and are sleeping in the open\n\nMany of the migrants are Syrians fleeing the civil war, but there are also Afghans, Pakistanis and West Africans. It is not clear how many would qualify for refugee status.\n\nAid agencies consider Syria too dangerous for migrants to be sent back there, but some other countries of origin, such as Pakistan, are considered safe enough.\n\nGreece has temporarily suspended its processing of new asylum applications - a move condemned by aid groups.\n\nOxfam's spokesman on EU migration, Florian Oel, said \"all EU governments have avoided taking responsibility, not just Greece\" over the migrant crisis.\n\nHe said the situation had remained very bad since 2016, when Turkey signed a deal with the EU to halt a much larger flow of migrants into Europe.\n\nThe latest surge in numbers at the Greek border came after Turkey announced that it would no longer stop them trying to enter Greece. Turkey, which is hosting 3.7 million Syrian refugees already, accuses the EU of not doing enough to help.\n\n\"People in need of safety have been turned into political bargaining chips,\" Mr Oel told the BBC.\n\n\"The EU partners have to share responsibility for those arriving; it means states should relocate refugees to their own countries and do the asylum procedure there. They must agree on permanent rules.\"\n\nHowever, he welcomed the EU announcement on relocating unaccompanied children as \"a good first step\".\n\nMs Johansson said repatriation of migrants from the islands would be coordinated with the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the EU border force Frontex.\n\nThe situation is also acute on the Greece-Turkey land border, where Greek police have used tear gas and water cannon to keep migrants out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump declares a national emergency and says he will \"most likely\" be tested for coronavirus\n\nUS President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to help handle the growing outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nThe declaration - \"two very big words\", according to Mr Trump - allows the federal government to tap up to $50bn (£40bn) in emergency relief funds.\n\nThe move loosens regulations on the provision of healthcare and could speed up testing - the slow pace of which has been criticised widely.\n\nThere are 1,701 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US, and 40 deaths.\n\nSeveral US states have taken measures to stem the infections rate, including banning large gatherings, sporting events and closing schools.\n\nThe virus originated in China last December, but Europe is now the \"epicentre\" of the global pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday, as several European countries reported steep rises in infections and deaths.\n\nItaly has recorded its highest daily toll yet - 250 over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1,266, with 17,660 infections in the country.\n\nMr Trump's administration has come under recent scrutiny over its failure to provide Americans with widespread coronavirus testing.\n\nThe decision on the state of emergency was announced by Mr Trump in a live address from the White House Rose Garden.\n\nThe \"next eight weeks are critical,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nAmongst the measures envisaged as part of the emergency response are:\n\nDemocrats in Congress and heavily-affected states had been urging Mr Trump to issue the order, which will also allow more people to qualify for government health insurance.\n\nLater on Friday, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she had reached a deal with the White House on a package to assist people affected by the outbreak.\n\nIt includes two weeks of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave, free virus testing for those without insurance and food aid.\n\nUrged again to explain why he hasn't taken a coronavirus test following reports that he has been in the company of people who have tested positive recently, Mr Trump said he had no symptoms and there was no need for a test. But he added that he was likely to have one \"fairly soon\", anyway.\n\nIn Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a 14-day self-isolation period on Friday after his wife tested positive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsanaro has tested negative, despite one of his top aides falling sick recently. Both men had recently met US officials including President Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nPresident Trump's travel ban on 26 European countries, which was met with anger and confusion. this week, will go into effect on Friday at midnight EDT (04:00 GMT on Saturday).\n\nThe 1988 Stafford Act gives the president alone the ability to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to co-ordinate a national response to \"natural catastrophes\" within the US.\n\nDonald Trump said \"national emergency\" were two very big words, but the declaration sounds more dramatic than it is, says the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ways to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThere are currently more than 30 national emergencies in effect. Mr Trump has declared several national emergencies in his presidency, including one last year to redirect military funds to build a southern border wall to prevent illegal immigration.\n\nHe has also issued the order to deal with wildfires in California and flooding in the Midwest.\n\nIt marks the first use of the order to fight a pandemic since President Barack Obama issued one to fight the swine flu virus.\n\nPresident Bill Clinton issued a national emergency to pay for efforts to stop the spread of West Nile virus in the US Northeast.", "Fox said he hoped the apology would be \"an opportunity... to celebrate diversity\"\n\nActors union Equity has apologised to Laurence Fox for a tweet by one of its committees that called him \"a disgrace to our industry\".\n\n\"It was a mistake for Equity as an organisation to criticise him in this way,\" said the union in a statement.\n\nFox appeared as a panellist on Question Time in January, during which he called an audience member \"racist\" for calling him \"a white privileged male\".\n\nHis remarks were criticised by Equity's minority ethnic members committee.\n\nFox thanked Equity for their comments with a tweet, following a 19-day break from 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\nIn a previous statement issued in January, Equity said its rules had been \"inadvertently broken\" and it had been \"a mistake to criticise a member of the profession without consultation with the union\".\n\nIn that statement, the organisation said \"racism is real\" and that it had \"a proud tradition of fighting racism and campaigning for equality and diversity in the entertainment industries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laurence Fox clashes with an audience member on Question Time\n\nOn Friday, Equity said it \"would like to make clear\" that nothing in its earlier statement \"was intended as a slur on [Fox's] character or views or to suggest that he should be denied the ability to work.\"\n\nFollowing the release of Equity's apology, the members of its minority ethnic members committee - since renamed the Race Equality Committee - said they had \"no choice but to resign\".\n\nFox had said on 24 February he was taking an \"extended break from social media\", having become \"more and more depressed\" after being shocked by \"some of the things said to me on these platforms\".\n\n\"I am fearing for my future and my ability to provide financially for my children. A thought that keeps has kept me awake most nights. People tell me it will blow over, but when you are in it, it doesn't feel like it will...\" he added at the time.\n\nEquity's apology was welcomed on social media by Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, columnist Toby Young and others.\n\nFox added he hoped it \"might [be] an opportunity for us to continue to celebrate diversity in all its forms. Including diversity of opinion.\"\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\nDashcam footage of the moments before a police officer's feet were \"whipped out from under him\" and he was dragged away by a car has been shown to a jury.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died from \"catastrophic\" injuries after he was dragged for about a mile on 15 August.\n\nPC Andrew Shaw, who responded to a report of a stolen quad bike with PC Harper, said the moment his colleague fell was \"the last I saw of him\".\n\nHenry Long, the car driver, and two 17-year-olds deny murder.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard PC Shaw, an advanced Thames Valley Police driver, had been an officer since 1990.\n\nPC Andrew Shaw told the court that his and PC Harper's shift was due to end hours before the incident\n\nHe and PC Harper entered a rural, single carriageway road where they \"chanced upon\" a Seat Toledo towing the quad bike.\n\nPC Shaw said he could hear the car's engine being \"revved loudly\" and said he saw a \"male figure\" run past the driver's side of his car.\n\nAfter PC Harper got out of the unmarked police car, PC Shaw said: \"I looked through the window of my car and I could see [PC Harper] running in the road.\n\n\"As the car [the Seat] accelerated away PC Harper was standing then just appeared to fall straight back as if his feet had been whipped out from under him and that was pretty much the last I saw of him.\"\n\nProsecutor Brian Altman QC said PC Shaw was heard on the police radio saying: \"I can't find my crew mate, I can't find my crew mate.\"\n\nPC Shaw was heard saying his colleague had \"got out the vehicle\" and he had \"now lost him\".\n\nDashcam footage showed PC Shaw being flagged down by another officer who was attending to PC Harper in the road, after he had been detached from the vehicle.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nThe court later heard from PC Christopher Bushnell, who was in another police car in pursuit of the Seat.\n\nThe court heard he stopped at a fork in the road, before the Seat then turned around and drove \"absolutely straight at me\". He had to \"veer off the road to the left\", he said.\n\nThe car had \"no lights, it was a country road, it was almost second guessing where they were going\", he added\n\nMr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe, trial, due to last six weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dua Lipa, Kendrick Lamar and the Pet Shop Boys will all headline stages at the festival\n\nDua Lipa, the Pet Shop Boys and Mabel will all play the Glastonbury Festival this summer - provided it isn't cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nMore than 90 names were added to the line-up on Thursday, joining headliners Taylor Swift and Sir Paul McCartney.\n\nUS rap star Kendrick Lamar will top the bill on Friday, with Supergrass, Lana Del Rey and AJ Tracey also due to play.\n\nEmily Eavis said organisers had \"fingers firmly crossed\" the event would go ahead in June.\n\nShe said she was releasing a poster of the line-up \"with the best intentions\" given \"the current circumstances\".\n\n\"As things stand we are still working hard to deliver our 50th anniversary festival in June and we are very proud of the bill that we have put together over the last year or so,\" she said.\n\n\"No one has a crystal ball to see exactly where we will all be 15 weeks from now, but we are keeping our fingers firmly crossed that it will be here at Worthy Farm for the greatest show on Earth!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has already affected several tours and festivals, with acts like The Who, BTS, Miley Cyrus and Madonna having cancelled or postponed shows.\n\nIn the US, April's Coachella festival has been delayed, while music industry showcase South By Southwest, was scrapped altogether.\n\nThe Country To Country festival, due to take place in London, Dublin and Glasgow this weekend, was also postponed at the last minute on Thursday night. Rescheduled dates will be announced \"in the coming days,\" organisers said.\n\nWith more disruptions expected, shares in concert promoters Live Nation dropped by 16.6% on Wednesday, representing a single-day loss of more than $1.8bn (£1.4bn).\n\nGlastonbury's team are hoping their festival can go ahead if the spread of the virus slows down.\n\nHowever, if there is a government-imposed lockdown in the run-up to the festival, it could impact their ability to build stages and prepare the Somerset site for the arrival of 175,000 ticket-holders on 24 June.\n\nTaylor Swift will headline the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night... if the show goes ahead\n\nThe acts announced on Thursday did not constitute Glastonbury's full line-up, but flagged up some of the festival's biggest bookings for 2020.\n\nAmong them were former headliners Manic Street Preachers, Happy Mondays, Sinead O'Connor and Skunk Anansie, alongside festival stalwarts Dizzee Rascal, Primal Scream and Elbow.\n\nSuzanne Vega, the festival's first-ever female headliner, will also return to Worthy Farm - 31 years after playing the Pyramid Stage in a bullet-proof vest, after her band received death threats.\n\nBrazilian Tropicalia legend Gilberto Gil will make his first appearance since playing Glastonbury's inaugural festival in 1970. The musician was actually living in the Eavis farmhouse at the time, after being exiled by his country's military dictatorship.\n\nUS R&B stars TLC will make their debut, while Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play immediately before Paul McCartney's Saturday night headline slot.\n\nPop icon Diana Ross has already been announced to play the Sunday afternoon \"legend slot\"; while festival favourites Dua Lipa, Pet Shop Boys and Fatboy Slim will headline The Other Stage - Glastonbury's second-biggest arena.\n\nFifty-two per cent of the acts announced so far are female or bands featuring a mix of genders, after Eavis pledged to achieve a gender-balanced line-up \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Our future has to be 50/50,\" she told Radio 1's Newsbeat earlier this year.\n\n\"It's a challenge. Everyone's finding it hard - but the acts are there,\" she said, adding that Glastonbury's former line-ups had \"always been male-heavy\".\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 European Football\n\nAll Uefa competitions, including Champions League and Europa League matches due to be played next week, have been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe draws for the next rounds, set for 20 March, have also been postponed.\n\nIn the Champions League, Manchester City v Real Madrid, Juventus v Lyon, Barcelona v Napoli and Bayern Munich v Chelsea are all postponed.\n\nManchester United, Wolves and Rangers' matches in the Europa League are off.\n\nAll Uefa Youth League quarter-final matches scheduled for 17 and 18 March are also off.\n\nUefa said further decisions on the scheduling of the postponed fixtures \"will be communicated in due course\".\n\nThe decision comes on a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide.\n• None has been suspended until 3 April.\n• None has been moved from 26 April to 4 October, with the Manchester and Brighton Marathons also postponed.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n• None the Masters, has been postponed.\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\nEuropean football's governing body has invited representatives from all 55 of its member associations to a meeting on Tuesday in order to discuss a response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe scheduling of Euro 2020 will be discussed at the gathering.\n\nAt the time of publication, more than 125,000 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in 118 countries around the world, according to the World Health Organization. The total number of deaths is more than 4,600.\n\nNo first legs played in Getafe v Inter Milan and Roma v Sevilla", "Dr Lisa Cameron is an SNP MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow\n\nA Scots MP is self-isolating after showing symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nDr Lisa Cameron announced the move on Twitter and said she had been forced to cancel her constituency surgeries on medical advice.\n\nIn a separate development, the Scottish Football Professional League confirmed the remainder of the Scottish football season had been postponed indefinitely.\n\nAnd a secondary school in South Lanarkshire has closed temporarily due to a Covid-19 case.\n\nThe individual from Lanark Grammar School is self-isolating at home and the school is due to reopen on Monday.\n\nThere have been 60 cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Scotland and the UK has moved into the \"delay\" phase in its response to the outbreak.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that widespread school closures were not yet necessary - but from next week restrictions would be placed on gatherings of more than 500 people.\n\nShe said this was designed to reduce the impact on the emergency services, rather then preventing the spread of the virus.\n\nOn Friday, Glasgow University said all exams due to be held in April and May would now be held remotely.\n\nIn a video message, Principal Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli said the coming weeks would be \"extremely challenging for all of us\".\n\nDr Cameron, who had been in a debate with Tory mental health minister Nadine Dorries - who has tested positive for the virus - reported feeling fatigued and developed a dry cough and swollen glands.\n\nThe SNP MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow tweeted: \"Friday/ Saturday Surgeries Cancelled: Apologies for such short notice but after two NHS consultations tonight the out of hours doctor has confirmed I must self-isolate for one week. Hope to be feeling better soon. Thanks to all @NHSScotland for everything you do.\"\n\nThe football postponements begin with Friday's matches between Motherwell and Aberdeen, and Queen of the South's against Ayr United.\n\nThey also include Sunday's Rangers v Celtic match at Ibrox.\n\nAll domestic professional and grassroots football under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA will be suspended, which includes the Scottish Women's Premier League.\n\nAll elite football in England has been suspended until at least 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA number of court cases in Scotland have already been disrupted because of coronavirus, including trials at the High Court in Glasgow and Forfar Sheriff Court.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said witnesses, jurors and lawyers should not attend court if they were displaying symptoms or have come into contact with someone with Covid-19.\n\nWitnesses who are unfit should, if possible, obtain a \"soul and conscience certificate\" which can be emailed to the court, otherwise they risk being the subject of an arrest warrant.\n\nThe news came as fresh measures to delay the spread of coronavirus in Scotland were due to come into effect.\n\nFrom Friday, people with symptoms of the virus - namely a fever or a new cough - are urged to stay at home for a period of seven days.\n\nIn addition, from Monday the Scottish government is recommending gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled.\n\nEarlier, national clinical director Jason Leitch, told BBC Scotland the guidance over mass gatherings had been a judgement call in order to ensure \"we have all the staff and equipment we could possibly need\" rather than a bid to halt the virus spreading.\n\nMr Leitch said there were no current plans to close schools and this would only change, \"when we come to the point when science tells is it is the right thing to do\".\n\nThe NHS executive also urged people to continue attending blood banks, adding, \"if they are not in the stay-at-home group, we need them to continue to give blood\".\n\nLloyds Bank has closed one of its Edinburgh sites after a worker tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Citymark office will be shut temporarily while it is cleaned, and staff have been asked to self-isolate, work from home or from an alternative site depending on their circumstances.\n\nLloyds said Citymark is a small operation and that their main Edinburgh office was not affected.\n\nA company spokeswoman said: \"Our priority is the wellbeing of the individual, as well as the colleagues and visitors to the building. We're closely monitoring the developing situation and continue to follow official guidelines.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces advice that all overseas school trips will be cancelled\n\nDr John Logan, NHS Lanarkshire consultant in public health medicine, said the individual from Lanark Grammar School who has tested positive for Covid-19 was not giving cause for concern.\n\nHe said: \"We would like to reassure all staff and parents that the risk of contracting coronavirus from this individual is very low.\n\n\"Our public health team is in the process of identifying and contacting the limited number of people who were in very close contact with the confirmed case and issuing public health advice.\n\nThe first case of coronavirus transmitted within the community was detected in Scotland on Wednesday.\n\nThere are now 798 confirmed cases across the UK and 10 people have died - all of them in English hospitals.\n\nHowever, the UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said the actual number of people infected could be between 5,000 and 10,000.\n\nAs part of the new measures aimed at delaying the peak of the outbreak until the summer, people experiencing symptoms are being urged to stay at home for seven days, but not to call their GP or NHS 24 unless their condition deteriorates.\n\nThose who have been in contact with someone who is experiencing symptoms should only stay at home if they also begin to experience symptoms.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said widespread school closures at this stage could be ineffective as young people might gather informally and still spread the virus.\n\nShe said there was also concern that closing schools as a precaution would lead to key workers staying off work to look after children.\n\nShe did, however, advise that all overseas school trips should be cancelled.\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority has said there will be no changes to the exam timetable \"at present\".\n\nIt urged learners, parents, schools and colleges to \"continue to prepare as normal\".\n\nAll current deadlines for coursework and other assessments remain in place and the exam timetable is currently scheduled to run from 27 April until 4 June.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish\n\nThe Scottish football season has been suspended until further notice amid the coronavirus outbreak, the SPFL has confirmed.\n\nSPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said it was \"neither realistic nor possible\" to continue with matches.\n\nThe postponements begin with Friday's Premiership match between Motherwell and Aberdeen, and Queen of the South against Ayr United in the Championship.\n\nSunday's Old Firm derby at Ibrox will also not be played.\n• None What happens next in Scottish football?\n• None SPFL says no money to cover closed-door games\n\nAll domestic professional and grassroots football under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA will be suspended, which includes the Scottish Women's Premier League.\n\nThe second leg of Rangers' Europa League last-16 encounter with Bayer Leverkusen was postponed earlier by Uefa.\n\nThe SPFL has acted after the UK government escalated its response and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had advised events of more than 500 people should be cancelled.\n\nThe all-encompassing decision has been taken to ensure a consistency of message and the idea of playing behind closed doors was ruled out due to the unavailability of emergency service provision and after PFA Scotland said their members would not be prepared to \"put their health and safety at risk\".\n\nScottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell said: \"Today's announcement is made in the interests of public health but, equally, the health and safety of players, match officials, and staff across the game.\n\n\"This is of paramount importance as the country enters the 'delay' phase of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It is also why the Scottish FA is compelled to ensure that the suspension is cascaded through the non-professional and grassroots games until further notice.\"\n\nSPFL chief executive Doncaster had previously warned of \"dire financial consequences\" for clubs if matches were to take place without fans.\n\nScottish clubs rely heavily on ticket sales, with Uefa's latest benchmark report revealing that 43% of the Scottish top flight's revenue was made up of gate receipts in 2018.\n\nAnd the league body warned clubs earlier this week that there were no cash reserves to help them in the event of matches taking place without spectators.\n\nClubs were encouraged to examine their insurance arrangements and that \"Every single penny of income from sponsorships, broadcast deals and cup revenue is already paid to the clubs as fees.\"\n\nOne Premiership club told BBC Scotland earlier this week they would be forced to rely on the goodwill of fans to not demand refunds should they not be permitted to attended games.\n\nThe spread of the virus has gradually escalated measures across Europe, with games postponed and played without spectators.\n\nUefa is meeting on Tuesday to discuss its response to the outbreak, and discussions will cover all domestic and European competitions, including Euro 2020.\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?", "The UK government has moved from the \"containment\" to the \"delay\" phase of its response to the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nSeven-day self-isolation periods for those with persistent coughs or fevers were just one measure announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nRead more: People with fever or cough told to self-isolate", "The British soldier killed in an attack on a military base in Iraq has been named as L/Cpl Brodie Gillon.\n\nL/Cpl Gillon, 26, was described as a \"larger than life soldier\" who was \"destined for great things\".\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned the attack - that also killed two Americans - as \"cowardly\".\n\nHe said those responsible would be held to account and that it was \"essential to defend against these deplorable acts\".\n\nAt least 12 people were injured in the attack on the Taji military camp, north of Baghdad, on Thursday.\n\nIt came amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Iraqi military has opened an investigation into the attack.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said L/Cpl Gillon - a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps and a reserve with the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry - was a \"fit, energetic and compassionate individual\".\n\nShe also had a career as a self-employed sports physiotherapist. It was understood she was from South Ayrshire.\n\nHer commanding officer, Lt Col William Leek, described her as a \"hugely popular character\".\n\n\"She was a larger than life soldier who was determined to deploy on operations, help others, develop herself and gain practical experience.\n\n\"She had already achieved a great deal in her relatively short time with us and it was abundantly clear that she was destined for great things in her civilian and military careers. Her loss is keenly felt.\"\n\nHer squadron leader, Maj Craig Powers, added she was an \"outstanding medic and loyal friend who would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nTaji air base is used as a training site for coalition forces.\n\nThe attack coincided with what would have been the birthday of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in January.\n\nUS military sources said an American soldier and an American contractor were also killed. No names have been released yet.\n\nMr Raab offered his \"heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in this cowardly attack\".\n\nHe added that he had discussed the attack - and how to respond - with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Raab said: \"We agreed that it is essential to defend against these deplorable acts. We must find those responsible.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We will continue to liaise with our international partners to fully understand the details of this abhorrent attack.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, defence minister Johnny Mercer said the UK's commitment to peace in Iraq remained despite the \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"I think that we should continue to do everything possible to keep this country safe,\" he said.\n\n\"Where that requires us to partner with coalition forces in a fight against a deadly enemy like Daesh [the so-called Islamic State], I think we should continue to contribute to that mission.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the US base attacked by Iranian missiles\n\nUS military spokesman Colonel Myles Caggins said 12 people from the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve were injured when more than 15 small rockets hit the base on Wednesday at 19:35 local time (16:35 GMT).\n\nMr Pompeo said the attack would \"not be tolerated\" and that the UK and US have agreed that \"those responsible must be held accountable\".\n\nAbout 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.\n\nThe Army said British troops were in the country to provide training and equipment to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces - rather than in a combat role - and have trained more than 25,000 Iraqi forces.", "Su Francis says a rogue estate agent left her unable to sell her home\n\nPeople who have had problems with estate agents are backing calls for the government to \"get on\" with introducing reforms aimed at improving standards.\n\nSu Francis, 65, from Buckinghamshire, says she's been left \"in limbo\" after a bad experience with her estate agent.\n\nShe wants ministers to introduce reforms outlined in a report last summer by Lord Best, the former leader of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.\n\nThe government said it remained committed to raising standards.\n\nSu told BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme that she was visited by a so-called quick sale estate agent who pressured her into signing a contract. However, the full details of the contract were only revealed a couple of days later during a phone call from its office.\n\n\"They were quite hard about [me] signing up. Subsequently I found out I was signed up to them for a year,\" she says.\n\n\"They provided no service whatsoever, they provided no viewings, nobody came to see it [the house] and when I phoned them it was just recorded messages.\n\n\"It's also left me quite worried about who I should take on and whether or not I can trust people.\n\n\"It's left me in limbo because I haven't been able to sell my house. As far as the financial implications, until I can sell my house, it's impossible for me to plan for my financial future.\"\n\nJulia Armstrong also contacted Money Box about her experience with a rogue estate agent, who lowered the sale price of her house without her permission.\n\n\"A year later we have put our house on the market again and every viewing has said it's overpriced now because it was listed at £50,000 less last year,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a shock to us and our new agents advised us to drop the price this year immediately by £30,000 [to try to get people to even consider it].\"\n\nShe added she was very unhappy that the new valuation \"has been affected by the short period more than a year ago when it [our house] was undervalued by one of these agents\".\n\nIn 2018, Lord Best was asked by the government to come up with proposals to help clean up the industry, covering estate agents across the UK and lettings and management agents in England and Wales.\n\nHis report made a series of recommendations. These included creating a new independent regulator, and making sure that all property agents (estate, lettings and management agents) are licensed, have passed qualifications and are signed up to a code of practice.\n\nLord Best says acting as a property agent without a licence should be a criminal offence.\n\n\"At the moment anybody can set up shop and the next morning be operating as an agent,\" he says.\n\n\"They can take quite a lot of money off you... and they aren't regulated.\n\n\"Lawyers or accountants have proper qualifications and are properly regulated but not property agents.\"\n\nLord Best had this message for ministers: \"We need you to get your head around these recommendations and get on with it.\"\n\nSu Francis is among those backing Lord Best and his recommendations.\n\n\"[Rogue agents] leave people very vulnerable, particularly elderly people,\" she says.\n\n\"Lord Best's recommendations should be implemented, the government should be listening... and people will be harmed and will be thousands of pounds out of pocket if this is allowed to continue.\"\n\nIndustry voices are also keen to see the government take action on Lord Best's report. The National Association of Estate Agents, the Association of Residential Letting Agents and the Property Ombudsman are all backing his call for ministers to \"get on\" with implementing his ideas.\n\nA statement for the Ministry of Housing said: \"The government is committed to raising professionalism amongst property agents and welcomes the work of the independent Regulation of Property Agents working group, chaired by Lord Best.\n\n\"We will respond to the group's final report following careful consideration.\"\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "This may look like a 1992 Super Nintendo controller - except it's for a Sony Playstation\n\nThe only \"Nintendo PlayStation\" ever publicly auctioned has sold for $300,000 (£230,700).\n\nThe ultra-rare prototype was the offspring of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony, and was supposed to add CD-ROM support to the Super Nintendo.\n\nSony went on to create its own wildly successful PlayStation brand.\n\nHeritage Auctions said it might be the last remaining Nintendo prototype, as the others were probably destroyed.\n\nThe online bidder will end up paying $360,000 (£276,900) once the auction house's \"buyer's premium\" is added.\n\nIts mysterious history led to the prototype gaining near-mythical status in gaming history.\n\n\"People had kind of heard about this story - Nintendo and Sony partnering up to make the next, or the sequel to, the Super Nintendo,\" said Conor Clarke of the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield.\n\n\"But nobody really had confirmation that it existed. So it was mythical.\"\n\nThat status, he said, may explain why it is now the most expensive gaming object ever.\n\nMade in 1992, the Super NES CD-ROM was modelled after the successful Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Snes) - but with a disc drive in the base.\n\nIt was rumoured to play both Snes cartridges and CD-based games, although no official games were ever released using the CD drive.\n\nHowever, the console does work. The auctioneers tested it with a Snes Mortal Kombat cartridge and \"played a couple of rounds\". In addition, the disc drive plays audio CDs.\n\nMost gamers had never seen the console until it was fished out of Terry Diebold's attic by his son.\n\nMr Diebold purchased several boxes in an auction when his employer, Advanta, went under.\n\nHe once said in an interview he had been buying some of the company's dinner plates and cutlery - but the lot contained other boxes, including the ultra-rare game console.\n\nHe paid $75 for everything.\n\nIt is thought that it came from the office of Olaf Olaffson, once a top executive at Sony Computer Entertainment, who had worked at Advanta.\n\nThe revelation that someone had found evidence of the myth was met with scepticism, Conor Clarke said. That's until it was repaired, made functional, and started appearing at gaming conventions around the globe.\n\n\"Finding that object opened up this whole history, this whole story around the Nintendo and Sony partnership - that before then, had been relatively secret.\"\n\nThe story of the Nintendo PlayStation comes from a time when Nintendo was riding high from its success with the Super Nintendo, and there were still a few years until its next major console release.\n\nSeveral console makers were convinced CDs were the future of gaming, destined to replace the large plastic cartridges of the 1980s. Sega had the 32x and Sega CD systems, while Atari released a CD add-on for the Jaguar.\n\nNintendo's collaboration with Sony ended poorly. A day after Sony announced the deal to the world in 1991, Nintendo announced a new partnership with Philips instead.\n\nThat decision changed the entire landscape of the gaming industry in the 1990s.\n\nThe Philips console, known as the CD-I, was a critical and commercial failure, with the four Nintendo games published for it considered among the worst in the company's catalogue.\n\nHowever, Sony went on to release a totally redesigned Sony PlayStation on its own. It became a worldwide sensation, selling more than 100 million consoles - more than double Nintendo's own mid-90s offering, the N64.\n\n\"I don't think anything really kind of took off until the PlayStation came in and really made gaming cool,\" said Conor Clarke.\n\nAs for the Nintendo prototype, Mr Clarke said it would be \"fantastic\" to have it in a museum - even if it's not his own. And the story behind it is more important than the machine itself.\n\n\"The provenance of a video gaming object is really what's at risk of being lost,\" he said. \"The human stories behind it, or how it came to be.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two teenagers have been sentenced to five years after admitting causing the death of Olivia Alkir\n\nTwo teenagers have been locked up for five years after admitting causing the death of a 17-year-old girl as they raced their cars.\n\nOlivia Alkir, from Efenechtyd, Denbighshire, died after a two-car crash on the B5105 on 27 June.\n\nShe was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta which crashed at about 19:30 BST.\n\nThomas Quick, 18, from Clawddnewydd, and a 17-year-old boy from Dyffryn Clwyd, both pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving at Mold Crown Court.\n\nThe defendants also pleaded guilty to four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nQuick was not directly involved in the collision, but was \"repeatedly racing\" with the 17-year-old driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe 17-year-old's car crashed with another car coming in the opposite direction between Clawddnewydd and Ruthin, leaving the passengers of the other vehicle, Dylan Jones and his mother Anwen Jones, with serious injuries.\n\nThomas Quick, 18, has been jailed for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nJudge Niclas Parry called for law changes for newly-qualified drivers to only be able to carry one passenger and have a monitoring box installed in the first year after passing their test.\n\n\"On 27 June last year, the life of one family was shattered beyond repair, the lives of four other people were, to varying degrees, changed for forever,\" he said.\n\nHe described the case as \"one of the worst examples of dangerous driving one could imagine\".\n\n\"You two were the cause of those dreadful consequences and that was purely due to your arrogance, selfishness and egotistical conduct,\" he added.\n\nThe court heard the crash came on a \"day of reckless driving\" by the defendants who had \"repeatedly used the roads of Denbighshire as a race track\".\n\nThe 17-year-old driver of the car in which Olivia was a rear seat passenger had only passed his test the day before.\n\nFlowers were left at the scene of the crash that killed Olivia Alkir\n\nBoth he and Quick drove to a stretch of road outside Llysfasi College to race each other on the afternoon of 27 June.\n\nWith their friends watching on, they raced side by side at high speed, with the younger newly qualified driver \"winning on both occasions\".\n\nThe court was told the younger driver had heard that day that his car was to be fitted with a black box the following day which would mean he couldn't drive at high speeds.\n\n\"It's clear he felt he had to take his chance to drive quickly\" that day, said John Philpotts, prosecuting.\n\nFootage shown to the court from another car heard friends saying \"they are going to die... we are going to drive past a burning wreck... surely it will happen one day\".\n\nThe court also heard Quick had been warned about his driving by teachers on several previous occasions in the weeks before the crash.\n\nThe two other teenage girls involved in the crash suffered several broken bones, and one needed surgery after rupturing her bowel in the crash.\n\nIn the oncoming car, Dylan Jones suffered extensive injuries to his lower leg, while his mother broke her wrist and a rib and needed more than one operation.\n\nThe court heard Mr Jones spent 54 days in hospital and both he and Ms Jones had to have their houses adapted before they could return home.\n\nOlivia Alkir, has been described by her family as \"kind and thoughtful\"\n\nOlivia was a \"fun-loving, wise, ambitious individual\" who was \"loved by all who knew her\", her family said in a statement last year.\n\nShe was a deputy head girl and A-level student at Brynhyfryd School, where she studied physics, mathematics, geography and the Welsh Baccalaureate.\n\nHer family said she had hoped to go on to study architectural engineering at university.\n\nGiving a victim impact statement in court, her mother, Jo Alkir, said Olivia was \"beautiful, kind and fun-loving\".\n\nShe listed all the things she and her husband \"deserved\" to experience with Olivia but would now miss out on - from the stress of helping her cope with her A-levels all the way through to her telling them at some point in the future she was pregnant with the first of the three children she dreamed of having.\n\nShe said \"our grief is so overwhelming that all we can wish for is our own early death\" to release them from their suffering.", "Taff Street in Pontypridd was left underwater after heavy rain\n\nInsurers are set to pay out an average £32,000 per household for flood claims after destructive UK winter storms, an industry body has said.\n\nThe bill to clean up after storms Dennis and Ciara is set to total more than £360m, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said.\n\nAbout £214m is going on flood claims and £149m on wind damage.\n\nHowever, affected people should not expect a hike in premiums, a spokeswoman said.\n\nThis is because insurers use some of their premiums to pay a levy into a scheme each year - the government's Flood Re fund - which helps them pay out for flood damage.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the two storms, insurers paid more than £7.7m in emergency funds to get home owners and businesses back on track, including paying for temporary accommodation when homes were uninhabitable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Environment Agency - Yorkshire & North East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 clean-up operation is still under way in affected areas. On Thursday, Environment Agency said it was pumping nearly one billion litres of water a day out of areas of East Yorkshire which were hit by floods.\n\nScores of homes were affected when the River Aire overflowed due to the storms.\n\nMark Shepherd, the ABI's head of general insurance policy, said: \"With some properties still under water, making emergency payments and arranging emergency alternative temporary accommodation or trading premises is very much a live issue.\"\n\nThe last time several significant storms struck in quick succession was in December 2015, when storms Desmond, Eva and Frank caused damage to the cost of £1.3bn, the ABI said.\n\nIt also put the cost of flooding in parts of south Yorkshire and the Midlands in November last year at more than £110m.\n\nABI spokesman Malcolm Tarling said: \"Insurers take these events on the chin. They expect flooding and bad weather to occur, and they plan for it.\n\n\"Insurers will look at the predictions for bad weather. They know that flooding is going to get worse and become more significant, and insurers will take that into account when they set their prices.\"\n\nIn 2019, researchers said that climate change would drive a \"robust increase\" in UK flooding.", "A teenager and her brother are leading a campaign to make sign language part of the school curriculum.\n\nDoctors said Christian would never be able to communicate because of brain damage sustained at birth.\n\nBut his sister Jade Kilduff learned sign language just so she could teach him.\n\nNow they have a large following on social media, where they sign along to popular songs on their channel Sign Along With Us.\n\nJade also started a petition to make sign language lessons a part of the primary school curriculum - she has had over 100,000 signatures.\n\nJames Wolfe Schools in east London already teach sign language, but Jade would like it rolled out nationally.", "The hospital said all services and appointments are running normally despite the death\n\nA man in his early 80s has become the second person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nMilton Keynes Hospital said the man, who had underlying health conditions, tested positive for the virus and died shortly afterwards on Thursday.\n\nThe hospital has isolated any patients or staff who were in contact with him.\n\nThe UK's first death linked to the virus was confirmed on Thursday when a woman in her 70s - also with underlying health issues - died in hospital.\n\nAs well as the two deaths in the UK, a British man died from the virus last month in Japan after being infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.\n\nIt comes as the number of confirmed cases in the UK rose to 164 - the biggest increase in a single day so far.\n\nMilton Keynes Hospital said its appointments and services were \"running normally\".\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said work was under way to trace people who the man was in contact with before he died.\n\nMeanwhile, 21 people - including 19 crew members and two passengers - have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco, California.\n\nMore than 140 British nationals, many of whom are elderly and concerned about their medicine supply, are among those stranded on the Grand Princess ship over the outbreak.\n\nThe nationalities of those who have tested positive has not yet been revealed.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence said all 3,500 passengers and crew would now be tested for the virus.\n\nThe Women's Six Nations rugby match between Scotland and France in Glasgow on Saturday has also been postponed after a Scottish player contracted the virus.\n\nShe is being treated and is \"doing well\", the team's medical officer said, while seven other members of the squad and management are in self-isolation.\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health figures, as of 9:00 GMT on Friday, 20,338 people had been tested.\n\nThe latest number of confirmed cases comprises 147 cases in England, 11 in Scotland, three in Northern Ireland and two in Wales. On Friday night, a fourth person in Northern Ireland was diagnosed with the virus.\n\nOf the cases in England there are:\n\nIn Scotland, there are three cases in Grampian, two in Fife, two in Forth Valley and one each in Lothian, Tayside, Ayrshire & Arran and Greater Glasgow & Clyde.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nAbout 45 of the confirmed cases have been self-isolating at home, while 18 people have recovered.\n\nUp to 30 cases have no known link to foreign travel, which the BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"suggests the virus is establishing a firm foothold\".\n\nBut he added that \"it is worth stressing that four out of five people infected will have a mild illness\".\n\nThe UK government has pledged to spend £46m more on urgent work to tackle the coronavirus - including more money to develop a vaccine and cash to help some of the most vulnerable countries prepare for an outbreak.\n\nThe money will fund work on eight possible vaccines which are already in development as well as a lab in Bedford to try to create a test that could provide results within 20 minutes.\n\nCurrently, tests take a couple of days to provide results.\n\nShoppers have reported being unable to buy hand sanitiser with shelves empty\n\nOn Monday, officials will hold a meeting to discuss the practicalities of holding sport events behind closed doors and without fans, if the outbreak worsens and mass gatherings are banned.\n\nThe government has said the UK is still in the first phase of its four-part plan to tackle the virus outbreak, which is made up of: contain, delay, research and mitigate.\n\nBut officials were ramping up work to prepare for the next phase, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson added.\n\nThe government is still deciding what measures will be taken in the delay phase, but has previously said this could include banning big events, closing schools, encouraging people to work from home and discouraging the use of public transport.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nThe government has updated its advice for Italy - the country in Europe that has been hit worst by the virus and which has seen more than 4,600 cases. The country recorded another 49 deaths on Friday, bringing the total number up to 197.\n\nTravellers who develop symptoms after returning from any part of Italy - not just the north of the country - should self-isolate, while those returning from quarantined areas should self-isolate even without symptoms.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nIt brings the total number of positive tests in Scotland to 16.\n\nTwo new cases have been reported in Lanarkshire, with an increase of one case in Lothian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Grampian.\n\nAcross the UK, 206 people have tested positive for Covid-19. Two people - who both had underlying health problems - have died with the disease.\n\nThe increase in Scotland matches the jump seen on Friday, the biggest in a single day since the first reported case on Sunday.\n\nIn total, 1,664 of the 1,680 tests in Scotland have come back negative.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she expects the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 to increase \"very rapidly\" in the coming days.\n\nBut she said she hoped to push back the spread of the virus to limit the peak of the outbreak until the spring and summer months.\n\nIt comes as Scotstoun sports complex in Glasgow is shut for cleaning after a rugby player tested positive for the virus after using the facility.\n\nThe woman was a member of the Scotland women's team which trained at Scotstoun stadium on Friday.\n\nHer team's Six Nations match against France, which was due to be played at Scotstoun, has been cancelled.\n\nIn Argyll, a GP has told his patients to stay away from his surgery for fear of spreading the virus.\n\nDr Robert Coull said appointments at Strachur Medical Practice would only be conducted by telephone.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer has previously warned that there could be a \"rapid rise\" in the number of cases in the coming days.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood also said Scotland remained \"very much\" in the containment phase of its response to the outbreak, and urged people to continue to follow basic hygiene advice and - crucially - wash their hands for 20 seconds.", "Should current events leave you unexpectedly at a loose end, allow me to point you in the direction of Sol LeWitt's excellent short essay on Conceptual art, which he wrote for Art Forum magazine in 1967.\n\nI think it is possibly the best article ever written concerning a notoriously slippery art genre, about which LeWitt knew a great deal, as he himself was a Conceptual artist (he also wrote well, with a lively style that pulls you through the more arcane passages).\n\nAs the name implies, Conceptual art is all about the idea, its physical realisation being secondary: the concept is the artwork, not the object.\n\nThis can mean, for anyone in the market for piece of Conceptual art, there's a very real risk of going home with a scrap of paper on which a set of instructions have been scribbled (because the idea is the art), rather than its representation in a splendid sculpture or painting.\n\nIt's like a trip to Ikea, but there's no flat-pack kit.\n\nIt is said, possibly apocryphally, that a very famous contemporary artist adopted the same approach when it came to paintings produced by his assistants following his style-guide.\n\nHe would sign the finished canvasses and date them with the year he came up with the idea for the composition, not the year they were painted by an assistant.\n\nThe upshot of which, apparently, was that he ended up signing artworks with a date before the person who actually painted the canvas was born.\n\nAnd so it goes with Conceptual art, which has been on my mind this week following a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the newly installed monumental artworks by Portugal's Joana Vasconcelos, who describes herself as a Conceptual artist.\n\nIt is fair to say her work is the polar opposite to LeWitt's in terms of aesthetic.\n\nHe wanted to take art back to its bare essentials, with his cool monochromatic wall paintings and austere geometric sculptures.\n\nVasconcelos, on the other hand, is all about vibrant colour and baroque kitsch.\n\nThree x Four x Three sculpture (1984) by Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, who said \"The idea becomes a machine that makes the art\"\n\nI suspect her massive cockerel (Pop Galo, 2016), which you encounter as you enter the park, would have appalled the late American artist.\n\nThe lively collection of ceramic tiles and LED lights covering its body would have been bad enough, but the music emanating from it would have tipped him over the edge.\n\n\"Too much!\" he'd say while making a beeline for James Turrell's beautifully minimalist Deer Shelter Skyspace, in which you sit against a concrete wall and look up at the sky through a rectangle cut in the roof.\n\nPop Galo, 2016, a huge cockerel that makes a noise and lights up in the dark\n\nJames Turrell's minimalist Deer Shelter Skyspace, 2006, contrasts with the colourful spectacle of Pop Galo\n\nLeWitt was forthright about the elephant traps awaiting Conceptual artists.\n\nGigantic, colourful, expressionistic artworks were at the top of his list of no-nos.\n\n\"When the viewer is dwarfed by the larger size of a piece this domination emphasizes the physical and emotive power of the form at the expense of losing the idea of the piece.\n\n\"New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles.\"\n\nThat's not how Joana Vasconcelos sees it.\n\nShe works with whatever materials are demanded by her concept, which might have gaudiness at its heart.\n\nSolitário (2018) is a 7m (23ft) high wedding ring made out of gold-alloy car wheel rims topped off with a stack of whisky glasses shaped like a diamond.\n\nIt is tasteless in the extreme.\n\nA vulgar blot on the landscape, framing the bucolic Yorkshire countryside with a crassness that seeks to comment on our age of rabid materialism.\n\nThat is the artist's intention, gaudy is her concept.\n\nSolitaire, 2018 (includes crystal whisky glasses), which the artist says is an intentionally \"bling, bling, vulgar\" reflection of our consumer society\n\nA different idea calls for different materials.\n\nI'll Be Your Mirror (2018-20) is a sculpture about identities and perception.\n\nIt consists of a series of overlapping, gilded, two-side mirrors arranged into the shape of a huge Venetian mask (an artwork that has taken on added meaning with the advent of Covid-19). It's not exactly subtle, but what's wrong with being direct?\n\nConceptual art doesn't have to be a puzzle.\n\nBut it needs layers that take it beyond a static one-liner, which this work does both literally and metaphorically.\n\nJoana Vasconcelos and Will Gompertz behind the mask (I'll be Your Mirror, 2018-20) which Joana says is used in many cultures to protect yourself from evil, and also to protect yourself from yourself\n\nThat cannot be said for all the works on display in this outdoor/indoor exhibition.\n\nAn oversized ice cream cone called Tutti Frutti (2011) is underwhelming. Vasconcelos has made it from children's plastic sand moulds of apples, pears, croissants and strawberries.\n\nIt isn't very interesting to look at, and the concept (sugary seduction, greed, and hollowness) is laboured.\n\nThe same can be said for Marilyn (2011), a giant pair of stilettos created out of stainless-steel saucepans, for which no explanation is needed.\n\nHer best work is the gallery-filling Valkyrie Marina Rinaldi (2014), a biomorphic goddess covered in the materials from the fashion house Max Mara, with whom the artist was collaborating.\n\nIt clearly draws on Louise Bourgeois's knitted figures and Niki de Saint Phalle's extravagant, blobby women - but it has its own heart and soul: not least its joyful celebration of all those materials and associated crafts about which LeWitt was sniffy.\n\nYou can see the influence of Niki de Saint Phalle's monumental figures in Joana Vasconcelos' art\n\nI think there is room for an expressionistic artist like Joana Vasconcelos in the Conceptual art club.\n\nBut LeWitt is spot on with much of what he says, particularly in his pithy summation to his essay: \"Conceptual art is good only when the idea is good.\"\n\nVasconcelos's Instagram-friendly art is full of good ideas but lacks any great ones.", "Various rates of VAT have been set for sanitary products\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished from January, the chancellor will announce next week.\n\nAn EU directive meant the rate could not fall below 5% while the UK remains in the bloc's customs union.\n\nSince 2015, the revenue collected has been earmarked for charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the move but called for more help for \"chronically underfunded\" women's charities.\n\nLegislation has already been through Parliament to ensure the change can be made. The Treasury estimates the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nVAT on sanitary products has been levied at various rates since 1973.\n\nThe Treasury said £47m had been collected so far and tax collected until the end of the year would continue to be put into the fund for charities.\n\nBut Vivienne Hayes, the chief executive of the Women's Resource Centre charity, called on the government to pay the estimated £700m raised during the lifetime of the tax to be paid to women's charities.\n\nCampaigner Gemma Abbott from the Free Periods group welcomed the move to abolish VAT on sanitary products, saying the tax had \"no place in a society that seeks gender equality\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the revenue raised from the tax had provided help to a \"chronically underfunded area\" and called on ministers to \"reaffirm their commitment to supporting charities... even once the tampon tax has been removed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'No place for tampon tax in gender equal society'\n\nWednesday's Budget will also see Chancellor Rishi Sunak commit to new laws designed to ensure that millions of people have access to cash.\n\nIncreasingly, shoppers are paying with contactless cards and doing their banking on mobile phone apps. Banks have closed hundreds of branches and cash machine operators have either closed machines, or imposed charges.\n\nThere are warnings that cash would become difficult to get hold of, and that the big distribution centres and security vans will be obsolete.\n\nThe chancellor will promise new laws to give regulators the power to force banks to support customers' cash needs. There will also be a plan to create a better system to transport money around the country in smaller amounts.\n\nLessons are being learnt from Sweden, which has moved even faster towards a cashless society, and where there have been angry protests.\n\nThe Swedish government has backtracked and has just imposed a law requiring large banks to dispense cash to those who need it.\n\nAnabel Hoult, chief executive of consumer group Which?, said: \"We are delighted that he has listened to consumers and is ready to legislate to help millions of people who have been hit hard by bank branch and cash machine closures.\n\n\"We know that the cash system faces irreversible damage within the next two years, so we look forward to working with the government, regulators and industry to ensure this commitment is swiftly turned into action that protects cash for as long as it is needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wore matching red outfits for the Mountbatten Festival of Music\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were greeted with a standing ovation as they attended one of their final official events as working royals.\n\nThe couple wore matching red outfits for the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nThe duke and duchess received a long round of applause from the audience as they took their seats in the royal box.\n\nThey will step back from royal duties at the end of the month.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan received a standing ovation at the event\n\nThey were guests of honour at the festival, which brings together world-class musicians, composers and conductors of the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.\n\nThe Albert Hall performance marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two and the 80th anniversary of the formation of Britain's Commandos.\n\nProceeds from the event go to the Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity and CLIC Sargent, which supports people with cancer aged under 25 and their families.\n\nOn Thursday, Prince Harry and Meghan made their first official appearance together after announcing their intention to step back as senior royals in January.\n\nThe couple attended their first official engagement together since January earlier this week\n\nHarry and Meghan will cease to be working members of the Royal Family on 31 March, but the arrangement will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple has previously said they intend to split their time between the UK and North America.", "The UK will leave the European aviation safety regulator after the Brexit transition period, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed.\n\nHe said UK membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency - responsible for certifying the airworthiness of planes - would end on 31 December.\n\nHe said the UK's Civil Aviation Authority would \"bring expertise home\".\n\nBut the owner of British Airways said the CAA lacked world-class knowledge and could not be ready in time.\n\nMr Shapps told Aviation Week much of the Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) expertise came from the UK and that a lot of its leaders were British.\n\nHe said the agency's powers would revert to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) \"and the expertise will need to come home to do that, but we'll do it in a gradual way\".\n\nThe trade body ADS - which represents more than 1,100 UK businesses in the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors - told the BBC the decision could potentially mean products and designs would need to be certified more than once.\n\nFor example, EASA is responsible for certifying commercial aircraft for service across the EU and some non-EU European countries.\n\nWhen the UK ends its membership of EASA, it may need to certify aircraft separately itself.\n\nADS has estimated that it would take 10 years and cost up to £40m annually to create a UK safety authority with all the expertise of EASA, against a current contribution to the European agency of £1m to £4m a year.\n\nIt claimed a new regulatory regime could put jobs in the sector at risk.\n\n\"We have been clear that continued participation in EASA is the best option to maintain the competitiveness of our £36bn aerospace industry and our access to global export markets,\" the trade body said.\n\nIt added that the UK's influence within EASA \"contributes to raising standards in global aviation\" and helped make the industry \"attractive to the investment it needs\".\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG said it was \"disappointed\" with the decision and said the Civil Aviation Authority \"does not have the expertise required to operate as a world class safety and technical regulator\".\n\nIAG said: \"The CAA will require fundamental restructuring from top to bottom which will take time. There is no way that it can be done by 31 December.\"\n\nAirlines UK, which represents carriers including EasyJet and Ryanair, said its members supported continued membership of EASA - but not at the risk of the UK becoming a \"dumb follower of EU rules\".\n\nIt urged the government to begin negotiations on an air safety agreement with the EU so it could be ready by the end of the year.\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"Being a member of the European Aviation Safety Agency is not compatible with the UK having genuine economic and political independence.\n\n\"We will maintain world-leading safety standards for industry, with the Civil Aviation Authority taking over these responsibilities, and will continue to work with colleagues in the EU to establish a new regulatory relationship.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFormer Wales centre Matthew J Watkins has died at the age of 41 after a long illness.\n\nWatkins, who won 18 caps, retired in 2011 and revealed in 2013 he had a rare form of pelvic cancer.\n\nHe leaves his wife Stacey and sons Siôr and Tal.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union, Dragons, Scarlets and Gloucester were among those to pay tribute to a player who fundraised for cancer charities after his playing career ended.\n\nWatkins graduated to Dragons via the Newbridge, Pontllanfraith and Newport clubs.\n\nDragons said in a statement: \"Everyone at Dragons Rugby is deeply saddened at the passing of our former player Matthew J Watkins.\n\n\"Matthew will be missed by so many and our sincere condolences go out to Matthew's wife Stacey, his sons Siôr and Tal, family and friends.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at Dragons Rugby are with them all at this very sad time.\"\n\nScarlets echoed Dragons' sentiments, saying: \"He is fondly remembered as a silky-skilled, creative midfielder, who was a hugely popular figure among our supporters, the playing squad and staff at Stradey.\"\n\nGloucester tweeted: \"Everybody at Gloucester Rugby are saddened to hear the news that our former player, Matthew J Watkins, has passed away at the age of 41. A man who battled so bravely and admirably.\n\n\"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Matthew's family and friends.\"\n\nNewport RFC tweeted: \"We are all extremely saddened to learn of the passing of ex-B&A and Wales international, Matthew J Watkins.\n\n\"Matthew played 131 times for the club in 2 stints and was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2018.\"\n\nWales fly-half Dan Biggar paid tribute after the 33-30 Six Nations defeat to England.\n\n\"We're all thinking of Matthew's family and his young family,\" said Biggar.\n\n\"This is a game of rugby at the end of the day and if we can offer any support and anything that they need all they've got to do is pick the phone up.'", "About 70 firefighters have been tackling the blaze\n\nDozens of firefighters spent hours tackling a fire at a souvenir shop in central London.\n\nThe blaze was first reported at 21:38 GMT on the corner of Gilbert Street on Friday night - leading to the closure of part of Oxford Street.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines from the surrounding area brought the fire under control by 02:14, the London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThere are no injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated.\n\nPlumes of smoke could be seen coming from the building in footage posted online.\n\nPeople in the area were advised to seek alternative routes as Oxford Street was closed in both directions between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus.\n\nFire crews from Soho, Lambeth, Kensington, Chelsea, Kentish Town and Euston attended the scene.\n\nThe fire was said to have started in the gound floor of the building\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mick Mulvaney has been praised by President Trump for doing \"an outstanding job\" while in the administration\n\nUS President Donald Trump has replaced his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, whose departure had long been rumoured.\n\nHe said North Carolina lawmaker Mark Meadows would take over. The change had been expected for weeks.\n\nMr Trump said Mr Mulvaney would become US special envoy to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Mulvaney was perceived to have implicated the president in last year's impeachment inquiry in an off-the-cuff remark at the White House podium.\n\nWhen Mr Mulvaney gave a rare White House press conference last October, he shrugged off criticism over an alleged corrupt deal with Ukraine by saying: \"We do that all the time.\"\n\nMr Trump was reportedly outraged by the gaffe.\n\nMr Mulvaney then walked back his comments in a written statement that said: \"Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election.\"\n\nRepublican Representative Mark Meadows will leave Congress to take up his new role\n\nThat same month the chief of staff was seen as having have made another slip-up while attempting to defend the president from criticism over a plan, later cancelled, to hold this year's G7 summit at one of his resorts in Florida.\n\nMr Mulvaney told Fox News that \"at the end of the day he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business\", prompting the show's host to point out that Mr Trump was president of the United States, not a hotel executive.\n\nThe role of presidential chief of staff, part gatekeeper to the Oval Office and part taskmaster for White House employees, traditionally requires ruthless efficiency and organisation, delivered with a delicate touch. James Baker, nicknamed \"the velvet hammer\", served under both Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, and was the model for such a role.\n\nDonald Trump is not, however, a traditional president. He prefers to operate on instinct and improvisation - attributes that have thwarted the best designs of his three previous chiefs.\n\nReince Priebus, a Republican Party functionary, was unable to control the rivalries and feuds that festered within the White House. John Kelly, the former general, attempted to impose military discipline on the administration - and eventually clashed with the free-wheeling president.\n\nMick Mulvaney's strategy to \"let Trump be Trump\" appeared to suit the president, but his missteps during the impeachment investigation eventually sealed his fate.\n\nNow it's Mark Meadows's turn. As a congressman, the affable North Carolinian has been an ardent Trump defender in a job that doesn't require the aforementioned administrative skills.\n\nIn an election year, however, vocal support and loyalty - and an ability to demand it from subordinates - may be what the president wants most.\n\nMr Mulvaney last week made headlines again for accusing US media of only being interested in covering coronavirus because \"they think this is going to bring down the president\".\n\nIn February, Mr Trump said reports that Mr Mulvaney would be fired were \"false\", insisting he had a \"great relationship\" with him.\n\nDespite his key White House role, which he assumed in January last year, he was never part of the Trump inner circle.\n\nShortly after he was picked to be chief of staff in late 2018, video emerged of Mr Mulvaney making a disparaging remark about Mr Trump.\n\nHe had said in 2016: \"Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I'm doing so despite the fact that I think he's a terrible human being.\" He had also said Mr Trump was \"just as bad\" as his opponent, Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Mulvaney's appointment as US special envoy to Northern Ireland was welcomed by the First and deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill.\n\nMrs Foster said the US has been a \"loyal friend\" to Northern Ireland and the new appointment \"will be important in developing that friendship\" while Ms O'Neill said she hoped Mr Mulvaney could build on the work of his predecessors in supporting the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nMr Trump's new chief of staff is a close ally of the president with a record of supporting hard-line conservative causes and climate change denial in the US.\n\nIn 2012 he publicly embraced the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the US but instead in Kenya.\n\nAs head of a group of conservative politicians called the Freedom Caucus, Mr Meadows lobbied the White House to close down the government's climate change office.\n\nBut in 2019 he suggested he was \"willing to look at\" addressing climate change.\n\nMr Meadows will now retire from the House of Representatives.\n\nIn Friday night's tweet Mr Trump said: \"I have long known and worked with Mark and the relationship is a very good one.\"", "A bomb disposal unit van and police vehicles remained at the scene on Saturday\n\nA 54-year-old man has been released on bail after being arrested in Cardiff on suspicion of offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers from the Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) were involved in the arrest in Thornhill on Friday.\n\nThe man was taken to Bridgend's Queens Road Police Station before his release on Saturday.\n\nA police statement said there had been \"no risk to neighbouring properties\".\n\nSimon Jones, a resident from the estate where the arrest was carried out, said: \"The bomb squad came in a big, armoured vehicle, and you don't get that in Thornhill every day.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police urged members of the public to be aware of government regulations applying to certain materials that, \"while similar to the contents of fireworks, require a licence to possess\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ronaldinho (C) and his brother Roberto Assis (R) arrive to face a judge at a court in Asuncion\n\nFormer Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho and his brother appeared in court on Saturday over allegations the pair used fake passports to enter Paraguay.\n\nProsecutors say the brothers were given the false documents when they landed in the capital Asuncion on Wednesday.\n\nThe pair were taken into custody on Friday, just hours after a judge refused to uphold a prosecutor's proposal for an alternative punishment.\n\nThe prosecutor argued the brothers had been tricked. They deny any wrongdoing.\n\nThe pair, who were questioned by police, said they thought the passports were a courtesy gesture. Officers later searched their hotel.\n\nAt the court in Asuncion on Saturday, a judge ordered that Ronaldinho and his brother, Roberto Assis, be placed in pre-trial detention.\n\nPhotograph of a Paraguayan ID document shared by the Paraguayan authorities bearing Ronaldo's name\n\nIn July 2019, the player reportedly had his Brazilian and Spanish passports confiscated over unpaid taxes and non-payment of fines for illegally building on a nature reserve in Brazil.\n\n\"I respect his sporting popularity but the law must also be respected. No matter who you are, the law still applies\", Paraguay's Interior Minister Euclides Acevedo told local media this week.\n\nThe 39-year-old had travelled to Paraguay to promote a book and a campaign for underprivileged children.\n\nRonaldinho was the 2004 and 2005 World Player of the Year and reached the prime of his career at Spanish giants Barcelona. He won the World Cup for Brazil in 2002 alongside fellow superstar forwards Ronaldo and Rivaldo.\n\nRonaldinho's net worth is estimated at £80-100m and he is reported to charge around £150,000 for a single promoted Instagram post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Suzy Davies said it has been unclear who has had the authority to deal \"swiftly and fairly\" with controversy\n\nThe way the Welsh Conservative Party has handled recent controversies shows its assembly group leader should run the party in Wales, an AM has said.\n\nSuzy Davies said it has been unclear who has had the authority to deal \"swiftly and fairly\" with controversy.\n\nThe assembly member for the South West Wales region said the party in Wales has had a \"difficult year\" despite its general election performance.\n\nPaul Davies has been assembly group leader since September 2018.\n\nThere has long been a feeling from some in the party that the person in that role should also lead the party in Wales.\n\nCurrently leadership is shared between Paul Davies, Welsh Conservative chairman Lord Davies of Gower, and Welsh Secretary Simon Hart.\n\nBut it is unclear which of the three is the party's most senior politician in Wales.\n\nIn recent months the Welsh Conservatives have been dealing with a series of controversies.\n\nIts Vale of Glamorgan candidate for next year's Senedd election, Ross England, was deselected in January over his role in the collapse of a rape trial.\n\nLast month, a lawyer for Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay said he is considering further legal action against the party over his suspension.\n\nAnd Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis has been criticised over his alleged involvement in a \"sugar daddy\" dating website.\n\nPaul Davies beat Suzy Davies to lead the party in the Welsh Assembly\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales at the Welsh Conservatives' spring conference in Llangollen, Ms Davies said it was \"obvious\" why Paul Davies, who beat her in the election for the group leadership, should lead the party in Wales.\n\n\"He's been chosen by the party to do precisely that. We had a vote less than two year ago when the party was asked who do they want to lead and it was him,\" she said.\n\n\"Obviously we had a difficult year - no point denying that.\n\n\"But it has not been clear who has had the authority to deal swiftly and fairly with everybody involved in those rather difficult stories and that does nobody any favours, not least the people involved in those situations.\n\n\"So we need some clear answers now on who can take decisions, who can make sure things happen and can reassure the party that when things go wrong, there's one person they can turn to to take responsibility.\"\n\nRoss England has been dropped as a Welsh Conservative candidate for the 2021 Senedd election\n\nAt the conference on Saturday, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies told Tory activists it was the party's job to remove Labour from office in Cardiff Bay.\n\nReferring to the UK's departure from the European Union in January, he said: \"We've already changed the course of history in Britain and we can do it again in Wales.\"\n\nMr Davies suggested that if the Welsh Conservatives did not win a majority at the 2021 Senedd election the party could work with Plaid Cymru to oust Labour, but he said there would be no pre-election deals.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lydia O'Sullivan has not been heard from since 28 February\n\nA British woman has gone missing in the south Pacific island nation of Fiji.\n\nLydia O'Sullivan, 23, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, has not been seen or heard from for the past eight days, Cumbria Police said.\n\nMs O'Sullivan has been travelling for the past two years and had been living and working in Auckland, New Zealand.\n\nA force spokesman said she usually messaged her family daily, but had not been heard from since 28 February.\n\nShe is described as white, about 5ft (1.5m) tall with a small build, blue eyes and long brown hair.\n\nPolice are liaising with her family and agencies including the police in Fiji.\n\nAnyone with knowledge of her whereabouts is urged to contact Cumbria Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman was found injured in Alexandra Road in Bolton\n\nTwo men, aged 72 and 73, have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found dead at her home.\n\nPolice were called to reports the woman in her 40s had been seriously injured at the property in Alexandra Road, Bolton, at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. On arrival, police arrested the men who remain in custody for questioning.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police has appealed for anyone with information to contact the force.\n\n\"Whilst we have made two arrests, it is important to stress that we are keeping an open mind about the circumstances of the woman's death and will work tirelessly to keep her family updated of any developments,\" Det Supt Howard Millington said.\n\n\"A scene remains in place as our team continue with investigation work and local residents can expect to see a higher police presence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British couple who caught the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship are still unable to return to the UK.\n\nThe Diamond Princess, you might recall, was put under quarantine in Japan for two weeks in February due to an outbreak onboard. Hundreds of people on the ship caught the virus during the quarantine period.\n\nDavid and Sally Abel began filming a YouTube video diary of their experiences when they were stuck on the ship and have continued since they were sent to hospital.\n\nMr Abel said his wife's latest test had come back negative but his was positive.\n\n\"Sally is now totally all clear, good to return to the UK. But she won't because I have had a positive,\" he said in the couple's latest vlog .\n\n\"I have now got to go back to square one. I have another test on Monday that is more than likely going to be negative.\"\n\nHe said Sally was no longer in medical care but that authorities had \"agreed to allow her to remain here so we can be company for one another\".", "Funding for flood defences in England is expected to be doubled to £5.2bn over five years in the forthcoming Budget, the Treasury has said.\n\nThe money, due to be announced on March 11, will help to build 2,000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and protect 336,000 properties in the country.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said communities had been \"hit hard\" in recent floods.\n\nThe funding - double the £2.6bn budgeted between 2015 and 2021 - is due to be available from April 2021.\n\nThis year was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, with more than three times the average rainfall - as three successive storms left rivers bursting their banks and communities flooded.\n\nIn some of the worst-hit areas in the Midlands, Wales and south Yorkshire, homes and businesses flooded three times in a matter of weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson faced criticism from Labour for going \"Awol\" during the emergency and for failing to budget enough for flood defences.\n\nBut the Treasury said this spending commitment now puts the government \"on track\" to meet the investment recommended by the National Infrastructure Commission.\n\nThe government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority previously projected that it would spent £4.7bn on flood defences up to 2026, but the funding had not been confirmed.\n\nMPs in northern England called for flood defence spending to be reallocated, as the plans showed that a third of the money was expected to be spend in London and the South East of England.\n\nBut the Treasury said every region would benefit from the investment and the North East and North West of England would receive the highest level of funding per property at risk of flooding.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Communities up and down Britain have been hit hard by the floods this winter, so it is right that we invest to protect towns, families, and homes across the UK.\"\n\nThe chancellor is also due to announced a £120m fund to repair flood defences that were damaged in the recent storms, bringing at least 300 schemes back to full operation, the Treasury said.", "A fire has ripped through a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesbos as tensions over a surge in migration from Turkey continue to rise.\n\nFlames engulfed the One Happy Family centre, near the island's capital Mitilini, on Saturday.\n\nIt is not clear how the fire started. No casualties have been reported.\n\nIn recent days, there has been hostility towards migrants on Lesbos after an increase in arrivals from Turkey.\n\nHundreds of migrants have attempted to reach the island since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week he was \"opening the doors\" for refugees to enter Europe.\n\nBut on Saturday, Mr Erdogan partially reversed his position. He ordered the Turkish coastguard to stop migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece because it is unsafe to do so.\n\nFirefighters have been tackling the blaze at the One Happy Family community centre\n\nThe EU has accused Mr Erdogan of using migrants for political purposes. It insists its doors are \"closed\".\n\nMeanwhile, clashes have again erupted at the land border between Greece and Turkey.\n\nThere appears to have been no change in Turkey's position with regard to letting migrants try to enter Greece via this route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water cannon and tear gas used at the Turkey Greece border\n\nOn Saturday, Greek police fired tear gas at crowds at the border crossing at Kastanies, who responded by throwing stones and shouting \"open the gates\", according to the AFP news agency.\n\nThe Greek authorities also accused Turkish police of firing tear gas at its police.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi announced fresh restrictions on asylum seekers designed to stem the flow of migration from Turkey.\n\n\"Accommodation and benefits for those granted asylum will be interrupted within a month. From then on, they will have to work for a living,\" the minister said.\n\n\"This makes our country a less attractive destination for migration flows.\"\n\nIn 2016, a deal was reached whereby Turkey would stop allowing migrants to reach the EU in return for funds from the bloc to help it manage the huge numbers of refugees it hosts.\n\nBut since then, tensions between the EU and Turkey have flared on various issues. In recent weeks, a fierce onslaught by Syrian forces and their Russian backers on Idlib, the last province held by Syrian rebels, has led to clashes with Turkey, which supports some rebel groups.\n\nTurkey already hosts some 3.7m Syrians but the conflict in Idlib has led to nearly a million more fleeing to its southern border.\n\nAlthough the EU promised billions more euros in aid, Turkey was unimpressed and last week decided to open its borders with Greece and even bussed migrants close to the north-western border.\n\nGreece said that the migrants were being \"manipulated as pawns\" by Turkey in an attempt to exert diplomatic pressure.\n\nIt has halted for a month all asylum claims from migrants who enter Greece illegally, and taken aggressive measures to deter them from entering via both land and sea.\n\nIn a 24-hour period to Saturday morning, more than 1,200 migrants attempted to cross the land border, most from Afghanistan and Pakistan, an official source told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has told refugees to \"avoid moving to a closed door\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Refugees from Syria's conflict explain why they are trying to get into Greece\n\nThe BBC has encountered members of self-styled militias who carry out night-time armed patrols in Greek border towns looking for migrants.\n\n\"There are such militia along the entire region,\" said Yannis Laskarakis, a newspaper publisher in the city of Alexandroupoli who has received death threats for speaking out against armed vigilantes.\n\n\"We have seen them with our own eyes, arresting migrants, treating them badly and if someone dares to help them, he has the same fate.\"", "Clashes have erupted at Turkey's border with Greece, where migrants seeking access to the EU have gathered.\n\nOn Saturday, Greek police fired tear gas, and crowds threw stones and attempted to break down the fence near the Pazarkule border gate.\n\nThe Greek army also used water cannon, while the Greek authorities accused Turkish police of firing tear gas at its police.\n\nIt comes as the Turkish coastguard has said they will no longer allow migrants to cross the Aegean sea to Greece because it is unsafe.\n\nThe order from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes a week after he said he was \"opening the doors\" for refugees to enter Europe, amid tensions over the Syrian conflict.\n\nThe EU accuses him of using migrants for political purposes. It insists its doors are \"closed\".", "The UK remains in the \"containment\" phase of tracing coronavirus cases to prevent it spreading in the community, England's deputy chief medical officer has said.\n\nJenny Harries told the BBC a decision about the next phase of delaying the spread of the virus would depend on how fast the number of cases rose.\n\nBut she said the UK was \"teetering on the edge\" of sustained transmission.\n\nMeasures to slow the virus needed to be \"proportionate\", she said.\n\nAnd Dr Harries warned the public against panic-buying, saying it was unnecessary and it could \"engender panic in itself\".\n\nOn Friday, a man in his 80s with underlying health conditions became the second person in the UK to die after testing positive for the virus at Milton Keynes Hospital.\n\nThe UK's first death - a woman in her 70s who also had underlying health conditions - was confirmed on Thursday. A British man also died last month in Japan after contracting the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, rose to 164 in the UK on Friday, with 20,338 people tested.\n\nIn Scotland, five more cases were confirmed on Saturday, bringing the total there to 16.\n\nNew figures for the rest of the UK have not yet been released.\n\nThe UK's strategy on responding to the virus has four phases: containment, delay, mitigation and - running alongside these - research.\n\nUp until now, the containment phase has involved catching cases early and tracing all close contacts to halt the spread of the disease for as long as possible,\n\nMoving into the delay phase could see the introduction of \"social distancing\" measures, such as closing schools and urging people to work from home.\n\nDr Harries said that the \"junction\" between containment and delay is \"when we can see inevitably that we are moving from a few cases across the population to sustained community transition\".\n\n\"We are, if you like, teetering on the edge, but not there just yet,\" she said. \"We have surveillance systems in place and we're watching that on a daily basis.\"\n\nDr Harries said a decision on formally moving to the next phase would depend on how quickly the number of cases rises.\n\nThe delay phase would focus on trying to prevent cases from rising too sharply, pushing the peak of the epidemic out of the winter period and helping health and social care services manage the flow of patients, she said.\n\nScientific advisers are due to review the evidence next week on measures such as restricting large gatherings, she said.\n\nDr Harries said they needed to \"balance the benefits\" with minimising disruption to people's lives and the economy, as well as ensuring that they are implemented at the time when they will have the most impact.\n\nOn Monday, the government is meeting with sporting bodies and broadcasters to discuss staging sports events behind closed doors if the coronavirus outbreak worsens and mass gatherings are banned.\n\nIt comes as the Women's Six Nations rugby match between Scotland and France in Glasgow on Saturday was postponed after a Scottish player contracted the virus.\n\nScotstoun sports campus, one of Glasgow's largest leisure complexes which includes the stadium where the match was due to take place, has also been closed as a result.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 140 British nationals are on board a cruise ship which was barred from docking in San Francisco, California, after an outbreak of the virus.\n\nUS Vice President Mike Pence said the Grand Princess - sister ship of the Diamond Princess, which was the site of a major outbreak in Japan - would be sent to a non-commercial dock where all 3,533 passengers and crew would be tested.\n\nJackie Bissell, from Dartford in Kent, said passengers have had little information about what would happen to them since a note was pushed through their door two days earlier saying the virus may be on the ship.\n\n\"You can't go out. You can just go out in the hall if somebody taps your door. They put your food outside, drop your menus inside and that's about it,\" the 70-year-old said.\n\nDr Harries said she has a \"great deal of trust\" in the US public health system and said the Foreign Office was \"extremely active\" in looking after UK citizens abroad.\n\nAs of Friday, there were 147 coronavirus cases in England, four in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.\n\nAbout 45 of the confirmed cases have been self-isolating at home, while 18 people have recovered.\n\nUp to 30 cases have no known link to foreign travel, which the BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"suggests the virus is establishing a firm foothold\".\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nThe government has updated its advice for travellers from Italy - the country in Europe that has been worst-affected by the virus with more than 4,600 cases.\n\nIt now says people who develop symptoms after returning from any part of Italy - not just the north of the country - should self-isolate, while those returning from quarantined areas should self-isolate even without symptoms.\n\nThe Foreign Office is also warning travellers to Moscow in Russia that they may be told to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival from the UK, as part of measures to control the virus.\n\nIt says in a small number of cases, foreign visitors have been placed in enforced quarantine if they have not complied.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Lydia O'Sullivan has not been heard from since 28 February\n\nA British woman reported missing in Fiji has been found after pictures of her were spotted online.\n\nLydia O'Sullivan, 23, from Cumbria, had not contacted her family since she arrived on the South Pacific island in February.\n\nBut she was discovered after her family found she had been at a mountain retreat with limited internet access.\n\nHer sister said she was \"safe and well, oblivious to the world search party looking for her\".\n\nMs O'Sullivan's mother has spoken to her, Franciene Nicholson added.\n\nIn a Facebook post, she said the family was \"absolutely elated\".\n\n\"Sometimes social media is portrayed in a negative light but today is a great day for the power of Facebook, positivity and community spirit it can bring,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Sullivan was spotted in pictures posted on the Namosi Eco Retreat's Facebook page after she had not made contact since 28 February.\n\nCumbria Police had launched an appeal to find Ms O'Sullivan, who is originally from Whitehaven but currently living in New Zealand.\n\nThe force confirmed she had been found.\n• None British woman missing on Fiji for eight days\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nScotland Women's Six Nations match with France at Glasgow's Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday has been postponed after a home player contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe player is being treated in \"a healthcare facility but is otherwise well\", says Scottish Rugby, while seven members of the Scotland playing and management staff are in self-isolation.\n\nScotland men v France at Murrayfield on Sunday \"continues as scheduled\".\n\nScotland women's last game, in Italy, was called off over coronavirus fears.\n\nThe squad were in Italy when that match, which was due to take place in Legnano, north-west Milan, was cancelled hours before kick-off on 23 February.\n\nDr James Robson, Scottish Rugby's chief medical officer, said: \"We are pleased that our player is doing well and that all the correct medical procedures have been followed and continue to be followed.\n\n\"We are working with the Scottish government in continuing to observe and follow NHS advice.\"\n\nItaly's matches in the men's and women's Six Nations, against Ireland on 7-8 March and England the following weekend, have already been postponed.\n\nScotland Under-20s' Six Nations game against France went ahead as planned on Friday night in Galashiels.\n\nScottish Rugby says the decision to postpone the women's match was taken in conjunction with the French Rugby Federation and Six Nations, with talks to take place over rescheduled dates.\n\nPhilip Doyle's Scotland side have picked up one losing bonus point after a narrow loss in Ireland was followed by a heavy home defeat by England.", "The family of a UK man who died with coronavirus have paid tribute to a \"wonderful husband, dad, grandad and great-grandad\".\n\nThe 83-year-old, the second person to die in the UK after contracting the virus, died shortly after testing positive in hospital on Thursday.\n\nThe government is to outline further measures to tackle the outbreak, including powers to help volunteers to care for those who become ill.\n\nIt comes as the UK cases rose to 209.\n\nThe man, who had underlying health problems, had been admitted to Milton Keynes Hospital for another reason and spent two days in a ward before being isolated and tested for coronavirus, the hospital said.\n\nHis family said they were unable to arrange a funeral for him because they were self-isolating.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We as a family have lost a truly loving and wonderful person and are trying to come to terms with this.\n\n\"He was 83 years old and a wonderful husband, dad, grandad and great-grandad who would go to any lengths to support and protect his family.\"\n\nThe family said they had been unable to grieve for him as they would have wanted.\n\n\"This whole nightmare is not something that we or our loved one asked for.\n\n\"As we are in isolation currently, we cannot arrange for him to be put to rest, and with all the activity that is going around with regards to everyone's concerns, we cannot grieve him as we would wish to.\"\n\nThe family said the cause of death had not been confirmed.\n\nThey also said they had not spoken to any media outlets before releasing their statement, \"contrary to what has been reported\".\n\n\"People should perhaps put themselves in our shoes and think how would they feel with some of the hurtful comments that are being made. We would not wish this experience on anyone and we would ask that you have respect for us and allow us to grieve.\"\n\nThe man had been travelling but had at first showed no symptoms of coronavirus, the hospital said.\n\nIts chief executive, Prof Joe Harrison, said: \"After two days in the hospital they started showing signs of deterioration and at that point we decided to isolate the patient and test them for coronavirus and unfortunately that came back as positive.\n\n\"What we were doing was looking after that patient in a bay on one of our wards and subsequent to that we have ensured all of those patients have been followed up, as have the staff, to ensure that they are tested and appropriately isolated.\"\n\nHe said five patients had been isolated and were awaiting coronavirus test results, while nine staff had been asked to self isolate.\n\nThe hospital said it had already carried out a review of the patient's care but determined he had been treated appropriately.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government is set to outline further planned measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak - expected to be included in an upcoming Covid-19 emergency bill.\n\nUnder the proposals, court cases could be heard via video links and new powers would make it easier for volunteers to care for those who become ill.\n\nThe Health Secretary Matt Hancock wants those described as being \"skilled, experienced or qualified volunteers\" in health and social care settings to be able to do so for up to four weeks if they chose to, without fear of losing their day job.\n\nThe measures would also seek to ensure that health staff who return to work out of retirement could do so without impacting their pensions.\n\nThe UK's first death - a woman in her 70s who also had underlying health conditions - was confirmed on Thursday. A British man also died last month in Japan after contracting the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, there were 206 cases in the UK, with 21,460 being been tested for the virus, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nOf these, 184 were in England, 16 in Scotland, four in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.\n\nLater in the evening, Northern Ireland reported an additional three cases, taking its total to seven and bringing the number of confirmed UK cases to 209.\n\nEarlier, England's deputy chief medical officer said the UK remained in the outbreak's \"containment\" phase.\n\nJenny Harries told the BBC a decision about the next phase of delaying the spread of the virus would depend on how fast the number of cases rose.\n\nBut she said the UK was \"teetering on the edge\" of sustained transmission.\n\nThe UK's strategy on responding to the virus has three phases - containment, delay, and mitigation - alongside ongoing research.\n\nUp until now, the containment phase has involved catching cases early and tracing all close contacts to halt the spread of the disease for as long as possible.\n\nMoving into the delay phase could see the introduction of \"social distancing\" measures, such as closing schools and urging people to work from home.\n\nDr Harries said a decision on formally moving to the next phase would depend on how quickly the number of cases rises.\n\nDr Harries said they needed to \"balance the benefits\" with minimising disruption to people's lives and the economy, as well as ensuring that they are implemented at the time when they will have the most impact.\n\nThe Grand Princess, one of the world's largest cruise ships, is being held off the Californian coast\n\nThe updated figures come as US authorities prepare to respond to a coronavirus-hit cruise ship carrying British passengers off the Californian coast, after 21 people on board tested positive for the illness.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence said on Friday that the Grand Princess, carrying more than 3,500 people on board, including 140 Britons, had been directed to a non-commercial port for testing.\n\nJackie Bissell, from Dartford in Kent, said passengers have had little information about what would happen to them since a note was pushed through their door two days earlier saying the virus may be on the ship.\n\n\"You can't go out. You can just go out in the hall if somebody taps your door. They put your food outside, drop your menus inside and that's about it,\" the 70-year-old said.\n\nDr Harries said she has a \"great deal of trust\" in the US public health system and said the Foreign Office was \"extremely active\" in looking after UK citizens abroad.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nThe government has updated its advice for travellers from Italy - the country in Europe that has been worst-affected by the virus with more than 4,600 cases.\n\nIt now says people who develop symptoms after returning from any part of Italy - not just the north of the country - should self-isolate, while those returning from quarantined areas should self-isolate even without symptoms.\n\nThe Foreign Office is also warning travellers to Moscow in Russia that they may be told to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival from the UK, as part of measures to control the virus.\n\nIt says in a small number of cases, foreign visitors have been placed in enforced quarantine if they have not complied.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Amber Rudd was home secretary from July 2016 until she resigned in April 2018\n\nFormer Home Secretary Amber Rudd says she had an invitation to speak at an Oxford University society pulled half an hour before she was due to appear.\n\nMs Rudd, who stepped down as an MP in December, was due to speak to the UN Women Oxford UK society on Thursday.\n\nFollowing a vote of its committee, understood to relate to her role in the Windrush scandal, the invitation was pulled.\n\nMs Rudd said some students' treatment of her was \"badly judged and rude\".\n\nShe had been due to speak about UN Women's Draw A Line campaign and her experiences of being an MP and minister for women and equalities.\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\nShe resigned as home secretary in April 2018 after people living legally in the UK were detained and deported and she inadvertently misled a Commons committee about the number of people who had been involved.\n\nThe UN Women Oxford UK society wrote on Facebook on Thursday: \"Following a majority vote in committee, tonight's event with speaker Amber Rudd has been cancelled.\n\nIt added it was \"deeply sorry for all and any hurt caused\" over the event.\n\nEarlier in the week, it said the conversation with Ms Rudd would have been \"an honest and frank conversation\" about how her policies had impacted women of all races.\n\nIt had urged students to attend the event \"to help campaign for a truly frank feminism which is not afraid of taking opportunities to discuss issues with high profile figures\".\n\nLater charity UN Women UK distanced itself from the row, and announced the student group involved had changed its name to United Women Oxford Student Society.\n\nThe charity added it would no longer be associated with the student society.\n\nIt is the second prominent \"no-platforming\" in the city in a week, after Oxford University history professor Selina Todd had an invitation to speak at the Oxford International Women's Festival withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotstoun leisure centre is one the busiest in the country\n\nOne of the largest leisure complexes in Glasgow has temporarily closed after a Scotland women's rugby player tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nScotstoun sports campus did not open on Saturday while a \"deep clean\" began.\n\nOfficials said the woman who tested positive had been using facilities at the campus over the past week.\n\nThe Scotland women's squad were also at the stadium on Friday but their Six Nations match against France in the venue was cancelled hours later.\n\nBilly Garrett, of Glasgow Life which runs the campus, told BBC Scotland it would reopen when public experts said it was safe.\n\nHe said they were alerted to the issue by Scottish Rugby late on Friday night and they took the decision on public health advice.\n\nThe decision to close was not taken lightly and he hoped to reopen in a \"matter of days\", he added.\n\nMr Garrett said staff and people who have used Scotstoun's sports facilities should follow existing public health advice.\n\nScotland Women trained at Scotstoun Stadium on Friday before Saturday's match was called off\n\nScottish Rugby said the player is being treated in a healthcare facility but is \"otherwise well\".\n\nSeven members of the Scotland playing and management staff are in isolation.\n\nThe match was due to take place at the Scotstoun stadium on Saturday.\n\nA total of 16 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland. They are among 206 cases in the UK.\n\nTwo people have died after contracting the virus in England. Both had underlying health issues.\n\nAmong those affected by the closure of the leisure centre were children due to take part in weekend gymnastic classes and swimming lessons.\n\nIn an email from Glasgow Life, families were told that the decision to temporarily close the facility was taken in the \"interests of the safety of staff and public\".\n\n\"In conjunction with, and on the advice of, the appropriate public health agencies, we will reopen when it is deemed safe to do so,\" it said.\n\n\"The safety of everyone who uses or works at Scotstoun is our absolute priority and it will remain closed while we take appropriate cleaning measures.\n\n\"It will only reopen when appropriate public health agencies deem it safe.\"\n\nScotstoun sports campus is also home to the National Badminton Centre and the Scotstoun squash centre.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The lorry was stopped in Belgium after a tip-off from the UK's National Crime Agency\n\nTwo men from the Republic of Ireland have been charged as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.\n\nWayne Sherlock, 39, and Eoin Nowlan, 48, were arrested in Dover, Kent, after 10 migrants were found in a lorry carrying tyres near Ghent in Belgium.\n\nA 64-year-old man from Glasgow and a 30-year-old man from County Antrim were also detained on Thursday.\n\nThe 30-year-old man was detained after presenting himself to police in Antrim.\n\nThe 64-year-old, who was driving the vehicle, has been remanded in custody while the man from Northern Ireland was released on bail after being questioned by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers.\n\nMr Sherlock and Mr Nowlan are charged with alleged conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration, the NCA said.\n\nThe pair were remanded in custody following a hearing at Canterbury Magistrates' Court in Kent on Saturday.\n\nThe NCA said the migrants, believed to be two adults and eight children, are thought to be from south-east Asia.\n\nTwo properties in England and Northern Ireland were also searched by NCA officers, with two suspected firearms seized in the Kent raid.", "He made the remarks as part of a new documentary on Hillary Clinton\n\nFormer President Bill Clinton says his affair with Monica Lewinsky was a way of managing his anxieties.\n\nHe made the remarks as part of a documentary series titled \"Hillary\" which looks at the public life of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying to investigators about his relationship with Ms Lewinsky. He was acquitted at his Senate trial.\n\nMs Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern at the time of the affair.\n\nMr Clinton told documentary makers Hulu: \"What I did was bad but it wasn't like I thought, let's think about the most stupid thing I could possibly do and do it.\"\n\n\"You feel like you're staggering around - you've been in a 15-round prize-fight that was extended to 30 rounds, and here's something that'll take your mind off it for a while. Everybody has life's pressures and disappointments and terrors, fears or whatever, things I did to manage my anxieties for years.\"\n\nHis relationship with Ms Lewinsky became a major news story in the late 1990s after the then-president first denied the affair before later admitting to \"inappropriate intimate physical contact\".\n\nMr Clinton's initial response to the media reports in 1998 - \"I did not have sexual relations with that woman\" - has gone down as one of US politics' most memorable quotes.\n\nMs Lewinsky has maintained that her relationship with the former president was consensual but she called it a \"gross abuse of power\".\n\n\"Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position...\" she told Vanity Fair in 2014.\n\nShe said she had \"limited understanding of the consequences\" at the time and regrets the affair daily.\n\nMonica Lewinsky says she was made a scapegoat of after the affair\n\nIn the documentary Mr Clinton says he feels \"terrible\" that Ms Lewinsky's life was defined by their relationship.\n\n\"Over the years I've tried to watch her get a normal life back again but you've got to decide how to define normal,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked about the incident, Mrs Clinton explained how devastated she was.\n\n\"I was so personally, just hurt and I can't believe this, I can't believe you lied. It was horrible and I said if this is going to be public, you have to go tell Chelsea.\"\n\nShe explained how she \"didn't want anything to do with him\" after news of the affair broke.\n\n\"I made a decision to stay with my husband. I think some people thought I made the right decision and some people thought I made the wrong decision.\n\nMr Clinton told the documentary-makers that telling their daughter Chelsea about the affair was \"awful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Monica Lewinsky has broken her 10 year media silence about her affair with the former US President Bill Clinton\n• None The link between Monica Lewinsky and Donald Trump", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland survived a late red card for Manu Tuilagi to secure a first Triple Crown in four years and inflict a third successive defeat on new Wales head coach Wayne Pivac.\n\nCleverly worked first-half tries from Anthony Watson and Elliot Daly and a brace of penalties and conversions from Owen Farrell opened up an 11-point half-time lead, Wales' only points coming from three penalties.\n\nWales went the length of the pitch to score a sublime try through Justin Tipuric before England re-established command through Farrell's boot and a try from Tuilagi.\n\nThe England centre was then controversially sent off for a no-arms tackle on George North, and with Ellis Genge in the sin-bin England were down to 13 men.\n\nDan Biggar and then Tipuric again capitalised with late tries but England's lead was just big enough and they held on amidst the chaos.\n\nWith England's final game against Italy postponed because of the coronavirus, France remain favourites to win the championship.\n\nBut after defeat in Paris in their opening game, Eddie Jones' men have recaptured some of the form and momentum that took them to a World Cup final four months ago.\n• None Wales captain Jones calls for action against Marler after genital grab\n• None Chaos and confusion as England win comfortably despite late collapse\n\nEngland came charging out of the blocks, Tom Curry flattening Dan Biggar from an early up-and-under, and Maro Itoje cantering deep into the Welsh 22.\n\nAnd off clean line-out ball Ben Youngs found Watson on his inside, the winger stepping past two Welsh defenders to fight his way over the line.\n\nFarrell banged over the conversion to go past 900 points for England, but after North had knocked on close to the England try-line after good work from Nick Tompkins, the England skipper was penalised for shoving North in the ruck, and Halfpenny made it 7-3.\n• None 'We had 13 players against 16' - England boss Jones\n\nA head injury to Jonny May after the winger went up for a high ball meant an early entry for replacement Henry Slade and a test of Jones' decision to select a bench with only one outside back.\n\nFarrell and Halfpenny exchanged further successful penalties as the game became cagier and scrappier, but then England struck again.\n\nFrom another penalty kicked to the corner England set up a driving maul, and Youngs went sniping only to be lassoed by a high tackle from Rob Evans.\n\nWith the penalty coming England went wide, Farrell and George Ford combining beautifully as Slade's dummy run created the space down the left for Daly to dive over through North's despairing tackle.\n\nWales were creaking, the penalties piling up and Farrell kicking another with unerring accuracy from 35 metres to make it 20-6.\n\nItoje went high on Biggar to give the Welsh fly-half the chance to cut that lead by three at the interval, Wales grateful to be within 11 points.\n\nEngland's lead was reduced within seconds of the kick-off as Wales conjured up one of the great Six Nations tries.\n\nWith England's kick-chase dawdling Tompkins set off from his own five-metre line, found Josh Navidi outside him and took the return pass on halfway before slipping it on to the supporting Tomos Williams on his inside.\n\nAnd the scrum-half drew the last man Daly before setting Tipuric away to canter in from 25 metres and light up a grey afternoon.\n\nWith Biggar popping over the conversion it was suddenly a four-point game, and Wales' supporters were dreaming of another famous Twickenham heist.\n\nBut Courtney Lawes went digging at a ruck to win a penalty that Farrell stroked over, and Ford made it 26-16 as England's powerful forwards won a scrum penalty.\n\nJones threw on Joe Launchbury and Luke Cowan-Dickie and the power and points kept coming.\n\nYoungs made another break, Watson and then the forwards took it on and with Welsh defenders sucked in Ford flipped a little pass away under pressure to let Tuilagi walk in his side's third try.\n\nWith Farrell curling over the conversion from out wide it was 33-16 and the game seemed safe.\n\nBut then Tuilagi was dismissed after a long discussion between referee Ben O'Keeffe and TMO Marius Jonker, and Wales were able to strike back before finally running out of time.\n\nThe England scrum-half is closing in on his 100th England cap and recaptured his running threat of old to keep his side constantly on the front foot.\n\n'A brilliant performance' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell speaking to Radio 5 Live: \"I thought it was a brilliant performance. A few less players on the pitch at the end made it difficult, but in terms of effort and composure when they put us under pressure, it was brilliant. I thought people worked extremely hard to fight for the team.\"\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones: \"We're probably lamenting a couple of territorial giveaways in the first half. Then you are chasing the game a little bit.\n\n\"Unfortunately they capitalised on a couple of bits of indiscipline and kept the scoreboard at bay. Those two tries show what we can do but it was too little too late in the end.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"England were disciplined in their tactics and execution. That wonder try from Wales at the beginning of the second half rocked England a bit, and they couldn't quite get back into their pattern.\n\n\"Wales played much, much better in the second half, they threw a bit of caution to wind. They were not going to win with the tactics they employed for the first 40 minutes. It would have been a genuinely nail-biting, tense last few minutes if they'd done that earlier.\"\n\nFormer Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: \"It was always going to be difficult after Warren Gatland left. Wales looked a little more dangerous, but they've got to learn to vary their tactics. England were always on the front foot.\"\n\nReplacements: Slade for May (8), Heinz for Youngs (70), Genge for Marler (66), Cowan-Dickie for George (58), Stuart for Sinckler (76), Launchbury for Kruis (58), Ewels for Lawes (66), Earl for Wilson (76).\n\nReplacements: McNicholl for L. Williams (66), Webb for T. Williams (46), Carre for R. Evans (58), Elias for Owens (75), Brown for Lewis (41), Shingler for Ball (58), Faletau for Moriarty (58).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are searching for survivors in the rubble\n\nAbout 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.\n\nAbout 47 of the 70 had been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel by Sunday, state media says.\n\nVideos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.\n\nIt is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.\n\nRescue workers in orange overalls clamber over the rubble as they look for survivors\n\nIt happened at about 19:30 local time (11:30 GMT).\n\nChinese state media says the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients.\n\nThe hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Global Times This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne woman told the Beijing News website that relatives including her sister had been under quarantine there.\n\n\"I can't contact them, they're not answering their phones,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm under quarantine too [at another hotel] and I'm very worried, I don't know what to do. They were healthy, they took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal.\"\n\nAs of Friday, Fujian province had 296 cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile 10,819 people have been placed under observation because they have been in close contact with someone infected.\n\nThe World Health Organization says more than 101,000 people worldwide have now contracted the virus.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have died - the majority in the Chinese province of Hubei where the outbreak originated.", "Prince Harry quipped \"there's nothing better than officially opening a building that is very much open\" as he visited a new motor racing museum at Silverstone Circuit.\n\nHe was shown around the Silverstone Experience by Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton and met pupils from two local schools.\n\nDuring a speech, he said: \"I can't believe what you've managed to turn a World War Two hangar that was pretty cold, pretty dusty two years ago into this remarkable experience.\"\n\nThe visit was one of the last official engagements by Harry, who will step back from royal duties with his wife Meghan at the end of the month.", "NHS officials have considered telling paramedics they must be clean shaven to protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said in a draft memo - seen by the BBC - that its ability to handle potential Covid-19 cases was \"adversely affected\" by crews unable to wear respirators properly.\n\nThe service said staff had been asked to consider shaving but it had decided against mandating they do so for now.\n\nThe Department of Health said there was no national policy on the issue.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service NHS Trust - which employs first responders across the capital - wrote in the unsent internal bulletin that \"all staff in patient-facing roles must be clean shaven when on-duty\".\n\nThe trust's current policy asks staff to consider shaving to ensure respirator masks fit tightly against the face.\n\nThe draft memo, issued to a group of managers on Saturday, said the service's \"ability to respond to potential Covid-19 patients has been adversely affected by the low availability of crews who are successfully [tested for respiratory masks], which is partly driven by crew staff not being clean shaven\".\n\nThe memo said 50 clinical staff had failed so-called \"fit tests\" for protective masks due to their facial hair.\n\nThe memo suggested staff with protected characteristics - such as religious beliefs or a disability - who could not clean shave would \"be engaged with on a case-by-case basis and a number of alternative options have been identified to support this\".\n\nA later email to staff, seen by the BBC, said the trust had chosen to hold off issuing the new policy until further guidance from Public Health England.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has said poor-fitting respirators can be \"a major cause of leaks\".\n\n\"If there are any gaps around the edges of the mask, 'dirty' air will pass through these gaps and into your lungs,\" it added on its website.\n\nLast month, an NHS trust in Southampton asked frontline staff to consider shaving facial hair to ensure respirators fit properly.\n\nAnd a 2017 poster published by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention showing suitable styles of facial hair for use with respirators was re-circulated online.\n\nIt was announced on Saturday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK had risen above 200, with more than 21,000 people tested so far.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was for local NHS trusts to devise policy regarding respirators and facial hair.\n\nPublic Health England said it had no plans to issue guidance on the issue.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"The trust has asked clinical staff to consider shaving to undergo [respirator mask] fit testing and then remaining clean shaven to maintain compliance.\n\n\"We continue to adapt our response and one of the things we have considered is mandating staff to be clean shaven. However, we have not taken this step as the advice is changing quickly and we are awaiting further guidance from Public Health England in the coming days.\"", "Police and ambulance were called to the injured teenager in Charles Street, Craigneuk\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died in hospital after being found seriously injured at a property in North Lanarkshire.\n\nPolice said they were treating his death as suspicious and they had arrested a 20-year-old man.\n\nOfficers said they were called to a property in Craigneuk, Wishaw, at 05:05 after ambulance staff reported that the teenager was badly hurt.\n\nHe was taken to Wishaw General Hospital by ambulance but died a short time later.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Sommerville, of Police Scotland's major investigations team, said officers were supporting the boy's family.\n\n\"A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death and inquiries are ongoing, however still at an early stage,\" he added.\n\n\"Officers will remain in the area over the coming days as part of the ongoing investigation and to provide public reassurance.\n\n\"Anyone who may have information relating to the teenager's death or who saw any suspicious behaviour in the area around this time, particularly in Charles Street, Flaxmill Avenue and Glencairn Avenue, is urged to come forward.\"", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA teenage girl who was raped by serial sex attacker Joseph McCann has said she feels \"failed in every single way\".\n\nThe 17-year-old and her younger brother were both attacked after McCann tied up their mother in their home in May.\n\nThe girl told the BBC she now lives in a \"constant fear of everything\" and is \"confused\" as to why the 35-year-old was not recalled to prison.\n\nIt comes after a report said probation staff were warned he posed a risk of sexual offending.\n\nThe report disclosed that in 2011, when McCann was in prison for burglary, police shared information dating to 2003 and suggested he \"might pose a risk of sexual harm and exploitation to teenage girls\".\n\nIn January 2019, he was released from prison and went on to target 11 women and children across two weeks in parts of Watford, London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.\n\nMcCann was sentenced in December to 33 life sentences after being convicted of 37 offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe teenage victim said she had \"lost everything\", including her Lancashire family home which McCann tricked his way into on 5 May to carry out the sex attacks.\n\nShe said: \"Before any of this happened I had a lovely home, a close family and a really good job.\n\n\"After this happened I lost everything, including my family home of 12 years and my relationship with my family.\n\n\"I struggle to sleep each night and live in fear. I can't be in places on my own and my confidence has gone down since the incident.\"\n\nThe girl said she had \"developed really bad anxiety and I have bad days when I do not want to do anything\".\n\n\"There's not a day goes by where I don't think of what happened and that man feels no remorse for his actions,\" she said.\n\n\"My whole life will be controlled from what happened, living in constant fear of everything. I constantly feel like my life is in danger, I question situations during the day and feel nervous around people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elderly victim of serial rapist Joseph McCann tells of her ordeal\n\nThe teenager and her younger brother were both raped by McCann before the girl was able to escape by jumping out of a first-floor window and then freeing her family.\n\nDuring the trial she said she feared becoming McCann's \"sex slave\".\n\n\"I was my family's hero and saved our lives - that's what gets me up each morning,\" the girl said.\n\n\"Knowing I have my whole life to live and I got away from such a dangerous man shows I have courage and the fact I was able to keep my brother and mother safe is enough for me.\"\n\nThe girl also said she felt \"angered and upset\" by failings from the probation service.\n\n\"It causes anger and so much upset for everyone that the probation service failed to keep us safe. He has previous for sexual abuse and nothing was acted on,\" she said.\n\nOn Thursday, the Ministry of Justice said the chief inspector of probation, Justin Russell, would be asked to carry out an independent review of the National Probation Service's management of McCann and how the process of recalling offenders to prison was working.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\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 further financial turbulence on Tuesday when stock markets around the world climbed sharply higher, as investors grappled with the economic impact of the coronavirus.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.4% - its biggest daily gain since 1933.\n\nThe S&P 500 and London's FTSE 100 enjoyed their best days since the 2008 financial crisis, rising more than 9%.\n\nThe increases follow weeks of losses driven by a global economic slowdown.\n\nBusiness activity in the US and eurozone sank to the lowest level on record in March, according to survey data from IHS Markit, as authorities closed schools, shut businesses and limited travel in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nMany countries are now working on finance packages to cushion the economic blow, but plans have received mixed responses from investors.\n\nIn the US, congressional leaders said they were close to a deal on a relief package worth more than $1.8tn, which would include money to bailout industries that have been affected by the crisis.\n\nAny action by the US government would follow aggressive efforts by the Federal Reserve, including its pledge to buy as much government debt as needed to soothe markets, while also lending directly to businesses.\n\nOn US stock markets, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and American Airlines were among the companies posting the biggest gains, rising 42% and 36% respectively. The spike followed comments made by President Donald Trump, who said he wanted to ease measures restricting gatherings by Easter, despite a surge of Covid-19 cases in the US.\n\nThe share price gains were global, however. Germany's Dax increased almost 11%, while France's CAC 40 rose 8.4%.\n\nJapan's Nikkei soared 7%, its biggest daily gain in four years, while South Korea's KOSPI exchange climbed 8.6% after the government doubled a planned economic rescue package. In China - where restrictions on Wuhan Province were finally eased - mainland shares increased almost 3%.\n• None Why payday is different during the crisis", "The mace is removed from the Commons chamber at the end of the day\n\nParliament has shut down until 21 April at the earliest to combat the spread of coronavirus.\n\nEmergency laws to deal with the pandemic have been rushed through both Houses and were given Royal Assent earlier on Wednesday.\n\nMPs voted to plan for a managed return to work on Tuesday 21 April, to deal with Budget legislation.\n\nThe House of Commons had been due to break for Easter next week but concerns were raised about spreading the virus.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament chamber was shut down on Tuesday but MSPs will return on 1 April in order to consider emergency coronavirus legislation.\n\nAnd in the Welsh Assembly, full sessions will be replaced by \"emergency Senedd\" meetings during the coronavirus crisis and will include fewer members.\n\nAnnouncing the extended Commons recess, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: \"Before the House adjourns, can I just say - I wish every member well, your families, and once again to reiterate, that the staff in this House have done a fantastic job.\"\n\nHe said work was under way to give MPs the technology they need to stay connected during the break, including the possibility of \"virtual parliament and virtual select committees\".\n\nWriting in The House magazine, Sir Lindsay said: \"I hope that when this historic crisis passes and we return to business as usual, we will come back stronger, wiser - and more agile with new and better ways of working.\"\n\nThe Speaker had been urging MPs to sit further apart while attending the chamber, as well as introducing a staggered voting system to ensure MPs kept a safe distance from each other.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said he was grateful MPs, peers and staff had worked to complete the emergency legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the \"aim\" was for them to return to work on 21 April, but added that he would \"keep the situation under review in terms of medical advice\".\n\nLegislation giving the government new emergency powers to combat the spread of the disease and to release funds to deal with the crisis cleared all stages in Parliament on Wednesday, and has now become law.\n\nDeputy Speaker Eleanor Laing announced that the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Contingencies Fund Act 2020 had been granted Royal Assent.\n\nEarlier, Sir Lindsay doubled the length of Prime Minister's Questions to an hour, to allow for debate on the coronavirus emergency and ensure social distancing on the green benches.\n\nMPs asking questions in the first half of the session filed out of the chamber to make way for the remainder of the MPs who wanted to put questions to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt was Jeremy Corbyn's final PMQs as Leader of the Opposition. He will stand down as leader of the Labour party on 4 April.\n\nMr Corbyn urged Mr Johnson to make himself \"available for scrutiny\" during the parliamentary recess adding \"we represent people who are desperately worried about their health and their economic well being\".\n\nMr Johnson promised to work with the Commons Speaker to ensure Parliament is kept informed.\n\nLeader of the House of Lords Baroness Evans told peers they would also break early for Easter on Wednesday evening.\n\nShe said that after the recess, peers would only sit three days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until the VE Day long weekend in May.\n\nShe added that \"sensible adjustments\" needed to be made to working conditions and sought to assure members that senior officials were working with the Parliamentary Digital Service to develop \"effective remote collaboration and video conferencing\".\n\nThe Cabinet are expected to continue to meet via video conferencing.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Westminster had been considered one of the hotspots of the disease and a fair few MPs had been in self-isolation with symptoms.\n\nMPs could return on 21 April to pass Budget legislation, but then be asked to vote to suspend the Commons again - although nothing is finalised.\n\nWhile the House of Commons is on recess, MPs will still be able to respond to and help their constituents.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant criticised the timing of the decision to close Parliament, arguing: \"It must be wrong that Parliament is suspended before the government has a proper package in place for the self employed.\"\n\nAnother Labour MP, David Lammy, agreed and said: \"The government should announce a solution today. We cannot leave anyone behind.\"\n\nAnd their party colleague Barry Sheerman called for \"new ways of maintaining proper scrutiny of the government\".", "Job centres have now been closed to everyone but the most vulnerable claimants\n\nSignificant problems are being reported after an \"incredible\" number of benefit claims in recent days due to the economic fall-out of the coronavirus.\n\nAt one point on Tuesday more than 100,000 people were trying to verify online applications and others spent hours trying to phone welfare staff.\n\nMany gave up after long phone queues and then being rejected by the system.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said it was redeploying existing staff and hiring others to cope with demand.\n\nResearch by the BBC suggests that pressure on the benefits system started to build in the middle of last week, shortly after the government introduced the first set of restrictions and then surged markedly on Tuesday after the prime minister ordered most businesses to close on Monday night.\n\nNew claimants, many of them self-employed and facing a dramatic fall in income, took to social media to highlight the problems.\n\nOne user posted a screenshot on Twitter of their application which said that \"due to an incredible volume of new users,\" there were 105,563 people ahead of them in an online queue to verify their identity, a basic requirement of applying for any benefit.\n\nJonathan Hume estimates he has called the Universal Credit hotline somewhere between \"80 and 100 times\" since Friday.\n\nHis contract as a research associate at the University of Manchester came to an end earlier this month and the 32-year-old needs to contact a benefits official to process his claim.\n\nJonathan Hume says he has called the hotline up to 100 times since Friday\n\n\"I just can't get through at all,\" Mr Hume told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the time, the line just drops instantly.\n\n\"On another few times when I've got through, I've been on hold for two hours and then my network has just cut me off.\n\n\"It's infuriating and stressful as, until it's sorted, I have no income.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people have become eligible to apply for Universal Credit in recent days due to the economic consequences of Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement on Monday night, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had urged applicants to use their online system after days of people using social media to complain about being unable to get through to their telephone support lines.\n\nOne user reported spending more than 15 hours in total over three days waiting to speak to a benefits official, while several others posted screenshots of phone calls lasting more than two hours.\n\nSome claimants struggled for hours to even connect to the system.\n\nThe government announced on Monday that all job centres would be closed for everyone but \"the most vulnerable claimants who cannot access DWP services\" by other means - urging claimants to use online and telephone support.\n\nIn a statement, the DWP said it was taking \"unprecedented\" action to ensure people received the support they needed.\n\n\"Around 10,000 existing staff will be moved to process new claims, with 1,000 already in place.\n\n\"In addition, the department is expecting to recruit 1,500 extra people to aid the effort,\" the statement continued.", "Motorists worried about getting an MOT because of the coronavirus crisis, have been handed a six-month reprieve.\n\nThe government has granted car owners a six-month exemption from MOT testing.\n\nHowever, it won't come in until Monday 30 March which means vehicles due an MOT before then must still take it.\n\nThe exemption \"will enable vital services such as deliveries to continue, frontline workers to get to work, and people get essential food and medicine,\" the government said.\n\nThe exemption will apply to cars, motorcycles and vans, but the government warned that vehicles must be kept in a roadworthy condition.\n\nGarages will remain open for essential repair work while drivers will face prosecution if they're caught driving unsafe vehicles.\n\n\"We must ensure those on the frontline of helping the nation combat COVID19 are able to do so,\" said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\n\"Safety is key, which is why garages will remain open for essential repair work.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said the move won't hit any insurance claims during the period because they will be effectively extending MOT certificates meaning they will remain valid for insurance purposes.\n\nThe new law will be introduced on 30 March when it will come into immediate effect for 12 months.\n\nIt is not being introduced immediately because the government said it must ensure regulations are legally sound before coming into force.\n\nThat means there will be a short consultation with key organisations before next Monday.\n\nHowever, drivers will still need to get their vehicle tested until the new regulations come into place if they need to travel.\n\nHowever, if someone is unable to get an MOT that is due because they are self isolating, the Department for Transport said it is working with insurers and the police to ensure people are not unfairly penalised for things out of their control.\n\nPractical driving tests and annual testing for lorries, buses and coaches have already been suspended for up to three months.\n\nThe RAC said the move was a positive one, although drivers must remain responsible.\n\n\"We are in exceptional times and that calls for exceptional measures like this,\" an RAC spokesperson said.\n\n\"But it's vital every driver remembers the roadworthiness of their car is their responsibility. If they know it's got problems or was likely to fail its MOT they should not be driving it.\"\n\nAt MOT centres across the country, extra precautions have already been put in place to protect customers and workers.\n\nAt National Tyres and Autocare, for instance, staff routinely wear protective barrier gloves, fit seat covers and use floor mats before working on customers' vehicles.\n\nMeanwhile, technicians work on ramps that are suitably spaced apart and customers do not need to interact with staff in the workshop's space.\n\n\"Our customers have been asking if they still need to MOT their vehicles and, of course, it's vital that everything is maintained and kept roadworthy, so today's announcement that MOTs will be exempt for the next six months is welcome news for everybody,\" said Michael Bourne, marketing director at the firm.\n\n\"We all recognise our role to stop the spread of germs, while keeping key workers on the road and able to do their jobs,\" he said.", "The UK chancellor has told airlines to find other forms of funding and not turn first to the government for help getting through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nDemand for tickets has collapsed forcing companies to ground aircraft.\n\nAviation bosses have been lobbying the government for a targeted aid package to stop firms going under as a result of the slump in demand.\n\nBut in a letter on Tuesday Rishi Sunak said the government would only step in as \"a last resort\".\n\nMr Sunak instead urged airlines to try and raise money from shareholders.\n\nHe said the state would only enter into negotiations with individual airlines once they had \"exhausted other options\".\n\nThe government says its emergency business measures, including a Bank of England scheme for firms to raise capital and employee wage subsidies, are available for airlines.\n\nBut industry group the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned of an \"apocalypse\" in the aviation sector as it called on governments around the world for help.\n\nThe group said annual worldwide revenues from ticket sales would fall by $252bn (£215bn) if travel bans remain in place for three months, a drop of 44% compared to last year.\n\n\"Travel restrictions and evaporating demand mean that, aside from cargo, there is almost no passenger business,\" IATA boss Alexandre de Juniac, said.\n\n\"There is a small and shrinking window for governments to provide a lifeline of financial support to prevent a liquidity crisis from shuttering the industry.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic, Ryanair and EasyJet have all grounded most of their fleets, while BA-owner IAG has cut capacity by 75% and Norwegian Air has cancelled thousands of flights.\n\nThis has also affected airports, which have cut hundreds of jobs across the UK since coronavirus arrived in the country.\n\nKaren Dee, who runs the Airport Operators Association (AOA), said the aviation industry was \"surprised\" by Mr Sunak's decision and will have to \"fight on its own to protect its workforce and its future\".\n\n\"While countries across Europe have recognised the vital role airports play and are stepping into the breach, the UK government's decision to take a case-by-case approach with dozens of UK airports is simply not feasible to provide the support necessary in the coming days,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only does the decision today leave airports struggling to provide critical services, it will hamper the UK recovery.\"", "Anisha Vidal-Garner, from Epping, died at the scene\n\nA man has admitted running over and killing a woman as he fled from police in south London.\n\nQuincy Anyiam hit 20-year-old Anisha Vidal-Garner on Brixton Hill after he sped from officers on 19 February.\n\nThe 26-year-old, of Wolfs Wood, Oxted, Surrey, appeared by video link at the Old Bailey where he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe also admitted dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident. Sentencing was adjourned until 5 May.\n\nPolice had tried to stop Anyiam's car in Brixton at about 21:45 GMT, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHowever, he sped away and hit pedestrian Ms Vidal-Garner, who died at the scene.\n\nThe car was later found abandoned and Anyiam handed himself into police two days later.\n\nPolice had signalled for the car to stop before it sped off in Brixton\n\nFollowing the crash, the Directorate of Professional Standards and Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) were both informed.\n\nThe IOPC later took the decision to independently investigate the crash.\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. Caroline Nokes MP says the image of British people sleeping rough on Caracas streets \"is not a good one\".\n\nBritish nationals unable to return home due to the coronavirus pandemic are in a \"dire\" situation, a former minister has warned.\n\nTory MP Caroline Nokes said many were stranded as countries closed their borders and airlines cancelled flights.\n\nThe government's call for people to return home as quickly as possible were like \"empty words\" to them, she added.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said his staff were working with other nations and airlines to \"overcome barriers\".\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Raab said the situation was being exacerbated by countries closing their borders \"with no or little notice\".\n\nWith the pandemic worsening across much of the world, the Foreign Office changed its travel advice on Sunday urging British nationals to return home as soon as possible.\n\nMr Raab said officials were working \"night and day\" with other governments and airlines to put urgent arrangements into place.\n\nThe Peruvian government has closed its borders and put the population in lockdown\n\nBut Ms Nokes, the MP for Romsey and Southampton North, said many of her constituents were not able to get through to embassy staff on the phone and had received standard e-mail messages telling them to contact their tour operator or insurer.\n\nMany found themselves hundred of miles from airports, with hotel accommodation becoming increasingly scarce.\n\nBen Parker (right) is travelling with his friend Will Holloway\n\nBBC viewer Chas Parker said his 18-year old son Ben had been \"turned away\" by the British consulate in Phnom Penh, Cambodia because he didn't have an appointment.\n\nHe said Ben was given a card by security officers outside the building but when he e-mailed the consulate, he got a \"bog standard\" response.\n\nMr Parker said he feared for his son's safety amid an increasingly hostile atmosphere and rumours that he and other foreign nationals could be put into quarantine.\n\nWhile he had since managed to book a seat for his son on a flight home via South Korea, Mr Parker said the whole process had been tough.\n\nCommercial flights from many destinations were simply not available, she said, unless they were \"priced at tens of thousands of pounds and routed via airports expected to close imminently\".\n\n\"Hotels are closing, flights are cancelled, borders are closing and there are no routes home.\n\n\"He (Mr Raab) knows the situation is dire - but he knew that last week when he said in the House that we will look and liaise with the airline operators to make sure where there are gaps we can always provide as much support as possible.\"\n\n\"I ask him to explain how he is working with airlines with unused planes parked at airports around the globe to bring our people home... the vision of British citizens sleeping on the streets of Caracas is not a good one.\"\n\nMr Raab said the rate of border closures and travel disruption was \"unprecedented\" in modern times and he had doubled the number of consular staff to deal with the \"surge in demand\".\n\nHe said the UK was addressing specific problems facing British nationals in Peru, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, working with their governments and airlines to keep routes going, and to re-open those that had closed.\n\nMr Raab told MPs that special flights will be laid on later this week to bring Britons back from Peru, while the UK had agreed with Singapore that it will act as a transit hub to help those trying to get back from Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"Our overriding priority now is to assist the thousands of British travellers who need and want to return home,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"Where commercial options are not possible or limited by domestic restrictions we are in close contact with airlines and local authorities in those countries to overcome those barriers.\"\n\nMore than 1,000 Britons have registered with the embassy in Peru, about 200 of whom will be on the first flight out of the country expected to leave on Wednesday.\n\nMr Raab also said he was concerned about the situation in the Indonesian island of Bali, currently home to about 6,000 British nationals.\n\nBut he pointed to successful repatriation efforts in other countries, including Morocco, where UK diplomats in recent days have facilitated 41 flights carrying more than 8,500 passengers before the country's borders were closed.\n\nFor those British nationals running out money, Mr Raab said that the Foreign Office, as a last resort, could provide emergency loans.\n\nSeveral MPs raised concerns about the fate of cruise ships containing many British nationals.\n\nThe Coral Princess is struggling to get permission to dock at Rio de Janiero while the Costa Victoria is reportedly due to dock at Venice, close to the heart of the Italian epidemic.", "Construction workers are among those calling for action to protect them\n\nPeople can go to work if they cannot do their work at home, the health secretary has said, amid confusion over the new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt comes after calls for clarity, including from construction workers, about Monday's wider shutdown measures.\n\nMatt Hancock also said Tube services should be running \"in full\", after being asked about packed trains during Tuesday's morning commute.\n\nThe number of UK deaths rose to 422 on Tuesday, a rise of 87 in one day.\n\nAs it continues to ramp up its response to the number of people testing positive for the disease, the government is opening a new makeshift hospital at the ExCel exhibition centre in London.\n\nThe temporary Nightingale Hospital has been set up with help from the military and will have capacity for 4,000 patients.\n\nMr Hancock also appealed for 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS, and said more than 11,000 former medics had answered the government's call to return to the NHS. More than 24,000 final-year student nurses and medics will also join the health service.\n\nMr Hancock led Tuesday's daily Downing Street briefing - which saw reporters asking questions over video-link - after complaints that part of the government's strict new rules were confusing for workers.\n\nThe new measures, in place for at least three weeks, tell Britons to only leave home to go to work \"where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home\". Mr Hancock later said those who cannot work from home should go to work \"to keep the country running\".\n\nOn Tuesday, pictures showed workers in London crowding into Tube carriages - despite warnings that, even when out in public, people should keep two metres (6ft) away from others.\n\nUnions and workers in the construction industry have called for protection, saying their work is not essential and puts people's health at risk.\n\nAnd Piers Morgan highlighted the issue on ITV's Good Morning Britain when he showed images of construction workers working at London's Heathrow Airport and said: \"Ask yourself a moral question: what are you doing? Do the right thing. Do you have to be out there? Can this work wait? You need to get your priorities right.\"\n\nHe then interviewed London's mayor Sadiq Khan who said that, in his view, construction workers should not be going to work and that he had made that point \"quite forcefully\" to Boris Johnson.\n\nAsked about the issue at the briefing, Mr Hancock said people whose jobs has not already been shut down by the government measures to date should continue to work but should only be travelling to a workplace \"where that work can't be done at home\".\n\nHe said construction workers - many of whom work outdoors - could and should continue to go to work as long as they are able to remain two metres apart at all times.\n\nThe cabinet minister said: \"The judgment we have made is that in work, in many instances, the 2m rule can be applied.\n\n\"Where possible, people should work from home and employers have a duty to ensure that people are more than 2m apart.\n\nUnlike the UK government, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said building sites should close - unless it involves an essential building such as a hospital.\n\nShe said it was not possible to provide a \"bespoke guidance\" for each occupation - but she gave clarity with some examples and general principles.\n\nMr Davis, who has his own company, said he is in a better position than many in the construction industry.\n\nConstruction workers are still being told to come to work, according to Andrew Lee Davis, 36, a civil engineer based in Newport, south Wales.\n\n\"We can't just go home because we won't be paid,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSelf-employed workers may have to rely on the benefits system as things stand. However, benefits may not come through on time, or be enough to pay the bills, Mr Davis said.\n\n\"Morally, I know I should stay at home, but I'm absolutely tied here. Until the government pay the self-employed, I've got to come into work.\"\n\nIf he were to stay home, Mr Davis, who helps support his wife and three children, would have to rely on his savings. Those would not last for the duration of the crisis, he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of worried boys here on site,\" he said. Many of them are on minimum wage, self-employed and without savings, which puts them in a more precarious financial position.\n\nSome big contractors are telling subcontractors to continue working, which Mr Davis says could put extra strain on the NHS in a time of crisis.\n\nHe would like major contractors to shut non-essential sites, even though this could cost him valuable work.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for \"clear and unambiguous advice around which workers can and can't go out\".\n\nHe said he believed just key workers - those whose jobs are considered essential and included on a government list - should go to work.\n\nMr Hancock also said Transport for London \"should have the tube running in full so that people travelling on the tube are spaced out and can be further apart\".\n\n\"And there is no good reason in the information that I've seen that the current levels of tube provision should be as low as they are,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A construction worker has sent the BBC a video of workers failing to distance themselves.\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health figures, there are now more than 8,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe latest people to have died include Ruth Burke, 82, in County Antrim.\n\nHer family said it was heartbreaking not being able to kiss her goodbye because of how contagious the disease is, adding they did not want her simply to be remembered as a statistic.\n\nBrenda Doherty said her mother Ruth was a strong woman\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told MPs the government was \"ramping up testing as fast as we can\" and it was buying \"millions of tests\" which it would \"make available as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe also said the government was working to ensure victims of domestic violence who are forced to stay at home would get support.\n\nPolice chiefs said phone lines were inundated with calls after the prime minister's statement, as people rang to ask what they were still allowed to do.\n\nThe British Transport Police said it was deploying 500 officers to patrol stations across the country and remind people to follow government advice.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said the overwhelming majority of people \"can be expected to follow the rules without any need for enforcement action\".\n\nBut the punishment in England for not complying would be a fixed penalty notice initially set at £30 for people breaking the rule of no public gatherings of three people or more.\n\n\"We will keep this under review and can increase it significantly if it is necessary to ensure public compliance,\" the spokesman added.\n\nMeanwhile, Police Scotland will not hesitate to enforce the new measures, the force's chief constable said.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said enforcing the new restrictions would be \"a real, real challenge\", as there was already \"large amounts of sickness\" among officers across London.\n\nMeanwhile, opposition parties and unions have called on the government to do more to protect self-employed people, who will not be covered by the government's promise to pay 80% of salaries of employees unable to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Boris Johnson brings in new measures, the BBC explains why staying in is a matter of life and death\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced increased benefits for the self-employed, but did not guarantee their wages. Freelance workers - who would face a loss of income if forced to stop working due to sickness or quarantine - have told the BBC they feel they have been forgotten.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said there was \"a worrying gap\" in the government's strategy when it came to self-employed workers.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said work is going on in Whitehall to come up with a \"deliverable and fair\" support package.\n\n\"There are genuine practical and principled reasons why it is incredibly complicated to design an analogous scheme to the one that we have for employed workers,\" he added, but said he was \"determined to find a way to support them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow will you be affected by these measures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Theatres, galleries, museums and artists in England who have been hit by the impact of coronavirus will have access to a £160m emergency fund.\n\nArts Council England has announced the cash injection to help artists, venues and freelancers in the cultural sector.\n\nIt comes after venues like theatres and galleries were ordered to shut.\n\nMeanwhile, Netflix has added a further boost to the artistic community by donating £1m to an industry-backed film and TV emergency relief fund.\n\nMost film and TV productions have been put on hold in recent weeks.\n\nThe impact of the pandemic has left many of those in the UK's arts and culture sectors facing reduced incomes and uncertain futures, and the government has been criticised for a lack of support for the self-employed.\n\nThe Arts Council's support package includes £20m for individuals (made up of grants of up to £2,500 each), £90m for National Portfolio Organisations - venues and others that get annual funding - and £50m for organisations outside that scheme.\n\nThe money has been found by diverting funds from National Lottery project grants and development funds, and from emergency reserves. The first payments are expected to be made within six weeks.\n\nArts Council England chair Sir Nicholas Serota said: \"Covid-19 is having an impact globally, far beyond the cultural sector - but our responsibility is to sustain our sector as best we can, so that artists and organisations can continue to nourish the imagination of people across the country, both during the crisis and in the period of recovery.\n\n\"None of us can hope to weather this storm alone, but by working together in partnership, I believe we can emerge the stronger, with ideas shared, new ways of working, and new relationships forged at the local, national and even international level,\" he added.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Netflix announced a £1m donation to the BFI and The Film and TV Charity's emergency relief fund, which will similarly support workers in need of short-term help.\n\nAlex Pumfrey, chief executive of the Film and TV Charity, said the money comes at a time when \"the film and TV industry is now facing a huge threat\".\n\n\"Many freelancers have seen their livelihoods disappear overnight,\" he said. \"We're entering a period of unprecedented isolation and worry for a workforce that we know from our research already suffers from poor mental health.\n\n\"Which is why I'm incredibly pleased that Netflix and the BFI are working with us to kick-start this new Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund to support workers across the UK's film and TV industry.\"\n\nBFI chief executive Ben Roberts added that \"freelance professionals are the backbone of our film and television industries\", and are among the \"hardest hit at this extraordinary time of need\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Facebook has seen usage across its platforms surge in countries that have brought in virus lockdowns.\n\nItaly - with some of the toughest restrictions - has seen the biggest rise, with group calls rocketing by more than 1,000% in the last month.\n\nThe social media giant said total messaging traffic on all its platforms had increased 50% on average across the hardest hit countries.\n\nBut the company said the higher usage won't protect it from expected falls in digital advertising across the world.\n\n\"We don't monetize many of the services where we're seeing increased engagement,\" Facebook wrote in a post on Tuesday.\n\nItaly has a death toll now above 6,000 people from the virus.\n\nAlong with the huge rise in time in group calls (three or more users), the country has seen a 70% rise in time spent on Facebook-owned apps.\n\nFacebook outlined steps it is taking to increase capacity during the heightened traffic as people are stuck indoors and working from home.\n\n\"We're monitoring usage patterns carefully, making our systems more efficient, and adding capacity as required,\" the post from Alex Schultz, vice president of analytics, and Jay Parikh, vice president of engineering wrote.\n\nBut it admitted this could become harder. \"Maintaining stability throughout these spikes in usage is more challenging than usual now that most of our employees are working from home. We are experiencing new records in usage almost every day.\"\n\nFacebook has lowered video quality in Europe to help reduce demand on internet service providers. Amazon, Apple TV+ and Netflix have all announced similar measures.\n\nThe changes mean each video will use less data, putting less strain on networks already struggling with increased traffic as people stream more content while self-isolating at home.", "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been accused of pushing \"his ideological agenda\"\n\nAs US states ramp up restrictions to contain the coronavirus, Texas has joined Ohio in deeming nearly all abortions as non-essential procedures that must be delayed.\n\nThe order against elective procedures is meant to keep valuable medical resources for those treating Covid-19 only.\n\nIn Texas, providers can be fined or jailed for violating the order.\n\nThey say abortion should be considered an essential service.\n\nIt comes as states across the country grapple with shortages of critical medical necessities, including masks, hospital space and ventilators. Medical professionals have pleaded for more supplies as many are falling ill or having to quarantine themselves after exposure.\n\nTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday issued the clarification of Governor Greg Abbot's earlier mandate on non-essential medical procedures.\n\nA statement from Mr Paxton's office said \"no one is exempt from the governor's executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers\", according to the Texas Tribune.\n\nIt noted any providers in violation of the order - which expires 21 April - could be fined $1,000 (£853) or jailed for a maximum of 180 days.\n\nThe Texas Freedom Network, an advocacy group, condemned the order, accusing the attorney general of trying to \"push his ideological agenda\" and highlighting the state's already restrictive policies regarding abortion.\n\nAbortions are banned after 20 weeks post-fertilisation in Texas and women must receive counselling about non-abortion options before obtaining the procedure.\n\nOhio is similarly restrictive and last year passed a bill banning abortion after six weeks, though the ban has been blocked in the courts. Texas politicians have also filed a similar ban.\n\nLast week, US gynecology groups, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, issued a joint statement calling for abortions to be protected during the crisis.\n\n\"It is also a time-sensitive service for which a delay of several weeks, or in some cases days, may increase the risks or potentially make it completely inaccessible,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person's life, health, and well-being.\"\n\nThe provider groups also noted that most abortion care is not delivered in hospital settings.\n\nOver the weekend, Ohio's Attorney General Dave Yost wrote to inform abortion clinics that they should stop all abortion services that require the use of medical protective equipment.\n\n\"If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the order, the Department of Health will take all appropriate measures,\" a letter viewed by CBS News stated.\n\nIn response, the Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio clinic said it would comply with the order regarding personal protective gear, but would still be able to provide \"essential procedures, including surgical abortion\".\n\nAccording to the New York Times, the letters from Ohio's government followed complaints to the health department from at least one anti-abortion group.", "Each member of The Village People dressed as a different character\n\nYMCA by The Village People has inspired partygoers to wave their arms around on countless dancefloors since 1978.\n\nIt's feelgood. It's camp. It's cheesy. The US Library of Congress has also now decided it is historically important.\n\nThe library has added the disco anthem to its National Recording Registry, which preserves for posterity audio that is \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\".\n\nMaterial by Whitney Houston and Dr Dre has also just been admitted.\n\nThe registry was established in 2000 and is tasked with identifying 25 titles per year that reflect the cultural heritage of the US.\n\nThe Village People's disco anthem reached number one in more than a dozen countries, including the UK, although it stalled at number two in the US.\n\nIt has become a gay anthem, but co-writer Victor Willis told the BBC the semi-autobiographical song was meant to have a universal message.\n\n\"It was about the urban lifestyle of when I grew up going to the Y and playing basketball and hanging out,\" he told BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt last year.\n\n\"That was my interpretation of it. I didn't know anything about the lifestyle of other people that go there.\"\n\nThis year's other inductees include Dr Dre's debut studio album The Chronic; Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You; the original Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof; Dusty Springfield's landmark album Dusty in Memphis; and Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell, who died in 2017.\n\n\"I'm humbled and, at the same time for Glen, I am extremely proud,\" said the song's writer Jimmy Webb.\n\n\"I wish there was some way I could say, 'Glen, you know they're doing this. They are putting this thing in a mountain.'\"\n\nDusty Springfield's album included Son Of A Preacher Man and The Windmills Of Your Mind\n\nOne of the more dramatic recordings to be preserved is a live radio broadcast made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the day of US President John F Kennedy's assassination in 1963.\n\nConductor Erich Leinsdorf broke the news of the of JFK's death midway through the concert, to audible gasps from the audience. He then distributed the sheet music for the Funeral March from Beethoven's Symphony No 3 to the orchestra, who played the piece unrehearsed.\n\nMore soothing pieces include the theme song to children's TV show Mister Rogers - recently immortalised on film by Tom Hanks - and Puccini's Tosca, performed by the opera great Maria Callas.\n\nAlthough the vast majority of recordings in the registry are musical, spoken word recordings are eligible, and this year's selection includes a play-by-play commentary on a 1951 baseball showdown between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.\n\nThe tiebreaker ended with Bobby Thomson's dramatic, game-winning home run, known as \"the shot heard around the world\".\n\nThere is also a 1939 episode of Arch Oboler's Plays, which was described by the Library of Congress as \"one of the earliest American old-time horror radio programs\".\n\nThe show was said to be an important influence on Rod Serling, who went on to create The Twilight Zone.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott first performed together in the Beautiful South\n\nPaul Heaton and Jacqui Abbot have announced they will play a free show for NHS staff working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe duo, who recently scored a number one album with Manchester Calling, are giving away 9,000 tickets for the show in Nottingham in October.\n\nAll NHS staff, including \"doctors, nurses, support workers, porters and cleaners\", will be welcome.\n\nHospital staff \"can never be thanked enough\", said Heaton in a statement.\n\n\"The coronavirus pandemic should remind everyone, and let no-one forget, that our National Health Service is the most brilliant and significant institution in our lives.\n\n\"We are just musicians, so there is little we can do but sing for you.\n\n\"From the porters, the cleaners and the drivers, to the doctors and the nurses; 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 Paul Heaton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 show will take place at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena on Tuesday 13 October.\n\nTickets will be made available from Tuesday 31 March and will be limited to two per person. Concertgoers will need to bring a valid NHS or Primary Care Trust ID card when they attend the show.\n\nHeaton and Abbott, who were formerly members of the Beautiful South, are not the only musicians offering support to the NHS.\n\nLiam Gallagher has even floated the idea of a one-off Oasis reunion in aid of frontline workers.\n\n\"Sick of pleading, begging, etc,\" he wrote on Twitter in a message apparently aimed at brother and former bandmate Noel. \"I demand an Oasis reunion after this is all over, all money going to NHS. C'mon, you know.\"\n\nTouring company Vans for Bands has also volunteered to hand over its entire fleet of vehicles to the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"We would like to offer our sleeper buses to be parked outside hospitals and used by doctors, nurses and staff to sleep/take a rest during their extended shifts,\" wrote chief executive Edward Thompson in an open letter.\n\nMeanwhile, pop star Peter Andre has praised his wife Emily MacDonagh, a junior doctor, and her colleagues for working tirelessly during the crisis.\n\nHe shared a photo of the staff on her ward holding up signs reading: \"We stay here for you, please stay home for us,\" with the hashtag #supportthenhs.\n\n\"Thank you so much to ALL the NHS and the carers up and down the country,\" he added.\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 peterandre 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\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "That's all from our latest updates across England for today on the coronavirus pandemic. You can of course keep up to date with all the news and information from your region on our England news page here. We'll be back with more from 07:30 GMT on Thursday and until then, stay safe and healthy.", "The government is considering releasing some offenders from prisons in England and Wales to ease pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the virus poses an \"acute\" risk in prisons, many of which are overcrowded.\n\nSome 3,500 prison staff - about 10% of the workforce - were off work on Tuesday because they were ill or self-isolating, a committee of MPs was told.\n\nMr Buckland said releasing some inmates could help to \"alleviate\" pressures.\n\nThe justice secretary told the Commons justice committee he was \"keen\" to make use of release on temporary licence - where prisoners are let out for short periods, after a risk assessment.\n\nMr Buckland said he was looking \"very carefully\" at whether or not 50 pregnant prisoners could be released.\n\nHe also indicated some of the 9,000 inmates who are on remand, awaiting trial, could be transferred to bail hostels, if it was safe to do so.\n\nMr Buckland said the prison service must \"balance the protection of life with the need to protect the public\", but releasing prisoners early could help to \"alleviate some of the pressures\" the virus was having on the system.\n\nHowever, he pointed out that releasing more prisoners would be a \"challenge\" for probation staff.\n\nAmnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs, Allan Hogarth, said elderly prisoners and those with underlying medical conditions should \"immediately\" be considered for release \"if they do not pose a threat to themselves or society\".\n\nMr Buckland's appearance before the committee came as all visits to prisons were cancelled, as part of measures to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nOutside visitors, group activities and education classes have all been banned and inmates have been confined to their cells for 23 hours a day.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said 55 prisons across England and Wales would be given 900 phones to allow prisoners to stay in touch with family members during the ban.\n\nThe phones will not have internet access and would only be handed out to risk-assessed prisoners on a temporary basis, the MoJ said.\n\nThe justice committee also heard from Jo Farrar, chief executive of the Prison and Probation Service, who said 13 inmates had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe confirmed cases were in nine prisons although more jails are suspected to have had cases.\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health figures, there are now more than 8,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK - although the actual number cases is likely to be far higher. Some 422 of those patients have died.\n\nMr Buckland said more tests for the virus were needed in prisons, and more personal protective equipment (PPE) was needed for staff.\n\nAbout 50,000 protective masks have been delivered for staff to use and a ban on bringing hand sanitiser into prisons has been lifted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says of Jeremy Corbyn: “No-one could doubt his sincerity and his determination to build a better society”.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said “his voice will not be stilled” as he took part in his final Prime Minister’s Questions as Labour leader.\n\nHe warned the PM not to deliver his political “obituary”, as he would not stop campaigning for social justice.\n\nBoris Johnson paid tribute to his opponent’s “sincerity and determination to build a better society”.\n\nMPs have now begun an extended Easter recess, earlier than planned, due to coronavirus.\n\nMaking his final Commons contribution in his four and half years as leader of the opposition, Mr Corbyn passionately urged the country to come together at this \"hugely stressful\" time.\n\n\"This crisis shows us how deeply we depend on each other. We will only come through this as a society with a huge collective effort.\n\n\"At a time of crisis no-one is an island, no-one is self-made… At times like this we have to recognise the value of each other and the strength of a society that cares for each other and cares for all.\"\n\nMr Corbyn’s final clash with Mr Johnson was dominated by the government’s response to the virus.\n\nThe opposition leader called on the PM to ramp up levels of testing, ban all non-urgent construction work, give more help to the self-employed and renters facing eviction and to do more for Britons abroad who felt “abandoned”\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn was greeted by cheers as he got to his feet for his PMQs debut\n\nThis was Jeremy Corbyn's 136th appearance at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nThe Labour leader faced David Cameron across the despatch box 29 times, squared off against Theresa May 93 times and clashed with Boris Johnson just 14 times.\n\nAt his first appearance, on 16 September 2015, he tried what he called a \"different style\" to previous opposition leaders, asking David Cameron questions emailed in by members of the public.\n\nHe said he had received 40,000 replies to a call for questions to the PM - and he started with a question from Marie on housing.\n\nHe soon dropped this approach, although he would return to it occasionally during his time as Labour leader.\n\nIn a highly unusual move, the session was extended from half an hour to an hour to allow more members to ask questions. As part of this, Mr Corbyn was allowed to ask 12 questions, rather than the usual six.\n\nMarking his opponent’s last appearance, the PM said that while the two men “did not agree” on everything, his “service to his party and country in a difficult job” should be recognised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In his final PMQs as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn spoke of a society that “cares for each other and cares for all”.\n\nAnd he joked that Mr Corbyn’s vow not to retire from frontline politics would be “warmly welcomed by his successor”.\n\nMr Corbyn, who was first elected Labour leader in 2015, responded by thanking the PM for his “warm words” and insisting that he would continue to play a prominent role in British politics.\n\n\"My voice will not be stilled. I will be around, I will be campaigning, I will be arguing and I will be demanding justice for the people of this country and, indeed, the rest of the world.\"\n\nThe Commons will not return until 21 April at the earliest, by which time Labour will have a new leader.\n\nMr Corbyn’s successor is due to be announced on 4 April, following a three-month leadership campaign triggered by Labour’s heavy election defeat in December.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are isolating at Birkhall, their residence on the Balmoral estate\n\nThe Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms \"but otherwise remains in good health\", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.\n\nCharles and Camilla are now self-isolating at Balmoral.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, but was \"in good health\".\n\nThe palace added that the Duke of Edinburgh was not present at that meeting, and that the Queen was now \"following all the appropriate advice with regard to her welfare\".\n\nA Clarence House statement read: \"In accordance with government and medical advice, the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.\n\n\"The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire, where they met the criteria required for testing.\n\n\"It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace releases a photograph of the Queen speaking to the prime minister from Windsor Castle\n\nThe duke and duchess arrived in Scotland on Sunday. Charles had been displaying mild symptoms over the weekend and was tested by the NHS in Aberdeenshire on Monday.\n\nThe results came through on Tuesday night, showing he was positive.\n\nCharles is still working, is up and about and in good spirits.\n\nThe 71-year-old heir to the throne last saw the Queen briefly on the 12 March. Three days earlier, mother and son had more protracted contact during the Commonwealth Day Service.\n\nIt is important to re-emphasise the Queen is in good health. She moved to Windsor last week, with the Duke of Edinburgh who came from his usual residence at Sandringham in Norfolk.\n\nGiven their ages, 93 and 98 respectively, there will be particular care taken that they are not jeopardised by this virus.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla will be following governmental advice and isolating separately. It's not a huge house but certainly big enough to isolate yourself within it.\n\nThey've got a small staff with them - and it's expected Charles will now be in Scotland for a couple of weeks recovering from the symptoms.\n\nThe prince's last public engagement was on 12 March - the same day he last saw the Queen - when he attended a dinner in aid of the Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort.\n\nHowever, Charles has also been working from home over the last few days, and has held a number of private meetings with Highgrove and Duchy of Cornwall individuals, all of whom have been made aware.\n\nA number of household staff at Birkhall - the prince's residence on the Balmoral estate - are now self-isolating at their own homes.\n\nA palace source said the prince has spoken to both the Queen and his sons - the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex - and is in good spirits.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he had been informed about the prince's positive test result on Tuesday morning and he wished him \"a speedy recovery\".\n\nThe spokesman added the PM's weekly audience with the Queen was now taking place by telephone.\n\nFigures released from NHS England show there were 28 deaths over the latest recorded 24-hour period, bringing the coronavirus death toll in England to 414.\n\nThere have also been 22 deaths so far in Scotland, 22 in Wales and seven in Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotey: Could face trial in US\n\nThe UK acted unlawfully by passing evidence to the US that could lead to the execution of two British members of an Islamic State murder squad.\n\nThe Supreme Court said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid should not have passed information on Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotey to the US.\n\nLord Kerr said the seven justices concluded the decision in 2018 breached the UK's strict data protection laws.\n\nThe Londoners, linked to 27 murders, are in US custody in Iraq.\n\nAlong with two other British men, they formed a foursome known as \"The Beatles\", allegedly helping to kidnap, torture and murder hostages.\n\nThey were seized by Kurdish forces in 2018 as the Islamic State group began to crumble - and the US says it wants to prosecute them if the UK won't put the men on trial in London.\n\nLast year, the government agreed to hand over as many as 600 witness statements and related material after initially refusing to do so without a guarantee they wouldn't face the death penalty.\n\nElsheikh's mother, Maha Elgizouli, challenged the home secretary's decision to share that information with the US - not to prevent him from being prosecuted and jailed but to protect him from the death penalty.\n\nWelcoming the ruling, her lawyers said she recognised the difficult issues her case had raised.\n\n\"She has always expressed her belief that her son, if accused, should face justice - and that any trial should take place in the UK,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"She has been asking since November 2018 for the CPS to conduct a review of the claim that there was insufficient evidence for him to be charged and tried in the UK - a review that the CPS now says should be completed by April 2020.\"\n\nNow the court has ruled in her favour. There must be a further decision over what the UK must now do to comply with the law - including potentially asking the US to hand back information.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The government's priority has always been to maintain national security and to deliver justice for the victims and their families. This has not changed. We are clearly very disappointed with today's judgment and are carefully considering next steps.\"\n\nExplaining the judgment over an unprecedented video link, due to coronavirus measures, Lord Kerr said: \"Much of the information provided, or to be provided, to the US authorities consisted of personal data.\n\nHe said a transfer of personal data to a third country was only lawful if it was based on there being appropriate safeguards or on special circumstances.\n\n\"Here there was no adequacy decision and no appropriate safeguards,\" he added.\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the decision, British diplomats in Washington warned Mr Javid that US President Donald Trump would be \"wound up\" by any continued refusal by London to hand over the information American prosecutors needed.\n\nLord Kerr said the decision by Mr Javid to transfer the information was \"based on political expediency, rather than strict necessity\".\n\nThe seven justices however were split over whether the UK had a more wide-ranging legal bar on sharing any information with the US that could put someone at risk of capital punishment.\n\nThe UK currently won't extradite someone to face trial in the US or other countries unless it first receives an assurance that they will not be put to death.\n\nHowever, the law on sharing information that could be used against someone already in the other country's custody, is less clear.\n\nLord Kerr said: \"Law must be responsive to society's contemporary needs, standards and values, which are in a state of constant change. That is an essential part of the human condition and experience.\n\n\"I concluded, therefore, that a common law principle should be recognised whereby it is deemed unlawful to facilitate the trial of any individual in a foreign country where, to do so, would put that person in peril of being executed.\"\n\nA majority of the other justices disagreed - concluding that the law did not extend that far because Parliament had not explicitly banned ministers from sharing information on criminals with countries that use the death penalty.", "The All England Club says a decision regarding this year's Wimbledon will be made next week.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the club said postponement and cancellation of the event, scheduled between 29 June-12 July, because of the impact of coronavirus were possible outcomes.\n\nPlaying behind closed doors has been formally ruled out.\n\nEarlier this month, the French Open, due to have begun in May, was rescheduled to 20 September-4 October.\n\nThe ATP and WTA Tours were already off until 27 April and 2 May respectively and last week that suspension was extended until 7 June.\n\nThe club's sites at the All England Club, Wimbledon Park Golf Club and Raynes Park are currently closed with physical operations reduced to a minimum to maintain the grass courts and the security of the sites.\n\nPostponing the only Grand Slam grass court event until later in the year \"is not without significant risk and difficulty\" the statement added.\n\nChief executive Richard Lewis said: \"The unprecedented challenge presented by the Covid-19 crisis continues to affect our way of life in ways that we could not have imagined, and our thoughts are with all those affected in the UK and around the world.\n\n\"The single most important consideration is one of public health, and we are determined to act responsibly through the decisions we make.\n\n\"We are working hard to bring certainty to our plans for 2020 and have convened an emergency meeting of the main board for next week, at which a decision will be made.\"\n\nWhen the All England Club board meets next week, they will almost certainly conclude it is just not feasible to stage The Championships in 2020.\n\nNow playing behind closed doors has been formally ruled out, there seems little prospect of Wimbledon being able, or allowed, to welcome 40,000 people on site every day. An event of this nature also puts inevitable further strain on the health system and the police.\n\nWork to build up the site in readiness for the fortnight is due to begin at the end of next month, and you cannot do that without significant numbers of people on site.\n\nA gap has opened up in the schedule with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, but a three-week delay is unlikely to make much of a difference.\n\nAnd because of the surface, it is just not practical to follow the French Open's lead and try and stage The Championships in September.", "President Trump keeps reiterating that people need to get back to work, or the economy will suffer. However, he appears to have softened his stance slightly, compared to Tuesday, when he said: \"We're going to be opening relatively soon... I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.\"\n\nNow, he says he hopes to have a recommendation on next steps by Easter, adding \"it could be sections of our country\" that go back to work, as \"there are big sections of our country that are little affected\". He says some of those going back to work could still practise \"social distancing and no hand shaking - they're going to wash their hands more than they've ever done\".\n\n\"The longer we stay out, the harder it is\" to improve the economy, he adds.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases confirmed across the US does vary greatly from state to state - from over 30,000 in New York, to about 30 in North Dakota.\n\nYou can see how it is spread in our visual guide here.", "BBC News has suspended plans to cut 450 jobs as it faces the demands of covering the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe job losses were announced in January and were part of a plan to complete a £80m savings target by 2022.\n\nOutlets due to be hit include BBC Two's Newsnight, BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service's World Update programme.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall gave staff the news on Wednesday, a week after the broadcaster delayed the end of the free TV licence scheme for all over-75s.\n\nLord Hall said \"we're suspending the consultation on those saving plans\".\n\nHe told staff: \"We've got to get on with doing the job that you're doing really brilliantly.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate. We haven't got the resource to plough ahead with those plans at the moment, so we'll come back to that at some point.\n\n\"But for the moment we just want to make sure you are supported and you've got the resources to do the job that you and your colleagues are doing amazingly.\"\n\nSome programmes, such as Politics Live and Victoria Derbyshire, have been taken off air to prioritise coronavirus coverage, and several radio networks are sharing news bulletins.\n\nA planned modernisation of BBC News was due to contribute £40m of savings toward an overall target of £80m. The DG said it would be inappropriate to pursue this target while BBC News was so stretched in covering the pandemic.\n\nWhile these savings will probably be implemented under Lord Hall's successor (he leaves at the end of the summer), the BBC is racking up a huge bill because of coronavirus. It has already said it will delay changes to free TV licences for the over-75s by two months (at least) - and absorb that cost, which is coincidentally around £80m (at least).\n\nThe next director general is going to inherit an even bigger financial black hole that she or he imagined.\n\nHowever, negotiations with a government that had threatened to \"whack\" the BBC may be made marginally easier if the BBC - like other public service broadcasters - can prove its worth through this crisis.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, BBC Radio 1 announced changes to its schedule to ensure fewer presenters come in and out of the studios each day during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nFrom Monday, four shows will be broadcast between 04:00 and 19:00 instead of five, with DJs like Adele Roberts, Greg James, Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw having their slots extended.\n\nGreg James (left) and Nick Grimshaw will be on air for longer\n\n\"In these testing times I've made the decision to simplify our schedule to ensure the health of our teams, presenters and the network itself,\" Radio 1's head of programmes Aled Haydn Jones said.\n\n\"I'm very proud of how the Radio 1 teams have been able to continue to entertain and inform our audience under such difficult conditions, and we'll be doing our best to carry on throughout the challenging weeks ahead.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US markets gained again as Donald Trump and the Senate agreed a massive economic relief package worth more than $1.8 trillion (£1.5tn).\n\nThe package includes money to bail out industries that have been affected by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nRepublican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell described it as a \"wartime level of investment\" in the economy.\n\nThe relief plans lifted financial markets around the world, but investors remained on edge.\n\nUS markets, which surged on Tuesday in anticipation of the deal, teetered in the final moments of trade on Wednesday, closing below their peak for the day.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 2.4% higher, while the S&P 500 closed up 1.1%. The Nasdaq dipped 0.45%.\n\nShares in Boeing surged more than 23%, fuelled in part by expectations that it would benefit from the deal.\n\nEarlier, shares rose in Europe and Asia on news of the relief package. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed 8% higher, while London's FTSE 100 index gained more than 4.4%.\n\nFull details of the deal agreed in the US will not be published until later on Wednesday. However, it is expected to contain measures to help people pay bills if they are laid off because of the virus, expand unemployment assistance by $250bn and get $350bn in emergency loans to small firms.\n\nMr McConnell said it would also \"stabilise\" key industrial sectors and give money to hospitals and other healthcare providers which were having difficulty getting equipment.\n\n\"We're going to pass this legislation later today,\" Mr McConnell added.\n\nSenate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the package \"the largest rescue package in American history\". He said it was a \"Marshall Plan\" for hospitals. \"Help is on the way, big help and quick help.\"\n\nSeparately, President Trump on Tuesday said he wanted to get the economy up and running again by Easter.\n\nOn Wall Street, the Dow Jones jumped by 11.4% on Tuesday - its biggest one-day gain since the Great Depression - as political leaders signalled a deal was close.\n\nThe final package is estimated to amount to about 10% of US output, more than double the relief offered during the 2008 financial crisis. William Foster, a vice president at Moody's Investors Service, said it would \"help mitigate the depth and duration of the economic shock\".\n\n\"Nonetheless, we expect the virus to have a significant negative impact on growth and the fiscal deficit this year,\" he said.\n\nGovernments around the world have responded to a surge in coronavirus cases by locking down societies in the hope of slowing the spread of the virus.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund has warned the hit to global growth is likely to be bigger than the financial crisis.\n\nMany countries are now working on stimulus packages to support their economies, but these plans have received mixed responses from investors, as markets experience unprecedented volatility as they grapple with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis month alone has seen the Dow having the five biggest daily gains and five biggest falls of its 135-year history.\n\nReacting to news of the stimulus package, Tom Stevenson, investment director at fund manager Fidelity International, said: \"It's good news, but we're not out of the woods yet.\n\n\"When markets are falling, you get these big rallies but you shouldn't get stuck on that. They do bounce around in these situations.\"\n\nThe US rescue package follows five days of intense negotiations to try to agree a deal that will provide aid for American workers and businesses.\n\nBefore it becomes law the deal must get through the Republican-controlled Senate, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and be signed by President Trump.\n\nThe US central bank, the Federal Reserve has already announced $4tn in extra lending to help stimulate the economy in the face of the coronavirus.\n\nUS stocks surged in anticipation of the massive economic stimulus deal\n\nNearly 19,000 people have died with coronavirus worldwide since it emerged in China's Wuhan province in January, and more than 420,000 infections have been confirmed.\n\nSouthern Europe is now at the centre of the pandemic, with Italy and Spain recording hundreds of new deaths every day. The US has confirmed more than 55,000 cases, the third highest of any country after China and Italy.\n\nThe US Congress has approved a $2tn rescue bill - the biggest package of support for the economy in modern American history.\n\nLike the UK's emergency economic measures, it offers $350bn in loans for small businesses to cover expenses for up to 10 weeks; it also offers $500bn in aid to airlines and other corporations. The government is also sending out cheques of $1,200 for every adult and $500 per child.\n\nBut there's concern that the package, for all its huge size, simply isn't big enough to soften the scale of the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 shutdown, now a global phenomenon. Some economists say US firms may need five times as much cash to prevent mass bankruptcy and unemployment.\n• None Why payday is different during the crisis", "The prime minister gives the UK government's latest coronavirus briefing from a virtual news conference.\n\nHe is joined by UK's chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance and England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty.", "Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found strangled in Wild Park, Brighton\n\nA former girlfriend of schoolgirls killer Russell Bishop is to be charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nJennifer Johnson, 54, of Brighton, has been summonsed over the failed 1987 prosecution of Bishop who was cleared of killing Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows. He was convicted in 2018.\n\nThe two nine-year-olds were found sexually assaulted and strangled in woodland in Brighton in October 1986.\n\nMs Johnson faces charges over her police statements and court evidence.\n\nBishop, who attacked another child in 1990, was found guilty in December 2018 of Karen and Nicola's murders.\n\nThe bodies of the girls were found in a dense wooded area of Wild Park, on the edge of Brighton, half a mile from their homes.\n\nA Sussex Police spokesman said: \"We have ensured that the families of Karen and Nicola, and the victim of Russell Bishop in 1990, are fully aware of this significant development in the case and we will continue to keep them informed.\"\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.", "Police and Gardaí at the scene\n\nA senior police officer has condemned dissident republicans for causing a security alert in County Fermanagh.\n\nA controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object, which was spotted by a member of the public at Clogh near Rosslea.\n\nIt was later declared to be a hoax.\n\nPSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) Superintendent Clive Beatty blamed dissident republicans who \"went to great lengths\" to make the device seem viable.\n\nSupt Beatty said: \"Given the unprecedented challenges the PSNI is facing in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, it is hard to fathom there are individuals in our community who are intent on causing such disruption by exploiting this global emergency for their own ends.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said given the coronavirus crisis, it was \"utterly despicable\" for people to be placing such devices in communities.\n\nThe incident was also condemned by Ulster Unionist assembly member Rosemary Barton.\n\n\"I urge the public to give their full support to the police as they seek to protect the community.\"", "Off-licences have been added to the government's list of essential UK retailers allowed to stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe list was updated on Wednesday amid increasing reports supermarkets are selling out of some beers and wines.\n\nA major pub chain has said \"almost all\" its business had gone to supermarkets.\n\nThe move came as bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords had to defend its decision to keep shops open.\n\nThe list of essential retailers put together by the Cabinet Office now includes \"off-licences and licensed shops selling alcohol, including those within breweries\".\n\nPubs and restaurants have been required to close under the new restrictions, prompting complaints from the head of Wetherspoons pub chain, Tim Martin, who said that most of the chain's trade had gone to supermarkets.\n\nWetherspoons CEO Tim Martin says much of his trade is going to the supermarkets\n\nExactly what qualifies as an \"essential business\" is causing confusion in some quarters.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business organisation Carolyn Fairbairn says many firms \"do not know whether to stay open or to close\".\n\nShe is asking the government clarify the situation for businesses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolyn Fairbairn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHalfords is covered by the essential retailers list. Boss Graham Stapleton said the chain had \"an essential role to play in keeping the country moving\".\n\nIts Autocentre garages and mobile vans remain open, with plans for \"partial store coverage\" across its 446 shops.\n\nThe chain drew criticism after saying it would keep some stores open after being named by the government as an \"essential provider of services\".\n\n#BoycottHalfords was trending on social media on Tuesday.\n\nSome Twitter users cited concerns over a lack of protection for on-site workers while others, including MSP Fulton MacGregor, questioned whether the business should be open at all.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Fulton MacGregor MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a trading update, the firm said: \"We are committed to playing our part, but only if we can ensure the health and safety of our colleagues and customers.\"\n\nIt also said it had the \"legal flexibility to remain open across the entire business\".\n\nMr Stapleton said his chain had a part to play \"in providing vital support to emergency workers, fleet operations and the general population as they travel for essential supplies\".\n\nHalfords pointed out it was offering all NHS frontline workers a free 10-point car check during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt comes as the government announced it would grant drivers a six-month emergency MOT extension under new regulation due to come into force on 30 March to ensure \"frontline workers to get to work\".\n\nOther bicycle firms such as Brompton Bicycle, a folding bike specialist, have lent bicycles to staff at hospitals in London to help them get to and from work.\n\nAnd some people on social media supported Halfords' decision to stay open during the pandemic.\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\nHigh Street retailer Next has confirmed it's offering some staff a 20 per cent pay rise if they volunteer to go into stores to help pick online orders, despite government warnings to stay at home.\n\nWhile all of its stores are closed to the public, the retailer says there are some items in its shops which have already been ordered and promised to online customers.\n\nThe retailer said a \"very small group of volunteers\" will pick the orders under \"strict supervision and social distancing rules\".\n\nAfter strict new restrictions were brought in by government earlier this week, it issued a list of “essential retailers”, such as Halfords, that are allowed to stay open. They include:\n\nTrade industry bodies had previously said that bicycle retailers and repair shops had seen a spike in demand as people \"clean the cobwebs off\" their old bikes in an attempt to avoid public transport during the pandemic.\n\nJonathan Harrison of the Association of Cycle Traders told the BBC that \"there had been an uplift in sales across the board, with larger retailers also reporting more 'entry-level' bikes going.\"\n\nHowever, he pointed out that with more consumers staying in due to the new government restrictions, \"it's difficult to know whether or not that trend will continue.\"", "A growing number of construction companies have said they will stop all non-essential work to help fight the coronavirus, but others continue to operate amid confusion over the government's advice.\n\nHousebuilder Persimmon has joined others in pledging to down tools, while most work has stopped on HS2 rail.\n\nBut FTSE 250 listed Redrow is among those keeping sites open.\n\nThere is concern the virus will spread easily on busy construction sites.\n\nThe government has said work can continue so long as people are 2m (6.5ft) apart, but critics say this is impossible to enforce, and that public health should come first.\n\nTaylor Wimpey, which builds over 10,000 homes a year, said this week that it was closing all of its sites \"because we believe it is the right thing to do\".\n\nBarratt, meanwhile, said it would close 400 sites and offices to prioritise \"the health and safety of customers and employees\".\n\nPersimmon said it would stop all but essential work, while the majority of HS2 sites had \"paused or are pausing construction works,\" a spokesperson for the project said.\n\nBut Cairn Construction, which built 2,200 homes last year, was among those to say it would keep its sites open.\n\n\"Aligned to government guidelines, construction activity continues across each of our active sites under extensive health and safety protocols,\" the firm said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said any worker who could not do their job from home should go to work to \"keep the country running\".\n\nBut Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, told ITV only construction workers doing jobs \"critical to the economy\" should go in.\n\nHe added that builders should not be going into people's homes.\n\nOn Wednesday, however, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick repeated Mr Hancock's advice and told the BBC that work in people's homes was allowed if it was done safely.\n\nReflecting the confusion, construction trade groups are currently giving differing advice to members.\n\nThe National Federation of Builders, which represents small-to-medium sized contractors, said builders could work on sites if they followed safety guidelines, but the Federation of Master Builders said they should only go in if it is for emergency work.\n\n\"While we accept the government's advice to keep sites open, we have concerns about how this would be applied in practice,\" FMB boss Brian Berry said.\n\nFormer Tory cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith joined those calling for a pause to all non-essential work in the UK, telling BBC Two's Newsnight: \"I think the balance is where we should delete some of those construction workers from going to work and focus only on the emergency requirements.\"\n\nAndy Burnham, Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, told the programme the decision to allow non-essential work appeared to have been made for \"economic reasons\".\n\n\"When you're in the middle of a global pandemic, health reasons alone really should be guiding all decision-making,\" he said.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has promised help for the self-employed\n\nSome construction workers told the BBC they feel \"angry and unprotected\" going to work, while others are under pressure from employers to go in.\n\nMany are self-employed and fear that they could lose income if their employers shut down.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has promised help for the self-employed and will announce a package of support on Thursday at the government's daily press conference, a government source told the BBC.\n\nTaylor Wimpey said it was looking at how to support its around 2,000 directly employed staff, but had no plans for the \"sizable number\" of self employed freelancers on its sites.\n\n\"They are generally not actually operating for us, they are operating for a sub-contractor, so we are trying to support our subcontractors [by paying them on time or in advance],\" boss Pete Redfern told the BBC's World at One.\n\nHe admitted self-employed workers were the \"single biggest gap\" and that it was \"critical\" government support came through quickly.\n\nDifferent countries and regions have taken different approaches to the issue. Italy, which is under a strict lockdown, says employees including builders can continue to go to work if their jobs cannot be done at home.\n\nBut Boston in the US announced construction activity should be suspended on Monday.\n\nAnd Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said building sites \"should close for the period of the efforts to combat this virus\".\n• None What is banned and what isn't?", "Two detainees say they have been told that Brook House is in \"lockdown\"\n\nThree immigration removal centres in the UK are housing people with symptoms of coronavirus, the BBC has been told.\n\nOne of them, Brook House immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick Airport, has been placed on \"lockdown\", according to detainees.\n\nA High Court case later will decide if detainees should be temporarily released while the coronavirus crisis is ongoing.\n\nThe Home Office says it is following guidance from Public Health England.\n\nIt says Brook House IRC, in West Sussex, is taking the necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of both staff and detainees.\n\nDetainees told the BBC they have been sent a note informing them that emergency measures would be introduced requiring them to remain in their rooms with controlled access to showers and fresh air.\n\nIn normal circumstances, most detainees in IRCs are released back into the community after they are found to have a right to remain in the UK or while they are awaiting the outcome of their case.\n\nDetainees and charities say three of the UK's seven immigration removal centres currently have people quarantined with symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nFive detainees in immigration centres have spoken to the BBC. Detainees say they have not been provided with free soap in those three centres, making it impossible to follow guidelines on washing hands.\n\nA detainee who has a role of cleaning inside one of the centres - Harmondsworth, in west London - said he was aware of a cell not being cleaned after a man with symptoms was moved elsewhere to be quarantined and a new detainee was moved in.\n\nHe said: \"The way we're being treated is disgusting. People are moving in and out of cells.... without [the cells] being cleaned.\n\n\"I felt sorry for the [detainee that was moved in], the person knew nothing about the cell\", he said.\n\nThe Home Office says bedrooms are deep-cleaned after a detainee has left isolation and handwashing facilities are available in all immigration removal centres.\n\nColnbrook immigration removal centre is one of three centres where detainees say free soap is not available\n\nA detainee in Brook House says he saw a man who served food in the canteen be escorted by staff to isolation. He said the man was so breathless that he couldn't walk by himself.\n\n\"He had been serving food the day before,\" he said.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has been told by immigration lawyers that the Home Office has continued to arrest people and place them in IRCs, including in the last few days.\n\nHowever, the lawyers have told the BBC there is an inability to remove people to their countries of origin because of a lack of deportation flights.\n\nToufique Hossain of Duncan Lewis solicitors says \"it is now abundantly clear the Secretary of State has no lawful basis to detain simply because removals can no longer take place.\"\n\nMr Hossain says a client of his legal firm who is living with HIV was detained as recently as last week.\n\nAnother detainee has told the BBC he was arrested in early March with a cough and a fever, but was still transferred to Morton Hall IRC in Lincolnshire.\n\nHe was asked by a nurse - who was wearing no personal protective equipment - why he had been sent there given that he was displaying symptoms. He has since tested negative and been released.\n\nBella Sankey, from the Detention Action campaign group which is taking the legal action in the High Court, says IRCs need to be closed immediately.\n\n\"These are not closed centres, they're not like cruise ships, staff go in and out of detention centres as visitors, and indeed the majority of people detained in our immigration estate will eventually be released back into the community,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not only inhumane to carry on detaining people in these circumstances, but it's actually a danger to public health nationally.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that around 900 detainees were in the UK's immigration removal centres last Friday, after the release of 300 people last week.\n\nLater on Wednesday, in the High Court, Detention Action is taking legal action against the Home Office.\n\nA government statement said: \"Decisions to detain are made on a case-by-case basis and kept under constant review, but our priority is to maintain the lawful detention of the most high-harm individuals, including foreign national offenders.\"", "Visits to stores will now be carefully regulated\n\nVisit a supermarket today and you're likely to be greeted outside by a member of staff.\n\nBut they won't be helping you with your shopping.\n\nInstead they'll be ensuring you stick to the new strict social-distancing rules that have applied since Monday evening.\n\nAt Waitrose you'll be met by a marshal, while at M&S they're called greeters. Asda will also station more staff at its shop doors to \"greet\" customers.\n\nTheir jobs are exactly the same: to ensure only a limited number of shoppers enter stores at any one time.\n\nThey also check people are queuing responsibly and that shoppers wait patiently and stand two metres away from each other.\n\nInstead, visits to a store - which you're only supposed to make to pick up essentials - will be carefully regulated.\n\nThe rules are as much to protect store workers as shoppers.\n\nIndeed, Lidl, Morrisons, Aldi, Iceland and Sainsbury's have all installed protective screens for staff, while Waitrose has ordered screens and visors for its workers.\n\nAldi is one of the supermarkets installing protective glass\n\nYou'll see staff wearing gloves and plenty of hand-sanitisers near tills and other areas.\n\nThey also no longer want your cash. Instead, supermarkets are trying to encourage shoppers to pay by contactless card to cut down on potentially virus-covered cash being passed around the population.\n\nYou'll see posters encouraging you to look after yourself and treat staff well.\n\nAnd on the floor, there are markings to show where it is safe to stand and when queuing.\n\nAt Sainsbury's, there's tape marking out the correct two metre distance to maintain between customers in a queue.\n\nTesco has lines on the floor and around checkouts to help shoppers with social-distancing measures.\n\nTesco has marked the floor to help shoppers keep their distance from one another\n\nIf you think you can avoid the new tightly-regulated in-store experience by getting a home delivery, you may be in for a disappointment.\n\nSome people are having to wait weeks for an available slot as online systems struggle to cope with demand.\n\nVisitors to online store Ocado on Tuesday were greeted with the message: \"You are in a virtual queue to log in. Once you have logged in you may need to queue again to shop.\"\n\nSamantha Ward, who went into self-isolation last week when her husband developed Covid-19 symptoms, is struggling to get any supplies.\n\n\"Every day since self-isolating, I've been trying to place an online shopping order with all of the main supermarkets but there have been no available slots for weeks ahead.\"\n\n\"Friends who have been going on shopping expeditions for me come back with very little,\" she reports.\n\n\"Supermarket shelves are stripped bare. But ironically, I'm regularly receiving standardised emails from the bosses of major stores reassuring me that there is plenty of food to go round!\"\n\nSome Ocado shoppers had to enter a a virtual queue to log in.\n\nThere's also the Click+Collect option, where customers can arrange to pick up goods at their local store if they can't get a delivery slot.\n\nBut that can prove a problem too, as Maidenhead-based shopper Lisa Bull discovered.\n\n\"I booked a click-and-collect with Tesco as there were no delivery slots available. Throughout the week, I edited my order as I thought of things I and my self-isolating elderly parents needed.\n\n\"When I edited my order on Monday morning, I was then unable to check out and my whole shop was cancelled.\"\n\n\"It is an extremely busy time for both our stores and our delivery service and availability is challenging across many products,\" A Tesco spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We're doing our best to make sure people can get the food and items they need.\"\n\nWhat are the new restrictions?\n\nNew guidance from the government says people should now only leave home for the following reasons:\n\nBusinesses that are allowed to stay open under the strict new guidelines include supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, post offices, corner shops or market stalls selling food and restaurants that offer a takeaway service.", "A Scottish diplomat has died in Hungary after contracting coronavirus.\n\nSteven Dick, 37, served as the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest.\n\nHe died on Tuesday, the Foreign Office confirmed. It is not known whether Mr Dick had any underlying medical problems.\n\nHis parents, Steven and Carol Dick, said their son was \"kind, funny and generous\" and he was very happy representing the UK overseas.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was \"desperately saddened\" by the news of Mr Dick's death.\n\n\"Steven was a dedicated diplomat and represented his country with great skill and passion,\" he added.\n\n\"He will be missed by all those who knew him and worked with him.\"\n\nMr Dick's parents said he was a much-loved son, grandson and nephew.\n\n\"It was always his dream to work for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and he was very happy representing our country overseas,\" they said.\n\nThe UK Ambassador to Hungary, Iain Lindsay, said he had worked with Mr Dick since last October.\n\nHe said his team and their families were saddened and shocked by his death.\n\n\"Steven was a dear colleague and friend who had made a tremendous impression in Hungary since his arrival last October with his personal warmth and his sheer professionalism, not least his excellent Hungarian,\" he said.\n\n\"As our fellow Scot Robert Burns, whose works we had recently recited together, wrote 'Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd.' We will miss him so much.\"\n\nSir Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at the FCO, said it was \"simply shattering news\"\n\n\"He was just starting out on what was sure to be an outstanding career and his friends around the world and across the FCO will miss him sorely,\" he said.\n\nBefore taking up his post in Hungary, Mr Dick had roles at the British Embassies in Kabul and Riyadh, and was most recently head of corporate strategy and governance at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nHe started his career as a graduate trainee with the Bank of Scotland.", "That's all from us after another busy day covering the coronavirus outbreak in Wales.\n\nStay safe and join us again on Thursday when we will be continuing our coverage.\n\nWe leave you with a helpful video about why we touch our face - and how to stop.\n\nVideo caption: Coronavirus: Why we touch our faces and how to stop it Coronavirus: Why we touch our faces and how to stop it", "More than 160 people have died in London from coronavirus\n\nNew measures have been brought in to stop non-essential Tube journeys amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nQueues are being introduced at ticket gates and some escalators are being turned off to slow the flow of passengers to platforms.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) has also deployed 500 officers to patrol the UK's rail network.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said passenger numbers fell by a third on Wednesday morning but more needs to be done.\n\nThe Underground network has been hugely reduced by Transport for London (TfL) with 40 stations shut and many services cut back.\n\nCommuters on the Central Line were packed onto a train on Tuesday morning\n\nNearly 3,000 people in the capital have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"We still need more Londoners to do the right thing and stay at home,\" said Mr Khan.\n\n\"Nearly a third of TfL's staff are now off sick or self-isolating - including train drivers and crucial control centre staff.\n\n\"Many of them have years of safety-critical training in order to run specific lines - so it is simply not possible to replace them with others.\n\n\"If the number of TfL staff off sick or self-isolating continues to rise - as we sadly expect it will - we will have no choice but to reduce services further.\"\n\nOn Tuesday evening, BTP's assistant chief constable Sean O'Callaghan said officers would be patrolling stations, supporting railway staff and reminding the public of the need to follow the government advice.\n\n\"Only those making essential journeys for work should be using the Tube and rail network,\" he said.\n\n\"We strongly urge the rest of the public to do the right thing and help us save lives by staying at home and slowing the spread of the virus.\"\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.", "People should avoid using the microwave at the same time as their wi-fi, media regulator Ofcom has said, as part of advice to help improve internet speeds.\n\nIt comes as millions work remotely and rely on streaming services after the UK was told to \"stay at home\".\n\nThis has put pressure on broadband providers, with BT's Openreach reporting a 20% surge in internet use.\n\nThe government said reliable internet speeds were \"crucial\" as the UK battles the coronavirus.\n\nOfcom's advice ranges from the seemingly obvious, like downloading films in advance rather than streaming them when someone else may be trying to make a video call, to the less expected.\n\n\"Did you know that microwave ovens can also reduce wi-fi signals?\" Ofcom asks.\n\n\"So don't use the microwave when you're making video calls, watching HD videos or doing something important online.\"\n\nDevices that can interfere with router signals include: cordless phones, baby monitors, halogen lamps, dimmer switches, stereos and computer speakers, TVs and monitors.\n\nOfcom also advised making calls on a landline where possible, citing an increase in the demand on mobile networks.\n\n\"If you do need to use your mobile, try using your settings to turn on wi-fi calling,\" Ofcom said.\n\n\"Similarly, you can make voice calls over the internet using apps like Facetime, Skype or WhatsApp.\"\n\nThe regulator also suggested disconnecting devices that were not in use.\n\n\"The more devices attached to your wi-fi, the lower the speed you get,\" it said.\n\n\"Devices like tablets and smartphones often work in the background, so try switching wi-fi reception off on these when you're not using them.\"\n\nOfcom is not the only organisation taking action to maximise internet speeds during the lockdown.\n\nStreaming platforms including Facebook, Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube have already reduced the quality of videos in an attempt to ease the strain on internet service providers.\n\nBut the internet companies say they can handle the pressure.\n\nOpenreach, which maintains the telephone cables and cabinets across the country used by most broadband providers, said that - despite the jump - usage is still lower than the usual peaks it experiences in the evening.\n\n\"We're not seeing any significant issues across our broadband or phone network,\" an Openreach spokesman said.\n\n\"We've seen a circa 20% increase in daytime usage over our fibre network, but that's in line with what we expected and not as high as the usage levels we see during evening peak times.\"", "Kirsten and Richard Groom's wedding was watched by more than 100 people on Facebook\n\nA couple whose dream wedding was thrown into doubt by coronavirus restrictions held the service a month early and streamed it to 100 guests on Facebook.\n\nBut instead they married at St Matthew's Church, Walsall, on Saturday, sensing their original date was doomed.\n\nMrs Groom said they \"took the opportunity while we could\". The government has since ordered services to be cancelled.\n\n\"Richard had seen the situation in the UK was heating up and had floated the idea of bringing the wedding forward,\" said Mrs Groom, who is the church's administrator.\n\n\"When the prime minister started restrictions [last week], another person said 'why not get married now?' but we had put a year and a half into planning our perfect wedding.\n\n\"We knew there was no way we would be able to get married in April, so we took the opportunity while we could.\"\n\nThe couple had just four days to arrange their wedding after deciding to bring it forward\n\nDuring overhauled preparations, Mrs Groom was living in a shared house with 12 other people, and they all pitched in to help pull together the wedding in four days.\n\nThe outfit she planned to wear in April was not ready in time so the housemates sourced another, as well as arranging photographs and flowers.\n\nThe housemates were the couple's only attending guests, with others watching the service through the Facebook live stream.\n\n\"The people we have talked to so far have said they felt part of it, even from a distance, and we are really happy we were able to have that option available to them,\" Mrs Groom said.\n\nRev Jim Trood, who led the service, said: \"To be honest, I found it quite emotional when they were making the promises in sickness and in health - it was a powerful thing to be saying.\"", "Officers tipped over the barbecue to bring the gathering to a close\n\nMore than 20 people stood \"shoulder to shoulder\" for a barbecue despite the introduction of new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, police said.\n\nFoleshill police, based in Coventry, tweeted a picture of the remains of the barbecue on Tuesday afternoon, describing it as \"unbelievable'.\n\nThe crowd refused to disperse even when reminded about the need for social distancing, police said.\n\nOfficers had to tip the barbecue over to put an end to the gathering.\n\nThe barbecue had been sniffed out by officers on patrol who were shocked to find a toddler and older people \"freely mingling and standing shoulder to shoulder round a buffet\", West Midlands Police 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\nThe crowd insisted they should be allowed to continue, despite being reminded of the need for social distancing and only dispersed when the barbecue was pushed over, the force said.\n\nStrict measures, announced on Monday, ban public gatherings of more than two people and people have been urged to stay indoors.\n\nComments on social media suggested those at the \"shocking\" BBQ should be fined.\n\nUnder new powers people can be fined for holding gatherings\n\nUnder new powers issued in the wake of the spread of coronavirus, police are able to explain to people why they should not be out but if they do not listen to advice they would then be given a fine, the National Police Chiefs' Council said.\n\nHowever, fines will not be issued until Parliament passes the emergency legislation - which should be by the end of Thursday.", "You’ve probably heard by now that Italy has been hit hard by the virus.\n\nIt’s now at the epicentre of the outbreak, and the country's president has urged other countries to learn from its struggle to slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe number of recorded deaths there recently overtook those in China, where the virus originated last year. Italy reported 651 coronavirus deaths on Sunday and saw its toll for the past month reach 5,476, the highest in the world.\n\nSo why has Italy been so badly affected? A number of possible reasons have been mooted.\n\nSome studies point to the large number of elderly people in the worst affected regions, such as Lombardy in the north. Italy also has the oldest population in the world after Japan with some 23% of people there over the age of 65.\n\nThis matters because the virus is especially dangerous for older people.\n\nThe vast majority of Italy's fatal cases involved elderly people with at least one pre-existing condition, officials say. The average age of the first 3,200 people who died was 78.5.\n\nExperts also say a large proportion of 18-34s live at home with these older people, which increases the risk of the virus spreading.\n\nAnother factor that may help explain Italy's crisis is the length of time the virus has been active.\n\nSome health officials believe it arrived in Italy long before the first case was officially confirmed in late February. It likely spread undetected through northern Italy, possibly for several weeks.", "The London Marathon is among the events postponed due to coronavirus\n\nRunners who have seen events postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak are taking on their challenges remotely.\n\nMany major races, including the London Marathon, have been put back until later this year.\n\nBut after months of long training runs, many participants are deciding to carry on with their challenge alone.\n\nIt is also helping some charities maintain the fundraising they may otherwise have lost.\n\nDeb Meredith was due to take on the London Landmarks Half Marathon on 29 March but the event has been postponed, with a new date yet to be set.\n\nIts organisers have launched the Local Landmarks Challenge, where people can take on the run remotely in their area, record themselves using a running app, then submit it to get a participation medal.\n\nDeb Meredith was due to take on the London Landmarks Half Marathon but is now planning a route near her home\n\nMs Meredith was part of a small team taking on the run for the Shropshire charity Energize STW, and had raised more than £500.\n\n\"I was devastated,\" she said.\n\n\"I had worked really hard to raise the money for the charity and had gone over my target.\"\n\nShe is now planning a route around her home in Telford.\n\n“I think it will be really hard, when it is a race, the atmosphere gets you through,” she said.\n\n“You still want to achieve the target, but I am still hoping it will be rearranged for another date and I can do it,\" she said.\n\nWhile Bath Half Marathon went ahead on 15 March, many people who had signed up chose to do the run away from the main event because of concerns about the virus.\n\nAmong them was Sahar Shah, a Warwick University PhD student, who instead ran the distance around Leamington Spa.\n\nShe said she was concerned about the impact bringing the race, which attracts 12,000 participants would have on the city in potentially spreading the virus so chose to stay away.\n\n“I was dreading it because the atmosphere really spurs you on, but I ended up enjoying it,” she said.\n\n“I still had a lot of pride and achievement after.”\n\nZoe Tickner said she felt \"amazing\" after completing her half marathon challenge close to where she lived\n\nRocking Horse Children’s Charity, the fundraising arm of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, has launched the Rocking Horse Hero campaign, to support the hospital during the pandemic.\n\nAlex Marshall, from the charity, said “It is partly trying to fill the gap in fundraising for things that are cancelled or postponed, but also to give people ideas of how fundraise if they are stuck at home or to do with the kids.”\n\nZoe Tickner, from Partridge Green in West Sussex, also had a place in the London Landmarks Half Marathon for the charity, and decided to run the distance close to where she lived.\n\n\"When you have been getting up at 05:30 every morning to take the kids to school and before work, it has been cold and wet with the storms, and so many people have sponsored me, I didn't want to feel like all that training was wasted,\" she said.\n\n\"It felt amazing once I had finished.\n\n\"I am going to keep going out running for as long as we are allowed to and keep my fitness up.\"", "Kelsey Mohammed says she has been overwhelmed by the support of the public.\n\nMore than 1,000 volunteer groups have been set up to help those self-isolating during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nTens of thousands have come forward offering to pick up shopping or deliver medicine to the most vulnerable.\n\nCovid-19 Mutual Aid UK, an umbrella organisation co-ordinating the groups, is itself run by around a dozen volunteers from south London.\n\nCo-founder Kelsey Mohamed, 28, said the response had been \"overwhelming\".\n\n\"It shows us what's possible when we prioritise simple compassion,\" she said.\n\n\"People are self-organising with incredible efficiency, respect and creativity.\"\n\nSeren John-Wood, 24, helped set up the first mutual aid group in Lewisham, south London, on 12 March.\n\nThe theatre worker and her housemates distributed leaflets around their local area asking if people needed food or medicine delivering.\n\nShortly afterwards, the friends decided to launch an umbrella organisation to guide the various groups around the UK.\n\nIts website displays a map of known volunteer groups which have appeared in areas including Cornwall, Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nSome cover a single street, others a neighbourhood, ward or town.\n\nIn Lewisham, the support network has grown so big those in need of assistance are marking their windows with a red piece of card.\n\nThere are now 4,000 members on the local Covid-19 Mutual Aid page.\n\nThough people in need of them are being urged to be wary of potential scammers, especially when handing over money.\n\nThe leaflet being distributed by Mutual Aid groups.\n\nNicola Spurr, 47, who works for non-profit organisations, launched various groups in the Bayswater area of London over the weekend.\n\nHundreds of people quickly signed up as volunteers to shop for the elderly, deliver medicine and walk dogs.\n\n\"I've lived in Lancaster Gate for two years and I've never really spoken to my neighbours,\" she said.\n\n\"London can be a bit like that, it can be a lonely place.\n\n\"But we saw this huge outpouring of solidarity and neighbourliness straight away.\"\n\nDieticians, therapists and dementia specialists were among some of the people offering their services for free, she said.\n\nCouncillor Olly Wehring has set up a group in Norbiton, Kingston.\n\nIn nearby Kingston, Councillor Olly Wehring has set up a group in the Norbiton area.\n\n\"Norbiton has always had a strong community feel, yet I'm blown away by how many residents have offered to help,\" he said.\n\nBut there are concerns criminals could take advantage of informal set ups to exploit the vulnerable.\n\nIn Brighton and Hove, a councillor is creating an ID card with a space for a photograph to ensure the helper is who they say they are.\n\nMutual Aid is advising its groups to check up on helpers to make sure they have properly fulfilled requests.\n\nA post to the national group said: \"If you are giving or receiving help, tell someone, a friend, family member, or someone on this group, what the plan is.\n\n\"Even if you think you're the most savvy person ever, ask them if something sounds off.\"\n\nIn most cases the groups are providing hope to elderly residents who could be forced to self-isolate for four months.\n\nIslington resident Hope Winter-Hall has a disability care package and is looking after her 92-year-old mother.\n\n\"We already knew that social services and the NHS were overwhelmed before this virus hit,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very well-prepared for months of isolation but I will be needing help before it is over.\n\n\"Finding the Islington Mutual Aid group lifted our spirits and changed our view of the future.\"\n\nBBC Local Radio stations across England are helping to keep communities connected during the Coronavirus crisis.\n\nIf you want to Make A Difference get in touch with your BBC Local Radio station at bbc.co.uk/makeadifference", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first minister has warned that stringent new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus should not be considered \"optional\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon said guidance about social distancing and self-isolation should be regarded as a \"set of rules\".\n\nIt comes as she confirmed the number of coronavirus deaths in Scotland had reached 10, with 416 known cases.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"life should not feel normal\", and if it did, you should ask \"if you are doing the right things\".\n\nSpeaking at a press briefing in St Andrew's House in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said: \"Let me be clear, the advice should not be considered optional, it should be seen instead as a set of rules to be followed.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said up to 200,000 people in Scotland with extreme health vulnerabilities would be contacted in the coming days with advice to isolate for 12 weeks and details of how they will be supported.\n\nIt follows similar measures announced by Public Health England to inform 1.5m people in a similar position south of the border.\n\nMs Sturgeon's comments about people flouting social distancing guidance comes amid reports of some pubs remaining open despite government measures announced on Friday that all pubs, clubs, restaurants and cafes were to close to prevent further spread of Covid-19.\n\nThat has prompted Police Scotland to warn it would serve emergency closure orders on any premises defying the advice.\n\nDeputy chief constable Malcolm Graham said remaining open was \"absolutely reckless and endangers not only the lives of customers, but wider communities\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said although it was ok to be outside, people should not crowd together. She said: \"If you go out in the sunshine follow the social distancing guidance on your own or with one or two others.\n\n\"Beaches should not be busy, parks should not be full.\"\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood said cases of Covid-19 were accelerating at a faster rate than first thought\n\nShe also said ferry operators would limit bookings to island residents and essential services after reports that people had been flocking to rural areas in a bid to outrun the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon also clarified guidance around the opening of schools to accommodate S4-S6 pupils trying to complete course.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney last week confirmed there would be no exams in Scotland's schools for the first time since the system was launched in 1888.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that new guidance was issued in light of \"the escalation of the public health advice around social distancing\".\n\nShe added: \"With immediate effect, no young person with coursework to complete should attend school to do so.\"\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood, who was also present at the briefing, said Covid-19 appeared to be spreading faster in the UK than in China.\n\nShe said it had become clear that the UK had been under-estimating the doubling time of the virus.\n\nShe added: \"That means that each individual is infecting more people. So we had estimates of one person infecting two to three other people, but they're actually infecting more people than that.\n\n\"So actually that explosion of cases, that acceleration, is actually likely to be more more than we realised.\"\n\nThree more patients in Scotland have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 10.\n\nThe number of known cases of Covid-19 has risen to 416, an increase of 43 on Saturday.\n\nThe Scottish government said a total of 8,679 tests had been carried out across the country.\n\nGreater Glasgow and Clyde has the highest number of confirmed cases with 130, a rise of 20 in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Lanarkshire total remains the same at 49, while Lothian recorded two more cases, bringing the total to 46.\n\nThe number of cases in Shetland remains 24.\n\nPeople have tested positive in 12 of the country's 14 health board areas, with the exception of Western Isles and Orkney.", "Care home residents in Prestwich have found their own ways of letting their friends and families know they’re OK on Mother’s day, after having to self-isolate.", "The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, warned that \"people will die who could have lived otherwise\"\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.\n\n\"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages,\" Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. \"If we don't get more ventilators people will die.\"\n\nNew York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.\n\nThere are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.\n\nOn Sunday, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said 15,168 people had tested positive for the virus, an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous day.\n\n\"All Americans deserve the blunt truth,\" Mr de Blasio told NBC News. \"It's only getting worse, and in fact April and May are going to be a lot worse.\"\n\nNew York now accounts for roughly 5% of Covid-19 cases worldwide.\n\nOn Friday, President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for the state which gave it access to billions of dollars of federal aid.\n\nHowever, Mr de Blasio has continued to criticise the administration for what he views as an inadequate response.\n\n\"I cannot be blunt enough: if the president doesn't act, people will die who could have lived otherwise,\" he said. \"This is going to be the greatest crisis, domestically, since the Great Depression,\" he added, referring to the economic crisis of the 1930s.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at the White House on Sunday, Mr Trump said he had also approved a major disaster declaration for Washington state and would approve a similar measure for California.\n\n\"This is a challenging time for all Americans. We're enduring a great national trial,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump also said a number of medical supplies were being sent to locations nationwide, as well as emergency medical stations for New York, Washington and California, the worst-hit states.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 60 days of coronavirus in the US - in 60 seconds\n\nDoctors across New York have reported depleted medical supplies and a lack of protective gear for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the outbreak.\n\nWarnings of such shortages have reverberated across the country as other state governors have pleaded with the federal government to make more supplies available.\n\nIn California, officials instructed hospitals to restrict coronavirus testing. Meanwhile, a hospital in Washington state - once the centre of the US outbreak - said it could run out of ventilators by April.\n\nAnd on Sunday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said states were \"competing against each other\" for virus supplies.\n\n\"We need millions of masks and hundreds of thousands of gowns and gloves,\" he said. \"We're getting just a fraction of that. So, we're out on the open market competing for these items that we so badly need.\"\n\nAn almost $1.4 trillion (£1.2 trillion) emergency stimulus bill intended to blunt the punishing economic impact of the pandemic failed to pass the US Senate on Sunday.\n\nThe bill got 47 votes, falling short of the 60 needed in the 100-member chamber.\n\nDemocrats raised objections to the bill with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer saying it had \"many, many problems\". Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to bail out big businesses.\n\nTalks between Democrats and the White House are continuing.", "It's not just health workers tackling coronavirus on a daily basis.\n\nSpecialist cleaners like Jim Gildea are working long hours decontaminating surgeries, wards, offices, factories and public buildings after suspected cases of coronavirus are reported.\n\nJim and his team at Total Trauma Cleaning in Gosport, Hampshire are working 14 to 17 hour long days to keep up with demand across the county.", "The Soyuz launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan\n\nThe London-based start-up OneWeb launched another big batch of satellites on Saturday.\n\nA Soyuz rocket lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying 34 more spacecraft into orbit to continue the build-up of the firm's broadband internet constellation.\n\nThe mission took place despite the coronavirus pandemic, which has limited much space activity elsewhere.\n\nIt also comes amid rumours the firm may consider seeking bankruptcy protection.\n\nA report by Bloomberg on Thursday said OneWeb was examining different options it could use to stave off the difficulties of a cash crunch.\n\nA spokesperson wouldn't comment on those rumours, telling BBC News only that OneWeb was \"focused 100% on launch\".\n\nThe Soyuz rocket left the Kazakh spaceport right on schedule at 22:06 local time (17:06 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nIts payload took the current size of the start-up's constellation to 74 satellites. Forty spacecraft were lofted in two previous launches.\n\nThe completed network aims to achieve an orbital configuration of approximately 650 satellites, with internet access becoming available first for some customers at northern latitudes, before eventually being offered globally.\n\nOneWeb is in a race with a number of other companies that want to provide the same kind of service.\n\nCalifornia entrepreneur Elon Musk is developing his Starlink constellation which envisages thousands of connected satellites. Likewise, Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon and the world's wealthiest individual, has proposed a system he calls Kuiper.\n\nWhat they all are trying to do is very expensive. OneWeb has raised so far £2.6bn to fund its activities, but will need much more than this to fulfil all its plans.\n\nIt has a huge contracted launch campaign with European rocket operator Arianespace. Most of its Soyuz flights are supposed to be carried out from Baikonur, but a number are also expected to be conducted from the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's far east.\n\nThe stated OneWeb plan is to have its completed constellation in place by the end of the fourth quarter of 2021.\n\nHow achievable that is given the disruption created by the coronavirus pandemic remains to be seen. The aerospace industry, like much of the global economy, is having to implement contingency measures, including putting restrictions on the movement of equipment and personnel.\n\nArianespace, for example, has already suspended all launches from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n\nAfter Saturday's launch, OneWeb accentuated the positives. In a statement issued by the start-up, CEO Adrian Steckel said: \"In these unprecedented times following the global outbreak of Covid-19, people around the world find themselves trying to continue their lives and work online. We see the need for OneWeb, greater now more than ever before.\n\n\"High-quality connectivity is the lifeline to enabling people to work, continue their education, stay up to date on important healthcare information and stay meaningfully connected to one another. The crisis has demonstrated the imperative need for connectivity everywhere and has exposed urgent shortcomings in many organizations' connectivity capabilities. Our satellite network is poised to fill in many of these critical gaps in the global communications infrastructure.\"", "What to do if you go for a walk and it's crowded?\n\nSo what should you do if you go for a walk in a park and it is crowded? Prof Robert Dingwall, a sociologist from Nottingham Trent University who is advising the UK government, said problems occur when people cannot maintain the recommended two metre (6ft) separation. He says: \"If that is the case, then it probably is better to go home and pick a quieter time or a quieter location.\" Dr Robin Thompson, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, added: \"The key thing is to exercise while minimising contacts. \"There are many walks all across the UK - so, where possible, individuals can research walks without main attractions such as viewpoints or other areas that represent likely gathering points for groups of people.\" \"Local footpaths are likely to be less crowded than walks through major parks. And we can all try and maintain at least two metres distance between ourselves and others while out exercising.\"", "Sue Bonnington runs a \"hedgehog hospital\" from her home in Leicestershire\n\nA woman with terminal cancer has said she is going to dedicate the rest of her life to looking after hedgehogs.\n\nSue Bonnington, 58, runs a \"hedgehog hospital\" from her home in Glen Parva, Leicestershire.\n\nThe former cancer nurse was herself diagnosed with the illness while training to run the London Marathon in 2017.\n\nShe said the animals are in \"serious danger\" of extinction and caring for them makes her happy.\n\nA \"state of Britain's hedgehogs\" report, published in 2018, revealed a 30% drop in the number of hedgehogs in urban areas since 2000.\n\nExperts say the animals are struggling with lost habitats, increased competition and traffic.\n\nMs Bonnington became \"fascinated\" with hedgehogs when she started volunteering at the Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in 2016.\n\nMs Bonnington was diagnosed with cancer while training for the London Marathon\n\nAfter being diagnosed with cancer, she started helping them at her home.\n\nHer patients are brought to her by members of the public and some even go directly to her for help.\n\n\"I have lots of poorly hedgehogs walk up from the back gate and collapse at my back door,\" she said.\n\nIn 2017 a tumour was discovered in Ms Bonnington's pelvis.\n\nSince then it has spread to her liver and in May she was told her condition was terminal.\n\n\"I'm going to dedicate any time I have left to live to looking after these hedgehogs,\" she said.\n\n\"It makes me happy. When I get up in the morning I know I have to look after them.\"\n\nMs Bonnington became \"fascinated\" with hedgehogs while volunteering in 2016\n\nMs Bonnington rescued more than 40 hedgehogs in 2019.\n\nShe hopes an online fundraising campaign and donations from Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service will allow her to buy a large incubator to look after more of the animals and pay vet bills.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Greggs said its vegan sausage roll had helped boost sales\n\nGreggs has become the latest food retailer to say it will close its shops temporarily to help fight coronavirus.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 outlets, said all shops would shut on Tuesday night to help maintain social distancing.\n\nMcDonalds, Nando's, KFC, Costa Coffee, Subway and Pizza Express have already announced similar measures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told restaurants and cafes to close, but has exempted takeaway food places.\n\nGreggs, which has about 25,000 employees, had already converted its stores to provide solely a takeaway service.\n\nBut it said: \"It is now clear that to protect our people and customers we need to go further and temporarily close our shops completely.\n\n\"During this period, with support from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, we intend to maintain employment of colleagues at full contract hours for as long as is practicable.\"\n\nMcDonald's staff will get full pay until 5 April\n\nMcDonald's had earlier said it would close all 1,270 of its restaurants in the UK by the end of the day, affecting 135,000 workers.\n\nThe chain said staff employed directly by the company would receive full pay for their scheduled hours until 5 April.\n\nMcDonald's UK boss, Paul Pomroy, said: \"Over the last 24 hours, it has become clear that maintaining safe social distancing whilst operating busy takeaway and Drive Thru restaurants is increasingly difficult and therefore we have taken the decision to close every restaurant in the UK and Ireland by 7pm on Monday 23 March.\"\n\nNando's, which has around 19,000 staff, said its bosses had \"decided that the best course of action right now is to temporarily close our restaurants\".\n\nPizza Express, which employs 14,0000, will also close all of its stores until it is safe to open them again, and will not be offering home delivery.\n\nOthers that have announced temporary closures include:\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\nThey join big retailers like Ikea, John Lewis and Topshop who have also said they'll be shutting down for a while.\n\nAll of them have said they want to protect the wellbeing of staff and customers.\n\nJulian Metcalfe, who runs Asian food chain Itsu, described the decision to close as \"heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Whilst we are closed we'll continue to do everything we can to look after our people, who are being wonderful, strong and supportive,\" 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 2 by Nando's This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 hospitality industry, which was already struggling from slowing consumer demand, has been put under severe pressure by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nLast week, industry leaders warned of widespread closures of pubs, cafes and restaurants without state support.\n\nOn Friday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government would pay 80% of wages of furloughed employees, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe move will not, however, cover self-employed and \"gig economy\" workers, unless they are paid via their company's PAYE system, as is the case at McDonald's.\n\nOn Sunday, a Treasury spokesman said the government had strengthened the safety net for the self-employed under universal credit, and was deferring income tax self-assessment payments.\n\n\"We have always said we will go further where we can and are actively considering further steps,\" the spokesman said.", "Primark's 189 UK stores have closed \"until further notice\", as demand drops due to social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has already shut stores elsewhere and said it wanted to protect the health of employees and customers.\n\nThe fashion chain's boss, Paul Marchant, said it faced \"unprecedented, and frankly unimaginable times\".\n\nOther High Street retailers, such as John Lewis and Timpson, have already announced closures amid the pandemic.\n\nA Primark spokesperson said that any staff affected by store closures would receive full pay for their contracted hours for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile the John Lewis department store chain will close all of its 50 shops temporarily from Monday for the first time in its 155-year history.\n\nThe online site will still be available, while the group's 338 Waitrose stores will stay open to deal with a spike in demand for groceries. More than 2,000 John Lewis workers are already working across Waitrose.\n\nOther retailers have said that they would shut their shops temporarily although government has not yet ordered them to close, unlike restaurants, bars and pubs.\n\nThe chief executive of the Timpson Group posted on social media that the shoe repair firm's 2,150 stores would shut from Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Timpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBranches of WH Smith, Next and B&Q are among retailers to remain open.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of Waterstones, had said that his bookshops provided an \"important social resource\" and would stay open until forced to close. However, late on Sunday the chain announced that it would be temporarily shutting all of its outlets by the close of trade on Monday.\n\nAs many UK firms warn of the impact of the pandemic, the City watchdog has asked them not to publish preliminary financial statements that were due in the next few days.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) asked all listed companies to delay plans to publish by at least two weeks.\n\nPrimark stores across the US, France, Spain and Italy have already shut their doors to try to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nIn response to falling demand, the firm has now stopped placing any orders for clothes to be made in the future.\n\nIt also has a large amount of stock in stores, warehouses and in transit that has already been paid for.\n\nMr Marchant said that Primark had been left with \"no option but to take this action\".\n\nHe added: \"This is profoundly upsetting for me personally and for all of the team... We recognise and are deeply saddened that this will have an effect throughout our entire supply chain.\"\n\nPrimark does not have an online sales operation, so it orders and sells vast quantities of clothing through its network of brick-and-mortar shops.\n\nMr Marchant called for other countries to support businesses \"in the same way that the UK and many European governments are doing.\"\n\nThe UK government said this week it will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nMany retail and hospitality firms have warned the pandemic could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nTom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the British Retail Consortium, said that shops continue to follow government advice.\n\n\"Stores are reviewing Public Health England advice daily to decide what is best to do for their customers, staff and local communities.\"\n\nHe said that although \"retailers in non-food areas have seen an unparalleled drop in footfall\", others such as supermarkets have seen continued strong demand.", "Southampton's chief executive has suggested Premier League matches could be on television every day while people are still confined to their homes because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMartin Semmens says the return of the top flight - currently suspended until at least 30 April - would be \"a sign that the country is coming back to normal\" but it should not happen before it is safe.\n\n\"We have to do what is right and safe for the general public,\" he told BBC Radio Solent.\n\n\"When everybody is safe and we're not using up NHS and police resources, the government would like us to get back to playing because we are entertainment and a sign that the country is coming back to normal.\n\n\"If people are home for another month and Premier League football is on the TV every day that can only be a good thing. Not because we are more essential than the NHS but because we can give people entertainment and show that we're fighting back.\"\n\nSemmens said teams are hopeful of completing the league by the end of June but did not yet know when play would resume.\n\nSome players will be out of contract on 30 June, but Semmens believes players could be convinced to stay for longer should play continue beyond that point.\n\n\"We hope to get the league done by the end of June,\" Semmens added. \"As soon as you go past that date, there are legal challenges.\n\n\"If we ended up playing until 15 July and you had to extend a player's contract by two weeks, convincing a player to play two more weeks of football and get paid nicely to do it - I don't believe that will be a substantial challenge.\n\n\"The challenge is making sure we don't have a knock-on effect to other seasons and make football compromised for years to come.\"", "Prisons across the country had been holding protests against poor health services and overcrowding\n\nAt least 23 people have died in one of Bogotá's largest jails after what the authorities are calling a mass breakout attempt amid rising tensions over coronavirus.\n\nColombia's Justice Minister Margarita Cabello said 83 inmates were injured during a riot at La Modelo prison.\n\nInmates at prisons across the country held protests on Sunday against overcrowding and poor health services during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMs Cabello said 32 prisoners and seven guards were in hospital. Two guards are in a critical condition.\n\nShe said the violence was a coordinated plan with disturbances reported across 13 of the country's prisons.\n\nMore than 23 people were killed and 83 inmates were injured at La Modelo prison\n\nDenying claims of unsanitary conditions amid fears of a coronavirus breakout, she said: \"There is not any sanitary problem that would have caused this plan and these riots.\n\n\"There is not one infection nor any prisoner or custodial or administrative staffer who has coronavirus.\"\n\nShe said prisoners had run amok and some would be charged with attempted murder, and damage to property.\n\nA large number of relatives gathered outside the gates of La Modelo prison to await news of their loved ones. They said they had heard of shots being fired after the security forces arrived.\n\nThe country's 132 prisons have an 81,000-inmate capacity but house more than 121,000 prisoners, according to figures from the justice ministry.\n\nSo far, there have been 231 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Colombia and two people have died.\n\nThe country is set to begin a nationwide quarantine from Tuesday which is expected to last 19 days. It will restrict residents' movements with the exception of medical staff, security forces and pharmacy and supermarket staff.\n\nPeople over the age of 70 have been told to stay indoors until the end of May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus in one minute", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Eustice: \"Buying more than you need means that others may be left without\"\n\nShoppers in the UK have been told to \"be responsible\" and think of others such as NHS workers, after panic-buying amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was more than enough food to go around - but the challenge for shops is keeping shelves stocked.\n\nIt comes as supermarkets have been overwhelmed by increased purchasing.\n\nAnother 53 people with coronavirus have died in England, bringing the total of deaths in the country to 220.\n\nMeanwhile, cafes, pubs and restaurants across the UK have closed as part of measures to stop the virus spreading.\n\nAnd, on Saturday night, the National Trust announced it was closing its parks and gardens from midnight \"to help restrict the spread of the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Frankly we should all be ashamed,\" said Prof Stephen Powis, medical director at NHS England, who said panic-buyers are depriving NHS staff of the supplies they need.\n\n\"These are the very people that we all need to look after perhaps us or our loved ones in the weeks to come.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a critical care nurse made an emotional video appeal for people to stop panic-buying and leave some goods for others who need to stay healthy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critical care nurse Dawn was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers\n\nAlso speaking at the news conference in Downing Street on Saturday, the head of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson, said: \"There is plenty of food in the supply chain.\"\n\n\"The issue is around people and lorries\" getting food onto shelves quick enough, she said.\n\nShe said the food industry was experiencing \"a peak in demand\" like at Christmas, but \"without the four-month build-up period.\"\n\n\"There is £1bn more food in people's houses than there was three weeks ago, so we should make sure we eat some of it,\" she said.\n\nShoppers have been met with empty shelves at stores across the UK\n\nThere was a large queue of shoppers trying to get into the Costco store in Glasgow on Saturday\n\nTape in a fast food store marks the floor where customers should stand to practice social distancing\n\nMr Eustice said the government recognised it was a \"challenging time\" but that \"buying more than you need means others may be left without.\"\n\nHe added: \"There's no shortage of food. Food manufacturing has geared up to meet an increase in demand and it is up by 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether he can rule out rationing or ration books, Mr Eustice said it was up to supermarkets to decide whether to put limits on how much of each item shoppers can buy.\n\nSome supermarkets have already imposed limits after some members of the public started buying items like toilet roll in bulk.\n\nAnd many stores including Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl have said they are hiring thousands of staff to meet the unprecedented demand.\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, said it wants to take on 20,000 temporary workers \"to help feed the nation\".\n\nLabour said the government had been too slow and too quiet to reassure people that were was enough food.\n\nProf Powis, of NHS England, also reiterated the importance of people avoiding social contact.\n\n\"It's not for somebody else to follow, it's for you to follow, it's for me to follow, it's for everybody to follow,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Powis, NHS England: \"By not stockpiling...our health workers are able to get access to what they need\"\n\n\"This is all our problem and if we do it together, it will be an effective strategy. If you do it, you follow the advice, you will be saving somebody's life.\n\n\"This is the time in your lifetime whereby your action can save somebody's life. It is as simple and as stark as that.\"", "If you're now either working from home and socially isolating or quarantining after showing possible coronavirus symptoms, it's likely you're coming to terms with how much spare time you suddenly have.\n\nEarlier this week, the government advised against going out for \"non-essential\" reasons, and many schools and businesses across the UK have now closed.\n\nThis has left tens of thousands of us stuck inside our homes for large chunks of time - needing more than a boxset binge and the odd four-way video chat to see us through.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat spoke to people in this situation to see how they're dealing with all this enforced alone time. While some are learning new skills, making good on existing life goals and starting new creative projects - others are finding it harder to adapt to such drastic changes to their daily lives.\n\n\"I've taken up a new hobby that I never thought about trying before - cross-stitching and embroidery.\"\n\nMaddy Bateson, 21, is self-isolating in her student house in Salford. Before deciding to focus on embroidery, she watched a fair bit of TV and played The Sims but soon grew bored of her more usual pastimes.\n\n\"I'm not very good yet but doing something different takes my mind off things. Instead of just watching TV, I put some music on and embroider a little flower on my jeans.\"\n\nMaddy's top tip for not allowing the isolation to overwhelm you is to stay in touch with family through voice notes.\n\n\"It's nice to hear someone's voice - not everyone wants to pick up the phone and ring all the time so short voice notes can really help.\"\n\nShe's also been video chatting with her mates but says she's learning to enjoy the silence too.\n\n\"It's been nice to get a bit of time away from my phone and having to be in constant contact with people. Now, I can just chill by myself and spend a few hours cross-stitching.\"\n\nJoe Flinders, 26, has been working remotely from his home in Manchester and social distancing for several days.\n\n\"I'm not someone that does great in my own company - I'm quite an extrovert,\" he says.\n\nHis usual routine sees him out and about either at the gym or hanging out with mates. He found the best way to adjust to his new reality was by writing a big list of plans like clearing out his wardrobe and relearning the piano.\n\n\"I'm going to do a nutrition course too over several weeks. It will keep me busy and also educate me.\"\n\nOn top of all that, he's going to start helping his younger sister, whose GCSE's have been cancelled, keep up with her schoolwork.\n\n\"She's got lot of revision materials, so to help her and keep us all busy, I'm going to quiz her on bits of her different subjects.\"\n\nHe advises those struggling with the initial impact of self-isolation to find \"small things that give you joy throughout the day\".\n\nCharlotte, 26, was working in a bar until the coronavirus crisis struck. Now, she's at home - practising social distancing as much as possible.\n\nTo stave off the boredom she started sewing.\n\n\"It's funny because when I was 14, or 15, I did a sewing class and I was, like, I will never use that!\"\n\nNow, she's started a fashion project inspired by the face masks that have become synonymous with the virus worldwide.\n\n\"On the streets and on the bus, I started seeing so many people wearing these blue and white masks. And I just thought - why not try and make a prettier version to put some light into this awful situation?\"\n\nThe official advice on face masks is that they are not an effective way of protecting yourself from Covid-19, and they could even create a false sense of security.\n\nCharlotte is clear that her masks are intended as a fashion accessory only.\n\n\"People on social media ask me about this and I make it very clear that none of these masks protect against the virus,\" she says. \"For me, it's just a way of keeping my body and my mind busy - it can be scary when you think too much about the virus.\"\n\nAfter posting, her designs on Instagram she was surprised by how much positive feedback she got.\n\n\"Being able to be creative really helps with my wellbeing,\" she says. \"For me, it's a form of self-care and a great way to use my time at home.\"\n\nBut, others have found it harder to adapt to life indoors.\n\nJoe Wilmot is a student, living in a shared house in Manchester. He's been self-isolating for almost a week.\n\nAlthough, he is able to access to his university work easily from home, he's struggling to adjust to staying indoors.\n\n\"Apart from having the balcony doors open, I don't think I've really felt fresh air for days. And because I've been cleaning non-stop, my flat smells of chemicals.\"\n\nAt first, he thought about taking up a new hobby like knitting, but then realised he would need to stop isolating to go and buy the wool and needles.\n\nJoe recommends turning off the news at times\n\nInstead, he's discovered new things about himself.\n\n\"It turns out, I'm skilled at staying horizontal in bed for about 12 hours a day, which is something that even as a student I didn't know I could do.\n\n\"So, I've just stayed in bed binge-watching TV shows. At first, I was watching the news constantly too but now I'm getting to the point where I want to distract myself from things going on outside.\"\n\nIf you do end up turning to TV for solace, Joe recommends finding shows that make you laugh.\n\n\"Re-watching comedy shows like The Thick of It can really boost your mood and stop you thinking about the fact you can't go anywhere.\"\n\nToo offset all the time he's been spending in bed, Joe has also been copying workouts from social media.\n\n\"I follow this guy called Alex on Instagram who puts on lycra and does exercises in his living room. So I've been putting my shorts on and following his routines - and that, to be honest, is what is getting me through this crisis.\"", "The Fiddlers Arms in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh is among those sticking to government advice to shut\n\nThe first minister has warned she will use emergency legislation to close pubs that ignore advice to shut in the wake of the coronvirus outbreak.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the vast majority were complying with the advice, but those that did not were putting lives at risk.\n\nThe UK government announced on Friday that licensed premises, restaurants and other venues should shut.\n\nPolice Scotland said closure orders would be served where necessary.\n\nIt follows reports that a number of pubs across Scotland have ignored advice to close over the weekend.\n\nTo date 10 people in Scotland have died after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe total number of confirmed cases currently stands at 416, but experts have warned the true number of people with coronvirus will be significantly higher.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood said the importance of the advice could not be underestimated.\n\nShe said: \"The pub is an enclosed environment. People are going there to sit near each other, to interact with each other.\n\n\"There are hard surfaces, tables, counters, which are not always cleaned all of the time and so the pub is actually somewhere, where if there is somebody even with mild symptoms, that could spread.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nEmergency legislation that would give the state sweeping powers to close premises is currently being drawn up. The legislation would apply across the UK and could be used by devolved administrations.\n\nOn Saturday Ms Sturgeon tweeted: \"Emergency legislation will give us these powers within days and we all not hesitate to use them if necessary. But pubs etc shouldn't wait for that - they should do the right thing now. Indeed the vast majority are. Those who don't put lives at risk.\"\n\nA sign outside the Halfway House pub in Edinburgh, which closed before the government advice was issued last week.\n\nThe closure of pubs came at the end of a week of major announcements designed to combat the spread of the virus, including the closure of schools and the cancellation of exams.\n\nDeputy chief constable Malcolm Graham said: \"I am aware that a small number of public houses are intent on defying this instruction and have indicated that they will remain open until legally ordered to close.\n\n\"This is absolutely reckless and endangers not only the lives of customers, but wider communities, in an extremely fast moving and unprecedented situation where both the health and safety of the nation is at stake.\n\n\"Therefore, I have obtained further legal advice today and Police Scotland will now instruct officers to serve emergency closure orders on any licensed premises which refuses to comply on the grounds of the threat posed to public safety.\n\n\"Officers are now visiting these premises today to have them closed.\"", "Letters are being sent telling 1.5 million people in England most at risk of coronavirus to stay at home.\n\nThey will receive letters or text messages strongly advising them not to go out for 12 weeks to protect themselves, the government said.\n\nIt comes as the PM asked the UK not to visit loved ones on Mother's Day, and follow social distancing guidelines.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan asked people to heed the advice, saying \"do it for loved ones who will die if you don't\".\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK with coronavirus rose to 281 on Sunday, as cases reached 5,683.\n\nBoris Johnson has called on the public to join a \"collective national effort\" and follow social distancing guidance, warning the NHS could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nAt-risk people include those who have received organ transplants, those living with severe respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis or those who have specific cancers, such as blood or bone marrow.\n\nIn a message to the country on Saturday evening, Mr Johnson said: \"The numbers are very stark, and they are accelerating.\n\n\"The Italians have a superb health care system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand.\n\n\"The Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together, unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread - then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.\"\n\nDespite the social distancing advice, some public spaces like parts of London's Battersea Park were busy\n\nAt Columbia Road flower market in east London, shoppers did not always follow the 2m advice\n\nHe said the UK is only \"two or three\" weeks behind Italy, adding that he recognised the government was imposing measures \"never seen before either in peace or war\" - but said they were essential.\n\nThere have been more than 300,000 cases of the virus worldwide with more than 13,000 deaths.\n\nItaly has seen its death toll for the past month reach 4,825, the highest in the world.\n\nAs families prepared to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday, Mr Johnson said the best single present for mothers was to stay away.\n\nIt comes after the government this week told all restaurants, cafes and pubs - as well as some other public spaces like gyms and cinemas - to close.\n\nIn Keele, one woman socialised with her family through a window as she received a Sunday roast by delivery\n\nAnd shoppers queued outside a supermarket in south London\n\nMeanwhile, as churches closed their doors to worshippers, some faith leaders like the Dean of Durham live-streamed the service\n\n\"This time, the best thing is to ring her, video call her, Skype her, but to avoid any unnecessary physical contact or proximity,\" the PM said.\n\n\"And why? Because if your mother is elderly or vulnerable, then I am afraid all the statistics show that she is much more likely to die from coronavirus, or Covid-19. We cannot disguise or sugar-coat the threat.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson was asked at his daily press conference whether he would be visiting his own mother, who is 77. He said he would \"certainly be sending her my very best wishes and hope to get to see her\".\n\nA Downing Street source later said his contact with his mother on Sunday would be over Skype.\n\nElsewhere, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan echoed the PM's call for social distancing.\n\nAppealing to the public, he said: \"Don't leave home unless you have to, don't use public transport unless essential… do it for loved ones who will die if you don't.\"\n\nMr Khan told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show that additional restrictions in London may have to be \"considered\" if people in the capital \"continue to act in a way that's leading to this disease spreading\".\n\nUnder emergency legislation going through Parliament next week, airports could be shut and people held on public health grounds, while immigration officials could place people in isolation.\n\nHousing and Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it was too early to know how long the current measures would need to stay in place.\n\nHe told Andrew Marr: \"Nobody is pretending that this will be over in 12 weeks. What the prime minister said is that if everyone follows the advice, we can turn the tide on this virus within that period.\"\n\n\"We all have to play our part\" in staying at home to protect the NHS and save lives, he said.\n\nThe government was \"working around the clock\" to deliver vital equipment to frontline staff, he said, pledging that every hospital will have had their next pack of personal protective equipment (PPE) by Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe said PPE had also been delivered to pharmacists, GPs and will be delivered to all social care providers \"this coming week\".\n\nHe also revealed the government had received some prototype ventilators, after it called on manufacturers to switch their operations to making ventilators to boost NHS stocks.\n\nOn testing, in the last week he said there had been days when 8,000 tests were reached, but conceded \"there is a long way to go\" to meet the government's target of 25,000 a day.\n\nAn unprecedented health emergency has led to an unprecedented challenge for government.\n\nOver the last few days we have seen decisions made that would have been scarcely seemed possible just a fortnight ago.\n\nThere's another one today - 1.5 million people in England alone will be told not to leave their homes to protect themselves from the virus.\n\nThe concern in government is set out by the prime minister. His warning that the UK could be just a fortnight behind Italy - and that the NHS could be overwhelmed - is one of the starkest we've heard yet.\n\nIt's designed to be so; to persuade us all to follow advice, to stay home and help save lives.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will keep \"reviewing\" the package of financial support he announced last week, Mr Jenrick said, following calls for increased help for the self-employed.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has said members of the Armed Forces will help ensure essential items like groceries can be delivered to people who are at-risk.\n\nMr Jenrick said he hopes from the end of the week the government will be able to get food parcels to the most vulnerable, who have no support network.\n\n\"We are going to be creating a big national effort to help those individuals,\" Mr Jenrick added.\n\nThe number of people with coronavirus include 10 in Scotland, 12 in Wales and two in Northern Ireland.\n\nTape has been put on some shop floors to mark how far customers should stand apart", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than a billion people in India have been asked to observe a 14-hour long curfew to try to combat the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi announced the curfew last week, telling citizens that it would be a test in order to assess the county's ability to fight the virus.\n\nMr Modi urged citizens to stay indoors from 07:00 (01:30 GMT) until 21:00 on Sunday.\n\nIndia has so far recorded 315 cases.\n\nMr Modi told his followers on Twitter: \"Let us all be a part of this curfew, which will add tremendous strength to the fight against Covid-19 menace. The steps we take now will help in the times to come.\"\n\nTransport across the country has been affected by the curfew, according to NDTV. No long-distance or suburban trains are running; however, those already running before the curfew will not be stopped.\n\nTransport in Mumbai and around the country has been affected by the curfew\n\nImages from various cities in India show roads and towns mainly empty.\n\nIn Delhi, all shops were closed apart from those selling essentials, and pharmacies. Religious places cancelled activities as part of the curfew.\n\nMr Modi has asked people at 17:00 on Sunday to stand at balconies or near windows and clap or ring bells to show their appreciation for medical professionals and sanitation workers.\n\nCitizens in cities including Kolkata mainly adhered to the curfew\n\nSome parts of India have already enforced shutdowns.\n\nRajasthan ordered a shutdown until 31 March. Four cities in the state of Gujarat have introduced similar measures until 25 March.\n\nIndia has barred entry to everyone, including citizens, flying from certain countries, including the UK and most European nations. It has also cancelled most entry visas for people flying in from other countries.\n\nPopular Indian monuments - such as the 16th Century Red Fort in Delhi - have been shut to visitors to prevent large gatherings.\n\nThe Taj Mahal, the country's most iconic monument, closed its doors on Tuesday, along with more than 140 other monuments and museums.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan: \"India's going to be the next hot spot for this epidemic\"", "Police warned people to only buy medicines and kits - like this genuine coronavirus testing kit - from registered healthcare professionals\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with making fake kits which claimed to treat Covid-19.\n\nFrank Ludlow, 59, was arrested in a post office near his home in West Sussex on Friday, the City of London Police said.\n\nHe was arrested by the force's Intellectual Property Crime Unit after it was contacted by US counterparts.\n\nThe kits allegedly contained harmful chemicals which people were being told to use to rinse their mouths with.\n\nMr Ludlow has been charged with one count of fraud by false representation, one count of possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of unlawfully manufacturing a medicinal product.\n\nHe appeared before Brighton Magistrates' Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody until 20 April, police said.\n\nPolice officers have urged people to seek advice only from a registered healthcare professional.\n\nTariq Sarwar, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, also said people should only buy medicines they need from an authorised seller.\n\nHe added when buying online to beware of illegitimate websites and suspicious URLs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many across India clapped from their balconies on Sunday as a mark of respect for medical staff\n\nWe appreciate that these are dark times for people around the world, as the coronavirus continues to spread. Numbers of infections and fatalities are rising, cities and even countries are shutting and many people are being forced into isolation. But amid all the worrying news, there have also been reasons to find hope.\n\nAs countries go into lockdown over the virus, there have been significant drops in pollution levels.\n\nBoth China and northern Italy have recorded major falls in nitrogen dioxide - a serious air pollutant and powerful warming chemical - amid reduced industrial activity and car journeys.\n\nResearchers in New York also told the BBC that early results showed carbon monoxide, mainly from cars, had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nAnd with airlines cancelling flights en masse and millions working from home, countries around the world are expected to follow this downward path.\n\nOn a similar note, residents of Venice have noticed a vast improvement in the water quality of the famous canals running through the city.\n\nThe streets of the popular tourist destination in northern Italy have emptied amid the outbreak leading to a drastic drop in water traffic, which has allowed sediment to settle.\n\nThe usually murky water has gone so clear that fish can even be seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cruise ship cancellations have led to cleaner canals in Venice\n\nThere are plenty of stories of panic buying and fights over toilet roll and tins, but the virus has also spurred acts of kindness around the world.\n\nTwo New Yorkers amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to elderly and vulnerable people in the city.\n\nFacebook said hundreds of thousands of people in the UK had joined local support groups set up for the virus, while similar groups have been formed in Canada, sparking a trend there known as \"caremongering\".\n\nSupermarkets in Australia are among those to create a special \"elderly hour\" so older shoppers and those with disabilities have a chance to shop in peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have also donated money, shared recipe and exercise ideas, sent uplifting messages to self-isolating elderly people and transformed businesses into food distribution centres.\n\nBetween a hectic work and home life it is often easy to feel disconnected from those around you. As the virus affects us all, it has brought many communities around the world closer together.\n\nIn Italy, where a countrywide lockdown is in place, people have joined together on their balconies for morale-boosting songs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Italians sing from their windows to boost morale\n\nA fitness instructor in southern Spain led an exercise class from a low roof in the middle of an apartment complex, which residents in isolation joined from their balconies.\n\nMany people have used the opportunity to reconnect with friends and loved ones over phone or video calls, while groups of friends have organised virtual clubbing or pub sessions using mobile apps (including those of us in the BBC who are working from home).\n\nThe virus has also highlighted the importance of health workers and other people working in key services. Thousands of Europeans have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors and nurses fighting the virus, while medical students in London have volunteered to help healthcare professionals with childcare and household chores.\n\nWith millions of people now stuck in isolation, many are using the opportunity to get creative.\n\nSocial media users have shared details of their new hobbies, including reading, baking, knitting and painting.\n\nThe DC Public Library in Washington is among those hosting a virtual book club, while Italian Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura has launched an Instagram series called Kitchen Quarantine, teaching basic recipes to aspiring foodies who are stuck at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook group helps parents and their kids during coronavirus lockdown\n\nAn art teacher in the US state of Tennessee has been live-streaming classes for children who are out of school, inspiring them to get creative at home.\n\nAnd while many public spaces have been shut, art fans have been making the most of virtual tours offered by the world's biggest galleries, observing the famous paintings of the Louvre in Paris and the classic sculptures of the Vatican museum from their living rooms.\n\nAustralia's Sydney Observatory offered a tour of the night sky for people stuck at home.\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 Sydney Observatory 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\nPop stars including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and country singer Keith Urban have also been live-streaming gigs to combat the boredom of self-isolation.\n\nOn Monday, we're going to bring you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories, like these, that are emerging from the coronavirus crisis. We hope you can join us from 07:00 GMT.", "Hove seafront in East Sussex attracted many visitors on Saturday morning\n\nThousands of people have been heading to seaside attractions in the sunshine despite government advice to avoid social gatherings due to coronavirus.\n\nOne beach in Sussex is to close, while Lincolnshire's police and crime commissioner called for caravan sites and arcades in Skegness to shut.\n\nPCC Marc Jones said there were \"hundreds of thousands of visitors\".\n\nWest Wittering Beach was being shut at 18:00 GMT after \"thousands\" of people turned up, the estate office said.\n\nThere are also reports of large crowds along the East Yorkshire coast.\n\nOther resorts, including Brighton and Hove, were also reported to be busy.\n\nMr Jones said it was \"time for everyone to be socially responsible or be made to be\".\n\nLocal councillor Jimmy Brookes said it was \"madness,\" adding: \"Skegness is packed, cafes and arcades are open.\"\n\nA member of the management team in West Wittering said: \"The crowds were into the thousands - dispersed on to the large beach - but it's the method of getting here... we're at the end of a peninsula, there's one way in and one way out.\"\n\nPolice in Cumbria had earlier warned tourists not to travel to the Lake District and urged them to follow the government's advice on social distancing, which is intended to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSkegness dentist Dr Mitchell Clark, who voluntarily shut his practice last week over the coronavirus outbreak, said many local businesses were \"acting like nothing is happening\".\n\nIn a video posted on Facebook he called for caravan sites and businesses to close and people to remain at home.\n\n\"I was appalled to see as I drove home Skegness looking like it does on a busy summer day,\" he said.\n\n\"I view these actions as massively, massively socially irresponsible and I personally think those involved should be ashamed of themselves.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are a small town. We have a cottage hospital supported by two main district hospitals and this is a disaster waiting to happen.\"\n\nThe Swan Inn in Lewes, Sussex, has now reopened as a farm shop following the orders for pubs to shut to fight coronavirus\n\nOn Friday Butlin's announced it was closing its Skegness resort as well as its sites in Bognor Regis and Minehead.\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"We expect business owners will want to support the measures designed to keep us all safe.\n\n\"If officers see specified businesses open, they will remind them of the government advice.\"\n\nHowever, in Lewes, Sussex, the Swan Inn has now reopened as a farm shop following the orders for pubs to shut, and urged customers to keep a distance from each other.", "A 30-year-old woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder\n\nA seven-year-old girl has died after being stabbed by a stranger in a park.\n\nThe girl suffered serious injuries in the attack at Queen's Park in Bolton at about 14:30 GMT, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nA force spokesman said despite the \"best efforts of her family and medical responders, she died a short while later\".\n\nA 30-year-old woman, who was not known to the family, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said officers were \"working to understand the motive for this completely random and brutal attack\".\n\n\"A woman who was not known to the family was detained by a member of the public and then arrested by the police,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand that the woman has some history of mental illness and we are working to understand if this played any part in her motive.\"\n\nHe said the attack was \"a family's worst nightmare\".\n\n\"The incident is horrendous and I cannot begin to imagine what the family of this little girl are going through,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\n\"We are determined to quickly understand how this came to happen, leaving a young family so distraught and so devastated in an instant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campervans pictured in the Highlands on Saturday\n\nPeople have been urged to stop travelling to the Highlands in a bid to avoid the coronavirus.\n\nIt follows reports of people with second homes or those with campervans travelling to the area in recent days.\n\nThe issue has prompted Scotland's finance secretary, who is also a Highlands MSP, to tell people to stay away.\n\nKate Forbes said people should not make the Highlands their \"means of self-isolation\".\n\nTo date there have been 373 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Scotland, only eight of them have been in the Highlands.\n\nIn a tweet posted on Friday evening, Ms Forbes, who represents Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said: \"If you live elsewhere, please don't use the Highlands as your means of self-isolation. People live here who are trying to follow government guidance and the continuing flow of campervans and other traffic who appear to be escaping the cities is not helping.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kate Forbes MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer intervention comes as the first minister confirmed compulsory closures of restaurants, cafes, pubs, gyms and cinemas across Scotland.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon said the crisis would pass if people followed health advice and looked out for each other.\n\nMs Sturgeon also warned that the number of Covid-19 cases was \"set to rise sharply\".\n\nShe urged people to follow social distancing advice to save lives and reduce pressure on the NHS.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the Western Isles, where there have been no confirmed cases of the virus so far, locals from Barra and Vatersay also urged people not to travel there to avoid the virus.\n\nThey described the isles as \"closed\".\n\nA social media post said: \"Don't travel here, don't put unnecessary strain on our medical staff and limited resources.\n\n\"We will open again and be delighted to see you. But in the meantime we are looking after our community, the thing that makes us so special.\"", "The private sector will reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity in the first of its kind deal\n\nThe NHS has struck a deal with private hospitals to acquire thousands of extra beds, ventilators and medical staff to fight the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAn extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.\n\nIt comes as the number of people in the UK to die with coronavirus rose to 233.\n\nThe agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.\n\nThe extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there are more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe number of people with coronavirus who have died is now 220 in England, seven in Scotland, five in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe most recent 53 deaths in England were people aged 41 to 94 who had underlying health conditions, NHS England said.\n\nIn London, the extra resources includes more than 2,000 hospital beds and more than 250 operating theatres and critical beds.\n\nThe additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England.\n\nEarlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met NHS 111 staff who had been taking calls from the public\n\nChief executive Sir Simon Stevens hailed the deal with the private sector.\n\nHe said: \"We're dealing with an unprecedented global health threat and are taking immediate and exceptional action to gear up.\n\n\"The NHS is doing everything in its power to expand treatment capacity and is working with partners right across the country to do so.\"\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, the private sector will be reimbursed at cost, meaning no profit will be made for doing so.\n\n\"Open book\" accounting and external auditors will verify the public funds being deployed.\n\nThe NHS often uses private sector facilities when the need arises.\n\nBut the mass purchasing of these resources is unprecedented.\n\nThe ventilators will be crucial in helping the sickest.\n\nJust over 4% of people who developed symptoms are likely to need hospital care - and a third of those intensive care support.\n\nThere are nearly 4,000 adult critical care beds in England currently.\n\nThese extra ventilators will add to the hundreds freed up by the move to cancel routine operations from April, as well as steps to source others from elsewhere including the Ministry of Defence and old and new stocks.\n\nDavid Hare, chief executive of the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, said: \"We have worked hand-in-hand with the NHS for decades and will do whatever it takes to support the NHS in responding to this pandemic.\"\n\nHe added the independent sector \"stands ready\" to maintain that support for as long as needed.\n\nShortly after the NHS announcement, Spire Healthcare released a statement confirming it had signed up to assist NHS England for a minimum of 14 weeks.\n\nThe independent UK hospital group said it would spend the first week preparing staff and facilities before making all its 35 hospitals in England available to the NHS from 30 March.\n\nIt added that it would be suspending all non-urgent elective surgery for patients over the age of 70 and vulnerable patients from 5:00 GMT on 20 March.\n\nThe NHS deal comes as a consultant warned that frontline NHS staff risked \"cross infecting everybody\" because they are not getting the recommended protective equipment.\n\nThe face mask, short gloves and apron worn by NHS staff is far short of the World Health Organization recommendations, said Dr Lisa Anderson of St George's Hospital in London.\n\nEarlier this week, professional health bodies wrote to 65,000 former doctors and nurses who have left the NHS in the last three years, asking them to rejoin the workforce.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed Saturday's announcement and praised the \"heroes returning to the front line\".\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS England announced that its hospitals across the country would be taking a range of actions to prepare, including freeing up 30,000 of the overall 100,000 beds available by postponing non-urgent operations and providing care in the community for those who are fit to be discharged.\n\nThe NHS is also sourcing up to 10,000 beds in independent and community hospitals, which this deal largely now delivers.", "State-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn described the incident as \"sabotage\"\n\nA man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track.\n\nThe stretch of track affected was just before a bridge outside Frankfurt.\n\nA train driver noticed \"something unusual\" while crossing the bridge early on Friday. Several trains had already passed over the section before the issue was discovered.\n\nRail operator Deutsche Bahn described the incident as \"sabotage\".\n\nThe 51-year-old man was arrested on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement, prosecutors said the man is \"strongly suspected of having removed bolts on 80 metres (260 feet) of the rail on a bridge between Cologne and Frankfurt\".\n\nHis motive remains unclear however police said on Friday they could not rule out \"a possible attack attempt\".\n\nAccording to German news site Der Spiegel, the rails were five centimetres further apart than usual. This could have caused trains to derail and even send them plunging off the bridge.\n\nPolice said it was lucky no harm had come to any trains or passengers.", "Video calls may be an important way of keeping in touch in coming weeks\n\nFrom fitness classes to singing lessons, online pubs to yoga, social interaction has gone digital with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut a charity has warned thousands of people risk being left isolated and forgotten if they struggle to keep up.\n\nNearly a fifth of the UK population is estimated to have no access to a smartphone or laptop.\n\nThe Campaign to End Loneliness says older people and those with impairments are particularly at risk of isolation.\n\nIt fears this \"digital divide\" will leave many without meaningful or regular interaction as they are forced to limit face-to-face interaction to try and slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\n\"The assumption that we've all got smartphone and we've all got laptops is just not true and that can leave behind a lot of older people,\" said Daniel Pattison from the campaign.\n\n\"There's 79% of us using smartphones but that leaves a massive proportion of adults in the UK without access to WhatsApp and Twitter and all those things that younger people rely on to keep in touch.\"\n\nSome elderly users may have felt pressured to adopt the technology\n\n\"This is going to be a really challenging time for a lot of people.\"\n\n\"A lot of us are going to go without face-to-face contact that is really important to us.\"\n\nCoronavirus has seen a steep rise in the number of social activities being taken online, many for the first time ever.\n\nEASY STEPS: How to keep safe\n\nA gym in Merthyr Tydfil is one of the latest to point their members towards online sessions as the forced closure of public spaces makes normal business untenable.\n\nCo-owner Leon Felton says he will now look to run daily training sessions online to help see his business through.\n\n\"We've got a team of trainers here that are coming up with ideas to keep people active, it is a tough time at the moment, but what we are definitely doing is giving content to people who are self isolating.\"\n\nSinging lessons, yoga classes and book shops are also among groups who have taken to using video conferencing to engage with customers and, in many cases, keep their business going.\n\nSome too have turned their love of visiting the local into a digital experience.\n\nDavid Chriswick from Swansea has formed a digital pub from his living room in his new home in Chicago, USA.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Chriswick from Swansea has his own online pub from his new home in Chicago\n\nWith quiz nights, live music and stand up comedy - all via the medium of video conferencing from the performers home - people have been brought together from across the world, united by a need for social interaction.\n\n\"We're seeing some great stories come out of how people are using technology to, in some ways, make up for what is missing,\" he said.\n\n\"People need to stay connected. They need to stay connected in real ways even though, of course, these are very virtual.\n\n\"We can actually stay connected in very human ways using technology which is often accused of pulling us apart.\n\nIt is a sentiment shared by the Campaign to End Loneliness.\n\n\"For a lot of us in the UK we've experienced a week or so now of social isolation and social distancing and I think many of us are now realising quite how hard isolation can be for a lot of people,\" Mr Pattison said.\n\n\"We know that it is affecting people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Fry has been giving advice on dealing with anxiety and stress whilst self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr \"anxiety and stress are almost as virulent as this coronavirus\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This temporary hospital, on the outskirts of Moscow, is designed to cater for 500 patients\n\nRussia's president had big plans for this spring, all about stressing stability and projecting strength.\n\nBut that agenda has been hijacked by the spread of coronavirus and a dramatic plunge in both the oil price and rouble.\n\nApril was earmarked for a vote to approve changes to the constitution, allowing Vladimir Putin to remain in power into his 80s.\n\nMay would see a giant military parade, marking the 75th anniversary of Victory Day.\n\nThe new mood here is one of nervous uncertainty.\n\nA victory parade 75 years after World War Two is still scheduled to go ahead despite concerns about the spread of Covid-19\n\nFor now, both vote and parade are still officially on and Mr Putin is conveying an image of calm in turbulent times.\n\nHe's declared the outbreak of Covid-19 \"under control\" in Russia thanks to its \"timely\" measures, while state media coverage has slammed Europe for \"mismanaging\" the pandemic and highlighted a \"failure of EU solidarity\".\n\nSo as European leaders focused on quarantine and crisis, President Putin headed for Crimea to celebrate six years since Russia annexed the territory from Ukraine.\n\nIt's a deliberate show of business as usual: the president out and about, meeting crowds and shaking hands, not \"social-distancing\".\n\nEveryone who comes into close contact with President Putin is now being tested in advance for coronavirus.\n\nThose screened include all the men getting medals pinned to their chests in Crimea this week, as well as Kremlin staff and accredited journalists. A few weeks ago, they just got temperature checks.\n\nMr Putin has not been tested, but everyone else in this picture, taken in Sevastopol in Crimea, was\n\n\"We consider this a justified step so the president can continue his work with confidence,\" his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told the BBC.\n\nVladimir Putin himself has not been tested.\n\n\"He has no symptoms, and - touch wood - feels great and continues his work according to schedule,\" Mr Peskov explained.\n\nBut the infection rate in Russia has begun to escalate even according to official figures, which some suspect are being massaged.\n\nSo despite President Putin's characterisation of Covid-19 as something imported, a \"foreign threat\", protective measures are increasing.\n\nThey include everything from border and school closures to a ban on mass gatherings.\n\nBut there's no all-out order to stay at home and on Friday the Kremlin insisted that a lockdown for Moscow was \"not being discussed at all\".\n\nMany suspect the reticence is directly connected to the constitutional vote and a desire to secure Mr Putin's route to re-election as soon as possible.\n\nThat process has moved so mysteriously fast from the very start it's been dubbed a \"special operation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition leader Alexei Navalny has warned that holding the vote, bringing pensioners out en masse mid-pandemic, would be \"criminal\" and officials have stressed that it might yet be postponed for safety, or moved online.\n\nBut on Friday, Russia's electoral commission revealed plans simply to spread the ballot over a week to limit crowds.\n\n\"There is great desire to conduct this vote, not to shelve it,\" political analyst Konstantin Kalachev told Nezavisimaya Gazeta, suggesting that officials still hope \"everything will blow over\" and Russia will be spared the worst.\n\nFor some, that approach to the epidemic more broadly is reassuring. There's a popular saying here that the less you know, the better you sleep.\n\n\"We don't want to hear more, it's frightening,\" Ksenia, an ice cream seller in a Moscow suburb explained. \"We know we have to wash our hands and not go out too much, but people are already buying up everything in the shops and it's scary,\" she said.\n\nBut just a few miles from her kiosk, a symbol of the latest crisis to hit Russia - and much of the world - is growing every day. A brand new temporary hospital is being built at high speed to care for up to 500 patients with coronavirus.\n\nElsewhere, the defence ministry reports it's conducted emergency drills for virus control and all Russian regions have been put on high alert.\n\nThe vote to prolong Vladimir Putin's stay in power, though, is still on course for 22 April.", "The Croatian capital has been hit by 5.3 magnitude earthquake.\n\nVery few people were on the streets when the earthquake struck in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nBut falling masonry from Zagreb’s historic buildings crushed parked cars and blocked roads. The tremor was felt in neighbouring Slovenia and southern Austria.", "Pat Cullen, from the RCN, also said proper safety equipment and masks for staff were needed urgently\n\nUnless there is widespread coronavirus testing of all key health workers, there will not be a functioning health service, a senior nurse has warned.\n\nPat Cullen, head of the Royal College of Nursing in NI, wants testing extended so nurses can be confident they are free of Covid-19.\n\nTesting is currently limited to those admitted to hospital with symptoms.\n\nAhead of Mother's Day on Sunday, NI's leaders have urged people to follow the official social-distancing advice.\n\nIn a video address, First and Deputy First Ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill said this year's celebrations would have to be very different.\n\n\"Everyone loves their mummy. I know that I do,\" said Ms O'Neill. \"And on Mother's Day, we normally make a big effort to spoil them and spend time with them.\n\n\"This year we are asking you not to put your mummy or anyone else's mummy at risk. Please maintain the social distancing the Public Health Agency have asked you to do.\"\n\nMs Cullen was speaking after a two-hour meeting with Ms O'Neill at the Royal College of Nursing's NI HQ in south Belfast.\n\nThe nurse also said proper safety equipment and masks for staff were needed urgently.\n\nMs O'Neill echoed the remarks on testing and equipment.\n\nShe said she had spoken to a nurse who has to self-isolate for 14 days because a member of her family has symptoms.\n\nShe said if she had been tested and found negative, that nurse could be back at work.\n\nHealth officials have confirmed 22 new cases of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 108. One person has died.\n\nIt is the highest one-day jump in cases since the outbreak began in Northern Ireland.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there are more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe number of people with coronavirus who have died is now 220 in England, seven in Scotland, five in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Saturday night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the health service could be \"overwhelmed\" if people did not act to slow the \"accelerating\" spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe also urged people not to visit loved ones on Mother's Day.\n\nThere were 102 new confirmed cases in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday, bringing the total to 785. Three people have died.\n\nOn Friday, social venues including pubs, restaurants and gyms, closed following an order from Mr Johnson\n\nThe police have been calling on young people to listen to the official social-distancing advice.\n\nIt comes after officers had to deal with several large outdoor gatherings of teenagers across Northern Ireland on Friday in the wake of schools closing.\n\nOn Friday night, PSNI officers reported having to disperse about 300 teenagers in areas across Carrickfergus and Larne.\n\nPolice said 95% of the young people they spoke to \"were polite, respectful and headed home when we explained the dangers of social gatherings\".\n\nA bin set on fire in the north Belfast area, put out by the PSNI\n\n\"This is not a movie. This is not a what-if exercise,\" the local PSNI branch wrote on Facebook.\n\nIn north Belfast, officers reported more than 60 young people drinking and setting fire to residents' bins.\n\nOn Saturday night, police in that area said there was still some anti-social behaviour but not as much as the previous night.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PSNI North Belfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 PSNI spokesperson encouraged the public to \"review the advice of the Health Minister Robin Swann, consider the health of others and adhere to the social distance practices outlined by the health department”.\n\nKoulla Yiasouma, Northern Ireland's children commissioner, said while it was \"hard and confusing\" for young people, many of whom had been \"robbed of so many things\", it was vital they followed public health advice.\n\n\"From now and until this crisis passes, there is no longer adults and children, young and old, us and you, there is just us - we are in this together and we must work together with this one chance we have to stay as safe and healthy as possible,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile a respiratory consultant at the Ulster Hospital has gone viral on social media after making a \"personal plea\" for people to heed advice on social distancing.\n\nDr Julia Courtney said it was \"hard to actually convey just the enormity of the crisis that is looming for the NHS, and so for everyone, in the next few weeks\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Department of Health\n\n\"Huge numbers of people will die and the only thing that will have any impact on this impending catastrophe is slowing the spread of this virus.\n\n\"This is the week that the most people who are infected without knowing it will cause the virus to spread.\"\n\nShe added: \"What you do today will affect the intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the hospitals in the next two to three weeks.\n\n\"So please, please, please, stay at home if you can.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has confirmed childcare would continue for parents who are key workers and have childcare needs.\n\nSome schools will reopen on Monday for the children of key workers, with the Department of Education issuing fresh guidance saying there is no limit to the number of children schools can take as long as it is safe.\n\nMr Swann said officials in his department were working on guidance for daycare facilities, childminders and parents.\n\nIn other developments on Saturday:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Even if you think you're personally invulnerable there are people you can infect\"\n\nBoris Johnson has warned \"tougher measures\" could be introduced if people do not take the government's coronavirus advice seriously.\n\nThe PM thanked people for making sacrifices but said people must follow social distancing guidance.\n\n\"If you don't do it responsibly... we will have to bring forward further measures,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as the number of UK deaths reached 281, including a person aged 18 with an underlying health condition.\n\nThey are thought to be the youngest person with the virus to have died in the UK so far.\n\nThe rise of 48 deaths since Saturday includes 37 in England, seven in Wales, three in Scotland and another in Northern Ireland. The number of UK cases also rose to 5,683.\n\nThe NHS said all those who died in England in the past day were in vulnerable groups including with underlying health issues.\n\nIt comes as the NHS in England has identified 1.5 million of the most at-risk people who should now stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nThe PM told those people to \"shield\" themselves, adding it \"will do more than any other single measure that we are setting out to save life\".\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street's daily news conference, Mr Johnson told people going to parks they \"have to do that responsibly\".\n\nIt comes after pictures showed people across parts of the UK visiting parks and open spaces in large numbers over the weekend.\n\nSnowdonia National Park said the area \"experienced its busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" on Saturday, with other beaches and mountain summits busy.\n\nClapham Common in London was among the parks across the UK busy over the weekend\n\nCrowds have also been heading for the coast, including to Barry Island\n\n\"Don't think fresh air in itself automatically provides some immunity,\" Mr Johnson said, adding that even if people think they are invulnerable, \"there are plenty of people you could infect\".\n\n\"Take this advice seriously, follow it, because it's absolutely crucial.\"\n\n\"My message is you've got to do this in line with the advice, you've got to follow the social distancing rule - keep 2m apart.\"\n\nAsked whether stricter measures could be introduced, Mr Johnson added: \"I don't think you need to use your imagination very much to see where we might have to go, and we will think about this very, very actively in the next 24 hours.\n\n\"It's so important that that pleasure and that ability is preserved but it can only really be preserved if everybody acts responsibly and conforms with those principles of staying apart from one another and social distancing.\n\n\"If we can't do that then, yup, I'm afraid we're going to have to bring forward tougher measures.\"\n\nSome parks have already announced they will be closing. Essex County Council will close all its country parks from 20:00 GMT, while earlier Richmond Park in London closed to traffic on Sunday, although those on foot and cyclists were still allowed.\n\nAlso shutting are all McDonald's restaurants in the UK, which will all be closed by 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saturday was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nEarlier, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus should not be considered \"optional\".\n\n\"Life should not feel normal,\" she said, and if it did you should ask \"if you are doing the right things\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, England's deputy chief medical adviser Dr Jenny Harries said around 12% of adult critical care beds in hospitals in England are currently occupied by patients with the virus.\n\nThat number is expected to rise drastically, she added.\n\nThe NHS in England is sending letters to people it has identified as particularly vulnerable who should stay home at all times for 12 weeks - not going out for shopping, leisure or travel.\n\nThose at-risk people include those with specific cancers, severe respiratory conditions and people who have received organ transplants.\n\nThe government is setting up \"hubs\" around the country to arrange deliveries of groceries and medicines to them, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick also explained at the briefing.\n\nCouncils, pharmacists and members of the Armed Forces will help this work and there will be opportunities for members of the public to volunteer.\n\n\"Nobody needs to worry about getting the food and essential items that they will need,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\nAnyone who is especially vulnerable to the virus can register to get support here.", "The coronavirus lockdown has meant many religious communities are having to find new ways to engage, and and many are putting their faith in the internet.\n\nWith his synagogue closed, Yuval, 13, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah with family and friends online.\n\nOver the coming days, religious communities across the country will do the same.\n\nPanorama, The Week Britain That Changed Britain on Monday on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer at 8:30pm", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In the middle of the epidemic, Croatia's capital Zagreb was hit by an earthquake\n\nAn earthquake has rocked Croatia's capital Zagreb, damaging buildings and leaving cars crushed by falling chunks of masonry.\n\nA teenager is in a critical condition after a roof collapsed, local media say. The spire of the city's cathedral also snapped off.\n\nAfter Sunday's tremor, Zagreb's mayor urged people to return to their homes given fears about the coronavirus.\n\nThe 5.3-magnitude quake is the largest to affect the city in 140 years.\n\nAside from the teenager, another sixteen people were injured.\n\nPanicked residents ran out into the streets when it struck around 06:00 local time and were initially told to stay out by authorities.\n\n\"Keep your distance. Don't gather together. We are facing two serious crises, the earthquake and the epidemic,\" Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said.\n\nHowever Mayor Milan Bandic later said they should return home. \"Eighty per cent of Zagreb residents live in structures that have reinforced concrete structures,\" he said.\n\nSeveral buildings were damaged, including the parliament. It will be out of action until further notice. Speaker Gordan Jandrokovic described the damage as \"quite extensive\".\n\nCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic assesses the damage caused by the earthquake\n\nThe BBC's Guy Delauney in the region says the earthquake acted as a cue for some residents to head for their holiday homes on the coast.\n\nBut by early afternoon police had closed motorway toll booths and set up control points to prevent people entering coastal districts because of fears of spreading coronavirus, our correspondent reports.\n\nCroatia has more than 200 Covid-19 infections.\n\nPeople in southern Austria and Slovenia also felt the tremor.\n\nPeople were warned not to gather too closely", "Dancers at Project 21 normally meet in Ipswich and Colchester on Saturday mornings\n\nA group of dancers with Down's syndrome say they are determined to carry on performing, even though they were no longer allowed to meet in person.\n\nMembers of Project 21 - a musical theatre charity - have started sharing videos with each other, dancing in their bedrooms.\n\nThey normally meet weekly in Ipswich and Colchester to sing and dance.\n\nThey were due to perform during half-time at Saturday's Ipswich Town match to mark World Down's Syndrome Day.\n\nHowever, the celebration - and the match - were cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak.\n\nInstead, Project 21 has released a video which it hopes will lift people's spirits.\n\nMembers Molly and Jilly are just two of the group's dancers who have been taking part in the online sessions\n\nFounder Alex Munn said: \"Our group was built on the basis of providing a support network and lifeline for families, so being in isolation on our big day is desperately sad.\n\n\"However, in the true spirit of Down's syndrome, our community refuses to let this dampen our celebrations and we hope these virtual sharing groups bring love and hope whilst reminding our members they are never alone.\"\n\nThe members said the virtual meet-ups had made them feel closer, while they have to be physically apart.\n\nSharon Hobbs, whose son Kyle attends the Ipswich group, said it was \"so important\" they could still connect and friendships could \"continue to blossom during this isolating time\".\n\nOther parents said it made sure their children could look forward to being together again one day soon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played.", "Many passengers have been wearing masks while travelling on the network\n\nOne of the world's busiest urban rail systems will be shut down for ordinary commuters from Monday morning to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection in Mumbai, one of India's most populous cities. Only government workers in \"essential services\" will be allowed to travel on a truncated service.\n\nThis was waiting to happen.\n\nConsider this. Eight million people take Mumbai's crowded suburban train network every day. Packed to nearly three times its capacity, this is one of the busiest railway systems in the world.\n\nThe 459km (285-mile) network is the lifeline of India's financial and entertainment capital, accounting for nearly 80% of all commuting trips in the populous western city. The suburban trains \"cover almost the distance up to [the] moon in one week,\" the network's website says.\n\nThe 66-year-old network carries 60,000 passengers per km per day, the highest among all the leading commuter rail systems in the world, say officials. The coaches are sturdy enough to carry a \"super dense crush load\", a phrase coined by the railways to describe the intense crowding on Mumbai's trains. This means that a nine-car train designed for 1,800 standing passengers will often carry up to 7,000 passengers, according to Monisha Rajesh, author of Around India in 80 Trains. \"Mumbai's local trains were certainly not for the fainthearted,\" she wrote.\n\nNow consider this. The western state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, has confirmed more than 60 coronavirus infections, the highest in India so far. Scores of long distance trains out of the city have been cancelled, but the suburban network has continued to rumble on, raising fears of the mass spread of the virus on these packed trains. The crowded service was an easy target of a terror attack in 2006 when serial blasts ripped though a number of trains. At least 180 people were killed and more than 800 injured - the high casualty figure was attributed to overcrowding.\n\nIt is intuitively obvious that there's a link between commuting with a lot of people and catching respiratory diseases. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed some 18 million Indians, the railways \"played a prominent part [in aiding the spread of the disease] as was inevitable,\" according to an official report.\n\n\"From ports and landing places the local transport networks, particularly the railways, carried the virus from large cities to the smallest, remotest settlements,\" said a report on the spread of the flu in Britain in 1918-1919.\n\nSo should one of the world's busiest rail networks be shut down to stop a possible spread of the virus in a city that many fear could turn into a coronavirus hotspot?\n\nOfficials say ridership on the trains has dropped by 17% after the coronavirus scare\n\nEconomists like Shruti Rajagopalan believe so.\n\n\"India is conducting the fewest tests per million at the moment. If the virus is truly within the community, then given these two issues, the Mumbai outbreak cannot be contained and people will die without healthcare.\n\n\"Mumbai trains are the fastest and surest way to spread the virus (if it is within the community) to the densest parts of the city,\" she told me.\n\nThere is enough precedent: China stopped trains, ferries, planes and buses from leaving the city of Wuhan; and on Thursday, London officials announced that up to 40 stations on the London Underground network are to be shut as the city attempts to contain the outbreak.\n\nOthers are not so sure about linking the spread of a pandemic to public transport systems. One study does not support the effectiveness of suspending mass urban transport systems to reduce or slow down a pandemic because, \"whatever the relevance of public transport is to individual-level risk, household exposure most likely poses a greater threat\".\n\n\"I have not seen any data on the relative risk of public transportation compared with [dense places like] workplaces or schools,\" Timothy Brewer, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California Los Angeles told Vox.com.\n\nHe said data from China suggested that \"household contact was an important means of transmission outside of Wuhan, suggesting that prolonged contact [with a sick person] increases the risk of transmission\".\n\n\"If correct, then the time spent commuting and the density of people commuting could be important factors in assessing if public transportation is a risk factor for the disease's transmission.\"\n\nTrains on the network are being scrubbed clean to avoid the spread of infection\n\nShivaji Sutar, a senior communications officer of the railways, told me that the network was running an aggressive campaign to ease the rush: awareness announcements, posters and videos containing virus information.\n\nThey were also monitoring crowds, scrubbing the trains, taking the temperature of willing passengers and embarking on a drive against public spitting, he said.\n\nA combination of awareness and panic has already led to a 27% drop in traffic on the network. But millions of people continue to take the train to work and home every day.\n\n\"This is more because of fear than anything else. Most of us have to take the network because we have to come to work. There is still no government directive to all companies to work from home. And apart from passengers wearing masks, I haven't seen any other precautions being taken,\" Rekha Hodge, who has been using the network for three decades, told me. That is bad news.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe International Olympic Committee is considering a postponement of Tokyo 2020, and has given itself a deadline of four weeks to make a decision.\n\nThe IOC's executive board met on Sunday amid mounting pressure from athletes and national Olympic committees for the Games to be delayed because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"In light of the worldwide deteriorating situation... the executive board has today initiated the next step in the IOC's scenario-planning,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"These scenarios relate to modifying existing operational plans for the Games to go ahead on 24 July 2020, and also for changes to the start date of the Games.\"\n\nCancellation is \"not on the agenda\", said the IOC, but a \"scaled-down\" Games will also be considered.\n\nHowever, postponement - by either several months or probably a whole year - is thought to be the most likely outcome.\n\nThe development marks a significant shift by the IOC, which as recently as five days ago said it was \"fully committed\" to the Tokyo 2020 Games.\n\nBritish Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sir Hugh Robertson said: \"We welcome the IOC executive board decision to review the options in respect of a postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.\n\n\"However, we urge rapid decision-making for the sake of athletes who still face significant uncertainty.\n\n\"Restrictions now in place have removed the ability of athletes to compete on a level playing field and it simply does not seem appropriate to continue on the present course towards the Olympic Games in the current environment.\"\n\nThe International Paralympic Committee said it \"fully supports\" the decision to \"investigate potential scenarios\".\n\nDame Katherine Grainger, chair of UK Sport, said the news was \"inevitable\" and it was \"the correct decision for the safety of athletes, staff and fans\".\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"It is right that the IOC seriously considers postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.\n\n\"The health and safety of athletes, sports fans and officials due to work at the Games is absolutely paramount. We would welcome the IOC making a definitive decision soon, to bring clarity to all those involved.\"\n• None Tokyo 2020 date 'now has to be addressed' - UK Athletics chair\n\nOn Tuesday the BOA, the British Paralympic Association and UK Sport will host a conference call with the chief executives and performance directors of summer Olympic and Paralympic sports.\n\nAthlete representative bodies will also be invited to join the call, which will primarily be used to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, such as the closure of elite training facilities.\n\nThe IOC added: \"There is a dramatic increase in cases and new outbreaks of Covid-19 in different countries on different continents. This led the executive board to the conclusion that the IOC needs to take the next step in its scenario-planning.\n\n\"The IOC will, in full coordination and partnership with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Japanese authorities and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, start detailed discussions to complete its assessment of the rapid development of the worldwide health situation and its impact on the Olympic Games, including the scenario of postponement.\n\n\"The IOC executive board emphasised that a cancellation of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 would not solve any of the problems or help anybody.\"\n\nIn a letter to athletes published on Sunday, IOC president Thomas Bach said that \"we are in a dilemma\" and \"a final decision about the date of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 now would still be premature\".\n\nHe added that to postpone the Games \"is an extremely complex challenge\" and a cancellation would \"destroy the Olympic dream of 11,000 athletes\".\n\nIn terms of a postponement, Bach warned: \"A number of critical venues needed for the Games could potentially not be available anymore.\n\n\"The situations with millions of nights already booked in hotels is extremely difficult to handle, and the international sports calendar for at least 33 Olympic sports would have to be adapted. These are just a few of many, many more challenges.\"\n\nUK Athletics, its US counterpart, and several national Olympic governing bodies have urged the IOC in recent days to delay the Games.", "Despite the social distancing advice many people have still gone out to parks for exercise\n\nParks in part of London are being shut after criticism of large numbers of tourists visiting beaches and beauty spots.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan urged people to \"stop social mixing\", saying \"people will die\" if they don't.\n\nAuthorities in the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District asked people to stay away, saying \"now is not the time for tourism\".\n\nMr Khan said people should not leave home \"unless you really have to\".\n\nHammersmith and Fulham council will close parks from Sunday night while the Royal Parks, responsible for Hyde, Regent's and St James' Parks, are closing kiosks and cafes.\n\nRoads to outer parks - including Richmond, Bushy and Greenwich Parks - will be closed, with the Royals Parks calling social distancing \"absolutely crucial\".\n\n\"If people do not follow social distancing guidelines, we will have no choice but to consider closing the parks,\" the body said.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan also urged people to avoid using public transport unless they absolutely had to\n\nLatest figures show just less than 2,000 people in London have been infected with coronavirus with 93 deaths, and Mr Khan told BBC One's the Andrew Marr Show the capital was \"weeks ahead of the rest of the country\".\n\nAsked if the Tube should be closed completely, Mr Khan said he was keen to keep some trains running so \"critical workers\" could get to work.\n\n\"Nobody else should be using public transport,\" he added.\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 National Trust shut parks and gardens over the weekend and said countryside and coastal car parks were \"now likely to be closed\".\n\nOn Saturday, coastal resorts were packed and the Yorkshire Dales National Park chief executive David Butterworth said visitor behaviour \"beggars belief\" as social distancing guidance was flouted.\n\n\"The number of people coming to the area and acting so irresponsibly at a time of national crisis cannot be acceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"If people chose to come here and ignore government advice regarding social distancing, then I would suggest they do not travel to the Yorkshire Dales at all and stay at home.\"\n\nResidents of the Dales have also condemned some of the visitors and suggested the authority close its car parks.\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales authority said visitors needed to follow government advice or stay away\n\nOne said: \"'Avoid unnecessary travel' means precisely that. A trip to the coast, the Yorkshire Dales or wherever is certainly not necessary travel.\n\n\"Lockdown will eventually happen if people continue to think 'it doesn't apply to me'.\"\n\nAnthony Bishopp, the mayor of Hunstanton, Norfolk, said Saturday was \"ridiculous\" with people queuing close together to get fish and chips.\n\nSome residents went out at the end of the day to clean cash machines and railings after the influx.\n\nJessica Stevenson said it was \"like a bank holiday\" in the Derbyshire Peak District village of Matlock Bath.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jessica Stevenson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCumbria Police and Cumbria County Council are asking visitors to stay away from the Lake District to limit the spread of the coronavirus, saying: \"Now is not the time for tourism.\"\n\n\"Now that pubs, restaurants, cafes and non-essential shops and visitor attractions have been advised to close, the Lake District is no longer conducting business as usual,\" a police spokesman said.\n\nThe Lake District is no longer conducting normal business, police said\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andrew Slattery said: \"I must urge people living outside the county not to visit.\n\n\"A national emergency shut-down of businesses and schools is not an excuse for a holiday.\n\n\"The health, social care and emergency services in Cumbria are resourced to serve the 500,000-resident population and will be stretched to breaking point by this crisis.\n\n\"Large numbers of visitors will only place an additional burden on these hard-pushed professionals.\"\n\nPeople were going for fish and chips in Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk on Sunday but some seemed to be distancing themselves\n\nThe Whitstable Oyster Company has apologised for opening its beachside takeaway premises on Saturday saying all takings would be donated to the National Emergencies Trust coronavirus appeal.\n\n\"It was certainly not our intention to play a part in encouraging or facilitating the gathering together of people,\" the company said.\n\nThe Whitstable Oyster Company has apologised for opening on Saturday after being inundated with visitors\n\nBut some councils have said it is not yet clear how social distancing can be enforced.\n\n\"The council's powers are limited in these circumstances so we are working urgently with the police on what action can be taken,\" a spokesman for Canterbury City Council said in response to \"deplorable\" visitor numbers at Whitstable beach.\n\n\"We all need to work together to fight this virus and common sense is one of our biggest weapons,\" the spokesman said, adding: \"People should follow the government's advice both to the letter and in the spirit in which it is intended.\"\n\nResidents in Devon and Cornwall have also been asking people to stay away.\n\nOne said: \"Sorry and all that [but] please do not come here where we do not have the capacity to mop up anything you may bring with you\".\n\nAnother said: \"You can come visit when things are back to normal.\"\n\nReports of people arriving at holiday lets and second homes in places such as Salcombe in Devon - plus people parking at popular spots in both counties, including Dartmoor and Cornwall's beaches - have been causing tension on social media.\n\nThe mayor of Salcombe, Niki Turton, told the BBC: 'We can't really stop them coming.\n\n\"But we would wish that they would do as we are doing - staying at home staying safe, protecting the vulnerable and just not putting extra strain where it's not needed.\"\n\nVisit England has suggested people enjoy attractions from their own homes by visiting online museum archives or watching movies and TV shows filmed at beauty spots.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 VisitEngland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many people went to parks and other public places in Germany on Sunday\n\nGermany has expanded curbs on social interactions to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, banning public gatherings of more than two people.\n\nIn a televised address, Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"our own behaviour\" was the \"most effective way\" of slowing the rate of infection.\n\nThe measures included closing hair, beauty and massage studios. Other non-essential shops had already been shut.\n\nShortly afterwards, Mrs Merkel's office said she would quarantine herself.\n\nA doctor who vaccinated her on Friday against pneumococcus, a pneumonia-causing bacteria, had tested positive for coronavirus. The chancellor, 65, will be tested regularly in the next few days and work from home, her spokesman said.\n\nGermany, Europe's largest economy, has so far confirmed 18,610 cases and 55 deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.\n\nPeople will not be allowed to form groups of three or more in public unless they live together in the same household, or the gathering is work-related. Police will monitor and punish anyone infringing the new rules.\n\nRestaurants will now only be allowed to open for takeaway service. All restrictions apply to every German state, and will be in place for at least the next two weeks.\n\n\"The great aim is to gain time in the fight against the virus,\" said Mrs Merkel, urging citizens to keep contact outside their own household to an absolute minimum and to ensure a distance of at least 1.5m (5ft) from another person when in public.\n\nItaly, the worst-hit European country, reported 651 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total there to 5,476, according to the government. The figure is the second-worst daily total but less than that announced on the previous day.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases in the country - where people have been largely confined to their homes for two weeks - has risen from 53,578 to 59,138, the lowest rise in percentage terms since the outbreak began.\n\nEarlier, President Sergio Mattarella said he hoped the rest of the world could learn from Italy's troubles. He said citizens across the European Union needed to feel the bloc was taking concrete action to combat the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Spain registered its worst figures so far after 394 people died in a single day, bringing the national total to 1,720. Officials said the number of new daily registered cases, like Italy, had also fallen from Saturday to Sunday.\n\nThe government is seeking to extend the state of emergency until 11 April, a step that needs to be approved by parliament. The measure introduced on 14 March bars people from all but essential outings.\n\n\"We're at war,\" Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, a day after warning that \"the worst is yet to come\". Also on Sunday, the government announced it would restrict entry at air and sea ports for most foreigners for the next 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Why do we touch our faces and how can we stop doing it?\n\nIn the US, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the outbreak would get worse, with damage accelerated by widespread shortages of key medical supplies. Across the country, there are now 31,057 confirmed cases and 390 deaths.\n\nAccording to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, more than 310,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed around the world, with some 13,000 deaths. More than 93,000 people have recovered.", "Five new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total up to 34\n\nWhen schools shut in Northern Ireland over coronavirus it will be for at least 16 weeks, Arlene Foster has said.\n\nThe first minister was speaking after a meeting between senior ministers from the NI Executive and Irish government.\n\nTwo primary schools have said they will close voluntarily, the first primary schools in NI to do so.\n\nThe two are Lurgan Model Primary School, in County Armagh, and St Scire's in Trillick, County Tyrone.\n\nLurgan Model said it would close for the week, while St Scire's will close on Monday ahead of planned St Patrick's closures on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nFive new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in NI while a second person has died in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThere have been 129 confirmed cases in the Republic of Ireland while coronavirus deaths have doubled in 24 hours in the UK.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers met counterparts include Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar in Armagh on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mrs Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill were both still split over the issue of school closures.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill repeated her call for them to be shut immediately, in line with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, in a statement on social media, Lurgan Model Primary School said it remain closed all this week.\n\nThe school said it was already due to be shut on Monday and Tuesday due to St Patrick's Day and will bring planned closures due for May forward to this week.\n\nIt is the first school in Northern Ireland to close voluntarily over the outbreak.\n\nThe school said it \"will not officially reopen until Monday, 23 March\" but will \"monitor the situation of this incoming week\".\n\nSt Scire's, in Trillick, said the school would stay closed on Monday ahead of planned closures on Tuesday and Wednesday for St Patrick's Day. It added that the situation will be reviewed prior to Thursday.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in Armagh, Mrs Foster said that schools will close \"when we are advised on the medical evidence\".\n\n\"Children will be at home for quite a considerable period of time, given that when we do close the schools they will be closed for at least 16 weeks.\n\n\"Then of course you are into the summer period, so they will be off school for a very long time.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said all parties in the executive agreed schools would have to close but it was a matter of timing.\n\nMichelle O'Neill repeated her call for schools to close\n\nShe said: \"In my opinion schools should close now. I think we need to be consistent across this island\n\n\"I think the fact that you can have two schools a mile apart and one school's open and one school's closed that's a very confusing picture and a very confusing message for the public.\"\n\nMs O'Neill first called for schools to close immediately on Friday, a day after she, along with First Minister Arlene Foster, said the executive did not believe the situation had reached that stage.\n\nOn Saturday, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also called for schools to close, after Archibishop Eamon Martin, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, wrote to NI's education minister to ask him to consider closures.\n\nHowever, Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said the main differences between the two governments was over timing.\n\nHe said the Northern Ireland Executive and Irish government shared the same objective in slowing the advance of coronavirus but it was inevitable there would be differences in how they approached it.\n\nHe added: \"But the differences that exist are mostly around timing.\n\n\"What there isn't any difference about is our common objective, which is to slow down this virus in its tracks and push it back as much as possible and limit the harm to human health and human life.\"\n\nMrs Foster said both governments had \"very coherent messages\".\n\nMr Varadkar also explained that the short notice of Irish school closures given to counterparts in Northern Ireland and the UK was \"not how we intended it to happen\".\n\n\"I absolutely guarantee you I did not intend to make that announcement or speak to Irish people on the steps of Blair House in Washington DC,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a plan in place to move to delay phase. We had to bring that forward almost overnight.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that Irish officials gave \"as many people a heads up as we could, including authorities here in Northern Ireland\" but it was also \"important that the Irish people should hear the news first from me and from the government\".\n\n\"That's why the notice that we gave people here and elsewhere was so short but there was no perfect way of doing this unfortunately and I appreciate the understanding of the first minister and deputy first minister,\" he added.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney and Irish Health Minister Simon Harris also attended the meeting.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald - who was not at the meeting - said the UK's response to coronavirus \"should be rejected\" and is \"totally unacceptable in the north of Ireland\".\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.", "Roman Catholic churches in England are \"preparing for a time\" when the celebration of Mass may have to \"come to an end\", the Catholic leader in England and Wales has said.\n\nCatholics have an obligation to go to Mass every Sunday.\n\nBut large gatherings could be banned in the UK from as early as next weekend, as the coronavirus continues to spread.\n\nThe Church of England is also following these procedures, as well as refraining from passing collection plates around.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has urged mosques, madrasas and Muslim community centres to follow the governments hygiene practices.\n\nIt also urged mosques to have contingency plans in place for Ramadan - which begins in the second half of April - as it may have to suspend mass gatherings.\n\nThe United Synagogue asked its members to refrain from shaking hands and kissing religious artefacts, such as communal siddurim, which is a Jewish prayer book.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols said Catholic churches were \"adjusting\" to minimise the spread of infection.\n\nHe said: \"We are preparing for a time when the churches should not be used to gather big numbers of people together, so we might come to an end of the celebration of Mass or other services.\"\n\nMany churches have already brought in measures to avoid exposing congregations to the virus.\n\nIn some churches, holy water has been removed from the entrances, the sign of peace - normally a handshake - has been replaced by bowing and churchgoers can no longer drink wine from shared chalices.\n\nChurch ministers are also washing their hands before distributing communion.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Radio 4's Today programme, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said: \"These are not the essential parts of mass,\" adding that he hoped everyone will be \"cooperative and calm\".\n\nHowever, he said: \"The presence of the church and the space that it offers will be very important in the coming months,\" adding that some churches might also move to live-stream services.\n\n\"Even if the priest is there with one helper, we can stream them and people can join in from home and gather if they wish on a Sunday to follow the mass and say their prayers together,\" he said.\n\nHe added that, in his view, churches would \"always remain open\" because they were \"places where people can go, they can sit quietly, they can pray there's, plenty of space in them and there are no health risks.\"", "As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise, so too does the the impact on daily life around England. BBC News looks at how people up and down the country have been responding.\n\nConcerns about crowds certainly seem to have struck shoppers, with a number of shopping centres and high streets noticeably quieter than an average Saturday.\n\nBirmingham's bull was kitted out in full St Patrick's Day garb but the usual selfie-taking shoppers gathered around the local landmark were nowhere to be seen.\n\nThe city's Bullring shopping centre was markedly quieter than usual early on Saturday.\n\nIn London, there were still plenty of shoppers in the capital's major retail areas like Oxford Street, but things were quieter.\n\nThe same goes for tourism hotspots like Buckingham Palace where visitors could be seen taking in the sights wearing face masks.\n\nLondon's public transport system - known for its rush hour crowds - has been emptier in recent days.\n\nStreet performers had fewer people to entertain in Trafalgar Square\n\nRetailers in Above Bar, Southampton's main shopping street, said they had been feeling the impact.\n\nBoots optician Carol Betts said five of her patients had cancelled on Saturday morning, which she put down to fears about close contact.\n\n\"I haven't seen any patients for more than two hours.\n\n\"We can't keep hand sanitiser in the store for love nor money - as soon as you put it out, it's gone.\"\n\nOptician Carol Betts said many people had cancelled appointments with her\n\nStall owner Vinnie Singh said footfall was down and blamed news coverage.\n\n\"You can see it today. The media is making it sound worse. Scaring and frightening people is not the way forward,\" he said.\n\nLongsands Fish Kitchen in Tynemouth said it was very much business as usual for them\n\nOn the other hand, in the coastal resort of Tynemouth in North Tyneside, the outbreak does not seem to have deterred the weekend crowds.\n\nLongsands Fish Kitchen said it was very much business as usual, with a \"lot of footfall at both the restaurant and the takeaway\".\n\nWhile there had been a few cancellations, the spaces had \"very quickly filled up\", they said.\n\nYork city centre has been quieter during the week but was busy with shoppers on Saturday\n\nMeanwhile many are reporting that their local supermarkets are being hit by panic buying.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nFor some, Saturday is a day for sport - whether playing or watching.\n\nBut with all professional football suspended, Saturday's biggest sporting event in London was Sutton United's clash with Hartlepool United.\n\nA bumper crowd turned up for the game, with some of those in attendance saying they had done so because other matches they were due to go to had been cancelled.\n\nThe National League announced on Friday that fixtures in its three divisions will go ahead as planned.\n\nSutton chairman, Bruce Elliot, said he thought it would have a \"serious affect on us, other football clubs and other businesses as well\" had the game been cancelled.\n\nNo football will be played at Tottenham Hotspur's £1bn stadium this weekend...\n\nBut Gander Green Lane will still be welcoming fans to Sutton\n\nIn the East Midlands Notts County fan Iris Smith said she was \"not nervous\" about going to watch her team play Eastleigh as \"the virus could get us anywhere\".\n\nShe extended an invite to fans of city rivals Nottingham Forest to visit Meadow Lane after their match against Sheffield Wednesday was called off. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAFC Fylde's match against Aldershot is also going ahead, with the Peters family from St Annes among those attending.\n\n\"As long as school is open, we are going to carry on as normal,\" they said.\n\nThe Peters family were among those attending FC Fylde's match against Aldershot\n\nWith no live match to provide a tweet commentary for, Leyton Orient decided to take an alternative route.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Leyton Orient This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nAway from football, the Badminton All England Championships in Birmingham and the first rounds of the boxing Olympic qualifiers at London's Copper Box Arena both went ahead as planned..\n\nOrganisers said the annual Bath half marathon would take place on Sunday because it was \"too late to cancel or postpone the event\".\n\nBorderway UK Dairy Expo in Carlisle is the largest event of its kind in the country\n\nA major agricultural show in Cumbria has gone ahead, albeit with reduced attendance.\n\nBorderway UK Dairy Expo in Carlisle is the largest of its type in the country, featuring hundreds of dairy cattle and dozens of trade stands reflecting all sectors of the industry.\n\nThere was a huge drop in the number of farmers and exhibitors attending - an estimated 1,000 instead of the usual 5,000 - and there are concerns for the future.\n\nDavid Pritchard, joint managing director of Harrison and Hetherington which organises the show, said: \"Looking ahead it's going to be very difficult. The summer shows do look in jeopardy.\n\n\"We've got a big event in November which we'll be closely looking at for the next few months.\"\n\nMany public buildings are offering increased hand washing and sanitising facilities", "Visiting at all sites, including Morriston (pictured), Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, has been reduced\n\nPatients in hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot are to be allowed visitors for just one hour a day in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it was also introducing a one visitor at a time policy immediately.\n\nVisiting at all sites, including Morriston, Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, will run from 15:00 GMT.\n\nIt said those with suspected COVID-19 could not have visitors.\n\nThe health board said its measures include no child visitors.\n\nThe rules \"may be relaxed\" for palliative care patients, the health board added.\n\nThe restrictions apply to all sites, including community and mental health wards.\n\nIt apologised for the inconvenience or distress caused by the restrictions.\n\nPowys Teaching Health Board has said it had no restrictions in place at the moment.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board advised families to restrict visiting to what is necessary and not visit if unwell.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nJapan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead as planned in July, despite coronavirus concerns resulting in the postponement of sporting events.\n\nAbe added the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have the final decision whether Tokyo 2020 goes ahead.\n\n\"We will overcome the spread of the infection and host the Olympics without problem, as planned,\" Abe said.\n\nJapan has had more than 1,400 cases and 28 deaths resulting from coronavirus.\n• None Coronavirus wipes out most of world's major sports events\n\nThe Tokyo Games is expected to cost about 1.35 trillion yen (£10.26bn), organisers said in December.\n\nThe Japan section of the Olympic Torch relay is due to start in Fukushima on 26 March. The recent torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia was held without spectators, before the rest of the relay in Greece was suspended to avoid attracting crowds.\n\nTokyo governor Yuriko Koike said: \"We're taking thorough infection measures with regards to the torch relay domestically.\"\n\nSeveral Olympic trials events in the United States have been postponed, including wrestling, rowing and diving.\n\nHowever, the boxing events in London will go ahead on Saturday as scheduled.", "Iraq's military warned against further US retaliation like this attack on an airport in Karbala\n\nThree service personnel from the US-led coalition in Iraq and two Iraqis have been injured in a rocket attack on a military base north of Baghdad, the coalition has said.\n\nThe Iraqi military said more than 30 rockets were fired at Camp Taji base.\n\nThis is the second attack this week on the base. On Wednesday, rockets killed two American troops and one British soldier there.\n\nThe US responded with air strikes targeting an Iranian-backed militia.\n\nHowever, Iraqi officials say that Iraqi soldiers and policemen were killed in the strikes.\n\nThe Iraqi military says the latest attack on Taji must not be used by the US as a pretext for any action without Iraq's approval.\n\nTaji base, about 15km (nine miles) north of Baghdad, hosts foreign troops from the US-led coalition, whose mission is to train and advise Iraqi security forces.\n\nIraq's Joint Operation Command said 33 Katyusha rockets were launched on the base. Seven rocket launchers and 24 unused rockets were later found nearby.\n\nNo-one has yet said they carried out the attack.\n\nWednesday's deadly attack on the base prompted US strikes targeting five weapons storage facilities across the country, the US defence department said.\n\nThe Camp Taji military base, after Wednesday's rocket attack that killed two Americans and a British soldier\n\nThe Iraqi military says three soldiers, two policemen and a civilian were killed in the US counter-strikes.\n\nIt said the US had carried out \"a blatant attack\" on Iraqi military sites in Babil province and an airport under construction in Karbala province. It also said the headquarters of the Popular Mobilisation (PM) forces - an umbrella militia which is officially part of the Iraqi security forces - had been hit.\n\nEarlier, a US commander said Kataib Hezbollah - one of the most powerful groups in the PM - was likely to have fired the rockets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by U.S. Central Command This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 U.S. Central Command\n\nThe US accuses Iran-backed militias of 13 similar attacks on Iraqi bases hosting coalition forces in the past year.\n\nThe killing of an American civilian in one such incident in December triggered a round of violence which ultimately led Mr Trump to order the assassination of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis the following month.\n\nTensions between arch-foes the US and Iran intensified last year. In late December, a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base killed a US civilian contractor, prompting retaliatory air strikes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside a US base hit by missiles in December\n\nThe US embassy in Baghdad was then attacked by crowds of protesters, and President Trump warned Iran it would \"pay a very big price\".\n\nOn 3 January, Mr Trump authorised a drone strike near Baghdad airport that killed Qasem Soleimani - commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps' Quds Force and architect of Iranian policy in the Middle East - and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.\n\nFive days later, Iran launched ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US forces. The attack left more than 100 US troops with traumatic brain injuries.\n\nThere are about 5,000 US personnel and hundreds more from other countries in Iraq. They are deployed at the request of the government but the parliament passed a bill following Soleimani's killing demanding the invitation be rescinded.", "The BBC's Sport Relief event had raised more than £40m for charitable causes by the end of its live TV show.\n\nGary Lineker, one of the hosts, said \"a chunk\" of the money would go to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe fundraising marathon - which helps vulnerable people in the UK and around the world - went ahead in front of a live studio audience in Salford despite the health crisis.\n\nThe BBC said it would do \"everything possible to keep people safe\".\n\nMatch Of The Day presenter Lineker said the UK is living through \"unprecedented times\", stressing that \"never have the vulnerable\" been more at risk.\n\nHe hosted the fundraiser alongside Paddy McGuinness, Alex Scott, Emma Willis, Rylan Clark-Neal, Oti Mabuse, Maya Jama and Tom Allen.\n\nSport Relief had raised a total of £40,540,355 for charitable causes by the end of the live show.\n\nSome of the money raised this year will go to projects dealing with challenges caused by the coronavirus.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said ahead of the event that the organisers had been \"closely following the government advice\" and that people's health and safety was their \"priority\".\n\nA performance from Rita Ora had been due to be followed by a choir made up of elderly singers and schoolchildren - but the older members did not take part as a precaution.\n\nThe evening's broadcast included a Line of Duty sketch that saw the BBC drama's regulars joined by Jason Isaacs and comedian Lee Mack.\n\nThere was also a parody of BBC drama Killing Eve, in which a host of famous Steves - among them snooker legend Steve Davis and Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave - fell foul of a blonde assassin.\n\nOther pre-recorded segments included a celebrity boat race that saw teams from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky take to the challenging waters of Salford Quays under the tutelage of Olympic champions James Cracknell and Helen Glover.\n\nCeleste, John Newman, Rita Ora and the Pussycat Dolls were among the music acts.\n\nHelen Glover (left) and James Cracknell (right) with this year's Celebrity Boat Race participants\n\nSpecial editions of QI, The Greatest Dancer and A Question of Sport were also screened, while A Round with Rom saw Romesh Ranganathan meet Sir Andy Murray on a mini golf course.\n\nThis year's appeal saw pop star Frankie Bridge, DJ Nick Grimshaw and other stars take part in a gruelling four-day trek across the Namib Desert.\n\nThe expedition - moved from Mongolia because of concerns about coronavirus - was the subject of a documentary broadcast earlier this week.\n\nMeanwhile, Radio 2's Jo Whiley, Richie Anderson and the Reverend Kate Bottley raised more than £500,000 by completing three triathlons in three days.\n\nOther challenges undertaken this year included a joint effort to pull a British Airways plane more than 100 metres at London's Heathrow Airport.\n\nFormer boxer Nicola Adams, presenter Gabby Logan and Lineker were among those to take part in last week's record-breaking heave.\n\nDuring Friday's broadcast, Top Gear host McGuinness paid tribute to Love Island presenter Caroline Flack, who took her own life last month.\n\nFlack, 40, had worked with both Sport Relief and Comic Relief.\n\nMcGuinness said: \"She will be greatly missed by us all.\"\n\nThe last Sport Relief, held in March 2018, raised more than £38m for charitable causes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Emiliano Sala was heading to his new club, Cardiff City, on board a plane being flown by David Ibbotson\n\nUnlicensed charter flights happen every day and the death of Emiliano Sala should serve as a \"watershed moment\", an industry association has said.\n\nThe footballer and pilot David Ibbotson crashed in the English Channel in 2019.\n\nAir accident investigators said on Friday neither Mr Ibbotson nor the plane had the required licences.\n\nDave Edwards, chief executive of the Air Charter Association (ACA), said in a commercial environment, the flight would have been stopped.\n\n\"If you look at the sequence of this particular flight, it's plain to see the difference that a legal charter would have made over this illegal flight,\" he said.\n\n\"The industry has said for a long time that there's an illegal element and sometimes it's quite difficult to quantify... but we know that it occurs, those of us who work on airfields see it every day.\"\n\nStriker Sala, 28, signed for Cardiff City from French side FC Nantes and visited the Cardiff City Stadium on 18 January.\n\nHe was heading to his first training session with his new club at the time of the fatal crash.\n\nSala signed for Cardiff City just two days before he was killed in the plane crash\n\nHis body was later recovered underwater from the wreck of the plane, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report found the plane began to break up in mid-air near Guernsey as Mr Ibbotson tried to regain control.\n\nIt is believed lethal carbon monoxide gas was leaking into the cabin through the plane's heating system, probably from the exhaust.\n\nThe report revealed the 59-year-old gas fitter, from Crowle in North Lincolnshire, had no valid licence to fly the plane that night - with or without a passenger.\n\nHis rating for that type of aircraft had expired in November 2018, invalidating his private pilot's licence for flying the plane.\n\nHe was not qualified to fly at night and inexperienced at flying using the plane's instruments.\n\nThe investigation concluded \"neither the plane nor the pilot had the required licences or permissions to operate commercially\".\n\nIt concluded: \"The pilot's ability to control the aircraft was probably impaired by the effects of CO poisoning, but he appeared to have some level of function at a late stage of the flight.\n\n\"The pilot's lack of training in night flying and recent practice in instrument flying is likely to have increased the risk of loss of control.\"\n\nAs a private pilot flying a US-registered plane, Mr Ibbotson was not licensed to carry passengers unless in a \"cost-sharing\" arrangement, whereby pilot and passenger have \"common purpose\" for making the journey and share the cost equally.\n\nInvestigators found \"significant evidence\" he was expecting to be paid, which could have influenced his decision to push ahead with the flight at night and in poor weather.\n\nArrangements for the flight were made \"via a third party who asked the accident pilot whether he would be interested in flying the outbound and inbound flights\".\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nThe plane had undergone its annual maintenance check at the end of November 2018 - about 11 flying hours before the flight.\n\nIf it had been operating commercially, it would have been subject to stricter maintenance requirements than those for private aircraft.\n\nNo permission had been sought to use the aircraft commercially and it was \"not being operated in accordance with safety standards applicable to commercial operations\".\n\nIssues reported by Mr Ibbotson from France included an oil leak from the engine, a problem with the brakes and a malfunction of the stall warning system, which was sounding for the final 10 minutes of the flight to Nantes.\n\nThe source of the carbon monoxide found in Sala's blood could not be confirmed, but all possibilities except one had largely been discounted.\n\n\"The most probable cause was considered to be exhaust gases leaking into the heater muff with the cabin heating selected on.\"\n\nIn one of several recommendations, the report calls on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to \"maintain accurate and up-to-date records\" for pilots' licences, certificates and ratings.\n\nThe CAA's database listing for Mr Ibbotson's flying licences and ratings was \"incomplete and contained numerous errors… this mismatch between database records and a pilot's licence is not unique and previous AAIB investigations have encountered similar discrepancies\".\n\nThe report notes the CAA is not required to have any oversight of US-registered planes based in the UK.\n\nUnlicensed charter flight operations - also known as grey charters - are becoming more widespread according to the ACA.\n\nThey are often associated with sporting events such as race meetings and may be uninsured due to their unregulated nature.\n\nThe AAIB report said: \"Due to the unlicensed nature of such flights, it is difficult to gauge the level of activity accurately.\n\n\"Enforcement is challenging because it requires a large commitment of resources.\"", "Speaking on BBC Evening Extra, Sinn Féin's chief whip John O'Dowd says his party will spend the next few days \"reading and studying the report\".\n\nWhen asked about references in the document to his party colleague Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, he says any \"criticism relating to his role\" was after issues with the RHI scandal had come to light and \"did not relate to the RHI scheme itself\".\n\nHe adds that the scheme was the responsibility of the DUP minister who was in control of commissioning, designing and overseeing the scheme.\n\nHowever Mr O'Dowd says there are lessons in the recommendations to be learnt by all parties.\n\nMr O'Dowd adds that there are \"clearly differences between us and other parties\" but that everyone is \"trying to make\" power sharing work and to ensure \"proper procedures are in place\".\n\n\"We need to be ensuring that we are working for families and workers and delivering change this society needs,\" he adds.", "A US pharmacy warning that hand sanitisers may be in short stock Image caption: A US pharmacy warning that hand sanitisers may be in short stock\n\nStockpiling and panic buying seems to have stepped up a notch over the past few days, since President Donald Trump banned visitors from Europe's Schengen area and announced a national emergency.\n\nMasks and hand sanitisers have been missing from shelves for weeks - now pharmacies have started putting up signs outside the shop doors, pre-emptively warning people they are out of stock. Even sanitising wipes and thermometers are limited to two or four per customer - and appear to be sold out on most days.\n\nPeople have also been stocking up on food in anticipation of the need to self-isolate or work from home. At one local supermarket, the check out queue was so long it wound the entire way around the store - all the way to the front of the shop, and then back to near the cashiers - with customers waiting about 20 minutes before they could pay for their groceries.\n\nI asked the cashier if it was normally this busy on a Saturday morning. She replied with a resigned smile: \"It's virus busy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pilot of the plane that crashed killing footballer Emiliano Sala was not licensed to fly the aircraft, a report has found.\n\nSala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson died in the crash in the English Channel, two days after the Argentine signed for Cardiff City in January 2019.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch published its findings on Friday.\n\nIt said Sala would have been \"deeply unconscious\" from carbon monoxide poisoning at the time.\n\nChief Inspector of Air Accidents Crispin Orr said it had been a \"long and complex\" investigation, and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was probing whether there had been breaches of the Air Navigation Order.\n\nThe Sala family said they were \"grateful\" the report had been published but said it left \"many questions\" to be answered at the upcoming inquest.\n\n\"It is crucial that the information held by the police and which went into compiling this report now be made available to the coroner and in turn to the family,\" they added in a statement.\n\nThey said they \"remain distraught by their loss\" but were determined to \"find the full truth of how and why he died\".\n\nCardiff City FC said the club was \"encouraged to read that the CAA is determined to tackle illegal activities by pursuing those involved\".\n\nSala was travelling from Nantes, in France, to Cardiff on 21 January 2019, when the single-engine Piper Malibu N264DB aircraft in which he was travelling lost contact with air traffic control north of Guernsey.\n\nMr Ibbotson lost control of the plane while descending to avoid cloud and he was probably also affected by carbon monoxide, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded.\n\nThe plane began to break up in mid-air as the pilot tried to regain control, investigators found.\n\nHis efforts to pull up from its final dive caused the tail fin and then the outer edges of both wings to shear off before it hit the sea near Guernsey at an estimated 270mph (434kph).\n\nDavid Ibbotson's body has not been found\n\nThe AAIB report found Mr Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle in North Lincolnshire, was not qualified to fly at night and was inexperienced at using the plane's instruments, rather than flying by sight.\n\nHis rating for that type of aircraft had expired in November 2018, invalidating his licence for flying that plane.\n\n\"Significant evidence\" was found that Mr Ibbotson had been expecting to be paid for the flight, despite not being licensed to carry passengers.\n\nThe investigation concluded that \"neither the plane nor the pilot had the required licences or permissions to operate commercially\".\n\nThe plane's autopilot had been diagnosed as having an intermittent fault and should have been labelled \"inoperative\".\n\nSala was heading to his first training session with Cardiff City since signing for them in a £15m deal.\n\nA voice message to close friends in Argentina, in which he says, \"I'm in a plane that seems to be falling apart,\" and ending, \"I'm scared,\" was sent while the plane was taxiing on the runway.\n\nThe plane took off from Nantes Atlantique Airport at 19:15 GMT on 21 January.\n\nIt disappeared from radar 22 nautical miles north of Guernsey about an hour later.\n\nThe final radar trace of the aircraft was recorded at 2016:34 hours\n\nSala's body was found in the plane wreckage on the seabed in early February. A post-mortem examination found he died from head and trunk injuries.\n\nMr Ibbotson's body has never been found.\n\nDave Edwards, chief executive of the Air Charter Association, said of the findings: \"This flight was clearly an illegal charter, something we've said for a long time needs to stop.\n\n\"I think what's most sad is that there were probably about seven opportunities throughout the sequence where this flight could have stopped, and in a commercial environment it would have stopped, but in this case it just carried on through those levels until the ultimate moment of impact.\n\n\"Everything that could go wrong sadly did go wrong.\"\n\nRadar and simulator evidence, photographs and video footage of the wreckage enabled investigators to piece together its trajectory in the four-and-a-half minutes between the pilot's final contact with air traffic control and the moment when it crashed.\n\nPhotographs of the plane's wreckage show the damage done to the aircraft\n\nThey believe carbon monoxide (CO) was leaking into the cabin through the plane's heating system from the exhaust.\n\nToxicology tests on Sala's blood found sufficient levels to cause a seizure, heart attack or unconsciousness.\n\n\"The pathologist considered he would almost certainly have been deeply unconscious at impact,\" the report states.\n\nBut it is thought Mr Ibbotson was still conscious and flying the plane in the final moments of the flight.\n\nThe AAIB's report includes a number of recommendations for aviation regulatory bodies, including a call for audible CO detectors to be fitted in all planes.\n\nA pre-inquest review is scheduled to be held at Bournemouth Coroner's Court on Monday.\n\nAfter the revelation last summer about fatal levels of CO in Emiliano Sala's blood, one of the lingering questions about this crash has been what about the pilot?\n\nSurely David Ibbotson would have been subjected to similar levels of CO, making it impossible for him to fly the plane? No, says the AAIB.\n\nWhile the pilot's body has never been found, investigators say previous plane crashes show the poisonous gas affects people differently, adding that the evidence suggests Mr Ibbotson must have been affected at the lower end of the spectrum.\n\nThe AAIB wants all single-engine piston planes to be fitted with CO detectors, but regulators have been reticent, saying plane design and regular inspections mitigate for CO poisoning.\n\nThe plane had a visual inspection of its exhaust 11 flying hours before the crash, on the basis of it being used privately.\n\nHad it been licensed to take paying passengers, as it did on this flight, it would have needed a more rigorous pressure test of its exhaust to check for cracks or leaks.\n\nThat still might not have revealed a potential problem, but a cheap CO detector would have alerted the pilot to the presence of the deadly gas in his cabin at the first instance.\n\nOne of the passenger seats in the plane\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is drawing up emergency plans to avoid disruption in England's prisons, with unions saying prison officers face \"unprecedented\" challenges.\n\nPrison staff will be offered bonuses to cover shortages - and staff could be redeployed to cover front-line services.\n\nA number of inmates died during unrest at several Italian prisons last week after visits were suspended.\n\nThe Prison Officers Association has compared conditions in England's prisons to those found on cruise ships and the Prison Governors Association has said cases of the virus are inevitable.\n\nBBC News has seen advice issued to prisons, which says inmates who had contact with a known coronavirus patient should be isolated in single accommodation.\n\nIt is understood plans being drawn in up in Whitehall involve communicating regularly with inmates, making sure they can contact their families and providing extra materials - like books and magazines - to those isolating to try to avoid boredom.\n\nThe possibility of designating other buildings as prisons to cope with pressures has not been ruled out.\n\nSenior figures do not believe large numbers of prisoners will have to be released to cope with any strain.\n\nThere is, however, significant concern about the impact on older prisoners with underlying health issues.\n\nMinisters are thought to have not ruled out releasing vulnerable inmates most at risk, but the instinct in government is that they should serve their sentences.", "Mass gatherings could be banned in the UK from as early as next weekend as the outbreak of coronavirus intensifies.\n\nA government source said ministers were now drawing up plans for the move - to ease pressure on emergency services.\n\nIt came hours after the government's chief scientific advisor insisted it was not the right time to shut down big events.\n\nScores of major sporting and cultural events have already been cancelled in response to the pandemic.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases of the virus in the UK rose to 798 on Friday and a total of 11 people have died.\n\nBut the government estimates the true number of cases to be around 5,000 to 10,000 around the UK.\n\nIt is understood ministers are working on plans to stop various types of public events.\n\nThe source said: \"There are many complex considerations to make all these measures as effective as possible.\n\n\"We will make the right decisions at the right time based on the best scientific evidence.\"\n\nIt is thought a ban could start to take effect as early as next weekend, although exact timescales are not clear.\n\nThere has been criticism of the government's handling of the crisis, including from former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who described its previous decision to hold off cancelling large gatherings as \"concerning\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Newsnight that the government's \"rapid change\" in tactic following the cancellation of sporting events suggested it was \"playing catch-up with the rest of British society\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth welcomed the move but urged the government to be \"clear\" about its plans.\n\n\"If that means publishing the scientific modelling so that all the experts can analyse it and peer review it and stress test it, if that maintains public confidence, that's an important step,\" the Labour MP told Newsnight.\n\nThe government's action plan - published last week - did raise the possibility of reducing the number of large-scale gatherings.\n\nBut the most recent tactics, announced on Thursday, advised people to self-isolate for seven days if they have a cough or fever, with no advice to avoid large gatherings.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said shutting down mass events would not have a \"big effect\" on transmission rates - though he did not rule out such a move going forward.\n\nWhitehall sources say the government's approach has not changed but that there were concerns about the burden that large events might put on health services and the police.\n\nProminent events still set to go ahead include the Grand National in April, the 75th anniversary VE Day commemorations and Chelsea Flower Show in May, and Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nEmergency legislation - including compensation for organisations affected by a temporary ban on big events - is due to be published next week.\n\nMany sports bodies did not wait for a government directive and have already suspended competitions.\n\nFootball authorities suspended all top-flight matches until early April, while Saturday's Wales v Scotland Six Nations rugby match was suspended and England's cricket tour of Sri Lanka was called off.\n\nThe Scottish government has already advised that gatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled from next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nEnglish local and mayoral elections, planned for May, are being postponed for a year until May 2021.\n\nSmall businesses such as music venues are also starting to feel the squeeze.\n\nMusic venue owner Vince Power told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had a sell-out show on Friday night near London's Portobello Road, but fewer than half of the 550 people who had bought tickets showed up.\n\n\"I think people are scared,\" Mr Power said.\n\n\"I feel sad about the whole thing,\" he added, blaming the \"uncertainty\" and lack of direction given to small businesses. \"The news keeps changing every day.\"\n\nBands are also cancelling, he said. \"They are just saying they are just unsure, they don't know... they have got no real reason.\"\n\nMr Power, whose venues hold between 100 and about 500 guests, said: \"Venues are sold out but people are not coming.\"\n\nMr Power warned that his business \"can't really last very long\" - just a few weeks.", "Players gather around a book to read some of the censored material\n\nIt started out as a project in an online forum and turned into the best-selling video game of all time, but now Minecraft is being used for something even its creator would not have dreamt of.\n\nThe iconic game based around placing Lego-like blocks with more than 145 million players each month has been turned into a hub of free speech.\n\nA virtual library has been meticulously created to host articles written by journalists which were censored online.\n\nWork by Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist killed by Saudi agents in 2018, can be read among the plethora of books in the library.\n\nThe library viewed from the outside\n\nThe project was created by non-profit organisation Reporters Without Borders, which seeks to defend the freedom of information worldwide, and the Minecraft library itself was built by design studio Blockworks.\n\nChristian Mihr, executive director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, told the BBC that Minecraft was good for the project as he believes it is not seen as a threat by governments which censor their media.\n\n\"We chose Minecraft because of its reach,\" he said. \"It is available in every country. The game is not censored like some other games which are under suspicion of being political.\n\n\"There are big communities in each featured country, that's why the idea came up - it is a loophole for censorship.\"\n\nHe said the authors were chosen to represent the countries where press was censored, so that people from those communities would be able to access their work.\n\nBut he clarified that permissions were sought before republishing in the library.\n\n\"We didn't put any content in the library without the approval of respective authors themselves - if they are alive.\n\n\"In the case of Jamal Khashoggi we spoke to family members - in respect of people who have been killed, and the safety of their families.\"\n\nA book explains who Jamal Khashoggi was and why his articles are important\n\nNick Feamster, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, told the BBC that the library could be effective at beating the censors, but he was concerned about how governments may respond.\n\n\"It's an interesting idea,\" he said, \"But I think there are still some issues. Governments will know about this - the articles are going across the internet. It's not going to be foolproof against a determined adversary.\n\nHe said that the strength of the library came from its use of entanglement - mixing up the censored material with the video game in the eyes of the censors.\n\n\"By entangling these two things you force them to share content,\" he said. \"You can't censor this one without the other.\"\n\nMeanwhile Helmi Noman, a Research Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, said he felt the library would be likely to have a limited audience.\n\n\"The censored content is dynamic, diverse and distributed,\" he said, adding that in his research \"the users prefer approaches that don't pre-select and compartmentalise content in certain spaces online.\n\n\"Any approach that doesn't create a seamless and secure browsing experience of the entire web, social media and direct messaging apps will likely have limited success.\"\n\nPlayers are able to quickly transport around the library to view its diverse content\n\nThe server, which holds a maximum of 100 players at once, was regularly inaccessible due to how many players were trying to log on at once. Despite this cap on simultaneous users, it has been visited by 3,889 players from 75 different countries and has been downloaded over 7,000 times.\n\nAfter two hours of trying, the BBC managed to visit the virtual library and asked its patrons what they thought about it.\n\nSoulfulGenie said they thought \"it needs more books and a new section on North Korea\" and another user called it \"ingenious in many ways\", adding that, as the library may be downloaded and reuploaded by other users, \"it is easy to replicate and therefore hard to kill\".\n\nMeanwhile, other players focused on the appearance of the library, with ReduxPL saying it \"looks incredible indeed\".\n\nThe Minecraft library and an influence - the unbuilt design for a French National Library by Etienne-Louis Boullee\n\nThe design of the library by Blockworks was no small feat, taking a team of 24 people from 16 different countries around 250 hours to construct.\n\nJames Delaney, Managing Director of the design company, told the BBC that the aim was to create a classical design which was \"on the border of fantasy\".\n\n\"It is kind of plausible as a real building,\" he said, \"but is pushing the limits of what is possible.\n\n\"We went for a design in the neoclassical style. It's similar to things like the British Museum and public libraries in New York.\"\n\nOutside of these influences, he said Minecraft was improvisational at its core, so the builders were not restricted to set designs.\n\n\"With many people working on the same project,\" he said, \"people see each others' work and have to respond in real time. So it is a very reactive way of working, and that changes the look.\n\n\"The style is chosen to represent power and authority - we wanted to turn that on its head.\n\n\"Instead of representing the power of the government or the regime, it's representing the free press.\"\n\nFlags of world countries hang around the dome at the heart of the library", "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.\n\nHe says he wants to focus on global health and development, education and tackling climate change.\n\nOne of the world's richest men, Mr Gates, 64, has also left the board of Warren Buffett's massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.\n\nMr Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role running Microsoft in 2008.\n\nAnnouncing his latest move, Mr Gates said the company would \"always be an important part of my life's work\" and he would continue to be engaged with its leadership.\n\nBut he said: \"I am looking forward to this next phase as an opportunity to maintain the friendships and partnerships that have meant the most to me, continue to contribute to two companies of which I am incredibly proud, and effectively prioritise my commitment to addressing some of the world's toughest challenges.\"\n\nMr Gates is listed by Forbes as the world's second richest man after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and is worth $103.6bn (£84.4bn).\n\nHe made his fortune developing software for the personal computer.\n\nAs a young man, he dropped out of college and moved to Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, who died in 2018.\n\nTheir big break came in 1980 when Microsoft signed an agreement with IBM to build the operating system that became known as MS-DOS.\n\nMicrosoft went public in 1986 and within a year Bill Gates, at the age of 31, had become the youngest self-made billionaire.\n\nMr Gates has served on Berkshire's board since 2004 but devotes much of his time to the charitable organisation he set up with his wife, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\n\nThe couple were named the most generous philanthropists in the US in 2018 by the The Chronicle of Philanthropy, after giving $4.8bn to their foundation the previous year.", "A group of girls from London being quarantined in an abandoned Vietnamese hospital are keeping sane by documenting their isolation on Instagram.\n\nSisters Lucy and Alice Parker, 22 and 25, and their friend Hanna Ahlberg, 23, were traced to their Ha Long Bay hostel by authorities days after Lucy disembarked a plane where a passenger tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nTo make a bad situation better, the girls, who are graphic designers, say they are keeping positive by drawing cartoons for \"corona merchandise\".", "Local and mayoral elections in England will be postponed for a year to May 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nDowning Street said it would be impractical to hold the elections as planned, as they would come during the peak of the spread of the virus.\n\nPolls were due in 118 English councils, the London Assembly and for seven English regional mayors.\n\nVoting was also due to take place for the London mayor and police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.\n\nIt comes after the Electoral Commission said on Thursday the elections should be delayed until the autumn to \"mitigate\" the impact of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, visitor access to Parliament will be restricted from Monday, and MPs and peers are being \"strongly\" discouraged from making overseas trips.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said the \"proportionate and reasonable\" measures would help preserve the operation of Parliament during the outbreak.\n\nTen people have died with the virus, with 798 cases confirmed UK-wide.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said it would be bringing forward legislation to enact the elections delay in England, and would ensure the Welsh authorities had the same powers.\n\nThe last time elections were delayed was in 2001, when they took place one month late due to the foot and mouth outbreak.\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the move to delay the polls was the \"right decision\".\n\nBut he added it was \"not clear\" why the government had opted for a year-long delay, rather than postpone until the autumn as the Electoral Commission recommended.\n\nBefore the postponement was announced, Labour had backed calls for a delay, adding it had \"serious concerns\" about the welfare of party staff and members.\n\nLabour General Secretary Jennie Formby wrote to local party branches earlier on Friday advising them to suspend campaigning ahead of the polls.\n\nDefending the decision to delay the polls, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said it was important \"everyone feels confident they are able to take part\".\n\n\"Respecting the annual cycle of local government, postponing them seems to me in the circumstance to be the right thing to do,\" he added.\n\nJames Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, said: \"The LGA has been raising a number of issues with government including the possible impact of coronavirus on local elections. The swift decision is very helpful.\n\n\"Councils will now continue to put all of their efforts into supporting their local communities as the nation tackles Covid-19.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the polls was also backed by the Association of Electoral Administrators.\n\nIts chief executive Peter Stanyon said: \"This is uncharted territory and our members have been raising significant concerns about the safe delivery of these elections.\"\n\nLabour has cancelled the special conference in London at which it was due to announce the result of its leadership election on 4 April.\n\nThe party said on Thursday it would instead put on a \"scaled-back event\" instead.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and Welsh Labour have all cancelled their spring conferences due to the spread of the virus.\n\nThe SNP and Scottish Conservatives have also announced their spring conferences will be postponed.\n\nOnly one MP, health minister Nadine Dorries, has tested positive for the virus - but an increasing number are self-isolating after either feeling unwell or learning that colleagues they have recently mingled with now have the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Mr Buckland said there was currently \"no evidence\" to suggest that keeping Parliament open posed a \"public health issue in itself\".\n\nBut he added: \"If that evidence and information changes, then we'll have to take appropriate steps.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic wiped out most of the world's major sporting events in an unprecedented 24 hours.\n\nAs Friday began, the Premier League was one of the last football competitions standing - albeit with fans awaiting the outcome of an emergency meeting.\n\nDuring the wait, at 10:20 GMT, England's men's cricket Test tour or Sri Lanka was cancelled. Then at about 11:00 GMT the Premier League and EFL announced: no football until April.\n\nIn fact, there will be no elite football in the whole of Britain for the next three weeks at least - with BBC Sport's Dan Roan reporting that a Premier League and EFL re-start on 3-4 April is privately deemed \"almost impossible\".\n\nThe only Six Nations fixture still scheduled for this weekend, Wales v Scotland, was definitely on at 09:30 GMT, but called off by 14:00.\n\nMore followed. The Masters was also postponed at 14:00, and it was announced at 17:05 that April's London Marathon will be moved to October.\n\nThere was still some live sport happening. A crowd of 68,859 watched Al Boum Photo win a second successive Cheltenham Gold Cup.\n• None Coronavirus information - what should I do?\n• None Will I get a refund if my event is cancelled?\n\nIf you struggled to keep up with Friday's continuous stream of cancellations, here is what is off and what is still going ahead this weekend.\n\nWhich sports events have been cancelled because of coronavirus?\n\nOn a day of widespread sporting postponements worldwide, here is a round-up:\n• None has been suspended until 3 April.\n• None were postponed, joining the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and USA leagues in taking action.\n• None has been moved from 26 April to 4 October, with the Manchester and Brighton Marathons also postponed.\n• None In rugby union, Saturday's Six Nations match between has been postponed, as has Sunday's Premiership Cup final between\n• None hours after the Players Championship was\n• None Cycling's Giro d'Italia, scheduled to start in Hungary in May, has been called off.\n\nWhich sports events are still going ahead?\n\nBut there is still live sport this weekend, here's what remains at the time of publication:\n• None Horse racing in England is continuing as scheduled with the Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on Saturday, where several thousand spectators are expected, and fixtures at Fontwell, Kempton, Newcastle and Wolverhampton.\n• None Rugby league fixtures, with the exception of Catalans v Leeds Rhinos, are on this weekend.\n\nWhat could be next?\n\nBBC News reports that the UK Government could ban mass gatherings from as early as next week in a shift in policy to ease pressure on emergency services.\n\nAs it stands, the Grand National is still going ahead on 4 April.\n\nAttention will now turn to the summer. European football's governing body Uefa has called an emergency meeting on Tuesday at which the possibility of postponing Euro 2020 by one year will be an option discussed.\n\nPremier League clubs will hold a second emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the outcome of the Uefa decision on Euro 2020 and how it might impact the rest of the domestic season.\n\nAnd what about the world's biggest sporting event - the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games?\n\nJapan's Olympics minister has conceded the Games could be postponed until later in the year if the coronavirus outbreak makes their scheduled start on 24 July unfeasible.\n• None How to keep safe\n• None What are the symptoms?\n• None How prepared is the UK?\n• None What are your rights?", "Supt Robyn Williams has been sacked for gross misconduct after a 36-year police career\n\nOne of the UK's most senior black female police officers has been sacked after her conviction for possessing a video clip of child abuse.\n\nSupt Robyn Williams was ruled by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball to have committed gross misconduct.\n\nAt a fast-track misconduct hearing, Ms Ball said Williams's failure to report the matter was \"very grave\".\n\nShe pointed to Williams's \"lack of truthfulness and judgement\".\n\nThe superintendent was found guilty in November of having footage of child sexual abuse on her phone. At her trial, Williams said she had not viewed the 54-second video, which was sent by her sister, and did not know it was on her phone.\n\nBut Ms Ball said that Williams's conduct amounted to \"discreditable behaviour\" likely to undermine public confidence and was not a \"trivial lapse\".\n\nThe assistant commissioner said her failure to report the matter could have caused significant further harm to the child.\n\nShe said it was \"entirely unacceptable\" for police officers responsible for enforcing the law to break it themselves.\n\nMs Ball added that racial bias had played \"no part\" in her decision, although the Metropolitan Black Police Association argues Williams has been unfairly targeted because she is black and accuses the force of \"institutional racism\".\n\nIn a statement, the association said the decision to sack Williams was \"outrageous\".\n\n\"There are guidelines that allow for discretion, however Robyn was not afforded this privilege from start to finish of the process,\" it added.\n\n\"Despite the unprecedented and overwhelming expressions of support from colleagues, communities of London and beyond, calling for Robyn to continue to serve London, their voices were ignored.\"\n\nWilliams's friends and supporters, who were following the hearing on monitors in a separate room, gasped as the decision was read out. One of them started applauding sarcastically.\n\nWilliams, pictured with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, was highly commended for her work helping families affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster\n\nDuring Williams's trial, Judge Richard Marks QC said she had made a \"grave error of judgement\" in failing to report the video after it was sent to her.\n\nThe superintendent, who has been a police officer for 36 years, was ordered to do unpaid work in the community and register as a sex offender, even though the court accepted there was no sexual element to her offending.\n\nGerard Boyle QC, for Williams, told the special misconduct hearing that she had spent her entire police career since the age of 18 acting on behalf of victims of crime and abuse and that she was appalled by such abuse imagery.\n\nHe added that she was accused of one allegation of one breach of one paragraph of professional standards behaviour.\n\nMr Boyle told the hearing his client \"poses no risk to anyone, let alone children or young people\".\n\nWilliams has lodged an appeal against her conviction but judges have not yet decided whether to grant approval for the case to be heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victim Abdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, died in hospital following the shooting\n\nA 19-year-old man died after being targeted in a drive-by shooting involving a car that was later found burned out in Coventry.\n\nAbdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, Coventry, was shot as he walked along Harnall Lane and into Adelaide Street in Hillfields at about 14:30 GMT on Friday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nHe died later that day in hospital from gunshot wounds to his back.\n\nA 15-year-old boy and a man, 19, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination was due to take place.\n\n\"The gunshots were fired from a black VW Golf R, with light coloured or silver wing mirrors and five spoke alloy wheels,\" the force said in a statement.\n\n\"A car was discovered burnt out in London Road yesterday evening and is believed to be the one used.\"\n\nCordons are in place at both locations as forensic experts work to gather evidence.\n\nTwo arrests were made during early morning raids\n\nDet Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, from the force's homicide unit, said the killing was a \"horrific crime\" but the investigation had made \"swift progress\" to \"bring Abdul's killers to justice\".\n\nHe said: \"It is abhorrent that these people think nothing of using a firearm in broad daylight on a residential street with a children's nursery close by.\n\n\"It is vital that anyone who saw what happened yesterday afternoon, and has not already spoken to us, does so.\"\n\nHe also urged those responsible for setting the car on fire to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In a world currently in a state of flux there are, at least, some constants. Kim Kardashian is still busy on Instagram, Piers Morgan is still busy on Twitter, and theatre producers across the globe are still busy putting on Shakespeare's plays.\n\nThe Bard has been dead for more than 400 years but his work lives on and on and on and on, with productions perpetually running across the planet.\n\nWhether he wrote them on his own, or with a little help from his friends, matters not. The point is, the 37 plays for which he is credited continue to resonate around the world four centuries after their creation. And that is extraordinary.\n\nSome art sticks around only to become an interesting artefact or a slavishly worshipped icon.\n\nHis Elizabethan entertainments are not stuck in the fetid mud of the late Tudor court. They have moved with the times. Not simply because their themes and ideas remain contemporary, but more for the depth in which he explored incest, murder, racism, sexism, madness, betrayal and war.\n\nHis genius was the precision of his writing and characterisation, but his longevity could be down to his ambiguity.\n\nHis plays were full of opinion, but he rarely revealed his own, which left his work gloriously open to interpretation to those who wished to co-opt it for their own purposes.\n\nHence, during the American War of Independence (1775 - 1783) both sides rallied their troops with Hamlet's famous soliloquy To Be or Not to Be, thinking it spoke specifically to them. Similarly, when it came to the pro-slavery southern states resisting anti-slavery laws proposed by the abolitionist north a few decades later, both cited the love of Desdemona (a white woman) for Othello (a black man) as legitimising their point of view.\n\nDesdemona's interracial marriage to Othello apparently left America's sixth President John Quincy Adams disgusted, even though he was in favour of abolishing slavery\n\nIn fact, you could go through the entire history of colonised America and discover examples of how Shakespeare has played a prominent role in significant political and social shifts in a country he never visited and knew precious little about.\n\nYou could write a very good book about it. Which is exactly what the Professor of English at Columbia University has done.\n\nJames Shapiro is an academic who not only teaches Shakespeare, but has also learnt a thing or two himself from the Sweet Swan of Avon about the art of storytelling.\n\nHis book, Shakespeare in a Divided America, is an unpretentious, fact-filled, lightly-written, meticulously-researched history of seven politically-defining moments that occurred in the US over the past 200 years.\n\nThere's no talk of iambic pentameters or assumed arcane knowledge. That would be contrary to the purpose of the book, which is to take Shakespeare out of the academic ghetto to demonstrate that all the world really is a stage and each and every one of us merely players.\n\nShapiro starts and ends with the present day, telling a story about a recent production of Julius Caesar at the Public Theater in New York, in which an allusion is clearly made suggesting the current President is the eponymous Roman leader. And we all know what happened to him, don't we Brutus?\n\nThis production of Julius Caesar with Gregg Henry (centre) as Caesar at the Public Theater in New York in 2017 depicted the assassination of a Trump-like Roman ruler\n\nI won't delve further into that particular contemporary tale as it would spoil it, other than to say it is a very potent example of the universality and power of Shakespeare's plays.\n\nThink of any major world event, and then think of every little inconsequential moment, and you'll find Will from Stratford has already captured it perfectly with piercing accuracy in beautiful verse.\n\nAbraham Lincoln was a big fan. So was the chap who assassinated him.\n\nThe actor John Wilkes Booth (left), who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865, said of all Shakespeare's characters, his favourite was Brutus\n\nAs was Bill Clinton, and his one-time lover Monica Lewinsky, who placed this advertisement in the Washington Post on Valentine's Day 1997:\n\nFor stony limits cannot hold love out,\n\nAnd what love can do that dares love attempt.\n\nAs Shapiro explains, this public love note was intended for the then President, who, being a Shakespeare fan would have noticed Ms Lewinsky used a passage spoken by Romeo not Juliet - a gender swap that would have amused the great playwright who liked nothing more than a bit of cross-dressing.\n\nBut the book is not all about him.\n\nThe star of the show is America and its past, which in this instance, broadly starts with the Pilgrim Fathers arriving from England after a very rough crossing on the Mayflower in 1620 (four years after Shakespeare's death). As puritans, they were no fans of theatre, and Shakespeare was no fan of theirs, judging by the way he lampoons them in the guise of the pompous Malvolio in Twelfth Night.\n\nThe Bard satirized the Pilgrim Fathers through the self-important character of Malvolio in Twelfth Night\n\nNevertheless, those who followed in the Pilgrim Fathers' wake brought The Bard's words with them, and soon enough he had become a staple of American culture along with the Bible and apple pie. He represented the roots of a culture that had colonised America, the leaders of which saw themselves as Anglo-Saxon, and could claim as their own.\n\nShakespeare was their poet laureate in perpetuity.\n\nShapiro finds him in the country's troubled history of race relations, he has him as a protagonist in civil unrest and class war, and then used him as a pawn as America responded to an influx of immigrants in the early decades of the 20th Century.\n\nAmericans' love for Shakespeare travelled far - including with this US soldier in Vietnam, who'd tied the Folger Shakespeare edition of The Taming of the Shrew to his helmet\n\nNone of this is gratuitous; Shakespeare is indeed an actor in all these events. But he is not always the leading man as Shapiro sometimes suggests.\n\nTo make the case, the author digresses too much on occasion, taking the reader down dreary alleys and winding corridors, which illustrate his deep knowledge of American theatre but wander off topic to the detriment of the broader narrative thrust.\n\nHe tells a very good story about how the hit musical Kiss Me Kate evolved from a young producer watching a famous theatrical married couple squabbling backstage when playing the leads in Taming of the Shrew, and another about the film Shakespeare in Love, which is a little over-written but deals firmly and fairly with its disgraced producer, Harvey Weinstein.\n\nThe Bard's The Taming of the Shrew inspired the Broadway musical Kiss Me Kate, which was then adapted into a film starring Ann Miller (L) and Kathryn Grayson (R) in 1953\n\nGwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her role in Shakespeare In Love, 1998, where she played the role of Viola, but here disguised as Thomas Kent\n\nThere has been so much written about Shakespeare, and a great deal about America's history, but by bringing them together James Shapiro has pulled off a masterstroke and illuminated both in a fresh, vivid, and thoroughly entertaining book.", "Architects of the UK's nuanced approach: Sir Patrick Vallance (left) and Prof Chris Whitty (right)\n\nMore than 200 scientists have written to the government urging them to introduce tougher measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn an open letter, the 229 specialists in disciplines ranging from mathematics to genetics - though no leading experts in the science of the spread of diseases - say the UK's current approach will put the NHS under additional stress and \"risk many more lives than necessary\".\n\nThe signatories also criticised comments made by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, about managing the spread of the infection to make the population immune.\n\nThe Department of Health said Sir Patrick's comments had been misinterpreted.\n\nThe scientists - all from UK universities - also questioned the government's view that people would become fed up with restrictions if they were imposed too soon.\n\nTheir letter was published on the day it was announced 10 more people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.\n\nMeanwhile the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) advised that measures to protect vulnerable people - including household isolation - \"will need to be instituted soon\".\n\nSir Patrick and the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, have said they intend to publish the computer models on which their strategy is based.\n\nThe UK's approach to coping with the coronavirus pandemic has been in stark contrast to other countries. The whole of Italy has been on lockdown since Tuesday, while Poland is set to close its borders for two weeks.\n\nOn Saturday the French government ordered the closure of all non-essential public locations from midnight (23:00 GMT Saturday).\n\nAnd Spain has declared a 15-day national lockdown on Monday to battle the virus,\n\nIn the open letter the group of scientists argue that stronger \"social distancing measures\" would \"dramatically\" slow the rate of growth of the disease in the UK, and would spare \"thousands of lives\".\n\nThe group, specialising in a range of disciplines, ranging from mathematics to genetics said the current measures are \"insufficient\" and \"additional and more restrictive measures should be taken immediately\", as is happening in other countries.\n\nOn Friday, Sir Patrick suggested managing the spread of the disease so that the population gains some immunity to the disease was a part of the government strategy.\n\nThis idea, known as \"herd immunity\", means at-risk individuals are protected from infection because they are surrounded by people who are resistant to the disease.\n\nRough estimates indicate that herd immunity to Covid-19 would be reached when approximately 60% of the population has had the disease.\n\nBut in the open letter, the scientists said: \"Going for 'herd immunity' at this point does not seem a viable option.\"\n\nThe major downside of herd immunity, according to Birmingham University's Prof Willem van Schaik, is that this will mean that in the UK alone at least 36 million people will need to be infected and recover.\n\n\"It is almost impossible to predict what that will mean in terms of human costs, but we are conservatively looking at tens of thousands of deaths, and possibly at hundreds of thousands of deaths,\" he said.\n\n\"The only way to make this work would be to spread out these millions of cases over a relatively long period of time so that the NHS does not get overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Willem van Schaik, professor of microbiology and infection at the University of Birmingham, was one of the signatories\n\nProf van Schaik noted that the UK is the only country in Europe that is following what he described as its \"laissez-faire attitude to the virus\".\n\nBut a Department of Health and Social care spokesperson said that Sir Patrick's comments had been misinterpreted.\n\n\"Herd immunity is not part of our action plan, but is a natural by-product of an epidemic. Our aims are to save lives, protect the most vulnerable, and relieve pressure on our NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"We have now moved out of the contain phase and into delay, and we have experts working round the clock. Every measure that we have or will introduce will be based on the best scientific evidence.\n\n\"Our awareness of the likely levels of immunity in the country over the coming months will ensure our planning and response is as accurate and effective as possible.\"\n\nIn a separate letter to the government, more than 200 behavioural scientists have questioned the government's argument that starting tougher measures too soon would lead to people not sticking to them just at the point that the epidemic is at its height.\n\n\"While we fully support an evidence-based approach to policy that draws on behavioural science, we are not convinced that enough is known about 'behavioural fatigue' or to what extent these insights apply to the current exceptional circumstances,\" the letter said.\n\n\"Such evidence is necessary if we are to base a high-risk public health strategy on it.\"\n\n\"In fact, it seems likely that even those essential behaviour changes that are presently required (e.g., handwashing) will receive far greater uptake the more urgent the situation is perceived to be. Carrying on as normal for as long as possible undercuts that urgency,\" it added.\n\nThe scientists said \"radical behaviour change\" could have a \"much better\" effect and could \"save very large numbers of lives\".\n\n\"Experience in China and South Korea is sufficiently encouraging to suggest that this possibility should at least be attempted,\" it added.\n\nThe second letter called on the government to reconsider its stance on \"behavioural fatigue\" and to share the evidence on which it based this stance.", "The cash is being made available to support business through the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nShe also revealed that a £50m hardship fund will be made available to people who lose their jobs as a result of a downturn caused by the virus.\n\nThe action has been taken to try to limit the impact of the pandemic on Scotland's economy.\n\nThe first Scots fatality was confirmed on Friday after an elderly patient with underlying health issues died in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nDuring the 2020-21 financial year, business will be boosted with:\n\nFinance secretary Kate Forbes has offered £320m to help business\n\nThe finance secretary will also write to all local authorities urging them to respond positively to requests from ratepayers for payment deferrals for a fixed period.\n\nMs Forbes said: \"Covid-19 will have challenging implications for businesses and the economy over the coming weeks and months.\n\n\"As well as following the latest health and travel advice, it's also crucial we consider the latest economic analysis and listen carefully to what the business community is telling us. We know that the tourism and hospitality sectors are facing immediate pressure, which is why we have directed support to them in particular.\"\n\nShe said that all ratepayers would benefit from a relief that effectively reversed the planned inflationary uplift that was due to come into effect in April.\n\nShe also said the Scottish government was preparing a £50m fund for people who lose their jobs as a result of measures taken to limit the spread of the virus. This makes up the rest of the £360m-plus grant given by the Treasury in last week's budget.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"£50m will go to a hardship fund which will be announced shortly. That will look at, for example, people who are self- employed or people who have lost their jobs.\n\n\"We have allocated every consequential penny we have received towards business support but I would believe and hope that further support comes to help us meet business needs.\"\n\n\"In dealing with this unprecedented scenario the Scottish government has listened to business and has taken steps which should improve cashflow and confidence for those impacted by the virus. These are the right decisions for the present, albeit both the UK and Scottish government may have to take further steps as this very unpredictable and unprecedented situation evolves.\"\n\n\"While the shape of this help is slightly different to the support being offered to businesses south of the border, it is a substantial attempt by ministers in Edinburgh to help perfectly sound businesses facing severe short-term cashflow problems. Time is of the essence, so this new money must be easy to access. This is no time for bureaucratic hold-ups. Further, should this initial package of measures prove insufficient, we must not hesitate in delivering a further expansion.\"\n\n\"The Scottish government have outlined an initial number of measures that will be welcomed by businesses - particularly in the most affected sectors such as retail, hospitality and tourism - following on from the measures introduced in the UK Budget earlier this week. This is a positive initial response by the Scottish Government, but the situation needs to be reviewed on a daily basis to identify what additional support is required, particularly around how business can retain employees and the cost of businesses changing their operating models, for example to flexible working practises.\n\n\"These are substantive steps from the Scottish government that will be hugely welcomed by business. Sector-specific support is vital in hospitality, leisure and retail. Freezing rates and introducing direct grants are also important elements - and more may be needed, as knock-on effects are emerging daily in sectors and businesses of all sizes. So the scale of response must keep pace with the impact. Agility is essential.\"\n\n\"We recognise that the Scottish government is taking action to mitigate the impacts of coronavirus and the measures announced today will help local businesses and communities. Cosla will continue to work closely with the Scottish government and other agencies to ensure our businesses and communities across Scotland are supported during this exceptionally challenging period.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jet2 planes heading to Spain were turned around in mid-air earlier as the airline cancelled all flights to the mainland, Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands because of coronavirus.\n\nConfirmed cases in Spain have risen to 6,046 and thousands of people have been placed in lockdown.\n\nThe country's death toll has reached 191 and it is set to enter a two-week state of emergency.\n\nJet2 said the health and safety of its customers was its top priority.\n\nThe airline flies to destinations including Alicante, Malaga and Lanzarote from nine UK airports.\n\nIt said it decided to suspend all holidays and flights to all of Spain for at least a week after authorities there ordered bars, restaurants, shops and activities to close.\n\nJet2 has started sending empty planes out to the 14 Spanish destinations it operates to and will run its normal schedule of return flights to the UK for the coming week to bring customers home.\n\n\"We know these local measures will have a significant impact on our customers' holidays, which is why we have taken this decision,\" an spokesperson for the airline added.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving and complex situation and we are reviewing our programme as a matter of urgency, so that we can fly customers back to the UK.\"\n\nEarlier, flight tracking information showed at least five Jet2 planes travelling to Spain turning around to return to the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Flightradar24 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDale Dixon, 26, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was due to fly from Alicante to East Midlands Airport at 11:45 GMT.\n\nHe said there was a feeling of \"deflation\" at the airport, saying: \"It is overcrowded here. There are children just lying around bored and bags scattered all over the place. People are definitely panicking.\"\n\nHolidaymaker Mark Harrison, whose flight home to Manchester was scheduled for this evening, said: \"Jet2 said not to contact them so we are just waiting to hear from them. All we've seen is that which is on social media.\"\n\nChristine Jones from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was expecting to fly out on a Jet2 plane to Tenerife with her husband at 14:20 GMT.\n\nShe said: \"The last message we received last night from the company said they were looking forward to seeing us. We are fully ready and packed and are surrounded by our suitcases but we aren't going anywhere now. I'm just sat here looking at suitcases.\"\n\nClive Sloman, 55, from Chelmsford, Essex, was at Tenerife Airport waiting for his flight to London Stansted.\n\nHe praised Jet2's \"helpful\" staff, but said he did not know when his flight, which was scheduled to depart at 14:30 GMT, would leave.\n\n\"We've just been turned away from security because we can't go through security without a flight to go on, but there are no flights yet,\" Mr Sloman said.\n\nEasyjet said flights between the UK and Spain were currently \"unaffected\" - but that there was some disruption to those flights because of a shortage of air traffic controllers in Spain.\n\nJet2 passengers waited on the runway to hear if their flight from Alicante to Stansted would take off\n\nOn Friday, British Airways warned it would need to ground flights \"like never before\" and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus. Ryanair told staff they might be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nTravel company Tui has cancelled all holidays in Spain which were due to start between 14 and 16 March.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been meeting officials at Downing Street to discuss the pandemic.\n\nTen more people in the UK have died after testing positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.\n\nThe total number of confirmed cases in the UK has reached 1,140.\n\nBut the government's estimate of the true number of cases was around 5,000 to 10,000, as of Friday.\n\nHave you been affected by Jet2's decision to cancel flights? Were you turned around mid-air? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "No members of the public or police officers were injured in Westminster\n\nA man shot dead by police in Westminster has been named by the watchdog investigating the killing.\n\nHassan Yahya, 30, was carrying two knives and said to be \"acting suspiciously\" before he died on Sunday night.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said he is thought to have run over Hungerford Bridge and into Northumberland Avenue.\n\nThree Tasers were fired before Mr Yahya was shot by City of London police.\n\nThe armed officers had been responding to an emergency call, but police have said the incident was not terror-related.\n\nIn a statement, the IOPC said its investigators \"have obtained accounts from officers on the scene and gathered CCTV and body-worn video footage\".\n\nIt added: \"The investigation is at an early stage and we are still gathering information. The coroner has been informed, a post-mortem examination carried out and we are awaiting the results.\"\n\nMr Yahya's next of kin has been informed, the watchdog said.\n\nFollowing the shooting, investigators said two Ministry of Defence police officers, who were on patrol, were told a man was acting suspiciously near Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.\n\nHe failed to stop and, after they fired a Taser, they radioed for back-up warning he was carrying knives.\n\nA second Taser was fired by Met Police officers in Northumberland Avenue, and a third Taser was fired before the victim was shot dead by a City of London officer after two armed response vehicles arrived on the scene.\n\nTwo knives were recovered from Great Scotland Yard, a road that connects Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square.\n\nIt is mandatory for the IOPC to carry out an independent investigation when the police fatally shoot a member of the public.\n\nThe armed officers had been responding to an emergency call\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restaurant, pub and cafe chains employ tens of thousands of people across the UK\n\nHotel, cafe and dining chains will fail and jobs will go if the government does not do more to help the industry, a trade group has warned the chancellor.\n\nIn a letter to Rishi Sunak, lobby group UK Hospitality said coronavirus was an \"existential threat\" to the sector.\n\nIt wants to change laws to allow temporary staff redundancies.\n\nUK Hospitality boss Kate Nicholls said, without help, \"a significant number\" of jobs could disappear by May.\n\nIn the letter, seen by the BBC, Ms Nicholls suggested broader support for the sector such as introducing measures \"to permit temporary staff redundancies where demand falls substantially - with Universal Credit covering wage costs\".\n\nOther government policies UK Hospitality would like to see include a business rates holiday for all businesses regardless of size, all payments to HMRC suspended for three months and Government Statutory Sick Pay payments to all hospitality businesses.\n\nMs Nicholls told the BBC that even some of the largest hotel chains, pub chains and casual dining brands all \"run the risk of not existing going forward\", such is the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"This is business-critical - these are cash businesses, put simply, if you don't have people coming through the door, you will run out of cash very quickly.\n\n\"So we are talking about intervention that is needed next week to make sure that in six to eight weeks these businesses continue to trade, and if we don't get that support, by May, we will be facing business failures and a significant number of jobs at risk.\"\n\n\"This is affecting hospitality companies of all sizes and shapes...it's high street businesses that are seeing footfall decline, so your pubs, bars, your cafes where you pop in for a sandwich, but also it's the larger companies across the sector - they are the firms that employing the most people,\" she added.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak offered business rates relief for some small businesses in this week's Budget\n\nIn Mr Sunak's first Budget this week, business rates relief was granted to companies with a rateable value of less than £51,000, which he said could save a business up to £25,000.\n\nThe measure applies to firms including shops, cinemas, restaurants and hotels.\n\nHowever, Ms Nicholl said that the because many of the biggest employers in the hospitality industry operate from the largest premises on the UK high street, they will not benefit from the new business rate support.\n\nThe financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the hospitality sector is being shouldered by businesses large and small, but one hotel manager said businesses of his size were ignored by the chancellor and are teetering on the brink.\n\nMark Cotman is the group operations director at York House hotel in Eastbourne, and said his bookings are down 60% and he expects them to get worse.\n\n\"We've got the money to carry on for maybe two or three months, and then we're out of money. Then what do we do about paying staff, paying VAT, paying the veg man, the butcher?…We will run out of money, Mr Cotman said.\n\nMark Cotman says his hotel is usually full at weekends, but is now running at only 40% occupancy\n\n\"The larger businesses like ours have received no assistance in the budget.\n\n\"We've been offered a facility of maybe applying for loan but of course that's got to be paid back. If we're not taking any money, how can we pay the loan back?\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"On Wednesday, the chancellor announced, in total, a £30bn fiscal stimulus to support British people, jobs and businesses through this moment.\n\n\"Because of our extension of business rate relief, including to the hospitality and leisure sectors, around 900,000 properties, 45% of those in England, won't pay any business rates in 20/21.\n\n\"HMRC will also help businesses and self-employed individuals experiencing temporary financial difficulties due to Covid-19.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump declares a national emergency and says he will \"most likely\" be tested for coronavirus\n\nUS President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to help handle the growing outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nThe declaration - \"two very big words\", according to Mr Trump - allows the federal government to tap up to $50bn (£40bn) in emergency relief funds.\n\nThe move loosens regulations on the provision of healthcare and could speed up testing - the slow pace of which has been criticised widely.\n\nThere are 1,701 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US, and 40 deaths.\n\nSeveral US states have taken measures to stem the infections rate, including banning large gatherings, sporting events and closing schools.\n\nThe virus originated in China last December, but Europe is now the \"epicentre\" of the global pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday, as several European countries reported steep rises in infections and deaths.\n\nItaly has recorded its highest daily toll yet - 250 over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1,266, with 17,660 infections in the country.\n\nMr Trump's administration has come under recent scrutiny over its failure to provide Americans with widespread coronavirus testing.\n\nThe decision on the state of emergency was announced by Mr Trump in a live address from the White House Rose Garden.\n\nThe \"next eight weeks are critical,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nAmongst the measures envisaged as part of the emergency response are:\n\nDemocrats in Congress and heavily-affected states had been urging Mr Trump to issue the order, which will also allow more people to qualify for government health insurance.\n\nLater on Friday, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she had reached a deal with the White House on a package to assist people affected by the outbreak.\n\nIt includes two weeks of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave, free virus testing for those without insurance and food aid.\n\nUrged again to explain why he hasn't taken a coronavirus test following reports that he has been in the company of people who have tested positive recently, Mr Trump said he had no symptoms and there was no need for a test. But he added that he was likely to have one \"fairly soon\", anyway.\n\nIn Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began a 14-day self-isolation period on Friday after his wife tested positive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's President Jair Bolsanaro has tested negative, despite one of his top aides falling sick recently. Both men had recently met US officials including President Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nPresident Trump's travel ban on 26 European countries, which was met with anger and confusion. this week, will go into effect on Friday at midnight EDT (04:00 GMT on Saturday).\n\nThe 1988 Stafford Act gives the president alone the ability to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to co-ordinate a national response to \"natural catastrophes\" within the US.\n\nDonald Trump said \"national emergency\" were two very big words, but the declaration sounds more dramatic than it is, says the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ways to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThere are currently more than 30 national emergencies in effect. Mr Trump has declared several national emergencies in his presidency, including one last year to redirect military funds to build a southern border wall to prevent illegal immigration.\n\nHe has also issued the order to deal with wildfires in California and flooding in the Midwest.\n\nIt marks the first use of the order to fight a pandemic since President Barack Obama issued one to fight the swine flu virus.\n\nPresident Bill Clinton issued a national emergency to pay for efforts to stop the spread of West Nile virus in the US Northeast.", "Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders not to \"take a run on their supermarket\"\n\nNew Zealand's PM has said nearly everyone entering the country from midnight on Sunday must self-isolate to contain the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nJacinda Ardern said the new measure also included returning New Zealanders. The only exemption is for small Pacific islands with no confirmed virus cases.\n\n\"I make no apologies. This is an unprecedented time,\" Ms Ardern said, describing the new rules as the strictest in the world.\n\nNew Zealand has six confirmed cases.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's news briefing, Ms Ardern said the new restrictions would be reviewed by the authorities in 16 days.\n\nThe prime minister also said that no cruise liners would be allowed to dock in New Zealand's ports until 30 June.\n\nBut Ms Ardern said essential air and ship deliveries would continue as normal.\n\nShe said the restrictions were \"about people, not products\", stressing that there was no need for New Zealanders to \"take a run on their supermarket\".\n\n\"If you don't need to travel overseas, then don't. Enjoy your own backyard for a time. Stop handshakes, hugs and hongi [a traditional Maori greeting in which people press their noses together].\n\n\"We are a tough, resilient people. We have been here before,\" the prime minister added.\n\nEarlier this month, Israel announced that anyone arriving in the country would be self-quarantined for 14 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ways to protect yourself from Covid-19", "The government has defeated the first rebellion from its own MPs over plans to allow Huawei to be used in the UK's 5G mobile network.\n\nThirty-eight Conservative rebels backed an amendment to end the Chinese firm's participation in the project by the start of 2023.\n\nDespite promises from the government of a new bill to address their concerns, rebel MPs pushed their plan to a vote.\n\nBut with a large Commons majority, the government defeated it by 24 votes.\n\nCulture Minister Matt Warman said the government had heard the points \"loud and clear\".\n\nHe added: \"We will now engage intensively with colleagues across the House to make sure that we will make our case at every possible level…and we will underline that we will always put national security at the very top of our agenda.\"\n\nThe use of Huawei technology in the 5G network was signed off by No 10 and security experts earlier this year, with the caveats of keeping the kit out of the most sensitive areas and capping its market share at 35%.\n\nBut Tory critics say the firm is an arm of the Chinese state and a risk to UK security - claims the firm rejects.\n\nOther countries, including the US and Australia, have banned Huawei from their own networks and criticised the UK's decision.\n\nAfter the Commons vote, Huawei vice president Victor Zhang, said: \"An evidence-based approach is needed, so we were disappointed to hear some groundless accusations asserted.\n\n\"The industry and experts agree that banning Huawei equipment would leave Britain less secure, less productive and less innovative.\"\n\nToday's revolt on Huawei leaves Boris Johnson with one king-sized political headache.\n\nIt will likely prompt a bout of teeth gnashing in Downing Street that so many Tories should be ready to defy the PM so soon after he delivered them a whopping election victory.\n\nBut it will also sting that their ranks were made up of some of the most senior Tory MPs, including a solid block of former cabinet ministers.\n\nIn other words, these are not the sort of MPs who No 10 might expect to be able to bully back into line.\n\nAnd this matters because the rebellion could pave the way for an even bigger one in the summer that could yet overturn the Huawei decision, with several Tory MPs making clear they are ready to join the rebels once the key 5G legislation comes back to the Commons.\n\nA defeat for Mr Johnson over such a high profile issue would be a deeply wounding blow - all the more so since he went out on a limb to give his personal go-ahead to Huawei despite the fury of the White House and other allies.\n\nTime perhaps for the PM to root out the paracetamol.\n\nA group of Tory MPs, led by the party's former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, put forward an amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill to try and stop Huawei's involvement.\n\nThe amendment would have seen firms classified as \"high-risk vendors\" by the National Cyber Security Centre be banned entirely from the UK's 5G project by 31 December 2022.\n\nSir Iain said he and his colleagues were \"genuinely concerned that this country has got itself far too bound in to a process in which we are reliant on untrusted vendors\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the backbencher accused the Chinese government of spending 20 years \"underbidding\" other technology firms until Huawei dominated the market, and the outcome was a risk to the UK's security.\n\nHe said using Huawei's technology was a \"statement of absence of thought by any government\", adding: \"If defence of the realm is our number one priority, then this becomes demi-defence of the realm, and I am simply not prepared to put up with that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden tried to reassure the group of backbenchers with the promise of bringing forward a Telecoms Security Bill before the summer recess \"so all honourable members will be able to debate these points extensively\".\n\nHe also said the government wanted to work with its Five Eyes security partners - including the US - on alternative solutions so the UK could \"get to a position where we do not have to use high-risk vendors at all\".\n\nBut Mr Dowden could not give a timetable for the exclusion of such companies, except to say it would be \"in this Parliament\" - meaning within the next five years.\n\nAs a result, Sir Iain pushed his amendment to a vote, marking the first Tory rebellion against the government since Boris Johnson won the election in December.\n\nHowever, while 282 MPs from across the House voted in favour of the amendment, 306 MPs voted against, defeating it.\n\nThere were 38 Conservative MPs who rebelled against their government by voting for the amendment - including former international trade secretary Liam Fox, ex-Brexit secretary David Davis and former housing minister Esther McVey.\n\nConservative MP and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Tom Tugendhat, also voted in favour of the amendment, saying he did \"not get the commitments\" he wanted from the government.\n\n\"I am sorry that I could not support the government. I hope the policy will change before we come to the main Telecoms Security Bill before the summer.\"\n\nThe Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill later passed without needing a vote.", "Thousands of people attend the Dublin parade every year\n\nSt Patrick's Day parades across the island of Ireland have been affected by coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday night, Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland voted to cancel the city's parade.\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar announced all parades and festivals in the Republic of Ireland would not go ahead.\n\nOther parades in Northern Ireland are still scheduled to go ahead but are under review.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Varadkar announced a €430m (£375.7m) package for the Health Service Executive to deal with the impact of Covid-19.\n\nHe said the Republic of Ireland would stay in the \"containment phase\" for as long as possible.\n\nBut it would move to the delay and mitigation phase in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Monday evening, three new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland bringing the total to 24 cases.\n\nThe cases of two women in the south of the country and one woman in the west are associated with close contact with already confirmed cases.\n\nOne of the women is a healthcare worker.\n\nThe Irish cabinet has agreed a package of reforms for sick pay, illness benefit and supplementary benefit.\n\nThey are designed to ensure that employees and the self-employed can abide by medical advice to self-isolate where appropriate, while having their income protected to a greater degree than under the current social welfare system.\n\nIrish Health Minister Simon Harris has said the coronavirus situation is very serious.\n\nHe said it was going to require not just a whole of government approach, but a whole of society approach.\n\nMr Harris told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that there was a moderate-to-high risk that Ireland would follow a pattern seen in other EU countries such as Italy, France and Germany with regard to the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThere is a carnival atmosphere in Belfast for the annual parade\n\nSt Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and is celebrated across the globe every year on his feast day, 17 March.\n\nDublin hosts the largest parade attracting an estimated 500,000 people last year.\n\nParades are held both in the Republic of Ireland and in cities and towns across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe day is celebrated on the international stage too.\n\nLast year, more than 400 landmarks in more than 50 countries turned green to mark the occasion.\n\nOn Monday, two more cases were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total number there to 21. One of the patients has an underlying condition and is seriously ill.\n\nOn Sunday, five people were diagnosed with coronavirus in Northern Ireland, bringing the number of cases to 12.\n\nHealth officials said both cases were community transmissions and did not involve people who had returned recently from at-risk areas.\n\nMeanwhile, Saturday's match between France and Ireland is the latest Six Nations fixture to be postponed because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK government has said its advice could change in the next 10 to 14 days to have people who show \"even minor\" signs of respiratory tract infections to self-isolate in an effort to tackle the outbreak.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "A Chinese firm completed its takeover of British Steel on Monday.\n\nJingye Group said that the move would save more than 3,000 jobs in Scunthorpe and Teesside and it would modernise the towns' steelworks.\n\nThe firm reportedly offered £50m to buy the company after it collapsed and was placed under the control of the UK Insolvency Service last year.\n\nUnions have said that although the deal \"must be celebrated\", about 450 workers still face losing their jobs.\n\nBritish Steel employed about 5,000 people at the time of its collapse, and is the second-largest steelmaker in the country.\n\nThe sale includes the steelworks at Scunthorpe, mills in Teesside and Skinningrove, as well as the TSP Engineering business based in Cumbria.\n\nJingye Group, which also makes steel, has promised to invest about £1.2bn over the next 10 years on upgrading its plants and machinery.\n\nJingye's chief executive, Li Hiuming, said: \"It has not been an easy journey since we first announced our intentions in November.\n\n\"But the longer I have spent in Scunthorpe, the more I have come to believe in the successful future of these steelworks and the employees that have made them famous throughout the world.\"\n\nHe added that the deal marks the \"beginning of a new illustrious chapter\" in the history of British steelmaking.\n\nCharlotte Childs, an organiser for the GMB union, described the deal as \"a big win for the industry\", but expressed disappointment at job cuts.\n\nShe said: \"It is heartbreaking that long-serving members of high-skilled staff, many of whom have given their entire career to British steel, are seen as surplus to requirements.\"\n\nTony Watson worked on and off for British Steel from the age of 16.\n\nTony Watson, a British Steel worker and GMB union convenor, is one of those who has been made redundant.\n\nMr Watson, who worked for British Steel on and off since the age of 16, told the BBC he received an email from HR with the news.\n\n\"The way the process has been done has been a bit brutal,\" he said. But Mr Watson added that he was \"feeling optimistic\" about the prospect of hunting for a new job at age 59.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he wanted \"to reassure British Steel employees who may be facing redundancy that we are mobilising all available resources to give immediate on the ground support and advice to those affected\".\n\nConfirmation of the takeover follows months of uncertainty for workers. The government has kept British Steel running since last May, as it looked for a buyer for the business.Jingye signed an agreement to purchase British Steel in November after talks between the Official Receiver, which handled the insolvency process, and a Turkish bidder fell apart.\n\nThe Official Receiver said that it was \"grateful\" to British Steel employees for their professionalism during a difficult time.\n\nUnions have said that nearly 500 British Steel workers could still face losing their jobs\n\nIn January, the French government said it might veto the deal because it considered British Steel's plant in Hayange a strategic national asset.\n\nLocated in north-east France, the plant is seen as important because it supplies track for the country's railways.\n\nJingye's boss said earlier this year that he remained \"interested\" in purchasing the plant, but has pressed on with purchasing assets in the UK and the Netherlands.\n\nBritish Steel was formed in 2016 after being sold by India's Tata for £1 to the private equity firm Greybull Capital.\n\nIt entered insolvency less than three years later. It had sought financial support from the government before it was placed in liquidation.\n\nThey've been making iron and steel in Scunthorpe for more than 150 years. This is very much a one-industry town and when the steelworks struggles the whole community feels it.\n\nThe plant directly employs almost 3,000 people but supports another 20,000 jobs in the wider supply chain. From hairdressers to market traders, businesses say they've noticed people reining in their spending amid the ongoing uncertainty.\n\nThe bulk of British Steel's staff work at the Scunthorpe plant\n\nThe loss-making steel plant has had a string of owners over the decades from Corus to Tata Steel to Greybull Capital - all tried and failed to turn the business around.\n\nA fourth-generation steelworker told me back in May that it felt as though they were \"staring over the edge of the abyss\" as the plant was on the brink of closure with mass redundancies ahead. But - again - Scunthorpe steelworks has been rescued by a new owner at the eleventh hour promising huge investment.\n\nThere is some scepticism about how much influence China will soon have in the UK steel industry. While steelworkers are deeply relieved that the takeover is going ahead, they are asking what Jingye can and will do differently amid tough global trading conditions where many before have struggled.", "A campaigner has lost a legal challenge against the government over gender-neutral passports.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane argued a policy preventing someone from obtaining a passport with an unspecified gender was unlawful on human rights grounds.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal ruled the policy did not amount to an unlawful breach of the activist's human rights.\n\nIn a ruling on Tuesday, three senior judges dismissed the appeal, which was contested by the Home Office.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane - who has been campaigning for legal and social recognition of non-gendered identity for nearly 30 years - described the decision as \"devastating\".\n\n\"It is bad news for everyone who cannot obtain a passport without the requirement imposed by the UK government that they should collude in their own social invisibility,\" the campaigner said in a statement.\n\nThe appeal centred on the lawfulness of the government's current policy on gender-neutral passports.\n\nAt the moment UK passport holders have to indicate whether they are male or female. Several other countries, including Canada, Australia and Germany, now have a third option.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane wanted passports to have an \"X\" category, for those who do not identify as fully male nor female.\n\nThe activist argued that the UK policy breached the right to respect for private life, and the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of gender or sex, under the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\n\"My identity is neither male nor female, and I describe myself as non-gendered,\" the activist told the BBC's PM programme.\n\nWhen asked about how it felt to be forced to tick one box or another, the campaigner said: \"It's really degrading, especially since I've been working so hard and for so long to try and persuade the UK government to change its discriminatory policy.\"\n\nThe Appeal Court said in the ruling: \"There can be little more central to a citizen's private life than gender.\"\n\nBut it went on say that that use of the \"X\" marker was part of a bigger picture that required a coherent approach across all the areas where the issue of non-binary gender arose.\n\n\"There is not yet any consensus across Council of Europe states in relation to either the broad issue of the recognition of non-binary people, or the narrow issue of the use of 'X'\", it said.\n\nIt said there was no positive obligation on the state to provide an \"X\" marker in order to ensure the right to respect for private life.\n\nSo the government's current policy did not amount to an unlawful breach of Christie Elan-Cane's rights under human rights laws.\n\nBut the ruling also noted \"there is momentum in Europe in relation to how the status of non-binary people is to be recognised\" and that there may come a time when the \"fair balance has shifted\".\n\nThe case was taken to the Court of Appeal after a judicial review action was dismissed by the High Court in June 2018.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court by the Court of Appeal, but can still appeal directly to the Supreme Court to hear the case.\n\nThe activist told the BBC: \"My legal team, I understand, will be seeking permission from the Supreme Court to go onto that next stage.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham Hotspur's Champions League campaign came to an end as they were well beaten by RB Leipzig in the last 16.\n\nThe German club - who were only formed 10 years ago - led 1-0 from the first leg in London and Marcel Sabitzer's double at the Red Bull Arena put Leipzig in control.\n\nSpurs keeper Hugo Lloris should have done better for both goals - getting a hand to both the Leipzig captain's 20-yard shot and near-post header.\n\nEmil Forsberg scored with his first touch after coming off the bench to give Leipzig a 4-0 aggregate win.\n\nInjury-hit Spurs never looked capable of mounting a comeback like the one against Ajax last season which took them to the final and will now finish the season without a trophy again.\n\nJose Mourinho's side - who have not won in six games in all competitions - will need to find some form if they are to be back in this tournament at all next season. They are seven points behind the top four in the Premier League.\n\nSpurs manager Mourinho was once considered one of the Champions League's top managers - winning in 2004 with Porto and 2010 with Inter Milan.\n\nBut the Portuguese has now failed to win any of his eight Champions League knockout games since 2014.\n\nThe stats do not make good reading. This was his heaviest ever Champions League aggregate defeat and it is the first six-game winless run of his 935-game managerial career.\n\nHe rightly bemoans their injury list, with Steven Bergwijn joining Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Moussa Sissoko out of action - but they should still be doing better.\n\nLeipzig appeared hungrier, first to every ball, especially in the first half when the damage was done. Their two wing-backs had the beating of their opposite numbers, with Angelino, who looked ordinary in the first half of this season for Manchester City, causing Serge Aurier so many problems.\n\nIn the centre Timo Werner - who scored the only goal of the first leg three weeks ago - was having the time of his life up against Eric Dier.\n\nSpurs did start well and Sabitzer's opener was against the run of play. Werner's shot was blocked and then he squared the ball to the midfielder to blast home from outside the box. Lloris could not keep the ball out despite getting a touch.\n\nDefensive solidity was once Mourinho's forte but his side have kept just three clean sheets in 26 matches since he replaced Mauricio Pochettino in November.\n\nThey were lucky not to be further behind when Werner tapped home Angelino's cross - but the offside flag correctly went up.\n\nBut the game was done when Aurier failed to deal with a long ball and Angelino crossed for Sabitzer to head past Lloris, who again touched the ball but let it through.\n\nLeipzig continued to have chances, with Werner forcing a save and then shooting over the bar before Dier's attempted clearance from Patrik Schick almost went into the Spurs net.\n\nThey had three shots on goal but Giovani lo Celso, Dele Alli and Gedson Fernandes' efforts all resulted in routine saves.\n\nThings did not get as bad in the second half as they could have, until Forsberg popped up to lash home a loose ball seconds after coming off the bench.\n\nLeipzig's unique history - or lack of it - makes the honour of greatest moment in their history a bit more achievable.\n\nSince being founded by energy drinks giant Red Bull in 2009 they have won four promotions and played in one German Cup final. But this was their first ever Champions League knockout tie.\n\nThey beat last year's finalists 4-0 on aggregate - and they deserved every bit of that victory.\n\nTheir highly rated manager Julian Nagelsmann - once nicknamed Baby Mourinho - is the youngest person to manage in a Champions League knockout tie. He is now the youngest to win one too.\n\nThey have built a good squad on reasonably little money - by Champions League quarter-final standards - and Austrian Sabitzer was the difference with his two goals.\n\nLeipzig have strength in depth too - imposing centre-back Dayot Upamecano missed the first leg but was excellent this time - and they could even bring on Sweden forward Forsberg in the 87th minute for Sabitzer to add the fourth overall.\n\nThat made them the only team to ever take a 3-0 lead against Mourinho in the Champions League.\n\nNagelsmann's side, five points off top in the Bundesliga, have to wait until Friday, 20 March to discover their quarter-final opponents.\n• None Read more about Leipzig's rise here\n\n'It's OK, I'm happy with 3-0' - what they said\n\nRB Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann to BT Sport: \"It was a great moment for the history of the club and for me as a manager. It's totally deserved we go to the next round. We had control of both games, scored four goals and conceded none.\n\n\"Perfection is difficult in soccer because you'll always make mistakes. But we had control of both legs. Our control was a bit better in the first game.\n\n\"We were a bit lazy in the first 10 minutes of the second half but we got more powerful after that. If we pushed a little bit more we could have scored more goals. But it's OK, I'm happy with 3-0.\n\n\"It's good if you have a young team who have a lot of self-confidence.\"\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho: \"We all believed but we know that in this moment it's very difficult. They are a very strong side.\n\n\"It's hard for us to score at the moment. Our first couple of mistakes they score and then it's very difficult. Their physicality is incredible, their defenders win the duels, they stop the game. They are very fast in attack. They can hurt us all of the time, they deserve to go through.\n\n\"We made mistakes, mistakes that we have analysed in previous matches.\"\n• None Spurs suffered a European knockout defeat by four or more goals on aggregate for only the third time, previously losing 5-0 on aggregate to Real Madrid in the 2010-11 Champions League and 5-1 to Borussia Dortmund in the 2015-16 Europa League.\n• None This was Mourinho's joint-heaviest Champions League defeat, equalling the 4-1 loss he suffered with Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund in April 2013.\n• None Mourinho has suffered three consecutive Champions League defeats for the first time.\n• None Only Aston Villa (42) have conceded more goals among Premier League clubs in all competitions than Spurs (38) since Mourinho's first game in charge.\n• None Leipzig's Sabitzer has been directly involved in eight goals in his last 10 Champions League appearances (four goals, four assists).\n• None Spurs lost all four of their Champions League games this season against German opponents (two against Bayern Munich, two against RB Leipzig) - the only team to lose more games against teams from a single nation in a season were Leeds United in 2000-01, losing five against Spanish opposition.\n• None Leipzig are the seventh German team to reach the Champions League last eight - after Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Kaiserslautern, Schalke and Wolfsburg.\n\nSpurs face a huge game on Sunday at home to Mourinho's old side - and more importantly, their Champions League qualification rivals - Manchester United.\n\nLeipzig host Freiburg on Saturday in the Bundesliga.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Konrad Laimer.\n• None Attempt saved. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! RB Leipzig 3, Tottenham Hotspur 0. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, RB Leipzig. Marcel Sabitzer tries a through ball, but Patrik Schick is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dayot Upamecano (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lukas Klostermann with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Testing times in Wales: This coronavirus drive-through station has been established in Swansea\n\nNine more individuals in Wales have tested positive for coronavirus, health officials confirmed on Tuesday evening.\n\nIt brings the number of cases in the nation to 15, after the first case was confirmed in Swansea 12 days ago.\n\nWales' chief medical officer said seven of the new infections were identified following a resident in the Neath Port Talbot area contracting the virus.\n\nThe other two new cases are from the Carmarthenshire area and had recently returned from northern Italy.\n\nFive of the new cases linked to the first Neath Port Talbot patient identified on Monday are living in the same council area.\n\nAnother is from Swansea, while the seventh is a resident in the Cardiff area.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a call centre in Cardiff was closed after an individual there was diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nThe Sky contact centre was evacuated at 14:30 GMT and is undergoing a \"deep clean\".\n\nIn a statement, Sky said: \"We can confirm that a Sky colleague in our Cardiff contact centre has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and they are self-isolating at home.\"\n\nThe Sky call centre office in Cardiff will stay closed until Thursday\n\nSky's senior corporate communications manager Dale Bihari said the office would re-open on Thursday, adding: \"Protecting our people is - and always will be - our top priority and so we are closing the contact centre today and sending everyone home as a precaution.\n\n\"We're contacting anyone who has been in contact with our colleague.\"\n\nPublic Health Wales has not revealed whether this is the case it has identified in the city, adding it had a \"responsibility to protect individuals tested and patients being treated\".\n\n\"The process of identifying and contacting close contacts of the new cases is under way, and we are taking all appropriate actions to protect the public's health,\" said Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton.\n\n\"The nine new patients are being managed in clinically appropriate settings based on the assessment of a specialist infectious disease consultant.\"\n\nPublic Health Wales has now opened a number of community testing units (CTUs) across the country.\n\nIn north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it had opened three drive-through units at Rossett Clinic in Wrexham, Bryn y Neuadd Hospital in Llanfairfechan, Conwy county, and Ysbyty Alltwen in Porthmadog, Gwynedd.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board has also opened two CTUs - one in Cardigan in Ceredigion and another in Carmarthen.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it had opened a drive-through testing centre in a former playing field changing rooms off the M4.\n\nVisits to all units must be arranged through the 111 service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned assembly members the coronavirus outbreak could put \"enormous strain\" on public services in Wales, including the NHS.\n\nAcross the UK, the number of coronavirus cases has now reached 382, with a sixth person dying from the virus.\n\n\"We have always been clear that we expected the number of positive cases to increase, which is in line with what has happened in other parts of the world,\" said Dr Atherton.\n\nHe said the investigation identifying seven people in Neath Port Talbot showed contact tracing and community testing by Public Health Wales \"is working as it should\".\n\n\"I'd like to take this opportunity to assure the public that Wales and the whole of the UK is prepared for these types of incidents,\" he reiterated.\n\n\"Working with our partners in Wales and the UK, we have implemented our planned response, with robust infection control measures in place to protect the health of the public.\"\n\nHand sanitiser has been installed at horse racing's Cheltenham Festival, which attracts big crowds\n\nItaly's extended quarantine measures require residents to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and justify leaving the country.", "Hand sanitiser has been installed at horse racing's Cheltenham Festival, which attracts big crowds\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has risen again and a sixth person who had the virus has died.\n\nThe man, who was in his early 80s, had underlying health conditions.\n\nA total of 373 UK cases was announced as of 0900 GMT - a rise of 54 from the previous day - with a further nine cases confirmed by health officials in Wales later.\n\nMeanwhile, airlines have cut thousands of flights including to and from Italy after the country was put on lockdown.\n\nAnd GPs are warning routine appointments at surgeries may have to stop as the number of coronavirus cases rises.\n\nThe British Medical Association said routine monitoring of long-term health conditions might have to stop to enable GPs to \"focus on the sickest patients\".\n\nEarlier, England's deputy chief medical officer defended the decision to delay closing schools and introducing other stringent measures, saying experts were assessing new cases on an hourly basis to achieve a \"balanced response\".\n\nDr Jenny Harries said she expected significant increases in the number of cases in the UK beginning in about 10 to 14 days time, at which point people with flu-like symptoms would be advised to self-isolate.\n\nThe vast majority of those diagnosed with coronavirus in Britain were \"pretty well\" but might \"feel a bit rough for a few days\", she added.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said \"wherever clinically and practically possible\" people should access GP appointments \"through phones and digital means\", rather than going to surgeries in person.\n\nThe figures as of 9:00 GMT on Tuesday included 324 cases in England, 27 in Scotland, 16 in Northern Ireland and six in Wales.\n\nThe additional nine cases confirmed in Wales on Tuesday evening bring its total to 15.\n\nThere are 91 in London, with the next highest infected area being south-east, with 51 cases. Cases by local council area in England can be viewed here.\n\nThe latest person to die, on Monday evening, was a man with underlying health conditions who was being treated at Watford General Hospital.\n\nHe caught the virus in the UK and officials are trying to trace who he had been in contact with.\n\nThe son said his father - who had underlying conditions - was \"healthy\" by his own standards\n\nOn Sunday, a 60-year-old man from Greater Manchester became the third person to die after contracting coronavirus. He had recently visited northern Italy.\n\nThe man was taken to North Manchester General Hospital and the rest of his family was told to self-isolate.\n\n\"Since we cannot go outside we regularly called the ward where he was ill,\" the man's son told BBC Bengali. \"They did not allow me to speak to him directly.\"\n\nThe son said they later received a phone call from the hospital saying his father - who had underlying conditions including arthritis, heart problems, and high cholesterol - had died.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK Foreign Office has warned Britons against all but essential travel to Italy, which is experiencing the worst outbreak outside China, after it introduced strict travel restrictions.\n\nItalians are being told to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and give justification if they want to leave the country.\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising anyone arriving in the UK from Italy since Monday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe government says it has facilities to accommodate Italian visitors to the UK who need to self-isolate.\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all of its flights to and from Italy until 4 April, and has asked staff to take voluntary unpaid leave.\n\nEasyjet, RyanAir and Jet2 are also cancelling their flights on Italian routes, though EasyJet will operate \"rescue flights\" to bring British travellers home in the coming days.\n\n\"We know we'll have to go into quarantine when we get home.\"\n\n\"It's the weirdest holiday I think I've ever been on,\" said Hannah Butcher, from Newbury, Berkshire, who is in Rome with her husband for their first holiday alone since having a child.\n\n\"We arrived on Sunday. The advice then was as long as you're not going into Italy's red zone, you're OK.\n\n\"We're currently sitting in a restaurant and everyone here is in staggered rows because they have to sit one metre apart. It's quite weird seeing families spread across multiple tables.\"\n\nNo queues at Rome's Colosseum, which is among the attractions to have shut\n\nShe added that people are \"only allowed to enter shops one at a time\".\n\n\"All the attractions are closed; there are queues out the door of supermarkets and the butchers. There are police driving round making sure the rules are enforced and a noticeable armed police presence, presumably to keep order.\"\n\nShe said they were due to fly home with Ryanair on Wednesday morning and had not been informed of any flight updates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nWhat are your experiences relating to the coronavirus outbreak? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Taxpayer-owned bank RBS will allow people affected by the coronavirus outbreak to defer mortgage and loan repayments for up to three months.\n\nTSB and Lloyds said they would also allow a mortgage window, and the banks said savers could close fixed-term savings accounts without charge.\n\nThis is designed to allow people to access cash if they need it as the impact of the virus is felt.\n\nBanks are also announcing extra support for affected businesses.\n\nCases of mortgage repayment holidays are being taken on a case-by-case basis, and the length of any suspension can vary between banks.\n\nOther support for individuals facing financial difficulties owing to the virus includes:\n\nThe measures are similar to those already in place for people facing financial difficulties.\n\n\"We understand that there may be circumstances where a personal customer may fall into financial difficulty as a result of the impacts of coronavirus, for instance, loss of income,\" a spokesman for RBS said.\n\n\"We will look to understand each customer's situation on a case-by-case basis and can offer a number of options to help them manage their finances.\"\n\nUK Finance, which represents the major banks, said that all banks would consider increasing overdrafts or allowing repayment relief for loan or mortgage repayments for those affected by the virus.\n\n\"We would encourage customers who think they may be affected to contact their provider as soon as possible to discuss the support available to them,\" said its chief executive, Stephen Jones.\n\nOffering to let personal customers put off paying the mortgage for three months is inherently un-commercial - the sort of thing that would seriously damage your credit record if you did it without agreement. Similarly offering to convert capital repayment loans into interest-only loans for up to a year will cost the banks money.\n\nBecause they are expensive, the measures raise practical questions - above all, how will the banks establish that customers are truly affected by the virus rather than other factors? A doctor's letter? They haven't answered that question yet.\n\nBefore taking up any such help, customers, business or personal, would be wise to get it in writing from the bank that it won't harm their credit records.\n\nChanges to mortgage agreements in some way mirror the situation in Italy, one of the areas most affected by the outbreak.\n\nWith significant restrictions on the population in place, Laura Castelli, Italy's deputy economy minister, said mortgage payments would be suspended across Italy.\n\nRBS said on Monday that it was offering more flexibility over loans to businesses.\n\nOther banks are following suit. Barclays said it was offering 12-month capital repayment holidays on existing loans over £25,000, and would also offer extended or new overdraft facilities to business customers.\n\n\"Our network of relationship managers has been reaching out to SMEs across the UK to see if they require additional support during this time, as we do regularly when we see any events which may have an impact on our clients,\" said Ian Rand, chief executive of Barclays Business Banking.\n\n\"Barclays is ready to help, whether that is with managing cash-flow or any other support, and we encourage any customer who needs guidance to call us or contact their relationship manager.\"\n\nLloyds Banking Group said it would be open to requests from small businesses for overdraft extensions and other support.", "The government must stop applying the so-called \"bedroom tax\" to domestic abuse survivors fleeing their partners, 44 MPs have written in a letter seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\nOne rape survivor, living in a home adapted for her safety, had her housing benefits cut because of her spare room.\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights said her case was discriminatory. A government bid to appeal was refused.\n\nThe government said it was \"carefully considering\" the court's decision.\n\nThe MPs - from all the major political parties in Westminster - said vulnerable women \"must not be forced out\" of the safe houses, provided by the UK's Sanctuary Scheme, by the policy.\n\nThe letter said 281 households in the scheme were currently subject to such \"penalties\".\n\nThe woman - who is preserving her right to anonymity - is a victim of rape, assault, harassment and stalking at the hands of an ex-partner, her lawyers said.\n\nShe was given specially-adapted social housing designed to enable women and children at serious risk of domestic violence to live safely.\n\nThe property included a panic space and extra security measures, her lawyers added.\n\nBut because the house - occupied by the woman and her young son - was three-bedroomed, it led to a 14% cut in housing benefits - as she was only entitled to receive housing benefit for a two-bedroom property.\n\nAfter a six-year legal battle, the UK government was ordered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pay the woman 10,000 euros (£8,600) in compensation. The court found the policy had unlawfully discriminated against her.\n\nThe woman told the Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"The constant worry about whether we would be made to leave our home... has been truly awful.\n\n\"It's made me anxious not only about money, but also has reminded me of the terrible violence I experienced and had thought I was safe from.\n\n\"I am so relieved to know that hopefully my battle is nearly over.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions sought to appeal against the decision, but had its application rejected.\n\nNow 44 MPs have written to Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey urging her \"to take immediate action on this life and death matter\".\n\n\"The government has committed to improving protection and support for survivors through the new domestic abuse bill,\" the open letter - coordinated by Labour MP Stella Creasy and supported by charity Women's Aid - said.\n\n\"The application of the 'bedroom tax' to Sanctuary Schemes clearly undermines this aim.\n\n\"So too, seeking to encourage people to leave their homes for smaller ones as this policy does, is also in conflict with the aim of Sanctuary Schemes - which are designed to enable those at risk of domestic violence to remain in their homes safely.\n\n\"We call on the government to act now and create an exemption for this very vulnerable group.\"\n\nIt added that exemptions were already in place for other groups, including disabled siblings who need their own bedrooms, foster carers and households with overnight carers for disabled people.\n\nThe government said there were no plans to abolish its policy on the removal of the spare room subsidy.\n\nIt said the policy helped contain \"growing housing benefit expenditure\", strengthens work incentives and makes better use of available social housing.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Australian authorities are investigating whether a state police minister broke the law by firing two banned weapons at a prison's gun range.\n\nNew South Wales lawmaker David Elliott referred his own case to police after photos emerged showing him with the guns at a 2018 opening for the range.\n\nAustralia bans civilian use of semi-automatic and automatic weapons but exceptions can be made with permission.\n\nBoth Mr Elliott and prison officials blamed it on an \"administrative error\".\n\nAustralian media reported he fired a submachine gun and a semi-automatic pistol at the newly refurbished range in Sydney in September 2018.\n\nIn NSW, someone who uses an unauthorised firearm can be jailed for up to 14 years.\n\nOpposition MPs criticised Mr Elliott for being unaware of legal requirements.\n\n\"You'd have to wonder what is going through the mind of a senior minister… to go and pick up a lethal weapon like this without checking if they had a lawful capacity to do that,\" said Greens lawmaker David Shoebridge.\n\nSuch weapons can be used by the military and elite police and prison officers.\n\nPolice Minister David Elliott (left) posted the pictures on his Facebook account\n\nMr Elliott shared pictures from the event in a Facebook post at the time, saying he had dedicated the range to a prison guard who had died. Both he and the man's widow had fired an \"official shot\" in tribute, he added.\n\nMr Elliott said he had \"acted in good faith\" and used the weapons under \"strict supervision\", believing that prison authorities had signed off on necessary paperwork.\n\nHe said he contacted police this week after being advised the prison authority - Corrective Services NSW - may have potentially broken the law \"with respect to potentially hundreds of individuals, including myself, who have used the range\".\n\nCorrective Services NSW apologised to Mr Elliott for \"any embarrassment caused\".\n\nMr Elliott, who is also the minister for emergency services, has been under fire from political opponents in recent times. In December he was criticised for holidaying in Europe during the state's bushfire crisis.\n\nAustralia introduced some of the world's toughest gun laws after a 1996 massacre, but experts say aspects have been softened in recent times.", "Gemma Hopkins said her daughter Chloe and Lottie had \"an amazing bond\"\n\nA therapy dog that was stolen from a 12-year-old girl with autism has been found dead.\n\nThree-year-old Dalmatian Lottie was taken from Chloe Hopkins' home in Peatling Parva, Leicestershire, in early December.\n\nAn appeal to find the dog was widely shared on social media and was backed by TV presenter Chris Packham.\n\nChloe's mother, Gemma Hopkins, posted on a Facebook page about the appeal that Lottie's body had been found.\n\nShe told the BBC the family was given the news on Sunday after Lottie's microchip was scanned by a vet.\n\nLeicestershire Police said the dog was found in a layby in Countesthorpe - about four miles (6.4km) away from the family's home - on Sunday morning.\n\nChloe told her mum all she wanted for Christmas was to get Lottie back\n\nLottie - who required specialist food for a liver condition - vanished on 1 December when thieves broke into the family home.\n\nFollowing the theft, Mrs Hopkins described the dog as her daughter's \"best friend\", saying she helped to keep her calm.\n\nShe wrote on Facebook: \"Having to identify her was the hardest thing I've done.\n\n\"I've now got to break my 12-year-old's heart tonight.\n\n\"We never wanted this ending. We kept hopeful. Goodbye my crazy bunch of spots.\"\n\nShe told the BBC her daughter had since been given the news.\n\nHundreds of people have shared their condolences on social media.\n\nLeicestershire Police said it was continuing to investigate the theft and asked anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Barney Eastwood, one of Northern Ireland's best known business and sporting figures, has died aged 87.\n\nBorn in Cookstown in 1932, he founded the Eastwoods chain of betting shops, which he later sold for more than £100m.\n\nHe was also a high-profile boxing promoter, working with former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan.\n\nTheir relationship ended in an acrimonious legal battle that saw Mr Eastwood awarded £450,000 in damages.\n\nMr McGuigan said he was \"saddened\" to hear of Mr Eastwood's passing.\n\n\"We achieved great things together and shared some amazing times,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barry McGuigan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 world flyweight champion Dave 'Boy' McAuley said Mr Eastwood was \"amazing\" and \"a great man\".\n\n\"BJ's the guy that made me and he made me the fighter that I was,\" he said.\n\nDave 'Boy' McAuley said Mr Eastwood made him the fighter he was\n\n\"He made me successful, he made me the most successful Irish fighter ever, the most successful British fighter post-war. He made me a bit of money along the way too.\n\n\"He was just a great guy and fantastic the way he handled himself.\n\n\"He made you feel as if you were unbeatable and indestructible. When he was in your corner… he would just lift you and make you go out there and feel like you were superman.\"\n\nBoxing trainer John Breen, who worked with Mr Eastwood for many years, said he was \"boxing in Ireland\".\n\n\"I wouldn't have had the career in the sport I have had - or doing what I am doing now - without him,\" he added.\n\n\"He was a real character who absolutely loved boxing.\n\n\"I will miss him so much.\"\n\nBarney Eastwood and Barry McGuigan return to Belfast after winning the world featherweight title in 1985\n\nWith a string of bookmakers and world title-winning boxers to his name, Barney Eastwood was a giant in the worlds of sport and business in Northern Ireland for decades.\n\nFor many he will always be associated with one of Ireland's greatest fighters, Barry McGuigan, who he managed when the Clones Cyclone became world featherweight champion in 1985, although their relationship would later end in acrimony and legal action.\n\nBut boxing promotion was just one part of a wide-ranging career, which included his chain of betting shops and property development.\n\nNI's deputy first minister and Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she was \"saddened to hear of the death of Barney Eastwood\".\n\n\"A great Tyrone Gael, businessman and giant of the boxing world,\" she tweeted.\n\nBarney Eastwood was a keen boxer at school and later became a renowned promoter\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt remembered working with Mr Eastwood when he was a young sports reporter with BBC Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Thoughts with his family and many friends as he passes.\"\n\nBBC News NI sports journalist Mark Sidebottom said he knew Mr Eastwood \"very well\" and had worked with him on a boxing documentary.\n\n\"Barney was just an incredible touchstone, he opened up his home… and it was a treasure trove of boxing memorabilia.\n\n\"He really was Mr Boxing.\"\n\nBBC News NI economics and business editor John Campbell said Mr Eastwood had built a \"very big and successful bookmaking chain\".\n\n\"He got his timing absolutely right, because basically at the peak of the market in 2008 he sold to Ladbrokes for about £135m,\" he said.\n\n\"So he was set for life at that time.\n\n\"He was a very significant property developer as well, he at one stage owned the Tower Centre in Ballymena.\n\n\"He was also an art collector as well.\"\n\nMr Eastwood was an art collector and property developer\n\nMr Campbell also alluded to Mr Eastwood's association with one of Ireland's greatest fighters, Barry McGuigan, who he managed when the Clones Cyclone became world featherweight champion in 1985.\n\nTheir relationship would later end in acrimony and legal action.\n\n\"A huge life, but that relationship with Barry McGuigan is certainly one which was very rewarding, but also at times very difficult for him,\" he said.", "PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nA police officer died when he was dragged for more than a mile by a car along a country lane, a court heard.\n\nThe Old Bailey was told distressing details of how Andrew Harper got caught in a towing strap trailing behind a car that was trying to evade him.\n\nHis uniform was \"ripped and stripped from his body\" and he was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum\".\n\nHenry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murdering the 28-year-old in August 2019.\n\nBrian Altman QC, prosecuting, said Mr Long was driving when PC Harper, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, suffered \"the most awful injuries\".\n\nPC Harper and a colleague were responding to a report of a quad bike theft near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was \"lassoed around his ankles by the loop of the strap\", Mr Altman said.\n\nMr Long \"floored\" the car, driving at an average speed of 42.5mph, with the policeman \"shackled behind\" the vehicle, the court heard.\n\nPC Harper was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum in an effort to dislodge him, losing items of his police uniform along the way, with the rest of his uniform being quite literally ripped and stripped from his body,\" Mr Altman said.\n\n\"He died totally naked apart from his socks and boots and some shredded remnants of the trousers he was wearing.\"\n\nMr Altman said: \"It is the prosecution case that Long drove that car knowing full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap, and he drove it in a manner calculated to dislodge him, and make good their escape, as had been their plan all along.\"\n\nPC Harper was barely alive when he was found by his colleague, and had suffered \"absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries\", he said.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nMr Altman said PC Harper and PC Andrew Shaw were \"well beyond the end of their shift\" when they decided to attend the call about the quad bike theft.\n\n\"It was a decision that was to cost Andrew Harper his life,\" he said.\n\nThe pair entered a \"rural, unclassified single carriageway road\", where they \"chanced upon\" a Seat Toledo towing the bike, the court heard.\n\nThe bike had been attached to the hinge of the car's boot by a \"crane strap\" wound around the bike's handlebars.\n\nMr Altman said after the unmarked police car and the Seat met, the defendant on the quad bike dismounted, unhitched the bike, and tried but failed to get inside the Seat.\n\nThe court heard that he \"bolted\" along the driver's side of the police BMW towards the Seat which had \"rounded the police car, so that the cars were now boot to boot\".\n\nMr Altman said \"almost simultaneously\" PC Harper got out of the police vehicle and began to run behind it to intercept him.\n\nHe added: \"In his rush to ensure that he and his friends did not get caught, the defendant, who had unhitched the crane strap.... had been unable to replace the crane strap in the car boot.\"\n\nThe court heard PC Harper did not realise where the strap was and stepped with both feet \"into the loop made on the road surface\".\n\nMr Altman said as Mr Long \"floored\" the Seat to escape, PC Harper was \"lassoed around his ankles by the loop of the strap\".\n\nPC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nMr Altman asked: \"If Long and his friends had no idea that Andrew was entangled in the strap, why was there a need to drive so recklessly?\n\n\"The answer is easy to see. All three knew it was a police car that had confronted them.\"\n\nHe dismissed claims that the defendants were unaware PC Harper had become entangled in the strap as \"ludicrous\".\n\n\"It's not difficult to imagine the screaming and shouting that must have taken place inside that car about what was unfolding,\" he said.\n\nJurors were told the car left a \"snaking trail\" of tyre marks, blood and clothing as it swerved across the lane.\n\nThe Seat crossed the A4 with PC Harper still \"shackled behind\" it.\n\nMr Altman said the three defendants were arrested later the same night at a traveller caravan site.\n\nThe court heard Peter Wallis, who lived in Bradfield Southend, called the police at 23:17 BST after seeing masked men \"make off\" with his new Honda TRX500 quad bike.\n\nEarlier in the day, the court heard, Mr Wallis had seen a car with four balaclava-clad men inside pull up outside his house.\n\nHe said two ran in the direction of the £10,000 quad bike, and replied \"aggressively\" when confronted.\n\nLater that night, Mr Wallis said, he was woken up by a car's headlights, and saw the defendants fixing the 330kg (661lb) bike to their car with the crane strap.\n\nWhen the car was searched, police found three crowbars, a large axe, a pair of choppers, a hammer and a pipe.\n\nMr Altman suggested the items were to be used by the defendants as weapons \"if anyone stood in their way\".\n\n\"Constable Harper did try to stand in their way, and he paid the ultimate price for it,\" he said.\n\nMr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The pair also deny manslaughter.\n\nThe, trial, due to last six weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The giraffes lived in an unfenced conservancy\n\nTwo extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say.\n\nRangers had found the carcasses of the female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya's Garissa County.\n\nA third white giraffe is still alive. It is thought to be the only remaining one in the world, the conservationists added.\n\nTheir white appearance is due to a rare condition called leucism, which causes skin cells to have no pigmentation.\n\nNews of the white giraffes spread across the world after they were photographed in 2017.\n\nThe manager of the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, Mohammed Ahmednoor, said the two killed giraffes were last spotted more than three months ago.\n\n\"This is a very sad day for the community of Ijara and Kenya as a whole. We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffe,\" Mr Ahmednoor said in a statement.\n\n\"Its killing is a blow to the tremendous steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wake-up call for continued support to conservation efforts,\" he added.\n\nThe poachers have not yet been identified, and their motive is still unclear.\n\nThe Kenya Wildlife Society, the main conservation body in the East African state, said it was investigating the killings.\n\nThe conservancy is in a vast unfenced area. There are also villages within the conservancy.\n\nWhite giraffes were first spotted in Kenya in March 2016, about two months after a sighting in neighbouring Tanzania, the conservancy says on its website.\n\nSome 40% of the giraffe population has disappeared in the last 30 years and poaching for meat and skin continues, according to the Africa Wildlife Foundation .\n\nThe population went from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"It's been a hard journey for everybody\"\n\nThe US has started withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as part of a deal with the Taliban aimed at bringing peace to the country.\n\nThe US agreed to reduce its troops from about 12,000 to 8,600 within 135 days of signing the agreement.\n\nDrawing back troops was a condition of the historic peace deal signed by the US and the Taliban on 29 February.\n\nThe Afghan government did not take part in the deal, but is expected to hold talks with the Taliban.\n\nAfghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani initially said he would not comply with an agreement to release Taliban prisoners as a pre-condition for direct talks with the militant group.\n\nBut reports say the president, who was inaugurated for a second term on Monday, will issue a decree for at least 1,000 Taliban prisoners to be released this week.\n\nThe peace deal appeared fragile last week after the US launched an air strike in response to Taliban fighters attacking Afghan forces in Helmand province.\n\nThe Taliban called for de-escalation and on Monday, Col Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, announced the first phase of the American withdrawal.\n\nTaliban fighters were celebrating the US deal earlier this week\n\nThe US retains \"all the military means and authorities to accomplish our objectives\" in Afghanistan despite the withdrawal of troops, Col Leggett said in a statement.\n\nThe US and its Nato allies have agreed to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal.\n\nUnder the agreement, the militants have agreed to refrain from attacks as well as not allowing al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible?\n\nUS-led forces ousted the Taliban from power weeks after the September 2001 attacks in the US by al-Qaeda, then based in Afghanistan. The Taliban regrouped and became an insurgent force that by 2018 was active in more than two-thirds of the country.\n\nMore than 2,400 US troops have been killed during the conflict.\n\nAs the drawdown of US troops began on Monday, fresh political instability threatened any prospect of talks between all sides in the country.\n\nAshraf Ghani was sworn in as president as his rival attended his own ceremony nearby\n\nTwo separate swearing-in ceremonies took place on Monday for two different politicians after disputed elections last year.\n\nAfghanistan's electoral commission says incumbent Mr Ghani narrowly won September's vote, but Abdullah Abdullah alleges the result is fraudulent.\n\nExperts warned the current political rivalry would \"gravely affect the government's position in the upcoming intra-Afghan talks\", which are due to begin on Tuesday.\n\nThe Trump administration said it opposed \"action to establish a parallel government\" in an apparent show of support for Mr Ghani's presidency.\n\n\"Prioritising an inclusive government and unified Afghanistan is paramount for the future of the country and particularly for the cause of peace,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.", "It takes five days on average for people to start showing the symptoms of coronavirus, scientists have confirmed.\n\nThe Covid-19 disease, which can cause a fever, cough and breathing problems, is spreading around the world and has already affected more than 116,000 people.\n\nThe US team analysed known cases from China and other countries to understand more about the disease.\n\nMost people who develop symptoms do so on or around day five.\n\nAnyone who is symptom-free by day 12 is unlikely to get symptoms, but they may still be infectious carriers.\n\nThe researchers advise people who could be infectious - whether they have symptoms or not - to self-isolate for 14 days to avoid spreading it to others.\n\nIf they follow that guidance - which has already been adopted in the UK and US - it is estimated that for every 100 individuals quarantined for a fortnight, one of them might develop symptoms after being released, Annals of Internal Medicine reports.\n\nLead researcher Prof Justin Lessler, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the findings were the best \"rapid\" estimate we have to date, based on 181 cases in total.\n\nBut he said we still have much more to learn about the virus.\n\nIt is unclear how many people develop symptoms overall - the study did not assess that.\n\nExperts believe most people who get the infection will only have mild disease. Some will be asymptomatic, ie carrying the virus but experiencing no symptoms.\n\nBut the disease can be very serious and even deadly for some - typically elderly people with pre-existing health conditions.\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, an expert in molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the study confirmed that for the vast majority of cases, the incubation and therefore quarantine period for new coronavirus, will be up to 14 days.\n\nAnd, encouragingly: \"There is little if any evidence that people can routinely transmit virus during the asymptomatic period.\"\n\nPeople are thought to be most contagious when they have obvious symptoms, like cough and fever.\n\nSome spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThe best way to protect yourself and help prevent infection is to:", "Fifteen years after he lost contact with his mother, an Indonesian migrant worker has been reunited with his mother thanks to a BBC report.\n\nAfter his parents separated, Iwan was living with his dad in Malaysia. As a child he ran away due to conflict at home and lost contact with his family.\n\nWithout identity documents he couldn’t seek help or go home until now.", "Last updated on .From the section Italian Serie A\n\nThe Italian football federation (FIGC) said after a meeting on Tuesday that the Serie A season may not finish because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nA FIGC statement confirmed that Serie A would stop until 3 April following a government decree issued on Monday.\n\nFIGC president Gabriele Gravina also put forward alternative options if the season can not be concluded.\n\nThey include staging play-offs, not having a champion for 2019-20 or declaring the current standings final.\n\nPlay-offs would take place to determine the champions, European qualification and the three clubs to be relegated to Serie B.\n\nBut if the title winner is decided by the current standings then Juventus would be Italian champions for a ninth straight season, having gone back above Lazio with a 2-0 win over third-placed Inter Milan on Sunday.\n• None Man Utd and Chelsea European away games to be played behind closed doors\n\nFive games took place on Sunday before Sassuolo won 3-0 against Brescia on Monday, with all matches taking place behind closed doors.\n\nAs it stands, there are 12 full rounds of matches still to be played, plus another four fixtures which have been postponed, and the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals.\n\nThe alternatives are due to be discussed at a meeting of the federal council on 23 March.\n\nShould the season resume, it was also proposed at Tuesday's meeting that clubs take advantage of all available dates until 31 May.\n\nThe last season that Serie A did not have a champion was 2004-05, when Juventus were stripped of the title following the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal.\n\nThe title winner was previously decided by a play-off in 1964, when Bologna beat Inter Milan after the two sides finished level on points.\n\nOn Tuesday AC Milan announced that all players and directors would donate a day's wages to the Lombardy region's emergency services. That came a day after the club pledged £250,000 to the cause.\n• None Coronavirus sport timeline - what has happened so far?", "Jack Merritt was killed in the London Bridge attack last year\n\nThe Prison Officers' Association has called for a \"fundamental review\" of the UK's de-radicalisation programmes.\n\nDave Merritt, father of London Bridge attack victim Jack Merritt, told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 that \"something was going wrong\" with the current system.\n\nHis son's attacker, the convicted terrorist Usman Khan, previously took part in two Home Office de-radicalisation programmes.\n\nThe government said it had \"tough measures\" to tackle prison extremism.\n\nBut Sudesh Amman, who injured passers-by in a knife attack in Streatham in February is reported to have refused to engage with attempts to turn him away from violence.\n\nAnd Mark Fairhurst, national chair of the POA, said those who did take part in government schemes may be going \"through the motions\" to \"make us think that they've conformed and rehabilitated themselves and de-radicalised\".\n\nThe government said that, between January 2013 and December 2019, only 3% of offenders convicted under terrorism laws went on to commit a further terror offence.\n\nThe latest government figures show that there are 224 prisoners in British jails who have been convicted of terrorist offences, around three quarters of whom are associated with Islamist extremism.\n\nAround 60 terror offenders are currently being managed by probation services in England and Wales.\n\nArmed police at the scene of the London Bridge attack\n\nMany prisoners will be offered Health Identity Intervention (HII), a programme developed with psychologists and prison staff, and introduced into prisons over the last decade.\n\nThis is supplemented by the Desistance and Disengagement Programme (DDP), which can be offered to both prisoners and those released on licence.\n\nAccording to the Home Office, it is \"part psychological, part ideological, part theological\".\n\nThese schemes have been criticised because London Bridge attacker Khan participated in both HII and DDP, yet went on to launch the attack at London Bridge less than a year after his release from prison for plotting terrorist attacks.\n\nNeither the HII nor the DDP courses have undergone any formal evaluation process. A short-term outcome evaluation of the HII is underway and will end next year.\n\nMr Merritt said the Streatham and London Bridge attacks indicated that \"something was going wrong\".\n\nHe added: \"Something is clearly not working if people are being let out and going on very soon afterwards to commit serious offences.\n\n\"One thing we are keen to point out is that longer sentences in themselves are not a solution to anything because those prisoners will be released eventually.\n\n\"I think the important thing is that steps are taken to address their offending while they're in prison.\"\n\nMr Fairhurst added: \"The question has to be asked, are we dealing now with a different dynamic?\n\n\"Are we dealing with people who are effectively sleeper cells who go through the motions, who make us think that they've conformed and rehabilitated themselves and de-radicalised?\n\n\"I would say it's very easy to fake anything in a prison. We need stricter guidelines. let's not play games with people's lives.\"\n\nHe called for a \"fundamental review\" of these rehabilitation schemes.\n\nSince the Streatham attack, the government has introduced emergency legislation that will ensure offenders convicted of terrorist offences will now have to serve at least two thirds of their sentence, before being eligible for a Parole Board assessment.\n\nIndependent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation Jonathan Hall QC told File on 4 he was concerned by additional, proposed legislation forcing \"the most dangerous extremist prisoners\" to serve the full length of their sentence without any possibility of parole.\n\nHe said: \"Someone will go into prison having committed a very serious offence and say to themselves, 'I've got no reason to admit my offending to address the risk factors', and come out after 12 years, perhaps as dangerous as when they went in.\n\n\"I'm hoping that the government will think again about those possible consequences.\"\n\nThe government said: \"Robust supervision or monitoring arrangements will be in place for all offenders upon release.\n\n\"We have tough and world-leading measures in place to prevent extremist prisoners from spreading their poisonous ideology and do not hesitate to take action when needed.\n\n\"This work is led by a nationwide network of counter-terrorism specialists embedded throughout the prison and probation service, while 29,000 staff have received enhanced training to spot the signs of extremism.\"\n\nFile on 4's Extreme Measures: Can Extremists be De-radicalised? is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 10 March at 20:00 and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Pixar's latest animation Onward has been banned by several Middle Eastern countries because of a reference to lesbian parents, according to reports.\n\nThe family film will not be shown in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hollywood media have reported.\n\nPolice officer Specter, voiced by Lena Waithe, has been heralded as Disney-Pixar's first openly gay character.\n\nHer lines include: \"It's not easy being a parent... my girlfriend's daughter got me pulling my hair out, OK?\"\n\nOther Middle East countries like Bahrain, Lebanon and Egypt are showing the film.\n\nAnd according to Deadline, Russia censored the scene in question by changing the word \"girlfriend\" to \"partner\" and avoiding mentioning the gender of Specter, who is a supporting character.\n\nTom Holland (left) and Chris Pratt voice the brothers at the centre of Onward's story\n\nSpeaking to Variety, Waithe explained that the line about \"my girlfriend\" was her idea.\n\n\"I said, 'Can I say the word girlfriend, is that cool?'\n\n\"I was just like, 'It sounds weird.' I even have a gay voice, I think. I don't think I sound right saying 'Husband.' They were like, 'Oh yeah, do that.' They were so cool and chilled. And it ended up being something special.\"\n\nWaithe has also starred in Ready Player One and Westworld, and recently wrote and produced Queen & Slim.\n\nSet in a suburban fantasy world, Onward is about two teenage elf brothers (voiced by Chris Pratt and Tom Holland) who go on an adventure after their mum gives them special gifts from their deceased father, including a letter that can resurrect him for just one day.\n\nOnward topped the North American box office chart on its opening weekend, with takings of $40m (£30.5m), which was in line with predictions.\n\nOverall box office receipts were significantly down this weekend, but experts don't believe the fear of coronavirus was to blame.\n\n\"I think there was zero impact,\" Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore, said.\n\n\"With $40m for Onward, a small drop off for The Invisible Man ($15.5m/£11.8m) and The Way Back ($8.5m/£6.5m) getting solid scores from audiences, it looks like people are in the habit of going to the movies.\"\n\nThe virus has forced the release of the next James Bond film to be postponed, with Hollywood waiting to see what impact the outbreak will have on ticket sales for other films.\n\nMeanwhile, more major Hollywood films have encountered problems with censors in conservative countries as more gay characters have been portrayed.\n\nLast year, Russia censored scenes in the Sir Elton John biopic Rocketman and Avengers: Endgame as a result of LGBT references.\n\nIn 2017, Disney's Beauty and the Beast was banned in markets including Kuwait and Malaysia over a reference to Josh Gad's character LeFou being gay. Russia gave it an over-16 rating.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tulisa has revealed she has Bell's palsy, a type of paralysis that temporarily affects the ability to control the facial muscles.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Loose Women, the singer and former X Factor judge said she sustained nerve damage after a horse riding accident.\n\n\"I do suffer from Bell's palsy... it can cause facial paralysis, it can cause swelling,\" she explained.\n\n\"I think the first attack I had was after a serious horse-riding accident.\n\n\"I fractured my skull and it caused a lot of nerve damage.\"\n\nIt is the first time the N-Dubz star, whose full name is Tulisa Contostavlos, has revealed the diagnosis.\n\n\"At any time, I have emergency steroids on me, and now luckily I know how to manage it, so the attacks don't last as long,\" she explained.\n\n\"There have actually been times when people have criticised me for the way I look and my face, not knowing I'm actually going through a Bell's palsy attack.\"\n\nShe added: \"If you have steroids within a 72 hour period, it can last days instead of seven months, which happened to me the first time. I was hiding in the house.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's not life-threatening but it is life-changing\"\n\nThe most common facial palsy, it causes temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face, with the symptoms varying from person to person.\n\nThe weakness on one side of the face can be described as either a partial palsy, a mild muscle weakness, or a complete palsy, which is no movement at all.\n\nBell's palsy can also affect the eyelid and mouth, making them difficult to close and open.\n\nIt is not known exactly what causes Bell's palsy but links have been made to viruses.\n\nSymptoms can include a facial droop, pain in the inner ear, chronic pain, difficulty with eating and speaking, and the inability to close one eye.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Border collie Nell was rescued by two members of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team\n\nMountain rescuers cooked sausages and bacon on a disposable barbecue to find a frightened dog in one of the remotest parts of the UK.\n\nNell ran off on Sunday during the rescue of her owner and a fellow ultra marathon runner after they got into difficulty in Fisherfield Forest.\n\nTwo members of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team went back to the scene of the rescue on Monday in their own time.\n\nThe smell of the food lured the Border collie out from where she was hiding.\n\nShe has been reunited with her owner.\n\nNell ran off after being frightened by Inverness Coastguard helicopter during the rescue in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe two ultra marathon runners had been reported overdue from a run the previous night. They were found near Loch an Nid in Fisherfield Forest, an area of the north west Highlands dubbed the \"Great Wilderness\".\n\nThey were suffering from mild hypothermia and were flown from the area by the coastguard helicopter.\n\nMembers of Torridon Mountain Rescue Team also assisted in the search for the runners.\n\nNell had run during the rescue of her owner and a fellow ultra marathon runner\n\nOn Monday, off-duty Dundonnell team members Alison Smith and Rachel Drummond returned to the scene with their dogs.\n\nAs well as packing winter walking kit, they took with them a disposable barbecue.\n\nA spokesman for Dundonnell MRT said: \"They fired up the barbeque and soon had sausages and bacon sizzling.\n\n\"The desired effect was soon achieved - a confused and anxious Border collie appeared on the horizon, on a rocky hillside.\n\n\"Having been lured closer by the smell of food, a nervous Nell was eventually secured and after a picnic lunch, she and her rescuers walked the five miles back to the roadside.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Nell appeared to have been unharmed by her ordeal.\n\nDundonnell MRT said the two women went looking for Nell because they own collies themselves, with Ms Smith's currently being trained up as a search and rescue dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kaden Reddick's mother said his death had \"left a massive hole in our lives\"\n\nA 10-year-old boy who was killed by a falling queue barrier at a Topshop store died accidentally, a coroner has said.\n\nKaden Reddick, from Reading, suffered a fatal head injury when it fell on him at the town's Oracle shopping centre on 13 February 2017.\n\nThe inquest previously heard he had been swinging on the 110kg structure moments before.\n\nThe court was told Kaden, from Burghfield, had been to the cinema with his two siblings and mother before going to the store during the half-term holidays.\n\nWitness Niamh Gillespie described seeing him with his arms across the top of the MDF barrier, which doubled as a display unit.\n\nKaden's swinging caused the barrier to tip and fall on to his head, jurors heard.\n\nHe was confirmed dead at the Royal Berkshire Hospital a short time later.\n\nKaden was fatally injured at Topshop in the Oracle shopping centre in Reading\n\nThe inquest heard there had been two previous incidents, in Manchester in 2015 and in Glasgow, in which customers had been injured by falling Topshop barriers.\n\nFollowing the second in February 2017, a week before Kaden's death, the company asked managers to check their barriers did not \"wobble\".\n\nReading branch manager Martin Tull responded \"no\" but later said he \"didn't test the barriers for movement in any way\", the inquest heard.\n\nThe MDF barrier was fixed to a concrete floor by four screws, the hearing was told.\n\nCoroner Alison McCormick said the death had been accidental.\n\nShe told the boy's family: \"Kaden's death has touched all of us in this court but for you, as you've said, [it] has left an enormous hole in your lives, a void that can never be filled.\"\n\nBarristers told the hearing the case may result in criminal proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The cinema chains says it wants to give customers peace of mind\n\nNorthern Ireland's biggest cinema chain, Omniplex, is introducing a \"seat separation\" policy in response to coronavirus.\n\nThat means that every second seat will be left unoccupied in a checkerboard pattern. Omniplex operates from 15 locations across Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of measures aimed at combating the spread of Covid-19.\n\nFour new cases have been confirmed in NI, bringing the total to 16.\n\nPaul John Anderson, director of Omniplex, said the move was in line with World Health Organisation guidance.\n\n\"This means we've reduced our overall capacity by 50% and it will give cinemagoers peace of mind,\" he said.\n\nMr Anderson said other measures include self-scanning of tickets, increased cleaning regimes and hand-sanitising stations in every cinema foyer.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the first and deputy first ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, announced they had cancelled plans to travel to Washington DC for St Patrick's Day.\n\nThey said they took the decision to support ongoing efforts to deal with Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Michelle O'Neill says it was right to cancel Washington trip\n\n\"It's regrettable we're not able to go to the US but ultimately we've a call to make, we've a public health crisis on our hands and we need to make sure we're here to respond,\" said Ms O'Neill.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis is flying to Washington DC as planned to take part in a range of St Patrick's Day events.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, a Belfast call centre with about 1,000 employees closed temporarily after a case of the virus was detected.\n\nLloyds Banking Group, which owns the Halifax centre, said \"a colleague based there was diagnosed with Covid-19\".\n\nThe banking group said it would \"allow for the appropriate areas of the site to be cleaned\".\n\nStaff have been asked to self-isolate, work from home or work from another site\n\n\"Our priority is the wellbeing of the individual, as well as the colleagues and visitors to the building,\" the group added.\n\nColleagues based in the Belfast Gasworks building have been asked to self-isolate, work from home or work from a contingency site depending on which team or part of the building they work in.\n\nMeanwhile, pharmaceutical firm Almac has confirmed that an employee at its Craigavon site has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe firm said it is working with the Public Health Agency and has \"performed a deep clean of the affected area\".\n\n\"The Craigavon campus remains open as does its facilities globally,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDanske Bank has also said that a branch in Armagh has been closed for deep cleaning after an employee reported a suspected case of coronavirus.\n\nDay-to-day life is continuing to be affected by the coronavirus with event cancellations, travel disruption and closures of buildings and offices.\n\nHere are some of the latest developments:\n\nWhile events like St Patrick's Day parades and sporting fixtures have been cancelled, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer has said the evidence around the benefit of cancelling mass gatherings \"is just not there\".\n\nDr Michael McBride said authorities needed to think about \"what happens when we do cancel events\", as, in the case of sporting fixtures, people may gather in each other's homes or bars to watch games.\n\n\"In an enclosed environment, in close proximity to individuals, they may be at even greater risk,\" he said.\n\n\"So we just need to think this through in terms of what the consequences might be of that, not just in terms of what the economic and social costs might be but also in terms of the increased risk.\"\n\nIn the UK, six people have died from the virus while it has been confirmed that Health Minister Nadine Dorries has become the first MP to test positive for the illness.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to Italy.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nMs Dorries said she has been self-isolating at home. Labour MP Rachael Maskell said she has since been told to do the same as she had met Ms Dorries.\n\nThe Department of Health said Ms Dorries first showed symptoms on Thursday - the same day she attended an event hosted by the prime minister.\n\nSix people with the virus have died in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases.\n\nThe latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health conditions.\n\nMeanwhile, a 53-year-old British woman has become the first person with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, to die in Indonesia, according to local media reports.\n\nIt is not clear whether the woman - who was reportedly critically ill with multiple health conditions - died due to the virus.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it is \"supporting the family of a British woman who has died in Indonesia and are in contact with local authorities\".\n\nThe government is unveiling its first Budget, amid growing fears about the impact the outbreak will have on the UK economy.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged the NHS will get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis as well as a \"temporary coronavirus business interruption loan scheme\" to support small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nHe also said the government will meet the cost of statutory sick pay for firms with up to 250 people, and people who are self-employed and fall sick will be eligible for benefits from day one.\n\nThe Bank of England earlier announced an emergency cut in interest rates from 0.75% to 0.25% in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIt is not known how many meetings Ms Dorries had attended at Westminster or in her constituency in recent days, but she was at an event at Downing Street last Thursday to mark International Women's Day.\n\nShe also held a surgery in her constituency on Friday morning which was attended by up to 12 people, according to Steven Dixon, chair of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association.\n\nMr Dixon said the details of all those who attended the surgery have been passed to the NHS.\n\nThe Flitwick Club, where the surgery took place, is undergoing a deep clean as a precaution.\n\nThe Department of Health said ministers - including the prime minister - would not need to undergo testing as Public Health England (PHE) has assessed the risk of Ms Dorries' close contacts and only those with symptoms needed to self-isolate.\n\nBut Labour MP Rachael Maskell tweeted she has been told by NHS 111 to self-isolate \"as a result of a meeting\" she had with Ms Dorries last Thursday.\n\nMs Dorries, who began her career as a nurse, later tweeted it had been \"pretty rubbish but I hope I'm over the worst of it now\".\n\nBut the 62-year-old added she was worried about her 84-year-old mother who was staying with her and began to cough on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nNHS chief scientific officer Prof Dame Sue Hill said the health service was preparing to cope with more cases.\n\n\"Every hospital across the country, and the healthcare professionals who run them, are now actively planning to respond flexibly to manage new demand.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be expected to roll out their own testing services, but there will be some shared capacity between nations, depending on need.\n\nThe number of total cases for the UK include 324 cases in England, 27 in Scotland, 16 in Northern Ireland and 15 in Wales.\n\nThere are 91 in London, with the next highest infected area being the south-east, with 51 cases. Cases by local council area in England can be viewed here.\n\nThe latest person to die, on Monday, was a man in his 80s, with underlying health conditions, who was being treated at Watford General Hospital.\n\nHe caught the virus in the UK and officials are trying to trace who he had been in contact with.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I never thought I'd say this but I'd probably rather be in school,\" says Oliver Fox.\n\nThe Foreign Office has warned Britons against all but essential travel to Italy, which is experiencing the worst outbreak outside China.\n\nItaly has introduced strict travel restrictions, with people being told to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and give justification if they want to leave the country.\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising anyone arriving in the UK from Italy since Monday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What life looks like under Italy's coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe government says it has facilities to accommodate Italian visitors to the UK should they need to self-isolate.\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all of its flights to and from Italy until 4 April, and has asked staff to take voluntary unpaid leave.\n\nEasyjet, Ryanair and Jet2 are also cancelling their flights on Italian routes, though EasyJet will operate \"rescue flights\" to bring British travellers home in the coming days.\n\n\"We know we'll have to go into quarantine when we get home.\"\n\n\"It's the weirdest holiday I think I've ever been on,\" said Hannah Butcher, from Newbury, Berkshire, who is in Rome with her husband for their first holiday alone since having a child.\n\n\"We arrived on Sunday. The advice then was as long as you're not going into Italy's red zone, you're OK.\n\n\"We're currently sitting in a restaurant and everyone here is in staggered rows because they have to sit one metre apart. It's quite weird seeing families spread across multiple tables.\"\n\nShe added that people are \"only allowed to enter shops one at a time\".\n\n\"All the attractions are closed; there are queues out the door of supermarkets and the butchers. There are police driving round making sure the rules are enforced and a noticeable armed police presence, presumably to keep order.\"\n\nShe said they were due to fly home with Ryanair on Wednesday morning and had not been informed of any flight updates.\n\nHave you been affected by coronavirus or know somebody who has been diagnosed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Salmond says he is innocent and has pled not guilty to all 14 of the charges against him\n\nA woman who has accused Alex Salmond of sexually assaulting her on two separate occasions has denied suggestions that the incidents did not happen.\n\nMr Salmond is alleged to have sexually assaulted the woman at his Bute House residence in May 2014 before attempting to rape her there a month later.\n\nDefence lawyer Shelagh McCall QC suggested that the woman was not at Bute House on either date.\n\nBut the witness, known as Woman H, insisted she was telling the truth.\n\nMr Salmond has pled not guilty to charges that he carried out a total 14 sexual assaults on 10 women.\n\nHe says he is innocent of all of the charges against him, which are alleged to have happened while he was serving as Scotland's first minister and the leader of the SNP.\n\nThe woman previously told the court that she had felt \"hunted\" by Mr Salmond, who she claimed had \"pounced on her\" after a dinner at Bute House in June 2014, pulled her clothes off, pushed her onto a bed and then lay naked on top of her despite her protests.\n\nWhile cross-examining the witness on Tuesday afternoon, Ms McCall put it to her that: \"You weren't there at that dinner and there was no incident.\"\n\nWoman H replied: \"I wish on my life that was true, but that is not true. I wish I wasn't there. I wish the first minister had been a nicer and better man and I wasn't here.\"\n\nMs McCall had earlier read out Mr Salmond's official diary for the months in question, which did not mention the Bute House dinner.\n\nBut Woman H said dinners at Bute House could be \"off piste\", with diary events regularly cancelled or rearranged, and that her work meant she was regularly at the first minister's residence.\n\nWhen asked why she had not called for a Bute House security guard to help that night, she said: \"I really wish that I had. I was scared, I was embarrassed and humiliated.\n\n\"Looking back I wish I had screamed, I wish I had physically reacted but I just turned to stone.\"\n\nShe said she wished she had walked out when Mr Salmond started kissing her but had not been able to because she was \"freaking out\" and \"absolutely froze\". \"I was screaming on the inside not on the outside,\" she said.\n\nWoman H said Mr Salmond had been naked apart from his socks, adding: \"I have this image in my memory which will probably last for life.\"\n\nShe also claimed that Mr Salmond was a man who was \"often aggressive and bullying\" who had been \"forcefully trying it on with me\".\n\nAnd she insisted that she was telling the truth about a separate allegation that Mr Salmond had sexually assaulted her at Bute House the previous month by putting his hand down her top, kissing her face and neck and touching her legs.\n\nShelagh McCall QC is one of the defence lawyers representing Mr Salmond during the trial\n\nWoman H had earlier told the court that she had emailed a colleague the day after the alleged attempted rape to say she would not be attending a sporting event with the first minister.\n\nThe woman said she used an arm injury she had previously suffered as an excuse and did not mention the alleged attack because she was \"still in shock\" and had \"just tried to pretend it didn't happen\".\n\nWoman H went on to say she had told her husband while they were on holiday together some time later that she was considering speaking to SNP headquarters about some \"bad things\" involving Mr Salmond that had happened to her during the independence referendum campaign, but had not gone into any detail.\n\nShe said: \"I was trying to work out if there was a process in the party because I was confused and scared and wanted to be secure about talking to anyone before I did so.\n\n\"The first minister was a very powerful man and I didn't want to get on the wrong side of him.\"\n\nWoman H was being questioned for a second day by Crown prosecutor Alex Prentice QC\n\nWoman H said she started having \"flashbacks\" around the time of the #MeToo movement and the Harvey Weinstein case, and that she believed the SNP was starting to look out for cases of sexual harassment so the party could take action.\n\nShe said: \"These issues started to be discussed and I started to have what I could describe as flashbacks. I started to come to the realisation at the October/November 2017 period\".\n\n\"I thought I would call a staff member at SNP HQ who had been dealing with these issues, Ian McCann. I might have texted him first.\"\n\nThe court was shown texts sent to Mr McCann, where he arranged a meeting and gave assurances that the processes would be confidential.\n\nShe said the first time she told the full story was when she spoke to Police Scotland.\n\nSeveral of the 14 charges are alleged to have happened at the first minister's official Bute House residence in Edinburgh\n\nUnder cross-examination, Woman H also described a personal political project in which she had been involved.\n\nThe court was shown texts between Woman H and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheik, a former SNP MP, where Woman H appeared to ask if \"Alex will be OK\" with it and saying it would be \"great to be working with him again\".\n\nThe court was also shown an email from Woman H to Mr Salmond in which she invited him to attend a fundraising event in 2017, but the witness said it was not her idea and she had only sent the email \"out of courtesy\".\n\nThe court had earlier heard that, after Woman H contacted the SNP about making an anonymous complaint about Mr Salmond, she got a reply saying: \"We'll sit on that and hope we never need to deploy it.\"\n\nWoman H said: \"I wanted it to be known in the party so it could become a vetting issue and they could deal with it at whatever stage they saw fit. For vetting, for future staff, for party conduct.\"\n\nWhen asked by Ms McCall whether anyone had encouraged her to speak to the police, Woman H insisted: \"Nobody had cheerled me to do this.\n\n\"I've done this off my own bat. This isn't fun, I'd rather not be here.\"\n\nShe said she had spoken to another complainer about the \"process\", but insisted: \"I made this decision on my own.\"\n\nWoman H went on to say she had been in regular contact with another complainer in the case, known as Woman J. The court was shown text messages in which they apparently discussed the \"AS stuff\".\n\nA text from Woman H to Woman J appeared to say: \"I have a plan and means we can be anonymous but see strong repercussions.\"\n\nWoman H told the court she was \"bricking it\" about Mr Salmond's response, but \"felt I was becoming more secure that the process could be confidential and anonymous\".\n\nShe said the \"repercussions\" mentioned in the text were the police and party taking action over \"misconduct\".\n\nWoman H also said she had been in contact with a complainer known as Woman A, but denied that Woman A had encouraged her to speak to the police.\n\nMr Salmond says he is innocent of all of the allegations against him, and has entered not guilty pleas to all 14 charges.", "Last updated on .From the section Nottm Forest\n\nNottingham Forest and Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis has tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nMarinakis, 52, was at the City Ground for Forest's Championship fixture against Millwall on Friday.\n\nOlympiakos will host Wolves in the Europa League on Thursday, after Uefa rejected Wolves' request for the last-16 first-leg match to be postponed.\n\n\"Mr Marinakis was diagnosed after showing the first symptoms on his return to Greece,\" said Forest.\n\n\"During his stay in Nottingham he did not show any symptoms of the virus.\n\n\"The club are seeking advice from medical professionals and the relevant governing bodies to ensure the correct measures are taken.\"\n\nMarinakis had earlier revealed he had been diagnosed with coronavirus on social media platform Instagram.\n\n\"The recent virus has 'visited' me and I felt obliged to let the public know,\" he said. \"I feel good as I take all the necessary measures and I discipline to the doctor's instructions.\"\n\nMillwall, who won Friday's game in Nottingham 3-0, have said that \"senior club representatives who came into contact with Mr Marinakis have begun a period of self isolation\".\n\nA club spokesman added: \"This is purely a precautionary measure and no individual has displayed any symptoms. The club will continue to follow all necessary guidance from the appropriate bodies.\"\n\nThe Lions are due to host Derby County at The Den on Saturday.\n• None How the coronavirus outbreak has impacted sporting events around the world\n• None Coronavirus and Premier League: Key questions about what lies ahead\n• None The latest news about the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIt was confirmed on Monday that Wolves' last-16 first-leg match at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium was to be played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Premier League club had sold 1,000 tickets for the fixture, with full ticket refunds currently being processed.\n\nThe Greek government announced on Sunday that all professional sports events for the next two weeks will be played without spectators, although Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that events in Britain are unlikely to be affected by coronavirus in the immediate future.\n\nForest, who are fifth in the Championship table and scheduled to play Sheffield Wednesday in their next league game on Saturday, have been in contact with the English Football League, who say matches will continue to take place as scheduled while government guidance remains unchanged.\n\n\"The league is in dialogue to fully ascertain the set of circumstances that existed when Mr Marinakis visited the club last week and in conjunction with the club will make a determination on what measures are to be taken - if any - when full details are known,\" an EFL statement said.\n\nAnalysis: 'Forest keen not to cause panic'\n\nForest are waiting for advice from health officials before taking any further action. They say Marinakis was showing no symptoms of the virus while he was in Nottingham, which may reassure members of the public who might have come into contact with him on Friday.\n\nIt is not yet clear how many staff members or players he came into direct contact with but, as you would expect, the club is being bombarded with questions about how this might affect Saturday's game against Sheffield Wednesday or future matches.\n\nThe genuine answer at the moment is that nobody knows, because they are awaiting medical advice. Once that advice is received, I would expect Forest to follow it to the letter, whatever the consequences regarding football.\n\nAt this stage, though, any speculation would be just that, and Forest are keen that they are not seen to cause panic or to be scare-mongering.\n\nMarinakis was also in attendance at Emirates Stadium in late February when Olympiakos beat Arsenal in the previous round of the Europa League.\n\nAn Arsenal statement read: \"Our home match with Olympiakos in the Europa League was played on Thursday, 27 February and none of our staff who came into contact with Mr Marinakis on that matchday have reported any symptoms since.\n\n\"We continue to follow strict protocols with regard to coronavirus. We're following the government health guidelines and have additional procedures in place to protect our players and staff. This has included regular deep cleaning of areas used by players at Emirates Stadium and our training centre.\"", "Rebecca Evans: \"We are ready for this and it is important that funding is based on need\"\n\nEmergency aid to tackle coronavirus should be based on the demands of Wales' older population, the Welsh Government's finance minister has said.\n\nIt follows a meeting Rebecca Evans held with UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Barclay ahead of the budget.\n\nShe also said the number of Welsh manufacturing jobs means many people will not be able to work from home.\n\nThe budget, on Wednesday, is expected to be dominated by dealing with the immense challenges of the outbreak.\n\nMs Evans joined her counterparts from the UK's other devolved governments in the meeting with Mr Barclay, in Westminster, on Tuesday.\n\nAfter the talks, she told BBC Wales she looked forward to learning what steps to deal with coronavirus were being introduced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his first budget.\n\n\"We are working really well across governments,\" she said. \"This is a real challenge but it is an issue we are prepared for.\n\n\"We are ready for this and it is important that funding is based on need.\n\n\"We have a very large proportion of older people in Wales, more manufacturing jobs in Wales and all of that needs to be taken into consideration.\"\n\nThe minister said she hoped there would be measures to give businesses longer to pay taxes as consequence of coronavirus and ensure swift payments for those claiming Universal Credit.\n\nShe also stressed the need for extra UK government funding to help communities hit by the recent floods.\n\nMr Sunak has insisted UK ministers will take \"whatever action is required\" to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nStephen Barclay is the chancellor's deputy at the Treasury\n\nMeanwhile the Treasury has confirmed the broadcaster S4C will be allowed to claim back VAT on costs incurred from 2021 - putting it back on the same tax footing as ITN (Independent Television News) and the BBC.\n\nS4C's tax status was changed in 2019, requiring it to pay VAT on costs.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at the time agreed to foot the bill in Westminster until the rules were changed so that S4C would again be allowed to recover its VAT payments.\n\nThe Wales Office estimates that, had S4C been required to foot the bill itself, it would have cost S4C up to £15m a year - and S4C has welcomed the announcement saying it would have amounted to a 20% cut in its budget.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our scientists think containment is extremely unlikely to work on its own\"\n\nPeople who show \"even minor\" signs of respiratory tract infections or a fever will soon be told to self-isolate in an effort to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser said the change in advice could happen within the next 10 to 14 days.\n\nFive people have now died from coronavirus in the UK.\n\nIt comes as the Foreign Office warned British residents against all but essential travel to Italy.\n\nItalian authorities are extending strict coronavirus quarantine measures - which include a ban on public gatherings - to the entire country from Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said anyone who arrives from Italy from Tuesday should self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nItaly has more than 9,100 confirmed infections, and more than 460 people have died.\n\nIn the UK, there were 319 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nPeople will be asked to self-isolate for seven days after showing mild symptoms under the new approach, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said.\n\nAll intensive care patients will now be tested for the virus, he said - as well as anyone in hospital with a respiratory infection.\n\nIt comes as two more deaths in the UK were announced.\n\nBoth patients - who were in hospital in Wolverhampton and Carshalton, south London, respectively - were in their 70s and had underlying health conditions.\n\nIn a joint press conference with Prof Whitty in Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson also suggested the elderly and vulnerable could be asked to stay home in the near future, with further steps set out \"in the days and weeks ahead\".\n\nHe said that the more the peak of the spread could be delayed to summer, \"the better the NHS will be able to manage\".\n\nMeanwhile, global shares have suffered their worst day since the financial crisis.\n\nDramatic falls led to it being called Black Monday, with a nearly 8% drop in London's FTSE 100 wiping some £125bn off the value of major UK firms.\n\nIn the US the major stock indexes fell so sharply as the market opened that trading was halted for 15 minutes to curb panicky selling.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to urgently \"reassure the public and markets\".\n\nMr McDonnell said Mr Sunak must use Wednesday's Budget to make clear the government would do \"everything necessary\" to support the economy as the virus spreads.\n\n\"In these circumstances you need to be fast in demonstrating that there is a clear plan,\" he said.\n\nTesco is one of the retailers restricting sales of items such as toilet roll\n\nThe government has announced it is to extend shop delivery hours to ensure that supermarkets have basic items, amid stockpiling concerns.\n\nA European Union expert said the UK had only a \"few days\" to implement measures to prevent an outbreak like the one in Italy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Churston Ferrers Grammar School has reopened - but not all pupils are there in person.\n\nMr Stewart, a former Conservative minister, said the UK should act \"much more aggressively\", adding: \"The government has made a serious mistake today... schools should be shut now.\"\n\nBut the prime minister said the government must \"take the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nMeanwhile, universal credit claimants who have to self-isolate will not be sanctioned, a work and pensions minister has confirmed.\n\nDublin has cancelled its annual St Patrick's Day parade (file photo) in a bid to contain the virus\n\nA number of public and sporting events have been cancelled or postponed due to fears large gatherings could further spread the virus.\n\nThe UK is currently in the first phase - \"containment\" - of the government's four-part plan.\n\nMr Johnson said the government is preparing to move to the second phase - \"delay\" - which will seek to push back the peak of the epidemic to the summer, when there will be less pressure on the NHS.\n\nProf Whitty said introducing measures \"too early\" could become problematic as \"anything we do, we have got to be able to sustain\".\n\nThis is very much the first step in a gradual and phased approach to reducing the impact coronavirus will have in the UK.\n\nA significant outbreak is on its way but the government and its advisers believe they can limit its impact by taking the right steps at the right time.\n\nWe know the first step is to get people with even relatively moderate flu-like symptoms to self-isolate. To date only those who have been to an affected country or who had had close contact with an infected person had been asked to do this.\n\nThis will be followed by further advice later this week that is likely to be focused on protecting the most vulnerable groups - the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions. Reducing social contact will form part of that.\n\nBut drastic steps like closing schools and banning public gatherings are not going to happen in the immediate future.\n\nProf Whitty said that the balance would tip so that more people would suffer from coronavirus rather than regular seasonal flu, or other respiratory infections.\n\n\"We are expecting the numbers to increase initially quite slowly but really quite fast after a while and we have to catch it before the upswing begins,\" he said.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) is due to meet on Tuesday, followed by another meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra, on Wednesday.\n\nUS authorities are planning to fly home Britons who were on board the virus-hit Grand Princess cruise ship on Tuesday, the Foreign Office said.\n\nThere were 142 British people on the ship, which spent five days stranded off the coast of California.\n\nPassenger Linda Stennett, from Shrewsbury, told BBC Radio Shropshire the Foreign Office had confirmed in an email that they would be sending a plane to repatriate Britons.\n\n\"We know when we dock, that the Americans will be getting off first and that is going to take, they reckon, two to three days, and I think we are after that, hopefully.\"\n\nAnother passenger, Margaret Bartlett, 77, from Burnley, Lancashire, said she went \"stir crazy\" on board the ship, which has now docked in Oakland.\n\nAre you affected by the coronavirus outbreak? Tell us about your concerns. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to get to school in a flood\n\nTwo people have been rescued from cars after heavy rain brought flooding to parts of Wales.\n\nThe River Ely burst its banks at Peterston-super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, where members of the public rescued someone from their vehicle.\n\nThere was a second car rescue on the A458 in Cyfronydd, Powys, where wading firefighters rescued a person trapped.\n\nMore than a dozen flood warnings are in place and flooding has closed roads and forced the cancellation of trains.\n\nWitnesses said this car was driven by a young man heading to his first day at a new job\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters were called to the trapped car at Peterston-super-Ely, but local people had already helped the driver escape.\n\nCouncillor Michael Morgan filmed his neighbour Dai Lewis taking a 10-year-old boy to school in a canoe through the village as he did not want to miss his class trip.\n\n\"He has been a local hero recently ferrying people back and fore during the floods,\" said Mr Morgan.\n\nThe Sportsman's Rest pub in Peterston-super-Ely has been flooded for the third time this year\n\nThe Sportsman's Rest pub in Peterston-super-Ely has been flooded for the third time in three weeks.\n\nLandlord Huw Jones said damage caused by flooding in September cost about £100,000.\n\n\"I woke up about 05:45 this morning, jumped out of bed, rang four or five of the regulars and we started lifting fridges, stock, tables and chairs,\" he said.\n\n\"The water was still coming in and was already two or three inches deep. It's about 2ft deep now.\n\n\"It's pointless crying about it, but it's a very stressful time and affects cash flow. It kills the business.\"\n\nThe south Wales main line was flooded near St Fagans\n\nRail services have been disrupted, with trains between Cardiff and Bridgend cancelled due to flooding and bus replacement services operating.\n\nNetwork Rail tweeted just before 17:00 GMT that the line had reopened, but said it could take some time before services were fully restored.\n\nIt advised passengers to check their journey before they travel.\n\nBuilth Wells has been hit by flooding for the second time in three weeks\n\nA number of roads have been affected by flooding, including the A483 at Builth Wells, the A458 at Cyfronydd and A490 at Cilcewydd, all in Powys.\n\nThe A473 at Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taff, is also affected.\n\nCardiff council is advising people to avoid the level crossing at St Fagans due to high river levels.\n\nAnd fields have become lakes adjacent to the roads between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth, according to members of North Wales Police's Rural Crime Team who tweeted a film of their journey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tîm Troseddau Cefn Gwlad HGC/ NWP Rural Crime 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. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople in Powys and Ceredigion had been warned to expect up to 100mm (3.9in) of rain between Monday and Tuesday morning with a Met Office warning.\n\nA yellow \"be alert\" rain warning for elsewhere in Wales was lifted at midday on Tuesday.\n\n\"We will continue to see the risk of localised flooding through the course of today,\" said BBC Wales weather presenter Sabrina Lee.\n\nThere have been flood warnings along the River Severn, the River Ely, the River Wye, as well as the tidal areas at Kidwelly, Laugharne and Pendine in Carmarthenshire and Cardigan in Ceredigion.\n\nThe downpours follow Wales' wettest February on record after storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge battered the UK.\n\nMotorists are being warned not to drive through floodwater after this lorry became trapped near Welshpool\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said staff had been making preparations, such has checking defences and ensuring culverts remained free of blockages.\n\n\"With ground conditions still very saturated, there's scope for flooding on roads across Wales, as water runs off saturated fields,\" said Jeremy Parr, head of flood and incident risk management.\n\nThe yellow warning covered parts of Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Conwy, Denbighshire, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea and Vale of Glamorgan.", "Canada's government is moving ahead with plans for a nationwide ban on conversion therapy.\n\nNewly proposed federal legislation would make it illegal to have a minor undergo the practice or have someone undergo it against their will.\n\nThe so-called therapy seeks to help change someone's sexuality or gender identity and is widely discredited.\n\nFederal Justice Minister David Lametti said the practice was \"premised on a lie\".\n\nThe legislation, introduced on Monday, proposes five changes to the federal criminal code related to conversion therapy.\n\nIf it is passed, it would become illegal to:\n\nMr Lametti said the proposed bill did not target private conversations about sexual orientation or gender identity with the likes of teachers, school counsellors, faith leaders, or mental health professionals.\n\nThe opposition federal NDP said it would work with the minority Liberal government to pass the legislation.\n\nConversion therapy has been widely discredited by major psychotherapy and medical associations in many countries, including Canada, the US and the UK, and is opposed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations.\n\nVarious forms of conversion therapy continue to be carried out across the world on LGBT people, despite scientific evidence that it is harmful and ineffective.\n\nIn 2018, thousands of Canadians rallied behind two petitions calling for a nationwide ban on conversion therapy, but the federal government rejected the plea at the time.\n\nFour provinces in Canada - Ontario, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia - have already taken steps to limit conversion therapy within their jurisdictions, as have some cities.\n\nCanada is not the first country to look at implementing restrictions or bans on the practice.\n\nIt is banned in Ecuador and Malta.\n\nIn November, Germany published a draft law intended to stop groups offering the service to people under 18.\n\nIn 2018, the UK announced plans to bring forward proposals to end conversion therapy, which it called a \"harmful practice\".\n\nIn the US, 20 states have moved ahead with a prohibition on conversion therapy for minors, including California, which did so in 2012, and Utah, which did so this year.", "Actor Max Von Sydow, who appeared in films and TV series including The Exorcist, Flash Gordon and Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 90.\n\nHis family announced \"with a broken heart and infinite sadness\" that the Swedish-born actor died on Sunday.\n\nVon Sydow's other film credits included Hannah and Her Sisters, The Seventh Seal and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.\n\nHe was nominated for two Oscars during his career - including best actor in 1988 for Pelle the Conqueror.\n\nVon Sydow played Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (left) and Bond villain Ernst Blofeld in Never Say Never Again\n\nHis other Academy nomination was best supporting actor for his role in 2011's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.\n\nVon Sydow had a fruitful run of 11 films with legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including The Seventh Seal, in which he famously played chess with Death.\n\nHollywood came calling, but he reportedly turned down the role of Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music.\n\nVon Sydow (right) with Bengt Ekerot in 1957's The Seventh Seal\n\nHe agreed to cross the Atlantic to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965, and his global success grew with memorable roles like the priest Father Lankester Merrin in 1973 horror The Exorcist.\n\nVon Sydow also appeared in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, and played comic book villain Ming the Merciless in 1980's Flash Gordon.\n\n\"I really enjoyed that film. I grew up reading Flash Gordon so it was sort of nostalgic for me,\" he once told The Times.\n\nIn 1983, Von Sydow played evil again when he was cast as the sinister Ernst Blofeld in James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again.\n\nHe was often typecast in Hollywood as the sophisticated villain, which the Associated Press said was down to him being \"tall and lanky, with sullen blue eyes, a narrow face, pale complexion and a deep and accented speaking voice\".\n\nBut he once said in an interview: \"What I as an actor look for is a variety of parts. It is very boring to be stuck in more or less one type of character.\"\n\nDescribing him in 2007, the Los Angeles Times wrote: \"Von Sydow is an inherently imposing screen presence with distinctive chiselled features. But in person, he is a warm, unpretentious man profoundly grateful for a career that he himself refuses to consider remarkable.\"\n\nHe appeared as Lor San Tekka in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens\n\nVon Sydow was nominated for an Emmy in 1990 for his role in the HBO thriller Red King, White Knight.\n\nHe continued acting late in life, voicing a character in The Simpsons in 2014, appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, and in three episodes of Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven in 2016, which earned him a second Emmy nomination.\n\nDirector Edgar Wright led the tributes on Twitter, writing: \"Max Von Sydow, such an iconic presence in cinema for seven decades, it seemed like he'd always be with us.\n\n\"He changed the face of international film with Bergman, played Christ, fought the devil, pressed the HOT HAIL button and was Oscar nominated for a silent performance. A god.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFilm critic Guy Lodge said Von Sydow was \"an actor who could bring great gravity to weightless junk, and quick, unpredictable humanity to, well, very grave films\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Guy Lodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Scott Weinberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVon Sydow was christened Carl Adolf, names which nod to his German ancestry.\n\n\"After the war Adolf was not a good name,\" he explained in 2003. \"And then when I got into theatre, people had trouble remembering the combination of Carl Adolf. So I thought I had to find something that people will remember and that sounds more artistic.\n\n\"When I was in the army we used to put on a revue, and I had a number with a fictitious flea called Max that could perform all kinds of tricks. This was a great success. After that evening the colonel always called me Max.\"\n\nVon Sydow has four sons - two with his first wife Christina Inga Britta Olin. In 1997, he married Catherine Brelet in Provence and became a citizen of France five years later, meaning he relinquished his Swedish citizenship.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Eight of Max Von Sydow's most famous roles", "President Ashraf Ghani's decree asks prisoners to sign a guarantee they will \"not return to the battlefield\"\n\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani has approved the release of 1,500 Taliban prisoners as part of efforts to secure a peace deal with the insurgent group.\n\nThe presidential decree requires all prisoners to give \"a written guarantee to not return to the battlefield\".\n\nIn exchange, the Taliban has agreed to hand over 1,000 government troops.\n\nIt comes as the US begins withdrawing troops from the country as part of a linked agreement signed earlier with the Taliban.\n\nAccording to the decree signed by President Ghani, all 1,500 prisoners will be released within 15 days, \"with 100 prisoners walking out of Afghan jails every day\".\n\nTalks between the Afghan government and Taliban will take place in parallel with the release. If talks progress, the government has pledged to free 500 more Taliban prisoners every two weeks until a total of 5,000 have been released.\n\nAs part of the agreement, the Taliban must continue its reduction in violence, and bar al-Qaeda or any other extremist groups from operating in areas under their control.\n\nThe prisoner release is intended to build trust between both sides and kick off direct talks to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. The talks were due to start on Tuesday, but negotiations were delayed by demands over the prisoner release.\n\nA Taliban leader told AFP news agency the group would only accept prisoners from a list of captives it wants freed\n\nSpeaking with AFP news agency, an unnamed member of the Taliban's leadership council said the group had presented a list of captives they wanted freed. But he accused the government of acting in bad faith, saying it only planned to release \"those prisoners who are elderly, very ill, or those whose sentences have expired\".\n\nThe Taliban's political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, tweeted on Tuesday that the group would only accept prisoners named on their list.\n\nUnder the presidential decree, the government will release Taliban prisoners \"based on their age, health status and the remaining jail term\".\n\nPresident Ghani had earlier refused to free 5,000 prisoners as part of the US agreement with the Taliban, but Wednesday's decree signalled a softening of his stance.\n\nUnder the historic deal, endorsed by the UN Security Council, America also agreed to reduce its troops from about 12,000 to 8,600 within 135 days. The US and its Nato allies have agreed to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible?\n\nAmerica's drawdown began on Monday, but deal appeared fragile last week after the US launched an air strike in response to Taliban fighters attacking Afghan forces in Helmand province.\n\nFresh political instability has also threatened the prospect of talks between all sides in the country.\n\nTwo separate swearing-in ceremonies took place on Monday for two different politicians after disputed presidential elections last year.\n\nAfghanistan's electoral commission says incumbent Mr Ghani narrowly won September's vote, but Abdullah Abdullah alleges the result is fraudulent.\n\nExperts warned the current political rivalry would \"gravely affect the government's position\" during peace talks.\n\nThe Trump administration has also said it opposed \"action to establish a parallel government,\" in an apparent show of support for Mr Ghani's presidency.", "Newtownhamilton Primary School and High School are both closed\n\nTwo schools and three more sports clubs have closed in Northern Ireland over confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nNewtownhamilton High School and primary school, both located on the same site in the County Armagh town, are closed after a student tested positive.\n\nWest Belfast GAA club St Gall's has closed its clubhouse after a member was diagnosed.\n\nTwo amateur football clubs have also closed their grounds after a player tested positive.\n\nTandragee Rovers, in County Armagh, said a senior player had been diagnosed with the virus.\n\nCounty Down-based club Moneyslane, who hosted Tandragee in a match on Saturday, have also closed their Jubilee Park ground.\n\nThe two football clubs and St Gall's have suspended training and participation in matches.\n\nIt now means five football amateur football clubs have been affected by the coronavirus, after a player with Portadown-based club Hanover FC tested positive.\n\nThe other clubs affected are Coagh United, in County Tyrone, and Crewe United, from Glenavy in County Antrim.\n\nThe principal of Newtownhamilton High School, Neil Megaw, said the schools had closed for the rest of the week as a precautionary measure.\n\n\"The PHA has advised us that the risk to pupils and staff of the school is very low,\" he said.\n\nThe high school is due to re-open on Monday, 16 March and the primary will re-open on Wednesday, 18 March.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann announced the closure of two schools without naming them in a statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Swann also said 222 tests had been carried out so far in Northern Ireland with 12 positive cases confirmed.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the health minister said the chancellor had made it clear that additional funding would be made available to tackle coronavirus.\n\n\"We will get our part of that either through Barnett [Formula] or through need,\" he said.\n\nAsked about how many people in Northern Ireland could contract coronavirus, he said: \"A figure that is generally available in the public is that, moving from what could be worst case scenario to very worst case scenario, we are looking at between 50% to 80% level of infection across the general population.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the club secretary for St Gall's GAA club said the club member who tested positive was last at the club on Sunday 1 March.\n\n\"He was in the bar at the club house but did not attend any matches,\" said Sinead Mullan.\n\n\"We've closed the club house for a deep clean and cancelled all training as a precautionary measure.\n\n\"We have a duty of care to those who attend Naomh Gall and the Public Health Agency are aware and are liaising with him.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, Tandragee Rovers said a senior player had tested positive for Covid-19.\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\"We commend the actions of our player for self-isolating and getting tested as soon as he became aware that he had been in contact with a person who had also tested positive over the weekend.\"\n\nIt said the clubhouse would remain closed until it underwent its deep clean, while the Mid-Ulster Football League has been informed.\n\nThe club has also cancelled all training until Monday, 23 March and suspended its participation in matches for the next two weeks.\n\nMoneyslane, who played Tandragee in a match last Saturday, said its Jubilee Park ground was closed and training had been suspended until further notice.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a statement on social media, the club asked that anyone who attended the game follow public health guidelines.\n\nHowever it added that anyone who attended a fundraising event at the Belmont Hotel on Saturday did not come into direct contact with the confirmed case.\n\nManufacturing firm Sensata also carried out a precautionary deep clean, related to Covid-19, at one of its Northern Ireland sites.\n\nThe BBC understands a family member of an employee had recently been on holiday in a high-risk country.\n\nThe firm employs around 1,000 people in Carrickfergus and Antrim. Staff in the affected area were sent home while the cleaning took place.\n\nThe firm said the clean was conducted out of an \"abundance of caution\" and staff were expected back at work on Tuesday.\n\nThe news comes after Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster said the UK should maintain a \"common sense approach\" to the coronavirus.\n\nShe was speaking in London after an emergency Cobra meeting.\n\nThe UK is remaining in the \"containment\" stage of its response to the coronavirus.\n\n\"The advice remains the same, if you have flu-like symptoms - stay at home and away from others,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cobra meeting was called to decide whether to bring in measures to delay the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nBanning big events and closing schools were said to have been considered, but Downing Street said the prime minister \"will be guided by the best scientific advice\" but there was no need to cancel sporting events at this stage.\n\nThree new cases were confirmed in Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nThey were adults who had recently travelled from Italy, which is at the centre of the European outbreak, and were linked to a previous case.\n\nThere were 319 confirmed cases in the UK as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the number of confirmed cases stands at 24 as of Monday evening.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "The decision to delay closing schools and introduce other strict measures to combat coronavirus has been defended by England's deputy chief medical officer.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said experts are assessing new cases on an hourly basis to achieve a \"balanced response\".\n\nIt comes as a man in his early 80s became the sixth person with the virus to die in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, many airlines cut thousands of flights, including to and from Italy, in the wake of the outbreak.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there were 373 confirmed cases as of 09:00 GMT on Tuesday. Of them, 324 are in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland announced four more cases, bringing its total to 16, and Scotland confirmed another four cases, increasing its number to 27.\n\nThe latest death happened on Monday evening and was a man with underlying health conditions who was being looked after at Watford General Hospital, the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust said.\n\nHe caught the virus in the UK and officials are trying to trace who he was in contact with, the country's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said.\n\nEarlier, Dr Harries said the vast majority of those diagnosed with coronavirus in Britain are \"pretty well\" but that they may \"feel a bit rough for a few days\".\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast new government measures could follow as UK cases begin to rise rapidly over the next two weeks.\n\nShe added that people with flu-like symptoms will be advised to self-isolate within 10 to 14 days and, at the same time, significant increases in the number of cases are likely to begin.\n\nDr Harries said cancelling big outdoor events like football matches would not necessarily be a decision supported by science.\n\n\"The virus will not survive very long outside,\" she said. \"Many outdoor events, particularly, are relatively safe.\"\n\nItaly's extended quarantine measures require residents to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and justify leaving the country.\n\nOn Sunday, a 60-year-old man from Greater Manchester became the third person to die after contracting coronavirus after recently visiting northern Italy.\n\nThe son said his father fell ill \"instantly\" after returning to the UK at the end of February. He turned up at a local health centre for a routine appointment and, when he said he had been to Italy, \"panic broke out\".\n\nHis father was taken to North Manchester General Hospital and the rest of the family were told to self-isolate - with Public Health England sending daily texts asking if they are showing symptoms.\n\n\"Since we cannot go outside we regularly called the ward where he was ill,\" the man's son told BBC Bengali. \"And on a daily basis and we asked them how he was. They did not allow me to speak to him directly.\n\nThe son said his father - who had underlying conditions - was \"healthy\" by his own standards\n\n\"The first couple of days he was fairly stable but after that they were saying his blood was not oxygenated enough. Also his heartbeat was not stable either.\"\n\nThe son said they received a phone call from the hospital saying his father - who had underlying conditions including arthritis, heart problems, and cholesterol - had died.\n\n\"Obviously I could not believe it because two months ago this thing didn't even exist and today it took away my father.\n\n\"It took me quite a long time to process the whole thing that I'm not going to be able to see him anymore.\"\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all of its flights to and from Italy until 4 April, and has asked staff to take voluntary unpaid leave.\n\nRyanair will cancel all its flights to and from Italy from Saturday until 8 April, while Easyjet cancelled the majority of its flights to and from the country and Jet2 cancelled its Italian routes until 26 April.\n\nBA said customers due to fly to or from Italy before 4 April can rebook to a later date until the end of May, move their destination to Geneva or Zurich, or receive a full refund.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"The advice is that anyone who arrives from Italy subsequent to the Italian government decision should now self-isolate for 14 days.\"\n\nDowning Street said Italians arriving in the UK were being given the same advice as Britons to self-isolate and that the government had facilities available to accommodate them.\n\nMeanwhile airline Norwegian, which operates from several UK airports, said it was cutting 3,000 flights and reducing staff numbers after a fall in demand it attributed to coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThe NHS has unveiled a range of measures as part of its response to try to stop fake news being spread about coronavirus on the internet.\n\nSearches for \"coronavirus\" on Google, Facebook and YouTube will now promote information from the National Health Service or the World Health Organization.\n\nThe NHS said it had worked with Twitter to take down an account claiming to be a hospital and spreading false information, while it is also speaking out against homeopaths promoting false treatments online.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the actions meant the public could access accurate health information \"which is more crucial than ever as we continue our response to coronavirus\".\n\nThe UK is currently in the first phase - \"containment\" - of the government's four-part plan.\n\nAsked about statutory sick pay for workers who are not currently eligible, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs that \"whatever the status of people\" who are employed, the government will \"ensure that they will get the support so they're not penalised for doing the right thing\".\n\nOn Monday, health officials said people who showed \"even minor\" signs of respiratory tract infections or a fever would - within the next 14 days - be told to self-isolate for a week in an effort to tackle the outbreak.\n\nThe UK government has also announced it is to extend shop delivery hours to ensure that supermarkets have basic items, amid stockpiling concerns.\n\nThe environment department, Defra, said by allowing night-time deliveries - currently restricted to avoid disturbing locals - stock would be able to move more quickly from warehouses to shelves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: \"We didn't see daylight for days\" on ship\n\nMeanwhile, US authorities are expected to fly home Britons who were on board the virus-hit Grand Princess cruise ship later, according to the Foreign Office.\n\nThere were 142 British people on the ship, which spent five days stranded off the coast of California.\n\nHowever, one of the Britons on board, Jackie Bissell, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had yet to hear from the ship's captain about her departure.\n\n\"They haven't said anything about when we can go,\" she said. \"It's very unnerving to be left out here when we don't know what's going to happen.\"\n\nElsewhere, crowds exceeding 60,000 are expected on all four days of horse racing's Cheltenham Festival, which starts on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt comes after Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said there was no reason to cancel such events due to coronavirus, although many other sporting fixtures, including the Six Nations and Formula One, have been affected.\n\nWhat are your experiences relating to the coronavirus outbreak? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has not ruled out running for president again beyond 2024, when his term ends.\n\nBut he told parliament on Tuesday that the Constitutional Court would first have to approve such a step. An MP has proposed \"resetting to zero\" the number of presidential terms.\n\nMr Putin, 67, could potentially stay in power until 2036, by winning two more six-year terms.\n\nThe former Soviet KGB officer has been in power for 20 years.\n\nThe lower house of parliament, the Duma, included the proposed \"reset to zero\" when it passed a draft law on changing the constitution in its third and final reading on Wednesday. The bill was also approved by senators in Russia's upper house later in the day.\n\nIn 1963 Valentina Tereshkova, as a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman in space\n\nThe amendments addressed by Mr Putin in his televised speech on Tuesday were put forward by MP Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space and a strong supporter of his presidency. Most MPs in parliament - the State Duma - are pro-Putin.\n\nVladimir Putin had denied, several times, that he wanted to stay on in power. So he did his best to appear reluctant to accept this proposal, framing it as a demand \"from below\".\n\nEven so, he stressed the need for stability at a \"tumultuous\" time, suggesting that Russia is not developed enough yet for a change of president.\n\nMany people won't have a problem with that. If they don't actually like Mr Putin, they don't mind him too much either. Plenty of people view him as a strong leader who stands up to the West. Talk of there being no alternative is also commonplace.\n\nBut this move is not without risk for the Kremlin. It now looks like the entire constitutional reform process was about ensuring Mr Putin's future, and that gives the opposition something concrete to rally against.\n\nThe last time he schemed to stay in power, engineering a temporary job-swap with his prime minister, there were mass street protests. Mr Putin's critics are now facing the prospect of him staying in office into his 80s.\n\nBy serving as prime minister in 2008-2012, Mr Putin remained at the pinnacle of power without violating the two-term rule. His close ally Dmitry Medvedev was president for those four years.\n\nRussia will hold a \"public vote\" on 22 April to decide if constitutional changes will go ahead. They could significantly alter the balance of power between the presidency and parliament.\n\nAuthorities in Moscow have imposed a temporary ban on public gatherings of more than 5,000 people, citing the coronavirus outbreak. However, opposition figures argue the ban is merely an attempt to stifle dissent against the changes that allow Mr Putin to stay in power.\n\nThe reset proposal would, according to Mr Putin, mean \"removing the restriction for any person, any citizen, including the current president, and allowing them to take part in elections in the future, naturally in open and competitive elections\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ordinary Russians have taken to appealing directly to Putin to solve their problems\n\nIt could go ahead if approved by citizens in the public vote on 22 April, he said, and \"if the Constitutional Court rules such an amendment would not go against (the constitution)\".\n\nMr Putin rejected as \"not expedient\" a different proposal that would simply lift the current prohibition on a president serving more than two consecutive terms.\n\nMr Putin also said he saw no need for early elections to the Duma, rejecting another MP's proposal.\n\nHe triggered intense debate about changing the constitution when, unexpectedly, he put forward draft amendments in January. He proposed transferring some powers from the presidency to parliament.\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, he said \"a strong presidency is absolutely essential\", but he added that the Duma \"should get wider powers\".\n\nSuch changes were needed, he said, \"to strengthen our sovereignty, traditions and values\" in a world in the throes of fundamental change, including new challenges such as digital technology and coronavirus.\n\nIn the long term, he said, Russia \"needs a guarantee that the people in power can be changed regularly\", and he insisted that \"elections must be open and competitive\".\n\nHe also ruled out a Western-style parliamentary system, remarking that \"for years in some European countries they cannot form a government\".", "Bernie Sanders is projected to lose Michigan, a state where he drew an adoring crowd of about 10,000 just two days ago.\n\nJonathan Turley, a law professor and BBC contributor who was visiting the college campus in Ann Arbor, spoke to supporters. He found clues that explain both the senator's popularity with young people - and also the limits of his appeal with his own older generation.\n\nNow, he has not just the numbers but the movement that he always dreamt of. Indeed, he is the movement. While some might not want socialism, everyone in this crowd desperately wants Sanders.\n\nArden Shapiro and Hazel Gordon are precisely why the Democratic establishment is so worried about this movement - and so seemingly incapable of tapping into its energy. While they would vote for Biden if forced to in an election against Trump, they see Sanders as the only true and clear voice in the race.\n\nArden said that she was \"really angry\" about the level of corporate control in our system perpetrated by both parties. A trans woman, Hazel said that she saw Sanders as the only person truly fighting to help people secure medical insurance, particularly mental health coverage.\n\nHazel said that she viewed Biden as taking the side of corporations and did not support anything she believed in. Arden would later help introduce Sanders at the rally and called on her fellow students to bring five friends to the polling places to secure a win in Michigan over the establishment.\n\nOthers were even more direct. There were the guys distributing \"Eat the Rich\" T-shirts. Another supporter carried a sign reading \"Make Racists Afraid Again\". Those images unnerve many traditional Democratic voters who see this movement as potentially careening out of control.", "Protesters carried pink crosses to mark the victims of gender-based violence\n\nMillions of women in Mexico have taken part in a day-long strike to highlight rising levels of gender-based violence.\n\nThe protest, dubbed \"The Day Without Us\", saw women across the country stay home from work and school on Monday.\n\nIn Mexico City, few women could be seen on public transport, in major shopping areas or in restaurants and cafes.\n\nAn estimated 10 women are killed each day in Mexico and police are investigating more than 700 cases of \"femicide\", the killing of women.\n\nMany schools were closed as a result of the protest and female students boycotted university lectures.\n\nWomen stayed home from work and school across the country\n\n\"This is what a society without women would look like,\" Jorge Luna, a 21-year-old employee at a cafe where only male staff turned up for work, told AFP news agency.\n\nSome women who did choose to work wore purple ribbons or clothing to express solidarity with the action. Several newspapers featured purple-coloured pages and left empty spaces where women writers would normally have appeared.\n\nPairs of women's red shoes are seen here displayed next to a toy gun\n\nFemale students boycotted university lectures and many schools were closed\n\nThe protest followed a huge demonstration in Mexico City on Sunday that marked International Women's Day.\n\nAbout 80,000 people took to the streets and there were clashes between police and protesters.\n\nThe rally began peacefully, but police said some groups threw petrol bombs and officers responded with tear gas. More than 60 people were injured.\n\nThe strike followed a mass demonstration in Mexico City on Sunday\n\nThat march attracted tens of thousands but was marred by clashes between the police and protesters\n\nThe problem of violence against women in Mexico is getting worse and the government is being accused of inaction.\n\nPresident López Obrador was criticised in February for suggesting that media were \"manipulating\" the problem. He later said his government was attentive to the issue.", "Four new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by the Department of Health, bringing the total number of cases in Northern Ireland to 16.\n\nAll four cases are adults and one case involved travel from northern Italy.\n\nThree of the cases can be traced to a previously reported case that involved recent travel to northern Italy.\n\nMeanwhile, the Western Health Trust has asked people not to visit patients in its hospitals and community facilities unless it is \"absolutely essential\".\n\nIt also appealed to those attending appointments to come 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 Western Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Public Health Agency is currently undertaking contact tracing for all four new cases in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a tweet, the Public Health Agency said that there have been 237 tests carried out in Northern Ireland, of which 221 have been negative.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 10 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Tuesday bringing the total to 34.\n\nIn the UK, six people have died from the virus while it has been confirmed that Health Minister Nadine Dorries has become the first MP to test positive for the illness.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting of the EU Council, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar said leaders agreed their highest priority \"must be protecting public health and human life preventing the spread of the virus and working to mitigate its impact on our people\".\n\n\"We agreed funding research in Europe to help develop new tests, new treatments and a vaccine as rapidly as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"We agreed the need for a coordinated approach for the procurement of medicines, medical devices and protective equipments.\"\n\nMr Varadkar said European leaders had also considered the potential economic impact of this crisis which, he said, could be \"severe and long lasting\".\n\nLeaders agreed the \"necessary flexibilities\" would be made available.\n\nHe said health and other relevant ministers would talk to each other on a daily basis.\n\nDisruption caused by the virus in Northern Ireland continues, with the first and deputy first ministers announcing the cancellation of their planned trip to Washington DC.\n\nNorthern Ireland's largest cinema chain has announced a 'seat separation' policy - in which every other seat will be left empty - while St Patrick's Day parades in Londonderry, Newry and Downpatrick have been cancelled.\n\nNorthern Ireland Finance Minister Conor Murphy met Treasury officials on Tuesday in London along with counterparts in Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe said he would work to ensure that Northern Ireland gets the necessary \"associated support\" from Westminster to mitigate any economic damage caused by coronavirus.\n\n\"I would intend to continue that conversation because as this unfolds, none of us know what the full impact will be,\" he told MLAs in Belfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This virus will continue to spread'\n\nDr Michael McBride, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, said he is anticipating \"increased numbers of cases over the next weeks and months\".\n\n\"That won't be a sign of failure but it will be evidence that this virus continues to spread and we will, at some point in time I anticipate, see the emergence of community transmission.\"\n\nHe added that no one in Northern Ireland had yet suffered from severe illness because of coronavirus and people \"can be reassured that for the vast majority of people this is a mild to moderate illness\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to Italy.\n\nAn FCO spokesman said: \"The advice is that anyone who arrives from Italy subsequent to the Italian government decision should now self-isolate for 14 days.\"\n\nOn Monday the Italian authorities extended strict quarantine measures to the entire country from Tuesday.\n\nIrish Tánaiste Simon Coveney has also upgraded advice to Irish citizens, recommending against travel to the whole of Italy.", "The man was in isolation at North Manchester General Hospital\n\nA coronavirus patient died in quarantine before his family got to say goodbye, his son has said.\n\nThe 60-year-old man, the third person with the virus to die in the UK, had recently returned from Italy.\n\nHe was put in isolation at North Manchester General Hospital after a visit to his GP, but died five days later.\n\nHis son told the BBC relatives, who have been advised to self-isolate, were unable to schedule a funeral.\n\n\"When they broke the news to me that he passed away - obviously I could not believe it,\", the man's son said.\n\n\"We all burst into tears.\n\n\"I can't express how it feels to know that I won't be able to see him again,\" he added.\n\n\"Two months ago, this thing didn't even exist and now it took away my father.\"\n\nThe son, who does not want to be named, said \"panic broke out\" when his father turned up for a regular check-up at his GP's surgery wearing a mask.\n\nHe told staff he'd been on a two-week holiday in Italy where the family used to live and returned on 29 February for his scheduled appointment.\n\nThe 60-year-old, who is originally from Bangladesh, suffered from cholesterol, arthritis, heart problems, liver problems and shortness of breath.\n\nHe was immediately put into isolation and his family advised to quarantine themselves.\n\n\"The first couple of days, he was fairly stable but after that they were saying his blood was not oxygenated enough,\" said his son.\n\n\"Since we cannot go outside, we regularly called the ward and we asked daily how he was.\n\nThey did not allow me to speak to him directly.\"\n\nHe said the family receive daily texts from Public Health England asking if they are showing signs of the virus.\n\n\"So far… none of us have shown any symptoms,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Railways will be among the infrastructure to see a boost in funding after Wednesday's budget\n\nThe government will promise to raise infrastructure spending to its highest in decades in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nIt will pledge to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research.\n\nThe Treasury told the BBC it would lead to the \"highest levels [of investment] in real terms since 1955\" - more than £600bn over the five-year Parliament.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will present the Budget less than a month into the job.\n\nIt comes as the government faces calls for increased investment in a number of sectors to help tackle the coronavrius outbreak.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS would get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was looking at extra financial help for individuals and businesses if measures against the virus meant they were out of pocket.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Sunak will promise a gross amount of over £600bn for capital spending - money put into projects like roads and rail - by the middle of 2025.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"We have listened and will now deliver on our promise to level up the UK, ensuring everyone has the same chances and opportunities in life, wherever they live.\n\n\"By investing historic amounts in British innovation and world-class infrastructure, we will rebalance opportunities and lay the foundations for a decade of growth for everybody.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the decision marked a significant increase in the amount of spending on capital projects compared to the period since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979.\n\nHowever, she said it was not yet clear if the government would stick to its own fiscal rules set out in its manifesto.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the plans were \"exaggerated claims\".\n\nHe added: \"We've heard it all before. \"The Chancellor seems to have forgotten we have to dig ourselves out of the £192bn hole in our infrastructure spend created by his government.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a track record of boastful claims followed by non delivery and it looks like he is running true to form.\"\n\nIf you wondered what the government's new buzz phrase of \"levelling up\" was meant to mean, the Conservatives will try to provide the answer tomorrow.\n\nIn his first budget, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will commit to the biggest increase on spending on capital - roads, rail, research - that there has been in generations.\n\nHe's expected to promise to sign a hypothetical cheque of more than £600bn of gross public sector investment, to be cashed by the middle of 2025, we understand.\n\nAnd the Treasury tonight claims it will push public investment in real terms to levels not seen since 1955.\n\nBut it's wise to be careful with the historical claims. The economy is totally different to that era.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nThe government is also set to pledge £2.5bn to fixing potholes in England as part of the Budget.\n\nThe Treasury said the funding package would also be available to local authorities to start resurfacing works, preventing potholes from appearing in the first place.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell said the policy was part of a \"gimmicky grab-bag of projects\".", "Sky's call centre is based in Cardiff's new Capital Quarter in Butetown\n\nA call centre worker in Cardiff has been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nIn a statement, Sky said: \"We can confirm that a Sky colleague in our Cardiff contact centre has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and they are self-isolating at home.\"\n\nIts office in the Capital Quarter on Tyndall Street was evacuated at 14:30 GMT on Tuesday and has been closed for deep cleaning.\n\nTo date, Public Health Wales (PHW) has confirmed six cases in Wales.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 373, a rise of 54 on Monday's figure.\n\nThe office will re-open on Thursday, Sky's spokesman said\n\nThere are 324 confirmed cases in England, 27 in Scotland, 16 in Northern Ireland and six in Wales.\n\nOn Tuesday, a man in his early 80s became the sixth person in the UK with the virus to die.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nSky's senior corporate communications manager Dale Bihari said the office would re-open on Thursday, adding: \"Protecting our people is - and always will be - our top priority and so we are closing the contact centre today and sending everyone home as a precaution.\n\n\"We're contacting anyone who has been in contact with our colleague.\"\n\nPHW has so far confirmed one case in Swansea, one in Cardiff, two in Pembrokeshire, one in Newport and one in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nMeanwhile, a number of community testing units (CTUs) have been set up across Wales.\n\nA drive-through testing centre has opened in a former playing field changing rooms off the M4 in Swansea\n\nIn north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it had opened three drive-through units at Rossett Clinic in Wrexham, Bryn y Neuadd Hospital in Llanfairfechan, Conwy county, and Ysbyty Alltwen in Porthmadog, Gwynedd.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board has also opened two CTUs - one in Cardigan in Ceredigion and another in Carmarthen.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it had opened a drive-through testing centre in a former playing field changing rooms off the M4.\n\nVisits to all units must be arranged through the 111 service.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned assembly members the coronavirus outbreak could put \"enormous strain\" on public services in Wales, including the NHS.\n\nThe Wales v Scotland game will see more than 70,000 fans in Cardiff on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union has also updated its advice for fans planning on heading to the Wales v Scotland Six Nations match on Saturday.\n\nThe clash is still going ahead, and rugby officials in Wales said they were following the latest guidelines from PHW and the World Health Organization.\n\nThe WRU said hand sanitiser stations will be in place across Cardiff's Principality Stadium, and stewards have been given guidance on coronavirus.\n\n\"We recommend that you do not attend the match if you have been advised to self-isolate,\" said match officials in Cardiff.\n\nItaly's extended quarantine measures require residents to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and justify leaving the country.", "European leaders have agreed they should allow member states the leeway they need to protect their economies against the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAmong the measures is a coronavirus response investment fund backed by €7.5bn in EU funding - subject to approval by member states and the European Parliament, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"We will use all the tools at our disposal to make sure the European economy weathers this storm,\" EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said.\n\nThe proposed investment fund would be aimed at healthcare systems and small businesses, she added.\n\n\"Europe is united and must take into consideration the fact that we are going through an exceptional crisis today, which requires exceptional responses,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said after holding a video conference with other EU leaders to co-ordinate a response to the outbreak.\n\nThe EU also said it would soon suspend rules forcing airlines to run empty planes on pain of forfeiting routes.", "The report says people will need to fly less\n\nThe UK cannot go climate neutral much before 2050 unless people stop flying and eating red meat almost completely, a report says.\n\nBut it warns that the British public do not look ready to take such steps and substantially change their lifestyle.\n\nThe report challenges the views of campaign group Extinction Rebellion.\n\nIt believes the UK target of climate neutrality by 2050 will result in harm to the climate.\n\nThe claim comes from the government-funded research group Energy Systems Catapult, whose computer models are used by the Committee on Climate Change, which advises government.\n\nIts report says: \"A number of groups have called for net zero to be accelerated to 2025, 2030 or 2040.\n\n\"Achieving net zero significantly earlier than 2050 in our modelling exceeds even our most speculative measures, with rates of change for power, heat and road transport that push against the bounds of plausibility.\"\n\nBut the authors offer some optimism too. They calculate that the UK can cut emissions fast enough to be climate neutral by 2050 – but only if ministers act much more quickly.\n\nThey say the government urgently needs to invest in three key technologies: carbon capture and storage with bioenergy crops; hydrogen for a wide variety of uses; and advanced nuclear power.\n\nThe report modelled options for society to 2050. It concluded that if decisions are made early, the cost of climate neutrality can be held down to 1-2% of national wealth - GDP.\n\nScenarios rely on some technologies still in their infancy, which will be controversial. For instance, it draws heavily on burning energy crops, capturing the carbon emissions and burying them underground.\n\nIt says hydrogen use will need to grow to supply industry, heat and heavy transport.\n\nElectricity generation will need to double with heavy reliance on solar power and offshore wind.\n\nControversially, it calls for small, modular nuclear reactors to support three-quarters of heating in cities through district heating systems. Modular reactors are much smaller than conventional reactors, and brought to a site in a kit of parts to be assembled.\n\nIt warns that livestock production for dairy and meat may need to be cut by 50% rather than the 20% currently envisaged by the Committee on Climate Change. And people will need to eat less meat and dairy by the same amount.\n\nThe report’s author, Scott Milne, said: “Whichever pathway the UK takes, innovation, investment and inducements across low-carbon technology, land use and lifestyle are essential to achieve net zero.\n\nAdopting new technologies, such as hydrogen energy, will be crucial\n\n\"And there are massive economic opportunities for the UK to lead the world in these areas.\"\n\nHowever, the report warns that the public do not appear ready for substantial lifestyle changes. It warns, for instance, that if people’s homes are better insulated, they may choose to spend the same amount on heating to deliver a warmer home.\n\nIt says: “Early evidence suggests a general willingness to adopt new technologies (such as new heating or mobility) as long as these can deliver the same experiences as before.\n\n“Conversely, approaching the subject of dietary change or aviation often elicits a more resistant and emotional response.”\n\nSome experts will be critical of the report’s expectation that new technologies such as carbon capture and storage will be rapidly adopted.\n\nA recent report said it was unrealistic to expect that carbon capture and hydrogen will develop fast enough to achieve the net zero target.\n\nA spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion told BBC News: \"The global response to coronavirus shows we can radically address crises if we put our minds to it. Meanwhile, the net zero date has not been put to the people of the UK.\n\n\"The science tells us that net zero by 2050 means a hell of a lot worse than giving up flying and red meat - people are dying now around the world as you read this due to governmental inaction.\"\n\nThe report was not welcomed by the National Beef Association.\n\nIts spokesman Neil Shand told BBC News that scientific studies typically underestimate the role of livestock in capturing carbon in the soil.\n\nHe said: “It does seem rather unfortunate that the report links beef production and aviation in this way.\n\n“The timing is more than a little ironic; the shops are full of people panic-buying and it seems clear that the nation’s food sector relies very heavily on imports, and the associated transport that brings them into the UK.\n\n\"Food produced on their own doorstep, using a system where animal and non-animal foods are symbiotic requires very little air travel, and makes excellent use of the resources our beautiful country provides. Foreign travel does not have the same necessity.\"\n\nIn addition, a report from a group of environmentally-minded business leaders has called on the government to show increased ambition and delivery of carbon-cutting policies to get the UK on track to meet climate goals.\n\nIt said there was an urgent need especially for policies to bring low-carbon heating to people's homes.", "Kaila, centre right, and her husband Raffaele with their family\n\nKaila Haines is a US citizen married to an Italian man and has been living in Italy for 30 years. She lives in Monfalcone, east of Venice, where her husband is undergoing self-imposed quarantine after exhibiting flu-like symptoms, but is currently stuck in Milan, where she was working when the quarantine came into force. Here she describes the situation:\n\nI work in Milan Monday to Friday and go back on the weekend. My husband is a university professor in Venice.\n\nIn recent months we've been hearing about these cases but it's been pretty much business as usual. About one in 10 people have been in masks, but it's been very laid-back despite all the hype and doom and gloom on the news.\n\nBut then at the beginning of last week, my husband came down with the fever.\n\nThe health ministry has asked anybody who has a fever or flu-like symptoms just to isolate themselves. Let's not take any chances, stay home for 20 days. So that's what he did.\n\nI was supposed to be going home this past weekend and did not because he was sick and in isolation. Then I got stuck here in Milan because over the weekend they imposed this shutdown in the Lombardy region.\n\nSo I'm here until 3 April but he'll come out of isolation on 20 March. It's very surreal.\n\nI went out yesterday morning to the grocery store because I was kind of curious to see if everyone was making a run on pasta and things like that. You read the newspapers and that's what everyone is saying.\n\nThe situation was quite tense because there was a person on the loudspeaker who was reminding everyone in the store every 30 seconds that they had to keep their one-metre distance from each other.\n\nThey were quite aggressively inviting everyone to keep their distance. That was quite an unusual feeling.\n\nBut overall there was no run on the supermarket. Everyone was just like me, running out of milk and getting a few things they needed for the weekend. From that respect it was pretty relaxed.\n\nThen I walked down one of the main shopping roads and about 70% of the stores were closed.\n\nThe bars were open. It was a gorgeous day so everyone was out on their bicycles.\n\nMost of the bars have tables outside and I could see they had distanced the tables, so there are less tables than there used to be. There were people having their coffee on the sidewalk at their little cafe, so it was very relaxed.\n\nKaila Haines with her family in Milan in happier times\n\nThere wasn't a sense of panic or urgency. I think it might take a while for people to realise they need to be a little more careful in keeping their distance and things like that.\n\nThis week I'm on vacation but I will have to work from home. I'm taking it in my stride.\n\nMy husband only had a fever for a few days. He has a little bit of a cough and he's going a little stir crazy. We have neighbours who are doing the grocery shopping and leaving it at the door for him.\n\nHe said he's going to have to learn how to cook - he doesn't know how to cook.\n\nWe celebrated our 30th anniversary in September.\n\nIt's not been easy. It's been a challenging year for us in general because I got a promotion and now we see each other on the weekends, but now it's tough.", "Damani Mauge was fatally stabbed while on the number 130 bus\n\nA teenager who was fatally stabbed on a bus in south London has been named by police.\n\nDamani Mauge, 17, was attacked on the number 130 bus in Whitehorse Lane, South Norwood, Croydon, on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services were called but Damani was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later at 21:07 GMT. His next of kin have been informed.\n\nThe Met Police said it believed he had been involved in an altercation on the bus before the attack.\n\nAnyone who may have witnessed the attack or have any information about what happened has been urged to contact officers.\n\nWhitehorse Lane in South Norwood has reopened since the police cordons were lifted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Xi Jinping said the virus had been successfully tackled in Wuhan and Hubei province\n\nPresident Xi Jinping has visited the city of Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, sending a message that Beijing has the situation under control.\n\nHis visit comes as China recorded its lowest number of infections, just 19 on Tuesday, all in Wuhan apart from two who had arrived from overseas.\n\nChina has seen 80,754 confirmed cases, 3,136 of whom have died.\n\nThe visit was Mr Xi's first trip to the city since the outbreak began.\n\nAccording to state media, Mr Xi arrived in Wuhan on Tuesday to inspect epidemic prevention and control work in the province.\n\nWuhan and its province, Hubei, have been locked down in order to prevent the spread of the disease. The president visited a community in the city currently in self-quarantine.\n\nDuring his visit, Mr Xi declared that the spread of the disease had been \"basically curbed\" in Hubei province and Wuhan.\n\n\"Initial success has been made in stabilising the situation and turning the tide in Hubei and Wuhan,\" he said.\n\nChinese state media quoted analysts as saying Mr Xi's visit had sent a \"strong signal to the entire country and the world that China is ascending out of the darkest moment amid the outbreak\".\n\nThe president also visited Huoshenshan hospital, a temporary facility that was completed in 10 days. Images from his visit show the president speaking to staff and patients via video link.\n\nThe Chinese president spoke with patients and staff at Huoshenshan hospital\n\nShortly after his visit, state media confirmed that all 14 of the temporary hospitals in China had now been closed.\n\nIt is unclear how long Mr Xi will stay in the city.\n\nZhang Ming, a professor at Renmin University, told Reuters news agency: \"He is there now to reap the harvest. His being there means the Communist Party of China (CCP) may declare victory against the virus soon.\"\n\nImages of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping visiting Wuhan will be seen as more than just reassuring to the people of China that the coronavirus emergency is now pretty much under control.\n\nIt is also like a nationwide green light.\n\nIt is a way of sending out a signal that the return to \"normality\" should carry on apace.\n\nAfter all, if the most important person in the country now feels that it is safe enough to enter the belly of the monster then surely others can return to work in their own cities, most of which have seen zero new infections recently.\n\nTrue, when Xi Jinping \"visited\" patients at the newly built Huoshenshan quarantine ward this was done via video link. However, you would hardly expect the country's leader to go up and give them a hug.\n\nTo see him just being in the city probably means that parts of Hubei will be opened up very soon with a resumption of transport links at least within the province, along with more shops opening their doors. Elsewhere in China, things are going to start moving much more quickly.\n\nMr Xi has been notably absent from Chinese state media coverage of the virus. However, CGTN said on Tuesday that Mr Xi had been \"personally directing the disease prevention and control work\".\n\nHis deputy, Premier Li Keqiang, visited Wuhan in January. Last week, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan visited a Wuhan housing community where she received a hostile reception from residents who claimed the area had been cleaned up for her visit.\n\nAs the number of infections rapidly decreases, there are signs that life in China is slowly returning to normal.\n\nIn Qinghai province, the first batch of 144 senior schools and secondary vocational schools reopened on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, state media said Tianhe Airport in Wuhan was preparing to reopen but no official date had been set.\n\nDisneyland Shanghai says it has partially reopened. The main theme park is still closed but the shops and restaurants have reopened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Schools and colleges in China have been closed for more than two weeks in the fight against coronavirus", "Dave won the album of the year award at this year's Brits ceremony\n\nMore than 300 complaints that rapper Dave's performance at the Brit Awards was racist against white people have been rejected by the UK media watchdog.\n\nOfcom received 309 complaints about the song Black, which the London musician performed at last month's ceremony.\n\nBut the watchdog said it was \"likely to be within most viewers' expectations of this well-established awards ceremony\".\n\nThe track's lyrics include references to \"working twice as hard as the people you know you're better than\".\n\nDuring his performance, Dave also attacked tabloid coverage of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, criticised the government's response to the Grenfell Tower fire, and referred to Prime Minister Boris Johnson as \"a real racist\".\n\nThe regulator noted it was \"not uncommon for artists to express personal political views during their performances\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel defended the prime minister following Dave's performance, telling BBC Breakfast: \"I know Boris Johnson very well, no way is he a racist, so I think that is a completely wrong comment.\"\n\nDave won the award for album of the year at the ceremony, which was shown live on ITV.\n\nIn its latest update, Ofcom also said it would not investigate 535 complaints about a task on the recent winter series of Love Island.\n\nAfter the show's traditional \"headline challenge\", viewers complained that Paige Turley was led to believe that her boyfriend Finn Tapp had been unfaithful.\n\nThe Islanders were asked to read out newspaper headlines with words or names omitted and were tasked with guessing the missing information.\n\nOne headline suggested Finn had had his \"head turned\" while staying in the show's alternative villa, Casa Amor, with a new batch of female Islanders. He had in fact remained faithful to Paige.\n\nLove Island's Paige Turley was led to believe her partner had been unfaithful\n\n\"In our view, as a well-established part of this programme's format to test the contestants' relationships, it would have been within most viewers' expectations,\" Ofcom said.\n\nPaige and Finn ended up winning the series.\n\nElsewhere, the regulator also rejected 447 viewer complaints that said advice given by a guest identified as a \"breastfeeding expert\" on Loose Women on 13 February was outdated.\n\n\"In our view, it was made clear to viewers that her approach to breastfeeding was drawn from personal experience as a midwife and breastfeeding expert and did not represent official advice,\" Ofcom said. \"The discussion around women who struggle with breastfeeding was handled with sensitivity.\"\n\nHowever, the regulator confirmed it was investigating complaints that Sharon Osbourne was heard swearing during an edition of ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nOsbourne did not realise her microphone was live when the show returned from a pre-recorded segment during its Oscars special on 10 February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Ring doorbells use both cameras and motion sensors to detect when someone approaches\n\nAmazon keeps records of every motion detected by its Ring doorbells, as well as the exact time they are logged down to the millisecond.\n\nThe details were revealed via a data request submitted by the BBC.\n\nIt also disclosed that every interaction with Ring's app is also stored, including the model of phone or tablet and mobile network used.\n\nOne expert said it gave Amazon the potential for even broader insight into its customers' lives.\n\n\"What's most interesting is not just the data itself, but all the patterns and insights that can be learned from it,\" commented independent privacy expert Frederike Kaltheuner.\n\n\"Knowing when someone rings your door, how often, and for how long, can indicate when someone is at home.\n\n\"If nobody ever rang your door, that would probably say something about your social life as well.\"\n\nShe added that it remained unclear how much further \"anonymised\" data was also being collected.\n\n\"This isn't just about privacy, but about the power and monetary value that is attached to this data.\"\n\nAmazon says it uses the information to evaluate, manage and improve its products and services.\n\nThe BBC originally made the data subject access request (DSAR) in January to tie into a wider investigation into the ways Amazon gathers and uses information about its customers.\n\nAt that point, the firm declined to elaborate on what information was collected beyond its privacy notice's mentions of \"data about your interactions\", \"device characteristics\" and other such inexact terms.\n\nThe records ultimately provided ran from 28 September 2019 until 3 February 2020. A Ring 2 Video Doorbell was in use over all this time, and a Ring Indoor Cam was added to the account over the final fortnight.\n\nOver the period, there were 1,939 individual \"camera events\" documented.\n\nA sample of the \"event\" database, which has been edited to obscure the device IDs\n\nIn each case, the length of time the equipment was activated was also logged.\n\nRing says its cameras use face and body-shape analysis to help differentiate between humans and other living things in order to minimise false alarms. However, there was no indication of different types of motion being detected in the shared data.\n\nThe largest database provided documented every interaction with Ring's apps.\n\nIt listed 4,906 actions over the 129-day period.\n\nIn each case, the model of device used, the version of its operating system, the type of mobile data-connection involved and network supplier were all listed.\n\nRing's app allows you to review past footage as well as see a live-view from the camera\n\nAmong other records were the details of the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of the two devices, provided to 13 decimal places. In theory, this would pinpoint where the products had been installed to the nearest 0.00001mm.\n\nWhen checked via an online tool, the readings corresponded to the right property.\n\nHowever, since the same co-ordinates were given for both devices - which were based in different parts of the building - it appears that Amazon does not know the products' locations to this degree of precision.\n\nIn total, 11 databases were shared containing close to 26,500 individual fields.\n\nRing's privacy notice indicates that other data is also collected for analysis, which is anonymised so that it cannot be linked back to individual accounts.\n\nRing offers a range of security cameras for use inside and outside the home\n\n\"Data access requests only ever show us the tip of the iceberg of the amount of data that companies collect about us,\" commented Ms Kaltheuner.\n\n\"There's huge value - and power - in collecting non-personal data for all sorts of purposes: market research, training and AI.\n\n\"Even anonymous data can have privacy implications, for instance about the collective privacy of, say, a housing block, a group of people, or a household unit.\"\n\nNo video files were included in the DSAR response.\n\nRing justified the omission on the basis that its app already makes it possible to download the clips for up to 30 days if the user had a paid subscription. After that time, the company said each recording was permanently deleted. It added that if a user did not subscribe to a plan then Ring did not keep any recordings.\n\nAmazon's retail operation and its Ring subsidiary operate under different data controllers.\n\nThe BBC asked if the two might ever make their records available to each other to make it possible to make joint use of the information - for example, using Ring's data to see when a family was typically at home in order to help schedule package deliveries.\n\nHowever, the firm declined to respond.", "China has for years censored what its people read and say online\n\nChina's most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found.\n\nToronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords and criticism of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe report also found that WeChat, owned by Chinese firm Tencent, blocked more words as the outbreak grew.\n\nChina has for years censored what its people read and say online.\n\nBut this report suggests China began censoring discussions weeks before officials began acknowledging the severity of the outbreak.\n\nIt was on 31 December that China first alerted the World Health Organization to an outbreak of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan.\n\nBut authorities initially withheld information from the public - under-reporting the number of people infected, downplaying the risks, and failing to provide timely information that could have saved lives.\n\nIt was only on 20 January that Chinese president Xi Jinping publicly addressed the issue of the virus, saying it had to be \"resolutely contained\".\n\nIt's not clear if the social media platforms blocked these keyword combinations based on government directives - or if it was done of its own accord.\n\nHowever, the report suggests that it could be the result of companies \"over-censoring in order to avoid official reprimands\".\n\nAuthorities have confirmed more than 92,000 cases of the virus worldwide - of which more than 80,000 are in China.\n\nA report released by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab on Tuesday looked into two Chinese social media platforms - WeChat and live-streaming site YY.\n\nYY was found to have added 45 keywords to its blacklist on 31 December - which made references to the virus that was then unidentified.\n\nThese key words included the terms \"Unknown Wuhan pneumonia\" and \"SARS outbreak in Wuhan\".\n\nWeChat was found to have censored 132 keyword combinations between 1 - 31 January. As the outbreak continued, WeChat censored 384 new keywords between 1 - 15 February.\n\nThese include keywords that referenced Chinese leaders - including President Xi - as well as neutral references to government policies on handling the epidemic, and responses to the outbreak in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome examples of censored combinations are \"Local authorities + Epidemic + Central (government) + Cover up\" and \"Wuhan + Obviously + Virus + Human-to-human transmission\".\n\nReferences to Dr Li Wenliang also accounted for 19 censored keyword combinations.\n\nDr Li Wenliang was among a group of doctors in Wuhan who issued the first warnings about the virus in late December.\n\nHe was later told by police to stop making \"false comments\". Dr Li later contracted the virus himself and died of the disease aged 33.\n\nThe report adds that it is possible that WeChat has unblocked keywords as the outbreak continues to develop. YY is known to have unblocked certain keywords.\n\nIt is not clear what keywords, if any, continue to be censored on these platforms.\n\nThe report adds that censorship in China works through a system of \"self-discipline\" where companies are held liable for content on their platforms.\n\nThe censorship is particularly damaging because WeChat is such a central part of many people's lives in China - it is, in effect, WhatsApp, Facebook, Apple Pay and more, rolled into one.\n\nApp users are able to book flights, hail taxis and even transfer money - all on WeChat alone. And it's not used by individuals alone - government authorities often also release official statements on the app.\n\n\"It's appalling to see the wide range of terms, even including some non-sensitive terms, [being] censored,\" Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International told the BBC.\n\n\"It shows how obsessed and concerned the Chinese government is [in] trying to curb any discussion... that falls outside the official narrative.\n\n\"It's totally about social control and deprives citizens of their rights to freedom of information and expression.\"\n\nCensorship is pervasive in China. Sites such as Google and Wikipedia are banned - and it's not uncommon for social media companies in China to remove content that is perceived to be threatening to social stability or the ruling Communist Party.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nJapan's Olympic minister says the Tokyo 2020 Games could be postponed from the summer until later in the year amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn a response to a question in Japan's parliament, Seiko Hashimoto said Tokyo's contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) \"calls for the Games to be held within 2020\".\n\nShe added that \"could be interpreted as allowing a postponement\".\n\nThe Games are due to be held from 24 July to 9 August.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to ensure that the Games go ahead as planned,\" Hashimoto added.\n\nUnder the hosting agreement the right to cancel the Games remains with the IOC.\n\nIOC president Thomas Bach says his organisation remains \"very confident with regard the success\" of the Games in Tokyo.\n\n\"I would like to encourage all the athletes to continue their preparations with great confidence and full steam,\" added the German.\n\nA number of high-profile sporting events have already been cancelled or postponed as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, including the World Athletics Indoor Athletics Championships and the Chinese Grand Prix, which was scheduled for 19 April.\n\nCoronavirus, which originated in China, has spread to more than 60 countries and claimed more than 3,000 lives so far.\n• None Coronavirus & sport: What now for Six Nations, Tokyo Olympics, F1, Euro 2020 & Cheltenham?\n• None Tokyo Olympics still 'business as usual', says IOC's Dick Pound\n\nThe IOC executive board met in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday and in a statement \"expressed its full commitment to the success of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 taking place from 24 July to 9 August\".\n\nIt said a \"joint task force\" was started in mid-February, involving the IOC, Tokyo 2020 organisers, the host city of Tokyo, the government of Japan and the World Health Organization.\n\nThe executive board added that it \"appreciates and supports the measures being taken, which constitute an important part of Tokyo's plans to host safe and secure Games\".\n\n\"We will continue to support the athletes and their NOCs with regular updates of information, which we will provide,\" Bach added.", "A papillon named Dylan was crowned Best in Show with his owner Kathleen Roosens at last year's Crufts\n\nTwo of Crufts' major sponsors have asked their staff not to attend the dog show amid fears over coronavirus.\n\nRoyal Canin UK and James Wellbeloved said their representatives should stay away from large events like Crufts \"unless it is business critical\".\n\nThe Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) has also decided not to go.\n\nCrufts organisers the Kennel Club said the event in Birmingham will go ahead, with \"enhanced measures\" to protect people.\n\nThe annual dog show at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) attracts competitors and visitors from all over the world - last year there were 160,000 visitors.\n\nOut of almost 21,000 competing dogs to attend last year, 3,611 were from overseas.\n\nItaly - where some 2,706 people are infected with the virus and 107 have died- led the way for last year's foreign entries with 413.\n\nThe Kennel Club, said in a statement, that the measures introduced would include hand sanitiser stations at entrances, additional signage, and hand sanitiser in toilets and catering areas.\n\nThey added that Public Health England had not advised them to cancel the event, but said they were ensuring all exhibitors were \"aware of current travel restrictions and guidelines\".\n\nA spokesperson for Mars Petcare UK, the parent company of Royal Canin UK and James Wellbeloved, said that as a global business, it has a \"responsibility\" to protect the health of its staff and prevent the spread of the virus.\n\nAs a result, the company has \"decided to restrict international travel and not participate in large events through March 31 unless it is business critical.\"\n\nThe firm said it remained \"committed\" to Crufts, and hoped to be participating \"to the usual extent in the future\".\n\nThe company would not disclose how many staff were asked not to attend Crufts, or what their duties were.\n\nMeanwhile, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), said in a statement they had decided not to attend \"given the unprecedented and unpredictable situation.\"\n\nThey added they were \"very disappointed\" but the \"safety of our members remains our priority\".\n\nIt comes as the total number of UK cases of the virus rises to 85, with more than 90,000 people infected globally in over 50 countries.\n\nThe 129th edition of Crufts starts on Thursday and will take place over four days until Sunday March 8.\n\nSome visitors and people showing their dogs have expressed concerns about the virus spreading at Crufts.\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\nSarah Fray, who is exhibiting Polly, her miniature poodle tomorrow, says is she only attending because the dog's \"novice\" co-owner is \"desperate\" for her to be shown.\n\nShe is worried about the virus spreading at Crufts and plans to limit her time there to just a few hours, and will ask visitors to \"keep their distance\" from her and Polly.\n\nMs Fray, from the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, says it is a \"shame\" to have to do this, but as a veterinary medicine student and a single mother to a young child, she \"doesn't have time\" to get sick, were she to catch the virus.\n\nBut not everyone shares her concerns, she says, with the issue causing something of a \"Brexit divide\" between exhibitors in online forums.\n\nAnn Mckeon Collins, from Dublin, had been due to show her Standard Poodle, Luda, at Crufts, but has cancelled her trip, saying she \"couldn't risk it\" on health grounds.\n\nMrs Mckeon Collins, 59, said it would be \"a bit on the silly side\" to attend when she has a pacemaker fitted, has had cancer and her husband has asthma.\n\nShe says a lot of elderly people go for a day out to admire the dogs, and felt she would be better off staying at home.", "The Italian Red Cross of Mascalucia is among those warning children not to copy the challenge\n\nA stunt being shared on viral video platform TikTok has caused serious injury among teenagers in the UK and US.\n\nThe skull-breaker challenge involves two people kicking the legs from under a third, making them fall over.\n\nUS prosecutors have charged two youngsters with aggravated assault over the prank and warned parents to stop their children taking part.\n\nTikTok said it would remove such content from its platform.\n\nIn an updated post to its newsroom, TikTok said: \"We do not allow content that encourages or replicates dangerous challenges that might lead to injury.\n\n\"In fact, it's a violation of our community guidelines and we will continue to remove this type of content from our platform.\n\n\"Nobody wants their friends or family to get hurt filming a video or trying a stunt.\n\n\"It's not funny - and since we remove that sort of content, it certainly won't make you TikTok famous.\"\n\nTikTok urged users to report videos containing the challenge.\n\nAnd it told BBC News there was now text underneath #skullbreakerchallenge \"reminding users to not imitate or encourage public participation in dangerous stunts and/or risky behaviour that could lead to serious injury or death\".\n\nIn February, a UK mother, whose daughter had taken part in the challenge with two friends wrote on Facebook: \"Please, please if you have teenagers doing TikToks, do not let them get involved in this.\n\n\"I'm sitting in [accident and emergency] with my daughter with a severe spinal injury.\"\n\nPosted beneath the warning was a picture of her daughter taking part in the challenge alongside one of her in hospital in a neck brace.\n\nIn New Jersey, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said two children had been been charged with third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree endangering an injured victim after an incident involving the prank.\n\nAnd prosecutor Jill S Mayer urged parents to talk to their children about potential consequences of taking part in a social media challenge.\n\n\"While the challenge may seem funny or get views on social media platforms, they can have long-lasting health consequences,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, a 13-year-old boy from Camden had been admitted to hospital after the prank.\n\nThere have also been reports of injuries related to it in Pennsylvania, Oregon, Arkansas and Alabama.\n\nSome TikTok users have themselves started posting videos warning the prank can cause serious injury.\n\nAt the time of writing, most content being shown following a search for \"skull-breaker challenge\" was videos explaining the risks and urging people not to take part.", "The coronavirus is believed to have originated in Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million people that has now been locked down for weeks.\n\nNo-one is allowed to leave the city, which is the capital of Hubei province.\n\nThe city's normally busy main railway station is now virtually deserted.\n\n...and so are the main streets, where an occasional bike rider in a protective suit can be spotted going shopping.\n\nBut residents have been slowly adjusting to the new reality. Here people are seen resting outside their houses in an area blocked by barriers.\n\nLaundry is put to dry above boards blocking an entrance to a residential area in Wuhan Image caption: Laundry is put to dry above boards blocking an entrance to a residential area in Wuhan\n\nSome have made good use of the blocking board to put out their laundry.", "Social and cultural reforms in Saudi Arabia have been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent, campaigners say\n\nDominic Raab is to press the Saudi Arabian government on its human rights record during his first visit to the country as foreign secretary.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Raab would \"engage\" with Saudi counterparts on the issue and other areas of \"difference\".\n\nHe will also discuss the \"devastating\" humanitarian situation in Yemen and efforts to end its long-running war.\n\nLabour has urged ministers to end all arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a major protagonist in the Yemeni conflict.\n\nLast summer, the UK promised to stop approving export licences for arms to Saudi Arabia which could potentially be used in the civil war following a legal challenge by campaigners.\n\nThe UK and other Western powers are providing logistical support to a Saudi-led multinational coalition which is supporting the Yemeni government in its fight against the Iranian-backed rebel Houthi movement.\n\nThe five-year conflict, seen as part of a regional power struggle between Shia-ruled Iran and Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, has devastated the country and, according to the UN, claimed the lives of at least 7,500 civilians.\n\nAhead of his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Mr Raab stressed its long-standing economic, security and intelligence ties with the UK but also the need for close co-operation on regional and global challenges.\n\nMr Raab will stress the close ties between the countries but also the need for co-operation on shared challenges\n\nThe foreign secretary will hold talks with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and the government's National Security Adviser Dr Musaad Al Aiyban as well as the Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.\n\nOfficials said Mr Raab would continue to \"drive progress\" on the Yemen peace process, following the recent surge in Houthi violence and constraints on getting humanitarian aid to those in need.\n\nFour-fifths of the Yemeni population - 24 million people - are in need of humanitarian assistance or protection, including ten million who rely on food aid to survive.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Raab would also raise issues \"where we have differences, including on human rights and values\".\n\nHuman rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia's ruling royal family of condoning the torture of political opponents as part of a sustained crackdown on dissent in the past couple of years - something the regime has rejected.\n\nIn November 2018, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch alleged that scores of human rights activists, intellectuals and clerics had been unlawfully detained and several of them, including women, had been either flogged, electrocuted or sexually harassed.\n\nSaudi Arabia also continues to face international pressure over the unresolved murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.\n\nIt has blamed the killing on rogue agents but denied claims that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had knowledge of the operation. However, the CIA reportedly believes Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder.\n\nMr Raab, who visited Oman and Turkey earlier this week, said Saudi Arabia was one of the UK's \"closest trade partners and plays an important role in keeping Britain safe\".\n\nHe added: \"As a valued partner, we have to work closely together to tackle the crisis in Yemen, terrorism and climate change as well as pursuing reform and engaging on human rights issues.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the UK to suspend all military aid to Saudi Arabia, amid claims that the Saudi-led coalition has been responsible for the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Yemen.\n\nUnder UK export policy, military equipment licences should not be granted if there is a \"clear risk\" that weapons might be used in a \"serious violation of international humanitarian law\".\n\nThe Court of Appeal ruled last summer that existing sales should be reviewed, although not suspended, following a challenge by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.\n\nMinisters subsequently gave assurances that no further export licences would be issued while the government considered the ruling although, in September, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, was forced to apologise for two breaches of the pledge.", "Struggling airline Flybe is facing fresh doubts over its future amid uncertainty about a rescue loan and the impact of coronavirus on its bookings.\n\nFlybe is looking to the government to commit to helping the airline in the next few days if it is to survive.\n\nBut a £100m government loan to help stabilise the business is now unlikely to happen, the BBC understands.\n\nThe coronavirus impact on travel \"has made a bad situation much worse,\" insiders told the BBC.\n\nAccording to the FT, which first reported the news, the airline believes it has enough financial resources to survive \"until the end of this month\".\n\nFlybe has been in discussions with the government about a loan of up to £100m to help it bridge the period between the lean months of winter - when airlines typically lose money - to the richer pickings in summer.\n\nThe government also agreed to consider a cut to airline passenger duty (APD). Currently, this £13 per person tax on short haul flying is levied per passenger leaving UK airports. That means that domestic routes pay the tax twice and Flybe has been pushing for the tax to be halved on internal UK flights.\n\nNeither of these options now seem likely.\n\nThe BBC understands that changes to the Air Passenger Duty regime are constrained by the fact that the UK is still bound by EU single market rules until the end of the transition period at the end of this year. If changes to APD can't take effect before then, the government is reluctant to extend any kind of loan to an airline likely to continue to be loss making for the next nine months.\n\nAs one source put it \"the government has always been worried it would be throwing good money after bad - and those worries have only intensified. the direction of travel on these issues has been apparent to the government and the company for weeks. The only thing that has changed is coronavirus.\"\n\nThose worries have been amplified by the outrage of rival airlines that Flybe should be the recipient of tax payer money given the airline is owned by deep pocketed owners Virgin Atlantic, logistics company Stobart and multi-billion dollar US hedge fund Cyrus Capital.\n\nIt is thought the owners have injected enough money to keep the airline aloft until the end of March but if the mood music coming from government is right, this airline's troubled journey may soon terminate.\n\nFlybe serves around 170 destinations and has a major presence at UK airports such as Aberdeen, Belfast City, Manchester and Southampton. It flies the most UK domestic routes between airports outside London.\n\nRival Ryanair has predicted the drop in demand for flights due to the coronavirus will result in some European airlines failing in the coming weeks.\n\nIn January, news that Flybe may benefit from government help, sparked a backlash from rivals. British Airways' owner IAG has filed a complaint to the EU arguing Flybe's rescue breaches state aid rules.\n\nWhile, EasyJet and Ryanair said taxpayer funds should not be used to save a rival.\n\nThe government's proposal to cut Air Passenger Duty (APD), was also attacked by the rail industry's trade body and climate campaign groups.\n\nNeither Flybe nor the Department for Transport would comment on the speculation\n\nAre you a Flybe passenger? Do you have a future booking? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The study takes a look at school achievement in terms of transport connections\n\nThere is a striking overlap between places in England with slow public transport and places with struggling secondary schools, say researchers.\n\nInstead of only looking at education data, researchers compared schools using journey times from the Department for Transport.\n\nThey found clusters of bad transport and underachieving schools in places such as Norfolk and north-east England.\n\nEven in richer areas, poor transport seemed linked to lower school results.\n\nThe long wait for progress - bad transport seems to overlap with lower secondary school results\n\nIn reports on academic underachievement the same coldspots repeatedly recur - such as the \"left behind\" towns in the north west and north east, declining seaside towns in the south, or along the Norfolk coast.\n\nThe study from education analysts, SchoolDash, has examined this pattern not in terms of exam results or Ofsted grades, but from the perspective of transport connections.\n\nThis is not how long it takes pupils to get to school - but how well their local communities are served by buses and trains.\n\nThis found that badly connected places were more likely to have low-achieving secondary schools.\n\nTrains for brains - faster connections seemed to mean better school results\n\nEven in places without much deprivation, researcher Timo Hannay said \"more isolated schools are substantially more likely to under-perform and less likely to be judged outstanding\".\n\nWhere poor public transport is combined with high levels of deprivation, there is a \"double whammy\", say researchers.\n\nThe measurements used are journey-time statistics from the Department for Transport, which show how long it takes by public transport to reach a major centre for employment.\n\nLondon has high levels of connectivity in transport - and the best school results in the country\n\nThe average travel time is 33 minutes - and the researcher's analysis shows how school results seem to worsen as journey times stretch beyond this.\n\nThe slow connections are not just the end-of-the line towns on the coast, it can affect the edges of big cities, such as Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Newcastle, and pockets of Kent and the south west.\n\nSeaside towns can face a \"double whammy\" of poor transport and underachieving schools\n\nThere are places where deprivation and slow transport overlap, such as:\n\nIn contrast, London has high levels of connectivity in transport - and despite deep pockets of deprivation, some of the best school results in the country.\n\nThere is a political dimension to this too.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has promised to invest in transport as a form of economic regeneration, particularly in the north of England.\n\nPlaces with bad transport suffer from a lack of physical as well as social mobility\n\nIn the geography of the last general election, this study from SchoolDash shows the places with poor transport and under-performing schools were the seats where voters swung to the Conservatives.\n\nThese are areas where social mobility is held up by a lack of physical mobility.\n\nBut why should transport have any link to schools? How could trains mean brains? Or is this just a pattern of multiple, overlapping forms of neglect, without any causal connections?\n\nAnd is funding of transport part of a bigger picture including inequalities in funding of schools?\n\nAnna Vignoles, a professor in education at Cambridge University, highlights a double impact - with pupils from communities with low horizons and schools where the cut-off location makes it hard to recruit teachers.\n\n\"Staffing is key,\" she says.\n\nThe quality of public transport links makes a big difference for access to local jobs markets\n\nA school needs to be in commuting distance to attract teachers, she says - and the location has to be practical for their partners to get to work too.\n\nProf Vignoles says in a highly-connected city, pupils are \"surrounded by clear evidence of good jobs and the value of education\".\n\n\"By contrast in peripheral and rural locations with little connection to industries and good jobs, it may be harder to see the benefit of education.\"\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, chief executive of the Inspiration Trust with schools in Norfolk and Suffolk, says: \"Poor transport infrastructure obviously limits the extent to which people are physically mobile, but it can also in some cases be an indicator of poverty of aspirations.\n\n\"And of course, added into the mix are the challenges around attracting and retaining staff.\n\n\"Coastal areas have their own unique set of challenges, but these need not determine a young person's future,\" she says.\n\nThere has been a growing awareness of regional differences in school results\n\nSimon Burgess, a professor in the economics of education from the University of Bristol, says there is never going to be any \"one-cause\" explanation for the pattern of schools doing well or badly.\n\nBut he says poor local transport can mean there is in effect \"zero competition\" between schools, with parents unable to choose an alternative.\n\nTimo Hannnay, founder of SchoolDash, says the research supports an \"intuitive\" sense about places that are \"cut off and disadvantaged\".\n\nBut he says there are more unexpected findings.\n\nIt affects secondary but not particularly primary schools, which he thinks reflects the difficulty in recruiting specialist teachers.\n\nHe was also surprised to see how soon the isolation factor is felt, including in the outskirts of big cities. \"You don't have to be very far away for it to make a difference\".", "The architect for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has admitted that he did not check official advice on fire safety in high rises, during the work.\n\nBruce Sounes, from Studio E, told the inquiry he was not aware of concerns over the safety of combustible panels often being used on housing blocks.\n\nHe said fire safety details were for specialist consultants and added that he had not designed the cladding used.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey tower in west London killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry - now in its second phase - is looking into how the building came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nMr Sounes was in charge of the day-to-day management of the refurbishment project for the tower.\n\nOn the second day of hearings, Mr Sounes was being examined about his knowledge of the building regulations and associated guidance.\n\nHe was unable to explain to the inquiry how the new cladding system chosen for Grenfell met the government's guidance for fire safety in tall buildings, despite accepting that fire safety was \"fundamental to the work of an architect's practice\".\n\nMr Sounes said he was familiar with the broad regulation that a building should not be able to spread fire on the outside.\n\nBut he \"didn't recall hearing of\" the specific guidance that materials had to be of \"limited combustibility\" when used above 18m (59ft).\n\nInquiry barrister Kate Grange asked him: \"You didn't apply your mind at the time of the Grenfell project to how this clause applied to the materials that you were selecting?\"\n\nHe responded: \"As I wasn't myself preparing the documents - I did not, no.\"\n\nLater the inquiry was shown the specification for the project - which Mr Sounes had drawn up - and he was asked why he had not checked the products he had chosen complied with regulations.\n\n\"We asked for advice,\" he said, \"but it wasn't for us to... satisfy ourselves because I don't think that was within our ability.\"\n\nThe inquiry had already heard that Studio E had no experience of working on tall buildings.\n\nAnd in Tuesday's evidence, it heard that the architects had tried to keep the budget for the project below a limit which would have required the project to be put out to tender.\n\nMr Sounes said fees were delayed to keep the architect's cost below the £174,000 limit.\n\nStudio E may have designed the refurbished tower but, Mr Sounes said, council building control was responsible for making sure it was within the building regulations.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council, which operates public sector building control, has admitted Grenfell Tower was not properly inspected, because of a series of failures.\n\nThe inquiry has already ruled that Grenfell Tower breached the regulations.\n\nMeanwhile, campaigners have written to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to demand extra money to remove cladding beyond the type used at Grenfell.\n\nIn a letter, four anti-cladding groups across the UK, also said funding for the private sector had \"proved woefully difficult to access\".", "Antarctica recorded a record high temperature earlier last month of more than 20C.\n\nThis is bad news for the extraordinary marine life that lives in the icy waters of the world’s coldest continent.\n\nThe BBC's chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, went to the Ross Sea in Antarctica where he met some of the marine biologists leading the research into the impact the changing environment is having.", "TV naturalist and Springwatch presenter Chris Packham is launching a new legal challenge to HS2\n\nThe Springwatch presenter said the government's approval of the controversial project fails to take carbon emissions targets into account.\n\nMr Packham said: \"In regard to the HS2 rail project I believe our government has failed.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said it was considering the challenge and would respond \"in due course\".\n\nMr Packham said that the Oakervee review into the project's spiralling costs and delays was \"compromised, incomplete and flawed\".\n\nThe review strongly advised against cancelling HS2, saying it would benefit the transport system and there was no \"shovel-ready\" alternative upgrade for the existing railways. It did however recommend tighter controls on costs and better management.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson approved the decision to build the rail link in February, on the recommendation of the review.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds and it is hoped it will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nOnce built, London to Birmingham travel times will be cut from one hour, 21 minutes to 52 minutes, according to the Department for Transport\n\nLeigh Day, Mr Packham's solicitors, sent a letter to the prime minister challenging the decision to go ahead with HS2.\n\nThe letter points out that the Oakervee report failed to take into account the full impact of HS2's potential carbon emissions impact. The initial environmental assessment for the project was published in 2013, before the government signed up to achieving \"net zero\" carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nTom Short, a solicitor at Leigh Day, said that the \"environmental impacts relevant to the decision whether to proceed have not been properly assessed\".\n\nMr Packham also argues that construction of the rail link would damage or destroy almost 700 wildlife sites, including about 100 ancient woodlands. Mr Packham added: \"Today some of us are making a last stand for nature and the environment and we will not go quietly into any good night.\"\n\nHS2 says that only 62 ancient woodlands would be affected, and that most would remain intact.\n\nIn response to the broadcaster's crowdfunded campaign, the DfT said: \"We understand campaigners' concerns, and have tasked HS2 Ltd to deliver one of the UK's most environmentally responsible infrastructure projects.\n\n\"When finished, HS2 will play a key part in our efforts to tackle climate change, reducing carbon emissions by providing an alternative to domestic flights and cutting congestion on our roads.\"\n\nThe legal challenge follows a Court of Appeal ruling against the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport.\n\nJudges found that the government's decision to allow the expansion was unlawful because it did not take climate commitments into account.\n• None Why do big projects cost more than planned?", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nRoss Barkley said it was \"a dream\" to score against Liverpool as the midfielder helped Chelsea reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.\n\nThe result meant Liverpool suffered their second successive defeat of this stellar season in a highly competitive encounter at Stamford Bridge.\n\nLiverpool made seven changes to the side that lost surprisingly at Watford on Saturday - the first reverse of their league campaign after 18 successive victories left them on the brink of a first title for 30 years.\n\nChelsea, however, still had to overcome a Liverpool team containing the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Andy Robertson and Joe Gomez in a hard-fought fifth-round tie.\n\nLiverpool goalkeeper Adrian gifted Willian Chelsea's opener after 13 minutes when he hopelessly fumbled his 20-yard shot, but the European champions had chances of their own only to see recalled keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga present a formidable barrier with a string of saves.\n\nThe game was effectively settled after 64 minutes when former Everton midfielder and Toffees fan Barkley surged from inside his own half on a solo run before beating Adrian with an emphatic strike.\n\n\"It was brilliant, a massive result for the lads,\" Barkley told BBC One. \"We needed a top performance tonight at home after two disappointing results.\n\n\"Scoring against Liverpool is massive for me. As an Everton fan, it's always a dream to score against them.\"\n\nThe hosts could have had more but Mason Mount rattled the crossbar with a 25-yard free-kick, before striker Olivier Giroud saw an effort brilliantly tipped on to the woodwork by Adrian.\n\nChelsea boss Frank Lampard will now have Wembley in his sights while Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp returns to the task of wrapping up the Premier League title and overcoming a 1-0 deficit from the Champions League last-16 first leg against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe tiny figure of Billy Gilmour looked like a boy among men at the heart of this FA Cup tie between two Premier League superpowers - but the 18-year-old Scot gave a performance that was huge in stature.\n\nGilmour, who has only played six games with three starts and a total of 281 minutes, may be short on experience but he looked big on talent as his controlled, creative display deservedly won him the man-of-the-match award.\n\nHe glided around midfield, happy to take the ball in deep positions but also willing to make an impact further forward in the face of experienced opposition such as Fabinho.\n\nLampard told BBC One: \"What an incredible performance for a young player. He was a calm head in that first five or 10 minutes. He's a throwback of a midfielder.\n\n\"Can you put your foot in? Yes. Can you make angles to play the passes? Yes. He's only slight in stature but he's huge in personality. He deserves people to talk about him after a performance like that.\"\n\nGilmour deserved to be on the winning side, victory clinched by the great enigma that is Barkley.\n\nBarkley, at 26, is approaching the key point of his career when potential must be transformed into something more tangible for Chelsea and England.\n\nHere, Barkley showed both sides to his character, often making the wrong decisions but showing his natural brilliance when he took possession in his own half and surged forward before sending a flashing finish past Adrian.\n\nThis was a big victory for Chelsea and Frank Lampard.\n\nTheir Champions League hopes look all but over after a 3-0 home defeat in the home leg of the last-16 tie against Bayern Munich and they face a fight to finish in the top four - but they are at the heart of that battle and are now in the later stages of the FA Cup.\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp's animated demeanour demonstrated that this was a match he was taking very seriously and was desperate to win but it was to no avail.\n\nIt has been an unusual FA Cup campaign for Liverpool, with a scratch side full of youngsters winning a Merseyside derby against Everton in the third round, then effectively a youth team beating Shrewsbury Town in a fourth-round replay at Anfield while Klopp and his senior players enjoyed a winter break.\n\nLiverpool and their fans have been given a glimpse of the talents of youngsters such as Curtis Jones and Neco Williams but this was the end of the line.\n\nThey had their chances, with Kepa keeping them at bay, particularly in a remarkable sequence in the first half when he blocked from Mane, Jones and Divock Origi in swift succession.\n\nIn the end, however, the task was too much, their cause not helped by Adrian's awful blunder.\n\nLiverpool may not have the Treble of title, FA Cup and Champions League to pursue any more - but the Premier League crown is coming back to Anfield and this side still has enough to make it a memorable night against Atletico Madrid.\n\nKlopp said: \"A lot of parts of the performance I really liked. We know we have to improve, it is not about destiny, not about not clicking here or there, it is all about us and we have to take it in the right way.\n\n\"It is not the best three weeks of the whole season but it is a chance to make it the best three weeks now and that is the plan.\n\n\"We are not interested in Atletico Madrid, it is all about Bournemouth. They are fighting with all they have and they did really well against Chelsea.\n\n\"Nobody has to feel sorry for us, we will win football games and that is what we want to do on Saturday.\"\n\nEx-Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas on BBC One: \"There have been a lot of good performances but I have been so impressed by this young lad. He's had such a calm head and he's not given the ball away all night. It's been a brilliant evening for him.\"\n• None Chelsea have reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in four of the past five seasons - going on to win the competition the last time they reached this stage in 2018 (1-0 v Manchester United in the final).\n• None Chelsea have won seven of their 11 FA Cup meetings with Liverpool - on the past two occasions they've beaten them (1997 and 2012) they've gone on to win the competition.\n• None Liverpool have been eliminated in three of their past five FA Cup fifth-round ties, losing at this stage for the first time since February 2014 (2-1 v Arsenal).\n• None Liverpool have lost three consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since November 2014.\n• None Since his FA Cup debut in January 2014, Willian has been directly involved in 16 goals for Chelsea (11 goals, 5 assists), at least five more than any other player for the club in that time.\n• None Willian has scored 24 goals from outside the box since his Chelsea debut in September 2013, 13 more than any other Blues player.\n• None Chelsea's Ross Barkley scored his first ever goal against Liverpool on his 12th appearance. Before today he had played more games against them (11) without scoring than against any other team.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Billy Gilmour.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jorginho.\n• None Attempt missed. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Over the day, we've been introducing you to young Democrats voting in 2020.\n\nThe fourth is Paige Thielke, 17, from California. Although she was too young to vote in today’s primary, she will take part in November’s general election.\n\nWhat’s at stake in this election?\n\nA lot, not just because it could bring about a change in government, but because the world is at a crossroads. Far-right, nationalistic political movements have been gaining popularity all around the world, and the climate crisis is only getting worse. Whoever becomes the president will have to deal with those issues, and after almost four years of Trump, it’s pretty clear how he would address those issues.\n\nDo you know who you are voting for? If not, what will decide your vote?\n\nWhile I understand the appeal of Bernie Sanders, who is by far the favorite candidate among many of my friends and fellow high school students, his reputation as being disliked by his fellow senators and the drastic nature of his policy proposals doesn’t make me feel like he could work across the aisle to get stuff done during his presidency.\n\nBecause of that, my support tends to lean more towards moderates, even though the majority of them in the race aren’t ideal options.\n\nWhat should someone outside the US know about your state that makes it unique?\n\nCalifornia has the unique quality of being generally known across the world. But 40 million people live here (a bigger population than Canada), and there is no typical “Californian”. While the entertainment industry is certainly big, the Central Valley also produces 13% of all agricultural products in the US. It’s the most diverse state in the country, and is diverse not only in terms of race, but socioeconomic status, cultural experience, etc. So while the majority of voters do lean liberal, there are plenty of conservative areas as well.", "Priti Patel was sitting on the frontbench during PMQs\n\nBoris Johnson has told MPs he is \"sticking by\" Home Secretary Priti Patel, following further allegations of bullying against her.\n\nClaims she mistreated staff would \"of course\" be investigated, he said at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBut he hailed Ms Patel as an \"outstanding\" home secretary who was \"delivering change\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office is investigating several allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour, which she denies.\n\nThe home secretary, who sat next to Mr Johnson at PMQs, has not publicly commented on the allegations.\n\nAnswering a question from Labour MP Matthew Pennycook, Mr Johnson said: \"The home secretary is doing an outstanding job delivering change, putting police out on the street, cutting crime, and delivering a new immigration system and I'm sticking by her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Priti Patel is doing \"an outstanding job\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the \"part-time\" prime minister of having \"no shame\" and repeated his call for an independent inquiry into Ms Patel's conduct.\n\nHe demanded to know if Mr Johnson was aware of the complaints about her behaviour when he appointed her home secretary.\n\nThe PM hit back by branding Mr Corbyn a \"full-time Marxist who has failed to stamp out bullying in his own party\".\n\nLabour MP Thangam Debbonaire said it appeared that, with this government, facing allegations of bullying \"just get you promoted\", whereas those who stand up to it lose their jobs.\n\nMr Johnson told her he \"loathes bullying\" but added that he would not take lessons on the issue from Labour, whom he accuses of failing to deal with \"systematic bullying\" against those who \"stick up for the Jewish community\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire: \"It seems allegations of bullying... get you promoted\"\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office's most senior official, resigned on Saturday alleging Ms Patel's conduct towards staff included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal, alleging that he had been forced out of his job.\n\nThe BBC reported on Monday that an official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) received a £25,000 payout after alleging she was bullied by Ms Patel in 2015 during her time as employment minister.\n\nOn Tuesday, allegations emerged about Ms Patel's behaviour at a third government department.\n\nThe BBC's Newsnight reported that in 2017, Ms Patel - then International Development Secretary - was allegedly accused by officials in her private office of humiliating civil servants in front of others, of putting heavy pressure in emails and of creating a general sense that \"everyone is hopeless\".\n\nThe allegations were reportedly brought to a senior official at the Department for International Development after Ms Patel quit as its secretary of state in 2017.\n\nMr Corbyn told the prime minister that \"if true\" the allegations suggest \"a shocking and unacceptable pattern of behaviour across three government departments\".\n\nThe Labour leader's spokesman later said: \"We've had government staff contact our office directly with information and allegations about bullying in the Home Office by Priti Patel.\"\n\nThe allegations relate to Ms Patel and another former minister, the spokesman added.\n\n\"They are bullying and harassment allegations of government staff and they simply build up the picture that has already accumulated in recent days.\n\n\"It is quite clear this is not an isolated allegation by one individual about one incident or one set of incidents.\"", "Boris Johnson has told MPs he is \"sticking by\" Home Secretary Priti Patel, following further allegations of bullying against her.\n\nClaims she mistreated staff would \"of course\" be investigated, he said at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBut he hailed Ms Patel as an \"outstanding\" home secretary who was \"delivering change\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office is investigating several allegations about Ms Patel's behaviour, which she denies.", "Voters across America are preparing to take part in the biggest day of the 2020 election so far.\n\nMore than a year after the first Democratic candidates joined the race to take on Donald Trump, we've now reached Super Tuesday.\n\nFourteen states will vote on which Democrat they want to run in November's election. Bernie Sanders is in the lead after the early contests.\n\nBy Wednesday, we could have a clearer picture of who the nominee will be.\n\nDemocrats across the US have been taking part in a series of caucuses (essentially party meetings, where you vote publicly at the end) or primaries (secret ballots) to pick their preferred candidate.\n\nBernie Sanders's success has come as a bit of a surprise. The Vermont senator lost out to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race, but he isn't a typical Democrat by any means (in fact, he sits as an Independent in the Senate).\n\nHe's a staunch left-winger, so may struggle to convince the party's moderates if he becomes the candidate. He's also 78, and suffered a heart attack in the autumn. But he's proven extremely popular in the primaries so far across many age groups and ethnicities, and all the momentum is on his side.\n\nThe handful of moderate Democrats running have split the vote, so it's made it hard for any of them to break out (and this has helped Sanders build up a lead).\n\nOne of them, former vice-president and early favourite Joe Biden, underwhelmed before winning convincingly in South Carolina on Saturday. However, he has since seen a swell in momentum after centrist rivals Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar quit the race to endorse him.\n\nSanders does not have the left lane to himself either - Elizabeth Warren, the experienced Massachusetts senator, shares several of his policy objectives but has not lived up to expectations.\n\nSo might any of these candidates win the election in November? Honestly, it's too close to call, and there are so many unknown factors.\n\nIt's all about the delegates.\n\nLet's say Candidate A gets the most support in one state. Candidate B does OK, but not as well. Candidate A is then awarded the most delegates, and Candidate B fewer. The number of delegates available differs in each state.\n\nLater in the summer, those delegates will then vote for their candidate to become the Democratic nominee. The target for any candidate is to reach an unbeatable majority of 1,990 delegates.\n\nThis is where Super Tuesday comes in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Alexis and Amira could help decide the US election\n\nUp to now, only 155 delegates have been awarded in four states. On Super Tuesday, a massive 1,357 delegates will be distributed, and 14 states are voting. The two most populous, California and Texas, will take part - the former for the first time on Super Tuesday.\n\nHere's what is at stake in each state - the smallest to the largest - with some bonus nuggets of trivia thrown in.\n\nWho will do best? A no-brainer: Bernie Sanders. He is one of the state's senators, after all.\n\nWho could do well? Honestly? There's a chance no-one except Sanders will cross the 15% threshold of votes and get any delegates. He is extremely popular in his home state and won the 2016 primary here with 86% of the vote (though he eventually lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton). We could see the first results from here at about 19:00 local time (midnight GMT).\n\nOne piece of context In a poll by Vermont Public Radio in February, almost a third of people said the economy, jobs and cost of living were among the main issues on their minds - although Vermont has the joint-lowest unemployment rate in the country, at 2.3%.\n\nWho will do best? We're going to start sounding repetitive, but polls point to Bernie Sanders. In 2016, he won more than double the number of delegates claimed by Hillary Clinton here.\n\nWho could do well? There are more contenders than in 2016 which means Sanders' lead won't be as large. But billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden are polling far behind.\n\nOne piece of context This isn't the only thing on the ballot on Super Tuesday in Maine. There's also a referendum on whether to reject a law that would block religious and philosophical objections to vaccinations.\n\nWho will do best? Clue: his name is an anagram of Desire Banners. Sanders won here convincingly in 2016.\n\nWho could do well? It's unlikely anyone will challenge Sanders. The most recent poll put Bloomberg in a distant second and former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg in third, before he dropped out. Could Bloomberg win votes that might have gone to Buttigieg, and tighten the gap on Sanders?\n\nOne piece of context Utah has not voted for a Democrat in the presidential election since 1964, when it picked Lyndon B Johnson. So whoever comes out on top here may not take the state in November.\n\nWho will do best? A recent poll by Hendrix College in Arkansas suggested Bloomberg's plan of concentrating on Super Tuesday states could pay off here.\n\nWho could do well? Biden and Sanders possibly, although it's a close-run thing. Forecasting site FiveThirtyEight gives Biden a stronger chance - the vote could be split fairly evenly.\n\nOne piece of context It might not matter who Democrats pick: Arkansas has opted for a Democrat in a presidential election only twice in 40 years (and even then, it was local boy Bill Clinton, twice).\n\nWho will do best? It's tough to say. Biden, maybe just.\n\nWho could do well? Bloomberg and Sanders, according to Oklahoma polling group Sooner last week.\n\nOne piece of context Fracking is a big issue here, and Sanders and Warren (who was born in Oklahoma City) have both proposed measures to ban it. The underground disposal of waste water used in fracking has led to a rise in earthquakes in this part of the US.\n\nWho will do best? We're in safe Biden territory. He has the support of plenty of senior Democrats in Alabama, and is widely liked among African Americans there.\n\nWho could do well? Biden's lead in the polls looks fairly comfortable, but Bloomberg and Sanders appear most likely to challenge him.\n\nOne piece of context Republicans are also deciding who will run in November's Senate race, where they are very hopeful of ousting Democrat Doug Jones (and making it harder for Democrats to win the Senate later this year). The favourite right now is Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's former attorney general.\n\nWho will do best? It's close. FiveThirtyEight suggests Biden's chances here have improved a lot over the past few days.\n\nWho could do well? There has been very little polling here, but it could well be Sanders, who was a distant second to Hillary Clinton here in 2016.\n\nOne piece of context In Tennessee, who votes may be a bigger issue than who wins - it has one of the worst voter turnout rates in the US. In the last presidential election, just over half of registered voters turned out, 10 points below the national average.\n\nWho will do best? FiveThirtyEight gives Sanders a seven in eight chance of winning most votes here. You may notice that a picture is starting to form.\n\nWho could do well? The site puts Biden in a distant second, with Elizabeth Warren just behind him.\n\nOne piece of context Once a Republican stronghold, out-of-state migration and population growth has turned Colorado increasingly \"blue\" - a Democratic tilt that extends down the ballot. In its latest predictions, election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball changed its rating of the state's US Senate race from \"toss up\" to \"leans Democratic\".\n\nWho will do best? It was all set to be Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar until she withdrew on Monday. She has now endorsed Biden, so... maybe Biden?\n\nWho could do well? Sanders had been close behind Klobuchar in second, and is likely to pick up a decent amount of delegates here.\n\nOne piece of context This part of the US was badly hit by Donald Trump's trade war with China - advocacy group Tariffs Hurt The Heartland said businesses in Minnesota had to pay $797m (£604m) more in tariffs as a result. Will that translate into more support for Democrats in this election?\n\nWho will do best? Sanders, maybe. But it will be close.\n\nWho could do well? Elizabeth Warren, but it might be embarrassing if she doesn't win, given she is the senior senator for the state. Buttigieg's withdrawal may help her.\n\nOne piece of context A massive 40% of the candidates left in the race (two people) live in Massachusetts - as well as Warren, the other is Michael Bloomberg, who lives in Medford. Despite actor Michael Douglas campaigning for him there, he is not expected to do especially well here.\n\nWho will do best? This will be a really interesting one to follow. The vote could be split fairly evenly between Sanders, Bloomberg and Biden.\n\nWho could do well? See above.\n\nOne piece of context Watch the results in the Washington DC suburbs. This suburban vote will be crucial across the country in November's election (as it was in the 2018 mid-terms). How will the nationwide favourite, Bernie Sanders, perform there? Will moderates in the suburbs warm to him?\n\nWho will do best? It's quite a similar picture to neighbouring Virginia, and will also be worth following - it's close between Sanders and Biden.\n\nWho could do well? Bloomberg was polling well here at one point, but is drifting behind a little by now.\n\nOne piece of context This will also be a battleground state in November. As with Virginia, watch the crucially important suburbs of cities like Charlotte and Raleigh. But watch who they vote for, and whether that person ends up becoming the nominee. The way the votes go here in November might help decide the election.\n\nWho will do best? We're into the big league now. It's very close between Sanders and Biden here. Either way, it looks likely Sanders will claim a large amount of delegates and by the time the results come in from Texas, his lead could be big.\n\nWho could do well? It is likely to be a good night for Biden here too. Elizabeth Warren is third or fourth in most polls.\n\nOne piece of context There's reason to think that the so-called sleeping giant of the Texas Hispanic vote - now almost two million voters - is about to wake up. In the 2018 midterms, 46.9% of registered Hispanic voters turned out, a leap from 24.4% in 2014.\n\nWho will do best? If Sanders really does have an eight in nine chance of winning most votes here, as FiveThirtyEight predicts, you might as well call him the nominee. This is where Sanders' appeal to his \"multiracial coalition\" pays off - he looks like he could do well with African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans here.\n\nWho could do well? Right now, Biden looks like being a distant second.\n\nOne piece of context This will be a Super Tuesday debut for California. Lawmakers moved the state's primary up a month from its traditional spot in June in an effort to increase California's impact. The shift could matter: the country's most populous state will award 30% of the delegates on Super Tuesday.\n\n*American Samoa (six delegates) and Democrats Abroad (13) are also voting on Super Tuesday", "Angela Spiridis says she was \"outright refused\" an epidural\n\nWomen in labour are being refused epidurals, the Department of Health and Social Care has found.\n\nOfficial guidelines say all women should have the option, but some claim that stretched resources and a lack of information mean it is being denied.\n\nOne woman said her \"traumatic\" experience had left her with post-natal depression and anxiety.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives said \"every woman who wants an epidural should be given one if it is safe\".\n\nThe decision to investigate came after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in January he wanted \"all expectant mothers to be able to make an informed choice that's right for them, to know this choice will be fully respected and to have the freedom to change their mind\".\n\nThe health minister Nadine Dorries will now write to all heads and directors of midwifery, and to NHS trusts, to ensure guidelines on pain relief are being followed.\n\nThese state that women in labour can ask for epidurals at any time, including during the early stage of labour.\n\nBut one woman, Angela Spiridis, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she was \"outright refused\" an epidural, when - six hours into the induction - she was tired and in pain.\n\n\"At one point I was arguing with four medical professionals, one being the midwife. And they said, 'No, you're not in labour'.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"very disempowered\".\n\n\"They didn't trust me as a woman to know my own body,\" she added, saying she \"felt I was being judged, asking for an epidural\".\n\nShe said she was then left in the labour room \"for several hours\", at which point there was no time for an epidural to be administered.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives said its members and services were \"focused on ensuring women have the best possible experience of pregnancy and birth\".\n\nBut it added: \"Unfortunately, due to stretched resources, anaesthetists are not always available, which poses real challenges for midwives seeking the best experience for women in labour.\"\n\nOne woman who contacted the Victoria Derbyshire programme - and did not wish to be named - said she had requested an epidural \"from the moment contractions began... but was told repeatedly there was no-one to administer it. This went on for three hours\".\n\nShe had previously experienced post-natal depression with her first baby, and said being unable to have an epidural caused her great anxiety.\n\n\"I went on to have post-natal depression, post-partum anxiety and post-traumatic stress,\" she said.\n\nClare Murphy of the BPAS says women being refused epidurals has become a \"common theme\"\n\nA Care Quality Commission survey, published in January, found that epidural use in England has increased over the past three years from 28% to 31%.\n\nBut the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said women being refused epidurals had become a \"common theme\".\n\nIt said it was leaving women \"profoundly traumatised\" - with some choosing to \"limit\" their families as a consequence, and not have another child.\n\nClare Murphy, from the charity, said a greater emphasis needed to be placed on providing information about pain relief to women.\n\nKim McAllister said she \"screamed\" for an epidural\n\nOne mother, Kim McAllister, told the BBC that during her first pregnancy she had \"screamed\" for an epidural.\n\n\"The midwife said, 'No, you're too far gone, keep going'. And that was the end of it - there was no information, no discussion with my husband.\"\n\nWomen who choose to give birth at home or in a midwife-led unit may have to be transferred if they want an epidural, and Ms McAllister said she now understood her request may have come too late.\n\nBut, she added, \"it was just really scary to be dismissed like that. I was made to feel powerless, at a time when you feel so vulnerable.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer is asked about his pitch to be the next leader of the Labour Party.\n\nSir Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey have been challenged about their electability and leadership skills in BBC interviews with Andrew Neil.\n\nAsked whether he had the charisma to transform Labour's fortunes, Sir Keir said there were \"different ways to inspire people\" and his \"unrelenting\" mission was to return Labour to power.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey said she had the \"big ideas\" needed to win the next election.\n\nThe pair also were also quizzed on donations and action on anti-Semitism.\n\nIn separate interviews broadcast on the Andrew Neil show, both the Labour leadership contenders committed to retain key policies from the party's 2019 manifesto despite its overwhelming defeat.\n\nThe third contender for the Labour crown, Lisa Nandy, was grilled by Andrew Neil last month.\n\nSir Keir, Mrs Long-Bailey and Ms Nandy are vying to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader, with the result to be announced on 4 April.\n\nIn his interview, Sir Keir said if he won his \"unrelenting\" focus would be returning Labour to government at the next election, expected in 2024.\n\nAsked if he had the \"fire in his belly\" needed to galvanise Labour after its worst electoral performance, in terms of seats won, since 1935, Sir Keir suggested his leadership style would be different from Mr Corbyn's.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Long-Bailey is asked what she would do differently as leader\n\n\"There are different ways to inspire people. You can inspire people so they want to sit at your feet listening to your next word. That is not me.\n\n\"Or you can inspire people by building a team of people who want to come with you on a journey and change their party and their country. That is what I am building in my campaign.\"\n\nKeir Starmer acknowledged that, at the general election, the question of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was the number one issue in many areas.\n\nBut despite repeated invitations to say something critical of Mr Corbyn, he stuck to his message of \"unity\".\n\nAlthough suspected by some on the left of intending to move the party to the centre, he has gone out of his way to reassure the sizeable left-wing slice of the selectorate that he won't \"over-steer\" to the right.\n\nSo much so that tonight he described the nationalisation of water, mail, and rail as \"baseline indicators\" of where he wants to go.\n\nAnd he went further than his pledge to repeal recent trade union laws. He now declared he'd get rid of all union legislation \"that prohibited collective action\".\n\nSo in appealing to party members, he is trying to ensure he can't be \"out-lefted\" by Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nPolls suggest she is in second place. Although she is backed by left-wing grassroots group Momentum, she appeared to be trying to broaden her base.\n\nShe insisted there was \"no such thing as Corbynism\", and that she is \"not a continuity of Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nWhile she was 'proud' of the party's policies, she insisted they were \"not left-wing\" nor as \"radical\" as people had thought, stressing that the party needed to talk about \"aspiration\".\n\nThere haven't been many surprises in this contest. But the respective rhetoric adopted by the apparent frontrunners might have raised some eyebrows, not least among some of their own supporters.\n\nDefending his continued backing for the free movement of people to and from Europe after Brexit, Sir Keir told Andrew Neil the views of Labour voters in the party's traditional heartlands on immigration were more nuanced than \"soundbites\" suggested.\n\nHe dismissed suggestions, levelled by some of Mrs Long-Bailey's supporters, that he was \"hiding\" details of his campaign's financial backers, saying he had received support from trade unions, crowd-funding and individual donations.\n\nHe insisted he was complying with the rules set out by the party before the contest started, saying the largest donation he had received so far - a £100,000 cheque from fellow barrister Robert Latham - had been declared in the MPs register of financial interests.\n\n\"The Labour rules say 'carry out the checks you have to carry out' and once you are satisfied that the donations are proper and in order, they go to the parliamentary authorities who put them on the parliamentary website so everyone can see them,\" he said.\n\n\"I have been following those procedures. How can you say I am hiding behind the process when it is the Labour Party process.\"\n\nMrs Long-Bailey, who has declared more than £300,000 in donations from the Unite union and left-wing campaign group Momentum, urged her rival to be open about the source of his donations and put \"more meat on the bone\" about the direction he would take the party in.\n\nShe defended her record, while a member of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, of condemning anti-Semitism, rejecting suggestions she remained silent during a 2018 discussion on whether the party should adopt the international definition of anti-Semitism in full.\n\nBut she conceded she had not always \"been quick enough\" to call out examples of anti-Semitism, including at a recent campaign event when a member of the public accused prominent Labour politicians, including Jewish MP Margaret Hodge of \"being part of the Israeli lobby\".\n\n\"I should have challenged that specific element of that gentleman's contribution directly and I wish I had done that because it was an anti-Semitic statement,\" she said, adding that those guilty of \"clear\" examples of anti-Jewish prejudice should be expelled.\n\nDuring an interview earlier in the campaign, the other candidate Lisa Nandy is asked for her views on university tuition fees, Royal Mail renationalisation, Trident, the NHS using private providers and the top rate of tax.", "At least 22 people have died after two tornadoes ripped through central Tennessee, including the state's biggest city Nashville.\n\nOfficials said the tornadoes also caused widespread damage to buildings in the city.", "Rock band Genesis have reformed for a tour, 13 years after last performing together.\n\nTony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford confirmed the reunion on Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show on Wednesday.\n\n\"We all felt, 'Why not?'\" Collins told BBC News. \"It sounds a bit of a lame reason - but we enjoy each other's company, we enjoy playing together.\"\n\nThe trio will be joined on stage by Collins' 18-year-old son Nicholas, who replaces his father on drums.\n\nThe star suffered nerve damage during Genesis's last tour in 2007, which left him unable to play for extended periods of time.\n\nNicholas has since stepped in as a drummer at Collins' solo shows - and his presence helped inspire the Genesis reunion, Banks said.\n\n\"He can sound like Phil and it gave us a whole idea of how we could do it, because we knew Phil couldn't be the drummer on the road again,\" the keyboard player said.\n\nThe veteran band, whose hits include Land of Confusion and I Can't Dance, will kick off their Last Domino? tour in Dublin on 16 November.\n\nThey will also play shows in Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow, as well as two nights at London's O2 Arena.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to doing it,\" said Rutherford. \"I worked it out and we've only done two shows in the UK in the last 28 years, so we haven't over-worked it.\"\n\nFounding member Peter Gabriel, who left the group in 1975, will not be taking part. Guitarist Steve Hackett will also miss the shows.\n\n\"Peter left the band 45 years ago and he's been trying to live it down ever since,\" said Banks.\n\n\"When they put his birthday in The Times, they always say, 'Peter Gabriel - Genesis singer.' And I think, 'What's the guy been doing since then, for God's sake?'\"\n\nBanks said it wouldn't make sense to bring Gabriel back because \"most of the songs people know\" came after his departure, but added: \"We love Peter.\"\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 genesis_band 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\nCollins, whose voice was croaky after a recent illness, said the set list was still coming together.\n\n\"There are songs that you feel you have to play because the audience would feel cheated if you didn't,\" he told Ball.\n\n\"There are a few old dogs that won't be running,\" he added, saying songs that were \"based more on my drumming\" would be dropped.\n\nThe singer arrived at Radio 2 with a walking stick, which he has used since a back operation in 2015 left him with drop foot.\n\nRumours of a reunion had been circulating since Collins and Rutherford performed together in Berlin last June.\n\nEarlier this week, a photograph of the three members appeared on Genesis's official Instagram account with the caption: \"And then there were three.\"\n\nGenesis started life as a progressive rock band in the 1970s, but after a series of line-up changes, they transformed their sound and became one of the most successful mainstream rock bands of the 80s.\n\nThey recorded 15 studio and six live albums, selling more than 100 million records, while scoring top 20 hits with songs like Invisible Touch, Turn It On Again and In Too Deep.\n\nThe band last played together in 2007 to mark the 40th anniversary of their formation at Charterhouse School in Surrey.\n\nThose shows mixed their hits with the more expansive, experimental material from 70s albums like Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.\n\nThe band announced their reunion live on BBC Radio 2\n\nCollins announced his retirement in 2011 after nerve damage left him unable to play the drums, but he returned to the stage in 2016 following his back operation.\n\nThat prompted speculation that Genesis might later reform, but Banks shot down speculation in 2018, saying that \"getting everybody in the same place at the same time is impossible\".\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, the musician said Collins' live comeback had been the catalyst for their reformation.\n\n\"Phil's been out on tour for the last two-and-a-half years and it seemed the natural moment to have a conversation about it,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The prison officer was injured as prison cells were being unlocked\n\nTwo men have been charged with the attempted murder of a prison officer at a maximum security jail.\n\nThe officer suffered stab wounds to his head, chest and face as the cells were unlocked at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on 9 January.\n\nBrusthom Ziamani, 24, and Baz Macaulay Hockton, 26, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later.\n\nMr Ziamani has also been charged with an ABH assault and common assault in relation to two other prison officers.\n\nHMP Whitemoor houses more than 400 Category A and B prisoners on three wings, including a number of the highest-risk inmates.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The royal couple cradle pints of Guinness at the end of the first day of their visit to Ireland\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended the first day of their first official visit to the Republic of Ireland with a pint of the black stuff.\n\nThe royal couple arrived at Dublin Airport for the three-day trip on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThey began the visit by meeting Irish President Michael D Higgins at his residence, Áras an Uachtaráin.\n\nThe day ended with Prince William speaking some words of Irish at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge opened a speech at a reception, attended by guests from the worlds of sport, film, television and the armed forces, by saying: \"Ladies and gentlemen, a dhaoine uaisle [noble people].\"\n\nThe duchess continued to honour the host country with the colour of her evening attire\n\n\"We are very much looking forward to our next two days in Ireland, where I have no doubt we will continue to be impressed by the creativity, warmth and hospitality the Irish people have to offer,\" he added.\n\nAfter his speech, the duke raised his pint of Guinness and took a sip as he uttered the Irish toast \"Sláinte\".\n\nDuring their earlier meeting with President Higgins, the duke and duchess discussed the implications of Brexit.\n\nThey also chatted about building on the foundations of the Good Friday Agreement, which ushered in peace in Northern Ireland, a spokesman for the president said.\n\nThe duke and duchess attended a string of formal events during the day, including meeting Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar at the country's government buildings.\n\nThey travelled to the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin - dedicated to people who fought for Irish independence - where they laid a wreath.\n\nTheir handwritten message on the wreath read: \"May we never forget the lessons of history as we continue to build a brighter future together.\"\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Coyne showed the royal couple around the grounds of their residence\n\nThe duke and duchess rang the peace bell at Áras an Uachtaráin\n\nThe couple paid their respects at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin\n\nIt may be a chilly day in Dublin but the sun came out for the duke and duchess.\n\nTheir visit to the Garden of Remembrance, where Irish people remember those who fought for independence, was not open to the public but a modest crowd gathered outside nonetheless.\n\nThey were treated to a piper playing an Irish lament before a cheer erupted.\n\nThey had arrived - and to a warm welcome.\n\nAlmost a decade after the Queen bowed her head and laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance, the next generation of royals repeated the gesture.\n\nIt may not have had the same significance as 2011's turning point in Anglo-Irish relations but it was another step in continuing the friendship.\n\nRead more from Amy: What do William and Kate hope to achieve in Ireland?\n\nThe duke and duchess met Ireland's Taoiseach Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett\n\nThe duchess made a new friend in the form of one of President Higgins' Bernese mountain dogs\n\nAmong those watching at the Garden of Remembrance was Melissa Garza, from Texas.\n\n\"I saw this was on the list so I came along to see them,\" he said.\n\n\"It was great and so important to lay a wreath like the Queen did.\"\n\nHilary, from County Monaghan, said she was \"disappointed\" in the number of people who tried to catch a glimpse.\n\n\"It was a poor enough crowd - maybe people didn't know or they were busy.\n\nHelena, from Dublin, watched as her partner made up part of the guard of honour for the ceremony.\n\nShe said she would have come anyway as it was \"lovely to see Kate and William\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were suitably dressed for their visit to the Emerald Isle\n\nThe royal visit aims to highlight the \"many strong links between the UK and Ireland\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nDuring their stay, the couple are visiting Dublin, Galway and counties Meath and Kildare.", "Boots has suspended payments using loyalty points in shops and online after attempts to break into customers' accounts using stolen passwords.\n\nCustomers will not be able to use Boots Advantage Card points to pay for products while the issue is dealt with.\n\nBoots said none of its own systems were compromised, but attackers had tried to access accounts using reused passwords from other sites.\n\nIt comes days after a similar issue hit 600,000 Tesco Clubcard holders.\n\nA spokeswoman for Boots told the BBC the issue affected less than 1% of the company's 14.4 million active Advantage Cards - fewer than 150,000 people.\n\nBut it could not give an exact number as the company was still dealing with the problem.\n\nNo credit card information had been accessed, they said.\n\nSuspending payments using points removed the risk of hackers stealing the points to spend themselves, the spokeswoman said.\n\nCustomers can still earn points when making purchases, and Boots hopes to have point payments back up as soon as possible.\n\n\"We are writing to customers if we believe that their account has been affected, and if their Boots Advantage Card points have been used fraudulently we will, of course, replace them,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We would like to reassure our customers that these details were not obtained from Boots,\" it added.\n\nThe Boots Advantage card lets shoppers collect four points for every £1 spent, and each point is worth a penny. For example, a card with 200 points could be used to pay for an item worth £2.\n\nBut the points can also be used when purchasing items online.\n\nSo-called \"password stuffing\" happens when an attacker uses a list of compromised usernames and passwords from a previous data breach.\n\nThey then try to log in to a different website, hoping for a match.\n\nBecause many people use the same email and password combination for several websites, some of the combinations on the compromised list might work.\n\nIn Tesco's case, the supermarket giant told customers it believed that a compromised list of usernames and passwords had been used to try to gain access to its customers' accounts - and it may have worked in some cases.\n\nIt said no financial information was accessed, and it had restricted access to the accounts to prevent fraudulent use.\n\nJake Moore, cyber-security specialist at internet security firm Eset, said that Boots reminding their customers about the risk was a good move - but that password reuse is a \"gigantic problem\" in cyber-security.\n\n\"These lists of passwords can be easily found on the dark web for very little, or even free,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be a good idea for people to check they have implemented two factor authentication on each of their accounts as this makes the password stuffing attack that much harder.\"\n\n\"My further advice is to use a password manager to store your uniquely different passwords robustly online so you don't have to remember them all.\"\n\nBoots said customers could reset their passwords online, and should choose a unique password not used on other sites.", "A more eco-friendly petrol could be introduced to garages in the UK from next year.\n\nThe government is consulting on making E10 - which contains less carbon and more ethanol than fuels currently on sale - the new standard petrol grade.\n\nThe move could cut CO2 emissions from transport by 750,000 tonnes per year, the Department for Transport said.\n\nHowever, the lower carbon fuel would not be compatible with some older vehicles.\n\nCurrent petrol grades in the UK - known as E5 - contain up to 5% bioethanol.\n\nE10 would see this percentage increased up to 10% - a proportion that would bring the UK in line with countries such as Belgium, Finland, France and Germany.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is due to chair his first cabinet committee on climate change on Wednesday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the change in petrol could be equivalent to taking up to 350,000 cars off the road each year.\n\n\"The next 15 years will be absolutely crucial for slashing emissions from our roads, as we all start to feel the benefits of the transition to a zero-emission future,\" he said.\n\n\"But before electric cars become the norm, we want to take advantage of reduced CO2 emissions today. This small switch to petrol containing bioethanol at 10% will help drivers across country reduce the environmental impact of every journey.\"\n\nThe announcement of the consultation comes after the government announced that a ban on the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars would be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 - although Mr Shapps said it could happen as soon as 2032.\n\nThe UK, which will host the United Nations climate change conference in November, aims to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nLabour maintains the government is not on track to reach such a target.\n\nMeanwhile, the chancellor is expected to scrap a subsidy on diesel used by the farming and construction sector in an effort to encourage a switch to greener alternative fuel vehicles and help the UK meet its climate change targets.\n\nRishi Sunak is set to announce in next week's budget that red diesel - so-called because it is marked with a dye - will no longer attract a lower fuel duty. It currently accounts for about 15% of total diesel sales in the UK and costs the Treasury about £2.4bn a year in revenue.", "Jeffrey Gafoor led into Cardiff Crown Court for sentencing in July 2003\n\nThe killer of Lynette White is set to be moved to an open prison.\n\nJeffrey Gafoor was given a life sentence in 2003 and ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years for the 1988 murder.\n\nThe Parole Board said Gafoor was \"suitable\" for the move, which would prepare him for possible release.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said \"our thoughts remain with the family of Lynette White as they learn of this decision\".\n\nGafoor was tracked down using new DNA techniques, 11 years after three men had murder convictions quashed.\n\nTony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller - who became known as the Cardiff Three - were wrongly jailed for life in 1990 for Ms White's murder and freed in 1992.\n\nMs White, 20, a sex worker, was stabbed more than 50 times by Gafoor in a flat in the docklands area of Cardiff in 1988.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Parole Board told BBC Wales: \"The Parole Board has made the decision not to release Mr Jeffrey Gafoor following an oral hearing but has recommended that he is suitable for a move to an open conditions prison.\n\n\"We will only make a recommendation for open conditions if a Parole Board panel is satisfied that the risk to the public has reduced sufficiently to be manageable in an open prison.\n\n\"This is a recommendation only and the Ministry of Justice will now consider the advice and make the final decision.\"\n\nLynette White was found murdered on St Valentine's Day in 1988\n\nThe Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"The independent Parole Board conducts a thorough risk assessment before recommending a transfer to open conditions but the Prison Service retains the ability to return offenders to closed prison at the first sign of any concern.\"\n\nAccording to Ministry of Justice guidelines, \"as the Parole Board carries out a thorough risk assessment, it has been long-standing policy to only reject their recommendations in very limited circumstances\".\n\nGafoor confessed to stabbing Ms White in a row over £30 after new DNA technology led South Wales Police to him in 2003.\n\nIn sentencing Gafoor, the judge said he had \"allowed innocent men to go to prison\" for a crime he knew he had committed.\n\nAccording to the Parole Board, the purposes of a period in open conditions are \"to allow areas of concern to be tested in conditions more closely resembling those to be found in the community, to allow prisoners the opportunity to take more responsibility for their actions, and to develop or advance the release plan\".\n\nThe parole board's hearing last month was the third for Gafoor, after two previous failed applications for parole.\n\nClockwise from top left: Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were convicted in 1989, while John and Ronnie Actie were acquitted", "Ramani Morgan's family described him as \"kind, caring, and humble\"\n\nTwo teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death.\n\nRamani Morgan, from Erdington in Birmingham, was found collapsed in Clay Lane, Coventry, at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was investigating links to trouble at a house party in Chandos Street earlier that night.\n\nThe two 17-year-old boys have appeared at Leamington Magistrates' Court.\n\nThere they were remanded in custody to appear at Warwick Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nA tribute, released by the force on behalf of Ramani's family, said his death had \"totally broken our family\".\n\n\"Ramani was so kind, caring, and humble and had a beautiful soul,\" they said.\n\n\"He had the potential of becoming a professional footballer. Ramani had many hopes and dreams and he had his whole life ahead of him.\n\n\"Ramani was the best son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin anyone could ever wish for.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police said officers had spoken to a number of people who were at the house party but urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs are to be given a £20m increase in their staffing budgets to help deal with \"challenging\" casework, including constituents with mental health issues.\n\nThe UK's 650 MPs will each receive more than £25,000 extra towards their staffing costs, with cash specifically for training, welfare and security.\n\nIt follows a review which suggested MPs' staff were underpaid compared with equivalent workers in other sectors.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said his own staff were \"struggling to cope\".\n\nThe £19.7m increase - equivalent to a 13% year-on-year rise in staffing budgets - was approved by a committee headed by the Speaker on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows a campaign by more than 200 MPs last year for their staff to get a pay rise.\n\nA report commissioned by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the watchdog which oversee MPs' salaries and expenses, found that the job descriptions of those working for MPs did not \"sufficiently match\" the actual work they were doing.\n\nIt concluded that many of the 3,500 staff employed by MPs were increasingly \"dealing with complex and challenging constituency cases\" while also managing their offices - necessitating long, unsociable hours.\n\nStaff were often having to support constituents with mental health issues, sometimes at risk to their own safety, while not being properly equipped to do so.\n\nThe new measures will mean each of the 650 MPs getting a staffing budget increase of £21,900 in London and £21,600 outside the capital. An additional £4,000 has been added to each budget to fund training, health and welfare costs.\n\n\"Bearing in mind the growing number of complex cases that are brought to our constituency offices, it's important staff are paid fairly for the vital job they do,\" said Sir Lindsay, who represents the Lancashire seat of Chorley.\n\n\"My own staff regularly have to help distressed constituents who are suicidal, fleeing domestic violence, have suffered rape, are homeless, need referrals to food banks, have the bailiffs banging at their doors, and are struggling to cope.\"\n\nIPSA's interim chair Richard Lloyd said MPs' offices were having to deal with \"difficult and stressful casework\" with \"relatively little time or money spent on training, wellbeing and development\".\n\n\"We have provided additional funding in MPs' 2020-21 staffing budgets for staff training and welfare, security, and changes to the salary bands and job descriptions for MPs' staff to bring them into line with the jobs they actually do,\" he said.", "The medal sold at auction for £50,000\n\nA medal awarded to a boxer who helped save the Princess Royal from an attempted armed kidnap has sold at auction for £50,000.\n\nFormer heavyweight Ronnie Russell, 72, punched Ian Ball in the head as he tried to abduct the princess at gunpoint in London in 1974.\n\nMr Russell said he reluctantly sold the George Medal as he had been \"very unwell for quite some time\".\n\n\"I want to know that I've done enough to pay for my own funeral,\" he said.\n\nAfter the auction, Mr Russell, who lives in Bristol, said: \"For something I thought that I would never sell, I never believed it would sell for this amount, I am absolutely blown away.\"\n\nHe said he had one request for the UK buyer, who asked to remain anonymous, which was for them to meet in person to tell the story of what happened.\n\nRonnie Russell was awarded the George Medal for bravery by the Queen\n\nPrincess Anne's car had been blocked and Ian Ball had fired shots, wounding four people\n\nMr Russell was heading home to his wife and children in Strood, Kent, when he thwarted the late-night ambush on 20 March 1974.\n\nBall had blocked the princess's car on The Mall in central London and had fired shots, wounding four people.\n\nMr Russell said Ball was trying to drag Princess Anne from her car while her then husband, Captain Mark Phillips, was pulling her back.\n\n\"She was very, very together, telling him: 'Just go away and don't be such a silly man',\" he said.\n\n\"He stood there glaring at me with the gun and I hit him. I hit him as hard as I could and he was flat on the floor face down.\n\n\"I said to Princess Anne: 'We're going to walk away and he's going to have to go through me to get you'.\"\n\nThe aftermath of Ian Ball's attempt to kidnap Princess Anne\n\nPrincess Anne sent Mr Russell a telegram when he received the medal\n\nBall was later sent to a psychiatric hospital by an Old Bailey judge.\n\nMr Russell was awarded the George Medal for bravery by the Queen, who told him: \"The medal is from the Queen, but I want to thank you as Anne's mother.\"\n\nIt was sold along with a letter from 10 Downing Street informing Mr Russell of the award and a telegram from Princess Anne.", "Diane Howarth runs Cottage in the Dales with her husband Andrew\n\nThe government has bowed to pressure and changed its stance on insurance to cover firms for coronavirus losses in England.\n\nThe government said it would declare coronavirus as a \"notifiable disease\", a formal classification required by many insurance policies.\n\nBusinesses had warned that expected coronavirus losses risked not being covered under existing rules.\n\nOther regions of the UK have already made the change.\n\nDiane Howarth, who runs Cottage in the Dales, a small holiday cottage business in the Yorkshire Dales, had told the BBC she stood to lose up to £8,000 in forward bookings.\n\n\"We're a small family business,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm owed £8,000 in overseas bookings - 10% of my turnover - in the next six weeks from guests arriving in June. If they cancel, and I can't claim, that would be catastrophic for us, and many other businesses in the same position.\"\n\nShe urged the government to enact the change quickly, as the \"clock is ticking\".\n\nBut the Association of British Insurers said the government's decision was unlikely to apply retrospectively and also urged holders to check the small print of their policies.\n\n\"Standard business insurance policies are designed and priced to cover standard risks, not those that are very unlikely, such as the effects of Covid-19,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nLast month the Scottish and Northern Ireland governments formally declared that coronavirus was \"notifiable\". They were followed by the Republic of Ireland and earlier this week Guernsey.\n\nIt places a legal responsibility on medical professionals to tell health officials of suspected cases immediately.\n\nUnder the terms of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 there are 32 diseases that are currently notifiable, ranging from malaria to measles.\n\nBut English authorities were yet to add Covid-19 to this list, leaving many firms unclear about whether their insurance policies would protect them.\n\nA number of businesses in tourism and hospitality raised the issue with the BBC, and business groups on Tuesday complained to the government at a meeting at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nFollowing the meeting, late on Tuesday, the government said it would legally declare coronavirus to be a notifiable disease.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We want to ensure any steps taken to protect the public during the Covid-19 outbreak are proportionate and do not come at an unnecessary social or economic cost.\n\n\"To mitigate the impact on businesses, we will register Covid-19 as a notifiable disease. This will help companies seek compensation through their insurance policies in the event of any cancellations they may have to make as a result of the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, told the BBC: \"While the disease remains non-notifiable, insurance will not cover them against some losses.\"\n\nThe notification process gives important powers to local authorities, and acts as an important trigger for insurance against losses known as business interruption cover.", "A 67-year-old woman accused of stealing a £1.80 packet of paracetamol tablets has gone on trial at a crown court.\n\nMyfanwy Elliot, from Machynlleth, is accused of stealing a box of Panadol Advanced from the town's Co-op store in October.\n\nCaernarfon Crown Court heard a shop assistant found the unscanned packet in Mrs Elliot's basket when she went to assist her at a till.\n\nMrs Elliot denies theft and said the packet was her own.\n\nThe court heard she said it was used to carry aspirin for a heart condition.\n\nStore assistant Jodie Hancock told jurors she noticed hair bobbles and some tablets which had not been scanned in Mrs Elliot's bag.\n\nMrs Elliott told her she had forgotten to scan the hair bobbles, so she scanned them for her.\n\nAsked why the hair bobbles were re-scanned and paid for, but not the tablets, Ms Hancock said: \"Because she said they were from Spar.\"\n\nMrs Elliott was allowed to continue scanning her items and left, but CCTV from the store was later obtained.\n\nCross-examining Ms Hancock, barrister Myles Wilson said Mrs Elliott was using the Welsh word \"sbar\" meaning spare or \"they're mine\".\n\nCCTV from the store appeared to show Mrs Elliott with a blue packet of tablets in her hand\n\nCCTV footage was played to the jury which showed Mrs Elliott with a blue packet of tablets in her hand.\n\nShortly after, the footage showed the tablets were \"no longer in her hand\".\n\nGiving evidence in her own defence, Mrs Elliott said she put the Panadol back on a shelf.\n\nShe said she kept an old Panadol Advanced packet in her bag to carry soluble Disprin for her heart.\n\nMrs Elliott told the court the old packet was slim and \"they fit nice\" in her bag.\n\nShe said she spoke a mixture of Welsh and English \"which can be a bit confusing to some\".\n\n\"Those Panadols have been in my bag since I don't know when,\" she told the court. \"They were my own spare, from home.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA scam call centre that targeted thousands of British victims has been raided by the Indian police, following a BBC investigation.\n\nPanorama broadcast hacked footage from inside the call centre which showed how staff charged people hundreds of pounds to fix non-existent computer problems.\n\nThe owner of the call centre, Amit Chauhan, denied it was a scam but declined to answer detailed questions.\n\nMr Chauhan is now in custody after police raided the call centre.\n\nIt was located in the Gurugram suburb of Delhi, and Mr Chauhan is due to appear in court on Thursday.\n\nThe programme had also obtained the recordings of 70,000 calls where victims were being ripped off in the UK, America and Australia.\n\nIndian police are appealing for British residents who paid money to the call centre to contact them by email at Shocybergrg.pol-hry@gov.in\n\nPerry Adams was one of those who lost money after a bogus warning appeared on his computer, saying it had been infected with pornographic spyware.\n\nHe said he will be contacting the Indian police with his evidence.\n\n\"I think that it's superb the work that Panorama has done on behalf of the victims, to catch someone who thought they were untouchable. There's nothing to stop him opening up somewhere else, so I'll be interested to see what happens in court,\" he said.\n\nThe call centre's owner, Amit Chauhan, second from left, in police custody\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are employed in legitimate call centres in India, but there are also dozens of call centres running scams.\n\nIndian police say it is a difficult crime to prosecute because all of the victims are overseas, and they need evidence from victims in order to bring charges.\n\nPanorama obtained its evidence from an online vigilante who goes by the name of Jim Browning. He had hacked into the call centre's computer system and taken control of the CCTV cameras in the building.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nTim Krul was the hero by saving two penalties as Norwich beat Tottenham in a shootout after a 1-1 draw to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 28 years.\n\nNorwich were on the back foot in the penalty shootout when Kenny McLean's first kick was saved by Michel Vorm, but Erik Lamela hit the crossbar for Spurs with Troy Parrott and Gedson Fernandes seeing their efforts pushed away by Krul.\n\nThe Dutch goalkeeper, who took his time to set himself before each kick, sprinted to the opposite end of the ground to celebrate with the 9,000 joyous travelling supporters in the away end.\n\nAt the same time Spurs defender Eric Dier was involved in a confrontation in the stands after being \"insulted\" by a fan.\n\nTottenham had actually taken the lead early on through Jan Vertonghen, as the Belgium defender rose highest to powerfully head in from Giovani lo Celso's superb cross.\n\nBut they were forced back by Norwich as the visitors caused plenty of problems - Emiliano Buendia and Lukas Rupp both forcing stand-in goalkeeper Vorm into making sharp saves.\n\nHaving looked like being left frustrated, the Canaries got a deserved equaliser on 78 minutes as Josip Drmic bundled in from close range after Vorm spilled Kenny McLean's drive.\n\nAt the other end, the hosts could have won it with five minutes of normal time remaining but Serge Aurier saw his low shot cleared off the line by the retreating Ben Godfrey. With no further goals in extra time, Norwich made it a night to remember.\n\nDaniel Farke's side will host the winner of Thursday's tie between Derby and Manchester United in the quarter-finals.\n• None Eric Dier involved in altercation with fan after 'insult'\n• None 'I knew I'd better start saving some' - Krul on shootout win\n\nDespite being rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table, Norwich have gained plaudits for their attractive style of football and Farke's men thoroughly deserved to progress in the cup.\n\nThough they have plenty to do if they are to avoid an immediate return to the Championship, six points adrift of safety with just 10 games remaining, this competition will come as a welcome distraction.\n\nThe Norfolk club have never won the FA Cup and their run in recent years has been dreadful with six third-round defeats, but they may well take inspiration from the Wigan team of 2013 which went all the way to lifting the trophy yet still ended up being relegated.\n\nHaving fallen behind, the away side maintained their composure and penned Tottenham back into their own half for large periods, the dangerous Buendia struck straight at Vorm after opening up the space with some fine footwork, while the Spurs goalkeeper almost let Rupp's long-range drive squirm through his hands and into the net.\n\nMario Vrancic had a thumping, goalbound drive blocked by Dier and the Bosnia international curled a left-footed free-kick on to the roof of the net in the second half.\n\nAs they would have expected, Norwich had to battle against the tide of Tottenham attacks in the additional 30 minutes and having held firm, got their rewards in the shootout.\n\nSpurs' shock sacking of popular boss Mauricio Pochettino in November paved the way for the appointment of former Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid boss Mourinho as his replacement with the remit of taking the club to the next level by delivering a trophy.\n\nTottenham's trophy cabinet has been left intact for the past 12 years, their most recent silverware the 2008 League Cup, while you would have to go back to 1991 when they last won this competition.\n\nIt looks like they may well go another season without any success as this was their most realistic hope of claiming a cup and they need to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss to RB Leipzig in the Champions League.\n\nMourinho sides are traditionally renowned for being strong defensively but they failed to hold on to their lead and have now kept just two clean sheets in 13 matches under the Portuguese manager at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nTeenager midfielder Oliver Skipp kept the ball ticking in the middle of the park by completing 91% of his 65 passes, while Lo Celso beside him also impressed, highlighting why Spurs paid £27m to sign the Argentine on a permanent deal.\n\nWith time ebbing away, Lo Celso could have won it for Spurs but saw his low drive at the near post kept out by Krul and Fernandes blazed over from a promising position.\n\nWithout the availability of skipper Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, Spurs lack bite in attack and they failed to find a winner even after the introduction of teenage striker Troy Parrott in extra time.\n\n'We had many, many players in trouble' - what they said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho: \"I think we don't deserve the result but that's football. As you can expect it was a difficult game, as I could expect some of my players were really, really in trouble and they made an incredible effort to try.\n\n\"Harry Winks was completely dead. I think he's started 11 to 12 games in a row, we had many, many players in trouble.\n\n\"I don't have one single negative feeling towards my players, the opposite, they tried fantastic things. I am really, really sad for the boys, I can cope with the bad result and with negative moments, I've had so many, but I am really sad for the players.\n\n\"In this moment I have to think about what's next and I have to speak to my club because I think some of these boys to have a chance to fight Tuesday for a Champions League position they just can't play on Saturday. Particularly in forward positions, behind we've got options but not going forward.\"\n\nNorwich manager Daniel Farke: \"I'm pretty delighted. It was a great performance. Soft skills were great - great spirit and unity - so I'm happy to send the fans home happy. Fantastic support for us and we will take this into next week.\n\n\"When you want to beat a top-class side like Tottenham you have to put in an all-round performance. You have to be disciplined, work on a gameplan, maybe allow them to have the ball and be prepared to defend. It is about being brave, being mentally strong. So I have many compliments for my players.\n\n\"We have such unity and spirit in this club. We are the biggest underdogs. I can't guarantee if we will stay in the league or win the FA Cup, but we have created memories.\"\n\nMourinho sick at the sight of penalties - the stats\n• None Norwich City have reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1992, a season in which the Canaries went on to be eliminated in the semi-finals by Sunderland.\n• None As a manager while in charge of English clubs, Jose Mourinho has now lost on each of the seven occasions his sides have taken part in a penalty shootout (5x Chelsea, 1x Man Utd, 1x Spurs).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur were involved in a penalty shootout in the FA Cup for the first time since 1996 against Nottingham Forest, which they also went on to lose.\n• None Spurs have kept just two clean sheets in their 13 home matches under Jose Mourinho, with none of those coming in cup competitions (five games).\n• None Josip Drmic has netted two goals in his past five appearances for Norwich, one more than he managed in his first 10 games in all competitions for the Canaries earlier this season (1).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur's Jan Vertonghen has scored two goals in six home appearances in the FA Cup - one more than in 113 Premier League games on home turf.\n• None Penalty saved! Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(3). Todd Cantwell (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Troy Parrott (Tottenham Hotspur) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(2). Marco Stiepermann (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(1). Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1(1). Adam Idah (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a left footed shot.\n• None Penalty saved! Kenny McLean (Norwich City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Erik Lamela. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This is the village of San Fiorano in northern Italy's Lombardy region, one of the areas worst affected by coronavirus.\n\nItaly has 400 cases of coronavirus and 12 people have died there since the outbreak began.\n\nEleven towns and villages in Lombardy, the region around Milan, and Veneto, which includes Venice, are in a quarantined red zone, home to a total of 55,000 people.\n\nThey have been told not to leave for two weeks as Italian authorities try to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nDaniela Marchiotti, a writer and translator, lives in San Fiorano with husband Daniele and daughter Emma.\n\nIt's been seven days since the family were told not to leave the red zone. Here, Daniela tells the BBC what life is like in a quarantined village.\n\nDaniela and her husband at home in San Fiorano in Italy's quarantined red zone\n\n\"Last week when the news first came out there was some initial anxiety as the information was worrying and confusing.\n\n\"There were long queues to buy supplies and the shops were only allowing people inside in small groups. People were buying bleach and disinfectant which quickly went out of stock.\n\n\"It was also compulsory to wear a mask. If you weren't wearing one you would be sent home.\n\n\"On Tuesday, it was carnival here but all events were cancelled. But my husband wore a wig and headed out to buy supplies.\n\n\"He wanted to give people a reason to laugh and keep their spirits up.\n\nDaniele donned a carnival wig when he headed out to buy groceries earlier this week\n\n\"But now things are less strict. Since yesterday the authorities have confirmed masks are no longer necessary inside supermarkets as long as people limit their movements, but many are wearing them nevertheless.\n\n\"Then there are the patrols, both the police and the army are at the borders of the red zone, which we are allowed to move within but not out of.\n\n\"Life has certainly taken an unexpected turn but people here are very resourceful.\n\n\"Volunteers are bringing food and medicines to the sick or the old who cannot leave their homes, and a few newsagents have opened so that older people can buy newspapers and keep up-to-date with the latest advice.\n\n\"Apart from the initial fears, it's all very calm and quiet. There is no panic.\n\n\"Sometimes we go out for short walks, to stop ourselves from going crazy confined inside.\n\n\"At least we can take advantage of this glorious weather but as you can see, there is almost nobody around.\n\n\"Just the odd dog walker or someone running an errand while wearing a face mask.\n\n\"Other times I pass the hours reading with my daughter.\n\nDaniela and her daughter Emma read together to pass the time.\n\n\"I am lucky that I can work from home but many can't and have been forced to stay home because their places of work are shut.\n\n\"Those of us with children try to keep them busy and calm and we are waiting for the schools to start some online activities.\n\n\"It's starting to sink in now that we are trying to enter a new routine.\n\n\"But people are coming out with the most wonderful ideas to keep in touch, keep the children active and motivate one another.\n\n\"In general, there is a sense of togetherness that I will never forget.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a father helps his daughter cope with life in a warzone\n\nA three-year-old Syrian girl whose father taught her to laugh at the sound of bombs in order not to be afraid has reached safety in Turkey, reports say.\n\nSalwa made headlines in a video that went viral last month. It showed her playing a game as warplanes dropped bombs near her home in Idlib.\n\nThe Turkish government helped her and her parents cross the border a week later, it has emerged.\n\nIdlib is the final major rebel-held stronghold in Syria.\n\nNearly a million people have fled to the Syrian-Turkish border since December, amid heavy fighting in the Idlib region between Turkish-backed rebels and Syrian government forces.\n\nSalwa and her father Abdullah Mohammad came up with a unique way to cope with the air strikes.\n\nHe taught her that rather than being scared, she could laugh at the sound of bombs.\n\nHe used the sound of children letting off fireworks to show her that loud noises could be funny, and said the game helped his daughter stay calm and happy.\n\nAbdullah Mohammed helped his daughter Salwa with the trauma of living under bombardment in Sarmada, a town in Idlib province\n\nTheir game provoked an outpouring of sympathy and led the Turkish government to help them flee.\n\nThey crossed into Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate on 25 February, Turkey's Anadolu Agency says.\n\nThey were reportedly taken to a refugee camp in Reyhanli in southern Turkey.\n\nGuardian reporter Bethan McKernan tweeted a photo of Salwa and her father on Tuesday.\n\n\"For the first time ever, she can laugh at normal things,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bethan McKernan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbdullah Mohammad told Turkish media that he and his daughter had tried to send a message to the international community with their video.\n\nHe said he was happy to have arrived in Turkey and that Salwa would get the chance to go to school.\n\n\"I hope that the conflict in Syria can soon end and that I can return,\" he was quoted by Anadolu as saying.\n\nIt lifted controls on migrants exiting for the EU on Friday. It took the decision after suffering a heavy military loss in north-west Syria, where it has been trying to create a safe area to resettle many of the Syrian refugees it took in during the ongoing civil war.", "The ex-mayor of New York suffered a series of defeats - but insisted he's still the man to beat Donald Trump.\n\nTalking to supporters at a rally in Florida, Michael Bloomberg turned to humour to attack the current US president.", "Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have emerged as the two frontrunners in the Democratic race to challenge Donald Trump for the US presidency in November.\n\nThe two men gave victory speeches on Super Tuesday night and without naming names, they made some not-so-subtle digs at each other.\n\nAnd even less subtle jabs at President Trump.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The latest cases of coronavirus in Northern Ireland are not linked, says Health Minister Robin Swann\n\nTwo more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, with one a postgraduate student at Queen's University in Belfast.\n\nIt brings the total number of cases in the region to three - none are linked.\n\nThe student had recently returned from northern Italy and has been mixing with others at university.\n\nThe other adult had been in contact with someone in the UK who had tested positive for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus.\n\nQueen's said its major incident team had been convened and was putting in place the appropriate contingency measures.\n\n\"The university remains open and is operating as normal,\" a spokeswoman said. \"The university will continue to closely monitor the situation.\"\n\nA demonstration of the coronavirus assessment pod and testing procedures was staged at Antrim Area Hospital on Wednesday\n\nMeanwhile, RTÉ News says another four cases have been confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, this time in the west of the country.\n\nThe patients, two men and two women, all travelled from the same affected area in northern Italy.\n\nIt brings the total number of cases in the Republic of Ireland to six.\n\nIreland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn maintained there was \"still no evidence of widespread or sustained community transmission in Ireland, as seen in some other EU countries\".\n\n\"While we now have six confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland, we continue our containment efforts, central to which is that the public know what to do in the event they have symptoms,\" he added.\n\nThe first case in Northern Ireland was a woman who had travelled to northern Italy, which is at the centre of the European outbreak.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the latest two patients were receiving the appropriate care and officials were working to identify anyone they had come into contact with.\n\nNorthern Ireland remained in the containment phase, he added.\n\nThe test outcomes have been sent to Public Health England laboratories for verification.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the public should remain calm in the face of the latest coronavirus diagnoses.\n\nShe said civil contingency measures were in place and she was confident the Northern Ireland Executive was doing all it could to prepare for the inevitable increase in cases.\n\nThe total number of coronavirus cases in Northern Ireland now stands at three\n\nMs O'Neill said she and First Minister Arlene Foster would still visit the US next week for St Patrick's Day celebrations.\n\nThey are no longer going to New York and instead will just visit Washington DC.", "A watchdog has decided there is no need to investigate police contact with Caroline Flack before her death.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said there was no indication of a \"causal link\" between the actions of police and the presenter's death.\n\nOfficers last had contact with the 40-year-old on 13 December when she was in custody following an alleged assault.\n\nSeparately, an internal review by the CPS has defended its decision to charge Flack and its handling of the case.\n\nThe ex-Love Island host, who took her own life in February, had been charged with assaulting her boyfriend, despite the fact he did not support the prosecution.\n\nFollowing Flack's death on 15 February, the Metropolitan Police Service referred itself to the police watchdog\n\nIt is standard practice for a referral to be made when a person who had recent contact with police died, the Met said.\n\nBut the watchdog decided there was \"no indication of a causal link - directly or indirectly - between the actions or omissions of the police and Caroline Flack's tragic death\".\n\nIt added in a statement, that officers had arranged for her to see a health professional while she was in custody, and that \"relevant policy and procedure was followed to give her further guidance.\"\n\nMeanwhilel, the CPS said its review \"found that the case was handled appropriately and in line with [our] published legal guidance\".\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Caroline Flack,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe CPS review followed a Freedom of Information request from the Daily Mirror and criticism from some that it had pursued a \"show trial\" against the star.\n\nThe organisation said it was \"normal practice for prosecutors to hold a debriefing in complex or sensitive cases after they have ended\".\n\nMs Flack pleaded not guilty to an assault charge at a court appearance on 23 December 2019, when it was heard her boyfriend Lewis Burton did not support the prosecution.\n\nShe was released on bail but was ordered to stop any contact with Burton ahead of the trial, which would have begun on Wednesday.\n\nThe TV presenter was found dead at her London flat last month - a day after she learned that the CPS were pursuing the charges against her.\n\nShe had left her role presenting Love Island after being charged with assaulting Burton.\n\nIn an unpublished Instagram post shared by her family, Ms Flack said her \"whole world and future was swept from under my feet\" following her arrest - which saw the presenter become the focus of media scrutiny.\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Flack's management company said the star had been \"under huge pressure\" and criticised the CPS for refusing to drop charges, even though Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.\n\nIn a statement released the day after her death, the CPS said: \"We do not decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence - that is for the jury, judge or magistrate - but we must make the key decision of whether a case should be put before a court.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a petition signed by more than 850,000 people was handed in to the government, calling for curbs on the British media. It calls for the establishment of a new law, dubbed Caroline's Law, which would make media bullying and harassment a criminal offence.\n\n\"Politicians need to urgently step in and make sure there are consequences when the media bully and harass,\" said Holly Maltby, of campaigning group 38 Degrees.", "The home secretary said her department's work would continue despite the furore over Sir Philip Rutnam's departure\n\nPriti Patel has said she regrets the resignation of her former top civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam amid bullying allegations against her.\n\nIn an e-mail to Home Office staff, she thanked him for his service but said it was \"now time for the Home Office to come together as one team\".\n\nShe said she \"deeply cared\" about the \"wellbeing\" of her civil servants and valued their professionalism.\n\nSir Philip said he had been forced out of his job after a \"vicious\" campaign.\n\nThe prime minister has given Mrs Patel his support but the Cabinet Office is investigating whether she broke the ministerial code.\n\nShe has not commented publicly on the allegations against her, but government sources have said she denies them.\n\nResigning from his position on Saturday, Sir Philip said he had received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said she had failed to disassociate herself from press briefings against him and he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal.\n\nHere is an effort to show a united front at the top of the Home Office after a torrid time.\n\nThere's no direct acknowledgement of the bullying allegations levelled against Priti Patel. But with references to the importance of staff wellbeing and courtesy amongst colleagues, there is a tacit acknowledgement of the kind of controversy that has rocked the department in recent weeks.\n\nAnd while the use of the word \"regret\", when it comes to Sir Philip Rutnam's resignation, may strike a nuanced note of contrition the email also suggests that the home secretary has little intention of leaving.\n\nRather, she's hoping to put the episode behind her and haul this huge department onto a new chapter.\n\nBut with Sir Philip's plan to pursue a claim of constructive dismissal and an ongoing Cabinet Office inquiry (albeit one that critics claim will be a whitewash) this saga likely isn't over. Not yet.\n\nIn the internal email to Home Office staff, Mrs Patel thanked Sir Philip for his \"long and dedicated career of public service\" and praised the civil service for the support they gave to ministers.\n\nThe e-mail, co-written by Sir Philip's acting successor Shona Dunn, adds: \"We both regret Sir Philip's decision to resign.\n\n\"We both deeply value the work that every person in this department does and care about the wellbeing of all our staff.\n\n\"It is therefore a time for us all to come together as one team.\n\n\"We also recognise the importance of candour, confidentiality and courtesy in building trust and confidence between ministers and civil servants. Both of us are fully committed to making sure the professionalism you would expect to support this is upheld.\"\n\nWhile acknowledging the \"huge amount\" achieved by her department in a short period, she said it needed to continue to \"drive forward\" the government's priorities, including tackling violent crime and implementing the biggest changes to the UK's immigration system in a generation after Brexit.\n\n\"We have one of the most important jobs to do, keeping people safe and our country secure and delivering on the government's priorities, which were endorsed by the British people at the recent general election,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Our work continues, and our focus must be on working, in partnership with you, to deliver this agenda as the public would expect.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cabinet Office is leading an internal inquiry to \"establish the facts\" regarding Sir Philip's claims and whether they represented a breach of the ministerial code.\n\nLabour has called for Mrs Patel to resign while the First Division Association union, which represents civil servants, has called for an \"independent\" inquiry into Ms Patel's behaviour to be led by an external lawyer.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that a former aide to Mrs Patel received a £25,000 payout from the government after claiming she was bullied by the then employment minister.\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC alleges the woman took an overdose of prescription medicine following the alleged incident in 2015. The DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal.", "Ronan Farrow supports his sister's allegations against their father\n\nWoody Allen's son Ronan Farrow has attacked his own publisher over its plans to release his father's memoir.\n\nThe journalist, whose Catch and Kill was published by Hachette, said he was \"disappointed\" to learn that the firm will release Allen's autobiography.\n\nFarrow's sister Dylan, who claims she was molested by Allen in 1992 when she was seven, called Hachette's decision \"deeply upsetting\" and a \"betrayal\".\n\nHachette has defended its decision to publish Allen's Apropos of Nothing.\n\n\"We do not allow anyone's publishing programme to interfere with anyone else's,\" said Michael Pietsch, the US publisher's CEO.\n\nAllen has always denied molesting Dylan Farrow, saying she was coached to make the claim by his estranged former partner, the actress Mia Farrow.\n\nThe film-maker was investigated over the abuse allegations at the time of the incident but was never charged.\n\nDylan Farrow, now 34, reiterated her allegation in 2014, prompting another denial from her adoptive father.\n\nA number of actors have since publicly distanced themselves from the Oscar-winning director, who has struggled to get his films distributed in recent years.\n\nRonan Farrow was one of the first journalists to write about the sexual assault allegations made against Harvey Weinstein.\n\nCatch and Kill, his book about his investigations into the film producer, was published by Little, Brown and Company - a division of Hachette - in October 2019.\n\nAllen's autobiography - described as \"a comprehensive account of his life, both personal and professional\" - will be released via another imprint, Grand Central, on 7 April.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Ronan Farrow claimed Hachette had \"concealed\" its plans to acquire Allen's memoir while he was working on his book.\n\nHe said his sister had not been contacted by the publisher and that he had \"encouraged\" the company \"to conduct a thorough fact check of Woody Allen's account\".\n\nHe wrote that the company had shown \"a lack of ethics and compassion for victims of sexual abuse\".\n\nHe added: \"I've also told Hachette that a publisher that would conduct itself in this way is one I can't work with in good conscience.\"\n\nIn her own Twitter statement, Dylan Farrow said she had not been contacted by any fact checkers and accused Hachette of \"an egregious abdication of [its] most basic responsibility\".\n\nActress Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein's most vocal accusers, called Hachette's decision to publish the memoir \"an evil double cross\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious but both survived the attack\n\nOn 4 March 2018 emergency services received a phone call from members of the public in Salisbury who had seen an old man and a young woman ill on a bench. It was a call that would set in motion a chain of events leading to a major crisis with Russia.\n\nAfter the pair were taken to hospital, local police did an online search on the name of the man taken ill.\n\nThe result set off alarm bells. He was a former Russian spy.\n\nA call came into the duty officer at MI6 headquarters that Sunday evening.\n\nThe realisation that Sergei Skripal - a man who had provided MI6 with secrets from his time in Russian military intelligence - had been targeted sent shock waves through the building, challenging the very core of its work in recruiting agents to work with the organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few hours later, the next call went to Porton Down, home to Britain's biological and chemical research establishment.\n\nA rapid-response team was quickly deployed. Samples analysed in labs on-site identified A234, a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok family developed by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.\n\nThe revelation caused shock. Detective work by police would identify two officers from Russian military intelligence as the main suspects and a perfume bottle as the means of delivery of the nerve agent onto Mr Skripal's front door handle.\n\nA local woman, Dawn Sturgess would die months later when she came into contact with the Novichok after it had apparently been discarded.\n\nAlexander Mishkin (left) and Anatoliy Chepiga are thought to have carried out the Salisbury attack\n\nRussia denied any role - even putting the two accused men on TV to say they had visited Salisbury simply to see the cathedral spire - but London was convinced it knew who was behind the attack.\n\nWhen another former Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Litvinenko, was killed in 2006 (that time by radioactive polonium) the response was delayed and perceived as weak.\n\nLondon was determined to learn its lesson.\n\nEvery known Russian intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover in the UK (apart from the declared liaison officer for each Russian intelligence service) was quickly expelled - 23 in total.\n\nMany other countries then followed suit, with 60 expulsions in the US. It seemed as if the Kremlin was taken by surprise by the strength of the reaction.\n\nBut two years on, the legacy of those events looks more uncertain.\n\nBritish officials believe they did real damage to Russian intelligence operations in the country but that damage is likely to have been short term as new spies were dispatched to replace them and as Russia continues a shift to rely on alternative means of espionage.\n\nIn the Cold War, spies under diplomatic cover and illegals were the primary way the Russians could recruit and run agents and steal secrets.\n\nNow there is cyber-espionage and the use of people travelling under different cover, as say businessmen, to operate.\n\nIn the wake of the attack, there was also considerable talk of a tougher line over Russian money and influence in London. But there has been relatively little public sign of action.\n\nThe failure to publish the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee's \"Russia Report\" about influence and subversion in British life before the election has only added to questions as to whether the appetite to deal with this broader issue remains strong.\n\nThere are also cracks in Western unity over a tough line on Russia, with President Emmanuel Macron of France pushing for trying to improve relations with the Kremlin and uncertainty over the position of the Trump administration in Washington.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russia President Vladimir Putin met during an international summit on Libya in January\n\nMr Skripal himself has not appeared in public since the poisoning.\n\nMI5 and the Home Office carried out a \"refresh\" to check on the level of protection for defectors like Mr Skirpal - something officials acknowledge was overdue.\n\nThe poisoning itself was a failure, several senior officials who served in British intelligence concede.\n\nA risk assessment was carried out when Mr Skripal was swapped out of a Russian prison in 2010 but the Russia of 2018 was very different from Russia then.\n\nRussia appears to have stepped up a long-standing campaign to track defectors from 2014, including in the US as well as UK.\n\nThat was also the point at which relations began to deteriorate rapidly over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea and in which other alleged operations, like the deployment of online trolls to interfere in US politics increased.\n\nOne question western intelligence officials have been asking is whether Russia has been deterred from taking such action again by the Western response.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The flaring was clearly visible from Cowdenbeath\n\nMore unplanned flaring is being carried out at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife after a problem with a major compressor at the site.\n\nThe environmental watchdog Sepa was alerted by site operator ExxonMobil just before 15:00.\n\nResidents, who have repeatedly complained about flaring incidents, said flames were visible from Edinburgh and as far away as Dundee.\n\nProduction at the plant only resumed on 21 February after a temporary shutdown.\n\nThe site was closed for five months from last August after it suffered two boiler explosions.\n\nExxonMobil said it was \"progressing with the steps required to re-start the machine\" but could not say when that would happen.\n\nA company statement said: \"To keep the rest of the plant running and reduce total duration of flaring, we safely manage this process through the use of our elevated flare.\n\n\"We are taking actions to reduce the size of the flare during this work, including maximising the use of ground flares.\n\n\"We apologise for any inconvenience to our local communities.\"\n\nExxonmobil's ethylene plant at Mossmorran was shut down for five months last August\n\nLocal campaigners said ExxonMobil's response to the latest incident \"explained nothing\".\n\nLinda Holt, of the Mossmorran Action Group said, \"Once again ExxonMobil is forced to resort to emergency flaring because something has gone badly wrong.\n\n\"As the ground shakes, and a huge bright flame amid clouds of black smoke looms over communities, they are expected to suffer in ignorance.\n\n\"Reassurances that the plant is 'safe' do not wash.\"\n\nChris Dailly, Sepa's head of environmental performance, said: \"Having been clear that flaring must become the exception rather than routine, we're disappointed that (it) has occurred again so soon after the restart.\n\n\"We expect the company to provide timely updates to the community.\"\n\nIn February, about 200 workers at the site staged an unofficial walkout over safety, working conditions and pay.", "US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin led a conference call with finance chiefs from other major economies\n\nFinance ministers from the G7 group of nations have said they will use \"all appropriate policy tools\" to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe group of major economies said in a joint statement they were monitoring the outbreak and ready to deploy \"fiscal measures\".\n\nIt follows warnings the economic impact could tip countries into recession.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bank of England boss Mark Carney said the virus could produce a \"large\" but temporary hit to UK growth.\n\nCentral bankers and finance ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US held a conference call on Tuesday, led by US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell.\n\n\"Given the potential impacts of Covid-19 on global growth, we reaffirm our commitment to use all appropriate policy tools to achieve strong, sustainable growth and safeguard against downside risks,\" they said.\n\n\"Alongside strengthening efforts to expand health services, G7 finance ministers are ready to take actions, including fiscal measures where appropriate, to aid in the response to the virus and support the economy during this phase.\n\n\"G7 central banks will continue to fulfill their mandates, thus supporting price stability and economic growth while maintaining the resilience of the financial system.\"\n\nOn Monday, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned the global economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year because of the virus.\n\nThe influential think tank forecast growth of just 2.4% in 2020, down from 2.9% in November, but it said a longer \"more intensive\" outbreak could tip many countries into recession.\n\nThere were also sharp falls on global stock markets last week as factory activity in China contracted.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Carney told MPs that the virus was \"beyond the containment phase\", before adding the economic effects in the UK could last up to six months.\n\nBut he said he expected to see \"disruption not destruction\" and added that the Bank was ready to help businesses and households adjust.\n\nMr Carney hands over his role to Andrew Bailey on 16 March, and said the two had been in constant contact in order to have a smooth transition.\n\nStock markets have rebounded this week amid signs that governments and major central banks will work together to tackle the economic hit of coronavirus.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have said they are ready to help stabilise markets, after the recent volatility.\n\nAnd both Australia and Malaysia cut interest rates on Tuesday as a result of the outbreak.\n\nThe Reserve Bank of Australia cut rates to a record low of 0.5% because of the \"significant effect\" of the outbreak on the country's economy.\n\nMalaysia's central bank - Bank Negara Malaysia - cut its rates to 2.5%, saying: \"The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak has disrupted production and travel activity, especially within the region.\"", "Could you live alone on an island?\n\nSimon traded normal life for the opportunity to become the only human on Flatholm Island", "The US central bank has slashed interest rates in response to mounting concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus.\n\nThe Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to a range of 1% to 1.25%.\n\nThe emergency move comes after the G7 group of finance ministers pledged action earlier on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows warnings that slowdown from the outbreak could tip countries into recession.\n\nFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US economy remains strong but it is difficult to predict the \"magnitude and persistence\" of the effects of the spreading virus.\n\n\"The virus and the measures that are being taken to contain it will surely weigh on economic activity for some time, both here and abroad,\" he said at a press conference in Washington.\n\n\"We don't think we have all the answers. But we do believe that our action will provide a meaningful boost to the economy.\"\n\nThe last time the bank made an interest rate cut at an emergency meeting was during the global financial crisis of 2008.\n\nThe unanimous decision is a \"dramatic turnaround from last week\", when many Fed officials appeared confident that rates, already low by historical standards, would not need to be cut further, said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics said.\n\n\"With financial markets in turmoil and evidence growing that the coronavirus is developing into a pandemic, the Fed's change of heart is entirely understandable,\" he said.\n\nMr Powell said the bank believed the rate cut would help strengthen consumer and business confidence, and keep money flowing.\n\nMany analysts in recent days had said they expected the Fed to act.\n\nHowever, Peter Tuchman, a stock trader at Quattro Securities, said he did not think financial markets would necessarily welcome the move. \"They're doing it to support the markets but that makes people fearful that we must be in bad shape,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"To pull that bullet out so fast and so furiously leaves us with not that much ammo,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US central bank has cut rates amid concerns about the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, both Australia and Malaysia cut interest rates as a result of the outbreak, while finance ministers from the G7 group of nations pledged to use \"all appropriate policy tools\" to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe group of major economies said in a joint statement they were monitoring the outbreak and ready to deploy \"fiscal measures\".\n\nOn Monday, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned the global economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year because of the virus.\n\nThe influential think tank forecast growth of just 2.4% in 2020, down from 2.9% in November, but it said a longer \"more intensive\" outbreak could halve growth and tip many countries into recession.\n\nGrowth concerns contributed to sharp falls on major stock markets last week, but shares had started to rebound on Monday amid signs that governments and major central banks would work together to tackle the economic hit of coronavirus.\n\nOn Tuesday, shares briefly rallied on the decision before turning negative.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Mr Powell to lower interest rates, ignoring tradition that presidents stay quiet on bank policy to preserve the bank's independence.\n\nFollowing the bank's announcement, he said it should cut further. \"It is finally time for the Federal Reserve to LEAD. More easing and cutting!\" he Tweeted.\n\nMr Powell denied that the bank had been influenced by political considerations. But he kept the door open to further cuts.\n\nSatyam Panday, senior US economist at S&P Global Ratings, said the Fed \"did well by acting decisively and moving sooner\".\n\n\"Given that monetary policy works with a lag, cutting now will help speed up recovery when the coronavirus concerns have passed,\" he said. \"If the rout in the financial market continues, more rate cuts are likely to follow in the upcoming March policy meeting, and beyond if required.\"\n\nFirst the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors told us they would use all appropriate policy tools. Not much more than an hour later, the Fed acted. Will it help?\n\nJerome Powell said it could avoid what he called a tightening of financial conditions - higher borrowing costs for businesses and households, banks becoming more reluctant to lend and being less willing to give some leeway to businesses with cash flow problems.\n\nThose are real risks if the disruption were to get more serious. Mr Powell also said it could boost confidence. But it doesn't look like it will help much with the most direct economic damage. A rate cut now is probably not going to make people more enthusiastic about getting on a plane.\n\nNor is it much direct help for firms struggling with shortages of components due to transport disruptions. Mr Powell acknowledged that a rate cut would not \"fix a broken supply chain\".\n\nThe main effort in this crisis is for health agencies. But we can expect to see more actions from finance ministries and central banks seeking to mitigate the economic impact.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has been accused of bullying staff at a third government department, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe claims are from her time as International Development Secretary from 2016 to 2017, and follow similar claims at the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nA Tory source said \"dark forces\" were trying to influence an inquiry into Ms Patel's conduct in her current role.\n\nThe latest claims were reportedly brought to a senior official at the Department for International Development after she quit as its Secretary of State in 2017.\n\nThe BBC reported on Monday that an official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) received a £25,000 payout after alleging she was bullied by Ms Patel in 2015 during her time as employment minister.\n\nThe DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal.\n\nNewsnight has now learned that in 2017, Ms Patel was allegedly accused by officials in her private office at DfID of humiliating civil servants in front of others, of putting heavy pressure in emails and of creating a general sense that \"everyone is hopeless\".\n\nThe allegations were described to the programme as similar to those levelled against Ms Patel by Sir Philip Rutnam, who resigned as Home Office permanent secretary on Saturday.\n\nThe latest claims to come to light were reportedly passed in 2017 to the DfID official by another senior figure in the department - who advised that the cabinet secretary at the time, the late Lord Heywood, should be informed.\n\nThe senior figure wanted the allegations to be lodged in the Whitehall system so that officials would be aware of allegations surrounding Ms Patel if, as expected, she returned to ministerial office.\n\nMs Patel resigned as Secretary of State for International Development in November 2017 over an unauthorised visit to Israel.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The home secretary categorically rejects all of these allegations.\"\n\nA source from the Conservative Party told Newsnight: \"What we are seeing is a concerted effort by certain sections of the civil service to undermine a home secretary trying to deliver what people want on crime and immigration.\n\n\"It is deeply disturbing that dark forces are trying to influence the findings of a Cabinet Office inquiry.\"\n\nMichael Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, announced on Monday that a Cabinet Office inquiry would seek to \"establish the facts\" around Ms Patel's conduct as home secretary.\n\nShe has faced allegations of having broken the ministerial code in the wake of allegations aired by Sir Philip when he resigned.\n\nSir Philip is suing the Home Office for constructive, unfair dismissal after Ms Patel allegedly refused to engage with him after a row over allegations of bullying against the home secretary.\n\nIn his resignation statement, Sir Philip said he did not believe her denials of involvement in \"a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Philip Rutnam says there has been a \"vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him\n\nDowning Street is standing by Ms Patel. But a cabinet minister told Newsnight that she would face political \"armageddon\" if Sir Philip's case for constructive dismissal makes it to a tribunal.\n\nThe minister expected that many other cases would come to light under legally binding disclosure rules in a tribunal.\n\nThe source who raised the allegations against Ms Patel at DfID in 2017 told Newsnight they were prepared to give evidence under their name to two official hearings.\n\nThese are the Cabinet Office inquiry into Ms Patel's conduct as home secretary and a tribunal if Sir Philip's case for constructive dismissal is granted a hearing.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Patel said she regretted Sir Philip's resignation.\n\nIn an e-mail to Home Office staff, she thanked him for his service but said it was \"now time for the Home Office to come together as one team\".", "Some stores have run out of hand sanitisers as people prepare for the virus spreading\n\nHand sanitiser sales are being limited at pharmacy chains as fears over the coronavirus have boosted demand.\n\nBoots and LloydsPharmacy both said they are restricting the products - which can help to prevent the spread of the virus when hand-washing is not possible - to two per person.\n\nThe decision comes as some hand sanitisers are being sold online at inflated prices.\n\nPharmacies said they are working to increase the supply of the products.\n\nThe NHS says that washing your hands is a key part of preventing the spread of viruses, but hand sanitiser gel can be used when soap and water are not available.\n\nAs the UK warns that widespread infection is \"highly likely\", chemist chains said they had to ration the products, with market research data from Kantar Worldpanel showing sales more than tripled in February.\n\nMeanwhile, one pharmacy in Coventry told BBC News they have struggled to restock hand sanitisers amid increased demand for the product - including from local businesses such as taxi companies and hairdressers.\n\nAli Shiraz, of Hillfields Pharmacy, said: \"We can't get any hand sanitisers at all. The demand has been really, really high.\n\n\"We're looking at maybe 50 to 60 people a day have been asking for particular hand sanitisers.\"\n\nA spokesman for LloydsPharmacy, which has 1,500 branches across the UK, said: \"We know that having access to products like hand gels is extremely important to our customers, so we are doing everything we can to ensure availability, despite increasing demand and supply challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nBoots said it was limiting sales but still had stock in warehouses for online sales and high street stores.\n\nBut Well Pharmacy, which has 700 branches, said it was not limiting sales despite a surge in demand which could see some products become temporarily unavailable.\n\n\"We certainly have no intention of profiteering over the current situation by increasing prices,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAmazon Marketplace and other online sales platforms have hand sanitisers available at inflated prices.\n\nA 100ml bottle of Cuticura Total - which kills viruses as well as bacteria - is sold for £1.55 by Boots. But some Amazon sellers are offering 40ml of the brand's anti-bacterial gel for £24.99.\n\nOn social media, people posted images of empty shelves and patients with weakened immune systems called for shoppers to stop panic-buying.\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\nHand sanitiser manufacturer PZ Cussons, which makes Carex hand gel, said it was \"working at full capacity in response to the exceptional demand being experienced\".\n\nKarium, which makes Cuticura hand gel, said sales have \"soared\" due to the coronavirus.\n\n\"We have taken immediate action to increase our production volumes, in order to meet this initial increased demand and to avoid empty shelves,\" said marketing director Kerry Owens.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was questioned about low supplies of products such as hand sanitiser and whether the UK will have enough of medicines such as paracetamol.\n\n\"Our no-deal planning and our no-deal stockpiles are playing an important part in making sure we are fully prepared and ready,\" he said.", "Facebook is reportedly rethinking its plans for its own digital currency after resistance from regulators.\n\nIt is now considering a system with digital versions of established currencies, including the dollar and the Euro, according to Bloomberg and tech site The Information.\n\nThe Libra Association, which Facebook founded to create the currency, will continue its work, the reports said.\n\nThe plan will include Libra, the company said in response.\n\nThe social network's digital wallet is now expected to launch this autumn, several months later than initially planned, according to the reports.\n\nOf earlier reports that it might drop Libra itself, the firm said: \"Facebook remains fully committed to the project.\"\n\nFacebook announced in June last year that it would launch the Libra digital currency, with a goal of making payments easier and cheaper.\n\nIts partners in the Libra Association include Lyft, Spotify, Shopify, but several other high-profile members such as Visa left after the idea was criticised by authorities.\n\nDante Disparte, head of Policy and Communications at the Libra Association said: \"The Libra Association has not altered its goal of building a regulatory compliant global payment network, and the basic design principles that support that goal have not been changed nor has the potential for this network to foster future innovation.\"\n\nIn October, the world's biggest economies warned cryptocurrencies such as Libra pose a risk to the global financial system.\n\nFrance has said it threatens the \"monetary sovereignty\" of governments; others have warned it could be abused for money laundering and other nefarious purposes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo powerful tornadoes that ripped through central Tennessee on Tuesday killed 24 people, according to the state's Emergency Management Authority.\n\nIn Nashville, Tennessee's biggest city, the tornadoes caused widespread damage to homes and other buildings.\n\nThe storm hit after midnight and moved so quickly that many people sleeping didn't have time to take shelter, US media report.\n\nPresident Donald Trump confirmed he planned to visit the state on Friday.\n\nThe number of missing people decreased from 88 on Tuesday to 22 on Wednesday after search and rescue efforts continued overnight, Putnam county Mayor Mayor Randy Porter said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn earlier death toll of 25 was revised after one person's death was found to be unrelated to the storm.\n\nThe scene in Nashville is \"like a war zone\", one resident told the BBC.\n\nOne couple in Cookeville told CBS that they tried to shelter in their bathtub.\n\n\"We were flying in the air, into the trees back there, where once we hit those trees, the house... it just exploded. The house just disintegrated,\" Seth Wells said.\n\n\"I have no clue how we survived, it was like Wizard of Oz.\"\n\nMuch of the damage is centred in Putnam County - 80 miles (130km) east of Nashville - where 18 deaths, including five children, were reported.\n\nIn Wilson County, three people died, as well as two people in Davidson County and one in Benton.\n\nA state of emergency remains in place, and several counties are working to clear debris and fallen trees.\n\nFive shelters are open, and about 40,000 people remain without power.\n\nNashville's Emergency Operations Centre said it had opened a shelter with running water in a farmers' market to help displaced residents.\n\nNashville Mayor John Cooper said the city was \"devastated\" and urged people to \"lend a helping hand\" to neighbours.\n\nThere was also \"significant damage\" to John C Tune Airport, about eight miles from the city centre, the airport said.\n\nThe National Weather Service reported that winds of 165mph hit Nashville. The storms were the deadliest to hit Tennessee since 2011, according to the Weather Channel.\n\nJohn C Tune Airport in Nashville was damaged when the tornadoes hit early on Tuesday morning\n\nMusic stars Taylor Swift and Dolly Parton tweeted their support for those affected.\n\n\"My heart is with everyone in Tennessee who has been affected by the tornados. Sending you my love and prayers,\" wrote Taylor Swift.\n\nThe city's schools, courts and transport lines closed on Tuesday because of the damage, officials said.\n\nElection polling sites located at schools opened for Super Tuesday, but four polling stations were moved.\n\nTennessee was one of 14 US states holding primary contest votes on Super Tuesday to select a Democratic nominee to stand in November's presidential election.", "The mace is removed from the Commons chamber at the end of the day\n\nParliament has shut down until 21 April at the earliest to combat the spread of coronavirus.\n\nEmergency laws to deal with the pandemic have been rushed through both Houses and were given Royal Assent earlier on Wednesday.\n\nMPs voted to plan for a managed return to work on Tuesday 21 April, to deal with Budget legislation.\n\nThe House of Commons had been due to break for Easter next week but concerns were raised about spreading the virus.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament chamber was shut down on Tuesday but MSPs will return on 1 April in order to consider emergency coronavirus legislation.\n\nAnd in the Welsh Assembly, full sessions will be replaced by \"emergency Senedd\" meetings during the coronavirus crisis and will include fewer members.\n\nAnnouncing the extended Commons recess, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: \"Before the House adjourns, can I just say - I wish every member well, your families, and once again to reiterate, that the staff in this House have done a fantastic job.\"\n\nHe said work was under way to give MPs the technology they need to stay connected during the break, including the possibility of \"virtual parliament and virtual select committees\".\n\nWriting in The House magazine, Sir Lindsay said: \"I hope that when this historic crisis passes and we return to business as usual, we will come back stronger, wiser - and more agile with new and better ways of working.\"\n\nThe Speaker had been urging MPs to sit further apart while attending the chamber, as well as introducing a staggered voting system to ensure MPs kept a safe distance from each other.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said he was grateful MPs, peers and staff had worked to complete the emergency legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the \"aim\" was for them to return to work on 21 April, but added that he would \"keep the situation under review in terms of medical advice\".\n\nLegislation giving the government new emergency powers to combat the spread of the disease and to release funds to deal with the crisis cleared all stages in Parliament on Wednesday, and has now become law.\n\nDeputy Speaker Eleanor Laing announced that the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Contingencies Fund Act 2020 had been granted Royal Assent.\n\nEarlier, Sir Lindsay doubled the length of Prime Minister's Questions to an hour, to allow for debate on the coronavirus emergency and ensure social distancing on the green benches.\n\nMPs asking questions in the first half of the session filed out of the chamber to make way for the remainder of the MPs who wanted to put questions to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt was Jeremy Corbyn's final PMQs as Leader of the Opposition. He will stand down as leader of the Labour party on 4 April.\n\nMr Corbyn urged Mr Johnson to make himself \"available for scrutiny\" during the parliamentary recess adding \"we represent people who are desperately worried about their health and their economic well being\".\n\nMr Johnson promised to work with the Commons Speaker to ensure Parliament is kept informed.\n\nLeader of the House of Lords Baroness Evans told peers they would also break early for Easter on Wednesday evening.\n\nShe said that after the recess, peers would only sit three days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until the VE Day long weekend in May.\n\nShe added that \"sensible adjustments\" needed to be made to working conditions and sought to assure members that senior officials were working with the Parliamentary Digital Service to develop \"effective remote collaboration and video conferencing\".\n\nThe Cabinet are expected to continue to meet via video conferencing.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Westminster had been considered one of the hotspots of the disease and a fair few MPs had been in self-isolation with symptoms.\n\nMPs could return on 21 April to pass Budget legislation, but then be asked to vote to suspend the Commons again - although nothing is finalised.\n\nWhile the House of Commons is on recess, MPs will still be able to respond to and help their constituents.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant criticised the timing of the decision to close Parliament, arguing: \"It must be wrong that Parliament is suspended before the government has a proper package in place for the self employed.\"\n\nAnother Labour MP, David Lammy, agreed and said: \"The government should announce a solution today. We cannot leave anyone behind.\"\n\nAnd their party colleague Barry Sheerman called for \"new ways of maintaining proper scrutiny of the government\".", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The world has been given an indication of the economic impact of coronavirus as Singapore released its initial growth figures for this quarter.\n\nThe trade-reliant city state now looks to be heading for its first full-year recession in about two decades.\n\nThe figures suggest that the global economy is also set for a sharp contraction.\n\nThis week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned of a global recession worse than the one after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nSingapore said gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 2.2% year-on-year while, compared with the previous quarter, GDP fell by 10.6%.\n\nIt marks the biggest quarterly contraction for the South East Asian nation since 2009, in the midst of the global financial crisis.\n\nAs one of first countries to release economic growth data for the period in which the outbreak has been spreading globally, the numbers from Singapore provide a glimpse of how the ongoing pandemic could affect economies around the world.\n\nSingapore was also one of the first countries outside China to report cases of the coronavirus.\n\nLater on Thursday Singapore announced a package worth $33.7bn (£28.3bn) to help cushion its economy from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt comes after the IMF this week forecast a global recession this year which would be at least as bad as the one seen in the wake of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.\n\nLockdowns and other measures imposed by governments around the world to slow the spread of the virus are battering the global economy, with many analysts now expecting a deep, long recession.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils a package of support for self-employed workers facing financial difficulties.\n\nHe set out plans for 80% wage subsidies for staff kept on by employers last week.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nPeople should be \"emotionally more open\" after the coronavirus pandemic, says Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta following his recovery.\n\nArteta, 38, tested positive for the virus on 12 March but has since recovered after self-isolating.\n\n\"We are in a world here where everything is social media, everything is a WhatsApp text,\" the Spaniard said.\n\n\"But how important is touching each other, feeling each other and hugging each other?\n\n\"I miss that with a lot of the people I love.\n\n\"We have to be emotionally more open. We have to tell each other what we are feeling.\"\n\nArteta reported feeling unwell after it was confirmed Evangelos Marinakis - the owner of Greek side Olympiakos, who played Arsenal in the Europa League in February - had coronavirus on 10 March.\n\nOn Thursday Arteta said he was feeling \"completely recovered\" and urged people to follow the government's advice on staying at home.\n\n\"It's one virus that is putting the world aside and it's transforming everything that we prioritise in life. So we have to take that lesson,\" he told the Arsenal website.\n\n\"We cannot just in two or three months' time - if we are able to get over this quickly - forget about this, because it's so important.\"\n\nArsenal players were due to report for training earlier this week after competing a two-week isolation period, but their return has been postponed.\n\nArteta said his main concern was his three children after his wife and their nanny contracted the virus.\n\nArteta self-isolated in a room and a bathroom for two or three days but his wife fell ill shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I am a very positive person and I try to take the moment to say OK, what can we take from this?\" he said.\n\n\"I haven't had the opportunity to wake up with my kids and dedicate my time and listen to them.\n\n\"We are in the household together and we are really enjoying those moments as well.\"", "The government has urged people not to move house to try to limit the spread of coronavirus across the UK.\n\nBuyers and renters should delay moving while emergency stay-at-home measures are in place, it said.\n\nIts comments come amid reports banks are pressing for a full suspension of the UK housing market.\n\nLenders are concerned about the effect of the pandemic on valuations, according to the Financial Times.\n\nBanks are also worried about granting mortgages during this period of extreme economic uncertainty, the FT said.\n\nThe government said that while there \"is no need to pull out of transactions\", \"we all need to ensure we are following guidance to stay at home and away from others at all times\".\n\nIf a property is vacant, people can continue with the transaction, although they must ensure they are following guidelines with regards to home removals.\n\nBut if the house is occupied \"we encourage all parties to do all they can to amicably agree alternative dates to move\".\n\nProperty listings websites say that interest in moving home has slumped amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nZoopla said demand in the week to 22 March fell 40% from the week before and it predicted housing transactions would drop by up to 60% over the next three months.\n\nMeanwhile, it said a \"rapidly increasing\" proportion of sales were falling through, as would-be buyers \"reassess whether to make a big financial decision in these shifting times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeoff Grant, aged 60 and his wife Tanya, aged 52, from Dorset had been hoping to move house on 9 April.\n\nHowever, Mr Grant is stuck in South Africa and the couple face having to pay rent to two landlords if their removal firm changes its mind about helping them move.\n\nMr Grant says there is already an overlap on the leases - the agreement for the new rental property begins on 1 April while the existing one ends on 9 April.\n\n\"If the move is delayed we'll have to negotiate with two landlords,\" he says.\n\nAs it stands, the removal company the couple is using said at the beginning of the week it will still do the job. And while Mr Grant is stuck in South Africa on business, luckily his 20 year-old daughter is home from university to help lug boxes - at a six foot distance from the removers of course.\n\nRival website Rightmove also said the slowdown in the UK housing market had been \"significant\".\n\n\"The number of property transactions failing to complete in recent days and likely changes in tenant behaviour following the announcement of the renters' protections by the government may put further pressure on estate and lettings agents,\" it said, referring to the recent ban on evictions.\n\nLucian Cook, head of residential research at estate agent Savills UK, told the BBC the practical problems of buying and selling properties at the moment would have \"a real impact on transaction levels\".\n\n\"There are real difficulties around viewings, getting mortgage valuations done, [and] the conveyancing progress.\"\n\n\"Whenever we've had a fall in transactions, we've also had a fall in prices - I think 5-10% in a period of low transactional activity.\n\n\"We would stand by our five-year forecast of 15% growth over the medium-term. That's because we have low interest rates, low levels of price growth in the run-up to this and a pretty swift response from the government to protect jobs and earnings.\"\n\nIn response to the crisis, UK Finance, which was formerly known as the British Bankers' Association, said lenders would extend mortgage offers for people who were due to move house during the lockdown.\n\n\"Current social distancing measures mean many house moves will need to be delayed,\" said UK Finance chief executive Stephen Jones.\n\n\"Where people have already exchanged contracts for house purchases and set dates for completion this is likely to be particularly stressful.\n\n\"To support these customers at this time, all mortgage lenders are working to find ways to enable customers who have exchanged contracts to extend their mortgage offer for up to three months to enable them to move at a later date.\"\n\nBuying a home is the biggest financial transaction most people will ever make. No one wants to get it wrong.\n\nAcross the UK buyers are thinking again about whether they should take the plunge and whether they are paying too much.\n\nPotential sellers are wondering if it is worth putting a house on the market.\n\nSo activity has already plummeted. One analysis suggests the number of properties being put up for sale has dropped by two thirds comparing this week to last week and is set to drop further.\n\nNow the government is telling us to put off thoughts of moving until the crisis is over.\n\nMoves can go ahead, with safeguards on human contact, but only if they are unavoidable or to unoccupied properties.\n\nThe result may not be a total standstill, but most likely a huge fall in completed sales.\n\nHas your house purchase or move been affected by the coronavirus pandemic? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The family of a man who died after contracting coronavirus are warning more lives will be lost unless we all obey the new rules on social isolation.\n\nSeventy-eight-year-old Leonard Gibson died in hospital in Sheffield last week. He had been living with the lung condition COPD.\n\nHis grandchildren Tahlia and Josiah Lenton fear that more families will suffer unless the public take urgent action.", "Self-employed workers can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus, the chancellor has announced.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak said they had \"not been forgotten\" when he announced the new measures in the daily Downing Street briefing.\n\nPlans for 80% wage subsidies for staff kept on by employers were announced last week.", "NHS and social care staff will be given free car parking during the coronavirus outbreak, the government has said.\n\nIt comes after 400,000 people signed a petition urging the government to thank NHS workers by scrapping charges.\n\nGP Anthony Gallagher, who began the petition, welcomed the move but said fees should be abolished permanently.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: “I will do everything I can to ensure our dedicated staff have whatever they need during this unprecedented time.”\n\nThe government has promised to provide NHS trusts with the money so they can offer free parking to workers at hospital car parks.\n\nElsewhere, Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick said he has agreed with local authorities in England that they will provide free car parking on council-owned on-street spaces and car parks.\n\nThe government says councils will ensure NHS staff, care workers and volunteers can provide suitable evidence to be displayed in their vehicles in order to avoid charges.\n\nThe National Car Parking Group earlier confirmed it would offer free parking to NHS staff at its 150 car parks in England.\n\nResponding to the announcement, Dr Gallagher said: “I hope after this nightmare has passed, that the government will still notice how NHS workers go above and beyond every day.\n\nHe said he hoped the government would \"do what is right\" and scrap charges at work car parks for NHS staff permanently.\n\nThe move was also welcomed by the GMB trade union which has campaigned on the issue.\n\nNational secretary Rehana Azam said: “We need a permanent end to the scandal that leaves NHS and ambulance workers paying hundreds and thousands just to park at the hospitals that they work at.”\n\nA freedom of information request made by the union found that staff were paying up to £1,300 a year to park at work.\n\nIn Scotland, parking charges at three Scottish hospitals have also been scrapped. Charging for parking at other NHS car parks in Scotland was scrapped in 2008.\n\nParking at all NHS hospitals in Wales has been free since 2018.\n\nThe Conservative government’s 2019 manifesto promised to make parking free for those in greatest need including “disabled people, frequent outpatient attenders and staff working night shifts.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of Americans filing for unemployment has surged to a record high as the economy goes into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNearly 3.3 million people registered to claim jobless benefits for the week ended 21 March, according to Department of Labor data.\n\nThat is nearly five times more than the previous record of 695,000 set in 1982.\n\nThe rush overwhelmed many state offices handling the claims and signalled an abrupt end to a decade of expansion.\n\nThe shift comes as officials in states across the country close restaurants, bars, cinemas, hotels and gyms in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nCar firms have halted production and air travel has fallen dramatically. According to economists, a fifth of the US workforce is on some form of lockdown.\n\nAnalysts said the situation could be even worse than the data currently shows, noting the reports of jammed call lines and crashing state websites. Some kinds of workers, such as people working part-time, do not qualify.\n\n\"I've been writing about the US economy ... since 1996, and this is the single worst data point I've seen, by far,\" said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist of Pantheon Economics.\n\nNationally, the figures are nearly five times higher than the worst point of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIn Illinois, weekly jobless claims increased 10-fold. They more than quintupled in New York and more than tripled in California, which were among the earliest and biggest states to impose restrictions. The effects were even more dramatic in smaller states.\n\nWhile some retailers, such as Walmart and Amazon, have announced plans to hire, economists said that will not make up for the jobs lost. As incomes evaporate, the economic damage is likely to snowball, since consumer spending accounts for the majority of the US economy.\n\n\"Once the risks around the virus pass, it will not be just easy to flip the switch and employment returns to pre-crisis levels,\" Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM wrote on Twitter. \"That is not how this is going to work and will require more aid.\"\n\nIn Washington, Congress is expected to pass a more than $2tn (£1.7tn) stimulus bill, which includes direct payments of $1,200 (£999) to adults, an expansion of unemployment benefits, and financing for affected industries, such as airlines. The Federal Reserve has also taken unprecedented steps to shore up the economy.\n\nBut even with such action, a sharp economic contraction is inevitable, analysts said. Lower income workers are particularly vulnerable, as the lockdown forces retailers, fast food outlets and other low wage employers to cut back or close.\n\nMr Shepherdson said he expects to see the unemployment rate increase to at least 6.5% shortly - nearly double the prior rate - and continue to accelerate in future months.\n\n\"Fed action and fiscal measures can only ameliorate the pain and we remain worried that the latter aren't yet on a sufficient scale,\" Mr Shepherdson wrote.\n\nAs recently as February, the US unemployment rate was hovering near historic lows at 3.5%. The number of jobless claims was only about 210,000 three weeks ago and President Donald Trump was trumpeting the labour market's health 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 Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump, who has made the strength of the economy his political calling card, recently said he wants to loosen restrictions on activity as early as next month.\n\nHowever, state and local officials worried about the rise in cases may decide not to follow the federal government as the number of cases continues to rise. The US had more than 69,000 cases as of Thursday.\n\nIn a television interview on Thursday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said \"the first order of business will be to get the spread of the virus under control and then resume economic activity\".\n\n\"The sooner we get through this period and get the virus under control, the sooner the recovery can come...We know that economic activity will decline probably substantially in the second quarter but I think many expect and I would expect economic activity to resume and move back up in the second half of the year,\" he said.\n\nMore than 3 million Americans lost their jobs in a week - a single week - and it is possible this number is underestimating the actual figure.\n\nTo think just a few weeks ago, the monthly jobless rate was at a 50-year low and we were talking about the continuing strength of the US labour market. Now some experts are expecting to see the unemployment rate hit 13% or more.\n\nIt is incredible just how quickly the American economy has cratered. So it comes as no surprise that President Trump wants to reopen the country for business fast.\n\nThis is a president that staked his reputation partly on the strength of the US economy, often highlighting low unemployment and a record breaking stock market.\n\nNow, in an election year, he can point to neither.", "Better understanding of the past informs the present and the future\n\nAt a loss to know what to do with your self-isolation time?\n\nWell, why not get on the computer and help with a giant weather digitisation effort?\n\nThe UK has rainfall records dating back 200 years or so, but the vast majority of these are in handwritten form and can't easily be used to analyse past periods of flooding and drought.\n\nThe Rainfall Rescue Project is seeking volunteers to transfer all the data into online spreadsheets.\n\nYou're not required to rummage through old bound volumes; the Met Office has already scanned the necessary documents - all 65,000 sheets.\n\nYou simply have to visit a website, read the scribbled rainfall amounts and enter the numbers into a series of boxes.\n\n\"If you do just a couple of minutes every now and then - that's great,\" said Prof Ed Hawkins. \"If you want to spend an hour doing 30 or 40 columns - then that'll be amazing. But any amount of time, it will all add up and be a tremendous help.\"\n\nIf you want to take part, click here.\n\nRainfall records from 1961 onwards are all in digital form (orange line)\n\nThe Reading University scientist has run a number of previous \"weather rescue\" projects, including the digitisation of data collected by three men who lived atop Britain's tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, at the turn of the 20th Century. But this project is the biggest yet.\n\nIt's looking to fill the yawning gap in UK digital rain gauge records between the 1820s and 1950s.\n\nEach of the 65,000 scanned sheets contains the monthly rainfall totals for a particular decade at a particular station. Something like three to five million data points in all.\n\nBut if Prof Hawkins' team can convert this information into a computer-friendly format, it could lead to a much better understanding of the frequency and scale of big droughts and floods. And that will assist with planning for future flood and water-resource infrastructure.\n\nFor example, many across the country had a sodden start to the year because of heavy rainfall. But meteorologists suspect the October of 1903 was just as bad, if not worse. Unfortunately, because all the rainfall data from the time was noted down on paper, it's not possible to be precise.\n\nLikewise, there were some very dry springs and winters in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain had six or seven very dry winters and springs on the trot.\n\nIf that happened today, it would probably cause quite serious problems for the water companies because they rely on wet winters and wet springs to recharge the reservoirs.\n\n\"Water companies have to plan for a one-in-100 or one-in-500-year drought,\" said Prof Hawkins. \"But we've only got 60 years of very dense digital data, and so it's very hard for them to come up with reliable estimates.\n\n\"We know there are periods in the past that, if they happened again, would probably break the system. And the same is true for very heavy rainfall and floods,\" he told BBC News.\n\nVolunteers will transfer the handwritten numbers into an online form\n\nIf you want to take part, click here.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The court heard Edwin Hillier had wept during his police interview\n\nAn 84-year-old man has become the first British prisoner to die after contracting coronavirus.\n\nEdwin Hillier, an inmate at HMP Littlehey - a category C male sex offenders' prison in Cambridgeshire, died in hospital on Sunday.\n\nA second serving UK prisoner, a 66-year-old male inmate at HMP Manchester, died in hospital on Thursday after contracting coronavirus.\n\nFormer school caretaker Hillier, from Hemel Hempstead, was jailed at St Albans Crown Court in 2016 for sexually abusing two girls in the 1970s.\n\nA HM Prison Service spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with his family at this time.\"\n\nHe added investigations by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman would take place into the deaths, as is customary for deaths in custody.\n\nAs of Wednesday, 19 inmates had tested positive for Covid-19 across 10 jails and four prison staff had tested positive for the disease across four jails.\n\nThree prisoner escort and custody services staff have also tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHM Prison Service said robust contingency plans had been put in place at its facilities in consultation with Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nIt added that prisons are well prepared to take immediate action wherever cases or suspected cases of Covid-19 are identified, including the isolation of individuals where necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anxiety UK have experienced a big rise in callers since the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nDavid Smithson, the charity’s operations director, gives his advice on how to deal with anxiety during this difficult time.\n\nAnd we hear from three women with pre-existing anxiety disorders about why coronavirus has been especially challenging, and the strategies they have been using to cope.", "An NHS nurse who had been stranded in Cambodia and called on Boris Johnson to help get her home has landed back in the UK.\n\nCheryl Baxter said she “had a few tears” when she arrived back at her front door in St Mary’s Bay in Kent on Thursday morning after her ordeal in South East Asia.\n\nMrs Baxter works in Hastings where she is head of the Conquest Hospital’s Covid-19 ward, and is looking forward to rejoining her colleagues soon.\n\nSpeaking after she and her husband Ivon arrived home, she said the whole experience had been a “mental roller-coaster”.\n\nMrs Baxter, 52, and her husband had been travelling before the UK pandemic commenced and were due to fly home on March 22 via Bangkok.\n\nBut as the coronavirus crisis intensified, they had huge trouble securing the right medical certificates to fly home, with different agencies demanding different papers.", "The naval hospital ship USNS Comfort will leave Virginia on Saturday, reaching New York Harbour on Monday, three weeks ahead of schedule, President Trump said at his daily press briefing.\n\nThe ship will help lighten the load for New York’s hospitals - now overwhelmed by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe state is the centre of the US crisis, home to at least 37,258 Covid-19 infections and 385 deaths.\n\nTrump will travel to Virginia to “kiss it goodbye,” he said.\n\n“It’s an extraordinary step,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said last week of the ship. “It’s literally a floating hospital.”\n\nThe president also repeated his calls for Americans to return to work as soon as possible.\n\n“We have to get back to work, our people want to work,” he said. “This is the United States of America, they don’t want to sit around and wait.”", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are isolating at Birkhall, their residence on the Balmoral estate\n\nThe Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms \"but otherwise remains in good health\", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.\n\nCharles and Camilla are now self-isolating at Balmoral.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, but was \"in good health\".\n\nThe palace added that the Duke of Edinburgh was not present at that meeting, and that the Queen was now \"following all the appropriate advice with regard to her welfare\".\n\nA Clarence House statement read: \"In accordance with government and medical advice, the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.\n\n\"The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire, where they met the criteria required for testing.\n\n\"It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace releases a photograph of the Queen speaking to the prime minister from Windsor Castle\n\nThe duke and duchess arrived in Scotland on Sunday. Charles had been displaying mild symptoms over the weekend and was tested by the NHS in Aberdeenshire on Monday.\n\nThe results came through on Tuesday night, showing he was positive.\n\nCharles is still working, is up and about and in good spirits.\n\nThe 71-year-old heir to the throne last saw the Queen briefly on the 12 March. Three days earlier, mother and son had more protracted contact during the Commonwealth Day Service.\n\nIt is important to re-emphasise the Queen is in good health. She moved to Windsor last week, with the Duke of Edinburgh who came from his usual residence at Sandringham in Norfolk.\n\nGiven their ages, 93 and 98 respectively, there will be particular care taken that they are not jeopardised by this virus.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla will be following governmental advice and isolating separately. It's not a huge house but certainly big enough to isolate yourself within it.\n\nThey've got a small staff with them - and it's expected Charles will now be in Scotland for a couple of weeks recovering from the symptoms.\n\nThe prince's last public engagement was on 12 March - the same day he last saw the Queen - when he attended a dinner in aid of the Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort.\n\nHowever, Charles has also been working from home over the last few days, and has held a number of private meetings with Highgrove and Duchy of Cornwall individuals, all of whom have been made aware.\n\nA number of household staff at Birkhall - the prince's residence on the Balmoral estate - are now self-isolating at their own homes.\n\nA palace source said the prince has spoken to both the Queen and his sons - the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex - and is in good spirits.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he had been informed about the prince's positive test result on Tuesday morning and he wished him \"a speedy recovery\".\n\nThe spokesman added the PM's weekly audience with the Queen was now taking place by telephone.\n\nFigures released from NHS England show there were 28 deaths over the latest recorded 24-hour period, bringing the coronavirus death toll in England to 414.\n\nThere have also been 22 deaths so far in Scotland, 22 in Wales and seven in Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Army engineers have been looking at whether SEC could become a temporary hospital\n\nNHS field hospital sites in Scotland will be identified this week ahead of a predicted rapid rise in Covid-19 cases, the chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood said she agreed with a senior medic who expects a coronavirus \"tsunami\" in coming weeks.\n\nThe army has confirmed officers from the Royal Engineers have been assessing the SEC in Glasgow as a temporary hospital location.\n\nIt stressed that any facilities would be run by the NHS.\n\nDr Calderwood said Scotland was looking to set up temporary hospitals similar to one planned for London.\n\nShe also revealed that new distribution systems for protective equipment were being set up.\n\nThe ExCel exhibition centre space in East London is being prepared as a 4,000-bed field hospital, to be staffed by NHS medics with the help of the military, and there are reports that the NEC in Birmingham could take on a similar role.\n\nDr Calderwood said sites in Scotland for such facilities were \"absolutely\" being looked at.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We have had quite detailed discussions very recently and I know that there are sites being considered in Scotland this week.\"\n\nThe army in Scotland has said military liaison officers will be working with health boards.\n\nSenior officers are now working at the Scottish government headquarters, St Andrew's House, coordinating their efforts with civil servants.\n\nThe Scottish government said the assistance of the Royal Engineers at the SEC would inform their contingency planning.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood said the country was on the cusp of a rapid increase in cases\n\nThe chief medical officer was asked about comments by the vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr David Chung, who has warned that the dramatic explosion in coronavirus case numbers in London could be replicated in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"Unfortunately, the emergency medicine doctor is absolutely right. We have people with mild illness, as we know 80% of people - but up to 20% of people will have a much more significant illness.\"\n\nSo far, there have been 25 deaths in Scotland, while across the UK 475 people with the virus have died.\n\nDr Calderwood said the lower Scottish death figure may simply reflect the time it takes for infected people to develop symptoms and become seriously ill.\n\n\"You can be ill for two to three weeks before you're hospitalised,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that these low deaths are actually just because we haven't had the virus in Scotland for as long as they have had it in England\n\n\"In other words, there hasn't been enough time for people to get more unwell and hospitalised and onto that stage where they're needing intensive care.\n\n\"This is probably just a time issue rather than a lower death rate per se.\"\n\nThe chief medical officer said she was hearing from NHS colleagues that they were worried about their personal safety due to shortages of protective equipment.\n\n\"This makes me very uncomfortable,\" she said.\n\n\"To send people to work on the frontline when they are worried that the masks, in particular, will run low or run out.\n\n\"We are also hearing of people using masks when actually they don't need to be using them - that is depriving them, somebody else who does need the mask.\"\n\nDr Calderwood said the distribution model for protective equipment was being changed to ensure supplies were delivered to the right places in the right quantities.\n\n\"It seems we had not enough that were coming in a timely fashion. People were ordering from GP surgeries or from hospitals ordering many, many more masks than they would ever have before,\" she said.\n\n\"That seems to have clogged up the system with huge orders for which there weren't enough supplies so the order didn't get processed at all.\"\n\nSeparate distribution lines have now been set up for primary care, social care and hospitals to speed up the process.\n\n\"Distribution should not be a problem after this week,\" she said.\n\nDr Calderwood said testing was prioritised \"quite rightly\" for those requiring hospital treatment, as well as surveillance testing to provide information about the spread of the virus.\n\nShe was asked why Prince Charles and his wife Camilla were tested for Covid-19 in Aberdeenshire when the heir to the throne was only displaying \"mild symptoms\".\n\nShe said: \"My understanding is there were very good clinical reasons for that person and his wife to be tested. Obviously I wouldn't be able to disclose anything else that I know because of patient confidentiality.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotey: Could face trial in US\n\nThe UK acted unlawfully by passing evidence to the US that could lead to the execution of two British members of an Islamic State murder squad.\n\nThe Supreme Court said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid should not have passed information on Shafee Elsheikh and Alexander Kotey to the US.\n\nLord Kerr said the seven justices concluded the decision in 2018 breached the UK's strict data protection laws.\n\nThe Londoners, linked to 27 murders, are in US custody in Iraq.\n\nAlong with two other British men, they formed a foursome known as \"The Beatles\", allegedly helping to kidnap, torture and murder hostages.\n\nThey were seized by Kurdish forces in 2018 as the Islamic State group began to crumble - and the US says it wants to prosecute them if the UK won't put the men on trial in London.\n\nLast year, the government agreed to hand over as many as 600 witness statements and related material after initially refusing to do so without a guarantee they wouldn't face the death penalty.\n\nElsheikh's mother, Maha Elgizouli, challenged the home secretary's decision to share that information with the US - not to prevent him from being prosecuted and jailed but to protect him from the death penalty.\n\nWelcoming the ruling, her lawyers said she recognised the difficult issues her case had raised.\n\n\"She has always expressed her belief that her son, if accused, should face justice - and that any trial should take place in the UK,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"She has been asking since November 2018 for the CPS to conduct a review of the claim that there was insufficient evidence for him to be charged and tried in the UK - a review that the CPS now says should be completed by April 2020.\"\n\nNow the court has ruled in her favour. There must be a further decision over what the UK must now do to comply with the law - including potentially asking the US to hand back information.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The government's priority has always been to maintain national security and to deliver justice for the victims and their families. This has not changed. We are clearly very disappointed with today's judgment and are carefully considering next steps.\"\n\nExplaining the judgment over an unprecedented video link, due to coronavirus measures, Lord Kerr said: \"Much of the information provided, or to be provided, to the US authorities consisted of personal data.\n\nHe said a transfer of personal data to a third country was only lawful if it was based on there being appropriate safeguards or on special circumstances.\n\n\"Here there was no adequacy decision and no appropriate safeguards,\" he added.\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the decision, British diplomats in Washington warned Mr Javid that US President Donald Trump would be \"wound up\" by any continued refusal by London to hand over the information American prosecutors needed.\n\nLord Kerr said the decision by Mr Javid to transfer the information was \"based on political expediency, rather than strict necessity\".\n\nThe seven justices however were split over whether the UK had a more wide-ranging legal bar on sharing any information with the US that could put someone at risk of capital punishment.\n\nThe UK currently won't extradite someone to face trial in the US or other countries unless it first receives an assurance that they will not be put to death.\n\nHowever, the law on sharing information that could be used against someone already in the other country's custody, is less clear.\n\nLord Kerr said: \"Law must be responsive to society's contemporary needs, standards and values, which are in a state of constant change. That is an essential part of the human condition and experience.\n\n\"I concluded, therefore, that a common law principle should be recognised whereby it is deemed unlawful to facilitate the trial of any individual in a foreign country where, to do so, would put that person in peril of being executed.\"\n\nA majority of the other justices disagreed - concluding that the law did not extend that far because Parliament had not explicitly banned ministers from sharing information on criminals with countries that use the death penalty.", "People who do not comply with social distancing rules in Scotland could be fined by the police, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nEmergency legislation has been passed at Westminster to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it meant Police Scotland could have new powers as early as today to enforce social distancing.\n\nThere have now been 894 confirmed cases of the virus in Scotland, with 25 people having died.\n\nThis was an increase of 175 confirmed cases and three deaths since Wednesday. The actual number of cases is likely to be much higher.\n\nThe new powers will allow police to hand out fixed penalties to anyone caught flouting the social distancing rules that were imposed earlier this week, which have left the whole of the UK effectively in \"lockdown\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said these were \"last resort\" measures, but that \"ultimately this is about saving lives\".\n\nPolice Scotland's Chief Constable, Iain Livingstone, told BBC Radio Four that officers would be able to instruct people to go home, and \"to use reasonable force if required\" - but said the power to make arrests was an \"absolute backstop\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she expected the vast majority of people to \"do the right thing\"\n\nPeople across the UK have been urged to stay at home to help slow the spread of Covid-19 and reduce pressure on health services.\n\nOnly limited trips out of the house are to be permitted - for exercise, to buy vital supplies or to attend essential work - and gatherings of more than two people, unless they are from the same household, are banned.\n\nThe first minister said that \"those found not to be acting in line with regulations can be made to return home\".\n\nAnd she said police officers will also have the power to give out \"prohibition notices\" and to close businesses and premises if needed.\n\nPeople could also be given spot fines - the level of which is currently being decided - \"and ultimately if necessary be prosecuted\", Ms Sturgeon warned.\n\nThe first minister said she hoped the new powers would not have to be used, with officers taking a \"soft approach to enforcement\" - but \"they will have the power to act if that is deemed necessary\".\n\nThe first minister said she expected the \"vast majority\" of people to \"do the right thing\" and comply with social distancing voluntarily.\n\nShe said: \"This will get harder with every day that passes, to stay at home and follow all of the advice, but it remains essential that we all do so.\n\n\"This has to be a collective effort. The power to stop this epidemic rests with each and everyone of us as individuals.\"\n\nMr Livingstone later said there had been \"overwhelming levels of compliance\" with the new regulations, and that officers had already been speaking to people to \"make it very, very clear what the expectations are\".\n\nHe said: \"If there is continued defiance, the absolute back-stop is a power of arrest. I would expect that to be used very, very infrequently, if at all, but I do think it is important that people know that that power is there.\"\n\nThe NHS in Scotland is scaling up to cope with the coronavirus crisis, and the country's chief medical officer says she believes we are behind London and the rest of England in terms of the accelerating caseload. This means the lockdown may have a bigger impact here.\n\nHowever, Scotland is still facing significant capacity issues. The authorities say they are on track to double intensive care capacity, and then want to quadruple it.\n\nThe postponement of elective surgery has meant they are just short of freeing up 3,000 other hospital beds.\n\nThere has also been a lot of talk about \"field hospitals\". One interesting point made at this morning's briefing was that they are still saying the empty Sick Children's hospital in Edinburgh is not safe to use.\n\nEven if they look elsewhere, a field hospital could be for non-Covid 19 patients rather than the \"fever hospitals\" we've been seeing in China and elsewhere.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: '40,000 to 50,000 Scots' estimated to have virus\n\nMs Sturgeon also announced that an extra 1.5 million facemasks have been \"brought back into use from the NHS Scotland central stockpile\".\n\nThese masks had passed their expiry date, but have undergone \"extensive testing which has shown them to be fit for use\".\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said there was no shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health workers, with supplies being monitored \"daily\".\n\nShe said: \"We are paying very close and detailed attention to the overall stock of PPE for our health and social care staff, and we have now taken over the ordering, supply and distribution of PPE to social care and care at home staff.\n\n\"As of today we have no shortages. We are increasing the distribution routes and networks to ensure the supplies people need get to where they are needed, including in remote and rural areas, as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The safety of our health and social care staff is of absolute critical importance, so we are taking every step we can to make sure they have the equipment they need, and we have orders in the pipeline to make sure stocks are replenished.\"", "WHO guidelines, which currently recommend health staff wear a full gown and visor.\n\nGPs are demanding \"urgent clarification\" from the government on whether they should now wear protective equipment to examine all patients.\n\nFamily doctors now wear it if they see a patient with suspected coronavirus.\n\nBut the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock to ask if GPs should wear it for all face-to-face consultations.\n\nIt says patients with the virus but no symptoms could still infect staff.\n\nThe BBC understands GPs in some surgeries have decided to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) for all face-to-face consultations, but this is not currently recommended by Public Health England.\n\nIn the letter, Prof Martin Marshall, chairman of the RCGP, wrote: \"GPs across the country have never been more concerned, not just for the safety of themselves and their teams, but for patients too.\n\n\"They are unsure as to whether they have enough supplies [of PPE], either now, or as the crisis deepens.\n\n\"They are not confident that the current guidance provides the necessary clarity about whether GPs are using the right type of equipment, at the right times,\" he said.\n\nProf Marshall also noted the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends family doctors have eye protection for consultations but most practices do not have sufficient access to it, and there are concerns about the use of aprons that doctors have been given, rather than full body cover.\n\nThere has been widespread concern and anger at the shortages of personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.\n\nThe prime minister said he has been \"assured\" stocks of PPE - such as masks, gloves and gowns - were on the way to NHS staff, saying the Army had distributed 7.5 million pieces of equipment in the past 24 hours.\n\nA dedicated hotline has also been set up allowing organisations to order PPE 24 hours a day, the government previously announced.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Healthcare Supply Association has been forced to use Twitter to ask DIY shops to donate equipment to NHS staff.", "The All England Club says a decision regarding this year's Wimbledon will be made next week.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the club said postponement and cancellation of the event, scheduled between 29 June-12 July, because of the impact of coronavirus were possible outcomes.\n\nPlaying behind closed doors has been formally ruled out.\n\nEarlier this month, the French Open, due to have begun in May, was rescheduled to 20 September-4 October.\n\nThe ATP and WTA Tours were already off until 27 April and 2 May respectively and last week that suspension was extended until 7 June.\n\nThe club's sites at the All England Club, Wimbledon Park Golf Club and Raynes Park are currently closed with physical operations reduced to a minimum to maintain the grass courts and the security of the sites.\n\nPostponing the only Grand Slam grass court event until later in the year \"is not without significant risk and difficulty\" the statement added.\n\nChief executive Richard Lewis said: \"The unprecedented challenge presented by the Covid-19 crisis continues to affect our way of life in ways that we could not have imagined, and our thoughts are with all those affected in the UK and around the world.\n\n\"The single most important consideration is one of public health, and we are determined to act responsibly through the decisions we make.\n\n\"We are working hard to bring certainty to our plans for 2020 and have convened an emergency meeting of the main board for next week, at which a decision will be made.\"\n\nWhen the All England Club board meets next week, they will almost certainly conclude it is just not feasible to stage The Championships in 2020.\n\nNow playing behind closed doors has been formally ruled out, there seems little prospect of Wimbledon being able, or allowed, to welcome 40,000 people on site every day. An event of this nature also puts inevitable further strain on the health system and the police.\n\nWork to build up the site in readiness for the fortnight is due to begin at the end of next month, and you cannot do that without significant numbers of people on site.\n\nA gap has opened up in the schedule with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, but a three-week delay is unlikely to make much of a difference.\n\nAnd because of the surface, it is just not practical to follow the French Open's lead and try and stage The Championships in September.", "There are fears people who have fled their homes in the conflict will not be able to get medical help\n\nA separatist militia in Cameroon is to down its weapons for a fortnight so people can be tested for coronavirus.\n\nThe Southern Cameroons Defence Forces (Socadef) said its ceasefire would come into effect from Sunday as \"a gesture of goodwill\".\n\nIt is so far the only armed group among many operating in Cameroon's English-speaking regions to have heeded the UN's call for a global ceasefire.\n\nThe fighters say they are marginalised in the majority French-speaking nation.\n\nFor the three years, they have been fighting government forces in the Anglophone regions with the aim of creating a breakaway state called \"Ambazonia\".\n\nBut there is no indication that one of the biggest rebel group - Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) - is to follow suit and declare a ceasefire.\n\nChief mediator Alexandre Liebeskind, from the conflict resolution group Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, told the BBC that the ADF had refused to join the negotiations.\n\n\"They are the only group which refused to join the process,” he said.\n\nBut he added that he hoped other groups would follow Socadef's example.\n\nThe BBC's West Africa reporter Chi Chi Izundu says this move by one Anglophone separatist group will not bring the long and bloody conflict to an end, but could be a source of hope in otherwise dark times.\n\nFighting in the North-West and South-West regions has killed at least 3,000 people and forced more than 700,000 people from their homes, thousands fleeing across the border into Nigeria.\n\nMany displaced people could be in danger of contracting coronavirus and not receiving treatment.\n\nCameroon's health ministry has so far has confirmed 75 cases of the virus - and recorded its first death earlier this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameroon conflict: 'I would risk being shot to go home'\n\nMr Liebeskind says the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue is also appealing to militias elsewhere in Africa - in the Sahel and Central African Republic - in the hope it could allow a \"better response to the coronavirus\" as well as \"lead to some kind of politically negotiated solution\".\n\n“To do my job you need to be an optimist,\" says Mr Liebeskind.\n\n\"Sitting in Africa, I am particularly concerned because it's a fragile continent. The economic and social consequences [of coronavirus] could be devastating if it is not quickly contained.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople around the UK have taken part in a \"Clap for Carers\" tribute, saluting NHS and care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Family and the prime minister joined well-wishers who flocked to their balconies and windows to applaud.\n\nA message from the NHS on social media described the tribute as \"emotional\".\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters have agreed to drive ambulances, deliver supplies and help to move bodies if needed to aid the UK response to the pandemic.\n\nThere are about 48,000 firefighters and control staff in the UK - but hundreds are already self-isolating because of coronavirus, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said.\n\nThe union is calling for tests to be quickly made available to its members to retain safe staffing levels. Matt Wrack, head of the FBU, said the virus would be a \"huge challenge\", but firefighters were \"keen to do whatever they can\".\n\nOn Thursday, the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time. The death toll has risen from 475 to 578, health officials said, with 11,658 confirmed cases.\n\nThe US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests.\n\nIn an Instagram message to mark the Clap for Carers event, the Queen said the country was \"enormously thankful\" to the people on the frontline of the UK's response to the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease.\n\nShe said the UK was grateful \"for the expertise and commitment of our scientists, medical practitioners and emergency and public services\".\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\nAnd a video posted by Kensington Palace showed Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis clapping to thank all those healthcare staff \"working tirelessly\" to help those affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and their staff all separately joined in with a round of applause at Birkhall in Scotland.\n\nCharles, who has tested positive for coronavirus, and Camilla are isolating from each other and their small number of staff.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was joined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak outside 10 Downing Street as they took part in the national salute.\n\nThis family in Manchester were among households across the UK sharing the moment from their front doorsteps\n\nAn anaesthetist applauds her colleagues after finishing a 12-hour shift at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital\n\nThe Clap for Carers campaign, which started online, was staged because \"during these unprecedented times they need to know we are grateful\", according to the organisers.\n\nAt the same time, landmarks including Belfast City Hall, Principality Stadium in Cardiff and the London Eye were lit up as part of the #lightitblue salute.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs people all over the UK went to their doorsteps and windows to take part in the round of applause, a number of celebrities shared updates about how they were paying their respects to healthcare workers.\n\nActress Michelle Collins shared a video taken from outside her north London home showing people taking part in the salute.\n\nShe said that the tribute had \"made her cry\", adding: \"We love our NHS stay safe everyone emotional day.\"\n\nIn the video, she can be heard telling neighbours that they need \"a big street party when this is all over\".\n\nPeople clap from a block of flats opposite St Thomas' Hospital in London\n\nA resident across the road from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester joins in the national salute to healthcare workers\n\nTV presenter Ben Fogle shared a video of his family applauding health care workers in his living room next to a placard saying \"thank you NHS\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"We love you NHS. We salute every one of you. Our heroes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStar Wars actor John Boyega said it was \"beautiful\" hearing his neighbours \"shout and clap for the NHS\".\n\nAnd BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James also praised the salute on Twitter.\n\nHe wrote: \"Oh my God that was properly brilliant wasn't it. Also, most brilliantly British thing ever bashing pots and pans.\n\n\"Extraordinary times can only be overcome with extraordinary acts of humanity.\"\n\nA big screen in Piccadilly Circus, central London, showed support for the NHS as the country-wide applaud took place\n\nThe Shard, the London Eye and Wembley Stadium (pictured) were among landmarks in the capital to mark the occasion\n\nThe national round of applause came after the unveiling of a support package from the government to give millions of self-employed people a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe money - up to a maximum of £2,500 a month - will be paid in a single lump sum, but will not begin to arrive until the start of June at the earliest.\n\nWage subsidies of 80% for salaried employees were announced last week.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said \"there are gaps\" however, with some self-employed people not included in the scheme.\n\n\"The big issue that has come from most of them is having to wait until June for payments,\" he said. \"Some are saying 'look we can't survive beyond the next few weeks'.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he understood people would be worried about paying their bills, adding that \"if we can do it faster, we will\".\n\nHe told BBC's Radio 4 Today programme the new measures were \"unprecedented\". \"We're effectively going to be building a new system to make sure we get support to people,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the digital secretary has urged social media users to do their bit in tackling coronavirus-related misinformation.\n\nCabinet minister Oliver Dowden said the public must \"remain absolutely vigilant to inaccurate stories\".", "Many countries like India face a huge challenge during the virus epidemic\n\nMore than 30 million lives around the world could be saved during the coronavirus pandemic if countries act quickly, a report from Imperial College London researchers suggests.\n\nThe ideal strategy is to introduce widespread testing and strict social distancing measures rapidly.\n\nActing early could reduce mortality by as much as 95%, the report finds.\n\nBut lower-income countries are likely to face a much higher burden than wealthier nations.\n\nResearchers from Imperial College in London looked at the health impact of the pandemic in 202 countries using a number of different scenarios, and based their estimates on data from China and high-income countries.\n\nDoing nothing to combat the virus would leave the world facing around 40 million deaths this year, the report says.\n\nSocial distancing - to reduce the social contacts in the general population by 40% and among the elderly and vulnerable population by 60% - could bring this down by about half.\n\nBut health systems in all countries would still be quickly overwhelmed, the report adds\n\nIf countries adopt stricter measures early - such as testing, isolating cases and wider social distancing to prevent transmission to more people - 38.7 million lives could be saved.\n\nThis is equivalent to a 95% reduction in mortality.\n\nIf these measures are introduced later, the figure could drop to 30.7 million, the researchers estimate.\n\n\"Delays in implementing strategies to suppress transmission will lead to worse outcomes and fewer lives saved,\" they conclude.\n\nThe effects of the pandemic are likely to be most severe in developing countries,\n\nThere will be 25 times more patients needing critical care than beds available, compared to seven times more in high-income countries, the report says.\n\nThe researchers say their models are not predictions of what will happen. Instead they illustrate the magnitude of the problem and the benefits of acting quickly.\n\nThey say strategies to suppress the virus will need to be maintained in some way until vaccines or effective treatments become available to avoid the risk of another epidemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London and author of the report, said: \"Our research adds to the growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic poses a grave global public health threat.\n\n\"Countries need to act collectively to rapidly respond to this fast-growing epidemic.\n\n\"Sharing both resources and best practice is critically important if the potentially catastrophic impacts of the pandemic are to be prevented at a global level.\"\n\nBehind the careful phrasing and cold language of this study is a nightmare vision of what the pandemic could mean globally, especially to the poorest people on the planet.\n\nWith bigger households, including the older generations most at risk, and healthcare systems that are far more fragile than those in richer countries, the prospects for developing nations look grim.\n\nSpeaking to the scientists while they were preparing the report, it was clear that they were all too aware of the horrific implications of their work.\n\nOriginally, the study was meant to be released last week but as each day passed new data emerged which could be added to the model - the computer simulation of the outbreak - to make it more accurate.\n\nIt all leads to a stark conclusion: that as the virus spreads, only the most draconian measures will lessen the impact and that the countries least able to protect themselves will be among the hardest hit.", "Data collected via the NHS's 111 telephone service is to be mixed with other sources to help predict where ventilators, hospital beds, and medical staff will be most in need.\n\nThe goal is to help health chiefs model the consequences of moving resources to best tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThree US tech firms are aiding the effort - Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir - as well as London-based Faculty AI.\n\nThe plan is expected to be signed off by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"Every hospital is going to be thinking: Have we got enough ventilators? Well we need to keep ours because who knows what's going to happen - and that might not be the optimal allocation of ventilators,\" explained a source in one of the tech companies involved.\n\n\"Without a holistic understanding of how many we've got, where they are, who can use them, who is trained, where do we actually have patients who need them most urgently, we risk not making the optimal decisions.\"\n\nThe project is likely to give rise to privacy concerns.\n\nHowever, the NHS intends to make sure that all the data involved has been anonymised so that personal details cannot be tied back to any individual.\n\nAnd once the crisis is over, it is committed to destroying all the records.\n\nThe goal is to provide the NHS with interactive dashboards that pull together the disparate data it and its partners already hold.\n\nThis will involve using data about:\n\nThis in turn will allow decision-makers to:\n\nIn time, managers also hope to provide versions of the dashboards for public view.\n\nAmazon's AWS division is helping to provide the cloud computing resources required, while Palantir is providing its Foundry software to help draw all of the data sources together. The program was previously used by the US to help co-ordinate response efforts to Haiti's cholera outbreak after an earthquake in 2010.\n\nMicrosoft's cloud division Azure has built what has been termed a \"gigantic\" data store to aid the project.\n\nFaculty AI was previously known as ASI Data Science, and has previously worked with the Home Office to detect terrorist propaganda online.\n\n\"In the UK, you might be looking at things such as diagnostic results from tests, maybe 111 calls or people going online,\" the source told the BBC.\n\n\"In the short term, it is going to be more about situational awareness - where there may be emerging pressure.\n\n\"But then over time this will turn into more dynamic scenario planning. So you're able to simulate and ask: What if we redeployed our resources here? What would be the likely impact?\"\n\nThe source added that beyond trying to help the NHS cope with demand for coronavirus care, it could also help it reorganise the system to deal with other cases that need treatment during the crisis.\n\nThe companies became involved shortly after a meeting at 10 Downing Street hosted by Boris Johnson's advisor Dominic Cummings on 11 March, which was also attended by other tech firms.\n\nThe involvement of Palantir - one of tech's most secretive companies - will act as a red flag to some privacy campaigners.\n\nThe tech firm was co-founded by Peter Thiel, a billionaire who is a close confidante of US President Donald Trump. It has contracts with the Pentagon among other US government departments, and also has ties to the UK's cyber-spy agency GCHQ.\n\nBut its work helping the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency find undocumented workers has proven to be particularly controversial.\n\nThe company presents its products as being designed to safeguard people's privacy by limiting who can see what.\n\nAnd it blogged on the topic last week.\n\n\"We must not blindly accept the mantra of 'desperate times call for desperate measures', but instead forge solutions that can survive a return to normalcy and not fundamentally alter our societal values,\" wrote Courtney Bowman, Palantir's privacy and civil liberties engineering lead.\n\n\"Any exceptional measures must be clearly justified by the facts and conditions of the moment but, also, in enacting them, build in mechanisms for rolling them back after the crisis and soberly evaluating the extent to which they were necessary and how we can do better next time.\"", "US markets gained again as Donald Trump and the Senate agreed a massive economic relief package worth more than $1.8 trillion (£1.5tn).\n\nThe package includes money to bail out industries that have been affected by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nRepublican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell described it as a \"wartime level of investment\" in the economy.\n\nThe relief plans lifted financial markets around the world, but investors remained on edge.\n\nUS markets, which surged on Tuesday in anticipation of the deal, teetered in the final moments of trade on Wednesday, closing below their peak for the day.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 2.4% higher, while the S&P 500 closed up 1.1%. The Nasdaq dipped 0.45%.\n\nShares in Boeing surged more than 23%, fuelled in part by expectations that it would benefit from the deal.\n\nEarlier, shares rose in Europe and Asia on news of the relief package. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed 8% higher, while London's FTSE 100 index gained more than 4.4%.\n\nFull details of the deal agreed in the US will not be published until later on Wednesday. However, it is expected to contain measures to help people pay bills if they are laid off because of the virus, expand unemployment assistance by $250bn and get $350bn in emergency loans to small firms.\n\nMr McConnell said it would also \"stabilise\" key industrial sectors and give money to hospitals and other healthcare providers which were having difficulty getting equipment.\n\n\"We're going to pass this legislation later today,\" Mr McConnell added.\n\nSenate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the package \"the largest rescue package in American history\". He said it was a \"Marshall Plan\" for hospitals. \"Help is on the way, big help and quick help.\"\n\nSeparately, President Trump on Tuesday said he wanted to get the economy up and running again by Easter.\n\nOn Wall Street, the Dow Jones jumped by 11.4% on Tuesday - its biggest one-day gain since the Great Depression - as political leaders signalled a deal was close.\n\nThe final package is estimated to amount to about 10% of US output, more than double the relief offered during the 2008 financial crisis. William Foster, a vice president at Moody's Investors Service, said it would \"help mitigate the depth and duration of the economic shock\".\n\n\"Nonetheless, we expect the virus to have a significant negative impact on growth and the fiscal deficit this year,\" he said.\n\nGovernments around the world have responded to a surge in coronavirus cases by locking down societies in the hope of slowing the spread of the virus.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund has warned the hit to global growth is likely to be bigger than the financial crisis.\n\nMany countries are now working on stimulus packages to support their economies, but these plans have received mixed responses from investors, as markets experience unprecedented volatility as they grapple with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis month alone has seen the Dow having the five biggest daily gains and five biggest falls of its 135-year history.\n\nReacting to news of the stimulus package, Tom Stevenson, investment director at fund manager Fidelity International, said: \"It's good news, but we're not out of the woods yet.\n\n\"When markets are falling, you get these big rallies but you shouldn't get stuck on that. They do bounce around in these situations.\"\n\nThe US rescue package follows five days of intense negotiations to try to agree a deal that will provide aid for American workers and businesses.\n\nBefore it becomes law the deal must get through the Republican-controlled Senate, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and be signed by President Trump.\n\nThe US central bank, the Federal Reserve has already announced $4tn in extra lending to help stimulate the economy in the face of the coronavirus.\n\nUS stocks surged in anticipation of the massive economic stimulus deal\n\nNearly 19,000 people have died with coronavirus worldwide since it emerged in China's Wuhan province in January, and more than 420,000 infections have been confirmed.\n\nSouthern Europe is now at the centre of the pandemic, with Italy and Spain recording hundreds of new deaths every day. The US has confirmed more than 55,000 cases, the third highest of any country after China and Italy.\n\nThe US Congress has approved a $2tn rescue bill - the biggest package of support for the economy in modern American history.\n\nLike the UK's emergency economic measures, it offers $350bn in loans for small businesses to cover expenses for up to 10 weeks; it also offers $500bn in aid to airlines and other corporations. The government is also sending out cheques of $1,200 for every adult and $500 per child.\n\nBut there's concern that the package, for all its huge size, simply isn't big enough to soften the scale of the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 shutdown, now a global phenomenon. Some economists say US firms may need five times as much cash to prevent mass bankruptcy and unemployment.\n• None Why payday is different during the crisis", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSelf-employed workers can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus, the chancellor has announced.\n\nThe money - up to a maximum of £2,500 a month - will be paid in a single lump sum, but will not begin to arrive until the start of June at the earliest.\n\nRishi Sunak told the self-employed: \"You have not been forgotten.\"\n\nWage subsidies of 80% for salaried employees were announced last week.\n\nShortly after the chancellor spoke, the number of people in the UK who have died with Covid-19 - the disease caused by coronavirus - jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time.\n\nThe total now stands at 578.\n\nThe government had faced criticism for failing to provide support for self-employed and freelance workers in its earlier package of economic measures.\n\nMr Sunak said the steps taken so far were \"already making a difference\" but it was right to go further \"in the economic fight against the coronavirus\".\n\nThe scheme does not cover people who only became self-employed very recently - the chancellor said they would have to look to the benefits system for support.\n\nComing up with a workable scheme had been \"difficult\", he continued, because the self-employed were a \"diverse population\" and some of them earned a great deal.\n\nBut in all, the \"fair, targeted and deliverable\" plan would help 95% of people who earn most of their income via self-employment.\n\n\"We have not left you behind, we all stand together,\" he added.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick later told the BBC's Question Time that even where self-employed workers were unable to provide full financial records going back three years, the government was urging people to \"give us what they've got and we will work through it with HMRC to see if there's a way to support you\".\n\nThe Federation of Small Business, which represents many self-employed workers, welcomed the intervention, saying: \"Although the deal is not perfect, the government has moved a very long way today.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was worried the money would come \"too late for millions\".\n\n\"People need support in the coming days and fortnight... there is a real risk that without support until June the self-employed will feel they have to keep working, putting their own and others' health at risk.\"\n\nLabour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said the government had been too slow to recognise the severity of the crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says government has been \"too slow\"\n\nTorsten Bell, from think tank the Resolution Foundation, said the very significant package stood in \"stark contrast\" to the \"much less generous\" support being given to employees who lose their jobs or see their hours cut during the crisis.\n\nThe Coronavirus Self-Employment Income Support scheme is another extraordinary, multi-billion pound support, reflecting the brutal economic impact of a shutdown designed to keep the pandemic in check.\n\nIn recent days, Treasury ministers appeared to be trying to dampen down expectations, telling MPs it was problematic to establish a fair scheme, and the employee job retention scheme would be the logistical priority.\n\nThe government wants to set up the scheme to keep employed jobs as the priority first, so the banks will need to be relied on to support many of the self-employed with overdrafts to tide them over until the grant goes into their bank accounts in about 10 weeks' time.\n\nThe sting in the tail? The chancellor said he can no longer justify, after things get back to normal, that self-employed people pay less tax than the employed. But that is for another day.\n\nIn the UK, more than 11,600 people have now tested positive for coronavirus - although the actual number of cases is likely to be far higher.\n\nThe peak of demand for intensive care was expected to come in two to three weeks, but speaking alongside the chancellor at Thursday's briefing, England's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, refused to be drawn on any predictions.\n\nShe said the UK was \"only just starting to see a bite in the interventions - the social distancing - that have been put into place\", but things appeared to be \"starting to move in the right direction\".\n\nThe government has imposed strict controls on everyday life designed to slow the spread of the disease.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "Self-employed workers facing financial difficulties as a result of coronavirus are set to be offered a package of support from the government.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil the measures later.\n\nHe set out plans for 80% wage subsidies for staff kept on by employers last week - and the PM has said he wants similar protection for freelancers.\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson added he could not promise the UK would beat the virus \"without any kind of hardship at all\".\n\nThe total number of people in the UK to die with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has reached 475.\n\nMr Sunak said last week that the government would cover wages of up to £2,500 a month for staff being kept on by their employer, as part of \"unprecedented\" measures to prevent workers being laid off.\n\nThe chancellor later said drawing up plans to help self-employed people had proved \"incredibly complicated\".\n\nDr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"For many people that have seen their businesses disappear in the blink of an eye, things like statutory sick pay or universal credit just isn't enough.\n\n\"It doesn't need to be perfect - we just need a system in place,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nJohn Healey, a self-employed driving instructor from Lancashire, said: \"We don't need a lot, we just need something.\n\n\"But by doing nothing, we just go to the wall, basically,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack said calculating a support wage for the self-employed was so difficult because their income could be lumpy, irregular and intermittent.\n\nGovernment sources said they had struggled to find a way to avoid paying people who do not need help.\n\nTory ex-health minister Steve Brine said government aid for self-employed people needed to be universal.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme that \"if it needs to be more universal than targeted, and if there is a challenge, if there's a problem, let's face it, HMRC are not adverse to clawing back\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: Government will \"step in\" to help pay staff members' wages\n\nAs Parliament shut down until 21 April at the earliest due to the escalating pandemic, Mr Johnson told MPs: \"We will do whatever we can to support the self-employed, just as we are putting our arms around every single employed person in this country.\"\n\nHe said there were \"particular difficulties\" for freelancers who are not on Pay As You Earn (PAYE) schemes, but that he wanted to achieve \"parity of support\" across the workforce.\n\nIn the UK, more than 9,500 people have tested positive for the virus - although the actual number of cases is likely to be far higher.\n\nThe peak of demand for intensive care is expected to come in two to three weeks.\n\nChris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals in England, said London hospital bosses were telling him they were already struggling with the high numbers of critically ill patients, likening the situation to a \"continuous tsunami\".\n\nTheir job was being complicated by staff sickness rates of up to 50% in some hospitals and a shortage of ventilators, he told the Today programme.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, a key government adviser on the country's response, said he expected \"a very difficult few weeks particularly in the hotspots\", including London.\n\nHowever, he said while the health service would be \"particularly stressed, it won't break\".\n\nA 21-year-old woman from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, who died with the virus last week, had no underlying health conditions, her family said.\n\nOn Wednesday, it emerged that Prince Charles has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The 71-year-old, who is self-isolating at his Scottish home Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, has since received hundreds of messages from well-wishers and was working at his desk as usual, Clarence House said.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, but was \"in good health\".\n\nBuckingham Palace releases a photograph of the Queen speaking to the prime minister from Windsor Castle\n\nMeanwhile the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that doctors and patients will die without adequate protective equipment across the NHS.\n\nThe BMA said doctors were risking their lives due to a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) - and said many health workers could go off sick unless urgent action is taken.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said 24 million pairs of protective gloves and 13 million protective face masks had been delivered in \"the last few days\", while an extra 8,000 ventilators were expected to be available within two weeks.", "Off-licences have been added to the government's list of essential UK retailers allowed to stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe list was updated on Wednesday amid increasing reports supermarkets are selling out of some beers and wines.\n\nA major pub chain has said \"almost all\" its business had gone to supermarkets.\n\nThe move came as bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords had to defend its decision to keep shops open.\n\nThe list of essential retailers put together by the Cabinet Office now includes \"off-licences and licensed shops selling alcohol, including those within breweries\".\n\nPubs and restaurants have been required to close under the new restrictions, prompting complaints from the head of Wetherspoons pub chain, Tim Martin, who said that most of the chain's trade had gone to supermarkets.\n\nWetherspoons CEO Tim Martin says much of his trade is going to the supermarkets\n\nExactly what qualifies as an \"essential business\" is causing confusion in some quarters.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business organisation Carolyn Fairbairn says many firms \"do not know whether to stay open or to close\".\n\nShe is asking the government clarify the situation for businesses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolyn Fairbairn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHalfords is covered by the essential retailers list. Boss Graham Stapleton said the chain had \"an essential role to play in keeping the country moving\".\n\nIts Autocentre garages and mobile vans remain open, with plans for \"partial store coverage\" across its 446 shops.\n\nThe chain drew criticism after saying it would keep some stores open after being named by the government as an \"essential provider of services\".\n\n#BoycottHalfords was trending on social media on Tuesday.\n\nSome Twitter users cited concerns over a lack of protection for on-site workers while others, including MSP Fulton MacGregor, questioned whether the business should be open at all.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Fulton MacGregor MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a trading update, the firm said: \"We are committed to playing our part, but only if we can ensure the health and safety of our colleagues and customers.\"\n\nIt also said it had the \"legal flexibility to remain open across the entire business\".\n\nMr Stapleton said his chain had a part to play \"in providing vital support to emergency workers, fleet operations and the general population as they travel for essential supplies\".\n\nHalfords pointed out it was offering all NHS frontline workers a free 10-point car check during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt comes as the government announced it would grant drivers a six-month emergency MOT extension under new regulation due to come into force on 30 March to ensure \"frontline workers to get to work\".\n\nOther bicycle firms such as Brompton Bicycle, a folding bike specialist, have lent bicycles to staff at hospitals in London to help them get to and from work.\n\nAnd some people on social media supported Halfords' decision to stay open during the pandemic.\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\nHigh Street retailer Next has confirmed it's offering some staff a 20 per cent pay rise if they volunteer to go into stores to help pick online orders, despite government warnings to stay at home.\n\nWhile all of its stores are closed to the public, the retailer says there are some items in its shops which have already been ordered and promised to online customers.\n\nThe retailer said a \"very small group of volunteers\" will pick the orders under \"strict supervision and social distancing rules\".\n\nAfter strict new restrictions were brought in by government earlier this week, it issued a list of “essential retailers”, such as Halfords, that are allowed to stay open. They include:\n\nTrade industry bodies had previously said that bicycle retailers and repair shops had seen a spike in demand as people \"clean the cobwebs off\" their old bikes in an attempt to avoid public transport during the pandemic.\n\nJonathan Harrison of the Association of Cycle Traders told the BBC that \"there had been an uplift in sales across the board, with larger retailers also reporting more 'entry-level' bikes going.\"\n\nHowever, he pointed out that with more consumers staying in due to the new government restrictions, \"it's difficult to know whether or not that trend will continue.\"", "A Scottish diplomat has died in Hungary after contracting coronavirus.\n\nSteven Dick, 37, served as the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest.\n\nHe died on Tuesday, the Foreign Office confirmed. It is not known whether Mr Dick had any underlying medical problems.\n\nHis parents, Steven and Carol Dick, said their son was \"kind, funny and generous\" and he was very happy representing the UK overseas.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was \"desperately saddened\" by the news of Mr Dick's death.\n\n\"Steven was a dedicated diplomat and represented his country with great skill and passion,\" he added.\n\n\"He will be missed by all those who knew him and worked with him.\"\n\nMr Dick's parents said he was a much-loved son, grandson and nephew.\n\n\"It was always his dream to work for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and he was very happy representing our country overseas,\" they said.\n\nThe UK Ambassador to Hungary, Iain Lindsay, said he had worked with Mr Dick since last October.\n\nHe said his team and their families were saddened and shocked by his death.\n\n\"Steven was a dear colleague and friend who had made a tremendous impression in Hungary since his arrival last October with his personal warmth and his sheer professionalism, not least his excellent Hungarian,\" he said.\n\n\"As our fellow Scot Robert Burns, whose works we had recently recited together, wrote 'Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd.' We will miss him so much.\"\n\nSir Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at the FCO, said it was \"simply shattering news\"\n\n\"He was just starting out on what was sure to be an outstanding career and his friends around the world and across the FCO will miss him sorely,\" he said.\n\nBefore taking up his post in Hungary, Mr Dick had roles at the British Embassies in Kabul and Riyadh, and was most recently head of corporate strategy and governance at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\n\nHe started his career as a graduate trainee with the Bank of Scotland.", "That's all from us after another busy day covering the coronavirus outbreak in Wales.\n\nStay safe and join us again on Thursday when we will be continuing our coverage.\n\nWe leave you with a helpful video about why we touch our face - and how to stop.\n\nVideo caption: Coronavirus: Why we touch our faces and how to stop it Coronavirus: Why we touch our faces and how to stop it", "That's it for now for our coverage of the coronavirus crisis in Wales on Thursday.\n\nHere are the main points from today:\n• The UK's death toll rose by more than 100 to 578\n• In Wales it rose by six to 28\n• Fines of up to £120 came into force for breaking stay-home rules\n• Nurses' waits for safety equipment was branded \"intolerable\" by their union\n\nThere'll be more live updates from us on Friday morning.", "The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time.\n\nThe death toll has risen from 475 to 578, health officials have confirmed, with 11,658 confirmed cases.\n\nThe latest figures came after Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled an aid programme to help the self-employed.\n\nPeople across the UK have taken part in a national applause of thanks for NHS workers and carers helping in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nThe Queen said the UK was \"enormously thankful\" for the commitment of all those working in science, health and the emergency and public services.\n\nIn a message on Instagram, she said: \"We are enormously thankful for the expertise and commitment of our scientists, medical practitioners and emergency and public services.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThursday saw a change in the way NHS England and the Department of Health are reporting deaths.\n\nThe latest figures are for a 24-hour period, but Wednesday's were not - they were only for eight hours - from 0900 to 1700 on Tuesday 24 March.\n\nThursday's figures are for a full 24-hour period, from 1700 on Tuesday 24 March to 1700 on Wednesday 25 March.\n\nSo Wednesday's rise of 28 reported deaths and the 107 reported deaths on Thursday cannot be directly compared.\n\nEarlier, a senior hospital figure warned that London hospitals are facing a \"tsunami\" of coronavirus cases and are beginning to run out of intensive care beds.\n\nChris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said while critical care capacity had been expanded hospitals in the capital had seen an \"explosion\" in demand.\n\nA third of the UK cases have been diagnosed in the city.\n\nMeanwhile, in a further development, data collected via the NHS's 111 telephone service is to be mixed with other sources to help predict where ventilators, hospital beds and medical staff will be most in need.\n\nThe goal is to help health chiefs model the consequences of moving resources to best tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\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\nMinisters are being urged to step up testing for coronavirus, especially among health workers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries was asked on Thursday why the UK did not order testing kits sooner.\n\nShe said that \"this is not an issue of a lack of foresight in planning, it is an unprecedented event\".\n\nDr Harries added that \"it is a brand new virus, so even to understand how you might test it you need to have the virus and understand a little bit about it before you can start\".\n\nIt was just a brief moment in the daily press briefing, but deputy chief medical officer for England Dr Jenny Harries did offer some positive news.\n\nShe said the coronavirus outbreak was \"starting to move in the right direction\".\n\nOther countries who have been on a steep curve have seen the number of new cases rise by a third every day.\n\nBut the UK trajectory is nowhere near that steep.\n\nFive days ago 1,000 new cases were reported. On Thursday 2,000 were.\n\nThat may seem alarming, but if we had been on a steep upwards path today's figures would have been twice as high. It suggests some of the early social distancing measures taken before the lockdown have maybe started to have an impact.\n\nWe should be cautious. It is only a few days' worth of data - and Dr Harries was clear we must not take \"our foot off the pedal\".\n\nAnnouncing his help for the self-employed, the chancellor said the steps the government had taken so far were \"making a difference\" but it was right to go further \"in the economic fight against the coronavirus\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chris Fox gets hands on with Huawei's P40 Pro\n\nHuawei has launched a range of new flagship smartphones despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe firm unveiled the P40 phones a day after the firm's founder announced that 90% of the company's 150,000 China-based employees had returned to work.\n\nBut experts say demand for the handsets will likely be weak outside of its home market, at least in the short-term.\n\nThey say many consumers and businesses are focused on buying laptops, PCs and tablets if they are spending at all.\n\nThe new phones lack Google's apps or access to its software store\n\n\"Smartphones are not a priority and certainly not premium ones,\" commented Marta Pinto from market research firm IDC.\n\n\"People's consumption confidence is falling because they are more concerned about buying things like groceries and whether they will keep their jobs.\n\n\"Even if you are still buying, because you're working from home, you'll probably purchase a laptop and monitor. Or because kids need to go to school online, you might buy them a tablet or Chromebook.\"\n\nRen Zhengfei said strong smartphone sales in China had helped offset weaker demand elsewhere\n\nThe new handsets were unveiled via a livestreamed video feed rather than at one of the big-budget events Huawei typically hosts.\n\nUnlike last year's models, the P40 phones lack Google services - including its YouTube, Maps and Play Store apps, and the Google Assistant - because of a US trade ban.\n\nThat makes them a difficult sale outside of China, where Android phones come preinstalled with alternatives.\n\nHuawei said the phones had been designed to feel comfortable in the hand\n\nBut as a result, one company-watcher suggested that the firm might actually be in a better place to deal with the consequences of Covid-19 than its rivals.\n\n\"Huawei was already pretty much locked out of markets outside of China, and had factored in a pretty tough trading environment for the next year or two,\" explained Ben Wood from CCS Insight.\n\n\"So, it is other phone-makers that have a bigger shock to deal with. LG and Sony's smartphone divisions, in particular, were already sub-scale and may not survive.\n\n\"And don't forget, that the majority of Huawei's sales are still coming from its home market in China, where it's been selling over 40 million units on a quarterly basis. And that market is recovering faster than others having already endured coronavirus and seems to be coming out the other side.\"\n\nHuawei remains the world's second bestselling handset-maker, but had once aimed to overtake Samsung before the end of 2019.\n\nFounder Ren Zhengfei told the Wall Street Journal that his firm now planned to boost its wider research and development budget by $5.8bn (£4.8bn) this year, taking it to more than $20bn. And part of that is being spent on building up its own library of apps.\n\n\"In markets outside of China, we don't see significant [smartphone] growth,\" he added.\n\n\"We are taking measures to address that.\"\n\nThere are three versions of the new phones: the standard P40, with a 6.1in screen, and a larger mid-range P40 Pro and high-end Pro+, which both have 6.58in displays. That makes then slightly bigger than Apple's iPhone 11 Pro Max.\n\nThe top two models have several rear cameras and a depth sensor\n\nAll support 5G. The basic model has three rear cameras, including one that is capable of a 3x optical zoom - meaning users can tighten in on the subject without sacrificing quality.\n\nThe P40 Pro adds a time-of-flight depth sensor and upgrades the telephoto lens to a periscope design, allowing light to be reflected into the device to deliver a 5x optical zoom.\n\nAnd the Pro+ betters this with a 10x optical zoom periscope lens. If a digital effect is employed, the Pro+ can achieve 100x zoom. This matches Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra - but Huawei claims to produce a better shot.\n\nHuawei also said its phones featured bigger camera sensors than those found in either the Galaxy S20 series or iPhone 11 range, giving it an advantage in low-light situations when the owner does not want to use the flash.\n\nThe Huawei App Gallery includes TikTok, Telegram, Viber, and Microsoft Office among other products. But beyond Google's apps, it is also missing Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp.\n\nTo help make up for the loss of YouTube, the firm has created its own Huawei Video app.\n\nIt has signed a deal with BBC Studios to provide access to 300 hours of content.\n\nHuawei Video will include BBC drama, comedy and factual TV shows in 26 countries outside the UK.\n\nAnd to replace the Duo video chat app, it offers MeeTime, which it claims offers superior performance in low-light conditions.\n\n\"The design of the devices is superb - they are very sleek,\" commented Ms Pinto.\n\n\"And it's clever that they've been able to bring more stability to the ultra-zoom lens than Samsung did with its S20 Ultra, assuming the P40 Pro+ lives up to its promise.\n\n\"But it remains a hard sell, because would you actually want to use something like MeeTime rather than WhatsApp?\"\n\nThe P40 and P40 Pro go on sale on 7 April, and start from €799 (£742, $890) and €999 respectively, The P40 Pro+ will be released in June, and is priced at €1,399.", "This video can not be played.", "The government says a communications mix-up meant it missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to get extra ventilators for the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMinisters were earlier accused of putting Brexit before public health when Downing Street said the UK had decided to pursue its own scheme.\n\nBut No 10 now says officials did not get emails inviting the UK to join and it could join future schemes.\n\nLabour is demanding to know why the government had changed its message.\n\nThe party's shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Given the huge need for PPE, testing capacity and crucial medical equipment including ventilators, people will want to know why on Monday ministers were saying they had 'chosen other routes' over the joint EU procurement initiatives but now they are claiming that they missed the relevant emails.\n\n\"We need an urgent explanation from ministers about how they will get crucial supplies to the frontline as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nHe has said the UK \"should be co-operating through international schemes to ensure we get these desperately needed pieces of kit\".\n\nThe EU has said the UK can take part in the procurement project, which will use the EU's buying power to purchase more stock, even though it is no longer a member of the bloc.\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, Downing Street said the UK would not be joining the scheme because \"we are no longer members of the EU\".\n\nThe spokesman added: “We are conducting our own work on ventilators and we’ve had a very strong response from business, and we’ve also procured ventilators from the private sector in the UK and from international manufacturers.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman denied the decision was motivated by Brexit, adding: \"This is an area where we’re making our own efforts.”\n\nThe government faced a backlash from opposition MPs following the statement, with Liberal Democrat Layla Moran accusing the prime minister of putting \"Brexit over breathing\".\n\nDowning Street has now issued a statement saying the UK had missed the deadline for the first round of procurements.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As the (European) Commission has confirmed, we are eligible to participate in joint procurements during the transition period, following our departure from the EU earlier this year.\n\n\"As those four initial procurement schemes had already gone out to tender we were unable to take part in these, but we will consider participating in future procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time.\"\n\nThe UK currently has 8,000 ventilators available and has placed orders for another 8,000 from existing manufacturers, but there are concerns about capacity in hospitals as the spread of the virus worsens.\n\nLast week, the government put out a call for other British businesses to convert their factories to make the equipment, and has since signed a contract for 10,000 ventilators with Dyson.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's spokesman confirmed the ventilators still needed to go through standards checks and would not be bought and distributed until that happened.\n\nThe EU scheme will use the bloc's joint procurement agreement, which helps member states get the medical supplies it needs to tackle cross-border pandemics.\n\nIt has also created a stockpile of medical equipment - 90% of it financed by the European Commission - to help EU countries.", "Initially, the bot failed to respond to some users and they had to say 'hi' again\n\nA Covid-19 WhatsApp bot set up by the UK government is finally working after problems during launch on Wednesday.\n\nMembers of the public who message the bot can access pre-determined chunks of advice on symptoms or how to avoid spreading the disease, for example.\n\nBut it failed to work for some users after its launch, providing nothing more than an error message.\n\nHowever, the BBC has verified that the bot, which also warns about coronavirus myths, is now working as intended.\n\nOne of those who encountered initial teething problems, Hashir Milhan, says all seems to be resolved.\n\n“I tried sending the opening ‘hi’ message with no response,” London-based designer Mr Milhan told the BBC.\n\nHe said the bot did respond later – but only to send him an error message.\n\nBut on Thursday, he was able to access the information without problems.\n\nHe noted that the information was generally available online but added: “It’s reassuring that this comes from a verified account.”\n\nThe government said the service was designed to allow members of the public to \"get answers to the most common questions about coronavirus\".\n\nBut Mr Milhan said he had hoped the bot would be able to engage in and understand conversations, in order to respond to queries people might have on the spot.\n\nTo start receiving messages, users should send “hi” via WhatsApp to the number 07860 064422. International users can use +44 7860 064 422.\n\nThe UK government does not have an official emergency alert system with which to contact citizens directly during a crisis.\n\nHowever, authorities are distributing information through various channels, including websites and social media, as well as the new WhatsApp bot.\n\nTelecoms firms were also asked to send out an alert to all customers via text message this week, stating that people must now stay at home as much as possible.\n\nThe texts have rolled out gradually to users and scammers have already tried to take advantage of the situation.\n\nSome have sent fake messages accusing individuals of leaving their homes more than once a day - the limit set by the government - and telling them they are now liable to pay a fine.\n\nNumber 10 said people should trust only the official message.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Sunak to unveil financial aid for self-employed", "Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got engaged in Italy last year\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Princess Beatrice is \"reviewing\" her wedding plans over the coronavirus pandemic, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman has said.\n\nShe was due to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29, with the Queen hosting their reception at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe reception has been cancelled and they will consider government advice before deciding whether to hold a smaller ceremony.\n\nThe couple wished to avoid \"unnecessary risks\", the spokeswoman added.\n\nThey are \"particularly conscious\" of government advice in relation to both \"the wellbeing of older family members and large gatherings of people\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, had been due to host the private reception in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt is not known whether the Queen, or her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, will attend the ceremony, which is due to take place at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace, in London.\n\nIt is not the first time doubts have been cast over plans for the couple's nuptials, with newspapers reporting concerns that travel restrictions may stop some wedding guests flying in from overseas.\n\nThat includes the family of Mr Mapelli Mozzi, 37, who hails from the Lombardy region of northern Italy.\n\nItaly has registered the most cases outside China at more than 31,500, and announced another surge in deaths on Tuesday, from 2,150 to 2,503. The country remains in lockdown.\n\nThe couple announced their wedding date back in February ending weeks of speculation following the scandal over Beatrice's father Prince Andrew's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince has retired from royal duties for the foreseeable future.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Princess Beatrice and Mr Mapelli Mozzi are very much looking forward to getting married but are equally aware of the need to avoid undertaking any unnecessary risks in the current circumstances.\n\n\"In line with government advice for the UK and beyond, the couple are reviewing their arrangements for 29th May.\n\n\"The couple will carefully consider government advice before deciding whether a private marriage might take place amongst a small group of family and friends.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nThe government has unveiled a package of financial measures to shore up the economy against the coronavirus impact.\n\nIt includes £330bn in loans, £20bn in other aid, a business rates holiday, and grants for retailers and pubs. Help for airlines is also being considered.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told a press conference it was an \"economic emergency. Never in peacetime have we faced an economic fight like this one.\"\n\nAnd he promised that if this package was not enough, he would go further.\n\nFrom the hospitality industry to the airline sector, companies have warned that their long term survival is under threat.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This is not a time for ideology and orthodoxy, this is a time to be bold, a time for courage. I want to reassure every British citizen this government will give you all the tools you need to get through this.\n\n\"That means any business who needs access to cash to pay their rent, their salaries, suppliers or purchase stock will be able to access a government-backed loan or credit on attractive terms.\n\n\"And if demand is greater than the initial £330bn [for loans] I'm making available today, I will go further and provide as much capacity as required. I said whatever it takes, and I meant it,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said during the same media briefing that \"we must do whatever it takes to support the economy\". He added: \"This a time to be bold, to have courage. We will support jobs, we will support incomes, we will support businesses... We will do whatever it takes.\"\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Some sectors are facing particularly acute challenges. In the coming days, my colleague the Secretary of State for Transport and I will discuss a potential support package specifically for airlines and airports.\"\n\nThe chancellor said he was extending the business rates holiday to all firms in the hospitality sector and funding grants of between £10,000 and £25,000 for small businesses. And Mr Sunak said that for those in financial difficulty due to coronavirus, mortgage lenders will offer a three-month mortgage holiday.\n\nBBC personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz said it was important for borrowers to remember that they would have to make up the payments at a later date.\n\n\"The result is that you have some breathing space but when you resume payments the amount will be adjusted to be slightly higher, because the missed interest payments have been added to the loan,\" he said. \"This doesn't mean the mortgage holiday is a bad idea.\"\n\nThe chancellor unveiled the measures after the government's chief scientific adviser said about 55,000 people in the UK now have Covid-19, as the NHS moved to cancel all non-emergency surgery and 71 people are now known to have died.\n\n\"Whatever it takes\" was the promise from the chancellor to support businesses, families and individuals through the coronavirus crisis. It was a phrase successfully used by a European central banker eight years ago - and effectively calmed a significant eurozone crisis.\n\nBut this intervention is a bigger bazooka than that, because the challenge of coronavirus and the measures to contain it pose to peoples livelihoods and wellbeing are more significant.\n\nThe extraordinary figure here was £330bn in state-backed loans for all businesses through the banking system with the help of the Bank of England.\n\nThat is 15% of the value of the economy. Normally economic announcements are worth a fraction of a percent of national income - this move is about a fraction of our entire GDP. And that is because the self-isolation and suppression moves announced yesterday will remove a chunk of our economy.\n\nAt a stroke, every single forecast number in the Budget the chancellor gave less than a week ago are out of date. We are in an entirely new world. A wartime effort, with wartime deficits to cover it.\n\nIt's not just there will be less tax and more income support required, which typically causes deficits to spike in recessions. Now we face the need for subsidy and provision of incomes in these very tough times.\n\nThis is not a bailout. It's a very expensive bridge that the government cannot afford to fail to build.\n\nCompanies and trade bodies welcomed the announcement, but said they needed to work through the fine print. Like several sectors, the aviation industry has warned it is in a fight for survival as travel bans are put in place and travellers delays bookings.\n\nJohan Lundgren, chief executive of Easyjet, said Mr Sunak's measure were welcome, but added: \"Airlines are facing significant pressure and without government action there is a real risk to the industry. It will be important to work through the detail, but we are already talking to government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak annouces a three-month mortgage holiday \"to help people get back on their feet\"\n\nRetailers, too, have warned the future looks grim without help. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said the new measures would help ease the burden.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: \"The business rates holiday, together with the announcement of a loan package, represent a vital shot in the arm for a sector facing enormous uncertainty. We still need to see the details and make sure that retailers can access cash with the minimum of delay, but it is a welcome and necessary first step to protect jobs.\n\nAdam Marshall, chief executive of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the size of the grants and loans were good news for smaller businesses. \"But what's going to be hugely important . is that cash actually gets to the front line and gets there quickly,\" he said.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said the business rates holiday was targeted directly at the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. But he warned: \"This is a substantial level of support. However, it is probably not well targeted at saving jobs in those industries. It will remain as expensive to pay people and if demand is down then jobs are likely to go.\"\n\nHe said it may be necessary to cut employer national insurance contributions, delay increases to the National Living Wage, and increase support for individuals through Universal Credit.\n\nHas your business been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK's mobile networks have experienced problems with their services.\n\nEE told the BBC it was something \"affecting all operators and we are working closely to fix it\".\n\nThe problem has been blamed on \"interconnect issues\" between the operators.\n\n\"We don't believe it is connected to the rise in home working [due to the coronavirus],\" added EE.\n\nO2 had posted on its website that some customers were experiencing issues with its voice service but added that a full service was being restored. The alert has since been removed.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, O2 said the problem meant that O2, Vodafone and Three customers were unable to connect to EE – and EE customers were unable to connect to O2, Vodafone and Three.\n\nIt added that the issues were limited to making and receiving calls on its 2G, 3G and 4G networks, while data and messaging services were not affected.\n\nO2 also denied that the problem stemmed from its network, which had initially been blamed, saying it was a \"cross-industry issue\".\n\n\"At a time when the country needs connectivity most, it is important we work together rather than pointing fingers before facts have been determined,\" it said.\n\nThe firm added that a conference call had been scheduled with the communications regulator Ofcom to help determine the exact cause and \"ensure this doesn't happen again\".\n\nVodafone said that it was a \"short-lived problem\" only affecting around 9% of voice calls on 3G networks.\n\n\"All operators are working together on the matter,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nDowndetector, a website which monitors network problems, had shown issues for all four operators in a range of locations, including Birmingham, London, Manchester and Glasgow.\n\nAre you working from home? Have you encountered problems with your mobile network? You can get in touch by email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Prime Minister's Questions has taken place in a half-empty House of Commons, after Labour and the Conservatives told MPs not scheduled to raise a query with Boris Johnson to stay away.\n\nAmid fears over coronavirus spreading at Westminster, the government asked politicians \"respectfully\" to \"adhere to this advice\".\n\nLabour urged its MPs to stay away in order to avoid \"crowding\".\n\nFar fewer than normal from all parties attended the session.\n\nAmid a subdued atmosphere, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle promised to ensure \"maximum safety\" for politicians and Palace of Westminster staff.\n\nHe added: \"We are all doing our best to keep Parliament sitting and to follow Public Health England guidance.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn praised MPs' \"very sensible approach, sitting apart to stop cross-fertilising\" a \"horrible disease\".\n\nThere has been much speculation in recent days that Parliament will close as the coronavirus crisis worsens, but there are currently no plans to do so.\n\nOn Monday, Sir Lindsay said there would be no access to the public gallery, and non-essential access would be stopped.\n\nSeveral MPs have self-isolated, while Health Minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nConservative Michael Fabricant tweeted that Westminster was a \"major hotspot for #covid19UK\".\n\nHe added: \"Yesterday, a colleague suddenly sneezed in the House of Commons Chamber before he could catch it in his hands, let alone a tissue. I'll watch #PMQs from my office!\"\n\nThe bird's eye view of the Commons showed space on the green benches\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman raised concern over \"packed back benches\" and a \"bustling tea room\" at Westminster, while the public was being urged to work from home and avoid pubs and restaurants.\n\nHouse of Lords Speaker Lord Fowler said: \"Parliament will continue to sit. That is important. But the way we operate will have to change.\"", "It won't just be the elderly who are asked to stay at home for 12 weeks as part of the government's coronavirus strategy.\n\nThousands of younger people with serious lung or heart problems will also be among them.\n\nAdam Divall, from Bracknell, has begun his three-month isolation.\n\nThe IT engineer had a lung transplant which resulted in other health issues.\n\nThat means he’s in the highest risk category for COVID-19. After taking precautions, he’s been talking to reporter Ben Moore.", "Online shopping delivery service Ocado has suspended its online food delivery service, blaming higher demand than it can meet.\n\nOcado said existing customers with orders would still receive them.\n\nMeanwhile, supermarkets have introduced strict limits on how many goods people can buy to try to curb stockpiling as the coronavirus pandemic escalates.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's and Asda will now stop shoppers buying more than three of any particular food item.\n\nSainsbury's has also said it will prioritise vulnerable and elderly people for online deliveries.\n\nOcado said it was experiencing \"a simply staggering amount of traffic\" to its website and more demand for products and deliveries than it could meet.\n\n\"This temporary closure will allow us to complete essential work that will help to make sure distribution of products and delivery slots is as fair and accessible as possible for all our loyal customers,\" it added.\n\nAsda and Sainsbury's buying restrictions will also apply to cleaning and toiletry products, while Tesco's limits will apply to all products.\n\n\"If you could help us by limiting demand of essential items and allowing us to focus on the core needs of our customers - we are confident that we can continue to feed the nation,\" said Tesco.\n\nAsda said it had seen \"a heightened demand\" for products both in stores and online.\n\n\"We have plenty of products to go around, but we have a responsibility to do the right thing for our communities to help our customers look after their loved ones in a time of need,\" it added.\n\nAsda told the BBC that cashiers and customers using self-checkout would not be able to scan more than three of the same restricted items. Sainsbury's said it was updating its tills to reflect the limits.\n\nAldi has already introduced limits of four items per shopper on all products, while Morrisons has said it will expand its online delivery service.\n\nConsumers left shelves empty in one London Sainsbury's store as stockpiling continues\n\nOther retailers including Tesco and Boots have set limits on particularly popular products such as pasta, tissues and hand sanitiser.\n\nBoots chief executive Sebastian James said the issue was not supply, but demand.\n\n\"No supply chain can survive a sudden, unexpected global ten-fold increase in demand. And what we thought was incredibly important was that as many people as possible could get what they actually needed,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nSupermarkets' online delivery services have also been overwhelmed by the surge in demand. Before Ocado suspended its whole service it had taken down its app due to the spike in orders.\n\nOthers meanwhile vented their frustration on Twitter at being one of thousands in a virtual queue to place a food order.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gemma Brown MCMI MCIM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 businesses have also announced new measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, including:\n\nSupermarket chain Sainsbury's already had a two-item limit on its most popular goods, including toilet paper, soap and long-life milk. From 23 March, it said disabled customers and those over 70 will be given priority for online delivery slots.\n\nAnd on 19 March the first hour of shopping will be dedicated to older and vulnerable people in its 600 UK stores.\n\nThe chain follows other supermarkets in introducing reserved time slots for the elderly. They include Iceland outlets across the country and all 39 Lidl stores in Northern Ireland.\n\nSainsbury's told the BBC that it would consider future dedicated shopping hours \"in line with government guidance\", after the one-off on Thursday.\n\nShoppers have been emptying shelves around the UK during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe added it was \"focusing all of our efforts on getting as much food and other essential items from our suppliers, into our warehouses and onto shelves as we possibly can.\n\n\"We still have enough food for everyone - if we all just buy what we need for us and our families.\"\n\nMr Coupe confirmed that it was closing its cafes as well as its fish, pizza and meat counters to free up more staff to work on \"keeping the shelves as well stocked as possible.\"\n\nAsda will also temporarily shut down its \"non-essential\" services including its rotisserie and pizza counters to free up its workers and space in its warehouses.\n\nThe announcements came as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps signed off a temporary relaxation of drivers' hours rules to deliver goods to stores around the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Department for Transport statement said the rule change applies only to drivers supplying food and \"essential products to supermarkets\".\n\nSainsbury's competitor Morrisons said on Tuesday it is creating 3,500 jobs to meet surging demand for its home delivery service caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe chain said it would be recruiting 2,500 pickers and drivers and hiring about 1,000 people to work in distribution centres.\n\nIn its preliminary results for the week ending 2 February, its chief executive David Potts said retailers were \"facing unprecedented challenges\" when dealing with Covid-19.\n\nDespite the increased uncertainty, it said it had seen sales increase in recent weeks due to customers stockpiling.", "University of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nThe killer of British backpacker Grace Millane has begun the process of appealing against his murder conviction and jail sentence, his barrister said.\n\nAuckland-based Rachael Reed QC confirmed that an appeal had been filed in the New Zealand Court of Appeal.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who cannot be named, was jailed for at least 17 years for the murder last month.\n\nHe strangled Ms Millane in a hotel in Auckland, hid her body in a suitcase and buried it in bushland.\n\nThe man claimed the 21-year-old had died accidentally after the pair engaged in rough sex that went too far.\n\nA jury in November rejected that argument and found the man guilty.\n\nThe killer's identity is suppressed under New Zealand law\n\nMurder typically comes with a life sentence in New Zealand. Prosecutors successfully argued that the man must serve 17 years before becoming eligible for parole.\n\nLawyers Ian Brookie and Ron Mansfield who led the defence during his trial, had asked for their then-client to serve 12 years, later indicating he would appeal.\n\nIn sentencing, Justice Simon Moore told the defendant his actions amounted to \"conduct that underscores a lack of empathy and sense of self-entitlement and objectification\".\n\nAfter the sentencing, Grace's mother Gillian Millane, spoke to the court via a video-link and told the man: \"Grace wasn't just my daughter. She was my friend. My very best friend.\n\n\"I am absolutely heartbroken that you have taken my daughter's future and robbed us of so many memories that we were going to create.\"\n\nDet Insp Scott Beard of Auckland City Police said the death was \"senseless and needless\".\n\nMs Millane was last seen alive on the eve of her 22nd birthday\n\nMs Millane, from Wickford in Essex, met her killer on a dating app while travelling in Auckland in December 2018.\n\nThe pair spent the evening drinking before returning to the man's room in the CityLife hotel in central Auckland where he killed her.\n\nHe then disposed of her body by burying it in a suitcase in the Waitākere Ranges, a mountainous area outside the city.\n\nHe was found guilty of murder last year.", "In the UK the official advice if you suspect you have coronavirus, have been in contact with someone who has it, or have been to a place where there are a lot of cases of the virus, is to self-isolate.\n\nBut what does that actually mean and what's the right way to do it?\n\nThe BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains the top five methods to successfully self-isolate.", "A group of artists called the Dazzle Club paint their faces for monthly walks to protest against surveillance in London.\n\nFacial recognition cameras were rolled out by the Metropolitan Police for the first time in early 2020 and have been trialled in other places around the UK.\n\nThe Met said it would not comment on whether the make-up technique works but said the facial recognition technology was helping officers track down wanted suspects.\n\nDue to the coronavirus outbreak, March's walk has been turned into a live stream of readings, songs and discussion.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has always denied the charges against her\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released from prison in Iran because of the coronavirus outbreak, her husband says.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker will be required to wear an ankle tag and remain within 300m (984ft) of her parents' home in Tehran.\n\n“The issue now is to make it permanent,” her husband Richard Ratcliffe said.\n\nHe added: “It is hard to relax just yet.”\n\nIran has temporarily released tens of thousands of prisoners in recent weeks in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOn Tuesday, it said it had released about 85,000 prisoners who had tested negative for the virus and had posted bail.\n\nThere had been reports that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be released earlier this month, but she was kept in detention.\n\nThe 41-year-old from London was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of espionage charges that she has always denied. The UK has also insisted she is innocent.\n\nShe was arrested at Tehran airport after visiting her family on holiday. She insists the visit was to introduce her daughter Gabriella to her relatives.\n\nWhat has the reaction been?\n\n\"I am relieved that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was today temporarily released into the care of her family in Iran,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n“We urge the regime to ensure she receives any necessary medical care,” he added.\n\n“My feelings today have been all of a mix – pleased at the happiness for Nazanin and Gabriella, but fear this is a new drawn out game of chess,” Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\n“It is one feeling to walk out of prison. It is completely different to walk back in. No-one should be asked to go and be a hostage again. So we are watching carefully,” he said.\n\nIn a statement released through the Free Nazanin campaign, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she was “so happy to be out”.\n\n“Even with the ankle tag, I am so happy,” she said. “Being out is so much better than being in - if you knew what hell this place is. It is mental. Let us hope it will be the beginning of coming home.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Ratcliffe urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be tougher with Iran. He said there had been “no breakthrough” in efforts to secure her permanent release.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he would leave \"no stone unturned\" to help free Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he pushed the PM to be \"brave\" with regards to Iran\n\nThe charity worker remains on medication for depression and on beta blockers - medicines which slow down the heart - for the panic attacks she's been suffering in jail, her husband said at the time.\n\nHer family and the UK government has always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nWhile he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson mistakenly said that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists when she was arrested.\n\nShe has always maintained she was in Iran visiting relatives.", "Preparations for an independence referendum have been put on hold\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed it is no longer planning to hold an independence referendum this year.\n\nConstitution Secretary Mike Russell said the plans had been \"paused\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the move would allow the government to focus all of its resources on the health crisis.\n\nIn a letter to the UK government, he said: \"It follows from this that a referendum will not be held this year.\"\n\nMr Russell urged the UK government to place a similar pause on the EU/UK negotiations in the Brexit process.\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\nScottish Conservative shadow constitution secretary Murdo Fraser said putting the referendum preparations on hold was welcome news and would \"come as a relief to workers and businesses alike\".\n\nThe letter, which was sent to UK cabinet minister Michael Gove, said: \"Because of the crisis, the Scottish government has paused work on preparing for an independence referendum this year.\n\n\"We have also written to the Electoral Commission to make clear we do not expect it to undertake testing of a referendum question until public health circumstances permit such activity.\n\n\"That will allow us to focus all available resource on current and future demands in what is an unprecedented set of circumstances.\n\n\"It follows from this that a referendum will not be held this year.\"\n\nMr Russell went on to \"strongly suggest\" that the UK government takes similar action with regard to the Brexit process by pausing negotiations with the UK for at least six months.\n\nHe said: \"It would seem impossible for business and others to cope with the enormous challenge of coronavirus while at the same time preparing for a completely new relationship with the EU in nine months' time.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie commended Mr Russell for \"a very sensible decision in the face of this overwhelming crisis facing us all\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens said it was right that the Scottish government prioritised its resources to deal with the public health crisis that we all face.\n\nEarlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged SNP activists to stop campaigning during the coronavirus outbreak, and to instead \"focus on looking out for your family, friends and neighbours\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson had already ruled out granting the formal consent that Ms Sturgeon said would be needed to ensure any referendum would be legal.\n\nMs Sturgeon had also made clear she would not hold an unofficial vote similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nMany senior SNP figures had privately admitted there was little chance of a vote being held before next year's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nBut as recently as 9 March, the SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, told the National newspaper that \"all of our efforts\" were aimed at holding a referendum this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Secretary to the Treasury announced measures to help workers affected by coronavirus disruptions\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he supports sending money directly to Americans as part of a $1tn (£830bn) stimulus aimed at averting an economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.\n\n\"We're looking at sending cheques to Americans immediately,\" he said.\n\nThe $250bn (£207bn) in cheques are part of a huge aid package which the White House is discussing with Congress.\n\nIt follows widespread school and shop closures as the number of coronavirus cases in the US approached 6,000.\n\nThe US has been debating how to provide relief as activity grinds to a halt in response to curfews and other measures intended to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nDetails such as the size of the cheques, and who would qualify for them, are still under discussion.\n\nA $1tn aid package - roughly the size of the entire UK budget - would be larger than the US response to the 2008 financial crisis, amounting to nearly a quarter of what the US federal government spent last year.\n\nIn addition to the $250bn in cheques for families, the plan includes a bailout for airlines and hotels, among other measures. The proposal must be approved by Congress to move forward.\n\nWall Street rebounded sharply on Tuesday after the plan was announced, though not nearly enough to make up for the previous day's heavy losses.\n\nSeparate from the $1tn package, Mr Mnuchin said the government would also allow companies and individuals to delay their tax payments for 90 days.\n\n\"We look forward to having bipartisan support to pass this legislation very quickly,\" he said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump initially proposed a payroll tax cut, which would reduce the money the government automatically withholds from worker pay to pay for social programmes.\n\nHowever, critics said that relief would come too slowly and leave out those without jobs. Several high-profile economists had urged more direct assistance, including $1,000 payments, winning support from lawmakers such as Republican Senator Mitt Romney.\n\nMr Trump said he had come round to the view that faster, more direct relief is necessary.\n\n\"With this invisible enemy, we don't want people losing their jobs and not having money to live,\" Mr Trump said, adding that he wanted to target the relief to those who need it.\n\nMr Mnuchin said he hoped to send the cheques within two weeks.\n\n\"Americans need cash now and the president wants to give cash now and I mean now, in the next two weeks.\"\n\nJason Furman, an economist at Harvard University who had championed the idea, wrote on Twitter that he was thrilled to see it gain traction.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier, he said direct payments would help, even with so many shops closed for business.\n\n\"It would enable people to not work, if that's what they need to do. It will prevent some people from not making their rent payments,\" said Mr Furman, who served as a top economic adviser under former President Barack Obama.\n\n\"There are a lot of ways to spend money that don't involve going out.\"\n\nBut economist Gabriel Zucman, a professor at the University of California who has advised Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, said the government should prioritise help to businesses if it wants to avoid mass layoffs and company failures.\n\n\"What the US needs is massive support to small businesses to cover wages and maintenance costs during shutdown,\" he said, adding that lawmakers could opt to do both.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Zucman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe White House push for relief comes as Republicans and Democrats in Congress remain divided about what help is necessary.\n\nIt follows actions by the Federal Reserve to ease financial strains.\n\nThe bank on Tuesday said it will use emergency powers to purchase up to $1tr in short-term corporate debt directly from companies, reinstating a funding facility that was created during the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIt is also offering another $500bn in overnight loans to banks. It has previously enacted two emergency rate cuts, and other stimulus measures.\n\nUS markets rallied about 6% following Tuesday's announcements after steep falls a day earlier. They have been in turmoil for weeks, as investors respond to the likelihood that the coronavirus will cause a sharp contraction in the US economy in coming months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is the calm before the storm, before the surge'\n\nLeo Varadkar has said that the elderly and people who have a long-term illness may have to stay at home for several weeks.\n\nThe Taoiseach (prime minister) said that the Republic of Ireland is putting in place systems that people in this category will have food supplies and are checked on.\n\nMr Vardkar said this is known as cocooning.\n\nHe added: \"This is the calm before the storm, before the surge.\"\n\nThe total number of coronavirus cases in the Republic of Ireland has now reached 292.\n\nThis represents a rise of 69 new confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health said the cases announced on Tuesday are made up of 29 males and 40 females\n\nTwo people have died from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said the country would be dealing with the emergency for months to come.\n\nThe Health Service Executive in the Republic has said it is now \"working rapidly to identify any contacts the patients may have had, to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread\".\n\nDr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, said: \"Co-operation across the health service has never been more important and I would like to thank our colleagues in their ongoing efforts to help us to prepare for and limit the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the Irish cabinet signed off on a number of measures that would allow people to be detained on foot of a medical recommendation if they have Covid-19 and refuse to self-isolate.\n\nThe measures will also give the Irish government the legal power to shut down mass gatherings.\n\nThey are to go before the Dáil (Irish parliament) on Thursday.\n\nRTÉ reports that the legislation will also enable special welfare payments for those who cannot work as a result of Covid-19.\n\nA full-time Public Order Unit is being established by gardaí (Irish police) in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIt is to be tasked with patrolling key public order risk locations, the protection of life and property, the maintenance of law and order, emergency response as well as dealing with any protests or public order issues.\n\nThe number of positive coronavirus cases in Northern Ireland now stands at 62 - a rise of 10 from Monday.\n\nThe total number of tests completed is 1,338.\n• None Second coronavirus death in Republic of Ireland", "Sorry, this episode is not currently available", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister spoke about why the decision to close schools was taken\n\nSchools in the UK are to shut from Friday until further notice as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable children, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThis academic year's exams will not go ahead in England and Wales; decisions are due to be made in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt came as UK deaths reached 104 after a further 33 people died.\n\nThirty-two were in England and one in Scotland.\n\nConfirmed cases in the UK rose to 2,626 on Wednesday, from 1,950 on Tuesday. There have been 56,221 tests carried out in the UK for Covid-19, of which 53,595 were confirmed negative.\n\nThe government says it plans to more than double the number of tests being carried out in England to 25,000 a day.\n\nNurseries, private schools and sixth forms are also being told to follow the guidance to close their doors.\n\nScotland and Wales earlier said schools would close from Friday while schools in Northern Ireland will close to pupils today and to staff on 23 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NHS TV campaign advert on the virus crisis\n\nMeanwhile the government is bringing forward emergency legislation to protect private renters from eviction after being urged to do more for them\n\nAnd a new advert, fronted by the UK's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and being run across TV, radio and the internet, reminds people to stay at home even if they only have mild symptoms.\n\nQuestions had been asked about why the government had not moved to shut schools until now.\n\nOn Monday, the PM announced a series of new key measures to target the number of coronavirus cases after scientific modelling showed the UK was on course for a \"catastrophic epidemic\".\n\nAs school closures were announced on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said: \"We think now that we must apply further downward pressure with that upward curve by closing schools.\"\n\nHe thanked teachers and head teachers and said that by looking after children of key workers, such as NHS staff, they \"will be a critical part of the fight back\" against coronavirus.\n\nBut he added that children \"should not be left\" with grandparents or others in groups vulnerable to contracting coronavirus.\n\nRevealing the shutdown of schools in England, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told MPs assessments or exams would not go ahead this year and performance tables would not be published.\n\nBut he said officials were working with exam boards \"to ensure that children get the qualifications that they need\".\n\nSchools have already been preparing for a shutdown for some time, with some creating homework packs or setting up ways of working online.\n\nBut there have been concerns about the ability of frontline NHS staff and others to remain in work if their children are not in school.\n\nChief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told BBC One's new daily coronavirus update programme that school is \"not dangerous\" for children during the pandemic, but that the decision to close them would slow the rise of infections.\n\nHe said the government and its advisers were also keen to make it possible for the children of NHS staff to go to school.\n\nSchool closure is something the health officials advising government have been continuously asked about.\n\nTheir stance has always been that while it can suppress a peak - a 15% reduction has been put forward - some of the gain would be offset by the fact children will still mix outside of school. Parents, including health workers, may have to take time off work or grandparents may have to look after them, one of the vulnerable groups they are trying to protect.\n\nWhat is more, children are the age group least likely to get severe symptoms - only 0.2% of cases end up in hospital.\n\nIn the end it has undoubtedly come down to two factors.\n\nFirstly, it might just do enough to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed - as suggested by the new modelling by Imperial College London published on Monday.\n\nSecondly, practicalities - increasing numbers of teachers and children are having to isolate at home and classes and exams would be seriously disrupted in the coming months regardless of what was done.\n\nParents contacting the BBC expressed their concern that predicted grades might be used for results at GCSE and A-level, if pupils did not sit exams.\n\nLone parents and self-employed parents were also worried about coping.\n\nSarah, from Bedfordshire, said: \"I'm worried for myself and my children.\n\n\"I'm already struggling with everyone panic-buying. My children would be in a safer, cleaner environment at school.\"\n\nVictoria, in Belfast, said: \"I am a self-employed mother of twins. I have zero support.\n\n\"Now I have to stay home and look after the children. Where will the money come from?\"\n\nOne student, Alice Simpson, told the BBC: \"We worked so hard and the past two years has always had that long end goal - GCSEs. And it's just got to the point where that's in sight. And now it's not any more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson confirms the government will bring forward legislation “to protect private renters from eviction”.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers General Secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"The government has changed what it expects schools to do. They are to offer reduced access in order to prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable young people and the children of key workers.\"\n\nHe added there were many complicated issues to address as a result of the announcement and the focus would be assisting heads with \"this enormous task\" and making it work on the ground.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said many schools had already drawn up plans to support key workers and vulnerable children.\n\n\"However, this is an exceptionally demanding situation and they will need support. We will be working closely with our members and the Department for Education to this end.\"\n\nIt was the announcement the government did not want to make - shutting down schools indefinitely.\n\nBut as the virus spread its claws further into communities it became inevitable.\n\nHeads and teachers are just as at risk as anyone else, and as more and more staff called in sick - increasing numbers of schools started to fall like dominoes under the weight of this pandemic.\n\nAlthough the decision gives certainty for now - doors will be closed - there is even more uncertainty ahead.\n\nHow long will they remain closed? How will pupils cope with learning from home? Who will look after them?\n\nAnd how will schools manage in their new role as the nation's babysitters for the children of key workers?\n\nPrime Minister's Questions took place in a half-empty House of Commons earlier, after Labour and the Conservatives told MPs not scheduled to raise a query to stay away.\n\nMeanwhile, the weekly face-to-face audience between the Queen and the prime minister was carried out over the phone.\n\nIf you are affected by these planned closures you can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Residents of Venice are noticing a vast improvement in the quality of the famous canals that run through the city, which are running clear for the first time in years, and fish can even be seen in the usually murky waters.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown has left Venice streets empty, and a drastic drop in water traffic means sediment in the canals has been able to settle.", "Schools in Scotland and Wales are to close from Friday in response to the coronavirus epidemic.\n\nIt is expected the UK government will announce shortly that schools in England will follow suit.\n\nScotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says schools have now lost too many staff to continue as normal.\n\nThe coronavirus death toll in the UK has now reached 104 after the NHS said a further 32 people had died in England after testing positive.\n\nConfirmed coronavirus cases in the UK rose to 2,626 on Wednesday, from 1,950 on Tuesday. There have been 56,221 tests carried out in the UK for Covid-19, of which 53,595 were confirmed negative.\n\nThe government says it plans to more than double the number of tests being carried out in England to 25,000 a day.\n\nIt comes as frontline doctors expressed concerns about the lack of testing among NHS staff and the shortage of protective equipment.\n\nMeanwhile, the government is bringing forward emergency legislation to protect private renters from eviction after being urged to do more for them.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced £350bn of help for companies and mortgage \"holidays\" for home owners.\n\nThe move on schools in Scotland and Wales will be welcomed by headteachers who have been struggling to keep their doors open, with growing numbers of staff and pupils off school.\n\nSchools have been pressing for a decision on keeping them open over the past week.\n\nSchools have been preparing for a shut down for some time, with some creating homework packs or setting up ways of working online.\n\nBut there have been concerns about the ability of frontline NHS staff and others to remain in work if their children are not in school.\n\nHeadteachers' leaders have been meeting regularly with the education secretary over the last few days.\n\nThey have been seeking to balance between keeping their staff and pupils safe in the face of the virus outbreak, and the need for vulnerable pupils to be supported.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman stated that the possibility of school closures had always been part of the plan \"should the medical and scientific advice state that was the right step to take and that we have reached the right moment to do so\".\n\nPrime Minister's Questions took place in a half-empty House of Commons\n\nPrime Minister's Questions took place in a half-empty House of Commons, after Labour and the Conservatives told MPs not scheduled to raise a query to stay away.\n\nPaying tribute to teachers' efforts, Mr Johnson told MPs he wanted to do more to \"remove burdens on schools\" and said further decisions would be taken imminently on schools and how to \"square the circle - making sure we stop spread of the disease but relieve pressure on the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson confirms the government will bring forward legislation “to protect private renters from eviction”.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is expected to make a statement on the situation in England at 17:00 GMT.\n\nWales education minister Kirsty Williams said she was bringing forward the Easter break and all schools would close by Friday at the latest.\n\nChildcare centres are expected to remain open until further advice is given, Ms Williams added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said schools and nurseries across Scotland would close from the end of this week and may not reopen before the summer.\n\nNorthern Ireland's education minister Peter Weir said he could not give a date for school closures but any shutdown could potentially last until the start of the autumn term.\n\nOn help for renters, Kate Henderson, of the National Housing Federation, confirmed housing associations would not evict tenants who were affected by the virus and fell behind with their rent.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the prime minister to protect renters in \"the interests of public health\", saying Britain's 20m private renters were \"worried sick\" about missing payments if they became ill, lost pay or had to self-isolate.\n\nMe and My MND Craig Ruston is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to have died after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nAmong the latest confirmed cases in the UK is a newborn baby at James Paget hospital in Norfolk.\n\nAnd a man in his 40s with motor neurone disease is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to have died having tested positive for coronavirus. Craig Ruston died in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Monday morning.", "Conservationists want to triple the size of an existing nature reserve in Dorset\n\nOne of the UK’s most popular wildlife tourism destinations is getting a back-to-nature makeover.\n\nConservationists have teamed up to triple the size of a nature sanctuary on Purbeck Heath by adding private land to three existing reserves.\n\nIt will create the largest lowland heathland in England and it’ll allow species to shift round the landscape as the climate changes.\n\nThe area is currently among the finest in the UK for wildlife diversity.\n\nHowever, proponents say the new plan for the site in Dorset will allow smarter management.\n\nThe RSPB’s Peter Robertson told BBC News: “In recent years we’ve been trying to protect individual species on a micro-level on small fragmented sites.\n\nPeter Robertson says grazing animals will create different habitats on the heath\n\n“Sometimes we’ve even employed volunteers to reshape the earth with trowels to help a single type of wasp.\n\n“Now the fences are coming down, we’ll be able to allow grazing animals to roam around and do the job of disturbing the ground and creating different habitats for us.”\n\nThe Purbeck area – stretching from Poole to Wareham in the south-west of England – already attracts more than 2.5 million visitors a year, and many come to catch a glimpse of red squirrels or seabirds.\n\nThe new, expanded National Nature Reserve is a mosaic of lowland wet and dry heath, valley mires, acid grassland and woodland, along with coastal sand dunes, lakes and saltmarsh. It’s the size of Blackpool.\n\nAngela Cott says the reserve will help return local farmland to nature\n\nIt nurtures star attractions like rare sand lizards; Dartford warblers, silver-studded blue butterflies; nightjars; smooth snakes; and woodlarks.\n\nAt the heart of the reserve are two large tracts of mostly forested ground owned by Forestry England and the Rempstone Estate. They’ve both agreed to co-operate with the nature plan.\n\nMuch of the forest will be removed and the land will be restored to wet heath, which is highly effective at trapping carbon in the soil.\n\nOther partners are Natural England; Forestry England; Dorset Wildlife Trust and Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and the National Trust.\n\nAngela Cott, the National Trust’s manager on Brownsea island in Poole Harbour, told BBC News the new reserve is the latest initiative in a long drive to return local farmland to nature.\n\n“Brownsea Island was lowland heath since prehistoric times, but the Victorians worked hard to convert it into farmland and forestry,” she said. “We’re in it for managing nature now. It’s being transformed.”\n\nDoug Ryder, whose family has owned land on Purbeck for hundreds of years, told BBC News: “The estate sees the benefit of a combined management approach to enhance the environment, while balancing that with the continued need to operate a viable, rural estate for all those who derive their livelihood from it.\n\n\"Who benefits from the nature reserve? We all do... but the biggest winner has to be the environment itself.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nEuro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEuropean football's governing body made the decision during an emergency video conference involving major stakeholders on Tuesday.\n\nThe tournament, due to take place from 12 June-12 July this summer, will now run from 11 June to 11 July next year.\n\nThe postponement provides a chance for European leagues that have been suspended to now be completed.\n\nBy moving the European Championship, Uefa now has a clash with the Women's European Championship, which is due to be held in England in 2021, beginning on 7 July.\n\nThe Nations League and the European Under-21 Championships are also scheduled to take place next summer.\n\nUefa said all three events will be \"rescheduled accordingly\", but it is currently unclear if that involves minor tweaks to dates, or large-scale postponements.\n\nIn delaying Euro 2020, Uefa said it wanted to avoid \"placing any unnecessary pressure on national public services\" of its 12 host countries, as well as helping allow domestic competitions to be finished.\n\n\"We are at the helm of a sport that vast numbers of people live and breathe that has been laid low by this invisible and fast-moving opponent,\" said Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.\n\n\"It is at times like these, that the football community needs to show responsibility, unity, solidarity and altruism.\n\n\"The health of fans, staff and players has to be our number one priority and in that spirit, Uefa tabled a range of options so that competitions can finish this season safely and I am proud of the response of my colleagues across European football.\n\n\"There was a real spirit of co-operation, with everyone recognising that they had to sacrifice something in order to achieve the best result.\"\n\nCeferin said it was important Uefa \"led the process and made the biggest sacrifice\", adding it comes \"at a huge cost\" but \"purpose over profit has been our guiding principle in taking this decision for the good of European football as a whole\".\n\nThe European Championship qualifying play-offs, scheduled to begin in March, have provisionally been moved to June.\n\nThey include two-legged ties between Scotland and Israel, Northern Ireland and Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Republic of Ireland and Slovakia.\n\nFriendly international matches due to be played this month have also been pushed back until June.\n\nUefa says a working group will examine calendar solutions that would allow for the completion of the current season and any other consequence of Tuesday's decisions.\n\nElsewhere, the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) says this year's Copa America, due to take place from 12 June to 12 July, has been postponed until 2021.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa says the newly-expanded Club World Cup, originally scheduled to take place in China in June 2021, will be postponed and a new date announced when \"there is more clarity on the situation\".\n\nThe organisation is also going to donate $10m (£8.3m) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.\n\nMany of Europe's domestic leagues - as well as the Champions League and Europa League - have been suspended following an increasing number of coronavirus cases around the continent.\n\nPlayers and coaches have also been affected by the virus or been told to go into self-isolation, meaning leagues have had to shut down.\n• Premier League: All elite football in Britain cancelled until 4 April at the earliest subject to \"conditions at the time\".\n• La Liga: Spain's top flight suspended until 4 April at the earliest when it will \"revaluate\" the situation.\n• Serie A: Italy has the highest number of cases in Europe and the country is in lockdown.\n• Bundesliga: Suspended until at least 2 April in Germany.\n• Ligue 1: Games initially played behind closed doors in France but now suspended \"until further notice\".\n\nEuropean Leagues, which represents football leagues across the continent, says it is committed to completing European and domestic seasons by 30 June at the latest.\n\nA mini-tournament to decide the Champions League and Europa League is expected to be one option put forward to ease fixture congestion caused by the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPoland's representative in the meeting suggested the Champions League final could be played on 27 June and Europa League final on 24 June.\n\nThe scheduling of domestic matches in midweek alongside Champions League games or playing European games at weekends is also expected to be approved.\n\nThe qualifying rounds for the 2020-21 Champions League and Europa League tournaments may also be adjusted to take into account the delayed calendar.\n\nWhat do the nations involved say?\n\nThe Norwegian FA, whose side are yet to qualify for the tournament, were first to announce the news, followed by the French and other FAs.\n\nMark Bullingham, chief executive of the Football Association, said English football's governing body supported the decision.\n\nJonathan Ford, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, said his organisation \"fully supports the decisions taken\" and added that the health and safety of everyone is \"the most important and only factor to consider\".\n\nFrench Football Federation president Noel le Graet says the governing body \"fully supports\" Uefa and it was a \"wise and pragmatic decision\".\n\nWhat other limitations are there?\n\nWhile the big domestic leagues have problems over television contracts to solve if games do not take place, most countries rely on the payments from Uefa that come out of major international tournaments to allow their own leagues to function properly.\n\nThese would be at risk from any movement of the European Championship and are likely to form part of any agreement.\n\nAn estimated 400 staff are working for Uefa on the Euros. It is unknown what will happen to them if the tournament does not take place for another 12 months.", "Many schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.\n\nASCL general secretary Geoff Barton said experienced head teachers in large schools were saying they would struggle to stay up and running past Friday.\n\nIt comes after teaching unions spoke of the \"intolerable pressure\" of staying open as more and more staff get sick.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser has reiterated that schools will remain open for now.\n\nBut Sir Patrick Vallance, speaking to MPs at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, said school closures were still \"on the table\", as one of the measures that could be used to fight the virus.\n\nAt his press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said school closures were under \"continuous review\".\n\nMr Barton told the BBC: \"Some very seasoned head teachers have been calling me to say they will not be able to manage much longer.\n\n\"One said he had 17 members of staff call in sick. And I think this will be replicated around the country.\n\n\"Some areas may be worst hit than others, but there's an inevitability about this. The trajectory cannot go anything other than downwards.\n\n\"People are saying they will do well to get to the end of the week.\"\n\nHe thought it was time to work out how schools could best support the community if they did have to close, and said he had discussed this with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson at a meeting on Monday.\n\n\"If the assumption is we can't run schools as normal, what that may mean is getting ourselves some time to plan for the next phase of this,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nDecisions would have to be made, he said, as to who should be prioritised: \"Would it be those with exams coming up or children on free school meals?\"\n\nEarlier, NASUWT union head Chris Keates said government advice to keep schools open is causing chaos and confusion, amid fears pupils are carrying the virus.\n\nShe told of a \"rising sense of panic\" in schools as staff fear for their safety as more and more people get ill.\n\nAnother teaching union, the National Education Union, has urged ministers to close schools, and said it would be advising members with underlying conditions to stay off work from next Monday.\n\nThe schools watchdog in England, Ofsted, has been given permission by the government to temporarily suspend all routine inspections of schools, further education, early years and social care providers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said funding for early years grants will continue during any periods of nursery, preschool or childminder closures, or where children cannot attend due to coronavirus.\n\nThe uncertain situation is causing concern among many parents.\n\nHayley Beards from Sutton Coldfield, who has an eight-year-old, says she doesn't feel confident people will \"follow the rules\".\n\n\"There are other parents with vulnerable children, or vulnerable people all still sending their children in.\n\n\"People aren't used to making decisions and it's like they want to be told what to do - they want less guidance and more telling.\"\n\nJen from the East Riding told the BBC she is frustrated by the lack of information from her son's school.\n\n\"My son has had a cold since the end of last week, as children do, but last night he told me he feels like someone's punching him in his chest and his throat feels weird.\n\n\"This morning I was still in two minds but I called the school and the head teacher answered in two rings and said we should definitely self isolate as he's got two pregnant members of staff and children with grandparents to think about.\"\n\nDespite pressure from teaching unions, the government insists sending hundreds of thousands of pupils home would leave NHS and frontline care staff facing childcare crises.\n\nIt has said closures may be necessary in the future, but only \"at the right stage\" of the outbreak.\n\nThis notion was reflected by head teacher of The Chantry School, in rural Worcestershire, Andy Dickenson.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"If I close my school tomorrow to avoid a mass gathering are you coming for me @BorisJohnson?#schoolclosure.\"\n\nHe told the BBC he had been moved to question the policy due to the inconsistency between advice about mass gatherings and schools remaining open.\n\n\"Schools are an absolute breeding ground for bugs - we know that. Equally we have a social responsibility so ensure we are not putting into the care of their grandparents or NHS workers.\"\n\nHe suggested setting online learning for pupils at home and schools running on a skeleton staff to support the children of parents who need to go to work.\n\nNicola from Aberdeenshire has children in primary school, where regular hand washing has been implemented, and teaches in a secondary where there are no gels or hand washing.\n\n\"It seems like they are relying on students to follow guidance themselves, but they are teenagers so they just don't - it feels like we've been forgotten,\" she said.\n\nTara Telford from Cumbria, who has an eight-year-old and a five-year-old, is vulnerable because because she takes immunosuppressive medication due to a chronic disease.\n\n\"I have reason to be terrified but my kids are in. People should talk to schools, have the conversation, if more did what my kids' school did we could keep schools open for longer.\"", "Scientists at the University of Cambridge say they are working \"as hard and as fast as we possibly can\" to find a vaccine to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nProf Jonathan Heeney spoke to BBC science correspondent Richard Westcott at a laboratory in the city, with access so restricted he had to talk through a glass window.\n\n\"It's a complex process. Right now we have our vaccine candidates in mice and they're generating immune responses to the vaccine,\" said Prof Heeney.\n\n\"We're working around the clock with a team of experts and everybody's collaborative. The sooner we can get a vaccine or therapy out there the better.\"", "\"We don't want the business to fail, we've worked really hard and we love it,\" says Emma Gregory, who - together with Caroline Wakil - has built Urbanberry into a £140,000-a-year business.\n\nBut since the coronavirus outbreak, all the interviews set up by the fledging travel recruitment firm have been cancelled.\n\n\"This is devastating for us, it means no income indefinitely and all the people we love helping are losing their jobs and we have nothing to offer them,\" Emma told the BBC.\n\nThey are just one of the millions of small firms trying to survive the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're £12,000 down because of coronavirus\"\n\nMany industries are suffering due to the impact of social distancing and self-isolation, with the travel industry being one of the hardest hit.\n\nEmma and Caroline started their specialist firm in October 2017 with the aim of creating a business that also enabled them to have a life.\n\nBut, despite splitting the working week to make time for family Ms Gregory says they never have a day off.\n\n\"We basically do anything to try to build our business.\"\n\nEmma and Caroline worry that the future of that business is in doubt as a result of firms putting a freeze on hiring amid uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey hope the government will step in to help small businesses through the crisis.\n\nThe travel and hospitality sectors are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic\n\n\"We don't have the resources or additional revenue streams that a larger business will have and for us, a delay in paying corporation tax bills that are due in July would be beneficial,\" Emma says.\n\n\"Temporary help with childcare costs to enable us to keep ploughing away at recovering our business and not have to withdraw our children from coveted nursery spots - which would then impact the childcare provider themselves - would also be hugely appreciated.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) chair Mike Cherry told the BBC: \"Many will feel like they are being made to choose between their health and the very survival of their business. Nobody should have to make this choice.\"\n• None 5.8 millionsmall businesses in the UK at the start of 2019\n\n\"These are already very difficult times for all small businesses right across the country. There are huge concerns over supply chains, while on top of this footfall continues to drop. The prospect for these businesses over the coming weeks is increasingly bleak.\n\n\"The self-employed in particular will be worried about their livelihoods if they lose contracts or must go into self-isolation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's critical that the necessary support is in place to support the 5.8 million small businesses and self-employed.\"\n\nThe leisure and hospitality industry has also been calling for help after Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contact and to stay away from pubs and restaurants.\n\nEven before the prime minister's announcement, restaurant reservation app OpenTable had reported a 31% UK-wide drop in bookings compared to the same period in 2019.\n\nGavin Webb has run a successful music-based promotion and events company in Essex for almost two decades.\n\nThe events division of Catman Boogie Music & Entertainments is the biggest part of the company. It puts on private music festivals as well as events for schools and colleges.\n\nBut its schedule for the next two months has been emptied due to cancellations in response to the pandemic.\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 catmanboogie 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\nHe told the BBC: \"In the last week we have had our entire turnover from now until mid-May completely cancelled.\"\n\nMr Webb says the significant drop in income has had a devastating impact on the rest of his business.\n\n\"As a result we have had to lay some of our workforce off this week,\" he said.\n\n\"This morning we have also had to give our landlord notice to withdraw from our recording studio complex which helps local artists with recording and media services.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm not sure we'll survive.\"\n\nFounder of Exhale Pilates, Gaby Noble, said she was trying to remain positive in the face of the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"Being a small business there is always a vulnerability,\" but added that the coronavirus had spurred her to provide online lessons sooner rather than later.\n\n\"It was a matter of time until I was going to offer this service, I just didn't think it would be made under these circumstances.\"\n\nIn her studio where she trains some celebrities, there is additional deep cleaning going on.\n\nOverall, she's trying to maintain a sense of normality, as many other firms will in the face of uncertainty.\n\n\"I have wanted to maintain as much calmness as possible to keep the morale high for my self-employed teachers who are uncertain whether they will have enough money to pay their rent if and when the studio might have to close.\"", "Duncan Laurence (right) won last year's Eurovision, while James Newman (bottom left) was due to represent the UK this year\n\nThis year's Eurovision Song Contest will no longer take place due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe event was due to take place at Rotterdam's 16,000 capacity Ahoy Arena, with the final on 16 May.\n\n\"We, like the millions of you around the world, are extremely saddened that it can not take place in May,\" said organisers in a statement.\n\nThe Dutch government had previously banned large public gatherings in an attempt to prevent the virus spreading.\n\n\"The health of artists, staff, fans and visitors, as well as the situation in the Netherlands, Europe and the world, is at the heart of this decision,\" said the Eurovision team.\n\nThe event's executive supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, added: \"We are very proud of the Eurovision Song Contest, that for 64 years has united people all around Europe.\n\n\"We regret this situation very much, but I can promise you: the Eurovision Song Contest will come back stronger than ever.\"\n\nHe added that talks were already under way about staging the contest in Rotterdam next year.\n\nIt is not known whether this year's contestants, including British entrant James Newman, will be invited back.\n\nEurovision organisers told the BBC the issue would be discussed by its reference group and \"a decision will be communicated later\".\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\nThey added they had \"explored many alternative options\" to staging Eurovision in its usual format, but eventually decided that postponing or scaling down the contest was not feasible.\n\n\"Dutch restrictions on gatherings of large numbers of people and international travel restrictions mean that holding the event, even without an audience, is impossible,\" said an FAQ on the Eurovision website.\n\nOrganisers also rejected the idea of hosting the show remotely, with every contestant performing via satellite link.\n\n\"It's in the DNA of the Eurovision Song Contest to bring delegations, artists and fans together in one place and provide an equal platform for all artists to compete together on the same stage.\"\n\n\"We felt that under the extreme circumstances we face this year, organising the Eurovision Song Contest in another way would not be in keeping with our values and the tradition of the event.\"\n\nNews of the cancellation came on the same day that Glastonbury, the UK's biggest and most storied music festival, also announced its cancellation.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe outbreak had already affected preparations for Eurovision, with several artists declining to travel to the Netherlands to film the video \"postcards\" shown between songs.\n\nVaidotas Valiukevicius, lead singer of Lithuania's The Roop, explained his band's decision, saying: \"We do not want to risk our own health or public health.\n\n\"We will follow the government's recommendations to avoid overseas travel. We believe prudence is the key to getting everyone back to normal.\"\n\nLast week several of the 41 participating countries missed a heads of delegation meeting, which constitutes a key part of preparations for the show.\n\nJon Ola Sand also joined the meeting by teleconference, after the European Broadcasting Union imposed a travel ban on staff due to an employee in Geneva testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nThe brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been found guilty of murdering 22 people.\n\nHashem Abedi had denied helping to plan the \"sudden and lethal\" blast which killed or injured \"nearly 1,000\".\n\nThe Old Bailey heard the pair worked together to source materials used in the suicide blast after an Ariana Grande show at the venue.\n\nProsecutors said Hashem was \"jointly responsible\" with his brother for the attack on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe Manchester-born siblings \"stood shoulder to shoulder\" in the plot, with younger sibling Hashem \"just as guilty of murder\" as the bomber himself, the court heard.\n\nHashem, 22, was also found guilty of one count of attempted murder, encompassing the remaining injured, and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nHe was not in court for the unanimous verdicts after he dismissed his legal team last week and decided to take no further part in the trial.\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\nSome of the victims' family members burst into tears as the verdicts were delivered after the seven-week trial.\n\nFigen Murray, mother of victim Martyn Hett, said while the verdicts bring her \"comfort to know the British justice system has played its role...it doesn't give us closure\".\n\nHis father, Paul Hett, added that while \"this verdict will not bring back the 22 victims murdered by Salman and Hashem Abedi,\" he said it will provide \"an overwhelming sense of justice to all those affected by this heinous crime\".\n\nTwenty-two men, women and children, aged eight to 51, were killed in the attack while 264 \"were physically injured\" and 670 more have since \"reported psychological trauma as a result of these events\".\n\nDuncan Penny QC, prosecuting, said the Abedi brothers had spent \"months\" planning the blast and had a \"shared goal [to] kill, maim and injure as many people as possible\".\n\nThe bomb comprised a five-litre paint can placed inside a money tin, packed with thousands of nuts and screws\n\nThey worked together to source chemicals and buy screws and nails to use as \"anti-personnel shrapnel\" in experimental improvised bombs, the court was told.\n\nThe brothers used 11 mobile phones in five months - some for as little as two hours - and used a variety of vehicles, despite neither passing their driving test, to transport components around the city.\n\nAfterwards, police found Hashem's fingerprints at key addresses and in a car, which still contained traces of explosives. Although he was in Libya when the device was detonated he was \"just as guilty\" as his brother, Mr Penny said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said Hashem may have been the senior figure in the plot, and intended to cause \"further bloodshed\" around the world.\n\nThe former Manchester College electrical installation student held down a series of menial jobs working in restaurants and takeaways, including a £5-an-hour role as a delivery driver.\n\nHe was described as \"unreliable\" and \"with the wrong idea of Islam\" by his boss, before he left for his parents' home country of Libya, 2,000 miles away, a month before the bombing.\n\nHashem was detained a day after the attack, and claimed he was subjected to torture by Libyan militiamen before his extradition two years later.\n\nHe told police he was \"relieved to be back in the UK\", adding: \"[I] wish to assist in this investigation as much as I can.\" He then offered \"no comment\" during police interviews.\n\nSalman Abedi and his brother lived in Fallowfield, four miles south of Manchester city centre\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Barraclough said Hashem was \"with his brother throughout the entire process\" of making and building the bomb and that he had taken a four-minute phone call from Salman on the night the device went off.\n\n\"At that point he (Salman) is getting that last-minute inspiration (from Hashem)...and he's telling him what he's about to do,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe he provided encouragement right up to the end. This was all about the sick ideology of Islamic State and this desire for martyrdom.\"\n\nHe added: \"These two brothers are literally hand in glove in this process.\"\n\nSalman Abedi was seen on CCTV arriving at Manchester Victoria station carrying a rucksack\n\nFollowing the verdicts, lawyer Victoria Higgins - representing 11 of the bereaved families - said they were relieved that the \"calculating\" killer had finally been brought to justice.\n\n\"Families have waited a long time to see Hashem Abedi face justice for his crimes and I think the overwhelming emotion for most will be one of relief that he cannot hurt anyone else,\" she said.\n\nSentencing will take place at a later date but the judge Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said it was a \"little way off\".\n\nA public inquiry into the bombing is due to begin in June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two violinists dressed in lifejackets have put on a widely shared performance in a US supermarket, amid panic-buying over the coronavirus.\n\nBonnie Von Duyke and Emer Kinsella performed the 19th Century hymn Nearer My God to Thee, known to many for its use in the film Titanic, in a toilet paper aisle. Video of the performance was posted online.\n\nThey tell the BBC they hope it may help people cope, and bring some light-hearted relief.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a package of financial measures to support the economy on Tuesday\n\nAs we discussed earlier, the government had to act credibly, and act fast.\n\nThere is no question that offering to pump more than £300bn into the economy to protect it from the worst is a very serious move - the lion's share government backed loans, with around £20bn of grants and tax cuts too.\n\nYou can't question the government's intention tonight to show boldness and to show intent that they will do \"whatever it takes\" (the chancellor and the PM's mantra) not just to support the health of the country, but our livelihoods too.\n\nRarely, but every now and then, there is a day in Westminster when it feels like the landscape has transformed - and this is one of them.\n\nNot just because the size of the promises is vast and represents a huge extension of state intervention in the economy; also, it will have massive implications for the taxpayer for years and years to come.\n\nOne insider whispered to me that the moves could end up with the government essentially supporting every UK business in one way or another, and the national debt ballooning once again.\n\nTogether with sweeping new powers in the government's emergency legislation, which also deserves careful scrutiny, the government is clearly buckling up for a period of profound disruption and change, and that will see ministers' roles become much more central in all of our lives.\n\nThere are still holes in the vast plans - it's not yet clear what will happen to people who rent their homes rather than have mortgages.\n\nCan businesses who are making decisions right now about whether they need to shut up shop possibly get money and support fast enough to stave off the worst?\n\nCan families who have lost their sources of income get help quickly so they can pay the bills right now?\n\nThere is pressure on the ministers to answer these, and many other questions as quickly as they can.\n\nBut with the government announcing enormous and expensive emergency promises, planes grounded, hospital operations cancelled, even religious worship curtailed, for now, even if on a temporary basis, the UK is changing before our eyes.", "Peter Kinsella said he was crying while writing the letter\n\nA restaurateur says he will \"never be able to repay\" a government loan for businesses hit by coronavirus, in an open letter to the prime minister.\n\nPeter Kinsella, who runs Lunya in Liverpool and Manchester, said he was \"terrified and so worried\" for the business and its 105 employees.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told a Treasury Select Committee earlier that such loans were long term.\n\nHe said he believed Lunya would recover and \"generate profits to pay it back\".\n\nThe chancellor was responding to Wirral MP Alison McGovern, who brought the letter to his attention.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lunya Liverpool This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Kinsella said he was crying while writing the letter, which he tweeted.\n\n\"A loan will come with liabilities and expectations of repayment.\n\n\"We were already struggling before this (but just about managing), we will never be able to repay that loan no matter how successful we are in any post-Covid world,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Kinsella met 20 other Liverpool restaurant owners earlier to discuss plans and react to Mr Sunak's proposals to protect small businesses.\n\nDave Critchley, head chef at Lu Ban, where they met, said he would change from fine dining to fast food, offering a click-and-collect service and run a delivery service, while others are turning their businesses into takeaways.\n\nThe restaurateur says he is \"terrified\" for the business and its staff\n\nLu Ban director David Hughes said allowing businesses quick access to cash to pay staff was the biggest issue.\n\n\"If people have to close next week we are probably going to have a million people without a job.\n\n\"They are going to be contacting HMRC to claim benefits... give the cash to the businesses and the business can pay the employees,\" he said.\n\nAll business in the city were \"massively\" worried, said Chris McKenna, from lobbying group Downtown Liverpool in Business.\n\nMr Kinsella said \"by the hour more and more places are shutting their doors\".\n\nHe said the restaurants did not want to provide \"a temptation for people to break government advice\".\n\n\"The government don't want people sitting in and eating. We now need to be responsible,\" he added.\n\nRestaurant owners met in Liverpool earlier to discuss their response to coronavirus\n\nLunya said it would keep its deli and delivery service open.\n\nResponding to Mr Kinsella's letter, Mr Sunak promised to keep the situation under review.\n\n\"These are long-term loans with no interest payable for the first six months,\" the chancellor said.\n\nHe added that Lunya sounded like \"a very successful and popular restaurant\" that would \"get back to health and... generate the profits to pay it [the loan] back\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson confirms the government will bring forward legislation “to protect private renters from eviction”.\n\nThe government will bring forward emergency legislation to protect private renters from eviction, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nTenants were \"worried sick\" they might not be able to pay rents if they fell ill, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAs Wales and Scotland said they would close schools by Friday Mr Johnson said a decision on England was imminent.\n\nIt came after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced £350bn of help for companies.\n\nOn Tuesday, the chancellor promised mortgage \"holidays\", £330bn in loans and £20bn in other aid.\n\nThe government had been urged to do more for families, workers and tenants affected by coronavirus.\n\nMr Corbyn urged the PM to protect private renters in \"the interests of public health\", adding Britain's 20m private renters were \"worried sick\" about missing payments if they became ill, lost pay or had to self-isolate.\n\nMPs practiced the government's social distancing advice in sitting apart during Prime Minister's Questions\n\nMr Johnson said it will bring forward legislation to protect private renters from eviction, but will also avoid \"pass[ing] on the problem\" by \"taking steps to protect other actors in the economy\".\n\nHousing associations will not evict tenants who are affected by the virus and fall behind on rent payments, Kate Henderson, of the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations in England, has confirmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nPaying tribute to the efforts of teachers, and school staff, Mr Johnson said he wanted to do more to \"remove burdens on schools\".\n\nHe added: \"The House should expect further decisions to be taken imminently on schools and how to be sure we square the circle, making sure we stop spread of the disease but relieve pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nMeanwhile, all schools in Wales will close by Friday at the latest in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nScotland's schools and nurseries will close from the end of this week and may not reopen before the summer, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nIn the UK, supermarkets continued to introduce measures to try to stop customers stockpiling and ensure vulnerable people had food during the crisis.\n\nSainsbury's said it would prioritise elderly and other vulnerable people for online deliveries, as both Sainsbury's and Asda limited people to buying no more than three of any food item.\n\nOther retailers including Tesco and Boots have set limits on particularly popular products including pasta, tissues and hand sanitiser.\n\nMeanwhile, lorry drivers transporting essential goods to supermarkets will be allowed to stay on the road longer without a break after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps temporarily relaxed the rules.\n\nIn entertainment, EastEnders will be broadcast just twice a week - rather than four times - as the BBC postponed filming of the soap opera and other dramas \"until further notice\"\n\nAnd Glastonbury Festival has been postponed from June 2020 until 2021, its organisers said.\n\nMeanwhile, efforts are under way across the country to support NHS workers. Chelsea Football Club will give free accommodation to NHS staff in London, while Pret is offering them free hot drinks and half-price food.\n\nElsewhere, car manufacturers were among the latest companies to be affected, with Toyota and BMW both suspending production at their UK factories. Toyota employs more than 3,200 people in the UK, while BMW has 6,000 manufacturing staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We must act like any wartime government\"\n\nUnveiling the financial measures at a press conference on Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the £330bn in loans - equivalent to 15% of GDP - would be available from next week to help businesses pay for supplies, rent and salaries.\n\nRachel Reeves, Labour chairwoman of the Commons Business Committee, said there was nothing in the chancellor's announcement to offer financial support to people who were already on statutory sick pay, self-isolating or had been laid off.\n\nAnd unions raised concerns there were no measures to help freelancers and people working in the gig economy.\n\nThe additional measures came after the public were told to avoid all non-essential contact and travel.\n\nBy next weekend, those with the most serious health conditions must be \"largely shielded from social contact for around 12 weeks\", under the latest government guidance.\n\nSome doctors have called for more testing for the virus among NHS workers to prevent any unnecessary absences.\n\nSpeaking at PMQs, Mr Johnson said testing for the virus is to be ramped up to 25,000 tests a day, following criticism too few were being carried out.\n\nThe testing will be more than doubled in England, after a prior government commitment to boost tests from 2,000 to 10,000 a day.\n\nCommercial equipment will be brought in to boost the capacity currently available in the NHS and via Public Health England.\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed that the UK is getting \"much closer\" to having a generally available test to determine whether someone has had coronavirus.\n\nHe added the government is making a \"massive effort\" to ensure healthcare staff have enough protective equipment to wear while treating patients.\n\nLeading scientists at Porton Down, the Ministry of Defence's highly secure research laboratory in Wiltshire, have been called in to help deal with the spread of coronavirus, the BBC has been told.\n\nA team of about 10 defence scientists are working with public health officials to analyse the spread of the virus and to help with testing.\n\nThe number of people who have died with the virus in the UK reached 71 on Tuesday, after a second death was confirmed in Scotland, as well as a second in Wales and a further 14 in England.\n\nA man in his 40s with motor neurone disease (MND) is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to have died having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCraig Ruston, understood to be 45, died in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Monday morning and his chest infection was diagnosed as Covid-19.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it would be a \"good outcome\" for the UK if the number of deaths from the virus could be kept below 20,000.\n\nSome 2,626 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures - but the actual number of cases could be as high as 55,000.\n\nAs of 9am on Wednesday, a total of 56,221 people have been tested, 53,595 of whom have come back as negative.\n\nAmong the latest confirmed cases is a newborn baby at James Paget hospital in Norfolk.\n\nAre you in rental accommodation? Have you been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Social care firms help older and disabled people to live in their own homes\n\nCoronavirus has left companies which support older and disabled people in their own homes struggling to cope, says their professional association.\n\nThe UK Home Care Association says the firms need more protective equipment for staff and clearer guidance on protecting clients.\n\nThe virus has put care companies which were already financially vulnerable under additional pressure, says UKHCA.\n\nA £350bn package to support businesses \"small and large\" has been announced.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak vowed to do \"whatever it takes\" to help the economy and support businesses \"to get through this\".\n\nThe extra demands placed on care at home by the coronavirus outbreak have thrown the underlying social care crisis into sharp relief, UKHCA argues.\n\nIn the current situation, home care companies say they are likely to have more people needing care and will need to train extra staff as some will not be able to work if they become ill.\n\nTuesday's announcement by NHS England that hospitals should free up some 15,000 beds by discharging long-term patients who are medically fit into the community is expected to pile even more pressure onto the social care sector in the coming weeks.\n\nThe UKHCA says social care companies not only urgently need extra financial support from government but also changes to the way they are paid by local authorities, so they \"don't run out of money\".\n\nThe association's chief executive Dr Jane Townson said: \"We are desperately worried about the ability of care providers to remain solvent, whilst paying unprecedented numbers of careworkers who are sick or self-isolating.\n\n\"Councils and the NHS only pay for care delivered. They will not pay for careworkers who are prevented from working. People who buy their own homecare will not be able to bear the additional cost of staff absence.\"\n\nThe association represents more than 2,000 care providers, from private firms to not-for-profit organisations, many of which are already under financial pressure across the UK after a long-standing failure by governments to reform or fund the council-run system properly.\n\nLocal authorities buy most of the care for people in their own homes and at the end of each month, the number of minutes of support provided by care staff is totted up and the firm is paid for that in arrears.\n\nThe UKHCA wants councils to pay companies upfront, based on the average amount of care they have provided in previous months, with the final figures worked out later.\n\nOn the subject of personal protective equipment, Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, has told MPs that there is enough of it but there have been problems getting supplies to the right places.\n\n\"Let's be clear, this is a challenge facing every country,\" Sir Simon told the Commons health and social care committee.\n\n\"A lot of the Chinese supply for some of the more basic items has been disrupted.\n\n\"So, we are going to have to ramp up the production of gowns, in particular, and some of the face masks, given this is not a flash in the pan… we are going to have to ramp up domestic production of those items as well.\"", "Well, that was another big day, with a lot of news to digest.\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for now but we'll continue to bring you updates across the BBC News website until our teams in Asia pick things up.\n\nSo for now, here are the latest headlines:\n• The UK announced it would shut all schools from Friday in a bid to control the spread of the virus. Exams will not go ahead in England and Wales, but decisions are due to be made in Scotland and Northern Ireland\n• The death toll in Britain reached 104 after a further 33 people died. Confirmed cases rose to 2,626\n• The number of deaths in Italy spiked by 475 in one day to nearly 3,000, the biggest increase since the outbreak. There are a total of 35,713 confirmed cases in the country\n• The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, trading at just $1.15 by the end of the day\n• US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to close the US-Canada border to all non-essential travel\n• Mr Trump also said the US government's housing agency would stop repossessing homes until the end of April. Evictions will be suspended over the same time frame\n• Meanwhile, it became clear that many Asian nations are facing an uphill battle to stem the spread of the virus\n• There are now more than 205,000 cases of the virus globally and there have been at least 8,000 deaths\n\nWe leave you with this piece that explains two concepts that many millions will need to familiarise themselves with: social distancing and self-isolation.\n\nAnd, as always, you can find all of our latest coronavirus stories here.", "Alex Jones presented The One Show solo on Tuesday as Matt Baker self-isolated\n\nThe BBC has announced it will focus more of its programmes, including The One Show, on the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe broadcaster will also offer more about education, fitness, religion and recipes for those stuck at home.\n\nA dedicated coronavirus podcast will be released daily, and the BBC's local radio stations will provide support to communities around the country.\n\nITV will also broadcast news specials and suspend some planned entertainment shows including The Voice UK.\n\nAnt & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will go ahead this weekend, but without a live audience for the first time.\n\nThere will be \"further developments and challenges ahead - such as filling the gaps left by the suspension of sporting events\", ITV director of television Kevin Lygo said.\n\n\"We are already seeing new ideas coming through which might provide innovative new ways of producing TV in these uniquely challenging times.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said: \"We all know these are challenging times for each and every one of us. As the national broadcaster, the BBC has a special role to play at this time of national need.\n\n\"We need to pull together to get through this. That's why the BBC will be using all of its resources - channels, stations and output - to help keep the nation informed, educated and entertained.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live presenters such as Nicky Campbell will host listener phone-ins\n\nLord Hall added: \"It will take time to emerge from the challenges we all face, but the BBC will be there for the public all the way through this. Clearly there will be disruption to our output along the way, but we will do our very best.\"\n\nAlso on Wednesday, BBC soaps and continuing dramas including EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors put their production schedules on hold.\n\nITV also announced changes to its schedules, including a new weekly Monday night show - Coronavirus Report - which will be produced by ITV News and \"give viewers an in-depth insight into issues affecting them during the current crisis\".\n\nThe live semi-final and final of The Voice UK have been postponed until later in the year. The knockouts, which are pre-recorded, will continue to be broadcast this weekend as planned.\n\nThe Britain's Got Talent audition shows are still due to be broadcast in the next few weeks as planned, and ITV said it was looking at logistical options for the live finals.\n\nITV has already confirmed its soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street will continue, but with reduced filming schedules and only three episodes of Corrie per week.\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC also announced a number of changes to its news output in light of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nQuestion Time will move to a new slot during the pandemic\n\nProgrammes including Politics Live and Victoria Derbyshire have been temporarily suspended, allowing the BBC News Channel to focus on \"core news\".\n\nQuestion Time, which sees political figures and commentators take questions from the public, will move to a prime time 20:00 slot on BBC One. However, it will proceed without a studio audience for the time being.\n\nThe practicalities of putting questions to the panel during this period is \"still being worked on\", BBC media editor Amol Rajan said.\n\nNewsnight on BBC Two and The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One will remain on air but will be operated by fewer technical staff; while The Andrew Neil Show, Newswatch and the News Channel's The Travel Show will be suspended. Hardtalk will also be suspended from next week.\n\nRadio news will see fewer changes initially, although news summaries on Radios 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live will be combined into a single output from Friday.\n\nThe Americast, Beyond Today and The Next Episode podcasts will be suspended, while Newscast will become the BBC Coronavirus podcast for the foreseeable future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"The government is about to involve itself in the lives of millions of people in ways we haven't seen since the war,\" one senior figure in government said after Cabinet this morning.\n\nYou can only imagine the mood around the table as ministers absorb the scale of what we face as a country and the scale of the responsibility they hold.\n\nWhether it is urging people not to travel abroad, providing huge emergency assistance to particular industries, or telling people to stay at home, according to that Cabinet minister, we are living through a massive change in the relationship between government and the public that could last for many months.\n\nWhat the prime minister said barely two weeks ago, that the UK would \"likely face a challenge\", has very rapidly turned into the biggest peacetime task any modern government has faced - managing a very serious international health emergency and trying to stave off the worst of a potential economic emergency too.\n\nBoris Johnson told his colleagues this morning: \"We are engaged in a war against the disease which we have to win.\"\n\nAs I write the details of exactly what the Chancellor will promise to prop the economy are still being thrashed out.\n\nLess than a week ago, Rishi Sunak unveiled a programme that made sick pay more generous, promised to scrap business rates this year for some small firms and make it easier to claim benefits for people who were at risk of losing their income.\n\nBut as the pace of the outbreak has accelerated, so too has the potential for enormous economic damage.\n\nSo expect later today to hear about plans for bigger interventions.\n\nThere is clearly urgent demand from business large and small to help.\n\nBut the priority right now may be reassurance as much as a radical final blueprint.\n\nAs during the financial crisis, perhaps the details of what will be announced this afternoon matter less than the promise of a comprehensive approach that genuinely will provide support to every part of the economy and every part of the country.\n\nIt is also worth remembering that the financial system itself is in a much, much more robust state than it was then.\n\nBut there is no spreadsheet that can capture the potential for disruption and hardship here, no set of calculations that can accurately predict what will happen to the economy.\n\nThere is no end date to the epidemic, no precise sense of when we will hit the peak of the infections, although Whitehall sources still believe it is maybe a couple of months away.\n\nBut the government knows that it has to act, very fast, and very credibly.\n\nOne senior Treasury source said: \"There aren't options to let this float around - we have to take control because it is so unprecedented.\"\n\nIn the last 24 hours, Downing Street's instructions to the public to protect everyone's health changed at breakneck speed as new scientific data emerged.\n\nNow the government's approach to how the country makes its living is changing too.", "No new Crown Court trials will take place in England and Wales if they are expected to last longer than three days, following concerns from lawyers amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThey had urged a halt to jury trials to stop \"Russian roulette\" with the health of legal staff, jurors and the public.\n\nThe government says during the current phase of the outbreak, courts and tribunals will continue to operate.\n\nBut long cases listed to start before the end of April will be adjourned.\n\nPressure on the government and judiciary to stop new and halt ongoing jury trials has been growing, as jurors and court staff up and down the country heed government advice to self-isolate.\n\nA statement from the Judicial Office said: 'In all jurisdictions steps are being taken to enable as many hearings as possible to be conducted with some or all of the participants attending by telephone, video-link or online.'\n\nHowever, Crown Courts where jury trials of the most serious criminal cases take place present particular problems because so many participants, judge, jury, defendants, witnesses, lawyers and court staff need to be present.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Given the risks of a trial not being able to complete, the Lord Chief Justice has decided that no new trial should start in the Crown Court unless it is expected to last for three days or less.\n\n\"All cases estimated to last longer than three days listed to start before the end of April 2020 will be adjourned. These cases will be kept under review and the position regarding short trials will be revisited as circumstances develop and in any event next week. As events unfold decisions will be taken in respect of all cases awaiting trial in the Crown Court.\"\n\nTrials that are under way will continue in the hope that they can be completed.\n\nThose taking part should follow Public Heath England guidance \"suitably adjusted to reflect the distinct features of a court as a working environment for all concerned, including jurors.\".\n\nSome criminal barristers in England and Wales have called for the government to go further.\n\nResponding to the statement, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) - which represents nearly 4,000 members in England and Wales - has called for every jury trial to be delayed for 30 days in order to \"allow the public health impact to be properly assessed\".\n\nIt said: \"Barristers choosing to self isolate in following government advice are entitled to leave trials and will not be in breach of their professional obligations.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland said criminal courts \"have a critical role to play and should go on sitting\".\n\nCourts would have stood empty if barristers succeeded in their demand to halt all jury trials\n\nEarlier, Amanda Pinto QC, chairwoman of the Bar Council, which represents all barristers in England and Wales, has also called on the government to temporarily end jury trials during the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\n\"We are calling for the Ministry of Justice to put an urgent halt to jury trials for the time being,\" she said.\n\n\"Barristers up and down the country are telling us that jurors are having to drop out of cases because they are self-isolating or, worse, coming to court when they should not, and thereby putting everyone's health at risk.\n\n\"Being in a jury trial should not be a game of Russian roulette with the participants' health.\"\n\nCourt users \"should not be expected to attend court, whilst the rest of the country is very strongly urged to work from home and to avoid 'non-essential contact' and 'confined spaces',\" Ms Pinto argued.\n\nDespite government advice to work from home and avoid contact with others, the latest HM Court Service guidance says: \"Jury service is one of the most important civic duties a citizen can undertake and is an essential part of the criminal justice system.\n\n\"If you are serving on a jury now, your jury service will continue as normal and you are expected to attend court unless you have a reason not to (for example, you have symptoms or need to self-isolate).\"\n\nJurors considering the alleged murder of PC Andrew Harper were sent home on Tuesday after one of them fell ill, and a juror in the trial of Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi was discharged from service after they went into self-isolation over the weekend.\n\nCriminal barristers who are unable to attend court due to government advice, \"will remain compliant with their professional duties provided they continue as normal to give due notice to their clients and to the court\", the CBA added.\n\nThere is now a divergence between Westminster and the court systems of Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Scottish government announced: \"No new criminal jury trials will be commenced or new juries empanelled until further notice.\n\n\"This will be kept under review.\n\n\"Where jury trials have already commenced, these will run to conclusion of the trial, if practical to do so.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there will likewise be no new jury trials for the foreseeable future after an announcement by the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan.\n\nBut jurors serving in a Crown Court trial or an inquest that has already started should continue to attend, the Belfast Telegraph reported.\n\nMany lawyers believe it will be only a matter of time before Westminster follows suit.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, said earlier that there was an \"urgent need to increase the use of telephone and video technology immediately to hold remote hearings where possible\" in England and Wales.\n\nEmergency legislation is being drafted which is likely to contain clauses that expand the powers in criminal courts to use technology in a wider range of hearings.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice urged greater use of video technology in courts\n\nThe halting of jury trials raises a host of highly challenging issues for a criminal justice system that is already beset by time delays due to a reduced number of court sitting days.\n\nWith some defendants held on remand, the time limits for holding in custody are likely to have to be extended.\n\nIn addition, barristers and solicitors fear they will not be paid and could go out of business or have to lay off staff in law firms and sets of chambers.\n\nSome believe another option to keep the system going might be to reduce the number of jurors.\n\nDuring World War Two, legislation was passed to allow juries to sit with seven members, except in murder and treason cases.\n\nThe Law Society Gazette reports that one family judge has imposed emergency measures in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, ordering lawyers to stay at home if possible, despite the government claiming courts will continue to \"operate normally\".\n\nIn an email, His Honour Judge Moradifar, the designated family judge for Berkshire, said all suitable hearings should be conducted via video link, Skype or telephone.\n\nPhysical presence in court buildings \"should be kept to a minimum\", witnesses should give evidence remotely where possible and, if coming to court is unavoidable, attendance should be limited to advocates, said the judge.", "NHS staff say they are being put at risk during the coronavirus outbreak because of a lack of protective gear.\n\nOne doctor told the BBC that frontline healthcare workers felt like \"cannon fodder\" as they do not have access to equipment such as face masks.\n\nHealth workers also expressed concerns that not enough of them were being tested for the virus.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK had \"stockpiles\" of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, from lobbying group the Doctors' Association, said she had heard from doctors who had not got access to PPE - or it had expired or run out.\n\n\"All these doctors are worried that that's increasing their likelihood of contracting the virus and then ultimately spreading it to patients,\" she said.\n\nDr Frances Mair said her GP practice in Scotland - \"like many others\" - still did not have \"the PPE that we require to keep us safe\".\n\nShe told BBC Newsnight that they had been told they would have it by 23 March but added \"that still seems late\".\n\nDr Frances Mair says patients at her GP practice in Scotland are being put at risk\n\n\"Doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals want to do the best in this pandemic and we want to look after our patients and support people who are ill but not having the correct or the best protective gear puts us and patients at risk,\" she said.\n\n\"It's very disheartening when you hear of colleagues talking about the way that they feel they are like cannon fodder, sent out to die.\"\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, who works in A&E at Luton and Dunstable general hospital, said he was only wearing a surgical mask to treat some patients, but not others being treated for non-coronavirus-related issues who \"may still be highly infectious\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Emma Barnett show: \"We're fighting an invisible enemy, blindfolded, with both hands tied behind our backs and healthcare workers are at grave risk.\"\n\nHe compared the conditions medical staff would be working in to a warzone, saying the number of health workers who fell ill in China showed the severity of the situation.\n\nHealth workers could face more risk because they may be exposed to higher doses of the virus.\n\nA GP from Somerset, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC: \"We're underprepared, under protected and under resourced. A recipe for disaster.\"\n\nAsked during Prime Minister's Questions about the shortage of PPE, Mr Johnson said: \"Our NHS should feel that they are able to interact with patients with perfect security and protection.\n\n\"There is a massive effort going on, comparable to the effort to build enough ventilators, to ensure that we have adequate supplies of PPE equipment not just now, but throughout the outbreak.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said it has \"well-established procedures to deal with supply issues, should they arise\".\n\nThe UK is going to start doing 25,000 tests per day\n\nSome doctors have also called for more testing for the virus among NHS workers to prevent any unnecessary absences.\n\nIszy Lord, 25, works at a hospital in Grimsby and lives with five other doctors - they are all self-isolating for 14 days after some of them developed symptoms.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The potential implications for self-isolating people without testing are huge.\n\n\"What's going to happen if anyone gets anything resembling a cold for the next few months, are we going to have to self-isolate for 14 days each time? It's alarming.\"\n\n\"The NHS is busy and overstretched. If we are tested and don't have the virus, we could be back at work in two to three days rather than two weeks.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn raised the issue in the House of Commons, saying current levels of 10,000 tests per day was \"nowhere near even the number of people working in the NHS and the care sector\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson announced that the UK would be increasing the number of tests per day from 10,000 to 25,000 and was \"prioritising testing\" for NHS staff.\n\nHowever, the British Medical Association tweeted that his claim was not reflected by \"the experiences of our members at the frontline of the health service and is something we are pushing to be resolved as a matter of urgency\".", "Eastwood Park Prison in Falfield can hold up to 450 female prisoners\n\nThe segregation of a jail's transgender women prisoners for \"long periods\" has been noted as a concern by a watchdog.\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) also had \"serious concerns\" about the lack of rehabilitation courses, and of women facing homelessness on release from HMP Eastwood Park.\n\nIt praised the jail near Gloucester for being \"well run\" and said prisoners were \"treated with respect\".\n\nThe Prison Service said the jail \"continues to be well run\".\n\n\"All transgender offenders are integrated into the main population and work is ongoing to make sure prisoners have every support upon release - part of the government's annual £22m investment to help women into stable accommodation and reduce their chance of reoffending.\"\n\nIMB's annual report said most prisoners were treated fairly but the cases of some transgender women caused inspectors the \"most concern\".\n\nIt said there were \"usually three to four transgender prisoners at any one time\" at Eastwood Park. It said some were left segregated for more than six weeks while decisions were made about their future.\n\nIMB chair Arthur Williams said: \"Most transgender prisoners are well integrated into the prison community.\n\n\"However those who were considered to be a risk to others were segregated for periods in excess of 42 days, before being transferred elsewhere which the IMB considered to be inhumane treatment.\"\n\nRegarding concerns about rehabilition, the IMB said it had recently been informed there would be no funding in 2020-21 for \"long-awaited new classrooms\", which would mean limited numbers of courses to help women rehabilitate.\n\nIt also said resettlement services were \"inadequate although showing signs of improvement\", with \"homelessness undermining progress\" when the women were released.\n\nThe report said there was \"still a lack of suitable accommodation in the community to support those released in maintaining a crime-free life\".\n\nThis issue was also highlighted by the Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke last year, when he said in his report that the prison was \"setting women up to fail\" by not helping them find housing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reductions to rail timetables could take effect in the coming days, as train firms deal with staff shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nServices across Britain are now largely empty as most people work from home and avoid non-essential travel.\n\nContingency plans are being made by government, Network Rail and operators to ensure that vital journeys are still possible.\n\nCertain train lines essential for emergency workers could be prioritised.\n\nFreight could be given priority in places too.\n\nThe situation is so fast-moving that the detail of these plans is being worked-out day-to-day.\n\nOne option is to introduce something similar to a normal Sunday service on every day of the week.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs that services would be reduced in the short-term \"to ensure we don't effectively run ghost trains.\"\n\nThe most pressing problem for train companies and Network Rail is staff shortages, as train drivers or signal-operators self-isolate or call-in sick.\n\nOne of the biggest franchises in the country, South Western Railway, had to cancel services this morning.\n\nOther companies are also short of train crews as the virus spreads.\n\nThe rules over refunds for train tickets are changing amid the crisis.\n\nSoutheastern has already offered customers their money back on advance tickets. State-run LNER is offering passengers credit instead.\n\nPassenger group Transport Focus called on other operators to follow suit.\n\nPeople with season tickets, which they are no longer using because they are working from home or self-isolating, might qualify for a refund.\n\nTransport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said \"people shouldn't be expected to carry on paying to get to work if they are being advised to stay at home.\"\n\nThe advice from the industry is to check with your rail company.\n\nThe immediate drop in passengers numbers and revenue for train companies is also causing unsustainable financial pressure.\n\nSo crisis talks between the Department for Transport and individual private train operators are ongoing.\n\nRail franchise contracts are likely to be suspended, and the government will have to increase the subsidies it pays to ensure that a reduced number of trains can still run.\n\nThe annual cost of running all train services in Britain is around £11bn.\n\nIf the government covers the vast bulk of that over a matter of weeks the bill would be hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nIt is also possible that some rail franchises could be nationalised, if the talks between individual train companies and the government fail to reach a position which is commercially acceptable to both sides.\n\nAlthough one rail boss insisted that the mood of the talks was \"really collaborative.\"\n\n\"The railway wants to play its part in a time of need\", he said.\n\nSeveral train franchises were already in financial trouble before the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nNegotiations concerning the UK's more troubled franchises are likely to be most complicated.\n\nTwo franchises, Northern and LNER, are already run by the Government.\n\nThe Eurostar between the UK and France is operating a \"minimal service\". UK government advice against all but essential travel abroad has had an impact on the service.\n\nEurostar is a UK-based company but its main shareholder is the French state railway, SNCF.\n\nThe firm said it was working closely with the UK and French governments in \"a very challenging time for the whole travel industry.\"\n\nFrance is under a strict lockdown, with citizens who leave home having to carry a document detailing the reasons why.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Stop, look at what's available, come and talk to us'\n\nFirms thinking of firing staff due to the coronavirus crisis should consider the support available to them first, the new Bank of England boss has said.\n\nAndrew Bailey urged UK firms to \"stop, look at what's available, come and talk to us [or] the government before you take that position\".\n\nHe added that his \"big message\" for firms and citizens was that \"we will be there to support your needs\".\n\nMany firms may have to cut staff amid a slump in demand caused by the virus.\n\nAirlines, retailers, restaurants, theatres and pubs have all said they have been pushed to the brink as people are limiting all but essential social contact.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded with a £350bn stimulus package to support struggling firms, including £330bn of business loan guarantees.\n\nHe also promised a business rates holiday and grants for retailers and pubs - although there are concerns the measures do not go far enough.\n\nAsked if the loan subsidies were available even to those companies that had already fired people, Mr Bailey told the BBC: \"I would emphasise the point that it's critical that we support the needs of the people in the country.\"\n\nAsked again if the authorities were providing a \"bridge\" beyond the crisis for people who need to buy food, as well for businesses, the governor said there were \"important discussions\" going on between companies and the Treasury.\n\nThe message, he said, was that \"supporting the employment and income of the people in this country is critical\".\n\nThe governor, who took over from Mark Carney this week, said that the Bank does not have the powers to stop businesses paying bonuses and dividends after receipt of subsidised loans.\n\nBut he said: \"I'm sure they'll get the message here.\"\n\nThe support given to the economy in terms of tax cuts and extra spending is likely to see sharply increased deficits.\n\nMany economists predict that the Bank of England will start buying up tens of billions of pounds more of government debt - known as quantitative easing - next week at its regular meeting.\n\nMr Bailey said he was not going to foreshadow the meeting, and that the Bank was an independent institution, but the country had a right to expect that it would work \"in a very closely co-ordinated way with the government\".\n\n\"This is a crisis we're all in. It's an emergency situation,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\nThe governor said it was his \"strong preference\" that financial markets, which have seen huge moves in recent weeks, should stay open though he was keeping \"a very close eye on the stability of markets and their integrity\".\n\nBut he warned City traders not to \"exploit\" the situation by betting against businesses temporarily affected by the crisis.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Anybody who says, 'I can make a load of money by shorting' [aggressively betting on the value of specific companies continuing to fall] which might not be frankly in the interest of the economy, the interest of the people, just stop doing what you're doing.\"", "The government has presented new legislation to protect military personnel and veterans from prosecution for alleged historical offences in conflicts overseas.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said it would help to end what he called \"vexatious claims\".\n\nBut human rights groups said the proposals would undermine international law.\n\nSeparate plans are being announced for troops who served in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe legislation proposes a five-year limit on criminal prosecutions from the date of an incident - unless there is compelling new evidence - and a six-year limit for any civil case involving personal injury or death.\n\nThe bill will also compel any future government to consider a derogation - effectively opting out - from the European Convention on Human Rights in any conflict overseas.\n\nThe Conservatives have previously promised to end what they call \"vexatious claims\" against serving and former soldiers who they say have been hounded and repeatedly investigated for alleged war crimes such as unlawful killing and the abuse of detainees.\n\nThe MoD said military operations in Iraq had resulted in nearly 1,000 compensation claims for unlawful detention, personal injury and death, and about 1,400 judicial review claims seeking investigations and compensation over alleged human rights violations.\n\nIt says many claims have been made without foundation and caused \"uncertainty among military personnel and others called upon to give evidence\".\n\nIn their election manifesto, the Tories promised action on the issue within 100 days if it was re-elected.\n\nBut human rights groups have expressed anger, saying the legislation would place the military above the law and undermine existing international conventions.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Monday, Mr Wallace confirmed the bill would \"deal with overseas operations\" only.\n\nHowever, he said it would be accompanied by a statement from the Northern Ireland Office setting out how the government would deal with Northern Ireland veterans.\n\n\"They will be as equal, as similar, to the protections we're going to look at overseas,\" he added.\n\nThe plans for Northern Ireland will see only cases where there is \"new compelling evidence and a realistic prospect of a prosecution\" move to a full-blown investigation.\n\nAnd once a case has been considered, there will be a legal bar on any future investigation, which the Northern Ireland Office said would \"end the cycle of reinvestigations\".", "Video calls may be an important way of keeping in touch in coming weeks\n\nAs the government encourages \"social distancing\" in the fight against coronavirus, older people are facing the prospect of being told to stay at home for weeks.\n\nBut what if a parent or older person in your life, doesn't already have access to video calling tech?\n\n\"You might want to consider getting a specialised device to make video calls to your loved ones,\" says Kate Bevan, editor of computing at Which?, the consumer magazine.\n\n\"Once they're set up, they're very simple to use but you do have to dig through settings in their apps to connect them and that's not always as straightforward as it might be,\" she says.\n\n\"Give yourself plenty of time to familiarise yourself with doing that so that you can help your relative through the process.\"\n\nAge UK, the charity for older people, adds that the choice of technology should be as \"user-friendly as possible\" for those unaccustomed to controlling video-chat software.\n\n\"Something integrated like a video call app on a smartphone, tablet or a laptop with a built-in camera, for example will often be more straightforward,\" adds Caroline Abrahams, its charity director.\n\n\"Older people may also prefer physical interfaces like a mouse rather than a touchscreen or trackpad.\n\n\"To protect people's privacy it will be important to ensure that any new devices are secure and not likely to be hacked, and that anyone using a new device has access to ongoing support to help them learn how to use it and deal with any issues or problems.\"\n\nIntegrated kit can be the easiest solution - and could be hundreds of pounds cheaper than buying a laptop, tablet, or a mid-range smartphone.\n\nAmazon, Google, and Facebook all have smart devices with screens for video calls.\n\nAmazon's Echo Show range are some of the easiest to use. The devices have a feature that lets you start a call without the other person even having to answer. Called \"drop in\", it can automatically start the call if you set it up with the right permissions. It works with the Alexa app on smartphones, too, so only one person needs the special device.\n\nThe Amazon Echo Show, like its competitors, displays images when not on a call\n\nAmazon also has some of the cheapest options, with the compact 5in model costing £80. It has a screen about the size of a smartphone's but larger models are available. And it's compatible with Skype, the veteran (and ubiquitous) video-calling app.\n\nThe Facebook Portal might be a better fit for some. One of its main selling points is the camera pans and zooms around the room, following the person you're talking to. It starts at about £80, on special offer, for the photo-frame model.\n\nIt also integrates its video calls with Facebook-owned Whatsapp and the popular Facebook Messenger, so people who own a smartphone with those apps can easily call the Portal device.\n\nGoogle's Nest Hub Max sells itself on the fact it functions as a security camera.\n\nSimilar to Amazon's \"drop in\", family members with the right permissions can activate the security features and start watching the camera feed at any time. Some privacy-conscious people may not see that as a good thing. It costs £219. Be aware that a smaller Nest Hub model does not have a camera.\n\nOne problem with all these devices is their expense and another is their need to be on a stable, decent wi-fi connection at all times. Sometimes, a smartphone might be the better option.\n\n\"If your family member has a tablet or smartphone, you can also help them get set up with apps such as Skype, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, all of which do video calls,\" Bevan says. \"Apple users can also use FaceTime.\"\n\nMany of these apps are basically smartphone versions of the software on the smart displays - Google Duo, for example, is what Google's Nest speakers use, while Messenger and Whatsapp integrate with Facebook's Portal devices.\n\nBut a new smartphone, even a mid-range one, can be much more expensive. And Bevan warns against hand-me-downs past a certain age. Apart from lower camera quality, there can be security concerns.\n\n\"If you're considering passing old Android smartphones and tablets on to a relative, do be careful that it's still getting security updates,\" she says.\n\n\"We recently found that there are more than a billion Android devices still in use that are at risk from malware and other threats.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that schools in the UK will close by this Friday to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.\n\nSchools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable children.\n\nExams will not go ahead, education secretary Gavin Williamson has said.", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic spooks investors.\n\nIt is currently trading at $1.15, a fall of almost 5% in just one day.\n\nIt comes as financial markets tumbled again after major stimulus plans failed to quell fears about the economic impact of the virus.\n\nThe Dow ended down 6.3%, while the S&P 500 fell 5.1% and the Nasdaq dropped 4.7%.\n\nEarlier the Dow and S&P 500 had plunged more than 7%, triggering an automatic temporary halt to trade, but shares recovered some ground as Congress appeared set to approve a relief bill.\n\nThe pound's weakness could partly stem from questions over how the UK government plans to pay for the emergency economic measures it has introduced, says Neil Wilson, chief analyst for Markets.com.\n\n\"This is the worst sustained period of sterling selling that I can recall,\" he says. \"The government's massive fiscal package undoubtedly means more borrowing for the UK economy - how do we pay for all this?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the FTSE 100 index of top UK firms closed down 4%, with aerospace and travel firms among the hardest hit.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed a £350bn stimulus package for UK firms on Tuesday, including £330bn of business loan guarantees.\n\nIt included aid to cover a business rates holiday and grants for retailers and pubs, while help for airlines is also being considered.\n\nDespite this, investors are still flocking to the comparatively safer dollar, says Ranko Berich, head of Market Analysis at Monex Europe.\n\n\"The UK's response to the incoming coronavirus shock has been about as aggressive as possible in terms of monetary and fiscal policy, but this has done nothing to help sterling.\n\n\"Idiosyncratic factors such as the UK's monetary and fiscal response or Brexit are beside the point: this is about the US dollar, which is proving unstoppable as global financial markets stare into the abyss of crisis-like conditions,\" he said.\n\nInvestors say rescue measures can only blunt the pain, as countries close borders and order mass closures, bringing most economic activity to a halt.\n\nThe US on Tuesday outlined a $1tn (£830bn) proposal to support the world's biggest economy, which is expected to include direct payments to families, small business assistance and bailouts for airlines and other industries.\n\nIn the US, large companies have already announced more than 3,600 job cuts or furloughs, according to research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm said some nine million other jobs at local bars and restaurants could also be at risk.\n\nConcerns about the damage have spurred a widespread sell-off. France's CAC 40 fell more than 6% while Germany's Dax dropped more than 5%.\n\nOil prices also plunged to levels not seen since the early 2000s, as demand contracts sharply, but exporters boost supply. The declines have even hit gold and government debt, which are typically considered less risky assets.\n\nAsian markets have fared better than the US and Europe in recent days, but were also lower. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 ended Wednesday 1.7% lower, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell by 3.3%, and China's Shanghai Composite lost 1.8%.\n\nSterling's fall to a 35-year low against the dollar is clearly troubling.\n\nIt is down 12% since the beginning of last week, and 5% today alone. This is partly down to the strengthening dollar, due to its status as a \"safe haven,\" the inevitable result of global volatility in financial markets amid the Coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut those aren't the only reasons for sterling's weakness. The pound has sunk to to just over €1.06 against the euro- its lowest level since the depth of the financial crisis 11 years ago.\n\nThe pound is likely to be at a record low on measures of its global value, to be calculated tomorrow.\n\nAt the same time, UK government borrowing costs are creeping up, with the presumption these would stay \"lower for longer\" now being tested in global debt markets.\n\nTraders have raised a range of reasons for why the UK is being particularly singled out for attention.\n\nThere is growing expectation of ever bigger fiscal injections to combat the economic impact of the pandemic and the UK is still very dependent on foreign flows of capital.\n\nIts strategy for dealing with the pandemic was seen, say traders, as an outlier amongst the world's major economies.\n\nThen there is Brexit. The UK has the extra economic challenge of dealing with a fundamental change to trading arrangements with the EU, perhaps on WTO tariffs, in the middle of this pandemic.\n\nIt is a very rough market out there, with some markets a little dysfunctional as traders are isolated away from their trading floors. But the UK is being singled out for especially tough treatment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled an \"unprecedented\" set of financial measures to support the UK economy through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey include mortgage \"holidays\" for those in financial difficulty as well as £330bn in loans and £20bn in other aid to protect businesses facing losses as a result of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile all non-urgent operations in England and Scotland will be postponed to free up beds for virus patients.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll hit 71.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it would be a \"good outcome\" for the UK if the number of deaths from the virus could be kept below 20,000.\n\n\"Never in peacetime have we faced an economic fight like this one,\" Mr Sunak said at a Downing Street press conference, as he detailed measures to ease financial burdens caused by the virus.\n\nThe chancellor said the £330bn in loans - equivalent to 15% of GDP - would be available from next week to help businesses pay for supplies, rent and salaries.\n\nOther measures to be put in place include extended business rates relief and a three-month mortgage holiday for people in financial difficulty as a result of the virus.\n\n\"We must act like any wartime government and do whatever it takes to support our economy,\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at the same conference.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said there was nothing in the statement to protect renters - although Mr Sunak said measures would be announced in the \"coming days\".\n\nMr McDonnell also called for statutory sick pay to be increased and for those losing their jobs to be given some support.\n\nAnd unions raised concern that no measures were announced to help freelancers and people working in the so-called gig economy,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We must act like any wartime government\"\n\nNHS England's chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said postponing routine surgery from 15 April would help to expand critical care capacity to the maximum - to prepare for \"the likely influx of more coronavirus patients\".\n\nThe emergency policy to free up 30,000 beds will be in place for at least three months, he said.\n\nHowever, cancer operations will continue to go ahead, Sir Simon added.\n\nSir Simon said the health system in England has about 7,000 ventilators and there are plans to increase this to 12,000.\n\nBritish engineering firms have been called on to switch to making medical ventilators to help efforts to cope with the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nThe government set out emergency legislation before MPs in the Commons to tackle the outbreak, including measures giving powers to police and immigration officers to detain people and put them in isolation to protect public health.\n\nIn another day of fast-changing developments across the globe:\n\nMeanwhile Sir Patrick said that, despite the upcoming Mother's Day celebration, the over-70s should avoid having Sunday lunch with their families.\n\nHe also advised people taking painkillers to use paracetamol instead of ibuprofen, after French health officials indicated anti-inflammatory drugs could worsen the virus - a suggestion Sir Patrick said \"may or may not be right\".\n\nBBC news online health editor Michelle Roberts said up to 15,000 of England's 100,000 hospital beds could be freed up for coronavirus admissions by discharging other patients who are well enough to go home or be cared for in the community.\n\nShe added that Sir Simon would not say whether the measures will ultimately be enough to ease the pressure on the NHS.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said emergency measures by the NHS in Scotland would also include doubling the number of intensive care beds.\n\nThe number of people who have died with the virus in the UK has reached 71, after a second death was confirmed in Scotland, as well as a second in Wales. and a further 14 in England.\n\nSome 1,950 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK, according to the latest Department of Health figures - but the actual number of cases could be as high as 55,000.\n\nSir Patrick told the health select committee that a death rate of one fatality for every 1,000 cases was a \"reasonable ballpark\" figure, based on scientific modelling.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have been tested for the virus in the UK, but the government is primarily testing people who are in hospital. This means many people who have mild symptoms may never be diagnosed with the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"I have taken the decision to advise British national against international travel, globally\"\n\nEarlier the Foreign Office advised British nationals to avoid all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nThe restrictions will be in place for 30 days initially but could be extended, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the House of Commons.\n\nIt is the first time the UK has advised against foreign travel anywhere in the world.\n\n\"UK travellers abroad now face widespread international border restrictions and lockdowns in various countries,\" Mr Raab said in a statement.\n\n\"The speed and range of those measures across other countries is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish people currently abroad do not have to immediately return to the UK - except for those in a few countries detailed in the Foreign Office's travel advice.\n\nBut the Foreign Office said travellers should bear in mind that flights could be cancelled at short notice as foreign countries grapple with restrictions being imposed by their own authorities.\n\nThe foreign secretary added the government would issue advice on how the flow of food and goods to the UK can be maintained, and that staff working on shipping routes should continue to do so as their travel was \"essential\".\n\nThe travel advice for British nationals has in part been brought in because of the stringent social distancing measures announced by Boris Johnson on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nThe key new measures the prime minister announced included:\n\nWhile schools will not be closed for the moment, a union leader has described the \"intolerable pressure\" teachers are under as a result of the lack of clarity about pupil and staff safety.\n\nSir Patrick said closing schools remained an option to help curb the spread of the virus but would cause an \"enormous problem\" for the workforce.\n\nHe told MPs such an intervention could have \"all sorts of complicated effects\" such as that children off school might have to be looked after by elderly grandparents.\n\nAt a cabinet meeting earlier, Mr Johnson told ministers: \"We are engaged in a war against the disease which we have to win.\"\n\nMr Johnson has set up a daily meeting about the virus, which he will chair.\n\nIn other developments in relation to coronavirus:\n\nHave you been affected by travel restrictions? Are you struggling to get back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The bird may have lived on the shoreline\n\nA newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.\n\nLiving just before the asteroid strike that wiped out giant dinosaurs, the unique fossil, from about 67 million years ago, gives a glimpse into the dawn of modern birds.\n\nBirds are descended from dinosaurs, but precisely when they evolved into birds like the ones alive today has been difficult to answer.\n\nThis is due to a lack of fossil data.\n\nThe newly discovered - and well-preserved - fossil skull should help fill in some of the gaps.\n\n\"This is a unique specimen: we've been calling it the 'wonderchicken',\" said Dr Daniel Field of the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"It's the only nearly complete skull of a modern bird that we have, so far, from the age of dinosaurs and it's able to tell us quite a lot about the early evolutionary history of birds.\"\n\nThe fossil bird has been named Asteriornis maastrichtensis, after Asteria, a Greek goddess of falling stars who turns into a quail. It was found in a quarry on the Netherlands-Belgium border.\n\nThe bird weighed in at just under 400g and was an early member of the group that gave rise to modern-day chickens, ducks and other poultry.\n\nAt the time, the region was covered by a shallow sea, and conditions were similar to modern tropical beaches. With its long, slender legs, the bird may have been a shore dweller.\n\n\"Birds are such a conspicuous and important group of living animals, being able to say something new about how modern birds actually arose is really a significant thing for palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists,\" said Dr Field.\n\n\"The wonderchicken is going to rank as a truly important fossil for helping clarify the factors that actually gave rise to modern birds.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal Nature.", "A GP fears Gwynedd does not have the resources to cope with an increase in the population as corona virus spreads\n\nSecond-home owners and caravanners have been urged not to come to north Wales to self-isolate from coronavirus.\n\nA GP said health services have been inundated by people with second homes in Gwynedd looking for medical care.\n\nThe area has more second homes than any county in Wales. Dr Eilir Hughes has called on the Welsh Government to class travelling to second homes and caravans as \"non-essential travel\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has declined to comment.\n\nDr Hughes, GP and leader of the Dwyfor Primary Care Cluster, said: \"Services expect seasonal spikes during school holidays.\n\n\"We try our best to prepare our services for this increased demand but are currently seeing a surge in demand for medical advice and assessment.\n\n\"We have seen several patients coming to use their second homes to self-isolate and using primary care services where they are not registered.\n\n\"It really does place a great strain on our infrastructure and our services,\" he told Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nDr Hughes is concerned that the NHS in the area does not have the resources to deal with an increase in the population.\n\nNew measures introduced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday urged people to avoid all unnecessary travel.\n\nDr Hughes says a \"significant amount of people\" are relocating to holiday homes and static caravans in the area\n\nNow Dr Hughes wants the Welsh Government to issue the advice to people not to travel and to return to their primary homes.\n\n\"People are travelling from outside the area, and increasing the viral load in the community.\n\n\"We have evidence that a significant amount of people who own holiday homes and static caravans have decided to travel down under the impression they'd be safer here.\n\n\"We must also remember that the people travelling into the area are often retired, meaning they are likely to be of an age at a greater risk of Covid-19.\"\n\nTwo people have died in Wales after contracting the virus.\n\nHis calls have been echoed by Dwyfor Meirionydd MP Liz Saville Roberts who said she was \"extremely concerned\" by reports of people coming into the area.\n\n\"It is highly likely that the virus is already established in the population of Gwynedd, but the lack of testing means no cases have yet been recorded,\" she said.\n\n\"People who have holiday homes in the area are seeing maps of Gwynedd as being free of Coronavirus and deciding to relocate here.\"\n\nEASY STEPS: How to keep safe", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe International Olympic Committee says it has held \"constructive\" talks with athlete representatives about the coronavirus crisis.\n\nPresident Thomas Bach admitted he was \"confronted with many questions\" over qualification and restrictions.\n\nBut he also insisted that \"everybody realised that we still have more than four months to go\" until Tokyo 2020.\n\nThe summer showpiece is still scheduled to begin on 24 July despite the cancellation of other sports events.\n\nThere has been mounting criticism from athletes, with the IOC accused of putting them \"in danger\" by insisting it remains fully committed to the Games.\n\nOlympic champion Katerina Stefanidi said the IOC was \"risking our health\", while Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson said training had become \"impossible\".\n\nSpeaking in an in-house IOC interview, Bach said: \"We have just had a really great call with 220 athlete representatives from all around the world, it was very constructive and gave us a lot of insight.\n\n\"We aimed to continue being very realistic in our analysis. We will keep acting in a responsible way that is in the interest of the athletes whilst always respecting our two principles - the safeguarding and health of the athletes and contributing to the containment of the virus, and secondly to protect the interest of the athletes and Olympic sport.\"\n\nBritish four-time Olympic rowing gold medallist Matthew Pinsent criticised Bach's comments on Twitter, accusing him of not properly listening to athletes' concerns and stating that postponing the Olympics is the best option for all concerned.\n\n\"I'm sorry Mr Bach but this is tone deaf. The instinct to keep safe is not compatible with athlete training, travel and focus that a looming Olympics demands of athletes, spectators and organisers,\" Pinsent wrote.\n\n\"Keep them safe. Call it off.\"\n\nEarlier, in a statement, the IOC had warned \"no solution will be ideal\" in preparing for Tokyo 2020.\n\n\"This is an exceptional situation which requires exceptional solutions,\" it said.\n\n\"The IOC is committed to finding a solution with the least negative impact for the athletes, while protecting the integrity of the competition and the athletes' health.\n\n\"No solution will be ideal in this situation, and this is why we are counting on the responsibility and solidarity of the athletes.\"\n\nWorld heptathlon champion Johnson-Thompson, 27, is returning to the UK from her training base in France as a result of the country being in lockdown.\n\nTokyo 2020 organisers have pledged to deliver a \"complete\" Games but Johnson-Thompson said current guidance from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is confusing.\n\nShe said: \"The IOC advice 'encourages athletes to continue to prepare for the Olympic Games as best as they can' with the Olympics only four months away but the government legislation is enforcing isolation at home, with tracks, gyms and public spaces closed.\n\n\"I feel under pressure to train and keep the same routine, which is impossible.\n\n\"I'm in a very fortunate place given the circumstances. I'm healthy, well supported and I have already qualified for the Olympics. But at this moment it's difficult to approach the season when everything has changed in the lead up apart from the ultimate deadline.\"\n\nAll club training sessions, events, competitions, club committee and face-to-face meetings, athlete camps, running groups and social events have been suspended across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n'Our health is at risk'\n\nSeveral athletes have joined Johnson-Thompson in pointing to confusion on how they should prepare.\n\nBritish race walker Tom Bosworth told BBC Sport: \"I don't think there is enough time to properly build towards a games, whether that is build athlete profiles, build the teams, allow people to qualify who haven't qualified and celebrate an Olympic Games in an Olympic year as it should be.\n\n\"I think for all involved, a slight delay is probably the best option.\"\n\nStefanidi, who won gold for Greece in pole vault at Rio 2016, said: \"This is not about how things will be in four months. This is about how things are now.\n\n\"The IOC wants us to keep risking our health, our family's health and public health to train every day? You are putting us in danger right now, today, not in four months.\"\n\nHayley Wickenheiser, a member of the IOC, has said the Olympic governing body's decision to \"move ahead, with such conviction, is insensitive and irresponsible given the state of humanity.\"\n\nSpanish Olympic Committee (COE) president Alejandro Blanco has told Reuters he would prefer this year's Games be postponed.\n\nAbout 57% of the athletes set to attend the Games have so far qualified.\n\nOn Tuesday, the IOC asked athletes to continue preparations \"as best they can\".\n\nJessica Judd, who represented Britain over 5,000m at the 2019 World Championships, tweeted: \"How on earth are we meant to carry on preparing best we can?\n\n\"Will someone share with me what races we can do to get times and whether trials will go ahead and when training can return to normal?\"\n\nJapan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has insisted the Games will go ahead as planned in July.\n\nEvents including the handover of the Olympic torch in Athens have faced disruption.\n\nAt the time of publishing this article on Wednesday (10:30 GMT), World Health Organization figures show more than 184,000 people globally have been infected by coronavirus, with more than 7,500 deaths.", "Me and My MND\n\nA man in his 40s with motor neurone disease (MND) is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to have died having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCraig Ruston, died in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Monday morning and his chest infection was diagnosed as Covid-19.\n\nIn a post on his Facebook page, Me and My MND, his wife Sally paid tribute to a \"wonderfully kind and caring person\".\n\nIn the UK, 104 people with coronavirus have now died.\n\nMr Ruston's wife said he was given about two years to live when he was diagnosed with MND in June 2018 and his \"fight with MND was not ready to be over\".\n\n\"Last Tuesday he was taken unwell and we have since spent the last six days in isolation,\" she said.\n\n\"Craig's chest infection was confirmed as Covid-19. How dare that take Craig who was already facing this, the most vile and evil of diseases.\"\n\nIn tribute to her husband, she added: \"He welcomed everyone. There were no airs and graces with Craig. He loved the world. He absorbed the world.\n\n\"He was one of the most intelligent people I know that would absorb information and could somehow explain just about anything.\"\n\nProf Andrew Chilton, medical director from Kettering General Hospital, said: \"Sadly we can confirm that a man who was being cared for at Kettering General Hospital, and had tested positive for Covid-19 has died.\n\n\"The patient who died on 16 March had underlying health conditions.\n\n\"His family has been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time.\"\n\nGlobally the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus have passed 200,000 and more than 8,000 people have died.\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.", "With the number of coronavirus patients rising around the world, children are being exposed to information and misinformation from many sources. How can parents best keep them up to date without terrifying them?\n\nCoronavirus is dominating the news and children, as always, are asking direct, difficult questions about what's going to happen.\n\nWhile the risk of young people being seriously affected by the virus appears low, doom-laden social media posts and playground rumours can induce panic.\n\nStories of deaths, possible food shortages and school closures, and the circulation of phrases like \"pandemic potential\" can add to a sense of alarm.\n\nSo tone is vital when discussing coronavirus with a child, advises Angharad Rudkin, clinical psychologist and consultant on the parenting book What's My Child Thinking?\n\n\"We all enjoy scare stories to a degree, but we don't like to hear them quite so much when they're a bit closer to home,\" she says. \"Help your child put some distance between them and the threat by giving information about how coronavirus is spread and what we can do to help minimise the risk such as using loads of lovely bubbles when washing our hands.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCovid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus which seems to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. After about a week, it leads to shortness of breath and some patients require hospital treatment.\n\nMedics aren't sure exactly how it spreads from person to person, but similar viruses do so via droplets, such as those produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.\n\nIt's essential to talk to a child about things he or she can control, such as disposing of tissues and personal hygiene, Dr Rudkin says, rather than those they cannot.\n\nOnce the explanation is over, the conversation should move on to something that \"isn't threatening, such as what they had for lunch or who do they think is going to win the football match this evening\", she adds.\n\nThe virus could affect millions of people around the world soon. The UK government says, in its latest plans, that up to a fifth of workers could be off sick at the peak of an epidemic, with school closures possible.\n\nOne problem in explaining the virus is that it's difficult to predict what will happen, though early, albeit limited, evidence suggests children with Covid-19 have tended to show mild symptoms.\n\nWhile parents have long experience in explaining global threats - war, terrorism and climate change - pre-adolescent children are still developing their ability to assess risk, says Dr Rudkin. So it's important to find out what their level of worry over coronavirus is.\n\n\"Be clear that you don't know all of the answers but that there are people making decisions for us who have all the information they need.\"\n\nParents, in turn, should be as informed as possible before explaining issues to children, including keeping up with official advice, Dr Rudkin says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wash your hands: 30-second guide\n\nIn the event that a boy or girl catches coronavirus, parents are advised not to overplay any risk to their health.\n\n\"You could tell them it's 'a bit like feeling sore', so they get to see it's not as dreadful as they might believe,\" Jon Gilmartin, a speech language therapist at the children's communication charity I Can, says.\n\nOlder people and those with existing health conditions are thought to be most at risk of death or serious sickness from catching coronavirus. This could lead children to worry about older friends and relatives.\n\nDr Rudkin advises honesty over the argument \"we will all die eventually but chances are not until we are really, really old\".\n\n\"But we can talk about it with a smile and use humour, or at least a lightness of touch, that doesn't then plummet our children into an existential pit they really don't need to be in, until they're 13 at least,\" she adds. \"Reassure your child that you and granddad are really fit and strong and that you will continue to do all you can to keep yourself/granddad healthy and safe.\"\n\nChildren's capacity to deal with complex and worrying information increases with age, so the way a parent speaks to a three-year-old is very different to dealing with a teenager - and it involves a personal judgement.\n\nBut Mr Gilmartin suggests the use of \"simple language\" for all age groups and allowing children to ask \"lots of questions\" to show they're being listened to.\n\nParents who themselves are looking for the right language to use, could start with the BBC's Newsround coverage.\n\nChildren, like the rest of the population, are exposed to myths and misinformation about coronavirus, via playground gossip and, particularly among pre-teens and teenagers, on social media.\n\nThe best way to combat this is providing \"age-appropriate information and reassurance\", says Dr Rudkin, as the source young people trust best is a parent.", "The size of yesterday's intervention by the chancellor was impressive.\n\nAt over 15% of total national income it's a package that measures up favourably against measures announced by other countries including France and the US.\n\nHowever, in this fast-moving environment it's not about the size and supply of credit, it's about speed and demand.\n\nFar and away the most popular measure among business owners was the immediate 12-month holiday on business rates.\n\nBut to be honest, most businesses I've spoken to in the last 48 hours had no intention of paying their rates anyway.\n\nThat also applies to VAT which the government may waive imminently.\n\nHospitality groups are also circulating a template letter for members to fill in with their own details to ask for significant rent reductions.\n\nBut again, many are taking matters into their own hands by withholding rent payments.\n\nBut the biggest cost most businesses face are staff wages, and it is here that the government will need to think boldly and creatively to prevent what is a severe but hopefully temporary crisis turning into a long-term economic malaise.\n\nThe head of the CBI has urged the government to use the National Insurance system to reverse the flow of cash from government to business.\n\nIn the US, the government is considering \"helicopter money\" - using the central bank to create money which is sent directly to citizens.\n\nIt is a measure of how serious the current situation is that this is getting serious consideration - having been dismissed by most during the financial crisis of ten years ago as a step too far.\n\nThe supermarkets will be key in any strategy and we are already seeing them cut opening times, ration popular items and accelerate payments to their suppliers.\n\nDelivery services like Deliveroo are working up proposals to cut the price of using their app, but as one hospitality business owner told me, the problem is that \"many of these technology platforms are not yet turning a profit so their ability to help is limited\".\n\nThe Business Secretary, Alok Sharma, told the BBC that new measures to help firms are imminent.\n\nGetting ahead of this crisis will be a very significant challenge. The usual rule book is being ripped up.\n\nOne question that business owners are repeatedly asking me is whether the government is serious about pressing ahead with a potentially disruptive departure from the EU this December.\n\nMinisters have already conceded that there will be additional cost and friction - HMRC estimates that over 200 million additional customs declarations will cost UK businesses £6.5bn and require considerable management focus.\n\nGiven that the negotiations will be severely disrupted by this health emergency - many are asking whether it would be wiser to request an extension of the transition period beyond the end of December.", "Eloise Rickman says if all parents did was read until August they would be setting them up for a good education\n\n“Whether you’re living in a massive six bedroom house or all sharing a smaller two-bed flat, we’re all going to feel the walls closing in a little bit more,” says Eloise Rickman, who runs courses on home-schooling.\n\nFeeling cooped up might be just one of several potential knock-on effects as more families self-isolate together following the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe government’s current advice is that if anyone develops symptoms, everyone they live with must self-isolate. And now schools in the UK are to close over coming days for most children.\n\nAmong the families in quarantine are Annie Ridout, 34, her husband and their three young children. Two of her children have developed symptoms.\n\n“It’s a very weird time,” she said. “We are focusing on getting through it and being as upbeat as we can.”\n\nMs Ridout, who teaches online courses for freelancers and entrepreneurs, says she has created a daily schedule for her school-age children.\n\n“An hour of maths, my husband has been doing that in the morning. And then an hour of reading and writing. There will be creative time, artwork, and then time in the garden, digging and getting muddy. And that will be it.”\n\nAnnie Ridout and two of her young children who are off school\n\nShe says originally she planned a schedule with 30-minute chunks, but it’s now less rigid and more focused on ticking off tasks each day. “We had to loosen up in terms of accepting they are going to watch telly,” she says.\n\nMs Rickman, from south London, agrees that a schedule is important - especially for children who are already at nursery or school and will be used to routine.\n\n“Children really thrive on predictability, especially when life is changing around them,” she says.\n\nBut the 31-year-old, who already home-schools her children, stresses that any schedule should be more like a “flow” - rather than something strict.\n\nShe suggests creating weekly or daily activities and then read the plan out or “stick it on the wall”.\n\n“Maybe Wednesdays have a family film afternoon. Or give teenagers some private time to Skype their friends,” she suggests.\n\nEducational psychologist Zubeida Dasgupta also stressed the importance of structure, from her home in Brighton and Hove where she and her family are also currently self-isolating.\n\n“We know when people are faced with uncertainty or worry, having some certainties, for example through a bit of structure, could really help,” she says.\n\n“Although on the face of it, some children may feel excited by being off school, the reality is weeks - or months - on end playing Xbox and watching movies may not be as fun as we think.\n\n“It’s about getting a balance - having a structure and integrating some fun,” she says. “It might be helpful to think about how we distinguish weekdays and weekends.”\n\nIn terms of schoolwork, some schools and teachers have already spoken about the possibility of setting work for pupils to access online.\n\nThe current health crisis is certainly a “unique situation” for schooling, says Ms Rickman.\n\n“For parents who are suddenly plunged into it, I think it could be a challenge.”\n\nBut she adds: “I have had a few messages from families who said they have always wanted to try home-schooling and are looking forward to doing it for the first time.”\n\nShe says the most important thing in home-schooling is family relationships. A lot of siblings will not be used to being together all day, and “that’s a lovely opportunity to build and strengthen your family relationships - but it will come with some bumps in the road”.\n\nShe suggests parents try and carve out some one-on-one time with the children.\n\nThinking about the environment is also important, she says - but “this is not about setting up a classroom in the living room”.\n\nShe suggests making spaces for children to do arts or craft - for example covering a coffee table with newspaper and arranging pens in mugs - and even moving furniture.\n\n“If you don’t want the kids looking at the TV for five hours a day, think do we need to rejig the furniture? Do we want to think about pushing tables back so the kids have space to run about, especially if you have a flat.”\n\n\"This is a time we need to prepare for our houses to be a bit messier. Having kids about all day, it’s going to get messy.”\n\nAnd she says learning at home is not simply replicating school at home. It’s not necessary to do six hours of learning like in school, she says, as lessons will be one-on-one and so more intense.\n\nBut it’s not just the children who may be impacted as whole families in isolation. Parents too could find it a challenge.\n\nSpending hours on end every day with your children can be difficult, says Ms Rickman. She says the first piece of advice she would give to parents who are with their children at home is to “think about yourself first”.\n\n“Our children respond so much to ourselves and our leadership,” she says. “Especially now when things are being disrupted. I would say as a parent the best thing to focus on before you go down rabbit holes looking for curriculum is to think about how to support yourself first because you are that bedrock.\n\n“Even just opening a window and taking 10 deep breaths, doing a free three-minute meditation or writing down 10 things you’re grateful for. And things like limiting how much news you’re taking in in a day”\n\nThe advice for parents is also reiterated by educational psychologist Ms Dasgupta.\n\n“People need space and time on their own”, she says, urging families to have conversations to negotiate uninterrupted time alone.\n\nMs Dasgupta says social contact with the outside world is also vital, as well as exercise, such as going for a walk where you won't bump into anyone. If you are self-isolating after having symptoms, the NHS advises not going for a walk.\n\n“Being together could feel a little like cabin fever, not just being in the space for so long but also interacting only with the people in your immediate family,\" says Ms Dasgupta. \"Thank God for being able to Skype and WhatsApp.”\n\nBut there are positives, she adds.\n\n“I suppose the positives are we can spend some time together, some nice, unhurried time. We don’t have to get to places and juggle all the different commitments.\n\n“You can slow down. It can help you enjoy the moment a little bit more.\"", "How Johnny Depp lost the top of his middle finger is proving key to a libel case he has brought against The Sun.\n\nThe actor is suing publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) over a 2018 article that alleged he was violent and abusive towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.\n\nAt a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, the newspaper group said he sustained the injury during \"an alcohol and drug-addled rage against Ms Heard\" in 2015.\n\nBut he claims his finger was fractured when she threw a glass bottle at him.\n\nThe couple met in 2011, married in 2015 and settled their divorce out of court in 2017.\n\nMs Heard, who is giving evidence in support of The Sun, has accused her ex-husband of grabbing, shoving and strangling her while they were on holiday in Australia.\n\nShe claims he \"severely injured his finger, cutting off the top\" while he was smashing a telephone against a wall, according to NGN's barrister Adam Wolanski QC.\n\nBut Mr Depp claims Ms Heard threw a glass bottle at him, which smashed and fractured his finger, before she put \"a cigarette out on [Mr Depp's] right cheek\".\n\nMr Depp (centre) appeared at an earlier preliminary hearing in London in February\n\nMr Wolanski said the accounts of what happened were \"diametrically opposed\" and claimed Mr Depp's version of events was undermined by texts he later sent to his doctor.\n\nPenelope Cruz and Winona Ryder have provided written statements that express surprise and shock at seeing him characterised as violent.\n\nAccording to Mr Wolanski, Ms Heard believes her ex-husband is \"leaking evidence which he thinks supports his case into the press\".\n\nIt will be decided at another preliminary hearing on Friday whether the two-week trial will begin on Monday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage will remain dark in June, as the festival becomes the latest event to be cancelled due to coronavirus.\n\nTaylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to appear, alongside Diana Ross and Dua Lipa.\n\n\"We're so sorry that this decision has been made,\" a statement said. \"It was not through choice.\"\n\nJust six days ago, organiser Emily Eavis said she had \"fingers firmly crossed\" the event would go ahead.\n\nBut after the government advised people to avoid mass gatherings on Monday, cancellation became increasingly likely.\n\nOrganisers took the decision before 1 April, when festival-goers were expected to pay the remaining balance of their £270 tickets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans who had already paid the £50 deposit will be allowed to roll over that sum to next year, guaranteeing \"the opportunity to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2021\", organisers said. Refunds will also be available for those who want them.\n\nMore than 200,000 people, including 135,000 ticket-holders, would have descended on Worthy Farm in Somerset if the festival had gone ahead from 24 to 28 June.\n\nOther acts on the line-up included Noel Gallagher, Lana Del Rey, Herbie Hancock, the Pet Shop Boys, AJ Tracey and Haim.\n\n\"We very much hope that the situation in the UK will have improved enormously by the end of June,\" said Michael and Emily Eavis in a statement.\n\n\"But even if it has, we are no longer able to spend the next three months with thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure and attractions.\"\n\nTaylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to have topped the bill on the Pyramid Stage\n\nSaying 2020 would now be an \"enforced fallow year\" for the festival, they apologised for letting fans down.\n\n\"We were so looking forward to welcoming you all for our 50th anniversary with a line-up full of fantastic artists and performers that we were incredibly proud to have booked.\"\n\nThey added: \"We look forward to welcoming you back to these fields next year and until then, we send our love and support to all of you.\"\n\nBBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley echoed many fans' sentiments when she wrote on Twitter: \"This is so devastatingly disappointing for so many people on so many levels.\n\n\"Next year Glastonbury is going to be off the scale,\" she added. \"But for now much love to Emily Eavis and the Glasto family.\"\n\nMusician Billy Bragg, who is an annual fixture at the festival, also expressed his disappointment.\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\nMeanwhile, pop culture journalist Natalie Jamieson issued an open call for the BBC to raid its archive of Glastonbury footage to broadcast an \"ultimate Glastonbury line-up\" on the last weekend of June.\n\n\"Am still gonna need a live-music fix & it could bring *such* joy,\" she wrote.\n\nLorna Clarke, the BBC's controller of pop music, later said the broadcaster would \"look at providing our audiences with a celebration of Glastonbury in June\".\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation comes after BBC Radio 1 cancelled plans to host its Big Weekend festival in Dundee in May.\n\nThe announcement also calls into doubt the viability of other UK festivals, including BST Hyde Park, All Points East, Lovebox and Latitude.\n\nThe Brighton Festival, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival were among the other arts events that dropped off the calendar on Wednesday.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam was also cancelled.\n\nIn the US, the Coachella and South By Southwest festivals have already been postponed or called off, while concert giants Live Nation and AEG have halted all forthcoming concert tours, with acts like Celine Dion, The Who and Billie Eilish among the artists postponing dates.\n\nLive Nation's share price finished trading at $33.92 (£28.26) on Tuesday - less than half of its value at this time last month.\n\nBut many artists - including Coldplay, Christine and the Queens and Yungblud - have started to live-stream concerts to keep fans' spirits up during self-isolation.\n\nBruce Springsteen also uploaded a full 2009 concert with the E Street Band to YouTube, telling fans to \"practice social distancing and stream\" live music \"from the comfort of your own home\".\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.", "Kellie Bright in the Queen Vic in EastEnders\n\nThe BBC has suspended filming on dramas including EastEnders, Casualty, Doctors and Holby City \"until further notice\" amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe number of EastEnders episodes screened will also be cut from four to two per week, the broadcaster said.\n\nThat will allow it to make the existing recorded episodes last for \"as long as possible\", the BBC said.\n\nITV said Coronation Street would keep filming on a reduced schedule and would go down to three episodes a week.\n\nEmmerdale will continue to air five episodes a week.\n\nThe BBC said the decision to suspend filming on its continuing dramas was made after the latest government update.\n\n\"In light of the spread of Covid-19, after much consideration, it has been decided that filming on EastEnders will be postponed until further notice,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"We will continue to follow the latest news and advice from the World Health Organisation and Public Health England.\"\n\nSince 2001, EastEnders has been broadcast every weeknight except Wednesdays. The show will now only air episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays.\n\nTracey Brabin, the shadow culture secretary and a former EastEnders, Coronation Street and Casualty actress, tweeted: \"Thinking of all my friends on the show who must be pretty anxious right now.\"\n\nEastEnders actress Natalie Cassidy joked: \"I shall get my trumpet out at some point and entertain myself.\"\n\nIn reference to Casualty, Doctors, Holby City, Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm and Scottish drama River City, the corporation confirmed \"it has decided that filming on all BBC Studios continuing dramas will be postponed\".\n\nITV said filming on Coronation Street and Emmerdale would continue. But filming schedules will change from Monday and fewer episodes of Corrie will be broadcast.\n\n\"The continued transmission of both soaps is a priority to all of us at ITV and to our audiences who enjoy the shows,\" an ITV spokesman said.\n\n\"Whilst carefully adhering to the latest health advice from the government and Public Health England, our production teams are continuing to film episodes in Manchester and Leeds.\"\n\nEmmerdale will continue to air five days a week. But Coronation Street will air only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with one episode each night.\n\nA Coronation Street cast member who was in self-isolation is now back at work\n\n\"With this change of transmission pattern it will ensure we have great new soap episodes coming to air every weekday night until at least the early summer,\" ITV said.\n\nCorrie has already banned kissing scenes in an attempt to halt the spread of coronavirus on set. An ITV spokesperson said any scenes with kissing or close contact were being altered to minimise contact between actors.\n\nRadio 4 drama The Archers has suspended recordings at its Birmingham studio.\n\nIn a statement, editor Jeremy Howe said there were \"enough episodes... for the weeks ahead\" and the team was \"working on plans beyond this\".\n\nMeanwhile, Australian TV soap Neighbours has announced it will not film this week as a precaution, after reports suggested a person working on the show had come into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe show's parent companies, Network Ten and Fremantle, have opted to take a break until Monday in order to adapt their filming schedules to minimise the impact of the outbreak.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC announced that news programmes including Politics Live and Victoria Derbyshire had been temporarily suspended, allowing the BBC News Channel to focus on \"core news\".\n\nQuestion Time, which sees political figures and commentators take questions from the public, will move to a prime time 20:00 slot on BBC One. However, it will proceed without a studio audience for the time being.\n\nAfter the EastEnders announcement, Huffington Post entertainment writer Matt Bagwell suggested: \"This feels like the perfect excuse to run some classic EastEnders episodes like Den serving Angie with the divorce papers, Peggy and the ghost of Pat etc.\n\n\"So many younger viewers would never have seen them and a complete nostalgia fest for the rest of us.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "France's hopes of a Six Nations Grand Slam are over after revitalised Scotland inflicted their fourth consecutive Murrayfield defeat.\n\nFabien Galthie's side had won their first three games of the Six Nations but a first-half red card for Mohamed Haouas let Scotland seize control.\n\nSean Maitland crossed either side of the break after Damian Penaud's score, before Stuart McInally added a third.\n\nCharles Ollivon's late try could not deny Gregor Townsend consecutive wins.\n\nAdam Hastings, who impressed in place of the exiled Finn Russell, added 13 points with the boot.\n\nFrance are now second in the championship and even a bonus-point win over Ireland in Paris next weekend might not seal the title with England still to face Italy.\n\nChasing the fourth leg of a Grand Slam, France were met with Scottish belligerence from the get-go, their day beginning badly and getting steadily worse from that point.\n\nHere they met a home team who had no truck with all the chat of the glorious revival of Les Bleus. They said privately they believed they would win and they set about their mission with zeal.\n\nThere were towering performances from the Scotland back row, with Jamie Ritchie and Hamish Watson bringing their relentless personalities to bear. Lock Grant Gilchrist was outstanding. The front row to a man were ferocious, with prop Zander Fagerson doing his bit in a winning scrum and putting in a monstrous shift around the park.\n\nHastings was terrific and this was a big day for Stuart Hogg, perhaps his biggest in a Scotland jersey. As captain, he would have felt the joy of this big time. There were big performers all over the field. Red card or no red card, this was richly deserved.\n\nFrance had Francois Cros binned early for dumping Gilchrist on his head in the tackle, with Paul Willemse perhaps getting off lightly for he was on the scene as well. And while Cros was away for his 10 minutes - and there was a case for it being a red card - Scotland hit the front.\n\nThe visitors' scrum has been one of their few areas of weakness on their road to Murrayfield this season and now it hurt them again. The Scots have been reborn in that department. When France collapsed, Hastings banged over the first points.\n\nRomain Ntamack had gone by then, the brilliant fly-half injured inside 10 minutes. It was another blow following the withdrawal in the warm-up of their replacement hooker Camille Chat. Things were not going their way.\n\nCros returned but Hastings made it 6-0 just after. A quarter had been played and France had produced nothing. When they threatened to get up a head of steam, they were halted by the aggression coming at them, their threat snuffed out early through Scotland's intensity and their own handling errors under the pressure of the blitz.\n\nMurrayfield revelled in it - and then Murrayfield winced. Having looked passive, France suddenly switched and regained their magic, if only for a brief period.\n\nA thrust up the left from Matthieu Jalibert and Gael Fickou had Scotland in trouble. When they moved it right, Antoine Dupont, the wee wizard that he is, put in the most sumptuous cross-field kick for Penaud to score. Jalibert then rifled over the conversion to put France ahead.\n\nThe drama was only starting. Four minutes before the break Haouas, a player with the shortest fuse, lost the plot amid a melee on the France line. Practically every player was in there, pushing and shoving, but Haouas threw a punch at Ritchie, connected, and got what he deserved - a red card.\n\nHastings added to the visitors' misery by putting over the resultant penalty to inch Scotland back in front. Before the half was done, Scotland sickened France further, striking out through their forward muscle before the stand-off entered proceedings with some brilliance that France couldn't cope with.\n\nHe dummied and slalomed his way into space and found Ali Price in support. France were spread-eagled. Pace and accuracy did for them. Centre Sam Johnson kept his cool in the decisive moment and gave it on a plate to Maitland, who sprinted over in the corner.\n\nWithin four minutes of Haouas walking, Scotland had hit them with eight points. At last, they had found a ruthless streak.\n\nThe early minutes of the second half shone a light on how Scotland managed to put it all together on the day. Under ferocious pressure near their own line, they stood up. Big and bold, they would not let the French through, Watson coming up with a massive turnover.\n\nThen they attacked, and France got well and truly Hogg-roasted. The captain took off from his own 10m line, arcing downfield before playing in Chris Harris, who galloped clear.\n\nThe centre had Price on his shoulder and when the scrum-half was hauled down in the France 22, the recycle was quick and the execution precise, Ritchie and Johnson sending Maitland in for his second score.\n\nHastings' conversion from the touchline was pin-sharp. The 15 men led the 14 men 21-7. The Slam had been slammed.\n\nFrance rallied but the only joy they got from their pressure was three points from Jalibert, a penalty that was put over after they seemed to realise trying to bust the home defence for a try wasn't working out.\n\nThe third Scotland try came 15 minutes before the end. It was a fluke, but Murrayfield didn't care a whole lot about that.\n\nScotland had a line-out in the France 22 and McInally - on for 50-cap man Fraser Brown - had his throw pinched, but when the ball was diverted back on the France side, no visitor was able to collect it and the replacement hooker scooped up the gift and ran away to score. Hastings knocked over the conversion.\n\nThe Scots led by 28-10, a gap that narrowed to 11 when Ollivon battered his way over four minutes from time. Jalibert added the conversion, but he couldn't save the Slam.\n\nA thunderous Scotland, with help from the fiery Haouas, had ripped it from their grasp.", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said it is a \"privilege\" to manage his players as they completed the Premier League double over derby rivals Manchester City for the first time in a decade.\n\nThis thunderous encounter was a personal nightmare for Manchester City's normally reliable Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson, who gifted Solskjaer's side both goals in sharply contrasting fashion.\n\nHe allowed Anthony Martial's routine shot to squirm under his body from a quick Bruno Fernandes free-kick on the half-hour and then, with seconds left, threw a clearance straight to Scott McTominay, who showed great technique to send a long-range finish, struck first time, into the net in front of a delirious Stretford End.\n\nIt is a win that leaves Liverpool - who now have a 25-point lead at the top of the table - requiring only two more wins to secure their first league title for 30 years and Manchester United only three points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, after their first derby league double since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement.\n\nCity hotly contested the free-kick, given by referee Mike Dean for a foul by Ilkay Gundogan on Fernandes, that led to Martial's goal - although United also felt they were denied a penalty when Fred was booked for diving after tangling with Nicolas Otamendi.\n\nSergio Aguero had a goal ruled out for offside by VAR and even though City enjoyed the greater share of possession, United sealed a crucial win with McTominay's strike to take their unbeaten run to 10 games in all competitions.\n\n\"It's a privilege to be their manager,\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"They give absolutely everything. They know they are all good players but they want to learn as well.\n\n\"We feel we are improving as a squad and a team. We feel the fans want us to do well and they see what we are doing, so it is getting better and better.\n\n\"But we are still fifth. We need points to catch Chelsea and Leicester, so need to keep plugging away.\"\n\nThe jubilant scenes and the sound of his name echoing around Old Trafford at the final whistle will have been music to the ears of Manchester United manager Solskjaer.\n\nThe Norwegian, still to convince many of his suitability for the giant task of turning Manchester United's fortunes around, has now enjoyed three wins over Pep Guardiola and Manchester City this season - and this was surely the most satisfying day of the season at 'The Theatre Of Dreams'.\n\nUnited may still be light years away from the glory days of old but victories such as this sustain hope, and the atmosphere inside Old Trafford as Solskjaer's side first held on to their advantage and then sealed the win was reminiscent of days gone by.\n\nManchester City may have enjoyed the greater share of possession but United showed great resilience and always carried a threat on the break.\n\nFernandes once again confirmed what a shrewd piece of business his signing was from Sporting Lisbon - although why wait so late in the window to sign him? - and why he is already a hero to United's fans.\n\nThe Portuguese has that touch of class and creativity while United had another outstanding performer in defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who won his battle with Raheem Sterling as he hounded the England star for 90 minutes and beyond.\n\nManchester United, who have looked off the top four for so much of the time this season, are now right in the fight and credit must be given to the manager who has helped fashion this impressive run.\n\n\"We feel we are improving all the time. We know we lack one, two, three players to be considered a title contender and some experience,\" said Solskjaer. \"We are just going to start talking about going up the table, getting more points.\n\n\"Chelsea and Leicester are too far ahead for my liking.\"\n\nManchester City's defeat is hardly damaging in the context of their Premier League title defence - that was lost to Liverpool a long time ago.\n\nGuardiola's concern, and admittedly he was without his star player Kevin de Bruyne, will be that once again his side had plenty of possession but did not create enough, not showing enough urgency until it was too late.\n\nAnd he will be concerned by the performance of goalkeeper Ederson, who was over-confident throughout and paid a heavy price.\n\nEderson was not only badly at fault for both goals but almost gave away another when he allowed a routine pass to roll under his foot at the Stretford End, resulting in a desperate tackle on Martial almost on the goalline to spare his embarrassment.\n\nGuardiola will be additionally unhappy about this defeat, not least because it was City's seventh of the Premier League campaign, making 2019-20 the season in which he has lost the most league games in his managerial career.\n\nCity now face home games against Arsenal and Burnley to get themselves in shape for the Champions League last-16 second leg meeting with Real Madrid, in which they hold a precious 2-1 advantage from the first leg in the Bernabeu.\n\nGuardiola will hope Ederson has got this carelessness and over-confidence out of his system.\n\n'It was a good performance', says Guardiola\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola to BBC Match of the Day: \"We played good, we missed a little in the final third but the second half was better and it was a good performance.\n\n\"We play the same way, tried the press and defend well and we did well.\n\n\"Our game is there, we played really good in terms of coming here. They wait and did long balls on the counter-attack for Daniel James and Anthony Martial.\n\n\"We did our game but unfortunately we conceded a goal. They waited for our mistakes.\"\n• None United are unbeaten in their last 10 games (W7 D3); their longest run without defeat since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first 11 games in charge.\n• None This is the second time in Pep Guardiola's managerial career that he has suffered three defeats against a specific opponent in a single season (also versus Liverpool in 2017-18).\n• None Anthony Martial is only the second United player to score in three consecutive Premier League starts in Manchester derbies, and the first since Eric Cantona netted in five in a row between March 1993 and April 1996.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition on 1 February, United's Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals in the Premier League than any other player (five - two goals and three assists).\n• None Manchester City's Raheem Sterling became the fourth youngest player to reach 250 appearances in the Premier League, after Wayne Rooney, James Milner and Gareth Barry.\n\nCity host Arsenal on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT in a rearranged Premier League fixture, with United going to LASK in Austria in the Europa League the following day (17:55 GMT).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 2, Manchester City 0. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Daniel James tries a through ball, but Bruno Fernandes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nIt brings the total number of positive tests in Scotland to 16.\n\nTwo new cases have been reported in Lanarkshire, with an increase of one case in Lothian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Grampian.\n\nAcross the UK, 206 people have tested positive for Covid-19. Two people - who both had underlying health problems - have died with the disease.\n\nThe increase in Scotland matches the jump seen on Friday, the biggest in a single day since the first reported case on Sunday.\n\nIn total, 1,664 of the 1,680 tests in Scotland have come back negative.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she expects the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 to increase \"very rapidly\" in the coming days.\n\nBut she said she hoped to push back the spread of the virus to limit the peak of the outbreak until the spring and summer months.\n\nIt comes as Scotstoun sports complex in Glasgow is shut for cleaning after a rugby player tested positive for the virus after using the facility.\n\nThe woman was a member of the Scotland women's team which trained at Scotstoun stadium on Friday.\n\nHer team's Six Nations match against France, which was due to be played at Scotstoun, has been cancelled.\n\nIn Argyll, a GP has told his patients to stay away from his surgery for fear of spreading the virus.\n\nDr Robert Coull said appointments at Strachur Medical Practice would only be conducted by telephone.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer has previously warned that there could be a \"rapid rise\" in the number of cases in the coming days.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood also said Scotland remained \"very much\" in the containment phase of its response to the outbreak, and urged people to continue to follow basic hygiene advice and - crucially - wash their hands for 20 seconds.", "Former Vice-President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris after a debate in September 2019\n\nCalifornia Senator Kamala Harris has endorsed Joe Biden with \"great enthusiasm\" as the Democratic party's US presidential candidate.\n\n\"Biden has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever,\" she said in a Twitter post.\n\nHer announcement is another boost for Mr Biden, the Democratic front runner to take on Donald Trump in November.\n\nMs Harris, seen as a rising star within the party, dropped out of the presidential race in December.\n\nSupport for Mr Biden surged in the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries last week, with the 77-year-old winning 10 of the 14 states that voted.\n\nThe race to the Democratic nomination has in effect become a contest between Mr Biden, a centrist, and left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders.\n\nThrowing her support behind Mr Biden on Sunday, Ms Harris, 55, said in a recorded message on Twitter: \"I really believe in him and I have known him for a long time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We need a leader who really does care about the people, and can therefore unify the people,\" the senator added.\n\nMr Biden later thanked Ms Harris for her support. \"Kamala - You've spent your whole career fighting for folks who've been written off and left behind… from our family: thank you,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe two have, however, previously clashed during the presidential debates.\n\nLast June, Ms Harris attacked Mr Biden over his previous opposition to a policy combating segregation in schools.\n\nMs Harris - the only black woman in the Democratic field - pilloried Mr Biden for having recently reminisced about working with two Democratic senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe said at the time that she did not believe he was a racist, but added: \"It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.\"\n\nMr Biden's wife, Jill, said the senator's comments were \"the biggest surprise\" of the campaign, adding: \"The one thing you cannot say about Joe is that he's a racist... I mean, he got into politics because of his commitment to civil rights.\"\n\nMs Harris, a fierce critic of Mr Trump, said she would be campaigning with Mr Biden in Detroit on Monday.\n\nSeparately, US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson on Sunday endorsed Mr Sanders, saying the Vermont senator's progressive social and economic policies would give black Americans \"the best chance to catch up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What unites these two bitter rivals?", "In a livestreamed address from the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis said: \"It's a bit strange this Angelus prayer today, with the Pope caged in the library, but I see you and I am close to you.\"\n\nToday's unusual delivery was to \"adhere to the precautionary measures\", he said.\n\nUp to 16 million people have been placed in quarantine in Italy in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nThe Pope made a brief appearance in person, waving from one of the windows to crowds who had gathered outside in the Vatican.", "Staff on HSBC's tenth floor were told to leave the office and work from home after a staff member returned from Asia with coronavirus\n\nMany of the City of London's biggest institutions are taking steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday many of JPMorgan's UK-based staff are being temporarily moved to a different office. They're not alone.\n\nGoldman Sachs last week sent around 200 members of staff to test a site in Croydon, South London for the day to ensure the systems worked effectively.\n\nMany of these measures by some of the world's biggest banks follow the events that took place at HSBC last week.\n\nHSBC sent home more than 100 staff from the tenth floor of its Canary Wharf offices on Thursday. The move came after one staff member, who was part of the research division, returned from travelling and was diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus.\n\nThe employee is now under medical supervision and has self-isolated, and the rest of the research division worked from home on that day.\n\nThis was the first known case at a major company in the UK's financial service hub.\n\nHSBC said the building, which houses close to 10,000 workers, would remain open after it took medical advice.\n\nThe City financial watchdog says it does not mind where bank staff work, so long as regulations are upheld\n\nRegulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), says it doesn't have an issue with staff working from backup sites or even from home, so long as certain standards are met.\n\nThe FCA expects firms to be able to enter orders and transactions promptly into the relevant systems, use recorded lines when trading and give staff the compliance support they need.\n\nJPMorgan says it began its coronavirus contingency plan last week by splitting up teams to work in different offices around the country.\n\nMany members of staff are now either working in a different office than normal or at home.\n\nThe bank has offices in London, Bournemouth, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nHowever, the nature of the job means that working from home is not an option for many staff at most of the large investment banks such as JP Morgan or its rival Goldman Sachs.\n\nThat's because most traders and salespeople need to sit together on a trading floor which is monitored in order to meet regulatory rules.\n\nGoldman Sachs hasn't activated its coronavirus contingency plan just yet but if the need arises the bank says it is ready to act.", "The government has outlined emergency legislation to tackle coronavirus, including measures to allow people to leave their jobs and volunteer to care for those affected.\n\nProposals would also allow court cases to be heard via video links.\n\nIt comes ahead of an expected move from the UK's \"containment\" phase of the outbreak response to \"delay\".\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged to address the outbreak in his first Budget on Wednesday.\n\nThe emergency coronavirus legislation could be introduced in the House of Commons this month, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said.\n\nBy Saturday, the number of confirmed cases in the UK had risen to 209 from 164 the day before, and two people have died after contracting the virus - the latest being an 83-year-old man at Milton Keynes Hospital.\n\nRevealing new details of measures expected to be included in the bill, Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlined plans for volunteers to be given additional employment safeguards so they can leave their main jobs and temporarily volunteer in the event of a UK epidemic.\n\nAround three million people currently volunteer in \"a health, community health and social care setting\", the government says.\n\nUnder the proposed measures, the jobs of \"skilled, experienced or qualified volunteers\" are to be protected for up to four weeks, and the government will consult businesses on the measures.\n\nTom Dolphin, a doctor who is a member of the British Medical Association's governing council, said the measures were welcome and would help to free up capacity in hospitals.\n\n\"We're not starting from a great place in terms of dealing with a big epidemic. We know that for a long time the NHS has been understaffed and under-resourced,\" he said.\n\nDr Dolphin said the health service could find itself having to make \"difficult choices\", postponing planned operations to cope with emergencies and epidemic cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NHS could have to cancel planned operations, warns the BMA\n\nVolunteers would need training and protective equipment, but Dr Dolphin said retirees brought back into service would be aware of the risks they were taking in tackling a virus that disproportionately affected older people.\n\n\"Being exposed to infectious disease is part of being a doctor or a nurse,\" he said.\n\nMinisters are also thought to be considering allowing more proceedings in magistrates' courts to be conducted via telephone or video.\n\nFollowing last week's announcement that ministers will also consider the emergency registration of retired health professionals, the new bill will also look at ensuring any retired staff who return to work in the NHS do not have their pensions negatively impacted.\n\nFive hundred extra staff have already been recruited to work on the NHS 111 phone service, after calls increased by a third over the last week, compared with the same period a year ago.\n\nThis legislation is as much about what society can do in a coronavirus epidemic as it is about what the government is doing.\n\nTo minimise the impact of widespread transmission, which the UK is now gearing up for, requires the concerted efforts of individuals, businesses and communities as well as the state.\n\nThere is a limit to what NHS volunteers can do and, what is more, many are retired so the job protection does not necessarily matter that much.\n\nIncreased use of video links in court will also only have a limited impact. But when we go to the next stage of the government plan - delay - we are likely to see recommendations about social distancing at some point.\n\nThat will involve steps such as working from home and reducing our social contact - cutting back on the need for people to attend court will have a small role in that.\n\nWhat these measures do is send a signal - that the best way of getting through a coronavirus epidemic is by pulling together and following expert advice as best we can.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We will do all we can to contain coronavirus but, as we know, Covid-19 is spreading across the world. So I want to ensure government is doing everything in its power to be ready to delay and mitigate this threat.\"\n\nHe said responding to the virus is \"a massive national effort\" and the government would introduce a bill with \"proportionate\" measures to deal with a widespread outbreak of Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, the new chancellor has promised \"targeted measures\" in his Budget to help businesses and workers \"get through to the other side\" of an economic downturn caused by a coronavirus epidemic.\n\nIn his first interview as chancellor, with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Sunak said there were plans to give firms extra time to pay tax, if staff were unable to work and shoppers stopped spending money \"in the normal way\".\n\nHe also said he was \"not daunted\" by the challenge of protecting the economy in the event of a major outbreak, adding the UK was \"well prepared\" and would \"emerge on the other side stronger\".\n\nThe UK's strategy on responding to the virus has four phases: containment, delay, mitigation and - running alongside these - research.\n\nJenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, said on Saturday the UK was \"teetering on the edge\" of a sustained community transition of coronavirus. but was not there yet.\n\nUp until now, the containment phase has involved catching cases early and tracing all close contacts to halt the spread of the disease for as long as possible.\n\nMoving into the delay phase could see the introduction of \"social distancing\" measures, such as closing schools and urging people to work from home.\n\nMore than 21,000 people have been tested for the virus in the UK, with 184 positive tests in England, 16 in Scotland, four in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Ruth Jones says that even after the years of abuse she doesn't want to move from the house in Sea Mills\n\nA disabled mother and her son have accused police of failing to address four years of \"relentless\" hate crime directed at them.\n\nRuth and Zac Jones from Bristol have logged some 50 complaints with police.\n\nSo far no-one has been caught but police said they were \"mindful\" of the family's vulnerability.\n\nThe pair claimed the abuse and threats they have suffered have been similar to those experienced by Bijan Ebrahimi, in the lead-up to his murder in 2013.\n\nSince 2016, the Jones family has reported to the police a catalogue of abuse aimed at them and damage to their property - including a brick thrown through the window of their council house and four vehicles set alight on their driveway.\n\nPosters labelling them - wrongly - as paedophiles were put up around their local area.\n\nThey believe they have been targeted because they are disabled and feared they could suffer the same fate as Mr Ebrahimi.\n\nDisabled Iranian refugee Mr Ebrahimi was beaten to death and set alight by his neighbour Lee James, on another Bristol estate in 2013.\n\nHe too was wrongly branded a paedophile.\n\nA report by the Safer Bristol Partnership found Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council had been \"institutionally racist\" and to have \"repeatedly sided with abusers\" during their investigation.\n\nCh Insp Mark Runacres, of Avon and Somerset Police, said he believed the force had made great strides since the Ebrahimi case.\n\nZac also goes out every week to pick up rubbish in his own neighbourhood\n\nMs Jones, 57, only has the use of one hand following a brain haemorrhage and her 29-year-old son has Asperger's and a rare skin condition called epidermal nevus.\n\nHe has been through more than a dozen operations but still has visible dark blotches on his skin.\n\nMr Jones said verbal abuse was a daily occurrence on his council estate in Sea Mills.\n\n\"It happens every day, every time I go out there, it always happens,\" he said.\n\n\"I get bullying in some way, shape or form. It's just awful.\n\n\"We just want to be able to live our lives properly. The police have failed us. They're no help\".\n\nMs Jones added: \"I've already had three cars and a caravan torched - I don't want to be the next bonfire.\n\n\"I just think the police should do their job... if the police had done their job three years ago, I wouldn't be in this situation.\n\n\"I've ended up, and Zac's ended up, living as victims.\"\n\nThe pair registered more than 50 complaints over four years\n\nBBC Inside Out West discovered that in 2016, the then beat manager PC Jeanette Cadden wrote in the police log of reported incidents: \"I believe that Ruth is carrying out the damage herself.\"\n\nShe judged that Ms Jones was \"the aggressor\" and not the victim.\n\nMs Cadden was dismissed from the force in 2017 for sharing racist posts on her Facebook page - unrelated to the Jones family's case.\n\nShe told the BBC she had dealt with Ms Jones's allegations in accordance with the force's hate crime guidance, her comments in the log were her view of the facts at the time and the log had been scrutinised by a higher-ranking officer.\n\nCh Insp Mark Runacres said the the force has made great strides since the Ebrahimi case\n\nCh Insp Runacres said he \"wholeheartedly disagreed\" with Mrs Cadden's comments recorded in the log.\n\nHe added: \"What I can say is that having looked through the call logs of all of the incidents reported since that date, those sentiments are not reflected in the response from officers.\n\n\"We have been absolutely mindful of the vulnerability that [Ruth] is subjected to and I've been very clear in my expectations to my officers.\"\n\nThe last recorded complaint made to the police by Ms Jones was in May 2019.\n\nHe said the Jones family had been on a problem-solving plan to help manage the issues in partnership with the council but that had ended in August.\n\nBBC Inside Out West will air on BBC One West at 19:30 GMT on Monday 9 March. It will be available on BBC iPlayer afterwards.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wore matching red outfits for the Mountbatten Festival of Music\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were greeted with a standing ovation as they attended one of their final official events as working royals.\n\nThe couple wore matching red outfits for the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nThe duke and duchess received a long round of applause from the audience as they took their seats in the royal box.\n\nThey will step back from royal duties at the end of the month.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan received a standing ovation at the event\n\nThey were guests of honour at the festival, which brings together world-class musicians, composers and conductors of the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.\n\nThe Albert Hall performance marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two and the 80th anniversary of the formation of Britain's Commandos.\n\nProceeds from the event go to the Royal Marines Association - The Royal Marines Charity and CLIC Sargent, which supports people with cancer aged under 25 and their families.\n\nOn Thursday, Prince Harry and Meghan made their first official appearance together after announcing their intention to step back as senior royals in January.\n\nThe couple attended their first official engagement together since January earlier this week\n\nHarry and Meghan will cease to be working members of the Royal Family on 31 March, but the arrangement will be reviewed after 12 months.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple has previously said they intend to split their time between the UK and North America.", "The UK will leave the European aviation safety regulator after the Brexit transition period, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed.\n\nHe said UK membership of the European Aviation Safety Agency - responsible for certifying the airworthiness of planes - would end on 31 December.\n\nHe said the UK's Civil Aviation Authority would \"bring expertise home\".\n\nBut the owner of British Airways said the CAA lacked world-class knowledge and could not be ready in time.\n\nMr Shapps told Aviation Week much of the Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) expertise came from the UK and that a lot of its leaders were British.\n\nHe said the agency's powers would revert to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) \"and the expertise will need to come home to do that, but we'll do it in a gradual way\".\n\nThe trade body ADS - which represents more than 1,100 UK businesses in the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors - told the BBC the decision could potentially mean products and designs would need to be certified more than once.\n\nFor example, EASA is responsible for certifying commercial aircraft for service across the EU and some non-EU European countries.\n\nWhen the UK ends its membership of EASA, it may need to certify aircraft separately itself.\n\nADS has estimated that it would take 10 years and cost up to £40m annually to create a UK safety authority with all the expertise of EASA, against a current contribution to the European agency of £1m to £4m a year.\n\nIt claimed a new regulatory regime could put jobs in the sector at risk.\n\n\"We have been clear that continued participation in EASA is the best option to maintain the competitiveness of our £36bn aerospace industry and our access to global export markets,\" the trade body said.\n\nIt added that the UK's influence within EASA \"contributes to raising standards in global aviation\" and helped make the industry \"attractive to the investment it needs\".\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG said it was \"disappointed\" with the decision and said the Civil Aviation Authority \"does not have the expertise required to operate as a world class safety and technical regulator\".\n\nIAG said: \"The CAA will require fundamental restructuring from top to bottom which will take time. There is no way that it can be done by 31 December.\"\n\nAirlines UK, which represents carriers including EasyJet and Ryanair, said its members supported continued membership of EASA - but not at the risk of the UK becoming a \"dumb follower of EU rules\".\n\nIt urged the government to begin negotiations on an air safety agreement with the EU so it could be ready by the end of the year.\n\nThe Department for Transport said: \"Being a member of the European Aviation Safety Agency is not compatible with the UK having genuine economic and political independence.\n\n\"We will maintain world-leading safety standards for industry, with the Civil Aviation Authority taking over these responsibilities, and will continue to work with colleagues in the EU to establish a new regulatory relationship.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's all too easy for the prime minister to come to a place in the middle of an emergency\"\n\nThe prime minister has said he will look at making defences more permanent as he visited a flood-hit town.\n\nBoris Johnson visited Bewdley in Worcestershire, where the River Severn overtopped the flood defences during Storm Dennis last month.\n\nOne onlooker shouted \"traitor\" at the prime minister, while others posed for selfies with Mr Johnson on a bridge.\n\nEarlier, the Treasury announced plans to double funding for flood defences in England over the next five years.\n\nThe money, due to be announced on Wednesday, will help to build 2,000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and protect 336,000 properties in the country.\n\nThis year was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, with more than three times the average rainfall - as three successive storms left rivers bursting their banks and communities flooded.\n\nIn some of the worst-hit areas in the Midlands, Wales and south Yorkshire, homes and businesses flooded three times in a matter of weeks.\n\nThe River Severn peaked at 4.6m in Bewdley\n\nBoris Johnson met with Environment Agency workers to discuss efforts to tackle the flooding\n\nLast month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded Mr Johnson a \"part time prime minister\" who \"goes Awol\" during emergencies.\n\nMr Johnson was asked why he did not visit the flooded communities sooner as she was shown flood defences by the Environment Agency (EA) in Bewdley.\n\n\"It's too easy for a PM to come to a place in a middle of an emergency, it's not so easy frankly for the emergency services,\" he said.\n\n\"What I've been doing since the flooding began is co-ordinating the national response but also looking at what we can do in the next months and years to ensure this country really is ready to cope with the impacts of flooding.\"\n\nMr Johnson received a mixed reaction as he spoke to residents affected by the floods and said he would \"get Bewdley done\".\n\nA number of people tried to shake his hand and take photos as he walked along the river bank.\n\nBut he was also told to \"do your job\" as he was given a demonstration of how flood barriers work.\n\nDozens of homes were evacuated after the Severn overtopped defences in Bewdley\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"so sorry to hear\" some homes had been flooded by as much as 2ft of water.\n\nHe also met members of the emergency services who responded when the water levels rose.\n\nMr Johnson said he had discussed with the EA \"what permanent defences we can put in and what's the business case\".\n\nThe prime minister described the temporary barriers, such as those that were deployed in Bewdley and Ironbridge, as \"great bits of kit\".\n\n\"But when you have a big flood like that, they're not going to be effective,\" he said.\n\n\"The things we have to look at are the rules which currently say that you can't put in permanent defences when you've only got a small number of households potentially affected.\n\n\"The case we need to make is it's not just the number of households, it's also the economic damage, it's the damage to confidence, all the rest of it in the town.\"\n\nPeople tried to shake the prime minister's hand as he made his way along the river\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood water pours over the top of Bewdley's barriers\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice visited Ironbridge and Shrewsbury, which were particularly badly hit, on 27 February and defended the prime minister for not visiting himself.\n\nLocal Conservative MPs also stopped short of calling on the prime minister to visit the flooded areas, with Bewdley MP Mark Garnier saying a visit would have been nothing more than a \"photo opportunity\".\n\nDave Throup, from the EA, said further heavy rain forecast for Monday and Tuesday meant there were further \"significant\" risks of flooding along the Severn next week.", "Tesco has introduced signs at point-of-sale in supermarkets, informing shoppers of restrictions\n\nTesco, the UK's largest grocer, has begun restricting sales of essential food and household items as a result of coronavirus stockpiling.\n\nShoppers are limited to buying no more than five of certain goods, including antibacterial gels, wipes and sprays, dry pasta, UHT milk and some tinned vegetables\n\nThe rules apply in stores and online.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was in touch with UK supermarkets to \"discuss their response\" to the virus.\n\nWaitrose has introduced a temporary cap on some items on its website, including some anti-bacterial soaps and wipes.\n\nThe supermarket said it was in talks with its suppliers to ensure customer demand was met.\n\nIt said some individual stores may have introduced their own restrictions, with \"some branch managers making a judgement at a localised level\".\n\nEmpty pasta shelves at the Tesco store in Royston, Hertfordshire\n\nThe High Street chemist Boots has restricted sales of hand sanitisers to two per person.\n\nAsda is also restricting some types of hand sanitiser to two bottles per person - the supermarket's only restriction in place currently.\n\nMeanwhile, Sainsbury's said it was not limiting sales of any products in stores or online yet.\n\nOn Monday, Environment Secretary George Eustice is expected to hold talks with supermarket and trade bosses about \"support for vulnerable groups who may be in isolation\", the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.\n\nAccording to a survey from Retail Economics, as many as one in 10 UK consumers is stockpiling, based on a sample of 2,000 shoppers.\n\nBut Dr Andrew Potter, chair in logistics and transport at Cardiff Business School, told the BBC: \"Whilst there might be empty shelves at the moment in the shops, over the next week or so, we will see them replenish.\n\nThe Tesco restrictions on five items for things like hand gel also apply to online purchases\n\n\"The supply chain will start to deliver stuff through to the stores and hopefully this shortage - which is fairly short-term - will clear and everything will be back to normal again.\"\n\nHe said while retailers may have been caught out by the beginning of this shopping surge, they had very sophisticated systems to check changes in demand.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, echoed that \"supply chains remain robust and even where there are challenges, retailers are well-versed in providing measures\" to keep shops running smoothly.\n\nWaitrose said it has not put a cap on any of its products in stores.\n\nBut it has introduced a temporary cap on certain products on its website, including some anti-bacterial soaps and wipes, \"to ensure our customers have access to the products they need\".\n\nUK retailers have been warned that they face prosecution if they exploit the coronavirus scare to hike prices for products such as hand sanitisers and face masks.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told suppliers to act responsibly and said it was monitoring pricing practices.\n\nIt comes as Facebook and Amazon have cracked down on profiteers hiking prices online of face masks and hand sanitisers.\n\nFacebook says it is temporarily banning ads and commercial listings for medical face masks. The ban will also apply to Instagram.\n\n\"We're monitoring Covid-19 closely and will make necessary updates to our policies if we see people trying to exploit this public health emergency,\" Facebook director of product management Rob Leathern tweeted.\n\n\"We'll start rolling out this change in the days ahead. We... anticipate profiteers will evolve their approach as we enforce on these ads.\"\n\nFacebook had earlier announced a ban on ads for medical products which falsely suggested an item was in short supply, as well as those which falsely claimed to provide cures or prevention methods for coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Amazon said it had removed thousands of listings from its sites around the world and was constantly monitoring attempted price-gouging.\n\nAnalysis from Liberty Marketing has found UK own-brand hand sanitisers are being sold on eBay for huge mark ups, with Lidl 49p sanitisers selling for as much as £24.99 online.\n\nTesco has begun rationing some food and household items as a result of coronavirus stockpiling\n\nMorrison's £2 hand sanitiser is being sold for £29.99.\n\nThe Tesco Health Antibacterial Hand Gel (50ml) is just 75p in-store and is being sold for as much as £9 on eBay.\n\nOther supermarkets included in the research include Asda, with a 2,629% increase, and Morrisons, with a 1,400% increase.", "Garlic: It may be good for general health, but it won't stop the coronavirus\n\nCoronavirus is emerging in more countries around the world and there's currently no known cure. Unfortunately that hasn't stopped a slew of health advice, ranging from useless but relatively harmless, to downright dangerous.\n\nWe've been looking at some of the most widespread claims being shared online, and what the science really says.\n\nLots of posts that recommend eating garlic to prevent infection are being shared on Facebook.\n\nThe WHO (World Health Organization) says that while it is \"a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties\", there's no evidence that eating garlic can protect people from the new coronavirus.\n\nIn lots of cases, these kinds of remedies aren't harmful in themselves, as long as they aren't preventing you from following evidence-based medical advice. But they have the potential to be.\n\nThe South China Morning Post reported a story of a woman who had to receive hospital treatment for a severely inflamed throat after consuming 1.5kg of raw garlic.\n\nWe know, in general, that eating fruit and vegetables and drinking water can be good for staying healthy. However, there is no evidence specific foods will help fight this particular virus.\n\nYouTuber Jordan Sather, who has many thousands of followers across different platforms, has been claiming that a \"miracle mineral supplement\", called MMS, can \"wipe out\" coronavirus.\n\nSather and others promoted the substance even before the coronavirus outbreak, and in January he tweeted that, \"not only is chlorine dioxide (aka MMS) an effective cancer cell killer, it can wipe out coronavirus too\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jordan Sather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned about the dangers to health of drinking MMS. Health authorities in other countries have also issued alerts about it.\n\nThe FDA says it \"is not aware of any research showing that these products are safe or effective for treating any illness\". It warns that drinking them can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and symptoms of severe dehydration.\n\nSome shops are reportedly selling out of hand sanitiser gels\n\nThere have been many reports of shortages of hand sanitiser gel, as washing your hands is one key way to prevent spread of the virus.\n\nAs reports of the shortages emerged in Italy, so did recipes for home-made gel on social media.\n\nBut these recipes, alleged dupes for one of the country's most popular brands, were for a disinfectant better suited for cleaning surfaces and, as scientists pointed out, not suitable for use on skin.\n\nAlcohol-based hand gels usually also contain emollients, which make them gentler on skin, on top of their 60-70% alcohol content.\n\nProfessor Sally Bloomfield, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says she does not believe you could make an effective product for sanitising hands at home - even vodka only contains 40% alcohol.\n\nFor cleaning surfaces, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says most common household disinfectants should be effective.\n\nThe use of colloidal silver was promoted on US televangelist Jim Bakker's show. Colloidal silver is tiny particles of the metal suspended in liquid. A guest on the show claimed the solution kills some strains of coronavirus within 12 hours (while admitting it hadn't yet been tested on Covid-19).\n\nThe idea that it could be an effective treatment for coronavirus has been widely shared on Facebook, particularly by \"medical freedom\" groups which are deeply suspicious of mainstream medical advice.\n\nProponents of colloidal silver claim it can treat all kinds of health conditions, act as an antiseptic, and state it helps the immune system. There are some occasional uses of silver in healthcare, for example in bandages applied to wounds, but that doesn't mean it's effective to consume.\n\nThere's clear advice from the US health authorities that there's no evidence this type of silver solution is effective for any health condition. More importantly, it could cause serious side effects including kidney damage, seizures and argyria - a condition that makes your skin turn blue.\n\nThey say that, unlike iron or zinc, silver is not a metal that has any function in the human body.\n\nSome of those promoting the substance for general health on social media have found their posts now generate a pop-up warning from Facebook's fact-checking service.\n\nOne post, copied and pasted by multiple Facebook accounts, quotes a \"Japanese doctor\" who recommends drinking water every 15 minutes to flush out any virus that might have entered the mouth. A version in Arabic has been shared more than 250,000 times.\n\nProfessor Trudie Lang at the University of Oxford says there is \"no biological mechanism\" that would support the idea that you can just wash a respiratory virus down into your stomach and kill it.\n\nInfections like coronaviruses enter the body via the respiratory tract when you breathe in. Some of them might go into your mouth, but even constantly drinking water isn't going to prevent you from catching the virus.\n\nThere are lots of variations of the advice suggesting heat kills the virus, from recommending drinking hot water to taking hot baths, or using hairdryers.\n\nOne post, copied and pasted by dozens of social media users in different countries - and falsely attributed to Unicef - claims that drinking hot water and exposure to the sun will kill the virus, and says ice cream is to be avoided.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 UNICEF Cambodia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharlotte Gornitzka, who works for Unicef on coronavirus misinformation, says: \"A recent erroneous online message...purporting to be a Unicef communication appears to indicate that avoiding ice cream and other cold foods can help prevent the onset of the disease. This is, of course, wholly untrue.\"\n\nWe know the flu virus doesn't survive well outside the body during the summer, but we don't yet know how heat impacts the new coronavirus.\n\nTrying to heat your body or expose yourself to the sun - presumably to make it inhospitable to the virus - is completely ineffective, according to Prof Bloomfield. Once the virus is in your body, there's no way of killing it - your body just has to fight it off.\n\nOutside the body, \"to actively kill the virus you need temperatures of around 60 degrees [Celsius]\", says Professor Bloomfield - far hotter than any bath.\n\nWashing bed linen or towels at 60C is a good idea, as this can kill any viruses in the fabric. But it's not a good option for washing your skin.\n\nAnd having a hot bath or drinking hot liquids won't change your actual body temperature, which remains stable unless you are already ill.", "Due to the threat of coronavirus, Pope Francis has delivered his weekly Angelus blessing via videolink to avoid large crowds gathering in the Vatican.\n\nIt comes as Italy has placed up to 16 million people under quarantine as it battles to contain the spread of Covid-19.", "The Duchess of Sussex surprised an entire school of children to mark International Women's Day - although she didn't realise her visit was unexpected.\n\nAhead of the day, the Duchess of Sussex met pupils in Dagenham in east London on Friday.\n\nThere was a lot of screaming, cheering and some cheeky statements from pupils who may be giving the duke something to worry about.\n\nIt was one of her last official appearances before she and her husband Prince Harry are due to step back as senior royals on 31 March.", "Parents of premature babies will be able to claim an extra £160 a week under measures set to be announced by the chancellor in next week's Budget.\n\nIt follows a campaign by Croydon mum Catriona Ogilvy which has been backed by over 350,000 people.\n\nCurrent law states maternity and paternity leave begins the day after birth even if a baby is born premature.\n\nTreasury minister Kemi Badenoch said the government would pay the extra leave, rather than businesses.\n\nMrs Ogilvy - who spent time in a neonatal ward after her son, Samuel, was born 10 weeks early - has petitioned to extend parental leave following premature birth since 2015.\n\nHer campaigning has seen the Mayor of London, Sony Music and a number of London councils adopt policies to give extra leave to staff who have babies born early.\n\nCatriona Ogilvy with her two sons Samuel and Jack\n\nIt is expected that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will outline plans for Neonatal Pay and Leave on Wednesday to allow new mothers and fathers to claim statutory paid leave for every week their child is in neonatal care, up to a maximum of 12 weeks.\n\nMrs Badenoch, the Minister for Equalities, told the Sunday Times the move would be \"historic\".\n\n\"This will be in addition to the usual maternity and paternity leave, and finally give parents the time, the resources and the space to handle these difficult circumstances,\" she said.\n\nMrs Ogilvy, who is the founder and chair of the charity The Smallest Things, said she was delighted with the announcement.\n\n\"As parents who have spent the first days, weeks or months of our children's lives in a neonatal intensive care unit, we are over the moon that the worry of work and pay will be eased for the incubator-watchers who follow in our footsteps,\" she said.\n\n\"As a charity, we are delighted that our hard work and campaigning has paid off.\n\n\"This will make a difference to many families at the toughest times in their lives when the health of their babies needs to be top priority.\"\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.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA teenage girl who was raped by serial sex attacker Joseph McCann has said she feels \"failed in every single way\".\n\nThe 17-year-old and her younger brother were both attacked after McCann tied up their mother in their home in May.\n\nThe girl told the BBC she now lives in a \"constant fear of everything\" and is \"confused\" as to why the 35-year-old was not recalled to prison.\n\nIt comes after a report said probation staff were warned he posed a risk of sexual offending.\n\nThe report disclosed that in 2011, when McCann was in prison for burglary, police shared information dating to 2003 and suggested he \"might pose a risk of sexual harm and exploitation to teenage girls\".\n\nIn January 2019, he was released from prison and went on to target 11 women and children across two weeks in parts of Watford, London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.\n\nMcCann was sentenced in December to 33 life sentences after being convicted of 37 offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe teenage victim said she had \"lost everything\", including her Lancashire family home which McCann tricked his way into on 5 May to carry out the sex attacks.\n\nShe said: \"Before any of this happened I had a lovely home, a close family and a really good job.\n\n\"After this happened I lost everything, including my family home of 12 years and my relationship with my family.\n\n\"I struggle to sleep each night and live in fear. I can't be in places on my own and my confidence has gone down since the incident.\"\n\nThe girl said she had \"developed really bad anxiety and I have bad days when I do not want to do anything\".\n\n\"There's not a day goes by where I don't think of what happened and that man feels no remorse for his actions,\" she said.\n\n\"My whole life will be controlled from what happened, living in constant fear of everything. I constantly feel like my life is in danger, I question situations during the day and feel nervous around people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elderly victim of serial rapist Joseph McCann tells of her ordeal\n\nThe teenager and her younger brother were both raped by McCann before the girl was able to escape by jumping out of a first-floor window and then freeing her family.\n\nDuring the trial she said she feared becoming McCann's \"sex slave\".\n\n\"I was my family's hero and saved our lives - that's what gets me up each morning,\" the girl said.\n\n\"Knowing I have my whole life to live and I got away from such a dangerous man shows I have courage and the fact I was able to keep my brother and mother safe is enough for me.\"\n\nThe girl also said she felt \"angered and upset\" by failings from the probation service.\n\n\"It causes anger and so much upset for everyone that the probation service failed to keep us safe. He has previous for sexual abuse and nothing was acted on,\" she said.\n\nOn Thursday, the Ministry of Justice said the chief inspector of probation, Justin Russell, would be asked to carry out an independent review of the National Probation Service's management of McCann and how the process of recalling offenders to prison was working.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\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 UK will remain in the \"containment\" stage of its response to the coronavirus following an emergency Cobra meeting.\n\nIt comes as the country's chief medical adviser confirmed a fourth person had died from the virus in the UK.\n\nThere were 319 confirmed cases in the UK as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nHowever, measures to delay the virus' spread with \"social distancing\" will not be introduced yet, ministers said.\n\nNumber 10 said it accepted that the virus \"is going to spread in a significant way\", however.\n\nThe latest person to die from the virus was in their 70s and had underlying health conditions, according to the UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nHe said the patient, who was being treated at a hospital in Wolverhampton, appeared to have contracted the virus in the UK and that officials were tracing people they had been in contact with.\n\nFollowing the Cobra meeting, Downing Street said the prime minister \"will be guided by the best scientific advice\" but there was no need to cancel sporting events at this stage.\n\nMinisters have also been meeting with sports bodies to discuss their response to the outbreak, which could include staging matches behind closed doors.\n\nIt comes as Ireland's Six Nations rugby match in France on Saturday has been postponed, following an earlier decision to postpone England's match in Italy. However, Wales's game against Scotland in Cardiff is to go ahead as scheduled.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the government has enlisted an extra 700 people to support a growing number of enquiries to NHS 111, which he added is now dealing with more online enquiries than telephone calls.\n\nMr Hancock added that a bill to help tackle the outbreak would be \"temporary and proportionate\".\n\nThe UK's top share index, the FTSE 100, is facing its worst day since the financial crisis after it fell by more than 8%, wiping billions off the value of major firms.\n\nThe Bank of England has said it will take all necessary steps to protect financial and monetary stability, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.\n\nThe UK is currently in the first phase - \"containment\" - of the government's four-part plan to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government has previously said \"social distancing\" measures to slow the spread of the virus could include a ban on sporting events and other large gatherings, and encouraging people to work from home rather than use crowded trains and buses.\n\nSuch a step would require agreement from Prof Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nUniversal credit claimants who have to self-isolate will not be sanctioned, a work and pensions minister has confirmed.\n\nThere is no reason to cancel large events at the moment, ministers say\n\nA European Union expert said the UK had only a \"few days\" to implement measures to prevent an outbreak like Italy's, which is the worst outside China with 7,375 confirmed cases and 366 deaths.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice will also discuss contingency plans with supermarket chief executives, including proposals on how to support vulnerable groups who may have to self-isolate.\n\nAs supermarkets restrict sales of some products to halt panic-buying, a survey suggested one in 10 shoppers are stockpiling.\n\nBoth the government and retailers say stockpiling is unnecessary, and Mr Hancock said food supplies would continue even in the \"reasonable worst-case\" scenario.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell accused the government of offering only \"vague statements\" in response to the outbreak, saying it needed to guarantee sick pay for all workers and address issues such as a shortage of 100,000 NHS staff.\n\nThe Foreign Office has warned Britons to avoid large parts of northern Italy under a coronavirus quarantine, unless their journey is essential.\n\nThose travelling from locked-down areas have also been advised to self-isolate if they returned to the UK in the last 14 days - even if they have shown no symptoms.\n\nTravellers from the rest of Italy are only told to self-isolate and call 111 if they have a cough, fever or shortness of breath.\n\nBritish nationals are still able to depart Italy without restriction, but some airlines - including easyJet and British Airways - have cancelled several flights to and from affected areas.\n\nOliver Dowden, the culture secretary, told BBC Radio 5 Live \"enhanced measures\" were in place to screen passengers from Italy - but the only one he identified was training airline staff to spot the symptoms of Covid-19.\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\nPublic Health England said passengers on flights from northern Italy are also issued with information about symptoms and necessary actions to take, which will be extended to all flights from Italy by Wednesday.\n\nHowever, the Unite union, which represents many cabin crew, said \"there has been no training\" for its members working on flights from northern Italy.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working intensively\" to arrange a flight home for 142 Britons on board the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is due to dock in California on Monday after spending five days stranded off the coast because of 21 cases among crew and passengers.\n\nNeil Hanlon, from Bridgwater in Somerset, told BBC Breakfast that food on board has become \"very limited\" and he was \"gutted\" that it may take until later in the week until he and his wife Victoria can fly home.\n\nAmid concerns that fake news about the coronavirus is causing confusion, a specialist unit to combat disinformation has been set up.\n\nTeams from across Whitehall have been brought together to identify and respond to disinformation in a bid to limit its spread.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormula 1's season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne will go ahead as planned next weekend with fans in attendance, race chief Andrew Westacott has said.\n\nThere will be no crowds at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 20 March because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nWestacott, who cited the big crowd at the T20 World Cup final, said: \"We've got to go around things sensibly.\n\n\"We have to keep moving on through life while taking precautions.\"\n\nMany F1 teams are based in England, but Ferrari and Honda-powered Alpha Tauri are located in Italy where there has been a recent surge in coronavirus cases.\n\n\"The interesting thing is the Italian freight,\" the Australian Grand Prix Corporation chief added.\n\n\"The Alpha Tauri cars and the Ferrari cars are on their way from [the airport] as we speak, so it's really good. The key personnel are on their planes. We're expecting them in the next 12 to 24 hours.\"\n\nItaly has placed up to 16 million people under quarantine as it battles to contain the spread of the virus. Anyone living in Lombardy and 14 other central and northern provinces - including Modena, where Ferrari's Maranello headquarters is situated - will need special permission to travel.\n• None How coronavirus has affected sporting events around the world\n\nProfessor Brendan Murphy, the chief medical officer for the Australian government, said that holding Sunday's race would not pose a risk to public health.\n\n\"I'm not feeling at all concerned going to mass gatherings or walking down the streets in Victoria,\" he said.\n\n\"So I don't think that there's a risk at the Grand Prix.\"\n\n'Safety has to remain our utmost priority'\n\nThe Bahrain race takes place a week after the season opener, the country having implemented special measures to ensure the race is able to go ahead.\n\nImmigration and health authorities have requested the names and flight details of all F1 personnel who work for teams, administrators, broadcasters or media who have been to, or transited through, China (including Hong Kong), Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Egypt, Lebanon or Thailand in the 14 days before their arrival in Bahrain.\n\nThey have also asked for the names and flight details of all passengers planning to arrive in Bahrain via the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThese passengers are expected to be screened at Manama airport on arrival and, if they do not have coronavirus, will be allowed to enter the country.\n\n\"We know how disappointed many will be by this news, especially for those planning to travel to the event, which has become a cornerstone event of the international F1 calendar, but safety has to remain our utmost priority,\" read a statement from the Bahrain International Circuit.\n\n\"Bahrain's own early actions to prevent, identify and isolate cases of individuals with Covid-19 has been extremely successful to date.\n\n\"Aggressive social distancing measures have further increased the effectiveness of preventing the virus' spread, something that would clearly be near impossible to maintain were the race to have proceeded as originally planned.\"\n\nThe Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, which was scheduled for 19 April, remains the only race to have been postponed.\n\nF1 has faced questions as to whether it is acting appropriately in pressing ahead with the start of the season.\n\nOn Monday, it released a statement saying that \"the health and safety of fans, family and wider communities is always paramount\" and that it was \"taking a scientific approach to the outbreak\".\n\nIt said it was \"acting on daily advice from the official health authorities\".\n\nThe statement said the sport he'd implement a number of measures based on advice from Public Health England, including the suspension of all non-essential travel\".\n\nIt added: \"Dedicated teams of experts will be deployed at airports, transit points and circuits to safeguard personnel, focused on the diagnosis, management and extraction of suspected cases. Bespoke quarantine points are being installed by promoters for any suspected cases.\"", "Network Rail said overhead electric wires at North Wembley junction were damaged\n\nThousands of rail passengers travelling from London Euston face severe disruption after 1,000m of cables were damaged.\n\nServices from the capital to the West Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow will be subject to delays and cancellations throughout Sunday.\n\nPeople have been warned there will be no trains leaving Euston after 21:00 GMT as engineers are working overnight.\n\nNational Rail said the disruption would run into Monday morning.\n\nIt said the overhead electric wires at North Wembley junction were damaged on Saturday.\n\nThe disruption will affect Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway, London Overground and Caledonian Sleeper services.\n\nLondon Northwestern Railway said its services between London and the Midlands would be \"severely limited\" throughout Sunday.\n\n\"There is significant damage to overhead electric wires and this will affect Monday morning commuters too,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHe said it had a ticket acceptance agreement with other train operators.\n\nLondon Euston is the UK's fifth busiest railway station.\n\nNetwork Rail apologised to those passengers whose journeys had been affected by the damaged wires and advised commuters to check before they travel.\n\n\"We are working closely with our train operator partners to minimise disruption as much as possible, but services will continue to be affected for the rest of the day,\" a spokesman said.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nAustralia demolished India by 85 runs to win their fifth Women's T20 World Cup title in front of 86,174 at Melbourne Cricket Ground.\n\nIt was a near-perfect evening for the hosts, who posted 184-4 after a brutal 75 from Alyssa Healy and opener Beth Mooney's unbeaten 78.\n\nAn overawed India slid to 18-3, with teenage star Shafali Verma falling to the third ball of the chase, and they were never in the game.\n\nMegan Schutt again shone, taking 4-18 as India were bundled out for just 99 with five balls left.\n• None 'Ruthless Australia show anything and everything is possible for women's cricket'\n\nAustralia's performance will be remembered as one of the most emphatic in a final by any side.\n\nThe crowd fell short of breaking the record attendance at a women's sporting event - which stands at 90,185 - but it was an astonishing, atmospheric evening.\n\nAustralia were as ruthless as they have ever been to steamroller India, whose heads dropped in the first over of the match when Healy was dropped by Verma.\n\nIt means Australia's dominance of women's cricket continues - and India, once again, fell short at a global final.\n\nAustralia have not dominated this tournament in the way many expected, but they have grown in confidence and produced a devastating display when it mattered most.\n\nThey lost the first game to India, were 10-3 against Sri Lanka in their second match and were staring at a tournament exit at various points, but they were able to find ways to win.\n\nMooney has been superb at the top of the order, while captain Meg Lanning has always offered a sense of calm, both with the bat and in the field.\n\nAustralia embraced the raucous atmosphere at the 'G' and used it to their advantage, while India, nervous from the very start, crumbled.\n\nIt might not have been the competitive outing that was expected, but there is something special about watching a team as ruthless as Australia go about their cricket.\n\nThey will be heavy favourites to win back the 50-over World Cup title from England in 2021.\n\nMooney was the backbone for Australia, batting through the innings and registering her third half-century of the tournament, but it is Healy's performance that most will remember.\n\nIt was arguably the most merciless innings of the tournament, with Healy thrashing the first ball of the game for four to set the tone.\n\nShe gathered further momentum when she was dropped on nine off the fifth ball of the innings, Verma putting down a simple catch at cover.\n\nAustralia raced to 47-0 in the first five overs, Healy dominating the bowlers and reaching her half-century in fitting style, a furious drive down the ground for four.\n\nThe attack she launched on Shikha Pandey - one of India's best bowlers in the competition - was completely devastating.\n\nThe first length ball was hit over long-on, and the second was given the same treatment before Healy cleared her front leg and hoicked the third flat over cover for a third successive six.\n\nBefore this tournament, there were questions over Healy's form after a lean tri-series. She ended it walking off with a smile on her face, despite being caught at long-on, having played a key role in a complete demolition of India's bowlers.\n\nThis was the second time India have reached a global final but it was a more disappointing performance than against England at Lord's in 2017.\n\nAfter Verma dropped Healy, Rajeshwari Gayakwad missed a chance to catch Mooney in her follow-through, and India's heads dropped.\n\nIndia have a strong batting line-up but Verma was clearly distracted by her poor performance in the field, and she was distraught to nick the third ball of the innings behind.\n\nWickets fell frequently and with a certain inevitability - Jemimah Rodrigues was caught at mid-on, Smriti Mandhana chipped Sophie Molineux to cover, and captain Harmanpreet Kaur holed out in the deep.\n\nIndia were never in this game, and it was almost a relief to see it end when Poonam Yadav slogged Schutt to deep mid-wicket.\n\n'Our best performance on the biggest stage' - what they said\n\nAustralia captain Meg Lanning: \"I'm really proud of this group of players - we've had everything thrown at us, we've had our ups and downs and scraped through the tournament but it was our best performance on the biggest stage.\n\n\"After we lost that first game, there was a lot of expectation on us and a lot of tough times, but we stuck together and we had each other's backs throughout.\"\n\nAustralia opener Beth Mooney: \"It's been an unbelievable tournament and the crowds have been amazing throughout. We've got an elite line-up and if it's not your day, somebody else steps up and does it.\n\n\"You can always be better and that's the mantra I and the team live by. I'm fortunate and grateful to have been given the opportunities I have by Cricket Australia.\"\n\nIndia captain Harmanpreet Kaur: \"The way we played in the group games was outstanding, I still have a lot of faith in our team, we need to focus on the areas - particularly the fielding as it was disappointing we dropped those catches.\n\n\"We need to keep trusting ourselves, and I trust this team.\"", "Police were at the scene on Shore Road in Hythe on Friday morning\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a baby was found in woodland.\n\nThe newborn boy was found near Shore Road in Hythe, near Southampton, on Thursday.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said a 36-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Liz Williams called the investigation into the baby's death \"difficult and complex\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British couple who caught the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship are still unable to return to the UK.\n\nThe Diamond Princess, you might recall, was put under quarantine in Japan for two weeks in February due to an outbreak onboard. Hundreds of people on the ship caught the virus during the quarantine period.\n\nDavid and Sally Abel began filming a YouTube video diary of their experiences when they were stuck on the ship and have continued since they were sent to hospital.\n\nMr Abel said his wife's latest test had come back negative but his was positive.\n\n\"Sally is now totally all clear, good to return to the UK. But she won't because I have had a positive,\" he said in the couple's latest vlog .\n\n\"I have now got to go back to square one. I have another test on Monday that is more than likely going to be negative.\"\n\nHe said Sally was no longer in medical care but that authorities had \"agreed to allow her to remain here so we can be company for one another\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The economic impact of the virus could be \"significant\" but temporary, says the chancellor\n\nThe NHS will get \"whatever resources it needs\" to cope with a coronavirus epidemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said ahead of Wednesday's Budget.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show \"strong\" economic foundations meant he could provide additional funding.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was looking at extra financial help for individuals and businesses if measures against the virus meant they were out of pocket.\n\nOn Sunday UK cases rose to 273, up from 209 on Saturday - the biggest rise yet.\n\nIt comes as Tesco said it had begun rationing essential food and household items as a result of coronavirus stockpiling.\n\nIn other developments, the UK Foreign Office is advising against \"all but essential travel\" to large parts of northern Italy after they were put in lockdown.\n\nMr Sunak has pledged to address the outbreak in his first Budget and said the impact of the virus on business \"could be significant, but for a temporary period of time\".\n\nHe said: \"I can say absolutely, categorically, the NHS will get whatever resources it needs to get us through this crisis.\"\n\nAs of Sunday morning, two people have died in the UK - an 83-year-old man and a woman in her 70s who both had underlying health problems - and 23,513 people have been tested across the UK.\n\nThe government's medical advisers say the UK is still in the \"containment\" phase, but they expect to move to a \"delay\" phase soon, in which the focus is on trying to slow down the spread.\n\nThis phase could see the introduction of \"social distancing\" measures such as closing schools and urging people to work from home.\n\nMr Sunak said he was looking at temporary measures to support people who may be unable to go to work or businesses which may suffer as a result of the measures.\n\nThis could include ensuring benefits under universal credit and Employment and Support Allowance are available \"quickly and effectively\", waiving requirements for sick notes or in-person benefits interviews, and providing help for businesses with cashflow problems, he said.\n\n\"I'm keen to make sure when we get through the other side, we haven't lost these great small businesses permanently,\" he said.\n\nThe man was tested in a specialist coronavirus pod\n\nA man who became infected with coronavirus after returning from a skiing trip in northern Italy last weekend has told Radio 4's Broadcasting House of the \"very strange chills\" he experienced after developing symptoms.\n\nHe flew home from Innsbruck over the border in Austria to Manchester Airport.\n\nHe first experienced a dry cough after he and his wife self-quarantined in their home as a precaution, before \"suddenly\" developing a fever, a headache and a warm chest.\n\n\"And there were very strange chills that seemed to spread all around the surface of your body, very quickly, and then reverberate around - it's a very strange feeling,\" he said.\n\nHe was later confirmed to have the virus after being tested at a specialist coronavirus pod. His wife, however, tested negative - to both of their surprise.\n\nThe man said he was now \"really well recovered\" but would have to remain in self-quarantine until he was told by health professionals he could leave.\n\nListen to the full interview here.\n\nWith an epidemic potentially putting extraordinary pressures on the public and private sector, Mr Sunak was repeatedly asked whether he would stick to the government's fiscal rules.\n\nHe did not answer directly, but said he believed \"very much in the importance of fiscal responsibility, about responsible management of our public finances\" and added that \"difficult decisions\" by past chancellors meant he could respond to this crisis.\n\nHe declined to say whether government debt would be lower by the end of this parliament, if the government would borrow to fund day-to-day spending or whether he could guarantee to balance the budget within three years.\n\nMr Sunak's pledge to the NHS comes as the government outlined emergency legislation, which could be introduced to the Commons this month, to protect people's jobs if they volunteer to care for coronavirus patients.\n\nThe government says about three millon people currently volunteer in \"a health, community health and social care setting\".\n\nUnder the proposed plan, the jobs of \"skilled, experienced or qualified volunteers\" would be protected for up to four weeks while they care for people with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.\n\nMinisters have also proposed the emergency registration of retired health professionals, and the new bill will aim to ensure their pensions are not negatively impacted by returning to work in the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK's response to a widespread outbreak required a \"massive national effort\" and these were \"proportionate\" measures.\n\n\"I want to ensure government is doing everything in its power to be ready to delay and mitigate this threat,\" he said.\n\nAn extra 500 staff have been hired for the NHS 111 service to cope with coronavirus calls\n\nTom Dolphin, a doctor who is a member of the British Medical Association's governing council, told the BBC the measures could help to free up capacity in hospitals by allowing people to be discharged into social care.\n\nBut he said the health service was under-resourced and could still find itself having to make \"difficult choices\", postponing planned operations to cope with emergencies and epidemic cases.\n\nFive hundred extra staff have also been recruited to work on the NHS 111 phone service, after calls increased by a third over the last week, compared with the same period a year ago.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said he \"does not recognise\" the claim that Jeremy Corbyn's team wanted a \"faction fight\" in the Labour Party.\n\nIt comes after leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy said that some of Mr Corbyn's team wanted to wage a \"factional war until the other side had been crushed\".\n\nMr McDonnell said he disagreed, but added that there had always been \"a bit of a tussle\" between left and right.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey and Keir Starmer are also running for leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Friday, Ms Nandy said she raised her concerns about \"faction fighting\" with the Labour leader before she quit his shadow cabinet in 2016.\n\nThe Wigan MP joined a mass walkout of so-called \"moderate\" shadow ministers in 2016, triggered by Labour's poor European election performance and Mr Corbyn's decision to sack Hilary Benn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe insisted that she had tried, with a group of \"soft left\" MPs, to hold the team together at a meeting with Mr Corbyn and other senior figures.\n\nBut the attitude of those around Mr Corbyn made her decide to quit as shadow energy secretary, she told the BBC's political editor.\n\n\"Some senior politicians in his own team, they made it very, very clear that they were going to continue to wage that factional war until the other side had been crushed,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was \"one thing\" to have backbenchers waging factional wars with colleagues but \"quite another thing to hear the leadership of the Labour Party state a commitment to doing that\".\n\nShe added: \"It wasn't Jeremy but there was no point at all at which he contradicted that.\"\n\nAsked about the comments on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr McDonnell said: \"We want to unite the party - I'm sorry I just don't recognise any of that, let's just move on.\n\n\"All of the three candidates have said they want to unite the party and look to the future, let's do that.\"\n\nThe shadow chancellor, who is backing Mrs Long-Bailey for leader and Richard Burgon for deputy leader in the party's leadership contest, said the party was \"doing our best\" in providing an effective opposition.\n\nBut he agreed that \"if there's a lesson for the future, let's have shorter leadership elections... it's a bit interminable, I accept that\".\n\nAsked about predictions that Labour faces disastrous local election results in May, Mr McDonnell said he is \"confident\".\n\nThe leadership contest ballot closes on 2 April, with the new Labour leader announced on 4 April.", "A fire has ripped through a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesbos as tensions over a surge in migration from Turkey continue to rise.\n\nFlames engulfed the One Happy Family centre, near the island's capital Mitilini, on Saturday.\n\nIt is not clear how the fire started. No casualties have been reported.\n\nIn recent days, there has been hostility towards migrants on Lesbos after an increase in arrivals from Turkey.\n\nHundreds of migrants have attempted to reach the island since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week he was \"opening the doors\" for refugees to enter Europe.\n\nBut on Saturday, Mr Erdogan partially reversed his position. He ordered the Turkish coastguard to stop migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece because it is unsafe to do so.\n\nFirefighters have been tackling the blaze at the One Happy Family community centre\n\nThe EU has accused Mr Erdogan of using migrants for political purposes. It insists its doors are \"closed\".\n\nMeanwhile, clashes have again erupted at the land border between Greece and Turkey.\n\nThere appears to have been no change in Turkey's position with regard to letting migrants try to enter Greece via this route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Water cannon and tear gas used at the Turkey Greece border\n\nOn Saturday, Greek police fired tear gas at crowds at the border crossing at Kastanies, who responded by throwing stones and shouting \"open the gates\", according to the AFP news agency.\n\nThe Greek authorities also accused Turkish police of firing tear gas at its police.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi announced fresh restrictions on asylum seekers designed to stem the flow of migration from Turkey.\n\n\"Accommodation and benefits for those granted asylum will be interrupted within a month. From then on, they will have to work for a living,\" the minister said.\n\n\"This makes our country a less attractive destination for migration flows.\"\n\nIn 2016, a deal was reached whereby Turkey would stop allowing migrants to reach the EU in return for funds from the bloc to help it manage the huge numbers of refugees it hosts.\n\nBut since then, tensions between the EU and Turkey have flared on various issues. In recent weeks, a fierce onslaught by Syrian forces and their Russian backers on Idlib, the last province held by Syrian rebels, has led to clashes with Turkey, which supports some rebel groups.\n\nTurkey already hosts some 3.7m Syrians but the conflict in Idlib has led to nearly a million more fleeing to its southern border.\n\nAlthough the EU promised billions more euros in aid, Turkey was unimpressed and last week decided to open its borders with Greece and even bussed migrants close to the north-western border.\n\nGreece said that the migrants were being \"manipulated as pawns\" by Turkey in an attempt to exert diplomatic pressure.\n\nIt has halted for a month all asylum claims from migrants who enter Greece illegally, and taken aggressive measures to deter them from entering via both land and sea.\n\nIn a 24-hour period to Saturday morning, more than 1,200 migrants attempted to cross the land border, most from Afghanistan and Pakistan, an official source told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has told refugees to \"avoid moving to a closed door\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Refugees from Syria's conflict explain why they are trying to get into Greece\n\nThe BBC has encountered members of self-styled militias who carry out night-time armed patrols in Greek border towns looking for migrants.\n\n\"There are such militia along the entire region,\" said Yannis Laskarakis, a newspaper publisher in the city of Alexandroupoli who has received death threats for speaking out against armed vigilantes.\n\n\"We have seen them with our own eyes, arresting migrants, treating them badly and if someone dares to help them, he has the same fate.\"", "Funding for flood defences in England is expected to be doubled to £5.2bn over five years in the forthcoming Budget, the Treasury has said.\n\nThe money, due to be announced on March 11, will help to build 2,000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and protect 336,000 properties in the country.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said communities had been \"hit hard\" in recent floods.\n\nThe funding - double the £2.6bn budgeted between 2015 and 2021 - is due to be available from April 2021.\n\nThis year was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, with more than three times the average rainfall - as three successive storms left rivers bursting their banks and communities flooded.\n\nIn some of the worst-hit areas in the Midlands, Wales and south Yorkshire, homes and businesses flooded three times in a matter of weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson faced criticism from Labour for going \"Awol\" during the emergency and for failing to budget enough for flood defences.\n\nBut the Treasury said this spending commitment now puts the government \"on track\" to meet the investment recommended by the National Infrastructure Commission.\n\nThe government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority previously projected that it would spent £4.7bn on flood defences up to 2026, but the funding had not been confirmed.\n\nMPs in northern England called for flood defence spending to be reallocated, as the plans showed that a third of the money was expected to be spend in London and the South East of England.\n\nBut the Treasury said every region would benefit from the investment and the North East and North West of England would receive the highest level of funding per property at risk of flooding.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Communities up and down Britain have been hit hard by the floods this winter, so it is right that we invest to protect towns, families, and homes across the UK.\"\n\nThe chancellor is also due to announced a £120m fund to repair flood defences that were damaged in the recent storms, bringing at least 300 schemes back to full operation, the Treasury said.", "Clashes have erupted at Turkey's border with Greece, where migrants seeking access to the EU have gathered.\n\nOn Saturday, Greek police fired tear gas, and crowds threw stones and attempted to break down the fence near the Pazarkule border gate.\n\nThe Greek army also used water cannon, while the Greek authorities accused Turkish police of firing tear gas at its police.\n\nIt comes as the Turkish coastguard has said they will no longer allow migrants to cross the Aegean sea to Greece because it is unsafe.\n\nThe order from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes a week after he said he was \"opening the doors\" for refugees to enter Europe, amid tensions over the Syrian conflict.\n\nThe EU accuses him of using migrants for political purposes. It insists its doors are \"closed\".", "Victims of domestic abuse who contact Scottish Women's Aid (SWA) for help face being put on waiting lists of up to six months, the charity has said.\n\nSWA figures show it supports more than 1,000 women and children across the country on any given day.\n\nThe group is now urging the Scottish government and councils to provide increased funding to make sure victims are helped more quickly.\n\nThe government said it was committed to tackling all forms of domestic abuse.\n\nSWA published a report on its work to mark International Women's Day.\n\nIt said the vast majority (84%) of Women's Aid groups have to operate waiting lists of up to six months for at least one of their services.\n\nMore than half of its services were forced to operate a waiting list for refuge spaces in 2018-19.\n\nOn one day in 2019, SWA was unable to provide accommodation for 58% of the women and 38% of the children and young people seeking refuge, the report said.\n\nAlso on a single day last year, 1,235 women, children and young people contacted a Women's Aid service - with 101 of them seeking help for the first time.\n\nThe charity, which has 38 local groups, said funding for specialist services was \"insufficient due to funding cuts, freezes, and the nature of short-term, precarious funding\".\n\nScottish government statistics show that in 2018-19, there were 60,641 incidents of domestic abuse recorded by Police Scotland.\n\nBut the SWA report stresses that \"most domestic abuse is not reported to the police\".\n\nIt said 79% of its services have either received no increase in funding or have seen funding cut - on average by 10%.\n\nThe report highlights a \"stark increase in the waiting time for women and children to access a refuge\".\n\nIt added: \"This means that women and children forced to leave their home because of domestic abuse are left without a safe place to go.\"\n\nThe charity's Ash Kuloo said: \"It is women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse who bear the brunt of cuts to funding.\n\n\"It is their safety and survival that lies behind these statistics and every increased waiting list means another person not getting the vital support they need, at the time they need it.\"\n\nShe said Women's Aid services were \"continuously being asked to do much more, with much less\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We are absolutely committed to tackling all forms of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, and ensuring that victims receive the support they need.\n\n\"We are working with Cosla and key partners to implement our Equally Safe strategy across Scotland.\n\n\"We have invested significant levels of funding into front-line services, as well as working closely with statutory agencies to improve their response to victims and survivors.\"\n\nCosla, which represents local authorities, said while the Scottish government had made a significant investment, the \"underinvestment\" in councils had impacted its work in this area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has been charged with murdering his mother at a house in Liverpool.\n\nJanice Child's body was found in Kings Drive, Woolton, in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of the 64-year-old's death was severe blunt force head injuries, Merseyside Police said.\n\nRobert Child, 37, of Kings Drive, Irby, Merseyside, was charged with her murder and will appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA 33-year-old woman, also from Merseyside, who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder has been released on bail.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of a UK man who died with coronavirus have paid tribute to a \"wonderful husband, dad, grandad and great-grandad\".\n\nThe 83-year-old, the second person to die in the UK after contracting the virus, died shortly after testing positive in hospital on Thursday.\n\nThe government is to outline further measures to tackle the outbreak, including powers to help volunteers to care for those who become ill.\n\nIt comes as the UK cases rose to 209.\n\nThe man, who had underlying health problems, had been admitted to Milton Keynes Hospital for another reason and spent two days in a ward before being isolated and tested for coronavirus, the hospital said.\n\nHis family said they were unable to arrange a funeral for him because they were self-isolating.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We as a family have lost a truly loving and wonderful person and are trying to come to terms with this.\n\n\"He was 83 years old and a wonderful husband, dad, grandad and great-grandad who would go to any lengths to support and protect his family.\"\n\nThe family said they had been unable to grieve for him as they would have wanted.\n\n\"This whole nightmare is not something that we or our loved one asked for.\n\n\"As we are in isolation currently, we cannot arrange for him to be put to rest, and with all the activity that is going around with regards to everyone's concerns, we cannot grieve him as we would wish to.\"\n\nThe family said the cause of death had not been confirmed.\n\nThey also said they had not spoken to any media outlets before releasing their statement, \"contrary to what has been reported\".\n\n\"People should perhaps put themselves in our shoes and think how would they feel with some of the hurtful comments that are being made. We would not wish this experience on anyone and we would ask that you have respect for us and allow us to grieve.\"\n\nThe man had been travelling but had at first showed no symptoms of coronavirus, the hospital said.\n\nIts chief executive, Prof Joe Harrison, said: \"After two days in the hospital they started showing signs of deterioration and at that point we decided to isolate the patient and test them for coronavirus and unfortunately that came back as positive.\n\n\"What we were doing was looking after that patient in a bay on one of our wards and subsequent to that we have ensured all of those patients have been followed up, as have the staff, to ensure that they are tested and appropriately isolated.\"\n\nHe said five patients had been isolated and were awaiting coronavirus test results, while nine staff had been asked to self isolate.\n\nThe hospital said it had already carried out a review of the patient's care but determined he had been treated appropriately.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government is set to outline further planned measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak - expected to be included in an upcoming Covid-19 emergency bill.\n\nUnder the proposals, court cases could be heard via video links and new powers would make it easier for volunteers to care for those who become ill.\n\nThe Health Secretary Matt Hancock wants those described as being \"skilled, experienced or qualified volunteers\" in health and social care settings to be able to do so for up to four weeks if they chose to, without fear of losing their day job.\n\nThe measures would also seek to ensure that health staff who return to work out of retirement could do so without impacting their pensions.\n\nThe UK's first death - a woman in her 70s who also had underlying health conditions - was confirmed on Thursday. A British man also died last month in Japan after contracting the virus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship.\n\nAs of Saturday morning, there were 206 cases in the UK, with 21,460 being been tested for the virus, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nOf these, 184 were in England, 16 in Scotland, four in Northern Ireland and two in Wales.\n\nLater in the evening, Northern Ireland reported an additional three cases, taking its total to seven and bringing the number of confirmed UK cases to 209.\n\nEarlier, England's deputy chief medical officer said the UK remained in the outbreak's \"containment\" phase.\n\nJenny Harries told the BBC a decision about the next phase of delaying the spread of the virus would depend on how fast the number of cases rose.\n\nBut she said the UK was \"teetering on the edge\" of sustained transmission.\n\nThe UK's strategy on responding to the virus has three phases - containment, delay, and mitigation - alongside ongoing research.\n\nUp until now, the containment phase has involved catching cases early and tracing all close contacts to halt the spread of the disease for as long as possible.\n\nMoving into the delay phase could see the introduction of \"social distancing\" measures, such as closing schools and urging people to work from home.\n\nDr Harries said a decision on formally moving to the next phase would depend on how quickly the number of cases rises.\n\nDr Harries said they needed to \"balance the benefits\" with minimising disruption to people's lives and the economy, as well as ensuring that they are implemented at the time when they will have the most impact.\n\nThe Grand Princess, one of the world's largest cruise ships, is being held off the Californian coast\n\nThe updated figures come as US authorities prepare to respond to a coronavirus-hit cruise ship carrying British passengers off the Californian coast, after 21 people on board tested positive for the illness.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence said on Friday that the Grand Princess, carrying more than 3,500 people on board, including 140 Britons, had been directed to a non-commercial port for testing.\n\nJackie Bissell, from Dartford in Kent, said passengers have had little information about what would happen to them since a note was pushed through their door two days earlier saying the virus may be on the ship.\n\n\"You can't go out. You can just go out in the hall if somebody taps your door. They put your food outside, drop your menus inside and that's about it,\" the 70-year-old said.\n\nDr Harries said she has a \"great deal of trust\" in the US public health system and said the Foreign Office was \"extremely active\" in looking after UK citizens abroad.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nThe government has updated its advice for travellers from Italy - the country in Europe that has been worst-affected by the virus with more than 4,600 cases.\n\nIt now says people who develop symptoms after returning from any part of Italy - not just the north of the country - should self-isolate, while those returning from quarantined areas should self-isolate even without symptoms.\n\nThe Foreign Office is also warning travellers to Moscow in Russia that they may be told to self-isolate for 14 days on arrival from the UK, as part of measures to control the virus.\n\nIt says in a small number of cases, foreign visitors have been placed in enforced quarantine if they have not complied.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Scotstoun leisure centre is one the busiest in the country\n\nOne of the largest leisure complexes in Glasgow has temporarily closed after a Scotland women's rugby player tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nScotstoun sports campus did not open on Saturday while a \"deep clean\" began.\n\nOfficials said the woman who tested positive had been using facilities at the campus over the past week.\n\nThe Scotland women's squad were also at the stadium on Friday but their Six Nations match against France in the venue was cancelled hours later.\n\nBilly Garrett, of Glasgow Life which runs the campus, told BBC Scotland it would reopen when public experts said it was safe.\n\nHe said they were alerted to the issue by Scottish Rugby late on Friday night and they took the decision on public health advice.\n\nThe decision to close was not taken lightly and he hoped to reopen in a \"matter of days\", he added.\n\nMr Garrett said staff and people who have used Scotstoun's sports facilities should follow existing public health advice.\n\nScotland Women trained at Scotstoun Stadium on Friday before Saturday's match was called off\n\nScottish Rugby said the player is being treated in a healthcare facility but is \"otherwise well\".\n\nSeven members of the Scotland playing and management staff are in isolation.\n\nThe match was due to take place at the Scotstoun stadium on Saturday.\n\nA total of 16 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland. They are among 206 cases in the UK.\n\nTwo people have died after contracting the virus in England. Both had underlying health issues.\n\nAmong those affected by the closure of the leisure centre were children due to take part in weekend gymnastic classes and swimming lessons.\n\nIn an email from Glasgow Life, families were told that the decision to temporarily close the facility was taken in the \"interests of the safety of staff and public\".\n\n\"In conjunction with, and on the advice of, the appropriate public health agencies, we will reopen when it is deemed safe to do so,\" it said.\n\n\"The safety of everyone who uses or works at Scotstoun is our absolute priority and it will remain closed while we take appropriate cleaning measures.\n\n\"It will only reopen when appropriate public health agencies deem it safe.\"\n\nScotstoun sports campus is also home to the National Badminton Centre and the Scotstoun squash centre.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The lorry was stopped in Belgium after a tip-off from the UK's National Crime Agency\n\nTwo men from the Republic of Ireland have been charged as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.\n\nWayne Sherlock, 39, and Eoin Nowlan, 48, were arrested in Dover, Kent, after 10 migrants were found in a lorry carrying tyres near Ghent in Belgium.\n\nA 64-year-old man from Glasgow and a 30-year-old man from County Antrim were also detained on Thursday.\n\nThe 30-year-old man was detained after presenting himself to police in Antrim.\n\nThe 64-year-old, who was driving the vehicle, has been remanded in custody while the man from Northern Ireland was released on bail after being questioned by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers.\n\nMr Sherlock and Mr Nowlan are charged with alleged conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration, the NCA said.\n\nThe pair were remanded in custody following a hearing at Canterbury Magistrates' Court in Kent on Saturday.\n\nThe NCA said the migrants, believed to be two adults and eight children, are thought to be from south-east Asia.\n\nTwo properties in England and Northern Ireland were also searched by NCA officers, with two suspected firearms seized in the Kent raid.", "An air strike in Somalia has killed a senior commander of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, state radio reports.\n\nThe US issued a reward of $5m (£3,8m) in 2008 for information on the whereabouts of Bashir Mohamed Qorgab.\n\nThe US carries out frequent air strikes in Somalia to target militants. It has not yet commented on the report. Qorgab's family confirmed his death.\n\nHe was in charge of attacks on military bases, and was also involved in operations in Kenya, the report said.\n\nQorgab was killed on 22 February in the southern Somali town of Sakow, following a joint operation by the Somali army and US military, Somali state radio reported.\n\nIt did not explain why the news had emerged only now.\n\nLast month there were unconfirmed reports in Somali media outlets that Qorgab had broken away from al-Shabab following disagreements with other leaders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAl-Shabab is linked to al-Qaeda and controls much of southern and central Somalia.\n\nIt has also carried out a wave of bombings in neighbouring Kenya, and is regarded as the most dangerous militant group in the region.\n\nLast month, the group's fighters attacked a base in Kenya used by Kenyan and US forces, killing three Americans - a US military service member and two contractors.", "Officers assured those living nearby it was an isolated incident\n\nA 25-year-old woman has been charged with neglect following the death of a 20-month-old in Nottinghamshire.\n\nKatie Crowder, of Wharmby Avenue, Mansfield, was arrested on Friday morning when police were alerted to concerns for the welfare of a child.\n\nThe toddler was taken to hospital but died shortly after. No details of the cause have been released.\n\nMs Crowder was charged on Saturday night and will appear before magistrates on Monday, police said.\n\nOfficers said the child had not been formally identified and the death was being treated as unexplained.\n\nNottinghamshire Police had said it was believed to be an isolated incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland survived a late red card for Manu Tuilagi to secure a first Triple Crown in four years and inflict a third successive defeat on new Wales head coach Wayne Pivac.\n\nCleverly worked first-half tries from Anthony Watson and Elliot Daly and a brace of penalties and conversions from Owen Farrell opened up an 11-point half-time lead, Wales' only points coming from three penalties.\n\nWales went the length of the pitch to score a sublime try through Justin Tipuric before England re-established command through Farrell's boot and a try from Tuilagi.\n\nThe England centre was then controversially sent off for a no-arms tackle on George North, and with Ellis Genge in the sin-bin England were down to 13 men.\n\nDan Biggar and then Tipuric again capitalised with late tries but England's lead was just big enough and they held on amidst the chaos.\n\nWith England's final game against Italy postponed because of the coronavirus, France remain favourites to win the championship.\n\nBut after defeat in Paris in their opening game, Eddie Jones' men have recaptured some of the form and momentum that took them to a World Cup final four months ago.\n• None Wales captain Jones calls for action against Marler after genital grab\n• None Chaos and confusion as England win comfortably despite late collapse\n\nEngland came charging out of the blocks, Tom Curry flattening Dan Biggar from an early up-and-under, and Maro Itoje cantering deep into the Welsh 22.\n\nAnd off clean line-out ball Ben Youngs found Watson on his inside, the winger stepping past two Welsh defenders to fight his way over the line.\n\nFarrell banged over the conversion to go past 900 points for England, but after North had knocked on close to the England try-line after good work from Nick Tompkins, the England skipper was penalised for shoving North in the ruck, and Halfpenny made it 7-3.\n• None 'We had 13 players against 16' - England boss Jones\n\nA head injury to Jonny May after the winger went up for a high ball meant an early entry for replacement Henry Slade and a test of Jones' decision to select a bench with only one outside back.\n\nFarrell and Halfpenny exchanged further successful penalties as the game became cagier and scrappier, but then England struck again.\n\nFrom another penalty kicked to the corner England set up a driving maul, and Youngs went sniping only to be lassoed by a high tackle from Rob Evans.\n\nWith the penalty coming England went wide, Farrell and George Ford combining beautifully as Slade's dummy run created the space down the left for Daly to dive over through North's despairing tackle.\n\nWales were creaking, the penalties piling up and Farrell kicking another with unerring accuracy from 35 metres to make it 20-6.\n\nItoje went high on Biggar to give the Welsh fly-half the chance to cut that lead by three at the interval, Wales grateful to be within 11 points.\n\nEngland's lead was reduced within seconds of the kick-off as Wales conjured up one of the great Six Nations tries.\n\nWith England's kick-chase dawdling Tompkins set off from his own five-metre line, found Josh Navidi outside him and took the return pass on halfway before slipping it on to the supporting Tomos Williams on his inside.\n\nAnd the scrum-half drew the last man Daly before setting Tipuric away to canter in from 25 metres and light up a grey afternoon.\n\nWith Biggar popping over the conversion it was suddenly a four-point game, and Wales' supporters were dreaming of another famous Twickenham heist.\n\nBut Courtney Lawes went digging at a ruck to win a penalty that Farrell stroked over, and Ford made it 26-16 as England's powerful forwards won a scrum penalty.\n\nJones threw on Joe Launchbury and Luke Cowan-Dickie and the power and points kept coming.\n\nYoungs made another break, Watson and then the forwards took it on and with Welsh defenders sucked in Ford flipped a little pass away under pressure to let Tuilagi walk in his side's third try.\n\nWith Farrell curling over the conversion from out wide it was 33-16 and the game seemed safe.\n\nBut then Tuilagi was dismissed after a long discussion between referee Ben O'Keeffe and TMO Marius Jonker, and Wales were able to strike back before finally running out of time.\n\nThe England scrum-half is closing in on his 100th England cap and recaptured his running threat of old to keep his side constantly on the front foot.\n\n'A brilliant performance' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Owen Farrell speaking to Radio 5 Live: \"I thought it was a brilliant performance. A few less players on the pitch at the end made it difficult, but in terms of effort and composure when they put us under pressure, it was brilliant. I thought people worked extremely hard to fight for the team.\"\n\nWales captain Alun Wyn Jones: \"We're probably lamenting a couple of territorial giveaways in the first half. Then you are chasing the game a little bit.\n\n\"Unfortunately they capitalised on a couple of bits of indiscipline and kept the scoreboard at bay. Those two tries show what we can do but it was too little too late in the end.\"\n\nFormer England scrum-half Matt Dawson: \"England were disciplined in their tactics and execution. That wonder try from Wales at the beginning of the second half rocked England a bit, and they couldn't quite get back into their pattern.\n\n\"Wales played much, much better in the second half, they threw a bit of caution to wind. They were not going to win with the tactics they employed for the first 40 minutes. It would have been a genuinely nail-biting, tense last few minutes if they'd done that earlier.\"\n\nFormer Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies: \"It was always going to be difficult after Warren Gatland left. Wales looked a little more dangerous, but they've got to learn to vary their tactics. England were always on the front foot.\"\n\nReplacements: Slade for May (8), Heinz for Youngs (70), Genge for Marler (66), Cowan-Dickie for George (58), Stuart for Sinckler (76), Launchbury for Kruis (58), Ewels for Lawes (66), Earl for Wilson (76).\n\nReplacements: McNicholl for L. Williams (66), Webb for T. Williams (46), Carre for R. Evans (58), Elias for Owens (75), Brown for Lewis (41), Shingler for Ball (58), Faletau for Moriarty (58).", "Firefighters extinguished the fire at a flat in Flax Street\n\nFour people have been treated in hospital for \"burns, smoke inhalation and shock\" following a fire at a flat in north Belfast.\n\nThe incident at a residential building in Flax Street was reported shortly before 05:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe NI Fire Service said they \"quickly rescued two people with an aerial appliance\" and a further two people managed to self-rescue.\n\nEight other people were moved from the building by firefighters.\n\nThe NI Fire Service said at this stage \"the fire is believed to have been caused by a mobile device being left on charge overnight, however further investigation will take place\".", "Tanya Lloyd used to work at Flybe before it went into administration on Wednesday\n\nFormer Flybe staff who won tickets to a Premiership rugby game said they were turned away at the gates.\n\nTanya Lloyd said she was refused entry to the Exeter Chiefs game against Bath at the end of possibly \"one of the worst weeks of my career\".\n\nShe arrived at Sandy Park stadium on Saturday with tickets to be told they had \"been cancelled\".\n\nExeter Chiefs said it did not want to comment but confirmed Flybe had sponsored the club since 2010.\n\nFlybe, which was based in Exeter, went into administration on Wednesday.\n\nMrs Lloyd, who worked for Flybe for 18 years, said she was told a management decision had been made at Exeter Chiefs to cancel the tickets, due to the airline's collapse.\n\nShe said she was \"trying to hold back tears\" as along with her husband she \"then had to walk back past the thousands of fans to my car in an almost walk of shame\".\n\nThe former health and safety manager said employees had always been proud of their relationship with Chiefs which included \"chartering flights for them to being at the kit launch day\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to the game, I've been a fan for years and it would have been a welcome break from the last two days,\" she said.\n\nMrs Lloyd said she had paid for parking, driven from Tiverton and arranged childcare.\n\n\"I'd just like the chiefs to admit what they did wrong and make an apology,\" she said.\n\nAnother former Flybe employee, Bethany, said being turned away at the game was a \"kick in the teeth\" when she was already feeling down.\n\nAfter the airlines collapse, it was \"just what we needed to try and enjoy ourselves for the day\", she said.\n\nThe former operations department employee said she had previously dealt with flights for Exeter Chiefs.\n\nThe former Flybe staff said they had won the tickets through the airline before it collapsed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHS officials have considered telling paramedics they must be clean shaven to protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said in a draft memo - seen by the BBC - that its ability to handle potential Covid-19 cases was \"adversely affected\" by crews unable to wear respirators properly.\n\nThe service said staff had been asked to consider shaving but it had decided against mandating they do so for now.\n\nThe Department of Health said there was no national policy on the issue.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service NHS Trust - which employs first responders across the capital - wrote in the unsent internal bulletin that \"all staff in patient-facing roles must be clean shaven when on-duty\".\n\nThe trust's current policy asks staff to consider shaving to ensure respirator masks fit tightly against the face.\n\nThe draft memo, issued to a group of managers on Saturday, said the service's \"ability to respond to potential Covid-19 patients has been adversely affected by the low availability of crews who are successfully [tested for respiratory masks], which is partly driven by crew staff not being clean shaven\".\n\nThe memo said 50 clinical staff had failed so-called \"fit tests\" for protective masks due to their facial hair.\n\nThe memo suggested staff with protected characteristics - such as religious beliefs or a disability - who could not clean shave would \"be engaged with on a case-by-case basis and a number of alternative options have been identified to support this\".\n\nA later email to staff, seen by the BBC, said the trust had chosen to hold off issuing the new policy until further guidance from Public Health England.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has said poor-fitting respirators can be \"a major cause of leaks\".\n\n\"If there are any gaps around the edges of the mask, 'dirty' air will pass through these gaps and into your lungs,\" it added on its website.\n\nLast month, an NHS trust in Southampton asked frontline staff to consider shaving facial hair to ensure respirators fit properly.\n\nAnd a 2017 poster published by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention showing suitable styles of facial hair for use with respirators was re-circulated online.\n\nIt was announced on Saturday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK had risen above 200, with more than 21,000 people tested so far.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was for local NHS trusts to devise policy regarding respirators and facial hair.\n\nPublic Health England said it had no plans to issue guidance on the issue.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"The trust has asked clinical staff to consider shaving to undergo [respirator mask] fit testing and then remaining clean shaven to maintain compliance.\n\n\"We continue to adapt our response and one of the things we have considered is mandating staff to be clean shaven. However, we have not taken this step as the advice is changing quickly and we are awaiting further guidance from Public Health England in the coming days.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are searching for survivors in the rubble\n\nAbout 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.\n\nAbout 47 of the 70 had been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel by Sunday, state media says.\n\nVideos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.\n\nIt is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.\n\nRescue workers in orange overalls clamber over the rubble as they look for survivors\n\nIt happened at about 19:30 local time (11:30 GMT).\n\nChinese state media says the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients.\n\nThe hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Global Times This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne woman told the Beijing News website that relatives including her sister had been under quarantine there.\n\n\"I can't contact them, they're not answering their phones,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm under quarantine too [at another hotel] and I'm very worried, I don't know what to do. They were healthy, they took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal.\"\n\nAs of Friday, Fujian province had 296 cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile 10,819 people have been placed under observation because they have been in close contact with someone infected.\n\nThe World Health Organization says more than 101,000 people worldwide have now contracted the virus.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have died - the majority in the Chinese province of Hubei where the outbreak originated.", "The Oxford MP said her party faced an \"existential challenge\"\n\nOxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran has said she will be standing in the contest to become the leader of the Liberal Democrats.\n\nShe said her party faced an \"existential challenge\" and needed to focus on a positive vision for the UK.\n\nJo Swinson resigned after losing her seat at the general election in December, in which the Lib Dems dropped from 12 to 11 seats.\n\nNominations for candidates will open on 11 May, the party has said.\n\nDeclaring her candidacy, Ms Moran said the decision had been a \"long-time coming\", but she had felt \"frustrated\" over the last three years about the direction the party was going in.\n\n\"We have spoken a lot about what Liberal Democrats at a national level are against, but that's just not good enough and people want to have a positive vision for the country,\" she said.\n\nThe 37-year-old said she wanted to make sure a no-deal Brexit was avoided, and she would prioritise opportunity, education and climate change, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nShe said she wanted to promote \"pragmatic\" cross-party work, and \"kinder gentler politics\".\n\nLayla Moran (right) is hoping to succeed ex-leader Jo Swinson (left)\n\nMs Moran, who is currently the Lib Dem spokesperson for education, has been an MP since 2017.\n\nThe daughter of a former EU ambassador and a Christian Arab from Jerusalem, she said she was the first ethnic minority Lib Dem MP and the first MP of Palestinian descent.\n\nIn Oxford West and Abingdon, she overturned a Conservative majority of 9,582 to narrowly gain the seat in 2017, and increased her majority to nearly 9,000 in the 2019 election.\n\nLast year Ms Moran admitted slapping her then-boyfriend at a party conference in 2013, leading to them both being arrested.\n\nIn January, the former maths and physics teacher announced she was pansexual and in a relationship with a woman.\n\nNominations for the contest will close on 28 May, before the ballot opens on 18 June and concludes on 15 July.\n\nThe party said it had more than 100,000 members who will be eligible to take part in the selection process.\n\nLast month, Bath MP Wera Hobhouse announced she was entering the race.\n\nEx-cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey MP and St Albans MP Daisy Cooper have also been tipped to run for leader.\n\nMr Davey and party president Mark Pack are currently joint acting leaders of the party until the election process is completed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The failed robbery happened at a Co-op shop at about 03:15 GMT\n\nBomb squad officers were called out after thieves made a botched attempt to blow up a cash machine.\n\nThe failed robbery happened at a Co-op shop at about 03:15 GMT in Stockport Road in Timperley, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nThe offenders did not make off with any cash, the force said.\n\nGMP said a \"small number\" of homes were evacuated and streets closed while the bomb squad removed parts of the failed device to make it safe.\n\nA worker at Timperley News said the attempted robbery left a stream of customers wondering where their Sunday papers were.\n\nMunaf Mohamed said he arrived to open the newsagents at 05:30 but could not get in for more than four hours because \"it was all cordoned off\".\n\nThe offenders did not make off with any cash\n\nMunaf Mohamed said people were wondering why their Sunday papers were late\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. Rescuers are searching for survivors in the rubble\n\nAt least 10 people are dead and 23 remain missing after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed on Saturday.\n\nRescue workers are still searching the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel in the southern province of Fujian.\n\nSeventy-one people were in the building when it collapsed and dozens have been rescued, authorities say.\n\nIt is not clear what caused the collapse on Saturday evening.\n\nRescue workers continued to search for survivors on Sunday\n\nState media say the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients. It's reported 58 of the 71 people in the building were under quarantine.\n\nThe building's first floor had been undergoing renovation since before the Lunar New Year, the official Xinhua news agency said, adding that police had summoned the building's owner.\n\nThe hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.\n\nThe city of Quanzhou has recorded 47 cases of the virus, which first emerged in the city of Wuhan, about 1,000km away.\n\nOne woman told the Beijing News website that relatives including her sister had been under quarantine there.\n\n\"I can't contact them, they're not answering their phones,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm under quarantine too [at another hotel] and I'm very worried, I don't know what to do. They were healthy, they took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal.\"\n\nAs of Friday, Fujian province had 296 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile 10,819 people have been placed under observation because they have been in close contact with someone infected.\n\nThe number of new reported cases in China dropped on Saturday to 44, down from 99 the previous day.\n\nThe World Health Organization says more than 101,000 people worldwide have now contracted the virus. More than 80,000 of them are in China.\n\nAbout 3,500 people have died - the majority in the Chinese province of Hubei where the outbreak originated.", "Greg James has won the Radio Academy award for best new show - after 18 months of entertaining listeners on BBC Radio 1's Breakfast show.\n\nHe lost out on the award for best music breakfast show to his BBC Radio 1Xtra counterpart, Dotty.\n\nJames, 34, who hosted the Arias awards in London, congratulated her on Twitter, calling her the \"absolute best\".\n\nThe pair co-presented BBC One's music show Sounds Like Friday Night.\n\nAround 4.81m listeners tuned in to James' Breakfast Show in the last three months of 2019, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe programme moved from five to four days a week when he took over from fellow Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw in August 2018.\n\nDotty, 31 - a former rapper also known as Amplify Dot or A. Dot, but whose real name is Ashley Charles - has presented 1Xtra's Breakfast Show since 2016.\n\nBBC Radio 2 was named station of the year, while BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett received the award for best speech presenter.\n\nBarnett thanked her listeners on Twitter, adding that she was \"thrilled\".\n\nToby Foster, who presents BBC Radio Sheffield's Breakfast, picked up the award for best speech breakfast show.\n\nThe award for \"moment of the year\" was given to Iain Lee of Talk Radio, who helped rescue a man who called his show claiming to have taken a drug overdose in December 2018.\n\nIn his acceptance speech, Lee urged people to \"be kinder\".\n\n\"I've been suicidal. I've plotted to kill myself a couple of times and I didn't do it - partly because of the Samaritans, partly because of my mates,\" he said.\n\nLee, who appeared on ITV's I'm A Celebrity in 2017, went on to criticise a tendency to \"create fear and division\" in radio.\n\n\"We don't need to do that,\" he said. \"We have a bigger responsibility to help people.\"\n\nBBC programmes and presenters won 17 out of 23 awards.\n\nOther non-BBC winners included Bauer Media's local station Forth 1 and podcast Passenger List.", "R&B singer R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 13 sexual abuse charges in Chicago, including allegations involving a new accuser.\n\nThe new alleged victim, referred to as Minor Six, was included as part of an updated federal indictment.\n\nProsecutors also said they had seized more than 100 electronic devices, such as smartphones, iPads and hard drives, after executing a search warrant.\n\nThe judge set a trial date for 13 October, six months later than planned.\n\nThe Chicago case includes several counts accusing Kelly of child pornography. The chart-topping US singer, whose full name is Robert Kelly, has consistently denied the allegations.\n\nThe updated indictment is largely the same as the original - which also had 13 counts - but now includes a reference to Minor Six.\n\nProsecutors offered little detail about the new alleged victim, but said the person met Kelly in the late 1990s at the age of 14 or 15.\n\nThe indictment said Kelly \"engaged in sexual contact and sexual acts\" with Minor Six and four others when they were aged under 18.\n\nThe R&B singer is facing several state and federal charges of sexual abuse in the US.\n\nKelly was arrested in Chicago in July on two sets of charges including sex trafficking, child abuse images and obstruction of justice.\n\nHe has already pleaded not guilty to more than 20 sexual offences across several US states, including prostitution charges in Minnesota.\n\nThe allegations were brought back into the spotlight following the documentary series, Surviving R. Kelly, which aired in the US at the start of 2019.\n\nIt detailed stories about him pursuing teenage girls going back to the start of his career.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The history of R. Kelly's crimes and allegations", "The airline said coronavirus had led to a reduction in bookings\n\nA vital travel link between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK could be under threat due to the expected collapse of airline Flybe.\n\nIt is believed to be just hours away from going into administration, after it narrowly avoided going under in January.\n\nThe Exeter-based company said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on demand for air travel was partly to blame for a recent downturn in bookings.\n\nFlybe operates 80% of the flights at Belfast City Airport.\n\nAt least 41 Flybe flights are due to arrive there on Thursday, with 39 departures planned too.\n\nThe company's website was not accessible on Wednesday night\n\nOn Wednesday night, Belfast City Airport said it could not comment on the situation at this time.\n\nThe Flybe website said the page was \"no longer live\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster tweeted she had spoken to the UK government \"regarding impact of Flybe on local workforce and travellers as well as importance of key routes for air connectivity in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe response would be a \"big test\" of the government's commitment to UK regional connectivity, she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany passengers took to social media, asking what will happen with flights booked for Thursday and in the coming days and weeks.\n\nSome had booked their travel just hours before it became apparent there were serious issues.\n\nOther passengers turned up for their flights with information coming on a piecemeal basis.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ⚫🖤Felicity McKee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 boarded planes which then had to turn back to the terminal after taxiing to the runway.\n\nBBC sports presenter Holly Hamilton was flying from Manchester to Belfast and was stuck on board while deliberations were made over the flight, which eventually took off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Holly 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\nNorthern Ireland's politicians have also taken to social media to express their dismay.\n\nEast Belfast DUP MP Gavin Robinson said he would consult Economy Minister Diane Dodds on how to minimise the impact.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Gavin Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther politicians suggested it might be time to look at all of the available options, including an overhaul of current provision.\n\nSouth Belfast SDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole called for an economic strategy on an all-island basis.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Matthew O'Toole This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Down MP Stephen Farry called the development \"deeply worrying news\" and said the collapse was likely to be discussed in the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nHe also wants the future of the airline and the future of Belfast City Airport to remain separate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephen Farry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 collapse of Flybe may not spell the end of its routes from Belfast.\n\nThe airline had previously come close to this point last year, before being granted a loan by the UK government.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Richard Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Belfast City Airport bosses had discussed the availability of other carriers in that scenario.\n\nHowever, that profitability may be mitigated by other factors, according to Belfast-based economist Richard Ramsey.\n\n\"NI already soon to be facing a sea-border from Brexit. Now a partial air border with strategic air-routes stopped/reduced from Flybexit,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by Richard Ramsey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Collapsed Flybe: 'Do not travel to the airport'", "John Lewis has warned it could close shops as a plunge in profits forced it to cut staff bonuses to their lowest level in almost 70 years.\n\nThe retailer, which also owns Waitrose, has launched a review of the business which it said would involve \"right sizing\" its stores across both brands.\n\nThe review would involve store closures \"where necessary\" as well as space reduction in existing stores, it said.\n\nThe conclusions of the review are expected to be announced in September.\n\nNew chairwoman Sharon White - who took over last month - said the changes would kick-start a \"vital new phase\" for the partnership, and said she had \"no doubt\" the business would be stronger as a result.\n\n\"We need to reverse our profit decline and return to growth so that we can invest more in our customers and in our partners.\n\n\"This will require a transformation in how we operate as a partnership and could take three to five years to show results.\"\n\nThe group announced that three Waitrose stores would close later this year at Helensburgh, Four Oaks and Waterlooville as part of the overhaul.\n\nJohn Lewis also said as fears about coronavirus continued to spread, it had see increased demand \"particularly this week\" for some food items as well as things such as hand sanitiser, soap and loo roll.\n\nJohn Lewis's finance director, Patrick Lewis, said it was working \"very hard with suppliers on an hourly basis\" to keep up with demand.\n\nSharon White took the helm at John Lewis last month\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership is owned by its staff - known as partners - who usually receive a bonus each year.\n\nThis year, staff bonuses have been set at 2%, the lowest since 1953 when it paid no bonus.\n\nProfits at the partnership dived by 23% last year to £123m - the third year in a row that profits have fallen - as it continued to struggle with the slowdown in consumer spending.\n\nThe John Lewis department stores saw \"significantly reduced profitability\" following weaker sales of home and electrical goods, although profits rose at Waitrose after a \"solid performance\", the company said.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said the fall from grace for John Lewis had been \"spectacular\", and warned that if Ms White could not turn around the business \"the fallout could be much worse\".\n\n\"Once the envy of the retail industry, the company has suffered dismal trading performances over the past few years, demonstrating that the retail race is so fast that even those seemingly on an unstoppable march one year can be vulnerable the next.\n\n\"This goes to show that no retailer is safe.\"\n\nCatherine Shuttleworth, the chief executive of retail analysts Savvy, said store closures appeared inevitable.\n\n\"I think the business is going to have to be slimmed down,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very difficult to close some of the department stores down because they're on really long leases, but certainly I think where there are opportunities to close stores that aren't performing they will look at that.\"\n\nShe added that Ms White did not have much time to turn the business around.\n\n\"She's talking about changes taking three-to-five years, I don't think there are three-to-five years in retail at the minute where there isn't going to be an enormous amount of change. She hasn't got that much time on her side. John Lewis have been 'strategically reviewing' things for quite a while - we need some action.\"\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC the firm's staff bonus scheme was an \"absolutely fundamental\" part of its ethos.\n\n\"The key competitive edge John Lewis has is customer service, that is delivered by its staff. If you take away part of their remuneration then your customer service levels are likely to be impacted.\n\n\"And I think that over the past few years as that bonus has gone down we've been seeing a bit of that. It's a really difficult dilemma they have.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nEngland were eliminated from the Women's T20 World Cup without a ball being bowled as heavy rain washed out Thursday's semi-final against India.\n\nThe downpours left huge puddles on the Sydney Cricket Ground pitch.\n\nIndia progress to Sunday's final after finishing top of Group A while England, who were second in Group B, are out.\n\nGroup B winners South Africa will reach the final if their game against Australia, set to be played at the same venue on Thursday, is also abandoned.\n\n\"It's really frustrating, and not how we wanted the World Cup to finish for us,\" said England captain Heather Knight.\n\n\"Ultimately that loss against South Africa [in the group stage] has cost us. Our aim was to get to the semi-finals which we did. It's all very English talking about the weather but it's frustrating not getting that chance to play for the final.\n\n\"Cricket hasn't been the finisher for us.\"\n\nThere is no reserve day for the semi-finals, despite the final not taking place until Sunday in Melbourne.\n\nEach team signed up to the playing conditions before the tournament began, and they stated that there is no reserve day for the knockout stages.\n\nCricket Australia approached the ICC on Wednesday about including a reserve day but they were knocked back.\n\nOrganisers have said an extra day was not feasible because it would extend the length of the tournament.\n\nWhile this was, visually, not a great look for the tournament - an empty ground, heavy rain falling and two of the world's best teams stuck in the changing rooms, it would have been near impossible for the ICC to add on a reserve day at such short notice, largely due to the costs and logistics involved,\n\nBut there will be frustration at how the tournament has played out. March is the rainiest month in Sydney and the forecast has been poor all week.\n\nThe playing conditions for the men's event - which begins in Australia in October - are also the same.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland's Six Nations games against Italy on 14 and 15 March have been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe men's, women's and under-20s contests will be played at \"a later date\" say organisers.\n\n\"Six Nations fully intends to complete all 15 games in all three championships when time allows,\" they added.\n\nIreland's Six Nations games at home to Italy on 7 and 8 March were postponed last week.\n\nItaly is the worst-hit European country with more than 3,000 cases.\n\nSix Nations officials made the decision to reschedule the fixture on Thursday after the Italian government ordered all sporting fixtures in the country to be held behind closed doors until 3 April as part of measures to contain the outbreak.\n\nThe decree, announced by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, affects all areas of the country, including those places were the virus has not been found.\n• None Watson and Wilson return for England against Wales\n• None All Italian sport to be be played behind closed doors\n\nPlaying the men's match behind closed doors would have meant the Italian Rugby Federation missing out on the ticket revenues from the 73,000-capacity Stadio Olimpico. The women's match was due to be played at the Stadio Plebiscito, a venue in Padua which holds about 10,000.\n\n\"We will refrain from making any rescheduling announcements while we keep assessing the situation,\" added organisers.\n\n\"Based on the information that is currently available, all other Six Nations matches are set to go ahead as scheduled.\"\n\nWith their away match against Ireland this weekend already postponed, Italy's Six Nations campaign is now effectively over until their final two fixtures can be rearranged.\n\nIf France, who have three victories from three games so far in the championship, beat Scotland and Ireland in their final two games, they will clinch the men's title before Italy play their postponed games.\n\nHowever any slip-up from the French could open the door for England and Ireland and mean the champions cannot be determined until Italy's rescheduled matches have been played.\n\nSergio Parisse, Italy's talismanic captain and winner of 142 caps, had planned to mark his international retirement with a farewell appearance against England.\n\nThe 36-year-old's previous plans to bow out of Test rugby in his country's final Rugby World Cup match against the All Blacks in October were wrecked by Typhoon Hagibis, which caused that pool game to be cancelled.\n\nWhen could the match be replayed?\n\nSpace is scarce in the rugby calendar.\n\nThe first Saturday free of domestic and European action is 27 June, but playing Tests then would affect planned departures for summer tours with England heading to Japan and Italy due to play in the United States, Canada and Argentina.\n\nWhen an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease caused three of Ireland's games to be postponed during the 2001 Championship, the remaining fixtures were played in September and October, almost six months after the rest of the matches were completed.\n\nSpectators who had been planning to head to Italy for this month's fixtures have three options if they booked through England's official travel company.\n\nFans are being offered the choice of rescheduling their booking for the revised date, an alternative fixture in the autumn or next year's Six Nations or a full refund.", "The Italian Red Cross of Mascalucia is among those warning children not to copy the challenge\n\nA stunt being shared on viral video platform TikTok has caused serious injury among teenagers in the UK and US.\n\nThe skull-breaker challenge involves two people kicking the legs from under a third, making them fall over.\n\nUS prosecutors have charged two youngsters with aggravated assault over the prank and warned parents to stop their children taking part.\n\nTikTok said it would remove such content from its platform.\n\nIn an updated post to its newsroom, TikTok said: \"We do not allow content that encourages or replicates dangerous challenges that might lead to injury.\n\n\"In fact, it's a violation of our community guidelines and we will continue to remove this type of content from our platform.\n\n\"Nobody wants their friends or family to get hurt filming a video or trying a stunt.\n\n\"It's not funny - and since we remove that sort of content, it certainly won't make you TikTok famous.\"\n\nTikTok urged users to report videos containing the challenge.\n\nAnd it told BBC News there was now text underneath #skullbreakerchallenge \"reminding users to not imitate or encourage public participation in dangerous stunts and/or risky behaviour that could lead to serious injury or death\".\n\nIn February, a UK mother, whose daughter had taken part in the challenge with two friends wrote on Facebook: \"Please, please if you have teenagers doing TikToks, do not let them get involved in this.\n\n\"I'm sitting in [accident and emergency] with my daughter with a severe spinal injury.\"\n\nPosted beneath the warning was a picture of her daughter taking part in the challenge alongside one of her in hospital in a neck brace.\n\nIn New Jersey, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said two children had been been charged with third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree endangering an injured victim after an incident involving the prank.\n\nAnd prosecutor Jill S Mayer urged parents to talk to their children about potential consequences of taking part in a social media challenge.\n\n\"While the challenge may seem funny or get views on social media platforms, they can have long-lasting health consequences,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, a 13-year-old boy from Camden had been admitted to hospital after the prank.\n\nThere have also been reports of injuries related to it in Pennsylvania, Oregon, Arkansas and Alabama.\n\nSome TikTok users have themselves started posting videos warning the prank can cause serious injury.\n\nAt the time of writing, most content being shown following a search for \"skull-breaker challenge\" was videos explaining the risks and urging people not to take part.", "Serial rapist, pictured during his crime spree last year, Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nProbation staff were warned serial rapist Joseph McCann posed a risk of sexual offending and could have recalled him to jail, a report says.\n\nMcCann was given 33 life sentences after being convicted of a series of offences against 11 women and children.\n\nThere were eight opportunities to recall McCann to jail before he went on a spree of sex offences last year, the Serious Further Offences report found.\n\nA summary of the report said McCann should have been kept in jail at least until the Parole Board was satisfied it was safe to let him out.\n\nIt says there were eight occasions when this process - called \"recall\" - was considered.\n\n\"The most significant practice failure was the repeated failure to recall Joseph McCann or to reflect critically on earlier decisions not to recall him, in the face of both court and prison staff communicating their concerns,\" the report said.\n\nOne of McCann's victims, a 39-year-old mum, said her family \"has been torn apart\".\n\n\"If he had been in prison none of this would have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"I lost my family home. I could not go back to the house. It was awful it has just been really bad emotionally.\"\n\nHer 17-year-old daughter, who was also one of McCann's victims, said she \"thought the law was meant to protect the public\".\n\n\"I used to be an independent person but now I can't do anything on my own.\n\n\"I can't even sleep in my own bed . It's absolutely awful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe report disclosed that in 2011, when McCann was in prison for burglary, police shared information dating back to 2003 and suggesting McCann \"might pose a risk of sexual harm and exploitation to teenage girls\".\n\nThe report added: \"It appears that the pressure on the staff throughout 2018 and the chaotic transfer of the case between numerous offender managers also significantly impacted their ability to comprehensively review McCann's historical record, and therefore to identify the previous references to sexual violence.\n\n\"Had offender managers reviewed the historical records, including the police intelligence, they might have instigated one to one work with McCann to address sexual violence.\n\n\"However, aside from this historical intelligence from 2003 and the letters intercepted by the prison in 2009, there were no more recent indicators of concerning sexual behaviour, and this failure should be viewed in this context.\"\n\nWhen an offender under probation supervision is charged with a serious crime an internal inquiry is conducted, known as a Serious Further Offence review.\n\nThese reports are usually kept under wraps, but the repercussions of the probation failings in this case were so appalling the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland recognised the clear public interest in making the document available for all to see.\n\nWhat is shocking, from reading the report, is that the same mistake was repeated over and over and over again.\n\nThat mistake was not to activate the \"recall\" process so that Joseph McCann would have stayed in prison after being sentenced in January 2018 until the Parole Board decided he could safely be let out.\n\nVarious reasons are cited for this persistent error - the threat of a legal challenge, concern about the impact of recall, communication problems - but I wonder whether fear of McCann, his bullying nature and violent temper, drove some staff to make the wrong decision.\n\nThe prison holding McCann had also intercepted two sets of letters from McCann with \"disturbing contents\" which \"indicated he posed a risk of sexual harm\".\n\nMcCann was released in March 2017 under strict bail conditions, but jailed again later that year.\n\nHe was released at the halfway point of his sentence in February 2019, two months before he went on a sex offending spree in Watford, London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire.\n\nHis victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nAlan Collins, a lawyer for some of McCann's victims, said the report made for \"hard and distressing reading\".\n\n\"It is unforgivable that the probation service, for unfathomable reasons, put McCann's perceived interests before the safety of the general public,\" he said.\n\n\"McCann posed a real risk to the public and the systems in place to manage the risk he posed were corrupted through ineffectual management and poor judgment.\n\n\"As a direct consequence, he was let loose on an unsuspecting public with terrible consequences.\n\n\"Lives have been damaged, if not ruined, as a result of what happened and the Ministry of Justice must accept full responsibility and... accept that it has to be accountable for McCann and the crimes that he committed when he should have been in prison.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elderly victim of serial rapist Joseph McCann tells of her ordeal\n\nAnother legal representative of some victims, Jonathan Bridge of Farleys Solicitors, said: \"The report highlights poor staff behaviour, limited productivity, poor quality of work, a high staff turnover and officers having to work with double the capacity they should have had.\n\n\"This report makes it clear that this was not a one-off mistake by the Probation Service, but a catalogue of errors spanning a number of years.\n\n\"It is absolutely clear that had the Probation Service done their job properly McCann would have been in prison and his victims would not have suffered horrific abuse and life changing psychiatric injury.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which carried out the review, said the chief inspector of probation Justin Russell will be asked to carry out an independent review of the National Probation Service's management of McCann and how the process of recalling offenders to prison is working.\n\nThe Attorney General also said he has referred McCann's sentence to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. A hearing will take place on 25 March.\n\nIn December, describing McCann as a \"classic psychopath\" the sentencing judge said his campaign of abduction and sexual abuse was unprecedented.\n\nThe judge called for an investigation into failings in the probation system which had left McCann on the streets.\n\nMcCann was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail having been convicted of:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is at risk from over-exploitation\n\nA study has called into question the effectiveness of measures to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nCritically endangered eels have been sold recently in Hong Kong stores, despite bans on their international trade, according to DNA evidence.\n\nThe discovery raises concerns about the scale at which illegal wildlife products are entering the supply chain, say scientists in Hong Kong.\n\nThere are growing calls for global action to end wildlife trafficking.\n\nIn the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, China has moved to ban the wildlife trade and consumption, while governments across Southeast Asia have vowed to strengthen co-operation to curb illegal wildlife trade.\n\nDr Mark Jones of the Born Free Foundation is among international experts calling for a new global agreement on wildlife crime.\n\nExploitation in all its forms has been identified as a key driver of wildlife and biodiversity decline, he said, which could see the extinction of a million species over the coming decades, unless we transform the way we interact with the natural world.\n\n\"While there has typically been a focus on trade in and trafficking of wildlife between Africa and Asia, this is a problem affecting all corners of the world, and the dire plight of the European eel, the illegal trade in which is threatening the future existence of this species, is a very good example,\" he said.\n\nThe European eel was once common in rivers but is now in rapid decline.\n\nThe creature's epic migration extends from its Caribbean breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to the rivers of Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia. But its status as a delicacy has attracted the attention of organised crime gangs.\n\nInternational trade in the eel is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), except where a permit is issued.\n\nYet, according to the new study, the eel was available in Hong Kong stores in 2017 and 2018, despite the fact that no imports were declared.\n\nDNA testing of eel products available at 49 retail outlets in Hong Kong identified 45% as European eel. Of 13 brands tested, nine were found to contain the critically endangered species. They were labelled as \"eel\".\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong scientists say their research, published in the journal Science Advances, raises urgent concerns about the enforcement of international Cites trade regulations.\n\nLead researcher Dr David Baker said Cites must be supported by strong enforcement efforts of illegal smuggling. \"Today there is a greater demand for transparency in labelling food products so that consumers can make informed decisions regarding food safety and wildlife conservation - this is especially true for fisheries. In the case of Hong Kong, even environmentally conscious consumers are being duped into consuming an endangered species.\"\n\nCommenting on the study, Dr Jones said \"remarkably\", there is currently no global legal agreement on wildlife crime, and the degree to which countries prioritise and criminalise the illegal exploitation of wildlife \"varies enormously\".\n\n\"We are calling for the development of an international agreement under the United Nations' Convention on Transnational Organised Crime, in order to ensure all countries recognise the scale and serious nature of wildlife crime and the devastating impact it is having on so many species, and prioritise it through their law enforcement, prosecutorial and judicial mechanisms,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking in London on Tuesday to mark UN World Wildlife Day, John Scanlon, former Cites Secretary General, said that while some significant gains have been made in the past decade in tackling wildlife crime, \"serious environment-related crimes are slipping through the net\".\n\nHe said recent evidence of the scale of the impacts on ecosystems, economies and public health, reflect the need for a comprehensive legally-binding regime to tackle wildlife crime, embedded within the framework of international criminal law.", "Yusuf Mohamed died from a 20cm stab wound to the heart, a post-mortem examination found\n\nTwo teenagers who \"fist-bumped\" each other after the apparently motiveless killing of a man have been sentenced.\n\nWilliam Haines, 18, and a boy, 17, who were both carrying Rambo-style knives, set upon Yusuf Mohamed in Shepherd's Bush, west London, on 26 June.\n\nHaines, who refused to attend court, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum term of 17 years for the murder of 18-year-old Mr Mohamed.\n\nThe 17-year-old was detained for 10 years for manslaughter.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had admitted the lesser charge. He was cleared of murder.\n\nThe trial heard Mr Mohamed had been walking on Uxbridge Road with friends when he was targeted outside a food shop \"for no obvious reason\" by the two defendants.\n\nProsecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said they crossed the road towards the victim and then, with \"brutal efficiency\", Haines stabbed Mr Mohamed in the heart.\n\nThe defendants gave each other a congratulatory \"fist-bump\" after the killing - a moment that was caught on CCTV\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors: \"As the two young men ran away, tucking their knives back out of sight, they gave each other a fist-bump as if to say, 'Well done us'.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Mohamed's sister Ayan described him as a \"gentle soul\" who was kind and quiet.\n\nThe A* student had been awaiting his A-level results and dreamed of studying engineering at university, she said.\n\nShe added: \"Yusuf's future has been snatched from him. We will never get to see the man he was to become.\"\n\nWilliam Haines claimed he could not remember the attack as he had been drinking\n\nThe court heard Haines, of Acton, west London, who was also found guilty of possessing a blade, had two previous convictions for having blades in public and had been on bail at the time of the murder.\n\nThe judge said Haines had provided no real explanation, while the younger defendant had said he followed him because of \"peer pressure\".\n• None Two charged after man stabbed in shop\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met said the officer's status is \"under review\"\n\nThe arrest of a serving Metropolitan Police officer relates to the outlawed neo-Nazi group National Action, it is understood.\n\nHe is being held on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation linked to right-wing terrorism, the Met said.\n\nOfficers are searching the address where he was arrested.\n\nA mandatory referral to the Independent Office of Police Conduct has been made, the force said.\n\n\"Whilst the investigation remains ongoing, at this time there is nothing to suggest there is any threat to wider public safety in relation to this matter,\" the force added.\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.", "With the launch of streaming services from Disney and Apple, the rollout of 5G and the growth in cryptocurrencies, experts are warning about the impact this huge rise in data use could have on the environment.\n\nThere are now hundreds of thousands of data centres around the world, storing everything from viral videos to doctors' notes and even bank account details. Many of them run on electricity generated by burning fossil fuels.\n\nFilm and TV writer Beth Webb went in search of the internet and discovered that 'the cloud' is actually a vast network of energy-guzzling data centres and undersea cables.\n\n'Dirty Streaming: The Internet's Big Secret' will be available on BBC Three on iPlayer from Thursday 5 March 2020.", "Perry revealed the news in the final frames of her new video\n\nPop superstar Katy Perry has revealed that she and her fiancé Orlando Bloom are expecting their first child.\n\nThe star announced her pregnancy in the video for her latest song, Never Worn White, revealing a baby bump in the final frames of the four-minute clip.\n\n\"OMG, so glad I don't have to suck it in anymore,\" she tweeted after the reveal, \"or carry around a big purse\".\n\nPerry, who was previously married to Russell Brand, has been dating Bloom since 2016.\n\nIn an Instagram story, Perry told fans the couple were \"excited\" and \"happy\", and that the child was due around the same time as her sixth album.\n\n\"There's a lot that will be happening this summer,\" she said. \"Not only will I be giving birth, literally, but also figuratively to something you guys have been waiting for.\n\n\"So let's just call it a double whammy. It's a two-for.\"\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 KatyPerryVEVO 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\nPerry explained the decision to reveal her pregnancy in a music video, saying: \"I like to tell you guys everything but I knew I would tell you in the best way, which is through a piece of music because that's... I guess that's how I speak to you. That's how we speak together to each other.\"\n\nShe added that she'd started to develop food cravings. She now carries Tabasco sauce with her at all times and has been eating \"the same burrito for weeks on end\".\n\nBloom already has a nine-year-old son Flynn with his ex-wife, the Australian model Miranda Kerr.\n\nThe British actor, who is best known for his roles in Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean, proposed to Perry in February 2019; and Never Worn White hints that the couple plan to walk down the aisle soon.\n\n\"I've never worn white / But I wanna get it right / Yeah, I really wanna try with you,\" Perry sings in the chorus. \"No, I've never worn white / But I'm standing here tonight / Cause I really wanna say 'I do.'\"\n\nThe couple got engaged last year\n\nBefore that, however, the star is due to fly to Australia, where she will perform at the Women's T20 World Cup this Sunday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground,\n\nShe will also headline a concert next week in support of Australia's firefighters and communities affected by bushfires.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ronaldinho retired after seven games for Fluminese in 2015\n\nFormer Brazil forward Ronaldinho is being held by police in Paraguay for allegedly using a fake passport to enter the country, authorities say.\n\nPolice searched a hotel in the capital, Asuncion, on Wednesday, where the star had been staying with his brother.\n\nParaguay's interior minister told ESPN Brazil that the pair had not been arrested but are under investigation.\n\nMinister Euclides Acevedo also said they deny wrongdoing and are co-operating with the authorities.\n\nPhotograph of a Paraguayan ID document shared by the Paraguayan authorities bearing Ronaldo's name\n\nIn July 2019, the player reportedly had his Brazilian and Spanish passports confiscated over unpaid taxes and non-payment of fines for illegally building on a nature reserve.\n\n\"Ronaldinho will be heard at eight in the morning on Thursday at the prosecutor's office,\" minister Euclides Acevedo told AFP, adding that customs authorities would also be investigated.\n\n\"I respect his sporting popularity but the law must also be respected. No matter who you are, the law still applies\", Mr Acevedo told local media.\n\nThe 39-year-old twice World Player Of The Year had travelled to Paraguay to promote a book and a campaign for underprivileged children.\n\nAnother man who travelled with the brothers - 45-year-old Wilmondes Sousa Lira - has also been held.\n\nRonaldinho was the 2004 and 2005 World Player of the Year and enjoyed the prime of his career at Spanish giants Barcelona. He won the World Cup in 2002 alongside fellow superstar forwards Ronaldo and Rivaldo.\n\nRonaldinho's net worth is estimated at £80-100m and he is reported to charge around £150,000 for a single promoted Instagram post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The long-awaited National Infrastructure Strategy is to be further delayed, and not released next week as expected, the BBC understands.\n\nThe detailed 30-year plan was to be published \"alongside\" the Budget, the government said at the Queen's Speech in December.\n\nThree weeks ago, then chancellor Sajid Javid confirmed the timetable.\n\nThe strategy is seen as crucial to the government's plan to \"level up\" regional disparities.\n\nThe delay will allow the new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to refocus the strategy, to reflect potentially larger resources available, and to incorporate the challenge of achieving \"net zero\" carbon emissions over the same 30-year timescale.\n\nTreasury sources say the overall ambition to make investments to \"level up\" the regions that also help meet commitments on climate change, remains and will be reflected in next week's Budget.\n\nThe strategy, which foresees spending of £100bn over this parliament, will contain vital funding projections for transport, local growth and digital infrastructure.\n\nAfter the recent High Court ruling over Heathrow, which found expansion plans had failed to adequately account for policies on climate change, some experts say the government needs to look again at the impact of environmental policy within the provision of infrastructure. There has also been a debate about whether housing should be part of the plan.\n\nThe strategy is also the government's formal response to a now two-year-old National Infrastructure Assessment, which was the product of an impartial commission set up when David Cameron was prime minister. It should have been published last autumn.\n\nPublication of the National Infrastructure Strategy should now be expected before May, sources have suggested to the BBC.\n\nThe Budget is still expected to include some green lights for high profile infrastructure projects, but the main move in this area will be to set the overall big numbers on capital spending. It is the infrastructure strategy and the Comprehensive Spending Review later this year that will determine the detailed policy.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the delay to the strategy suggested there was \"absolute chaos\" in the government.\n\nWith the threat of climate change and \"an economy at risk of recession\" the UK needed large scale infrastructure spending to start immediately, he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Equality and Human Rights Commission are considering \"what, if any\" action to take\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has renewed its call for an independent inquiry into accusations of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party, accusing it of failing to act.\n\nIn a letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the MCB accused the party of a reluctance to address what it said was a \"systemic\" problem.\n\nThe Conservative Party said it takes a \"robust approach to discrimination\".\n\nThe commission said it was \"actively considering\" what action it might take.\n\nThe EHRC - the UK's human rights watchdog - also said it was \"awaiting the final terms of reference of the party's independent review which we will consider as part of our decision making process\".\n\nThe MCB, which is an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies, first wrote to the equalities commission in May last year saying there was \"sufficient evidence\" to suggest the party may have breached anti-discrimination law.\n\nNow it has submitted an updated document to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, saying it was \"regrettable\" no action had been taken and citing further instances which it said showed anti-Islam sentiment was prevalent within the party.\n\nThe allegations include comments said to have been made by some MPs which the MCB claims are \"anti-Islam\" and contribute to a \"toxic culture\" in the party which makes Muslims feel unwelcome.\n\nThe document cites the instance of Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski being reprimanded by the party, but not suspended, for appearing at the same conference as far-right figures, including Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and and Italy's ex-deputy PM Matteo Salvini.\n\nAt the time, the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham defended his participation saying that although he didn't agree with all their policies \"they represent serious ideas and concerns\".\n\nThe MCB's document also raises the case of Conservative MP Karl McCartney who apologised after retweeting posts from supporters of former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson.\n\nThe group has also compiled a list of dozens of incidents of Conservative councillors or representatives allegedly sharing Islamophobic content online, as well as more than 180 similar incidents involving people claiming to be party members - some of which have been previously reported.\n\nResponding to the MCB's document, the Conservative Party said it \"consistently takes decisive action to deal with any incidents of hatred, abuse or intimidation\".\n\n\"We are holding an independent review which is looking at how we can improve our processes - to make sure that any instances are isolated, and that there are thorough processes in place to stamp them out as and when they occur.\"\n\nIn December, the party announced Professor Swaran Singh would lead an independent review into the Conservative Party's handling of all forms of discrimination and prejudice.\n\nThe then-Tory chairman James Cleverly said: \"The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind.\"\n\nThe MCB has accused the party of \"reneging\" on a promise to hold an independent inquiry specifically into Islamophobia, accusing the party of failing to take direct and appropriate action on the issue.\n\nIt comes after the Equalities and Human Rights Commission launched an investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, in December last year.\n\nLabour has said it is fully co-operating with the investigation but had improved its internal processes to deal with anti-Semitism allegations.", "South Korea has denied it sent face masks to North Korea to help prevent Covid-19 after rumours began circulating in the country.\n\n\"The government has not provided any masks to North Korea, nor has any non-governmental organisation sought permission from the government to send masks to help the North,\" Yoh Sang-key, a spokesman for South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said on Thursday.\n\nHe also called on the public to stay alert about disinformation, saying those spreading it would be held accountable in court.\n\nA few days ago, local South Korean broadcaster YTN aired video footage showing a North Korean medical worker wearing a mask from the South Korean company Yuhan Kimberly. This triggered rumours about President Moon Jae-in's administration secretly sending masks to the North, according to The Korea Times.\n\nA South Korean official said the masks might have entered North Korea through China.\n\nSouth Korea has banned the export of face masks as it struggles with shortages of them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Save the Children CEO: \"I apologise deeply to the women affected\"\n\nSave the Children UK \"let down\" complainants, employees and the public over its handling of harassment claims against senior staff, according to a report by the Charity Commission.\n\nThe watchdog found \"serious failures\" in how the charity dealt with claims.\n\nAn investigation was launched following allegations of inappropriate behaviour between 2012 and 2015, including by the charity's former chief executive.\n\nSave the Children UK has apologised \"unreservedly\" to the women affected.\n\nThe charity said it had \"accepted in full\" the report's findings.\n\nIts former chief executive, Justin Forsyth, faced three complaints of inappropriate behaviour towards female members of staff, which came to public attention in 2018.\n\nHe said he \"apologised unreservedly\" to the three employees in 2015 and quit his role as deputy chief executive director of Unicef when the allegations resurfaced in 2018.\n\nThe charity's former chief strategist, Brendan Cox - the husband of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox - was at the centre of sexual harassment complaints in 2015.\n\nHe admitted he made \"mistakes\" and behaved in a way that caused some women \"hurt and offence\" while working for Save the Children UK.\n\nMr Cox resigned from the charity in September 2015 amid the allegations but at the time denied that was the reason he quit.\n\nThe report said there were 13 complaints of general bullying and five complaints categorised as sexual harassment in the charity between 2016 and June 2018.\n\nSave the Children's former chief executive, Justin Forsyth, with Samantha Cameron in Lebanon in 2013\n\nThe report found \"serious weaknesses\" in the charity's workplace culture.\n\nAmong the wide range of failings included the charity not identifying its chief executive as the subject of complaints when it made a serious incident report to the regulator in 2015.\n\nTrustees were also not made aware of allegations against Mr Forsyth until 2015, the report found.\n\nThe commission said this amounted to the omission of \"material facts\" and to \"mismanagement in the administration of the charity\".\n\nIt also said one of the charity's public statements in February 2018 was \"not wholly accurate\", and described its overall approach to reports in the media as \"unduly defensive\".\n\nThe charity's actions created the impression it was seeking to \"downplay the seriousness of the allegations\", the commission added.\n\nThese allegations, and the way in which the charity responded, had a \"corrosive impact on its internal culture\", the report said.\n\nSince October 2018, the charity has \"made significant progress in implementing changes\", the commission added.\n\nThe watchdog said the charity recognised the seriousness of the complaints and it had found no evidence of deliberate attempts to brush these under the carpet.\n\nThe charity instigated two reviews into culture and morale, and has since taken steps to respond to the external reviews' findings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHelen Stephenson, chief executive of the Charity Commission, said charities should have \"a workplace culture that is healthy, supportive and safe\".\n\n\"This responsibility is especially pronounced in large, household name charities: their leaders are powerful, and highly respected,\" she said.\n\n\"The impact of failures in leadership in such charities can also have implications for public trust and confidence beyond the charity itself.\"\n\nAlexia Pepper de Caires, who left Save the Children in 2015, said she raised concerns about harassment at the charity.\n\nThe former employee said the trustees \"must be held accountable\" and the position of current CEO, Kevin Watkins, who was a trustee when the allegations were made, was \"untenable\".\n\n\"We cannot expect people who were part of the problem to reform an organisation,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn response, Mr Watkins, who became CEO of the charity in 2016, said it was \"unfair\" to say he failed to discharge his responsibilities as a trustee and that he endorsed and acted on an independent review into workplace culture at the time.\n\nHe apologised \"unreservedly\" to the women affected by the behaviour of the two senior executives.\n\n\"The harm they suffered was compounded by a failure to respond appropriately to complaints and then by our defensive handling of media inquiries about the cases,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he was determined to work with staff to \"build an organisational culture that reflects our values\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. East Kent Hospitals: 'Lessons have not been learned'\n\nThe parents of a baby who nearly died after a series of failings during his birth said they were \"heartbroken\" mistakes continued to be made\n\nEast Kent Hospitals told Harry Halligan's parents they would learn lessons from his delivery in 2012.\n\nBut similar failings recently came to light after the death of Harry Richford in 2017 and the trust is now being probed over up to 15 baby deaths.\n\nThe trust said it made \"many changes to the maternity service\" after 2012.\n\nDan and Alison Halligan were promised lessons would be learned after failings in their son's care\n\nParents Dan and Alison Halligan, from New Romney, said watching news coverage of an inquest into Harry Richford's death earlier this year, which laid bare the failings, had brought back stressful memories.\n\nMr Halligan said the trust \"clearly haven't learned from [the] mistakes\" made in his son's care, adding that it was \"heartbreaking\" to see \"the same mistakes being repeated\".\n\nThe cases of Harry Halligan and Harry Richford were both subject to what's called a \"root cause analysis\" by the hospital.\n\nBoth reports highlight very similar issues and lessons to be learnt, but five years apart.\n\nThere were lessons to be learned around foetal heart monitoring; problems using syntocinon, a drug used to make contractions stronger; poor communication with families and issues with consultants, including their role and the time they are on wards and even problems getting hold of them out of hours.\n\nHarry Halligan's twin sister had been delivered first without major complications at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.\n\nBut Harry was delivered by emergency caesarean section after failed attempts to use forceps.\n\nMrs Halligan said the decision was taken \"a bit late\".\n\nThe hospital did not seem prepared for the potential complications of delivering twins and a consultant had not initially responded to a pager alert as she was not aware Harry was a twin, she said.\n\nMr Halligan said news of the other preventable deaths made them feel \"fortunate,\" adding: \"We got away with it.\"\n\nEast Kent Hospitals apologised to the Halligan family and said changes made since 2012 included \"increased staffing levels, improved communication processes and new standards for obstetric care\".\n\n\"We are currently working with leading maternity experts to make sure everything we are doing now is providing a safe maternity service and a good experience for families and babies,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police remained at the scene on Shore Road in Hythe on Friday morning\n\nA baby boy has been found dead in an area of woodland in Hampshire.\n\nPolice are trying to trace the mother of the newborn, who was discovered close to Shore Road in Hythe, near Southampton, just after 14:00 GMT.\n\nThe death is being treated as unexplained and anyone with dash-cam footage of the area at the time is asked to contact officers.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ross Toms said their priority now was to find the mother of the child.\n\n\"I have no doubt this will have been a very distressing experience for the mother of this baby,\" he said.\n\n\"Our priority right now is to ensure she receives the care and assistance she requires.\n\n\"I want to make a direct appeal to her.\n\n\"You may be very frightened right now and it is vitally important that you make contact with us or someone else.\"\n\nThree police vehicles and a van are parked next to the woods being searched on Shore Road.\n\nA small generator is running by the road, powering floodlights that have been used to assist police as they combed the area overnight.\n\nOfficers are very concerned for the mother's wellbeing and have asked for anyone who may have recently seen a heavily-pregnant woman in the area to get in touch.\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 couple formally step down as senior royals on 31 March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken part in one of their last official engagements together before they quit royal life later this month.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan attended an awards ceremony to celebrate the sporting and adventure achievements of sick and injured service personnel.\n\nIt was their first official appearance together since announcing in January they would step down as senior royals.\n\nThe London event was also Meghan's first public royal duty since then.\n\nThe couple, who will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March, attended the Endeavour Fund Awards - which are given to members of the Armed Forces - at Mansion House in central London.\n\nHarry, who had a 10-year military career, will retain the ranks of Major, Lieutenant Commander, and Squadron Leader when he steps down, but his honorary military positions will be suspended.\n\nA crowd of people braved the rain under umbrellas to catch a glimpse of them as they arrived.\n\nThe couple presented awards at the ceremony, including to one winner who celebrated by later proposing to his partner.\n\nDanny Holland, who won the Recognising Achievement Award, got down on one knee and asked his girlfriend to marry him.\n\nHarry and Meghan, and Ross Kemp, all cheered as one winner proposed to his partner\n\nMeghan wore a pencil dress designed by Victoria Beckham for the occasion\n\nThe couple presented awards at the ceremony and met nominees and Endeavour participants\n\nIn a speech at the reception, Prince Harry said he was \"proud to serve Queen and country\".\n\n\"[It] is something we all are rightly proud of, and it never leaves us. Once served, always serving!\", he said.\n\nThe duke added that many servicemen and women had told him they \"had his back\" and he in turn offered them his own support.\n\nHe said: \"I feel lucky to be able to count myself as one of you; and am deeply proud to have served among you as Captain Wales.\n\n\"A lot of you tonight have told me you have my back, well I'm also here to tell you, I've always got yours.\"\n\nThe engagement is part of a final run of royal duties for the couple.\n\nPrince Harry is joining Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton at the official opening of the Silverstone Experience, a museum about British motor racing, on Friday.\n\nThe duke and duchess will then attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 March, and Meghan will mark International Women's Day.\n\nThe couple will then join the Queen and other royals at the Commonwealth Day service in Westminster Abbey on 9 March - their last official appearance as HRHs.\n\nEarlier, the pair were spotted at Buckingham Palace and then photographed outside the Goring Hotel in Westminster after a private lunch.\n\nA spokeswoman for the couple said in addition to their official engagements over the next few days, the duke and duchess would be meeting privately with several of their patronages.", "Angela Spiridis says she was \"outright refused\" an epidural\n\nWomen in labour are being refused epidurals, the Department of Health and Social Care has found.\n\nOfficial guidelines say all women should have the option, but some claim that stretched resources and a lack of information mean it is being denied.\n\nOne woman said her \"traumatic\" experience had left her with post-natal depression and anxiety.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives said \"every woman who wants an epidural should be given one if it is safe\".\n\nThe decision to investigate came after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in January he wanted \"all expectant mothers to be able to make an informed choice that's right for them, to know this choice will be fully respected and to have the freedom to change their mind\".\n\nThe health minister Nadine Dorries will now write to all heads and directors of midwifery, and to NHS trusts, to ensure guidelines on pain relief are being followed.\n\nThese state that women in labour can ask for epidurals at any time, including during the early stage of labour.\n\nBut one woman, Angela Spiridis, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she was \"outright refused\" an epidural, when - six hours into the induction - she was tired and in pain.\n\n\"At one point I was arguing with four medical professionals, one being the midwife. And they said, 'No, you're not in labour'.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"very disempowered\".\n\n\"They didn't trust me as a woman to know my own body,\" she added, saying she \"felt I was being judged, asking for an epidural\".\n\nShe said she was then left in the labour room \"for several hours\", at which point there was no time for an epidural to be administered.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives said its members and services were \"focused on ensuring women have the best possible experience of pregnancy and birth\".\n\nBut it added: \"Unfortunately, due to stretched resources, anaesthetists are not always available, which poses real challenges for midwives seeking the best experience for women in labour.\"\n\nOne woman who contacted the Victoria Derbyshire programme - and did not wish to be named - said she had requested an epidural \"from the moment contractions began... but was told repeatedly there was no-one to administer it. This went on for three hours\".\n\nShe had previously experienced post-natal depression with her first baby, and said being unable to have an epidural caused her great anxiety.\n\n\"I went on to have post-natal depression, post-partum anxiety and post-traumatic stress,\" she said.\n\nClare Murphy of the BPAS says women being refused epidurals has become a \"common theme\"\n\nA Care Quality Commission survey, published in January, found that epidural use in England has increased over the past three years from 28% to 31%.\n\nBut the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said women being refused epidurals had become a \"common theme\".\n\nIt said it was leaving women \"profoundly traumatised\" - with some choosing to \"limit\" their families as a consequence, and not have another child.\n\nClare Murphy, from the charity, said a greater emphasis needed to be placed on providing information about pain relief to women.\n\nKim McAllister said she \"screamed\" for an epidural\n\nOne mother, Kim McAllister, told the BBC that during her first pregnancy she had \"screamed\" for an epidural.\n\n\"The midwife said, 'No, you're too far gone, keep going'. And that was the end of it - there was no information, no discussion with my husband.\"\n\nWomen who choose to give birth at home or in a midwife-led unit may have to be transferred if they want an epidural, and Ms McAllister said she now understood her request may have come too late.\n\nBut, she added, \"it was just really scary to be dismissed like that. I was made to feel powerless, at a time when you feel so vulnerable.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Last month Australian Rules Football player Tayla Harris called for action on online abuse\n\nAn Australian newspaper says sexist remarks have forced it to remove the comments section from its coverage of women's Australian rules football.\n\nThe Herald Sun said it had decided to shut off the comments following appeals from players, commentators and fans.\n\nOne story had received almost 300 comments of a \"sexist tone\", it said.\n\nAbusive comments aimed at players have plagued the sport for months. Women began playing Australian rules football professionally in 2017.\n\nLast year Prime Minister Scott Morrison referred to online trolls who attacked star footballer Tayla Harris as \"cowardly grubs\".\n\nOn Thursday, an article in the Herald Sun explained why comments had been removed from articles about women's Australian rules football (AFLW).\n\nHerald Sun head of sport Matt Kitchin said: \"The least offensive of the comments runs to the tune of 'get back in the kitchen' and the worst cannot be repeated they are so objectionable.\n\n\"Players, commentators, fans and clubs have all appealed to the Herald Sun to shut off the comments. And we've heard them.\"\n\nThe move comes two weeks after Harris, a football player for Carlton, offered to give up her wage in order for the AFL to employ someone to monitor online bullying.\n\n\"God damn I'll give up my AFLW wage to employ someone to monitor this, public bullying is a ripple effect to young people in schools and communities that lead to mental health issues and suicide,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nShe called on the sports governing body the AFL to \"be a leader in this space\".\n\n\"Ignoring these comments is not a solution. Fight back,\" she urged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tayla Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year Harris was targeted with derogatory comments underneath a picture of her playing for the Carlton Blues posted on social media.\n\nThe controversy also led to questions about how media companies handle abusive comments after Channel Seven deleted the picture from its website in an effort to combat the trolling. The company reposted the photo after a backlash.\n\nA number of Australian sportswomen have supported Harris, including former Olympic cycling champion Anna Meares. Campaigners have also backed her, including Patty Kinnersly, head of Our Watch, which aims to tackle Australia's high rates of violence against women.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe AFLW professional league was launched in 2017, drawing sell-out crowds and TV ratings in a country that lives and breathes sport.\n\nWhen the first game was held, 26,000 fans turned up to the game, forcing the gates to close and 2,000 to be locked out.\n\nAt the time, the Herald Sun wrote: \"Footy's new female formula has a very big future.\"", "Loganair said the two routes, to Aberdeen and Inverness, will be launched later this month\n\nScottish airline Loganair has announced it will take up two routes formerly flown by Flybe out of Belfast City Airport.\n\nFlybe went into administration earlier on Thursday, putting 2,000 jobs at risk across the UK.\n\nAll Flybe flights were cancelled and its passengers have been advised not to go to the airport.\n\nFlybe operated 14 routes from Belfast City Airport - about 80% of its scheduled flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLoganair said the two routes - between Aberdeen and Belfast and Inverness and Belfast - will commence on 16 March and 23 March respectively.\n\nThe airline will be taking up 16 formerly Flybe routes across the UK and has opened a special recruitment line for former Flybe employees.\n\nBelfast City Airport said \"a number of airlines\" have expressed interest in taking over its routes affected by the collapse.\n\nBelfast City Airport's chief executive said it was a challenging time for both staff and customers. but he was confident of rebuilding its network.\n\n\"In the last 24 hours, we've had an interest in all of our network,\" Brian Ambrose told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"For some of the larger routes, we've had multiple interest from a number of airlines.\n\n\"So I'm confident that within the next days and weeks we will be announcing backfill on a number of those routes and it's a matter of how quickly airlines can get aircraft available.\n\n\"The airline was a significant economic driver for the region, carrying 1.6 million passengers to and from Belfast in 2019,\" he explained.\n\nThe departures board at Belfast City Airport on Thursday morning\n\nNorthern Ireland is particularly reliant on air links, simply because of its geography.\n\nTo get to any other part of the UK from here, you have only two options - go by sea, or by air.\n\nLocal MPs stressed those circumstances in their questions in parliament.\n\nStephen Farry from the Alliance Party said Northern Ireland had in effect lost 25% of its air travel capacity \"overnight\".\n\nThe DUP's Gavin Robinson - whose constituency takes in Belfast City Airport - said the government had been \"large in ambition\" for regional connectivity but \"light on detail\".\n\nGavin Robinson said the government had been \"large in ambition\" for regional connectivity but \"light on detail\"\n\nTransport Minister Kelly Tolhurst told the Commons she \"absolutely recognised\" Northern Ireland had specific concerns.\n\nShe pointed out that the Conservative Party manifesto contained a commitment to consider devolving short-haul air passenger duty (APD).\n\nA report drawn up for Stormont last year suggested cutting APD would probably enhance Northern Ireland's aviation connections, but would be unlikely to deliver value for money.\n\nMr Ambrose said that Flybe had operated \"a strong and profitable base\" from Belfast which would prove attractive to other carriers.\n\nHe also said he was also hopeful that some of the airlines might consider hiring Flybe staff.\n\n\"We were talking to a number of staff last night when they came off shift and they're going home to let their families know they've lost their jobs,\" said Mr Ambrose.\n\n\"As we secure these routes, we will be certainly telling the incoming airlines - if they need staff, if they need engineers and pilots and crew - they have quality staff who have been working here for many years and hopefully some of them will pick up jobs in the process.\"\n\nThe economy minister said she deeply regrets the closure of Flybe\n\nIn a statement, Flybe said it had been unable to overcome significant funding challenges.\n\nThe Exeter-based carrier said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on demand for air travel was partly to blame for its collapse.\n\nFlybe CEO Mark Anderson said the UK had lost one of its \"greatest regional assets\".\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said she deeply regrets the closure of Flybe.\n\n\"Maintaining air connectivity is absolutely vital to Northern Ireland - to enable access to the economic market in Great Britain and for tourists arriving to our airports from Great Britain and beyond,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"My department will work closely with [the Department for Transport] to assist, as required, with the repatriation of Northern Ireland passengers.\"\n\nFlybe carried 1.6 million passengers to and from Belfast City Airport in 2019\n\nThe collapse of Flybe has also caused concerns for staff and students at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB), many of whom relied on the routes for academic collaboration with other UK universities.\n\n\"This is very challenging for us,\" said QUB Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof Stuart Elborn.\n\n\"We've students and staff who commute using the Flybe airline very frequently for research, for education.\n\n\"We've a number of joint post-graduate programmes - for example one with Aberdeen which is very important to us and the only flight to Aberdeen to Belfast and back is Flybe.\n\n\"So this will have an impact for sure and we will have to seek ways to mitigate that.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the collapse of Flybe? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer is asked about his pitch to be the next leader of the Labour Party.\n\nSir Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey have been challenged about their electability and leadership skills in BBC interviews with Andrew Neil.\n\nAsked whether he had the charisma to transform Labour's fortunes, Sir Keir said there were \"different ways to inspire people\" and his \"unrelenting\" mission was to return Labour to power.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey said she had the \"big ideas\" needed to win the next election.\n\nThe pair also were also quizzed on donations and action on anti-Semitism.\n\nIn separate interviews broadcast on the Andrew Neil show, both the Labour leadership contenders committed to retain key policies from the party's 2019 manifesto despite its overwhelming defeat.\n\nThe third contender for the Labour crown, Lisa Nandy, was grilled by Andrew Neil last month.\n\nSir Keir, Mrs Long-Bailey and Ms Nandy are vying to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader, with the result to be announced on 4 April.\n\nIn his interview, Sir Keir said if he won his \"unrelenting\" focus would be returning Labour to government at the next election, expected in 2024.\n\nAsked if he had the \"fire in his belly\" needed to galvanise Labour after its worst electoral performance, in terms of seats won, since 1935, Sir Keir suggested his leadership style would be different from Mr Corbyn's.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Long-Bailey is asked what she would do differently as leader\n\n\"There are different ways to inspire people. You can inspire people so they want to sit at your feet listening to your next word. That is not me.\n\n\"Or you can inspire people by building a team of people who want to come with you on a journey and change their party and their country. That is what I am building in my campaign.\"\n\nKeir Starmer acknowledged that, at the general election, the question of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was the number one issue in many areas.\n\nBut despite repeated invitations to say something critical of Mr Corbyn, he stuck to his message of \"unity\".\n\nAlthough suspected by some on the left of intending to move the party to the centre, he has gone out of his way to reassure the sizeable left-wing slice of the selectorate that he won't \"over-steer\" to the right.\n\nSo much so that tonight he described the nationalisation of water, mail, and rail as \"baseline indicators\" of where he wants to go.\n\nAnd he went further than his pledge to repeal recent trade union laws. He now declared he'd get rid of all union legislation \"that prohibited collective action\".\n\nSo in appealing to party members, he is trying to ensure he can't be \"out-lefted\" by Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nPolls suggest she is in second place. Although she is backed by left-wing grassroots group Momentum, she appeared to be trying to broaden her base.\n\nShe insisted there was \"no such thing as Corbynism\", and that she is \"not a continuity of Jeremy Corbyn\".\n\nWhile she was 'proud' of the party's policies, she insisted they were \"not left-wing\" nor as \"radical\" as people had thought, stressing that the party needed to talk about \"aspiration\".\n\nThere haven't been many surprises in this contest. But the respective rhetoric adopted by the apparent frontrunners might have raised some eyebrows, not least among some of their own supporters.\n\nDefending his continued backing for the free movement of people to and from Europe after Brexit, Sir Keir told Andrew Neil the views of Labour voters in the party's traditional heartlands on immigration were more nuanced than \"soundbites\" suggested.\n\nHe dismissed suggestions, levelled by some of Mrs Long-Bailey's supporters, that he was \"hiding\" details of his campaign's financial backers, saying he had received support from trade unions, crowd-funding and individual donations.\n\nHe insisted he was complying with the rules set out by the party before the contest started, saying the largest donation he had received so far - a £100,000 cheque from fellow barrister Robert Latham - had been declared in the MPs register of financial interests.\n\n\"The Labour rules say 'carry out the checks you have to carry out' and once you are satisfied that the donations are proper and in order, they go to the parliamentary authorities who put them on the parliamentary website so everyone can see them,\" he said.\n\n\"I have been following those procedures. How can you say I am hiding behind the process when it is the Labour Party process.\"\n\nMrs Long-Bailey, who has declared more than £300,000 in donations from the Unite union and left-wing campaign group Momentum, urged her rival to be open about the source of his donations and put \"more meat on the bone\" about the direction he would take the party in.\n\nShe defended her record, while a member of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, of condemning anti-Semitism, rejecting suggestions she remained silent during a 2018 discussion on whether the party should adopt the international definition of anti-Semitism in full.\n\nBut she conceded she had not always \"been quick enough\" to call out examples of anti-Semitism, including at a recent campaign event when a member of the public accused prominent Labour politicians, including Jewish MP Margaret Hodge of \"being part of the Israeli lobby\".\n\n\"I should have challenged that specific element of that gentleman's contribution directly and I wish I had done that because it was an anti-Semitic statement,\" she said, adding that those guilty of \"clear\" examples of anti-Jewish prejudice should be expelled.\n\nDuring an interview earlier in the campaign, the other candidate Lisa Nandy is asked for her views on university tuition fees, Royal Mail renationalisation, Trident, the NHS using private providers and the top rate of tax.", "Ted Langford was sentenced to three years in prison, in 2007, for sexual abuse between 1976 and 1989.\n\nAston Villa and Leicester City have paid damages to five victims of a football scout convicted of child sex abuse, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.\n\nTed Langford was jailed in 2007 for the sexual abuse of four other young boys between 1976 and 1989. He died in 2012.\n\nBoth clubs settled a civil case for compensation weeks before it was due to be heard in the High Court.\n\nThey expressed their \"deepest sympathies\" to the survivors.\n\nTed Langford worked as a part-time football scout in the Midlands in the 1970s and 1980s, identifying promising players for both Aston Villa and Leicester City.\n\nFormer professional footballer Tony Brien - who says he was abused by Langford from age 12 and has waived his right to anonymity - said he felt let down neither club had accepted responsibility for the abuse or apologised to the young boys involved.\n\n\"Saying sorry won't make things right but it would help and it would help the other four lads as well,\" he said.\n\nTony Brien played professionally for a number of clubs, including Leicester City, Chesterfield and Hull City. He did not play for Aston Villa.\n\nIt was Mr Brien's interview on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme in 2017, in which he spoke of being abused while playing for a local youth team, that led four other former players to come forward alleging abuse while playing for youth teams linked to Leicester and Aston Villa.\n\nNone was involved in the criminal case against Langford.\n\nThe clubs reached an out-of-court settlement for damages in January. The amounts involved have not been disclosed.\n\nBoth said the claims, settled by their respective insurers, were on terms \"acceptable to all parties\" and without admissions of liability.\n\nTony Brien said he had been abused while playing for Dunlop Terriers\n\nIn 1985, four years after he says the abuse began, Mr Brien was signed for Leicester City, aged 16, by youth team manager Dave Richardson, having been recommended by Langford, a part-time scout for the club.\n\nTwo years later, Mr Richardson joined Aston Villa as assistant manager and Langford moved with him.\n\nLater that season, Mr Brien says, he called Mr Richardson to warn him about Langford.\n\nAston Villa first-team squad photo 1988-89, featuring manager Graham Taylor (front and centre) and Dave Richardson (on his left with grey hair)\n\nBut he claims that, after a number of conversations with Mr Richardson and one with then-manager Graham Taylor, he was dissuaded from going public with his allegations.\n\nTaylor, who went on to manage England, died of a heart attack in January 2017.\n\nMr Brien told Victoria Derbyshire that Taylor had said to him: \"Look, you're a young lad starting out in the game. I know you've just made your debut. Could you really be dealing with all the obscenities from the terraces? So I just suggest you sweep it under the carpet.\"\n\nThe Football Association later set up an independent inquiry into historical sexual abuse across the sport, which is continuing.\n\nMr Brien has told the inquiry: \"They discouraged me from going forward and never offered me a chance to go to the police or anything like that.\n\n\"I went into the kitchen at my mum's and my mum said, 'Well?' And I just said 'they just told me to sweep it underneath the carpet'. And I burst into tears.\"\n\nThe inquiry has also heard from a former Aston Villa player involved in the civil case who said Taylor and another unidentified member of staff had visited him and he had been discouraged from taking his abuse allegations further.\n\nMr Richardson has previously told BBC News he could not recall having a conversation with Mr Brien and strongly denied he would have advised the player he should not go public.\n\nHe said he had first been made aware of \"alarming allegations\" against Langford from other parents shortly after he had joined Aston Villa, in 1987, and an internal investigation had followed.\n\nThe parents involved had not wanted the matter reported to the police and, after consulting with Taylor and then chairman Doug Ellis, Langford had been \"rapidly\" sacked.\n\nThen, as now, there was no legal requirement for Mr Richardson or Aston Villa to report concerns about Langford to the authorities.\n\nBut BBC News has seen a document showing Langford was still acting as Aston Villa's official representative until at least March 1989.\n\nMr Richardson said he did not consider it appropriate to comment further while the FA inquiry was continuing.\n\nA letter passed to the Victoria Derbyshire programme suggests Langford continued to act as Aston Villa's official representative until at least March 1989\n\nAt least two of those who were paid damages as part of the settlement said Langford had abused them after Mr Brien, according to him, had raised concerns about the scout.\n\n\"It could have definitely been prevented if they had acted promptly,\" said Mr Brien.\n\n\"I know it's a different era we live in now. But if someone came to me and [said], 'This is what's happened,' then I'd march down to the police station and make a statement.\n\n\"That's what I would do.\"\n\nDino Nocivelli, a solicitor at Bolt Burdon Kemp who represented the five survivors in this case, said the settlement was \"an important step\".\n\nBut, he added: \"I am sadly aware of other survivors who have been unable to report their abuse at the hands of Langford to the police, FA or to Aston Villa or Leicester City.\n\n\"We are still waiting for the FA's report [into historical sex abuse in the sport] as to what steps Aston Villa and Leicester City and other football clubs could have taken to stop child abuse.\"\n\nLeicester City said in a statement it wished to express \"its deepest sympathies with all victims of abuse and its admiration for those survivors who, in coming forward, have helped to reinforce the game's modern safeguarding standards\".\n\nIt added: \"All reports of abuse made to the club, non-recent or otherwise, are treated seriously, investigated thoroughly and pursued to an appropriate conclusion that is satisfactory to all associated parties\".\n\nAston Villa said in a statement it \"wishes to express its deepest sympathies with all those who have suffered abuse, and is appalled by any form of historic abuse.\n\n\"Safeguarding standards are of paramount importance to the club and any reports of abuse made to the club, both historic or current, will be investigated vigorously and reported to the appropriate authorities\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Households in the wealthiest area of England and Wales have an average disposable income four times that of the poorest, according to Office for National Statistics estimates.\n\nThe average figure in Mickleover North, in Derby, in 2017-18 was almost £40,000 more than in St Matthews and Highfields North, Leicester, estimates suggest.\n\nDerby also had the widest income gap between its richest and poorest areas.\n\nLondon and south-east England had the highest proportion of wealthy areas.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nA quarter of London's local areas and a fifth of those in the South East were ranked in the top 10% of wealthiest areas.\n\nIn contrast, in north-west England, a fifth of its local areas were in the bottom 10% for household incomes.\n\nHighgate East, Haringey and Queen's Gate, Kensington and Chelsea, were the only other local areas - apart from Mickleover North - with average household incomes over £50,000.\n\nIn Wales, the area with the highest income was Sketty, in Swansea, where the average is estimated to be £39,600.\n\nThis relatively high income led Swansea to have the highest divide between the most and least affluent areas in Wales.\n\nThe latest ONS figures look at net household income, which is income after certain taxes have been removed and includes welfare payments.\n\nIn order better to reflect living standards, they have been adjusted to take into account the size of each household and are based on a variety of data types, including surveys.\n\nIn a separate publication, ONS figures show that the household income inequality across the UK has increased slightly over the two years to March 2019.\n\nIncome for the poorest fifth of households fell by 4.3% a year, following four years of growth.\n\nThe wealthiest fifth had a smaller decline in average income and their incomes still haven't returned to their pre-2008 crisis levels.\n\nAcross all incomes, the average rate is still increasing but more slowly than before.\n\nThe figures highlight the size of the challenge the government faces in its bid to \"level up\" the country as new Chancellor Rishi Sunak prepares to unveil plans in his 11 March Budget for further investment to reach the people ministers have described as \"left behind\".\n\nThe latest figures estimate average income across the UK - before housing costs - is £29,600.\n\nAdam Corlett, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think tank, said: \"Today's ONS data lays bare the incredibly weak living-standards growth the UK has experienced in recent years, contributing to a lost decade of income growth.\n\n\"The income squeeze, which abated in the mid-2010s, has returned in recent years. The new stagnation has affected households of all kinds, but the recent squeeze has been much worse for poorer households, who have seen big living-standards falls.\"\n\nInequality still remains lower than in the four years running up to the economic crisis in the 2008.\n\nThen, the income share of the top 1% was around 8.8%, compared with 7.6% now.\n\nLocation names for local areas taken from Parliament.uk", "Northern Ireland is particularly reliant on air links simply because of its geography.\n\nTo get to any other part of the UK from here, you have only two options - go by sea, or by air.\n\nLocal MPs stressed those circumstances in their questions in Parliament.\n\nStephen Farry from the Alliance Party said Northern Ireland had in effect lost 25% of its air travel capacity “overnight”.\n\nThe DUP’s Gavin Robinson - whose constituency has Belfast City Airport - said the government had been “large in ambition” for regional connectivity but “light on detail”.\n\nThe Transport Minister Kelly Tolhurst told the Commons she “absolutely recognised” Northern Ireland had specific concerns.\n\nShe pointed out that the Conservative Party manifesto contained a commitment to consider devolving short-haul Air Passenger Duty.\n\nA report drawn up for Stormont last year said cutting APD would probably enhance Northern Ireland’s aviation connections - but would be unlikely to deliver value for money.", "Henrietta Mitaire (pictured with her mother Mary Roberts - right) assaulted Captain Guido Keel after being told she could not take a buggy in the cabin\n\nA mother has been found guilty of attacking a Swiss airline pilot after being told she could not take a buggy in the cabin.\n\nHenrietta Mitaire, 23, pushed Captain Guido Keel to the floor, then scratched and kicked him after her plane arrived at Heathrow Airport on 2 May 2019.\n\nShe was described as a \"very angry woman\" at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nMitaire was given a four-month sentence suspended for one year after being convicted of assault by beating.\n\nShe had denied the charges.\n\nHer mother Mary Roberts, 53, was also accused of assault after she tried to intervene. But she was acquitted after a two-day trial.\n\nHenrietta Mitaire and Mary Roberts were both removed from the aircraft by police and arrested\n\nSentencing, district judge Deborah Wright said Capt Keel had been \"trying to protect himself from a very loud and very angry woman who had refused to leave the plane\".\n\nShe added: \"She was shouting, recording him and seemed intent upon pursuing him.\n\n\"It is a wonder [Capt Keel] managed to remain as calm as he appears from the footage to have done, in the face of a very forceful onslaught.\"\n\nMitaire, of Queen's Gate Place in South Kensington, south-west London, had claimed she was acting in self-defence after Capt Keel \"forcefully\" made contact with her shoulder and tried to take her phone when she started filming.\n\nMs Roberts, of Elswick Street, Imperial Wharf, south-west London, was asked to leave the courtroom when she made a disturbance, shouting: \"Adolf Hitler is ruling England! Mussolini is ruling England!\"\n\nJudge Wright said: \"You behaved in a way that was completely unacceptable and caused significant injury and the whole thing was caused, in effect, because you could not take your buggy on to the plane with you.\n\n\"When you were asked to leave the plane, instead of being sensible and saying 'I will make my complaint at a later stage', you escalated matters.\"\n\nThe court heard that the assault caused the following flight to be cancelled.\n\nJudge Wright said: \"A significant number of people were inconvenienced and you caused distress to the staff who had to deal with the incident on the day in question.\"\n\nIn a statement, senior crown prosecutor Arlene De Silva described the assault as a \"shocking attack on a pilot\" and an \"unprovoked onslaught\" in a \"confined space\".\n\nMitaire was also ordered to comply with a tagged curfew at her home address between 19:00 and 07:00 GMT for six months.\n\nShe was further ordered to pay £1,500 court costs, a £115 surcharge and £1,000 compensation to Capt Keel - a total of £2,615 - immediately, or serve three months in prison.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jolyon Maugham has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit\n\nA prominent lawyer who said he killed a fox with a baseball bat will not face charges, the RSPCA has said.\n\nJolyon Maugham was criticised for the tone of his tweets about the incident, on 26 December 2019. He later apologised if he had \"upset\" anyone.\n\nThe RSPCA said there was no realistic prospect of Mr Maugham being convicted if it brought charges against him.\n\nThe animal welfare charity added a forensic assessment found the fox had been \"killed swiftly\".\n\nOn Boxing Day, Mr Maugham, who has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit, tweeted: \"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?\"\n\nHe claimed he had not been sure \"what else to do\" after finding the fox caught up in netting surrounding his family's chickens at his central London home.\n\nGovernment guidelines state a fox must be killed \"humanely\" if it is caught in a trap or snare on a person's property.\n\nYou can be jailed and fined up to £20,000 for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.\n\nMr Maugham said he \"welcomed\" the RSPCA's decision not to bring charges against him and said there was \"competing\" advice on how to act in such situations.\n\n\"I know that some were genuinely upset by my actions on Boxing Day and the tone of my tweets,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I am profoundly sorry for that upset.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Maugham QC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said he had hoped to convey the \"incongruity\" of his morning \"in a gently self-deprecating manner\" but added: \"I got that wrong.\"\n\nMr Maugham, who founded the Good Law Project, said he had to act quickly to \"save the chickens\" and therefore had no time \"to reflect on the competing ethical approaches of the RSPCA and Natural England\".\n\nHe said he \"respected\" that others may have acted differently.\n\nThe RSPCA said in a statement: \"An independent post-mortem and forensic veterinary assessment of the fox's body was carried out and findings indicate the fox was killed swiftly.\n\n\"Therefore, in this case, the prosecutions department determined that the evidential threshold needed to take a prosecution under the CPS code was not met under any legislation relating to animals or wildlife.\"", "Boots has suspended payments using loyalty points in shops and online after attempts to break into customers' accounts using stolen passwords.\n\nCustomers will not be able to use Boots Advantage Card points to pay for products while the issue is dealt with.\n\nBoots said none of its own systems were compromised, but attackers had tried to access accounts using reused passwords from other sites.\n\nIt comes days after a similar issue hit 600,000 Tesco Clubcard holders.\n\nA spokeswoman for Boots told the BBC the issue affected less than 1% of the company's 14.4 million active Advantage Cards - fewer than 150,000 people.\n\nBut it could not give an exact number as the company was still dealing with the problem.\n\nNo credit card information had been accessed, they said.\n\nSuspending payments using points removed the risk of hackers stealing the points to spend themselves, the spokeswoman said.\n\nCustomers can still earn points when making purchases, and Boots hopes to have point payments back up as soon as possible.\n\n\"We are writing to customers if we believe that their account has been affected, and if their Boots Advantage Card points have been used fraudulently we will, of course, replace them,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We would like to reassure our customers that these details were not obtained from Boots,\" it added.\n\nThe Boots Advantage card lets shoppers collect four points for every £1 spent, and each point is worth a penny. For example, a card with 200 points could be used to pay for an item worth £2.\n\nBut the points can also be used when purchasing items online.\n\nSo-called \"password stuffing\" happens when an attacker uses a list of compromised usernames and passwords from a previous data breach.\n\nThey then try to log in to a different website, hoping for a match.\n\nBecause many people use the same email and password combination for several websites, some of the combinations on the compromised list might work.\n\nIn Tesco's case, the supermarket giant told customers it believed that a compromised list of usernames and passwords had been used to try to gain access to its customers' accounts - and it may have worked in some cases.\n\nIt said no financial information was accessed, and it had restricted access to the accounts to prevent fraudulent use.\n\nJake Moore, cyber-security specialist at internet security firm Eset, said that Boots reminding their customers about the risk was a good move - but that password reuse is a \"gigantic problem\" in cyber-security.\n\n\"These lists of passwords can be easily found on the dark web for very little, or even free,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be a good idea for people to check they have implemented two factor authentication on each of their accounts as this makes the password stuffing attack that much harder.\"\n\n\"My further advice is to use a password manager to store your uniquely different passwords robustly online so you don't have to remember them all.\"\n\nBoots said customers could reset their passwords online, and should choose a unique password not used on other sites.", "New UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said the BBC needs to do more to reflect the country's \"genuine diversity of thought and experience\".\n\nMr Dowden, who recently succeeded Nicky Morgan, made the comments in his first speech in the role on Thursday.\n\nHe also warned that the broadcaster must \"guard its unique selling point of impartiality in all of its output\".\n\nAnd he questioned whether the BBC is \"ready to embrace proper reform to ensure its long-term sustainability\".\n\nHis comments come amid a debate about the future funding of the corporation.\n\nThe government is currently consulting on proposals to decriminalise TV licence fee evasion, while negotiations for the next licence fee settlement are due to take place.\n\nMr Dowden told Thursday's Media and Telecoms 2020 & Beyond conference that audiences should \"cherish\" the unique contribution made by public service broadcasters.\n\nThe 41-year-old compared the BBC to the NHS in terms of its national cultural importance, but pointed out the need for it to change in order to stay relevant.\n\n\"If we're honest, some of our biggest institutions missed, or were slow to pick up, key political and social trends in recent years,\" Mr Dowden said.\n\n\"The BBC needs to be closer to, and understand the perspectives of, the whole of the United Kingdom and avoid providing a narrow urban outlook.\n\n\"By this, I don't just mean getting authentic and diverse voices on and off screen - although this is important,\" he added.\n\n\"But also making sure there is genuine diversity of thought and experience.\"\n\nMr Dowden pointed out the importance of safeguarding impartiality, citing research that suggested some viewers trust other broadcasters such as Sky and CNN more than the BBC.\n\n\"Ultimately, if people don't perceive impartiality, then they won't believe what they see and read and they'll feel it is not relevant to them.\n\n\"In an age of fake news and self reinforcing algorithms, the need for genuine impartiality is greater than ever.\"\n\nWhile saying it needs to re-find its place in the age of streaming and subscription sites like YouTube and Netflix, he will conclude that \"the BBC is an institution to be cherished\".\n\n\"We would be crazy to throw it away but it must reflect all of our nation, and all perspectives.\"\n\nBBC News announced in January it will cut around 450 jobs in line with its £80m savings target by 2022.\n\nSpeaking at a Q&A on Thursday, director general Tony Hall said the BBC had \"constantly reformed itself\" - from radio to television, 24-hour news and online, as well as iPlayer and BBC Sounds - and that reform would be \"continuous\".\n\nHe said: \"Constant reform is what the BBC is about.\"\n\nThe BBC is still \"the most trusted news source\", he said.\n\nBut he added: \"We should always listen to what people say to us about our impartiality and we should be open to people criticising what we do.\n\n\"There is more of a need for the BBC today than at any point in our history... It's the best antidote to fake news.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Princess Haya fled to the UK last year with the couple's two children\n\nAbduction, forced return, torture and a campaign of intimidation. On Thursday the damning allegations made against the billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, by his former wife, Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain, became established fact, published in a series of judgements by the High Court in London.\n\nFollowing a high-profile case that began eight months ago, the court has published a Fact Finding Judgement (FFJ) in favour of Princess Haya who fled Dubai last year, along with her two children, telling friends she was in fear of her life.\n\nSheikh Mohammed had tried, unsuccessfully, to keep the judgement out of the public domain but his appeal was rejected after the case was ruled to be in the public interest. The ruler of Dubai was found to have \"not been open and honest with the court\".\n\nIn a statement issued after the judgements were published, Sheikh Mohammed said: \"As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story.\"\n\nHe insisted the case was a private matter. \"I ask that the media respect the privacy of our children and do not intrude into their lives in the UK,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (July 2019) Dubai: It's flash, it's brash, it's successful – but what's going on beneath the surface?\n\nAfter hearing extensive witness statements over a period of time, the court found Sheikh Mohammed to have been responsible for the abduction and forced return of two of his daughters from another marriage.\n\nThe judge found that Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nPrincess Haya of Jordan, 45, a daughter of the late King Hussain and a former Olympic equestrian, married Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, 70, in 2004, becoming the sixth and youngest of his wives. They have two children, aged seven and 11.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happened to Dubai's Sheikha Latifa? (First published in 2018)\n\nInitially she believed his explanations of what had happened to the two princesses, namely that they had been \"rescued\" and were now safe with the family.\n\nBut by early 2019 Princess Haya had become suspicious and voiced her concerns. She had also begun an adulterous affair with her British bodyguard.\n\nA campaign of intimidation by Sheikh Mohammed's agents began and the court heard that a gun was twice placed on her pillow with the safety catch off. A helicopter landed outside her house with a threat to remove her to a remote desert prison.\n\nThe judge ruled that \"the father has therefore acted in a manner from the end of 2018 which has been aimed at intimidating and frightening the mother, and that he has encouraged others to do so on his behalf\".\n\nIn April 2019 Princess Haya fled to Britain, taking her two children with her. The court heard how veiled threats from Sheikh Mohammed had left her terrified for her own safety, as well as fears that her children could be abducted and forcibly returned to Dubai.\n\nIn May 2019 she said he told her: \"You and the children will never be safe in England\". He published a poem entitled: \"You lived, you died\".\n\nThe court heard how the Sheikh had used his media contacts to generate a series of negative articles about Princess Haya, many of which were \"wholly inaccurate\".\n\nThese judgements, and the allegations upheld by them, are clearly a huge personal embarrassment to Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum. It is hardly surprising therefore that his legal team tried their best to keep them out of the public domain.\n\nIn his latest statement, he said: \"The appeal was made to protect the best interests and welfare of the children. The outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected.\"\n\nWhile his former wife, Princess Haya, has a relatively low profile, Sheikh Mohammed is a global figure in the horseracing world where he is the owner and founder of Godolphin Stables.\n\nHe has often been photographed with the Queen. He is also a renowned figure across the Middle East, responsible for transforming the emirate of Dubai into the massive tourism, leisure and business destination it has become.\n\nThe rulings have been welcomed by human rights campaigners.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "Six weeks ago the BBC covered the story of a team of researchers based at Edinburgh University's Euan MacDonald Centre, who were launching a drugs trial to help people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).\n\nDuring filming we met 37-year-old Ruth Williamson, who was diagnosed more than two years ago. This week she started taking the drugs which may help slow down the fatal condition.\n\nThe trial will see whether existing drugs can be \"re-purposed\" to slow the progress of the illness.\n\nThere is no effective treatment or cure for MND, with half of all patients dying within two years of diagnosis.\n\nAround a quarter of all those in the UK diagnosed with the disease have expressed an interest in taking part in the drugs trial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA scam call centre that targeted thousands of British victims has been raided by the Indian police, following a BBC investigation.\n\nPanorama broadcast hacked footage from inside the call centre which showed how staff charged people hundreds of pounds to fix non-existent computer problems.\n\nThe owner of the call centre, Amit Chauhan, denied it was a scam but declined to answer detailed questions.\n\nMr Chauhan is now in custody after police raided the call centre.\n\nIt was located in the Gurugram suburb of Delhi, and Mr Chauhan is due to appear in court on Thursday.\n\nThe programme had also obtained the recordings of 70,000 calls where victims were being ripped off in the UK, America and Australia.\n\nIndian police are appealing for British residents who paid money to the call centre to contact them by email at Shocybergrg.pol-hry@gov.in\n\nPerry Adams was one of those who lost money after a bogus warning appeared on his computer, saying it had been infected with pornographic spyware.\n\nHe said he will be contacting the Indian police with his evidence.\n\n\"I think that it's superb the work that Panorama has done on behalf of the victims, to catch someone who thought they were untouchable. There's nothing to stop him opening up somewhere else, so I'll be interested to see what happens in court,\" he said.\n\nThe call centre's owner, Amit Chauhan, second from left, in police custody\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are employed in legitimate call centres in India, but there are also dozens of call centres running scams.\n\nIndian police say it is a difficult crime to prosecute because all of the victims are overseas, and they need evidence from victims in order to bring charges.\n\nPanorama obtained its evidence from an online vigilante who goes by the name of Jim Browning. He had hacked into the call centre's computer system and taken control of the CCTV cameras in the building.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nTim Krul was the hero by saving two penalties as Norwich beat Tottenham in a shootout after a 1-1 draw to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 28 years.\n\nNorwich were on the back foot in the penalty shootout when Kenny McLean's first kick was saved by Michel Vorm, but Erik Lamela hit the crossbar for Spurs with Troy Parrott and Gedson Fernandes seeing their efforts pushed away by Krul.\n\nThe Dutch goalkeeper, who took his time to set himself before each kick, sprinted to the opposite end of the ground to celebrate with the 9,000 joyous travelling supporters in the away end.\n\nAt the same time Spurs defender Eric Dier was involved in a confrontation in the stands after being \"insulted\" by a fan.\n\nTottenham had actually taken the lead early on through Jan Vertonghen, as the Belgium defender rose highest to powerfully head in from Giovani lo Celso's superb cross.\n\nBut they were forced back by Norwich as the visitors caused plenty of problems - Emiliano Buendia and Lukas Rupp both forcing stand-in goalkeeper Vorm into making sharp saves.\n\nHaving looked like being left frustrated, the Canaries got a deserved equaliser on 78 minutes as Josip Drmic bundled in from close range after Vorm spilled Kenny McLean's drive.\n\nAt the other end, the hosts could have won it with five minutes of normal time remaining but Serge Aurier saw his low shot cleared off the line by the retreating Ben Godfrey. With no further goals in extra time, Norwich made it a night to remember.\n\nDaniel Farke's side will host the winner of Thursday's tie between Derby and Manchester United in the quarter-finals.\n• None Eric Dier involved in altercation with fan after 'insult'\n• None 'I knew I'd better start saving some' - Krul on shootout win\n\nDespite being rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table, Norwich have gained plaudits for their attractive style of football and Farke's men thoroughly deserved to progress in the cup.\n\nThough they have plenty to do if they are to avoid an immediate return to the Championship, six points adrift of safety with just 10 games remaining, this competition will come as a welcome distraction.\n\nThe Norfolk club have never won the FA Cup and their run in recent years has been dreadful with six third-round defeats, but they may well take inspiration from the Wigan team of 2013 which went all the way to lifting the trophy yet still ended up being relegated.\n\nHaving fallen behind, the away side maintained their composure and penned Tottenham back into their own half for large periods, the dangerous Buendia struck straight at Vorm after opening up the space with some fine footwork, while the Spurs goalkeeper almost let Rupp's long-range drive squirm through his hands and into the net.\n\nMario Vrancic had a thumping, goalbound drive blocked by Dier and the Bosnia international curled a left-footed free-kick on to the roof of the net in the second half.\n\nAs they would have expected, Norwich had to battle against the tide of Tottenham attacks in the additional 30 minutes and having held firm, got their rewards in the shootout.\n\nSpurs' shock sacking of popular boss Mauricio Pochettino in November paved the way for the appointment of former Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid boss Mourinho as his replacement with the remit of taking the club to the next level by delivering a trophy.\n\nTottenham's trophy cabinet has been left intact for the past 12 years, their most recent silverware the 2008 League Cup, while you would have to go back to 1991 when they last won this competition.\n\nIt looks like they may well go another season without any success as this was their most realistic hope of claiming a cup and they need to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss to RB Leipzig in the Champions League.\n\nMourinho sides are traditionally renowned for being strong defensively but they failed to hold on to their lead and have now kept just two clean sheets in 13 matches under the Portuguese manager at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\nTeenager midfielder Oliver Skipp kept the ball ticking in the middle of the park by completing 91% of his 65 passes, while Lo Celso beside him also impressed, highlighting why Spurs paid £27m to sign the Argentine on a permanent deal.\n\nWith time ebbing away, Lo Celso could have won it for Spurs but saw his low drive at the near post kept out by Krul and Fernandes blazed over from a promising position.\n\nWithout the availability of skipper Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, Spurs lack bite in attack and they failed to find a winner even after the introduction of teenage striker Troy Parrott in extra time.\n\n'We had many, many players in trouble' - what they said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho: \"I think we don't deserve the result but that's football. As you can expect it was a difficult game, as I could expect some of my players were really, really in trouble and they made an incredible effort to try.\n\n\"Harry Winks was completely dead. I think he's started 11 to 12 games in a row, we had many, many players in trouble.\n\n\"I don't have one single negative feeling towards my players, the opposite, they tried fantastic things. I am really, really sad for the boys, I can cope with the bad result and with negative moments, I've had so many, but I am really sad for the players.\n\n\"In this moment I have to think about what's next and I have to speak to my club because I think some of these boys to have a chance to fight Tuesday for a Champions League position they just can't play on Saturday. Particularly in forward positions, behind we've got options but not going forward.\"\n\nNorwich manager Daniel Farke: \"I'm pretty delighted. It was a great performance. Soft skills were great - great spirit and unity - so I'm happy to send the fans home happy. Fantastic support for us and we will take this into next week.\n\n\"When you want to beat a top-class side like Tottenham you have to put in an all-round performance. You have to be disciplined, work on a gameplan, maybe allow them to have the ball and be prepared to defend. It is about being brave, being mentally strong. So I have many compliments for my players.\n\n\"We have such unity and spirit in this club. We are the biggest underdogs. I can't guarantee if we will stay in the league or win the FA Cup, but we have created memories.\"\n\nMourinho sick at the sight of penalties - the stats\n• None Norwich City have reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1992, a season in which the Canaries went on to be eliminated in the semi-finals by Sunderland.\n• None As a manager while in charge of English clubs, Jose Mourinho has now lost on each of the seven occasions his sides have taken part in a penalty shootout (5x Chelsea, 1x Man Utd, 1x Spurs).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur were involved in a penalty shootout in the FA Cup for the first time since 1996 against Nottingham Forest, which they also went on to lose.\n• None Spurs have kept just two clean sheets in their 13 home matches under Jose Mourinho, with none of those coming in cup competitions (five games).\n• None Josip Drmic has netted two goals in his past five appearances for Norwich, one more than he managed in his first 10 games in all competitions for the Canaries earlier this season (1).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur's Jan Vertonghen has scored two goals in six home appearances in the FA Cup - one more than in 113 Premier League games on home turf.\n• None Penalty saved! Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(3). Todd Cantwell (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Troy Parrott (Tottenham Hotspur) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(2). Marco Stiepermann (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(2), Norwich City 1(1). Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1(1). Adam Idah (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a left footed shot.\n• None Penalty saved! Kenny McLean (Norwich City) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1(1), Norwich City 1. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Erik Lamela. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The first cull zones were created in 2013 in Somerset and Gloucestershire\n\nBadger culling to tackle the spread of TB in livestock is to be phased out to be replaced with a cattle vaccine, the government has announced.\n\nDefra, the environment department, said trials of a vaccine will take place over the next five years, and there are plans to vaccinate more badgers.\n\nOpponents of the badger cull have said it is inhumane and ineffective, but the government backed the policy.\n\nThe first cull zones were created in 2013 in Somerset and Gloucestershire.\n\nIn September, badger culling was extended to 40 areas including Bristol, Cheshire, Devon, Cornwall, Staffordshire, Dorset, Herefordshire and Wiltshire.\n\nFarmers said it was necessary to control the disease that devastates the beef and dairy industries, while the government claimed it had led to reductions in the incidence of TB.\n\nNow Defra plans to gradually phase out \"intensive culling\" following a breakthrough by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha).\n\nPreviously it was not possible to vaccinate cattle as tests for the disease could not differentiate between vaccinated animals and those infected by bovine TB, but Apha has developed an \"effective\" test which can be trialled alongside the BCG vaccine.\n\nDefra is selling the shift to vaccination as the next phase in its policy to eradicate cattle TB. Opponents of the cull are calling it a U-turn.\n\nAnimal welfare campaigners believe culling to be cruel and many scientists suspect it may be ineffective and actually increase the spread of the infection in cattle. On the day Defra unveiled its culling policy in 2012 one of its most senior scientific advisors described it as a \"crazy scheme\".\n\nThe department's own independent expert group's review of the first year of the culls concluded that they were ineffective and inhumane and a member of that group told BBC News he believed that the government was \"wilfully ignoring the science\". Another senior researcher said ministers were using \"fake science\" to justify the culling policy.\n\nDefra's response was to disband the independent expert group and relax the strict scientific rules that were in place to minimise the spread of infection to cattle from badger movement. They were modified in subsequent culls in order to ensure more badgers were killed. Ministers justified their perseverance with the policy as wanting to use \"every tool in the box\".\n\nBut there has been no clear cut drop in cattle TB since the culls began so Defra has decided to begin to put one of its tools away.\n\nUK Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said Apha's \"ground-breaking research\" meant it could now start on the \"field trials required to license the cattle vaccine and test it\".\n\n\"Whilst there is no single way to combat this damaging and complex disease, cattle vaccination will be a new tool for our multi-pronged approach to tackle it,\" she said.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice claimed: \"The badger cull has led to a significant reduction in the disease as demonstrated by recent academic research and past studies.\n\n\"But no-one wants to continue the cull of this protected species indefinitely so, once the weight of disease in wildlife has been addressed, we will accelerate other elements of our strategy, including improved diagnostics and cattle vaccination.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A hospital spokesman said a formal investigation has been launched\n\nA bundle of confidential patient records has been discovered by a dog walker.\n\nThe West Suffolk Hospital list and a doctor's letter containing patient details were found at Trumpington Meadows nature reserve near Cambridge on Sunday.\n\nThe hospital list includes 12 patients' full names, birthdates, medical history and reasons for admission.\n\nA hospital spokesman said a formal investigation had been launched.\n\n\"We will directly contact the small number of patients affected to apologise and have informed the Information Commissioner's Office,\" he said.\n\nThe documents, folded into a pocket shape, were discovered close to this sign at Trumpington Meadows\n\nThe bundle was found alongside a GP letter and test results for an elderly patient.\n\nThe hospital \"doctors' worklist\" outlined patients' health problems, including conditions such as anxiety and depression.\n\nIt also revealed the bed and ward bay they were staying in, admission dates, their consultants' names, length of stays and required treatment, including operations.\n\nThe document - found 28 miles (45km) away from the hospital in Bury St Edmunds - was also marked with handwritten notes about each patient.\n\nThe folded-up papers included a copy of an email from a GP which was sent to a consultant surgeon at the hospital last month.\n\nIt was flagged as urgent and featured the elderly patient's NHS number, name, date of birth, address, phone number and reason for an impending operation.\n\nThe patient's test results were typed on the back of the letter.\n\nThe records were found lying on the ground by the dog walker, who was concerned about the data breach and passed them to the BBC.\n\nShe described the discovery of patients' personal information as \"appalling\".\n\n\"It's airing personal medical details and it upset me because I wouldn't want that.\n\n\"In the wrong hands all manner of things could happen with that information... everyone has to take this issue very seriously.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tottenham midfielder Eric Dier climbed over seats in a stand to confront a fan who \"insulted\" him after Spurs were knocked out of the FA Cup at home by Norwich, says manager Jose Mourinho.\n\nDier, whose brother was in the stand and \"not happy\" with the situation, was eventually held back by stewards.\n\nMourinho said: \"I think Eric did what we professionals cannot do but probably every one of us would do.\"\n\nThe Football Association and Tottenham are investigating the incident.\n\nDier, who has 40 England caps, scored in the penalty shootout defeat by Norwich, but keeper Tim Krul saved two efforts to put the Canaries into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.\n\nMourinho said: \"I repeat we professionals cannot do it, but I repeat I am with the player and I understand the player. The fans were with the team until the last penalty kick that we missed.\n\n\"This person insulted Eric, the family was there, the younger brother was not happy with the situation.\"\n\nOn the prospect of the club taking action against Dier, Mourinho said: \"If the club does that I will not agree, but he did wrong.\"\n\nThe incident happened in the area behind the dugouts, which is a corporate section, and Mourinho criticised it for not housing \"real Tottenham fans\".\n\nHe added: \"The people that are in these privileged positions by the tunnel, of course some are Tottenham fans.\n\n\"But I think a lot of corporate, a lot of invitation, a lot of people with special status [are in there] and probably it is the place of the stadium where I sometimes have doubts over if they are the real Tottenham fans, because these [real fans] are the ones who support the boys until the last.\"\n\nVideo on social media shows Dier running and jumping over the pitchside barriers into the stand at the end of the game. He makes a beeline for a fan and clambers over seats until he reaches the top row of seats in front of the hospitality boxes.\n\nAnother video shows him being restrained by fans and security, while shouting \"he's my brother\". He is then led away by security with his arm around a fan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We thought we'd come and get some fresh air'\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has called on the UK and Ireland to maintain the bonds of friendship after Brexit, on the second day of his visit to the country.\n\nThe duke said relationships between people were \"more essential\" than legal treaties between states.\n\nHe urged the UK and Ireland not to be \"bound by the wrongs of the past\".\n\nThis is the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first official visit to the Irish Republic and they spent much of Wednesday talking to young people.\n\nIn tone and content, the duke's address at the Museum of Literature in Dublin was reflective of the Queen's comments on her historic visit to the Irish Republic in 2011.\n\nHe quoted his grandmother in saying the islands had \"experienced more than their fair share of heartache and turbulence\".\n\nThe royal couple visited the Museum of Literature in Dublin\n\n\"Of course, the changing relationship between the UK and the EU will require us to work together, to ensure that the relationship between Ireland and the UK remains just as strong,\" he said.\n\n\"I am confident that friendship, understanding and a shared vision for a peaceful and prosperous future will ensure that the unique and precious bond between our people is not broken.\n\n\"My family is determined to continue playing our part in protecting, preserving and strengthening that bond.\"\n\nWednesday's engagements began with a visit to Jigsaw, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health, where they spoke to staff about their work at the charity's premises in Dublin's Temple Bar.\n\nTheir work is particularly close to Prince William's heart, having spoken in the past about his own struggles following the death of his mother.\n\nChildren and young people at the centre presented them with gifts.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during a visit to mental health charity Jigsaw in Dublin\n\nJosh and Alba told BBC News NI it was a \"surreal experience\".\n\n\"We had a good discussion around the stigma of mental health,\" said Alba.\n\n\"They were so interested in what is done here and so lovely - I think they could have listened all day long,\" said Josh.\n\n\"They had to be ushered away.\"\n\nThis visit doesn't have the historic weight of the Queen's tour in 2011.\n\nNor is there the celebrity frenzy that sometimes surrounded Harry and Meghan when they came after their engagement was announced in 2018.\n\nBut solemnity there certainly was on Tuesday when the duke and duchess followed in the Queen's footsteps and paid their respects to the heroes of Irish independence at the Garden of Remembrance in central Dublin.\n\nAnd at the less grandiose events on Wednesday, at organisations whose activities align with William and Kate's interests, the welcome has been warm.\n\nOn Wednesday night, the duke echoed his grandmother's words in 2011 when he addressed Britain and Ireland's shared history, its ups and many downs.\n\nAll small steps that build the relationship between Britain and Ireland.\n\nJames Barry, service manager at Jigsaw, said the couple were \"warm and kind\".\n\n\"They really wanted to hear about the experience of young people who've used the service,\" he said.\n\n\"I was fortunate enough to speak to Kate and she was really interested in young people's experiences from an early age and the importance of a parent role.\"\n\nTable tennis was also served up during a visit to Savannah House\n\nFans held flags to express support for the couple\n\nEarlier in the day, the duke and duchess visited Savannah House in County Kildare, a residential facility run by the charity Extern which supports young people with a range of issues from being homeless to dealing with drug and alcohol problems.\n\nThe villagers of Prosperous, County Kildare, are not very good at keeping secrets\n\nWhile there, they visited a nearby village shop to buy ingredients to make vegetable soup - with €20 (£17) to spend.\n\nThe trip to the store was supposed to be a secret but word got out and about 200 villagers had gathered to see them.\n\nStore owner Philip Stynes admitted he had told a few customers about the impending visit and word soon spread.\n\n\"It just snowballed from there,\" he said.\n\n\"But even if we hadn't told them, there would have been a big crowd. People live out on the streets here.\"\n\nWhile visiting Howth Marine Institute to learn about marine sustainability, the couple took the opportunity to stretch their legs at Howth Cliff, a popular walking path beside the Irish Sea.\n\nWednesday's itinerary also included a visit to the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, known as Teagasc.\n\nThe pair are following in the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth, who visited the Irish Republic in 2011\n\nThe duchess had a diplomatic sip at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin on Tuesday night\n\nThe royal couple's first day in the country began with a warm welcome from Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife at their official residence, Áras an Uachtaráin.\n\nAs is traditional during visits of important guests, the duke and duchess rang the peace bell within the grounds of the estate.\n\nThey also met the caretaker taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar and his partner, Matthew Barrett, at government buildings in the city centre.", "The International Monetary Fund has announced $50bn (£39bn) of support for countries hit by the coronavirus.\n\nThe organisation also warned that the outbreak had already pushed this year's global economic growth below last year's levels.\n\nThe emergency measure came after the virus has spread rapidly outside China to more than 70 countries.\n\nThis week governments and central banks around the world have taken action to ease the impact of the virus.\n\nThe IMF said it is making the money available to help poor and middle-income countries with weak health systems respond to the epidemic.\n\nAt the same time the fund said the spread of the coronavirus has erased expectations of stronger economic growth this year, and will push 2020 global output gains to their slowest rate since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nBut IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva warned that it is hard to forecast just how big the effect will be: \"Global growth in 2020 will dip below last year's levels, but how far it will fall and how long the impact will be is still difficult to predict\".\n\nShe also declined to say whether the escalating health crisis could push the world economy into a recession.\n\nIt is the latest move by global financial bodies, world governments and central banks to protect economies from the impact of the outbreak.\n\nOn Tuesday the US central bank slashed interest rates in response to mounting concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus.\n\nIn its first emergency rate cut since the 2008 financial crisis the US Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark rate by 50 basis points to a range of 1% to 1.25%.\n\nEarlier the same day, both Australia and Malaysia cut interest rates in response to the outbreak. At the same time finance ministers from the G7 nations pledged to use \"all appropriate policy tools\" to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.\n\nAlso this week the World Bank committed $12bn (£9.4bn) in aid for developing countries grappling with the spread of the coronavirus. The emergency package included low-cost loans, grants and technical assistance.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is limit the transmission of the disease,\" World Bank Group President David Malpass told the BBC.\n\nIn the UK, expectations are growing that the Bank of England could soon follow the Fed by announcing a rate cut, while new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, may use next week's budget to announce financial support for British businesses as they deal with the coronavirus outbreak.", "With the number of coronavirus patients rising around the world, children are being exposed to information and misinformation from many sources. How can parents best keep them up to date without terrifying them?\n\nCoronavirus is dominating the news and children, as always, are asking direct, difficult questions about what's going to happen.\n\nWhile the risk of young people being seriously affected by the virus appears low, doom-laden social media posts and playground rumours can induce panic.\n\nStories of deaths, possible food shortages and school closures, and the circulation of phrases like \"pandemic potential\" can add to a sense of alarm.\n\nSo tone is vital when discussing coronavirus with a child, advises Angharad Rudkin, clinical psychologist and consultant on the parenting book What's My Child Thinking?\n\n\"We all enjoy scare stories to a degree, but we don't like to hear them quite so much when they're a bit closer to home,\" she says. \"Help your child put some distance between them and the threat by giving information about how coronavirus is spread and what we can do to help minimise the risk such as using loads of lovely bubbles when washing our hands.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCovid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus which seems to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. After about a week, it leads to shortness of breath and some patients require hospital treatment.\n\nMedics aren't sure exactly how it spreads from person to person, but similar viruses do so via droplets, such as those produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.\n\nIt's essential to talk to a child about things he or she can control, such as disposing of tissues and personal hygiene, Dr Rudkin says, rather than those they cannot.\n\nOnce the explanation is over, the conversation should move on to something that \"isn't threatening, such as what they had for lunch or who do they think is going to win the football match this evening\", she adds.\n\nThe virus could affect millions of people around the world soon. The UK government says, in its latest plans, that up to a fifth of workers could be off sick at the peak of an epidemic, with school closures possible.\n\nOne problem in explaining the virus is that it's difficult to predict what will happen, though early, albeit limited, evidence suggests children with Covid-19 have tended to show mild symptoms.\n\nWhile parents have long experience in explaining global threats - war, terrorism and climate change - pre-adolescent children are still developing their ability to assess risk, says Dr Rudkin. So it's important to find out what their level of worry over coronavirus is.\n\n\"Be clear that you don't know all of the answers but that there are people making decisions for us who have all the information they need.\"\n\nParents, in turn, should be as informed as possible before explaining issues to children, including keeping up with official advice, Dr Rudkin says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wash your hands: 30-second guide\n\nIn the event that a boy or girl catches coronavirus, parents are advised not to overplay any risk to their health.\n\n\"You could tell them it's 'a bit like feeling sore', so they get to see it's not as dreadful as they might believe,\" Jon Gilmartin, a speech language therapist at the children's communication charity I Can, says.\n\nOlder people and those with existing health conditions are thought to be most at risk of death or serious sickness from catching coronavirus. This could lead children to worry about older friends and relatives.\n\nDr Rudkin advises honesty over the argument \"we will all die eventually but chances are not until we are really, really old\".\n\n\"But we can talk about it with a smile and use humour, or at least a lightness of touch, that doesn't then plummet our children into an existential pit they really don't need to be in, until they're 13 at least,\" she adds. \"Reassure your child that you and granddad are really fit and strong and that you will continue to do all you can to keep yourself/granddad healthy and safe.\"\n\nChildren's capacity to deal with complex and worrying information increases with age, so the way a parent speaks to a three-year-old is very different to dealing with a teenager - and it involves a personal judgement.\n\nBut Mr Gilmartin suggests the use of \"simple language\" for all age groups and allowing children to ask \"lots of questions\" to show they're being listened to.\n\nParents who themselves are looking for the right language to use, could start with the BBC's Newsround coverage.\n\nChildren, like the rest of the population, are exposed to myths and misinformation about coronavirus, via playground gossip and, particularly among pre-teens and teenagers, on social media.\n\nThe best way to combat this is providing \"age-appropriate information and reassurance\", says Dr Rudkin, as the source young people trust best is a parent.", "Twitter is testing a feature that will allow some tweets to disappear after 24 hours, it announced on Wednesday.\n\nThe new feature called \"fleets\" is similar to vanishing posts on Snapchat and Instagram Stories.\n\nThe changes prompted the hashtag #RIPTwitter to trend as users complained the new feature would make the micro-blogging site too similar to other social media platforms.\n\nSo far Twitter is only testing the function in Brazil.\n\nKayvon Beykpour, the company's product lead, said the new feature would allow people to post thoughts they might have felt uncomfortable sharing publicly.\n\nHe said posting on Twitter can feel \"permanent and performative\" which can intimidate some users.\n\n\"We're hoping that Fleets can help people share the fleeting thoughts that they would have been unlikely to Tweet,\" he wrote in a seven-part post on Twitter.\n\nThe vanishing messages will appear when a user's profile picture is clicked. Users will not be able to reply, like, or publicly comment on any of the disappearing messages.\n\nMr Beykpour acknowledged that Fleets did sound a lot like the Stories features from Facebook and Instagram. He said Twitter was making a \"few intentional differences\" to its version.\n\nThe company did not say when Fleets would be rolled out globally.", "Ainsley Harriott enjoys a laugh with the Prince of Wales\n\nCelebrity chef Ainsley Harriott has received his MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe TV presenter said the honour, for services to broadcasting and to the culinary arts, was \"very special\".\n\nThe 63-year-old has been offering cooking tips on the TV for almost 30 years on show like Can't Cook, Won't Cook, and Ready Steady Cook.\n\nIt came in the week that Ready Steady Cook returned after a decade away, with Rylan Clark-Neal taking over as host.\n\n\"As a presenter I like what he does,\" Harriott said of his successor. \"I think he engages with people. He's very warm, he's got a relaxed style, so I'm sure that's going to work.\"\n\nHarriott said he would continue with a career built on making cookery more accessible to the public.\n\n\"I think it's kind of bringing food to people who perhaps a little bit shied away from it, [were] a little bit embarrassed about it,\" he said.\n\n\"What I've tried to do over the years is to kind of open the door to say 'It's a meal, it's OK, don't panic, don't get worked up about it'.\"\n\nHarriott was recognised alongside actress Maureen Beattie OBE and The Priests, a trio of singing clergymen, who were also given MBEs.\n\nEngland netball captain Serena Guthrie was given the same honour, while trainer Nicky Henderson was made an OBE for services to horse racing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The report analysed areas of bias such as politics, education, reproductive rights and integrity\n\nA new UN report has found almost 90% of men and women hold some sort of bias against females.\n\nThe \"Gender Social Norms\" index analysed biases in areas such as politics and education in 75 countries.\n\nGlobally, close to 50% of men said they had more right to a job than women. Almost a third of respondents thought it was acceptable for men to hit their partners.\n\nThere are no countries in the world with gender equality, the study found.\n\nZimbabwe had the highest amount of bias with only 0.27% of people reporting no gender bias at all. At the other end of the scale was Andorra where 72% of people reported no bias.\n\nIn Zimbabwe, 96% of people expressed a bias against women's physical integrity - a measure covering support for violence against women and opposition to reproductive rights. In the Philippines, 91% of people held views that were detrimental to women's physical integrity.\n\nAccording to the report, about half of the world's men and women feel that men make better political leaders.\n\nIn China, 55% of people thought men were better suited to be political leaders.\n\nAround 39% of people in the US, which is yet to have a female president, thought men made better leaders.\n\nHowever in New Zealand, a country that currently has a female leader, only 27% of people thought that.\n\nIn New Zealand, a country which has a female leader, 27% of people think men would be better leaders than women\n\nThe number of female heads of government is lower today than five years ago with only 10 women in such positions in 193 countries, down from 15 in 2014.\n\nHowever when it comes to seats in parliament, there is a slightly higher percentage of women in these roles.\n\nLatin America and the Caribbean had the highest share of seats in parliament held by women with 31%. South Asian countries had the lowest percentage at just 17%.\n\nPedro Conceição, head of UNDP's Human Development Report Office said: \"We have come a long way in recent decades to ensure that women have the same access to life's basic needs as men.\n\n\"But gender gaps are still all too obvious in other areas, particularly those that challenge power relations and are most influential in actually achieving true equality. Today. the fight about gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices.\"\n\nWomen are paid less than men and are much less likely to be in senior positions. Globally, 40% of people thought men made better business executives.\n\nIn the UK, 25% of people thought men should have more right to a job than women and said men made better business executives than women did. In India that figure was 69%.\n\nRaquel Lagunas, UNDP gender team acting director said: \"We must act now to break through the barrier of bias and prejudices if we want to see progress at the speed and scale needed to achieve gender equality.\"", "Some stores have run out of hand sanitisers as people prepare for the virus spreading\n\nHand sanitiser sales are being limited at pharmacy chains as fears over the coronavirus have boosted demand.\n\nBoots and LloydsPharmacy both said they are restricting the products - which can help to prevent the spread of the virus when hand-washing is not possible - to two per person.\n\nThe decision comes as some hand sanitisers are being sold online at inflated prices.\n\nPharmacies said they are working to increase the supply of the products.\n\nThe NHS says that washing your hands is a key part of preventing the spread of viruses, but hand sanitiser gel can be used when soap and water are not available.\n\nAs the UK warns that widespread infection is \"highly likely\", chemist chains said they had to ration the products, with market research data from Kantar Worldpanel showing sales more than tripled in February.\n\nMeanwhile, one pharmacy in Coventry told BBC News they have struggled to restock hand sanitisers amid increased demand for the product - including from local businesses such as taxi companies and hairdressers.\n\nAli Shiraz, of Hillfields Pharmacy, said: \"We can't get any hand sanitisers at all. The demand has been really, really high.\n\n\"We're looking at maybe 50 to 60 people a day have been asking for particular hand sanitisers.\"\n\nA spokesman for LloydsPharmacy, which has 1,500 branches across the UK, said: \"We know that having access to products like hand gels is extremely important to our customers, so we are doing everything we can to ensure availability, despite increasing demand and supply challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nBoots said it was limiting sales but still had stock in warehouses for online sales and high street stores.\n\nBut Well Pharmacy, which has 700 branches, said it was not limiting sales despite a surge in demand which could see some products become temporarily unavailable.\n\n\"We certainly have no intention of profiteering over the current situation by increasing prices,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAmazon Marketplace and other online sales platforms have hand sanitisers available at inflated prices.\n\nA 100ml bottle of Cuticura Total - which kills viruses as well as bacteria - is sold for £1.55 by Boots. But some Amazon sellers are offering 40ml of the brand's anti-bacterial gel for £24.99.\n\nOn social media, people posted images of empty shelves and patients with weakened immune systems called for shoppers to stop panic-buying.\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\nHand sanitiser manufacturer PZ Cussons, which makes Carex hand gel, said it was \"working at full capacity in response to the exceptional demand being experienced\".\n\nKarium, which makes Cuticura hand gel, said sales have \"soared\" due to the coronavirus.\n\n\"We have taken immediate action to increase our production volumes, in order to meet this initial increased demand and to avoid empty shelves,\" said marketing director Kerry Owens.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was questioned about low supplies of products such as hand sanitiser and whether the UK will have enough of medicines such as paracetamol.\n\n\"Our no-deal planning and our no-deal stockpiles are playing an important part in making sure we are fully prepared and ready,\" he said.", "The fall in police numbers is \"likely\" to be a \"contributory factor\" in the rise in murder and manslaughter cases since 2014, an official study suggests.\n\nPolice numbers in England and Wales fell by 21,000 from 2010-18 - and community support officers by 6,000.\n\nAnd the rate of murders and manslaughters soared by 39% in the three years to March 2018.\n\nEvidence suggests \"more police officers means fewer homicides... if all else is equal\", the Home Office report says.\n\nBut the study also highlights increases in drugs- and terror-related cases as key reasons for the rise.\n\nClear-up rates for most crimes, notably robbery, have fallen sharply in England and Wales since 2014 and the 80-page report suggests the rise in homicides could also be due to violent incidents that escalate or offenders progressing from less serious crimes.\n\nThe report says: \"There has been much speculation about the role of declining police resources in the recent rise in homicide.\n\n\"Given the lack of robust UK-based studies, this review cannot add much to that debate.\n\n\"However, if the elasticities from the robust US studies are transferrable to the UK context, then police numbers are likely to be a contributory factor, rather than the driving factor.\"\n\nThe government is promising to hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2023, at a cost of £1.1bn.\n\nThere are currently 123,171 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010.\n\nOn Thursday, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse addressed a meeting of Police and Crime Commissioners aimed at tackling serious violence, including county-lines drug dealing and homicides.\n\nCounty lines is the term used to describe criminal gangs who move illegal drugs from big cities to more rural locations and sell them via dedicated mobile phone lines.\n\n\"The rise in serious violence is deeply concerning and we can only tackle it by working together and giving Police and Crime Commissioners the tools to reduce crime at a local level,\" he said.\n\nYvette Cooper, who chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, called the findings \"damning but frankly unsurprising\".\n\n\"For years, Home Office ministers have insisted that there is no direct relationship between the number of police officers and levels of crime on our streets - this report indicates that there is one and that more police officers mean fewer homicides,\" she said.\n\nThe report also shows most homicide victims and suspects between 1997 to 2018 were white.\n\nPeople born in Pakistan were the next largest group of victims, while those born in Jamaica were the next largest group of suspects.\n\nThe study also shows in 2017-18 black people were:\n\nAnd between 2014 and 2018 the number of black suspects rose by 41%, while the number of white suspects fell.\n\nMost white people, however, live in wealthier neighbourhoods - compared with just 17% of black people - that have half as many homicides\n\n\"Given the strong relationship between deprivation and homicide, it seems likely that deprivation explains some of the disparity,\" the authors say.", "The new passport (left) is a return to the \"iconic blue\" of the old one, the Home Office says\n\nIs the new UK passport blue? Or is the colour really closer to black?\n\nThe Home Office has issued pictures of the post-Brexit passport, describing it as a return to the \"iconic blue\" used for UK passports before 1988.\n\nExperts in the science of colour - and instant experts on social media - are unconvinced, saying they look more like black.\n\nBut a Home Office spokesman says the colours of both the old and new passports are shades of blue.\n\n\"I'd say it's black,\" says Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at the University of Leeds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If most people looked at this, they'd say it's black.\"\n\nBut he says describing colours in terms of names can be imprecise - and individuals will have their own different perspectives.\n\nIf enough blue is added to black, he says there will be a transition point when people will begin to see the colour as blue.\n\n\"But that point varies for different people,\" he says.\n\nThat means that some might see a colour as an extremely dark shade of blue, while others would see it as black.\n\nPerhaps allowing the Home Office not to be entirely painted into a corner, he suggests the colour might be \"bluish black\".\n\nBut in essence, Prof Westland says, \"this is closer to black\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nick Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever he says the perception of colour can be influenced by its context - and by calling it a \"blue passport\" people might be more likely to see it as leaning towards blue.\n\nReplacing the burgundy-coloured European Union document, the new UK passport has been described as a return to the \"traditional colour\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Michael Birtwhistle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has said the return to this \"iconic blue\" was \"entwined with our national identity and I cannot wait to travel on one\".\n\nThe Home Office would not specify the shade of this blue, although a spokesman said it was close to, if not exactly, a blue numbered as 5395C in the Pantone classification.\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\nBut Craig Burston, senior lecturer in graphic design at the London College of Communication, which incorporates what was the London College of Printing, says there is nothing to suggest the \"dominant colour\" of the new passport is blue.\n\nHe suggests the colour is charcoal, maybe with a hint of blue.\n\nBut if it is blue, \"it must be the most apologetic shade of blue they could find\" because \"it's as black as blue gets\".\n\n\"You'd be hard pushed to get something that is darker that would be defined as blue,\" Mr Burston says.\n\n\"It's as near as damn it black.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Evie This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere could be differences depending on printing processes, lighting and the \"sheen\", he says.\n\nBut the question of the colour seems to have been mixed up with the politics of \"blue passports\".\n\nAnd the social-media debate seems to be about Brexit as much as colour charts.\n\nA spokesman for paint company Farrow and Ball says \"pure\" black would have no other colours added.\n\nBut in practice, blacks used in the \"everyday world would have a slight colour to them\", such as blue, grey or red.\n\nThis could make the passport a very dark blue although \"some people may perceive it as black\".\n\nIt is \"probably black blue,\" said the paint firm's spokesman.\n\nThere have been other internet debates over identifying colours - such as whether a dress was blue or white and gold.\n\nProf Westland says this reflects how people tend to see colours in quite definite ways, coming down on one side or the other, even though we know there are all kinds of shades and ambiguities.\n\n\"People tend to make a decision about colours,\" he says.", "A Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months, the company has admitted.\n\nThe information was accessed \"on at least one occasion\" by an unknown user.\n\nThe database, which was for marketing purposes, contained phone numbers, home and email addresses.\n\nIt did not include passwords or financial details.\n\nThe breach was not due to a hack or a criminal attack, but because the database had been \"incorrectly configured\" by a member of staff not following the correct procedures, Virgin Media said.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem on Friday after it was spotted by a security researcher at TurgenSec.\n\nThe company said almost all of those affected were Virgin customers with television or fixed-line telephone accounts, although the database also included some Virgin Mobile customers as well as potential customers referred by friends as part of a promotion.\n\nVirgin Media, which is owned by US cable group, Liberty Global, has informed the Information Commissioner's Office as required, and launched a forensic investigation.\n\nLutz Schüler, chief executive of Virgin Media said: \"We recently became aware that one of our marketing databases was incorrectly configured which allowed unauthorised access. We immediately solved the issue by shutting down access.\"\n\n\"Protecting our customers' data is a top priority and we sincerely apologise,\" he said.\n\n\"Based upon our investigation, Virgin Media does believe that the database was accessed on at least one occasion but we do not know the extent of the access or if any information was actually used,\" Mr Schuler said.\n\nVirgin Media said it would be emailing those affected on Thursday, in order to warn them about the risks of phishing, nuisance calls and identity theft. The message will include a reminder not to click on unknown links in emails and not to provide personal details to unverified callers.\n\nFurther advice was available on its website, it said.\n\nThe fact that Virgin Media's database hasn't been actively hacked is reassuring for customers, but while the details are light, it sounds like human error is to blame and that is rather embarrassing for a tech firm.\n\nTen months is a long time for all that data to have just been sitting there, waiting to be found.\n\nAnd while no passwords or bank details were among it, there's an awful lot of contact information for a cyber-criminal to work with. Phishing expeditions - when someone tries to get financial information out of a victim by pretending to be a company with a legitimate reason for contact - are not particularly sophisticated, but they are effective for those caught off-guard, and can be a lucrative source of income.\n\nIt's unclear whether this was yet another case of unsecured data being stored on a cloud service that's easily searchable if you know how. There have been dozens of examples of this lately, including just this week a database of the personal details of people using train station wi-fi around the UK.\n\nVirgin Media has apologised and really, there's very little practical advice to offer in the light of this kind of breach, beyond the usual protocol of staying alert to any messages requesting personal information or access to any kind of finance.", "An off-duty nurse has described how she spent five hours in A&E with an elderly man suspected of having coronavirus after he crashed into her car.\n\nLucy Duncan, 24, was driving home from a 12-hour shift at Wigan hospital when her car was hit by another vehicle.\n\nShe stopped and saw the driver \"slumped over\" the steering wheel and struggling to breathe.\n\nThe 24-year-old called an ambulance and then went with him to hospital to comfort him.\n\n\"The man was so grateful that I stayed with him and kept squeezing my hand and pulling it close to him,\" Ms Duncan said.\n\nHer boss has described her as \"a superstar\".\n\nMs Duncan had been returning from her seventh shift in a row at about 19:45 GMT on Thursday when the crash happened in Abram.\n\n\"He grabbed my arm and kept apologising, and said he thought he had coronavirus,\" she said.\n\n\"He was grey and sweating, and struggling to breathe - he looked really ill.\"\n\nThe man, believed to be in his 70s, told her he had been in isolation for more than a week but had been forced to leave his home to buy food.\n\n\"So I called an ambulance and followed him in my own car, and stayed with him for five hours wearing full PPE,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary but a lot of people have told me they wouldn't have done it.\n\n\"I just want to go back and see him, and know that he's OK.\"\n\nSimon Barber, chief executive at North West Boroughs Healthcare, said: \"She is everything we could possibly want our staff to be and is a shining example of true NHS compassion in these difficult times.\"\n\nSince sharing the story on social media, Miss Duncan has been praised for her actions.\n\nMiss Duncan's family has now moved out as she waits to see if she develops any symptoms.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said businesses, research institutes and universities are coming together in a new alliance to increase testing capacity for frontline workers.\n\nHe says the new initiative will help prove if it is safe for a worker to go back to the frontline.\n\nIn the UK daily briefing, Mr Gove also revealed the rate of infection in the UK has been doubling every three to four days.\n\nHe chaired the announcement after the prime minister tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating.\n\nClick here for more on the coronavirus pandemic", "The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.\n\nThe launch was delayed by an hour due to a ground hydraulics issue.\n\nThe public viewing area was closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "There have been stark warnings from doctors, aid workers and the United Nations that camps for the displaced in North Western Syria could be devastated by an outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nAlmost one million people have fled their homes in the area since December when the Syrian regime launched an offensive to retake Idlib - the last opposition held province.\n\nHealth officials there fear as many as 100,000 might die unless medical supplies arrive urgently. So far there are no confirmed cases.", "Many shops and services are shut, affecting millions of sole traders\n\nThe 10-week wait for rescue grants for the self-employed whose work has dried up amid the coronavirus crisis has been defended by the government.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has outlined plans for the self-employed to receive a taxable grant worth 80% of their profits for three months.\n\nBut the first payments are not expected until June, by which time many sole traders will be severely stretched.\n\nResearch among the self-employed suggests that, on average, sole traders have savings that could tide them over for 14 weeks if they go without work.\n\nThat means many will use up much of that buffer before the first grant arrives.\n\nThe Coronavirus Self-employment Income Support Scheme will available for three months in one lump-sum payment, up to a cap of £2,500 a month.\n\nThis will benefit millions of people, at a cost to the government of about £10bn, but those in line for the help must wait until June.\n\nMr Sharma told BBC Breakfast: \"The chancellor was very clear that we want to do this as quickly as possible, we've set a date of June, if we can do it faster we will, but it is a complicated system that we are designing and we want to make sure we get it absolutely right.\"\n\nSome may have to fall back on the benefits system in the meantime, according to business groups.\n\nMike Cherry, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: \"Unfortunately, for many people whose businesses have completely stopped, the only option left for them is to claim for things like universal credit.\n\n\"This is going to be a huge problem for small businesses - if they are only entitled to statutory sick pay, it might not even cover their fixed costs.\"\n\nOther self-employed people have expressed dismay that they will not be eligible for the support.\n\nMany of them have only been self-employed recently, and the assistance requires that they must have completed a tax return to prove their self-employment income. This could mean anyone who has set up since April 2019 will not be eligible and must rely on other support such as the benefits system.\n\nTerry Litherland, who supports his wife and three childen will not get financial help under the scheme\n\nThis includes people such as Terry Litherland, who set up as an electrician eight months ago, after being made redundant from his previous job.\n\n\"I went down this path because I thought, if I go self-employed I can get a regular income and I don't have to worry about redundancy again,\" he said.\n\n\"I just need to bring money into the house and put food onto the table for the wife and children.\"\n\nOthers who face missing out include:\n\nThe Treasury has stressed that those self-employed people eligible for support will be contacted by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), so do not need to do anything at this stage.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nPeople should be \"emotionally more open\" after the coronavirus pandemic, says Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta following his recovery.\n\nArteta, 38, tested positive for the virus on 12 March but has since recovered after self-isolating.\n\n\"We are in a world here where everything is social media, everything is a WhatsApp text,\" the Spaniard said.\n\n\"But how important is touching each other, feeling each other and hugging each other?\n\n\"I miss that with a lot of the people I love.\n\n\"We have to be emotionally more open. We have to tell each other what we are feeling.\"\n\nArteta reported feeling unwell after it was confirmed Evangelos Marinakis - the owner of Greek side Olympiakos, who played Arsenal in the Europa League in February - had coronavirus on 10 March.\n\nOn Thursday Arteta said he was feeling \"completely recovered\" and urged people to follow the government's advice on staying at home.\n\n\"It's one virus that is putting the world aside and it's transforming everything that we prioritise in life. So we have to take that lesson,\" he told the Arsenal website.\n\n\"We cannot just in two or three months' time - if we are able to get over this quickly - forget about this, because it's so important.\"\n\nArsenal players were due to report for training earlier this week after competing a two-week isolation period, but their return has been postponed.\n\nArteta said his main concern was his three children after his wife and their nanny contracted the virus.\n\nArteta self-isolated in a room and a bathroom for two or three days but his wife fell ill shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I am a very positive person and I try to take the moment to say OK, what can we take from this?\" he said.\n\n\"I haven't had the opportunity to wake up with my kids and dedicate my time and listen to them.\n\n\"We are in the household together and we are really enjoying those moments as well.\"", "People in the UK need to shift from cars to public transport to address the challenge of climate change, the government says.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Public transport and active travel will be the natural first choice for our daily activities.\n\n\"We will use our cars less and be able to rely on a convenient, cost-effective and coherent public transport network.\"\n\nTransport campaigners have been astonished by his comments.\n\nThey are made in the foreword to the government’s De-Carbonising Transport consultation.\n\nThe document has been quietly published without notifying the media, and the veteran cycling campaigner Roger Geffen told BBC News: \"It’s absolutely amazing.\n\n\"This makes Grant Shapps the first government minister in the UK to talk about traffic reduction since John Prescott tried (and failed) to achieve this aim in the late 1990s.\n\n“There are some holes in the document, but it suggests that the government really does seem to be taking climate change seriously.\"\n\nOne such hole is aviation. Whilst making it clear that many car drivers will be expected to shift to public transport, walking or cycling if they can - Mr Shapps’ foreword appears to suggest that aviation emissions can be solved through technology.\n\nThis notion is strongly contested by aviation pollution experts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps said the shift in emphasis away from driving - where possible - could improve people's health, create better places to live and travel in, and also promote clean economic growth.\n\nHe said: \"We are perfectly placed to seize the economic opportunities that being in the vanguard of this change presents. The faster we act, the greater the benefits.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty will be the year we set out the policies and plans needed to tackle transport emissions. This document marks the start of this process.\"\n\nStephen Joseph, visiting professor at Hertfordshire University, told BBC News: \"This is utterly gob-smacking. We're still digesting the document, but Grant Shapps' words really do seem to signify a radical change.\"\n\nThe Transport Department has come in for heavy criticism in recent years for failing to cut emissions in line with other departments.\n\nSome campaigners say the government needs to start by reducing the sales of big heavy SUVs, which need more fuel than smaller vehicles and create a greater demand for materials – even if they are powered by electricity.\n\nWhen I broke the news of Mr Shapps' comments to former Commons Transport Chair Lilian Greenwood she replied: \"Wow. That's incredibly welcome if the rhetoric matches the reality.\n\n\"Right now all our energies are on tackling the coronavirus but when we come out the other side we have an equally serious emergency because emissions from transport have to be tackled if we are serious about turning around the future of the planet for coming generations.\"\n\n\"It's great if the first choice is to be public transport and active transport - but that does mean the government has to change radically investment.\"", "Gerry and the Pacemakers topped the UK charts with You'll Never Walk Alone in 1963\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and the Pacemakers has topped a chart of classic songs that are enjoying renewed popularity amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Official Charts Company's \"lockdown listening list\" is based on the tunes that have seen the biggest increases in plays on streaming services this week.\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone was up 150% after dozens of radio stations came together to play it last Friday.\n\nTracks by Akon, Frank Ocean and The Police also featured in the top five.\n\nThe UK is tuning in to a mixture of \"uplifting classics, 'apocalyptic' isolation songs and kids' favourites\", the OCC said.\n\nAkon takes two spots in the top five with with his newly relevant hits Locked Up and Lonely.\n\nThe Police's Don't Stand So Close To Me is in third place, while Frank Ocean's Lost is at number four.\n\nElsewhere, REM's It's the End of the World as We Know It is at eight, just behind John Lennon's Imagine, which recently inspired Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot to co-ordinate a star-studded sing-along.\n\nThe Official Charts Company used Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other services to track the fastest-growing catalogue songs this week.\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone originally featured in the 1945 stage musical Carousel, before Gerry and the Pacemakers' Merseybeat cover version topped the UK chart in 1963.\n\nThis week's popular children's songs include I Am Your Gummy Bear by German cartoon character Gummy Bear, and Disney soundtrack songs like Under the Sea and Hakuna Matata, from The Little Mermaid and The Lion King respectively.\n\nOfficial Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot said: \"The music that we are listening to reflects how we are all coping in different ways - using it to lift our spirits, give us a laugh or bring us together with our families.\"\n\nHowever, figures released earlier this week suggested use of music-streaming apps had declined during the pandemic while radio listening has increased, as fewer people commute and more stay at home.", "The government has urged people not to move house to try to limit the spread of coronavirus across the UK.\n\nBuyers and renters should delay moving while emergency stay-at-home measures are in place, it said.\n\nIts comments come amid reports banks are pressing for a full suspension of the UK housing market.\n\nLenders are concerned about the effect of the pandemic on valuations, according to the Financial Times.\n\nBanks are also worried about granting mortgages during this period of extreme economic uncertainty, the FT said.\n\nThe government said that while there \"is no need to pull out of transactions\", \"we all need to ensure we are following guidance to stay at home and away from others at all times\".\n\nIf a property is vacant, people can continue with the transaction, although they must ensure they are following guidelines with regards to home removals.\n\nBut if the house is occupied \"we encourage all parties to do all they can to amicably agree alternative dates to move\".\n\nProperty listings websites say that interest in moving home has slumped amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nZoopla said demand in the week to 22 March fell 40% from the week before and it predicted housing transactions would drop by up to 60% over the next three months.\n\nMeanwhile, it said a \"rapidly increasing\" proportion of sales were falling through, as would-be buyers \"reassess whether to make a big financial decision in these shifting times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeoff Grant, aged 60 and his wife Tanya, aged 52, from Dorset had been hoping to move house on 9 April.\n\nHowever, Mr Grant is stuck in South Africa and the couple face having to pay rent to two landlords if their removal firm changes its mind about helping them move.\n\nMr Grant says there is already an overlap on the leases - the agreement for the new rental property begins on 1 April while the existing one ends on 9 April.\n\n\"If the move is delayed we'll have to negotiate with two landlords,\" he says.\n\nAs it stands, the removal company the couple is using said at the beginning of the week it will still do the job. And while Mr Grant is stuck in South Africa on business, luckily his 20 year-old daughter is home from university to help lug boxes - at a six foot distance from the removers of course.\n\nRival website Rightmove also said the slowdown in the UK housing market had been \"significant\".\n\n\"The number of property transactions failing to complete in recent days and likely changes in tenant behaviour following the announcement of the renters' protections by the government may put further pressure on estate and lettings agents,\" it said, referring to the recent ban on evictions.\n\nLucian Cook, head of residential research at estate agent Savills UK, told the BBC the practical problems of buying and selling properties at the moment would have \"a real impact on transaction levels\".\n\n\"There are real difficulties around viewings, getting mortgage valuations done, [and] the conveyancing progress.\"\n\n\"Whenever we've had a fall in transactions, we've also had a fall in prices - I think 5-10% in a period of low transactional activity.\n\n\"We would stand by our five-year forecast of 15% growth over the medium-term. That's because we have low interest rates, low levels of price growth in the run-up to this and a pretty swift response from the government to protect jobs and earnings.\"\n\nIn response to the crisis, UK Finance, which was formerly known as the British Bankers' Association, said lenders would extend mortgage offers for people who were due to move house during the lockdown.\n\n\"Current social distancing measures mean many house moves will need to be delayed,\" said UK Finance chief executive Stephen Jones.\n\n\"Where people have already exchanged contracts for house purchases and set dates for completion this is likely to be particularly stressful.\n\n\"To support these customers at this time, all mortgage lenders are working to find ways to enable customers who have exchanged contracts to extend their mortgage offer for up to three months to enable them to move at a later date.\"\n\nBuying a home is the biggest financial transaction most people will ever make. No one wants to get it wrong.\n\nAcross the UK buyers are thinking again about whether they should take the plunge and whether they are paying too much.\n\nPotential sellers are wondering if it is worth putting a house on the market.\n\nSo activity has already plummeted. One analysis suggests the number of properties being put up for sale has dropped by two thirds comparing this week to last week and is set to drop further.\n\nNow the government is telling us to put off thoughts of moving until the crisis is over.\n\nMoves can go ahead, with safeguards on human contact, but only if they are unavoidable or to unoccupied properties.\n\nThe result may not be a total standstill, but most likely a huge fall in completed sales.\n\nHas your house purchase or move been affected by the coronavirus pandemic? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "By rising above 100,000 confirmed cases (see our post from 21:53), the US outbreak has reached a grim new milestone in the global pandemic.\n\nEarlier this week, confirmed American cases jumped above that of China, where the outbreak began in December last year.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) said the US had the potential to become the new epicentre of the coronavirus crisis, and that appears to have been realised.\n\nIn recent days, cases have increased exponentially in the US (as the chart by Johns Hopkins University demonstrates below).\n\nIn just short of two weeks, the university's tracker shows that cases have surged from the low thousands (4,600 on 16 March) to a six figure number.\n\nMost of those cases are in the states of Washington, California and New York.\n\nOn Thursday, US President Donald Trump said the rise in cases was \"a tribute to the amount of testing that we're doing\".\n\nYou can read our explainer on the accuracy of President Trump's claims about testing.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases in the US has risen rapidly in recent days Image caption: The number of confirmed cases in the US has risen rapidly in recent days", "The government has said people should \"stay local\" and not travel unnecessarily for exercise.\n\nNew advice clarifies that people should use \"open spaces\" near to home, where possible.\n\nIt follows confusion over whether people could drive somewhere to go walking, running, or cycling.\n\nExercise is one of the few defined reasons that people in the UK are allowed to leave their home during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDerbyshire Police sparked a heated debate on Twitter this week when it shared drone footage of people walking in the Peak District, with a warning that daily exercise should not involve long trips or journeys in the car.\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 Twitter users argued that those in the footage were not in the wrong as they were keeping apart from other people, while others classed driving to places as unnecessary.\n\nBut the initial guidelines did not advise if, or how far, people could travel in order to exercise.\n\nWhile the new advice does go further, it does not explicitly define what counts as \"local\", and whether or not people can use cars.\n\nMike, 53, from Lancashire, had to put the mountain biking festival he usually runs on hold this summer because of the pandemic - but still takes his bike out for rides on the Yorkshire Moors.\n\nHis house is a short cycle away, but a busy road means that he is unable to take his five-year-old with him.\n\n\"I don't want him riding up and down the main road outside our house, he's not quite ready for that yet,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Do you want to say my Coronavirus contribution was a fine?' - police warning\n\n\"But I know if I put his bike in the boot of my car and drive for half a mile, there are lots of countryside trails where he can ride safely along with me.\"\n\nThe RAC said before the release of the latest goverment advice that people shouldn't drive places to exercise, recommending instead that they use their gardens - where possible - or leave home \"on foot or by bike\".\n\nBakewell Police issued a picture of a note left by a local on a car parked in the Peak District\n\nSuperintendent Steve Pont, of Derbyshire Police, echoed this advice in an interview with the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"Every time you're out in public, away from your home, there's a possibility you might catch or pass on the virus,\" he said.\n\nHe added that unnecessary trips in the car or walks along cliff tops could lead to accidents, and put emergency service workers at risk.\n\nMountain Rescue has also urged people to \"stay local\" and avoid travel \"unless it's essential\".\n\nSteve Lyons, 62, from Chippenham in Wiltshire, said that, initially, he could not work out what those people in the video posted by Derbyshire Police were doing wrong.\n\nSteve and Karen Lyons usually walk alongside a canal but now opt for walks in town\n\n\"In an ideal world you get in the car, you drive to somewhere nice, you go for a walk, and you drive home again,\" he said.\n\n\"But there will be instances where somebody gets hurt, somebody injures themselves walking, or a car breaks down... Are you putting people unnecessarily at risk who might have to come and recover you?\"\n\nHe and his wife usually drive to a spot by a canal to go walking, but are now opting for walks in town instead.\n\nHe said that even in London it is \"not impossible to get out your front door\" and walk somewhere apart from other people.\n\nHowever, Rose Drew, who is in her 50s and lives in York, said travelling by car enables her to get fresh air with her daughter, who has a disability.\n\nRose Drew: \"How crowded can the Moors get? It's virtually impossible\"\n\nShe thinks that maintaining a connection with nature is important for environmental and mental health reasons.\n\n\"Not everyone can get out to the countryside,\" she said, adding that people who live in cities \"don't want to walk around on concrete\" but might have cars to travel.\n\n\"How crowded can the Moors get? It's virtually impossible,\" she added.\n\nFor Mike, too, exercise in open spaces is important for people's mental and physical health - and he said that staying healthy alleviates pressure on the NHS in its own way.\n\nBut he thinks the guidance from the government on driving had \"not been as clear as it could be\".\n\n\"I think to simply say you cannot drive your car, get out of that car and take a walk seems to be going too far,\" he said.", "The singer had just turned 18 when she auditioned for X Factor in 2011\n\nIf anyone can lift us out of the gloom, it's Little Mix.\n\nBritain's most successful girl band are breaking through the fug of self-isolation with a turbo-charged new single that goes by the self-explanatory title Break Up Song.\n\nIt was written in a flurry of creativity last year - one of seven songs the band composed in a single day with their go-to writer (and former stockbroker) Camille Purcell.\n\nStraight away, it was earmarked as the first single on Little Mix's sixth album, which is also their first since splitting from Simon Cowell's record label, Syco, in 2018.\n\nPlans for the album are up in the air after the coronavirus outbreak put recording sessions on hold - but they decided to release Break Up Song anyway, in an attempt to keep their fans happy in uncertain times.\n\nSinger Perrie Edwards joined us on the phone from her house in London to explain what's going on; and how the split from Syco has given Little Mix permission to go back to their first love: pure, unfiltered, hands-in-the-air pop anthems.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWell, have you ever heard of [swanky Danish juice bar chain] Joe and the Juice?\n\nYes, there's one next door to the BBC!\n\nWell, I'm a little bit obsessed with that because my boyfriend likes it, so… there's a Tuna sandwich that you get from there, and I'm basically just making my own version of that.\n\nWell, I'm glad we've got all the important stuff out of the way first. Shall we wrap up the interview here?\n\nOr maybe we should talk about the new single...\n\nBreak Up Song is Little Mix's 24th single. In total, the quartet have sold more than 50 million records worldwide\n\nIt's immediately recognisable as a classic Little Mix song, but how did it come about?\n\nSo basically, the story goes like this…\n\nSometimes when we do writing sessions you're literally sat there, twiddling your thumbs, doodling on a piece of paper, pretending you're coming up with ideas while you're secretly going on Uber and ordering yourself a car home.\n\nThen there's other days when everything is flowing and it feels amazing. And this was one of those days. We went in the studio with Camille, who's like the fifth member of Little Mix, and we wrote about six or seven songs in one day.\n\nWell, it was everything from rough ideas to little tiny demos, and one of them was Break Up Song.\n\nIt was very basic at the time. The beat was all over the place and it was really, really rough - but it just had something about it. And we thought, \"This has got to be the first single. Let's just bin everything we thought of doing before and roll with this.\"\n\nSo it wasn't always destined to be the lead single?\n\nNo, but we played the demo to our label and said, \"This is going to be a smash - we just need to finish it.\"\n\nAnd they were going, \"How can you tell it's going to be a hit when it's literally just a verse and the [main] line?\"\n\nAnd we were like, \"Trust us. Let us get a really good demo together, and we'll present it to you and see what you think\". And as soon as we did that, everybody loved it. We felt really proud because it was our baby.\n\nI've always wondered how you divide up the singing in the studio. Do you each have specific strengths you play to?\n\nBack in the day we used to have a routine about who sang what but, since the last album, it's become almost a free-for-all.\n\nLike, I got to the stage where I was like, \"Guys, I really don't want to belt out the big notes and the ad-libs all the time. I want to sing a verse, or something lower [in pitch] because I like to sing low as well\".\n\nSo we throw it all over the place now. I think it keeps it more exciting for us and the fans.\n\nThe band (L-R: Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jesy Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards) are due to play a stadium tour this summer\n\nOne of the lines Jesy sings in Break Up Song is: \"I'll be good by myself / I'll find a way to dance without you.\" Obviously it was written before the lockdown, but it seems eerily appropriate this week.\n\nExactly! It couldn't have come at a more perfect time. I think it'll uplift everybody at home, just jamming out to it.\n\nAnd, as if by magic, you've just gone viral by dancing with your boyfriend [Liverpool footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] on Instagram...\n\n[Laughing] I can't believe that went viral! I don't understand what made it so good.\n\nI think it's because you float up the stairs like you're in a 1950s Ginger Rogers film.\n\nAw, I love that. It actually does. But we just did it as a laugh; and then it went massive.\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 perrieedwards 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\nIs that your top tip for isolation, just dancing around the house?\n\nYeah, dancing, keeping yourself busy. I just keep putting fake tan on like I'm going somewhere when I'm not. And I've been knitting a little bit.\n\nWell, like a grandma, I've knitted a blanket - and it's come in really handy, actually.\n\nWhat does the lockdown mean for Little Mix? You had a tour, festivals, a TV show and an album all due in the next couple of months.\n\nI honestly have no idea. I'm praying and hoping that our tour is going to happen. But I'm also putting things into perspective. It sucks for us but it's a global pandemic, so we're just going to go with the flow and do what we can to keep our fans happy whilst quarantining and figure it out after.\n\nThat's basically what everyone's doing.\n\nThis is the thing: Everybody's in the same position. We're all in it together.\n\nAnd yet some people still seem to be taking unnecessary risks.\n\nIt's weird, I don't understand why people don't stay at home, it isn't that hard.\n\nIt's like people want a sick day at work all the time - but now they're being made to stay at home, they're like, \"Well, I don't want to!\"\n\nLittle Mix won their second Brit Award, for the single Woman Like Me, in 2019\n\nSo what stage is the album at right now?\n\nTo be fair, it was shaping up very nicely before the whole corona-situation happened. But there's still work to be done. If it was all finished and it was sat there, we'd say, \"Do you know what? Let's get it out,\" but it isn't…\n\nYour last album, LM5, came out a day after you split from Simon Cowell's record company, but it was still on their label. A lot of fans felt it didn't get the promotion it deserved... What was your perspective?\n\nIt was a weird time in our careers. There was a lot going on, but it's one of those things. We were proud of the album, we were happy with it and the fans seemed to love it.\n\nI think, moving forward with our music, instead of trying to mature our sound and try different genres, we're just going to do what makes us happy - which is pop and feel-good music like Break Up Song.\n\nIs that what happened with Syco? You were being pushed in a direction you weren't comfortable with?\n\nHmmm... I think we just wanted to try something new. It was our fifth album and you get to a point where you want to switch up your sound, switch up your look, try different things. You don't want to keep doing the same stuff every day.\n\nYou're basically in uncharted territory now. Girl groups don't usually last for three albums, let alone six.\n\nThank you, yeah. It is pretty unheard of to do this well for this long, so we are really grateful. I think it's just down to friendship and hard work and dedication.\n\nDo you find people underestimate the amount of work you do?\n\nExactly. I think people think we get on stage, we look pretty, and then we insert a memory card into the back of our necks and the performance just happens.\n\nI don't think they realise it takes weeks and months of preparation and rehearsal and time and effort. It's not easy being a pop star!\n\nEach of the band auditioned for X Factor as a solo act before being put together as a four-piece, initially called Rhythmix\n\nWhat was the diary like before you went on lockdown?\n\nIt was intense. It's always the same in Little Mix world. Our schedules are normally planned out two years in advance.\n\nWow. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, Perrie.\n\nIt's a bittersweet situation. It's quite refreshing but it's also quite daunting because I'm used to having my life planned out for me. But it is quite nice not to think about work for a little while.\n\nYou wrote a really powerful and brave Instagram post last year about your anxiety and panic attacks. How did that affect your ability to be part of the band?\n\nIt's weird. It affected it in a huge way, but it also didn't affect it at all, if that makes sense?\n\nWhen the panic attacks got bad, I didn't want to leave the house. My mam and Sam, my manager, had to meet at my house to take me to work because I couldn't bear the idea of being in a car on my own.\n\nAnd I've always been really independent. I've always loved my own space. I lived near fields with nothing around me and that was my happy place. Then all of a sudden it slipped and now that's my idea of hell. So I like to be surrounded by people now because I feel like if I was to have a panic attack, it'd be better if I had somebody with me.\n\nSo it messed up work in the day-to-day sense, but it's never affected being on stage, because performing's what I love to do. That's where I feel most comfortable and the most safe, I suppose.\n\nIt must be hard, though, to get up on that stage after going through all that stress just to get there.\n\nIt's the worst thing in the world. It's quite frustrating, 'cos if someone broke their leg, you wouldn't say, \"Oh, just get on stage and perform, you're fine.\" But because you can't see anxiety, it's a mental illness, people don't necessarily believe in it as much.\n\nThe singer posted this unfiltered photo while discussing her struggles with anxiety\n\nHas it subsided at all, or have you worked out ways to cope?\n\nTouch wood, the panic attacks have stopped, but anxiety is quite hard to shift, so you've got to try and find coping mechanisms, rather than thinking you'll get rid of it.\n\nTherapy has helped; and so has figuring out the things that trigger my anxiety and trying to avoid those situations somehow. And if not, just try to keep calm and breathe.\n\nIn happier news, you've just passed your driving test, is that right?\n\nYes I did! I never thought in a million years I would pass my test but I absolutely love driving now. It's the best thing ever,\n\nIt's a big truck! It's huge. It's a beast but I absolutely love it.\n\nAnd do you still play guitar?\n\nA little bit - but not as often as I should. I've got long, natural nails now and I can't play guitar with them.\n\nAren't they useful as guitar picks?\n\nNo! It's really hard when you're pressing the strings to make the chords because your nails get in the way. So I'm putting beauty before guitar talent here!\n\nHave you ever considered doing an acoustic set with the girls?\n\nI've thought about it but I don't know… I'd be really worried because I'm not that good at it. I can play the basic chords and that's about it.\n\nWell, you only need three.\n\nThat's true! Every single song is basically only three or four chords, so you never know!\n\nRight, well I'd better let you get back to that tuna sandwich. Thanks for chatting.\n\nThank you! See you when it's all over. Stay safe!\n\nLittle Mix's new single, Break Up Song, is out now Since this interview took place on Wednesday, their BBC TV show, The Search, has been postponed.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Further restrictions have been announced to public life in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said \"now is the time for further action\".\n\nHe said from midnight on Friday, for a two week period until Easter Sunday, everyone must stay at home unless their work was essential or they were buying food.\n\nTwenty two people with coronavirus have died in the country.\n\nThere are currently 2,121 cases of Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPeople have been told they should only travel further that two kilometres from their home when it is absolutely necessary.\n\nMr Varadkar said he hoped people would comply with the limit, but gardaí would be available to police it.\n\n\"Freedom was hard won in our country and it jars with us to limit liberty, even temporarily,\" he said.\n\nMr Varadkar said he was \"appealing to every man woman and child to make these sacrifices out of love for each other\".\n\nThe number of intensive care unit admissions due to coronavirus had doubled in the Republic of Ireland since Monday and transmission in the community now accounts for more than half of all cases.\n\n\"From midnight tonight, everyone must stay at home other than to travel to and from work only when work is an essential service, to shop for food or collect a meal, to collect health or medical products, to take brief exercise as long as you adhere to physical distancing,\" he said.\n\n\"All public gatherings are prohibited, sadly this includes social family visits,\n\n\"We're not prisoners of fate - we can influence what's going to happen to us next. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.\"\n\nSimon Harris told RTÉ's Late Late Show that a list of essential workers would be provided soon.\n\nHe added: \"We can all feel powerless but individuals have huge power - more than the HSE and the government. If you do as we ask and that is to stay at home, then you will save lives.\"\n\nDr Holohan said they wanted to curb the number of infections\n\nIreland's chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said measures implemented so far had been working, but more was needed.\n\nHe said the daily increase in cases has slowed down, \"relative to what we might have expected a number of weeks ago\".\n\n\"But this does not tell us that the worse is over - it tells us that we are having some early impact,\" he said.\n\nDr Holohan said they wanted to \"turn the infection from a community-based one, to a household-based one, and thus slow down its spread and save lives.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach said that all visits to hospitals and prisons will cease with some exceptions on compassionate grounds.\n\nHe said that people over the age of 70 and some vulnerable people must shield or 'cocoon' during the two-week period.\n\nHe also said that travel to offshore islands will be limited to residents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video on Twitter, Boris Johnson says he is self-isolating and will continue to work from home.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating in Downing Street.\n\nHe said he had experienced mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough, but would continue to lead the government.\n\nEngland's Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he had also tested positive while England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has shown symptoms.\n\nAnother 181 people died with the virus in the past day, figures showed.\n\nIt takes the total number of UK deaths to 759, with 14,543 confirmed cases.\n\nThe daily coronavirus news conference was led by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, alongside deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries and NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens.\n\nThey announced plans to begin a large-scale testing programme of health service staff, starting with critical care teams. It will later be expanded to cover social care staff too.\n\nIt follows mounting criticism from NHS staff over a lack of testing - currently, only seriously-ill patients in hospital are being tested.\n\nTesting will be carried out on staff showing possible symptoms of the virus or staff who live with people who have symptoms - not for all frontline workers as a matter of course.\n\n\"This will be antigen testing - testing whether people currently have the disease - so that our health and social care workers can have security in the knowledge that they are safe to return to work if their test is negative,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nThe British Medical Association, which represents doctors, said the announcement was \"long overdue\" and the lack of testing so far had been \"incredibly frustrating\".\n\n\"For every healthy member of staff at home self-isolating needlessly when they do not have the virus, the NHS is short of someone who could be providing vital care to patients on the frontline,\" BMA chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nHe said that 33,000 beds - the equivalent of 50 hospitals - had been freed up across England ready for coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has imposed strict restrictions on everyday life designed to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nHowever, BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said the UK's daily death toll will still rise into the many hundreds in the coming weeks.\n\nThis does not mean social distancing measures are not working - but there will be a lag of two to four weeks before we see the effects, our correspondent says.\n\nMr Gove said scientific analysis suggested the rate of infection had been doubling every three to four days, but the \"fantastic\" public response to the restrictions would make a difference.\n\nAsked whether the prime minister and health secretary should have been \"better protected\", he said: \"The fact that the virus is no respecter of individuals, whoever they are, is one of the reasons why we do need to have strict social distancing measures so that we can reduce the rate of infection and reduce the pressure on the NHS,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson is thought to be the first world leader to announce they have the virus.\n\nHe was last seen on Thursday night, clapping outside No 10 as part of a nationwide gesture to thank NHS staff and carers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 #StayHomeSaveLives This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a video on his Twitter account, Mr Johnson, 55, said: \"I'm working from home and self-isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do.\n\n\"But, be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight-back against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe PM chaired a phone call on Friday morning, and later in the day, Downing Street said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump.\n\n\"The president wished the prime minister a speedy recovery from coronavirus,\" a spokesman said. \"They agreed to work together closely, along with the G7, the G20, and other international partners, to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was experiencing mild symptoms of the virus, and would be self-isolating until next Thursday.\n\nHe told BBC Look East it was \"understandable that people will ask the question\" why he and the prime minister were tested, but most people with possible symptoms were not.\n\nThe health secretary said there was a protocol laid down by the chief medical officer which required a small number of senior figures, key to the national effort, to be tested.\n\nEarlier this week the prime minister's spokesman said if Mr Johnson was unwell and unable to work, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, as the first secretary of state, would stand in.\n\nThe prime minister's fiancée, Carrie Symonds, who is several months pregnant, is also self-isolating, although it is not known if they are still living together.\n\nPregnant women in their third trimester are advised to be particularly stringent when following social distancing advice, and minimise social contact for up to 12 weeks.\n\nOne of the first moments that raised eyebrows in the course of the UK outbreak was when health minister Nadine Dorries came down with coronavirus.\n\nThen, last week, we discovered that some key staff in No 10, including the prime minister's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost, were self-isolating with suspected symptoms.\n\nA fair number of MPs took themselves off into isolation for fear of having contracted the infection.\n\nTheir remaining colleagues were continually ordered to sit far apart on the green benches, before finally, this week, Parliament itself closed early, with no certain date for a return of normal business.\n\nStill, the news this morning that the prime minister himself has contracted coronavirus felt like a shock.\n\nNeither the PM's senior adviser Dominic Cummings nor Chancellor Rishi Sunak has symptoms. They have not been tested.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman confirmed the Queen, 93, saw Mr Johnson more than two weeks ago on 11 March, and she is in good health.\n\nThe pair usually meet weekly for the prime minister's audience with the Queen, but the most recent meetings have been over the phone.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hancock were seen together and following social distancing advice at PMQs on Wednesday\n\nOther world leaders including Canada's Justin Trudeau and Germany's Angela Merkel have self-isolated after coming into contact with people who have tested positive for the virus.\n\nPoliticians including Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott shared messages to the PM, wishing him a \"speedy recovery\".\n\nMeanwhile, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, told Mr Johnson: \"Europe wishes you a speedy recovery.\"\n\nIn the Irish Republic, the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has announced tough new restrictions on movement.\n\nFrom midnight on Friday, for a two-week period until Easter Sunday, everyone must stay at home unless their work is essential or they are buying food.\n\nTwenty two people with coronavirus have died in the Irish Republic.", "Martin Hewitt said the UK was in a \"national emergency, not a national holiday\"\n\nPolice forces in England and Wales have fined people for ignoring guidance to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMartin Hewitt, head of the National Police Chief's Council, said the UK was in a \"national emergency, not a national holiday\" .\n\nThe NPCC said going to local beauty spots was not banned as long as there was no mingling.\n\nPolice chiefs say the vast majority of people are following social distancing measures to help protect the NHS.\n\nIn the first briefing from police chiefs since emergency legislation gave police powers to issue fines, Mr Hewitt also said:\n\nOn Thursday, Derbyshire Police posted footage of couples and families walking alone in a remote beauty spot - triggering accusations that the force was over-reacting.\n\nOn Friday, the NPCC said that country walks were not banned under legislation that came into force on Thursday - nor was exercising more than once a day.\n\nBut police chiefs said the public needed to consider the risks to the NHS of spreading the virus through unintended social contact - and those could be increased by plans to go further than the local area.\n\n\"This is a national emergency, not a national holiday,\" said Mr Hewitt.\n\n\"The point is to try to avoid people contaminating others. We all saw the imagery from last weekend where open spaces were packed with people.\n\n\"Where we do not want to get to, as we approach a weekend, is places of natural beauty being absolutely packed with people coming and going in the same car park and the potential to spread the virus.\"\n\nThe new fines, introduced on Thursday, can be imposed on anyone who refuses to follow a police instruction to go home if they are in a gathering of more than two people - or conducting themselves in a way that will increase the likelihood of spreading the virus to others.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sara Glen of Hampshire Police, who is leading the work around enforcement, confirmed in the briefing that forces had issued fines but no overall numbers were yet available.\n\n\"If individuals are in a group gathering and they don't take the request and the advice and the engagement from the officers to go home, and the only way we can secure compliance is to give them a fixed penalty ticket, that's what they would have been given for,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to know whether we're winning the kind of negotiation with the community to keep them in line with this regulation or whether or not we have a lot of people that are breaching it.\"\n\nShe said police would use a four-step approach: Engage with people and ask them why they are out, explain the risks they are posing to others, encouraging them to return home - and if they don't leave, enforce the law either through fines or even arrest.\n\nMr Hewitt added: \"What we need is a common sense policing approach to stop the spread of the virus. That is what our police service is renowned for - being out there talking to communities.\"", "Shares in Asia have continued a global stock market rally on hopes global authorities will do more to combat the impact of the coronavirus.\n\nOn Thursday top US share indexes capped their best three-day gains since the Great Depression.\n\nIt comes as investors expect the US Congress to pass a massive stimulus package by the end of Saturday.\n\nThe Group of 20 (G20) major economies has also pledged to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy.\n\nJapan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 1.6%, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong was up by 1.6% and China's Shanghai Composite rose 1%.\n\nThat followed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both climbing more than 6% on Wall Street, capping their best three-day streaks since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The tech-heavy Nasdaq ended higher for a second day, up 5.6%.\n\nThe rally comes after weeks of stock market volatility, as investors weigh the effect of measures to slow the spread of the virus against actions taken by governments and central banks to ease the impact of disruption to the global economy.\n\nThis month alone, the Dow has seen the six biggest one-day gains and five biggest one-day losses of its 135 year history.\n\nIn Washington DC, leaders of the US House of Representatives have said they are determined to pass a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday, or at the very latest on Saturday.\n\nThe huge impact of the outbreak on the American economy was highlighted on Thursday as official figures showed that almost 3.3 million people registered to claim jobless benefits for the week ended 21 March. That is nearly five times more than the previous record of 695,000 set in 1982.\n\nAlso on Thursday, G20 leaders pledged to inject more than $5 trillion into the world economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and “do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic.”\n\nTheir statement also contained the most conciliatory language on trade expressed by the group in years, promising to ensure the flow of vital medical supplies and other goods across borders and to resolve supply chain disruptions.\n\n“The G20 is committed to do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic,” along with the World Health Organization and other international institutions, it said.\n• None How are food supply networks coping with coronavirus?", "The usually packed Times Square is empty\n\nThere are no fresh flowers at the 9/11 Memorial any more. An American altar usually decorated with roses, carnations and postcard-sized Stars and Stripes is sequestered behind a makeshift plastic railing. Broadway, the \"Great White Way\", is dark. The subway system is a ghost train. Staten Island ferries keep cutting through the choppy waters of New York harbour, passing Lady Liberty on the way in and out of Lower Manhattan, but hardly any passengers are on board. Times Square, normally such a roiling mass, is almost devoid of people.\n\nIn the midst of this planetary pandemic, nobody wants to meet any more at the \"Crossroads of the World\". A city known for its infectious energy, a city that likes to boast it never even has to sleep, has been forced into hibernation. With more cases than any other American conurbation, this city is once again Ground Zero, a term no New Yorker ever wanted applied here again. With manic suddenness, our world has been turned upside down, just as it was on September 11th.\n\nNations, like individuals, reveal themselves at times of crisis. In emergencies of this immense magnitude, it soon becomes evident whether a sitting president is equal to the moment. So what have we learnt about the United States as it confronts this national and global catastrophe? Will lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who have been in a form of legislative lockdown for years now, a paralysis borne of partisanship, rise to the challenge? And what of the man who now sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, who has cloaked himself in the mantle of \"wartime president\"?\n\nOf the three questions, the last one is the least interesting, largely because Donald Trump's response has been so predictable. He has not changed. He has not grown. He has not admitted errors. He has shown little humility.\n\nInstead, his critics say, all the hallmarks of his presidency have been on agitated display: his boasts - he has awarded himself a 10 out of 10 for his handling of the crisis. The politicisation of what should be the apolitical - he toured the Centers for Disease Control wearing a campaign cap emblazoned with the slogan \"Keep America Great\".\n\nHis truth-twisting: he now claims to have fully appreciated the scale of the pandemic early on, despite dismissing and downplaying the threat for weeks. His attacks on the \"fake news\" media, including a personal assault on a White House reporter who asked what was his message to frightened Americans: \"I tell them you are a terrible reporter.\" His mocking of Senator Mitt Romney, the only Republican who voted at the end of the impeachment trial for his removal from office, for going into isolation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Every one of these doctors said: 'How do you know so much about this?'\"\n\nHis continued attacks on government institutions in the forefront of confronting the crisis - \"the Deep State Department\" is how he described the State Department from his presidential podium the morning after it issued its most extreme travel advisory urging Americans to refrain from all international travel. His obsession with ratings, or in this instance, confirmed case numbers - he stopped a cruise ship docking on the West Coast, noting: \"I like the numbers where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.\" His compulsion for hype - declaring the combination of hydroxycholoroquine and azithromycin \"one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine,\" even as medical officials warn against offering false hope.\n\nHis lack of empathy. Rather than soothing words for relatives of those who have died, or words of encouragement and appreciation for those in the medical trenches, Trump's daily White House briefings commonly start with a shower of self-congratulation. After Trump has spoken, Mike Pence, his loyal deputy, usually delivers a paean of praise to the president.\n\nHis appeal to xenophobia that has always been the sine qua non of his political business model - repeatedly he describes the disease as the \"Chinese virus\". Just as he scapegoated China and Mexican immigrants for decimating America's industrial heartland ahead of the 2016 presidential election, he is blaming Beijing for the coronavirus outbreak in an attempt to win re-election.\n\nMy judgement is that his attempt at economic stewardship has been more convincing than his mastery of public health. A lesson from financial shocks of the past, most notably the meltdown in 2008, is to \"go big\" early on. That he has tried to do. But here, as well, there are shades of his showman self. He seems to have rounded on the initial figure of a trillion dollars for the stimulus package because it sounds like such a gargantuan number - a fiscal eighth wonder of the world.\n\nTrump favours simple solutions to complex problems. He closed America's border to those who had travelled to China, a sensible move in hindsight. However, the coronavirus outbreak has required the kind of multi-pronged approach and long-term thinking that seems beyond him. This has always been a presidency of the here and now. It is not well equipped to deal with a public health and economic emergency that will dominate the rest of his presidency, whether he only gets to spend the next 10 months in the White House or another five years.\n\nThe Trump presidency has so often been about creating favourable optics even in the absence of real progress - his nuclear summitry with the North Korean despot Kim Jong-un offers a case in point. But such tactics do not work as well in a national emergency.\n\nWhat have we learnt of the United States? First of all, we have seen the enduring goodness of this country.\n\nAs with 9/11, we have marvelled at the selflessness and bravery of its first responders - the nurses, doctors, medical support staff and ambulance drivers who have turned up to the work with the same sense of public spiritedness shown by the firefighters who rushed towards the flaming Twin Towers. We've witnessed the ingenuity and creativity of schools that have transitioned to remote, online teaching without missing a beat. We've seen a can-do spirit that has kept stores open, shelves stocked and food being delivered. In other words, most Americans have shown precisely the same virtues we have seen in every country brought to a halt by the virus.\n\nAs for the American exceptionalism on display, much of it has been of the negative kind that makes it hard not to put head in hands. The lines outside gun stores. The spike in online sales of firearms - Ammo.com has seen a 70% increase in sales. The panic buying of AR-15s. Some Christian fundamentalists have rejected the epidemiology of this pandemic. To prove there was no virus, a pastor in Arkansas boasted his parishioners were prepared to lick the floor of his church.\n\nOnce again, those who live in developed nations have been left to ponder why the world's richest country does not have a system of universal healthcare. Ten years after the passage of Obamacare, more than 26 million Americans do not have health insurance.\n\nRather than a coming together, the crisis has demonstrated how for decades Americans have conducted a political version of social distancing: the herd-like clustering of conservatives and liberals into like-minded communities caused by the allergic reaction to compatriots holding opposing political views. Once again, we have seen the familiar two Americas divide, the usual knee-jerk tribalism. Republicans have been twice as likely as Democrats to view coronavirus coverage as exaggerated. Three-quarters of Republicans say they trust the information coming from the president, whereas the figure among Democrats is just 8%.\n\nAs the Reverend Josh King told the Washington Post despairingly: \"In your more politically conservative regions, closing is not interpreted as caring for you. It's interpreted as liberalism.\" Even on 13 March, when the CDC projected that up to 214 millions could be infected, Sean Davis, the co-founder of the right-wing website, The Federalist, tweeted: \"Corporate political media hate you, they hate the country, and they will stop at nothing to reclaim power to rule over you. If that means destroying the economy via a panic they helped incite, all while running interference for the communist country that started it, so be it.\"\n\nThe latest Gallup polling shows the split: 94% of Republicans approve of his handling of the crisis, compared with 27% of Democrats. But overall, six out of ten Americans approve, pushing his approval rating up again to 49%, matching the highest score of his presidency. As with previous crises, such as 9/11, Americans tend to rally around the presidency, although Donald Trump remains a deeply polarising figure. After the attacks of September 11th, George W Bush's approval rating was over 90.\n\nThe political geography of America, with its red and blue state separatism, has even affected how voters are being physically exposed to the virus. Democrats tend to congregate in the cities, whose dense populations have made them hotspots. Republicans tend to live in more sparsely populated rural areas, which so far have not been so badly hit. Thus, the polarisation continues amidst the pandemic.\n\nRather than to the Trump White House, much of \"Blue America\" has looked for leadership to its state capitals: Democratic governors such as Andrew Cuomo in New York (who Trump tweeted should \"do more\"), Gavin Newsom in California (whom Trump has praised) and Jay Inslee in Washington state (whom the president called a \"snake\" during his visit to the CDC).\n\nFor American liberals, Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has become the subversive hero of the hour. Offering an antidote to this post-truth presidency, Fauci sticks to scientific facts. After repeatedly contradicting Donald Trump over the seriousness of the outbreak, he is on his way to being viewed with the same affection and reverence as the liberal Supreme Court jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\nFauci has become a phenomenon on social media\n\nSurely the coronavirus outbreak will eventually lead to an end momentarily to the gridlock on Capitol Hill. Legislators have no other choice but to legislate given the enormity of the economic crisis and the spectre of a 21st Century Great Depression.\n\nHowever, the first two attempts to pass a stimulus package failed amidst the usual partisan acrimony and brinksmanship. Republicans and Democrats are arguing over whether to include expansions of paid leave and unemployment benefits, and what the Democrats are calling a slush fund for corporate America that could be open to abuse. Once again, Capitol Hill's dysfunction has been shown to be both systemic and endemic.\n\nGiven the scale of the public health and economic crisis, the hope would be of a return to the patriotic bipartisanship that prevailed during much of the Fifties and early Sixties, which produced some of the major post-war reforms such as the construction of the interstate highway system and the landmark civil rights acts. History, after all, shows that US politicians co-operate most effectively in the face of a common enemy, whether it was the Soviet Union during the Cold War or al-Qaeda in the initial months after 9/11.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 60 days of coronavirus in the US - in 60 seconds\n\nBut the early response of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is far from encouraging. And if there is cross-party co-operation - as there will surely be in the end - it will not be the product of patriotic bipartisanship but rather freak-out bipartisanship, the legislative equivalent of panic buying.\n\nThe paradox here, as lawmakers face-off, is that crises erase philosophical lines. As in 2008, ideological conservatives have overnight become operational liberals. Those who ordinarily detest government have come in this emergency to depend on it. Corporate America, which is generally phobic towards federal intervention, is now desperate for government bailouts.\n\nTrickle-down supply siders have become Keynesian big spenders, such is their desire for government stimulus spending funded by the taxpayer. Even universal basic income, a fringe idea popularised by the Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, has gone mainstream. The US government intends to give $1,200 payments to every American.\n\nIn this call to national action, we have been reminded of how the federal government has been run down over the past 40 years partly because of an anti-government onslaught that started with Ronald Reagan. In 2018, the team responsible for pandemic response on the National Security Council at the White House was disbanded. The failure to carry out adequate testing, the key to containing outbreaks early on, is linked to a funding shortfall at the Department of Health and Human Services.\n\nAs with the attacks of 11 September 2001, warnings within government were repeatedly ignored. In recent years, there have been numerous exercises to test the country's preparedness for a pandemic - one of which involved a respiratory virus originating from China - that identified exactly the areas of vulnerability now being exposed. As with Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has struggled. As ever, there are tensions between federal agencies and the states. The institutional decline of government that led so many Americans to pin their faith in an individual, Donald Trump, is again plain to see, whether in the shortage of masks and protective gowns or the dearth of early testing.\n\nConsequently, America's claim to global pre-eminence looks less convincing by the day. While in previous crises, the world's most powerful superpower might have mobilised a global response, nobody expects that of the United States anymore. The neo-isolationism of three years of America Firstism has created a geopolitical form of social distancing, and this crisis has reminded us of the oceanic divide that has opened up even with Washington's closest allies. Take the European travel ban, which Trump announced during his Oval Office address to the nation without warning the countries affected. The European Union complained, in an unusually robust public statement, the decision was \"taken unilaterally and without consultation\".\n\nNor has the United States offered a model for how to deal with this crisis. South Korea, with its massive testing programme, and Japan have been exemplars. China, too, has shown the advantages of its authoritarianism system in enforcing a strict lockdown, which is especially worrying when the western liberal order looks so wobbly. Hopefully, nobody will forget how officials in China tried to cover up the virus for weeks and silenced whistleblowers, showing the country's ugly autocratic side even as the outbreak was spreading. But whereas Beijing managed to build a new hospital in just 10 days, the Pentagon will take weeks to move a naval hospital ship from its port in Virginia to New York harbour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolitically, there will be so many ramifications. It is worth remembering, for example, that the Tea Party was as much a reaction to what was called the \"big government conservatism\" of George W Bush in response to the financial crisis as it was to the pigmentation of Barack Obama. The official history of the Tea Party movement states it came into existence on 3 October, 2008, when Bush signed into law TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Programme which saved the failing banks. Tea-Partiers viewed that as an unacceptable encroachment of government power.\n\nLikewise, it is worth bearing in mind that the two major convulsions of the 21st Century, the destruction of the Twin Towers and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, both ended up having a polarising effect on US politics. The fragile bipartisan 9/11 consensus was shattered by the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq. The financial crisis fuelled the rise of the Tea Party and further radicalised the Republican Party.\n\nWhat will be the impact on the presidential election? Judging by the Lazarus-like revival of Joe Biden, the signs are that Democrats are voting for normal. Clearly, a significant majority is not in the mood for the political revolution promised by Bernie Sanders. A 78-year-old whose candidacy was almost derailed in its early stages because he was so tactile looks again like a strong candidate in these socially distant times.\n\nThe view from Lincoln Memorial across the National Mall in Washington, DC\n\nMany Americans are yearning for precisely the kind of empathy and personal warmth that Biden offers. Even before the coronavirus took hold, he had made recovery his theme, a narrative in accord with his life story. Many also want a presidency they could have on in the background. A less histrionic figure in the Oval Office. Soft jazz rather than heavy metal. A return to some kind of normalcy. But who would make any predictions? Only a few weeks ago, when the chaos of the Iowa caucuses seemed like a major story, we were prophesying Biden's political demise.\n\nBesides, normalcy is not something we can expect to see for months, maybe even for years. Rather, the coronavirus could dramatically reshape American politics, much like the other massive historical convulsions of the past 100 years.\n\nThe Great Depression led to the New Deal, and its massive extension of federal power, through welfare programmes such as Social Security. It also made the Democrats, the champions of government, politically dominant. From 1932 onwards, the party won five consecutive presidential elections. World War II, among other social changes, gave impetus to the struggle for black equality, as African-American infantrymen who fought fascism on the same battlefields as white GIs demanded the same menu of civil rights on their return home. The attacks of 11 September made many Americans more wary of mass immigration and religious pluralism. The Great Recession undermined faith in the American Dream.\n\nHow America changes as a result of coronavirus will be determined by how America responds.\n\nLiberals may be hoping the outbreak will highlight the need for universal healthcare, a New Deal-style revival of government, the return of a more fact-based polity and a stronger response to global warming, another planetary crisis which has the potential to paralyse and overwhelm so much of the world.\n\nConservatives may conclude the private sector rather than government is better equipped to deal with crises, amplifying their anti-government rhetoric, that gun controls should be further relaxed so that Americans can better protect themselves, and that individual liberties should not be constrained by nanny states.\n\nEvery day on my way to work, I pass the 9/11 memorial where the Twin Towers once stood, and watch people laying their flowers and muttering their quiet prayers. Many is the time I have wondered whether I would ever cover a more world-altering event. As I look out of my window on a quiet and eerie city that feels more like Gotham than New York, I fear we may be confronting it now.\n\nCorrection 6 August 2020: This article has been amended following a complaint to the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "Boris Johnson made a statement about his condition on social media\n\nOne of the first moments that raised eyebrows in the course of the UK outbreak was when health minister Nadine Dorries came down with coronavirus.\n\nThen, last week, we discovered that some key staff in Number 10, including the prime minister's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost, were self-isolating with suspected symptoms.\n\nA fair number of MPs took themselves off into isolation for fear of having contracted the infection.\n\nTheir remaining colleagues were continually ordered to sit far apart on the green benches, before finally, this week, Parliament itself closed early, with no certain date for a return of normal business.\n\nStill, the news that the prime minister himself has contracted coronavirus felt like a shock.\n\nWithin a couple of hours we discovered that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has the illness too.\n\nBoth of their symptoms are said to be mild. They have now joined much of the country in that most common of activities, WFH - working from home.\n\nQuestions are swirling, of course, about who else that is part of coordinating the fight against this disease may fall victim soon.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is said to be well, and has not been tested, and nor has the prime minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nThere is no information that suggests the country's senior scientists, who are at the forefront of the effort to combat the virus, have taken ill.\n\nMr Johnson's team say that he is absolutely well enough to carry on in the job.\n\nHe is self-isolating in the 10 Downing Street flat, which links through to part of Number 11 too, and is carrying out his usual duties, including chairing Friday morning's coronavirus meeting, by video link.\n\nBut with the prime minister now a victim of the virus itself, this is anything but business as usual.", "People stuck at home have a great appetite for home deliveries from their favourite high street shops\n\nFood wholesalers are making online home deliveries in response to Covid-19 measures.\n\nAs bars, restaurants and hotels shut due to government restrictions, the wholesalers that usually provide them with food and drink, have seen a huge drop in business.\n\nBut with stock to shift, they are determined to find new customers.\n\nMembers of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors have seen a 70% decline in trade over the past two weeks,\n\n“Food distributors have seen their market disappear overnight,” says chief executive James Bielby. “Companies have bought in stock, and the vast majority of it is going to waste as they can’t sell it, and in a lot of cases they haven’t been paid.\n\n“The government doesn't recognise that this part of the supply chain has effectively shut down - wholesalers need access to support or they’re going to go bust.”\n\nBut many businesses have already taken matters into their own hands, by offering online home deliveries for individual consumers.\n\nLondon-based butcher HG Walter’s usual clients include Michelin-starred restaurants, retailers like Harrods and hoteliers such as the Savoy and the Dorchester - but they’ve lost hundreds of regular orders in the past two weeks.\n\n“Business just dropped overnight,” director Adam Heanen, explains. “At the moment, it’s not about making money, it’s about the company staying alive and keeping our staff.”\n\nThe butcher has launched an online home delivery service of ‘survival packs’ including fruit, vegetables, vacuum-packed meat and even a make-your-own Patty & Bun burger kit - it’s had thousands of orders over the past few days.\n\nThe butcher shop had the idea of burger kits - and has had thousands of orders\n\n“We are used to doing 350 deliveries a day, but it’s just on a much smaller scale now,” added Mr Heanen. “We were able to adapt our website and use our existing drivers and vans.”\n\nMauro Capellazzi, 71-year-old owner of Cafe Deli Wholesale, might be self-isolating, but he’s modernised his company and launched a website overnight.\n\n“Online orders are a completely new thing for us but so many people need food now and we need to keep our business,” he says. “It’s our responsibility to do what we can to help people, especially those who can’t leave their homes.”\n\nCafe Deli has transformed its business overnight, with bulk orders for a range of goods, including salad cream\n\n“If you're running a food distribution business you have invested in stock, so you have to find somewhere for it to go,\" Peter Backman, a food service consultant says. “Home deliveries represent a large market opportunity, but the orders are small-scale for wholesalers used to delivering 40-tonne loads.\n\n“It works in unprecedented times like these, but won't be sustainable in the long term for many businesses, unless they undergo large restructuring.\"\n\nFresh Pastures usually supplies milk to local authorities, schools and businesses across the north of England. In the past 48 hours it has refocused the business, and is now serving dairy produce and bread from its website.\n\nFresh Pastures delivered to schools and businesses, and is now a community resource\n\n“As schools have closed temporarily, so has 97% of our business,” Dawn Carney, managing director, explains. “But we recognise that we have an opportunity to redistribute our services to offer a vital resource for our communities.”\n\nFood delivery apps aimed at chefs are now giving consumers access to their services\n\nFood delivery apps are enjoying a spike due to Covid-19 social distancing, offering groceries as well as takeaways.\n\nFoodchain is an app developed for chefs and suppliers, catering for around 500 restaurants with produce. Recently, the platform has been adapted to give consumers access to get food boxes delivered to their homes.\n\n“When my friend was self-isolating, I realised he couldn’t get a food delivery for weeks, so I thought we could fill that gap,” Amelia Christie-Miller, of Foodchain, says.\n\nIn the past two weeks, they’ve had 2,500 new sign-ups, almost entirely home users.\n\n“It’s been a challenge adapting to card payments and convincing our suppliers to sell smaller amounts, but it has been really popular,” she adds.\n\nIt’s not just food that is adapting to online demand. Many pubs and breweries are offering home deliveries, including pre-mixed cocktails.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jim and Tonic This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe bulk of its business comes from wholesaling to pubs, bars and music venues, as well as summer festivals, which have been cancelled. The box includes beer, glasses, a Spotify playlist and a music pub quiz.\n\nMusician Josh from band The Skints, has become a delivery driver for Signature brew, after having his US tour and Glastonbury slot cancelled.\n\n“I found myself falling on hard times, so we are just trying to keep things cracking in a place of adversity,” he says. “If Covid-19 has you locked indoors, we bring the pub to you.”", "Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has said he is \"deeply apologetic\" for a series of blunders in the way his chain has reacted to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe retailer lobbied the government to keep his shops open, arguing they were an \"essential service\", but backed down after a backlash from staff and media.\n\nMr Ashley admitted his request was \"ill judged and poorly timed\" and said he would \"learn from his mistakes\".\n\nThe retail tycoon also offered to lend the NHS his delivery trucks.\n\nIn an open letter, Mr Ashley also admitted the firm's communications to staff and the public were \"poor\".\n\n\"I am deeply apologetic about the misunderstandings of the last few days. We will learn from this and will try not to make the same mistakes in the future,\" he said.\n\nThe letter marks a change in tone for the billionaire. Earlier this week, Sports Direct asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly on Twitter whether its stores should stay 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 Sports Direct This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSports Direct had argued that it provided an essential service. Bosses at the company said the sports equipment it sells can be used to exercise at home at a time when gyms have been closed.\n\nHowever, the chain's initial plan to stay open drew widespread backlash from both politicians and the public.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove told ITV's Good Morning Britain: \"I can't see any justification for Sports Direct remaining 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 2 by Ian Lavery MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ashley, worth £1.9bn according to the Sunday Times Rich List, is one of the country's biggest owners of High Street retailers.\n\nThrough Frasers Group, he controls House of Fraser, Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, Lillywhites, Flannels, Agent Provocateur and he recently bought a 12.5% stake in luxury leather goods group Mulberry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Richard Shaw This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Ashley had been criticised over the treatment of workers.\n\nAn investigation by The Guardian in 2015 revealed people working at Sports Direct's warehouse in Shirebrook,Derbyshire receiving less than the minimum wage because of rigorous searches and surveillance.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC discovered that ambulances were called out to the site 76 times in two years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Jodie 🌺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrasers Group also owns Evans Cycles, which is regarded as an essential retailer. But it has currently closed all those stores too, pending review.\n\nBusinesses that are allowed to stay open under the strict new guidelines include:\n\nSeveral other firms came under fire this week after saying that some of their stores would stay open.\n\nThe Halfords bicycle and auto repair chain drew criticism after saying it would keep some stores open despite being named by the government as an \"essential provider of services”.\n\nMeanwhile, housebuilder Redrow has said it will suspend work on all sites after construction workers cited fears for their safety.", "Michael Gove won't be meeting EU officials face-to-face for a while\n\nA post-Brexit meeting between the EU and UK will go ahead as planned next week, despite the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMuch of Europe is on lockdown, so Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove will meet EU officials via video link.\n\nThe UK and EU's chief negotiators, David Frost and Michel Barnier are in self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nDowning Street insisted there would be \"no change\" to its timetable for getting a trade deal done.\n\nUnder the terms of its withdrawal agreement with the EU, the UK has until the end of the year - during which it will continue to follow most Brussels rules - to reach a deal.\n\nThe UK has ruled out any deadline extension. But European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned it will be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive deal within that timescale.\n\nSpeaking last month, Mr Gove threatened that the UK could walk away from talks in June if the two sides had not agreed the \"broad outline\" of terms by then.\n\nThe government also published a 30-page document outlining its priorities for negotiations,\n\nThe first meeting of the joint UK-EU committee, to discuss the implementation of the withdrawal agreement, is due to take place by video conference on Monday, with Mr Gove facing European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the talks would \"oversee the implementation, application and interpretation of the withdrawal agreement and will seek to resolve any issues that may arise from it\".\n\nMr Johnson announced on Friday that he had contracted coronavirus but was continuing to work in self-isolation.\n\nBrexit happened on 31 January after Mr Johnson's Conservatives won the general election by a landslide.\n\nThis ended more than three years of Parliamentary dispute and implemented the result of the 2016 referendum, in which 52% of UK voters chose not to stay in the EU.", "There are fears people who have fled their homes in the conflict will not be able to get medical help\n\nA separatist militia in Cameroon is to down its weapons for a fortnight so people can be tested for coronavirus.\n\nThe Southern Cameroons Defence Forces (Socadef) said its ceasefire would come into effect from Sunday as \"a gesture of goodwill\".\n\nIt is so far the only armed group among many operating in Cameroon's English-speaking regions to have heeded the UN's call for a global ceasefire.\n\nThe fighters say they are marginalised in the majority French-speaking nation.\n\nFor the three years, they have been fighting government forces in the Anglophone regions with the aim of creating a breakaway state called \"Ambazonia\".\n\nBut there is no indication that one of the biggest rebel group - Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) - is to follow suit and declare a ceasefire.\n\nChief mediator Alexandre Liebeskind, from the conflict resolution group Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, told the BBC that the ADF had refused to join the negotiations.\n\n\"They are the only group which refused to join the process,” he said.\n\nBut he added that he hoped other groups would follow Socadef's example.\n\nThe BBC's West Africa reporter Chi Chi Izundu says this move by one Anglophone separatist group will not bring the long and bloody conflict to an end, but could be a source of hope in otherwise dark times.\n\nFighting in the North-West and South-West regions has killed at least 3,000 people and forced more than 700,000 people from their homes, thousands fleeing across the border into Nigeria.\n\nMany displaced people could be in danger of contracting coronavirus and not receiving treatment.\n\nCameroon's health ministry has so far has confirmed 75 cases of the virus - and recorded its first death earlier this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameroon conflict: 'I would risk being shot to go home'\n\nMr Liebeskind says the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue is also appealing to militias elsewhere in Africa - in the Sahel and Central African Republic - in the hope it could allow a \"better response to the coronavirus\" as well as \"lead to some kind of politically negotiated solution\".\n\n“To do my job you need to be an optimist,\" says Mr Liebeskind.\n\n\"Sitting in Africa, I am particularly concerned because it's a fragile continent. The economic and social consequences [of coronavirus] could be devastating if it is not quickly contained.\"", "At 20:00 BST on Thursday, households across the UK stood on their doorsteps and balconies and applauded the efforts of the NHS and care workers in treating those affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe initiative was devised by Annemarie Plas, from Brixton, south-west London, who was inspired by same event happening in her home country of the Netherlands, and in many other countries.\n\nAnnemarie posted details of the event on her social media channels, and enthusiasm for taking part quickly spread across the UK.\n\n\"I hope that it creates a positive boost for those on the frontline,\" she said.\n\n\"But also [when] you hear your neighbours applauding you know that we are together in this, because we are currently all in our houses.\"\n\nThere was applause in Manchester, below.\n\nPeople cheered in Blackpool (above) and London (below).\n\nThere was support from Northampton.\n\nResidents in Glasgow (above) and Hove (below) showed their support.\n\nThe NHS staff at Royal Liverpool University Hospital heard the public's appreciation and also joined in the applause.\n\nBuildings around the UK were also lit in blue - the colour of the NHS logo - to pay tribute to the work of NHS staff, including Wembley Park Underground station, below.\n\nThe Kelpies in Falkirk, a metal sculpture of horse heads, was lit up in blue.\n\nThe arch at Wembley Stadium in London was an arc of blue - and the stadium has promised to repeat the tribute every evening during the crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nAll rough sleepers in England should be found a roof over their head by this weekend, ministers have said.\n\nLocal authorities have been urged to do all they can to \"get everyone in,\" in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour welcomed the move but said councils needed more money to achieve the goal.\n\nHomelessness charity Crisis also welcomed the commitment but said \"questions remained\" about how it would be achieved and paid for.\n\nIt said there needed to be an urgent national appeal for accommodation, including empty apartment blocks and hotels, to house the homeless.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it was \"redoubling its efforts\" to make sure everyone was \"inside and safe\".\n\nOn Friday afternoon the housing minister Luke Hall wrote to councils with details of how to implement the government's plans. These include:\n\nIn a separate letter to homelessness managers and rough sleeping coordinators in councils in England, the government's homelessness tsar Louise Casey called for action within the next 72 hours to protect rough sleepers from the virus.\n\n\"As you know, this is a public health emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"We are all redoubling our efforts to do what we possibly can at this stage to ensure that everybody is inside and safe by this weekend, and we stand with you in this.\n\n\"Many areas of the country have already been able to ’safe harbour’ their people which is incredible. What we need to do now though is work out how we can get ‘everyone in’.”\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary, John Healey, said the decision was the \"right move\".\n\nBut he added: \"Councils need support to do this.\n\n\"The government has pledged just £3.2m for this work which is simply not enough when local homelessness services have been cut by £1bn a year and lost 9,000 beds since 2010.\"\n\nHomeless charity Crisis said there must be extra funding to pay for the up-front costs of accommodating everyone currently on the streets and in shelters and for the specialist support people would need once uprooted.\n\nCrisis also called for restrictions on housing benefit to be lifted, which it said would allow councils to rehouse some migrants whose immigration status leaves them unable to access public funds.\n\nThe charity is also calling for an end to policies which it says perpetuate homelessness such as \"right to rent\" checks by private landlords.\n\n\"The government’s insistence that everyone sleeping rough should be housed by the weekend is a landmark moment – and the right thing to do,\" said the charity's chief executive, John Sparkes.\n\n“Questions remain about how local councils will be supported to do this, and whether additional funding, or assistance securing hotel rooms, will be made available.\n\n\"We also need to see a package of support so that, when the outbreak subsides, the outcome is not that people return to the streets.\"\n\nBut a spokesperson for the MHCLG said the effort was \"backed by £1.6bn of additional funding for councils to respond to pressures during this national emergency.\n\n\"This is a huge joint effort and we all need to come together - including councils, charities, health and care services, and accommodation providers - to protect rough sleepers from the virus and ensure councils have the support and crucially the accommodation they need to make this happen.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople around the UK have taken part in a \"Clap for Carers\" tribute, saluting NHS and care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Royal Family and the prime minister joined well-wishers who flocked to their balconies and windows to applaud.\n\nA message from the NHS on social media described the tribute as \"emotional\".\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters have agreed to drive ambulances, deliver supplies and help to move bodies if needed to aid the UK response to the pandemic.\n\nThere are about 48,000 firefighters and control staff in the UK - but hundreds are already self-isolating because of coronavirus, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said.\n\nThe union is calling for tests to be quickly made available to its members to retain safe staffing levels. Matt Wrack, head of the FBU, said the virus would be a \"huge challenge\", but firefighters were \"keen to do whatever they can\".\n\nOn Thursday, the number of coronavirus deaths in the UK jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time. The death toll has risen from 475 to 578, health officials said, with 11,658 confirmed cases.\n\nThe US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests.\n\nIn an Instagram message to mark the Clap for Carers event, the Queen said the country was \"enormously thankful\" to the people on the frontline of the UK's response to the virus, which causes the Covid-19 disease.\n\nShe said the UK was grateful \"for the expertise and commitment of our scientists, medical practitioners and emergency and public services\".\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\nAnd a video posted by Kensington Palace showed Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis clapping to thank all those healthcare staff \"working tirelessly\" to help those affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and their staff all separately joined in with a round of applause at Birkhall in Scotland.\n\nCharles, who has tested positive for coronavirus, and Camilla are isolating from each other and their small number of staff.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was joined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak outside 10 Downing Street as they took part in the national salute.\n\nThis family in Manchester were among households across the UK sharing the moment from their front doorsteps\n\nAn anaesthetist applauds her colleagues after finishing a 12-hour shift at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital\n\nThe Clap for Carers campaign, which started online, was staged because \"during these unprecedented times they need to know we are grateful\", according to the organisers.\n\nAt the same time, landmarks including Belfast City Hall, Principality Stadium in Cardiff and the London Eye were lit up as part of the #lightitblue salute.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs people all over the UK went to their doorsteps and windows to take part in the round of applause, a number of celebrities shared updates about how they were paying their respects to healthcare workers.\n\nActress Michelle Collins shared a video taken from outside her north London home showing people taking part in the salute.\n\nShe said that the tribute had \"made her cry\", adding: \"We love our NHS stay safe everyone emotional day.\"\n\nIn the video, she can be heard telling neighbours that they need \"a big street party when this is all over\".\n\nPeople clap from a block of flats opposite St Thomas' Hospital in London\n\nA resident across the road from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester joins in the national salute to healthcare workers\n\nTV presenter Ben Fogle shared a video of his family applauding health care workers in his living room next to a placard saying \"thank you NHS\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"We love you NHS. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStar Wars actor John Boyega said it was \"beautiful\" hearing his neighbours \"shout and clap for the NHS\".\n\nAnd BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James also praised the salute on Twitter.\n\nHe wrote: \"Oh my God that was properly brilliant wasn't it. Also, most brilliantly British thing ever bashing pots and pans.\n\n\"Extraordinary times can only be overcome with extraordinary acts of humanity.\"\n\nA big screen in Piccadilly Circus, central London, showed support for the NHS as the country-wide applaud took place\n\nThe Shard, the London Eye and Wembley Stadium (pictured) were among landmarks in the capital to mark the occasion\n\nThe national round of applause came after the unveiling of a support package from the government to give millions of self-employed people a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe money - up to a maximum of £2,500 a month - will be paid in a single lump sum, but will not begin to arrive until the start of June at the earliest.\n\nWage subsidies of 80% for salaried employees were announced last week.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said \"there are gaps\" however, with some self-employed people not included in the scheme.\n\n\"The big issue that has come from most of them is having to wait until June for payments,\" he said. \"Some are saying 'look we can't survive beyond the next few weeks'.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he understood people would be worried about paying their bills, adding that \"if we can do it faster, we will\".\n\nHe told BBC's Radio 4 Today programme the new measures were \"unprecedented\". \"We're effectively going to be building a new system to make sure we get support to people,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the digital secretary has urged social media users to do their bit in tackling coronavirus-related misinformation.\n\nCabinet minister Oliver Dowden said the public must \"remain absolutely vigilant to inaccurate stories\".", "Ralph Lauren is to start making medical masks and gowns - the latest designer brand to lend its support to the coronavirus fight.\n\nThe fashioner designer announced the shift in production through its charitable arm on Thursday.\n\nThe Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation will start making 250,000 masks and 25,000 isolation gowns in the US.\n\nOther fashion brands have also pledged to help make urgently needed medical wear.\n\nThe foundation is also donating $10m (£8.2m) towards the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. In the US the death toll has now risen above 1,000.\n\n\"At the heart of our company, there has always been a spirit of togetherness that inspires our creativity, our confidence and most importantly our support for one another. In the past weeks and months, that spirit has never wavered,\" said Ralph Lauren, executive chairman of the fashion brand.\n\nOther well-known retailers are also shifting production lines to manufacture face masks and gowns, while carmakers are looking at how they can help make ventilators.\n\nLuxury coat brand Canada Goose said it would begin making gowns to be donated to healthcare workers. The production will start at two of its previously closed Canadian manufacturing facilities next week, with the initial goal of producing scrubs and gowns.\n\n\"Across Canada, there are people risking their lives every day on the frontlines of Covid-19 in healthcare facilities, and they need help. Now is the time to put our manufacturing resources and capabilities to work for the greater good,\" said Dani Reiss, chief executive of Canada Goose.\n\nSan Francisco-based Gap said it would also use its factories to make protective gear while using its connections in the global supply chain to get protective masks and gowns.\n\nEarlier this month, LVMH, which owns the Louis Vuitton brand, said it would start making hand sanitiser in France.", "Many countries like India face a huge challenge during the virus epidemic\n\nMore than 30 million lives around the world could be saved during the coronavirus pandemic if countries act quickly, a report from Imperial College London researchers suggests.\n\nThe ideal strategy is to introduce widespread testing and strict social distancing measures rapidly.\n\nActing early could reduce mortality by as much as 95%, the report finds.\n\nBut lower-income countries are likely to face a much higher burden than wealthier nations.\n\nResearchers from Imperial College in London looked at the health impact of the pandemic in 202 countries using a number of different scenarios, and based their estimates on data from China and high-income countries.\n\nDoing nothing to combat the virus would leave the world facing around 40 million deaths this year, the report says.\n\nSocial distancing - to reduce the social contacts in the general population by 40% and among the elderly and vulnerable population by 60% - could bring this down by about half.\n\nBut health systems in all countries would still be quickly overwhelmed, the report adds\n\nIf countries adopt stricter measures early - such as testing, isolating cases and wider social distancing to prevent transmission to more people - 38.7 million lives could be saved.\n\nThis is equivalent to a 95% reduction in mortality.\n\nIf these measures are introduced later, the figure could drop to 30.7 million, the researchers estimate.\n\n\"Delays in implementing strategies to suppress transmission will lead to worse outcomes and fewer lives saved,\" they conclude.\n\nThe effects of the pandemic are likely to be most severe in developing countries,\n\nThere will be 25 times more patients needing critical care than beds available, compared to seven times more in high-income countries, the report says.\n\nThe researchers say their models are not predictions of what will happen. Instead they illustrate the magnitude of the problem and the benefits of acting quickly.\n\nThey say strategies to suppress the virus will need to be maintained in some way until vaccines or effective treatments become available to avoid the risk of another epidemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London and author of the report, said: \"Our research adds to the growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic poses a grave global public health threat.\n\n\"Countries need to act collectively to rapidly respond to this fast-growing epidemic.\n\n\"Sharing both resources and best practice is critically important if the potentially catastrophic impacts of the pandemic are to be prevented at a global level.\"\n\nBehind the careful phrasing and cold language of this study is a nightmare vision of what the pandemic could mean globally, especially to the poorest people on the planet.\n\nWith bigger households, including the older generations most at risk, and healthcare systems that are far more fragile than those in richer countries, the prospects for developing nations look grim.\n\nSpeaking to the scientists while they were preparing the report, it was clear that they were all too aware of the horrific implications of their work.\n\nOriginally, the study was meant to be released last week but as each day passed new data emerged which could be added to the model - the computer simulation of the outbreak - to make it more accurate.\n\nIt all leads to a stark conclusion: that as the virus spreads, only the most draconian measures will lessen the impact and that the countries least able to protect themselves will be among the hardest hit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video on Twitter, Boris Johnson says he is self-isolating and will continue to work from home.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Here is his statement in full:\n\nI want to bring you up to speed with something's that happening today, which is that I've developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus - that's to say, a temperature and a persistent cough.\n\nAnd on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer, I've taken a test that has come out positive, so I am working from home. I'm self-isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do.\n\nBut be in no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against coronavirus.\n\nAnd I want to thank everybody who's involved. I want to thank, of course, above all, our amazing NHS staff.\n\nIt was very moving last night to join in that national clap for the NHS. But it's not just the NHS; it's police, social care workers, teachers, everybody who works in schools, DWP staff.\n\nAn amazing national effort by the public services but also by every member of the British public who's volunteering - an incredible response.\n\nSix-hundred-thousand people have volunteered to take part in a great national effort to protect people from the consequences of coronavirus. I want to thank you.\n\nI want to thank everybody who's keen to keep our country going through this epidemic and we will get through it.\n\nAnd the way we're going to get through it is, of course, by applying the measures that you will have heard so much about - and the more effectively we all comply with those measures, the faster our country will come through this epidemic and the faster we'll bounce back.\n\nSo thank you to everybody who's doing what I'm doing, working from home to stop the spread of the virus from household to household. That's the way we're going to win.\n\nWe're going to beat it and we're going to beat it together.\n\nStay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.", "Punjab has 30 confirmed cases of the virus\n\nIndian authorities in the northern state of Punjab have quarantined around 40,000 residents from 20 villages following a Covid-19 outbreak linked to just one man.\n\nThe 70-year-old died of coronavirus - a fact found out only after his death.\n\nThe man, a preacher, had ignored advice to self quarantine after returning from a trip to Italy and Germany, officials told BBC Punjabi's Arvind Chhabra.\n\nIndia has 640 confirmed cases of the virus, of which 30 are in Punjab.\n\nHowever, experts worry that the real number of positive cases could be far higher. India has one of the lowest testing rates in the world, although efforts are under way to ramp up capacity.\n\nThere are fears that an outbreak in the country of 1.3 billion people could result in a catastrophe.\n\nThe man, identified as Baldev Singh, had visited a large gathering to celebrate the Sikh festival of Hola Mohalla shortly before he died.\n\nThe six-day festival attracts around 10,000 people every day.\n\nA week after his death, 19 of his relatives have tested positive.\n\n\"So far, we have been able to trace 550 people who came into direct contact with him and the number is growing. We have sealed 15 villages around the area he stayed,\" a senior official told the BBC.\n\nAnother five villages in an adjoining district have also been sealed.\n\nThis is not the first time that exposure has resulted in mass quarantining in India.\n\nIn Bhilwara, a textile city in the northern state of Rajasthan, there are fears that a group of doctors who were infected by a patient could have spread the disease to hundreds of people.\n\nSeven thousand people in villages neighbouring the city are under home quarantine.\n\nIndia has also declared a 21-day lockdown, although people are free to go out to buy essential items like food and medicine.", "Dr Habib Zaidi had worked as a GP in Leigh-on-Sea for more than 47 years\n\nThe family of a GP who died while being treated for suspected coronavirus say he sacrificed his life for his job.\n\nDr Habib Zaidi, 76, died in intensive care at Southend Hospital, Essex, 24 hours after being taken ill on Tuesday.\n\nHis daughter Dr Sarah Zaidi, also a GP, said he showed \"textbook symptoms\" of the virus.\n\nIf test results confirm he had Covid-19, he would be the first doctor in the UK to die after contracting the virus.\n\nDr Sarah Zaidi told the BBC: \"For that to be the thing that took him is too much to bear. It is reflective of his sacrifice. He had a vocational attitude to service.\n\nDr Sarah Zaidi said he showed \"textbook symptoms\" of the virus\n\n\"He was treated as a definitive case. There is little clinical doubt it is coronavirus, the test result is academic.\n\n\"He left a gaping hole in our hearts, but a loss that is also felt within the community that he devoted almost his entire life to.\n\n\"We are praying for the safety of everyone right now.\"\n\nA funeral held in south Essex was attended by only a handful of immediate family members, as per new government guidelines.\n\nDr Zaidi died in intensive care at Southend Hospital in Essex\n\nDr Zaidi, a GP in Leigh-on-Sea for more than 45 years, had been self-isolating and had not seen patients in person for about a week.\n\nHe was a managing partner of Eastwood Group Practice with his wife Dr Talat Zaidi.\n\nTheir four children all work in the medical profession.\n\nDr Zaidi's son is a haematologist consultant in London. His daughters are a trainee surgeon, a dentist and a GP.\n\nLeader of Southend Council, Ian Gilbert, said: \"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Zaidi. Dr Zaidi and his family are well known and well loved within the community.\"\n\nPatients and staff have been paying tribute to a \"well respected and loved GP\" on social media.\n\nOn Facebook, one patient said: \"A kinder more caring gentleman, doctor and friend you would be hard to find.\"\n\nTwo years ago Dr Zaidi won an excellence award from the NHS Southend Clinical Commissioning Group, which described him as a \"legend\" who was \"highly revered by staff and patients alike\".\n\nDr Zaidi's widow has gone into quarantine away from the rest of the family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People who've lost their jobs in retail and hospitality are being urged to consider becoming carers during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSocial Care Wales said there were \"urgent shortages\" of care workers to help elderly, children and vulnerable people during the pandemic.\n\nThere are already over 400 jobs advertised on a new website, aimed at attracting people out of work due to bars, pubs, shops and leisure centres being shut down.\n\nChief executive Sue Evans said carers were a \"lifeline for communities\" during the pandemic and many people had transferable skills to be able to work in the sector.\n\n\"We need more people with the right skills to help, right now,\" she said.", "Data collected via the NHS's 111 telephone service is to be mixed with other sources to help predict where ventilators, hospital beds, and medical staff will be most in need.\n\nThe goal is to help health chiefs model the consequences of moving resources to best tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThree US tech firms are aiding the effort - Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir - as well as London-based Faculty AI.\n\nThe plan is expected to be signed off by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"Every hospital is going to be thinking: Have we got enough ventilators? Well we need to keep ours because who knows what's going to happen - and that might not be the optimal allocation of ventilators,\" explained a source in one of the tech companies involved.\n\n\"Without a holistic understanding of how many we've got, where they are, who can use them, who is trained, where do we actually have patients who need them most urgently, we risk not making the optimal decisions.\"\n\nThe project is likely to give rise to privacy concerns.\n\nHowever, the NHS intends to make sure that all the data involved has been anonymised so that personal details cannot be tied back to any individual.\n\nAnd once the crisis is over, it is committed to destroying all the records.\n\nThe goal is to provide the NHS with interactive dashboards that pull together the disparate data it and its partners already hold.\n\nThis will involve using data about:\n\nThis in turn will allow decision-makers to:\n\nIn time, managers also hope to provide versions of the dashboards for public view.\n\nAmazon's AWS division is helping to provide the cloud computing resources required, while Palantir is providing its Foundry software to help draw all of the data sources together. The program was previously used by the US to help co-ordinate response efforts to Haiti's cholera outbreak after an earthquake in 2010.\n\nMicrosoft's cloud division Azure has built what has been termed a \"gigantic\" data store to aid the project.\n\nFaculty AI was previously known as ASI Data Science, and has previously worked with the Home Office to detect terrorist propaganda online.\n\n\"In the UK, you might be looking at things such as diagnostic results from tests, maybe 111 calls or people going online,\" the source told the BBC.\n\n\"In the short term, it is going to be more about situational awareness - where there may be emerging pressure.\n\n\"But then over time this will turn into more dynamic scenario planning. So you're able to simulate and ask: What if we redeployed our resources here? What would be the likely impact?\"\n\nThe source added that beyond trying to help the NHS cope with demand for coronavirus care, it could also help it reorganise the system to deal with other cases that need treatment during the crisis.\n\nThe companies became involved shortly after a meeting at 10 Downing Street hosted by Boris Johnson's advisor Dominic Cummings on 11 March, which was also attended by other tech firms.\n\nThe involvement of Palantir - one of tech's most secretive companies - will act as a red flag to some privacy campaigners.\n\nThe tech firm was co-founded by Peter Thiel, a billionaire who is a close confidante of US President Donald Trump. It has contracts with the Pentagon among other US government departments, and also has ties to the UK's cyber-spy agency GCHQ.\n\nBut its work helping the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency find undocumented workers has proven to be particularly controversial.\n\nThe company presents its products as being designed to safeguard people's privacy by limiting who can see what.\n\nAnd it blogged on the topic last week.\n\n\"We must not blindly accept the mantra of 'desperate times call for desperate measures', but instead forge solutions that can survive a return to normalcy and not fundamentally alter our societal values,\" wrote Courtney Bowman, Palantir's privacy and civil liberties engineering lead.\n\n\"Any exceptional measures must be clearly justified by the facts and conditions of the moment but, also, in enacting them, build in mechanisms for rolling them back after the crisis and soberly evaluating the extent to which they were necessary and how we can do better next time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSelf-employed workers can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus, the chancellor has announced.\n\nThe money - up to a maximum of £2,500 a month - will be paid in a single lump sum, but will not begin to arrive until the start of June at the earliest.\n\nRishi Sunak told the self-employed: \"You have not been forgotten.\"\n\nWage subsidies of 80% for salaried employees were announced last week.\n\nShortly after the chancellor spoke, the number of people in the UK who have died with Covid-19 - the disease caused by coronavirus - jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time.\n\nThe total now stands at 578.\n\nThe government had faced criticism for failing to provide support for self-employed and freelance workers in its earlier package of economic measures.\n\nMr Sunak said the steps taken so far were \"already making a difference\" but it was right to go further \"in the economic fight against the coronavirus\".\n\nThe scheme does not cover people who only became self-employed very recently - the chancellor said they would have to look to the benefits system for support.\n\nComing up with a workable scheme had been \"difficult\", he continued, because the self-employed were a \"diverse population\" and some of them earned a great deal.\n\nBut in all, the \"fair, targeted and deliverable\" plan would help 95% of people who earn most of their income via self-employment.\n\n\"We have not left you behind, we all stand together,\" he added.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick later told the BBC's Question Time that even where self-employed workers were unable to provide full financial records going back three years, the government was urging people to \"give us what they've got and we will work through it with HMRC to see if there's a way to support you\".\n\nThe Federation of Small Business, which represents many self-employed workers, welcomed the intervention, saying: \"Although the deal is not perfect, the government has moved a very long way today.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was worried the money would come \"too late for millions\".\n\n\"People need support in the coming days and fortnight... there is a real risk that without support until June the self-employed will feel they have to keep working, putting their own and others' health at risk.\"\n\nLabour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said the government had been too slow to recognise the severity of the crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says government has been \"too slow\"\n\nTorsten Bell, from think tank the Resolution Foundation, said the very significant package stood in \"stark contrast\" to the \"much less generous\" support being given to employees who lose their jobs or see their hours cut during the crisis.\n\nThe Coronavirus Self-Employment Income Support scheme is another extraordinary, multi-billion pound support, reflecting the brutal economic impact of a shutdown designed to keep the pandemic in check.\n\nIn recent days, Treasury ministers appeared to be trying to dampen down expectations, telling MPs it was problematic to establish a fair scheme, and the employee job retention scheme would be the logistical priority.\n\nThe government wants to set up the scheme to keep employed jobs as the priority first, so the banks will need to be relied on to support many of the self-employed with overdrafts to tide them over until the grant goes into their bank accounts in about 10 weeks' time.\n\nThe sting in the tail? The chancellor said he can no longer justify, after things get back to normal, that self-employed people pay less tax than the employed. But that is for another day.\n\nIn the UK, more than 11,600 people have now tested positive for coronavirus - although the actual number of cases is likely to be far higher.\n\nThe peak of demand for intensive care was expected to come in two to three weeks, but speaking alongside the chancellor at Thursday's briefing, England's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, refused to be drawn on any predictions.\n\nShe said the UK was \"only just starting to see a bite in the interventions - the social distancing - that have been put into place\", but things appeared to be \"starting to move in the right direction\".\n\nThe government has imposed strict controls on everyday life designed to slow the spread of the disease.", "Italian restaurant chain Carluccio's is facing collapse, after warning it was facing permanent branch closures due to the coronavirus.\n\nIt is currently working with administrators in a move that could threaten more than 2,000 jobs.\n\nBefore the outbreak it was hit by the crunch in the casual dining sector and recently urged the state to step in.\n\nAdministrator FRP said it was working with Carluccio's to \"consider all options\" for the restaurant's future.\n\nRestrictions aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic have recently forced all cafes and restaurants to close.\n\nBefore the government's pledge to pay 80% of those workers' salaries, Carluccio's Chief Executive Mark Jones told the BBC the firm \"was days away from large-scale closures\" without state aid.\n\n\"FRP is working with the directors of Carluccio's to consider all options for the company in the current climate,\" a spokesperson for the administrator said.\n\nCarluccio's has faced some difficult times in recent years, closing a third of its restaurants in 2018 as part of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) rescue plan.\n\nLike many in the casual dining sector, it has felt the brunt of a fall in consumer spending, combined with higher business rates, and increases in the National Living Wage.\n\nPrezzo and Byron also used CVAs to close restaurants while Jamie's Italian went into administration last year.\n\nThe chain was founded more than 20 years ago by celebrity chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, who died aged 80 in 2017.", "The latest US unemployment numbers were predicted to be catastrophic. The actual total, 3.3 million, turned out to be even worse than expected.\n\nThe record-breaking amount reflects a US economy put into deep-freeze almost overnight. The government-ordered shutdown hasn't just shuttered businesses temporarily, it has vaporised the jobs of millions of Americans - many of whom are the particularly vulnerable hourly service workers who live paycheque to paycheque.\n\nThe stock market free-fall and early reports of layoffs foreshadowed Thursday's grim news, prompting Congress to craft its largest-ever aid package, which passed the US Senate Wednesday night. The test now will be whether the multi-trillion-dollar relief will do enough, quickly enough, to staunch the bleeding.\n\nWhat's clear at this point, however, is the physical disease that is afflicting tens of thousands of Americans and growing will be accompanied by an economic ailment that adversely affects the lives of millions.\n\nLike Congress, the White House has also seen the coming economic tsunami - and what it could portend. Earlier this week, Donald Trump said he was anxious to reopen businesses and get Americans back to work, representing a shift of focus from earlier statements about doing everything possible to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe political reality for Trump is there will be very real consequences for his presidency not only if the US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount, but also if the US spirals into a deep recession.\n\nWhile this is uncharted territory, a nation in economic turmoil early in an election year is a serious threat to a president's political hopes. There are few more reliable indicators of ballot-box success or failure than the state of the economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen times are bad, financial hardship becomes a roar that drowns out all other concerns.\n\nFor the moment, the president has seen a modest rise in his public approval ratings, suggesting the possibility of a rally-around-the-leader effect, as Americans accept hardship in order to overcome an external threat.\n\nWhile there's been nothing quite like this in modern US history, past crises - such as the 1990 Gulf War and the 9/11 attacks - produced ever more marked surges in presidential support. In both cases, however, those numbers eventually dropped, whether due to the long grind of suffering or an economic downturn.\n\nGeorge W Bush's numbers after the attack on the World Trade Center and subsequent Iraq War held up long enough for him to win re-election. His father, George HW Bush, whose post-Gulf War glory quickly faded with the onset of a recession, was not so fortunate.\n\nTrump's call for the nation to get back to work has been echoed by other conservatives who are more bluntly suggesting that aggressive measures to save American lives may not be worth the extended economic distress they require.\n\nThe president's rhetoric sets up a potential conflict in the coming days with many governors, Republican and Democrat, who have the ultimate authority in their states and will be reluctant to ease the restrictions on their populations. The move might allow Trump to deflect some of the blame for the ongoing economic pain, however.\n\n\"You should have done it my way\" is a more politically defensible position than \"my way has caused you this pain, but it's worth it\".\n\nThere's also the possibility that some Trump-friendly governors might be inclined to side with the president, setting up sharp divides within the nation between some states that opt for an extended lockdown and others that ease their restrictions. For instance, the governor of Mississippi recently issued an order essentially limiting the ability of the state's local officials to impose their own business-closure orders.\n\nTrump has also lashed out at a familiar foe, the US press. In a Wednesday night tweet, he accused the \"lamestream media\" of pushing for businesses to remain closed as a way of undermining his re-election hopes.\n\n\"The real people want to get back to work ASAP,\" Trump wrote.\n\nIt's an indication that the coming general election campaign is very much on the president's mind.\n\nAlready the president's political opponents are sharpening their attacks, sensing a long-term vulnerability on his handling of the viral outbreak. Priorities USA Actions, a liberal group, has begun airing an advert using audio clips of Trump's early dismissiveness of the threat of the virus superimposed over a chart of the growing number of cases in the US.\n\nThe president's campaign has filed a cease-and-desist letter to remove the spot from the air, noting that one of the quotes suggests Trump called the virus a hoax, when in fact he was referring to media coverage of it.\n\nThe empty streets of New York tell their own story\n\nThere is ample evidence of the president downplaying the threat the virus posed in the early days of the outbreak, however. Whether or not the president's lawsuit is successful, if the medical and economic pain continues to grow, there will be similar adverts coming in the days ahead.\n\nThree million Americans without jobs - 3m Americans facing desperate times and open to desperate measures - has the potential to be a powerfully destabilising political force.\n\nCongress's aid package, with its one-time payments to individuals and expanded unemployment benefits, is aimed at ameliorating some of the economic pain and avoiding massive unrest.\n\nIf Thursday's job numbers is just the first wave of an economic onslaught, however, it may not nearly be enough. And the president seems to sense this.", "It is unclear whether the song heralds an album of new material from the star\n\nBob Dylan's first new song in eight years is a 17-minute rumination on the 1960s and the assassination of JFK.\n\n\"They blew out the brains of the king / Thousands were watching at home and saw the whole thing,\" he sings in the opening minutes of Murder Most Foul.\n\nBut the visceral account of President Kennedy's murder in 1963 gives way to a rumination on America and music.\n\nThe track arrived unannounced at midnight, with Dylan explaining it had been \"recorded a while back\".\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 BobDylanVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty over the years,\" said the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner in a statement.\n\n\"This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant, and may God be with you.\"\n\nHe gave no further clues about its vintage, but the delicate, almost conversational vocals are reminiscent of his more recent live shows.\n\nMusically, it's spacious and haunting, with a dusting of piano, a sorrowful violin, and slow, brushed percussion - and while interpreting the lyrics would require weeks of scholarship, two lines in particular suggest Dylan may have chosen to release the song now as a commentary on US politics.\n\n\"The day they killed him, someone said to me, 'Son, the age of the Antichrist has just only begun,'\" he sings around the nine-minute mark.\n\n\"I said, 'The soul of a nation's been torn away, and it's beginning to go into a slow decay.' And that it's 36 hours past judgement day.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as Kennedy's assassination, the song makes allusions to pop culture, from Nightmare on Elm Street and The Merchant of Venice to The Beatles' I Want To Hold Your Hand and even Billy Joel's Only The Good Die Young.\n\nThe last five minutes are almost a catalogue of his favourite music, referencing Stevie Nicks, Nat King Cole, The Eagles, Cole Porter's Anything Goes, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and jazz greats like Stan Getz and Charlie Parker.\n\nAccording to Dylanologists, Murder Most Foul is the longest song Dylan has ever released, with its running time of 16 minutes 57 seconds narrowly eclipsing 1997's Highlands, which ran to 16 minutes 31 seconds.\n\nIt's unclear whether the song is connected to a larger piece of work, but the 78-year-old hasn't released an album of original songs since 2012's Tempest.\n\nThat record's title track was also an extended song about a historical event, the sinking of the Titanic.\n\nSince then, Dylan has released three albums of covers, many of which were originally sung by Frank Sinatra - Shadows in the Night (2015), Fallen Angels (2016) and Triplicate (2017).\n\nHe has also released new editions of his ongoing Bootleg Series, collecting unreleased studio sessions from his career. The most recent volume focused on the years 1967-69 and his appearances on Johnny Cash's TV show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Madonna has paid tribute to Mark Blum, a co-star in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, after his death from coronavirus complications.\n\nThe US singer and actress remembered Blum, who played Gary Glass and died this week at the age of 69, as \"funny, warm, loving and professional\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to him, his family and his loved ones,” she wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by madonna 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\nBlum also appeared in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee, playing Paul Hogan’s love rival Richard.\n\nHis other credits included the 2003 film Shattered Glass and a role in The Good Wife that he reprised in its spin-off The Good Fight.\n\nIn recent years he had a recurring role in the Netflix series You.\n\nBlum's death was announced by Rebecca Damon, executive vice-president of the actors' union Sag-Aftra.\n\nShe remembered him as \"a gifted actor, a master teacher, a loyal friend and a beautiful human\".\n\nThe Playwright Horizons theatre group also paid tribute, calling Blum \"a dear longtime friend and a consummate artist\".\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\nIn Desperately Seeking Susan, one of Madonna's first films, Blum played the stuffy husband of Rosanna Arquette's bored housewife Roberta.\n\nWhen Roberta goes missing, Gary gets in contact with Madonna's Susan character and proceeds to smoke pot with her at his suburban home.\n\nArquette herself remembered Blum as \"a gentle man and a great actor to work with\".\n\nBlum's death follows that of playwright Terrence McNally, who died earlier this week from Covid-19 complications.\n• None The best and worst celebrity isolation videos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth workers on the frontline in England will start being tested this weekend to see if they have coronavirus, the government has said.\n\nTests will be rolled out to critical care doctors and nurses first followed by staff in emergency departments, paramedics and GPs.\n\nIt follows criticism from staff over a lack of testing. At present, only very ill patients are being tested.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the move was \"long overdue\".\n\nThe testing will be on staff with symptoms or on those who live with people that have symptoms.\n\nAt the daily news conference on the virus epidemic, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said antigen testing - which checks whether people currently have the disease - would give health and social care workers \"security in the knowledge that they are safe to return to work if their test is negative\".\n\nHe added: \"These tests will be trialled for people on the frontline starting immediately, with hundreds to take place by the end of the weekend - dramatically scaling up next week.\"\n\nThe total number of UK deaths from coronavirus has reached 759, with 14,543 confirmed cases.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said it was \"urgently important that we are able to test frontline workers who are off sick or otherwise isolating\".\n\nHe said that would mean the number of tests carried out doubling by the end of next week.\n\nAnd he indicated that testing would be widened out to cover more workers, including essential public service workers and social care workers, as capacity increased.\n\nTesting of patients was \"vital\" and would continue, Sir Simon added.\n\nIn Wales, frontline NHS staff are already being screened for the virus.\n\nThe first of three new laboratories is expected to start operating over the weekend and will initially process around 800 samples, the government said.\n\nThe two other labs are currently being set up and will be opening soon.\n\nThis is all being done with the help of universities, research institutes and companies such as Boots, which are lending their testing equipment for use in the labs.\n\nSamples from frontline health workers in coronavirus hotspots like London will be tested first.\n\nThe BMA's chairman, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, said the lack of testing so far had been \"incredibly frustrating\", and it was crucial that testing now be rolled out to all healthcare workers and their households urgently.\n\n\"For every healthy member of staff at home self-isolating needlessly when they do not have the virus, the NHS is short of someone who could be providing vital care to patients on the frontline,\" he said.\n\nSir Simon said NHS staff were pulling out all the stops to cope with the crisis but he said pressure on the NHS was only going to intensify over the coming weeks.", "Expectant fathers and partners of pregnant women have been banned from attending births at an Irish hospital because of coronavirus fears.\n\nMidlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, introduced the rule as part of visitor restrictions.\n\nThe hospital said the ban was being imposed to protect mothers; newborn babies; its staff and other patients.\n\nIt said it \"understands and apologises for any distress caused to both parents and birthing partners\".\n\nMany Irish hospitals have introduced strict limitations to visits in all types of wards in a bid to protect patients from exposure to the virus.\n\nSome general hospitals are limiting visits only to patients who are critically or terminally ill.\n\nBBC News NI asked the Health Service Executive (HSE), which runs Ireland's public health services, how many hospitals were banning expectant parents from labour wards.\n\nIts spokesperson said: \"Most hospitals are reporting they are only permitting a nominated partner/companion into labour ward. However, specific arrangements vary across hospitals.\"\n\nThe National Maternity Hospital in Dublin is allowing one visitor per patient and a nominated \"birth partner/support person\" is permitted to accompany pregnant women in a delivery ward.\n\nThe Coombe Women's and Infants University Hospital in Dublin will only allow visits by nominated partners of pregnant women and parents of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.\n\nThe Midlands Regional Hospital said \"exceptions will be made in outstanding circumstances\" to its ban on parents attending births.\n\n\"We hope that our visiting restrictions can be lifted as soon as possible,\" it added.\n\n\"We appreciate all the support and understanding the public have given the hospital during this very difficult time.\"", "The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has jumped by more than 100 in a day for the first time.\n\nThe death toll has risen from 475 to 578, health officials have confirmed, with 11,658 confirmed cases.\n\nThe latest figures came after Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled an aid programme to help the self-employed.\n\nPeople across the UK have taken part in a national applause of thanks for NHS workers and carers helping in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nThe Queen said the UK was \"enormously thankful\" for the commitment of all those working in science, health and the emergency and public services.\n\nIn a message on Instagram, she said: \"We are enormously thankful for the expertise and commitment of our scientists, medical practitioners and emergency and public services.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThursday saw a change in the way NHS England and the Department of Health are reporting deaths.\n\nThe latest figures are for a 24-hour period, but Wednesday's were not - they were only for eight hours - from 0900 to 1700 on Tuesday 24 March.\n\nThursday's figures are for a full 24-hour period, from 1700 on Tuesday 24 March to 1700 on Wednesday 25 March.\n\nSo Wednesday's rise of 28 reported deaths and the 107 reported deaths on Thursday cannot be directly compared.\n\nEarlier, a senior hospital figure warned that London hospitals are facing a \"tsunami\" of coronavirus cases and are beginning to run out of intensive care beds.\n\nChris Hopson of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said while critical care capacity had been expanded hospitals in the capital had seen an \"explosion\" in demand.\n\nA third of the UK cases have been diagnosed in the city.\n\nMeanwhile, in a further development, data collected via the NHS's 111 telephone service is to be mixed with other sources to help predict where ventilators, hospital beds and medical staff will be most in need.\n\nThe goal is to help health chiefs model the consequences of moving resources to best tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\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\nMinisters are being urged to step up testing for coronavirus, especially among health workers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries was asked on Thursday why the UK did not order testing kits sooner.\n\nShe said that \"this is not an issue of a lack of foresight in planning, it is an unprecedented event\".\n\nDr Harries added that \"it is a brand new virus, so even to understand how you might test it you need to have the virus and understand a little bit about it before you can start\".\n\nIt was just a brief moment in the daily press briefing, but deputy chief medical officer for England Dr Jenny Harries did offer some positive news.\n\nShe said the coronavirus outbreak was \"starting to move in the right direction\".\n\nOther countries who have been on a steep curve have seen the number of new cases rise by a third every day.\n\nBut the UK trajectory is nowhere near that steep.\n\nFive days ago 1,000 new cases were reported. On Thursday 2,000 were.\n\nThat may seem alarming, but if we had been on a steep upwards path today's figures would have been twice as high. It suggests some of the early social distancing measures taken before the lockdown have maybe started to have an impact.\n\nWe should be cautious. It is only a few days' worth of data - and Dr Harries was clear we must not take \"our foot off the pedal\".\n\nAnnouncing his help for the self-employed, the chancellor said the steps the government had taken so far were \"making a difference\" but it was right to go further \"in the economic fight against the coronavirus\".", "Guidance for health workers on personal protective equipment is expected to be updated within two days, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere have been calls for greater clarity on PPE as frontline staff deal with coronavirus.\n\nThe NHS Confederation says staff feel \"at risk\" of contracting Covid-19 unless they wear PPE for all patients.\n\nDocuments also show NHS Supply Chain \"hasn't been able to manage\" delivery of the items, such as masks, to them.\n\nThe Department of Health has not yet confirmed the guidance will be updated.\n\nBut the prime minister said on Wednesday that he had been \"assured\" stocks of PPE were on the way to NHS staff, and the Army had distributed 7.5 million pieces of equipment in 24 hours.\n\nHealth authorities across the UK say PPE - which also includes items such as gloves and gowns - should only be worn if patients have suspected symptoms or have been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nTwo GPs who say they have coronavirus symptoms have told the BBC they believe they contracted the virus while seeing patients.\n\nDr Claire Taylor, is self isolating at home with shortness of breath, a cough and a fever.\n\n\"I saw patients that were not seen as high risk and yet I've picked up Covid,\" she said.\n\n\"We need all medical professionals to be given proper personal protection when they're face-to-face with any patient. I feel very strongly about this.\"\n\nDr Claire Taylor believes she contracted coronavirus while working at her GP surgery\n\nOne GP recently treated a man with a head injury at her north London practice \"who appeared to be intoxicated, and was bleeding from his head\". She said he had no cough and no fever and was sent to hospital.\n\nHe later tested positive for the coronavirus. The GP now has symptoms but has not been tested herself.\n\nMany frontline staff are \"really, really scared\", according to Ruth Rankine, director of primary care at NHS Confederation, the body representing health service trusts.\n\n\"When they go in and see a patient... even though they're not displaying symptoms, they may still have the virus\", she said.\n\n\"We are seeing increasing numbers of primary care workforce going off sick as a result.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) wrote to Health Secretary Matt Hancock to ask if GPs should wear it for all face-to-face consultations.\n\nIt said patients with the virus but no symptoms could still infect staff.\n\nThe BBC has obtained documents showing the guidance on PPE is expected to be updated.", "A man is auctioning what he has dubbed \"the last Big Mac of 2020\" to raise money for the NHS.\n\nBurger lovers from across the UK made a dash for the drive-thru on Monday after a temporary closure of the 1,270 Golden Arches outlets was announced.\n\nThe fast food fanatic, from Wallingford, who asked to remain anonymous, said it was a \"fun way\" of raising money to \"thank all the amazing staff who are working tirelessly\" during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe burger is not meant to be eaten Image caption: The burger is not meant to be eaten\n\nHe said: \"I hope the people bidding on the burger aren't seeing the listing as buying memorabilia or dinner, but instead as a fun way to donate to a cause that is in desperate need.\"\n\nHe hopes to raise a super-sized £1,000 by the time bidding ends on 2 April.", "This video can not be played.", "Sir Simon Stevens announced the news at the daily briefing\n\nTwo new temporary hospitals will be set up to help cope with the coronavirus crisis, the head of the NHS in England has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said the new hospitals will be built at Birmingham's NEC and the Manchester conference centre and will be ready next month.\n\nA hospital being set up in London's ExCeL centre will be available for use next week, it was announced.\n\nSir Simon told a daily news briefing \"further such hospitals\" would follow.\n\nThe BBC has seen an internal Ministry of Defence document giving more details about military plans to build the temporary hospitals.\n\nListed as phase one, London's ExCeL centre in the capital's docklands will have capacity of between 4,000 and 5,000 beds and will open next week.\n\nPhase two is a temporary hospital for England and Wales at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, with a capacity for 5,000 beds, and will open in mid-April.\n\nThe third phase is a 1,000-bed facility at the Manchester Central Conference Centre (formerly the GMEX Centre) and will also open in mid-April.\n\nSir Steven said the \"NHS is making an extraordinary effort\" to ensure there is care for the \"patients who need looking after\".\n\n\"As of today across England, we have reconfigured hospital services so that 33,000 hospital beds are available to treat further coronavrius patients.\n\n\"It is also why we are taking the extraordinary action to build new hospitals in very short order, starting with the NHS Nightingale hospital in east London.\"\n\nHe said because this was a problem \"not confined to London\", but across the whole country, \"I have given the go-ahead to the building of two further NHS Nightingale hospitals... with further such hospitals to follow.\"\n\nManchester's Central Conference Centre will also be turned into a hospital\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government says a communications mix-up meant it missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to get extra ventilators for the coronavirus crisis.\n\nMinisters were earlier accused of putting Brexit before public health when Downing Street said the UK had decided to pursue its own scheme.\n\nBut No 10 now says officials did not get emails inviting the UK to join and it could join future schemes.\n\nLabour is demanding to know why the government had changed its message.\n\nThe party's shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Given the huge need for PPE, testing capacity and crucial medical equipment including ventilators, people will want to know why on Monday ministers were saying they had 'chosen other routes' over the joint EU procurement initiatives but now they are claiming that they missed the relevant emails.\n\n\"We need an urgent explanation from ministers about how they will get crucial supplies to the frontline as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nHe has said the UK \"should be co-operating through international schemes to ensure we get these desperately needed pieces of kit\".\n\nThe EU has said the UK can take part in the procurement project, which will use the EU's buying power to purchase more stock, even though it is no longer a member of the bloc.\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, Downing Street said the UK would not be joining the scheme because \"we are no longer members of the EU\".\n\nThe spokesman added: “We are conducting our own work on ventilators and we’ve had a very strong response from business, and we’ve also procured ventilators from the private sector in the UK and from international manufacturers.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman denied the decision was motivated by Brexit, adding: \"This is an area where we’re making our own efforts.”\n\nThe government faced a backlash from opposition MPs following the statement, with Liberal Democrat Layla Moran accusing the prime minister of putting \"Brexit over breathing\".\n\nDowning Street has now issued a statement saying the UK had missed the deadline for the first round of procurements.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As the (European) Commission has confirmed, we are eligible to participate in joint procurements during the transition period, following our departure from the EU earlier this year.\n\n\"As those four initial procurement schemes had already gone out to tender we were unable to take part in these, but we will consider participating in future procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time.\"\n\nThe UK currently has 8,000 ventilators available and has placed orders for another 8,000 from existing manufacturers, but there are concerns about capacity in hospitals as the spread of the virus worsens.\n\nLast week, the government put out a call for other British businesses to convert their factories to make the equipment, and has since signed a contract for 10,000 ventilators with Dyson.\n\nBut Boris Johnson's spokesman confirmed the ventilators still needed to go through standards checks and would not be bought and distributed until that happened.\n\nThe EU scheme will use the bloc's joint procurement agreement, which helps member states get the medical supplies it needs to tackle cross-border pandemics.\n\nIt has also created a stockpile of medical equipment - 90% of it financed by the European Commission - to help EU countries.", "There is enough data to be confident in the observed changes\n\nNew data confirms the improvement in air quality over Europe - a byproduct of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe maps on this page track changes in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - a pollutant that comes principally from the use of fossil fuels.\n\nLockdown policies and the resulting reductions in economic activity have seen emissions take a steep dive.\n\nThe maps were produced by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).\n\nThe Dutch met office leads the Tropomi instrument on the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, which monitors a number of atmospheric gases, including NO2.\n\nThe comparisons being made are for concentrations in the air from 14 to 25 March with the monthly average of concentrations for March 2019.\n\nHow France was looking a year ago\n\nYou typically have to take a 10-day average to get a good snapshot, says Dr Henk Eskes from KNMI: \"You can't just use one day of data,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"There's a lot of variability in NO2 from day to day. And that's real variability; it's not a measurement artefact, but it's just due to changes in the weather. So when the wind direction changes, or the wind speed changes, or the stability of the boundary layer changes - you will get different readings.\"\n\nCombining data for the 10 days irons out much of this variability, enabling us to see the impact of changes due to human activity.\n\nSentinel-5P (S5P) maps have previously been released of China and Italy. The new one of Italy on this page again shows the marked reductions in the north of country where the Covid-19 outbreak has been at its most severe.\n\nBut there are also new maps here of France, Spain and Portugal.\n\nOther countries in northern Europe are being closely monitored, including the Netherlands and the UK - but the KNMI scientists have observed a larger variability owing to changing weather conditions.\n\nThe time period to see the dip in concentrations in the UK is also quite short. Britain went into lockdown after some of its Western European neighbours.\n\nNew measurements from this week will help to assess the changes in nitrogen dioxide over the UK.\n\nItaly's northern powerhouse as it looked last year\n\nSentinel-5P is part of the EU's Copernicus fleet of Earth observers, which are managed by the European Space Agency.\n\nBuilt by Airbus in Britain, S5P was launched in October 2017.\n\nIt carries just the single instrument - Tropomi. This is a spectrometer that observes the reflected sunlight coming up off the Earth, analysing its many different colours.\n\nIn so doing, it can detect the presence in the atmosphere of a suite of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols (small droplets and particles).\n\nScientists will combine S5P's data with a suite of atmospheric and transport models to fully understand the observations.\n\n\"For China, I think we have now very solid results, and that's in part because we have a long period already. And we have first indications of a recovery as people in China are starting to go back to work. We will closely follow the development to see if NO2 concentrations will return to pre-coronavirus levels,\" Dr Eske told BBC News.\n\nHow Spain and Portugal were looking this time last year\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Whether it's \"catching a cold\" or \"contagion\", chancellors have long used virology as an analogy to describe the impact of external events on our economy.\n\nThis time, at this moment, the virus and its impact is very real. In his first Budget, Rishi Sunak must swap his famous red Budget box for a medical kit of parts to vaccinate the economy from coronavirus.\n\nThere was no Budget in 2019 and it is difficult to convey just how extraordinary this first Budget of 2020 will be.\n\nEven a fortnight ago, the plan was a Budget to launch a parliament of post-Brexit renewal. A significant shift in economic policy and primarily in tax-and-spend - fiscal policy - in order to provide a detailed long-term plan for infrastructure investment across the nation.\n\nNow the focus is firmly on the short-term economic and health challenge of coronavirus.\n\nFirstly, the numbers in the Office for Budget Responsibility's fiscal report are already out-of-date before the document is even published.\n\nThis is no fault of the authorities. Rarely can growth, borrowing, oil price, stock market and government borrowing cost forecasts have changed so rapidly and so close to a Budget event.\n\nCoronavirus economics will be dealt with in a separate box, but the substance of the forecast is the world as it was a fortnight ago, rather than the one the chancellor faces on Wednesday. The numbers in the OBR book will represent a measure of normality, an aim, perhaps even a best-case scenario.\n\nThere will be an assessment of the potential impact on the economy. The OECD says there will be a 0.2% hit just from the global growth slowdown. As that gets higher, so will the justification for considerable firepower to keep the economy turning through a virus containment pause.\n\nThe response will need to be calibrated to the degree of disruption, but I expect the chancellor to outline the thinking behind the economic support: that however bad the virus gets here, and however much the economic cost of dealing with it, it will be temporary, and viable businesses should be given a bridge to the other side that helps them keep their employees, helps their cash flow, and enables them to thrive when things return to normal.\n\nThe plan needs to be comprehensive: hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.\n\nSo expect significant funding for the health system, help for companies dealing with prolonged sickness absence, and joint guarantees with the Bank of England for banks to keep lending and extend overdrafts to people and to business.\n\nThe Treasury always ponders some forms of cut to VAT at times like this, because it's \"timely, temporary and targeted\" - the quickest way to inject cash into people's wallets. But the answer may equally come in the way in which retailers pay their VAT. Either way, public spending will be higher and tax receipts lower.\n\nThe Treasury does not want to lose sight of the medium and long term, however. It had already been decided that this Budget should be seen as part of a trilogy of \"fiscal events\" to deliver the government's \"levelling up\" agenda: this Budget, the Autumn Budget and a Comprehensive Spending Review of departmental spending.\n\nCoronavirus has put paid to austerity in the short term\n\nIn fact, make that a four-parter. As I reported last week, the detailed plan on capital spending, the National Infrastructure Review, will be delayed for a month or two, to provide the chancellor a chance to review it, particularly as regards net zero commitments.\n\nThat is a difference that has emerged because of the change of chancellor. Sajid Javid was ready to publish this week. What we will get instead is the start of a process on infrastructure.\n\nThere will be some early allocations of capital investment. There will be the start of a review of the investment appraisal methodology, the Green Book, which many feel overly favours investment in London.\n\nBut we will also get an overall envelope on capital investment, showing the highest sustained capital investment since the 1970s, and above the long-run post-war investment average of 2.7% of GDP.\n\nIt will also be above not just the average, but peak net investment under New Labour. This is a huge amount of money.\n\nThe signal from government borrowing markets is that they want governments with space to spend, to do so. But it was clear that under Sajid Javid's fiscal rules, the 3% number was seen as a limit on investment, a maximum, rather than a target. If confirmed, that does appear to be more spending than planned by his predecessor.\n\nIt will be couched in terms of short-term stimulus and medium and long-term \"levelling up\". On the latter, however, it is the start of a process that will last a few months more yet and might also be complicated by the coronavirus.\n\nThe main political point here will be to deliver, line by line, on the winning Conservative manifesto, especially for the \"borrowed votes\" in the Red Wall.\n\nIndeed, I'm told that immediately after being appointed to Number 11, the new chancellor was advised to delay the Budget, but spent the weekend looking at what was required and decided to push ahead.\n\nIt will be a personal challenge. Any inhabitant of Number 11 needs to assert control of the public finances, to convince markets of their credibility.\n\nThe coronavirus means that departing from fiscal rules outlined by his predecessor just four months ago is less controversial than it was.\n\nThe election ended the need for austerity long-term. Coronavirus means the opposite of austerity short-term too.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham Hotspur's Champions League campaign came to an end as they were well beaten by RB Leipzig in the last 16.\n\nThe German club - who were only formed 10 years ago - led 1-0 from the first leg in London and Marcel Sabitzer's double at the Red Bull Arena put Leipzig in control.\n\nSpurs keeper Hugo Lloris should have done better for both goals - getting a hand to both the Leipzig captain's 20-yard shot and near-post header.\n\nEmil Forsberg scored with his first touch after coming off the bench to give Leipzig a 4-0 aggregate win.\n\nInjury-hit Spurs never looked capable of mounting a comeback like the one against Ajax last season which took them to the final and will now finish the season without a trophy again.\n\nJose Mourinho's side - who have not won in six games in all competitions - will need to find some form if they are to be back in this tournament at all next season. They are seven points behind the top four in the Premier League.\n\nSpurs manager Mourinho was once considered one of the Champions League's top managers - winning in 2004 with Porto and 2010 with Inter Milan.\n\nBut the Portuguese has now failed to win any of his eight Champions League knockout games since 2014.\n\nThe stats do not make good reading. This was his heaviest ever Champions League aggregate defeat and it is the first six-game winless run of his 935-game managerial career.\n\nHe rightly bemoans their injury list, with Steven Bergwijn joining Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and Moussa Sissoko out of action - but they should still be doing better.\n\nLeipzig appeared hungrier, first to every ball, especially in the first half when the damage was done. Their two wing-backs had the beating of their opposite numbers, with Angelino, who looked ordinary in the first half of this season for Manchester City, causing Serge Aurier so many problems.\n\nIn the centre Timo Werner - who scored the only goal of the first leg three weeks ago - was having the time of his life up against Eric Dier.\n\nSpurs did start well and Sabitzer's opener was against the run of play. Werner's shot was blocked and then he squared the ball to the midfielder to blast home from outside the box. Lloris could not keep the ball out despite getting a touch.\n\nDefensive solidity was once Mourinho's forte but his side have kept just three clean sheets in 26 matches since he replaced Mauricio Pochettino in November.\n\nThey were lucky not to be further behind when Werner tapped home Angelino's cross - but the offside flag correctly went up.\n\nBut the game was done when Aurier failed to deal with a long ball and Angelino crossed for Sabitzer to head past Lloris, who again touched the ball but let it through.\n\nLeipzig continued to have chances, with Werner forcing a save and then shooting over the bar before Dier's attempted clearance from Patrik Schick almost went into the Spurs net.\n\nThey had three shots on goal but Giovani lo Celso, Dele Alli and Gedson Fernandes' efforts all resulted in routine saves.\n\nThings did not get as bad in the second half as they could have, until Forsberg popped up to lash home a loose ball seconds after coming off the bench.\n\nLeipzig's unique history - or lack of it - makes the honour of greatest moment in their history a bit more achievable.\n\nSince being founded by energy drinks giant Red Bull in 2009 they have won four promotions and played in one German Cup final. But this was their first ever Champions League knockout tie.\n\nThey beat last year's finalists 4-0 on aggregate - and they deserved every bit of that victory.\n\nTheir highly rated manager Julian Nagelsmann - once nicknamed Baby Mourinho - is the youngest person to manage in a Champions League knockout tie. He is now the youngest to win one too.\n\nThey have built a good squad on reasonably little money - by Champions League quarter-final standards - and Austrian Sabitzer was the difference with his two goals.\n\nLeipzig have strength in depth too - imposing centre-back Dayot Upamecano missed the first leg but was excellent this time - and they could even bring on Sweden forward Forsberg in the 87th minute for Sabitzer to add the fourth overall.\n\nThat made them the only team to ever take a 3-0 lead against Mourinho in the Champions League.\n\nNagelsmann's side, five points off top in the Bundesliga, have to wait until Friday, 20 March to discover their quarter-final opponents.\n• None Read more about Leipzig's rise here\n\n'It's OK, I'm happy with 3-0' - what they said\n\nRB Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann to BT Sport: \"It was a great moment for the history of the club and for me as a manager. It's totally deserved we go to the next round. We had control of both games, scored four goals and conceded none.\n\n\"Perfection is difficult in soccer because you'll always make mistakes. But we had control of both legs. Our control was a bit better in the first game.\n\n\"We were a bit lazy in the first 10 minutes of the second half but we got more powerful after that. If we pushed a little bit more we could have scored more goals. But it's OK, I'm happy with 3-0.\n\n\"It's good if you have a young team who have a lot of self-confidence.\"\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho: \"We all believed but we know that in this moment it's very difficult. They are a very strong side.\n\n\"It's hard for us to score at the moment. Our first couple of mistakes they score and then it's very difficult. Their physicality is incredible, their defenders win the duels, they stop the game. They are very fast in attack. They can hurt us all of the time, they deserve to go through.\n\n\"We made mistakes, mistakes that we have analysed in previous matches.\"\n• None Spurs suffered a European knockout defeat by four or more goals on aggregate for only the third time, previously losing 5-0 on aggregate to Real Madrid in the 2010-11 Champions League and 5-1 to Borussia Dortmund in the 2015-16 Europa League.\n• None This was Mourinho's joint-heaviest Champions League defeat, equalling the 4-1 loss he suffered with Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund in April 2013.\n• None Mourinho has suffered three consecutive Champions League defeats for the first time.\n• None Only Aston Villa (42) have conceded more goals among Premier League clubs in all competitions than Spurs (38) since Mourinho's first game in charge.\n• None Leipzig's Sabitzer has been directly involved in eight goals in his last 10 Champions League appearances (four goals, four assists).\n• None Spurs lost all four of their Champions League games this season against German opponents (two against Bayern Munich, two against RB Leipzig) - the only team to lose more games against teams from a single nation in a season were Leeds United in 2000-01, losing five against Spanish opposition.\n• None Leipzig are the seventh German team to reach the Champions League last eight - after Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Kaiserslautern, Schalke and Wolfsburg.\n\nSpurs face a huge game on Sunday at home to Mourinho's old side - and more importantly, their Champions League qualification rivals - Manchester United.\n\nLeipzig host Freiburg on Saturday in the Bundesliga.\n• None Attempt saved. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Konrad Laimer.\n• None Attempt saved. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! RB Leipzig 3, Tottenham Hotspur 0. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, RB Leipzig. Marcel Sabitzer tries a through ball, but Patrik Schick is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dayot Upamecano (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lukas Klostermann with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has announced that the government is scrapping business rates for small venues and shops this year.\n\nIn his Budget speech, he said other venues, such as bed and breakfasts, gyms and leisure centres, all below a value of £51,000 would pay no business rates.\n\nHe said the measure would save each business around £21,000.\n\nUK viewers can watch Politics Live for 30 days from transmission", "Google's parent company Alphabet has asked its North American staff to work from home to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus.\n\nLast week the tech giant sent a memo to staff recommending that employees in Washington state work from home.\n\nIt has now expanded that request to all of its almost 100,000 workers across 11 office in the US and Canada.\n\nAlphabet is the latest company to make such an announcement as US coronavirus cases have risen to almost 1,000.\n\n\"Out of an abundance of caution, and for the protection of Alphabet and the broader community, we now recommend you work from home if your role allows,\" Chris Rackow, Google's vice president of global security, wrote in an email to workers.\n\nAlphabet said its offices in North America will remain open for those whose jobs require them to come in.\n\nLast week, Google, along with many of the world's other major tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, began recommending that staff in Seattle should work from home as the coronavirus spreads in Washington state.\n\nThe state had more than 160 cases as of Monday night. California and New York, where Alphabet has large offices, are also experiencing spikes in the number of cases.\n\nAn employee at Amazon and an employee at Facebook have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.\n\nOn Sunday, Apple chief executive Tim Cook asked employees at several of its global offices to work remotely this week \"if your job allows\".\n\nLast week Twitter told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the virus. In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely.\n\nTwitter also said it was \"strongly encouraging\" all of its 5,000 employees around the world to not to go into their offices.\n\nIn other moves to combat coronavirus, Google has:", "Tens of thousands of England's retail, leisure and hospitality firms will not pay any business rates in the coming year, the chancellor has announced.\n\nCompanies with a rateable value of less than £51,000 will be eligible for the tax holiday, Rishi Sunak said.\n\nThe measure applies to firms including shops, cinemas, restaurants and hotels.\n\nIt is part of a package of \"extraordinary\" measures to support the UK economy in the face of disruption from the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"That is a tax cut worth over £1bn, saving each business up to £25,000,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nBusiness rates are a tax on properties that are used for commercial purposes, and are charged based on an estimate of what it would cost to rent the property on the open market: the \"rateable value\".\n\nMr Sunak described the business rates holiday as an \"exceptional step\" that would benefit museums, art galleries, theatres, caravan parks, gyms, small hotels, sports clubs and night clubs, all of whom will be hard hit if customers stay away to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak said the policy would help businesses deal with impact of coronavirus\n\nThe chancellor said the business rates system as a whole would be reviewed, with the conclusions published in the autumn. Firms in England have campaigned for several years for the system to be reformed, arguing it makes it hard for bricks and mortar retailers to compete with online rivals.\n\nBusiness rates in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are set by the devolved administrations.\n\nThe head of retail and consumer at Pinsent Masons, Tom Leman, said the announcement would be \"extremely welcome news\" for small businesses.\n\n\"On the basis the coronavirus is not a long-term issue for these businesses, it is crucial that they have the liquidity to see them through the worst.\n\n\"This will definitely help the cause and hopefully see many of them come out the other side ready to benefit from the increased spending power prompted by the money people are currently saving on their discretionary spend.\"\n\nHowever, some small businesses said the move would not help them. Biju Bubble Tea, based in Soho in London, tweeted that it was suffering the impact of fears around the virus, but would not qualify for relief.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Biju Bubble Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Biju Bubble Tea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLarger retail and leisure chains are unlikely to benefit from the rates holiday. State aid rules include a cap on the amount of tax relief a business can claim over three years. Most large firms will have already reached the limit as a result of rates relief provided in previous years.\n\nAs expected, Mr Sunak scrapped a planned cut to corporation tax. The rate of the tax will remain at 19% rather than falling to 17%.\n\nAnother change that was widely anticipated was a cut to Entrepreneurs' Tax Relief. Business owners who sell their firms on were entitled to tax relief on profits of up to £10m over their lifetime. The tax relief has been scaled back rather than abolished, with the lifetime limit reduced to £1m.\n\nThis was two Budgets in one: a core Budget with big borrowing and spending plans for the years ahead and an emergency coronavirus Budget.\n\nAlthough it's primarily a health emergency, the next few weeks and months could be a life-or-death moment for many small businesses who are dealing with the virus - and more importantly, the response to it.\n\nBusiness rates relief for small firms, an offer to give firms more time to pay tax, and cash grants of £3,000 to virus-affected small firms will be welcomed. But many will feel the criteria are too prescriptive and a more general hardship fund would have been more appropriate for a situation where the impacts are hard to predict.\n\nYet perhaps more important was the messaging that the government wants to unlock the potential of business. That is a warmer tone to the private sector than the one business has been used to.\n\nThe government has acknowledged that business faces financial distress on top of the Brexit preparation that could substantially add to the cost and administrative burden that firms will face at the end of this year.\n\nMike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses said the chancellor's measures would help reinject optimism into business.\n\n\"We're already seeing supply chains disrupted and footfall hurt due to the spread of coronavirus. Against this backdrop, the chancellor's commitments to making more small business finance available, deferring tax bills, reducing business rates and setting up a hardship fund for the vulnerable - including the self-employed who cannot claim SSP - are all absolutely critical,\" he said.\n\n\"The priority at this point needs to be ensuring that these support mechanisms reach the small firms that need them as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nHowever, larger businesses would feel left out in the cold, analysts said.\n\n\"There is nothing in the Budget that tackles the issues of the larger businesses - and these are the ones shedding the jobs,\" said John Webber of property firm Colliers. \"We are now destined to see more shop closures and job losses in the High Street in the months ahead.\"\n\nJerry Schurder, at real estate advisors Gerald Eve, said larger retailers and small firms outside the retail and leisure sectors would still face \"huge challenges\" from the coronavirus outbreak but were \"being left to rot by the Treasury\".", "Emiliano Sala signed for Cardiff City just two days before he was killed in the plane crash\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of footballer Emiliano Sala will face no further action.\n\nThe Argentine striker, 28, was killed in a plane crash along with pilot David Ibbotson just two days after signing for Cardiff City in January 2019.\n\nThe force said it would \"not be seeking a formal charging decision by the CPS in relation to homicide offences\".\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter said: \"We have carried out a detailed examination into the circumstances of Mr Sala's death, this has been a complex investigation involving the examination of a large amount of evidence and in liaison with a range of organisations.\n\n\"An investigation into the operation of the flight continues and this is being led by the CAA and therefore it would be inappropriate for us to make any further comment at this time.\"\n\nHe said Sala's family had been updated about the decision.\n\nDavid Ibbotson's body has not been found\n\nSala was travelling from Nantes to Cardiff on 21 January 2019 when the single-engine Piper Malibu N264DB aircraft he was travelling in lost contact with air traffic control north of Guernsey.\n\nHis body was recovered in February 2019 but the body of Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, has not been found.\n\nThe footballer was signed by Cardiff City for £15m, but never played for the club.\n\nHis death sparked a row between the Bluebirds and his former club Nantes over whether the transfer fee should be paid.\n\nLast month, the deadline for Cardiff City to pay its first instalment of the transfer fee was extended until 27 February.\n\nThree months after Sala was killed, his father Horacio Sala, who had been critical of his son's treatment, died at the age of 58 after having a heart attack.\n\nAfter the crash, an official search was called off on 24 January 2019 after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nBut an online appeal started by Sala's agent raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for a private search and his body was recovered 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey on 6 February 2019.\n\nThe AAIB released this photograph of the wreckage of the Piper Malibu\n\nSources subsequently told BBC Wales Mr Ibbotson's pilot licence restricted him to \"flights by day only\".\n\nFlight plans indicated the flight had been scheduled to leave Nantes airport at 09:00 local time on 21 January, but was postponed until 19:00 to allow the footballer to spend the day saying goodbye to his Nantes teammates.\n\nAn interim report, published by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), said Mr Ibbotson was not licensed to carry paying passengers.\n\nIn August, the AAIB said toxicology tests showed that prior to the crash, Sala was exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide that were great enough to cause a seizure, unconsciousness or a heart attack.\n\nIt is likely Mr Ibbotson would also have been exposed to carbon monoxide.\n\nLast month, the UK government said it would look at how \"grey\" charter flights can be prevented following the crash, and the House of Lords heard the use of \"unlicensed air taxis\" was a growing problem in the aviation industry.", "The family of a man who died after going missing in Benidorm have accused Spanish police of \"incompetence\" after they mislaid a bone from his leg.\n\nPhil Pearce, 68, from Bridgwater in Somerset, vanished on 10 September last year.\n\nHis body was found on 23 November but police did not tell his two sons until 7 February because of difficulties identifying him.\n\nPolice have not responded to their accusations.\n\nHis son Lee Pearce described the situation as a \"living nightmare\" and said they did not want to repatriate the body without the missing femur.\n\nHe said: \"He should be home, laid to rest.\n\n\"He went over in one piece, he should come back in one piece. He should be laid to rest in one piece with all his bones in there.\"\n\nLee Pearce (left) and his brother Wayne say they want to bring their father home for his burial \"in one piece\"\n\nWayne Pearce described the process as a \"shambles\" and said the family \"could not believe\" it took police more than three months to tell them their father's body had been found.\n\n\"It seems they don't have a clue what they are doing over there,\" he added.\n\nTheir father, who was visiting the Spanish town, had mild dementia and was last seen after being taken by a member of the public to a police station in a confused state.\n\nHe later left the building and disappeared.\n\nHis sons were told the delays were because DNA needed to be checked and there was conflicting information as to the location of the missing femur.\n\nBridgwater's Conservative MP Ian Liddell-Grainger has raised the case with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.\n\nHe said: \"Everything has been, dare I say it, either slow or it's been pretty shabbily handled by the Spanish authorities at every level.\n\n\"There are huge questions that we need to ask and have answered.\"\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was working with the family and the Spanish authorities to bring Mr Pearce's body home.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with the family,\" a spokesman said.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it had provided a family liaison officer to support the Pearces \"through this very difficult period\".\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Once the body is repatriated to Somerset the coroner will decide whether a post-mortem will take place. Following results of that a decision will be made on whether an inquest is required. \"", "Susan Long was found dead in a country lane in March 1970\n\nPolice investigating the unsolved murder of a teenager 50 years ago have said her killer could still be identified even if he has died.\n\nSusan Long, 18, had been out dancing on 10 March 1970 and got on a bus home to Aylsham, Norfolk, but her body was found in a country lane the next day.\n\nShe had been sexually assaulted and strangled.\n\nAndy Guy, cold case manager for Norfolk Police, said: \"We have DNA, so with a name - and DNA - it is solvable.\"\n\nHe added: \"Let's say the killer was 30 at the time, he would be 80 now - there's a chance he could still be alive. And even if he is not, there are tests we can do to establish that DNA link.\n\n\"We could even exhume a body if it came to that.\"\n\nMiss Long worked as a clerk at Norwich Union and regularly went to the Gala in Norwich with her \"steady\" boyfriend, who lived in the city.\n\nShe left at about 22:25 GMT and was seen getting on the Aylsham bus, which arrived at her usual bus stop - the Market Place - at 23:10.\n\n\"She had just got a car so she knew it would be one of her last bus journeys. Sadly, it turned out to be the case,\" said Mr Guy.\n\n\"It's always been assumed she got off the bus at the Market Place but it's really unclear. The bus driver was questioned at the time but did not remember.\"\n\nFrom there, it was a seven-minute walk to her parents' home in Sir Williams Lane, via White Hart Street and Gashouse Hill.\n\nAt 05:30, a milkman found her body, face-down in a puddle by the side of a country lane at Spratt's Green, just outside Aylsham.\n\nThe lane near Aylsham where Susan Long's body was found\n\nMiss Long's killer - described as \"panicked\" by Mr Guy - made no attempt to conceal her body, which was on view near a farm entrance.\n\nShe was fully clothed but a bracelet and shoe were missing and have never been recovered.\n\nThere were no signs of a violent struggle and a pathologist believed she had died at about midnight.\n\nForensic evidence revealed whoever had sexually assaulted her had a rare blood type.\n\nOfficers took 835 blood samples, spoke to 3,700 people and completed 10,000 questionnaires while knocking on doors.\n\n\"It was a huge investigation for the time,\" said Mr Guy, as the force launched a 50th anniversary appeal.\n\n\"They were very thorough - fragments of bitumen were found on her and they contacted Shell, which established it was from the road surface where she was found.\n\n\"A paint fragment from a car was also found, which suggested she had been in contact with such a car.\"\n\nHer boyfriend was eliminated from the inquiry, as were fellow bus passengers, and no link was established with men of a similar blood type - although, as Mr Guy pointed out, an individual could simply refuse to provide a blood sample in the 1970s. The trail soon went cold.\n\nThe biggest breakthrough came in 2004, when familial DNA was established from samples taken at the time.\n\nIt ruled out everyone who had provided a sample of a rare blood type.\n\nFifty years on, Mr Guy believes the killer was someone local, with knowledge of the area.\n\n\"There are rumours that have been around the town for years - we've had several names given to us and we've looked at them,\" he said.\n\n\"If there is someone people have always felt suspicious of, perhaps how they act around the anniversary, then we need to hear about it.\n\n\"We are on the last roll of the dice in terms of people's memories - unless we get that DNA match I don't see where else we could go.\"\n\nMiss Long's mother Molly died in 2014 \"never having had closure as to who killed her daughter\", and \"it was \"impossible to understand the pain she endured for all those years\", 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.", "With the number of UK coronavirus cases set to rise, NHS England says it is scaling up its capacity for testing people for the infection.\n\nIt means 10,000 tests a day can be done - 8,000 more than the 1,500 being carried out currently.\n\nConfirmation of any positive test results will be accelerated, helping people take the right action to recover or quickly get treatment.\n\nMost of the people tested should get a result back within 24 hours.\n\nPublic Health England has already carried out more than 25,000 tests across the UK.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, those tests have revealed 373 confirmed UK cases as of 09:00 GMT on Tuesday. Six people who tested positive for the Covid-19 disease have died in British hospitals.\n\nThese have been older people with underlying health conditions.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be expected to roll out their own testing services, but there will be some shared capacity between nations, depending on need.\n\nNHS chief scientific officer Prof Dame Sue Hill said the health service was preparing to cope with more coronavirus cases.\n\n\"Every hospital across the country, and the healthcare professionals who run them, are now actively planning to respond flexibly to manage new demand.\n\n\"The public can help us to help the country to stay safe by practising good hygiene and washing their hands more often, for at least 20 seconds.\"\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer has defended the decision to delay closing schools and introducing other stringent measures to help stop the spread of the virus.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said experts were assessing new cases on an hourly basis to achieve a \"balanced response\", supported by science.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have expressed concerns about a lack of advice and protective equipment for them to best treat potential coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19", "Little Britain star Matt Lucas is to replace Sandi Toksvig as co-host of The Great British Bake Off.\n\nLucas will join Noel Fielding in the Channel 4 tent when filming on the 11th series begins this spring.\n\n\"I'm chuffed to bits to be joining the most delicious show on television,\" Lucas said.\n\n\"I can't wait to break bread with Noel, Prue and Paul and meet the brilliant bakers.\" Sandi announced her departure in January after three years.\n\nFielding said: \"I love Matt. I love his warmth and his comedy and his big joyful smile. I think if we play our cards right we could become the next Chas and Morph.\"\n\nSandi and Noel have hosted the show since 2017\n\nJudge Paul Hollywood said the actor and comedian would be \"a fantastic addition to the team,\" while Prue Leith said: \"The combination of Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding! Will we stop laughing and get any filming done?\"\n\nMatt Lucas made his name on madcap quiz Shooting Stars before his double act with David Walliams on sketch show Little Britain, which has been rumoured to be returning to TV after a one-off Brexit special on radio.\n\nHe has also starred in TV shows including Come Fly With Me and Doctor Who, and films like Bridesmaids, Alice In Wonderland and Paddington.\n\nHe celebrated the news by posting a photo of himself as Little Britain character Marjorie Dawes, who ran a FatFighters class.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Lucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRichard McKerrow, chief executive of Love Productions, which makes the show, said: \"It's extremely exciting to have Matt joining the Bake Off family, he's a phenomenal talent with a huge heart and we can't wait to enjoy the mischief and mayhem he and Noel will inevitably create in the tent.\"\n\nChannel 4 director of programmes Ian Katz said: \"We're thrilled that one much-loved national institution is joining another. Matt has everything it takes to be a great Bake Off presenter - he's warm, hilarious and loves cake.\"\n\nThe show posted a clip of him practising his Bake Off presenting skills with Noel.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 British Bake Off This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 British Bake Off\n\nThe Great British Bake Off first aired on BBC Two in 2010, with Mel and Sue hosting and Mary Berry as one of the judges alongside Hollywood.\n\nIt was promoted to BBC One in 2014 before it moved to Channel 4 three years later. Almost 10 million people watched the 2019 final.\n\nThe new appointment was widely welcomed on social media, although some said they would have preferred to see another woman or a person of colour in the line-up.\n\nNew Ready Steady Cook host Rylan Clark-Neal was among those to congratulate the new host, writing that the appointment was \"brilliant news\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by 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\nSandi's final appearances in the tent can be seen in five charity episodes for Stand Up To Cancer, which began on Tuesday.\n\nComedian Jenny Eclair was named the first star baker, and celebrities including Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss, singer James Blunt, TV presenter Scarlett Moffatt and tennis player Johanna Konta will test their baking skills in the coming weeks.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Andy Anokye, who performed as Solo 45, was part of grime collective Boy Better Know\n\nA grime artist has been found guilty of raping four women and holding them against their will.\n\nDuring a trial at Bristol Crown Court, Andy Anokye, 32, who performed as Solo 45, admitted he would \"terrorise\" women during \"rough sex\".\n\nHe denied the allegations, but was found guilty of 30 charges.\n\nJudge William Hart adjourned sentencing for a date to be fixed and ordered a psychiatric report to be carried out on the defendant.\n\nAnokye was unanimously convicted of 21 rapes, five counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by penetration and two of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nThe offences were committed between February 2015 and March 2017.\n\nThe investigation against Anokye began after one of the victims told friends and police what had happened.\n\nOfficers then seized his mobile phones and laptop, and this led police to three other women.\n\nHe met the women at his gigs and developed relationships with them before assaulting them, his trial heard.\n\nJill MacNamara, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: \"We were able to prove that Anokye was a violent, controlling narcissist and bully who took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering upon his victims.\n\n\"He filmed many of his attacks on his mobile phone, and this footage, along with the brave testimony of his victims, created a compelling case against him.\n\n\"He claimed sexual activity with these women was consensual role-play and pointed to the fact that some of the women stayed in a relationship with him after the assaults.\n\n\"However, the CPS was able to prove none of these women had consented to the sexual activity or the violence and threats made against them.\n\n\"The fear he elicited must have made it obvious they did not consent.\"\n\nAnokye, who is from London but had a flat in Bristol, was part of grime collective Boy Better Know.\n\nHe appeared as part of that collective on the main stage at the Reading and Leeds Festival in 2016.\n\nHis best known track as Solo 45 was Feed Em To The Lions, which was covered by Craig David - as a mash-up with Destiny Child's Say My Name - for an appearance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2016.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Ashraf Ghani's decree asks prisoners to sign a guarantee they will \"not return to the battlefield\"\n\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani has approved the release of 1,500 Taliban prisoners as part of efforts to secure a peace deal with the insurgent group.\n\nThe presidential decree requires all prisoners to give \"a written guarantee to not return to the battlefield\".\n\nIn exchange, the Taliban has agreed to hand over 1,000 government troops.\n\nIt comes as the US begins withdrawing troops from the country as part of a linked agreement signed earlier with the Taliban.\n\nAccording to the decree signed by President Ghani, all 1,500 prisoners will be released within 15 days, \"with 100 prisoners walking out of Afghan jails every day\".\n\nTalks between the Afghan government and Taliban will take place in parallel with the release. If talks progress, the government has pledged to free 500 more Taliban prisoners every two weeks until a total of 5,000 have been released.\n\nAs part of the agreement, the Taliban must continue its reduction in violence, and bar al-Qaeda or any other extremist groups from operating in areas under their control.\n\nThe prisoner release is intended to build trust between both sides and kick off direct talks to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. The talks were due to start on Tuesday, but negotiations were delayed by demands over the prisoner release.\n\nA Taliban leader told AFP news agency the group would only accept prisoners from a list of captives it wants freed\n\nSpeaking with AFP news agency, an unnamed member of the Taliban's leadership council said the group had presented a list of captives they wanted freed. But he accused the government of acting in bad faith, saying it only planned to release \"those prisoners who are elderly, very ill, or those whose sentences have expired\".\n\nThe Taliban's political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, tweeted on Tuesday that the group would only accept prisoners named on their list.\n\nUnder the presidential decree, the government will release Taliban prisoners \"based on their age, health status and the remaining jail term\".\n\nPresident Ghani had earlier refused to free 5,000 prisoners as part of the US agreement with the Taliban, but Wednesday's decree signalled a softening of his stance.\n\nUnder the historic deal, endorsed by the UN Security Council, America also agreed to reduce its troops from about 12,000 to 8,600 within 135 days. The US and its Nato allies have agreed to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible?\n\nAmerica's drawdown began on Monday, but deal appeared fragile last week after the US launched an air strike in response to Taliban fighters attacking Afghan forces in Helmand province.\n\nFresh political instability has also threatened the prospect of talks between all sides in the country.\n\nTwo separate swearing-in ceremonies took place on Monday for two different politicians after disputed presidential elections last year.\n\nAfghanistan's electoral commission says incumbent Mr Ghani narrowly won September's vote, but Abdullah Abdullah alleges the result is fraudulent.\n\nExperts warned the current political rivalry would \"gravely affect the government's position\" during peace talks.\n\nThe Trump administration has also said it opposed \"action to establish a parallel government,\" in an apparent show of support for Mr Ghani's presidency.", "A cladding company manager suggested using a cheaper material for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment, a 2013 email seen by the inquiry has shown.\n\nMark Harris, of Harley Facades, told architects his firm's preference, \"from a selfish point of view\", was to use aluminium composite material (ACM).\n\nACM was \"tried and tested\" and the firm had used it many times before, he said.\n\nIt was eventually used on the tower, with the inquiry concluding it fuelled the 2017 fire that killed 72 people.\n\nNow in its second phase, the inquiry is looking into how the building came to be covered in such cladding.\n\nIt is the first detailed evidence the inquiry has heard suggesting reasons why the material was changed during the refurbishment programme between 2012 and 2016, with catastrophic consequences.\n\nThe inquiry's witness on Wednesday, Tomas Rek, a former employee of architects Studio E, was questioned about a meeting he attended on 27 September 2013 at Hay's Galleria in London with representatives from Harley Facades, the cladding subcontractor.\n\nMr Rek worked on the block's revamp between September and December 2013 and helped prepare drawings and the project's National Building Specification, a document used by designers to describe required materials, standards and workmanship.\n\nAt the meeting, the two firms discussed the cladding options and Harley Facades showed him its portfolio, including a project at Ferrier Point in Canning Town, east London, which had used ACM panels.\n\nMr Rek told the inquiry he thought the focus of the meeting was \"more to do with the appearance and price of the various materials and not their fire performance or fire rating\".\n\nAfterwards, lead Studio E architect Bruce Sounes sent an email to Mr Harris of Harley saying his \"back of a fag packet\" figure for the cladding had been deemed over-budget, according to emails.\n\nThe next month, Mr Harris emailed Mr Rek regarding pricing, saying from a \"Harley selfish point of view our preference would be to use ACM\", adding the firm was \"confident of the cost base\".\n\nSeparately, Mr Rek told the inquiry the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the client for the project, was putting his firm \"under some kind of pressure\" to use the cheaper materials.\n\nBy July 2014, the BBC has previously revealed, council officials had decided to change the cladding to the more dangerous material, reducing the budget by less than £300,000.\n\nMr Rek also said he was unaware of several fire safety requirements for buildings and considered it a \"subject outside of my competence\".\n\nHe said he did not know at the time what would constitute a material of limited flammability and was unaware how individual parts of the cladding system should be considered for fire issues.\n\nThe council has admitted a series of failings by its building control department which signed off the work despite the safety risk.\n\nHarley Facades will give evidence later in the process.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe first leg of Manchester United's Europa League last-16 tie at LASK on Thursday will be played behind closed doors because of coronavirus concerns.\n\nChelsea's Champions League last-16 tie at Bayern Munich on 18 March will also be played without fans present.\n\nLASK made the decision following advice from the Austrian government.\n\nUnited have sold their allocation of just under 900 tickets but the game is one of several European fixtures that will have no spectators.\n\nWolves' Europa League last-16 first-leg match at Olympiakos on Thursday will also be played in a near-empty stadium, as will Rangers' second leg tie at Bayer Leverkusen on 19 March in the same competition.\n\nWolves have asked for their game to be postponed and their manager Nuno Espirito Santo has said: \"If we have to go we will. But we don't agree - we're not happy to go.\"\n\nBayern confirmed the second-leg match against Chelsea will be played behind closed doors after a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people was issued by the regional Bavarian government in Germany on Tuesday.\n\nChelsea are trailing 3-0 on aggregate from the first leg.\n\nThe Bayer Leverkusen-Rangers tie will be played behind closed doors after a ban on mass gatherings in the North Rhine-Westphalia region.\n\nSporting events in Europe have been affected as a result of the spread of the virus, with games being played without fans or, such as two of the three final-weekend Six Nations rugby matches, postponed.\n• None Latest: How the virus has impacted sporting events around the world\n• None All sport in Italy suspended because of outbreak", "Artwork: The nightside would be hot, but cool enough for iron droplets to rain out\n\nAstronomers have observed a distant planet where it probably rains iron.\n\nIt sounds like a science fiction movie, but this is the nature of some of the extreme worlds we're now discovering.\n\nWasp-76b, as it's known, orbits so close in to its host star, its dayside temperatures exceed 2,400C - hot enough to vaporise metals.\n\nThe planet's nightside, on the other hand, is 1,000 degrees cooler, allowing those metals to condense and rain out.\n\nIt's a bizarre environment, according to Dr David Ehrenreich from the University of Geneva.\n\n\"Imagine instead of a drizzle of water droplets, you have iron droplets splashing down,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe Swiss researcher and colleagues have just published their findings on this strange place in the journal Nature.\n\nThe team describes how it used the new Espresso instrument at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study the chemistry of Wasp-76b in fine detail.\n\nEspresso is a new spectrometer attached to Europe's Very Large Telescope facility\n\nThe planet, which is 640 light-years from us, is so close to its star it takes just 43 hours to complete one revolution.\n\nAnother of the planet's interesting features is that it always presents the same face to the star - a behaviour scientists call being \"tidally locked\". Earth's Moon does exactly the same thing; we only ever see one side.\n\nThis means, of course, the permanent dayside of Wasp-76b is being roasted.\n\nIn fact, this hemisphere must be so hot that all clouds are dispersed, and all molecules in the atmosphere are broken apart into individual atoms.\n\nWhat's more, the extreme temperature difference this produces between the lit and unlit portions of the planet will be driving ferocious winds, up to 18,000km/h says Dr Ehrenreich's team.\n\nUsing the Espresso spectrometer, the scientists detected a strong iron vapour signature at the evening frontier, or terminator, where the day on Wasp-76b transitions to night. But when the group observed the morning transition, the iron signal was gone.\n\n\"What we surmise is that the iron is condensing on the nightside, which, although still hot at 1,400C, is cold enough that iron can condense as clouds, as rain, possibly as droplets. These could then fall into the deeper layers of the atmosphere which we can't access with our instrument,\" Dr Ehrenreich explained.\n\nGraphic novelist Frederik Peeters is known for his science fiction works\n\nWasp-76b is a monster gas planet that's twice the width of our Jupiter. Its unusual name comes from the UK-led Wasp telescope system that detected the world four years ago.\n\nOne of the scientists on the discovery team, Prof Don Pollacco from Warwick University, said it was hard to envisage such exotic worlds.\n\n\"This thing orbits so close to its star, it's essentially dancing in the outer atmosphere of that star and being subjected to all kinds of physics that, to put it bluntly, we don't really understand,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It will either end up in the star or the radiation field from the star will blow away the planet's atmosphere to leave just a hot, rocky core.\"\n\nDr Ehrenreich is a fan of graphic novels and asked the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters to produce an interpretation of Wasp-76b.\n\n\"Often with these discoveries, we see detailed 3D compositions where it's difficult for people to tell whether it's a real picture or just a computer-generated image. By putting some fun into it, we're not fooling anyone,\" he said.\n\nArtwork: Wasp-76b is a \"hot Jupiter\". It's a gas giant like our Jupiter but orbits very close to its star\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is delivering his first Budget, amid concerns over coronavirus.\n\nAndrew Neil presents Politics Live, with expert analysis from Laura Kuenssberg, Faisal Islam and Simon Jack.", "Kaden Reddick's mother said his death had \"left a massive hole in our lives\"\n\nA 10-year-old boy who was killed by a falling queue barrier at a Topshop store died accidentally, a coroner has said.\n\nKaden Reddick, from Reading, suffered a fatal head injury when it fell on him at the town's Oracle shopping centre on 13 February 2017.\n\nThe inquest previously heard he had been swinging on the 110kg structure moments before.\n\nThe court was told Kaden, from Burghfield, had been to the cinema with his two siblings and mother before going to the store during the half-term holidays.\n\nWitness Niamh Gillespie described seeing him with his arms across the top of the MDF barrier, which doubled as a display unit.\n\nKaden's swinging caused the barrier to tip and fall on to his head, jurors heard.\n\nHe was confirmed dead at the Royal Berkshire Hospital a short time later.\n\nKaden was fatally injured at Topshop in the Oracle shopping centre in Reading\n\nThe inquest heard there had been two previous incidents, in Manchester in 2015 and in Glasgow, in which customers had been injured by falling Topshop barriers.\n\nFollowing the second in February 2017, a week before Kaden's death, the company asked managers to check their barriers did not \"wobble\".\n\nReading branch manager Martin Tull responded \"no\" but later said he \"didn't test the barriers for movement in any way\", the inquest heard.\n\nThe MDF barrier was fixed to a concrete floor by four screws, the hearing was told.\n\nCoroner Alison McCormick said the death had been accidental.\n\nShe told the boy's family: \"Kaden's death has touched all of us in this court but for you, as you've said, [it] has left an enormous hole in your lives, a void that can never be filled.\"\n\nBarristers told the hearing the case may result in criminal proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How will Boris Johnson deliver the promises he made about the UK economy?\n\nAhead of the first Budget since the prime minister took office, Politics Live reporter Greg Dawson examines Mr Johnson's plans for British finances.\n\nJoining him to review the journey so far is ex-deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, former Johnson spokesman Guto Harri, and Gerard Lyons, who served as his chief economic adviser.\n\nUK viewers can watch Politics Live for 30 days from transmission", "The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 460, after the biggest rise in a single day.\n\nIt comes as two more people with the virus died in the UK, bringing the total to eight.\n\nOne was in their 70s and had underlying health conditions in Dudley, while the other, in Nuneaton, was elderly and had a number of serious health conditions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the peak of the UK outbreak was expected \"in a matter of a couple of months\".\n\nHe told MPs he was meeting the opposition \"first thing\" on Thursday to discuss emergency laws that will be set out next week, adding: \"The best way for us to beat it is for us to work together.\"\n\nThe legislation will include measures to keep public services running, help businesses, and ensure the adult social care sector is ready.\n\nHe said Parliament would stay open, since \"the public will expect Parliament to sit and to get on with its job\", and the prime minister would chair a further meeting of the government's emergency Cobra meeting on Thursday.\n\nIt comes as the World Health Organization upgraded the status of the outbreak to a pandemic.\n\nThe two latest deaths were announced on Wednesday by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nMeanwhile, a 53-year-old British woman has become the first person with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, to die in Indonesia, according to local media reports.\n\nIt is not clear whether the woman - who was reportedly critically ill with multiple health conditions - died due to the virus.\n\nA flight carrying about 135 British passengers and crew members from the quarantined Grand Princess cruise ship in California has landed in Birmingham.\n\nPassengers were wearing face masks as they were led off the plane at Birmingham Airport and onto coaches by officials wearing hazmat suits. They are all being asked to self-isolate.\n\nBritons from a quarantined cruise ship in California have landed in Birmingham\n\nRacegoers at the Cheltenham Festival are being provided with advice and hand sanitiser\n\nOn Wednesday, the Department of Health confirmed there had been 83 more cases since Tuesday. In all, 27,476 people have been tested so far.\n\nLater, Wales confirmed four new cases.\n\nThere are now 387 confirmed cases in England, 36 in Scotland, 18 in Northern Ireland and 19 in Wales.\n\nScotland and Wales have also seen their first cases of community transmission - meaning the virus was contracted in the UK and is unrelated to travel.\n\nOf the cases in England, London has the highest number, with 104. South-east England is the next highest infected area, with 60 cases, followed by south-west England with 44 cases.\n\nOne case has been confirmed in a council-run care home in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The patient has been taken to hospital.\n\nDelivering the Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged the NHS would get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis - whether it needed \"millions of pounds or billions\".\n\nHe said workers who fell ill would be able to get a sick note by ringing 111 rather than visiting a GP, and people who were self-employed who were off work because of the virus would be eligible for benefits from day one.\n\nFor businesses, Mr Sunak promised a temporary coronavirus loan scheme to help small and medium-sized companies and said the government would rebate firms with up to 250 people for the cost of statutory sick pay.\n\nMr Hancock was asked by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt about comments previously made by England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries, that the start of the UK peak of the epidemic could be within the next fortnight.\n\nMr Hancock replied: \"I just want to slightly correct the point about the deputy chief medical officer who said that in the next couple of weeks, we may see the numbers starting to rise fast to their peak.\n\n\"We do not expect numbers to peak in the next fortnight, we expect numbers to continue to rise after that and the peak would be in a matter of a couple of months, rather than a matter of a couple of weeks. This is a marathon and not a sprint.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that 12 labs were now testing people for coronavirus, and the government was working with \"more than two dozen companies on further testing capability\".\n\nThe Foreign Office has issued a travel update for British nationals in Italy, urging all remaining tourists to contact their airline operators and return back to the UK.\n\nPeople were still able to leave Italy without restrictions and airports were still open, the Foreign Office added.\n\nItaly is the European country worst-hit by the coronavirus outbreak, with the whole of the country currently in lockdown.\n\nAnyone who has returned from anywhere in Italy since Monday is being asked to self-isolate, even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nEarlier this week, tourist Hannah Butcher from Newbury, who was in Rome, said it was \"the weirdest holiday\" she had ever been on, with one-in one-out rules to get into shops and families having to sit apart in restaurants.\n\nThe Italian authorities have told tourists to end their travels and return home\n\nPrince Charles opted for the namaste gesture when greeting celebrities at the Prince's Trust Awards\n\nBut earlier, the Queen went back to shaking hands after avoiding the gesture on Tuesday\n\nWhat are your experiences relating to the coronavirus outbreak? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Hancock says he has been advised that the degree of resistance against coronavirus for those who have recovered from it \"is deemed to be very high, especially in the first year or more afterwards\".\n\nHe says it is \"good news that it is highly likely that once people have got it and recovered then they are going to be OK\".\n\nOn calls for testing for all, the UK's health secretary says the test is \"not reliable for people who are not symptomatic\".\n\nHe says that is why testing at the airport, for example, is not effective and some of the countries that started doing that have stopped.\n\nThere are \"loads of false positives\" with temperature testing as the person \"might be ill with something else\", he says.\n\nOr there are \"loads of false negatives... because they don’t have enough virus in their system yet to be symptomatic\".\n\n\"Testing of someone who does not have symptoms is not reliable and is counter-productive so we won’t be doing it.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to unveil his first Budget amid continued pressure from the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMr Sunak will present his economic plans to MPs in the Commons at 12:30 GMT, less than a month after taking over at the Treasury.\n\nBut the economic challenge posed by the virus is still expected to dominate.\n\nThe Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in interest rates from 0.75% to 0.25% in a bid to support the economy during the virus outbreak.\n\nSpeaking at the cabinet meeting ahead of the Budget, Mr Sunak said his plan would make the UK \"one of the best placed economies in the world to manage the potential impact of the virus\".\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK reached 382 on Tuesday, a rise of 63 since the previous day, with a sixth person confirmed to have died after contracting the virus.\n\nMr Sunak has previously said the NHS will get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis and that he is looking at extra financial help for individuals and businesses who are left out of pocket.\n\nThe Budget also comes in a week in which shares around the world - already hit by fears about coronavirus - suffered some of their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nDubbed \"Black Monday\", indexes tumbled as a row between Russia and Saudi Arabia saw oil prices plunge, with declines in London wiping some £125bn off the value of major UK firms.\n\nFigures released by the Office for National Statistics found that the UK economy did not grow at all in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the eve of the Budget announcements, the Treasury pledged to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research.\n\nIt said this would lead to the \"highest levels [of investment] in real terms since 1955\" - more than £600bn over the five-year Parliament - and be targeted \"in every region and nation of the UK\".\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We have listened and will now deliver on our promise to level up the UK, ensuring everyone has the same chances and opportunities in life, wherever they live.\n\n\"By investing historic amounts in British innovation and world-class infrastructure, we will rebalance opportunities and lay the foundations for a decade of growth for everybody.\"\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell called the figures \"exaggerated claims\", adding: \"Boris Johnson has a track record of boastful claims followed by non delivery and it looks like he is running true to form.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the decision marked a significant increase in the amount of spending on capital projects compared with the period since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979.\n\nHowever, she said it was not yet clear whether the government would stick to its own fiscal rules set out in its manifesto.\n\nAnd she said the spread of the virus means that the Treasury's spreadsheets and sums that had been prepared for the Budget are now completely out of date.\n\nThe government is also set to pledge £2.5bn to fixing potholes in England as part of the Budget.\n\nThe Treasury said the money would also be available to local authorities to start resurfacing works, preventing potholes from appearing in the first place.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell said the policy was part of a \"gimmicky grab-bag of projects\".\n\nWednesday's Budget will also be the first time a woman has chaired the proceedings in the Commons' history.\n\nDame Eleanor Laing will make history as the first woman to chair the Commons during the Budget\n\nDame Eleanor Laing was elected as the House's first woman chairman of ways and means in January - the most senior deputy speaker - who traditionally oversees the Budget.\n\nShe said she \"probably will be a bit nervous\" on the day, but said, with a new chancellor in post as well, \"we will all be newbies\".", "He started looking a little bit like the nervous new boy.\n\nRishi Sunak has barely been in one of the biggest jobs in the country for a month.\n\nBut the chancellor certainly found his stride as the astonishing scale of the government's first Budget became clear.\n\nFirst off, a £30bn stimulus for the economy, in particular the emergency with the coronavirus crisis - a mixture of extra cash for the health service, loan guarantees, abolishing business rates for some firms this year and a promise that the government will pick up the significant cost of sick pay for small firms, if their workers have to stay at home because of the illness.\n\nThat is an enormous amount of money by any measure, accompanied by a promise that there is more where that came from if needs be.\n\nAnd it was not just the urgent requirements of the unfolding coronavirus that caused the chancellor to get out a very large cheque book.\n\nAs expected, he outlined a generational change in the rate of spending on the bricks and mortar of the public realm, £175bn more than planned before the election.\n\nHe promised more money for the NHS, for further education, for housing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak's first Budget was \"bold\" and \"audacious\"\n\nThere was a huge uplift in the amount the government spends on research and development, along with the announcement of the dream of the prime minister's controversial adviser Dominic Cummings, who has long argued for an agency like ARPA - the US Advanced Research Projects Agency.\n\nAnd to please the new Tory MPs in the hope of pleasing their new voters, there were expected measures to try to even out the lopsided nature of the economy. It seemed at times like it was raining cash.\n\nThe government not surprisingly didn't fancy making any big tax rises either, so the new chancellor had to find all that cash somewhere else.\n\nWhere? In an absolutely enormous new national overdraft.\n\nLong gone are the days when the Conservatives preached fiscal rectitude as their priority.\n\nThe scale of the spending and borrowing announced today would be the stuff of a 2010 George Osborne's nightmares.\n\nThe Tories have been drifting away from that ideology for some time, but today the new chancellor buried it several feet under.\n\nLabour can argue with deep frustration that the Conservatives are new converts to the cause, that borrowing to spend on what the country needs is the right way to look after the economy.\n\nBut with a potential economic and health emergency on coronavirus and a deep political ambition, their cries, of \"we told you so\", won't bother the Tories much, at least for now.\n\nPS - Keep an eye out though. As with any Budget, a huge amount of information suddenly emerges, and it takes time to plough through the numbers and the black and white of what's been announced. Surprises may emerge in the coming hours.", "Jenny Tompkins posted a picture of her son arriving home earlier after he was caught selling squirts of hand sanitiser\n\nA teenager was sent home from school after being caught selling shots of hand sanitiser to his fellow pupils at 50p a go, his family claimed.\n\nHis mother, Jenny Tompkins, from Leeds, posted a picture of him arriving home earlier after his entrepreneurial exploits at Dixons Unity Academy.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, she said it was hard to discipline her son when his \"dad called to say he was a legend\".\n\nThe school denied it had excluded any pupils for selling hand sanitiser.\n\nSome respondents to the post, which was shared nearly 130,000 times, praised his efforts.\n\nOne said \"can't fault his logic\".\n\nOthers reminisced about selling cigarettes for £1 a go.\n\nSomeone else said: \"Bet he gets an A in economics.\"\n\nHis mother, however, said she tried to be serious when the school called, and later when her son arrived home \"with a big grin on his face\".\n\nShe said this was made more difficult after she called his father at work, who responded by calling him \"a [expletive] legend\".\n\nHer son plans to use the £9 he made to buy a kebab and a multipack of Doritos, she added.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"No pupil has ever been excluded for selling hand sanitiser\".\n\n\"The student in question was excluded for a separate and unrelated incident in line with academy behaviour policy.\"\n\nEarlier it was announced the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 460, after the biggest rise in a single day.\n\nSix patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals in the UK - the latest was a man in his early 80s in Watford who had underlying health conditions.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Share markets in the US plummeted on Wednesday, with losses accelerating after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.\n\nThe Dow Jones plunged nearly 1,500 points or more than 5.8%, while the S&P 500 fell 4.9% and Nasdaq fell 4.7%.\n\nThe declines pushed the Dow more than 20% below its recent high, a threshold that often accompanies a recession.\n\nThe falls come as the virus's spread has the global economy reeling.\n\nConcerns about the disease have disrupted manufacturing, prompted widespread closings and cancellations, and kept people at home.\n\nHowever, the White House and Congress have yet to reach a deal for economic relief after President Donald Trump's proposal of a tax cut for workers failed to garner widespread support.\n\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said that the administration hoped to extend deadlines for tax payments, cover the cost of sick leave for staff forced to stay home and provide loan guarantees for affected industries, such as airlines.\n\n\"We are not only focused on the health issues, but the economic issues,\" he said.\n\nThe New York branch of the US central bank also said it would inject money into the financial system by making more overnight loans available to banks, its second such move this week.\n\nThe Fed last week made its first emergency rate cut since the financial crisis in an effort to keep money flowing.\n\nThe moves come as the spread of the virus, despite hopes of containment, has rapidly reset expectations for global growth this year.\n\nOn Wednesday, economists at IHS Markit said global growth was likely to slow to 1.7% this year, down from the 2.5% it forecast last month.\n\nThe firm warned that the outbreak was likely to push Europe, which was already experiencing low growth, into recession and reduce US growth to 1.8%.\n\n\"The global spread of the COVID-19 epidemic is the single biggest risk facing the world economy in early 2020,\" the firm said.\n\nEarlier, London's FTSE 100 slid 1.4%, while European indexes saw more modest declines. Those falls follow several weeks of market turmoil.\n\nThe 20% decline of the Dow has pushed it into bear market territory, ending a streak of gains that started in 2009.\n\n\"It is not the virus itself, but rather the fear and panic related to the virus and the associated altered economic behaviour that could be a damaging tipping point, forcing the global economy onto a darker path,\" said Katrina Ell, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics.\n\nMarkets have also been slammed this week by a plunge in oil prices, after oil exporters said they would increase output rather than make coordinated cuts. On Wednesday, oil prices were down more than 3%.\n\nOn the Dow, the biggest drag was US planemaker Boeing, which fell more than 18%.\n\nThe firm has been in crisis since the crashes of two of its 737 Max planes, which have since been grounded globally for about a year. On Wednesday, it reported 46 cancellations, which were not made up by new orders.\n\nIt is also reportedly freezing hiring and being forced to draw on a $13.8bn (£10.7bn) loan, in part because of the coronavirus.", "Rishi Sunak has pledged billions of pounds to combat the economic impact of coronavirus in his first budget as chancellor.\n\nSetting out his budget the chancellor warned that \"for a period, it's going to be tough\" and that the UK would see a shrink in \"production capacity\" and reduction in consumer spending but said he was confident \"our economic performance will recover\".\n\nLeila Nathoo looks at what the government had to offer.", "Small businesses can be particularly vulnerable to economic disruption\n\nA little over three weeks after becoming chancellor, Rishi Sunak is about to deliver what's become known as the \"coronavirus Budget,\" as fears grow over the impact the outbreak will have on the UK economy.\n\nHe is expected to unveil a package of measures to boost everything from the NHS to struggling small businesses and the self-employed.\n\nBut how much can the chancellor actually do, and will it go far enough?\n\nThe NHS will get \"whatever it needs\", the chancellor said\n\nMr Sunak has pledged that the NHS will get \"whatever resources it needs\" to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting he may be writing the health service a blank cheque.\n\nNHS costs are likely to soar with the extra pressure on its services. It has already had to recruit extra staff for its 111 phone service.\n\n\"Clearly a large pool of money will be required for the NHS, bigger than the £400m for the winter flu crisis, so it will be a scaling up,\" says Luke Bartholomew, economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments.\n\n\"I imagine [the money] would be allocated specifically for issues related to coronavirus, such as public health campaigns, just as much as it would be for hospital beds.\"\n\nThe chancellor could cut VAT rates in a bid to get us all to start spending more at the tills.\n\nVAT is a tax added to some goods and services, and currently stands at 20% for most items it applies to. But a cut in the tax \"would have limited effect\" if shoppers are determined to avoid the High Street, says Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nIt would also be expensive: reducing it to 17.5%, for example, would cost HM Treasury about £17bn this financial year, she estimates.\n\nLuke Bartholomew agrees: \"I suspect once the worst of the crisis is over, a cut would help the economy bounce back, but it doesn't matter how much cheaper you make things if people can't leave the house.\"\n\nThe hospitality sector has been particularly affected by the outbreak\n\nAnother option for the chancellor is to either delay or temporarily scrap business rates, a tax on firms linked to the value of their premises.\n\n\"Cashflow issues are important and business rate suspensions mean businesses could focus on paying employees,\" said Melissa Geiger of KPMG.\n\n\"It's easier for governments to help businesses by offering tax relief, rather than paying out lump sums,\" she says.\n\nTrade body UK Hospitality has written to the government asking for a three-month business rate suspension for the industry, which has been particularly badly hit by the outbreak.\n\nHotel occupancy is down 15%, while eating and drinking out has fallen by 7% it says. Advance bookings have slumped by up to 50%.\n\nUsing an existing mechanism - like business rates - to support business would be quick and effective, argues Ms Geiger. In an \"emergency Budget\" like this, \"you have to focus on the short-term\" she says.\n\n\"It's about paying more through a system you already have, rather than implementing new tax law quickly, which is very difficult.\"\n\nSome workers in the gig economy are worried about missing out on payments\n\nUK employees have already started to get statutory sick pay from the first day off work, to help contain coronavirus.\n\nBut that money is not available to the self-employed, a group of about five million people. This has led to fears that these workers may struggle to make ends meet, and that those on zero-hours contracts may risk going into work when they shouldn't, helping the virus to spread.\n\nThe chancellor has suggested he may announce temporary measures to support people in this position.\n\nThis could include making sure benefits like universal credit and Employment and Support Allowance are available \"quickly and effectively\".\n\nIt may also mean waiving requirements for sick notes or in-person benefits interviews.\n\nCashflow is likely to be an issue for small businesses during this outbreak, as they are particularly vulnerable to sudden loss of trade, supply chain problems and a reduction in their workforce.\n\nSupporting small businesses during this time means \"introducing new, targeted measures and delivering on existing promises,\" according to the Federation of Small Businesses.\n\nIt's calling for Mr Sunak to relax the requirements to apply for a \"Time to Pay\" arrangement, which allows small businesses to spread out tax payments to HMRC.\n\nThe body wants the UK to follow Japan's lead by making interest-free loans available to small firms.\n\nIt's also calling for smaller employers to immediately receive a rebate for any statutory sick pay they give out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor says his 2020 Budget offers the “largest sustained fiscal boost for nearly 30 years”\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe is suspending business rates for many firms in England, extending sick pay and boosting NHS funding.\n\nIn his first Budget speech, he warned of a \"significant\" but temporary disruption to the UK economy but vowed: \"We will get through this together.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in interest rates.\n\nMr Sunak, who was promoted to chancellor just four weeks ago after Sajid Javid quit the government, has had to hastily re-write the government's financial plans to deal with coronavirus.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to keep this country and our people healthy and financially secure,\" he told MPs.\n\nOf the £30bn in extra spending, £12bn will be specifically targeted at coronavirus measures, including at least £5bn for the NHS in England and £7bn for business and workers across the UK.\n\nThis is on top of other spending pledges that will amount to £18bn next year, and even more in following years.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said extra spending on government departments and investment represented the biggest Budget \"giveaway\" since 1992, and will add around £100bn to public borrowing by 2024.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he welcomed many of the measures to \"head off the impact\" of coronavirus, which has now been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization.\n\nBut he said the extra money for the NHS was \"too little, too late\" and the UK was going into the crisis with its public services \"on their knees\" after years of Conservative cuts.\n\nMeasures to mitigate the effect of the coronavirus outbreak include:\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK reached 460 on Wednesday, with an eighth person confirmed to have died after contracting the virus.\n\nThe chancellor said that without accounting for the impact of coronavirus, the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast growth of 1.1% in 2020, the slowest rate since 2009.\n\nDespite speculation that he would ditch the framework on spending set by predecessor Mr Javid, Mr Sunak said his Budget is delivered \"not just within the fiscal rules of the manifesto but with room to spare\".\n\nThe chancellor has scrapped a planned cut in corporation tax and scaled back a tax break for entrepreneurs, saving £6bn over the next five years.\n\nThe spending in this Budget is being largely paid for with a big increase in government borrowing.\n\nThe government expects to borrow almost £100bn more in this Parliament (before mid-2024) than was expected the last time we had any forecasts.\n\nAnd that figure does not include £12bn to be spent on getting the economy through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Treasury documents say that money will be accounted for in the next Budget in the autumn.\n\nIn other Budget measures, the chancellor announced that fuel duty would be frozen for another year.\n\nA planned increase in spirits duty will be cancelled and duties for cider and wine drinkers in England will be frozen as well, but a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost 27p more.\n\nThe so-called tampon tax will be abolished, and VAT on books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals will be scrapped from 1 December.\n\nAnd the chancellor pledged to more than double spending on UK government research and development by 2024.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor announced more than £600bn for road, rail, housing and broadband projects over five years, aimed at delivering on the Conservatives' election promise to boost economic growth outside of London and the south-east of England.\n\nHe announced plans for Treasury offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and a \"new economic campus in the north, with over 750 staff from the Treasury\".\n\nHe also promised an additional £640m for the Scottish government, £360m for the Welsh government, £210m for the Northern Ireland executive and £240m for new city and growth deals.\n\nMr Sunak said he was providing £200m for local communities in England to build flood resilience and would double investment in flood defences.\n\nThe chancellor will deliver another Budget in the Autumn, with measures aimed at preparing the UK economy for post-Brexit trading arrangements with the EU.\n\nFigures released by the Office for National Statistics found that the UK economy did not grow at all in January.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the budget?\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.", "German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that up to 70% of the country's population - some 58 million people - could contract the coronavirus.\n\nMrs Merkel made the stark prediction at a news conference on Wednesday alongside Health Minister Jens Spahn.\n\nShe said since there was no known cure, the focus would fall on slowing the spread of the virus. \"It's about winning time,\" she explained.\n\nHer remarks came as Italy entered its second day of a national lockdown.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the closure of schools, gyms, museums, nightclubs and other venues across the country, which on Wednesday passed 10,000 confirmed infections.\n\nNew York's governor announced that troops would be sent into New Rochelle, in an attempt to contain an outbreak of the virus, as the total number of US cases passed 1,000 on Wednesday.\n\nA one-mile (1.6km) containment zone was in force around the town north of Manhattan. Some individuals have been quarantined.\n\nMusic festivals and other major events in the US, including Coachella festival in California, have been cancelled or postponed.\n\nIn Italy, which has seen a steep rise in cases, the prime minister pledged 25bn euros ($22bn) to tackle the outbreak - up from the 7.5bn euros announced last week.\n\nThousands of flights have been cancelled worldwide as airlines struggle to cope with a slump in demand.\n\nA UK health minister, Nadine Dorries, said she had tested positive for coronavirus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nSeveral countries - including Sweden and Bulgaria - have recorded their first deaths, while the number of confirmed cases in Qatar jumped from 24 to 262.\n\nChina - where the virus was first detected - has seen a total of 80,754 confirmed cases and 3,136 deaths. But it recorded its lowest number of new infections, just 19, on Tuesday.\n\nGermany confirmed its third coronavirus-related death on Wednesday, in the badly affected district of Heinsberg in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.\n\nThe first fatality was an 89-year-old woman who died in the town of Essen, the second a 78-year-old man with pre-existing health conditions who died in Heinsberg.\n\nGermany has so far reported 1,296 cases of the virus, according to figures released by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control late on Tuesday. The RKI says the virus poses a \"moderate\" risk to the German public.\n\nLothar Wieler, the president of the RKI, said the body did not believe there was a significant number of undetected cases in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What life looks like under Italy's coronavirus lockdown\n\nSpeaking alongside Mr Wieler at a press conference - her first public address on the outbreak - Chancellor Merkel warned that border closures would not be enough to prevent the spread of the virus. She ruled out following Austria's lead in banning visitors from Italy.\n\n\"This is a test for our solidarity, our common sense and care for each other. And I hope we pass the test,\" she said.\n\nMrs Merkel also said she was open to scrapping Germany's \"black zero\" rule to allow new government borrowing. She said it was \"an extraordinary situation\" and that ending the outbreak came first.\n\nHowever other German health experts say it is unlikely that two-thirds of Germans will end up getting the coronavirus.\n\nVirologist Alexander Kekulé, a former federal government advisor on disease control, told German media that in the worst case scenario a maximum of 40,000 people in the country would die. He said this estimation was based on the number of cases in China, where the rate of new infections is slowing.\n\nHe had earlier said that the German government missed opportunities to contain the outbreak further by shutting schools and cancelling events.\n\nWednesday also saw Berlin city authorities ban all events with more than 1,000 participants until the end of the Easter holidays.\n\n\"The coronavirus continues to spread. In such a phase, public life must be restricted,\" said the city's Health Minister, Dilek Kalayci. \"The spread of the coronavirus can be slowed down by reducing major events. At the beginning of an epidemic, such a restriction is important.\"", "The giraffes lived in an unfenced conservancy\n\nTwo extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say.\n\nRangers had found the carcasses of the female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya's Garissa County.\n\nA third white giraffe is still alive. It is thought to be the only remaining one in the world, the conservationists added.\n\nTheir white appearance is due to a rare condition called leucism, which causes skin cells to have no pigmentation.\n\nNews of the white giraffes spread across the world after they were photographed in 2017.\n\nThe manager of the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, Mohammed Ahmednoor, said the two killed giraffes were last spotted more than three months ago.\n\n\"This is a very sad day for the community of Ijara and Kenya as a whole. We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffe,\" Mr Ahmednoor said in a statement.\n\n\"Its killing is a blow to the tremendous steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wake-up call for continued support to conservation efforts,\" he added.\n\nThe poachers have not yet been identified, and their motive is still unclear.\n\nThe Kenya Wildlife Society, the main conservation body in the East African state, said it was investigating the killings.\n\nThe conservancy is in a vast unfenced area. There are also villages within the conservancy.\n\nWhite giraffes were first spotted in Kenya in March 2016, about two months after a sighting in neighbouring Tanzania, the conservancy says on its website.\n\nSome 40% of the giraffe population has disappeared in the last 30 years and poaching for meat and skin continues, according to the Africa Wildlife Foundation .\n\nThe population went from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\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", "PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nA police officer died when he was dragged for more than a mile by a car along a country lane, a court heard.\n\nThe Old Bailey was told distressing details of how Andrew Harper got caught in a towing strap trailing behind a car that was trying to evade him.\n\nHis uniform was \"ripped and stripped from his body\" and he was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum\".\n\nHenry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murdering the 28-year-old in August 2019.\n\nBrian Altman QC, prosecuting, said Mr Long was driving when PC Harper, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, suffered \"the most awful injuries\".\n\nPC Harper and a colleague were responding to a report of a quad bike theft near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he was \"lassoed around his ankles by the loop of the strap\", Mr Altman said.\n\nMr Long \"floored\" the car, driving at an average speed of 42.5mph, with the policeman \"shackled behind\" the vehicle, the court heard.\n\nPC Harper was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum in an effort to dislodge him, losing items of his police uniform along the way, with the rest of his uniform being quite literally ripped and stripped from his body,\" Mr Altman said.\n\n\"He died totally naked apart from his socks and boots and some shredded remnants of the trousers he was wearing.\"\n\nMr Altman said: \"It is the prosecution case that Long drove that car knowing full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap, and he drove it in a manner calculated to dislodge him, and make good their escape, as had been their plan all along.\"\n\nPC Harper was barely alive when he was found by his colleague, and had suffered \"absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries\", he said.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nMr Altman said PC Harper and PC Andrew Shaw were \"well beyond the end of their shift\" when they decided to attend the call about the quad bike theft.\n\n\"It was a decision that was to cost Andrew Harper his life,\" he said.\n\nThe pair entered a \"rural, unclassified single carriageway road\", where they \"chanced upon\" a Seat Toledo towing the bike, the court heard.\n\nThe bike had been attached to the hinge of the car's boot by a \"crane strap\" wound around the bike's handlebars.\n\nMr Altman said after the unmarked police car and the Seat met, the defendant on the quad bike dismounted, unhitched the bike, and tried but failed to get inside the Seat.\n\nThe court heard that he \"bolted\" along the driver's side of the police BMW towards the Seat which had \"rounded the police car, so that the cars were now boot to boot\".\n\nMr Altman said \"almost simultaneously\" PC Harper got out of the police vehicle and began to run behind it to intercept him.\n\nHe added: \"In his rush to ensure that he and his friends did not get caught, the defendant, who had unhitched the crane strap.... had been unable to replace the crane strap in the car boot.\"\n\nThe court heard PC Harper did not realise where the strap was and stepped with both feet \"into the loop made on the road surface\".\n\nMr Altman said as Mr Long \"floored\" the Seat to escape, PC Harper was \"lassoed around his ankles by the loop of the strap\".\n\nPC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nMr Altman asked: \"If Long and his friends had no idea that Andrew was entangled in the strap, why was there a need to drive so recklessly?\n\n\"The answer is easy to see. All three knew it was a police car that had confronted them.\"\n\nHe dismissed claims that the defendants were unaware PC Harper had become entangled in the strap as \"ludicrous\".\n\n\"It's not difficult to imagine the screaming and shouting that must have taken place inside that car about what was unfolding,\" he said.\n\nJurors were told the car left a \"snaking trail\" of tyre marks, blood and clothing as it swerved across the lane.\n\nThe Seat crossed the A4 with PC Harper still \"shackled behind\" it.\n\nMr Altman said the three defendants were arrested later the same night at a traveller caravan site.\n\nThe court heard Peter Wallis, who lived in Bradfield Southend, called the police at 23:17 BST after seeing masked men \"make off\" with his new Honda TRX500 quad bike.\n\nEarlier in the day, the court heard, Mr Wallis had seen a car with four balaclava-clad men inside pull up outside his house.\n\nHe said two ran in the direction of the £10,000 quad bike, and replied \"aggressively\" when confronted.\n\nLater that night, Mr Wallis said, he was woken up by a car's headlights, and saw the defendants fixing the 330kg (661lb) bike to their car with the crane strap.\n\nWhen the car was searched, police found three crowbars, a large axe, a pair of choppers, a hammer and a pipe.\n\nMr Altman suggested the items were to be used by the defendants as weapons \"if anyone stood in their way\".\n\n\"Constable Harper did try to stand in their way, and he paid the ultimate price for it,\" he said.\n\nMr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The pair also deny manslaughter.\n\nThe, trial, due to last six weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fifteen years after he lost contact with his mother, an Indonesian migrant worker has been reunited with his mother thanks to a BBC report.\n\nAfter his parents separated, Iwan was living with his dad in Malaysia. As a child he ran away due to conflict at home and lost contact with his family.\n\nWithout identity documents he couldn’t seek help or go home until now.", "It takes five days on average for people to start showing the symptoms of coronavirus, scientists have confirmed.\n\nThe Covid-19 disease, which can cause a fever, cough and breathing problems, is spreading around the world and has already affected more than 116,000 people.\n\nThe US team analysed known cases from China and other countries to understand more about the disease.\n\nMost people who develop symptoms do so on or around day five.\n\nAnyone who is symptom-free by day 12 is unlikely to get symptoms, but they may still be infectious carriers.\n\nThe researchers advise people who could be infectious - whether they have symptoms or not - to self-isolate for 14 days to avoid spreading it to others.\n\nIf they follow that guidance - which has already been adopted in the UK and US - it is estimated that for every 100 individuals quarantined for a fortnight, one of them might develop symptoms after being released, Annals of Internal Medicine reports.\n\nLead researcher Prof Justin Lessler, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the findings were the best \"rapid\" estimate we have to date, based on 181 cases in total.\n\nBut he said we still have much more to learn about the virus.\n\nIt is unclear how many people develop symptoms overall - the study did not assess that.\n\nExperts believe most people who get the infection will only have mild disease. Some will be asymptomatic, ie carrying the virus but experiencing no symptoms.\n\nBut the disease can be very serious and even deadly for some - typically elderly people with pre-existing health conditions.\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, an expert in molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the study confirmed that for the vast majority of cases, the incubation and therefore quarantine period for new coronavirus, will be up to 14 days.\n\nAnd, encouragingly: \"There is little if any evidence that people can routinely transmit virus during the asymptomatic period.\"\n\nPeople are thought to be most contagious when they have obvious symptoms, like cough and fever.\n\nSome spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThe best way to protect yourself and help prevent infection is to:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The two trains collided at Tacubaya station\n\nOne person has been killed and more than 40 injured in a collision between two trains on Mexico City's underground system.\n\nIt is not clear yet what caused the collision but footage shows one of the trains mounted on top of the other.\n\nThe crash happened at 23:30 local time (05:30GMT) at Tacubaya station in the west of the city.\n\nMexico City's underground is one of the busiest worldwide with 1.6bn passengers every year.\n\nIt has 12 lines and 195 stations.\n\nMexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said 25 people had been taken to hospital but that none of them had sustained serious injuries.\n\nRed Cross Mexico tweeted photos of the aftermath of the collision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cruz Roja CDMX This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn investigation into what caused the collision is underway.\n\nTuesday's accident is not the first deadly incident on Mexico City's underground system. In 1975, two underground trains collided a Viaducto station killing 31 people.", "'One of the most consequential Budgets in a generation'\n\nThere were two Budgets here. And both were huge. The first, the priority, was the immediate coronavirus challenge and the threat of a recession, identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility. The numbers were substantial. A £30bn plan that would, for the first time, see the state fund statutory sick pay for small and medium sized enterprises, some cash handouts, and a one-year suspension of business rates. And boost health spending. The measures complemented the emergency rate cut from the Bank of England, and provide a powerful bridge built on the assumption that the outbreak will be temporary. But the government also enacted its central manifesto offer, rather spectacularly - borrow a huge amount of money to fund public services. The numbers were eye-watering, historic. Rishi Sunak was not even 10 years old when we last had a Budget that pumped so much money into the economy. There is £175bn extra in spending, not just on infrastructure, as expected, but also on current spending. In fact, most of the extra spending is on day-to-day departmental spending – including on tens of thousands of nurses and police officers etc. Much of the fine detail of where this money will actually go, in terms of department, region, type of public service is not settled. Even the Treasury “Green Book” equation that diverts spending towards places like London, is being reviewed. How is all this paid for? The answer, basically, is around £130bn of extra borrowing over this Parliament, and not really tax rises. Whereas deficits were being phased out under existing Conservative plans, under this one, they become permanent. A structural change on economic policy that seeks to take advantage of historic lows in the interest rates that governments pay to borrow. But this is a government with a lot on its plate: coronavirus, post-Brexit negotiations and running a significant deficit of almost 3%. But this is one of the most consequential Budgets in a generation.", "Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\nMs Dorries said she has been self-isolating at home. Labour MP Rachael Maskell said she has since been told to do the same as she had met Ms Dorries.\n\nThe Department of Health said Ms Dorries first showed symptoms on Thursday - the same day she attended an event hosted by the prime minister.\n\nSix people with the virus have died in the UK, which has a total of 382 cases.\n\nThe latest person to die was a man in his early 80s who had underlying health conditions.\n\nMeanwhile, a 53-year-old British woman has become the first person with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, to die in Indonesia, according to local media reports.\n\nIt is not clear whether the woman - who was reportedly critically ill with multiple health conditions - died due to the virus.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it is \"supporting the family of a British woman who has died in Indonesia and are in contact with local authorities\".\n\nThe government is unveiling its first Budget, amid growing fears about the impact the outbreak will have on the UK economy.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged the NHS will get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis as well as a \"temporary coronavirus business interruption loan scheme\" to support small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nHe also said the government will meet the cost of statutory sick pay for firms with up to 250 people, and people who are self-employed and fall sick will be eligible for benefits from day one.\n\nThe Bank of England earlier announced an emergency cut in interest rates from 0.75% to 0.25% in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIt is not known how many meetings Ms Dorries had attended at Westminster or in her constituency in recent days, but she was at an event at Downing Street last Thursday to mark International Women's Day.\n\nShe also held a surgery in her constituency on Friday morning which was attended by up to 12 people, according to Steven Dixon, chair of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association.\n\nMr Dixon said the details of all those who attended the surgery have been passed to the NHS.\n\nThe Flitwick Club, where the surgery took place, is undergoing a deep clean as a precaution.\n\nThe Department of Health said ministers - including the prime minister - would not need to undergo testing as Public Health England (PHE) has assessed the risk of Ms Dorries' close contacts and only those with symptoms needed to self-isolate.\n\nBut Labour MP Rachael Maskell tweeted she has been told by NHS 111 to self-isolate \"as a result of a meeting\" she had with Ms Dorries last Thursday.\n\nMs Dorries, who began her career as a nurse, later tweeted it had been \"pretty rubbish but I hope I'm over the worst of it now\".\n\nBut the 62-year-old added she was worried about her 84-year-old mother who was staying with her and began to cough on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nNHS chief scientific officer Prof Dame Sue Hill said the health service was preparing to cope with more cases.\n\n\"Every hospital across the country, and the healthcare professionals who run them, are now actively planning to respond flexibly to manage new demand.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be expected to roll out their own testing services, but there will be some shared capacity between nations, depending on need.\n\nThe number of total cases for the UK include 324 cases in England, 27 in Scotland, 16 in Northern Ireland and 15 in Wales.\n\nThere are 91 in London, with the next highest infected area being the south-east, with 51 cases. Cases by local council area in England can be viewed here.\n\nThe latest person to die, on Monday, was a man in his 80s, with underlying health conditions, who was being treated at Watford General Hospital.\n\nHe caught the virus in the UK and officials are trying to trace who he had been in contact with.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I never thought I'd say this but I'd probably rather be in school,\" says Oliver Fox.\n\nThe Foreign Office has warned Britons against all but essential travel to Italy, which is experiencing the worst outbreak outside China.\n\nItaly has introduced strict travel restrictions, with people being told to stay home, seek permission for essential travel, and give justification if they want to leave the country.\n\nThe Foreign Office is advising anyone arriving in the UK from Italy since Monday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What life looks like under Italy's coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe government says it has facilities to accommodate Italian visitors to the UK should they need to self-isolate.\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled all of its flights to and from Italy until 4 April, and has asked staff to take voluntary unpaid leave.\n\nEasyjet, Ryanair and Jet2 are also cancelling their flights on Italian routes, though EasyJet will operate \"rescue flights\" to bring British travellers home in the coming days.\n\n\"We know we'll have to go into quarantine when we get home.\"\n\n\"It's the weirdest holiday I think I've ever been on,\" said Hannah Butcher, from Newbury, Berkshire, who is in Rome with her husband for their first holiday alone since having a child.\n\n\"We arrived on Sunday. The advice then was as long as you're not going into Italy's red zone, you're OK.\n\n\"We're currently sitting in a restaurant and everyone here is in staggered rows because they have to sit one metre apart. It's quite weird seeing families spread across multiple tables.\"\n\nShe added that people are \"only allowed to enter shops one at a time\".\n\n\"All the attractions are closed; there are queues out the door of supermarkets and the butchers. There are police driving round making sure the rules are enforced and a noticeable armed police presence, presumably to keep order.\"\n\nShe said they were due to fly home with Ryanair on Wednesday morning and had not been informed of any flight updates.\n\nHave you been affected by coronavirus or know somebody who has been diagnosed? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Budget 2020: 'This is two Budgets in one'\n\nThere were two Budgets here. And both were huge.\n\nThe first, the priority, was the immediate coronavirus challenge and the threat of a recession, identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility.\n\nThe numbers were substantial. A multi-billion pound stimulus plan that for the first time would see the state fund statutory sick pay for small and medium-sized enterprises, grant some cash handouts and suspend some business rates for one year. On top of this, there's at least £5bn to boost health spending.\n\nThe measures complemented the emergency rate cut from the Bank of England and provide a powerful bridge built on the assumption that the outbreak will be temporary. Both engines - monetary and fiscal - are on full power.\n\nBut the government also enacted its central manifesto offer - rather spectacularly - to borrow a huge amount of money to fund public services.\n\nThe numbers were eye-watering. They were historic. Rishi Sunak was not even 10 when we last had a Budget that pumped so much money into the economy: £175bn extra in spending, not just on infrastructure, as expected, but also on current spending.\n\nIn fact, most of the extra spending is on day-to-day departmental expenditure - including on tens of thousands of nurses, policemen, etc.\n\nOn infrastructure, the 3% of national income \"limit\" on spending, as the previous chancellor put it, appears to now be a target, basically hit in four years of the five-year Parliament.\n\nThat is massive sums to spend on the future ahead of the delayed Infrastructure Review. They take spending on capital to the highest sustained levels since the 1970s.\n\nBut much of the fine detail of where this money will actually go - in terms of department, region and type of public service - is not settled.\n\nEven the Treasury \"Green Book\" equation, that diverts spending towards places such as London, is being reviewed.\n\nThis is the start of a big spending process that will last the rest of the year, taking in a delayed National Infrastructure Review, a Comprehensive Spending Review and a further Budget.\n\n\"How is all this paid for?\" is the question posed - and the answer, basically, is about £130bn of extra borrowing over the Parliament rather than tax rises, though revenue is raised from Corporation Tax and Entrepreneurs' Relief.\n\nWhereas deficits were being phased out under existing Conservative plans, under this one, they become permanent. A structural change on economic policy that seeks to take advantage of historic lows in the interest rates that governments pay to borrow.\n\nBut this is a government with a lot on its plate. Driving all this through - with the coronavirus emergency, post-Brexit negotiations, preparations for a possible World Trade Organization-terms trading relationship with European Union, and running a significant deficit of near 3% - is not without its risks.\n\nBut this is one of the most consequential Budgets in a generation.", "The OBR says the UK economy is on course to grow at the slowest pace since the financial crisis this year\n\nA surge in public spending risks exposing the UK economy to a shock rise in borrowing costs, according to the government's spending watchdog.\n\nAbandoning long-term goals to balance the books could have consequences, the Office for Budget Responsibility said.\n\nHigher annual borrowing and overall debt would leave Britain \"vulnerable\" to changing investor sentiment.\n\nThe warning came as the chancellor unveiled the biggest Budget giveaway since 1992.\n\nRishi Sunak's first budget included an extra £7bn to support workers and businesses affected by the coronavirus and at least £5bn to help the NHS cope with the outbreak. In total he outlined £30bn of extra spending this year.\n\nBut higher spending over the long-term would be likely to lead to higher borrowing, which could prompt a rise in the cost of that borrowing.\n\nA year ago, the OBR predicted the UK economy would grow by 1.4% this year. Now it says it expects it to grow at just 1.1% this year, the slowest pace since the financial crisis.\n\nThat does not take into account any hit from the virus, which will slow growth further and could add an additional £6bn to the deficit over the next two years, George Buckley, chief UK economist at Nomura estimates.\n\nThe extra £12bn to battle the coronavirus was not costed in this year's Budget, he points out.\n\nPublic borrowing is already forecast to climb to a six-year high by 2022 without taking into account these additional spending measures.\n\nThere has been no immediate impact on the cost of government borrowing. Yields on ten year government bonds rose only marginally after the Budget as investors took the near-term planned rise in borrowing in their stride\n\nRanko Berich, head of market analysis at Monex Europe, said: \"Markets are not only willing to accept [higher] fiscal spending but are now actively cheering it.\"\n\nHowever, the OBR said the government's decision to move away from trying to reduce Britain's debt in relation to the size of the economy, could store up problems for the future.\n\nThe last government said it aimed to bring down public sector net debt, but it now is projected to remain steady at around 75% of GDP over the next five years.\n\nRobert Chote, the chairman of the OBR, said that while he did not see the government spending splurge as a \"gamble\", a sudden increase in inflation and interest rates would make \"the arithmetic a lot more uncomfortable.\"\n\nSir Charlie Bean, a member of the OBR's budget responsibility committee, added: \"Clearly the more debt you build up, the more exposed you are if things go wrong.\n\n\"And there's a good general principle that you want to have the debt-to-GDP ratio declining in good times, to build up the space for responding precisely to the events like the coronavirus.\n\n\"If you only have the ambition to keep debt constant as a proportion of GDP, every time you get a bad shock, you just ratchet that up again.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's government has moved away from an previous Tory ambition to eliminate borrowing this decade.\n\nIn the Budget the chancellor launched a review of the government's current self-imposed spending rule, which requires it to balance the books, excluding investment spending, within three years.\n\nPublic borrowing is forecast to be lower this financial year at £47.4bn than predicted last March, but after that the deficit is projected to rise sharply.\n\nThe government is now set to borrow £54.8bn in the coming financial year to plug the gap between the money it spends on public services and the tax revenues it collects. This is much higher than the £40.2bn that was forecast.\n\nThis will rise to £66.7bn in 2021-22.\n\nThe spending in this Budget is being largely paid for with a big increase in government borrowing.\n\nThe government expects to borrow almost £100bn more in this Parliament (before mid-2024) than was expected the last time we had any forecasts.\n\nAnd that figure does not include £12bn to be spent on getting the economy through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Treasury documents say that money will be accounted for in the next Budget in the autumn.\n\nMr Sunak said a weaker global backdrop would drag down UK growth. But the OBR said it expected the economy to rebound in 2021 with the help of the big spending boost.\n\nIt said growth is forecast to rise to 1.8%, before moderating to 1.5% in 2022 and 1.3% the following year. Higher growth would make it easier to reduce debt as a proportion of the overall size of the economy and make the UK less vulnerable to a shock rise in borrowing costs.\n\nHowever, the growth forecasts were made before the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the UK became clear. So they do not take into account the impact of the virus, the emergency government stimulus measures, or the cut in UK interest rates announced earlier on Wednesday.\n\nMr Sunak said the coronavirus outbreak would have a \"significant impact\" on the economy, warning that a fifth of Britain's workforce could be off work at the same time during the peak of the outbreak.\n\nBut he said the extra spending and investment would provide \"security today\" and \"prosperity tomorrow\".\n\nMr Sunak said the government would do \"everything we can to keep this country and our people healthy and financially secure\".", "The rules will apply to a wide variety of products\n\nNew rules could spell the death of a \"throwaway\" culture in which products are bought, used briefly, then binned.\n\nThe regulations will apply to a range of everyday items such as mobile phones, textiles, electronics, batteries, construction and packaging.\n\nThey will ensure products are designed and manufactured so they last - and so they're repairable if they go wrong.\n\nIt should mean that your phone lasts longer and proves easier to fix.\n\nThat may be especially true if the display or the battery needs changing.\n\nIt's part of a worldwide movement called the Right to Repair, which has spawned citizens' repair workshops in several UK cities.\n\nThe plan is being presented by the European Commission. It's likely to create standards for the UK, too - even after Brexit.\n\nThat's because it probably won't be worthwhile for manufacturers to make lower-grade models that can only be sold in Britain.\n\nIt's all part of what one green group is calling the most ambitious and comprehensive proposal ever put forward to reduce the environmental and climate impact of the things we use and wear.\n\nProposals aim at making environmentally-friendly products the norm. It could mean manufacturers using screws to hold parts in place, rather than glue.\n\nThe EU aim is to give manufacturers an incentive to ensure the longevity of products\n\nThe rules will also fight what is known as \"premature obsolescence\", the syndrome in which manufacturers make goods with deliberately low lifespan to force consumers into buying a newer model.\n\nOne green group, the European Environment Bureau (EEB), said: \"The strategy is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the way we manufacture, use and dispose of our products in a way that benefits people and the planet.\"\n\nIt urges Europe's politicians to turn the plans into reality.\n\nThe EU also wants to set a food waste reduction target, end over-packaging, and curb microplastic pollution. Other recommendations under the proposals, known as the Circular Economy Action Plan, are:\n\nThe idea is to encourage manufacturers to make sure things don't break - because they'll have to pick up the bill for repair or replacement.\n\nThe new rules take a step further than previous narrower regulations aimed at securing the repair-ability of \"white goods\" such as fridges and washing machines.\n\nBut the EEB complains that the package should go even further by setting waste prevention targets for businesses and industries, and setting goals for reducing resource use overall across Europe.\n\nThe new EU package may restore some of the block's reputation for environmental leadership following condemnation of last week's climate package.\n\nCertainly the tone of the document strikes a green note. It begins: \"There is only one planet Earth, yet by 2050, the world will be consuming as if there were three.\"\n\nIt notes: \"Many products break down too quickly, cannot be easily reused, repaired or recycled, and many are made for single-use only.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some rubbish in Singapore is burned and used to build things like footpaths\n\nThe report says global consumption of materials such as biomass (plant material), fossil fuels, metals and minerals is expected to double in the next 40 years.\n\nAnd it says half of total greenhouse gas emissions and more than 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress come from resource extraction and processing.\n\nThe measures will need to be agreed by member states and MEPs. But they are likely to be under pressure to act from their own citizens who don't appear to appreciate the throwaway society.", "Many people in the UK have been stockpiling toilet paper in anticipation of isolation measures.\n\nBut there's plenty of toilet paper to go round, and capacity to make more - so there's no need to panic, says Tony Richards of Essity at the company's factory in Salford.", "Coronavirus could hit the next round of Brexit trade talks, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nHe told a committee of MPs that negotiations and face-to-face meetings could be hit by the spread of the virus.\n\n\"It is a live question,\" he said. \"We have had indications today from Belgium that there may be specific public health concerns.\"", "Two Russian pranksters claim they duped the Duke of Sussex into making comments about quitting the Royal Family.\n\nOne of the pair, Alexey Stolyarov, told the BBC Prince Harry discussed various issues after they impersonated teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father in two phone calls.\n\nIn the calls, Prince Harry is said to criticise Donald Trump over climate change and describe his decision to end official royal duties as \"not easy\".\n\nMr Stolyarov - who performs as part of a duo with Vladimir Kuznetsov - told the BBC's Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford quotes of the two calls published exclusively by the Sun newspaper are \"accurate\".\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify the authenticity of the phone calls, made on New Year's Eve and 22 January.\n\nVladimir \"Vovan\" Krasnov, left, and Alexei \"Lexus\" Stolyarov are known in Russia for phone-based pranks\n\nThe Sun reported on Wednesday that, in one call, Harry said of his decision to step back as a senior royal: \"Sometimes the right decision isn't always the easy one.\"\n\n\"And this decision certainly wasn't the easy one but it was the right decision for our family, the right decision to be able to protect my son,\" the duke added, according to the Sun.\n\n\"And I think there's a hell of a lot of people around the world that can identify and respect us for putting our family first.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan and Harry’s last event as senior royals\n\nIn another extract published online, Harry is said to remark of climate policies in the US: \"I think the mere fact that Donald Trump is pushing the coal industry so big in America, he has blood on his hands.\"\n\nMr Stolyarov said he and Mr Kuznetsov had \"dreamed\" of speaking to the 35-year-old royal for a long time.\n\nHe said the pair made a second call after it was announced Harry and his wife Meghan were stepping back from official royal duties.\n\nThe comedian said the duke spoke for \"about an hour\", and was very open.\n\n\"He wanted to speak out,\" Mr Stolyarov said. \"It seems like he wanted to get a lot off his chest.\"\n\nThe pranksters said they impersonated Greta Thunberg and her father during two calls to Prince Harry\n\nRussian state TV has run an extract one of the alleged calls - with a translation - in which the pranksters are clearly making fun of Harry.\n\nSpeaking as \"Greta\", one of the pranksters says she has discovered a royal connection and suggests arranging a marriage to Prince George to help push her climate cause, at which Harry laughs.\n\nMr Stolyarov said he was not deliberately trying to ridicule Harry.\n\nHe said: \"We use details with some elements of funny things like that... so we try to make our prank calls more funny than just a serious conversation.\"\n\nMr Stolyarov would not reveal how he had managed to get Harry's phone number, but said that he and his comedy partner had made other calls in recent weeks posing as Ms Thunberg - including to someone \"close to British politics\".\n\nThe pair have previously duped figures including singer Elton John, US politician Bernie Sanders, and actor Joaquin Phoenix.\n\nHarry and Meghan completed their final public engagement as senior royals on Monday when they attended the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.\n• None Harry and Meghan bow out at final royals event", "A fraudster faked a dead man's membership card to use as a \"passport to a prestigious world\" and get the best seats at Lord's cricket ground.\n\nIn what the judge at Southwark Crown Court described as a \"despicable\" act, James Lattimer bought the card of a member who died in 2014 on Ebay and glued his own photo on it.\n\nLattimer, 51, from Bournemouth, was found with the faked pass in August.\n\nHe admitted fraud, was fined £10,000 and given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nIt costs £1,000 to become a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which is based at the home of cricket, and there is a £600 annual fee thereafter.\n\nThe court heard there was a 29-year waiting list with 12,000 names on.\n\nThe card gave Lattimer access to the \"best seats in the house\" at Lord's cricket ground\n\nLattimer, of Green Road, used the faked card to get into an exclusive members-only area after buying a ticket to enter the ground.\n\nEdmund Blackman, prosecuting, said when police spoke to Lattimer about a separate matter, he appeared to be drunk and the only identification he had on him was the \"much sought after\" card.\n\nThe card was in a wallet showing it was valid for 2013 but it had been folded so the date was not visible, the court was told.\n\nJonas Milner, representing Lattimer, argued his client's fraud had been \"an unattractive and naive ploy by a cricket fan who let his desperation to experience the pavilion get the better of him\".\n\nJudge Michael Grieve QC said Lattimer, who owns a corporate cleaning company, had been \"publicly disgraced\".\n\nHe told the defendant the use of a dead person's identity for any purpose was \"despicable\".\n\nThe judge added: \"The forged document was your passport to a prestigious world and the best seats in the ground.\n\n\"What you gained was very sought after. You acquired the privilege people wait half a lifetime to acquire.\"\n\nIn addition to the fine, he ordered Lattimer to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work and gave him a 10-month jail term suspended for 18 months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City's Premier League match with Arsenal on Wednesday has been postponed as a \"precautionary measure\" and several Gunners players are in self-isolation after Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis contracted coronavirus.\n\nArsenal say Marinakis, 52, met a number of their players when the Gunners hosted the Greek side in a Europa League match two weeks ago.\n\nMarinakis - who also owns Championship side Nottingham Forest - said on Tuesday he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nOlympiakos will host Wolves in the Europa League on Thursday after Uefa rejected Wolves' request for the last-16 first-leg match to be postponed.\n\nThe Premier League says it has no plans to postpone any other matches and \"all necessary measures are being taken\".\n\nBrighton say their home game against Arsenal on Saturday (15:00 GMT) \"remains scheduled to go ahead as planned\".\n\n\"The risk is considered extremely low with the self-isolation period for those players ending on Thursday,\" the Seagulls said.\n\nFigures accurate at 06:00 GMT show 382 cases of the virus in the UK, with six deaths.\n\nThe disease, which can cause a fever, cough and breathing problems, is spreading around the world and has already affected more than 116,000 people.\n\nIt has impacted on the staging of sport events around the world, with Italy's Serie A suspended and French and Spanish top-flight games being played behind closed doors.\n\nEuropean matches involving Manchester United, Rangers and Chelsea will be held behind closed doors in Austria and Germany in the coming days, but this is the first match in the UK to be affected.\n\nThe postponement means Premier League leaders Liverpool can no longer win their first title since 1990 this weekend.\n\nLiverpool would have been crowned champions if City had lost to Arsenal at Etihad Stadium and then also been beaten by Burnley on Saturday.\n• None How coronavirus has affected sporting events around the world\n• None The latest news about the coronavirus outbreak\n• None Coronavirus and Premier League: Key questions about what lies ahead\n\nArsenal said some players - which the club have not identified - \"met the Olympiakos owner immediately following the game\".\n\n\"The medical advice we have received puts the risk of them developing Covid-19 at extremely low. However, we are strictly following the government guidelines which recommend that anyone coming into close contact with someone with the virus should self-isolate at home for 14 days from the last time they had contact.\n\n\"As a result, the players are unavailable for tonight's match against Manchester City and the Premier League has decided the game should be postponed.\n\n\"The players will remain at their homes until the 14-day period expires. Four Arsenal staff, who were sitting close to Mr Marinakis during the match will also remain at home until the 14 days are complete.\"\n\nThe 14-day period ends on Friday and Arsenal said they were \"looking forward\" to the players returning to work before their Premier League game at Brighton on Saturday, 14 March.\n\nScientists have confirmed it takes an average of five days for symptoms to show.\n\nThe club said it would refund supporters with tickets and was also contacting other Arsenal staff or guests who shared the directors' box restaurant during the game on 27 February.\n\n\"We understand this will cause inconvenience and cost to fans planning to attend the game but Arsenal, Manchester City and the Premier League have agreed that the short notice of Mr Marinakis' infection means there is no alternative but to take the time to complete a proper assessment of risk,\" the Premier League said in a statement.\n• None What are the refund rules around cancelled events?\n\nUntil now, UK domestic football had not followed other European nations in postponing fixtures, holding matches behind closed doors, or capping attendances.\n\nAll sport in Italy has been suspended until at least 3 April because of coronavirus, but this does not include Italian clubs or national teams participating in international competitions.\n\nThe first leg of Manchester United's Europa League last-16 tie at LASK on Thursday will be played behind closed doors, as will Chelsea's Champions League last-16 tie at Bayern Munich on 18 March.\n\nWolves' Europa League last-16 first-leg match at Olympiakos on Thursday will also be played in a near-empty stadium, as will Rangers' second-leg tie at Bayer Leverkusen on 19 March in the same competition.\n\nUefa rejected Wolves' request to postpone the match in Greece - which the club said was an \"unnecessary risk\".\n\n\"There are some things that are more important than football,\" they added.\n\n\"The good health of our pack and the general public is one of them.\n\n\"Our position is that the trip poses an unnecessary risks to our players, staff, supporters and the families of all who travel, at such critical and uncertain times.\n\n\"Our concern is also for our opponents, whose players and staff have today been tested, and will now be expected to play their part in an important fixture, under the difficult and challenging circumstances of their owner suffering with the virus,\" added Wolves.\n\nOn Wednesday, Olympiakos said the players, board members and staff that were tested for coronavirus had returned negative results.\n\nThe Greek government announced on Sunday that all professional sports events for the next two weeks will be played without spectators.\n\nSpanish side Getafe are reportedly refusing to travel to Italy to face Inter Milan in their Europa League match on Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish (AFE) and Italian (AIC) players' unions have asked Uefa that games between Italian and Spanish teams be suspended.\n\nThe AFE has also called for the suspension of all matches in Spain instead of being played behind closed doors.", "Warner Bros has been rebuked after an advert for one of its horror movies was played during a Spotify playlist of children's lullabies.\n\nThe advert for the film It: Chapter Two featured the voice of killer clown Pennywise talking and giggling over scary music.\n\nIt ran in August although it had been tagged as unsuitable for \"kids' music\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said Warner must take further steps to prevent a similar incident.\n\nSpotify did not respond to the BBC's request to explain why it had not blocked the advert.\n\nBut the UK's advertising watchdog said that the music streaming firm had told it \"they did not believe the playlist was designed primarily for children\".\n\nEven so, the regulator noted the technology company had now removed the list from its platform.\n\n\"As streaming services become ever more mainstream, I suspect they'll face a number of new challenges like this one,\" commented Chris Cooke, managing director of music business consultancy CMU Insights.\n\n\"While it's reasonable to say that Spotify's advertising technology should keep unsuitable ads away from playlists overtly aimed at children, are we saying it should also look for playlists that have the sort of music that might make them popular for children?\n\n\"That said, Spotify is already making moves in this space by launching a specific kids version of its app for premium users. Maybe it needs to apply some of that functionality to its [advert-supported] free service too.\"\n\nThe playlist in question was titled \"Classical Lullabies\", and had been curated by Spotify itself.\n\nIt included songs whose titles included the phrases:\n\nOn this basis, the ASA said that it considered the list was indeed \"designed primarily\" to be listened to by young children, despite Spotify's denial.\n\nThe 30-second advert featured the distorted voice of It's villain. The character, created by the writer Stephen King, had terrorised a group of children in the first movie, and describes his desire to return, while indistinct whispers play in the background.\n\n\"For 27 years, I dreamt of you. I craved you. Oh, I missed you,\" he says, before a siren, drums and other discordant sound effects are played.\n\nThe regulator said that it believed this was likely to distress young audiences.\n\nWhile Spotify has removed the offending playlist, a version using the same name and many of the same songs has been posted to the platform by one of its users\n\nWarner said that it had directed the advert to be targeted at 18 to 44-year-olds and had also marked it as being unsuitable for children.\n\nIn response, the advertising watchdog acknowledged that the film distributor had taken steps to behave responsibly.\n\nBut since this had not prevented children from hearing the advert, the ASA still judged it to be \"inappropriately targeted\".\n\n\"We expect advertisers, and the platforms on which their ads are served, to ensure children aren't targeted by inappropriate or irresponsible content,\" it said.\n\nIt added that its rules also applied to ads played within user-curated playlists.\n\nThe body does not have the power to impose fines, but it can demand repeat offenders provide it with their marketing materials to check them before use, among other sanctions.", "A campaigner has lost a legal challenge against the government over gender-neutral passports.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane argued a policy preventing someone from obtaining a passport with an unspecified gender was unlawful on human rights grounds.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal ruled the policy did not amount to an unlawful breach of the activist's human rights.\n\nIn a ruling on Tuesday, three senior judges dismissed the appeal, which was contested by the Home Office.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane - who has been campaigning for legal and social recognition of non-gendered identity for nearly 30 years - described the decision as \"devastating\".\n\n\"It is bad news for everyone who cannot obtain a passport without the requirement imposed by the UK government that they should collude in their own social invisibility,\" the campaigner said in a statement.\n\nThe appeal centred on the lawfulness of the government's current policy on gender-neutral passports.\n\nAt the moment UK passport holders have to indicate whether they are male or female. Several other countries, including Canada, Australia and Germany, now have a third option.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane wanted passports to have an \"X\" category, for those who do not identify as fully male nor female.\n\nThe activist argued that the UK policy breached the right to respect for private life, and the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of gender or sex, under the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\n\"My identity is neither male nor female, and I describe myself as non-gendered,\" the activist told the BBC's PM programme.\n\nWhen asked about how it felt to be forced to tick one box or another, the campaigner said: \"It's really degrading, especially since I've been working so hard and for so long to try and persuade the UK government to change its discriminatory policy.\"\n\nThe Appeal Court said in the ruling: \"There can be little more central to a citizen's private life than gender.\"\n\nBut it went on say that that use of the \"X\" marker was part of a bigger picture that required a coherent approach across all the areas where the issue of non-binary gender arose.\n\n\"There is not yet any consensus across Council of Europe states in relation to either the broad issue of the recognition of non-binary people, or the narrow issue of the use of 'X'\", it said.\n\nIt said there was no positive obligation on the state to provide an \"X\" marker in order to ensure the right to respect for private life.\n\nSo the government's current policy did not amount to an unlawful breach of Christie Elan-Cane's rights under human rights laws.\n\nBut the ruling also noted \"there is momentum in Europe in relation to how the status of non-binary people is to be recognised\" and that there may come a time when the \"fair balance has shifted\".\n\nThe case was taken to the Court of Appeal after a judicial review action was dismissed by the High Court in June 2018.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court by the Court of Appeal, but can still appeal directly to the Supreme Court to hear the case.\n\nThe activist told the BBC: \"My legal team, I understand, will be seeking permission from the Supreme Court to go onto that next stage.\"", "The calculator on this page was part of the BBC's coverage of the 2020 Budget and is no longer available.", "The government is considering a policy of \"cocooning\" groups of people who are most vulnerable to coronavirus.\n\nPeople in care homes and others who are less likely to survive the disease may be kept apart from the wider population until herd immunity has been established.\n\nA government adviser said an army of volunteers could be recruited to support those in group isolation.\n\nDr David Halpern said they could take pressure off care home staff.\n\nIf the virus spreads as modelling suggests it will, government advisers believe some hard choices will need to be made about how to protect groups that are more vulnerable to the disease - particularly the 500,000 older people in care homes and those with respiratory conditions.\n\nDr Halpern is chief executive of the government-owned Behavioural Insights Team, known as the \"nudge unit\", and a member of Whitehall's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe said: \"There's going to be a point, assuming the epidemic flows and grows as it will do, where you want to cocoon, to protect those at-risk groups so they don't catch the disease.\n\n\"By the time they come out of their cocooning, herd immunity has been achieved in the rest of the population.\"\n\nDr Halpern suggested that volunteers might be enlisted to work in care homes.\n\n\"There's a lot of active work going on at the moment about what is it the volunteers could do,\" he added.\n\n\"There's a lot of goodwill, let's try and figure out what that will be and if they need training let's get it in place before we hit the summer.\"\n\nDr Halpern suggests volunteers might be enlisted to work in care homes\n\nHe suggested students could be given intensive training over the Easter holidays.\n\nGuidance may be issued encouraging friends and relatives not to visit people in care homes until the risk of contracting the disease is more manageable.\n\nOther suggestions put forward by the Behavioural Insights Team include a change to the way schools are cleaned.\n\nDr Halpern said cleaners might be told to concentrate on surfaces such as handrails and light switches, where the virus can linger, rather than school floors.", "Whether renting or paying a mortgage, under-35s are more concerned about housing than just about any other financial issue.\n\nMembers of the BBC's Affordable Living group on Facebook were asked what they wanted to see for young people in Wednesday's Budget - and the answer came back loud and clear.\n\n\"Rent controls and more tax on buy-to-let properties,\" said James. \"Then put that toward helping people buy their own house.\"\n\nSarah echoed the call for controls on rents, saying: \"Really annoys me that hard-up young people are paying for their landlords' lifestyles.\"\n\nTrushar called for the abolition of leasehold properties, which have recently been the focus of an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority.\n\nHe said that \"would literally be the best thing Boris can do for young people\", adding: \"I can't consider buying a house whose value drops the moment I purchase and is full of unfair covenants.\"\n\nOne would-be first-time buyer who would like to get a helping hand from Wednesday's Budget is 29-year-old Andre Armenian, who wants to buy a property with his fiancée Siân Webb.\n\nThe couple have been saving money by living about 35 miles apart in their parents' houses - him in St Albans, Hertfordshire, her in Romford, Essex.\n\nAndre told the BBC: \"I appreciate that there is only so much in the way of measures that can be applied to the housing market so as to maintain a healthy balance of demand and supply. However, something needs to be done to address the growing challenge facing first-time buyers.\n\n\"A revised version of the Help to Buy Isa would be a good start, one with more realistic house value caps. Under the previous scheme, I believe properties outside of London could only be worth up to £250,000 in order to be eligible for Help to Buy, which, if you're only just outside the M25, isn't very much money.\n\n\"Young people are having to buy properties further and further out from the towns and cities they work in, as these tend to be a little cheaper.\n\n\"Introducing some travel discounts or rail cards for first-time home owners, who have already laboured to get onto the first rung of the housing ladder, would help ease their financial burden.\"\n\nHowever, it appears unlikely that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil a major package of housing-related measures in the Budget.\n\nWhitehall sources have made clear that the government's financial priorities are based on delivering on the Conservatives' election manifesto promises.\n\nAnd the main plank of its housing strategy in that document was to continue progress towards its target of 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s.\n\nIona Bain is founder of the Young Money Blog\n\nAs for rent controls, they featured in the Labour party's manifesto, but have never been embraced by the Conservatives.\n\nFinancial commentator Iona Bain, founder of the Young Money Blog, said the Budget should contain measures to shake up the housing market and help young people.\n\nHowever, she feared it would be \"business as usual\", with more \"vague promises to build more houses that are not going to cut the mustard\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We've still not seen the kind of ambitious radical reform that will allow young people to get on the housing ladder.\"\n\nMs Bain said that unlike many other younger people, she had managed to buy her own property, but was now \"staying put\" with no chance of moving to a larger place: \"That's the way it is now for first-time buyers.\"\n\nShe called for measures to make the housing market \"more transparent and functional\", including laws to stop developers sitting on land that had been approved for housebuilding while its value rose.\n\nShe also pointed out that new homes were often built in areas with no amenities and poor transport links, making them undesirable for young people.\n\n\"They've got to be the right homes in the right area at the right prices,\" she said.\n\nSajid Javid, who resigned as chancellor last month after a row over merging his team with No 10's advisers, has said he would have reduced stamp duty, which is a tax paid on most properties purchased in England or Northern Ireland, if he had stayed on to deliver the Budget.\n\nBut property consultancy BuyAssociation reckons Mr Sunak is unlikely to follow suit.\n\n\"Despite pressure on the government to use its powers to boost the housing market and encourage investment, a general stamp duty cut seems unlikely,\" it says.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nHolders Liverpool were knocked out of the Champions League with a dramatic extra-time defeat by Atletico Madrid in the last 16.\n\nA finely balanced second leg turned on a catastrophic blunder by goalkeeper Adrian.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side - seeking to win the trophy for a seventh time - thought they had overturned Atletico's 1-0 advantage from the first leg when Roberto Firmino's first goal at Anfield this season at the start of the added 30 minutes gave them the lead in the tie.\n\nGeorginio Wijnaldum's first-half header was full reward for Liverpool laying siege to the Atletico goal for much of the first 90 minutes.\n\nIn the second half, Andrew Robertson was then inches away from a winner only for his header to crash against the woodwork.\n\nAnd yet, as the Kop sensed another memorable Champions League victory, Adrian - deputising for the injured Alisson - paid the price for a dreadful clearance as substitute Marcos Llorente pounced with a low finish to secure Atletico's crucial away goal.\n\nLlorente struck again with another composed finish in the 105th minute and with the spirit draining out of Liverpool and their supporters, former Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata adding insult to injury with a third in the dying seconds to send Atletico through to the last eight.\n• None 'I realise I am a really bad loser' - Klopp says Reds defeat 'doesn't feel right'\n\nThis game was, in many respects, a tale of two goalkeepers.\n\nThe magnificent Jan Oblak formed a formidable barrier for Atletico Madrid, his yellow shirt a colossal presence in his penalty area as he made nine saves and claimed countless crosses.\n\nIn contrast, Liverpool's mammoth effort was fatally undermined by the hapless Adrian, who also made an error that contributed to their FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Chelsea.\n\nThe Reds had finally established a measure of control through Firmino's goal, but once Adrian had hacked out a hopeless clearance and Llorente's shot beyond him into the net at the Kop end, Atletico were ruthless.\n\nKlopp looked and sounded suitably downcast last week when he announced his world-class Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson had suffered a hip injury, knowing he could make the difference to a Champions League tie that was always going to be decided on the finest of margins.\n\nAnd so it proved, Liverpool's morale and fighting spirit disappearing visibly after Adrian's mistake.\n\nLiverpool will still complete the formalities of their first Premier League title but they pride themselves on their status as European champions and this was a painful night.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Simeone has the last laugh against Liverpool\n\nAtletico Madrid arrived at Anfield with the usual reminders of how the stadium's atmosphere has broken the nerve and resilience of even the elite teams in the Champions League - as Barcelona found out in last season's semi-finals.\n\nDiego Simeone and his players are made of sterner stuff than that. They may have been under pressure for much of this game but not once did they buckle as they faced up to Liverpool's intensity and came out on top.\n\nAtletico simply love defending, each goal conceded almost a personal insult to Simeone - who seemed to relish Anfield's atmosphere - and his players.\n\nAfter Llorente scored Atletico's second, even Liverpool looked like a side who knew there was no way they would score two goals in such limited time to progress.\n\nThe La Liga side's approach may not be a thing of beauty but they are a brilliantly drilled team and this was another landmark triumph for the master coach Simeone.\n• None This was the first time Liverpool have failed to progress from a two-legged tie in European competition under Klopp, having won the previous 10.\n• None Liverpool have lost a home European game for the first time under Klopp, with this their first defeat at Anfield in Europe since October 2014.\n• None The Reds have fallen in the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2006.\n• None Atletico Madrid have progressed from five of their previous six Champions League knockout ties after winning the first leg, only failing in last season's last 16 against Juventus (2-0 first leg, 0-3 second leg).\n• None Liverpool have lost both legs of a Champions League knockout tie for the first time since the last-16 stage in 2005-06 against Benfica.\n• None This was the first match in the competition to see four goals scored in extra time.\n• None Llorente is only the second Atletico player to score twice as a substitute in a Champions League game after Sergio Aguero against Chelsea in November 2009.\n• None Firmino scored his first goal at Anfield in 20 games, last netting v Porto in April 2019 - 337 days ago.\n• None Four of Wijnaldum's five goals in the Champions League for Liverpool have come in the knockout rounds.\n• None Liverpool's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been directly involved in four goals in the Champions League this season (three goals, one assist) - his joint-best tally alongside 2014-15 when he was at Arsenal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Atlético de Madrid 3. Álvaro Morata (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcos Llorente with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The death toll from Covid-19 continues to rise in Iran.\n\nThe virus has now spread to every province in the country and people are fearful that the true scale of the outbreak is even worse than is being disclosed.\n\nA video circulating on social media shows a morgue in the city of Qom, full of dead bodies that are waiting to be tested for the coronavirus.", "Mr Salmond has pled not guilty to all 14 of the charges against him\n\nA senior Scottish government official has told the Alex Salmond trial that he had given her \"very sloppy\" kisses on the mouth and touched her bottom.\n\nThe woman, known as Woman A, said she had been employed by the SNP at the time, and had regularly worked with Mr Salmond.\n\nShe said Mr Salmond would \"often\" greet her by kissing her on the lips, which she said made her feel \"disgusted\".\n\nHe says he is innocent of all the allegations against him, which are said to have happened while he was serving as Scotland's first minister and the SNP leader.\n\nWoman A is the second of the 10 complainers to give evidence during the trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nShe told the court that she had worked alongside Mr Salmond \"almost every day\" while they were campaigning in 2008.\n\nThe witness said Mr Salmond would \"often come to greet me in a very familiar way - giving the impression he was going to give me a kiss on the cheek and normally end up kissing me on the lips\".\n\nShe said she did not encourage this and did not want it to happen, and had felt \"quite disgusted and embarrassed and kind of quite humiliated by it\".\n\nThe woman also said the \"very sloppy and kind of unpleasant\" kisses did not happen if other people were there, so she sometimes tried to take people with her to meet Mr Salmond.\n\nShe also claimed that, on three or four occasions, Mr Salmond would put his hand on her back and move it so it was \"on the side of my chest or on my bum\".\n\nThe woman added: \"I took the view it was deliberately. I had been around politicians in public places and nobody else did it. There was no need for it.\"\n\nShe said she began to carry a bag so it was between her and Mr Salmond when they were in the street, making it harder for him to reach her.\n\nWhen asked by prosecuting lawyer Alex Prentice QC why she had not asked Mr Salmond to stop, she replied: \"I liked my job, I didn't know him very well and he was the most powerful man in the country.\n\n\"I didn't know what would happen if I said 'no' or 'get off'. I had experienced volatile mood swings and behaviour from him and it was always easier to move away than risk infuriating or antagonising him.\"\n\nAlex Prentice QC (left) is leading the prosecution, with Gordon Jackson QC (right) heading Mr Salmond's defence team\n\nWoman A went on to describe an alleged incident that she claimed happened at a nightclub in Edinburgh in December 2010.\n\nShe claimed that Mr Salmond \"ran his hands down the curve of my body, over my hips, commenting: 'You look good, you've lost weight'.\"\n\nGordon Jackson QC, who is leading Mr Salmond's defence team, put it to Woman A that Mr Salmond also kissed members of the public on the lips, because \"that's the sort of man he was\".\n\nMr Jackson also said that the alleged incidents were \"absolutely nothing, they were not distressing in any way, shape or form\".\n\nWoman A responded by saying that Mr Jackson's interpretation was \"categorically wrong\".\n\nAnd she denied suggestions from Mr Jackson that she had encouraged other people to make complaints against Mr Salmond in an attempt to \"turn things that were trivial, nothing, into criminal charges\".\n\nThe witness said: \"I was not encouraging people to make a complaint. Some people asked me for advice, but in every case I said it was their decision to make.\"\n\nAnother of the complainers, an SNP politician known as Woman C, later told the court that Mr Salmond had once given her and her husband a lift in his ministerial car.\n\nWoman C said her husband was in the front seat next to Mr Salmond's driver while she sat next to Mr Salmond in the back. She said Mr Salmond put his hand on her leg, above her knee.\n\nShe said she had been \"embarrassed\" by it and hoped he would move his hand - but claimed he had instead left it on her leg until they arrived at their destination.\n\nWoman C refuted suggestions from Mr Salmond's lawyer that she had not told anyone about the incident at the time because it had not actually happened.\n\nShe said: \"I suppose when you look back at things you realise how much you excuse a person because of who they are. It is so hard to explain how much he meant to our party, and you just put things to one side.\n\n\"I didn't think it was nothing, it was because of who he is and what he was. Who on earth was I going to tell and what on earth were they going to do about it?\"\n\nThe trial is being held before senior judge Lady Dorrian and a jury of 15 members of the public\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, a third complainer denied ever having had a consensual sexual encounter with Alex Salmond.\n\nMr Salmond denies sexually assaulting the former Scottish government official, known as Woman H, in May 2014 and attempting to rape her a month later.\n\nGiving evidence for a third day, Women H said she had \"never been a willing participant of Alex Salmond's advances towards me\".\n\nWoman H had previously told the court that Mr Salmond \"pounced on her\" after a dinner at the first minister's official Bute House residence in June 2014.\n\nShe alleged that he pulled her clothes off, pushed her on to a bed and then lay naked on top of her despite her protests.\n\nMr Salmond is alleged to have attempted to rape Woman H in the first minister's Bute House residence in Edinburgh\n\nWoman H has previously denied suggestions by defence lawyer Shelagh McCall QC that she was not at the dinner in June 2014, and that there was no incident.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Ms McCall put it to the witness that the dinner in question had actually been at Bute House in August 2013, and had led to a consensual sexual encounter with Mr Salmond.\n\nWoman H replied: \"That's not true. I have never been a willing participant in Alex Salmond's advances towards me, and never will be.\"\n\nWoman H denied suggestions by Ms McCall that she had started to unbutton Mr Salmond's shirt as they were saying goodnight, kissed him and helped to pull his trousers down to his knees.\n\nThe witness insisted: \"I spent a large part of that evening trying to dodge his advances.\"\n\nMs McCall said the truth of the matter was that Mr Salmond's underpants were not down, just his trousers, during the encounter.\n\nBut Woman H said: \"Absolutely not, as I have got this horrific image of him being fully aroused and lying over me.\"\n\nDefence lawyer Shelagh McCall QC claimed that Woman H had a consensual sexual encounter with Mr Salmond in 2013\n\nWoman H also said that the evening had ended with Mr Salmond \"passing out drunk, snoring, exhausted by his attempts to get me to sleep with him, which I kept saying no to\".\n\nShe denied that there had been a discussion with Mr Salmond about how she had got \"carried away\", and that he had told her not to worry about it.\n\nThe court was later shown a video of a police interview with a celebrity who said he had been at a dinner in Bute House with Mr Salmond. He said he believed Woman H and a businesswoman were also there.\n\nWhen he was asked whether the dinner had been on the same date in June 2014 that Mr Salmond is alleged to have attempted to rape Woman H, the celebrity replied that it \"sounds about right\".\n\nThe celebrity said that the four people had shared a bottle of wine between them at the \"jovial\" dinner, but they were \"not really\" under the influence of alcohol.\n\nHe said he left Bute House at about 23:00. He said the businesswoman had already left by then, and that he remembered Mr Salmond and Woman H still being in the building.\n\nHe also said he had not seen anything that caused him any concern.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, the trial heard evidence from a businessman who said he had been at various Bute House dinners and remembered Woman H being \"friendly and comfortable\" with Mr Salmond.\n\nAnd a former member of Yes Scotland staff told the court that Woman H had never mentioned to him that she had been at a dinner with the celebrity.\n\nMr Salmond has pled not guilty to one charge of attempted rape, one assault with intent to rape, 10 sexual assaults and two indecent assaults.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have happened at various locations in Scotland between June 2008 and November 2014.", "Bernie Sanders is projected to lose Michigan, a state where he drew an adoring crowd of about 10,000 just two days ago.\n\nJonathan Turley, a law professor and BBC contributor who was visiting the college campus in Ann Arbor, spoke to supporters. He found clues that explain both the senator's popularity with young people - and also the limits of his appeal with his own older generation.\n\nNow, he has not just the numbers but the movement that he always dreamt of. Indeed, he is the movement. While some might not want socialism, everyone in this crowd desperately wants Sanders.\n\nArden Shapiro and Hazel Gordon are precisely why the Democratic establishment is so worried about this movement - and so seemingly incapable of tapping into its energy. While they would vote for Biden if forced to in an election against Trump, they see Sanders as the only true and clear voice in the race.\n\nArden said that she was \"really angry\" about the level of corporate control in our system perpetrated by both parties. A trans woman, Hazel said that she saw Sanders as the only person truly fighting to help people secure medical insurance, particularly mental health coverage.\n\nHazel said that she viewed Biden as taking the side of corporations and did not support anything she believed in. Arden would later help introduce Sanders at the rally and called on her fellow students to bring five friends to the polling places to secure a win in Michigan over the establishment.\n\nOthers were even more direct. There were the guys distributing \"Eat the Rich\" T-shirts. Another supporter carried a sign reading \"Make Racists Afraid Again\". Those images unnerve many traditional Democratic voters who see this movement as potentially careening out of control.", "One of the world's biggest music festivals has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nCoachella was set to take place next month in the California desert with Rage Against The Machine and Frank Ocean among the headliners.\n\nThe event's organiser Goldenvoice has now postponed it until October, at the request of local health authorities.\n\nThey hope to feature most of the same acts that were originally slated for April, reported the LA Times.\n\nLatest figures show the US has more than 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease and 28 deaths.\n\nThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is one of the world's most high-profile music events with many celebrity attendees.\n\nThis year hundreds of acts were set to perform including Travis Scott, Calvin Harris and Lana Del Rey.\n\nStagecoach, a country music festival organised by the same company, has also been moved from April to October.\n\n\"While this decision comes at a time of universal uncertainty, we take the safety and health of our guests, staff and community very seriously,\" Goldenvoice 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 Coachella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCoachella will now take place on the weekends of 9, 10 and 11 October and 16, 17 and 18 October, while Stagecoach will be held on 23, 24 and 25 October.\n\nThe event organiser said all purchased tickets will be honoured and anyone who bought a ticket will be notified about how to obtain a refund by 13 March.\n\nCoachella attracted some 250,000 attendees last year, while more than 70,000 people went to Stagecoach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nIt's the latest in a slew of cancellations of large gatherings, as the entertainment industry grapples with the outbreak of the virus around the world.\n\nThe arts festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, was called off for the first time in its 34-year history after the move was ordered by the city's mayor.\n\nPop stars Miley Cyrus and Madonna, as well as rock band Pearl Jam, have called off concerts.\n\nAll 70,000 cinemas have been closed in China since January, and all cinemas in Italy were ordered to shut their doors over the weekend.\n\nCinemas in some parts of France have also been closed in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.\n\nIn light of that, several big-budget films have seen their release dates postponed.\n\nThe latest James Bond movie, No Time To Die, which had been set to open in cinemas at the beginning of April, has been pushed back until November.\n\nOn Tuesday Sony Pictures said it was delaying the release of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway until August.", "Four new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by the Department of Health, bringing the total number of cases in Northern Ireland to 16.\n\nAll four cases are adults and one case involved travel from northern Italy.\n\nThree of the cases can be traced to a previously reported case that involved recent travel to northern Italy.\n\nMeanwhile, the Western Health Trust has asked people not to visit patients in its hospitals and community facilities unless it is \"absolutely essential\".\n\nIt also appealed to those attending appointments to come alone.\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 Public Health Agency is currently undertaking contact tracing for all four new cases in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a tweet, the Public Health Agency said that there have been 237 tests carried out in Northern Ireland, of which 221 have been negative.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 10 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Tuesday bringing the total to 34.\n\nIn the UK, six people have died from the virus while it has been confirmed that Health Minister Nadine Dorries has become the first MP to test positive for the illness.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting of the EU Council, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar said leaders agreed their highest priority \"must be protecting public health and human life preventing the spread of the virus and working to mitigate its impact on our people\".\n\n\"We agreed funding research in Europe to help develop new tests, new treatments and a vaccine as rapidly as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"We agreed the need for a coordinated approach for the procurement of medicines, medical devices and protective equipments.\"\n\nMr Varadkar said European leaders had also considered the potential economic impact of this crisis which, he said, could be \"severe and long lasting\".\n\nLeaders agreed the \"necessary flexibilities\" would be made available.\n\nHe said health and other relevant ministers would talk to each other on a daily basis.\n\nDisruption caused by the virus in Northern Ireland continues, with the first and deputy first ministers announcing the cancellation of their planned trip to Washington DC.\n\nNorthern Ireland's largest cinema chain has announced a 'seat separation' policy - in which every other seat will be left empty - while St Patrick's Day parades in Londonderry, Newry and Downpatrick have been cancelled.\n\nNorthern Ireland Finance Minister Conor Murphy met Treasury officials on Tuesday in London along with counterparts in Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe said he would work to ensure that Northern Ireland gets the necessary \"associated support\" from Westminster to mitigate any economic damage caused by coronavirus.\n\n\"I would intend to continue that conversation because as this unfolds, none of us know what the full impact will be,\" he told MLAs in Belfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This virus will continue to spread'\n\nDr Michael McBride, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, said he is anticipating \"increased numbers of cases over the next weeks and months\".\n\n\"That won't be a sign of failure but it will be evidence that this virus continues to spread and we will, at some point in time I anticipate, see the emergence of community transmission.\"\n\nHe added that no one in Northern Ireland had yet suffered from severe illness because of coronavirus and people \"can be reassured that for the vast majority of people this is a mild to moderate illness\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to Italy.\n\nAn FCO spokesman said: \"The advice is that anyone who arrives from Italy subsequent to the Italian government decision should now self-isolate for 14 days.\"\n\nOn Monday the Italian authorities extended strict quarantine measures to the entire country from Tuesday.\n\nIrish Tánaiste Simon Coveney has also upgraded advice to Irish citizens, recommending against travel to the whole of Italy.", "Rishi Sunak has offered a cocktail of measures to boost the spirits of pubs and drinkers affected by coronavirus and economic uncertainty.\n\nThe chancellor scrapped a planned increase in duty on beer and spirits, while tax on all other kinds of alcoholic drinks will also be frozen.\n\nThe small pub business rates discount will increase from £1,000 to £5,000.\n\nBut the measures are a \"double penalty'\" for those worst-affected by alcohol harm, charities say.\n\nThe 2020 Budget has offered an unexpected windfall for the alcohol industry, including tax breaks and cash giveaways.\n\nThe business rate discount for small pubs - those with a rateable value of less than £100,000 - will be increased from £1,000 to £5,000, partly because of the \"possible impact of coronavirus\".\n\nPlanned tax rises on beer and spirits were also scrapped, as part of a freezing on duty across all alcoholic drinks. This Budget marks only the second time that has happened in 20 years, the chancellor said.\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association described it as \"a great Budget for pubs, pub-goers and Britain's world-class brewing industry\".\n\nThe association says the chancellor's measures will save pub-goers £80m and safeguard 2,000 jobs.\n\nIt points out that other measures unveiled in the Budget will also provide a boost to many pubs, including the £3,000 small business relief grant and the temporary waiving of business rates for firms with a rateable value of £51,000 or less.\n\nBut an alcohol abuse charity said the government \"must stop placing industry profits ahead of health\".\n\n\"Cutting the price of alcohol while also cutting business rates, which help already-struggling local authorities to pay for alcohol treatment services, means a double penalty in today's Budget for those worst-affected by alcohol harm,\" said Lucy Holmes, director of Research and Policy at Alcohol Change UK.\n\nMr Sunak offered Scotch whisky makers a £1m support fund while the government lobbies the US to remove \"harmful tariffs\" on the product. There will also be a £10m research and development fund to help distilleries \"go green\".\n\nThe US - a market worth £1bn to Scotch whisky exporters - put a 25% tariff on single malt late last year.\n\n\"Although the chancellor's measures are welcome, there's no way they come anywhere close to mitigating the impact of US tariffs on the Scotch whisky industry,\" said Wendy Chamberlain, Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife.\n\nThe Scotch whisky trade body said the industry needed \"continued support\".\n\n\"We are pleased that the chancellor underlined the UK government's commitment to resolving these damaging tariffs quickly, while also announcing measures to support scotch whisky in a challenging period - including through a green energy fund to support our industry's leading work to decarbonise the energy we use and achieve net-zero,\" said Scotch Whisky Association chief executive Karen Betts.", "Railways will be among the infrastructure to see a boost in funding after Wednesday's budget\n\nThe government will promise to raise infrastructure spending to its highest in decades in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nIt will pledge to triple the average net investment made over the last 40 years into rail and road, affordable housing, broadband and research.\n\nThe Treasury told the BBC it would lead to the \"highest levels [of investment] in real terms since 1955\" - more than £600bn over the five-year Parliament.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will present the Budget less than a month into the job.\n\nIt comes as the government faces calls for increased investment in a number of sectors to help tackle the coronavrius outbreak.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS would get \"whatever resources it needs\" during the crisis.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was looking at extra financial help for individuals and businesses if measures against the virus meant they were out of pocket.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Sunak will promise a gross amount of over £600bn for capital spending - money put into projects like roads and rail - by the middle of 2025.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"We have listened and will now deliver on our promise to level up the UK, ensuring everyone has the same chances and opportunities in life, wherever they live.\n\n\"By investing historic amounts in British innovation and world-class infrastructure, we will rebalance opportunities and lay the foundations for a decade of growth for everybody.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the decision marked a significant increase in the amount of spending on capital projects compared to the period since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979.\n\nHowever, she said it was not yet clear if the government would stick to its own fiscal rules set out in its manifesto.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the plans were \"exaggerated claims\".\n\nHe added: \"We've heard it all before. \"The Chancellor seems to have forgotten we have to dig ourselves out of the £192bn hole in our infrastructure spend created by his government.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a track record of boastful claims followed by non delivery and it looks like he is running true to form.\"\n\nIf you wondered what the government's new buzz phrase of \"levelling up\" was meant to mean, the Conservatives will try to provide the answer tomorrow.\n\nIn his first budget, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will commit to the biggest increase on spending on capital - roads, rail, research - that there has been in generations.\n\nHe's expected to promise to sign a hypothetical cheque of more than £600bn of gross public sector investment, to be cashed by the middle of 2025, we understand.\n\nAnd the Treasury tonight claims it will push public investment in real terms to levels not seen since 1955.\n\nBut it's wise to be careful with the historical claims. The economy is totally different to that era.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nThe government is also set to pledge £2.5bn to fixing potholes in England as part of the Budget.\n\nThe Treasury said the funding package would also be available to local authorities to start resurfacing works, preventing potholes from appearing in the first place.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell said the policy was part of a \"gimmicky grab-bag of projects\".", "If you wondered what the government's new buzz phrase of 'levelling up' was meant to mean, the Conservatives will try to provide the answer tomorrow.\n\nIn his first budget, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will commit to the biggest increase on spending on capital - roads, rail, research - that there has been in generations.\n\nHe's expected to promise to sign a hypothetical cheque of more than £600bn of gross public sector investment, to be cashed by the middle of 2025, we understand.\n\nAnd the Treasury tonight claims it will push public investment in real terms to levels not seen since 1955.\n\nIt's wise to be careful with the historical claims. The economy is totally different to that era.\n\nAs with any Budget, the words in black and white in the Treasury documents tomorrow, the final numbers in the columns matter enormously, and more of course, than the preloaded political messaging.\n\nIt's worth noting too, that public sector investment is normally counted in the 'net', not the 'gross' figure, which makes the numbers sound more impressive.\n\nAnd more than anything else, remember capital spending on shiny new projects is not the same as day-to-day spending on schools, prisons, hospitals and other vital public services.\n\nPromising big bucks for big projects won't make the very real strain on some public services go away.\n\nBut tomorrow will represent a notable and significant gear-change in the kind of levels of investment spending we have seen in recent decades, certainly since the period when Margaret Thatcher was in charge - if, of course, the government manages to find enough projects that are ready and waiting to receive the cash and they can get it out of the door.\n\nLabour is already out tonight saying, 'we've heard it all before'.\n\nThe new resident of No 11 will also confirm that the Treasury will change the way it calculates the benefit of public spending - to include how it spreads wealth around the country, not how much it contributes in total.\n\nThat sounds academic, but it matters a lot.\n\nGovernment number crunchers will no longer just be looking at the national bottom line when considering whether projects are good value for the taxpayers' money, but how it affects the economy around the country.\n\nConservative strategists hope tomorrow will mark a down payment to voters who turned to their party for the first time at the election in December.\n\nBut some parts of the public sector will still feel the pinch.", "PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nThe men in a car that dragged a police officer to his death tried to get away \"at all costs\", a court has heard.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was killed when he got caught in a towing strap, trailing behind a car trying to evade him.\n\nThe defendants' Seat Toledo had close calls with other vehicles on the road as they tried to avoid capture from pursuing police, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHenry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murdering the 28-year-old last August.\n\nBrian Altman QC, prosecuting, said Mr Long was driving when PC Harper, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, responded to a report of a quad bike theft near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, with PC Andrew Shaw.\n\nHe said PC Christopher Bushnell, in another car, pursued the Seat over the Kennet and Avon Canal, which is only wide enough for one vehicle to cross at a time.\n\nSteph Fox, who was driving in the opposite direction, had to swerve into a hedge to avoid being hit.\n\nMr Altman said the Seat headed towards Ufton Court, where a wedding was being held.\n\nAfter failing to overtake a coach collecting guests, the Seat turned around and drove back in the direction from which it had come in the defendants' bid \"not to get caught at all costs\", Mr Altman said.\n\nThe court heard PC Bushnell, who had stopped in a fork in the road, saw the Seat heading towards him.\n\nMr Altman said: \"In his view, the driver had deliberately chosen to drive straight at him.\n\n\"Had he not responded by pulling to his nearside, he would also have been struck.\n\n\"This evidence further demonstrates the defendants' determination to escape and not get caught at all costs.\"\n\nThe court heard call data from phones suggested the three defendants headed to the Four Houses Corner caravan site.\n\nPolice arrived there at about 23:45 BST and officers were directed to the \"hot\" Seat Toledo by the police helicopter, the jury was told.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nEarlier the court heard how PC Harper and PC Shaw \"chanced upon\" the defendants' vehicle towing the bike by a crane strap, which was wound around the handlebars.\n\nMr Altman said the defendant on the bike dismounted and unhitched it, and PC Harper got out of the police car and began to run to intercept him.\n\nThe court heard PC Harper did not realise where the loop of the strap was, and stepped into it with both feet.\n\nAt about 23:30 BST he \"disappeared\" from the view of the dashcam of his police car, the jury was told.\n\nMr Long \"floored\" the car, driving at an average speed of 42.5mph, with the policeman \"shackled behind\" the vehicle for more than a mile, the court heard.\n\nWitness Jack Whittenham, who was driving on the A4 at the time, said he initially thought it was a deer attached to the car.\n\nHe said he saw a person \"trapped by both ankles with arms flailing around\", which he described as \"like a rag doll\".\n\nArriving on the scene, PC Andy Kemp turned into Ufton Lane and realised PC Harper had \"sustained utterly catastrophic injuries\", Mr Altman said.\n\nThe court heard pathologist Dr Fegan-Earl, who carried out post-mortem tests, said PC Harper fell \"violently to the ground in an unprotected manner, sustaining a head injury which would have resulted in deep unconsciousness\".\n\nHe gave the cause of death as multiple injuries.\n\nPC Andrew Harper sustained a head injury when he hit the ground\n\nMr Altman said a reconstruction of the events by police took place in September, which involved using a mannequin.\n\nThe barrister said Simon Hall, a consultant of the Transport Research Group, drove the car and \"it was his opinion that anyone driving the Seat could not fail to be aware that something of significant weight was being dragged behind the vehicle\".\n\nMr Altman also read out a statement used by Mr Long's solicitor when he was interviewed under caution.\n\nMr Long claimed he was watching films with family members at the caravan site on the night of the killing, and said he was \"not involved\" in the death of PC Harper.\n\nMr Altman said Mr Long said he had \"never been to a house... looking at quad bikes\".\n\nMr Altman told the jury: \"In view of his acceptance now that he was the driver of that car, he was clearly lying.\"\n\nPC Simon Denton, who arrested Mr Long on suspicion of murder, recalled Mr Long saying: \"Look at me. Do I look like a murderer?\"\n\nIn a second interview, the court heard, that when he was asked about having a mobile phone Mr Long replied he could not use one because he did not know how to read.\n\nConcluding the prosecution's case, Mr Altman said: \"Not only did [Mr Long] know he was dragging a policeman, but also he intended by his actions to dislodge him from the strap to make good on what had been the plan all along.\n\n\"The fact that neither Long nor the other two defendants had planned for or even wanted Constable Harper to become caught in the strap is neither here nor there.\"\n\nMr Altman said while Mr Long, as the driver, was the \"primary party or the principal\", the other two were \"secondary parties\".\n\nHe added: \"With Long... as part of their criminal venture, if the need arose, really serious bodily harm would be meted out to anyone who sought to disrupt them or prevent their escape or apprehend them.\"\n\nMr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The pair deny manslaughter.\n\nThe trial is expected to last six weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If schools close, classes could be cancelled for as long as 16 weeks\n\nSchool closures have not been ruled out in the future to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, according to Health Minister Vaughan Gething.\n\nHe said it could be \"effective later on\" and it was \"possible\" the closures could be for as long as 16 weeks.\n\nThe minister also said it was \"entirely possible\" the over-70s would be advised to self-isolate for up to four months.\n\nThree universities have announced plans to cease face-to-face teaching in a bid to protect staff and students.\n\nOn Sunday, there were 94 confirmed virus cases in Wales.\n\nBut it is believed the actual number of people infected could be higher.\n\n\"I can guarantee that some of the choices we will have to make in the coming weeks ahead will not be popular,\" Mr Gething told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"We are not going to close schools tomorrow. That is not going to happen,\" he told the Sunday Supplement programme.\n\n\"Schools may close if it is a necessary measure.\"\n\nMr Gething said closures may not be an \"effective intervention\" at this time, about 10 to 14 weeks before an estimated peak in cases, especially if parents had to go to work and rely on grandparents to look after children.\n\n\"There are parents that are worried and think that closing schools will keep children safe and yet children and young people are one of the lowest risk groups,\" he said.\n\n\"When we're talking about the level of risk that we face, with the numbers of people that we think are going to be unwell, with the numbers of people we think are, actually, not going to survive, you have to do what is right first.\n\n\"You have to think two or three steps ahead,\" he said.\n\nIn a tweet, Merthyr Tydfil council said Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Santes Tudful would be closed for deep cleaning on Monday as a \"precautionary measure due to a staff member receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus over the weekend\".\n\nIn a letter to parents, Cardiff High School said it had cancelled all daily assemblies and closure \"may be inevitable\".\n\n\"Whilst we are currently adhering to advice and remaining open as a school, we are mindful of the fact that closure may be inevitable in the coming weeks,\" the letter said.\n\n\"In order to prepare for such an eventuality, we are in the process of collating online and hard copies of learning material, including revision resources for pupils about to embark upon external examinations.\"\n\nQualifications Wales and the WJEC were monitoring the situation, it added.\n\nBangor University has suspended all face-to-face teaching \"with immediate effect\" for the \"health, safety and wellbeing\" of staff, students and the wider community and would resume teaching online on 23 March.\n\nCardiff University said it would be phased out \"as fast as possible\" with \"almost all content covered remotely\" from 23 March.\n\nSwansea University has also announced it is suspending lectures from 23 March.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University has cancelled its open days in April and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David said its campuses remained open although \"it does seem possible, although not inevitable, that some form of closure of part, or all, of the university may be necessary\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Wales, Mr Gething said \"extraordinary measures\" would have to be taken to tackle the virus and save lives.\n\n\"There will be steps I'm pretty sure we'll take in a not very longer period of time in asking many more people to live at home for a long period of time,\" he said.\n\nAsked if older people will have to self-isolate for up to four months as being discussed in England, he said: \"It's entirely possible that we will make that choice to give that advice to the public in the coming days or weeks and that shouldn't be a surprise.\n\n\"The challenge is when and then what we do to continue to provide health and care to those people but also normal basics like food supplies.\"\n\nHe also warned that action being adopted in the NHS to cope with a peak in cases, such as cancelling planned operations, could be felt long into the future.\n\n\"It's not just the several months ahead us because, actually, the measures we have taken now probably mean the NHS performance for several years into the future will be directly affected,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total up to 34\n\nWhen schools shut in Northern Ireland over coronavirus it will be for at least 16 weeks, Arlene Foster has said.\n\nThe first minister was speaking after a meeting between senior ministers from the NI Executive and Irish government.\n\nTwo primary schools have said they will close voluntarily, the first primary schools in NI to do so.\n\nThe two are Lurgan Model Primary School, in County Armagh, and St Scire's in Trillick, County Tyrone.\n\nLurgan Model said it would close for the week, while St Scire's will close on Monday ahead of planned St Patrick's closures on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nFive new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in NI while a second person has died in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThere have been 129 confirmed cases in the Republic of Ireland while coronavirus deaths have doubled in 24 hours in the UK.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers met counterparts include Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar in Armagh on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mrs Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill were both still split over the issue of school closures.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill repeated her call for them to be shut immediately, in line with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, in a statement on social media, Lurgan Model Primary School said it remain closed all this week.\n\nThe school said it was already due to be shut on Monday and Tuesday due to St Patrick's Day and will bring planned closures due for May forward to this week.\n\nIt is the first school in Northern Ireland to close voluntarily over the outbreak.\n\nThe school said it \"will not officially reopen until Monday, 23 March\" but will \"monitor the situation of this incoming week\".\n\nSt Scire's, in Trillick, said the school would stay closed on Monday ahead of planned closures on Tuesday and Wednesday for St Patrick's Day. It added that the situation will be reviewed prior to Thursday.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in Armagh, Mrs Foster said that schools will close \"when we are advised on the medical evidence\".\n\n\"Children will be at home for quite a considerable period of time, given that when we do close the schools they will be closed for at least 16 weeks.\n\n\"Then of course you are into the summer period, so they will be off school for a very long time.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said all parties in the executive agreed schools would have to close but it was a matter of timing.\n\nMichelle O'Neill repeated her call for schools to close\n\nShe said: \"In my opinion schools should close now. I think we need to be consistent across this island\n\n\"I think the fact that you can have two schools a mile apart and one school's open and one school's closed that's a very confusing picture and a very confusing message for the public.\"\n\nMs O'Neill first called for schools to close immediately on Friday, a day after she, along with First Minister Arlene Foster, said the executive did not believe the situation had reached that stage.\n\nOn Saturday, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also called for schools to close, after Archibishop Eamon Martin, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, wrote to NI's education minister to ask him to consider closures.\n\nHowever, Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said the main differences between the two governments was over timing.\n\nHe said the Northern Ireland Executive and Irish government shared the same objective in slowing the advance of coronavirus but it was inevitable there would be differences in how they approached it.\n\nHe added: \"But the differences that exist are mostly around timing.\n\n\"What there isn't any difference about is our common objective, which is to slow down this virus in its tracks and push it back as much as possible and limit the harm to human health and human life.\"\n\nMrs Foster said both governments had \"very coherent messages\".\n\nMr Varadkar also explained that the short notice of Irish school closures given to counterparts in Northern Ireland and the UK was \"not how we intended it to happen\".\n\n\"I absolutely guarantee you I did not intend to make that announcement or speak to Irish people on the steps of Blair House in Washington DC,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a plan in place to move to delay phase. We had to bring that forward almost overnight.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that Irish officials gave \"as many people a heads up as we could, including authorities here in Northern Ireland\" but it was also \"important that the Irish people should hear the news first from me and from the government\".\n\n\"That's why the notice that we gave people here and elsewhere was so short but there was no perfect way of doing this unfortunately and I appreciate the understanding of the first minister and deputy first minister,\" he added.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney and Irish Health Minister Simon Harris also attended the meeting.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald - who was not at the meeting - said the UK's response to coronavirus \"should be rejected\" and is \"totally unacceptable in the north of Ireland\".\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.", "Mark Carney is the first non-Briton to lead the Bank of England in its 325-year history\n\nMark Carney steps down as Bank of England governor this weekend after almost seven years in the job.\n\nThe Canadian oversaw big changes at the Bank, which was given more power in the wake of the financial crisis.\n\nHe also led efforts to support the economy through Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMr Carney will leave the Bank more open and diverse than when he joined in July 2013, but his tenure has not been without controversy.\n\nHere are some of the changes that happened on his watch.\n\nThe world was very different in 2013. In the UK, economic growth was gaining traction, but unemployment was still high, at close to 8%.\n\nThis led to speculation about the timing of the first post-crisis interest rate rise.\n\nThe Bank believed the economic recovery needed more time to take hold.\n\nIt wanted to reassure people that borrowing costs would not rise any time soon, even if growth picked up.\n\nMr Carney had previously done this in Canada, which became the first G7 nation to raise interest rates after the global crisis.\n\nSo the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates tried something similar.\n\nIt said it wouldn't even start thinking about rate rises until unemployment fell to 7%.\n\nThe Bank also added some conditions that would overrule this \"forward guidance\". These included any signs of runaway inflation, or threats to financial stability.\n\nBut unemployment started falling much faster than the MPC had anticipated, quickly dipping below the 7% threshold.\n\nDavid Miles, a bank policymaker between 2009 and 2015, was in favour of the policy at the time. He now says the various caveats made forward guidance confusing.\n\nThe quick drop in unemployment raised speculation over interest rates. The Bank later changed its guidance to state that any rises would be \"limited and gradual\".\n\nMr Miles, an economics professor at Imperial College, London, said: \"The problem always was that any explicit and public rule to guide future policy would need to be complicated and contain many caveats if it was one that allowed the MPC to react to unexpected events.\n\n\"But that meant the guidance was of the form 'we will do X unless Y or Z were to happen in which case, then unless Q has happened, we will...'. I think in retrospect we got this wrong.\"\n\nMartin Weale, another former MPC member who voted against the policy, agrees: \"With hindsight, people found it much too complicated. I suppose they wanted a simpler story.\"\n\nMr Carney also came under fire for hinting at rate rises but not following through.\n\nMP Pat McFadden famously compared the Bank to an \"unreliable boyfriend\" for sending mixed messages to British households.\n\nMr Carney has stressed all guidance is based on an \"expectation not a promise\", with interest rate decisions always data dependent.\n\nMichael Saunders, who currently sits on the MPC, said forward guidance is very useful to people who don't follow interest rate movements closely.\n\n\"Giving general guidance on the direction of interest rates over the next quarter to few years is very useful, allowing [people] to make well-informed financial choices,\" he recently told MPs.\n\nMr Carney also oversaw the Bank of England's introduction of plastic banknotes\n\nThe vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 surprised investors, with the value of the pound plummeting against the dollar and euro.\n\nMr Carney addressed the nation shortly after David Cameron resigned as prime minister in a bid to assure everyone that it was business as usual.\n\nHe said commercial banks would have enough cash, and worthy borrowers would have no problem getting loans. The Bank was well prepared and would take all necessary steps to ensure economic and financial stability.\n\nPolicymakers later cut interest rates to a fresh low of 0.25%, restarted its money printing programme and designed a new scheme to encourage lending in a world of low rates.\n\nMark Carney addresses the press at the Bank of England in the wake of the 2016 Brexit vote\n\nHowever, some said Mr Carney's pre-Brexit interventions were too political.\n\nThe Governor warned ahead of the vote that it could tip the economy into recession.\n\nSeparate Bank analysis said choosing to leave the European Union would hit economic growth, stoke inflation and raise unemployment.\n\nMr Weale, a professor at King's college London, was involved in producing the Bank's pre-vote analysis.\n\nHe said: \"The Bank was obviously in a difficult position. On the one hand people wanted to know its views. On the other hand it risked being seen as partisan if it offered them.\"\n\nInterest rates were just 0.5% when Mark Carney joined the Bank of England. They're now even lower, at 0.25%.\n\nWith little room for rates to go lower still, the Bank's interest rate setters had to find new ways to support the economy.\n\nAs well as increasing the Bank's bond buying - or quantitative easing (QE) programme - policymakers started buying corporate debt in the wake of the Brexit vote.\n\nThey also created a new Term Funding Scheme (TFS) to support bank lending immediately after the referendum.\n\nIt offered cheap money - on the condition that commercial banks lent the cash to customers. This protected bank profit margins and got cash to worthy borrowers.\n\nUnder Mr Carney's leadership, the Bank also took steps to rein in borrowing without using interest rates.\n\nThe Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) took action in 2014 to prevent another housing bubble by imposing limits on the amount people can borrow to buy a home.\n\nMark Carney talks to UK chancellor Rishi Sunak (left) ahead of the Budget. Mr Carney announced a new Term Funding Scheme targeted at small businesses to help them deal with the impact of the coronavirus\n\nMr Carney's transparency drive means interest rate setters now meet eight times a year instead of 12, and publish information about those meetings alongside decisions.\n\nThe reforms came after a review by former US central banker Kevin Warsh.\n\nWhile the changes have been widely welcomed, Mr Miles described a decision to publish transcripts of some of the MPC's conversations as \"wholly negative\".\n\nHe said the changes came after pressure from the Commons Treasury Select Committee.\n\n\"My observation was that it much reduced the usefulness of the decision meeting because most of the MPC members - and Mark Carney was an exception - decided they would simply read out pre-prepared statements of their view and their vote. Debate and open discussion dwindled.\"\n\nMr Weale said he also started reading pre-prepared statements and described his comments as more \"stilted\". \"I became more reluctant to revise what I was saying in light of what other people had said.\"\n\nTranscripts started being kept in 2015, and will be published with an eight year lag.\n\nMr Carney has spoken out about climate change risks\n\nThe governor has consistently highlighted the threat to the financial system from climate change.\n\nHe has warned that extreme weather events like hurricanes, heatwaves and floods pose significant risks to banks and insurers, which could end up suffering heavy losses.\n\nMr Carney and other global leaders have been trying to get companies to calculate their exposure to climate risks.\n\nIt's a drive he will continue in his new role as UN special envoy for climate action and finance.", "As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise, so too does the the impact on daily life around England. BBC News looks at how people up and down the country have been responding.\n\nConcerns about crowds certainly seem to have struck shoppers, with a number of shopping centres and high streets noticeably quieter than an average Saturday.\n\nBirmingham's bull was kitted out in full St Patrick's Day garb but the usual selfie-taking shoppers gathered around the local landmark were nowhere to be seen.\n\nThe city's Bullring shopping centre was markedly quieter than usual early on Saturday.\n\nIn London, there were still plenty of shoppers in the capital's major retail areas like Oxford Street, but things were quieter.\n\nThe same goes for tourism hotspots like Buckingham Palace where visitors could be seen taking in the sights wearing face masks.\n\nLondon's public transport system - known for its rush hour crowds - has been emptier in recent days.\n\nStreet performers had fewer people to entertain in Trafalgar Square\n\nRetailers in Above Bar, Southampton's main shopping street, said they had been feeling the impact.\n\nBoots optician Carol Betts said five of her patients had cancelled on Saturday morning, which she put down to fears about close contact.\n\n\"I haven't seen any patients for more than two hours.\n\n\"We can't keep hand sanitiser in the store for love nor money - as soon as you put it out, it's gone.\"\n\nOptician Carol Betts said many people had cancelled appointments with her\n\nStall owner Vinnie Singh said footfall was down and blamed news coverage.\n\n\"You can see it today. The media is making it sound worse. Scaring and frightening people is not the way forward,\" he said.\n\nLongsands Fish Kitchen in Tynemouth said it was very much business as usual for them\n\nOn the other hand, in the coastal resort of Tynemouth in North Tyneside, the outbreak does not seem to have deterred the weekend crowds.\n\nLongsands Fish Kitchen said it was very much business as usual, with a \"lot of footfall at both the restaurant and the takeaway\".\n\nWhile there had been a few cancellations, the spaces had \"very quickly filled up\", they said.\n\nYork city centre has been quieter during the week but was busy with shoppers on Saturday\n\nMeanwhile many are reporting that their local supermarkets are being hit by panic buying.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nFor some, Saturday is a day for sport - whether playing or watching.\n\nBut with all professional football suspended, Saturday's biggest sporting event in London was Sutton United's clash with Hartlepool United.\n\nA bumper crowd turned up for the game, with some of those in attendance saying they had done so because other matches they were due to go to had been cancelled.\n\nThe National League announced on Friday that fixtures in its three divisions will go ahead as planned.\n\nSutton chairman, Bruce Elliot, said he thought it would have a \"serious affect on us, other football clubs and other businesses as well\" had the game been cancelled.\n\nNo football will be played at Tottenham Hotspur's £1bn stadium this weekend...\n\nBut Gander Green Lane will still be welcoming fans to Sutton\n\nIn the East Midlands Notts County fan Iris Smith said she was \"not nervous\" about going to watch her team play Eastleigh as \"the virus could get us anywhere\".\n\nShe extended an invite to fans of city rivals Nottingham Forest to visit Meadow Lane after their match against Sheffield Wednesday was called off. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAway from football, the Badminton All England Championships in Birmingham and the first rounds of the boxing Olympic qualifiers at London's Copper Box Arena both went ahead as planned..\n\nOrganisers said the annual Bath half marathon would take place on Sunday because it was \"too late to cancel or postpone the event\".\n\nBorderway UK Dairy Expo in Carlisle is the largest event of its kind in the country\n\nA major agricultural show in Cumbria has gone ahead, albeit with reduced attendance.\n\nBorderway UK Dairy Expo in Carlisle is the largest of its type in the country, featuring hundreds of dairy cattle and dozens of trade stands reflecting all sectors of the industry.\n\nThere was a huge drop in the number of farmers and exhibitors attending - an estimated 1,000 instead of the usual 5,000 - and there are concerns for the future.\n\nDavid Pritchard, joint managing director of Harrison and Hetherington which organises the show, said: \"Looking ahead it's going to be very difficult. The summer shows do look in jeopardy.\n\n\"We've got a big event in November which we'll be closely looking at for the next few months.\"\n\nMany public buildings are offering increased hand washing and sanitising facilities", "Roman Catholic churches in England are \"preparing for a time\" when the celebration of Mass may have to \"come to an end\", the Catholic leader in England and Wales has said.\n\nCatholics have an obligation to go to Mass every Sunday.\n\nBut large gatherings could be banned in the UK from as early as next weekend, as the coronavirus continues to spread.\n\nThe Church of England is also following these procedures, as well as refraining from passing collection plates around.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has urged mosques, madrasas and Muslim community centres to follow the governments hygiene practices.\n\nIt also urged mosques to have contingency plans in place for Ramadan - which begins in the second half of April - as it may have to suspend mass gatherings.\n\nThe United Synagogue asked its members to refrain from shaking hands and kissing religious artefacts, such as communal siddurim, which is a Jewish prayer book.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols said Catholic churches were \"adjusting\" to minimise the spread of infection.\n\nHe said: \"We are preparing for a time when the churches should not be used to gather big numbers of people together, so we might come to an end of the celebration of Mass or other services.\"\n\nMany churches have already brought in measures to avoid exposing congregations to the virus.\n\nIn some churches, holy water has been removed from the entrances, the sign of peace - normally a handshake - has been replaced by bowing and churchgoers can no longer drink wine from shared chalices.\n\nChurch ministers are also washing their hands before distributing communion.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Radio 4's Today programme, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said: \"These are not the essential parts of mass,\" adding that he hoped everyone will be \"cooperative and calm\".\n\nHowever, he said: \"The presence of the church and the space that it offers will be very important in the coming months,\" adding that some churches might also move to live-stream services.\n\n\"Even if the priest is there with one helper, we can stream them and people can join in from home and gather if they wish on a Sunday to follow the mass and say their prayers together,\" he said.\n\nHe added that, in his view, churches would \"always remain open\" because they were \"places where people can go, they can sit quietly, they can pray there's, plenty of space in them and there are no health risks.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to speak to engineering firms on Monday about whether they can shift production lines to building NHS ventilators.\n\nIt comes amid growing concern about a shortage of the life-saving equipment as coronavirus infections increase.\n\nCarmakers and the construction equipment firm JCB are among manufacturers to be contacted.\n\nDowning Street said it wanted the manufacturing sector \"to come together to help the country\".\n\n\"Preparing for the spread of the coronavirus outbreak is a national priority and we're calling on the manufacturing industry and all those with relevant expertise who might be able to help to come together to help the country tackle this national crisis,\" Downing Street said.\n\n\"We need to step up production of vital equipment such as ventilators so that we can all help the most vulnerable, and we need businesses to come to us and help in this national effort.\"\n\nHowever, BBC business editor Simon Jack said that manufacturers were far from ready to switch production.\n\nOne company told him that comparisons with the accelerated production of Spitfire aircraft during World War Two were misplaced as there was no accepted design nor guarantee components could be sourced quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Getting through this is going to be a national effort\"\n\nIt is understood one subject on the agenda during the prime minister's talks with industry on Monday is whether specialist firms that make ventilators and other critical equipment might be prepared to share their intellectual property.\n\nEngineers have already been asked to draw up plans to quickly produce more ventilators. And on Sunday evening, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat tweeted: \"The Prime Minister is calling for a National Effort for Ventilator production. We have been inundated with offers.\n\n\"If you produce ventilators please call the BEIS Business Support helpline on 0300 456 3565. A specific team receiving these calls will start at 10am tomorrow.\"\n\nOn Sunday's BBC Andrew Marr show, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said engineering firms should consider switching some manufacturing to help ramp production of the vital equipment. He accepted it was the kind of policy normally reserved for times of war.\n\n\"We've got high quality engineering in this country,\" Mr Hancock said. \"We want anybody who has the manufacturing capability to turn to the manufacture of ventilators, to do that.\"\n\nVentilators are vital in the treatment of patients whose lungs have been attacked by the infection. The health secretary told Sky News that the country currently has 5,000 ventilators but said it would need \"many times more than that\".\n\nBut questions remain over how engineering firms with no experience of producing ventilators will be able start manufacturing the complex medical devices.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the chairman JCB, Lord Bamford, said: \"We have been approached by the prime minister to see if we can help with the production of ventilators.\n\n\"We have research and engineering teams actively looking at the request at the moment,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he continued: \"It's unclear as yet if we can assist, but as a British company, we will do whatever we can to help during the unprecedented times our country is facing.\"\n\nManufacturing firm, Unipart, confirmed that it was involved in the discussions and aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said it was \"keen to do whatever we can\".\n\nIt is not just manufacturing firms that have offered their services. Hotel chain Best Western has said it could turn its properties into temporary hospitals if the NHS needed additional bed space during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe company said it had seen a surge in cancellations over the last month due to the outbreak.\n\n\"If the NHS wants additional bed space, and we can partner with other companies to provide the right medical equipment and supplies, and we can do it safely, then we would be willing to start having those conversations immediately,\" the hotel chain's boss, Rob Paterson, said.\n\nManufacturers asked by the government to produce thousands of ventilators to help save the lives of seriously affected victims of coronavirus are not ready to fill the demand.\n\nAlthough firms including JCB, Unipart, Rolls-Royce and others are in close conversation with the government, no detailed blueprint for increased manufacture of the life-saving equipment currently exists.\n\nOne manufacturer told the BBC that comparisons with the accelerated manufacture of Spitfire aircraft during World War Two were misplaced, as there was no accepted design. Even if there was, there is no guarantee the components could be sourced in time to even start production in the next two months.\n\nVentilators are vital as medical experts estimate that between 10% and 20% of those who succumb to the virus will need critical care. Many of those will need help breathing.\n\nAlthough firms stand ready and able to produce more ventilators, a lack of clarity on design specifications and component sourcing mean that production remains many weeks away.", "Public Health Wales said people with symptoms should stay at home for seven days\n\nPeople who think they may have contracted the coronavirus no longer need to call NHS 111 in Wales.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) is advising those with a fever or a new persistent cough to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nIt said those people should not to attend a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital and only contact NHS 111 if they \"cannot cope\" with the symptoms at home or their condition worsens.\n\nThe new advice came as confirmed cases in Wales rose to 124 on Monday.\n\nHowever, the true number of cases is likely to be higher.\n\n\"People no longer need to contact NHS 111 if they think they may have contracted novel coronavirus (Covid-19),\" said Dr Giri Shankar, incident director for the outbreak response at PHW.\n\n\"Instead, anyone who has a high temperature or a new continuous cough should stay at home for seven days.\n\n\"They should only contact NHS 111 if they feel they cannot cope with their symptoms at home, their condition gets worse, or their symptoms do not get better after seven days.\"\n\nThe public has been urged to play a \"crucial role in containing the spread\" of the virus by health experts.\n\nChris Williams said transmission could be reduced if people self-isolated if they had any symptoms and washed their hands.\n\nThe increasing number of cases has prompted some universities in Wales to announce plans to stop face-to-face teaching.\n\nBangor University has said all lectures have been cancelled with immediate effect, and will move online next week.\n\nCardiff University and Swansea University have said they will be moving to online teaching over the coming week.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity St David said it was also suspending campus classroom lessons on Monday.\n\nYouth organisation the Urdd has announced the cancellation of all local and regional Eisteddfods, as well as the postponement of the National Eisteddfod until next year.\n\nIn addition, the Urdd will close all three of its residential centres at Llangrannog, Cardiff and Glan Llyn from Friday, 20 March.\n\nBut the Welsh Government has said closing schools at this stage \"would do little to protect those most vulnerable such as grandparents who may then become childcare providers\".\n\nIt follows calls from members of the Welsh Youth Parliament to close all educational institutions in Wales.\n\n\"Now is the time to ensure that all schools, colleges and universities are closed, that young people are kept from mass gathering environments such as schools,\" said a letter signed by 20 of the 60 members of the group - all aged between 11 and 18.\n\nAll school inspections in Wales have been suspended to allow staff \"to focus fully on the wellbeing of their learners, their staff and their families,\" Estyn's chief inspector Meilyr Rowlands said.", "Visiting at all sites, including Morriston (pictured), Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, has been reduced\n\nPatients in hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot are to be allowed visitors for just one hour a day in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it was also introducing a one visitor at a time policy immediately.\n\nVisiting at all sites, including Morriston, Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, will run from 15:00 GMT.\n\nIt said those with suspected COVID-19 could not have visitors.\n\nThe health board said its measures include no child visitors.\n\nThe rules \"may be relaxed\" for palliative care patients, the health board added.\n\nThe restrictions apply to all sites, including community and mental health wards.\n\nIt apologised for the inconvenience or distress caused by the restrictions.\n\nPowys Teaching Health Board has said it had no restrictions in place at the moment.\n\nHywel Dda University Health Board advised families to restrict visiting to what is necessary and not visit if unwell.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nJapan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead as planned in July, despite coronavirus concerns resulting in the postponement of sporting events.\n\nAbe added the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have the final decision whether Tokyo 2020 goes ahead.\n\n\"We will overcome the spread of the infection and host the Olympics without problem, as planned,\" Abe said.\n\nJapan has had more than 1,400 cases and 28 deaths resulting from coronavirus.\n• None Coronavirus wipes out most of world's major sports events\n\nThe Tokyo Games is expected to cost about 1.35 trillion yen (£10.26bn), organisers said in December.\n\nThe Japan section of the Olympic Torch relay is due to start in Fukushima on 26 March. The recent torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia was held without spectators, before the rest of the relay in Greece was suspended to avoid attracting crowds.\n\nTokyo governor Yuriko Koike said: \"We're taking thorough infection measures with regards to the torch relay domestically.\"\n\nSeveral Olympic trials events in the United States have been postponed, including wrestling, rowing and diving.\n\nHowever, the boxing events in London will go ahead on Saturday as scheduled.", "A Soldier On Horseback by Anthony Van Dyck was painted around 1616\n\nA work by 17th century master Anthony Van Dyck is among three \"very high value\" paintings stolen from a University of Oxford art gallery.\n\nA Soldier On Horseback by the Flemish artist, a leading court painter in England under King Charles I, dates from around 1616.\n\nTwo other works were stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery, St Aldates, at about 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nPolice said a \"thorough investigation\" was under way to recover the paintings.\n\nSalvator Rosa's A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying A Plan was painted in the late 1640s\n\nThe burglars also made off with A Boy Drinking (c. 1580) by Annibale Carracci, and A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan (late 1640s) by Salvator Rosa.\n\nA Christ Church College spokesman said staff had initially alerted police to the theft of the \"important cultural artefacts\", and the gallery will be closed until further notice.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jon Capps, from Thames Valley Police, said: \"The paintings which have been stolen are very high-value pieces dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\n\n\"The artwork has not yet been recovered but a thorough investigation is under way to find it and bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nHe added there would be an increased police presence in the area, and that any witnesses or anyone with CCTV or other footage from near the area should get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets are urging shoppers not to buy more than they need amid concern over coronavirus-linked stockpiling.\n\nIn a joint letter, UK retailers have reminded customers to be considerate in their shopping, so that others are not left without much-needed items.\n\n\"There is enough for everyone if we all work together,\" it adds.\n\nIt comes after some shops began rationing the sales of certain products to avoid them selling out completely.\n\nRead more:Supermarkets ask shoppers to be considerate", "The Bath half marathon went ahead as organisers said advice from experts indicated it was a \"low-risk event\"\n\nThe Bath half marathon has gone ahead despite an outcry over it taking place during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Premier League and Football League have been cancelled over the weekend but organisers denied they were being irresponsible by pressing ahead.\n\nThey said said 6,200 runners took part - about half the usual number.\n\nAndrew Taylor, director of the Bath half said he had not received any advice from public health officials not to go ahead.\n\nHe said the advice from the experts - Public Health England and the local commissioning care group - had been \"consistent that this is a low-risk event, with absolutely no reason for it not to go ahead\".\n\nHe said a \"series of situations has unravelled almost by the hour\" leaving them \"caught in the eye of a perfect storm\".\n\nMinisters are drawing up plans to ban mass gatherings in the UK from as early as next weekend in response to the spread of the virus, which the World Health Organization has classified as a pandemic.\n\nKirsten and Emma ran their own half marathon in Thornbury instead of taking part in Bath in fancy dress as the crew from movie Cool Runnings\n\nOn Friday organisers of the London Marathon announced that race would be postponed until October because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBath's MP Wera Hobhouse was among thousands condemning the decision to go ahead.\n\nShe called for the event to be cancelled saying protecting \"the most vulnerable in our city from a further spread of the infection must be the priority\".\n\nOn the Bath half marathon's Facebook page some 1,800 people left comments, with a large number against the decision to go ahead.\n\nMany hundreds more have also spoken out on Twitter.\n\nSome 6,200 people took part, about half the usual number\n\nAmber Morgan said: \"Absolutely crazy. All those people coming to Bath, using our public transport, restaurants, shops, public toilets. The residents will not thank you.\"\n\nPaula Bailey added: \"Give it two weeks and you'll be regretting this decision. Look at Italy!\"\n\nOthers described the move as an \"absolute joke and a PR disaster\" and a \"very, very bad decision\".\n\nSharon Smith said she pulled out because of health concerns within her family.\n\n\"I think it would be completely irresponsible of me to run,\" she said.\n\nKirsten Robson and her friend Emma were running in memory of Kirsten's parents who both died from cancer.\n\nSpectators braved the heavy rain to support the runners on the course\n\n\"They were cared for so tenderly by the fabulous fabulous staff at the RUH,\" said Ms Robson.\n\n\"I am a nurse and Emma works in education so we decided not to travel to Bath and are doing 13 miles at home in Thornbury,\" she said.\n\nMencap in Kenysham said two of its runners, Ali and Russ would be running the distance along the Tarka Trail in North Devon.\n\nLizzie Passingham said she was running with a special educational needs pupil from Three Ways School in Bath along their own route from Saltford towards Bristol with the school dog.\n\n\"He'll be in his wheelchair being pushed by his incredible teacher Veryan Cranston,\" said Ms Passingham.\n\nShe said they had pulled out \"to make sure that we protect our other vulnerable pupils\".\n\n\"We're getting together some old Bath half kit - a medal, shirt, goodie bag and a finishing tape for him so that he's still able to experience the 'event' as best he can,\" she added.\n\nSome though, were supportive of the run being held, saying it was \"one last hurrah for Bath before lockdown\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of organisations said they were not taking part including Bath Rugby Foundation, which said it did \"not want to put any of our supporters or their loved ones at risk\".\n\nDorothy House Hospice and the Forever Friends Appeal said runners were told \"it's their choice whether they run or not\".\n\nIn 2019, runners raised more than £2m for a range of charities and local voluntary groups.\n\nThe mens winner was Paul Pollock, from Kent Athletics Club, in a time of 64.14 and the women's winner was Becky Briggs, of Hull, in 73.34.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government is in talks with rail bosses to put emergency measures in place to deal with falling passenger numbers after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSome train operators were already losing money but fewer fares will put even more pressure on their finances.\n\nA senior industry source said fairly drastic measures might be required for train companies to survive.\n\nAt an industry meeting last week, passenger numbers were said to have fallen by up to 18% on certain lines.\n\nHowever, another industry source acknowledged that the fall in passengers could be significantly higher.\n\nThey told the BBC that the number of passengers travelling through major UK train stations at peak times had dropped considerably in recent days.\n\nVery up-to-date figures for the whole UK network are not known as many tickets are still not purchased digitally, so it takes some time for the data to filter through.\n\nUnder franchise agreements, train companies have a range of contractual obligations, which govern how many trains they run and restrict how much they can charge for tickets.\n\nThey are also required to make payments to the government to run services on parts of the rail network.\n\nThe number of trains, the price of tickets and the amount companies pay government are all calculated based on assumptions about passenger numbers.\n\nBut, with fewer people catching the train - as some companies ask staff to work from home over fears about the spread of the coronavirus - the ability of rail companies to meet some of those obligations is now in doubt.\n\nThe BBC understands that train operators are in talks with government to renegotiate the terms of some of those contracts.\n\nTrain companies want the government to give them more wriggle room so they can keep operating services for essential travel for people working in the emergency services, even though broader passenger numbers have fallen.\n\nOptions being discussed are likely to include a reduction in the number of train services and flexibility over the payments that train companies make to government.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise how difficult the current situation is for the transport sector and, across government, we are engaging with the sector's leadership to support workers, businesses and passengers.\"\n• None What has gone wrong with rail franchising?", "Radcliffe is currently appearing in Endgame at London's Old Vic theatre\n\nHarry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that remaining in the UK and having supportive parents helped him stay grounded after he became famous.\n\nThe actor was 11 when he won the title role in the Potter film series.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Radcliffe said his family helped him keep a sense of \"perspective\".\n\nYet he said he could understand why other child actors have had substance issues in the years following their youthful stardom.\n\n\"I think a huge problem for a lot of people is they get into a situation where they start doing something when they're 10,\" the 30-year-old told presenter Lauren Laverne.\n\n\"They are committed for several years, and they stop enjoying it.\n\n\"They are, by that point, the breadwinner for their family, so multiple people are reliant on them continuing to do this job and they feel pressured into it.\n\n\"If they don't enjoy it they go 'well, I will enjoy all the other things this life gives me, even if I hate the work'. So I think that's why you can see people going to drugs.\n\n\"You can also just see people go to drugs and drink because it's fun and they're available and it seems like a good idea, and there's nobody around you talking about the consequences or being honest about that.\"\n\nRadcliffe with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in 2003\n\nThe actor praised his parents and his fellow Harry Potter actors, \"who were able to give me enough perspective on my life and help me at key moments\".\n\nThe main reason he has continued to work in the entertainment industry as an adult, he continued, was that he has always \"loved being on set\".\n\nThe actor has starred in several films and TV series since the Potter series ended after eight films in 2011.\n\nHis post-Potter films include Horns, Swiss Army Man, Now You See Me 2 and current UK release Escape from Pretoria.\n\nRadcliffe also said that living and working in London had helped to ensure he had not been carried away by fame.\n\n\"I spend time in LA [Los Angeles] now and I feel like I'm going insane,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know what it would be like to grow up in LA from the age of 10 and continue growing up there.\n\n\"I think the other thing that's hard about being famous when you're young is you haven't figured out who you are yet,\" he continued.\n\n\"If you are having a perception of your identity reflected back at you, where everyone else expects you to be a certain thing while you're still figuring out what you want to be, that can be really hard for people.\n\n\"But again, very fortunately, I knew that I liked being on set enough so that if everything else about it went away, the money and the fame, I would still like being on set, and I would like to still do that in some way.\"\n\nRadcliffe is currently appearing alongside Alan Cumming at London's Old Vic theatre in Endgame and Rough for Theatre II, both by Samuel Beckett.\n\nDesert Island Discs is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday at 11:15 GMT and will be available on BBC Sounds.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK's aviation industry may not survive the coronavirus pandemic without emergency financial support, airlines have warned.\n\nBosses at Virgin Atlantic will write to the prime minister on Monday to ask for emergency financial measures for airlines in the UK.\n\nUS travel restrictions will hit all transatlantic routes from Tuesday, further denting the aviation sector.\n\nThe government said it was open to supporting firms, including airlines.\n\nIn a stark message, industry body Airlines UK said the government's \"prevarication\" and \"bean counting\" had to stop.\n\n\"We're talking about the future of UK aviation - one of our world-class industries - and unless the government pulls itself together who knows what will be left of it once we get out of this mess,\" it added.\n\nAirline bosses have been talking to ministers. Last week, senior figures in the industry were said to be \"livid\" that there were no emergency measures for the aviation sector in the budget, whereas most other sectors of the economy received billions of pounds of support.\n\n\"This is the most challenging period for aviation and package holiday businesses we have witnessed,\" Richard Moriarty, the boss of the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on Sunday.\n\n\"The threat to the survival of some businesses is real the longer this goes on,\" he said. \"They will need to take very difficult actions to secure sufficient liquidity.\"\n\nThe demand comes after the US announced it will extend its European travel ban to include the UK and Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe ban, which will begin at 04:00 GMT on Tuesday, will hit vital routes for the likes of British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Norwegian Air.\n\nMeanwhile, American Airlines announced it is suspending nearly all of its long-haul international flights from Monday.\n\nOn Saturday, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advised against all but essential travel to parts of Spain as well as the whole of Poland.\n\nThe government said in a statement that it recognises the difficulties UK airlines are facing.\n\n\"We are engaging with the sector's leadership to support workers, businesses and passengers,\" it said.\n\n\"We have influenced the European Commission to relax flight slots and HMRC is ready to help all businesses, including airlines, and self-employed individuals, experiencing temporary financial difficulties due to coronavirus.\"\n\nUnder European law, if flights are not operated, designated take-off and landing slots have to be forfeited.\n\nLast week, Virgin Atlantic confirmed it was forced to operate some near-empty flights after bookings were dented by the outbreak.\n\nBritish Airways warned employees on Friday that the industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nIn a memo titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", the company's boss Alex Cruz said that it is to ground flights \"like never before\" and lay off staff.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff.", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection.\n\nOn Saturday, the country's 47 million citizens were ordered to stay indoors except for necessary trips.", "About 50 firefighters were at the scene after the blaze broke out in the early hours\n\nA major fire that left a historic Bristol building \"extensively damaged\" is being investigated by police.\n\nCrews were called to the Guildhall in Small Street at 01:40 GMT and remain at the scene damping down.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Branch of Avon and Somerset Police said officers were \"treating the incident as suspicious at this time\".\n\nBaldwin Street and Broad Street remain closed to vehicles but Small Street is open again, police said.\n\nBuildings close to the fire were evacuated, including a number of students from their accommodation.\n\nFirefighters doused the flames from above to bring the blaze under control\n\nPart of the roof of the Guildhall has been lost in the blaze\n\nCrews are still at the scene damping down\n\nThe fire service said the \"extensive spread of fire\" and concerns about structural stability forced crews to retreat from inside the historic building and douse the flames from outside.\n\nThe Guildhall was empty when fire broke out as it was about to be converted into a hotel.\n\nSteve Quinton, area manager for Avon Fire and Rescue, said: \"Where the fire was in the roof space that has now fallen into the building and several of the floors have gone through to the basement so we will continue damping down for a number of hours still.\"\n\nA structural engineer, Bristol City Council and the building owners have been to the site and an assessment will be made of how safe the building is.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Felipe VI (right) is trying to distance himself from his father Juan Carlos, Spanish royal analysts say\n\nSpain's King Felipe VI has renounced the inheritance of his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said that Juan Carlos, who abdicated in 2014, would also stop receiving an annual grant of €194,000 (£174,800; $217,100).\n\nThis comes as the 82-year-old former king is being criticised for his lavish lifestyle.\n\nJuan Carlos, who reigned for 39 years, is also facing an investigation by the Swiss financial authorities.\n\nThis follows media reports that he had received $100m in 2008 from Saudi Arabia via an offshore account.\n\nThe former monarch has made no comments on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Juan Carlos abdicated in June 2014, saying his son Prince Felipe would \"open a new era of hope\" for Spain\n\nSome royal analysts in Spain say that by renouncing his father's inheritance, King Felipe VI, 52, is trying to distance himself from his father's affairs.\n\nJuan Carlos ascended the throne in 1975 on the death of General Francisco Franco, the right-wing dictator who ruled Spain for 36 years after his victory over Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.\n\nJuan Carlos (l) became king two days after the death of General Franco (r)\n\nJuan Carlos became Spain's first crowned head of state for 44 years.\n\nBut he soon ignored Franco's supporters, who wanted an extension to autocratic rule, and ushered in a new system of parliamentary monarchy.\n\nAs the years went on the king involved himself less in day-to-day politics, and became more of a figurehead.\n\nHe is credited as a stabilising force for independence-minded areas such as Catalonia and the Basque region, and he also helped defuse an attempted coup in 1981.\n\nUntil a few years before his abdication his popularity was high, but a lavish elephant hunting trip to Botswana in 2012 and corruption allegations involving his youngest daughter, Cristina, and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin, led to calls for him to step aside.", "Genesis P-Orridge - an icon of the avant garde\n\nGenesis P-Orridge, founding member of cult experimental bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, has died.\n\nThe musician and artist, who had been battling leukaemia for two-and-a-half years, was 70.\n\nWith Throbbing Gristle, Genesis helped pioneer the genre of industrial music. In later life, they became a \"body evolutionist\", proposing a new gender that was beyond male and female.\n\nThe death was confirmed by Genesis's daughters, Genesse and Caresse.\n\nIn a statement, they said their father \"dropped he/r body early this morning, Saturday March 14th 2020\".\n\n\"S/he will be laid to rest with he/r other half, Jaqueline 'Lady Jaye' Breyer who left us in 2007, where they will be re-united.\"\n\nThey concluded the post by thanking people for their \"love and support and for respecting our privacy as we are grieving\".\n\nBorn Neil Megson in Manchester, Genesis P-Orridge's career began in Hull in 1969 with the radical art outfit COUM Transmissions.\n\nAlongside then-partner Cosey Fanni Tutti, the group played an abrasive brand of industrial rock, often combined with sexually-explicit live shows.\n\nTheir 1976 exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, titled Prostitution, scandalised the art world, and prompted Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to denounce the group as \"the wreckers of civilization\".\n\nShortly afterwards, Genesis and Tutti branched out to form Throbbing Gristle with Peter \"Sleazy\" Christopherson, releasing their debut album The Second Annual Report in 1977.\n\nCrude, uncompromising and deliberately malicious, it was not an easy listen - based around multiple versions of the songs Slug Bait and Maggot Death, which detailed sadistic acts of violence and murder.\n\nOnly 785 copies were pressed, but the album was a key influence on the industrial movement, a more antagonistic cousin of punk.\n\n\"In terms of being shocking, punk was pretty tame in comparison,\" said Simon Reynolds, the author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984.\n\n\"They were writing songs about serial killers and cutting themselves onstage.\"\n\nThe band upped the dread on their second album, D.O.A, but discovered a more accessible side on 1979's 20 Jazz Funk Greats, recorded on a tape machine they had borrowed from Paul McCartney.\n\nPerforming with Psychic TV in New York, 1988\n\nTwo years later, Genesis formed another band, Psychic TV, who explored the singer's interest in the occult and fetishism; and scored a minor hit with Godstar, a tribute to late Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones.\n\nThe band's output was prolific - releasing more than 100 albums, and entering the Guinness Book of World Records after issuing 14 live records in the space of 18 months.\n\nIn the early 1990s, Genesis's house in Brighton was raided by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad after a Channel 4 programme alleged the musician was the leader of a Satanic cult.\n\nAlthough no charges were filed, the artist went into self-imposed exile in the US; where they met Jacqueline \"Lady Jaye\" Breyer, a dominatrix, nurse and soon to be muse.\n\nTogether they launched a \"Pandrogeny Project\" - surgically altering their bodies to resemble each other as closely as possible, becoming a single \"pandrogynous\" being named Breyer P-Orridge.\n\nThe couple also adopted genderless pronouns - s/he and he/r - explaining that they wanted to create a third gender.\n\n\"It's not male or female, not either/or — just complete,\" Genesis told Paper magazine last year. \"We thought it was important to remind people of that idea, and as artists, we figured the best way to do so was visually.\"\n\nIn 1995, Genesis nearly lost their left arm while escaping a fire at the Los Angeles home of the producer Rick Rubin.\n\nS/he was awarded $1.5m in damages, and used the money to bankroll experiments in photography, collage, sculpture and cosmetic surgery.\n\nHaving been a fringe artist for years, Genesis began to find he/r work embraced by the fine art world, including Tate Britain, which acquired several pieces.\n\nIn recent years, however, the musician's legacy was called into question by Throbbing Gristle bandmate Tutti, whose memoir revealed allegations of abusive and domineering behaviour.\n\nThe guitarist claimed that Genesis threw a concrete block at her head from a balcony, and ran at her with a knife after she attempted to end their relationship. Genesis always denied the accusations.\n\nAfter Lady Jaye died of an acute heart arrhythmia in 2007, Genesis continued their Pandrogeny Project, and recorded a final album with Psychic TV, Alienist, in 2016.\n\nGenesis is survived by two daughters, Genesse and Caresse and first wife Paula P-Orridge, now known as Alaura O'Dell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Metzger This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Victim Abdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, died in hospital following the shooting\n\nA 19-year-old man died after being targeted in a drive-by shooting involving a car that was later found burned out in Coventry.\n\nAbdul Wahid Xasan, of Foleshill, Coventry, was shot as he walked along Harnall Lane and into Adelaide Street in Hillfields at about 14:30 GMT on Friday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nHe died later that day in hospital from gunshot wounds to his back.\n\nA 15-year-old boy and a man, 19, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice said a post-mortem examination was due to take place.\n\n\"The gunshots were fired from a black VW Golf R, with light coloured or silver wing mirrors and five spoke alloy wheels,\" the force said in a statement.\n\n\"A car was discovered burnt out in London Road yesterday evening and is believed to be the one used.\"\n\nCordons are in place at both locations as forensic experts work to gather evidence.\n\nTwo arrests were made during early morning raids\n\nDet Ch Insp Scott Griffiths, from the force's homicide unit, said the killing was a \"horrific crime\" but the investigation had made \"swift progress\" to \"bring Abdul's killers to justice\".\n\nHe said: \"It is abhorrent that these people think nothing of using a firearm in broad daylight on a residential street with a children's nursery close by.\n\n\"It is vital that anyone who saw what happened yesterday afternoon, and has not already spoken to us, does so.\"\n\nHe also urged those responsible for setting the car on fire to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister hosted Monday's press conference with UK chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser\n\nBoris Johnson is outlining the next steps in the UK's plan to fight coronavirus at the first of a series of daily news conferences.\n\nThe briefing was expected to have details about steps the government may take to protect elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nThe over-70s have been told they are allowed to go out for walks when their period of staying at home begins.\n\nThe first person in Wales to die with Covid-19 brings the UK total to 36.\n\nMost of those who have died in the UK have been people over the age of 60 with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe total number of people in the UK to test positive for the virus has risen by 171 in a day to a total of 1,543, according to the latest Department of Health figures. The latest cases include 30 more from Wales and 18 in Scotland.\n\nMore than 44,000 people have been tested in the UK. People self-isolating with mild symptoms are no longer being tested - the government said tests are primarily being given to hospital patients with respiratory problems, and to people in residential or care facilities experiencing outbreaks.\n\nBut on Monday the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said not enough tests were being carried out.\n\n\"We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test,\" he said - adding that the WHO has sent out almost 1.5 million tests to 120 countries.\n\nDaily news conferences will be led by the prime minister or senior ministers, alongside Prof Chris Whitty, the government's chief medical adviser, and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nIt follows criticism of No 10 for an apparent lack of transparency over its plans to stem the spread of the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nDowning Street said the government was committed to keeping the public informed and would be led by science.\n\nMeanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that over-70s who will soon be asked to stay at home for an extended period would still be able to go for a walk outside.\n\n\"It's about being sensible but not mixing in crowds,\" he said.\n\nAnd the BBC has said it will delay changes to the TV licence for the over-75s until August. Director General Tony Hall said it was important the corporation served the public \"at this difficult time\".\n\nMonday's meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee, chaired by Mr Johnson, included discussions on how to protect the elderly and vulnerable and whether to ban mass gatherings.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said details of emergency legislation giving the government more powers to deal with the virus will be revealed on Tuesday.\n\nHotels could be converted to makeshift hospitals and private hospitals could be called on to boost NHS bed numbers.\n\nThe government has asked any firms which may be able to help to produce ventilator machines for use in hospitals to get in touch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alok Sharma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMost schools across the UK remained open on Monday, despite blanket closures in countries such as Spain, France and Ireland.\n\nSome decided to close, however, and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is due to meet head teachers to discuss their concerns.\n\nSome universities have halted classes and moved all their lectures online while the National Education Union has said it is \"unacceptable\" for Ofsted inspections to go ahead during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticises the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nFrom Tuesday, face-to-face assessments for sickness and disability welfare payments will be suspended for three months.\n\nThe suspension will apply to claimants of personal independence payments, employment and support allowance, some on Universal Credit and people on industrial injuries schemes.\n\nThe fallout from the pandemic has begun to hit industry. Key developments include:\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Breakfast that good companies \"shouldn't be put out of business\" due to a downturn caused by the virus.\n\nHe will meet airline leaders and discuss potential financial support for businesses with Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nA Public Health England (PHE) briefing, reported by the Guardian, warned the epidemic could last until spring 2021 and put 7.9 million people in hospital.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus? Let us know and a selection will be answered by a BBC journalist.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Architects of the UK's nuanced approach: Sir Patrick Vallance (left) and Prof Chris Whitty (right)\n\nMore than 200 scientists have written to the government urging them to introduce tougher measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIn an open letter, the 229 specialists in disciplines ranging from mathematics to genetics - though no leading experts in the science of the spread of diseases - say the UK's current approach will put the NHS under additional stress and \"risk many more lives than necessary\".\n\nThe signatories also criticised comments made by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, about managing the spread of the infection to make the population immune.\n\nThe Department of Health said Sir Patrick's comments had been misinterpreted.\n\nThe scientists - all from UK universities - also questioned the government's view that people would become fed up with restrictions if they were imposed too soon.\n\nTheir letter was published on the day it was announced 10 more people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.\n\nMeanwhile the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) advised that measures to protect vulnerable people - including household isolation - \"will need to be instituted soon\".\n\nSir Patrick and the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, have said they intend to publish the computer models on which their strategy is based.\n\nThe UK's approach to coping with the coronavirus pandemic has been in stark contrast to other countries. The whole of Italy has been on lockdown since Tuesday, while Poland is set to close its borders for two weeks.\n\nOn Saturday the French government ordered the closure of all non-essential public locations from midnight (23:00 GMT Saturday).\n\nAnd Spain has declared a 15-day national lockdown on Monday to battle the virus,\n\nIn the open letter the group of scientists argue that stronger \"social distancing measures\" would \"dramatically\" slow the rate of growth of the disease in the UK, and would spare \"thousands of lives\".\n\nThe group, specialising in a range of disciplines, ranging from mathematics to genetics said the current measures are \"insufficient\" and \"additional and more restrictive measures should be taken immediately\", as is happening in other countries.\n\nOn Friday, Sir Patrick suggested managing the spread of the disease so that the population gains some immunity to the disease was a part of the government strategy.\n\nThis idea, known as \"herd immunity\", means at-risk individuals are protected from infection because they are surrounded by people who are resistant to the disease.\n\nRough estimates indicate that herd immunity to Covid-19 would be reached when approximately 60% of the population has had the disease.\n\nBut in the open letter, the scientists said: \"Going for 'herd immunity' at this point does not seem a viable option.\"\n\nThe major downside of herd immunity, according to Birmingham University's Prof Willem van Schaik, is that this will mean that in the UK alone at least 36 million people will need to be infected and recover.\n\n\"It is almost impossible to predict what that will mean in terms of human costs, but we are conservatively looking at tens of thousands of deaths, and possibly at hundreds of thousands of deaths,\" he said.\n\n\"The only way to make this work would be to spread out these millions of cases over a relatively long period of time so that the NHS does not get overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Willem van Schaik, professor of microbiology and infection at the University of Birmingham, was one of the signatories\n\nProf van Schaik noted that the UK is the only country in Europe that is following what he described as its \"laissez-faire attitude to the virus\".\n\nBut a Department of Health and Social care spokesperson said that Sir Patrick's comments had been misinterpreted.\n\n\"Herd immunity is not part of our action plan, but is a natural by-product of an epidemic. Our aims are to save lives, protect the most vulnerable, and relieve pressure on our NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"We have now moved out of the contain phase and into delay, and we have experts working round the clock. Every measure that we have or will introduce will be based on the best scientific evidence.\n\n\"Our awareness of the likely levels of immunity in the country over the coming months will ensure our planning and response is as accurate and effective as possible.\"\n\nIn a separate letter to the government, more than 200 behavioural scientists have questioned the government's argument that starting tougher measures too soon would lead to people not sticking to them just at the point that the epidemic is at its height.\n\n\"While we fully support an evidence-based approach to policy that draws on behavioural science, we are not convinced that enough is known about 'behavioural fatigue' or to what extent these insights apply to the current exceptional circumstances,\" the letter said.\n\n\"Such evidence is necessary if we are to base a high-risk public health strategy on it.\"\n\n\"In fact, it seems likely that even those essential behaviour changes that are presently required (e.g., handwashing) will receive far greater uptake the more urgent the situation is perceived to be. Carrying on as normal for as long as possible undercuts that urgency,\" it added.\n\nThe scientists said \"radical behaviour change\" could have a \"much better\" effect and could \"save very large numbers of lives\".\n\n\"Experience in China and South Korea is sufficiently encouraging to suggest that this possibility should at least be attempted,\" it added.\n\nThe second letter called on the government to reconsider its stance on \"behavioural fatigue\" and to share the evidence on which it based this stance.", "Jet2 planes heading to Spain were turned around in mid-air earlier as the airline cancelled all flights to the mainland, Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands because of coronavirus.\n\nConfirmed cases in Spain have risen to 6,046 and thousands of people have been placed in lockdown.\n\nThe country's death toll has reached 191 and it is set to enter a two-week state of emergency.\n\nJet2 said the health and safety of its customers was its top priority.\n\nThe airline flies to destinations including Alicante, Malaga and Lanzarote from nine UK airports.\n\nIt said it decided to suspend all holidays and flights to all of Spain for at least a week after authorities there ordered bars, restaurants, shops and activities to close.\n\nJet2 has started sending empty planes out to the 14 Spanish destinations it operates to and will run its normal schedule of return flights to the UK for the coming week to bring customers home.\n\n\"We know these local measures will have a significant impact on our customers' holidays, which is why we have taken this decision,\" an spokesperson for the airline added.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving and complex situation and we are reviewing our programme as a matter of urgency, so that we can fly customers back to the UK.\"\n\nEarlier, flight tracking information showed at least five Jet2 planes travelling to Spain turning around to return to the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Flightradar24 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDale Dixon, 26, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, was due to fly from Alicante to East Midlands Airport at 11:45 GMT.\n\nHe said there was a feeling of \"deflation\" at the airport, saying: \"It is overcrowded here. There are children just lying around bored and bags scattered all over the place. People are definitely panicking.\"\n\nHolidaymaker Mark Harrison, whose flight home to Manchester was scheduled for this evening, said: \"Jet2 said not to contact them so we are just waiting to hear from them. All we've seen is that which is on social media.\"\n\nChristine Jones from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was expecting to fly out on a Jet2 plane to Tenerife with her husband at 14:20 GMT.\n\nShe said: \"The last message we received last night from the company said they were looking forward to seeing us. We are fully ready and packed and are surrounded by our suitcases but we aren't going anywhere now. I'm just sat here looking at suitcases.\"\n\nClive Sloman, 55, from Chelmsford, Essex, was at Tenerife Airport waiting for his flight to London Stansted.\n\nHe praised Jet2's \"helpful\" staff, but said he did not know when his flight, which was scheduled to depart at 14:30 GMT, would leave.\n\n\"We've just been turned away from security because we can't go through security without a flight to go on, but there are no flights yet,\" Mr Sloman said.\n\nEasyjet said flights between the UK and Spain were currently \"unaffected\" - but that there was some disruption to those flights because of a shortage of air traffic controllers in Spain.\n\nJet2 passengers waited on the runway to hear if their flight from Alicante to Stansted would take off\n\nOn Friday, British Airways warned it would need to ground flights \"like never before\" and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus. Ryanair told staff they might be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nTravel company Tui has cancelled all holidays in Spain which were due to start between 14 and 16 March.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been meeting officials at Downing Street to discuss the pandemic.\n\nTen more people in the UK have died after testing positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.\n\nThe total number of confirmed cases in the UK has reached 1,140.\n\nBut the government's estimate of the true number of cases was around 5,000 to 10,000, as of Friday.\n\nHave you been affected by Jet2's decision to cancel flights? Were you turned around mid-air? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Irish government has called on pubs and bars to close from Sunday to help tackle coronavirus.\n\nMass gatherings are banned in the Republic of Ireland, but pubs and bars have remained open.\n\nOver the weekend, videos emerged of large numbers of people in pubs in the country.\n\nOn Sunday the government confirmed 40 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total in the Republic of Ireland to 169.\n\nTwo people in the country have died after being infected.\n\nThe request to close pubs until 29 March followed discussions with industry representatives who outlined the difficulty of implementing social distancing while pubs remain open.\n\nThe government also asked people not to hold house parties, as doing so \"would put other peoples' health at risk\".\n\nOn Sunday, 11 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total number of cases to 45.\n\nOver the weekend a series of clips circulated on social media of busy pubs in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nOne clip showing a crowded bar, purporting to have been taken in a pub in Dublin's Temple Bar area, was tweeted by Irish Heath Minister Simon Harris.\n\nIn his post, Mr Harris described it as an \"insult\" to the efforts of healthcare workers.\n\n\"Not far from here, nurses & doctors are working to prepare for the impact of a global pandemic. Everyone is working 24/7,\" he wrote.\n\nPubs and bars in Temple Bar in Dublin have already closed\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Temple Bar publicans in Dublin have announced a complete shutdown of all bars and nightclubs with immediate effect.\n\nOn Sunday, the Irish government said having consulted with the chief medical officer, it was an \"essential public health measure given the reports of reckless behaviour by some members of the public in certain pubs last night\".\n\n\"While the government acknowledges that the majority of the public and pub owners are behaving responsibly, it believes it is important that all pubs are closed in advance of St. Patrick's Day,\" it said.\n\nThe Licenced Vintners Association and the Vintners Federation of Ireland, representative bodies for the pub and hospitality industry in the Republic, were consulted in the decision to request the closure.\n\nThe government has said the guidelines of social distancing in other parts of the leisure industry, including restaurants and cinemas, would be reviewed and subject to consultation in the coming days.", "Wayne Rooney says the government and football authorities have treated footballers as \"guinea pigs\" during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nElite football in Britain has been suspended until at least 3 April, with the Premier League saying \"conditions at the time\" will determine its return.\n\n\"For players, staff and their families it has been a worrying week,\" he said.\n\n\"One in which you felt a lack of leadership from the government and from the FA and Premier League.\"\n\nWriting in his column in the Sunday Times , the former England captain said: \"The rest of sport - tennis, Formula 1, rugby, golf, football in other countries - was closing down and we were being told to carry on.\n\n\"I think a lot of footballers were wondering, 'Is it something to do with money being involved in this?'. Why did we wait until Friday? Why did it take Mikel Arteta [Arsenal manager] to get ill for the game in England to do the right thing?\n\n\"After the emergency meeting, at last the right decision was made - until then it almost felt like footballers in England were being treated like guinea pigs.\n\n\"I know how I feel. If any of my family get infected through me because I've had to play when it's not safe, and they get seriously ill, I'd have to think hard about ever playing again. I would never forgive the authorities.\"\n\nNow, 34 the former Everton and Manchester United player is just over two months into his time as a player-coach at Championship club Derby.\n\nThe Rams are currently five points off a play-off berth in the second tier with nine games of the season remaining, and Rooney believes there will have to be a radical restructure of the football calendar to allow fixtures to be fulfilled.\n\n\"We're happy to play until September if the season extends to then, if that's how it has to be. That's our job,\" Rooney added.\n\n\"As long as we know we're safe to play and it's a safe environment for spectators, we'll play.\n\n\"The next World Cup is in November and December 2022, so you could actually use this situation as an opportunity and say we're going to finish the 2019-20 season later this year, then prepare for 2022 by having the next two seasons starting in winter.\"\n\nWorld greats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have led the way as footballers have sent their thoughts and best wishes to the world at large during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, Messi said: \"They are complicated days for everyone.\n\n\"We live worried about what is happening and we want to help putting ourselves in the place of those who are having the worst of it, either because it directly affected them or their family and friends, or because they are working on the frontline to combat it in hospitals and health centres.\n\n\"I want to send a lot of strength to all of them. Health must always come first. It is an exceptional moment and you must follow the instructions of both health organisations and public authorities.\n\n\"Only in this way can we combat it effectively. It is the time to be responsible and stay at home, it is also perfect to enjoy that time with yours that you can not always have. A hug and hopefully we can turn this situation around as soon as possible.\"", "Here in India they’ve effectively closed the borders. Most foreigners are not allowed to enter the country until 15 April as a coronavirus precaution.\n\nI made it back just before the restrictions came in, and had to go through mandatory medical checks before I was allowed through immigration.\n\nFirst I had to fill out a form asking for a range of information, including my seat number on the plane and my travel history going back a month. Next, a heat-sensing camera took a photograph of me to check my temperature was normal, before I was waved through.\n\nThe process was extremely efficient, compared with the long lines seen at US airports.\n\nSo far, the number of reported coronavirus cases in India is relatively low given the country’s population is about 1.3 billion.\n\nBut there are concerns not enough people are being tested and that the true extent of coronavirus here is unknown.\n\nNew arrivals were being photographed with a heat-sensing camera Image caption: New arrivals were being photographed with a heat-sensing camera\n\nA friend in Delhi who said he had a high fever and breathing difficulties was unable to reach the government helpline, despite calling more than 30 times. When he finally talked to someone in the Health Ministry (via a personal contact, not the helpline) he was told he wasn’t eligible for testing, so he decided to self-isolate.\n\nBut if people like him who might be carrying the virus aren’t getting tested and are moving freely, the situation could become incredibly grave.\n\nThe government says it has drawn up a multi-pronged strategy to contain the spread of Covid-19. Given this is the world’s second largest population, with poor public health access in many communities, the next steps it takes will be crucial.", "A drug that prevents the transmission of the HIV virus will be available in England from April, the Department of Health has confirmed.\n\nPrEP - or pre-exposure prophylaxis - is an antiretroviral medicine which, taken once a day, stops the transmission of HIV during unprotected sex.\n\nThe pill is already available in Scotland and Wales to people at risk of contracting the virus.\n\nIt is estimated there are about 103,800 people living with HIV in the UK.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the roll-out of the drug in England would eliminate new HIV infections within 10 years.\n\nNHS England will pay for the drug.\n\nThe cost is estimated to likely be much less than the lifetime bill for treating those who already carry the virus.\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust, a charity that supports those living with HIV, estimates that about 7% of the roughly 103,800 people living with the virus in the UK do not know they are HIV positive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'People think using PrEP means you put it about'\n\nIan Green, Chief Executive at the Terrence Higgins Trust, described the development as a \"game-changer\" for HIV prevention.\n\nBut he said more work needed to be done to ensure the benefits of PrEP were made clear to groups other than gay and bisexual men, such as women, trans people and BAME communities.\n\nSir Elton John, whose foundation supports HIV prevention and treatment, welcomed the government's decision.\n\n\"Taking PrEP prevents HIV from being passed on, which is truly incredible,\" he told the Sunday Times.\n\n\"It is the right decision for the UK government to roll this out more widely to minimise the spread of this disease so more people are protected - which is critical in fighting any epidemic.\"\n\nBut PrEP does have its critics, with some commentators saying funding it will lead to an abdication of personal responsibility, with men choosing not to use condoms.\n\nUnlike condoms, PrEP does not protect against other sexually-transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhoea - of which the numbers of infections are rising.\n\nIn 2018, new HIV diagnoses in the UK fell to their lowest level since 2000 - 4,484 people - due to the success of preventative measures, Public Health England said.\n\nThe decline has been attributed to a mix of prevention methods, such as testing, condom provision, and the wider use of PrEP.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "The US has cut interest rates to almost zero and launched a $700bn stimulus programme in a bid to protect the economy from the effect of coronavirus.\n\nIt is part of a co-ordinated action announced on Sunday in the UK, Japan, eurozone, Canada, and Switzerland.\n\nIn a news conference Fed chairman Jerome Powell said the pandemic was having a \"profound\" impact on the economy.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the emergency action \"makes me very happy\".\n\nThe Fed has cut rates to a target range of 0% to 0.25%, and said it would it begin buying bonds - quantitative easing - a move that pumps money directly into the economy.\n\nThe central bank had already cut interest rates by half a percentage point after an emergency meeting on 3 March. That had been the first rate cut outside of a regularly scheduled policy meeting since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nStock markets have plunged in recent days amid fears that economic paralysis will wipe out corporate profits and spark a global recession.\n\nBut early indications suggest the Fed's move may not shore up financial markets. US stock market futures, which anticipate the direction of shares when trading begins, were almost 4% down.\n\nSpeaking after the emergency meeting, which was held in place of the Fed's regular rates setting decision scheduled for this week, Mr Powell warned that although it was clear the outbreak was already having a major impact on the economy it was still too early to tell just how far-reaching the effects will be.\n\n\"The economic outlook is evolving on a daily basis and it is depending on the spread of the virus... that is not something that is knowable,\" he said.\n\nAs part of Sunday's announcement, the Fed will work with other central banks to increase the availability of dollars for commercial banks.\n\nThese so-called currency swap lines were an important tool in maintaining financial stability after the 2008 banking crisis.\n\n\"Today's coordinated action by major central banks will improve global liquidity by lowering the price and extending the maximum term of US dollar lending operations,\" Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said in a joint statement with Andrew Bailey, who succeeds him as BoE chief on Monday.\n\nThe Bank of Japan also eased monetary policy by pledging to buy risky assets at double the current pace and announced a new loan programme to extend one-year, zero-rate loans to financial institutions.\n\nThe Federal Reserve has now fired most of its remaining big guns to stimulate a US economy facing a serious financial shock from the coronavirus.\n\nInterest rates were slashed by one full percentage point to just above zero, and the bank restarted the pumping of hundreds of billions of dollars into financial markets. Global central banks, including the Bank of England, joined in to ease the flow of dollars around the world.\n\nIt was the full crisis toolkit designed to inject confidence into markets that ran riot last week as the outbreak turned into a global pandemic.\n\nWhile the moves should soothe the financing of US business, they also reflect that the health emergency in the US has become far worse than expected and reveals US authorities are running short of options.\n\nInterest rate cuts are a blunt instrument to deal with a pandemic, and more is expected from Congress and the White House, in particular.\n\nPresident Trump welcomed the cut, but it was his decision to ban European travel that sparked the latest record share sell off on Thursday.\n\nThere is some hope that a video conference call later between leaders of the G7 western industrialised nations, including President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will result in a more coordinated global approach to the virus.\n\nThe authorities will be watching markets carefully today, including Mr Bailey, on his first day in the job.\n\nMichael Hewson, chief market analyst at UK-based CMC Markets, described the co-ordinated move as throwing \"the kitchen sink at the markets. [It] serves to underscore the seriousness of the economic shocks coming our way\".\n\nAnd in the US, Greg McBridge, chief financial analyst at online bank and mortgage firm Bankrate.com, said: \"Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Fed is doing just that in an effort to keep credit markets functioning and prevent the type of starving of credit that nearly toppled the global economy into a depression in 2008.\n\n\"Reducing interest rates to borrowers will ease the burden of existing debts slightly but is unlikely to spur the usual surge of borrowing as consumers and businesses batten down the hatches for a coming drop off in US economic activity.\"", "Those who can offer help fill out their contact details and leave the cards with their neighbours\n\nA woman has designed a postcard aimed at helping people to look after their neighbours if they are self-isolating.\n\nThe print-at-home template is being shared on social media, with those in need able to request shopping, urgent supplies or \"a friendly phone call\".\n\nBecky Wass, from Falmouth, Cornwall, said the idea came to her as she and her husband discussed ways to help.\n\n\"Because fear has spread so quickly, its really important to try to spread kindness,\" she said.\n\nBecky came up with the idea after she and her husband decided they want to help their community\n\nUsers are encouraged to leave items on doorsteps to avoid direct contact.\n\nMs Wass said the response to the cards had been \"incredibly heartwarming\".\n\n\"I do think in times like this everybody wants to do something to help, and this postcard just makes that a little bit easier.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Local Radio stations across England are helping to keep communities connected during the Coronavirus crisis.\n\nIf you want to Make A Difference get in touch with your BBC Local Radio station at bbc.co.uk/makeadifference", "Residents in Spain and Italy have shown their gratitude to health personnel on the coronavirus frontline by applauding from their windows.\n\nThe nationwide events were coordinated in the locked-down countries through social media.\n\nBBC News has also been contacted via comments on our Instagram page to report the same thing happening in Portugal, an hour after Spain.\n\nRead more: Chaos at US airports as France and Spain lock down", "Safe spaces must be provided for the homeless and other vulnerable people to self-isolate, ministers are being told.\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran is calling for empty offices to be requisitioned to ensure the homeless are treated with dignity as the coronavirus spreads.\n\nProposed new laws, reportedly giving the police the power to arrest anyone with the virus not self-isolating indoors, will be published this week.\n\nShe warned rough sleepers could be \"disproportionately affected\" by this.\n\nDetails of emergency legislation giving the authorities extra powers to deal with the outbreak are due to be published on Thursday.\n\nIt has been reported that the plans could give the police the power to detain anyone who has tested positive for coronavirus or even showing symptoms and who is yet still circulating in public.\n\nThe government's current advice is that anyone with a fever or a new continuous cough must remain at home for at least a week.\n\nFurther measures, including requiring every Briton over the age of 70 to stay at home for an extended period to \"shield\" them from the virus, are expected in the coming weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the emergency legislation, which is expected to be fast-tracked through Parliament later this month, will \"prepare\" the country for the expected spike in cases over the coming months.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, he would not be drawn on specific details but said he hoped some of the measures would not actually be needed because people would behave \"responsibly\".\n\nOpposition parties say they support the government in its efforts to fight the virus but have expressed concerns about the scope of some of the powers being touted - which could remain in place for months.\n\nMs Moran said there had been a welcome fall in recent years in arrests of homeless people and the power of arrest should only be used as a \"last resort\".\n\n\"I support all evidence-led action to prevent the spread of Covid-19,\" she said. \"Yet I worry that these new detention powers will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in our society, including the homeless.\n\n\"The idea of police arresting homeless people, many with complex health and addiction issues, without proper testing, and placing them in detention centres just doesn't sit right.\"\n\nShe said the government must provide \"compassionate\" accommodation which encouraged homeless people who might be showing symptoms associated with the virus to come forward.\n\n\"The government should seek to care for homeless people and set up special services for them in disused buildings or vacated offices in cities,\" she added.\n\n\"These facilities should provide a sanitised place to eat, drink water and use the toilet. And, they should provide safe spaces for vulnerable people to self-isolate with dignity, as opposed to within a detention facility following arrest.\"\n\nCampaign groups have urged the government to block book empty hotel rooms to allow the homeless to self-isolate, saying the bills could be covered by the £500m hardship fund announced in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget.\n\nThe Museum of Homelessness and Streets Kitchen said this would keep people safe, minimise the risk of cross-infection and allow better health monitoring.\n\nIt said its plan would \"reduce hospital admissions, stop people being turfed out of hospital shelters onto the street and concentrate community efforts\", adding that everyone should be given a roof over their head \"regardless of the immigration status or situation\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked for \"urgent sight\" of the draft laws and for a meeting with the prime minister to discuss the crisis.\n\nLisa Nandy, one of three candidates seeking to succeed Mr Corbyn, said she believed the public would support immediate action to safeguard people's health but she had reservations about some of the plans being touted.\n\n\"I'm really quite concerned about the idea we are giving sweeping powers to the police and immigration officers in order to detain people who are sick while we don't seem to have a real plan to deal with our elder people,\" she told the BBC Andrew Marr show.", "Panic buying has left some supermarkets in the UK with empty shelves\n\nSupermarkets are urging shoppers not to buy more than they need amid concern over coronavirus-linked stockpiling.\n\nIn a joint letter, UK retailers have reminded customers to be considerate in their shopping, so that others are not left without much-needed items.\n\n\"There is enough for everyone if we all work together,\" it adds.\n\nIt comes after some shops began rationing the sales of certain products to avoid them selling out completely.\n\nIn the letter, the retailers say online and click-and-collect services are at \"full capacity\" and staff and suppliers are \"working day and night to keep the nation fed\".\n\nThe retailers say they are working \"closely\" with government and suppliers to make more deliveries to stores so that shelves are well-stocked.\n\n\"We understand your concerns but buying more than is needed can sometimes mean that others will be left without,\" the letter reads.\n\nThat was echoed in an email to customers from Sainsbury's boss Mike Coupe, who said: \"There are gaps on shelves because of increased demand, but we have new stock arriving regularly and we're doing our best to keep shelves stocked.\"\n\nIn a plea to shoppers, he said: \"Please think before you buy and only buy what you and your family need.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of retailers, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said: \"In the face of unprecedented demand as a result of coronavirus, food retailers have come together to ask their customers to support each other to make sure everyone can get access to the products they need.\"\n\nThe plea follows widespread concern over shoppers emptying supermarket shelves as fears grow over the spread of coronavirus.\n\nLong queues were reported outside some supermarkets on Sunday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ricky Boleto This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nItems including toilet paper, hand sanitiser, pasta and tinned foods are among those that have been in short supply.\n\nThat has led some supermarkets to limit the sale of some products, while Aldi has restricted customers to buying a maximum of four of each item.\n\nTesco, shoppers are limited to buying no more than five of certain goods, including anti-bacterial gels, wipes and sprays, dry pasta, UHT milk and some tinned vegetables.\n\nThere were empty shelves at a Waitrose in Sheffield\n\nMeanwhile, Waitrose has brought in a temporary cap on some items on its website, including some anti-bacterial soaps and wipes.\n\nBoots and Asda are both restricting some types of hand sanitiser to two bottles per person.\n\nCampaigners have warned stockpiling could hit the \"most vulnerable\" hardest.\n\nSupermarkets are used to spikes in demand, for example over the festive period. But they have usually been expecting them.\n\nIt has been clear from repeatedly emptied shelves that many shoppers have not heeded the official advice that there is no need to stockpile.\n\nThe BRC lobby group insists its members are resilient and there won't be long-term shortages. And supermarkets have adapted quickly. For example, Sainsbury's has told customers today that it has increased warehouse capacity and ordered more stock. Tesco is among the brands that will take up the government's offer of extending delivery hours to keep up with demand.\n\nBut with demand unprecedented for the time of year - weeks before the expected UK peak of the pandemic - this unusual joint letter from the major supermarkets shows they feel a strong message needs sending to customers. They will be hoping that the coordinated effort will help their strained supply chains cope and ensure everyone, including the most vulnerable, can get what they need.\n\nSome food banks say they have a shortage of basic items which have already been panic bought by shoppers.\n\nThe government has said there is no need for anyone to stockpile items, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging people to \"behave responsibly and think about others\".\n\nThe government is relaxing restrictions on delivery hours for retailers to try to ensure shops remain stocked with basic items.\n\nDeliveries to supermarkets are usually restricted overnight to avoid disturbing local residents.\n\nShoppers faced a long queue at the tills in Morrisons in Kettering on Sunday\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said allowing night-time deliveries would allow stock to move more quickly from warehouses to shelves.\n\nMeanwhile, the Competition and Markets Authority watchdog has warned retailers not to \"exploit\" fears about coronavirus by dramatically increasing the price of protective goods such as hand gels and face masks.\n\nHave you been stocking up because of the coronavirus? Have you been affected by panic buying? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Commuters with rail season tickets will receive a refund if they choose to stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak, the government has promised.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would \"ensure no-one is unfairly out of pocket for doing the right thing\".\n\nThe refund is part of a package of measures to support train companies.\n\nThere has been a 70% drop in passenger numbers and ticket sales have dropped by two-thirds, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nAs a result, the firms responsible for keeping the trains running are facing \"significant drops\" in their income, the government said. The number of services they run has also been cut.\n\nTo stop those firms from going under, the DfT has suspended all rail franchise agreements, which govern things such as how many trains run each hour and and restrict how much the companies that run them can charge for tickets.\n\nUnder these contracts, the train operators are generally required to make payments to the government to run services on parts of the rail network.\n\nHowever, DfT has now suspended these agreements for six months.\n\nInstead, all the money from fares will be paid to the government, which will also take on the financial risk of running the network, to save firms from going under as a result of the slump in demand.\n\nHowever, the train operators will continue to run the services \"for a small predetermined management fee\", the DfT said.\n\nIn reality this was the government's only option.\n\nThe annual cost of running all of the UK's trains is around £12bn.\n\nWith passenger numbers plummeting and ticket revenue plunging with it, the government had to step in to plug the gap.\n\nA lot of taxpayer cash already goes into the railways, but over the next six months an additional injection of several billion pounds might be needed so that the network can still operate.\n\nSadly, the reduction in the number of train services running doesn't save much money. The train companies have other high fixed costs such as staffing and the price of leasing trains.\n\nThis temporary emergency rail system that we'll soon have is more akin to a nationalised model.\n\nPrivate companies will run the trains but the government underwrites it all and, during this exceptional time, carries the losses.\n\nWe still can't rule out the possibility that once the details of each deal are worked out, a train company or two pulls out. In that situation, the franchises affected would have to be nationalised.\n\n\"This will allow us to ensure that trains necessary for key workers and essential travel continue to operate,\" the DfT said in a statement.\n\nHowever, it warned: \"No other passengers should travel.\"\n\nMr Shapps said: \"We are taking this action to protect the key workers who depend on our railways to carry on their vital roles, the hardworking commuters who have radically altered their lives to combat the spread of coronavirus, and the frontline rail staff who are keeping the country moving.\"\n\nThe move was welcomed by the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail.\n\n\"The rail industry is working together so that people and goods can keep making essential journeys during this unprecedented national challenge, getting key workers to hospitals, food to shops and fuel to power stations,\" said Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group.\n\n\"While we need to finalise the details, this will ensure that train companies can focus all their efforts on delivering a vital service at a time of national need.\"", "Organisers said it was a tough decision to postpone Pride\n\nPride in London is the latest event to be postponed during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIt is the UK's biggest LGBT pride festival, with organisers estimating the 2019 parade was attended by more than 1.5 million people.\n\nMore than 100 Pride events have now been cancelled or postponed.\n\nPride in London told the BBC it was \"hopeful\" a celebration would be held before the end of the year.\n\nThis year's event was due to take place on 27 June.\n\nConversations about new dates for the full range of Pride in London events are ongoing, with the Greater London Authority, Westminster City Council, Metropolitan Police, Transport for London and London Fire Brigade all involved in talks.\n\nAlison Camps and Michael Salter-Church, co-chairs of Pride in London, said it was a \"tough decision\" to postpone the event and they had done so following the advice from Public Health England and the government.\n\n\"With the climate changing daily, we need to think even further ahead and make timely decisions to protect the health and wellbeing of our communities, volunteers and participants,\" they said.\n\nWith large pride celebrations such as Pride Edinburgh, LA Pride and Tokyo Pride being removed from this year's calendar, some LGBT leaders are concerned their communities may suffer.\n\nKristine Garina, president of the European Pride Organisers Association, said it is \"heart breaking\" so many people will miss out on celebrating this year.\n\n\"Every Pride organiser in the world has a story of someone whose life was changed by coming to a Pride,\" she said.\n\n\"We will work together, and do all we can, to help Pride organisers get through this.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With schools closed to the majority of pupils to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus, parents across the country have been asked to become instant homeschoolers.\n\nHow have they coped with their first day of juggling timetables, curricula and coursework - all the while trying to get their own jobs done?\n\n“I’ve kind of done a timetable but I’m not sure how successful that’s going to be – ask me in a few days,” says Bobbie Gordon in Nottingham.\n\nShe and her husband - who work in marketing and IT respectively - are trying to be as flexible as possible as they combine work with their new role as homeschoolers to Imogen, 9, Lottie, 6, and four-year-old Hattie.\n\n“We’re just trying to tag-team it,” she says. “It’s about being flexible. We’re just trying to be supportive of each other as well because it is quite difficult for everybody and we’ve both got quite demanding jobs.”\n\nThe curriculum involves some schoolwork along with things the parents are keen to share with their kids, whether it’s coding, cooking or teaching them how to use the washing machine.\n\n“It’s life skills stuff,” says Ms Gordon. “Maybe it will help them realise everything that we have to do!”\n\nIt's been busy, round at the Gordons'\n\nSo far on Monday morning, they have done some writing, planted some seeds in the vegetable patch and made soup together.\n\nMs Gordon says she’s also keen for her kids to keep in touch with friends by video chat, and the eldest has already organised a daily evening video call with her classmates.\n\n“It’s 16 very excitable nine-year-olds running round their houses and playing instruments and things,” she says.\n\nDay one has gone relatively smoothly, says Ms Gordon, with sunshine and a spacious garden playing their part.\n\n“I suspect in a few weeks’ time if it’s horrible, rainy weather and they can’t get outside there will be harder days ahead,” she says.\n\nFor some parents, it’s been all about maintaining a routine.\n\nJoe Wicks, the fitness instructor and TV presenter, attracted more than 800,000 viewers to his YouTube Channel promising a daily 30-minute workout for kids to start the day.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live he wanted to play a part in reassuring kids that “although this is a weird time, everything is going to be fine, it’s going to return to normal and we’ll be reconnected again”.\n\nIn St Helens, Catherine Ormesher says her 11-year-old daughter Jessica is also benefitting from sticking to a routine, tackling her maths work on Monday morning just as her school timetable says.\n\nShe says her daughter’s school took “a massive weight” off of parents by providing them with materials and log-ins for online learning.\n\nThe school suggested that parents wake up their children at the normal time and begin work at 09:00 GMT.\n\n“The kids have been sending WhatsApp messages to tell each other that they’re starting their lessons now. They’re following the timetable and getting one another motivated,” says Ms Ormesher, who is a carer.\n\n“They obviously want the routine and the stability.”\n\nMs Ormesher said the school’s music teacher started them off with a “wake and shake” – an early morning dance to get kids energised – before a morning of lessons.\n\nAt her 11:00 break, Jessica asked Amazon’s Alexa to set a reminder for the start of lessons 20 minutes later.\n\nBut her mum says that holding onto the routine may have a special importance for her, as she was in isolation before school closed, having returned from Spain with an illness.\n\n“On Friday a little boy knocked on the door and left all her books and everything from school on our step. When we opened the door and I gave them to Jess, she just broke her heart crying because she hadn’t got to say her goodbyes to her primary school,” she says.\n\nEducational psychologists – such as Zubeida Dasgupta, who is at home in Brighton with her three children – warn that being home for a prolonged period can be difficult and stressful for some children.\n\nParents may also be stressed and worrying about the health of family members, their finances or food security, she says.\n\nSo her approach has been to emphasise that home is not school and she is not a teacher.\n\n“We have decided to focus on safety, love and fun, with a little bit of learning where the children are showing interest,” she says.\n\nOne child is very motivated and organised, she says, working through tasks set by school, helping his younger sister and following his interests in skills such as coding.\n\nThe others are getting more guidance in activities such as gardening or recording music on the computer. The youngest has volunteered to practise spelling and times tables.\n\n“I think we are all experiencing a feeling of loss of control at the moment, so doing activities where your children can be involved in planning and making decisions - and also succeeding - may help them feel a bit more in control,” Ms Dasgupta says.\n\n“If we can support our children through this, it may well end up being a positive experience. They may develop some resilience and discover new found interests and skills.”", "The trial of three people accused of murdering a police officer has been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPC Andrew Harper died after he got caught in a towing strap trailing behind a car on a country road in Berkshire in August 2019.\n\nThe Old Bailey jury was discharged on Monday when a third juror began self-isolating, after two other members withdrew from the trial last week.\n\nMr Justice Edis said he had taken the decision to discharge the jury with \"great regret\" and a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThe judge said it was \"not sensible to try to carry on\" after a third juror began self-isolating when her father tested positive for the virus over the weekend.\n\nTwo jurors in the trial, which started on 9 March, were discharged on Thursday because they went into self-isolation.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - all deny murder\n\nMr Justice Edis said although the law permits a trial to continue with nine jurors, the trial into PC Harper's death had not reached the end of the prosecution case and the three defendants had a \"right to give and to call evidence\".\n\nHe said: \"The trial cannot finish in the immediate future and the risk that we will lose another juror, or some other person who is essential to its continuation is so high that I have decided that it is no longer in the public interest to take the risk of continuing to convene at court.\"\n\nThe judge said he also considered a case of \"this importance\" should be \"if possible\" decided by a jury with more than nine members.\n\nHe said he was \"deeply sorry\" to \"those who loved\" PC Harper for his decision, and said the case would be listed on 1 June for a review hearing.\n\nThe Old Bailey has heard PC Harper and a colleague were responding to a report of a quad bike theft near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he became entangled in a tow rope.\n\nThe 28-year-old, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was dragged for more than a mile and suffered \"absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries\".\n\nMr Long, from Mortimer, Reading, has admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The pair also deny manslaughter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister's announcement has no comparison in our recent history\n\nWuhan is more than 5,000 miles away.\n\nBut from tonight, the virus that spread from that part of China affects every individual, every family, every household, every business in the country - and it couldn't be closer to home.\n\nAt a desk in Downing Street, the prime minister made an announcement that has no comparison in our recent history, instructing everyone in the country to close the doors, stay inside to save lives.\n\nAs the number of cases of coronavirus has increased, the government's approach has accelerated rapidly through the measures that only a couple of weeks ago seemed like levers ministers would reach for at some distant hypothetical point in the future.\n\nArguments about whether to close pubs, cafes and bars 72 hours ago seem academic now, as the UK enters what the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has referred to as a lockdown.\n\nBoris Johnson has described this as a moment of \"national emergency\", listing a set of rules that will limit all our lives, which are no longer advice, but instructions that can be enforced by the police.\n\nYou can read exactly what they are here.\n\nIt seems hard to overstate how huge an impact this will have on the country, and what a massive decision this is for the government to have taken - whose effect will last at least for a period of three weeks at the shortest, potentially for very much longer.\n\nRemember this though, is not quite the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries - at least not yet. Despite tonight's enormous announcement, there are steps that other places have taken - curfews or total travel bans for example - that the UK is not pursuing.\n\nThe government is not triggering the Civil Contingencies Act, designed for the most serious emergencies which gives ministers draconian powers.\n\nNot surprisingly, there is already therefore enormous controversy about whether the UK has been acting fast enough. There will be a time on the other side of this crisis when scientists will have a full range of evidence that shows which governments, in which parts of the world, made the right decisions, that had the right impacts at the right time.\n\nBut that's not now, not yet, because simply, it may be many months before it's anything like clear. Whether Boris Johnson's government made the correct calls will shape his political future as well as the country's.\n\nAny notion that his government with a huge majority might be able to pursue its priorities is very long gone.\n\nRemember, too, for the majority of people who contract coronavirus it is a mild illness; most people will recover.\n\nBut the wider emergency is touching everyone - those who fall sick, the doctors, nurses and carers trying to help them, families trying to adapt to this strange new abnormal, businesses huge and tiny trying to survive - and our politics that has changed in these last few days beyond all recognition too.", "Mr Salmond walked free from the court after being cleared of all of the allegations against him\n\nAfter a political career spanning 30 years, Alex Salmond will be more familiar than most with the feeling of sitting waiting for a result to come in. But never one quite like this.\n\nThis time, the constituency passing judgement on the former first minister was a jury of the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nAnd rather than a seat in parliament or the outcome of a referendum, his very freedom was on the line.\n\nIt wasn't just Mr Salmond waiting for a result.\n\nNine women also sat nervously awaiting the outcome, to see if their accounts of sexual assault would be believed beyond all reasonable doubt.\n\nWhen the foreman of the jury stood up and announced that Mr Salmond had been cleared of all charges, the former first minister reacted the way he had throughout the trial - by not reacting.\n\nHe calmly thanked the judge as she told him he was free to go, and walked from the courtroom.\n\nThe trial was presided over by Lady Dorrian, Scotland's second most senior judge\n\nThe jury's six total hours of deliberation were preceded by nine days of evidence, with witnesses being questioned by prosecution and defence lawyers amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nAll of it was presided over by Lady Dorrian, Scotland's second most senior judge.\n\nWhile always fair, she was also scrupulously firm. Lawyers who pushed at the boundaries of what could reasonably be relevant to the case were steered firmly back into line. Witnesses who strayed into hearsay or speculation were stopped dead in their tracks.\n\nThe lawyers leading the two opposing sides were both titans of the court, vastly experienced operators - but could scarcely have been more different in style.\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice, the advocate depute, was all precision, referring to a huge stack of notes and delivering clipped, precise questions.\n\nThere was a noticeable pattern to his approach - each woman was asked the exact same things about whether they consented to or invited the former first minister's alleged advances - as Mr Prentice painstakingly built his case.\n\nDefence lawyer Gordon Jackson, meanwhile, barked out his questions gruffly, darting from one subject to the next; \"let's move on\" he would growl, leaving his scepticism about the answers hanging heavy in the air.\n\n\"The Dean\", as many including Lady Dorrian called him in reference to his position atop the Faculty of Advocates, was loath to stand still behind a lectern as he pursued his quarry.\n\nHe ranged around the courtroom, wig askew, as he mused on the quality of evidence.\n\nThis wandering was apparent even when the Crown was taking the lead - at one point he popped up at the back of the press room, watching Alex Prentice's questions on a monitor amid a pack of slightly startled journalists.\n\nMr Salmost and Mr Jackson observed social distancing protocol sa they congratulated each other outside court\n\nFor his part, Mr Salmond sat placidly in the dock throughout. He occasionally called Mr Jackson over to suggest a certain question, but for the most part seemed content to watch.\n\nAt the end of each day's evidence he would share a joke and some hand sanitiser with one of the security officers before walking out with a calm smile carefully fixed on his face.\n\nThe assembly of journalists seated directly behind him peered through the plexiglass screen, seeking in vain for some flicker of emotion.\n\nBut at most you would occasionally catch him rocking gently from side to side during particularly difficult moments, like when he was waiting for the jury to troop back in with their verdict.\n\nWhen he came to give evidence, there was little of the showmanship which characterised his approach to politics. This was a more reserved Alex Salmond, acutely aware of the difficulty of his position.\n\nHe did deploy the old politician's trick of turning his opponents own quotes back on them, reading back his own notes of evidence from the complainers as Mr Jackson guided him along, but he rarely strayed into speechifying.\n\nMr Salmond's wife, Moira, accompanied him to court on\n\nAlex Prentice borrowed a trick from politics himself with a Paxman-style opening to cross examination, posing the same question four or five times - had Mr Salmond considered the feelings of one of the complainers? - in increasingly icy tones.\n\nBut for all the former FM was irritated, heaving a sigh into his microphone, his composure did not crack.\n\nThe nine women named in the charges gave evidence in a closed court, a screen separating them from Mr Salmond and the media decamped to a neighbouring room with a video feed.\n\nTheir testimony was picked over in occasionally excruciating detail, by both prosecution and defence.\n\nShelagh McCall QC - in theory the defence's junior counsel, but one so senior in her field that the title seems laughable - led the cross-examination of several, but both she and Mr Jackson found themselves well matched.\n\nOften, their attempts to pull apart the stories of the complainers only brought out even more eye-catching testimony. For example the much-discussed system where female civil servants were supposedly not allowed to work alone with Mr Salmond in the evening first came out in cross examination.\n\nThis, combined with the limits placed on the questioning of complainers in sex offences trials, meant cross-examination often seemed to fly by in a trial which ended up lasting for only half as long as it was originally scheduled for.\n\nIt felt slightly odd to be inside the bubble of the court as the coronavirus story took off outside. At first, a bottle of hand sanitiser appearing in the media room was as much acknowledgement as it got, but as breaking news alerts popped up on everyone's phones the shadow of the virus steadily grew over the court.\n\nEvery morning we would nervously count the jurors in, to make sure there were still 15. Eventually their number would drop to 13, although Lady Dorrian stressed there were \"various reasons\" for that.\n\nMr Jackson spent the better part of the trial coughing and spluttering; at one point he paused to reassure the jury that he had had his cough for \"about six weeks\" so there was no need for him to go into self-isolation.\n\nOne of his witnesses did, however, and was unable to attend court.\n\nLady Dorrian spoke about these being \"difficult times\", but was apparently absolutely determined to see the trial through. She was even rumoured to have been contemplating a Saturday sitting at one point.\n\nUltimately it feels like there is little room for analysis or evaluation of the arguments actually made in court. In general, we accept the verdict of the jury in absolute terms; they pronounce an accused guilty because he is guilty, not because of the particular skill of the prosecution. They pronounce him innocent because his guilt has not been proved, not because his defence team have yanked him from the fire.\n\nThis trial is no different. This does not mean there will be no debate or discussion off the back of it all - far from it, and even Mr Salmond spoke outside court of there being more to say once the coronavirus crisis has eased.\n\nTestimony heard in the court has raised questions for the Scottish government, for the SNP, and for Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nBut those will be addressed in the political arena, not the legal one. As far as the court is concerned, the Alex Salmond trial is over.", "West Park Hospital in Darlington is one of three mental health hospitals criticised\n\nDrug dealers delivered crack cocaine to vulnerable patients at a mental health hospital, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt is one of the claims made by a number of former patients at units run by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, which have seen five deaths in less than two years.\n\nThe trust has been criticised over its services at three hospitals, including West Lane in Middlesbrough, where three teenage girls died.\n\nThe trust said reviews were under way.\n\nOne girl admitted to West Park Hospital in Darlington last year told BBC Inside Out: \"Definitely the most alarming [thing] was the presence of crack cocaine on the ward.\n\n\"There were two ways [to get it]. Either people left and brought it back in with them, or you could ring a dealer and they would come on to the ward and deliver them for you.\"\n\nShe also said staff were \"tipped off\" ahead of a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.\n\n\"They were told in advance what would be happening,\" she said.\n\n\"Charts that weren't present before were put up with dates and ticks placed on them, and patients were advised by staff to hide contraband on the day of inspection.\"\n\nThe CQC said the trust was not told when inspections would take place, but did know which services would be looked at.\n\nThe former patient also said she saw an agency worker acting inappropriately by massaging a patient's feet and telling another she was \"beautiful\".\n\n\"It was really quite disturbing and made me feel uncomfortable,\" she said.\n\nOne girl, who was admitted to West Lane in Middlesbrough with an eating disorder in 2015, said she was still \"haunted every day\" by the memories of her time there.\n\n\"It was a horror story from day one,\" she said.\n\nShe said patients had access to scissors and wires, and liquids such as nail polish remover or paint which some drank.\n\nThe mental health unit at West Lane Hospital closed after a damning CQC inspection\n\n\"Even after things like that happened they wouldn't then be taken away,\" she said.\n\n\"We would just be told 'well, if you want to do it that's up to you'.\"\n\nShe also said members of staff would ask patients with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia for \"diet tips\".\n\nWest Lane closed in August after a damning inspection by the CQC.\n\nAt Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough, patients told the BBC some staff felt they had a licence to \"treat you terribly\".\n\n\"They say [you have a] personality disorder, that means they can do whatever they want,\" one said.\n\nMarjorie Wallace said she was appalled by the accounts\n\nHaving seen the BBC's evidence, Marjorie Wallace, CEO of mental health charity Sane, said she was \"absolutely appalled\" and \"the picture of neglect, even amounting to cruelty, means it's more redolent of the dark ages of the old asylums\".\n\n\"The trust should be put into special measures immediately and those involved in all those incidents should be held to account,\" Ms Wallace said.\n\nThe trust said it was \"deeply sorry\" that at West Lane it \"didn’t provide safe, high quality care\".\n\nA spokesman said the BBC provided too little information for it to respond to the specific allegations made by patients, and a number of reviews and investigations were under way so it would be \"inappropriate to discuss or comment\" further.\n\nBut he urged any patients with concerns to tell the trust, adding: \"We take all such views extremely seriously and use what they tell us to improve their care and the care of others.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on BBC Inside Out North East & Cumbria on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on Monday 23 March and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe International Olympic Committee is considering a postponement of Tokyo 2020, and has given itself a deadline of four weeks to make a decision.\n\nThe IOC's executive board met on Sunday amid mounting pressure from athletes and national Olympic committees for the Games to be delayed because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"In light of the worldwide deteriorating situation... the executive board has today initiated the next step in the IOC's scenario-planning,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"These scenarios relate to modifying existing operational plans for the Games to go ahead on 24 July 2020, and also for changes to the start date of the Games.\"\n\nCancellation is \"not on the agenda\", said the IOC, but a \"scaled-down\" Games will also be considered.\n\nHowever, postponement - by either several months or probably a whole year - is thought to be the most likely outcome.\n\nThe development marks a significant shift by the IOC, which as recently as five days ago said it was \"fully committed\" to the Tokyo 2020 Games.\n\nBritish Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sir Hugh Robertson said: \"We welcome the IOC executive board decision to review the options in respect of a postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.\n\n\"However, we urge rapid decision-making for the sake of athletes who still face significant uncertainty.\n\n\"Restrictions now in place have removed the ability of athletes to compete on a level playing field and it simply does not seem appropriate to continue on the present course towards the Olympic Games in the current environment.\"\n\nThe International Paralympic Committee said it \"fully supports\" the decision to \"investigate potential scenarios\".\n\nDame Katherine Grainger, chair of UK Sport, said the news was \"inevitable\" and it was \"the correct decision for the safety of athletes, staff and fans\".\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston said: \"It is right that the IOC seriously considers postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.\n\n\"The health and safety of athletes, sports fans and officials due to work at the Games is absolutely paramount. We would welcome the IOC making a definitive decision soon, to bring clarity to all those involved.\"\n• None Tokyo 2020 date 'now has to be addressed' - UK Athletics chair\n\nOn Tuesday the BOA, the British Paralympic Association and UK Sport will host a conference call with the chief executives and performance directors of summer Olympic and Paralympic sports.\n\nAthlete representative bodies will also be invited to join the call, which will primarily be used to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, such as the closure of elite training facilities.\n\nThe IOC added: \"There is a dramatic increase in cases and new outbreaks of Covid-19 in different countries on different continents. This led the executive board to the conclusion that the IOC needs to take the next step in its scenario-planning.\n\n\"The IOC will, in full coordination and partnership with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Japanese authorities and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, start detailed discussions to complete its assessment of the rapid development of the worldwide health situation and its impact on the Olympic Games, including the scenario of postponement.\n\n\"The IOC executive board emphasised that a cancellation of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 would not solve any of the problems or help anybody.\"\n\nIn a letter to athletes published on Sunday, IOC president Thomas Bach said that \"we are in a dilemma\" and \"a final decision about the date of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 now would still be premature\".\n\nHe added that to postpone the Games \"is an extremely complex challenge\" and a cancellation would \"destroy the Olympic dream of 11,000 athletes\".\n\nIn terms of a postponement, Bach warned: \"A number of critical venues needed for the Games could potentially not be available anymore.\n\n\"The situations with millions of nights already booked in hotels is extremely difficult to handle, and the international sports calendar for at least 33 Olympic sports would have to be adapted. These are just a few of many, many more challenges.\"\n\nUK Athletics, its US counterpart, and several national Olympic governing bodies have urged the IOC in recent days to delay the Games.", "Police patrols to increase in light of new restrictions\n\nIain Livingstone, the chief constable of Police Scotland, said the force supported the new measures to increase social distancing and urged and expected everyone to comply. “We are aware of the proposed legislation in relation to coronavirus and are carefully considering the implications in this very fast moving situation, which presents the gravest of threats to the nation,\" he added. “In the meantime, Police Scotland has a clear, positive duty to both protect life and improve the safety and wellbeing of people across Scotland, while supporting the government and health agencies in our fight against this pandemic. “Therefore, until the new legislation is in place, we will be increasing police patrols in key areas across the country to engage with and provide guidance to anyone in contravention of the measures.\"", "The number of coronavirus deaths in Scotland has increased by four to 14, as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stressed that following health advice was \"not optional\".\n\nMs Sturgeon called on shops which do not provide essentials such as food or medicine to close.\n\nShe said 499 people had tested positive in Scotland for Covid-19.\n\nMs Sturgeon said these figures were likely to be underestimates - but still showed \"the scale of the challenge\".\n\nThe chief medical officer for Scotland, Dr Catherine Calderwood, said: \"Those 14 deaths probably each represent up to 1,000 people that have become infected.\n\n\"We have 23 people currently in our intensive care units across Scotland who have coronavirus and each of them represents perhaps 400 to 500 other people that will have become infected in the course of their illness.\"\n\nDr Calderwood warned that people who ignored advice on self-isolation and social distancing risked infecting loved ones.\n\n\"The people that you interact with, if they give you coronavirus, you will pass that on to the members of your household,\" she said.\n\n\"You're risking infecting the people you spend most time with, the people you love.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Catherine Calderwood explains how many people can be infected by one person.\n\n\"So when people are mixing outside their families, they need to be absolutely sure it is worth the risks they are taking.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also urged people to take advice on social distancing seriously.\n\nShe said \"the vast majority of people\" were making every effort to limit contact, but that \"too many\" were still being expected by their employers to go to work.\n\nShe called on shops which do not provide essential services to close, and urged pubs and restaurants which have stayed open to \"do the right thing\".\n\n\"If our NHS is overwhelmed, people will die needlessly and avoidably,\" she said.\n\n\"This is about saving lives.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said government health advice would protect the NHS and reduce the number of people who have the virus.\n\nAnd she added: \"Life should not be carrying on as normal right now.\n\n\"This weekend has been the most unusual in my lifetime and that is true for all of us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon earlier told BBC Scotland that no-one should be meeting people outside their family group unless it was absolutely essential.\n\nWhat's the real number of cases in Scotland?\n• None 25,500are likely to be infected\n\nShe told the Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The experts are telling us that we are on the cusp of a rapid acceleration, and that acceleration may be quicker than we had previously thought.\n\n\"That is why the advice to people is now so clear, so strict and so robust. If at all possible, stay at home\".\n\nThe first minister emphasised that \"life should not feel normal\" after limits were introduced on social gathering with the closure of pubs and cafes.\n\nShe said people should not be crowding into parks or onto beaches.\n\n\"This is really tough, but this is the kind of action that will help us slow down the spread of this virus and ultimately save lives,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon also appealed to young people, who she said may feel they are \"invincible\", to stick to the new guidelines.\n\nShe said: \"The advice is for the protection of all of us, particularly the protection of those who are more vulnerable to serious illness and potentially dying from this, and it's about protecting our health service.\n\n\"If our health service becomes overwhelmed, there will be people who will die needlessly and avoidably and that is that we are trying to prevent.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said up to 200,000 people in Scotland with extreme health vulnerabilities would be contacted in the coming days with advice to isolate for 12 weeks and details of how they will be supported.\n\nIt follows similar measures announced by Public Health England to inform 1.5m people in a similar position south of the border.", "Alex Davies had never met his killer before\n\nA teenager has been convicted of the murder of a sales assistant who he stabbed more than 100 times and left in a remote woodland location.\n\nBrian Healless attacked Alex Davies, 18, on Parbold Hill, Lancashire, after they agreed through the dating app Grindr to meet at a \"discreet spot\".\n\nHealless, also 18, dragged him through the mud while he was still alive and covered his body with branches.\n\nHealless, of Chorley, will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe jury convicted him of the April 2019 murder after deliberating for less than an hour.\n\nThe judge thanked the jurors for being \"truly fantastic\" amid the coronavirus pandemic. They had to sit further apart than normal, with half in the well of the court and the others in the jury box.\n\nThey had heard that Mr Davies, from Skelmersdale, was openly gay and the defendant had been in contact with him and other men.\n\nHealless had mentioned meeting for \"some outdoor fun\" but took a knife to the top of Parbold Hill on the afternoon of 29 April 2019.\n\nAfter the killing, he rode off on his mountain bike.\n\nThree days later, a gamekeeper working on the hill spotted an arm under a pile of broken conifers, leading police to Mr Davies's body.\n\nThe court heard Healless had made searches on eBay for a military-style folding spade, a shovel and a pickaxe.\n\nProsecutor David McLachlan suggested to the jury that this was evidence of Healless preparing for his next victim.\n\nDefence lawyers argued the teenager was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time, but Mr McLachlan described Healless as a \"calculating, cunning, manipulative and dangerous young man\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the first day of a country-wide lockdown in India, hundreds were held for violating the curfew - and the police dealt out some fairly unusual forms of punishment in some states.\n\nLocal media reports showed videos of police in Punjab and Maharashtra punishing men who broke the curfew by forcing them to do push-ups .\n\nIn Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, police also took to shaming people on social media - they posted photos of the alleged violators, saying “they were against society as they will not stay at home”, reported the Hindustan Times.\n\nElsewhere, officials seized vehicles after questioning people where they were going to determine if it was essential for them to be outside their home.\n\nStates have also been asked to take legal action if necessary as many have imposed a colonial-era law that prohibits four or more people gathering.\n\nChecks and fines are expected to increase on Tuesday as more cities and states go into lockdown to fight the spread of Covid-19 - India has reported 446 active cases, and nine deaths so far.", "The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, warned that \"people will die who could have lived otherwise\"\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak in New York will get worse, with damage accelerated by shortages of key medical supplies, the city's mayor has said.\n\n\"We're about 10 days away from seeing widespread shortages,\" Bill de Blasio said on Sunday. \"If we don't get more ventilators people will die.\"\n\nNew York state has become the epicentre of the outbreak in the US and accounts for almost half of the country's cases.\n\nThere are now 31,057 confirmed cases nationwide, with 390 deaths.\n\nOn Sunday, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said 15,168 people had tested positive for the virus, an increase of more than 4,000 from the previous day.\n\n\"All Americans deserve the blunt truth,\" Mr de Blasio told NBC News. \"It's only getting worse, and in fact April and May are going to be a lot worse.\"\n\nNew York now accounts for roughly 5% of Covid-19 cases worldwide.\n\nOn Friday, President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for the state which gave it access to billions of dollars of federal aid.\n\nHowever, Mr de Blasio has continued to criticise the administration for what he views as an inadequate response.\n\n\"I cannot be blunt enough: if the president doesn't act, people will die who could have lived otherwise,\" he said. \"This is going to be the greatest crisis, domestically, since the Great Depression,\" he added, referring to the economic crisis of the 1930s.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at the White House on Sunday, Mr Trump said he had also approved a major disaster declaration for Washington state and would approve a similar measure for California.\n\n\"This is a challenging time for all Americans. We're enduring a great national trial,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump also said a number of medical supplies were being sent to locations nationwide, as well as emergency medical stations for New York, Washington and California, the worst-hit states.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 60 days of coronavirus in the US - in 60 seconds\n\nDoctors across New York have reported depleted medical supplies and a lack of protective gear for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the outbreak.\n\nWarnings of such shortages have reverberated across the country as other state governors have pleaded with the federal government to make more supplies available.\n\nIn California, officials instructed hospitals to restrict coronavirus testing. Meanwhile, a hospital in Washington state - once the centre of the US outbreak - said it could run out of ventilators by April.\n\nAnd on Sunday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said states were \"competing against each other\" for virus supplies.\n\n\"We need millions of masks and hundreds of thousands of gowns and gloves,\" he said. \"We're getting just a fraction of that. So, we're out on the open market competing for these items that we so badly need.\"\n\nAn almost $1.4 trillion (£1.2 trillion) emergency stimulus bill intended to blunt the punishing economic impact of the pandemic failed to pass the US Senate on Sunday.\n\nThe bill got 47 votes, falling short of the 60 needed in the 100-member chamber.\n\nDemocrats raised objections to the bill with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer saying it had \"many, many problems\". Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to bail out big businesses.\n\nTalks between Democrats and the White House are continuing.", "Even the Olympics is not immune. It now seems almost certain that Tokyo 2020 will be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world.\n\nBut as the IOC gives itself another four weeks to mull over a delay, what forces are at play behind the biggest peacetime decision world sport has ever seen? Why do they need so long to do what most now see as the only option? And what will the fallout be?\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the British Olympic Association (BOA) will add their voice to those demanding a postponement, following an emergency conference call with UK Sport, performance directors, and representatives of TeamGB athletes.\n\nEven an actual withdrawal has not been ruled out, depending on the strength of feeling among participants.\n\nBen Hawes, chair of the TeamGB athletes' commission, told BBC Sport he would present a \"strong viewpoint\" that postponement is the only course of action to take, for the health and wellbeing of athletes.\n\nSeveral National Olympic Committees (NOCs) from around the world have already requested a postponement, while Canada and Australia have gone further still by saying they will not send their athletes if it begins this year.\n\nIOC member Dick Pound says postponement \"has been decided\", and it will most likely be until 2021, but told USA Today the \"parameters\" have not been finalised, and \"it will come in stages\".\n\nBoth the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organisers have tried to explain how they need time to consider the undoubted complexity of a delayed Olympics.\n\nOn Monday, Tomahiko Taniguchi, special advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet, told the BBC that the final solution rests with the IOC.\n\nHe said that, given the complexities involved, \"Lausanne must take a few weeks examining scenarios [for a possible postponement] but it is not Tokyo's decision\".\n\nBut there has been significant criticism from athletes, including 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith, about potentially having to wait another four weeks, and Hawes told BBC Sport this timeframe \"does seem too long\".\n\nAccording to well-placed sources, we may now be witnessing a 'game of chicken' over who blinks first between the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organisers, due to the commercial and legal ramifications that could follow such a decision.\n\nTop sports lawyer John Mehrzad QC explains that it will be crucial for litigation purposes who it is that effectively pulls the trigger, because whoever does could open themselves up to potential allegations of breach of the host-city contract.\n\n\"The party that 'cancels' or 'postpones' that agreement, unless mutually agreed by the other party, will put itself in breach of contract and expose itself to huge [billions of dollars] damages claims,\" he said.\n\nThe recipient of any claim could point to the coronavirus pandemic being a \"force majeure\", or 'Act of God' - though Mehrzad points out that an insurer would be likely to say it must be impossible for the Games to be staged for such a case to stand.\n\nAt present, there is no World Health Organization diktat saying that the Olympics cannot be staged.\n\nThe IOC has the contractual right to cancel the Games on safety grounds, and is protected from any claims for damages by the host city in such an event.\n\nHowever, the host-city contract does not refer to postponements, and it is understood that the IOC would much rather it was Japan that ultimately took the decision.\n\nThe boycotts from certain major NOCs could therefore play a key role in clearing this logjam, because not having the participation of Team Canada and the Australian delegation would make it an incomplete Games.\n\nThe IOC and local organisers could say that this has meant it is no longer possible to proceed with the current schedule, and could provide some protection in the face of any legal cases and insurance claims from the multitude of commercial entities with contracts tied to the event, from broadcasters to sponsors.\n\nWhile a postponement may be inevitable, organising it will not be simple, and there has been some sympathy for the IOC's predicament as they seek a solution to an unprecedented challenge that is not of their making.\n\nRicardo Fort, head of sponsorship at Coca Cola, one of the Olympics' key commercial partners, said: \"The IOC is taking the right steps to proper evaluate their options. Whatever decisions they make, it will be based on facts (and not on the pressure of any federation... no matter the federation or country.)\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Japan even though polls show a majority of people now expect a postponement, there will be fears that such a decision, no matter how understandable in the circumstances, will amount to a huge loss of face. After all, no Olympics has ever been rescheduled. The only cancelled Games have occurred in wartime.\n\nBoth the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers have highlighted that postponing a Games that has a budget of £10.8bn ($12.6bn/1.35trillion yen) comes with \"many, many challenges\".\n\nIn a statement, Tokyo 2020 said: \"As we seek to address this unique situation, close coordination with many partners, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan, Tokyo 2020 marketing partners, broadcasters, suppliers and contractors, will be essential.\"\n\nThe IOC, meanwhile, pointed out that there have been \"millions of nights\" booked in hotels, which may not be available for a rescheduled Games. There is also the question of whether the Athletes' Village and other key venues will still be available given pre-agreed deals with private occupiers, and the need to find tenants. Can Japan really afford for these venues to remain empty for another year? Will a new Athletes' Village need to be built?\n\nHowever, some within the Olympic movement fear that by appearing to many to be ponderous and out of touch with athletes' concerns, with each day that passes, significant damage is being done to the IOC's brand at a time when it is already concerned about attracting future host cities, and athletes feel left in limbo.\n\nAfter all, as recently as 4 March in Lausanne following an executive board meeting, Bach remarkably claimed the words 'postponement' and 'cancellation' had not even been mentioned during discussions.\n\nGiven the relentless speed of the outbreak, that seemed at best naive and at worst downright negligent to some. Maybe Bach's hands were tied by Japanese partners loathe to even contemplate a change of plan. Almost certainly a Plan B was in fact being discussed but to many it gave the impression of a sports body in an ivory tower and in denial.\n\nAnd it may be that the IOC now has to dip into its significant reserves to help bail out the many international sports federations that depend on financial handouts thanks to the £5bn revenues generated from each Olympic cycle, and which now looks set to be delayed by a year. Some of these federations will have insurance to mitigate the impact of this shock. But others will not and could face a worrying future.\n\nSeveral athletes have been keen to stress that they are the key stakeholders in an Olympics and the previous messaging from the IOC to keep preparing as normal risked putting them and their families at risk.\n\nThe competitor-led movement Global Athlete has called for a postponement, saying \"athletes do not have the ability to appropriately prepare for these Games and their health and safety must come first\".\n\nBefore tomorrow's conference call, Hawes said: \"My hope is that we'll come out of tomorrow with a much clearer picture and a consistent picture across athlete feeling and sentiment as well as the sports, the BOA and UK Sport as an organisation.\n\n\"From what I've heard so far, everyone is pretty much in agreement with the fact that this now really starting to challenge athletes, both mentally and physically, and we need to have a solution.\n\n\"The solution won't come until the IOC makes the decision but the more pressure that can come on from the most critical stakeholders at this point, which is the athletes, the better. We will be going into it with a strong viewpoint which we have been talking to the BOA about for many weeks now.\"\n\nWhen asked to clarify if the position from the Athletes' Commission was one in favour of a postponement, he said: \"Yes I believe that for the health and wellbeing of our athletes we have to have some clarity on a postponement, even if it that needs time to understand when that might be.\"\n\nWhen could it be moved to?\n\nThere is no clear consensus on when the Games should be moved to, mainly due to each sport having its own calendar to consider, and the continued uncertainty surrounding when the pandemic may ease.\n\nThe example of the Euros being pushed back almost exactly a year could be followed, and currently appears the most likely.\n\nThe Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) telling its athletes to prepare for a 2021 Games could be particularly telling, given the AOC President John Coates is chair of the IOC's Coordination Commission for Tokyo.\n\nA 12-month delay of the Olympics would clash with the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, which are scheduled to run from 6-15 August 2021.\n\nWorld Athletics has already been in touch with the organisers, who have given assurances that they will look for alternative dates if that proves necessary.\n\nThe Championships wouldn't necessarily need to be pushed back by a year - one option could be bringing it forward by a few months.\n\nAlternatively, the Games could be postponed to later in 2020, when it would be cooler.\n\nThe Olympics have been held in autumn before, and the last Tokyo Olympics, in 1964, were held in October, and the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee told an IOC teleconference last week that rescheduling to October was \"practical and reasonable\".\n\nBut it would then clash with the European football season and major US sports.\n\nAnd with US media giant NBC being one of the most important voices in these discussions, a delay of a year looks most likely.\n\nAmid the staggering collapse of the global sporting calendar in recent weeks, the Tokyo Games is the last to fall. But this is no mere sports championships. It is a multi-billion pound mega-event that, as we have seen repeatedly, places a huge economic strain on its hosts.\n\nThis explains perhaps why there is currently something of a dance going on between those at the top table.\n\nEach party is waiting for the other to make the move, while also trying to figure out the safest, and least financially and reputationally damaging, solution.\n\nIt may not take four weeks, though. With pressure mounting, do not be surprised if the plug is pulled much sooner.", "Many people went to parks and other public places in Germany on Sunday\n\nGermany has expanded curbs on social interactions to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, banning public gatherings of more than two people.\n\nIn a televised address, Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"our own behaviour\" was the \"most effective way\" of slowing the rate of infection.\n\nThe measures included closing hair, beauty and massage studios. Other non-essential shops had already been shut.\n\nShortly afterwards, Mrs Merkel's office said she would quarantine herself.\n\nA doctor who vaccinated her on Friday against pneumococcus, a pneumonia-causing bacteria, had tested positive for coronavirus. The chancellor, 65, will be tested regularly in the next few days and work from home, her spokesman said.\n\nGermany, Europe's largest economy, has so far confirmed 18,610 cases and 55 deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.\n\nPeople will not be allowed to form groups of three or more in public unless they live together in the same household, or the gathering is work-related. Police will monitor and punish anyone infringing the new rules.\n\nRestaurants will now only be allowed to open for takeaway service. All restrictions apply to every German state, and will be in place for at least the next two weeks.\n\n\"The great aim is to gain time in the fight against the virus,\" said Mrs Merkel, urging citizens to keep contact outside their own household to an absolute minimum and to ensure a distance of at least 1.5m (5ft) from another person when in public.\n\nItaly, the worst-hit European country, reported 651 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total there to 5,476, according to the government. The figure is the second-worst daily total but less than that announced on the previous day.\n\nThe number of confirmed cases in the country - where people have been largely confined to their homes for two weeks - has risen from 53,578 to 59,138, the lowest rise in percentage terms since the outbreak began.\n\nEarlier, President Sergio Mattarella said he hoped the rest of the world could learn from Italy's troubles. He said citizens across the European Union needed to feel the bloc was taking concrete action to combat the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Spain registered its worst figures so far after 394 people died in a single day, bringing the national total to 1,720. Officials said the number of new daily registered cases, like Italy, had also fallen from Saturday to Sunday.\n\nThe government is seeking to extend the state of emergency until 11 April, a step that needs to be approved by parliament. The measure introduced on 14 March bars people from all but essential outings.\n\n\"We're at war,\" Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, a day after warning that \"the worst is yet to come\". Also on Sunday, the government announced it would restrict entry at air and sea ports for most foreigners for the next 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Why do we touch our faces and how can we stop doing it?\n\nIn the US, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the outbreak would get worse, with damage accelerated by widespread shortages of key medical supplies. Across the country, there are now 31,057 confirmed cases and 390 deaths.\n\nAccording to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, more than 310,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed around the world, with some 13,000 deaths. More than 93,000 people have recovered.", "Care home residents in Prestwich have found their own ways of letting their friends and families know they’re OK on Mother’s day, after having to self-isolate.", "Greggs said its vegan sausage roll had helped boost sales\n\nGreggs has become the latest food retailer to say it will close its shops temporarily to help fight coronavirus.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 outlets, said all shops would shut on Tuesday night to help maintain social distancing.\n\nMcDonalds, Nando's, KFC, Costa Coffee, Subway and Pizza Express have already announced similar measures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told restaurants and cafes to close, but has exempted takeaway food places.\n\nGreggs, which has about 25,000 employees, had already converted its stores to provide solely a takeaway service.\n\nBut it said: \"It is now clear that to protect our people and customers we need to go further and temporarily close our shops completely.\n\n\"During this period, with support from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, we intend to maintain employment of colleagues at full contract hours for as long as is practicable.\"\n\nMcDonald's staff will get full pay until 5 April\n\nMcDonald's had earlier said it would close all 1,270 of its restaurants in the UK by the end of the day, affecting 135,000 workers.\n\nThe chain said staff employed directly by the company would receive full pay for their scheduled hours until 5 April.\n\nMcDonald's UK boss, Paul Pomroy, said: \"Over the last 24 hours, it has become clear that maintaining safe social distancing whilst operating busy takeaway and Drive Thru restaurants is increasingly difficult and therefore we have taken the decision to close every restaurant in the UK and Ireland by 7pm on Monday 23 March.\"\n\nNando's, which has around 19,000 staff, said its bosses had \"decided that the best course of action right now is to temporarily close our restaurants\".\n\nPizza Express, which employs 14,0000, will also close all of its stores until it is safe to open them again, and will not be offering home delivery.\n\nOthers that have announced temporary closures include:\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\nThey join big retailers like Ikea, John Lewis and Topshop who have also said they'll be shutting down for a while.\n\nAll of them have said they want to protect the wellbeing of staff and customers.\n\nJulian Metcalfe, who runs Asian food chain Itsu, described the decision to close as \"heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Whilst we are closed we'll continue to do everything we can to look after our people, who are being wonderful, strong and supportive,\" 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 2 by Nando's This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe hospitality industry, which was already struggling from slowing consumer demand, has been put under severe pressure by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nLast week, industry leaders warned of widespread closures of pubs, cafes and restaurants without state support.\n\nOn Friday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government would pay 80% of wages of furloughed employees, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe move will not, however, cover self-employed and \"gig economy\" workers, unless they are paid via their company's PAYE system, as is the case at McDonald's.\n\nOn Sunday, a Treasury spokesman said the government had strengthened the safety net for the self-employed under universal credit, and was deferring income tax self-assessment payments.\n\n\"We have always said we will go further where we can and are actively considering further steps,\" the spokesman said.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the jury's verdict in the trial of Alex Salmond \"must be respected\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland, she said: \"I am a strong believer in a rigorous, robust independent judicial process where complaints of this nature, if they come forward, are properly and thoroughly investigated, due process takes its course and a court reaches a decision\".\n\nMr Salmond was cleared of sexually assaulting nine women while he was Scotland's first minister.", "Primark's 189 UK stores have closed \"until further notice\", as demand drops due to social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has already shut stores elsewhere and said it wanted to protect the health of employees and customers.\n\nThe fashion chain's boss, Paul Marchant, said it faced \"unprecedented, and frankly unimaginable times\".\n\nOther High Street retailers, such as John Lewis and Timpson, have already announced closures amid the pandemic.\n\nA Primark spokesperson said that any staff affected by store closures would receive full pay for their contracted hours for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile the John Lewis department store chain will close all of its 50 shops temporarily from Monday for the first time in its 155-year history.\n\nThe online site will still be available, while the group's 338 Waitrose stores will stay open to deal with a spike in demand for groceries. More than 2,000 John Lewis workers are already working across Waitrose.\n\nOther retailers have said that they would shut their shops temporarily although government has not yet ordered them to close, unlike restaurants, bars and pubs.\n\nThe chief executive of the Timpson Group posted on social media that the shoe repair firm's 2,150 stores would shut from Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Timpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBranches of WH Smith, Next and B&Q are among retailers to remain open.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of Waterstones, had said that his bookshops provided an \"important social resource\" and would stay open until forced to close. However, late on Sunday the chain announced that it would be temporarily shutting all of its outlets by the close of trade on Monday.\n\nAs many UK firms warn of the impact of the pandemic, the City watchdog has asked them not to publish preliminary financial statements that were due in the next few days.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) asked all listed companies to delay plans to publish by at least two weeks.\n\nPrimark stores across the US, France, Spain and Italy have already shut their doors to try to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nIn response to falling demand, the firm has now stopped placing any orders for clothes to be made in the future.\n\nIt also has a large amount of stock in stores, warehouses and in transit that has already been paid for.\n\nMr Marchant said that Primark had been left with \"no option but to take this action\".\n\nHe added: \"This is profoundly upsetting for me personally and for all of the team... We recognise and are deeply saddened that this will have an effect throughout our entire supply chain.\"\n\nPrimark does not have an online sales operation, so it orders and sells vast quantities of clothing through its network of brick-and-mortar shops.\n\nMr Marchant called for other countries to support businesses \"in the same way that the UK and many European governments are doing.\"\n\nThe UK government said this week it will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nMany retail and hospitality firms have warned the pandemic could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nTom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the British Retail Consortium, said that shops continue to follow government advice.\n\n\"Stores are reviewing Public Health England advice daily to decide what is best to do for their customers, staff and local communities.\"\n\nHe said that although \"retailers in non-food areas have seen an unparalleled drop in footfall\", others such as supermarkets have seen continued strong demand.", "Prisons across the country had been holding protests against poor health services and overcrowding\n\nAt least 23 people have died in one of Bogotá's largest jails after what the authorities are calling a mass breakout attempt amid rising tensions over coronavirus.\n\nColombia's Justice Minister Margarita Cabello said 83 inmates were injured during a riot at La Modelo prison.\n\nInmates at prisons across the country held protests on Sunday against overcrowding and poor health services during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMs Cabello said 32 prisoners and seven guards were in hospital. Two guards are in a critical condition.\n\nShe said the violence was a coordinated plan with disturbances reported across 13 of the country's prisons.\n\nMore than 23 people were killed and 83 inmates were injured at La Modelo prison\n\nDenying claims of unsanitary conditions amid fears of a coronavirus breakout, she said: \"There is not any sanitary problem that would have caused this plan and these riots.\n\n\"There is not one infection nor any prisoner or custodial or administrative staffer who has coronavirus.\"\n\nShe said prisoners had run amok and some would be charged with attempted murder, and damage to property.\n\nA large number of relatives gathered outside the gates of La Modelo prison to await news of their loved ones. They said they had heard of shots being fired after the security forces arrived.\n\nThe country's 132 prisons have an 81,000-inmate capacity but house more than 121,000 prisoners, according to figures from the justice ministry.\n\nSo far, there have been 231 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Colombia and two people have died.\n\nThe country is set to begin a nationwide quarantine from Tuesday which is expected to last 19 days. It will restrict residents' movements with the exception of medical staff, security forces and pharmacy and supermarket staff.\n\nPeople over the age of 70 have been told to stay indoors until the end of May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus in one minute", "All new jury trials in England and Wales have been halted until they can be conducted safely, the Lord Chief Justice has announced.\n\nIn a letter to judges and magistrates, Lord Burnett said the decision was made to \"ensure social distancing in court\" amid the ongoing spread of coronavirus.\n\nBut he added that, where safe to do so, \"efforts to bring existing jury trials to a conclusion should continue\".\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have already taken similar measures.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice's decision builds on one from last week, when it was announced that no new Crown Court trials would take place in England and Wales if they were expected to last longer than three days.\n\nJury trials can be paused. It is unusual but not unheard of for them to stop for several weeks, for instance if a point of law emerges that needs to be determined by the Court of Appeal.\n\nHowever, pausing for many months is incredibly challenging. Asking jurors to pick up after a break of that amount of time is tough.\n\nSo, can social distancing be applied successfully in crown court trials? Yes, but it is incredibly challenging. Jurors can be spaced out - for instance by using press benches.\n\nHowever, there are lots of practical problems, such as the proximity of interpreters to the defendant and witnesses. Currently they are all but side by side.\n\nApplying the 2m distancing rule to the well of a court in a trial of multiple defendants who may all have a QC, junior barrister and instructing solicitor, is going to be hard.\n\nSome courtrooms are larger than others. I can envisage, for instance, at a court centre with six courts, just one or two of the larger ones conducting trials.\n\nReal problems occur when jurors, lawyers, court staff and even judges start having to self-isolate.\n\nMinisters and the senior judiciary are desperate to keep some jury trials going. It will, as the Lord Chief Justice says, require \"considerable imagination and flexibility\".\n\nOn the subject of current jury trials, the Lord Chief Justice said: \"Social distancing in accordance with PHE guidelines must be in place at all times and at all places within the court building.\"\n\nHe added: \"If it is necessary to adjourn trials already under way for a short period to put those safety measures in place, this must be done.\"", "Thanks for joining us today. We know it's an incredibly difficult time for everybody during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBut we hope that shining a light on some of the acts of kindness happening in communities has added a bit of brightness to your day.\n\nLook after yourselves and join us tomorrow as we cover the latest impact of the coronavirus on life across the country.", "The WHO chief urged the G20 group of nations to boost production of protective equipment\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus disease pandemic is \"accelerating\", with more than 300,000 cases now confirmed.\n\nIt took 67 days from the first reported of Covid-19 to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000, and just four days for the third 100,000.\n\nBut WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was still possible to \"change the trajectory\".\n\nHe urged countries to adopt rigorous testing and contact-tracing strategies.\n\n\"What matters most is what we do. You can't win a football game by defending. You have to attack as well,\" he told a joint news conference with Fifa president Gianni Infantino to launch a \"kick out coronavirus\" campaign featuring footballers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by FIFA.com This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Tedros said asking people to stay at home and other physical-distancing measures were an important way of slowing down the spread of the virus, but described them as \"defensive measures that will not help us to win\".\n\n\"To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics - testing every suspected case, isolating and caring for every confirmed case, and chasing and quarantining every close contact.\"\n\nDr Tedros expressed alarm at reports from around the world of large numbers of infections among health workers, which appeared to be the result of a shortage of adequate personal protective equipment.\n\n\"Health workers can only do their jobs effectively when they can do their jobs safely,\" he warned. \"Even if we do everything else right, if we don't prioritise protecting health workers many people will die because the health worker who could have saved their life is sick.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the WHO has been working with its partners to rationalise and prioritise the use of protective equipment, and to address the global shortage of it.\n\nBut he noted: \"Measures put in place to slow the spread of the virus may have unintended consequences of exacerbating shortages of essential protective gear and the materials needed to make them.\"\n\nThe WHO chief called for \"political commitment and political co-ordination at the global level\" and said he would ask leaders of the G20 group of nations this week to work together to boost production of protective equipment, avoid export bans and ensure equity of distribution on the basis of need.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday night that, with immediate effect, \"people will only be allowed to leave their home...for very limited purposes\". They include shopping for basic necessities, taking one form of exercise per day, fulfilling any medical need, or travelling to work if working from home is impossible.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK rose to 335 on Monday.\n\nIn Italy, the worst-hit country in the world, the authorities said 602 people with Covid-19 had died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll there to 6,077.\n\nBut the daily increase was the smallest since Thursday, raising hope that the stringent restrictions imposed by the government were starting to have an effect.\n\nSpain, however, said its death toll had risen by 462 to 2,182 - a 27% increase.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israel's coronavirus patient number 74 posts about her experience on social media\n\nFrance reported 186 new deaths, bringing its total to 860. The government will tighten the lockdown there from Tuesday, strictly limiting physical exercise and closing most open-air markets.\n\nMeanwhile, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be postponed by one year because of coronavirus. However, the IOC has not yet formally announced a decision on the future of the Games.\n\nThe IOC has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of the games, but Australia and Canada have said they will not compete in Japan this summer and Great Britain has said it is unlikely that it would be able to send a team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says \"millions of masks\" have been ordered for NHS staff\n\nThe health secretary has acknowledged there have been \"challenges\" with the supply of personal protective equipment to NHS staff in England - but added he is determined to rise to them.\n\nLast week, NHS staff said the lack of protective gear was putting them at risk during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMatt Hancock said a million face masks had been bought over the weekend and he was taking the issue \"very seriously\".\n\nFrom this week, the Army will play a part in helping to distribute supplies.\n\n\"I am determined to ensure that the right kit gets to the right hospital, the right ambulance service, the right doctors' surgery, right across the country,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\n\"There have been challenges and I can see that. We're on it and trying to solve all the problems.\"\n\nHe added that, since last week, millions of items, including face masks, had been shipped to NHS staff across the country.\n\nHealth workers have previously warned that a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) - combined with a lack of coronavirus testing for them - meant they were at increased risk of getting the virus and passing it on to patients.\n\nThe Doctors Association, a lobbying group, said its members were overwhelmingly concerned that patients were being put at risk and that NHS staff could lose their lives.\n\nIts chairman said doctors had told him they felt like \"lambs to the slaughter\".\n\nAnd NHS Providers, which represents health trusts in England, said there had been local shortages which were fuelling anxiety over staff safety.\n\nWhile there were signs of significant increases in distribution, further rapid improvement was required, it said.\n\nMr Hancock said the government had shipped 2.6 million masks over a 24-hour period, and had stocks of equipment it was trying to get to the \"right people\".\n\nThe health secretary also insisted the equipment met World Health Organization guidelines.\n\n\"I take very seriously my responsibility, as secretary of state, to make sure that everybody working in the NHS, across social care, is safe, and for that they need the right equipment,\" he added.\n\nNHS England said the army would \"play its part\" from this week, offering personnel to \"help to manage and offload supplies in busy NHS settings\" and distributing PPE supplies.\n\nEmily Lawson, chief commercial officer for the NHS, said the health service needed a \"massively increased, urgent volume\" of supplies.\n\n\"Working with our partners, we are now seeing much increased capacity, and a more responsive supply chain to help take us through the coronavirus outbreak. We are extremely grateful for the army's support in doing so.\"\n\nAccording to the latest figures, the UK's death toll has reached 281 - including a person aged 18 with an underlying health condition - and there are 5,683 confirmed cases.\n\nMPs are preparing to debate emergency legislation that would grant powers aimed at tackling the spread of the virus later.\n\nUnder the proposals, airports could shut and police would be able to force people with virus symptoms to isolate.\n\nThe powers, which would be time-limited for two years, are expected to be approved by MPs.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson previously warned that new, stricter measures could be introduced in order to tackle the pandemic.\n\nOver the weekend, photos emerged showing crowds of people visiting parks and open spaces across parts of the UK.\n\nThe government has urged people to \"avoid travelling unless it is essential\".\n\nEssential travel, the Department for Health and Social Care said, \"does not include visits to second homes, camp sites, caravan parks or similar, whether for isolation purposes or holidays\".\n\nThe number of worldwide cases of coronavirus has passed 300,000 - with more than 13,000 deaths around the world.\n\nNew Zealand has said it would begin shutdown of non-essential services this week, while Australia has already seen a widespread closure of pubs, clubs, gyms and places of worship.\n\nPressure is also growing on Japan and the International Olympic Committee to cancel or postpone the 2020 games which are due to take place in July.\n\nJapanese PM Shinzo Abe has said an Olympic postponement \"may become inevitable\".", "The pair were approached by three people in Paynes Park, Hitchin\n\nThree teenagers were arrested after an elderly couple were allegedly coughed at in the street.\n\nThe couple were approached by three people in Hitchin, one of whom is said to have coughed in their faces.\n\nA passer-by intervened and there was \"an altercation\" which left a woman in her 70s with a black eye, police said.\n\nThree males aged 16, 18 and 19 were questioned on suspicion of actual bodily harm, affray and criminal damage after the incident on Friday afternoon.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the elderly woman was taken to hospital for a check-up and later discharged.\n\nHer vehicle was also damaged in the incident in Paynes Park.\n\nThe man who intervened also suffered bruising, police said.\n\nThe suspects were questioned and released under investigation.\n\nThe force called for anyone with information to contact them and asked people not to post details of those they believe are involved or share footage on social media as it could hamper the investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many across India clapped from their balconies on Sunday as a mark of respect for medical staff\n\nWe appreciate that these are dark times for people around the world, as the coronavirus continues to spread. Numbers of infections and fatalities are rising, cities and even countries are shutting and many people are being forced into isolation. But amid all the worrying news, there have also been reasons to find hope.\n\nAs countries go into lockdown over the virus, there have been significant drops in pollution levels.\n\nBoth China and northern Italy have recorded major falls in nitrogen dioxide - a serious air pollutant and powerful warming chemical - amid reduced industrial activity and car journeys.\n\nResearchers in New York also told the BBC that early results showed carbon monoxide, mainly from cars, had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nAnd with airlines cancelling flights en masse and millions working from home, countries around the world are expected to follow this downward path.\n\nOn a similar note, residents of Venice have noticed a vast improvement in the water quality of the famous canals running through the city.\n\nThe streets of the popular tourist destination in northern Italy have emptied amid the outbreak leading to a drastic drop in water traffic, which has allowed sediment to settle.\n\nThe usually murky water has gone so clear that fish can even be seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cruise ship cancellations have led to cleaner canals in Venice\n\nThere are plenty of stories of panic buying and fights over toilet roll and tins, but the virus has also spurred acts of kindness around the world.\n\nTwo New Yorkers amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to elderly and vulnerable people in the city.\n\nFacebook said hundreds of thousands of people in the UK had joined local support groups set up for the virus, while similar groups have been formed in Canada, sparking a trend there known as \"caremongering\".\n\nSupermarkets in Australia are among those to create a special \"elderly hour\" so older shoppers and those with disabilities have a chance to shop in peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have also donated money, shared recipe and exercise ideas, sent uplifting messages to self-isolating elderly people and transformed businesses into food distribution centres.\n\nBetween a hectic work and home life it is often easy to feel disconnected from those around you. As the virus affects us all, it has brought many communities around the world closer together.\n\nIn Italy, where a countrywide lockdown is in place, people have joined together on their balconies for morale-boosting songs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Italians sing from their windows to boost morale\n\nA fitness instructor in southern Spain led an exercise class from a low roof in the middle of an apartment complex, which residents in isolation joined from their balconies.\n\nMany people have used the opportunity to reconnect with friends and loved ones over phone or video calls, while groups of friends have organised virtual clubbing or pub sessions using mobile apps (including those of us in the BBC who are working from home).\n\nThe virus has also highlighted the importance of health workers and other people working in key services. Thousands of Europeans have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors and nurses fighting the virus, while medical students in London have volunteered to help healthcare professionals with childcare and household chores.\n\nWith millions of people now stuck in isolation, many are using the opportunity to get creative.\n\nSocial media users have shared details of their new hobbies, including reading, baking, knitting and painting.\n\nThe DC Public Library in Washington is among those hosting a virtual book club, while Italian Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura has launched an Instagram series called Kitchen Quarantine, teaching basic recipes to aspiring foodies who are stuck at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook group helps parents and their kids during coronavirus lockdown\n\nAn art teacher in the US state of Tennessee has been live-streaming classes for children who are out of school, inspiring them to get creative at home.\n\nAnd while many public spaces have been shut, art fans have been making the most of virtual tours offered by the world's biggest galleries, observing the famous paintings of the Louvre in Paris and the classic sculptures of the Vatican museum from their living rooms.\n\nAustralia's Sydney Observatory offered a tour of the night sky for people stuck at home.\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 Sydney Observatory 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\nPop stars including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and country singer Keith Urban have also been live-streaming gigs to combat the boredom of self-isolation.\n\nOn Monday, we're going to bring you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories, like these, that are emerging from the coronavirus crisis. We hope you can join us from 07:00 GMT.", "A 30-year-old woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder\n\nA seven-year-old girl has died after being stabbed by a stranger in a park.\n\nThe girl suffered serious injuries in the attack at Queen's Park in Bolton at about 14:30 GMT, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nA force spokesman said despite the \"best efforts of her family and medical responders, she died a short while later\".\n\nA 30-year-old woman, who was not known to the family, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said officers were \"working to understand the motive for this completely random and brutal attack\".\n\n\"A woman who was not known to the family was detained by a member of the public and then arrested by the police,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand that the woman has some history of mental illness and we are working to understand if this played any part in her motive.\"\n\nHe said the attack was \"a family's worst nightmare\".\n\n\"The incident is horrendous and I cannot begin to imagine what the family of this little girl are going through,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\n\"We are determined to quickly understand how this came to happen, leaving a young family so distraught and so devastated in an instant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A jury found Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond not guilty on 12 of the sexual assault charges facing him, while another was found not proven.\n\nThe former SNP leader addressed coronavirus worries in his statement outside the court.\n\nHe said: \"Whatever nightmare I've been in... it is as of nothing compared to the nightmare that every single one of us is currently living through.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"You must stay at home\"\n\nStrict new curbs on life in the UK to tackle the spread of coronavirus have been announced by the prime minister.\n\nPeople may only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nShops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together will be prohibited.\n\nIf people do not follow the rules police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a televised statement from Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson said the country faced a \"moment of national emergency\" and staying at home was necessary to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\nHe said the restrictions would be in place for at least three weeks and would be kept under constant review.\n\nThe government guidance says people should only leave home for one of four reasons:\n\nEven when following the above guidance, people should minimise the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they do not live with.\n\nThe government is also stopping all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies - but funerals will be allowed.\n\nBusinesses that will not need to close include:\n\nOther premises including libraries, non-essential shops, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.\n\nParks will remain open for exercise but people are not allowed to gather in groups.\n\nCommunity centres can remain open but only for the purpose of \"hosting essential voluntary or public services\" such as food banks or service for homeless people, the guidance says.\n\nHotels, hostels, campsites and caravan parks must also close unless key workers need to stay there, or if other people staying there cannot return to their primary residence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScientists have said each person with coronavirus infects 2.5 people and that takes about five days. This means, over a period of 30 days, more than 400 people will have been infected as a result of that one person.\n\nIf a person halves their social exposure, that first infection leads to only 15 infections after 30 days.\n\nSeveral police forces said they were facing a high number of phone calls from members of the public seeking clarification on the new restrictions.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley warned the public not to \"cripple\" his force's phone lines.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said they were working with the government and other agencies to work out how best to enforce the new rules.\n\nBut Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said he was already seeing \"large amounts of sickness\" among officers across London and enforcing the new restrictions would be \"a real, real challenge\".\n\n\"We will be dealing with it, but I'm not sure we will have the resources to be able to see it through,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said in a tweet that the next few weeks would be \"testing\" for police but that she would make sure officers had \"the resources they need to keep themselves and the public safe\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new restrictions \"amount to a lockdown\" and are \"not done lightly\".\n\n\"I am not going to sugarcoat it in any way,\" she said. \"Coronavirus is the biggest challenge of our lifetime.\"\n\nIn a tweet, First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster urged people to follow the restrictions \"to save lives and protect our hospitals\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said \"these are really big changes for us all\".\n\n\"We are making them because of the speed the virus is continuing to spread,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the measures were \"the right response\".\n\n\"The government must close the loopholes to give security to all workers, including the self-employed, as well as renters and mortgage holders,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister said the measures were necessary to tackle \"the biggest threat this country has faced for decades\".\n\n\"Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won't be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses,\" he said.\n\n\"And as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger.\n\n\"To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well.\"\n\nIt seems hard to overstate how huge an impact this will have on the country, and what a massive decision this is for the government to have taken - whose effect will last at least for a period of three weeks at the shortest, potentially for very much longer.\n\nRemember this though is not quite the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries - at least not yet. Despite tonight's enormous announcement, there are steps that other places have taken - curfews or total travel bans for example - that the UK is not pursuing.\n\nThe government is not triggering the Civil Contingencies Act, designed for the most serious emergencies which gives ministers draconian powers.\n\nNot surprisingly, there is already therefore enormous controversy about whether the UK has been acting fast enough.\n\nThe prime minister said he knew the \"damage\" the restrictions were causing to people's lives, businesses and jobs but at present there were \"no easy options\".\n\n\"The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said there was \"a clear way through\", by strengthening the NHS with former clinicians returning to work, accelerating the search for treatments and a vaccine and buying millions of testing kits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saturday was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nA further 46 people have died in England since Sunday - aged between 47 and 105 and all with underlying health conditions - while there were four deaths in Scotland and four in Wales.\n\nThere have been 83,945 tests to date, with 6,650 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Britons travelling abroad should return to the UK as soon as possible because international travel is becoming more difficult with the closure of borders and the suspension of flights.\n\nAnd people in the most at-risk groups have begun receiving an NHS text urging them to stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nClapham Common in London was one of the UK's many busy parks at the weekend\n\nLater on Monday night, following Mr Johnson's address, emergency legislation introducing measures to respond to the outbreak cleared the House of Commons and will now go to the Lords for further debate.\n\nUnder the legislation, airports could shut and police would be able to force people with virus symptoms to isolate.\n\nThe powers, which would have to be renewed every six months, are expected to be approved by MPs.\n\nElsewhere, the British Olympic Association said Great Britain will not send a team to Tokyo 2020 if the spread of coronavirus continues as predicted.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of the Games, but IOC member Dick Pound said it has already been decided that the tournament will be postponed until 2021.", "Crowds were out in the UK's parks on a sunny weekend\n\nBoris Johnson is to address the UK on new measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, amid concerns people have been ignoring government advice.\n\nThe UK has been under growing pressure to follow other countries by ordering the closure of more shops, and enforcing rules on social distancing.\n\nThe PM will make a statement at 20:30 GMT. Meanwhile, people in the most at-risk groups have begun getting an NHS text urging them to stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nA further 46 people have died in England since Sunday - aged between 47 and 105 and all with underlying health conditions - while there were four deaths in Scotland and four in Wales.\n\nThere have been 83,945 tests to date, with 6,650 confirmed cases.\n\nThe NHS in England has announced it has identified 1.5 million of the most at-risk people, while there are 200,000 in Scotland, 70,000 in Wales and 40,000 in Northern Ireland.\n\nA text message from NHS England tells people in the most at-risk group: \"Please remain at home for a minimum of 12 weeks. Home is the safest place for you. Staying in helps you stay well and that will help the NHS too.\"\n\nThe government's emergency committee Cobra has met and emergency legislation introducing measures to respond to the outbreak has cleared its first Commons hurdle with MPs giving it an unopposed second reading.\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says Britons travelling abroad should return to the UK as soon as possible because international travel is becoming more difficult with the closure of borders and the suspension of flights.\n\nElsewhere, the British Olympic Association said Great Britain will not send a team to Tokyo 2020 if the spread of coronavirus continues as predicted.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of the Games, but Australia and Canada have already announced they will not compete this summer.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4, Mr Hancock said he didn't know why some people were ignoring the government's advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's very selfish,\" he told the Today programme. \"The NHS is doing everything it can and preparing for the spread of this virus.\n\n\"If people go within two metres of others who they don't live with then they're helping to spread the virus - and the consequences of that costs lives and it means that, for everyone, this will go on for longer.\"\n\nThe health secretary said the government advice on social distancing was \"really clear\" and people should stay two metres apart, staying at home if at all possible.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the government is considering closing all non-essential retail stores and introducing fines for people who ignore the current coronavirus advice.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has stressed that everyone should stay at home if possible, adding that \"life should not be carrying on as normal right now\" and that shops not providing essential items should shut.\n\nLabour has called on the government to increase lockdown measures to keep people safe.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"Other countries across the world have taken further far-reaching social distancing measures.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has said companies should not pressure people, who are not key workers, to travel into work.\n\nThe warning followed crowded scenes on parts of the London Underground during Monday morning's rush hour following a reduction in the number of services in response to the outbreak.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPaul Whiteman, head of school leaders' union the NAHT, said schools are struggling with staff numbers due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"My appeal to the families of key workers is: this is not business as usual. Keep your family at home if at all possible,\" he said.\n\nThe government has said it is setting up \"hubs\" around the country to arrange deliveries of groceries and medicines to people with specific cancers, severe respiratory conditions and people who have received organ transplants.\n\nCouncils, pharmacists and members of the Armed Forces will help and there will be opportunities for members of the public to volunteer.\n\nThe Excel conference centre in east London could potentially be used in the medical response to the outbreak, the Ministry of Defence said. A team of military planners has visited the site to determine how it might \"benefit\" the NHS.\n\nThe MoD said 250 personnel from its 20,000-strong Covid Support Force are beginning duties - including being trained to drive oxygen tankers and distributing protective equipment for the NHS.\n\nUnder the emergency legislation airports could shut and police would be able to force people with virus symptoms to isolate.\n\nThe proposals - set out last week - also include enabling recently retired NHS staff to return to work without any negative impact on their pensions; fast-tracking funeral arrangements; and allowing more court hearings to take place by phone or video.\n\nThe powers would have to be renewed every six months.\n\nThe government is also taking steps to address tax and pensions disincentives that could prevent retired police officers rejoining the service during the outbreak, Home Secretary Priti Patel said.\n\nBut, speaking in the Commons, she rejected calls for a police presence inside supermarkets, amid incidents of panic-buying,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saturday was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nDowning Street has said Boris Johnson would be prepared to take further actions if stricter measures were needed to enforce social distancing.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Our message is clear, people should stay at home if possible.\n\n\"This will save lives, protect the vulnerable and support the NHS.\"\n\nHe said ministers will be looking at data on how much social interaction was continuing and if the information shows it has not stopped then the government would \"need to take further measures\".\n\nThe spokesman would not say whether extra controls could be brought in as early as today.\n\nHe added Tuesday's cabinet meeting will see a \"very significant\" number of ministers taking part remotely.", "Universities in England have been told to stop making unconditional offers for the next two weeks, in a bid to tackle the confusion over applications during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, has warned against unfair pressure being put on students.\n\nThere are concerns universities are dropping exam requirements in a bid to push students to commit to courses.\n\nThe move is an attempt to stop any panicky decisions and to create some \"stability\" for students applying for university places, after the cancellation of A-levels and other exams which would have been used to decide admissions.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students, threatened universities with \"any powers available to us\" to stop such offers, which she said were \"damaging to students\".\n\nThe Department for Education says some universities appear to be switching offers which depended on getting A-level grades to unconditional offers, where students will get a place regardless of exam grades, or else significantly lowering the grades required.\n\nThis practice has been attacked by ministers as an unfair sales tactic which might make students choose a course not be in their best interests, particularly in the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus.\n\nThe exam results day is going to be different this year, with A-levels and GCSEs cancelled\n\nIn a bid to stop this becoming a stampede - with other universities thinking they will have to rush to get students too - a line-up of higher education bodies has put out warning statements, including the Office for Students, the Department for Education and Universities UK.\n\nMs Donelan says anxious students must not be forced into a \"making a quick decision\" and that a push for unconditional offers \"risks destabilising the entire admissions system\".\n\nThe two-week pause is intended to create breathing space while universities, exam boards, regulators and ministers try to work out how to handle this year's universities admissions, in the absence of conventional exam results.\n\nThere are plans to replace the exams with teacher assessments, taking into account previous exam results, coursework, mock exam results and teachers' predictions, with grades to be issued by the end of July.\n\nMs Dandridge said Ofqual, the exam regulator, is \"rapidly developing a fair way of issuing A-level grades which should provide reassurance to students, and will also mean that there is no reason to rush decisions\".\n\nWhile this is in progress, she said universities \"must stop making offers that are not in the best interests of students\".\n\nThe calls were supported by Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of the universities' body, Universities UK.\n\n\"It is vital that the admissions process remains fair, consistent, and in the best interests of all students - who have a right for their work and performance to date to be fairly reflected,\" he said.\n\nThe universities admissions service, Ucas, is to tell applicants that the deadline in early May for making decisions on courses is going to be pushed back by two weeks to give students more time to consider.", "A 30-year-old woman was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder\n\nA woman arrested on suspicion murdering a seven-year-old girl in a park in Greater Manchester has been detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThe girl was stabbed to death in front of her parents in Bolton's Queen's Park on Sunday afternoon.\n\nA 30-year-old woman, who was not known to the family, was arrested at the scene.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said investigations into the \"terrible incident\" were ongoing.\n\n\"The attack happened in front of the parents of this little girl who had taken her out yesterday afternoon to enjoy the spring sun and play in the park,\" he said.\n\n\"I want to stress that this is not an end to the criminal investigation, we will consider the evidence and consult with the Crown Prosecution Service and if appropriate we will be seeking criminal charges,\" Mr Jackson added.\n\nPolice praised the bravery of a member of the public who chased the suspect and detained her until officers arrived.\n• None Girl, seven, stabbed to death by stranger in park\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Despite the social distancing advice many people have still gone out to parks for exercise\n\nParks in part of London are being shut after criticism of large numbers of tourists visiting beaches and beauty spots.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan urged people to \"stop social mixing\", saying \"people will die\" if they don't.\n\nAuthorities in the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District asked people to stay away, saying \"now is not the time for tourism\".\n\nMr Khan said people should not leave home \"unless you really have to\".\n\nHammersmith and Fulham council will close parks from Sunday night while the Royal Parks, responsible for Hyde, Regent's and St James' Parks, are closing kiosks and cafes.\n\nRoads to outer parks - including Richmond, Bushy and Greenwich Parks - will be closed, with the Royals Parks calling social distancing \"absolutely crucial\".\n\n\"If people do not follow social distancing guidelines, we will have no choice but to consider closing the parks,\" the body said.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan also urged people to avoid using public transport unless they absolutely had to\n\nLatest figures show just less than 2,000 people in London have been infected with coronavirus with 93 deaths, and Mr Khan told BBC One's the Andrew Marr Show the capital was \"weeks ahead of the rest of the country\".\n\nAsked if the Tube should be closed completely, Mr Khan said he was keen to keep some trains running so \"critical workers\" could get to work.\n\n\"Nobody else should be using public transport,\" he added.\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 National Trust shut parks and gardens over the weekend and said countryside and coastal car parks were \"now likely to be closed\".\n\nOn Saturday, coastal resorts were packed and the Yorkshire Dales National Park chief executive David Butterworth said visitor behaviour \"beggars belief\" as social distancing guidance was flouted.\n\n\"The number of people coming to the area and acting so irresponsibly at a time of national crisis cannot be acceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"If people chose to come here and ignore government advice regarding social distancing, then I would suggest they do not travel to the Yorkshire Dales at all and stay at home.\"\n\nResidents of the Dales have also condemned some of the visitors and suggested the authority close its car parks.\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales authority said visitors needed to follow government advice or stay away\n\nOne said: \"'Avoid unnecessary travel' means precisely that. A trip to the coast, the Yorkshire Dales or wherever is certainly not necessary travel.\n\n\"Lockdown will eventually happen if people continue to think 'it doesn't apply to me'.\"\n\nAnthony Bishopp, the mayor of Hunstanton, Norfolk, said Saturday was \"ridiculous\" with people queuing close together to get fish and chips.\n\nSome residents went out at the end of the day to clean cash machines and railings after the influx.\n\nJessica Stevenson said it was \"like a bank holiday\" in the Derbyshire Peak District village of Matlock Bath.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jessica Stevenson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCumbria Police and Cumbria County Council are asking visitors to stay away from the Lake District to limit the spread of the coronavirus, saying: \"Now is not the time for tourism.\"\n\n\"Now that pubs, restaurants, cafes and non-essential shops and visitor attractions have been advised to close, the Lake District is no longer conducting business as usual,\" a police spokesman said.\n\nThe Lake District is no longer conducting normal business, police said\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andrew Slattery said: \"I must urge people living outside the county not to visit.\n\n\"A national emergency shut-down of businesses and schools is not an excuse for a holiday.\n\n\"The health, social care and emergency services in Cumbria are resourced to serve the 500,000-resident population and will be stretched to breaking point by this crisis.\n\n\"Large numbers of visitors will only place an additional burden on these hard-pushed professionals.\"\n\nPeople were going for fish and chips in Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk on Sunday but some seemed to be distancing themselves\n\nThe Whitstable Oyster Company has apologised for opening its beachside takeaway premises on Saturday saying all takings would be donated to the National Emergencies Trust coronavirus appeal.\n\n\"It was certainly not our intention to play a part in encouraging or facilitating the gathering together of people,\" the company said.\n\nThe Whitstable Oyster Company has apologised for opening on Saturday after being inundated with visitors\n\nBut some councils have said it is not yet clear how social distancing can be enforced.\n\n\"The council's powers are limited in these circumstances so we are working urgently with the police on what action can be taken,\" a spokesman for Canterbury City Council said in response to \"deplorable\" visitor numbers at Whitstable beach.\n\n\"We all need to work together to fight this virus and common sense is one of our biggest weapons,\" the spokesman said, adding: \"People should follow the government's advice both to the letter and in the spirit in which it is intended.\"\n\nResidents in Devon and Cornwall have also been asking people to stay away.\n\nOne said: \"Sorry and all that [but] please do not come here where we do not have the capacity to mop up anything you may bring with you\".\n\nAnother said: \"You can come visit when things are back to normal.\"\n\nReports of people arriving at holiday lets and second homes in places such as Salcombe in Devon - plus people parking at popular spots in both counties, including Dartmoor and Cornwall's beaches - have been causing tension on social media.\n\nThe mayor of Salcombe, Niki Turton, told the BBC: 'We can't really stop them coming.\n\n\"But we would wish that they would do as we are doing - staying at home staying safe, protecting the vulnerable and just not putting extra strain where it's not needed.\"\n\nVisit England has suggested people enjoy attractions from their own homes by visiting online museum archives or watching movies and TV shows filmed at beauty spots.\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.", "Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the head of the state corrections officers union\n\nFormer Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus while in prison.\n\nHe is now in isolation, according to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association.\n\nWeinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault last month and sentenced to 23 years in prison.\n\nHis lawyers have vowed to appeal against his conviction.\n\nWeinstein is being held at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo in upstate New York. Two prisoners at the facility tested positive for the virus on Sunday, an officer who did not wish to give his name told Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Powers told Reuters that several members of staff had been quarantined. He expressed concern for corrections officers who he claims lack proper protective equipment.\n\nA lawyer for Weinstein said his legal team had not been informed of the coronavirus diagnosis.\n\nImran Ansari said: \"Given Mr Weinstein's state of health, we are of course concerned, if this is the case, and we are vigilantly monitoring the situation.\"\n\nBefore arriving at Wende, Weinstein had spent time at Rikers Island, a prison in New York City and a hospital where he was treated for heart problems and chest pains.\n\nWeinstein was found guilty of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act against production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and of the third-degree rape of aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013.\n\nNew York jurors acquitted him of the most serious charges, of predatory sexual assault, which could have seen him given an even longer jail term.\n\nDozens of women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, including rape, against Weinstein since October 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus in one minute", "Sports Direct has performed a U-turn on keeping its shops open during the coronavirus lockdown following a backlash over its plans.\n\nThe government has ordered all UK shops selling non-essential goods to close.\n\nSports Direct initially said it would remain open as it was \"uniquely well placed to help keep the UK as fit and healthy as possible\".\n\nBut after widespread criticism, it now says it will not open \"until we are given the go-ahead by the government\".\n\nSports Direct's chief financial officer, Chris Wootton, said the chain was contacting the government \"at all levels\" to confirm whether its shops were deemed to provide an essential service.\n\nBut Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday morning that he could not see \"any justification\" for it to stay open.\n\n\"The key thing we need to do is make sure people wherever possible stay at home. Yes it's important people exercise but that should be done once a day and it's a basic thing,\" he told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\n\"People can walk, run or cycle, they should, but there is no reason for a store like Sports Direct to remain open.\"\n\nThe retailer had argued that it provided an essential service. Bosses at the company said the sports equipment it sells can be used to exercise at home at a time when gyms have been closed.\n\nIn a letter written by Frasers Group, which owns Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, Mr Wootton had said: \"Thus our Sports Direct and Evans Cycles stores will remain open where possible to allow us to do this (in accordance with the government's current social distancing guidance).\n\n\"There is no one else that has the range of product and range of stores to make this reasonably accessible for the whole population.\"\n\nBicycle shops are on the list of retailers that are allowed to stay open during the shutdown.\n\nShops selling non-essential items have been ordered to close\n\nBut Paddy Lillis, general secretary of the shop workers' trade union Usdaw, told the BBC's Today programme: \"I can't see how it [Sports Direct] is an essential service. It's a sports clothing company.\n\n\"In my mind, an essential service would include food and medicine and the supply chain around that,\" as well as the National Health Service, he said.\n\nIan Lavery MP, chair of the Labour Party, told the company's founder and chief executive Mike Ashley to \"take some responsibility\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Lavery MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of High Street retailers and food chains had already shut prior to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement on Monday evening, which set out strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government has now issued a list of which \"essential\" retailers are allowed to stay open. They include:\n\nBusinesses will still be able to take online orders and deliver items to people's homes.\n\nThe government this week said it would pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nMany retail and hospitality firms have warned the pandemic could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of retail lobby group the British Retail Consortium, said many shops had already closed temporarily.\n\n\"Any retailers that remain open will be following the very latest government public health guidance to ensure they do everything they can to ensure the safety of customers and staff,\" she said.\n\nThe government had already ordered pubs, restaurants and cafes to close amid concerns that people were ignoring its advice to keep social contact to a minimum.\n\nMonday night's announcement came as the number of UK deaths from coronavirus hit 335, while there were 6,650 confirmed cases.\n\nMany of the big brands to have already announced closures have promised to pay their staff for several weeks until the government's coronavirus job retention scheme kicks in.\n\nHowever, concern is growing about the millions of self-employed and gig economy workers who will be forced to rely on benefits in the absence of targeted support.\n\nNeil Carberry, boss of lobby group the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said the announcement reinforced the need for businesses and workers to access government support measures \"as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"With the economy and jobs market in lockdown, all employers can do is stand by their staff as far as possible and reap the benefits during the post-crisis comeback,\" he added.", "Scientists are to track the spread of the coronavirus in the UK by using clues in its genetic code.\n\nAnalysing samples collected from patients will also reveal whether the virus is mutating into new strains.\n\nThere have been more than 5,600 laboratory-confirmed cases in the UK so far, but the true figure is far, far higher.\n\nThe government said the £20m project would improve understanding of the pandemic and \"ultimately save lives\".\n\nThe genetic code is the blueprint for building a virus.\n\nHowever, that blueprint subtly changes as the virus mutates.\n\nSequencing the coronavirus's genetic code from different patients allows researchers to build up a picture of how the virus is spreading.\n\nFor example, a group of patients with nearly identical coronaviruses infecting them may all be part of the same cluster.\n\nThe same techniques, used at a hospital in Cambridge, were able to identify the source of an outbreak of the superbug MRSA.\n\n\"This virus is one of the biggest threats our nation has faced in recent times,\" said Prof Sharon Peacock, the director of the national infection service at Public Health England.\n\n\"Harnessing innovative genome technologies will help us tease apart the complex picture of coronavirus spread in the UK.\"\n\nMost of the time the coronavirus mutations do not mean anything, but this is also a virus that has only just made the jump from animals to humans.\n\nThe virus, named officially Sars-CoV-2, was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.\n\nSince then, the disease it causes, Covid-19, has killed more than 14,000 people around the world.\n\nHowever, the virus may still be adapting as part of its shift to infecting people and interacting with human immune systems.\n\nIt is something scientists will want to keep an eye on as it could affect how the virus is treated in the future.\n\nViruses will accumulate mutations which allow them, for example, to evade immune responses.\n\nThere's lots of information about this for viruses like HIV, hepatitis C and influenza, said Prof Paul Klenerman, from the University of Oxford, who will be part of the project.\n\nHe added: \"If there is variability in key parts of the virus, it would be incredibly important for vaccine design.\"\n\nThe project - called the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium - is a collaboration between the NHS, public health agencies and the Wellcome Sanger Institute universities.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"This new consortium will bring together the UK's brightest and best scientists to build our understanding of this pandemic, tackle the disease and ultimately, save lives.\"\n\nSamples from patients with confirmed cases of Covid-19 will be sent to a sequencing centres in Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford and Sheffield.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Even if you think you're personally invulnerable there are people you can infect\"\n\nBoris Johnson has warned \"tougher measures\" could be introduced if people do not take the government's coronavirus advice seriously.\n\nThe PM thanked people for making sacrifices but said people must follow social distancing guidance.\n\n\"If you don't do it responsibly... we will have to bring forward further measures,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as the number of UK deaths reached 281, including a person aged 18 with an underlying health condition.\n\nThey are thought to be the youngest person with the virus to have died in the UK so far.\n\nThe rise of 48 deaths since Saturday includes 37 in England, seven in Wales, three in Scotland and another in Northern Ireland. The number of UK cases also rose to 5,683.\n\nThe NHS said all those who died in England in the past day were in vulnerable groups including with underlying health issues.\n\nIt comes as the NHS in England has identified 1.5 million of the most at-risk people who should now stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nThe PM told those people to \"shield\" themselves, adding it \"will do more than any other single measure that we are setting out to save life\".\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street's daily news conference, Mr Johnson told people going to parks they \"have to do that responsibly\".\n\nIt comes after pictures showed people across parts of the UK visiting parks and open spaces in large numbers over the weekend.\n\nSnowdonia National Park said the area \"experienced its busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" on Saturday, with other beaches and mountain summits busy.\n\nClapham Common in London was among the parks across the UK busy over the weekend\n\nCrowds have also been heading for the coast, including to Barry Island\n\n\"Don't think fresh air in itself automatically provides some immunity,\" Mr Johnson said, adding that even if people think they are invulnerable, \"there are plenty of people you could infect\".\n\n\"Take this advice seriously, follow it, because it's absolutely crucial.\"\n\n\"My message is you've got to do this in line with the advice, you've got to follow the social distancing rule - keep 2m apart.\"\n\nAsked whether stricter measures could be introduced, Mr Johnson added: \"I don't think you need to use your imagination very much to see where we might have to go, and we will think about this very, very actively in the next 24 hours.\n\n\"It's so important that that pleasure and that ability is preserved but it can only really be preserved if everybody acts responsibly and conforms with those principles of staying apart from one another and social distancing.\n\n\"If we can't do that then, yup, I'm afraid we're going to have to bring forward tougher measures.\"\n\nSome parks have already announced they will be closing. Essex County Council will close all its country parks from 20:00 GMT, while earlier Richmond Park in London closed to traffic on Sunday, although those on foot and cyclists were still allowed.\n\nAlso shutting are all McDonald's restaurants in the UK, which will all be closed by 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saturday was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nEarlier, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus should not be considered \"optional\".\n\n\"Life should not feel normal,\" she said, and if it did you should ask \"if you are doing the right things\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, England's deputy chief medical adviser Dr Jenny Harries said around 12% of adult critical care beds in hospitals in England are currently occupied by patients with the virus.\n\nThat number is expected to rise drastically, she added.\n\nThe NHS in England is sending letters to people it has identified as particularly vulnerable who should stay home at all times for 12 weeks - not going out for shopping, leisure or travel.\n\nThose at-risk people include those with specific cancers, severe respiratory conditions and people who have received organ transplants.\n\nThe government is setting up \"hubs\" around the country to arrange deliveries of groceries and medicines to them, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick also explained at the briefing.\n\nCouncils, pharmacists and members of the Armed Forces will help this work and there will be opportunities for members of the public to volunteer.\n\n\"Nobody needs to worry about getting the food and essential items that they will need,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\nAnyone who is especially vulnerable to the virus can register to get support here.", "Commuters crammed into a train carriage at Leytonstone on Monday\n\nLondon Underground passengers have been crowding on to Tube trains, despite warnings to limit non-essential travel.\n\nImages from Monday's rush hour show busy carriages, which unions say left staff feeling \"furious\" as it rendered social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged workers to stay at home and said public transport should only be used by key workers, otherwise \"people will die\".\n\nSome passengers have said a reduced service means trains are busier.\n\nTransport Secretary Gant Shapps said plans were in place to ensure key workers travelling on trains had \"space to be safe\".\n\nMr Shapps tweeted: \"Concerning to see images of packed trains this a.m. The advice is clear: Stay home if possible. That is the way to save lives.\n\n\"We are working with train operators to introduce a small number of trains for key workers to have space to be safe.\"\n\nAslef union's district organiser Finn Brennan tweeted: \"Still heavy loading on some Tube lines this morning making social distancing impossible.\n\n\"This is endangering the health of the vital workers who have to use the system.\"\n\nHe called on the government to act, adding: \"I'm being sent pictures of crush loaded platforms at some Jubilee line platforms this morning.\n\n\"Drivers and other frontline staff are furious.\"\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said there had been a 70% fall in the number of passengers on the Tube network during the week and a 40% fall in bus use across its network.\n\nThere was also an 87% fall in Tube passengers at the weekend compared to the same time last year.\n\nHowever, some commuters have complained trains have become busier.\n\nPassengers have claimed the reduced service has made some trains busier\n\nOne key worker, a nurse who asked to remain anonymous, said it was \"a lot busier\" during her journey on the District Line compared to the past week.\n\nShe said she felt \"more concerned\" travelling because fewer services meant there were \"more people in a confined space\".\n\nMr Khan said: \"Londoners should not be travelling by any mode of transport unless it is absolutely necessary, and only critical workers should be using public transport.\"\n\nHe added: \"TfL will continue to do everything it can to provide a safe service, but like many organisations it is dealing with rising absence levels and needs Londoners co-operation in these challenging times.\"\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said: \"There is still enormous personal pressure on the Tube workforce who are exposed to levels of social contact that the government say are unacceptable for the wider public.\n\n\"The only people using our transport services should be essential workers who have to travel.\"\n\nLast week 40 Tube stations were closed for the foreseeable future in an attempt to reduce the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThere is no night Tube and bus services have also been reduced.\n\nThe Waterloo and City line is shut and TfL said it would gradually reduce other parts of its network.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Deepa Santhosh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese include the London Overground, TfL Rail, the DLR and the tram network in south London.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak is much faster in the capital compared to the rest of the country.\n\nAs of 22 March, London had 1,965 confirmed cases, representing 39% of 5,018 confirmed cases in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Holding your breath and drinking cow urine? Reality Check's Chris Morris busts more health myths about Covid-19 being shared online.", "Withington Community Hospital was targeted by the thieves in the early hours of Saturday morning\n\nThieves have stolen oxygen from a community hospital in Manchester, police said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said people would \"quite rightly share our disgust\" at the theft during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThree men were seen getting out of a black BMW outside Withington Community Hospital on Saturday at 03:30 GMT.\n\nThey cut a lock on a metal unit before stealing eight oxygen and nitrous oxide canisters.\n\nThe south Manchester hospital is not believed to be treating any coronavirus patients.\n\nInsp Andrew Hughes said: \"We're determined to find those responsible for this crime, and I'd appeal to anyone with information or who may be able to assist us with dash-cam footage to come forward as soon as possible.\"", "Robert \"Phil\" Longcake was adored by his three grandchildren, his family said\n\nA grandfather who died after being stuck upside down at the top of a 290ft chimney was upset by a decision not to prosecute allegations of historical sexual abuse, an inquest has heard.\n\nRobert Philip Longcake placed himself in a \"position of extreme peril\" at the top of Dixons Chimney in Carlisle.\n\nThe court heard it was unclear whether he had tried to jump or had changed his mind and slipped, catching his ankle.\n\nThe 53-year-old crematorium technician, from Dalston, who was known as Phil, died of hypothermia and cerebral swelling.\n\nIn a statement to the inquest his widow Andrea said that he had started what seemed to be a mid-life crisis in the April and in August spoke to police about historical sexual abuse.\n\nHe attempted to take his own life in August and again in October, and moved out of the family home in October when she discovered he was having an affair, she said.\n\nPC Andrea Williams, of Cumbria Police, told the inquest there had been insufficient evidence to proceed with Mr Longcake's abuse allegations.\n\nShe said: \"Quite understandably he was upset with the decision.\"\n\nOn the evening of 27 October he was spotted on CCTV walking with ladders towards Dixons Chimney and then climbing the 88m high structure.\n\nPolice were contacted in the early hours by reports of \"groaning noises\", and a major rescue operation began.\n\nHis predicament was described by emergency services as \"very complex and precarious\" - and he was seen suspended upside down from a ladder at the top. The situation lasted 14 hours and was watched by shocked members of the public.\n\nThe coroner said Mr Longcake had been \"troubled so greatly\" by the abuse.\n\n\"The fact it could not be pursued would seem to have hit him so hard,\" he said.\n\n\"He deliberately placed himself in a position of extreme peril with the intent of taking his own life but it is uncertain whether he took the ultimate step or he slipped and fell accidentally.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The world will take years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.\n\nAngel Gurría, OECD secretary general, said the economic shock was already bigger than the financial crisis.\n\nHe told the BBC it was \"wishful thinking\" to believe that countries would bounce back quickly.\n\nThe OECD has called on governments to rip up spending rules to ensure speedy testing and treatment of the virus.\n\nMr Gurría said a recent warning that a serious outbreak could halve global growth to 1.5% already looked too optimistic.\n\nWhile the number of job losses and company failures remains uncertain, Mr Gurría said countries would be dealing with the economic fallout \"for years to come\".\n\nHe said many of the world's biggest economies would fall into recession in the coming months - defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline.\n\n\"Even if you don't get a worldwide recession, you're going to get either no growth or negative growth in many of the economies of the world, including some of the larger ones, and therefore you're going to get not only low growth this year, but also it's going to take longer to pick up in the in the future,\" he added.\n\nMr Gurría said the economic uncertainty created by the virus outbreak meant economies were already suffering a bigger shock than during the September 11 terror attacks or the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nHe said: \"And the reason is that we don't know how much it's going to take to fix the unemployment because we don't know how many people are going to end up unemployed. We also don't know how much it's going to take to fix the hundreds of thousands of small and medium enterprises who are already suffering.\"\n\nGovernments around the world have taken unprecedented steps to support workers and businesses during the outbreak.\n\nPolicymakers in the UK have pledged to pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Gurría called on governments to rip up borrowing rules and \"throw everything we got at it\" to deal with the crisis.\n\nHowever, he warned that bigger deficits and larger debt piles would also weigh on heavily indebted countries for years to come.\n\nMr Gurría said that just weeks ago, policymakers from the G20 club of rich nations believed the recovery would take a 'V' shape - with a short, sharp drop in economic activity followed swiftly by a rebound in growth.\n\n\"It was already then mostly wishful thinking,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not agree with the idea of a 'V' shaped phenomenon ... Right now we know it's not going to be a 'V'. It's going to be more in the best of cases like a 'U' with a long trench in the bottom before it gets to the recovery period. We can avoid it looking like an 'L', if we take the right decisions today.\"\n\nThe OECD is calling for a four-pronged plan to deal with the outbreak, including free virus testing, better equipment for doctors and nurses, cash transfers to workers including the self-employed and tax payment holidays for businesses.\n\nMr Gurría compared the level of ambition to the Marshall Plan - which helped to pay for the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War.\n• None 'You must stay at home' UK public told", "This video can not be played.", "People must abide by the new rules set out by the Prime Minister because \"lives are stake\", the Welsh Conservative Senedd leader has said.\n\n“The Prime Minister’s message couldn’t be clearer,\" Paul Davies said in a statement.\n\n\"We are responsible for not just our own safety, but for everyone else’s safety as well.\n\n“This is because the more people that fall ill, then the harder it is for NHS Wales to cope, and therefore we must slow the spread of the disease so that fewer people are sick at any one time.\n\n“Lives are at stake, and I urge you to do the right thing. As Boris Johnson said, these rules will be reviewed in three weeks, so we must all abide by them in order to control this pandemic.”", "Financial markets in Europe and the US have continued to fall despite fresh action by the Federal Reserve to support the American economy.\n\nThe US central bank said it would buy as much government debt as needed to soothe markets, while providing new financing for households and firms.\n\nShares in Europe and the US rose on the news, but soon fell back as Congress remained divided over further relief.\n\nInvestors are worried about economic damage due to the coronavirus.\n\nIn making its announcement, the Federal Reserve said the pandemic was \"causing tremendous hardship across the United States and around the world\".\n\n\"Aggressive efforts must be taken across the public and private sectors to limit the losses to jobs and incomes to promote a swift recovery once the disruptions abate,\" it said.\n\nHowever, a broader US bailout bill worth almost $2tn being debated in Congress failed to advance for a second time, after Democrats said proposed financial relief for industries such as airlines would not do enough to help workers.\n\nThe Dow Jones and S&P 500 fell about 3%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipped almost 0.3%. The Dow and S&P have now lost more than three years of gains made since US President Donald Trump became president.\n\nIn London, the FTSE 100 closed nearly 3.8% lower, while Germany's Dax dropped 2% and France's CAC 40 fell 3.3%. Earlier, Asian stock markets closed sharply lower.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: \"We really are in the thick of a global crisis and markets are showing little sign of optimism as the new trading week gets underway.\n\n\"Events are moving so fast that it is difficult for investors to truly understand what's going on with businesses.\"\n\nUS stocks have already fallen by around a third since the middle of last month, while even areas of investment normally seen as safe havens, such as the bond market, are under stress as hard-hit funds are forced to sell good assets to cover losses elsewhere.\n\nThe declines come as countries around the world, including the UK, have announced new measures to slow the spread of the virus, including ordering people to stay at home and closing down bars and restaurants. In the UK, fast food chains McDonald's and Nando's are among the firms closing their doors.\n\nAs activity slows, numerous companies have announced job cuts or furloughs.\n\nOn Monday, those firms included Boeing, which said it would suspend production at its factories in Washington state and General Electric, which said it would cut 10% of its aviation workforce.\n\nKristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said the shock to global growth will produce \"a recession at least as bad as during the global financial crisis or worse\".\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned that the world will take years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAngel Gurría, OECD secretary general, told the BBC the economic shock was already bigger than the financial crisis and it was \"wishful thinking\" to believe that countries would bounce back quickly.\n\nIn the US, the Federal Reserve had already slashed interest rates and intervened to stabilise debt markets, in an effort to cushion the blow to the economy.\n\nOn Monday, it said it would expand its holdings of government-backed debt as needed to keep financial markets working smoothly. It also announced plans to loosen requirements for banks to encourage them to keep lending, while taking steps that would provide up to $300bn more financing for employers and consumers. It is working on a lending programme for small and medium sized businesses as well.\n\nIn Asia, the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong fell by nearly 5%, while China's Shanghai Composite lost 2.4%.\n\nNew Zealand's main share index started the day down by more than 10%, but recovered some ground to close 7.6% lower.\n\nThe ASX 200 in Sydney dropped more than 7% in early trading and closed down 5.6% at the end of the trading session.\n\nIn India, where a 14-hour curfew was announced, its Sensex index fell 10%, triggering a \"circuit breaker\" and a 45-minute trading halt. It continued its slide to fall 12%.\n\n“It would be a brave, or foolish, man to call the bottom in equities without a dramatic medical breakthrough,” said Alan Ruskin from Deutsche Bank.\n\nPolicymakers around the world have been unveiling ever larger emergency rescue packages - but America's central bank has gone further than any other.\n\nThe announcement aims to ease fears on the financial markets that a financial crisis amongst over-indebted companies could be looming. It said it would not limit the amount of assets it buys on the markets via quantitative easing, an effort to ensure there are sufficient funds in the system.\n\nBut its separate programme, announced simultaneously - to directly provide aid to smaller businesses and struggling households - is just as important. For it is their financial woes that could turn a recession into a lasting depression. These are massive amounts but as the crisis intensifies, so too will the further measures all policymakers - not just central banks - may have to provide in the coming days.\n• None Why payday is different during the crisis", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to set out strict new measures aimed at protecting people from the coronavirus outbreak. This is his statement in full:\n\nThe coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades - and this country is not alone.\n\nAll over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer\n\nAnd so tonight I want to update you on the latest steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help.\n\nAnd I want to begin by reminding you why the UK has been taking the approach that we have.\n\nWithout a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won't be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the UK\n\nAnd as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger.\n\nTo put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well.\n\nSo it's vital to slow the spread of the disease.\n\nBecause that is the way we reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time, so we can protect the NHS's ability to cope - and save more lives.\n\nAnd that's why we have been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic.\n\nThe restrictions will ban gatherings of more than two people who are not in the same household\n\nAnd though huge numbers are complying - and I thank you all - the time has now come for us all to do more.\n\nFrom this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction - you must stay at home.\n\nBecause the critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households.\n\nThat is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:\n\nThat's all - these are the only reasons you should leave your home.\n\nYou should not be meeting friends. If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no.\n\nYou should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home.\n\nYou should not be going shopping except for essentials like food and medicine - and you should do this as little as you can. And use food delivery services where you can.\n\nIf you don't follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.\n\nTo ensure compliance with the government's instruction to stay at home, we will immediately:\n\nParks will remain open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed.\n\nNo prime minister wants to enact measures like this.\n\nI know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people's lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.\n\nAnd that's why we have produced a huge and unprecedented programme of support both for workers and for business.\n\nAnd I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.\n\nThere have been more than 335 deaths from coronavirus in the UK - a third of them have been in London\n\nBut at present there are just no easy options. The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost and yet it is also true that there is a clear way through.\n\nDay by day we are strengthening our amazing NHS with 7,500 former clinicians now coming back to the service.\n\nWith the time you buy - by simply staying at home - we are increasing our stocks of equipment.\n\nWe are accelerating our search for treatments. We are pioneering work on a vaccine.\n\nAnd we are buying millions of testing kits that will enable us to turn the tide on this invisible killer.\n\nI want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus. Everyone from the supermarket staff to the transport workers to the carers to the nurses and doctors on the frontline.\n\nBut in this fight we can be in no doubt that each and every one of us is directly enlisted. Each and every one of us is now obliged to join together.\n\nTo halt the spread of this disease. To protect our NHS and to save many many thousands of lives.\n\nAnd I know that as they have in the past so many times, the people of this country will rise to that challenge and we will come through it stronger than ever.\n\nWe will beat the coronavirus and we will beat it together and therefore I urge you at this moment of national emergency to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A £5m homeless centre has opened in east London and it all began with a £5 donation from a boy.\n\nTen-year-old Malachi donated his tooth fairy money to the Salvation Army which was topped up by Redbridge Council and the Salvation Army to create Malachi Place.\n\nThe building has 42 flats to help homeless people get a home in Ilford and is now housing its first tenants.", "Coronavirus has been seen in more than 30 countries. The virus can spread from person to person and officials recommend simple steps to avoid becoming infected.\n\nDr Adele McCormick from the University of Westminster demonstrated how germs spread and what the best methods are to avoid catching a virus.", "It could have been the end for Monty the jungle carpet python, who got a bit peckish recently and decided to eat an entire beach towel.\n\nFootage of vet Dr Olivia Clarke and her team extracting it from Monty's stomach was posted online and went viral.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Clarke explains how she saved Monty's life when she was brought into her surgery in Sydney.", "A woman has been found dead on the M25, following a suspected hit-and-run.\n\nThe 36-year-old pedestrian was found close to junction 9 for Leatherhead at 06:15 GMT.\n\nSurrey Police said it was trying to establish why she was on foot in the carriageway and how she came to be injured.\n\n\"We believe that she may have been involved at some stage in a collision with a vehicle that did not stop at the scene,\" the force added.\n\nOfficers said she was wearing a maroon coat and trousers and anyone with information was asked to contact Surrey Police.\n\nHer next of kin has been informed.\n\nThe road was blocked clockwise between Junction 8, Reigate, and Junction 10, Wisley, for six hours.\n\nHighways England said the carriageway had fully reopened by 12:45.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Mee said his reaction was to \"slam the brakes\" when he saw the tree falling\n\nA motorist has spoken of his relief after he and his family walked away unhurt when a tree landed on their car during Storm Jorge.\n\nPaul Mee was driving on the A545 between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris, Anglesey, on Saturday night.\n\nThe tree landed on the bonnet of the new red vehicle, writing it off.\n\nThe road, known as the Garth bends, forms part of the Anglesey half marathon circuit, which has had to be re-routed for Sunday's race.\n\nThe family were relieved they could all get out of the car\n\n\"I was driving as the tree came down,\" he said. \"I got a glimpse of the upper branches coming down and my reaction was to slam the brakes.\n\n\"Afterwards there was shock and relief that we could get out of the car.\"", "Ice wine is a dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine\n\nGermany's harvest of ice wine - a dessert wine produced from grapes that have frozen while still on the vine - has failed for the first time because the winter has been too warm.\n\nNone of Germany's 13 wine-growing regions had the necessary temperatures of -7C to produce the wine in 2019.\n\n2019 was the second-warmest year on record globally, according to the US National Oceans and Air Administration.\n\nThe amount of ice wine produced has been dropping in recent years.\n\n\"The 2019 vintage will go down in history here in Germany as the first year in which the ice harvest has failed nationwide,\" the German Wine Institute (DWI) said in a statement.\n\n\"If the warm winters continue in the next few years, ice wines from German wine regions will soon become even more of a rarity than they already are,\" said Ernst Büscher from the DWI.\n\nAnother problem for ice wine production is that, in recent years, the dates for a possible ice harvest have shifted later - to January and February - while the grapes are ripening earlier, the DWI said.\n\nAs a result, the grapes need to survive for longer.\n\nThe biggest ice wine markets include Japan and China as well as the Scandinavian countries and the US.\n\nDue to their inherently low yields, ice wines have a very small share of the total harvest, often less than 0.1%.", "It is totally normal for ministers and officials in high pressure jobs to have quarrels and tricky conversations.\n\nArguably, a bit of healthy tension can be a good thing for governments, to make sure that ideas are tested and policies properly thought through.\n\nIt is also normal from time to time for senior officials to move quietly to different government departments if a relationship breaks down with their political boss, or sometimes, for them to retire early if the situation has become impossible.\n\nThere is nothing remotely normal however about a top government official quitting their job, suing the government in the belief they were forced out, deciding to go public with the reasons, and accusing one of the most senior politicians in the country of not being straight with the truth.\n\nBut that is exactly what's happened. Sir Philip Rutnam has been one of the most senior civil servants for years, in charge at the Home Office for the last few.\n\nHis time there has not always been an unalloyed success - the Home Office, as one of the biggest and most complicated departments in the government, has struggled with various issues, most notably the Windrush scandal. The Home Office is often seen as a poisoned chalice given the nature of its job.\n\nBut Sir Philip's departure, and the manner of it, goes way beyond any normal policy problems or clashes.\n\nHe cited a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him, and suggested that although Home Secretary Priti Patel has denied having anything to do with it, he said that he did not believe her.\n\nMore to the point, he took aim not just at Ms Patel, but alluded to what he said was a \"wider pattern\" in government.\n\nAdd this to the resignation of Sajid Javid, the former chancellor who expressed concerns about how the government is behaving, there is mounting evidence of unhappiness with how Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his team are running things.\n\nCertainly it is a government in a hurry, willing to rattle cages in order to get things done.\n\nBut governments who want to get things done need an effective civil service to make things happen. A very public breakdown in trust like this does not help that cause.\n\nIndications at this early stage are that Priti Patel's position is secure. But with an employment tribunal in the offing, pressure may well build in the coming weeks.\n\nIf Sir Philip pursues his case as he says he will, exactly what happened behind closed doors may soon be out there for all to see.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's hopes of remaining unbeaten for an entire Premier League season were ended in sensational style by a rampant Watford at Vicarage Road.\n\nIsmaila Sarr scored twice while captain Troy Deeney added a third in a sparkling second-half display from the hosts as Liverpool's run of victories was brought to a shuddering halt.\n\nThe Reds had won their past 18 Premier League games and another at Vicarage Road would have made history as the longest winning run in the English top flight.\n\nBut they never got going against a Watford side who were superb from start to finish and who move out of the relegation zone as a result.\n\nThe Hornets had more chances in the first half and only a superb save from Alisson, to deny Troy Deeney, prevented them from leading at the break.\n\nHowever, Watford deservedly went in front when Abdoulaye Doucoure squeezed a cross in from the left and the impressive Sarr was there to stab in.\n\nLiverpool had fallen behind against West Ham last week but still managed to grind out a win. However, there was a feeling that this time was different, with the Reds sloppy in possession and lacking bite in attack.\n\nIt was no surprise that Watford doubled their advantage. Sarr was put through on goal by Will Hughes and the winger calmly lifted the ball over Alisson and into the net.\n\nCaptain Deeney then completed a famous victory, curling into the back of the net from the edge of the area.\n\nThis is not a result that is going to halt Liverpool's title charge with the Reds 22 points clear at the top but it was nevertheless an unexpected and memorable result for Watford.\n\nMany had arrived at Vicarage Road expecting to see Liverpool make history by winning in the league for the 19th game in a row.\n\nIndeed, such was the level of expectation that press accreditation for the game had been oversubscribed, with hundreds of media outlets keen to cover a moment in English football history.\n\nBut Watford were clearly not reading from the same script.\n\nA superb run of four wins in five games at the start of Nigel Pearson's reign had lifted them up from the foot of the table and out of the relegation zone but five games without victory prior to the visit of Liverpool had dropped them back into trouble.\n\nDespite the recent poor run of results, performances had still been good and they were boosted for this game by the return from injury of Sarr.\n\nThe winger has been a real creative spark for the Hornets this season, and he was a menace from the outset, taking advantage of the surprising amount of space he was afforded on the wing to deliver a number of dangerous crosses.\n\nHis pace and trickery unsettled the Reds, who were unable to handle him and both his goals were taken with an assured calmness.\n\nIf he can remain fit for the remaining 10 games of the season then Watford have a real chance of retaining their Premier League status.\n\nAn off day for champions-elect Reds\n\nThere is no getting away from the fact that Liverpool have been simply sensational this season and the only surprise is that they have been able to maintain a consistent level of brilliance for so long.\n\nRecent performances have not been quite at the level they have been capable of, losing to a resilient Atletico Madrid in the Champions League before scraping past West Ham last week.\n\nThe Hammers showed that if teams attack the Reds defence then they stand a better chance of upsetting them and that was the case on Saturday as they struggled to deal with the Hornets' high press.\n\nA couple of wayward clearances from Alisson early on, when the Liverpool goalkeeper was under pressure, provided a hint of what was to come.\n\nThe defensive pairing of Virgil van Dijk and Dejan Lovren also looked vulnerable, certainly in comparison to the seemingly impenetrable Van Dijk-Joe Gomez partnership, with Gomez out because of a fitness issue.\n\nIt was an off day for the Reds and one that may provide them with renewed spirit to finish off in style what is sure to be a title-winning campaign but we should take nothing away from what was an excellent display by Watford.\n\n'It's not hard is it, football?' - what they said\n\nWatford boss Nigel Pearson: \"It's such an important win for us. But it is one win. Our season has been tough so far, with losing last week and not playing well, we were keen to get a response.\n\n\"They are such an outstanding side, we had to get our performance right - as close to max as possible - and I thought we thoroughly deserved the win. We threatened with the ball and defended with discipline, energy and commitment. That's been the message from day one.\n\n\"It's in our own hands, and we have to deliver that performance week in, week out.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"They did exactly what they wanted to do, we did not. That's how football works.\n\n\"You have to accept it, it's not so easy, but it's the proof we were not good enough. It's always very difficult.\n\n\"If you win good, if you lose, try to do it in the right manner and do it like a man.\"\n\nLiverpool defender Virgil van Dijk: \"Credit to Watford, they played well, a lot of fight, very disciplined and scored three goals - that's the reality, we couldn't find a way through. It was difficult and we have to do better.\n\n\"The record and the talk of the records is all media, we just try to win every game.\n\n\"We will focus on the next game, the cup game, and we try to win there. We have to stay humble and work harder next game.\"\n\nWatford goalkeeper Ben Foster, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Just do that every week. It's easy if you do it like that - we had a game plan and stuck to it really well.\n\n\"Ismaila Sarr is a crazy good talent, he's so calm in front of goal and has electric pace. Buzzing.\n\n\"It's not hard is it, football? We stuck to our task and took our chances when they came.\"\n• None Watford are the first side to beat Liverpool in the Premier League since Manchester City in January 2019, ending the joint-longest winning streak (18) and the second longest unbeaten run (44) in English top-flight history.\n• None Liverpool's 0-3 loss was the biggest margin of defeat for a side starting the day top of the Premier League since November 2015 (Man City 1-4 Liverpool).\n• None Watford's victory over Liverpool was the biggest over a side starting the day top of the top-flight table by a team in the relegation zone since Leicester beat Manchester United 3-0 on November 23rd 1985.\n• None Watford secured their first top-flight victory against a side starting the day top of the table since the final day of the 1982-83 season, also beating Liverpool that day (2-1).\n• None Liverpool failed to score in a Premier League game for the first time since March 2019 (0-0 v Everton), ending a run of scoring in 36 consecutive league games.\n• None Liverpool have conceded 2+ goals in consecutive Premier League games for the first time since December 2016 conceding as many goals in their last two league games (5) as they had in their previous 14.\n• None Liverpool had just one shot on target in a Premier League game for the first time since February 2019 in a goalless draw against Manchester United (1).\n\nLiverpool travel to Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and then host Bournemouth in the league on Saturday, 7 March (12:30 GMT). Watford travel to Crystal Palace on the same day at 15:00 GMT.\n• None Attempt missed. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Divock Origi.\n• None Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Attempt missed. Ismaila Sarr (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Watford 3, Liverpool 0. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Ismaila Sarr.\n• None Sadio Mané (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ismaila Sarr (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Masina with a cross.\n• None Adam Lallana (Liverpool) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box.\n• None Attempt blocked. Will Hughes (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from long range on the left misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City secured their third League Cup win in succession - and their fourth in five years - with victory over Aston Villa at Wembley.\n\nPep Guardiola's side won an historic treble of domestic trophies last season with the Premier League and FA Cup, and they thoroughly deserved their triumph despite a spirited effort from Aston Villa.\n\nManchester City looked like they would stroll to victory when Sergio Aguero's strike and Rodri's header from a corner that was hotly contested by Villa put them in complete control inside 30 minutes.\n\nVilla, while strictly second best, offered themselves a lifeline when Mbwana Samatta headed in from Anwar El Ghazi's cross four minutes before the interval.\n\nCity continued to dominate as they sought a third goal and Villa were agonisingly close to forcing extra time when Bjorn Engels saw his header from a corner turned on to the woodwork superbly by keeper Claudio Bravo.\n\nIt was their last chance and City closed out the win their superiority merited.\n• None Third Carabao Cup is a sign of success - Guardiola\n\nManchester City may be about to lose their Premier League title to Liverpool, who are 22 points clear at the top of the table, but no-one can argue against their claims to the first piece of domestic silverware this season.\n\nThey were in control of most of this game apart from a frantic closing spell where the much-maligned 36-year-old Chilean keeper Bravo produced that stunning save from Engels to break Villa hearts.\n\nIf there is any frustration - and there will not be much - for Guardiola and his players, it is that they should have had this game done and dusted without any need for late moments of anxiety.\n\nAguero once again proved he is the man for all occasions with his predatory strike, while 19-year-old Phil Foden demonstrated his rich promise with a fine performance, which even contained a piece of audacious ball-juggling in the second half.\n\nJohn Stones slipped unfortunately for Villa's goal but he also contributed some vital defensive headers when City finally had to survive some concerted pressure in the closing minutes.\n\nFernandinho continues to be a towering presence and it was a win achieved with Kevin de Bruyne on the bench for the first hour.\n\nIt has been an outstanding week for City as they followed up Wednesday's Champions League last-16 first-leg win away to Real Madrid by lifting the EFL Cup.\n\nVilla can take heart in defeat\n\nAston Villa's players and staff gathered in a huddle after the final whistle for a rallying call for the battles ahead - which will be needed as they lie in the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nThey will feel they were served up an injustice with the corner that led to Rodri's goal but they can take some solace from the manner in which they stuck to their task, showed resilience and almost forced this EFL Cup final into extra time.\n\nThere was frustration for Villa's star man Jack Grealish, who could not exert any serious influence and, of course, there will be the pain of defeat.\n\nIt is a fact that Villa's main priority this season is Premier League survival and they demonstrated enough here to give them encouragement that they can achieve that mission, starting at Leicester City on 9 March.\n\n'Being here and winning is great' - Guardiola\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"Three times in a row is a big success. It's the consistency, incredible.\n\n\"It was awesome. We struggled in the first minutes and the last ones. They had two clear chances in the first minutes but we played really well, especially in the second half.\n\n\"The game was good. Phil [Foden] was clinical. Big success, our second title of the season with the Community Shield, it's so nice.\n\n\"We've won a lot. I tried when we arrive, every game we play we try to win it, every competition we try to win it, and three times in a row, being here and winning is great.\"\n• None Manchester City are the second side to win three consecutive League Cups after Liverpool between the 1980-81 and 1983-84 seasons (four in a row).\n• None Only Liverpool (eight) have won the competition more times than City (seven).\n• None Only Arsenal (six) have finished runners-up more often in League Cup history than Aston Villa (four - level with Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None Pep Guardiola has now won the League Cup on three occasions (2018, 2019, 2020) - only Alex Ferguson (four), Brian Clough (four) and Jose Mourinho (four) have won the competition more often among managers.\n• None Guardiola has won 21 of his previous 25 finals as a top-flight manager, including all six with City (two Community Shields, three League Cups, one FA Cup).\n• None Aston Villa have scored 20 League Cup goals this season, the last side to net 20+ in a single EFL Cup campaign were Manchester City in 2013-14 (22).\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 10 goals in his past six starts against Aston Villa.\n• None Since his League Cup debut in November 2011, Aguero has scored more goals in the competition than any other player (11).\n• None Aston Villa's Mbwana Samatta became the fifth different African player to score in a League Cup final, after Didier Drogba (four), Joseph-Desire Job, Obafemi Martins and Yaya Toure.\n• None Manchester City's Phil Foden has been directly involved in nine goals in his 10 starts in all competitions this season (two goals, seven assists).\n\nManchester City visit Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday (19:45 GMT), before facing Manchester United in a derby in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30).\n\nAston Villa are back in Premier League action a week on Monday at Leicester City (20:00).\n• None Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Björn Engels (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Hourihane with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Bernardo Silva tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two leading figures in the Scottish National Party have announced they will step down as MSPs.\n\nMichael Russell, who represents Argyll and Bute, will not stand in the Holyrood election next year.\n\nMr Russell, who will be 67 in August, said it may be time for someone younger to represent the constituency.\n\nIt has also been announced that Stewart Stevenson, who represents Banffshire and Buchan Coast for the SNP, will leave parliament at the election.\n\nHe is 74 and has been an SNP activist since 1961.\n\nAnnouncing the decision to his constituency association, Mr Russell said: \"I will be 67 this summer and 72 at the end of the next Parliament.\n\n\"Argyll & Bute is a massive area to cover - with 23 inhabited islands and a large swathe of the mainland - and I am getting to the stage of thinking that someone younger would be better able to fulfil all the demands of the constituency.\n\n\"It is, I think, much better I say that now than wait for someone else to do so.\"\n\nMichael Russell was first elected to the Scottish parliament in 1999\n\nAlthough initially a Labour supporter as a student, Mr Russell joined the SNP in 1974.\n\nHe held a number of constituency, and then national, offices in the party before becoming its first full-time chief executive in December 1994.\n\nHe was elected to the Scottish parliament in the first elections in 1999, although he failed to keep his seat in 2003.\n\nMr Russell first became a minister, responsible for the environment, when he was elected in 2007.\n\nHe said his decision to leave parliament did not mean he would stop campaigning for Scottish independence.\n\n\"After next May I still intend to be active in the political sphere,\" he said.\n\n\"I think of my decision as stepping back from some current roles, not stepping away from my commitment to our country and the better future it can have and should choose.\n\n\"Independence is so much closer than it was when I first voted for the SNP 46 years ago. I hope I have contributed something to that success and I still hope to contribute more but in a different way and role.\"\n\nStewart Stevenson's retirement comes after serving in the Scottish parliament since 2001.\n\nHe was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Cupar in Fife.\n\nMr Stevenson studied mathematics at the University of Aberdeen and worked in information technology with the Bank of Scotland before becoming a full-time politician.\n\nHis roles in government have included minister for transport.\n\nAnnouncing his retirement, he said: \"I will miss working with, and for, so many people in the constituency, but for the year next I shall continue to work hard to represent the people of the North-east and I hope to say a personal thank you to the many people who have been part of my life over the years in both the constituency and at Holyrood.\n\n\"My leaving Parliament does not mean that I shall be leaving politics.\n\n\"Until Scotland can make its own decisions as a normal, independent country, co-operating with friendly neighbours for moral causes, I shall continue to lend my efforts wherever and whenever I can.\"\n\nFellow SNP MSPs James Dornan, who represents Glasgow Cathcart, and Gail Ross, who represents the Caithness, Sutherland and Ross constituency, have also said in the last week that they will not seek re-election next year.\n• None MSP standing down 'to watch son grow up'", "East Cowick in Yorkshire is one of the areas hit by flooding\n\nRainfall data from the Met Office has shown that last month was the wettest February since records began.\n\nAn average of 202.1mm rainfall fell, surpassing records for February 1990, when 193.4mm fell.\n\nStorm Jorge is bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the UK, causing yet more disruption to flood-hit areas.\n\nDozens of flood warnings are still in place across England, Wales and Scotland, meaning immediate action is required.\n\nThis time the focus of the severe weather lies in the South West and Yorkshire, as well as parts of Wales.\n\nThe Environment Agency deployed another four pumps, to the existing 18 pumps, to help fight flooding in Snaith, around 20 miles south of York where floodwaters remain catastrophically high.\n\nSeveral flooded roads were closed in Wiltshire, people were rescued from cars stranded in water in Devon and Somerset, and the Ouse Bridge in Humberside was temporarily closed to high-sided vehicles as gusts reached up to 70mph.\n\nCardiff Council said emergency teams worked on flood defences, road closures and clearing debris throughout Thursday night, and its roads team responded to around 100 incidents.\n\nPolice called a \"critical incident\" in parts of south Wales on Saturday, including Pontypridd and the Ely area of Cardiff, as emergency services coordinated their response to the weather. But the incident was stood down mid-morning.\n\nHumberside Fire and Rescue service searched for residents along a flooded street after the River Aire burst its banks\n\nHigh levels were seen on the River Taff in south Wales overnight on Friday\n\nNorthern Ireland was among those areas hit by a yellow weather warning on Saturday, with disruption stretching from Cornwall to the north of Scotland, where forecasters said there could be up to 30cm (12in) of snow.\n\nShowers have since eased, but wind warnings remain in place until Sunday - with the possibility of power cuts and transport delays, as well as dangerous waves in coastal areas.\n\nHigh winds have also been recorded across the island of Ireland where thousands of homes were left without power on Saturday morning as the storm made landfall.\n\nA number of flights have been diverted to Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic because of high winds across the island of Ireland.\n\nSome 15 rivers in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire have recorded their highest levels on record this winter.\n\nAfter the deluge brought by Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis earlier this month, the Environment Agency engineers have been working to repair temporary flood barriers in Ironbridge, Shropshire, and Bewdley in Worcestershire - both of which have suffered devastating flooding.\n\nThe agency's head of floods and coastal management, John Curtin, called it a \"phenomenal effort\".\n\nA severe flood warning - meaning a danger to life - for the River Severn at Ironbridge was downgraded on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Bowers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 3,300 properties in England are thought to have been flooded as a result of the combined effects of storms Ciara and Dennis, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs said.\n\nBut the department said that figure, which includes homes and businesses, is only an estimate due to difficulties in gathering reliable data.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has the latest UK storm been named \"Jorge\"?\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Jorge? If it is safe for you to do so please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keira Bell: 'I should have been challenged on my transition'\n\nA 23-year-old woman who is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic says she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager.\n\nA judge gave the go-ahead for a full hearing of the case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.\n\nLawyers will argue children cannot give informed consent to treatment delaying puberty or helping them to transition.\n\nThe Tavistock said it always took a cautious approach to treatment.\n\nGender identity charity Mermaids said that people face a long wait for access to such services, that they can save lives and that very few people regret their decision.\n\nThe clinic based in Hampstead, north-west London, which runs the UK's only gender-identity development service (GIDS), added that it welcomed an examination of the evidence in this contentious area.\n\nKeira Bell is one of the claimants and will give evidence in the judicial review, which is likely to be heard in early summer.\n\nThe second claimant, known only as Mum A, is the mother of a 15-year-old girl with autism, who is awaiting treatment at the clinic.\n\nKeira describes being a tomboy as a child. When asked how strongly she felt the need to change her gender identity, she replied that it gradually built up as she found out more about transitioning online.\n\nThen as she went down the medical route, she said \"one step led to another\".\n\nShe was referred to the Tavistock GIDS clinic at the age of 16. She said after three one-hour-long appointments she was prescribed puberty blockers, which delay the development of signs of puberty, like periods or facial hair.\n\nShe felt there wasn't enough investigation or therapy before she reached that stage.\n\n\"I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for myself,\" she said. \"And I think that would have made a big difference as well. If I was just challenged on the things I was saying.\"\n\nThey are drugs which can pause the development of things like breasts, periods, facial hair and voice breaking\n\nThey can be prescribed to children with gender dysphoria who feel their sex at birth doesn't match up with their gender.\n\nThis is meant to give them more time to weigh up their options before they go through the physical changes of puberty.\n\nAlthough puberty blockers are described by the NHS as reversible, GIDS acknowledges that their impact on brain development and psychological health is not fully known.\n\nA year after starting the puberty-blockers she said she was prescribed the male hormone testosterone, which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice. Three years ago, she had an operation to remove her breasts.\n\n\"Initially I felt very relieved and happy about things, but I think as the years go on you start to feel less and less enthusiastic or even happy about things.\n\n\"You can continue and dig yourself deeper into this hole or you can choose to come out of it and have the weight lifted off your shoulders.\"\n\nShe decided to stop taking cross-sex hormones last year and said she was now accepting of her sex as a female. But she was also angry about what had happened to her in the last decade.\n\n\"I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager.... and it has affected me in the long run as an adult.\n\n\"I'm very young. I've only just stepped into adulthood and I have to deal with this kind of burden or radical difference - in comparison to others at least.\"\n\nKeira's lawyers will argue that children cannot weigh up the impact such a treatment might have on their future life, including for instance, on their fertility.\n\nFormer staff at the clinic have raised concerns that teenagers who want to transition to a different gender are being given puberty blockers without adequate assessment or psychological work.\n\nIt has been claimed that children as young as 12 have received the drugs, which block the hormones that lead to puberty-related changes like periods or facial hair.\n\nBut she also understands why teenagers arrive at the clinic deeply distressed and desperate to change their gender.\n\n\"I did say the same thing years ago when I went to the clinic. I would say it was saving me from suicidal ideation and depression in general and at the time I felt it relieved all those mental health issues I was feeling, alongside gender dysphoria.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe described her family life as difficult. She also believes if she had felt more accepted by society as she was then, she might not have wanted to change her gender. She added that she wouldn't have wanted to listen to voices of caution when she was younger.\n\n\"I feel I could say anything to my 16-year-old self and I might not necessarily listen at that time. And that's the point of this case, when you are that young you don't really want to listen.\n\n\"So I think it's up to these institutions, like the Tavistock, to step in and make children reconsider what they are saying, because it is a life-altering path.\"\n\nDr Polly Carmichael is the consultant clinical psychologist who runs the Gender Identity Development Service. She praised Keira for speaking out, but insisted the clinic did have a thorough assessment process.\n\nShe described their approach as cautious and said they work closely with children and their families to reach the right decisions for them, with fewer than half of those seen going onto take puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.\n\n\"This is a really complex area with strong feelings on all sides. And at its centre, the young people we work with - they come to us in often really great distress around their sense of themselves.\n\n\"We're talking about identity here, their identity, and a feeling that their gender identity does not match that body.\"\n\nShe believes the judicial review, when it happens, will be an important opportunity to ensure the evidence around treatment and a child's ability to consent is thoroughly examined.\n\n\"This is a heated debate at the moment. And I think taking a step back - and having an external considered review of the evidence and people's feelings about the most appropriate way to support young people - can be nothing but beneficial at this point.\"\n\nGender identity charity Mermaids provides support to trans and gender-diverse young people and their families.\n\nIts chief executive, Susie Green, has defended the current process, which she said was based on years of research, and said she hoped the judicial review would \"shine a light\" on young people's experiences.\n\nShe told BBC News that many people who approached the charity were \"very distressed\" and that research had suggested puberty blockers could help reduce rates of self-harm and suicide.\n\nAnd she said it was \"not proportionate\" to take away services because of \"a very small number\" of people who regretted undergoing medical intervention.\n\n\"In the first instance the waiting time is well over two years and when young people get into the service there is then a process which takes well into a year before medical intervention is considered,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"The process is very detailed they get a lot of information about the benefits, the pitfalls and the projected outcomes of what comes of any kind of medication. So they make informed consent and that underpins the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England is an interested party in the legal case. It has already announced an independent review of its policies on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.\n\nIt describes this as part of a planned examination, which will be undertaken by a panel of independent experts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Prime Minister says being home secretary is \"one of the toughest jobs in government\"\n\nThe government is to investigate whether Home Secretary Priti Patel has breached the ministerial code, amid allegations of bullying.\n\nCabinet office minister Michael Gove confirmed the inquiry after an urgent question from Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIt comes after bullying claims were made by the ex-top civil servant in Ms Patel's department.\n\nMr Corbyn said he believed Ms Patel - who has previously denied she mistreated staff - should be sacked.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office's most senior official, resigned on Saturday citing a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him.\n\nThe BBC has also learnt that a formal complaint about Ms Patel's conduct was made when she was employment minister.\n\nShe has not made any public comment since Sir Philip announced his resignation.\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Gove said Ms Patel \"absolutely rejects these allegations\".\n\n\"The prime minister has expressed his full confidence in her and having worked closely with the home secretary over a number of years, I have the highest regard for her - she is a superb minister doing a great job,\" he said.\n\n\"This government always takes any complaints relating to the ministerial code seriously, and in line with the process set out in the ministerial code the prime minister has asked the Cabinet Office to establish the facts.\"\n\nHe added: \"We make no apology of having strong ministers in place.\"\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said that if Sir Philip Rutman allegations about the home secretary's conduct are true \"they would constitute a clear breach of the code\".\n\n\"So why, without a proper investigation has the prime minister defended the home secretary calling her 'fantastic' and saying he 'absolutely' has confidence in her?\n\n\"It's not enough just to refer this to the Cabinet Office. The government must now call in an external lawyer.\n\n\"A minister in breach of the ministerial code cannot remain in office and should be dismissed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the \"truth\" was that this government \"is led by bullies presided over by a part-time prime minister\" who \"cannot be bothered to turn up\".\n\n\"The integrity and credibility of the government is on the line,\" he said.\n\nIn his statement on Saturday, Sir Philip said he received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal, alleging that he had been forced out of his job.\n\nThe First Division Association union, which represents senior civil servants, earlier called on Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill to launch an \"independent\" inquiry into Ms Patel's behaviour.\n\nThe union's general secretary David Penman said a probe should be led by an external lawyer, with access to ministers' and special advisers' communication records.\n\nIn a letter to Sir Mark, he also said there was a need for \"urgent reform\" of the process by which civil servants can raise complaints about ministers.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Public Health England in North London on Sunday, Mr Johnson said he \"absolutely\" has confidence in Ms Patel.\n\n\"I think she's a fantastic home secretary\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Philip Rutnam says there has been a \"vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw has also learnt that a formal complaint about Ms Patel's conduct was made when she was employment minister at the Department for Work and Pensions. The substance of it is not known, nor whether it was substantiated or followed up.\n\nThe complaint is believed to have been made by a member of her private office - a team of six to eight civil servants which works closely with an individual minister.\n\nA spokesman for Ms Patel said she was \"not aware\" of the complaint and the government, while it did not deny the claim, said it would not comment on personnel issues.\n\nMs Patel has not yet commented on Sir Philip's statement\n\nOne Whitehall insider said Ms Patel had created a \"hostile and unhappy\" environment for civil servants there by questioning their capability and undermining their performance.\n\n\"I felt very sorry for people in her private office - they felt bullied,\" they said.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said allies of Ms Patel are privately suggesting that Sir Philip was not up to the demands of the job.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says 18,000 migrants have crossed Turkish borders into Europe after the country \"opened the doors\" for them to travel.\n\nThe number is expected to hit 25,000 to 30,000 in the coming days, he said.\n\nTurkey could no longer deal with the amount of people fleeing Syria's civil war, he added.\n\nGreece says it has blocked thousands of migrants from entering \"illegally\" from Turkey.\n\nGreek authorities fired tear gas to attempt to disperse the crowds.\n\nTurkey's decision followed a deadly attack on Turkish troops by Syrian government forces in northern Syria this week.\n\nAt least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in a bombardment in Idlib, the last Syrian province where Syrian rebel groups hold significant territory.\n\nTurkey continued retaliatory strikes on Saturday, killing 26 Syrian government troops with drone strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.\n\nSyria, supported by Russia, has been trying to retake Idlib from jihadist groups and Turkish-backed rebel factions.\n\nTurkey is hosting 3.7 million Syrian refugees, as well as migrants from other countries such as Afghanistan - but had previously stopped them from leaving for Europe under an aid-linked deal with the EU.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan accused the EU of breaking promises.\n\nTurkey says up to 30,000 could cross into the EU in the coming days\n\n\"We said months ago that if it goes on like this, we will have to open the doors. They did not believe us, but we opened the doors yesterday,\" President Erdogan said in Istanbul on Saturday.\n\nHe said that some 18,000 refugees had \"pressed on the gates and crossed\" into Europe by Saturday morning. He did not provide evidence of these numbers.\n\n\"We will not close these doors in the coming period and this will continue. Why? The European Union needs to keep its promises. We don't have to take care of this many refugees, to feed them,\" he said.\n\nBrussels had not given full financial aid agreed in the 2018 Turkey-EU refugee deal, he said.\n\nGreece says it stopped 4,000 attempts to enter its border\n\nGreece said it had averted more than 4,000 attempts to cross into the country. There were further clashes between migrants and Greek police on Saturday.\n\n\"The government will do whatever it takes to protect its borders,\" government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters.\n\nThe Turkish president also said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin - a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - to stand aside and let Turkey \"do what is necessary\" with the Syrian government by itself.\n\nRussia and Turkey are backing opposing sides in the civil war. Turkey is opposed to the government of Bashar al-Assad and supports some rebel groups.\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. Sir Philip Rutnam says there has been a \"vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him\n\nThe Home Office's top civil servant, Sir Philip Rutnam, has resigned and said he intends to sue the government for constructive dismissal after what he called a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him.\n\nHere is his statement in full:\n\n\"I have this morning resigned as permanent secretary of the Home Office.\n\nI take this decision with great regret after a career of 33 years.\n\nI am making this statement now because I will be issuing a claim against the Home Office for constructive dismissal.\n\nIn the last 10 days, I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign.\n\nIt has been alleged that I have briefed the media against the home secretary.\n\nThis - along with many other claims - is completely false.\n\nThe home secretary categorically denied any involvement in this campaign to the Cabinet Office.\n\nI regret I do not believe her.\n\nShe has not made the efforts I would expect to dissociate herself from the comments.\n\nEven despite this campaign I was willing to effect a reconciliation with the home secretary, as requested by the cabinet secretary on behalf of the prime minister.\n\nBut despite my efforts to engage with her, Priti Patel has made no effort to engage with me to discuss this.\n\nI believe that these events give me very strong grounds to claim constructive, unfair dismissal - and I will be pursuing that claim in the courts.\n\nMy experience has been extreme but I consider that there is evidence that it is part of a wider pattern of behaviour.\n\nOne of my duties as permanent secretary was to protect the health, safety and well-being of our 35,000 people.\n\nThis created tension with the home secretary, and I have encouraged her to change her behaviours.\n\nI have received allegations that her conduct has included shouting and swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands - behaviour that created fear and that needed some bravery to call out.\n\nI know that resigning in this way will have very serious implications for me personally. The Cabinet Office offered me a financial settlement that would have avoided this outcome.\n\nI am aware that there will continue to be briefing against me now I have made this decision, but I am hopeful that at least it may not now be directed to my colleagues or the department.\n\nThis has been a very difficult decision but I hope that my stand may help in maintaining the quality of government in our country, which includes hundreds of thousands of civil servants loyally dedicated to delivering this government's agenda.\n\nI will make no further comment at this stage.\"\n• None Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him'", "The government says it wants to give people in northern England \"more powers over their railways\" as it starts running services previously operated by Arriva Rail North.\n\nThe takeover was announced in January following widespread commuter chaos.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham will be among a panel of northern political leaders who will advise the government's operation.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said there would be \"no quick fix\".\n\nPassengers have experienced regular delays and cancellations since a timetable change in May 2018. They also faced strikes and an ageing fleet of trains.\n\nThe government said tackling overcrowding was a priority\n\nGerman firm Arriva, which had been due to run Northern services until 2025, previously said problems had been largely due to \"external factors\" such as infrastructure.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said tackling overcrowding would be a priority, with \"new technology being trialled to identify crowding pinch points\".\n\nThe government also said:\n\nGrant Shapps said the government aimed to give people in the North more powers over railways\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"This is a new era for rail in the North, but there will be no quick fix for the network as we build solutions for the future.\n\n\"Our aim is to give the North of England more powers over their railways, restoring the confidence of passengers and delivering a network they can truly rely on.\"\n\nIn October, Mr Shapps revealed he had requested a proposal from Northern to outline its improvement plans after \"unacceptable\" delays.\n\nThe Department for Transport then considered whether to hand a new, short-term contract to Arriva, or to nationalise services by putting the government-controlled Operator of Last Resort (OLR) in charge.\n\nDelays and cancellations plagued Northern passengers for two years\n\nOLR already manages the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) franchise after railway services on the East Coast Main Line were brought back under government control in May 2018.\n\nNorthern services have transferred from Arriva Rail North to Northern Trains Limited - a newly-formed subsidiary of OLR.\n\nA campaign for the operation of Northern services to remain in public ownership will be launched by rail union RMT, passenger groups and politicians on Monday, with demonstrations at northern stations.\n\nKate Anstee, from the Northern Resist passenger group, said: \"We welcome Northern being finally taken into public ownership, but we hope the Government doesn't sell it off at the first possible opportunity.\"\n\nThe Northern branding on the trains will remain and staff will continue in their jobs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Claire Foy and Andrew Scott won best actress and actor in a play\n\nThe Crown star Claire Foy and Fleabag's Andrew Scott were among the big winners at the WhatsOnStage Awards on Sunday.\n\nFoy won best actress in a play for her performance in Lungs, while Scott took home best actor for Present Laughter.\n\nA new musical - & Juliet - which features the songs of Britney Spears, Pink, Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry, took home the most prizes, winning six of the 13 awards it was nominated for.\n\nThe winners are decided by members of the public as opposed to critics.\n\nPrizes for & Juliet included best actress in a musical for its lead, Miriam-Teak Lee, as well as technical categories such as sound, lighting, costume and set design.\n\nThe show features music by the prolific songwriter Max Martin including hits by Kesha, Jessie J and the Backstreet Boys and imagines what would have happened if Romeo had died but Juliet had lived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam-Teak Lee: \"We kind of see Juliet in a stronger way\"\n\nThere were wins in major categories for Come From Away - the musical that tells the true story of how a small Canadian community reacted to 9/11.\n\nWhen the terror attack took place on New York's Twin Towers, 38 planes were diverted to an airport in Newfoundland, Canada, where locals offered food and shelter to the incoming passengers.\n\nThe show won five awards in total, including best new musical and best supporting actress for Rachel Tucker, who played one of the plane's pilots.\n\nBest new play was won by Life of Pi - a new adaptation of Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel - which has previously been turned into a successful film.\n\nDear Evan Hansen, which explores \"grief tourism\" after a teen suicide, won two major prizes - best actor for Sam Tutty and best supporting actor for Jack Loxton.\n\nScott's win for Present Laughter follows a hugely successful year for the actor, during which he starred in Fleabag, Black Mirror and the Oscar-winning film 1917.\n\nHis co-star Sophie Thompson was named best supporting actress.\n\nBest musical revival was won by Mary Poppins, which opened in the West End last year after a successful Hollywood film reboot starring Emily Blunt.\n\nFor the first time, the event was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Paddy O'Connell.\n\nDear Evan Hansen transferred from Broadway to the West End in November\n\nBest supporting actress in a musical - Rachel Tucker, Come From Away\n\nBest new play - Life of Pi\n\nBest new musical - Come From Away\n\nBest musical direction - Ian Eisendrath, Alan Berry and team, Come From Away\n\nBest choreography - Kelly Devine, Come From Away\n\nBest sound design - Gareth Owen, Come From Away\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Welsh Assembly will be called Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament from May\n\nIt has been suggested Wales could face political turmoil after next year's Senedd election, in light of the annual St David's Day poll for BBC Wales.\n\nThe poll suggests three parties could win similar numbers of seats - Labour 21, the Tories 20 and Plaid Cymru 18.\n\nThe research, by ICM Unlimited, now includes 16 and 17-year-olds, who will vote in 2021 for the first time.\n\nThe poll also suggests increased support for independence, up to 11% from 7% last year.\n\nSupport for abolishing the assembly shows little change compared to last year and stands at 14% - up one percentage point from last year.\n\nICM says there is a caveat to this poll in the fact that there is a different sample to previous years, in that 16 and 17-year-olds have been included in the questioning.\n\nFrom 2021, under new legislation, 16 and 17-year-olds will have the right to vote in Senedd elections for the first time.\n\nOn next year's Senedd elections, on the constituency vote, Labour and the Conservatives each poll at 31%, Plaid Cymru and 26% and the Liberal Democrats at 6%.\n\nOn the regional vote, Labour poll at 31%, the Conservatives at 29%, Plaid Cymru at 25% and the Liberal Democrats at 5%.\n\nProf Roger Awan-Scully, Head of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, has made the following projections based on a uniform national swing since the 2016 Senedd election: Labour 21 seats, Conservatives 20, Plaid Cymru 18 and the Liberal Democrats 1.\n\nCommenting on the poll, Vaughan Roderick, the Welsh Affairs editor at BBC Wales, said: \"Opinion polls are snapshots not predictions but Wales could be facing a period of unprecedented political turmoil if the three-way political split between Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru continues into next year.\n\n\"It is difficult to see what kind of government might emerge from an assembly where all three parties had roughly equal number of seats.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru would be unlikely to support a newly-humbled Labour Party while supporting a Conservative-led administration would be all but politically impossible for both Labour and Plaid.\n\n\"In such circumstances the assembly might even be forced to vote to dissolve itself and hold a fresh election in an attempt to resolve the impasse.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's important to note that this poll includes 16 and 17-year-olds in the sample, as they will be allowed to vote in the 2021 Senedd elections for the first time ever.\"\n\nMr Awan-Scully said: \"My projections come with the usual health warnings and exceptions.\n\n\"On this polling, and using a uniform national swing, Labour could just about hold onto Clwyd South but could lose the Vale of Glamorgan, Vale of Clwyd, Gower, Wrexham and Cardiff North to the Conservatives.\n\n\"Labour could also lose Llanelli, Blaenau Gwent, Cardiff West and Caerphilly, on the same basis, but local conditions could impact on this.\"\n\nSupport for Welsh independence hits a nine-year high, with 11% saying they think \"Wales should become independent, separate from the UK\" - which is up four points compared to 2019.\n\nICM say a caveat here should be the changed sample definition of including 16 and 17-year-olds, with a greater proportion of younger people than older people who say they support independence.\n\nDespite the increase in support for independence, the most common response continues to be that the \"Welsh Assembly should have more powers than it currently has\", which is at 43%, down three points from last year.\n\nSupport for abolishing the Welsh Assembly remains consistent with last year at 14%.\n\nVaughan Roderick said: \"The uptick in support for independence to a nine-year high isn't insignificant but it's worth noting that supporters of independence are still outnumbered by those who'd like to see the assembly abolished entirely.\n\n\"A large majority of respondents though supported either the current settlement or increased powers for the Senedd, a finding that has remained remarkably consistent over the past two decades.\"", "Dave Throup, from the Environment Agency, said there was \"miles and miles of water\" on the Severn's floodplains south of Worcester\n\nFurther floods are expected in parts of the West Midlands after Storm Jorge, the Environment Agency (EA) has said.\n\nHowever, these floods will be \"less extreme\" than those seen along the River Severn earlier in the week.\n\nHundreds of homes were evacuated and there were two severe flood warnings in Shropshire, meaning a danger to life.\n\nDave Throup, from the EA, said the river was due to peak overnight and into Monday but would be up to a metre below the levels seen previously.\n\nFlood defences in Ironbridge that were damaged by the deluge are \"good to go,\" he added.\n\n\"Herculean efforts\" saw damaged flood defences in Ironbridge repaired in time for Storm Jorge\n\nThe temporary barriers were pushed back by up to two metres due to the force of the water on Wednesday, meaning water was able to seep beneath them.\n\nThe EA said at nearby Buildwas 300 tonnes of water was flowing through the Severn every second on Sunday morning and water levels were starting to rise.\n\nAn average of 202.1mm rainfall fell last month, data from the Met Office shows, making it the wettest February since records began.\n\nRiver levels along the Severn will be high but not as \"extreme\" as earlier in the week\n\nThe Severn is expected to peak in Shrewsbury overnight with the peak moving downstream through Monday and Tuesday.\n\nThe EA, expects the river to peak at up to 5.7m in Ironbridge on Monday afternoon - one metre less than the levels it reached on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's still very high but not the absolutely extreme levels we saw this week,\" Mr Throup said.\n\nThe river will get \"high enough to be on our defences,\" he added, and there are still flood warnings in place.\n\nIn Bewdley, Worcestershire, where flood defences were overtopped on Tuesday, the river is expected to reach its highest peak on Tuesday morning at around 4.5m.\n\nResidents in Ironbridge have been able to return home after the \"extreme\" flooding\n\nVicki Gaffney's home in Tenbury Wells, which is along the River Teme, is one of more than 100 that was flooded in the town earlier this week.\n\n\"We've just been given the very depressing news that we've got a timeline of about six to nine months to be back in the house,\" she said. \"I'm finding that really hard.\"\n\nTenbury Wells was flooded during Storm Dennis and has no defences to protect it\n\nThe town has no flood defences and Ms Gaffney said that has to change. Her thoughts were echoed by Olivia and Stephen Higgins who run a shop on the high street.\n\n\"You feel totally alone,\" Ms Higgins said. \"We're no less important than the bigger towns that flood, but that's how we're made to feel - bottom of the list.\"\n\nResidents in Bewdley had to be rescued from floods after the Severn overtopped defences on Tuesday\n\nIn Worcester, the EA said \"everything is expected to stay stable\" - levels aren't looking likely to increase but nor is the river expected to go down \"until probably mid week\".\n\n\"It is very high water levels,\" Mr Throup said, but the city is coping and \"fully open for business\".\n\nAlong the River Wye in Herefordshire, levels have peaked about a metre and a half below what was recorded earlier in the week.\n\nDespite incredible amounts of water, Upton-upon-Severn is \"fully open,\" Mr Throup said\n\n\"I don't think that's going to cause too many problems,\" Mr Throup said.\n\n\"We're hoping for the best during this week but we'll be monitoring the situation closely.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The lake is said to have once contained King Arthur's sword Excalibur - but now harbours plastic\n\nThe discovery of microplastic pollution near the top of the highest mountain in Wales is a \"scary wake-up call\", environmentalists have said.\n\nTraces of plastic have been found in samples collected from Llyn Glaslyn - a remote lake near the summit of Snowdon.\n\nThe tiny particles are \"most likely\" to have been deposited by rain, wetland science expert Dr Christian Dunn said.\n\nA swimmer who gathered the samples will now visit all the UK's 15 national parks to learn more.\n\nActivist Laura Sanderson swam 16 miles (26km) from the source of River Glaslyn - 2,000ft (610m) above sea level - to the sea, last April, collecting water samples along the way.\n\nResults showed an average of three pieces of microplastic per litre from the lake made famous by Arthurian legend. The levels rose to eight per litre at the river's estuary at Porthmadog, Gwynedd.\n\nHowever the full extent of the pollution is expected to be far worse.\n\nLaura gathered samples in glass bottles from locations along the length of River Glaslyn\n\nThe analysis, carried out at the School of Natural Sciences at Bangor University, was deliberately basic with scientists keen to find an easy-to-use method that is affordable for schools and colleges.\n\n\"The results are scary when you think that this is at the top of a mountain and a very remote location,\" said Dr Dunn, from Bangor University.\n\n\"However a more detailed analysis would almost certainly find more plastic.\n\n\"I should be surprised because it is so horrific, but sadly I'm not.\"\n\nDr Christian Dunn fears the pollution levels are worse than initial research shows\n\nScientists believe the microplastics - anything less than 5mm in size - and nano-plastics that are only visible under a microscope, are present in the air and rainfall.\n\nDr Dunn said this was the most likely cause of microplastic pollution on Snowdon, although particles released from litter breaking down could also be a factor.\n\n\"We don't know the full situation but this work will help address that,\" he said.\n\n\"However we have to wake up to the problem of how much plastic we use on a day-to-day basis.\n\n\"It's a valuable resource, especially for health care, but there are so many situations where plastic is completely unnecessary.\"\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said litter - particularly plastic bottles and wrappers - is a \"real issue\" and said teams of volunteer wardens collect nearly 400 bags of litter off the mountain each year.\n\nHaving highlighted the issue on Snowdon after braving snow and icy water temperatures, 38-year-old Laura, from Harlech, Gwynedd, will now embark on a UK-wide 620-mile (1,000km) expedition.\n\nStarting later this month, she will collect samples by swimming through rivers, lakes or coastlines of all 15 national parks, from the mountainous Cairngorms in the eastern Highlands of Scotland to the open plains of Dartmoor in Devon.\n\nThe challenge is expected to take up to a year to complete before scientists report on the results.\n\n\"We were horrified when we were told the water we'd collected [in Snowdonia] had microplastics in it,\" she said.\n\n\"So now we want to see just how widespread the problem is and look at waterways in all our national parks.\"\n\nThe research is backed by environmental organisation Surfers Against Sewage (SAS).\n\nCharity chief executive Hugo Tagholm said Laura, by swimming, would provide a \"unique opportunity\" to collect water samples from hard-to-reach locations.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds are engaged and are expecting a baby in early summer, the couple have announced.\n\nMs Symonds wrote on Instagram that they got engaged at the end of last year, adding she felt \"incredibly blessed\".\n\nMr Johnson, 55, and Ms Symonds, 31, became the first unmarried couple to occupy Downing Street when they moved in last year.\n\nMs Symonds is also the youngest partner of a prime minister in 174 years.\n\nIn a post on her private Instagram account, she wrote: \"Many of you already know but for my friends that still don't, we got engaged at the end of last year... and we've got a baby hatching early summer. Feel incredibly blessed.\"\n\nIt will be a third marriage for Mr Johnson - who divorced his first wife and is now estranged from second wife Marina Wheeler.\n\nEarlier this month, a court heard that the prime minister and Ms Wheeler were preparing to end their marriage after reaching an agreement over money.\n\nMs Wheeler and Mr Johnson, who have four children, separated in 2018 after marrying in 1993.\n\nThe prime minister has recently lost a chancellor - and his home secretary is under pressure following the resignation of her department's most senior official on Saturday morning.\n\nBut, several hours later, happier news for Boris Johnson.\n\nHe is always reluctant to talk about his private life and his children, but it was announced that he is to become a father again.\n\nRumours had swirled at Westminster as his partner Carrie Symonds - a prominent environmental campaigner - hadn't been seen regularly.\n\nAnd she had just appointed her own PR adviser, paid for from Conservative funds.\n\nThey are the first unmarried couple to move in to Downing Street and they have now announced their engagement.\n\nIf they tie the knot, Boris Johnson will become the first prime minister to have got divorced and married in office since the Earl of Grafton in 1769 - another recent divorced man with a colourful private life.\n\nMs Symonds, the former Conservative Party communications chief, was first romantically linked to Mr Johnson by the media in early 2019.\n\nBut her association with Mr Johnson goes back to when she worked on his successful re-election bid as London mayor in 2012.\n\nShe is now a senior adviser for US environmental campaign group Oceana, after quitting her role with the Tories in 2018.\n\nFormer chancellor Sajid Javid, who resigned from government after a dispute with Mr Johnson, offered the couple his congratulations, tweeting it was \"wonderful news\".\n\nFormer Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson was one of the first to congratulate the couple on social media.\n\nBoth Tony Blair and David Cameron had children while in office as prime minister.\n\nMr Blair and his wife, Cherie, welcomed their fourth child Leo, in 2000, three years after the Labour leader's landslide victory.\n\nA baby daughter, Florence, was born to Mr Cameron and his wife, Samantha in 2010.\n• None Carrie Symonds makes first speech since No 10 move", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Philip Rutnam says there has been a \"vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him\n\nThe top civil servant in the Home Office has resigned and said he intends to claim for constructive dismissal by the government.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam said there had been a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him in Home Secretary Priti Patel's office.\n\nReported tensions between the pair included claims she mistreated officials - which she has denied.\n\nThe prime minister has \"full confidence in his cabinet\", Downing Street said.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Philip's move was \"highly unusual\", adding: \"I can't remember a senior public official taking a step like this.\"\n\nSir Philip said he received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said that behaviour had \"created fear and needed some bravery to call out\".\n\nIt was his duty to \"protect the health, safety and wellbeing\" of 35,000 Home Office workers, he said, but that doing so had \"created tension\" between him and Ms Patel.\n\nSir Philip, who has had a career spanning 33 years, added he had attempted a \"reconciliation\" with Ms Patel but that she had \"made no effort to engage with me to discuss this\".\n\nHe said he believed his experience was \"extreme\" but part of a \"wider pattern\" in government.\n\nMs Patel has not yet commented on Sir Philip's statement.\n\nSir Mark Sedwill, cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, thanked Sir Philip for his \"long and dedicated career of public service\" and said Shona Dunn, who had been Mr Rutnam's deputy, will become acting permanent secretary.\n\nHe said he received the resignation \"with great regret\", adding: \"The Home Office's vital work to keep our citizens safe and our country secure continues uninterrupted.\"\n\nPriti Patel has not yet commented on Sir Philip's resignation\n\nIt comes days after the home secretary and Sir Philip released a joint statement saying they were \"deeply concerned\" by various \"false allegations\" made about Ms Patel.\n\nAllegations the pair dismissed included reports that Ms Patel, who has been home secretary since Boris Johnson became prime minister, bullied her staff and was not trusted by MI5 bosses.\n\nBut in a statement given to BBC News, Sir Philip said: \"In the last 10 days, I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign.\"\n\nHe said allegations that he had briefed the media against the home secretary were among many \"completely false\" claims against him.\n\nSir Philip said he did not believe Ms Patel's denial of any involvement in the false claims, adding that she had not \"made the efforts I would expect to dissociate herself from the comments\".\n\nSir Philip's departure, and the manner of it, goes way beyond any normal policy problems or clashes.\n\nHe took aim not just at Priti Patel, but alluded to what he said was a \"wider pattern\" in government.\n\nAdd this to the resignation of Sajid Javid, the former chancellor who expressed concerns about how the government is behaving, there is mounting evidence of unhappiness with how Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his team are running things.\n\nCertainly it is a government in a hurry, willing to rattle cages in order to get things done.\n\nBut governments who want to get things done need an effective civil service to make things happen. A very public breakdown in trust like this does not help that cause.\n\nIndications at this early stage are that Ms Patel's position is secure. But with an employment tribunal in the offing, pressure may well build in the coming weeks.\n\nIf Sir Philip pursues his case as he says he will, exactly what happened behind closed doors may soon be out there for all to see.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSir Philip said he intended to issue a claim against the Home Office for constructive dismissal.\n\nHe added that the Cabinet Office had offered him a financial settlement \"that would have avoided this outcome\" - but he turned it down.\n\nFor a claim of constructive dismissal to be successful at an employment tribunal, an individual must prove their employer seriously breached their contract and that they resigned in response to the breach.\n\nReasons for claiming constructive dismissal can include employers allowing bullying or harassment at work, or failing to support an employee in their job, according to Citizens Advice.\n\nLord Kerslake, the former head of the civil service, said Sir Philip's departure was \"quite extraordinary\" and \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"For him to have done this - he must have been pushed to the limit and beyond,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it will send shock waves through the civil service.\"\n\nJon Trickett, Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister, said driving a professional civil servant out of office \"is the clearest sign yet of the underlying right-wing, authoritarian - but incompetent - nature of the Johnson government\".\n\n\"They will not tolerate dissent, yet can't cope with flooding or a possible pandemic,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nEarlier this week, when a Downing Street spokesman refused to say whether the prime minister had full confidence in Sir Philip Rutnam, his departure became inevitable.\n\nCabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill was consulted ahead of negotiations to agree a settlement. A financial package was on offer, but the stumbling block was apparently the public statement accompanying it.\n\nSir Philip wanted recognition for his work in Whitehall and an acknowledgement of the difficulties he'd encountered at the Home Office. According to those close to him that was not forthcoming.\n\nCritics of the former permanent secretary claim he was sometimes obstructive and difficult to work with; some believe he was fortunate to keep his job after the Windrush affair, when Amber Rudd resigned as home secretary; a report into the scandal, to be released soon, may have put his position under further scrutiny.\n\nNevertheless, for one of the country's most senior civil servants to resign in such a dramatic way suggests he has concerns that go well beyond safeguarding his own reputation.\n\nFor the government, the prospect of more damaging headlines is clear: Sir Philip's statement may embolden others to come forward with concerns, while legal proceedings would mean the internal workings of the Home Office - including discussions involving Priti Patel and her advisers - being made public.\n\nYvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons home affairs committee, said it was \"appalling\" and reflected badly on the whole government that the situation at the Home Office was allowed to deteriorate to such an extent.\n\nShe said: \"To end up with one of the most senior public servants in the country taking court action against one of the great offices of state shows a shocking level of breakdown in the normal functioning of government.\"\n\nThe home affairs spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats said \"serious questions\" must be asked about the \"culture that is being created in the Home Office\".\n\nChristine Jardine added: \"The way these Conservatives are treating public servants and trying to undermine the rule of law is outrageous.\"\n\nThe FDA union for senior public servants said Sir Philip's resignation was a consequence of people making anonymous claims about those \"who are unable to publicly defend themselves\".\n\nFDA general secretary Dave Penman said the \"cowardly practice\" was \"ruining lives and careers\" as well as diverting resources.", "OLaNo party leader Igor Matovic is likely to become prime minister\n\nThe opposition Ordinary People party (OLaNO) has won a resounding victory in Slovakia's parliamentary election on a wave of anti-corruption sentiment.\n\nWith nearly all results counted, the party has secured almost 25% of votes.\n\nThe popularity of the Ordinary People party soared in recent weeks, thanks to its anti-corruption agenda.\n\nThe election campaign was dominated by public anger over the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist, Jan Kuciak, and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova.\n\nThe result has unseated the centre-left Smer-SD party, which dominated Slovak politics for a decade and garnered just over 18%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands march in Slovakia calling for early elections in 2018\n\nKuciak had been investigating high-level corruption when he was killed.\n\nThe shooting shocked the nation and toppled PM Robert Fico, but his Smer-SD party remained in office.\n\nBy the cold light of a Bratislava dawn, it appeared that Igor Matovic - a millionaire anti-corruption campaigner with a populist touch - had pulled off a stunning victory. His Ordinary People party will command over a third of seats in parliament and he's poised to become prime minister in a centre-right coalition, which could even have a constitutional majority.\n\nTrue to form, former prime minister Robert Fico arrived at his party's election headquarters by the back door and left without speaking to reporters - and what was there to say? His party suffered its worst result in a decade of government; it's never recovered from the murder of Jan Kuciak, which took place on its watch.\n\nThe far-right People's Party, led by the former neo-Nazi Marian Kotleba, did worse than the polls had suggested, scoring a slightly lower percentage than four years ago. But the complicated parliamentary algebra means it will now have 17 seats, three more than after the last election.\n\nTheir rise appears to have mobilised liberal voters, but the continued presence of a virulently nationalist and xenophobic party will worry those who thought that at heart, Slovaks believe in liberal democracy.\n\nOpposition protest party Sme Rodina (We Are Family) gained 8.26%, followed closely by the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS).\n\nTwo other parties also secured the 5% of votes needed to enter parliament: the liberal opposition Svoboda a Solidarita (SAS, Freedom and Solidarity) and the anti-graft liberal opposition Za Ludi party.\n\nThe threshold for coalitions is higher, however, and the centre-left liberal Progressive Slovakia (PS-SPOLU) failed to reach the 7% required.\n\nThe general election comes after last year's presidential vote, won by anti-corruption campaigner and lawyer Zuzana Caputova - a political newcomer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreece has blocked any new asylum applications for the next month after Turkey \"opened the doors\" for migrants to travel to the EU.\n\nGreek officials earlier said they had stopped nearly 10,000 migrants crossing the land border with Turkey.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece had increased \"the level of deterrence at our borders to the maximum.\"\n\nTurkey says it cannot deal with the amount of people fleeing Syria's war.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was allowing migrants to try to get into neighbouring EU member states Greece and Bulgaria as of Friday.\n\nHis decision came after at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in air strikes in Idlib province in northern Syria this week.\n\nTurkey is hosting 3.7 million Syrian refugees, as well as migrants from other countries such as Afghanistan - but had previously stopped them from leaving for Europe under an aid-linked deal with the EU.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan accused the EU of breaking promises made in 2016, when Ankara agreed to help shore up the EU's south-western border.\n\nThe EU's border protection agency Frontex said it was on \"high alert\" on Europe's borders with Turkey.\n\nPrime Minister Mitsotakis announced the suspension in asylum applications on Twitter on Sunday evening, and said Greece had invoked an emergency clause of an EU treaty \"to ensure full European support\".\n\n\"The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them,\" he wrote, adding that he would be visiting the Evros land border with Turkey with European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday.\n\n\"Once more, do not attempt to enter Greece illegally - you will be turned back,\" he warned.\n\nThe Greek government said almost 10,000 migrants were blocked from entering Greece in 24 hours.\n\nSome migrants tossed stones, metal bars and tear gas canisters when stopped at the border. Greek border guards fired tear gas.\n\nMigrants have been boarding boats to the Greek island of Lesbos\n\nSeparately, Greek police say at least 500 people on seven boats have reached the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios, where camps for migrants are already severely overcrowded.\n\nSeven boats carried more than 300 people to Lesbos, four arrived on Samos with 150 and two on Chios with a combined total of 70 to 80 people, an official told the Reuters news agency.\n\nGroups of migrants have also been seen wading through a river to Greek soil at Kastanies.\n\nMany blocked migrants have been sent to Evros, an area along the Turkey border.\n\nMigrants make their way to Greece\n\nGreek deputy defence minister Alkiviadis Stefanis accused Turkey of encouraging migrants to make the trip.\n\n\"Not only are they not stopping them, but they are helping them,\" he told Greece's Skai TV.\n\nThere were clashes between migrants and Greek police on Saturday after President Erdogan effectively gave the all-clear for migrants to head for the EU.\n\nThe EU said it was assisting Greece and Bulgaria - which also borders Turkey - in protecting the bloc's parameters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ramani Morgan was found collapsed after a house party in Coventry\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died in a stabbing after a large house party \"got out of hand\".\n\nRamani Morgan, from Birmingham, died in hospital after he was found collapsed in Clay Lane, Coventry, at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe had been at a \"well attended\" party in Chandos Street, about 300m (0.2 miles), from where he was found with multiple stab wounds, police said.\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe teenagers, from Coventry, are in police custody.\n\nPolice said violence \"spilled out on the street\" after an altercation at a party\n\n\"It seems what's happened is there has been quite a large house party in Chandos Street, in the Stoke area,\" Ch Supt Mike O'Hara said.\n\n\"That seems to have been very well attended and it seems to have effectively got out of hand.\"\n\nHe said Ramani, who lived in Erdington, had been \"stabbed several times\" after an altercation at the party spilled out on to the street.\n\nThe attack is not believed to be gang-related, police said.\n\nRamani was \"stabbed several times\" and died in hospital, police said\n\nSearches are being carried out at the location of the party and the area where Ramani was found.\n\nForensic search teams could be seen on Sunday lifting drain covers in Chandos Street and in nearby Clay Lane.\n\n\"This is a tragedy, another young man has lost his life,\" Det Insp Michelle Allen added.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone who was at the party or any witnesses to contact them.\n\nRamani Morgan was found collapsed in Clay Lane, Coventry, and later died from his injuries\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A film by an Iranian director about capital punishment has won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.\n\nMohammad Rasoulof was banned from directing in 2017. He produced There Is No Evil, his sixth film, in secret.\n\nHe is unable to travel outside Iran owing to charges relating to his earlier films.\n\nMr Rasoulof's daughter Baran, who also stars in the film, received the Golden Bear on his behalf.\n\nJury president Jeremy Irons said that the film, which tells four stories about the death penalty, showed \"the web an authoritarian regime weaves among ordinary people, drawing them towards inhumanity\".\n\nThe second-place award at the festival went to Never Rarely Sometimes Always, a film about abortion in the US by director Eliza Hittman.\n\nMr Rasoulof took part in a news conference via a mobile phone held by his daughter Baran\n\nAddressing a news conference by video call, Mr Rasoulof explained that There Is No Evil was about \"people taking responsibility\".\n\n\"I wanted to talk about people who push responsibility away from themselves and say that the decision is taken by higher powers,\" he said. \"But they can actually say no, and that's their strength.\"\n\n\"The story of each part of the film is based on my own experience,\" Mr Rasoulof said in a Skype interview with the Berlin festival published the day before the awards were announced.\n\nHe went on to describe how one of the film's four episodes came about after he saw a man, who had interrogated him while he was in prison, coming out of a bank.\n\nAfter following the man for a while, \"I realised how normal he was and how much he resembled all other people. I realised that there was no monster involved, there was no evil in front of me, just a person who has not questioned his own actions.\"\n\nAccording to international rights groups, hundreds of people are executed every year in Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The main rail line between Cardiff and Bridgend has reopened after flooding at Llanharan\n\nRail disruption is set to continue for passengers on Monday due to flood damage to tracks, according to bosses.\n\nA replacement bus service is operating between Pontypridd and Aberdare due to damage in several places on the line in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA landslip has also covered the line near Mountain Ash, according to Network Rail and Transport for Wales.\n\nSeveral roads remain closed due to flooding, landslips and fallen trees, according to Traffic Wales.\n\nA family managed to walk away unhurt when a tree landed on their car in one incident overnight.\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\nStrong winds caused disruption across Wales on Saturday after heavy rain led to rail disruptions on Friday.\n\nThe south Wales mainline has since reopened between Cardiff and Bridgend, along with the Treherbert line.\n\nNetwork Rail and Transport for Wales said staff were \"working around the clock to reopen affected lines\".\n\nWork is under way to fix track damage in several locations, including at Mountain Ash\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"We are working closely together to minimise any disruption and will do all we can to keep our customers moving.\n\n\"But the situation is changing all the time and, therefore, services are likely to be disrupted with last minute alterations.\"\n\nAssessments are due to be completed on the track at Aberdare on Sunday.\n\nThe rail line will not be open on Monday following the landslide in Aberdare\n\nHowever, they said there would not be a full service on Monday and services would start and terminate at Pontypridd with a replacement bus service operating between Pontypridd and Aberdare.\n\nThe Conwy Valley Line remains closed with a rail replacement bus service operating between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog after being hit by Storm Ciara in February.\n\nPassengers are advised to check their journey before travelling.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of a popular green space were turned into a mudbath\n\nHundreds have called for the organisers of a Greta Thunberg climate change rally to pay for damage caused to green space.\n\nAround 15,000 people are believed to have attended Friday's Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate rally, churning up College Green and angering many.\n\nA fundraiser was set up for repairs, which then resulted in calls for rally organisers to cover the costs.\n\nThe organiser said people had done their best in the muddy conditions.\n\nClimate campaigner Greta gave a speech on College Green before leading a march around the city.\n\nThe combination of thousands of people and heavy rain turned much of the grass into mud, angering some.\n\nGavin Mountjoy commented on Facebook: \"Oh the irony, hundreds of people turning up to talk about our planet dying end up destroying a green area.\"\n\nBarrie Moore, also on Facebook, said: \"The organisers of this march should be made to pay for the damage.\"\n\nJon Usher, head of partnerships of Bristol-based charity Sustrans, set up a GoFundMe page after the march ended, aiming to raise £20,000.\n\nBy Sunday morning more than £9,000 had been donated.\n\nMr Usher, who attended the rally, said: \"I did it knowing how important the green is to our staff as a place to go in the spring and summertime.\n\n\"I thought it would be nice to give something back to the city.\"\n\nBristol City Council, which is responsible for College Green, said it will examine the area on Monday.\n\nKai Damani, one of the event's organisers, said people had done their best in the conditions.\n\n\"When you look at College Green now, most of it is completely brown but where the flowers are is completely intact which does show that people do care about wildlife,\" 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.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police had raised safety concerns before the event, but Supt Andy Bennett praised the organisers afterwards.\n\nHe said: \"I think it's been a great success for the city and a great success for the organisers.\"\n\nSome areas did survive the large crowds", "A prison revolt in Pavia, a town under quarantine in northern Italy, is now under control, the BBC’s Alicia Gioia reports.\n\nA group of detainees organised a protest and set several areas of the Torre del Gallo jail on fire.\n\nIt was among the riots that broke out at 27 prisons in Italy over new restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of coronavirus.\n\nRead our full story: Prisoners across Italy riot over new restrictions\n\nA local prisoner rights activist, who wished to remain anonymous, says prison authorities should start thinking about what to do next.\n\n“It all exploded last night, after weeks of resentment,\" they said.\n\n\"Family visits have been suspended for weeks. Other activities - like routine visits with psychologists and recreational activities with volunteers - have also been suspended.\n\n“Of course they needed to stop any contact with the outside world. But at the same time, other measures should have been put in place.\n\n\"Prisoners should have been given the option to have longer phone calls with their relatives, for example. At the moment, they are only allowed 10 minutes every week.”\n\nInmates protesting on the roof of the San Vittore prison in Milan called for a pardon Image caption: Inmates protesting on the roof of the San Vittore prison in Milan called for a pardon\n\nItalian media reported two policemen had been kidnapped – but Mario Venditti, the local prosecutor who was on the ground to negotiate with the detainees, said no actual kidnapping took place.\n\nHe said one policeman had been injured in the attacks and others suffered from smoke inhalation.\n\nThe activist said now the unrest has been contained, prison authorities \"should be looking at measures to cope with the situation\".\n\n\"The damages to the prison building are enormous, and some of the detainees have been transferred to other prisons, which are already overcrowded,\" the activist added.\n\n\"It will put pressure on the system as a whole. I think they should start thinking about releasing some of the long serving detainees, especially those who are serving the last leg of their sentence and could be place under house arrest.”\n\nViolent protests broke out at 27 Italian prisons against coronavirus restrictions in the country Image caption: Violent protests broke out at 27 Italian prisons against coronavirus restrictions in the country", "Thousands of people attend the Dublin parade every year\n\nSt Patrick's Day parades across the island of Ireland have been affected by coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday night, Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland voted to cancel the city's parade.\n\nEarlier, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar announced all parades and festivals in the Republic of Ireland would not go ahead.\n\nOther parades in Northern Ireland are still scheduled to go ahead but are under review.\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\nMeanwhile Mr Varadkar announced a €430m (£375.7m) package for the Health Service Executive to deal with the impact of Covid-19.\n\nHe said the Republic of Ireland would stay in the \"containment phase\" for as long as possible.\n\nBut it would move to the delay and mitigation phase in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Monday evening, three new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland bringing the total to 24 cases.\n\nThe cases of two women in the south of the country and one woman in the west are associated with close contact with already confirmed cases.\n\nOne of the women is a healthcare worker.\n\nThe Irish cabinet has agreed a package of reforms for sick pay, illness benefit and supplementary benefit.\n\nThey are designed to ensure that employees and the self-employed can abide by medical advice to self-isolate where appropriate, while having their income protected to a greater degree than under the current social welfare system.\n\nIrish Health Minister Simon Harris has said the coronavirus situation is very serious.\n\nHe said it was going to require not just a whole of government approach, but a whole of society approach.\n\nMr Harris told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that there was a moderate-to-high risk that Ireland would follow a pattern seen in other EU countries such as Italy, France and Germany with regard to the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThere is a carnival atmosphere in Belfast for the annual parade\n\nSt Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and is celebrated across the globe every year on his feast day, 17 March.\n\nDublin hosts the largest parade attracting an estimated 500,000 people last year.\n\nParades are held both in the Republic of Ireland and in cities and towns across Northern Ireland.\n\nThe day is celebrated on the international stage too.\n\nLast year, more than 400 landmarks in more than 50 countries turned green to mark the occasion.\n\nOn Monday, two more cases were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total number there to 21. One of the patients has an underlying condition and is seriously ill.\n\nOn Sunday, five people were diagnosed with coronavirus in Northern Ireland, bringing the number of cases to 12.\n\nHealth officials said both cases were community transmissions and did not involve people who had returned recently from at-risk areas.\n\nMeanwhile, Saturday's match between France and Ireland is the latest Six Nations fixture to be postponed because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK government has said its advice could change in the next 10 to 14 days to have people who show \"even minor\" signs of respiratory tract infections to self-isolate in an effort to tackle the outbreak.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "France's hopes of a Six Nations Grand Slam are over after revitalised Scotland inflicted their fourth consecutive Murrayfield defeat.\n\nFabien Galthie's side had won their first three games of the Six Nations but a first-half red card for Mohamed Haouas let Scotland seize control.\n\nSean Maitland crossed either side of the break after Damian Penaud's score, before Stuart McInally added a third.\n\nCharles Ollivon's late try could not deny Gregor Townsend consecutive wins.\n\nAdam Hastings, who impressed in place of the exiled Finn Russell, added 13 points with the boot.\n\nFrance are now second in the championship and even a bonus-point win over Ireland in Paris next weekend might not seal the title with England still to face Italy.\n\nChasing the fourth leg of a Grand Slam, France were met with Scottish belligerence from the get-go, their day beginning badly and getting steadily worse from that point.\n\nHere they met a home team who had no truck with all the chat of the glorious revival of Les Bleus. They said privately they believed they would win and they set about their mission with zeal.\n\nThere were towering performances from the Scotland back row, with Jamie Ritchie and Hamish Watson bringing their relentless personalities to bear. Lock Grant Gilchrist was outstanding. The front row to a man were ferocious, with prop Zander Fagerson doing his bit in a winning scrum and putting in a monstrous shift around the park.\n\nHastings was terrific and this was a big day for Stuart Hogg, perhaps his biggest in a Scotland jersey. As captain, he would have felt the joy of this big time. There were big performers all over the field. Red card or no red card, this was richly deserved.\n\nFrance had Francois Cros binned early for dumping Gilchrist on his head in the tackle, with Paul Willemse perhaps getting off lightly for he was on the scene as well. And while Cros was away for his 10 minutes - and there was a case for it being a red card - Scotland hit the front.\n\nThe visitors' scrum has been one of their few areas of weakness on their road to Murrayfield this season and now it hurt them again. The Scots have been reborn in that department. When France collapsed, Hastings banged over the first points.\n\nRomain Ntamack had gone by then, the brilliant fly-half injured inside 10 minutes. It was another blow following the withdrawal in the warm-up of their replacement hooker Camille Chat. Things were not going their way.\n\nCros returned but Hastings made it 6-0 just after. A quarter had been played and France had produced nothing. When they threatened to get up a head of steam, they were halted by the aggression coming at them, their threat snuffed out early through Scotland's intensity and their own handling errors under the pressure of the blitz.\n\nMurrayfield revelled in it - and then Murrayfield winced. Having looked passive, France suddenly switched and regained their magic, if only for a brief period.\n\nA thrust up the left from Matthieu Jalibert and Gael Fickou had Scotland in trouble. When they moved it right, Antoine Dupont, the wee wizard that he is, put in the most sumptuous cross-field kick for Penaud to score. Jalibert then rifled over the conversion to put France ahead.\n\nThe drama was only starting. Four minutes before the break Haouas, a player with the shortest fuse, lost the plot amid a melee on the France line. Practically every player was in there, pushing and shoving, but Haouas threw a punch at Ritchie, connected, and got what he deserved - a red card.\n\nHastings added to the visitors' misery by putting over the resultant penalty to inch Scotland back in front. Before the half was done, Scotland sickened France further, striking out through their forward muscle before the stand-off entered proceedings with some brilliance that France couldn't cope with.\n\nHe dummied and slalomed his way into space and found Ali Price in support. France were spread-eagled. Pace and accuracy did for them. Centre Sam Johnson kept his cool in the decisive moment and gave it on a plate to Maitland, who sprinted over in the corner.\n\nWithin four minutes of Haouas walking, Scotland had hit them with eight points. At last, they had found a ruthless streak.\n\nThe early minutes of the second half shone a light on how Scotland managed to put it all together on the day. Under ferocious pressure near their own line, they stood up. Big and bold, they would not let the French through, Watson coming up with a massive turnover.\n\nThen they attacked, and France got well and truly Hogg-roasted. The captain took off from his own 10m line, arcing downfield before playing in Chris Harris, who galloped clear.\n\nThe centre had Price on his shoulder and when the scrum-half was hauled down in the France 22, the recycle was quick and the execution precise, Ritchie and Johnson sending Maitland in for his second score.\n\nHastings' conversion from the touchline was pin-sharp. The 15 men led the 14 men 21-7. The Slam had been slammed.\n\nFrance rallied but the only joy they got from their pressure was three points from Jalibert, a penalty that was put over after they seemed to realise trying to bust the home defence for a try wasn't working out.\n\nThe third Scotland try came 15 minutes before the end. It was a fluke, but Murrayfield didn't care a whole lot about that.\n\nScotland had a line-out in the France 22 and McInally - on for 50-cap man Fraser Brown - had his throw pinched, but when the ball was diverted back on the France side, no visitor was able to collect it and the replacement hooker scooped up the gift and ran away to score. Hastings knocked over the conversion.\n\nThe Scots led by 28-10, a gap that narrowed to 11 when Ollivon battered his way over four minutes from time. Jalibert added the conversion, but he couldn't save the Slam.\n\nA thunderous Scotland, with help from the fiery Haouas, had ripped it from their grasp.", "A Chinese firm completed its takeover of British Steel on Monday.\n\nJingye Group said that the move would save more than 3,000 jobs in Scunthorpe and Teesside and it would modernise the towns' steelworks.\n\nThe firm reportedly offered £50m to buy the company after it collapsed and was placed under the control of the UK Insolvency Service last year.\n\nUnions have said that although the deal \"must be celebrated\", about 450 workers still face losing their jobs.\n\nBritish Steel employed about 5,000 people at the time of its collapse, and is the second-largest steelmaker in the country.\n\nThe sale includes the steelworks at Scunthorpe, mills in Teesside and Skinningrove, as well as the TSP Engineering business based in Cumbria.\n\nJingye Group, which also makes steel, has promised to invest about £1.2bn over the next 10 years on upgrading its plants and machinery.\n\nJingye's chief executive, Li Hiuming, said: \"It has not been an easy journey since we first announced our intentions in November.\n\n\"But the longer I have spent in Scunthorpe, the more I have come to believe in the successful future of these steelworks and the employees that have made them famous throughout the world.\"\n\nHe added that the deal marks the \"beginning of a new illustrious chapter\" in the history of British steelmaking.\n\nCharlotte Childs, an organiser for the GMB union, described the deal as \"a big win for the industry\", but expressed disappointment at job cuts.\n\nShe said: \"It is heartbreaking that long-serving members of high-skilled staff, many of whom have given their entire career to British steel, are seen as surplus to requirements.\"\n\nTony Watson worked on and off for British Steel from the age of 16.\n\nTony Watson, a British Steel worker and GMB union convenor, is one of those who has been made redundant.\n\nMr Watson, who worked for British Steel on and off since the age of 16, told the BBC he received an email from HR with the news.\n\n\"The way the process has been done has been a bit brutal,\" he said. But Mr Watson added that he was \"feeling optimistic\" about the prospect of hunting for a new job at age 59.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he wanted \"to reassure British Steel employees who may be facing redundancy that we are mobilising all available resources to give immediate on the ground support and advice to those affected\".\n\nConfirmation of the takeover follows months of uncertainty for workers. The government has kept British Steel running since last May, as it looked for a buyer for the business.Jingye signed an agreement to purchase British Steel in November after talks between the Official Receiver, which handled the insolvency process, and a Turkish bidder fell apart.\n\nThe Official Receiver said that it was \"grateful\" to British Steel employees for their professionalism during a difficult time.\n\nUnions have said that nearly 500 British Steel workers could still face losing their jobs\n\nIn January, the French government said it might veto the deal because it considered British Steel's plant in Hayange a strategic national asset.\n\nLocated in north-east France, the plant is seen as important because it supplies track for the country's railways.\n\nJingye's boss said earlier this year that he remained \"interested\" in purchasing the plant, but has pressed on with purchasing assets in the UK and the Netherlands.\n\nBritish Steel was formed in 2016 after being sold by India's Tata for £1 to the private equity firm Greybull Capital.\n\nIt entered insolvency less than three years later. It had sought financial support from the government before it was placed in liquidation.\n\nThey've been making iron and steel in Scunthorpe for more than 150 years. This is very much a one-industry town and when the steelworks struggles the whole community feels it.\n\nThe plant directly employs almost 3,000 people but supports another 20,000 jobs in the wider supply chain. From hairdressers to market traders, businesses say they've noticed people reining in their spending amid the ongoing uncertainty.\n\nThe bulk of British Steel's staff work at the Scunthorpe plant\n\nThe loss-making steel plant has had a string of owners over the decades from Corus to Tata Steel to Greybull Capital - all tried and failed to turn the business around.\n\nA fourth-generation steelworker told me back in May that it felt as though they were \"staring over the edge of the abyss\" as the plant was on the brink of closure with mass redundancies ahead. But - again - Scunthorpe steelworks has been rescued by a new owner at the eleventh hour promising huge investment.\n\nThere is some scepticism about how much influence China will soon have in the UK steel industry. While steelworkers are deeply relieved that the takeover is going ahead, they are asking what Jingye can and will do differently amid tough global trading conditions where many before have struggled.", "Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said it is a \"privilege\" to manage his players as they completed the Premier League double over derby rivals Manchester City for the first time in a decade.\n\nThis thunderous encounter was a personal nightmare for Manchester City's normally reliable Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson, who gifted Solskjaer's side both goals in sharply contrasting fashion.\n\nHe allowed Anthony Martial's routine shot to squirm under his body from a quick Bruno Fernandes free-kick on the half-hour and then, with seconds left, threw a clearance straight to Scott McTominay, who showed great technique to send a long-range finish, struck first time, into the net in front of a delirious Stretford End.\n\nIt is a win that leaves Liverpool - who now have a 25-point lead at the top of the table - requiring only two more wins to secure their first league title for 30 years and Manchester United only three points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, after their first derby league double since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement.\n\nCity hotly contested the free-kick, given by referee Mike Dean for a foul by Ilkay Gundogan on Fernandes, that led to Martial's goal - although United also felt they were denied a penalty when Fred was booked for diving after tangling with Nicolas Otamendi.\n\nSergio Aguero had a goal ruled out for offside by VAR and even though City enjoyed the greater share of possession, United sealed a crucial win with McTominay's strike to take their unbeaten run to 10 games in all competitions.\n\n\"It's a privilege to be their manager,\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"They give absolutely everything. They know they are all good players but they want to learn as well.\n\n\"We feel we are improving as a squad and a team. We feel the fans want us to do well and they see what we are doing, so it is getting better and better.\n\n\"But we are still fifth. We need points to catch Chelsea and Leicester, so need to keep plugging away.\"\n\nThe jubilant scenes and the sound of his name echoing around Old Trafford at the final whistle will have been music to the ears of Manchester United manager Solskjaer.\n\nThe Norwegian, still to convince many of his suitability for the giant task of turning Manchester United's fortunes around, has now enjoyed three wins over Pep Guardiola and Manchester City this season - and this was surely the most satisfying day of the season at 'The Theatre Of Dreams'.\n\nUnited may still be light years away from the glory days of old but victories such as this sustain hope, and the atmosphere inside Old Trafford as Solskjaer's side first held on to their advantage and then sealed the win was reminiscent of days gone by.\n\nManchester City may have enjoyed the greater share of possession but United showed great resilience and always carried a threat on the break.\n\nFernandes once again confirmed what a shrewd piece of business his signing was from Sporting Lisbon - although why wait so late in the window to sign him? - and why he is already a hero to United's fans.\n\nThe Portuguese has that touch of class and creativity while United had another outstanding performer in defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who won his battle with Raheem Sterling as he hounded the England star for 90 minutes and beyond.\n\nManchester United, who have looked off the top four for so much of the time this season, are now right in the fight and credit must be given to the manager who has helped fashion this impressive run.\n\n\"We feel we are improving all the time. We know we lack one, two, three players to be considered a title contender and some experience,\" said Solskjaer. \"We are just going to start talking about going up the table, getting more points.\n\n\"Chelsea and Leicester are too far ahead for my liking.\"\n\nManchester City's defeat is hardly damaging in the context of their Premier League title defence - that was lost to Liverpool a long time ago.\n\nGuardiola's concern, and admittedly he was without his star player Kevin de Bruyne, will be that once again his side had plenty of possession but did not create enough, not showing enough urgency until it was too late.\n\nAnd he will be concerned by the performance of goalkeeper Ederson, who was over-confident throughout and paid a heavy price.\n\nEderson was not only badly at fault for both goals but almost gave away another when he allowed a routine pass to roll under his foot at the Stretford End, resulting in a desperate tackle on Martial almost on the goalline to spare his embarrassment.\n\nGuardiola will be additionally unhappy about this defeat, not least because it was City's seventh of the Premier League campaign, making 2019-20 the season in which he has lost the most league games in his managerial career.\n\nCity now face home games against Arsenal and Burnley to get themselves in shape for the Champions League last-16 second leg meeting with Real Madrid, in which they hold a precious 2-1 advantage from the first leg in the Bernabeu.\n\nGuardiola will hope Ederson has got this carelessness and over-confidence out of his system.\n\n'It was a good performance', says Guardiola\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola to BBC Match of the Day: \"We played good, we missed a little in the final third but the second half was better and it was a good performance.\n\n\"We play the same way, tried the press and defend well and we did well.\n\n\"Our game is there, we played really good in terms of coming here. They wait and did long balls on the counter-attack for Daniel James and Anthony Martial.\n\n\"We did our game but unfortunately we conceded a goal. They waited for our mistakes.\"\n• None United are unbeaten in their last 10 games (W7 D3); their longest run without defeat since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first 11 games in charge.\n• None This is the second time in Pep Guardiola's managerial career that he has suffered three defeats against a specific opponent in a single season (also versus Liverpool in 2017-18).\n• None Anthony Martial is only the second United player to score in three consecutive Premier League starts in Manchester derbies, and the first since Eric Cantona netted in five in a row between March 1993 and April 1996.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition on 1 February, United's Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in more goals in the Premier League than any other player (five - two goals and three assists).\n• None Manchester City's Raheem Sterling became the fourth youngest player to reach 250 appearances in the Premier League, after Wayne Rooney, James Milner and Gareth Barry.\n\nCity host Arsenal on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT in a rearranged Premier League fixture, with United going to LASK in Austria in the Europa League the following day (17:55 GMT).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 2, Manchester City 0. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Daniel James tries a through ball, but Bruno Fernandes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Former Vice-President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris after a debate in September 2019\n\nCalifornia Senator Kamala Harris has endorsed Joe Biden with \"great enthusiasm\" as the Democratic party's US presidential candidate.\n\n\"Biden has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever,\" she said in a Twitter post.\n\nHer announcement is another boost for Mr Biden, the Democratic front runner to take on Donald Trump in November.\n\nMs Harris, seen as a rising star within the party, dropped out of the presidential race in December.\n\nSupport for Mr Biden surged in the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries last week, with the 77-year-old winning 10 of the 14 states that voted.\n\nThe race to the Democratic nomination has in effect become a contest between Mr Biden, a centrist, and left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders.\n\nThrowing her support behind Mr Biden on Sunday, Ms Harris, 55, said in a recorded message on Twitter: \"I really believe in him and I have known him for a long time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We need a leader who really does care about the people, and can therefore unify the people,\" the senator added.\n\nMr Biden later thanked Ms Harris for her support. \"Kamala - You've spent your whole career fighting for folks who've been written off and left behind… from our family: thank you,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe two have, however, previously clashed during the presidential debates.\n\nLast June, Ms Harris attacked Mr Biden over his previous opposition to a policy combating segregation in schools.\n\nMs Harris - the only black woman in the Democratic field - pilloried Mr Biden for having recently reminisced about working with two Democratic senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe said at the time that she did not believe he was a racist, but added: \"It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.\"\n\nMr Biden's wife, Jill, said the senator's comments were \"the biggest surprise\" of the campaign, adding: \"The one thing you cannot say about Joe is that he's a racist... I mean, he got into politics because of his commitment to civil rights.\"\n\nMs Harris, a fierce critic of Mr Trump, said she would be campaigning with Mr Biden in Detroit on Monday.\n\nSeparately, US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson on Sunday endorsed Mr Sanders, saying the Vermont senator's progressive social and economic policies would give black Americans \"the best chance to catch up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What unites these two bitter rivals?", "DaBaby appears on Camila Cabello's chart hit My Oh My\n\nUS rapper DaBaby has apologised after a video emerged of him hitting a female fan in the face in Florida.\n\nIn the footage, a fan can be seen holding her smartphone up to the rapper's eye with the flash on while he is walking through a crowd. He is then seen striking the woman.\n\n\"I do sincerely apologise. I do,\" DaBaby said in a statement on his Instagram story.\n\nThe chart-topping star said he had not realised the fan was a woman.\n\n\"I'm very sorry that there was a female on the other end of that flashlight on their phone,\" he continued.\n\n\"But you know, keep in mind, I couldn't see you because you got the flash this close to me. Which is okay, it's no problem. A lot of people did - they didn't put it as close as you put it - but a lot of people had flash on me, and that's okay. That's what I signed up for.\"\n\nThe crowd booed the star after he struck the woman, and he left the venue without performing any songs.\n\nDaBaby was nominated in two categories at this year's Grammys\n\nThe star, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, reiterated that the issue was the fact the flash was so close to his eye, and said he would also have punched the person if it had been a man.\n\n\"Out of all those fans - how many people know how to zoom in? Just zoom in instead of popping me in the eye with the phone,\" he said.\n\n\"But I do apologise that there was a female on the other end. I think by this time, you know it's a well known fact that male or female, I would've responded the same exact way.\"\n\nDaBaby's most recent album, Kirk, topped the US Billboard chart when it was released in November.\n\nHe received two nominations at this year's Grammy Awards - for best rap song and best rap performance for his single Suge. He also appears on Camila Cabello's current single My Oh My.\n\nBut DaBaby has had several brushes with the law since he's been in the limelight. In January, he was arrested on a battery charge in Miami after arguing with a music promoter over payment for a performance.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "No members of the public or police officers were injured in Westminster\n\nA knifeman has been shot dead by armed police officers in central London.\n\nThe man was seen \"acting suspiciously\" in Westminster, at 23:25 GMT on Sunday, and pulled out two knives when he was challenged by officers on patrol, Scotland Yard said.\n\nArmed officers responded and a Taser was used three times and a gun fired.\n\nThe man was confirmed dead by the London Ambulance Service in Great Scotland Yard but the incident is not being treated as terror related.\n\nNo members of the public or police officers were injured and inquires are ongoing, the Met said.\n\nInvestigators said two Ministry of Defence Police officers, who were on patrol, were told a man was acting suspiciously near Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.\n\nHe failed to stop and they radioed for back-up warning he was carrying knives after firing a Taser.\n\nThe man is believed to have come across Hungerford Bridge before entering Northumberland Avenue, where Met Police officers fired another Taser.\n\nA third Taser was fired before he was shot dead by a City of London Police officer.\n\nA Taser was used three times on the man, police say\n\nUniformed police officers manned cordons at Scotland Place, leading to Great Scotland Yard, and on parts of Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall near to Trafalgar Square.\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) are investigating the incident.\n\nLondon regional director Sal Naseem said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all of those affected by this terrible incident.\n\n\"It is mandatory for us to conduct an independent investigation when the police fatally shoot a member of the public.\"\n\nHe added that investigators believe they know the identity of the man but his next of kin have not been notified.\n\n\"We have identified a large amount of relevant CCTV and many of the officers involved were wearing body-worn video.\n\n\"Over the coming days we will be retrieving and analysing that evidence,\" he added.\n\nOfficers had been patrolling the area when they noticed the man, the Met said\n\nChairman of the Met Police Federation Ken Marsh called on the IOPC \"to bring this matter to a swift conclusion\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with our colleagues as they now go through the post-incident process, and it goes without saying that they have our full support,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff on HSBC's tenth floor were told to leave the office and work from home after a staff member returned from Asia with coronavirus\n\nMany of the City of London's biggest institutions are taking steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday many of JPMorgan's UK-based staff are being temporarily moved to a different office. They're not alone.\n\nGoldman Sachs last week sent around 200 members of staff to test a site in Croydon, South London for the day to ensure the systems worked effectively.\n\nMany of these measures by some of the world's biggest banks follow the events that took place at HSBC last week.\n\nHSBC sent home more than 100 staff from the tenth floor of its Canary Wharf offices on Thursday. The move came after one staff member, who was part of the research division, returned from travelling and was diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus.\n\nThe employee is now under medical supervision and has self-isolated, and the rest of the research division worked from home on that day.\n\nThis was the first known case at a major company in the UK's financial service hub.\n\nHSBC said the building, which houses close to 10,000 workers, would remain open after it took medical advice.\n\nThe City financial watchdog says it does not mind where bank staff work, so long as regulations are upheld\n\nRegulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), says it doesn't have an issue with staff working from backup sites or even from home, so long as certain standards are met.\n\nThe FCA expects firms to be able to enter orders and transactions promptly into the relevant systems, use recorded lines when trading and give staff the compliance support they need.\n\nJPMorgan says it began its coronavirus contingency plan last week by splitting up teams to work in different offices around the country.\n\nMany members of staff are now either working in a different office than normal or at home.\n\nThe bank has offices in London, Bournemouth, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nHowever, the nature of the job means that working from home is not an option for many staff at most of the large investment banks such as JP Morgan or its rival Goldman Sachs.\n\nThat's because most traders and salespeople need to sit together on a trading floor which is monitored in order to meet regulatory rules.\n\nGoldman Sachs hasn't activated its coronavirus contingency plan just yet but if the need arises the bank says it is ready to act.", "Barney Eastwood, one of Northern Ireland's best known business and sporting figures, has died aged 87.\n\nBorn in Cookstown in 1932, he founded the Eastwoods chain of betting shops, which he later sold for more than £100m.\n\nHe was also a high-profile boxing promoter, working with former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan.\n\nTheir relationship ended in an acrimonious legal battle that saw Mr Eastwood awarded £450,000 in damages.\n\nMr McGuigan said he was \"saddened\" to hear of Mr Eastwood's passing.\n\n\"We achieved great things together and shared some amazing times,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barry McGuigan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 world flyweight champion Dave 'Boy' McAuley said Mr Eastwood was \"amazing\" and \"a great man\".\n\n\"BJ's the guy that made me and he made me the fighter that I was,\" he said.\n\nDave 'Boy' McAuley said Mr Eastwood made him the fighter he was\n\n\"He made me successful, he made me the most successful Irish fighter ever, the most successful British fighter post-war. He made me a bit of money along the way too.\n\n\"He was just a great guy and fantastic the way he handled himself.\n\n\"He made you feel as if you were unbeatable and indestructible. When he was in your corner… he would just lift you and make you go out there and feel like you were superman.\"\n\nBoxing trainer John Breen, who worked with Mr Eastwood for many years, said he was \"boxing in Ireland\".\n\n\"I wouldn't have had the career in the sport I have had - or doing what I am doing now - without him,\" he added.\n\n\"He was a real character who absolutely loved boxing.\n\n\"I will miss him so much.\"\n\nBarney Eastwood and Barry McGuigan return to Belfast after winning the world featherweight title in 1985\n\nWith a string of bookmakers and world title-winning boxers to his name, Barney Eastwood was a giant in the worlds of sport and business in Northern Ireland for decades.\n\nFor many he will always be associated with one of Ireland's greatest fighters, Barry McGuigan, who he managed when the Clones Cyclone became world featherweight champion in 1985, although their relationship would later end in acrimony and legal action.\n\nBut boxing promotion was just one part of a wide-ranging career, which included his chain of betting shops and property development.\n\nNI's deputy first minister and Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she was \"saddened to hear of the death of Barney Eastwood\".\n\n\"A great Tyrone Gael, businessman and giant of the boxing world,\" she tweeted.\n\nBarney Eastwood was a keen boxer at school and later became a renowned promoter\n\nUlster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt remembered working with Mr Eastwood when he was a young sports reporter with BBC Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Thoughts with his family and many friends as he passes.\"\n\nBBC News NI sports journalist Mark Sidebottom said he knew Mr Eastwood \"very well\" and had worked with him on a boxing documentary.\n\n\"Barney was just an incredible touchstone, he opened up his home… and it was a treasure trove of boxing memorabilia.\n\n\"He really was Mr Boxing.\"\n\nBBC News NI economics and business editor John Campbell said Mr Eastwood had built a \"very big and successful bookmaking chain\".\n\n\"He got his timing absolutely right, because basically at the peak of the market in 2008 he sold to Ladbrokes for about £135m,\" he said.\n\n\"So he was set for life at that time.\n\n\"He was a very significant property developer as well, he at one stage owned the Tower Centre in Ballymena.\n\n\"He was also an art collector as well.\"\n\nMr Eastwood was an art collector and property developer\n\nMr Campbell also alluded to Mr Eastwood's association with one of Ireland's greatest fighters, Barry McGuigan, who he managed when the Clones Cyclone became world featherweight champion in 1985.\n\nTheir relationship would later end in acrimony and legal action.\n\n\"A huge life, but that relationship with Barry McGuigan is certainly one which was very rewarding, but also at times very difficult for him,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It's all too easy for the prime minister to come to a place in the middle of an emergency\"\n\nThe prime minister has said he will look at making defences more permanent as he visited a flood-hit town.\n\nBoris Johnson visited Bewdley in Worcestershire, where the River Severn overtopped the flood defences during Storm Dennis last month.\n\nOne onlooker shouted \"traitor\" at the prime minister, while others posed for selfies with Mr Johnson on a bridge.\n\nEarlier, the Treasury announced plans to double funding for flood defences in England over the next five years.\n\nThe money, due to be announced on Wednesday, will help to build 2,000 new flood and coastal defence schemes and protect 336,000 properties in the country.\n\nThis year was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, with more than three times the average rainfall - as three successive storms left rivers bursting their banks and communities flooded.\n\nIn some of the worst-hit areas in the Midlands, Wales and south Yorkshire, homes and businesses flooded three times in a matter of weeks.\n\nThe River Severn peaked at 4.6m in Bewdley\n\nBoris Johnson met with Environment Agency workers to discuss efforts to tackle the flooding\n\nLast month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded Mr Johnson a \"part time prime minister\" who \"goes Awol\" during emergencies.\n\nMr Johnson was asked why he did not visit the flooded communities sooner as she was shown flood defences by the Environment Agency (EA) in Bewdley.\n\n\"It's too easy for a PM to come to a place in a middle of an emergency, it's not so easy frankly for the emergency services,\" he said.\n\n\"What I've been doing since the flooding began is co-ordinating the national response but also looking at what we can do in the next months and years to ensure this country really is ready to cope with the impacts of flooding.\"\n\nMr Johnson received a mixed reaction as he spoke to residents affected by the floods and said he would \"get Bewdley done\".\n\nA number of people tried to shake his hand and take photos as he walked along the river bank.\n\nBut he was also told to \"do your job\" as he was given a demonstration of how flood barriers work.\n\nDozens of homes were evacuated after the Severn overtopped defences in Bewdley\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"so sorry to hear\" some homes had been flooded by as much as 2ft of water.\n\nHe also met members of the emergency services who responded when the water levels rose.\n\nMr Johnson said he had discussed with the EA \"what permanent defences we can put in and what's the business case\".\n\nThe prime minister described the temporary barriers, such as those that were deployed in Bewdley and Ironbridge, as \"great bits of kit\".\n\n\"But when you have a big flood like that, they're not going to be effective,\" he said.\n\n\"The things we have to look at are the rules which currently say that you can't put in permanent defences when you've only got a small number of households potentially affected.\n\n\"The case we need to make is it's not just the number of households, it's also the economic damage, it's the damage to confidence, all the rest of it in the town.\"\n\nPeople tried to shake the prime minister's hand as he made his way along the river\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood water pours over the top of Bewdley's barriers\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice visited Ironbridge and Shrewsbury, which were particularly badly hit, on 27 February and defended the prime minister for not visiting himself.\n\nLocal Conservative MPs also stopped short of calling on the prime minister to visit the flooded areas, with Bewdley MP Mark Garnier saying a visit would have been nothing more than a \"photo opportunity\".\n\nDave Throup, from the EA, said further heavy rain forecast for Monday and Tuesday meant there were further \"significant\" risks of flooding along the Severn next week.", "It takes five days on average for people to start showing the symptoms of coronavirus, scientists have confirmed.\n\nThe Covid-19 disease, which can cause a fever, cough and breathing problems, is spreading around the world and has already affected more than 116,000 people.\n\nThe US team analysed known cases from China and other countries to understand more about the disease.\n\nMost people who develop symptoms do so on or around day five.\n\nAnyone who is symptom-free by day 12 is unlikely to get symptoms, but they may still be infectious carriers.\n\nThe researchers advise people who could be infectious - whether they have symptoms or not - to self-isolate for 14 days to avoid spreading it to others.\n\nIf they follow that guidance - which has already been adopted in the UK and US - it is estimated that for every 100 individuals quarantined for a fortnight, one of them might develop symptoms after being released, Annals of Internal Medicine reports.\n\nLead researcher Prof Justin Lessler, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the findings were the best \"rapid\" estimate we have to date, based on 181 cases in total.\n\nBut he said we still have much more to learn about the virus.\n\nIt is unclear how many people develop symptoms overall - the study did not assess that.\n\nExperts believe most people who get the infection will only have mild disease. Some will be asymptomatic, ie carrying the virus but experiencing no symptoms.\n\nBut the disease can be very serious and even deadly for some - typically elderly people with pre-existing health conditions.\n\nProf Jonathan Ball, an expert in molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the study confirmed that for the vast majority of cases, the incubation and therefore quarantine period for new coronavirus, will be up to 14 days.\n\nAnd, encouragingly: \"There is little if any evidence that people can routinely transmit virus during the asymptomatic period.\"\n\nPeople are thought to be most contagious when they have obvious symptoms, like cough and fever.\n\nSome spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nThe best way to protect yourself and help prevent infection is to:", "Tesco has introduced signs at point-of-sale in supermarkets, informing shoppers of restrictions\n\nTesco, the UK's largest grocer, has begun restricting sales of essential food and household items as a result of coronavirus stockpiling.\n\nShoppers are limited to buying no more than five of certain goods, including antibacterial gels, wipes and sprays, dry pasta, UHT milk and some tinned vegetables\n\nThe rules apply in stores and online.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was in touch with UK supermarkets to \"discuss their response\" to the virus.\n\nWaitrose has introduced a temporary cap on some items on its website, including some anti-bacterial soaps and wipes.\n\nThe supermarket said it was in talks with its suppliers to ensure customer demand was met.\n\nIt said some individual stores may have introduced their own restrictions, with \"some branch managers making a judgement at a localised level\".\n\nEmpty pasta shelves at the Tesco store in Royston, Hertfordshire\n\nThe High Street chemist Boots has restricted sales of hand sanitisers to two per person.\n\nAsda is also restricting some types of hand sanitiser to two bottles per person - the supermarket's only restriction in place currently.\n\nMeanwhile, Sainsbury's said it was not limiting sales of any products in stores or online yet.\n\nOn Monday, Environment Secretary George Eustice is expected to hold talks with supermarket and trade bosses about \"support for vulnerable groups who may be in isolation\", the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.\n\nAccording to a survey from Retail Economics, as many as one in 10 UK consumers is stockpiling, based on a sample of 2,000 shoppers.\n\nBut Dr Andrew Potter, chair in logistics and transport at Cardiff Business School, told the BBC: \"Whilst there might be empty shelves at the moment in the shops, over the next week or so, we will see them replenish.\n\nThe Tesco restrictions on five items for things like hand gel also apply to online purchases\n\n\"The supply chain will start to deliver stuff through to the stores and hopefully this shortage - which is fairly short-term - will clear and everything will be back to normal again.\"\n\nHe said while retailers may have been caught out by the beginning of this shopping surge, they had very sophisticated systems to check changes in demand.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, echoed that \"supply chains remain robust and even where there are challenges, retailers are well-versed in providing measures\" to keep shops running smoothly.\n\nWaitrose said it has not put a cap on any of its products in stores.\n\nBut it has introduced a temporary cap on certain products on its website, including some anti-bacterial soaps and wipes, \"to ensure our customers have access to the products they need\".\n\nUK retailers have been warned that they face prosecution if they exploit the coronavirus scare to hike prices for products such as hand sanitisers and face masks.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told suppliers to act responsibly and said it was monitoring pricing practices.\n\nIt comes as Facebook and Amazon have cracked down on profiteers hiking prices online of face masks and hand sanitisers.\n\nFacebook says it is temporarily banning ads and commercial listings for medical face masks. The ban will also apply to Instagram.\n\n\"We're monitoring Covid-19 closely and will make necessary updates to our policies if we see people trying to exploit this public health emergency,\" Facebook director of product management Rob Leathern tweeted.\n\n\"We'll start rolling out this change in the days ahead. We... anticipate profiteers will evolve their approach as we enforce on these ads.\"\n\nFacebook had earlier announced a ban on ads for medical products which falsely suggested an item was in short supply, as well as those which falsely claimed to provide cures or prevention methods for coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Amazon said it had removed thousands of listings from its sites around the world and was constantly monitoring attempted price-gouging.\n\nAnalysis from Liberty Marketing has found UK own-brand hand sanitisers are being sold on eBay for huge mark ups, with Lidl 49p sanitisers selling for as much as £24.99 online.\n\nTesco has begun rationing some food and household items as a result of coronavirus stockpiling\n\nMorrison's £2 hand sanitiser is being sold for £29.99.\n\nThe Tesco Health Antibacterial Hand Gel (50ml) is just 75p in-store and is being sold for as much as £9 on eBay.\n\nOther supermarkets included in the research include Asda, with a 2,629% increase, and Morrisons, with a 1,400% increase.", "Pixar's latest animation Onward has been banned by several Middle Eastern countries because of a reference to lesbian parents, according to reports.\n\nThe family film will not be shown in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hollywood media have reported.\n\nPolice officer Specter, voiced by Lena Waithe, has been heralded as Disney-Pixar's first openly gay character.\n\nHer lines include: \"It's not easy being a parent... my girlfriend's daughter got me pulling my hair out, OK?\"\n\nOther Middle East countries like Bahrain, Lebanon and Egypt are showing the film.\n\nAnd according to Deadline, Russia censored the scene in question by changing the word \"girlfriend\" to \"partner\" and avoiding mentioning the gender of Specter, who is a supporting character.\n\nTom Holland (left) and Chris Pratt voice the brothers at the centre of Onward's story\n\nSpeaking to Variety, Waithe explained that the line about \"my girlfriend\" was her idea.\n\n\"I said, 'Can I say the word girlfriend, is that cool?'\n\n\"I was just like, 'It sounds weird.' I even have a gay voice, I think. I don't think I sound right saying 'Husband.' They were like, 'Oh yeah, do that.' They were so cool and chilled. And it ended up being something special.\"\n\nWaithe has also starred in Ready Player One and Westworld, and recently wrote and produced Queen & Slim.\n\nSet in a suburban fantasy world, Onward is about two teenage elf brothers (voiced by Chris Pratt and Tom Holland) who go on an adventure after their mum gives them special gifts from their deceased father, including a letter that can resurrect him for just one day.\n\nOnward topped the North American box office chart on its opening weekend, with takings of $40m (£30.5m), which was in line with predictions.\n\nOverall box office receipts were significantly down this weekend, but experts don't believe the fear of coronavirus was to blame.\n\n\"I think there was zero impact,\" Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore, said.\n\n\"With $40m for Onward, a small drop off for The Invisible Man ($15.5m/£11.8m) and The Way Back ($8.5m/£6.5m) getting solid scores from audiences, it looks like people are in the habit of going to the movies.\"\n\nThe virus has forced the release of the next James Bond film to be postponed, with Hollywood waiting to see what impact the outbreak will have on ticket sales for other films.\n\nMeanwhile, more major Hollywood films have encountered problems with censors in conservative countries as more gay characters have been portrayed.\n\nLast year, Russia censored scenes in the Sir Elton John biopic Rocketman and Avengers: Endgame as a result of LGBT references.\n\nIn 2017, Disney's Beauty and the Beast was banned in markets including Kuwait and Malaysia over a reference to Josh Gad's character LeFou being gay. Russia gave it an over-16 rating.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tulisa has revealed she has Bell's palsy, a type of paralysis that temporarily affects the ability to control the facial muscles.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Loose Women, the singer and former X Factor judge said she sustained nerve damage after a horse riding accident.\n\n\"I do suffer from Bell's palsy... it can cause facial paralysis, it can cause swelling,\" she explained.\n\n\"I think the first attack I had was after a serious horse-riding accident.\n\n\"I fractured my skull and it caused a lot of nerve damage.\"\n\nIt is the first time the N-Dubz star, whose full name is Tulisa Contostavlos, has revealed the diagnosis.\n\n\"At any time, I have emergency steroids on me, and now luckily I know how to manage it, so the attacks don't last as long,\" she explained.\n\n\"There have actually been times when people have criticised me for the way I look and my face, not knowing I'm actually going through a Bell's palsy attack.\"\n\nShe added: \"If you have steroids within a 72 hour period, it can last days instead of seven months, which happened to me the first time. I was hiding in the house.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's not life-threatening but it is life-changing\"\n\nThe most common facial palsy, it causes temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face, with the symptoms varying from person to person.\n\nThe weakness on one side of the face can be described as either a partial palsy, a mild muscle weakness, or a complete palsy, which is no movement at all.\n\nBell's palsy can also affect the eyelid and mouth, making them difficult to close and open.\n\nIt is not known exactly what causes Bell's palsy but links have been made to viruses.\n\nSymptoms can include a facial droop, pain in the inner ear, chronic pain, difficulty with eating and speaking, and the inability to close one eye.\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 Sport\n\nAll sport in Italy has been suspended until at least 3 April because of coronavirus, the country's prime minister Giuseppe Conte has announced.\n\nThis includes Serie A but not Italian clubs or national teams participating in international competitions.\n\nSerie A - Italy's top flight - had already said all games would be played behind closed doors until 3 April.\n\nConte extended a series of strict quarantine measures, including a ban on public gatherings, to all of Italy.\n\nEarlier, Italy's Olympic committee (CONI) recommended the move to suspend all sport at all levels after hosting a special meeting of sporting federations on Monday.\n\nItaly has been the European country worst hit by coronavirus so far, with over 9,000 confirmed cases and more than 450 deaths.\n\n\"This situation has no precedent in history,\" a CONI statement said.\n\nThe announcement from CONI came just after Sassuolo v Brescia kicked off in Serie A. The game carried on and Sassuolo won 3-0.\n\nIt was also confirmed on Monday that Serie A side Roma's Europa League tie at Sevilla on Thursday will be played behind closed doors.\n• None Timeline of how coronavirus has affected sport\n• None The latest news about the coronavirus outbreak\n\nIn rugby union, England's men's and women's Six Nations matches against Italy, which were scheduled to take place on 14 March and 15 March respectively, were postponed last week.\n\nAt the weekend, Italy's sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora accused Serie A of being \"irresponsible\" for ignoring his calls for football to be suspended because of the outbreak.\n\nHe said it made \"no sense\" for football to continue when, at that stage, up to 16 million people had been placed in quarantine in northern Italy in a bid to contain the spread of the virus - but the weekend's games all took place behind closed doors.\n\nParma's fixture against SPAL on Sunday kicked off 75 minutes late as they awaited a decision on whether the match would go ahead after Spadafora's comments.\n\nThere have been reports on Monday that the French sports ministry had decided matches in Ligue 1 - the country's top-flight football competition - should be played behind closed doors or in front of no more than 1,000 spectators as a measure to limit the spread of the virus.\n\nParis St-Germain's Champions League last-16 match against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday will be played without fans because of coronavirus.\n• None 'No rationale' for cancelling sport events in the UK\n• None France v Ireland in the Six Nations postponed", "An oil production and storage vessel in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nOil prices crashed in Asia on Monday by around 30% in what analysts are calling the start of a price war.\n\nTop oil exporter Saudi Arabia slashed its oil prices at the weekend after it failed to convince Russia on Friday to back sharp production cuts.\n\nOil cartel Opec and its ally Russia had previously worked together on production curbs.\n\nThe benchmark Brent oil futures plunged to a low of $31.02 a barrel on Monday, in volatile energy markets.\n\nOil prices have tumbled since Friday, when Opec's 14 members led by Saudi Arabia met with its allies Russia and other non-Opec members.\n\nThey met to discuss how to respond to falling demand caused by the growing spread of the coronavirus.\n\nBut the two sides failed to agree on measures to cut production by as much as 1.5 million barrels a day.\n\nThat initially saw Brent drop below $50 a barrel on Friday with the downward trend carrying over to Asia on Monday after Saudi Arabia at the weekend sharply cut the prices it charges customers. The region is home to some major importers including China, Japan, South Korea and India.\n\nWith global oil production now far outpacing demand, oil analyst Martjin Rats of Morgan Stanley said Opec members are now expected to pump more oil to capture market share.\n\n\"Given Opec countries now have very little incentive to restrain production, oil markets look sharply oversupplied,\" Mr Rats said in a research note.\n\nOverall, oil prices were last at these levels in January 2016, and are near a 16-year low.\n\nEnergy analyst Vandana Hari, of research firm Vanda Insights, said the markets were shocked by the disagreement on production cuts between Opec and Russia, which was surpassed last year by the US as the world's top producer.\n\n\"The collapse of the Opec/non-Opec alliance is a major shock to the oil market, and it comes with the added challenge that we don't have the full picture of what lies ahead,\" Ms Hari told the BBC.", "Parents of premature babies will be able to claim an extra £160 a week under measures set to be announced by the chancellor in next week's Budget.\n\nIt follows a campaign by Croydon mum Catriona Ogilvy which has been backed by over 350,000 people.\n\nCurrent law states maternity and paternity leave begins the day after birth even if a baby is born premature.\n\nTreasury minister Kemi Badenoch said the government would pay the extra leave, rather than businesses.\n\nMrs Ogilvy - who spent time in a neonatal ward after her son, Samuel, was born 10 weeks early - has petitioned to extend parental leave following premature birth since 2015.\n\nHer campaigning has seen the Mayor of London, Sony Music and a number of London councils adopt policies to give extra leave to staff who have babies born early.\n\nCatriona Ogilvy with her two sons Samuel and Jack\n\nIt is expected that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will outline plans for Neonatal Pay and Leave on Wednesday to allow new mothers and fathers to claim statutory paid leave for every week their child is in neonatal care, up to a maximum of 12 weeks.\n\nMrs Badenoch, the Minister for Equalities, told the Sunday Times the move would be \"historic\".\n\n\"This will be in addition to the usual maternity and paternity leave, and finally give parents the time, the resources and the space to handle these difficult circumstances,\" she said.\n\nMrs Ogilvy, who is the founder and chair of the charity The Smallest Things, said she was delighted with the announcement.\n\n\"As parents who have spent the first days, weeks or months of our children's lives in a neonatal intensive care unit, we are over the moon that the worry of work and pay will be eased for the incubator-watchers who follow in our footsteps,\" she said.\n\n\"As a charity, we are delighted that our hard work and campaigning has paid off.\n\n\"This will make a difference to many families at the toughest times in their lives when the health of their babies needs to be top priority.\"\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.", "Easyjet says it is reviewing its flying programme to Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Venice and Verona airports for the period from now until 3 April 2020.\n\n“In the short-term we will be cancelling a number of flights to and from these destinations on Monday 9 March,\" it says. \"We will be advising all affected passengers of the cancellations by email and SMS.\"\n\nThe airline says customers on flights scheduled to operate to and from these airports will be given the option of a full refund or to change their flight.\n\n“We expect to continue to reduce the number of flights in and out of Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Venice and Verona airports in the period up to 3 April and will provide a further update on our schedule in due course,\" it added.\n\n“Whilst these circumstances are outside of our control, we apologise to all affected customers for any inconvenience caused.”", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nThe Indian Wells tournament has been cancelled because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe tournament, a combined ATP and WTA event which is one of the biggest and most prestigious outside of the Grand Slams, was due to start this week.\n\nHealth officials in California said there was \"too great a risk\" to hold a \"large gathering of this size\".\n\n\"We are prepared to hold it on another date and will explore options,\" said tournament director Tommy Haas.\n• None Coronavirus: Timeline of how it has affected sport\n\nMany of the world's leading players, including men's world number two Rafael Nadal, have already arrived in California for the event.\n\nQualifying was set to start on Monday with the main draw matches beginning on Wednesday.\n\nThe tournament draws more than 400,000 fans each year to Indian Wells, which is 130 miles east of Los Angeles.\n\nThe decision to call off the tournament was made after one case of coronavirus was confirmed in the local Coachella Valley area. A public health emergency has been declared by medics.\n\n\"It is not in the public interest of fans, players and neighbouring areas for this tournament to proceed,\" said Dr David Agus, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California.\n\n\"We all have to join together to protect the community from the coronavirus outbreak.\"\n\nCoronavirus - a fast-moving infection originating in China - has spread to more than 100 countries and claimed more than 3,800 lives.\n\n\"We are very disappointed that the tournament will not take place, but the health and safety of the local community, fans, players, volunteers, sponsors, employees, vendors, and everyone involved with the event is of paramount importance,\" added Haas, the former world number two.\n\nWTA chief executive Steve Simon told the New York Times there had been discussions to hold the event behind closed doors but that option was rejected by tournament officials.\n\nWhat has been the reaction of the players?\n\nSpain's Nadal, 33, was among the first to react to the news, calling the outbreak of the virus \"sad\".\n\nBritish doubles player Jamie Murray questioned whether the decision would force other major tournaments to be postponed.\n\n\"Doesn't bode well for the tour if Indian Wells cancelled for one confirmed case in Coachella Valley,\" said the 34-year-old Scot.\n\nBritish number two Heather Watson set up a vote on her Twitter account asking whether the decision was an \"overreaction\" or a \"good decision\".\n\nBelgian player Kirsten Flipkens criticised the WTA for not holding an emergency meeting of the players, with Romanian Sorana Cirstea adding she was only told about the news on Twitter.\n\nFormer world number three Pam Shriver, now a leading television analyst, believes it is a \"brave, tough but correct decision\".\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "First Minister Arlene Foster has said the UK should maintain a \"common sense approach\" to the coronavirus.\n\nMrs Foster was speaking in London after an emergency Cobra meeting. The UK is remaining in the \"containment\" stage of its response to the coronavirus.\n\n\"The advice remains the same, if you have flu-like symptoms - stay at home and away from others,\" she said.\n\nOn Sunday, five people were diagnosed with coronavirus in NI, bringing the number of cases here to 12.\n\nHealth officials are tracing people who may have been in contact with the latest cases.\n\nThe Cobra meeting was called to decide whether to bring in measures to delay the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nBanning big events and closing schools were said to have been considered, but Downing Street said the prime minister \"will be guided by the best scientific advice\" but there was no need to cancel sporting events at this stage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDUP leader Mrs Foster told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme that it was \"a very useful engagement\".\n\n\"That advice may change as the science changes but at the moment, that's where we are,\" she said.\n\n\"It's very uncertain for people planning or attending an event, but because it is a new virus which we haven't dealt with before, we have to take the scientific advice on this.\"\n\nWhen asked about her plans to travel to the United States, along with Deputy First Minister Ms O'Neill, this week, she said: \"The reason we go is because we have very good access to the leader of the US and businesses, but we have to balance that with the needs here in the UK so we will be looking at that in the coming hours.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, two more cases were confirmed in the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total number there to 21. One of the patients has an underlying condition and is seriously ill.\n\nHealth officials said both cases were community transmissions and did not involve people who had returned recently from at-risk areas.\n\nAnother two cases were confirmed in Wales on Monday morning, bring the UK total to 280.\n\nThree new cases were confirmed in Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nSaturday's cases were adults who had recently travelled from Italy, which is at the centre of the European outbreak, and were linked to a previous case.\n\nThree new cases were confirmed on Saturday and five more on Sunday\n\nDetails about Sunday's cases have not yet been released.\n\nOn Sunday night, it was announced a man in his 60s had become the third person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nA number of amateur football teams in Northern Ireland have postponed matches and cancelled training after a player was among those to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe player represents Portadown-based team Hanover FC, and the other clubs affected are Coagh United in County Tyrone and Glenavy-based Crewe United in County Antrim.\n\nThe first case of coronavirus in Northern Ireland was confirmed on 27 February and was an adult who had travelled from northern Italy via Dublin.\n\nTwo more cases were confirmed on 4 March, one of whom was a postgraduate student at Queen's University in Belfast who had recently returned from northern Italy.\n\nThe other adult had been in contact with someone in the UK who had tested positive.\n\nThe fourth case, announced on Friday, is an adult who had recently returned from Italy - their diagnosis had been linked to a previous case.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "The UK will remain in the \"containment\" stage of its response to the coronavirus following an emergency Cobra meeting.\n\nIt comes as the country's chief medical adviser confirmed a fourth person had died from the virus in the UK.\n\nThere were 319 confirmed cases in the UK as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nHowever, measures to delay the virus' spread with \"social distancing\" will not be introduced yet, ministers said.\n\nNumber 10 said it accepted that the virus \"is going to spread in a significant way\", however.\n\nThe latest person to die from the virus was in their 70s and had underlying health conditions, according to the UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nHe said the patient, who was being treated at a hospital in Wolverhampton, appeared to have contracted the virus in the UK and that officials were tracing people they had been in contact with.\n\nFollowing the Cobra meeting, Downing Street said the prime minister \"will be guided by the best scientific advice\" but there was no need to cancel sporting events at this stage.\n\nMinisters have also been meeting with sports bodies to discuss their response to the outbreak, which could include staging matches behind closed doors.\n\nIt comes as Ireland's Six Nations rugby match in France on Saturday has been postponed, following an earlier decision to postpone England's match in Italy. However, Wales's game against Scotland in Cardiff is to go ahead as scheduled.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the government has enlisted an extra 700 people to support a growing number of enquiries to NHS 111, which he added is now dealing with more online enquiries than telephone calls.\n\nMr Hancock added that a bill to help tackle the outbreak would be \"temporary and proportionate\".\n\nThe UK's top share index, the FTSE 100, is facing its worst day since the financial crisis after it fell by more than 8%, wiping billions off the value of major firms.\n\nThe Bank of England has said it will take all necessary steps to protect financial and monetary stability, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.\n\nThe UK is currently in the first phase - \"containment\" - of the government's four-part plan to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government has previously said \"social distancing\" measures to slow the spread of the virus could include a ban on sporting events and other large gatherings, and encouraging people to work from home rather than use crowded trains and buses.\n\nSuch a step would require agreement from Prof Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nUniversal credit claimants who have to self-isolate will not be sanctioned, a work and pensions minister has confirmed.\n\nThere is no reason to cancel large events at the moment, ministers say\n\nA European Union expert said the UK had only a \"few days\" to implement measures to prevent an outbreak like Italy's, which is the worst outside China with 7,375 confirmed cases and 366 deaths.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice will also discuss contingency plans with supermarket chief executives, including proposals on how to support vulnerable groups who may have to self-isolate.\n\nAs supermarkets restrict sales of some products to halt panic-buying, a survey suggested one in 10 shoppers are stockpiling.\n\nBoth the government and retailers say stockpiling is unnecessary, and Mr Hancock said food supplies would continue even in the \"reasonable worst-case\" scenario.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell accused the government of offering only \"vague statements\" in response to the outbreak, saying it needed to guarantee sick pay for all workers and address issues such as a shortage of 100,000 NHS staff.\n\nThe Foreign Office has warned Britons to avoid large parts of northern Italy under a coronavirus quarantine, unless their journey is essential.\n\nThose travelling from locked-down areas have also been advised to self-isolate if they returned to the UK in the last 14 days - even if they have shown no symptoms.\n\nTravellers from the rest of Italy are only told to self-isolate and call 111 if they have a cough, fever or shortness of breath.\n\nBritish nationals are still able to depart Italy without restriction, but some airlines - including easyJet and British Airways - have cancelled several flights to and from affected areas.\n\nOliver Dowden, the culture secretary, told BBC Radio 5 Live \"enhanced measures\" were in place to screen passengers from Italy - but the only one he identified was training airline staff to spot the symptoms of Covid-19.\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\nPublic Health England said passengers on flights from northern Italy are also issued with information about symptoms and necessary actions to take, which will be extended to all flights from Italy by Wednesday.\n\nHowever, the Unite union, which represents many cabin crew, said \"there has been no training\" for its members working on flights from northern Italy.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"working intensively\" to arrange a flight home for 142 Britons on board the Grand Princess cruise ship, which is due to dock in California on Monday after spending five days stranded off the coast because of 21 cases among crew and passengers.\n\nNeil Hanlon, from Bridgwater in Somerset, told BBC Breakfast that food on board has become \"very limited\" and he was \"gutted\" that it may take until later in the week until he and his wife Victoria can fly home.\n\nAmid concerns that fake news about the coronavirus is causing confusion, a specialist unit to combat disinformation has been set up.\n\nTeams from across Whitehall have been brought together to identify and respond to disinformation in a bid to limit its spread.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our scientists think containment is extremely unlikely to work on its own\"\n\nPeople who show \"even minor\" signs of respiratory tract infections or a fever will soon be told to self-isolate in an effort to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser said the change in advice could happen within the next 10 to 14 days.\n\nFive people have now died from coronavirus in the UK.\n\nIt comes as the Foreign Office warned British residents against all but essential travel to Italy.\n\nItalian authorities are extending strict coronavirus quarantine measures - which include a ban on public gatherings - to the entire country from Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said anyone who arrives from Italy from Tuesday should self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nItaly has more than 9,100 confirmed infections, and more than 460 people have died.\n\nIn the UK, there were 319 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nPeople will be asked to self-isolate for seven days after showing mild symptoms under the new approach, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said.\n\nAll intensive care patients will now be tested for the virus, he said - as well as anyone in hospital with a respiratory infection.\n\nIt comes as two more deaths in the UK were announced.\n\nBoth patients - who were in hospital in Wolverhampton and Carshalton, south London, respectively - were in their 70s and had underlying health conditions.\n\nIn a joint press conference with Prof Whitty in Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson also suggested the elderly and vulnerable could be asked to stay home in the near future, with further steps set out \"in the days and weeks ahead\".\n\nHe said that the more the peak of the spread could be delayed to summer, \"the better the NHS will be able to manage\".\n\nMeanwhile, global shares have suffered their worst day since the financial crisis.\n\nDramatic falls led to it being called Black Monday, with a nearly 8% drop in London's FTSE 100 wiping some £125bn off the value of major UK firms.\n\nIn the US the major stock indexes fell so sharply as the market opened that trading was halted for 15 minutes to curb panicky selling.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to urgently \"reassure the public and markets\".\n\nMr McDonnell said Mr Sunak must use Wednesday's Budget to make clear the government would do \"everything necessary\" to support the economy as the virus spreads.\n\n\"In these circumstances you need to be fast in demonstrating that there is a clear plan,\" he said.\n\nTesco is one of the retailers restricting sales of items such as toilet roll\n\nThe government has announced it is to extend shop delivery hours to ensure that supermarkets have basic items, amid stockpiling concerns.\n\nA European Union expert said the UK had only a \"few days\" to implement measures to prevent an outbreak like the one in Italy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Churston Ferrers Grammar School has reopened - but not all pupils are there in person.\n\nMr Stewart, a former Conservative minister, said the UK should act \"much more aggressively\", adding: \"The government has made a serious mistake today... schools should be shut now.\"\n\nBut the prime minister said the government must \"take the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nMeanwhile, universal credit claimants who have to self-isolate will not be sanctioned, a work and pensions minister has confirmed.\n\nDublin has cancelled its annual St Patrick's Day parade (file photo) in a bid to contain the virus\n\nA number of public and sporting events have been cancelled or postponed due to fears large gatherings could further spread the virus.\n\nThe UK is currently in the first phase - \"containment\" - of the government's four-part plan.\n\nMr Johnson said the government is preparing to move to the second phase - \"delay\" - which will seek to push back the peak of the epidemic to the summer, when there will be less pressure on the NHS.\n\nProf Whitty said introducing measures \"too early\" could become problematic as \"anything we do, we have got to be able to sustain\".\n\nThis is very much the first step in a gradual and phased approach to reducing the impact coronavirus will have in the UK.\n\nA significant outbreak is on its way but the government and its advisers believe they can limit its impact by taking the right steps at the right time.\n\nWe know the first step is to get people with even relatively moderate flu-like symptoms to self-isolate. To date only those who have been to an affected country or who had had close contact with an infected person had been asked to do this.\n\nThis will be followed by further advice later this week that is likely to be focused on protecting the most vulnerable groups - the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions. Reducing social contact will form part of that.\n\nBut drastic steps like closing schools and banning public gatherings are not going to happen in the immediate future.\n\nProf Whitty said that the balance would tip so that more people would suffer from coronavirus rather than regular seasonal flu, or other respiratory infections.\n\n\"We are expecting the numbers to increase initially quite slowly but really quite fast after a while and we have to catch it before the upswing begins,\" he said.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) is due to meet on Tuesday, followed by another meeting of the emergency committee, Cobra, on Wednesday.\n\nUS authorities are planning to fly home Britons who were on board the virus-hit Grand Princess cruise ship on Tuesday, the Foreign Office said.\n\nThere were 142 British people on the ship, which spent five days stranded off the coast of California.\n\nPassenger Linda Stennett, from Shrewsbury, told BBC Radio Shropshire the Foreign Office had confirmed in an email that they would be sending a plane to repatriate Britons.\n\n\"We know when we dock, that the Americans will be getting off first and that is going to take, they reckon, two to three days, and I think we are after that, hopefully.\"\n\nAnother passenger, Margaret Bartlett, 77, from Burnley, Lancashire, said she went \"stir crazy\" on board the ship, which has now docked in Oakland.\n\nAre you affected by the coronavirus outbreak? Tell us about your concerns. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Eloise Parry died in 2015 after taking eight dinitrophenol (DNP) capsules\n\nAn online dealer has been convicted of killing a woman who took toxic tablets sold to her as slimming pills.\n\nEloise Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire died in 2015 after taking eight dinitrophenol (DNP) capsules.\n\nBernard Rebelo, of Gosport, Hampshire, was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter by an Old Bailey jury.\n\nIt is the second time he has been convicted of the charge, but his initial conviction was sent for a retrial by the Court of Appeal.\n\nJurors heard Rebelo bought the powder for the capsules from a factory in China.\n\nThe 32-year-old was remanded in custody to be sentenced by Mrs Justice Whipple on Tuesday.\n\nDuring his retrial, the court heard how the substance Ms Parry consumed was often advertised as a slimming product, but the known side effects included multiple organ failure, coma, and cardiac arrest.\n\nDuring World War One, it was used as a base material for munitions products.\n\nProsecutor Richard Barraclough QC told the jury that online forums compared taking it to \"Russian roulette\", adding: \"If you take it, you might live, or you might die.\"\n\nMs Parry, a Wrexham Glyndwr University student, had been diagnosed with bulimia and became \"psychologically addicted\" to the chemical after she started taking it in February 2015, jurors heard.\n\nThe court was told DNP was particularly dangerous to those who suffer from eating disorders as the toxicity level is relative to a person's weight.\n\nMs Parry was admitted to Wrexham hospital in March 2015 after collapsing, and later sent a text to a friend saying she felt \"stupid\".\n\nShe said: \"I knew I could not control my eating disorder well enough to take them safely, I knew it.\n\n\"It's not going to matter how skinny I am if I'm dead.\"\n\nThree days later, she messaged: \"I don't want to die, I never meant to hurt myself, I just felt so desperate.\"\n\nShe died in hospital a month later.\n\nMs Parry had been studying families and childhood studies\n\nRebelo, who ran his business from a flat in Harrow, west London, had sold DNP on two websites, which have since been taken down.\n\nThe prosecution said he sold the drug knowing of its dangers.\n\nHe was jailed for seven years after being found guilty at Inner London Crown Court in June 2018 but the conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal, and judges ruled he would face a retrial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were at the scene on Shore Road in Hythe on Friday morning\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a baby was found in woodland.\n\nThe newborn boy was found near Shore Road in Hythe, near Southampton, on Thursday.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said a 36-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder and was in police custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Liz Williams called the investigation into the baby's death \"difficult and complex\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Max Von Sydow, who appeared in films and TV series including The Exorcist, Flash Gordon and Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 90.\n\nHis family announced \"with a broken heart and infinite sadness\" that the Swedish-born actor died on Sunday.\n\nVon Sydow's other film credits included Hannah and Her Sisters, The Seventh Seal and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.\n\nHe was nominated for two Oscars during his career - including best actor in 1988 for Pelle the Conqueror.\n\nVon Sydow played Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (left) and Bond villain Ernst Blofeld in Never Say Never Again\n\nHis other Academy nomination was best supporting actor for his role in 2011's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.\n\nVon Sydow had a fruitful run of 11 films with legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including The Seventh Seal, in which he famously played chess with Death.\n\nHollywood came calling, but he reportedly turned down the role of Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music.\n\nVon Sydow (right) with Bengt Ekerot in 1957's The Seventh Seal\n\nHe agreed to cross the Atlantic to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965, and his global success grew with memorable roles like the priest Father Lankester Merrin in 1973 horror The Exorcist.\n\nVon Sydow also appeared in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, and played comic book villain Ming the Merciless in 1980's Flash Gordon.\n\n\"I really enjoyed that film. I grew up reading Flash Gordon so it was sort of nostalgic for me,\" he once told The Times.\n\nIn 1983, Von Sydow played evil again when he was cast as the sinister Ernst Blofeld in James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again.\n\nHe was often typecast in Hollywood as the sophisticated villain, which the Associated Press said was down to him being \"tall and lanky, with sullen blue eyes, a narrow face, pale complexion and a deep and accented speaking voice\".\n\nBut he once said in an interview: \"What I as an actor look for is a variety of parts. It is very boring to be stuck in more or less one type of character.\"\n\nDescribing him in 2007, the Los Angeles Times wrote: \"Von Sydow is an inherently imposing screen presence with distinctive chiselled features. But in person, he is a warm, unpretentious man profoundly grateful for a career that he himself refuses to consider remarkable.\"\n\nHe appeared as Lor San Tekka in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens\n\nVon Sydow was nominated for an Emmy in 1990 for his role in the HBO thriller Red King, White Knight.\n\nHe continued acting late in life, voicing a character in The Simpsons in 2014, appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, and in three episodes of Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven in 2016, which earned him a second Emmy nomination.\n\nDirector Edgar Wright led the tributes on Twitter, writing: \"Max Von Sydow, such an iconic presence in cinema for seven decades, it seemed like he'd always be with us.\n\n\"He changed the face of international film with Bergman, played Christ, fought the devil, pressed the HOT HAIL button and was Oscar nominated for a silent performance. A god.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFilm critic Guy Lodge said Von Sydow was \"an actor who could bring great gravity to weightless junk, and quick, unpredictable humanity to, well, very grave films\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Guy Lodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Scott Weinberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVon Sydow was christened Carl Adolf, names which nod to his German ancestry.\n\n\"After the war Adolf was not a good name,\" he explained in 2003. \"And then when I got into theatre, people had trouble remembering the combination of Carl Adolf. So I thought I had to find something that people will remember and that sounds more artistic.\n\n\"When I was in the army we used to put on a revue, and I had a number with a fictitious flea called Max that could perform all kinds of tricks. This was a great success. After that evening the colonel always called me Max.\"\n\nVon Sydow has four sons - two with his first wife Christina Inga Britta Olin. In 1997, he married Catherine Brelet in Provence and became a citizen of France five years later, meaning he relinquished his Swedish citizenship.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Eight of Max Von Sydow's most famous roles", "Newtownhamilton Primary School and High School are both closed\n\nTwo schools and three more sports clubs have closed in Northern Ireland over confirmed coronavirus cases.\n\nNewtownhamilton High School and primary school, both located on the same site in the County Armagh town, are closed after a student tested positive.\n\nWest Belfast GAA club St Gall's has closed its clubhouse after a member was diagnosed.\n\nTwo amateur football clubs have also closed their grounds after a player tested positive.\n\nTandragee Rovers, in County Armagh, said a senior player had been diagnosed with the virus.\n\nCounty Down-based club Moneyslane, who hosted Tandragee in a match on Saturday, have also closed their Jubilee Park ground.\n\nThe two football clubs and St Gall's have suspended training and participation in matches.\n\nIt now means five football amateur football clubs have been affected by the coronavirus, after a player with Portadown-based club Hanover FC tested positive.\n\nThe other clubs affected are Coagh United, in County Tyrone, and Crewe United, from Glenavy in County Antrim.\n\nThe principal of Newtownhamilton High School, Neil Megaw, said the schools had closed for the rest of the week as a precautionary measure.\n\n\"The PHA has advised us that the risk to pupils and staff of the school is very low,\" he said.\n\nThe high school is due to re-open on Monday, 16 March and the primary will re-open on Wednesday, 18 March.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann announced the closure of two schools without naming them in a statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Swann also said 222 tests had been carried out so far in Northern Ireland with 12 positive cases confirmed.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the health minister said the chancellor had made it clear that additional funding would be made available to tackle coronavirus.\n\n\"We will get our part of that either through Barnett [Formula] or through need,\" he said.\n\nAsked about how many people in Northern Ireland could contract coronavirus, he said: \"A figure that is generally available in the public is that, moving from what could be worst case scenario to very worst case scenario, we are looking at between 50% to 80% level of infection across the general population.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the club secretary for St Gall's GAA club said the club member who tested positive was last at the club on Sunday 1 March.\n\n\"He was in the bar at the club house but did not attend any matches,\" said Sinead Mullan.\n\n\"We've closed the club house for a deep clean and cancelled all training as a precautionary measure.\n\n\"We have a duty of care to those who attend Naomh Gall and the Public Health Agency are aware and are liaising with him.\"\n\nIn a statement on social media, Tandragee Rovers said a senior player had tested positive for Covid-19.\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\"We commend the actions of our player for self-isolating and getting tested as soon as he became aware that he had been in contact with a person who had also tested positive over the weekend.\"\n\nIt said the clubhouse would remain closed until it underwent its deep clean, while the Mid-Ulster Football League has been informed.\n\nThe club has also cancelled all training until Monday, 23 March and suspended its participation in matches for the next two weeks.\n\nMoneyslane, who played Tandragee in a match last Saturday, said its Jubilee Park ground was closed and training had been suspended until further notice.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a statement on social media, the club asked that anyone who attended the game follow public health guidelines.\n\nHowever it added that anyone who attended a fundraising event at the Belmont Hotel on Saturday did not come into direct contact with the confirmed case.\n\nManufacturing firm Sensata also carried out a precautionary deep clean, related to Covid-19, at one of its Northern Ireland sites.\n\nThe BBC understands a family member of an employee had recently been on holiday in a high-risk country.\n\nThe firm employs around 1,000 people in Carrickfergus and Antrim. Staff in the affected area were sent home while the cleaning took place.\n\nThe firm said the clean was conducted out of an \"abundance of caution\" and staff were expected back at work on Tuesday.\n\nThe news comes after Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster said the UK should maintain a \"common sense approach\" to the coronavirus.\n\nShe was speaking in London after an emergency Cobra meeting.\n\nThe UK is remaining in the \"containment\" stage of its response to the coronavirus.\n\n\"The advice remains the same, if you have flu-like symptoms - stay at home and away from others,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Cobra meeting was called to decide whether to bring in measures to delay the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nBanning big events and closing schools were said to have been considered, but Downing Street said the prime minister \"will be guided by the best scientific advice\" but there was no need to cancel sporting events at this stage.\n\nThree new cases were confirmed in Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nThey were adults who had recently travelled from Italy, which is at the centre of the European outbreak, and were linked to a previous case.\n\nThere were 319 confirmed cases in the UK as of 09:00 GMT on Monday, a rise of 46 since the same time on Sunday.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the number of confirmed cases stands at 24 as of Monday evening.\n\nFor advice and the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak, the Public Health Agency has a dedicated website.", "Shoppers in Cardiff have been seen wearing face masks, as the number of cases rises to six in Wales\n\nTwo more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Wales, taking the number of confirmed cases to six.\n\nIt comes as the number of UK cases rose to 319 on Monday, up 46 from Sunday, as the UK continues the \"containment\" stage of its Covid-19 response.\n\nOne patient is from Newport, the other from Neath Port Talbot. The cases are not linked and both had travelled back from different parts of Italy.\n\nWales' Six Nations game with Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday will go ahead.\n\nIt comes as Ireland's Six Nations rugby match in France on Saturday has been postponed, following an earlier decision to postpone England's match in Italy.\n\nThe first of Wales' newest coronavirus patients had recently returned from southern Italy, while the other had been in northern Italy where up 16 million now face travel restrictions and quarantine.\n\n\"All appropriate measures to provide care for the individuals and to reduce the risk of transmission to others are being taken,\" said Dr Frank Atherton, the chief medical officer for Wales.\n\nThe two new cases follow confirmation on Sunday that another two people had contracted the virus after returning from northern Italy to Pembrokeshire.\n\nWales' first cases involved one person from Swansea and one from Cardiff, who had also returned from northern Italy.\n\nPublic Health Wales said the latest patients were being treated in \"clinically appropriate settings\".\n\n\"We've said for a long time we expect there to be more cases - and we expect more in the coming days and weeks as well,\" said Health Minister Vaughan Gething.\n\nAlong with First Minister Mark Drakeford, he was involved with other ministers from across the UK at Monday's Cobra meeting and reiterated that the current scientific advice was for no schools to close and not to end mass gatherings at events.\n\nMr Gething said Wales was still at an early stage and he urged the public to take hygiene advice and get on with their normal business.\n\n\"We are still in the contain phase. It is still effective in keeping the public safe,\" he said.\n\nHe added there was currently no justification for closing schools or cancelling big events, with the Wales v Scotland Six Nations game set to go ahead this weekend.\n\nThe prime minister chaired the emergency Cobra meeting to decide whether to bring in measures to delay the spread of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese could include banning of big events, closing schools and encouraging home working.\n\nIt comes after a man in his 60s became the UK's third death linked to the Covid-19 virus.\n\nHealth officials said 634 people in Wales have now been tested for coronavirus, as of Friday.\n\n\"The public can be assured that Wales and the whole of the UK is prepared for these types of incidents,\" said the chief medical officer.\n\n\"Working with our partners in Wales and the UK, we have implemented our planned response, with robust infection control measures in place to protect the health of the public.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has said it is releasing stockpiled protective equipment to front-line NHS staff in Wales.\n\nSafety packs, which were prepared over the weekend, will be sent to the 640 surgeries in Wales this week.\n\nAmong other measures is a symptom checker for suspected coronavirus, which has been launched online by the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said the online service should be the \"first port of call\" as the NHS 111 telephone lines were \"very busy\".\n\nAnd a car park for an old medical clinic is doubling up as Wales' first drive-through coronavirus testing centre at Rossett, near Wrexham.\n\nReacting to the two new cases in Pembrokeshire over the weekend, the council's leader urged the public to follow PHW advice, especially on handwashing.\n\n\"I can reassure you that our services will continue as usual, and all our employees can continue to attend to their work, appointments, schools and services as they normally would,\" said David Simpson.", "A man has been charged with murdering his mother at a house in Liverpool.\n\nJanice Child's body was found in Kings Drive, Woolton, in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of the 64-year-old's death was severe blunt force head injuries, Merseyside Police said.\n\nRobert Child, 37, of Kings Drive, Irby, Merseyside, was charged with her murder and will appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA 33-year-old woman, also from Merseyside, who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder has been released on bail.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nTwo teenagers accused of murdering a police officer have admitted conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe pair, who are both aged 17 and cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to plotting to steal the bike.\n\nThey and a third man, Henry Long, 18, are also accused of murdering PC Andrew Harper, which they deny.\n\nPC Harper died from multiple injuries after being dragged along a road by a vehicle near Sulhamstead, Berkshire.\n\nPC Andrew Harper had been responding to reports of a break-in\n\nThe 28-year-old Thames Valley roads policing constable, from Wallingford, in Oxfordshire, had been responding to reports of a break-in on August 15 last year.\n\nLong, of Mortimer, Reading, has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The two 17-year-olds deny manslaughter.\n\nMr Justice Edis warned potential jurors that the case would be \"distressing\" and urged them to take a \"fair-minded and clear-sighted\" view of the evidence.\n\nHe said there was \"no doubt\" that PC Harper died \"because he tried to help in the pursuit of these defendants who were in the course of trying to escape after stealing a quad bike\".\n\nThe judge said: \"Henry Long accepts that he drove in a way which was dangerous and which caused death. He denies though that he intended to cause any harm to PC Harper.\n\n\"For murder, a person must cause death unlawfully and when doing so must intend to kill or at least to do really serious bodily harm.\"\n\nThe case is due to be opened by prosecutor Brian Altman QC on Tuesday, and continue for up to six weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon opened its largest Go Grocery shop, last month, in Seattle\n\nAmazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain.\n\nGo Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing them to pay via their main Amazon accounts.\n\nIt has now adapted its Just Walk Out system for other retailers so shoppers register a payment card on entry and are automatically billed as they leave.\n\nBut, unlike at Go Grocery, users' Amazon accounts will not be involved.\n\nAnd the firm has said that information collected about consumers will only be used to support the retailers it has partnered with.\n\n\"We only collect the data needed to provide shoppers with an accurate receipt,\" Amazon's website says.\n\n\"Shoppers can think of this as similar to typical security camera footage.\"\n\nThe system involves fitting a shop with hundreds of cameras and depth-sensors, whose data is then remotely analysed on Amazon's computer servers.\n\nThe software can distinguish whether a shopper has picked up and kept a product for purchase or if they have only examined an item before replacing it back on a shelf.\n\nAmazon says it can install the required equipment in \"as little as a few weeks\".\n\nCameras and other sensors in ceilings monitor shoppers below\n\nNBK Retail consultancy founder Natalie Berg said the move had been long-expected.\n\n\"It's far more lucrative for Amazon to license the technology to other retailers than to just use it in its own grocery stores,\" she said.\n\n\"What Amazon does very well is cut out friction and of course the biggest source or friction in the grocery stores and supermarkets is the checkout.\n\n\"But there will still be opportunities for other vendors [with rival solutions] because you're never going to see Walmart implement Amazon's checkout-free tech.\"\n\nThe announcement comes two weeks after Amazon opened its largest Go Grocery shop.\n\nAmazon tracks each customer as they move around the shop\n\nThe Seattle-based shop stocks about 5,000 items and covers more than 10,000 sq ft (929 sq m), making it about five times bigger than the average Go outlet.\n\nBut UK supermarkets can be up to 185,500 sq ft and questions remain about how long it will take before Amazon or any of its rivals' technologies can be reliably deployed at such scale.\n\nSimpler technologies to reduce the need for staffed checkouts include portable barcode scanners and tills that allow shoppers to ring up their own items.\n\nAdvocates of such tech suggest it frees up workers to perform more interesting tasks.\n\nAmazon's own site says: \"Retailers will still employ store associates to greet and answer shoppers' questions, stock the shelves, check IDs for the purchasing of certain goods, and more - their roles have simply shifted to focus on more valuable activities.\"\n\nAmazon Go shops encourage visitors to bag their goods as they go\n\nMs Berg said: \"Ultimately, there will be fewer jobs as automation comes in.\n\n\"But [those that remain] will focus on more customer-facing tasks and should provide a better experience to customers.\n\n\"And from that point of view, the skills required across the retail sector are going to evolve massively over the next decade.\"", "A number of women have shared their experiences with the Centre for Women's Justice\n\nWomen domestically abused by police officers feel \"doubly powerless\" as their abusers are too often protected from facing justice, campaigners say.\n\nThe Centre For Women's Justice (CWJ) has submitted a super-complaint claiming failures among police forces.\n\nThey cite the cases of 19 women, including police officers, from 15 force areas who have been victims of abuse, violence, stalking and rape.\n\nIt has been submitted to HM Chief Inspector of Constabularies.\n\nThe CWJ said that while \"without doubt there are cases that are dealt with properly\", a central concern was \"police abusers are being protected and not brought to justice\" because of their positions.\n\nThe super-complaint, which is supported by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, said victims \"feel doubly powerless\".\n\n\"They experienced the powerlessness that most domestic abuse victims experience, but in addition their abuser is part of the system intended to protect them,\" the report said.\n\nIt calls for changes including:\n\nThe domestic abuse conviction rate among police officers is lower than in the general population, the CWJ said\n\nOne of the women who gave her story to the CWJ told the BBC her ex-husband physically and sexually abused her as well using coercive and financial control.\n\nShe said she reported him to his force, Northumbria Police, but no action was taken against him either criminally or by professional standards.\n\n\"He used to say to me 'I'm a police officer no-one is going to believe you',\" she said.\n\nThe woman, who is from Tyneside, said police lost evidence she provided and her husband was given her witness statement, which later went missing from the system.\n\nShe also said her husband accessed her medical records and \"got access to a lot of things\" civilians would not be able to get.\n\n\"There's nowhere to go. When it's a police officer they can find you anywhere, they can trace your car,\" she said\n\n\"If you try and prosecute someone who is a police officer, they know the court system and what questions they are going to be asked.\"\n\nNorthumbria Police said the BBC's refusal to share details of the case meant it was \"unable to search our records to trace any report or potential subsequent investigation\".\n\nBut a spokesperson said all complaints of domestic abuse were \"subject to a thorough and unbiased investigation\" irrespective of who the suspect is.\n\nThe BBC did not reveal the officer's name to the force out of a duty of care to the woman.\n\nThe super-complaint cites a number of examples of no criminal charges being brought despite victims making reports and claiming to supply evidence.\n\nIt also refers to cases where no misconduct proceedings took place, with one woman who claimed she was raped being told superiors would have a \"quiet word\" with the suspect.\n\nSince 2018, certain organisations approved by the Home Office have been able to make a super-complaint to address what they see as cultural or thematic failures in the country's police.\n\n\"The super-complaints system is designed to identify systemic issues which are not otherwise dealt with by the existing complaints systems,\" the Home Office said.\n\nThe complaint will be investigated by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the IOPC and College of Policing who will then decide what action, if any, needs to be taken.\n\nVictims who are police officers said they faced \"bullying and open hostility\" from other officers.\n\nOne said she had her application to join the firearms department \"blocked\" by her senior officer ex while another said colleagues accused her of being a liar.\n\nForces included in the complaint are:\n\nThe CWJ said there were difficulties for victims reporting the abuse amid fears they would not be believed.\n\nOne claimed her partner said: \"Who's going to believe you? There are lots of us.\"\n\nThere were multiple cases featuring \"failures in investigation\", the CWJ said, with statements not being taken including from children who claimed they had been abused, investigators not listening to recorded evidence of the discussion of a rape, and one victim being told \"you know how it works, it's your word against his\".\n\nA female police officer saw a social media post where her officer ex-partner was tagged in a social photo with an officer who was working on the criminal investigation into him.\"\n\nThe CWJ cited \"improper responses\" to reports, including one woman being told she should \"sit down together and sort it out\" with the husband she claimed raped her.\n\nIt also complained of accused officers knowing those investigating them, with \"police culture\" including a \"sense of family\" with \"strong loyalty\" within a force.\n\n\"The criss-cross of personal connections undermines the trust of victims,\" the super complaint said.\n\nOne woman said she saw a photograph on social media of her partner and the officer investigating him for domestic abuse.\n\nThe CWJ said police officers were less likely to be convicted of domestic abuse offences than non police workers.\n\nA Freedom of Information request showed there were 19 convictions for 493 reports against police officers, a rate of 3.9%, while the general population rate is 6.2%, the report said.\n\nThe complaint will be investigated by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the IOPC and College of Policing who will then decide what action, if any, needs to be taken.\n• None HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Damani Mauge was fatally stabbed while on the number 130 bus\n\nA teenager who was fatally stabbed on a bus in south London has been named by police.\n\nDamani Mauge, 17, was attacked on the number 130 bus in Whitehorse Lane, South Norwood, Croydon, on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services were called but Damani was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later at 21:07 GMT. His next of kin have been informed.\n\nThe Met Police said it believed he had been involved in an altercation on the bus before the attack.\n\nAnyone who may have witnessed the attack or have any information about what happened has been urged to contact officers.\n\nWhitehorse Lane in South Norwood has reopened since the police cordons were lifted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kaila, centre right, and her husband Raffaele with their family\n\nKaila Haines is a US citizen married to an Italian man and has been living in Italy for 30 years. She lives in Monfalcone, east of Venice, where her husband is undergoing self-imposed quarantine after exhibiting flu-like symptoms, but is currently stuck in Milan, where she was working when the quarantine came into force. Here she describes the situation:\n\nI work in Milan Monday to Friday and go back on the weekend. My husband is a university professor in Venice.\n\nIn recent months we've been hearing about these cases but it's been pretty much business as usual. About one in 10 people have been in masks, but it's been very laid-back despite all the hype and doom and gloom on the news.\n\nBut then at the beginning of last week, my husband came down with the fever.\n\nThe health ministry has asked anybody who has a fever or flu-like symptoms just to isolate themselves. Let's not take any chances, stay home for 20 days. So that's what he did.\n\nI was supposed to be going home this past weekend and did not because he was sick and in isolation. Then I got stuck here in Milan because over the weekend they imposed this shutdown in the Lombardy region.\n\nSo I'm here until 3 April but he'll come out of isolation on 20 March. It's very surreal.\n\nI went out yesterday morning to the grocery store because I was kind of curious to see if everyone was making a run on pasta and things like that. You read the newspapers and that's what everyone is saying.\n\nThe situation was quite tense because there was a person on the loudspeaker who was reminding everyone in the store every 30 seconds that they had to keep their one-metre distance from each other.\n\nThey were quite aggressively inviting everyone to keep their distance. That was quite an unusual feeling.\n\nBut overall there was no run on the supermarket. Everyone was just like me, running out of milk and getting a few things they needed for the weekend. From that respect it was pretty relaxed.\n\nThen I walked down one of the main shopping roads and about 70% of the stores were closed.\n\nThe bars were open. It was a gorgeous day so everyone was out on their bicycles.\n\nMost of the bars have tables outside and I could see they had distanced the tables, so there are less tables than there used to be. There were people having their coffee on the sidewalk at their little cafe, so it was very relaxed.\n\nKaila Haines with her family in Milan in happier times\n\nThere wasn't a sense of panic or urgency. I think it might take a while for people to realise they need to be a little more careful in keeping their distance and things like that.\n\nThis week I'm on vacation but I will have to work from home. I'm taking it in my stride.\n\nMy husband only had a fever for a few days. He has a little bit of a cough and he's going a little stir crazy. We have neighbours who are doing the grocery shopping and leaving it at the door for him.\n\nHe said he's going to have to learn how to cook - he doesn't know how to cook.\n\nWe celebrated our 30th anniversary in September.\n\nIt's not been easy. It's been a challenging year for us in general because I got a promotion and now we see each other on the weekends, but now it's tough.", "Whitehorse Lane in South Norwood has reopened since the police cordons were lifted\n\nA teenager has been stabbed to death on a bus in south London.\n\nThe boy, believed to be 17, was found injured when police were called to Whitehorse Lane in South Norwood, Croydon, at about 20:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but died at the scene 40 minutes later.\n\nScotland Yard said no arrests have been made. A Section 60 order, giving police additional stop and search powers, has been put in place across several areas until 13:10.\n\nThose areas are: Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Bensham Manor, South Norwood, Woodside, New Addington North and New Addington South.\n\nLocal roads were closed but have since been reopened.\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. Meghan and Harry’s last event as senior royals\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made their last public appearance as working members of the Royal Family.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan joined the Queen and other senior royals at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe couple have been carrying out a series of public appearances in the UK before stepping back as working royals.\n\nFrom 31 March, they will stop using their HRH titles and receiving public money.\n\nThe duke and duchess joined the Queen - who is head of the Commonwealth - the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the central London church.\n\nLast-minute changes meant the Cambridges and the Sussexes were led straight to their seats - rather than waiting for the Queen and taking part in the procession as they did in 2019.\n\nThe couple held hands as they left the service\n\nThe Queen praised the diversity of the family of nations in her Commonwealth Day message\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have not said why the late amendment was made.\n\nIt was the first time Sussexes have appeared with other members of the Royal Family since announcing their intention to \"step back\" as senior royals in January.\n\nThe service included Rwandan dancing and drumming as well as songs from Craig David and Alexandra Burke, hymns, and a reading from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nPrince Harry bumped forearms with singer Craig David when they met at the end of the service - while Meghan opted to hug him.\n\nMembers of the congregation had been advised not to shake hands in greeting, to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus, a spokeswoman for Westminster Abbey said.\n\nHarry's brother, the Duke of Cambridge, said that it felt \"very odd not shaking hands\" as he arrived at the event.\n\nBut when Prince William chatted to heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua, who gave a reflection during the service, the royal avoided shaking his hand and said: \"I feel you'd crush mine.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Craig David stuck to Westminster Abbey's advice and avoided shaking hands\n\nAs the Sussexes left the abbey, the duchess crouched down to chat to children who were handing out flowers.\n\nThe duke waved to some of those gathered inside the abbey gates, and the couple held hands as they walked towards their car.\n\nAfter the service, the Sussexes are expected to return to their current base in Canada, where their son, Archie, has remained during the UK trip.\n\nIt is where the couple are to begin their new life of personal independence, pursuing private commercial deals and charity projects.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived shortly after the Sussexes\n\nHarry and Meghan were greeted with a standing ovation at the Mountbatten Festival of Music in London at the weekend\n\nThe couple posted a New Year's message on Instagram, accompanied by a photograph of Harry holding their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds attended the service\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan will retain use of Frogmore Cottage, in Windsor, and aides have said they will be in the UK regularly.\n\nThey will still attend some royal events but these will not be classed as official duties.\n\nThe new arrangements will be reviewed next year.\n\nThe duke and duchess have conducted a farewell tour of the UK with several appearances including the Endeavour Fund Awards and a military musical festival at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nThe Queen was sitting next to Prince Charles and Camilla, in front of the Sussexes\n\nThis wasn't going to be a quiet goodbye or an easing out of the limelight.\n\nThe final days of public events for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been picture perfect.\n\nTheir final engagement at Westminster Abbey showcased everything Harry and Meghan are now leaving behind - ceremony, pomp, formality and just a bit of royal hierarchy.\n\nThe Sussexes sat behind the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Was there a tension or any sign of family frostiness? It was impossible to tell.\n\nBut this can't have been an easy afternoon for those involved.\n\nThe Queen has made it clear the departure of the Sussexes was not the outcome she wanted.\n\nPrince Charles will now see far less of his son, his daughter-in-law and his newest grandchild.\n\nHarry and Meghan, who many felt brought a new energy to the Royal Family, are now off.\n\nLess than two years after she arrived, Meghan is walking away from royal life. And the man she married, who was born into that life, is going with her.\n\nMeghan made a surprise visit to a school in Dagenham, east London, to celebrate International Women's Day.\n\nMeanwhile, the duke joined Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton to visit a new motor racing museum at the Silverstone Circuit.\n\nThe Queen, as head of state, was the final member of the congregation to arrive\n\nAlexandra Burke sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough and heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua gave a reflection\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"OMG, that's Meghan\" - duchess surprises students on visit to mark International Women's Day\n\nThe couple have made supporting the Commonwealth a priority for their royal duties and overseas visits.\n\nIn stepping down as working royals, the duke will relinquish his role as Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.\n\nThe service began with a presentation of \"intore\" - a dance with drums performed at Rwandan celebrations\n\nBut Harry will remain president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust and Meghan will still be the Trust's vice-president.\n\nIn her Commonwealth Day message, the Queen has praised the diversity of the family of nations whose blend of traditions \"serves to make us stronger\".\n\nDr Linda Yueh, chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society, said \"contributing from far away\" was a key theme of the service.\n\n\"That's probably the hope, that even as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have stepped down from formal duties they'll still be contributing in a less formal capacity to the Commonwealth in the years to come,\" she added.\n\nHighland dancers and musicians performed outside Westminster Abbey before the service began\n\nHeavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua delivered a reflection at the service, while singers Alexandra Burke and Craig David performed.\n\nThe Duke of York was absent from this year's service, having resigned from royal duties following criticism of his BBC Newsnight interview over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nA special broadcast of the Commonwealth Day service will be available on iPlayer.", "Firefighters extinguished the fire at a flat in Flax Street\n\nFour people have been treated in hospital for \"burns, smoke inhalation and shock\" following a fire at a flat in north Belfast.\n\nThe incident at a residential building in Flax Street was reported shortly before 05:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe NI Fire Service said they \"quickly rescued two people with an aerial appliance\" and a further two people managed to self-rescue.\n\nEight other people were moved from the building by firefighters.\n\nThe NI Fire Service said at this stage \"the fire is believed to have been caused by a mobile device being left on charge overnight, however further investigation will take place\".", "When a cancer patient was blocked at a Chinese checkpoint, the picture of her mother's tears went round the world. But what happened before - and afterwards?\n\nWith one hand, Lu Yuejin carried a bucket and a bag of clothes. With the other, she held a duvet tight round her sick daughter.\n\nHu Ping needed the duvet to stay warm: she had leukaemia. But more importantly, she needed to leave Hubei, her home province.\n\nThe 26-year-old began chemotherapy in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, in January. But the coronavirus outbreak - which emerged in Wuhan late last year - had overwhelmed the hospitals.\n\nOn 28 January, the hospital told her there was no room: she had to go elsewhere. The family tried 10 other hospitals in Hubei, but none had a bed.\n\nHu Ping lived near the border, so she and her mother tried to enter Jiangxi province. But then, on a bridge over the Yangtze river, they realised they were trapped.\n\nWuhan was quarantined on 23 January, and the rest of Hubei soon followed.\n\nIt was possible to leave for medical reasons, but Hu Ping did not have the right pass. They could not cross the bridge.\n\nWhen Lu Yuejin heard the news, she started to cry. \"Please, take my daughter,\" she said. \"I don't need to go past... please, just let my daughter go past.\"\n\nNearby were two journalists from the Reuters agency - Martin Pollard and Thomas Peter.\n\n\"My daughter needs to go to hospital in Jiujiang [the Jiangxi border city],\" she told them. \"She needs to have her treatment. But they won't let us through.\"\n\nAs she spoke, the loudspeakers blared out a brutal reminder: Hubei residents, the message said, were not allowed into Jiangxi.\n\n\"All I want to do,\" said Lu Yuejin, \"is save her life.\"\n\nAs Lu Yuejin begged and the speakers blared, Hu Ping sat on the floor, wrapped in her duvet. After an hour, an ambulance arrived on the other side of the checkpoint, and they were allowed in.\n\nPollard and Peter filed their story, and the world - from the Japan Times to the Gulf News - saw Lu Yuejin's tears. But what happened next was unknown - until now.\n\nAfter seeing Reuters' story, the BBC tracked down Hu Ping's family and spoke to Shi Xiaodi - her fiancé. He tells us what happened at the border.\n\n\"My mother-in-law cried for a long time, begging those police,\" he says.\n\n\"The police came to ask for the reason in detail, and got to know that she [Hu Ping] was a severe leukaemia patient in need of treatment.\n\n\"The police asked their boss for instructions. The boss understood the situation clearly, and called the ambulance.\"\n\nHu Ping was taken across the river to the Third People's Hospital of Jiujiang University Hospital. Finally - after all the calls, and all the visits - she was taken in.\n\n\"She is now getting good treatment,\" says Shi. \"Because she is young, she is recovering quite well.\" But their worries aren't over.\n\nThe couple are not wealthy, and cancer treatment in China can be expensive (public health insurance doesn't usually cover the full cost of treatment).\n\nSo, when she was diagnosed, Shi made a video: \"Bride diagnosed leukaemia, we won't give up.\"\n\nA still from the couple's video\n\nThey received tens of thousands of yuan in donations. \"So many people tried to help us,\" he says - but it wasn't enough.\n\nShi has spent his 100,000 yuan (£11,000; $14,000) life savings on his fiancé's treatment but, he says, the cost will be met \"mainly by her family\".\n\n\"The family has no income now,\" he says. \"Her parents are all farmers and can't go out to work [because of the virus].\"\n\nShi is not critical of the Chinese government, or the hospitals that turned away his fiancée.\n\n\"The hospital, the doctors, the nurses - many, many of my classmates - they didn't get rest,\" he says. \"Every day, every time, they are consistently working. They tried very hard.\"\n\nAnd he knows Hu Ping was lucky to find a bed across the border. \"I heard from the news that one or two patients died because they can't get treated,\" he says.\n\nBut he knows it will be some time until life gets back to normal.\n\n\"Even if she gets good treatment, it will take at least two or three years [to be fully recovered]. And even if she comes back perfectly, it still has a chance to turn bad.\"\n\nShi Xiaodi met Hu Ping eight years ago at university. They were in the same class - they both studied human resources - and have been together for three years.\n\nThey were due to get married in January, but then Hu Ping was diagnosed, and the coronavirus swept the country, and everything turned upside down.\n\nAs of Thursday, there had been 67,592 confirmed coronavirus cases in Hubei - with 49,797 in Wuhan alone.\n\nAlmost 3,000 people have died in the province where Hu Ping and her mother were trying to leave. That's almost 90% of the global total.\n\nShi, though, stresses the wedding is postponed - not cancelled. \"We have the confidence to get through all this,\" he says. \"And we will get married when she is better.\"\n\nThe proudest guest, one imagines, will be the mother of the bride - this time crying tears of joy.", "Dave won the album of the year award at this year's Brits ceremony\n\nMore than 300 complaints that rapper Dave's performance at the Brit Awards was racist against white people have been rejected by the UK media watchdog.\n\nOfcom received 309 complaints about the song Black, which the London musician performed at last month's ceremony.\n\nBut the watchdog said it was \"likely to be within most viewers' expectations of this well-established awards ceremony\".\n\nThe track's lyrics include references to \"working twice as hard as the people you know you're better than\".\n\nDuring his performance, Dave also attacked tabloid coverage of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, criticised the government's response to the Grenfell Tower fire, and referred to Prime Minister Boris Johnson as \"a real racist\".\n\nThe regulator noted it was \"not uncommon for artists to express personal political views during their performances\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel defended the prime minister following Dave's performance, telling BBC Breakfast: \"I know Boris Johnson very well, no way is he a racist, so I think that is a completely wrong comment.\"\n\nDave won the award for album of the year at the ceremony, which was shown live on ITV.\n\nIn its latest update, Ofcom also said it would not investigate 535 complaints about a task on the recent winter series of Love Island.\n\nAfter the show's traditional \"headline challenge\", viewers complained that Paige Turley was led to believe that her boyfriend Finn Tapp had been unfaithful.\n\nThe Islanders were asked to read out newspaper headlines with words or names omitted and were tasked with guessing the missing information.\n\nOne headline suggested Finn had had his \"head turned\" while staying in the show's alternative villa, Casa Amor, with a new batch of female Islanders. He had in fact remained faithful to Paige.\n\nLove Island's Paige Turley was led to believe her partner had been unfaithful\n\n\"In our view, as a well-established part of this programme's format to test the contestants' relationships, it would have been within most viewers' expectations,\" Ofcom said.\n\nPaige and Finn ended up winning the series.\n\nElsewhere, the regulator also rejected 447 viewer complaints that said advice given by a guest identified as a \"breastfeeding expert\" on Loose Women on 13 February was outdated.\n\n\"In our view, it was made clear to viewers that her approach to breastfeeding was drawn from personal experience as a midwife and breastfeeding expert and did not represent official advice,\" Ofcom said. \"The discussion around women who struggle with breastfeeding was handled with sensitivity.\"\n\nHowever, the regulator confirmed it was investigating complaints that Sharon Osbourne was heard swearing during an edition of ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nOsbourne did not realise her microphone was live when the show returned from a pre-recorded segment during its Oscars special on 10 February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The safety packs being sent to surgeries include face masks\n\nFace masks, gloves and aprons are being sent out to GP surgeries in Wales to protect those treating people suspected of having coronavirus.\n\nStockpiled protective equipment will also be released for front-line NHS and social services staff, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said on Monday.\n\nThe number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales rose to six on Monday.\n\nMr Gething said the packs were part of robust \"infection-control measures\".\n\nThe safety packs, which were prepared over the weekend, will be sent to the 640 surgeries in Wales this week.\n\nThe steps came after a man in this 60s became the third person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nMr Gething said he wanted to reassure people the Welsh Government was working closely with the NHS and social services to implement its \"planned response\" to the virus.\n\n\"It is important that front-line medical and social care staff have the equipment they need to keep them safe while they help people with suspected coronavirus,\" he added.\n\n\"The face masks, gloves and aprons are part of a stockpile that we have in place as part of our contingency planning, should they be needed to support our NHS and social services.\"\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association's Welsh council, said the commitment would \"go a considerable way\" to making sure that GPs and other frontline staff could care for patients through this difficult time.\n\n\"We understand that many doctors will be concerned about the current control measures and the possibility of spreading the virus between patients,\" he said.\n\n\"This personal protective equipment commitment begins to allay those worries.\n\n\"We expect further announcements from the minister to be made as the situation progresses, to maintain the safety of doctors and patients.\"\n\nWales' chief medical officer confirmed at the weekend that two new cases in Wales were members of the same Pembrokeshire household who had been to northern Italy.\n\nBoth have been in self-isolation since their return and were being managed in a \"clinically appropriate setting\".\n\nWales' other two cases - one person from Swansea and one from Cardiff - had also returned from northern Italy.\n\nAs of Friday, 634 people in Wales had been tested for the virus, according to Public Health Wales (PHW).\n\nPreparations to halt the spread of the virus continued at the weekend, with the Welsh Government confirming emergency legislation introduced by the UK government would also apply in Wales.\n\n\"The public can be assured that Wales and the whole of the UK is prepared for these types of incidents,\" said Dr Giri Shankar, from PHW.\n\nAmong the measures is a symptom checker for suspected coronavirus, which has been launched online by the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said the online service should be the \"first port of call\" as the NHS 111 telephone lines were \"very busy\".\n\nAnd a car park for an old medical clinic is doubling up as Wales' first drive-through coronavirus testing centre at Rossett, near Wrexham.\n\nMeanwhile, Italy has placed millions of people under quarantine as it battles to contain the spread of the virus, with the number of deaths shooting up on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe former UK equality watchdog chief, Trevor Phillips, has been suspended from the Labour Party over allegations of Islamophobia.\n\nThe Times newspaper reported the anti-racism campaigner is being investigated over past comments dating back years.\n\nMr Phillips, ex-chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Labour was in danger of collapsing into a \"brutish, authoritarian cult\".\n\nLabour said it takes complaints about Islamophobia \"extremely seriously\".\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"[The complaints] are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\"\n\nMr Phillips was among 24 public figures who wrote to the Guardian last year declaring their refusal to vote for Labour because of its association with anti-Semitism.\n\nHe could be expelled from the party for alleged prejudice against Muslims.\n\nMr Phillips has been suspended pending investigation over remarks, including expressing concerns about Pakistani Muslim men sexually abusing children in northern British towns, according to the Times.\n\nIt says the complaint also covers his comments about the failure of some Muslims to wear poppies for Remembrance Sunday and the sympathy shown by some in an opinion poll towards the \"motives\" of the Charlie Hebdo attackers.\n\nThe paper said many of his statements are years-old but that Labour's general secretary Jennie Formby suspended him as a matter of urgency to \"protect the party's reputation\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Phillips stood by his previous assertions that Muslims were \"different\", adding: \"Well, actually, that's true. The point is Muslims are different and in many ways I think that is admirable.\"\n\nBut he criticised the party for taking offence, saying: \"I am kind of surprised that what is and always has been an open and democratic party decides that its members cannot have healthy debate about how we address differences of values and outlooks.\"\n\nMr Phillips went on to describe the decision by Labour to adopt the definition of Islamophobia agreed by an all-party parliamentary group on British Muslims as \"nonsense\", as Muslims were \"not a race\".\n\nHe added: \"My objection is very simple. That definition said...that Islamophobia is rooted in a kind of racism - expressions of hostility towards Muslimness.\n\n\"First of all, Muslims are not a race. My personal hero was Muhammad Ali, before that Malcolm X.\n\n\"They became Muslims largely because it is a pan-racial faith. This is not a racial grouping, so describing hostility to them as racial is nonsense.\"\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain accused Mr Phillips of making \"incendiary statements about Muslims that would be unacceptable for any other minority\".\n\nA spokesman for the organisation said: \"The impact of Mr Phillips' claims from a privileged vantage point is dangerous, providing licence to far-right ideologues such as Tommy Robinson who have seized upon these remarks.\n\n\"Mr Phillips would have us believe that he is a martyr for free speech and tolerance. But the fact remains that the deployment of these sweeping generalisations and tropes would not be acceptable for any other community.\"\n\nMr Phillips was the founding chair of the EHRC, which is currently investigating anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, when it launched in 2006.\n\nHe has previously made documentaries about race and multiculturalism, and now chairs Index on Censorship - a group that campaigns for freedom of expression.\n\nAsked if he would change his language as a result of the suspension, Mr Phillips pointed to this new role, adding: \"Frankly, it would be a bit odd if I suddenly decided because I had been kicked out of the club, I couldn't express my beliefs.\"", "Traffic has been much-reduced on the streets of New York\n\nLevels of air pollutants and warming gases over some cities and regions are showing significant drops as coronavirus impacts work and travel.\n\nResearchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nEmissions of the planet-heating gas CO2 have also fallen sharply.\n\nBut there are warnings levels could rise rapidly after the pandemic.\n\nWith global economic activity ramping down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is hardly surprising that emissions of a variety of gases related to energy and transport would be reduced.\n\nScientists say that by May, when CO2 emissions are at their peak thanks to the decomposition of leaves, the levels recorded might be the lowest since the financial crisis over a decade ago.\n\nWhile it is early days, data collected in New York this week suggests that instructions to curb unnecessary travel are having a significant impact.\n\nTraffic levels in the city were estimated to be down 35% compared with a year ago. Emissions of carbon monoxide, mainly due to cars and trucks, have fallen by around 50% for a couple of days this week according to researchers at Columbia University.\n\nThey have also found that there was a 5-10% drop in CO2 over New York and a solid drop in methane as well.\n\n\"New York has had exceptionally high carbon monoxide numbers for the last year and a half,\" said Prof Róisín Commane, from Columbia University, who carried out the New York air monitoring work.\n\n\"And this is the cleanest I have ever seen it. It's is less than half of what we normally see in March.\"\n\nAlthough there are a number of caveats to these findings, they echo the environmental impacts connected to the virus outbreaks in China and in Italy.\n\nAn analysis carried out for the climate website Carbon Brief suggested there had been a 25% drop in energy use and emissions in China over a two week period. This is likely to lead to an overall fall of about 1% in China's carbon emissions this year, experts believe.\n\nBoth China and Northern Italy have also recorded significant falls in nitrogen dioxide, which is related to reduced car journeys and industrial activity. The gas is a serious air pollutant and also indirectly contributes to the warming of the planet.\n\nWith aviation grinding to a halt and millions of people working from home, a range of emissions across many countries are likely following the same downward path.\n\nWhile people working from home will likely increase the use of home heating and electricity, the curbing of commuting and the general slowdown in economies will likely have an impact on overall emissions.\n\n\"I expect we will have the smallest increase in May to May peak CO2 that we've had in the northern hemisphere since 2009, or even before,\" said Prof Commane.\n\nThis view is echoed by others in the field, who believe that the shutdown will impact CO2 levels for the whole of this year.\n\n\"It will depend on how long the pandemic lasts, and how widespread the slowdown is in the economy particularly in the US. But most likely I think we will see something in the global emissions this year,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia.\n\n\"If it lasts another three of four months, certainly we could see some reduction.\"\n\nWhat's likely to make a major difference to the scale of carbon emissions and air pollution is how governments decide to re-stimulate their economies once the pandemic eases.\n\nBack in the 2008-09, after the global financial crash, carbon emissions shot up by 5% as a result of stimulus spending that boosted fossil fuel use.\n\nIn the coming months, governments will have a chance to alter that outcome. They could insist, for instance, that any bailout of airlines would be tied to far more stringent reductions in aviation emissions.\n\n\"Governments now have to be really cautious on how they re-stimulate their economies, mindful of not locking in fossil fuels again,\" said Prof Le Quéré.\n\n\"They should focus those things that are ready to go that would lower emissions, like renovating buildings, putting in heat pumps and electric chargers. These are not complicated and can be done straight away, they are just waiting for financial incentives.\"\n\nHowever, some argue that if the pandemic goes on a long time, any stimulus would more likely focus on promoting any economic growth regardless of the impact on the environment.\n\n\"I certainly think climate could go on the back burner, and in this case, I don't think there is much hope that stimulus goes to clean energy,\" said Prof Glen Peters from the Centre for International Climate Research.\n\n\"Any stimulus will help those with job losses such as tourism and services. I think this is very different to the global financial crisis. The only silver linings could be to learning new practices to work remotely, and buying a few years of lower growth allowing solar and wind to catch up a bit, though, these may be rather small silver linings.\"", "Taxpayers face a bill of at least £156m for the response to the collapse of Thomas Cook, according to a report by the government's spending watchdog.\n\nThe travel company's collapse last September left 9,000 staff out of work and 150,000 holidaymakers stranded.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said the government had agreed to pay £83m towards the cost of getting customers back home, as well as £58m in redundancy and related payments.\n\nBut the final cost is not yet known.\n\nOther costs include at least £15m for liquidating the business.\n\nWhen the world's oldest travel company collapsed, the Department for Transport (DfT) instructed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to repatriate all 150,000 Thomas Cook customers who were stranded overseas.\n\nThis included roughly 83,000 who had not booked a trip with Atol protection, which meant they were not automatically entitled to be flown home free of charge.\n\nThe DfT is reimbursing the cost of repatriating those passengers.\n\nHowever, the NAO said \"the final cost may not be known for some time\", partly due to invoices for repatriation costs still being received.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the Commons' Public Accounts Committee said \"lessons need to be learnt and future risks understood\".\n\n\"Government looks set to foot the bill, with industry off the hook,\" she said.\n\n\"The resources to cover other airlines going bust is now very limited. New regulations are urgently required.\"\n\nThe collapse led to the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation of 150,000 stranded holidaymakers\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"Due to the unprecedented scale of the operation, other airlines did not have enough capacity to repatriate those abroad.\n\n\"Without this effort, stranded passengers couldn't be guaranteed a safe journey home, causing stress and disruption to families, which would have had a knock-on effect on the wider economy with so many employees abroad.\"\n\nA total of 746 flights from 54 airports were involved in the repatriation effort, known as Operation Matterhorn.\n\nThe report also warned that limited resources would be left in the fund which provides assistance to customers whose holidays are protected by the Atol scheme.\n\nThe CAA told the NAO the £481m of repatriation and refund costs related to the Thomas Cook collapse would deplete the majority of the fund's resources.\n\nThe NAO said the government had agreed to back up that fund, if it cannot meet the costs should any other Atol-licensed company go bust.\n\nThis could mean further costs to taxpayers if another large travel company collapses in the near future, the report added.\n\nIn December last year the government confirmed plans for new airline insolvency legislation, which would allow carriers to keep their planes flying long enough to repatriate passengers.", "Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi got engaged in Italy last year\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Princess Beatrice is \"reviewing\" her wedding plans over the coronavirus pandemic, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman has said.\n\nShe was due to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29, with the Queen hosting their reception at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe reception has been cancelled and they will consider government advice before deciding whether to hold a smaller ceremony.\n\nThe couple wished to avoid \"unnecessary risks\", the spokeswoman added.\n\nThey are \"particularly conscious\" of government advice in relation to both \"the wellbeing of older family members and large gatherings of people\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, had been due to host the private reception in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt is not known whether the Queen, or her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, will attend the ceremony, which is due to take place at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace, in London.\n\nIt is not the first time doubts have been cast over plans for the couple's nuptials, with newspapers reporting concerns that travel restrictions may stop some wedding guests flying in from overseas.\n\nThat includes the family of Mr Mapelli Mozzi, 37, who hails from the Lombardy region of northern Italy.\n\nItaly has registered the most cases outside China at more than 31,500, and announced another surge in deaths on Tuesday, from 2,150 to 2,503. The country remains in lockdown.\n\nThe couple announced their wedding date back in February ending weeks of speculation following the scandal over Beatrice's father Prince Andrew's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe prince has retired from royal duties for the foreseeable future.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: \"Princess Beatrice and Mr Mapelli Mozzi are very much looking forward to getting married but are equally aware of the need to avoid undertaking any unnecessary risks in the current circumstances.\n\n\"In line with government advice for the UK and beyond, the couple are reviewing their arrangements for 29th May.\n\n\"The couple will carefully consider government advice before deciding whether a private marriage might take place amongst a small group of family and friends.\"", "The bird may have lived on the shoreline\n\nA newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.\n\nLiving just before the asteroid strike that wiped out giant dinosaurs, the unique fossil, from about 67 million years ago, gives a glimpse into the dawn of modern birds.\n\nBirds are descended from dinosaurs, but precisely when they evolved into birds like the ones alive today has been difficult to answer.\n\nThis is due to a lack of fossil data.\n\nThe newly discovered - and well-preserved - fossil skull should help fill in some of the gaps.\n\n\"This is a unique specimen: we've been calling it the 'wonderchicken',\" said Dr Daniel Field of the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"It's the only nearly complete skull of a modern bird that we have, so far, from the age of dinosaurs and it's able to tell us quite a lot about the early evolutionary history of birds.\"\n\nThe fossil bird has been named Asteriornis maastrichtensis, after Asteria, a Greek goddess of falling stars who turns into a quail. It was found in a quarry on the Netherlands-Belgium border.\n\nThe bird weighed in at just under 400g and was an early member of the group that gave rise to modern-day chickens, ducks and other poultry.\n\nAt the time, the region was covered by a shallow sea, and conditions were similar to modern tropical beaches. With its long, slender legs, the bird may have been a shore dweller.\n\n\"Birds are such a conspicuous and important group of living animals, being able to say something new about how modern birds actually arose is really a significant thing for palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists,\" said Dr Field.\n\n\"The wonderchicken is going to rank as a truly important fossil for helping clarify the factors that actually gave rise to modern birds.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal Nature.", "The Bank of England has cut interest rates again in an emergency move as it tries to support the UK economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is the second cut in interest rates in just over a week, bringing them down to 0.1% from 0.25%.\n\nInterest rates are now at the lowest ever in the Bank's 325-year history.\n\nThe Bank said it would also increase its holdings of UK government and corporate bonds by £200bn with an effort to lower the cost of borrowing.\n\nIt's a dramatic move by Andrew Bailey, who only took over from Mark Carney as Bank of England governor on Monday.\n\nLast week, the Bank announced a 0.5% cut in rates to 0.25% and a package of measures to help businesses and individuals cope with the economic damage caused by the virus.\n\nThe move coincided with additional measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Budget.\n\nHowever, the Bank said the measures it had taken so far were not going to be enough, and believed \"a further package of measures was warranted\".\n\n\"The spread of Covid-19 and the measures being taken to contain the virus will result in an economic shock that could be sharp and large, but should be temporary,\" it added.\n\nThe move comes as international investors are trying to secure more cash, in particular dollars. This means they're ditching assets such as UK government gilts, which are the \"IOU\" notes the government hands over to private investors willing to lend it money.\n\nAs the gilts are sold, the price drops and the yield - the effective interest rate compared to the price - rises. What that means is the cost of borrowing to private investors as well as to the government rises - just when the Bank of England wants it to fall and the government is about to borrow huge sums.\n\nThe Bank of England's plan to buy £200bn more bonds is aimed at fighting that effect.\n\nThe fresh rate cut takes interest rates to the lowest they can feasibly go, said Jeremy Thomson-Cook, chief economist at payments company Equals Group.\n\n\"Lower rates and additional quantitative easing can keep markets satisfied and borrowing costs for both businesses and the government down but unless money is forced into the hands of small businesses soon, then it will be for nothing; they are the ones laying off staff due to a liquidity shock,\" he added.\n\nKaren Ward, chief European market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, said: The support to the economy and health system will require vastly higher government borrowing. The central bank showing willing to buy government debt will ensure the market can absorb this additional issuance without undue stress.\"\n\nThe Bank of England Governor has said today's second emergency rate cut in just over a week occurred after financial markets became \"borderline disorderly\", with fears about coronavirus leading to a rush into the US dollar away from sterling and lending to the UK government.\n\n\"We've seen very sharp moves in financial markets in the last few days, which is the pace of which frankly, was increasing very rapidly. And we were moving into conditions that were if not disorderly, frankly, bordering on disorderly let me put it that way,\" Andrew Bailey told journalists.\n\nThe Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee had an emergency call this morning so that rate cuts and further \"quantitative easing\" could be agreed and announced, with the Bank needing to be \"on the offensive\" because: \"We can't wait for the hard economic data it will be too late by then\", he said.\n\nHe said he had seen a range of private forecasts about the economic impact of the current crisis: \"We don't have a precise forecast - every picture we look at has a very sharp V in it\".\n\nThe governor also partly blamed rumours that appeared to emerge from Westminster of a shutdown to London for adding to the volatility in markets that saw sterling fall 5% against the dollar. Such a shutdown would be likely to impact on the functioning of the City.\n\nHe said: \"I do have to say that, you know, there were rumours going on the market this time yesterday that there was going to be a lockdown in London. And I'd observe that did cause market prices to start moving around at that point. But I think the government has been clear, and it's clear that that is not the intention at the moment.\"\n\nThe governor also said that he had already intervened to try to get loans to businesses to keep people in employment, and he said the Bank had its thinking cap on as regards further monetary boosts it can make.\n\nHe reiterated his lack of enthusiasm for zero or negative interest rates because of their impact on the banking system's capacity to lend, and suggested that was the reason for limiting the cut to an unusual 0.15% (rather than the usual 0.25% or 0.5%) to a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe key Monetary Policy Committee will meet again next week.", "New Zealand's parliament has passed a bill decriminalising abortion and allowing women to choose a termination up to 20 weeks into a pregnancy.\n\nVoting to remove the procedure from the country's Crimes Act changes a law that has been in force since 1977.\n\nPreviously, two doctors were required to approve an abortion - and this could only happen if there was a \"serious danger\" to the pregnant woman's health.\n\nThe bill passed on its third reading by 68 votes to 51.\n\nAn earlier plan to put the issue to a public referendum was abandoned during the proceedings.\n\n\"From now abortions will be rightly treated as a health issue,\" Justice Minister Andrew Little said in a statement following the vote on Wednesday.\n\n\"The previous law required a woman seeking an abortion to go through many hoops,\" he said, adding: \"The changes agreed to by parliament will better ensure women get advice and treatment in a more timely way.\"\n\nFor more than 40 years, abortion was the only medical procedure considered a crime in New Zealand - unless it was performed under exceptional circumstances.\n\nThe legislative vote in parliament was labelled a \"conscience issue\", meaning that MPs did not have to vote along party lines.\n\nThe reform bill, issued by Jacinda Ardern's government, means that a woman no longer has to be assessed by a health practitioner for mental or physical wellbeing before 20 weeks.\n\nWomen would be able to refer themselves to an abortion service provider and would have to be made aware of counselling services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExams for Scottish school pupils will not take place this year, the education secretary has announced.\n\nJohn Swinney told MSPs the \"unprecedented\" move was a measure of the \"gravity\" of the situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIt is the first time the exams have been cancelled since the system was put in place in 1888.\n\nThe Scottish government announced on Wednesday that all Scottish schools would be closing on Friday.\n\nMr Swinney said a model would be put in place to ensure that young people in schools and colleges who were unable to sit exams would not be disadvantaged in any way.\n\nPupils will be graded on coursework, teacher assessment and prior grades.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"In all of our history Scotland has never cancelled the exams. Since 1888 they have been held every May and June without fail.\n\n\"In the midst of two world wars the exams went ahead.\n\n\"It is a measure of the gravity of the challenges that we now face that I must today announce that the exams will not go ahead this year.\"\n\nMr Swinney stressed that saving lives was the Scottish government's top priority but said it was important to protect the \"interests and life chances\" of young people.\n\n\"I want the 2020 cohort to hold their heads high and get the qualifications they deserve,\" he said.\n\nThe education secretary also urged teachers to do all they could safely to meet deadlines and allow young people to get their grades.\n\nHe added that the chief examiner would ensure that awards were made by 4 August so students could secure entrance to further or higher education.\n\nScottish schools will be closing at the end of this week\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said work had started \"at pace\" to develop an alternative certification model.\n\nThe SQA's chief executive Fiona Robertson said: \"I fully appreciate that this will be an uncertain time for learners who have worked hard throughout the year and will now, with their families, be worried about what this means for them.\n\n\"Everyone here at SQA will do their utmost, with the support of the education system, to ensure that their hard work is rightly and fairly recognised, and allows them to proceed to further learning or work.\"\n\nSchools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will also be closing this week.\n\nThe UK government has already announced that GCSEs and A-levels in England and Wales will be cancelled.\n\nSix people have now died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe first minister told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 had risen to 266, an increase of 39 from Wednesday.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon warned the figures were \"likely to be an underestimate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alice Cutter and Mark Jones were found guilty after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA \"Miss Hitler\" contest entrant and her ex-partner have been convicted of being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.\n\nAlice Cutter, 23, and Mark Jones, 25, were found guilty of being members of the neo-Nazi organisation after a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nGarry Jack, 24, and 19-year-old Connor Scothern were also found guilty of being members of the group.\n\nAll four will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nNational Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed under anti-terror legislation three years later after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nJones and Cutter were described as key members of National Action\n\nDuring their trial Cutter, from Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, was described by prosecutors as a \"central spoke\" among the organisation's hardcore members, while Jones, also from Sowerby Bridge, was a \"leader and strategist\".\n\nJurors heard how Cutter had entered the Miss Hitler beauty pageant under the name Miss Buchenwald - a reference to the Second World War death camp.\n\nThey were also told how she had exchanged hundreds of messages, many racist and anti-Semitic, and was still meeting other members months after the ban.\n\nIn an exchange with another National Action member a day after MP Mrs Cox was gunned down, Cutter wrote: \"Rot in hell, bitch.\"\n\nShe claimed not to have considered herself a member, even before the ban, despite attending meetings with group leaders and posing for a Nazi-style salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in 2016.\n\nCutter also attended a demo in York in May 2016.\n\nMr Jones had an \"original wedding edition\" of Mein Kampf\n\nJones, a former member of the British National Party's youth wing, told jurors of his \"feelings of admiration\" for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf.\n\nHe also accepted that he posed for a photograph while holding a National Action flag and giving a Nazi-style salute in Buchenwald's execution chamber on a trip to Germany in 2016.\n\nCutter and Jones embraced in the dock before being taken down to the cells.\n\nGarry Jack, Connor Scothern and Daniel Ward were also convicted or pleaded guilty to being National Action members\n\nAlso convicted of the same offence were two other men; Garry Jack, 24, of Shard End, Birmingham, and 19-year-old Connor Scothern, from Nottingham.\n\nSelf-confessed Nazi Jack was described as a foot soldier in the group, having joined six months before the ban.\n\nScothern, who was a one-time practising Muslim, and an Antifa - anti-fascist activist - before eventually joining National Action, did not give evidence at trial.\n\nBut in messages he sent following the ban in August 2017, he talked of setting up \"a clear and openly fascist youth movement\".\n\nA fifth man, Daniel Ward, 28 from Bartley Green, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to being a member of National Action last year and was jailed for three years.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kenny Bell, of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit said: \"Being convicted of membership of this extreme right terrorist group is the same as belonging to other terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda or Daesh.\n\n\"They share a real toxic extreme ideology which is a danger to the public, the same ideology that we have seen manifested in the tragic attack in New Zealand, the murder of Jo Cox MP and the attack at Finsbury Park mosque in 2017.\n\n\"This group was amassing weapons and recipes for bomb-making. They communicated through secret channels to recruit others to their cause. Left unchecked they presented a real threat to the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charities are working to provide dinners for children on free school meals while pupils are at home\n\nSchool kitchens are being called on to provide dinners for children on free school meals after pupils are sent home due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nCharity Feeding Britain said it was working with schools to provide meals for parents to take home.\n\nOthers are planning to provide food packages to leave on the doorsteps of self-isolating families.\n\nThe prime minister said the government will help parents by providing vouchers to those who receive free school meals.\n\nSchools in England will close on Friday except for looking after the children of key workers and vulnerable children.\n\nIt comes after Scotland and Wales said schools would close from the same day.\n\nAlmost 1.3 million children, about 15% of those in England's state schools, receive free school meals because they come from low income families.\n\nOfficial data showed the need was greatest in parts of London, the north and Midlands where more than one in four pupils were entitled to free meals.\n\nSchools and community centre kitchens are being lined up to prepare meals for children who would normally get one for free during term time.\n\nHowever, Andrew Forsey, of Feeding Britain, said its usual Easter holiday activities, involving crafts and games, would not go ahead.\n\nThe charity is already working with a \"core group\" of schools to use their canteens to produce the meals, whereas in normal holidays they would remain closed.\n\nIts plans would see schools offer hot meals for parents to collect and take home. Others would offer \"cold but nutritious meals\" and in some cases \"particularly vulnerable\" families would have them delivered.\n\nThe charity operates in parts of Yorkshire, Merseyside, Cheshire, Coventry, Bristol, Cornwall, South Shields, Derbyshire and Leicester.\n\nMr Forsey said: \"In a school holiday it's normally a mix of food and activities for children, who have meals together but also some cooking and food-related activities, arts and crafts.\"\n\n\"We'd also deliver food through community events, whereas under these plans we would have to work on the sole purpose of food.\"\n\nAngie Comerford, who works at Hebburn Helps, provides breakfast and lunches to school children during the holidays and said the charity would approach school closures like a \"long Easter holiday\".\n\nAngie Comerford from Hebburn Helps is assisting families who are self-isolating\n\nIt provides hot meals and activities for children across South Tyneside, but as a result of high demand and many families self-isolating, they will only be providing packed lunches to Hebburn and Jarrow.\n\n\"We've got a couple of families who've had to self-isolate, but also kids who have got underlying health issues,\" Ms Comerford said, adding volunteers were leaving food at doorsteps for them to collect.\n\nIn a normal six-week summer holiday, they would provide 1,800 packed lunches.\n\n\"To be honest I haven't got a clue what it'll be this time,\" Ms Comerford said.\n\n\"We do have a couple of quid in the pot, but if anyone can pitch in by providing food or chuck us a couple a quid, that would be good.\"\n\nPupils on free school meals at 25 Co-op Academy schools will be given a £20 voucher for each week of unplanned closure to spend at Co-op supermarkets, chief executive Steve Murrells said.\n\nFood charity Fareshare said it was expecting to see a big demand for the services supporting children who, \"as a result of no longer having access to free school meals, will be at much greater risk of hunger and malnutrition\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said provision was being made to \"supply meals and vouchers\" to children on free school meals.\n\n\"Where some schools are already doing this, I want to make it clear that we will reimburse the cost,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three oil and gas workers with suspected cases of coronavirus have been airlifted from North Sea platforms.\n\nSpecially-configured former search and rescue aircraft, featuring protective curtains and airflow systems, were used for the flights.\n\nOperator Bristow Helicopters said: “The safety, health and welfare of our workforce, customers and the public we support around the world is of the utmost importance to Bristow, which is why we moved quickly to develop a solution for transporting those suspected of contracting the virus.”", "Gas and electricity suppliers have agreed an emergency package of measures to ensure vulnerable people do not get cut off amid a virus outbreak.\n\nMore than four million people who are on prepayment meters will receive help if they cannot get out to top up.\n\nThis may include credit being sent in the post or funds automatically added to their meter.\n\nThose struggling to pay bills will receive support and no credit meter disconnections will take place.\n\nDebt repayments and bill payments could be reassessed, paused or reduced where needed, if energy customers are finding it difficult.\n\nFirms could also send somebody out on a customer's behalf to top up a prepayment meter.\n\n\"While friends and family will play a role in helping people impacted by the coronavirus, we recognise there will be many customers who will need additional support and reassurance, particularly those who are financially impacted or in vulnerable circumstances,\" said Business and Energy Secretary Alok Sharma.\n\nIn a letter to customers, the Energy Networks Association said there were 36,000 people working to keep homes powered.\n\nIt said: \"We look after your gas and electricity networks, and have well-practised contingency plans in place so we can keep your energy flowing. We want to reassure you that we are prepared.\"\n\nDame Gillian Guy, the head of Citizens Advice, said: \"Keeping people on supply, making sure they have warm homes and don't face additional financial or other stresses about their energy supply will be essential.\"\n\nExperts say that people working from home may see a fairly swift rise in energy use, and therefore their bill, although the energy price cap will be lowered in April.\n\nAnna Moss, at Cornwall Insight, said: \"Self-isolating or working from home may mean consumers are using more energy, which for some consumers will pass through quickly to their energy bills. For those customers that fall into the vulnerable bracket, this can be daunting and difficult to manage.\"\n\nHowever, experts add that Britain's gas and electricity grids should be able to keep the lights running during the crisis without much problem.\n\nHaving people stuck at home might even out the peaks in the evening when people usually come back from work, when the strain on the energy system is at its highest.\n\nMeanwhile, as offices and factories shut down, daytime energy use is likely to fall slightly, even as more energy is used in British homes.", "The Queen left Buckingham Palace in a car with two of her dogs\n\nThe Queen has issued a message to the nation on the coronavirus outbreak, saying the UK is “entering a period of great concern and uncertainty”.\n\nThe 93-year-old praised the work of scientists, medics and emergency staff, but added that everyone has a \"vitally important part to play\".\n\nHer message came just ahead of the PM's daily briefing, in which he said the UK could \"turn the tide\" in 12 weeks.\n\nThe monarch said she and her family \"stand ready to play our part\".\n\nThe Queen had already cut short her official duties because of the crisis, and is now at Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nHe was flown there by helicopter from the Sandringham estate where he had been staying.\n\nThe virus has now seen 144 people who tested positive die in the UK.\n\nIn her statement, the Queen said: \"Our nation’s history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one.\n\n\"We are all being advised to change our normal routines and regular patterns of life for the greater good of the communities we live in and, in particular, to protect the most vulnerable within them.\n\n\"At times such as these, I am reminded that our nation's history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one, concentrating our combined efforts with a focus on the common goal.\"\n\nShe added: “Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe. I am certain we are up to that challenge.\n\n\"You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.”\n\nThe Queen's message came after Buckingham Palace announced last week that changes were being made to her diary commitments \"as a sensible precaution\".\n\nShe has cancelled her annual garden parties, along with visits to several UK towns.\n\nThe government is advising everyone in the UK, particularly the over-70s, to avoid all non-essential contact.\n\nThe advanced age of both the Queen, who is the world's longest reigning monarch, and Philip, who is 98, means they are more at risk of complications if they catch the Covid-19 illness.\n\nThey are expected to remain at Windsor beyond Easter with fewer staff, as a precaution.\n\nIn his news briefing, Boris Johnson said he did not know how long the crisis would affect the UK, but said he hoped to \"get on top of it\" within the next three months.\n\nHe said trials of a vaccine were expected to begin within a month and warned he would \"enforce\" Londoners to be kept apart \"if necessary\".\n\nHe also urged businesses to \"stand by their employees\", adding that the chancellor would be making further announcements on Friday.\n\nFrom Friday, all schools in the UK will close their doors to nearly all pupils, except vulnerable ones and the children of key workers.\n\nA full list of key workers, likely to include NHS workers, school staff and delivery drivers, is also expected.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Harry, who is due to step down as a senior royal at the end of the month, has said the Invictus Games he set up have been postponed for a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Invictus Games The Hague 2020\n\nIn a video message, he urged participants to look after fellow servicemen who may be most vulnerable during periods of social isolation.\n\n\"Please look after yourselves, look after your families, please look out for one another\", he said.", "Budget airline EasyJet has asked pilots and cabin crew to agree to sweeping changes in their terms and conditions, as part of its response to coronavirus.\n\nAmong the proposed changes are a freeze on planned pay rises and a requirement to take three months of unpaid leave.\n\nThe airline would also no longer provide food for crew during their shifts, only water.\n\nUnions told members they had failed to reach agreement with the airline and were working on counter-proposals.\n\nHowever, there remains a willingness to make concessions in order to avoid redundancies.\n\nFurther talks between EasyJet and unions representing pilots and cabin crew are expected today.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet's chief executive Johan Lundgren has defended the payment of £170m in dividends to shareholders, at a time when the company is seeking financial help from the government.\n\nEasyJet Chief Executive Johan Lundgren defended the dividend payments to shareholders (pictured in 2018)\n\nOn Wednesday, EasyJet's recently-appointed chief operating officer Peter Bellew met delegates from the pilots' union Balpa and Unite, which represents cabin crew.\n\nUnder discussion was a proposed \"coronavirus cooperation agreement\" setting out changes to employees' terms and conditions. It would be in force from 23 March 2020 until 15 November 2021.\n\nBoth sides acknowledge that action is needed. Travel restrictions across Europe have forced it to cancel many of its flights and ground more than a third of its fleet. The airline needs to save cash, and the unions want to preserve jobs.\n\nHowever, sources say the proposals themselves provoked an angry response.\n\nThe four-page document would allow the airline to cancel pay rises until 2021, make significant changes to working patterns, and allow it to defer pay rises for newly-promoted captains for six months.\n\nPilots in particular seem aggrieved by the plan. According to messages seen by the BBC, negotiators agreed to reject it on the principle that there was \"no evidence that the current crisis warrants such an extensive change in terms and conditions for such a long period, particularly when so many of them are so critically linked to flight safety and fatigue\".\n\nBalpa has refused to comment, as the talks are ongoing.\n\nUnite, meanwhile, has taken a softer tone. The union denied reports it had told the airline that compulsory redundancies were preferable to the deal on the table.\n\n\"Unite is very much still in talks with EasyJet and it is totally untrue to suggest the union has rejected all the company's proposals\", it said in a statement.\n\nHowever, insiders told the BBC they shared concerns that the airline might be using the current crisis as an excuse to change working practices, and erode employees' pay and benefits in the long term.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"EasyJet has met with its employee representatives in the UK to discuss how they can help the airline navigate through these unprecedented times…\n\n\"Like all airlines we are taking every action to remove cost and non-critical expenditure from the business at every level to help mitigate the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet's chief executive has told the BBC the company is asking for government loans to help it weather the crisis.\n\nHe said the company was \"first and foremost\" trying to save cash. But he added: \"Since we don't know how long this thing will last we also think it's appropriate that we're also looking for financing being supported as well from the government.\"\n\nSuch support, he said, would take the form of \"loans on a commercial basis\".\n\nHe defended a £170m dividend to shareholders, due to be made tomorrow, saying it had already been signed off - and the company was legally obliged to make the payment.\n\nEasyJet says Mr Lundgren, Mr Bellew and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Findlay have all elected to take a 20% cut in their monthly salary from April to June.", "The boss of Next has warned that the retailer faces a \"very significant drop in sales\" as a result of the effect of coronavirus on the business.\n\nLord Wolfson said online sales were \"likely to fare better\" than the shops, but would also suffer \"significant losses\".\n\n\"People do not buy a new outfit to stay at home,\" he added.\n\nThe risk to demand is by far the greatest challenge posed by coronavirus, said Lord Wolfson.\n\n\"We need to prepare for a significant downturn in sales for the duration of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nWhen coronavirus first appeared in China, Lord Wolfson said Next assumed that the threat was to its supply chain.\n\nThe warnings were contained in Next's annual results statement, which showed that in the year to January 2020 total group sales rose by 3.3% to £4.36bn, while profit edged up by 0.8% to £728.5m.\n\nOnline sales performed strongly, rising by 11.9% to £2.14bn, but retail sales fell by 5.3% to £1.85bn.\n\nHowever, in the week beginning 8 March sales fell by 8.8% and declined by 30% between 15-17 March.\n\nLord Wolfson said since it had no experience of a similar crisis there was no way of predicting the impact that coronavirus would have on its business.\n\nHe added that the company had carried out a detailed stress test looking at the likely impact on cash and profits of different levels of sales decline.\n\nThese range from a fall in sales of £445m, or 10% of annual turnover, up to a loss of £1bn, the equivalent of 25% of annual turnover.\n\nThe stress test concluded that the business could \"comfortably sustain the loss of more than £1bn (25%) of annual full price sales, without exceeding our current bond and bank facilities\".\n\nThe retailer added that some products were likely to do better than others. So far homeware and childrenswear sales have not been as badly hit as adult clothing, it said.\n\nElsewhere, other businesses have revealed details of how the pandemic is affecting them.", "Well, that was another big day, with a lot of news to digest.\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic for now but we'll continue to bring you updates across the BBC News website until our teams in Asia pick things up.\n\nSo for now, here are the latest headlines:\n• The UK announced it would shut all schools from Friday in a bid to control the spread of the virus. Exams will not go ahead in England and Wales, but decisions are due to be made in Scotland and Northern Ireland\n• The death toll in Britain reached 104 after a further 33 people died. Confirmed cases rose to 2,626\n• The number of deaths in Italy spiked by 475 in one day to nearly 3,000, the biggest increase since the outbreak. There are a total of 35,713 confirmed cases in the country\n• The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, trading at just $1.15 by the end of the day\n• US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to close the US-Canada border to all non-essential travel\n• Mr Trump also said the US government's housing agency would stop repossessing homes until the end of April. Evictions will be suspended over the same time frame\n• Meanwhile, it became clear that many Asian nations are facing an uphill battle to stem the spread of the virus\n• There are now more than 205,000 cases of the virus globally and there have been at least 8,000 deaths\n\nWe leave you with this piece that explains two concepts that many millions will need to familiarise themselves with: social distancing and self-isolation.\n\nAnd, as always, you can find all of our latest coronavirus stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister spoke about why the decision to close schools was taken\n\nSchools in the UK are to shut from Friday until further notice as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable children, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThis academic year's exams will not go ahead in England and Wales; decisions are due to be made in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt came as UK deaths reached 104 after a further 33 people died.\n\nThirty-two were in England and one in Scotland.\n\nConfirmed cases in the UK rose to 2,626 on Wednesday, from 1,950 on Tuesday. There have been 56,221 tests carried out in the UK for Covid-19, of which 53,595 were confirmed negative.\n\nThe government says it plans to more than double the number of tests being carried out in England to 25,000 a day.\n\nNurseries, private schools and sixth forms are also being told to follow the guidance to close their doors.\n\nScotland and Wales earlier said schools would close from Friday while schools in Northern Ireland will close to pupils today and to staff on 23 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NHS TV campaign advert on the virus crisis\n\nMeanwhile the government is bringing forward emergency legislation to protect private renters from eviction after being urged to do more for them\n\nAnd a new advert, fronted by the UK's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and being run across TV, radio and the internet, reminds people to stay at home even if they only have mild symptoms.\n\nQuestions had been asked about why the government had not moved to shut schools until now.\n\nOn Monday, the PM announced a series of new key measures to target the number of coronavirus cases after scientific modelling showed the UK was on course for a \"catastrophic epidemic\".\n\nAs school closures were announced on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said: \"We think now that we must apply further downward pressure with that upward curve by closing schools.\"\n\nHe thanked teachers and head teachers and said that by looking after children of key workers, such as NHS staff, they \"will be a critical part of the fight back\" against coronavirus.\n\nBut he added that children \"should not be left\" with grandparents or others in groups vulnerable to contracting coronavirus.\n\nRevealing the shutdown of schools in England, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told MPs assessments or exams would not go ahead this year and performance tables would not be published.\n\nBut he said officials were working with exam boards \"to ensure that children get the qualifications that they need\".\n\nSchools have already been preparing for a shutdown for some time, with some creating homework packs or setting up ways of working online.\n\nBut there have been concerns about the ability of frontline NHS staff and others to remain in work if their children are not in school.\n\nChief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told BBC One's new daily coronavirus update programme that school is \"not dangerous\" for children during the pandemic, but that the decision to close them would slow the rise of infections.\n\nHe said the government and its advisers were also keen to make it possible for the children of NHS staff to go to school.\n\nSchool closure is something the health officials advising government have been continuously asked about.\n\nTheir stance has always been that while it can suppress a peak - a 15% reduction has been put forward - some of the gain would be offset by the fact children will still mix outside of school. Parents, including health workers, may have to take time off work or grandparents may have to look after them, one of the vulnerable groups they are trying to protect.\n\nWhat is more, children are the age group least likely to get severe symptoms - only 0.2% of cases end up in hospital.\n\nIn the end it has undoubtedly come down to two factors.\n\nFirstly, it might just do enough to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed - as suggested by the new modelling by Imperial College London published on Monday.\n\nSecondly, practicalities - increasing numbers of teachers and children are having to isolate at home and classes and exams would be seriously disrupted in the coming months regardless of what was done.\n\nParents contacting the BBC expressed their concern that predicted grades might be used for results at GCSE and A-level, if pupils did not sit exams.\n\nLone parents and self-employed parents were also worried about coping.\n\nSarah, from Bedfordshire, said: \"I'm worried for myself and my children.\n\n\"I'm already struggling with everyone panic-buying. My children would be in a safer, cleaner environment at school.\"\n\nVictoria, in Belfast, said: \"I am a self-employed mother of twins. I have zero support.\n\n\"Now I have to stay home and look after the children. Where will the money come from?\"\n\nOne student, Alice Simpson, told the BBC: \"We worked so hard and the past two years has always had that long end goal - GCSEs. And it's just got to the point where that's in sight. And now it's not any more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson confirms the government will bring forward legislation “to protect private renters from eviction”.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers General Secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"The government has changed what it expects schools to do. They are to offer reduced access in order to prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable young people and the children of key workers.\"\n\nHe added there were many complicated issues to address as a result of the announcement and the focus would be assisting heads with \"this enormous task\" and making it work on the ground.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said many schools had already drawn up plans to support key workers and vulnerable children.\n\n\"However, this is an exceptionally demanding situation and they will need support. We will be working closely with our members and the Department for Education to this end.\"\n\nIt was the announcement the government did not want to make - shutting down schools indefinitely.\n\nBut as the virus spread its claws further into communities it became inevitable.\n\nHeads and teachers are just as at risk as anyone else, and as more and more staff called in sick - increasing numbers of schools started to fall like dominoes under the weight of this pandemic.\n\nAlthough the decision gives certainty for now - doors will be closed - there is even more uncertainty ahead.\n\nHow long will they remain closed? How will pupils cope with learning from home? Who will look after them?\n\nAnd how will schools manage in their new role as the nation's babysitters for the children of key workers?\n\nPrime Minister's Questions took place in a half-empty House of Commons earlier, after Labour and the Conservatives told MPs not scheduled to raise a query to stay away.\n\nMeanwhile, the weekly face-to-face audience between the Queen and the prime minister was carried out over the phone.\n\nIf you are affected by these planned closures you can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic spooks investors.\n\nIt is currently trading at $1.15, a fall of almost 5% in just one day.\n\nIt comes as financial markets tumbled again after major stimulus plans failed to quell fears about the economic impact of the virus.\n\nThe Dow ended down 6.3%, while the S&P 500 fell 5.1% and the Nasdaq dropped 4.7%.\n\nEarlier the Dow and S&P 500 had plunged more than 7%, triggering an automatic temporary halt to trade, but shares recovered some ground as Congress appeared set to approve a relief bill.\n\nThe pound's weakness could partly stem from questions over how the UK government plans to pay for the emergency economic measures it has introduced, says Neil Wilson, chief analyst for Markets.com.\n\n\"This is the worst sustained period of sterling selling that I can recall,\" he says. \"The government's massive fiscal package undoubtedly means more borrowing for the UK economy - how do we pay for all this?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the FTSE 100 index of top UK firms closed down 4%, with aerospace and travel firms among the hardest hit.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed a £350bn stimulus package for UK firms on Tuesday, including £330bn of business loan guarantees.\n\nIt included aid to cover a business rates holiday and grants for retailers and pubs, while help for airlines is also being considered.\n\nDespite this, investors are still flocking to the comparatively safer dollar, says Ranko Berich, head of Market Analysis at Monex Europe.\n\n\"The UK's response to the incoming coronavirus shock has been about as aggressive as possible in terms of monetary and fiscal policy, but this has done nothing to help sterling.\n\n\"Idiosyncratic factors such as the UK's monetary and fiscal response or Brexit are beside the point: this is about the US dollar, which is proving unstoppable as global financial markets stare into the abyss of crisis-like conditions,\" he said.\n\nInvestors say rescue measures can only blunt the pain, as countries close borders and order mass closures, bringing most economic activity to a halt.\n\nThe US on Tuesday outlined a $1tn (£830bn) proposal to support the world's biggest economy, which is expected to include direct payments to families, small business assistance and bailouts for airlines and other industries.\n\nIn the US, large companies have already announced more than 3,600 job cuts or furloughs, according to research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm said some nine million other jobs at local bars and restaurants could also be at risk.\n\nConcerns about the damage have spurred a widespread sell-off. France's CAC 40 fell more than 6% while Germany's Dax dropped more than 5%.\n\nOil prices also plunged to levels not seen since the early 2000s, as demand contracts sharply, but exporters boost supply. The declines have even hit gold and government debt, which are typically considered less risky assets.\n\nAsian markets have fared better than the US and Europe in recent days, but were also lower. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 ended Wednesday 1.7% lower, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell by 3.3%, and China's Shanghai Composite lost 1.8%.\n\nSterling's fall to a 35-year low against the dollar is clearly troubling.\n\nIt is down 12% since the beginning of last week, and 5% today alone. This is partly down to the strengthening dollar, due to its status as a \"safe haven,\" the inevitable result of global volatility in financial markets amid the Coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut those aren't the only reasons for sterling's weakness. The pound has sunk to to just over €1.06 against the euro- its lowest level since the depth of the financial crisis 11 years ago.\n\nThe pound is likely to be at a record low on measures of its global value, to be calculated tomorrow.\n\nAt the same time, UK government borrowing costs are creeping up, with the presumption these would stay \"lower for longer\" now being tested in global debt markets.\n\nTraders have raised a range of reasons for why the UK is being particularly singled out for attention.\n\nThere is growing expectation of ever bigger fiscal injections to combat the economic impact of the pandemic and the UK is still very dependent on foreign flows of capital.\n\nIts strategy for dealing with the pandemic was seen, say traders, as an outlier amongst the world's major economies.\n\nThen there is Brexit. The UK has the extra economic challenge of dealing with a fundamental change to trading arrangements with the EU, perhaps on WTO tariffs, in the middle of this pandemic.\n\nIt is a very rough market out there, with some markets a little dysfunctional as traders are isolated away from their trading floors. But the UK is being singled out for especially tough treatment.", "Online shopping delivery service Ocado has suspended its online food delivery service, blaming higher demand than it can meet.\n\nOcado said existing customers with orders would still receive them.\n\nMeanwhile, supermarkets have introduced strict limits on how many goods people can buy to try to curb stockpiling as the coronavirus pandemic escalates.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's and Asda will now stop shoppers buying more than three of any particular food item.\n\nSainsbury's has also said it will prioritise vulnerable and elderly people for online deliveries.\n\nOcado said it was experiencing \"a simply staggering amount of traffic\" to its website and more demand for products and deliveries than it could meet.\n\n\"This temporary closure will allow us to complete essential work that will help to make sure distribution of products and delivery slots is as fair and accessible as possible for all our loyal customers,\" it added.\n\nAsda and Sainsbury's buying restrictions will also apply to cleaning and toiletry products, while Tesco's limits will apply to all products.\n\n\"If you could help us by limiting demand of essential items and allowing us to focus on the core needs of our customers - we are confident that we can continue to feed the nation,\" said Tesco.\n\nAsda said it had seen \"a heightened demand\" for products both in stores and online.\n\n\"We have plenty of products to go around, but we have a responsibility to do the right thing for our communities to help our customers look after their loved ones in a time of need,\" it added.\n\nAsda told the BBC that cashiers and customers using self-checkout would not be able to scan more than three of the same restricted items. Sainsbury's said it was updating its tills to reflect the limits.\n\nAldi has already introduced limits of four items per shopper on all products, while Morrisons has said it will expand its online delivery service.\n\nConsumers left shelves empty in one London Sainsbury's store as stockpiling continues\n\nOther retailers including Tesco and Boots have set limits on particularly popular products such as pasta, tissues and hand sanitiser.\n\nBoots chief executive Sebastian James said the issue was not supply, but demand.\n\n\"No supply chain can survive a sudden, unexpected global ten-fold increase in demand. And what we thought was incredibly important was that as many people as possible could get what they actually needed,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nSupermarkets' online delivery services have also been overwhelmed by the surge in demand. Before Ocado suspended its whole service it had taken down its app due to the spike in orders.\n\nOthers meanwhile vented their frustration on Twitter at being one of thousands in a virtual queue to place a food order.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gemma Brown MCMI MCIM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 businesses have also announced new measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, including:\n\nSupermarket chain Sainsbury's already had a two-item limit on its most popular goods, including toilet paper, soap and long-life milk. From 23 March, it said disabled customers and those over 70 will be given priority for online delivery slots.\n\nAnd on 19 March the first hour of shopping will be dedicated to older and vulnerable people in its 600 UK stores.\n\nThe chain follows other supermarkets in introducing reserved time slots for the elderly. They include Iceland outlets across the country and all 39 Lidl stores in Northern Ireland.\n\nSainsbury's told the BBC that it would consider future dedicated shopping hours \"in line with government guidance\", after the one-off on Thursday.\n\nShoppers have been emptying shelves around the UK during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe added it was \"focusing all of our efforts on getting as much food and other essential items from our suppliers, into our warehouses and onto shelves as we possibly can.\n\n\"We still have enough food for everyone - if we all just buy what we need for us and our families.\"\n\nMr Coupe confirmed that it was closing its cafes as well as its fish, pizza and meat counters to free up more staff to work on \"keeping the shelves as well stocked as possible.\"\n\nAsda will also temporarily shut down its \"non-essential\" services including its rotisserie and pizza counters to free up its workers and space in its warehouses.\n\nThe announcements came as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps signed off a temporary relaxation of drivers' hours rules to deliver goods to stores around the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Department for Transport statement said the rule change applies only to drivers supplying food and \"essential products to supermarkets\".\n\nSainsbury's competitor Morrisons said on Tuesday it is creating 3,500 jobs to meet surging demand for its home delivery service caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe chain said it would be recruiting 2,500 pickers and drivers and hiring about 1,000 people to work in distribution centres.\n\nIn its preliminary results for the week ending 2 February, its chief executive David Potts said retailers were \"facing unprecedented challenges\" when dealing with Covid-19.\n\nDespite the increased uncertainty, it said it had seen sales increase in recent weeks due to customers stockpiling.", "The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched an emergency €750bn ($820bn; £700bn) package to ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt will buy government and company debt across the eurozone, including that of troubled Greece and Italy.\n\nECB boss Christine Lagarde tweeted \"there are no limits\" to its commitment to the euro.\n\nIn recent weeks central banks and governments around the world have announced major stimulus plans.\n\nThe so-called Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme comes just six days after the ECB unveiled measures that failed to calm markets, piling pressure on it to do more to support Europe's economies.\n\nAnnouncing this latest move Ms Lagarde said the ECB will do everything in its powers to support the euro in these \"extraordinary times\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Christine Lagarde This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 asset purchasing scheme will be temporary and be concluded once the ECB \"judges that the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis phase is over, but in any case not before the end of the year\", it said in statement.\n\nThe announcement came after the bank's 25-member governing council held emergency talks by phone late into Wednesday evening.\n\nIn recent days the ECB had been criticised for not doing enough to support the eurozone compared to the drastic action taken by the US Federal Reserve.\n\nOn Sunday the Fed cut interest rates to almost zero and launched a $700bn (£604bn) stimulus programme.\n\nIt was part of co-ordinated action launched by the UK, Japan, eurozone, Canada and Switzerland.\n\nAs part of that announcement, the Fed said it would work with other central banks to increase the availability of dollars for commercial banks.\n\nThese so-called currency swap lines were an important tool in maintaining financial stability after the 2008 banking crisis.\n\n\"Today's coordinated action by major central banks will improve global liquidity by lowering the price and extending the maximum term of US dollar lending operations,\" Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said in a joint statement with Andrew Bailey, who succeeded him as BoE chief on Monday.\n\nThe Bank of Japan also eased monetary policy by pledging to buy risky assets at double the current pace and announced a new loan programme to extend one-year, zero-rate loans to financial institutions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"This is going to be finite - we will turn the tide around and see how to do it, within the next 12 weeks\"\n\nThe UK can \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus crisis within 12 weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nBut pressed on what he meant by the three-month timescale, he said he did not know how long it would go on for.\n\nHe said trials on a vaccine were expected to begin within a month and warned he would \"enforce\" Londoners to be kept apart \"if necessary\".\n\nEarlier, in a message to the nation, the Queen urged people to come together for the common good.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I believe that a combination of the measures that we're asking the public to take and better testing, scientific progress, will enable us to get on top of it within the next 12 weeks and turn the tide.\n\n\"I cannot stand here and tell you that by the end of June that we will be on the downward slope.\n\n\"It's possible but I simply can't say that that's for certain,\" he added.\n\n\"We don't know how long this thing will go on for. But what I can say is that this is going to be finite.\"\n\nEarlier Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific officer, was also asked how long it would go on for.\n\n\"We are dealing with a brand new virus. We are dealing with learning as we go on and I think now to put absolute timelines on things is not possible.\"\n\nIn the press conference on Thursday evening, Mr Johnson ruled out closing down public transport in London but pointed out people in some parts of London were not following government guidance on social distancing and would be \"enforced\" to do so if necessary.\n\n\"I know how difficult it may be or it may seem right now, but if we do this together, we will save many, many thousands of lives,\" he added.\n\nHe also urged businesses to stand by their employees \"because we will stand by you\", adding that his chancellor would be making further announcements on Friday.\n\nLater, Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to rush protective personal equipment (PPE) to frontline NHS staff and social care providers, following concern workers were being put at risk by shortages.\n\nSpeaking on BBC1's Question Time, Mr Hancock said the UK had shipped 2.6 million masks and 10,000 bottles of hand sanitiser in the last 24 hours.\n\nHe promised that \"overnight 150 hospitals will get the next pack of protective equipment they need… every single hospital will get their next batch of equipment before Sunday night\".\n\nHe also confirmed social care providers would get a package of personal protective equipment by the end of next week.\n\nIn response to a government appeal for more ventilator makers, 1,400 companies had offered to switch their operations to help manufacturer them, including Formula One, he said.\n\nHe added that officials would work with leading companies to radically increase the number of coronavirus tests, after the government pledged 25,000 tests per day within four weeks.\n\nHe also said the government has bought a test which can detect whether someone has had coronavirus - and their immunity to it.\n\nThe press conference came as Italy's death toll rose by 427 to 3,405, overtaking China's toll.\n\nIn the UK, 144 people with coronavirus have died, and 3,269 people have tested positive for it.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, warned there would be a \"lag\" before the public's efforts to stem the spread of the virus would slow down case numbers.\n\nHe said there would be a \"global issue\" in the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), saying NHS workers were right to complain about the shortages.\n\nIn other developments across the globe:\n\nThe Queen, who is now in Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh, said in her statement that the world was \"entering a period of great uncertainty\" and every individual had \"a vitally important part to play\".\n\n\"Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe - I am certain we are up to that challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.\"\n\nEven if the tide starts to turn in 12 weeks and the number of cases starts to fall, then we will still be far from the end.\n\nIt can take a long time for the tide to go out.\n\nIt is clear the current strategy of shutting down large parts of society is not sustainable in the long-term.\n\nBut the coronavirus is not going to disappear.\n\nFor as long as large numbers of people in the UK have no immunity then cases will soar as soon as restrictions are lifted.\n\nA vaccine would help, but that could be 18 months away.\n\nIf enough people are exposed and become immune then that would help too, however, this is likely to take even longer than a vaccine.\n\nEfforts to rigorously test and then isolate anyone infected can help suppress the numbers of people infected. But this is what we were doing just a few weeks ago.\n\nWe may enter a period of restrictions being lifted and then re-imposed until a long-term solution is found.\n\nFrom Friday, all schools in the UK will close their doors to nearly all pupils, except vulnerable ones and the children of key workers.\n\nA full list of key workers, likely to include NHS workers, school staff and delivery drivers, is expected later.\n\nIn Wales, parents were told by education minister Kirsty Williams that schools may not reopen until September.\n\nAll summer exams in England, Wales and Scotland have been cancelled.\n\nA level and GCSE exams in Northern Ireland will not go ahead this summer but pupils will get results, the education minister Peter Weir said.\n\nIn other developments in the UK:", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEnglish football will be suspended until at least 30 April because of the continued spread of coronavirus.\n\nAll games in England's Premier League, EFL, Women's Super League and Women's Championship, and all fixtures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, are currently postponed.\n\nThe Football Association has also agreed that the current season can be \"extended indefinitely\".\n\nUnder current rules the season had been scheduled to end on 1 June.\n\nA joint statement issued by the FA, Premier League and EFL expressed \"a commitment to finding ways of resuming the 2019-20 season\" and completing all domestic and European matches \"as soon as it is safe and possible to do so\".\n• None Q&A: What does extension mean for English football?\n• None Man Utd to pay casual matchday staff even if season is cancelled\n\nLast week, West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady said the current season should be declared null and void.\n\nFA chairman Greg Clarke also expressed his concern that it might prove impossible for the season to be concluded.\n\nHowever Brighton chief executive Paul Barber told the BBC that it would be \"unjust\" if runaway leaders Liverpool were denied the title, and suggested increasing the league to 22 teams for 2020-21.\n\nFifa has also established a working group to tackle the issues facing football as a result of the pandemic. The group will look at the international fixture calendar, and issues around player contracts.\n\nPlayer contracts typically expire on 30 June but many leagues, if resumed, look likely to continue beyond that date.\n\nThe postponement of Euro 2020 has opened up a window for domestic league fixtures to take place in June.\n\nHowever, the UK government has effectively banned sports events for the time being by advising against mass gatherings.\n\nIf that restriction is not lifted, some clubs are understood to be open to playing matches behind closed doors in order to get the season completed.\n\nAnd, with broadcast rights-holders Sky and BT reportedly entitled to claim a total of £750m in refunds if the campaign does not resume, the Premier League is determined to do everything possible to honour its commercial contracts.\n\nIt is not yet clear, however, when the season may start again or finish, and whether it has a knock-on effect on next year's campaign.\n\n'We could have finished our season'\n\nForest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince said suspending all professional matches on 13 March was a \"mistake\" because the virus had \"barely impacted the country\" by that stage.\n\n\"I think cancelling all games until 3 April was a mistake,\" Dale told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I think it was an error of judgment - there were a few cases in the Premier League of self-isolation.\n\n\"In that three to four week period we could have virtually finished our season playing Saturday to Tuesday.\n\n\"Instead of shutting down I would have doubled down and said let's play our way to the end of the season as soon as possible because the virus and the rate of infection across the county is not going to get better in two, three or four months.\"\n\nForest Green are 11th in League Two, nine points outside the play-offs, and Dale has welcomed the EFL's financial effort to supports its clubs as \"all good positive stuff\".\n\n\"My appreciation is not purely personal at all. It is for the whole of the league, the whole of the EFL. It is a good thing,\" he added. \"They have done the right thing for all of us.\"\n\nPremier League Arsenal support the decision to further postpone play until 30 April, after their manager Mikel Arteta tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nSince the confirmation of Arteta's illness, the club say their \"training centres in London Colney and Hale End were closed for deep cleaning\".\n\n\"We have now reopened with a small workforce to maintain the facilities and training pitches, while a number of staff, including Mikel and the men's first team squad, are currently isolating at home, \" said a club statement.\n\n\"We're pleased to say that Mikel is feeling much better. He's in good spirits, doing detailed planning with the coaches and speaking to the players regularly.\"", "With the number of coronavirus patients rising around the world, children are being exposed to information and misinformation from many sources. How can parents best keep them up to date without terrifying them?\n\nCoronavirus is dominating the news and children, as always, are asking direct, difficult questions about what's going to happen.\n\nWhile the risk of young people being seriously affected by the virus appears low, doom-laden social media posts and playground rumours can induce panic.\n\nStories of deaths, possible food shortages and school closures, and the circulation of phrases like \"pandemic potential\" can add to a sense of alarm.\n\nSo tone is vital when discussing coronavirus with a child, advises Angharad Rudkin, clinical psychologist and consultant on the parenting book What's My Child Thinking?\n\n\"We all enjoy scare stories to a degree, but we don't like to hear them quite so much when they're a bit closer to home,\" she says. \"Help your child put some distance between them and the threat by giving information about how coronavirus is spread and what we can do to help minimise the risk such as using loads of lovely bubbles when washing our hands.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCovid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus which seems to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. After about a week, it leads to shortness of breath and some patients require hospital treatment.\n\nMedics aren't sure exactly how it spreads from person to person, but similar viruses do so via droplets, such as those produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.\n\nIt's essential to talk to a child about things he or she can control, such as disposing of tissues and personal hygiene, Dr Rudkin says, rather than those they cannot.\n\nOnce the explanation is over, the conversation should move on to something that \"isn't threatening, such as what they had for lunch or who do they think is going to win the football match this evening\", she adds.\n\nThe virus could affect millions of people around the world soon. The UK government says, in its latest plans, that up to a fifth of workers could be off sick at the peak of an epidemic, with school closures possible.\n\nOne problem in explaining the virus is that it's difficult to predict what will happen, though early, albeit limited, evidence suggests children with Covid-19 have tended to show mild symptoms.\n\nWhile parents have long experience in explaining global threats - war, terrorism and climate change - pre-adolescent children are still developing their ability to assess risk, says Dr Rudkin. So it's important to find out what their level of worry over coronavirus is.\n\n\"Be clear that you don't know all of the answers but that there are people making decisions for us who have all the information they need.\"\n\nParents, in turn, should be as informed as possible before explaining issues to children, including keeping up with official advice, Dr Rudkin says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wash your hands: 30-second guide\n\nIn the event that a boy or girl catches coronavirus, parents are advised not to overplay any risk to their health.\n\n\"You could tell them it's 'a bit like feeling sore', so they get to see it's not as dreadful as they might believe,\" Jon Gilmartin, a speech language therapist at the children's communication charity I Can, says.\n\nOlder people and those with existing health conditions are thought to be most at risk of death or serious sickness from catching coronavirus. This could lead children to worry about older friends and relatives.\n\nDr Rudkin advises honesty over the argument \"we will all die eventually but chances are not until we are really, really old\".\n\n\"But we can talk about it with a smile and use humour, or at least a lightness of touch, that doesn't then plummet our children into an existential pit they really don't need to be in, until they're 13 at least,\" she adds. \"Reassure your child that you and granddad are really fit and strong and that you will continue to do all you can to keep yourself/granddad healthy and safe.\"\n\nChildren's capacity to deal with complex and worrying information increases with age, so the way a parent speaks to a three-year-old is very different to dealing with a teenager - and it involves a personal judgement.\n\nBut Mr Gilmartin suggests the use of \"simple language\" for all age groups and allowing children to ask \"lots of questions\" to show they're being listened to.\n\nParents who themselves are looking for the right language to use, could start with the BBC's Newsround coverage.\n\nChildren, like the rest of the population, are exposed to myths and misinformation about coronavirus, via playground gossip and, particularly among pre-teens and teenagers, on social media.\n\nThe best way to combat this is providing \"age-appropriate information and reassurance\", says Dr Rudkin, as the source young people trust best is a parent.", "The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nThe Home Office showed “ignorance and thoughtlessness” on the issue of race, a review of the Windrush scandal says.\n\nThe long-awaited review comes after some of those who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries were wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nThere was a “profound institutional failure” which turned thousands of people’s lives upside down, it said.\n\nWarnings about the “hostile environment” policy were “not heeded”, the review concludes.\n\nReport writer Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary, called on the government to provide an “unqualified apology” to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons Home Secretary Priti Patel said there was \"nothing I can say to undo the pain\" but added \"on behalf of this and successive governments I am truly sorry for the actions that span decades\".\n\nMs Patel said people from the Windrush generation were subject to \"insensitive treatment by the very country they called home\".\n\n\"I am sorry that people's trust has been betrayed.\"\n\nShe added that those who were eligible would receive compensation.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott told the home secretary that: \"People will believe her apology when they see her genuinely seek to implement the recommendations in the review.\"\n\nMs Abbott, whose mother was a member of the Windrush generation, said for those affected \"it isn't necessarily the money, the inconvenience or the tragedy of being deported, it is the insult to people who always believed they were British.\"\n\nTheresa May, who was prime minister when the scandal came to light, added her own apology to the home secretary's. \"They [the Windrush generation] should not have been treated in this way,\" she said.\n\nThe 275-page report says the “root cause“ of the scandal can be traced back to legislation of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, some of which had “racial motivations”.\n\n“Race clearly played a part in what occurred”, said Ms Williams, adding that some failings could be indicators of “indirect discrimination”.\n\n“The factors that I identified demonstrate an institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation.\n\n“These aspects were among those included in the elements of the definition of institutional racism considered in the Macpherson inquiry [which looked into the murder of Stephen Lawrence].\n\n“Operational and organisational failings” at the Home Office had a “causative impact” on the “detrimental” way Windrush migrants were treated.\n\nThey were “caught up in measures designed for people who have no right to be in the UK”.\n\nProtests against deportation flights were held outside the Jamaican embassy in London this year\n\nMs Williams says she spoke to former Home Secretaries Amber Rudd - who resigned over the affair in 2018 - Theresa May, Alan Johnson and Jacqui Smith.\n\nCommenting on speculation that the document has been watered down, with a finding that the Home Office is institutionally racist removed, she said:\n\n“If anyone thinks I’ve pulled my punches I’d be very surprised indeed.”\n\nAmong 30 recommendations, the review says the Home Office should set up a full review of the hostile environment policy, appoint a Migrants Commissioner, develop a programme of cultural change for the department and establish a race advisory board.\n\nDavid Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the Windrush scandal had exposed \"deep flaws\" in the UK's immigration system.\n\nHe added: \"This independent review underlines many of our serious and long-standing concerns about the impact of the government's hostile environment policies on some groups. These are highly significant findings and we will be using our legal powers so this does not happen again.\"\n\nToday’s review is a damning indictment of Home Office immigration policy which goes as far back as the 1960s, with race being a significant factor.\n\nThis comprehensive report attempts to draw a line under the government’s woeful action but many Caribbean migrants have lost faith and fear the UK immigration system.\n\nThey’ve been put through years and in some cases decades of misery.\n\nBroken families, shattered careers and being denied NHS healthcare won’t be forgotten anytime soon.\n\nMeanwhile those who were wrongly deported or detained say the way they’ve been mistreated is unforgivable.\n\nThe government’s compensation scheme has also been heavily criticised with victims claiming it’s taking too long to access the financial support they’ve been promised.\n\nMany of these communities have lost complete trust in the government and the chances of restoring it are slim.\n\nThe Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been called the Windrush generation, a reference to a ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed despite living in the country for decades, resulting in a furious backlash over their treatment.\n\nThe scandal prompted criticism of \"hostile environment\" measures introduced to tackle illegal immigration.", "NHS staff say they are being put at risk during the coronavirus outbreak because of a lack of protective gear.\n\nOne doctor told the BBC that frontline healthcare workers felt like \"cannon fodder\" as they do not have access to equipment such as face masks.\n\nHealth workers also expressed concerns that not enough of them were being tested for the virus.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK had \"stockpiles\" of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, from lobbying group the Doctors' Association, said she had heard from doctors who had not got access to PPE - or it had expired or run out.\n\n\"All these doctors are worried that that's increasing their likelihood of contracting the virus and then ultimately spreading it to patients,\" she said.\n\nDr Frances Mair said her GP practice in Scotland - \"like many others\" - still did not have \"the PPE that we require to keep us safe\".\n\nShe told BBC Newsnight that they had been told they would have it by 23 March but added \"that still seems late\".\n\nDr Frances Mair says patients at her GP practice in Scotland are being put at risk\n\n\"Doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals want to do the best in this pandemic and we want to look after our patients and support people who are ill but not having the correct or the best protective gear puts us and patients at risk,\" she said.\n\n\"It's very disheartening when you hear of colleagues talking about the way that they feel they are like cannon fodder, sent out to die.\"\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, who works in A&E at Luton and Dunstable general hospital, said he was only wearing a surgical mask to treat some patients, but not others being treated for non-coronavirus-related issues who \"may still be highly infectious\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Emma Barnett show: \"We're fighting an invisible enemy, blindfolded, with both hands tied behind our backs and healthcare workers are at grave risk.\"\n\nHe compared the conditions medical staff would be working in to a warzone, saying the number of health workers who fell ill in China showed the severity of the situation.\n\nHealth workers could face more risk because they may be exposed to higher doses of the virus.\n\nA GP from Somerset, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC: \"We're underprepared, under protected and under resourced. A recipe for disaster.\"\n\nAsked during Prime Minister's Questions about the shortage of PPE, Mr Johnson said: \"Our NHS should feel that they are able to interact with patients with perfect security and protection.\n\n\"There is a massive effort going on, comparable to the effort to build enough ventilators, to ensure that we have adequate supplies of PPE equipment not just now, but throughout the outbreak.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said it has \"well-established procedures to deal with supply issues, should they arise\".\n\nThe UK is going to start doing 25,000 tests per day\n\nSome doctors have also called for more testing for the virus among NHS workers to prevent any unnecessary absences.\n\nIszy Lord, 25, works at a hospital in Grimsby and lives with five other doctors - they are all self-isolating for 14 days after some of them developed symptoms.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The potential implications for self-isolating people without testing are huge.\n\n\"What's going to happen if anyone gets anything resembling a cold for the next few months, are we going to have to self-isolate for 14 days each time? It's alarming.\"\n\n\"The NHS is busy and overstretched. If we are tested and don't have the virus, we could be back at work in two to three days rather than two weeks.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn raised the issue in the House of Commons, saying current levels of 10,000 tests per day was \"nowhere near even the number of people working in the NHS and the care sector\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson announced that the UK would be increasing the number of tests per day from 10,000 to 25,000 and was \"prioritising testing\" for NHS staff.\n\nHowever, the British Medical Association tweeted that his claim was not reflected by \"the experiences of our members at the frontline of the health service and is something we are pushing to be resolved as a matter of urgency\".", "Labour's Andy Burnham asks about help for low income workers Image caption: Labour's Andy Burnham asks about help for low income workers\n\nAs we said, Health Secretary Matt Hancock is being questioned about the help for businesses. He's pushed hard by Labour Mayor Andy Burnham ahead of an announcement by the chancellor tomorrow on more support.\n\nMr Burnham says he has a lot of sympathy for the government, but they have \"taken a lot of measures that sounded good but they have not given all the answers\".\n\nThe former minister accuses the government of \"doing the least for people who need help the most\" - such as those in insecure employment, the self-employed, and those already on benefits out of work.\n\n\"Those people can't follow government advice to self isolate, they have to go into work, they should have been first group to be helped,\" adds Mr Burnham.\n\nMr Hancock says the government changed rules in the Budget just a week ago to help those people, and agrees the government must help businesses to keep people in work \"because it is the best way to be ready to bounce back\".\n\nHe refuses to reveal what the Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce tomorrow when it comes to the amount people are given on statutory sick pay - around £94 per week - but concludes: \"Mark my words, we will do everything we can to make sure people are supported through this.\"", "The Queen has praised scientists, medical practitioners and those working in the emergency and public services in a statement this afternoon.\n\n\"We are all being advised to change our normal routines and regular patterns of life for the greater good of the communities we live in and, in particular, to protect the most vulnerable within them,\" she said.\n\n\"At times such as these, I am reminded that our nation’s history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one, concentrating our combined efforts with a focus on the common goal.\n\n\"We are enormously thankful for the expertise and commitment of our scientists, medical practitioners and emergency and public services; but now more than any time in our recent past, we all have a vitally important part to play as individuals - today and in the coming days, weeks and months.\n\n\"Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe. I am certain we are up to that challenge. You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.\"", "Eloise Rickman says if all parents did was read until August they would be setting them up for a good education\n\n“Whether you’re living in a massive six bedroom house or all sharing a smaller two-bed flat, we’re all going to feel the walls closing in a little bit more,” says Eloise Rickman, who runs courses on home-schooling.\n\nFeeling cooped up might be just one of several potential knock-on effects as more families self-isolate together following the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe government’s current advice is that if anyone develops symptoms, everyone they live with must self-isolate. And now schools in the UK are to close over coming days for most children.\n\nAmong the families in quarantine are Annie Ridout, 34, her husband and their three young children. Two of her children have developed symptoms.\n\n“It’s a very weird time,” she said. “We are focusing on getting through it and being as upbeat as we can.”\n\nMs Ridout, who teaches online courses for freelancers and entrepreneurs, says she has created a daily schedule for her school-age children.\n\n“An hour of maths, my husband has been doing that in the morning. And then an hour of reading and writing. There will be creative time, artwork, and then time in the garden, digging and getting muddy. And that will be it.”\n\nAnnie Ridout and two of her young children who are off school\n\nShe says originally she planned a schedule with 30-minute chunks, but it’s now less rigid and more focused on ticking off tasks each day. “We had to loosen up in terms of accepting they are going to watch telly,” she says.\n\nMs Rickman, from south London, agrees that a schedule is important - especially for children who are already at nursery or school and will be used to routine.\n\n“Children really thrive on predictability, especially when life is changing around them,” she says.\n\nBut the 31-year-old, who already home-schools her children, stresses that any schedule should be more like a “flow” - rather than something strict.\n\nShe suggests creating weekly or daily activities and then read the plan out or “stick it on the wall”.\n\n“Maybe Wednesdays have a family film afternoon. Or give teenagers some private time to Skype their friends,” she suggests.\n\nEducational psychologist Zubeida Dasgupta also stressed the importance of structure, from her home in Brighton and Hove where she and her family are also currently self-isolating.\n\n“We know when people are faced with uncertainty or worry, having some certainties, for example through a bit of structure, could really help,” she says.\n\n“Although on the face of it, some children may feel excited by being off school, the reality is weeks - or months - on end playing Xbox and watching movies may not be as fun as we think.\n\n“It’s about getting a balance - having a structure and integrating some fun,” she says. “It might be helpful to think about how we distinguish weekdays and weekends.”\n\nIn terms of schoolwork, some schools and teachers have already spoken about the possibility of setting work for pupils to access online.\n\nThe current health crisis is certainly a “unique situation” for schooling, says Ms Rickman.\n\n“For parents who are suddenly plunged into it, I think it could be a challenge.”\n\nBut she adds: “I have had a few messages from families who said they have always wanted to try home-schooling and are looking forward to doing it for the first time.”\n\nShe says the most important thing in home-schooling is family relationships. A lot of siblings will not be used to being together all day, and “that’s a lovely opportunity to build and strengthen your family relationships - but it will come with some bumps in the road”.\n\nShe suggests parents try and carve out some one-on-one time with the children.\n\nThinking about the environment is also important, she says - but “this is not about setting up a classroom in the living room”.\n\nShe suggests making spaces for children to do arts or craft - for example covering a coffee table with newspaper and arranging pens in mugs - and even moving furniture.\n\n“If you don’t want the kids looking at the TV for five hours a day, think do we need to rejig the furniture? Do we want to think about pushing tables back so the kids have space to run about, especially if you have a flat.”\n\n\"This is a time we need to prepare for our houses to be a bit messier. Having kids about all day, it’s going to get messy.”\n\nAnd she says learning at home is not simply replicating school at home. It’s not necessary to do six hours of learning like in school, she says, as lessons will be one-on-one and so more intense.\n\nBut it’s not just the children who may be impacted as whole families in isolation. Parents too could find it a challenge.\n\nSpending hours on end every day with your children can be difficult, says Ms Rickman. She says the first piece of advice she would give to parents who are with their children at home is to “think about yourself first”.\n\n“Our children respond so much to ourselves and our leadership,” she says. “Especially now when things are being disrupted. I would say as a parent the best thing to focus on before you go down rabbit holes looking for curriculum is to think about how to support yourself first because you are that bedrock.\n\n“Even just opening a window and taking 10 deep breaths, doing a free three-minute meditation or writing down 10 things you’re grateful for. And things like limiting how much news you’re taking in in a day”\n\nThe advice for parents is also reiterated by educational psychologist Ms Dasgupta.\n\n“People need space and time on their own”, she says, urging families to have conversations to negotiate uninterrupted time alone.\n\nMs Dasgupta says social contact with the outside world is also vital, as well as exercise, such as going for a walk where you won't bump into anyone. If you are self-isolating after having symptoms, the NHS advises not going for a walk.\n\n“Being together could feel a little like cabin fever, not just being in the space for so long but also interacting only with the people in your immediate family,\" says Ms Dasgupta. \"Thank God for being able to Skype and WhatsApp.”\n\nBut there are positives, she adds.\n\n“I suppose the positives are we can spend some time together, some nice, unhurried time. We don’t have to get to places and juggle all the different commitments.\n\n“You can slow down. It can help you enjoy the moment a little bit more.\"", "Laila and Jack are having to adjust to life without school\n\n\"They're quite scared at the moment, if I'm honest,\" says Lucy of her children, Laila, 11, and Jack, 10.\n\n\"They're worried they're going to catch it, they're wondering when they'll see their friends again.\"\n\nJack is already at home - the closure of his special-needs school was announced on Wednesday evening.\n\nHe has autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his behaviour \"can be very challenging when he hasn't got a routine\", says Lucy, from Harefield, in outer London.\n\nAnd she is worried about him and his school friends.\n\n\"It will be a nightmare to get them back to school if they've had a long time off,\" she says.\n\nLaila, who will also be home for the foreseeable future when her school closes, on Friday, is disappointed not to be sitting her Year 6 national curriculum tests, often known as Sats.\n\n\"She's worked hard to get herself up from being an underachiever to being on target,\" Lucy says.\n\n\"It all feels like such a waste.\"\n\nAnd Lucy is also worried about her own job security, having just started work as a receptionist in a special-needs high school.\n\nAlice, a nurse in a doctors' surgery, is hoping her job will allow her 11-year-old son one of the few school places allocated to the children of key workers.\n\n\"Although my boy would much prefer to stay off school, I would like him to continue,\" she says.\n\nBut Tanya, a GP married to a hospital doctor, is worried about the risk of contagion to her two children if they remain at school.\n\n\"My children are already exposed to my husband and myself and now they will be exposed at school to other children and teachers, she says.\n\n\"I didn't sign up to do a job to put my children at risk.\n\n\"There's just been an assumption that we will just do this.\n\n\"More testing of front-line staff would help.\n\n\"At least then there could be more staff, because at the moment they have to self-isolate without knowing whether they have it or not.\"\n\nA-level student Caitlin Smith is hoping for a place at Durham University\n\nA-level student Caitlin Smith, 18, from Leeds, says the uncertainty is \"driving me absolutely nuts\".\n\n\"Our lives revolve around education,\" she tells BBC News.\n\n\"I get up I go to sixth-form and then I stay at the library.\n\n\"By the time I finish, I've done a 12 hour day\n\n\"We've been working for these exams for so long and been told to be revising since December.\n\n\"Now, I don't really know what to do with myself.\n\n\"I guess I can catch up on Netflix series I've been meaning to watch.\"\n\nHer predicted grades could help win her a place at the University of Durham, Caitlin says, but she fears missing out on apprenticeship schemes with law firms in the city.\n\n\"I applied for them, thinking I'd be able to get the right grades and show my full potential in the exams,\" she says.\n\n\"I know I've worked hard over the last two years.\n\n\"But for other people who have maybe gone through that time thinking that it'd be the exams that really count - for some, it won't be an accurate representation of their abilities.\n\n\"Some people need that adrenaline that comes to you in the exams.\n\n\"I think my results from my mock exams would have gone up a grade or so.\"\n\nCaitlin is \"trying not to be so critical\" of the government, however, \"because I couldn't do a better job\".\n\nShe adds: \"Obviously if we move these exams back a year, that's going to push everything back for the next year.\n\n\"So, realistically, we need to get our year group through.\"\n\nMary, a mother of teenagers in Scarborough, says her younger daughter is very sporty and will feel the loss of her clubs and competitions acutely.\n\nShe is also concerned that some of her children's more vulnerable classmates who come from difficult backgrounds will be hit particularly badly once schools and youth clubs close their doors.\n\n\"School offers children with difficult lives some sort of stability.\n\n\"This loss of infrastructure will have an immediate impact.\n\n\"How are we going to keep them onside without it?\"\n\nFor workers not regarded as key, trying to hold down a job while looking after young children is another concern - and there are financial worries, too.\n\nIn Essex, Marta, an accountant, says she pays £400 for after-school clubs for her children, aged four and seven, and she doesn't want to stop the direct debt for fear of losing their places.\n\n\"Now that my kids will be at home full-time I'm expecting my grocery bill to rise.\n\n\"I will have to keep them occupied and entertained while at the same time working.\"\n\nMeanwhile in north London, Victoria says her daughter's school has already shut down all classes apart from the exam years because of staff shortages.\n\nAnd being at school had become \"increasingly odd\" for both her children.\n\n\"Initially they were quite excited at getting time off school,\" she says.\n\nBut now the announcement has come, \"they're quite anxious, not joyous\", because there is so much uncertainty about how long the closures will be and when they will see their friends again.\n\n\"I'm trying to keep them calm - telling them they're fit and probably won't get it and it will pass,\" Victoria says.\n\n\"But they're concerned about friends with underlying health issues and have lots of questions.\"\n\nSome names have been changed.", "People who are self isolating in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus are being encouraged to sing.\n\nCatrin Angharad Jones started Cor-ona, a social media group where people can post videos of themselves singing.\n\nCor is the Welsh word for choir.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Stop, look at what's available, come and talk to us'\n\nFirms thinking of firing staff due to the coronavirus crisis should consider the support available to them first, the new Bank of England boss has said.\n\nAndrew Bailey urged UK firms to \"stop, look at what's available, come and talk to us [or] the government before you take that position\".\n\nHe added that his \"big message\" for firms and citizens was that \"we will be there to support your needs\".\n\nMany firms may have to cut staff amid a slump in demand caused by the virus.\n\nAirlines, retailers, restaurants, theatres and pubs have all said they have been pushed to the brink as people are limiting all but essential social contact.\n\nOn Tuesday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded with a £350bn stimulus package to support struggling firms, including £330bn of business loan guarantees.\n\nHe also promised a business rates holiday and grants for retailers and pubs - although there are concerns the measures do not go far enough.\n\nAsked if the loan subsidies were available even to those companies that had already fired people, Mr Bailey told the BBC: \"I would emphasise the point that it's critical that we support the needs of the people in the country.\"\n\nAsked again if the authorities were providing a \"bridge\" beyond the crisis for people who need to buy food, as well for businesses, the governor said there were \"important discussions\" going on between companies and the Treasury.\n\nThe message, he said, was that \"supporting the employment and income of the people in this country is critical\".\n\nThe governor, who took over from Mark Carney this week, said that the Bank does not have the powers to stop businesses paying bonuses and dividends after receipt of subsidised loans.\n\nBut he said: \"I'm sure they'll get the message here.\"\n\nThe support given to the economy in terms of tax cuts and extra spending is likely to see sharply increased deficits.\n\nMany economists predict that the Bank of England will start buying up tens of billions of pounds more of government debt - known as quantitative easing - next week at its regular meeting.\n\nMr Bailey said he was not going to foreshadow the meeting, and that the Bank was an independent institution, but the country had a right to expect that it would work \"in a very closely co-ordinated way with the government\".\n\n\"This is a crisis we're all in. It's an emergency situation,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\nThe governor said it was his \"strong preference\" that financial markets, which have seen huge moves in recent weeks, should stay open though he was keeping \"a very close eye on the stability of markets and their integrity\".\n\nBut he warned City traders not to \"exploit\" the situation by betting against businesses temporarily affected by the crisis.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Anybody who says, 'I can make a load of money by shorting' [aggressively betting on the value of specific companies continuing to fall] which might not be frankly in the interest of the economy, the interest of the people, just stop doing what you're doing.\"", "Children are expected to use online educational resources while their schools are suspended\n\nBroadband providers are resisting calls to provide a free service to help people during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nOne head teacher had suggested that the government require the step to ensure children get access to online classes after schools are suspended.\n\nSuch action could also encourage people over 70 without connections to sign up, so that they can video-chat with relatives during isolation periods.\n\nBut a trade body warned the move might threaten delivery of a smooth service.\n\nThe Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa) said it was in \"very early\" talks with the government to help customers who become unable to continue paying their bills.\n\n\"Things are naturally developing extremely quickly at the moment, and Ispa plans to seek further guidance from government on these issues so that customers can remain connected to the internet during these unprecedented times,\" a spokesman added.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland closed on Thursday, and the same measure comes into effect across the rest of the UK from Friday.\n\nMany teachers have already set up ways to continue study via the net, and the BBC, among others, is working on other internet materials.\n\n\"Lots of companies have done really well in making their online resources free,\" Julie Greer, head teacher of Cherbourg primary school, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, told the Today Programme.\n\n\"Is now the time to offer free broadband to families across the country, so that actually all these online learning opportunities that schools are talking about can be accessible?\"\n\n\"Because if you've lost your job, the first thing you're going to need to cut is, potentially, your internet.\"\n\nUntil now, some people with no home connection have used public facilities to go online. But libraries and museums are also closing.\n\nIn the US, some broadband providers - including Spectrum, Charter, and Comcast - are providing a free service to students and low-income families for 60 days amid the outbreak.\n\nIn the UK, the Labour Party pledged free basic broadband in its last general election manifesto.\n\nBut the Conservative government opted instead to commit money to improving fibre infrastructure, which customers would continue to pay for.\n\nAbout 80% of the UK population have a fixed-line broadband connection, a number that has held steady for years. Adding in mobile internet, 90% of people have access.\n\nIspa has said that connecting millions more people at this point could potentially lead to slowdowns.\n\nHowever, TechUK - a body that represents the UK's wider technology industry - cast doubt on the idea that making broadband free would lead to a rush of new subscribers.\n\n\"There is no silver bullet to connecting the 10% of the population that don't use the internet on a day-to-day basis,\" said director Matthew Evans.\n\n\"Free broadband may seem like it will, but the far bigger challenges are in digital skills, attitude to the internet and physical ability to use digital devices.\"\n\nHe said the industry was already working on plans to help those \"unable to pay their bills to ensure they stay connected.\"\n\nThere is also already a low-cost scheme available to people claiming certain types of benefits, in the form of BT Basic and Broadband.\n\nHowever, it is limited to 15 gigabytes of data a month - which BT says would typically enable a user to do all the following each day:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diana Moran, better known as the Green Goddess, was a fitness star in the 1980s\n\nThe Green Goddess - the original keep-fit queen of the 80s - is making a comeback on BBC Breakfast. Eighty-year-old Diana Moran will be doing exercises three times a week from self-isolation so viewers can follow along at home.\n\nSo what else can you do to keep fit and healthy while heeding the new advice about staying at home?\n\n\"There are tonnes of things you can do from your chair or sofa - squats, tricep dips, crunches, body work exercises and so on,\" says Cardiff-based personal trainer Keris Hopkins.\n\n\"If you have kids at home, you can get them involved. Make activities fun, like running around or playing hide and seek. Just keep moving,\" says the 37-year-old, who has started filming workout videos at home for people to follow along.\n\n\"It's important to plan your day - for example 7am to 8am work out online. It will help people find a focus if they plan. And if you can get outside, try to get your 10,000 steps done.\"\n\nBecky Hill and Kate Williams run Raise the Bar boot camps in Oxfordshire. For now, they continue to take place for whoever is able to attend - with people keeping at least 10 feet apart and equipment being cleaned between each use. But they are also launching an online version for people self-isolating, a move which many gyms and personal trainers are making.\n\nBecky Hill and Kate Williams are launching a virtual version of their boot camp for anyone self-isolating\n\nExercise \"decreases stress and anxiety,\" says Becky Hill, who is also a fitness trainer and therapist. Everyone is stressed at the moment and people aren't sleeping she says. \"But if you're moving, you're likely to sleep better.\"\n\nBut how much you can do, depends on which type of household you fall into says, Dr Charlie Foster, Head of the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at Bristol University, who also advises the UK chief medical officers on physical activity.\n\nIf you are under 70 with no underlying conditions you can still be active outside as long as you stay at least two metres (three paces) away from other people. So walking the dog (or even your neighbour's dog), going for a run or going for a bike ride are all fine - provided you keep your distance.\n\nPublic spaces such as swimming pools and gyms are not banned - but if you use them, be sure their equipment and surfaces have been thoroughly cleaned. And of course you can do your bit cleaning any equipment you use. Dr Foster says it's preferable to exercise outside.\n\nTeam sports are not advised for now - but tennis is ok for the moment as long as you wash your hands first, don't shake hands afterwards and keep your distance.\n\nIf you are over 70 and self-isolating, pregnant or have an underlying health condition, but feel well, you can also go outside with the same caveat of keeping your distance from others.\n\nFor older people, strength and balance exercises are particularly important, says Jess Kuehne, senior program manager from the Centre for Ageing Better, as muscle strength starts to decline rapidly after our 30s. She recommends yoga, tai chi, resistance training and seated exercises.\n\nIf you are self-isolating with symptoms, or someone in your household has them, you shouldn't leave home but that doesn't mean you should stop moving. It's really important to use movement and activity as a way of breaking up your routine, if you feel well enough. Cook, play active games, dance, go into the garden if you've got one.\n\nIf you are unwell - use your energy to get better and don't try to be active. If you can get out of bed, then do so but don't try to do too much.\n\nFinally, if you are feeling better after having had the virus, return to your normal routine very gradually. We don't know what the long term effects are but as far as we know, there is no reason why you can't gently return to normal activity.\n\nOf course there are many fitness websites and online apps people can use to help find a routine with Daily Yoga workout and fitness and Calm, a meditation and sleep app currently among the most popular downloads in the UK.\n\nAnd while you're at home, tempting as it is, try not to eat everything in sight, Ms Hopkins reminds us.\n\n\"Aim to minimise stress. And try to use the time wisely - read that book, do an online course, learn a new language, clear out the cupboards. It will all help,\" she says.\n\nExercises to try at home (as advised by This Girl Can)", "The first minister has indicated that Scottish schools and nurseries will shut this Friday.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was setting out the latest update in the response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAs a third person has died in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said schools should prepare to close and they could remain shut until the summer.", "Vodafone has said it is experiencing a 30% rise in internet traffic across its UK fixed-line and mobile networks.\n\nMore people are working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, putting more demand on all networks.\n\nTalkTalk, another internet provider, said that its daytime network traffic had risen 20% since Monday.\n\nOne EU official has suggested that online TV services should stream content in lower resolution to protect broadband infrastructure.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, European Union commissioner Thierry Breton called on content providers to switch to standard definition feeds to prevent networks from being overloaded.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the internet providers have played down suggestions that they cannot cope.\n\nUse of remote-access technologies, webmail and video-conferencing apps are taking their toll.\n\nVodafone says spikes in usage are \"largely the same\" as before in terms of the total amount of data being uploaded and downloaded.\n\nBut the \"busy hours\", which normally run from 18:00 to 20:00, now extend all the way back to lunchtime.\n\n\"We have enough headroom to meet growing demand and to keep the UK connected,\" a spokesman told BBC News.\n\n\"Our network team is keeping a constant watch on the situation.\"\n\nOther network operators have noted streamed television and games downloads still make use of considerably more bandwidth.\n\nOne of the most popular corporate video chat apps, Microsoft Teams, typically requires 0.5-1Mbps, while streaming a TV programme in 4K and high dynamic range (HDR) can require a constant rate of 20-44Mbps.\n\nThe forthcoming launch of Disney+ in the UK, which will offer 4K-resolution content, and the BBC's plans to provide classes for children online because of schools being suspended, could therefore put the networks under more strain.\n\nHowever, TalkTalk rejected the idea that its systems were at any imminent risk.\n\n\"We continually optimise our network for both our consumer and business customers and are well prepared to ensure they receive reliable connectivity,\" it said.\n\nThat does not mean that every service will necessarily run smoothly.\n\nBlizzard - the company behind multiplayer games including World of Warcraft and Overwatch - reported its service had suffered as a result of a cyber-attack.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Blizzard CS - The Americas\n\nAnd the company had previously warned users \"may experience increased waiting times\" as a result of a decision to allow staff to work from home because of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nEpic said its video game Fortnite had also experienced multiple issues lasting about three hours on Tuesday.", "Supermarkets and their supply chains are beginning to buckle under the strain of customer behaviour in the face of coronavirus.\n\nSeveral chains are \"drastically cutting\" the product ranges in store.\n\nThey also said they were telling their manufacturers to ignore making some products to focus on those for which there is greatest demand.\n\nMeanwhile, competition laws are being relaxed so shops can discuss stock levels and pool staff and resources.\n\n\"We currently sell 60 types of sausages - we are moving to a fraction of that,\" said one supermarket.\n\nAnother said: \"We need to make food manufacture as efficient as possible - it makes no sense to pause to change packet sizes or change from one type of pasta to another.\n\n\"We have 20 different sizes and styles of pasta, we are moving that to six.\"\n\nMorrisons have reduced their bakery lines from 17 to seven.\n\nWhile executives insisted there was no shortage of food, they were struggling to restock shelves fast enough. Meanwhile, online delivery services are running at \"maximum capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced competition laws will be temporarily relaxed to allow supermarkets to pool resources and data.\n\nThis means they can share distribution depots and delivery vans and discuss stock levels. They will also be able to pool staff to meet demand.\n\nRules around drivers' hours have also been loosened to help shops can deliver more food to stores, while the 5p plastic bag charge is being waived for online orders to speed up deliveries.\n\nHowever, there were warnings that the next potential weak link in the chain is at food manufacturers themselves. If production gets hit by staff absences that will mark the beginning of a new and potentially serious supply chain problem.\n\n\"We are not there yet but that is the next big worry.\"\n\nSupermarkets also said they were having to use additional security staff in store to ensure customer behaviour did not get out of hand.\n\n\"Most people are sensible but some aren't.\"\n\nThey said that there had been no discussions as yet with the government about a police presence in store but it was a \"subject that was being discussed internally\".", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that schools in the UK will close by this Friday to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.\n\nSchools will close except for looking after the children of keyworkers and vulnerable children.\n\nExams will not go ahead, education secretary Gavin Williamson has said.", "Netflix will slightly reduce the video quality on its service in Europe for the next 30 days, to reduce the strain on internet service providers.\n\nDemand for streaming has increased because large parts of Europe are self-isolating at home due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe video-streaming provider said lowering the picture quality would reduce Netflix data consumption by 25%.\n\nBut movies will still be high-definition or ultra-high definition 4K.\n\nThe change will apply to the UK as well as other European countries.\n\nSeveral factors influence how much data is used when streaming a movie online.\n\nOne of them is video resolution, including whether a video is high-definition (HD) or ultra-high definition 4K.\n\nAnother is bitrate, which influences how clear and smooth videos look when streamed online. Videos with a higher bitrate tend to look less \"blocky\" or pixelated, but use more data.\n\nOut of these two, Netflix says it will cut its streaming bitrates.\n\nCustomers who pay for ultra-high definition 4K movies as part of their subscription will still be able to watch 4K films.\n\nThe announcement came after a phone call with European officials.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How to safely clean your smartphone\n\nThierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, had earlier said people should \"switch to standard definition when HD [high-definition] is not necessary\".\n\nAn hour of standard definition video uses about 1GB of data, while HD can use up to 3GB an hour.\n\nNetflix also offers ultra-high definition 4K video for some of its programmes.\n\nNetflix's decision to reduce video bitrate by a quarter appears to be a compromise.\n\n\"Following the discussions between Commissioner Thierry Breton and [Netflix chief executive] Reed Hastings, and given the extraordinary challenges raised by the coronavirus, Netflix has decided to begin reducing bitrates across all our streams in Europe for 30 days,\" the company said.\n\nCommissioner Breton praised the \"very prompt action\" Netflix took just hours after the phone call, saying it would \"preserve the smooth functioning of the internet during the Covid-19 crisis\".\n\nNetflix has not yet said whether the bitrate reduction will be applied to other areas such as North America.\n\nInternet usage has been heightened in the last few weeks as more people work from home and avoid going out.\n\nTelecoms giant Vodafone reported a 50% rise in internet use in Europe earlier this week.\n\nFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the platform was seeing \"big surges\" as users tried to stay connected with friends.\n\nThe social media boss said the company typically saw its largest surge in use on New Year's Eve, but that recent demand had outpaced that.", "People in the UK are being asked to improve their personal hygiene in an effort to limit and slow the spread of coronavirus. But how's the government going about it?\n\nIt's something people are thought to do more than 20 times an hour on average, but the official advice is to desist so that coronavirus doesn't spread any faster.\n\nIt's not easy to give up unhygienic habits picked up over a lifetime, though.\n\nSo the government is using \"Nudge theory\", a branch of economics designed to get us to do the \"right thing\" by making it easier, more normal and more obvious.\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a company part-owned by the Cabinet Office, is advising ministers on how best to do it. It's come up with some ideas to prevent face-touching, as featured on its blog.\n\nHow about asking friends, family or colleagues to shout \"face\" every time they see you're about to reach up for a scratch or rub?\n\nOr folding your arms in a locked position, grabbing the biceps to avoid the hands slipping free and heading upwards?\n\nAnother suggestion is creating an alternative \"habitual\" action, such as drumming fingers on legs or playing with a substitute object, such a ball.\n\n\"Even if you're very concerned about coronavirus, it's very difficult to stop doing something like face-touching because it's such a habit,\" says Cynthia McVey, former head of psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. \"There have been reports of people who are worried enough to wear masks who have still removed them so they can rub their nose.\"\n\nNudge theory, already widely used by governments, aims to instil better habits - or change social \"norms\" - rather than focusing on explicit \"top-down\" advice.\n\nIf enough people do something, you feel a sense of oddness, of missing out, of guilt perhaps, if you don't do the same.\n\n\"It's more powerful than traditional methods of getting across certain advice,\" says Kelly Hunstone, chief executive of the Social Change UK agency and a former adviser on behavioural science to the government. \"We've left the age of deference and need to communicate differently.\n\n\"In some instances we don't trust the experts but the person on the street to show us how to act. It's a bit like using Tripadvisor - you'd rather take the advice of Bob in Essex than a travel operator.\"\n\nSince the coronavirus crisis began, the government has recommended singing Happy Birthday to yourself twice while washing your hands. It's easier to remember than counting the full 20 seconds this equates to.\n\nWe've also been advised to sneeze into our sleeves if there are no tissues around.\n\nBoth tips bear the signs of Nudge theory, which emphasises putting across a \"clear message\".\n\nNudge theory also assumes people don't always act in their own best interests, or those of society - for reasons such as laziness, selfishness and ignorance. Hence the need to ease the way towards doing what a government wants us to do.\n\nIt's an idea that has caught on at local and national level since the book Nudge, by US academics Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, was published in 2008.\n\nSome UK councils provide recycling bins that are larger than their normal waste bins, in an effort to get people recycle more.\n\nTax reminders are sent out saying the \"majority\" of people in an area have already paid, putting social pressure on recipients to do the same.\n\nAnd there are now automatic donor cards and automatic enrolment work pensions - where people have to opt out, rather than in. These have been shown to increase take-up rates.\n\nWhat can be done, though, to deal with the effects of coronavirus on society? The government is urging people not to stockpile toilet paper, pasta and other goods, while supermarkets are putting up notices asking people not to over-purchase and leave others without.\n\nThe logic is clear, but Ms Hunstone advocates a more Nudge-y, emotion-led approach.\n\n\"It would be more effective to show a picture of Doris Jones, 76, who can't get out easily to visit the supermarket, if you're trying to persuade people not to buy too many cans of baked beans or loo rolls,\" Ms Hunstone says.\n\nShe argues that pictures like this, seen recently on Facebook, could be placed in shops, inducing guilt in those tempted to stuff their trolleys.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Ben This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"It's also important to use the ego when you're putting out this kind of message and people like to be seen doing what's right,\" Ms Hunstone adds.\n\nPeople leaving enough provisions on shelves could photograph their trolleys or baskets and share them on social media, further marginalising those who do not, she says. So, in a way, \"annoying\" virtue-signallers could encourage the spread of virtuous behaviour in others.\n\nThe UK government has faced criticism for adopting a different approach to other countries towards coronavirus, focusing more so far on people following advice than creating a wider \"lockdown\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has signalled a change of approach this week, urging people to reduce social contact with others, but the measures are less severe than in many other European countries, necessitating simple advice.\n\nStaff with the Behavioural Insights Team are honing and testing messages to create the greatest impact.\n\n\"Simplicity is key,\" says Ms Hunstone. It might get boring hearing the same thing again and again. But you have to hear messages like that nine times before people really understand them and they get through. Consistency is absolutely vital.\"\n\nThere have been criticisms that Nudge theory infantilises people, not crediting them with the ability to think for themselves and removing effective choice.\n\nBut it's very much in favour in Downing Street. Whether it can stop people touching their faces remains to be seen.", "Covent Garden is one of the stations currently closed\n\nUp to 40 stations on the London Underground network are to be shut as the city attempts to reduce the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said there would be a partial shutdown of the network from Thursday morning.\n\nThere will be no night Tube and bus services will also be reduced, it said.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said people should not be travelling and warned services were \"likely to reduce, potentially very significantly\".\n\nFewer people were travelling on the Bakerloo Line than during a normal rush hour\n\nThe move comes after Boris Johnson said the virus was spreading faster in London than other parts of the UK.\n\nLatest government figures show there have been more than 900 confirmed cases of coronavirus in London and 34 people have died in the city.\n\nEarlier this week, the prime minister urged people to work from home and to avoid bars, pubs and restaurants.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere has been a large drop in the number of passengers on the London Underground network during the week.\n\nHowever, some commuters have complained that trains have become busier, particularly where fewer services were running on lines.\n\nOne key worker, a nurse who asked to remain anonymous, said it was \"a lot busier\" during her journey on the District Line compared to earlier in the week.\n\nShe said she felt \"more concerned\" travelling because fewer services meant there are \"more people in a confined space\".\n\n\"It didn't feel like people were staying at home,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by leanahosea This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMaria, a commuter who was getting the Tube from Oxford Circus after finishing her cleaning shift, told the BBC she was \"worried\" about the situation but would only stop working when told to do so by the firm that employs her.\n\n\"I have bills to pay and if I don't work I don't get paid,\" she said.\n\nNine stations are currently closed but commuters have been advised to check the TfL website in case more are shut.\n\nFrom Friday, the Waterloo and City line will shut completely and from Monday, TfL said it would gradually reduce other parts of its network.\n\nThese include the London Overground, TfL Rail, the DLR and the tram network in south London.\n\nTfL is aiming to run Tube trains every four minutes in Zone 1\n\nTransport bosses have said staff who are available to work will be redeployed \"to ensure the resilience of the regular Tube and Overground services\".\n\nFrom Monday, buses will run on a Saturday timetable, although night services will continue \"to provide critical workers with a reliable night option\", TfL said.\n\nThere were few passengers in Waterloo Railway Station during the morning rush hour\n\nSpeaking at Mayor's Question Time, Mr Khan said the number of services would probably \"continue to reduce, potentially very significantly, over the days and weeks ahead\", but TfL would \"make sure essential workers can still get around\".\n\nHe criticised Londoners who were not following official guidance and travelling around the city.\n\n\"I can't say this clearly enough: people should not be travelling by any means unless they absolutely must.\n\n\"I want to see more Londoners following the expert advice, which means it's critical that we see far fewer Londoners using our transport network than is currently the case,\" he said.\n\nThere are still a few tourists visiting spots like Trafalgar Square\n\nFew people were visiting the shops of Carnaby Street\n\nWhile the centre of the capital is quieter than it would be on a regular Thursday, there is still some activity on the streets.\n\nTourist spots like Trafalgar Square are quiet with only the odd person taking selfies, but roads through the city remain busy and there are people in traditionally busy places like Oxford Street.\n\nCovent Garden is much quieter than it would normally be\n\nWith theatres closed, the ticket booth in Leicester Square remains shut\n\nTfL advised passengers to check the website for live updates.\n\nAlthough there are no plans to suspend the congestion charge, a spokesperson for TfL said: \"Some NHS staff are already eligible for reimbursements from the congestion charge in certain circumstances.\n\n\"Patients clinically assessed as too sick to travel by public transport are eligible for reimbursements from both the congestion charge and the ULEZ.\"\n\nWe all knew it was coming but it was still a shock and it feels like this is just the beginning.\n\nTo deal with staff absences, TfL is cutting its services. Initially 40 quieter stations will close and services will be reduced - but a crucial phrase is that it \"may reduce further\".\n\nTfL wants to protect a service for \"critical workers\", in particular, hospital staff.\n\nAnd the language has changed totally - from just a few days ago where public transport was \"safe\" the mayor now says people should avoid using transport unless \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nIn private, train companies say it's inevitable they will also have to reduce services.\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.", "An online tool has been updated to pick up fake testing kits, illicit homemade sanitiser and \"miracle\" coronavirus cures on sale on eBay.\n\nThe free checker is designed to warn online shoppers of potential high-risk purchases before they buy.\n\nIt has already been embedded on the websites of Trading Standards Scotland and national consumer advice service consumeradvice.scot.\n\nIt aims to stop illicit sellers from \"taking advantage\" of consumers.\n\nThe checker, created by Edinburgh-based Vistalworks, allows users to paste in an eBay listing URL in order to get an indication of whether a product is legitimate or not.\n\nVistalworks said its consumer protection software was developed in conjunction with Police Scotland, HMRC and Trading Standards Scotland.\n\nIt has also developed a Chrome browser plugin which allows online shoppers to hover over any eBay UK listing to see if it is a potential high-risk purchase.\n\nVistalworks said information from its own analysts and Trading Standards Scotland was being used to create \"coronavirus-specific\" updates to its software.\n\nThe checker is currently restricted to eBay, but Vistalworks plans to extend it to other platforms, including Amazon and Facebook.\n\nVistalworks boss Vicky Brock says she expects more illicit sellers will try to take advantage of worried consumers\n\nVistalworks chief executive Vicky Brock said: \"With consumers' anxiety about the seriousness of coronavirus growing, and mainstream retailers' supply chains taking unprecedented stress, we know there will be a significant rise in the number of illicit sellers trying to take advantage of worried consumers.\n\n\"We've already seen this in the online marketplace listings we monitor.\n\n\"To tackle these emerging threats, we've updated our eBay checker to pick up fake testing kits, illicit homemade sanitiser, and a whole array of 'miracle' cures, including specific items which our analysts and Trading Standards Scotland have become aware of in the last weeks.\"", "If you haven't got symptoms you should just go about your daily life at home as you normally would David.\n\nOf course, you should follow good hand hygiene by regularly washing your hands, but if neither of you are showing symptoms then you don't need to distance yourself from your wife.\n\nVideo caption: Coronavirus: How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds Coronavirus: How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds\n\nHowever, if one of you starts showing symptoms of the virus then at that point you would need to try and distance yourself: sleep in separate bedrooms perhaps, use separate bathrooms if possible and keep that two metre distance.\n\nYou mentioned that you have some underlying health conditions that make you vulnerable. There is specific advice on how you shield yourself from others for people who are in the most vulnerable groups, including chemotherapy patients for example. If you fall into that category then you should look out for that guidance.\n• Read advice for those with underlying conditions", "Preparations for an independence referendum have been put on hold\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed it is no longer planning to hold an independence referendum this year.\n\nConstitution Secretary Mike Russell said the plans had been \"paused\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said the move would allow the government to focus all of its resources on the health crisis.\n\nIn a letter to the UK government, he said: \"It follows from this that a referendum will not be held this year.\"\n\nMr Russell urged the UK government to place a similar pause on the EU/UK negotiations in the Brexit process.\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\nScottish Conservative shadow constitution secretary Murdo Fraser said putting the referendum preparations on hold was welcome news and would \"come as a relief to workers and businesses alike\".\n\nThe letter, which was sent to UK cabinet minister Michael Gove, said: \"Because of the crisis, the Scottish government has paused work on preparing for an independence referendum this year.\n\n\"We have also written to the Electoral Commission to make clear we do not expect it to undertake testing of a referendum question until public health circumstances permit such activity.\n\n\"That will allow us to focus all available resource on current and future demands in what is an unprecedented set of circumstances.\n\n\"It follows from this that a referendum will not be held this year.\"\n\nMr Russell went on to \"strongly suggest\" that the UK government takes similar action with regard to the Brexit process by pausing negotiations with the UK for at least six months.\n\nHe said: \"It would seem impossible for business and others to cope with the enormous challenge of coronavirus while at the same time preparing for a completely new relationship with the EU in nine months' time.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie commended Mr Russell for \"a very sensible decision in the face of this overwhelming crisis facing us all\".\n\nThe Scottish Greens said it was right that the Scottish government prioritised its resources to deal with the public health crisis that we all face.\n\nEarlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged SNP activists to stop campaigning during the coronavirus outbreak, and to instead \"focus on looking out for your family, friends and neighbours\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson had already ruled out granting the formal consent that Ms Sturgeon said would be needed to ensure any referendum would be legal.\n\nMs Sturgeon had also made clear she would not hold an unofficial vote similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nMany senior SNP figures had privately admitted there was little chance of a vote being held before next year's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nBut as recently as 9 March, the SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, told the National newspaper that \"all of our efforts\" were aimed at holding a referendum this year.", "This video can not be played.", "Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in 2005\n\nGhislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, is suing the late US financier's estate seeking reimbursement for legal fees and security costs, court documents say.\n\nMs Maxwell's complaint states that she \"had no involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's alleged misconduct\" and that he had promised to cover her costs.\n\nShe also \"receives regular threats to her life and safety\", it adds.\n\nEpstein had been charged with the sex trafficking of dozens of girls.\n\nHe was arrested last year in New York following allegations that he was running a network of underage girls - some as young as 14 - for sex.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty. Later, on 10 August, the 66-year-old was found unresponsive in his New York cell. His death was determined to be suicide.\n\nMs Maxwell, a long-time friend of Epstein, has not been accused by the authorities of wrongdoing.\n\nMs Maxwell's lawsuit, which is dated 12 March but was made public on Wednesday, claims that \"extensive global coverage\" of the investigation resulted in her having to \"hire personal security and find safe accommodation\".\n\nIt adds that she \"formed a legal and special relationship\" with Epstein that obligated the estate to compensate her, and that \"assurances\" were made but later ignored after she filed a reimbursement claim in November.\n\nLawyers representing Epstein's estate have not yet commented on the complaint.\n\nMs Maxwell is the daughter of late British media mogul Robert Maxwell.\n\nA well-connected socialite, she is said to have introduced Epstein to many of her wealthy and powerful friends, including Bill Clinton and the Duke of York.\n\nShe has mostly been out of public view since 2016.\n\nAn alleged Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre, said in a civil lawsuit that Ms Maxwell had recruited her into the financier's circle, allegations Ms Maxwell denies.\n\nOther women have also made allegations that Ms Maxwell was involved. One, Sarah Ransome, told the BBC's Panorama that Ms Maxwell \"controlled the girls. She was like the Madam\". Ms Maxwell has denied any involvement in, or knowledge of, Epstein's alleged abuses.", "More than 6,000 Covid-19 tests have now been carried out in Scotland\n\nThree more patients have died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to six.\n\nThe first minister told the Scottish Parliament the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 had risen to 266, an increase of 39 from Wednesday.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon warned the figures were \"likely to be an underestimate\".\n\nShe added that those on the frontline of the NHS were the priority for testing.\n\nPolice officers and other emergency service personnel will also be included in the list of key workers, whose children will still be able to go to school.\n\nMs Sturgeon acknowledged there must be local flexibility on what constitutes a key worker as some posts may be considered crucial in rural areas but not in cities.\n\nThe first minister told MSPs that Scotland now has three laboratories - in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee - for testing and it is hoped they will be able to carry out 3,000 tests a day.\n\nMs Sturgeon said a £2.2bn package of support was available to help sustain businesses and help them pay their staff fairly.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon updated MSPs on the situation across Scotland\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said more supplies of personal protective equipment were distributed on Wednesday, but they were paper masks with an expiry date of 2016.\n\nHe called for a guarantee that the appropriate supplies would be made available and asked for reassurances for staff who feel they are being put at risk.\n\nThe first minister replied: \"We will do everything we can to protect those on the frontline.\"", "Duncan Laurence (right) won last year's Eurovision, while James Newman (bottom left) was due to represent the UK this year\n\nThis year's Eurovision Song Contest will no longer take place due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe event was due to take place at Rotterdam's 16,000 capacity Ahoy Arena, with the final on 16 May.\n\n\"We, like the millions of you around the world, are extremely saddened that it can not take place in May,\" said organisers in a statement.\n\nThe Dutch government had previously banned large public gatherings in an attempt to prevent the virus spreading.\n\n\"The health of artists, staff, fans and visitors, as well as the situation in the Netherlands, Europe and the world, is at the heart of this decision,\" said the Eurovision team.\n\nThe event's executive supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, added: \"We are very proud of the Eurovision Song Contest, that for 64 years has united people all around Europe.\n\n\"We regret this situation very much, but I can promise you: the Eurovision Song Contest will come back stronger than ever.\"\n\nHe added that talks were already under way about staging the contest in Rotterdam next year.\n\nIt is not known whether this year's contestants, including British entrant James Newman, will be invited back.\n\nEurovision organisers told the BBC the issue would be discussed by its reference group and \"a decision will be communicated later\".\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\nThey added they had \"explored many alternative options\" to staging Eurovision in its usual format, but eventually decided that postponing or scaling down the contest was not feasible.\n\n\"Dutch restrictions on gatherings of large numbers of people and international travel restrictions mean that holding the event, even without an audience, is impossible,\" said an FAQ on the Eurovision website.\n\nOrganisers also rejected the idea of hosting the show remotely, with every contestant performing via satellite link.\n\n\"It's in the DNA of the Eurovision Song Contest to bring delegations, artists and fans together in one place and provide an equal platform for all artists to compete together on the same stage.\"\n\n\"We felt that under the extreme circumstances we face this year, organising the Eurovision Song Contest in another way would not be in keeping with our values and the tradition of the event.\"\n\nNews of the cancellation came on the same day that Glastonbury, the UK's biggest and most storied music festival, also announced its cancellation.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe outbreak had already affected preparations for Eurovision, with several artists declining to travel to the Netherlands to film the video \"postcards\" shown between songs.\n\nVaidotas Valiukevicius, lead singer of Lithuania's The Roop, explained his band's decision, saying: \"We do not want to risk our own health or public health.\n\n\"We will follow the government's recommendations to avoid overseas travel. We believe prudence is the key to getting everyone back to normal.\"\n\nLast week several of the 41 participating countries missed a heads of delegation meeting, which constitutes a key part of preparations for the show.\n\nJon Ola Sand also joined the meeting by teleconference, after the European Broadcasting Union imposed a travel ban on staff due to an employee in Geneva testing positive for coronavirus.\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. The prime minister spoke about why the decision to close schools was taken\n\nThe UK government is promising more detail on how school, nursery and childminder closures will affect students and parents.\n\nIn a message to the nation, the Queen has urged people to come together for the common good.\n\nAnother 29 people with coronavirus have died, bringing UK deaths to 137.\n\nA list of the \"key workers\" during the coronavirus crisis, whose children can still go to school or nursery, has been published.\n\nThe Queen, who is now in Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh, said the world was \"entering a period of great uncertainty\" and every individual had \"a vitally important part to play\".\n\n\"Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe - I am certain we are up to that challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Bank of England has cut interest rates from 0.25% to 0.1% - the lowest level in their history.\n\nOn Friday, more details are expected on how pupils would be awarded grades after some exams were cancelled.\n\nIt comes after the Scottish education secretary said exams would not take place in Scotland this summer.\n\nJohn Swinney said the \"unprecedented\" move was a measure of the \"gravity\" of the situation caused by the pandemic.\n\nIt is the first time the exams have been cancelled since the system was put in place in 1888.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Public reacts to announcement that schools will close in response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe UK government has already said GCSEs and A-levels in England will be cancelled, and the Welsh government has cancelled them in Wales.\n\nExams in Scotland and Northern Ireland have also been cancelled by their governments.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street dismissed suggestions of a travel ban in London.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"There are no plans to close down the transport network in London and there is zero prospect of any restrictions being placed on travelling in and out of London.\"\n\nElsewhere, the government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said the track of the UK epidemic had followed the path \"we thought likely\".\n\nIt comes as Northern Ireland announced its first virus-related death, and three more deaths were confirmed in Scotland.\n\nIn other developments across the globe:\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced that schools in the UK would close their doors on Friday - except for vulnerable pupils or children of key workers.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast the Cabinet Office would release the full list of key workers later and parents not on the list would be \"immediately aware\" their child wouldn't be offered a place in school.\n\nThe list would include NHS workers, school staff and delivery drivers, he said.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he was not expecting schools to open again before September.\n\nHe said: \"The peak of the virus is expected to be at exams time after which most schools start to wind down, so it was very unlikely that they would reopen in the summer term.\"\n\nSchools supporting key workers' children will be expected to remain open during the Easter holidays, while officials are considering who is classed under this category.\n\nMr Williamson said the government was aiming to provide an \"education setting\" for 10% of the children who usually attend schools.\n\nOn the cancellation of exams, Mr Williamson said the aim was to issue children in England with grades in August under a \"different process and a different system\".\n\nHowever, he said he could not \"with total guarantee\" say they would be released that month as \"we don't how the spread of the virus will affect the examining boards and those who issue the grades\".\n\nIt is possible schools in Wales will not reopen until September, Wales education minister Kirsty Williams has said.\n\nUniversities UK said pupils should not lose the chance to go to university this year because of exam cancellations.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, said if an appropriate way to assess students could be found - such as a combination of teacher assessments and previous assignments - then awards could be granted this summer.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This would allow students to get their grades and the university admission process to go ahead this summer.\"\n\nThe decision to close schools was welcomed by teachers' unions but many called for more detail from the government.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said there were \"many complicated issues to address\" and \"we have more questions than answers at the moment\".\n\nParents contacting the BBC expressed concern that predicted grades might be used for results at GCSE and A-level, if pupils did not sit exams.\n\nIn other developments in the UK:\n\nThere was a drop in passenger numbers on the London Underground after people were urged to work from home and avoid pubs and restaurants\n\nThe government says it plans to more than double the number of tests being carried out in England to 25,000 a day.\n\nProf Whitty, speaking at a science briefing, said the UK death rate would look \"quite high\" until testing was increased.\n\nHe said the measures being introduced across the UK were to reduce the demand on the NHS and build up capacity to cope with the outbreak.\n\nHe added that there were \"significant health and social downsides\" to the social distancing measures, such as loneliness and not getting exercise.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said it was important young people also followed the advice on social distancing.\n\n\"The mixing in pubs and restaurants needs to stop and it needs to stop among young people as well as older,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Army said it was \"pausing\" basic training, which would involve hundreds of recruits at Harrogate, Pirbright, Catterick and Winchester being sent home.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said it would not affect the Army's ability to support public services as part of the \"Covid support force\" - which only involves troops who have already gone through basic training.\n\nAs part of the support the Army will provide during the pandemic, the number of troops at a heightened state of readiness will be doubled to 20,000 and Reserves will be placed on standby.\n\nEmergency laws to provide new powers to deal with the outbreak have been introduced in Parliament.\n\nThe wide-ranging bill includes provisions for border controls, ways of boosting the NHS workforce and making it easier to register a death.\n\nThe government says the measures contained within the Coronavirus Bill, which will be considered by MPs on Monday, are proportionate, will only be used when necessary and have a time limit of two years.\n\nBut Labour is calling for a fresh vote on the legislation every six months - describing the plans as \"far-reaching\".\n\nElsewhere, Environment Secretary George Eustice has ruled out enforcing social distancing measures in supermarkets.\n\nHe told the House of Commons: \"It was something that was done in Italy, with a restriction on the number of people in stores and what they found was they just had hundreds of people huddled together at the entrance to the store and it's counterproductive.\"\n\nIf you are affected by these planned closures you can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Most airports are screening travellers and travel restrictions are being brought in across Africa\n\nAfrica must \"wake up\" to the coronavirus threat and prepare for the worst, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.\n\nThe continent should learn from how the spread of virus has sped up elsewhere, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.\n\nHe warned that while Africa's confirmed cases were currently low - around 640 - there was no reason for complacency.\n\n\"Africa should wake up, my continent should wake up,\" said the Ethiopian, the WHO's first African head.\n\nHealth experts warn that strained public health systems in Africa could become quickly overwhelmed if the virus takes hold, especially in overcrowded urban areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Andrew Harding looks at the impact Coronavirus could have in Africa\n\n\"WHO's recommendation is actually mass gatherings should be avoided and we should do all we can to cut it from the bud, expecting that the worst could happen,\" Mr Tedros told a news conference in Geneva, where the WHO is based.\n\nIn Africa, 16 people have died from Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus: six in Egypt, six in Algeria, two in Morocco, one in Sudan and one in Burkina Faso.\n\nTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African head of the WHO, is leading the fight against coronavirus\n\nIn South Africa, which has 116 cases, President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of disaster, restricting travel, closing schools, banning mass gatherings and ordering bars to close or limit numbers to 50.\n\nThe country has also banned all cruise ships from its ports. This comes despite tests coming back negative for six people on board a cruise ship, which had been put under quarantine. All 1,700 people are now free to leave the ship and return home.\n\nAnyone breaking South Africa's coronavirus measures will be subject to a fine, or even imprisonment.\n\nOther African nations have been imposing similar restrictions:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester United striker Odion Ighalo says he \"doesn't care what anybody says\" about his surprise move to Old Trafford after his two goals ensured an all-Premier League FA Cup quarter-final line-up and comfortable win at Derby County.\n\nJanuary signing Ighalo again showed why his shock acquisition in January may yet prove to be shrewd business with two smart finishes to book a tie with Norwich at Carrow Road later this month.\n\nThe 30-year-old now has three goals from just two starts and he overshadowed a reunion with United's all-time leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney at Pride Park.\n\n\"As long as my team-mates believe in me, the boss believes in me and the fans believe in me, I just have to keep going,\" Ighalo said.\n\n\"I don't care what anyone says. We want to keep the momentum going and make sure we do great this season.\"\n\nRooney had his name chanted throughout by the thousands of away fans and came close with two fine free-kicks.\n\nBut from the moment left-back Luke Shaw's deflected opener flew in the Premier League side were able to cruise into the last eight.\n\nUnited have won the FA Cup 12 times - one behind Arsenal's record haul - while Derby have now played in six fifth-round ties since 1999 and failed to reach the quarter-finals on each occasion.\n• None See the full quarter-final draw here\n\nRooney scored 253 goals for Manchester United before leaving in 2017 and has still never scored against them throughout his career.\n\nThe 34-year-old twice went close from free-kicks though, twice denied by excellent saves from Sergio Romero.\n\nRooney, who led his new side in a pre-match huddle, has moved from the rampaging teenage striker who was compared to Pele at his 2004 peak to a deep-lying midfielder who started the last time United won this trophy in 2016.\n\nFor Derby he was in a similar midfield role, shielded from too much running duties by the youth of Max Bird and Louie Sibley alongside him. The duo have a combined age of just 37 and were toddlers when Rooney was announcing himself on the world stage.\n\nDespite a lack of mobility Rooney still remains an influence. Not only were his two free-kicks a threat, he was at the heart of their two other best second-half chances.\n\nFirst, a sweeping 50-yard crossfield pass found Jayden Bogle, and his cross was headed wide by Martyn Waghorn. And then an even better ball from inside his own half released Rams sub Jack Marriott, but Romero was once again equal to the effort.\n\n\"Everyone loves Wayne, all the supporters at Manchester United appreciate what he did,\" said United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.\n\n\"He played well. He shows class and sometimes he has too much time on the ball for my liking.\"\n\nRooney can now turn his attentions towards helping Derby up the Championship table - although a play-off push looks ambitious at this stage.\n\nSolskjaer - twice an FA Cup winner as a player - has now stitched together a nine-game unbeaten run to move within sight of a place at Wembley and potentially a place in the Champions League.\n\nJanuary signing Bruno Fernandes was again clearly a step above, a constant threat at the top of their midfield, while Shaw had an excellent game at full-back.\n\nHe hit the fortuitous opener after Fernandes had a shot blocked, volleying down into the ground. The ball appeared to take a touch off the back of Jesse Lingard and loop over the head of Rams keeper Kelle Roos and in.\n\nAnother driving run from Shaw then saw him pick out Ighalo inside the area and the former Watford man got the better of two half-hearted challenges from Craig Forsyth and Max Lowe to poke home.\n\nShaw had a shot saved by Roos in the second half after fine play from Fernandes, and Ighalo lashed his second into the roof of the net after his initial shot was blocked to seal the win.\n\n\"When you get strikers in you want them to be happy and confident,\" Solskjaer said.\n\n\"Ighalo has come in here and of course we still have a few injuries and it is great for us to have Odion to call upon. He is a different striker for us and scores some good goals, there are not many who could dig that one out for his first.\"\n\nSolskjaer is confident of having captain Harry Maguire - who missed this with an ankle injury - fit for Sunday's Manchester derby and says Ighalo could start that game.\n\n\"He has done really well so let's see how we are on Sunday morning,\" Solskjaer added.\n\nUnited's progress means that all eight remaining sides are from the top flight for only the fifth time - after 1894-95, 1895-96, 1995-96 and 2005-06.\n\nNine in a row - the key stats\n• None Manchester United have won each of their last nine FA Cup meetings with Derby County, a run of victories stretching back to March 1948.\n• None Derby County have failed to win each of their last 13 home games against top-flight clubs in the FA Cup when the Rams themselves were playing outside of the top tier (D5 L8), including three defeats to Man Utd in this spell.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in nine matches across all competitions (W6 D3), keeping seven clean sheets and conceding just two goals in total in this run.\n• None Derby County have lost a competitive game at Pride Park by more than one goal for the first time since November 2018 when they lost a Championship fixture 0-3 to Aston Villa.\n• None Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo has scored in consecutive starts in all competitions for an English club for the first time since December 2015 for Watford, when he scored in four in a row; tonight was also his first double for an English side since December 2015 against Liverpool for the Hornets.\n\nDerby host Blackburn Rovers on Sunday afternoon (15:00 GMT) in the Championship while United are at home to rivals City in the Manchester derby, also on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n• None Brandon Williams (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Derby County. Wayne Rooney tries a through ball, but Jack Marriott is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Wayne Rooney (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Odion Ighalo (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.\n• None Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jason Knight.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt saved. Jason Knight (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Graeme Shinnie.\n• None Attempt missed. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Diogo Dalot.\n• None Attempt blocked. Morgan Whittaker (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney. 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. Two teenagers have been sentenced to five years after admitting causing the death of Olivia Alkir\n\nTwo teenagers have been locked up for five years after admitting causing the death of a 17-year-old girl as they raced their cars.\n\nOlivia Alkir, from Efenechtyd, Denbighshire, died after a two-car crash on the B5105 on 27 June.\n\nShe was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta which crashed at about 19:30 BST.\n\nThomas Quick, 18, from Clawddnewydd, and a 17-year-old boy from Dyffryn Clwyd, both pleaded guilty to death by dangerous driving at Mold Crown Court.\n\nThe defendants also pleaded guilty to four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nQuick was not directly involved in the collision, but was \"repeatedly racing\" with the 17-year-old driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe 17-year-old's car crashed with another car coming in the opposite direction between Clawddnewydd and Ruthin, leaving the passengers of the other vehicle, Dylan Jones and his mother Anwen Jones, with serious injuries.\n\nThomas Quick, 18, has been jailed for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nJudge Niclas Parry called for law changes for newly-qualified drivers to only be able to carry one passenger and have a monitoring box installed in the first year after passing their test.\n\n\"On 27 June last year, the life of one family was shattered beyond repair, the lives of four other people were, to varying degrees, changed for forever,\" he said.\n\nHe described the case as \"one of the worst examples of dangerous driving one could imagine\".\n\n\"You two were the cause of those dreadful consequences and that was purely due to your arrogance, selfishness and egotistical conduct,\" he added.\n\nThe court heard the crash came on a \"day of reckless driving\" by the defendants who had \"repeatedly used the roads of Denbighshire as a race track\".\n\nThe 17-year-old driver of the car in which Olivia was a rear seat passenger had only passed his test the day before.\n\nFlowers were left at the scene of the crash that killed Olivia Alkir\n\nBoth he and Quick drove to a stretch of road outside Llysfasi College to race each other on the afternoon of 27 June.\n\nWith their friends watching on, they raced side by side at high speed, with the younger newly qualified driver \"winning on both occasions\".\n\nThe court was told the younger driver had heard that day that his car was to be fitted with a black box the following day which would mean he couldn't drive at high speeds.\n\n\"It's clear he felt he had to take his chance to drive quickly\" that day, said John Philpotts, prosecuting.\n\nFootage shown to the court from another car heard friends saying \"they are going to die... we are going to drive past a burning wreck... surely it will happen one day\".\n\nThe court also heard Quick had been warned about his driving by teachers on several previous occasions in the weeks before the crash.\n\nThe two other teenage girls involved in the crash suffered several broken bones, and one needed surgery after rupturing her bowel in the crash.\n\nIn the oncoming car, Dylan Jones suffered extensive injuries to his lower leg, while his mother broke her wrist and a rib and needed more than one operation.\n\nThe court heard Mr Jones spent 54 days in hospital and both he and Ms Jones had to have their houses adapted before they could return home.\n\nOlivia Alkir, has been described by her family as \"kind and thoughtful\"\n\nOlivia was a \"fun-loving, wise, ambitious individual\" who was \"loved by all who knew her\", her family said in a statement last year.\n\nShe was a deputy head girl and A-level student at Brynhyfryd School, where she studied physics, mathematics, geography and the Welsh Baccalaureate.\n\nHer family said she had hoped to go on to study architectural engineering at university.\n\nGiving a victim impact statement in court, her mother, Jo Alkir, said Olivia was \"beautiful, kind and fun-loving\".\n\nShe listed all the things she and her husband \"deserved\" to experience with Olivia but would now miss out on - from the stress of helping her cope with her A-levels all the way through to her telling them at some point in the future she was pregnant with the first of the three children she dreamed of having.\n\nShe said \"our grief is so overwhelming that all we can wish for is our own early death\" to release them from their suffering.", "This may look like a 1992 Super Nintendo controller - except it's for a Sony Playstation\n\nThe only \"Nintendo PlayStation\" ever publicly auctioned has sold for $300,000 (£230,700).\n\nThe ultra-rare prototype was the offspring of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony, and was supposed to add CD-ROM support to the Super Nintendo.\n\nSony went on to create its own wildly successful PlayStation brand.\n\nHeritage Auctions said it might be the last remaining Nintendo prototype, as the others were probably destroyed.\n\nThe online bidder will end up paying $360,000 (£276,900) once the auction house's \"buyer's premium\" is added.\n\nIts mysterious history led to the prototype gaining near-mythical status in gaming history.\n\n\"People had kind of heard about this story - Nintendo and Sony partnering up to make the next, or the sequel to, the Super Nintendo,\" said Conor Clarke of the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield.\n\n\"But nobody really had confirmation that it existed. So it was mythical.\"\n\nThat status, he said, may explain why it is now the most expensive gaming object ever.\n\nMade in 1992, the Super NES CD-ROM was modelled after the successful Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Snes) - but with a disc drive in the base.\n\nIt was rumoured to play both Snes cartridges and CD-based games, although no official games were ever released using the CD drive.\n\nHowever, the console does work. The auctioneers tested it with a Snes Mortal Kombat cartridge and \"played a couple of rounds\". In addition, the disc drive plays audio CDs.\n\nMost gamers had never seen the console until it was fished out of Terry Diebold's attic by his son.\n\nMr Diebold purchased several boxes in an auction when his employer, Advanta, went under.\n\nHe once said in an interview he had been buying some of the company's dinner plates and cutlery - but the lot contained other boxes, including the ultra-rare game console.\n\nHe paid $75 for everything.\n\nIt is thought that it came from the office of Olaf Olaffson, once a top executive at Sony Computer Entertainment, who had worked at Advanta.\n\nThe revelation that someone had found evidence of the myth was met with scepticism, Conor Clarke said. That's until it was repaired, made functional, and started appearing at gaming conventions around the globe.\n\n\"Finding that object opened up this whole history, this whole story around the Nintendo and Sony partnership - that before then, had been relatively secret.\"\n\nThe story of the Nintendo PlayStation comes from a time when Nintendo was riding high from its success with the Super Nintendo, and there were still a few years until its next major console release.\n\nSeveral console makers were convinced CDs were the future of gaming, destined to replace the large plastic cartridges of the 1980s. Sega had the 32x and Sega CD systems, while Atari released a CD add-on for the Jaguar.\n\nNintendo's collaboration with Sony ended poorly. A day after Sony announced the deal to the world in 1991, Nintendo announced a new partnership with Philips instead.\n\nThat decision changed the entire landscape of the gaming industry in the 1990s.\n\nThe Philips console, known as the CD-I, was a critical and commercial failure, with the four Nintendo games published for it considered among the worst in the company's catalogue.\n\nHowever, Sony went on to release a totally redesigned Sony PlayStation on its own. It became a worldwide sensation, selling more than 100 million consoles - more than double Nintendo's own mid-90s offering, the N64.\n\n\"I don't think anything really kind of took off until the PlayStation came in and really made gaming cool,\" said Conor Clarke.\n\nAs for the Nintendo prototype, Mr Clarke said it would be \"fantastic\" to have it in a museum - even if it's not his own. And the story behind it is more important than the machine itself.\n\n\"The provenance of a video gaming object is really what's at risk of being lost,\" he said. \"The human stories behind it, or how it came to be.\"", "Sir Billy has just opened an exhibition of his art and sculptures\n\nComedian Sir Billy Connolly has said he is \"finished with stand-up\" because Parkinson's disease has \"made my brain work differently\".\n\nThe 77-year-old Scot, who revealed his diagnosis in 2013, told Sky News that fans would not see him on stage again.\n\nHis last world tour ended in 2017. Last year, he said he would love to perform live again but was \"not ready\".\n\nNow, he has said: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nIn 2012, Connolly was voted the UK's most influential stand-up comedian of all time.\n\n\"It was lovely and it was lovely being good at it,\" he told Sky. \"It was the first thing I was ever good at, and I'm delighted and grateful to it.\"\n\nExplaining how the changes to his thought process have made it difficult to perform, he said: \"Everything you say should have five or six alternatives behind it. You'd say something and then attack it from behind, and let the story make itself up.\n\n\"It's a madly exciting thing to do. The story is taking place and you don't know where it's going. It's a delight. It's a privilege to be part of it.\"\n\nAsked how his health currently is, he replied: \"I'm on good drugs. I take six pills a day.\"\n\nThe Big Yin has just opened a new exhibition of his art and sculptures in London. He said he didn't want to let Parkinson's define him.\n\n\"I'm always being asked to go to Parkinson's things and spend time with Parkinson's people, having lunch or something like that,\" he said. \"And I don't approve of it.\n\n\"I don't think you should let Parkinson's define you and all your pals be Parkinson's people. I don't think it's particularly good for you. So I don't do it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flybe collapsed on Thursday after it failed to secure fresh funding\n\nThe failure of Europe's biggest regional airline Flybe could be the start of more casualties, analysts predict.\n\nOn Thursday, a global airline industry body warned the financial hit from coronavirus could reach $113bn (£87bn) this year.\n\nThe bleak prediction came on the same day UK-based Flybe went into administration.\n\nAirline experts are forecasting more failures as passengers cancel flights.\n\nFlybe's collapse \"will likely be the first of many in 2020,\" said James Goodall, transport analyst at Redburn.\n\n\"We expect that the demand destruction caused by Covid-19 accelerated its demise and we believe further airline bankruptcies should be expected in the coming months.\"\n\nAirlines could lose $63bn to $113bn in revenue from the slump in passenger traffic globally this year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday. Last month, it had predicted losses of $29bn.\n\nDemand has plummeted, not just from holidaymakers, but from corporate travel as firms restrict business trips for employees and conferences are postponed.\n\n\"There will be a significant increase in airline casualties in this scenario,\" said Michael Duff, managing director at The Airline Analyst.\n\nCathay Pacific asked staff to take three weeks of unpaid leave\n\nMr Duff singled out a handful of airlines based in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Norway and Mexico that rate very low on his firm's financial strength index.\n\n\"This is a very difficult time for the airline industry and it will be about conserving cash,\" said Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor of Flightglobal magazine.\n\n\"It will be a very challenging time for those airlines who don't have a lot of cash, especially those that have been involved in a price war.\"\n\nAnalysts said regional airlines in Asia were more vulnerable as they rely heavily on passengers from China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. \"They also have some of the largest aircraft order backlogs so we can expect some pressure on Airbus and Boeing to delay deliveries and to refund aircraft deposits,\" added Mr Duff.\n\nMany airlines have introduced cost-cutting measures such as asking staff to take unpaid leave and pay cuts as planes are grounded.\n\nEmirates has asked workers to take unpaid leave for up to one month, while Cathay Pacific asked staff to take three weeks of unpaid leave.\n\nDemand has plummeted from both holidaymakers and business travellers\n\nRegional airline Flybe went into administration on Thursday after a bid for fresh funding failed.\n\nPaul Charles, a former director of Virgin Atlantic, told the BBC's Today programme that he expected \"other casualties\" due to pressures such as the coronavirus.\n\n\"You're going to see massive consolidation within six months' time,\" he said.\n\n\"Management teams at airlines at the moment are entirely stretched because of coronavirus. You're not going to see anyone else come in and try and replenish the network or fill the void left by Flybe.\"\n\nScottish airline Loganair has said it will take on 16 former Flybe routes.\n\nBut Mr Charles said: \"What Loganair is doing is cherry-picking the best routes, which does make sense, but I wonder how long it's going to last - I do think some of those 16 won't survive for several months.\"\n\nHowever, Loganair chief executive Jonathan Hinkles said he disagreed, and that other airlines would buy some of the routes. \"I'm aware from friends and former colleagues in the Channel Islands that they'll be stepping up today to announce some former Flybe routes as well.\n\n\"I think airlines will be stepping up where it makes sense.\"", "The hospital said all services and appointments are running normally despite the death\n\nA man in his early 80s has become the second person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nMilton Keynes Hospital said the man, who had underlying health conditions, tested positive for the virus and died shortly afterwards on Thursday.\n\nThe hospital has isolated any patients or staff who were in contact with him.\n\nThe UK's first death linked to the virus was confirmed on Thursday when a woman in her 70s - also with underlying health issues - died in hospital.\n\nAs well as the two deaths in the UK, a British man died from the virus last month in Japan after being infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.\n\nIt comes as the number of confirmed cases in the UK rose to 164 - the biggest increase in a single day so far.\n\nMilton Keynes Hospital said its appointments and services were \"running normally\".\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said work was under way to trace people who the man was in contact with before he died.\n\nMeanwhile, 21 people - including 19 crew members and two passengers - have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco, California.\n\nMore than 140 British nationals, many of whom are elderly and concerned about their medicine supply, are among those stranded on the Grand Princess ship over the outbreak.\n\nThe nationalities of those who have tested positive has not yet been revealed.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence said all 3,500 passengers and crew would now be tested for the virus.\n\nThe Women's Six Nations rugby match between Scotland and France in Glasgow on Saturday has also been postponed after a Scottish player contracted the virus.\n\nShe is being treated and is \"doing well\", the team's medical officer said, while seven other members of the squad and management are in self-isolation.\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health figures, as of 9:00 GMT on Friday, 20,338 people had been tested.\n\nThe latest number of confirmed cases comprises 147 cases in England, 11 in Scotland, three in Northern Ireland and two in Wales. On Friday night, a fourth person in Northern Ireland was diagnosed with the virus.\n\nOf the cases in England there are:\n\nIn Scotland, there are three cases in Grampian, two in Fife, two in Forth Valley and one each in Lothian, Tayside, Ayrshire & Arran and Greater Glasgow & Clyde.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nAbout 45 of the confirmed cases have been self-isolating at home, while 18 people have recovered.\n\nUp to 30 cases have no known link to foreign travel, which the BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said \"suggests the virus is establishing a firm foothold\".\n\nBut he added that \"it is worth stressing that four out of five people infected will have a mild illness\".\n\nThe UK government has pledged to spend £46m more on urgent work to tackle the coronavirus - including more money to develop a vaccine and cash to help some of the most vulnerable countries prepare for an outbreak.\n\nThe money will fund work on eight possible vaccines which are already in development as well as a lab in Bedford to try to create a test that could provide results within 20 minutes.\n\nCurrently, tests take a couple of days to provide results.\n\nShoppers have reported being unable to buy hand sanitiser with shelves empty\n\nOn Monday, officials will hold a meeting to discuss the practicalities of holding sport events behind closed doors and without fans, if the outbreak worsens and mass gatherings are banned.\n\nThe government has said the UK is still in the first phase of its four-part plan to tackle the virus outbreak, which is made up of: contain, delay, research and mitigate.\n\nBut officials were ramping up work to prepare for the next phase, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson added.\n\nThe government is still deciding what measures will be taken in the delay phase, but has previously said this could include banning big events, closing schools, encouraging people to work from home and discouraging the use of public transport.\n\nGlobally, the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 100,000, with 3,400 deaths.\n\nThe government has updated its advice for Italy - the country in Europe that has been hit worst by the virus and which has seen more than 4,600 cases. The country recorded another 49 deaths on Friday, bringing the total number up to 197.\n\nTravellers who develop symptoms after returning from any part of Italy - not just the north of the country - should self-isolate, while those returning from quarantined areas should self-isolate even without symptoms.\n\nHave you or anyone else you know been affected by the coronavirus? You can tell us your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The best friend of Sheikha Latifa had said a court judgement which ruled that the princess was abducted by her father is \"a step towards\" her being free.\n\nLondon's High Court found Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed abducted two of his daughters and threatened his wife.\n\nTiina Jauhiainen, who was part of Princess Latifa's failed attempted escape in 2018, said if she hadn't been able to leave and tell the story \"Dubai would have managed to cover this all up\".\n\nSheikh Mohammed said the court judgement \"inevitably only tells one side of the story\".\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT weekdays - and see more of our stories here.", "Police remained at the scene on Shore Road in Hythe on Friday morning\n\nA baby boy has been found dead in an area of woodland in Hampshire.\n\nPolice are trying to trace the mother of the newborn, who was discovered close to Shore Road in Hythe, near Southampton, just after 14:00 GMT.\n\nThe death is being treated as unexplained and anyone with dash-cam footage of the area at the time is asked to contact officers.\n\nDet Ch Insp Ross Toms said their priority now was to find the mother of the child.\n\n\"I have no doubt this will have been a very distressing experience for the mother of this baby,\" he said.\n\n\"Our priority right now is to ensure she receives the care and assistance she requires.\n\n\"I want to make a direct appeal to her.\n\n\"You may be very frightened right now and it is vitally important that you make contact with us or someone else.\"\n\nThree police vehicles and a van are parked next to the woods being searched on Shore Road.\n\nA small generator is running by the road, powering floodlights that have been used to assist police as they combed the area overnight.\n\nOfficers are very concerned for the mother's wellbeing and have asked for anyone who may have recently seen a heavily-pregnant woman in the area to get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets have cast doubts on an assurance from the health secretary that food supplies would not be disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nOn Thursday, Matt Hancock said: \"We are working with the supermarkets to make sure that, if people are self-isolating, then we will be able to get the food and supplies that they need.\"\n\nBut supermarket sources said they had not discussed getting food to homes.\n\nOne executive said he was \"baffled\" by the suggestions.\n\nAn executive told BBC business editor Simon Jack: \"Matt Hancock has totally made up what he said about working with supermarkets. We haven't heard anything from government directly.\"\n\nHe added that sales of cupboard basics such as pasta and tinned goods have \"gone through the roof\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The health secretary Matt Hancock appeared on Question Time to answer queries about coronavirus\n\nWhile the supermarket was largely keeping up with demand, teams were working \"round the clock\" to keep shelves stocked, he said.\n\n\"We are using processes and staffing levels we set up in case of a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nThe executive added: \"While I think people don't need to panic buy and should just shop normally, I'm not sure the government can guarantee all food supply in all instances.\"\n\nThere was no suggestion that there were food shortages, but people bringing forward some purchases was creating logistical challenges, he said.\n\nMr Hancock, who was answering a question from a member of the BBC Question Time audience, also said the government was \"confident\" food supplies would not run out and there was \"absolutely no need\" to panic-buy.\n\nBut a source at another supermarket said while it had had some overarching discussion with government departments about overall readiness, it had not a conversation about ensuring uninterrupted food supplies.\n\nWhen asked specifically about Mr Hancock's comments, the supermarket said it did not recognise them.\n\nA source at a rival supermarket also raised concerns over whether online deliveries could meet the demands of large numbers of people in self-isolation, with online delivery usually making up only 6-7% of the overall market.\n\n\"We can't switch a whole load of new vans on overnight,\" the source said.\n\nDowning Street said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had regular meetings with the food industry to discuss risks to the supply chain, with a working group due to meet on Friday.\n\n\"Defra will continue to work on this issue. We have resilient supply chains,\" a No 10 spokesman said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium, which represents supermarkets, said there had been only limited disruption to supply chains so far and availability of products on shelves remained good.\n\nFor self-isolating customers, it said, most retailers would be more than happy to deliver online orders to doorsteps.\n\nThere have been 163 cases of the virus in the UK and a woman in her 70s with underlying health conditions has died.\n\nShe was admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and died after testing positive for the virus.", "The bottles of foaming sanitising gel are being stolen from the ends of beds \"every day\"\n\nVisitors to a hospital are stealing hand sanitising gel daily - as demand for the product surges amid fears over coronavirus.\n\nBottles have been taken from patients' beds and dispensers ripped off walls at Northampton General Hospital.\n\nBosses said the gel was \"disappearing every day\" and they have had to limit the supply on wards.\n\n\"Nothing like this has ever happened in all the years we've had the gel,\" said a hospital spokeswoman.\n\nAn email to ward managers at the hospital, seen by the Northampton Chronicle, warned them of the risk posed to patients.\n\n\"Over the past week we've seen stocks on wards disappear from the end of beds every single day,\" Sally-Anne Watts, associate communications director, told the BBC.\n\n\"Three wall-mounted dispensers have been ripped off and we've even seen people coming in and topping up their own dispensers with our product,\" she said.\n\nThe NHS says that washing your hands is a key part of preventing the spread of viruses, but hand sanitiser gel can be used when soap and water are not available.\n\nHowever, since the hospital's supplies have been going missing, Mrs Watts said, bottles were no longer being put at the end of all beds.\n\n\"We don't have an unlimited supply and would ask that visitors to the site respect the fact that we are doing all we can to keep our patients, visitors and staff safe, and we need their support,\" she added.\n\nThree dispensers have been ripped from the hospital's walls\n\nThe outbreak of Covid-19 has sparked a surge in demand for hand gel.\n\nPhotographs of empty shelves have been posted on social media and some outlets are limiting sales of the product.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government departments spent more than £4bn on preparations for leaving the EU, says the public spending watchdog.\n\nThe National Audit Office said this figure included spending on staff, external advice and advertising.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had made \"all necessary funds available\" to ensure the country was prepared for leaving the EU.\n\nBut the Lib Dems claimed \"billions of pounds have been thrown away in a bid to paper over the Tories' Brexit mess\".\n\nThe NAO stressed in its report that it was not making a judgement on whether the spending represented value for money.\n\nIt also emphasised that the figures represented a \"minimum estimated level of spend\" due to \"limitations\" in the data provided by departments.\n\nThe spending watchdog's report found that the Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs and the environment department accounted for more than half of the £4.4bn spent on Brexit preparations.\n\nBetween 2016-17 and 2019-20, the Treasury made available £6.3bn of additional funding to cover the costs of the UK leaving the EU with or without a deal.\n\nOf this money, at least £1.9bn was spent on staffing. The NAO said staffing levels peaked in October 2019 when 22,000 civil servants were working on Brexit planning.\n\nAdvertising, building new systems and other services cost at least £1.5bn - this included spending £283m to build the EU settlement scheme and £69m on Operation Brock, a traffic management system to be used in Kent in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOperation Brock would have seen one side of the M20 used only by HGVs heading to cross-Channel ports\n\nThe £1.5bn also covered the £46m spent on the government's \"Get ready for Brexit\" campaign. Earlier this year the NAO said it was \"not clear that the campaign led to the public being significantly better prepared\".\n\nGovernment departments have also reported £92m in losses relating to Brexit - this includes £50m paid to ferry companies and £33m to Eurotunnel.\n\nThe chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier, said: \"The public has been kept in the dark as to what the Government has been doing.\n\n\"Data is limited, and the Treasury seem unconcerned by the lack of transparency.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Alistair Carmichael said: \"In the face of major floods and the coronavirus threat, we have to ask if the government knows its own spending priorities.\"\n\nThe head of the NAO, Gareth Davies, said: \"In preparing for EU exit, government departments planned for multiple potential outcomes, with shifting timetables and uncertainty.\n\n\"Producing this report has highlighted limitations in how government monitored spending on EU exit specifically, and cross-government programmes more generally.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a billion pounds look like... and what can it buy?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The couple formally step down as senior royals on 31 March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken part in one of their last official engagements together before they quit royal life later this month.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan attended an awards ceremony to celebrate the sporting and adventure achievements of sick and injured service personnel.\n\nIt was their first official appearance together since announcing in January they would step down as senior royals.\n\nThe London event was also Meghan's first public royal duty since then.\n\nThe couple, who will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March, attended the Endeavour Fund Awards - which are given to members of the Armed Forces - at Mansion House in central London.\n\nHarry, who had a 10-year military career, will retain the ranks of Major, Lieutenant Commander, and Squadron Leader when he steps down, but his honorary military positions will be suspended.\n\nA crowd of people braved the rain under umbrellas to catch a glimpse of them as they arrived.\n\nThe couple presented awards at the ceremony, including to one winner who celebrated by later proposing to his partner.\n\nDanny Holland, who won the Recognising Achievement Award, got down on one knee and asked his girlfriend to marry him.\n\nHarry and Meghan, and Ross Kemp, all cheered as one winner proposed to his partner\n\nMeghan wore a pencil dress designed by Victoria Beckham for the occasion\n\nThe couple presented awards at the ceremony and met nominees and Endeavour participants\n\nIn a speech at the reception, Prince Harry said he was \"proud to serve Queen and country\".\n\n\"[It] is something we all are rightly proud of, and it never leaves us. Once served, always serving!\", he said.\n\nThe duke added that many servicemen and women had told him they \"had his back\" and he in turn offered them his own support.\n\nHe said: \"I feel lucky to be able to count myself as one of you; and am deeply proud to have served among you as Captain Wales.\n\n\"A lot of you tonight have told me you have my back, well I'm also here to tell you, I've always got yours.\"\n\nThe engagement is part of a final run of royal duties for the couple.\n\nPrince Harry is joining Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton at the official opening of the Silverstone Experience, a museum about British motor racing, on Friday.\n\nThe duke and duchess will then attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 March, and Meghan will mark International Women's Day.\n\nThe couple will then join the Queen and other royals at the Commonwealth Day service in Westminster Abbey on 9 March - their last official appearance as HRHs.\n\nEarlier, the pair were spotted at Buckingham Palace and then photographed outside the Goring Hotel in Westminster after a private lunch.\n\nA spokeswoman for the couple said in addition to their official engagements over the next few days, the duke and duchess would be meeting privately with several of their patronages.", "D'Adrien Anderson was then seen buying the tainted ice cream\n\nA man in Texas who filmed himself licking ice cream and putting it back in the freezer of a Walmart supermarket has been jailed for 30 days.\n\nThe video of D'Adrien Anderson, 24, was shared on social media last August.\n\nSurveillance cameras in the shop showed he later took the ice cream back out of the freezer and bought it.\n\nHe was also given a six-month suspended sentence, 100 hours of unpaid work, a $1,000 (£770) fine, and was ordered to pay $1,565 to the ice cream company.\n\nThe ice-cream-licking happened on 26 August in Port Arthur, about 90 miles (145km) east of Houston.\n\nAnderson and his father later returned to the shop to show officers a receipt as proof that he had bought the tainted ice cream, US broadcaster ABC reported.\n\nDespite this, the ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries replaced all of the ice cream in the freezer as a precaution, which cost them $1,565.\n\nIn a statement released at the time of his arrest, Walmart said: \"If food is tampered with, or a customer wants to leave the impression that they left behind adulterated product, we will move quickly with law enforcement to identify, apprehend and prosecute those who think this is a joke - it is not.\"\n\nAnderson's ice cream stunt came a month after a very similar video, in which a teenage girl licked a tub of ice cream and put it back in the freezer at a Walmart in Lufkin, Texas.\n\nIn that case the girl, who was under 18 at the time, did not buy the ice cream afterwards. The video of her licking the ice cream was viewed more than 13m times.", "We've been reporting that the World Health Organization says the total number of cases of coronavirus globally is \"nearing\" 100,000.\n\nThis is what the WHO's director general told a daily briefing in Geneva on Friday afternoon:\n\nQuote Message: We are now on the verge of reaching 100,000 confirmed cases from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization We are now on the verge of reaching 100,000 confirmed cases\n\nBut other organisations - including news agencies such as Reuters and AFP, are keeping their own tallies by adding up figures given by various national and state health officials. Both these news agencies are now reporting that the total number of infections has passed 100,000.\n\nAt Johns Hopkins University in the US, researchers are maintaining an interactive web-based dashboard to track the outbreak in real time.\n\nThey also calculate that more than 100,000 people have been infected, and more than 3,400 have died across the world.\n\nBut as countries including Italy, France and Iran continue to report significant daily increases, the WHO stressed the importance of containment measures to try to slow down the outbreak.", "About 70 firefighters have been tackling the blaze\n\nDozens of firefighters spent hours tackling a fire at a souvenir shop in central London.\n\nThe blaze was first reported at 21:38 GMT on the corner of Gilbert Street on Friday night - leading to the closure of part of Oxford Street.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines from the surrounding area brought the fire under control by 02:14, the London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThere are no injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated.\n\nPlumes of smoke could be seen coming from the building in footage posted online.\n\nPeople in the area were advised to seek alternative routes as Oxford Street was closed in both directions between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus.\n\nFire crews from Soho, Lambeth, Kensington, Chelsea, Kentish Town and Euston attended the scene.\n\nThe fire was said to have started in the gound floor of the building\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Calls to the NSPCC about children witnessing the most serious forms of domestic abuse have jumped 25% in a year, the charity has warned.\n\nThe number of reports that were referred to the police or local authorities rose to 6,642 in 2018/19 - up from 5,322 the year before.\n\nThe children involved were at \"huge risk of harm\", the NSPCC said.\n\nIt is calling for the government to include more protections for children in the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe Home Office said children would benefit from \"a number of measures\" in the bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.\n\nThe BBC spoke to one support worker who said she had met a six-year-old boy who slept wearing shoes so he would be ready to run away from his abusive father.\n\n\"He was living with violence. If the attacks were on [his] mum, he'd be the one that would run for help,\" said Lisa Briard, who works at Leapfrog, which supports children and their mothers in Wirral.\n\n\"He was on high alert. If there was a little bang in the room he'd jump, he'd keep an eye out. He never really relaxed.\"\n\nIt took six weeks of visiting Leapfrog before he would take his shoes and coat off, Ms Briard said.\n\n\"That was a big achievement for him,\" she added.\n\nFigures shown to the BBC by the NSPCC suggest more than half (57%) of calls to its helpline about children witnessing serious domestic abuse are referred to local authorities.\n\nBut children's services do not currently have a legal obligation to provide support in many circumstances.\n\nWhen Alice - who is not using her real name - met her husband abroad it was, she now says, like a \"fairytale\".\n\n\"We were friends, we fell in love. It was a true love story,\" she says.\n\nAfter 18 months together, the couple moved to the UK and had a daughter. Then things changed.\n\n\"I felt like a possession. He would pay for everything, he would do all the accounts and give me a set amount [of money] at the end of the month,\" she recalls.\n\n\"Over time I just felt like my personality was being stamped out.\"\n\nAlice tried to shield her daughter from the abuse, but it still had an impact on her behaviour.\n\nAlice says: \"She went from having a sweet, kind little personality to being a bit rebellious and she knew she could play the two parents off one another. Unfortunately that doesn't make for a very nice child.\"\n\nBoth Alice and her daughter have now received therapy. \"The difference is amazing, it's like night and day. It's wonderful seeing her blossom and learning about her feelings,\" Alice says.\n\nEmily Hilton, from the NSPCC, said the Domestic Abuse Bill currently fails to explicitly recognise children who witness domestic abuse as victims.\n\nThe charity is urging the government to include a statutory duty on local authorities to provide community-based specialist services.\n\n\"The bill in its current form fails to protect children from the devastating impact of living with domestic abuse, leaving thousands at continued risk because the help they deserve is not in place,\" said Ms Hilton.\n\nShe added that the government was \"missing a landmark opportunity to transform the way we help young people recover from the trauma of abuse\".\n\nThe Home Office said it \"fully recognises\" the \"devastating impact domestic abuse has on children and young people\".\n\n\"Children will benefit from a number of measures included in the Domestic Abuse Bill and the designated Domestic Abuse Commissioner has been appointed to encourage good practice in, amongst other things, the provision of protection and support for children affected by domestic abuse,\" it added.", "The Met said the officer's status is \"under review\"\n\nThe arrest of a serving Metropolitan Police officer relates to the outlawed neo-Nazi group National Action, it is understood.\n\nHe is being held on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation linked to right-wing terrorism, the Met said.\n\nOfficers are searching the address where he was arrested.\n\nA mandatory referral to the Independent Office of Police Conduct has been made, the force said.\n\n\"Whilst the investigation remains ongoing, at this time there is nothing to suggest there is any threat to wider public safety in relation to this matter,\" the force added.\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.", "More than 900 families have contacted a review looking at poor maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS trust\n\nAn NHS trust at the centre of an inquiry into preventable baby deaths will repay money it received for providing good maternity care.\n\nIn 2018, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust received almost £1m, weeks before its services were rated inadequate.\n\nThe BBC revealed in December the trust had qualified for the payment under the NHS's Maternity Incentive Scheme.\n\nThe trust said an \"incorrect submission\" had been made and it had ordered an independent review.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust (SaTH) is at the centre of England's largest inquiry into poor maternity care, with more than 900 families contacting a review looking into concerns over preventable deaths and long-term harm.\n\nRhiannon Davies, pictured with daughter Isabella and husband Richard, campaigned for an independent inquiry after her baby, Kate, died in 2009\n\nRhiannon Davies, whose daughter Kate died due to errors at the trust, said she was incredulous SaTH ever received the money.\n\n\"They have deceived, lied and through so doing, denied those deserving of the money from obtaining it.\n\n\"We know they haven't learned lessons from avoidable deaths. When will enough be enough?\"\n\nIn February, Jeremy Hunt called for an inquiry into the safety of NHS maternity services\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt wrote to ministers questioning if improvements to the Maternity Incentive Scheme were needed in light of payments made to both Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent Hospitals, despite both facing serious questions over the safety of maternity services.\n\nThe trust in Shropshire was paid £963,391 after certifying it had met the 10 safety standards demanded by the scheme, which is run by NHS Resolution.\n\nIn the letter, seen by the BBC, Mr Hunt suggested one improvement would be to link payments to CQC maternity and safety ratings.\n\n\"The whole approach is likely to be discredited if trusts can meet all 10 actions and yet still be delivering poor standards of care,\" the letter said.\n\nIn 2018, NHS Resolution, the legal arm of NHS trusts in England, launched a scheme aimed at improving maternity care and reducing the cost of errors.\n\nTo qualify for payment, trusts had to certify they met 10 maternity safety standards. NHS Resolution did not ensure each trust met its requirements.\n\nOf the 132 trusts that participated, 75 certified they had scored 10 out of 10 and became eligible to receive funding.\n\nThe money was paid to SaTH while Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors were assessing it. The CQC report rated the trust, including its maternity services, as inadequate.\n\nLouise Barnett, chief executive of SaTH, said the trust had reassessed its submission to NHS Resolution and would be repaying the money.\n\n\"Although some good progress had been made, we did not have sufficient evidence to support the required 100% compliance in all of the standards,\" she said, adding that internal auditors \"have been commissioned to undertake an independent review\".\n\n\"We acknowledge that our systems need to be more robust. We are continuing to review and strengthen our governance processes, to provide additional rigour and scrutiny at all levels, which I welcome.\"\n\nCurrently, the CQC is carrying out a review at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, both of which are rated as inadequate - a rating the trust also shares.\n\nA surprise inspection carried out in February found there was no children's nurse on duty at the Princess Royal Hospital's A&E department and sepsis screening and the use of antibiotics \"required improvement\".\n\nThere are currently 21 conditions imposed upon the trust by the CQC and the above issues are classed as breaches.\n\nIt will be discussed by the clinical commissioning group board when it meets on Tuesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 27-year-old Ukrainian chess champion and his girlfriend, 18, have been found dead in their Moscow flat, apparently poisoned by laughing gas.\n\nMedia reports say Stanislav Bogdanovich and Alexandra Vernigora - also a top chess player - were found with balloons containing the gas, nitrous oxide. The gas is inhaled using a balloon.\n\nRussian investigators reported the deaths, without naming the pair, and said there were no signs of foul play.\n\nVernigora was also a professional chess player and was studying at Moscow State University.\n\nThe Ukrainian sports website sport.ua says Bogdanovich was a grandmaster from Odessa who won the Ukrainian Under-18 championship and various chess awards at international tournaments.\n\nRussian chess website chess-news.ru says that in 2015 he was rated eighth in the world for speed (blitz) chess.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nitrous oxide is sold in metal canisters often discarded in the street\n\nReports say Bogdanovich drew much criticism recently for representing Russia in an internet chess match against Ukraine, which he won.\n\nSport.ua quotes a Facebook post from him (in Russian) about that, in which he argued that playing for Russia was good for business, that he was living as a guest in Russia and being treated well, and this was his small contribution to ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict.\n\nNitrous oxide was first used as an anaesthetic in 1844, but is now being used as a recreational drug and has been linked to a number of deaths. It can also cause breathing difficulties, dangerously increased heart rate and burns.", "Facebook has removed a series of misleading adverts from the Donald Trump campaign promoting \"the Official 2020 Congressional District Census\".\n\nThe adverts made it appear respondents were taking part in the official 2020 US census, which begins on 12 March.\n\nThey were promoted by a fundraising group backed by Republican officials and Mr Trump's re-election team.\n\n\"There are policies in place to prevent confusion around the official US census,\" Facebook said.\n\n\"This is an example of those being enforced,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThe adverts began running on Facebook on 3 March. Clicking the link takes users to a general survey focusing on Republican talking points.\n\nThe adverts were paid for by the \"Trump Make America Great Again Committee\", a part of Mr Trump's official re-election fundraising efforts.\n\nIt is backed by the Trump campaign and the Republican national party.\n\nIt owns and operates the Facebook pages of both Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which ran the controversial adverts.\n\nThe adverts were \"deceptive\" and \"unacceptable\", said Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which helped Facebook craft its policy on census interference.\n\n\"If Trump says a fake census is 'official', people are going to think its official,\" she said in a series of tweets. \"Trump's deceptive ads will confuse people about how and when to participate in the 2020 Census, threatening their right to get counted and bring resources and political power to their communities.\"\n\nFacebook has come under pressure to increase its role in blocking political interference in the past.\n\nThe website that appears after clicking on the ad uses the same controversial terminology\n\nThose who clicked the link in the advert were sent to a page on the Donald Trump website where they were asked to complete a survey.\n\nThe survey begins by asking about age and political leaning, before asking questions about Trump talking points such as \"Obamacare\", \"the Democrats' failed Impeachment Witch Hunt\" and \"Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left\".\n\nThose who fill out the Trump campaign's \"census\" are ultimately sent to a web page calling for donations.\n\nThe BBC saw more than three hundred versions of the advert, each targeting different states and demographics.\n\nFor example, one advert specifically targeted men aged over 45 in Texas, whereas another targeted women aged over 45 across the US.\n\nMost adverts were aimed at older people, with one exclusively targeting men and women aged over 65 in Maine, Florida, Arkansas and Arizona.\n\nIt is not clear exactly how many adverts were run, or how many people would have seen them, only that most of the adverts had been seen by fewer than one thousand people.\n\nThe official census is mandated under the US Constitution and takes place every 10 years, counting every resident.\n\nThe census has political implications as it is used to determine the number of seats each state holds in the House of Representatives, as well as how federal funding is allocated for the next 10 years.", "Last month Australian Rules Football player Tayla Harris called for action on online abuse\n\nAn Australian newspaper says sexist remarks have forced it to remove the comments section from its coverage of women's Australian rules football.\n\nThe Herald Sun said it had decided to shut off the comments following appeals from players, commentators and fans.\n\nOne story had received almost 300 comments of a \"sexist tone\", it said.\n\nAbusive comments aimed at players have plagued the sport for months. Women began playing Australian rules football professionally in 2017.\n\nLast year Prime Minister Scott Morrison referred to online trolls who attacked star footballer Tayla Harris as \"cowardly grubs\".\n\nOn Thursday, an article in the Herald Sun explained why comments had been removed from articles about women's Australian rules football (AFLW).\n\nHerald Sun head of sport Matt Kitchin said: \"The least offensive of the comments runs to the tune of 'get back in the kitchen' and the worst cannot be repeated they are so objectionable.\n\n\"Players, commentators, fans and clubs have all appealed to the Herald Sun to shut off the comments. And we've heard them.\"\n\nThe move comes two weeks after Harris, a football player for Carlton, offered to give up her wage in order for the AFL to employ someone to monitor online bullying.\n\n\"God damn I'll give up my AFLW wage to employ someone to monitor this, public bullying is a ripple effect to young people in schools and communities that lead to mental health issues and suicide,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nShe called on the sports governing body the AFL to \"be a leader in this space\".\n\n\"Ignoring these comments is not a solution. Fight back,\" she urged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tayla Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast year Harris was targeted with derogatory comments underneath a picture of her playing for the Carlton Blues posted on social media.\n\nThe controversy also led to questions about how media companies handle abusive comments after Channel Seven deleted the picture from its website in an effort to combat the trolling. The company reposted the photo after a backlash.\n\nA number of Australian sportswomen have supported Harris, including former Olympic cycling champion Anna Meares. Campaigners have also backed her, including Patty Kinnersly, head of Our Watch, which aims to tackle Australia's high rates of violence against women.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Patty Kinnersly CEO This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 AFLW professional league was launched in 2017, drawing sell-out crowds and TV ratings in a country that lives and breathes sport.\n\nWhen the first game was held, 26,000 fans turned up to the game, forcing the gates to close and 2,000 to be locked out.\n\nAt the time, the Herald Sun wrote: \"Footy's new female formula has a very big future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour leadership contender Lisa Nandy has spoken out against \"faction fighting\" under Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMs Nandy said she raised her concerns with the Labour leader before she quit his shadow cabinet in 2016.\n\nShe said some members of his team \"made it very, very clear they were going to continue to wage that factional war until the other side had been crushed\".\n\nAllies of Mr Corbyn say it is \"nonsense\" to suggest he wanted to wage \"war\" on another part of the party.\n\nMs Nandy was speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nThe Wigan MP joined a mass walkout of so-called \"moderate\" shadow ministers in 2016, triggered by Labour's poor European election performance and Mr Corbyn's decision to sack Hilary Benn.\n\nShe insisted that she had tried, with a group of \"soft left\" MPs, to hold the team together at a meeting with Mr Corbyn and other senior figures.\n\nBut the attitude of those around Mr Corbyn made her decide to quit as shadow energy secretary, she told the BBC's political editor.\n\n\"Some senior politicians in his own team, they made it very, very clear that they were going to continue to wage that factional war until the other side had been crushed,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was \"one thing\" to have backbenchers waging factional wars with colleagues but \"quite another thing to hear the leadership of the Labour Party state a commitment to doing that\".\n\nShe added: \"It wasn't Jeremy but there was no point at all at which he contradicted that.\"\n\nAllies of Mr Corbyn have acknowledged that the meeting did take place just after the referendum in 2016.\n\nBut they dispute Ms Nandy's version of events, citing the fact that Mr Corbyn later invited some of those who opposed his leadership back into the shadow Cabinet.\n\nSources say it is \"nonsense\" to suggest that Mr Corbyn wanted to wage a \"war\" on another part of the party, the BBC's political editor says.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg has previously interviewed Ms Nandy's leadership rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Sir Keir Starmer. The winner of the contest will be announced on 4 April.\n\nLong known in Labour circles as a straightforward politician and an interesting thinker, she has been the most willing to speak out about the mistakes the party made in recent years.\n\nThat's been easier for her as she quit the party's leadership team.\n\nThe others have tiptoed around what went wrong, in part because they, as members of the shadow cabinet, were part of the group (at least in theory), that made the errors that led to the defeat and also because they have been afraid to trash Jeremy Corbyn's reputation when many members still believe in him and only a couple of months ago were standing on doorsteps, trying to pitch his message.\n\nIn our interview with Lisa Nandy she didn't hold back, not just her analysis of how Labour has drifted away from many communities it used to represent, but also on how both sides of the party went into what she describes as a \"factional war\"\n\nMs Nandy co-chaired Owen Smith's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Mr Corbyn as leader, after quitting the shadow cabinet.\n\nBut she insisted she was a \"non-factional\" and \"collegiate\" politician who had worked with both Blairite and left-wing MPs before being elected to Parliament in 2010.\n\nAnd she said the internal wars between the party's left and right wings had contributed to Labour's heavy defeat in December's general election.\n\n\"We've had four years, not just of infighting within the Labour Party and a factional war, waged from the frontbenches and the backbenches that showed the public we were more interested in ourselves, than we were in them, but we'd also had Brexit which was really, really devastating.\"\n\nShe said most voters had no idea what Labour was proposing at the election because \"I don't think people were even listening when we launched the manifesto\".\n\nBut she said she would \"ditch anything where we didn't know how we're going to pay for it\", from the party's next manifesto, if she is elected leader.\n\nOne example of this would be the party's plan to \"scrap tuition fees without a plan to pay for it\".\n\nLisa Nandy (centre): I feel like my only friends in the world at the moment are Becky and Keir\n\nShe said she was opposed to tuition fees and had worked with trade unions on a plan to introduce a tax on business to \"fund free tuition fees for everybody in England and Wales\".\n\n\"But you can't just go into an election saying that you're going to spend money, because it's their money. And, as one woman said to me in Wigan in 2017: 'It's our money, love, and we haven't got a lot of it'.\"\n\nShe also expressed doubts about Labour's commitment to nationalising six major industries.\n\n\"I'd bring them into public ownership but I wouldn't nationalise them all,\" she told the BBC's political editor.\n\n\"I don't see why we would give huge subsidies to the major big six energy companies in order to buy them back into public control. That's simply taking taxpayers' money and handing it over to shareholders.\"\n\nInstead, Labour should be \"much more radical\" and \"invest in local councils and local communities being able to set up their own energy companies\" to disrupt the market and bring down bills.\n\n\"That seems to me a sort of 21st Century socialism that people are really receptive to. But we've got to go out and win the argument,\" she said.\n\nAsked - like the other contenders interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg - if she had any \"Tory friends\", she said she \"had friends who vote Tory\".\n\nShe added: \"I feel like my only friends in the world at the moment are Becky and Keir. We just go round and round conference centres shouting slogans at each other.\n\n\"Occasionally, when I'm not doing this I do get out and go for a pint and have a chat to my actual mates, Tory or otherwise.\"", "Ainsley Harriott enjoys a laugh with the Prince of Wales\n\nCelebrity chef Ainsley Harriott has received his MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe TV presenter said the honour, for services to broadcasting and to the culinary arts, was \"very special\".\n\nThe 63-year-old has been offering cooking tips on the TV for almost 30 years on show like Can't Cook, Won't Cook, and Ready Steady Cook.\n\nIt came in the week that Ready Steady Cook returned after a decade away, with Rylan Clark-Neal taking over as host.\n\n\"As a presenter I like what he does,\" Harriott said of his successor. \"I think he engages with people. He's very warm, he's got a relaxed style, so I'm sure that's going to work.\"\n\nHarriott said he would continue with a career built on making cookery more accessible to the public.\n\n\"I think it's kind of bringing food to people who perhaps a little bit shied away from it, [were] a little bit embarrassed about it,\" he said.\n\n\"What I've tried to do over the years is to kind of open the door to say 'It's a meal, it's OK, don't panic, don't get worked up about it'.\"\n\nHarriott was recognised alongside actress Maureen Beattie OBE and The Priests, a trio of singing clergymen, who were also given MBEs.\n\nEngland netball captain Serena Guthrie was given the same honour, while trainer Nicky Henderson was made an OBE for services to horse racing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The report analysed areas of bias such as politics, education, reproductive rights and integrity\n\nA new UN report has found almost 90% of men and women hold some sort of bias against females.\n\nThe \"Gender Social Norms\" index analysed biases in areas such as politics and education in 75 countries.\n\nGlobally, close to 50% of men said they had more right to a job than women. Almost a third of respondents thought it was acceptable for men to hit their partners.\n\nThere are no countries in the world with gender equality, the study found.\n\nZimbabwe had the highest amount of bias with only 0.27% of people reporting no gender bias at all. At the other end of the scale was Andorra where 72% of people reported no bias.\n\nIn Zimbabwe, 96% of people expressed a bias against women's physical integrity - a measure covering support for violence against women and opposition to reproductive rights. In the Philippines, 91% of people held views that were detrimental to women's physical integrity.\n\nAccording to the report, about half of the world's men and women feel that men make better political leaders.\n\nIn China, 55% of people thought men were better suited to be political leaders.\n\nAround 39% of people in the US, which is yet to have a female president, thought men made better leaders.\n\nHowever in New Zealand, a country that currently has a female leader, only 27% of people thought that.\n\nIn New Zealand, a country which has a female leader, 27% of people think men would be better leaders than women\n\nThe number of female heads of government is lower today than five years ago with only 10 women in such positions in 193 countries, down from 15 in 2014.\n\nHowever when it comes to seats in parliament, there is a slightly higher percentage of women in these roles.\n\nLatin America and the Caribbean had the highest share of seats in parliament held by women with 31%. South Asian countries had the lowest percentage at just 17%.\n\nPedro Conceição, head of UNDP's Human Development Report Office said: \"We have come a long way in recent decades to ensure that women have the same access to life's basic needs as men.\n\n\"But gender gaps are still all too obvious in other areas, particularly those that challenge power relations and are most influential in actually achieving true equality. Today. the fight about gender equality is a story of bias and prejudices.\"\n\nWomen are paid less than men and are much less likely to be in senior positions. Globally, 40% of people thought men made better business executives.\n\nIn the UK, 25% of people thought men should have more right to a job than women and said men made better business executives than women did. In India that figure was 69%.\n\nRaquel Lagunas, UNDP gender team acting director said: \"We must act now to break through the barrier of bias and prejudices if we want to see progress at the speed and scale needed to achieve gender equality.\"", "Strachur Surgery's patients will only be able to contact doctors via telephone\n\nA Scottish GP has told all patients to stay away from his surgery over coronavirus fears.\n\nDr Robert Coull said appointments at Strachur Medical Practice in Argyll would now be telephone-only to reduce the risk of spreading the virus.\n\nThe doctor said prescriptions dispensed by the remote surgery would be handed over via a window.\n\nHe also advised that medication should be left in the car for several hours before opening.\n\nPatients were informed via social media that the surgery was closed to all patients on Friday afternoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Robert Coull This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked to explain the decision, Dr Coull posted: \"Strachur has very specific circumstances. We are the only health care providers in a remote area servicing a very elderly population, so we are at the extreme end of the scale of risk to patients if we have a patient turn up in the practice with Covid-19 as they would have nowhere else to go.\"\n\nHe said that by telephone triaging all patients before allowing them into the building, the medical team could minimise the risk to patients, keep the waiting room mostly empty and be able to clean the areas between patients.\n\nDr Coull said there were \"very specific circumstances\" at his Argyll surgery\n\nDr Coull told BBC news: \"We have a very high age population, we are in the 96th percentile for age and we also have a very high level of chronic diseases.\n\n\"It's quite an older village and we are the only practice in the village so if anything happened to us there would be no other services. The nearest people would be half an hour away.\"\n\nDr Coull said that the biggest threat to the practice would be if a suspected case walked into the surgery and led to its closure while it was investigated.\n\nHe added: \"We have decided to increase telephone and video consultations. We are going to have the doors locked initially and only bring people in by invitation, spread out the appointments over a period of time and clean the room between patients.\n\nExplaining his advice on dispensing, he said medical staff were at high risk of infection themselves and could inadvertently spread the disease when handing out medication.\n\nHe went on to suggest patients leave the medicines for several hours before handling them.\n\nThe current Covid-19 primary care guidelines issued by the Scottish government include instructions for how to deal with cases which present at a GP surgery and over the telephone, but do not as yet recommend closing GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman for Argyll and Bute health and social care partnership said: \"We work very closely with our GP colleagues across Argyll and Bute. GPs are independent practitioners and this particular practice has taken a clinical decision to see the majority of their patients by telephone consultation rather than face to face.\n\n\"We do not expect any GP or primary care staff member to assess and test patients with suspected Covid-19 therefore there is no requirement for the full personal protection equipment that our secondary care clinical staff require for testing.\n\n\"Surgical face masks have however been distributed to GPs for use in the event that contact with a patient is unavoidable.\"\n\nOn Friday, the number of cases of the virus in Scotland rose to 11.\n\nThe Scottish government said two of the new Covid-19 cases were in Fife, with one each in the Grampian, Forth Valley and Lothian health board areas.\n\nThe first Scottish case of the virus was confirmed in Tayside on Sunday.\n\nNo cases have been confirmed in the NHS Highland area, where Strachur Medical Practice is located.\n\nSimilar announcements have been made by surgeries in London and Cumbria but it appears to be the first Scottish practice to go telephone-only.\n\nThe country's chief medical officer has warned there could be a \"rapid rise\" in the number of cases in the coming days.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood said Scotland remained \"very much\" in the containment phase of its response to the outbreak, and urged people to continue to follow basic hygiene advice and - crucially - wash their hands for 20 seconds.", "Six weeks ago the BBC covered the story of a team of researchers based at Edinburgh University's Euan MacDonald Centre, who were launching a drugs trial to help people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).\n\nDuring filming we met 37-year-old Ruth Williamson, who was diagnosed more than two years ago. This week she started taking the drugs which may help slow down the fatal condition.\n\nThe trial will see whether existing drugs can be \"re-purposed\" to slow the progress of the illness.\n\nThere is no effective treatment or cure for MND, with half of all patients dying within two years of diagnosis.\n\nAround a quarter of all those in the UK diagnosed with the disease have expressed an interest in taking part in the drugs trial.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Rugby\n\nScotland Women's Six Nations match with France at Glasgow's Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday has been postponed after a home player contracted coronavirus.\n\nThe player is being treated in \"a healthcare facility but is otherwise well\", says Scottish Rugby, while seven members of the Scotland playing and management staff are in self-isolation.\n\nScotland men v France at Murrayfield on Sunday \"continues as scheduled\".\n\nScotland women's last game, in Italy, was called off over coronavirus fears.\n\nThe squad were in Italy when that match, which was due to take place in Legnano, north-west Milan, was cancelled hours before kick-off on 23 February.\n\nDr James Robson, Scottish Rugby's chief medical officer, said: \"We are pleased that our player is doing well and that all the correct medical procedures have been followed and continue to be followed.\n\n\"We are working with the Scottish government in continuing to observe and follow NHS advice.\"\n\nItaly's matches in the men's and women's Six Nations, against Ireland on 7-8 March and England the following weekend, have already been postponed.\n\nScotland Under-20s' Six Nations game against France went ahead as planned on Friday night in Galashiels.\n\nScottish Rugby says the decision to postpone the women's match was taken in conjunction with the French Rugby Federation and Six Nations, with talks to take place over rescheduled dates.\n\nPhilip Doyle's Scotland side have picked up one losing bonus point after a narrow loss in Ireland was followed by a heavy home defeat by England.", "Some stores have run out of hand sanitisers as people prepare for the virus spreading\n\nHand sanitiser sales are being limited at pharmacy chains as fears over the coronavirus have boosted demand.\n\nBoots and LloydsPharmacy both said they are restricting the products - which can help to prevent the spread of the virus when hand-washing is not possible - to two per person.\n\nThe decision comes as some hand sanitisers are being sold online at inflated prices.\n\nPharmacies said they are working to increase the supply of the products.\n\nThe NHS says that washing your hands is a key part of preventing the spread of viruses, but hand sanitiser gel can be used when soap and water are not available.\n\nAs the UK warns that widespread infection is \"highly likely\", chemist chains said they had to ration the products, with market research data from Kantar Worldpanel showing sales more than tripled in February.\n\nMeanwhile, one pharmacy in Coventry told BBC News they have struggled to restock hand sanitisers amid increased demand for the product - including from local businesses such as taxi companies and hairdressers.\n\nAli Shiraz, of Hillfields Pharmacy, said: \"We can't get any hand sanitisers at all. The demand has been really, really high.\n\n\"We're looking at maybe 50 to 60 people a day have been asking for particular hand sanitisers.\"\n\nA spokesman for LloydsPharmacy, which has 1,500 branches across the UK, said: \"We know that having access to products like hand gels is extremely important to our customers, so we are doing everything we can to ensure availability, despite increasing demand and supply challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nBoots said it was limiting sales but still had stock in warehouses for online sales and high street stores.\n\nBut Well Pharmacy, which has 700 branches, said it was not limiting sales despite a surge in demand which could see some products become temporarily unavailable.\n\n\"We certainly have no intention of profiteering over the current situation by increasing prices,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAmazon Marketplace and other online sales platforms have hand sanitisers available at inflated prices.\n\nA 100ml bottle of Cuticura Total - which kills viruses as well as bacteria - is sold for £1.55 by Boots. But some Amazon sellers are offering 40ml of the brand's anti-bacterial gel for £24.99.\n\nOn social media, people posted images of empty shelves and patients with weakened immune systems called for shoppers to stop panic-buying.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHand sanitiser manufacturer PZ Cussons, which makes Carex hand gel, said it was \"working at full capacity in response to the exceptional demand being experienced\".\n\nKarium, which makes Cuticura hand gel, said sales have \"soared\" due to the coronavirus.\n\n\"We have taken immediate action to increase our production volumes, in order to meet this initial increased demand and to avoid empty shelves,\" said marketing director Kerry Owens.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was questioned about low supplies of products such as hand sanitiser and whether the UK will have enough of medicines such as paracetamol.\n\n\"Our no-deal planning and our no-deal stockpiles are playing an important part in making sure we are fully prepared and ready,\" he said.", "Princess Haya fled to the UK last year with the couple's two children\n\nAbduction, forced return, torture and a campaign of intimidation. On Thursday the damning allegations made against the billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, by his former wife, Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain, became established fact, published in a series of judgements by the High Court in London.\n\nFollowing a high-profile case that began eight months ago, the court has published a Fact Finding Judgement (FFJ) in favour of Princess Haya who fled Dubai last year, along with her two children, telling friends she was in fear of her life.\n\nSheikh Mohammed had tried, unsuccessfully, to keep the judgement out of the public domain but his appeal was rejected after the case was ruled to be in the public interest. The ruler of Dubai was found to have \"not been open and honest with the court\".\n\nIn a statement issued after the judgements were published, Sheikh Mohammed said: \"As a head of government, I was not able to participate in the court's fact-finding process. This has resulted in the release of a 'fact-finding' judgment which inevitably only tells one side of the story.\"\n\nHe insisted the case was a private matter. \"I ask that the media respect the privacy of our children and do not intrude into their lives in the UK,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (July 2019) Dubai: It's flash, it's brash, it's successful – but what's going on beneath the surface?\n\nAfter hearing extensive witness statements over a period of time, the court found Sheikh Mohammed to have been responsible for the abduction and forced return of two of his daughters from another marriage.\n\nThe judge found that Sheikh Mohammed \"continues to maintain a regime whereby both these two young women are deprived of their liberty\".\n\nPrincess Haya of Jordan, 45, a daughter of the late King Hussain and a former Olympic equestrian, married Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, 70, in 2004, becoming the sixth and youngest of his wives. They have two children, aged seven and 11.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happened to Dubai's Sheikha Latifa? (First published in 2018)\n\nInitially she believed his explanations of what had happened to the two princesses, namely that they had been \"rescued\" and were now safe with the family.\n\nBut by early 2019 Princess Haya had become suspicious and voiced her concerns. She had also begun an adulterous affair with her British bodyguard.\n\nA campaign of intimidation by Sheikh Mohammed's agents began and the court heard that a gun was twice placed on her pillow with the safety catch off. A helicopter landed outside her house with a threat to remove her to a remote desert prison.\n\nThe judge ruled that \"the father has therefore acted in a manner from the end of 2018 which has been aimed at intimidating and frightening the mother, and that he has encouraged others to do so on his behalf\".\n\nIn April 2019 Princess Haya fled to Britain, taking her two children with her. The court heard how veiled threats from Sheikh Mohammed had left her terrified for her own safety, as well as fears that her children could be abducted and forcibly returned to Dubai.\n\nIn May 2019 she said he told her: \"You and the children will never be safe in England\". He published a poem entitled: \"You lived, you died\".\n\nThe court heard how the Sheikh had used his media contacts to generate a series of negative articles about Princess Haya, many of which were \"wholly inaccurate\".\n\nThese judgements, and the allegations upheld by them, are clearly a huge personal embarrassment to Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum. It is hardly surprising therefore that his legal team tried their best to keep them out of the public domain.\n\nIn his latest statement, he said: \"The appeal was made to protect the best interests and welfare of the children. The outcome does not protect my children from media attention in the way that other children in family proceedings in the UK are protected.\"\n\nWhile his former wife, Princess Haya, has a relatively low profile, Sheikh Mohammed is a global figure in the horseracing world where he is the owner and founder of Godolphin Stables.\n\nHe has often been photographed with the Queen. He is also a renowned figure across the Middle East, responsible for transforming the emirate of Dubai into the massive tourism, leisure and business destination it has become.\n\nThe rulings have been welcomed by human rights campaigners.\n• None BBC Two - Escape from Dubai- The Mystery of the Missing Princess", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK government has promised an extra £46m in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nThe money will include funds towards the development of a vaccine and a new a rapid test for the disease.\n\nThere is currently no vaccine available to protect people against Covid-19, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped one would be ready in about a year.\n\nSupport will also be offered to some of the countries most vulnerable to a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIt comes as the number of cases in the UK rose by 48 - the biggest increase in a single day - taking the total number to 163.\n\nThe new funds were announced as Mr Johnson visited a laboratory in Bedfordshire where the new rapid test, which could provide results within 20 minutes, is being developed.\n\nSimilar to a pregnancy test, it would use a swab of saliva or a pinprick of blood. The lab already has experience of creating similar tests for Ebola, yellow fever and measles.\n\nExisting tests can take a couple of days to provide results, as they rely on samples being sent away to a lab for analysis.\n\nBut the test could still be six months away.\n\nFunding will also go towards work on eight possible vaccines in development as well as further research.\n\nGovernment scientific advisers have already warned a working vaccine is unlikely to be ready in time for this current outbreak.\n\nBoris Johnson visited the lab where scientists are developing a new test\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who visited Mologic lab, said in a statement: \"Keeping the British people safe is my number one priority, and that's why I've set out our four-part plan to contain, delay, mitigate and research coronavirus.\n\n\"We are ensuring the country is prepared for the current outbreak, guided by the science at every stage. But we also need to invest now in researching the vaccines that could help prevent future outbreaks.\n\n\"I'm very proud that UK experts - backed by government funding - are on the front line of global efforts to do just that.\"\n\nThe government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said: \"Rapid testing is going to be key to managing this outbreak, but ultimately vaccines are going to provide the long-term protection we need.\n\n\"The UK has some of the world's leading scientists and this money will help in our fight to tackle this new disease.\"\n\nThe announcement takes the total amount of money committed by the government to spending on coronavirus to £91m.\n\nThe new £46m comes from the UK's aid budget and includes up to £16m to help some of the most vulnerable countries prepare for the coronavirus.\n\nThe UK's contribution to vaccine research now stands at £65m.\n\nGlobal human trials of the eight possible vaccines could start later this year but firms would still face the task of mass-producing and distributing them.\n\nGovernment scientific advisers have already warned a working vaccine is unlikely to be ready in time for this current outbreak\n\nIt comes as the government is under pressure to explain its plans for ensuring food supplies, as supermarkets report sales of basics going \"through the roof\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told a BBC Question Time audience he was \"absolutely confident\" food supplies would not run out, amid concerns people were stockpiling.\n\nHe said the government was working with supermarkets to ensure food and supplies could get to people in self-isolation.\n\nBut a supermarket executive told the BBC sales of cupboard basics had \"gone through the roof\" and he was not sure the government could guarantee food supply in all instances.\n\nHe also denied the government had been in contact about ensuring supplies for self-isolators.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Friday, Mr Johnson said he anticipated a \"substantial period of disruption\" in the UK as a result of the coronavirus.\n\n\"How big that will be, how long that will be I think is still an open question, but clearly it is something we're going to have to deal with for quite a while here in the UK.\"\n\nMore than 92,000 cases have been recorded worldwide, with 80,552 in China, where the virus originated. China also accounts for the vast majority of deaths - 3,042 to date.", "Amber Rudd was home secretary from July 2016 until she resigned in April 2018\n\nFormer Home Secretary Amber Rudd says she had an invitation to speak at an Oxford University society pulled half an hour before she was due to appear.\n\nMs Rudd, who stepped down as an MP in December, was due to speak to the UN Women Oxford UK society on Thursday.\n\nFollowing a vote of its committee, understood to relate to her role in the Windrush scandal, the invitation was pulled.\n\nMs Rudd said some students' treatment of her was \"badly judged and rude\".\n\nShe had been due to speak about UN Women's Draw A Line campaign and her experiences of being an MP and minister for women and equalities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nShe resigned as home secretary in April 2018 after people living legally in the UK were detained and deported and she inadvertently misled a Commons committee about the number of people who had been involved.\n\nThe UN Women Oxford UK society wrote on Facebook on Thursday: \"Following a majority vote in committee, tonight's event with speaker Amber Rudd has been cancelled.\n\nIt added it was \"deeply sorry for all and any hurt caused\" over the event.\n\nEarlier in the week, it said the conversation with Ms Rudd would have been \"an honest and frank conversation\" about how her policies had impacted women of all races.\n\nIt had urged students to attend the event \"to help campaign for a truly frank feminism which is not afraid of taking opportunities to discuss issues with high profile figures\".\n\nLater charity UN Women UK distanced itself from the row, and announced the student group involved had changed its name to United Women Oxford Student Society.\n\nThe charity added it would no longer be associated with the student society.\n\nIt is the second prominent \"no-platforming\" in the city in a week, after Oxford University history professor Selina Todd had an invitation to speak at the Oxford International Women's Festival withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The long-awaited National Infrastructure Strategy is to be further delayed, and not released next week as expected, the BBC understands.\n\nThe detailed 30-year plan was to be published \"alongside\" the Budget, the government said at the Queen's Speech in December.\n\nThree weeks ago, then chancellor Sajid Javid confirmed the timetable.\n\nThe strategy is seen as crucial to the government's plan to \"level up\" regional disparities.\n\nThe delay will allow the new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to refocus the strategy, to reflect potentially larger resources available, and to incorporate the challenge of achieving \"net zero\" carbon emissions over the same 30-year timescale.\n\nTreasury sources say the overall ambition to make investments to \"level up\" the regions that also help meet commitments on climate change, remains and will be reflected in next week's Budget.\n\nThe strategy, which foresees spending of £100bn over this parliament, will contain vital funding projections for transport, local growth and digital infrastructure.\n\nAfter the recent High Court ruling over Heathrow, which found expansion plans had failed to adequately account for policies on climate change, some experts say the government needs to look again at the impact of environmental policy within the provision of infrastructure. There has also been a debate about whether housing should be part of the plan.\n\nThe strategy is also the government's formal response to a now two-year-old National Infrastructure Assessment, which was the product of an impartial commission set up when David Cameron was prime minister. It should have been published last autumn.\n\nPublication of the National Infrastructure Strategy should now be expected before May, sources have suggested to the BBC.\n\nThe Budget is still expected to include some green lights for high profile infrastructure projects, but the main move in this area will be to set the overall big numbers on capital spending. It is the infrastructure strategy and the Comprehensive Spending Review later this year that will determine the detailed policy.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the delay to the strategy suggested there was \"absolute chaos\" in the government.\n\nWith the threat of climate change and \"an economy at risk of recession\" the UK needed large scale infrastructure spending to start immediately, he said.", "Starbucks branches have temporarily banned reusable cups in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe coffee chain said customers would still receive a 25p discount for bringing reusable cups with them, but drinks would be served in paper cups.\n\nGreat Western Railway and LNER have banned reusable cups on trains - but GWR scrapped the policy after days.\n\nA hygiene expert said containing the virus should be a \"greater priority\" than environmental concerns.\n\nIt is understood Starbucks made the decision internally, rather than on the advice of health officials.\n\nThe coffee chain's Europe spokesman, Robert Lynch, said: \"Out of an abundance of caution, we are pausing the use of personal cups or tumblers in our stores across the UK.\n\n\"However, we will continue to honour our 25p discount for anyone who brings in a personal cup.\"\n\nHe said Starbucks was suspending its 5p charge for customers asking to use a paper cup.\n\nMr Lynch added the coffee chain - which, in 1998, was the first to offer users a discount for customers with reusable cups - was also introducing \"increased cleaning measures\" for all in-store crockery such as ceramic mugs and plates.\n\nStarbucks stores in the US have already brought in similar measures.\n\nThe coffee chain closed half of its almost 4,300 outlets in China in January to support efforts to contain the coronavirus, which causes Covid-19.\n\nUK train operator LNER said it had stopped accepting refillable cups on its trains \"to help prevent possible contamination from handling cups and lids\".\n\nWhile Great Western Railway (GWR) said it banned the use of reusable cups on its trains for \"three or four days\" as part of \"sensible precautions\" to protect customers and staff.\n\nBut the train company \"reverted\" to its normal policy on Tuesday, a spokesman said.\n\nHe said GWR had received \"a couple of comments\" from people asking for an explanation of the ban.\n\nOne GWR passenger said the move was \"absolutely absurd\" as trains were a \"germ hot spot\".\n\nAmy Slack said train staff were not sure why the reusable cup ban had been brought in\n\nAmy Slack, from Falmouth, Cornwall, said she decided against buying a coffee on a GWR train when her reusable coffee cup was declined on Monday.\n\n\"I couldn't understand what the difference was between a standard cup and a reusable cup,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We were told it's because of [coronavirus] being passed from hand to mouth… but that's the same regardless of the receptacle you're holding.\"\n\nMs Slack, 35, who works for an environmental charity, said when she asked for the reasons behind the change, staff members said they had \"questioned it themselves\".\n\n\"If it was government guidance I would be totally for it,\" she said.\n\n\"But coronavirus is going to be passed through very many more forms than reusable cups.\"\n\nWhen asked if people should stop using reusable cups, Public Health England said its \"message is clear\" - that \"simple hand-washing with soap for 20 seconds\" was the most effective way to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nAt least 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away each year in the UK, according to a government report published in 2018.\n\nBut Prof Sally Bloomfield, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said hygiene should take a \"greater priority\" than environmental concerns while it was still possible for the coronavirus to be contained.\n\n\"We don't know how serious [the virus] is, we are in a completely unknown phase of this, and I think in terms of preventing the spread, for the next three or four weeks then it should take a greater priority than an environmental concerns,\" she said.\n\nShe added the reusable cup ban was \"not being paranoid\".\n\n\"Handing someone a reusable cup is just the same as shaking hands with somebody. If there's anything we can do at the moment to slow down the spread, we should be doing it.\"\n\nBut Prof Bloomfield's colleague, epidemiologist Dr Kalpana Sabapathy, said \"while things may evolve\", advice to avoid the virus did not include avoiding reusable cups.\n\nShe added \"one has to ask what Starbuck's objective is\" since regular hand-washing \"should be protocol\" for workers at the coffee chain.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency's guidance for anyone working with food is to wash hands \"after touching items such as phones, light switches, door handles, cash registers and money\".\n\nGreggs said there would be no changes to its reusable cup policy, where customers bringing their own cups received a 20p discount on drinks.\n\nA spokesperson for Costa Coffee said: \"We have no plans to stop allowing the use of reusable cups in our stores, but like all retailers we are monitoring the situation closely and are following government advice and guidance.\"\n\nThe Pret a Manger food chain did not comment.", "Johnny Cash and his wife June pose with their eighteen month-old son John in Glasgow in 1971\n\nThere are many places of pilgrimage for fans of legendary musician Johnny Cash, among them Arkansas, where he was born, Nashville, Tennessee, the home of country music - and Fife.\n\nIn truth, the east coast of Scotland is not yet a hotspot for fans of the Man in Black but some people think it should be.\n\nA small festival in Aberdour is now paying tribute to Cash's legacy and his Scottish links.\n\nCash himself claimed his ancestors were from the Kingdom of Fife and was proud of his Scottish roots, even if they had crossed the Atlantic way back in the 17th Century.\n\nThe all-American musician began his career in the 1950s, recording alongside Elvis Presley at the famous Sun Studios in Memphis.\n\nJohnny Cash (right) with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley at Sun Studios in 1956\n\nHe walked the line between outlaw and heavenly until he died in 2003, at the age of 71, after a late career flourish in which he had success with a series of acoustic albums.\n\nBut it was a chance meeting in the late 1970s that led the star to track down his Scottish roots.\n\nHe found himself sitting next to Major Michael Crichton-Stuart, hereditary keeper of Falkland Palace in Fife, on a flight from the US.\n\nCash mentioned that he had heard that his family originated in Scotland and Mayor Crichton-Stuart confirmed that the family name was still to be seen in the farms and streets of the Kingdom.\n\nCash's daughter Roseanne told a BBC documentary in 2010: \"My father was so taken by this he had our ancestry done back to the 11th century.\"\n\nBiographer Stephen Millar told the same programme it appeared Cash was descended from a man called William Cash who lived in Strathmiglo in the late 17th Century.\n\nJohnny Cash discovered his Scottish roots when he was in his 40s\n\nThe singer's daughter Roseanne further claims that the Cash clan is descended from Ada, the sister of King Malcolm IV (1153-1165).\n\nShe says: \"Whenever my dad went into the hospital in his last years of life, he always checked himself in under the name of Malcolm. He relished that connection with royalty, however far distant in the past.\"\n\nIn the 1980s, Cash travelled to Fife at least three times - most notably in 1981 when he recorded a Christmas special for US television with fellow singer Andy Williams.\n\nWhen Leith-born singer-songwriter Dean Owens heard the story he thought something should be done to celebrate Cash's Fife roots.\n\n\"Being Scottish we like to claim people for our own,\" he says. \"Finding out Johnny Cash is Scottish, I got quite excited about that.\"\n\nMr Owens said the Cashback festival at the Woodside Hotel in Aberdour was not a \"tacky\" tribute festival but instead a celebration of Cash's legacy.\n\nDean Owens came up with the idea of a Johnny Cash festival\n\nRebus author Ian Rankin will be one of those taking part, giving a talk on Saturday afternoon.\n\nJohn McTaggart, who owns the Woodside Hotel, where the festival takes place, says more people should know about the connection.\n\nHe says everyone knows that Prestwick Airport was the only place in the UK where Elvis Presley ever set foot.\n\nAnd Kirriemuir has a statue in honour of AC/DC's Bon Scott, who lived there until he moved to Australia when he was six.\n\n\"People love that musical heritage,\" he says. \"So there should be some kind of monument.\"\n\nMr Owens says maybe a statue is not the right memorial.\n\n\"In some ways this is better because it is all about the music,\" he says.", "He made the remarks as part of a new documentary on Hillary Clinton\n\nFormer President Bill Clinton says his affair with Monica Lewinsky was a way of managing his anxieties.\n\nHe made the remarks as part of a documentary series titled \"Hillary\" which looks at the public life of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\n\nMr Clinton was impeached in 1998 for lying to investigators about his relationship with Ms Lewinsky. He was acquitted at his Senate trial.\n\nMs Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern at the time of the affair.\n\nMr Clinton told documentary makers Hulu: \"What I did was bad but it wasn't like I thought, let's think about the most stupid thing I could possibly do and do it.\"\n\n\"You feel like you're staggering around - you've been in a 15-round prize-fight that was extended to 30 rounds, and here's something that'll take your mind off it for a while. Everybody has life's pressures and disappointments and terrors, fears or whatever, things I did to manage my anxieties for years.\"\n\nHis relationship with Ms Lewinsky became a major news story in the late 1990s after the then-president first denied the affair before later admitting to \"inappropriate intimate physical contact\".\n\nMr Clinton's initial response to the media reports in 1998 - \"I did not have sexual relations with that woman\" - has gone down as one of US politics' most memorable quotes.\n\nMs Lewinsky has maintained that her relationship with the former president was consensual but she called it a \"gross abuse of power\".\n\n\"Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position...\" she told Vanity Fair in 2014.\n\nShe said she had \"limited understanding of the consequences\" at the time and regrets the affair daily.\n\nMonica Lewinsky says she was made a scapegoat of after the affair\n\nIn the documentary Mr Clinton says he feels \"terrible\" that Ms Lewinsky's life was defined by their relationship.\n\n\"Over the years I've tried to watch her get a normal life back again but you've got to decide how to define normal,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked about the incident, Mrs Clinton explained how devastated she was.\n\n\"I was so personally, just hurt and I can't believe this, I can't believe you lied. It was horrible and I said if this is going to be public, you have to go tell Chelsea.\"\n\nShe explained how she \"didn't want anything to do with him\" after news of the affair broke.\n\n\"I made a decision to stay with my husband. I think some people thought I made the right decision and some people thought I made the wrong decision.\n\nMr Clinton told the documentary-makers that telling their daughter Chelsea about the affair was \"awful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Monica Lewinsky has broken her 10 year media silence about her affair with the former US President Bill Clinton\n• None The link between Monica Lewinsky and Donald Trump", "Barbara Martin (left) pictured with The Supremes when they were still known as The Primettes\n\nBarbara Martin, an original member of 1960s US pop group The Supremes, has died at the age of 76.\n\nThe Detroit singer was with the group when they signed to Motown Records in 1961 and sang on most of their first album, Meet the Supremes.\n\nThe news of her death was confirmed by the band on their Facebook page.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Barbara's family and friends. Once a Supreme, always a Supreme,\" they wrote.\n\nMartin replaced Betty McGlown in 1960 when the quartet was still known as The Primettes and shared lead vocals on tracks including (He's) Seventeen.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of youtube video by The Supremes - Topic\n\nShe left the The Supremes in 1962, while pregnant, before their major breakthrough, and was not replaced.\n\nBandmates Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson continued as a trio and went on to have hits like Baby Love, Stop in the Name of Love and You Can't Hurry Love.\n\nWilson reacted to the news of Martin's death by tweeting emojis of a broken heart and a tear drop.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mary Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Harry quipped \"there's nothing better than officially opening a building that is very much open\" as he visited a new motor racing museum at Silverstone Circuit.\n\nHe was shown around the Silverstone Experience by Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton and met pupils from two local schools.\n\nDuring a speech, he said: \"I can't believe what you've managed to turn a World War Two hangar that was pretty cold, pretty dusty two years ago into this remarkable experience.\"\n\nThe visit was one of the last official engagements by Harry, who will step back from royal duties with his wife Meghan at the end of the month.", "Gilbert Khoo was arrested on 23 February 2017 when he disembarked a flight from Singapore at Heathrow Airport.\n\nA seafood salesman has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for smuggling an estimated £53m worth of endangered live eels out of the UK.\n\nGilbert Khoo, 67, transported the eels from London to Hong Kong, hidden underneath chilled fish, between 2015 and 2017, a court heard.\n\nHe was caught after Border Force officers found 200kg of the \"glass eels\" at Heathrow Airport.\n\nIt was the first seizure of its kind in the UK, Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\nEels are threatened with extinction, the court was told\n\nKhoo, of Chessington, Surrey, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment on each of three counts of evasion of a prohibition on the export of goods.\n\nEach sentence was suspended for two years.\n\nHe was also found guilty of three counts of failure to notify movement of animals.\n\nThe prosecution said the crimes involved 16 consignments with an estimated retail value of £53,265,000 in the illegal market for them in Asia.\n\nBorder Force officers found 200kg of the European \"glass eels\" at Heathrow Airport\n\nKhoo kept the live eels, imported from countries within the European Union, in a barn in Gloucestershire, before repackaging them to be exported.\n\nJudge Jeffrey Pegden QC, who also ordered Khoo to do 240 hours of unpaid work for the community, said: \"In my view you played a leading role in this country in what was a large commercial operation driven by others, the purchasers abroad, where the desire for the glass eels was abundant.\"\n\nThe judge said he had \"no doubt at all\" that Khoo's criminal operation had \"a significant environmental impact upon the European glass eel\", which has a 30-year life cycle.\n\nEels are threatened with extinction unless the threat against them is closely controlled, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months, the company has admitted.\n\nThe information was accessed \"on at least one occasion\" by an unknown user.\n\nThe database, which was for marketing purposes, contained phone numbers, home and email addresses.\n\nIt did not include passwords or financial details.\n\nThe breach was not due to a hack or a criminal attack, but because the database had been \"incorrectly configured\" by a member of staff not following the correct procedures, Virgin Media said.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem on Friday after it was spotted by a security researcher at TurgenSec.\n\nThe company said almost all of those affected were Virgin customers with television or fixed-line telephone accounts, although the database also included some Virgin Mobile customers as well as potential customers referred by friends as part of a promotion.\n\nVirgin Media, which is owned by US cable group, Liberty Global, has informed the Information Commissioner's Office as required, and launched a forensic investigation.\n\nLutz Schüler, chief executive of Virgin Media said: \"We recently became aware that one of our marketing databases was incorrectly configured which allowed unauthorised access. We immediately solved the issue by shutting down access.\"\n\n\"Protecting our customers' data is a top priority and we sincerely apologise,\" he said.\n\n\"Based upon our investigation, Virgin Media does believe that the database was accessed on at least one occasion but we do not know the extent of the access or if any information was actually used,\" Mr Schuler said.\n\nVirgin Media said it would be emailing those affected on Thursday, in order to warn them about the risks of phishing, nuisance calls and identity theft. The message will include a reminder not to click on unknown links in emails and not to provide personal details to unverified callers.\n\nFurther advice was available on its website, it said.\n\nThe fact that Virgin Media's database hasn't been actively hacked is reassuring for customers, but while the details are light, it sounds like human error is to blame and that is rather embarrassing for a tech firm.\n\nTen months is a long time for all that data to have just been sitting there, waiting to be found.\n\nAnd while no passwords or bank details were among it, there's an awful lot of contact information for a cyber-criminal to work with. Phishing expeditions - when someone tries to get financial information out of a victim by pretending to be a company with a legitimate reason for contact - are not particularly sophisticated, but they are effective for those caught off-guard, and can be a lucrative source of income.\n\nIt's unclear whether this was yet another case of unsecured data being stored on a cloud service that's easily searchable if you know how. There have been dozens of examples of this lately, including just this week a database of the personal details of people using train station wi-fi around the UK.\n\nVirgin Media has apologised and really, there's very little practical advice to offer in the light of this kind of breach, beyond the usual protocol of staying alert to any messages requesting personal information or access to any kind of finance.", "Lydia O'Sullivan has not been heard from since 28 February\n\nA British woman has gone missing in the south Pacific island nation of Fiji.\n\nLydia O'Sullivan, 23, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, has not been seen or heard from for the past eight days, Cumbria Police said.\n\nMs O'Sullivan has been travelling for the past two years and had been living and working in Auckland, New Zealand.\n\nA force spokesman said she usually messaged her family daily, but had not been heard from since 28 February.\n\nShe is described as white, about 5ft (1.5m) tall with a small build, blue eyes and long brown hair.\n\nPolice are liaising with her family and agencies including the police in Fiji.\n\nAnyone with knowledge of her whereabouts is urged to contact Cumbria Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets have taken \"the necessary steps\" to ensure shelves remain stocked following the coronavirus outbreak, the environment secretary has said.\n\nGeorge Eustice, who held talks with supermarket and trade bosses on Friday, said he was \"reassured\" they had \"robust plans\" to minimise disruption.\n\nIt follows concerns the virus could lead to shortages of food and supplies.\n\nEarlier, supermarkets cast doubts on an assurance from the health secretary that supplies would not be affected.\n\nOn Thursday, Matt Hancock said: \"We are working with the supermarkets to make sure that, if people are self-isolating, then we will be able to get the food and supplies that they need.\"\n\nBut supermarket sources said they had not discussed getting food to homes, with one executive saying he was \"baffled\" by the suggestions.\n\nMr Eustice said he had spoken to chief executives from leading supermarkets on Friday about their response to the outbreak.\n\nHe said they had reassured him they had \"well-established contingency plans\".\n\n\"Retailers are continuing to monitor their supply chains and have robust plans in place to minimise disruption,\" Mr Eustice said.\n\nThe environment secretary also said he would be holding a further meeting with industry figures and public sector organisations to discuss support for vulnerable groups who may be in isolation.\n\nThe government and retailers would be working closely together over the coming days and weeks, he added.\n\nAndrew Opie, a director of food for the British Retail Consortium, which represents shops across the UK and was involved in talks with ministers this afternoon, said people did not need to panic buy.\n\nHe said retailers working with their suppliers had \"very sophisticated systems\" that they would be using should the outbreak worsen to \"really make sure everybody has availability and access to food\".\n\nBBC business correspondent Emma Simpson said demand for products had \"significantly increased\", with one industry source saying sales volumes had reached levels usually seen at Christmas.\n\nShe added that the overall message was that the current situation was \"manageable\" but supply chains were working very hard to keep up.\n\nAndrex sought to reassure customers it had plans in place to ensure a steady supply of toilet paper.\n\nOne retailer said there had been a 500% increase in demand for hand wash in the last week, with food cupboard items also among those seeing much higher demand.\n\nIt comes as the number of coronavirus cases in the UK jumped by 48 cases since Thursday - the biggest increase in one day - bringing the total to 163.\n\nMore than 20,000 people have been tested.\n\nElsewhere, samples taken from an elderly man who died at Milton Keynes Hospital are currently being investigated for coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC understands the man, in his 80s, had underlying health issues but more tests for the virus are ongoing.\n\nThe UK's first death linked to the virus came on Thursday, after a woman with underlying health conditions in her 70s died in hospital in Reading.", "The prime minister's announcement has no comparison in our recent history\n\nWuhan is more than 5,000 miles away.\n\nBut from tonight, the virus that spread from that part of China affects every individual, every family, every household, every business in the country - and it couldn't be closer to home.\n\nAt a desk in Downing Street, the prime minister made an announcement that has no comparison in our recent history, instructing everyone in the country to close the doors, stay inside to save lives.\n\nAs the number of cases of coronavirus has increased, the government's approach has accelerated rapidly through the measures that only a couple of weeks ago seemed like levers ministers would reach for at some distant hypothetical point in the future.\n\nArguments about whether to close pubs, cafes and bars 72 hours ago seem academic now, as the UK enters what the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has referred to as a lockdown.\n\nBoris Johnson has described this as a moment of \"national emergency\", listing a set of rules that will limit all our lives, which are no longer advice, but instructions that can be enforced by the police.\n\nYou can read exactly what they are here.\n\nIt seems hard to overstate how huge an impact this will have on the country, and what a massive decision this is for the government to have taken - whose effect will last at least for a period of three weeks at the shortest, potentially for very much longer.\n\nRemember this though, is not quite the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries - at least not yet. Despite tonight's enormous announcement, there are steps that other places have taken - curfews or total travel bans for example - that the UK is not pursuing.\n\nThe government is not triggering the Civil Contingencies Act, designed for the most serious emergencies which gives ministers draconian powers.\n\nNot surprisingly, there is already therefore enormous controversy about whether the UK has been acting fast enough. There will be a time on the other side of this crisis when scientists will have a full range of evidence that shows which governments, in which parts of the world, made the right decisions, that had the right impacts at the right time.\n\nBut that's not now, not yet, because simply, it may be many months before it's anything like clear. Whether Boris Johnson's government made the correct calls will shape his political future as well as the country's.\n\nAny notion that his government with a huge majority might be able to pursue its priorities is very long gone.\n\nRemember, too, for the majority of people who contract coronavirus it is a mild illness; most people will recover.\n\nBut the wider emergency is touching everyone - those who fall sick, the doctors, nurses and carers trying to help them, families trying to adapt to this strange new abnormal, businesses huge and tiny trying to survive - and our politics that has changed in these last few days beyond all recognition too.", "Anisha Vidal-Garner, from Epping, died at the scene\n\nA man has admitted running over and killing a woman as he fled from police in south London.\n\nQuincy Anyiam hit 20-year-old Anisha Vidal-Garner on Brixton Hill after he sped from officers on 19 February.\n\nThe 26-year-old, of Wolfs Wood, Oxted, Surrey, appeared by video link at the Old Bailey where he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe also admitted dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident. Sentencing was adjourned until 5 May.\n\nPolice had tried to stop Anyiam's car in Brixton at about 21:45 GMT, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHowever, he sped away and hit pedestrian Ms Vidal-Garner, who died at the scene.\n\nThe car was later found abandoned and Anyiam handed himself into police two days later.\n\nPolice had signalled for the car to stop before it sped off in Brixton\n\nFollowing the crash, the Directorate of Professional Standards and Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) were both informed.\n\nThe IOPC later took the decision to independently investigate the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mehfuz says his company is taking \"precautions and trying to serve our customers\"\n\n\"It's been non-stop for the past few weeks. No matter how hard we try, the shelves aren't full.\"\n\nThere are many people around the country who have been following the government's advice around social distancing - that's avoiding going out for non-essential reasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFor quite a few of us, that means having to work from home.\n\nBut that's not an option everyone can take. Supermarket worker Tiff has no choice but to go to work, despite the infection risks.\n\n\"In an ideal world, supermarkets would close too, but I know that's not possible right now,\" the 26-year-old tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nYou've probably seen people flooding to supermarkets, trying to get as many items as they can - panic buying things like handwash and antibacterial gel.\n\nTiff's in charge of the health and beauty section in her supermarket, which includes those items.\n\nAnd she says the rush of panic buying because of coronavirus has been \"horrible and overwhelming\".\n\n\"People have been yelling at me, asking why it's not there when we run out.\"\n\nWith cases of Covid-19 rising around the country, you might imagine that lots of frontline workers wouldn't want to work anymore.\n\nThe 28-year-old helps run a group of community pharmacies in north west England, which serve 250 care homes and deliver medicines to around 20,000 patients.\n\nAnd those patients are the reason he's still going to work.\n\nIf Mehfuz decides to stop working, \"vulnerable people will go without medicines\", he says.\n\n\"It's difficult but people in the NHS have it tougher,\" Jade says\n\n\"It's not the sort of business that can just disappear or you can work from home. We have to keep delivering to them, despite what's happening in the world.\"\n\nAnd despite her experiences in the supermarket, Tiff agrees with Mehfuz that it's important for those on the frontline to keep working at a time of crisis.\n\n\"People need supplies - they're looking for hygiene products and food - so we have to do what we can. If we don't, it'll just be more anger and panic,\" she says.\n\nTiff admits feeling \"anxious and afraid\" because of the uncertainty around the virus and possible impact on her health.\n\nShe suffered with a bad cough a few years ago, which she worries has damaged her lungs. People with underlying health problems are at greater risk of developing severe symptoms.\n\n\"I'm always thinking about it and a bit worried,\" she says.\n\nAnd Tiff's not the only one to have those concerns.\n\nJade Barnett, 19, has two jobs - in a warehouse and a supermarket - and she's worried she could catch the coronavirus at work and take it home to her family.\n\n\"It's not as much about me. I just don't want to catch anything and then pass it onto my nan or nephew,\" she says.\n\nShe wears gloves at work and is \"quite cautious\". But with lots of people whose jobs are at risk, Jade says she's grateful she's still able to work, despite the potential health risk.\n\n\"There are lots of people out there who have lost their jobs, or aren't able to earn any money. How are people meant to survive without money and a job?\"\n\nLike Tiff and Mehfuz, she acknowledges that she has a vital \"role to play\" in helping the country fight coronavirus.\n\nJade feels it's something that now comes with \"extra pressure\".\n\nWhen she's packing deliveries in the warehouse, she's aware that not having all the items someone needs can make things difficult for customers.\n\n\"It means they won't get a good shop and it might be someone who can't physically come to the shops,\" she says.\n\n\"So you do think about things like that and feel more responsibility.\"\n\nWhen working in the supermarket, she says it can be hard when dealing with elderly people because of limits on buying certain items.\n\n\"They often get lots of things and you have to tell them they can't take that much. You feel bad because you never know how much someone needs.\"\n\n'People need our help', says Mehfuz\n\nMehfuz says the current crisis is \"the toughest time\" he's ever experienced.\n\n\"Everyone at work understands the pressure is on us to deliver for the vulnerable,\" he says, adding that customers have called up worried his service may be shut down.\n\n\"They tell us that the country needs you to continue working. That motivates me and the others a lot.\"\n\nIt's an exhausting time for both Jade and Tiff, and they can't wait for the crisis to be over.\n\n\"It can be a lot of night shifts, sometimes 16-hour shifts. It feels like 24/7,\" Jade says. \"Hopefully all of this calms down soon. Because you do have some really rough days and it's not nice.\"\n\n\"We'll keep working, but even if it's just for a few weeks, we need a break,\" Tiff adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "On the first day of a country-wide lockdown in India, hundreds were held for violating the curfew - and the police dealt out some fairly unusual forms of punishment in some states.\n\nLocal media reports showed videos of police in Punjab and Maharashtra punishing men who broke the curfew by forcing them to do push-ups .\n\nIn Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, police also took to shaming people on social media - they posted photos of the alleged violators, saying “they were against society as they will not stay at home”, reported the Hindustan Times.\n\nElsewhere, officials seized vehicles after questioning people where they were going to determine if it was essential for them to be outside their home.\n\nStates have also been asked to take legal action if necessary as many have imposed a colonial-era law that prohibits four or more people gathering.\n\nChecks and fines are expected to increase on Tuesday as more cities and states go into lockdown to fight the spread of Covid-19 - India has reported 446 active cases, and nine deaths so far.", "Theatres, galleries, museums and artists in England who have been hit by the impact of coronavirus will have access to a £160m emergency fund.\n\nArts Council England has announced the cash injection to help artists, venues and freelancers in the cultural sector.\n\nIt comes after venues like theatres and galleries were ordered to shut.\n\nMeanwhile, Netflix has added a further boost to the artistic community by donating £1m to an industry-backed film and TV emergency relief fund.\n\nMost film and TV productions have been put on hold in recent weeks.\n\nThe impact of the pandemic has left many of those in the UK's arts and culture sectors facing reduced incomes and uncertain futures, and the government has been criticised for a lack of support for the self-employed.\n\nThe Arts Council's support package includes £20m for individuals (made up of grants of up to £2,500 each), £90m for National Portfolio Organisations - venues and others that get annual funding - and £50m for organisations outside that scheme.\n\nThe money has been found by diverting funds from National Lottery project grants and development funds, and from emergency reserves. The first payments are expected to be made within six weeks.\n\nArts Council England chair Sir Nicholas Serota said: \"Covid-19 is having an impact globally, far beyond the cultural sector - but our responsibility is to sustain our sector as best we can, so that artists and organisations can continue to nourish the imagination of people across the country, both during the crisis and in the period of recovery.\n\n\"None of us can hope to weather this storm alone, but by working together in partnership, I believe we can emerge the stronger, with ideas shared, new ways of working, and new relationships forged at the local, national and even international level,\" he added.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Netflix announced a £1m donation to the BFI and The Film and TV Charity's emergency relief fund, which will similarly support workers in need of short-term help.\n\nAlex Pumfrey, chief executive of the Film and TV Charity, said the money comes at a time when \"the film and TV industry is now facing a huge threat\".\n\n\"Many freelancers have seen their livelihoods disappear overnight,\" he said. \"We're entering a period of unprecedented isolation and worry for a workforce that we know from our research already suffers from poor mental health.\n\n\"Which is why I'm incredibly pleased that Netflix and the BFI are working with us to kick-start this new Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund to support workers across the UK's film and TV industry.\"\n\nBFI chief executive Ben Roberts added that \"freelance professionals are the backbone of our film and television industries\", and are among the \"hardest hit at this extraordinary time of need\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Primark's 189 UK stores have closed \"until further notice\", as demand drops due to social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt has already shut stores elsewhere and said it wanted to protect the health of employees and customers.\n\nThe fashion chain's boss, Paul Marchant, said it faced \"unprecedented, and frankly unimaginable times\".\n\nOther High Street retailers, such as John Lewis and Timpson, have already announced closures amid the pandemic.\n\nA Primark spokesperson said that any staff affected by store closures would receive full pay for their contracted hours for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile the John Lewis department store chain will close all of its 50 shops temporarily from Monday for the first time in its 155-year history.\n\nThe online site will still be available, while the group's 338 Waitrose stores will stay open to deal with a spike in demand for groceries. More than 2,000 John Lewis workers are already working across Waitrose.\n\nOther retailers have said that they would shut their shops temporarily although government has not yet ordered them to close, unlike restaurants, bars and pubs.\n\nThe chief executive of the Timpson Group posted on social media that the shoe repair firm's 2,150 stores would shut from Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Timpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBranches of WH Smith, Next and B&Q are among retailers to remain open.\n\nJames Daunt, the boss of Waterstones, had said that his bookshops provided an \"important social resource\" and would stay open until forced to close. However, late on Sunday the chain announced that it would be temporarily shutting all of its outlets by the close of trade on Monday.\n\nAs many UK firms warn of the impact of the pandemic, the City watchdog has asked them not to publish preliminary financial statements that were due in the next few days.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) asked all listed companies to delay plans to publish by at least two weeks.\n\nPrimark stores across the US, France, Spain and Italy have already shut their doors to try to contain the spread of the virus.\n\nIn response to falling demand, the firm has now stopped placing any orders for clothes to be made in the future.\n\nIt also has a large amount of stock in stores, warehouses and in transit that has already been paid for.\n\nMr Marchant said that Primark had been left with \"no option but to take this action\".\n\nHe added: \"This is profoundly upsetting for me personally and for all of the team... We recognise and are deeply saddened that this will have an effect throughout our entire supply chain.\"\n\nPrimark does not have an online sales operation, so it orders and sells vast quantities of clothing through its network of brick-and-mortar shops.\n\nMr Marchant called for other countries to support businesses \"in the same way that the UK and many European governments are doing.\"\n\nThe UK government said this week it will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nMany retail and hospitality firms have warned the pandemic could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nTom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the British Retail Consortium, said that shops continue to follow government advice.\n\n\"Stores are reviewing Public Health England advice daily to decide what is best to do for their customers, staff and local communities.\"\n\nHe said that although \"retailers in non-food areas have seen an unparalleled drop in footfall\", others such as supermarkets have seen continued strong demand.", "The WHO chief urged the G20 group of nations to boost production of protective equipment\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus disease pandemic is \"accelerating\", with more than 300,000 cases now confirmed.\n\nIt took 67 days from the first reported of Covid-19 to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000, and just four days for the third 100,000.\n\nBut WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was still possible to \"change the trajectory\".\n\nHe urged countries to adopt rigorous testing and contact-tracing strategies.\n\n\"What matters most is what we do. You can't win a football game by defending. You have to attack as well,\" he told a joint news conference with Fifa president Gianni Infantino to launch a \"kick out coronavirus\" campaign featuring footballers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by FIFA.com This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Tedros said asking people to stay at home and other physical-distancing measures were an important way of slowing down the spread of the virus, but described them as \"defensive measures that will not help us to win\".\n\n\"To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics - testing every suspected case, isolating and caring for every confirmed case, and chasing and quarantining every close contact.\"\n\nDr Tedros expressed alarm at reports from around the world of large numbers of infections among health workers, which appeared to be the result of a shortage of adequate personal protective equipment.\n\n\"Health workers can only do their jobs effectively when they can do their jobs safely,\" he warned. \"Even if we do everything else right, if we don't prioritise protecting health workers many people will die because the health worker who could have saved their life is sick.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the WHO has been working with its partners to rationalise and prioritise the use of protective equipment, and to address the global shortage of it.\n\nBut he noted: \"Measures put in place to slow the spread of the virus may have unintended consequences of exacerbating shortages of essential protective gear and the materials needed to make them.\"\n\nThe WHO chief called for \"political commitment and political co-ordination at the global level\" and said he would ask leaders of the G20 group of nations this week to work together to boost production of protective equipment, avoid export bans and ensure equity of distribution on the basis of need.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday night that, with immediate effect, \"people will only be allowed to leave their home...for very limited purposes\". They include shopping for basic necessities, taking one form of exercise per day, fulfilling any medical need, or travelling to work if working from home is impossible.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK rose to 335 on Monday.\n\nIn Italy, the worst-hit country in the world, the authorities said 602 people with Covid-19 had died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll there to 6,077.\n\nBut the daily increase was the smallest since Thursday, raising hope that the stringent restrictions imposed by the government were starting to have an effect.\n\nSpain, however, said its death toll had risen by 462 to 2,182 - a 27% increase.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israel's coronavirus patient number 74 posts about her experience on social media\n\nFrance reported 186 new deaths, bringing its total to 860. The government will tighten the lockdown there from Tuesday, strictly limiting physical exercise and closing most open-air markets.\n\nMeanwhile, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be postponed by one year because of coronavirus. However, the IOC has not yet formally announced a decision on the future of the Games.\n\nThe IOC has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of the games, but Australia and Canada have said they will not compete in Japan this summer and Great Britain has said it is unlikely that it would be able to send a team.", "The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe event, due to begin on 24 July, will now take place \"no later than summer 2021\".\n\n\"I proposed to postpone for a year and [IOC] president Thomas Bach responded with 100% agreement,\" said Shinzo Abe, Japan's Prime Minister.\n\nThe event will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021.\n\nIn a joint statement, the organisers of Tokyo 2020 and the IOC said: \"The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating.\n\n\"On Monday, the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Covid-19 pandemic is 'accelerating'.\n\n\"There are more than 375,000 cases now recorded worldwide and in nearly every country, and their number is growing by the hour.\n\n\"In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today [Tuesday], the IOC president and the prime minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.\"\n• None 'Tokyo Olympics will be a carnival unleashed that no-one will take for granted ever again'\n• None 'Heartbreaking' but a 'relief' - how athletes reacted to Olympic delay\n• None 'This is about protecting lives' - IOC chief says costs of Tokyo 2020 delay not discussed\n\nWhile the Games is the biggest sporting event to be affected by the pandemic, there has been a huge impact on a host of other major tournaments and sports:\n• None In rugby union, the end of this year's Six Nations was postponed, with four outstanding fixtures to be rearranged in the men's tournament.\n• None In football, Euro 2020 was postponed and will be played in the summer of 2021, while the sport is suspended in the UK until 30 April at the earliest.\n• None The first eight grands prix of the Formula 1 season have been delayed, with the Monaco Grand Prix cancelled.\n• None County cricket in England and Wales will not be played before 28 May, while England's three-Test series against West Indies, due to start at The Oval on 4 June, is in doubt.\n• None All forms of professional tennis have been postponed until 7 June, ruling out the clay-court season, while the French Open - the year's second Grand Slam, has been rescheduled for September.\n• None Golf's Masters and PGA Championship have both been postponed, with a decision yet to be made about September's Ryder Cup.\n• None The London Marathon has been moved from 26 April to 4 October.\n\nThe IOC had given itself a deadline of four weeks to consider delaying the Games but there had been mounting pressure from a host of Olympic committees and athletes demanding a quicker decision.\n\nCanada became the first major country to withdraw from both events on Sunday, while USA Track and Field, athletics' US governing body, had also called for a postponement.\n\nThe Paralympics were due to start on 25 August but International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said the postponement was \"the only logical option\".\n\nHe added: \"The health and wellbeing of human life must always be our number-one priority and staging a sporting event of any kind during this pandemic is simply not possible.\n\n\"Sport is not the most important thing right now, preserving human life is. It is essential, therefore, that all steps are taken to try to limit the spread of this disease.\n\n\"By taking this decision now, everyone involved in the Paralympic movement, including all Para-athletes, can fully focus on their own health and wellbeing and staying safe during this unprecedented and difficult time.\"\n\nWorld Athletics president Lord Coe said: \"The athletes have been under intolerable conditions, many of them are unable to train and many have been going through real emotional turmoil.\n\n\"The integrity of competition would have been seriously compromised if we had tried to force the Games into the remaining part of this year.\"\n\nCoe, who was chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, said World Athletics was looking at moving the 2021 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, to 2022.\n\nThe Olympics have never been delayed in their 124-year modern history, though they were cancelled altogether in 1916, 1940 and 1944 during World War One and World War Two.\n\nMajor Cold War boycotts disrupted the Moscow and Los Angeles summer Games in 1980 and 1984.\n\nThe Tokyo 2020-IOC statement continued: \"The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present.\n\n\"Therefore, it was agreed that the Olympic flame will stay in Japan. It was also agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.\"\n\nBritish Olympic Association chief executive Andy Anson said: \"It would have been unthinkable for us to continue to prepare for an Olympic Games at a time the nation and the world no less is enduring great hardship. A postponement is the right decision.\"\n\nBritish Paralympics Association chief executive Mike Sharrock said: \"Stemming this global public health crisis and doing everything possible to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people should clearly take priority in these unprecedented times.\n\n\"We welcome the clarity this now gives Paralympic athletes throughout the world who have had their training and qualification plans severely disrupted.\"\n\nOn 22 January, Olympic qualifying events in boxing and women's football that were due to be held in Wuhan, China - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - became the first to be moved or postponed.\n\nThere have now been almost 400,000 recorded cases of the virus worldwide, with the number of deaths approaching 17,000.\n• None How coronavirus has impacted sporting events around the world\n• None The latest news on the coronavirus crisis\n\n'The Olympics has never had a challenge like this' - analysis\n\nThis is arguably the biggest decision sport has seen in peacetime.\n\nIt has looked inevitable for weeks, and many will ask why it has taken until now.\n\nWith athletes unable to train safely, and the calendar of Olympic and Paralympic qualification events decimated amid travel restrictions and lockdowns, a postponement or cancellation emerged as the only viable options.\n\nFaced with the unenviable task of reorganising a sprawling mega-event that has already cost at least £10bn in preparations, the IOC and Japan had hoped to buy themselves some time to consider their next step.\n\nBut with Olympic committees and athletes increasingly frustrated and confused at what some saw as delaying tactics, the decision was effectively taken out of the organisers' hands, and just 48 hours after the IOC said it was giving itself four weeks to mull it over, we now know the Games cannot go on as planned.\n\nThe ramifications will be significant. It's a huge blow to Japan, and the country will now have to spend yet more money. Commercial contracts will have to be unpicked and the availability of venues revisited. A crowded sporting calendar will have to be flexible. And the IOC, sports federations, broadcasters, sponsors and a myriad of other related businesses will have to wait an additional year for the financial bonanza that the event generates.\n\nThe Games has had to deal with many challenges over the years, from terrorism and boycotts to war and doping. But nothing quite like this.\n\nAlistair Brownlee, double Olympic triathlon champion: \"Evidently a very tough decision for the IOC and other stakeholders to make but in my opinion the right one. Both, for the message it sends to people around the world battling with the virus and to give clarity to athletes attempting to prepare.\"\n\nJazmin Sawyers, long jumper: \"The right choice. For now we have to stay home to protect ourselves and everyone else. Look after each other, sport will be here when this is over, and we will be ready to give you all the greatest show on earth.\"\n\nCallum Skinner, retired cycling team sprint Olympic champion, who fronts competitor-led movement Global Athlete: \"The right decision has been made. Tokyo 2021 presents an amazing opportunity to host a full Games celebrating the world (hopefully) entering the \"post-pandemic\" phase.\"\n\nSophie McKinna, British shot putter: \"The right call in unprecedented circumstances. Welcome to #Tokyo2021\n\nAli Jawad, silver medal-winning powerlifter: \"The right call in unprecedented circumstances. Welcome to #Tokyo2021\"\n\nKadeena Cox, cycling and athletics champion: \"The right choice. Health before everything. Let's all stick together through these tough times and when the time is right we can enjoy the Games and its legacy.\"\n\nCyclist Lora Fachie: \"On a personal level I am devastated. Tokyo 2020 has been my target for the past four years. I've lived, slept and breathed it, giving me focus and drive. But it is also without doubt the right decision to have made. Back to the drawing board we go.\"\n\nDan Greaves, discus thrower: \"Absolutely the right decision to postpone both the Olympics & Paralympics by a year. Health comes first.", "Woody Allen’s controversial memoir has been released, weeks after it was pulped by its original publisher.\n\nApropos of Nothing was printed by Arcade Publishing in the US.\n\nThe previous publisher, Hachette, scrapped plans to release the book after protests from its staff and his children Ronan and Dylan Farrow.\n\nDylan has accused Allen of sexually abusing her in 1992 when she was seven years old. He denies the claim, calling it a \"total fabrication\" in his book.\n\n\"I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,\" he writes.\n\nDescribing a visit to his partner Mia Farrow's house, where he allegedly molested Dylan, he acknowledges briefly placing his head on his seven-year-old daughter's lap, but adds: \"I certainly didn't do anything improper to her. I was in a room full of people watching TV mid-afternoon.\"\n\nArcade said it had decided to publish the autobiography as a matter of free speech.\n\n\"We find it critical to hear more than one side of a story and more importantly, not to squelch the writer's right to be heard,\" said Arcade's co-founder Jeannette Seaver in a statement.\n\n\"When speakers are shouted down or even assaulted on campuses for simply having a different point of view, journalists are banned from press conferences and truth is too often dismissed as 'fake news', we as publishers prefer to give voice to a respected writer and filmmaker, rather than bow down to the politically correct pressures of the modern world.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the director said Allen had \"told his story comprehensively in his book\".\n\nDylan and her brother Ronan Farrow both criticised Hachette's original decision to publish the book.\n\nDylan called the memoir \"deeply upsetting\", while Ronan, a journalist who also recently released a book with the company, accused the publisher of concealing Allen's autobiography from him and its staff.\n\nHachette employees staged a walkout in New York and Boston to protest against the publication, and the company pulled the plug shortly afterwards.\n\nA statement by Hachette at the time called the decision \"a difficult one\".\n\nAllen is an Oscar-winning director who has written and directed cult classics including Annie Hall and Manhattan.\n\nThe 84-year-old lost a four-film deal with Amazon last November following comments he made about the #MeToo movement.", "Holding your breath and drinking cow urine? Reality Check's Chris Morris busts more health myths about Covid-19 being shared online.", "People must abide by the new rules set out by the Prime Minister because \"lives are stake\", the Welsh Conservative Senedd leader has said.\n\n“The Prime Minister’s message couldn’t be clearer,\" Paul Davies said in a statement.\n\n\"We are responsible for not just our own safety, but for everyone else’s safety as well.\n\n“This is because the more people that fall ill, then the harder it is for NHS Wales to cope, and therefore we must slow the spread of the disease so that fewer people are sick at any one time.\n\n“Lives are at stake, and I urge you to do the right thing. As Boris Johnson said, these rules will be reviewed in three weeks, so we must all abide by them in order to control this pandemic.”", "Alex Davies had never met his killer before\n\nA teenager has been convicted of the murder of a sales assistant who he stabbed more than 100 times and left in a remote woodland location.\n\nBrian Healless attacked Alex Davies, 18, on Parbold Hill, Lancashire, after they agreed through the dating app Grindr to meet at a \"discreet spot\".\n\nHealless, also 18, dragged him through the mud while he was still alive and covered his body with branches.\n\nHealless, of Chorley, will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe jury convicted him of the April 2019 murder after deliberating for less than an hour.\n\nThe judge thanked the jurors for being \"truly fantastic\" amid the coronavirus pandemic. They had to sit further apart than normal, with half in the well of the court and the others in the jury box.\n\nThey had heard that Mr Davies, from Skelmersdale, was openly gay and the defendant had been in contact with him and other men.\n\nHealless had mentioned meeting for \"some outdoor fun\" but took a knife to the top of Parbold Hill on the afternoon of 29 April 2019.\n\nAfter the killing, he rode off on his mountain bike.\n\nThree days later, a gamekeeper working on the hill spotted an arm under a pile of broken conifers, leading police to Mr Davies's body.\n\nThe court heard Healless had made searches on eBay for a military-style folding spade, a shovel and a pickaxe.\n\nProsecutor David McLachlan suggested to the jury that this was evidence of Healless preparing for his next victim.\n\nDefence lawyers argued the teenager was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time, but Mr McLachlan described Healless as a \"calculating, cunning, manipulative and dangerous young man\".\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. Caroline Nokes MP says the image of British people sleeping rough on Caracas streets \"is not a good one\".\n\nBritish nationals unable to return home due to the coronavirus pandemic are in a \"dire\" situation, a former minister has warned.\n\nTory MP Caroline Nokes said many were stranded as countries closed their borders and airlines cancelled flights.\n\nThe government's call for people to return home as quickly as possible were like \"empty words\" to them, she added.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said his staff were working with other nations and airlines to \"overcome barriers\".\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Raab said the situation was being exacerbated by countries closing their borders \"with no or little notice\".\n\nWith the pandemic worsening across much of the world, the Foreign Office changed its travel advice on Sunday urging British nationals to return home as soon as possible.\n\nMr Raab said officials were working \"night and day\" with other governments and airlines to put urgent arrangements into place.\n\nThe Peruvian government has closed its borders and put the population in lockdown\n\nBut Ms Nokes, the MP for Romsey and Southampton North, said many of her constituents were not able to get through to embassy staff on the phone and had received standard e-mail messages telling them to contact their tour operator or insurer.\n\nMany found themselves hundred of miles from airports, with hotel accommodation becoming increasingly scarce.\n\nBen Parker (right) is travelling with his friend Will Holloway\n\nBBC viewer Chas Parker said his 18-year old son Ben had been \"turned away\" by the British consulate in Phnom Penh, Cambodia because he didn't have an appointment.\n\nHe said Ben was given a card by security officers outside the building but when he e-mailed the consulate, he got a \"bog standard\" response.\n\nMr Parker said he feared for his son's safety amid an increasingly hostile atmosphere and rumours that he and other foreign nationals could be put into quarantine.\n\nWhile he had since managed to book a seat for his son on a flight home via South Korea, Mr Parker said the whole process had been tough.\n\nCommercial flights from many destinations were simply not available, she said, unless they were \"priced at tens of thousands of pounds and routed via airports expected to close imminently\".\n\n\"Hotels are closing, flights are cancelled, borders are closing and there are no routes home.\n\n\"He (Mr Raab) knows the situation is dire - but he knew that last week when he said in the House that we will look and liaise with the airline operators to make sure where there are gaps we can always provide as much support as possible.\"\n\n\"I ask him to explain how he is working with airlines with unused planes parked at airports around the globe to bring our people home... the vision of British citizens sleeping on the streets of Caracas is not a good one.\"\n\nMr Raab said the rate of border closures and travel disruption was \"unprecedented\" in modern times and he had doubled the number of consular staff to deal with the \"surge in demand\".\n\nHe said the UK was addressing specific problems facing British nationals in Peru, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, working with their governments and airlines to keep routes going, and to re-open those that had closed.\n\nMr Raab told MPs that special flights will be laid on later this week to bring Britons back from Peru, while the UK had agreed with Singapore that it will act as a transit hub to help those trying to get back from Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"Our overriding priority now is to assist the thousands of British travellers who need and want to return home,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"Where commercial options are not possible or limited by domestic restrictions we are in close contact with airlines and local authorities in those countries to overcome those barriers.\"\n\nMore than 1,000 Britons have registered with the embassy in Peru, about 200 of whom will be on the first flight out of the country expected to leave on Wednesday.\n\nMr Raab also said he was concerned about the situation in the Indonesian island of Bali, currently home to about 6,000 British nationals.\n\nBut he pointed to successful repatriation efforts in other countries, including Morocco, where UK diplomats in recent days have facilitated 41 flights carrying more than 8,500 passengers before the country's borders were closed.\n\nFor those British nationals running out money, Mr Raab said that the Foreign Office, as a last resort, could provide emergency loans.\n\nSeveral MPs raised concerns about the fate of cruise ships containing many British nationals.\n\nThe Coral Princess is struggling to get permission to dock at Rio de Janiero while the Costa Victoria is reportedly due to dock at Venice, close to the heart of the Italian epidemic.", "Even though the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games looked inevitable, today's announcement has come as a relief for the many athletes who have not been able to train properly because of the restrictions.\n\n“We felt under pressure to train and compete,\" British swimmer Adam Peaty, who won gold at Rio 2016 in the 100m breaststroke, told BBC Sport.\n\n“The decision from the IOC lifts that relief that we don’t have to be in shape over summer and we don’t have to put unnecessary risk on others.”\n\nHeptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the current world champion who was among the favourites for gold, described the postponement as \"heartbreaking\". But she also joked: \"Waited eight years for this, what’s another one in the grand scheme of things?\"\n\nBritish golfer Justin Rose, who described his gold-medal win four years ago as the \"biggest gift\" of his career, says he would be making the Olympics his \"priority\" in a rejigged 2021 schedule.\n\nParalympic cycling and athletics champion Kadeena Cox also backed the decision, saying the Games and its legacy can be enjoyed \"when the time is right\".\n\nRead more reaction from leading athletes on BBC Sport.\n\nBritish swimmer Adam Peaty won Great Britain's first medal at Rio 2016 with a world record in the men's 100m breaststroke Image caption: British swimmer Adam Peaty won Great Britain's first medal at Rio 2016 with a world record in the men's 100m breaststroke", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"You must stay at home\"\n\nBoris Johnson has outlined strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus, including a ban on public gatherings of more than two people.\n\nHe said people should only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work \"where this is absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nHe also ordered the immediate closure of shops selling non-essential goods.\n\nBut police said they had received lots of calls asking what was still allowed.\n\nIn the UK, 340 people have died with the virus.\n\nOn Monday evening, 27 million TV viewers watched Mr Johnson tell the country it was facing a \"moment of national emergency\" and that staying at home was necessary to protect the NHS, save lives and tackle \"the biggest threat this country has faced for decades\".\n\nPolice and local authorities will have powers to disperse gatherings, including through fines.\n\nThe restrictions would be under constant review and a relaxation of the rules would be considered in three weeks, he said.\n\n\"To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well,\" the prime minister said.\n\nFor the first time, all the UK's mobile networks are sending out a government message on Tuesday morning to their customers with details of the new measures.\n\nThe new measures come after a sunny weekend during which crowds of people were seen at beaches, parks, markets and other public spaces.\n\nThe new guidance says people should only leave their homes for:\n\nEven when following the above guidance, people should minimise the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they do not live with.\n\nThe parents of thousands of children are keeping them out of school to try to reduce the spread of the virus. Downing Street said school attendance in England was about 10% on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said employers should take \"every possible step\" to allow for remote working, but added: \"I want to be absolutely clear, when people absolutely can not work from home they can still go to work - indeed it's important that they do to keep the country running.\"\n\nThe government is also stopping all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies - but funerals attended by immediate family members are allowed.\n\nDowning Street said the use of fines, starting at £30, would be targeted at dispersing gatherings, and failure to pay could lead to criminal proceedings and a summary conviction.\n\nThese measures represent some of the most far-reaching curbs on personal freedom ever introduced in the UK in peacetime.\n\nBut it is unclear how the rules can be made to work.\n\nThe first hurdle is to get them on to the statute book; although the prime minister said the restrictions on travel and gatherings would come into effect immediately, police don't have the powers to enforce them yet, nor have they had official guidance.\n\nThe second issue - assuming legal regulations are approved later this week - is the practical difficulty of getting groups to disperse and accurately identifying people who should not be on the streets, without losing public goodwill and sparking disorder.\n\nWhen efforts to persuade those who do not comply have failed, officers will be able to issue fines, with prosecutions likely to be a last resort.\n\nBut at a time when officer numbers are increasingly depleted through illness and self-isolation, forces will be hoping communities do the right thing without the need for intervention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Boris Johnson brings in new measures, the BBC explains why staying in is a matter of life and death\n\nBusinesses that will not need to close include supermarkets, petrol stations, post offices, launderettes, bike shops, pet shops, hardware stores and banks.\n\nMr Gove said all major construction work should go ahead but jobs carried out at close quarters in someone's home would not be appropriate.\n\nAs critics, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, questioned his approach, Crossrail and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey suspended work. However, competitor Redrow said its sites remained open with \"strict precautions\" in place.\n\nThe mayor has also warned London Underground commuters that if they do not stop packing into trains, more people will die.\n\nPremises such as libraries, non-essential shops, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.\n\nHotels, hostels, campsites and caravan parks must also close unless key workers need to stay there, or if others staying there cannot get back home.\n\nParks will remain open for exercise but people are not allowed to gather in groups. Golf courses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will shut - and in Scotland, golfers have been asked not to play.\n\nCommunity centres can stay open but only for the purpose of \"hosting essential voluntary or public services\" such as food banks or service for homeless people, the guidance says.\n\nBarristers have been told not to attend Crown Court unless they are involved in one of the 34 ongoing trials in England and Wales.\n\nOn Monday night, the government changed its travel guidance, advising all British people travelling abroad to return to the UK now.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said this was \"because of the rate of new border restrictions\" and those needing urgent assistance should call the local UK embassy or high commissioner.\n\nSoldiers deliver protective equipment to doctors and nurses working at St Thomas' Hospital in London\n\nPrisoners in England and Wales will be confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and allowed out only to shower and use pay-phones, with all visits cancelled, the BBC understands.\n\nMore than 83,000 people in the UK have been tested for coronavirus with 6,710 testing positive. However, the true number of cases will be far higher as tests are primarily done on hospital patients with symptoms of the virus.\n\nIt seems hard to overstate how huge an impact this will have on the country, and what a massive decision this is for the government to have taken - whose effect will last at least for a period of three weeks at the shortest, potentially for very much longer.\n\nRemember this though is not quite the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries - at least not yet.\n\nNot surprisingly, there is already therefore enormous controversy about whether the UK has been acting fast enough.\n\nBut there were calls for more information about the guidance.\n\nLincolnshire Police warned of an \"extremely high volume\" of calls and Humberside Chief Constable Lee Freeman said his force had received \"a number of calls\" on the subject, which he said he was unable to answer.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said enforcing the new restrictions would be \"a real, real challenge\", as there was already \"large amounts of sickness\" among officers across London.\n\nLater, the National Police Chiefs' Council said officers would not be deployed on patrol specifically to police social distancing rules but would still patrol their communities \"as always\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said in a tweet that the next few weeks would be \"testing\" for police but she would make sure officers had \"the resources they need to keep themselves and the public safe\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the measures were \"the right response\" but called for more guidance on workplace closures.\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey said millions of workers were confused about whether they should be at work, while millions of self-employed and insecure workers were dreading being sent home because it would mean no wages.\n\nAsked in the Commons about help for the UK's five million self-employed workers, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government was \"determined to find a way\" to support them, and was looking at the matter in \"immense detail and at pace\".\n\nThe prime minister said he knew the \"damage\" the restrictions were causing to people's lives, businesses and jobs - and said \"many lives will sadly be lost\" despite the measures.\n\nBut he added there was \"a clear way through\", by strengthening the NHS with former clinicians returning to work, accelerating the search for treatments and a vaccine and buying millions of testing kits.\n\nHow will you be affected by these measures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Police said they believed a \"group of teenagers were involved in these disturbances\"\n\nTwo supermarket delivery vans were torched less than an hour after Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued his lockdown order.\n\nPatrolling officers came across the Iceland vans alight in Southmead, Bristol at about 21:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt was \"beyond belief anyone would be so reckless and thoughtless\", Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nIceland said it was \"shocking anyone would act so callously\" when the vans were \"most needed\".\n\nThe vans were set ablaze deliberately, Avon Fire and Rescue Service believe.\n\nCh Insp Mark Runacres said officers were already on patrol in the area following \"recent instances of anti-social behaviour\".\n\n\"We put an order in place last night to give officers extra powers to disperse groups and will continue to use our existing powers to tackle this problem,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe that a group of teenagers were involved in these disturbances. I have one message for them, their parents and carers. 'Stay at home. Save lives'.\"\n\nA spokesman for Iceland said \"both vans would have to be written off\".\n\n\"While we can and will bring in replacement vans to maintain our home delivery service in Southmead, our entire van fleet is running at absolutely full capacity at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"And it is shocking and distressing that anyone would act so callously to put vehicles out of service at precisely the time when they are most needed to deliver food to the most vulnerable people in our society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many across India clapped from their balconies on Sunday as a mark of respect for medical staff\n\nWe appreciate that these are dark times for people around the world, as the coronavirus continues to spread. Numbers of infections and fatalities are rising, cities and even countries are shutting and many people are being forced into isolation. But amid all the worrying news, there have also been reasons to find hope.\n\nAs countries go into lockdown over the virus, there have been significant drops in pollution levels.\n\nBoth China and northern Italy have recorded major falls in nitrogen dioxide - a serious air pollutant and powerful warming chemical - amid reduced industrial activity and car journeys.\n\nResearchers in New York also told the BBC that early results showed carbon monoxide, mainly from cars, had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.\n\nAnd with airlines cancelling flights en masse and millions working from home, countries around the world are expected to follow this downward path.\n\nOn a similar note, residents of Venice have noticed a vast improvement in the water quality of the famous canals running through the city.\n\nThe streets of the popular tourist destination in northern Italy have emptied amid the outbreak leading to a drastic drop in water traffic, which has allowed sediment to settle.\n\nThe usually murky water has gone so clear that fish can even be seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cruise ship cancellations have led to cleaner canals in Venice\n\nThere are plenty of stories of panic buying and fights over toilet roll and tins, but the virus has also spurred acts of kindness around the world.\n\nTwo New Yorkers amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to elderly and vulnerable people in the city.\n\nFacebook said hundreds of thousands of people in the UK had joined local support groups set up for the virus, while similar groups have been formed in Canada, sparking a trend there known as \"caremongering\".\n\nSupermarkets in Australia are among those to create a special \"elderly hour\" so older shoppers and those with disabilities have a chance to shop in peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have also donated money, shared recipe and exercise ideas, sent uplifting messages to self-isolating elderly people and transformed businesses into food distribution centres.\n\nBetween a hectic work and home life it is often easy to feel disconnected from those around you. As the virus affects us all, it has brought many communities around the world closer together.\n\nIn Italy, where a countrywide lockdown is in place, people have joined together on their balconies for morale-boosting songs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Italians sing from their windows to boost morale\n\nA fitness instructor in southern Spain led an exercise class from a low roof in the middle of an apartment complex, which residents in isolation joined from their balconies.\n\nMany people have used the opportunity to reconnect with friends and loved ones over phone or video calls, while groups of friends have organised virtual clubbing or pub sessions using mobile apps (including those of us in the BBC who are working from home).\n\nThe virus has also highlighted the importance of health workers and other people working in key services. Thousands of Europeans have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors and nurses fighting the virus, while medical students in London have volunteered to help healthcare professionals with childcare and household chores.\n\nWith millions of people now stuck in isolation, many are using the opportunity to get creative.\n\nSocial media users have shared details of their new hobbies, including reading, baking, knitting and painting.\n\nThe DC Public Library in Washington is among those hosting a virtual book club, while Italian Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura has launched an Instagram series called Kitchen Quarantine, teaching basic recipes to aspiring foodies who are stuck at home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook group helps parents and their kids during coronavirus lockdown\n\nAn art teacher in the US state of Tennessee has been live-streaming classes for children who are out of school, inspiring them to get creative at home.\n\nAnd while many public spaces have been shut, art fans have been making the most of virtual tours offered by the world's biggest galleries, observing the famous paintings of the Louvre in Paris and the classic sculptures of the Vatican museum from their living rooms.\n\nAustralia's Sydney Observatory offered a tour of the night sky for people stuck at home.\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 Sydney Observatory 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\nPop stars including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and country singer Keith Urban have also been live-streaming gigs to combat the boredom of self-isolation.\n\nOn Monday, we're going to bring you a day of live coverage focusing on the positive stories, like these, that are emerging from the coronavirus crisis. We hope you can join us from 07:00 GMT.", "Michael Gerard had a daughter, wife, grandson and three-year-old granddaughter - who took this photo\n\nThe daughter of a man who died after being diagnosed with coronavirus has pleaded with people to follow the government's strict new rules.\n\nMichael Gerard, 73, died in hospital on Sunday after getting pneumonia-like symptoms two weeks ago.\n\nHis daughter suspected he might have coronavirus but this was confirmed just four days before his death.\n\nStrict new curbs on life in the UK to tackle the spread of coronavirus have been announced by the prime minister.\n\nAs of now, people must stay at home except for shopping for basic necessities, daily exercise, medical or care need, and travelling to and from work where \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nSushila Moles said it was \"strange\" seeing images of parks full of people - like this one of Victoria Park in London on Sunday\n\nSpeaking over the phone from her mother's home in Leicester, Sushila Moles welcomed the new restrictions announced by Boris Johnson on Monday evening.\n\nShe and her mother are both self-isolating but are worried other people are not taking the risks seriously.\n\n\"It's so strange for me because I'm stuck in this house and have lost my dad and then I look on the news and see all these parks full of people,\" Ms Moles said.\n\n\"They probably don't know anybody who has died and other countries seem a long way away, but it is going to happen, this is a pandemic that is coming this way and we need to think about the vulnerable people and just stay inside and practise social distancing as best we can.\"\n\nMs Moles described her father as a \"very frail man who has been unwell for 20 years\", with health problems including Crohn's disease, glaucoma and autoimmune diseases.\n\n\"When I heard about it [coronavirus] I thought if my dad made it through this it would be a miracle,\" she said.\n\nShe also warned people they might have coronavirus even if they do not think they have it - as her father thought he had pneumonia.\n\n\"He wasn't too worried and neither was my mum - he was quite ill but he was kind of all right,\" she said.\n\n\"They had been calling the doctors who said it sounded like pneumonia which he had before and sent over some antibiotics for him to get.\n\n\"He took the antibiotics but didn't see any improvement. I was saying 'are you sure it's not corona?' because it's quite likely, this is going around.\"\n\nHe was admitted to hospital on 16 March after being ill for about a week. He was tested for coronavirus and this was confirmed on 18 March.\n\nHe died on the morning of 22 March.\n\nMs Moles described her father as \"loving, kind and always supportive\".\n\n\"He genuinely took delight in everything that I did and loved me unquestionably,\" she said.\n\n\"He's one of a kind and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "UK health chiefs are being urged to safeguard people's privacy ahead of the expected release of an app to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAn open letter published by a group of \"responsible technologists\" warns that if corners are cut, the public's trust in the NHS will be undermined.\n\nAnd it urges those in charge to be more open about their data-collection plans.\n\nThe BBC asked both NHSX - the health service's tech leadership unit - and the Department of Health to respond.\n\nSouth Korea, Singapore and Israel are among countries that have already deployed apps that can help the authorities track who users have come into contact with, to help model the spread of the virus.\n\nTaiwan has also introduced what it calls an \"electronic fence\" system that alerts the local police if a quarantined user leaves their home or switches off their handset for too long.\n\nAnd in Europe, a number of mobile network operators have offered to provide anonymised data about users' movements to help identify potential \"hot zones\" where the virus might be at most risk of spreading.\n\nThe Prime Minister's advisor Dominic Cummings hosted a meeting at Downing Street on 11 March at which dozens of tech industry leaders were asked how they could help develop an app to tackle Covid-19 in the UK. But there has been no formal announcement about what it will do or when it will launch.\n\n\"It is not yet clear how data will be collected or used... nor what technical safeguards will be used,\" says the open letter.\n\n\"We are also concerned that data collected to fight coronavirus could be stored indefinitely or for a disproportionate amount of time, or will be used for unrelated purposes.\n\n\"These are testing times, but they do not call for untested new technologies.\"\n\nThe letter makes calls on Health Secretary Matt Hancock and NHSX's leaders to make three commitments, asking them to:\n\nThe letter highlights Singapore's TraceTogether app as an example of good practice.\n\nIt uses Bluetooth to identify when users are within 2m (6.6ft) of another person for more than 30 minutes.\n\nThe information is stored in an encrypted form on each person's phone, and Singapore's Ministry of Health must get their consent to upload it for contact-tracing.\n\nIn addition, the government says third-parties are unable to use the information to identify individuals.\n\nWhen the app launched last week, it was accompanied by a plain-language and brief privacy FAQ.\n\nThe letter's authors also warn that becoming over-reliant on smartphone surveillance tech could backfire, since many older and younger users do not own handsets that can install apps. In addition, they warn that current cellphone technologies are not good enough to distinguish between people in the same flat and those living in surrounding residences.\n\n\"This is not a time to innovate in haste and repent at leisure,\" lead author Rachel Coldicutt told the BBC.\n\n\"At a time when people both in and out of the NHS are under stress, it's important that any solutions driven by digital technologies are easy to understand and, most importantly, useful.\"\n\nThe data scientists and privacy campaigners behind this letter have seen what has happened in other countries fighting the virus - and they don't like it.\n\nSouth Korea's self-quarantine app allowed users to communicate with health workers but also used GPS to monitor them, making sure they did not leave home. In China a range of apps use personal health information to alert people that they may have come into contact with someone who has been infected.\n\nThe argument is that we are in danger of allowing our huge concern in the short-term about stopping the spread of the virus to blind us to the long-term danger of ushering in a surveillance state.\n\nBut this may be a hard argument to sell to the public.\n\nRight now, there is pressure on the government to do more, not less, and pressure on technology firms to lend their vast resources to what amounts to a war effort. And just as in wartime, people may be willing to accept the erosion of all sorts of freedoms they previously considered essential in pursuit of victory against the virus.\n\nHaving accepted that they can no longer go to the pub, many may now think submitting to some temporary tracking via their mobile phones is a smaller price to pay.\n\nThe key word, of course, is temporary.\n\nThe writer Yuval Noah Harari, who is quoted in the open letter by the data campaigners, warns that such measures have a nasty habit of becoming permanent. But he also says this: \"When people are given a choice between privacy and health, they will usually choose health.\"", "Universities in England have been told to stop making unconditional offers for the next two weeks, in a bid to tackle the confusion over applications during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, has warned against unfair pressure being put on students.\n\nThere are concerns universities are dropping exam requirements in a bid to push students to commit to courses.\n\nThe move is an attempt to stop any panicky decisions and to create some \"stability\" for students applying for university places, after the cancellation of A-levels and other exams which would have been used to decide admissions.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students, threatened universities with \"any powers available to us\" to stop such offers, which she said were \"damaging to students\".\n\nThe Department for Education says some universities appear to be switching offers which depended on getting A-level grades to unconditional offers, where students will get a place regardless of exam grades, or else significantly lowering the grades required.\n\nThis practice has been attacked by ministers as an unfair sales tactic which might make students choose a course not be in their best interests, particularly in the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus.\n\nThe exam results day is going to be different this year, with A-levels and GCSEs cancelled\n\nIn a bid to stop this becoming a stampede - with other universities thinking they will have to rush to get students too - a line-up of higher education bodies has put out warning statements, including the Office for Students, the Department for Education and Universities UK.\n\nMs Donelan says anxious students must not be forced into a \"making a quick decision\" and that a push for unconditional offers \"risks destabilising the entire admissions system\".\n\nThe two-week pause is intended to create breathing space while universities, exam boards, regulators and ministers try to work out how to handle this year's universities admissions, in the absence of conventional exam results.\n\nThere are plans to replace the exams with teacher assessments, taking into account previous exam results, coursework, mock exam results and teachers' predictions, with grades to be issued by the end of July.\n\nMs Dandridge said Ofqual, the exam regulator, is \"rapidly developing a fair way of issuing A-level grades which should provide reassurance to students, and will also mean that there is no reason to rush decisions\".\n\nWhile this is in progress, she said universities \"must stop making offers that are not in the best interests of students\".\n\nThe calls were supported by Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of the universities' body, Universities UK.\n\n\"It is vital that the admissions process remains fair, consistent, and in the best interests of all students - who have a right for their work and performance to date to be fairly reflected,\" he said.\n\nThe universities admissions service, Ucas, is to tell applicants that the deadline in early May for making decisions on courses is going to be pushed back by two weeks to give students more time to consider.", "Artist's rendering of Ikaria wariootia. It would have lived on the seafloor\n\nA worm-like creature that burrowed on the seafloor more than 500 million years ago may be key to the evolution of much of the animal kingdom.\n\nThe organism, about the size of a grain of rice, is described as the earliest example yet found in the fossil record of a bilaterian.\n\nThese are animals that have a front and back, two symmetrical sides, and openings at either end joined by a gut.\n\nThe discovery is described in the journal PNAS.\n\nThe scientists behind it say the development of bilateral symmetry was a critical step in the evolution of animal life.\n\nIt gave organisms the ability to move purposefully and a common, yet successful way to organise their bodies.\n\nA multitude of animals, from worms to insects to dinosaurs to humans, are organised around this same basic bilaterian body plan.\n\nScott Evans, of the University of California at Riverside, and colleagues have called the organism Ikaria wariootia.\n\nIt lived 555 million years ago during what geologists term as the Ediacaran Period - the time in Earth history when life started to become multi-celled and much more complex.\n\nThe discovery started with tiny burrows being identified in rocks in Nilpena, South Australia, some 15 years ago.\n\nMany who looked at these traces recognised they were likely made by bilaterians, but creatures' presence in the ancient deposits was not obvious.\n\nIt was only recently that Scott Evans and Mary Droser, a professor of geology at UC Riverside, noticed minuscule, oval impressions near some of the burrows.\n\nThree-dimensional laser scanning revealed the regular, consistent shape of a cylindrical body with a distinct head and tail and faintly grooved musculature.\n\nIkaria wariootia ranged in size between 2mm and 7mm long, and about 1-2.5mm wide. The largest of the ovals was just the right size and shape to have made the long-recognised burrows.\n\n\"We thought these animals should have existed during this interval, but always understood they would be difficult to recognise,\" Scott Evans said. \"Once we had the 3D scans, we knew that we had made an important discovery.\"\n\nIkaria wariootia probably spent its life burrowing through layers of sand on the ocean floor, looking for any organic matter on which it could feed.\n\nA 3D laser scan that showing the regular, consistent shape of a cylindrical body", "Karen Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows were found strangled in Wild Park, Brighton\n\nA former girlfriend of schoolgirls killer Russell Bishop is to be charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nJennifer Johnson, 54, of Brighton, has been summonsed over the failed 1987 prosecution of Bishop who was cleared of killing Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows. He was convicted in 2018.\n\nThe two nine-year-olds were found sexually assaulted and strangled in woodland in Brighton in October 1986.\n\nMs Johnson faces charges over her police statements and court evidence.\n\nBishop, who attacked another child in 1990, was found guilty in December 2018 of Karen and Nicola's murders.\n\nThe bodies of the girls were found in a dense wooded area of Wild Park, on the edge of Brighton, half a mile from their homes.\n\nA Sussex Police spokesman said: \"We have ensured that the families of Karen and Nicola, and the victim of Russell Bishop in 1990, are fully aware of this significant development in the case and we will continue to keep them informed.\"\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.", "Police and Gardaí at the scene\n\nA senior police officer has condemned dissident republicans for causing a security alert in County Fermanagh.\n\nA controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious object, which was spotted by a member of the public at Clogh near Rosslea.\n\nIt was later declared to be a hoax.\n\nPSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) Superintendent Clive Beatty blamed dissident republicans who \"went to great lengths\" to make the device seem viable.\n\nSupt Beatty said: \"Given the unprecedented challenges the PSNI is facing in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, it is hard to fathom there are individuals in our community who are intent on causing such disruption by exploiting this global emergency for their own ends.\"\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said given the coronavirus crisis, it was \"utterly despicable\" for people to be placing such devices in communities.\n\nThe incident was also condemned by Ulster Unionist assembly member Rosemary Barton.\n\n\"I urge the public to give their full support to the police as they seek to protect the community.\"", "Visits to stores will now be carefully regulated\n\nVisit a supermarket today and you're likely to be greeted outside by a member of staff.\n\nBut they won't be helping you with your shopping.\n\nInstead they'll be ensuring you stick to the new strict social-distancing rules that have applied since Monday evening.\n\nAt Waitrose you'll be met by a marshal, while at M&S they're called greeters. Asda will also station more staff at its shop doors to \"greet\" customers.\n\nTheir jobs are exactly the same: to ensure only a limited number of shoppers enter stores at any one time.\n\nThey also check people are queuing responsibly and that shoppers wait patiently and stand two metres away from each other.\n\nInstead, visits to a store - which you're only supposed to make to pick up essentials - will be carefully regulated.\n\nThe rules are as much to protect store workers as shoppers.\n\nIndeed, Lidl, Morrisons, Aldi, Iceland and Sainsbury's have all installed protective screens for staff, while Waitrose has ordered screens and visors for its workers.\n\nAldi is one of the supermarkets installing protective glass\n\nYou'll see staff wearing gloves and plenty of hand-sanitisers near tills and other areas.\n\nThey also no longer want your cash. Instead, supermarkets are trying to encourage shoppers to pay by contactless card to cut down on potentially virus-covered cash being passed around the population.\n\nYou'll see posters encouraging you to look after yourself and treat staff well.\n\nAnd on the floor, there are markings to show where it is safe to stand and when queuing.\n\nAt Sainsbury's, there's tape marking out the correct two metre distance to maintain between customers in a queue.\n\nTesco has lines on the floor and around checkouts to help shoppers with social-distancing measures.\n\nTesco has marked the floor to help shoppers keep their distance from one another\n\nIf you think you can avoid the new tightly-regulated in-store experience by getting a home delivery, you may be in for a disappointment.\n\nSome people are having to wait weeks for an available slot as online systems struggle to cope with demand.\n\nVisitors to online store Ocado on Tuesday were greeted with the message: \"You are in a virtual queue to log in. Once you have logged in you may need to queue again to shop.\"\n\nSamantha Ward, who went into self-isolation last week when her husband developed Covid-19 symptoms, is struggling to get any supplies.\n\n\"Every day since self-isolating, I've been trying to place an online shopping order with all of the main supermarkets but there have been no available slots for weeks ahead.\"\n\n\"Friends who have been going on shopping expeditions for me come back with very little,\" she reports.\n\n\"Supermarket shelves are stripped bare. But ironically, I'm regularly receiving standardised emails from the bosses of major stores reassuring me that there is plenty of food to go round!\"\n\nSome Ocado shoppers had to enter a a virtual queue to log in.\n\nThere's also the Click+Collect option, where customers can arrange to pick up goods at their local store if they can't get a delivery slot.\n\nBut that can prove a problem too, as Maidenhead-based shopper Lisa Bull discovered.\n\n\"I booked a click-and-collect with Tesco as there were no delivery slots available. Throughout the week, I edited my order as I thought of things I and my self-isolating elderly parents needed.\n\n\"When I edited my order on Monday morning, I was then unable to check out and my whole shop was cancelled.\"\n\n\"It is an extremely busy time for both our stores and our delivery service and availability is challenging across many products,\" A Tesco spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We're doing our best to make sure people can get the food and items they need.\"\n\nWhat are the new restrictions?\n\nNew guidance from the government says people should now only leave home for the following reasons:\n\nBusinesses that are allowed to stay open under the strict new guidelines include supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, post offices, corner shops or market stalls selling food and restaurants that offer a takeaway service.", "Commuters crammed into a train carriage at Leytonstone on Monday\n\nLondon Underground passengers have been crowding on to Tube trains, despite warnings to limit non-essential travel.\n\nImages from Monday's rush hour show busy carriages, which unions say left staff feeling \"furious\" as it rendered social distancing \"impossible\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged workers to stay at home and said public transport should only be used by key workers, otherwise \"people will die\".\n\nSome passengers have said a reduced service means trains are busier.\n\nTransport Secretary Gant Shapps said plans were in place to ensure key workers travelling on trains had \"space to be safe\".\n\nMr Shapps tweeted: \"Concerning to see images of packed trains this a.m. The advice is clear: Stay home if possible. That is the way to save lives.\n\n\"We are working with train operators to introduce a small number of trains for key workers to have space to be safe.\"\n\nAslef union's district organiser Finn Brennan tweeted: \"Still heavy loading on some Tube lines this morning making social distancing impossible.\n\n\"This is endangering the health of the vital workers who have to use the system.\"\n\nHe called on the government to act, adding: \"I'm being sent pictures of crush loaded platforms at some Jubilee line platforms this morning.\n\n\"Drivers and other frontline staff are furious.\"\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said there had been a 70% fall in the number of passengers on the Tube network during the week and a 40% fall in bus use across its network.\n\nThere was also an 87% fall in Tube passengers at the weekend compared to the same time last year.\n\nHowever, some commuters have complained trains have become busier.\n\nPassengers have claimed the reduced service has made some trains busier\n\nOne key worker, a nurse who asked to remain anonymous, said it was \"a lot busier\" during her journey on the District Line compared to the past week.\n\nShe said she felt \"more concerned\" travelling because fewer services meant there were \"more people in a confined space\".\n\nMr Khan said: \"Londoners should not be travelling by any mode of transport unless it is absolutely necessary, and only critical workers should be using public transport.\"\n\nHe added: \"TfL will continue to do everything it can to provide a safe service, but like many organisations it is dealing with rising absence levels and needs Londoners co-operation in these challenging times.\"\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said: \"There is still enormous personal pressure on the Tube workforce who are exposed to levels of social contact that the government say are unacceptable for the wider public.\n\n\"The only people using our transport services should be essential workers who have to travel.\"\n\nLast week 40 Tube stations were closed for the foreseeable future in an attempt to reduce the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThere is no night Tube and bus services have also been reduced.\n\nThe Waterloo and City line is shut and TfL said it would gradually reduce other parts of its network.\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\nThese include the London Overground, TfL Rail, the DLR and the tram network in south London.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak is much faster in the capital compared to the rest of the country.\n\nAs of 22 March, London had 1,965 confirmed cases, representing 39% of 5,018 confirmed cases in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robert \"Phil\" Longcake was adored by his three grandchildren, his family said\n\nA grandfather who died after being stuck upside down at the top of a 290ft chimney was upset by a decision not to prosecute allegations of historical sexual abuse, an inquest has heard.\n\nRobert Philip Longcake placed himself in a \"position of extreme peril\" at the top of Dixons Chimney in Carlisle.\n\nThe court heard it was unclear whether he had tried to jump or had changed his mind and slipped, catching his ankle.\n\nThe 53-year-old crematorium technician, from Dalston, who was known as Phil, died of hypothermia and cerebral swelling.\n\nIn a statement to the inquest his widow Andrea said that he had started what seemed to be a mid-life crisis in the April and in August spoke to police about historical sexual abuse.\n\nHe attempted to take his own life in August and again in October, and moved out of the family home in October when she discovered he was having an affair, she said.\n\nPC Andrea Williams, of Cumbria Police, told the inquest there had been insufficient evidence to proceed with Mr Longcake's abuse allegations.\n\nShe said: \"Quite understandably he was upset with the decision.\"\n\nOn the evening of 27 October he was spotted on CCTV walking with ladders towards Dixons Chimney and then climbing the 88m high structure.\n\nPolice were contacted in the early hours by reports of \"groaning noises\", and a major rescue operation began.\n\nHis predicament was described by emergency services as \"very complex and precarious\" - and he was seen suspended upside down from a ladder at the top. The situation lasted 14 hours and was watched by shocked members of the public.\n\nThe coroner said Mr Longcake had been \"troubled so greatly\" by the abuse.\n\n\"The fact it could not be pursued would seem to have hit him so hard,\" he said.\n\n\"He deliberately placed himself in a position of extreme peril with the intent of taking his own life but it is uncertain whether he took the ultimate step or he slipped and fell accidentally.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nadia Whittome said care workers \"work tirelessly to support communities\" but \"rarely receive recognition and pay that reflects their contribution\"\n\nAn MP has returned to her pre-Parliament job as a care worker to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNottingham East MP Nadia Whittome said she would donate the salary from her part-time role at a retirement village to a local Covid-19 support fund.\n\nThe 23-year-old Labour politician said she was doing it because \"the care system is in serious danger of falling apart\" during the outbreak.\n\nThe NHS has called for former health workers to return to their jobs.\n\nMs Whittome, Britain's youngest MP, said: \"Social care is in absolute crisis.\n\n\"I'm worried it is going to mean that the social care system is going to fall apart at the seams - so I'm pitching in.\"\n\nShe also called for an \"emergency\" universal basic income and mass testing.\n\nMs Whittome will be returning to work part-time at a retirement village\n\nMs Whittome returned to work at Lark Hill retirement village in Clifton, Nottingham, on Tuesday.\n\nShe will be working in personal care - making people food, feeding them and administering medication, once retrained.\n\nShe previously worked there for just under two years from the age of 19.\n\n\"We need care workers and me returning is an act of solidarity with my colleagues who are struggling under increased pressure and are already working really hard,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's about looking after each other as best we can and checking on our neighbours who are elderly or high risk.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said about 7,500 health workers had answered the call to return to work from Monday.\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.", "There was further financial turbulence on Tuesday when stock markets around the world climbed sharply higher, as investors grappled with the economic impact of the coronavirus.\n\nIn the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.4% - its biggest daily gain since 1933.\n\nThe S&P 500 and London's FTSE 100 enjoyed their best days since the 2008 financial crisis, rising more than 9%.\n\nThe increases follow weeks of losses driven by a global economic slowdown.\n\nBusiness activity in the US and eurozone sank to the lowest level on record in March, according to survey data from IHS Markit, as authorities closed schools, shut businesses and limited travel in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nMany countries are now working on finance packages to cushion the economic blow, but plans have received mixed responses from investors.\n\nIn the US, congressional leaders said they were close to a deal on a relief package worth more than $1.8tn, which would include money to bailout industries that have been affected by the crisis.\n\nAny action by the US government would follow aggressive efforts by the Federal Reserve, including its pledge to buy as much government debt as needed to soothe markets, while also lending directly to businesses.\n\nOn US stock markets, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and American Airlines were among the companies posting the biggest gains, rising 42% and 36% respectively. The spike followed comments made by President Donald Trump, who said he wanted to ease measures restricting gatherings by Easter, despite a surge of Covid-19 cases in the US.\n\nThe share price gains were global, however. Germany's Dax increased almost 11%, while France's CAC 40 rose 8.4%.\n\nJapan's Nikkei soared 7%, its biggest daily gain in four years, while South Korea's KOSPI exchange climbed 8.6% after the government doubled a planned economic rescue package. In China - where restrictions on Wuhan Province were finally eased - mainland shares increased almost 3%.\n• None Why payday is different during the crisis", "Milo Hsieh is an American University student living in Taiwan under quarantine. The BBC asked him to write this article after one of his tweets about having his movements tracked by a satellite-based system was widely shared.\n\nI did not expect two police officers to come knocking at my door at 08:15 when I was still asleep in my bed on Sunday morning.\n\nMy phone briefly ran out of battery at 07:30, and in less than an hour, four different local administrative units had called. A patrol was dispatched to check my whereabouts. A text was sent notifying that the government had lost track of me, and warned me of potential arrest if I had broken quarantine.\n\nI returned to Taiwan last Thursday to experience the island's zero-risk take on coronavirus.\n\nSince I was coming back from Europe, I am subjected to a mandatory 14 days home quarantine. Before I had my passport checked, I had to pass through a booth set up by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. I filled out a document detailing places I had visited in the last fortnight, my phone number, landline and address. They notified me that my phone would be \"satellite-tracked\" for enforcement.\n\nThe level of precaution taken in Taiwan is nothing like what I saw in Europe.\n\nPeople flying back into Taiwan must go into 14 days of quarantine to help combat the spread of coronavirus\n\nDuring the initial phase of lockdown in Belgium, which I had to leave after my study programme was cancelled, people still went out and lined up at fast food kiosks. Even as an outbreak was happening in northern Italy, I saw during my visit to London in the first weekend of March, that people were still going to pubs.\n\nHere, I am not allowed to step outside the apartment. I was not allowed to take public transport on my way back, and had to take special \"quarantine taxis.\" My entire family has to quarantine with me for two weeks. This includes Biscuit, our dog.\n\nThe island refers to its phone-tracking system as being an \"electronic fence\".\n\nRather than ask users to download a special app or wear a location-transmitting wristband - as has been the case in some East Asian countries - it uses existing phone signals to triangulate the owner's locations.\n\nTo ensure users comply, an alert is sent to the authorities if the handset is turned off for more than 15 minutes. More than 6,000 people subjected to home quarantine are simultaneously tracked this way.\n\nAnd to check that the phone has not simply been left behind, officials phone users up to twice a day to check they have their mobile to hand, and to ask about their health.\n\nRecently, many Taiwanese, especially students, have returned to the island, as their schools overseas have closed and life around the world has ground to a halt. Some see the mandatory quarantine they have to go through as a necessary measure.\n\nFrank Tseng is among them. He is one of my friends at American University, and he recently returned from Washington DC.\n\nArrivals to Taiwan have to sign a pledge saying they will stay behind closed doors for a fortnight and keep a record of their temperature\n\n\"I feel like even though it's a pain for the citizens who are coming back, I understand that it's a necessary process many of us have to take to go home,\" he told me.\n\nBut some see the enforcement mechanism as problematic.\n\nPaul Huang, a local freelance journalist who was working abroad, decided to not go back to Taiwan because of surveillance fears.\n\n\"The government openly stated your phone will be digitally tracked to enforce quarantine - in the same way the authority usually tracks suspected criminals,\" he explained.\n\n\"Except this time they don't have or need a court-issued warrant to spy on your phone.\n\n\"You are being suspected of a crime by virtue of having travelled overseas.\"\n\nPaul has published articles critical of the Taiwan government in the past, including one calling its military a \"hollow shell\".\n\nWhen entering the border, I was only notified that my phone would be tracked and that the local township official would give me a call daily. I was not made aware of any rights I had and did not sign documents consenting to surveillance.\n\nAs cases of the virus rise in Taiwan, the people seem to have entrusted the government with more power to contain the pandemic.\n\nMetro station staff in Taiwan have used thermal scans to try to detect passengers who have the virus\n\nBut as the Taiwan government showcases its mass surveillance capability amid the crisis, it brings into question how it can be used in the wrong hands.\n\nBrian Hioe, who runs New Bloom, a left-leaning publication focused on Taiwan, shared this concern with me.\n\nHis worry is that \"the state may retain its expanded powers and continue with surveillance practices once the crisis has passed\".\n\nAt the same time, despite analysis by some that Taiwan's alleged culture of obedience makes it easier to empower the state to contain the outbreak, Brian and I both agree that the vibrant civil society will readily fight back if the government oversteps its power.\n\nAt the end of the day, I will be staying home to complete my mandatory 14 days of home quarantine without being too paranoid about what the government knows or does not know about me.\n\nBut I do feel a little uncomfortable knowing that my neighbour could turn me in to the police if they see me outside of my apartment door, doing something as simple as taking out the trash.", "Albert Uderzo with his creations Asterix (r) and Obelix\n\nAlbert Uderzo, who drew the Asterix comic books, has died at the age of 92.\n\nHe created the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend René Goscinny in 1959.\n\nAs well as illustrating the series, Urderzo took over the writing following Goscinny's death in 1977.\n\nThe books have sold 370 million copies worldwide, in dozens of languages, and several stories have been turned into cartoons and feature films.\n\nThe series continues to this day under new ownership, with the most recent book, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, released last October.\n\n\"Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly, after a heart attack that was not linked to the coronavirus,\" his son-in-law Bernard de Choisy told the AFP news agency.\n\nIn an interview with The Connexion in 2008, the Frenchman joked that Asterix was born \"at the best time of the day - aperitif time!\"\n\nHe and Goscinny were sitting on the balcony of his apartment trying to dream up a character for the new magazine aimed at children.\n\n\"The brief was very precise - François Clauteaux, one of the magazine's founders, wanted a character taken from French culture,\" Uderzo recalled.\n\n\"At the time it was important to try to set yourself apart from the American superheroes, or certain reporters one could mention [Tintin].\n\n\"So I looked back through history with René and reviewed all the different periods of French history. We needed something original which no-one else had worked on.\n\n\"When we got to the Gauls - eureka!\"\n\nIn 2011, the illustrator handed over the reins to a younger artist after 52 years drawing the famous comic book hero.\n\nA few years later, Uderzo ended a seven-year legal battle with his daughter Sylvie - amicably - about the family estate.\n\nA signed original illustration for an early Asterix comic book cover sold for more than 1.4m Euros (£1.25m) at a Paris auction in 2017.\n\nOn a recent edition of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, screenwriter Russell T Davies chose to take \"the finest book ever made\", Asterix and the Roman Agent, to the fictional island.\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. The factory switching from race cars to ventilators\n\nCar firms are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn Monday, Fiat began converting one of its car plants in China to start making about one million masks a month.\n\nThe carmaker wants to start production in the coming weeks, wrote its chief executive Mike Manley in an email.\n\nOther major car firms are looking at ways they can shift manufacturing towards ventilators.\n\nGeneral Motors, Ford and Tesla in the US have all pledged their support to offer resources to make more ventilators, along with Japanese carmaker Nissan and Formula 1 teams in the UK.\n\nMajor car plants in the US, Europe and Asia have halted production to try to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nBut they are still pledging to help make ventilators and other vital medical equipment.\n\nFord on Tuesday said it was working with GE Healthcare and 3M, another health industry manufacturer, to design modified respirators and ventilators, which could be produced using fans, batteries and other parts that Ford typically uses for its cars.\n\nThe firms said they did not have a set timeline for delivery of the products.\n\nHowever, Ford has already started making transparent face shields, to complement existing protective gear for hospital staff, with the first 1,000 set for delivery at three Detroit-area hospitals this week.\n\nIt expects to produce about 75,000 of such shields this week.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday: \"Ford, General Motors and Tesla are being given the go ahead to make ventilators and other metal products, FAST! Go for it auto execs, let's see how good you are?\"\n\nIt came after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had reduced barriers in the medical device approval process to help speed up the production of ventilators.\n\n\"Medical device makers can more easily make changes to existing products, such as changes to suppliers or materials, to help address current manufacturing limitations or supply shortages,\" US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.\n\n\"Other manufacturers, such as auto makers, can more easily repurpose production lines to help increase supply.\"\n\nHowever, some experts have warned that carmakers may not find it easy to switch production.\n\nJens Hallek, head of ventilator manufacturer Hamilton Medical, told Wired the materials and the components needed to build a ventilator are \"highly specific\" and require \"specialised know-how\".\n\n\"These are extremely sensitive machines with not only a lot of hardware, but also a lot of software. If one of the components does not work correctly, the whole machine shuts down and cannot be used any more,\" he said.\n\nFormer US Defense Department officials told the Washington Post that it could take more than a year for carmakers or aerospace factories to start making ventilators.\n\nMeanwhile, Tesla boss Elon Musk said he had bought 1,255 ventilators from China and had them shipped to Los Angeles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nLast week, Formula 1 teams in the UK said they hoped to find \"a tangible outcome in the next few days\" to help increase the supply of medical equipment. Working with the government and health authorities, F1 said it had experts in design, technology and production capabilities who could help out.\n\nNissan is part of a consortium, including sports car firm McLaren and aerospace company Meggitt, looking to develop a new medical ventilator. \"We are fully focused on the project,\" McLaren said in a statement, but warned of the \"limited time and scale of the challenge\".\n\nIndian billionaire Anand Mahindra said his company, The Mahindra Group, would begin work immediately to explore how its factories could make ventilators. The conglomerate is the world's largest tractor maker and India's biggest electric vehicle manufacturer, according its its website.", "The BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell met people venturing out for the first time in weeks.\n\nThis video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android.", "Greggs said its vegan sausage roll had helped boost sales\n\nGreggs has become the latest food retailer to say it will close its shops temporarily to help fight coronavirus.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 outlets, said all shops would shut on Tuesday night to help maintain social distancing.\n\nMcDonalds, Nando's, KFC, Costa Coffee, Subway and Pizza Express have already announced similar measures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told restaurants and cafes to close, but has exempted takeaway food places.\n\nGreggs, which has about 25,000 employees, had already converted its stores to provide solely a takeaway service.\n\nBut it said: \"It is now clear that to protect our people and customers we need to go further and temporarily close our shops completely.\n\n\"During this period, with support from the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, we intend to maintain employment of colleagues at full contract hours for as long as is practicable.\"\n\nMcDonald's staff will get full pay until 5 April\n\nMcDonald's had earlier said it would close all 1,270 of its restaurants in the UK by the end of the day, affecting 135,000 workers.\n\nThe chain said staff employed directly by the company would receive full pay for their scheduled hours until 5 April.\n\nMcDonald's UK boss, Paul Pomroy, said: \"Over the last 24 hours, it has become clear that maintaining safe social distancing whilst operating busy takeaway and Drive Thru restaurants is increasingly difficult and therefore we have taken the decision to close every restaurant in the UK and Ireland by 7pm on Monday 23 March.\"\n\nNando's, which has around 19,000 staff, said its bosses had \"decided that the best course of action right now is to temporarily close our restaurants\".\n\nPizza Express, which employs 14,0000, will also close all of its stores until it is safe to open them again, and will not be offering home delivery.\n\nOthers that have announced temporary closures include:\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\nThey join big retailers like Ikea, John Lewis and Topshop who have also said they'll be shutting down for a while.\n\nAll of them have said they want to protect the wellbeing of staff and customers.\n\nJulian Metcalfe, who runs Asian food chain Itsu, described the decision to close as \"heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Whilst we are closed we'll continue to do everything we can to look after our people, who are being wonderful, strong and supportive,\" 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 2 by Nando's This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe hospitality industry, which was already struggling from slowing consumer demand, has been put under severe pressure by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nLast week, industry leaders warned of widespread closures of pubs, cafes and restaurants without state support.\n\nOn Friday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government would pay 80% of wages of furloughed employees, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe move will not, however, cover self-employed and \"gig economy\" workers, unless they are paid via their company's PAYE system, as is the case at McDonald's.\n\nOn Sunday, a Treasury spokesman said the government had strengthened the safety net for the self-employed under universal credit, and was deferring income tax self-assessment payments.\n\n\"We have always said we will go further where we can and are actively considering further steps,\" the spokesman said.", "Madrid's main funeral home says its workers lack the equipment to deal with Covid-19 victims\n\nSpanish soldiers helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and, in some cases, dead in their beds, the defence ministry has said.\n\nSpanish prosecutors said an investigation had been launched.\n\nThe military has been brought in to help disinfect care homes in Spain, one of Europe's worst hit countries.\n\nMeanwhile, an ice rink in Madrid is to be used as a temporary mortuary for Covid-19 victims, officials said.\n\nThe virus is spreading very fast in Spain - the second worst-hit European country after Italy.\n\nOn Tuesday, the health ministry announced that the number of deaths had risen by 514 in the past 24 hours - a daily record.\n\nA total of 2,696 people have now died and there are 39,637 confirmed cases.\n\nSpanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles told the private TV channel Telecinco that the government was \"going to be strict and inflexible when dealing with the way older people are treated\" in retirement homes.\n\n\"The army, during certain visits, found some older people completely abandoned, sometimes even dead in their beds,\" she said.\n\nThe defence ministry said that staff at some care homes had left after the coronavirus was detected.\n\nHealth officials have said that in normal circumstances the bodies of deceased residents are put in cold storage until they are collected by the funeral services.\n\nBut when the cause of death is suspected to be linked to coronavirus they are left in their beds until they can be retrieved by properly equipped funeral staff. In the capital Madrid, which has seen the highest number of cases and deaths, that could take up to 24 hours, officials said.\n\nSpanish Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news conference that retirement homes were \"an absolute priority for the government\".\n\n\"We will exercise the most intensive monitoring of these centres,\" she added.\n\nAs the crisis in Madrid worsened, the city's municipal funeral home said it would stop the collection of Covid-19 victims from Tuesday because of a lack of protective equipment.\n\nThe city is to use a major ice rink, the Palacio de Hielo (Ice Palace), as a temporary mortuary where bodies will be stored until funeral homes can collect them, officials told Spanish media.\n\nThe first coffins arrived at the Palacio de Hielo in Madrid on Monday\n\nThe Palacio de Hielo complex, which also includes shops, restaurants, a bowling alley and cinemas, is not far from the Ifema congress centre where a field hospital has been set up for coronavirus patients.\n\nSpain is the second worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which now has the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths in the world.\n\nItalian authorities said on Monday that 602 people with Covid-19 had died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 6,077.\n\nBut the daily increase was the smallest since Thursday, raising hope that stringent restrictions imposed by the government were starting to have an effect.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "For the first time, all the UK's mobile networks are sending out a government message to their customers with details of the new shutdown measures.\n\nGOV.UK CORONAVIRUS ALERT. New rules in force now: you must stay at home. More info and exemptions at gov.uk/coronavirus Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.\n\nSome customers have already received the message, while others are set to get it later in the day.\n\nThe network O2 told the BBC it was sending the texts in batches adding it could take until 22:00GMT to complete the task.\n\nThe government has had to work with the operators to get the message sent because an emergency alert system, trialled seven years ago, was never put into practice.\n\nIf it had been, the government could have bypassed the operators and sent messages directly to phone users, as has happened in countries such as South Korea and the Netherlands.\n\nSuch a service would have allowed the government to bypass the mobile networks and send messages directly to all of the UK's mobile phones.\n\nThe trials run by the Cabinet Office in 2014 were apparently successful, with three mobile operators testing the broadcast of text messages in a defined area.\n\nThe final report on the trials said the idea had proved popular with focus groups and other members of the public surveyed about it.\n\nIt concluded that \"the system would be an effective way of getting people to take specific protective action during an emergency\".\n\nSome subscribers have already received the text message\n\nThe report also suggested it would be possible to send alerts to the public within 15 minutes of making a decision.\n\nIt is not clear why the system was not then put into practice, although one operator told the BBC that cost might have been an issue.\n\nWhile the link in the government text is safe to click, the public is being warned to be cautious about other unsolicited coronavirus messages they receive.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre has warned that criminals have ramped up bogus email campaigns that aim to trick users into clicking links that can lead to their computers being infected or seek to fool the recipients into divulging sensitive information.\n\nIt has cautioned that people should also be wary of opening attachments unless they know the sender.\n\nSecurity firms have also warned that some scammers have sent out bogus SMS messages.\n\n\"These SMS spam attacks attempt to use the fear around the coronavirus worldwide emergency to try to push their targets to respond to the SMS spam, and so monetise (make money from) the attack,\" wrote AdaptiveMobile Security on its blog.\n\nThe issue poses a challenge to the government if it intends to continue using text alerts as a means to communicate its advice.", "The pair were approached by three people in Paynes Park, Hitchin\n\nThree teenagers were arrested after an elderly couple were allegedly coughed at in the street.\n\nThe couple were approached by three people in Hitchin, one of whom is said to have coughed in their faces.\n\nA passer-by intervened and there was \"an altercation\" which left a woman in her 70s with a black eye, police said.\n\nThree males aged 16, 18 and 19 were questioned on suspicion of actual bodily harm, affray and criminal damage after the incident on Friday afternoon.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the elderly woman was taken to hospital for a check-up and later discharged.\n\nHer vehicle was also damaged in the incident in Paynes Park.\n\nThe man who intervened also suffered bruising, police said.\n\nThe suspects were questioned and released under investigation.\n\nThe force called for anyone with information to contact them and asked people not to post details of those they believe are involved or share footage on social media as it could hamper the investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boss of the Wetherspoon pub chain has said its staff can take jobs with supermarkets amid the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTim Martin told 40,000 workers in a video that they should feel free to take jobs at retailers such as Tesco while Wetherspoon pubs remain closed.\n\nHe said: “If you’re offered a job… if you think it’s a good idea, do it.”\n\nThe government has said it will pay 80% of salary for workers at firms such as Wetherspoon affected by Covid-19.\n\nIn the video, he called the government proposals “great, because we currently have no money coming in through the tills. That’s not something we had ever planned for.”\n\nAll of Wetherspoon's 850 UK pubs were closed over the weekend after the government introduced new measures to try to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Mr Martin cited concerns that there could be some delay to the payment of any wage subsidy.\n\nIn the video, he said he would therefore “completely understand” if workers did not want “to wait around”.\n\nHe added that any former workers for the pub chain would receive first priority on future applications to rejoin the company.\n\nTesco is looking to take on 20,000 temporary workers\n\nMr Martin said that “almost all of our trade has now gone to supermarkets”, as demand for food surges as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\n“We’ve had lots of calls from supermarkets, Tesco alone want to recruit more than 20,000 people - more than half the number of people who work at our pubs,” he added.\n\nMr Martin was previously resistant to government advice to consumers on avoiding pubs before more formal measures on closures were introduced.\n\nLast week, he branded a shutdown in the face of coronavirus \"over the top\".\n\nMany major supermarkets have been recruiting thousands of staff to cope with the huge surge in demand from shoppers.\n\nTesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket, said it wanted to take on 20,000 temporary workers to “help feed the nation”.\n\nOther firms that have launched a recruitment drive in recent weeks include Aldi, which is creating 5,000 new temporary posts, Lidl with 2,500 temporary posts, and Morrisons, which is creating 3,500 new jobs including pickers, drivers and staff for its distribution centres.", "Tube commuters packed into carriages for a second day, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson's lockdown announcement on Monday\n\nLondon Underground commuters have been warned that if they do not stop packing into trains more people will die from coronavirus.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan issued the alert after photos showed crowds in Tube carriages for a second morning running.\n\nMr Khan insisted the network was running for essential workers only.\n\nA transport union called for police officers to be deployed at major stations to stop overcrowding.\n\nMore than 130 people have died in London from Covid-19 - a third of the whole of the UK.\n\nCommuters at Mile End station were packed onto a Central Line train on Tuesday morning\n\nBut the trains were still crowded during rush hour despite Boris Johnson putting the UK on lockdown.\n\nMr Khan demanded employers enable their staff to work from home \"unless it's absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"Ignoring these rules means more lives lost,\" he warned.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said he spoke to Mr Khan about ensuring there is \"enough space to be safe\" on London Underground trains for those who must travel, and offered the support of his department.\n\nNurse Julia Harris, who commutes to work at Imperial College NHS Trust, said she had left earlier and changed her route to avoid crowds but still found services busy.\n\n\"Seats on the train all had at least one person so people needed to stand, and the District line was busy as well,\" she said.\n\n\"I still don't think things have improved as a large amount of people are commuting early in the morning.\n\nDozens of Tube stations were closed last Thursday as London in order to stop the spread of coronavirus\n\n\"It is concerning because I have to come to work.\n\n\"The choice isn't there and my commute is quite long. I worry for my health more on my commute than actually being in the hospital.\"\n\nNicola Smith, who works at a central London hospital, said \"I'm risking my health.\"\n\nShe called for either Mr Khan to reverse his decision to reduce Tube timetables or the prime minister to \"start policing who's getting on\".\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), said: \"Sadly, the situation on the London Underground has not improved.\n\n\"We urgently need British Transport Police and other officers at major stations across London's transport network to ensure only those with a valid reason to travel are doing so in this emergency.\"\n\nTransport for London has put up signs across the Underground warning people against non-essential travel\n\nFinn Brennan, of the train drivers' union Aslef, said he had received reports from Tube staff that \"there were a large number of construction workers\" on the Underground.\n\nHe said: \"Unless the government act with complete clarity to close down construction sites, then the tube will not.\n\n\"There are too many employers that are just not taking this seriously. We are trying our best to make everyone listen, but the situation is stark.\n\n\"It cannot go on the way it is or the Tube will not be able to continue. But, let me be clear, we very, very much want it to continue as it is vital.\"\n\nPublic transport is currently meant to be for \"critical workers\" only but it doesn't seem to be working.\n\nUnion reps on the tube have been left apoplectic for a second day because lines have been very very busy, particularly at the start of the service.\n\nFootage I have seen shows passengers crammed in next to each other and there is now talk among members of staff who are union members of a walkout - they are so unhappy with the situation.\n\nThey are particularly picking out construction workers and believe all the sites in London should be closed. They want the government to put forward a financial package for these self-employed workers.\n\nThere are also calls for ID checks at stations or the definition of key worker to be tightened.\n\nIn the strongest wording I have ever seen - Transport for London says fewer people need to travel or people will die.\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.", "Amazon is teaming up with researchers funded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to pick up and deliver coronavirus test kits.\n\nThe Gates Foundation-backed Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) is learning how the infection spreads.\n\nIt involves collecting nasal swabs to track the virus among residents of Seattle's King County in Washington.\n\nAmazon Care, the retail giant's employee medical care arm, is now helping with deliveries of the kits.\n\nKing County is one of the places hardest hit by the outbreak in the US.\n\nSCAN, a group of medical, public health and research organisations, is trying to find out how the infection is spreading in different parts of society, with an aim to seeing how the outbreak is likely to develop.\n\nAmazon Care will assist the work by delivering test kits to people's homes and then picking them up for researchers.\n\nIf the virus is detected, the participant will then be put in touch with healthcare workers.\n\n“We are grateful to be surrounded by a strong community of public health, global health and academic leaders and are eager to leverage Amazon Care’s infrastructure and logistics capabilities to support this local effort,” an Amazon spokesman said.\n\nThe partnership could help improve coronavirus testing in the US as it lags behind other countries in getting people checked for the virus.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday reported 33,453 cases of coronavirus in the country. That's an increase of 18,185 cases from its previous count, while the death toll almost doubled to 400.\n\nThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with research charity Wellcome and Mastercard's Impact Charity have committed $125m (£107m) in funding to develop treatments for the coronavirus.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Gates announced he was stepping down from Microsoft's board to focus on his philanthropic efforts.", "Withington Community Hospital was targeted by the thieves in the early hours of Saturday morning\n\nThieves have stolen oxygen from a community hospital in Manchester, police said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said people would \"quite rightly share our disgust\" at the theft during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThree men were seen getting out of a black BMW outside Withington Community Hospital on Saturday at 03:30 GMT.\n\nThey cut a lock on a metal unit before stealing eight oxygen and nitrous oxide canisters.\n\nThe south Manchester hospital is not believed to be treating any coronavirus patients.\n\nInsp Andrew Hughes said: \"We're determined to find those responsible for this crime, and I'd appeal to anyone with information or who may be able to assist us with dash-cam footage to come forward as soon as possible.\"", "Chloe Miazek was killed after a night out in Aberdeen\n\nThe father of a 20-year-old who was killed by a man she met after a night out says his daughter was unfairly shamed by her killer's defence.\n\nChloe Miazek died at a flat in Aberdeen in November 2017 after she was strangled by Mark Bruce.\n\nSpeaking out for the first time, her father Bob rejects the claim that his daughter and Bruce had a \"shared interest\" in asphyxiation during sex.\n\nHe says it was later admitted by Bruce that the pair never even discussed it.\n\nIn fact, the court was told that Bruce had accepted, when sentencing reports were being prepared after his conviction, he did not have the consent of his victim to use strangulation during sex.\n\nThe death of Chloe Miazek was recently echoed in the case of British backpacker Grace Millane who was strangled by a man she met on a Tinder date in New Zealand.\n\nBoth Ms Millane and Ms Miazek were unable to defend themselves from claims that their deaths were \"kinky sex games\" gone wrong.\n\nMs Miazek's father says his daughter was just an ordinary young girl on a night out who was killed by a man she had just met.\n\nHer killer was originally charged with murder but Bruce pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide and was sentenced to six years.\n\nWhen he was convicted at the High Court in Aberdeen in March 2018, there was an \"agreed narrative\" between the Crown prosecutors and the defence over what happened that night.\n\nThe court was told how Ms Miazek was ejected from a nightclub and met Bruce, who had also been drinking, at a bus stop in the early hours.\n\nThey went back to Bruce's flat and the CCTV footage of Ms Miazek entering the building is the last time she was seen alive.\n\nThrough his tears, Ms Miazek's father told BBC Disclosure how the family felt sidelined by the legal process and how his daughter's reputation was trashed without her being able to defend herself.\n\nMr Miazek thinks personal remarks about his daughter's private life were used to reduce the culpability of Bruce.\n\nBob Miazek says his daughter Chloe was just an ordinary Scottish girl\n\nThe killer's defence lawyer told the judge that Ms Miazek had \"somewhat lost her way\" and was \"experimenting...with drink, drugs and sexual practices\", a claim her father rejects.\n\nThe defence lawyer also referenced a statement taken from a previous partner of Ms Miazek that outlined \"erotic sexual asphyxiation was something she was interested in\", although the couple never practised it.\n\nThe lawyer told the judge that Bruce could not recall the specifics of what happened on the night Ms Miazek died but he said that it seemed they had \"a shared interest in that particular practice\".\n\nThe statements in court still haunt Bob Miazek and his wife Theresa.\n\n\"They used quite a long time to implicate Chloe,\" Bob says. \"And that was when all the headlines hit the tabloids. We had to sit through that and listen to that about our little girl.\"\n\nThe Daily Record ran with \"strangled to death in kinky sex romp\" while The Scottish Sun and Daily Mail both referenced a fatal \"sex game\".\n\nMr Miazek rejects the suggestion that his daughter consented to the fatal violence inflicted by Mark Bruce.\n\nHe questions how someone who has strangled a person to death is allowed to say the victim consented without any proof.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that the sentencing in April 2018 calls the defence's original claims into question.\n\nAfter reading out sections of Mark Bruce's \"Criminal Justice Social Work Report\", his defence lawyer stated that Bruce had told the authors of the report \"there was no conversation between himself and Ms Miazek about violence during sex, there was no discussion and that at no point would she have expected such\".\n\nThe lawyer added: \"In particular, Mr Bruce has stated in this report, or it is recorded in this report, that he accepts that he did not have the consent of the victim to use strangulation during sex.\"\n\nMr Miazek recalls hearing this statement in court. \"We stood up and we're like…'this means murder',\" he says.\n\nThe same report that stated Chloe did not give consent also referenced that Bruce had previously choked a partner during sex.\n\nChloe Miazek had only just met Mark Bruce\n\nAlthough Bruce swiftly took responsibility for Chloe's death, Mr Miazek questions why more was not made of his failure to call for help.\n\nThree hours after Ms Miazek was last seen alive, Bruce left the flat but it took more than an hour before he handed himself into a local police station, confessing that he had killed her.\n\n\"Our opinion was he didn't report it anywhere near [early] enough. He should have reported it when it happened,\" Mr Miazek says.\n\n\"He should've done something, not just leave her,\" he added.\n\nMr Miazek says what happened has had a ripple effect through the whole family.\n\nHe says that Chloe's death and the aftermath of it is still affecting \"brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews\" and that he doesn't know how long is it going to take for the pain to subside.\n\n\"The law should actually help people that are the victims,\" he says.", "Officers tipped over the barbecue to bring the gathering to a close\n\nMore than 20 people stood \"shoulder to shoulder\" for a barbecue despite the introduction of new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, police said.\n\nFoleshill police, based in Coventry, tweeted a picture of the remains of the barbecue on Tuesday afternoon, describing it as \"unbelievable'.\n\nThe crowd refused to disperse even when reminded about the need for social distancing, police said.\n\nOfficers had to tip the barbecue over to put an end to the gathering.\n\nThe barbecue had been sniffed out by officers on patrol who were shocked to find a toddler and older people \"freely mingling and standing shoulder to shoulder round a buffet\", West Midlands Police 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\nThe crowd insisted they should be allowed to continue, despite being reminded of the need for social distancing and only dispersed when the barbecue was pushed over, the force said.\n\nStrict measures, announced on Monday, ban public gatherings of more than two people and people have been urged to stay indoors.\n\nComments on social media suggested those at the \"shocking\" BBQ should be fined.\n\nUnder new powers people can be fined for holding gatherings\n\nUnder new powers issued in the wake of the spread of coronavirus, police are able to explain to people why they should not be out but if they do not listen to advice they would then be given a fine, the National Police Chiefs' Council said.\n\nHowever, fines will not be issued until Parliament passes the emergency legislation - which should be by the end of Thursday.", "Freelance marketing consultant Chloe Hall says the self-employed feel forgotten about\n\nFreelance workers feel they have been forgotten, after hearing about the latest financial measures announced by the UK government on Friday to bolster the economy against the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced increased benefits for the self-employed, but did not guarantee their wages.\n\n\"I was absolutely devastated,\" said Chloe Hall, a freelance marketing consultant based in Newcastle upon Tyne. \"We work just as hard, but freelancers are always sort of at the bottom of the pile.\"\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, there are five million self-employed people in the UK, who make up 15% of the labour market.\n\nMs Hall told the BBC she had cancelled subscription services and even her business bank account in a bid to reduce costs, but without work, she didn't know how she would pay her bills.\n\n\"Without the mortgage, my essential bills come to £948 a month,\" she said. \"£94.25 a week [the Universal Credit payment] - how is that going to pay anybody's bills?\"\n\nThe measures announced by the Chancellor to help small businesses and the self-employed included:\n\nThe Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which represents gig economy workers, has announced that it is suing the government over its failure to protect the wages and jobs of millions of workers during the pandemic, as well as its failure to ensure the health and safety of those still employed through proper sick pay.\n\nIWGB General Secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee said: \"No one wants to be litigating right now. We all have extremely pressing things to be getting on with, but we also can't stand by and watch our members being driven into financial destitution because the government has simply forgotten about them.\n\n\"The low paid precarious workers must have the means to follow public health advice and continue to pay their bills and put food on the table. Right now, they don't.\"\n\nThe government has said there will be further measures to help self-employed people.\n\nRishi Sunak told the Commons: \"We absolutely understand the situation... and are determined to find a way to support them\".\n\nThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Steven Barclay - added that the self-employed had not been forgotten by ministers.\n\nHe said: \"Further help is indeed coming - but we have to make sure we get this right.\"\n\nDeliveroo driver Greg Howard says delivery orders have gone down, not up\n\nDeliveroo rider Greg Howard, says that gig economy delivery drivers are extremely worried about their incomes, and says that the perception that the takeaway industry is booming is false.\n\n\"People are quite concerned as we've had news that quite a few of the restaurants that are integral for our everyday work are closing, despite being allowed to stay open for takeaways,\" he said.\n\nMr Howard, who is based in Nottingham, which is one of the UK's busiest zones for deliveries, said that typically, he would make 25-30 deliveries a day, working five or six days a week on 10-hour-long shifts, and his take-home pay would be about £500 a week.\n\nNow, he makes 10-15 deliveries a day, working shifts lasting up to 14 hours, because fewer restaurants are open, but the same number of couriers are still on the roads.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to be able to make ends meet for myself and my family. £94.25 a week is not enough for us.\"\n\nDiane Evans, based in Brentwood, Essex, has been a freelance childminder for 16 years. As a single parent with two children, she provides childcare services from her home, but with schools closing, her work has been severely affected.\n\n\"A lot of us feel that we're considered to be babysitters by the government and we get left behind, almost not taken seriously for our jobs,\" she said.\n\nMs Evans said that at the minimum, she would require double the amount of the weekly Universal Credit payment to make ends meet, and that childminders could be forced to stay closed until the new school year in September.\n\n\"We can't go get another job stacking shelves in the supermarket, for example, because we can't leave our children at home on their own. We're stuck and we're not getting any support from the government.\"\n\nJulia Martin is a professional singer based in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, specialising in tributes to artists like Celion Dion and Dame Shirley Bassey.\n\nHer son is disabled and needs a warm home at all times, which means her utility bills typically cost about £300 a month. Even with mortgage payments frozen, she won't be able to get by.\n\n\"My disappointment was palpable when I realised we were yet again to be overlooked and effectively thrown under the bus to fend for ourselves,\" she said.\n\n\"For over 20 years I and many others in a similar occupation have contributed to the economy of the UK. I have never claimed benefits and I pay my taxes, yet through no fault of my own I have had all my performances terminated for a minimum of two months.\"\n\nProfessional singer Julia Martin says freelancers have been left to fend for themselves\n\nThe Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) has launched a petition and written to the prime minister along with with numerous other industry bodies, calling on the government to implement a temporary income protection fund specifically for the self-employed.\n\nAccording to the IPSE, prior to the coronavirus outbreak, self-employed people contributed £305bn to the British economy.\n\nIPSE's policy director Andy Chamberlain says he understands the government's hesitation over self-employed people, because it is more difficult to confirm how much they are actually earning month to month.\n\nBut he does think it is possible to put a similar wage guarantee in place as has been offered to British employers.\n\n\"We can look at past earnings as evidenced by tax returns to make a reasonable projection and there are some ideas which are being formulated around software which could capture banking data and build projections off that as well,\" he said.\n\n\"While we're grateful to the government for the measures it has unveiled so far, we still believe that much more needs to be done to support the UK's five million self-employed people.\"", "The couple had booked flights with EasyJet to Hurghada in Egypt and were due to fly home on Saturday\n\nTourists were plunged into chaos when EasyJet cancelled and resold seats as \"rescue\" flights after Egypt went into coronavirus lockdown, a couple says.\n\nAnne-Marie and Matthew Gikes described the firm's behaviour as \"absolutely despicable\".\n\nThe pair had flown from Bristol to Hurghada on 11 March, before Foreign Office travel advice was issued.\n\nEasyjet says it wants to contact the couple and if travel agents are used, customers are hard to reach.\n\n\"I will never fly with them again as long as I live.\n\n\"They could have made a horrible situation easier,\" Mrs Gilke said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said: \"We would like to reassure customers that where we have been required to cancel flights, we are committed to getting customers home as quickly as possible and we have been operating rescue flights.\n\n\"We have been working hard to provide a programme of repatriation flights which have been published on our latest travel information pages as soon as they are confirmed.\"\n\nThe company said it had carried out over 500 rescue flights since 12 March but no flights to and from Egypt were now possible.\n\nBecause no travel advice was issued before they set off on their 10-day trip, Mr and Mrs Gilke feared their travel insurance would be invalid if they cancelled the holiday.\n\n\"On the Monday (16 March) we were told that Egypt would be closing its airspace, closing its borders and all the hotels would be closed,\" Mrs Gikes said.\n\n\"There was blind panic, with everyone trying to get on a flight.\n\n\"Just after we found that out, we found that our flight home on the Saturday had been cancelled.\n\n\"They didn't offer us any other flight so people were desperately trying to find a way home, before we were thrown out of the hotel.\"\n\nThe couple tried several times to rebook a flight but kept failing\n\nLike other holidaymakers, she spent all week trying to book a new flight.\n\nIn the end, despite losing their oriseats for the Saturday flight she still tried to board it.\n\n\"We waited all day, we queued up and they were only allowing people with the new boarding reference number,\" Mrs Gilke said.\n\n\"Essentially, they had cancelled our flights and then sold our seats to someone else.\n\n\"There were about 150 people just left in the airport absolutely hysterical by this point because we'd heard this was the last flight from EasyJet.\"\n\nAnne-Marie Gilke said EasyJet made the situation even more stressful in an already difficult situation\n\nThe couple managed to book another flight the following day, for £200 each, and arrived home on Sunday evening.\n\nMrs Gilke believes about 50 people are still stranded after being unable to book flights home.", "With schools closed to the majority of pupils to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus, parents across the country have been asked to become instant homeschoolers.\n\nHow have they coped with their first day of juggling timetables, curricula and coursework - all the while trying to get their own jobs done?\n\n“I’ve kind of done a timetable but I’m not sure how successful that’s going to be – ask me in a few days,” says Bobbie Gordon in Nottingham.\n\nShe and her husband - who work in marketing and IT respectively - are trying to be as flexible as possible as they combine work with their new role as homeschoolers to Imogen, 9, Lottie, 6, and four-year-old Hattie.\n\n“We’re just trying to tag-team it,” she says. “It’s about being flexible. We’re just trying to be supportive of each other as well because it is quite difficult for everybody and we’ve both got quite demanding jobs.”\n\nThe curriculum involves some schoolwork along with things the parents are keen to share with their kids, whether it’s coding, cooking or teaching them how to use the washing machine.\n\n“It’s life skills stuff,” says Ms Gordon. “Maybe it will help them realise everything that we have to do!”\n\nIt's been busy, round at the Gordons'\n\nSo far on Monday morning, they have done some writing, planted some seeds in the vegetable patch and made soup together.\n\nMs Gordon says she’s also keen for her kids to keep in touch with friends by video chat, and the eldest has already organised a daily evening video call with her classmates.\n\n“It’s 16 very excitable nine-year-olds running round their houses and playing instruments and things,” she says.\n\nDay one has gone relatively smoothly, says Ms Gordon, with sunshine and a spacious garden playing their part.\n\n“I suspect in a few weeks’ time if it’s horrible, rainy weather and they can’t get outside there will be harder days ahead,” she says.\n\nFor some parents, it’s been all about maintaining a routine.\n\nJoe Wicks, the fitness instructor and TV presenter, attracted more than 800,000 viewers to his YouTube Channel promising a daily 30-minute workout for kids to start the day.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live he wanted to play a part in reassuring kids that “although this is a weird time, everything is going to be fine, it’s going to return to normal and we’ll be reconnected again”.\n\nIn St Helens, Catherine Ormesher says her 11-year-old daughter Jessica is also benefitting from sticking to a routine, tackling her maths work on Monday morning just as her school timetable says.\n\nShe says her daughter’s school took “a massive weight” off of parents by providing them with materials and log-ins for online learning.\n\nThe school suggested that parents wake up their children at the normal time and begin work at 09:00 GMT.\n\n“The kids have been sending WhatsApp messages to tell each other that they’re starting their lessons now. They’re following the timetable and getting one another motivated,” says Ms Ormesher, who is a carer.\n\n“They obviously want the routine and the stability.”\n\nMs Ormesher said the school’s music teacher started them off with a “wake and shake” – an early morning dance to get kids energised – before a morning of lessons.\n\nAt her 11:00 break, Jessica asked Amazon’s Alexa to set a reminder for the start of lessons 20 minutes later.\n\nBut her mum says that holding onto the routine may have a special importance for her, as she was in isolation before school closed, having returned from Spain with an illness.\n\n“On Friday a little boy knocked on the door and left all her books and everything from school on our step. When we opened the door and I gave them to Jess, she just broke her heart crying because she hadn’t got to say her goodbyes to her primary school,” she says.\n\nEducational psychologists – such as Zubeida Dasgupta, who is at home in Brighton with her three children – warn that being home for a prolonged period can be difficult and stressful for some children.\n\nParents may also be stressed and worrying about the health of family members, their finances or food security, she says.\n\nSo her approach has been to emphasise that home is not school and she is not a teacher.\n\n“We have decided to focus on safety, love and fun, with a little bit of learning where the children are showing interest,” she says.\n\nOne child is very motivated and organised, she says, working through tasks set by school, helping his younger sister and following his interests in skills such as coding.\n\nThe others are getting more guidance in activities such as gardening or recording music on the computer. The youngest has volunteered to practise spelling and times tables.\n\n“I think we are all experiencing a feeling of loss of control at the moment, so doing activities where your children can be involved in planning and making decisions - and also succeeding - may help them feel a bit more in control,” Ms Dasgupta says.\n\n“If we can support our children through this, it may well end up being a positive experience. They may develop some resilience and discover new found interests and skills.”", "Sports Direct shareholders have registered unhappiness with founder Mike Ashley, voting in large numbers against his re-election as director.\n\nMr Ashley owns 62% of the company, so was overwhelmingly backed to continue in the role as expected.\n\nHowever, almost a quarter of independent shareholders voted against his re-election.\n\nSports Direct is under pressure to appoint a new auditor, but shareholders were told no decision had been made.\n\nMr Ashley has been criticised for a spending spree which has seen Sports Direct buy numerous struggling retailers. His retail empire includes large swathes of the High Street.\n\nHe bought House of Fraser for £90m last year saying he wanted to turn it into the \"Harrods of the High Street\".\n\nSports Direct later said it regretted the acquisition, describing problems at House of Fraser as \"nothing short of terminal\".\n\n\"Sports Direct has been through a very turbulent period and made a number of strange missteps,\" Tom Powdrill, of investor advisory group Pirc, said ahead of the meeting.\n\nIn particular he noted the House of Fraser acquisition, a delay in publishing its results, and problems appointing an auditor.\n\nSports Direct's relations with some investors have been turbulent for a number of years. For example, in 2016 shareholders moved to depose the then chairman Keith Hellawell.\n\nIn a statement, Sports Direct said: \"Mike Ashley was re-elected... with over 90% of the vote and the audited accounts for the year ended 28 April 2019 were also approved by over 99% of shareholders.\"\n\nShareholder ISS recommended voting against Mr Ashley's re-election, citing \"material failures of governance and risk oversight, many of which remain unresolved\" over recent years.\n\nMr Ashley, who owns Newcastle United, faced a small protest from football fans ahead of the meeting\n\nFidelity International's Maike Currie told the BBC that shareholders have questions over the firm's performance and Mr Ashley's recent shopping spree. The businessman has bought a number of ailing retailers in the last two years.\n\nAnother issue is the appointment of an auditor, after Grant Thornton resigned in August. But the meeting was told that the company is still in the process of finding a new firm.\n\nMr Powdrill said earlier that if Sports Direct cannot appoint an auditor by the close of the meeting, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has the power to step in if necessary.\n\nShares in Sports Direct are down by about 25% in a year, and suffered a big drop in July after the Belgian government claimed Sports Direct owed it €674m (£605m) in taxes.\n\nMs Currie said there were doubts over Mr Ashley's decision to buy House of Fraser and Jack Wills. There are also reports that Sports Direct is bidding for High Street jeweller Links of London.\n\nMr Ashley's recent purchases include, Evans Cycles, upmarket clothing outlets Flannels and Cruise, and lingerie firm Agent Provocateur. Sports Direct is also in the process of taking control of Game Digital.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Ashley tried to become chief executive of Debenhams, but instead his stake in the chain was wiped out when the retailer was taken over by its lenders.\n\nMr Ashley has also failed in a bid for music retailer HMV and pulled out of bidding for cafe chain Patisserie Valerie.", "The UK chancellor has told airlines to find other forms of funding and not turn first to the government for help getting through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nDemand for tickets has collapsed forcing companies to ground aircraft.\n\nAviation bosses have been lobbying the government for a targeted aid package to stop firms going under as a result of the slump in demand.\n\nBut in a letter on Tuesday Rishi Sunak said the government would only step in as \"a last resort\".\n\nMr Sunak instead urged airlines to try and raise money from shareholders.\n\nHe said the state would only enter into negotiations with individual airlines once they had \"exhausted other options\".\n\nThe government says its emergency business measures, including a Bank of England scheme for firms to raise capital and employee wage subsidies, are available for airlines.\n\nBut industry group the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned of an \"apocalypse\" in the aviation sector as it called on governments around the world for help.\n\nThe group said annual worldwide revenues from ticket sales would fall by $252bn (£215bn) if travel bans remain in place for three months, a drop of 44% compared to last year.\n\n\"Travel restrictions and evaporating demand mean that, aside from cargo, there is almost no passenger business,\" IATA boss Alexandre de Juniac, said.\n\n\"There is a small and shrinking window for governments to provide a lifeline of financial support to prevent a liquidity crisis from shuttering the industry.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic, Ryanair and EasyJet have all grounded most of their fleets, while BA-owner IAG has cut capacity by 75% and Norwegian Air has cancelled thousands of flights.\n\nThis has also affected airports, which have cut hundreds of jobs across the UK since coronavirus arrived in the country.\n\nKaren Dee, who runs the Airport Operators Association (AOA), said the aviation industry was \"surprised\" by Mr Sunak's decision and will have to \"fight on its own to protect its workforce and its future\".\n\n\"While countries across Europe have recognised the vital role airports play and are stepping into the breach, the UK government's decision to take a case-by-case approach with dozens of UK airports is simply not feasible to provide the support necessary in the coming days,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only does the decision today leave airports struggling to provide critical services, it will hamper the UK recovery.\"", "Construction workers are among those calling for action to protect them\n\nPeople can go to work if they cannot do their work at home, the health secretary has said, amid confusion over the new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt comes after calls for clarity, including from construction workers, about Monday's wider shutdown measures.\n\nMatt Hancock also said Tube services should be running \"in full\", after being asked about packed trains during Tuesday's morning commute.\n\nThe number of UK deaths rose to 422 on Tuesday, a rise of 87 in one day.\n\nAs it continues to ramp up its response to the number of people testing positive for the disease, the government is opening a new makeshift hospital at the ExCel exhibition centre in London.\n\nThe temporary Nightingale Hospital has been set up with help from the military and will have capacity for 4,000 patients.\n\nMr Hancock also appealed for 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS, and said more than 11,000 former medics had answered the government's call to return to the NHS. More than 24,000 final-year student nurses and medics will also join the health service.\n\nMr Hancock led Tuesday's daily Downing Street briefing - which saw reporters asking questions over video-link - after complaints that part of the government's strict new rules were confusing for workers.\n\nThe new measures, in place for at least three weeks, tell Britons to only leave home to go to work \"where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home\". Mr Hancock later said those who cannot work from home should go to work \"to keep the country running\".\n\nOn Tuesday, pictures showed workers in London crowding into Tube carriages - despite warnings that, even when out in public, people should keep two metres (6ft) away from others.\n\nUnions and workers in the construction industry have called for protection, saying their work is not essential and puts people's health at risk.\n\nAnd Piers Morgan highlighted the issue on ITV's Good Morning Britain when he showed images of construction workers working at London's Heathrow Airport and said: \"Ask yourself a moral question: what are you doing? Do the right thing. Do you have to be out there? Can this work wait? You need to get your priorities right.\"\n\nHe then interviewed London's mayor Sadiq Khan who said that, in his view, construction workers should not be going to work and that he had made that point \"quite forcefully\" to Boris Johnson.\n\nAsked about the issue at the briefing, Mr Hancock said people whose jobs has not already been shut down by the government measures to date should continue to work but should only be travelling to a workplace \"where that work can't be done at home\".\n\nHe said construction workers - many of whom work outdoors - could and should continue to go to work as long as they are able to remain two metres apart at all times.\n\nThe cabinet minister said: \"The judgment we have made is that in work, in many instances, the 2m rule can be applied.\n\n\"Where possible, people should work from home and employers have a duty to ensure that people are more than 2m apart.\n\nUnlike the UK government, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said building sites should close - unless it involves an essential building such as a hospital.\n\nShe said it was not possible to provide a \"bespoke guidance\" for each occupation - but she gave clarity with some examples and general principles.\n\nMr Davis, who has his own company, said he is in a better position than many in the construction industry.\n\nConstruction workers are still being told to come to work, according to Andrew Lee Davis, 36, a civil engineer based in Newport, south Wales.\n\n\"We can't just go home because we won't be paid,\" he told the BBC.\n\nSelf-employed workers may have to rely on the benefits system as things stand. However, benefits may not come through on time, or be enough to pay the bills, Mr Davis said.\n\n\"Morally, I know I should stay at home, but I'm absolutely tied here. Until the government pay the self-employed, I've got to come into work.\"\n\nIf he were to stay home, Mr Davis, who helps support his wife and three children, would have to rely on his savings. Those would not last for the duration of the crisis, he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of worried boys here on site,\" he said. Many of them are on minimum wage, self-employed and without savings, which puts them in a more precarious financial position.\n\nSome big contractors are telling subcontractors to continue working, which Mr Davis says could put extra strain on the NHS in a time of crisis.\n\nHe would like major contractors to shut non-essential sites, even though this could cost him valuable work.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for \"clear and unambiguous advice around which workers can and can't go out\".\n\nHe said he believed just key workers - those whose jobs are considered essential and included on a government list - should go to work.\n\nMr Hancock also said Transport for London \"should have the tube running in full so that people travelling on the tube are spaced out and can be further apart\".\n\n\"And there is no good reason in the information that I've seen that the current levels of tube provision should be as low as they are,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A construction worker has sent the BBC a video of workers failing to distance themselves.\n\nAccording to the latest Department of Health figures, there are now more than 8,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThe latest people to have died include Ruth Burke, 82, in County Antrim.\n\nHer family said it was heartbreaking not being able to kiss her goodbye because of how contagious the disease is, adding they did not want her simply to be remembered as a statistic.\n\nBrenda Doherty said her mother Ruth was a strong woman\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told MPs the government was \"ramping up testing as fast as we can\" and it was buying \"millions of tests\" which it would \"make available as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe also said the government was working to ensure victims of domestic violence who are forced to stay at home would get support.\n\nPolice chiefs said phone lines were inundated with calls after the prime minister's statement, as people rang to ask what they were still allowed to do.\n\nThe British Transport Police said it was deploying 500 officers to patrol stations across the country and remind people to follow government advice.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said the overwhelming majority of people \"can be expected to follow the rules without any need for enforcement action\".\n\nBut the punishment in England for not complying would be a fixed penalty notice initially set at £30 for people breaking the rule of no public gatherings of three people or more.\n\n\"We will keep this under review and can increase it significantly if it is necessary to ensure public compliance,\" the spokesman added.\n\nMeanwhile, Police Scotland will not hesitate to enforce the new measures, the force's chief constable said.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said enforcing the new restrictions would be \"a real, real challenge\", as there was already \"large amounts of sickness\" among officers across London.\n\nMeanwhile, opposition parties and unions have called on the government to do more to protect self-employed people, who will not be covered by the government's promise to pay 80% of salaries of employees unable to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Boris Johnson brings in new measures, the BBC explains why staying in is a matter of life and death\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced increased benefits for the self-employed, but did not guarantee their wages. Freelance workers - who would face a loss of income if forced to stop working due to sickness or quarantine - have told the BBC they feel they have been forgotten.\n\nLabour's Rachel Reeves said there was \"a worrying gap\" in the government's strategy when it came to self-employed workers.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said work is going on in Whitehall to come up with a \"deliverable and fair\" support package.\n\n\"There are genuine practical and principled reasons why it is incredibly complicated to design an analogous scheme to the one that we have for employed workers,\" he added, but said he was \"determined to find a way to support them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow will you be affected by these measures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump backs away as official mentions fever\n\nAs a growing number of states issue \"shelter in place\" orders, businesses shutter and Americans everywhere are told to limit outings and practise social distancing, Donald Trump may be having second thoughts.\n\nFor more than a week, Trump administration officials and state leaders have been talking of the need to \"bend the curve\" of the coronavirus outbreak, limiting the spread of the illness to prevent the American healthcare system from being overwhelmed. The steep economic toll, however, is becoming increasingly apparent.\n\nLast week Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin predicted that US unemployment could reach 20%. On Thursday the Treasury Department will release last week's new jobless claims, and the numbers are sure to be in the millions. A Goldman Sachs report estimated that the nation's gross domestic product in the second quarter could shrink by 24%, dwarfing the previous 10% record decline in 1958.\n\nBut at Monday's White House coronavirus news conference, the president said: \"America will again and soon be open for business.\"\n\nIn the late hours of Sunday night, Trump had vented his concerns.\n\n\"WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,\" he tweeted, using the all-caps he reserves for matters of apparent urgency. \"AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!\"\n\nThe 15-day period the president referenced began on 16 March, when the White House announced new Centers for Disease Control guidelines encouraging all Americans to work from home when possible and limit gatherings of more than 10 people.\n\nAs is often the case, the president's tweet may have been prompted by watching a segment on Fox News. On Sunday evening, host (and former advisor to then-British PM David Cameron) Steve Hilton warned that an economic collapse would itself result in avoidable deaths and other hardships - that the \"cure\" could be worse than the \"disease\".\n\n\"Our ruling class and their TV mouthpieces whipping up fear over this virus, they can afford an indefinite shutdown,\" Hilton said. \"Working Americans can't. They'll be crushed by 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 John Whitehouse This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrump's faithful may be inching back to the view they held a few weeks ago, that the virus is being used by the president's political enemies to damage his political standing by damaging the economy.\n\nOn Monday morning the president continued on this theme, with a flurry of retweets of accounts (some with only a few hundred followers) who were calling for Americans to be allowed to return to work after the 15-day period ended.\n\nFormer top Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn also joined the chorus, albeit somewhat obliquely.\n\n\"Is it time to start discussing the need for a date when the economy can turn back on?\" he asked on Twitter. \"Policymakers have taken bold public health and economic actions to address the coronavirus, but businesses need clarity. Otherwise they will assume the worst and make decisions to survive.\"\n\nThis conclusion among conservatives is not universal, however. On Sunday Steve Bannon, a former senior Trump campaign and White House staffer who has repeatedly fallen in and out of favour with the president, advocated for a \"hammer\" style imposition of rigorous separation.\n\n\"Drop the hammer, don't mitigate the virus, don't spread the curve, shatter the curve,\" he said during a Fox News morning interview. \"Go full hammer on the virus right now with a full shutdown, use the stimulus to bridge the economic crisis.\"\n\nRepublican Senator Lindsey Graham, who frequently has the president's ear, issued his own warning, garnished with a bit of praise.\n\n\"President Trump's best decision was stopping travel from China early on,\" he writes. \"I hope we will not undercut that decision by suggesting we back off aggressive containment policies within the United States.\"\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\nGraham somewhat misrepresented the administration's 31 January order that only limited entry by non-US-resident foreign nationals who had been in China in the previous two weeks, but the move has been touted by the president as evidence that he acted early to deal with the spread of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, others in the Trump administration continue to stress the need for rigorous social distancing - which suggests that there could be growing divisions between medical professionals in the administration and those whose focus on the economic impact.\n\nOn Monday morning, for instance, Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that the worst was yet to come.\n\n\"I want America to understand, this week, it's going to get bad,\" he said in a television interview. \"And right now there are not enough people out there who are taking this seriously.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAny move by the administration to ease guidelines could also set up a clash with state governors, a growing number of whom are moving toward greater, not lesser, restrictions on movement and gatherings.\n\nOne of the much-touted strengths of the US federalist system of government is it allows states - the so-called \"laboratories of democracy\" - freedom to devise their own policies and solutions to pressing political concerns. That system has never been tested quite like this, however, as some governors warn of the risks of a patchwork response to a national health crisis\n\nThe president underlined this potential for conflict in a tweet on Sunday afternoon swiping at Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who had earlier criticised the administration's coronavirus response.\n\n@JBPritzker, Governor of Illinois, and a very small group of certain other Governors, together with Fake News @CNN & Concast (MSDNC), shouldn't be blaming the Federal Government for their own shortcomings,\" he wrote. \"We are there to back you up should you fail, and always will be!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president, it appears, is being pulled in multiple directions and, as he often does, is airing his internal dialogue on Twitter.\n\nAt his press conference on Monday, he seemed to be tilting away from his medical advisers.\n\n\"If it were up to the doctors, they may say let's keep it shut down - let's shut down the entire world,\" he said.\n\n\"You can't do that with a country - especially the No. 1 economy anywhere in the world.\"\n\nHe has described himself as a \"wartime president\" doing battle against the spread of this virus, but he's also spent much of the past year building a November re-election campaign around the claim that he has presided over record economic growth and low unemployment - both of which seem to be evaporating.\n\nAnd not only is Trump looking at this as a president whose re-election could hinge on an economic rebound, he is also a businessman watching his life's work - his empire of resorts, hotels and golf courses, some of which were reportedly already in financial trouble - face an existential crisis.\n\n\"At a certain point, we have to get open and have to get moving,\" Trump said on Monday, referring to the US economy.\n\n\"We don't want to lose these companies, we don't want to lose these workers, we want to take care of our workers, so we'll be doing something I think relatively quickly.\"\n\nThe three-plus years of Trump's administration have already had enough turmoil and drama - much of it self-created - to fill an entire two terms.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak is a presidency-defining crisis, however - one that, barring the kind of miracle treatment Trump has at times hoped for, appears to offer options that range from bad to worse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"You must stay at home\"\n\nStrict new curbs on life in the UK to tackle the spread of coronavirus have been announced by the prime minister.\n\nPeople may only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nShops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together will be prohibited.\n\nIf people do not follow the rules police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a televised statement from Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson said the country faced a \"moment of national emergency\" and staying at home was necessary to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\nHe said the restrictions would be in place for at least three weeks and would be kept under constant review.\n\nThe government guidance says people should only leave home for one of four reasons:\n\nEven when following the above guidance, people should minimise the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they do not live with.\n\nThe government is also stopping all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies - but funerals will be allowed.\n\nBusinesses that will not need to close include:\n\nOther premises including libraries, non-essential shops, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.\n\nParks will remain open for exercise but people are not allowed to gather in groups.\n\nCommunity centres can remain open but only for the purpose of \"hosting essential voluntary or public services\" such as food banks or service for homeless people, the guidance says.\n\nHotels, hostels, campsites and caravan parks must also close unless key workers need to stay there, or if other people staying there cannot return to their primary residence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScientists have said each person with coronavirus infects 2.5 people and that takes about five days. This means, over a period of 30 days, more than 400 people will have been infected as a result of that one person.\n\nIf a person halves their social exposure, that first infection leads to only 15 infections after 30 days.\n\nSeveral police forces said they were facing a high number of phone calls from members of the public seeking clarification on the new restrictions.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley warned the public not to \"cripple\" his force's phone lines.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said they were working with the government and other agencies to work out how best to enforce the new rules.\n\nBut Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said he was already seeing \"large amounts of sickness\" among officers across London and enforcing the new restrictions would be \"a real, real challenge\".\n\n\"We will be dealing with it, but I'm not sure we will have the resources to be able to see it through,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said in a tweet that the next few weeks would be \"testing\" for police but that she would make sure officers had \"the resources they need to keep themselves and the public safe\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the new restrictions \"amount to a lockdown\" and are \"not done lightly\".\n\n\"I am not going to sugarcoat it in any way,\" she said. \"Coronavirus is the biggest challenge of our lifetime.\"\n\nIn a tweet, First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster urged people to follow the restrictions \"to save lives and protect our hospitals\".\n\nFirst Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford said \"these are really big changes for us all\".\n\n\"We are making them because of the speed the virus is continuing to spread,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the measures were \"the right response\".\n\n\"The government must close the loopholes to give security to all workers, including the self-employed, as well as renters and mortgage holders,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister said the measures were necessary to tackle \"the biggest threat this country has faced for decades\".\n\n\"Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won't be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses,\" he said.\n\n\"And as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger.\n\n\"To put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well.\"\n\nIt seems hard to overstate how huge an impact this will have on the country, and what a massive decision this is for the government to have taken - whose effect will last at least for a period of three weeks at the shortest, potentially for very much longer.\n\nRemember this though is not quite the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries - at least not yet. Despite tonight's enormous announcement, there are steps that other places have taken - curfews or total travel bans for example - that the UK is not pursuing.\n\nThe government is not triggering the Civil Contingencies Act, designed for the most serious emergencies which gives ministers draconian powers.\n\nNot surprisingly, there is already therefore enormous controversy about whether the UK has been acting fast enough.\n\nThe prime minister said he knew the \"damage\" the restrictions were causing to people's lives, businesses and jobs but at present there were \"no easy options\".\n\n\"The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said there was \"a clear way through\", by strengthening the NHS with former clinicians returning to work, accelerating the search for treatments and a vaccine and buying millions of testing kits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saturday was the \"busiest ever visitor day in living memory\" in Snowdonia, officials say\n\nA further 46 people have died in England since Sunday - aged between 47 and 105 and all with underlying health conditions - while there were four deaths in Scotland and four in Wales.\n\nThere have been 83,945 tests to date, with 6,650 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Britons travelling abroad should return to the UK as soon as possible because international travel is becoming more difficult with the closure of borders and the suspension of flights.\n\nAnd people in the most at-risk groups have begun receiving an NHS text urging them to stay at home for 12 weeks.\n\nClapham Common in London was one of the UK's many busy parks at the weekend\n\nLater on Monday night, following Mr Johnson's address, emergency legislation introducing measures to respond to the outbreak cleared the House of Commons and will now go to the Lords for further debate.\n\nUnder the legislation, airports could shut and police would be able to force people with virus symptoms to isolate.\n\nThe powers, which would have to be renewed every six months, are expected to be approved by MPs.\n\nElsewhere, the British Olympic Association said Great Britain will not send a team to Tokyo 2020 if the spread of coronavirus continues as predicted.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of the Games, but IOC member Dick Pound said it has already been decided that the tournament will be postponed until 2021.", "Sports Direct has performed a U-turn on keeping its shops open during the coronavirus lockdown following a backlash over its plans.\n\nThe government has ordered all UK shops selling non-essential goods to close.\n\nSports Direct initially said it would remain open as it was \"uniquely well placed to help keep the UK as fit and healthy as possible\".\n\nBut after widespread criticism, it now says it will not open \"until we are given the go-ahead by the government\".\n\nSports Direct's chief financial officer, Chris Wootton, said the chain was contacting the government \"at all levels\" to confirm whether its shops were deemed to provide an essential service.\n\nBut Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday morning that he could not see \"any justification\" for it to stay open.\n\n\"The key thing we need to do is make sure people wherever possible stay at home. Yes it's important people exercise but that should be done once a day and it's a basic thing,\" he told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\n\"People can walk, run or cycle, they should, but there is no reason for a store like Sports Direct to remain open.\"\n\nThe retailer had argued that it provided an essential service. Bosses at the company said the sports equipment it sells can be used to exercise at home at a time when gyms have been closed.\n\nIn a letter written by Frasers Group, which owns Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, Mr Wootton had said: \"Thus our Sports Direct and Evans Cycles stores will remain open where possible to allow us to do this (in accordance with the government's current social distancing guidance).\n\n\"There is no one else that has the range of product and range of stores to make this reasonably accessible for the whole population.\"\n\nBicycle shops are on the list of retailers that are allowed to stay open during the shutdown.\n\nShops selling non-essential items have been ordered to close\n\nBut Paddy Lillis, general secretary of the shop workers' trade union Usdaw, told the BBC's Today programme: \"I can't see how it [Sports Direct] is an essential service. It's a sports clothing company.\n\n\"In my mind, an essential service would include food and medicine and the supply chain around that,\" as well as the National Health Service, he said.\n\nIan Lavery MP, chair of the Labour Party, told the company's founder and chief executive Mike Ashley to \"take some responsibility\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Lavery MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of High Street retailers and food chains had already shut prior to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement on Monday evening, which set out strict new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government has now issued a list of which \"essential\" retailers are allowed to stay open. They include:\n\nBusinesses will still be able to take online orders and deliver items to people's homes.\n\nThe government this week said it would pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nMany retail and hospitality firms have warned the pandemic could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of retail lobby group the British Retail Consortium, said many shops had already closed temporarily.\n\n\"Any retailers that remain open will be following the very latest government public health guidance to ensure they do everything they can to ensure the safety of customers and staff,\" she said.\n\nThe government had already ordered pubs, restaurants and cafes to close amid concerns that people were ignoring its advice to keep social contact to a minimum.\n\nMonday night's announcement came as the number of UK deaths from coronavirus hit 335, while there were 6,650 confirmed cases.\n\nMany of the big brands to have already announced closures have promised to pay their staff for several weeks until the government's coronavirus job retention scheme kicks in.\n\nHowever, concern is growing about the millions of self-employed and gig economy workers who will be forced to rely on benefits in the absence of targeted support.\n\nNeil Carberry, boss of lobby group the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said the announcement reinforced the need for businesses and workers to access government support measures \"as quickly as possible\".\n\n\"With the economy and jobs market in lockdown, all employers can do is stand by their staff as far as possible and reap the benefits during the post-crisis comeback,\" he added.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to set out strict new measures aimed at protecting people from the coronavirus outbreak. This is his statement in full:\n\nThe coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades - and this country is not alone.\n\nAll over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer\n\nAnd so tonight I want to update you on the latest steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help.\n\nAnd I want to begin by reminding you why the UK has been taking the approach that we have.\n\nWithout a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won't be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the UK\n\nAnd as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger.\n\nTo put it simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the NHS will be unable to handle it - meaning more people are likely to die, not just from coronavirus but from other illnesses as well.\n\nSo it's vital to slow the spread of the disease.\n\nBecause that is the way we reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time, so we can protect the NHS's ability to cope - and save more lives.\n\nAnd that's why we have been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic.\n\nThe restrictions will ban gatherings of more than two people who are not in the same household\n\nAnd though huge numbers are complying - and I thank you all - the time has now come for us all to do more.\n\nFrom this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction - you must stay at home.\n\nBecause the critical thing we must do is stop the disease spreading between households.\n\nThat is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:\n\nThat's all - these are the only reasons you should leave your home.\n\nYou should not be meeting friends. If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no.\n\nYou should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home.\n\nYou should not be going shopping except for essentials like food and medicine - and you should do this as little as you can. And use food delivery services where you can.\n\nIf you don't follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.\n\nTo ensure compliance with the government's instruction to stay at home, we will immediately:\n\nParks will remain open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed.\n\nNo prime minister wants to enact measures like this.\n\nI know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people's lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.\n\nAnd that's why we have produced a huge and unprecedented programme of support both for workers and for business.\n\nAnd I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review. We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.\n\nThere have been more than 335 deaths from coronavirus in the UK - a third of them have been in London\n\nBut at present there are just no easy options. The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost and yet it is also true that there is a clear way through.\n\nDay by day we are strengthening our amazing NHS with 7,500 former clinicians now coming back to the service.\n\nWith the time you buy - by simply staying at home - we are increasing our stocks of equipment.\n\nWe are accelerating our search for treatments. We are pioneering work on a vaccine.\n\nAnd we are buying millions of testing kits that will enable us to turn the tide on this invisible killer.\n\nI want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus. Everyone from the supermarket staff to the transport workers to the carers to the nurses and doctors on the frontline.\n\nBut in this fight we can be in no doubt that each and every one of us is directly enlisted. Each and every one of us is now obliged to join together.\n\nTo halt the spread of this disease. To protect our NHS and to save many many thousands of lives.\n\nAnd I know that as they have in the past so many times, the people of this country will rise to that challenge and we will come through it stronger than ever.\n\nWe will beat the coronavirus and we will beat it together and therefore I urge you at this moment of national emergency to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children of parents who are separated are able to move between households during the coronavirus restrictions, minister Michael Gove has said.\n\nSome parents were worried they would not be able to see their children if they do not live with them full-time.\n\nHe initially suggested children should not be travelling between different houses during the restrictions.\n\nBut he later back-tracked and apologised for being unclear, saying it \"may be necessary\" for some to move.\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\nBoris Johnson announced on Monday that the government was bringing in strict new measures to tackle the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nHe said people should leave home for only a few clear reasons - exercise once a day; absolutely necessary travel to and from work; essential shopping; and medical or care needs.\n\nThat left some parents, whose children split their time between households, with questions, and further confused when Mr Gove told Good Morning Britain that children should not be moved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government guidance says: \"Where parents do not live in the same household, children under 18 can be moved between their parents' homes.\"\n\nJude Clay, 37, who runs single parenting blog Gluing Cheese, has a four-year-old son with her former partner.\n\nHe splits his time equally between both parents and was with his dad when Boris Johnson addressed the nation.\n\nJude's son splits his time equally between her house and her ex-partner's house\n\n\"When the announcement came last night I had the second panic attack I've had in my life,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"We would follow the advice but the thought of not seeing my little boy for three weeks, I couldn't bear thinking about.\n\n\"It's been a really scary time not knowing what's going to happen. So I'm grateful it's come up quite early on. To wake up to the news that this has been addressed and we've not been forgotten is a huge relief.\n\n\"I completely understand people have to be careful but I would class this as a necessary journey.\n\n\"For him to not have the ability to spend time with his parents would be one step too far and detrimental to his wellbeing.\"\n\nIt was a similar situation for dad Andrew Greenhalgh. He is divorced from his daughter's mum - and sees his child on his days off from work.\n\n\"My daughter's mother was with her when they heard about the three-week announcement. When she did, her eyes apparently welled up and she asked, 'Does that mean I won't get to see my dad?'\n\n\"I called my ex-wife and we were both unsure but I told her I would still see her. I then rang the local police and asked what the policy was for this kind of situation and explained mine further.\n\n\"The police got back fairly quickly and said that as long as we were sensible it would be fine to see my daughter still.\n\n\"I wash my hands constantly anyway but have stepped that up since the virus.\n\n\"I'm just happy it's all been cleared up.\"\n\nSome parents think there are still unanswered questions\n\nBut some parents feel that the government's guidance doesn't address all of the scenarios separated families face at this time.\n\nSam - not her real name - lives with her four-year-old son, who usually spends a couple of days a week with his dad.\n\n\"It's leading to more questions than answers among many of the separated parents I know,\" she says.\n\n\"I'd already decided to cease physical contact with my child's father last week because of my medical background.\n\n\"I sought advice from various professionals to support my decision before giving his father a very clear message that I didn't think it was safe for him to continue to travel between our two homes, which he accepted.\n\n\"I explained he could have video contact whenever he wanted and that we'd keep in touch and re-examine things in the light of any new government advice.\n\n\"It will be hard for them, I understand that. It will also be hard for me because I still have to work, and my child won't be going to nursery either.\n\n\"But it's not about access and time spent with each parent, or who's missing out, it's about life and death.\"\n\nGingerbread, a charity which supports single parent families, has had queries about the government's rules.\n\nCEO Victoria Benson said the government advice was clearer but there was still some confusion and concern about whether either parent can insist on, or refuse to allow, movement.\n\n\"We advise that parents should carefully consider the implications of children travelling between households and the welfare of the child (including the child's health needs) must be the most important consideration,\" she said.\n\n\"The health of other household members may also need to be taken into account. Wherever possible, parents should work together to ensure that a solution can be found. We would welcome further guidance on this from the government.\"\n\nIn many cases, children with separated parents are the subjects of court orders, setting out how much time they should spend with each parent, often specifying a schedule of contact visits for \"non-resident\" parents.\n\nGuidance from Sir Andrew Macfarlane, president of the Family Division of the High Court, later clarified that, while children could be moved between parents' homes, it did not mean all children must keep travelling for contact visits.\n\nIt says: \"Even if some parents think it is safe for contact to take place, it might be entirely reasonable for the other parent to be genuinely worried about this.\"\n\nIf one parent is worried that moving their child would be going against public health advice, they may \"exercise their parental responsibility and vary the arrangement to one that they consider to be safe\", even if the other parent does not agree, the guidance says.\n\nWhere this is the case, family courts will expect parents to facilitate contact by video chat or phone, it adds.", "A fraudster faked a dead man's membership card to use as a \"passport to a prestigious world\" and get the best seats at Lord's cricket ground.\n\nIn what the judge at Southwark Crown Court described as a \"despicable\" act, James Lattimer bought the card of a member who died in 2014 on Ebay and glued his own photo on it.\n\nLattimer, 51, from Bournemouth, was found with the faked pass in August.\n\nHe admitted fraud, was fined £10,000 and given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nIt costs £1,000 to become a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which is based at the home of cricket, and there is a £600 annual fee thereafter.\n\nThe court heard there was a 29-year waiting list with 12,000 names on.\n\nThe card gave Lattimer access to the \"best seats in the house\" at Lord's cricket ground\n\nLattimer, of Green Road, used the faked card to get into an exclusive members-only area after buying a ticket to enter the ground.\n\nEdmund Blackman, prosecuting, said when police spoke to Lattimer about a separate matter, he appeared to be drunk and the only identification he had on him was the \"much sought after\" card.\n\nThe card was in a wallet showing it was valid for 2013 but it had been folded so the date was not visible, the court was told.\n\nJonas Milner, representing Lattimer, argued his client's fraud had been \"an unattractive and naive ploy by a cricket fan who let his desperation to experience the pavilion get the better of him\".\n\nJudge Michael Grieve QC said Lattimer, who owns a corporate cleaning company, had been \"publicly disgraced\".\n\nHe told the defendant the use of a dead person's identity for any purpose was \"despicable\".\n\nThe judge added: \"The forged document was your passport to a prestigious world and the best seats in the ground.\n\n\"What you gained was very sought after. You acquired the privilege people wait half a lifetime to acquire.\"\n\nIn addition to the fine, he ordered Lattimer to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work and gave him a 10-month jail term suspended for 18 months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Macron says the first round of the country's municipal elections vote can go ahead on Sunday, but said schools and colleges would shut from Monday.\n\nIn an address to the nation, he also urged people over 70 and people with underlying health conditions to stay at home as far as possible.", "Share markets in the US plummeted on Wednesday, with losses accelerating after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.\n\nThe Dow Jones plunged nearly 1,500 points or more than 5.8%, while the S&P 500 fell 4.9% and Nasdaq fell 4.7%.\n\nThe declines pushed the Dow more than 20% below its recent high, a threshold that often accompanies a recession.\n\nThe falls come as the virus's spread has the global economy reeling.\n\nConcerns about the disease have disrupted manufacturing, prompted widespread closings and cancellations, and kept people at home.\n\nHowever, the White House and Congress have yet to reach a deal for economic relief after President Donald Trump's proposal of a tax cut for workers failed to garner widespread support.\n\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said that the administration hoped to extend deadlines for tax payments, cover the cost of sick leave for staff forced to stay home and provide loan guarantees for affected industries, such as airlines.\n\n\"We are not only focused on the health issues, but the economic issues,\" he said.\n\nThe New York branch of the US central bank also said it would inject money into the financial system by making more overnight loans available to banks, its second such move this week.\n\nThe Fed last week made its first emergency rate cut since the financial crisis in an effort to keep money flowing.\n\nThe moves come as the spread of the virus, despite hopes of containment, has rapidly reset expectations for global growth this year.\n\nOn Wednesday, economists at IHS Markit said global growth was likely to slow to 1.7% this year, down from the 2.5% it forecast last month.\n\nThe firm warned that the outbreak was likely to push Europe, which was already experiencing low growth, into recession and reduce US growth to 1.8%.\n\n\"The global spread of the COVID-19 epidemic is the single biggest risk facing the world economy in early 2020,\" the firm said.\n\nEarlier, London's FTSE 100 slid 1.4%, while European indexes saw more modest declines. Those falls follow several weeks of market turmoil.\n\nThe 20% decline of the Dow has pushed it into bear market territory, ending a streak of gains that started in 2009.\n\n\"It is not the virus itself, but rather the fear and panic related to the virus and the associated altered economic behaviour that could be a damaging tipping point, forcing the global economy onto a darker path,\" said Katrina Ell, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics.\n\nMarkets have also been slammed this week by a plunge in oil prices, after oil exporters said they would increase output rather than make coordinated cuts. On Wednesday, oil prices were down more than 3%.\n\nOn the Dow, the biggest drag was US planemaker Boeing, which fell more than 18%.\n\nThe firm has been in crisis since the crashes of two of its 737 Max planes, which have since been grounded globally for about a year. On Wednesday, it reported 46 cancellations, which were not made up by new orders.\n\nIt is also reportedly freezing hiring and being forced to draw on a $13.8bn (£10.7bn) loan, in part because of the coronavirus.", "Rishi Sunak delivered the Budget to the Commons on Wednesday\n\nBorrowing more money to invest into the UK is \"the right economic thing to do\", the chancellor has said.\n\nRishi Sunak told the BBC that interest rates were at a \"multi-decade low\" and he was \"not going to make an apology\" for the Budget - which included a £30bn package of investment.\n\nThe Bank of England announced a cut in interest rates on Wednesday.\n\nBut the Resolution Foundation warned of a £575 a year blow to households, even before the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe think tank said the mark down of the UK economy by the Office of Budget Responsibility, without taking the outbreak into account, was \"incredibly grim and yet still unbelievably optimistic\".\n\nIts chief executive, Torsten Bell, said: \"In reality, once we take the economic impact of coronavirus into account, this is the weakest official growth outlook on record.\"\n\nLabour's John McDonnell told the BBC's Today programme he welcomed more investment from the government, but \"10 years of austerity brought the country to our knees\" and the Budget was \"only going part way to making up\" for Tory cuts.\n\nThe chancellor said the plans he laid out on Wednesday were a \"significant step change\" for the government and the amount it would invest in infrastructure.\n\nAs well as a £5bn emergency response fund for the NHS and a number of other measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, he announced spending of more than £600bn on roads, rail, housing and broadband across the next five years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut questioned over the OBR's low growth forecasts in the short term, Mr Sunak said the organisation had praised the government's long-term investment plans.\n\n\"We can look at that as see we are on the right track with the plans we are doing, and it will start to have an immediate effect on people,\" he told Today.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May urged \"restraint and caution\" on spending after the Budget announcement.\n\nShe told the Commons: \"Although spending a lot of money may be popular and may seem the natural thing to do, there is, of course, that necessity to have a realistic assessment of the longer term impact of those decisions and of the longer term consequences.\n\n\"It is also necessary to ensure that we have that restraint and caution that enables us to make the public finances continue to be strong into the future.\"\n\nMr Sunak defended his plans, saying he would be sticking to the fiscal rules set out in his the Tory's election manifesto.\n\n\"But we are going to take advantage of these historically and unprecedented very low interest rates to invest in the long-term productivity of our economy,\" he said.\n\n\"That is, I think, the right economic thing to do, whilst overall having stable management of our debt.\"\n\nMr Sunak added: \"I am not going to make an apology for responding at scale in a comprehensive fashion to the immediate challenges we face from coronavirus. I do think that is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThis is a new government with a new chancellor much hungrier for spending, much hungrier for borrowing and much less bothered about the size of the national debt - and we are talking about very, very big numbers here.\n\nThe case the government makes is: it is coherent and correct to do this as it is dead cheap for governments to borrow in the long term.\n\nRishi Sunak believes that what started off as a temporary, extraordinary period of low interest rates is basically now locked in for the long term.\n\nIt is the economic and political fashion now to think it is going to be a long-term situation, therefore if borrowing is so cheap, why wouldn't you want to be more flash with the cash?\n\nBut with respect to the economists, sometimes their crystal balls are a bit wonky, things can change, and some Conservatives on the backbenches believe this may not be the time to run up a new, additional, huge overdraft.\n\nHowever, the government's judgement is 'now is the time' - not least because they want to be able to keep the very many promises they have made to electorate.\n\nEasy budgets are ones where you stand up and write big cheques. But sometimes they pave the way for much harder budgets in the years to come.\n\nThe spending in this Budget is being largely paid for with a big increase in government borrowing.\n\nThe government expects to borrow almost £100bn more in this Parliament (before mid-2024) than was expected the last time we had any forecasts.\n\nAnd that figure does not include £12bn to be spent on getting the economy through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Treasury documents say that money will be accounted for in the next Budget in the autumn.", "PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nJurors have heard a 999 call made by the owner of a high-end quad bike as he watched it being stolen by three men accused of killing a police officer.\n\nIn the recording, Peter Wallis says he can see \"four masked men\" brandishing weapons outside his house.\n\nThey towed the bike away shortly before PC Andrew Harper, 28, tried to apprehend them and was dragged behind a car to his death, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHenry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murder.\n\nProsecutors allege the three were in a Seat Toledo attached to a crane strap which \"shackled\" PC Harper and dragged him for more than a mile along country lanes.\n\nThe court previously heard that, earlier in the day, a group of balaclava-clad men had approached Mr Wallis' house in Stanford Dingley, near Reading.\n\nHe said the £10,000 quad bike had been parked in the drive.\n\nGiving evidence from behind a screen, he told jurors the \"intimidating\" group had left after he repeatedly asked: \"Can I help you, gentlemen?\"\n\nThat night, Mr Wallis, who said he was already feeling nervous and had not been sleeping, told the court he saw a car approach at about 23:00.\n\nHe told jurors: \"I quite rightly assumed something was afoot.\"\n\nMr Wallis said he kneeled on his bed, \"peering out of the window\" as he saw a metal object approach slowly in the moonlight.\n\n\"It was the front half of a silver car with no lights on,\" he said.\n\nHe said he called the police after \"rummaging\" for his phone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Wallis says he can see \"four masked men\" brandishing weapons outside his house\n\nIn the recording played to the jury, Mr Wallis tells a call handler: \"I have got four masked men outside my house. They've got weapons\".\n\n\"They came round earlier and now they are on my property.\"\n\nFearing the men would break into his house, he says: \"They are stealing my quad bike. I'm going out there now. I'm going out there now.\"\n\nShe urges him not to, saying: \"If they have got a weapon you will be hurt.\"\n\n\"I don't care. I have got to protect that bike,\" he says.\n\nHe goes on: \"They are not taking my damn bike.\"\n\nMr Wallis says the bike is attached to the men's car with a tow rope wrapped around its handlebars.\n\nHe can then be heard to describe the men \"dragging\" the bike up the road towards the village of Bradfield Southend.\n\nThe call handler assures him there are \"lots of units on their way\" and that it would be a \"silent approach\".\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nIn written statements read to the jury by prosecutor Brian Altman QC, the court heard some residents of Stanford Dingley saw a car that afternoon with people inside wearing balaclavas.\n\nYvonne Millam said she drove past the vehicle and felt \"instantly intimidated and scared\" when the driver of the car began \"staring right at me\".\n\nThe witness said she noticed in her rear mirror that the car's rear number plate was \"covered with royal blue tape\".\n\nThomas Gunter, who was drinking with friends outside the Bull Inn on Cock Lane, said he saw a gold coloured Seat \"drive past approximately three times\".\n\nHe said the occupants gave him and his friends a \"weird look\".\n\n\"What struck me was the car was playing very loud music and it was driving very quickly,\" he said.\n\nMr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike. The pair deny manslaughter.\n\nThe trial is expected to last six weeks.\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\nSchools, colleges and other public facilities in the Republic of Ireland are to close in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said the measures take effect from 18:00 on Thursday until 29 March.\n\nHe said that Northern Ireland and the UK would be briefed on developments.\n\nSome 27 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland on Thursday, according to the Department of Health.\n\nThere are now 70 total confirmed cases in the country.\n\nThe first death linked to coronavirus in Ireland - involving an elderly woman with underlying health conditions - was announced on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile two more people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 10.\n\nThere are now 596 confirmed cases in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday another two more cases were diagnosed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 20.\n\nMaking the announcement, Mr Varadkar added that indoor mass gatherings of more than 100 people and outdoor gatherings of more than 500 should be cancelled. He said people should work remotely if possible. Airports and ports will remain open.\n\nNorthern Ireland's schools and colleges will not close at this stage. First Minister Arlene Foster said NI would follow scientific advice.\n\nIreland's chief medical officer Tony Holohan said \"he recognises the differences\" on the island of Ireland in the way governments are dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nMr Holohan said: \"We have assessed the situation from our point of view and we believe that closing schools is an important part of the strategy for the reasons of ultimately protecting older and vulnerable people from schoolchildren who may not be significantly affected in terms of the illness.\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, stocks tumbled around the world after US President Donald Trump restricted travel to the US from mainland Europe in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The UK and Ireland were not included.\n\nMr Trump announced a ban on travellers from 26 European countries entering the United States for 30 days, starting on Friday.\n\nMr Varadkar said schools, colleges and childcare facilities will close from Friday and that the public and businesses needed to take a sensible approach.\n\nThe measures introduced in the Republic of Ireland will have a significant impact on Northern Ireland's border region, according to the managing director of O'Neill's sportswear firm.\n\nIt employs more than 750 staff at its factory in Strabane, County Tyrone, near the border with County Donegal in the Republic.\n\nKieran Kennedy said: \"That will be very challenging for a lot of our staff. It will have a real impact on our manufacturing.\"\n\nThe taoiseach said he realised the restrictions would be a \"real shock\".\n\n\"It is going to involve big changes in the way we live our lives and I know I'm asking people to make enormous sacrifices but we're doing it for each other,\" Mr Varadkar said.\n\n\"Our economy will suffer but it will bounce back.\n\n\"Lost time in school or college will be recovered and in time our lives will go back to normal.\n\n\"Ireland is a great nation, we're great people, we've experienced hardship and struggle before, we've overcome many trials in the past.\"\n\nMr Varadkar said shops should remain open and public transport will continue to operate.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to sign off plans to move from the \"containment\" phase of the outbreak to \"delay\" at the emergency Cobra meeting later.\n\nLater, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said the closures were \"necessary and justified\".\n\n\"We do need to respond with calm, with unity, with discipline and resolve,\" he said.\n\n\"These are the right measures at the right time based on the best public health advice.\"\n\nMr Holohan said the measures announced by the government were \"early, decisive, rapid, co-ordinated and comprehensive\" and offered the \"greatest chance of mitigating the impact\" of the outbreak.\n\n\"But it is not to say it is going to prevent an increase in cases. We expect to see that,\" he said.\n\nHave you been affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the Republic of Ireland? 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 contact us in the following ways:", "Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has revealed that he and wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the new coronavirus in Australia.\n\nHanks and Wilson, both 63, sought medical advice after experiencing the symptoms of a cold in Queensland, the actor wrote on Instagram.\n\nThey are now isolated in stable condition at an Australian hospital, officials said.\n\nThe couple were on the Gold Coast as Hanks made a film about Elvis Presley.\n\nTheir diagnosis came shortly after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic.\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 tomhanks 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\nHanks wrote on Instagram: \"We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too.\n\n\"To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus, and were found to be positive\".\n\nThe Academy Award winner, whose films include Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, said he and Wilson would keep the world \"posted and updated\".\n\n\"We Hanks' will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no?\"\n\nIn 2013, the actor revealed he had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the more common form. Diabetes UK says people with the condition may experience more severe symptoms of coronavirus, and has issued advice on how to take precautions.\n\nIn a video message posted on social media, the couple's eldest son Chet said: \"I just got off the phone with them, they both are fine, they're not even that sick.\n\n\"They're not worried about it, they're not tripping, but they're going through the necessary health precautions, obviously.\"\n\nColin, Hanks' son from his first marriage, said the couple were \"receiving excellent care\" and were \"in good spirits given the circumstances\".\n\nHe added that he had been \"in constant contact with them and am confident that they will make a full recovery\".\n\nWork on the star's latest, untitled movie has been temporarily suspended.\n\n\"All the people who were on set have gone home and self-quarantined,\" said Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate.\n\nThe studio behind the film, Warner Bros, said it was \"working closely with the appropriate Australian health agencies to identify and contact anyone\" who may have come into direct contact with the star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how germs spread and how you can prevent it\n\nWilson, a singer and actress, had performed concerts at Brisbane's Emporium Hotel and the Sydney Opera House in the past week.\n\nOpera House staff told the AFP news agency they were helping authorities track \"approximately 207 people\" who \"may have been in contact with the couple\" at the concert on Saturday.\n\nWilson also appeared on Channel 9's TV talk show Today Extra, whose hosts and crew are now in quarantine.\n\nFellow celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Reese Witherspoon and Tim Allen sent their support to the couple on social media, while singer Richard Marx said he had spoken to Wilson and she \"sounds pretty good\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Julia Louis-Dreyfus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Marx This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor and comedian Marlon Wayans joked in reply to Hanks' Instagram message: \"DAMN YOU TOM!!! You always gotta be first. First Emmy winner, first Oscar winner, first Hollywood Coronavirus.\"\n\nMeanwhile, DeGeneres announced she would film her US talk show without a studio audience for the time being \"for the health of my fans, my staff and my crew\".\n\nAustralia has recorded more than 130 cases of coronavirus.\n\nElsewhere, Italy is to close all shops except food stores and pharmacies in Europe's toughest lockdown yet as virus deaths and cases continue to mount.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has suspended all travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days from Friday.\n\nWhat are your experiences relating to the coronavirus outbreak? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The calculator on this page was part of the BBC's coverage of the 2020 Budget and is no longer available.", "Online betting firm Betway has been hit with a record penalty of £11.6m for failings over customer protection and money-laundering checks.\n\nThe Gambling Commission said Betway failed to check the source of funds of one customer who deposited over £8m and lost over £4m in a four-year period.\n\nIt also failed to effectively interact with a customer who deposited and lost £187,000 in two days.\n\nThe penalty package is the biggest to date faced by a UK gambling firm.\n\nThe Gambling Commission's investigation said the failings were linked to dealings with seven of Betway's high-spending customers.\n\nIt said that \"as a result of a lack of consideration of individual customers affordability and source of funds checks, the operator allowed £5.8m of money to flow through the business which has been found, or could reasonably be suspected to be, proceeds of crime\".\n\nThe commission said the investigation had also revealed \"inadequate management oversight\", adding that a probe \"into responsible Personal Management Licence holders\" was continuing.\n\n\"The actions of Betway suggest there was little regard for the welfare of its VIP customers or the impact on those around them,\" said Richard Watson, executive director at the Gambling Commission.\n\n\"As part of our ongoing programme of work to make gambling safer, we are pushing the industry to make rapid progress on the areas that we consider will have the most significant impact to protect consumers,\" he added.\n\n\"The treatment and handling of high-value customers is a significant piece of that work and operators are in no doubt about the need to tackle the issue at speed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's coronavirus travel ban on 26 European countries has been met with anger and confusion, with EU leaders accusing him of making the decision \"without consultation\".\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic is a \"global crisis\", said top European Union officials Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel.\n\nIt \"requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,\" they said.\n\nThe ban is due to go into effect on Friday at midnight EDT (0400 GMT).\n\nIt affects only countries that are members of the Schengen border-free travel area and does not affect US citizens, the UK, or Ireland.\n\nIt is a major escalation in the response to Covid-19 by Mr Trump, who has been accused of inaction. However, the ban was met with frustration in Washington as well as abroad.\n\nOn Thursday, the US leader said he did not inform his EU counterparts because \"it takes time\".\n\n\"We had to move quickly,\" Mr Trump said, adding that the EU did not consult the US when raising taxes on American goods.\n\n\"We feel there should have been cooperation rather than action that targets one continent,\" the diplomat, who asked not to be named, says on the phone, referring to the travel ban. Mr Trump's action took him and other ambassadors in Washington by surprise.\n\nStill he made his views about the travel ban, as well his frustration and anger about the restrictions, clear: \"We are not very pleased,\" he says. \"No.\"\n\nOthers are equally dismayed: the Atlantic Council's Daniel Fried, a former US ambassador to Poland, says he found the president's remarks disappointing: \"Anti-EU bashing is indulgence.\" Ambassadors here in Washington, both current and former, are now waiting for the president's next move - with a fair amount of dread.\n\nAs another former ambassador put it: \"I am not confident.\"\n\nOver 1,300 confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in the US, with 38 deaths so far.\n\nItaly now has over 12,000 confirmed cases and 827 deaths, second to China. France, Spain and Germany have also seen a rise in cases.\n\nMr Trump called the ban the \"most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history\".\n\nHe accused the EU of failing to take \"the same precautions\" as the US in fighting the virus to justify the ban.\n\nStocks plummeted following Mr Trump's announcement, in which he said that the travel ban would also include trade and cargo. The statement was later retracted.\n\nTrading on Wall Street was stopped on Thursday morning after the Dow Jones dropped 7% and UK indices fell to their lowest since the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nTom Bossert, Mr Trump's former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, criticised the ban, saying: \"There's little value to European travel restrictions. Poor use of time & energy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Thomas P. Bossert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Democrats said it was \"alarming\" that President Trump had not addressed a shortage of coronavirus testing kits in the US.\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.", "Chelsea Manning, pictured here in May 2019, is refusing to testify before a grand jury\n\nFormer US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is recovering in hospital after trying to take her own life, her legal team has said.\n\nPolice confirmed there was \"an incident\" involving Manning, 32, at a detention centre in Virginia where she has been held since last May.\n\nManning was remanded for contempt of court for refusing to testify before an inquiry into Wikileaks.\n\nShe is due to appear before a court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday.\n\nAndy Stepanian, a spokesman for Manning's legal team, said she continued to refuse to \"participate in a secret grand jury process that she sees as highly susceptible to abuse\".\n\n\"Her actions today evidence the strength of her convictions, as well as the profound harm she continues to suffer as a result of her 'civil' confinement,\" Mr Stepanian said.\n\nIn a statement, Alexandria Sheriff Dana Lawhorne said: \"There was an incident at approximately 12:11pm today at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center involving inmate Chelsea Manning. It was handled appropriately by our professional staff and Ms Manning is safe.\"\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks, but her sentence was commuted in 2017 by then US President Barack Obama.\n\nShe has refused to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she says she has already given her testimony during the 2013 trial.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for several years. They are currently seeking the extradition of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange from the UK over his alleged role in the release of classified military and diplomatic material in 2010.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces 18 criminal charges in the US, including conspiring to hack government computers and violating espionage laws.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf you want to talk to someone about the issues raised in this article, you can call the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.\n\nYou can call the UK Samaritans Helpline on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org.", "Parking on pavements could be banned in England to help pedestrians, the Department for Transport has said.\n\nWith the exception of London - where a ban already exists - only lorries are currently prevented from pavement parking.\n\nThe government is to open a consultation on whether to give local authorities more parking powers.\n\nThe AA, however, has warned a ban could have \"unintended consequences\" and cause more widespread \"parking chaos\".\n\nThe consultation comes after a committee of MPs last year called for a nationwide ban on the \"blight\" of parking on pavements.\n\nWitnesses told the Commons' transport committee that the worst cases of pavement parking were effectively trapping disabled, elderly and vulnerable people, making them \"afraid to leave their homes\".\n\nThe cross-party group said blocked-off walkways were also exacerbating the issue of loneliness in Britain.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Vehicles parked on the pavement can cause very real difficulties for many pedestrians.\"\n\nHe said the consultation would look at a variety of options, including giving local authorities extended powers to crack down on this behaviour.\n\nConservative MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the transport committee, welcomed the consultation, noting that the government had promised in 2015 to look into the issue but consultations and reviews had failed to improve roadside conditions.\n\n\"This government has signalled an intent to finally deliver change,\" he said, adding that detailed timings were needed.\n\nWhile ministers consider outlawing pavement parking across England, a ban has been in place in London since 1974.\n\nOne of its main aims is to prevent pedestrians, including wheelchair users, people with baby buggies and the visually impaired, from being obstructed.\n\nBut it is also about limiting damage to footways - unlike roads, pavements are not designed to take the weight of vehicles.\n\nThe rules apply to almost all streets in London at all times, and those who flout them can be given a parking ticket of up to £130 and be towed away - even if just one or two wheels are parked on the footway.\n\nExceptions to the ban include vehicles that have been exempted by councils and for unloading or loading when there is no other method available.\n\nIt is a widespread issue - a YouGov survey in 2018 found 65% of drivers admitted to having previously parked on the pavement.\n\nThe AA said it agreed that people who park in an anti-social way should be penalised.\n\nBut it added: \"An outright ban could lead to unintended consequences with parking chaos becoming more widespread.\n\n\"A better solution would be for councils to make a street-by-street assessment and where pavement parking could be allowed it be clearly marked and signed.\"\n\nLast year, Scotland became the first country in the UK to legislate against pavement parking. The ban comes into place in 2021.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nHolders Liverpool were knocked out of the Champions League with a dramatic extra-time defeat by Atletico Madrid in the last 16.\n\nA finely balanced second leg turned on a catastrophic blunder by goalkeeper Adrian.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side - seeking to win the trophy for a seventh time - thought they had overturned Atletico's 1-0 advantage from the first leg when Roberto Firmino's first goal at Anfield this season at the start of the added 30 minutes gave them the lead in the tie.\n\nGeorginio Wijnaldum's first-half header was full reward for Liverpool laying siege to the Atletico goal for much of the first 90 minutes.\n\nIn the second half, Andrew Robertson was then inches away from a winner only for his header to crash against the woodwork.\n\nAnd yet, as the Kop sensed another memorable Champions League victory, Adrian - deputising for the injured Alisson - paid the price for a dreadful clearance as substitute Marcos Llorente pounced with a low finish to secure Atletico's crucial away goal.\n\nLlorente struck again with another composed finish in the 105th minute and with the spirit draining out of Liverpool and their supporters, former Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata adding insult to injury with a third in the dying seconds to send Atletico through to the last eight.\n• None 'I realise I am a really bad loser' - Klopp says Reds defeat 'doesn't feel right'\n\nThis game was, in many respects, a tale of two goalkeepers.\n\nThe magnificent Jan Oblak formed a formidable barrier for Atletico Madrid, his yellow shirt a colossal presence in his penalty area as he made nine saves and claimed countless crosses.\n\nIn contrast, Liverpool's mammoth effort was fatally undermined by the hapless Adrian, who also made an error that contributed to their FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Chelsea.\n\nThe Reds had finally established a measure of control through Firmino's goal, but once Adrian had hacked out a hopeless clearance and Llorente's shot beyond him into the net at the Kop end, Atletico were ruthless.\n\nKlopp looked and sounded suitably downcast last week when he announced his world-class Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson had suffered a hip injury, knowing he could make the difference to a Champions League tie that was always going to be decided on the finest of margins.\n\nAnd so it proved, Liverpool's morale and fighting spirit disappearing visibly after Adrian's mistake.\n\nLiverpool will still complete the formalities of their first Premier League title but they pride themselves on their status as European champions and this was a painful night.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Simeone has the last laugh against Liverpool\n\nAtletico Madrid arrived at Anfield with the usual reminders of how the stadium's atmosphere has broken the nerve and resilience of even the elite teams in the Champions League - as Barcelona found out in last season's semi-finals.\n\nDiego Simeone and his players are made of sterner stuff than that. They may have been under pressure for much of this game but not once did they buckle as they faced up to Liverpool's intensity and came out on top.\n\nAtletico simply love defending, each goal conceded almost a personal insult to Simeone - who seemed to relish Anfield's atmosphere - and his players.\n\nAfter Llorente scored Atletico's second, even Liverpool looked like a side who knew there was no way they would score two goals in such limited time to progress.\n\nThe La Liga side's approach may not be a thing of beauty but they are a brilliantly drilled team and this was another landmark triumph for the master coach Simeone.\n• None This was the first time Liverpool have failed to progress from a two-legged tie in European competition under Klopp, having won the previous 10.\n• None Liverpool have lost a home European game for the first time under Klopp, with this their first defeat at Anfield in Europe since October 2014.\n• None The Reds have fallen in the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2006.\n• None Atletico Madrid have progressed from five of their previous six Champions League knockout ties after winning the first leg, only failing in last season's last 16 against Juventus (2-0 first leg, 0-3 second leg).\n• None Liverpool have lost both legs of a Champions League knockout tie for the first time since the last-16 stage in 2005-06 against Benfica.\n• None This was the first match in the competition to see four goals scored in extra time.\n• None Llorente is only the second Atletico player to score twice as a substitute in a Champions League game after Sergio Aguero against Chelsea in November 2009.\n• None Firmino scored his first goal at Anfield in 20 games, last netting v Porto in April 2019 - 337 days ago.\n• None Four of Wijnaldum's five goals in the Champions League for Liverpool have come in the knockout rounds.\n• None Liverpool's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been directly involved in four goals in the Champions League this season (three goals, one assist) - his joint-best tally alongside 2014-15 when he was at Arsenal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Atlético de Madrid 3. Álvaro Morata (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcos Llorente with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The government says it wants to \"raise the bar\" on smart motorway safety, following criticism of the scheme.\n\nUnder the plan, opening motorway hard shoulders for traffic in busy periods will be scrapped.\n\nOn those smart motorways where the hard shoulder has been removed entirely, there will be an increase in places for vehicles to stop in an emergency.\n\nBetween 2015 and 2018, 11 people a year on average have died on smart motorways in England.\n\nAnnouncing the plan to improve smart motorway safety, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had been \"greatly concerned by a number of deaths on smart motorways, and moved by the accounts of families who've lost loved ones in these tragic incidents\".\n\n\"The overall evidence shows that in most ways smart motorways are as safe or safer than conventional ones - but they are not in every way,\" he said.\n\nA Freedom of Information (FoI) request sent by the BBC's Panorama to Highways England revealed that in one section of the M25, outside London, the number of near misses had risen 20-fold since the hard shoulder was removed in April 2014.\n\nIn the five years before the road was converted into a smart motorway, there were just 72 near misses. In the five years after, there were 1,485.\n\nJim O'Sullivan, the chief executive of Highways England, said: \"Every death in any road accident is tragic, and we are determined to do all we can to make our roads as safe as possible.\"\n\nThere are two types of smart motorway in the UK.\n\nThe first is where the hard shoulder is opened to traffic when it is busy. The second is where the hard shoulder is open all the time and drivers who break down are encouraged to pull into emergency stops.\n\nIn addition to abolishing the \"confusing\" dynamic hard shoulder, the government has said it will also reduce the distance between places to stop in an emergency to three quarters of a mile where possible.\n\nIt says this will mean on future schemes, motorists should typically reach a stop every 45 seconds at 60mph. The maximum spacing will be one mile.\n\nThe government's plan also includes measures to:\n\nMr Shapps acknowledged the changes would cost \"quite a lot of money\", adding it could reach \"hundreds of millions of pounds\".\n\n\"Nothing is more important to me than making sure our road networks are completely safe,\" he said.\n\nMeera Naran, whose son died on a smart motorway, welcomed the changes saying: \"I feel like this is a small mother's day present from Dev wherever he is.\"\n\nRAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said it was welcome that the government had listened to drivers' concerns but added \"it remains to be seen if these measures go far enough to protect drivers\".\n\nWhile the AA's Edmund King said the changes were \"a victory for common sense and road safety\".\n\nBut Labour MP Sarah Champion said the proposals did not \"go far enough\" and called on the government to restore smart motorways \"to traditional operation\".\n\nShe accused Mr Shapps of \"allowing these lethal roads to continue to operate\".\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran (left) was killed on a smart motorway when he was on his way home from visiting his critical ill brother (right).\n\nSmart motorways were introduced with the aim of increasing capacity and easing congestion by using the hard shoulder as an extra lane.\n\nBut they have been criticised by the government minister who originally approved the roll-out in 2010.\n\nSpeaking to Panorama in January, Sir Mike Penning, who is no longer a minister, said he had been misled about the risks of taking away the hard shoulder.\n\nThe Conservative MP said he had agreed to the expansion in 2010 after a successful pilot on the M42 near Birmingham.\n\nThe pilot worked well because there were safe stopping points for motorists, called emergency safety refuges, on average every 600 metres.\n\nBut when the scheme was expanded across the country, the safety refuges were placed further apart - on some sections, they are 2.5 miles apart.\n\n\"They are endangering people's lives,\" said Sir Mike. \"There are people that are being killed and seriously injured on these roads, and it should never have happened.\"\n\nResponding to his comments, Highways England said the plans to expand smart motorways were approved by ministers and that it was working to gather the facts about safety.", "A former civil servant has claimed that Alex Salmond apologised to her for his \"unacceptable\" behaviour.\n\nThe woman, known as Woman F, said the apology came after Mr Salmond told her to sit on a bed, lifted up her skirt and said she was \"irresistible\".\n\nShe denied a suggestion from Mr Salmond's lawyer that there had merely been a \"bit of cuddling\" between her and the former first minister.\n\nThe incident is alleged to have happened at the first minister's official Bute House residence in Edinburgh in December 2013.\n\nMr Salmond also denies a further charge that he sexually assaulted the same woman by kissing her on the mouth at Bute House in November or December of the same year.\n\nHe has lodged special defences of consent to both of the charges.\n\nThe court also heard a claim during Thursday's evidence that rules were introduced in 2013 to prevent women working unaccompanied with Mr Salmond in Bute House.\n\nWoman F told the High Court in Edinburgh that her job as a Scottish government civil servant meant she regularly worked long hours.\n\nShe said she had brought some paperwork to Mr Salmond in the Bute House sitting room, which had been very cold because of a problem with the heating.\n\nWoman F claimed that Mr Salmond had suggested they go upstairs to the bedroom, because it was warmer.\n\nShe said this did not seem to be an unreasonable suggestion and agreed - but that when they were in the bedroom Mr Salmond started to \"drink quite steadily\" from a bottle of moutai alcoholic spirit that he had been given as a present from China.\n\nShe claimed to have then felt \"somewhat uncomfortable\" when Mr Salmond asked her to take her boots off, adding: \"But it was a request from the first minister, so I complied.\"\n\nWoman F said it was late at night and she had gathered her papers before attempting to walk to the door.\n\nShe said she felt \"rising panic\" when the first minister told her to \"get on the bed\", but that \"this was very much inside a working environment and culture where you do whatever the first minister asks of you\".\n\nThe alleged sexual assault is said to have happened in a bedroom at Bute House\n\nThe witness said she sat \"primly\" on the bed and could not remember exactly what happened in the first few seconds, but then \"the first minister was lying on top of me, he put his hands under the skirt of my dress, ran them over my thighs and my bottom and he was rubbing his hands over the bodice of my dress and over my breasts.\n\n\"He was kissing me around my face and dress, haphazardly like someone who had been drinking quite heavily, and was murmuring something like 'you're irresistible'.\"\n\nWoman F said she \"absolutely did not\" give Mr Salmond any invitation to do this, and had repeatedly been telling him that \"this wasn't a good idea\" and that she needed to leave.\n\nShe said she had felt a \"mix of panic and disbelief that it could be happening. I knew I had to stop this, to get away, but how on earth to actually achieve that?\n\n\"It seemed very clear that he wasn't going to stop unless I could in some way bring things to a stop. I felt he was going to continue in the same vein and there would be a progression in the sense of trying to remove some of my clothes or taking things further, pushing things further.\n\n\"I thought he was going to try to remove my tights and my underwear and he would be pushing the encounter physically further.\"\n\nShe said Mr Salmond had either eventually stopped or had shifted his weight. She managed to get up from the bed and \"said goodnight\" to him.\n\nShe said she had been \"extremely upset\" on her walk home, and texted or emailed a colleague to say \"that's an evening I'll need to forget\".\n\nThe witness said she subsequently met the colleague, who told her it \"could be a crime\" and advised her to contact her line manager.\n\nShe said this had led to one of Mr Salmond's special advisers speaking to the first minister and suggesting that he apologise to her.\n\nWoman F claimed that, some days later, she had a meeting with Mr Salmond at his office in the Scottish Parliament during which \"he told me he was sorry for what had happened, that it had been unacceptable, that he had been drinking more than usual - not just that night, but in general due to stress.\n\n\"He said he respected me and wanted to keep working together and apologised. I accepted the apology, confirmed we would keep working together.\n\n\"I remained in the post and did not experience any other behaviour from the first minister that I considered inappropriate in the rest of my time in that post.\n\n\"I told my husband in general terms. I still have not told anyone else in my family.\"\n\nGordon Jackson QC suggested that Woman F had been drinking alcohol before having a \"sleepy cuddle\" with Mr Salmond\n\nThe court was told of an email written by Woman F shortly after midnight on the night that the assault is alleged to have happened, in which she referred to \"thanking the Chinese\" for the moutai and said there may be \"one or two headaches in the morning\".\n\nUnder cross-examination from Mr Salmond's defence lawyer, Gordon Jackson QC, she denied that this meant that she had also been drinking heavily, insisting that she had only a \"very little\" of the spirit.\n\nShe said the email had been intended to warn a colleague that Mr Salmond was likely to be hungover in the morning, adding: \"The first minister liked to encourage staff to drink with him. I personally didn't like to drink much in his company.\"\n\nMr Jackson described Mr Salmond as a \"tactile human being\", and put it to the witness: \"What I'm saying happened is there was a bit of cuddling between the two of you, and you ended up lying side by side on the bed. It was described to me as a sleepy cuddle.\"\n\nWoman F replied: \"Absolutely not. I refute any suggestion that I cuddled the first minister.\"\n\nShe also said that it would have been \"unthinkable\" to have contacted the police at the time because of the \"political context\".\n\nShe added: \"Our job involved protecting the first minister and his reputation, and in the run up to the (independence) referendum anything that took that incident into the public sphere risked influencing the outcome of the referendum. That seemed unacceptable.\"\n\nThe court later heard from Woman G, who said she had previously worked with Mr Salmond. She alleged that he had once \"smacked my buttocks\" when she was leaving a dinner at the Ubiquitous Chip restaurant in Glasgow in 2012, which she said had felt \"demeaning, like I was a plaything to him\".\n\nShe said she had mentioned it to a colleague but did not take it any further as: \"He was my boss, I only existed in the job because of him and he just happened to be the most powerful person in the country.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested by Mr Jackson that the smack had been \"playful\", the witness said she had considered it to be \"extremely inappropriate\".\n\nWoman G also alleged that Mr Salmond invited her to sit next to him on a two-seater couch in Bute House in April of the following year.\n\nShe claimed Mr Salmond had been drinking \"a good deal\", and had made inappropriate remarks before putting his arm round her and attempting to kiss her.\n\nThe woman said she made her excuses and left, before messaging a friend to say that Mr Salmond had been: \"Out of order, he has been inappropriate, I'm not going back in tomorrow morning.\"\n\nShe went on to claim that a decision was subsequently taken that women should not be allowed to work with Mr Salmond unaccompanied.\n\n‪The final witness of the day was Woman G's mother, who said her daughter had told her that she knew something about Alex Salmond that could \"change everything\".‬\n\nMr Salmond has pled not guilty to 14 charges of sexual assault against a total of 10 women, all of which are alleged to have happened when he was serving as Scotland's first minister and the leader of the SNP.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarth's great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions.\n\nA comprehensive review of satellite data acquired at both poles is unequivocal in its assessment of accelerating trends, say scientists.\n\nBetween them, Greenland and Antarctica lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice in the period from 1992 to 2017.\n\nThis was sufficient to push up global sea-levels by 17.8mm.\n\n\"That's not a good news story,\" said Prof Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds in the UK.\n\n\"Today, the ice sheets contribute about a third of all sea-level rise, whereas in the 1990s, their contribution was actually pretty small at about 5%. This has important implications for the future, for coastal flooding and erosion,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe researcher co-leads a project called the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, or Imbie.\n\nIt's a team of experts who have reviewed polar measurements acquired by observational spacecraft over nearly three decades.\n\nThese are satellites that have tracked the changing volume, flow and gravity of the ice sheets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Shepherd: \"Whatever coastal planning measures are being planned, they need to be built sooner\"\n\nImbie's Antarctica assessment was lodged with the journal Nature in 2018; its Greenland summary was published in the print edition of the periodical this week.\n\nThe team has used the latest milestone to offer some general remarks.\n\nThe key one is the recognition that ice losses are now running at the upper end of expectations when compared with the computer models used by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nIn the panel's 2014 assessment, its mid-range simulations (RCP4.5) suggested global sea-levels might rise by 53cm by 2100. But the Imbie team's studies show that ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland are actually heading to much more pessimistic outcomes, and will likely add another 17cm to those end-of-century forecasts.\n\nThe massive ice sheet covering Greenland is melting faster than it was in the 1990s\n\n\"If that holds true it would put 400 million people at risk of annual coastal flooding by 2100,\" said Prof Shepherd.\n\n\"What our latest estimates mean is that the timescales people are expecting will be shorter. Whatever town or coastal planning measures you're intending to put in place, they need to be built sooner.\"\n\nGreenland and Antarctica are responding to climate change in slightly different ways.\n\nThe southern polar ice sheet's losses come from the melting effects of warmer ocean water attacking its edges. The northern polar ice sheet feels a similar sort of assault but is also experiencing surface melt from warmer air temperatures.\n\nOf that combined 17.8mm contribution to sea-level rise, 10.6mm (60 %) was due to Greenland ice losses and 7.2mm (40%) was due to Antarctica.\n\nThe combined rate of ice loss for the pair was running at about 81 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s. By the 2010s, it had climbed to 475 billion tonnes per year.\n\nGreenland and Antarctica (pictured) are responding to climate change in slightly different ways\n\nThe delivery of the Imbie results was timed so they could be incorporated into the IPCC's next big assessment of the state of Earth's climate - the so-called Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) due out next year.\n\nProf Shepherd warns that future intercomparisons risk being of poorer quality because of the likely near-term demise of some dedicated polar satellites and the lack of clear and urgent plans to replace them.\n\nHis particular concern is to see successors to the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite and the American space agency's IceSat-2 platform.\n\nThese models observe more of the ice sheets than other satellites because they fly orbits that go very close to the north and south poles.\n\n\"I fear we will soon be back to the situation of the early 2000s when we had to make do with missions that were not really designed to look at polar regions. We'll be doing our best despite the absence of the data we really require - unfortunately. But we've been there before.\"\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. The chancellor says his 2020 Budget offers the “largest sustained fiscal boost for nearly 30 years”\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe is suspending business rates for many firms in England, extending sick pay and boosting NHS funding.\n\nIn his first Budget speech, he warned of a \"significant\" but temporary disruption to the UK economy but vowed: \"We will get through this together.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in interest rates.\n\nMr Sunak, who was promoted to chancellor just four weeks ago after Sajid Javid quit the government, has had to hastily re-write the government's financial plans to deal with coronavirus.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to keep this country and our people healthy and financially secure,\" he told MPs.\n\nOf the £30bn in extra spending, £12bn will be specifically targeted at coronavirus measures, including at least £5bn for the NHS in England and £7bn for business and workers across the UK.\n\nThis is on top of other spending pledges that will amount to £18bn next year, and even more in following years.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said extra spending on government departments and investment represented the biggest Budget \"giveaway\" since 1992, and will add around £100bn to public borrowing by 2024.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he welcomed many of the measures to \"head off the impact\" of coronavirus, which has now been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization.\n\nBut he said the extra money for the NHS was \"too little, too late\" and the UK was going into the crisis with its public services \"on their knees\" after years of Conservative cuts.\n\nMeasures to mitigate the effect of the coronavirus outbreak include:\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK reached 460 on Wednesday, with an eighth person confirmed to have died after contracting the virus.\n\nThe chancellor said that without accounting for the impact of coronavirus, the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast growth of 1.1% in 2020, the slowest rate since 2009.\n\nDespite speculation that he would ditch the framework on spending set by predecessor Mr Javid, Mr Sunak said his Budget is delivered \"not just within the fiscal rules of the manifesto but with room to spare\".\n\nThe chancellor has scrapped a planned cut in corporation tax and scaled back a tax break for entrepreneurs, saving £6bn over the next five years.\n\nThe spending in this Budget is being largely paid for with a big increase in government borrowing.\n\nThe government expects to borrow almost £100bn more in this Parliament (before mid-2024) than was expected the last time we had any forecasts.\n\nAnd that figure does not include £12bn to be spent on getting the economy through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Treasury documents say that money will be accounted for in the next Budget in the autumn.\n\nIn other Budget measures, the chancellor announced that fuel duty would be frozen for another year.\n\nA planned increase in spirits duty will be cancelled and duties for cider and wine drinkers in England will be frozen as well, but a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost 27p more.\n\nThe so-called tampon tax will be abolished, and VAT on books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals will be scrapped from 1 December.\n\nAnd the chancellor pledged to more than double spending on UK government research and development by 2024.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor announced more than £600bn for road, rail, housing and broadband projects over five years, aimed at delivering on the Conservatives' election promise to boost economic growth outside of London and the south-east of England.\n\nHe announced plans for Treasury offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and a \"new economic campus in the north, with over 750 staff from the Treasury\".\n\nHe also promised an additional £640m for the Scottish government, £360m for the Welsh government, £210m for the Northern Ireland executive and £240m for new city and growth deals.\n\nMr Sunak said he was providing £200m for local communities in England to build flood resilience and would double investment in flood defences.\n\nThe chancellor will deliver another Budget in the Autumn, with measures aimed at preparing the UK economy for post-Brexit trading arrangements with the EU.\n\nFigures released by the Office for National Statistics found that the UK economy did not grow at all in January.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the budget?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Sales of no or low alcohol beer are up 30% since 2016, as 18-24 year olds increasingly shun alcohol.\n\n\"Nolo\" alcohol is set to be one of the driving trends of 2020, according to the craft brewers' trade organisation.\n\nIt says growing health consciousness has prompted almost one in four young people to become teetotal.\n\nThe number of alcohol drinkers across the British population also appears to have fallen slightly.\n\nThe number of 18-24 year olds who say they don't drink has increased by 6% in the past 12 months, to 23%, according to the Society of Independent Brewers' (SIBA) British Craft Beer Report.\n\nThe report is forecasting that no alcohol, low alcohol and \"free-from\" beers are set to be one of the fastest growing parts of the market in 2020, with under 35s choosing low alcohol versions of drinks for a quiet night in or to accompany meals.\n\n\"As the consumers in this age bracket get older, this is obviously going to have an increasing impact on beer sales in the future,\" added the association, which boasts more than 700 breweries.\n\n\"Consumers are more conscious of their physical and mental health than they have ever been, and this has driven the fall in alcohol consumption we are seeing, especially among young people.\"\n\nSix in 10 of those aged 35-44 drink beer, compared with 44% of 18-24 year olds, the report found.\n\nGrowth in beer sales is slowing, with total beer sales in 2019 rising by 1.1%, compared with a 2.6% climb a year earlier.\n\nThe report also indicated a slight increase in the overall number of people who never drink alcohol, with 17% saying they were teetotal, compared to 16% a year earlier.\n\n\"The findings in this year's report show a drastically changing marketplace - with consumers opting for no or low alcohol options, particularly young people,\" said Caroline Nodder, editor of the report.\n\nShe added that there is likely to be more growth in no or low alcoholic drinks over the next 12 months as people become more health-conscious, providing a market for small independent breweries.\n\nResearch firm Kantar found that two-fifths of British people aged 18-24 do not drink or are trying to moderate their alcohol consumption.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces advice that all overseas school trips will be cancelled\n\nGatherings of more than 500 people should be cancelled from next week, the Scottish government has advised.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this was to free up emergency services, including police and ambulance crews, to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nShe said it was not yet necessary to close schools, but advised all overseas school trips should be cancelled.\n\nThere have now been 60 cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Scotland - a rise of 24 from Wednesday.\n\nNHS Lothian has the highest number of cases with 11. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has 10.\n\nThe first case of coronavirus transmitted within the community was detected in Scotland on Wednesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon confirmed the UK had now entered the delay phase of controlling coronavirus which would mean a change in guidance.\n\nFrom Friday, people with coronavirus symptoms should stay at home for a period of seven days. They should not call their GP or NHS 24 unless their condition deteriorates.\n\nThe first minister said the advice on mass gatherings was a Scottish government decision designed to reduce the impact on the emergency services, rather then preventing the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We know that certain events have an impact on our policing and frontline health services,\" she said.\n\n\"Our health services in particular will be under acute pressure in the weeks and months to come. I think it is incumbent on the government to do what we can to remove unnecessary burdens on our public services.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she also wanted to send a clear message that the outbreak should not be treated as \"business as usual\".\n\nAnother new measure announced by the first minister was the cancellation of all school trips.\n\nBut she said that schools, colleges and universities would remain open as their closure would have a \"very direct affect on the ability to keep key workers at work\".\n\nThere are also concerns that young people would instead gather in informal settings where the risk of spreading the virus was higher.\n\nMs Sturgeon said \"complex judgements\" needed to be made around school closures as they could potentially last until the end of the summer term.\n\n\"If it gets to a stage where the advice is to close schools, this will not be for a week or two weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"This would be something that was advised to last throughout the peak of this infection and that is potentially until the summer period.\"\n\nThe matter would be kept under \"very close\" review, she added.\n\nThe global outbreak has now been labelled as a pandemic by the World Health Organization.\n\nThere are 590 confirmed cases across the UK and 10 people have died - all of them in English hospitals.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Jason Leitch, has defended the approach taken so far, saying that the UK authorities had not been \"complacent\".\n\nIn a tweet, he wrote: \"For those in equal number suggesting we're overreacting and not acting fast enough we are doing neither.\n\n\"The balance of which population interventions and their timing is crucial. We are not complacent.\"", "Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been pictured wearing a mask as he awaits the results of his test for coronavirus.\n\nHe said on social media that he expected the results in a few hours.\n\nHis son Eduardo said earlier on Thursday that his father was not showing any symptoms.\n\nHours after Eduardo's tweet, a government statement said President Bolsonaro would be addressing the nation at 08:30 local time (23:30 GMT), without specifying what it would be about.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro's communications secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, has tested positive for the virus. He was part of the president's entourage during a recent visit to the US, where he met President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence.\n\nAt least 73 cases have been reported in Brazil. Concerns about the virus' impact on the economy have also hit local stock markets - the B3 stock exchange dropped 13% by the close of trading on Thursday.", "Michel Roux was born in Charolles, Burgundy, in 1941\n\nHe passed away on Wednesday night surrounded by his family at home in Bray, Berkshire, after battling a long-standing lung condition.\n\nRoux and his brother Albert made gastronomic history when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first three Michelin-starred restaurant in Britain in 1982.\n\nHis son Alain and daughters, Francine and Christine, on behalf of the family, said he was \"a father figure inspiring all with his insatiable appetite for life and irresistible enthusiasm\".\n\n\"We are grateful to have shared our lives with this extraordinary man and we're so proud of all he's achieved,\" they added.\n\n\"A humble genius, legendary chef, popular author and charismatic teacher, Michel leaves the world reeling in his wake.\n\n\"But above all, we will miss his mischievous sense of fun, his huge, bottomless heart and generosity and kindness that knew no bounds. Michel's star will shine forever lighting the way for a generation of chefs to follow.\"\n\nMichel Roux published 15 books that sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide\n\nThere will be a private family funeral followed later in the year by a \"celebration of life event\".\n\nAs well as Le Gavroche, the Roux brothers' Waterside Inn in Bray was awarded three Michelin stars in 1985.\n\nRoux also opened Skindles in Taplow in 2018 with his son.\n\nTV chef James Martin led tributes from the culinary world on social media, writing that he was \"broken and so sad\" that \"we have lost a legend\".\n\nChef Raymond Blanc called the Roux brothers \"pioneers\" who changed the world of gastronomy in the UK, and the official Michelin Guide UK said Roux \"inspired a whole generation of chefs\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 3 by The MICHELIN Guide\n\nSince 1983, Michel Roux published 15 books that sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.\n\nHe was also known for the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition founded in 1982 with Albert to enable a new generation of chefs in the UK to train in some of the greatest restaurants in the world.\n\nMany scholars have gone on to win Michelin stars following their enrolment in the Roux Scholarship, and it is considered the most acclaimed competition of its kind in the UK.\n\nAlbert (left) and Michel Roux each received an OBE in 2002 for their services to cooking\n\nFood has always been part of the Roux family history, and Michel was born in a room above his grandfather's charcuterie in Burgundy, France, in 1941.\n\nAged 14, he was apprenticed to a grand pâtissier near Paris where he spent three years pursuing his craft.\n\nFollowing a period as a pastry cook at the British embassy in Paris, Roux was taken on as a commis chef by the de Rothschild's household before following his brother to work in England in the 1960s.", "Last updated on .From the section Leicester\n\nThree Leicester City first-team players have self-isolated after showing symptoms of coronavirus and \"have been kept away from the rest of the squad\", manager Brendan Rodgers has said.\n\nRodgers did not specify which players had been quarantined but added that the club had \"followed procedures\".\n\nThe Foxes are due to play Watford at Vicarage Road in the Premier League on Saturday at 12:30 GMT.\n\n\"We had a few players that have shown symptoms and signs,\" Rodgers said.\n\n\"It would be a shame [if the Watford game were postponed], but the public's health is the most important in all of this.\"\n\nAsked if the game could be played behind closed doors, Rodgers said: \"The game is all about the players and the fans and if you have one of those not there, it's obviously not the same.\"\n\nLeicester later released a statement saying: \"In recent days, all three players presented with extremely mild illness and were advised by club medical staff, consistent with current government guidance.\n\n\"All three players were subsequently advised by NHS 111 that their symptoms were consistent with common seasonal illness and that a seven-day period of self-isolation was appropriate as a precaution. There was no recommendation that further testing would be necessary. The club is in regular contact with the relevant players, whose symptoms remain mild and self-manageable.\"\n\nThe UK government is expected to announce on Thursday that it is stepping up its response to the pandemic.\n\nIt is anticipated the UK will switch to tactics aimed at delaying its spread, rather than containing it, when the government's emergency committee meets.\n\nDelay is the phase in which \"social distancing\" measures will be considered - which could include restrictions on public gatherings above a certain number of people, although this is not thought likely at this stage.\n• None 'Tensions' between EFL and Premier League over how to respond to pandemic\n\nIt comes after the World Health Organization designated the outbreak of the disease a pandemic.\n\nThere are 484 confirmed cases in the UK and eight people have died.\n\nTop-flight leagues in Spain and Italy have been postponed, while Wednesday's game between Manchester City and Arsenal was postponed as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nFive Gunners players were in self-isolation after meeting Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis.", "Dua Lipa, Kendrick Lamar and the Pet Shop Boys will all headline stages at the festival\n\nDua Lipa, the Pet Shop Boys and Mabel will all play the Glastonbury Festival this summer - provided it isn't cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nMore than 90 names were added to the line-up on Thursday, joining headliners Taylor Swift and Sir Paul McCartney.\n\nUS rap star Kendrick Lamar will top the bill on Friday, with Supergrass, Lana Del Rey and AJ Tracey also due to play.\n\nEmily Eavis said organisers had \"fingers firmly crossed\" the event would go ahead in June.\n\nShe said she was releasing a poster of the line-up \"with the best intentions\" given \"the current circumstances\".\n\n\"As things stand we are still working hard to deliver our 50th anniversary festival in June and we are very proud of the bill that we have put together over the last year or so,\" she said.\n\n\"No one has a crystal ball to see exactly where we will all be 15 weeks from now, but we are keeping our fingers firmly crossed that it will be here at Worthy Farm for the greatest show on Earth!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has already affected several tours and festivals, with acts like The Who, BTS, Miley Cyrus and Madonna having cancelled or postponed shows.\n\nIn the US, April's Coachella festival has been delayed, while music industry showcase South By Southwest, was scrapped altogether.\n\nThe Country To Country festival, due to take place in London, Dublin and Glasgow this weekend, was also postponed at the last minute on Thursday night. Rescheduled dates will be announced \"in the coming days,\" organisers said.\n\nWith more disruptions expected, shares in concert promoters Live Nation dropped by 16.6% on Wednesday, representing a single-day loss of more than $1.8bn (£1.4bn).\n\nGlastonbury's team are hoping their festival can go ahead if the spread of the virus slows down.\n\nHowever, if there is a government-imposed lockdown in the run-up to the festival, it could impact their ability to build stages and prepare the Somerset site for the arrival of 175,000 ticket-holders on 24 June.\n\nTaylor Swift will headline the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night... if the show goes ahead\n\nThe acts announced on Thursday did not constitute Glastonbury's full line-up, but flagged up some of the festival's biggest bookings for 2020.\n\nAmong them were former headliners Manic Street Preachers, Happy Mondays, Sinead O'Connor and Skunk Anansie, alongside festival stalwarts Dizzee Rascal, Primal Scream and Elbow.\n\nSuzanne Vega, the festival's first-ever female headliner, will also return to Worthy Farm - 31 years after playing the Pyramid Stage in a bullet-proof vest, after her band received death threats.\n\nBrazilian Tropicalia legend Gilberto Gil will make his first appearance since playing Glastonbury's inaugural festival in 1970. The musician was actually living in the Eavis farmhouse at the time, after being exiled by his country's military dictatorship.\n\nUS R&B stars TLC will make their debut, while Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play immediately before Paul McCartney's Saturday night headline slot.\n\nPop icon Diana Ross has already been announced to play the Sunday afternoon \"legend slot\"; while festival favourites Dua Lipa, Pet Shop Boys and Fatboy Slim will headline The Other Stage - Glastonbury's second-biggest arena.\n\nFifty-two per cent of the acts announced so far are female or bands featuring a mix of genders, after Eavis pledged to achieve a gender-balanced line-up \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Our future has to be 50/50,\" she told Radio 1's Newsbeat earlier this year.\n\n\"It's a challenge. Everyone's finding it hard - but the acts are there,\" she said, adding that Glastonbury's former line-ups had \"always been male-heavy\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Internet companies must do more to tackle \"an explosion\" in images of child sex abuse on their platforms, a UK-held inquiry has concluded.\n\nThe panel also said the technology companies had \"failed to demonstrate\" they were fully aware of the number of under-13s using their services and lacked a plan to combat the problem.\n\nIt has called for all images to be screened before publication.\n\nAnd it said more stringent age checks were also required.\n\nFacebook, Instagram and Snapchat were identified as the most commonly cited apps where grooming was said to take place.\n\nAnd the industry at large was accused of being \"reactive rather than proactive\" in response to the issues.\n\n\"Action seemed driven by a desire to avoid reputational damage rather than to prioritise protection of children,\" the inquiry said.\n\nThe report follows a series of public hearings, between January 2018 and May 2019, during which the police said they believed the UK was the world's third biggest consumer of live-streamed child sex abuse.\n\nFacebook was one of the first to respond.\n\n\"[We] have made huge investments in sophisticated solutions,\" said its European head of safety, David Miles.\n\n\"As this is a global, industry-wide issue, we'll continue to develop new technologies and work alongside law enforcement and specialist experts in child protection to keep children safe.\"\n\nMicrosoft also promised to \"consider these findings carefully\", while Google said it would keep working with others to \"tackle this evil crime\".\n\nThe report said some steps should be taken before the end of September.\n\nLeading its list is a requirement for screening before images appear online.\n\nThe report noted technologies such as Microsoft's PhotoDNA had made it possible for pictures to be quickly checked against databases of known illegal imagery without humans needing to look at them.\n\nBut at present, this filtering process typically happened after the material had already become available for others to see.\n\nUsers might be frustrated by a delay in seeing their content go live but, the panel said, it had not been told of any technical reason this process could not happen before publication.\n\nThe inquiry also said the UK government should introduce legislation to compel the companies involved to adopt more effective checks to deter under-age users.\n\nPre-teens were at \"particularly acute\" risk of being groomed, it said.\n\nThe panel recognised many services were officially banned to under-13s.\n\nBut it said in many cases, the only test was to require users to fill in a date-of-birth form, which could easily be falsified.\n\n\"There must be better means of ensuring compliance,\" it said.\n\nThe report acknowledged detecting and preventing the live-streaming of abuse was difficult but highlighted a French app as an example to learn from.\n\nIt said Yubo used algorithms to detect possible instances of child nudity, which a human moderator would then check to see if action if necessary.\n\nIt was suggested the big social networks could learn from a smaller rival, Yubo\n\nThe panel also noted existing anti-abuse technologies did not work when communications were protected by end-to-end encryption, which digitally scrambles communications without giving platform providers a key.\n\nThe inquiry highlighted WhatsApp and Apple's iMessage and FaceTime already used the technique by default and Facebook intended to deploy it more widely soon.\n\nHowever, it did not say how this should be addressed.", "Josie Harris, right, with her daughter Jirah Mayweather and rapper Kalan.FrFr last year\n\nJosie Harris, the mother to three of boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather's children, has been found dead in her car in California.\n\nThe 40-year-old was found unresponsive on her driveway, a spokeswoman for the coroner told the BBC.\n\nNo information has been released regarding the cause of death.\n\nHarris dated the boxer between 1995 and 2010. He was convicted of her misdemeanour battery in 2010 and later served two months in jail.\n\nShe was found outside her home in Valencia, Los Angeles County, on Tuesday night.\n\nUS media say that police do not suspect foul play, although this has yet to be officially confirmed.\n\nHarris had reportedly been in the process of suing Mayweather over accusations he made in an interview when asked about the case.\n\nMayweather spent time in a Las Vegas jail following his domestic violence conviction\n\nIn a 2014 interview, Harris said she preferred it when Mayweather would not collect their children personally from the house.\n\n\"For some reason I still get anxiety when I know that he is on his way. I have no idea why, but I get really overwhelmed,\" she said.\n\nMayweather, 43, has an unbeaten record in 50 professional fights and at times in his career was listed by Forbes as the highest paid athlete in the world.\n• None US boxer Mayweather goes to jail", "Chelsea Manning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files\n\nFormer US army intelligence analyst and Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning has been released from prison.\n\nManning was remanded for refusing to testify in an inquiry into Wikileaks. She had been held in a detention centre in Virginia since last May.\n\nShe was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, but the judge ruled that it was no longer necessary for her to testify.\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks.\n\nShe accrued more than $250,000 (£198,000) in fines for refusing to co-operate with the inquiry. Her legal team had asked for these to be vacated, but the judge said they must be paid in full.\n\nManning, 32, refused to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she said she had already given her testimony during the 2013 trial.\n\nHer release order on Thursday came shortly after her legal team said she had tried to take her own life and was recovering in hospital.\n\nPolice confirmed there was \"an incident\" involving Manning at the detention centre in Virginia on Wednesday afternoon. \"It was handled appropriately by our professional staff and [she] is safe,\" a police statement said.\n\nManning leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US military files relating to the Afghan war to Wikileaks in 2010. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but former President Barack Obama commuted the rest of her sentence in 2017.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for several years.\n\nThey are currently seeking the extradition of its co-founder Julian Assange from the UK over his alleged role in the 2010 release of classified military and diplomatic material.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces 18 criminal charges in the US, including conspiring to hack government computers and violating espionage laws.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus and the club's game against Brighton on Saturday has been postponed.\n\nThe Gunners have closed their training ground and club staff who had recent contact with Arteta will now self-isolate.\n\nThe Premier League will hold \"an emergency club meeting\" on Friday to discuss future fixtures.\n\n\"This is really disappointing,\" said Spaniard Arteta, 37.\n\n\"I took the test after feeling poorly. I will be at work as soon as I'm allowed.\"\n\nArsenal expects a \"significant number of people\" will self-isolate, including the \"full first-team squad\".\n\nThe club were due to face Brighton in the Premier League at Amex Stadium on Saturday (15:00 GMT) but Brighton released a statement, shortly after confirmation of Arteta's positive test, announcing that the game had been called off.\n\nBBC Sport understands all 20 Premier League clubs want to decide on a unified strategy, and one of the possible options that will be discussed at the meeting is postponing the rest of this weekend's scheduled fixtures.\n\n\"The health of our people and the wider public is our priority and that is where our focus is,\" said Arsenal managing director Vinai Venkatesham.\n\n\"We are in active dialogue with all the relevant people to manage this situation appropriately, and we look forward to getting back to training and playing as soon as medical advice allows.\"\n\nArsenal's Premier League match with Manchester City on Wednesday was postponed as a \"precautionary measure\" and several Gunners players went into self-isolation after Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis contracted coronavirus.\n\nArsenal said Marinakis, 52, met a number of their players when the Gunners hosted the Greek side in a Europa League match two weeks ago.\n\nThe club said no players or staff would be tested for coronavirus.\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution after a member of his family was admitted to hospital displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nThree Leicester City first-team players have also self-isolated after showing symptoms of coronavirus.\n• None 14:06 GMT - Brendan Rodgers says three Leicester City players have self-isolated after showing symptoms.\n• None 16:00 GMT - Manchester City's Champions League last-16 tie with Real Madrid, due to take place on Tuesday, is postponed.\n• None 17:25 GMT - Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK government is considering banning sporting fixtures - but it will not happen immediately.\n• None 20:45 GMT - Manchester City say defender Benjamin Mendy is self-isolating as a precaution.\n• None 21:30 GMT - The Premier League announces all this weekend's games \"will go ahead as scheduled\".\n• None 22:17 GMT - Arsenal say manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus.\n• None 22:33 GMT - The Premier League announces it will hold \"an emergency club meeting\" on Friday to discuss future fixtures.\n\nThe Premier League now appears to be edging closer to an unprecedented suspension.\n\nFor several days now senior officials have privately believed matches would soon have to be played closed doors with preparations made to do so. Despite mounting criticism for carrying on as normal and being so out of step with other competitions around the world, the Premier League agreed to follow government policy.\n\nBut with several clubs now directly affected by the outbreak the integrity of the league is clearly in jeopardy. So what happens next?\n\nBoth the Premier League and EFL are desperate to get their remaining matches played.\n\nIf Euro 2020 is postponed by Uefa for a year on Tuesday, space could perhaps be created in the calendar for any delayed matches to be played, and a case could be made to government to pause the Premier League and EFL seasons for several weeks.\n\nThat would at least avert the threat of legal action from clubs claiming they have been denied promotion or European qualification.", "The Australian Grand Prix has been called off after teams and drivers forced the hand of Formula 1's bosses.\n\nA decision to cancel the race was made in the early hours of Friday morning after a McLaren team member tested positive for the coronavirus in Melbourne.\n\nThe race's abandonment was not made official for another eight hours.\n\nBy that time Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Alfa Romeo's Kimi Raikkonen had flown home.\n\nAnd McLaren said later on Friday that 14 further team members had been placed in quarantine in their hotel for the next 14 days because of their close contact with the infected employee.\n\nThe decision throws into doubt the rest of the F1 season, with the Bahrain Grand Prix due to take place next weekend without spectators the next race to come under scrutiny.\n\nBBC Sport understands Ferrari were the first team to make it clear they were not prepared to race in Melbourne in the circumstances.\n\nConfirmation of the abandonment in from the FIA and F1 came after Mercedes sent a letter requesting the cancellation of the race.\n\nMercedes said: \"We share the disappointment of the sport's fans that this race cannot go ahead as planned. However, the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our team members and of the wider F1 community are our absolute priority.\n\n\"In light of the force majeure events we are experiencing with regards to the coronavirus pandemic, we no longer feel the safety of our employees can be guaranteed if we continue to take part in the event.\n\n\"If organisers try to press ahead with the weekend it appears at this stage as if not all the teams will take part.\"\n\nThe statement cancelling the race said a majority of teams suggested overnight they felt the race should not go ahead.\n\nEvents developed rapidly following McLaren's decision to pull out of the race after their team member's positive coronavirus test.\n\nOn Friday morning, with a statement cancelling the race still not forthcoming, Australian GP organisers initially told local media the race was going ahead as planned.\n\nBut Victoria state premier Daniel Andrews then announced if the race went ahead it would be without spectators.\n\nLegal complications delayed the announcement of the cancellation but the farcical situation will be seen by many to have damaged the reputations of both the F1 and the FIA.\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday at the official F1 news conference he was \"very, very surprised\" the sport was pressing on with plans to continue with the race while the outbreak of the virus worsened and other sports suspended or cancelled events.\n\nAn initial meeting of team bosses with F1 and FIA officials on Thursday night, after a tense day in the paddock at Albert Park, broke up with an agreement to carry on with Friday practice as normal and review the situation later that day.\n\nBut the plans changed later in the evening as several insiders - including leading drivers - expressed their concerns about the idea of racing amid the risk of further cases of coronavirus in the tight-knit F1 paddock.\n\nThe decision was reviewed at later meetings and eventually, at around 0200 Friday local time (1500 GMT on Thursday), the decision was made to call the race off.\n\nAfter that, Vettel and Raikkonen flew back to Europe on the same flight although Hamilton and Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas remain in Melbourne.\n\nMany F1 team members woke up thinking the race was going ahead, only to read news of its cancellation.\n\nOn Friday morning, a senior source reconfirmed to BBC Sport, which first reported the information, that the race was still off.\n\nBut in farcical scenes, crowds flocked to Albert Park expecting to see the cars out on track and organisers initially told Australian media that the race weekend was going ahead as planned.\n\nIn total, eight F1 workers have been assessed and tested for Covid-19.\n\nSeven were cleared on Thursday but an eighth, from McLaren, tested positive.\n\nAustralian Grand Prix organisers said in a statement a ninth person had been assessed and tested, with the result pending. This person was \"not associated with any F1 team, the FIA or associated suppliers\", the statement said.\n\nIt now seems certain a huge question mark will hang over the Bahrain Grand Prix, scheduled to be the second meeting of the season on 22 March.\n\nA decision is also expected imminently on the Vietnam Grand Prix, scheduled for 5 April, after the government in Hanoi banned travel into the country for anyone who has been in Italy - among other locations - in the previous 14 days.\n\nF1 chief executive Chase Carey was in Hanoi on Thursday trying to find a way around the restrictions.\n\nThe Chinese Grand Prix, scheduled to be the fourth race, was postponed in February after government officials said it could not go ahead.\n\nThe next race after Vietnam is scheduled to be the Dutch Grand Prix on 5 May, the start of a run of three races in four weekends that also includes the Spanish and Monaco events.\n\nBut with the coronavirus situation developing by the day, and countries imposing tighter restrictions on travel, it is impossible to know at this stage whether any of those races can go ahead.\n\nThe decision to cancel the race in Australia raises huge questions about the future of the sport this year.\n\nF1 authorities faced criticism for their decision to press ahead with the season-opening race, and it is true the teams feel they lacked direction and leadership from the powers that be.\n\nBut the FIA and F1 were responding to advice from local authorities, with Australian officials saying earlier in the week they saw no reason for their race not to go ahead.\n\nThe fact it has now been called off is an illustration of the speed with which the coronavirus pandemic has developed across the globe.\n\nBut it also shines a spotlight on what some will see as the F1 authorities having rather too firm a focus on 'keeping the show on the road' - as well as the dollars rolling in - and not enough on the realities of what really matters.\n\nNow, not only does the sport not know when - or even if - the season can start, but the authorities, teams and race promoters have to face the question of what happens to all the fees that have been paid for races that might now never happen.\n\nThe answer to that may well be different for separate events, and it will depend on who has made this decision, who pays for the race in each specific country, and the legal and contractual complexities of each deal.\n\nIn addition, there are the knock-on effects for the teams themselves, as a large proportion of their income comes from those race fees.\n\nSome teams need that income more than others - and some need it very much indeed.\n\nF1 is entering uncharted waters, and to describe them as choppy could be a massive understatement.", "BBC director general Tony Hall has told MPs there's a chance that part of its services could be \"out of action\" for a spell if the corporation's newsrooms suffered an outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nLord Hall said the BBC is \"intent on keeping absolutely everything open\".\n\nAsked whether there could be a scaling back of services, he replied: \"There could be - I hope there won't be.\"\n\nExecutives are \"working through how we could cope with\" a service being out of action, he added.\n\nHe said they are looking at how to ensure \"we can keep broadcasting the information that the people need to have\", but that the BBC is \"gaming out\" what would happen if many staff go sick.\n\n\"You could imagine a local station or some other part of our news operation being out of action for a period.\"\n\nThe outgoing director general told the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee that he would chair another meeting about the issue later on Thursday.\n\n\"We have to make sure our news services keep transmitting on television and on radio, and we are making sure we've got every eventuality covered,\" he said.\n\n\"We are gaming out what happens if x% of the staff [caught coronavirus] or what happens if there was a case in one of our stations or newsrooms, what would we do and how we would cope with that?\"\n\nLord Hall added: \"At the moment we are intent on keeping absolutely everything open, all our networks going, because we know that globally, nationally and locally, people turn to us for information, as they did during the floods.\n\n\"[We want] to make sure we can keep going if for some reason there was illness within a team. We're not planning on anything other than keeping everything going at the moment, but we need to plot just in case something happens.\n\n\"The primary purpose is to keep our services going. If we were hit to a very high degree by sickness then our priority is to make sure we have a service people would turn to, and that that service would keep going.\"\n\nVictoria Derbyshire took issue with the audience figures quoted by the director general\n\nThe hearing at the House of Commons also covered a wide range of other programmes and issues:\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 European Football\n\nSpain's La Liga, the Dutch Eredivisie, Portugal's Primeira Liga and USA's Major League Soccer have been suspended over coronavirus concerns.\n\nThere will be no action in the Spanish top flight for \"at least the next two rounds of matches\" as a result of the quarantine of the Real Madrid squad.\n\nNetherlands' top two leagues have also been suspended for the same period.\n\nThe 2020 Major League Soccer season - which started less than two weeks ago - has been suspended for 30 days.\n\nLa Liga took action after a Real Madrid basketball player, who shares training facilities with the football club, tested positive for the virus.\n\nReal's match against Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday was postponed on Thursday.\n\n\"The recommendation has been made to quarantine both the basketball first team and the football first team, given that the two squads share facilities in Ciudad Real Madrid,\" a Real statement said.\n\nThe Spanish second division has also been suspended and La Liga said it will \"revaluate\" the situation following the completion of quarantine \"in the affected clubs and other possible situations that may arise\".\n\nReal, who are second in La Liga, were due to host Eibar on Friday and had already cancelled all pre-match media duties.\n\nIn a statement, the Eredivisie said: \"All matches in the Eredivisie and Keuken Kampioen Divisie [second tier] have been suspended for the next two match days because of the coronavirus outbreak.\"\n\nAjax currently lead the top flight on goal difference from AZ Alkmaar.\n\nIt follows the Dutch government's ban on events of more than 100 people.\n\nThe suspension of MLS comes a day after the NBA announced its intention to halt its season.\n\nA statement from MLS commissioner Don Garber read: \"Our clubs were united today in the decision to temporarily suspend our season - based on the advice and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and other public health authorities, and in the best interest of our fans, players, officials and employees.\n\n\"We'd like to thank our fans for their continued support during this challenging time.\"\n\nThe Portuguese football chiefs had announced games would be played behind closed doors before announcing a full suspension, for an indefinite period, just a few hours later.\n\nThe decision was made following a meeting with that included members of the league, national federation and players' union.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak, now declared a pandemic, has led to widespread disruption of sporting fixtures around the world.\n\nIn Italy, all sport is suspended, including Serie A until 3 April, with the country in lockdown.\n\nJuventus and Italy centre-back Daniele Rugani says he is \"fine\" after testing positive for the virus, and Reuters have reported that the entire Juve squad will spend two weeks in quarantine.\n\nTwo Europa League last-16 first-leg fixtures scheduled for Thursday have been postponed and a number will be played behind closed doors, including Manchester United's trip to LASK.\n• None Euro 2020 play-offs: Bosnia ask Uefa to postpone game with Northern Ireland", "The metallic blue alder leaf beetle can strip plants of foliage\n\nThe box tree caterpillar has come top of the list of gardeners' concerns for the third year in a row.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it was the number one pest inquiry last year, as it continues to spread across the UK.\n\nThe alder leaf beetle, which feeds on the leaves of trees, entered the top 10 for only the second time.\n\nThe beetle has recently become re-established in some parts of England.\n\nHoney fungus was the top concern in terms of diseases, while other types of fungi took advantage of the warm wet weather to attack fruit trees.\n\nThe RHS has analysed thousands of gardener enquiries for its latest tally of top 10 diseases and pests. The charity is conducting research into controls for the box tree caterpillar, focusing on the use of nematodes.\n\nMeanwhile, a research project is under way to identify different slug species and what tempts them into gardens.\n\nMatthew Cromey, principal scientist at the RHS, said the research will help increase biosecurity and provide best practice.\n\n\"Pests and diseases are among the main challenges we face as climate change affects our gardens and horticulture more widely,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to develop a nation of gardeners equipped and motivated to deal with the challenges of our changing world.\"\n\nThe RHS's top 10 pests for 2019 in terms of calls for advice were:\n\nHoney fungus is the name given to several species of fungus that attack the roots of plants\n\nThe top 10 diseases for 2019 were:", "Andy Anokye, who performed as Solo 45, was part of grime collective Boy Better Know\n\nA grime artist has been found guilty of raping four women and holding them against their will.\n\nDuring a trial at Bristol Crown Court, Andy Anokye, 32, who performed as Solo 45, admitted he would \"terrorise\" women during \"rough sex\".\n\nHe denied the allegations, but was found guilty of 30 charges.\n\nJudge William Hart adjourned sentencing for a date to be fixed and ordered a psychiatric report to be carried out on the defendant.\n\nAnokye was unanimously convicted of 21 rapes, five counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by penetration and two of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nThe offences were committed between February 2015 and March 2017.\n\nThe investigation against Anokye began after one of the victims told friends and police what had happened.\n\nOfficers then seized his mobile phones and laptop, and this led police to three other women.\n\nHe met the women at his gigs and developed relationships with them before assaulting them, his trial heard.\n\nJill MacNamara, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: \"We were able to prove that Anokye was a violent, controlling narcissist and bully who took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering upon his victims.\n\n\"He filmed many of his attacks on his mobile phone, and this footage, along with the brave testimony of his victims, created a compelling case against him.\n\n\"He claimed sexual activity with these women was consensual role-play and pointed to the fact that some of the women stayed in a relationship with him after the assaults.\n\n\"However, the CPS was able to prove none of these women had consented to the sexual activity or the violence and threats made against them.\n\n\"The fear he elicited must have made it obvious they did not consent.\"\n\nAnokye, who is from London but had a flat in Bristol, was part of grime collective Boy Better Know.\n\nHe appeared as part of that collective on the main stage at the Reading and Leeds Festival in 2016.\n\nHis best known track as Solo 45 was Feed Em To The Lions, which was covered by Craig David - as a mash-up with Destiny Child's Say My Name - for an appearance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2016.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the world's biggest music festivals has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nCoachella was set to take place next month in the California desert with Rage Against The Machine and Frank Ocean among the headliners.\n\nThe event's organiser Goldenvoice has now postponed it until October, at the request of local health authorities.\n\nThey hope to feature most of the same acts that were originally slated for April, reported the LA Times.\n\nLatest figures show the US has more than 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease and 28 deaths.\n\nThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is one of the world's most high-profile music events with many celebrity attendees.\n\nThis year hundreds of acts were set to perform including Travis Scott, Calvin Harris and Lana Del Rey.\n\nStagecoach, a country music festival organised by the same company, has also been moved from April to October.\n\n\"While this decision comes at a time of universal uncertainty, we take the safety and health of our guests, staff and community very seriously,\" Goldenvoice said in a statement.\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\nCoachella will now take place on the weekends of 9, 10 and 11 October and 16, 17 and 18 October, while Stagecoach will be held on 23, 24 and 25 October.\n\nThe event organiser said all purchased tickets will be honoured and anyone who bought a ticket will be notified about how to obtain a refund by 13 March.\n\nCoachella attracted some 250,000 attendees last year, while more than 70,000 people went to Stagecoach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steps the NHS says you should take to protect yourself from Covid-19\n\nIt's the latest in a slew of cancellations of large gatherings, as the entertainment industry grapples with the outbreak of the virus around the world.\n\nThe arts festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, was called off for the first time in its 34-year history after the move was ordered by the city's mayor.\n\nPop stars Miley Cyrus and Madonna, as well as rock band Pearl Jam, have called off concerts.\n\nAll 70,000 cinemas have been closed in China since January, and all cinemas in Italy were ordered to shut their doors over the weekend.\n\nCinemas in some parts of France have also been closed in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus.\n\nIn light of that, several big-budget films have seen their release dates postponed.\n\nThe latest James Bond movie, No Time To Die, which had been set to open in cinemas at the beginning of April, has been pushed back until November.\n\nOn Tuesday Sony Pictures said it was delaying the release of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway until August.", "Migrants live in squalor in Moria camp on Lesbos\n\nThe EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries.\n\nEU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government.\n\nShe said it was temporary - open for one month only - and only for migrants who arrived before 1 January.\n\nShe said 5,000 migrants would be eligible for the \"voluntary return\".\n\nThis month, hundreds of migrants and refugees have reached Greek islands near Turkey by boat, increasing the pressure on struggling reception centres. The camps on those islands already have nearly 42,000 asylum seekers, though they were designed for about 6,000.\n\nAid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which is working on the islands, says more than 14,000 of the migrants are children.\n\n\"Men, women and children are living in horrific conditions in these overcrowded centres, in constant fear and with very basic access to services like toilets, showers, electricity,\" Stephan Oberreit, MSF head of mission in Greece, told the BBC.\n\n\"Our teams in the clinic opposite Moria camp receive around 70 children per day, including children suffering from chronic illnesses, for which we are not able to provide proper care.\"\n\nMs Johansson said seven EU member states had agreed to take in at least 1,600 unaccompanied children from the camps, seen as especially vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children told the BBC they don't have enough food and are sleeping in the open\n\nMany of the migrants are Syrians fleeing the civil war, but there are also Afghans, Pakistanis and West Africans. It is not clear how many would qualify for refugee status.\n\nAid agencies consider Syria too dangerous for migrants to be sent back there, but some other countries of origin, such as Pakistan, are considered safe enough.\n\nGreece has temporarily suspended its processing of new asylum applications - a move condemned by aid groups.\n\nOxfam's spokesman on EU migration, Florian Oel, said \"all EU governments have avoided taking responsibility, not just Greece\" over the migrant crisis.\n\nHe said the situation had remained very bad since 2016, when Turkey signed a deal with the EU to halt a much larger flow of migrants into Europe.\n\nThe latest surge in numbers at the Greek border came after Turkey announced that it would no longer stop them trying to enter Greece. Turkey, which is hosting 3.7 million Syrian refugees already, accuses the EU of not doing enough to help.\n\n\"People in need of safety have been turned into political bargaining chips,\" Mr Oel told the BBC.\n\n\"The EU partners have to share responsibility for those arriving; it means states should relocate refugees to their own countries and do the asylum procedure there. They must agree on permanent rules.\"\n\nHowever, he welcomed the EU announcement on relocating unaccompanied children as \"a good first step\".\n\nMs Johansson said repatriation of migrants from the islands would be coordinated with the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the EU border force Frontex.\n\nThe situation is also acute on the Greece-Turkey land border, where Greek police have used tear gas and water cannon to keep migrants out.", "Jenny Tompkins posted a picture of her son arriving home earlier after he was caught selling squirts of hand sanitiser\n\nA teenager was sent home from school after being caught selling shots of hand sanitiser to his fellow pupils at 50p a go, his family claimed.\n\nHis mother, Jenny Tompkins, from Leeds, posted a picture of him arriving home earlier after his entrepreneurial exploits at Dixons Unity Academy.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, she said it was hard to discipline her son when his \"dad called to say he was a legend\".\n\nThe school denied it had excluded any pupils for selling hand sanitiser.\n\nSome respondents to the post, which was shared nearly 130,000 times, praised his efforts.\n\nOne said \"can't fault his logic\".\n\nOthers reminisced about selling cigarettes for £1 a go.\n\nSomeone else said: \"Bet he gets an A in economics.\"\n\nHis mother, however, said she tried to be serious when the school called, and later when her son arrived home \"with a big grin on his face\".\n\nShe said this was made more difficult after she called his father at work, who responded by calling him \"a [expletive] legend\".\n\nHer son plans to use the £9 he made to buy a kebab and a multipack of Doritos, she added.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"No pupil has ever been excluded for selling hand sanitiser\".\n\n\"The student in question was excluded for a separate and unrelated incident in line with academy behaviour policy.\"\n\nEarlier it was announced the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 460, after the biggest rise in a single day.\n\nSix patients with coronavirus have died in hospitals in the UK - the latest was a man in his early 80s in Watford who had underlying health conditions.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A woman who smashed a wine glass into a Miss England finalist's face during a row at a bar has been convicted of unlawful wounding.\n\nChina Gold, 27, caused \"horrific\" injuries and left professional golfer Olivia Cooke, 21, with glass embedded in her forehead and needing stitches.\n\nMaidstone Crown Court heard the women were at the Farm House pub in West Malling, Kent, on 19 October 2018.\n\nGold, of London Road, Ditton, is due to be sentenced on 27 April.\n\nJudge Philip Statman told Gold it was \"a very serious matter\" with a starting point of three years in prison.\n\nHe agreed to a request for a pre-sentence report for Gold from her defence barrister.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were told the last orders bell had sounded when the row started.\n\nMs Cooke told the court Gold made a \"crude comment\" and started \"coming at me verbally, just calling me a slag and a slut and all this, and I am definitely not\".\n\nShe said Gold followed her outside the pub, grabbed her by the throat, and hit her twice in the ensuing struggle, \"one to break the glass and the second one to cause injury\".\n\nOlivia Cooke was attacked by China Gold in a West Malling pub\n\nProsecutor Emin Kandola said it was not in dispute Gold caused the injuries, but said the defendant claimed to have been acting in self-defence.\n\nDefence barrister Robin Griffiths suggested to Ms Cooke during cross-examination that she was the one who had confronted Gold.\n\n\"You weren't prepared to let it go, you went after her,\" he said.\n\nMr Griffiths suggested Gold had thrown the glass at Ms Cooke, and did not strike her twice with it.\n\nMs Cooke told jurors she had no glass in her hand at that point. She also said Gold did not throw the glass.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Howard Lewis spoke to BBC Breakfast from his home in Aberdare\n\nA man who was forced to spend six days in a windowless cabin with his wife on a coronavirus-hit cruise liner says he is relieved to be home.\n\nHoward and Anne Lewis from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff, were among 135 UK passengers returned home from the Grand Princess in California.\n\nThey had been stuck on board after 19 crew members and two passengers on the liner tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe said it was \"fantastic\" to be home.\n\nMr Lewis, 65, said watching films, messages from home and a WhatsApp group called 'lost at sea' which the couple were in with six other passengers had got them through the ordeal.\n\n\"We were in isolation from Thursday until Tuesday at four-o'clock - in that time I got out of the cabin for one hour for a bit of daylight,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHoward and Anne Lewis, both 65, were on the cruise to celebrate his 65th birthday\n\n\"Food was running out towards the end, that was obvious.\"\n\nHe said after leaving the liner on Tuesday they had a three-hour wait on a bus before being taken to the airport and flown home.\n\n\"The plane was interesting to say the least,\" he said.\n\nHoward Lewis described the plane as \"interesting to say the least\"\n\n\"It was a cargo plane… in the corner there was a massive biohazard thing for taking Ebola patients.\n\n\"[It was] a little bit unnerving getting on a plane that had nothing in it at all....\n\n\"We landed in Birmingham airport. That was a bit unnerving, there were no windows at all on the plane, there were five staff on board all dressed in biohazard suits I'm assuming, you know those white suits.\"\n\nHe said after a \"bit of confusion\" at the airport they were given a chauffeur driven car home.\n\n\"When we got into the car there was food for us and a pack of essentials like milk and that for when you got home so can't really fault that you know,\" he said.\n\nHe said the cruise liner staff had been fantastic, adding: \"The worked hard and they were under more risk than us because 19 of them had actually got it yet they still kept working.\"\n\nThe couple, who are self isolating at home, are yet to be tested for the virus and are expecting someone to visit and test them at home.\n\nMeanwhile, Ian Bartle, of Abersoch, in Gwynedd, who runs a pub and exports beer to Italy, is stuck in Tuscany after the lockdown there made getting a flight home an \"impossible task\".\n\nIan Bartle had hoped to fly back to the UK on 18 March but the lockdown in Italy ruined his plans\n\n\"My other route out is by car, which is also difficult, as I don't know what the restrictions are driving through the border between Italy and France,\" he said.\n\n\"My import business here is temporarily shut down. I've left my UK business in the hands of my partners.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the World Health Organization labelled the outbreak of the disease as a pandemic.\n\nThere are now 460 confirmed cases in the UK - 19 of which are in Wales.", "Actors Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel pictured promoting the film in January\n\nThe release of the new Fast and Furious film has been pushed back by almost a year as the impact of the coronavirus outbreak hits Hollywood.\n\nF9 was due out in May, but will now not reach cinemas until April 2021.\n\n\"It's become clear that it won't be possible for all of our fans around the world to see the film this May,\" a statement said on Twitter.\n\nF9 is the ninth main instalment in the franchise, and will star Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron.\n\n\"While we know there is disappointment in having to wait a little while longer, this move is made with the safety of everyone as our foremost consideration. Moving will allow our global family to experience our new chapter together.\"\n\nIt follows delays to other films including James Bond's No Time To Die, A Quiet Place II and Peter Rabbit 2.\n\nThe high-speed Fast and Furious franchise is one of the most popular and lucrative in Hollywood.\n\nIt started in 2001 and the last film, 2017's The Fate of the Furious, took more than $1.2bn (£940m) at box offices worldwide.\n\nA Quiet Place II had been due for release on 20 March.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, thriller sequel A Quiet Place II was also postponed from its 20 March release date.\n\nDirector John Krasinski wrote on Twitter: \"One of the things I'm most proud of is that people have said our movie is one you have to see all together. Well due to the ever-changing circumstances of what's going on in the world around us, now is clearly not the right time to do that.\n\n\"As insanely excited as we are for all of you to see this movie... I'm gonna wait to release the film til we CAN all see it together!\"\n\nThe decisions come amid growing fears about the spread of the virus and increasing restrictions on public gatherings in many countries.\n\nThe unused red carpet was rolled up outside the European premiere of Mulan on Thursday\n\nOther developments on Thursday in the world of film, TV and games:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Andrew was infected with the virus when he was skiing in Italy\n\n\"The worst bit is the uncontrollable coughing,\" says Andrew O'Dwyer, who is recovering after being infected with the new coronavirus following a skiing trip to Italy in late February.\n\n\"I've had worse flu, without a doubt - but I wouldn't want to catch it again,\" he says during his self-isolation at home in south-west London.\n\nDespite having type 1 diabetes, Andrew says having the virus \"isn't anything to worry about for me personally\".\n\nHe adds that the fever he experienced is \"no different to normal flu-type symptoms\".\n\n\"I've not been concerned,\" he says.\n\nThe severity of symptoms can vary widely among people. Those who are older and have pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) are more likely to become severely ill and can need hospital treatment. There have been 10 coronavirus-related deaths so far in the UK.\n\nAndrew was told the virus wasn't circulating in the resort he was staying in, but 21 out of 25 people in his skiing group have since become infected.\n\nOn his return from Italy to the UK, he decided to stay at home and self-isolate as a precaution, despite experiencing no symptoms at that point.\n\nSome people in his group fell ill within two days, so he contacted NHS 111, which he says was \"very good\".\n\n\"I got tested before I was feeling ill because other people had tested positive.\n\n\"I found out three days later I was positive. But it was over a week before I showed symptoms,\" he says.\n\nThey included a \"quite debilitating cough\" and a high temperature that kept rising and falling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The University of Westminster's Dr Adele McCormick demonstrates how to wash your hands\n\nHe says he found that taking paracetamol really helped to reduce his fever.\n\nAt one point he was told to go to hospital in an ambulance for a routine assessment.\n\nHe was checked over but didn't have to get out. Then he was dropped off at home again.\n\nAndrew is now on the road to recovery - but it's been a long haul.\n\nBy the end of his self-isolation he will have spent 21 days at home, without going out.\n\nHe's also been trying to work from home but has found it difficult to concentrate.\n\n\"It's like climbing the walls. It's difficult to do a day's work,\" he says.\n\nOn a positive note, he says his friends have been very good, helping him with shopping. However he's really missed his nine-year-old son, whom he hasn't seen for two weeks.", "Last updated on .From the section Northern Ireland\n\nThe GAA has imposed a blanket ban on all activity at every age level in response to government advice aimed at combating coronavirus.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar said that outdoor gatherings of over 500 people, and indoor gatherings of over 100, should be cancelled until 29 March.\n\nThe GAA's ban includes all training and team gatherings.\n\nThe restrictions will take effect from 18:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\n\"We will continue to liaise with Government officials and review the situation between now and the end of the month, assessing the impact of these measures on our competitions,\" read a GAA statement.\n• None Schools and colleges to close in Republic of Ireland\n• None Bosnia ask for Northern Ireland Euro 2020 play-off to be postponed\n\nAmong the events to be put on hold by the ban are the final two rounds of the inter-county league campaign and the MacRory Cup.\n\nThe Football Association of Ireland confirmed that they will meet with government officials on Thursday afternoon before making an announcement on plans for all footballing activities.\n\nLeague of Ireland side Derry City also responded to the announcement by postponing Friday's game against Sligo Rovers.\n• None League of Ireland off until end of March\n• None St Patrick's Day race meeting at Down Royal to be held behind closed doors\n• None Motorsport Ireland has suspended all events including the West Cork Rally", "A cladding company manager suggested using a cheaper material for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment, a 2013 email seen by the inquiry has shown.\n\nMark Harris, of Harley Facades, told architects his firm's preference, \"from a selfish point of view\", was to use aluminium composite material (ACM).\n\nACM was \"tried and tested\" and the firm had used it many times before, he said.\n\nIt was eventually used on the tower, with the inquiry concluding it fuelled the 2017 fire that killed 72 people.\n\nNow in its second phase, the inquiry is looking into how the building came to be covered in such cladding.\n\nIt is the first detailed evidence the inquiry has heard suggesting reasons why the material was changed during the refurbishment programme between 2012 and 2016, with catastrophic consequences.\n\nThe inquiry's witness on Wednesday, Tomas Rek, a former employee of architects Studio E, was questioned about a meeting he attended on 27 September 2013 at Hay's Galleria in London with representatives from Harley Facades, the cladding subcontractor.\n\nMr Rek worked on the block's revamp between September and December 2013 and helped prepare drawings and the project's National Building Specification, a document used by designers to describe required materials, standards and workmanship.\n\nAt the meeting, the two firms discussed the cladding options and Harley Facades showed him its portfolio, including a project at Ferrier Point in Canning Town, east London, which had used ACM panels.\n\nMr Rek told the inquiry he thought the focus of the meeting was \"more to do with the appearance and price of the various materials and not their fire performance or fire rating\".\n\nAfterwards, lead Studio E architect Bruce Sounes sent an email to Mr Harris of Harley saying his \"back of a fag packet\" figure for the cladding had been deemed over-budget, according to emails.\n\nThe next month, Mr Harris emailed Mr Rek regarding pricing, saying from a \"Harley selfish point of view our preference would be to use ACM\", adding the firm was \"confident of the cost base\".\n\nSeparately, Mr Rek told the inquiry the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the client for the project, was putting his firm \"under some kind of pressure\" to use the cheaper materials.\n\nBy July 2014, the BBC has previously revealed, council officials had decided to change the cladding to the more dangerous material, reducing the budget by less than £300,000.\n\nMr Rek also said he was unaware of several fire safety requirements for buildings and considered it a \"subject outside of my competence\".\n\nHe said he did not know at the time what would constitute a material of limited flammability and was unaware how individual parts of the cladding system should be considered for fire issues.\n\nThe council has admitted a series of failings by its building control department which signed off the work despite the safety risk.\n\nHarley Facades will give evidence later in the process.", "The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Intu, has said there are doubts that it can survive unless it raises extra funds.\n\nIts comments came as the firm - which owns Manchester's Trafford Centre and the Lakeside complex in Essex - reported a £2bn loss in 2019.\n\nThe weakness in the retail sector meant Intu wrote down the value of its shopping centre sites by nearly £2bn.\n\nIntu will try to raise extra cash after an earlier plan to raise £1bn failed.\n\nThe collapse and contraction of High Street retailers has left landlords such as Intu struggling to fill vacant space. At the same time, Intu has run up debts of nearly £5bn.\n\nIn January, the firm approached its shareholders to ask for more money amid the downturn in the retail sector.\n\nBut last week, Intu said it was at risk of breaching debt covenants after it was forced to abandon the fundraising attempt. It said \"extreme market conditions\" deterred investors from giving fresh cash.\n\nTo help it keep going, the firm said it would try to engage with investors, or it might have to sell more of its assets.\n\nThe company has already been selling shopping centres to raise cash.\n\nIntu said it could also try to seek waivers on its debt commitments to lenders and spend less in the short term.\n\nLast year was the \"worst\" for retail sales in 25 years, trade body the British Retail Consortium said in January.\n\nTough trading conditions in 2019 hurt landlords, who struggled to fill vacant stores.\n\nFirms such as Debenhams, Toys R Us, House of Fraser, New Look and HMV all tried to negotiate with landlords to reduce rent.\n\nIntu was hit by some of the most high-profile retail failures, as more firms shut up shop after more online competition and problems paying business rates and increased wages.\n\nThe firm's share price has collapsed since its high of 378p in December 2010.\n\nIts shares stood at 34p when trading began at the start of 2020, and on Wednesday were worth about 4.7p after falling 17% in reaction to its results.", "The England and Wales polling watchdog has recommended delaying May's local elections until the autumn to \"mitigate\" the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said there were \"growing risks to the delivery of the polls\", with the number of infections in the outbreak rising.\n\nMayoral and local elections are due to take place on 7 May in England.\n\nConstitution Minister Chloe Smith said the government was still \"working to facilitate\" them.\n\nShe added: \"We continue to work closely with those delivering the elections, while being guided by the evidence and latest advice from medical experts.\"\n\nVoting is also due to take place on 7 May in England and Wales for police and crime commissioners.\n\nSo far, 10 people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, with 596 cases confirmed.\n\nIn its letter to the government, the Electoral Commission said it had \"become clear that the risks are so significant as to raise serious concerns about the polls continuing to their current timetable\".\n\nIt was \"vital that voters are able to hear the positions of candidates, parties and campaigners before they cast their vote\".\n\nThe letter also said: \"While increased access to post and proxy voting may provide a partial solution for some electors, it would create further and additional pressures and risks in other parts of the system.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has called coronavirus the \"worst health crisis in a generation\".\n\nThe government has also issued new measures, including asking people who experience a new continuous cough or a higher temperature to stay at home for seven days.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"There is no escaping the reality [that these measures] will cause severe disruption across the country for many months. But it will help slow disease and save lives.\"", "The UK government has moved from the \"containment\" to the \"delay\" phase of its response to the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nSeven-day self-isolation periods for those with persistent coughs or fevers were just one measure announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nRead more: People with fever or cough told to self-isolate", "Artwork: The nightside would be hot, but cool enough for iron droplets to rain out\n\nAstronomers have observed a distant planet where it probably rains iron.\n\nIt sounds like a science fiction movie, but this is the nature of some of the extreme worlds we're now discovering.\n\nWasp-76b, as it's known, orbits so close in to its host star, its dayside temperatures exceed 2,400C - hot enough to vaporise metals.\n\nThe planet's nightside, on the other hand, is 1,000 degrees cooler, allowing those metals to condense and rain out.\n\nIt's a bizarre environment, according to Dr David Ehrenreich from the University of Geneva.\n\n\"Imagine instead of a drizzle of water droplets, you have iron droplets splashing down,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe Swiss researcher and colleagues have just published their findings on this strange place in the journal Nature.\n\nThe team describes how it used the new Espresso instrument at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to study the chemistry of Wasp-76b in fine detail.\n\nEspresso is a new spectrometer attached to Europe's Very Large Telescope facility\n\nThe planet, which is 640 light-years from us, is so close to its star it takes just 43 hours to complete one revolution.\n\nAnother of the planet's interesting features is that it always presents the same face to the star - a behaviour scientists call being \"tidally locked\". Earth's Moon does exactly the same thing; we only ever see one side.\n\nThis means, of course, the permanent dayside of Wasp-76b is being roasted.\n\nIn fact, this hemisphere must be so hot that all clouds are dispersed, and all molecules in the atmosphere are broken apart into individual atoms.\n\nWhat's more, the extreme temperature difference this produces between the lit and unlit portions of the planet will be driving ferocious winds, up to 18,000km/h says Dr Ehrenreich's team.\n\nUsing the Espresso spectrometer, the scientists detected a strong iron vapour signature at the evening frontier, or terminator, where the day on Wasp-76b transitions to night. But when the group observed the morning transition, the iron signal was gone.\n\n\"What we surmise is that the iron is condensing on the nightside, which, although still hot at 1,400C, is cold enough that iron can condense as clouds, as rain, possibly as droplets. These could then fall into the deeper layers of the atmosphere which we can't access with our instrument,\" Dr Ehrenreich explained.\n\nGraphic novelist Frederik Peeters is known for his science fiction works\n\nWasp-76b is a monster gas planet that's twice the width of our Jupiter. Its unusual name comes from the UK-led Wasp telescope system that detected the world four years ago.\n\nOne of the scientists on the discovery team, Prof Don Pollacco from Warwick University, said it was hard to envisage such exotic worlds.\n\n\"This thing orbits so close to its star, it's essentially dancing in the outer atmosphere of that star and being subjected to all kinds of physics that, to put it bluntly, we don't really understand,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It will either end up in the star or the radiation field from the star will blow away the planet's atmosphere to leave just a hot, rocky core.\"\n\nDr Ehrenreich is a fan of graphic novels and asked the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters to produce an interpretation of Wasp-76b.\n\n\"Often with these discoveries, we see detailed 3D compositions where it's difficult for people to tell whether it's a real picture or just a computer-generated image. By putting some fun into it, we're not fooling anyone,\" he said.\n\nArtwork: Wasp-76b is a \"hot Jupiter\". It's a gas giant like our Jupiter but orbits very close to its star\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The British soldier killed in an attack on a military base in Iraq has been named as L/Cpl Brodie Gillon.\n\nL/Cpl Gillon, 26, was described as a \"larger than life soldier\" who was \"destined for great things\".\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned the attack - that also killed two Americans - as \"cowardly\".\n\nHe said those responsible would be held to account and that it was \"essential to defend against these deplorable acts\".\n\nAt least 12 people were injured in the attack on the Taji military camp, north of Baghdad, on Thursday.\n\nIt came amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.\n\nThe Iraqi military has opened an investigation into the attack.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said L/Cpl Gillon - a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps and a reserve with the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry - was a \"fit, energetic and compassionate individual\".\n\nShe also had a career as a self-employed sports physiotherapist. It was understood she was from South Ayrshire.\n\nHer commanding officer, Lt Col William Leek, described her as a \"hugely popular character\".\n\n\"She was a larger than life soldier who was determined to deploy on operations, help others, develop herself and gain practical experience.\n\n\"She had already achieved a great deal in her relatively short time with us and it was abundantly clear that she was destined for great things in her civilian and military careers. Her loss is keenly felt.\"\n\nHer squadron leader, Maj Craig Powers, added she was an \"outstanding medic and loyal friend who would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nTaji air base is used as a training site for coalition forces.\n\nThe attack coincided with what would have been the birthday of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in January.\n\nUS military sources said an American soldier and an American contractor were also killed. No names have been released yet.\n\nMr Raab offered his \"heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed in this cowardly attack\".\n\nHe added that he had discussed the attack - and how to respond - with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Raab said: \"We agreed that it is essential to defend against these deplorable acts. We must find those responsible.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We will continue to liaise with our international partners to fully understand the details of this abhorrent attack.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, defence minister Johnny Mercer said the UK's commitment to peace in Iraq remained despite the \"absolute tragedy\".\n\n\"I think that we should continue to do everything possible to keep this country safe,\" he said.\n\n\"Where that requires us to partner with coalition forces in a fight against a deadly enemy like Daesh [the so-called Islamic State], I think we should continue to contribute to that mission.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the US base attacked by Iranian missiles\n\nUS military spokesman Colonel Myles Caggins said 12 people from the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve were injured when more than 15 small rockets hit the base on Wednesday at 19:35 local time (16:35 GMT).\n\nMr Pompeo said the attack would \"not be tolerated\" and that the UK and US have agreed that \"those responsible must be held accountable\".\n\nAbout 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.\n\nThe Army said British troops were in the country to provide training and equipment to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces - rather than in a combat role - and have trained more than 25,000 Iraqi forces.", "Alison Cameron was diagnosed with Covid-19 on 5 March\n\nA woman self-isolating with coronavirus says she feels like \"death on legs\", while another family describes the stress of being stuck inside waiting for test results.\n\nAlison Cameron, 53, believes she contracted the virus after a chance meeting with someone who was later diagnosed with it.\n\n\"I had a respiratory tract infection that got a great deal worse. I was finding it hard to breathe,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel really unwell. I am currently in isolation. It is not pleasant. At the heart of it I feel like death on legs.\"\n\nMs Cameron, from London, contacted NHS 111 and was tested on 5 March. She received a positive result four days later.\n\n\"It's a horrible feeling not being able to go out and it is quite frightening,\" she said.\n\nMs Cameron, who once worked in international relations, is currently on benefits due to poor health and said she was finding it costly to order in food.\n\n\"I worry about what people would do if they have to use food banks,\" she said.\n\nMs Cameron said she had read five novels in five days and friends had been phoning to help keep her spirits up.\n\nBut she said it could still be a lonely and \"really, really scary\" experience.\n\nThe Meyer family are self-isolating and awaiting coronavirus test results\n\nPhillip Meyer said an ambulance arrived at his Kent home nine days after he called NHS 111 when he and his son developed coughs following a trip to Italy.\n\n\"A woman came in dressed in what looked like a hospital gown covered with green plastic, gloves, a face mask and a visor over her head,\" he said.\n\n\"She took mouth and nose swabs and said we have to wait 72 hours for the results.\n\n\"If we have had coronavirus then the symptoms have been very mild.\"\n\nThe Meyer family returned from skiing in Italy on 24 February\n\nMr Meyer said his wife was verbally abused by a patient in a doctors waiting room.\n\n\"When my son and I were asked to self-isolate, NHS 111 were quite explicit that my wife could continue with a pre-arranged doctors appointment,\" he said.\n\n\"As a point of courtesy she let the receptionist know that my son and I were self-isolating. The receptionist leapt back from the glass window and said she shouldn't be there.\n\n\"The practice manager came out and told her it was fine but another patient was swearing at her saying if she effing killed her child she would effing kill her.\n\n\"So we took a decision quite early on to self-isolate the whole family.\"\n\nMr Meyer said he had found some elements of staying at home difficult.\n\n\"The children think it's great but it's hard to get them to understand that they can't play Xbox all day. We are trying to get them to work so that's quite stressful.\n\n\"I'm a very active person. I do a lot of cycling and about 15,000 steps a day so it's frustrating just being around the house all day.\n\n\"I've got an indoor bike and it's one of the only things keeping me sane,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. York student self-isolating in parents' caravan after returning from northern Italy\n\nLeah Scott is self-isolating in a caravan on her parents driveway after returning from Bergamo, a high risk area of Italy for coronavirus.\n\nShe had been teaching English in a school as part of her languages degree at the University of York.\n\n\"I booked my flight home and one hour later Ryanair announced it was the last one so I was so relieved that I managed to get back,\" said the 20-year-old from Leeds.\n\n\"I rang my parents and we made a plan for them to get the caravan ready for me because our house is small and we share bathrooms.\n\n\"It's hooked up to electricity and water, I've got a fridge freezer and cupboards which my parents stocked up before I arrived. My mum made me a beef stew and left it outside.\n\n\"I like my own company so I don't think it's going to bother me too much.\n\n\"I've got lots of uni work to do and I've got books, wi-fi and my art stuff. I am trying to look at it as an artistic retreat.\"\n\nPaul Fennemore said he was trying to stay busy to avoid cabin fever\n\nPaul Fennemore, a university lecturer from Oxfordshire, said he and his wife had decided to self-isolate after returning from a ski trip in Italy.\n\nSo far neither of them had any symptoms and were coping well with staying in the house.\n\n\"What we are not coping very well with is the conflicting advice,\" he said.\n\n\"The NHS said we didn't have to self-isolate, then the Foreign Office site said we do, so we just decided to apply common sense.\"\n\nMr Fennemore said he and his wife could work from home and had ordered their grocery shopping to be delivered.\n\n\"I cleared out a big cupboard yesterday and I might do some decorating, but I imagine after another 10 days we might start getting cabin fever.\"\n\nPaul Fennemore and his wife Aly had been skiing in Italy\n\nYork Central MP Rachael Maskell said she had been told to self-isolate until 19 March as a result of a meeting she had with health minister Nadine Dorries who has been diagnosed with coronavirus.\n\n\"I'm great in myself,\" she told BBC Look North. \"This is the frustration, it all feels a little surreal when you are asymptomatic, you're not showing signs of a cough or an aching chest or a temperature, you're feeling fine.\"\n\nMs Maskell said she had \"shifted her work online\".\n\n\"Yes it's an inconvenience, but nothing compared to the spread of coronavirus.\"", "Holly Eason and her fiancé have been planning their April wedding in their hometown of Tokyo for ages but now, thanks to coronavirus, they've had to cancel everything.\n\nMs Eason, a teacher, couldn't risk her guests being exposed to infection.\n\nShe said: \"I couldn't forgive myself if our celebration became the cause of a serious health condition. I'm also worried that my dad and my brother wouldn't be allowed to enter Japan. We just don't know what the situation will be at the time and I wouldn't want to go ahead without them being here.\"\n\nShe feels frustrated - but says safety is the priority.\n\nThe coronavirus only emerged in December but is now a pandemic, with countries implementing lockdowns and travel restrictions.\n\nOn the day the couple finally decided to cancel, their wedding invitations turned up at the home of Ms Eason's father, Mike, at his home in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, in the UK.\n\nHe said: \"It hit home the effort she had put into organise the day but as I am over 60, she was very worried about putting me and the others at risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"My daughter has arranged the wedding day herself as I cannot offer much help from the UK.\"\n\nHe said the family was now facing difficulty trying to get refunds.\n\n\"We cannot get our money back for the flights and hotel, so stand to write off approximately £5,000. I have tried to claim back through my credit card but despite being on hold for nearly 90 minutes (as everyone else is trying to get through too) they say there is nothing they can do.\"\n\nThe family hopes to reschedule the wedding at a later date, ideally during blossom season again.\n\nSaavan Nathwani and Risha Modi were looking forward to getting married in Tuscany\n\nFor Saavan Nathwani and Risha Modi, their dream wedding in Italy was supposed to be the happiest moment of their lives.\n\nBut Ms Modi, who is from Harrow, London, said: \"In a matter of one week, our world was turned upside down, when the outbreak in Italy was announced.\n\n\"We were due to marry in Tuscany in about a month's time but now we're in a bit of a limbo and have no idea whether it's going to go ahead or if we should postpone or cancel.\n\n\"We had been planning for this wedding for nearly six months. We both work full-time and even though it has been a stressful and bumpy road, the only thing that kept us going was knowing we would marry one another.\"\n\nShe said they had more than 150 guests coming from all over the world including babies, grandparents and elderly relatives but many were now too scared to travel.\n\nWith the response to the virus in the UK also changing rapidly, they also were concerned that it might be better to postpone if Britain eventually enters lockdown.\n\nLauren Maitland and her fiance, Charlotte Armitage, have their fingers crossed their marriage will go ahead at The Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire in May.\n\nBut Ms Maitland said: \"My mum has recently had a surgical procedure carried out on her heart and is recovering, while my granddad is 90 years old. Charlotte worries about her own parents daily too.\n\n\"Beyond that, we're nervous of large public gatherings being cancelled which would mean our ceremony couldn't go ahead, or indeed so many people having to self-quarantine meaning that the reception at Whitby Pavilion can't go ahead.\n\n\"We also have friends and family travelling from Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany and the USA. We're very nervous they won't be able to travel.\"\n\nThey have taken out wedding insurance and have travel insurance already in place for their 10-day honeymoon in Orlando, Florida and a week on a Royal Caribbean cruise but Ms Maitland adds: \"With the current travel bans, park closures and cruise cancellations, we're certainly starting to feel anxious about what is going to happen with our best-laid plans.\"\n\nThe couple, who live in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, say they are opting for a wait-and-see approach.\n\n\"More importantly, we remember to keep things in context. As important as our wedding is to us, and as excited as we are about our honeymoon, nothing is more important to us than the friends and family who we've invited to join us on that special day.\n\n\"As long as they all remain well and virus-free, then postponing or cancelling our plans doesn't really matter in the end. We just want everyone to be OK.\"\n\nElisha Deol and Ronak Shah still want to try to go ahead with their wedding\n\nMeanwhile, also in London, Elisha Deol and her fiance Ronak Shah are trying to figure out contingency plans to make sure their wedding goes ahead in a few weeks.\n\nThe couple, who have been engaged for just over a year, were due to have a Hindu wedding with 500 guests at the Oshwal Centre in Potters Bar next month, with a civil wedding and reception to follow at The Savoy hotel the next day. The whole event was set to cost around £100,000.\n\nMs Deol said: \"There are a lot of things that concern us about the wedding going ahead. These include venues and suppliers cancelling on us at the last minute; the health and wellbeing of ourselves and our elderly and at-risk guests and the fact we have friends and family who were due to come from overseas.\"\n\nShe said guests from Canada, Kenya and the US had mostly all cancelled already.\n\nMs Deol adds: \"We are currently in the process of writing to all suppliers asking them what their contingency plans are.\n\n\"It is so hard to know if we will get refunds, or even try to make any real plans as the picture is constantly changing.\"", "Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen is one of the schools affected by the coronavirus outbreak\n\nA number of schools across Scotland have been closed due to coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nHazlehead Academy in Aberdeen, Dunblane High School and Perth High School closed for deep cleans after being linked to people with virus.\n\nA handful of schools in the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Angus, East Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire were also shut.\n\nIn Shetland all schools except Fair Isle, Fetlar and Foula primary schools will be closed for a week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the current advice was not to close schools \"on a blanket basis\".\n\nIt comes after a number of universities told students not to go to their campuses.\n\nThe latest figures show there are 171 confirmed cases of the virus in Scotland, with one death.\n\nPeople with a high temperature or a new, persistent cough are being asked to isolate themselves for seven days.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said closing schools will not necessarily be a \"binary choice\".\n\nShe said schools and local authorities may find themselves in a different position in different parts of the country.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would hope to give people notice of any \"blanket school closures\", but added that this was a \"rapidly changing situation\".\n\nTiree High School and Dervaig Primary on Mull are closed for cleaning until Wednesday following a suspected case of Covid-19 in each of the schools.\n\nHazlehead Academy in Aberdeen closed for a day after one pupil was confirmed with the virus. A second case is suspected. The council said the school would reopen on Tuesday.\n\nParents have been told that \"precautionary cleaning\" will take place during the shutdown.\n\nGlashieburn Primary School in nearby Bridge of Don was also shut after a pupil tested positive for the virus. It will also reopen on Tuesday.\n\nA pupil at Dunblane High School has also tested positive, Stirling Council said.\n\nStaff and pupils were advised to remain at home while a deep clean took place. The school will reopen on Tuesday.\n\nPerth High School has been closed as a precaution\n\nPerth and Kinross Council said an individual linked to Perth High School had symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nA statement on the school's Twitter account said: \"They have not been tested but as a precaution we will be conducting a deep clean of the school.\n\n\"This will take three days and the school will reopened to pupils on Thursday.\"\n\nDunblane High School was being deep-cleaned on Sunday night\n\nIn Tain in the Highlands Knockbreck and Craighill primary schools have been closed after a pupil and a member of staff fell ill over the weekend.\n\nHighland Council said there was no evidence that it was related to coronavirus and the decision was taken as a precautionary measure.\n\nParents of pupils at Isobel Mair School and Nursery in Newton Mearns have been told it will reopen as soon as possible after a case of the virus was linked to the school.\n\nAngus Council said Murroes Primary would be closed on Monday and Tuesday \"in order to undertake a deep clean after a suspected positive case of coronavirus (Covid-19) related to the school\".\n\nWillowbank School in Kilmarnock - a specialist school for children with complex needs - is closed for 48 hours, according to East Ayrshire Council.\n\nThey said it was a precautionary measure to safeguard the wellbeing of staff and pupils.\n\nMeanwhile in Shetland, where there have been 11 confirmed cases in a population of of about 23,000, most schools will be closed for the week.\n\nShetland Islands Council's children's services director, Helen Budge, said the decision was taken for resilience, rather than public health reasons.\n\n\"We are already seeing significant levels of pupil and staff absence,\" she said.\n\n\"We realise that this will have an impact on working parents and carers but hope that they will understand and support this decision.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to speak to engineering firms on Monday about whether they can shift production lines to building NHS ventilators.\n\nIt comes amid growing concern about a shortage of the life-saving equipment as coronavirus infections increase.\n\nCarmakers and the construction equipment firm JCB are among manufacturers to be contacted.\n\nDowning Street said it wanted the manufacturing sector \"to come together to help the country\".\n\n\"Preparing for the spread of the coronavirus outbreak is a national priority and we're calling on the manufacturing industry and all those with relevant expertise who might be able to help to come together to help the country tackle this national crisis,\" Downing Street said.\n\n\"We need to step up production of vital equipment such as ventilators so that we can all help the most vulnerable, and we need businesses to come to us and help in this national effort.\"\n\nHowever, BBC business editor Simon Jack said that manufacturers were far from ready to switch production.\n\nOne company told him that comparisons with the accelerated production of Spitfire aircraft during World War Two were misplaced as there was no accepted design nor guarantee components could be sourced quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"Getting through this is going to be a national effort\"\n\nIt is understood one subject on the agenda during the prime minister's talks with industry on Monday is whether specialist firms that make ventilators and other critical equipment might be prepared to share their intellectual property.\n\nEngineers have already been asked to draw up plans to quickly produce more ventilators. And on Sunday evening, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat tweeted: \"The Prime Minister is calling for a National Effort for Ventilator production. We have been inundated with offers.\n\n\"If you produce ventilators please call the BEIS Business Support helpline on 0300 456 3565. A specific team receiving these calls will start at 10am tomorrow.\"\n\nOn Sunday's BBC Andrew Marr show, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said engineering firms should consider switching some manufacturing to help ramp production of the vital equipment. He accepted it was the kind of policy normally reserved for times of war.\n\n\"We've got high quality engineering in this country,\" Mr Hancock said. \"We want anybody who has the manufacturing capability to turn to the manufacture of ventilators, to do that.\"\n\nVentilators are vital in the treatment of patients whose lungs have been attacked by the infection. The health secretary told Sky News that the country currently has 5,000 ventilators but said it would need \"many times more than that\".\n\nBut questions remain over how engineering firms with no experience of producing ventilators will be able start manufacturing the complex medical devices.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the chairman JCB, Lord Bamford, said: \"We have been approached by the prime minister to see if we can help with the production of ventilators.\n\n\"We have research and engineering teams actively looking at the request at the moment,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he continued: \"It's unclear as yet if we can assist, but as a British company, we will do whatever we can to help during the unprecedented times our country is facing.\"\n\nManufacturing firm, Unipart, confirmed that it was involved in the discussions and aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said it was \"keen to do whatever we can\".\n\nIt is not just manufacturing firms that have offered their services. Hotel chain Best Western has said it could turn its properties into temporary hospitals if the NHS needed additional bed space during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe company said it had seen a surge in cancellations over the last month due to the outbreak.\n\n\"If the NHS wants additional bed space, and we can partner with other companies to provide the right medical equipment and supplies, and we can do it safely, then we would be willing to start having those conversations immediately,\" the hotel chain's boss, Rob Paterson, said.\n\nManufacturers asked by the government to produce thousands of ventilators to help save the lives of seriously affected victims of coronavirus are not ready to fill the demand.\n\nAlthough firms including JCB, Unipart, Rolls-Royce and others are in close conversation with the government, no detailed blueprint for increased manufacture of the life-saving equipment currently exists.\n\nOne manufacturer told the BBC that comparisons with the accelerated manufacture of Spitfire aircraft during World War Two were misplaced, as there was no accepted design. Even if there was, there is no guarantee the components could be sourced in time to even start production in the next two months.\n\nVentilators are vital as medical experts estimate that between 10% and 20% of those who succumb to the virus will need critical care. Many of those will need help breathing.\n\nAlthough firms stand ready and able to produce more ventilators, a lack of clarity on design specifications and component sourcing mean that production remains many weeks away.", "The Falkland Islands may at some point in the future face a major tsunami.\n\nScientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the British Overseas Territory.\n\nComputer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that were tens of metres high.\n\nFortunately, such events only appear to happen once every million years or so.\n\nThat means islanders shouldn't stay awake at night worrying about them, says Dr Uisdean Nicholson who's been investigating the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uisdean Nicholson: \"The tsunami would take about an hour to reach the Falklands\"\n\n\"But you do want to capture risks at a range of different timescales. So I definitely think we should do more research to understand the different ways these events might be triggered,\" the Heriot-Watt University geologist told BBC News.\n\nThe submarine landslides all occurred in the same location - on steeply inclined terrain on the edge of a raised region of the seafloor known as Burdwood Bank.\n\nSeismic data reveals examples of repeat sediment failure where mud, sand and silt has tumbled down-slope into deeper waters.\n\nThe volume of material involved for the larger events appears to be around 100 cubic km.\n\n\"That's approximately the same as if you were to cover the whole area of Edinburgh, right out to the bypass, with 400m of sediment. You would cover Arthur's Seat,\" the Scottish scientist explained.\n\nNearby exploratory drilling by oil companies and scientific expeditions has allowed the team, which includes the British Geological Survey (BGS) and University College London, to roughly date the sediments and constrain the frequency of the slope failures.\n\nThree or four of the \"Edinburgh-sized\" slides have occurred in the last three million years.\n\nSense of scale: Arthur's Seat, the extinct volcano in Edinburgh, is 250m high\n\nEveryone knows now that certain types of giant earthquake will trigger ocean tsunami by pushing up or depressing the column of water directly above a rupture in the seafloor.\n\nLess well recognised is that sudden slumping of sediment in underwater landslides will achieve the same effect.\n\nA recent example includes the September 2018 event at the Indonesian island of Sulawesi where a quake set off a number of submarine slope failures that then directed two-metre high waves at the city of Palu.\n\nAnd in 1998, a submarine landslide sent 15m-high waves on to Papua New Guinea that killed 2,200 people.\n\nLandslide-induced waves can be very big indeed, especially close to the source - although their energy tends to fall off quickly with distance.\n\nThe Falklands are about 150km from Burdwood Bank. Even so, the modelling suggests the larger slope failures could produce waves as high as 40m on the territory's southern shoreline, and perhaps as tall as 10m at the capital, Port Stanley.\n\n\"We must stress these are old events that we've looked at; we don't want to put the fear of God into people,\" said BGS Prof Dave Tappin. \"But the more events and case histories we study - even if they are millions of years old or a hundred thousand years old - the better we can understand not only how such tsunami are generated but also their likely future hazard.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scientists have modelled how submarine landslides could produce a tsunami\n\nOne puzzle for the team has been to explain how a particular location on Burdwood Bank turned into such a prolific \"landslide factory\", and the scientists think they do now have a persuasive narrative.\n\nIt involves the Sub-Antarctic Front (SAF), the northern-most branch, or jet, of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC).\n\nThe ACC is the most powerful movement of water on Earth and where the SAF skirts the bank it can be accelerated in places so that it becomes a highly erosive force.\n\nThe front will be picking up sediment at one location and then dumping it at another.\n\nThis accumulation site, dubbed Burdwood Drift, is the high, steep slope evident in the seismic data.\n\nThe emplaced silt and sand is clearly growing again but it's impossible right now for anyone to say if or when another slide might occur.\n\nInternal instabilities could eventually activate the slope, but a more seeming scenario is that shaking from a local quake provokes a collapse of the sediment. After all, the bank is relatively close to tectonic plate boundaries.\n\nFuture research would involve digging on the Falklands to try to find deposits from ancient tsunami.\n\n\"You maybe even want to sample the drift to see what it consists of, what the shear strength of the material is; and then you can put all this information into your models to refine them,\" said Dr Nicholson.\n\nProf Dan Parsons is director of the Energy and Environment Institute at Hull University. His group studies submarine landslides and comments that the consequences of these phenomena are little appreciated.\n\n\"The impacts on both tsunami generation and also the impact on sub-sea infrastructure can be significant,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The vast majority of our internet connectivity is piped through fibre cables laying across the sea-floor - in essence, the cloud is at the bottom of the sea. These cables can be, and are, broken by sub-sea movements, failures and flows - and that can be as impactful in terms of national security as a large tsunami.\"\n\nThe current study is reported in the journal Marine Geology.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Public Health Wales said people with symptoms should stay at home for seven days\n\nPeople who think they may have contracted the coronavirus no longer need to call NHS 111 in Wales.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) is advising those with a fever or a new persistent cough to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nIt said those people should not to attend a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital and only contact NHS 111 if they \"cannot cope\" with the symptoms at home or their condition worsens.\n\nThe new advice came as confirmed cases in Wales rose to 124 on Monday.\n\nHowever, the true number of cases is likely to be higher.\n\n\"People no longer need to contact NHS 111 if they think they may have contracted novel coronavirus (Covid-19),\" said Dr Giri Shankar, incident director for the outbreak response at PHW.\n\n\"Instead, anyone who has a high temperature or a new continuous cough should stay at home for seven days.\n\n\"They should only contact NHS 111 if they feel they cannot cope with their symptoms at home, their condition gets worse, or their symptoms do not get better after seven days.\"\n\nThe public has been urged to play a \"crucial role in containing the spread\" of the virus by health experts.\n\nChris Williams said transmission could be reduced if people self-isolated if they had any symptoms and washed their hands.\n\nThe increasing number of cases has prompted some universities in Wales to announce plans to stop face-to-face teaching.\n\nBangor University has said all lectures have been cancelled with immediate effect, and will move online next week.\n\nCardiff University and Swansea University have said they will be moving to online teaching over the coming week.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity St David said it was also suspending campus classroom lessons on Monday.\n\nYouth organisation the Urdd has announced the cancellation of all local and regional Eisteddfods, as well as the postponement of the National Eisteddfod until next year.\n\nIn addition, the Urdd will close all three of its residential centres at Llangrannog, Cardiff and Glan Llyn from Friday, 20 March.\n\nBut the Welsh Government has said closing schools at this stage \"would do little to protect those most vulnerable such as grandparents who may then become childcare providers\".\n\nIt follows calls from members of the Welsh Youth Parliament to close all educational institutions in Wales.\n\n\"Now is the time to ensure that all schools, colleges and universities are closed, that young people are kept from mass gathering environments such as schools,\" said a letter signed by 20 of the 60 members of the group - all aged between 11 and 18.\n\nAll school inspections in Wales have been suspended to allow staff \"to focus fully on the wellbeing of their learners, their staff and their families,\" Estyn's chief inspector Meilyr Rowlands said.", "A Soldier On Horseback by Anthony Van Dyck was painted around 1616\n\nA work by 17th century master Anthony Van Dyck is among three \"very high value\" paintings stolen from a University of Oxford art gallery.\n\nA Soldier On Horseback by the Flemish artist, a leading court painter in England under King Charles I, dates from around 1616.\n\nTwo other works were stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery, St Aldates, at about 23:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nPolice said a \"thorough investigation\" was under way to recover the paintings.\n\nSalvator Rosa's A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying A Plan was painted in the late 1640s\n\nThe burglars also made off with A Boy Drinking (c. 1580) by Annibale Carracci, and A Rocky Coast, With Soldiers Studying a Plan (late 1640s) by Salvator Rosa.\n\nA Christ Church College spokesman said staff had initially alerted police to the theft of the \"important cultural artefacts\", and the gallery will be closed until further notice.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jon Capps, from Thames Valley Police, said: \"The paintings which have been stolen are very high-value pieces dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\n\n\"The artwork has not yet been recovered but a thorough investigation is under way to find it and bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nHe added there would be an increased police presence in the area, and that any witnesses or anyone with CCTV or other footage from near the area should get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC is to delay TV licence fee changes for the over-75s until August in light of the coronavirus situation.\n\nFree TV licences for up to 3.7 million people had been due to be scrapped on 1 June, but that has been put back to 1 August.\n\nThese are \"exceptional circumstances\" and \"now is not the right time\", BBC chairman Sir David Clementi said.\n\nHe added: \"We are fully focused on delivering our services to the public at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed it will foot the cost of the two-month delay.\n\nLast year, the corporation announced that only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence from June 2020.\n\nOn Monday, amid the growing spread of the coronavirus, the BBC and the government issued a joint statement saying they \"do not want anyone to be worried about any potential change\" at the current time.\n\n\"The BBC's priority over the coming period will be to do everything we can to serve the nation at this uniquely challenging time,\" the statement said.\n\n\"As the national broadcaster, the BBC has a vital role to play in supplying information to the public in the weeks and months ahead.\"\n\n\"Recognising the exceptional circumstances, the BBC board has therefore decided to change the start date of the new policy. Our current plan is to now bring it into place on 1 August. We will of course keep the issue under review as the situation continues to evolve.\"\n\nFree TV licences for the over-75s have been provided by the government since 2000, but responsibility for the provision is being passed to the BBC as part of its last licence fee settlement.\n\nThere was an outcry in 2019 when the broadcaster announced it would end the scheme for all but those receiving the pension credit benefit.\n\nMore than 630,000 people signed a petition set up by the charity Age UK, which called on the prime minister to take action.\n\nOn Monday, Age UK welcomed the delay as \"a victory for common sense\", but questioned whether an eight-week delay \"will be anything like long enough\".\n\nCharity director Caroline Abrahams said: \"Unfortunately many over-75s will have already received a letter suggesting they get their pension credit letters photocopied at the local library or corner shop.\n\n\"This runs counter to the public health message the government seems likely to be giving older people very soon about staying at home to reduce their risk of infection, so it's important older people are informed that there's no need for them to take this action for now.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"I am pleased the BBC has worked with us and agreed to delay their licence fee changes for over-75s from coming in and will keep this under review.\n\n\"It will be welcome news to millions of older people who now don't need to worry about their TV licence during this challenging period.\n\n\"It is right that the BBC have recognised the exceptional circumstances posed by the coronavirus outbreak and the need for the whole country to pull together in the national effort.\"\n\nA 2018 report estimated that continuing to providing free licences for the 2020/2021 financial year would cost the BBC around £700m.\n\nThe DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight said: \"We welcome this news at what will be a time of great anxiety, particularly for those over 75. Television and radio broadcasts will offer comfort as well as being a vital means for accessing public information.\n\n\"However, this delay seems to offer a short-term fix to a much wider problem. What we want is to see is renewed efforts from the Government and the BBC to sit down and resolve this issue once and for all.\"", "Supermarkets are urging shoppers not to buy more than they need amid concern over coronavirus-linked stockpiling.\n\nIn a joint letter, UK retailers have reminded customers to be considerate in their shopping, so that others are not left without much-needed items.\n\n\"There is enough for everyone if we all work together,\" it adds.\n\nIt comes after some shops began rationing the sales of certain products to avoid them selling out completely.\n\nRead more:Supermarkets ask shoppers to be considerate", "The new Bank of England governor has pledged to take fresh \"prompt action again\" when necessary to stop the damage to the economy from coronavirus.\n\nAndrew Bailey took over from current Bank governor Mark Carney on Monday.\n\nMr Bailey was speaking hours after the US central bank slashed interest rates and the Bank of England alongside other central banks acted to ensure the financial system had enough US dollars.\n\nMr Bailey said the coordinated action on US dollars was \"a step forward\".\n\n\"You saw some pretty big dislocations in financial markets last week, in particular in dollar financial markets which of course are global by nature.\n\n\"So the fact that the Fed, with the other central banks have extended swap lines so we can we can provide essentially three-month dollar money. Dollar money is a step forward.\n\n\"We're going to see how that how that works its way through the markets today in the coming days to see what the effect it has, but I would emphasise that this is strong coordination among central banks\".\n\nAsked if the impact of the global pandemic on the economy would be more significant than the Bank's words last week that the effect would be \"large, sharp but temporary\", Mr Bailey, said the Bank was consulting epidemiologists [people who study disease outbreaks] to try to help work out the economic impact.\n\n\"There's two parts. First of all, of course, is how long Covid itself is going to go on for, obviously that's not something that as a central bank, we have an expertise in. We're working very closely with epidemiologists to understand that. That will obviously have an effect on the economy, no question about that.\n\n\"The second part - which we emphasised last week - which we are very keen also to ensure doesn't happen is that the economic effects that materialise during the period of Covid then get extended onwards by virtue of effectively the damage that's done to the economy and that's something that we want to want to minimise and stop. And that's why you saw prompt action last week.\"\n\nThe governor acknowledged that he was \"going to be very, very focused on on the response to Covid, that's the key thing at the moment. We need to get through that period\".\n\nBut he also said that he had some important other objectives, from preparing the UK for its new relationship with the EU to dealing with new financial technology and to \"address our presence in the country as a whole, because that's one of the ways in which we serve the country as a whole\".\n• None Budget 2020: The economy must be vaccinated", "Clive Myrie is joined by BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym and other experts to answer your questions.\n\nThis programme was originally broadcast on the BBC News Channel on Monday 16 March.", "The government is in talks with rail bosses to put emergency measures in place to deal with falling passenger numbers after the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSome train operators were already losing money but fewer fares will put even more pressure on their finances.\n\nA senior industry source said fairly drastic measures might be required for train companies to survive.\n\nAt an industry meeting last week, passenger numbers were said to have fallen by up to 18% on certain lines.\n\nHowever, another industry source acknowledged that the fall in passengers could be significantly higher.\n\nThey told the BBC that the number of passengers travelling through major UK train stations at peak times had dropped considerably in recent days.\n\nVery up-to-date figures for the whole UK network are not known as many tickets are still not purchased digitally, so it takes some time for the data to filter through.\n\nUnder franchise agreements, train companies have a range of contractual obligations, which govern how many trains they run and restrict how much they can charge for tickets.\n\nThey are also required to make payments to the government to run services on parts of the rail network.\n\nThe number of trains, the price of tickets and the amount companies pay government are all calculated based on assumptions about passenger numbers.\n\nBut, with fewer people catching the train - as some companies ask staff to work from home over fears about the spread of the coronavirus - the ability of rail companies to meet some of those obligations is now in doubt.\n\nThe BBC understands that train operators are in talks with government to renegotiate the terms of some of those contracts.\n\nTrain companies want the government to give them more wriggle room so they can keep operating services for essential travel for people working in the emergency services, even though broader passenger numbers have fallen.\n\nOptions being discussed are likely to include a reduction in the number of train services and flexibility over the payments that train companies make to government.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise how difficult the current situation is for the transport sector and, across government, we are engaging with the sector's leadership to support workers, businesses and passengers.\"\n• None What has gone wrong with rail franchising?", "Eighteen months ago Venice resident Marianna showed us how her city was \"suffocating\" under the pressure of tourism.\n\nNow, she shows us how Venice has been completely transformed by the coronavirus shutdown.", "A Coronation Street cast member who was in self-isolation is now back at work\n\nCoronation Street and Emmerdale will \"remind people of important public health issues\" like hand-washing as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow.\n\nThe TV soaps will \"try and do more such messages going forward\", ITV said.\n\nTheir filming schedules have not been disrupted by coronavirus, but a growing number of TV shows and movies have halted or changed their plans.\n\nPeaky Blinders and Line of Duty, two of the UK's biggest TV dramas, have put filming of their new series on hold.\n\nA statement on the official Peaky Blinders Twitter account said: \"After much consideration and in light of the developing situation concerning Covid-19, the start of production of Peaky Blinders series 6 has been postponed.\"\n\nLine of Duty, which is made by World Productions, had been filming for its sixth series in Northern Ireland.\n\nIts Twitter feed said: \"In light of the spread of Covid-19, after much consideration, @worldprods are suspending filming of #LineofDuty S6 with the support of the BBC.\"\n\nOn Monday's episode of Coronation Street, viewers will see Geoff ask Yasmeen if she sang happy birthday twice while washing her hands - but that scene was coincidentally written last year and filmed in January, and is not a direct reference to coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking about Coronation Street and Emmerdale, ITV Studios creative director John Whiston said: \"Because we script and shoot so far in advance we don't generally reflect contemporary issues.\n\n\"However we are going to use the soaps to remind people of important public health issues such as the need to wash their hands. We'll try and do more such messages going forward.\"\n\nAsked about the impact of the virus on filming, a spokesperson said \"our priority is the wellbeing and safety of all our colleagues and everyone who works with us on our shows\", but they were \"confident that we're able to continue with our filming schedule\".\n\nAn unnamed Coronation Street cast member who went into self-isolation 10 days ago after returning from an affected country did not develop symptoms and has now returned to work.\n\nElsewhere, a number of studio-based programmes, such as ITV's Loose Women and Channel 5's Jeremy Vine, went ahead on Monday without their usual live audiences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Vine This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWith rising concerns and restrictions, a growing number of TV shows and movies have halted or changed their plans.\n\nUS programmes to have suspended filming include The Walking Dead, Stranger Things, The Handmaid's Tale, Pose, Empire and Marvel's Disney+ shows Loki and WandaVision.\n\nThe BBC's celebrity version of Race Across The World has also been postponed.\n\nBut Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway went ahead with a studio audience as planned on ITV at the weekend, with the hosts assuring fans it was \"business as usual\".\n\nHowever, the traditional series finale from the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando will not take place after the theme park closed its doors. The presenters promised that anyone who had won a place on the plane would still go to Florida at a later date.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has decided to delay the move to scrap free TV licences for most over-75s from June until August because these are \"exceptional circumstances\" and \"now is not the right time\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Iceland stores will open one hour early to allow older shoppers to buy food when it is quieter amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIceland said it was not a company policy, but it was allowing individual stores to decide how best to meet the needs of shoppers in their local areas.\n\nThe move comes as supermarkets continue to try to stop customers stockpiling.\n\nSeveral supermarkets have limited the sales of certain products to avoid them selling out completely.\n\nIceland's Kennedy Centre store in West Belfast will let older customers shop on their own between 08:00 and 09:00 every day from Wednesday.\n\n\"We just want to make sure the experience is as stress-free as possible,\" store manager Danny Burke said.\n\nThe Iceland store in West Belfast has set aside an hour for elderly shoppers\n\nMr Burke said the idea had been prompted by suggestions on social media. He said the store was asking shoppers to \"respect the dedicated hour\", but said there would be no formal checks on shoppers' ages.\n\nHe told the BBC that the store had seen a \"big uplift in sales\" amid the coronavirus outbreak. Items including toilet roll, long-life grocery items such as noodles, and frozen foods had reportedly seen a boost.\n\nIceland's Food Warehouse store in Thanet will also open one hour earlier at 07:00 for older shoppers on Wednesday.\n\nIn a Facebook post, the store manager said that the early opening slot would only be for old age pensioners. It will be at the store's discretion as to who they let in.\n\nThe building society Nationwide is also trialling opening its branches one hour early for older people and those with underlying health conditions.\n\nFrom 18 March, 100 of its branches across the UK will be open from 08:00 between Monday and Friday for those it says are at highest risk from the virus.\n\nThe BBC has requested comment from other supermarkets on whether they are planning any similar measures.\n\nSupermarkets have called on customers to be \"considerate\" as panic buying has seen shelves stripped of some items including toilet roll and pasta.\n\nIn a joint letter on Sunday, UK retailers asked customers to be \"considerate\" when shopping, so that others are not left without much-needed items.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of retailers, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said: \"In the face of unprecedented demand as a result of coronavirus, food retailers have come together to ask their customers to support each other to make sure everyone can get access to the products they need.\"\n\nPanic buying has left some supermarkets in the UK with empty shelves\n\nThe emptying of shelves has led some supermarkets to limit the sale of certain products.\n\nAldi has restricted customers to buying a maximum of four of each item, while Tesco shoppers are limited to buying no more than five of certain goods such as anti-bacterial gels or UHT milk.\n\nWith increasing demand seen across UK supermarkets, retailers have been trying to reassure customers that there is enough food supply in the system.\n\nBruno Monteyne, senior analyst at European Food Retail, told the BBC that although food retailers face a \"stretch\", \"the industry is ready for this\".\n\nHe said that many retailers will already have plans in place to deal with added pressure.\n\nMorrisons tweeted that it was increasing the amount of food being sent to stores from its warehouses.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Morrisons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSainsbury's also recently sent an email to customers, saying that \"we have more food and essential items coming to us from manufacturers\". Meanwhile, John Lewis has moved 500 of its staff over to Waitrose to the help the business cope with huge demand.\n\nIceland store manager Danny Burke said: \"There's plenty of food in the system. The supply chain is robust, and there is enough to go around if people buy sensible amounts.\"\n\nHe added: \"I haven't stockpiled toilet roll or hoards of tinned food just yet.\"", "Les Miserables is among the shows that have closed for the foreseeable future\n\nTheatres in London's West End and around the UK have shut after PM Boris Johnson advised people to avoid such venues as coronavirus spreads.\n\n\"You should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of forcing venues to close, leaving some in the affected industries in limbo.\n\nThe Society of London Theatre, which represents the West End, said theatres would close from Monday night until further notice.\n\nSister organisation UK Theatre said its 165 venues around the country would take the same step.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nSpeaking during his first daily news briefing on Monday, Mr Johnson said the government advice was that \"public venues such as theatres should no longer be visited\".\n\nHe added: \"The proprietors of those venues are taking the logical steps that you would imagine, you are seeing the change happen already.\n\n\"As for enforcement, we have the powers if necessary but I don't believe it will be necessary to use those powers.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that from Tuesday mass gatherings were something \"we are now moving emphatically away from\".\n\nHe also said people should now avoid \"non-essential\" travel and contact with others.\n\nBut many figures from the worlds of theatre, music and nightlife were angry that Mr Johnson advised people to stay away while not forcing venues to close, which could have given them financial protection.\n\nUK Music, which represents the music industry, said the hundreds of likely gig and festival cancellations would cause \"immense damage\", and Mr Johnson's comments risked exacerbating the problem.\n\n\"The prime minister's latest advice on mass gatherings has resulted in huge uncertainty and confusion over what exactly it will mean for the music industry,\" acting chief executive Tom Kiehl said.\n\n\"The government must spell out whether there will be a formal ban, when that might come into effect, which venues and events will be impacted and how long the measures will remain in place.\n\n\"The virus is having a catastrophic impact on the UK music industry and will threaten many jobs and businesses across our right across our sector.\"\n\nPatrick Gracey, producer of Tom Stoppard's latest play Leopoldstadt, said the prime minister \"has just doomed an entire industry by telling people not to attend the theatre\".\n\nHe added: \"By not enforcing a shutdown, production insurance will not apply so producers and shows will go bankrupt, and tens of thousands of people will be without pay.\"\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\nTamara Rojo, artistic director of the English National Ballet, said she wanted the government to come up with \"clear plans to how they are going to support the industry when we are all going dark\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This is an industry that provides £111bn annually to the economy, that employs two million people, and a third of them are freelancers.\n\n\"So, for many, this sudden closure without a clear ban - which means that many venues, theatres, museums won't be able to claim compensation for a devastating loss - means a lot of uncertainty and potentially a lot of loss of employment and income.\"\n\nCaroline Norbury, chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation, said: \"As the social distancing measures announced are only advisory, rather than an outright ban, we are deeply concerned that creative organisations and cultural spaces will find they are unable to claim compensation for the huge losses they will experience as a result of COVID-19.\"\n\nSociety of London Theatre and UK Theatre chief executive Julian Bird said: \"Closing venues is not a decision that is taken lightly, and we know that this will have a severe impact on many of the 290,000 individuals working in our industry.\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House also shut down immediately after the prime minister's press conference.\n\nMeanwhile, the Museums Association called on the government to divert money from the planned Festival of Britain to help institutions that will find themselves in financial trouble.\n\n\"We are calling for an emergency fund to be created to support museums through this difficult period,\" MA director Sharon Heal said.\n\n\"The government had earmarked £120m for a Festival of Britain in 2022. We believe this should now be made available to support museums at risk of permanent closure as a result of the Coronavirus epidemic.\"\n\nThe Natural History Museum has closed its buildings in South Kensington and Tring; while Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives will be shut until 1 May.\n\nLondon's Serpetine gallery is also shut, but the National Gallery remains open for now.\n\nIn other developments on Monday in the entertainment world:\n\nA number of plays and gigs had already been scrapped as the virus continued to spread.\n\nEarlier, Daniel Radcliffe's new play Endgame became the first major London production to be cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCiting travel and other restrictions, the Old Vic said it was \"becoming increasingly impractical to sustain business as usual at our theatre\".\n\nThe theatre warned that giving full refunds for all lost performances would be \"financially devastating for us\", so asked ticket-holders to consider the ticket price as a donation.\n\nIn New York, Broadway shut down last week and will stay dark for at least a month in a move that could cost $565m (£455m) in lost revenues, based on takings for the equivalent period last year as reported by The Wrap.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nAre you affected by the closure of theatres? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Police use drones to enforce movement restrictions in Spain's fight against the coronavirus infection.\n\nOn Saturday, the country's 47 million citizens were ordered to stay indoors except for necessary trips.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that life will change \"significantly\" in Scotland due to stringent new coronavirus measures.\n\nThe first minister said \"we will get through this\" as she reiterated the need for every citizen to reduce all non-essential social contact.\n\nHouseholds have been told to self-isolate for 14 days if one member has symptoms - either a new cough or fever.\n\nThere are now 171 cases of the virus in Scotland, up 18 since Sunday.\n\nBut the Scottish government cautioned that an apparent slowing in the rate of increase may be due to a change in the testing system.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the UK was \"on the cusp\" of a rapid acceleration in cases, with numbers likely to double every few days.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the latest measures would \"significantly change life as we know it for a considerable period of time\".\n\nShe continued: \"We must step up the measures that we take to slow the spread, to protect our NHS and its ability to provide care and treatment to those who need it and crucially, to save lives.\n\n\"I am acutely aware of the anxiety people will feel right now. We are all in this together. If we do the right things and all follow the advice being given, we can get through this and we will get through this.\"\n\nThe first minister thanked NHS staff, saying it was \"not possible to overstate\" the pressure they are under.\n\nShe also said the Scottish government was \"100% focused on doing everything we can\" and would keep the public updated on a regular basis.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood said there was evidence in Scotland of \"sustained community transmission\".\n\nShe said the priority was to reduce the number of people coming into the NHS and prevent services - particularly intensive care and respiratory wards - from becoming \"overwhelmed\".\n\nThe UK government earlier announced Scotland would receive an additional £780m to fund its Covid-19 response.\n\nThe move is part of a £1.5bn funding package for the devolved administrations designed to bolster the NHS and provide grants for businesses.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the money was in addition to the funding package announced during last week's Budget.\n\nThe number of cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde remains the highest in Scotland at 44.\n\nThe new statistics also reveal the first case of coronavirus has been recorded in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nOnly two of Scotland's 14 health boards, Orkney and Western Isles, have yet to record a positive case.\n\nThe number of UK coronavirus deaths, which includes the first in Wales, is now 55.\n\nMost of those who have died have been people over the age of 60 with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe total number of people in the UK to test positive for the virus has risen to 1,543, according to the latest Department of Health figures.\n\nMore than 44,000 people have been tested.", "King Felipe VI (right) is trying to distance himself from his father Juan Carlos, Spanish royal analysts say\n\nSpain's King Felipe VI has renounced the inheritance of his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said that Juan Carlos, who abdicated in 2014, would also stop receiving an annual grant of €194,000 (£174,800; $217,100).\n\nThis comes as the 82-year-old former king is being criticised for his lavish lifestyle.\n\nJuan Carlos, who reigned for 39 years, is also facing an investigation by the Swiss financial authorities.\n\nThis follows media reports that he had received $100m in 2008 from Saudi Arabia via an offshore account.\n\nThe former monarch has made no comments on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Juan Carlos abdicated in June 2014, saying his son Prince Felipe would \"open a new era of hope\" for Spain\n\nSome royal analysts in Spain say that by renouncing his father's inheritance, King Felipe VI, 52, is trying to distance himself from his father's affairs.\n\nJuan Carlos ascended the throne in 1975 on the death of General Francisco Franco, the right-wing dictator who ruled Spain for 36 years after his victory over Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.\n\nJuan Carlos (l) became king two days after the death of General Franco (r)\n\nJuan Carlos became Spain's first crowned head of state for 44 years.\n\nBut he soon ignored Franco's supporters, who wanted an extension to autocratic rule, and ushered in a new system of parliamentary monarchy.\n\nAs the years went on the king involved himself less in day-to-day politics, and became more of a figurehead.\n\nHe is credited as a stabilising force for independence-minded areas such as Catalonia and the Basque region, and he also helped defuse an attempted coup in 1981.\n\nUntil a few years before his abdication his popularity was high, but a lavish elephant hunting trip to Botswana in 2012 and corruption allegations involving his youngest daughter, Cristina, and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin, led to calls for him to step aside.", "Matt Colvin bought all of the hand sanitiser he could find in stores across Tennessee\n\nA man who stockpiled 17,700 bottles of hand sanitiser to sell on Amazon is being investigated for price gouging.\n\nMatt Colvin, from Chattanooga in Tennessee, told the New York Times he had faced a \"huge amount of whiplash\".\n\nOnline platforms have cracked down on sellers listing coronavirus-related items at inflated prices.\n\nMr Colvin later said he would donate his goods but on the same day Tennessee's attorney general opened an investigation, the Times reported.\n\nMr Colvin said that from 1 March, the day after the first coronavirus-related death in the US was confirmed, he and his brother had spent three days driving across Tennessee, buying up all the hand sanitiser they could find.\n\nHe then listed the bottles on Amazon, selling some for as much as $70 (£57).\n\nAmazon then deleted listings of hand sanitiser, sanitising wipes and face masks with marked-up prices, while eBay outright prohibited the sale of any of these items.\n\nAfter the initial article was published, Mr Colvin faced a major backlash, with many accusing him of attempting to profit off a global crisis.\n\nHe expressed remorse in a follow-up interview, saying he \"had no idea that these stores wouldn’t be able to get replenished\".\n\nPrice gouging - the act of re-selling an item in high demand with a \"grossly excessive\" price mark-up - is prohibited in the state of Tennessee if the governor has declared a state of emergency.\n\nIf found guilty, a person can be fined up to $1,000 (£813).\n\nIn a statement, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III said: \"We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it.\"", "Norwegian Air is set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe budget airline said the changes would apply until the end of May and numbers may increase.\n\nIts boss said new restrictions on travel between the US and mainland Europe put \"extra pressure on an already difficult situation\".\n\nAnalysts say airlines have been dealt another \"body blow\" by the travel ban.\n\nJacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian, said this was \"an unprecedented situation\".\n\nHe called on \"international governments to act now to ensure that the aviation industry can protect jobs and continue to be a vital part of the global economic recovery\".\n\nThe airline has decided to ground 40% of its long-haul fleet and cancel up to a quarter of its short-haul flights.\n\nThe company, which is looking for a cash injection, employs 1,200 people in UK.\n\nBut all routes between London Gatwick and the US will continue to operate as normal.\n\nThe airline industry is already facing an economic hit of $113bn (£88bn) from the effects of the outbreak on passenger numbers.\n\nAnalysts predict this financial loss could grow substantially from the new travel ban.\n\nThere are fears that some weaker airlines could go bust.\n\nOn Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced sweeping travel restrictions on 26 European countries in an attempt to combat the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe ban applies to travellers from countries that are members of the Schengen border-free travel area.\n\nThe UK, Ireland and other non-Schengen countries are unaffected. US citizens are also exempt.\n\n\"It is another body blow for many airlines in need of central government support in these incredibly difficult times,\" said John Grant from global travel data firm OAG.\n\n\"It is just a decision that hurts the industry and the wider economy as travel and trade will be frustrated,\" he said.\n\nMany airlines are already under the cosh from the effects of coronavirus, and thousands of flights have been cancelled worldwide.\n\nKorean Air has warned that the coronavirus impact could threaten its survival, and UK airline Flybe, which was already struggling, collapsed last week, saying the coronavirus outbreak was partly to blame.\n\nAirlines around the world are now assessing the impact of Mr Trump's surprise 30-day ban and how it will affect revenues.\n\nAnalysts predict some airlines could fall into administration.\n\nThere are nearly 400 daily flights from Europe to the US, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking service.\n\n\"In a crisis like this, cash is king,\" said Michael Duff, managing director of The Airline Analyst.\n\nHe said transatlantic routes tended to be dominated by the major airlines, who should get through the crisis, assuming it lasts three to six months.\n\n\"Secondary players and regional and national European carriers are definitely facing severe survivability risk,\" he added.\n\n\"There is no explanation for how this will help fight the spread of the virus,\" she said. \"It makes little sense when the virus is already in the US.\"\n\n\"Without any consultation with the industry, we don't even know what this means,\" she added.\n\nThe Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) urged governments to refrain from introducing travel restrictions.\n\n\"Travel restrictions cause significant disruptions to supply chains, commerce, trade and most importantly to peoples' livelihoods due to the severe economic impact,\" said Andrew Herdman, AAPA director general.", "Buent Kabala (left) and Cafer Aslan were shot dead six months apart\n\nAn appeal has been launched to find the killers of two cousins who were shot dead within six months of each other.\n\nCafer Aslan, 54, was found with fatal gunshot injuries on Westminster Road at the junction with Bounces Road in Enfield, London, on 23 August 2017.\n\nHis cousin Bulent Kabala, 41, was shot dead on Mount Pleasant, near Edgeworth Road in Barnet, on 12 February 2018.\n\nA reward of £20,000 has been offered for information that leads to a conviction.\n\nBoth men were of Turkish origin and lived in Enfield at the time they were killed.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh said their families had \"faced mental torment of knowing that the information is simmering in the community\".\n\n\"Those in the know have an opportunity to reset the moral compass and allow Bulent's family to get justice,\" he said.\n\nMr Kabala was shot dead as he got out of his car after it was hit by a Ford Transit van\n\nDescribing the murders as \"contract killings\", he said: \"Experience shows that people will have possibly, unwittingly carried out what at the time seemed like a lower level crime such as stealing the number plates or sourcing a van.\n\n\"We need this chatter to work its way into evidence.\"\n\nMr Kabala, a taxi driver, was shot dead at about 23:45 GMT as he got out of his car after it was hit by a Ford Transit van which had been following him.\n\nThe van - which had stolen number plates - was later found abandoned in Pilgrim's Close.\n\nA 46-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of his murder in 2018 but was later released.\n\nPolice are also appealing for information about a grey Audi Q5 which was found burnt out 40 minutes after the shooting in the Forty Hill area of Enfield.\n\nThey are also tracing a man seen on CCTV walking down Henley Road with petrol cans towards the junction with Huxley Road at 19:35 on the day of the murder.\n\nPolice are tracing a man seen on CCTV walking with petrol cans on the day of the murder\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has been charged after a fight broke out in a supermarket in Sydney, Australia.\n\nPolice said the fight was unlikely to be related to coronavirus concerns, but it came amid frenzied scenes of buying as shoppers continued to stockpile items.", "The prime minister hosted Monday's press conference with UK chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser\n\nBoris Johnson is outlining the next steps in the UK's plan to fight coronavirus at the first of a series of daily news conferences.\n\nThe briefing was expected to have details about steps the government may take to protect elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nThe over-70s have been told they are allowed to go out for walks when their period of staying at home begins.\n\nThe first person in Wales to die with Covid-19 brings the UK total to 36.\n\nMost of those who have died in the UK have been people over the age of 60 with underlying health conditions.\n\nThe total number of people in the UK to test positive for the virus has risen by 171 in a day to a total of 1,543, according to the latest Department of Health figures. The latest cases include 30 more from Wales and 18 in Scotland.\n\nMore than 44,000 people have been tested in the UK. People self-isolating with mild symptoms are no longer being tested - the government said tests are primarily being given to hospital patients with respiratory problems, and to people in residential or care facilities experiencing outbreaks.\n\nBut on Monday the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said not enough tests were being carried out.\n\n\"We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test,\" he said - adding that the WHO has sent out almost 1.5 million tests to 120 countries.\n\nDaily news conferences will be led by the prime minister or senior ministers, alongside Prof Chris Whitty, the government's chief medical adviser, and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nIt follows criticism of No 10 for an apparent lack of transparency over its plans to stem the spread of the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19.\n\nDowning Street said the government was committed to keeping the public informed and would be led by science.\n\nMeanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that over-70s who will soon be asked to stay at home for an extended period would still be able to go for a walk outside.\n\n\"It's about being sensible but not mixing in crowds,\" he said.\n\nAnd the BBC has said it will delay changes to the TV licence for the over-75s until August. Director General Tony Hall said it was important the corporation served the public \"at this difficult time\".\n\nMonday's meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee, chaired by Mr Johnson, included discussions on how to protect the elderly and vulnerable and whether to ban mass gatherings.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said details of emergency legislation giving the government more powers to deal with the virus will be revealed on Tuesday.\n\nHotels could be converted to makeshift hospitals and private hospitals could be called on to boost NHS bed numbers.\n\nThe government has asked any firms which may be able to help to produce ventilator machines for use in hospitals to get in touch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alok Sharma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMost schools across the UK remained open on Monday, despite blanket closures in countries such as Spain, France and Ireland.\n\nSome decided to close, however, and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is due to meet head teachers to discuss their concerns.\n\nSome universities have halted classes and moved all their lectures online while the National Education Union has said it is \"unacceptable\" for Ofsted inspections to go ahead during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticises the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic\n\nFrom Tuesday, face-to-face assessments for sickness and disability welfare payments will be suspended for three months.\n\nThe suspension will apply to claimants of personal independence payments, employment and support allowance, some on Universal Credit and people on industrial injuries schemes.\n\nThe fallout from the pandemic has begun to hit industry. Key developments include:\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Breakfast that good companies \"shouldn't be put out of business\" due to a downturn caused by the virus.\n\nHe will meet airline leaders and discuss potential financial support for businesses with Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nA Public Health England (PHE) briefing, reported by the Guardian, warned the epidemic could last until spring 2021 and put 7.9 million people in hospital.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus? Let us know and a selection will be answered by a BBC journalist.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Problems with North Devon District Hospital's maternity ward date back as far as 2008\n\nAt least 20 maternity deaths or serious harm cases have been linked to a Devon hospital since 2008, according to NHS reports obtained by the BBC.\n\nA 2017 review - never released - raised \"serious questions\" about maternity care at North Devon District Hospital.\n\nThe BBC spent two years trying to obtain the report and won access to it at a tribunal earlier this year.\n\nNorthern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) said the unit was \"completely different\" after recommended reforms.\n\nA 2013 review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) investigated 11 serious clinical incidents at the unit, dating back as far as 2008.\n\nThe report identified failings in the working relationships at the unit, finding some midwives were working autonomously and some senior doctors failed to give guidance to junior colleagues.\n\nDespite the identified problems with \"morale\", the subsequent investigation by RCOG in 2017 expressed concerns with the \"decision-making and clinical competency\" of senior doctors and their co-operation with midwives.\n\nAn independent review into midwifery in October 2017 noted \"poor communication\" between medical staff on the ward for more than a decade.\n\nThe report, given to BBC correspondent Matthew Hill, identified a \"lack of trust and respect\" between staff and \"anxiety\" among senior midwives at the quality of care.\n\nSolicitor Oliver Thorne said there had been a \"decade of inaction\" at the trust\n\nWhen asked if they would recommend the unit to women with complicated pregnancies, some participants said they would take them elsewhere.\n\nIn attempts to prevent the release of the full 2017 report, the trust argued anonymity was required to ensure staff participation in future reviews.\n\nOliver Thorne, a solicitor who has acted in more than 20 legal cases involving the unit, said there had been a \"decade of inaction\" at the trust.\n\n\"I'm still getting cases referred to me involving the same issues... those families could have avoided the heartbreak they're going through,\" he added.\n\nJulia, whose real name the BBC is not using because she wished to remain anonymous, said her baby was left with severe brain damage in 2017 after complications with the birth went unnoticed.\n\nShe said her baby was born with \"no signs of life\" after an emergency caesarean and had to be resuscitated.\n\n\"At first nobody said anything, nobody would make eye contact or say what had happened,\" Julia added.\n\nSome mothers were not even informed an investigation into their child's death had taken place, the BBC discovered.\n\nBeth (also not her real name) was only told of the outcome of an internal inquiry into her baby's death 10 years later.\n\nShe said her pre-eclampsia was missed but medical staff did not make this clear at the time.\n\nTwo women who wished to remain anonymous spoke to the BBC about their experiences on the ward\n\nAs a result of being kept in the dark, Beth said she blamed herself and had been \"carrying guilt around\" for a decade.\n\nBoth women are currently pursuing legal action against the NDHT.\n\nIn 2017 the RCOG report said it had been called to the trust after four \"serious incidents\" - three of which concerned the investigators.\n\nOne incident \"raised very serious questions regarding appropriate decision-making and clinical competency,\" the report said.\n\nIt found some senior doctors at the unit appeared \"demotivated\" and \"deskilled\", describing midwives as \"advocates for women\" trying to ensure \"safety within this maternity unit\".\n\n\"There is a definite breakdown in relationships between medical and midwifery staff within the unit,\" the report concluded.\n\nMedical director Prof Adrian Harris, who took over the unit two years ago, said all 11 recommendations from the 2017 report were implemented\n\nMedical director at NDHT Prof Adrian Harris, who took over the unit in 2018, said sweeping changes on the ward meant \"progress\" since the report was published.\n\nHe said this included having enacted all 11 reforms recommended by the RCOG in 2017.\n\n\"We look at a completely different unit today from the boardroom right down to the shop floor,\" Prof Harris said.\n\n\"My message is one of regret and apology on behalf of the unit.\"\n\nYou can learn more about this story on Inside Out South West from 19:30 GMT and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swiss residents like Nadine are heading to the bars for a last beer Image caption: Swiss residents like Nadine are heading to the bars for a last beer\n\nOur reporter Imogen Foulkes has this from Geneva:\n\nPeople here expected the state of emergency - with cases of the virus rising fast, many thought the government should have declared it on Friday, when it announced that schools would close.\n\nBut now that it has happened, Switzerland, one of the richest countries in the world, is facing at least a month with everything but the bare essentials closed. There will be no bars, no cafes, no restaurants, no sports, no nightclubs, no cinemas, no museums.\n\nThis evening in Bern people are heading to the bars for a last beer. Student Nadine is disappointed that her upcoming birthday party won’t happen, but says complaining feels a bit like a \"first world problem\".\n\nActually it’s quite fascinating,\" she says, \"we are at a pivotal moment in history\". Historic it certainly is: to support hospitals the Swiss government today mobilised the army, the first time that has happened since the start of World War Two.", "The Irish government has called on pubs and bars to close from Sunday to help tackle coronavirus.\n\nMass gatherings are banned in the Republic of Ireland, but pubs and bars have remained open.\n\nOver the weekend, videos emerged of large numbers of people in pubs in the country.\n\nOn Sunday the government confirmed 40 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total in the Republic of Ireland to 169.\n\nTwo people in the country have died after being infected.\n\nThe request to close pubs until 29 March followed discussions with industry representatives who outlined the difficulty of implementing social distancing while pubs remain open.\n\nThe government also asked people not to hold house parties, as doing so \"would put other peoples' health at risk\".\n\nOn Sunday, 11 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Northern Ireland, bringing the total number of cases to 45.\n\nOver the weekend a series of clips circulated on social media of busy pubs in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nOne clip showing a crowded bar, purporting to have been taken in a pub in Dublin's Temple Bar area, was tweeted by Irish Heath Minister Simon Harris.\n\nIn his post, Mr Harris described it as an \"insult\" to the efforts of healthcare workers.\n\n\"Not far from here, nurses & doctors are working to prepare for the impact of a global pandemic. Everyone is working 24/7,\" he wrote.\n\nPubs and bars in Temple Bar in Dublin have already closed\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Temple Bar publicans in Dublin have announced a complete shutdown of all bars and nightclubs with immediate effect.\n\nOn Sunday, the Irish government said having consulted with the chief medical officer, it was an \"essential public health measure given the reports of reckless behaviour by some members of the public in certain pubs last night\".\n\n\"While the government acknowledges that the majority of the public and pub owners are behaving responsibly, it believes it is important that all pubs are closed in advance of St. Patrick's Day,\" it said.\n\nThe Licenced Vintners Association and the Vintners Federation of Ireland, representative bodies for the pub and hospitality industry in the Republic, were consulted in the decision to request the closure.\n\nThe government has said the guidelines of social distancing in other parts of the leisure industry, including restaurants and cinemas, would be reviewed and subject to consultation in the coming days.", "Louis Vuitton owner LVMH will use its perfume production lines to start making hand sanitiser to protect people against the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe luxury goods maker says it wants to help tackle a nationwide shortage of the anti-viral products across France.\n\n\"These gels will be delivered free of charge to the health authorities,\" LVMH announced on Sunday.\n\nFrance has now seen 120 deaths from the coronavirus as the pandemic spreads.\n\n\"LVMH will use the production lines of its perfume and cosmetic brands... to produce large quantities of hydroalcoholic gels from Monday,\" LVMH said in a statement.\n\nThe factories normally produce perfume and makeup for luxury brands like Christian Dior and Givenchy.\n\nThe French luxury conglomerate also owns well-known brands such as champagne maker Moet & Chandon, watchmaker Tag Heuer and jeweller Bulgari.\n\n\"LVMH will continue to honour this commitment for as long as necessary, in connection with the French health authorities,\" the company said.\n\nFrance has closed its restaurants, cafes and non-essential stores in an effort to combat the virus, which has infected an estimated 165,000 people and killed more than 6,000 worldwide.\n\nGovernments across the world have called on manufacturers to help make products that are running low during the virus outbreak.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to ask UK engineering firms on Monday to shift production to build ventilators for the NHS.\n\nIn China, at the peak of its coronavirus outbreak in February, electronics giant Foxconn switched some of its production from Apple iPhones to make surgical masks.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has advised against mass gatherings in the UK amid the coronavirus outbreak - effectively cancelling all remaining sporting events.\n\nJohnson said that from Tuesday mass gatherings requiring emergency workers are something \"we are now moving emphatically away from\".\n\nHe added that social venues, including pubs, should be avoided.\n\nBut he reiterated that transmission risks at mass gatherings remain low.\n• None 'In this current dark reality, sport doesn't matter but it does'\n• None How coronavirus has impacted sporting events around the world\n\n\"It remains true - as we said in the last few weeks - that this sort of transmissions of the disease at mass gatherings such as sporting events are relatively low, but obviously, logically, as we advise against unnecessary social contact of all kinds, it's right that we should extend that advice to mass gatherings as well,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"And so we've also got to ensure that we have the critical workers we need that might otherwise be deployed for those gatherings, to deal with those emergencies.\n\n\"So from tomorrow we will no longer be supporting mass gatherings with emergency workers in the way that we normally do.\"\n• None The Grand National, due to take place on 4 April, was cancelled\n• None Rugby union's Premiership was suspended for five weeks\n• None The Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup quarter-final matches will not be played\n• None The RFU suspended all rugby activity at both professional and community level until 14 April\n• None The 2020 Boat Race, due to take place on 29 March, was cancelled\n• None The Isle of Man TT races, due to take place from 30 May to 12 June, was cancelled\n• None The Olympic European boxing qualifying event in London, which started on Saturday and went behind closed doors on Sunday, will be suspended after Monday night's session\n• None British Gymnastics cancelled all its events, including the FIG World Cup and the British Artistic Championships, until the end of June 2020\n• None Premier League Darts, due to take place in Newcastle on Thursday, was postponed\n• None Snookers' Tour Championship, due to start on Tuesday in Llandudno, Wales, will take place behind closed doors\n\nA Football Association statement on grassroots football said: \"Following the government's announcement today, for people to avoid social contact and gatherings where possible, we are now advising that all grassroots football in England is postponed.\n\n\"Throughout this period, we have taken government advice with the priority being the health and wellbeing of all. We will continue to work closely with the grassroots game during this time.\"\n\nLast Friday, the coronavirus pandemic wiped out most of the world's major sporting events in an unprecedented 24 hours.\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, is hosting a video conference with major stakeholders on Tuesday.\n\nEuro 2020 is set to be postponed to allow league seasons to be completed.\n\nThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics, to be held from 24 July and 9 August, remain on. Organisers will meet via teleconference on Tuesday to discuss the latest coronavirus developments and the impact on the Games.", "The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US.\n\nFour patients received the jab at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle, Washington, reports the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless genetic code copied from the virus that causes the disease.\n\nExperts say it will still take many months to know if this vaccine, or others also in research, will work.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on Monday was a 43-year-old mother-of-two from Seattle.\n\n\"This is an amazing opportunity for me to do something,\" Jennifer Haller told AP.\n\nScientists around the world are fast-tracking research.\n\nThe biotechnology company behind the work, Moderna Therapeutics, says the vaccine has been made using a tried and tested process.\n\nDr John Tregoning, an expert in infectious diseases at Imperial College London, UK, said: \"This vaccine uses pre-existing technology.\n\n\"It's been made to a very high standard, using things that we know are safe to use in people and those taking part in the trial will be very closely monitored.\n\n\"Yes, this is very fast - but it is a race against the virus, not against each other as scientists, and it's being done for the benefit of humanity.\"\n\nTypical vaccines for viruses, such as measles, are made from a weakened or killed virus.\n\nBut the mRNA-1273 vaccine is not made from the virus that causes Covid-19.\n\nInstead, it includes a short segment of genetic code copied from the virus that scientists have been able to make in a laboratory.\n\nThis will hopefully prime the body's own immune system to fight off the real infection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe volunteers were being given different doses of the experimental vaccine.\n\nThey will each be given two jabs in total, 28 days apart, into the upper arm muscle.\n\nBut even if these initial safety tests go well, it could still take up to 18 months for any potential vaccine to become available for the public.", "The coronavirus emerged in only December last year, but already the world is dealing with a pandemic of the virus and the disease it causes - Covid-19.\n\nFor most, the disease is mild, but some people die.\n\nSo how is the virus attacking the body, why are some people being killed and how is it treated?\n\nThis is when the virus is establishing itself.\n\nViruses work by getting inside the cells your body is made of and then hijacking them.\n\nThe coronavirus, officially called Sars-CoV-2, can invade your body when you breathe it in (after someone coughs nearby) or you touch a contaminated surface and then your face.\n\nIt first infects the cells lining your throat, airways and lungs and turns them into \"coronavirus factories\" that spew out huge numbers of new viruses that go on to infect yet more cells.\n\nAt this early stage, you will not be sick and some people may never develop symptoms.\n\nThe incubation period, the time between infection and first symptoms appearing, varies widely, but is five days on average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything you need to know about the coronavirus – explained in one minute by the BBC's Laura Foster\n\nThis is all most people will experience.\n\nCovid-19 is a mild infection for eight out of 10 people who get it and the core symptoms are a fever and a cough.\n\nBody aches, sore throat and a headache are all possible, but not guaranteed.\n\nThe fever, and generally feeling grotty, is a result of your immune system responding to the infection. It has recognised the virus as a hostile invader and signals to the rest of the body something is wrong by releasing chemicals called cytokines.\n\nThese rally the immune system, but also cause the body aches, pain and fever.\n\nThe coronavirus cough is initially a dry one (you're not bringing stuff up) and this is probably down to irritation of cells as they become infected by the virus.\n\nSome people will eventually start coughing up sputum - a thick mucus containing dead lung cells killed by the virus.\n\nThese symptoms are treated with bed rest, plenty of fluids and paracetamol. You won't need specialist hospital care.\n\nThis stage lasts about a week - at which point most recover because their immune system has fought off the virus.\n\nHowever, some will develop a more serious form of Covid-19.\n\nThis is the best we understand at the moment about this stage, however, there are studies emerging that suggest the disease can cause more cold-like symptoms such as a runny nose too.\n\nIf the disease progresses it will be due to the immune system overreacting to the virus.\n\nThose chemical signals to the rest of the body cause inflammation, but this needs to be delicately balanced. Too much inflammation can cause collateral damage throughout the body.\n\n\"The virus is triggering an imbalance in the immune response, there's too much inflammation, how it is doing this we don't know,\" said Dr Nathalie MacDermott, from King's College London.\n\nScans of lungs infected with coronavirus showing areas of pneumonia\n\nInflammation of the lungs is called pneumonia.\n\nIf it was possible to travel through your mouth down the windpipe and through the tiny tubes in your lungs, you'd eventually end up in tiny little air sacs.\n\nThis is where oxygen moves into the blood and carbon dioxide moves out, but in pneumonia the tiny sacs start to fill with water and can eventually cause shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.\n\nSome people will need a ventilator to help them breathe.\n\nThis stage is thought to affect around 14% of people, based on data from China.\n\nIt is estimated around 6% of cases become critically ill.\n\nBy this point the body is starting to fail and there is a real chance of death.\n\nThe problem is the immune system is now spiralling out of control and causing damage throughout the body.\n\nIt can lead to septic shock when the blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and organs stop working properly or fail completely.\n\nAcute respiratory distress syndrome caused by widespread inflammation in the lungs stops the body getting enough oxygen it needs to survive. It can stop the kidneys from cleaning the blood and damage the lining of your intestines.\n\n\"The virus sets up such a huge degree of inflammation that you succumb... it becomes multi-organ failure,\" Dr Bharat Pankhania said.\n\nAnd if the immune system cannot get on top of the virus, then it will eventually spread to every corner of the body where it can cause even more damage.\n\nTreatment by this stage will be highly invasive and can include ECMO or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.\n\nThis is essentially an artificial lung that takes blood out of the body through thick tubes, oxygenates it and pumps it back in.\n\nBut eventually the damage can reach fatal levels at which organs can no longer keep the body alive.\n\nDoctors have described how some patients died despite their best efforts.\n\nThe first two patients to die at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China, detailed in the Lancet Medical journal, were seemingly healthy, although they were long-term smokers and that would have weakened their lungs.\n\nThe first, a 61-year-old man, had severe pneumonia by the time he arrived at hospital.\n\nHe was in acute respiratory distress, and despite being put on a ventilator, his lungs failed and his heart stopped beating.\n\nHe died 11 days after he was admitted.\n\nThe second patient, a 69-year-old man, also had acute respiratory distress syndrome.\n\nHe was attached to an ECMO machine but this wasn't enough. He died of severe pneumonia and septic shock when his blood pressure collapsed.", "A medical devices maker has cast doubt on using non-specialist manufacturers to produce more ventilators.\n\nCraig Thompson, head of products at Oxfordshire company Penlon, said the idea that other firms could switch production was unrealistic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has urged engineering firms, including carmakers, to explore if they could make the life-saving equipment.\n\nVentilators are critical in the care of some people suffering coronavirus.\n\nBut there is concern the National Health Service will face a shortage of equipment as the virus infects more people.\n\nThe manufacturers association, Make UK, says that it would be possible for some specialist engineers to scale up production under licence.\n\nFord, Honda, car parts firm Unipart, digger maker JCB, and aero-engine maker Rolls Royce are among companies looking into the feasibility of switching some production.\n\nMedical ventilators are used to provide oxygen to patients with breathing difficulties, but there are not nearly enough of them to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Hancock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Department of Health has revealed that in a worst case scenario the NHS will need an additional 20,000 of the machines. The NHS currently has about 5,000 adult ventilators and 900 for children in critical care facilities.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has tweeted asking for help from \"all manufacturers who can support our National Effort for coronavirus ventilator production\".\n\nBut Penlon, which makes anaesthesia machines that include a ventilator, is cautious about hopes that other companies can start making the equipment.\n\n\"The idea that an engineering company can quickly manufacturer medical devices, and comply with the rules, is unrealistic because of the heavy burden of standards and regulations that need to be complied with,\" said Penlon's Mr Thompson.\n\nHe said \"the focus should be on existing medical device companies increasing supply of ventilators\".\n\nHis firm makes 750 machines a year and could double production, given time. In the short term he could provide the NHS with up to 200 more machines.\n\n\"The manufacture of medical devices, such as ventilators, is highly regulated,\" Mr Thompson adds. \"Typically a new medical device takes two or three years to develop and launch.\"\n\nThe UK's only specialist maker of ventilators for intensive care units, Breas, in Stratford-upon-Avon, has already increased capacity and moved to seven-day working.\n\nBreas makes a range of ventilators called Nippy, which are widely used in the NHS, but it only has 150 staff worldwide.\n\nMake UK believes that the solution to the ventilator problem is to use what it calls contract manufacturing.\n\n\"Rather than a particular company trying in their own factory to make thousands and thousands of ventilators - which they would struggle to do - you have around them other manufacturers with capacity,\" said Stephen Phipson, Make's chief executive.\n\nThe ventilator makers would licence their designs to other contractors. \"There are quite a few companies in the UK which do that sort of work every day of the week,\" Mr Phipson added.\n\nSmall manufacturers are already responding to the government's appeal for help.\n\nJules Morgan, who owns KPM Marine, in Birmingham, making equipment for the marine industry, has offered to see whether he could make ventilator components.\n\nJules Morgan says some components would have to be sourced from China\n\n\"The key will be in how it's managed. It'll involve different manufacturers making different parts - and somewhere it can go to be assembled,\" he says. \"It's a big ask, but I think it's doable.\"\n\nHe said challenges would include sourcing electrical components from China and testing the units, which is a time consuming process.\n\nBut he said expectations may have to change. \"These are extraordinary times, so you have to be pragmatic and innovative. We need to speak to medical professionals to find out what the core requirements are, and work to those.\n\n\"We may need to consider using older technology that's easier to produce in high volumes,\" Mr Morgan said.", "Legislation will pass through the Commons unopposed this week as MPs feel the pressure to tackle coronavirus.\n\nEmergency legislation on the outbreak and the government's Budget will get \"nodded through\", rather than opposition MPs calling for a vote.\n\nSources said Labour was attempting to strike a balance between scrutinising government and facing up to the virus.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has written to the PM, saying both parties should work together on coronavirus legislation.\n\nThe outgoing Labour leader said he would ensure the opposition's concerns were taken on board as part of its drafting, rather than the party having to push for changes on the floor of the Commons.\n\nMPs are expected to wrap up the Budget debate on Tuesday without calling for a division - where members would shuffle through the lobbies for their votes to be counted.\n\nEmergency legislation dealing with the coronavirus outbreak is expected to come before the Commons on Thursday.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar thanked his colleagues on the opposition benches for their \"constructive approach\" to the outbreak.\n\n\"They are good and decent people,\" he said. \"Their approach is a prime example of how we can work together during this crisis.\"\n\nIn other signs that Parliament is trying to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak, the clerk of the House of Commons has suggested changes that could be implemented.\n\nAt present it is understood there are no specific proposals in place for Wednesday's session of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nKaren Bradley, chair of the Procedure Committee, which looks at the way MPs conduct business in the Commons, said: \"We are examining the appropriate and responsible steps to take to ensure that the core work of the House continues in a responsible manner.\n\n\"Implementation of any changes to the way the House functions will be a matter for the Speaker or the House, in consultation with the government and the House authorities.\"", "Many schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, says a head teachers' leader.\n\nASCL general secretary Geoff Barton said experienced head teachers in large schools were saying they would struggle to stay up and running past Friday.\n\nIt comes after teaching unions spoke of the \"intolerable pressure\" of staying open as more and more staff get sick.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser has reiterated that schools will remain open for now.\n\nBut Sir Patrick Vallance, speaking to MPs at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, said school closures were still \"on the table\", as one of the measures that could be used to fight the virus.\n\nAt his press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said school closures were under \"continuous review\".\n\nMr Barton told the BBC: \"Some very seasoned head teachers have been calling me to say they will not be able to manage much longer.\n\n\"One said he had 17 members of staff call in sick. And I think this will be replicated around the country.\n\n\"Some areas may be worst hit than others, but there's an inevitability about this. The trajectory cannot go anything other than downwards.\n\n\"People are saying they will do well to get to the end of the week.\"\n\nHe thought it was time to work out how schools could best support the community if they did have to close, and said he had discussed this with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson at a meeting on Monday.\n\n\"If the assumption is we can't run schools as normal, what that may mean is getting ourselves some time to plan for the next phase of this,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nDecisions would have to be made, he said, as to who should be prioritised: \"Would it be those with exams coming up or children on free school meals?\"\n\nEarlier, NASUWT union head Chris Keates said government advice to keep schools open is causing chaos and confusion, amid fears pupils are carrying the virus.\n\nShe told of a \"rising sense of panic\" in schools as staff fear for their safety as more and more people get ill.\n\nAnother teaching union, the National Education Union, has urged ministers to close schools, and said it would be advising members with underlying conditions to stay off work from next Monday.\n\nThe schools watchdog in England, Ofsted, has been given permission by the government to temporarily suspend all routine inspections of schools, further education, early years and social care providers.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said funding for early years grants will continue during any periods of nursery, preschool or childminder closures, or where children cannot attend due to coronavirus.\n\nThe uncertain situation is causing concern among many parents.\n\nHayley Beards from Sutton Coldfield, who has an eight-year-old, says she doesn't feel confident people will \"follow the rules\".\n\n\"There are other parents with vulnerable children, or vulnerable people all still sending their children in.\n\n\"People aren't used to making decisions and it's like they want to be told what to do - they want less guidance and more telling.\"\n\nJen from the East Riding told the BBC she is frustrated by the lack of information from her son's school.\n\n\"My son has had a cold since the end of last week, as children do, but last night he told me he feels like someone's punching him in his chest and his throat feels weird.\n\n\"This morning I was still in two minds but I called the school and the head teacher answered in two rings and said we should definitely self isolate as he's got two pregnant members of staff and children with grandparents to think about.\"\n\nDespite pressure from teaching unions, the government insists sending hundreds of thousands of pupils home would leave NHS and frontline care staff facing childcare crises.\n\nIt has said closures may be necessary in the future, but only \"at the right stage\" of the outbreak.\n\nThis notion was reflected by head teacher of The Chantry School, in rural Worcestershire, Andy Dickenson.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"If I close my school tomorrow to avoid a mass gathering are you coming for me @BorisJohnson?#schoolclosure.\"\n\nHe told the BBC he had been moved to question the policy due to the inconsistency between advice about mass gatherings and schools remaining open.\n\n\"Schools are an absolute breeding ground for bugs - we know that. Equally we have a social responsibility so ensure we are not putting into the care of their grandparents or NHS workers.\"\n\nHe suggested setting online learning for pupils at home and schools running on a skeleton staff to support the children of parents who need to go to work.\n\nNicola from Aberdeenshire has children in primary school, where regular hand washing has been implemented, and teaches in a secondary where there are no gels or hand washing.\n\n\"It seems like they are relying on students to follow guidance themselves, but they are teenagers so they just don't - it feels like we've been forgotten,\" she said.\n\nTara Telford from Cumbria, who has an eight-year-old and a five-year-old, is vulnerable because because she takes immunosuppressive medication due to a chronic disease.\n\n\"I have reason to be terrified but my kids are in. People should talk to schools, have the conversation, if more did what my kids' school did we could keep schools open for longer.\"", "The US has cut interest rates to almost zero and launched a $700bn stimulus programme in a bid to protect the economy from the effect of coronavirus.\n\nIt is part of a co-ordinated action announced on Sunday in the UK, Japan, eurozone, Canada, and Switzerland.\n\nIn a news conference Fed chairman Jerome Powell said the pandemic was having a \"profound\" impact on the economy.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the emergency action \"makes me very happy\".\n\nThe Fed has cut rates to a target range of 0% to 0.25%, and said it would it begin buying bonds - quantitative easing - a move that pumps money directly into the economy.\n\nThe central bank had already cut interest rates by half a percentage point after an emergency meeting on 3 March. That had been the first rate cut outside of a regularly scheduled policy meeting since the financial crisis in 2008.\n\nStock markets have plunged in recent days amid fears that economic paralysis will wipe out corporate profits and spark a global recession.\n\nBut early indications suggest the Fed's move may not shore up financial markets. US stock market futures, which anticipate the direction of shares when trading begins, were almost 4% down.\n\nSpeaking after the emergency meeting, which was held in place of the Fed's regular rates setting decision scheduled for this week, Mr Powell warned that although it was clear the outbreak was already having a major impact on the economy it was still too early to tell just how far-reaching the effects will be.\n\n\"The economic outlook is evolving on a daily basis and it is depending on the spread of the virus... that is not something that is knowable,\" he said.\n\nAs part of Sunday's announcement, the Fed will work with other central banks to increase the availability of dollars for commercial banks.\n\nThese so-called currency swap lines were an important tool in maintaining financial stability after the 2008 banking crisis.\n\n\"Today's coordinated action by major central banks will improve global liquidity by lowering the price and extending the maximum term of US dollar lending operations,\" Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said in a joint statement with Andrew Bailey, who succeeds him as BoE chief on Monday.\n\nThe Bank of Japan also eased monetary policy by pledging to buy risky assets at double the current pace and announced a new loan programme to extend one-year, zero-rate loans to financial institutions.\n\nThe Federal Reserve has now fired most of its remaining big guns to stimulate a US economy facing a serious financial shock from the coronavirus.\n\nInterest rates were slashed by one full percentage point to just above zero, and the bank restarted the pumping of hundreds of billions of dollars into financial markets. Global central banks, including the Bank of England, joined in to ease the flow of dollars around the world.\n\nIt was the full crisis toolkit designed to inject confidence into markets that ran riot last week as the outbreak turned into a global pandemic.\n\nWhile the moves should soothe the financing of US business, they also reflect that the health emergency in the US has become far worse than expected and reveals US authorities are running short of options.\n\nInterest rate cuts are a blunt instrument to deal with a pandemic, and more is expected from Congress and the White House, in particular.\n\nPresident Trump welcomed the cut, but it was his decision to ban European travel that sparked the latest record share sell off on Thursday.\n\nThere is some hope that a video conference call later between leaders of the G7 western industrialised nations, including President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will result in a more coordinated global approach to the virus.\n\nThe authorities will be watching markets carefully today, including Mr Bailey, on his first day in the job.\n\nMichael Hewson, chief market analyst at UK-based CMC Markets, described the co-ordinated move as throwing \"the kitchen sink at the markets. [It] serves to underscore the seriousness of the economic shocks coming our way\".\n\nAnd in the US, Greg McBridge, chief financial analyst at online bank and mortgage firm Bankrate.com, said: \"Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Fed is doing just that in an effort to keep credit markets functioning and prevent the type of starving of credit that nearly toppled the global economy into a depression in 2008.\n\n\"Reducing interest rates to borrowers will ease the burden of existing debts slightly but is unlikely to spur the usual surge of borrowing as consumers and businesses batten down the hatches for a coming drop off in US economic activity.\"", "Hudd starred in Coronation Street on and off between 2002 and 2010\n\nRoy Hudd, who hosted BBC Radio 2's The News Huddlines for 26 years and also starred in Coronation Street, has died at the age of 83.\n\nIn a statement, his agent said: \"We are sad to announce the passing of the much-loved and amazingly talented Roy Hudd OBE.\n\n\"After a short illness, Roy passed away peacefully on Sunday 15 March, with his wife Debbie at his side.\"\n\nThe all-round entertainer also starred in Coronation Street.\n\nHis agent added: \"The family would ask you to respect their privacy at this very sad time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rory Bremner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 team at Have I Got News For You also tweeted a tribute.\n\n\"Hopefully Roy Hudd's death will not go unnoticed in the current crisis,\" the tweet read.\n\n\"Roy was a very generous comic who went out of his way to encourage young gag writers. Many producers and writers working in comedy today owe him a great deal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sandi Toksvig This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedy writer Simon Blackwell, who is best known for his work on The Thick of It, In The Loop and Veep, said he got his start thanks to Hudd.\n\n\"Very sad indeed to hear that Roy Hudd has died,\" Blackwell tweeted. \"A really lovely bloke, a great comedian, excellent straight actor. And a comedy historian too.\n\n\"I got my start in comedy writing via his Radio 2 show The News Huddlines. He was a total joy to write for. All good wishes to his family.\"\n\nThe Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford also posted 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 3 by Yvonne Arnaud Theatre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor and writer Mark Gatiss tweeted: \"Farewell to the wonderful Roy Hudd. A great comic and actor. One of those joyous people who feel like they've been with us forever.\"\n\nHudd played Archie Shuttleworth in the ITV soap for several stints between 2002 and 2010.\n\nIn the 1990s, he won praise for his roles in Dennis Potter's Lipstick on your Collar and Karaoke.\n\nHe also starred in acclaimed crime drama Ashes to Ashes (2010), alongside Keeley Hawes and Philip Glenister.\n\nPlaying a pantomime dame for the first time at the age of 79\n\nIn 2015, he played his first pantomime dame in Dick Whittington and His Cat, the first show at the then newly renovated Wilton's Music Hall in London.\n\nHe also co-wrote and played the part of Bud Flanagan in the musical Underneath the Arches.\n\nThe News Huddlines ran from 1975 to 2001\n\nHudd was born in Croydon, Surrey, in 1936.\n\nOne of his earliest jobs was as an artist working under Harry Beck, who produced the famous London Underground map.\n\nHudd made his professional debut as a comedian in 1957 at the Streatham Hill Theatre.\n\nIn 1958, he joined the Redcoats at Butlin's Clacton and worked alongside Sir Cliff Richard and Dave Allen.\n\nBut it was in satirical comedy that Hudd made his name after he began his TV career in 1964 with the BBC series That Was The Week That Was.\n\nHe also appeared on the BBC's Not So Much A Programme, More A Way of Life, alongside David Frost, William Rushton, John Bird, Michael Crawford and Eleanor Bron.\n\nHudd was also an authority on music hall and was president of the British Music Hall Society,\n\n\"The songs were terrific. They told good stories,\" he told the BBC earlier this year.\n\n\"The music hall songs have always appealed to me. I was brought up by a gran who always used to sing songs.\"\n\nHudd, who has a son, Max, from his first marriage, lived with his second wife, Debbie Flitcroft, in south London.\n\nThe pair met while working together in panto in Nottingham.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Comedian's archive set to go to university", "PC Andrew Harper was responding to a report of a quad bike theft in Berkshire\n\nA police officer who was dragged behind a car sustained such severe injuries one of his colleagues \"could not recognise him\", a court has heard.\n\nAndrew Harper suffered \"catastrophic\" injuries after being dragged behind the vehicle in Berkshire in August.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard a statement from PC Simon Pink who said he knew 28-year-old PC Harper but \"from the injuries I saw I could not recognise him\".\n\nHenry Long, 18, of Mortimer, Reading, and two 17-year-old boys deny murder.\n\nThe court has heard how PC Harper responded to a report of a stolen quad bike, when a strap trailing behind a Seat Toledo got \"lassoed\" around his ankles as it accelerated away.\n\nPC Harper was dragged for about a mile and after he became detached from the vehicle in a country lane near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, several officers tried to save him.\n\nHenry Long (left) and two 17-year-old defendants - who cannot be identified due to their age - are in the dock at the Old Bailey\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read a statement by Thames Valley Police firearms officer Nick Kluger, who said he felt \"an immense sense of dread and an urgency\" when he heard an officer was down.\n\nPC Kluger and other officers used a defibrillator to try to save PC Harper and he \"said something like: 'Stay with me, buddy, the ambulance will be here soon and they'll sort you out'\".\n\nHe said he felt \"elation\" when paramedics arrived but PC Harper's injuries were deemed \"incompatible with life\" and he was pronounced dead at 23:45 BST.\n\nPC Andy Kemp, who responded to the quad bike theft report, told the jury he saw a car come \"straight through the junction\" of Lambdens Hill with the A4.\n\nThe court heard PC Kemp saw \"no lights on the car at all\" and he saw something that made him think that \"they had stolen a cash machine\".\n\nAs he turned into Ufton Lane, he noticed some \"ratchet straps\" on the ground and a body which \"appeared to be tumbling\".\n\nMr Long, the car's driver, and two 17-year-olds deny murder. Mr Long has previously admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nOn Monday, the two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named due to their age, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThey also deny manslaughter. The trial continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Safe spaces must be provided for the homeless and other vulnerable people to self-isolate, ministers are being told.\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran is calling for empty offices to be requisitioned to ensure the homeless are treated with dignity as the coronavirus spreads.\n\nProposed new laws, reportedly giving the police the power to arrest anyone with the virus not self-isolating indoors, will be published this week.\n\nShe warned rough sleepers could be \"disproportionately affected\" by this.\n\nDetails of emergency legislation giving the authorities extra powers to deal with the outbreak are due to be published on Thursday.\n\nIt has been reported that the plans could give the police the power to detain anyone who has tested positive for coronavirus or even showing symptoms and who is yet still circulating in public.\n\nThe government's current advice is that anyone with a fever or a new continuous cough must remain at home for at least a week.\n\nFurther measures, including requiring every Briton over the age of 70 to stay at home for an extended period to \"shield\" them from the virus, are expected in the coming weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the emergency legislation, which is expected to be fast-tracked through Parliament later this month, will \"prepare\" the country for the expected spike in cases over the coming months.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, he would not be drawn on specific details but said he hoped some of the measures would not actually be needed because people would behave \"responsibly\".\n\nOpposition parties say they support the government in its efforts to fight the virus but have expressed concerns about the scope of some of the powers being touted - which could remain in place for months.\n\nMs Moran said there had been a welcome fall in recent years in arrests of homeless people and the power of arrest should only be used as a \"last resort\".\n\n\"I support all evidence-led action to prevent the spread of Covid-19,\" she said. \"Yet I worry that these new detention powers will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in our society, including the homeless.\n\n\"The idea of police arresting homeless people, many with complex health and addiction issues, without proper testing, and placing them in detention centres just doesn't sit right.\"\n\nShe said the government must provide \"compassionate\" accommodation which encouraged homeless people who might be showing symptoms associated with the virus to come forward.\n\n\"The government should seek to care for homeless people and set up special services for them in disused buildings or vacated offices in cities,\" she added.\n\n\"These facilities should provide a sanitised place to eat, drink water and use the toilet. And, they should provide safe spaces for vulnerable people to self-isolate with dignity, as opposed to within a detention facility following arrest.\"\n\nCampaign groups have urged the government to block book empty hotel rooms to allow the homeless to self-isolate, saying the bills could be covered by the £500m hardship fund announced in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget.\n\nThe Museum of Homelessness and Streets Kitchen said this would keep people safe, minimise the risk of cross-infection and allow better health monitoring.\n\nIt said its plan would \"reduce hospital admissions, stop people being turfed out of hospital shelters onto the street and concentrate community efforts\", adding that everyone should be given a roof over their head \"regardless of the immigration status or situation\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked for \"urgent sight\" of the draft laws and for a meeting with the prime minister to discuss the crisis.\n\nLisa Nandy, one of three candidates seeking to succeed Mr Corbyn, said she believed the public would support immediate action to safeguard people's health but she had reservations about some of the plans being touted.\n\n\"I'm really quite concerned about the idea we are giving sweeping powers to the police and immigration officers in order to detain people who are sick while we don't seem to have a real plan to deal with our elder people,\" she told the BBC Andrew Marr show.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nSuper League and the Rugby Football League have suspended the season until 3 April as a result of the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMost games went ahead as planned at the weekend, with the RFL saying on Friday that it would be \"following the government's guidance as requested\".\n\nHowever, a change to government advice, warning against mass gatherings, has prompted the postponement.\n\nIt applies to all tiers, including the men's, women's and community game.\n• None Future of rugby league 'may go out of existence'\n\n\"These are unprecedented times, and they present significant financial and commercial implications for rugby league, which will be further considered during the period of suspension,\" said the joint statement from Robert Elstone, the executive chairman of Super League Europe, and Ralph Rimmer, CEO of RFL.\n\n\"Super League is also an international competition, and consideration has to be given to our clubs in Canada and France, particularly around travel restrictions and scheduling fixtures.\n\n\"Player welfare and maintaining the integrity of the competition are key concerns moving forward. Equally our responsibilities to rugby league communities remain front of mind for all of us.\n\n\"The whole country is facing major challenges - and the support of our fans, partners and stakeholders is needed now more than ever before.\"\n\nOne of the points in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's briefing on Monday was the decision to withdraw the support of emergency workers at mass gatherings, such as sporting events.\n\nThere is a mandatory requirement to have a doctor and physiotherapist at Super League games. while best practice advice is to have secondary doctor and physiotherapist cover at every match.\n\nWhile there are currently no confirmed cases of coronavirus within rugby league, Toronto Wolfpack said they have four players under self-isolation after reporting symptoms, and have stood down their playing staff accordingly.\n\nEarlier on Monday, St Helens chairman Eamonn McManus said the \"very existence of the sport\" was in danger if the government did not offer financial support to clubs during any postponement to the season.\n\n\"The government has to look at a degree of support for our sport. There's huge financial implications - the very existence of our sport is on the line,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"We're different to soccer, probably different to rugby union. We're at the beginning of our season. This is open-ended both in time and terms of quantum. No-one knows the full extent of it.\"", "This video can not be played.", "The club aims to allow older people to shop \"exclusively and with confidence\"\n\nA grocers is offering early-morning shopping sessions only for people born in 1950 or before.\n\nThe Constantine Bay Stores near Padstow in Cornwall wants older people to be able to shop \"exclusively and with confidence\".\n\nEach day between 08:00 and 08:30, the shop will open its doors only to those in this age bracket.\n\nThe owner said he hoped it would \"give them a little bit of peace of mind\" in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nOlder people are more likely to be very ill if infected, the NHS says.\n\nShielding the elderly from coronavirus is one measure being considered by the government.\n\nChristopher Keeble, the shop's owner, said: \"We really noticed last week some of the older people feeling a bit vulnerable and scared about what is going to happen.\n\n\"So we have come up with this over the weekend to give them a little bit of peace of mind.\"\n\nShop surfaces and door handles will be sanitised first thing, the shop-owner says\n\nThe shop will sanitise surfaces and door handles each day before opening at 08:00.\n\nThe new arrangement started on Monday and Mr Keeble said about 12 older people had already made use of it.\n\n\"Some of them were existing customers and there were a couple of others who heard about it. Everyone was saying they think it is a good idea.\"\n\nHe said they did not have to turn anyone away but \"if a builder turns up wanting a sausage roll before 08:30 we can still serve them through the service hatch in the wall\".\n\nThe club is being trialled for five days but \"given the reaction today it is likely to be extended\", Mr Keeble said.\n\nBBC Local Radio stations across England are helping to keep communities connected during the Coronavirus crisis.\n\nIf you want to Make A Difference get in touch with your BBC Local Radio station at bbc.co.uk/makeadifference", "The Prime Minister said Londoners should pay special attention to \"no contact advice\"\n\nTransmission of Covid-19 is happening more rapidly in London, the Prime Minister has said.\n\nAddressing the UK, Boris Johnson said London is weeks ahead of other regions in terms of the virus curve, meaning transmission is happening more rapidly.\n\nHe told Londoners to pay special attention to the advice to work from home and to avoid unnecessary social contact.\n\nPubs, clubs and theatres should no longer be visited, he added.\n\nAs of 16 March, London has 480 confirmed coronavirus cases. A total of 55 people have died in the UK due to Covid-19 - 14 of those were from London.\n\n\"The very draconian measures outlined will be asking a lot from the everyone\", the PM said.\n\n\"What we're doing is giving very strong advice that public venues such as theatres should no longer be visited.\n\n\"It's important that Londoners now pay special attention to what we're saying about non-essential contact and to take particularly seriously the advice about working from home and avoiding confined spaces such as pubs and restaurants.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It look as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve\"\n\nHis comments come after news passenger numbers on the London Underground have declined 19% during the outbreak.\n\nA shutdown of the West End and other theatres around the country is also likely.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan cancelled the upcoming St Patrick's Day celebrations and Buckingham Palace announced The Queen cancelled a planned visit to Camden on 26 March.\n\nThe mayor also told BBC London the Tube would run a Saturday service on weekdays.\n\nBethnal Green Tube station was quiet at 09:00 on Monday morning\n\n\"You should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues,\" Mr Johnson said in his first daily news briefing on Monday.\n\n\"The proprietors of those venues are taking the logical steps that you would imagine; you are seeing the change happen already.\n\n\"As for enforcement, we have the powers if necessary but I don't believe it will be necessary to use those powers.\"\n\nMr Johnson added that by the weekend those with the most serious health conditions will be shielded from social contact for 12 weeks.\n\nMr Khan said he supported the advice to Londoners and hopes the measures will reduce the chance of transmission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Question Time: How can NHS, students and businesses be supported?\n\nLetters are being sent to more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales asking them to return to the NHS to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSenior officials say the ex-employees are needed to boost frontline services.\n\nIt comes after the government pledged to ensure that all hospitals have enough protective gear and ventilators.\n\nIt also published a list of key workers whose children will still be able to go to school after they shut later.\n\nIn Scotland, anyone who left the medical profession during the past three years has also been asked to consider returning to the NHS.\n\nMeanwhile, the chancellor is set to announce a wage subsidy package to protect jobs.\n\nMany firms are warning of collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is largely put on hold.\n\nOne proposal under discussion is for the UK to follow the lead of countries such as Denmark, where the government has promised to cover 75% of salaries at private companies for three months, if they promise not to let staff go.\n\nIn the UK, 144 people with the virus have died, and 3,269 people have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nSchools in the UK will close from Friday except for those looking after the children of key workers and vulnerable children.\n\nAmong those workers listed in government guidance as critical to the virus response are health workers, teaching staff, police and people working in the production and delivery of vital goods such as food and medical equipment.\n\nChildren with at least one parent working in the listed sectors can continue to attend school but the government is asking parents to keep their children at home wherever possible.\n\nIt comes as England's top nurse and top doctor urged medics who have left the NHS in the last three years to re-register with the regulatory bodies to help in the battle against the \"greatest global health threat in history\".\n\nFinal-year medical students and student nurses could also be given temporary work to boost the ranks.\n\nThose who return will be assessed to see how they can best help the NHS fight the pandemic.\n\nRuth May, chief nursing officer for England, said: \"I am urging all recent former nurses to lend us your expertise and experience during this pandemic, because I have no doubt that you can help to save lives.\"\n\nProfessor Stephen Powis, national medical director for the NHS, said returners \"will make more of a difference than ever before - not just to patients, but to colleagues and the wider community\".\n\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council will write to 50,000 nurses whose registration has lapsed in the last three years; and the General Medical Council will contact another 15,500 doctors who have left since 2017.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he hoped \"many, many thousands will respond\" to the letters.\n\nConservative MP Maria Caulfield, a former nurse, has said she will swap Westminster for the hospital ward - tweeting that it is \"important we all help where we can\".\n\nOthers, such as retired NHS nurse Carolyn Shepherd from Bristol, have expressed concern.\n\nShe said she had seen \"excellent staff on their knees due to the unrelenting excessive workload\" during her career.\n\nShe told BBC News she would answer calls on the 111 helpline but added: \"I don't think they'll persuade me back to the front line\".\n\n\"I've got family commitments and grandchildren. My GP colleagues are incandescent at their lack of equipment. That doesn't inspire me either.\"\n\n\"For 40 years I sacrificed a lot for the NHS but I am not prepared to go one step further and possibly sacrifice myself,\" she added.\n\nCarolyn Shepherd told BBC News she felt \"very out of date\" after leaving nursing in late 2017 and would feel \"unsafe\" treating patients now\n\nAsked when the those who would return could start, Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast those who left most recently could return \"straight away\", while others will be given refresher training \"over the next couple of weeks\".\n\nHe also pledged to get protective personal equipment (PPE) to frontline NHS staff and social care providers \"at pace\", following concern workers were being put at risk by shortages.\n\nMr Hancock said 150 lorries had been dispatched overnight to get the equipment to about half the UK's hospitals, and pledged a lorry load would be sent to each before next week.\n\nHe said more equipment had been sent to GPs and to pharmacists, and a roll out to care homes had also begun.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking directly to NHS staff, he said: \"I totally understand that you need protective equipment... because you're literally on the frontline in what we've rightly called a war\".\n\nIt comes after the government pledged to reach 25,000 tests a day in hospitals within four weeks, and said it had shipped 2.6 million masks and 10,000 bottles of hand sanitiser since Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the government appeal for manufacturers to make ventilators had received \"thousands\" of responses, including from Formula One.\n\nAsked how many were needed, he said \"no number is too big\". He added that the specifications for making them had now been published online and urged firms to \"get on and start making them\".\n\nThe government has bought a test that can detect whether someone has had coronavirus - and their immunity to it, he confirmed.\n\nHe also repeated appeals for people to stop panic-buying after many supermarkets began limiting the number of items that can be bought and reserved certain opening hours for the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Critical care nurse Dawn was driven to despair by the actions of panic-buyers\n\nIt comes as an exhausted critical care nurse made an emotional appeal for people to leave some goods for others who need to stay healthy to carry to support the country.\n\nResponding to Dawn Bilbrough's video, Mr Hancock suggested supermarkets could consider dedicating a specific hour to key workers.\n\nElsewhere, in a message to the nation on Thursday the Queen urged people to come together for the common good.\n\nThe 93-year-old praised the work of scientists, medics and emergency staff, but added that everyone has a \"vitally important part to play\".\n\nThe monarch's comments came shortly before the PM led the government's daily press conference, saying the UK can \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus crisis within 12 weeks.\n\nBut pressed on what he meant by the three-month timescale, he said he did not know how long it would go on for.\n\nMr Johnson went on to rule out closing down public transport in London but pointed out people in some parts of the capital were not following government guidance on social distancing and would be \"enforced\" to do so if necessary.\n\nIn other key developments in the UK:\n\nIn other key developments around the world:\n\nDo you work in healthcare? Or have you recently retired? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We have never in peacetime faced an economic fight like this one\"\n\nThe government has unveiled a package of financial measures to shore up the economy against the coronavirus impact.\n\nIt includes £330bn in loans, £20bn in other aid, a business rates holiday, and grants for retailers and pubs. Help for airlines is also being considered.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told a press conference it was an \"economic emergency. Never in peacetime have we faced an economic fight like this one.\"\n\nAnd he promised that if this package was not enough, he would go further.\n\nFrom the hospitality industry to the airline sector, companies have warned that their long term survival is under threat.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"This is not a time for ideology and orthodoxy, this is a time to be bold, a time for courage. I want to reassure every British citizen this government will give you all the tools you need to get through this.\n\n\"That means any business who needs access to cash to pay their rent, their salaries, suppliers or purchase stock will be able to access a government-backed loan or credit on attractive terms.\n\n\"And if demand is greater than the initial £330bn [for loans] I'm making available today, I will go further and provide as much capacity as required. I said whatever it takes, and I meant it,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said during the same media briefing that \"we must do whatever it takes to support the economy\". He added: \"This a time to be bold, to have courage. We will support jobs, we will support incomes, we will support businesses... We will do whatever it takes.\"\n\nMr Sunak said: \"Some sectors are facing particularly acute challenges. In the coming days, my colleague the Secretary of State for Transport and I will discuss a potential support package specifically for airlines and airports.\"\n\nThe chancellor said he was extending the business rates holiday to all firms in the hospitality sector and funding grants of between £10,000 and £25,000 for small businesses. And Mr Sunak said that for those in financial difficulty due to coronavirus, mortgage lenders will offer a three-month mortgage holiday.\n\nBBC personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz said it was important for borrowers to remember that they would have to make up the payments at a later date.\n\n\"The result is that you have some breathing space but when you resume payments the amount will be adjusted to be slightly higher, because the missed interest payments have been added to the loan,\" he said. \"This doesn't mean the mortgage holiday is a bad idea.\"\n\nThe chancellor unveiled the measures after the government's chief scientific adviser said about 55,000 people in the UK now have Covid-19, as the NHS moved to cancel all non-emergency surgery and 71 people are now known to have died.\n\n\"Whatever it takes\" was the promise from the chancellor to support businesses, families and individuals through the coronavirus crisis. It was a phrase successfully used by a European central banker eight years ago - and effectively calmed a significant eurozone crisis.\n\nBut this intervention is a bigger bazooka than that, because the challenge of coronavirus and the measures to contain it pose to peoples livelihoods and wellbeing are more significant.\n\nThe extraordinary figure here was £330bn in state-backed loans for all businesses through the banking system with the help of the Bank of England.\n\nThat is 15% of the value of the economy. Normally economic announcements are worth a fraction of a percent of national income - this move is about a fraction of our entire GDP. And that is because the self-isolation and suppression moves announced yesterday will remove a chunk of our economy.\n\nAt a stroke, every single forecast number in the Budget the chancellor gave less than a week ago are out of date. We are in an entirely new world. A wartime effort, with wartime deficits to cover it.\n\nIt's not just there will be less tax and more income support required, which typically causes deficits to spike in recessions. Now we face the need for subsidy and provision of incomes in these very tough times.\n\nThis is not a bailout. It's a very expensive bridge that the government cannot afford to fail to build.\n\nCompanies and trade bodies welcomed the announcement, but said they needed to work through the fine print. Like several sectors, the aviation industry has warned it is in a fight for survival as travel bans are put in place and travellers delays bookings.\n\nJohan Lundgren, chief executive of Easyjet, said Mr Sunak's measure were welcome, but added: \"Airlines are facing significant pressure and without government action there is a real risk to the industry. It will be important to work through the detail, but we are already talking to government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak annouces a three-month mortgage holiday \"to help people get back on their feet\"\n\nRetailers, too, have warned the future looks grim without help. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said the new measures would help ease the burden.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: \"The business rates holiday, together with the announcement of a loan package, represent a vital shot in the arm for a sector facing enormous uncertainty. We still need to see the details and make sure that retailers can access cash with the minimum of delay, but it is a welcome and necessary first step to protect jobs.\n\nAdam Marshall, chief executive of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the size of the grants and loans were good news for smaller businesses. \"But what's going to be hugely important . is that cash actually gets to the front line and gets there quickly,\" he said.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, said the business rates holiday was targeted directly at the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors. But he warned: \"This is a substantial level of support. However, it is probably not well targeted at saving jobs in those industries. It will remain as expensive to pay people and if demand is down then jobs are likely to go.\"\n\nHe said it may be necessary to cut employer national insurance contributions, delay increases to the National Living Wage, and increase support for individuals through Universal Credit.\n\nHas your business been affected by coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Everyone should avoid non-essential contact with others to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the prime minister has said.\n\nAs schools shut and some people work from home, many are feeling cut off from their everyday hobbies and social lives.\n\nBut the internet offers a means to stay connected and to keep us all entertained and educated through the days of isolation.\n\nHere are just some of the ways people are already using technology to lift their spirits.\n\nGroups have also been finding innovative ways to socialise, hosting dinner parties and even Brownies meetings online.\n\nGoose’s Quizzes has swapped the pub for the internet\n\nGoose's Quizzes usually runs 45 pub quizzes in Scotland, but has started doing live online sessions every night, with hundreds participating.\n\n\"It's been a pretty bad couple of weeks and pub quizzes bring the community together,\" says Andrew Wildgoose, founder of Goose's Quizzes.\n\n\"So we wanted to find a way for people to still enjoy them.\"\n\nEven book clubs are operating digitally, with private WhatsApp groups forming to share reading lists and Rebel Book Club launching a 14-day free reading challenge for anyone who needs extra accountability.\n\nReading doesn't need to be a solitary pursuit\n\nPeople have also been downloading the free Google Chrome extension Netflix Party, which allows users to watch Netflix together.\n\nIt synchronises screens and creates a group chat to communicate.\n\nFor those craving some culture, museums and galleries have been posting on social media under the hashtag #museumfromhome, showcasing their collections.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne exhibition at God's House Tower in Southampton is having a \"virtual launch\" on Saturday, as the venue has shut due to coronavirus.\n\n\"We're really devastated that the venue has to close temporarily,\" says Daniel Crow, director of the gallery.\n\n\"Hopefully, this will allow people around the world, not just those local, to see it.\n\n\"It really does herald a new era in God's House Tower's fascinating 700-year-old history by presenting art exhibitions online.\"\n\nExercise classes have moved from gyms to online, creating videos or \"lives\" on Instagram and Facebook.\n\nMany fitness clubs, including Barry's, Crossfit and David Lloyd, are providing online workouts people can do at home.\n\nAmanda Dufour, a yoga instructor who is currently self-isolating, has filmed YouTube videos to follow and has been teaching classes via Zoom and Skype.\n\n\"The best thing about yoga is that you can do it anywhere, with no equipment,\" she says.\n\n\"It really gives you a chance to take a break from work, stay calm and process everything that's going on.\n\n\"Stretching can make a big difference if you're hunched up on a laptop all day at home.\"\n\nFree video appointments with vets are also being offered on the FirstVet app until the end of April.\n\nUsers are paired with a qualified vet who can give advice and refer the patient to a physical service if necessary.\n\nVets can help provide pet owners with advice online\n\nDavid Prien, the firm's co-founder, says there's been an 80% rise in people using the app over the past few weeks.\n\n\"Just because you're in isolation doesn't mean your pet stays healthy,\" he adds, noting that it also gives vets who are housebound something to keep them occupied.\n\nPeople are also signing up to dog-walking apps, such as Borrow My Doggy, to walk the pets of those who cannot because of new working arrangements or self-isolation.\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\nNia Williams, director of Slow Food Wales, a grassroots movement that promotes local food and traditional cooking, is making video guides on how to grow fruit and vegetables at home.\n\n\"We've had so much freedom and access in our lives recently, so now people have gone into shock,\" Nia says.\n\n\"I'm making these videos so families have something to do but to also empower them to have a bit more control over their food and situation.\"\n\nFinally, for those wishing to add a touch of class to their nights in, the Champagne Bureau has this handy guide to pairing champagne with your takeaway of choice.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Champagne Bureau UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Champagne is a versatile wine which enhances our everyday meals,\" says Francoise Peretti, director of the UK division.\n\n\"As we face these times of uncertainty and self-isolate, it will provide the joyful lift we all need,\"", "Duffy said she felt \"freer\" after making her sexual assault ordeal public\n\nPop star Duffy has unveiled her first original song for a decade, weeks after revealing a rape and kidnap ordeal that led her to retreat from the public eye.\n\nThe Welsh singer sent the song, titled Something Beautiful, to BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, who played it on Thursday.\n\n\"I don't plan to release it,\" Duffy wrote. \"I just thought a little something might be nice for people if they are at home, on lockdown.\"\n\nLast month, she revealed she had been \"raped and drugged and held captive\".\n\nShe explained: \"Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it.\n\n\"But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the Sun does now shine.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 track is a love song that features the familiar soulful voice and retro backing that fans will remember from the days when Duffy was one of the country's biggest stars.\n\n\"Thanks, Duffy, for sending that to me,\" Whiley said.\n\nDuffy had the UK's best-selling album of 2008 and the following year became the first woman to win three Brit Awards in the same night.\n\nBut she virtually disappeared from the public eye after releasing her second album in 2010.\n\nShe briefly re-emerged with a cameo role in the 2015 film Legend and two songs on the soundtrack - they were covers of tunes by Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran rather than originals.\n\nIn her message to Whiley, which she posted on Instagram, the singer wrote that she felt \"freer\" after revealing her ordeal.\n\n\"So here's a song… here's Something Beautiful,\" she wrote. \"It's just something for you to play people on radio during these troubling times, if you like the song of course. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Bank of England has cut interest rates again in an emergency move as it tries to support the UK economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is the second cut in interest rates in just over a week, bringing them down to 0.1% from 0.25%.\n\nInterest rates are now at the lowest ever in the Bank's 325-year history.\n\nThe Bank said it would also increase its holdings of UK government and corporate bonds by £200bn with an effort to lower the cost of borrowing.\n\nIt's a dramatic move by Andrew Bailey, who only took over from Mark Carney as Bank of England governor on Monday.\n\nLast week, the Bank announced a 0.5% cut in rates to 0.25% and a package of measures to help businesses and individuals cope with the economic damage caused by the virus.\n\nThe move coincided with additional measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Budget.\n\nHowever, the Bank said the measures it had taken so far were not going to be enough, and believed \"a further package of measures was warranted\".\n\n\"The spread of Covid-19 and the measures being taken to contain the virus will result in an economic shock that could be sharp and large, but should be temporary,\" it added.\n\nThe move comes as international investors are trying to secure more cash, in particular dollars. This means they're ditching assets such as UK government gilts, which are the \"IOU\" notes the government hands over to private investors willing to lend it money.\n\nAs the gilts are sold, the price drops and the yield - the effective interest rate compared to the price - rises. What that means is the cost of borrowing to private investors as well as to the government rises - just when the Bank of England wants it to fall and the government is about to borrow huge sums.\n\nThe Bank of England's plan to buy £200bn more bonds is aimed at fighting that effect.\n\nThe fresh rate cut takes interest rates to the lowest they can feasibly go, said Jeremy Thomson-Cook, chief economist at payments company Equals Group.\n\n\"Lower rates and additional quantitative easing can keep markets satisfied and borrowing costs for both businesses and the government down but unless money is forced into the hands of small businesses soon, then it will be for nothing; they are the ones laying off staff due to a liquidity shock,\" he added.\n\nKaren Ward, chief European market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, said: The support to the economy and health system will require vastly higher government borrowing. The central bank showing willing to buy government debt will ensure the market can absorb this additional issuance without undue stress.\"\n\nThe Bank of England Governor has said today's second emergency rate cut in just over a week occurred after financial markets became \"borderline disorderly\", with fears about coronavirus leading to a rush into the US dollar away from sterling and lending to the UK government.\n\n\"We've seen very sharp moves in financial markets in the last few days, which is the pace of which frankly, was increasing very rapidly. And we were moving into conditions that were if not disorderly, frankly, bordering on disorderly let me put it that way,\" Andrew Bailey told journalists.\n\nThe Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee had an emergency call this morning so that rate cuts and further \"quantitative easing\" could be agreed and announced, with the Bank needing to be \"on the offensive\" because: \"We can't wait for the hard economic data it will be too late by then\", he said.\n\nHe said he had seen a range of private forecasts about the economic impact of the current crisis: \"We don't have a precise forecast - every picture we look at has a very sharp V in it\".\n\nThe governor also partly blamed rumours that appeared to emerge from Westminster of a shutdown to London for adding to the volatility in markets that saw sterling fall 5% against the dollar. Such a shutdown would be likely to impact on the functioning of the City.\n\nHe said: \"I do have to say that, you know, there were rumours going on the market this time yesterday that there was going to be a lockdown in London. And I'd observe that did cause market prices to start moving around at that point. But I think the government has been clear, and it's clear that that is not the intention at the moment.\"\n\nThe governor also said that he had already intervened to try to get loans to businesses to keep people in employment, and he said the Bank had its thinking cap on as regards further monetary boosts it can make.\n\nHe reiterated his lack of enthusiasm for zero or negative interest rates because of their impact on the banking system's capacity to lend, and suggested that was the reason for limiting the cut to an unusual 0.15% (rather than the usual 0.25% or 0.5%) to a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe key Monetary Policy Committee will meet again next week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"The government is going to step in and help to pay people's wages\"\n\nThe government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic, in a radical move aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nIt will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe \"unprecedented\" measures will stop workers being laid off due to the crisis, chancellor Rishi Sunak said.\n\nFirms have warned the virus could see them collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is put on hold.\n\nMr Sunak said closing pubs and restaurants would have a \"significant impact\" on businesses.\n\nIt is understood that the wage subsidy will apply to firms where bosses have already had to lay off workers due to the coronavirus, as long as they are brought back into the workforce and instead granted a leave of absence.\n\nThe chancellor said the move would mean workers should be able to keep their jobs, even if their employer could not afford to pay them.\n\nHe said they were \"unprecedented measures for unprecedented times.\"\n\n\"I know that people are worried about losing their jobs, about not being able to pay the rent or mortgage, about not having enough set by for food and bills... to all those at home right now, anxious about the days ahead, I say this: you will not face this alone,\" Mr Sunak added\n\nThe wages cover, which relates to gross pay, will be backdated to the start of March and last for three months, but Mr Sunak said he would extend the scheme for longer \"if necessary\".\n\nThe scheme, which will be run by HMRC, is expected to make the first grants to businesses \"within weeks\", a Treasury spokeswoman said.\n\nEmployers' body the CBI said Mr Sunak's announcement was \"a landmark package\".\n\n\"It marks the start of the UK's economic fightback - an unparalleled joint effort by enterprise and government to help our country emerge from this crisis with the minimum possible damage,\" said director general Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank also said the package was \"hugely welcome\", reaching lower-paid workers that were most at risk of job losses.\n\nBut other lobby groups warned of the potential risk to firms which had to wait for the money to arrive.\n\nKate Nicholls, the chief executive of trade body UK Hospitality, said many businesses faced rent payments before the support was due.\n\n\"Banks and landlords need to do more to help us bridge the gap towards this generous government support. Damage is being done now, so we need help now.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses also warned the delay in wages help - potentially until the end of April - meant many small firms would still face \"an immediate, potentially terminal cash flow crunch\".\n\nThe government has faced huge pressure to intervene to support workers to prevent mass unemployment as anti-virus measures have seen many firms' revenues evaporate almost overnight.\n\nThe wage package is the latest in a series of government moves aimed at easing the burden on businesses and their employees.\n\nHowever, there was not the same wages guarantee for the self-employed. Instead, Mr Sunak increased benefits that many will have to fall back on.\n\nOther measures to support firms and workers included:\n\nCapital Economics said that it expected the unemployment rate to rise from just under 4% to about 6% due to the crisis. However, without this latest government intervention, that rate would have risen to the financial crisis level of 8%, it said.\n\nThis move is an incredible intervention for any British government, let alone a Conservative one, but proportionate to the size of the terrible, but temporary, economic impact that could follow the coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nIn theory, it should save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Perhaps more. Employers have to accept that the government is doing something they would have never imagined a UK government to do.\n\nAt 80% cent of wages up to £2,500 a month it is a scheme more generous than some of the high welfare Scandinavian countries. It instantly transforms the social safety net of this nation.\n\nIt shows that the Treasury does believe that the very sharp plunge in the size of the economy can be followed by a bounceback - but not if millions of people are scarred by unemployment. Economics shows that these can have long lasting impact.\n\nThe chancellor was given the room for this partly by the Bank of England's biggest ever announcement of purchasing government debt.\n\nThere are risks if this pandemic lasts much longer than three months. But the risks of not acting were much greater.\n\nNow it requires employers to hold their nerve until the payments begin at the end of next month. And for the banks to help that process.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExams for Scottish school pupils will not take place this year, the education secretary has announced.\n\nJohn Swinney told MSPs the \"unprecedented\" move was a measure of the \"gravity\" of the situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIt is the first time the exams have been cancelled since the system was put in place in 1888.\n\nThe Scottish government announced on Wednesday that all Scottish schools would be closing on Friday.\n\nMr Swinney said a model would be put in place to ensure that young people in schools and colleges who were unable to sit exams would not be disadvantaged in any way.\n\nPupils will be graded on coursework, teacher assessment and prior grades.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"In all of our history Scotland has never cancelled the exams. Since 1888 they have been held every May and June without fail.\n\n\"In the midst of two world wars the exams went ahead.\n\n\"It is a measure of the gravity of the challenges that we now face that I must today announce that the exams will not go ahead this year.\"\n\nMr Swinney stressed that saving lives was the Scottish government's top priority but said it was important to protect the \"interests and life chances\" of young people.\n\n\"I want the 2020 cohort to hold their heads high and get the qualifications they deserve,\" he said.\n\nThe education secretary also urged teachers to do all they could safely to meet deadlines and allow young people to get their grades.\n\nHe added that the chief examiner would ensure that awards were made by 4 August so students could secure entrance to further or higher education.\n\nScottish schools will be closing at the end of this week\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said work had started \"at pace\" to develop an alternative certification model.\n\nThe SQA's chief executive Fiona Robertson said: \"I fully appreciate that this will be an uncertain time for learners who have worked hard throughout the year and will now, with their families, be worried about what this means for them.\n\n\"Everyone here at SQA will do their utmost, with the support of the education system, to ensure that their hard work is rightly and fairly recognised, and allows them to proceed to further learning or work.\"\n\nSchools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will also be closing this week.\n\nThe UK government has already announced that GCSEs and A-levels in England and Wales will be cancelled.\n\nSix people have now died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe first minister told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 had risen to 266, an increase of 39 from Wednesday.\n\nBut Nicola Sturgeon warned the figures were \"likely to be an underestimate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour has urged ministers to go \"further and faster\" to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nUnions have welcomed the government's emergency financial support package for workers, announced earlier by the chancellor.\n\nAnd business group UK Hospitality said the move could potentially save up to a million jobs.\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said cash must be available now and not subject to \"weeks of delays\".\n\nLabour had been calling for the government to intervene to pay the wages of those unable to work due to school closures and other disruptions and those at most risk of redundancy - to a level of up to 90% of monthly earnings.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the government would subsidise the monthly salaries of employees unable to work as part of an \"unprecedented\" package of measures to help protect people's jobs.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Downing Street, in which he also announced increases to certain benefits, he said he understood the fear of not being able to pay bills and promised workers \"you will not face this alone\".\n\nLeading trade unions, who were consulted about the plans in advance, said they represented a huge step forward in stopping millions of low-paid workers falling into hardship.\n\n\"Securing jobs through government underwriting of wages is hugely welcome, and that’s what we've been calling for action on,\" said the GMB's general secretary Tim Roache.\n\n“This gives businesses and workers enhanced security and will help us recover in the long term.\"\n\nHe called on employers to pay the remaining 20% to ensure people were not left any worse off.\n\nThe GMB union said the plan to pay 80% of wages for employees not working, up to £2,500 a month, was \"hugely welcome\".\n\nThe government's announcement was welcomed by leading Labour figures, such as Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and former leader Ed Miliband.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has said he was \"concerned about the ability of the NHS to cope\" if the number of coronavirus cases increases as expected.\n\nReferring to the \"huge increase\" in the number of people in the capital city contracting the virus, he urged Londoners to \"please stay at home\" or risk their own health and the lives of the vulnerable.\n\nAsked about the the prime minister's call for many meeting places to shut their doors, he said, \"It's right that pubs, that rests, that cafes... are closed down.\"\n\nHe said that only key workers should be using public transport and urged others to work from home.\n\nMr McDonnell warned the government's plans still represented \"quite a significant wage cut\" and said further action was needed to boost statutory sick pay and to make it easier for the self-employed to claim via universal credit.\n\n\"The chancellor has shifted under the pressure we put on him but...he needs to go further and faster\".\n\nEd Davey, the acting leader of the Lib Dems, welcomed the government's intervention but said \"far too little is being done for the self-employed, those on zero hours contracts or those on statutory sick pay and benefits\".", "\"It's like sleep mode\" was the way one Cabinet minister described the point of this significant intervention in the employment market.\n\nThe idea here is to help employers put the workforce temporarily not needed in a sharp downturn into hibernation for when normality returns, not to fire them and do irreparable damage to the nation's productive capacity.\n\nThis move is an incredible intervention for any British government, let alone a Conservative one, but proportionate to the size of the terrible but temporary economic impact that could follow the coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nLet's be clear, we are in a recession already, as is most of the coronavirus-afflicted developed world. The point of actions such as this is to prevent the permanent scars of depression.\n\nThe seeds are there for a quick return to growth - all the same buildings and computer systems and networks and transport infrastructure are there, once this wretched pandemic passes, whether that is in six months or nine months or a year.\n\nIn theory it should save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Perhaps many more.\n\nEmployers have to accept that the government is doing something they would have never imagined a UK government would do.\n\nAt 80% of wages up to £2,500 a month it is a scheme more generous than some of the high welfare Scandinavian countries. It instantly transforms the social safety net of this nation.\n\nWeeks after Brexit, the UK does the most continental European-style economic intervention for decades.\n\nA massive support package that was the product of government negotiating in a small room with business groups and the unions.\n\nIt shows that the Treasury does believe that the very sharp plunge in the size of the economy can be followed by a bounceback - but not if millions of people are scarred by unemployment. Economics shows that these can have long lasting impact.\n\nThe chancellor was given the room for this partly by the Bank of England's biggest ever announcement of purchasing government debt.\n\nThere are fiscal risks here if this pandemic lasts much longer than three months. But the risks of not acting were much greater.\n\nIndeed thousands of workers had already been fired.\n\nThe Treasury scheme is designed to get those immediate economic victims of the crisis back in to their workforces. Business owners will then have to give them a leave of absence and receive taxpayer funding worth four-fifths of their salary.\n\nSuch employees should be picking up the phone to their ex-bosses.\n\nThere are gaps. The government is not saying there will be no pain.\n\nThe self-employed still have it relatively tough, despite some changes to the benefit system. A delay to billions in VAT payments should also help things in the interim.\n\nBut for those in jobs, or very recently fired, it requires employers to hold their nerve until the taxpayer payments begin at the end of next month.", "After a day in which governments around the world sought to slow the spread of the coronavirus, we are pausing our live coverage.\n\nBut we'll continue to bring you updates across the BBC News website.\n\nSo for now, here are the latest headlines:\n• The UK announced that cafes, pubs and restaurants must close from Friday night. The government also said it would pay 80% of wages for employees who are not able to work\n• The US suspended all non-essential traffic across its borders with both Mexico and Canada. Several states ordered residents to stay at home\n• Italy, already one of the worst affected countries, reported 627 more deaths - the largest daily increase since the outbreak began\n• And the US said data from Italy indicated the death rate for men was double that for women\n• Meanwhile, cases increased in countries in Africa where restrictions to people's movements were stepped up\n• But China, where the virus originated last year, reported no new domestic cases for the second consecutive day\n• The total death toll passed 10,000, while confirmed cases rose above 250,000\n• And the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning to young people. \"You are not invincible,\" he said. \"The choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and death for someone else\"\n\nAs always, you can find our latest coronavirus stories here.\n\nBut we leave you with this video diary from the world's greatest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge, who is self-isolating:\n\nVideo caption: Kenyan athletics star Eliud Kipchoge explains how he's keeping fit while in quarantine. Kenyan athletics star Eliud Kipchoge explains how he's keeping fit while in quarantine.", "Pupils whose exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic will be given grades estimated by their teachers, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes as most UK schools closed their doors to a majority of pupils indefinitely in an effort to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nBut many schools will re-open on Monday with a skeleton staff to accommodate the children of \"key workers\".\n\nThere are concerns the hastily arranged system may struggle to cope.\n\nTeachers in England will look at coursework, mocks and other evidence from A-level and GCSE students and will award grades.\n\nAnd a process will be agreed with exam regulators and exam boards to see that pupils' \"hard work and dedication is rewarded and fairly recognised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government has closed all schools, but what does that mean for exams, and who can still go in?\n\nA similar process is likely to be followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said cancelling exams was something no education secretary would ever want to do, but it was vital in these \"extraordinary times\".\n\n\"My priority now is to ensure no young person faces a barrier when it comes to moving onto the next stage of their lives - whether that's further or higher education, and apprenticeship of a job,\" he said.\n\nThe announcement came as hundreds of thousands of school pupils were saying sometimes tearful goodbyes to each other for possibly the last time.\n\nPupils at the end of primary, GCSE and A-Level students do not know whether they will see their classmates again in school.\n\nHead teachers and local authority officials have been struggling to work out whose children they should be accommodating when schools partially re-open on Monday.\n\nThe government has published a list of key workers whose children can still go to school if they cannot be looked after at home.\n\nThese workers' jobs are considered \"critical\" for the response to the pandemic.\n\nThe list has been separated into eight categories, including frontline health workers and social-care staff, nursery and teaching workers and those involved in food production and delivery.\n\nIt also includes the police, those in key public services, transport workers and critical staff in financial services and utilities.\n\nNorthern Ireland Education Minister Peter Weir has said all schools there should be prepared to cater for key workers' children after they close on Monday.\n\nAnyone who thinks the emergency schools that are due to open on Monday will run like regular ones is wrong.\n\nThey will instead comprise a patchwork of available teachers, support staff and pupils whose parents find themselves lucky enough to be on the key workers' list.\n\nThey will not be following a specific curriculum, there will be no working towards exams and pupils are unlikely to be taught in their own year groups.\n\nHow many pupils each school can accommodate will be a daily moving picture as staff fall ill.\n\nAnd head teachers will have to make some tough decisions about who can come into class - and sometimes their decisions will not be popular\n\nOne spoke of arguing with a father who asked for a place because he worked in McDonald's; others in more obviously frontline jobs have also been disappointed.\n\nOn the up side, the lucky ones may have a chance to learn in new and different ways, while their former classmates grapple with online learning from home.\n\nNurseries, colleges and childminders are also closing their doors, though some are being asked to re-open to accommodate key workers' children.\n\nVulnerable children, including those who have a social worker and those with special educational needs, will also be allowed to go to school.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint-general secretary of the National Education Union, said: \"This is a very long list and could result in some schools having the majority of pupils attending.\"\n\nShe also called for education workers to be tested for Covid-19 to ensure safe working in schools.\n\nShe added: \"There simply won't be enough education staff available for work on school sites if all members with symptoms are forced to self-isolate.\"\n\nThe government stressed that \"every child who can be safely cared for at home should be\" and asked workers to consult their employers to confirm whether \"their specific role is necessary\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it would help local authorities identify those \"who most need support at this time\".\n\nThe government has encouraged local authorities to keep residential special schools and specialist colleges open wherever possible.", "Alice Cutter and Mark Jones were found guilty after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA \"Miss Hitler\" contest entrant and her ex-partner have been convicted of being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.\n\nAlice Cutter, 23, and Mark Jones, 25, were found guilty of being members of the neo-Nazi organisation after a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nGarry Jack, 24, and 19-year-old Connor Scothern were also found guilty of being members of the group.\n\nAll four will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nNational Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed under anti-terror legislation three years later after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nJones and Cutter were described as key members of National Action\n\nDuring their trial Cutter, from Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, was described by prosecutors as a \"central spoke\" among the organisation's hardcore members, while Jones, also from Sowerby Bridge, was a \"leader and strategist\".\n\nJurors heard how Cutter had entered the Miss Hitler beauty pageant under the name Miss Buchenwald - a reference to the Second World War death camp.\n\nThey were also told how she had exchanged hundreds of messages, many racist and anti-Semitic, and was still meeting other members months after the ban.\n\nIn an exchange with another National Action member a day after MP Mrs Cox was gunned down, Cutter wrote: \"Rot in hell, bitch.\"\n\nShe claimed not to have considered herself a member, even before the ban, despite attending meetings with group leaders and posing for a Nazi-style salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in 2016.\n\nCutter also attended a demo in York in May 2016.\n\nMr Jones had an \"original wedding edition\" of Mein Kampf\n\nJones, a former member of the British National Party's youth wing, told jurors of his \"feelings of admiration\" for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf.\n\nHe also accepted that he posed for a photograph while holding a National Action flag and giving a Nazi-style salute in Buchenwald's execution chamber on a trip to Germany in 2016.\n\nCutter and Jones embraced in the dock before being taken down to the cells.\n\nGarry Jack, Connor Scothern and Daniel Ward were also convicted or pleaded guilty to being National Action members\n\nAlso convicted of the same offence were two other men; Garry Jack, 24, of Shard End, Birmingham, and 19-year-old Connor Scothern, from Nottingham.\n\nSelf-confessed Nazi Jack was described as a foot soldier in the group, having joined six months before the ban.\n\nScothern, who was a one-time practising Muslim, and an Antifa - anti-fascist activist - before eventually joining National Action, did not give evidence at trial.\n\nBut in messages he sent following the ban in August 2017, he talked of setting up \"a clear and openly fascist youth movement\".\n\nA fifth man, Daniel Ward, 28 from Bartley Green, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to being a member of National Action last year and was jailed for three years.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kenny Bell, of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit said: \"Being convicted of membership of this extreme right terrorist group is the same as belonging to other terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda or Daesh.\n\n\"They share a real toxic extreme ideology which is a danger to the public, the same ideology that we have seen manifested in the tragic attack in New Zealand, the murder of Jo Cox MP and the attack at Finsbury Park mosque in 2017.\n\n\"This group was amassing weapons and recipes for bomb-making. They communicated through secret channels to recruit others to their cause. Left unchecked they presented a real threat to the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trains operators across Britain will gradually reduce services from Monday, amid falling demand because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe government said it had agreed the plan with the rail industry to reflect the fall in passenger numbers, while keeping vital services running.\n\nOperators will still run core services to ensure key workers can get to their jobs and the flow of goods continues.\n\nIt comes after the PM said people should avoid \"non-essential\" travel.\n\nTrain operators across the country had already begun cancelling services because of staff being off sick or self-isolating and a collapse in demand.\n\nAnd Transport for London has announced up to 40 Underground stations will be shut until further notice, while bus services will be reduced.\n\nBuses in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester are also among those to be cutting services.\n\nThere were few passengers in Waterloo Railway Station during the morning rush hour earlier this week\n\nThe reductions to services will be keep under review, with operators communicating any changes with passengers, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTo minimise disruption, services will be reduced progressively, but over the longer term, the department said there would be \"a gradual move towards introducing reduced services on wide parts of the network\".\n\nThe plan will also ensure people can travel to medical appointments and key freight services can continue to ship vital goods where they are needed, it added.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We are taking decisive action to protect the public which means reducing travel for the time being, whilst still ensuring key worker heroes can get to their jobs to keep this nation running.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the industry to develop measures that protect operators in these challenging times.\"\n\nMr Shapps told MPs on Tuesday that rail companies, bus firms and airlines could be temporarily nationalised to help them through the outbreak.\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said the measures would allow trains to continue to operate over a prolonged period with fewer railway workers, whose safety \"remains front of mind\".\n\nPassengers are advised to check the time of their train on the National Rail Enquiries website before travelling, he added.\n\nSimilar measures have been agreed by the Scottish and Welsh governments\n\nThe Scottish Transport Secretary said operators would be moving to a \"reduced timetable\", while the Welsh Government Minister for Economy and Transport said services would also be reduced in Wales from Monday.", "The Queen left Buckingham Palace in a car with two of her dogs\n\nThe Queen has issued a message to the nation on the coronavirus outbreak, saying the UK is “entering a period of great concern and uncertainty”.\n\nThe 93-year-old praised the work of scientists, medics and emergency staff, but added that everyone has a \"vitally important part to play\".\n\nHer message came just ahead of the PM's daily briefing, in which he said the UK could \"turn the tide\" in 12 weeks.\n\nThe monarch said she and her family \"stand ready to play our part\".\n\nThe Queen had already cut short her official duties because of the crisis, and is now at Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nHe was flown there by helicopter from the Sandringham estate where he had been staying.\n\nThe virus has now seen 144 people who tested positive die in the UK.\n\nIn her statement, the Queen said: \"Our nation’s history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one.\n\n\"We are all being advised to change our normal routines and regular patterns of life for the greater good of the communities we live in and, in particular, to protect the most vulnerable within them.\n\n\"At times such as these, I am reminded that our nation's history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one, concentrating our combined efforts with a focus on the common goal.\"\n\nShe added: “Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe. I am certain we are up to that challenge.\n\n\"You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.”\n\nThe Queen's message came after Buckingham Palace announced last week that changes were being made to her diary commitments \"as a sensible precaution\".\n\nShe has cancelled her annual garden parties, along with visits to several UK towns.\n\nThe government is advising everyone in the UK, particularly the over-70s, to avoid all non-essential contact.\n\nThe advanced age of both the Queen, who is the world's longest reigning monarch, and Philip, who is 98, means they are more at risk of complications if they catch the Covid-19 illness.\n\nThey are expected to remain at Windsor beyond Easter with fewer staff, as a precaution.\n\nIn his news briefing, Boris Johnson said he did not know how long the crisis would affect the UK, but said he hoped to \"get on top of it\" within the next three months.\n\nHe said trials of a vaccine were expected to begin within a month and warned he would \"enforce\" Londoners to be kept apart \"if necessary\".\n\nHe also urged businesses to \"stand by their employees\", adding that the chancellor would be making further announcements on Friday.\n\nFrom Friday, all schools in the UK will close their doors to nearly all pupils, except vulnerable ones and the children of key workers.\n\nA full list of key workers, likely to include NHS workers, school staff and delivery drivers, is also expected.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Harry, who is due to step down as a senior royal at the end of the month, has said the Invictus Games he set up have been postponed for a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Invictus Games The Hague 2020\n\nIn a video message, he urged participants to look after fellow servicemen who may be most vulnerable during periods of social isolation.\n\n\"Please look after yourselves, look after your families, please look out for one another\", he said.", "A brewery in Reading that has been financially hit by advice to avoid pubs has switched to home deliveries instead and has had its \"busiest ever day\".\n\nThe independently-owned Loddon Brewery said it had not received a trade order since Tuesday, but after deciding to focus solely on home deliveries, the firm said work soared.\n\n\"We normally do takeaway beer, but that was only about 20% of our business. But we had to change that overnight,\" marketing manager Dan Hearn said.\n\n\"We pulled in everyone - our head brewer is answering the phones, our assistant brewer is out driving the van. It's an all-hands-on-pump situation, our sales manager is out delivering direct to the customer.\"", "Doctors in this GP surgery in Hertfordshire have been working 11-hour days and have redesigned their surgery in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Bridgewater GP practice on the outskirts of Watford looks after more than 30,000 patients.\n\nThe BBC’s Jim Reed spent the day there to see how doctors on the front line are dealing with the outbreak.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor says his 2020 Budget offers the “largest sustained fiscal boost for nearly 30 years”\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHe is suspending business rates for many firms in England, extending sick pay and boosting NHS funding.\n\nIn his first Budget speech, he warned of a \"significant\" but temporary disruption to the UK economy but vowed: \"We will get through this together.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in interest rates.\n\nMr Sunak, who was promoted to chancellor just four weeks ago after Sajid Javid quit the government, has had to hastily re-write the government's financial plans to deal with coronavirus.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to keep this country and our people healthy and financially secure,\" he told MPs.\n\nOf the £30bn in extra spending, £12bn will be specifically targeted at coronavirus measures, including at least £5bn for the NHS in England and £7bn for business and workers across the UK.\n\nThis is on top of other spending pledges that will amount to £18bn next year, and even more in following years.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said extra spending on government departments and investment represented the biggest Budget \"giveaway\" since 1992, and will add around £100bn to public borrowing by 2024.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he welcomed many of the measures to \"head off the impact\" of coronavirus, which has now been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization.\n\nBut he said the extra money for the NHS was \"too little, too late\" and the UK was going into the crisis with its public services \"on their knees\" after years of Conservative cuts.\n\nMeasures to mitigate the effect of the coronavirus outbreak include:\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK reached 460 on Wednesday, with an eighth person confirmed to have died after contracting the virus.\n\nThe chancellor said that without accounting for the impact of coronavirus, the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast growth of 1.1% in 2020, the slowest rate since 2009.\n\nDespite speculation that he would ditch the framework on spending set by predecessor Mr Javid, Mr Sunak said his Budget is delivered \"not just within the fiscal rules of the manifesto but with room to spare\".\n\nThe chancellor has scrapped a planned cut in corporation tax and scaled back a tax break for entrepreneurs, saving £6bn over the next five years.\n\nThe spending in this Budget is being largely paid for with a big increase in government borrowing.\n\nThe government expects to borrow almost £100bn more in this Parliament (before mid-2024) than was expected the last time we had any forecasts.\n\nAnd that figure does not include £12bn to be spent on getting the economy through the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Treasury documents say that money will be accounted for in the next Budget in the autumn.\n\nIn other Budget measures, the chancellor announced that fuel duty would be frozen for another year.\n\nA planned increase in spirits duty will be cancelled and duties for cider and wine drinkers in England will be frozen as well, but a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost 27p more.\n\nThe so-called tampon tax will be abolished, and VAT on books, newspapers, magazines and academic journals will be scrapped from 1 December.\n\nAnd the chancellor pledged to more than double spending on UK government research and development by 2024.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor announced more than £600bn for road, rail, housing and broadband projects over five years, aimed at delivering on the Conservatives' election promise to boost economic growth outside of London and the south-east of England.\n\nHe announced plans for Treasury offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and a \"new economic campus in the north, with over 750 staff from the Treasury\".\n\nHe also promised an additional £640m for the Scottish government, £360m for the Welsh government, £210m for the Northern Ireland executive and £240m for new city and growth deals.\n\nMr Sunak said he was providing £200m for local communities in England to build flood resilience and would double investment in flood defences.\n\nThe chancellor will deliver another Budget in the Autumn, with measures aimed at preparing the UK economy for post-Brexit trading arrangements with the EU.\n\nFigures released by the Office for National Statistics found that the UK economy did not grow at all in January.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the budget?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Drinkers around England won't be able to prop up the bars at their regular haunts after Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown.\n\nDespite the prime minster's plea for people not to enjoy \"one last pint\" on Friday night, a few establishments reported an influx of customers before last orders.\n\nFor others, a quiet week continued as it had started, and their final night of trading was marked by empty seats.\n\nRyan North has \"a lot of beer to use up\"\n\nRyan North, manager at city centre bar The Wardrobe, said staff had been \"in limbo\" since Monday.\n\n\"It's slowed right down since then when people came in for their last pint.\n\n\"Picture says it all really, no point in staying open, but we've got a lot of beer to use up.\"\n\nRefurbishments and the ban have hit Daniel Force\n\nDaniel Force, barkeeper at the Brunswick Arms in Dawlish, said they had been closed for six weeks for a refurbishment.\n\n\"We tried to open up this week just to get some people through the door, and now we're being told we're closing tonight,\" he said.\n\n\"We even had a police officer come in to enforce the closure and make sure we close our doors at midnight.\"\n\n\"It's going to be tough, but hopefully with everyone's help, we'll be able to knuckle through.\"\n\n\"Relief\" at certainty for The Loft\n\nThe Loft, near the city's Hippodrome theatre, was empty on Friday evening.\n\nOwner Lawrence Barton said the chancellor's announcement had \"actually brought a sense of conclusion and relief\".\n\n\"I think the measures the Chancellor announced this evening are going to greatly help business and give us confidence we can support our workforce.\n\n\"We've been very concerned, the hospitality sector has been decimated, at least now it will give business owners the confidence to take the measure they need to secure as many jobs as possible.\"\n\nA late storm before the calm in Kent\n\nManager Anthony Price closed the doors of the Bedford pub in Tunbridge Wells at 20:00 GMT. Staff took over £500 in their last hour and were forced to turn away dozens of people shortly before closing, he said.\n\nThe owners had considered closing earlier in the week, but had waited to receive the government order to close \"because we didn't know whether the insurance companies would cover us\".\n\n\"It was pay day for the staff today, so we wanted to make sure they got paid and made sure they were going to be alright for at least a month,\" he said.\n\nMr Price expects the pub to be closed for 12 weeks, but said it was \"all up in the air\".\n\nForcing pubs to close was the wrong decision, he said.\n\n\"I think the public are very resilient, especially the British, we are known for our stiff upper lip. I think, let the public decide what they want to do.\n\n\"If the older generation, the younger generation, they want to go to bars and restaurants, let them. At least give them the option.\n\n\"By me working, that's down to me, that's my risk. If the older generation want to come in for a beer, that's at their risk.\n\n\"I understand why they've done it and hopefully it brings a quicker resolution to the end of the virus, but I just think let people do what they want to do. It's locking people up for a minimum of 12 weeks, it is like prison.\n\n\"What you see on the news in other countries, you don't expect it to happen in England, you don't expect it to happen in Royal Tunbridge Wells.\"\n\nClaire Brookes is using life savings while she waits for a lifeline\n\nClaire Brookes, landlady of the Walnut Tree Shades, is planning to use her life savings to pay her staff until government money comes through at the end of April.\n\n\"I signed a tenancy agreement for five years and have lots of plans but now I've been told I have to close my business.\n\n\"I want to believe what the government will do will be good but I will not get access to their money until the end of April.\n\n\"I'm looking at financial ruin because the only thing I can do to help my staff till the money comes through is to use my life savings.\"\n\nJames Winfield, of Frank's Bar in the city centre, said he was going to develop a takeaway business.\n\nFriday was his last night and he said he would be doing a lot of number-crunching over the weekend.\n\n\"I'm worried but full of hope so will be ordering food and drink for the new business while taking one day at a time,\" he said.\n• None Pubs and restaurants told to shut to fight virus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budget airline EasyJet has asked pilots and cabin crew to agree to sweeping changes in their terms and conditions, as part of its response to coronavirus.\n\nAmong the proposed changes are a freeze on planned pay rises and a requirement to take three months of unpaid leave.\n\nThe airline would also no longer provide food for crew during their shifts, only water.\n\nUnions told members they had failed to reach agreement with the airline and were working on counter-proposals.\n\nHowever, there remains a willingness to make concessions in order to avoid redundancies.\n\nFurther talks between EasyJet and unions representing pilots and cabin crew are expected today.\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet's chief executive Johan Lundgren has defended the payment of £170m in dividends to shareholders, at a time when the company is seeking financial help from the government.\n\nEasyJet Chief Executive Johan Lundgren defended the dividend payments to shareholders (pictured in 2018)\n\nOn Wednesday, EasyJet's recently-appointed chief operating officer Peter Bellew met delegates from the pilots' union Balpa and Unite, which represents cabin crew.\n\nUnder discussion was a proposed \"coronavirus cooperation agreement\" setting out changes to employees' terms and conditions. It would be in force from 23 March 2020 until 15 November 2021.\n\nBoth sides acknowledge that action is needed. Travel restrictions across Europe have forced it to cancel many of its flights and ground more than a third of its fleet. The airline needs to save cash, and the unions want to preserve jobs.\n\nHowever, sources say the proposals themselves provoked an angry response.\n\nThe four-page document would allow the airline to cancel pay rises until 2021, make significant changes to working patterns, and allow it to defer pay rises for newly-promoted captains for six months.\n\nPilots in particular seem aggrieved by the plan. According to messages seen by the BBC, negotiators agreed to reject it on the principle that there was \"no evidence that the current crisis warrants such an extensive change in terms and conditions for such a long period, particularly when so many of them are so critically linked to flight safety and fatigue\".\n\nBalpa has refused to comment, as the talks are ongoing.\n\nUnite, meanwhile, has taken a softer tone. The union denied reports it had told the airline that compulsory redundancies were preferable to the deal on the table.\n\n\"Unite is very much still in talks with EasyJet and it is totally untrue to suggest the union has rejected all the company's proposals\", it said in a statement.\n\nHowever, insiders told the BBC they shared concerns that the airline might be using the current crisis as an excuse to change working practices, and erode employees' pay and benefits in the long term.\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"EasyJet has met with its employee representatives in the UK to discuss how they can help the airline navigate through these unprecedented times…\n\n\"Like all airlines we are taking every action to remove cost and non-critical expenditure from the business at every level to help mitigate the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nMeanwhile, EasyJet's chief executive has told the BBC the company is asking for government loans to help it weather the crisis.\n\nHe said the company was \"first and foremost\" trying to save cash. But he added: \"Since we don't know how long this thing will last we also think it's appropriate that we're also looking for financing being supported as well from the government.\"\n\nSuch support, he said, would take the form of \"loans on a commercial basis\".\n\nHe defended a £170m dividend to shareholders, due to be made tomorrow, saying it had already been signed off - and the company was legally obliged to make the payment.\n\nEasyJet says Mr Lundgren, Mr Bellew and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Findlay have all elected to take a 20% cut in their monthly salary from April to June.", "Marks & Spencer said it was preparing for the contingency that some of its stores may have to close temporarily.\n\nIn a gloomy update on the coronavirus impact, the 136-year-old firm said clothes sales have suffered.\n\nBut it added: \"M&S has served customers without cease through two world wars [and] terrorist bombings and we are determined to support customers now.\"\n\nAlso on Friday the Wetherspoon's boss said his pubs would stay open, despite government advice to avoid pubs.\n\nTim Martin told the BBC there would be no pub closures despite the government's advice for people to avoid pubs. \"In the early part of the current week, following the Prime Minister's advice to avoid pubs, sales have declined at a significantly higher rate,\" he said.\n\nBut a shutdown in the face of coronavirus would be \"over the top\", he said.\n\nHe said a sensible balance was for pubs to open but to implement \"social distancing\" measures, like no drinking at the bar.\n\nHis stance is contrary to many other retail chains which have started to reduce hours or shut shops.\n\nMarks & Spencer said it was planning for a \"prolonged downturn\" in demand for clothing and home goods, although it expected its food business to trade profitably throughout.\n\nIt said it had benefited on a \"small scale\" as customers stocked up on food, but its \"heavy bias to chilled and fresh means we are not seeing the forward buying uplift experienced by the major grocers\".\n\nNevertheless, it said it expects to benefit from the \"significant shift\" to eating at home. \"Although there will undoubtedly be supply interruptions, we do not expect these to be prolonged or financially material.\"\n\n\"At this stage we are not assuming a return to normal trading in the Autumn,\" the retailer added.\n\n\"However, our business model of operating parallel clothing and food businesses and our strategy to move online including the Ocado joint venture should provide more resilience than some single sector businesses.\"\n\nBut Marks & Spencer said it was \"preparing for the contingency that some stores may have to close temporarily\".\n\nElsewhere, other businesses have revealed details of how the pandemic is affecting them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"This is going to be finite - we will turn the tide around and see how to do it, within the next 12 weeks\"\n\nThe UK can \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus crisis within 12 weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nBut pressed on what he meant by the three-month timescale, he said he did not know how long it would go on for.\n\nHe said trials on a vaccine were expected to begin within a month and warned he would \"enforce\" Londoners to be kept apart \"if necessary\".\n\nEarlier, in a message to the nation, the Queen urged people to come together for the common good.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson told reporters: \"I believe that a combination of the measures that we're asking the public to take and better testing, scientific progress, will enable us to get on top of it within the next 12 weeks and turn the tide.\n\n\"I cannot stand here and tell you that by the end of June that we will be on the downward slope.\n\n\"It's possible but I simply can't say that that's for certain,\" he added.\n\n\"We don't know how long this thing will go on for. But what I can say is that this is going to be finite.\"\n\nEarlier Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific officer, was also asked how long it would go on for.\n\n\"We are dealing with a brand new virus. We are dealing with learning as we go on and I think now to put absolute timelines on things is not possible.\"\n\nIn the press conference on Thursday evening, Mr Johnson ruled out closing down public transport in London but pointed out people in some parts of London were not following government guidance on social distancing and would be \"enforced\" to do so if necessary.\n\n\"I know how difficult it may be or it may seem right now, but if we do this together, we will save many, many thousands of lives,\" he added.\n\nHe also urged businesses to stand by their employees \"because we will stand by you\", adding that his chancellor would be making further announcements on Friday.\n\nLater, Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to rush protective personal equipment (PPE) to frontline NHS staff and social care providers, following concern workers were being put at risk by shortages.\n\nSpeaking on BBC1's Question Time, Mr Hancock said the UK had shipped 2.6 million masks and 10,000 bottles of hand sanitiser in the last 24 hours.\n\nHe promised that \"overnight 150 hospitals will get the next pack of protective equipment they need… every single hospital will get their next batch of equipment before Sunday night\".\n\nHe also confirmed social care providers would get a package of personal protective equipment by the end of next week.\n\nIn response to a government appeal for more ventilator makers, 1,400 companies had offered to switch their operations to help manufacturer them, including Formula One, he said.\n\nHe added that officials would work with leading companies to radically increase the number of coronavirus tests, after the government pledged 25,000 tests per day within four weeks.\n\nHe also said the government has bought a test which can detect whether someone has had coronavirus - and their immunity to it.\n\nThe press conference came as Italy's death toll rose by 427 to 3,405, overtaking China's toll.\n\nIn the UK, 144 people with coronavirus have died, and 3,269 people have tested positive for it.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser, warned there would be a \"lag\" before the public's efforts to stem the spread of the virus would slow down case numbers.\n\nHe said there would be a \"global issue\" in the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE), saying NHS workers were right to complain about the shortages.\n\nIn other developments across the globe:\n\nThe Queen, who is now in Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh, said in her statement that the world was \"entering a period of great uncertainty\" and every individual had \"a vitally important part to play\".\n\n\"Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe - I am certain we are up to that challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.\"\n\nEven if the tide starts to turn in 12 weeks and the number of cases starts to fall, then we will still be far from the end.\n\nIt can take a long time for the tide to go out.\n\nIt is clear the current strategy of shutting down large parts of society is not sustainable in the long-term.\n\nBut the coronavirus is not going to disappear.\n\nFor as long as large numbers of people in the UK have no immunity then cases will soar as soon as restrictions are lifted.\n\nA vaccine would help, but that could be 18 months away.\n\nIf enough people are exposed and become immune then that would help too, however, this is likely to take even longer than a vaccine.\n\nEfforts to rigorously test and then isolate anyone infected can help suppress the numbers of people infected. But this is what we were doing just a few weeks ago.\n\nWe may enter a period of restrictions being lifted and then re-imposed until a long-term solution is found.\n\nFrom Friday, all schools in the UK will close their doors to nearly all pupils, except vulnerable ones and the children of key workers.\n\nA full list of key workers, likely to include NHS workers, school staff and delivery drivers, is expected later.\n\nIn Wales, parents were told by education minister Kirsty Williams that schools may not reopen until September.\n\nAll summer exams in England, Wales and Scotland have been cancelled.\n\nA level and GCSE exams in Northern Ireland will not go ahead this summer but pupils will get results, the education minister Peter Weir said.\n\nIn other developments in the UK:", "The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 major American companies fell more than 4.5% on Friday, erasing all the gains it had made since Donald Trump became president in January 2017.\n\nThe drop helped to finish the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, with all three indexes down at least 12%.\n\nThe falls come as authorities tighten restrictions on activity in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nNew York state on Friday ordered non-essential businesses to close.\n\nIllinois also made a similar move, while California earlier mandated that its residents shelter in place.\n\nThe Dow lost more than 900 points to close at 19,173, while the wider S&P 500 dropped 4.3% to 2,304 and the Nasdaq lost 3.8% to 6,879.5.\n\nThey have now fallen more than 30% from their recent records.\n\nMr Trump has taken credit as the share indexes climbed during his presidency - gaining nearly 50% as of last month. He has written about them on Twitter at least 131 times, according to a tally by the New York Times.\n\nAt briefings this week, Mr Trump has said he is not worried about the economy in the long-run, arguing that business will bounce back after the pandemic eases and restrictions can be relaxed.\n\nFor now, however, the upheavals are severe.\n\nUnemployment claims in the US surged 30% this week, as thousands of people lost their jobs, while in the restaurant industry alone as many as 7 million jobs could be cut in the next three months, according to estimates by the National Restaurant Association.\n\nDelta Air Lines on Friday said it would lose $10bn in its second quarter, while United Airlines warned that it would cut jobs starting in April if the government does not provide relief funding. Both firms saw share prices fall about 30% this week.\n\nCoca-Cola lost more than 8%, after warning the virus had upended its growth forecast, as sales to theatres, sporting venues and restaurants evaporate.\n\nEarlier, the FTSE 100 index of top UK firms ended up 0.76%, while Germany's Dax and France's CAC 40 gained more than 3%.\n\nThe market moves came as the state of New York ordered staff at all \"non-essential\" businesses to remain at home as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.\n\nThe move expands earlier restrictions and comes as California on the west coast said its nearly 40 million residents should \"shelter in place\".\n\nThe US has confirmed more than 14,000 cases of the coronavirus, including more than 7,000 in New York.\n\nThe surge has started to strain its health care system.\n\n\"This is the most drastic action we can take,\" New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said,\n\nNew York said pharmacies, grocery stores, banks and shipping firms were among those exempt from the order, which goes into effect on Sunday.\n\nMany places have already been forced to shut, including schools, shopping centres, and theatres.\n\nMr Cuomo also issued additional rules for the state's 19.5 million citizens, saying healthy people who are not at risk may go outside for exercise and to go grocery shopping, but should otherwise remain at home.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, who has been a leader of the national response, said he supported the move.\n\n\"Please co-operate with your governor,\" he said at the White House's daily coronavirus briefing.\n\nThe US also said it would bar non-essential travel between the US and Canada, from midnight.\n\nHowever, US President Donald Trump said he did not think shelter in place orders needed to be expanded nationally, noting that many states have far lower infection rates.\n\n\"They're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems,\" he said.\n\nRestrictions aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus have expanded rapidly this week and are already having a devastating economic effect, with the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits surging more than 30% this week.\n\nEconomists are predicting a sharp contraction in economic growth in coming months, and have warned that millions of jobs are at risk.\n\nCongress is working on a more than $1tn relief bill, that is expected to include direct payments of more than $1,000 for each American who earns less than a certain amount. It would also include millions for businesses affected by the pandemic, such as airlines and hotels.\n• None The city that never sleeps put on lockdown", "Year six pupils spoke of their sadness as they left primary school for what could be the final time.\n\nFriday has been the last school day for most children until further notice, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe students from St John's Church of England Academy, Coventry, said they were emotional about their final year at primary school being cut short.\n\nTeachers at the school have put together a package of videos and online resources so children can continue learning at home in the coming weeks.", "Vampire bats are actually rather friendly - to each other at least\n\nVampire bats establish friendships by sharing regurgitated blood with their neighbours in a \"kind of horrifying French kiss\", a new study says.\n\nResearchers observing the mammals said their sharing behaviours appeared to be an important aspect of their bonding.\n\nIf bats go three days without eating, they can die of starvation, so sharing the blood can be a life-saving act.\n\nThe study, published in the journal Current Biology, aimed to determine how the species developed relationships.\n\nIt found that when the vampire bats became isolated in a roost, pairs unfamiliar with one another - but in close proximity - would begin grooming, then \"mouth-licking\" before swapping food.\n\n\"We go from bats starting as strangers from different colonies to groupmates that act to save each other's life,\" said Prof Gerald Carter, author of the study and behavioural ecologist at Ohio State University.\n\n\"They have this 'boom and bust' foraging experience, so they either hit it big and get a large blood meal or they're starved for that night.\n\n\"Food sharing in vampire bats is like how a lot of birds regurgitate food for their offspring. But what's special with vampire bats is they do this for other adults,\" Prof Carter said.\n\nHe added that the bats would groom even after their fur had been cleansed, suggesting that the behaviour was not just an issue of maintaining hygiene.\n\nVampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood, which they get by biting larger animals such as cattle.\n\nThe flying creatures can drink up to half their weight in blood a day, unlike their other bat relatives, which generally dine on fruit, nectar or insects.\n\nIn November, a scientific study discovered that bats that form bonds while in captivity often continue their relationships when released back into the wild.", "That's it from the coronavirus in Wales live page from today.\n\nWe will return on Saturday for another as BBC Wales keeps you up to date of how the coronavirus crisis is affecting everyday life in Wales.\n\nIn the meantime, please visit our website for all of your latest news.\n\nGood night everyone and please stay safe.", "The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nThe Home Office showed “ignorance and thoughtlessness” on the issue of race, a review of the Windrush scandal says.\n\nThe long-awaited review comes after some of those who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries were wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nThere was a “profound institutional failure” which turned thousands of people’s lives upside down, it said.\n\nWarnings about the “hostile environment” policy were “not heeded”, the review concludes.\n\nReport writer Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary, called on the government to provide an “unqualified apology” to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons Home Secretary Priti Patel said there was \"nothing I can say to undo the pain\" but added \"on behalf of this and successive governments I am truly sorry for the actions that span decades\".\n\nMs Patel said people from the Windrush generation were subject to \"insensitive treatment by the very country they called home\".\n\n\"I am sorry that people's trust has been betrayed.\"\n\nShe added that those who were eligible would receive compensation.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott told the home secretary that: \"People will believe her apology when they see her genuinely seek to implement the recommendations in the review.\"\n\nMs Abbott, whose mother was a member of the Windrush generation, said for those affected \"it isn't necessarily the money, the inconvenience or the tragedy of being deported, it is the insult to people who always believed they were British.\"\n\nTheresa May, who was prime minister when the scandal came to light, added her own apology to the home secretary's. \"They [the Windrush generation] should not have been treated in this way,\" she said.\n\nThe 275-page report says the “root cause“ of the scandal can be traced back to legislation of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, some of which had “racial motivations”.\n\n“Race clearly played a part in what occurred”, said Ms Williams, adding that some failings could be indicators of “indirect discrimination”.\n\n“The factors that I identified demonstrate an institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation.\n\n“These aspects were among those included in the elements of the definition of institutional racism considered in the Macpherson inquiry [which looked into the murder of Stephen Lawrence].\n\n“Operational and organisational failings” at the Home Office had a “causative impact” on the “detrimental” way Windrush migrants were treated.\n\nThey were “caught up in measures designed for people who have no right to be in the UK”.\n\nProtests against deportation flights were held outside the Jamaican embassy in London this year\n\nMs Williams says she spoke to former Home Secretaries Amber Rudd - who resigned over the affair in 2018 - Theresa May, Alan Johnson and Jacqui Smith.\n\nCommenting on speculation that the document has been watered down, with a finding that the Home Office is institutionally racist removed, she said:\n\n“If anyone thinks I’ve pulled my punches I’d be very surprised indeed.”\n\nAmong 30 recommendations, the review says the Home Office should set up a full review of the hostile environment policy, appoint a Migrants Commissioner, develop a programme of cultural change for the department and establish a race advisory board.\n\nDavid Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the Windrush scandal had exposed \"deep flaws\" in the UK's immigration system.\n\nHe added: \"This independent review underlines many of our serious and long-standing concerns about the impact of the government's hostile environment policies on some groups. These are highly significant findings and we will be using our legal powers so this does not happen again.\"\n\nToday’s review is a damning indictment of Home Office immigration policy which goes as far back as the 1960s, with race being a significant factor.\n\nThis comprehensive report attempts to draw a line under the government’s woeful action but many Caribbean migrants have lost faith and fear the UK immigration system.\n\nThey’ve been put through years and in some cases decades of misery.\n\nBroken families, shattered careers and being denied NHS healthcare won’t be forgotten anytime soon.\n\nMeanwhile those who were wrongly deported or detained say the way they’ve been mistreated is unforgivable.\n\nThe government’s compensation scheme has also been heavily criticised with victims claiming it’s taking too long to access the financial support they’ve been promised.\n\nMany of these communities have lost complete trust in the government and the chances of restoring it are slim.\n\nThe Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been called the Windrush generation, a reference to a ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed despite living in the country for decades, resulting in a furious backlash over their treatment.\n\nThe scandal prompted criticism of \"hostile environment\" measures introduced to tackle illegal immigration.", "The government has closed all schools, but what does that mean for GCSE's and A Levels. And which children are still able to go in?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"Covid-19 is the biggest challenge of our lifetimes\"\n\nThe Scottish people are facing the \"biggest challenge of our lifetimes\" in the fight against coronavirus, Nicola Sturgeon has warned.\n\nThe first minister said there would be \"difficult days ahead\" as she confirmed compulsory closures of restaurants, cafes, pubs, gyms and cinemas.\n\nBut she said the crisis would pass if people followed health advice and look out for each other.\n\nShe spoke shortly after Boris Johnson ramped up social distancing measures.\n\nHe ordered pubs and restaurants to shut while the chancellor announced a raft of new financial measures to help businesses and employees.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Sturgeon warned that the number of Covid-19 cases was \"set to rise sharply\".\n\nShe urged people to follow social distancing advice to save lives and reduce pressure on the NHS.\n\nAnd she addressed grandparents and children directly in a moving message.\n\n\"To older people - we are asking you to stay away from your grandkids, from the people you love,\" she said. \"That's hard.\n\n\"But it is for your protection - so you can stay around to see them grow up.\n\n\"To children - I know this is a strange time. You're away from school, and won't be able to spend as much time with friends.\n\n\"The adults around you are probably feeling a bit anxious too. So help them. Follow their advice. Study and do your homework. But don't forget to have fun. And wash your hands.\"\n\nThe number of positive cases in Scotland has risen to 322, a rise of 56 from Thursday. The number of deaths remains at six.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"This crisis is reminding us just how fragile our world is. But it is also reminding us what really matters - health, love, solidarity.\n\n\"With compassion and kindness - and with the dedication and expertise of our NHS - we can and we will get through this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon earlier told a media briefing that she understood they were asking people to \"fundamentally change the way we live our lives\".\n\nShe warned young people the advice to limit socialising \"is not optional\".\n\nAnd she was concerned that young people would be disappointed that they will not be able to meet friends over the weekend.\n\n\"But again I cannot be clearer,\" she said. \"Please do not think this advice just applies to other people and not to you.\"\n\nThe public have been asked to reduce social contact, work from home and stay away from crowded places.\n\nThose who are most vulnerable should stay at home as much as possible.\n\nThe first minister said she understood people did not like to be told what to do by politicians.\n\nBut she said: \"Believe me when I say this is vital. It is vital for your own protection, it is vital for the protection of your loved ones, particularly the older and more vulnerable people.\n\n\"It is vital for the protection of our NHS and its ability to care for those who will need it in the weeks to come. It is vital for the protection of all of us and it is vital to help us save lives.\"", "Supermarkets have gone on a hiring spree as demand surges as a result of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nTesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl said they would hire thousands of staff after hugely increased demand saw shoppers clearing shelves.\n\nThat move came before the government said it would pay the wages of workers at firms affected by the pandemic.\n\nAnd Sainsbury's has asked shoppers to stay 1m away from shop staff if possible, to help keep them safe.\n\nSupermarkets have been overwhelmed by a wave of panic-buying as shoppers rush to stock up amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTo combat the stockpiling, in recent days the major British supermarkets imposed limits on how much of each item shoppers can buy.\n\nAlong with other measures to cope with the increased demand, some of the chains have embarked on big recruitment drives for a total of more than 30,000 jobs.\n\nPeople have been queuing outside supermarkets before they open their doors\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, wants to take on 20,000 temporary workers \"to help feed the nation\", it said.\n\n\"The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented increase in demand for food and household products,\" the chain said.\n\n\"At Tesco, we're working around the clock to help ensure families have access to the shopping items they need.\n\n\"We launched our recruitment drive online on Wednesday and since then we have already been overwhelmed by support from the public and thank everyone who has applied to work with us in stores.\"\n\nIt added that \"over the coming days thousands of new colleagues will join us\".\n\nThe chain also announced on Saturday it will give all its workers across stores, distribution centres and customer engagement centres a 10% bonus on their hourly rate until 1 May - backdated to 9 March.\n\nFrontline salaried managers will receive a 10% bonus on actual hours worked, it added.\n\nAsda said it wanted to recruit more than 5,000 temporary staff from among people whose jobs have been impacted by the virus.\n\nAldi announced it was looking to fill 5,000 new temporary posts and take on 4,000 permanent new workers for jobs in all its stores and distribution centres.\n\nAnd Lidl said it would create about 2,500 temporary jobs across its 800 stores in the UK.\n\nThe discounter said it was hiring to \"help with an extremely busy time for stores\".\n\nLidl GB chief executive Christian Haertnagel said staff were doing an \"incredible job at keeping our shelves stocked, and serving communities during an extremely challenging period\".\n\n\"Temporarily expanding our teams is one way we can help support our colleagues and customers, whilst providing work to those that have had their employment affected by the current situation.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Morrisons announced it was creating 3,500 new jobs to expand its home delivery service, about 2,500 pickers and drivers, plus 1,000 staff in its distribution centres.\n\nIt said it would make more slots available and also set up a call centre for those without access to online shopping.\n\nMorrisons said the move would help \"at a time of national need\".\n\nShoppers outside a Tesco in West London endeavour to follow social distancing measures\n\nAs well as introducing social distancing measures, Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe said the store would prefer customers to pay with a card rather than cash.\n\nHe also said Sainsbury's would be expanding its reserved 08:00-09:00 slot for elderly, disabled and vulnerable customers to NHS and social care workers.\n\nConsultant cardiologist Dr Lisa Anderson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this would lead to cross-infection.\n\nShe said: \"It's not just about the risk to ourselves and our family; we're travelling home on the Tube and on buses, we're cross-infecting everybody at the moment.\"\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the programme he agreed the move by supermarkets could pose a risk.\n\nHe said: \"We're going to have to learn as we go along about these unintended consequences.\"\n\nOn Friday, at his daily Downing Street briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would be chairing a meeting with supermarket bosses on Saturday to discuss the situation.\n\nIn an environment that was already tough for the High Street due to higher costs and changes in shopping habits, the coronavirus crisis has added a huge burden for retailers as many people avoid their stores.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia retail group, which includes Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, and Miss Selfridge, said on Friday it was closing all its stores.\n\nThe company said it would focus on its digital and social platforms. Staff were to remain employees and receive their full pay for March, but it was not clear what would happen with staffing beyond then.\n\nHowever, this news came before a massive UK intervention in which Chancellor Rishi Sunak will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe radical move is aimed at protecting people's jobs.\n\nA number of travel operators have outlined measures they have been forced to bring in, due to the outbreak:\n\nHowever, all these warnings and job cuts were made before the latest government announcement - and it is now unclear whether those moves will still hold.\n\nAs well as the wage payments, it is understood the government wage subsidy will apply to firms where bosses have already had to lay off workers due to the coronavirus, as long as they are brought back into the workforce and instead granted a leave of absence.", "Labour's Andy Burnham asks about help for low income workers Image caption: Labour's Andy Burnham asks about help for low income workers\n\nAs we said, Health Secretary Matt Hancock is being questioned about the help for businesses. He's pushed hard by Labour Mayor Andy Burnham ahead of an announcement by the chancellor tomorrow on more support.\n\nMr Burnham says he has a lot of sympathy for the government, but they have \"taken a lot of measures that sounded good but they have not given all the answers\".\n\nThe former minister accuses the government of \"doing the least for people who need help the most\" - such as those in insecure employment, the self-employed, and those already on benefits out of work.\n\n\"Those people can't follow government advice to self isolate, they have to go into work, they should have been first group to be helped,\" adds Mr Burnham.\n\nMr Hancock says the government changed rules in the Budget just a week ago to help those people, and agrees the government must help businesses to keep people in work \"because it is the best way to be ready to bounce back\".\n\nHe refuses to reveal what the Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce tomorrow when it comes to the amount people are given on statutory sick pay - around £94 per week - but concludes: \"Mark my words, we will do everything we can to make sure people are supported through this.\"", "Management at the Coylumbridge Hotel near Aviemore claimed they were following government advice.\n\nA hotel has claimed that letters sent to staff sacking them and ordering them to leave their accommodation immediately were sent in error.\n\nStaff at the Coylumbridge Hotel near Aviemore were told on Thursday by management to leave the hotel in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe action resulted in widespread criticism from politicians and a public backlash on social media.\n\nBritannia Hotels has now apologised and blamed an administrative error.\n\nStaff were given a letter, dated 19 March, to say the hotel was \"taking the latest government advice\" and that staff employment had been terminated.\n\nThe firm told the Liverpool Echo: \"With regards to the current situation regarding staff at our Coylumbridge Hotel and being asked to vacate their staff accommodation.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the communication sent to these employees was an administrative error.\n\n\"All affected employees are being immediately contacted. We apologise for any upset caused.\"\n\nMore than a dozen employees were given the letter from hotel manager Mark Johnston also telling them to vacate their accommodation immediately.\n\nThe letter said: \"Taking the latest government advice, this letter is to confirm that with effect from 19 March 2020, your employment has been terminated and your services are no longer required.\"\n\nIt added: \"You are asked to vacate the hotel accommodation immediately, returning any company property.\"\n\nThe letter sent to staff to terminate their employment\n\nEarlier Alvarito Garcia from Madrid, who has worked at the hotel for nearly two years, said his best option now was to live in his tent until his food ran out.\n\nHe said he was unsure if he would be able to return to Spain due to the travel restrictions imposed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nAlvarito had worked at the Coylumbridge Hotel for nearly two years\n\nHe told BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland that staff had no warning they were about to lose their jobs.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know what to do. They gave me the letter and they said I had to leave immediately. They didn't give me any notice. Even in my rota, they didn't put anything different.\"\n\nAlvarito said the letter had been given to at least 13 people - most of whom were waiters in the hotel restaurant. He said that he was unsure if the letter had been handed out to others working in different areas of the hotel.\n\nHe added: \"I don't know why. They didn't say anything\n\n\"I don't have words to say. I feel useless, I feel bad.\"\n\nAnother worker at the hotel, Normunds Varslavans, from Latvia, said he was notified his job had been terminated about 30 minutes after finishing his shift.\n\nAlvaro said at least 13 member of staff working in the hotel restaurant were given the letters\n\nMarc Crothall, the chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said he was \"speechless\" when he was made aware of the situation.\n\nHe said: \"There is huge anger among our industry. This is not reflective of how all our businesses and our members behave.\"\n\nHe said: \"Yes the crisis has hit every business but we have seen nothing but compassion and respect across the sector and our upmost priority is to protect the employee welfare.\"\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes said the hotel owners' response to a time of national crisis was \"intolerable\".\n\nShe said: \"The decision to make staff redundant and homeless with no advance warning whatsoever is nothing short of callous, heartless and frankly unacceptable.\"\n\nMs Forbes praised the actions of the local community and businesses in trying to help the workers.\n\nShelter Scotland said people living in accommodation linked to their employment had rights even after they had lost their job. It said their employer had to follow proper procedure.\n\nOn Friday hotel chain Macdonald Hotels stepped in to help sacked employees at the Coylumbridge.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said: \"The entire hospitality industry is being hit really hard, with temporary closures and lay-offs across the board.\n\n\"However, when we heard of the situation at Coylumbridge Hotel, we immediately contacted the management there to offer their employees access to our staff accommodation at the nearby Macdonald Aviemore Resort to ensure they wouldn't be put out on the street.\"\n\nBBC Scotland contacted the hotel and were directed to the head office for Britannia Hotels, where no-one was available for comment.", "An exhausted nurse has urged panic-buyers to think about other people after finding supermarket shelves empty.\n\nDawn Bilbrough, from York, said people should stop and think that NHS staff like her could be looking after them - and need to stay healthy to carry out their task.\n\nThe critical care nurse, who has been working in West Yorkshire, urged people to stop and leave goods for everyone.", "Fraudsters are reported to be selling counterfeit masks and hand sanitiser\n\nCouncils are warning people to beware of scammers pretending to be health officials or offering to pick up food and medicines.\n\nFraudsters are also selling counterfeit face masks and hand sanitisers, says the LGA, which speaks for councils in England and Wales.\n\nHand sanitiser containing an ingredient banned for human use six years ago has been seized in Birmingham.\n\nThe LGA is advising people not to accept help from cold-callers.\n\nThis means being suspicious of anyone who offers help, either online or in person, the Local Government Association warned, after councils in Rochdale and south London received reports of attempted scams.\n\nIn Lewisham, south London, Neighbourhood Watch reported cold-callers knocking at the doors of elderly people, saying they were from the health authority and were carrying out tests.\n\nAnd in Rochdale, there were reports of strangers offering to run errands for elderly and vulnerable people amid fears they are trying to obtain Pin numbers and money by saying they will pick up shopping.\n\nOthers are trying to get into victims' houses.\n\nPeople who are self-isolating are particularly at risk, says the LGA.\n\nWith residents across the UK organising help for vulnerable people, the Association says they will have the most impact by focusing on neighbours they know, making donations to food banks, or obtaining guidance from councils.\n\nThe advice to anyone without help to obtain food or medicines is to contact their local authority.\n\n\"By tricking elderly and vulnerable people in self-isolation to part with their cash, fraudsters are playing roulette with the lives of those most at risk,\" said Simon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's communities board.\n\n\"Keeping the elderly and those with underlying health conditions safe is every council's top priority and councils will do everything in their power to prosecute fraudsters and seek the toughest penalties for criminals taking advantage in this despicable way,\" he added.\n\nAction Fraud, which receives reports of fraudulent activity, says victims of online scams have lost £960,000 in 105 coronavirus-linked cases since the beginning of February.\n\nThis is likely to be the tip of the iceberg as many smaller cases are never reported.\n\nOften they paid for mail-order sanitisation products which were never sent.\n\nThe National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says it has recorded 200 cases of fraudulent emails being sent, which include scammers who:\n\nTrading standards officers in Birmingham have seized bottles of hand sanitiser containing an ingredient banned for human use years ago which were on sale for £5 a bottle.\n\nThey claimed to contain an ingredient called glutural, which was banned for human use by the EU in 2014.\n\nSome bottles had no labelling at all.\n\nGlutural can be used in cleaning products and has previously been used by the NHS to clean surgical tools and surfaces.", "The government has set out new emergency powers to tackle the spread of coronavirus with the publication of a bill.\n\nUnder the proposed legislation, airports could be shut and people held on public health grounds, while immigration officials could place people in isolation.\n\nThe powers would be time limited to two years under the proposals.\n\nMPs plan to debate and vote through measures early next week.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the powers were \"proportionate to the threat we face\".\n\nThe measures are expected to be fast-tracked through Parliament with the first debate on Monday - and MPs set to \"nod them\" through rather than proceeding through the voting lobbies as normal.\n\nIt comes as Northern Ireland announced its first virus-related death, and three more deaths were confirmed in Scotland.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has promised to give more details on how school closures will affect students and parents after criticism over a lack of clarity.\n\nThe government plans to rush through its emergency legislation - all 329 pages of it - by Monday.\n\nSome measures would, in happier times, appear draconian: the police could force people who are displaying symptoms of illness in to isolation.\n\nPorts could be shut with little warning.\n\nAnd regulations are being rapidly thrown aside to allow some medical students and retired clinicians to treat patients.\n\nProtection for tenants from eviction will be added to the bill.\n\nThere is little political disagreement on the content but some unease at Westminster about the length of the emergency - the laws would last up to two years.\n\nThe government insists the measures could be \"switched on and off\" based on medical advice.\n\nBut some MPs are pressing for Parliament to have the power to review and renew the powers each month.\n\nSo to get the bill passed swiftly, the government may well be under pressure to cede the power to set \"sunset clauses\" to MPs - rather than leaving this to ministers at Westminster and in the devolved administrations.\n\nKey measures intended to increase capacity in the NHS include:\n\nElsewhere, the process of arranging funerals could be fast-tracked as part of efforts to \"manage the deceased in a dignified way\" should the UK experience \"excess deaths\".\n\nMore court hearings could take place by phone or video while the Border Force could temporarily suspend operations at airports and other transport hubs if there are insufficient resources to maintain border security.\n\nMost controversially, the bill gives unprecedented powers to law enforcement agencies to detain people and put them in appropriate isolation facilities if necessary.\n\nIt says it will help to \"safeguard essential services\" that could be at risk during the outbreak.\n\nMinisters say they hope this will not be necessary as people will act responsibly, adding that the legislation will \"support and protect the public to do the right thing and follow public health advice\".\n\nThe bill also makes a provision for emergency volunteering leave - a new form of unpaid statutory leave - and compensation for any loss of earnings and expenses incurred by volunteers.\n\nThe government says this measure will enable relevant authorities, such as councils and health and social care bodies, to \"maximise the pool of volunteers that they can draw on to fill capacity gaps\" by addressing the risk to employment and loss of income.\n\nMPs will be able to suggest changes to the bill, the Commons Speaker confirmed on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the opposition would hold the government to account to ensure the most \"effective action\" was taken to protect the public and NHS staff.", "Friday has been the last school day for most children in England, Scotland and Wales until further notice, in response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchools are closing to everyone except vulnerable children, and those with a parent identified as a key worker.\n\nA-level and GCSE pupils will be graded via teacher assessments after exams, including Highers, were cancelled.\n\nThere have been 167 deaths in England, six in Scotland, three in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe latest 39 patients in England to die after being infected with Covid-19 were aged between 50 and 99 years old and had underlying health conditions, NHS England said on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales have been asked to return to work in the NHS to help tackle the outbreak.\n\nAnd the chancellor is set to announce a wage subsidy package to try to protect millions of jobs.\n\nAs of 09:00 on 19 March, 64,621 people had been tested in the UK, of which 3,269 were confirmed positive for the virus.\n\nThe government has published a list of key workers whose children can still go to school if they cannot be looked after at home. These workers' jobs are considered \"critical\" for the response to the pandemic.\n\nThe list has been separated into eight categories, including frontline health workers and social care staff, nursery and teaching staff and those involved in food production and delivery.\n\nIt also includes the police, those in key public services, transport workers and critical staff in financial services and utilities.\n\nAnyone who thinks the emergency schools due to open on Monday will run like the regular ones is very wrong.\n\nThey will instead be a patchwork of available teachers, support staff and pupils whose parents find themselves lucky enough to be on the key workers' list.\n\nThey will not be following a specific curriculum, there will be no working towards exams and pupils are unlikely to be taught in their own year groups.\n\nHow many pupils each school can accommodate will be a daily moving picture as staff continue to fall ill.\n\nAnd head teachers will have to make some tough decisions about who can come into class - and sometimes their decisions will not be popular.\n\nOne spoke of arguing with a father who asked for a place because he worked in McDonald's, others in more obviously frontline jobs have also been disappointed.\n\nOn the up side, the lucky ones may have a chance to learn in new and different ways, while their former classmates grapple with online learning from home.\n\nNorthern Ireland Education Minister Peter Weir has said all schools should be prepared to cater for key workers' children when schools shut across the region on Monday.\n\nNurseries, colleges and childminders will also close from Friday.\n\nMost local governments have indicated schools may not reopen properly until the end of the summer.\n\nA-level and GCSE exams are being cancelled, as well as Scottish Highers.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: \"This is a very long list and could result in some schools having the majority of pupils attending.\n\n\"Schools can only accommodate a limited number of children and the fewer children making the journey to school, and the fewer children in educational settings, the lower the risk that the virus can spread.\"\n\nThe government stressed that \"every child who can be safely cared for at home should be\" and asked workers to consult their employers to confirm whether \"their specific role is necessary\".\n\nVulnerable children, who will also be exempt, include those who have a social worker and those with special educational needs. The Department for Education said it would help local authorities identify those \"who most need support at this time\".\n\nThe government has encouraged local authorities to keep residential special schools and specialist colleges open wherever possible.\n\nSchool leaders said the list of key workers was \"perhaps more extensive than we might have expected\".\n\n\"We are going to have a real challenge matching resource with demand,\" said Andy Dickenson, headteacher at The Chantry School in Worcestershire.\n\n\"What we are going to be doing is providing childcare, not school,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Education aims for pupils in England to be awarded the calculated grades - which will consider their previous achievements such as mock exams and other school work- by the end of July.\n\nThe new exams guidance will ask teachers to submit their views about the grades they believe their students would have earned had their exams gone ahead.\n\nBut students will also have the option to sit an exam early in the next academic year - which starts in September - or they can appeal against their calculated grade if they feel it does not reflect their performance and choose to sit exams next summer.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said on Friday these are \"extraordinary times\" and that exam boards would be working \"closely\" with teachers to implement the new system.\n\n\"We're all just wondering at the moment if it's worth revising for anything,\" Aurelia, a 17-year-old A level student told the BBC.\n\n\"Are we going to be sitting anything later in the year? Will we be given our predicted grades? Or will they be affected by our mock exams.\n\n\"I do have a lot of anxiety about it.\n\n\"I would feel a lot better about everything if we had some clarity as to how we will be graded, so I can start planning better for my future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he hoped \"many, many thousands will respond\" to letters being sent to former doctors and nurses in England and Wales asking them to rejoin the NHS.\n\nIn Scotland, anyone who left the medical profession during the past three years has also been asked to consider returning.\n\nSenior officials have said the ex-employees are needed to boost frontline services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Question Time: How can NHS, students and businesses be supported?\n\nAsked when the former medics would be able to start, Mr Hancock told BBC Breakfast those who left most recently could return \"straight away\", while others will be given refresher training \"over the next couple of weeks\".\n\nConservative MP Maria Caulfield, a former nurse, has said she will swap Westminster for the hospital ward - tweeting that it is \"important we all help where we can\".\n\nIn other key developments in the UK:\n\nIn other key developments around the world:\n\nAre you one of the key workers? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Four people in the same family have died from coronavirus in the US state of New Jersey, with three more relatives in hospital.\n\nGrace Fusco, 73, and six of her adult children fell ill after attending a large family gathering.\n\nNearly 20 other relatives are now self-quarantining and waiting to find out if they have also been infected.\n\nThe death toll across the US has continued to rise, as experts warn against any kind of social gathering.\n\nThe four family members who died are Grace Fusco and her children Rita Fusco-Jackson, Carmine Fusco and Vincent Fusco.\n\nRita Fusco-Jackson, a Catholic school teacher, 55, died on Friday. She had no underlying health issues, according to state health commissioner Judith Persichilli.\n\nNew Jersey health officials said Ms Fusco-Jackson was the second person to die from Covid-19 in the state, and the first fatality had also recently attended a Fusco family gathering.\n\nCarmine Fusco died on Wednesday, followed hours later by his mother, Grace Fusco.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, Grace Fusco died without knowing that two of her children had already succumbed to the deadly respiratory illness sweeping the planet.\n\nOn Thursday, Vincent Fusco died in the same hospital where his mother had recently passed.\n\nAccording to family member Paradiso Fodera, 19 family members who attended the same dinner are now self-isolating, and have waited nearly a week to learn the results of their virus tests.\n\n\"Why don't the family members who are not hospitalised have the test results? This is a public health crisis,\" Ms Fodera told CNN.\n\nShe continued: \"Why should athletes and celebrities without symptoms be given priority over a family that has been decimated by this virus?\"\n\n\"This is an unbearable tragedy for the family.\"\n\nA niece of Fusco-Jackson took to Facebook to grieve the sudden loss, NBC reported.\n\n\"My mom is one of 11, last Thursday I went to sleep having 10 aunts and uncles! Friday I woke up and found out I only had 9. Just a few minutes ago I found out I only have 8,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Please hold your love ones close and cherish every second and minute you have together.\"\n\nMore than 200 people have now died from Covid-19 in the US, with over 15,000 known infections and cases in all 50 states.\n\nMore and more US states and cities have begun lockdown procedures in an effort to prevent the rampant virus from overwhelming hospitals.\n\nTesting in the US has lagged behind other industrialised nations, leading to questions about the actual spread of the infection in North America.", "Russias Little Big were considered a front-runner for this year's contest\n\nOrganisers of the Eurovision Song Contest are investigating an \"alternative\" show after this year's event was cancelled due to coronavirus.\n\nAlthough the format has yet to be decided, they stressed the programme would not be a competition.\n\nHowever, the show will \"honour the songs and artists\" that were due to take part of the contest this May.\n\n\"With that in mind,\" organisers said, \"this year's songs will not be eligible to compete when the contest returns.\"\n\n\"Participating broadcasters may decided which artist(s) to send in 2021, either this year's or a newly chosen one.\"\n\nGeorgia, the Netherlands, Spain and Azerbaijan have already confirmed their artists will return next year. There has been no indication on whether the UK's entrant, James Newman, will get a second chance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EBU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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's the first time that Eurovision has not taken place since it first aired in 1956.\n\nThe 2020 contest would have seen performers from 41 countries gather with 16,000 fans at Rotterdam's Ahoy Arena to compete for the songwriting trophy.\n\nBut after the Dutch government banned large public gatherings, the European Broadcasting Union called off the event to protect the \"health of artists, staff, fans and visitors\".\n\nThe event's executive supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, added: \"We are very proud of the Eurovision Song Contest, that for 64 years has united people all around Europe.\n\n\"We regret this situation very much,\" he added, but promised the event would return \"stronger than ever\" next year, preferably in the Netherlands, which won the contest in 2019.\n\nJames Newman was due to represent the UK at the contest\n\nNewman, said he was \"gutted not to be going to Rotterdam\" but recognised it was \"more important for everyone to remain safe during these unprecedented times\".\n\nRussia's Little Big, whose song Uno was considered a front-runner at the contest, shared a similar sentiment on Facebook, writing: \"We regret about it and we also assume that this is the only proper decision in such a situation.\"\n\nThe decision to stage an alternative event came just 48 hours after Eurovision was called off, and was prompted by the \"overwhelming\" response of fans.\n\n\"The EBU is very aware of how much the Eurovision Song Contest will be missed,\" organisers explained.\n\n\"The contest's values of universality and inclusivity, and our proud tradition of celebrating diversity through music, are needed more than ever right now.\"\n\nThey said they hoped the alternative programme would \"help unite ands entertain artists around Europe at this challenging time\".\n\n\"We ask for your patience while we work through ideas in the coming days and weeks,\" the statement concluded.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Children are expected to use online educational resources while their schools are suspended\n\nBroadband providers are resisting calls to provide a free service to help people during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nOne head teacher had suggested that the government require the step to ensure children get access to online classes after schools are suspended.\n\nSuch action could also encourage people over 70 without connections to sign up, so that they can video-chat with relatives during isolation periods.\n\nBut a trade body warned the move might threaten delivery of a smooth service.\n\nThe Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa) said it was in \"very early\" talks with the government to help customers who become unable to continue paying their bills.\n\n\"Things are naturally developing extremely quickly at the moment, and Ispa plans to seek further guidance from government on these issues so that customers can remain connected to the internet during these unprecedented times,\" a spokesman added.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland closed on Thursday, and the same measure comes into effect across the rest of the UK from Friday.\n\nMany teachers have already set up ways to continue study via the net, and the BBC, among others, is working on other internet materials.\n\n\"Lots of companies have done really well in making their online resources free,\" Julie Greer, head teacher of Cherbourg primary school, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, told the Today Programme.\n\n\"Is now the time to offer free broadband to families across the country, so that actually all these online learning opportunities that schools are talking about can be accessible?\"\n\n\"Because if you've lost your job, the first thing you're going to need to cut is, potentially, your internet.\"\n\nUntil now, some people with no home connection have used public facilities to go online. But libraries and museums are also closing.\n\nIn the US, some broadband providers - including Spectrum, Charter, and Comcast - are providing a free service to students and low-income families for 60 days amid the outbreak.\n\nIn the UK, the Labour Party pledged free basic broadband in its last general election manifesto.\n\nBut the Conservative government opted instead to commit money to improving fibre infrastructure, which customers would continue to pay for.\n\nAbout 80% of the UK population have a fixed-line broadband connection, a number that has held steady for years. Adding in mobile internet, 90% of people have access.\n\nIspa has said that connecting millions more people at this point could potentially lead to slowdowns.\n\nHowever, TechUK - a body that represents the UK's wider technology industry - cast doubt on the idea that making broadband free would lead to a rush of new subscribers.\n\n\"There is no silver bullet to connecting the 10% of the population that don't use the internet on a day-to-day basis,\" said director Matthew Evans.\n\n\"Free broadband may seem like it will, but the far bigger challenges are in digital skills, attitude to the internet and physical ability to use digital devices.\"\n\nHe said the industry was already working on plans to help those \"unable to pay their bills to ensure they stay connected.\"\n\nThere is also already a low-cost scheme available to people claiming certain types of benefits, in the form of BT Basic and Broadband.\n\nHowever, it is limited to 15 gigabytes of data a month - which BT says would typically enable a user to do all the following each day:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Diana Moran, better known as the Green Goddess, was a fitness star in the 1980s\n\nThe Green Goddess - the original keep-fit queen of the 80s - is making a comeback on BBC Breakfast. Eighty-year-old Diana Moran will be doing exercises three times a week from self-isolation so viewers can follow along at home.\n\nSo what else can you do to keep fit and healthy while heeding the new advice about staying at home?\n\n\"There are tonnes of things you can do from your chair or sofa - squats, tricep dips, crunches, body work exercises and so on,\" says Cardiff-based personal trainer Keris Hopkins.\n\n\"If you have kids at home, you can get them involved. Make activities fun, like running around or playing hide and seek. Just keep moving,\" says the 37-year-old, who has started filming workout videos at home for people to follow along.\n\n\"It's important to plan your day - for example 7am to 8am work out online. It will help people find a focus if they plan. And if you can get outside, try to get your 10,000 steps done.\"\n\nBecky Hill and Kate Williams run Raise the Bar boot camps in Oxfordshire. For now, they continue to take place for whoever is able to attend - with people keeping at least 10 feet apart and equipment being cleaned between each use. But they are also launching an online version for people self-isolating, a move which many gyms and personal trainers are making.\n\nBecky Hill and Kate Williams are launching a virtual version of their boot camp for anyone self-isolating\n\nExercise \"decreases stress and anxiety,\" says Becky Hill, who is also a fitness trainer and therapist. Everyone is stressed at the moment and people aren't sleeping she says. \"But if you're moving, you're likely to sleep better.\"\n\nBut how much you can do, depends on which type of household you fall into says, Dr Charlie Foster, Head of the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at Bristol University, who also advises the UK chief medical officers on physical activity.\n\nIf you are under 70 with no underlying conditions you can still be active outside as long as you stay at least two metres (three paces) away from other people. So walking the dog (or even your neighbour's dog), going for a run or going for a bike ride are all fine - provided you keep your distance.\n\nPublic spaces such as swimming pools and gyms are not banned - but if you use them, be sure their equipment and surfaces have been thoroughly cleaned. And of course you can do your bit cleaning any equipment you use. Dr Foster says it's preferable to exercise outside.\n\nTeam sports are not advised for now - but tennis is ok for the moment as long as you wash your hands first, don't shake hands afterwards and keep your distance.\n\nIf you are over 70 and self-isolating, pregnant or have an underlying health condition, but feel well, you can also go outside with the same caveat of keeping your distance from others.\n\nFor older people, strength and balance exercises are particularly important, says Jess Kuehne, senior program manager from the Centre for Ageing Better, as muscle strength starts to decline rapidly after our 30s. She recommends yoga, tai chi, resistance training and seated exercises.\n\nIf you are self-isolating with symptoms, or someone in your household has them, you shouldn't leave home but that doesn't mean you should stop moving. It's really important to use movement and activity as a way of breaking up your routine, if you feel well enough. Cook, play active games, dance, go into the garden if you've got one.\n\nIf you are unwell - use your energy to get better and don't try to be active. If you can get out of bed, then do so but don't try to do too much.\n\nFinally, if you are feeling better after having had the virus, return to your normal routine very gradually. We don't know what the long term effects are but as far as we know, there is no reason why you can't gently return to normal activity.\n\nOf course there are many fitness websites and online apps people can use to help find a routine with Daily Yoga workout and fitness and Calm, a meditation and sleep app currently among the most popular downloads in the UK.\n\nAnd while you're at home, tempting as it is, try not to eat everything in sight, Ms Hopkins reminds us.\n\n\"Aim to minimise stress. And try to use the time wisely - read that book, do an online course, learn a new language, clear out the cupboards. It will all help,\" she says.\n\nExercises to try at home (as advised by This Girl Can)", "Supermarkets and their supply chains are beginning to buckle under the strain of customer behaviour in the face of coronavirus.\n\nSeveral chains are \"drastically cutting\" the product ranges in store.\n\nThey also said they were telling their manufacturers to ignore making some products to focus on those for which there is greatest demand.\n\nMeanwhile, competition laws are being relaxed so shops can discuss stock levels and pool staff and resources.\n\n\"We currently sell 60 types of sausages - we are moving to a fraction of that,\" said one supermarket.\n\nAnother said: \"We need to make food manufacture as efficient as possible - it makes no sense to pause to change packet sizes or change from one type of pasta to another.\n\n\"We have 20 different sizes and styles of pasta, we are moving that to six.\"\n\nMorrisons have reduced their bakery lines from 17 to seven.\n\nWhile executives insisted there was no shortage of food, they were struggling to restock shelves fast enough. Meanwhile, online delivery services are running at \"maximum capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced competition laws will be temporarily relaxed to allow supermarkets to pool resources and data.\n\nThis means they can share distribution depots and delivery vans and discuss stock levels. They will also be able to pool staff to meet demand.\n\nRules around drivers' hours have also been loosened to help shops can deliver more food to stores, while the 5p plastic bag charge is being waived for online orders to speed up deliveries.\n\nHowever, there were warnings that the next potential weak link in the chain is at food manufacturers themselves. If production gets hit by staff absences that will mark the beginning of a new and potentially serious supply chain problem.\n\n\"We are not there yet but that is the next big worry.\"\n\nSupermarkets also said they were having to use additional security staff in store to ensure customer behaviour did not get out of hand.\n\n\"Most people are sensible but some aren't.\"\n\nThey said that there had been no discussions as yet with the government about a police presence in store but it was a \"subject that was being discussed internally\".", "Afsar surrounded by her family on a recent outing\n\nIt will be a Mother's Day like no other on Sunday, as scores of people self-isolate and are forced to rethink plans with loved ones. With the usual lunches and afternoon teas cancelled, what can people do instead to celebrate?\n\nAffi Parvizi-Wayne lives just three doors down from her 74-year-old mother, Afsar, in north London. Like millions of others, they won't be able to have the family lunch they planned for this weekend.\n\nFor them, Mother's Day is usually a triple celebration because it coincides with Afsar's birthday and Persian New Year.\n\n\"To suddenly be told the only interaction is through the window is tough for my mum,\" says Affi, a social entrepreneur with two children.\n\nInstead, she says her family plan to congregate on the pavement outside Afsar's house and sing happy birthday. \"My nieces are going to release some balloons\".\n\nAfsar has four children and six grandchildren, and is usually the person who brings everyone together.\n\nThis year, she is going to cook the family a traditional Persian dish of green herby rice and fish, and leave it on her doorstep to be collected. The two households will set up screens by their dining tables and have a virtual meal together.\n\nAn added bonus is it also means family members in Iran can be present too. \"This Sunday will be about keeping the spirits up,\" Affi says.\n\nElsewhere in London, it will be chicken legs from the freezer for Ros Ball and her family, who are self-isolating after one of them showed coronavirus symptoms. Ros's mum Penny, 73, is also staying indoors in Bedfordshire.\n\nBut they plan to sit down to eat together over FaceTime. Ros's children aged, 9 and 12, will then play some online games and quizzes with their granny.\n\nOthers are still planning to share a meal in a more conventional way.\n\nBecky Greenwell and her sister have moved back in with their parents, in Woking, to be with them during the coronavirus outbreak. They've had to cancel plans to celebrate Mother's Day with a Sunday roast in a pub.\n\nBut it means they'll be able to sit round the dinner table together.\n\n\"We are planning on cooking my mum a three-course meal based on her favourite foods and printing out a special menu, like we used to when we were kids,\" she says.\n\nBecky, together with her sister Amanda and mother, Catherine, in Sri Lanka on Mother's Day last year\n\nMeanwhile, Savannah Dawsey-Hewitt, from Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, says she has baked her mum some ginger, turmeric and banana muffins, topped with brazil nuts.\n\nAll the ingredients were chosen for their immune-boosting properties.\n\nAccording to current guidelines there is no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 is passed through packages or food, if cooking is what you plan to do.\n\nBut the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends following good hygiene practices when handling and preparing food, such as washing hands, cooking meat thoroughly and avoiding potential cross-contamination between cooked and uncooked foods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor other it will be about dealing with self-isolation.\n\nRob Bacon's mum Vicky, 75, will receive a bumper pack of her favourite magazines, sweet treats and crucially wine, for Mother's Day this year, to help see her through.\n\nMembers of the newly-established family Whatsapp group - called The Bacons - also plan to set-up chairs a safe distance from Vicky and her husband Roy's front door, bringing their own food and drink.\n\n\"We will all wrap up warm and talk,\" says Rob, who works in public health for local government.\n\nMarie Phillips' mum, Janet, is a nurse. They can't be together either on Mother's Day so she has posted her a grow your own vegetable kit to her keen gardener mother.\n\n\"We've all got to find distractions and try to put our energy into something positive,\" says Marie.\n\nPlanting seeds and waiting for vegetables to grow or flowers to bloom can be a hopeful reminder of better seasons to come.\n\nFor some people, even delivering a card or present won't be an option.\n\nConsuelo Martin, in Birmingham, is in self-isolation and plans to send her mum a virtual card, together with a subscription to an online streaming service and Spotify.\n\n\"My mum is on her own and I'm worried she is going to get bored in self-isolation. I wanted to make sure she has music and films and television at her fingertips.\"\n\nFor others technology could be the solution.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 this week, Dr Sarah Jarvis said cancelling celebratory lunches and big gatherings would be the most loving and responsible thing for people with elderly mothers to do.\n\nInstead, she suggests investing in a mobile phone or tablet and setting up so elderly relatives with Skype or FaceTime.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 DrSarahJarvis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK agrees. \"We need to think creatively about how to stay in contact with older friends and relatives to keep morale up.\"\n\nShe suggests considering using video technology that is integrated on smartphones, tablets and laptops.\n\nShe says those are often be the most straightforward and easy to use, and to remember that older people may also prefer to use equipment like a mouse rather than a touch screen.\n\n\"It might turn out that some of these options remain a good way to maintain regular contact and nip loneliness in the bud in the long-term.\"", "Netflix will slightly reduce the video quality on its service in Europe for the next 30 days, to reduce the strain on internet service providers.\n\nDemand for streaming has increased because large parts of Europe are self-isolating at home due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe video-streaming provider said lowering the picture quality would reduce Netflix data consumption by 25%.\n\nBut movies will still be high-definition or ultra-high definition 4K.\n\nThe change will apply to the UK as well as other European countries.\n\nSeveral factors influence how much data is used when streaming a movie online.\n\nOne of them is video resolution, including whether a video is high-definition (HD) or ultra-high definition 4K.\n\nAnother is bitrate, which influences how clear and smooth videos look when streamed online. Videos with a higher bitrate tend to look less \"blocky\" or pixelated, but use more data.\n\nOut of these two, Netflix says it will cut its streaming bitrates.\n\nCustomers who pay for ultra-high definition 4K movies as part of their subscription will still be able to watch 4K films.\n\nThe announcement came after a phone call with European officials.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How to safely clean your smartphone\n\nThierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, had earlier said people should \"switch to standard definition when HD [high-definition] is not necessary\".\n\nAn hour of standard definition video uses about 1GB of data, while HD can use up to 3GB an hour.\n\nNetflix also offers ultra-high definition 4K video for some of its programmes.\n\nNetflix's decision to reduce video bitrate by a quarter appears to be a compromise.\n\n\"Following the discussions between Commissioner Thierry Breton and [Netflix chief executive] Reed Hastings, and given the extraordinary challenges raised by the coronavirus, Netflix has decided to begin reducing bitrates across all our streams in Europe for 30 days,\" the company said.\n\nCommissioner Breton praised the \"very prompt action\" Netflix took just hours after the phone call, saying it would \"preserve the smooth functioning of the internet during the Covid-19 crisis\".\n\nNetflix has not yet said whether the bitrate reduction will be applied to other areas such as North America.\n\nInternet usage has been heightened in the last few weeks as more people work from home and avoid going out.\n\nTelecoms giant Vodafone reported a 50% rise in internet use in Europe earlier this week.\n\nFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the platform was seeing \"big surges\" as users tried to stay connected with friends.\n\nThe social media boss said the company typically saw its largest surge in use on New Year's Eve, but that recent demand had outpaced that.", "Dame Vera Lynn was known as the Forces' Sweetheart during her World War Two heyday\n\nDame Vera Lynn has used her 103rd birthday to call on the British public to find \"moments of joy\" during these \"hard times\".\n\nThe London-born singer marked the special occasion with a new video for her wartime classic We'll Meet Again.\n\nIt features archive footage of her performing the anthem alongside new visuals, and words tackling current themes such as the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nIn the video, she urges the nation to \"keep smiling and keep singing”.\n\nDame Vera says in a voiceover: “We are facing a very challenging time at the moment, and I know many people are worried about the future.\n\n“I’m greatly encouraged that despite these struggles, we have seen people joining together.\n\n“Music is so good for the soul, and during these hard times we must all help each other to find moments of joy.\"\n\nOne of Vera Lynn's most famous songs, We'll Meet Again, was released in 1939\n\nDame Vera, who lives in Ditchling, East Sussex, is best known for performing for the troops during World War Two in countries including Egypt, India and Burma.\n\nHer famous songs include The White Cliffs Of Dover and There’ll Always Be An England.\n\nIn another video message on Wednesday, Dame Vera called for people to pull together during a trying period.\n\n“All around the world, people are facing extremely difficult times. It is likely that we will all have to make hard decisions in the coming months,\" she said.\n\n“I am reminded of World War Two, when our country faced the darkest of times and yet, despite our struggles, pulled together for the common good and we faced the common threat together as a country, and as a community of countries that joined as one right across the world.”\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "If you haven't got symptoms you should just go about your daily life at home as you normally would David.\n\nOf course, you should follow good hand hygiene by regularly washing your hands, but if neither of you are showing symptoms then you don't need to distance yourself from your wife.\n\nVideo caption: Coronavirus: How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds Coronavirus: How to wash your hands - in 20 seconds\n\nHowever, if one of you starts showing symptoms of the virus then at that point you would need to try and distance yourself: sleep in separate bedrooms perhaps, use separate bathrooms if possible and keep that two metre distance.\n\nYou mentioned that you have some underlying health conditions that make you vulnerable. There is specific advice on how you shield yourself from others for people who are in the most vulnerable groups, including chemotherapy patients for example. If you fall into that category then you should look out for that guidance.\n• Read advice for those with underlying conditions", "The man is being held \"in a specially cleaned\" cell at police HQ in Douglas\n\nA homeless man arrested for allegedly failing to self-isolate after arriving on the Isle of Man amid the coronavirus pandemic will not face prosecution, police have said.\n\nThe 26-year-old handed himself in at police headquarters in Douglas on Thursday evening.\n\nHe had been unable to find a place to self-isolate after arriving that morning, a police spokesman said.\n\nNot prosecuting was \"in the best interests of everyone\", he added.\n\nEmergency legislation requiring new arrivals to quarantine themselves for 14 days means those who refuse could face a fine of up to £10,000 or three months in prison.\n\nPolice said the man had been \"detained for his safety and the safety of the public\" and accommodation where he could self-isolate had now been found.\n\nHe was not presenting any symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe island's emergency legal powers came into effect at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA police spokesman urged people to follow the government guidance on self-isolation and \"think about the safety of the community\".\n\nWhen the emergency powers were announced Chief Minister Howard Quayle said the pandemic was \"the gravest threat\" the island had faced in generations.\n\nHe said: \"We cannot allow our critical health services to become overwhelmed and must have the means to prosecute those who choose to act irresponsibly.\"\n\nThe island recorded its first case of coronavirus on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to announce an employment and wage subsidy package to try to protect millions of jobs.\n\nTalks went on into the night with business groups and union leaders, who urged the government to help pay wages amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMany firms are warning of collapse, wiping out thousands of jobs, as life in the UK is largely put on hold.\n\nNews of more help for companies pushed stock markets higher, with the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 up 5% at one point.\n\nThe pound rose 3.3% from a 35-year low to $1.18.\n\nThe chancellor's wage package, due to be unveiled later on Friday, is the latest in a string of big fiscal attempts to ease the burden on businesses and their employees.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has urged struggling businesses to \"stick by their employees, because we're all going to need them\".\n\nOne proposal under discussion is for the UK to follow the lead of countries such as Denmark, where the government has promised to cover 75% of salaries at private companies for three months, if they promise not to let staff go.\n\nBusinesses will be \"watching carefully to see what government support comes in\" today, says Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the Confederation of British Industry.\n\n\"Many other countries have now done this - France, Germany, Spain, Italy have put employee wage support in place and if that comes through quickly I believe there are businesses who will take a different decision because they want to keep their people and they want their businesses to be viable for when we recover,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe announcement will come just days after the government unveiled a range of financial measures including £330bn in loans, £20bn in other aid, a business rates holiday, and grants for retailers and pubs.\n\nThe Bank of England has cut interest rates twice in a little over a week to try to provide support to the UK economy, while lenders will offer a three-month mortgage holiday to homeowners in financial difficulty due to the virus.\n\nOn Thursday, the chancellor spoke to representatives of business groups and unions including the Federation of Small Businesses and the Trades Union Congress, where it was agreed more needed to be done to protect workers' jobs.\n\n\"As well as providing emergency support to business, it is essential that money goes into workers' pockets now. We must do whatever it takes to stop businesses going to the wall and workers being plunged into poverty,\" said Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.\n\nNegotiations went on into the night between the chancellor, business groups and unions over a package of measures to support wages and pay, as many British companies see their cashflow dwindle because of the coronavirus and measures brought in to suppress it.\n\nAll sides were speaking with one voice about an unprecedented scheme to help workers get through a temporary economic stoppage, although there is acknowledgement that it will not be able to make up all the gaps that emerge. Any such scheme will cost many billions of pounds.\n\nIdeas discussed include guaranteeing some proportion - over half - of workers' wages, at least for specific sectors initially.\n\nThis follows the lead of countries like Denmark, which have guaranteed to support 75% of wages if firms do not make staff redundant. The support would be temporary, and could be linked to the 12 week period within which the PM mentioned the country could \"send the virus packing\".\n\nThe technical difficulty is how to operate such a scheme. It could be through the tax system, or as a series of guarantees to businesses, or informally after a significant tax holiday.\n\nFormer Business Secretary Greg Clark suggested in the Commons on Thursday it could work by using refunds on the Pay As You Earn tax scheme operated by all employers.\n\nLabour is floating proposals to subsidise 80-90% of workers' wages. A formal government announcement is expected this afternoon.\n\nOther countries around the world are taking measures to try to prop up their economies.\n\nIIn the US the Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates to nearly zero, and launched a $700bn stimulus programme in an attempt to shore up the economy.\n\nIn a fresh set of measures announced on Friday, the Fed said it had taken steps to support state and municipal money markets.", "Social distancing would be needed for \"at least half of the year\" to stop intensive care units being overwhelmed, according to the government's scientific advisers.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommended alternating between more and less strict measures for most of a year.\n\nStrict measures include school closures and social distancing for everyone.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the UK could \"turn the tide\" on the coronavirus outbreak within 12 weeks.\n\nSchools in England, Scotland and Wales will close on Friday until further notice - except for vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker.\n\nMore than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales have been asked to return to work in the NHS to help tackle the outbreak.\n\nAnd the chancellor is set to announce a wage subsidy package to try to protect millions of jobs.\n\nDocuments prepared by Sage said alternating measures could \"plausibly be effective at keeping the number of critical care cases within capacity\".\n\nLess strict measures would also include social distancing - but just in vulnerable groups.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, said the evidence in the documents published on Friday has \"played a considerable role in shaping our recommendations\".\n\n\"The UK is home to experts who are at the forefront of their chosen fields and we are making full use of their expertise to grow our understanding of Covid-19 as we work tirelessly to tackle this disease,\" he said.\n\nWe are in this for the long haul.\n\nThe science that has informed government strategy shows we can expect disruption to our lives for most of the next 12 months.\n\nMore than half that time is expected to involve the strict measures in place now, which include school closures.\n\nThis won't all be in one go, instead the heavy restrictions will come and go in order to manage the number of cases.\n\nThe government's aim is to prevent one massive spike in infections that would completely overwhelm intensive care.\n\nIf that happens then death rates would soar as the sickest patients would not get the treatment they need.\n\nInstead the strategy will be to have a series of smaller, manageable peaks.\n\nIt should save lives, but the cost is widespread disruption to society for some time to come.", "No-one can escape the news about coronavirus but amid the gloom some people are doing their best to keep us all entertained.\n\nSouth London rapper Psychs is raising awareness about the virus with his latest track - Spreadin'.\n\nHe says he made the drill track because the virus is \"what everyone is talking about at the moment\".\n\n\"I knew that if I'd done this in the right way, it would grab people's attention... especially my generation.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old's lyrics talk about changes to his daily life like not being able to watch football - but he's also spreading the message that people should avoid hugging and shaking hands, for now at least.\n\nPsychs and his friends use their feet instead.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rapper added: \"One of the hardest things I'm anticipating is just not being able to see my friends if we do go into lockdown.\"\n\nAs well as making music, Psychs is also studying for a BTEC in performing arts, sport and business.\n\nLike a lot of students, his school is now closed because of the coronavirus - although he's already done his exams.\n\n\"But I guess I'm in the same predicament if exam boards close - maybe I'll get a predicted grade? I just don't know.\"\n\n\"Let's take this ting serious / Please stay safe and don't get infected / Love to the families who've been affected\"\n\nIn one part of the song he talks about the virus starting in China but says he didn't mean anything negative by it.\n\n\"I was just making a joke - saying, 'Oh, well everything's made in China anyway', because most of the things we have are produced in China.\"\n\nPsychs' track has been viewed nearly 200,000 times on YouTube over the last week and he says it took him around a day to write.\n\n\"I think it's the fastest project I've ever put out in my whole time of doing music, to be honest.\"\n\nAnd he's really happy with the reaction it's been getting - he was \"gassed\" when it was played on BBC Radio 1Xtra on Snoochy Shy's show.\n\nThe rapper told Radio 1 Newsbeat now is the time for everyone to come together and that \"as a nation, together - we'll overcome it.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDavid Beckham watched from the directors' box as his Inter Miami team were beaten by Los Angeles FC in their inaugural Major League Soccer game.\n\nFormer England captain Beckham had a big role in setting up the new MLS team and is one of the owners as well as president of soccer operations.\n\nThey had the toughest debut possible, over 2,700 miles away at last year's regular-season table toppers LAFC.\n\nCarlos Vela scored the only goal with a wonderful chip from 20 yards.\n\nRodolfo Pizarro was inches away from scoring Inter's first ever competitive goal but he shot just wide - and Scotland international Lewis Morgan had an effort blocked.\n\nBeckham watched along with wife Victoria and son Brooklyn.\n\nInter brought plenty of fans to the game, which was the most in-demand opening MLS match in terms of ticket resale prices in 10 years.\n\nWriting on social media after the match Beckham said: \"Very proud moment for our club today and the team did us proud. It's been a long journey but this is only the beginning. We should be very proud how far we have come and what the future holds. Exciting times ahead.\"\n\nFellow new side Nashville SC lost 2-1 to Atlanta United on Friday night.\n\nWhy does Beckham own an MLS team?\n\nWhen Beckham joined LA Galaxy from Real Madrid in 2007, part of his contract gave him the option to buy an MLS franchise at a reduced rate in the future.\n\nBeckham exercised that option six years ago but it took several years to get the team up and running because of arguments over a stadium site. The club will have to play 30 miles from Miami until they relocate in 2022.\n\n\"There was never a moment when I said I would walk away but there were moments when I thought this might not happen,\" Beckham said in a news conference in New York in the past week.\n\n\"I have always loved a challenge. I didn't realise how big a challenge this was going to be, even down to putting tiles in the showers.\"\n\nInter Miami - whose full name is Club Internacional de Futbol Miami - will hope to succeed where more than 30 Florida teams have failed including Miami Fusion, who only lasted in MLS from 1998 to 2001.\n\nHowever, they have already built a big fanbase before even playing a game. Fans eager for a Miami team to support turned up in numbers - with banners, flags and drums - to Inter's under-13 and under-14 games last season.\n\nThe club are not expected to challenge for the title this season after failing to sign any big-name European players in time for the start of the season.\n\nThey have signed two of their three permitted designated players - Argentine teenager Matias Pellegrini and Mexico international midfielder Pizarro. Scotland winger Morgan joined from Celtic in January.\n\nHead coach Diego Alonso has won two Concacaf Champions Leagues with Mexican sides.\n• None Read more about the new club here\n\nThey played six friendlies, although only two were open to the public, losing 2-1 to Philadelphia Union and beating second-tier Tampa Bay Rowdies 1-0.\n• None Attempt saved. Lee Nguyen (Inter Miami CF) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Román Torres.\n• None Rodolfo Pizarro (Inter Miami CF) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Inter Miami CF. Juan Agudelo tries a through ball, but Robbie Robinson is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Eduard Atuesta tries a through ball, but Diego Rossi is caught offside.\n• None Tristan Blackmon (Los Angeles Football Club) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Los Angeles Football Club. Bryce Duke replaces Latif Blessing because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Sweat (Inter Miami CF) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Latif Blessing with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Brian Rodríguez tries a through ball, but Carlos Vela is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Prince Fosu was found dead at 31 on the floor of an isolation cell\n\nA mentally ill man died from dehydration, malnutrition and hypothermia \"in plain sight\" at an immigration centre, an inquest found.\n\nPrince Kwabena Fosu's death at 31 was partly due to \"gross failure\" by agencies at the centre, the jury said.\n\nMr Fosu was left in an isolation cell for six days without bedding while he suffered from a psychotic illness.\n\nThe Home Office said the standard of care had been \"unacceptable\" and new safeguarding steps had been introduced.\n\nCoroner Chinyere Inyama said that \"almost unbelievably\" Mr Fosu died \"in plain sight\" of many people at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.\n\nWarning: Contains images some people may find distressing\n\nThe jury at West London Coroner's Court found that procedures to protect vulnerable detainees at the centre were \"grossly ineffective\".\n\nAgencies running the centre and its healthcare failed to recognise, monitor and respond to the worsening condition of someone who was unable to look after himself, they found.\n\nStripping the bedding and mattress from his cell without any lawful written authority was an indication of the \"casual approach\" of centre staff to Mr Fosu's welfare, the jury said in its conclusions.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, prisons and probations ombudsman Sue McAllister said it was \"inhuman and degrading\" for Mr Fosu to have been \"segregated, living naked in a room dirty with faeces, urine and uneaten food\" with no justification or review of the isolation.\n\nMr Fosu arrived in the UK from Ghana in April 2012 on a valid business visa, but it was cancelled at Heathrow Airport.\n\nHe appealed but in September 2012, his appeal was rejected. In October, he was arrested: a passer-by called police after seeing him walking naked on a road in Kettering, Northamptonshire.\n\nAt Corby police station, officers said he continued to act bizarrely and kept undressing, but medical professionals said he did not need to be sectioned.\n\nCCTV footage from within the station recorded him being told: \"You're going to an immigration centre. They are going to look after you. Yeah?\"\n\nSix days later he was dead in a filthy isolation cell at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.\n\nAt the centre, healthcare services were in \"chaos\" after the previous provider had been \"sacked\" the year before, a healthcare manager told the inquest.\n\nA nurse assessed Mr Fosu in five minutes without seeing his medical notes, later telling the inquest she had done a \"completely inadequate assessment\" and was \"out of her depth\".\n\nAfter his arrest, police said Mr Fosu continued to behave bizarrely\n\nMr Fosu was seen by a cellmate to be acting oddly and talking to himself in the mirror. When approached by staff, Mr Fosu assaulted one of them and had to be restrained by at least three officers.\n\nLabelled as being disruptive and placed in segregation, Mr Fosu had no mattress or bedding and lay naked in his cell.\n\nThe jury heard evidence that suggested he barely ate. Records showed that he drank a sip of tea and he appeared to sleep for only 45 minutes in six days.\n\nIn less than a week, he lost 18 pounds (8kg), weighing 7 stone 6 pounds (47kg) when he died.\n\nDetention centre staff records referred to him shuffling on his bottom, talking to himself in a language people couldn't understand, defecating in his cell and throwing food.\n\nStaff told the inquest they thought he was protesting about his removal, but no-one asked him about his behaviour.\n\nBecause he urinated in his police cell before his transfer, he was labelled a \"dirty protester\".\n\nThe inquest heard that there were five layers of subcontracting in the provision of healthcare for detainees.\n\nMr Fosu had died \"in plain sight\", a watchdog organisation said\n\nThe Home Office contracted the running of the centre to GEO Group UK Ltd, which contracted healthcare to Nestor Primecare Services Ltd.\n\nIt in turn contracted the recruitment of doctors to The Jersey Practice - a GP surgery in west London - which used a locum agency, Beacon Care Services Ltd.\n\nThe jury said police, Home Office staff and GEO staff all failed to spot Mr Fosu's worsening condition and behaviour.\n\nGEO staff showed a \"casual approach\" to his welfare when they removed his bedding and mattress, which contributed to his hypothermia, they concluded.\n\nThe jury said the failure of Primecare staff to effectively provide healthcare to Mr Fosu was \"inexplicable\", while the GPs showed \"insufficient professional curiosity\".\n\nThe Independent Monitoring Board, which was at the centre to monitor standards, was \"ineffective and inadequate\", the jury also concluded.\n\nDetention centre staff repeatedly said at the inquest that they expected healthcare staff to identify problems with detainees.\n\nThe jury heard that Steve Scott, head of residence for GEO, had told an investigation into the death that he thought at the time that Mr Fosu was a \"prat\".\n\nMental health nurse Lesley Dube said he could not remember seeing Mr Fosu but had written in detention centre notes that he had no mental health issues.\n\nHe told the inquest he had not carried out a full mental health assessment, nor was he asked to.\n\nDuring Mr Fosu's time in isolation, he was seen by four family doctors, who were unfamiliar with all relevant detention centre rules and could not recall seeing Mr Fosu face-to-face in his cell.\n\nTwo of those doctors made no notes about him in the GP records, while the other two noted he had declined to be seen but did not assess whether he was well enough to make that decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The father of Prince Kwabena Fosu says he wants answers into his son's death\n\nThe BBC has learned that three of these family doctors have since been referred to their regulator, the General Medical Council.\n\nThe jury also found that staff at Corby police station \"failed to react to Mr Fosu's challenging behaviour\" and re-refer him to medical staff.\n\nIt also concluded that opportunities were missed by the station's mental health team to fully look into Mr Fosu's medical background and history, \"resulting in an inadequate mental health assessment\".\n\nThe Home Office conceded it had failed Mr Fosu with \"tragic consequences\", the jury heard.\n\nPhilip Riley, director of detention and escorting services in immigration enforcement, said at the time staff did not have sufficient training or know how to manage detainees with potentially complex mental health issues, adding that the centre was severely short-staffed.\n\nA Home Office investigation identified learning opportunities on detainees in segregation and food and fluid refusal policies. A key failure identified had been healthcare and Home Office staff not seeing Mr Fosu in person.\n\nResponding to the inquest's findings, the department issued a statement in which it offered its \"deepest condolences\" to Mr Fosu's family.\n\n\"The standard of care Mr Fosu received was unacceptable, and we must never allow this to happen again,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Since Mr Fosu's death we have increased the number of staff in immigration removal centres, improved how detainees are managed and safeguarded, including the introduction of the Adults at Risk policy and increased monitoring of vulnerable people in detention.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service had decided to charge GEO Group UK Ltd and Nestor Primecare Services Ltd with breaches in health and safety legislation but the charges were dropped in 2018.\n\nSince 2014, healthcare in removal centres has been commissioned by NHS England.\n\nMr Fosu is bured with three others in a south London cemetery\n\nBut lawyers and charities working with detainees told the BBC they were still seeing cases where centres do not recognise the seriousness of mental illnesses and failings like some of those in the case of Mr Fosu recur.\n\nMr Fosu's father, Prince Charles Obeng, told the BBC it had always been his son's wish to come to the UK.\n\nNow he is buried in a south London cemetery alongside three others, his father was told. There is a plaque with his name marking the grave, but Mr Obeng wants the government to pay for a headstone.\n\n\"If someone is placed in an immigration centre, you have to check whether the person is eating, whether the person is sleeping, whether the person is sick - you try to take care of the person,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAt his grave, Mr Obeng tells his son he prays that God will give him a better place to stay.", "Flooding in areas along the River Severn \"isn't over yet\", the Environment Agency (EA) has warned.\n\nHomes were evacuated last week in Ironbridge, Shropshire, and in Bewdley, Worcestershire, after flood defences buckled.\n\nLevels on the River Severn are expected to peak in Ironbridge on Monday night and will remain high for the next three to four days, the EA said.\n\nDave Throup, from the EA, warned people not to get \"complacent\".\n\nOn Sunday, the Met Office revealed rainfall data indicated February was the wettest on record in the UK.\n\nOn average 202.1mm of rain fell last month, beating February 1990 when 193.4mm was recorded.\n\nBewdley Bridge has been closed to vehicles\n\n\"All the water from the weekend is now in Shrewsbury, it's worked its way downstream,\" he said.\n\n\"We saw a peak overnight at Welsh bridge of 4.3m so that is a high level, but it's almost a metre lower than last week so more manageable.\n\n\"But we don't want people to get complacent, these are still very high flood levels.\"\n\nLater on Monday, Mr Throup said they were seeing \"quite a strong rise\" at Bewdley, but stressed it was still lower than last week.\n\n\"These are closer to winter flooding levels, but that does bring with it dangers,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got a number of roads closed, difficult travel conditions, we're not out of the woods, it's going to take a good few days for these river levels to drop right out.\"\n\nThe flooded rugby ground of Bridgnorth RFC is seen beside the swollen River Severn\n\n\"Herculean efforts\" saw damaged flood defences in Ironbridge repaired in time for Storm Jorge\n\nThe temporary barriers in Ironbridge were pushed back by up to 6.6ft (2m) due to the force of the water on Wednesday, meaning water was able to seep beneath them.\n\nMr Throup said levels there were expected to peak overnight into Tuesday and then peak in Worcestershire on Tuesday night.\n\n\"The barriers there have been all checked, we've replaced the bits that got damaged or twisted, so they're all good to go,\" he said.\n\nIn Worcestershire, Eckington Bridge is closed but other roads in the area have opened.\n\nBewdley Bridge is closed to vehicles \"due to river levels rising faster than anticipated\", the council said. It remains open to cyclists and pedestrians.\n\nMeanwhile, river levels in flood-hit parts of East Yorkshire are \"dropping very fast\", the EA said.\n\nThe Environment Agency worked through the night to clear drains\n\nHerefordshire Council said it was waiving the need for a permit until 8 March for any residents with flood damaged items they want to dispose of.\n\nBusinesses in a Herefordshire village affected by the partial collapse of a road said there had been a drop in customer numbers.\n\nThe B4424 between Fownhope and Hereford has been closed since 17 February after a landslip.\n\nA coach takes children to a primary school in the village, which is accessible via Ledbury and Ross on Wye, a diversion of 90 minutes for those coming in from elsewhere.\n\nLocal businesses said they urgently needed better signage and managed diversion routes.\n\nKevin Braybrook, who runs Bowens Bed and Breakfast, said he has had cancellations.\n\n\"We just need a speedy professional pro-active response about what we're going to do about this road,\" he said.\n\nHave you been affected by the floods? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The crash happened close to the Irish border in County Louth\n\nA 20-year-old Northern Ireland man has appeared in court the Republic of Ireland charged with causing the deaths of three people by dangerous driving.\n\nKeith Lennon, of Forest Park in Dromintee, County Armagh, is also accused of failing to report the crash.\n\nIt happened on the N1 in County Louth at about 02:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nMother and son Mary and Kevin Faxton, from Bessbrook, County Armagh and Bryan Magill, from Newry, County Down, were killed in the collision.\n\nIn court in Dundalk on Monday a bail application was refused due to the serious nature of the charges, the nature of the evidence and because the judge believed the accused posed a flight risk.\n\nMr Lennon was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison in Dublin.\n\nHe is due to appear in court again this week.", "President Donald Trump tweeted a tribute to Jack Welch after hearing of his death\n\nJack Welch, a titan of American business who transformed General Electric (GE) into America's most valuable company, has died aged 84.\n\nHe ran the US conglomerate from 1981 until 2001, and was once named \"manager of the century\" for his achievements.\n\nNicknamed \"Neutron Jack\" for his cost-cutting, he became a best selling author and confidante of US presidents.\n\nPresident Donald Trump Tweeted that Mr Welch was a business legend and friend.\n\nBorn in 1935 to Irish-Catholic parents in Massachusetts, Mr Welch spent his entire career at GE, which he joined as a chemical engineer in its plastics division at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMade the company's youngest vice-president in 1972, he became vice-chairman in 1979. By the end of 1980, it was announced that he was to become chairman and CEO of the firm, a position he held for 20 years before retiring in 2001.\n\nWhile at the helm in the 1980s and 1990s, he bought and sold scores of businesses, expanding GE into financial services and consulting.\n\nHe was also known for his focus on straight-talk, efficiency and streamlined bureaucracy. He would regularly cull the lowest-performing 10% of staff each year. \"The underperformers generally had to go,\" he wrote in one of his books.\n\n\"In grade school you're graded, in college you make the team or you don't, you graduate or you don't. People are graded all along why at age 22 when you quit school should you stop being evaluated, it's nonsense,\" he told the BBC in 2001.\n\nThis ruthless approach was credited with helping to grow GE's market value from $12bn to $410bn (£321bn).\n\nIn 1999, Fortune magazine named him the \"Manager of the Century\", crediting him with keeping GE nimble and showing the way to a generation of business leaders facing the shift to a more globalised, less manufacturing-based economy.\n\n\"Today is a sad day for the entire GE family,\" GE's current chief, H. Lawrence Culp Jr., said in a statement. \"Jack was larger than life and the heart of GE for half a century. He reshaped the face of our company and the business world.\"\n\nA guru to thousands of management hopefuls, his books \"Winning\" and \"Jack: Straight from the Gut\" were bestsellers during his retirement.\n\nMore recently, a turn for the worse in GE's fortunes has also prompted a second look at Mr Welch's business accomplishments.\n\nDuring the 2008 global financial crisis, losses at the firm's financial services arm delivered a blow to the firm, which subsequently scaled back its operations, selling off many of its less-profitable businesses.\n\nMr Welch's generous retirement package also drew controversy as an example of excessive executive compensation after details of it aired during his divorce from his second wife.\n\nIn his retirement, Mr Welch founded a business degree programme, wrote columns with his third wife, Suzy, and spoke frequently, preserving his reputation for delivering unvarnished opinions.\n\nIn 2012, he suggested in a Tweet that the government under Barack Obama was fudging economic data - a claim, he later acknowledged as \"somewhat incendiary\".\n\nHis advice to women in the workplace, in which he emphasised performance and warned that making choices to put family first would have a career cost, was also criticised as out of date.", "Thomas Hanlon was cleared of casuing death by careless driving on while riding his e-bike\n\nA cyclist has been cleared of killing a pedestrian while riding a modified e-bike in Hackney, east London.\n\nThomas Hanlon, 32, was accused of \"going way too quickly\" when he hit Sakine Cihan in Kingsland High Street in Dalston, on 28 August 2018.\n\nHe was acquitted of causing death by careless driving and driving without a licence at the Old Bailey.\n\nJurors took just over an hour to reach their verdicts in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind.\n\nSakine Cihan was crossing Kingsland High Street in Dalston when she was struck\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's modified e-bike was travelling at more than 10mph over the 20mph speed limit.\n\nIn law, e-bikes which are fitted with an electric motor can only be driven without a licence or insurance if their power is limited, and the motor automatically switches off at speeds above 15.5mph.\n\nThe court was told Mr Hanlon left the scene despite a passer-by trying to stop him\n\nThe court heard Mr Hanlon's bike was capable of going double that speed and as such should have been categorised as a motorbike.\n\nProsecutor Nathan Rasiah read out a statement by cyclist Raymond Murphy, a witness to the 28 August crash, who said he was \"struck\" that Mr Hanlon's bike was \"going way too quickly for a normal electric bicycle\".\n\nBut, Mr Hanlon's defence barrister Claire Howell argued that Ms Cihan \"ran out in front of him\".\n\nShe added: \"He is going straight along a straight road on a sunny clear day when he has got the right of way and he can see the lights have changed to green and he's just moving through.\n\n\"His reactions were quicker than many confident and careful drivers in the time it took him to react to her stepping out, which suggests he was keeping a good look out.\"\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.", "Priti Patel was a minister at the department for work and pensions\n\nA former aide to Priti Patel received a £25,000 payout from the government after claiming she was bullied by the then employment minister.\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC alleges the woman took an overdose of prescription medicine following the alleged incident in 2015.\n\nThe DWP did not admit liability and the case did not come before a tribunal.\n\nMs Patel is facing allegations - which she denies - that she mistreated staff in her current role as home secretary.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office's most senior official, resigned on Saturday alleging Ms Patel's conduct towards staff included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal, alleging that he had been forced out of his job.\n\nThe government said on Monday, before the latest allegations, that the Cabinet Office would investigate whether Ms Patel has breached the ministerial code and to \"establish the facts\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has now called on Ms Patel to step down from her role while the investigation takes place.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We want a genuinely independent inquiry. A lawyer-led inquiry and something that can seen to be independent.\n\n\"I'm afraid it would be better if she stepped down. We are calling on her to step down whilst the inquiry goes on.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock declined to comment on the allegations of bullying against the home secretary because of the ongoing investigation and \"potential legal action\".\n\nBut he added: \"I know Priti well and she is robust and she is determined and that is what you would expect with a home secretary.\n\n\"She is also extremely courteous and kind.\"\n\nLegal correspondence seen by the BBC show a junior employee at the DWP brought a formal complaint of bullying and harassment against the department, including Ms Patel, after being dismissed from her role in October 2015.\n\nThe staff member's grievance letter alleges she had previously attempted to kill herself after reporting similar allegations of workplace bullying concerning another individual in 2014, before Ms Patel was a minister.\n\nThe staff member also alleges she was told the decision to dismiss her a year later was not made on performance grounds but because Ms Patel did not \"like [her] face\", according to comments attributed to her line manager and a colleague.\n\nOn that day in October 2015, Ms Patel had shouted at the woman in her private office and told her to \"get lost\" and \"get out of her face\", the correspondence alleges.\n\nMs Patel is described as having acted \"without warning\" and with an \"unprovoked level of aggression\", in the woman's formal grievance complaint.\n\nShortly after, the staff member allegedly took an overdose of prescription medication in the office and lay with her head on the desk for some time.\n\nShe was then said to have become unresponsive and her partner was called by a colleague to collect her as she was unable to walk unaided.\n\nThe woman then took a further overdose at home in what is described as an attempt to kill herself and was rushed to hospital where she spent the night in resuscitation, according to the documents.\n\nA settlement was reached in 2017 for £25,000 after the member of staff threatened to bring a legal claim of bullying, harassment and discrimination on the grounds of race and disability against the department, including Ms Patel who is directly named.\n\nWhen asked last week about a complaint against Ms Patel during her time at the DWP, a source close to her said she was \"unaware of any complaint being made\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson backed Priti Patel following Sir Philip's allegations, saying she was \"a fantastic home secretary\".\n\nOn Monday, before the latest allegations emerged, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told MPs Ms Patel \"absolutely rejects these allegations\".\n\nBut he said the prime minister had asked the Cabinet Office to carry out an investigation into whether she had breached the ministerial code and \"to establish the facts\".\n\nLabour MP Hilary Benn asked Mr Gove if any complaints had been made about Ms Patel's conduct at the DWP, or in her former role as international development secretary.\n\nMr Gove said: \"The inquiry that is proceeding will look at all complaints that may have been made, I cannot say more than that.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the government said \"All ministers are subject to the ministerial code. We do not comment on individual personnel matters.\"\n\nAsked by Labour's Yvette Cooper how many complaints had been made against Ms Patel, Mr Gove said it would be \"improper\" to comment on an \"individual personnel case\".", "Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar will abandon her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.\n\nSenator Klobuchar came in a distant sixth place in Saturday's South Carolina primary.\n\nMs Klobuchar, 59, will join Joe Biden at his Dallas, Texas rally on Monday to endorse the former vice-president, US media report.\n\nThe news comes on the heels of fellow moderate Pete Buttigieg suspending his campaign on Sunday.\n\nDespite some strong debate performances and a surprise surge in the early primary voting state of New Hampshire, Ms Klobuchar failed to gain broader traction.\n\nOn the campaign trail, the Minnesota senator sold herself to moderate voters as the candidate who could win swing states back for the Democrats. However, her profile was largely eclipsed by centrist rivals Mr Biden, 77, and Mr Buttigieg, 38.\n\nThe former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Mr Buttigieg also endorsed Mr Biden for the nomination in an apparent effort to consolidate moderate voters and block the progressive Bernie Sanders, who currently leads the field. Mr Buttigieg and Mr Biden campaigned together in Dallas on Monday night.\n\nYet another former presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, is set to endorse Mr Biden, according to people familiar with his plans.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Biden picked up endorsements from former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, US Senators Mark Udall and Tammy Duckworth, and former Senate leader Harry Reid.\n\nMs Klobuchar's withdrawal comes on the eve of the so-called Super Tuesday primaries. On Tuesday, 14 US states will cast their votes to determine the Democratic presidential nominee.\n\nWith Ms Klobuchar's exit, five Democrats are left in the race to take on Republican President Donald Trump - Mr Biden, Mr Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard. With the exception of Ms Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, all are septuagenarians.\n\nSeven delegates - representatives who will cast nominating votes for a candidate at the Democratic national convention in July - Ms Klobuchar had won from previous primaries are now free to vote for someone else. A candidate must pick up 1,990 delegates, gathered up from primary contests throughout the country, to secure the nomination. Mr Sanders, the leftwing Vermont senator, currently leads the delegate count with 60 delegates, followed by Mr Biden with 54.\n\nSeats on Joe Biden's campaign train are starting to fill up. Former presidential rivals Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg travelled to Dallas on Monday night, joining former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke in appearing with, and endorsing, the former vice-president.\n\nThe faceoff between Mr Biden, the \"establishment\" candidate, and Mr Sanders, the outsider, is taking shape - a contrast in styles and sensibilities that gives Democrats a clear choice between two directions to take the party.\n\nIt's not quite that simple, of course, as Elizabeth Warren seems set to stick around as a progressive-left alternative, while Michael Bloomberg continues to money-bomb his way into Super Tuesday.\n\nStill, this represents a remarkable run of good fortune for Mr Biden, who has been landing endorsements from Democratic politicians across the US the past few days.\n\nMeanwhile, it may turn out that Mr Sanders' big win in Nevada just over a week ago didn't give the Vermont senator much of a boost. Instead, it woke up moderates and other voters not sold on his calls for a progressive revolution, prompting a rapid consolidation around an alternative.\n\nAfter more than a year of campaigning, the race for the Democratic nomination is now shifting by the hour.\n\nAnnouncing her candidacy in the middle of a blizzard last February, Ms Klobuchar, a former prosecutor, pitched herself as a pragmatist who could appeal to voters in America's geographic and ideological middle.\n\nShe opposed the \"Medicare for All\" universal healthcare schemes touted by her leftwing rivals, Mr Sanders and Ms Warren, making the case for what she called more \"practical\" healthcare reform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is the Latino vote so important?\n\n\"I always tell people,\" Ms Klobuchar would say on the campaign trail. \"If you are tired of the nonsense and the noise in our politics, and you are tired of the extremes in our politics and you are looking for something different, then you have a home with me\".\n\nDespite winning some support from moderate Republicans who oppose Mr Trump she had failed to attract support from the black and Hispanic voters who are key Democratic blocs.", "The principles behind the anti-extremism scheme Prevent may not be as controversial among British Muslims as thought, a survey suggests.\n\nCriminal justice think tank Crest Advisory says its research shows the \"narrative\" the scheme is a \"toxic brand\" is \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nUK Muslims would be more likely to tip off the scheme when someone was being radicalised than the wider public.\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain said Prevent still needed to be overhauled.\n\nThe research was funded by a charitable trust with an interest in policing and crime reduction which for security reasons does not wish to be identified.\n\nThe survey showed that many of those questioned had not heard of Prevent before - amounting to 55% of Muslims and 68% of the general population.\n\nBut when offered \"a neutral explanation\" of Prevent, 80% of British Muslims and 85% of the wider public offered broad support for it, Crest Advisory says.\n\nSome 67% of British Muslims surveyed said they would tip off the authorities about someone being radicalised, compared with 63% of the wider public.\n\n\"Our findings appear to fly in the face of a number of narratives commonly applied to British Muslims by some politicians, campaign groups and commentators about extremism and efforts to counter it,\" said report author and Crest Advisory director Jon Clements.\n\n\"British Muslims are, broadly speaking, no more 'in denial' about Islamist extremism and the threat it presents than the population as a whole.\n\n\"Equally it is evident that British Muslims appear to be just as willing to step up and report concerns about an individual at risk of being radicalised as everybody else.\"\n\nMention \"Prevent\" and the phrase that often comes to mind is \"toxic brand\".\n\nIt's the label that is said to best fit what Muslims feel about the programme.\n\nIt's unclear when it first became attached but it has stuck, leaving the impression that Prevent is tainted, poisonous and worthless.\n\nThe results of this research suggest the term is unhelpful and does not accurately reflect what British Muslims think.\n\nIn fact, the finding that should cause most alarm among local authority safeguarding teams and counter-terrorism police is that most Muslims don't know what Prevent is - major work is clearly needed to raise its profile.\n\nOfficials will also have to address the concerns that a significant proportion of Muslims surveyed say they have about the overall purpose of the project.\n\nThat's a job that the independent review of the scheme, promised by the government last year, could help with - but the review has stalled after its chair, Lord Carlile, had to step down.\n\nRepresentative samples of British Muslims and the wider public were interviewed by from Savanta Comres in October and November last year. Researchers also held focus group discussions in London, Slough, Watford, Bradford, Birmingham, Oldham, Cardiff and Glasgow.\n\nEqualities campaigner Akeela Ahmed who advised the project said the research \"underscores the urgent need to improve consultation with communities most affected by counter-terrorism and counter-extremism policies in general\".\n\nShe said the findings were \"significant and provide a sound evidence base by which to bring fact and balance to a debate that has been raging for years.\"\n\nA Muslim Council of Britain spokesperson said the survey provided \"valuable insight\" and showed most people supported the \"concept that prevention is better than cure\".\n\nBut they added that less than a third of the British Muslims surveyed who were actually familiar with Prevent were supportive of the scheme. They cited reasons including lack of trust and oversight and the MCB said this \"demonstrate precisely why there needs to be an overhaul of the strategy\" as \"serious concerns\" remained.\n\nDal Babu - a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent, who used to chair the National Association of Muslim Police - criticised Prevent and the research.\n\nHe said the report sought to \"mislead and conflate safeguarding with the Prevent programme\" which \"does not have the trust of the community\".\n\n\"Unfortunately this clumsy, misleading report will lead to further evidence of the authorities failing to engage with communities and develop a system for preventing terrorism from where it comes,\" he added.", "International Trade Secretary Liz Truss welcomed US trade representative Robert Lighthizer to London last week\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to \"drive a hard bargain\" as he set out the UK's negotiating position for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US.\n\nThe government said a deal would boost the UK economy by £3.4bn and particularly benefit Scotland, England's north-east and the Midlands.\n\nIt pledged to maintain food standards and said the NHS would not be for sale.\n\nMeanwhile, talks between the UK and EU aimed at reaching a trade agreement formally kick off in Brussels later.\n\nThe talks on a free trade agreement with the US are expected to begin later this month.\n\nThe discussions will take place in both the UK and US and be overseen by the government's chief negotiation adviser Crawford Falconer - formerly New Zealand's chief negotiator and ambassador to the World Trade Organization.\n\nA government statement said manufacturers of ceramics, cars, food and drink would be \"the biggest winners\" from a deal, along with the professional services, including architects and lawyers.\n\n\"We're going to drive a hard bargain to boost British industry,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"Trading Scottish smoked salmon for Stetson hats, we will deliver lower prices and more choice for our shoppers.\"\n\nIn what appears to be a bid to push back against accusations made by Labour during the election that the health service would be up for sale under the Conservatives, the government also said any future deal \"must protect our NHS\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss told BBC Breakfast: \"We will not diminish our food safety standards and we will also not put the NHS on the table, or the price the NHS pays for drugs on the table.\"\n\n\"Those are two very clear red lines in our trade deal.\"\n\nTurning to the EU trade talks, Ms Truss attempted to address concerns over fishing rights - the EU is demanding continued access to British waters, while the UK wants quota deals like the EU has with Norway or Iceland.\n\nMs Truss told BBC Breakfast: \"We are not going to trade away our fishing in a deal with the EU or any other negotiating partner.\n\n\"We are going to get a deal with the EU that does not involve selling out our fishing.\"\n\nConfederation of British Industry director general Carolyn Fairbairn said it was \"encouraging to see the government's ambitions to make it easier for skilled people to move between the UK and US\" and \"support small business exporters\".\n\nBoris Johnson and Donald Trump met at a G7 summit in France in August\n\nBut Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said: \"The government should be focused on getting a good trade deal with the EU - not cosying up to Donald Trump.\"\n\nShe said a bad trade deal with the US would \"put working people's jobs and rights on the line... and it will undermine our vital public services, environment and food standards\".\n\nMs O'Grady referred to fears from farming leaders that an agreement could see the import of food that would be illegal to produce in the UK, such as chlorinated chicken.\n\nAccording to recent media reports, the EU will demand that the UK maintains a ban on washing chicken in chlorine and other disinfectants as the price for a trade agreement with the bloc. But the US has expressed frustration at the ban, arguing that it is not based on scientific evidence.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner accused the government of making \"false promises\" over commitments to protect the NHS and consumer standards, adding \"there must be a full and proper scrutiny process for this and all trade agreements\".\n\nThe US is the UK's largest trading partner after the EU, accounting for nearly 19% of all exports in 2018 and 11% of imports. The EU accounted for 45% of all exports and 53% of imports.\n\nOn Monday, a hundred British negotiators will travel to Brussels to start talks on a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe four days of discussions will be led by David Frost on the UK side and Michel Barnier for the EU, and there will be up to 11 different groups discussing different aspects of the deal.\n\nDavid Frost will lead the UK's negotiations in Brussels\n\nPotential flashpoints could include the UK's wish to diverge from EU employment and environmental standards in future, its ruling out of any role for the European Court of Justice, and the level of EU access to UK fishing waters.\n\nThe UK has signalled that it could walk away from trade talks in June unless there is a \"broad outline\" of a deal.\n\nFrench Europe Minister Amelie De Montchalin told the BBC that the EU was prepared to abort a post-Brexit deal if European fishermen were denied access to British waters.\n\nDetails of what will be discussed and when have been published, with topics to be covered in the first round of negotiations including trade in goods and services, transport, energy, fisheries and \"fair and open competition\" in future dealings.\n\nFurther rounds of negotiations will take place every two to three weeks, alternating between London and Brussels.\n\nLiberal Democrat acting leader Sir Ed Davey has called on the prime minister to pause trade talks with the EU and extend the Brexit transition period in order to focus on dealing with the coronavirus.\n\nEven trade buffs admit their area of expertise can be pretty dry and detail-heavy.\n\nAnd it would certainly suit the government if we all looked the other way during these negotiations because trade deals generally include trade-offs. On both sides.\n\nNeither Boris Johnson, nor his predecessor, Theresa May, have been wholly transparent about this with the UK public.\n\nSo surely it is of interest to those who voted for Brexit, to keep a keen eye on whether the benefits they've been led to believe will be coming the UK's way for farmers, fishermen and slashing immigration numbers, will now materialise in the way they'd imagined.\n\nAnd what do both sides - the EU and Boris Johnson's government - want from a trade deal? Very different things.", "Some British tourists have been given the all-clear to go back home after spending a week quarantined inside their hotel rooms in Tenerife.\n\nBBC correspondent Dan Johnson took to the skies to report on the current atmosphere in the area.", "Footage has emerged of Greek coast guards firing into the sea near a migrant dingy, and shoving it around, as they attempted to force it back towards Turkey.\n\nMigrants on another dinghy were met with shouts of \"go away\" by angry residents of the island of Lesbos.", "Saudi Arabia has reported its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus disease.\n\nThe health ministry said the Covid-19 disease had been detected in a Saudi citizen who had travelled to the kingdom from Iran via Bahrain . Iran has reported more than 1,500 confirmed cases and 66 deaths since 19 February.\n\nThe infected Saudi citizen has been placed in quarantine in a hospital and samples have been taken from those who have been in contact them, according to the ministry.\n\nThe announcement came just days after the Saudis took the unprecedented step of barring foreigners from performing pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina.", "Cars were the top British export to the US last year, representing 14% of all UK goods exports.\n\nThe government has estimated a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States would boost the UK economy by 0.16% over the next 15 years.\n\nThe figure is included in a 180-page document setting out the UK's negotiating position for talks, expected to begin later this month.\n\nThe document pledges to maintain maintain food standards and stresses that the NHS is \"not on the table\".\n\nIt comes as separate trade talks with the EU get under way in Brussels.\n\nThe UK government said a US deal should seek to lower import taxes, or tariffs, on many UK exports - and increase trade in services.\n\nIt says an agreement would increase the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) by between 0.07% and 0.16%, depending on the exact terms of the deal.\n\nThe estimate is based on a model developed by the government in November 2018 when it predicted various post-Brexit scenarios.\n\nThat model estimated that UK GDP would fall by 7.6% over 15 years if the government failed to reach a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe UK's strategy document said a deal should also seek to boost trade in digital services, and make it easier for UK professionals to work in the US, and vice versa.\n\nThe UK will aim to lower trade barriers faced by British car manufacturers, ceramics makers and producers of products such as Cheddar cheese, the document adds.\n\nIt suggests a number of economic sectors, including energy, carmaking and construction are expected to benefit from a boost if a deal is struck.\n\nHowever, it said a US deal would lead to a long-term 0.5% reduction in the output of the financial services sector, with resources \"reallocated\" to other areas.\n\nThe UK's release of its wishlist for a trade deal with the US was an hour behind schedule - and a full year behind America's list.\n\nIt's a reminder that nothing is likely to go to plan in the year ahead.\n\nThe UK, as expected, pledges to protect consumer standards and the NHS. But America wants more access for its farmers, which would likely necessitate a relaxing of standards.\n\nAnd this is happening at the same time as talks with the EU get underway (conducted, to complicate matters with a different team under the authority of a different Whitehall department) - for whom a relaxing of standards is likely to be unpalatable.\n\nThe US has also specified it wants to be able to veto the UK's ability to strike deals with \"non-market economies\" meaning the likes of China\n\nHow big are the potential gains? The Department for International Trade touts the potential for UK GDP to increase by £3.4bn if tariffs are eliminated (which actually goes beyond the stated objectives) and other barriers reduced by 50%.\n\nSo that's a big \"if\" and in any case is equivalent to a scant 0.2% of GDP, and over the course of 15 years.\n\nAnd that's dwarfed by the hit to UK growth other studies have suggested will result from even a free trade agreement with the EU, compared to the status quo.\n\nThe US published its outline for trade talks with the UK last February.\n\nThe discussions will take place in both the UK and US and be overseen by the government's chief negotiation adviser Crawford Falconer - formerly New Zealand's chief negotiator and ambassador to the World Trade Organization.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the publication of the document, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK had \"the best negotiators in the business\" and would \"drive a hard bargain to boost British industry\".\n\nBut Liberal Democrat International Trade spokesperson Sarah Olney said the document showed the benefits from a UK-US deal \"will not come close to outweighing what we expect to lose from leaving the EU\".\n\nLabour MP David Lammy, who had been a prominent Remain supporter, told the government: \"So now you admit the potential economic benefits of a UK-US trade deal are just +0.2% of GDP.\n\n\"In what planet does this boost wages or create jobs for anyone except the Tory Cabinet?\"\n\nIn what appears to be a bid to push back against accusations made by Labour during the election that the health service would be up for sale under the Conservatives, the government also said any future deal must \"protect\" the NHS.\n\n\"The NHS will not be on the table. The price the NHS pays for drugs will not be on the table,\" the document says.\n\n\"The services the NHS provides will not be on the table. The NHS is not, and never will be, for sale to the private sector, whether overseas or domestic.\"\n\nAccording to recent media reports, the EU will demand that the UK maintains a ban on washing chicken in chlorine and other disinfectants as the price for a trade agreement with the bloc. But the US has expressed frustration at the ban, arguing that it is not based on scientific evidence.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner accused the government of making \"false promises\" over commitments to protect the NHS and consumer standards, adding \"there must be a full and proper scrutiny process for this and all trade agreements\".\n\nThe US is the UK's largest trading partner after the EU, accounting for nearly 19% of all exports in 2018 and 11% of imports. The EU accounted for 45% of all exports and 53% of imports.", "Are these the UK’s first climate change refugees?\n\nThe residents of Fairbourne, a village in Gwynedd, have been labelled as such after the government announced they would have to leave their homes.\n\nThey’ve been told the area - 450 houses, a pub, post office and several shops - will be decommissioned by 2054 because of the threat of sea-level rise and coastal flooding linked to climate change.\n\nIt’s been seven years, and house prices in the area have plummeted. Residents don’t know when or where they will have to move, who will pay, and they haven’t been offered any compensation.\n\nGwynedd Council says: “In the long term, maintaining and increasing flood defences would not only be costly but would also lead to increased risk to life should the defences fail.”\n\nFilmed and edited by Samantha Everett. Produced by Tom Baker.\n\nYou can follow more from BBC Radio 4's PM.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo Met Police officers called to the Streatham attack are being investigated for alleged dangerous driving and misconduct over a car crash.\n\nThe officers were travelling in convoy to the scene on 2 February after Sudesh Amman, wearing a fake suicide vest, stabbed two people.\n\nOne officer was involved in a crash with two other cars which injured him and a member of the public.\n\nThe Met Police Federation described the move as \"a complete joke\".\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the officers were under investigation on suspicion of dangerous driving and gross misconduct.\n\nThe crash happened near Streatham Common as officers responded to reports of a knifeman on the loose\n\nIt followed a referral from the Metropolitan Police on Friday which said one of the drivers was in an unmarked car while the other was in a marked armed vehicle.\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said: \"A criminal investigation does not mean that criminal charges will necessarily follow.\n\n\"Misconduct notices do not imply guilt but are to inform the officer that their behaviour and conduct are under investigation and the level of severity.\"\n\nThe two officers have been placed on restricted duties and are not allowed to drive police vehicles while the investigation is carried out.\n\nKen Marsh, the chairman of the Met Police Federation, which represents more than 30,000 officers in the force, said: \"The public will be appalled when they hear that brave police officers responding to a terrorist attack can be treated in such a manner.\n\n\"What kind of message does this send? These officers and their colleagues put their lives on the line that day to protect the public.\n\n\"Now potentially their careers are on the line. It's absurd. A complete joke.\"\n\nAttacker Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police in Streatham on 2 February\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 the UK the official advice if you suspect you have coronavirus, have been in contact with someone who has it, or have been to a place where there are a lot of cases of the virus, is to self-isolate.\n\nBut what does that actually mean and what's the right way to do it?\n\nThe BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains the top five methods to successfully self-isolate.", "A 16-year-old boy who cited the group as an influence was jailed this year for planning a terror attack\n\nA British neo-Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed by the government as a terrorist organisation, according to a report from anti-racism campaigners.\n\nHope Not Hate has used its annual State of Hate report to call for the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) to be banned.\n\nThe Home Office said the list of proscribed terrorist groups was kept \"under review.\"\n\nLast week two British extreme right-wing organisations were added their number.\n\nOne of them - Sonnenkrieg Division - was influenced by the ONA's Nazi-Satanist ideology, a supernatural worldview that encourages the disruption of society through violence, criminality and sexual offending.\n\nIn the past year four teenagers linked to the ideology have been jailed in the UK for terror offences, with one of them convicted of preparing for a terror attack by - among other things - trying to alter himself in line with instructions set out in ONA texts.\n\nIn court, prosecutors described the organisation as \"self-consciously, explicitly malevolent\" and the \"most prominent and recognisable link between Satanism and the extreme right.\"\n\nHope not Hate's report says the occult organisation - thought to have been founded in the 1970s - has become increasingly prominent online, noting that its \"terminology and trappings have taken on lives of their own, adopted into the lexicon of the wider terroristic far-right.\"\n\nThe anti-racist campaign group, which investigates violent extremism, argues that the group's \"sick ideas have drawn in young extremists in the UK and elsewhere, and have helped nourish a dangerous culture of unprecedented depravity amongst the extreme right, which has none of the moral constraints that previous generations of far-right activists had.\"\n\nYvette Cooper says the ONA's activities are \"particularly troubling\"\n\nYvette Cooper MP, chair of the home affairs select committee, said the home secretary \"should immediately\" refer the ONA to the government's proscription review group.\n\n\"The combination of Nazi-Satanism, extreme violence and sexual abuse makes it particularly troubling and action needs to be taken to prevent them grooming and radicalising other people,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said action was being taken to \"root out and dismantle the groups that promote extreme right-wing views and we are giving police the tools and resources they need to tackle this threat.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"We keep the list of proscribed organisations under review.\"\n\nCounter-terrorism police have previously spoken about the increasing amount of work relating to \"niche ideologies\" such as violent Satanism.\n• None Neo-Nazi group to be banned under terror laws", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nManchester City secured their third League Cup win in succession - and their fourth in five years - with victory over Aston Villa at Wembley.\n\nPep Guardiola's side won an historic treble of domestic trophies last season with the Premier League and FA Cup, and they thoroughly deserved their triumph despite a spirited effort from Aston Villa.\n\nManchester City looked like they would stroll to victory when Sergio Aguero's strike and Rodri's header from a corner that was hotly contested by Villa put them in complete control inside 30 minutes.\n\nVilla, while strictly second best, offered themselves a lifeline when Mbwana Samatta headed in from Anwar El Ghazi's cross four minutes before the interval.\n\nCity continued to dominate as they sought a third goal and Villa were agonisingly close to forcing extra time when Bjorn Engels saw his header from a corner turned on to the woodwork superbly by keeper Claudio Bravo.\n\nIt was their last chance and City closed out the win their superiority merited.\n• None Third Carabao Cup is a sign of success - Guardiola\n\nManchester City may be about to lose their Premier League title to Liverpool, who are 22 points clear at the top of the table, but no-one can argue against their claims to the first piece of domestic silverware this season.\n\nThey were in control of most of this game apart from a frantic closing spell where the much-maligned 36-year-old Chilean keeper Bravo produced that stunning save from Engels to break Villa hearts.\n\nIf there is any frustration - and there will not be much - for Guardiola and his players, it is that they should have had this game done and dusted without any need for late moments of anxiety.\n\nAguero once again proved he is the man for all occasions with his predatory strike, while 19-year-old Phil Foden demonstrated his rich promise with a fine performance, which even contained a piece of audacious ball-juggling in the second half.\n\nJohn Stones slipped unfortunately for Villa's goal but he also contributed some vital defensive headers when City finally had to survive some concerted pressure in the closing minutes.\n\nFernandinho continues to be a towering presence and it was a win achieved with Kevin de Bruyne on the bench for the first hour.\n\nIt has been an outstanding week for City as they followed up Wednesday's Champions League last-16 first-leg win away to Real Madrid by lifting the EFL Cup.\n\nVilla can take heart in defeat\n\nAston Villa's players and staff gathered in a huddle after the final whistle for a rallying call for the battles ahead - which will be needed as they lie in the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nThey will feel they were served up an injustice with the corner that led to Rodri's goal but they can take some solace from the manner in which they stuck to their task, showed resilience and almost forced this EFL Cup final into extra time.\n\nThere was frustration for Villa's star man Jack Grealish, who could not exert any serious influence and, of course, there will be the pain of defeat.\n\nIt is a fact that Villa's main priority this season is Premier League survival and they demonstrated enough here to give them encouragement that they can achieve that mission, starting at Leicester City on 9 March.\n\n'Being here and winning is great' - Guardiola\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"Three times in a row is a big success. It's the consistency, incredible.\n\n\"It was awesome. We struggled in the first minutes and the last ones. They had two clear chances in the first minutes but we played really well, especially in the second half.\n\n\"The game was good. Phil [Foden] was clinical. Big success, our second title of the season with the Community Shield, it's so nice.\n\n\"We've won a lot. I tried when we arrive, every game we play we try to win it, every competition we try to win it, and three times in a row, being here and winning is great.\"\n• None Manchester City are the second side to win three consecutive League Cups after Liverpool between the 1980-81 and 1983-84 seasons (four in a row).\n• None Only Liverpool (eight) have won the competition more times than City (seven).\n• None Only Arsenal (six) have finished runners-up more often in League Cup history than Aston Villa (four - level with Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None Pep Guardiola has now won the League Cup on three occasions (2018, 2019, 2020) - only Alex Ferguson (four), Brian Clough (four) and Jose Mourinho (four) have won the competition more often among managers.\n• None Guardiola has won 21 of his previous 25 finals as a top-flight manager, including all six with City (two Community Shields, three League Cups, one FA Cup).\n• None Aston Villa have scored 20 League Cup goals this season, the last side to net 20+ in a single EFL Cup campaign were Manchester City in 2013-14 (22).\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 10 goals in his past six starts against Aston Villa.\n• None Since his League Cup debut in November 2011, Aguero has scored more goals in the competition than any other player (11).\n• None Aston Villa's Mbwana Samatta became the fifth different African player to score in a League Cup final, after Didier Drogba (four), Joseph-Desire Job, Obafemi Martins and Yaya Toure.\n• None Manchester City's Phil Foden has been directly involved in nine goals in his 10 starts in all competitions this season (two goals, seven assists).\n\nManchester City visit Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday (19:45 GMT), before facing Manchester United in a derby in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30).\n\nAston Villa are back in Premier League action a week on Monday at Leicester City (20:00).\n• None Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Björn Engels (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Hourihane with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Bernardo Silva tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko. 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. Jonathan Beale had access to African Special Forces training in Senegal\n\nBritain is significantly stepping up its military support in West Africa to help combat the world's fastest growing Islamist-led insurgency.\n\nOver the past month, British troops have been helping train local forces to fight extremism in the Sahel.\n\nThe region, a semi-arid stretch of land just south of the Sahara Desert, has been a frontline in the war against Islamist militancy for almost a decade.\n\nLater this year, 250 British soldiers will join a UN mission in Mali.\n\nIt has been described as the most dangerous peacekeeping operation in the world.\n\nIn Senegal, a team of around 30 UK soldiers and Royal Marines have been training special forces from a number of West African nations in a US-led counter-terrorism exercise involving more than 1,600 troops.\n\nMaj John House has been leading the British element of the training in Senegal with the focus on infantry skills and counter-terrorism operations.\n\nHe said it was in Britain's interests to get more involved in the region.\n\n\"If we don't act we may find the problems getting closer to our door,\" he said. \"The more they have a presence in the region, the more we can feel the effect back in the UK.\"\n\nOfficers from US Special Operations Command Africa, which has been responsible for overseeing the exercise, are just as blunt.\n\nUS Maj Chris Giaquinto said the extremists \"want to create a safe haven in Africa in order to grow and facilitate attacks, possibly in Europe or the United States\".\n\nThere are now multiple extremist groups operating across the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. They include ones linked to the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda.\n\nCommander Djibril Diawara, of the Senegalese Armed Forces, described the situation as \"alarming\".\n\nOver the past year the extremists have spread south from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.\n\nThe exercise culminated with special forces troops from Cameroon, Morocco and Nigeria conducting a raid on a village to take out an unspecified group of extremists.\n\nPeacekeepers face threats such as suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and mines\n\nSome of those involved have already been doing this for real. Lt Unyine Collins, of the Nigerian Special Boat Service, has spent seven months on the frontline fighting Boko Haram.\n\nHe described a ruthless enemy using brutal tactics. \"They use suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices, mines, basically they use the same tactics as ISIS,\" he said.\n\nIt's an indication of the potential threats that 250 British troops will be facing when they enter Mali later this year.\n\nThey may be part of a peacekeeping mission, but the British will be conducting long-range reconnaissance patrols into hostile territory.\n\nNearly 200 UN peacekeepers have already lost their lives in Mali. France, which has more than 5,000 troops in the country, has also suffered casualties there.\n\nSo is Britain about to become mired in another long-drawn conflict?\n\nBrig Gus Fair, commander of the Specialised Infantry Group, insisted it would not become another Afghanistan or Iraq for the British Army.\n\nHe said that \"we are up front in seeing this as a regional problem for a regional solution\", adding that it involved partnering nations rather than taking direct sovereign intervention.\n\nNevertheless, the British Army's peacekeeping mission in Mali will probably be the most dangerous task it has faced since the end of combat operations in Helmand.\n\nThe harsh reality is that, so far, Western support - along with international troops and peacekeepers - has been unable to turn the rising tide of extremism in the region.", "Yannick Glaudin who posed as a man made the lives of two gay men she met via a dating app \"hell\"\n\nA woman who posed as a man on a gay dating app has been jailed for sending naked photos of a man to his family.\n\nYannick Glaudin, 30, admitted in July to disclosing private sexual photos and stalking as part of her \"disturbing campaign of harassment\".\n\nShe set up fake accounts to cause distress to the victim, whom she never met, and his new boyfriend after he ended their online relationship.\n\nThe victim called it off after she kept making excuses to meet in person.\n\nProsecutor John McNamara told Inner London Crown Court that in May 2017 Glaudin, using the pseudonym Steven St Pier, met her male victim over the Grindr app.\n\nThe pair exchanged phone numbers, email addresses and even the victim's CV as he was job-hunting.\n\n\"During the period of contact, (the victim) sent to the defendant a number of intimate and personal pictures and videos,\" Mr McNamara said.\n\nBut the victim had doubts over Glaudin's true identity and ended their online-only contact in December 2017.\n\nThis triggered months of harassment by Glaudin, beginning with her sending the sexual images to the victim's stepfather and his friends.\n\nGlaudin escalated the harassment from February 2018 when her victim started a new relationship with another man.\n\nThe court was told she contacted police and Crimestoppers on multiple occasions making false claims of assault and paedophilia.\n\nShe also gave the victims' home address to young men under false pretences so they would show up looking for casual sex.\n\nSpeaking in court, the former boyfriend said the harassment had been \"hell on earth\".\n\nSentencing, Judge Reid questioned why Glaudin had not faced more serious charges than those put by the prosecution.\n\n\"It's difficult to understand why you did what you did other than that during the period of your offending you were consumed by jealousy and a desire for revenge,\" he told Glaudin.\n\nGlaudin, from Mile End, London, was sentenced to 12 months for a charge of disclosing private sexual photos and films with intent to cause distress, four months for harassment without violence and four months for one of stalking without fear, alarm or distress.\n\nA further one month sentence for breaching bail to be served consecutively.\n\nShe was also subject to a lifelong restraining order.\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\nComedian Joe Lycett has legally changed his name to Hugo Boss, in a protest against the German fashion brand.\n\nThe company have been sending cease-and-desist letters to small businesses and charities who are also using the word \"boss\" in their names.\n\n\"It's clear that Hugo Boss hates people using their name,\" Lycett tweeted.\n\nHugo Boss told the BBC: \"As an open-minded company we would like to clarify that we do not oppose the free use of language in any way.\n\n\"We accept the generic term 'boss' and its various and frequent uses in different languages.\"\n\nThe company, who often style themselves as simply \"Boss\", added: \"We welcome the comedian formerly known as Joe Lycett as a member of the Hugo Boss family.\"\n\nIn his original tweet, Lycett posted photographic evidence of his name change and said: \"This week I legally changed my name by deed poll and I am now officially known as Hugo Boss.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hugo Boss This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 comic, who has appeared on the BBC's Live at the Apollo, posted that the fashion house has cost small businesses \"thousands in legal fees and rebranding\".\n\nOne of the most high-profile cases of recent years involved Swansea brewery company Boss Brewing.\n\nThe fashion brand specifically objected to two types of beer the Welsh brewery produced - named Boss Boss and Boss Black - but did not request the company change their overall name.\n\nIn their statement, Hugo Boss confirmed it had approached Boss Brewing \"to prevent potential misunderstanding\".\n\n\"Both parties worked constructively to find a solution, which allows Boss Brewing the continued use of its name and all of its products, other than two beers where a slight change of the name was agreed upon.\"\n\nAccording to the i newspaper in 2018, a charity called DarkGirlBoss also received a legal letter from Hugo Boss when it tried to trademark the name.\n\nOn Monday morning, the artist formerly known as Joe Lycett told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: \"I would like them to stop doing this, because no-one is confusing these two things.\n\n\"Also I'd really like them to give them their money back really and promise to stop - and an apology would be nice,\" he added.\n\nLycett, who is 31 and from Birmingham, claimed he'll be \"launching a brand new product as Hugo Boss\" on his Channel 4 consumer rights show, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back.\n\nLast year on the show he impersonated an RBS boss in order to help a scammed customer get their £8,000 back.\n\nFellow comedian David Baddiel applauded his \"extraordinary and brilliant commitment\", this time around, while another stand-up, Rhys James, was quick to suggest taking Lycett's old name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rhys James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLycett's name has also now been changed to Hugo Boss on his Wikipedia page.\n\nKate Swaine, intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, said: \"Joe Lycett's actions shine a light on the potential negative PR implications when undertaking a brand enforcement program.\n\n\"Even where a brand is legitimately enforced, brand owners must be alive to where issues may arise in relation to smaller businesses or individual use.\"\n\nAnyone over the age of 16 in the UK can legally change their name.\n\nGerman label Hugo Boss was founded in 1924 in Metzingen, Germany, and famously supplied uniforms for the Nazi party.\n\nIn 2011, the firm apologised for its maltreatment of forced workers during World War 2.\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. The Prime Minister says being home secretary is \"one of the toughest jobs in government\"\n\nThe government is to investigate whether Home Secretary Priti Patel has breached the ministerial code, amid allegations of bullying.\n\nCabinet office minister Michael Gove confirmed the inquiry after an urgent question from Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIt comes after bullying claims were made by the ex-top civil servant in Ms Patel's department.\n\nMr Corbyn said he believed Ms Patel - who has previously denied she mistreated staff - should be sacked.\n\nSir Philip Rutnam, the Home Office's most senior official, resigned on Saturday citing a \"vicious and orchestrated\" campaign against him.\n\nThe BBC has also learnt that a formal complaint about Ms Patel's conduct was made when she was employment minister.\n\nShe has not made any public comment since Sir Philip announced his resignation.\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Gove said Ms Patel \"absolutely rejects these allegations\".\n\n\"The prime minister has expressed his full confidence in her and having worked closely with the home secretary over a number of years, I have the highest regard for her - she is a superb minister doing a great job,\" he said.\n\n\"This government always takes any complaints relating to the ministerial code seriously, and in line with the process set out in the ministerial code the prime minister has asked the Cabinet Office to establish the facts.\"\n\nHe added: \"We make no apology of having strong ministers in place.\"\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said that if Sir Philip Rutman allegations about the home secretary's conduct are true \"they would constitute a clear breach of the code\".\n\n\"So why, without a proper investigation has the prime minister defended the home secretary calling her 'fantastic' and saying he 'absolutely' has confidence in her?\n\n\"It's not enough just to refer this to the Cabinet Office. The government must now call in an external lawyer.\n\n\"A minister in breach of the ministerial code cannot remain in office and should be dismissed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the \"truth\" was that this government \"is led by bullies presided over by a part-time prime minister\" who \"cannot be bothered to turn up\".\n\n\"The integrity and credibility of the government is on the line,\" he said.\n\nIn his statement on Saturday, Sir Philip said he received allegations that Ms Patel's conduct towards employees included \"swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands\".\n\nHe said he now intended to take legal action against the Home Office on the basis of constructive dismissal, alleging that he had been forced out of his job.\n\nThe First Division Association union, which represents senior civil servants, earlier called on Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill to launch an \"independent\" inquiry into Ms Patel's behaviour.\n\nThe union's general secretary David Penman said a probe should be led by an external lawyer, with access to ministers' and special advisers' communication records.\n\nIn a letter to Sir Mark, he also said there was a need for \"urgent reform\" of the process by which civil servants can raise complaints about ministers.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Public Health England in North London on Sunday, Mr Johnson said he \"absolutely\" has confidence in Ms Patel.\n\n\"I think she's a fantastic home secretary\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Philip Rutnam says there has been a \"vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign\" against him\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw has also learnt that a formal complaint about Ms Patel's conduct was made when she was employment minister at the Department for Work and Pensions. The substance of it is not known, nor whether it was substantiated or followed up.\n\nThe complaint is believed to have been made by a member of her private office - a team of six to eight civil servants which works closely with an individual minister.\n\nA spokesman for Ms Patel said she was \"not aware\" of the complaint and the government, while it did not deny the claim, said it would not comment on personnel issues.\n\nMs Patel has not yet commented on Sir Philip's statement\n\nOne Whitehall insider said Ms Patel had created a \"hostile and unhappy\" environment for civil servants there by questioning their capability and undermining their performance.\n\n\"I felt very sorry for people in her private office - they felt bullied,\" they said.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said allies of Ms Patel are privately suggesting that Sir Philip was not up to the demands of the job.", "Police are at the scene of the incident on the Bankhall Road\n\nA toddler has died and a woman and a baby have been seriously injured in a stabbing in County Antrim.\n\nThe alert was raised on Monday morning at an isolated house in Bankhall Road, Magheramorne, near Larne.\n\nIt is understood the injured woman is the mother of the children.\n\nThe incident is being treated as domestic. Neighbours reported hearing a police helicopter at about 10.30 GMT and emergency services were called to the scene.\n\nPolice have confirmed the woman, who is in her 30s, and the baby are being treated in hospital.\n\nA spokesman said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nForensics officers have been at the scene\n\nThe house has been cordoned off as a police operation continues.\n\nGordon Lyons, a DUP assembly member from the area, said it was clear \"something horrific\" had happened.\n\n\"It is absolutely awful when you hear of anybody suffering in this kind of way but when young children are involved it is particularly horrific,\" he said.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers and the thoughts and prayers of everybody across east Antrim will be with the family.\"", "The global economy could grow at its slowest rate since 2009 this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned.\n\nThe influential think tank has forecast growth of just 2.4% in 2020, down from 2.9% in November.\n\nBut it said a longer \"more intensive\" outbreak could halve growth to 1.5%.\n\nIt came after the Bank of England vowed to help stabilise markets, which suffered steep losses last week.\n\nCoronavirus is already forcing businesses to suspend operations in China and elsewhere as officials try to contain its spread.\n\nThe OECD forecast the global economy could recover to 3.3% growth in 2021, assuming the epidemic peaked in China in the first quarter of this year and other outbreaks proved mild and contained.\n\nBut it said the picture would be much worse if the virus spread throughout Asia, Europe and North America.\n\n\"The main message from this downside scenario is that it would put many countries into a recession, which is why we are urging measures to be taken in the affected areas as quickly as possible,\" said Laurence Boone, the OECD's chief economist.\n\nLast week saw major stock markets suffer their worst weekly performance since the 2008 financial crisis, with $1.5 trillion being wiped off the value of global shares. Investors now hope central banks around the world will work in unison to support financial markets as the deadly virus spreads.\n\nThe Bank of England has promised to help stabilise markets\n\nOn Monday, the Bank of England said it continued to monitor developments and was assessing its potential impact on the global and UK economies and financial systems.\n\n\"The Bank is working closely with HM Treasury and the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) - as well as our international partners - to ensure all necessary steps are taken to protect financial and monetary stability,\" a spokesman said.\n\nJapan's central bank and the US Federal Reserve have also said they are prepared to intervene to stop more big falls on global stock markets.\n\nBuoyed by the news, US stocks opened higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 indexes both gaining 0.7%.\n\nLondon's FTSE 100 index closed 1.2% higher, while China's Shanghai Composite index gained 3.2% and Japan's benchmark index, the Nikkei 225, climbed 1%.\n\nOn Monday, the privately-run Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index showed the fastest rate of contraction in China's factory activity since the survey was launched in 2004. That followed the release on Saturday of equally weak official numbers.\n\nBoth sets of data come after employers across the country were ordered to remain closed after the annual Chinese New Year holiday as part of attempts by authorities to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nThe falls, which were even worse than the slump seen during the 2008 global financial crisis, highlighted the outbreak's huge impact on the world's second-largest economy.\n\nThere are limits to what traditional monetary policy can actually achieve if the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread.\n\nIf supply chains are disrupted, and factories have to shut down, interest rate cuts are unlikely to help very much. Likewise, if people don't want to go to the shops, eat in restaurants, travel on planes or stay in hotels, cheap credit isn't going to make a lot of difference. And in many countries, interest rates are in any case already low.\n\nBut the prospect of a rate cut does at least provide a psychological prop - and reduces the risk of the falls on the markets turning into a rout.\n\nThe next step may be to look at ways of encouraging commercial banks to provide targeted support - for companies that are struggling with repayments on loans because their business has been affected by the outbreak, for example.\n\nThat may be the kind of life-support that's really needed to keep firms operating until the worst of the crisis is over.\n\nThe OECD said governments would have to step in if the virus worsened, providing extra support for their health systems and emergency loans for hard hit industries.\n\n\"A G20 coordinated health, fiscal and monetary policy response would not only send a strong confidence message but also multiply the effect of national actions,\" Mr Boone added.\n\nOver the weekend senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration also tried to soothe concerns about the impact of the outbreak, highlighting the US economy's underlying strength.\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence, who is leading the administration's response to the coronavirus, said that the stock market \"will come back\", adding that \"the fundamentals of this economy are strong\".", "Claire Foy and Andrew Scott won best actress and actor in a play\n\nThe Crown star Claire Foy and Fleabag's Andrew Scott were among the big winners at the WhatsOnStage Awards on Sunday.\n\nFoy won best actress in a play for her performance in Lungs, while Scott took home best actor for Present Laughter.\n\nA new musical - & Juliet - which features the songs of Britney Spears, Pink, Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry, took home the most prizes, winning six of the 13 awards it was nominated for.\n\nThe winners are decided by members of the public as opposed to critics.\n\nPrizes for & Juliet included best actress in a musical for its lead, Miriam-Teak Lee, as well as technical categories such as sound, lighting, costume and set design.\n\nThe show features music by the prolific songwriter Max Martin including hits by Kesha, Jessie J and the Backstreet Boys and imagines what would have happened if Romeo had died but Juliet had lived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam-Teak Lee: \"We kind of see Juliet in a stronger way\"\n\nThere were wins in major categories for Come From Away - the musical that tells the true story of how a small Canadian community reacted to 9/11.\n\nWhen the terror attack took place on New York's Twin Towers, 38 planes were diverted to an airport in Newfoundland, Canada, where locals offered food and shelter to the incoming passengers.\n\nThe show won five awards in total, including best new musical and best supporting actress for Rachel Tucker, who played one of the plane's pilots.\n\nBest new play was won by Life of Pi - a new adaptation of Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel - which has previously been turned into a successful film.\n\nDear Evan Hansen, which explores \"grief tourism\" after a teen suicide, won two major prizes - best actor for Sam Tutty and best supporting actor for Jack Loxton.\n\nScott's win for Present Laughter follows a hugely successful year for the actor, during which he starred in Fleabag, Black Mirror and the Oscar-winning film 1917.\n\nHis co-star Sophie Thompson was named best supporting actress.\n\nBest musical revival was won by Mary Poppins, which opened in the West End last year after a successful Hollywood film reboot starring Emily Blunt.\n\nFor the first time, the event was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Paddy O'Connell.\n\nDear Evan Hansen transferred from Broadway to the West End in November\n\nBest supporting actress in a musical - Rachel Tucker, Come From Away\n\nBest new play - Life of Pi\n\nBest new musical - Come From Away\n\nBest musical direction - Ian Eisendrath, Alan Berry and team, Come From Away\n\nBest choreography - Kelly Devine, Come From Away\n\nBest sound design - Gareth Owen, Come From Away\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "North Korea has launched two unidentified projectiles, South Korea's military says, in its first apparent weapons test of the year.\n\nThe projectiles were launched from the North's east coast towards the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.\n\nSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said they were \"believed to be short-range ballistic missiles\".\n\nLast May saw the first missile tests after an 18-month freeze. As the year progressed, many more followed.\n\nNorth Korea, which has historically stepped up missile testing in the spring, carried out its last test in November.\n\nMonday's test comes just days after South Korea and the US announced they were postponing the annual joint drills that anger the North, amid concern over the coronavirus.\n\nLeif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said the tests seemed to be \"less provocative than North Korea is capable of\".\n\nBut the country is still \"making it clear it will continue to improve military capabilities and make outsized demands\".\n\nProf Easley added: \"The US and South Korea postponing their drills and offering humanitarian assistance has earned no goodwill from a Kim regime that sees little benefit in restarting diplomacy.\"\n\nAt the start of the year, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he was ending the suspension of nuclear and long-range missile tests, as talks between the US and North Korea ground to a halt.\n\nThe North Korean leader threatened that the world would \"witness a new strategic weapon... in the near future\".\n\nThe last time North Korea conducted a missile test was in November 2019 - when it said it was testing a \"super-large multiple-rocket launcher\".\n\nBut Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accused the North of launching ballistic missiles, earning him scorn from North Korean state media who called him an \"imbecile\".\n\nNorth Korea is banned from firing ballistic missiles under UN Security Council resolutions. It has in the past fired missiles that it claims are capable of reaching the US mainland.\n\nTalks between the US and North Korea about its nuclear programme remain stalled.\n\nIn 2018, US President Donald Trump and Mr Kim held historic talks in Singapore aimed at denuclearisation - though the definition of this is contested.\n\nIn February 2019, Mr Kim met Mr Trump again in Vietnam but the talks broke down and ended early without agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The nuclear word Trump and Kim can't agree on\n\nThey met again in June at the demilitarised zone that separates North and South Korea. But relations quickly deteriorated. in the following months.\n\nThe North conducted several smaller weapons tests late in 2019, in what was seen as an attempt to pressure the US into making concessions.\n\nBut Washington refused to lift sanctions, insisting that North Korea must first fully abandon its nuclear programme.", "Marks & Spencer is to extend a trial of its refill scheme where shoppers can fill their own containers with food.\n\nThe trial will be extended at its Hedge End store in Southampton, and will be rolled out in Manchester this month.\n\nA spokesperson said it was part of the supermarket's \"action to reduce plastic packaging\".\n\nUK supermarkets are responsible for 58 billion pieces of plastic a year, according to Greenpeace.\n\nThe initial trial offered 44 plastic packaging-free products from coffee and cereal to sweets and pasta at the Hedge End retail park store. M&S said 25 of those products were now outselling packaged alternatives in the store.\n\nThe trial will also be extended to the firm's Manchester city centre store, which will take part from March. The retailer said the success of the trial is down to the fact that consumers are trying to shop in a more environmentally-friendly way.\n\nThree-quarters of consumers are trying to cut down on the amount of plastic they use, according to a survey of 2,200 adults carried out by YouGov for the supermarket. The research also suggested that customers struggled to find retailers that offered refill schemes, and also find carrying containers around inconvenient.\n\nPopular products in the refill scheme include pasta and rice\n\nM&S's director of food technology, Paul Willgoss, said: \"Our 'fill your own' concept is one area we're focusing on as part of our action to reduce plastic packaging and support our customers to reuse and recycle.\n\nHe added: \"We're keen to better understand refill across the entire store process from behind the scenes operations to working with our customers to encourage behaviour change.\"\n\nPrevious research by the environmental charity Greenpeace suggested discount retailers like Aldi or Lidl might have further to go than other supermarkets such as M&S. It was ranked fourth out of the UK's 10 biggest supermarkets for its plastic \"footprint\".\n\nM&S previously committed to introducing additional lines of loose produce and other alternatives to plastic across its UK shops.\n\nSingle-use plastic has become a major topic for discussion after the BBC's Blue Planet II highlighted its effect on the oceans.\n\nThe BBC has also announced plans for a year-long series of programmes and coverage on climate change, as part of the Our Planet Matters project.\n\nM&S's environmental pledges come as the struggling company plans to shut more than 100 stores by 2022. But food sales remain a bright spot in its performance, offsetting weaker sales in clothing and homeware.", "Andrzej Kuszell is a director of the company which designed the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower before the fire\n\nA senior architect from the company that designed the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has apologised to victims of the fire in which 72 people died.\n\nAndrzej Kuszell, a director of Studio E, told the inquiry into the disaster he was \"really, really sorry\", he wanted to \"turn the clock back\", and the firm lacked tower block experience.\n\nHowever, he blamed other firms for giving misleading information and said fire safety rules were \"not robust\".\n\nIt came after protests at the hearing.\n\nThe second stage of the inquiry into the tragedy on 14 June 2017 is looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016.\n\nStudio E was given the task of renovating Grenfell Tower because it was working on a new school and leisure centre nearby.\n\nDuring nearly five hours of questioning Mr Kuszell told the inquiry: \"Hindsight now comes into play - we've lived two-and-a-half years since the tragedy and doubtless absolutely every one of us would wish to turn the clock back.\"\n\nHe also said his company lacked experience in working on tall buildings and that \"if we (Studio E) had understood that building regulations were not robust\" the tragedy might not have happened.\n\n\"It really shouldn't have happened, and I'm really, really sorry for all of you and everybody else who was involved in the project,\" he said.\n\n\"Because I can only say to you from my heart that we really wanted to do the absolute best on this project as we could which is why I didn't enjoy having the project being described as an add-on because in our hearts it wasn't an add-on at all.\"\n\nMonday's hearing was the first time the inquiry has sat since last week's decision by Attorney General Suella Braverman to guarantee some witnesses will not be prosecuted on the basis of what they say at the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry's chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick had also backed the request for the guarantee from firms that refurbished the building.\n\nProtesters against the move had briefly delayed the hearing as Mr Kuszell began to give evidence.\n\nShouts of \"it's a disgrace\" were heard, and one protester asked the chairman: \"Have you sold your soul yet, Sir Martin?\"\n\nOne man, bereaved by the fire, argued with the protesters saying that he and other victims of the fire wanted to hear what witnesses were to say.\n\nSecurity staff were called and a senior police officer who leads the police investigation into the fire spoke to three men who were shouting. The hearing resumed about 10 minutes later.\n\nAfterwards, one of the protesters, Jonty Leff, told reporters the decision was \"outrageous\" and a \"whitewash\".\n\n\"It means the inquiry is defunct and the whole thing has to be shut down and they have to move straight to the prosecution,\" he said.\n\nSir Martin has stressed the decision does not mean witnesses have automatic immunity from prosecution.\n\nPolice are able to use evidence they gather separately to the inquiry, as well as documents produced during it.\n\nThose documents - between some of the many companies involved in the refurbishment - have now begun to be released to the inquiry.\n\nOne email from the Kensington and Chelsea council to the architects Studio E showed that cladding manufacture Arconic (AAP) believed the \"current choice of cladding\" was \"dull and lifeless\" offering little visual improvement.", "Almost 100 branches of Barclays bank were unable to open for business on Monday after Greenpeace obstructed the entrances.\n\nThe campaign targeted branches across the UK to protest against the bank's funding of oil and gas companies.\n\nGreenpeace claims among banks, Barclays is the biggest funder of fossil fuels in Europe. It wants the bank to switch its funding into renewable energy.\n\nBarclays said it is working to get the branches open as quickly as possible.\n\nIn the early hours of Monday morning, 97 Barclays branches were targeted by Greenpeace, which disabled the doors preventing staff from entering.\n\nImages of people bearing slogans such as \"Stop Funding Fossil Fuels\" were stuck on the windows and \"pop-up exhibitions\" displaying photographs of climate change were used to block major Barclays branches in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.\n\n\"Barclays must stop funding the climate emergency, that's why we've taken action today. From floods to bushfires and record heat in Antarctica, the impacts of this crisis are staring us in the face,\" said Morten Thaysen, climate finance campaigner at Greenpeace UK.\n\n\"Yet Barclays keeps pumping billions into fossil fuel companies at exactly the time we need to stop backing these polluting businesses,\" he said. \"Banks are just as responsible for the climate emergency as the fossil fuel companies they fund, yet they've escaped scrutiny for years. We've shut down branches across the country to shine a spotlight on Barclays' role in bankrolling this emergency. It's time Barclays pulled the plug and backed away from funding fossil fuels for good.\"\n\nA Barclays spokesperson said: \"We recognise that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, and are determined to do all we can to support the transition to a low carbon economy, while also ensuring that global energy needs continue to be met.\n\n\"Greenpeace has a view on these issues to which they are completely entitled, but we would ask that - in expressing that view - they stop short of behaviour which targets our customers, and our colleagues, going about their lives in communities around the country.\"\n\nThe bank is working to get the affected branches up and running but does not have an exact timescale for full service to resume.", "Shopping around for a better deal might be tough among the big brands\n\nSome overdraft borrowers will see charges double while others will make \"astonishing\" savings when new prices kick in, new analysis shows.\n\nNew rules for overdraft charging demanded by the City regulator take effect next month.\n\nFinancial information service Moneyfacts has tested how much someone borrowing £500 through an overdraft for a month would be charged.\n\nSome will see costs roughly double to £14 but others will enjoy £60 savings.\n\nThose facing more expensive overdrafts are almost entirely people who previously had an arranged overdraft facility.\n\nUp until now fees have been complex, difficult to navigate and hard to compare, leaving some with large overdraft bills.\n\nSingle, simple overdraft interest rates are now being brought in ahead of an April deadline set by the regulator.\n\nThe Moneyfacts data shows many have been paying around £7 a month to borrow an agreed £500 for 30 days, but they might soon pay double to borrow the same amount for the same period.\n\n\"The much-needed overhaul of the charges has been a double-edged sword for some,\" said Rachel Springall, from Moneyfacts.\n\nThis might prompt them to consider borrowing through credit cards or store cards instead, she said.\n\nOthers, who would breach their overdraft limit or go overdrawn without permission, could see \"astonishing savings\" as the \"most extortionate fees\" of the old regime were effectively being banned, she said.\n\nIn one example, a provider's fees for an unarranged £500 overdraft for 30 days will drop from £100 to less than £10.\n\nA number of banks will see their fees for a £500 overdraft drop by £60 or so to £14 a month - as the new rules state there must be no difference in charging between arranged and unarranged overdrafts, and specific daily or monthly charges are to be banned. This will hit the bottom line of many big banks.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see whether these new charges will be revisited in the coming months or if customers start to see other account perks slashed in light of the shake-up,\" Ms Springall said.\n\nTo put those interest rates into context, the average quoted rate for credit card borrowing is just over 20%, according to the Bank of England.\n\nThe regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, said most High Street banks had set \"very similar prices\", after it demanded changes to the system.\n\nIt has sent a letter to banks, asking them to explain what influenced their decision.\n\nIt also asked how the banks will deal with any customers who could be worse off following the changes.\n\nIt said some firms could reduce or waive interest for customers who are in financial difficulty because of their overdraft.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreece has blocked any new asylum applications for the next month after Turkey \"opened the doors\" for migrants to travel to the EU.\n\nGreek officials earlier said they had stopped nearly 10,000 migrants crossing the land border with Turkey.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece had increased \"the level of deterrence at our borders to the maximum.\"\n\nTurkey says it cannot deal with the amount of people fleeing Syria's war.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was allowing migrants to try to get into neighbouring EU member states Greece and Bulgaria as of Friday.\n\nHis decision came after at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in air strikes in Idlib province in northern Syria this week.\n\nTurkey is hosting 3.7 million Syrian refugees, as well as migrants from other countries such as Afghanistan - but had previously stopped them from leaving for Europe under an aid-linked deal with the EU.\n\nBut Mr Erdogan accused the EU of breaking promises made in 2016, when Ankara agreed to help shore up the EU's south-western border.\n\nThe EU's border protection agency Frontex said it was on \"high alert\" on Europe's borders with Turkey.\n\nPrime Minister Mitsotakis announced the suspension in asylum applications on Twitter on Sunday evening, and said Greece had invoked an emergency clause of an EU treaty \"to ensure full European support\".\n\n\"The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them,\" he wrote, adding that he would be visiting the Evros land border with Turkey with European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday.\n\n\"Once more, do not attempt to enter Greece illegally - you will be turned back,\" he warned.\n\nThe Greek government said almost 10,000 migrants were blocked from entering Greece in 24 hours.\n\nSome migrants tossed stones, metal bars and tear gas canisters when stopped at the border. Greek border guards fired tear gas.\n\nMigrants have been boarding boats to the Greek island of Lesbos\n\nSeparately, Greek police say at least 500 people on seven boats have reached the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios, where camps for migrants are already severely overcrowded.\n\nSeven boats carried more than 300 people to Lesbos, four arrived on Samos with 150 and two on Chios with a combined total of 70 to 80 people, an official told the Reuters news agency.\n\nGroups of migrants have also been seen wading through a river to Greek soil at Kastanies.\n\nMany blocked migrants have been sent to Evros, an area along the Turkey border.\n\nMigrants make their way to Greece\n\nGreek deputy defence minister Alkiviadis Stefanis accused Turkey of encouraging migrants to make the trip.\n\n\"Not only are they not stopping them, but they are helping them,\" he told Greece's Skai TV.\n\nThere were clashes between migrants and Greek police on Saturday after President Erdogan effectively gave the all-clear for migrants to head for the EU.\n\nThe EU said it was assisting Greece and Bulgaria - which also borders Turkey - in protecting the bloc's parameters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Tesco is issuing new cards to 600,000 Clubcard account holders after unearthing a security issue.\n\nThe supermarket giant said it believed a database of stolen usernames and passwords from other platforms had been tried out on its websites, and may have worked in some cases.\n\nNo financial data was accessed and its systems have not been hacked, it added.\n\nIt said this was a precautionary measure and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\n\"We are aware of some fraudulent activity around the redemption of a small proportion of our customers' Clubcard vouchers,\" a Tesco spokesperson said.\n\n\"Our internal systems picked this up quickly and we immediately took steps to protect our customers and restrict access to their accounts.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it had emailed everybody potentially affected, that nobody would lose their points and new vouchers would also be issued.\n\nOne of those who received an email was Josh, who works in IT.\n\n\"The email was very ambiguous,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought it was because I'd just used a new bank card. I didn't realise it was actually my account details that could have been compromised.\n\n\"It worried me - I feel better now it's been clarified.\"\n\nOthers responded in good humour on social media, questioning how much their points would actually be worth to a hacker.\n\nThe UK loyalty scheme offers one point for every pound spent in store. Every 100 points are worth £1.\n\nThe BBC understands about 19 million people have a Clubcard account.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aiden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJake Moore, cyber-security specialist at the firm Eset, told the BBC plenty of people still use simple passwords or similar log-ins for many different platforms.\n\n\"Cyber-criminals can do a lot of damage with a large breached list simply containing names and emails or other trivial data,\" he said.\n\n\"The big risk is via brute force attacking the accounts where criminals use leaked common password combinations against the emails to try to break into other personal accounts.\"\n\nMr Moore suggested using password managers to generate and store uniquely different passwords, and two factor authentication where possible - in which a text message or email code is required as well as the password.\n• None How do companies use my reward card data?", "Handling the coronavirus is plainly at the top of the government's to-do list. Boris Johnson came under attack in recent days for not being visible enough at a time of a potential health emergency.\n\nNo 10 clearly now wants to show they are trying hard to contain the outbreak. But the government will be tested on many different fronts. First off, they want to appear to be taking the disease as seriously as it ought to be.\n\nWith some cities around the world in lockdown and the rate of the spread picking up here too, the prime minister's words today don't leave you in much doubt about how serious a situation the country could face.\n\nBut managing the outbreak is a balancing act with lots of factors. The government wants the public to take the virus seriously, but it doesn't want panic. Ministers want the option of closing schools, or cancelling big events, or changing the numbers of teachers schools have to have on duty per child.\n\nBut they do not, at this stage, want to use those kinds of measures straight away and cause widespread disruption to people's daily lives.\n\nThe government wants, of course, to protect as many people's health as possible but also to protect the economy, the prime minister acknowledging that there may well be an \"economic downside\", here at home as well as in the countries that have already been much more affected.\n\nThe Treasury is publishing a Budget next week too, which not so long ago government aides were vowing \"had to be big, and had to be bold\". But in this context - and of course with a different politician in charge - No 11's big day next week might be rather different.\n\nThey are already making some extra taxpayers' cash available for the health service. Boris Johnson promised he would allocate the NHS whatever it asked for which, with the scale of the outbreak as yet impossible to predict, could be rather a large blank cheque.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on coronavirus: \"We will face a challenge in the weeks, months ahead\"\n\nBehind closed doors in government there is a realisation that an outbreak of coronavirus could go on for many months and cause a lot of disruption to many people's lives.\n\nMany of us might be asked to work at home. There are questions too about how self-employed people or those on zero hours contracts can make a living. What happens to the local elections in May? Can the NHS, already under a lot of pressure, really cope?\n\nThere is a lot that neither the public, nor our politicians, can be sure of. The science will guide the approach that ministers take, but that is understandably changing by the day.\n\nBoris Johnson's government is certainly no longer in the position of surveying the new political landscape and wondering which of its priorities it can choose to deal with first. Instead, it faces an immediate and highly complicated question it needs to answer.\n\nGet it wrong and there could be serious political damage too.", "Ramani Morgan was found collapsed after a house party in Coventry\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died in a stabbing after a large house party \"got out of hand\".\n\nRamani Morgan, from Birmingham, died in hospital after he was found collapsed in Clay Lane, Coventry, at about 22:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nHe had been at a \"well attended\" party in Chandos Street, about 300m (0.2 miles), from where he was found with multiple stab wounds, police said.\n\nTwo 17-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe teenagers, from Coventry, are in police custody.\n\nPolice said violence \"spilled out on the street\" after an altercation at a party\n\n\"It seems what's happened is there has been quite a large house party in Chandos Street, in the Stoke area,\" Ch Supt Mike O'Hara said.\n\n\"That seems to have been very well attended and it seems to have effectively got out of hand.\"\n\nHe said Ramani, who lived in Erdington, had been \"stabbed several times\" after an altercation at the party spilled out on to the street.\n\nThe attack is not believed to be gang-related, police said.\n\nRamani was \"stabbed several times\" and died in hospital, police said\n\nSearches are being carried out at the location of the party and the area where Ramani was found.\n\nForensic search teams could be seen on Sunday lifting drain covers in Chandos Street and in nearby Clay Lane.\n\n\"This is a tragedy, another young man has lost his life,\" Det Insp Michelle Allen added.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone who was at the party or any witnesses to contact them.\n\nRamani Morgan was found collapsed in Clay Lane, Coventry, and later died from his injuries\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus has been seen in more than 30 countries. The virus can spread from person to person and officials recommend simple steps to avoid becoming infected.\n\nDr Adele McCormick from the University of Westminster demonstrated how germs spread and what the best methods are to avoid catching a virus.", "Parts of a popular green space were turned into a mudbath\n\nHundreds have called for the organisers of a Greta Thunberg climate change rally to pay for damage caused to green space.\n\nAround 15,000 people are believed to have attended Friday's Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate rally, churning up College Green and angering many.\n\nA fundraiser was set up for repairs, which then resulted in calls for rally organisers to cover the costs.\n\nThe organiser said people had done their best in the muddy conditions.\n\nClimate campaigner Greta gave a speech on College Green before leading a march around the city.\n\nThe combination of thousands of people and heavy rain turned much of the grass into mud, angering some.\n\nGavin Mountjoy commented on Facebook: \"Oh the irony, hundreds of people turning up to talk about our planet dying end up destroying a green area.\"\n\nBarrie Moore, also on Facebook, said: \"The organisers of this march should be made to pay for the damage.\"\n\nJon Usher, head of partnerships of Bristol-based charity Sustrans, set up a GoFundMe page after the march ended, aiming to raise £20,000.\n\nBy Sunday morning more than £9,000 had been donated.\n\nMr Usher, who attended the rally, said: \"I did it knowing how important the green is to our staff as a place to go in the spring and summertime.\n\n\"I thought it would be nice to give something back to the city.\"\n\nBristol City Council, which is responsible for College Green, said it will examine the area on Monday.\n\nKai Damani, one of the event's organisers, said people had done their best in the conditions.\n\n\"When you look at College Green now, most of it is completely brown but where the flowers are is completely intact which does show that people do care about wildlife,\" 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 Bristol City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police had raised safety concerns before the event, but Supt Andy Bennett praised the organisers afterwards.\n\nHe said: \"I think it's been a great success for the city and a great success for the organisers.\"\n\nSome areas did survive the large crowds", "Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to scams in the UK every year.\n\nMany are run from criminal call centres abroad, where teams of fraudsters operate around the clock.\n\nOne man in the UK, who goes by the name \"Jim Browning\", decided to do something about it. 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